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LIBRARY 0 OF 0 EUGENE , ORE. tmes Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September 23, 1954 71st Year, Number 28 President Emphasizes "Partnership" At cNary Dedication Speaking this morning at the dedication ceremonies for Mc Nary dam, President Dwight D. Eisenhower reiterated his ad ministration's plan for partner ship development of northwest power and said that the program is nat designed to please the ex tremists at either end of the power fight, but is planned for America as a whole. The president addressed an audience estimated at 30,000 per sons shortly before 11 o'clock- this morning from a special stand at the Oregon end of the great dam which, at the conclusion of his talk, he dedicated in the name of former Oregon senator Charles L. Mc Nary. During his 20 minute address the President touched several times on the partnership or co operative idea, pointing at one time to the partly completed Umatilla bridge, visible from the platform, as an example that lo cal government agencies or pri vate interests can also accomp lish great things. He continued that private business can also build and efficiently operate such facilities as McNary dam as well as far off public agencies, emphasizing his remarks with the statement that, "They ought to do better". The President stressed that he would continue to work for the development of power projects in the northwest and said that he hoped to be able to start on an other similar project soon, Libby dam. At the conclusion of his re marks he said that no dedica tion would be complete without a button to push, holding aloft "this thing", which he touched MRS. MARION DEMIDOFF, who will direct the local talent show soon to be presented here by the Degree of Honor. Local Talent Show Scheduled by Deoree of Honor Mrs. Marion Demidoff arrived this week to start work on a musical variety show, "You Can't Beat Fun" which will be pre sented Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at the Heppner high school gymnasium for the benefit of the Degree of Honor building fund which the dge has been trying to in crease for some time. Mrs. Demidoff comes here well recommended, being a graduate of U. C. L. A. and has been In terested in little theater work, radio, TV and promotion of civic entertainments. She has had special training on this particu lar production and her ability will be demonstrated in the va riety show she will produce here. The following members of the Degree of Honor met Monday night to make arrangements for the show: Ruth Eergstrom, Mari lyn Bergstrom, Bernice Nash, Mary Ann Jensen, Edna Harsh man, Mary McMurtry, Ida Farra, Katie Cunningham, Eugenia Hus ton, Prudy Casebeer, Betty Pear son, Verna Case and Theta Strat ton. The show uses the Hidie-Ho club as its setting and ten local men will appear in special cos tumes representing Broadway Butterflies and Butter and Egg men. - A master of ceremonies t gmntm " , ' 4 I .. ' t I J will introduce a variety of acts! of their respective gardens and) marshal to dispose of the chick including five local specialty I yards. Some of the complainants ens. numbers, iwenty lour teen-agers will appear as chorus girls. Anyone in this area is eligible i Continued on page 6) to start the power from McNary's fifth generator into the lines of the northwest power pool. President Eisenhower was in troduced by Oregon's governor, Paul Patterson He followed the presentation of a great number of government dignitaries includ ing Arthur B. Langley, governor of Washington; Douglas McKay, secretary of the Interior; Robert T. Stevens, secretary of the Army; Len Jordan, governor of Idaho; Senator Guy Cordon; Mrs. Char les L. McNary, widow of the for mer senator and many other per sons. The official program opened at 7:30 a. m. with music by several local bands and an air show which included the famous "Blue Angels," jet fighter team from Corpus Christl, Tex., B-47 jet bombers, helicopters and many other army, air force and navy planes. The program con tinued with a series of water events in the afternoon. The President left immediately after his speech for Pendleton where he gave a short "off-the-cuff" talk to several thousand persons at the airport there, o Sewer Hookup Deadline Here Over 435 property owners have applied for permits to hook into the city sewer system, it was re ported Monday by city' recorder Harry Tamblyn. He estimates that there are only about 80 homes or buildings remaining in town for which no permit has been issued. The council, in special session, reminded residents that the deadline for hooking into the sewer,-without having to pay a $50 