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tlBRARr ! i i) or o I EUGENE. ORE. I epptier Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 17, 1954 71st Year, Number 14 Two To Seek Three Year Term on Local School Board Collison and John Ernsdorff to Run Interest in the coming election to name one new director to the board of Heppner school district No. 1 heightened late this week with the announcement Wednes day bv Edgar Collison of Heppner that he planned to seek the post. John Ernsdorff, administrator of Pioneer Memorial hospital, had previously announced that he would be a candidate. The one position which can be filled at next Monday's election is for a three year term which has been held by Barton Clark who recently announced that he would not be a candidate. One other post on the three-person board, soon to be vacant due to the resignation of Mrs. Stephen Thompson effective July 1, will be filled after that date either, by appointment by the county school superintendent or at a special election to be called by the board. Howard Cleveland, local rancher has indicated his desire to run for the position which Is for a one-year term. In announcing his willingness to accept the position, Collison said Wednesday that he made the decision after he had re ceived numerous requests from residents of the district that he run. His policy toward school operation and problems appears similar to Ernsdorffs who said that he "will do everything in my power to get the most for the money in any program to allevi ate the crowded conditions exist ing in the Heppner schools." Col lison also expressed similar ideas in pointing to the need for ad ditional classroom space in the school system. A special election on a bond issue for the construc tion of a new grade school has been set for July 6, which, if ap proved by the voters, will give the board the go-ahead on a building program. The Monday election, which will be held at the Heppner school from 3 to 6 o'clock, Is the annual school meeting and elec tion of directors. The only hold over member of the board, after Mrs. Thompson's resignation be comes effective, is L. E. Dick Jr. who was elected last year. Funeral Rites Held For Naomi Smith Funeral services for Miss Na omi Jane Smith, 71, who died at Pendleton June 10, were held from the Creswick and Seuell mortuary Monday afternoon, June 14, with the Rev. Earl L. Soward officiating. Miss Smith was born December 21, 1S82 in Washington county, Missouri, the daughter of Henry and Emmazetta Smith. She came with her parents to Oregon at the age of 8. A former resident of this area, she has lived in Pen dleton the past 25 years. Her only survivors are five neices; Mrs. Maude Lutkins, lone; Mrs. Flora Schunk, Heppner; Mrs. Dolly Allstott, lone; Mrs. Cecile Hoyt and Love Devore, Portland and four nephews: Frank Barlow, Martinez, Calif.; Alvin Barlow, lone; Everett Barlow, Lexington and Dale Royce, San Francisco. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery with Creswick and Seuell in charge of arrange ments. High School English Teacher Signed Here W. James Popham, Portland last week accepted a position with the Heppner schools to teach high school enghsh, social sci ence and speech, superintendent H. C. Reed announced this week. He will replace Harry C. Mitchell who resigned at the end of last school year. Popham is a graduate of the University of Portland and will move here with his wife in the near future. AGRICULTURALISTS ATTEND UNION SHOW . Attending the Eastern Oregon Livestock show at Union last week N. C. Anderson, county agent, James Allen, F. F. A. in structor, and the F .F. A. judging team composed of Stephen Green, Jack Monagle and Roy Hughes. Anderson judged 4-H contests, demonstrations and showman ship. o Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bedford have returned from a week's vacation to Wenatchee and Long Beach, Wash. J? Q ) r-s ;i bMa ...jij-mji.. ft.",v ii-ri-Ti SHOWN is the concert troup of the South" at the high school auditorium Friday, June 18, at 8 p. m. Sponsored by the Elks lodge . White Salmon, Wash., other organizations helping are the American Legion Auxiliary, Rebekah lodge and the Soroptimists. Tickets will be on sale at Turner, Van Marter and Bryant insurance office and will be available from Mrs. Olive Hughes, Mrs. Don Bellenbrock, Mrs. Sara McNamer, Mrs. Phil Blakney, Mrs. E. E. Gonty, Mrs. Ethel Adams and H. E. Warner at Lexington. Under the direction of Mrs. Robert Davidson, Lexington the Girl Scouts in Lexington and Heppner will also sell tickets. Camp Colubia is a rehabilitation center for boys with problems similar to those of the Ne braska Father Flannigan "Boys Town" with any race or creed accepted. Fair and Rodeo Stock Contracted, Events Slated Members of the Morrow county fair and rodeo royal court and their parents met with rodeo of ficials at the fair grounds Sunday afternoon for breifing on royal court activities and responsibili ties for the county fair and rodeo September 2, 3, 4 and 5. Miss Martha Campbell is of ficial chaperon for the royal court this year. Publicity pictures were taken of the court in their new cowgirl outfits. Members of the court are queen