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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1954)
LIBRARY U Of 0 o Eii o r c o f J J - .1 V -..-. VI v - 1 ro M ' -'i i .," , l Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 22, 1954 71st Year, Number 6 ing ins iirsi annual Lions ciud tiniica nrrrl Uara hunt rhrtirmrm. Tnhtl Frncrtrtrff is aivinrf the house oark. Here hunt chairman, Tohn Ernsdorff is qivincr the cider group, in the background, ren had a special area reserved NUMBER ONE ihi3 litUe girl was, cne ol the first of ihe younger group to find an egg. It quickly disappeared in the sack and :he continued her search r .1 HOW MANY 'VE YOU GOT? These their nnaings alter tne nrsi rusn LE'ME LOOK! This boy carefully ..ic;tiira n-ri rhorkc nn sack n.nho. hnri rMir.iHDtnhis tt,Mihl (8 ll !' iv. .. . y IVIllk w. i -J enough to get their pictures, let alone find out their names, but all 200 to 300 of the children thoroughly enjoyed the event spon riiih. Snprinllv marked eaas brought suicu ----- special cash prizes of 5, 10, 25 50 cozen eggs were niaaen on ine "WINDSHIELD POX" EPIDEMIC HITS LOCALLY, THREE CASES REPORTED "Windshield pox'1 hit Morrow, count v this week, along wit hi much of the jest of the west coast, and one" case of the phe nomena nearly two weeks old turned up in police reports. Two well substantiated cases of the windshield damage were re ported early this week, one to a car parked in Heppner and an other occuring while the car was being driven here from Walla Walla. Floyd Sayers reported the first case of the damage to his car which occured Sunday or early Monday. He had been watching his windshield and Monrlav found nearly a dozen cm n 11 holes in the class. In this case there were small blobs of hr,mn mud on the glass, which when removed brought a small segment of the glass with it. Mrs. Roy Orwick reported the damage to her car came while returning to Heppner from Walla Walla Sunday. She said tn first appearance of damage came when drops of liquid, which i.,VoH liU-p rain hit tlie wind- iU'-'Il''- !-. " shield. While she watched, bub bles appeared in the glass at the cnot where tne drops naa mi Some of the spots also took the f,.rm of sma 1 Pits in tne glass. similar to the thousands of others reported during the past several days. Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman report ed Wednesday that he had in- .-otiipatod a reDort nearly two weeks ago. from a resident of Irrigon that the back glass of his rar had been pock marked by rrc nr something similar. Bau man said the car, an older model had not been driven for some easier t?yy nuui neiu ui ie i-wun instructions. The smaller child tor them. 1 two took time out to compare was over. guarded his findings as an in of colored eaas. The GT nhoto stoDDina the vounqsters long 1 - - 1 and 50 cents to lucky kids. Nearly yiuuuus. time, but was parked in the open He said there were at least 25 small holes in the glass. Rosewall Motor company in' Heppner, while not reporting any damaged windshields as yet, have been taking precaution witn new cars and trucks which must be parked in the open by keeping the glass covered with heavy paper. Reports continue to come in from many new sections report ing the windshield damage which first started in northwest Wash ington. Numerous ideas as to tne cause of the trouble have been advanced, but to date nothing definite has been proven. Cub Scout Carnival Set For April 30 Plans are complete for the Cub Scout carnival to be held Friday, April 30 at the Fair pavilion in Heppner, it was announced today by members of the scout council. The event will open at 7:30 d. m. and the persons in charge say there will be games and fun ...... s and child- . ? will be the. for everyone, parents ren included. There usual carnival attractions includ ing a shooting gallery, hot rod rides, fish pond, a refreshment stand and many other attrac tions. Cubs from all five local dens have been preparing prizes for' the event and the boys will handle the consessions during the evening, it was announced. ' Additional Wheat Allotment Cut Predicted for '54 Morrow County Wheat Growth holding thoir annual spring