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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. tme$ Copies 10 cents HeppnerOregon, Thursday, June 16, 1955 72nd Year, Number 14 34 County 4-H Members Leave For Summer School Thirty-four Morrow county boys and girls left Tuesday morning by Greyhound bus for Oregon Slate college to attend the 1955 4-H summer school June 14 to 24. The group were chaperoned by Mrs. Dan Hill, Irrigon, 4-H club leader and parent of three club members. Among the 34 club members at tending was the largest delega tion of boys ever to attend sum mer school from Morrow county. Eleven boys were with the grouD this year, including Robert and Larry Campbell, Douglas Terry, and Jack Leiuallen, Echo; Dennis Doherty, Russell Dolven, Karl Beach and Billy Doherty, Lexing-ton-; Mickey Van Schoiach, Hepp ner; Darrell Hobbs and John Ka lif, Irrigon. The girls attending were Edna Hoffman, Barbara Gat tenbein, Laura Lee Hamilton, and Maxine Sicard, Boardman; Clara Fay Coy, Connie Swearingen, Janet Henderson, Viola Hill, Judy Berger, Irrigon; Mickey Grey, Barbara Steagall, Lexington; Con nie Anderson, Carolyn McDaniel, Meredith Thomson, Janet Wright, Shirley Peck and Carol Anderson, Heppner; Linda Heimbigner, Grace McCabe and Judy Howton, lone; Sandra Rhea, Carlene Rhea, and Marcie May, Echo. Scholarships were provided by farm organisations, businesses, civic organizations and interested uiuiviuuais. acnoiarsmps con sisted of $25.00 per club member which will take care of, board, room and incidentals during the 10 days at Corvallis. Club mem bers provided the cost of trans portation to and from Oregon State College. The 1800 club members from all over Oregon, will attend classes taught by commercial represen tatives, state and government employees, commodity group rep resentatives, county agents, ex tension specialists, college pro fessors and volunteer leaders. Speakers will come from as far away as New York City, Seattle, San Francisco and Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Classes are in agri culture, home economics, and many different subjects related to these major fields. Club mem bers are exposed to subject mat ter especially adapted to their interest and keyed to their ages. One of the highlights each year is Sunday services completely members, Iney have scheduled it for Sunday, June 19th at 11:15 a. m. in the collesium on the campus. Such programs as in ternational night which gives members an opportunity to learn about foreign countries from for eign students, talent night, which will reveal the best talent among club members, and the annual radio review, which this year will select "Share the Fun" breakfast finalist will be held. Special programs of the "Keep Oregon Green association", the Oregon State Elks Association, Oregon State Fair and Pacific in ternational Livestock Exposition are also arranged for the week. Two Local OSC Grads Receive Commissions OREGON STATE COLLEGE, (Special) Loren Edward Piper of Heppner and John Lawrence Bristow of lone were among 52 seniors sworn in as second lieu tenants in the air force at com missioning ceremonies held at Oregon State college. They completed academic re quirements in the OSC air force reserve officers training corps program and will report for active duty within a year. Both will report for flight training. Both graduated at recent exer cises. Piper is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Piper, 227 N. Main, Hepp ner, and Bristow is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bristow, lone. CLASSIFICATIONS LISTED BY LEX GARDEN CLUB FOR FLOWER SHOW The Lexington Garden club will hold their flower show in the dining room of the I. O. O. F. hall in Lexington Tuesday June 21. All flowers must be in by 12 o'clock of the day of the show, and there will be a silver tea from 2:Oo until 4:00 p. m., which is open to the public. 1 The following sections and classifications are given for any one who wishes to enter. Section I arrangements; class 1 all one color flower with same color holder; class 3 arrange Mrs. J. Troedson Taken By Death Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 18 at 2:00 p. m in the lone Community church. for Thilda Nelson . Troedson, 80, who passed away Tuesday at Pioneer Memorial hospital after an extended illness. She was born November 17, 1874, in Ranarp, Forslofsholm Sweden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Svenson. She came to Amer ica in 1897, residing in California until her marriage on February 23, 1901, to Johan Troedson. They came to Oregon and settled in the Ella district, north of lone, on land which had been home- steaded by Mr. Troedson. Later, they moved to their adjoining farm, located on the old Oregon Trail, and this was their home for over forty years. They retired from farming in 1943 and moved to