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Sale of Heppner's
Oldest Business
Firm Announced
Heppner's oldest business
nouse, and one of the oldest busi
nesses in this section of the state
to De operated continually by
members of the same families,
uimam and Bisbee Hardware,
has been sold with the new own
ers to take over February 1, it was
revealed today.
The new owners are Claude W.
Buschke and John B. Key, both
of Heppner. They have purchased
the interests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Gilliam, Leonard L. Gilliam and
l. h.. Bisbee. The transaction in
ciuded only the business, the
Building, one of Heppner's lar
- gest, was sold recentlv tn a Pnn
dleton couple, Virden A. and Rosa
i. Heliums.
The business was established
in 1887 when Frank Gilliam, ;
pioneer of the area, hee-an shin
ping carloads of barbed wire and
other essentials necessary for the
lending ana settling of Grant
county. Heppner was then a
railhead and general supply cen
ter for a large portion of Central
Oregon. From here transporta
tion facilities were freight wag
ons and stage coaches.
In 1S90, Gilliam's brother-in-law,
T. H. Bisbee loined the ven-
ture and the firm became known
as Gilliam and Bisbee. Upon the
death of the founders, ownership
ana management passed to the
iamny neirs who have continued
acuve operation since. The pre
sent managers have served in
their capacity since prior to
World War I.
The business has been operated
continually throughout much of
the life of the city of Heppner as
a straight partnership and has
survived one disastrous firn a I
flood which took over 250 lives,
the big depression of the thirties'
and many smaller catastrophies.
The new owners will take over
operation of the concern on Feb
ruary 1 but the former owners
will continue on in an advisory
capacity at least for a while, it
was saia.
The sale was handled by C. L
Fry of Dean Vincent Inc., of Portland.
Sorry, But There's
No Catastrophe
Currently in Sight!
Rumors are nothing new to
almost any community, and
Heppner always has its share
in circulation, but one got go
ing so strong the last couple of
weeks that a county official
finally had to make a state
statement early this week to
put a stop to all the talk.
County judge Garnet Barratt
told the chamber of commerce
Monday that regardless of what
its members might have heard,
ine new wing on Pioneer Me.
morial hospital was NOT going
to fall down any day now.
Where the story started about
the big cracks in the concrete,
etc., nobody knows, but
the judge invited anyona to go
up and inspect the building for
himself if he doubted his word.
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Mother's March
Monday Night to
Push Polio Drive
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New Heppner Grad
71st Year, Number 46
Contract to Build
Schoo
As a final push for this vear's
Marcn or Dimes campaign, plans
were revealed this week for thP
annual Mother's March on Pnlin
which will be held in Hennner
Lexington and lone Monday
nignt, January 31. The drive has
s0 far netted only slightly over
3.1,200 which is less than half
the quota.
The Mother's March will be
held between 7 and 8 o'clock in
the evening and residents who
wish to aid the drive are asked
to leave their porch lights on to
direct tne workers. In, Heppner
me noy bcouts will do the col
lectins under the direction of
Mrs. Jack Loyd, at Lexineton the
Marcn is headed by Mrs. Robert
Davidson and in lone by Mrs.
liooert Jepsen. The Heppner So
roptimist club will hold a nartv
for the boys at -the Loyd home
aner tne march, it was announ
ced.
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CONSTRUCTION TO START early next week on the new Heppner
juiiowmg xne awaraing of the contract to Sim-
onton & Steele, Portland contractor. Thia r-hi - :
snows the building arJDroximaterv n it wii j
though a few minor changes in outside appearance have been
' P'"s since mis picture was made. The building will
hrV2 rT! uIllPuP, 'oo- two less than the school
J,," " re Zl:1: !"un . 10 of the heavy pre,
fibcUho!nn9J:fenPeCted l 'in,Shed Shortly " "art of
National Forest Service
Marks 50th Anniversary
SHOOT RAISES $125
The March of Dimes hntWit
shoot held last Sunday by the
jviurrow county Gun Club attract
ed a good crowd and. netted $125
ior tne March of Dimes drive,
ciub officials report.
