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Your Shopping Guide to Better Christmas Values In Today s Gazette Times
Holiday Decorations to
Appear Santa Coming
Heppner will take on a bright
holiday look Sunday when a crew
of chamber of commerce mem
bers, Columbia Basin Electric Co
op employees and volunteers will
install Christmas decorations and
lights in the business section.
The work is under the sponsor
ship of the retail merchants com
mittee with Dick Brunner as the
chairman.
The town will again be deco
rated with streamers of green
boughs and lights and the cham
ber has purchased several new
permanent-type decorations that
will add to the brightness of the
area. The work of tieing the
Local Men to
Appear on Wheat
League Program
A number of Umatilla and Mor
. row county wheat men will re
port to the Oregon Wheat Grow
ers League during the organiza
tion's 29th annual meeting De
cember 6, 7 and 8 at the Mult
nomah hotel, Portland.
First of these will be Richard
' K. Baum, Pendleton, who will
give the report of the secretary
treasurer. His report will be made
at a general session the morning
of December 7. Presiding will
be Raphael Raymond, vice presi
dent. Parliamentarian will be
Ronald Rew, Pendleton.
Later in the convention, the
wheat disposal and transporta
tion committee report will be
given by Frank Tubbs, chairman
Adams. Domestic wheat utiliza
tion committee report and re
marks will be made by Mrs.
Ronald Rew. , .
Nels Anderson, county agent,
Heppner, 'will speak on "Working
Together in the Extension Pro
gram." Conservation Man of the Yeor
awards will be made by Alvin
Bunch, chairman, Heppner, and
' M. J. Frey, publisher, Portland
Oregonian. Taxation and legis
lation committee report will be
by S. E. Brogoittichairman, He
lix. Report of nominating commit
tee and election of officers will
be under the direction of Ken
neth Smouse, chairman, lone.
Wheeler McMillen, vice president
of Farm Journal, Inc., will discuss
"Agriculture's Future" as ban
quet speaker Friday evening, De
cember 7, during the convention.
McMillen is a long time propon
ent of research to find wider mar
kets in industry for farm commo
dities. CAR WRECK HURTS MAN
One person sustained a minor
neck injury Friday evening when
a car owned by Delmer Jordan
and driven by Bob Gammell of
Pasco missed a turn at the Echo
junction in a heavy fog and over
turned. Hurt was Bob Williamson
of Heppner. Gammell and Jordan
sustained only bruises.
The car was severely damaged.
LEXINGTON GRADE SCHOOL CLASS
FIRST FROM AREA TO SEND CARE AID
The seventh-eighth grade class
at Lexington school this week re
ceived a letter of appreciation
from the Seattle office of CARE
in which it congratulated the
class for the lead it has taken in
this area in helping to provide
food for hungry overseas children.
Serge Coval is the teacher and
there are just nine students in
the combined class.
The letter said, "The seventh
eight grade of Lexington grade
school led the way for the area
In helping hungry people over
seas with a contribution to CARE,
the foreign relief agency.
"Because the class chose Paki
stan as the country to benefit
Shopping
An Editorial Feature
Talked the other day with a
woman who had been shopping.
In fact, she had been shopping
twice. Her first sorty was in a
Faraway City ... at least 60 miles
away.
That trip to the Faraway City
had been planned a long time.
It was to be quite an Occasion.
Maybe that Faraway City was 200
miles away. Frankly, it doesn't
make any difference.
She had saved her money and
planned her time. She dreamed
of all the wonderful things she
was going to. buy for Christmas
presents for all her wonderful
friends and kinfolks. And those
who received were going to be
twice blessed: First, because
those presents were going to be
boughs on the streamers is now
being done by members of the
Heppner high school Future Busi
ness Leaders club and Brunner to
day issued a call for all possible
chamber members to be available
at 1 p. m. Sunday to hang the
decorations. Fork lift trucks,
which greatly aid in fastening
the streamers to power poles, will j
be provided by Heppner Pine
Mills and the Tum-A-Lum Lum
ber Company. The REA crew will
hook up the strings of colored
lights. -
Brunner also announced that
plans have been completed to
have Santa visit Hepner on the
following Saturday afternoon,
December 8. He is expected to
arrive in town about 1:30 and will
greet all youngsters in front of
the Heppner Hotel. Later he will
spend about an hour at the Elks
lounge where all youngsters are
invited to go and talk to him
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Junior Class Play
Presentation Due
December 4 and 5
A three act comedy, "Going
Steady" will be presented by the
members of the Heppner high
school junior class Tuesday and
Wednesday, December 4 and 5
at the multipurpose room in the
new grade school. The play is
under the direction of Stanley
Holm.
