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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, June 9, 1955 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER Th Htfpnr CazetU, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Tim, Ubllihcd November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NEWS PA FIR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL rDIIOKIAl ASTpCVATllQN J J Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. Stop and Think By C. A. Ruggles, lire chief Are you a potential murderer? Since January 1, 1955 there has been a total of 11 fire alarms of which seven were wrong num bers or false alarms. That is almost two false calls to one legitimate alarm. The person who carelessly dials a fire alarm number could be a murderer. If a fireman, rush ing from his home or place of business to ans wer such a call, is involved in any sort of an acci dent in his hurry to answer such a call, is involved in any sort of an accident in his hurry to protect vour oronertv, and someone is killed or injured; the person who dialed that number guilty as the original cause. If someone, mayDe your sis ter, brother, a parent or child, is killed, the person who dialed that number is guilty of at least man slaughter. If the number dialing was intention ally a false fire alarm then the crime should be murder in the first degree. Think before you dial your phone. Do you have the right number? Are you sure? 3 3 3fc 3 3fa 3 3fc 3 PLEA MAY AID TAXPAYERS The six per cent limitation ap plies to levies made by any tax levying body under a tax base voted by the people. This was the contention of Attorney Gen oral Robert Y. Thornton when ap pearing at a rehearing before the Oregon Supreme Court this week. The state supreme court re cently held that any tax base adopted by the people is static and not subject to the six per cent limitation until changed by a vote of the people. For years tax levying bodies, including school districts, were required to hold special elections to raise money to carry on ac tivities because the constitution al provision did make the tax levy static. To overcome these special elections the 1951 legis lature passed a constitutional amendment which later was ap proved by the people providing that tax levying bodies could submit new tax bases to the elec torate and when the levy was made under such base, automati cally comes under the six per cent limitation. The Volers Pamphlet stated plainly that "(his amendment does not do away with the six per cent limitation." A decision on the rehearing will probably be handed down within the next few weeks as tax levying bodies throughout the state are subject to any decision the court may elect to hand down. INTERIM APPOINTMENTS Senate President Elmo E. Smith announced the appoint ment Saturday of Senators Stew art Hardie of Condon and Paul Geddes of Roseberg as members from the Senate to serve on the interim committee on local covernment. The committee of nine members includes three members of the House to be ap pointed by Speaker Edward A. Geary and four by Governor Paul Patterson. The committee was authorized by the 1955 legislature to study problems of cities pertaining to drainage, irrigation, water for fringe areas, parking and traf fic conditions. The committee was granted an appropriation of $50,000. An appointment on the interim taxation committee also was an nounced by President Smith who named Senator Lee Ohmart. Smith said, "We are fortunate to have a man of Senator Ohmart's recognized knowledge and abil ity in the field of taxation to serve as a member of this com mittee." ARE FAMILY TIES SLIPPING A Willamette University gradu ating foreign exchange student, THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times June 11, 1925 Art Wheelhouse and Mark Weatherford, ranchmen of Arl ington, were here over Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cohn of this city are the proud parents of a fine boy born to them at the maternity home of Mrs. G. C. Aiken on Saturday June 6. The young man has been named Phil lip William. Mrs. Richard Wells departed for Portland 'and Eugene this morning. She will attend the commencement exercises of the University of Oregon and witness the graduation of her niece, Miss Georgia Shipley. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Warner of Lexington were visitors in the city Tuesday. Mrs. T. J. Humphreys departed this morning for Eugene to wit ness the graduation of her son The question around Washing ton, "Was Bunker Hill a fact or myth? Was there really a Decla ration of Independence?" England cuts Income taxes; Canadian Income tax rates are under U. S. Yet U. 9. taxes can not be cut because of ever mount ing deficits. I r significant. As soon as British ouuij pa ujiwaii; ft' V 'A '9 election was L J L f announced!!! 