By Wayne W. West
Supervisor, Heopner District
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Department of Agriculture is ob.
telephone monitors throughout serving its golden anniversary in
the area have been contacting 1955, As it marks the 50th anni
residents bv phone ronuestine versary of its establishment bv
donations to the fund. The moni. tne American people, the Forest
John Wightman, a director of
me Heppner Soil Concervation
district leaves Sunday for San
Diego to attend a soil conserva
tion meeting.
tors are Mrs. George Currin,
Butter Creek; Mrs. Dallas Craber
Hinton Creeek; Mrs. Sam Turner,
Sand Hollow: Mrs. Dee Pnv
Blackhorse; Mrs. Fred Slocum
Upper Rhea Creek; Mrs. Ed Al
bert, Hardman; Mrs. Vic Lov-
gren, Eightmile
Service salutes the statp forestrv
departments, forest industries,
the forestry schools, conservation
organizations, and all forest land
managers private and public
alike who have helped to make
noteworthy progress in forestry
during tne past half century
ou tar a Total ot $1,209.45 has , ,',v
been received, $989.92 from the and publlc a&encies have effec
Heppner area and $219.53 from tlVely demonstrated the values of
lone. None of the other areas in rganlzed protection against fire,
the county hae reported in yet lnsects- and disease, and of good
it was said management and wise use of the
nation's forest and related re
sources.
As an agency of the American
people, the Forest Service has
been working since 1905 to main
tain and increase the productive
Ity of forest lands evervwhere in
the country. Out of its threefold
activities cooperation with thp
states and with private landown
1 ers, forest research, and its stew
ardship of the national forests
has come a service to - America
that is in the best tradition of
democratic action, unique among
forestry organizations throughout
the world.
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FUTURE BUTCHERS one of tho
... I,,. nusacs in neppner
high school is tins homemaking class composed entirely of senior
iT u eie laenuiying various cuts of meat which
Uu i .tcuuy cu up in tne class which is taught by Mrs,
Homer Hager. Shown are, front row, Lyle Jensen, Jerry Hague
wood, Neil Eeamer and Fete Slocum. Standing are Raymond Gonty,
Dick Kononen, Ralph Mailatt, Wayne Lamb and Oliver Devin.
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President Teddy Roosevelt, in
setting aside- the forest reserves.
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wiulii are now Known as national; ment Today only a small
luit-sus, insisted rnat lores rv iK'n0 t .. . i i
j vulilUgt 13 triiiinuycu.
the neighborhood, but indirectly
to the man who may live hund
reds of miles below a mountain
watershed. '
Dozens of local individuals
have contributed to the develop
ment, protection, and manage
ment of the National Forest re-
sources in the Heppner area'. The
Uidtimers" will remember David
B. Sheller started organizing the
Heppner National Forest in early
ivui, and that the first supervisor
was Thomas E. Chidsev. In 1911
Hugh B. Rankin became super
visor and he was succeeded by W
W. (Billy) Cryder in 1912. Billy
Lryoer remained in charge until
tne consolidation of the Weiwha
and Umatilla forests into the Dre
sciu umauna xvationai Forest in
1920.
Interesting observations hv
early day employees of the ser
vice in this area are being re
corded for later publication.
Advances in forestry over the
past 5o years may well be illus
trated by few comparisons:
In 1898, Gifford Pinchot and
Henry S. Graves who were to be. I
come first and second Chiefs of
the Forest Service, were the only
two native-born professionally
irainea toresters in the United
States In 1954 approximately
1000 forestry degrees were crant-
ed by forestry schools.
in 191 an estimated 60 percent
of the proiessional foresters were
employed by the federal govern-
per-
Mountain Snow
Moisture Wei
Below Normal
Water content of the mountain
snow pack averaged 24 percent
Deiow tne 24 year averaeo and as
percent less than last year at this
time, according to snow measure.
ments taken Monday, January 24,
on the Arbuckle mountain snow
course. Tom Wilson, Soil Conser
vation Service, and Whitmer
Wright, Forest Service, skiied in-
to the snow course and renorteH
fn n , . . 1
inches of snow with a water
content of 6 inches. Measure.
ments taken January 30, last year
snowea a snow depth of 34.5
inches and 9.2 inches of water.
A water content of 7.9 Inrhpc
is the average for this time of the
year according to records nf fede.
ral and state cooperative snow
surveys taken for a period of 24
years. Water shed soils are
frozen beneath the snow pack,
Wilson reported.
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Morgan Post Office
lo End 73 Years of
Service January 31
The postal department revealed
this week that the Morgan, Ore.,
post office will be closed after
January 31 and that mail will be
delivered into the area from the
lone post office on a three-times
Addison M. Moore
Taken by Death.
