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VISITING after the luncheon at the Kinzua restaurant were mem
bers of the Kinzua management and the Heppner chamber. Left
to right are Jack Bedford P. W. Mahoney, and Maurice Hitchcock,
Heppner; Maurice Brown, Kinzua general manager; Bob Kennedy,
logging superintendent; and Allen Nistad, office manager.
Chamber
Over 20 members of the HeDD
ner-Morrow Countv Chamber of
Commerce were guests of the
Kinzua Corporation Monday for
a tour through the mill and oper
ations of the company at Kinzua
in wneeler county. The lnvita
tion for the visit had been ex.
tended the chamber by Maurice
crown, manager of the operation.
After making the trip by car
from Heppner over the Heppner
Spray highway to the Kinzua Dri-
vate logging road at the top of
me mountains tne caravan was
escorted through Camp Five to
Kinzua where Brown, office man
ager Allen Nistad and logging
operations manager Robert B.
Kennedy took the group through
W. C. Rosewall
Named New Mayor
Of Heppner
The Heppner city council Mon
day night accepted the resigna
tion of former mayor Mrs. Mary
Stevens and immediately follow
ed that action by electing council
chairman W. C. Rosewall to fill
the position for the rest of the
year.
Mrs. Stevens resigned her post
because she has moved to The
Dalles, and her letter expressed
her thanks to the council mem
bers for their help during the
year and one-quarter that she
served as mayor.
In other action, the council
passed to the third reading two
odrinances, one concerning the
annexation of a small section of
territory south of Heppner, and
the other governing non-resident
photographers soliciting business
in Heppner. The ordinance,
which will be read for a final
time at the next council meeting,
establishes an annual license fee
of $250 for non-resident photo
raphers. The group passed a resolution
calling for the changing of the
grade of one block on Gale street
where the street is to be im
proved. Hazard Reported
Several letters from Camp Fire
Girls and Blue Bird groups call
ing the council's attention to the
hazards of two old unused reser
voirs on the west hill above town.
The letters stated that the two
reservoirs are partly full of wa
ter and in a dangerous condition
and they asked that the council
take action to remove the hazard
before some youngster playing
near them might be Injured or
drowned. The council ordered the
superintendent to investigate and
either fill the holes ar drain them.
Bridge Work Gaining
City superintendent Vic Gros
hens reported that the Baltimore
street footbridge was nearing
completion and that it should
be placed in use within a, week
or so Work is progressing on the
Lovers Lane footbridge and
crews will have the new alfalfa
street bridge across Willow creek
completed this week.
Six building permits totaling
over $25,000 were granted to
James C. Lovgren, remodeling,
$2,000; Church of Christ, new
parsonage, $10,000; L. E. Dick,
addition to residence, no esti
mate; James Farley, new resi
dence on Baltimore street, $12,
000; Walter Beckett, garage, $1,
000; Mrs. Grace Nickerson, a
sidewalk.
The council spent some time
discussing the budget for next
year.
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Mrs. C. H. Perrott and two
daughters of Portland were week
end visitors at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Doo-little.
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of Commerce Tours
the company's" entire sprawling
plant and explained its varied
operations.
The visitors watched the two
band saws in operation which
produce 230,000 board feet of
lumber a day . and viewed the
eight-unit dry kilns which have
a capacity of up to 300,000 feet a
day. A recent installation at
Kinzua is a mechanical log bar
ker which was installed to make
it possible to utilize what other
wise would be waste timber. The
barker Is the first stop for logs
entering the mill. The removed
bark and sawdust Is used to fire
boilers for power and the waste
from the barked logs Is then sent
through the chipper and Into spe
cial freight cars to be shipped by
rail to the Longview Fiber Co
where it Is made into paper. Kin
zua salvages 80 units or approxi
mately 4 carloads of chips dally
and these chips cannot contain
more than one percent bark, the
visitors were told.
In connection with the planer
shed is the under-cover loading
platform and chamber members
saw the loading of mixed cars of
lumber for the east and midwest,
Guides painted out a relatively
new product at the Kinzua plant,
the paper wrapping and packag
ing of pine panelling. The
panelling is carefully graded,
wrapped and labeled and several
cars were being loaded with this
new product which has received
wide acceptance in the lumber
trade, especially in the east. By
wrapping, the lumber reaches the
user in clean, unfaded condition
and Kinzua also includes in each
package a pamphlet on how to
stain or paint the lumber. The
packaged product is said to be
meeting a demand in the "do-it-
Ross B. Perry
Dies Suddenly During
Visit to County
Rossiter Bartlett Perry, 69, of
Portland, and a former resident
of Morgan, died May 3 while
visiting at his ranch below lone.
