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Tuesday, April 20 is Last Day to Register to Vote in May Primary Election LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursdoy, April 15, 1954 71st Year, Number 5 Semmer fcette Local School Granted Return of Part of Previous Budget Cut Total School Tax Levy To Show Nearly 3 Mill The Heppner school district No 1 Tuesday night at a special hear ing before the rural school board was returned $11,479 of the $31, 147 which had previously been cut from its 1954-55 operating budget by the rural board at its regular audit of budgets. Dis trict No. 1 had asked for the re turn of practically the entire $31 000. The hearing was the first ever requested of the rural board since its formation about six years ago. The Heppner district had origi nally asked for a budget of $230,668 for the coming year, but the rural board had reduced it to $205,571 which the local board had indicated was insufficient to carry the district through the year. The amount granted the Heppner district totaled $220,000 and the board and school officials were asked to prepare a new bud get to cover that amount. Members of the rural board in dicated that they had little quarrel with the figures present ed by the Heppner district, with the exception of two or three catagories, and that probably such amounts were needed by Philip S. Griffin Dies Suddenly Friday, Services Held Monday Funeral services were held for Philip S. Griffin Monday after noon at the lone Community church with Rev. Alfred Shirley officiating. He died very sud denly Friday morning while at work on his ranch south of lone. Honorary pallbearers were O L. Lundell, Sam Esteb, Ernest Heliker, Wate Crawford, Ed Buschke and Paul O'Meara. Ac tive pallbearers were L. L. How ton, Herbert Ekstrom, Donald and Richard McEHigott, Donald Heli ker, Lewis Halvorsen, Leo Crab- tree and E. W. Bristow. The solo 1st was Mrs. Paul Pettyjohn ac companied by Mrs. Cleo Drake. Creswick and Seuell Mortuary were in charge and interment was in the lone cemetery with the Willows Grange conducting the graveside services. Mr. Griffin was born March 25. 1892 in Delta, Keokuk county, Iowa, he came to Oregon with his parents when he was six months old and had lived here since. He took up a homestead a few miles south of the present ranch and had always been engaged in farming. For the past few years he had lived in lone. He is survived by his widow Jessie M.; a son Norman Griffin, Portland; one daughter Marlene, lone; two step-daughters, Mrs. Nina Nolan of Heppner and Mrs Frances Griffin of Portland; one stepson, Stanley Cox, Heppner. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs Verda Ritchie, Portland and Mrs. Lydia Ball, Yakima; one brother, Francis Griffin, The Dalles as well as nine grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was a member of the Willows grange and the Congregational church. Relatives attending the service from out of town were Mn. Verda Ritchie and Mis. Leona Jennings. Portland; Ralph Kaiser, Maupin; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ball and son Dick, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ball and Mr. and Mrs. Jay Ball, Yakima; Mrs. George Meade, Mrs. Etta Dollarhide and Mrs. Mac Dollar hide, Seattle; Wen Scott and Ralph Duffy, Everett, Wash.; Mrs. Lillian Cook, Oregon City; Mrs. Flora Mover and daughter, Wal ter Mead and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Mead and daugnter of Hermiston; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Griffin and Mr. and Mrs; Richard Griffin, The Dalles; Howard Griffin, Al bany; George Ritchie, Tygh Val ley and Mr. and Mrs. Sie Walker and George Mead, Heppner. Outdoor Concert Planned by Bands James Wilson, Heppner school music director, this week an nounced that h is planning to present an outdoo band concert at the courthou; park with his combined high avd gtde sehowi bands. As tentatively arftiuS!, t!v concert viU be giw StuwUjr, May 9. in County Reduction the district, but that they felt that it was necessary for the consolidated levy to be held as low as possible if it was to pass at the special election to approve the county levy to be held May 14. All school districts in the county, the rural board stated, had shown reduced budgets with the exception of Heppner and lone. The Heppner board members pointed out, however, that while some of the other