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Page 2 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MOBBOW COUNTY'S KIWIPAPII The Beppner Octaette, established March SO, 18S1. Tht Heppner Times, Mteblttied November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1812. Heppner Gazette Tim, Thursday, May 10, 1956 NIWSPAMft. PUBLISH! IS ASSOCIATION ROBERT FENLAND Editor and Publisher ORETCHEN PEN LAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL UsTbcUTLQN u J j Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, 13.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. We're Still A Village About four years ago this paper got into a little editorial wrangle with the Oregonian and author Stewart Holbrook over his calling Heppner a hamlet or a village in his just-then-published book "Far Corners." Some of our readers may still remember that incident which was brought to mind again a couple of weeks ago by a letter to the editor in the Oregonian by a former Heppner resident O. M. Yeager, who now lives in Castle Rock, Washington and is currently writing a his tory of this section of the country. Mr. Yeager's letter said in part: ., . . "I have just been reading Stewart Holbrook's wonderful new book, "The Columbia" and I think is is one of the best he has ever written except the little matter of an item on page 367 in which he still in sists on calling our little city of Heppner a village. I thought after he was taken to task by the Hepp ner Gazette Times and the people of that town for calling it a village when he wrote "Far Corner" in 1952 that this time he would give us credit for being the best little city in Oregon. But no, he called us a village again " After having nearly forgotten this episode until seeing Mr. Yeager's letter we dug out our copy of Mr. Holbrook's "Columbia" to see for ourselves, and sure enough, we are still classified as a vil lage. In "Far Corner", following our exchange of views on the subject, the noted author added a footnote which assuaged our feelings somewhat when he said. "It (Heppner) does not like being referred to as a village. It is an incorporated mu nicipality and within its borders is a building whose facade has in bold letters City Hall . It is a little late now to get a similar footnote in his book "Columbia" for it has been in the book stores for several months (and, it is an excellent book, by the way) but we can't take this ef front to our civic pride lieing down. We hereby make it a matter of record that we again take exception to Mr. Holbrook's designation of Heppner as a village. We don't want to "except" too strongly for Heppner now has been fortunate in having been mentioned in at least two of Mr. Holbrook's works and such publicity is greatly appreciated for not every "village" in Oregon has been so honored. We are sort of hoping though, that if it becomes our lot to again receive mention at some future time, maybe we can graduate to the catagory of "town." We're willing to work our way up gradually. From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson Arrangements have been com- pletecffor the annual grazing al falfa and grass tour which will be held May 21, 22 and 23. This is the fourth annual grazing al falfa tour. E. R. Jackman, range crop specialist, Oregon State col lege, and Dr. Polling, extension crop specialist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Mary land, will assist with the tour While the definite set of tour stops are not yet worked out, the ' f i i Pi .' -IV range and pasture improvement committee of the Morrow County Livestock Growers Association will have this completed so that we can list the stops in next week's column. This year tours will be held somewhat different than in the past, covering a com parable rainfall area each day. Established seedings, as well as those put in this spring are look ing good and it now appears as though there will be a lot to see on this year's tour. RE-ELECT CHARLES A. TOm REPUBLICAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE Fd. Adv. C. A. Tom, Rufus The annual spring meeting of the Morrow County Wheat Grow ers Association will be held at the Lexington grange hall on Tuesday evening, May 15. It is scheduled to start at 8:00 p. m. As in the past years, the active committees will report on ac complishments since the annual fall meeting, The committees and chairman are: domestic wheat utilization Mrs. John Graves, chrm,; taxation and legislation Mrs. Norman Nelson, chrm.; wheat disposal & market develop ment Kenneth Took, chrm; production and land use Milton Morgan, chrm.; youth activities D. O. Nelson, chrm.; federal agri cultural programs Max Barclay, chrm. The feature of the evening is the "up-to-the-minute" report on farm legislation in Washington, D. C. by Floyd Root, Sherman county wheat grower and vice president of the) National Asso ciation of -Wheat Growers. Root has spent a majority of his time in Washington D. C. since early January representing the Oregon Wheat Growers League and the National Association of Wheat Growers on farm