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Heppner Oregon, Thursday, February 17, 1955
71st Year, Number 49
Lex Residents First to
Get Television Service
While work has been progres
sing in Heppner on the forma
tion of a co-operative organiza
tion to pipe television into town,
and the already-formed lone TV
co-op is busy running lines and
laying cables, the residents of
Lexington took matters into their
own hands within the past few
days and apparently will beat its
neighboring communities in the
race to make television available
to its citizens.
The Lexington organization
was formed about a week ago
and by early this week had
signed up approximately 30 cus
tomers, erected a tower and re
ceiving antenna and connected
up several subscribers. Officers of
the organization, which is called
the Lexington TV Corporation,
are city officials, however the
group is organized as a non-profit
cooperative similar to that in lone
and the one planned for Heppner.
Members of the organization
raied a 105 foot tower near the
airport on Sunday and by Mon
day evening TV reception was
being watched by the town's resi
dents on a set at the school.
Hookup charge in Lexington is
$159 with a monthly fee of ap
proximately $3.00, Officers said
Wednesday that they hope to
have all the lines laid and the
customers hooked in by the end
of the week.
Work on the formation of the
Heppner co-operative is pro
gressing, it was reported this
week. The city council met in a
special meeting Monday night to
discuss granting a franchise to
the co-on. but were prevented
from taking action because of
charter restrictions. On ordi
nance is reuuired for the grant
ing of a franchise, and such an
ordinance can be passed only at
a regular meeting, so the matter
will be reconsidered at the next
meeting on March 7.
Reception of programs from
KERP-TV, channel 19 at Pasco,
is reported as good at both the
Heppner hilltop antenna site and
at Lexington. lone has alo re
ported good reception of the same
station.
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April Carnival .
Set as Benefit For
Band Uniform Fund
The Band Parents held a meet
ing Wednesday evening before
the regular P-TA meeting and
appointed the chairman for the
various booths that will be at
the carnival they are planning to
hold on April 16.
It was reported that $105.96 was
netted from the chili feed held at
the school last Saturday evening.
The Band Parents have raised
enough money to order 30 new
uniforms for the high school and
they should be ready for delivery
m about two months.
Heart Sunday Set
For February 20
Next Sunday, February 20 has
been proclaimed Heart Sunday,
and Mr. and Mrs, Jack Marshall,
Heppner, chairmen for the drive,
have announced a special door-to-door
campaign will he held
here on that date.
The drive is to raise funds for
the Oregon Heart Fund and will
be used for research into the
causes of heart disease, which has
been listed as causing more
deaths each year than any other
single disease.
As a cart of the drive, Dr.
Stanley Kirk, Heppner physician
spoke on heart disease and pre
sented' a film n the subpect at
last Monday's chamber of com
merce meeting.
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Mrs. Grover Curtiss,
Resident of Cecil,
Dies at The Dalles
- Final rites were held for Mrs.
Grover C Curtiss of Cecil at the
Spencer and Libby Funeral home
at The Dalles on February is. fane
died February 5 at The Dalles
hospital from cancer.
Mrs. Curtiss was born July 16,
1887 in the middle-west to Ed
ward Jacob and Louise Kohlhase
and came west to enter nurse
training. She graduated from
The Dalles hospital in 1912 and
followed her profession in Minne
sota and Washington for 10 years
until she was married to Grover
C. Curtiss on Sept. 6, 1922. She
and her husband moved to Cecil
where she resided until her death.
She is survived by her husband
and two foster children, . Arlie
Robert Curtiss, Hillsboro and
Leona M. Curtiss of Portland. She
also leaves the following broth
ers and siters: Emil J. W, Kohl
hase. Mi7.nah. Minn.: Mrs. Bert
(Tillie) Ahrendt, Anderson, Ind.;
Dr Lawrence Kohlhase, Los An
geles; Rudolph Kohlhase, Bertha,
Minn.: Dr. Arthur H. Kohlhase,
St. Paul. Minn.; Hubert Kohlhase,
Fergus Falls, Minn.; Mrs. Chas,
(Ruth) Lietz, Daver, Minn.; and
Webster H. Kohlhase, Portsmouth,
m H. A sister. Mrs. Edmund
(Caroline) Hartung preceeded
her in death
Pallbearers were A. B. Clough,
Hubert Mackey, both of Arling
ton; Elvin Miller, Ralph Taylor,
F. M. MsClintock and Jack Hynd
Jr., all of Cecil.
F. W. Sutton of The Dalles of
ficiated and burial was in the
I. O. O. F. cemetery in The Dalles.
CLASS SET FOR SUNDAY
Another in the series of class
es of Inquiry and instruction,
with illustrated strip film, will be
held at 7:30 Sunday evening at
the Episcopal church, Rev. John
R. Reeves announced.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Worden
wpekpnd visitors in Port
land.
