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LflKAKT U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE 74th Year, Number 21 Cbpies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, August 1, 1957 HIT A FIRES CONTINUE County-Wide Polio Vaccination Drive ; Opens Thursday An all out drive for the 100 percent polio vaccination of the residents of Morrow county through 40 years of age wil be gin this Thursday, Aug. 1, and run to February, 195?, it was an nounced at a meeting of the Mor row County Chapter of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Pearalysis last Wednesday night at the Pioneer Memorial hospit al. With the cooperation of the county chapters, county physi cians will give the Salk polio vaccine for a charge of $1.00 per shot during that period. The vac cine is being provided by the county NFIP chapter through March of Dimes funds. Everyone is urged to have his first injection as soon as possible because of the approaching seas on of high polio incidence, chap ter officers said. Two injections are given two to six weeks apart and a third, or booster dose, Is given seven months after the sec ond injection. It is strongly recommended that all children, young adults, parents of young children and all expectant' mothers be vaccinated. Vaccination of persons over the age of 40 is desirable but less important since paralytic type polio seldom occurs In the older age group Anyone, regardless of age, may contract polio but It is most common in children and young adults. The percentage of crippling or deaths is usually higher in adults. Public health and medical ex perts believe that polio epidem ics will 'no longer occur in Ore gon if SO percent of the popula tion receive the recommended series of three shots. No vaccine is completely effective but na tional statistics already indicate that at least eight of every ten persons receive protection ag ainst paralytic polio through Salk vaccination. It is strongly recommended that polio injec tions be continued through the polio season, it was pointed out. Attending the meeting were Floyd Sayers, chapter chairman; Gordon Pratt, vice chairman; Gerald O'Malley, treasurer; Ray Myrick, secretary; Mrs. Gordon ' White, lone, women activities chairman; Mrs. Jack Loyd, coun ty campaign treasurer; Mrs. Joe Hughes and Mrs. Velma Glass, County Pioneer Dies in Portland Funeral services were held July 23 in Portland for Mrs. Mary Garfield, an old time resident of Morrow county, who died July 20. Mrs. Garfield was the former Mrs. Thomas J. Davidson and for many years lived in the Dry Fork region of south Morrow county. Services were held in Porttland July 23. Surviving are daughters Gert rude L. Winniford, Bessie F. Lindseth, Violet McCaffery, and a son, L. E. Davidson. She also leaves two sisters, one brother, 16 grandchildren and 35 greatgrandchildren. NEW HEPPNER BRANCH of the Bonk of Eastern Orsgon is shown in this architect's drawing oi the new building. Construction is expected to start within about a month on the Main street site. The area to the right of the building will be a customer parking lot. The architect is Thomas G. Vadnals and the engineer. Vernon B. Tenneson. - 1 ' ' , x ' . ' ? - y H ?, V53r :V' S , - ' v if ' ' SiVS'SV PRINCESS LORENA CODER Boardman Princess Dance Next Saturday The second princess dance of the Morrow county fair and rodeo thiv Satvry nigh 'will honor Princess Lorena Coder, 16, blue eyed blond chosen by the Tillic um club of Boardman. Dancing will be from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. with music by Joe Banana and his Bunch of Pasco. A trim five foot two, Princess Lorena is the daughter of Mr. Hot Weather Brings Heavy Water Use Somewhat cooler nights during the past week has slowed up wat er use in Heppner city superin tendent Vic Goshens reported to day, but the city is still pump ing 376,000 gallons of water ev ery 24 hours from its two wells. Last Week Goshens said he was having trouble keeping up with the demand, but the slight ly lower temperatures in recent days has slowed down irrigation so that no curtailing of the use of water is expected. The two miles of new steel water main recently installed by the city in its line to the upper wells is now in use and has ma terially increased the amount of water which can be pumped to the reservoirs in town. o Mrs,, Kenneth Utter and three children are spending some time at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray McDowell. Mr. Ut ter comes up from Portland for weekends. and Mrs. Robert Coder, Board man. A riding enthusiast and ranch girl, she works in the Boardman potato "fields, helps with haying and housework. She graduated this spring from the Boardman high school. At school