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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE Education Week Program Draws' Parents f tar w i 5 &sr--tf 1 V I. :.v ' PS 1 ? I t; K . ; TV VISITING PARENTS who attended classes and. looked over school facilities during American Education Week, Nov. 6 to 12, found that the scene of greatest activity was the school cafeteria during the lunch hour. Parents were invited to eat with their children and many enjoyed the well balanced meal which students get for 25 cents. These two photos above show several parents at the tables with the students. Nearly 200 Moms and Dads visited at . the schools during the week to sit in on classes and get a better understanding of the way in which their children are being given an education. School officials and teachers expressed pleasure at the response ana interest snown. tTTTT'r' 1 1 j 1 FIRST GRADERS in Mrs. Edna Turner's class are enjoying the big ..... . i l i J jM (kn mav.v l..il4inrr new, bngntiy coiorea ana wen uymeu iuuius m m ikh .... which is nearing completion. Shown in the photo are some of the students and a couple of the many mothers who visited classes during Education week. - i Jt ' V,, r i BMllinilMliiitllliIIMf'icilf""-'''''1' 1 11 . NOON-TIME ENTERTAINMEW i lor a group oi seveuiu yiuue 0 nii.imnnrtant rheclcer name beina clayed conven- UCUI3 WUO L --'"I l? " - 1 - iently on the floor. Picture was American Education Week, but participants were omivious oi me comings and goings of the many parent3 who visited Heppner schools during the week. (GT Photos) SATURDAY 4-H ACHIEVEMENT PARTY TO ACKNOWLEDGE YEAR'S CLUB WORK On Saturday, November 12, 190 Morrow county boys and girls will be observing 4-H achieve ment day. These boys and girls are enrolled in thirty clubs, car rying projects in livestock, poul try, rabbits, entomology, electri city, sewing, cooking, and home making. The 19o members will receive recognition this year for a job well done. Club members in the North Morrow county communi ties received pins and other re cognition on November 4, while South Morrow 4-H members and leaders will receive their recognl tinn on Saturday evening. The achievement party for these members will be held at the fair pavilion beginning at 6:30 p. m. with a potluck dinner. All members, their parents, leaders, and interested persons are invit ed to attend. In summarizing projects car ried by these boys and girls dur ing the year, leading all projects in numbers of club members en rolled, is mealtime fun, a new cooking I project. Thirty-four boys and girls were enrolled, prepar ... -. , t 5 - f . . j v r yi 1 ? ii. j .. - - - - - taken during the early part of i ing 1,256 dishes, serving 3,408 people. Next in line with num bers enrolled was the Just bo (jirl. a clothing I project. Twenty-three club members made 114 articles which were valued at $74.53. SheeD club members totaled 22, who raised 45 animals valued at $3179.61. Twenty beef club mem bers raised 28 animals at a value of $4,813.23. Other livestock projects were ten dairy animals valued at $933. 71, nine club members raised 31 pigs valued at $1635.41. Rabbit and Doultrv projects were carried by two 4-H Clubs this past year with 12 members enrolled, iney raised 198 animals. Their value was $304.52 Eighteen boys were enrolled this year in the new electricity project. These boys learned about electricity by work ing with sate low voltage direct current electricity. Each made three-way switches and games and gadgets that were fun to work with. A new project for Morrow count v this vear was "the ento mology project where five 4-H (Continued on page 6) V S, i - 1 Heppeti. alette Copies 10 Cents Morse and Tom To Speak at REA Co-Op Meeting Senator Wayne Morse will be the main speaker at the annual meeting of the Columbia Basin Electric Co on to be held Friday, NovembPr 18 at the Heppner fair pavilion, it was revealed this week. Also on the program will bo Allen Tom, state representa tive. The program will start at 11 a. m. with registration, to be fol lowed by luncheon for all mem bers and their families at noon. At the afternoon meeting, which is open to the. public, the sche dule calls for the president's re port by Kenneth Smouse; treas urer's report by Jack Hynd Jr.; manager's report by Edgar H. Collison; election , of directors and talks by Tom and Morse. Three directors will be elected for a term of three years and nominated for these positions are Wavne Anderson, Condon; Jack Hynd, Jr.,Cecil; Virgil Woel- pern, Blalock; and Raymond Lundell of lone. There will also be an election of a director for a one vear term and Oscar Peter son of lone has been nominated for this post. Representative Tom is to speak on future taxes, but the subject of Senator Morse's address has not been announced. A report will be made on the co-op's $625,000 loan which was recently approved by the Rural Electrification Administ ration which is to be used for new con struction. Some work has al ready started on the big program, manager Collison said this week, with about 15 miles of single phase line out of Morgan being converted to three phase. The work is being done by the