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I I SRAftY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. mmttk wpet: Copies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 5, 1956 72nd Year, Number 43 2 Renamed To County Fair Board The county court this after noon announced the reappoint ment of W. E. Hughes, Heppner. and Charles Carlson, lone to the Morrow county fair board. The third member will be Willard Jones, Irrigon, who replaces Willard Baker of Boardman, whose term expired January 1. It was also announced that the Court has agreed to go ahead and work out the origi nal agreement with the fair board for the removal of cer tain buildings, install a new fence etc., at the fair grounds. Judge Garnet Barratt said the k court and the fair board are in " agreement on 100 percent co operation in complying with fair board laws and reorganiza tion of the board to make for a better fair and greater benefits to the county as a whole. The court will also assume Jurisdiction of the North Morrow fair and will appoint a super visor and committee for it. In addition it will make every ef fort to work out an arrange ment for the continuation of the north county fair. Over 30 persons including members of the fair and rodeo committees met with the" county court Friday afternoon to urge the court's reappointment of pre sent members of the fair board. Two have resigned effective the ' first of the year, and the third member's term expired on the same date. The two members who turned in their resignations are W. E. Hughes, chairman whose term had one year to go, and Charles Carlson, with two years remain ing. The third member is Wil lard Baker of Boardman. The group urged the court to make every effort to get all the fair board members to accept re appointment saying they felt the three had done a good job dur ing their terms in office. It was pointed out that the reason for the resignations was due in a large part to difficulty arising from the new interpretation of state laws governing the disposi tion of racing fund money to county fairs. The law specifies that only one county fair can be supported by these funds while in the past both the Morrow county fair at Heppner and the North Morrow fair at Boardman received a split of the money. It was also said that certain past agreements between the county court and the fair board regard ing work to be done at the Hepp ner fair grounds had not been en tirely carried out. The court indicated to the group that it was making every effort to straighten out the problems and also hoped the for mer members would accept re appointment. The court expects to make the appointments either Wednesday or Thursday at the regular court session. . o ROBINSONS PARENTS OF SECOND SON Mr. and Mrs. Donald Robinson are the parents of a boy born at 11:48 p. m. December 31 at the Good Shepherd hospital in Her miston. He is their second son and weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz. and is named Kyle Devin. Grandpar- ents are Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Kirk - of Hermiston and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Robinson of Mt. Vernon. COMMITTEE HEADS WATER RESOURCES Committee chairmen of the Morrow county Basin Projects committee were named by county chairman, Newt O'Harra of Lex ington at a recent meeting of the group held at the O'Harra home. The committee heads will se lect their own committee mem bers and each will consider local resources problems on which they will report at a county meet ing to be called within a short time. The group unanimously favored the construction of a low level dam of 255 feet at the John Day site pointing out that considerable county land as well as the towns of Boardman and much of Irri gon would be flooded if a high dam were built. Barge loading at Morrow county docks would be jeopardized also if a high dam is built HMAMWW CAB... ..T.CMfim'tfcw 1i "" li - .vBMMH FIRST BABY FRIZES go to little Jimmy Earl Arnold and his parents Mr. and Mrs. Earl Arnold of Condon. Jimmy arrived at Pioneer Memorial hospital at 2:23 a. m. January 1 to become the first baby to be born in Morrow county in 1956. (GT Photo) 8 POUND BOY WINS FIRST BABY CONTEST FOR CONDON COUPLE An 8 pound, one ounce boy, Jimmy Earl Arnold arrived in this world just two hours and 28 min utes after the start of the new year to win for himself and his Mom and Dad the prizes offered by Heppner merchants to the first baby born here in 1956. Jimmy's proud parents are Mr. and Mrs. Earl Arnold of Condon and because of their new son's timely arrival they will collect a sizeable aray of gifts ranging from baby foood and bottle warm ers to a sport shirt for the father. It marks the second year in a row