hookup fee is September 23 (Thursday), but said that any one who has applied for a per mit prior to that time but has been unable to complete the hookup job would not be asses sed the extra fee. There has been a run on permits during re cent weeks, and local plumbers are booked up for at least seve ral weeks ahead. The council in dicated that as long as the per mit was obtained in good faith, an unavoidable delay in getting the hookup completed would not subject the property owner to penalty They did point out however, that the city sewer ordinance re quires that all business houses and residences be hooked Into the sewer wherever it runs within 100 feet of the property line, and that the city would start a check for wilful violators In the near future. A full year's grace period since completion of the sewer system has been allowed to give all resi dents ample time to get con nected. September 23 is the end of the year and the $50 hookup fee will be charged thereafter due in a large part to the ne cessary installation and inspec tion work required of the city for such hookups. CHICKENS, CHICKENS-VHO OWNS THE CHICKENS, COUNCIL WONDERS The Heppner city council acted with the wisdom of Solomon Mon day night in settling the prob lem of what to do about 40 or So chickens that have been hav ing a field day (in fact, four or five years of them) in gardens and yards of residents of south Chase street and vicinity. They finally couldn't find any one who claimed ownership of the critters so ordered the city marshall to eliminate them by means he saw fit or deemed ne cessary. The feathery problem which has been bothering the residents of the block, and the council, for some time came to a head Mon day night when four citizens, Mrs. Anne McName, Henry Happold, Herb Hamilton and Max Buschke appeared before the council to complain that chickens which made their headquarters on the James Hager property in the center of the poultry infested area, be kept in a pen and out ! ; said tne birds naa uvea on meir. gardens for several years. The supposed owner of the flock, James Hager, attended the $ II Sf & I 'III - i in in' in jfi i KA - - CAPT. LEMOIN COX, son of El bert Cox of Heppner, is a mem ber of the Marine Corps rifle team which recently took the first four places in the nation trophy team which was held recently at Camp Perry, Ohio With the team wins the Ma lints took the most lopsided victory ever recorded in the an nual National Rifle associa tion event. lone Woman Suffers Injuries When t Attacked in Home Mrs. Clyde Crawford suffered minor injuries Saturday night when she was attacked by an unknown assailant while asleep at the ranch home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dalzell, southwest of lone. Mrs. Crawford, whose husband is in the service, knows little or nothing about the attack, except that when she regained consci ousness she had two painful bruises qn her head, according to the sheriff C. J. D. Bauman who investigated. She was alone in the house at the time and had retired. Later she said she had a faint recollection of someone standing beside her with a piece of two-by-four or a similar type of club. She can't remember whether she actually saw the person or whether she just dream ed it, the sheriff said, but the in juries to her head gave assur ance that it was a fact and a considerable amount of dirt on the bed gave indication that the weapon had been picked up out side the house. Police investigation revealed that someone had parked a car about a quarter of a mile from the house and had walked both ways on the road leading to the house. A short piece of two-by-four and other evidence was also found along the route apparently traveled by the man. The motive for the attack is unknown, as Mrs. Crawford was not criminally attacked nor was the house looted. As well as can b( determined the attack occurred around 10:30 in the evening and Mrs. Crawford did not regain consciousness un til nearly 1:30 in the morning, o EXAMINER COMING A drivt-vs licence examiner will be on duty at the court house in Heppner, Tuesday, Sept. 28 from 9:30 to 3:30. , Rev. Earl Soward, Roberta Hnnna, Ida Sue Stratton, Virginia Andresen, Gary Jones and Wayne Soward were in Hermis ton Sunday to attend the Youth services at the Christian church. meeting too, and countered with the claim that regardless of who the council might ultimately de cide was the rightful owner of the birds, it certainly wasn't him, as the flock, or their forebears, decended on his property four or five years ago and ever since have made his back yard their headquarters, roosting most of the time in the trees along the banks of Willow creek. He also claimed that they weren't fit to eat as most of the birds came from Banty stock, though their lineage is now decidedly mud dled. Hager also said that this spring he had 27 white chickens of his own which were kept pen ned up but a recent nose count turned up only four hens and a couple of roosters. Where the rest went he didn't know, except that his family hadn't eaten them. Following a complete airing of the problem the council took the obvious course and ordered the .Mass pounncicie can be ex pected any day now, just as soon as the police officer can corral the varments. 