'f Harold Stas- 1 rLm s 'oreign 1 4 f A ions Ad-F 1 , ! sen s t Operation; minlstratlo started passing out U. S. cash c. W. Harder to England in manner suggesting worldwide Tammany Hall. - In one period of 12 days, $20, 270,000 more was given England in foods, Including citrus fruits, and also 5 million worth of cot ton which no doubt will be manu factured and shipped back to this country to further wreck U. S. textile industry which cannot buck combination of cheap labor plus free raw materials, At Camden, N. J., in 1952 Can didate Eisenhower said "You cannot pile deficit upon deficit and then have left the kind of economy we have known." Yet Sen. Harry Byrd of Virgin ia, strictly non-partisan on mat ters pertaining to wastage of taxpayers' money, says this ad ministration is spending more on non-defense items than Truman administration, and "three times as much as in profligate New Deal of 1940." Foreign give-away figures still startle. On recent day France got $26,628,000, Greece received $72,000 worth of scarce news print. Egypt since Farouk oust ing, has been doing well getting U. S. tax dollars. Recently land of the Sphinx tapped U. S. for f?l NKton.l Kfd'Tatlon nf Inrtefcndfnt lilHnut a total of $13,000,000. Another serious contender for U. S. dol lars is Israel, rapidly climbing into big league of U. S. gift re cipients. In the same period, this nation received almost $8,000, 000, part in bookkeeping ma chines. Oil rich Iran is also coming op into major money classification. In fact, In past two years more nations are getting feet in trough. Sen. Byrd claims that average American family of five now owes $8,700 as their share of na tional debt. Thus, average family owes more than its assets. Yet, there seems to be no end. With what Harold Stassen is now spending plus additional money he wants this Congress to give him, figures are astounding. It Just means that for every Ameri can family, regardless of size, more than $40 per day is being given away, Sundays and holi days included. Just to stay even, this means every family would have to pay around $15,000 per year in taxes alone just to keep up with give-aways. Fantastic part of it all is that many of the nation's receiving these gifts are rich in resources; many also have rich colonies. In fact, Sen. Byrd claims because of our bureaucrat's recklessness national debt of around $280 bil lion is more than combined na tional debts of all the world's nations put together. Obviously, such a situation cannot go on. Yet, oddly, or even weirdly, no one is putting on the brakes, despite fact it is well known Karl Marx advised best way for communism to defeat a demr racy is to let democracy bankrupt itself. The current con dition appears too concerted to r-e h- "hazard: thus some feci (here Must be directing force un consciously pushing U. S. into abyss of bankruptcy. Local Cattle -Bring Top Money HERMISTON Floyd Jones of Heppner received two top prices at the Hermiston livestock auc tion Friday, Delbert Anson, man ager of the sale, reports. Seven cows and calves brought $123 pr., and a 1265 lb. whiteface bull brought $16.40 cwt. . Fat hogs of only fair quality brought an unusually 'high top Drice of $20.70 cwt. Friday. The top, 90c above the previous Frl-j day, was due to very strong de mand. Walter Wyss of Board-! man received $20.70 cwt for five hogs weighing 990 lbs. Compar able hogs of about 200 lbs. each sold for $20.50 cwt in Portland Friday and $19.50 in Chicago. Other hog price increases in cluded feeder pigs up 20c cwt., at $19.30, and sows up 60c cwt., at $16.40. Weaner pigs were steady at $13.50 hd. Consigned Friday were 474 cat tle compared with 384 the previ ous Friday, 121 hogs compared with 223, and 32 sheep compared with 83. A large group of Oregon and Washington packers, Feed Continued on Page 5 Mm TfU linear BUSY STITCHERS Saturday, June 4, the Busy Stitchers 4-H clothing club met at the Rhea Creek grange hall. We worked on our renovated gar ments and record books. County fair was discussed. Seven members of our club plan to enter the wool sewing contest. We plan to enter two team de monstrations and two single de monstrations at county 'fair. Marjorie Peck was nominated from our club to attend 4-H sum mer camp in the mountains. Janet Wright, Shirley Peck and Meredith Thomson are going to 4-H summer school at Corvallis June 14-24. Members present were Helen Graham, Shirley and Marjorie Peck, Janet and Patsy Wright, Meredith Thomson and our lead er