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o Of o tme$ Copies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 31, 1956 73rd. Year, Number 12 New Lumber Mill To Start Here Soon Trial operation of a new Hepp. , In addition to the Hinton creek ?vJLJS Hn'te S.tuds" ,Inc"- Is mill, United Studs has purchased expectedtostartthisweekend.it , . t. t : . was revealed hv SnenrPr TnlW a 12 acre tract Just west of HePP" one of the incorporators of the plant. The mill, which is located on the site of the former Black Moun tain Lumber Company on Hinton creek will incorporate the for mer mill operated by Earl J. Blake and a new scragg mill which is now being built. The plant will produce only stud lum ber, 2 by 4's, eight feet in length. The Blake mill, mill site and tim ber holdings were purchased by the new organization which is composed of Tolley, Virgil Car penter, both of Milton -Freewater; Robert Jose, Mary Klug and Frank Souther, all of Yakima. The group has incorporated for $100,000. ner from Edward D. Clark and Thomas C. Beymer, Native of County, Dies at The Dalles Thomas C. Beymer, 68, a resi dent of Morrow county for over 60 years, passed away May 27 at The Dalles. Services were held today (Thursday) at 2 p. m. at the Lexington Christian church uith Ppv Vnrman Mnrthrnn nf. ...... . . i,U..wUi. nunum va- ( . . , , , , - firiatinp TntAimont u-as in thol were neiu hi uir nuui ttutnur Penland cemeterv at T.evinrtnn I lum Wednesday evening May 23 Mr. Beymer was born Feb. 22 lone Graduation Exercises Held Wednesday Night Commencement exercises for the lone grade and high school Hereford Man New lone School Head The lone school board revealed this week that it has named R. H. Woodroof of Hereford, Oregon as superintendent of the lone schools for the coming year. Woodroof has his B. A. and M. S. degrees from UCLA and was with the Los Angeles city schools for three years before coming to Hereford where he was superin tendent and principal of the high and grade schools for one year. He is married and has two children and will move his fam ily to lone in about two weeks. He replaces Phil G. Newitt who leaves shortly to become superin tendent of the Sunset Valley school near Portland. Donald Brostrom has been hired as 8th grade teacher to replace Wayne Pierce who resigned. He is a graduate of the Oregon Col lege of Education at Monmouth and has taught in a school near Dallas. He and his wife and one child will move here In August, o - with Francis B. Nickerson, exe- r-nti o ccrtitsri nf flip hioh ei'Vwl this week started construction of 1 1888 at Eightmile and moved to u reations department of a planer on the site. This fall it) Lexington in the early IMO's. He , the ate tem of highpr eilu. c. n nnnnj u - :n i VM in Thar area until 100 urhan J D , , , T7 cation as the main speaker. lie moved to The Dalles. He was married to Sylvia Booher at lone; For the services the proces June 28, 1908. sional was played by the school s..rvivtn n hie Hfa 6ii. i band and the recessional by Mrs, daughters Mrs. VPrn (AnHrwi E' M- Baker' ReV' Wilfred McKay Hanna, Lyle, Wn.; Mrs. William ! fave the invocation and benedlc- is planned to move the mill to the Heppner location. The mill will cut an average of 50,000 board feet a day and the planer will have a capacity of 150,000 feet a day. Land leveling and construction has started on the planer, but it will be some- Weekend Wrecks Put Seven Persons Hospital H. (Lucille) Massey, Houghton time before this section will be'Wn.; Mrs. Ralph (Hazel) Bissett, in operation, it was said. To Employ About 30 The combined plant and log ging operation, which is being contracted by C. E. Lynch Heppner, is expected to employ about 30 men at the start with the possibility of more later. The company already has purchased or contracted sufficient timber to assure at least 3 to 5 years of operation and negotiationes are now in progress for the purchase of considerably more stumpage. The plant will utilize salvage and small timber of a type not usually logged by other types of opera tions. Chipper Going In Tolley also revealed that the The Dalles; Mrs. William (Wil- ma) Brokaw, Mercer Island, Wn.; Mrs. Frank (Florence Ann) Shan non of Portland; 16 grandchild- 0j ren, eight girls and eight boys; una two Droiners, irea Beymer, Klamath Falls; and Arthur (Pete) Beymer of Portland. o Storm Brings Rain, Power Outages The heaviest thunder storm of the year hit Morrow county Wed nesday evening following a Me morial day holiday that was hot and still and saw the mercury company is installing a barker climb into the high 80's. and chipper at the mill which I The storm struck Henpner about Sumner New Manager Or TALat Ellensburg James Sumner, an employee of the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co at Heppner since November, 1954 left early this week for