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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE Copies 10 cents 4-H Achievement Program Set for Saturday Night With National 4-H Achieve ment Day set for November 1,3, Morrow county 4-H club leaders and club members are going to be well on their way toward a successful new year. They will be recognized in their own right at the annual 4-H Achievement Party to be held at the fair pa vilion on Saturday evening. Mem bers, leaders, parents and inter ested persons are Invited to at tend. Getting off to an early start for a good club year, officers for the .. Morrow county 4-H council were elected last month. To preside over that organization for this next year are Mrs. E. M. Baker, lone, president; D. 0. Nelson, Lexington, vice-president; Mrs. Randall Martin, Heppner, secre tary; and Mrs. L. A. McCabe, lone, treasurer. Anticipating a lot of jobs ahead, in a strong 4-H Club program, these officers re cently met to appoint active com mittees for the club year. Com mittees appointed are as follows: 4-H summer school selection Mrs. Lewis Carlson, lone, chair man; Mr. Bernard Doherty, Hepp ner; Mrs. Earle Kendall, Heppner. Ways and means committee Carl Rhea, Echo, chairman; Mrs. Claude Graham, Heppner; Mrs. Phil Emert, lone. International farm, youth ex change sponsoring co-chairman Sally Palmer, Heppner; Patsy Wright, Heppner. Summer school scholarship committee D. O. Nelson, Lexing ton, chairman; Herman Blettel, lone; Mrs. Jerry Brosnan, Hepp ner. Permanent summer camp Her. man Blettel, lone, chairman; Mrs. Walter Wright, Heppner; Mrs. L. A. McCabe, lone. Summer camp details Mrs. N. C. Anderson, Heppner, chairman; Mr. Leroy Martin, Lexington; Mrs. Elmer Palmer, Heppner. Fair building improvement committee Bernard Doherty, Heppner, chairman; Dallas Cra ber, Heppner; Mrs. Randall Mar tin, Heppner; Phil Emert, lone. National and local awards Mrs. Randall Martin, Heppner, chairman; Mrr Ray Heimbigner, lone; Mrs. Earle Kendall, Hepp ner. 4-H kitchen Mrs. Walter Wright, Heppner, chairman; Mrs. Jerry Brosnan, Heppner; Mrs. N. C. Anderson, Heppner. Achievement Day Mrs. Lewis Wetzel, Lexington, chairman; Alfred Nelson, Lexington; Mrs. W. E. Hughes, Heppner. The program committee with Mrs. L. A. McCabe, lone, chair man, Alfred Nelson, of Lexington, Mrs. Claude Graham of Heppner, Mrs. Elmer Palmer of Heppner, and D. 0. Nelson, Lexington, met Tuesday afternoon of this week to set up the program for the year was outlined and plans were made for the annual leaders training meeting to be held in Heppner on December 7. The South Morrow 4-H Club council of 4-H leaders meet monthly, the third Thursday evening. On the November 18th meeting, the program for the year will be considered for the year and action taken. Oscar Dahlquist of Portland is a houseguest at the Jack Bedford home this week. He is in Hepp ner for some bird hunting. Miss Leta Humphrevs and Mrs. Esther Zeimantz spent a few days in Walla Walla this week Efforts of isnr3PT .... CUTSFORTH FOREST PARK This is a general view of the new for est park now being developed on upper Willow creek. It has been known for years as Hetren creek meadow. Many improve ments have been made, though few of them show in this photo. All open area has been cleared and seeded to grass. lone Sheep Breeder Places at 'Frisco Livestock Show Ronald Baker, lone, Columbia sheep breeder, returned Sunday from Cow Palace, with his share of awards in his exhibits and sale of fourColumbia ewes consigned to the National Columbia Sheep Breeders Show and Sale at the Grand National livestock show last weekend. In stiff competition with Col umbia breeders throughout the entire United States, his pen of three yearling ewes, were award ed blue ribbon pen. In a class of yearling single ewes, his entry placed fifth in a large class. Looking ahead to improvement within his flock, Baker, pur chased a ram which stood fourth in the show as a stud ram for his herd. He also brought back with him nine head of ewes that stood in top places in their classes. These ewes were from leading breeders throughout the United States. Grand Jury Returns One True Bill, 1 1 Secret Indictments Meeting Monday on the open ing day of the fall term of the circuit court, the grand jury re ported in one true bill and 11 secret indictments. Judge Wil liam W. Wells heard the report. The one true bill was returned against Albert Kentner and Bill Wyatt who had been charged with the theft and butchering of two sheep belonging to Frank Wilkinson. The