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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 28, 1955
Storm Brings Heavy
Rains, Power Outage
A fairly general storm hit this
section of Eastern Oregon Tues
day bringing with it up to near
ly one inch of rain and causing
one of the longest power outages
that Morrow county has suffered
in several years.
Rain started falling in Heppner
shortly after noon and continued
nearly all afternoon and evening
with a very heavy downpour com
ing about midnight. A total of
.70 inch was recorded here with
as much as .82 being checked at
other points close to town. In the
Lightning Sets
Forest Blazes
Lightning strikes in the Hepp
ner district of the Umatilla na
tional forest caused three small
fires over the weekend, the first
to occur this season, district
ranger Wayne West reported this
week.
The first fire was reported Fri
day evening in the Juniper camp
area near Potomas creek. It was
quickly controlled and covered
. less than one-quarter acre.
The largest of the three occur
red Saturday on Wall creek and
it covered nearly three acres be
fore being controlled by a crew
of men and a cat in one and one
quarter hours.
Sunday another strike started a
small blaze on the old Watkins
ranch between Mallory and Ditch
creek but It was controlled be
fore it spread over more than one
quarter acre.
Tht timber area has dried
quickly in the high temperatures
of the past -week and extreme
caution is urged on anyone enter
ing the forest.
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Potluck To Honor
Rev. and Mrs. Reeves
A farewell potluck dinner will
be given at the Episcopal parish
house Sunday July 31, immedi
ately after the morning service,
in honor of Rev. and Mrs. John
Reeves, who expect to leave for
their new home in Philadelphia
on Monday.
SPECIAL DEER, ELK APPLICATIONS
READY; SOME REGULATIONS CHANGED
Big game hunters who wish to, adopted by the Oregon Game
participate in the antelope ana
early deer and elk hunt drawings
should submit their applications
immediately is the word from the
Oregon Game Commission. Ap
plication blanks are now avail
able at all license agencies, it was
announced this week.
Deadline for submitting ante
lope applications for the three
antelope areas is 10 a. m. on Aug
ust 8. Applications received after
that time and date will not be
allowed in the drawings. A pub
lic drawing will be held at 10
a. m. on August 10, at which time
200 permits will be drawn for
ttfch designated area. The ante
lope season in all areas .will be
from August 27 through August
31.
Applications for the Sled
Springs either sex elk hunt which
extends from August 20 through 1
25 must also be in the game com
mission by 10 a. m. on August 8.
August 10 at 10 a. m. will also be
the date for the drawing of 200
permits for the Sled Spring area.
Four controlled either sex deer
hunts are scheduled for Septem
ber with the John day river and
Wallowa mountain areas extend
ing from September 3 through
September 7 and the Hart moun
tain and Rogue river hunts from
September 24 through September
27.
Drawings for 1,000 tags for the
John Day area and 600 tags for
the Wallowa area are scheduled
for August 18 at 10 a. m. The
deadline for receiving applica
tions for these two areas is 10
a. m., August 15.
A fee of five dollars must be
remitted with each application
for the controlled deer hunts with
the exception of the Rogue river
area which requires only the re
gular hunting license and deer
tag.
Permits and tags will be mailed
to all successful participants a
few days following each drawing.
Also included will be a circular
1 with full instructions and a de
tailed description and map of the
hunting afea.
Fi n a 1 hunting regulations
Gooseberry area .45 inch fell
during the storm with most of It
coming about midnight. Even the
northern section of the wheat
belt in the county received a con
siderable amount which started
falling early in the day.
It is usually claimed that any
rain that falls in Eastern Oregon
is a good rain, but most ranch
ers would have preferred that the
storm had come about a month
later as it stopped all harvesting
operations and caught most of
them with their hay down. As
far as is known there was no
damage from the storm and no
hail was reported. There was
some minor washing, but it was
thought negligible.
'Power Off 90 Minutes
One result of the storm was a
power outage in the entire Hepp
ner. Lexington, and lone areas
which lasted from one and one
half hours to six hours on some
lines.
