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A Semper mmtttt LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 13, 1955 72nd, Number 31 Rep. Sam Coon To Speak Here Wednesday Night Representative Sam Coon will be in Heppner next Wednesday evening, October 19 to meet with the Morrow county Republican central committee early in the evening and then to speak at an open meeting at the high school gym, it was announced this week by J. O. Turner, county committee chairman. The county Republican commit tee and the chamber of commerce some time ago extended an invi tation to both Representative Coon and Senator Richard Neu berger to hold one of their series of debates on the John Day dam bill in Heppner. Coon accepted the invitation, but Neubreger de clined stating that previous speaking engagements prevented him from continuing the debate past last week. The final debate was held early last week in Burns. Coon is expected to talk on the dam bill which ha introduced in the last session of congress and may touch on some of the points brought out in the debate series with Neuberger. Also expected to accompany Representative Coon will be Mrs. Coon; Clyde Brummell, Republi can party executive secretary and L. R. Hodges of the state central committee. The meeting at the gymnasium will start at 8 p.m. and the pub lic is invited to attend. Following the earlier dinner meeting at O'Donnell's Cafe elec tion of officers for the county cen tral committee will be held. All persons interested are wel come to attend the dinner to be held at O'Donnell's Wednesday evening but reservations must be made in advance through J O. Turner to enable those in charge to determine the number to be present. o Deposits and Loans, Hit Record High At Heppner Bank New all-time record deposit and loan totals have been record ed by the First National bank of Portland in the bank's Septem ber 30 statement of condition which was released TuescTay by President C. B. Stephenson. Semi-annual statement of con dition figures for the Heppner branch of First National show that on September 30, 1955, de posits at the branch were $6,533, 470 and loans were $3,986,036, according to manager J. H. Bef ford. Released at the same time were comparable totals for the branch for September 30, 1954. On that date, deposits were $6,370,908 and loans totaled $3,757,885. First National's deposits for its 70 statewide offices totaled $809, 887,551, which is a gain of $87, 042,914 over September 3q of last year. This represents a gain oft $32,858,074 over the June 30 state ment of conditions deposit totals. Loans and discounts totaled $403,231,123, a new all-time high which is significant of First Na tional's wide participaton In the business activity of the state. The figure represents a gain of $61,804,927 when compared with the loan total of one year ago and exceeded the loan figures 'reported June 30 by $21,559,282.- The previous high First Na tional deposit mark was estab lished on April 11, 1955 when a total of $787,553,175 was reported. Highest previous loan total was $381,671,841 on June 30, 1955. On the basis of available fig ures First National continues to lead the Pacific Northwest in both deposits and loans. o Saturday Reading Period For Children To be Held Here Each Saturday afternoon begin ning this Saturday from 3:15 until 3:45 p. m. there will be reading at the city library for children up through the third grade under the supervision of teenagers who have undertaken this project. Afler the reading period, if the, parents wish, the children will: bo taken to the grounds by the' Episcopal church for supervised' play. j George Little is in charge of the program and those assisting him are Meredith Thomson, Lau rel Allstott, Helen Graham, Mar lene Geyer, Maria Robison and Patsy McDonald. I- i 1 h . J j f"" -si ' 1 'v x 'I REP. SAM COON of Baker who will speak on his John Day dam bill at a public meeting here Wednesday night, October 19. See adjoining story. Special Season to Attract Hunters; Some Land Closed Another big influx of hunters is expected in this area this week end to take advantage of the either-sex deer season which opens Saturday, October 15 for eight days. Hunting in Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler counties is expected to be among the best in the state. As in past seasons, a consider able number of acres of private land will probably be closed to all hunting during the special season as a protest by land own ers against the opening of the area to hunting all deer, though present indications are that not as much land will be closed as has been posted during the past two seasons. For the last two years upwards of 125,000 acres of privately owned foothill land has been closed during the doe sea son. Reports coming in during the one