that Condon residents have cop ped the first baby prizes as an other couple from the Gilliam county town won last year's con- Marketing, Stock Diseases Topics For Growers Meet . cil. He will fill the un-expired Livestock marketing programs term of Jeff Carter who resigned and the problems of livestock in November when he moved diseases will be two of the top from the city, subjects to be featured at the an-1 Grabill has previously served nuai meetihg of the Morrow one full term on the council going County Livestock Growers asso-'out of office at the end of 1954 ciation to be held at the fair pa- when he did not run for reelec vilion January 13 and 14, Ray-'tion. mond French, association presi-' xne group heard W. R. Nelson, dent revealed this week. j engineer for Pacific Telephone A panel discussion of "Live- and Telegraph Company explain stock marketing programs in how a remote control system Eastern Oregon" will be a feature could be developed for control of the Friday program with Jiggs ling operation of the pumps at Fisk, Wallowa county rancher; the city's upper wells. At the Orval McCormmack, Umatilla present time a man must be kept county rancher; Ben Gilgore, on duty to operate the electric Pendleton Grain Growers, Bill equipment and some method has Southworth, Grant county ranch- been talked whereby the system er; on the panel and William could be operated from town. Fowler of Oregon State College Nelson toJd tne C0Uncil that a as moderator. The panel will be rough estimate of the lines and held at 10:15 Friday. ; equipment needed to give a re- Dr. A. G. Beagle, of the bureau mote system would cost around of animal industry will speak on $12,500 with monthly charges livestock diseases, and others on varying from $39.00 to $78.00 de the Friday program include John pending on the type of service Landers, OSC, speaking on feeds decided upon, and feeding; and Robert Every, The matter was referred t0 OSC on insect control. committee for further investiga- Saturday's program includes tio. reports of committees on theft The council received two re prevention, range and pasture quests for small sections of land improvement, game laws, insect to be annexed to the city.' A map control, market development and showing a plat of five lots ad disease control. Election of new joining the city, to the - south officers will also be held Satur- owned by Vivian Kane, Helen Cox day. and Durward Tash, was present- SPturday evening's program in- ed and approved by the council, eludes a social hour at 5:30 and Petitions will be presented later the annual banquet at 6:30. Both asking that the area be taken will be held at the fair pavilion, into the city. Presentation of several special A request was also heard from awards is scheduled for the ban- the county that the fairgrounds quet. area be provided with fire pro- John Graves is banquet chair- man, Kenneth Peck, head of the entertainment committee and O. W. Cutsforth of publicity. NAMED FOR COUNTY PROJECTS GROUP The committee chairmen named include William Barratt, Heppner, irrigation; Don Kenny, Irrigon, drainage; Garnet Barratt, Heppner, flood control; Kenneth Smouse, lone, power; Al Lamb, navigation; O. W. Cutsforth, Lex ington, recreation, fish, game and wildlife; Oscar Peterson, lone, in dustrial development; Dr. L. D. Tibbies, pollution control and Garland Swanson, lone, munici pal and domestic uses. Garnet Barratt, vice-chairman of the former Upper Columbia River Basin Commission, which was replaced by the new Water Resources Board, reviewed the changes made in the articles of the area -wide group at its recent meeting in Pendleton. County re ports will be turned over to the area committee which will make recommendations to the state Water Resources board. test. Jimmy's father, who watched proudly while his new son's pic ture was being taken, works of Sid Seale, Gilliam county ranch er. The boy is the Arnold's first child. Not only did Jimmy time his arrival carefully, but also his mother. While there was no great rush, Mrs. Arnold arrived at Pioneer Memorial hospital just one hour ahead of her son. He is their first child. Dr. Schwisow of Condon was the attending physician. o New Councilman Assumes Office Robert Grabill, manager of the Heppner store of Empire Ma chinery Company, was sworn in as a new council member Tues day evening at the monthly mpptincr nf the Henrmer eitv eoun- tection wnicn wouia mean a ae- cided lowering of fire insurance rates on buildings. The council voted to recommend to the county court, to whom the property be longs, that it petition for the area to be taken into the city limits. Parking problems in several areas were discussed and the street committee was ordered to investigate the trouble along