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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.
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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
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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
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Heppner,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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,"
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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.
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PrCSCnt Annual Play
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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.
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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'
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Mrs. Charles Bloodsworth of
Hermiston was a caller in Hepp
on Monday,