Grace Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell K. Miller, Boardman; and prin cesses Deanna Steagall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Steagall, Lexington; Patsy Wright, Daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright Christine Swaggart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Swaggart; and Janet Howton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Howton, lone. Rodeo arrangements are nearly completed with stock contracted from Christensen Brothers, Eu gene. Events will include saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, bull riding and steer ribbon roping. The latter event is new to the Heppner show and replaces wild cow milking. The rodeo show is approved by the International Rodea association and the Rodeo Cowboy association. Harold Er win is chairman of the rodeo com mittee. Mel Lambert, Salem, will an nounce the show this year. He has announced at the State fair, the Pacific International and other big shows in the northwest. The carnival attraction will be the Inland Empire Shows from Lewiston, Idaho. Fair premium books are nearly completed and should be ready for the printers this week, N. C. Anderson, secretary of the fair and rodeo committee, said. Appli cations for booths and exhibit space will now. be accepted at the county agent's office from clubs, farm organizations, individuals and commercial exhibitors. New home economics and agri culture fair superintendents in the 4-H dicisioh this year are Mrs. Claude Graham, and Mrs. Earle Kendall, foods; Mrs. L. H. Rill, food preservation; Delwin Nelson, Lexington, and Phil Eraert, lone, : hogs; and Bernard Doherty sheep In open class exhibits a new ! class has been opened for textile I nointinnr anrl AOra rv- 5 rtr frrmap exhibited under photography and miscellaneous arts. Mrs. D, O. Nelson and Mrs. James -Lindsay Bradley D. Fancher of Heppner. are new superintendents. Booths He will wind up his swing on Fri for upholstery and county exhib- day by traveling to Moro to meet its have been discontinued this . with district attorney T. Lester year. I Johnson of Sherman county. Kickoff dance of the fair and! The conferences with the dis rodeo wi llbe held July 24 at the trict attorneys of the six eastern fair pavilion. Other dances sche-i Oregon counties are part of a riulpd are the Ixineton Grange ' nrocram hppun last vear to mppt princess dance, July 31; Willows grange princess dance August 7; Rhea Creek Grange princess dance, August 21 and the Queen s dance, August 27. Fair dances will be September 3 and 4. Jack Van Winkle is chairman of the dance committee. Hermiston Emblem club who will for the benefit of Camp Columbia, Boys Town of the West, at &!&in9 For 1955 Allotment Paul W. Tews, office manager of the local ASC (PMA) office to day announced that farmers on lond on which no wheat was seeded for grain during all of the years 1952, 1953 and 1954 may apply for a 1955 wheat acreage allotment. Tews said that to be considered for an allotment on a farm which had no wheat seeded for grain for any of those years, the farmer must apply in writing to his county ASO committee by June 30. Application forms are avail able at the ASC office for use in filing requests for the allotment he said. t It was also announced today that the 1954 CCC wheat loan rate for Morrow county would be $2.24 for No. 1 wheat which is stored in approved storage facilities, though complete information on storage requirements have not yet been received by the local ASC office. Location of Elks Picnic Changed The entertainment committee of the Elks lodge announced Wednesday that the location of the annual Elks picnic, to be held Sunday, June 20 has been changed from the Blue Mountain ranch to Battle Mountain state park several miles south of Nye Junction on highway 395. Officers said that the change of location was made necessary by the heavy rains of the past two weeks which have made the road into the ranch picnic grounds practically impassible. The pic nic is scheduled to start at 11 o'clock. Attorney General to Visit Here on Tour Of Eastern Oregon Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton will leave. Salem Sun day, June u, io comer witn ais trict attorneys and law enforce ment officers of six eastern Ore gon counties. On Monday Thornton will visit both Burns and Canyon City to confer with district attorney James M. Burns of Harney county and Michael S. Mogan of Grant county. Tues day Thornton will travel to Fos sil and Condon to meet with dis trict attorney, Robert B. Abrams of Wheeler county and William Bennett of Gilliam county. Thurs day, June 24, the Attorney Gen-j eral will come to Morrow county to meet with district attorney with local district attorneys and j the law enforcement officials throughout the state, Thornton1 said. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Burkenbine and family have returned from a week's trip to California, present a minstrel, "Way Down Rhea Creek Road Oiling Bids to be Called Next Week At its next regular meeting in Portland on June 23, the state highway commission will receive bids for the improvement of 7.77 miles of the Rhea creek county road from its junction with the Heppner highway near Jordan to its junction with the Keck Can yon county road, the commission announced this week. Plans call for sUMlizing th existing rock surfacing with ad ditional rock base material and the construction of an 18 foot oil mat surfacing flanked by two foot rock shoulders to provide a more uniform and stable road way. The project is to be financed from federal, state and county funds allocated to the improve- ment of county roads not on the state system of highways and is scheduled to be completed by not later than Sept. 15. FARM BUREAU TO MEET The Morrow County Farm bu - reau will hold their regular meet - ing and a potluck picnic supper at the O. W. Cutsfortb cabin on Herron creek Tuesday, June 22, at 6:30 p. m. o Mr, and Mrs. John Williams have returned from a week's trip to Reno, Nevada. They also visit- ed Mr. and Mrs. Jack O'Connor, former J. C. Penney manager here. ROY HUGHES is shown with his Oreaon Wheat Growers 4-H . , - i. Xx1 : 'V.I 1 . ' . , , -., v-fiivi Chambers, local representative of Harvey Aluminum company, who purchased the 1,020 pound, of unusual interest will be pre animal. Hughes, son of Mr. and Mrs Elwln Hughes, got his steer from the Howard Cleveland herd. I sented which will help answer The FFA Judging team composed of Ronald Currin, Stephen Green and John Brosnan placed' many questions on the Bible, It first in the beef Judging contest In the FFA division. ' is reported. The Morrow county 4-H beef herd placed first in the show and the county 4-H sheep flock placed There will be no charge, but jcond. (Cut courtesy ol The Dalles Optimist) ! an offering will be taken. Bids for Hospital Addition Called For July 14 The county court announced Wednesday that bids for the new bedroom wing for Pioneer Memor ial hospital will be opened on Wednesday, July 14 and that It is" badly needed addition can start immediately thereafter. The call for bids was issued early this week by the firm of Roald,!ehmoer and Harrington, Portland architects for the con struction of a new wing to adjoin the present building on the south. The addition will house 15 ad ditional general hospital beds, bringing the total to 30, and 6, additional nursing home beds on the lower floor of the building. i Thic will a rtal nf 1 beds in the latter section of the hospital. In addition the plans call fori the installation of a bed size elevator in the new unit and a public health center will be lo cated on the lower floor which is to include offices for a countyj health nurse. The project is ex- pocted to cost slightly in excess of $120,000 and will be financed by federal Hill-Burton funds and money raised from a special tax levy voted last year in the county.' The need for the additional bed facilities at the hospital has been Wednesday, July 6 has been set quite apparent for the past two as the date for the special bond years and during one recent election in school district No. 1, month the institution has oper-jit was announced this week by atcd at over 100 percent average school officials following corn occupancy. On several occasions' pletion of the necessary legal ar recently it has been necessary to rangements for the election, place as many as five beds in the As was announced last week, hospital halls to care for the patients, Most of the rooms in the new, wing are to be either private new elementary school on the rooms or two-bed rooms, it was, Tum-A-Lum location previously said. A new incinerator is also.OKd by the voters. The board called for in the architect's plans, last week had set the amount of (i (he needed bond issue but was Legion Junior Team junkie to set the date of the D . c , ' election until the necessary legal near in Junaay uame The Heppner American Legion Junior baseball team lost to the Miltoh-Freewater Junior Legion team with a score of 3 to 1 in a game played at Milton-Freewater Sunday afternoon. All scores were made in the first inning. Battery for the Hepp ner team were Ernie Drake, pit cher and Larry Groves, catcher. Scheduled Legion games for the local team are with Baker at Heppner, June 20; with Ilermis- ton at Hermiston, June 27; with Baker at Baker, July 4; with Her- miston at Heppner, July 11, and with Milton-Freewater at Hepp ner July 18. Winners of this district tourna 1 ment, which is district 6, will play 1 the winners of district 7 in a game slated before July 20 for the right to enter th estate play-offs. ' District 7 is composed of John I Dav' Va,e Ontario and Nyssa. The Heppner team, sponsored by the local American Legion post, i will also play a game with John j Day. Season tickets for games are now on sale by members of Le- j gion post number 87. grand champion FFA shorthorn and FFA fat stock show at The Dalles last week. With Hughes is Ed Continuing Storms Bring June Rainfall Total to 2.63 Inches Rain continued to fall inter mittently over most of the county during the past week, and there were a few reports of some hail early this week, but as far as could be told no crop damage re sulted from the storms. No local insurance agent had received any nai d e claims tQ Wed nesday night a check ghoweL The additional precipitation during fihe week brought the total for June recorded at the Heppner