Lightning struck a power pole
on the main teeaer - line irom
Hermiston to lone about four
miles north of the Butter Creek
junction burning off a cross arm
and damaging 16 insulators along
a quarter of a mile of the line,
Pacific Power managed to pick
up a portion of the power load
from its Fossil substation by 4:55
p. m. to give all three towns and
some rural lines power, but it
was nearly three and one half
hours later before the damage
could be repaired and the Her
miston line put back into service.
Heppner TV viewers were with
out a picture until 9:30 due to
lack of power on one of the lines
that operates amplifiers at and
near the antenna site west of
town.
The cooler weather the first of
the week was a welcome change
from the 100 degree temperatures
that prevailed a good part of last
week, however weather re
ports call for gradually rising
thermometers during the next
few days.
Morrow county was missed by
the violent thunder storms of the
past weekend which struck heav
ily in the Yakima, Ellensburg and
Spokane areas though there
were some storms over the
mountains to the south and east
which caused three small forest
fires.
Commission at a public meeting
Friday included several changes
from the tentative regulations
proposed by the commission ear
lier in the month.
One of the most important
changes that took place in the
proposed regulations was the eli
mination of the taking of deer
with visible antlers in eastern
Oregon during the regular buck
season. As in the past, hunters
will be allowed to take bucks
with no less than forked antlers
during that period. The season
dates remain the same, October 1
through October 14. Another Im
portant change was the shorten
ing of the either sex hunting per
iods. Hunters with unused tags
will be allowed one deer of either
sex in eastern and western Ore
gon from October 15 through Oc
tober 21 and in portions of cen
tral Oregon, which includes the
Metolius river area, from October
18 through 21. All of the con
trolled and extended deer seasons
will remain the same as proposed
with the exception of the John
Day river controlled hunt where
there was a slight change made
in the boundaries.
The general elk season survi
ved as written In the tentative
proposals and will extend from
October 29 through November 23
in eastern Oregon and the Cas
cade area and from October 29
through November 13 in the
coastal area Several changes,
however, were made in the con
trolled elk hunts.. In the Sled
Springs area, the boundary lines
were shortened to exclude about
one-fourth of the original area as
proposed in the tentative regula
tions, and, in addition, the num
ber of permits was changed from
400 to 200.
In the Chesnimnus, Wenaha,
Walla Walla, Umatilla, Ukian,
Starkey, Heppner,. Minam, and
Desolation units, the taking of
either sex elk by permits would
be from November 11 through No
vember 23. In addition, the num
ber of permits was reduced from
400 to 200 in the Wenaha unit.
There will be no special hunt in
the Burnt river area.
Final Rites for
Harvey McCallister
Set for Sunday
Funeral services will be held
Sunday at 2 p m. at the Lexing
ton Community church for Har
vey L. McCallister, 86, who died
July 23 at a veteran's hospital at
Yountville, California.
Mr. McCallister was born June
7, 1869 in Iowa and had lived in
the Lexington area since before
the turn of the century until
about 20 years ago when he en
tered a veteran's hospital in Ore
gon. He was later transferred to
California. He and his two bro
thers were associted in farming
for many years.
Mr. McCallister graduated from
Oregon State College in 1897 and
during his years at OSC (then
OAC) he was one of the all-time
great football centers at the
school. He was known as "Pap
Hayseed" in his football days.
He was a veteran of Company B
of the Second Oregon Volunteers
during the Spanish-American
war and fought In the battle of
Manila.
He is survived by two brothers,
Ray and Marshall, both of Port
land He was never married.
Burial will be in the Lexing
ton I. O. O. F. cemetery with the
Lexington post of the VFW in
charge of graveside services. Rev.
L. G. Wetzel will officiate at the
church services.
Creswick Mortuary is in charge
of arrangements.
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New Heppner
School Head Here
Joe H. Stewart, new superinten
dent of school district No. 1, and
his family arrived in Heppner
this week to make their home.
During Stewart's nine years as
superintendent of the Coburg
schools many Improvements were
made, among them the raising of
the school from sub-standard to
standard, a school band was or
ganized and other music added
to the school system. Plans for a
complete new - building setup
have been made and the high
school has been repaired and re
painted, school bus transporta
tion was secured and the school
lunch program was expanded
along with many other improve
ments. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are
active in the Christian church,
civic and social organizations.
