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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
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will introduce a variety of acts! of their respective gardens and) marshal to dispose of the chick
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numbers, iwenty lour teen-agers
will appear as chorus girls.
Anyone in this area is eligible
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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,
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.