and one-half weeks of the buck season which opened on Oct. 1, tell of a high percentage of hunters getting deer, but enforce ment officers have indicated that not as many hunters took to the hills early as did last year. It is felt by some that many hunters from the Willamette valley were waiting for the either-sex sea son. Heavy rains last weekend and early this week have made many of the mountain roads nearly im passable and a high percentage of hunters still in the mountains were driven out by the storms. Most of the deer checked in by game officials have been report ed in excellent condition. Funeral Saturday For Harry Sherman Word was received here Wed nesday evening of the death of Harry Sherman of Willamette, a former Morrow county resident. The Shermans lived on the Kel ly place and left here about four years ago. He is survived by his wife. Bertha and three daugh ters, Kathleen Anthony, Oregon City; Barbara Hinton, Dale; and Nancy. Tuneral services will be held Saturday morning in Oregon City. Methodist WSCS Plans Bazaar, Tea The Women's Society of Chris tian Service of the Methodist church held its regular meeting Wednesday, Oct. 5 and during the business meeting it was decided to hold the annual bazaar and tea on November 19 as usual. An interesting program on the American Indian was led by Mrs. Carl McDaniel with Mrs. Vclma Glass giving some highlights on the Navajo Indian. She will show slides and Indian curios at the November meeting. Mrs. Emma Anderson led the devotions and an Indian hymn was used. Refreshments wore served by the hostesses Mrs. Lincoln Nash, Mrs. Kenneth Carpenter and Mrs. Harley Young. o Mrs. Kcenig Chairman Of Smorgasbord At a recent meeting of the Altar Society of the Catholic church, Mrs. Paul Koenig was named chairman for the annual smor gasbord to be held November 19 at the Legion hall. Lost Hunter Spends Night in Mountains Marvin Lemmon, Ilermiston deer hunter, spent Sunday after noon and night nd part of last Monday lost in the mountains n the vicinty of Bull Prairie the sherilf's office reported this week, but just what the circumstances were still remains somewhat of a mystery. A report was received in Hep pner Monday morning that the man was lost while hunting, but conflicting reports followed say ing that-he had been found, was never lost, and that he had been found and got lost a second time. No one seems to know just what happened except that he turned up safe late Monday afternoon. According to police reports, Lemmon spent Sunday night in a trailer he found parked in the mountains. He had been hunt. ing with Art Young and others from Ilermiston. Young and the other members of the party led the search for the lost man. The the police did not join in the hunt as they never knew for certain that Lemmon' was lost. Nearly One Inch Of Rain Falls Here The first general storm of fall which hit this area last Satur day dropped up to nearly an inch of rain on the Hepner area over the weekend and early this week. The unofficial check here was .86 inch in the 48 hour period ending Monday morning with showers Tuesday and Wednes day adding another .04 inch for a total of .90 for the week. As usual Heppner's rainfall was heavier than in sections to the west and north. At Goose berry the official measurement was an even one-half inch on Saturday and Sunday with only minor showers since. The lowest reported in the lone area was .44 inch which was still heavy enough to add plenty of moisture to the soil. The weather and accompany ing rain that haseen this area's lot this fall has been welcomed by all ranchers and stockmen as the temperature has remained fairly warm giving ideal growing weather. A considerable amount of early seeded winter wheat has already come through, however farmers who have not yet seeded are looking for a few days of good weather to give them a chance to plant. Soil Conservation Program Revised Revision of work plan's and the work program of the Heppner Soil Conservation district to bring them up to date with progress and changing conditions in the area wee completed by super visors of the district at a Meet ing Tuesday night in the bank building . Pictures showing major con servation practices in the district were selected for display at the annual state meeting of the asso ciation of soil conservation dis tricts at Pendleton Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Twenty-five copies of the 11th commandment which con cerns stewadship of the land were ordered from the National assoc iation for distribution locally. The September progress report showed three farm ponds con structed on the W. W. Weather ford ranch, two on the Ambrose Chapin land and two on W. E. Hughes property. Attending the session were Newt O'Harra, Lexington, chair man; Don Peterson, lone, vice