Included in the cast are Judie
Spaulding, Jim Morris, Carol
Groshens, Butch Laughlin, Janice
Beamer, Marlene Geycr, Shirley
Upton, Kay Corbin and Ed Gro-
shens.
Curtain time is 8 p. m. each
evening.
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Heppner P-TA To
Have Men's Night
The Heppner P-TA will meet
Wednesday evening December 12
at 8:00 p. m. at the school.
The program will be a panel
discussion on "What Our Com
munity Does For the Youth" with
Everett Keithley chairman for the
evening. This is men's night and
it is hoped all interested in the
P-TA will attend the meeting.
The executive committee met
Wednesday night November 28 at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. E.
Dick to formulate plans for fu
ture P-TA meetings.
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TRUCK FLIP HURTS DRIVER
A freight truck driven by Bob
Flatt of Heppner went off the
Willow Creek road just west of
Heppner Wednesday morning,
Nov. 21 and overturned, injur
ing the driver and damaging the
truck.
Flatt suffered a severe cut on
the head and numerous bruises.
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NEILLS HAVE THANKSGIVING
GUESTS
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neil! had as
their guests for Thanksgiving
dinner Mr. and Mrs. Neil Knigh
ten and son Fred of Kennewick
and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Moore and
sons Gary and Spencer of Athena
and Ralph Moore of Heppner.
from their contribution to CARE's
food crusade, sending surplus
foods to hungry people overseas,
27 pounds of milk powder, enough
to make 108 quarts of milk, will
be fed to children who never have
enough to eat.
"The food crusade sends pack
ages averaging 22 pounds to 19
countries of Europe, Asia, the
Middle East and Latin America,
contents made up from surplus
foods allocated by the U. S.
government. Every package goes
in the name of the donor, so some
very needy children in far Paki
stan will know they are being
helped by school children In Lexington."
Can Be Fun And Then Again
I such bargains at such wonder
cause those presents actually were
bought in that Faraway City.
So that woman saved her
money and she made her trip and
she went shopping in those great
big wonderful stores In Faraway
City. And she met her Waterloo.
This woman wasn't the only
one shopping that day. There
were thousands of men, women
and children shopping every
where she went. And seemed all
of them wanted everything this
woman wanted. She put up quite
a battle but she didn't win a
single bout.
And the clerks were no help.
Seemed they didn't care much
that this woman had come 60
or 200 miles. Seemed they didn't
care whether she was in the store.
Copies 10 Cents
Mail Early" Plea
Again Voiced by
Local Postmaster
Pointing up the need for co
operation on his 1956 "Mail Early
for Christmas" campaign, Hepp
ner postmaster James H. Drisull
says if you will follow these sim
ple rules, all of your gifts can be :
deliered before Christmas Day:
wrap them securely, address them i
correctly, and mail them early.
Amplifying these rules, the
postmaster said, "Avoid the risk
of mailing poorly wrapped pack
ages. Use corrugated mailing
cartons, plenty of heavy brown
wrapping paper, and be sure that
every package is tied with strong
cord. Cartons containing several
gift packages should be stuffed
with tissue or old newspapers' to
cushion the shock."
Speaking about correct addres
sing of Christmas gifts and
cards, the postmaster Tsaid: "be
sure your Christmas mailing list
is up to date and that you have
the complete name, address, zone
number, city and state for every
one on your list. Sending all your
Christmas cards by first-class
mail, is recommended because
they will be processed and de
livered quicker, and they'll be
forwarded, or returned, if it be
comes necessary." Only Christ
mas cards sent first class may
carry written messages, a custom
everyone enjoys. Moreover,
Christmas card envelopes smal
ler than 2-24" by 4" or larger
than 9" by 12" require hand can
cellation, and thus, must carry
first-class postage.
