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Heppner; Oregon, Thursday, November 17, 1955
72nd Year, Number 36
WINT
ON COUNTY
Many Special 4-H
Awards Given at
Achievement Party
More than 125 South' Morrow'
4-H club members were presented
special awards and membership
pins at the annual 4-H achieve- j
mr'nt party held Saturday even
ing at the fair pavilion in Hepp-1
ner. Nearly 200 persons attended
the dinner. j
Special awards went to Skip !
Emert, Dick Ekstrom and Bill'
Brannon, all of lone who received I
the Wheat League trophy for
being the high livestock judging
team. Connie Anderson of Hepp
ner received the Dave Hynd
trophy for top livestock judge at
the Morrow county fair and Ken
neth Lynn Smouse, lone, a breed;
ing livestock summer school
scholarship.
Judy Howton, lone won the
Danforth Foundation award as
the outstanding county 4-H club
member for 1955; Patsy Wright,
Heppner was honored for being
selected to attend the national
4-H club camp next summer.
Mrs. John Graves, a former
club member who is now a
leader, was presented a state
alumna recognition plaque.
Other . awards were Mardine
Baker, lone, high home econo
mics judge; Sally Palmer, Hepp
ner achievement in 4-H work;
Carlene Rhea, Echo, grand cham
pion livestock showmanship;
Mardine Baker and Marilyn Mor
gan, lone, special food awards.
Janice Martin, Janet Wright,
Meredith Thomson won clothing
awards; Mardine Baker, food pre
paration; Judy Howton, girls' re
cord; Dick Ekstrom. lone,. Larry
Campbell, Echo, boys agriculture;
Connie Anderson and Kit George,
Heppner, dairy; Gerald Bunch,
Jerry Anderson, Heppner, elec-i
trie awards; Libby and Mickey
Van Schoiack, Heppner, ento
mology; Russell Dolven, Lexing
ton, Bill Brannon, lone, meat ani
mal awards.
Leaders of 18 clubs in the
area presented pins to members
and 17 of the clubs received 100
percent completion certificates
and charters for fulfilling the
required years word. j
Introductions and special
awards were presented by N. C.
Anderson, county agent, and
Miss Beverly Bradshaw, home
economics agent.
State Conservation
Meeting Planned
Final plans for the 7th annual
meeting of Oregon Association of
Soil Conservation districts were
announced today by president,
Ralph Saylor, Echo. The meet
ing will be held in Pendleton
with headquarters at Hotel Pedle
ton on November 30 December 1.
A directors' meeting and regis
tration will open the convention
on Tuesday evening, November
29, according to Saylor.
The ladies auxiliary plan a
special meeting, a breakfast and
tour on Thursday morning, ac
cording to Mrs. Ralph Saylor,
president.
Nolan Fuqua, national presi
dent, Association of Soil Conser
vation Districts, Duncan, Okla
homa will participate in the pro
gram and give a report on soil
and water conservation progress
nationally.
D. A. Williams, administrator,
Soir Conservation Service, Wash
ington, D. C, will address the
group on Thursday morning. Mr.
Williams received his early sojl
conservation training and exper
ence in Oregon and the north
west when he was progressively
field engineer, assistant regional
director, SCS, Portland. Later he
went on to chief of operations,
SCS, Washington, D. C, and ad
ministrator, ACP, Washington,
D. C, and two years ago was ap
pointed administrator of the SCS.
Social Security
Representative Due
A representative of the La
Grande Social Security office will
be in the Heppner city hall on
Wednesday, November 23, from
9:00 a, m. to noon, to interview
individuals interested in old-age
and survivors insurance and to
assist those eligible to file ap
plication for benefits.
House Fire Thaws
Frozen Pipes, Water
Puts Out Blaze
'A fire started from a torch
being used to thaw frozen water
pipes caused only minor damage
to a bunk and cook house at the
Don Greenup ranch on Hinton
creek Sunday morning.
L'tcyle Gentry, an employee at
the ranch was working on the
frozen pipes when the fire start
ed about 10 a. m. No water was
available when the fire started,
but heat from the flames soon
thawed the pipes and the flow
ing water was us?d to put out the
flames before they gained
enough headway to destroy the
building.
v Several persons from Heppner
and forest service employees ans
wered a call for help, though
their services weren't required
after the pipes thawed them
selves. G of C Conservation
Dinner Changed
The chamber of commerce's
annual conservation dinner, usu
ally held at the Cutsforth Cabin
on Herren creek, will be held
next Monday night as planned,
but the location has been changed
to the Legion hall in Heppner, it
was announced today by Newt
O'Harra, agriculture committee
chairman.