legislation bene, ficial to wheat growers. It is ex pected that he will have a con siderable amount of inside in formation on legislation which will be of interest to all wheat growers. Also on the program for the evening is the announcement of the county winner of the "Con servation Man of the Year" pro gram for Morrow county. Refresh. Monument News By Martha Matteson Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Cox of Heppner and their children were weekend guests of her folks, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Flemings and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mellor. Mr. and Mrs. Carsten Brand hagen made a business trip to ments will be served by the Lex ington Grange home economics club. The Oregon Wheat Grower's "Conservation Man of the Year" field day will be held at the ranch of the 1955 winners, Lloyd Smith and Sons nearMayville on Monday, May 28. The program will get under way at 10:00 a. m. Practices to be observed during the dav are numerous and varied. Word has just been received from the U. S. Department of Agriculture that a change in the commercial grade of slaughter cattle will be made on June 1. The commercial grade of slaugh ter cattle will be divided into two new grades designated as stand ard and commercial. The pre sent grades for slaughter cattle are prime, choice, good, commer cial, utility, cutter and canner. The new grades will be applied on the basis of maturity.. Stand ard would be applied to younger cattle of the grade, commercial would be retained for mature cattle falling in the present com. mercial grade. The U. S. Department of Agri culture is planning a national country inventory of soil and water conservation needs accord ing to a recent economics review from Oregon State College. The purpose is to help the department plan in carrying out its soil and water work more effectively. The inventory will be take in every county in the United States and will provide basic facts about tne amount and kind of soil, water and plant resources. It will also provide a basis for makine a realistic estimate of treatments needed to best protect and im prove these resources. Plans call for completing the Inventory in three years. f- STAR THEATER, Heppner Admission Prices: Adults 70c. Students 50c, Children 20c including Federal Tax. All children occupying seats must buy tickets. Sunday shows continuous from 4 p. m. Other evenings start at 7:30. Boxoffice open until 9 p. m. Telephone 6-9278. Thursday-Friday-Saturday, May 10-11-12 WICHITA Joel McCrea Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchanan, In CS and Technicolor. King-size reminder that Wichita was once a rootin', shootln', tootin' rail town. Plus JAILBUSTERS You can depend on it, prison walls do not remain gray and grim with the Bowery Boys behind them! Sunday-Monday, May 13-14 RANSOM Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie XieNcn. The third in MGM's series of powerhouse dramas dealing with current problems, this is completely realistic and holds inter est right up to the final fadeout. Sunday at 4, 6:10 and 8:20 Tuesday-Wednesday, May 15-16 QUENTIN DURWARD Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley. In CS and Color. Sir Walter Scott's ad venture story Is thrilling against the authentic locations of England and France. Pendleton on Saturday, returning home Sunday evening. The Monument home extension unit was well represented at the May festival in John Day. Twenty-four women were there and most of them modeled their better dresses, which were made under the leadership of the Grant county extension services. Ruby Geinger, Osie Engle, Louisa Fleming, Lela Thompson and others from Cottonwood sponsored a shower for the little Korean girl, age 4, that Mr. and Mrs. Grant of Cottonwood have adopted. Mr. Grant showed col ored slides that he took In Korea, while he was in the service. Mr. and Mrs. Mead Gilman spent the weekend in La Grande visiting their son, Donald, who at tends college there. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Standerfer spent Saturday in Heppner on business. Mr and Mrs. Tony Hutchison drove to Pendleton Monday, re turning on Tuesday. Chet Rounds and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lippert, were at the Elzy Emery ranch Sunday. The schools put on their May Day program Tuesday evening. Everyone enjoyed it very much. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reade of Spray were in town on business last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Farrens drove to Tillamook April 27 to get some 4-H Guernsey dairy hei fers. Iris Kincaid drove Betty Vestal to John Day Wednesday on busi ness. Mrs. Patty Geinger Campbell has been in Washington the last ten days visiting her mother and sisters. Mrs. Betty Vestal and her mo ther, Mrs. Merle Bracken, drove to Hamilton on Monday and visi ted at the Tom Ross home. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Howell have a new station wagon for the school bus, which Mrs. Howell runs from town to Wall creek. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Martin and daughter Caroline were in John Day Saturday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rounds went to John Day Friday for medical checkups. Mr. and Mrs. George Starrett and Laura Lee Shanks left Fri day for Klamath Falls to attend a family reunion. Bud Holmes and sister Irene Clark of Springfield spent the weekend here visiting their bro ther, Kenneth Holmes and sisters, Mrs. Delbert Stubblefield, Mrs. Tom Ross of Hamilton and their families. Another sister, Mrs. Florence Grott of the valley was visiting with the Holmes during the week. John Oweings left Friday for Seattle to drive Mrs. Merle Brac ken, home after she had spent ten days here with her daughters, Mrs. Jenkins, and Mrs. Vestal. The daughters and their children accompanied them on the trip, returning home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lauren Lippert and sons moved to Ritter last week. They had been at the Bill Dodd ranch up Cupper creek. The M. M. M. club met at the home of Olive Cox Thursday af ternoon with ten ladies present. They plan to hold a miscellaneous sale on May 18, during election time. Dale and Martha Matteson, Doris Kingman and Jessie Scott spent Tuesday In Pendleton. Mrs. June Hutchison and three children were in Pendleton Tues day for checkups. Miss Theo Van Detta accompanied them. Among those having mumps are Janice Hutchison, Bobby Hol mes, Mary Emery. Something always pops up when school is about over. The junior and senior banquet and prom will be held Saturday night May 12. There was a revival held in the Community church the past week. D. L. Matteson drove to Pendle ton, spending the week visiting relatives and returning home on Sunday evening. Who said rain, we have cer tainly had the rain for a few days. Could let up s0 that the al falfa hay could be cut and cured, then rain again. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR COUNTY SHERIFF I hereby announce my candid acy to succeed myself for the of fice of Sheriff of Morrow County subject to the will of the Repub lican voters of Morrow County at the primary election. C. J. D. BAUMAN Pd. Adv. 47tfc Young Mothers Club Elects New Officers Mothers club met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Victor Kreimeyer wun ia teen members present. - Invited guests were Mrs. Ray Myrick, Mrs. Richard Meador, Mrs. Vivian White, Mrs. KODen Jones and Mrs. Velma Glass. mow officers for the coming year will be, president, Mrs. Lie wllyn Robbins; vice president, Mrs. Andy Van Schoiack; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Merlin Wag oner and program cnairman, jjus. Ray Smith. for the evening was a talk on England and first impressions ol America, given uy Mrs. Ray Smith. Mrs. Norman Peters sang two hrc in honor of Mother's Day, accompanied by Mrs. Krei meyer. Refreshments were served by the hostess with Mrs. Merlin Wagoner as co-hostess. Mora in nttpnri the funeral of William Cowins were a daughter, . . - i. - r - 1 A n Mrs. Lyaia Kay Ol aaiem auu a granddaughter, Mrs. Ruth Mc Neil of Pendleton. Mrs. David McLeod Is a pa tient at Pioneer Memorial hospl. tal. Fine Precipitation? That nice rain and warm weather Will sure make things grow! Grain; hay; flowers; weeds; all Changed from week or si ago! It's lucky that no hailstorm came Along with all the rain! Hail never seems to be of help To fields of waving grain! Why run the risk of a Hail loss That would really hurt? You could end up with nothing But fields of beat up dirt! hr Get Crop Hoil Insurance Instead I C. A. RUGGLES Heppner, Oregon Phone 6-9625 Box 611 FOR COUNTY TREASURER I hereby announce that I am a candidate for the office of the County Treasurer of Morrow County subject to the will of the Republican voters of Morrow County at the primary election. SYLVIA McDANIEL 51tfc FOH COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce that I am a candidate for the office of county commissioner of Morrow County subject to the will of the Repub lican voters of Morrow county at the primary election. RUSSELL MILLER 51tfc FOR COUNTY CORONER I jjereby announce my candi dacy to succeed myself for the office of Coroner for Morrow county subject to the will of the Republican voters of Morrow County at the primary election. OLIVER CRESWICK 52tfc Opening Saturday May 12-9:30 THE T T TP ri-lone I no Portland's Better Colored Jazz Band Sax, Drums, Piano, Vocalist with lots Of variety AT THE Hitchin' Post IN BOARDMAN A SPECIAL DINNER Will Be Served From 7 to 12 P. M. New Lightweight Champs "T'llllllllll - i i illMllliiiiiiOTm' y-JMMaJvM.1,.,, ""t ' H I ll iiiiiiiiijw New Heavyweight Champs ,lfnW:v' mLx y vw.w. n . ? i tJi fir - ; -., - NEW '56 CHEVROLET TASK-FORCE TRUCKS! A MODERN V8 FOR EVERY MODEL 1 A MODERN MODEL FOR EVERY JOBI There's a hew Chevrolet Task-Force truck powered and built to do your job in record time and at rock-bottom costl Champs of every weight class! New Middleweight Champs High-powered V8's standard in heavy-duty Jobsl You get the big new 322-cu.-in. 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