two men were arrested several months ago and are now out on bail. The secret indictments will not be revealed until the parties charged are served and com plaints filed. Early Posting Said Aid to Mail Service Postal authorities are urging businessmen to cooperate with the post office department in a current drive to get outgoing mail into the post office as far ahead of mailing deadlines as possible in an effort to give pa trons better service. The postal department is try ing to overcome a long establish ed habit of many business houses to let their outgoing mail pile up until just before the deadline (in Heppner that is 6 p. m.) and then mail it all at one time which produces a log jamb in the office and sometimes causes a delay in getting mail placed on the pro per long-distance trains. The early mailing is even more im portant with the coming of the Christmas season which always places an extra heavy load on all postal facilities. The office asks, that where possible, letters be deposited in the post office as early in the day as can be arranged, ex plaining that work is always lighter during the middle of the day and letters posted then can receive more attention by clerks. Such aid given the post office will result in better service for everyone, it was explained. JUNIOR PLAY SET The class play, "Don't Ever Grow Up", presented by the Jun ior class at Heppner high school will be presented Friday and Saturday, Nov. 19 and 20 at the school gym. 17 students are in the cast. Reserved seat tickets are on sale at $1.25 with adult admis sion set at $1.00, high school stu dents 75 cents and grade school students 35 cents. One Man Brings - , ' - .. ' .";'..,! - . . ... . I"""" .'.r.fTS ... J Heppner, Veteran's Day Observance Set By Legion Post In the first osbervance of the recently instituded Veteran's Day, the new official name for the former Armistice Day, the Hepp ner , American Legion post is planning a day-long program at 10 a. m. anJ concluding with a dance in the evening, post com mander, Kemp Dick has an nounced. Program chairman is Phil Blakney. Main speaker at the potluck banquet scheduled for 6:30 will be O. C. Shroeder, superintendent of the process sub-section for General Electric's manufacturing department at Hanford, Wash ington who will speak on "Ato mic Reactors," and show a short color sound film entitled "A is for Atom" The open house is planned from lo a m. until 1 p. m. and again from 4 to 6. At tendance at the Heppner-Ione football game was scheduled from 1:00 to 4:00, but this has been eliminated due to a last minute cancellation of the game. The banpuet will start at 6:30 and will be followed by the dance at 9:30. Schroeder, the dinner speaker, has been with General Electric at Hanford since 1947 as a senior supervisor. He was later pro moted to assistant chief super visor, separations section, a posi tion he held until early in 1953. In March 1953, Schroeder became superintendent of a reactor oper ation, and early this year he as sumed the responsibility he now holds. Prior to going with GE, Sch roeder was employed by the E. I. duPont company atWaynewboro, Virginia, Kankakee, 111., the Ala bama and Oklahoma Ordance works and at Hanford during the years du Pont operated the plant. At the 6:30 banquet, post of ficers announced the Legion will furnish the turkey, rolls and the coffee with the remainder to be po'luck. x o Library Story Hour To Start November 13 Arrangements were completed this week to hold a children's story hour at the Heppner pub lic library, it has been announced by Mrs. fed Smith, librarian. The first of the series will be held Saturday, Nov. 13 at 3 p. m. Children from the ages of five to eight are asked to come on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month and children from 9 to 13 years of age on the first and third Saturdays. New book additions to the lib rary include: Away All Boats, by Dodson; Julius Caesar, Shake speare; Baby Farm Animals, Ani mal ABC, Golden Stallion to the Rescue, Montgomery; Hurry, Skurry and Flurry, Buff; The Lazy Beaver, Davis. DISTRICT MEETING DUE The Rev. Hugh Foster, mis sionary pastor at John Day, will speak at the Blue Mountain dis trict meeting of the 90 and 9 men's meeting In Heppner Nov. 15. It will be a dinner meeting at 7 p. m. at the Christian church. About 65 men are expected from Milton, Athena, Pendleton, Hermiston and Lexington. o Mr. and Mrs. Orville Smith left Friday for San Francisco and Palo Alto, where they will visit with their son James, who is at tending