Mr. Perry was in the Merchant
Marines and had come off his
ship about three weeks ago. He
still owned a ranch near Morgan
and had come here to see about
its operation.
Mr. Perry was born January 4,
1887 at Yamhill, Oregon and had
lived In Morrow county until the
1930's. He was a World War I
veteran. Services were held Wed
nesday at the lone Community
church with Rev. A. Shirley of
ficiating. Interment was in the
lone Odd Fellows cemetery.
Surviving are a son Robert, of
Portland; tw6 daughters, Mignon.
ette Barkhurst, Myrtle Creek; and
Ross Belle Gillette, Bel Aire,
Texas; four sisters, Elizabeth
Hendricks, Hope Perry, Bess Dan
iels and Elsie Wythercomb; and
one brother Tom Perry, all whose
addresses are unknown. His wife
and daughter preceeded him in
death.
Creswick Mortuary had charge
of arrangements.
2000 NEW ACRES OF STRIP-CROP
STARTED IN HEPPNER SOIL DISTRICT
With 1171 acres of strip crop
farming completed in the Hepp
ner Soil Conservation district in
April, acreage totals for the prac
tice is over 2000 acres this spring,
it was announced at a meeting
of the district supervisors Tues
day night in the bank building.
A total of 7815 acres is now strip
farmed to prevent soil erosion in
the Heppner district.
Ranchers who completed strip
cropping in April were Irvln
Rauch, Burton Peck, Elmer Pal
mer, Harold Peck, Fred Mankin
Paul Heinrich and Tom Harris.
Landleveling In April was done
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ENJOYING a fine luncheon following a tour of the Kinzua Corpor
ation's big plant at Kinzua Monday are mefmbers of the Heppner
Morrow county Chamber of Commerce and Kinzua officials. Over
20 members of the chamber made the visitation and examined
the varied operations of the big Wheeler county mill. (GT Photos)
yourself" building business.
The Heppner visitors wer
taken through a new dry shed
which contained about 800,000
feet of lumber and the large dry
shed in which is stored over 3,
000,000 feet.
Manager Mourice Brown told
the group that Kinzua employes
about 350 men in its entire oper
ation including woods crews, and
that efforts are taken to make
Kinzua an attractive place for
the family man to make his
home. It was pointed out that
several of the personnel have
been with the company since it
William G. Cowins,
86, Taken by Death,
Rites Held Tuesday
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, May 8 for William Co
wins who passed away May 5 at
Pioneer Memorial hospital after
a lingering illness.
Mr. Cowins was born March 11,
1870 at Muskatine, Iowa and
came west by covered wagon
with his parents in 1874. The
family lived at Carson City, Ne
vada for one year then decfded
to move to Walla Walla. They
landed at Eugene, Ore. In the fall
of 1875 and lived there until 1878
when they again took up the
journey for Walla Walla.
It was on this trip that they
were directed to Heppner after a
breakdown at Wells Springs
where they abandoned the rest of
the trip and established residence
here.
Af a boy Mr. Cowins went with
his father who for many years
was in the dray and transfer
business. He was also engaged
with his father in the business of
manufacturing soft drinks and
ice which was established In
1892. He later followed the carp
enter trade for a number of years
and was a victim of the Heppner
flood in 1903 when much of his
property was destroyed.
William George Cowins was
married to Una Charolette Ship
ley in 1896. She preceeded him In
death, passing away Aug. 6, 1951.
Survivors are two daughters,
Vera Bothwell, Heppner and Lydia
Ray of Salem; one son James
Cowins of Heppner; a sister Fran-
ces Cantwell; six grandchildren;
16 great-grandchildren and seve
ral nieces and nephews.
Services were held at the Cres
wick Mortuary with Robrt Becker
officiating. Interment was in the
Heppner Masonic cemeter.
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Wheat Growers Set
Tuesday Meeting
Floyd Root, vice-president of the
National Association of Wheat
Growers, will give a report on
farm legislation at the national
level Tuesday evening at the an
nual spring meeting of the Mor
row County Wheatgrowers.