The annual event, which in
cludes an elk meat dinner, has
been held at the cabin for several
years at the invitation of its
owners, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Cuts
forth, but the heavy snows of
the past week have made the
road nearly impassable. As a
result the dinner will be held at
the Legion hall. It is open to
chamber members and their
wives.
The meeting is planned to
honor the Conservation man of
the year in the county, and as a
rule the Grassman and. the Cat
tleman of the year are also
guests. The chamber sponsors
the Conservation award. The
dinner will start at 7 p. m.
Temperance Speaker
Coming Sunday
Melvin Derby, director of edu
cation for the Oregon Temper
ance League,
will be the
guest speaker
at the Christian .
church next
Sunday evening .
at 7:30, it was
announced to
day.
Derby is an
outstanding
personality i n
his field, both as an educator and
in the presentation of his sub
ject. His appearance is sponsor
ed by the Heppner ministerial as
sociation and the public is urged
to attend.
Smorgasbord
Location Changed
Because of the bad weather
and the difficulty of finding ade
quate parking space near the
Heppner Legion hall, members of
the Catholic Altar Society an
nounced this week, that the loca
tion of its annual smorgasbord
has been changed to the Hepp
ner fair pavilion. It will be held
this Saturday evening.
The affair was originally set
for the Legion hall but the snow
and ice makes driving and park
ing difficult on the hill.
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I0NE STUDENTS FIND THEIR TOWN
WAS NEARLY A CITY BACK IN 1904
Several lone high school stu
dents who are now studying
American Problems were quite
surprised to learn recently that
in 1904 the town of lone had a
population of 700 persons, nearly
double the present population of
340.
A study of why the town had
shrunk revealed the information
that the railroad's coming, not
too many years before probably
had something to do with its
size, however the main reason
was that farming methods were
not nearly so far developed in
those days and consequently far
mers could farm only a much
smaller ranch than is possible to
day. Most farmers lived on their
Howton Reelected
President of N
Grain Growers
About 70 persons braved snowy
roads and sub-freezing weather
to attend the annual meeting of
the Monow County Grain Grow
ers Monday at the lone Grange
hall. New officers were chos?n
for the coming year, but members
didn't get to hear a talk which
was to be given by A. C. Camp,
president of the North Pacific
Grain Growers of Spokane. Road
and weather conditions prevent
ed him from getting to the meet
ing. Lloyd Howton of lone was re
elected president of the organi
zation, Also reelected were A.
C. Lindsay, vice-president; Paul
Brown, secretary and Al Lamb,
treasurer.
Lewis Halvorsen was elected
to a three year term as director
and Paul Jones is a new direc
tor for a one year term. Directors
who were reelected were Paul
Brown, three years; and John
Graves for one year.
Seven associate directors were
also chosen at the meeting. They
are Archie Munkers, Earl McCabe,
Edwin H. Miller, Al Bunch, Archie
Bechdolt, Marion Palmer and L.
.H Rill.
Other business taken up dur
ing the day included the finan
cial report and a report on the
year's operation.
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Teenage Drivers
Attend Hermiston
Safety Conference
Twenty Heppner, Lexington and
lone high school students attend
ed the first teen-age traffic safety
conference Tuesday at Hermiston.
They wee among he 81 students
from Morrow and Umatilla
county schools.
The group heard' many of the
state's top safety experts speak
and they endorsed compulsory
driver education in high schools,
more rigid driver licensing, .peri
odic written exams to keep the
drivers posted on new laws and
trial of teenage drivers in traffic
courts rather than by separate
juvenile courts. The conference
was sponsored by the Oregon
Highway Lifesavers and the Uma
tilla Association of insurance
agents.
The group went together in
a school bus driven by Joe Stew
art, Heppner superintendent.
Those attending from Heppner
were Del Piper, Wayne Soward,
Ed. Olson, Dee Bailey, Alice Stew
art, Ron McCabe, Evvonne Esch,
Tom Currin and Sue Stratton.