WENDELL CONNOR WINS
FRATERNITY OFFICE
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Forest
Grove Wendell Connor, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Connor, has
been elected to the office of trea
surer of Phi Beta Tau fraternity
at Pacific university. Connor is
a sophomore business administra
tion major.
Connor held the office last se
mester and will continue through
the spring semester. He is also
active in track. He is a graduate
of Heppner high school where he
participated in all sports and was
annual editor.
Boardman Post
Office Safe Found,
Mystery Remains
By Mary Lee Marlow
Mrs. Flossie Coats, Boardman
postmistress was advised last
Thursday that the safe taken
when the post office was entered
on Feb. 27, 1954 had been found
in a sagebrush field about 2 Mi
miles north of Pasco, Wash.
Two Kennewick men, Louis Mc
Henry and Arthur DeWitt, who
had been searching for a missing
friend, Milton (Cowboy) Sim
mons, missing the past two
months, received the clue which
led to finding of the safe on Wed
nesday, Feb, 9. Money order
forms which could have been
cashed, but only with difficulty,
for up to $'40,000 were still in the
safe, as well a valuable papers
belonging to the Boardman Com
munity church, Greenfield grange
and Riverview Cemetery associa
tion. 'About $300 in cash had
been taken from the safe, which
included about $130 of personal
money belonging to Mrs. Coats,
part of which was a silver dollar
collection.
About a month ago McHenry
found a note under his door tell'
Ing him that if he wished to
find "Cowboy Slim" he should
look about two miles north of
Pasco. He and DeWitt did not
bo to look until last week, al
though this delay was not ex
plained. They found a mound in
the field, and digging down
found the Boardman safe, its door
burned off, apparently with an
acetylene torch. They immedi
ately notified Franklin county
sheriff's office and the officers
and H. C. Gepke, postal inspec
tor at Pendleton, went to tne
scene Water-soaked stamps were
found buried down below the
safe.
Gepke brought back to Mrs
Coats the papers in the safe last
Saturday, which included deeds
and insurance papers belonging
to the grange, church and ceme
tery association.
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Heppner School To
Present Comedy Play
Plans were announced this
week for an all-school play which
will be presented by students of
the Heppner school on March 17
and 18. It is to be a comedy I
performance titled "Here Comes
the Brides", and is under the di
rection of Stanley Holm, high
school instructor. Barbara War
ren is student director.
The cast includes Jay Sumner,
Skip Ruhl, Meredith Thomson,
Lynda Borman, Ralph Marlatt,
Laurel Allstott, Janet Kendall,
Judy Spaulding,, Shirley Kono
nen, Francine Francis and James
Monahan.
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PRIZE WINNER Roice Fulleton, Heppner Chevrolet and Union Oil
dealer last week received a checK lor si.uurj ts tne swetpsiaKei
prize in a Union Oil sponsored Dipstick Derby, oil sales contest.
Shown presenting the check Is (left), Donald Craig, manager of
the Bend division for Union Oil, Fulleton. and Pirl Howell (right),
local Union distributor. The contest ran for the last three months
of 1954. and Fulleton's record for oil sales during the period was
the best of any Union dealer in the entire northwest.
(Photo by Alex Thompson)
March of Dimes
Raises W
March of Dimes drive officials
today released figures showing
that the polio fund drive in the
county raised a total of $2.4 12.89
Final figures just received from
the north end of the county
raised the amount considerably
above what drive directors had
believed would be received.
A breakown of the returns
showed Heppner raised $1,402.34.
Of this total $880.85 was from en
velope returns, $81.91 form coin
containers, $208.75 from special
events, $161.21 from the Mother's
March, and $129.G2 from the
schools.
Other areas donated the follow
ing: Umatilla Ordnance Depot
$62.55; Morgau $12.50; Hardman
$59.56; lone $293.55; Lexington
$249.52; Boardman $119.92; Irri
gon $122.60 and Cecil $60.44.
World Prayer Day
Observance Set
64 Persons Help On 4-H Work Day
Sixty-four men, women andPeck and children, Al Bunch and
children interested In 4-H club
program assembled Sunday at
the Morrow county fair grounds,
for a workday. Making quick
work of dismantling one of the
residences recently donated by
the Morrow county court. Lumber
was salvaged for use at the 4-H
summer camp, building at Her
ron Creek. The building, one of
two residences that at one time
has been saved to remodel for a
caretaker, was recently declared
surplus, when the court and fair
board got together on plans lor
further improvements at the
grounds. The lumber will be usej
in the 20 x 100 loot permanent,
kitchen, storage and shelter
at the ' Herron creek camp
rounds.
