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Page 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 2, 1954 POSSIBILITY OF RODEO HALL OF FAME SEEN IN RECENT MOVEMENT The , cowboys vou will sec , permanent headquarters astride the wildly bucking broncs ! So far no site for the buildin;: in the Morrow county rodea at Ifeppnor this weekend may some day be honored in a national Hall of Fame. A movement is underwy to es tablish a National Rodeo Hall of i Fame foundation. C. A. Reynolds,! Knsas City, who is sponsoring the project, thinks that it is high time that due respect is paid to! the skills of the men who built! the west as they are demonstrat ed by today's rodeo riders. Reynolds, chairman of the board of the H. D. Lee Company, has been enlisting the support of senators and governors of seven teen western states. His com pany has pledged $3,000 to the Foundation and a permanent hall of fame building. A bill providing for the incor poration of the non profit foun dation has been prepared and it is expected to be sponsored in Congress by senators from the cattle states. It prescribes the methods of the foundation and authorizes the establishment of has been selected, Reynolds said. He hopes the final decision to be made by the trustees appointed to the foundation after it is incor porated will come soon and con struction started in the near future. Present plans call for two trus tees each from North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon and Washing ton. Other trustees from the east and midwest will fill out the board. The bill provides that the governors of each of the western states be invited to serve as the trustees. Most of them have already indicated they would be happy to serve. After making a careful study of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N. Y., Reynolds thinks the Rodeo Hall of Fame should be organized along simi lar lines. He feels that it will HOLIDAY ACCIDENT: 1905 vs. 1954! Horses trembled, bustles shook and handle-bar mustaches bristled when this 15-mlle-an-hour juggernaut in 1905 careened off the road to crash through a rail fence. The week-end driver of this vintage hot-rod suffered a severe Injury to his dignity, but that was the only loss, other than- the driver's goggles. SHEIM HELL Foe WITH FOA-5X- Anti-Clogging Inhibitor AND SONITOR-Anti-Rust Inhibitor Added John Pfeiffer DISTRIBUTOR PHONE 6-9406 HOME 6-9957 III lJ'JA 1 t..i r,'rr A The operator of this modern automobile traveling probably four times as fast, lost his life. If you're sitting in the driver's seat on that coming Labor Day trip, the accident prevention department of Employers Mutuals of Wausau reminds you that excessive speed and sudden death go hand-in-hand: You should observe not only the legal speed limit, but the limit set by road, traffic and weather conditions . . . because any speed can be a killing speed, depending upon the circumstances. Photos courtesy Employers Mutuals of Wausau honor more than a great Ameri can sport, however. "In paying homage to the brave and shillful men who per form their dangerous jobs in the rodeo arena, the Rodeo Hall of Fame will acknowledge in a per able courage and resourcefulness manent memorial the indoinil of the men who built the great West," he said. He doesn't think it necessary ' to wait several years! at lor a man's death to evaluate his abil ity, but favors election of living cowboys to the Hall of Fame. "Some of the best cowboys of them all are still alive and rid ing," he said. Tribute will be paid not only to outstanding rodeo performers, but also to stock raisers and others who contribute to the sport including famous rodeo stock. Selection of those to be honored will be made by the Board of Trustees from among I candidates proposed by the pub lic, historians and rodeo fans. Tart of the Hall of Fame build ing will be a museum housing relics of the development of the; west, hquipment and personal effects of pioneers and western heroes will be enshrined with, mementoes of famous rodeo per sonalities. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelly of Falls Church, Virginia arrived in Heppner last Thursday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ferguson. They are en route to Seattle where they will make their home. Savings Bond Sales Show Big Increase Sales of U. S. Treasury Savings Bonds in the State of Oregon for the month of July showed a sen sational rise, and far exceeded those of any other July since the late 40's. "Total state purchases of the Treasury's E and H Savings Bonds for July of this year amounted to $3,777,126 as com pared with $2,209,735 for the same month a year ago" Jeff Carter, county chairman for Mor row county announced today. "This is a 71 increase", he said. "The people of this county in vested $35,799 in purchases of Savings Bonds to help make the state record" Carter said. Sales for the first seven months in Oregon are up 20.7 percent over the same period in 1953, while national sales are up twelve percent. The sensational increase in Oregon's July sales came as a pleasant surprise to Savings Bonds authorities, in the face of the present lumber strike. Ac cording to Mr. E. C. Sammons, chairman, Oregon Savings Bonds Committee, the fact that H bonds sales more than doubled their best previous showing might stem from the present attrac tiveness to investors of this se curity, with its semi-annual in terest check and high rate of return, plus the steadily increas ing number of Oregonians who are familiar with it. He expres sed the opinion that the lumber strike has dramatized the need of personal financial reserves for emergency purposes, which could account for the increase in E bond sales instead of the expect ed drop. o Weather Control System Explained By Company Head Bert O'Hanlon, president of the Weather Modification Co., told the Soroptimist club Thursday som,e factors involved in weather research or what is commonly called rainmaking. He showed slides of different weather conditions and told that the company had been doing some work with hail as well as l - J;t 1 v 4 '" r r; MORROW COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS showing the rodeo field and some of the fair buildings that will hold one of the largest col lection of exhibits ever to be presented at the fair. rain seeding. Ike Weatherford of Wallowa, working with the farmers for the Tri-County Weather Research, spoke briefly on his work and just what the reactions of the farmers were to this program. Other guests of the club for their luncheon meeting at O'Don nell's were Jackie Buchanan of Seattle, Mrs. Bert O'Hanlon and her sister Teresa Palacios of Mexico City. Preliminary Work To Start Soon on Agriculture Census Establishment of a field office for the 1954 census of agriculture was announced today by J. V. Halbrook, who has been appoint ed supervisor for this area. The census field office will be located at Bend, Oregon. Mr. Halbrook states that pre liminary work on the 1954 census of agriculture, to be taken this fall, will begin immediately. This includes organization of the field office clerks, field crew leaders and enumerators. The territory assigned to this office for the 1954 census of agri culture includes all counties east of the Cascade mountains. Approximately 9 crew leaders and 96 enumerators will be em ployed to take the farm census in this area. Long Distance Nationwide Moving Service Mayflower Agents Padded Vans Penland Bros. TRANSFER CO. Pendleton, Oregon Phone 338 Wheat Treating FERTILIZING SEE L E S WYMAN PHONE HEPPNER 6-9619 OR 6-9949 What will the car you buy be worth next year? Here's the tip-off: Throughout the industry, there's a definite trend toward V-8 power, and Ford is the only car in the low-price field that offers you a V-8 engine plus over-all styling and mechanical features most like the new cars of tomorrow. Keep these things in mind. 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