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I I 8RARY U OF 0 EUGEN, feette Cm mm ORE Copies 10c Flu Bug Heppner-PR No Epid The incidence of flu continued to hold top news spots in various parts of Oregon and the nation, hut to date it has not reached epidemic proportions in Morrow county. One result of the illness in this vicinity was the announcement Wednesday morning that the Heppner-Pilot Rock high schodl football game scheduled for next Saturday afternoon at Pilot Rock had been cancelled. The Pilot Rock coach reported that flu had downed all but one backfield mn on both his A and B teams and he would be unable to field a squad by Saturday. Heppner school superintendent Joe Stewart said that the cancel led game will not be resched uled unless it is necessary to TV Members Due For lax Rebate All Heppner TV cable subscrib ers will be eligible for a refund of federal tax paid for their serv ice since its beginning over two years ago, Carl F. Spaulding Jr., TV secretary announced this week. Special cards have been mail ed to all subscribers during the past few days requesting them to authorize the co-op to apply to the government for the tax refund. Spaulding emphasized that the cards must be signed and returned if the subscriber is to get his refund. The tax has been collected and paid to the government, but a recent court decision ruled the government was collecting it il legally and application will be made for the refund. The tax has amounted to 28 . cents per month for residential hookups. o Acreage Increases Planned for 1958 By Wheat Farmers Oregon wheat farmers are in creasing their 1958 acreage de spite prospects of lower wheat prices, says M. D. Thomas, Ore gon State college agricultural ec onomist. Thousands of Columbia Basin acres planted to barley last year are going back into wheat fol lowing changes in the 1958 Soil Bank program, the economist re ports. Farmers can no longer in crease barley plantings equal to their reduced wheat plantings under the "bank's" acreage re serve program. The result has been a sharp drop in "Soil Bank participation by Oregon's Columbia Basin wheat farmers. Arnold Bodtker, Portland, chairman of the state agricultural stabilization and conservation committee reports only 22,000 wheatland acres signed into the acreage reserve for 1958 compared to 112,000 ocres for 1957. Wheat acres may also be In creased by a new aspect of the government allotment program. Farmers may now grow up to 30 acres of wheat providing all this wheat is used on the farm where produced. None of it may be sold or traded. Deadline for sign ing such an agreement was Oct ober 15. As in the past, farmers with allotments of less than 15 acres may harvest up to 15 acres and sell the wheat without penalty. Meanwhile, the national aver age support price for wheat can go as low as $1.78 a bushel com pared to $2 for the last two crops, according to the U. S department of agriculture Possibilities of Pacific North west wheat selling above sup port prices have dimmed with prospects of decreased exports in 1958 Indications are that PuB lie Law 480 which permits ac ceptance of foreign currencies for wheat will be discontinued next June, Thomas says i o FARM BUREAU TO MEET The regular Farm Bureau meet ing will be held at the lone Le gion hall Tuesday evening Oct. 22 beginning with a potluck din ner at 6:30 p.m. A state repre sentative will be there to present an award for reaching quota. Cancels Game; H emic ere decide league standings. The unrolled game had been chang ed to Saturday from Friday be cause it was to be broadcast. Stewart said that the Heppner high school had been affected only slightly by flu and that Wednesday there were 11 stu dents absent, presumably wifh the disease. This is the greatest number of absentees on any one day Jot several weeks, he said. Throe teachers have had it at different times recently. lone superintendent Dallas tihoeHey said that within the last two weeks about one-fourth of the students there were ab sent at one time, but that colds were responsible for more absenc es than was the flu. At the pres ent time only very few students are out. It has not affected the grade school attendance at alt, ne said. Numerous cases of flu have been reported among adults dur ing recent days, but it is not known whether the disease is of the Asian variety or some other. Whatever its nationality, the re suits are about the same with persons reporting about three to five days of illness. Schools have been closed In several areas in the state and it was reported Tuesday that the Fossil school was closed due to the disease. Atom Film Feature Of Lutheran Series The public is invited to the third in a series of discussions on "What the Bible Says" whicTi will be hold next Tuesday even ing at 7 p.m. in Hope Lutheran churca. Part of the evening will include a color film featuring the United States Air Force films of the original atomic explosion at Yuc ca Flat which told the world ab out (lie Manhattan project. Be ginning with this first atomic blast at Alamos, the film presents a survey of nuclear fission as demonstrated in the atomic bomb. All the suspense and danger of atomic warfare is captured in the explosion which ended a war over Nagasaki, Japan. These of ficial films taken from a photo- giaphic plane equipped with telescopic lenses to avoid radio active eontammination, have been released to the public after study by government scientists. The final atomic explosion at Bikini Atoll which lifted thous ands of tons of water hi;h into the sky demonstrates tne tre mendous power in naure which have now been opened to man through the theories of Albert Einstein. The same film and discussion of chapter three, "What the Bible S?.ys About Sin", will be held at the