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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 7, 1957 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER Tht Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Time Mtabllahed November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 13, 1912 TO NEWSPAMt v ruiuiHiii ASSOCIATION ROBERT PEN LAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Ofice at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4-00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents, The Good Old Days Last week we were given a copy of the semi weekly Heppner Gazette dated Tuesday, August 9, 1892 which has some very interesting news items and ads in it. We are always interested in old papers, if for no other reason than to just compare the way things were said and done in those days, and we cannot go into our own files that far back in history for all of ours prior to 1918 were loRt in a fire. We found one story on the front page of this paper that we thought would be of interest to our readers of today. It is a full printing of a Town of Heppner ordinance No. 50 "providing for the sup plying of the Town of Heppner, Oregon and its inhabitants with water for public and private purposes . . . and granting said II. V. Gates an ex clusive franchise to construct and operate a sys tem of water works for the town . . ." The ordinance also set out the schedule of rates to be charged for water . . . and, that's the part we thought might be interesting now. The ordinance gives a complete breakdown of rates that were to be charged when the system was In operation, probably about 1893 or so. Here are some of the more interesting ones. (The whole list would take a column in this paper.) MONTHLY WATER RATES Barber shops first chair, $1.50 each additional chair 25c; Bath tubs in" boarding houses, hotels and barber shops, $1.50, in private families, 50c; Breweries (unless governed by meter rates) $10.00; Building construction wetting 1000 brick, 15c, wetting one bbl. lime, 15c. Family rates one hydrant, $1.50, one closet, 50c, one bath tub, 50c; Irrigation each half lot or less (lots 50x100), $1.25, each additional half lot, $1.00, (in no case will allowance be made for space occupied by buildings); Meter rates 1000 to 50,000 gallons, per 1000, 25c, 50,000 and over, 20c; saloons flat rate $2.50. Sidewalk sprinkling each 25 feet front or less with washing windows, 50c, each 50 feet front or less, with washing windows, 75c; Stables each horse and cow including washing carriages, $1.00; Stables, Livery each stable including washing carriages, $7.50; Soda water manufactories, $3.00; Water closets in hotels, boarding houses or sa loons, one closet, $2.00, in stores or public build ings, one closet, $1.50; each additional closet, $1.00, private closets, each, 50c ., . and on, and on and on. If any of our readers have any inclination to complain too loudly about present water rates they should feel better aftor reading this. One other thing We found in the paper, though, that won't make present day readers too happy was an ad Inserted by C. Ruhl, Baker and Confec-1 tioner. He offered fresh bread 22 loaves for $1.00. Ah, yes! The old days . . . they must have been wonderful! THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times February 10, 1927 Mrs. M. L. Curran departed last Sunday for Portland where she will attend the annual spring milinery opening. The small car of Adam Knob lock was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening near the ranch of C. Melville in the Alpine section. A Ukelele club is being organ ized in High School, Miss Wright being the leader. C. L. Lieuallen, traffic ser geant, was here from Pendleton the first of the week attending to matters of business pertaining to his office. A birthday surprise party was given for Bill Ayers Friday at Hardman. An enjoyable even ing was spent playing cards. John Harbke of Portland SDent Sunday In Morgan with Mr. and Mrs.J. F. Hardesty. SIDELIGHTS ON THE COLD WEATHER Noticed in an exchange paper that it really got cold down at Mitchell last week. That town's venerable news correspondent, Ned Norton re ported that one afternoon he visited a resident there and saw two eggs, the shells still on them, on the man's kitchen stove. The owner of the eggs said he'd been all day trying to thaw out his breakfast. ' From over Condon way one farmer reported the only thing he could get out of his Jersey cows was ice cream. TO THE EDITOR . . . To the Editor: Allow me to add some records to Morrow county winters. I saw a fall of 36 inches