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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1954)
L I BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. Copies 10 cents Willard Herbison injured in First Hunting Accident The first serious hunting acci dent in the immediate area oc curred about 5 p. m. Tuesday when Willard Herbison, Condon, a former Heppner resident, was painfully but not seriously in jured when struck in the thigh with fragments of metal when a bullet struck the windshield cor nerpost of a jeep in which he was sitting. The shot had been fired by Charles Gomillion, with whom Herbison was hunting in the Crawford Springs area south of Lonerock. The accident was described as a freak by local police officers who said that Gomillion was rostmg his gun across the front of the jeep, sighting on a deer. His scope sight did not show the cornerpost in the line of fire, but the bullet struck the metal and fragments of the iron were what struck Herbison who was sitting in the car. He was brought to Pioneer Me morial hospital by Gomillion and Harold Lawson of Hermiston where local physicians treated him for a severed artery and large vein in the thigh. The wound was described as ex tremely painful but not serious. Elgin Mill Fire Temporarily Disrupts Heppner Plant There Fire which Saturday destroyed the Willis Spoo lumber mill at Elgin temporarily held up pro duction at the Heppner Lumber company plant there, but ar rangements were made immedi ately to double-shift on another nearby mill so that the Heppner lumber plant could continue its operations. The fire completely leveled the Spoo mill, which .turns out raw lumber for the Heppner Lumber planer and dry kilns in Elgin. Loss was estimated at about$100 000 with insurance covering about half the damage! Arrangements were made with Eckstein Lumber mill, another supplier of raw boards, to run a double shift starting last Mon- day night. It is expected the two shift operation can supply about 80,000 board feet daily, within 15; or 2o thousand feet of what the two mills were putting out on a regular basis. The fire in no way effected the operation of the Heppner Lumber Company mill here. i Spoo formerly operated a mill in Morrow county, buying the Elgin operation about four years ago. Whether the mill will be re built is not vet known. Camp Fire Girls Need Help on Projects All those wishing to help the Wa can te ka Camp Fire group carry out their national project,' afghans for Korea, and the local project, quilts for the needy, please call 6-9906 during the month of October, the girls Jiave( asked. j All yarn scraps and quilt pieces offered will be picked up by the girls and mailed to cen- ters where willing hands are busy making many needed arti cles. o Mr 3. Jos. Hughes spent part of last week in Pendleton where she attended the State Assessors meeting. I Emile Groshens end Paul Webb left last Thursday for Rawlins, Wyoming. They expected to be gone about a week. i 'HAND ME THE GUN Democrats Politics became more a part of everyone's thoughts this week as both Republicans and Democrats held special rallies and meetings on Monday and Tuesday in Heppner. Republicans meeting Monday evening under the chairmanship of J. O. Turner heard William H. Steiwer, Fossil stockman and farmer and chairman of the Cor don for U. S. Senator committee predict the re-election of Senator Cordon at the November 2 elec tion. Other speakers at the meeting included Harold Becket, candidate for county clerk; county judge Garnet Barratt and county commissioner Ralph I. Thompson, both of whom are up for reelection; and Bradley Fan- cher, who spoke for both senator t . . J . . - -" I u ' "" - - - - - ... - ..r mjy- j F rrri'ntilllilin.i Inih 'mflA Tl 'iiffliliiiir-T - " - 6 1 In, umi .