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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 3, 1957
73rd Year, Number 43
"Let's Finish the Job" Theme of
1957 March of Dimes Campaign
MRS. BARTON CLARK of Ruggs. wife of this year's March of Dimes
chairman, who four and one-half years ago was stricken with polio.
shows in this series of photos how
work from a wheel chair. Mrs. Clark gets around in her kitchen
and is able to do her own cooking, able to reach all but items in
upper kitchen shelves. Mr3. Clark has spent two two-month ses
sions at the polio rehabilitation
to Pendleton once a week to a
BEDMAKING is one of Mrs. Clark's hardest Jobs. Such work is done
in two steps as she shows here. First she leaves her wheel chair
to make the back half of the bed, then gets back into her chair to
to finish the job as shown below. Mrs. Clark said, "It takes a lot of
grit" to overcome one's difficulties and the "biggest problem is ad
justing yourself to the situation." Her son Ned, 16, also had polio
just three days after his mcther was stricken and taken to St.
Mary's hospital in Walla Walla where she spent three months. Ned
suffered little permanent effect from the disease.
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STEP TWO IN BEDMAKING is to get back into her wheel chair and
complete the outside of the bed. Mrs. Clark gets lots of help from
her family but has made a strong effort to do as much of her own
housework as possible. She is now learning to use leg braces and
wears them some about the house, but she says that it is too slow
getting around with them so to get her housework done she fre
quently goes back to her wheel chair. Continuing exercise of her
paralyzed legs is a major part of Mrs. Clark's therapy and she says
it is necessary to keep at it continually.
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THIS NEWSPAPER'S NOMINATION for "Morrow County's Polio
Mother of the Year", Mrs. Clark and her family, left to right, her
daughter, Nonda; her husband and 1957 March of Dimes chair
man, Eartcn Clark; and her son Ned. Beside Mrs. Clark is the
bicycle that she uses daily for about 15-minute exercise treatments
for her legs. She said the bike is most effective and is now able
to pedal it herslf where at first she could not even start the pedals.
It is for such therapy and rehabilitation as Mrs. Clark has been
receiving that a large portion of March of Dimes money is being
Spent (GT Photos)
LEX P-TA TO MEET
The Lexington P-TA will hold
its January meeting Tuesday, Jan.
8 at 8 p. m. at the school, it was
announced today.
she has learned to do her house
center in Portand and is now going
therapy center.
Mary Chaffee Fegles, former
resident of Boardman and at one
time a deputy county clerk under
Charles Barlow, is now living in
Seattle.
Fund Drive Gets
Under Way Here
On Wednesday
Morrow county's 1957 March of
Dimes got under way yesterday
with an official proclamation by
county judge Garnet Barratt set
ting January as March of Dimes
month and calling on all citizens
to give generously to "finish the
polio-fighting job by helping
those for whom the vaccine came
too late."
Every household in the county
either has or will shortly receive
a March of Dimes mailer, Barton
Clark, drive chairman, said this
week. The mailer is an envelope
in which to send contributions to
the 1957 campaign. Over 1500 of
the mailers will be sent out and
volunteer workers have been ad
dressing envelopes and checking
addresses for the past two weeks.
"We have tried to include
everyone in Morrow county,"
Clark said, "However it is pos
sible that there will be some
omissions and a few people will
not receive their mailers." He
urged people who receive no
mailers to telephone March of
Dimes headquarters and they will
be sent out immediately. The
phone number is Heppner 6-9911.
Proclamation Made
In throwing his official support
behind the month-long drive
judge Barratt proclaimed:
"Whereas more than 25 child
ren and adults in Morrow county
have been stricken with polio in
recent years, and
"Whereas several of these pa
tients, along with 80,000 polio
patients throughout the nation,
still urgently need our help to re
build their shattered lives, and
"Whereas no polio vaccine can
help these patients, but only
costly and time consuming new
assistive devices and surgery de
veloped by continuing research,
and treatment by medical spec
ialists such as physical and oc
cupational therapists, and
"Whereas there- is still much
research to be done and many
doctors, therapists and other
medical workers to be trained,
and
"Whereas these vital needs are
being met by the March of Dimes,
therefore, I, Garnet Barratt, judge
of the county of Morrow, do here
by proclaim January, 1957 March
of Dimes Month for the county
of Morrow and urge all citizens
to give generously of their time
and money to the 1957 March of
Dimes."
