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
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ROBERT PEN LAND
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GRETCHEN PENLAND
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Ofice at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
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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
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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
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