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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1956)
L I BRAKY U OF 0 EUGENE, Hynd Twins Hold - Claim To Title of Oregon's "Oldest Living Pair" TFTT ; : hi iim iiiirf i- li rr r ii urn T r- nil mil "UNCLE WILL" HYND of Heppner and his twin sister, Mrs, T. H. Lowe, Portland, who are thought to be Oregon's oldest living set of twins. They are 87 years old. This photograph, thought to be the latest of the two together, was taken about two or three years ago. Morrow county has claim to two people who are probably Ore gon's oldest living set of twins, though the title cannot be defi nitely established. They are very well known to residents of Heppner and most of the county. In fact, one of the twins has re sided in Heppner for many years and the other, since moving from Cecil, in Morrow county, has made her home in Portland. The two, whom this paper be lieves to be Oregons oldest twins, are Will G. Hynd of Heppner and his sister Mrs. T. H. (Jennie) Lowe of Portland. They will be 88 years old on their next birth day in September. The matter of just who are the state's oldest twins arose a couple of months ago when Port land papers ran a story about a set of Portland twins who were 85 at the time and claimed to be Oregon's oldest. That the Hynd twins have them "out-aged" by at least two years is certain and until an older pair is uncovered somewhere in Oregon their claim to the title appeals valid. William George Hynd and his twin sister Jane (though always known as Jennie) was born Sep tember 22, 1868 at Low Butterby county, Durham England and came to Canada when they were 9 years old. From Canada, "Uncle Will" as he is known here, came to Heppner in March 1892 fol lowed by his brother Jack in 1896 and two years later by his father and mother, brothers David and Charles and sisters Maggie (Mrs. M. L. Case) and Annie (Mrs. H. W. Krebs). He bought the Powell ranch in Sand Hollow and lived there until 1944 when he moved to Heppner with his brother David and sister Annie. Uncle Willi' twin sister re turned to England from Canada after a short time to care for her grandmother and there was mar ried to T. H. Lowe. Their child ren, Mrs. Henry Krebs, Sr., Ar lington; Mrs. Emory Lehman, of Monteiey, Cal.; William and Ro bert both of Heppner were all born in England. The family moved from England in 1913 ar riving in Morrow county October LOCAL OEA UNIT FAVORS STATE SALES TAX "EARMARKED FOR EDUCATION" The Heppner unit of the Ore gon Education Association voted Monday night at its regular meeting to go on record as favor ing a sales tax for Oregon. The group was not unanimous in its vote, but a majority favored to tax with the provision that the proceeds derived be earmarked for education. It was announced that Satur day, April 14 has been set as the date for the dedication of the new Heppner grade school. The school board and superintendent Joe Stewart have made exten sive plans for the public to view the building and the program will include David M. Steele, su nervising contractor of the firm of Simonton and Steele, Portland, contractors who built the build ing. Steele is a versatile Scots ORE. 22 of that year. They purchased the Cecil store at that time and operated it until 1925 when they sold out and moved to Portland where Mr. and Mrs. Lowe still reside. Will never married during his long lifetime, but Mr. and Mrs. Lowe celebrated their 57th wed ding anniversary last December. Both the twins are very active and in good health considering their age. Hardly a day passes that "Uncle Will" isn't downtown in Heppner and nothing stands in his way when there is a wrestling match scheduled in Heppner. or in Pendleton and he can find a ride to the Umatilla county city. Mrs. Lowe makes her home at 5112 N. E. 25th Avenue, Portland and Uncle Will lives with his "kid brother" Dave, only 78 years old, and housekeeper Miss Nellie Doney on Gale Street in Heppner. o Funeral Services For Del Ward To Be Held Friday Delbert Milton (Del) Ward, 77, passed away in Portland Tues day, March 6. Mr. Ward was born in Lonerock in Gilliam county on October 13, 1879, lived in Morrow and Gil liam counties most of his life. He farmed in the Blackhorse and lone districts until he bought the Hotel Heppner in 1937 and