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LIBRARY BV OF 0 fepptter 4UGENE, ORE Copies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 19, 1956 73rd Year, Number 6 mmzttz tme$ Voter List Shows Drop In County Voter registration figures in Morrow county continued to fol low a trend set four years ago, it was revealed today at the county clerk's office here. For the third consecutive election year, regis tration in both parties has shown a drop from the previous elec tion. Though the registration dead line was Tuesday night, not all last minute registrations have yet been received by the clerk, though only minor changes are expected. Republicans still hold a wide margin in the county with 1229 compared with 845 Democrats for a total of 2074 voters. This com pares with 1428 Republicans and 867 Democrats (2335 total) in 1954 primaries and 1532 Repub licans and 932 Democrats (2464 total) registration in 1952. Irri gon is the only precinct in the county where the Democrats hold a majority. The registration there is 150 Democrats and 95 Repub licans, p Percentage Poor The figures- show a very low percentage of persons of voting age in the county have registered only about 60 percent. Census figures give the county a popu lation of slightly over 5,000 from which can be subtracted appro ximately 1400 children below vot. ing age, leaving 3,600 eligible. Of this total only 2071 have regis tered to vote at the primary elec tion "May 18. Below are listed the registra tion figures by precincts. Only the North and South Heppner pre cincts are final, but the other precincts will be changed only slightly by last minute signups. Rep. Dem. S. Heppner 290 186 N. Heppner 316 204 Boardman 146 77 Hardman 27 11 lone 230 129 Lexington 125 88 Irrigon 95 150 o John P. Doherty Services Held Monday Funeral services for John Pat rick Doherty, 78 years of age, were held Monday at 10 a. m. at St. Patrick's Catholic church in Heppner. He passed away April 13 at St. Anthony's hospital in Pendleton. He had made his home in that city for many years. Mr. Doherty was born February 1878 in Carndonagh, Ireland and had been in the county for 58 years. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Margaret Creegan, Renton, Wn.; and one brother, Paul, who still lives in Ireland. He also leaves several nieces and nephews. Rosary was held Sunday even ing at St. Patrick's church with Rev. Patrick J. Gaire officating. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery. Creswick Mortuary had charge of arrangements. AHBOR DAY was revived in lone LW;fT l'""l"!l'r." It "'VA" '-Iry"' f I''ry-pr-yir'Vrf i J t ' f $ i"rT, Vt'V r( t V4 Ik 1 served at the school 52 years ego. Four trees were planted in the same area where the old trees had been planted which were recently removed. Various school grades were responsible for each tree and all students placed their names in sealed bottles to be planted with the trees. SDeakers were Mrs. Jane Rawlins of the lone Garden Club, Tom Wilson representing the extension office, Ernie Drake, student planting of one of the trees are left t0 right: Judy Mason; Sharon Cutstortn; Mrs. jane Hawnns; Phil Newitt; Ernie Drake; Darlene Drake; Judy Howton; Jean Ann Swanson; Carolyn Crabtree; Alvce Mason. Mrs. Rawlins the students and many residents of the area who watched the -V'-int imr '''miiwf , ' L .. ' lit fcmii ii I in i ii in i - ' " - - SPEAKERS at the dedication of the Heppner elementary school last Saturday evening included, left to right, Joe Stewart, Heppner school superintendent; Clarence Johnson, principal; A. L. Beck, direc tor cf the state department of education who gave the main address; Jack Flug, county school BimorintPnHpnt! Mn. Marv Stevens. Hermner mavor; and L. E. Dick, Jr., chairman of the school board. A good crowd attended room building which was open f, A m . - v . -- i f ''v I ...... , ..reN v . ,i , ft V i 1 1.1 V VISITORS AND BOARD MEMBERS toured the new Heppner ele mentary schocl Saturday during the dedication program. Shown examining some of the work in one of the sixth grades are left to right, board members Howard Cleveland and Alvin Bunch; Mrs. Alex Green end Mrs. Herman Green. The new building has been in use all of this school year, though landscaping will be com pleted during the coming summer. The education plant cost $258,000 and was built in less than a year .... (Wilson Photo) Annual Homemakers Festival May 1 Homemakers of Morrow county will be attending their annual Homemakers Festival Tuesday, May 1 at the fair pavilion in Heppner. The program as an nounced will include short de monstrations about projects given during the year, a tailoring style show and pictures of home and rural life around the world. Tickets are now on