mvvi i tUn I Avm,Thn 'r-a nun h ill MIL' rtl II' Ll-AIIILlun vmnih Saturday evening heard an up- to-the minute farm program ideas from Washington. D. ('. Jack Smith. Chairman of the Fed eral Agricultural Programs, Ore gon Wheat Crowers League, who had just returned from Washing ton D. C. made a rep'.ri on ;!nn'-. ings there. The most startling to ihose pre sent was the statement Mr. Smith ep"i,"d from Washim-i-m fun it was mst evident th;-t there ': still too much, wheal with no reduction i;i sight. II" s'a'eii that the pmnosed acrc;'"e allot ment for the next vo ir .tpMMr'M likely to be l,'ir; less ihan ihe 195.1-51 iTreatre. This would nil' Morrow County Wheal Growers in a disas terous oredicamesir ot leasing 15r; of their land cut of; production. . The meeting wit.i 11. (.. (amp- bell, chairman, in charge, heard I committee reports from all stand ing committees. The Oregon Wheat Growers League new film 'Give Us This Day" was shown to those present. Rose Sehmid, Home Economist, Oregon Wheat Growers League, distributed packages of Pilaf, the new wheat food that is becoming popular in Oregon. Interest is beinL' shown in establishing a manufacturing plant for this pro duct in Eastern Oregon. Dick Baum, Executive Secretary introduced Oregon Wheat Com mission administrator, Joe Spi rilla, and Glen Purnell, who has just been added tv the staff 01 the Oregon Wheat Growers Lea gue. Eighty-five Morrow County farmers attended the Saturday meet. Mrs. Russell O'Donnell Taken by Death Services Held Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Maw Elizabeth O'Donnell, 20. who passed away Thursday, April 15 at Pioneer Memorial hospital fol lowing a lincerinc illness, were held al 10 a. m. Monday, April 19 at St. Patrick's church in Heppner. Rosary was said Sun day evening by Rev. Francis Me- Cormaek. Mary Elizabeth Kelley was born August 20, 102S at John Day and was a graduate of St. Francis Academy at Baker. She came to Heppner in 19-15 and was married to Russell O'Donnell December 12, 19 IS. Surviving besides her husband are three small children, Dennis, John and Maryanne; her mother, Mrs. Ify Kelley of Lebanon; and her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Paine of Pendleton. Pallbearers were Luke Bibby, , L. Haguewood, .Bill Padberg, 0 Jr. Barney Udelhoffer, James Healy and Bill Cohn. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery, Creswick and Seuell Mortuary were in charge of arrangements. Court House Grounds Get Landscape Gift Work is under way this week on the landscaping of the county court house grounds, the entire project being a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duval I of Hep-iner. Shrubs of a wide variety have been planted around the base of the building and several small plots of evergreens will add to the attractiveness of the entire area. In addition the pump house, located at the back corner of the park area has received a new coat of paint to complete the refurbishing of the grounds. o I. E. Madlock and Lee Hughes of Winlock. Ore., were business visitors in Heppner Monday Hospital Cares for 1209 Pioneer Memorial hospital in," iiennner operated at an average : of 90 percent of its total bed ca pacity during 1953, and just one half of the patients came from Morrow county. rrl fir,.-..,. mI mimr ,,1tior nese UKUH.-1, tiuvi iiicin. interpStjnfT facts carne to light thia week with the completion of this week with the completion of a check of patient records for the past year, and bore out the belief of the county court (and the pub lic who voted a special tax levy for construction of a new hospital wing) tnat aaamonai iacmues are badly needed at the hospital The figures show a total of 1209 patients were cared for during the year with 606, or 50.3 percent of train ew River Facilities to be Built N Homemakers to Hear State Extension Aqent At May 5 Festive! Miss Viola Hansen, stale exten sion agent in home economics, will he campariog refugee life in Europe today with conditions as hi saw thei:i m i:i.u, at hi, I Mnrrow t -'i.Ti;-, Hoinei ni;; ers Fi stival. pavil.oii in !!oi the Festival is He Interested Problem in Europe," Mis'- Hansen spent the Stuttgart area in