schools were now completing expansion and repairing programs, it was only starting here and also that its students were increasing yearly while some of the other schools were showing a loss of pupils. School Levy Down Following the rural board's de cision to grant the portion of the requested increase, county school superintendent Leslie Grant an nounced that the total school levy for the county would be down approximately 3 mills from last year. The levy for 1953-54 was 33.5 mills which would make next year's tax in the vicinity of 30.5 mills. At the conclusion of the open hearing which included all mem bers of the rural board and the county school superintendent, the Heppner board, superintendent and clerk, and representatives of the press, during which the discussion occasionally became quite heated, the rural board re tired into closed session to make its decision on the question. The Heppner budget of $220,000 as agreed upon at the hearing is an increase over the current year's figure of $192,175 which was credited largely to the heavy influx qi new and incoming stu dents into the school system dur ing the past two years. The budget as granted covers only operating expenses of the school for the coming year and includes nothing for new con struction which must be carried out through a bond issue within the Heppner district. Such a bond issue will be proposed at a separate special election to be called by the the board as soon as cost figures can be compiled o Patterson For Governor Club Organized in County A Morrow county Patterson for Governor club was formed Wed nesday noon at a special organi zational meeting at which more than 15 persons from all sections of the county were present. Chosen chairman of the club was Bradley Fancher, "Morrow county district attarney. Other officers include vice chairman, Mrs. Howard Bryant; Robert Pen land, secretary; Howard Bryant, treasurer; J. G. Barratt, member ship chairman, campaign chair man, J. O. Turner; finance chair man, Don Hatfield. Local membership chairmen in clude Russell Miller, Boardman; Henry Peterson, lone; Don Hat field, Lexington; Fred Adams, Irrigon; James J. Farley and Rev. Earl L. Sovvard, Heppner. An active campaign to gain membership and aid in promot ing Governor Paul Patterson for reelection is planned. o lone HS Can Play Baseball Too! From the score it must have been more like a trackmeet or a football game than a base ball contest. Last weekend lone euthit, outran and out-everything Irri gon to give the Cardinals a 39 to S victory. The lone squad stands at the top of its league. o lone Army Man Now in Germany SCIIWAEBISCH GMUEND, GER MANY Pfs. John W. Jepsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jepsen. lone, Ore., recently arrived in Germany for duty with the 35th Field Artillery Group at Sehwae bisch Gmuend. UMtn, a message center clerk in Hcaduartera tottery, entered th urny i January 1933 anJ was last vtitikmi at Fwl llwd, tern. mtm lilill inn II I "' 1 """1 ' '"' '" " i "! PRIZE WINNING CHECK for $25 Loyal Parker, owners of Heppner Hardware and Electric by J. R. Huffman, Heppner manager for Pacific Power and Light. Pnrkers won the prize for running the best tie-in advertisement along with PP&L's series of appliance ads which have been runninq in the Gazette Times and other papers in the company's area in Oregon and Washington. The prize winning ad ran March 11. The company gives a monthly award and the lc-al store was . competing against all other advertising appliance stores in the entire PPAL service area. (GT Photo) County First in District to lop Red Cross Quota Morrow county last week went over the top in its Red Cross drive and became the first area in the Eastern Oregon district to reach its quota. Mrs. Lowell Gribble was county chairman. With final reports reaching the chairman, she reported that $1, 845.27 was raised in the county which is nearly $100 over the quota of $1750. Mrs. Gribble expressed her ap preciation to her various district chairmen and also to the indivi duals who assisted in putting the county over the top. The district includes all of this section o the state. L-o Cities League Meet Set For Condon The city officials of Heppner have been invited by Mayor James O. Burns of Condon to at tend a regional meeting of the League of Oregon Cities in Con don on Monday night, April 19. Mayor L. D. Tibbies has been asked to organize a