Paper Out Early
Next Week; Deadline
Moved Up One Day
The Gazette Times will be
published one day earlier than
usual next week because of
the Thanksgiving holiday, and
the publishers ask that news
correspondents and advertisers
get their copy to the paper at
least one day ahead of normal
time.
Social news deadline will be
Monday evening and corres
pondents are asked to get their
news to the paper by the same
day if possible.
Heppner residents will re
ceive their paper Wednesday
evening, because no mail will
be delivered on the holiday,
other subscribers will get theirs
on Friday as usual.
farm then but the town had to
provide facilities for them as
travel was not nearly as easy as
it is today.
Some of the students also got
quite a surprise when they found
out how many businesses were
operated in lone in 1904. In
cluded among them were two
meat markets; three general mer
chandise stores; two doctors, Dr.
Bruce and Dr. Chick; two drug
stores; one jewelry store; one
paper, the lone Proclaimer; seven
saloons; two lawyers; two black
smith shops; a hotel; one hard
ware; and one each of the fiUlow
ing: paint shop; photo studio;
rooming house; pastime and par
lor; millinery and dentist.
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SENATOR WAYNE MORSE who
will speak Friday afternoon at
the annual meeting of the Col
umbia Basin Electric Co-op.
The meeting is being held at
the fair pavilion in Heppner.
Crowd Expected
For REA Meeting
Here Friday
The continuing bad weather is
not expected to cool interest in
two talks to be given Friday at
the annual meeting of the Colum
bia Basin Electric Co-op to be
held in the fair pavilion.
Main speakers will be Senator
Wayne Morse and state repre
sentative Allen Tom. Tom will
speak on future taxes, but the
subject of Morse's talk has not
been announced.
The meeting opens at 11 a. m.
followed by a luncheon for the
co-op's members and their fam
ilies at noon. The afternoon pro
gram which includes talks by
Morse and Tom Is open to the
public, E. H. Collison, co-op man
ager announced.
. Other business to be conduct
ed will be the election of four di
rectors, a report on the year's
operation and discussion on the
$625,000 expansion project al
ready started by the utility,
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34 Heppner Students
Make Honor Roll
Eleven Ileppnor high school
students compiled high enough
grade point averages to get on the
high honor roll with grade points
of 3.75 or higher. 4.00 would be
the equivalent of straight A's.
Another 23 students ranked 3.00
or better on the low honor roll
for the period.
On the high honor roll were
the following: seniors Nancy
Anderson, 3.95; Karen Prock, 3.91;
Shirley Peck, 3.80; James Mona
han, 3.80; Lance Tibbies, 3.80.
Juniors Jay Sumner, 3.92;
Janet Wright, 3.90; Mary Jo Stew
art, 3.88; Shirley Kononen, 3.75
Sophomores Tom Currin, 3.80;
Joann Brosnan, 3.95.
Those with grades between 3.00
and 3.75 were: Seniors Lynda
Borman, 3.60; Bob Hare, 3.43;
Bob Stevens, 3.25; Skip Ruhl, 3.20;
Wayne Soward, 3.20; Edith Mor
ris, 3.12; Dale Osmin, 3.12; Vir
ginia Andresen, 3 00.
Juniors Alice Fay Stewart,
3.68; Francine Francis, 3.60; Lau
rel Allstott, 3.25; Alice Peterson,
3.25; Meredith Thomson, 3.20;
Jesse Smallwood, 3.05.
Sophomores Helen Graham,
3.62; Peggy Applegate, 3.30; Judy
Collins, 3.17; James Morris, 3.10;
Karen Valentine, 3.04; Janice
Beamer, 3.00.
Freshmen Renn Harris, 3.58;
Carolyn McDaniel, 3.50; Gayle
Cox, 3.20.
Adult Welding Class
Meeting Proposed
A plannnig meeting looking
to the formation of an adult
welding class will be held at the
agriculture building at Heppner
high school on Monday evening,
Nov. 28 at 8 p. m., it was an
nounced this week.
The purpose of the meeting
will be to find out how many per
sons might be interested in such
a class and to determine how
long it will run. If it is started
it will be carried on under the
state vocational education pro
gram. Anyone interested is urged
to attend.
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Mr. and Mrs. G. M. C. Smith
spent last weekend In Portland
visiting relatives.
