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Mother's Polio March
To Conduct
Salk Vaccine Use Here
. Money continued to pout in for
the county March of Dimes drive
and arrangements were complet
ed this week for the Mother's
March of Polio to be held here
next Thursday evening, January
31. It will be conducted by the
Heppner Civic League.
Members of the Civic League
announced that in addition to
making a final collection for the
March of Dimes during the Mo
ther's March, they will make a
survey of all homes to determine
the number of persons who have
been given the poilo vaccine. It
was pointed out that ample
amounts of the vaccine are now
available for anyone desiring it,
and the group, along with local
and national polio chapter of
ficials, are urging that as many
persons as possible take the shots
in a final effort to end the spread
of the paralytic disease.
Club members said that they
will call on all homes where the
porch light is left on to make
the survey and to pick up any
donation cards which have not
been sent in previously.
Harley Anderson
Dies in Arizona
Funeral services for Harley An
derson, 57, a life-time resident
of Morrow county, will be held
Saturday, January 26 at 2 p. m.
at the Heppner Masonic temple.
He passed away January 20 at
Phoenix, Arizona, where he and
Mrs. Anderson had been making
their home for about the past four
years.
Mr. Anderson was born January
17, 1900 in Morrow county and
had farmed in the Eightmile
area for many years. He was
married to Alice, Keithley on May
23, 1931. He was a member of
the Masonic lodge, Shrine, East
ern Star, Elks, Rhea Creek
Grange, Farm Bureau and several
" other local organizations.
Surviving are his wife Alice,
Heppner; a foster daughter, Mrs.
Ray Patterson, Lexington; two
sisters, Cathryn Saurs, Weott,
Calif.; and Dorothy Suter of Esta
cada, Oregon and several nieces
and nephews.
Rev. Lester D. Boulden will of
ficiate at the services and inter
ment will be in the Heppner Ma
sonic cemetery with Creswick
Mortuary in charge of arrange
ments. The family has requested that
in lieu of flowers, donations be
sent to the Cancer Fund.
Porcupine Contest
Winners to be Named
The Morrow County Hunters
and Anglers club will hold its
first meeting of 1957 at the
county courthouse Tuesday, Janu
ary 29, at 8 p. m.
Prize winners of the porcupine
control contest will be announced
and prizes awarded. Election of
. officers to serve for the coming
year will be held.
The tentative regulations for
the 1957 fishing season will be
discussed and a representative of
the state game commission will
give a resume of' its findings in
the recent sex ratio and count of
big game animals in this area.
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MR. AND MRS. JAMES FARLEY of Heppner celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary Sunday with a reception at St. Patrick's
church. See story on page 5. (GT Photo)
Survey or
Local drive officials report that
the current series of coffee hours
have netted over $90 for the fund
and that Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Hamlin, operators of Aiken's
have collected over $47 by start
ing a line of dimes which they
hope will equal the length of the
bar. $150 has been received from
the Heppner high school, the pro
ceeds from a Polio king and queen
contest held between classes and
from a benefit dance given last
weekend. No county total figure
was available this week as money
continued to come in from both
local and county areas.
County Chosen
It was announced this week
that Morrow, always one of the
top counties in the state in the
March of Dimes, has been selec
ted as one of four in the state to
give a complete report to the state
chapter on the many ways the
local committees have raised
funds. The report will be used
to give other county drive heads
ideas for future use.
A statement was released this
week from the National Founda
tion counteracting a misinter
pretation which was recently
publicized concerning the need
for funds.
Basil O'Connor, president of
te National Foundation, said the
danger to polio patients had been
enhanced by an unfortunate mis
interpretation of his remarks pub.
lished on the occasion of a birth
day interview last week in which
he discussed what the National
Foundation might do when the
polio problem actually had been
reduced to a minimum.
"Some people apparently
thought that our looking ahead
to the future had a direct bearing
on the present", O'Connor said,
"but, as a matter of fact, there
can be no future until the prob
ems of the present are met." He
pointed out that there is still an
obligation to at least 80,000 old
polio patients whose needs are
most pressing.
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Services Held at
Lexington For
Elizabeth Campbell
Funeral services for Elizabeth
Campbell, 91, were held Wednes
day at 2 p. m. at the Lexington
Christian church with Rev. Nor
man Northrup officiating. She
passed away January 19 at Good
Shepherd hospital in Hermiston.
