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L I SRASY U OF 0 E'-SENE. ORE. mints wtwntx Copies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, July 18, 1957 74th Year. Number 19 pT --''l-rTI IT" ..!u:,ks; ., - II POY7.L COURT for the 1957 Morrow County Fair ani nodeo will be presented Saturday night at the annuel kickoff dance. They are. left to right, Prinsess Daren a Coder, Boardman; Sharon Cutsforth, lens; Queen Christine Swaggert; princesses Barbara Steagall, Lexington; and Jcnet Wright, Rhea Creek. The girls will make many public appearances before the fair and rodeo August 27 through September 1. (Wilson Photo) Saturday Kickoff Dance to Open '57 Fair and Rodeo Festivities The annual Morrow county fair and rodeo kickoff dance, which will mark the opening of festiv ities leading up to the big county show August 27 through Septem ber 1 will be held Saturday night, July 20 at the fair pavilion in Heppner During the dance Queen Christ ine Swaggart and her royal court will be presented publicly Immunization Clinic Set Friday Another in the series of imm unization clinics will be held in the Morrow county healtlh dep artment offices in Pioneer Me morial hospital Friday, July, 19 at 1 p.m., Mrs. Velma Glass, county health nurse announced today. Free polio shots will be avail able to all children through 19 year of age and also for all ex pectant mothers wishing them. o Heppner Girl Wins F-TA Scholarship OREGON STATE COLLEGE Adclia A. Anderson of Heppner, a senior 'at Oregon State college, has been named winner of a full-tuition scholarship for the coming school year. She was one of 27 OSC students awarded $213 scholarships by the Oregon Congress of Parents and teachers. The study grants are j,iven each year to outstanding college students and high school graduates who are preparing to be elementary school teachers. Scholarships are renewable from year to year provided the recipient maintains high grades and continues to show pomise for a teaching career. A 1954 graduate of Heppner high scchool, Miss Anderson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erv in Anderson of Heppner. o Girls Leave Monday For Camp At Cove Girls leaving Monday to attend the Episcopal church camp at Cove were Beverly Blake, Julie Pfeiffer, Sharon Lindsay, Bernice Thomson and Shirley Gines. Mrs. Willard Blake, Mrs. Harl an McCurdy and Mrs. James Healy took theb to the camp. o Heppner Boy Joins Marine Corps Conrad Lesser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson of Heppner, left June 29 for San Diego after enlisting in the Marine Corps. He will shortly be sent to Camp Mat thews to start boot ttaining. o HURT IN ACCIDENT James Wheeler who is employ ed at the Harold Peck ranch on Rhea creek, is in Pioneer Memori al hospital wth a broken leg suffered in an accident at the ranch. He was pinned in a pick up truck when the vehicle hit loose gravel and overturned. for the first time. Each princess will be honored at her own dance on subsequent weekends prior to the fair and rodeo. Members of the royal court, in addition to Queen Christine are Janet Wright sponsored by Rhea Creek Grange; Barbara Steagall, Lexington Grange; Sharon Cuts forth, representative of Willows Grange at lone; and Dorena Coder, sponsored by the Tillicum club of Boardman. The Queen's dance will be the last one held just prior to the opening of the fair and rodeo. Providing the music for Satur day night's kickoff dance wUl be Johnny K's orchestra from Pasco. This well known popular western Destruction, Construction and Remodeling Going On Workmen this week are com pleting the demolishing of the old McClintock building on Main street between Willow and Cent er streets, and construction will stat shortly on a modern build ing to house the Heppner branch, the Bank of Eastern Oregon. The old metal covered frame struct ure was largely junked and haul ed away for burning Other building activity in the same block included the construc tion of temporary quarters for the bank in the Ebpire Machin ery building immediately south of the site of the new building; and the remodeling of Phil's Pharmacy a few doors further south. Phil Elakney, owner of Phil's plans a complete new front on the building and new interior decorations and fixtures. Hope Lutheran Sets Special Services, Dinner Next Sunday Friends and members are in vited to the new Hope Lutheran church Sunday, July 21 when services will be conducted at 10 a.m. followed by Sunday school at 11 o'clock and a pot luck din ner in the church basement. Services normally begin at 9:30, but they have been set ahead 30 minutes this Sunday only for the convenience of those who drive long d'stances. This will be the first dinner held in the church and a baptis mal font will likewise be used for the first time. Two films have been scheduled for the semi-an nal mpptintr in the aftprnnon including a color film of the Lu - theran New Guinea mission field They Found Them Waiting." " ZZ".Z ZL diers were saved during the warinuM"! by Christian natives who werej The Indian squad present eel formerly cannibals and how the lar dweller, made up for some of native church had actually be come stronger during the diffi cult period of war and Japanese occupation. o Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Major and three children of