Gilmore street, S. Chase street leading up cemetery hill and the area behind the bank. ' The com mittee will recommend what measure will be taken to elimi nate traffic hazards. The council also approved a resolution calling for E. L. Prock to show cause why an old house now standing on his property on Elder street should not be de clared a fire hazard and a men ace and be removed. He has 30 days in which to answer the complaint. o TED'S GROCERY SOLD W. E. McMillan, owner of Ted's Grocery In Lexington, this week announced the sale of the busi ness to A. H. Nichols. The new owner took over operations Janu ary 1, County Gets One Of Its Wettest Years in 1955 Tabulation of rainfall records; for several areas in the county reveal that most of Morrow county enjoyed one of its wetter years in 1955. j As usual the Heppner weather station led the rest of the check-1 ing points with a total of 16.26 inches. This compares with only ; 11.61 in 1954, but is slightly un-j dor the 17.09 inches to fall here in 1953. Close behind was the check; station at the Bill Weatherford j ranch .near Lena where 16.10 inches fell during the year. Since! September 1, the start of the new crop year, a total of 8 52 has been recorded there. At the Gooseberry station, Leonard Carlson checked 14.44 in. for the year with 2.52 inches coming in December. Weather ford had 2.39 in the same month and Heppner 2.64 inches. Still one of the driest sections of the county is the north Lex ington and lone areas where only 8.04 inches was checked at the Crum Brothers ranch. However of that total 5.65 inches has fallen Uon that if the wet spell contln tionsthat if the wet spell contin ues there is a good chance for an excellent wheat crop in that area. Snow Heavy Much of the moisture to fall in Heppner during the past twoi months has been in the form of snow with a total of 8.35 inches measured here in December. Nearly an equal amount fell in November. . By a queer quirk of the wind currents, Heppner was again in the banana belt over the past weekend while most areas around it were getting heavy snow. A light snow fell in Heppner early Sunday morning, January 1, but less than a mile to the south no snow was found. To the north and west however, increasingly heavier falls of snow was found with lone and Lexington getting about four inches and the Board man and Irrigon sections getting up to 11 inches Sunday and Mon day. Along the Columbia the temperature has remained near the freezing point since the start of the week while near Heppner the mercury has stayed around the 45 to 50 mark. Road conditions were classi fied as "terrible" along the Col umbia most of the time since Sunday with several minor ac cidents being reported. Packed snow and ice caused most of the trouble. Reports Wednesday from north Morrow county still told of from four to seven Inches of snow on the ground. Building Permits Hit Record High New construction and remodel- ins work done in Heppner during 1955 reached a record high of $344,725 it was revealed this week by a check of building per mits issued by the city. The largest single item to show during the year was the new Heppner grade school which was built at a. cost of over $257,000 though it was not necessary to ob tain a permit for this building. This work was started in January. City permits issued showed new construction with an estima ted value of $71,000 was started during the year and remodeling and alterations cost qibjzo. The 1955 figure is more than three times that for 1954 when a total of $119,050 in new build ing work was started in the city. o Pomona Grange Meet At Rhea Creek Pomona grange will be held at Rhea creek grange Saturday, Jan. 7 with the meeting to start at 10:30 a. m. A dinner will be given at noon and a program starting at 2 p. m. It was announced that the grange with the most members at Pomona for the next five meetings will receive a $25 prize. All 4th degree members can at tend Pomona. Early Spring, Maybe? More proof that Heppner must be in the banana belt came from Bill Weatherford early thig week. He picked pussy willows over the weekend at his ranch near Lena. Heppner Post Office Shows Slight Gain In Business for '55 1955 receipts at the Heppner post office showed an increase of $136.01 over business in 1954, postmaster James Driscoll re vealed this week. The local office did $23,601.50 during 1955 as compared with $23,465.4!) in the previous year. Cancellations during the peak mail period from December 2 through 23 showed a slight jump 69,450 pieces checked through the automatic letter cancellation machine during that time. The previous year 67,010 pieces were put through. This figure doesn't account fur all the letters sent out from the local office, for