The 1957 campaign opens on a
note of triumph for 1956 was a
year of great achievement in the
long fight against infantile para
lysis. Millions of children were
inoculated with Salk vaccine and
the number of polio cases was
sharply cut. Yet thousands of
people of all ages who were
stricken with polio this past sum
mer or in preceeding years, still
require the financial assistance
of the March of Dimes to help
them get back on their feet.
That assistance is provided
through the patient aid program
of the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis which has as
sisted almost one-third of a
milion patients since 1938.
City chairmen for communities
in the county who are assisting
drive chairman Clark are Rev.
Charles Knox, Heppner; Mrs.
Houston Leslie, Hardman; Mrs.
Emma Breshears, Lexington; Mrs.
Lucy Roberts, lone; Mrs. Flossie
Coats, Boardman; Mrs. Lavelle
Partlow, Irrigon and Mrs. Fred
McClintock, Cecil.
HEPPNER POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOW GAIN
OVER 1955; DECEMBER INCREASE 10
1956 receipts at the Heppner
post office increased $149.43 over
1955 postmaster James H. Dricsoll
revealed this week.
The Post office did $23,710.93
business during the year just
completed which compares with
$23,561.50 in 1955.
December business at the office
was $4,719 which was an increase
of nearly 10 percent over the same
month last year. Cancellations
during the peak Christmas mail
period totaled 71,700 as recorded
on the automatic cancelling ma
chine. This does not include a
sizeable number of odd sized
mailings which cannot be run
through the machine nor does it
include permit mailings or post
age metered mail. Parcel post ran
about the same as in previous
years, but no accurate record is
1956 Rainfall at
Heppner 11.59
Inches; Below '55
December's precipitation of only
.43 inch brought the 1956 rain
fall total at Heppner to 11.59
inches, more than two inches
under the 10 year average of 14.21
inches and one and one-half in
ches below the 46 year average
at the local weather station of
13.07 inches. The report was
released Wednesday by Leonard
Gilliam, local observer.
The December moisture was
far below that which fell In De
cember 1955 when 2.64 inches
was recorded here. The year's
total was nearly four and three
quarters inches short of 1955
when 16.26 inches fell.
W. W. Weatherford, who lives
near Lena, reported .90 inch of
December and 13.42 inches for the
year. His December fainfall was
the lowest in six years but his
1956 moisture was the third
highest in the last six years. 1955
was also a wet year In that area
when 16.10 inches fell.
Though last year was a dry
year by comparison, farmers in
the county grew one of their
heaviest crops due to the fact that
a great percentage of the year's
rainfall came in the first six
months of the year. The greatest
moisture deficiency has come in
the last six months.
Heppner got .08 inch of rain
New Year's day to start out the
new weather year, and it is re
ported that a little snow fell in
the mountains Monday and Mon
day night. In most mountain
areas, however, there is practical.
ly no snow but this is not un
usual as the area's heaviest
snows usually come in January,
February and March.
1 957's First Baby
Arrives at 1 :32 a. m.
On January 1
The stork didn't wait very long
after the new year arrived to
make his first delivery at the
Pioneer Memorial hospital in
fact he got here just' one hour and
32 minutes after the new year
started.
His speed in getting here and
his delivery of a 7 pound, 8 ounce
baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. William
Zinter of lone meant that the
couple have the honor of winning
Heppner's 1957 First Baby con
test and will receive a big group
of prizes offered by local mer
chants and businesses.
The Zinter's new daughter has
been named Cathryn Ann and
she will soon join her three bro
thers at their home near lone.
