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Hynd Twins Hold - Claim
To Title of Oregon's
"Oldest Living Pair"
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"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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.