Portland visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. La Verne VanMarterr Jr. on Fiday. They were en route to Olex to vis it relativees. style orchestra is no stranger to Morrow county dancers, having played at several dances in this area during the past year or so. The dance is sponsored by the Morrow county fair board with Al Fetsch serving as dance com mittee chairman. Admission price is $1.50 per person. o Lex Grange Urges High Hells Dam, Congressmen Advised The Lexington Grange Friday night approved a resolution call ing for federal construction of a high Hells Canyon dam on the Snake river. Their action was sim ilar to action taken by other granges in this area, Copies of the resolution will be sent to all members of the house of representatives committee which is currently considering the Hells Canyon bill which would authorize the high dam. In ad dition individual grange mem bers were asked to write letters to Representatives concerned with the measure. During the business meeting, the Grange was presented with a plaque from the state grange for having paid its dues on time continually for a 10 year period. Plans will also be announced lat er for a grange booster night to be held on September 20. . o Boys Leave Sunday For Scout Camp Those from here who left Sun day for Wallowa Lake to attend Scout camp this week were Tom Glass, Larry AngeH Jim and John Cason, Don and" Ken Keel ing, Kenny Daggett, Mike Smith, , Mike Koenig, Jim Farra, LeRoy Gardner, Melvin McDaniel. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Gardner will be with them for most of the week and Ken Keeling and Jim Angell left Monday for the (remainder of the week. Those taking cars on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Gardner, Mr.1 and Mrs. Keeling, Mr and Mrs. Jerry Daggett and Mr and Mrs. Bill Farra. Little League Ball Necrs Middle Mark In Season's Play Little League baseball con tinues to draw good crowds four nights each week and the Clip per team continues continues to ! nold 0" to the top spot in Stand- l"?8 ,havinS ist, one B: TUn '.-. f Af V nAnnnv. ..rill The first half of the season will end Friday night with a game between the Clippers and the their mistakes Saturday night by downing a Boardman nine 11 to 10. This game was followed by a Babe Ruth game against a Boardman team under the lights which the local boys also won. Monday night the Bluejays and the Clippers will meet and Tues day "night's affair will see the Clippers pointing for another win over the Dodgers, Shorter Either Sex Deer Season Tentatively Set A shorter either sex deer seas on than last year would be in store for hunters If the tentative hunting regulations adopted by the game commission are given final approval at a second pub lic hearing to be held July 26. A buck deer season starting September 28 extending to Octo ber 18 would be followed by a three-day hunter's choice season in most of the state with the gen eral season ending on October 21. Visible antlers would be legal in eastern Oregon and forked horns in the western portion of the state. The popular central Oregon area including the Ocho cos, Paulina and Metolius would not have a hunter's choice this year. Western Oregon either sex hunts would be restricted to ad jacent areas to the Willamette valley and small portions of Coos, Curry, Douglas, Josephine and Jackson counties. Seven con trolled deer hunts would add to the harvest. The general elk season would start November 2 and end on November 24 except on the coast al ranges where the season would end on Novembe 11. For the first time spike bulls would be legal in a portion of the coast range on a trial basis which would include Coos, Curry, and western Douglas counties. The re mainder of the coast range would be restricted to bull elk with three points or better. Bag limit in the Cascades and northeast ern areas would be one bull elk with antlers longer than the ears. In addition, 13 controlled and unit hunts would be held, imple menting the commission's policy of unit elk herd management two thousand seventy-five free permits to be used in conjunc tion with a general elk tag would b issued for these hunts. Public drawings would be held. Tentative regulations of part icular interestt in this area in clude: Buekdeer season, Sep tember 28 to October 18, hunter's choice Oct. 19 to Ch.1. Inclus ive. Open area for hunter's choice will be all of Eastern Oregon ex cept the Ochocos and Maury mountains southeast of the John Day river and the Deschutes na tional forest east of highway 97 and north of highway 20. There will be no controlled deer hunts in this immediate area. Elk season in this area will be Nov 2 to 24 inclusive and there will be a controlled elk season in the Mill Creek watershed of Uma tilla county from Nov. 9 to 17. Unit elk hunt from Nov 16 to 24 where it allowable to kill cither sex animal will again be allowed in what is known as the Heppner district, as well as sev eral others in Eastern Oregon. A total of 250 special permits will be issued for the Heppner district. Pheasant season will be from 8 a.m. Oct. 26 to Nov. 11 and the bag limit in Eastern Oregon will be three cocks per day and not over 12 in possession. Quail and! partridge season, Oct. 26 through' Nov. 11. Doves, Sept. 1 through Sept. 22. The complete digest of the reg- ulations will be released by the game commission following the final hearing. Newt O'Harra to Head Red Hat Observance In Morrow County Governor Robert D. Holmes early this week announced the appointment of Newt O'Harra of Lexington as 1957 Red Hat day chairman for Morrow county. The special day places emphas is on hunting manners and care in the woods and fields The observance is scheduled for early fall and a kickoff date will be announced soon. NEW SWIMMING CLASSES New swimming classes will start Monday morning. Registra tion will be at 9:00 a..m. with the one dollar fee payable then. WEATHER The Heppner weather station reports: Hi 87 78 89 84 78 76 71 Low Prec. 56 . 