Rites Held Friday
For Miss Fay Ward
Fay Ward passed away Decem
ber 25 at the Sandy Sanitarium in
Portland. She has been a teach
er in the Portland schools for a
number of years.
Funeral services were held at
the Ross Hollywood chapel De
cember 28 with the Rev. Roy A.
Fedje officiating. Burial was
Saturday, December 29 at the
I. O. O. F. cemetery at Hardman
with Rev. George R. S. Little of
ficiating at the graveside rites.
Both of Miss Ward's parents
preceeded her in death many
years ago and she leaves one
brother Wilfred of Salem, Ore.,
and a foster brother Gilbert Bec
ker of Chehalis, Wn., and several
cousins.
Miss Ward was a member of
ceveral teacher's organizations
and of Waukeena chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revo
lution. Mrs. Venice Stiles of Portland
has been visiting with her mo
ther, Mrs. Josie Jones.
kept of this.
The postmaster also announ
ced Wednesday that prices on
both printed and plain stamped
envelopes were increased about
three and one-half percent effec
tive January 1. Also all stamped
envelopes when purchased In
quantities of less than 50 will now
cost four cents straight for 3 cent
postage and three cents for two
cent postage. The increase is the
first taken by the postal depart
ment since 1953 it was said.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Adkins
visited in Medford during the
holidays with their son and fam
ily, the Earl Crismans and also
with Vida Ferguson Estelle and
the Don Jones family, formerly
of Heppner.
New Year Celebration
Starts Out Early
With "Big Bang"
New Year's celebration, at
least in one instance, got start
ed a little early Monday night
when someone who is still un
known set off a charge of dyna
mite along the creek beside the
city park which rattled win
dows all over town and brought
out a good number of excited
citizens.
Police who investigated found
that someone had apparently
suspended one or two sticks of
powder from the new footbridge
between Main street and the
school and touched the charge
off about 9:30 in the evening.
There was no damage just
plenty of noise.
Building Continues
At High Level
Here During 1956
New construction and remodel
ine work done in HeDDner durine
1956, though down somewhat
from 1955, reflected a banner
year in the building and remodel
ing of homes and businesses, the
city recorder's building permit
records reveal.
Total permits issued by the
city amounted to $150,675 and
added to this figure is $38,779 in
remodeling at the Heppner high
school for which a building per
mit is not required. The actual
building total during the year is
$189,454.
Construction in 1955 totaled
$344,725, but of this amount $257,
000 was invested in one project,
the new Heppner grade school. In
1954 permits totaled $119,050.
The city granted 37 permits in
1956 for a total of $140,775 in new
construction and $19,900 for re
modeling and repair. Permits
were taken out for eight new
residences costing a total of $66,
500, one church at $30,000, a 16
unit motel estimated to cost $27,
000, a $5,000 service station and
miscellaneous other smaller
buildings.
In the number of .construction
starts 1956 was far ahead of any
previous recent year.
Fat Hog Price
Hits Fall High
HERMISTON A new fall high
for fat hogs sparked the market
at the Hermiston Livestock Com
mission Co. Friday where 78 con
signors placed 422 cattle, 78 hogs,
and 86 sheep on the auction
block.
Fat hogs, ranging from a high
of $18.90 down to $17.80 cwt.,
topped last week's spread of $17.-70-$16.60
cwt. by about $2 cwt.
Feeder pigs also sold well at from
$19.40 to $17.10 cwt. Cattle and
sheep prices were steady.
Plenty of buyers were on hand
to bid in what sale manager
Delbert Anson termed a very
snappy sale. Needed especially
for next Friday's sale will be
plenty of fat cows and heifers.
The market:
CATTLE Baby calves, 2 to 13
per head; steer calves, 17.20 to
18.60 cwt.; heifer calves, 13.90 to
15.10 cwt.; veal, 17.90 to 22 cwt,;
stacker steers, 14.60 to 16.20 cwt.;
dairy cows, 91 to 145 per head;
stock cows, 100 to 116 per head;
utility and commercial cows, 11.