Mrs. Campbell was born Aug.
19, 1865 near VVroxeter, Ontario,
Canada. She came west in July
1886 and was married to William
T. Campbell at Walla Walla.
They wdrked for a year near
Walla Walla, moving to Morrow
county in 1887 to homestead on
Social Ridge, She was a charter
member of the Lexington Rebe-
kah lodge and a member of the
Pendleton Presbyterian church.
Surviving are two sons, Roy A.
Campbell, Hermiston; Dr. Arthur
W. Campbell, Terre Haute, Ind.;
two daughters, Annie Keene, of
lone and Effie Crow, Grand Forks,
B. C; eight grandshildren, 17
great-grandchildren, five great-
great-grandchildren and many
nieces and nephews.
Vault entombment was in the
Lexington I. O. O. F. cemetery be
side her husband who died in
1948. Burns Mortuary was in
charge of arrangements.
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School Remodeling
Program OK'd By
Advisory Council
A 10-member advisory council
last week urged the continuation
of the Heppner school board's
school building and when the
group examined the science lab
commented, "Yes, the same old
place. Looks like it did twenty
years ago when I went to school."
The comments came as a result
of the board asking for advice on
its long-range building program
and taxation plan to provide
funds for the work. The council
was unanimous in their decision
to continue the program, but
made no recommendation as to
the amount to be done each year.
Joe Stewart, superintendent, in
explaining the needs, told the
group that "it is hard to teach
modern day science classes with
antiquated facilities as it would
be for a wheat farmer to harvest
his crops with the old time bin
der and stationary separator.
At the board meeting the
school architect presented an
estimate of $50,000 to complete
the remodeling of the high school
building which would include
the new science room, library,
two commercial rooms and a
health room.
The board felt that this was
too much to raise in one year
and decided to ask voters to ap
prove $25,000 in this year's bud
get and put the other $25,000 in
next year's budget with the ma
jor work of remodeling to be
done during the summer of 19LSS.
For this summer, a number of
items which need immediate at
tention, such as windows and
lighting would be taken care of
through the summer mainten
ance program.
It was pointed out that by
getting half of the money ahead
the district would not have to
borrow so much to pay contract
ors before tax money would be
come available in November.
The architect also recommended
that the job all be done at one
time as a larger job always is
of more interest to contractors
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Members of the advisory coun
cil who worked with the school
board on the program are James
Farley, L. E. Dick, Jr., W. C.
Rosewall, Howard Bryant, Frank
Anderson, Dr. Wallace Wo'lff, Bill
Barratt, Mrs. Floyd Jones, Mrs.
Dick Wilkinson
and Harold
Wright.
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Mrs. Wagner New
League President
Mrs. Bud Wagner was elected
president of the Heppner Civic
League Monday night at the
regular monthly meeting of the
group. She replaces Mrs. Larry
Dowen who has headed the Lea
gue for the past year. .
Other new officers . are Mrs.
Gordon Pratt, vice president; Mrs.
Robert Jones, secretary and Mrs.
Phil Blakney, treasurer. Named to
the executive board are Mrs. Do
wen, Mrs. Bill Labhart and Mrs.
Creston Robinson.
The group voted to donate to
the March of Dimes and also will
conduct the Mother's March on
Polio the night of January 31. The
club voted a donation for the new
portable X-Ray machine at Pio
neer Memorial hospital and de
cided to hold a spring style show
in the near future. The exact date
is to be set later.
Two of the members volun
teered to aid the health nurse in
giving polio shots during the
monthly clinics.
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Monument Man Dies
From Accidental Shot
Harry Capon, about 53, of
Monument died Monday morning
enroute to the John Day hospital
Rafter he accidently shot himself
, at his ranch near Monument. He
I had picked up a loaded 22 rifle
to take into the house but slip
ped and shot himself when the
gun went off.
Funeral arrangements have not
been announced.
Mr. Capon is survived by his
wife Lydia; on son Donald and
a daugter, Ruth Anne; sisters
JJrs. Ray Wright and Mrs. Mary
Wright, both of Heppner; a half
sister, Mrs. Ida Bleakman, Monu
ment, and a brother George of
Monument.