7 to 1 Majority Favors Building Of City Park A final check made today of the votes received in the city park proposal straw ballot which has been run in the Gazette Times for the past two weeks, showed a strong majority of the people voting favored the plan to make a park out of the property. The tally was 72 yes to 11 no votes. The proposal offered by t lie council and the Gazette Times was only a suggested plan which included retaining the property, removing all the did buildings and making an attractive and useful park of it". A 2 mill tax levy was included to finance the work. The proposal was made after the council had received an offer from a major oil company to pur chase part of the property. Before any definite decision was made by the group, it was decided to see how the public felt on the matter. The council has taken no ac tion on the matter but it is ex pected to receive consideration at its next regular meeting on the first Monday in October. Student Shifts Reduce Combination School Classes Here Heppner school officials this week completed a reshuffling of elementary students and room assignments designed to elimi nate as many combination rooms as possible. With the new plan the only remaining such room in cludes 2nd and 3rd grade stu dents. There had previously been a 1st and 2nd combination also. With the new plan there are now three 1st grades,, two 2nd and one 2nd and 3rd combina tion,' a full 3rd, two 4th grades, one 5th, two 6th, one 7th and one 8th grade. Total registration remains ap proximately the same as last week with 311 students being cared for for in the first 8 grades. A few more late comers are still expected, it was said. o FARM BUREAU TO MEET The Morrow county Farm Bu reau will meet Tuesday Sept. 28 at the Willows grange in lone at 8:00 p. m. They expect to have as speaker Marion Weathcrford of Arlington who will tell of his experiences in Washington D. C. with the Wheat League. There will also be election of officers. it AL ULLMAN, who with Joseph Carson, will be speakers at the Pomona Grange meeting to be held Saturday at the Rhea Creek Grange, Ullman is seek ing election as U. S. represen tative and Carson is running against Paul Patterson for governor. Pomona Granqe To Be At Rhea Creek Hall Monow county Pomona grange will meet Saturday, Sept. 25 at the Rhea creek grange hall. All grange members are urged to at tend. Business meeting will begin at 10.00 a. m., with lunch at noon and the program at 1:30 p. m. The speaker will be Joseph Car son and a short talk will be given by Albert Ullman. There will also be numbers from the different granges. Dinner will be at 6:00 p. m. At 8:00 p. m. the fifth degree will be put on by the Rhea creek grange and all members wanting to take this degree are urged to be thre. Orve Brown, Heppner Resident for 70 Years, Buried Today Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon for Orve Brown, 82 years of age, who pas sed away Sept. 20 at Portland. He had lived in or near Heppner for over 70 years and he had left here only about three years ago to make his home in Portland. Mr. Brown came to this coun try in the 1880s by team from the east, his family settling on a ranch in the Blackhorso section. He worked on the farm during his early life and in later years was a carpenter, painter and paper hanger. He was born August 2, 1872 at Nebraska City, Nebraska, He is survived by three child ren, a son Marvin Brown; a daughter, Ruth, both of Portland, and another daughter, Mrs. Vel ma Smith, who lived in Heppner until about two years ago. Tis wife preeeeded him in death. Services were held at the Creswick und Seuell Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Earl Sow ard officiating. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cmeetery. o Wheat Acreage Increase Seen in New Legislation Approximately 125 farmers gathered at the Lexington. Grange hall, Tuesday evening to discuss recent legislation, parity, wheat fallow amendments and other recent developments in the farm program which would affect their 1955 operations. E. Harvey Miller, .state ASC chairman, explained the provi sions of the flexible price sup ports which will be in affect for the 1955 crop and which will pro vide 82'.fc percent support for wheat in 1955. This will result in a National average in wheat of $2.06 a bushel which is 18c under the 1954 support. It was further explained that with th," use of modernized parity, wheat prices could slump 30c. Of much interest to those pre sent was the explanation of the recent summerfallow amend ment which will add an average of 23 acres of wheat allotment to each 610 acre farm. The summer fallow amendment applies only to the first 640 acres on a farm. The county ASC office is at pre sent preparing listing sheets at the county office and will Issue new wheat acreage allotments within the next week reflecting this addition. Louis Van Winkle, State ACP specialist, explained the provi sions of some special conserva tion practice payments which were set up for encouraging use of conservation on diverted acres. He pointed out that 55 million dollars, of which Oregon gets $520,000 had been earmarked for practices that would protect acres diverted from wheat. In Morrow county the ASC office is pushing the A-2 and A-3 practices which provide attractive conservation payments for the establishing of perennial grasses and legumes in a crop rotation or as a permanent seeding. Nick Nicholas, state agronomist, Soil Conservation Ser vice and Jerry Nibbler, farm crop specialist, Oregon State college, spoke briefly on the effect of long time conservation planning and the economic stability of look ing ahead in the conservation of our soils. Mr. Nicholas paid tri bute to the Heppner Soil Conser vation District for the conserva tion work established over the years which won them recently honors as state winner in a soil conservation contest. Of much interest to farmers were experimental research on varieties, winter hardiness and adaptability of barley's for Mor row County. These were discus sed by N. C. Anderson, Morrow county agent who also urged that farmers consider long time con servation practices such as seed ing gullies, shallow and more unproductive areas of the farm to permanent or rotation grass I seeding. Dr. and Mrs. A. D. McMurdo left Wednesday night from Hin kle for Sun Valley, Idaho to at tend the annual meeting of the Western Association of Railroad Surgeons of which he is a mem ber. They will return Sunday. Mrs. John Pfeiffer, Mrs. James Thomson and daughters returned Tuesday evening from a few days in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sisher of Seattle spent the weekend with Mrs. Pearl Devine. They all at tended the Round-Up on Saturday. 1 ?T REP. SAM COON, who was guest speaker at Monday's chamber of commerce meeting. U. S. Military Position Good, Sam Coon Tells CC United States Representative Sam Coon told the chamber of commerce Monday that the feel ing among congressmen and army officials in Washington is that the United States is now in the best strategic military posi tion that it has been in since the end of World War II. Coon who spoke to the group at its regular Monday meeting spent most of his time answering questions asked him by the aud ience. He said that the feeling in congress is that Russia will have war, but not until she feels that she is stronger than America or the Allies. Whether that might be in 5 or 10 or 20 years, or never, no one can say. Rep. Coon told of the functions of the House appropriations com mittee of which he is a member, and related how it had attempt ed to reduce appropriations for various departments where it was deemed advisable for more businesslike operation of the government. He cited as an ex ample that state department ap propriations had been cut 25 per cent and a subsequent check with foreign embassy officials reveal ed the reduction had in no way effected their service or opera tion. He said, in answer to a ques tion, that Congress feels that the National guard offers the great est possibility for providing a defense army, but stated that the Army prefers to have the men in the regular service, and reminded listeners that the military has considerable weight in the de cisions made in Congress. He had been asked why more em phasis was not placed on the national guard in the overall military pattern for the nation Representative Coon is running for reelection to a second term in congress and is being opposed by Al Ullman, Democrat. Vote Registration Deadline Oct. 1 Mrs. Sadie Parrish, county clerk, today issued a warning to residents that they have only until Saturday, Oct. 2 to register to vote in the General Election November 2. She said that her office would remain