Stanford. Jf-v ' f.''' , STONE FIREPLACE which has recently been completed at the new forest park which bears the name of its "prime mover" O. W. Cutsfotth. The fireplace wus donated by the Elks, and several smaller ones in the park were built by the Heppner I. O. O. F. lodge. Many more improvements are in the making. Oregon, Thursday, November 11, 1954 Joel B. Young, 75, Taken By Death Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Methodist church for Joel B Young who passed away at Heppner on No vember 7. He was 75 years of age. - Rev. Lester D. Boulden of ficiated at the final rites. Mr. Young was born May 21, 1879 in Adams county, Iowa and came to Oregon in the 18S0s. He had lived most of his life in Mor row county, much of the early part of it on his parent's ranch in the Eightmile section. He never married. Surviving are one brother, Egbert Young of Heppner, a sis ter, Mrs. Clara Stratton of Eugene and several nieces and nephews. Burial was in the Heppner Ma sonic cemetery with Cre.swick and Seuell Mortuary in charge of ar rangements. New Veterinarian To Locate Here Meeting Tuesday evening, the executive committee and Morrow County Livestock disease control committee of the Morrow County Livestockgrowers Associat i o n worked out details leading to the encouragement of a practicing veterinarian to locate here. Dr. Jim Norene, recently of Bend and now of Grants Pass,, will lo cate here as soon as living quar ters suitable for his business can be secured. Dr. Norene will estab lish his local practice and will assist with a portion of the Brucellosis testing being carried on. At this meeting plans were laid for the annual Livestockgrowers Association meeting, which was scheduled for January 13 and 14. Chairmen of the various commit tees on arrangements and pro gram reported that arrangements are well underway. Heading the general arrangements and ban quet committee is John Graves, Hardman; meat marketing con ference, W. W. Weatherford, Hep pner; meat cutting demonstra tion, Frank Anderson, Heppner; advertising committee, O. W. Cutsforth, Lexington; and enter tainment committee, Harold Er win, Heppner. This year's main attraction will be a meat cutting, wrapping, and cookery demonstration put on by a team from Oregon State Col lege. The meat marketing con ference to be held the morning of January 13, will consist of a panel 0f producers, sellers, labor, retailers, packers, and consumers, who will discuss county livestock and meat marketing problems. The disease control committee met to outline plans for commun ity action in cleaning up the last straggling Brocellosis tests be fore moving into the final stages of having the county certified as a modified Bangs free county. o Taxpayers Rush to Beat November 15 Payment Deadline Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman report ed today that county taxpayers are crowding the tax office to pay real and property taxes be fore the deadline Monday, Nov ember 15. He reports that pay ments are as heavy or heavier than in previous years. ' The deadline for property owners to get the three percent discount for payment of the full year's tax is November 15, and the first quarter installment pay ments must also be made by that time. County its H III I MM, I 100 Pints Set As Quota For Bloodmobile Visit With a quota of 100 pints of blood, the Heppner Elks lodge is again sponsoring a return visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile on Monday, November 15, it was an nounced today by Jack Edmond son, committee chairman. It is to be held at the Methodist church from 2 to 6 in the after noon. Edmondson stressed the need for a heavy turnout of residents to help the lodge and the Red Cross meet the quota, pointing out that he has had very short notice on this visit and has had no opportunity to arrange for prior signup of donors, as has been arranged on previous visits of the Bloodmobile. On the last visit of the Red Cross group, county residents donated just under 100 pints of blood, and it is hoped that the quota of 100 pints can be reached on this trip. The November trip will be the third into this area in the past two years. As on previous visits, a large number of local persons have volunteered their help to handle the necessary paper work and as sist the regular nurses of the Red Cross team. Signup cards are being dis tributed this weekend, by com mittee members, but anyone Is welcome, and wanted, regardless of whether or not they have signed up to donate. Road Oiling Due In North Morrow Morrow