delegation of councilmen and administrative officials from Heppner to attend the Condon session. The meeting will be attended by city officials of Gilliam and Morrow counties and vicinity. Meeting with local officials will be Mayor Al Loucks of Salem the president of the League of Oregon Cities; Herman Kehrli, League executive secretary and director, Bureau of Municipal Re search and Service, University ol Oregon; and Raymond C. Coulter, League attorney and field con sultant. Mayor Loucks will re port on current municipal de velopments and League activi ties. Mr. Kehrli will conduct a round table discussion of legis lative and current municipal problems. The purpose of the meeting will be to review municipal legis lative proposals that have beep suggested to the League of Ore gon Cities, and to exchange in formation on current municipal problems in these counties. Sug gested legislation intended to improve traffic law enforcement will be discussed, and the city officials of Heppner have been asked to consider the desirabil ity of these legislative proposals from the local standpoint. Other subjects tentatively listed on the conference agenda are 1954 bud get problems, financial proce dures, public works and legal problems. In announcing the meeting, Mayor Burns empha sized the informality of the ses sion. State Tax Men Make New Maps Of Morrow County Four men from the state tax commission spent last week working in the county assessor's office making maps of the county for tax purposes. Mrs. Joseph Hughes, pssessor, said that with the completion of their project, there will be a complete, accurate H of maps of the county for the first time in many years. Thrue here were? Victor Hurst, hcail of the tfrs-ftiruj department cufira pjphj Alien iiodi: ftd lawn Irving. . is being presented to Mr. and Mrs. Election Date Set For Formation of New Fire District The county court, at a public hearing Wednesday, ordered an election for May 18 for the for mation of an lone Lexington rural fire protection district and for directors for the district. Lo cation of the polling places will be announced within a few days. The new district, which will replace a former lone fire dis trict which was declared invalid because its boundaries included the corporate towns of lone and Lexington, will cover approxi mately the same area as the for mer district, all of the rural area around lone and that west and north of Lexington. The towns of lone and Lexington are excluded from the new district and only residents of the rural areas within the boundary may vote on the proposal. It was pointed out that to be qualified to vote in the elections, persons must be either a land owner or one who is buying pro perty under contract. Groups Rate Well At Music Festival Among the more than 600 high school music pupils who attend ed the Eastern Oregon high school music competition last weekend at La Grande were several Hepp ner students who returned with I and II ratings. Jay Sumner won a I, or Superior rating for his clarinet solo, as did a trumpet trio consisting of Skip Ruhl, David Cox and Jerry Dougherty with Lynda Borman accompanist; and a horn quartet which included Judy Barger, Dar. lene Connor, Frances Duran and Diane Grant. All the other ensembles enter ed, the clarinet quartet, trio and duet, brass sextet and vocal trio all received II ratings, James Wil son, music instructor said. The contest last weekend was just for the ensembles and this weekend Wilson is taking his high school and grade school bands and the high school chorus to La Grande for the second part of the music competition. The bands will not receive a rating for their performances but will receive criticisms only, Wilson said. Town Baseball Team Organization Set Anyone interested in playing or helping to promote and aid with a Heppner town baseball team are asked to be present at an organization meeting t) be held Friday evening at 7:30 at the office of Turner, Van Marter and Bryant. Il was said that several per sons have indicated an interest in playing in such a team, and it is hoped that the sports program can be promoted for the summer months. HEPPNER ELKS INSTALL HERMISTON OFFICERS Members of Heppner Elks Lodge No. 358 who went to Her miston Thursday April 8 to in stall the newly elected Hermiston Elks Lodge officers were: Jack Van Winkle, Jack Edmondson, Milton Morgan, Cnnley Lsriham, Alton YafTll, William