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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.