close to 1,000 per day during the rush are of a size or shap? that they cannot be put through the ma chine. The greatest number of cancellations made on any one day was about 8,860 letters. While no exact record is kept, postal employees said that parcel post both dispatched and re ceived here was about the same as last year. Heppner 1955 Fire Loss Hits $5 Fire losses in Heppner during 1955 took a considerable jump over the previous year, fire chief C. A. Ruggles revealed this week, but the city's record is still very good. The department answered a total of only 11 calls, three less than the previous year and fire and water damage amounted to $5,404.66. Of that total, $3,800 was suffered in one residence blaze which damaged the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Munkers early last fall. Records show five fires were controlled with booster lines; one by chemical extinguisher, and four were out on arrival or required only stand-by effort. The department laid 1,100 feet of 2',ii inch hose; 400 feet of 1 inch line, used 36 feet of ladders and one fireman suffered minor Injury during the year. f Equipment added during the year included 200 feet of new 2 inch hose and one 1V4 Inch fog nozzle. In addition to the 11 regular alarms, several false alarms and other calls were received due largely to dialing wrong num bers. Few of these calls resulted in sounding the city's automatic alarm system, however. Year-End Sale Volume Tumbles HERMISTON Volume scuttled downward at the Hermiston live stock auction, last Friday, .sale manager Delbert Anson said to day. The Pre-New Year sale saw salable 124 cattle, 135 hogs and 15 sheep. Everything moved readily, An son reported, with prices all along the line stronger. Hogs, their downward trend apparently stemmed, held steady. Anson said buyers are calling for fat cows and veal now. Earning tops at the market were: Floyd Daniels, Echo, 12 cents a pound for nine fat hogs of 1700 pounds; Mike Ireland, Hermis ton, 16.70 cwt. for two fat lambs of 230 pounds; B. E. Pulley, Her miston, 10.10 cwt. for a 330-pound white sow; Chris Wyss, Hermis ton, 20.50 cwt. for a 2 10-pound veal; C. J. Nobles, Umatilla, 16.50 cwt. for a commercial steer of 1010 pounds; E. W. Barnum, Pen dleton, 1410 cwt. for a 2000-pound white face bull; Frank Dedro, Pilot Rock, 16.00 cwt. for two grain fed heifers of 1785 pounds; Doyle Ivy, Kennewick, Wash., 9.40 cwt. for a 965-pound Ayershire cow. The Market: CATTLE: baby calves, 1.50 10 17.00 a head; steer calves, 16.10 to 17.20 cwt.; heifer calves, 13.80 to 16.90 cwt.; veal, 1910 to 20.50 cwt.; stocker steers, 13.50 to 14.80 cwt.; feeder steers, 14.80 to 15.90 cwt.; commercial steers only, 15.30 t0 16.50 cwt.;fat heifers, 14.30 to 16.00 cwt.; dairy cows, 83.50 to 97.50 a head; commercial cows, 10.70 to 12.80 cwt.; utility cows 9.40 to 10.70 cwt.; canner cutter cows, 8.10 to 9.40 cwt.; shells, 5.25 to 8.00 cwt; bulls, 12.20 to 14.10 cwt. HOQS: weaner pigs, 3.50 to 4.75 a head; feeder pigs, 9.50 to 10:60 cwt.; fat hogs, 10.90 to 12.00 cwt.; sows, 8.40 to 10.10 cwt.; boars, none. SHEEP: Feeder lambs, none; fat lambs, 15.50 to 16.70 cwt.; ewes, none; bucks, none. Phi BI Chamber r V f I A s . j PHIL BLAKNEV, Heppner phar macist. who last week was named president of the Hepp-ner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce. (G. T. Photo) Elks to Honor Old-Time Members Eleven long-time members of the Heppner Elks lodge will be honored at a special old-timers night to be held during lodge meeting tonight (Thursday) Mil ton Morgan, exalted ruler has an nounced. The eleven members will re ceive special honors and pins de noting their years as members of the local lodge. This is the se cond annual observance to be held. Those to receive pins, and whom are especially invited to attend tonight's meeting are Francis Doherty, Lewis Batty, B. E. Ison,30 year pins; John Berg strom, Norman Florence, H. R. Weatherford and O. G. Bergstrom, 35 years; H. D. McCurdy, Sr., Bert Mason and Harold Cohn, 40 years; and Curtis C. Khea, a 50 year member. Economist Speaker At Soil Meeting "Economics of Conservation" will be the topic of a talk by Dr. Emery Castle, economist, Oregon State College, at the annual meeting of the Heppner Soil Con servation district Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 7:30 p. m. at the Lexington Grange nail, it was reported at a meeting of District supervisors Tuesday night in the bank build ing. Included on the program will be a conservation panel com posed of Oscar Feterson, lone, representing the Grange; Irvin Rauch, Lexington, Farm Bureau; Donald Peterson, lone, wheat growers association; Raymond French, Heppner, Cattlegrowers association; Jack Flug, Heppner schools and Jack Bedford, Hepp