Ellens burg, Washington where he has taken over as manager of the company yard there. Sumner's place here has been filled by Bob Williamson of Hepp. ner who was recently released from the armed services. will be another step in utilizing a larger portion of the entire tree. All slab and much scrap will be chipped and sold for the manufacture of pulp or similar type products. All the members of the new company are stockholders in con. struction firms with headquarters in the Yakima area. Carpenter is manager of the sawmill opera- tion- -JUS o Water Resources Committee o Hear Regional Report There will be an important meeting of the Morrow county water resources committee Wed nesday, June 6 at the courthouse at 8 p. m., committee chairman Newt O'Harra announced this week. Marion Weatherford, Arlington, chairman of the regional commit, tee, and Ted Watson, engineer for the Oregon Water Resources board, will be here for the meet ing. O'Harra and Weatherford will give a report on the regional commute meeting w ach wasth ,iri.0 , ,, " 6; held last week in PPnrlWnn All I th.ese W3S thought to committee chairmen and inter ested persons are urged to attend. 7 o'clock and knocked out power on two occasions for over two hours. The first outage came just as the storm hit when lightn. ing struck a P. P. & L. power pole on south Court street burning off lines. Heppner was dark for an hour and 40 minutes before the break could be repaired. Earliel Lexington and many ranches be. tween there and Heppner were dark for a short time. About 4 a. m. there was an other 20 minute outage caused from a lightning strike some where in the Hermiston or Pasco area. Month's Rain Heavy. A considerable amount of rain and some hail accompanied the storm, Heppner getting .19 inch and the Gooseberry area record ing .53 inch. The added moisture gave Heppner a total of 2.13 in ches for May and Leonard Carl son at Gooseberry has checked 2.59 for the month. There were some reports of hail during the storm but Thursday morning no wheat damage claims had been filed with local insurance agents. Telephones also suffered dur mg me storm but damage to Hey Day Winners' Names Revealed Heppner Wranglers held their annual Hey Day Sunday May 27 at the fair grounds beginning with a downtown parade at 1 p. m. which proceeded to the arena where the show started at 1:30. Officials in charge of the affair were Cornett Green, Herman Green, and Howard Bryant, arena directors; W. O. George and Bruce Lindsay, announcers; Jerry Brosnan, race starter; Bill Healy, Pat O'Brien, W. O. George, Ralph Beamer and Cornett Green, stock; Mary Beamer, Nadine O'Brien, Faye Finch and Barbara Jordan, timers; Harry Dinges, Wilbur Steagall, John Eubanks and Wil liam Smethurst, judges; Gerald Swaggart, calf chute and George Currin, field flagman. Winners were, for cow riding, Jack Edmondson, first; Bob Stea gall, second and Dick Applegate, minor. be Ranger. Tells of Long Range Forest Management Plans Hpnnnpr fnrpct rnntrnr Vin 2nd; and Jo Ann Brosnan, third. ' Kreimeyer spoke and sowed & Women's cowgirl race, J4 mlle,'fJlm on National forest tlmber rai aieagan, ursi; cnnsuiie Swaggart, second; and Sandra Eubanks, third. Barrel race, juniors, 12 years and under, Geraldine Swaggart, first; Kit George, second and Dave George, third; 13 through 17 years, Barbara Steagall, first; Pat Steagall, second and Jim Stea gall, third; seniors, Charley Daly, first; Bill Healy, second; and Cornett Green, third. Calf roping, Cliff Adair, first; Charley Daly, second and Bob Steagall, third. Kids pony race; Geradine Swag gart, first; Sandra Eubanks, se cond; Diana Fulleton, third. Roping horse race, Don Robin son, first; Cliff Adair, second; Roice Fulletorf, third. Musical rope race; juniors 12 tnira; siaKe race, juniors years and under, Bobbie Hutchins, and under, Geraldine Swaggart, first; Kit George, second; Geral first; Kit George, second and Mar- j dine Swaggart, third; 13 through lene Fetsch, third; 13 through 17 17 years, Christine Swaggart, first; years; Barbara Steagall first;! Larry Fetsch, second; Jim Stea- pat bteagaii and Christine bwag- gail, third; seniors, Jean Boylen, gart tied for second and third; seniors, Jean Boylen, first; Cor nett Green, second; and Kathryn Healy and Cliff Adair tied for third. Pole bending; juniors, 12 years and under, Geraldine Swaggart, first; Bobbie Hutchins, second and Kit George, third; 13 through 17 years, Christine Swaggart, first; Larry Fetsch, second; Bar bara Steagall, third; seniors, James Farley, first; Jean Boylen, first; Cornett Green, second; Bill Healy, third. Bat relay race; juniors, Sandra Eubanks and Marlene Fetsch, first; Kit George and David George, second; ad Diana Fulle ton and Bobby Hutchins, third; 13 through 17 years, Christine Swaggart and Geraldine Swag gart, first; Pat Steagall and Bar bara