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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1954)
L I IRARY u or 0 :.L EUGENE, ORE. Copies 10 cents Residents to Vote Friday on County School Budget . Voters will go to the polls to morrow (Friday, May 14) to vote on the budget for the operation of all county schools for the com ing school year. Polling places will be the school in each dist rict with the hours announced by the local school boards. In Hepp ner the polls will be open from 2 to 6 p. m., while in lone ami probably in most of the other dis tricts they will be open one hour only, from 2 to 3 p. m. The budget this year, while showing a slight overall increase in expenses of $9,625 over last v year, actually will show a nei reduction of $51,650 from the current budget due to heavy cash carryover from the current year. The total budget figure for operating all the county's schools is $011,883, of which $383,840 is outside the six per cent limitation and on which the voters must pass. , The county school superintendents office an nounced this week that the low ered net figure will mean a re duction in county school taxes of approximately 3 and one-half mills from the present tax. The office had previously announced the reduction would be at least three mills. Just Operating Budget The budget which voters are being asked to approve is for gen eral operating expenses of the schools in the county, and is in no way connected with any build- ing plan or bond issue. There have been indications that some persons, particularly in the Hepp nor district, have confused the Friday vote on the budget with a proposal to issue bonds for the construction of a new grade school in Heppner, but school officials have pointed gut that such a bond issue must be pre sented at an entirely separate special election. The date for this election has not yet been set, as total cost and bond figures are not yet compiled. Mail Haul Contract Up For Renewal Heppner postmaster James Driscoll announced today that bids will be accepted at the post master general's office in Wash ington D. C. until May 27 for the contract to haul mail from Ar lington to Heppner. The contract period will be for four years and is to start July 1 of this year. The contract is now held by Orval W. Gentry of Heppner who won it by bid earlier this year. It had been held by Flatt's Truck Service for several years prior to that time. The departure schedule will be the same under the new contract as is currently in effect, Driscoll said. It calls for six-day service and the elimination of holidays with the truck to leave Arlington at 5 a. m. and arrive in Heppner at 8 a. m.; and to leave Heppner at 6 p. m. and arrive in Arlington at 8:30 p. m. Bid forms may be obtained at the Heppner post office, Driscoll stated. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Floan of Portland were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duvall Mon day evening. The Floans were in Heppner the first of this week on business. Radar Now 4 . ' ...... " nAJAK b i oiiivi-ihActh This mobile radar unit ce.ng used by ae weather Modification Company, hcleUr of the present Tri-County Weather Research "rainmak.ng" contract to aid in following an4 seeding storms. This mobile unit is in use in one of the ccnipany'g southern California areas, but U similar to the one in Condon which ha been installed on o permanent basis in the company offices there. (See adjoining story). Jlepptier sfTj cn tv iA ii 11 1 I m Mir SHOW PLANS for the 1954 Oregon Wheat Growers League 4-H and FFA Fat Stock Show and Sale were adopted by Officers of the Wheat League at a recent session at The Dalles June 7. 8 and 9. From left, Elmar Lierman, The Dalles, General Manager; Morris Wilson, Condon, President; Kenneth Fid. ley. Wasco, Second Vics-President; Earl Meeker, The Dalles, Chairman, Youth Activities committee; ittpe. Exnected exhibits, about 500, a new ICUUUlU 1 ICtUSf UOVWi ivv high record. MOST LOCAL CANDIDATES EXPRESS VIEWS AT MONDAY NIGHTMEETING About GO persons attended the candidates meeting held Monday evening at the court house under the sponsorship of the Morrow county Republican Central Com mittee and heard 10 of the 12 candidates running for local ofti ces explain their- programs and stands on numerous issues. J. u Turner acted as chairman for the meeting. Heading the list of speakers were Garnet Barratt and Oscar Peterson who are running for county judge on the Republican ballot. Barratt explained that he has attempted