county has received notice of the approval of the oil ing of 11 miles of county road in the Boardman project with $56,000 of federal aid secondary funds, it was revealed this week by county judge Garnet Barratt. The notice came from the state highway commission following county application for the funds. The county requested that the project1 be contracted by the state commission not later than March of next year. This project will oil 11 of the approximately 27 miles of county road in the Boardman area which has been scheduled by the county for improvement. It will include the main travelled roads on which no habitation will be more than a half mile from the paved road, it was said. Crippled Children's Clinic Scheduled The fall . crippled children's clinic will be held Nov. 17 at 1:00 p. m. at the Umatilla county health department, S. W. 3rd and Frazier in Pendleton, it was an nounced here this week. Anyone wishing an appointment at the clinic may receive it by being at the clinic at that time. Miss Dorothy M. Prinzing, nurs ing consultant asks that any new children who attend the clinic bring a note from their family physician stating whether he wishes them to have diagnosis, treatment or consultation. The clinic would also appreciate a medical summary of the patient, it was said. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Mahoney and son Bob and Larry Prock spent the weekend in Seattle and attended the football game. First Forest Park The long-discussed proposal to build a forest park in the mountain area near Heppner has finally tome fruit, under tne in spiration and guiding hand of: Orville Cutsforth, Lexington rancher, and other public spirited residents and local organizations.' A look at the much needed, but, previously ill-equipped and un-j cared -for Herron creek meadows ( on upper Willow creek, this week revealed some remarkable chan ges have taken place, and with another year or tw0 of work,1 Morrow county residents will find a completely modern forest camp almost at their doorstep. , It all started earlier this year when Cutsforth bought about 10 or 12 acres of land which ad-; ioins his family cabin on the meadow. Fred Mankin, owner of a small section there, also as sisted by turning title of his area over to the recently formed Cuts forth Forest Park, Inc., an organi zation set up to build and man Special Heppner Ione Football Game is Cancelled A planned special football game between the Heppner and lone high school teams for Thurs day, November 11, has been can celled, it was revealed Wednes day, by local school officials. Originally the Heppner-Echo game was set for that date, but Echo's winning of the district title which required a playoff game for Friday required setting that game up to last Monday. To fill the holiday gap, it was hoped to be able to arrange a special game, but arrangements fell through at the last minute. Two Businesses Change Ownership The sale of the Heppner West ern Store (Western Auto Supply) to Mr. and Mrs. John A. Pfeiffer of Heppner was announced this week by Conley Lanham, who has operated the store since 1940. Pfeiffer, who has been Shell Oil Company distributor in Hepp ner for the past six years, at the same time announced the sale of his distributorship to James P. Healy who now operates the Heppner Nor-Gas plant in Hepp ner. Ho will continue to operate both plants and Jerry Daggett has been employed as manager of the Shell operation. Pfeiffer's took over the Western store Monday. Lanham, who moved the store lo its present location in the Ma sonic building in 1912 will leave late this month to make his home in Eugene where he owns a largb motel, the El Prado. His son Mickey, who is operating the motel, and a daughter Sandra, who is in high school, have been living in Eugene since the start of the school year. o Cook Damage Suit Case in Third Day The damage suit filed by Mrs. Ruth Cook versus the Kinzua Corporation opened Monday in Heppner and is being heard by circuit judge William W. Wells. The plaintiff asks $20,000 general and $875.07 special damages as a result of an auto accident which occurred October 3, 1953 on the Kinzua road. The jury was selected Monday and the court has been hearing arguments Tuesday and Wednes day. It was hoped to give the case to the jury late Wednesday, but there was no assurance that the hearings could be completed by that time. Attorneys for the plaintiff are Maurice D. Sussman and Alexan der Schneider, Portland and Ma honey & Fancher of Heppner. Representing the Kinzua