Wil son Construction Co. of Portland. Work will start next spring on the building of a new transmis sion line from Sherman county which will serve the Blalock area. , o Clarence Hesseltine Dies at Spokane Veterans Hospital Clarence Hesseltine, 72, a resi dent of Heppner for nearly 50 years, died October c50 at tne Veteran's hospital in Spokane. He had suffered a stroke at his home here about a month ago and shortly afterwards was trans ferred to the Spokane hospital for treatment. Funeral services were held on November 3 at Walla Walla and burial was in a Walla Walla cemetery. Very little is known about Mr. Hesseltine except that he came to Heppner about 1903 and had worked in local restaurants for many years. He was a graduate of Whitman College in Walla Walla and was formerly a teach er in Washington. He served in World war I and was a member of the American Legion. He is survived Dy one sister, Mrs. A. E. Lukens of Spokane. o Veterans Hospital i Ir. A A l I Blu-i(jtrS Are ASKcU Anv nerson or organization in terested in sending Christmas gifts to patients in the Morrow countv Red Cross wards at the Walla Walla Veteran's hospital are asked to contact either Mrs. John Berestrom or Mrs. Ben An derson, local chairmen for the committee. The local Red Cross has pro vided gifts for the county ward at the hospital for several years, and the committee announced that there are 83 men in "the wards at this time. Gifts asked for are tee shirts, nail clippers, stretch socks and cigarettes. All donated gifts are to be! taken to Walla Walla by Nov. 30 but the committee would like to know before that date what will be given. o ; Mrs. Avent Being Held at Canyon City Mrs. Ann Avent who was re leased from the state penitenti ary to the custody of Morrow county sheriff C, J. D. Bauman late last week and is being held inthe Grant county jail at Can yon City pending a hearing on an appeal of her conviction. Mrs. Avent was sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of Dellmore Lessard, Portland at torney. She will remain a pri soner of the county until her ap peal is settled which will prob ably be sometime next spring. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 10, J1 f ' ......- . . .............. k J,MimiLid mi imiwM THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER to the economy of Eastern Oregon was explained by members of the Upper Columbia River Basin Commission Monday at the chamber of commerce. Present were left to right Paul Rowell, executive secretary; J. W. Forrester Jr., Pendleton; judge Garnet Barratt, Heppner; Ray Baum, La Grande; Marion Weatherford, Arlington; Jack Bedford, Keppner chamber president; and judge Robert Lytle of Vale. (GT Photo) Tax Payment Deadline! November 15, Over 25 Already Paid Tax money continued to roll into the sheriff's office this week as the deadline approached for the payment of the first, quarter 1955-56 real and personal pro perty taxes. Tuesday, Nov. 15 is the last day taxpayers may take advantage of rebates for early payment and first quarter pay ments are delinquent after that date. The tax department had checked in $249,148 by Wednes day with many more thousands of dollars received by mail but not yet recorded, sheriff C. J. D. Bauman said. This amounts to slightly more than .5 percent of the total tax. GrabilFTolif Council Vacancy Eob?rt Grabill, manager of Empire Machinery Co., and form er Heppner city councilman, was appointed by mayor Mrs. Mary Van Stevens Monday night, to fill the vacancy on the council cre ated by the resignation of Jeff Carter who left Heppner last week for Payette, Idaho. Grabill served a full term on the council in the past, but did not run for reelection last year. He will serve until the next general election. The council accepted the resig nation of Melvin Piper, city po lice officer, and hired Dean Gil man of Heppner to fill the posi tion. Piper resigned, effective late'this month, to take a simi lar position with the Pendleton police department. Gilman, who served on the Heppner force' sev eral years ago, will take over his duties about December 1. At the recommendation of Gil Groff, Salem engineer, the coun cil threw out all bids that it had received last month for the con struction of two footbridges across Willow creek and will start all over. Because definite plans and specifications had not been prepared for the bridges, the bids varied from about $9,000 to over $18,000 and Groff said that each bidder was bidding on something different. The engi neers were ordered to prepare proper specifications and bids will be asked for again. Park Plans Due The engineering firm was also instructed to prepare plans for the development of the city park property. An overall building and landscaping plan will be prepared which will be followed by the city as money becomes available from the special 5 year one-mill levy voted last year. Mayor Stevens gave a report on the recent League of Oregon Cities meeting which she attend ed in Portland and presented city attorney J. J. Nys with a cer tificate of service awarded him by the League for over 30 years of service to the city. o 4-H Council to Meet At E. M. Baker Home There