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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, June 3, 1954
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
IV Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
County Farm Bureau, discussion
was held regarding the possible
j developments of a shortage of
on Tuesday, June 1, with the 4-Hold flry spring Those proscnt
This is a week of tours. The an-
rmL'nrtQt!nn and P.PttPT
Farming Methods Tour was held i
Club Agricultural Project Tour
being held on Wednesday and
Thursday. As this news is pre
pared Tuesday evening, a suc
cessful Conservation and Better
Farming Tour has been held to
day with approximately 35 farm
ers attending the days tour. All
were interested in the stops that
were made to see conservation
and better farming practices, cov
ering irrigated and dry land con
ditions. Those attending the
tour were much interested in such
things as sod waterways, strip
cropping, windbreaks, alfalfa
grass seedings, fertilizer experi
ments, stubble mulch farming,
ensilage making stored in a
trench silo, and wild life plant
ings. The day was a full one
with the stop for lunch ;it Lexing
ton, provided by the Heppner
Morow County Chamber of Com
merce, appreciated hy everyone
on the tour.
Attending the tour from out of
the county were: Floyd Billings,
Roy Hobby, Ray and Ronald
Hoeft, from the South Umatilla
Soil Conservation District. The
delegates toured by bus again
this year, and from the steady
hum tif conservation it sounded as
if anyone enjoyed himself and
caught up on their visits with
neighboring farmers. It was an
opportunity for all to see what
his neighbor in other communi
ties were doing.
The trade missions which went
to Euope, Asia and Latin Amer
ica in April are now back. Presi
dent Eisenhower's instructions
were: first, find out what pro
duets of ours foreign countries
could use and explore the possi
bilities of making them one of our
customers for those products; se
cond, determine what products of
theirs would be useful to us and!
help deselope plans by which
this trade could be of maximum
mutual benefit. We should have
a report from the missions soon.
agreed that they might investi
gate the possibilities of contract
ing stubbie for late July and Aug
ust contracting as a means of
supplementing the short grass
crop.
Consideration is being given to
making a survey of those who
would be interested in leasing
their stubble to carry through
some of Morrow county's live
stock that might necessarily
otnerwise he snipped trom a
shortage of feed. This would en
able some to hold over stuff that I
might be fattened later in the
year on feed grains of which there
promises to be a good supply this
fall.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From
Back Road Jaunt to Capital City
Includes Ride on Departing Ferry
Files of the Gazette Times
June 5, 1921
Over 400,000 pounds of wool
was purchased from local sheep
men at the wool sales here yes
terday The largest clip purchased
was that of John Kilkenny,!
weighing over 100,000 pounds.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Anderson'
journeyed to Pendleton Sunday!
for a short visit with relatives'
and friends and to take in the;
ball game between Pendleton and
La Grande.
Grover B. Swaffgert, proprietor
of the Central Market, returned
Tuesday evening from a two
days' trip to Portland.
Wilsonville Craft
Soon to Ee Replaced
By Modern Bridge
The following 1 a ronilensatlnn
of a motoring npiieiirliiK In
Northwest roto masazlne of the
May 80 Sunday Oregonlan. It in
one of the annual series pon
ored Jointly by the Oregon State
Motor association and The Ore
gonlan. BY PA IT H.VISFR
Staff Wrltrr, Thr lronlan
Bkettlic bi trnesl Kkhardson
"Monotonous. Monotonous." The
driver of the family bus wasn't
echoing singer Eartha Kitt's tag
line for her blase ballad of bore
dom. He was just expressing his
view of another trip to Salem over
the familiar 50 miles of 99E.anrl
that was why he crossed the river,
started out on 99W, turned off to
go through Tualatin and on to
Wilsonville.
He drove slowly past Aden's
store and then down to the steep
incline that leads to the ferry land
ing. What luck! The Jesse Boone
was on the nigh side, ready to
load. The children shouted happily
at the surprise, for they had not
Ralph Benge and family re-j
I turned Friday evening from Wal-,
la Walla where he took in the
big pageant "How the West was
Won".
At a recent meeting of asub
committee on acreage allotments
of the Oregon Wheat Growers
League, Lloyd I!owton, lone
rancher, represented Morrow
County Wheat Growers. The sub
committee had been appointed
earlier in the year to investigate
acreage allotments, since there
was a feeling at the last annual
meeting of the Oregon Wheat
Growers League that inequities
existed between growers in other
states and even between counties
within the stale of Oregon.
Reviewing the present law
governing acreage allotments, it
was found that county allotments
are divided among farms on the
basis of (1) acres of wheat (2)
crop rotation (6) tillable acres
( lHopography (5) soil types. Af
ler much deliberation, a number
of recommendations were ap
proved for consideration by the
executive committee of the Ore
gon Wheat Growers League.
