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Heppner, Oregon, July 18, 1957
74th Year. Number 19
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'."