sale for the noon luncheon which will be served at 12:30 at the pavilion, and members of the advisory committee will have them on sale until April 23. Mrs. Paul Warren has charge of sales in Heppner. Child care will be pro vided by members of the home making class of Heppner high school for a nominal fee, it was said. The festival, which is open to the public, is held each year during national home demon April 13 in eelebrrtion of the memory oi an earner Amor uay od body president and superintendent Phil G. Newitt Shown at the and Drake are holding the bottles the program and later toured the for inspection. stration week and its purpose is to recognize work that has been done, and to honor volunteer local leaders whose services con tribute to better homes and com munities. o SPECIAL SECURITY REPRESENTATIVE COMING A represetative from the So cial Security Administration in La Grande will be in the City Hall in Heppner on Wednesday, April 25th from 9:00 a. m. until noon to interview Individuals having questions pertaining to social security and to assist all those who wish to- make appli cation for their benefits, o FARM BUREAU TO MEET The Morrow County Farm Bu reau will meet Tuesday, April 24, at 8:00 p. m. at the Rhea Creek grange hall. which contained the names of proceedings.. (Tom Wilson Photo) 10 classroom and multipurpose (Wilson Photo) Heppner School Dedicated Stale Needs Outlined $100,000,000 worth of school buildings will be needed in the state of Oregon in the next five years, A. L. Beck, director of school house planning for the state department of education, said Saturday night in his talk at the dedication of the new Heppner elementary school. Beck told the audience that be tween 1910 and 1950 children in Oregon below the age of 14 in creased 14.5 percent and that in preparing for the influx of ele mentary and secondary students a building cost Index in 1913 set at 100 showed a pump to 611 by 1955. He continued that as edu cation costs increase, distressed districts in the state will find themselves $13,0f,0.000 short of being able to take care of school building needs by 1961. Beck told of the steps in con structing a new school building and complimented the school board and citizens on the Hepp ner building. Other talks were given by L. E. Dick Jr., chairman of the Hepp ner board who explained that only district funds were used for construction of the building; Mrs. Mary Stevens, Heppner mayor, who urged the district to con tinue its planning for the future; Jack Flug, county school super intendent, who compared the changes in school construction and curriculum with changing times. The Heppner high school band and the high and grade school chorus under the direction of Norman Peters offered musical numbers, Rev. Willis Geyer the invocation and Rev. Lester Boul den the benediction. Superin tendent Joe Stewart was master of ceremonies and elementary principal Clarence Johnson ex plained the building tour. -n Services Held Today For Mrs. Mary Kirk Mrs. Mary Kirk, 77, a resident of Heppner for 60 years until she moved to Gresham in 1918, pas sed away August 15 at her home. Services were held today at 2 p. m. at the Heppner Christian church with Rev. Charles Knox officiating. Mrs. Kirk was born August 28, 1879 at Hanover, Kansas and had lived in Heppner since she was nine years old. Her husband, James L. Kirk, died here in 1927. Surviving are one son Charles S. Kirk H'Tpner; two daughters, Alice F.. Braim n, Heppner, and Mrs. John Hamner, Gresham; and eight grandchildren. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic eorno'.ery with Cteswick Mortuary in charge of arrange ments. Heppner Student On OSC Honor Roll OREGON STATE COLLEGE Mrs. Patricia L. Hardy, Heppner student at Oregon State college, has made the winter term scho lastic honor roll at OSC. Students must maintain at least a B plus grade average for honor roll listing. Mrs. Hardy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold K. Peck of Hepp ner, is a junior majoring in home economics education. She Is a 1953 graduate of Heppner high school. Bids Called For Highway Work; Load Limits Off The state highway commission will receive bids on two jobs in Morrow county at its meeting April 27 in Portland. One job is the improvement of Arcade street between B and E streets in Lexington. The existing street has a gravel surface which is in poor condition due to the heavy grain truck traffic between outlying farms and the elevators. Plans call for grading and shap ing the street to provide for a 20 foot asphaltic concrete pave ment flanked by two-foot shoul ders, supported by a strengthen ed base to better withstand the heavy loads. Work is scheduled to be completed by September. Bids will also