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Aiuivutii-u aepfruier niyn sciioois outuated science laooratory,
most of which is shown in this photo, will be modernized and en
larged as part of the school's remodeling program announced this
week and approved by a citizen's advisory committee. The lab.
which is still as it was 20 years ago. has facilities for only a
limited number of students and the school board has placed it
high on the priority list for revamping. See story adjoining.
(Wilson Photo)
Algott Lundell
Dies Suddenly
Algott W. Lundell, a farmer in
the Eightmile area for many
years, died suddenly Tuesday
morning at his home. He was 70
years of age.
Mr. Lundell had not been
feeling too well for & few days
prior to his passing, but his ill
ness was not considered at an
serious. A heart attack was
blamed for his death.
Services will be held Friday,
January 25 at 1:30 p. m. at the
lone Community church with The
Rev. Merlin Zier officiating .In
terment will be in the Valby
Lutheran cemetery with Cres
wick Mortuary in charge of ar
rangements. The family has
asked that donation be made to
the Heart Fund in lieu of flow
ers.
A comlete obituary will appear
next week.
City to Skip Water
Meter Readings
Meter Readings;
Bill Only Minimum
City water users will be billed
only minimum rates for January
nstead of actual metered amounts
" wf?s announced today by Ted
Smith, city recorder,
Because of the heavy snow and
low temperatures, meter readers
felt it would be unwise to open
meter boxes at this time and run
the chance of having many of the
lines freeze. As a result, only
minimums will be charged for
January and next month the
combined two-month readings
will appear on water bills. In
many cases it will make little or
no difference in the size of water
bills, but In some, where use is
heavy, the February bill may be
larger than usual, Smith said.
Heppner Man in Ike's
Inaugural Parade
Private Fred R. Lynch, son of
Mr .and Mrs. C. E. Lynch of Hepp
ner, marched in President Eisen
hower's inaugural parade Mon
day with the batallion from the
famed 82nd Airborn Division.
He was picked, along with 700
others of the 82nd's best troop
ers, as having proved himself to
be outstanding in soldierly ap
pearance and performance ot
duty. The 82nd marched with
over 12,000 servicemen and wo
men from all the nation's armed
forces.
The division has been the na
tion's marching showpiece since
its return from World War II
when it represented the armed
forces in the victory parade down
New York's Fifth Avenue.
Pvt Lynch is the first loader on
a M-48 tank in the 44th Tankers
batallion and he has completed
five jumps.
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Honor Society Sets
Annual Banquet
The annual National Honor
Society banquet will be held
February 20, announced club
president Mary Stewart, and it
will be sponsored by the local
P-TA Decorations and serving
will be provided by the F. H.
A. girls.
Money for the event will be
raised by a cake and coffee sale
conducted during the Echo game
February 16,
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Angel Names
New Committees
For Chamber
Chamber of Commerce presi
dent Jack Angel Monday announ.
ced a full slate of committees for
the coming year and gave mem
bers a brief resume of what the
organization's activities would
be and how the numerous com
mittees were expected to func
tion. Heading the merchants com
mittee will be C. E. McQuarrle,
with John Williams, Delmer Jor
dan, Dick Brunner, Lloyd Burken
bine, Clem Stockard and John
pfeiffer as members.
Other committees are: special
activities Jack Bedford, chair
man. Robert Penland. J. R. Huff
man, Jack Loyd, Dr. E. "K. Schaf
fitz, Jack Bailey, Tom Wilson,
Robert Ferrell.
Youth activities Rev. George
R. S. Little, Rev. Willis Geyer,
Rev. Patrick Gaire, Rev. Merlin
Zier, Rev. Charles Knox.
Safe driving C. J. D. Bauman,
James Farley, W. C. Rosewall,
Roice Fulleton.
Audit and budget Howard
Bryant, Carl Spauldlng.
Public relations and membership
Newt O Harra, Frank Turner,
LaVerne Van Marter Jr., Jack
Flug, Oliver Creswick, Elmer
Schmidt, Dr. Wallace Wolff.
Recreation and wildlife Bruce
Lindsay, Dr. L. D. Tibbies, Vic
Kreimeyef, Tom Wilson, Dr. A. D.
McMurdo, Allen Case, Dr. James
Norene.
