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U OF O EUGENE, ORE mmtttt Copies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 1 8, 1956 73rd Year, Number 32 Gifts Pour in For Grandma Rieth on Her 100th Birthday Mrs. Ellen Rieth of lone who last Friday started on the second century of her life, was guest of honor at a series of parties and special religious services over the weekend that gave her some of the busiest days of her life and brought a statement from her, "O my, you would expect a thing like this to happen to Queen Elizabeth but not to a little old lady like me." Grandma Rieth was the recipi ent of many gifts and remem brances which are of great im portance to her. Among them was a picture of Pope Pius XII and an Apostolic blessing signed per sonally by the Holy Father; a telegram from President Eisen hower; a letter from Joseph Car dinal Pizzardo, secretary of the sacred congregation of the Holy office in Rome, who also obtained the picture and the blessing from Heppner Falls lo Elgin; lo Meet Pilot Rock Friday The Mustangs of Heppner traveled to Elgin Friday, October 12, where they ran Into a team of high spirited Huskies and a mud dy field. Both of these condi tions contributed to the final score of 20-13 in which the Mus tangs came out on the short end. The Huskies struck quickly In the game as they took a 6-0 lead in the first quarter. This touch down was set up by a Mustang fumble. In the second quarter the Mustangs tied the score at 6 all as Dick Ruhl took a pass from Duane Alderman and romped all the way to the T. D. without In terference. The try for point was no good. But the spirited Hus kies struck right back for another 7 points just before the intermis sion and af the half held as 16-6. The Mustang's hopes were kept alive after the half as Ruhl took an Elgin kick and streaked to an other T. D. The try for point was good and the score stood at 13-13. However, this proved futile as the Huskies scored again in the fourth stanza and broke the game wide open as they went on to win 20-13. No statistics were available on the game due to the fact that the sCorekeeper for Heppner for got his book. Next game will be played at Heppner Friday October 19 at 8:00 o'clock with Pilot Rock Rockets. This is a league game and it shapes up to be a real thriller as both teams are out to win. Rummage Sale Set By Civic League For November 2-3 An unusually good selection of fall rummage was sorted by the Civic League at the home of Mrs. Robert Jones Monday night. Al though there is still a need for more to come in during the period before the sale, scheduled for Nov. 2-3 at Empire Machinery Co., co-chairmen Mrs. Ray Myrick and Mrs. Jones were very pleased with the cooperation of local resi dents for the kindergarten bene fit. - . They announced that rummage may be left at Jack's Chevron station or persons wishing to have it collected may call 6-9125 or 6-5323 for free pickup service. The group also discussed the local blood typing drive as the hospital records have been re ported inadquate in the event of a local disaster. The proposed drive would take place after the first of the year. Approximately 20 members at tended the meeting and coffee and doughnuts were served by the hostess. Wednesday Night Storm Brings Rain A gentle rain which started fall ing here Wednesday evening had dropped .14 inch by Thursday morning to bring the week's total up to .17 inch. Continuing show ers this morning added consider ably to the moisture, but they were not included In the .14 mea surement. The latest rainfall brings to slightly over one-half inch the precipitation for October and brightened grain and range pros pects throughout the area. Pope Pius; a rosary from Bis hop Francis P. Leipzig which was blessed by the Pope; and a gold cross with gold nuggets made in Alaska given her by her grand son C. J. Newlin. Mrs. Rieth's gift from the Pope marked the first time that any one in this Catholic diocese has received an Apostolic blessing personally signed by the Pope. Mrs. Rieth's weekend of cele brations started with a potluck dinner Friday at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Paul O'Meara. Present were many of her relatives including her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Rieth of Harrington, Wash.; grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Leffell, La Grande; Mrs. Mary Olson, Victoria, B. C; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Newlin, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Newlin and daughters Jill and Jennifer, of Freeland, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Guske