G i!i;,0 ii.p-i , ii-witi-: (lis: : nns for -he I.uthevan Wo oration, one of the groups helping t.iugi'cs buiid new live. Later that summer she attended the tiieunial conference of tlie Asso ciated Country Women of the World in Copenhagen, lienniark. and visited Switzerland. Austria, France and England. That winter she held a l aine gia fellowship at Harvard univer sity, working for her masters de gree, and rejoined the extension service of Oregon State college in July, 1951. Site had been Linn county home agent from 1911 to 1950. ' Miss Hansen has been a favo rite speaker in 15 oilier counties in Oregon, according to Mrs. Maud C. Casswell, county exten sion agent, home economies. o Services Held For Mrs. Lorena Cole At Christian Church Services were held Monday, April 19 at the Christian church in Heppner for Mrs. Lorena Cole, 58, who passed away April 10 at St. Anthony's hospital in Pendle ton. Rev. F'arl L. Soward offi ciated. She was born at Hardman April 2, S9ti. the daughter of Emery and Frances Speny and she lived most of her life in Morrow county. The remains were taken to the Portland Memorial for cremation There was a short service he! ! there for the immediate family with Rev. Palmer Sorlien, offici ating. She is survived by five sisters, Mrs. Harvey Harshnian. Heppner; Mrs. Walter Farrens. Heppner; Mrs. Bert Ward, Townscnd, Mon tana; Mrs. Blaine Chapel and Mrs. Roy Thomas both of Hepp ner. Five nephews, 5 nieces, 9 great nieces, -1 great nephews and one great-great nephew. o Local Students Win Bookkeeping Awards Thirteen lleppu.T high school 'students received certificates of i achiewmont in the March 17th a'inu;il international DooKKeep ing contest sponsored by tlie r.u' itiess Education World. Superior rating was given to Clarice Hastings. Joan Wright, Sally Palmer, Jean Marie Gra ham, David Cox, Lyle Jensen, Dick Kotiorien, Pat Davis, and Lillian E!de. Acceptable rating was award ed to Jim Green, Dolores Duran, Marv Ruth Green, and Barbara Prock. The official contest problem was the preparation of a trial balance of differences after ad- jut I ments had been made. Students papers were graded on accuracy, penmanship, atten tion to instruction, neatness, and correct spelling. The complete returns will be given in the June issue of the Business Education World. them, coming county. Gilliam from Morrow! count v supplied i 103 or 13 9 percent; Wheeler 2o or 23.7 percent; Umatilla 118 or 9.1 percent of the total. 32 pa tients, or 2.7 percent of the total resified in other areas. A further breakdown of the residence of the hospital's pa tients showed the following: Morrow county Heppner 100; lone 111; Lexing ton 51; Boardman and Irrigon 33; Cecil 5; Hardman 3. wuu. . -"""'.' . ..., connon i.-,,, .v. . ..., j ville 3 and others 12. Umatilla county Hermiston, Echo, StanHeld 86. l.t. i!.-i- i .'I l - I t 4 ! wn- v;. Iv " i. u i i in the ,:,fuv IV ? ' "r 1 ' toraae . . -v v. j JOSEPH ALDEN, who will teach next year, replacing Jamesi the 7lh grade at Heppner srjhool Feterson who has resigned ef fective at the end of the present school year. Alden is a native of Kinzua, and taught there for several years. He ccmes to Heppner from Weston where he has been teaching for the past three years. He is a graduate cl Eastern Oregon College of Education. Voter Registration Shows Slight Drop Practically complete registra tion figures for Morrow county were compiled today by Mrs. Sadie Parrish, county clerk and showed a slight drop in total oter registration for the county, but not as much of a decrease as has been reported from some other sections of the state. As in the past, Republicans hold nearly a 2 to 1 lead over the Democrats according to the fig ores which iii'dude all recent tegistratioiis with the exception of those from Boardman which had not yel been received at the clerk's office. Total registration is 2.'i.'