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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, October 10 1957
Burton Pecks Take
9000 Mile Trip
To Former Home
(The following is the first of
several crticles written by Burton
Feck of Lexington about a recent
trip he and other members of his
family took to his former home
in the mid-west In their travels
they covered 9000 miles in Just
over 30 days.
By Burton Peck
A very pleasant trip was com
pleted Sept. 10 when Burton Peck
and wife Myra Peck of Lexington,
together with their son James and
wife started a trip to Mr. Peck's
home town, Sunbury, Ohio, which
he left with his parents in May,
1893, a lad of 13 years.
The trip taken bv stationwae
on, started Aug. 8 in Lexington,
with the first stops being Glacier
National Park, where the beauties
of this park were greatly enjoyed
and when in mid-August one
might revel in snow-banks al
ong the highway; then to Yel
lowstone with its "Old Faithful"
and many steaming attractions
not to forget the bears and other
animals. Eastward through the
Black Hills, Rusmore's sculptured
presidents, and the vast rolling
prairies of the Indian reserva
tions, a thing we noticed was be
ing modernized and improved
with drift-fencing, better types of
forage and grasses, many ponds
and some Irrigation ditches.
Through the miles to Sioux City,
ues Moines, Peoria, Line, aud fi
nally to Akron the "Good-Year
stronghold.
We stopped with our cousins
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Parrish, who
have a delightful home in Ak
ron. Mr. Parrish is high author
ity in the Goodyear police de
partment, having worked in and
around rubber for over 30 years.
We were privileged to go through
truck-tire manufacturing from
Party Given For
Mrs. Clive Huston
Friends of Mrs. Clive Huston
called at her home Monday aft
ernoon and surprised her on her
birthday.
Those present were Mrs. Roy
Neill, Mrs. Ray Drake, Mrs. Floyd
Adams, Mrs. Ealor Huston, Mrs.
Ililma Anderson, Mrs. Millie Wil
son, Mrs. Earl Gilliam, Mrs. Ben
Anderson.
Mrs. Ealor Huston baked the
cake which was a feature of the
refreshments.
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sub-basement to sixth floor, a leaves are broader and longer and
sequence of processes quite dit- more abUndant on the stalk. First
ferent from what one might im- . , . u u
6 ; they cut the top off about should-
agine. .
c , . , ' or high, then break off any buds
On Sunday, Aug 18, a gather -1 ., t t
ing of the Wormell Clan (myiUiat put out at the leaf s,em"
mother's sister's people) at Mari-: Tnat is to keep the tips from ab
on Ohio, park was held at which! sorbing sop from the leaves. A
time we were introduced to some hand goes through each three
52 relatives, only four of whom Ijrows and placos a double point.
had ever met. ed stake in the ground about
From here James and wife put i each 15 feet. A metal cone with
back toward Indiana and Ne-1 a sharp spear attached is placed
braska, where they had relatives fin trm nf th stako thon ho n,nB
and army acquaintances, and,off the tobacco stalk near the
Mrs. Peck and I returned to Ak-'Pronnd nri imnni Em,o,ai
foil Willi relatives.
Jne forepart or the new week
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wt a,,u..L .-..euu-cinj;. wiie cveii.;tney remain there a day or two
,..s v,u. .vuo, ua
a spin on the N.Y.-Chicago turn -
pike 35 miles for 35c and wound
up with a fish feed at Cayhoge
Falls, a famous resort.
Cousin Irene Parrish drove us
down to Cousin Wright Wor
mell's at Berkshire and from
there we visited Sunbury where!
I was born. The house my fath-:
er built and moved into when
I was four had A its nao WntJ
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ter than the peonle. but two f0
ft. greenhouses had disappeared. '
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persons of the Krammar school
class I left in 1893. The three- j
brick square town hall on the
public square seemed the least
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changed of ai . Most of the frame
hnildmrrc hurt V i - rnnl U..
fe-3 "y The next afternoon we proceed
large structures. At Delaware. ,i .j ,i,h.-
Ohio, I found mv birth orooerlv
recorded and I took up my birth
coruricate. j
We spent two nights with a
cousin, Pearl Stalder. a widow.
She raises corn. milo. sovbea"ns.
wheat, oats, and hay on her 100
acre farm and had twice the ma
chinery we use on our wheat
ranches. We drove through the
black lands near Kenton, stop
ping for lunch at Indian Lake a
popular resort.
Onions are a paying produQt
in these parts. The land is laced
with deep drainage canals to
render the soil tillable. We vis
ited several lamilies at Marlon,
Ohio, then 'crossed Indiana, Il
linois, and Missouri, to Liberty,
a suburb of Kansas Citv, Mo.
These states seem to have the
cream of the corn and soybean!
crop. One evening our cousin
Ross Jenkins decided to show us!
the city, the river and railroad
yards from the promenade at the.
Veterans Memorial tower.. We
were returning to the car when '
the wife missed her footing, and
fell, fracturing the right radious'
an inch below the wrist. Within
the hour we had it X-rayed and
.'.plintod and with an ice pack 1
and the next day the fracture was
reduced with a cast. Fortunately
it gave her no serious pain. Dur
ing a conversation Ross intro
duced us to a state trooper who
offered to take us to a tobacco
plantation. We drove up the Mis
souri river about 20 miles into the
hilly country. Here we found the
trooper's brothers and his helpers
harvesting the tobacco crop. The
tobacco plants are placed in rowsj
about 5 ft. apart and resemble
some flower stalks, although the
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ANY QUANTITY
I tfllk nn nanh ctnUn MmfUn
harhnH m ct.u Pt.i,
vviiv nvni o lci im; iu Dicmc,
until vvilted then are ricked on
;trucks and taken t th drvi
shed. These sheds are huge struc
tures wilh multijoists spanning
from rafter to rafter and .braced
vertically. Afew stakes are raised
high by rope and pulley and se
cured to the joist sufficiently ap
art so that air can circulate.
