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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. Jtopitet mmt$ Copies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 21, 1957 74th Year, Number 2 Coming of Spring Brings No Change, Just 'More Rain' Spring arrived officially at vis p. m. Wednesday afternoon but as iar as most persons were con cerned it meant nothing different weather-wise from the rest of March. At the appointed time rain was falling on Heppner in buckets-full the same as it has done on many of the other 19 days of the month. On Tuesday, the dav before the advent of the spring season, residents thought maybe the coming of spring was really going to mean a change as the mercury climbed to 59, the warmest of the year, and sun shone the en tire day but their pleasure was short-lived. Wednesday brought a new storm front and shortly before noon water began to pile up in rain gauges. Rainfall Records Climbs Over a week ago the all-time rainfall record at Heppner was broken and during the past week an additional one-third of an inch has fallen here to bring the month's total, as of Wednesday morning to 2.84 inches, almost two full inches greater than the 10 year average for March. The 2.84 figure does not include what fell Wednesday which is expec ted to put the total over the three-inch mark. Reports have been received from some ranchers in the higher elevations where soil is shallow er, that the continuing moisture is causing some erosion in sum merfallow fields, but those in the lower end of the county where soil is deeper are able to stand several more inches without any trouble. Several ranchers in scat tered sections of the county who keep rain gauges have already reported well over three inches of moisture this month. The temperature and rainfall record at the Heppner weather station for the past week shows: Max Min. Prec. Friday 49 40 .05 Saturday 52 31 .25 Sunday 49 30 . Monday 52 34 - .02 Tuesday 51 30 . .Wednesday 59 42 . School Law Classes Set For Condon A class in school law and or ganization, Ed 476, will be In structed by Jack Flug, Morrow county school superintendent, beginning March 27 at the Con don elementary school. The class will be held from 7 to 9:45 p. m. weekly and will last for seven weeks. The class offers two hours credit and fees for general ex tension classes are $8 per credit hour. Persons interested in the class should contact Mrs. Lovena Pal mer, district superintendent at Condon. IONE GIRL MEMBER OF MARYLHURST ORCHESTRA Jean Ann Swanson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garland Swanson of lone, has been chosen for membership in the chamber orchestra of Marylhurst college, where she is a freshman. She is a clarinetist. Miss Swanson is a member of a freshman "little orchestra" of nine instruments which made an appearance on March 15 at an assembly program presented in the Marylhurst college auditor ium by the freshman class. The group played a medley of Irish airs. LOCAL EFFORTS BEING MADE TO SAVE WW II CARRIER FROM SCRAP HEAP Local effort to save the World War II carrier Enterprise from the scrap heep is being urged by Kenneth Peck, Lexington, 40 millimeter gunnery officer on the ship for 27 months. National appeal to save the ship as a World War II shrine and mus eum is being spurred by the USS Enterprise association. The Enterprise, which took part in all but one of the Navy bat tles in the Pacific, destroyed 911 enemy planes and 71 enemy ships, is the only pre-World War II carrier left. Association mem bers hope to tow the carrier from Bayonne, N. J. to San Diego, Calif, where it would be moored near the Institute of Aeoronau tical Sciences building on Harbor Drive. Cost of de-mothing and towing the vessel to San Diego is estimated at $250,000. In ad dition to preserving the ship as Chamber Hears Six Contestants in UN Pilgrimage Contest Chamber of Commerce mem bers Monday heard six Heppner high school students give talks that are part of the require ments for entering the I. O. O. F. sponsored United Nations Youth Pilgrimage contest. Speakers were Jim Morris, Peggy Applegate, Helen Graham, Janice Beamer, Joann Brosnan and Ed Groshens. Judging the talks was done by selected chamber members and the re suits will be entered as part of the process of selecting the Morrow county winner. The loocal winner will compete against other finalists March 30 at Pendleton for the opportunity to take the summer trip to New York. The chamber went on record as opposing a measure in the legislature which would require a licensed contractor be employed for all building and remodeling jobs costing in excess of $100 Local senators and representa lives were advised of the cham ber's stand. Mrs. Reba Grabill Dies At Pendleton Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Fol som's Funeral chapel in Pen dleton for Mrs. Reba Grabill, 46, who passed away March 18 at her