Stewart has served as an el
der in the church, Mrs. Stew
art worked in the Bible school
and both were participants
In the musical program of the
church. Mrs. Stewart is a mem
ber of the Rebekah lodge and he
is a member of the I. O. O. F. Mrs.
Stewart has for the past five
years been a worker in the Girl
Scouts and an active worker in
the Parent-Teacher Association.
He has been very active in the
Lane county Teachers Assn.
They have sixteen year old
twin daughters, Mary Jo and
Alice Faye and a nine year old
Linda Sue.
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Second Golf Meeting
Called for August 9
The golf club meeting original
ly scheduled for next Tuesday,
August 2 has been postponed one
week until August 9, it was an
nounced today by Rev. Francis
McCormack, chairman of the
group.
A group of persons interested
in trying to form an orgnization
to build a golf course met a week
ago and named a committee to
seek possible locations for a
course. Several locations are
now being investigated, Rev. Mc
Cormack said, but an extra week
before the next meeting is ex
pected to give time for a more
complete check of sites.
The meeting will be held at the
Elks lodge and all interested per
sons are invited to attend.
Keep Oregon Green
Program Discussed
Details of the 1955 Keep Oregon
Green campaign in connection
with "Red Hot Day" which will be
proclaimed before hunting season
were discussed Tuesday night at
a dinner meeting at O'Donnell's
Wagon Wheel by Albert Wiesen
danger, executive secretary of the
KOG association. County Judge
Garnet Barratt is county chair
man of the organization.
Wiesendanger arrived here
from Salem enroute to Wallowa
county where he and district fire
warden William Curtis plan to
enter a forest fire prevention
float in the Chief Joseph Days
parade this Saturday.
Red Cross Blood
Drawing Planned
For August 15
The Red Cross will hold its first
1955 blood drawing in Heppner
on Monday, August 15 at the
Methodist church, it was announ
ced today by Jack Bailey, chair
man of the Morrow county chap
ter of the Red Cross and Jack
Edmondson, blood committee
chairman.
A quota of 100 pints has been
set for the drawing and the com
mittee heads hope to get at least
125 to 130 donors signed up before
the drawing. The last drawing
to be held here was last summer
when only 32 pints was obtained,
and it is hoped to more than
treble that amount at the com
ing diawing. Donor sign-up cards
will be available shortly.
It was also announced that the
Morrow county chapter has re
cently become a member of the
National Red Cross blood pro
gram and the local chairman ex
pressed the hope that the public
would respond to the local for
blood.
Heppner Scheduled
For Check on New
Post Office Needs
Senator Richard L. Neuberger,
of Oregon has asked the public
works subcommittee on govern
ment buildings to Inquire Into
the need for additional post office
buildings and facilities in nine
Oregon communities.; They are
Portland, Pendleton, Heppner,
Hermiston, Prineville, Redmond,
Enterprise, Oakland and Suther
lin. Senator W. Stuart Symington
of Missouri who Is chairman of
the subcommittee, assured Neu
berger that he was ordering the
committee staff to report back
on the situations concerning post
office space and accommodations
existing in the nine Oregon cities.
In making his.requent Neu
berger, who is a member of the
subcommittee on government
building, told he committee he
had received complaints or state
ments from residents of the nine
communities that post office fa
cilities should be expanded. Neu
berger said that the committee
would ask both the post office de
partment and the government
services administration to file re
ports on the needs in the nine
places.
New Episcopal
Rector Arrives
The Rev. George R. S. Little,
Richmond, Virginia, arrived in
Heppner last week and will take
over his duties August 1 as the
new Rector of All Saints Episco
pal church. He replaces Rev.
John R. Reeves who several weeks
ago announced his resignation to
accept the pastorate of St. James
Episcopal church at Green Ridge,
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Little comes to Heppner
from St. Luke's church in Rich
mond where he served as rector
for one year. Prior to that he was
curate at St. John's church at
Hampton, Va. and head master
of the Emmanuel Episcopal
school at Hampton, He received
his education at the Oakridge
Military Institute, Oakridge,
Tenn.;is a graduate of William
and Mary College, Williamsburg,
Va.; DuBose Theological Semi
nary, Monteagle, Tenn.; and the
Virginia Theological Seminary at
Alexandria, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Little and their
two children, George 17, and
Grace 11, arrived in Oregon about
two weeks ago and are living
temporarily in an apartment un
til the church rectory is vacated.
