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Rage 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, July 21, 1955 Date Changed for 4-H Division of N. Morrow Fair By Mary Lee Marlow A meeting of the North Mor row county fair board and divi sion superintendents was heM at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Skoubo last Friday night, with ten present. It was decided to hold the 4-H club part of the fair in advance of the regular fair, which is Sept. 8,9,10, in order to give the club members a chance to go to the state fair. The 4-H fair will be held Friday, Aug. 26, at the fair grounds. Judges will be announced later. After four days of temperatures above the 100 mark last week, high winds Saturday brought on cooler weather. Maximum Sun day was 80, and Monday's high was 82. The Garden club held a picnic Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Nathan Thorpe. No business meeting was held. The Tillicum club met Tuesday July 12, at the home of Mrs. El- don Shannon, with 10 members present. Mrs. Don Tannehill, La Grande, was a guest. The club is planning a fall style show to be held on Aug. 23. More will be published about this later. Committees appointed for the princess dance to be in Heppner on July 3o were: tickets, Mrs. Wil liam Garner; food buying, Mrs. George Wiese and Mrs. Eldon Shannon; publicity, Mrs. Ronald Black and Mrs. Dewey West. Mrs. Joe Tatone, president, also ap pointed standing committees for the coming year as follows: chap lain and benevolence, Mrs. Dewey West; publicity and historian, Mrs. William Garner, and Mrs. Eldon Shannon; finance, Mrs. Leonard Bedord, Mrs. Gunner Skoubo and Mrs. Fred Garrett; savings stamps and cancelled stamps for veterans, Mrs. George Wiese; membership, Mrs. Ray Gronqulst; magazine, Mrs. Sid Cloud. The next meeting of the club will be at the home of Mrs. West on Aug. 9. The Home Economics club of Greenfield grange met Wednes day, July 13, at 12:30 at the home of Mrs. Joe Tatone, with nine members present. Mrs. Velma Glass, county health nurse, Hepp ner, was present to discuss the possibility of getting the mobile X-ray unit to come to Boardman. The possibility of having a blood bank here was also discussed There were representatives from the Commercial Club, Wives club, Tillicum club and Garden club present for the' discussion. A discussion was also held Long Distance Natlon-Wldc Moving Service Mayflower Agents Padded Vans Penland Bros. TRANSFER CO. Pendleton, Oregon Phone 338 'about forming a ground obser ver corps here soon. Besides Mrs. Glass, other guests at the meeting were Mrs. Thur man Johnson and George Wiese. SSgt. Francis Berger went to Spokane last week to get Mrs. Berger and daughters Renee and Janet, who were returning home from a six weeks visit in Winona, Minn, at the home of Mrs. Ber- ger's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil ford Meye- William Love, New York, visit ed at the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Max Vannoy, one day last week. Mrs. R. A. Eades visited her daughter, Mrs. Charlie Woolley, in Pasco, Wash., last week, while Woolley was gone to Oklahoma to attend the funeral of his fa ther. Mrs. Guy Ferguson is in San Jose, Calif., visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Higuera. Linda Earwood, three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Earwood, was bitten in the face by a dog belonging to the family, last week. She was taken to a physician at Hermiston where seven stitches were required to close the wound. She was bitten on the cheek and lip. Recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Rands were Mr. and Mrs. C. Floyd Jones of Prineville. Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Brown are their son and daugter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Brown and three child ren, Rockford, 111. Other visitors at the Brown home last week were Mrs. Brown's cousins, Mr. and Mrs. George Nichols, Sacra mento, Calif. Pfc. Reo Rake, U. S. Marines, visited his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brown, from Wednesday to Friday of last week. He is on leave from Camp Pendleton. Cal. Mrs. Katherine Heck, Seattle, Wash., and daughter, Frances Heck, San Francisco, Calif., visit ed friends here one day last week. Mrs. Heck was returning home from visiting another daughter, Mrs. A. T. Eastman, in Sacramen to Calif, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Schneider (Mardell Gorham) and children John, Susan, Tim, and Pani, of Holdregc, Nehr., visited friends here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Zelinskl and children Toni Kay and Ronnie, of Detroit, Mich., are visiting Mrs. Zeloniski's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Peck. Lt. and Mrs John Blackburn are on leave to Baytown, Texas, where they are visiting Black burn's pareits, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Blackburn. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Lehman, Culver, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allen, from Thursday to Saturday last week. Weekend guests at the Allen home were their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Allen and children Cammie and Bobbie, The Dalles; their son ET2c Gene Allen, Port Town- send, Wash.; Miss Lela McCon- Fa rmers- mi ON YOUR GRAIN FIR INSURANCE Insure your grain crops now with us and SAVE 15' " on your premium ior at the termination of the policy you will receive a check ior 15 of the amount of your premium. Be Wise, Be Safe, insure your grain now at low rates I Insure Today! Turner, Van Marrcr fir Bryant Phone 6-9625 INSURANCE Heppner nell, Hermiston; Mr. and Mrs. William Lilly, Pendleton; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mears and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Martin, Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Mears is a cousin of Mrs. Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Downey, of Stockton, Calif., are visiting at the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Don Downey. They wore accompan ied here by Jimmy and Marthel- la Weaver, Hollywood, Calif., who are visiting their brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Earwood. Mrs. George Sicard went to St. Anthony's hospital in Pendleton Monday where she was to have surgery Tuesday, Weekend visi tors at the Sicard home were Alc and Mrs. Bob Ennis and SSgt. and Mrs. Bob Brown, Larson Air force Base, Moses Lake, Wash. Cecil Hamilton, Delbert Carpen ter, and Max Fussell, who are working at Bellingham, Wash., spent the weekend at their homes here Loielei Hamilton accom panied her father back to Belling ham to spend a month. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heinson, Elberton, Wash., visited Miss Zel ma Cowan Sunday on their way to the Cannon Beach Bible con ference. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Ely went to Cor bet t Sunday to get their daughter Eileen, Patty Miller and Brenda Billings who attended the Trout Creek Bible camp last week. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ralston, Salem, visited at the home of Ralston's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kunze, last Friday. 3 3 3ft 3 ELEVEN GIRLS IN JAIL The next job for the state Sunday visitors at the Kunze home were their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kunz and children Eddie and Elaine, Kennewick, Kash. Kunze's sister, Mrs. Hattie Edmundson, who has been visiting here, re turned to Kennewick with them. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Johnson, Port land, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Flock. Don Tannehill, La Grande, was a weekend visitor at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Tannehill. Mrs. Tannehill and daughters Mary and Susan, re turned home with him, after visiting here two weeks. Mrs. Keith Tannehill has returned to her home from The Dalles. Mrs. Glen Hawes entertained a group of children at her home on Monday In honor of her daughter Sharon's tenth birthday. Present I were Eilen Ely, Patty Miller, Irene Potts, Anita Garner, De wena West, Brenda Millings, An nette and Peter Phaneuf, Sondra Sundstrom, Terry Hawes, Gwen dolyn Fussell, and Vickie Ashley of Spokane, Wash,, niece of Mrs. Hawes, who has been visiting here the past two weeks. Prizes were won by Eileen Ely and Bren da Billings. emergency board, probably, will be voting money for a Heifer-pen, on the order of the bull-pen at the state penitentiary, where the innTlii arp thawed out. It is needed to discipline eleven girls who tried to tear apart their se curity quarters at Hillcrest School for Girls last week. They did amoral thousand dollars damage when rioting, tearing three-foot holes in reinforced plaster waus by using the iron bedsteads as battering-rams. E. H. Ireland secretary of the State Board of Control spent a day estimating the damage and conferring with Circuit Judge Donald E. Long, Multnomah County Court of Domestic Rela tions. An architect's report will be made to the board of control and it is probable, Ireland said, that the so-called "treatment section" to the security building, in which the girls were housed, would be strengthened and more space and additional help recommend ed. INTERIM TAX STUDY Subcommittees of the 1955 state interim tax study committee were appointed this week by Chairman Rudie Wilhelm, Jr., state senator from Portland. Sen. Lee V. Ohmart, Salem will be chairman of the subcommit tee studying state and local tax ation and Rep. Charles Tom, Ru fus, will be chairman of the sub committee studying state and lo cal taxation of electric utility companies. ' Among Tom's subcommittee members is Rep. Edwin E. Cone of Eugene. UNDERGROUND WATER Attorney General -Thornton ruled this week that included with other duties of the State Engineer is that of deter mining sources and boundaries S unferground water inc udmg lakes or streams uiai u be allowed to go to waste. The opinion was asked by state engineer Lewis A. Stanley. "Your duty to determine sour ces of underground water cannot be controlled by presumption nor limited to surface limitations, Thorton admonished. "The law compells you to make a reason able determination by any prac .iv,iQ mpnns. surface or sub surface, in order to conserve the underground water resouii.-t.-o ui the state." Answering another request Thrntnn rnld that the state po lice cannot destroy any of its old records, despite the iaci meie is a recent law providing for ri struction of the papers. An older law specifically denies the p0. lice the right to burn their old records. Thornton held that the older law prevails until It is re. pealed. STATE LOST LAND State officials failed to have a piece of land in Coos county surveyed some 55 years ago and neglected to claim it under the provision of Oregon's admittance to the Union which allowed every 16th and 36th section of land to go to the state for school pur poses. 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