be received for the furnishing of approximately 10,000 cubic yards of crushed rock in stockpiles for later use by the state in connection with maintenance operations on the Rock Creek-Summit section of the Heppner-Spray highway, about six miles south of Hard man. In connection with the above mentioned Heppner-Spray high way, the commission Monday lift ed the load limit regulations which had been imposed for nearly a month and truck haul ing started over the road the same day. The Monument mill of the North Fork Timber com pany began operations again last week and the lumber is again being trucked to the Heppner Pine Mills. The load limit on the Heppner Condon highway have also been lifted during the past few days. o Population Gains Noted By Two Morrow County Towns Two Morrow county towns, lone and Lexington, have shown an increase in population since the 1950 census it was revealed this wcpJi when the secretary of state's office made public figures from the state census department. Heppner remains the some as in 1950 and Boardman registered the loss of two persons. Irrigon is not an incorporated town lone had the greatest increase with a present population of 333 compared with 262 in 1950. Lex ington added 22 persons over the period to have 259 compared with 237 in 1950. Heppner's figure re mains at 1648, the same as it was in 1950. and Boardman dropped from 120 to 118, During the past year many towns have taken special census counts as allowed by state law, and where a gain is shown, the city or town benefits from the increased tax revenue derived The possibility of a special cen sus was considered here some time ago but the general feel ing was that the probable slight increase would not be worth the expense. Of the smaller county seat towns in the immediate area, Heppner still leads most. John Day gained slightly to 1625, while Condon and Fossil remain ed at their former size of 968 and 675. o Methodist Church Names New Officers At Annual Meeting The Heppner Methodist church held a potluck 'dinner and their annual church meeting Friday, evening, April 13 with Dr. Edward Terry, Portland, district superin tendent conducting the meeting. Reports w?re given from the church committees on their years work. Election of officers was ield with the following elected: truster's Tom Weils, Tom Wilson, Whitmer Wright, Howard Bry- nt, J. R. Huffman, Oliver Cres wick, Ray Bailey, Mrs. Harry Du vail, Mrs. Douglas Drake; stew ards, Mrs. Madge Bryant, L. E. Dick, Douglas Drake, Mrs. Char les Gomillion, Herman Green, Darl Hudson, Everett Keithley, Fred Martin, Mrs. Randall Mar tin, Carl McDaniel, Newt O'Harra, William Turner, Mrs. Tom Wells, Mrs. Whitmer Wright and Har ley Young. Mrs. L. E. Dick was elected treasurer; Llewellyn Robbins, lay leader; Mrs. Ray Bailey, fi nancial secretary and Mrs. N. D, Bailey, communion steward. o Josie Jones, Mrs. Jess HalL Lennie Lowden and Leslie Mat lock returned Tuesday from Port land where they had spent the past week. Patricia Wright Named Fair and Rodeo Queen - 3i3 .-3rr'wv,3fWJK,v' 1' if PATRICIA WRIGHT, Oregon State College freshman, this week was named queen of the 1956 Morrow county Fair and Rodeo. Red Cross Blood Drawing Planned Here April 25 At least 100 donors are needed next Wednesday, if the ' Red Cross bloodmobile is to get its set quota of 80 quarts at its first visit here this year, Jack Ed- mondson, Elks committee chair man, who is sponsoring the visit, said this week. The Bloodmobile will be in Heppner from 11a. m. to 3 p. m. Wednesday, April 25 and a size able pre-visit registration is hoped for, Edmondson said. Else where in today's paper is a cou pon which prospective donors are asked to fill out and return to the Elks lodge. The signup makes it possible for the commit tee to better schedule the blood drawing and prevent delays lor donors. ' ' ( The drawing will be held at the Heppner Methodist church and a crew of volunteer nurses ana other workers will be on hand to aid the regular Red Cross crew. All residents of the area are urged to donate their blood as heavy demands on the blood bank during recent months have depleted the supply. The typing and drawing takes only a few minutes. o Child Hearing Clinic Saturday As a result of the hearing tests that were done in Morrow county schools in December, 1955, a hearing clinic will be held in the office of the Morrow county health department on Saturday, April 21st. An otologist from Portland, Dr. Robert B. Hansen, will be the at tending specialist. Of the approximately 1000 children tested, 53 were found to have hearing losses of varying degrees. Both the hearing test- ng and the otologic clinic are services offered without charge by the Oregon state board of health in cooperation