and daughter Susan Mosco, Idaho; nieces and nep hews, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Short, Prineville; Mrs. Lena Gardner, Drain; Mrs. Carrie Grown, Ridge field, Wash.; Mrs. Grace Peachy, Vernonia; Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bry son, LeMoore, Calif.; grand nieces, Mr. and Mrs. Verle Farns worth, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Johnston, Salem; and Mrs. Virginia Holt, Pilot Rock. Mass was said for Mrs. Rieth Friday morning at St. Williams church and on Sunday morning Bishop Francis P. Leipzig of Baker celebrated a special mass in her honor which was followed by a breakfast with the Altar So ciety in charge. At the Sunday morning break fast Grandma Rieth was pre sented with a 20 by 30 inch birth day cake which was in the shape of an open prayer book with a rosary over the top. It was deco rated with the words "God Bless Grandma Rieth" and the numer als 100. It had 100 candles on it On the table with the cake, her life was dramatized with decorations of miniature covered wagons, bride and groom dolls, a cradle with a baby and a mo ther beside it, a rocking chair with an old fashioned doll. After Mrs. Rieth cut the first piece of cake, her daughter Mrs. O'Meara served. During the Sunday mass ser vice it was pointed out that Mrs. Rieth and her family were bap tised by Father Louis Conrary and was married by him. Father Conrardy came to Pendleton in 1875 and built the first Catholic church there in 1884. He took care of the Pendleton area coming as far as Heppner. He was later re knowned as a worker in Leper colonies in Hawaii and China. All in all, Grandma Rieth had a big weekend and after it was all over she said she "was so happy she didn't know whether she was ten or a hundred." UNICEF Hallowe'en Plan to be Tried By Local Youngsters Instead of the usual Hallow e'en "trick or treat", one group of HeDoner voungsters this year will participate in the UNICEF Hallowe'en clan, a nation-wide United Nations sponsored drive to aid the world's needy children. Under the guidance of adult leaders, the children of the Epis copal Sunday school will spend Hallowe'en evening collecting pennies, nickles and dimes for the needy youngsters of the world rather than candv for themselves. The program is captioned by the slogan "the trick is to treat all the world's children." The program has been carried on in other places for several years, but this will be the first year it has been tried in Hepp ner. All participating youngsters will be treated to a party later in the evening. o NEW NURSES HERE Two new registered nurses re cently accepted positions at Pio neer Memorial hospital. They are Miss Thera Kerr of Denver, Colo rado and Mrs. Imogene Caudrey of Boise, Idaho. NO SERVICES SUNDAY ( There will be no services Sun day at All Saints Episcopal due to the absence of the rector, Rev. George R. S. Little. Regular ser vices will be held Sunday, Oct 28 however. il " GRANDMA ELLEN RIETH and Bishop Francis P. Leipzig hold personally autographed picture o( Pope Pius XII and Apostolic blessing which was presented to her on her 100th birthday at a special Mass at St. Williams Catholic church of lone Sunday. Shown with her are, left to right, her son F. J. Rieth, Harrington, Wash., her daughter with whom she lives Mrs. Paul O'Meara (partially hidden behind Mrs. Rieth) and Father Patrick J. Gaire of St. Patrick's church in Heppner and St Williams of lone. (Photo by Irene Wilson) Opening of Bird Season Saturday To Attract Hunters Deer hunters have only until Sunday, Oct. 21 to get their veni son but before the deer season comes to a close another big group of nimrods will take to the fields in search of pheasants and chukars. The bird season opens one-half hour before sunup on Saturday. Bird hunters should have pretty fair luck in this immediate area according to Glenn Ward, state game commission representative who' reported tiiat 300 chukars and 500 Mongolian pheasants have been released in Morrow county during the past week. He said that 120 bob white, whicli are just now being introduced here, were also released recently. This will be the first year that a season has been opened on chukars, though they have been released in the county before to build up the birds' numbers in the area. All the chukars that were released this week are banded and the game commis sion asks hunters who kill the banded birds to turn in the bands into either Ward, state patrolman Bill Labhart or send them to the Portland office of the commission. The return of the bands can aid the commission in its study of the