of snow in early December, 1883. This remained on the ground for a long time and went off with a rush which caused large ditches along canyons and two men were drowned In Clarks Canyon. Considerable snow fell in early December 1889 which caused a month of feeding weather. We then had a month of spring like weather and on the night of Feb. 14 snow began falling and reached a depth of 30 inches fol lowed by a lot of zero days and we did not get a chinook wind until March 20. The loss of cat tle and sheep was the worst ever known. Hendricks Bros, and Florence Bros, were regarded as the cattle kings of the county. Bruce Kelly was riding for Flor ence Bros, and he told me a number of times in later years that they were running very low on hay and in order to save their calving cows they took 300 head of yearlings down to the sands where bunchgrass was stirrup high and turned them loose. The snow still covered the grass and they recovered 30 head of that bunch the next fall. Bill Hend ricks saved 67 head of cattle on the Rock ranch. Fllo Summers, Chas. Sperry and several of the Hendrick Bros, had driven several hundred head of cattle up to the Big Bend sec tion of Eastern Washington and the winter lasted so long that they lost all their cattle and their saddle horses. The lone Independent of Dec. 12, 1919 carries the following item: We will state the snow covers the ground to the extent of 20 inches and at 6 o'clock this morning the temperature was 25 below zero, and 22 degrees at 9 o clock. About the same along the branch. Telephone advice this morning give the tempcro tures at 34 below with two feet From The County Agent's Office By N. C Andereoa Last week we announced the annual meeting of the National Association of Wheat Growers which is being held in Lincoln, Nebraska this week. I stated that It appeared as though Mor row county would have no rep resentation there. Vernon Mun kers, president of the Morrow County Wheat Growers Associa tion stopped in at the office on Saturday to inform me that he and Mrs. Munkers would be leav. ing that evening with the dele gation of Oregon wheat growers on the special railroad car made up at Pendleton. The group planned to arrive home early next week. and government programs dur ing the last year. A number of Morrow county wheat farmers have been active on these com mittees. Further particulars on the conference will be found in this week's newspaper. Morrow countv 4-H club mem- bers did an excellent job last weekend in a monev raisin? scheme. The ways and means committee of the county 4-H council made arrangements for 4-H club members to sell 500 boxes of candv durine tho month of February. Candy went on sale February 2 and before the day was over of the 500 boxes naa neen sold. By early in the week there were but a few scat tered boxes left. Alfred Nelson, Jr., Lexington is chairman of the nnutt LAW MAKERS AND VOTE MAKERS Will a Democratic governor, Democratic House and a Demo cratic balanced Senate be able to meet the expectations of Re publicans who voted for Demo crats last November? Of course this depends on ex pectations on one side and exe cutive and legislative expediency on the other. The Democrats in the legisla ture so far have been as forth right and efficient as the Repub- ways and means committee with Mrs. Dan Blewitt, Echo and Mrs. Bob Brindle, Heppner as members. The committee should be congratulated on the good job which provides funds for the various 4-H club activities which will be carried out during the year. Examples of which are 4-H summer camp, summer school, field tours and purchase of equip ment needed by club members. Only recently arrangements were made for the purchase of two sewing machines for use by the clothing club-members. Applications are being taken now for free instruction in sheep shearing. A class will be held at The Dalles on April 11 and 12. Instruction is free to any Oregon resident regardless of age. The class will be limited to 60 oer- sons so we suggest you make your application now. Durine the past several years a number of older boys from Morrow county have taken this training and have become auite adeot in the sheep shearing. llcans, and that Includes the first termers. At the end of the ses sion there will be many Demo cratic legislators whose names will have state-wide acclaim and vote-getting power. Legisla tures have always been candi date machines and the GOP seems to have had patent rights on it for decades. There are enough members of each party to keep characters of either party from developing too much affluence on his own. EDUCATION