during his term in office to unify the county and that he hopes to be abye to com plete the. planned county road and hospital expansion programs in another term. He also ex plained to the group where the funds came from that were used to surface the Lena-Nye Junc tion road, and told that they were primary road funds that could not be shifted to other roads in the county. If they had not boon used where they were, they would have been lost. Peterson said he was running on a platform of economy and pledged all of his attention to the business of running the county. He also said that taxes must be watched even closer during the coming .years. r a Tom. present state repre sentative from this district said that his record points to his con legislator. He said that he is opposed to any new state taxes until some of the duplication of state efforts are eliminated. He also said that he favors the federal plan of re apportionment and is working on enabling legislation for weather modification districts or projects. Mrs. Gladys Zell, Democrat of Wasco, who will oppose Tom in the general election told of her interest in a safety program and said that she strongly urged high school driving instruction courses. The three aspirants for the as sessor's post each spoke briefly, Mrs. Joseph Hughes explaining the part she is taking in the cur rent tax equalization and reap praisal program and said that the control of the program, though it is being done in cooperation with the state tax commission, will remain in the county's hands. Kenneth Blake, who also seeks the office, said that he feels the office should be non-partisan and run for the best interests of all county residents. The third can Being Used wm w . didate for the office, Harry Din ges, was not present. Harold Becket, Republican and Bruce Lindsay, Democratic candi date for the county clerk's posi tion both spoke briefly with Bee ket telling of his experience in operating his own business and said that he plans a further study of bookkeeping. Bradley D. Fancher, unopposed for district attorney, and Ralph I. Thompson, who is unopposed on the ballot for county commission er also gave brief talks. Former County School Teacher Dies at 84 Mrs. Anna Heiny of Fairview, Oregon, near Gresham, passed away at her home May 8. She had taught school in Oregon for nearly 30 years, and will be re membered in Morrow county as a teacher in the former Eight Mile, Rhea Creek and Burton Valley schools. Mrs. Heiny was born in Fair view. Oregon August 17, 18(!9 and at the time of tier death was 81 vears of age. She had lived in Oregon all of her life and her parents had come to Oregon via ox team in 1S50 settling on a Dunbar donation land claim. Surviving are two children, Mrs. E. O. Ferguson, Heppner and Warren N. Heiny of Chicago; two sisters, Miss Calla Hcslen of Fairview. and Mrs. Ethel Thomp son of Tort land; one brother Ed Hclsin of Fairview, three grand children and five great grand children. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, May 12 at the chapel of the Carroll Funeral Home in Gresham with vault interment in Forest Lawn cemetery in Gres ham. lone Whitman Student Named to Honorary WHITMAN' COLLEGE. WAI.H WLLA, Miss Shirlee McGreer of lone today was tapped for mem bership in the Dramatic Club, Whitman theater honoi(iry, in annual May fete tapping cere monies on the campus. Miss McGreer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Troedson of lone, is a 1953 graduate of St. Helen'.; Hall in Portland. Ore. She is ; member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Van Winkle were in Pendleton Sunday night. to Follow Local Storms and Increase Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, Heppner 8th Grade To Graduate 26 Twenty-six members of the eighth grade class of the Hepp nor school will be eraduated into high school at graduation cere monies to be held Thursday, May 27 at 7:15 p. m. in the school gym nasium, principal Clarence John son announced this week. He also announced the two top honor students of the class, vale dictorian and salutatorian to be Joann Brosnan and Helen Gra ham. Other members of the class in clude Sharon Abern, Peggy Ap plegate, Janice Beamer. Jerry Brace, LeRoy Bright, Judy Col lins, Tom Currin, Buelah Davis, Larry Fetsch, Burke Gentry, Mar lone Gever, Carole Groshens, Eddie Groshens, Margaret Hughes, Bob Laughlin, Conrad Lesser. Billv Monahan, Jim Mor ris, Phyllis Quackenbush, Len Ray Schwarz, Paul Stout, jacKic Strut hors, Judy Kessell and Bob