elusive chukars and hunters are asked to report the band num ber, date and location where the,' bird was taken. Early season deer hunting was not too good in the immediate area but with the opening of the either sex season last weekend and some fairly heavy rains in the mountains, the kill improved during the last. few days. o Heart Attack Claims Life of Hunter Carl Frederick Schaefer, 51, of Hermiston died of a heart attack early Saturday while hunting in the Chapin creek area sduth of Hardman. He was the first hunt ing casualty of the season in this immediate area. The death was investigated by coroner Oliver Creswick and the body was sent to Burns Mortuary in Hermiston where services were held. ROCK HOUNDS TO MEET The Morrow County Gem and Mineral society will meet Tues day evening October 23 at 8:00 p. m. at the Heppner Hotel. All rock hounds are cordially in vited. It will be auction night and there will be a door prize. NO SCHOOL MONDAY There will be no classes in any county school next Monday as instructors will attend the teach er's institute to be held in Pen dleton. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Teti and son Stephen of Monmouth, visi ted with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William Labhart over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Mahoney were weekend visitors in Seattle. FINAL REGISTRATION TOTAL SHOWS 1332GOP'S 1027 DEMOS IN COUNTY Complete registration figures for Morrow county, compiled this week by county clerk Bruce Lind say shows a total of 2385 persons will be eligible to vote in the November 6 general election. This is down slightly from last week's estimate of about 2425 and re sulted from cancellations received from other counties and regis trars. Republicans hold a wide mar gin in the county with 1332 voters. The democrats have 1027 and 26 are listed with "other" party af filiations. Slight Gain is Noted in Market HERMISTON The market took a mild turn for the better at the Hermiston Livestock Commission Co. sale Friday with prices steady of a few cents stronger on all classes of animals. One hundred and thirty one consignors placed 610 cattle, 204 hogs and 147 sheep on the auc tion block in a good sale that saw plenty of buyers from Oregon, Washington and California on hand to make the market a fast moving one. Heifer calves with a top of $16.30 cwt. were up $1.20 cwt. and fat slaughter steers with a high of $20.10 cwt. topped last week's best bid by $.90. Needed for next week's sale will be plenty of fat cows and heifers and fat heifer cows, sale manager Delbert Anson announ ced. CATTLE: Baby calves, 2.50 to 14.00 per head; steer calves, 17.40 to 18.90 cwt.; heifer calves, 15.10 to 16.30 cwt.; stocker steers, 14.80 to 15.90 cwt.; veal, 46.90 to 18.75 cwt.; fat slaughter steers 17.70 to 20.10 cwt.; feeder steers, 15.90 to 17.00 cwt.; dairy cows, 87 to 175 per head; commercial cows, 11.70 to 13.50 cwt.; stock cows, 101 to 114 per head; utility cows,-10.30 to 11.40 cwt.; canners and cutters, 7,30 to 8.80 cwt.; shells, 2.50 to 7.10 cwt.; and bulls, 11.75 to 14.10 cwt HOGS: Weaner pigs, 7.50 to 9.00 per head; feeder pigs, 15.10 to 16.60 cwt.; fat hogs, 15.90 to 17.30 cwt.; sows, 12.10 to 15.30 cwt.; and boars, 2.35 to 6.10 cwt. SHEEP: Ewes, 6.50 to 9.00 per head with no young ewes avail able; fat labs, 16.20 to 16.70 cwt.; feeder lambs, 14.40 to 16.20 cwt, and bucks, 1.25 to 3.00 cwt. Q Christian Endeavor Rally Slated Here The Christian Endeavor groups of the Christian churches of the Columbia district will meet at the Heppner Christian church for their fall rally Friday evening and all day Saturday. Marvin Echfeldt, student president of Northwest Christian College at Eugene, will be guest speaker for the meetings. One of the highlights of the program will be a foreign stu dent speaker on the Saturday pro gram. The women of the church will serve the Saturday evening banquet. Registration by precinct shows Rep. Dem. Other Hardman 25 11 Lexiington 144 117 Boardman 149 114 lone 251 149 Irrigon 124 182 S. Heppner 297 209 N. Heppner 342 245 o Shooting of Dog Brings Arrest of Portland Hunter Portland police late last week arrested Earl McKlllop, 30, of Portland on a John Doe warrant issued earlier last week out of Justice of the Peace J. O. Hager's court. McKlllop is charged with shooting the animal of another person, specifically a dog owned by O. W. Cutsforth of Lexington. As reported last week the dog was shot and Mrs. Cutsforth, who was with her husband and Gar Leyva near Kelly Prairie, was nearly struck by shots fired from a car. I he men obtained the license number of