J. W. Morrow was here for
Decoration Day from his Portland
home.
Ladies silk hose, range in
price from $1.00 to $1,00 at Sam
Hughes Co.
Oregon Slate College weekly
cattle and hog market review re
ports that the contracting of cat
tle for fall delivery continues. In
the Fort Klamath and Klamath
Falls area, grass steers for fall
delivery have mostly been re
ported contracted at $20. In Ida
ho, medium and Rood feeder
steers and yearlings for Fall de
livery have been bringing $17 to
$18.50.
Monday evening at the regular
monthly meeting of the Morrow
Boardman News
By Flossie Coats
BOARDMAN Sunday guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elvin
Ely were Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Lilly
and family, La Grande; Miss Ora
Ely, Pendleton and Mr. and Mrs.
Alan Ely, Hermiston.
Mrs. Anna Skoubo spent the
weekend in Hood River with her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Russell DeMauro. Tuesday
Mrs. Ralph Skoubo and Mrs. Ed
ward Skoubo took Mrs. Skoubo
to Walla Walla where she will be
employed again this summer on
the Klicker Bros. farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tannehill
and daughters of La Grande were
Monday night guests at the home
of Donald's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Why Oregon Growers
find SHELL NH3 SERVICE is
Clyde Tannehill.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom VanEtten
left for her home at Lebanon on
Monday. Mr. VanEtten has taken
a position with the Monroe school
system, where they will move
later this summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman Messen
ger Jr. and daughters of Hermis
ton, Franklin, Gerald and Corroll
Messenger, Lexington, were call
ers at the home of the boy's
grandfather, Mr. Elmer Messen
ger Sunday.
Funeral services were held on
Friday afternoon at 2:00 p. m. on
May 28, 1951 for Mrs. Sarah Jane
Nlckerson at the Boardman Com
munity church with Miss Jean
Scott officiating. Pallbearers were
Robert Harwood, Arthur Allen.
Walter Hayes, R. B. Rands, Royal
Rands, and Ray Brown. Mrs. Eu
gene Harwood and Miss Zelma
Cowan sang two numbers "The
Old Rugged Cross" and In The
Garden" accompanied by Mrs.
Lowell Shattuek, who also played
mr prt-M-ssiunai and ine reces
PORTLAND
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Motoiiog makes leisurely Sun
day afternoon family cliiw.
At end of Tualatin's Main street h stately old home (above left)
surrounded by venerable trees. Motorlog route through Butteville
offered stop to inspect pioneer school and adjacent old town jail.
He couldn't remember when he'd
last been in Ronald. It must have
been more than 20 years that
time, when, having thumbed a ride
with a bathtub salesman, he waited
there outside a plumber's shop
while the salesman made a call.
Before t ' .n t he remembered it as a
place w :o the trains stopped,
the fine en trains of the Ore
gon Elect: Wasn't there a power
house be: id" the track at Donald?
So on, paralleling the railroad
track and then crossing it and
running along it on the other side,
through the country until the road
ran out and into another and into
the first houses of a town.
Gervais Visited
"Why this must be Gervais," he
though. It was Gervais, that old
town the highway lost. How many
times had he sped by the sign of
black and orange renting the way
with civic pride to ,ervais, and he
couldn't recall that he had ever
been here. He was suddenly
shocked to realize that he knew
many of the remote places far in
the sagebrush better than he knew
the quiet little towns off the high
way in his own valley.
"Daddy, this isn't the way to
Grandma's house," a child said
querulously.
"There are many, many ways to
go to Salem," said the driver of
the family bus. And as ne saia it
he saw the many cars rushing pell
mell through the country ahead of
him and in a moment the little
country road ended at the high
way and the family bus was caught
in the stream. It and its cargo sped
headlong in the familiar channel.
"This," said a satisfied voice
from the back seat. "This is t..e
way to Grandma's. Now we aren't
lost anymore."
I'leen told they were to get a boat
ride.
Downstream loomed the new
highway bridge, long dreamed
about and now reality of steel
and concrete. Upstream the high
bridge of the Oregon Electric
where the green trains used to roll.
The driver of the family bus never
saw that bridge without remem
bering the first thrill of crossing
its long trestle, his 6-year-nose
flattened to the window pane, and
thinking then as he looked far, far
down at the tiny cows in the
pasture below that this was surely
the highest bridge in the world.
So up from the ferry landing
and on. Ordinarily the driver of
the family bus would have turned
on to the straight stretch of pave
ment which comes to the main
highway north of Hubbard, but
the same perversity which had
turned him earlier made him in
stead follow the sign pointing to
Butteville. And after Butteville he
followed a sign that pointed to
Donald.