weather station to 2.63 inches, nearly two inches of it falling in two storms last week The numerous thunder-storms and showers during the past week, though quite spotty, added more than one-half inch to the total here. Most ranchers appear pretty well satisfied with the month's rainfall, in fact, most with down hy looking forward to a few I days of warm weather to give them n f'h;mr'f tn irfi it nff thp n,i According to reports, all sec ,ions of the (.oun(y n;u; received ample rainfall to assure at least an average wheat yield. July 6 Date Set For Bond Election the voters of the district will be asked to approve a $325,000 bond issue for the construction of a 1 requirements were mot by the i lytrlft'c ciinrnnir School officials said that archi tects are now preparing revised plans for the proposed .building and hope to have rough specifi cations ready within the next few days. The election will be held at the school building. John Piper Injured By Rifle Shot John Piper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Piper of Heppner, suffered painful but not serious injury Sunday when he was shot in the lower right leg by the accidental discharge of his own gun. Piper and Vic Groshens were hunting squirrels in the Butter creek area at the time of the accident. According to the physician who attended him, the bullet entered his lower leg just below the knee and lodged Just above the ankle, missing the bone. Mrs. Jack Van Winkle . and children are visiting with her mother in northern Idaho this week, which sold for $1.10 a pound at the City Clean-Up Drive Set for Week of June 21-27 The week of June 21 through 27 has been proclaimed Clean -Up week in Heppner and all residents of the city are urged to take part in a program to clean up vacant lots and rid back yards of un wanted and unnecessary rubbish. Arrangements have been made to provide trucks for free pickup of refuse during the week. The clean-up week idea origi nated about two weeks ago with the Heppner-Morrow county chamber of commerce who is sponsoring the drive; and have arranged for trucks to pick up the refuse on three days during the week. The chamber membership has been divided into two teams under the leadership of president Jeff Carter and La Verne Van Marter Jr. who have offered to aid where needed in getting re fuse collected and loaded. The team captains made it clear that they weren't going to do the act ual cleaning up for residents, but if help was needed in some cases to move or load heavy objects, they would be glad to assist. Junk is to be piled on the curbs and trucks will make pickups on Wednesday and Saturday after noons and again on Sunday, June 27. The chamber asked that any One having refuse that they can not handily pile at the curb where it can be easily located, to call either 6-9618 or 6-9C52 so that truck drivers will know where to come for such pickups. It was pointed out that trucks have been donated for the work. Proclamation Released Dr. L. D. Tibbies, Heppner mayor, this week released the following proclamation urging residents to cooperate in cleaning up the city. "It isj with plcnsure that I hereby proclaim the week of June 21 through 27 as Clean-Up week in Heppner and urge the residents of our city to join with the Heppner-Morrow county chamber of commerce in making Heppner a cleaner and better place in which to live. "Trucks have. been obtained to provide free pickup of trash which should be neatly piled at the curb, and I urge all residents to take advantage of this special service. "It should be remembered that by cleaning out unwanted trash from vacant lots and around the homes, each person is not only helping to beautify our town, but also reducing materially many fire hazards which could easily cause serious damage and per sonal loss. L. D. Tibbies, Mayor of Heppner The times the special trucks will make the pickups should be kept in mind and if special help Is needed, calls should be made early enough to allow time for routing and obtaining assistance. Richfield Station Sold to Kemp Dick Nelson Bailey, operator of Bailey's Richfield Service In Heppner announced this week that he has sold his business to Kemp Dick of Heppner. Dick took over operation of the station the first of the week. Dick is well acquainted with the service station business hav ing worked for the past several years for the local Standard Oil distributor here. Bailey said he had no definite future plans except that he plans to leave shortly for a trip to Mis souri. Jewish-Arab Problem Subject of Talk "The Jewish-Arab controversy" wil be discussed Wednesday, June 23 by Rev. H. P. Scounce, new pastor of the First Baptist church in Hermiston, at the Hepp ner Christian church. The talks will start at 8 p. m. and are being sponsored by Heppner ministers. Rev. Scounce recently spent two months In the Jewish-Arab coun tries where he talked to hundreds of persons on both sides of the barbed wire. Carrying a press card and other unusual creden tials, he was permitted to go many places the average Ameri can would not be allowed, it Is said. He also returned with many pictures which will also be shown. Both sides of the controversy will be presented and an exhibit i