the car and McKiliop's arrest resulted. McKillop was released on $500 1 bail an the case will be heard by circuit judge William W. Wells in the near future, district attor ney Bradley Fancher reported this week. McKillop reportedly admitted the shooting, stating he thought it was a wild animal. o Savings Bond Sales Down in County Sales of United States treasury department E and H bonds in this county during September amount ed to $29,097, bringing the total sales here this year to $170,623, according to Jack Bedford, county savings bonds committee chair man. Corresponding figures for last year were $32,789 for Septem ber, and $389,853 for the first nine months of 1955. Sales in Oregon were down in September when compared to a year ago, amounting to $2,552,997. In the same month in 1955 they were $3,294,272. In quoting the comparison figures, county chair man Bedford reported that 1955 was by far Oregon's best year for Savings Bond sales since the end of World War II. "Oregon sales this year to date exceed those of any other peacetime year", he said. Youth Retreat Held Near Walla Walla Celia Boulden, Renne Harris and Rev. and Mrs. L. D. Boulden at tended the Methodist youth re treat at Kooskooskie Klwanls camp near Walla Walla Oct. 12 through 14. There were about 50 young people present represent insr the churches of the Blue Mountain sub-district. Rev. Boulden directed the study on citizenship, Harris was song leader and Celia Boulden, as local president, helped in directing the camp. Mrs. Boulden served as chief cook on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Smith had as their guests over the weekend her sister and brother-in-law, Mr, and Mrs. H. W. Allen of Redmond. Heppner Methodist Church Wins Award For Improvement The Heppner Methodist church, of which the Rev. Lester Boulden is pastor, is one of twenty churches to receive an award in the Oregon Council of Churches' annual church improvement con test. The local church finished in second place in the under 2500 population classification. Awards were made at the award ban quet, held Monday, October 15, at the Town and Country Church conference, in Oregon State Col lege. Judging is based on improve ments in church buildings and grounds, In the general church organization, and in service ren dered to the community. Judges were the Rev, James McDowell of Gresham, Mrs. Mildred Norman and the Rev. Lowell Ellis of Port land. In all, the twenty churches, which reported 24,175 hours of volunteer labor spent in church improvement, with a cash outlay of $118,101.00, have only a total of 3391 members. The smallest church to win an award has nineteen members and the largest 650. Mrs. Harry Duvall, Mrs. Whit mer Wright, Mrs. Grace Drake and Rev. Boulden were In Corval lis to attend the award banquet. The women returned to Heppner Tuesday, but Rev. Boulden re mained for the rest of the pro gram which ended Thursday. He was program coardlnator Wed nesday. The church received a cash award of $150. School Census Assistance Asked Beverly Gunderson, clerk of the Heppner school district, today asked residents to aid in the com pilation of the current school cen sus. Students now registered in school and their brothers and sis ters have already been checked, but the district would like to know of other youngsters, either new to the area or previously un reported, who will be over 4 or under 20 years of age by Novem ber 15. Anyone knowing of children in that age bracket are asked to re port them to Mrs. Gunderson by calling her either at 6-9138 or 6-9220. A complete census aids the school board in planning its needs during the coming year. Two Hunters Spend Night in Woods Two hunters who failed to re turn to their camps last Sunday caused searching parties to start looking for them, but before the search got well underway both found their way back to civiliza tion. Search was started early Mon day morning for Mrs. Ed Martin of Hermiston, who with her hus band and son had camped on Board Creek near Parker's Mill. Mrs. Martin was out most of Sun nay and Sunday night but re turned to her camp just as the party was starting out after her. . An unidentified boy was re ported lost in the Swale Creek area about the same time, but be fore searchers could start looking for him he walked out to Tupper Guard station and reported in. Neither suffered any injury. Exchange Students Talk at P-TA Meet The regular meeting of the Heppner P-TA was held October 10 at the grade school multipur pose room with two foreign ex change students providing an in terestlng program. The two, Bill Clark of Pendle ton and Verner