The meeting will be held at the
Lexington Grange hall starting
at 8 p. m. and all members and
growers are urged to attend.
by George Currin, Earl Blake and
Emil Groshens on 87 acres.
Other conservation practices
completed in April were 3,298
acres of soil surveys, 40 acres of
land leveling surveys and 10,654
feet of Irrigation ditches laid out.
The group voted to re-enroll in
the national Goodyear Soil Con
servation district contest which
they won in 1952.
Present were Donald Peterson,
Raymond Lundell, lone; Newt
O'Harra, Lexington; John Wight
man, Raymond French, Tom Wil
son, N. C. Anderson, Heppner and
Dr. Cleve Gerard, Pendleton Ex
periment station.
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Kinzua
started operation In 1929.
Brown said, "We are proud of
our school for the first eight
grades and we have an enroll
ment of 135. Buses transport an
other 45 to 50 pupils to high
school in Fossil.
The plant operates two eight
hour shifts and has an average
monthly payroll of about $206,
000. Following the tour of the mill,
dry kilns, shops and other faci
lities, the chamber members were
guests at a luncheon served in
the Kinzua restaurant by Mr. and
Mrs. Johnny Williams, operaters
of the cafe.
In the afternon, some of the
group toured the logging end of
the operation.
The Heppner tour followed by
only a few weeks, similar tours
by members of the Fossil and
Condon Commercial clubs.
Quaid Will Valid;
Hospital Benefits
Heppner's Pioneer Memorial
hospital will apparently raceive
the $5,000 left to it in the will
of Mrs. Pauline Quaid, member
of a pioneer local family, who
djed last fall at the age of
97.
Mrs. Qu aid's will, which be
qeathod most of her estate of
$328,000 to hospitals, had been
contested by her daughter Kath-
ehine Hofen who claimed that her
mother was not competent. Cir
cuit judge William L. Dickson,
Portland, ruled Tuesday that the
will was valid and that Mrs.
Quaid's money should be used
for hospitals as she planned.
The will called for $5,000 to go
to Pioneer Memorial hospital,
$1,000 to the Doernbecher child
ren's hospital in Portland and
most of the balance of the estate
to the University of Oregon Medi
cal school to establish a psychia
tric hospital.
Also included in the bequests
was the sum of $500 to St. Pat
rick's Catholic church in Hepp
ner to be used for improvements.
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Marvin G. Hughes,
Dies in Portland
Funeral services for Marvin G.
Hughes, 40, former Heppner resi
dent, were held Wednsday, May
9, at 2 p. m. at the Riverviey cha
pel In Portland. Mr. Hughes was
born March 6, 1916 in Heppner
and died May 5 at Physicians and
Surgeons hospital, Portland, fol
lowing a long illness.
Mr. Hughes attended the Hepp
ner schools and ranched until
moving to Portland in 1942.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Lola Hughes, Portland; a
small daughter, Maria; mother,
Mrs. Grace Hughes, Heppner;
three brothers, Elwyn and Matt,
Heppner, Homer, Lexington; four
sisters, Mrs. Don Bellenbrock,
Mrs. Roy Quackenbush, Mrs. El
lis Pettyjohn, all of Heppner and
Mrs. Hurley Kohlman, Portland.
Burial was in the Riverview
cemetery with Finley's Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Heppner To Get 1957
Church Conference
The Eastern Oregon Christian
.church conference was held three
days last week at Baker and
Rev. Charles V. Knox, pastor of
the Heppner Christian church
gave one of the major addresses
on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Jones and
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Jones repre
sented the local church at the
meeting. Paul Jones of Heppner
was elected treasurer of the con
ference. The conference will be held In
Heppner next year.
County Schools
Budget to be Voted
On Next Monday
Reduction Seen
In Tax Needed
The rural school board stated
this week that the total budget
for Morrow county schools will be
68.958.16 less than this year's
operating budget which means
that Morrow will probably be one
of the very few counties in the
state which will show a decrease
for 1956-57.
The election on the budget will
be held in all the school districts
in the county next Monday, May
14 from 2 to 8 p. m. Voting place
will be the school in each district
The cut will result in a four
and one-half mill decrease for
the taxpayers of the county over
last year s budget. The actual
expenditures for next year would
have been a little higher than
the budget for this year, however
the rural board did not allow the
individual districts any money
under capital outlay, other than
money for the future purchase of
buses and a small amount for
library books.