home in Pendleton following an illness of several months. She had been a lifelong resident of Morrow county until moving to Pendleton last fall. Mrs. Grabill was born May 19, 1910 at Gooseberry and was mar ried to Robert. E. Grabill June 20, 1931 at Vancouver, Washington. They had lived in Heppner for a number of years where her hus band was manager of Empire Machinery Company. They moved to Pendleton last October when he was transferred to the main store. She was a member of All Saints' Episcopal church and of Ruth chapter of Eastern Star at Heppner. , Surviving are her husband, one son, Robert; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tilman Hogue, Hepp ner; one brother Earl Hogue and a sister, Mrs. Cecil Stefani, both of lone. Bearers were Donald Fleck, Hy- man Shoop, Garnet Barratt, John Williams, Vern Arstill and Mer vin Leonard. The Rev. Charles V. Knox, pastor of the Heppner Christian church, officiated and interment was in the Pendleton Masonic cemeter. College Students Home For Vacation Among the college students home this week from their schools for spring vacation are Patsy Wright, Jim Hayes, Dick Kononen, Jim Wightman and Skip Ruhl from Oregon State Col lege; Lance Tibbies, and Wayne Soward from the University of Oregon; James Monahan and Larry Lindsay, Portland Univer sity; Nancy Anderson, Connie Newman, Bob Grabill, Jean Marie Graham and Mike Monahan, Eastern Oregon College at La Grande; Lowell Turner, Portland State; Lyle Jensen, Steven Green, Neil Beamer, Bill Hughes, Keith Connor and Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Drake returned to Pacific Uni versity Sunday after their vaca tion in Heppner. Mrs. Harold Cohn spent last weekend at Eugene, visiting her daughter Sally. a shrine, plans call for it to be used as a transient home for sailors who would keep her up as room payment. Peck urged residents to write their senators to delay scrapping the Enterprise until enough funds come in to do the job. Donations may be sent to the U. S. S. Enter prise association, P. O. Box 589, San Diego, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Peck and family attended the third annual re union of crew members in New York and at the ship in Bay onne last fall. Peck, who was aboard from February, 1943 through May, 1945, reported over $5000 had been mailed to the Association within five days fol lowing the appearance of Fleet Admiral William F. (Bull) Hal sey in an appeal to save the ship on a recent television broad, cast Articles have appeared also in current magazines. Field Day Planned At Ranch of State Conservation Man Elaborate plans are now being made for the annual field day at the state Conservation Man of the Year rancn, the Kenneth Peck operation near Lexington. Peck was named the 1956 winner. The plans for the field day were made last week at the meet ing of the state Conservation Man of the Year committee of the Oregon Wheat Growers League. Attending were Vernon Munkers, Kenneth Peck and N. C. Ander son. The field day will be held May 25 and a program is scheduled that will be of interest to every one. It will start at 10 a. m. fol lowed by a free lunch at noon and a tour of the entire farm to see the conservation practices that earned the title for Peck. A number of dignitaries will take part In the program and several county organizations have been asked to help. The Morrow County Wheat Growers Association has ap pointed a committee composed of Bernard Doherty, Raymond Lundell, Vernon Munkers, Tom Wilson and N. C. Anderson to develop further plans for the event. Peck is the first Morrow county rancher to win the state award. Hospital Sends Call For Nurse's Aides Mrs. Florence Bradshaw, super visor of nurses at Pioneer Me- Morlal hospital, has revealed the hospital is in need of nurse's aides to fill vacancies in the present staff. Anyone over 18 years of age who is interested is eligible, Mrs. Bradshaw stated, but she empha sized that they must enjoy the work of caring for the sick. Training will be given at the hospital. lone P-TA Ejects New Officers for Year Mrs. Wallace Matthews was elected president of the lone P TA for the coming year at a meeting Wednesday evening March 13. Other officers elected were Mrs, Gordon White, vice president and Mrs. John Hat field as secretary and treasurer. A very Interesting panel discus sion was held with Fredrick Mar tin as moderator. The subject was "Is the Youth Program for Morrow County Adequate?'' Those on the panel and the points they brought up were: Julie Rietmann representing a high school stu dent ramed many of the activities of the high school; Mardine Baker representing the 4-H clubs, stated that many children took up 4-H club work in the grades but drop, ped out during high schooL She thought more time should be given to 4-H club work. R. H. Woodroof, representing the schools, stated that more empha sis should be given to academics