Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, November 24, 1955
HEP PN ER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppnr Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Timet, Mtbllrted
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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No Place for Compulsion
It is easy to understand how the members of
a Democratic club for the election of Democratic
candidates for a public office, or the members of
a Republican club seeking the election of their
candidates, might be assessed to raise a fund
for political action. It is hard to understand, how
ever, how a labor union can use the funds collected
from all its members, who belong to various poli
tical parties, to promote a particular party candi
date. What would happen if a corporation assessed
its employes or its stockholders to raise a special
fund to promote a special candidate? It would be
In legal difficulties at once. What is the differ
ence between that and compulsory union assess
ments for political purposes? If union members
or corporation stockholders or employes wish to
voluntarily put up their money to help a candi
date carry on his campaign, they have the privi
lege of doing so, but to be compelled to put up
their money for a candidate is a different story,
whether they favor such a candidate or not.
Compulsion should be wiped out of the-Ameri-can
picture where a man's political beliefs or the
right to work are concerned.
FROM THE SANDERSVILLE, GA., PROGRESS:
"Some merchants think they have to do some
thing offensive before they will lose a customer.
'Taint so according to the National Retail Grocers
Association. Of every 100 customers put on the
books of any store in any one year-. . . .only 19
of the original customers remained after 10, years
Merchants who believe 'everyone knows where
my store is' might ponder these figures and seek
more new customers through planned newspaper
advertising in the home town newspaper."
INCOME TAXES IN EARLY
Ray Smith, chairman of the
State Tax Commission, announ
ced Friday that both corporation
excise and personal income tax
collections for the first four
months of the fiscal year showed
a big advance.
The period totals are $18,700,
974 as compared with $14,548,
159 for the same period in 1954.
Corporate excise collections in
creased from $4,462,050 in 1954
to $4,912,234 In 1955. Personal in
come tax payments during the
first four months of the present
fiscal year totaled $13,788,740 as
compared with $10,086,108 for
the same period last year.
Chairman Smith accredited the
increase to better business in the
state as well as withholding
from higher wage earnings. Ad-
Lotter To The Editor
Dear Editor:
Having read the article about
the high school students of lone
and their surprised search in re
vealing information of popula
tion and businesses of their city
in the days of 1904, was most
amusing. I wish to mention to
the fact that one important oc
supatlon that they had failed to
add to their list and that was
livery stables. I am certain that
there were two and possibly three.
It should be pointed out to them
that livery stables played a very
important part in every com
munity of the good old horse and
buggy clays.
Yours truly,
Stanley Minor, Heppner.
ditional receipts also came from
employers who, with their cm
ployees consent, have already
started withholding by the new
2 per cent rate.
SIGN TRUCK PACT
The new truck license agree
ment signed last week by nine
western states may become an
other "Oregon first", just as the
gas tax, Australian ballot and
manv other governmental ad
vancements and reforms origi
nating in this state.
The nine states will tax each
other's transport trucks on the
basis of mileage they travel.
They have been operating under
a reciprocity agreement under
which each state permitted out-of-state
trucks to operate within
their boundaries without pay
ment or fees.
Secretary of State Earl T. New-
bry predicted the plan would be
come nationwide.
... LICENSE WATER WAGONS
Oregon's Attorney General Ro
Iwrt Y. Thornton came un with
an Interpretation this week that
water tank trucks used for fire
protection could not be consider
ed fire engines or even fire
wagons, which by law are ex
empted from motor vehicle licens
ing and regulation.
Thornton ruled that "fire en
gines" have been recognized 200
vcars lone before motor vehi
cles, like the tank trucks, were
invented.
HORSE ROUNDUP LAW
The Oregon supreme court on
Wednesday declared the so-called
horse roundup law unconsti
tutional. The law passed by the 1951
legislature provided that the
state or federal government
could engage the services of In
dividuals to round up unbranded
horses on the open range in Mal
heur and Harney counties such
individuals to be paid $25 per
head for each animal captured.
The case arose when a rancher
sued to recover horses which two
individuals had captured under
the terms of the statute. The
statute was held unconstitutional
on the grounds that it permitted
the taking of private property
without due process of law.
"It is the duty of the court to
protect personal rights guaran
teed by the state and federal
constitution and to prevent en
croachment thereon by legisla
tive fiat unless actually essential
to the protection of public wel
fare," Justice Walter L. Tooze,
who wrote trie majority opinion,
said.
Justice Tooze was confirmed by
Justice Earl C. Latourette, Wil
liam C. Perry and George Ross
man in a prevailing opinion. Dis
senting were Chief Justice Harold
J. Warner, Justice James T.
Brand and Hall S. Lusk.
ENJOY BILLBOARDS?
The new law regulating bill
boards on highways will go into
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
November 26, 1925
Jos. J. Nys made a trip to Can
yon City the past week, where he
was called on legal business.
Ray McAlister was in Heppner
for a short time on Tuesday
from Lexington. '
VOTE
Nov. 17th
to 27tb
STAR THEATER
Manager Sigsbee of the Star
Theater has booked Cecil De
Mille's "The Ten Command
ments" for Heppner on Sunday
and Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wells went
over to Pendleton to eat turkey
with the family of D. C. Wells.
John Pieper spent a few hours
in the city Saturday afternoon.
There was a special meeting of
the Red Cross chapter of Heppner
at which time Lincoln A. Corbett
was honor guest. Others pre
sent were Mi's. Helen Walker,
Mrs. W. P. Mahoney, Mrs. Jessie
Pruyn and Prof James Burgess
The lineup for the Heppner
Wasco football game, champion
shin of the upper Columbia basin,
will be center, Eugene Doherty;
r. guard, Jim Thomson; r. tackle,
Earl Merritt; r. end, Bob Tash; 1
guard, John Turner; 1. tackle,
Harold Evans; 1. end, Onez Par
ker; 1. half, William Bucknum;
r. half, Elmer Bucknum; fullback
Faul Aiken; quarterback, Crocket
Sprouls.
