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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. -Jpepper Copies 1 Oc Heppner, Oregon, Thursday; October 10, 1957 74th Year, Number 31 , County Schools Reorganization Meeting Slated All county school board mem bers will hold their first meeting in connection with the reorganiz ation of school districts Friday, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m., county school superintendent Jack C. Flug has announced. The meeting will be held at the court house. An explanation of the 1957 re organization act passed by the state legislature as it concerns the consolidation of school dist ricts will be given. In addition a county committee of nine mem bers and five alternates will Be elected to outline a reorganiza tion plan for Morrow county. Flug said each county in tfie state has been allowed suffici ent funds for traveling expenses 'tit the board members, county committee members and clerical costs until the purpose of the re organization act has been fulfil led. 'Grandma' Rieth To Be 101 Saturday Morrow county's oldest resid ent, "Grandma" Ellen Reith of lone, will be 101 years old Sat urday, October 12 and she will be honored with a quiet open house party. Also planned is a special Mass at St. William's Catholic church at 8 a.m. Satur day by Rev. Patrick J. Gaire. Mrs. Rieth last year was given the biggest party of her life on the event of her 100th birthday, but her daughter, Mrs. Paul O'Mtara, with whom she makes her home, said this year a quiet open house is planned so that friends may drop In during the day and visit with her. "Grandma" Rieth is still in re markably excellent health and is able to get around the house easily and attend church services at St. William's which Is only about a block irom her home. Her deafness bothers her some but her eyesight Is still very good for a person of her age. Mrs. Rieth was born October 12, 1856 at Neosho, Missouri. She came to Washington in 1860 and has made her' home in either Washington or Oregon ever since. She has outlived all of her fam ily except her daughter Mrs. O' Meara and one son, F. J. Rieth, Harrington, Wash. o Boardman Woman Is Still Missing Still missing Thursday morning was a 56 year old Boardman wo man, Mrs. Clara Lovette, who dis appeared shortly after noon Tues day from her home near the Y east of Boardman. A two day search has revealed no trace of her. Her husband, Jesse Lovette, saw her at noon Tuesday but when he came back home later In the afternoon she was gone and a note was found saying she had gone for a long walkand that if she wasn't back by 5:30 for him to go ahead and eat. She took no coat or purse with her. Well over 100 persons searched Tuesday night and Wednesday but were unable to find any track of the woman who is 5 feet 6 In ches tall, fveighs about 135 lbs. has dark hair and blue eyes. Bloodhounds owned by Myrom Watts were used in the search and they immediately took up a trail for the Columbia river, which is less than a mile from her home, but searchers could find no tracks. State police aided in the search and it was reported Thursday that the Coast Guard was searching the river today. Mrs. Lovette was said to have been in poor health. o DOLLAR POLIO SHOTS TO EXPIRE Polio shots at $1 each for pers ons up to the age of 40 years in a program sponsored by the Mor row county chapter of ,he na tional foundation of Infantile paralysis in cooperation with the county doctors, will expire Oct. 12, citizens have been reminded by chapter officers. The vaccine for the program was furnished by county March of Dimes funds, o Mr. and Mrs. Keith In? us re turned Tuesday evening from a few days spent In Portland. ' Ij fTj AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY Portland, department vice president; Edith Ingels, Salem, de partment president; and, seated, Nota Francis, department sec retary. They will cttend the Legion and Legion Auxiliary Freewater. Immunization Clinic Due October 18 The regular monthly immun ization clinic will be held in the offices of the Morrow County Health Department on Friday, Oct. 18 between 1:00 and 2:00 p. m. In addition to the usual small pox, typhoid and DPT combina tion vaccines, the Salk polio vac cine will be miven to all persons up to 40 years of age. Tax money and , March of Dimes contributions pay for this service there is no additional charge made. o Pendleton Man New