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Page 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 8, 1955 Monument News By Martha Matteson Mrs. Harold Lippert drove Mr. and Mrs. Loren Lippert to Hepp ner Aug. 29 where Joan entered the hospital for major surgery. Carilyn Martin was a house guest of Diana Leathers on the lanch Aug. 28 through 31. Hans Hanson was a caller in ( town Aug. 2V making pians ior a new house on his home ranch. It burned about a year ago. Lula SettletMoya Oilman, Lois Hill and children went huekle berrying Wednesday. Jack Erhardt and two cousins drove up from Portland Fiiday evening for the weekend. They returned Monday taking Tom Er hardt with them for he is to enter college there Tuesday. ' The grange hall is being used for a checking station for the special deer hunt. Mrs. Joe Mellor and children drove to Heppner Thursday. On returning she brought her sis ter's two children with her for a few days. Her sister is Mrs. Stanley Cox. Mrs. Olive Cox, Mrs. Ivery J " w A '.-,Vvf . f t.:" U I' '4' Jh-t wty rib; . PENDLETON SPINNERETTES who performed in the rodeo parade are shown with their leader Mrs. Ford Robertson. The girls each received a silver dollar for participating In the parade and at the noon picnic announced that they were donating the money to the Red Cross disaster fund. Their performance won them wide ap plause. (GT Photo) Ernie and Judy Johnson drove to Portland last Wednesday where they got Mrs. Ernie John son, who has been there under doctor's care, and took her to well and four children went to Heppner to stay witn ner parents, Heppner for dental appointments. Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Bailey,. Mrs. Maxine Bryant of Myrtle Point and Mrs. Lorraine Cnbbins of Fossil were visiting their fa ther, Charles Holmes, a brother, Kenny Holmes and sister, Lilian Stubblefield. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Showal ter of California spent the week end here driving to Heppner each day to visit their daughter, Joan Lippert, who was in the hospital there. While here they helped Mr. Lippert move to the II. John son home In town. Baby Tony Ward of Long Creek spent the weekend at the Matte son home while his parents were in Pendleton. Jessie Matteson was home for the weekend from Long Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Ned Sweek of Heppner were visiting friends and relatives Sunday, The M. M. M. club will hold its first meeting for the fall Thurs day, Sept. 8 at the home of Mrs. Grace Stirrett. Margie and Linda Batty of La Grande were visiting over the weekend. Ansel Martin was home Thurs day for 24 hour leave from his work in the La Grande forestry office. Ethel Leathers is home from the John Day hospital. Mr .and Mrs. Joe Mellor and three children and two Cox children drove to Milton-Free-water Saturday morning, taking home Mrs. Mellor's two nephews, Lorren and Skipper Wiese, who have been visiting here for some time. The Mellors returned home Monday night. IN OUR 45" YEAR OF SERVICE and othr racial diiaii COLON & STOMACH AILMENTS treated without hospital tperitlon. CHEDIT TO RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE piipp DKriptiv BoohUt I K C B Wrll. o Coll Mm DEAN CLINIC Opaa M .a. until I p.m. Mon., W.d., M. M m.m. nHI 5 .. Tw. ! Thm. HsiMWropu Chiropractic WiyikioM 101 N. (. (ANDY iOULIVAID Hmm LAM 1911 PorttarHi 11, Orea Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wheeler and children spent the four day holi day visiting in Bend and Red mond. School will start Monday morn ing, regardless of the work that is being done. Loruen Lippert drove to Hepp ner the 5th to get his wife, Joan who has been in the hospital the past week. Martin Cupper Is busy putting a new roof on his house where the Archie Cox family live. Dale McDaniel and Ray Moore were guests at the Henry Martin home over the special hunting season, they each took a deer home. Harold Dixon of the forestry was in over night at Martin's on August 31. Three class A fires for this week reported Sept. 1 were a sawdust pile at Fox mill, set by a smoker; grass fire at Hamelton, set by boys with matches; and a fire under the Middle Fork bridge set by a smoker. Manfred Lucus, who was an exchange student here last year from Germany is in Canada this year. lie drove over for a visit last week bringing a friend with him. Mr. and Mrs, Lewis Batty were in town visiting from La Grande. Monday morning reported from Izee was a fire that burned over 1000 acres and burned a caterpil lar. The fire at Setiaca has burn ed over -1000 acres and one man lost his life. Monument had a big wind and dust storm, breaking trees and knocking the fruit off tiie trees. Kirk and Robinson Exhibit Top Beef Kirk and Robinson, Hepner, won the premier beef exhibitor award for the second straight year and for the third time out of five years in the open class beef division. Frank Anderson, Heppner, showed the champion Hereford bull and Kirk and Rob inson the champion female. Meridy Webb, Heppner showed the grand champion cow and Douglas Anderson, Heppner, the reserve champion in the open class dairy cattle division. Other winners in the open class beef division, all showing Herefords, were for a pen of three yearling bulls: Frank Anderson, first, Herb