STAR THEATER, Heppner
Admission Prices: Adults 70c. Students 50c, Children 20c including Federal Tax.
Sunday Shows continuous from 4 p. m. Other evenings start at 7:30. Boxoifice
open until 9 p.m. Telephone 6-9278.
Thursday-Friday-Satuiday, November 24-25-26
THE KENTUCKIAN
Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Plana I.vnn, John Mdntire, Una Merkel. Filmed
in CS and Technicolor, based on Felix Holt's novel, "The Gabriel Horn", this very,
very good account of frontier days in Kentucky presents authentic touches in man
ners and morals with humor and pathos. Added tasty dish for your Thanksgiving
entertainment Is a musical featurette with Ink Spots,
Sunday-Monday, November 27-28
NOT AS A STRANGER
Olivia Dellavilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broaderlck
Crawford, Charles Bickford. The most-talked-about novel of the decade becomes
the must-see motion picture of ihis or any other year a magnificent accomplish-
ment!
Sunday shows at 4 p. m., 6:40 and 9
Tuesday-Wednesday, November 29-30
GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES
Colorful, tuneful, gay and lively this is light but exceedingly bright entertainment!
In addition to Jane Russell, Jeanne Cram. Alan Young, Scott Brady, Rudy Vallee, it
has Paris and Monte Carlo in Technicolor and Cinemascope. It's good fun.
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CASE FURNITURE has come up with a really sensational Christmas
gift item, the new CaliLounger all-steel irame reclining chair,
three models of which are shown here. There are CaliLounger
chairs made especially for every size personnote the one on the
left with the extension leg rest for extra long people its one of the
really new Christmas gift items for the home, but only one of the
many that Case Furniture has in stock for early-bird shoppers who
find their best gifts right here in Heppner at prices that equal
any anyplace.
effect January 1. N. O. Nelson,
state labor commissioner who
executes the law advises all sign
owners to check with him to see
if they need permits.
Nelson has Just appointed an
advisory committee to aid him
with enforcement. There are
nine members, eight are bill
board operators, carpenters or
electricians and one lawyer.
ANY ANSWERS?
Secretary of State Earl T. New-
bry has had some odd requests
and many hard to answer inquir
ies put to him during his term of
office, but none like the ten page
questionnaire now confronting
him. Sent in by a TV quiz pro
gram researcher, the question
naire asks such questions as
"Who is Oregon's oldest living I
native?"; "Whose is the largest
native Oregon family?"; "Name
any outstandingly beautiful na
tive Oregon women (living or
dead)".
It is questions like that last
one that gives Newbry and his
researchers the shivers. Others
ask about nationally prominent
engineers, scientists, musicians,
writers, artists, and other mem
bers of the arts and professions
who are native to Oregon.
If any of you readers care to
contribute a few names just to
send a note to Secretary of State
Earl T. Newbry. He'll be glad
to get them.
CAPITAL SHORTS
Governor Patterson will leave
Salem for Washington, D. C,
Continued on Page 8
To Further Promote The
Efficiency of Our Business
WE ANNOUNCE
The Appointment of
ORAL WRIGHT
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To Our New Car Sales and Service
Department. We Invite You to Stop
in Soon and Get Acquainted
Farley Motor Co.
PONTIAC
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CMC WILLYS
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D. A. Short, your Telephone Manager for Heppner
Christmas gifts everyone
in ycur family will enjoy
Time sure flies, and Christmas is almost here again. So why not
take a minute out right now and go Christmas shopping for your
family. Below are some of the telephone gifts from which you
can choose. They'll bring new pleasure to your home not just
at Christmastime but every day of the year.
Color phones : For added beauty and
convenience in every room you use
a lot. Come in red, ivory, brown,
green . . . blue, beige, yellow, or gray.
Also in two-tone combinations. Mom,
especially, would be pleased with an
attractive gift like this.
Speakerphones: You can use this re
markable new hands-free telephone
without lifting the receiver. Talk con
veniently through the miniature mi
crophone. Hear at a distance through
the loudspeaker. Can be used like any
other phone, too.
Illuminated dials: When you lift the
receiver of this special telephone, the
dial lights up automatically. Dialing
is easy for you even in total dark
ness. Just the thing for bedrooms
and any other dimly lit place.
Wall phones: Here's something no modern
kitchen should be without. Dad would find
a wall phone handy in his workshop, too.
It's "out-of-way" when you're working yet
is always easy to reach. Take your choice of
attractive colors.
These are just a few of the things now avail
's able to make your telephone still more use-.
ful and attractive. When you've made your
choices, call your telephone business office and talk it over. You'll
be surprised how little it costs to give these unusual yet ex
tremely practical gifts. And if you call now, you'll be sure to
have them in plenty of time for Christmas.
How to enjoy even faster
long distance service
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Today telephone operators can dial
most long distance calls direct to
their destinations, to millions of tel
ephones all over the country. It's one
of the things that's helped us speed
long distance service. And you can
help make your service even faster
if you give the operator the number
of the person you're calling, not just
the name and address. When you
place out-of-town telephone calls by
number they actually go through
twice as fast. Pacific Telephone.
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BICYCLES
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WAGONS
TRUCKS
A BIG SELECTION
OF GIFTS FOR
MOM AND DAD, TOO!
Compare Our Prices with
Mail Order Prices!
John A. Pfeiffer
Heppner