Labhart, lack Eailcy, I lUtfield, tt Reitfcly n 14 Wflit Van I Rafter. Wheat Growers Spring Meeeting Called for April II The annual spring get-together of the Morrow County Wheat Growers was announced by N. C. Anderson, secretary-treasurer of the association. The meeting will he held at the Lexington Grange hall, April 17th. begin ning at 8:00 p. m. Ihe program for the evening calls tor a diversity of events. Standing committee reports will In' given by each of the chair men of the committees which are composed of: taxation and legis lation. Henry Peterson, lone; pro duction and land use, Frank An derson, Heppner; wheat disposal and marketing, llenrv Baker, lone; Federal agricultural pro grams, Raymond Lundell of lone; and youth activities, John Graves, Heppner. Appearing as part of the Fed eral agricultural programs report will be Jack Smith, state chair man of that committee who has just returned from Washington 1). C. in holding hearings with the Congressional committee's con cerned with farm programs there. Dick Baum, executive secretary, Oregon Wheat Growers League, will be present to show the new league's public relations picture "Give Us This Day". This film is about a month old and reports are that it is excellent. For the wives of wheat growers and those interested, Miss Rose Schmid home economist, recently added to the Oregon Wheat Growers League staff will discuss some of the angles from the home econo mics standpoint. All in all the program promises to be a good one, and the Lexing ton home economics club has agreed to serve refreshments at the close of the meeting. o Hugh C. Currin Taken By Death, Services Saturday at Pendleton Hugh C. Currin, 72, passed away early Wednesday at St. Anthony's hospital in Pendleton and funeral services have been set for 10 a. m. Saturday, April 17 at Folsom's Funeral Home in Pendleton. Sruviving are his wife, Katie, Heppner; four sons, George, Heppner; Hugh Jr., Ralph and Robert of Pendleton; seven sisters and six grandchildren. Burial will he in the Olney cemetery in Pendleton and the family lias asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the cancer crusade. A complete obituary will ap pear next week. o N. Morrow Fair Dates Set September 9,10,11 At a public meeting Monday evening the North Morrow County Fair board discussed plans for this year's fair at Boardman and ;et the dates for the three-day event as September 9, 10, and 11. The board also announced it plans a dance at the fair building in Boardman to be held Satur day, May 1 with music to be furnished by the Boardman Scat ter Notes. Ml Yfi ' ' ' ' , ' '"I ' if ' f . ? 4 ' y , i f V i ' S . f 4 ' j 1 iw7. , y7 s ' ; M ' ' 'J- ''U f.-J: '.'N'y' ' f . i ; ; I MP. HOPE 1 f JLm OEEGON WHEAT GROWERS LEAGUE representatives contened with Congressman in Washington, D. C. Imi week. (L to R) Jack Smith. Condon, chairman of the Fed. Agric. Program Committee. OWGL; Floyd Root Wasco, representing the Nat Assn. of Wheat Cxewers; Rep. Cliff Hope, Kansaw, Chairman of the Houuo Comm. . ea Aoticf ep. Sam Cooo, Ore. Specia Easter Good Services By Local A variety of Pre-Easter and Easter services are scheduled in nearly all Heppner churches this I weekend with the first to be the Good Friday services to he held at All Saints Episcopal church from 12 to 3 p. m. Friday. Four Heppner ministers will take part in these services which will he divided into separate 20 minute services. All local churches ,as well as those in Lexington, lone and tin Valby Lutheran at Gooseberry will hold their regularly sche duled Easter Sundav services and an Easter cantata, "The Resur reel ion Story" will lie presented Sunday evening at the Methodist church by the combined choirs of the Methodist, Christian and Episcpal churches, it is to start at 7:30. Oliver Creswick will direct part I of the cantata and Maurice Stone the second part. Mrs. Blanche Boulden is the accom panist. The twenty members of the choir will include sopranos: Miss Mary Ann Jensen, Mrs. E. J. Dob- Homemaker's Meet Jo Be May 5 at Fair Pavilion The fair pavilion at the Hepp ner fairgrounds will be the meet ing place for the Annual Home- maker's festival, which is to lie held on May 5 it was announced by the hostess unit, Rhea Creek, last Wednesday, at their regular monthly meeting. The Rhea Creek Grange home economics club will serve the luncheon and the committee in charge includes: Mrs. Ben