will be a meeting of the South Morrow county 4-H council at the home of Mrs. E. M. Baker, lone, on Thursday, November 17 at 8 p. m. A nanel discussion on 4-H work by parents and leader, will be held. Mrs. Blanche Sanders of Hood River is visiting her son and dauehter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sanders. Laxton McMurray, Ex-lone Rancher, Dies At Salem Laxton McMurray, about 83 years of age, a well known for mer rancher near lone, died on Monday at a Salem hospital. He had made his home in Salem for about the past 10 years, but had lived in Morrow county since before the turn of the century. Mr. NcMurray is remembered by many as a philanthropist during a great part of his life here. He aided the sick and the poor and was always a big donor to Boys Town, the Shrine Hospital in Portland and many other chari table organizations. One of his most recent bequests was a $3,- 000 gift to Pioneer Memorial hos pital here for the purchase of X.-Ray equipment. He was born in Polk County, North Carolina. The exact date is unknown, but he was about 83 vears old. He served in the Span ish -American war, seeing action in Cuba and was awarded the Purple Heart. Shortly after the war he came to this area and homesteaded south of lone on what is now known as the Ber gevin ranch where he lived until about 10 years ago when he and his wife disposed of their pro perty and moved to Salem. Mrs. McMurray passed away about four years ago. Funeral services were held at 1 p. m. today (Thursday) at the lone Community church withi Rev. Castleman, a former pastor at lone, officiating. The lone Ma sonic lodge was in charge of the services and burial was in the I. O. O. F. cemetery. Mr. McMurray was a life member of the lone Masonic lodge, having been ini tialed in 1913, and he also be longed to the lone Odd Follows lodge and the V. F. W. Survivors include three sisters, Mrs. Ray Robinson, Portland; Mrs. Lauren Hale, Tangent; and Mrs. Blanche Wortz, Clarkston, Wash.; two brothers, Fred Mc Murray, Portland and Hugh Mc Murray of Toledo, Ore. He also leaves several nieces and nep hews. One step-son died about 1950. o Morse to Talk On Hells Canyon at Irrigon Grange Senator Wayne Morse will speak at an open meeting of the Irrigon grange Thursday, Nov. 17. The meeting will start at 8 p. m. and Morse's talk will be on Hells Canyon, it was announced. The meeting will be proceed ed by a potluck dinner at 6:30 and is open to the public. o Large Tax Check Due County on Monday A check for $15,412.60 will be presented Monday by Pacific Power & Light company in pay ment of its 1955 property taxes in Morrow county, according to J. R. Huffman, local manager for the power company. Huffman pointed out that the company's tax payment was $1, 529.46 higher than last year, rep resenting an increase of approxi mately 11.0 per cent. Pacific's total property tax paid in 26 counties in Oregon this year amounts to $2,374,231.19. This amount is $186,795.81 larger than it was in 1954, an increase of 8.5 per cent. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gonty left Friday for Seattle to attend the shoe market. 1955 Water Conservation Seen Vital; Planning Said Needed "East of the mountains, water is Oregon's most valuable asset," Judge Robert Lytle, Vale, a mem ber of the Upper Columbia. River Bain Commission told the Ilepp- ner-Morrow county chamber of commerce Monday, and he asked Morrow county, along with all other counties in the basin, to organize a committee to aid in seeing that the progress and de velopment of water use and con servation started by the commis sion will not die with it when It goes out of existance the end of this year. Judge Lytle was one of six members of the commission who met with the chamber Monday to explain what it had done In the past four years since it was created. He explained that the last legislature abolished the commission along with others in the state Including the Willam ette River Basin Commission and replaced them all with a Water Resources Board which supposed ly is to have jurisdiction over the state's water problems. Lytle said however, that the new board will be primarily a policy making board and that some of its mem bers have already admitted that it will unable to do all the jobs the Upper Columbia River Basin Commission, and the others, had been doing in aiding local com munities to develop flood con trol, irrigation and water develop, ment projects. Tracy Elder and Pilot Killed In Plane Crash Tracy K. Elder, an owner and operator of the Silver hpur ranch in south Morrow county, died last Thursday night in a crdsh of a four-Dlace private plane on which he was a passenger on a flight from Pendleton to Spo kane. Killed with him was How ard Arthur of Pendleton, pilot, operator of the Pendleton Air ways flying service. The wrecked plane was found about 35 miles north of Walla Walla by one of several search planes which had been alerted when the plane failed to arrive in Spokane on schedule. Elder had intended to make the trip from Pendleton to Spo kane on a commercial plane but missed the flight and chartered Arthur to fly him to the Wash ington city. The weather in the area was