Bank Manager L. C. Buchner, vice president and cashier of the Bank of East em Oregon, announced today that Eugene Pierce, better known as Gene Pierce, will become the manager of the Heppner branch of the" bank early next week. The new manager is a native Oregonian having been born and receiving his early schooling at Culver. He later moved to Herm iston, then to Pendleton where he has resided for the past 25 years. Mr. Pierce was with the Pendle ton branch of the First National Bank of Portland for 15 and one half years and was assistant cashier in charge of its loan de partment when he left to enter a retail trade business with his brother-in-law. For the past two years he has been in the farm machinery business serving a wide area of Eastern Oregon where he has made many av quaintences with farmers in this area and is familiar with their problems. Pierce spent 42 months overseas in World War II and was honor ably discharged with the rank of major. While In Australia he married Fay Baker of Tulso, Ok lahoma, and' they have four children, two boys and two girls. The Pierces are active in church and civic affairs in Pendleton. He is an elder of the Presbyterian church, a director of the Umatilla county fair association and of Happy Canyon; is a member and past president of the Kiwanis club, -and of FFA and 4-H club junior livestock sales organiza tion, to name a few of his activ ities. The directors of the Bank of Eastern Oregon stated that they feel fortunate to have Pierce join their organization and feel Hepp ner will gain an outstanding cit izen. . Film to Be Feature Of Lutheran-Meeting The public Is invited to the stcond in a series of 10 Tuesday evening discussions on "What the Bible Says" to be held at 7 p.m. at Hope Lutheran church. The meeting will feature a colored film "Hidden Treasures" taken by the Moody Institute of Science, shows the microscopic treasures of the world which are invisible to the human eye. The film and a discussion of "What the Bible says about the origin of man" will be previewed at 7 p.m. at the Carl Troedson home. MISS CLOWRY RETURNS HERE Miss Mildred Clowry, who operat ed the Heppner Hospital for sev eral years with Dr. A. D. McMur do, arrived last weekend from Gresham and started work Mon day as office nurse in Dr. Mc Murdo's office. officers, left to right. Muriel Acton. district meeting of the American to be held October 12 at Milton Services Saturday For H. 0. Ely H. O. Ely, 80, a resident of lone for the past 71 years died Wed nesday at Pioneer Memorial hos pital where he had been confined for three and one-half months. He had been ill for a year. Hiram Otto Ely was born Jan uary 10, 1877 in Marshalltown Iowa and moved to lone at tin.' age of nine. He was married to Minnie Palmateer June 18, 1902, and she passed away Jan uary z, 1954. He nad been a rancher in the lone community for most of his life. Mr. Ely was a member of the I.O.O.F. lodge at Morgan and re ceived his 50 year pin two years ago; the Bunchgrass Rebekah lodge of lone and the lone Wil lows grange. Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the lone Commun ity church with the Rev. Alfred Shirley officiating. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Wallace (Edith) Matthews, and Mrs. Berl (Margaret) Akers, both of lone; two sons, Frank- in, lone, and Elvin of Boardman; 12 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. He also leaves three brothers, Charles, Coos Bay; George, Salem and Fred of lone; one sister, Mamie Bathews of Custer, Wash. F. H. A. Girls Attend District Meeting Twenty-one Future Homemak- ers of America. of the Heppner chapter attended the district meeting at La Grande senior high school Saturday, Oct. 5, announces Joann Brosnan, F.H.A. president. Phyllis Quackenbush and Judy Collins of the Heppner chapter presented the devotional to more than 250 girls who attended the meeting. Dr. Frank Bennett, president of Eastern Oregon college spoke to the girls on the importance of homemaking. Supandi Redjou, exchange stu dent from Indonesia, spoke to the girls on "Life in Indonesia." Wanda Derrick La Grande se nior high school student who was an exchange student to Germ any told the group of her ex periences in Germany last year. Girls attending the meeting were Sandra Campbell, Julie Pfeiffer, Rose Nash, Shirley Nash, Sara Burnside, Judy Schmidt, Beverly Blake, Mary Shannon, Norma Ferguson, Shirlee Gaines, Bern ice