The postmaster urges everyone
to secure free labels at the post
office marked "All For Local De
livery" and "All For Out of Town
Delivery". Then sort cards accord
ingly, tie them in two separate
bundles with each address facing
the same way, and attach the
correct label to each bundle.
Early mailing of all Christmas
gifts and cards is the biggest fac
tor in getting everything deliver
ed before Christmas, according to
the postmaster. The whole Christ
mas mailing period is a battle
against time. Delays now in
getting Christmas cards and gift
packages to the post office may
cause a slow-up all along the
line. Then, there's always the
danger that commercial ship
ments and Incoming Christmas
mail will conflict with the out
going operations.
Christmas parcels for east coast
delivery should be mailed noti
later than December 10, and for
other points a proportionate
amount of time, according to the
distance, and known delivery fac
tors with which the sender is
familiar. All Christmas cards
for nearby destinations shoWd be
mailed at least a week before
December 25 to insure arrival
on time.
Shooting Mailboxes
Federal Offense
Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman this
week reminded anyone so in
clined that molesting or tamper
ing with mail boxes is a federal
offense and persons convicted of
such an offense is subject to a
heavy penalty.
The reminder came as a result
of a report that someone had
shot up a rural mailbox belong-
ng to Hershal Townsend, lone,
with a shotgun and damaged or
destroyed the mail which was
in it. Bauman said a large hole
was blown in the box and that
postal authorities are investigat
ing.
tried to find out about Christmas
swapping, which is the normal af
termath of Christmas shopping.
Nobody in all those big won
derful stores could help this wo
man buy the right color apron
for Aunt Susie; nor the right
size hose for her Secret Pal; nor
the right tie for her husband.
So she finally got mad and
walked out of those wonderful
stores, and strangely enough she
was actually glad when nobody
missed her. She rested up her
feet, counted up what was left
in her purse . . . ruefully noted
that the cost of driving 60 or 200
miles and the cost of hotel rooms
and restaurant meals had played
havoc with the economy of the
few things she had managed to
fully low prices; and second, be-
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HEPPNER ELKS TEAM which received 10th place in the recent state Elks ritualistic contest held in
Bend. This is the first year the Heppner team has placed among the top 10 in the state. Exalted
Ruler La Verne Van Marter Jr. won second place in the individual standings. Shown are, front
row left to right, John R. Hartman, loyal knight; La Verne Van Marter Jr., exalted ruler; Delmer R.
Jordan, lecturing knight; back row, Glenn Ward, inner guard; Everett Keithley, chaplain; William
Labhart, leading knight; Thomas I. Wilson, esquire; Lowell Gribble, tiler.
Heppner Elks Team
Places High in State
Ritualistic Contest
The team of officers of the
Heppner Elks lodge placed 10th
among 29 lodges in Oregon at the
recent lodge ritualistic contest
held at Bend. It vas the highest
rating the local lodge has ever
received in the work.
Ranking secorj,', in individual
work was Lst Velne Van Marter
Jr., exalted ruler of the Heppner
lodge. Others who placed well up
were John Hartman, loyal knight,
7th in the state; Delmer Jordan,
lecturing knight, with 8th; Tom
Wilson, esquire, 17th; Glenn
Ward, inner guard, 18th; William
Labhart. leading knight, 20th and
Everett Keithley, chaplain, 21th;
Lowell Gribble, tiler of the
Heppner lodge, acted as candi
date for the work.
The contest was held November
10, 11 nd 12.
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Adult Sewing Classes
To Be Offered Here
Adult clothing construction
classes will be offered at the
Heppner school this winter in the
Basic Bishop method of clothing
construction it was announced
this week by Mrs. Homer Hager
who will be the instructor.
The classes will be held once
a week for 10 weeks from 7 to 10
p. m. The course is both for wo
men who have experience in sew
ing and those who are beginners.