not good, but the cause of the crash is unknown. The plane burned. Elder, whose home was In Spokane, where he owned an accounting firm, came to Morrow county in April, 1954 when he and two associates purchased the Claude Buschke and the Boyer and Haynes ranches in the Had man area and formed a corpor ation known as Silver Spur ranch. Elder spent much of his time here managing the operation. Funeral services were held on Tuesday at the Sunset Memorial Chapel In Spokane with Rev. George R. S. Little, rector of All Saints' Episcopal church of Hepp ner officiating. Cremation ser vices were held In Spokane. Mr. Elder was born August 13, 1907 at Gardner, Kansas and was very well known in the Spokane area and in Idaho. He was, a member of the American Insti tute of Accountants; the Early Bird Breakfast club and the Spo kane Kiwanls club. Surviving are his wife Emma P. Elder; a son Tracy K. Jr.; five daughters, Mrs. Marlene Engen, Mrs. Nancy Blanchard, all of Spokane; Mrs. Peggy Burdine, Heppner: Mrs. Sandra Selland, Burke, Idaho; Miss Marilyn El der, Osburn, Idaho, and seven grandchildren. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. J. C. Pruitt, Los Animas. Colo.: and a brother Allan F. Elder of Spokane. o EXAMINER COMING A drivers license examiner will be at the court house In Heppner Tuesday, Nov. 22 from 9:30 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. o Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Buckley of Everett, Washington were the guests last week of their daugh ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dowen, 72nd Year, Number 35 Local Local Plans Needed Lytle asked each county to form its own committee and then these groups would be called to gether by early December to form an Upper Columbia Basin Pro jects Committee which could carry on the work .started by the present commission. The judge emphasized that the main purpose of the county com mittees would be to form and crystalize the water development projects that are needed in each irea. He said that the biggest problem faced by any commission is that not even the people who might be Involved in any deve lopment know just what they themselves want. To prove his point he used some of the cur rently highly controversial major dam projects as an example. He continued that if any county or area can come forth with a plan ned, workable project then defi nite action can be taken to get the project started. He pointed to one need In Mor row county that of water con servation saying that much could be done with the wasted water that flows into the Colum bia from Willow creek. One job of the county committee would be to develope a plan to save It for local use. Following Lytle the chamber heard Tom Wilson, local soil con. servationist, tell that efforts had been made in the past to plan just such a program as the judge outlined, but without result. He pointed out some of the projects which would be feasible in Mor row county included problems of heavy runoff which cause ero sion; cloudbursts which cause loss of life and damage; excessive stream meandering and lack of storage reservoirs. Marion Weatherford, Arlington, chairman of the commission, told the history of the commission and explained what it had able to do to aid local areas in develop ing their own conservation plans. He also emphasized that much progress had been made and that the work shouldn't be lost for lack of a group to carry on. J. W. Forrester, Jr., of Pendle ton, spoke briefly on the John Day dam, telling of the contro versy over its height and ex plained how a high JD dam would drown out much of the us able land in north Morrow county. The members of the commis sion were introduced by county judge Garnet Barratt, who is vice chairman of the group. They In cluded Judge Lytle; Weatherford; Forrester; Ray Baum, La Grande; and Paul Rowell, executive secre. tary. o MCGG Annual Meet Monday At lone A. C. Camp, president of the North Pacific Grain Growers, Inc. of Spokane will be the main speaker at the annual meeting of the Morrow County Grain Growers to be held next Monday, Nov. 14 at the lone Grange hall. The meeting will start at 10 a. m. Included in the business to be transacted at the meeting will be the reading of the annual report and the election of four direc tors and seven associates. Nomi nated for the three year term as directors, with two to be elect- ed, are Paul Brown and Lewis Halvorsen. For the one year term, with two to be elected, John Graves and Paul Jones have been nominated. Lunch will be served at noon by the PI EC of the grange and several attendance prizes are to be given away, manager Al Lamb announced. o General Closure Seen For Veteran's Day Nearly all -Heppner stores, all county and state offices, the post office and other businesses will be closed Friday, Nov. 11 In ob servance of Veteran's Day, It was announced this week by the chamber of commerce merchant's committee. The city has obser ved Veteran's Day, or Armistice Day as it was formerly known, for many years. No general observance or pub lic program is planned, but the Heppner Legion Is sponsoring an all-day breakfast at Its hall which Is open to the public.