!5 which is a decrease of 171 irom the 1952 total of 2509. Of these 1 12S are Republicans and S07 Democrat. The 1952 division wiis 1532 Republican and 932 Democrat. o Daily Train Service Due on Two Lines Deilv train service will start "n the Heppner and the Condon branch lines of the Union Pacific railroad as soon as volume ship ping begins it was announced this week. Word of the plans for haul ing the expected heavy shipment of grain from early May througli Hi'1 coming harvest was received in a letter to Al Lamb, manager of !!h Morrow County Grain Growers from T. J. Dowd, general freight agent for Union Pacific in Portland. Dowd further advised that the railroad is now assembling equip ment to protect the anticipated heavy movement of grain to Hie terminals for export and storage. He reported that the company has already stored a fair supply of cars at county points for use when needed. Mr. ond Mrs. Earl Evans had as their Sunday dinner guests Ben Buschke, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Kari of Pendleton. Mrs. Minnie Forbes, and Mrs. Anne Smouse. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Grotte and children were weekend visitors to Portland. Patients in L'm:y;ilh other 3. McNary, Ordnance 29; Nursim Home Full The above ligures applied only to the 15 beds in the general hos pital .'"ction of the plant and did not include those patients being i cared for in the nursing home - section whieli lias a pen capacity i of 10 and operated at 93 percent of capacity, or an average bed use of 9,3 per day. Birth records show a total of 221 babies came into the world at the local hospital with 113 of them being boys and 108 girls. Total Too High The extremely high figure of 90 percent occupancy of total !0 v."cks in1 I - 1 ,. : ' t -A v t.NiJ t-!d Fed. ' k ' V . :,.. if' " j V VI Problem $175,000 Rise in The grain si the I',., '.i Noil belter than it oral J n,.:,. .situation in Al Lamb, manager of Morrow most looks much i Comity Grain Growers points out lid three months that there is still Ihe problem of ago, end it appeal be more storase needed, .-o rvr: secret ;ity ol the west Gram Deal s thai 1 than , IV'o P.ieit! ers, It here will w ill be s'.iiv.ip North-1 mi Spo die 1 he MniTov. i m will a1' i. I i' o ill 1 1 ! ppib .ed by Ih" construct inn .'I new sioiai'e taciiities a Ol ICK a lid I soil 'err . S:,i!lco ro;-i ricil that w i.h the cas.ii niaihet for wheat running several cents per piishel under loan, il appears that practically none of last year's wheal crop will he redeemed from the loans. However, due to Ihe ship storage program and heavy construction of elevators, it appears that the new crop of wheat and barley will all find adequate storage space. The planned shipment of over Hi million bushels of wheal and 9110.01)0 bushels of barley to Japan during May and June also; helps to assure adequate storage: for the area's grains. j Stalleop reports thai til least j 17 million bushels of new com-. mercial elevator space has been constructed in the northwest since last harvest. And. added to the new commercial storage available is the 30 million bush els of storage in the surplus ships which will begin loading in May in Ihe Portland area. 15 of these ships have already been loaded at I'tlget Sound docks where a total of 13 are available. The ships already I mded have aver aged 2:10,000 'bushels each. P-TA Asks City To uoiioic Park Property For School Use The Heppner Parent Teachers association hist Wednesday night passed a resolution asking the city of Heppner to donate its park property on Main street to the school district as pari of a site for a new elementary school. The area, along with oilier lands, Is part of the Turn A-Lum site re cently approved by voters. The council had previously set a price of $13,l)lill on the plot. During the meeting, at which about 125 person.'; were in attend ance, the group went on record as favoring the necessary bond issue to finance construction of the now school. Vord Received Of Death of Doris Hayes Word was received in Heppner today of the death of Mrs. Homer Haves of Portland. She was the r,,rmei- Dnl'is CoX. daUL'htor of Harold Gov of Heppner. She was raised in Morrow county and her husband was chief of police in Heppner for a number of years. Details were not available as to when or where the services wotdd be held. Farm Bureau To Have Potluck and Meetinq The Morrow county Farm Bu reau will meet Tuesday evening April 27 at Willows grange hall in lone. There will be a lot luck supper at (i:'15 p. m. followed by a business meeting, committee reports and special music, All members are urged to be present and especially the now members. 