49 . 55 . Thurs Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. 57 46 .09 .02 48 . 42 . .11; for the Rainfall for July year, 10.12 inches. Mrs. Paul Brown Appointed to County Welfare Commission The appointment of Mrs. Paul C. (Betty) Brown of Heppner as a member of the Morrow county welfare commission was an nounced late last week by Gov ernor Robert D. Holmes. She will serve a four-year term and suc ceeds Mrs. Vida N. Heliker of lone Mrs. Brow n is now a farm housewife but during World War II she was a member of the Mar ine Corps Women's Reserve and saw service at Marine headquart ers in Washington D. C. and on the Commanding General's staff at Pearl Harbor. Other members of the commis sion are J. u. iiager Heppner, Lloyd Berger Irrigon, Mrs. Vern on Munkers. Lexington, and the hreo members of the county court. William Bechdolt Dies Here Sunday Funeral seervices were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Hepp ner Christian church for William W. Bechdolt, 88, of Hardman who passed away July 14 at Pioneer Memorial hospital where he had been confined for six weeks. The Rev. Norman Northrup, pastor of the Lexington Christian church officiated. Mr. Bechdolt was born Febru ary 12, 1869 at Wapokoneta, Ohio, and came to Morrow county in 1898. He worked in and near Heppner for a few years then purchased the home ranch near Hardman in 1908 where he had since made his home. He was married to Jennie Simpson on April 12, 1898 at Francesvllle, Indiana and she preceded him in death on April 26, 1945. He was a member of the Heppner Chris tian church and the Rhea creek Grange Surviving are two sons Archie and Adrain of Hardman; three brothers, Samuel B. Bechdolt, Camden, Ind.; J. C. Bechdolt, Francesville lnd.; and Burl M. Bechdolt, of Union City, Ind.; and several nieces and nephews. Four other brothers preceded him in death. Interment was in the Hardman cemetery with Creswlck Mortu ary in charge of arrangements. f o thin LINCOLN NASH, right, Noble Grand of the Heppner Odd Fel lows lodge, is handing state grand master Roy Turney of Pendleton a check for $100 as a donation for an overhead sprinkling system for the I. O. O. F. home in Portland. The presentation was made July 10 When Turney made his offi al visitation to the Heppner lodge. (Photo by R. G. McMurtry) Civic League Asks Kindergarten Mothers To Attend Meeting The Heppner Civic League will meet Monday evening July 22 at 8 o'clock at All Saints Episcopal parish house. All mothers of prospective kind ergarten students are asked to at tend, as kindergarten registration will be discussed. Also there will be a discussion on the possible installation of a new rest room in the kindergart en room. Mrs Douglas Ogletree of Brook ings, former teacher in the Hepp ner school was visiting here re cently on her way to La Grande to attend the summer session at Eastern Oregon college. . rrrv i Largest Grain Crop In History Foreseen; Fire Danger Said Great With harvesting well along in, day and expects that harvesting the north end of the county and will approach its peak starting a number of farmers getting next week when the MCGG ex started this week in other parts, pects to handle close to 150,000 enough grain has been harvested to indicate that this will be one of the best crops harvested In Morrow county, in bushels per acre at least, county agent N. C. Anlerson reports this week. Much land has been diverted from wheat, however, and total income is expected to be down some, especially in the light of rising costs Anderson said. With only a fraction of the tot al harvest completed there have been a number of grain fires. None have been as serious as they might have been but all are direct losses to farmers as well as being threats to life and much property Anderson said, and urg ed special care be taken during harvesting. A suggestion made was that every farmer be expecting a fire and prepare accordingly. Sever al of the fires which have occur red duwng the past week could have been much more serious had the farmer not been prepared for them by having fire-fighting equipment in the field. He said in most cases, fires can be stopped imediately with a wet sack, back pump or hand sprayer IT it is handy at once. Once the fire is started it is sometimes diffi cult to stop it, even with high pressure power sprayers and equipment. The county agent urged that an inexpensive five-gallon hand sprayer pump be kept on the combine or truck, stating that such a piece of equipment could well be all that was needed to prevent several thousand dollars worth of fire damage. Cutting, Shipping Heavy Al Lamb, Morrow County Grain Growers