Thnso who took part in the
workday Sunday with a potluck
dinner at noon, were Mr. and Mrs,
John Pfeiffer and children, Mr.
nnH Mrs. Bernard Dohertv and
children Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Gerald, Mickey Van Schoiack,
Charles Monagle, Lincoln Nash,
and Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Anderson
and children and Miss Beverly
Bradshavv of Heppner; Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Nelson and children
Mr. and Mrs Rov Martin and
children, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Nel
son and rhvllis. Mr. and Mrs
Harold Beach and children, Don
Pointer and son Hank of Lexing
ton; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Blet-
tell and children. Mr. and Mrs.
Phil Emert and children, Mr. and
Mrs Lonnie McCabe an children,
Wavne Ball. E. M Baker of lone
Carl Rhea and Glen Campbell of
Echo.
Another workday is scheduled
for February 20h to complete the
initial job before work is done on
thp summer camp building
Workdays will be called later in
the spring when weather is sucn
that building can be started
in the mountains.
Local churches, . along with
Americans in 20,000 otehr com
munities and fellow Christians in
125 other countries, will join in
observance of the World Day of
Praver Friday, February 25. The
special service in Heppner will be
held at All aints Epicopal church
at 2:30.
Traditionally held on the first
day of Lent, which this year falls
on February 25, this year will
mark the 68th anniversary of the
observance. Theme of this year's
services is "Abide In Me."
Observance in the United States
are sponsored by the department
of the United Church Women, a
general department of the Na
tional Council of the Churches of
Christ in the U S. The offering
taken at the services in this
country is divided equally be
tween the division of foreign mis
sions and the division of home
missions of the national council
and is used for interdenomina
tional mission projects.
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Poison Takes
Lives of Several
Heppner Dogs '
Though a story lust week indi
cated that Heppner dogs could
prt'tty well have things their own
way as long as they were wear
ing their licenses, at least four
and possibly more dogs did not
are so well during the past sev
eral days. Two of the pets are
known to have been poisoned,
two more presumably and an
other was shot.
Local police officers and the
county sheriff reported that all
of the poisoning cases occured in
the south end of town within an
area of about three blocks. The
two animals known to have died
from poison were owned by Max
Geiitry and Alex Thompson. An
other belonging to Albert Connor
is thought to have suffered the
same fate and a fourth, the fam
ily pet of Oliver Creswick, dis
appeared Tuesday morning and
has not been seen since. Thomp
son's dog died on Tuesday.
A fifth clog, a red setter owned
by P. W. Mahoney was shot by
an unknown person about a week
before, but was not killed and
is recovering.
According to the owners of the
dogs, and police, it is thought
that the dogs cither v.ere given,
or found, strychnine, a poison
which reacts almost immediate
ly on the animal killing him with
convulsions. Thompson's dog died
in his own yard and Connor s was
found in the street near the
house.
Police are investigating, but
did not reveal whether they had
any leads as to the source of
the poison;
CUB SCOUT BANQUET
SET FOR FEBRUARY 22
Cub Scout pact, No. 61 will
hold its annual Blue and Gold
banquet in the basement of the
Christian church Tuesday, Feb
ruary 22 starting at 6:30 p. m.
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P-TA TO SPONSOR
SQUARE DANCE
The HeDDner P-TA will hold
a square dance Saturday night,
Feb. 19 at the fair pavilion it
was announced this week. It will
be under the direction of James
Driscoll and Howard Bryant with
music furnished by Roy Quacken
bush and other local muicians.
There will be no admission, but
donations will ba accepted.
Church Attendance
Drive Brings Results
The drive recently started by
the Heppner Ministerial associa
te to encourage regular church
attendance resulted in a notice
able increase at local church ser
vices during the first two weeks
it is reported.
Attendance at the four co
operating churches was 233 on
February 6 and climbed to 264 on
February 13.
The ministers urge everyone to
loin the "attend the cnurcn
movement, asking that all attend
romilarlv fit the church of his
choice.
Among those from Heppner
spending the weekend in Port
land were Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Col
lins, Mr. and Mrs. George Warner,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bryant, Mr.
and Mrs. Al Fetsch, and Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Munkers.
Swanson's Grocery,
lone, Again Vistim
Of Burglars
Burglars struck in lone Tues
day night for the fourth time
within recent weeks, making a
return-call on Swanson's Grocery.
The same store had been burglar
ized about six weeks ago.
Police reported that the store
was entered sometime neiween
6:00 and 9:30 p. fn. Tuesday. A
window in a rear door was
knocked out to gain admission to
the building.