Services at Monumen
Addison M. Moore, 70, a native
or Heppner, died January 24 at
his home in Monument. Services
were held January 26 at the
Monument Fresbyterlan church
with Rev. Earl L. Soward of Hepp
ner oniciatlng.
Mr. Moore was born Julv
1884 at Hennner and had MvpH
his entire life in this immediate
area. He was an excellent horse
man and his younger days was
rated as a champ on rider.
ne is survived bv his wifv
Ellen; one son. Emerv Monro nf
monument; and several erand
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Lnuuren. tie also leaves two
nephews, Ralph Moore. Kirmia
and Clarence Moore of iiennnor
a orotner, ueorge, died several
years ago.
Burial Was in thn Mnnnmnnf
cemetery with Driskill's Funeral
Home of John Day in charge.
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the preservation of forests by wise
use and that forestry means mak
ing forests useful not only to the
rancher or the man who lives in
Dimes Benefit
Game Scheduled
The Heppner Shamrocks, tnwn
basketball team, will play in a
March of Dimes benefit f?ame
Saturday night against the league-leading
Nirschl Bros, team of
Pendleton -which until Tuesday
night had been leading the local
hoop league. A preliminary game
In the Fiscal year 1905 National
Forest rsceipts were less than
$75,000 National Forest receipts
in fiscal year 1954 were more than
$67,000,000.
In 1905 firefighting was strict
ly hand work and travel was by
horse or on foot Today federal,
state, and private operators are
well equipped with radio com
munication, . mechanized fire
fighting equipment, and fast
automotive and aerial transnor
tation.
Fifty vears aco verv littlp l.inri
outside the National Forests was
receiving systematic fire protec
tionToday, state forestry agen
cies, witn private and federal co
operation
hoU .V, ' ? ........ .n w,KaillU
p-""-" neppner grade; .protection for more than 34 mil
..w irm o.u tne lone grade, lion acres of state and private
aiail al , y, m. u win nanus, in I9a3, area burned was
be played on the Heppner floor. held to 0.7 percent of the area
Ivirschl Bros, had been leading protected,
the league until Tuesday when! The advances made in forestry
Heppner took over top spot by ! have been the result of efforts by
virtue of a 67-65 win over Irrigon.lmany organizations and individ
Both the Shamrocks and Irrigon uals along with those of State
were undefeated prior to the and Federal forestry agencies
Tuesday game. The Heppner BWhat men of vision half a cen
squad also chalked up another tury ago saw in the years ahead
HARD AT WORK learning to cut up a Iamb are Ealoh Marlnt w tlaL " , :fr the lTTl8 B tell far short of what actually
is boning out roast and Diclc Kononen S10 itS reCWd ,t0 Thy t0
chops, or steaks (the photographer hasn't taken the course). The Admission u,m ho t J y 6 thC astoundinf? e.
boys have learned how to cut, wrap, identify and cook many kind! L , , "'J1 b.6 M. uentS andi veloPments that have taken place
of meat P Y mTlillT Wuth 311 pr- in scionce' agriculture, and Indus-
(GT Photos) ceeds to go to the March of Dimes. Continued on Page 8
Television Survey
Being Made Here
The Heppner city council at a
special meeting Friday evening
heard Winn Crest, The Dalles
television engineer, explain his
operations in the immediate
area and tell how a good usable
signal has been obtained at one
site very close to town. The'coun
CU Was alSO asked tn pnnsl.lor
a-week schedule by route carrier undertaking the construction and
tnson Morgan. operation of a "pipeline system"
Martin Bauernfiend, owner of i to Provide TV reception to the
the Morgan store, who has been clty residents,
post master there for slightly The council members discussed
over 30 years, has been airliner in the proposal at length nnH iha
changing residents' mailing ad-'sroup was divided on whether
me cny nao any business or the
right to get into the TV field as a
supplier of reception for resi
dents. The group authorized the
taking a mail survey of the resi
dents of the city to determine
whether they wtiuld be interested
In TV service and whether w,
would prefer to have it handled
by a private company, a coop or
by the city.
Crest, who is a renrpsentniivo
of the Television Supply company
of The Dalles, estimated that it
would cost $20,0000 to get recep.
tion into the Citv from thP nni nt
about two miles west where it is
now being received. Estimate
; cost for the service would be $135
and $3.50 per
, . n
aress to the lone office
According to W. H. McNeal,
The Dalles, Wasco county histori
cal author, the nost offipp at
Morgan was established in 1R82
under the name Saddle, which
was changed in 1890 to Douglas
and again in 1906 to Morgan
when it was named for Alfred C.
