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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chamber
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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.
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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.