Steagall, second; Bobby Fetsch and Jimmy Steagall, third; seniors, Ron Currin and Eddie resources review Monday noon at the Heppner-Morrow county Chamber of Commerce meeting. Kreimeyer explained how the review of federal, state and pri vate timber was made and how the facts obtained aided the ser vice in timber management. He said the program was set up for long range planning of forest re sources and predicted that within 50 years the tendency of the lum ber industry would be to swing back to the south and east as forest resources there grew back up. He said that the biggest prob lem in forest management was not in the state or national for ests, but in the small privately owned plots of timber which con tain a big portion of the country's remaining timber resource. Con tinuing changes in industry, Kreimeyer said, will increase the percentage of use of timber in the future, pointing to the use of chips in pulp and fiber board products. tion and the school chorus pro vided musical numbers as did Karen Lundell with a piano solo. Valedictory addresses were de livered by co-valedictorians Er nest Drake and Anna Jepsen and the salutatory by Gerry White. High school diplomas were pre sented by Lloyd Howton, chair man of the board to Gary Bren ner, Carolyn Crabtree, Ernest Drake, Anna Jepsen, Lindsay Kincaid, Judy Mason, James Pryse, Robert Pryse, Keith Rea, Wayne Rietmann, Jean Ann Swanson, Gerry White and Alvin McCabe. Donna Peterson and Darlene Drake were correspon dent students. Superintendent Phil Newitt presented the following awards: music, Ernest Drake; band, Gary Brenner; sports, Ernest Drake; typing, Jean Ann Swanson; voca. tion and shop, James Pryse; Sci ence, Wayne Rietmann; citizen ship, Bill Salter; citizenship and names on plaque, Anna Jepsen, Alvln McCabe and Drake. Awards for being top students, Ernest Drake," Anna Jepsen and Gerry White. The following scholarships were announced: Gary Brenner, alternate to OSC; Judy Mason to Pacific University; Gerry White, alternate to Portland State; Jean Ann Swanson, Eastern Oregon College. Ernest Drake and Miss Jepsen each receive k $200 Elks scholarship to the college of their choice and she has a nurses scholarship pending. Grant Rigby presented eighth grade diplomas to Ralph Akers, Mary Emert, Grant Rigby, Jr., Karen Lundell, Harry Swart, Mel vin Martin, Linda Heimbigner, Ronald Esteb, Harold Rietmann, Phil Emert Jr., Brenda Kay Town send and Robert Akers. Superintendent Newitt gave awards to Karen Lundell for music and to being top in the class, to Phil Emert Jr. for plac ing second and to Ralph Akers for athletics. A reception followed the exer cises with Mrs. Earl McCabe In charge and other members of the P-TA assisting. Mothers of the members of the graduating class poured and served the punch. I s Wl: a- .j.- - C mmnim ii irnuiirai-T u- . , t NOT FREE PARKING Two Condon Air Force men found last Sat urday that parking on the courthouse lawn was an expensive pro position. The two, Ralph G. Giltner, 23 and James J. Dillon. 22, got stuck on the front lawn after they had driven to the Jail park ing lot to visit two buddies who had been locked up earlier in the evening. City officer Dean Gilman iound the car and the two men and marched them the 100 feet to the jail where they spent the rest ot the night. The following morning they pleaded guilty to being drunk in a public place and were each fined $50 and $4.50 costs plus a S6.00 towing charge. Five County Students To Graduate From Oregon State June 4 OREGON STATE COLLEGE Five students from Heppner and surrounding area will receive degrees at Oregon State college's 87th annual commencement June 4. They are Kenneth Jackson Tur nre, bachelor's of agriculture; Philip Conway Smith, bachelor's degree in forestry; both from Heppner. Merle Keith Tannehill of Boardman will receive a bache lor's degree in agriculture; and Ray Gerald Anderson, also of Boardman, will receive a master's of education degree. lone stu dent John Lawrence Bristow will receive a bachelor's degree from the school of business and technology. OSC will confer 1106 degrees this year, including a record G8 doctor's degrees, 170 masters de grees, 858 bachelor's degrees, and one professional civil engineer ing degree. Six students will get two degrees. President A. L. Strand will con fer the degrees and deliver his annual class message at the com mencement program. The exercises -will be held in the coliseum, starting at 10 a. rp. to assure maximum seating for relatives and visitors. As part of the commencement program, 166 graduating senior men will be commissioned as re serve officers in the air force, army, navy, and marine corps. Local Elks Attend Clinic Dedication, State Convention EXAMINER COMING A drivers license examiner will be on duty in the courthouse in Heppner on Tuesday, June 5 from 9:30 