operated it until 1945 when he sold it and moved to Portland to make his home. In 1907 he was married to Ethel Wilson, who survives him as do two-sisters, Mrs. Flora Nys of Heppner and Mrs. Frankie Con roy, Medford. Services will be held Friday at 2:00 p. m. in The Dalles, with in terment at the Dalles. ENTERS SERVICE Ralph Marlatt, Heppner high school graduate of last June, left today for Spokane where he will enter the a! my. He expects to be stationed at Fort Ord, Calif. man who promoises to add to the evening's program by supplying a "Scotch Flavor" to the enter tainment. , It was also announced that a representative of the White House conference on education will be a featured speaker at a public meeting to be held at lone, Friday, March 23 at 7:30. A citizen's panel will participate with Bradley Fancher as coordi nator. Mrs. Adrian Bechdolt was se lected to act as delegate to the Northwest Regional Convention of Classroom Teachers to be held March 8 and 9 in Pendleton. Other teachers from this area plan to attenr the Saturday ses sions. Miss Marguerite Glavey and Charles Huggett served refresh ments following the meeting. mtmmx Copies 10 Cents Additional Filings Expected Before Friday Deadline Four more persons have filed for county positions during the past week, it was revealed by the county clerk. In most in stances those filing had previ ously indicated their intention but had not actually filed. Filing were C. J. D. Bauman, republican for sheriff; Oliver Creswick, Republican for county coroner; J. O. Hager, justice of the peace for Heppner district and Gustave Fisher, Irrigon, justice of the peace for the Boardman Irrigon district. Another filing 0f interest was that of A. E. (Earl) Glidewell of He:miston who will seeki the Democratic nomination as repre sentative in Congress from the second district. He will be op posed in the primary by Al Ull man, Baker Democrat who was defeated two years ago by Sam Coon, Baker Republican who is running for re-election. Senator Stewart Hardie, Con don, had not announced by yes- teiday whether he planned to run again for the state senate seat he now holds. Republican John P. Hounsell of Hood River has already filed for the seat. With the filing deadline Friday at 5 p. m. a noticeable rush of last-minute aspirants is expect ed by most county clerks and the secretary of state. A partial list of state filings appears in the Capital Parade column in today's paper, and a more complete list will probably appear next week, o Kirk fir Robinson Heifers Win Top Awards at Redmond A local stock raiser, Kirk & Robinson of Heppner, walked off with two more top place honors with his cattle at the Oregon Hereford Association show and sale last Saturday at Redmond. Two Kirk and Robison heifers won the grand champion and re serve champion ratings at the Redmond show. Another local stock laiser, Floyd Worden showed two bulls at the sale which showed up well in their classes, it was reported. Nine Kirk and Robinson ani mals have been exhibited in three recent shows winning two championships and two reserve champion awards. Don Robinson said Monday that recent sale averages have been about the same or slightly below prices for last year. o lone Girl Wins Scholarship For 4-H Club Work Nine Oregon high school stu dents have been awarded $100 college scholarships for further study in agriculture and home economics. The students, all mem bers of 4-H clubs, were selected on the basis of their contribu tions to county 4-H programs. Chosen from this area was Judy Howton of lone. The scholarships are awarded in memory of Carl Raymond Gray, a former president of the Union Pacific railroad. '.''tel. : V I V I " . 