Thomson, Marlene Grif fin, Jeanne Schmidt, Connie An derson, Mary Johnston, Judy Col lins, Joann Brosnan, Phyllis Quackenbush, Janice Martin, Carole Anderson, Joanne Collins and Sheryl Crist. The girls were accompanied by their chapter mother Mrs. Jerry Brosnan and Mrs. Jessie Griffin, Mrs. A. M. Fergeson and Mr. El mer Schmidt. The 1958 district meeting will be in Hermiston. EVAMINER COMING A drivers license examiner will be orr duty in Heppner at the court house Tuesday, Oct. 22, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. o Dr. and Mrs. Doug Macauley of Prosser, Wash, visited Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Norene, Mrs. Lucy Rodgers and Mrs. Sara McNamer, both former res ident of Heppner, who now make their home at Willamette Manor in Milwaukie, Ore., were visiting in this area over the weekend. City to Gain Revenue From New Franchise The Heppner city council Mon day night adopted an ordinance granting the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company a 20 year franchise to operate within the city. The ordinance is similar to a previous franchise given the company except that it calls for an annual fee of two percent of the gross revenue the company receives from its operations here. In past years the city has re ceived no revenue from either the telephone company or Pa cific Power and light, and sever al months ago a similar provision was set up in connection with the PP&L franchise. In other business the council heard a report of complaints of property owners on the west side of town that during recent heavy rains -storm drains had been un able to carry the water. City su perintendent Vic Groshens re ported that the trouble was on streets which were not curbed, and that it was impossible to pro vide proper drainage when catch basins continually filled with mud and debris from the streets. It was explained that no such trouble was encountered on stre ets that were curbed and fully paved, but that residents in the trouble areas had previously re jected a move to install curbs and pavement. Councilman Resigns Mayor W. C. Collins read a let ter of resignation from council man Erling Storro who resigned due to moving outside the city limits making him Ineligible to serve. The vacancy will be filled later by appointment. The council ordered a survey to be made of an alley at the ex treme south end of Court street to establish its boundary lines. Two property owners on the alley have questioned its exact loca tion. An order was issued for the re moval of the first parking meter on the north side of Willow street marking of the area for no park ing. The removal was ordered to facilitate the movement of traf fic at the corner. A complaint was received that horses were being ridden on the Lover's Lane footbridge across Willow creek and were creating a hazard to pedestrians. The counc- 1 ordered the posting of "No Horses Allowed" signs on both that bridge and the footbridge leading to the high school. Building permits were issued to Midstate Construction Co., Bank of Eastern Oregon building, $37,1)00; Bank of Eastern Oregon, sidewalk repair, $750. The bank building will be 36 by 70 feet, one story high and of brick con struction. Cattle Price Drop Expected to be Small OREGON STATE COLLEGE- Fed cattle prices in Oregon, are not expected to drop as sharply during the heavy October-November marketing season as they did a year ago, report Oregon State college agricultural economists. Cattle slaughter is now rising seasonally but prices may decline only $2 to $3 a hundredweight compared to a drop of $4 to $5 last fall when the 1956 drought rorced fall slaughter to a record high, the economists say. A general downtrend in cattle slaughter is expected to con tinue in 1958, pointing to favor able prices for fed cattle In the year ahead. Cattle feeders areal so favored with prospects of large hay supplies and cheap grain feeds, but feeder's margins may be squeezed by the higher prices paid for feeder animals. Meanwhile hog production is responding to generally good pri ces with national increases ex pected in both this fall and next spring's pig crops. This dims hog. prices for next fall, the econtf mists report in the current issue of the OSC "Oregon Farm and Market Outlook" circular. Cop ies of the circular are available from county extension offices. Good range conditions during the" past summer brought mixed blessings to