Ekstrom, lone, second; bulls calved in 1953: Kirk and Robinson, first; hulls calved in 1954: Anderson, first and second, Ekstrom, third; bulls calved in 1955: Ekstrom, first, Kirk and Robinson, second; heifers calved in 1954: Kirk and Robinson, first and second, Ekstsom, third; hei fers calved in 1955: Kirk and Rob inson, first; Get of Sire: Bernard Doherty, Heppner first; Anderson, second, Kirk and Robinson, third. Pair of heifer and bull calves: Kirk and Robinson, first; pair of heifer and bull yearlings: Kirk and Robinson, first, Doherty, se cond, Anderson, third; best group of five of one herd: Kirk and Robinson, first, Ekstrom, second. Douglas Anderson placed first with a producing cow in the dairy open class division; bull under one year, Kit Anderson, first; heifer under one year: Mer idy Webb, first. Winners in the 4-H contest judging four classes of cooking and clothing, junior section, were Linda Heimbigner, lone, first; Shirley Van Winkle, Heppner, Grain Crops in County Short With grain harvest expected to be completed the first of Septem ber, approximately 1,500,000 bus hels of wheat and 350,000 bushels of bailey are stored in Morrow County Grain Growers elevator, manager Al Lamb has reported. Although total grain handled is down a million bushels from last year, wheat yields averaged 19 bushels per acre, which com pares to the 23 bushel average county yield over a long time per iod. Wheat yields are down about 20 per cent compared to a bumper harvest of a 24 bushel per acre average last year, Lamb pointed out. Most wheat averaged 58 to 59 pounds, or No. 2 quality, with some first grade and some third grade received in company ware houses. Yields were spotty with some fields in the north end down to 10 bushels per acre while others in the Blackhorse, Clarks Canyon and Ruggs district pro duced 40 bushels or better. Barley production which aver aged 14 bushels per acre com pared to 30 bushels last year, dropped about 50 per cent this year, making the heaviest short age In the overall grain picture, Lamb said. Barley averaged slightly over the 40 pound gov ernment loan minimum require ment. With only a few thousand acres left to harvest, grain is still be ing delivered at Ruggs, Heppner, and a small amount at Lexing ton. Deliveries at lone, McNabb and North Lexington are com pleted. All wheat is being stored in county warehouses and. most elevators will be full by the end of harvest, Lamb said. ' ( ; ' ' v- ' " 4 f Eight 4-H Clubbers Win in Pig Scramble 4-H club youngsters who caught their pigs at the pig scramble Friday night included Tommy Pointer, Bernard Doherty and Russell Dolven, Lexington; Jerry Anderson, Merlin Hughes and Nat Webb. Heppner; Mike Spike, Echo and Roland Berg strom, lone. The pigs were donated by last years winners, Billy Doherty, Ken neth Nelson, Kenneth Smouse Jr., Jimmy Martin, Danny Brosnan and Avery Taylor, Sam Turner and Hynd Bros. Work Horse of the Air Force flow ifw Know! The answer to everyday Insurance problems By Turner Van Mart or & Bryant V V J W jf QUESTION: Can you tell me what hazards are in cluded in the Extended Coverage insurance? ANSWER: Extended Cover age added to a Fire Insur ance policy covers Wind storm Hail, Explosion, Riot, Civil Commotion, Smoke, Aircraft and Vehicle dam age. 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THE SQUARED UP ROUNDEHS with their float depicting an old time square dance came away with second prize money in organi zation float division in Saturday's parade. It will appear in next Saturday's dress-up parade at Pendleton. (GT Photo) Hermiston Market Prices Hold Up HERMISTON Otto Ruhl, Lex ington, was among those earn ing top money at the Hermiston livestock auction Friday, sales manager Delbert Anson reports. Ruhl was paid $14.20 per hun dredweight for an 1105-pound whiteface cow. Volume of the sale was 550 cattle, 96 sheep and 162 hogs. The market was snappy, mov ing along steadily at quote prices, Anson says. Needed next week are large number of feeder steers and grass fat cows and heifers. Others who earned top money were: Jim Kindall, Stanfield, $17.80 per hundredweight for five fat hogs of 1080 pounds; Irene Bur nett, Ritter, $15.70 per hundred weight for three lambs of 340 pounds; R. E. Pointer, Summer ville, $11 for al345-pound Hol stein cow; Walter Embysk, Pen dleton, $18.70 per hundredweight for six white face steer calves; R. and O. Proctor, Walla Walla, $18.00 per hundredweight for a 925-pound grass fat heifer; Char les Herrick, Stanfield, $15..30 per hundredweight for a 1550-pound white fee bull; R. R. Clark, Pen dleton, $15o for a dairy cow; Wil liam Hutleton, Hermiston, $21 for a baby calf; Fred Burnett, Ritter, $14.85 per hundredweight for four feeder lambs of 400 po"nds; Ar thur Stephens, Spray, $17.20 per hundredwetght for three feeder pigs of 230 pounds; C. L. Hunt, Hermiston, $13.90 per hundred weight for a 440 pound white sow. 4-H Sheep Winners Eitcenc Campbell, Echo, won champion of all breeds in the 4 H she:n division and Kenn Smouse, lone, won rcsrrva chain pion Thursday afternoon at the Morrow county fair grounds. Kit George, Heppner, had the champion ewe of all the shsep breeds and Russell Dolven, Lex ington, the reserve champion ewe. 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