1 1 1 mil in In i till i'i in - i i it i. MIKE WILLIAMS of Heppner proudly holds Cub Scouting's highest award, Webelos which means he has graduated from the Cub Scouts with honors. It was presented to him by his father, John Williams, shown with him. Heppner, Farm Identification Signs To Be Project Of Rural Committee The Farm Home ami Rural Life committee met Thussday at the 4-H club house. The main project of the group is to be farm identification signs and Mrs. John Graves is chair man. She reported that the county court is in favor of the project and that county crews could be used in placing the signs. Representatives from county communities will be se lected to work with the commit tee in obtaining names of the farm residents. Other members of the committee are Mrs. Jasper Meyers, Pine City and Mrs. George Currin, Lena. New officers of the committee are Fred Martin, lone chairman; Mrs. H. G. Campbell, Echo, vice chairman and Mrs. Tom Wilson, Heppner, secretary. Mrs. Velma Glass, Morrow county health nurse, was named to secure material to be incor porated in a farm home and safety booth at the county fair. "0 Red Cross Driye At 10 Pet. of Quota The first progress report on the current county Red Cross drive revealed that $281.50 has been donated in the first five days of the campaign, chairman Dick Brunner announced. This rep resents 10 percent of the goal. All of the money so far re ported has come from local sour ces Brunner said with advance gifts amounting to half the to tal. Brunner also revealed that one Heppner school organization, the Future Business Leaders of America will aid the drive by holding a car wash at the rear of the Rosewall Motor company on Saturday, Ma-ch 17. All proceeds from this effort will go to the Red Cross. The group already has turned in $26.50 from Hepp ner schools. Brunner expects county reports to be slow coming in due largely to poor conditions in some areas. He expressed satisfaction though, with the amount already received and in the number of donors who have helped the drive. o 65 Campfire Girls To Take Part in Annual Candy Sale Heppner will be invaded by an army of Campfire Girls and Blue birds Saturday, March 10 when the organization's annual candy sale begins. Money derived from the sale is used to finance the girls' activities during the year. The girls will be selling boxes of Russell Stover chocolates and specially designed boxes of Ap lets, Cotlets and almond roca. All 65 girls of the organization will be selling and the town has been divided so that home own ers will not be beseiged by ap peals to buy, it was announced. The girls will not be allowed to solicit business houses but booths will be set up on downtown streets. Boxes sell for $1.00 and all the girls will be in uniform and residents can be sure they are buying from Heppner girls. "4 Oregon, Thursday, March 8, 1956 4 Local Teachers Resign; School Use Rental Set The Heppner school board re ceived resignations from four teachers at its regular meeting Monday night and set up a policy governing the use of school faci lities by community groups. Resignations wore accepted from two high and two elemen tary teachers. Not returning to the high school faculty next year will be Mrs. Joyce Wilkinson, commercial teacher and Laura Lea, girls physical education in structor. Resigning grade school teachers ar.3 Mrs. Joan Sumner, first grade and Donald Ells worth, Gth grade. Mrs. James Mallon has been hired to finish out the term of Mrs. Sumner ef fective April 1, and Mrs. Ila Al bert has accepted the position as 4th grade teacher next year. The board accepted the bid of Lexington Implement Co. for two International, Wayne body school buses on the bid of $7,957.58 FOB Heppner or $7,207.58 FOB Rich mond, Indiana. The board also set up a policy for public use of the school facil ities stating that they feci that the school should be the center for community activities and will cooperate to make facilities available for all worthy commun ity functions. A minimum charge for lights, power, heat and main tenance was set up. Organizations directly related to the school such as P-TA, band parents, adult education, Boy Scouts, etc., will have free use of facilities when available. Other organizations will pay a fee for lights, heat and maintenance. School facilities will -not be rented t0 individuals. A complete schedule of fees is obtainable from the school clerk but some of the main charges in elude Use of multipurpose room with janitor service furnished by organization, $5; janitor service furnished by school $10. Multi purpose room, stage and lights for a charge program $20. Charges for use of the gym are $10 if organization does own cleanup, $15 if school cleans up and $25 for charge program. Kichen and lunchroom charges will be $5 if organization cleans up and $7.50 if school cleans up but organization must always wash dishes Other scool facili ties which