LAY APPROACH A group of bills representing the comprehensive recommenda tions of the interim committee on education was introduced in the House Thursday. A reorganiza tion and consolidation plan is proposed for school district, the first being the calling of a con vention of school boards in a county, elect members of a com mittee of nine consisting of board members andor citizens at large. This committee would hold hearings and make an over all plan for a county-wide ad ministrative unit to create poli cies for conduct of grades from 1 to 12. When completed the bill will provide for submission to the state board of education. If approved a county election would be called to give the voters an opportunity to pass on pro posals including consolidation. The right of appeal to the cir cuit court is provided in this bilL Another bill In this package provides for an increase in the basic school formula from $80 per census school student to $120. PHYSICAL FITNESS TESTS A high percentage of failures in muscular fitness tests taken during January in Oregon pose a problem for school and college physical directors. Continued on page 7 (SlI Opening (ricapping) jOOII ON MAIN STREET IN HEPPNER COMPLETE Tire & Battery Service Ford's Tire Service WAYNE SNYDER. MGR. The Oregon Cattlemen's Asso ciation announced their annual range bull sale which will be held at Ontario on February 15 and 16. A good selection of bulls is being offered. Last Sunday I had the oppor tunity to see the registered Suf folk sheep flock owned by Don Greenup. Over the past few years Don has accumulated the sizeable farm flock of sheep. De ciding to specialize in Suffolk he has dlspossed of every thing else and has purchased a couple of top Suffolk ewe flocks in the state. By the looks of his lamb crop he will be able to provide a lot of good Suffolk rams to Morrow and adjoining county sheep men. A Suffolk ram pur chased last fall by Don from the Eldon Riddle flock at Monmouth Is one of the most promising rams mat I have seen. STAR THEATER HSPPNSa Thuriu Frl., Sat., Feb. 7-8-9 Chasing The Sun Enjoy deepsea fishing, swim ming, surfboarding plus Tension At Table Rock With Richard Egan, Cameron Mitchell, Dorothy Malone Sun., Mon., Feb. 10-11 Moby Dick With Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Orson Welles Sunday at 4, 6:20, 8:40 Tues Wed., Feb. 1213 Mvaerick Queen With Barbara Stanwyck, Barry bumvan, scott Brady BUCK NIGHTS of snow at Hardman and 45 below at Parker's Mill. I am sure that Les Matlock and Bill Padberg will verify any of the above statements. BERT MASON Portland, Oregon. The annual weed control edu cational meeting has been sche duled to be held on February 28. Both annual and perennial weed control will be discussed. Watch for further particulars. On March 1 a demonstration for the control of morning glory will be started on the Gar Swanson farm south of lone. Gar has offered a 16 acre field for this demon stration. Various chemicals both new and old will be compared. Cooperating in the demonstra tion will be several chemical companies as well as the exten sion service and experiment sta tion of Oregon State college. Farmers with a morning glory problem will have the opportun ity to watch, first hand, the re sults of the demonstration. Visiting at the Frank Anderson farm one day last week I had the prlvelege of seeing his new Hereford herd sire which he pur chased last month at the Nation al Western livestock show at Denver. The bull, of CK breed ing is one of the thickest, deep est, heavy-boned bulls we have seen in a long time. While we have not had a chance to see it, we understand that Harvey Smith bought a Mill Iron breed ing bull at this same sale which is an excellent individual. These bulls should do much in improv ing our beef cattle not onlv in these herds but in others throughout the area as bulls from their breeding are made avail- able to other ranchers. The 1957 Wheat Industry Ton. ference Is drawing near. It will be held at the Multnomah Hotp in Portland on Februarv 19 and 20. An excellent procram has been planned as well as the re ports of the committees which have been working on problems in marketing, production and land use, farm incomes and cost casts deuns DON'T JUST SIT THERE 9 3 Wander around, see and enjoy the Dome Observation Lounge, the Redwood Cocktail Lounge and the glamorous Astra Dome Diner. . In spacious luxurious Pullman or economical Coach accommodations your pleasure is asiured. CITY OF PORTLAND TO CHICAGO UNION PACIFIC Local Union Pacific Agent or J M. 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