A nominal fee will be charged.
Homemakers who are interest
ed in taking the course are asked
to attend the preliminary meet
ing at the Heppner school Mon
day evening Dec. 10 at 7:30 when
equipment, fabric and require
ments for the course will be ex
plained. o
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wilson and
John Wightman left Wednesday
for Eugene where they will at
tend the state meeting of the
Soil Conservation Districts.
Miss Meredith Thomson spent
the Thanksgiving holiday in Port,
land.
then she sadly drove home to
Heppner; all the while wonder
ing how in the world she would
manage to fill her Christmas list.
But, brave soul, she tried the
Heppner Stores and lo (not Lo the
Indian, but the other guy; partner
in Lo & Behold) and lo there came
an awakening.
This woman (we know her well)
was amazed at the wide variety
of various things, at the reason
able cost. And she was amazed
that clerks could be so friendly
(she knew them all, had known
them for years; but for that very
reason she had never thought they
could be efficient clerks). She
was waking up.
One clerk actually knew the
color of apron Aunt Susie would
She got a glassy stare when she
Four Bands to
Give Concert
Residents of Morrow county
are invited to attend a mass band
concert to be given Friday night,
Nov. 30 at 8 p. m. at the Echo
high school gymnasium. Bands
taking part will be from Heppner,
lone, Echo and Pilot Rock high
schools.
Directing the combined group
will be Ira D. Lee, assistant di
rector of brass instruments at
the University of Oregon. Admis
sion charge will be $1.00 for
adults and 25 cents for students
and tickets are now available
from all band members or may
be purchased at the door.
Party to Benefit
Fund for Purchase
Of Portable X-Ray
Tickets are being sold now for
the benefit card party to be given
December 13 at 8 p. m. at the
Episcopal parish house. The affair
is being sponsored by represen
tatives of various church groups
and will spearhead the drive for
funds to be used in the purchase
of a portable x-ray unit for the
Pioneer Memorial hospital.
This equipment which is great
ly needed at the hospital will be
used in surgery, fracture cases
and for other non-ambulatory
cases where it would be difficult
or inadvisable to move the pa
tient to the x-ray room.
Death Takes Former
Morgan Resident
Word has been received here
of the recent death of Arthur Mar
vel of Dufur, Oregon. He had
lived at Morgan for a number of
years and was well known in
that community. He died in The
Dalles hospital at the age of
87 yeas.
He is survived by his wife
Mary and three sons, Ted, Archie
and Lester. Services were held In
the Methodist church at Dufur.
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the Secret Pal. And that clerk
(the effrontery of the girl!) act
ually pursuaded this woman. In
stead of a tie for her husband,
to go to another store ... a com
petitor, mind you . . . and get the
man a pipe.
And this woman did all her
shopping right here in Heppner.
She didn't have to drive the 60
or the 200 miles to Faraway City;
she didn't have the fustration
and the aching bones; and prices
were good, too ... a little more
on one, maybe; a little less on
another; but she was amazed at
how many items were priced just
the same as Faraway City.
So we let the Demon take
ahold of us, and loosed our ton
gue, and we said to her: "Didn't
buy at such bargains , . . and
29, 1956
Many Students Home
For Thanksgiving
Students returning to their
homes in Heppner for the Thanks
giving weekend were Connie
Newman, Mike Monahan, Steve
Green, Mary Ruth Green and
guest Monte Carnes, Jean Marie
Graham and guest Bernard Da
mon and Bud Wagner, all from
Eastern Oregon College of Edu
cation, La Grande. ,
From Oregon State, came Skip
Ruhl, Jim Hayes, Dick Kononen
and guest, Barbara Barkhorn, Jim
Wightman, Patsy Wright, Adella
Anderson, Darrell Blake and
David Cox; and from the Uni
versity of Oregon: Larry Molla
han, George Little and guest Bob
Fisher, Sally Colin, Lance Tib
bies, Wayne Soward, Don Cas
tcel. Lyle Jensen from Pacific and
Kay Valentine was home from
business college in Spokane.