Rev. Reeves will conduct his
final services at All Saints church
Sunday and he and Mrs. Reeves
plan to leave later in the week
for their new home, which is a
suburb of Philadelphia.
NEW OFFICER STARTS
Melvin Piper, Heppner, took
over his duties Monday as new
city day police officer. He re
places Kenneth Green who re
cently resigned to devote ' more
time to his business.
Piper recently completed a two
weeks training course with the
Pendleton police department.
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Mrs. Grace Nickerson left the
end of last week for a visit with
her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Nickerson in
West Fir, Oregon.
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Princess Betty Olmstead of Boardman
Boardman 's
To be Honored at Dance
Miss Betty Jo Olmstead will be
the second princess of the Mor
row county Fair and Rodeo to be
presented to the public at her
own dance next Saturday night
at the Heppner fair pavilion. She
is being sponsored by the Board-
man Tillicum club which is put
ting on the dance in her honor.
Princess Betty, an attractive 18
year old grey-eyed brownette, is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Olmstead of Boardman. She is
five feet, four inches tall and is
a native of Irrigon.
Princess Betty-., has' Jurt com.
pleted her junior year at Board-
man high school where she was
last year chosen president of her
class and also of the Pep Club.
She served on the staff of the
Farm Safety Week
Set for July 24-30
This week, July 24 to 30, has
been proclaimed National Farm
Safety Week by President Eisen
hower. Theme for the week is
"Your Safety is in Your Hands."
Mrs. Mabel Mack, assistant di
rector of agricultural extension
service at Oregon State college,
says 14,000 farm residents are
killed and 1,000,000 injured each
year pointing out the need to
focus nation and statewide atten
tion on the seriousness of farm
accidents..
The governor's committee on
farm safety for Oregon is conduc
ting a concerted effort through
press and radio during National
Farm Safety Week to make far
mers more safety conscious.
Special surveys in farm areas
indicate that about three out of
every four accidents to farm resi
dents are the result of one or more
unsafe acts, says Ned H. Dear
born, president of the National
Safety Council.
"Regardless of national and
group safety activities, the ulti
mate responsibility for each farm
resident's safety is himself,"
Dearborn continues.
Here are some general sugges
tions from the Safety Council for
helping prevent farm accidents:
1. In your community enlist
the cooperation of the entire ru
ral community for safety now and
throughout the year.
2. In your home safeguard
each member of the family from
accidents.
3. On your farm instruct and
train your workers in safety prac
tices. 4. On the highway be alert,
courteous, and a good example to
others.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson said recently, "Farms and
homes are as safe and only as
safe as farmers and their famil
ies make them. This makes ex
tremely significant the fact that
this year so much emphasis has
been placed on individual respon
sibility for preventing farm acci
dents. It is important to remem
ber that your safety is in your
hands'."
Sponsors of the National Farm
Safety Week are the National
Safety Council and the United
States department of Agriculture.
This is the 12th annual Farm
Safety Week.
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Princess
school paper and was a member
of the girls' volleyball league.
For the past two years she has
been yell leader and for four
years drum majorette. She be
gan her twirling career in Cali
fornia while in the sixth grade.
Having lived on a farm most of
her life, Betty has ridden horses
ever since she can remember and
while in grade school she worked
in the fields with her father. Her
interest in domestic activities be
gan with her participation in 4-H
work while in the sixth grade, at
which time she attended cooking
and sewing classes. After having
had years of practical experience
she is considered a very capable
cook, seamstress and homemaker.
Betty is a member of the
Church of the Nazarene of Her
miston, having been active In
church work for nearly five
years. At the present time she
is vice-president of the young
people's society of her church,
Princess Betty has two brothers,
Leonard 19, who just completed
his freshman year at Oregon
State, and Ronald, 10, a fifth
grader at Boardman.
Music for Princess Betty's
dance will be furnished by Gene
Rietmann's orchestra of lone and
admission has been set at $1.25
per person.
Injuries Minor in
Tuesday Accident
Police reported Wednesday that
two Natchez, Washington men
suffered only slight injuries when
the car in which they were riding
went off the road just west of
Heppner Pine Mills and over
turned. The two were Claud L.