Princess Lorena was secretary-treasurer of her fresh man and senior classes, vice president of her sophomore class, a member of the Pep club and girls' athletic association. She is a leader of a 4-H riding club and has won prizes for rid ing and crocheting at the north Morrow county fair. Riding and cooking are her favorite hobbies o Local Crew Fighting Washington Fire A three-man crew from the Heppner district of the Umatilla National Forest was sent to Pomeroy, Washington Wednesday morning to aid in fighting a ma jor forest fire in the Blue Mount ains. The Heppner office of the for est service reported that the fire had covered 45 acres Tuesday, but was located in a very inac cessable area. Six smoke jumpers were dropped in the area Tues day, Going from here were Melvin Olson, Buddy Taylor and Morg an Medlock. o Mrs Clinton McQuarrie was in Pendleton Tuesday to get her daughter, Susan, who has been working there. County Farmers Get $581,914 in. Soil Bank Payments Payments to Morrow county I farmers under the Soil Bank's j 1957 acreage reserve programs will total $581,914.10 when all payments are completed within a few days, Paul Tews, office manager for the County Agri culture Stabilization and Cons ervation committee said this week. Participation in the program In Morrow county is the best acre wise in Oregon, Tews said, with 108 active contracts being signed. Payments under the "same pro gram in Umatilla county am ounted to only $156,310. The payments were made for reductions in acreage below tho farm allotment for wheat. Farm ers who took part in the acre age reserve program are certifi cates which may be redeemed for cash, or the certificates may be redeemed for CCC owned-grain if they have been earned for reducing grain acreage. The cert ificates may be redeemed for wheat at 100 percent of face value after Sept. 15, Tews said. Owners of certificates who plan to redeem them for CCC wheat must make application for it through the local ASC office. The value of the wheat is set at the terminal loan rate, he said. Tews reminded growers that certificates earned for reducing the acreage of a basic crop may be exchanged for the same crop or other non-basic grain in CCC inventory, but not for the other two basic crops. A wheat certifi cate could be exchanegd for wheat, barley, rye, oats or grain sorghums, but not for corn or rice. ' o Swimming Class Attendance Up Enrollment in the second series of swimming class at the Hepp ner pool has surpassed the first series with a total of 55 begin ners registered in three separate classes and 24 intermediate pu pils in one class, Larry Dowen swimming instructor, has report' ed. Of 50 pupils in the beginners classes during the first period of lessons a total of 12 passed their tests. From the first class of 20 intermediate swimmers, a total of 15 passed the intermediate tests, Dowen said. Renn Harris assisted with instructions up to this week. Attendance at the pool dur ing the afternoons runs about 85 to 90, it was reported. The pool is open from 1 to 4 and from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Swimming classes are held from 9 a.m. to noon Mondays through Fridays, o Two Staff Vacancies In Heppner Schools; MaintenanceWork On James Kilgallen, hired as as sistant football coach and to teach an eighth grade home room, resigned the position last Friday, according to Joe H. Stew art. Kilgallen was from the Col lege of Idaho, Caldwell. The resignation leaves two va cancies on the teaching staff, the second for a girls' pnysical edu cation instructor, Stewart said. School will open Sept. 3 and teachers will begin on Aug. 29. The summer maintenance pro gram by scshool custodians now underway includes reroofing the high school building, revarnish ing rooms, installing a canteen in a section of the band storage room and in the gym and laying asphalt tile on two high school classrooms. A stove and ice box are being installed in the can teen room. Mrs. Marie Clary, librarian, has been cataloging new books for libraries in both schools. DIES OF HEART ATTACK Jim Davis, of Lexington, died.ing a lot of resources and activ about noon today (Thursday) j from a heart attack. He was past 70 years of age and was the j uncle of Mrs. L. E. Ruhl. i Funeral arrangements have not! been completed as yet. I " o - ( THE REV. JACKSON GILLIAM Former Heppner Man To Be Guest Speaker At Episcopal Church Guest preacher at the 9:30 service Sunday, August 4 at All Saints' Episcopal church will be the Rev. Jackson E, Gilliam, rect or of the Church of thte Incarna tion at Great Falls, Montana. .Rev. Gilliam will be speaking at his home church for the first time in several years. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Gilli am of Heppner. Rev. Gilliam is a graduate of Whitman college and the Virg inia Theological Seminary. He was priest in charge of St. John's church in Hermiston from 1949 to 1953, then St. Mark's Cath edral in Minneapolis, Minn He is now at Great Falls, Montana. Following the service there will be a coffeq, hour in the par ish house o 60 State Boys Studying Range And Forest Use Sixty boys set up camp at Tup per ranger station Monday after noon to begin a weeks' study of range and forest use, plant id entification and other outdoor activities to open the Oregon an nual youth range camp spons ored by the Pacific northwest sec tion of the American Society of Range Management. Jack Ross, Oregon State col lege extension service, .is in charge of the program and Bill Currier, forest service, Portland is camp boss or range foreman Youth committee chairman for the camp is John Clouston, U. S. F. S., Portland. Representing 16 counties in eastern and southwestern Ore gon, the boys, ages 14-18, were selected on the basis of leader ship, citizenship and love of out doors. They were divided into six groups with each to select a wrangler as leader for each divl sion. A top hand will be elected to represent the entire group. The boys are quartered in tents and eat in the forest service mess hall. Opening the Monday evening program, Herb Hynd, Cecil, gave a review of catttle and sheep op erations and a brief history of the Hynd Bros, company. A well balanced livestock operation in cludes hay production, pasture, grazing and forest reserve, he said. Charles Rector, forest supervis or of the Umatilla national for est with headquarters at Pendle ton, illustrated a talk on forest use and management with col ored slides taken in the forest. "If we don't double our timber growth by the year 2000 the sup ply will not keep up with the de mand," Rector said. "One-fourth of the timber cut today is wast ed". The aim of the forest service is to manage our forests for the greatest number in the long run, Rector said. A total of 149 na tona, forests covering from one tQ one.and.one.haif minion acres are located in the United States, I Alaska and Puerto Rico compris ies- Rector stressed the need for killing porcupines which do hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage each year, The (Continued on Page 8) Lexington Youth Hurt In One of Five Blazes During Past Tho nast seven days has been . the worst fire period experienced n Morrow county in many years with five separate tarm Diazes destroying one ranch home and upwards of 2500 acres of wheat. barley and grass land, une Lex ington youth suffered serious burns while trying to control one of the fires. Monday and Tuesday brought three major blazes in widely sep arated sections of the county and caused damage of many thous ands of dollars Shortlv before noon Monday stubble caught fire from a truck exhaust on the Otto Ruhl farm southeast of lone and before be- intr brought under control de stroyed about 50 acres of stand ing wheat, 200 acres oi siuouie, a pickup truck, trap wagon and tank of diesel luei. wnue nam ing this fire, Dick Ruhl, 16 son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ruhl of Lexington, was seriously burned about the head and upper pan of his body. Ruhl was attempt ing to move a pickup from the path of the fire wnen a gasonne drum near the truck exploded spraying him with flaming gas. He was brought to Pioneer Me morial hospital where he was treated for second degree burns on a larce part of his upper body, The fire started about a mue from ranch buildings and was stopped just before it reached them. Many persons aided fighting the fire as did the lone fire department and a spray plane operated by Gar Leyva. House Destroyed Shortly after 5 p.m. Monday a big seven-loom ranch house at the junction of Sanford Canyon and Rhea creek burned to the ground and flames claimed sev eral acres of adjacent grassland on the Floyd Jones ranch. The fire apparently started in the upper part of the two-story home owned by Mrs. Charlotte Scherzinger of Heppner and oc cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Vader and their 19 months old daughter. A passerby noticed the fire and told Mrs. Vader who es caped with her daughter. The house burned to the ground and destroyed with it were practically all of the Vader's belongings and their car. Vader had been em ployed at the Harold Peck ranch. There was some insurance on the house but none on the furnish ings, it was reported. Neighbors and townspeople from Heppner aided in stopping the blaze as did Gar Leyva with his spray plane. 