This year any district desiring
to purchase new equipment,
which is not a replacement on in
most cases pertaining to the
building of any project which
did not come under capital out
lay, such money must be raised
by special levy within their own
district and nothing Is allowed
for such purposes under capital
outlay by the rural board.
Such procedure resulted in a
reduction of the budget, county
school superintendent Jack Flug
said. Another reason why the
budget will show a decrease Is
due to the estimated receipts and
available cash balance which ex
ceeds this year's amount by $60,
761.85 The board has made
every effort to keep the school
budget at a minimum and still
offer the best possible program
of education.
The total base of all districts in
the Morrow county rural school
district for the present year was
the $137,126.15. The law permits
the county to increase this by six
percent, making the new base for
1956-57 $145,353.72. This amount
subtracted from the total esti
mated tax levy of $431,162.96
leaves a total of $285,809.25 out
side the six percent limitation to
be voted on by the taxpayers at
Monday's election. Last year the
amount voted on was $362,994.97.
Under no conditions, it was
pointed out, is a new tax base
established, it is merely increased
the six percent allowed by law.
Athletic Banguet
Slated Tuesday
The Heppner high school ath
letic banquet, sponsored this year
by the chamber of commerce, will
be held next Tuesday evening,
May 15 at the Legion hall, it was
announced today by La Verne
Van Marter, chairman for the af
fair. The banquet will start at 6:30
with the mothers of the athletes
preparing the meal A short pro
gram is planned with Archie
Dunsmoor, football coach at the
Eastern Oregon College billed as
the main speaker.
The banquet is open to the
public and tickets will cost $1.50.
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PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE in the art of coring for children was
learned last week by girlg of the Future Homemakers of America
... class at Heppner high school when they lerved as baby sitters to
42 children during the homemakers festival here. Some of the
girls are shown here with most of their charges who varied in
age from 3 months to S years. In charge of the group were Shir
ley Kononen, Laurel Allstott and Mona Howard. Other assisting
were Carole Anderson, Karen Valentine, Ruth and Alice Peterson,
Joann Brosnan, Peggy Applegate, Janet Wright Judy Collins ,Mar
lene and Norma Ceyer and Phyllis Quackenbush. (GT Photo)
County Equalization
Board Meeting to
Start Next Monday
The county equalization board
will hold its first meeting next
Monday to hear requests from
taxpayers concerning real and
personal property taxes for the
coming year. The board in
eludes county judge Garnet Bar-
rata, Walter Hayes, Boardman
and Frank Anderson, Heppner.
Assessor Harry Dinges reported
this week that his office has re
ceived many inquiries about
taxes for next year especially In
view of the recently completed
reappraisal program in the
county. He pointed out that the
Oregon law outlines his respon
sibilities to the work of estab
lishing fair and equal valuations
for tax purposes and that it is his
obligation to make every effort
to maintain a realistic relation
ship between assessed and mar
ket values, as well as to see to
it that proper assessment level
exists between the various classl
fications of taxable property. In
his work, he is governed, not only
by many laws but also is super
vised by the state tax commission
whose orders, under present sta
tutes, have the force and effect
of law.
Dinges pointed out that the pur
pose of the equalization board
is to hear complaints on taxes
before the rolls are extended.
Shirley Kononen
To Head Students
Hepner high school student
body elections Tuesday set two
new record.
Shirley Kononen was elected
the first girl student body presi
dent recorded In Heppner high
and Shirley's party, the Comet
party, was elected on a straight
ticket vote.
Elected to assist Shirlev in the
heading of the school next year
were these Comets: vice-president,
Vic Groshens; secretary,
Laurel Allstott, assistant treasu
rer, John Brosnan; historian, Jan
ice Beamer, and sgt. at arms, Ed
die Groshens.
The' Pogo-Darlv. ODDosirig the
Comets, consisted of the follow
ing candidates: Jay Sumner,
president; Dean Connor, vice
president; Mary Stewart, secre
aary; Helen Graham, assistant
treasurer; Phyllis Quackenbush,
historian; and Jim Morris, sgt. at
arms.
Janet Wright, this year's as
sistant treasurer, will step into
the post of student body treas
urer next year.
