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Page 8 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, July 29, 1954 Fire Safety Stressed During Farm Week Will your home be included among the estimated 15,00 that will suffer fire damage in Oregon this year? Spend a few hours correcting fire hazards around your home or farmstead this wt,(l National Farm Safety Week and you will remove most of the danger says N. C. Anderson, county extension agent. Fires in dwellings continue to run high in Oregon. There were more than 10,000 home fires In Oregon last year for which insur ance claims were made, and many more not covered by in surance. Actually, it is figured that one Oregon home out of five will suffer some degree of fire loss during its existance. The actual dollar loss from dwelling fires for the last year re ported by the Oregon Fire Mar shal was over $1,000,000 for the insured homes alone. It is doubtful if a house holder could sncnd time to better ad vantage than the short time given periodically to the elimination of home fire hazards. For example, you can remove over 80 of your risk bv these steps: 1. Make sure your heating svstem is safe. Watch out for nw.rheatcd stove. flues, and chimneys. Healing system should be cleaned and inspected regu larlv. 2. Follow safe smoking habits ;md be careful with matches. The smoker must have safe habits if the famllv is to be safe. 3. Make sure your electric wiring is all right. It pays to know that wiring, cords, and ap pliances are in good condition, and circuits are not overloaded. HOSPITAL NEWS "Death Trap" (Continued from Page D New Arrivals-To Mr. and Mrs. road just after passing the curve Donald E. Kennedy Condon, J i bv the Flying A motel. All were lb. 10 oz. girl born July 26, named attempting to get back into the Sheryl LuAnn. To Mr and Mrs. right hand lane of traffic. In Gene Roark, Fossil, a 10 lb. 4 oz. only one accident, in which liquor girl born July 28, named Florence was considered the primary rea- Arinda. son for the crash, did a car mi Major Surgery uetty lvsioeig the bridge abutment on the left hand side of the road. In some of the accidents liquor : I li. trl nt Los Angeles, dismissed; Frank E. Bonnet, Condon. Minor Surcery Clement Stock- and excessive speed were listed as- ar,j Heppner, dismissed; Richard contributory causes, but the oc-1 Springer. Heppner, dismissed; currence of many other mishaps (Mrs i;ina Nelson, Fossil, dismis In which these were not involved :s(!,i; Mrs. Julia Harrison, Hepp- seems to rule them out as tar as a m,r, ,,Smi.ssPd; Mrs. htenar ai-, Cummincs liave been ma nrimarv reason for the accidents. 0lex, dismissed; Mrs. Elaine f-a". .7;. " . ' Mnnmr thatt Rietmunn. lone; Gene Baueren- Mrs. Esther HinK- Monument News Local News In BrieflTHIRTY YEARS AGO Three nossible factors singly or together may be respon sible are apparent: rare Irvine Henpner on the ewhat steer) grade are unable to pick up much speed until they begin to approach the curve near the Flying A motel. It is possible feind. Henpner: lev. Umatilla, dismissed Medical- Kenneth Hardeman, Monument, dismissed; Kerman Kennedy, Service Creek, dismis sed; Merlin Anderson, Lexington, dismissed; Harry Harrington, that drivers fail to adjust the gas Condon; Stephen Lindstrom, lone throttle to the changed driving , u.s.m.-vM-u, v. conditions and enter the curve at Spray dismiss. -d; Bob Jensen, a faster than normal speed. lone, dismissed; Will am Dungan, The curve itself is banked or Hermiston, dismissed; Mrs Fran "sunered" at a fairly steep pitch, kie LeBlanc, Hermiston, dismis- n' ...,i iho prve at an in-lsed; Waller -1-arrons, neppnej creased speed are thrust out ward or to the right by centrifu gal force. Corning out of the curve, the bank or super appar ently flattens out in the right lane of traffic faster than the driver can make the adjustment and the car swerves off the high way to the right. There is still considerable cast ance between the spot Floyd S. O'Neal, Kinzua. Out-patient Van Richards, Spray. TWIN GRANDSONS Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Hughes have received word that they are grandparents of twin boys born Julv 22 at Dallas, Oregon to Thomas Hughes Vic Du. Bosch was called by the army to Walla Walla for a phy sical checkup last week. Mr. Du Bosch made the round trip in one day. There was a grass fire on the Herb Showalter place on Thurs day. It was feared at first it might spread to their grain field but all the neighbors and the tor est department resno'.ded to their call for help and the fire was soon out. Bob Damon, Martin Braggs and aK- ing regular trips to Monument this week. Someone had taken gas from the school's pump also a pump belonging to Elmer Mat teson was molested and the parts thrown in the river. Mr and Mrs. George Mantis and son Dickie left Wednesday for Sweet Home to visit their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Peck. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vawter visit ed Mrs. Vawter's mother, Helen Brown this week. They took Mrs. Brown to their home in Idaho where she will spend a week of her vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Sweek were pleasantly surprised Sunday evening when their daugnter ana Mr. and Mrs. Vince Gentcma From Files of the Gazette Times of Reno, Nevada visited overhigh I Julv 31 19-"- Wednesday of last week with Mr.! w. E. Ben, proprietor oi non-i and Mrs. C. A. Ruggles. (Heppner, has purchased the en- Ellis Thomson, former Heppner tire holdings of the Heppner Hotel resident now living in new xorn company City was visiting mends and reia tives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Green o Council Bluffs, Iowa were week With the completion of its new station here this week the Union Oil comnanv of California will end visitors at the home of his begin operation in this field to aunt, Mrs. Mattie Green. ! morrow, August first. Andrew Jack Meeke of Hillsboro was a Olson is the local agent, recent guest of Mr. and Mrs. La-1 , , " ' , , Verne Van Marter. I ,jr- ana WIV-,'V- 7.7 ,, Ted Ferguson, son of Mr. and W"J1" uu- Mrs. Gene Ferguson is home as- yesterday. sisting with harvest for two, Mr. and Mrs. w, G palmateer weeks. He operates a men's nf windvnnok were visiting in Cecil Sunday. clothing store in Gold Eeach. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parrish. Mrs. Sarah McNamer, Mrs. Lucy Peter- j son, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vaughn spent Sunday at Lehman springs. ; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Blakney and children are on a ten-day vacation to Seattle and to the , Oregon coast. Mrs. Fred Parrish was at The Dalles July 22 to attend a meet- j ing of county clerks 'jf Morrow, Wasco, Wheeler, and Gilliam' counties. Kenneth DePew, winner of the bucking contest at Ukiah on the 4th of July, is coming to the Heppner Rodeo, 'September 25-26-27. A small fire at the home of J. t wells, countv assessor, in the lower end of town Friday aner noon was the cause of consider able excitement. David and Will Hynd in pass ing through Lexington Monday stopped long enough to say hello to some of their friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Red ding of Eight Mile were Heppner visitors on Saturday. USE GAZETTE TIMES CLASSIFIED ADS Most Home Accidents Happen Outside House More than half of the home ac cidents happen outside the house, according to Marv Beth Minden, Oregon State college extension home management specialist. She offers these seven clues to finding danger luring near the home. Porch, steps and walks are fre quent scenes of fall, she says. With emphasis being placed on safety during National Farm Safety week, July 25-31, she sug gested checking the approaches to the house. Do vou keen the walks, steps and porches clean of children's tovs and can en tools? Are the steps and porch floors in good re pair no broken boards, no splin at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ball. County Agent News Mr. and Mrs where Michael weighed 5 lbs 4 ozs. and most cars leave the highway and unv n wrigneo d o o.s. the bridge abutment itself, and. They have an older brother and the shoulder appears wide sister. enough to allow a car to return to the highway in time to miss the bridge abutment. The shoul- der, however, drops off suddenly1'" on the olher side of a driveway about 35 feet from the bridge and is also somewhat deceptive in a mien ranee. A single right can wheel hitting the ditch might be enough to null a car from its intended angle and send it care ening into the abutment. . ... r t Just what or wnicn oi me mo tors Involved are most respon sible for the recurring accidents or how to eliminate them may not be clear. But, it is certain that Heppner is on its way to notor iety in state-wide headlines be cause of its own private "death trap" on highway 207. Mrs. Dale Fuller of Orchards, ,eir daughter ana,.,. ... wac ,-., at son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. neorge , ' , Robinson (nee Rhoda Sweek) ot , , ,, I Los Angeles drove up. They vveie fiUPhtors. Meredith and on their way home after visiting y. s Ann Mr. Robinson's relatives in N?b. Da)e Fulor a Qrch. raska. They could only stay onejarfs day so left Tuesday for Los-,' m; and Mrs. Les Sieinberger Angeles. , anH fm.r children. Seattle. Wash.. DANCE INSTRUCTION SET were overnight guests Sunday Etta Shepard, dance instructor ; anu .iu, ulc uii.. BUY YOUR Locker Beef AT Wh olesale Mrs. Herbert Ekstrom and son from Kennewlck. Wash., is plan-j and Mrs. John Ernsdorff While ..n... i i ..-: I . .- -i : i f-!here thev also visited Mr. and (Continued from Page 2) i.i i. ..i t..,i im.. ...... l, nf the eighty Oregonians who lost ?ct Mrs' G'immt lieir lives oy na- uim ji-cu, iimc than one-third of them were rural residents. Forty percent of the victims of these home fires were children under 10, and in three fourths of our fire fatalities fam ilies are trapped on the top floor. Where there are two story build ings, training should be given so that in case of a fire, people will know how to get out. Fire daily Have seeks out for its special target, of seven hundred seventy-five eight schools, nine liehted nalh after dark? i-mi n;i in led the front edge .1.. i. I ,,r uni.rlv. liehted homes steps white? Are the paths well churches, and three hospitals in drained to give a firm footing, tered edges, no nails sticking up?! winter and summer? Do you make repairs as soon as they are needed? Are all entran ces to the house well lighted and the path lighted from the parking area, barn, etc? Do you use a llashlight when following an un- SAVE the United States. A check list of ten farm safety i rnmm.'imlmi'iiu for livine tafelv Mrs. James Sumner returned lXV(lula weu l() utH.,, in mind Saturday from a ten-day vacation tlii.s wim-K. 1. Keep machines In in Washington where she visited K,i repair. 2. Operate tractors friends in Spokane and also took safeiy 3. Know and obey all a trip to Victoria, B. C. j traffic laws. 4. Be fire sited. 5. Speak to animals when approach ing them. 6. Be a good house keeper. 7. Watch your step to prevent tails. 8. Follow safety instructions. 9. Know and obey water safety rules and 10, Apply first aid promptly. AT WILSON'S Men . . . here's your chance to save rer.l money on needed wearing apparel, but you'll have to hurry for these prices are in etlect for Just 10 days. Come in today and choose the items you need. 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