lamb producrs. A larger than usual percentage of western lambs are ready for slaughter this fall. This is hold ing prices down for fat lambs. At the same time, the supply of feeder lambs is smaller and pric es are higher than last fall. Mr. and Mrs. W. C Rogewall left Wednesday for San Francisco for the dealer showing of the 1958 Mercury cars. SURVEY MADE FOR NEW ONE-WAY STREET SERVING PIONEER HOSPITAL City of Heppner employed en gineers were in town Tuesday placing location and elevatic'n stakes for the proposed new one way street which will 'provide easier traffic control around Pi oneer Memorial hospital. The street has been requested by the hospital board to relieve the congestion of cars leaving the hospital and eliminate the two very sharp turns which must now be made in getting out of the public parking area in front of the building. The city agreed to provide necessary engineering if Profit Shown By Fair and Rodeo For This Season A profit of $1,003.84 on the Mor row county fair and rodeo to date this year was reported at a meeting of the Morrow county fair board Friday night at the county agent's office. A break down of the amount showed rodeo profits at $433.50 and fair cash increase at $570.34. A beginning fund balance for fair and rodeo receipts from rac ing funds, cash on hand and oth er sources was $12,471.96 begin ning July 1, 1957, the report showed. Rodeo receipts of $0,255.78 in cluded $4,184.75 from admissions; $881.60 from dances; $250 from the hamburger stand concession and the remainder from carnival receipts, program sales and oth er sources. Expenses totalling $5,822.29 included $1,623.02 for rodeo prizes; $2,175 for stock con tract; $612.77 for advertising and lesser amounts for judging, wag es, court expenses, announcing, supplies, ajid utilities. Fair board receipts of $6,143.03 to date includes $1,828.03 from racing funds; $1,000 field rent; $75 pavilion rent and $40 for booth rent. Expenses of $5,572.69 include $2,540.15 for fair premi ums; $625.57 for salaries and wa ges ; $425, advertising; $306.50, premium books; ' $491.87, judges and the remainder for court ex penses, utilities, supplies and other items. In other business transactions the board authorized roofing re pairs on the pavilion, discussed the need for increased insurance on buildings and facilities, con sidered a request for roller skat ing for teen agers, at the pavilion presented by the Rev. Lester Boulden and decided that no charge will be made for use of the fair pavilion and other fa cilities when they are definitely connected with fair and rodeo activities. Rex Lcngdon cf Hermiston flew to Heppner Saturday afternoon and took his sister, Mrs. Harold Gentry and Mrs. Hank Stotts and Lora Lee to Hermiston. On Sun day he flew Mrs. Gentry to her home in Bend. She had been here to attend the funeral of Mack Gentry. ;JL is :' wf&NV Afl-r X J, All! ii ' iii Yi re? j- , t 0 BULCOR WHEAT SELLING NOW IN KOREA. Inspecting condition of Bulgor (Ala) in an open air grain mart in Korea is Dick Baum, executive vice president of the Oregon Wheat Grower League. the hospital and county would do the actual construction. The street will be approximate ly five blocks in length and run from the end of the present short roadway in front of the hospital to join with Cannon street to the south where traffic can come back into either Gilmore or South Court street. It runs behind the houses on the east side of Gil- more street and is planned, for one-way iramc leaving tne nos pital. Engineers were setting stakes to give residents along the street an idea of what was planned and easements are now being sought for the project. Very little cutting or filling will be required for the street which will have a 20 foot roadway, me engineers survey showed. It is hoped to get the ease ments signed shortly so that rough construction work can be done this fall or winter. It is planned to eventually surface the entire five blocks as money be comes available Homemakers Slate Public Dinner I lie Heppner chapter of the Future Homemakers of America is planning to serve a turkey din ner at the Heppner school cafe teria on Sunday, October 20, 1 to 6 p.m., announces Joann Brosnan, president of the chapter. F.H.A. girls and their parents are planning and preparing the dinner and the purpose is to raise funds for their chapter. This is their first community dinner project. Tickets are available from F.H.A. members