lone to make their home. Besides her husband she is sur vived by three sons, Carl and Ver ner of lone and Francis of Her miston; one daughter, Mrs. Linea Nottage of Portland; one brother, Jack Nelson of San Jose, Califor nia and three sisters living in Sweden. The services will be conducted by the Rev. A. Shirley and Inter ment will be in the lone cemetery, with Creswick Mortuary in charge. MISS EILEEN PLVMB, regional field advisor of Camp Fire Girls will assist with Bluebird or ganization here next week. Camp Fire Advisor To Visit Heppner Miss Eileen Plumb, regional field advisor for Camp Fire Girls, Inc., Spokane, Wash. ' will visit Heppner June 23, 24 to work on organization of new Bluebird groups, a leaders association ad visory committee and assist ac tive groups. Miss Plumb, whose territory in cludes the states of Idaho, Mon tana, Oregon and Washington, ts an alumna of Montana State Uni versity, Missoula, Montana, o Five Seek lone School Board Jobs The lone school district clerk reports that five persons have filed petitions for the three school board positions on the lone board. The election and annual meeting will be held at the school house Monday, June 20 with the polls open from 2 to 8 p. m. Those whose names will appear on the ballot are Mrs. E. Mark ham Baker and John Proudfoot for the three-year term; Donald McElligott for the four-year term and Mrs. Wallace Matthews and Berl Akers for the five-year term. The Jone board, as will all the others in the state, must be in creased to a five-member board as a result of recent legislation. In the past they have had only three members. Mrs. John Brosnan visited Mrs. Percy Hughes in Milton-Free-water the first of the week. ment with figurines; class 3 tall arrangement for table; class 4 low arrangement for table; class 5 miniature arrangement; class 6 twin arrangement; class 7 all one variety. Section II Specimen of any flowers; Class 1 one specimen bloom and one foliage must be off plant Section III class 1 house ' plants; class 2 planters; class 3 cacti. Section IV class 1 corsage. Section V class 1 ceramics; class 2 china cups, etc.; class 3 antiques. f ' it V - " s . - - . - - $ RECEIVES MARCH OF DIMES AWARD Floyd Servers, left, Heppner cnmrman ot tnis year's March a certmcate ot appreciation for state representative for the Paralysis. Morrow county raised a total of $2,447.18 in the March of Dimes for the 10th highest per capita average in the state. (GT Photo) Wranglers To Hold Sandhollow Show Another Heppner Wrangler rid- in gand roping event, the Sand- hollow Stampede, has been set for next Sunday, June 19, it was announced this week. It will be held at the Don Evans ranch in Sandhollow. A series of 10 riding, roping and race events are on the program with the show to start at 1 p. m. Entries will close at 12 noon, it was said. Lunch will start at noon. Only Wrangler members are eligible to participate in the events and the ride is to start from the Cohn place. Sponsors of the stampede are Mr. and Mrs. Tad Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Munkers, Mr. and Mrs. Al Fetsch, Mr. and Mrs. Don Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Harold" Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Roice Ful- leton, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Orwick, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Barratt, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Evans, Mr .and Mrs. Orval Matheney, Mr. and Mrs. Don Evans, Joyce Buschke, Altha Kirk and Elvira McDonald. SCHOOL CLEANING AND PAINTING SLATED - General cleaning, floor refin ishing and cleaning of the pre sent school building will be done by regular janitors, it was de cided at a meeting of the board of Heppner school district No. 1 Friday night at the school house, H. C. Reed, superintendent, re ported. lone Girl Sets Records in Junior Olympics Broad Jump Mr. and Mrs. Donald Heliker and daughter, Sharon Cutsforth of lone returned from Portland Monday where Sharon broke city and state records in the Junior Olympics held in conjunction with the rose festival. Miss Cutsforth won first place in the broad jump with a record jump of 7 feet 3A inches. She had previously won first in a contest at lone and in a track meet in Heppner. NEW DENTIST HERE Dr. Bob B. Bliss, dentist, an nounced this week that he will open his offices in the Heppner Cliic building on June 27. He and his family moved from Port land this week and are now mov ing into their home on Gilmore street. o Assembly of God Names New Officers Members of the Heppner As sembly of God church conducted their annual business meeting. Friday evening, June 10th, direct ed by the pastor, Rev. Willis Geyer. Ray Taylor was retained as deacon and member of the board of directors. Hubert Wilson was elected Sunday school superin tendent, replacing Magne Storro. Joel