Legislation and government
P. W. Mahoney, Garnet Barratt,
C. A. Tom, Ralph Thompson.
Agriculture and resources Al
Lamb, Frank Anderson, Paul
Tews, Orville Cutsforth, Alvin
Wagenblast, John Williams
Streets and highways L. E.
Dick Jr., Dr. H. S. Huber, Harley
Young, Allen Case, Roy Quacken-
bush.
Te first named on each com
mittee is chairman.
Valby Postpones
Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of Valby
Lutheran church which had been
scheduled for Sunday, January
27 has been postponed until Sun
day, February 17, it was announ
ced today. Bad weather and
hazardous road conditions were
given as the reason for the
change.
Featured speaker at the re
scheduled meeting will be Dr. S.
L. Swensen, president of the
Columbia conference, Augustana
Lutheran church. He will also
speak at Hope Lutheran church
in Heppner on the same day.
At the same time It was an
nounced that there will be no
church services at Valby this Sun-
day, but they will be held on
February 3 and 17 instead.
Band Parents Set
Date For Carnival
The Band Parent's carnival was
tentatively set for April 6 at a
meeting of the group Monday
night at the school.
Members voted to buy mater
ial for three majorette costumes
which will be made by the girls
and discussed plans to purchase
high school band and grade
school band banners. Mrs. Cal
Sumner, president," was In charge
of the meeting.
24, 1957
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City Designates
3 Sledding Areas
With plenty of snow offering
the best sledding conditions in
several years, the Heppner city
council Monday oi acred the
olockading ot tnree hill streets in
town to provide youngsters with
sale sliding areas.
Streets which have been posted
as sledding areas are the west
end of both Baltimore and Center
streets and the soutn end of court
street, and police have asked that
Kids use the special streets
rather than others which may
also look appealing but are dan
gerous due to tratiic.
Special areas are not complete
ly uiocked, but are closed to nor
mal traitic. Residents on those
streets may drive to their homes
but are asKed to use caution.
County 4-H Junior
Leaders Club Plans
Projects for Year
The county-wide Junior Leader
ship club got under way again
this year with 12 members and
several prospective projects. Car
lene Khea was elected president
at a meeting held January 11), at
the county agent's olfice. Also
elected were: Karl Beach, vice
president; Janice Martin, secre
tary; Janet Wright, reporter;
Carole Anne Anderson, recrea
tional leader. Other members
are: Connie Anderson, Mariine
Baker, Celia Boulden, Billy Do
herty, Russell Dolven, and San
dra Rhea.
The first project will be to
prepare a page tor the state an
nual. A meeting will be held on
Saturday, January 26, at 10:00 a.
m. in the county agent's office for
this purpose.
Candy sales during February
were discussed.
Junior Leaders were invited to
attend the annual Eastern Ore
gon leader's workshop to be held
in Heppner, February 7th and
bth. Tables for the banquet in
February 7th are to be decorated
by the Junior Leaders. A com
mittee was appointed for this
duty consisting of Janet Wright,
chairman, Connie Anderson, Jan
ice Martin, Carole Anderson, and
Celia Boulden. Other members
are welcome to help.
It was announced that Marilyn
Bradshaw, IFYE to Scotland, will
be in Morrow county during
March 3-9. She is a sister of
Beverly Bradshaw, local home
economics agent. The IFYE com.
mittee, consisting of Mardine
Baker, Carole Anderson, Carlene
Rhea, and Dennis Doherty, will
plan the schedule. A "Family
Fun Nicht" will be planned to
raise money for the IFYE fund
sometime this spring.
4-11 summer camp will be an
other project that Junior Leaders
will undertake and as before, the
Junior Leaders will serve as camp
counselors. They will also plan
and instruct the crafts and recre
ation. Lexington Grange
Installs Wagenblast
Alvin Wagenblast was Installed
as master of the Lexington
Grange at installation services
Saturday night at the Grange
hall. This is his third year as
master. Norman Nelson, past
master, was installing officer
and Lyle Cox, installing marshal.
.Other officers are Lyle Cox, over
seer; Mrs. Orville Cutsforth, lec
turer, Vernon Munkers, steward;
Kenneth Smouse, assistant stew
ard; Mrs. Ella Burgoyne, chap
lain; Mrs. Norman Nelson, treas
urer; Mrs. Alfred Nelson, secre
tary; Earl Evans, gatekeeper;
Mrs. Wilbur Steagall, ceres; Mrs.