Elks to Hold Memorial
Services Next Sunday
The Heppner Elks lodge will
hold its annual memorial services
Sunday, December 2 at 2:00 p. m.
honoring seven members who
have died during the past year, it
was announced today by La
Verne an Marter, Jr., exalted
ruler. The services will be held
in the lodge hall and are open
to the public.
The memorial address will be
delivered by Bradley D. Fancher.
LEAVES FOR CLINIC
Dr. C. M. Wagner left Wednes
day afternoon by plane from Pen
dleton for Los Angeles to attend
conferences in clinical endocrin
ology to be held at the post-graduate
division of the University of
Southern California. He will re
turn Sunday.
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Harry O'Donnell, Sr. hag re
turned home from St. Anthony's
hospital in Pendleton where he
had undergone surgery.
Mr. and Mrs. Creston Robinson
visited in Mt. Vernon over the
holidays at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Robinson.
Story With a Moral)
we tell you so?" And it was a
pleasure to say it.
Stores, whether here or in Far
away City, pay taxes and help
their communities get better
streets, lights, schools, churches,
recreation programs. But money
earned at Heppner can help those
things at Heppner only if it's
spent here. If it's spent in Far
away City, it might help build a
zoo there; but that doesn't build
better streets in Heppner, does it?
The way we feel about it, peo
ple who go to Faraway City to
spend their money, should not
kick about the public facilities In
Heppner or Morrow County. They
should go.to Faraway City to kick
about streets. Maybe they should
go there to earn their money, too;
like, and the size hose worn by
73rd Year, Number 38
Chilling Fog
Covers Most
Of County
A big high pressure weather
system which lias remained sta
tionary over Eastern Oregon and
Washington for most of the past
week has kept temperatures in
Heppner well below freezing both
day and night.
A heavy layer of fog has blan
keted most of Morrow county
during the entire week shutting
off the sun and at times pepper
ing the ground with frozen ice
crystals that resemble snow.
Driving in the immediate Hepp
ner area has not been too haz
ardous with the exception of early
mornings, but most roads leading
toward the Columbia were re
ported extremely slick especially
at elevations below about 1500
feet.
Temperatures generally were
colder at lone and on north and
west toward Heppner Junction
than they were at Heppner. In
the lone area a freezing rain fell
Tuesday and the thermometer
registered 20 degrees or below
there while Ileppner's was about
25. In the higher elevations of
the mountains it was reported at
times to be clear with the tem
perature in the 40's while most
of the rest of the country was
hidden under the fog layer with
the mercury in the low 20's or
below.
In Heppner the mercury has
never gotten above freezing since
Sunday afternoon and on Tues
day the maximum and minimum
spread was only three degrees,
26 high and 23 low. On the same
day the fluctuation at Gooseberry
was even less with only one de
gree difference between the day
and nighttime temperature.
Not only has most of November
been cold, it has also been dry
according to the Heppner weather
records. Up to Wednesday there
has been precipitation on only
six days of the month and three
of the measurable amounts were
snow. Total precipitation has
amounted to only .31 Inch here
since the first of November.
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures at Heppner for the past
week were:
Hi Low
Nov. 22 38 21
Nov. 23 42 19
Nov. 24 38 25
Nov. 25 38 26
Nov. 26 30 25
Nov. 27 29 24
Nov. 28 26 23
Extension Unit To
Meet At Gray Home
The Heppner Extension Unit
will meet Tuesday December 4 at
10:30 a. m. at the home of Mrs.
Merritt Gray.
December is a "Do As You
Please" month the Heppner unit
decided to have a reeat of two
of their projects. They are Can
dle Making and Holiday Decora
tions. The leaders will be Mrs.
Gene Ferguson, Mrs. Ray Drake,
Mrs. Kenneth Keeling and Mrs.
Paul Warren.
Each person Is asked to bring
a sack lunch and Mrs. Gray will
serve dessert and coffee.
Any homemaker wishing to at
tend this meeting is most wel
come. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Nell
Anderson Thanksgiving day were
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lambourn.
but likely they wouldn't like that
so well.
We can blat and harp about
the six or seven million dollars
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