10 to 12.00 cwt.; canner-cutter
cows, 8.30 to 9.40 cwt.; shells,
4.60 to 8.10 cwt.; and bulls, 12.10
to 13.80 cwt.
HOGS Weaner pigs, 7.25 to 13
per head; feeder pigs, 17.10 to 19
40 cwt.; fat hogs, 17.80 to 18.90
and sows, 13.50 to 15.10 cwt.
SHEEP Feeder lambs, 14,20 to
16.20 cwt.; and ewes, 2.25 to 3.90
cwt.
Those earning top prices at the
market included Frank Bensel,
Hermiston, 18.90 cwt. for eight
fat hogs of 1610 pounds; Wheat
land Angus ranch, Condon, 22
cwt. for a 270-pound veal; Joe
Dougherty, Pilot Rock, 18.40 cwt.
for six angus feeder steers of
3180 pounds; Harold Bryson, Her
miston, 12.00 cwt for an 1190
pound white face cow; Harold
Walsh, Arlington, 116 per head
for eight stocker heifers; VR
Ranch, Helix, 13.80 cwt. for a
1400-pound white face bull; Otto
Hellberg, Lowden, Wash., 15.10
cwt. for 28 white face heifers of
14,145 pounds.
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Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Barratt
were in Salem for the Christmas
holidays, where they visited with
his mother, Mrs. W. Barratt, his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Heltzel and Mrs. Bar
ratt's father, J. F. Tieulie of
Klamath Falls.
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JACK ANGEL who was installed
Monday as chamber of com
merce president.
New Chamber of
Commerce Officers
Installed Monday
New officers of the Heppner
Morrow County Chamber of Com
merce were installed Monday
noon with Jack Angel taking over
the president's gavel from Phil
Blakney who has headed the or
ganization during the past year.
Assisting Angel will be Jack
Bailey, first vive-president and
Dick Brunner, second vice-president.
Other officers are appoin
tive and will be announced within
a short time by the new presi
dent. Installing officer was Frank
Turner who traced the history of
the chamber from the time it was
organized as a Lions club and
then in later years converted into
a county-wide chamber organiza.
tion.
Heppner's Fire Loss
Climbs During 1956
Heppner's 1956 fire loss was
nearly triple that of the previous
year, it was revealed this week
by fire chief C, A. Ruggles. Total
fire and water damage was $14,
062 during the year just ended
which compared with a 1955 fi
gure of $5,404.
The bulk of the fire damage
came in one blaze during the
summer when the Robert Camp
bell home was completely de
stroyed. The loss to the house
and contents was set at $13,000.
Only $2,600 in insurance was
paid on the total city fire loss,
the chief reported.
The Heppner department ans
wered a total of 13 alarms
during the year,, two more
than during 1955, but
the last three months of the
year proved unusually quiet for
the firemen as the last general
alarm was received on October 1.
The department was plagued
With an unusual number of
false fire calls during the past
several months, due largely to
phone dialing mistakes, but
very few resulted in sounding the
city's automatic alarm system.
Four Heppner Boys
Get Rose Bowl Trip
Although their team didn't win,
four exHeppner high school stu
dents got to see the Rose Bowl
game New Years day as members
of the Oregon State college band
which made the trip south with
the team.
The four are James Hayes,
David Cox, Skip Ruhl and Mike
Grant all of whom are now stu
dents at OSC.
"Hobbies" to be P-TA
Program Theme
"What's Your Hobby" will be
the program theme at next Wed
nesday's meeting af the Heppner
P-TA, it was announced this
week by Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Cres.
wick, program chairmen.
The chairmen said that all
members and friends are invited
to exhibit their hobbies at the
meeting and requested that the
exhibits be at the school by 1
p. m. Wednesday, Jan. 9.
POMONA GRANGE TO MEET
SATURDAY AT IRRIGON ,
Pomona grange will meet at
Irrigon grange hall Saturday,
January 5 starting at 10:30 a. m
it was announced. There will be
a potluck dinner at noon and a
program at 2 p. m. Rhea Creek
and Lexington granges are prac
tically tied in the attendance
contest which will close with this
meeting. The kitty In this con
test is now $68.85.