Von Kuhnsberg of Switzerland, both gave talks on their experiences. Clark told of his months in Germany and Von Kuhnsberg gave the group an outline of the educational sys tern in Switzerland. An elabor ate display of foreign-made art! cles was set up for the evening. The two boys were accompanied here by Wallace McCrea, Pen dleton school superintendent. The association approved Its budget for the coming year and refreshments of cookies and breads were served. The next executive meeting will be held October 24. EXAMINER COMING A drivers license examiner will be on duty in Heppner, Tuesday, Oct. 23 at the court house be tween 9:30 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. Golf Course to Be Ready for Play This Weekend Heppner's long awaited golf course, the Willow Creek Coun try Club, will be opened to the public for the first time this weekend as workers are finish ing up a month-long job of con struction and preparation. The new course Is located just west of Heppner, adjacent to the Wishing Well drive In and five of the planned six holes will be ready for golf enthusiasts by the weekend, Bradley Fancher, sec retary of the club announced on Wednesday. The 23 acre course which strad les Willow creek in very attrac tive setting, has been under con struction for nearly a year. The club was formed last fall and leased the land from Thomas Wells. During the winter and the spring the members did consider able work in cleaning brush, mowing, laying out the holes and obtaining necessary equip ment. During the past month workmen completed the construe tion of three footbridges, the in stalling of temporary sand greens and necessary mowing and rak ing of the fairways. The course was planned for six holes, but the expense of getting one ready which required heavy construc tion was so great that available funds were used to get the first five holes ready for play. The club plans to purchase the sod greens from the old Pendleton Country Club as soon as that club moves to its new location, but It is expected to be spring before this can be accomplished. Open To Public Though the club was formed by a group of local men, the pre sent 31 members have voted to open the course to public play and a greens fee of $100 per day will be charged. At present there is no clubhouse on the grounds, but fees can be paid at the Wishing Well drive-in near the entrance to the course. John Williams is president of the organization, o Rites Held Tuesday At Lexington for Mrs. Dolly Vinson Funeral services were held from the Lexington Christian church Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Dolly Stella Vinson, 48, who passed away October 13 at Pio neer Memorial hospital following a long illness. Mrs. Vinson had lived at Lex ington about two years but had resided in the vicinity for seve ral years. She was born in Conrad, Mon tana April 13, 1908 and was mar ried to H. E. Vinson May 13, 1947 at Tucson, Arizona. She is sur vived by her husband, her father Charles E. Stewart of Cutbank, Montana; one son, Robert Alcorn, Denver, Colo.; a daughter, Audry Howery, Shelby, Montana; three sisters, Dorothy Dalager, Spokane, Mae Barr, Hobson, Montana and Margaret Lucas, Portland; two brothers James Stewart, Alaska; and Edward Stewart, Montana; and four grandchildren. The service was conducted by Rev. Norman Northrup, vocalists were Don Hatfield and Leonard Munkers accompanied by Mrs. C. C. Carmichael, and pall bear ers were W. E. McMillan, Oris Padberg, K. E. Peck, C. C. Jones, E. E. McFadden and George Irvln. Interment was in the Lexington cemetery. Creswick Mortuary. wa3 in charge of arrangements. Those from out of town attend ing the services included Mr. and Mrs. Helde Dalager and son, of Spokane; Mrs. Margaret Lucas and daughters of Portland; Char les E. Stewart, Cutbank, Montana; Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Vinson, Kim berly; Mr. and Mrs. Ken Way and family, Hillsboro; Asa Way, of Seaside; Mr. and ' Mrs. Bert Breeding, Hermiston; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Breeding, Grass Valley; Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Vinson, and Mr. and Mrs. Dallas McDanlel, of Heppner; Mr. and Mrs. Claude White, Hardman. LAYMAN'S SUNDAY SET Layman's Sunday will be cele brated in the Methodist church Sunday, Oct. 21 during the church hour. The program will be under the direction of L. L. Robbins, lay leader. Several lay members will speak and a special dedication of church school teachers will be held. Mr. and Mrs. Kaxley Anderson left Monday for their home in Mesa, Arizona after having spent the summer in Heppner.