( Mm vi AGRICULTURE CENSUS WORKERS started work Monday morning in Morrow, Gilliam, Wheeler and Sherman counties. From left Norman Lofton, Colleen Wallace, Fred Anderson, Eileen Saling, ICIUICS UUlill, IOOKIUU QVCi and Mr., Moore will work largely in Morrow county. Field Lighting Fund Nears $8,000 Today The prospects of lights being erected on the rodeo field ap peared even brighter Wednesday, when Frank Turner, chamber of commerce treasurer announced that the chamber's drive to raise. funds for the project has brought in a total of $7,975 to date, with promise of close to another $1, 000 expected to swell the total to nearly $9,000, only about $1,000 away from the goal. The special field lighting com mittee has been working hard this week to sell the non-interest bearing bonds which will pro vide the money for the project. Its members report good response from residents of the area, but Political Forum Set For Pendleton Residents of Heppner and the entire second congressional dis trict are being invited to meet candidates and hear basic is sues in the November 2 election at a nonpartisan political forum at the Vert auditorium in Pen dlelon at 7:30 p m. Monday, Octo ber 25. The event is sponsored by the Pendleton Junior Chamber of Commerce as part of its get -out-the-vote campaign to increase Ihe percentage of registered vot ers who actually go to the polls Nov. 2 to decide who will repre sent them. Participants in the forum Oct. 25 include: for U. S. senator, Rich ard L. Neuberger and state sena tor Gene Brown representing Sen. Guy Cordon; for governor, a rep resentative of Gov. Patterson, and Joseph Carson; for congressman, second district, Albert Ullman; for county judge, D. R. (Sam) Cook and Claude Meyers; for county commissioner, W. A. (Dunty) Rhodes and Roscoe Kel ley, and, for mayor of Pendleton, Jabin Vaught and Norman Gor fkle. Morlerator is Pendleton school superintendent Wallace MeCrae. Written questions will be col lected by Jaycees during the meeting to be directed to the candidates. A reception during which voters may meet the can didates personally will follow the forum. MA, THE WAR'S ON and Republicans Levy Cordon and representative Sam Coon. Charles A. Torn, state represen tative, spoke in favor of the Re publican candidates and ex plained some of the forthcoming State legislation. The Democratic meeting was held at O'Donnell's Cafe Tues day morning as a breakfast meeting, with Al Ullman, demo cratic candidate for U. S. repre sentative as the main speaker. Also on the program was Bruce Lindsay, democratic candidate for county clerk. The meeting was under the direction of Al Lamb, county Democratic com mittee chairman. i Cordon Win Seen In speaking" for Senator Cor don fstpiupr said Mnnriav nluht j "J "-0" Heppner, i1 "if j? b,t J -I D1UJ19 19 Clew iCUUtl jcaii juvnnvu, I'lioa t u""vv, a-iioo point to the need for the re mainder of the $10,000 to be subscribed if the project is to be started soon. Many chamber of commerce members have bonds available for sale, or persons who have not been contacted and who wish to aid in the drive may secure them at the Turner, Van Marter and Bryant Insurance of fice. Payback Plan Set The chamber plans to redeem the bonds over a five-year period through the promotion of special benefit football games and other attractions under the lights, and other money-raising ideas. To ward this goal, the chamber this week received word from Delbort Emert, lone that he is donating a calf to aid in a fund-raising campaign to redeem the bonds. Emert was recently selected the County Cattleman of the year. Other aids came in this week, also, as Harold Johnston, owner of the Heppner slaughter house,! said he will butcher the beef and cut and wrap it free of charge, and Loyd Rurkenbine, operator of Heppner Market has announced! he will give a year's free locker j space to store t ho animal. De tails will be revealed later, it was said. I The chamber of commereej plans to repay the bonds, choos-i ing those to be redeemed (on a lot basis, at its annual banquet each winter. Whatever funds ' have been raised during the year will be used for this pur pose, it was announced. u FIRST AID DEMONSTRATION SEEN BY CHAMBER Murry Brooks, Eugene, first aid and water safety representative of the Red Cross gave a demon -straion of the new methods of artificial respiration at the regu lar Monday noon meeting of the chamber of commerce. Brooks is in Heppner conduct ing a course in first aid for local Red Cross instructors. DEMOCRATS TO MEET Local Democrats will meet at the Harry Duvall home at 8 p. m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, it was an nounced today by Al Lamb, chair man of the county committee. .... " that, "The people of Oregon have, come to a full realization of what a calamity it would mean to the! state and the nation to lose the! public services of a man of the high, calibre of Senator Cordon. How can we fail to return to of fice one who has gained such a high position in our nation's' capitol and who has the grasp and the knowledge of what Ore gon needs in