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REPRESENTATIVE ALLEN TOM
is one of the speakers on the
program for the annual meet
ing of the Columbia Basin
Co-op. The meeting is open to
, the public.
Union Thanksgiving
Service Scheduled
For Wednesday Night
A Union Thanksgiving service
will be held in the Methodist
church Wednesday, Nov. '23 at
7:30 p. m. with the Heppner and
Lexington Christian churches co
operating. The Rev. Norman Northrup of
the Lexington Christian church
will be the speaker and an invi
tation is extended to the public
to attend the special services.
New Telephone
Directories Out
New telephone directories for
Pendleton, Hermiston, Milton
Freewater, and neighboring towns
will be mailed to Pacific Tele
phone Company, customers start
ing November 16.
For the first time, according to
Telephone company manager D.
A. Short, directories for the three
larger towns will have different
covers.
Front cover of the 5875 books
for customers in Pendleton,
Heppner, Lexington and lone,
will be graced by a line draw
ing of a hard riding cowboy as
tride a bowed bucking bronc.
Sketched in the background of
the drawing are a corral fence
and Indian tepees.
The art work, representative of
the Pendleton Round-up, was se
lecled by Short and officials of
the chamber of commerce.
Milton-Freewater's fame as
"Pea Capital of the World" is
highlighted by a line sketch on
the front cover of the book to be
received by customers in Milton
Freewater, Weston and Athena.
The drawing, done by directory
department artists at the tele
phone company's Portland head
quarters, shows a background of
a pea field and distant moun
tains, with an open pea pod in
the foreground.
Utility was substituted for ar
tistry on the cover of the 3689
directories going to subscribers
in Hermiston, Echo, Stanfield
and Umatilla.
The space formerly occupied
by a drawing of Mercury, the
winged spirit of communication
from Greek mythology, contains
information regarding the change
of seven-digit telephone numbers
in Hermiston and Stanfield at 11
p. m., November 19.
In all, 12,865 directories will be
mailed in the first delivery.
Size of the publication has In
creased 16 pages over that print
ed a year ago to a total of 256
pages. Increase in the number of
pages in each book brought mail
ing costs to $207.
The cost of postage, according
to Short, is some $1520 more than
last year.
Some 19,50o books were printed
this year by Metropolitan Press
of Portland, 2100 more than pro
duced a year ago. Close to six
tons of paper were used in the
job.
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Mrs. Harry Duvall returned Fri
day from an eight weeks visit in
Missouri. She went to be with
a friend who is now convalesc
ing from successful eye surgery.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harmon and
son Larry of Eugene were week
end guests of Mr. and Mrs. James
Thomson. The Harmons are for
mer Heppner residents.
-20 Temperature
B
esday Claimed
veitioe
The weather, always a top sub-i
ject of conversation among East
ern Oregon residents, really took
the spotlight this week as old
man winter delivered a series of
low blows to Morrow county and
the entire northwest.
Snow started falling last Fri
day and by Saturday morning the
storm had deposited upwards of
two Inches over all the county
with several areas reporting four
and five inches. By yesterday
there was . between 16 and 20
inches of snow in the mountains
and an average of about four
to .6 inches over most of the
county with a heavy fall reported
from the north sections.
Clearing weather following the
first snow brought a series of
extremely cold days and nights,
which according to reports set a
record for November. The coldest
official temperatures recorded In
Heppner was 8 below early on
Tuesday morning, but there were
numerous reports of the mercury
falling far below that. The low
est unofficial temperature report
ed to the Gazette Times was a
frigid 20 checked at the Harold
Wright ranch near Ruggs. At an
other ranch near there it was 17
below Tuesday morning and at
the W. W. Weatherford ranch at
Lena the temperature dropped
to 14. Several unofficial ther
mometers in Heppner showed 10
and 12 below zero that morning.
The cold set a November record
here.
No thawing, was seen during
any of the past five days and the
lowest daytime official maxi
mum was 12 above on Sunday,
only three degrees higher than
the minimum of 9 for that day.
At no time between Saturday and
Wednesday did the mercury
climb higher than 20 degrees,
yesterday's unofficial high.
Damage Thought Slight
N. C. Anderson, county agent,
said Wednesday that he didn't
think the unusual cold weather
had caused too much damage to
crops as yet, but that there was
bound to be some loss to barley
plantings, especially where far
mers had planted some types
that were not a true winter grain.