or phone 6-9217 Monday through Friday from 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Morn ing and evenings call the ticket sales chairman Joann Brosnan, 6-5327 or Jean Collins, 6-9947. Sales close Wednesday noon, Oc tober 16. The dinner Is under the super vision of the chapter mothers, Mis. Jerry Brosnan, Mrs. Roy Quackenbush and advisor Mrs. Homer llager. o Hermison JV's Dump Heppner Tuesday By Jim Morris Heppner's J. V's dropped their second game to Hermlston's Jun ior Varsity Tuesday afternoon by a 25'to 6 count at the Heppner field. The Mustangs showed good possibilities in the first half as they held the Hermiston crew to 6 points while getting none them selves. In the 2nd panel the Hermist on eleven went wild as they ac counted for 3 more TD's and held the Mustangs to 6, this run being scored by Tom Drlscoll on a 30 yard sprint. On defense, Mahoney, Bros nan and Green turned in fine performances, while Prock, DriS- coll and Penland stole the show. o Dr. A D. McMurdo wob in Portland the last of the week to attend a meeting of the Oregon Mate Medical association Conference Start Slated For County Planning Agricultural problems to be considered for Morrow county for the next 10-year period will be outlined at the first meeting of the fourth county agricultural planning conference Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 8 p,m. at the court house, N. C. Anderson, county ag ent in charge of the meeting has announced. The group will review accomp lishment over the past 10-year period, actions and recommenda tions made at the 1947 confer ence and outline some of the ex isting problems to be considered. This Is the fourth conference started In the , county 30 years ago. Jean Scheel, assistant direct or of extension, Oregon State col lege, will meet with the group. Chairmen for the conservation and land use committee and the overall crops commitee will be selected. Among county agricultural lea ders to attend the initial meeting will be John Graves, representing the Morrow County Livestock Growers association; . Vernon Munkers, Morrow County Wheat Growers association; Mrs. E. M. Baker, lone, South Morrow 4-H council; Roy Partlow, Boardman, North Morrow 4-H council; Mrs. Milton Beigel, Irrlgon, county home extension committee chair man; Oscar Peterson, lone. Grange agricultural committee; Harold Beach,, president of the Farm Bureau: Kenneth Smouse, lonet representing wheat produc tion and Garnet Barratt, county judge. o Heppner Continues Win String With 24-0 Moro Victory By Jim Morris The Heppner Mustangs turned on the power Friday night when they displayed a superb ground attack as they'thrashe'd the Moro Huskies 240. The Mustangs got the game underway by taking the klckoff and immediately marching 80 yards In 11 plays with Jim Morris crashing over from one yard out. After kicking to the Cougcrs the Horsemen held a stone-wall de fense and took the ball again. This time they drove 74 yards to score, with Steve Flug plough- -ing over from 8 yn.rds out. Once again before the half the Heppner eleven drew blood as Duane Alderman capped a 49 yard Jaunt with a 27 yard pass to Dick Ruhl in the end zone. After the half, the Mustangs contlitued to dominate the game by spurting 64 yards in 10 plays. Tom Drlscoll ended the scoring with a 2 yard plunge over center. On defense the Mustangs prov ed invulnerable as they again and again stopped the Huskies cold. Burke Gentry and Ed Gro shens, Mustang guards, turned in commendable performances. On stastics the Mustangs com piled a fantastic total of 24 first downs and 425 yards. The Hus kies netted 4 first downs and 100 yards. Heppner will play its third home game In a row Friday night when they meet a strong Uma tilla team at 8 p. m. at the rodeo field. WEATHER The Heppner weather station reports: Thurs. 56 39 .17 Fri. 50 38 .05 Sat. 57 35 .01 Sun. 54 33 .02 Mon. 52 40 .20 Tues. 53 39 . Wed. 55 43 . Rainfall for the week .45; for October 2.65; for the year 14.13 inches. FORESTER ASSIGNED HERE Richard G. Dearsley has been appointed to a junior forester's position on the Heppner district of the Umatilla national forest, It has been announced. Dearsley, a graduate of Michi gan State college of forestry de partment, will work with scaling and timber management activi ties. His home Is in Milwaukee, Wise. Visiting at the home of Dr. L. D. Tibbies is his mother, Mrs. William Tibbies of Los Angeioa.