and a larger student body was very important; Rev. Floyd S. Bailey, from the churches, point ed out the church programs and that not enough youth took part in the work; Ray Heimbigner, representing the P-TA, stated that the P-TA had help acquire many things for the youth as the swimming pool, trampoline and other equipment and that they should be used more; Mrs. Nor man Nelson took the parents side and showed that more home life was needed and that parent guidance was very important. Mr. Martin summed up all the high lights after the discussion. Many questions were asked from the floor and discussed. The school band played several numbers led by Gary Stephenson. These numbers will be played at the band concert at La Grande March 23 at 4:45 p. m. Mrs. Lewis Halvorsen had charge of the pro gram. At the business meeting of the P-TA conducted by Ray Heimbig ner, president, the flag salute was given followed by the bene diction by Rev. Floyd S. Bailey, pastor of the Community church. The following announcements were made. The speech festival will be held here March 26, the band concert at La Grande March 23 and the P-TA convention at Pendleton April 9, 10 and 11. The elective officers will go as dele gates. Refreshments were served after the meeting by Mrs. Earl McKin ney, Mrs. John Jackson, Mrs. Garry Tullis, Mrs. Darrell Padberg and Mrs. Harold Snider. ' S ... , : ..... , . . , in ill - - ;- w &tessiiS&,k$s! NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL AWARD of Merit Presented to Pa cific Power & Light Workers. Company employees who completed more than 1,000.000 man-hours ol work without loss-time injury have been cited for their achievement by the National Safety Council. Presentation of the council's Award of Merit was made tecently by Johnny Carpenter, right, Portland representative of the council, to Don R. McClung, left, executive vice president of PP&L. The total of safe hours reached 1,235,000 for the 2500 work, ers of the system, a record unsurpassed in the company's 46-year history. SOCIAL SECURITY HEAVIEST BUSINESS The La Grande social security office is experiencing the great est rush of business in the 16 years of its existance. Since the first of the year, the number of people making claims for insur ance benefit payments has trip led over that of a year ago, dis trict manager Vernon A. Welo said this wek. The increase in the number of claimants here reflects a con dition prevailing in most of the 556 social security offices throughout the country. In one February week alone, a total of 112 people in this area made claims for old-age, survivors, or disability insurance payments. Welo said that his office is doing everything possible to ex pedite the handling of people making benefit claims. Due to the increased number of claim ants, however, many may have to wait longer for interviews when hey come to the social security office. Also, he said, the larger number of claimants in the office slow up the pro cessing of the claims papers. A new beneficiary must sometimes Second Clothing Construction Class Enrollment Open A second series of basic Bis hop clothing construction classes will start in Heppner this spring announces Mrs. Marvin Smith, vice president of the Heppner P-TA. Women who are interested are to enroll with Mrs. Smith and they will be accepted for the class in the order in which they enroll. Only a limited number will be instructed in each class. Women who enroll must at tend the preliminary meeting at the Heppner school homemaking room Friday, March 22 at 7:30 p. m. and they are asked to bring notebook paper and pencil o the meeting. The training is available to the Heppner community through the cooperation of the state vo cational department, school dis trict No. 1 and the P-TA. A noml. nal fee is chargd for the 10 les sons. Mrs. Homer Hager will be the instructor. Christian Church Men To Have Work Night The Christian Men's Fellowship of the Christian church will meet at the church, Monday evening, March 25, for a work night. They will work from 7:00 to 9: 00 p. m., refreshments will be served by the women of the church, followed by a short busi ness meeting. This Is for all men who at tend the Christian church. Farm Bureau Meeting Set For March 26 The regular Farm Bureau meet, ing will be held Tuesday, March 26 at 8 p. m. at the Bill Barratt home on Hinton creek. A discussion of pending legis lative measures will be held and Don Heliker will show pictures and tell of his recent trip to Hawaii. NAMED ON HONOR ROLL James Monahan, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Monahan of Hepp ner, has been named on the freshman honor roll at the Uni vertity of Portland. OFFICE DOING IN ITS HISTORY wait longer before he receives his first monthy insurance bene fit check. "If you have made a claim for payments but have not yet re ceived your first check, please be patient," Welo urges. He as