Countryside Quiet
Each turn brought a new sight.
Here and there daffodils crowded
carelessly down to the roadway.
Now an old house, carefully and
plainly, built in the manner of
first settlers, and other old ones
from times of later affluence, still
wearing proudly the gingerbread
their builders so proudly gave
them. But it was more the serenity
and quiet naturalness of a spring
Sunday in the deep countryside
that enthralled the driver of the
family bus than anything he saw
or heard.
Again the angled cross-arms of
Bonneville Power's line signaled
the Oregon Electric's straight
right-of-way and they came to
Donald.
Boardman News
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Iluhn, and
Mabel Herindeen are guests from
Wichita, Kansas at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Carpenter
and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Carpen.
ter Friday to Tuesday. Mrs. Hahri
is a sister of Delbert Carpenter
and Miss Merindeen is a cousin
Also Mr. and Mrs. Larry Carpen
ter, Eugene, were weekend guests
at the Delbert Carpenter home
The above mentioned group to
getlier with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Hamilton and Mr. and Mrs. Or
ville Carpenter, Umatilla were
Sunday afternon guests at the
Glenn Carpenter home, honoring
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Carpenter
and Glenn Carpenter on their
birthdays.
Saturday callers at the Russell
Miller home were Mr. and Mrs.
John Miller and family, Judsonia
Ark. Mr. Miller is a cousin of
Russell and Bob Miller. Weekend
guests at the Russell Miller home
were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Baker,
Corbett, Ore., and Mr. and Mrs!
Dean Griffin, Portland. Miss
Grace Miller spent the weekend
at home from EOCE. La Grande
where she is a student.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marlow was
called to Pendleton Saturday
evening due to the illness of Mr.
Mariow's mother, Mrs. Julia Mar-low.
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sional. Interment was in the
Boardman Rivervicw cemetery,
with the Burns Mortuary, Hermis
ton in charge.
Mrs. Chas Nickerson died very
suddenly Tuesday morning about
7:30 a. m. at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Esther Knight, ap
parently suffering a heart attack.
Mrs. Nickerson had been a resi
dent of Boardman the past twenty-seven
years, coming here with
her family in June. She was
sixty-nine years old March 9th.
Mr. and Mrs. Nickerson celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary
last September 1st, when a host
of relatives and friends gathered
together.
Besides her husband Mr. Nick-
erson, Mrs, Nickerson is survived
by two sons and two daughters
who were present with their fam
ilies for the services. Sons are
Chas. Jr., Kansas City, Mo.; Wil
lard, Boise, Idaho; daughters,
Mrs. Esther Knight, Boardman
and Mrs. Robert llilder, San Ber
nardino. Calif. She also leaves
a twin brother, John Beddas, La
Grande, w ho was here for the ser
vices. Other out of town rela
tives were Mr, Nickerxui's sister,
Mrs. Ethel Netherscoit. Jackson,
Wyo and a cousin Mrs. Clan
vale, i'ocatello, Idaho, also rela
tives from Pendleton, Buhl, Ida
ho and Enterprise, Oregon. I
The Daily Vacation Bible school
classes opened at the Boardman
Community church Monday;
morning May 31st with the lead-'
ers Miss Jean Scott and Miss '
Zelnia Cowan assisted by several
teachers and helpers. The school
will continue lor two weeks.
Miss Jean Scott had as her i
guests overnight Saturday, her
aunt, Mrs. Janie Scott and a cou
sin and wife,' Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Scott and sons, of Manning. N. D.,
enroute to Vancouver, Wash.,
where they will visit a daughter Need Letterheads?
of Mrs. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Rooms.
Mrs. Grace Tyler, and her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Procher of Portland
and two daughters spent the Me
morial weekend in Boardman.
Mrs. Tyler returned to her home
in Portland Sunday evening. Mr.
and Mrs. Pocher going on to Min
nesota where they will make
their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Reno Wrei. Seat
tle spent the weekend at the home
of Mrs. Wren's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Dillon.
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Morrow County 4-il end FFA Boys and
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MOi! DAY-TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 7-8-9
Residents of Mcrrov County are og.'in invited to Support Our
Dovs ard Girls by Tic's for their animals, either at the Auction
Sale in Terson at 2 and 7 p. m.. June 9, or by Proxy Bids Now!
Complete details and bid authorization sheets available now
from our 4-H Agent or FFA Instructor or Kenneth Smouse,
lone, Oregcn. Your interest and support will be sincerely ap
preciated. You ccrn d your part by acting now.
4-H ond FFA Coys and Girls Cordially Invite Every Citizen
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