As far as could be determined,
no money was taKen irom me
till, but an undetermined amount
of food was stolen.
A. C. Swanson discovered the
breakin when he returned to the
store to check on refrigerator mo
tors.
Social Security to
Be Farm Bureau Topic
The regular monthly meeting
of the Morrow County Farm Bu
reau will be held Tuesday, Febru
ary 22 at the Willows. Grange, it
was announced this week. The
meeting will open with a potluck
supper at 6:30.
The principal speaker will be
a representative from the social
security administration who will
discuss the new social security
regulations as they apply to the
farmers.
New Bureau members are
urged to attend.
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FISHING GOOD ON
COLUMBIA
Fishintr from boats on the lower
Columbia River below Echo has
been fair this week, with worms
being used as bait. This also
holds true of the fishing on the
John Day River near Twlcking-
ham and Clarno.
Traffic Patrol
Organized in Heppner
Grade School
The Heppner grade school has
organized a school traffic patrol
to protect school children at the
Tum-A-Lum crossing on Main
street and have been directing
traffic there for the past several
days.
Members of the patrol have
been selected from the fourth,
fifth, and sixth grades on the
basis of ability to assume respon
sibility and demonstraded school
citizenship. The patrol will oper
ate during the period before
school and also during the noon
hours.
Members of the patrol were for
mally installed at a school as
sembly February 11 and took over
their duties Feb. 14.
The members include: captain,
Omer Huston: lieutenant, Jeanne
Schmidt; patrol members, Tommy
Green, Ronnie Gray, Mary bio
cum, Doris Morris, Bruce Moyer,
Ronald Kinoshita, Laura Lee
Sumner, Judy Bradford, Ginger
Springer, and Patty Mahon. Al
ternate members are Jerry Ander. 1
son, Danny Brosnan, Billy Mon
agle, Joe Billow, Kenneth Dag
gett, Archie Ball, Billy Struthers,
Shan Applegate, John Privett and
Billy Wagner.
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VALUE DAYS EVENT FRIDAY, SATURDAY
A series of advertisements ap
pealing elsewhere in today's is
sue of the Gazette Times announ
ces the first of a series of four
city-wide Heppner Value Days
scheduled for 1955.
The special promotional event
is being sponored again this year
by the merchants committee of
the chamber of commerce and is
designed to show residents of
Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler
counties that Heppner merchants
continually offer some of the
best buys in well-known mer
chandise that can be obtained
anywhere. Jeff Carter, chairman
of the merchants group said that,
"nearly every business house in
Heppner is joining in this special
selling event."
Again this weekend, February
18 and 19, during the event, the
citv council has agreed to allow
free parking for all visitors and
shnnnprs and a parKing mmns
in town will be hooded on those
days.
An added attraction of a free
children's show on Saturday af
ternoon at 2 o'clock at the Star
Theater is also being sponsored
by the participating merchants.
All children 12 year of age or
under are invited to attend the
show while their parents shop at
local stores, Carter said.
Lex 4-H Member
Wins Scholarship
Thirtv-four outstanding 4-H
livestock club members will re
reive S25 4-H summer scholar
ships next summer by Safeway
Stores. Inc.. it was announced this
week by Cal G. Monroe, state 4-H
extension agent at Oregon btate
college.
The Morrow county winner is
Rus.sell Dolven of Lexington.
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HOSFITAL NEWS
New Arrivals To Mr. and Mrs.
James McCabe, Heppner. a 9 lb.
13 oz. boy born Feb. 15, named
Allen Monroe.
Medical Larry Holliday, Lex
inrrtnn dismissed: Kenneth Mer-
riman, Heppner, dismissed; Ethel
Adams, Heppner; Donna Morgan,
Condon, dismissed; Bessie Zem
mer, Kinzua, dismissed; Newt
Matteson, Heppner; Ruby Bill-
ingsley, Kinzua; Krnest . Drake,
lone; Donald Pattee, Condon;
Buck H. Crowley, Condon.
Major Surgery Norma Cham
berlin, Hermiston, dismissed;
Robert Wilmot, Condon, dismis
sed. Minor Surgery Velva Bechdolt,
Hardman; Fearl Wright, Heppner.
Out-patients Herb Hamilton,
heppner; Judith Wake, Condon,
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GOVERNOR PAUL PATTERSON today officially proclaimed Febru
ary 13-19 as Advertising Recognition Week in Oregon. Observance
of the Week is a national affair. "Advertising", says Governor
Patterson. "i one of the greatest moving forces in our productive'
economy today. It benefits everyone by bringing us more of the
good things in life at less cost" Present at the signing of the,
Governor's proclamation was John W. Fitting, left, Vice president
of. th Oregon Advertising Club, Portland.