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Guestg of Mr. and Mrs. Don
Bellenbrock and family Thursday
through Sunday of last week
were her cousin, Miss Grace
Rice of Mt. Vernon, Oregon and
her uncle, Conard Bellenbrock.
Portland Man to
Headline Livestock
Meeting Program
Top speaker on the program for
the annual meeting of the Mor
i'ow County Livestock Growers
association annual meeting Fri
day and Saturday, January 11
and 12 will be Ernie Williams,
president of the Portland Union
Stockyards. He wil speak at the
banquet Saturday night at the
fair pavilion.
Other features of the two-day
program will be a panel discus
sion on Friday afternoon on "Fi
nancing land and livestock," by
B. C. Telyea, of the Pendleton Fe
deral Land Bank, L. E. Tibbets,
agriculture field representative of
the First National Bank of Port
land, and J. E. Herberger of the
Northwest Livestock P. C. A.
Another panel discussion is set
for Saturday afternon on "Market
trends and problems." Moderator
will be Ernie Williams, and pan
elists will be Si Williams, auc
tioneer and livestock sales man
agement specialist; Prosser
Clarke of Benson, Bodine and
Clarke of Portland; and H. A.
Cohn, livestock dealer and feed
lot operator. The Friday discus
sion is to open at 2:30 and the
Saturday panel at 2 p. m.
Reports of the various associa
tion committees will be heard
during the two days and a full
program is promised. All the
meetings and the banquet is open
to the public, it was announced.
Another high point of the pro
gram will be a discussion on
"current legislation affecting Ore.
gon livestock" which will be
given at 11 a. m. Friday by state
representative Charles Allen
Tom.
All the general session meet
ing and the social hour at 5 p.
m. Saturday will be held at the
Elks Lodge and the Saturday
night banquet at the fair pavi
lion. First National
Announces Increased
Interest Payments
New higher bank savings de
posit interest rates ranging from
2V to 3 per cent became effective
January 1 at the Heppner branch
of the First National Bank of
Portland, it was announced Wed
nesday by J ,H. Bedford, manager,
following a special meeting of the
bank's board of directors.
Three year certificates of de
posit issued after Jan. 1, 1957
will draw interest at the rate of
3 per cent, payable at the expira
tion of the three-year period.
They will be written for any
amount desired by the depositor.
All regular First National sav
ings accounts, regardless of size,
will begin earning the new 2V
per cent rate Jan. 1, 1957 and
over a quarter million customers
of all 74 First National banking
offices will share incerased in
terest earnings of more than -1,-
000,000 during the coming year.
In announcing the state-wide
increase Bedford said, "The cost
of money has gone up throughout
the country and we are pleased
that this increase will permit us
to pass on higher interest re
turns to our depositors in a
fashion fully conslstant with
bank safety."
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Ice Causes Series
Of Power Outages
During Past Week
Electric services in the Hepp-ner-Ione
area was interrupted
four times during the past eight
days by heavy Ice conditions
which blew fuses and tripped
circuit breakers, according to J. R.
Huffman, Pacific Power and Light
company local manager.
Icing condietlons caused by
heavy fog between Hermiston
and lone tripped out the Colum
bia Basin REA transmission line
over which Pacific Power and
Light carries power to serve this
area, Huffman said. On Dec. 27
there was an outage of 2 hours
and 4 minutes; on Dec. 28 an
outage of 21 minutes; on Dec. 30
power was off on three different
occasions, one time for one hour
and 26 minutes, one of 30 min
utes and one for 12; and on New
Year's day services was inter
rupted for one hour and 28 min
utes. WATER RESOURCES
COMMITTEE TO MEET
There will be a meeting of the
Morrow county water resources
committee Wednesday, January 9
at 8 p. m. at the court house, It
was announced today by Newt
O'Harra, chairman. There will be
election of officers and reports
from various committees.