ner, banks and finance. Modera tor will be Fair Griffin, Pendle ton, area conservationist of the Soil Conservation service. Election of two supervisors to fill the expiring terms of Ray mond Lundell, lone, treasurer, and John Wightman, Heppner, will be held and a conservation film shown. A December progress report in (he district given at the meeting showed 1,040 of soil surveys made to bring the total to 753,482 acres and 21 acres of land leveled on the Marlon Palmer ranch, lone. Attending the meeting were Newt O'Harra, Lexington, chair man; Lundell, Wightman, Grif fin, Donald Peterson, lone; Ben Cottshalk, Alpine; N. C. Ander son, secretary and Tom Wilson, work unit leader, Heppner. o Band Parents Name Slate of Officers The Heppner Band Parents club met recently and elected new of ficers for the coming year. Chosen president is Mrs. Oliver Creswick; Mrs. Alvin Bunch is the new vice president and Mrs. Cal Sumner was named secretary-treasurer. The next regular meeting of the organization will be Tuesday, January 10 at 8 p. m. at the high school band room. FORMER TEACHER DIES Mrs. Frank Huffman of Burns passed away January 1 at Mc Minnville. She was formerly Charlotte Woods, a music teacher at Heppner high school, akney New President Phil Blakney, owner of Phil's Pharmacy in Heppner, has been named president of the Heppner Morrow county chamber of com merce by the board of directors of the organization. Blakney served as first vice-president of the chamber during the past year. Other officers named by the di rectors are Jack Angel, hospital administrator, first vice-president and Jack Bailey, Elks club secretary, second vice president. Blakney will take over his new duties at the first regular meeting of the group next Mon day noon. He replaces Jack Bedford, manager of the Heppner branch of the First National bank who has headed the chamber the past year. Blakngy has been a resident of Heppner for about four years, coming here from Milton-Free-water. He has served on various committees in the chamber, and for one year was chairman of the merchants committee, one of the mast active. The chamber membership elec ted new directors early in Decem ber and from this proup, the new president and other officers are named by the board's members. On the ten-man board are Blak ney, Bailey, Angel, James J. Far ley, Jack Flug, Dick Brunner, Dr. Wallace H. Wolff, Newt O'Harra and Al Lamb. Blakney announced that he would name most of his commit tee chairmen within a short time. Three Injured in Friday Accident Three Heppner residents were injured, two seriously, when their car went out of control about three miles west of Heppner on highway 74 and overturned. Most seriously hurt was Bar bara Warren, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Warren of Heppner, thrown from the machine when It flipped over in the air. Badly cut around the face and head and bruised was Joann Keithley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Keithley. The third passenger was Mrs. Warren who suffered a sprained knee and bruises. According to reports the car went out of control when the driver attempted to bring it back on the road after slipping onto the right shoulder. The car skid ded across the road going off the left side after skidding a con siderable distance and overturn ed in the air before hitting on its wheels on the accesss road about 10 feet below the highway. Both Barbara and Joann were thrown from the car, Barbara suffered four fractures of the pelvis and a broken left arm in addition to scalp lacera tions and severe shock. She is re ported to be much improved to day. Joann suffered multiple cuts and lacerations of the face and scalp and numerous bruises and abrasions. She also suffered from shock when taken to Pio neer Memorial hospital by ambu lance. Mrs, Warren said she believed the accident was caused by pow er steering on the car. Her daugh ter was used to driving another car which did not have it. The car, a new Cadillac, suffer ed only minor body damage as it overturned completely In the air landing on its wheels. lone Townies Call Second Game Against Ordnance Squad The lone town basketball team will play a return game with the Ordnance squad next Monday, Jan. 9 and will be endeavoring to keep its perfect record, manager Bob Hoskins announced this week. The lone squad, which hasn't lost a game so far this season, is playing continually better ball, and a good crowd is expected. The game will be played in the lone gym and game time is 8 p. m. Probable starting five will in clude Larry Pryse, Gene Doherty, Wayne Pierce, Butch Eubanks and Robert Peterson. TO WORK ON GOLF COURSE Tere will be a work party for the Willow Creek Country Club at 10:00 a. m. on Sunday.