Here they stay until they are dry.
Later in the season the leaves be-
.nu.oraitu ai WHICH lime
u tt,na ... i i
ienfy party torn from th st
fibre, the lower richer leaves
piaced in one basket. The middle
leaves are in another and the top
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-in JU uitry aic aucuuiieu oil
to Kentucky and other buyers.
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Clarence Peck.
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11 b uiw AbUlN on grizzly
bears for THE KETTLES ON
OLD MacDONALD'S . FARM,
Star Theater, Sunday and Mon
day. A rural riot.
we
Rainfall Heavy
In Boardman Area
By Mary Lee Marlow
Boardman received one of the
hardest rainfalls last week that
residents had ever remembered
in a 24-hour period. A total of 1.8
inches fell Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning, which is a
lot of moisture for this area. Two-
tenths of an inch fell Sunday
I nicrht mab-incr iha uroab-'c t,,ol
I tun in,. cmmi rt,i
, 'tivuto. iJLvtim Luumy luuua
were washed out and culverts
undermined on the project. The
west end school bus got stuck
about a milo south of town, and
had to be pulled out.
The teachers reception was well
attended last Thursday evenine
at the school cafeteria. Ivan Kress
president of the student body,
was master of ceremonies. He in
troduced Sigvald Aase, superin
tendent, who introduced the
teachers. New teachers this year
are Richard Waymire. sevenfh
and eighth grades, -and Harold
Gauger, high school.
The rest of the program includ
ed a solo. "I Believe", bv Stevp
Partlow; humorous reading. Pat-
ti Partlow; piano solo, Rosemary
Deulan; vocal trio, "Columbus".
Alan Moore, Mike Partlow. and
Johnnie Pierce; accordion solo.
"Blue Skirt Waltz" and "In the
Mood", by Barbara Gantenbein;
trombone solo, Martin Shattuck,
accompanied on the piano by his
mother, Mrs. Lowell Shattuck.
Hostesses for the reception were
Mrs. Harold Kress, Mrs. Willard
! Baker, Mrs. Henry Gantenbein.
Mrs. Roy Partlow and Mrs. Arn-
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"Even with six
live electrically for only 40 a day!"
. . . says Mrs. Paul
"Modem electric oppliances make our living much more pleas
ant. I'll admit I'd be lost without electricity to help with the
household jobs. And the daily cost of operating all our appli-
. ances is only 40."
The cost is low; the value is high. That's why Mrs. Fortier, who
lives in Yakima, Washington, and thousands of other home
makers throughout Pacific Powerland are using more and more
electricity all the time. Count up the jobs electricity docs in
your home and you'll agree: PP&L electric service is today's
biggest bargain.
You live so much better when you make full use
of hard-working PP&L electricity. See your elec
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about modern, work-saving electric appliances.
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in Hug.
Mr., atid Mrs. Nathan Thorpe
and daughters Sandra and Teresa,
went to Upper Lake, Calif., last
Thursday, called there by the
death of Thorpe's father, Harry
Thorpe, 77, wh0 died Oct. 2, aft
er a short illness. He was n rpsi.
dent here from 1934-37 and agaih
trom 1944 till 1946. Hp was horn
March 15, 1880 in St. Paul Minn.,
and came 1o Oregon when five'
years old with his family, where
he spent most of his life. He mov
ed to California about three years
ago. Other surviving relatives in
clude his wife, Emily; one daugh
ter, Mrs. Myra Miller of Anchor
age, Alaska; five sons, Isaac of
Empire, Leonard and Lester of
Portland. Clifford of Lakpnnrt I
Calif., and Nathan of Boardman.
Also a stepson, Aldis Emerson,
of ban Francisco, Calif., two step
daughters, Bernadine of Upper
Lake, nd Margaret of North
Bend; 21 grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren. Funeral ser
vices were held Sunday in Up
per Lake, with the five sons and
stepson as pallbearers.
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Monument News
By Martha Matteson
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sweek of
Ridgefield, Wn, formerly of Mon
ument, announce the wedding of
their youngest daughter, Carol
E. Sweek, to Jerry Leon Myers,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hooker
of Junction City, Ore.
The ceremony was performed
at the church of the Latter Day
Saints in Weiser," Idaho on Sept.
28 with Bishop Moser Kenneth
officiating. A reception was held
at their apartment after the cer-
childron in the fa
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The bride is a graduate of
Junction City high school, a for
mer student of Monument high
school. The groorn Is a graduate
of Triangle Lakp high school and
attended Portland University be
fore transferring to Oregon Col
lege of Education at Monmouth.
The couple will be at home to
their friends and relatives at Apt.
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The eight members of the Fortier family
make generous use of all these electric
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Dishwasher
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How many of these appliances
do you use in your home?
4, 437 East Liberty street, Weiser,
Idaho. .
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sweek, who
used to run the pastime here, but
inow of Ridgefield, Wash., spent
the weekend here visiting the Roy
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were on their home from Weiser,
Idaho where they had attended
the wedding of their daughter,
Carol.
Better to be safe
than to be sorry!
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