Mrs. Walter Wright. Meredith Thomson, reporter Roland, from the University of 'Marion Hotel. of the nation when the 15th an nual convention of the Columbia Sheep Breeders Association of America gathered in Salem this week, with headquarters at the Oregon. tilings together than the family usually does in the United States. Guus Plate of The Netherlands, I used to go with my whole fam offers this parldoxical compari son: "One of the differences I have noticed between the life in the United States and my country lies in the home life and the social life. "In my country, the family acts more as a unit and does more $25 REWAR For information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone destroying or defacing property at the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Grounds. MORROW COUNTY FAIR BOARD ily to movies and on trips, but here in America I discovered, people go out more with people of their own age, adults with adults, and teenagers with teen agers. "Family ties are not as strong as they are in European coun tries." MISS PATTERSON HOME Arriving in Salem Monday from Stillwater, Okla., was Miss Vir ginia Patterson, younger dauglv ter of Governar and Mrs. Paul L Patterson. Later Miss Patterson will go to Palo Alto for her gradu ation at Stanford on June 19. Governor Patterson will attend the commencement at the university. The wedding of Miss Patterson and James Dollard of Claremore, Okla., will take place later in the summer, their engagement being announced this spring. ACCOLADE TO BOB TAYLOR At the national convention of insurance commissioners held in Los Angeles last week Oregon's State Insurance Commissioner Robert B. Taylor was elected vice president. TheNational Assn. of Insurance Commissioners is the oldest voluntary association of state regulartory officials having been formed in 1869. CATTLEMEN LIKE THE WEST For the second continuous week Oregon's capital was the center of attention of livestock breeders STAR THEATER, Heppner Admission Prices; Adults 70c, Students 50c, Children 20c Including Federal Excise Tax. Sunday shows continuous from 2 p. ni. Other evenings start at 7:30. Boxoffice open untis 9 p. m. Telephone 6-9278. Pardon us, folks, if we wear a big wide-screen smile but look at the big picture coming In June and you'll smile, tool .. ,., . ... Thursday-Friday-Saturday, June 91011 DRUMBEAT Action-laden suspenseful super-western with our rugged scenic beauty made more apparent through Cinemascope and WarnerCoior with Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton Marisa l'avan based on the Modoc Indian uprising on the California-Oregon Bor der in ISO!). ALSO: Cinemascope cameras go to Piscatorian Paradise of Alaska where Salmon Fishing is a big sport; and two cartoons including Tom and Jerry in CS. Sunday-Monday, June 12-13 NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS With Donald O'Connor, Ethel Merman, Dan Dailov. Marilyn Monroe. Mitzi Gaynor, Johnnie Ray, Richard East ham. A glittering array of top stars, the unforgettable music of Irving Berlin, the magic of Cinemascope, the beauty of DeLuxe Color. All together in one sparkling package. Sunday shows at 2 p. m.. 4:25 and 6:50 Tuesday-Wednesdayjune 14-15 THE EGG AND I Are-issue of the great comedy that started Ma and Pa Kettle on the road to fame and has kept America laughing ever since, with Fred MaeMurray and Claudette Colbert. Last week the American Jer sey Cattle club wound up a six day national convention here. CAPITAL SHORTS Heavy snows are delaying the opening of many highways, State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock announced . Tuesday. Mt. Hood loop will be open about June 15 and McKenzie pass in about three weeks. . . A Salem driver was found guilty of driving while in toxicated this week as the city for the first time used test read ings from its recently-acquired alcometer. . . The Ninth Annual All-Arabian Horse Show is again labeled for the Sate Fairgrounds June 25-26 sponsored by the Salem Shrine Club for the benefit of the Shrine Hospital for Crip pled Children in Portland.'. . Be fore being brought under con trol Oregon's biggest forest fire of the year burned 280 acres on the Chetco River. Mmh You May be the Other Fellow 11 This Year! Mr. and Mrs. Wilbud Osterloh and sons Walter, Ronnie and Rus sell and Miss Lorraine Christman all of baker were overnight guests at the home of Mrs. Osterloh's brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Penland, on Sunday night. Are you content in the belief that it always hails on the other fellow's farm? Suppose you are the other fellow this year! 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