Morgan.
Building
Work to Start
Next Week on
10 Room Plant
The Heppner school board last
Thursday evening accepted the
low bid of Simonton & Steele
Portland building contractors, for
the construction of the new Hepp
ner elementary school. Their bid
of $257,497 for the building of a
10 room and multipurpose room
educational plant was the owes!
of nine firms submitting bids.
The school board had asked fnr
bids on a 12 room and multinnr.
pose room building, with alter
nate bids reoucsted for a 10 rnnm
school should the full bid run
over the money available from the
sate of a $290,000 bond issue. The
board found it necessarv to lower
its sights to the 10 rooms and
multipurpose room when the low.
est bid on the 12 rooms was S272..
037. Acceptance of this bid would
not have left sufficient money to
equip the new building, land
scape and fence the grounds and
ather incidentals.
The bids on the 12 room plant
varied from a low of $272,037 to
a high of $303,334. The bids on
the 10 room buildins showed a
spread from Simonton & Steel's
low to a high of $285,120. Nine
firms in Oregon and Washington
entered bids.
Work to Start Soon
The winning bidder told the
board Thursday that his firm
would start construction earlv
next week and that it was the
hope of the company to complete
the project within 240 calendar
days.
The board had previously con
tracted with Morrow count v to do
the necessary excavation work on
the school site and this ioh was
recently completed at a cost nf
slightly over $4,000. Architects
estimated that the district saved
between $6,000 and $10,000 hv
having the digging done sepa
rately irom the bui d ine contract.
in addition to savins' a month's
time on the total job.
The new bulldinir will risn nn
the Prock -Devin site immediatelv
north of the present school and
will be on three different levels
to take advantaee of thp natural
slope of the land. The classroom
wing will constitute two IpvpIs
with five classrooms nn ihn lnunr
level and five on the upper, The
multipurpose room and offices
will be on another level between
he classrooms and In a senaratP
wing. The plans have been de
signed so that the additional two
classrooms can be added at some
future time. The building will
probably house the first five
grades, as school registration now
stands.
Freeman, Hayslip, Tuft and
Hewlett, Portland, are the archi
tects. The new building will be heat
ed from the present heating plant
wnicn is located just across the
street. It has been remodeled
during the past year to handle
the additional load.
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Raymond J. Howell
Services Here Monday
Mother of Heppner
Man Dies Here Sunday
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at Miller & Tracy Fune
ral Home in Portland for Mrs
Maude I. nunn vuh
us juom.u away vv"' i'Ji nit cy. j
January 23 at Pioneer Memorial hookup charge
hospital. She had come to Hepp
ner in isovember to make her
home with her son Richard Cal
month.
Reception at
near town has
the hilltop site
been excellent
vin, out nau been, hospitalized during the past two or three
since Dec. 6. Iweeks. esoeclallv frm h.,i
I J -"III VHUIlllCi
Mrs. Dunn is survival hv hpri!9. and thpr h
only son Richard Calvin. Her hus. reports of fair to good reception
uuj.u pa.-,sfU away in Portland 1 irom otner cnannels at the same
about a year ago. She was 65:site.
years of age. The survey cards are exnectpn tn
Interment was in the Skvllne be in the mail tnrlni
Memorial Oardens in Portland n L
with Creswick & Seuell Mortuary! Mrs. Emma Evan.
nanaung local arrangements, j is visiting in Heppner. 1
Services for Raymond J. Howell
48, who passed away January 21
at Pilot Rock were held Mnmlav
January 24, at Creswick and
Seuell chapel with Rev. Lester
Boulden, pastor of the Heppner
Methodist church officiating.
Mr. Howell was born Nnvcmho,
11, 1906 at Hardman, the son of
Joseph and Maude Howell. He
had lived in the Heppner area
for most of his life. He is sur
vived by onP sister. Mrs. r.lartvs
Corrigall, Portland; and one bro
ther, Roger, also of Portland.
Interment was in the Hardman
cemetery.
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SHAWS TO MAKE HOME
IN TACOMA WASHINGTON
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Clayton A.
Shaw and sons left Saturday to
make their home in Tacoma. Mrs.
Shaw and sons havp hepn m.iicinr
their home with her parents, Mr.
and Airs. J. O. Hager, while her
husband spent 16 months in
Korea.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wright of
Kodlak, Alaska havp been visit.
ing In Heppner and Vicinity.
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