chairman; Raymond Lundell, lone, treasurer; John Wightman, Raymond French, N. C. Ander son, Tom Wilson, Heppner; Alvin Wagenblast, Lexington and Dick Krebs, Cecil. Methodist Youth Atiend Camp Retreat Camp Kooskooskie, a Kiwanis supported camp near Walla Wal la was the beautiful and primi tive setting for the annual sub district retreat of the Methodist Youth Fellowship Friday through Sunday, Oct. 9. Young people from Echo, Hermiston, Pendleton, Weston, Milton-Freewater and Heppner were in attendance at the retreat which consisted of worship, discussion and fun. Four members of the Heppner MYF attended. They were Celia Boulden, Renn Harris, Kay Keith ley and Nancy Slocum. They were accompanied by Rev. and Mrs. Lester Boulden. Livestock Growers Set Annual Meet For January 13-14 At a meeting of the executive committee of the Morrow County Livestock Growers Wednesday night it was decided that small feeder lot operations will be a mong the program topics of the annual meeting set for Jan. 13 14 at Heppner. The annual ban quet will be held Saturday night, the 14th at the fair pavilion. Chairman of the game laws committee, Gerald Swaggart, re ported that education through Red Hat day has apparently made hunters more aware of game laws in regard to the farmer and his property and that suggestions of the county committee regarding destruction and trespassing on private property might be with held if the Red Hat program proves effective. : : Raymond French, chairman, reported on a state executive meeting at Prineville and said methods of collecting the tax for a state beef commission fa vored by the county group is hold ing up legislation on the project and more education is planned by the Oregon Cattlemen's as sociation before hearings by the state department of agriculture will be requester Testing of several hundred head of cattle owned by one op erator is holding up completion of Bangs' disease testing in the county before it can qualify as a Bang's free area according to a report from the livestock dis ease committee. Testing of the herd is to be done as soon as the cattle come in from the range this fall. Sloping of roadside rights-of ways to enable ranchers to get seeding equipment onto the area for grass seeding will be re quested of the county court by representatives of the range and pasture improvement committee and the Heppner soil conserva tion district who are working cooperatively to roadsides seeded to' grass," it was reported. In addition the range committee has received one-half pound of Rambler alfalfa seed to be ap plied on an acre of ground in the county next spring. Seed from this new creeping type alfalfa, developed in Can ada, is scarce and only three counties in the state have been selected to plant it. The others are Grant and Harney. A fall project planned by the commit tee is a grass land drill seeding for range improvement to be held when moisture conditions im prove. Present for the session were French, Swaggart, John Graves, treasurer; Norman Nelson, range committee chairman; Jim Lind say, livestock disease control chairman and N. C. Anderson, secretary. Golf Club to Elect Officers Monday A meeting of members and persons interested in the Willow Creek Country Club will meet Monday night at 8 p. m. at the Elks lounge to elect a board of directors and officers for the or ganization which plans to build a golf courst near Heppner. The group has incorporated but no permanent officers have yet been selected. The club has a lease on a plot of ground about one-half mile west of Heppner from Thomas Wells and plans to construct a modern six hole course early next year. o Junior Class Play Cast Is Chosen There's mystery in the air! Ghosts are about to appear and foul deeds are about to be com m'tted when Heppner high school junior class presents the three act mystery comedy play, "The Secret Door" on the evening of November 18 and 19. The play cast was chosen last week by Stanley Holm, director. They are: Bugs Johnson, a gangster-Gary Jones; Marlene Owyer, an heiress-Laurel Allstott; The Man- ? ?;Elizabeth Hyde, a country woman-Ida Sue Stratton; Matilda, her niece-Evonne Esch; Robert Moiley, an insurance salesman-Jay Sumner; Beth Caldwell, Cob's fiancee-Meredith Thomson; Kitty Chapman, a young girl Mary Stewart; Jerry King, Kitty's boyfriend-Al Esch; Happy Harry, a tramp-George Little; and Mrs. J. J. CaldwelL Beth's mother- Mona Howard. Alice Faye Stew art is the student director. . -"", : " i r " ! - 14 1 t f I I . ; I- ', l - 1 y ... I :-;;.! JEFF CARTER, J. C. Penney man ager at Heppner, who has been transferred to the company's store at Payette, Idaho. He will leave shortly after November first. RICHARD BRUNNER of Aberdeen, Washington who will arrive here about November 1 to take over as new mancger of the Heppner