Barnett will serve as Christ's Ambassadors (young peoples) leader, replacing Mrs. Magne Storro. Mrs. Opal Pettyjohn will replace Mrs. Ora Wyland as the women's missionary council presi dent. Mrs. Ray Barnett was chosen to be publicity manager. Mrs. Ellis Pettyjohn, Mrs. Erling Storro and Mrs. Hubert Wilson were asked to serve on the fel lowship committee, and Paul Bar nett to serve as church usher. Reports indicated a growth in every department during the past year. Thirteen new members were received into the church Sundav June 5th. Last Sunday's Sunday school record showed an attend ance of 72, compared to 49 a year ago. A picnic at the court house park was enjoyed Sunday after church. of Dimes drive, is shown receiving his services from Gene Maleckl, National Foundation for Infantile Better Farming Practices Seen On Monday lour Better farming I practices on ranches in the Heppner, Lexing ton and lone areas were obser ved by several perins attending the annual conservation tour sponsored by the Heppner Soil Conservation district Monday. Over 3o attended a noon dinner given for those on the tour by the Heppner chamber of com merce at the Odd Fellows hall in Lexington. j The noon program included a welcoming address by Jack Bed ford, chamber president; response by Don Peterson, vice chairman of the Heppner district on behalf of the board, and a report on dust storms and erosion in Ne braska and Wyoming by Ed Col sison seen on his recent trip through the area. Special guests, introduced by N. C. Anderson, district secretary, were Howard Cushman, exten sion soil conservationist, Oregon State college, Corfjiifa; Dr. Char les Rohde, plant breeder and Dr. Cleveland Girard, assistant soil specialist, both, of the Pendleton experiment station. Refreshments were served later in the afternoon by Bedford through the courtesy of the Heppner branch, First Na tional bank. During the tour Dr .Rhode dis cussed wheat varieties and smut and Dr. Gerard spoke on fertilizer trials. Strip cropping, sodded waterways, wildlife and wind break plantings, range seeding, farm ponds and stubble mulch were among practices observed on the tour. Ranches visited included those . of Vernon Munkers and Newt O'-1 Harra, Lexington; Paul Brown, Al Bunch, Frank Anderson and Fred Mankin, Heppner; Delbert Emert, Herbert Ekstrom and Don- j aid Peterson, lone. Grass and, cereal nurseries were seen at the ! Anderson ranch. Arrangements for the tour were made by N. C. Anderson and Tom Wilson, soil conservation service. CIVIC LEAGUE TO MEET The regular meeting of the Heppner Civic League will be held Monday June 20 at 8 p. m. at the old civic center building. Christian Church To Have Bible School The vacation Bible- school of the Christian church will be held from June 27 through July 1. Any child not regularly enrol led in the Sunday school but who desire to attend are asked to give their name and grade to Mrs. Clem Stockard or Rev. Earl L. So ward within the next few days. Parents are urged not to send children unless they will be old enough to enter school next fall. GT OFFICE TO BE. .CLOSED THIS WEEK The Gazette Times business of fice will be closed Friday and Saturday as the publishers, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Penland are leav ing Thursday Morning for Rose burg to attend the summer meet ing of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Penland is vice-president of the state group. o AT OSTEOPATHIC MEET Dr. L. D. Tibbies attended the annual Northwest Osteopathic Association conference held June 13 through 16 at Portland. More than 350 osteopathic physicians and their wives from Oregon and Washington registered for the four-day seminar. Al Bunch Files School Petition; Election Monday Al Bunch filed a petition for a four-year term on the Heppner school board with Mrs. Nona So- well, clerk, Monday, the last day for filing. Four petitions have now been filed for the election to be held Monday, June 20, from 2 to 8 u. m. at the school. Other filings have been made by Howard Cleveland for the five yeor term; Harold Wright, four year term and Raymond French of the Butter Creek area, three year term. Cleveland is present ly a board member whose term will expire this month. Changes in the school law by the recent legislature require all districts to have a five-member board. Under the new law petl tions, bearing the names of at least 10 voters in the district, must be filed with the district clerk at least 1 days prior to the election. Present members of the Hepp ner board are Ed Dick, Cleveland, and Ed Collison. Other districts in the county will hold elections to increase their present three-member boards to five beginning at 2 p. m. at district school buildings. All polls must be open for at least one hour and other dis tricts will set their own closing hours. TV Installation Nearing