sures those who have recently filed claims that the delay will not result in any loss of bene fits. The date an application is filed, not the date of the final award, is used in figuring the monthly amount. Furthermore, he pointed out, benefits can be paid for a period of as much as a year before the time a claim for benefits is made when people are entitled to back payments. Benefit checks for future months will not be affected by the work load and will reach beneficiaries on time. While ordinarily a wage earn er need not submit proof of past earnings, in a claim for old-age benefits, a self-employed person will need to bring along copies of his income tax returns for 1955 and 1956, and cancelled checks to prove the returns were paid. Proof of age for both re tiring farmers and their wives will also generally be needed, Welo stated. Commenting on the unprece dented number of claims now on hand, Welo said that the situa tion is temporary. It is due large, lyto the recent changes in the social security law. In the area served by the La Grande social security office a major reason for the increase in claimants is that many self-employed farmers are now qualify ing for old-age benefits. Farm operators were first brought under social security at the be ginning of 1955. About 400 far mers in this area who have reached retirement age have filed benefit claims since the first of the year, he said. A social security representa tive will be at the City Hall in Heppner, Wednesday, March 27, from 9:00 a. m. to 12:00 noon. o Hermiston Catholics Slate Italian Dinner - Th Altar society of Our Lady of Angels Catholic church of Her miston will again hold its Ital ian dinner at the parish house Sunday, March 24, it has been revealed. The family style din ner will be served from noon to 5 p. m. Real "Old World" atmosphere is being accomplished by the dec oration committee under the guidance of Howard Peck and entertainment will be furnished during the entire afternoon by Gordon Grady and his Stars of Tomorrow. Mrs. Sally Terrill will again do the cooking with the assist ance of veteran Italian cooks from Portland's St. Ignatius parish, Mrs. Nick De Francesco, Mrs. Carl Daniclson and Mrs. Willis George. Tickets may be purchased at the door. o Mrs. Leona Clark Passes Away at Bend Mrs. LeonaClark, widow of the late N. A. Clark and mother of Barton Clark of Heppner, died Tuesday at a nursing home in Bend. Funeral services have been set for Friday at 2 p. m. at the Lutheran church in Redmond, it was announced. An obituary will appear next week. New lone Minister To Be Installed At Sunday Service An installation service for the Rev. Floyd Bailey, new pastor of the lone Community church, will be held Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the church. The ser vice will be followed by a pot luck dinner and is open to every one. The Rev. Stuart Goude of Con don will be in charge of the pro gram and Dr. Paul Davies of Portland will be the main speak er. Several other ministers are expected to take part. Parking Meter Users Reminded to uive bacK NKKei The chamber of commerce sponsored "give-backa-nickel" parking meter plan which was inaugurated a year ago through the cooperation of the City of Heppner has worked quite well until recently, it was revealed by chamber officials and chief of police Dean Gilman. Weekly checks of money re ceived from the orange enve lopes which are given out in stead of overtime parking cita tions, has shown the fund, set up by the chamber, to have gained somewhat during the year. The story during recent weeks has been different, however, when the weekly "take" has rjeen less than is being used to "feed" the meters. As long as the fund comes reasonably close to breaking even, it will probably be con tinued, but both Chief Gilman and chamber officers reminded car owners that if the fund gets too far in the red, it may again be necessary to resort to parking tickets which will cost the vio lator $1.00 rather than the five cents now asked with use of the envelopes. No threat is intended, it was emphasized, but drivers are be ing reminded that it Is to their own benefit to drop a nickel In the envelope and leave it at a local store. Civic League Sets Rummage Sale Date The annual spring rummage sale sponsored by the Heppner Civic League will be held May 3 and 4, it was decided Monday night at the monthly meeting of the organization. Funds from the sale are used to support the Heppner kondergarten. Co-chairmen for the sale will be Mrs. Bud Peck and Mrs. Bud Marshall and in charge of rum mage collection are Mrs. Jack Van Winkle and Mrs. Howard Pettyjohn. The group asks that persons having rummage to do nate call either 6-9725 or 6-9284 or it can be left at Van Winkle's Chevron station. The League also made plans to hold a style show on Wednes day, April 3, with the location to be announced later. Will O'Harra, laboratory