with the local health department. Morrow county physicians plan pre-clinic meeting with Dr. Hansen at 8 p. m. the evening of April 20th at the health depart ment offices. In addition to personnel of the health department, volunteer workers at the clinic will be Mrs. Jack Angel, Mrs. Phil Blakney and Miss Marguerite Glavey. Only those children who have received appointment slips will be seen by Dr. Hansen. o CANDIDATE VISITS HERE Pat Dooley, Portland attorney and state legislator from Mult nomah county, visited briefly in Heppner Tuesday. Dooley is can didate for Democratic National Committeeman. o PACK MEET DATE CHANGED The date of the Cub Scout pack meeting has been changed from the regular meeting night to Monday, April 30 at 7:30 p. m. in the grade school multipurpose room. THURSDAY WARMEST The thermometer hit an unoffi cial 80 degrees this afternoon to bring Heppner its warmest day of the year. Blonde, blue-eyed 18 year old Patricia (Patsy) Wright of Hepp ner this week was named queen of the 1956 Morrow county Fair and Rodeo, the fair board has re vealed. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright, of Klioa Crock. Queen Patsy, who is a fresh man in home economics at Ore gon State college, graduated last year from Heppner high school with high honors, being named salutatorian of her class. She was a fair and rodeo princess in 1954. CJuoen Patsy's school and out side activities, both during her high school clays and now at OSC make an extensive list and show that in addition to being an ex cellent student, she found time to take part in many school and club functions. During her high school years she was student body secretary In her senior year; a 4-year band member serving as secretary in 1954 and president in 1955; she was on the volleyball team for two years; a member of the pep club; homecoming queen in 1954 and a class officer for two years. Patsy has also been very ac tive in 4-II club work. She is a 10-year member and a junior leader for two years. Last fall at the state fair she was selected as one of Oregon's four delegates to the national 4 H camp at Washington, D. C. which will be held this June. She carried a clothing project for seven years in addition to several other homemaking and livestock pro- jects. She won several first place and championship ribbons on dairy projects also. College Activities Many Queen Patsy has continued her 4-H activities on into college where she is a member of the uuiiie cjuiiuiuics tiuu anu waa recently elected sargeant at arms of the group and holds several committee chaormanships. She has been active in the Campus 4-H club, especially in working with the extension service on the International Farm Youth pro gram of which she is Campus 4-H club co-chairman. n1.,U n) a,n This year's queen has lived on a ranch all of her life and horse back riding is her first-choice hobby. She has ridden ever since she was old enough to get on a horse and she says riding la still one of the things she looks forward to doing when home on vacations. She also likes to sew an,jl makes most of her own clothes as a result of her 4-H training. Last summer she worked as a secretary In the county agent's office. o i . Cancer Drive Still Short of Quota Though $622.75 has been col lected in the Morrow county can cer drive the figure Is still $150 short of the quota of $756 and efforts are being made by the committee to reach the figure within the next few days to again put the county as number one in the state to go over the top. For the past several years Mor row has held the record as being the first in Oregon to attain the goal in the drive and its chair man Mrs. Howard Pettyjohn this week asked all residents who have not returned their envelopes to do so as quickly as possible. No returns have yet been recei ved from tiie north end of the county and only a few from lone, Mrs. Pettyjohn said in urging residents there to place their do nations in the mail. The drive continues throughout April. o Local P-TA Officers Attend State Meet L. E. Dick and Mrs. Marvin Smith, president and vice-presi dent elect of the Heppner P-TA and Mrs. Marion Huggett left Monday to attend the 43rd an nual state convention of the Ore gon Congress of Parents and Teachers in Eugene April 16-18. All are official voting delegates. Mrs. Edward T. Walker of Call, fornia was the national represen tative and gave the keynote ad dress, "Your child In today's com munity," and each succeeding speaker developed a phase of that theme. Other speakers in clude Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, president of the University of Oregon, and Dr. John Foskett, professor at the university, n H. C. "Hap" Wood of Portland was calling In Heppner on Tues day.