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. DEER AND ELK HUNTERS FIND 1955 SEASONS GOOD IN NORTHEAST OREGON second and Bob Steagall, third. Brosnan, first; Pat O'Brien and Sack race, 12 years and under, Bill Healy, second; Merlyn Robin. I Anderson uiana ruiieiun, iirsi, ueraiuine , son and Uon KObinson. th rd Swaggart, Eubanks, second; and Sandra Americanism Awards Go to Graduates The Heppner American Legion Auxiliary Americanism essay award medals and prizes were presented to winners at the eighth grade graduation exer cises last week by John Snyder, instructor. The winners were, for girls, Connie Anderson, first; and Carol second. For boys, Thomas Driscoll, first and Mickey One fourth mile cowboy race; Van Schoiack, second, 3rd; 13-17, Barbara Ray Papineau, first; Cliff Adair,! The essays were Judged bv a Oregon hunters proved to be deadeyes during the 1955 deer seasons. Final tabulations of the kill show a whopping total of 134,089 deer taken setting a new record for the state. Hunters reported taking 82,136 bucks and 48,955 antlerless deer during the general season. Con trolled hunts produced .2,743 ani mals while 252 were taken by bow hunters. A total of 230,588 nimrods participated, also a re cord, and enjoyed a 59 per cent success. As in the past, hunters in Wal lowa county enjoyed the best luck where 76 per cent of the 5,377 nimrods who hunted there reported bagging an animal. Re-, ports show a total of 4,085 deer were taken of which 2,733 were bucks. Hunters in Wheeler county were second on the list with a 74.5 per cent success reported by 6, 853 hunters. Of the 5,107 deer taken in Wheeler county, 3,054 were bucks. Third was Harney county where 9,639 hunters reported bagging 7. In number of animals produced, Klamath county led all others by a good "margin. A total of 11,421 deer were taken by 19,327 hunt ers. Of this number 7,069 were bucks, and 4,352 were antlerless animals. " Grant county was second with 10,639 animals killed of which 6,997 were bucks. A total of 14, 749 nimrods reported hunting in Grant county. Lake county was third with 16,035 hunters taking 9,945 ani mals, 5,263 of which were bucks, land Deschutes county fourth where 16,910 hunters reported taking 9,736 animals, 5,149 of which were bucks. High western Oregon county and fifth on the list was Lane county which pro duced 8,812 animals for 14,465 nimrods. Of these, 5,263 were bucks. Surprising enough was the number of deer produced in the heavily populated Multnomah county where 323 hunters report ed bagging 136 animals. In Morrow county 3,621 hunters killed 2,525 deer of which 1,462 were bucks for a percentage of Representatives from the Hepp ner Elks lodge attended dedica tion ceremonies May 30 of the children's eye clinic in the new University of Oregon medical school hospital in Portland. The clinic, founded in 1949 by the Oregon State Elks association for needy children, has finished moving into pew quarters in the teaching and research hospital. Attending from here were sec retary Jack Bailey and Jack Van Winkle of the OSEA's committee for visually handicapped child ren. Speak was Edgar W. Smith, Portland civic leader and former chairman of the state board of education. . . , , At the ceremonies the Heppner lodge presented the clinic with a check for $500. Following the dedication the Elks went on to Seaside for the state convention being held there May 31 to June 2. In addition to Bailey and Van Winkle, other Heppner Elks who are attending the convention include La Verne Van Marter Jr., exalted ruler; Del Jordan, John Hartman, Wil liam Labhart, Alton Yarnell, Lo well Gribblo, Everett Kelthlev. Glenn Ward and Harlan McCurdv Jr. Also at the convention are the Elks trap team composed of P. W. Mahoney, George Snider, Dale Brown, Harvey Smith and Luke Bibby. Steagall, 1st.; Christine Swaggart, second; and Bill Healy, third. committee outside the local unit. 1 26.6 per cent success ratio. 0663 deer of which 5,086 carried 69.7 successful hunters, antlers. Success among these Elk hunters were also success hunters was 73.3 percent. j f ul in the county with 1,198 per Other counties where luck ran sons killing 198 elk for a hfgh high include Baker county where ( percentage of 16.65 percent. Dur 72.3 per cent of the 7.854 hunters , ing the special 1955 controlled were successful, Grant county j elk season in the Heppner dis where 14,749 hunters enjoyed a ' trict, 100 permits were issued and 72.