Completion Television installation in Hepp ner is nearing completion with the laying of nearly all trunk lines, Clarence Rosewall, presi dent of Heppner TV Inc., said this week. Nearly 100 hookups have been completed. Work has started on bringing Portland station in for local reception, he added. o - REBEKAHS TO MEET The regular meeting of Sans oucl Rebekah lodge will be held Friday June 17. There will be initiation at this time. Grain Hay Acreage High in Columbia Basin is Reported Drought and diverted ' acres have resulted in high acreages of grain hay in the Columbia Basin, says a circular released by Ore gon State college. t The publication, "Grain Hay and Pastures in The Columbia Basin', explains that grain hay acreage in the days of horses comprised about 15 percent of the crop acreage in the Columbia Basin. Now, with grain hay al lowable on diverted wheat acres, there is revived interest. High acreages have also come in drought years. E. R. Jackman, OSC range crop management specialist, and Mer rill Oveson, superintendent of the Pendleton branch experiment station, authors of the circular, say "fall wheat and rye normally will outyield spring grains for hay. And, in general, the grain varieties that are the leafiest and tend to lodge make the best hay." Regarding time and rate of seeding, they point out fall-seeded wheat or rye will usually beat spring-seeded grain of any kind. If spring seeding is necessary it should be done as early as pos sible. If the crop is to be used for hay, sowing 25 percent to 50 per cent more seed than is used for grain is recommended. . Proper time of cutting is listed as an important factor in using cereals for hay. It should be cut before the green coloring begins to disappear as the color is as sociated with the palatability and nutrition value of the hay. A recommended time is for the bloom and before the grain starts to form. If the hay is to be fed to dairy cows, fattening steers, or ewes, the higher protein in the early hay will offset the increased ton nage. In other words, for those uses, cut grain hay very early. If it is for horses, or maintaining weights on beef cattle, it Is better to cut as the kernel is forming. Bearded grains and rye should be cut early. Also, under "Cereals for Hay", information is given on palata bility, drying, haying machinery, silage, and fertilizer. Another sec tion concerns the use of cereals for pasture. Copies of the circular are avail able from county extension offi ces and OSC. Grand Jury Call Set For Friday in Shooting Mercury Cars Added To Dealer Line Rosewall Motor company, for many years Heppner Ford Dealer, was this week named dealer for Mercury cars, a product of the Ford Motor company. Several of the new models are now on display in the company show rooms. The Mercury line, which in cludes three separate lines of automobiles in the modern price field, is being added to the com pany's present line of Ford cars and trucks, W. C. Rosewall an nounced. Hog Prices High At Hermiston Sale HERMISTON The Hermiston livestock auction continued to lead Portland and Chicago live- stack yards in prices paid for fat hogs at its weekly auction Fri day, Delbert Anson, manager of the sale, reports. The price climbed another 10c to $20.80 cwt, while Portland and Chicago tops were both $20.50, which was the highest in Chicago since last September. Haying cut consignments of cattle to 348 head compared with 474 the previous week. Also con signed were 171 hogs compared with 121, and 45 sheep compared with 32. There were many small consigners. Buyers were active and demand broad, with Oregon and Washington packers, feeders, and ranchers well represented. Prices were generally fully steady to somewhat higher in spite of only fair quality. Other price highlights Friday: baby calves up $2 at $27 hd. top, veal steady at $23 cwt.; fat slaughter steers up $1.85 at $22.60 cwt.; dairy cows up $12.50 at $167.50 hd.; dairy heifers up $1.10 at $14.70 cwt.; canner-cutter cows up 20c at $11.10 cwt; bulls up 20c at $16.60 cwt.; weaner pigs, up $2.50 at $16 hd.; feeder pigs up 10c at $19.40 cwt.; feeder lambs up 10c at $16.10 cwt. Fed heifers and steers grading good and choice are needed next Friday. , Those toping the market Fri day were W. E. Ahalt, Hermiston, eight fat hogs, 173o lbs., $20.80 cwt.; Gerry Mills, Hermiston, one 765 lb. Angus steer, $21.70 cwt.; C. P. Resing, Hermiston, one 1370 lb. whiteface bull, $16.60 cwt.; Duff Knight, Hermiston, one 765 lb. Holstein heifer $15.10 cwt.; R. E. Lyons, Umatilla, one 360 lb. white sow, $16.10 cwt.; Arvlne Porter, Tilot Rock, two weaner pigs, $16 hd.; W. C. Van Winkle, Milton-Freewater, one 740 lb. An gus heifer, $18 cwt; C. K. Peck, Lexington, one 240 lb. veal, $23 cwt.; Guy Muller, Pendleton, 10 feeder steers, 6400 lbs., $20.60 cwt; Billie Marie Wood, Olex, one 930 lb. whiteface steer, $22.60 cwt Calves: Baby calves 7.50-27.00 hd.; weaner calves, steer calves 19.25-21.60 cwt.; heifer calves 16.