manager, said Wednes day that all stations of the co-op were now receiving about 70,000 bushels of wheat and barley per Grain Fires Are Numerous in Area Strong winds during the end of last week and the early part of this week coupled with in creasing harvest activity has re sulted in several grange and range fires in the county. Last Thursay about 100 acres of barley was destroyed on the Lucianl and Ashbeck ranch at Pine City. Saturday a fire burn ed over about 200 acres of rye and 1300 acres of grassland on low er Butter creek on land thought to lie in Umatilla county. There have been several other small fires in the county, but none has caused serious damage. Light rainfall last week slow ed up harvesting operations in some areas for a short time. o LICENSE EXAMINER TO BE HERE JULY 30 A drivers license examiner will be on duty In Heppner Tuesday, July 30 at the court house be tween 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. GROUP ASKS FOR UFO INFORMATION GIVES EXPLANATION OF OBJECTS The sighting last week by two Forest Service men of an unidentl-1 f led flying object over the Blue mountains, and subsequent stories in this newspaper and others throughout the northwest, has brought several requests to the Gazettte Times for further In formation on the object. One of the requests came from the Aerial Phenomena Research Group, 5108 Findlay street, Se attle, Wn., who asked that any further sightings be reported to that organization for study. Al so from that group came the fol lowing news release concerning their studies on UFO. The con clusions reached by the group may, of course, be subject to argument by others, but this pa per feels the Aerial Phenomena Research Group's statement would be of interest to many local persons. "There is now suficient inform ation based on data compiled from eyewitness accounts that a high percentage of aerial phen omena such as those popularly described as unidentified flying objects are "Intelligently con trolled craft whose ports of orig in are outside earth's atmosphere" bushels daily. Lamb said that undoubtedly this year's crop will be the big gest in the history of the county with present indications that barley is running one and one quarter tons to the acre and wheat averaging 35 bushels. Union Pacific Wednesday start ed daily train service on the Heppner line to handle the in creasing shipments of grain from this area. The Grain Growers are currently shipping about 25 cars a day in addition to what other elevators along the line are mov ing. The MCGG is also moving out nearly 50,000 bushels a week by barge through the Hogue Warner dock at Paterson Ferry. o Morrow Bond Sales Continue to Climb; Contrary to State Sales of United States treasury series E and H savings bonds dropped in most counties of Ore gon in June when compared to a year ago, but Morrow county refused to go along with the trend, according to figures just received by county chairman Jack Bedford. A total of $15,157 of these securities were bought by people of this county last month compared to $14679 in June of 1956. Only five other counties In Ore gon showed increases in June. "Although savings bonds sales in Oregon were down 18.6 com pared to June of last year, and sales for the first half of the year in Oregon were off 14.4, the decrease in sales in Oregon is less percentage-wise than In the nation. In view of present econ omic problems, we think this showing is creditable," said Bed ford. The county record also points up the stable economy of Us section of the state. So far this year Morrow resid ents have bought $159,923 worth of bonds up to July 1, compared with $123,158 for the same period last year. o Pendleton Again Takes Jr. Legion The Heppner Junior Legion ball team kept its record Intact last Sunday by losing Its fourth straight game to Pendleton 18 0. The same Penddleton team took the locals in a precoius game 26 to 2. Sunday's game would have been a no-hitter for the Pendle ton hurlors Ford and Bagnall ex cept for one lone fort off the latt er by the Heppner catcher Neal Penland. Tom Green pitched two innings for Heppner and was re lieved by Berl Akers In the third. Next Sunday the Heppner squad will travel to Baker in an effort to gather up their fllrst win of the season. This is the conclusion reached as the result of a study begun by Aerial Phenomena Research Group In Seattle, Washington on January 1, 1954 Into the field of unidentified flying objects and related phenomena. Comenting on this study, na tional dlrectorr of Aerial Pheno mena Research Group, Robert J. Gribble said: "Although the ac counts considered in this study did not contain scientific meas urements of each sighting, It was possible to establish certain valid conclusions by the applicia tlon of statistical methods in the treatment of the data. Analyzed and arranged, the data did show a marked pattern. "On the basis of this marked pattern of the data, it is consid ered to be highly probable that many of the more than 3,000 ac counts of unidentified flying ob jects examined in this study rep resent observations of technolog ical developments outside the range of present-day sclentiflcl knowledge. "Therefore, It is highly prov able that many of the unidenti fied flying objects considered In this study are "spacecraft from other planets'."