Bryant. Following the graduation cere mony there will be a farewell party and dance. Heppner Woman Hurt In Friday Accident Mrs. Keith Johnson of Heppner suffered severe and painful, though not critical injuries last Friday afternoon when her car went over a bank on highway 207 several miles north of Lexington, when accarding to reports, a front tire blew out. Mrs. Johnson was brought to Pioneer Memorial hospital by am bulance where she was found to have suffered a compound frac ture of one leg, severe facial lacerations and bruises. Her phy sician reported this week that she was resting as well as could be expected. She was on her way to Wash ington at the time of the acci dent. GRANDDAUGHTER TO GRADUATE Mrs. R. B. Rice and son Edward have gone to Kansas City, Mis souri to attend the graduation of their daughter and granddaugh ter Eleanor Rice, from Stephens College at Columbia, Missouri. They expect to return to Hepp ner in June. Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Barratt left Tuesday afternoon to spend a few days in Portland. One of the most important ad anies in the technique of wea her modification, or as it is bet ter known, "rain-making" is the installation early this year of radar equipment at the Condon office of the Weather Modifica tion Company, current holder of the contract with Tri-County Weather Research for weather control and experimentation in Morrow, Gilliam and Sherman counties. Information on the use of the well known war-born device was described at a meeting last week end in Heppner of the directors of Morrow County Weather Re search, a unit of the Tri-County organization, by John A. Battles, head meteorologist for the com pany and Bc-t O'Hanlon, Wea ther" Modification president. The radar unit, similar in oper ation to the one pictured except that it is permanently installed in the company's offices in Con don, was put into service in Janu ary of this year, and Battles said that it promises to be the greatest May 13, 1954 Coon Urges House Action on Two Price Wheat Plan WASHINGTON A two-price or domestic paritv program for wheat would not only help wheat men by disposing of surpluses. but would benefit cattle men and feeders by giving them feed grain at a nrice thev could pay, San Coon declared this week. In a statement submitted to the House Agriculture committee Rep. Coon urged the committee to try to devise ways of meeting objections to the program, in or dor to put it into effect as soon as possible. The Eastern Oregon Congress man also declared that cattlemen in general do not want direct price supports; stated that In favors the administration pro gram for wool, urged a self-hell program for dairymen, "fair and reasonable" protection from for eign competition for fruit, voge table, seed and livestock grow ers, stimulation of foreign mar kets for surplus, and research for use of surplus crops and farm lands. Congressman Coon stated that while many wool men would favor a higher tariff as their first choice, the program as proposed by the administration would en courage efficiency and insure that a vital industry survives. "It is generally agreed," ac cording to Rep. Coon, "that cat tle men do not want direct price supports, or any other undue in tcrference or control, but would welcome a program making grain available for feeding at a rea sonable price, and approve of measures designed to relieve sur plus conditions, such as the pur chasing of beef for the school lunch program. "Many fruit, vegetable and seed crops, along with livestock, need fair and reasonable protection from overseas competition," Sam Coon said, "if the farmers that grow them are to survive as free a n d independent operators. America is powerful and strong, and our farms are efficient and productive, but we are not power ful enough, or efficient enough, to bring the standard of living of the rest of the world up to the level o four own." "While some of our crops need protection from foreign competi tion," Rep Coon told the commit tee, "other crops are in need of faroign markets in order to dis pose of their full production. This involves some conflict of interest. It may take years of effort to wor kout a balanced arrangement in this connection." Congressman Coon stated that he has been working with some of the farmers of Oregon in an ef fort to obtain closer cooperation I between the State Department, the Department of Agriculture and the Foreign Operations Ad minis;ration In stimulating for eign markets, and asked that the committee