its power develop ment, its industry and agricul ture? He added, "We have had many offers of support from Democrats j as well as Republicans, and it appears that Neuberger's smear Steiwer said, campaign has backfired. Neuber-j Politic-1 Revolution Due ger has attacked Senator Cordon! Al Ullman in his Tuesday with untruths and half truths! morning talk aimed several bar but apparently these tactics have rages at the Republicans opening Oregon, Thursday, October 21 , 1954 , r when the first farms were visited to right they are:Roland Potter, j Leora Stephens, Rollj Moore and' (Condon Globe Times Photo) Volume of Cattle Sales on Increase HERMISTON Oran Brace of, T A .! ll -A .1 neppner loppeu me m.uKct ui me, Hermiston livestock auction Fri day with a 270 lb. spotted boar that sold for $14.25 cwt., Delbort Anson, manager of the sale, re ports. Fred Hoskiiis, Jr., Hepp ner, consigned a 310 lb. sow that sold for a top of $17.50. Volume of cattle consigned rose Muupiy. ui.Mgn.-u m-ie Bryant, Joan Keith ley, Judy 7!'..-) cattle, compared with 510 the Wrlht Virginia Andresen, Don pievrous Friday, 139 hogs com- na Lovgren; Marilyn Munkers; pared with 145, and 271 sheep MikD Monahan; Wayne Soward; compared won JM. mere were many smau coiisignniiMiis una several of 25 to 50 head of cattle. Prices were generally steady to off slightly, with some increases noted. Fat hogs were up 70c cwt: to a $J0.7o top, showing less fill. Sows were steady to up 20c at a $17.50 top. Belter quality steer1 calves were up 5'lc to a $19.80 top Canner-cutter slaughter cows were up 20c at $8.80, shells up 30c' at $6.80, hulls steady at $14.40. Sheen were steady faT; yOUtTrnT't'SI-',o Mace, California; a daughter head to a $15.50 top.'. n . .,.,,,, mm, up $2.00 per Quality was above standard in virtually all classes. Demand was broad and active, in all eatagories, with Oregon and Washington packers and Yakima valley and east Uma tilla county feedlot operators well represented. Farmer buyers were particularly active, espec ially in buying cows and wearier calves, the latter for feed lots to upgrade by concentrated feed. Stocker steers were also in de mand. Needed at tin sale next Friday, are good steer calves and good fat. grass on grain or feed lot hei fers. Calves: Baby calves 2.50-11.00 lnl.; wearier calves, steer calves, lrt.10-19.R0; heifer calves 14.85 17.20; veal 17.80-19.20. Sieeis: Stocker steers 15.20-16.-! their existance to the presence of 75 cwt.; feeder steers 16. 75-18.10: giant salt particals carried aloft iat slaughter steers 19.10-20.60;! from ocean spray by Wind cur fat heifers 15.10 16.9.0. j rents. Cows: Dairy cows 85.00-127.50! While silver iodide crystals are lid.; dairy heifers 23.00-31.00 hd.;, only effective in modifying clouds stock cows, 6 Angus cows, $101.00, whose temperatures are less than hd. 1 26 degrees, the salt particals Slaughter cows: Commercial can elfect warm clouds by be ll) 60-11.90 cut., few young cows' ing small centers which allows to 12.60; utility 9.90-10.50; canner cutter 7.10-8.80, few heavy Hoi steins to 9.60; shells 4.50-6.80. Continued on page 6) Charges, Claims at Local only server! tj call the people's' attention to his own shortcom ings in the state legislature." Steiwer pointed out "that Neu berger had suddenly become a great fri"'id of the farmer where as his record in the legislature shows that he opposed almost everything of benefit to agricul- lure. 1 1 is campaign speeches have proven that his knowledge of Oregon is so slight that it is increasingly apparent that he would be incapable of represent ing us in Washington." "I predict the reelection of Uni ted States Senator Guy Cordon," ouncil, ttract 1 Fire Destroys Hunter's Car One man's hunting trip was cut short Monday afternoon when his car caught fire while decending the grade into Rock Creek, just south of Hardman. No cause was determined for the blaze which completely destroyed the 1950 Ruick. The car was registered to C. Ruck, operator of Ruck's Grocery at Power Cily, north of Hermis ion. The car was also pulling a trailer loaded with camping equipment, but Ruck had time to disconnect it and pull away from it before the flames got too hot. Juntnr ri PrCSCnt Annual Play kftVfrMknr 1Q nnA JC The junior class at Heppner high school revealed this week that they are practicing now for Ihe annual class play which will be presented at the school audi torium November 19 and 20. The play will