- per cent success, and Mai-'62 elk were killed giving the heur county where 71.6 per cent ' highest percentage of kill of any of the 5,157 hunters bagged an of the special elk hunts. animal. Low Oregon county was Clatsop where 2.490 hunters re- ponea laKing bbj oucks for a Mrs. Mabel Chaffee and Mrs. Ethel Zeimantz spent four days in Portland the first of last week. Kinzua Pays $99000 For Forest Timber At Tuesday Sale In one of the largest national forest timber sales in recent years held Tuesday at Pendleton, Kinzua Corporation paid $99,000 for 3,300,000 feet of Ponderosa pine, Douglas fir and western larch timber located in the Burnt Cabin creek drainage, 9 miles northeast of Spray. The timber all lies within the Heppner ranger district of the Umatilla national forest and is located in Wheeler county. The pine brought $37.75 per M; the fir and larch $9.40 per M. Another smaller sale of tim ber on Shaw creek east of Hepp ner is planned later this year. o Aspirants for School Board Posts Must File by Petition Voters of school district No. 1 were reminded this week of the coming election of two school board members and the require ment that names presented must be by petition signed by at least 25 voters and filed with the school clerk at least 10 days prior to the election. Two positions will be open, one for five years and the other for a one-year term. The election will be held at the annual school meeting on June 18. o Mrs. Charles Earlow arrived home this week after a seven months stay in Eugene with her daughters. She was accompanied home by her sister, Mrs. Elma Gilliam of Portland and her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Akers of Aumsville, Oregon. Four separate accidents over the past weekend, two of them occuring Saturday night near Spray, put seven persons in the Pioneer Memorial hospital, three with serious injuries. Forrest Burkenbine of Heppner suffered the fracture of two ver tebras in the lower back when his car went off the road, about two miles east of Spray on the John Day highway early Sunday morning. According to reports, he apparently went to sleep at the wheel. He is reported in good condition but will be confined with a body cast for about two months. Four persons, all from Kinzua or that immediate area, were brought to Pioneer hospital by ambulance and state police early Sunday morning when the car in which they were riding want off the road about one mile east of Spray. This accident occurred at approximately the same time as did Burkenblne's. Most seriously injured of the four was Keith Madden, 28 who suffered severe facial lacerations and compound jaw fractures. His condition is reported as fair. Gary Stumper, 15, suffered a broken back in the same wreck. He is reported improving and will be confined for some time. Elva Louise Nelson, 19, suffered con cussion and facial lacerations and Kay Flack, 19 had severe lacer ations and shock. All are still hospitalized. The accident occurred in Whee- ler county so no detailed report was made here. Sunday night Phoebe Whitney of Condon received a cerebral concussion, broken jaw and lac erations as a result of a car ac cident In the Condon area. She Is being treated at Pioneer hospl. tal, but no information on the cause of the accident is known. Tuesday afternoon Avery Shown of Irrlgon was admitted to the hospital after befng found unconscious in his overturned car near the top of the moun tains on the Heppner-Spray road. He was brought here by a pass ing motorist and his Injuries are not thought to be serious. o Boardman Phone Modernizing Set WASHINGTON, D. C. (Special) Congressman Sam Coon an nounced that the Rural Electrifi cation Administration today ap proved a loan of $539,000 to the East Oregon Telephone Company at Pilot Rock. This new company plans to buy out the Indpendent Tele phone Company at Pilot Rock and the Boardman Telephone Company. Additional facilities will be constructed to serve 550 new subscribers in addition to the 750 receiving service from the present companies. It is planned to provide dial service to those present subscrib ers who have magneto phones. Memorial Day Pioneer Picnic Attracts Crowd of Over 160 Over 160 visitors and local resi dents gathered at the fair pavil ion Wednesday for the third an nual Pioneer picnic and a day of visiting with old friends. Master of ceremonies for the short program was J. O. Turner, vice president of the Pioneer as sociation. Main speaker was county Judge Garnet Barratt with several other former residents giving short talks. Musical num. bers were given by Cheryle and Karen Lundell, Mrs, J. O. Turner and Norman Peters. Harold Becket, chairman of the Heppner cemetery maintenance district, told of the progress made during the year in rehabilitating the cemetery and the plans for the future. New officers for the coming year were elected by the group. I hey are Mrs. Charles Becket, vice president and Mrs. Roy Nelll, secretary. They will name a presi dent shortly. This was the third meeting of the organization and more than half of those present were former residents of this area who now live elsewhere. Mrs. Walter Barger and son Wally of Gresham were visiting last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Collins,