J. C. Penney store. (GT Photos) Carter Transferred To Idaho Store Jeff W. Carter, manager of the Heppner J. C. Penney Co. store for the past four and one-half years, will leave here shortly after November 1 to become manager of the company's store in Pay ette, Idaho, It was revealed here this week. Catrer will be replaced by Rich ard Brunner of Aberdeen, Wash ington. Carter came to Heppner in June 1951 from Bend where he was assistant manager of the Penney store replacing Jack O'Connor who was moved to Fallon, Nev He started with the company in 1934 in the Walla Walla store and was transferred from there to Ashland. He has been with the company continuously except for three and one-half years in the armed forces. He has been very active in civic affairs in Heppner, having served one year as president of the Hep-ner-Morrow counly chamber of commerce and on many commit tees for that organization. He Is currently chairman of the cham ber's merchant's committee. He is also a member of the Heppner city council having been elected to a three year term in 1952. He has served for over two years as county savings bond chairman and is head of the Boy Scout fund drive for 1935. He has also served on many other civic committees. Brunner, who will arrive here about November 1, has been as sistant manager of the Aberdeen Penney store for about one and one-half years and has been with the company for nearly five years. He is married and lias four child ren. Heppner Student Pledges Sigma Nu Four hundred and sixteen men were pledged by the University of Oregon's 21 fraternities on the campus at the end of the fall term rush week, October 1. The pledge class is an increase of 60 over the number pledged last year and is one of the largest in many years. On the pledge list from Hepp ner is Larry Mollahan who pledged Sigma Nu. Wranglers Set Date For Duckburger Feed The date of the annual buck burger feed of the Wranglers has been set tentatively for October 22 at the fair pavilion, it was de cided at tlie club's monthly meet ing last Tuesday night. Plans were also discussed for improving the club house. The committee who served re freshments were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wiglesworth and Mr." and Mrs. George Currin. I : a roi .JUv ....., W. I III II' II. I'M I I'll 1 Pioneer Hospital, Catholic Church May Benefit From Will According to a story this morn ning in a Portland paper Pioneer Memorial hospital and St. Pat rick's Catholc church in Heppner each received a bequest of $5,000 in the will of the late Mrs. Taul ine Quaid who died in September at Portland. The story also reported that Mrs. Quaid's daughter, Mrs. Katie Hofen of Portland plans to file a suit to contest the will. She was bequeathed only a small portoin of the $205,000 estate, the story said. The bulk of the estate was left to the state board of higher education for use in the construction of a psychiatric hos pital for the University of Oregon medical school. Mrs. Quaid, who was the wife and daughter of two of the early settlers in Morrow county lived here for many years before mov ing to Portland. She was 97 at the time of her death. William C. Hubbard Killed in Crash William C. Hubbard, 23, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Van Hubbard of lone, was killed late Sunday evening near the intersection of highways 73o and 207 north of Hermiston when his car left the road and crashed into a gravel pile. He was alone in the auto mobile. William Clyde Hubbard was born May 28, 1932 at Dayton, Washington and moved with his parents to a ranch near lone sev eral years ago. He completed his schooling at the lone schools and served in the armed forces hav ing received his discharge last spring. He was a member of the lone American Legion post and the Elks lodge. Funeral services were held Tue sday at 2;00 p. m. at the lone Community church with Rev. Alfred Srirley officiating. Inter ment was in the Heppner Mas onic cemetery with graveside services in charge of the lone post of the American Legion. He is survived by his parents, one brother, Robert, lone; two sisters, Lillian Boyce. lone and Margaret Connor, Rilter, his grandmother, Mrs. Lida Hubbard and step-grandmother, Mrs. Lou ella Brill. Creswick Mortuary was in charge of' arrangements. Art Club Organized By Heppner Group The Art Club met Tuesday eve ning at the home of Mrs. Al Bun ch and it was decided to join the Amateur Artists Association of America and to work from their home study course which will cost each member $3.00. The next meeting is set for the third Monday in January when it is hoped all materials will be here. Anyone Interested in the group is urged to contact Mrs. Bunch or Mrs. Alex Thompson who are the organizers. Those present at the meeting were Mrs. Paul Koenig, Mrs. Lio nel