support stops further to emphasize marketing in for eign relations. n Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fergu son left Monday morning for Flint Michigan, from there they will go to Washington D. C, where they will visit with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelly. They expect to be gone about three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Munchison and Mel spent the weekend and the first part of this week in La Grande visiting relatives and friends. aid vet developed in the study of weather research. He told how the unit can pick up storms at a distance of up to 80 miles from the unit and follow their path until they get out of range or dissipate. He said that his com pany has learned, through the use of radar, that most storms have numerous "cells" which may vary in intensity so much ih; i the seeding of some can act ually cause a lessining of rain fall instead of increasing it, as is desired. Battles told the group that lho.-e is much yet to learn in the u:.o of radar, especially in the analyzing of the information ob tained, but that in the short time it has been in use in this area it has proven very valuable. Bat tles said that wiih a little more knowledge of the area, it would be possible to sit in the Condon office and tell on exactly what ranch it was raining and what the intensity of the rainfall was. Hail Program Proposed The proposal that the Weather twites Resignation of Heppner School Board Head to Leave 2 Positions Open Mrs. Stephen Thompson, chair man of the Heppner school board, announced this week that she will tender her resignation from the board at the next regular meeting of the group early in June. She gave as the reason for her action, a planned change of residence which would make her ineligible to serve the re mainder of her term. Mrs. Thompson's resignation will leave two of the three seats on the board open, as Barton Clark, another member, announ ced last week that he will not seek reelection at the conclusion of his term in June. L. K. Dick Jr. will be the only holdover mem ber on the board. In releasing the statement that she would be unable to serve a a director next year, Mrs. Thomp son said that she and family will move out of the Heppner district during the summer, and that she felt she should resign prior to the tinmial meeting and election of directors which will be hold on June 21 so that voters of the dis trict may choose a successor at that time. She has one more year to serve, having been elected to the position in 1952 for a three- year term. Had her resignation not boon given prior to the regu lar election, so that the voters may choose a replacement, the position would have to bo filled bv appointment for the remainder of the term by the county school superintendent. The terms of two members ot the rural school board will also expire this Juno, county school upermtondent Leslie Crant an nouncod this week, ihoso of Mil ton Morgan, lone and Adrian Free Chest X-Ray Attracts Many to Hospital Open House Nearly 2."i0 persons took ad vantage of Pioneer Memorial Hos pital's observance of national hospital day Wednesday to tour Ih e modern institution in Hepp ner. Over 1T)0 of the visitors mailed themselves of the free host X-rav which was given to all those desiring it through the cooperation of the hospital and the Morrow County TB and Health Association All departments of the hospital were open to the public for in spection and refreshments were rved by members of the staff. Lillian Elde Wins Girls' State Award Lillian Elde, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Elde, of Heppner, was chosen this week as the win ner of a trip to Girls' Stale which will be held at Willamette Uni ersity in Salem from June 11 to 20. The award is sponsored by the Heppner American Legion Auxiliary. The selection of the Heppner girl to attend this year's Girls' State was made by teachers at Heppner high school and they based their decision on leadership qualities, honesty, courage, scho larship and several other joints. The program at Girls' State is de signed to give the girls training in parliamentary procedures, gov ernment operation etc. Miss Elde is a high school junior. Rainfall Modification company be en gaged to carry on a hail disburse ment program during the summer months was discussed by the di rectors, who were told that the Gilliam and Wheeler county groups were in favor of such a plan, but the local directors felt that, in view of the fact that this county is