open until 8 p. m. the last day to accom modate late comers. Persons who have not previous ly voted, or who have not voted In the last general election, or who have moved out of their previous precinct are required to re-register, it was said. Residents of other sections of the county may register at any of the following places: lrrigon, Mrs. Margaret Houghton; Board- man, Walter Hayes; lone, George Ely; Lexington, Mrs.. Emma Breshears. ' Local Church Furnace Follows Pattern One thing can be said for the furnace at the Heppner Chris tian church, at least its con sistent! Just at the conclusion of Sun day services at the church the "old faithful" blew up again mcking the third time in re cent months that the same thing has happened. This time, as in pa3t explosions, the blast damaged the main heat pipes, knocked plaster from the walls in several places and caused considerable smoke damage throughout the building. lone Garden Club Flower Show Set For Sunday The lone Garden Club annual flower show "Fantasy in Gold" is scheduled for Sunday, Septem ber 26 at the lone Legion hall between the hours of 2 and 5 p. m. A program of vocal and instrumental music will be pro vided at 3 and repeated at 4 p. m. Door prizes and silver tea are the other attractions. The following are the rules for the exhibitor which were omitted from the schedule printed in last week's issue of the Gazette Times. 1. Any amateur gardener Is eligible to enter for competition. Junior gardeners, Section C, must be twelve years or under. 2. Entries will be received from 8 to 10:30 a. m. September 26. The hall will be closed (lur ing the judging time from 11:00 to 12:00. 3. Specimen exhibits, Section A and C, must be grown by ex hibitor, and should be labeled as to variety wherever possible. 4. Only one exhibit is allowed one exhibitor in each class or class division. 5. Specimens do not require foliage except those flowers that bear foliage on the bloom stalk. 6. Blue, red, and whiteribbons will be awarded first, second and third prize. 7. Sweepstakes will be award ed exhibitor winning the great est number of blue ribbons. In the event of a tie, the red ribbons will be counted. 8. Containers for specimen classes will be provided by the committee. 9. Owners must be responsi ble for containers and other ac cessories which should be mark ed with the owner's name. 10. In table arrangements, Section B, Class 1, the exhibitor provides linen, china, glass, and other accessories, silver not obli gatory. Tables will be provided by the committee. U. Sections D. F. and G. are not competitive. Final plans for the lone Gar den Club flower show were made at the regular September meet ing at the home of Mrs. Echo Palmateer with Mrs. Leonard Carlson co-hostess. A mounted eoremie centerpiece has been chosen as the sweepstakes award to be presented to the person re ceiving the most blue ribbons. This award must be woi in three successive lower shows for per manent possession. The lone high school commercial depart ment mimeographed the show schedules. Mrs. William Rawlins, flower show chairman, stated in her talk on "Preparing for the Flow er show" that the purpose of the show is to raise the standards of horticulture and floriculture in the community and in the home. The Oregon Federation president, Miss Claire Hanley, suggests that each member plant a new flower or shrub for next year's flower show. Committee reports revealed that the corsages for the honored guests at the P TA teachers' re ception were prepared by Mrs. Edith Nichoson, chairman, Mrs. Oscar Lundell, Mrs. Monetta Aid- rich, Mrs. Walter Dobyns and Mrs. Fredrick Martin. Guests for the afternoon were Mrs. Hurst, Mrs. Grace Ware, and Mrs. Chester Ward. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Lundell and Mrs. Mary Van Stevens of Hepp ner as guest speaker. For roll call all members are to bring an arrangement. 160 Attend Teachers Reception Tuesday About 160 parents, teachers and interested persons attended the teachers reception on Tues day evening at the Legion hall. The P-TA and the Altar Society of the Catholic church were the hosts. Rev. Lester Boulden delivered the invocation and the teachers were introduced by superinten dent H. C. Reed The welcome to the teachers was given by Mrs. Marie Clarey and the respon.se by James Mallon. Rev. Earl Soward made the presentation of the president's pin to Mrs. N. C. Anderson, the new president, who gave the welcome for the P-TA. Rev. Francis McCormaek was the master of ceremonies and in troduced the rest of the program, which was ukelele selections by Carol Anderson, Judy Cochelle and Jean Collins and a piano Se lection by Marilyn Pettyjohn.