Earl Evans, pomona; Mrs. Walter
Ruggles, flora and Mrs. Alvin
Wagenblast, lady assistant steward.-
Alfred Nelson, Jr. was named
the new member of the executive
committee to serve with Karl
Miller and Cecil Jones.
A potluck dinner with Mrs.
Vernon Munkers in charge preced
ed the meeting and Kenneth
Smouse showed a film, "Ameri
can Harvest" after the business
session
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Mr. and Mrs. Noel Hill and
family of Fairbanks, Alaska are
visiting at the home of his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rill
in the Eightmile district.
The Rev and Mrs. Charles Knox
and family are visiting friends In
Colfax, Wash., thig week.
73 rd Year, Number 46
Temperature
Moderates As
Layer Deepens
Suow started falling here
again this morning (.muisaay)
auer an ovurmyut luU in tae
stoim tnat aroted nearly an
otner incu aumitj weanedaay.
it nad snowed coutmuousiy ior
2 hours up to auout p. m.
weunesuay aauing .oj men to
the on-uie-grouua pacK to eight
an oiid-nau incites, mere was
,u inch ot moisture in the
latest tall.
Uhe temperature, after having
moueraua coiisiucraoiy eany
tins wee dropped to zeio early
tins morning uespite a heavy
cioud cover whicu neid most of
the niynt. At piesstitne the
tnermumeier stoou at just over
lu aegiees. 'ine meicuiy. how
ever, has never ciimoea out oi
the 2d' at any time auung the
past 14 days.
In the hermiston area there
was between Its and inches
of snow on the ground Wed
nesday night ana tne weather
man ioiecast no immediate
break.
As a sidelight unofficial wea
ter observers (hot stove vari
ety) say the present snow pack
is the heaviest seen in hepp
ner in over 2J years.
Morrow county has just two
categories of residents this week
those who were enjoying the
area's heaviest snowfall in years
and those who weren't.
In the first classification were
kids who loved the sledding and
farmers who loved to see the
moisture come to their dry fields.
In the other group was almost
everybody who had to drive or
work outside.
Snow fell on four of the last
six days in Heppner with the
heaviest fall starting Tuesday
evening and continuing steadily
thou5hout all of Wednesday to
bring the total fall irl two weeks
(as of Wednesday morning) to 11
inches in Heppner. Two inches
fell Sunday, followed by one inch
Monday and three-quarters of an
inch Tuesday. By Wednesday
morning another two inches had
been recorded here and by the
middle of the afternoon at least
another inch had fallen. It was
still snowing as this was being
written with the temperature
hovering close to 20 degrees.
Wednesday morning's official
reading at the Heppner weather
station brought to .77 Inch the
amount of moisture in the light
fluffy snow.
Roads Said Bad
Local state highway crews
had all available snow removal
equipment in operation Wednes
day and were clearing roads as
rapidly as possible. Well over
six Inches of snow was reported
on the highway between Lexing
ton and Butter Creek and snow
plow operators said about noon
that rising winds could cause
serious drifting if they continued.
Snow was heavier in all direc
tions from Heppner, it was re
ported Wednesday. Hermiston and
other areas along the Columbia
had almost a foot of new snow
Tuesday and Tuesday night. To
ward the mountains there was a
considerably heavier fall also,
with well over a foot on the
ground at Rock Creek. Condon
also was reported to have several
inches more than Heppner.
Heppner's actual snow layer
was measured at seven and one
half Inches early Wednesday,
having packed some, but it was
continuing to pile up as there
appeared no break in the storm.
The state police reported Wed
nesday that the road report from
Pendleton gave the temperatures
as 16 degrees, packed snow and,
snowing, nine inches new snow
and 16 inches roadside snow.
Arlington reported 20 degrees,
packed snow and snowing, chains
required, five inches packed snow
with two inches new snow and
1 inches of roadside snow.
Most county roads were pass
able with chains inasmuch as
there has been no wind to cause
drifting. Should a wind come
up, however, many would be
closed in a matter of hours. As
far as was known all school buses
made regular trips Wednesday
and would do so Thursday un
less conditions worsened.
The present snow layer of
slightly over 8 inches is the
deepest seen in Heppner in sev
eral years.
Temperature reports for the past
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