still $1,000 short of funds to meet its present con tract with the company that it would be unwise to lake on fur ther obligations until the former I bill is cleared. It was also point ied out that only a small portion of this county is in a dangerous hail belt, whereas most of Gil liam and Sherman counties have suffered considerably heavier hail losses in former years. Ar rangements were also made to make collections on signed con tracts which are now in arrears. Storm Followed A report of the storm which passed over this section of the state on Sumlay and Monday, May 9 and 1() was released to (Continued on page 6) 71st Year, Number 9 Bechdolt of Hardman, and neither man has made any announce ment yet as to whether he in tends to run again for the posi tion. Both were elected for a three year term. The election for these positions will also be held on June 21 in the two county zones in which the members re side. Other rural board members are Jos. J. Nys, Heppner. Henry Ziv ney of Boardman and Alon. t Henderson of Lexington. Morgan has served as chairman during the past year. 4-H Home Ec Judging Training Day Set Saturday at Heppner Home Economics 1 11 judging training day is scheduled Satur day May i. at 1:.'10 p. m. at the fair pavilion, at Heppner. Mrs. Winnifred K. Gillen, 1-H Agent, Oregon Stale College, will assist members with judging classes in canning, foods, and clothing. The classes will in clude three in food, throe in cloth ing and two in canning. The purpose of the training day is to give all 4 H home economics members an opportunity to know a good product, and to determine why, if they do, they are not a good standard product. Mrs. Gillen will assist 1 11 members with written reasons for placing classes. The training day will assist members in prepara tion for county and state fairs. Leaders and club members eli gible to attend the training judg ing day are as follows: Charm, ingly Yours club of lone with Mrs. Lewis Carlson as Leader and members: Leann Padberg, Joyce Casoboer, Karlen Lundell, Linda lleitnbignor, Ann Baker and Judy Morgan. Clothing club from Heppner with Mrs. Waller Wright and Patsy Wright as leaders and members Lynda Horman, Helen Graham, Diane Grant, Sally Pal mer, Shirley Peck, Margie Peck, Sharon Rill, Judy Thompson, Meredith Thomson, Janet Wright and Patsy Wright. Clothing II. and III club of Heppner with Mrs. Marion Brosnan and Mrs. Mario Marlin as loaders and members Rosea nn Avers, Erancine Fran eisjaniee Marlin, Joann Brosnan, Janice Beamer. Clothing I club of Heppner with Uuth Bergstrom as leader and members Carole Anderson, Connie Anderson, Janice Driscoll, Bonnie Harmon, Nancy llarshman, Caro lyn McDaniel and Janet Wight man. Mrs. Jack Van Winkle's Clothing I club of Heppner with members Beverly Blake, Bernice Thomson, Sheryl Harris, Shirley Van Winkle, and Sharon Keith ly. Mrs. Audrey Ansted's Cookery 111 club from Lexington with members Dora Sue Davidson, Helen Louise Bolts,' Barbara Stea gall, Nancy Wright, and Charlene Jones. The Cooking 111 club from lone with Mrs. E. M. Baker as leader and Mardine Baker, Ann Belle Coleman, Janet llowton, Judy Howton and Sue Coleman as members. Cookery I club of Heppner lead by Mrs. James Al len w'ith members Sara Mae Burnside, Karen Christain, Patty DeRosia, Shirlee Gaines, Nancy Kay Moyor, Rose Marie Nash, Mary Shannon, Virginia Thomp son, ami Rogena Mae Wagner. Mrs. Earle Kendalls Cookery I club of Heppner with Mary Eve lyn Tucker, Shirley Van Winkle, Carol Anderson, Connie Anderson, Vicki Barger Sharon Keith ly, Bon nie Hannah, Shirley Nash, Jeanne Collins, and Wilma Bothwell as members. Cookery I club of Heppner led by Mrs. Claude Graham, Mrs. P. W. Mahoney, and Jean Mario Graham as leaders and members Mary Sloeum, Carolyn Sloeum, Janet Thompson, Patty Barger, Beberley Blake, Cheryle Hartmun, Laura Lee Sumner, Shannon Ma honey, Julie Pfoiffer, Bernice Thomson, Judy Hamilton. Cook ery I club ofl one with Mrs. Roland Bergstrom and Mrs. Merle Baker as leaders an the following mem bers: Marilyn Morgan, Lona White, Joann Turner, Linda Hams, Marlene Griffin, Joan MaKin and Leann Padberg. The Cookery III chili from llepi.ner w ith Mrs. Nels Anderson at their leader anil members Bar bra Warren, Virginia Andresen, Virginia Goniy, Margaret Ken dall, JoAnne Keithly, Sharon Case, Diane Grant, and Ida Sue Stratton. The Cookery II club from Heppner with M.irie Martin and Marian Brosnan as loaders and Janice Martin, Francine Francis. Roseann Ayers and Jo ann Brosnan as members.