1953; Profit ho-.dial eaoaeiiv. which is a daily average of 11.1 patients for ihe 15 beds, far exceeding the recommendation of the U. S. Pub lic Health service. The Service recommends that for efficient patient care and operation, and to e:-vo some margin for emer gency, that a hospital should not operate at over 05 percent of its total bed capacity. Profit and loss figures for 1953 show that the institution had an operating income of $122,155.90 and operating expenses of $110, -507.70 which left a net profit of $5,588.20. These figures do not include such non-operating ex penses as equipment purchases, bases Docks to a a nor row moving a vast quantity of gram ,-.tpj(ll ciioit'h to insure ha Hill ing of the 1951 crop of wheat and luiilcy. e leels the determin ing tai lor will be the a ailaliilily , I' env ois. The railroads report, however, that they will be able to supply an adequate number of rats, and if so, the Grain Grow-i-i s manager sa'd he fell there is n doubt thai all of Morrow County's wheat and barley can be taken care of. New Dock Facilities Due Lamb also announced that an other factor which greatly im ptiAcs the county's storage pros pects is Ihe construction of a new elevator and barge loading facility near the Paterson ferry landing on the Columbia river in north Morrow county. Actual construction of this 150. imo bushel unit, which will cost $175,000. will begin within a few ,ays and the contract calls for completion in time for use during this year's harvest. The new Paterson terminal ele vator will be constructed by the Continental Grain Company, wlreh has west coast offices in Portland, and it will be leased to the Morrow County Grain Growers for a period of five years. I The cooperative also has an op- Hon to purchase the facilities al the end of the lease period. ! W. E. Melcna of lone is the jeonstaetor and the dock is to be I built so that it can handle ocean j going barges when they can ! reach this section of the river. Lamb pointed out that during harvest it is always necessary to move upwards of l.OtXl.OOO bush els of grain out of Ihe area to 'eep up with harvesting and the new Paterson facility will greatly aid in handling this wheat. He said thai most of the grain will move through Arlington. Paterson and by rail, with more than half of the'total expected to go by rail. The now' Columbia river docks will be located adjacent to the Paterson ferry landing. Chamber Joins in Requests For New County Health Nurse The Heppner Morrow county Chamber of Commerce this week joined with many other county organizations in requesting the county court to lake any action necessary to fill the long-vacant position of county health nurse. The group passed a resolution, which was sent to the court, ask ing Dial il take all necessary means to make the position as attractive as possible in an at tempt to find a replacement for Miss Martha Tapanainen, who re; igned last October. The office has been vacant since that time. The resolution pointed out that county school and individual family health programs were su:' feting from the lack of a county nurse and urged that every means be taken to fill the post. CHANGERS TO TOUR McNARY DAM Pomona Master Ray Drake an nounced that Morrow county grangers will meet with Umatilla county grangers Sunday, April 25 at Columbia grange, 3 miles N. E. of Hermiston at 12 o'clock noon for a potluck dinner. Leav ing there at 1:15 p. rn. for McNary to tour the dam. Shown depreciation or a bad debt fund j and some of these are made up i from a special hospital mainten ance fund set up by the county fl 2.000 was budgeted for this fund, but only $9,000 of the amount was used and it is hoped that when the new wing is com pleted that additional income from this source will make the special maintenance fund un necessary. As announced recently, plans are now being completed for the new bedroom addition to the building and the county court hopes to call for construction bids within a short time.