be "Don't Ever Grow Up", which is a comedy by James Reach and will be directed by Stanley Holm. The student (,irp.,tor will ... ,.,. Rorman. business manager, Darlene Con nor; publicity, Barbara Warren; costume director, Virginia Elde and makeup director, Edith Mor ris. The cast will include Carolyn Calvin, Nancy Anderson, James Monahan, Lance Tibbies, Sharon UH,,rrt riper; Karon Prock; Nel. son Connor and Chuck Bailey. o Brother of Heppner Woman Dies Recently Henry Leo Gay, 64, died Octo ber 11 at Pendleton where pri vate family funeral services were held. He was a brother of Mrs. Mabel French of Heppner. Mr. (lav is survived bv one son. ' brother Walter H. Gay' .... ...,. ..... r u ' ind his sister, Mrs. French. He also leaves three grandchildren, two nieces and a nephew. TRI-COUNTY TEST AREA FOR NEW USE OF SALT IN WEATHER MODIFICATION The Weather Modification Com pany at Condon, has announced that in its cloud seeding program in Sherman, and sections of Mor- row pri(1 Gilliam counties of Ore gon, artificially introduced salt particals will be used in addition to the standard seeding chemi cals, silver iodide and dry ice. Many leading meteorologists no. v believe that many moderate ! to heavy tropical showers owe many more rain drops to form. The present cloud seeding pro gram now in progress runs from September 1, 1954 to September 1 with a statement that the storyi released Monday about his al leged misdealings in a previous real estate transaction was a de liberate smear campaign to dis nedit him. He said the timing of the release made it obvious. Ullman said that the national trend is corning along well for the Democrats and that the east- em Oregon trend was even better. He also claimed that the admin istration s tax "bills have favored big business and cited the fact that while the stock market is up, the income in small com munities is drying up. He said, "The ordinary person gets no benefit whatsoever from the ad ministration tax reduction bill. Ullman emphasized that this country's surplus problems Rflayor's Woman, Heavy Deer Kill Shown By Police Checkup Tuesday State police reported Wednes day that a check of cars Tuesday evening, the first day of the three-day hunter's choice deer season, showed a very . heavy percentage of hunters had killed their deer. The officers reported that many of the animals checked were does, but that some exceptionally large bucks were also being hauled to town by the hunters. All Heppner butchers and lock er plants have reported a heavy influx of deer all through the regular season, with some indi cating that the total kill ap peared to be higher this year than last. Local School Bonds OK'd; Excavation To Start Next Week Word was received today by Heppner school officials that the firm of Winfree, McCul lough, Schuler and Sayre, Portland bonding attorneys, have approved the recent bond issue of $290,000 for the construction of a new grade school. The Issue was pur chased by the U. S. National bank at an average interest rate of 2.3 percent. Superintendent H. C. Reed said also that architects would be here this week to stake out the build ing area and that excavation is expected to start early next week. o Tax Statements To Go in Mail Soon The sheriff's office stated Wednesday that it will start early next week mailing out the 1955 county tax statements. It is ex pected to take at least a week or 10 days to complete the mailing, Mrs Carl McDaniel, deputy an nounced. First payment on the levy is due November 15. o SAMPLE BALLOTS READY The county clerk this week re ceived delivery of the ballots for the general election, and announ ced that sample ballots may be obtained at the office. They are also available at the Gazette Times office. 1955. This operation includes ex periments in damaging hail and rain reduction in addition to rain and snow increasing during the fall, winter and spring. The area to be finally included in the over all operation has not yet been determined due to the fact that all of the contributions are not yet in. It is hoped that a rather rigid boundary can be held in this weather modification program. This exacting weather control cannot be truly realized, but with the use of seeding air craft and the deadly accuracy of radar some of the effects of seed ing in the surrounding areas can be somewhat neutralized The radar now used for this program is a highly modified world war II set that could easily