Huston, Mrs. Dick Borman, Judy Spaulding, Phyllis Quack enbush, Mickey Nichols, Mrs. Bunch and Mrs. Thompson. There are more who are interested but were unable to attend this meeting. STATE WHEAT CROP VALUE SHOWS DECLINE; SOME CROPS ON INCREASE Oregon farm marketings of wheat last year slipped more cashwise than any other major farm crop. This is revealed in I revised figures on 1954 cash re ceipts from farm marketings com .piled by the federal department j of agriculture and just received by J. F. Short, director of the Ore Icon department of agriculture. The same report shows total farm marketings last year of $382,661, 000 compared with a revised 1953 total of $401,381,000. The 1954 farm income from wheat was $53,973,000, almost a $10 million drop from 1953 and the lowest since 1930. In releasing these figures, Short pointed out that they rep resent gross income out of which farmers had to pay all farm and labor costs as well as taxes. Farm receipts from cattle and calves last year were $57,397,000 or almost $3 million above 1953. Oregon farmers marketed $50.8 million worth of dairy products which was $3 million less than in 1953; $32.6 million worth of ' . - ... earner years which re-1 Murder Conviction Appeal Filed by Mrs. Ann Avent The liklihood that Mrs. Ann Avent who was convicted Aug ust 31 for second degree murder in the shooting of Portland at torney Dellmore Lessard, will appeal the conviction appeared fairly certain this week. The county clerk received a notice from Mrs. Avent on Oct ober 7 stating her intent to ap peal her conviction and on Wed nesday received a notice of ap peal stating that she files notice that she is appealing her con viction and sentence to the su preme court of Oregon. Apparent ly Mrs. Avent is handling the appeal herself and does not have, at the present time at least, an attorney representing her. No definite action has yet been started by the county on the appeal, but if it is accepted as being in the proper form and technically correct, a transcript of the case will be ordered by the county clerk. Mrs. Avent has at least 30 days in which to file a bill of exceptions and prepare an appellants brief which will go to the supreme court along with the state's documents. There was no indication from the papers filed to date upon Vhat basis the appeal will be made. George Corey, Pendleton at torney, who was appointed spec ial prosecutor for the case when Morrow county district attorney Bradley Fancher asked to be re lieved of the prosecution because he had previously represented Mrs. Avent, will continue to han dle the appeal for the county. Mrs. Avent was convicted of second degree murder on Aug ust 31 by a jury of 12 men. Their verdict was unanimous. lax Statements Due Next Week The sheriff's office announced today that the 1955-56 tax state ments will begin going out to county taxpayers early next week. An entirely new system has been set up in the tax office as a result of the changeover in the assessor's office due to the reappraisal program carried out during the past year, and tax payers are asked to check their statements for accuracy. Every attempt has been made to el iminate errors on the statements but with a new system some are bound to reep In, it was said. The office also asks that the state ment be returned with payment to facilitate bookkeeping. Deadline for payment of the first quarter's tax is November 15 and as usual a 3 percent re bate will be allowed for payment in full by that time. CLARENCE HESSELTINE ILL Mr. and Mrs. Lutkins of Spok ane are here to be with her bro ther, Clarence Hesseltine, who is in Pioneer Memorial hospital in serious condition from a stroke suffered Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baker of Kennewick, Washington, former Heppner residents, were cislting here on Sunday poultry products .down $8.7 mil lion from the year earlier; and $6.7 million worth of other live stock. Marketings of all meat an imals were a little over $74 mil lion, up $3 million from a year earlier and the total on all live stock and livestock products was $164,287,000 or $9.2 million off from 1953. On the crop side of the picture, barley ranked second for a sin gle commodity, bringing In $15 million or $5 million more than in 1953. Snap beans and potatoes each produced over $10 million of farm income and hay was worth $7.6 million. Seeds were worth $18,340,000 with common rye grass producing $6.8 million of the seed total. As a group, fruits and nuts at $50.8 million held fairly even with 1953, while the vegetable grouping at $34.8 million was off almost $i million. For the sixth straight year, pears brought the largest cash receipts of any of the tree fruits, berries or nut crops. Pears grossed $13.4 mil lion. ---neppner witn part ol this to be done next year.