tech nician at Pioneer Memorial hos pital, spoke to the group and urged them to sponsor a blood typing project in Heppner. The members will consider the pro posal and may make arrange ments for such a program later in the year. j Masons Start Drive For New Furnishings A drive was started this week to raise funds from members for a new carpet for the Heppner Masonic lodge hall, it was re vealed by Harold Becket, secre- I tary. I The drive was started Tuesday I night when several members of- fered donations or pledges to ward a fund to replace the car pet which has been In use since the building was built In 1916. It is estimated the project will cost abont $3,000. ATTEND GOLDEN WEDDING Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Huber of Heppner were in Collage Place, Wash, last Sunday to attend the golden wedding anniversary of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Huber. RHEA CREEK GRANGE The Rhea Creek grange will meet Friday evening March 22 at 6:00 p. m., starting with a potluck supper and a business meeting later. Increased Costs Bring Larger School Budget Portion of Raise Due to Remodeling A public hearing on the 1957 58 budget for school district No. I has been set for April 9 it was revealed this week by school of ficials. Following the hearing the budget will be approved by the board and it will later be sub mitted to voters at the regular school election. The budget for the coming year lists total estimated expen ditures at $297,745.31 which is an Increase of approximately $34,000 over the current year's figures. The largest increase in school operating costs will come In the teacher's salaries section which show a figure of $151,872. This is an increase of slightly over $19,000 more than this year and is the result of the recent accept ance of a revised teacher salary schedule. In other catagorios, operation--of t he physical plants show an increase of $1,400, general con trol expenses are up less than $1,000, and transportation costs etc. raised nearly $1,500. De creases in budgeted expenses are seen in maintenance and repair, down $1600 and in a capital out lay which dropped from $18,610 last year to only $809 for the coming budget. This latter reduction is offset by a special improvement fund of $25,000 for remodeling the sci ence laboratory. This fund was not shown In the former budget but was included under capital outlay. The special fund will supply about half the money needed for the remodeling, the balance to be raised in 1958-59. Estimated receipts, other than county taxes, are set at $68,389. 01 which Is approximately the same as shown on the current year's budget, which leaves a total of $229,356.30 to be raised by taxes. This is an increase of approximately $34,000. At the general school election voters will not decide on the $25,000 for special Improvement, inasmuch as the complete bud get will include overall combi ned county school figures. Last year the rural school board set a policy of requiring separate dis tricts to finance their own Im provement projects, such as above mentioned, and voters of the Heppner district will decide that matter at another election. The figure is included in the budget, however, so that it may be shown in overall expenses of the district and may bo used if ap proved. Sucli an item may not be spent, even though given voter approval, unless it is regularly budgeted. The complete itemized budget appears elsewhere in today's is sue of the Gazette Times. Anniversary Noted By Willows Grange The lone Willows Grange last week observed its 31st anniver sary with a special program highlighted by a brief history of the grange by Master Leo Crab tree. During the meeting consider able discussion was held on sen ate bill 68 and the grange pas sed a resolution opposing the measure, a copy of which will be sent to Representative Allen Tom. Members are urged to write him of their feelings. Lecturer LaKetta Dobyns, pro gram chairman, presented Ida Esteb and Anna Ball with 25 year pins and corsages and three char ter members, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lundell and Earl Morgan were presented. Pat Townsend was presented a past master's pin and Mrs. Dobyns received a perfect report card as last year's lec turer. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Heli. ker showed films of the trip they recently took to Hawaii. A cake decorated with grange colors and decorated with a sheaf of wheat which had been made by Mabel Ring was served at the close of the meeting. Pre siding at the tea table were Vida Heliker, Mary Lindsay and Dot Halvorsen, all past masters. o PLEDGES WILLAMETTE FRAT Gerrald Gordon White, fresh man at Willamette university from lone,, was recently initiated into Sigma Alpha Epsllon fra ternity, following one semester of pledging. A graduate of lone high school, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon White.
