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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
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ASSOCIATION
ROBERT FENLAND
Editor and Publisher
ORETCHEN PEN LAND
Associate Publisher
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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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
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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.
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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,
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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!
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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
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