detect a sub marine poriscope at eight miles. All three counties are temporar ily included for the next few weeks at which time the final area will be defined. Meetings should be attacked aggressively, that we are losing friends abroad who are going hungry' while we hold huge surpluses. Power Issue Raised Ullman berated the McKay "sellout" of the Snake river de velopment plan and Hells Can yon, claiming that private de velopment of the Snake river would bring higher power rates to the Snake Basin. He also claimed the Federal Power Com mission is stacked against Fede ral development of the Snake. Following the Heppner meet ing, Mr. and Mrs. Ullman, left for Lexington where he spoke briefly at a meeting held at the Newt O'Harra home. He had spoken at Condon and Fossil the night before. 71st Year, Number 32 Positions 5 RJlen Mary Van Stevens Files Monday For Mayor's Job Interest in the five open posi tions on the Heppner city council took a big spurt this week with the filing of five petitions for the four council positions and one for the job as mayor. The one aspirant for the mayor's post is Mrs. Miirv Van Stevens, local flor ist. The five who have filed com pleted petitions for the council positions are Alan L. Case and jack Bailey for the two year terms; Al Lamb, Jack Van Win kle and W. C. Collins for the three year terms. Van Winkle and Col lins are now serving on the council but the terms of both men will be up at the end of the current year. Case, is an owner of the Case Furniture Company and Jack Bailey is secretary of the Heppner Elks lodge. Lamb, wlfo lives in Heppner, is manager of the Morrow County Grain Growers with his head office at Lexington. Mrs. Stevens' petition was the only one filed for the office of mayor, though another had been circled for Dr. L. D. "Tibbies who has served as city head since his appointment to the post January 1 of this year. He had not signed the petition in his behalf, and he told the Gazette Times Wednes day that he would not do so, feel ing that his 16 years of service to the city as councilman and mayor had earned him a deser ved rest, at least for the present. Mrs. Stevens operates Mary Van's Flower Shop in Heppner and Is quite active in local civic affairs. She is an active member of the Heppner-Morrow county chamber of commerce, the Sorop timist club, and is advisor for the Rainbow for Girls. -Other Filings Made Two other positions which must be filled at the November 2 elec tion are those of cily recorder and city treasurer. La Verne Van Marter Jr., present treasurer has filed for reelection to that post, and Hugh (Ted) Smith, has filed for the recorder's job. Smith was appointed to the post early this month following the resignation of Harry Tamblyn who had held the job for more than a year. The positions will be filled November 2, at the same time as the general election, but it will be by separate ballot. Savings Bonds Sales High in State The people of Oregon have just finished a Savings Bonds buying spree exceeding only once since the end of War Bond days, ac cording to figures just released by E. C. Sammons, Chairman of the Oregon Savings Bonds Com mittee. Only in 1918 have Ore gonians bought more Savings Bonds in the months of July, Aug. ust, and September than they did in the three months just ended. Sales of E and H Bonds In the state last month amounted to $2,849,228, a whopping 32 jump over sales of September of 1953. According to Mr. Sammons, sales in Oregon the first nine months of this year were 24 more than they were a year ago, the increase amounting to $5,350,000. The percentage of increase in Ore gon is running far ahead of the 12 rise in national sales. "Sales in Morrow county for September were $5,284", according to Jeff Carter, county chairman. "Sales in this county through September amounted to $134,870", he said. FARM BUREAU MEETING SET FOR LEXINGTON The Morrow county Farm Bu reau will meet at the Lexington I. O. O. F. hail Tuesday, Oct. 26 starting with a potluck dinner at 6:30. The Conservation Man, Grassman and the Cattleman of the year will be honored at the meeting. The resolutions committee will discuss resolutions to be brought up at the state convention. 0 ' WRANGLERS TO HAVE FEED The second annual buck burger feed will be held Saturday even ing at 6:30 p. m. at the fair pa vilion for all Wranglers and their guests. o Mrs. Charles Bloodsworth of Hermiston was a caller in Hepp on Monday,