might be used rarely will be charged for on a compar able basis. o New Tupper Guard Station Being Built District assistant Whitmer Wright and Charles Reynolds left Monday for Tupper guard station where they will work on the new guard station and woik center the Forest Service is building at Tupper. Reynolds, from Hermiston, has been a seasonal employee on the Heppner and Ukiah districts for seven years. He will be the slash crew foreman at Tupper this year. o Cub Scouting's Highest Award is Presented at Banquet Mike Williams, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Williams of Hepp ner, received his Webelos award, Cub Scouting's highest, last Wed nesday evening 'at the annual Blue and Gold banquet held at the Christian church. About 150 Cubs and their fam ilies were present and Glenn Tol man, IlermiMon, district Scout representative, was a guest. Billy Weathe:ford gave the welcome and his father, W. W. Weatherford, t h e response. Awards were presented by Ray Ayers, eubmastor, who also pre sented each den with den flags. Other presentations included Wolf awards to Eric Anderson, Stuart Dick, Lee Daggett, Alvin Ayers and Bobby Massey. Bear awards went to Lane Smith, Jerjy Terrill, Rodney Ayers, Paul Swaggart and Terry Campbell. Leroy Gardner received his Lion award. In charge of the planned pot luck dinner were den mothers, Mrs. N. C. Anderson and Mrs. Marcel Jones, den 1; Mrs. Ken neth Keeling, den 2; Mrs. Ray Smith and Mrs. Riley Munkers, den 3; Mrs. George Terrill and Ray Ayers, den 4; Mrs. LeRoy Gardner and Mrs. Marvin Smith, den 5. Rev. Lester Boulden, Institu tional representative, gave the invocation. DONNA LINGLE IFYE Delegate To Make Several Talks At County Meetings Donna Lingle, Boring, Oregon, who spent six months living with farm families in Greece will be talking to several groups in Mor row county March 11 through 14. She is one of the 125 young men and women, who participated in the I. F. Y. E. program this past year. The International Farm Youth Exchange is a project for rural vounc people. Its two main objectives are to bring about bet ter understanding among peo ple of the world and to build a lasting peace. Miss Lingle still has some free time if any group would be in terested in having her speak. Ar rangements can be made by calling the county agent's office, Judy Howton, lone or Janet Wright, Heppner. Judy and Janet are the junior 4-H leaders who are co-chairman of the I. F. Y. E. program in Morrow county. This is Miss Lingle's schedule: March 11 Rhea Creek Grange 2:00 p. . March 12 Heppner School Morning; Chamber of Commerce Noon; Irrigon P-TA 8:00 p. m. March 13 Boardman School, 1:00 p. m.; Lexington P-TA 8:00 p. m. March 14 Lexington School, 9:00 a. m.; lone School, 10:30 a. m.; Maranathas, 2:30 p. m.jlone P-TA 8:00 p. m. Youth Group Will Give Program For Lexington P-TA Meet The Lexington P-TA will meet Tuesday, March 13 at 8:00 p. m. in the school auditorium. After the business meeting the following youth clubs and their leaders, will provide the program for the evening. Three Cub Scout units and den mothers, Mrs. C. C. Jones Mrs. Jim Angell and Mrs. La Verne Henderson, they will have one number each. Franklin Miles' Scout Troup and Carl Marquardt's Explorer Scouts will give demonstrations. 'The Happy Sew and Sews 4-H group, led by Mrs. Ken Palmer, will have a demonstration on their work. The Lexington Beef club will have a talk on the his tory of 4-H given by Karl Beach, their leaders are Ken Palmer and Harold Beach. An I FY A student, who has been to Greece, will be present to tell of her experiences there. Nels Anderson and Miss Beverly Brad shaw will give talks on pro jects open to boys and girls. Mrs. James Green (Sally Pal mer) will have an exhibit of 4-H clothing. The P-TA wilj hold a dutch'auc tion pie sale after the program and t ho refreshment committee is Mrs. Buster Padberg, Mrs. El lwynne Peck, Mrs. Bertha Hunt and Mrs. Wilrmr Steagall. o 20 TO ATTEND CE RALLY AT ATHENA About 20 youth of the junior and senior high departments of the Heppner Church of Christ are to attend the Columbia district Christian Endeavor rally starting Friday evening at Athena. Ten are planning to attend all the sessions. Those going are to meet FrI day evening at 5 p. m. at the church. Transportation will be provided. o SOWARD TO RETURN FROM VETERANS HOSPITAL Mrs. Earl Soward left today for Vancouver, Wash., to bring home her husband who has been in the veteran's hospital there for the past three months. o Milo Burnet of Walla Walla was an overnight guest Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ro bert Grabill. 