Farmers were fortunate that the
fairly heavy snow came ahead
of the extreme cold wave, and
most seemed to think that there
was enough protective blanket to
prevent any serious freeze-out un
less the cold wave should con
tinue. The possibility was also seen
that some Federation wheat,
which was planted instead of Rex
this fall by numerous farmers
might be killed as it has a tend
ency to freeze out worse than
some other kinds. Overall, how
ever, it was felt that so far no
serious crop damage has occur
red. Plumbers Get Workout
Probably the busiest people in
the county were the limited num
ber of plumbers available to thaw
out frozen pipes. Hardly a house
in the Heppner area got by with
out some type of a freezeup Tues
day though no serious damage
resulted as far as is known. Only
one small fire occurred due to
thawing of pipes and that was
quickly extinguished with only
minor damage.
Service stations also expert
enced a grand rush at the outset
of the cold wave and nearly all
ran out of anti-freeze and winter
tires before the winter selge got a
good start. It was a common
sight early in the week to see
wreckers towing In stalled cars.
Roads Kept Open
State highway crews kept all
main roads plowed out and the
lack of any strong wind which
would cause heavy drifting,
aided their work. All roads into
and out of Heppner were open to
traffic at all times though chains
have bepn advised for anyone
heading into higher elevations.
Snow started falling again
Wednesday and weather reports
indicated that it could develop
into a general snowstorm by to
day. Gradually warming tem
peratures are expected, though
no change to warm weather Is
looked for in the immediate fu
ture. Road reports Wednesday after
noon told of light snow and fair
ly strong winds in the Columbia
gorge and some drifting was re
ported between Arlington and
The Dalles on highway 30. It
snowed lightly all day Wednes
day in Heppenr adding well over
an Inch to the previous white
blanket. The fall was reported
considerably heavier to the west
and north.
Official temperatures at Hepp
ner for the past several days fol
low: Max. Mim.
Friday 37 32
Saturday 19 8
Sunday 12 9
Monday 17 4
Tuesday 18 8
Wednesday 20 3
County Bond Sales
Continue High
The sale of United States sav- .
ings bonds In Morrow county
during October dropped below
the same month a year ago for
the first time this year, but sales
for the year are still well ahead
of last year, the state savings
bond division announced this
week.
The county's sales for last
month were $28,450 compared
to $61,368 for October, 1954, but
the total for the first ten months
of the year is now $418,303 as
compared to only $196,238 at the
same time last year. Morrow
still rates as one of the three
highest counties In Oregon In
percentage of sales gain.
Bond sales in the state were
$200,000 ahead of the same month
of 1954, according to Ted Gamble,
Portland, state chairman. Sales
for the year represents a 27 per
cent gain over last year and Ore
gon continues to lead the entire
nation in improvement of this
year's total sales over those of
last year.
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lone Grange Comes
Out Winner of Door
Prize at MCGG Meet
Willows Grance at lone, scene
of the Morrow County Grain
Growers annual meeting Monday,
came out winner of the door
prize offered by the Co-op for
attendance, and according to re
ports, the money will be put to
good use.
A $25 savings bond was offered
as a prize and winner of the
drawing was Van Hubbard, who
turned his winnings over to the
Grange as a gesture of appre
ciation for the use of the hall
and the luncheon the grange
women had served.
After Hubbard made his an
nouncement, Al Lamb, MCGG
manager .said he would match
the amount.
As a result, the equivalent of
two bonds worth of paint will
soon be put on the building.
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lone High Honor
Roll Announced
Sixteen lone school students
earned high enough grade point
averages to win positions on the
honor roll, it was announced this
week by Phil Newitt, superin
tendent. Nine were seniors, four
were juniors, two sophomores and
one freshman.
They are Gary Brenner, Caro
lyn Crabtree, Ernest Drake, Anna
Jepsen, Keith Rea, Wayne Rlet
mann, Clyde Ritchie, Jean Swan-
son, Gerry White, all seniors.
Juniors are Sue Coleman, Sharon
Cutsforth, Judy Howton, and
Julie Rietmann. Sophomores are
Mardine Baker and Neil McKay,
and Leann Padberg, freshman.
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CIVIC LEAGUE TO MEET
The Heppner Civic League will
meet at 8 p. m. Monday, Nov. 21
In the kindergarten room at the
school. Election of officers will be
held.