2000 Acres Burn Tuesday The laregst fire of the year started about 1:30 Tuesday after noon on the Cliff Dougherty ranch in the Sand Hollow area and burned over about 50 acres of wheat and In the vicinity of 2000 acres of range land all on the adjoining Healy ranch op erated by Tom and Bill Healy. . According to reports this fire started from a combine belong ing to Dougherty and the strong winds soon spread the fire over hundreds of acres Several miles of fence was destroyed on the Healy ranch, but no buildinsg were burned. It was nearly four hours before the fire was trailed through the efforts of neighbors who were attracted by the huge clouds of smoke. There was no estimate of the loss, but it was known to be ex tensive, lone Has Calls Last Thursday the lone fire department answered two calls to areas outside of town. Early in the afternoon a run was made to a field about one mile bow Morgan where a small grass fire was controlled with only minor damage. In the evening of the same day the department answered a call to the Bill McClintock farm south of lone where about 180 acres of wheat was lost. In addition several acres of barley stubble on the adjoining Clarence War ren farm was burned. Season Loss Climbing The past week's fires bring to seven the number of major blazes In this area within the past month and though no estimate of loss is available, damage un- Week doubtedly will run around $100 000. Last week eight farm build ings burned on the William H. Padborg ranch near Lexington and the week before $25,000 worth of baled hay went up in flames on the Harold Wright ranch at at Ruggs. In most cases the field and range fires were caused from trucks running in the extremely tall and heavy stubble. o COUNTY AGENT URGES EXTRA FIRE PRECAUTIONS By N. C. Anderson MORROW COUNTY AGENT A couple of weeks ago this column commented on the numb er of farm fires which were oc- curing and outlined a few sug gestions for preventing so many and some simple equipment to have around in order to control accidental harvest fires quickly. A number of farmers commented on these reminders but with the number of fires which have oc cured with as many as two in one day I have been asked to outline further reminders for fire prevention and control. A number of farmers who have spent time fighting these fires have com mented on the lack of organiza tion and the absence of fire fight ing equipment on the farms where the fires occur and being brought by those who come to fight the fire. It appears that anyone who has come to fight fires has not brought "along ev en a shovel. , ; Everyone knows that fires and accidents occur even with the best of plans and precautions. Far be it from any of us to criti cize the occurrence of a fire or accident at some one's farm or home for tomorrow might be our day. A few reminders are in ord er, however, in hopes that pre cautions might be taken to pre vent loss and suffering. Making farm visits during the past couple of weeks while harv est operations were well under way I have been surprised to see the number of farms where there have been no or very little prepa ration for fire prevention. On many occasions livestock or weed sprayers were setting back in the corner and were not being brought in to protect the invest ment that a farmer had worked hard for all year. The lack of wet sacks or spray or back pump cans around the buildings or in the field was evident. Earlier we suggested a 3 or 5 gallon back pump filled with waler on every combine and ac cessible to trucks in the harvest field. A shovel on each piece of equipment is a must. Many farm ers have reported putting out small fires which could have been extremely destructive had not a shovel been handy at the start of the fire. We have noticed where a few farmers have cut out old 2,4-D barrels filling them full of .water and have soaked old sacks in them. A number of these are setting at vital spots around the buildings, at the trap wagon in the field where they will be handy in case of a fire. Others have taken their pressure sprayers to the field filled with water ready to go hooked to a wheel tractor or a pickup so that no time will be lost In getting, them on the job. An increasing number of farm ers this year we have noted, have after cutting right-of-ways disced or bladed a fire guard around their fields. A few have burned heavy growths of cheat grass al ong roadsides early before the grain has matured enough to cause a fire hazard. Others have burned cheat grass and other weeds around the farmspread, and used a blade to throw up a fire guard around the farm build ings. A number of farmers dur ing the past few years have gone further than this in making permanent guards by seeding crested wheat grass or other gras ses that stay green during most of the year around the farmstead. These are especially helpTul Continued on Page 8