Ander son, Mrs. Frank Parker, and Mrs. Clive Huston. The committee has planned a luncheon which in cludes: roast beef, salad, vege table, pickles, jelly, rolls, cake, ice cream and beverage. The committee in charge of the general arrangements includes Mrs. Frieda Slocum, Mrs. Al Lovgren, Mrs. Elmer Palmer, Mrs. Harold Wright, Mrs. Orian Wright Mrs. Walter .Wright and Mrs. Harold Peck. A day nursery school will be provided for children at the club house at the fairgrounds and Mrs. Harold Van Horn is chairman of this committee. The county executive commit tee will meet Wednesday, 'April 11, at 1:30 p. m., at the home of Maud C. Casswell, county exten sion agent, it was announced, to complete details for the festival. Plans for all communities to have an active part in the festival will be made. Committee members making these plans are Mrs. Les ter Cox, Lexington; Mrs. Jerry Garner, Boardman; Mrs. R. K. Drake, Heppner; Mrs. Omar Riet- mann, lone; Mrs, lien Anderson Heppner; Mrs. Earl Blake, Hepp ner; Mrs. Lloyd Berger, Irrigon. Friday, Set Churches hie, Mrs. Helen Abrens, Mrs. Wil ia id Warren, Mrs. Fred lloskins, Mrs. Tom Wells and Miss Virginia Andresen. Altos: Mrs. Lennie Louden. Mrs. Ealor Huston, Mis. Grace Hughes. Miss Sharon Bry ant, Mrs. Lucy Rodgers, Mrs. Robert Walker, Mrs. Lnnald Campbell, Mrs. Lucy Peterson. Tenors: Robert Walker, Walter Gay, Lester liouhlen. Basses: Clem Stockard, Roy Neill. Solo ists are Mrs, Dobbie, Mrs. War ren, Mrs. lloskins, Mrs. Walker. Mrs. Peterson, Robert Walker, Oliver Creswick, Clem Stockard. and Maurice Stone. The Heppner Seventh Das Ad ventist church is planning a special "Sermon in Song" service al their Saturday worship hour at 11 a. m. Robert E. Becker, pastor announced. "If more singing were done in the world today, we would have less complaining," Mr. Becker said in announcing the theme of the program which will include the great love of God manifested in the gift of his Son, Jesus of Nazareth, illustrating how Christ was first accepted, but only as a deliverer from bondage, and later rejected and crucified. Climaxing the theme will be the event of his resurrection. Pastor Becker will be the solo ist and assisting will be a ladies' quartet with Mrs. Clifford Wag ner accompanying. In addition, several Sunday school and special parties are being planned for the children on Saturday and the Lions club is sponsoring an Easter egg hunt on the courthouse park Saturday morning. -o- Lions Sponsoring Saturday Morning Easter Egg Hunt The first of what is planned as an annual Lions club child ren's Easter egg hunt will be held at the courthouse park al 10:30 Saturday morning,, it was an nounced today by Lowell Grib ble, president of the organiza tion. Plenty of brightly colored eggs are assured all children who par ticipate in the hunt which has been divided into two age groups by Ihe committee in charge. The Toddlers group will include the children from the smallest who can navigate in the expected rush through 5 years of age, and a group from 6 years of age lluough 1th grade age. Both groups will start their hunt at the same time but a separate section of the grounds will be allocated to the toddlers. The committee said that it will have an ample supply of special prizes for the finders of specially marked eggs and that these prizes have been allocated to both age groups. The club expressed the hope that the hunt will become an annual affair under their spon sorship. 0 Bull Show to Be Held In Condon May 1 The Gilliam-Wheeler Stock growers association will hold a field day and hull show at the Gilliam county fairgrounds in Condon on May 1, olficers of the group announced this week. The program is planned to .':how the year's work of the bull testing program which has been carried on by the group. In this year's test 30 bulls were put on feed January 2H and all animals have been weighed an I a daily record kept on feed con sumption and rate of gain. The field day will start at 10 a. m. and will be followed by a hot lunch served at noon. At 1 o'clock a program of speakers will he presented and some of the bulls will lie offered for sale dur ing the afternoon. il STORES TO STAY OPEN The chamber of commerce mer chants committee this week an nounced that Heppner stores will remain opn during the special Good Friday church services, but that employees who desire will b allowed tin off to attend the txvkt.'t T