Heppner FHA Girls
Plan Hobo Day
The Heppner school Future
Homemakers of America are plan
ning their second Hobo Day for
the year on Saturday, May 19, to
raise funds for their organization.
Members of the organization will
work at various jobs to be paid
by the job. The girls will be pre
pared to do various jobs such as
window washing, dish washing,
house cleaning, baby sitting,
mowing lawns and ironing.
The Hobo Day will actually
start on Monday, May 14 and
continue through Saturday, May
19 since some of the girls will be
able to work after school that
week and not on Saturday. Any
one desiring extra help is en
couraged to call 6-9217 at the
Heppner school between 8:30 and
4:00 Monday through Friday, May
14 to May 18.
"Spouts" Cause
Some Damage
In Few Sections
Continuing rain Wednesday
night added another .15 inch at
Heppner to bring the month's
total to 1.69 inches, and In
Gooseberry an additional .39
inch fell overnight to bring
May's total to an even two
inches. At the latter point there
has been 10.23 inches of mois
ture since September 1, Leonard
Carlson, weather observer, re
ports. Weather reports indicate the
possibility of more of the same
for the next day or two.
Before the Ink was drv on last
week's story about the lack of
rainfall during April, Old Jupe
riuvius set out to take care of
his oversight with the result that
Morrow county has received up to
two and one-Jialf Inches of rain
in the past seven days.
In every case, ranchers were
overjoyed to see the moisture
come, but durin!? the nasf fnur
days, storms of cloudburst pro
portions have caused consider
able washing with areas south
and east of Heppner taking the
brunt of the continuing series
of heavy storms.
Rain started falling In HeDDner
last Thursday and by Tuesday
morning had dropped 1.54 inches
here. Leonard Carlson. Goose.
berry weather reporter checked
in l.bl inches up to Wednesday
morning; the Weatherford ranch
near Lena received 1.91 Inches
and at Hardman 2.50 inches has
fallen during the week. Reports
irom tne north end of the countv
showed fairly heavy precipita
tion also, 'hough In most cases
considerably less than In hlcrh.
er elevations to the south and
east.
Runoff Heavy
Sunday and Monday there were
numerous reports of "water
spouts" occuring near Hardman,
in the Eiehtmile area, on Butter
creek and in Vinson comrnun'y
near rvye Junction.
The road up Porcupine canvon
between Ruggs and Hardman was
nearly washed out Sunday by a
heavy downpour and several
canyons in the Eightmile section
deposited a layer of silt over the
highway. A. spout struck near
Vinson Sunday evening covering
the area with a layer of hail and
uttering the road with rock and
dirt in several daces. Willow
creek rose rapidly Tuesday and
apparently had reached its neak
Wednesday.
John Day Highest
Reports coming in Wednesday
told that the John Day river was
at the highest point ever seen
by many residents of the lower
section. There was a report that
the river, which was loaded with
logs and debris, late Tuesday
might take out a IoEcintr br dee
below Spray. The water was said
to be within a few inches of the
highway in several places. Wire
service news reports Wednesday
told of heavy rains n the Ochoco
and near Mitchell and that the
highway between Mitchell and
the John Day river was closed
by washouts.
The storms have travelled In a
belt running east of Heppner
along the mountains. Pendleton
has reported heavy rains on seve
ral days and there have been
reports of cyclones and strong
storms in the Pasco and Connell,
Washington sections.
In most cases the rain has been
of the "million dollar variety",
which does more to make ranch
ers happy than anything ex
cept $2.50 wheat. The early
storms brought a gentle rain that
soaked into drying soils and
boosted crop outlook by several
bushels. The continuing series
of heavy rain squalls have,
however, caused some washing in
summerfallow and spring seeded
fields. Little actual damage has
occured in most of the county
however, and the value of the
moisture more than offsets any
runoff loss.
The daily rainfall record In
Heppner was:
Thursday, May 3 .41
Friday, May 4 .26
Saturday, May 5 .07
Sunday, May 6 .07
Monday, May 7 .73
Tuesday, May 8 Trace
Wednesday, May 9 Trace
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FIREMEN RESPOND TO
EARLY MORNING ALARM
Heppner firemen responded to
a general alarm at 1:30 a. m.
Tuesday morning to the Willard
O'Harra home on K street. An
oil furnace had backfired blow
ing flames into an upstairs room
and filling the basement with
smoke. There was no damage.