Jones, 24, and Clarence Pettit, 34,
both of whom worked for Charles
Carlson, of lone. The accident
occurred about 6 p. m. Tuesday.
No cause was given for the ac
cident which completely demol
ished the car.
Another Wrestling
Match Set by C of C
The Heppner-Morrow County
Chamber of Commerce decided
Monday to sponsor another wres
tling matches under the lights on
the rodoo field. The date tenta
tively set is Saturday night, Aug
ust 20 and the card will be an
nounced later. Promoters will
again be Jack and Maurie Ken
Kennedy of Pendleton.
It was felt that interest was
sufficiently high in the first
match held two weeks ago to
justify another event.- The first
match netted the chamber over
$250 for its lighting fund.
The matches will be held the
same night as the fair and rodeo
dressup parade and the queen's
dance.
Joe Allen of Pendleton was a
visitor Sunday and Monday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Reed. The two men taught to
gether at Sweet Home.
Mrs. Cyrene Barratt, Corvallis,
is visiting at the home of her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. William Barratt. She has
just returned from a trip to Pine
Bluff, Arkansas.
38,000 Acres of
Bombing Range to
Be Released Soon
The county court revealed this
week that arrangements are now
being made by the real estate di
vision of the Army Engineers to
release approximately 38,000
acres of the Boardman bombing
range for private use under a
permit or lease plan.
The land, a strip five by 12
miles along the south end of the
91,000 acre bombing range, is ex
pected to be released by the engi
neers sometime this fall after the
area has been decontaminated,
cleaned of all old shells, bomb
fragments etc. According to re
ports, the land will be released
only on temporary permit which
can be revoked at any time the
army determines it again needs
the area. Under the presently
announced plan, the land will not
be sold or go back on the tax
rolls as some stories had indi
cated.
Most of the area is usable only
for rande land. What the permit
requirements will be has not yet
been announced.
Harvesting Now
At Peak; Quality
Holds to Average
Until rain put a stop to all
combining operations Tuesday,
harvest has been in full swing in
all sections of the county except
the higher elevations, the Mor
row County Grain Growers re
ported this week.
Both wheat and barley have
been coming in in heavy amounts
with Lexington, North Lexington,
lone and McNab elevators re
ceiving the largest amounts. As
harvest gets underway in the
higher country, the Heppner and
Ruggs plants will begin to receive
more grain.
Tests show that the wheat crop
Is running about average quality
compared to the average over the
past several years. It is running
heavier to No. 2 wheat than last
year, it is said, but the 1954 crop
produced more No. 1 wheat than
usual. Barley appears to be run
ning somewhat light, but nearly
all is running well above the
loan weight minimum of 40
pounds per bushel.
Local facilities have been able
to handle all incoming grain and
no storage problem is anticipated.
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Funeral Services for
Lt. Karl Gabler
Held in Portland
Funeral services for Lt. Karl
V. Gabler, 23, who was killed July
18 when a jet Thundorstreak
plane he was piloting collided in
the air with another plane, were
held Wednesday at the Peninsula
mortuary in Portland. Interment
was in the Mt. Scott military
cemetery.
The collision in which Lt. Gab
ler was killed occurred over the
eastern coast of Virginia near the
base where he had been station
ed.
Lt Gabler was born in Prairie
City, Nov. 24, 1931 and had gradu
ated from Heppner high school in
1949. He married Miss Marjorie
Pierson of Condon April 29 of this
year.
His widow and two sisters, all
of Portland, survive him.
County Veterinarians
Named; Areas Set
The county court this week
announced the appointment of
Drs. R. R. Fast of Hermiston and
J. W. Norene, Heppner, as county
veterinarians. It also announced
that the county has been divided
so that Bangs testing in the
north end will be done by Dr.
Fast while Dr. Norene will handle
all such work in the south part of
the county. The dividing line is
between townships two and three
north.
The county has no federal vet
erinarian since Dr. George Mar
ugg was transferred several
months ago and Dr. Fast will
take over some of the work for
merly handled by Marugg. Dr.
Norene has been a county vet
erinarian since moving here last
year.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivar Nelson of
Kinzua were visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Troed
son last Friday.