Corpor ation are Carl Helms Jr., La Grande and George Corey, Pen dleton. Grain Growers Name New Directors One new director was chosen and two former directors were re elected at the annual meeting of the Morrow County Grain Grow ers held'Monday at the Lexington Grange hall. The new member is Vernon Munkers. L. L. Howton and A. C. Lindsay were returned to the board. Seven associate directors were named to take over office, they are Lonnie Henderson, Paul Jones, Kenneth Batty, Archie Munkers, Irvin Rauch, Don Peter son and James Lindsay. age the area. Largely through Cutsforth's own efforts, though he received much assistance from others as well, funds were raised to build one big fireplace, and several smaller family-sized fireplaces; a garbage pit has been complet ed, and water pined onto the grounds, rest rooms have been built and more are to come; sev eral tables are now available and plans call for the construction of more; lumber has been donated for a bridge which will soon span Willow creek and give access to more camp space to the west; much of the area has been grad ed and lots of brush cut and burned and the main open area of the meadows has been seeded to crass. Eventually it is hoped to have a 4-H club building 22 x 100 feet on the grounds. Directors Named After the formation of the cor poration directors were named (Continued on page 8) 71st Year, Number 35 Construction To Start Soon on Rodeo Field Lights Although not quite all of the necessary money may yet be on hand, the chamber of commerce sponsored drive to light the Hepp nerr rodeo field this week is be ginning to show results as much of the necessary equipment has arrived and erection of the poles and lights is expected to start within a short time. The tall 85 foot poles arrived late last week and the crew of the Columbia Basin Electric Co op moved them to the field early this we(k. Much of the necessary lights and other electrical equip ment also arrived during the past week and with the excep tion of a few odds and ends everything is available to start construction. A considerable amount of the labor of digging the holes and doing much of t he wiring will be donated by the Columbia Basin Coop, a Pacific Power and Light company crew and a county crew who will dig the holes for the tall poles. Tom Walker, Heppner electrician has also volunteered his services to aid in wiring in the equipment. A contract has been agreed up on between the chamber of com merce and the Wilson Construc tion company of Portland to in stall the cross arms and much of the equipment and raise the poles. The company is now com pleting a job with the Columbia Basin Coop and is expected to start on the field lighting job within a week, or as soon as all the necessary parts have arrived. The chamber drive to sell non interest bearing bonds with which to finance the project has raised over $9,200 at the present time, which along with the volunteer labor which lias been offered, is deemed sufficient to finance t he installation. A few promises of additional bond pur chases have been made, which if fulfilled will assure ample money to complete the lighting, com mittee members said this week. Agriculture Census Nearly Half Taken The 1951 census of agriculture the 18 counties covered by the is about 50 percent completed in field office at Bend, aecorfling to field supervisor Jack L. V. Hal brook. Halbrook stated that he was well pleased with the cooperation the census enumerators are re ceiving from farmers in this area and has high hopes of complet ing the canvass by the scheduled closing date of December 15. He pointed out that enumeration of farmers in completing question naires promptly will be a vital factor In keeping down the final cost of the undertaking. Quick completion of the cen sus will not only help In keep ing costs down but will aid in prompt publication of the resulls, Halbrook said. He urged local farmers who had not already done so to complete the census questionnaire and have it ready when the enumerator calls. -o DISTRICT DEPUTY VISITS HERE Frank Wells of Hermiston, district deputy of the Elks loJge paid a visit to the Heppner lodge Thursday night at their regular meeting and Initiation. Those initiated were Jack Mar shall,' Oliver Creswick, Bob Ben nett, Bill Lowe and Pirl Howell. Area F7 i, V -CT" " "-'at '--. ' 4 t t ZkMmJAs!k Art ' aw., SIX SIDED DRINKING FOUN TAIN, replica of the Cutsforth cabin above sets along main road at the entrance to the new Cutsforth Forest Park on Herren creek. See adjacent story.