72nd Year, Number 52 Street Improvement Start Seen; New Parking Plan OK'd The Heppner city council Mon day night accepted a petition signed by all the property own ers on the west side of Gale street between Willow and Cen ter asking that their side of the street be curbed and paved. Though it is somewhat unusual for only one-half of the block to be improved, the council accepted the petition and expressed the feeling that at least it will be a start on an improvement plan which last year was requested and then dropped when a second remonstrance petition was re ceived by the council. The petition asked that the block be curbed and paved out to the center strip which is now paved at a cost not to exceed $5.25 per lineal foot. Owners of some of the property to the east side of the block were present at the meeting and indicated that they may attempt to get up a peti tion requesting the improvement of both sides of the block. Bridge Bids Received The council opened bids from five companies for the consruction of a steel and concrete footbridge across Willow Creek to connect the high school and Main street. Apparent low bidder was Ken neth L. Clark of Hermiston with a bid of $5,287. Highest bid was from a Poitland contractor for $9,800. The bids were forwarded to the city's engineers for survey and awarding. Construction by city crews of two other bridges will start In the near future, it was announced by Vic Groshens, city superinten dent. A new footbridge will be built at Lover Lane and the Al falfa street bridge across Willow Creek will soon be replaced. An ordinance accepting a peti tion for annexation of a small section of land adjoining Heppner to the south was passed to the third reading and will be com pleted at the next meeting. Pro perty involved Includes about one and one-half acres and is owned by C. 'A. and Vivian Kane, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Quackenbush and Helen Cox. The council agreed to sell a small section of the Heppner Ma sonic cemetery that it owns to the Heppner cemetery mainten ance district so the district can develop the entire area. The plot was originally purchased for a potter's field, but has not been used for many years. New Parking Plan OK'd The council received and granted a request from the mer chants committee of the cham ber of commerce that it be al lowed to set up a special parking meter fund which would allow police officers to put a nickle In an expired parking meter rather than give out parking tickets. The chamber plan calls for the raising of a special fund from local businesses from which po lice will deposit a nickle in ex pired meters and leave a small envelope in the violating car stating that the merchants have paid the extra fee and asking the car owner to put a nickle back in the envelope and leave it with any merchant. The money will be returned to perpetuate the fund. The plan has been tried in other towns with varying re sults, it was reported. Habitual violators will be checked by police, under the plan, and will then receive regu lar parking tickets, The plan will be given a three months trial. A building permit was issued to Erling Storro for the construc tion of an $8,500 residence on Alfalfa street. The council instructed the city superintendent to call for bids for the purchase of sprinkler ir rigation system for the city park. o February Rainfall Light by Comparison Though it may not have seemed like It, February was one of the driest months Heppner has en joyed all winter. Only .57 inch of rain and snow fell here ac cording to records, which, by none; fat heifers, 13.75 to 14.80 inches was negligible. Three snowstorms during the past week added over three inches to Heppner's total snow fall for the winter bringing the official measurement to 30 inches. Considerably more has been re corded nearby. Since the beginning of the crop year, Sept. 1, 12.61 Inches has been recorded at Gooseberry with .80 falling in February, Leonard Carlson reports.
