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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.
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FIRST GRADERS in Mrs. Edna Turner's class are enjoying the big
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Veterans Hospital
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.