-60-18.10 cwt.; veal 19.75-23.00 cwt. Steers: Stocker steers 16.20-17.- 90 cwt., feeder steers 18.10-20.60; fat slaughter steers 20.50-22.60 cwt.; fat heifers, grass only 15.75 18.00. Cows: Dairy cows 112.50-167.50 hd.; dairy heifers 11.50-14.70 cwt; no stock cows. Voters Reject Fire District Plan Efforts to form a rural fire pro tection district in the Boardman area went down to defeat at a special election last week. A tally of the votes showed a heavy majority against the plan. Out of 64 votes cast, only 9 favor ed it with 55 against Tom Tells CC of State's Problems State representative C. A. Tom spoke Monday noon at the cham ber of commerce meeting telling of the activities and numerous problems which the recent legis lature had to face. Tom was a member of the education, tax ation and commerce and utilities committees. Tom said that as was expected at the start of the session, tax ation was the weightiest problem to be faced. He told the group that the total income in Oregon in a blennium is $2,000,250,000 and that one-third of that goes for taxes of one form or another, Mrs. Ann Avent was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Dellmore Lessard, Portland attorney at O' Donnell's Cafe June 4 at a pre liminary hearing held in J. O. Hager's justice court Monday morning. Tuesday circuit judge William W. Wells announced in Pendle ton that he has called the grand Jury for 9:30 Friday to decide whether there is sufficient evi dence for a trial of Mrs. Avent on the charges filed against her. Mrs. Avent, who is now being held in the Wasco county Jail at The Dalles, was represented at Monday's preliminary hearing by attorneys Ralph Currin, Pendle ton and John Bassett of Portland. The attorneys were denied a plea to reduce the charges against Mrs. Avent, with judge Hager stating that his court had no jurisdiction in such a matter. The hearing lasted two hours. Judge Wells is expected to hear the grand jury report sometime Friday afternoon, it was said. Mrs. Avent was arrested im mediately after the shooting by state and local police on evidence reported by several witnesses to the affair. Reportedly the dead attorney had been discussing the matter of the custody of Mrs. Avent's 13 year old son, Kim, with her just prior to the shoot ing. Social Security Card Needed Now For Many Summer Jobs If you plan to take a job this summer you'll need a social se curity account number card, Ver non A. Welo, manager of the La Grande social security office, re minded high school students to day. Your employed will ask to see your card when you start on the job because it is necessary for him to copy the name and social security account number into his records exactly as shown on the card. He needs this information for the quarterly social security report he is required to make of your earnings. If you already have a social security card, be sure to take it with you when you go on the Job this summer. If you have lost your card, you should go to the social security office and get a duplicate card before starting on a Job this year. If you have never had a card, you should get one before you report for work in a Job covered by the social security law. Application blanks can be obtained at any post office or employment office as well as the social security office in La Grande. Most jobs are covered by the social security law, Welo said. Farm workers who expect to be paid wages of $100 or more by any one farmer will be covered by social security for the first time according to the 1954 am endments to the social security law. Domestic workers in pri vate homes who expect to be paid cash wages of $50 or more by one employer in any calendar quarter during 1955 will be cover ed also as well as all Jobs in commerce or industry, he said. If you work even a short time for a business, you'll be asked for your social security card. Welo advises students who do not plan to take a vacation Job this year to defer getting a card until they have a need for one. LEAVE FOR EUROPEAN TOUR Mrs. Edna Turner and Miss Esther Bergstrom left Wednesday for Montreal, Canada from where they will sail on the S. S. France for a Northern tour of Europe. They expect to be gone about" nine weeks. yet the legislators faced the neea to raise more money for state needs. He said he felt the tax plan developed during the ses- sion was a fairlv eood Dlan. He told of his bill to establish a water resources commission in the state and why he felt It was so necessary to have proper con trols over Oregon's diminishing water supplies. Tom gave a brief general re port on the session and said that he felt that the legislators did a good job even though there were a great many inexperienced men In the two houses.