Leonard Carlson home at 7 p m. on Wednesday, October 13. o Tax Statements Outf Money Coming In Morrow county taxpayers re ceived considerably larger tax statements early this week and by Wednesday one of the largest taxpayers had paid up. The Morrow County Grain Growers Wednesday presented the tax department with a check foi $16,025. Savings Bond Sales Take Big Drop Savings bonds sales dropped substantially in the state of Ore gon in September, according to word received here by county chairman Jack Bedford. Sales were $1,873,628 this year com pared with $2,552,997 in Septem oer, 1956. Morrow county sales for the month showed a big drop from $29 097 last year to $7,367 this September. However sales for the ear in Morrow county are ahead of last year $188,784 to $170,623. o RUGGLES ARE GRANDPARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fastabend of Richland, Washington are the parents of an 8 lb 6 oz boy born October 16. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs, C. A. Ruggles of Heppner and Mr. and Mrs. John Fastabend of Ast oria. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ruggles of Heppner are the great-grandparents. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October GRANDFATHER STEELHEAD This whopper which weighed 23'4 pounds and measured 4! inches long was caught Sunday in the Columbia river a short dist tee below Boardman in Morrow county by Ctrl F. Fergstrom of lone. He also banked a 14 pound er earlier. There have been many reports of iine steelhead and salmon fishing in the Boardman area, but Brgstrom's fish is the largest reported this year. (GT Photo) Reorganization Meeting Friday County school superintendent Jack C. Flug was speaker at the Monday noon chamber of com merce meeting and explained the new school districts reorganiza tion law to the group. Flug told how the law might affect this area and said that the first step will be the convention of all county school board mem bers to be held Friday evening at 8 o'clock at the court house, The board members will nomin ate a committee of nine mem bers and five alternates who will study the school needs of the county and submit a report later fur consideration by a regional group and the state board of education. Flug emphasized that the Frl clay night meeting is open to the public and urged anyone interested to attend, but explain' ed that only the members of the school boards can nominate or vote foi committee members, o &- Homecoming Set At lone High & The lone high school student body announced this week that it is making plans to sponsor a homecoming to be held on Fri day, Oct, 25 at which time the lone Cardinals will host the Ir rigon Comets. This is the first time that lone high school has held a homecoming, but it is hoped that it will be the big af fair of the year and one that will be carried on. On Wednesday, Oct. 23 the homecoming queen and two prin cesses will be selected from the senior girls by a vote of the stu dent body, The queen and her court will be announced at a special pep assembly Friday morning, Oct. 25 at 11:40. The crowning of the queen will be the main attraction during the halftime activities at the game Featured also will be a twirling act and other special entertain ment, The football game will start at 2:30 and it promises to be one of the best of the season, A potluck dinner will be held at 6 p.m. which will be open to the public. Ice cream, punch and coffee will be fcrnished. A dance will follow at 9 p.m. with the high school band furnishing the music. Those in charge hope that many alumni of lone high will attend the activities and all are invited to attend morning classes as well as the other events of the clay. ' o INJURED IN WRECK Herval Pettyjohn, an Arling ton car salesman and a former resident of Heppner, was hospit alized Tuesday morning from In juries suffered when his car left the road about a mile east of Jordan. No details were avail able. o Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tamblyn left Wednesday for Philadelphia where they expect to visit about three weeks with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, Joe Frank. Harry L. Wilson of Hopewell. New Jersey, arrived last Wed nesday to visit at the homes of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wilson and daughter and son-in-iw, Mr. and Mrs. Avery Taylor. I I lme.Y V-""V - Body of Missing Boardman Woman Found in Columbia The body of Mrs, Clara Lovette, 56 year old Boardman woman who disappeared from her home over a week ago, was found Tues day afternoon in the Columbia river near the mouth of the Des chutes river, it was reported Wednesday. positive laentmcation was made by her husband Jesse Lo vette later that day, Searchers had been coneentrat ing on exploring the river but had been working closer to Boardman than where the body was discovered. Mrs. Lovette is survived by her husband Jesse: two daughters, Bernice Lovette and Mrs. Larry Clark, both of Portland; one sqn James of Colton, Calif.; three sisters in Canada and one broth er who lives in Washington. Services will be Friday at 10 a.m. in Hermiston. o Mrs. Edith Hayes Dies October 14, Services Wednesday Final rites were held Wednes day at 2 p.m. at the Heppner Christian church for Mrs. Edith Susie Hayes, 58, who dier Octo ber 14 at Pioneer Memorial hos pital. The Rev. Charles Knox of ficiated. Mrs. Hayes was born Septem ber 30, 1899 in Portland and had made her home In Morrow county for about 35 years, She was a member of Ruth chapter No, 32, OES. She is survived by her hus band William Anderson Hayes; her father, Charlie Davis, Port land; two sisters, May Sechrist and Jane Davis, both Portland; one brother Stanley Davis, also of Portland and several nieces and nephews. Burial was in the Heppner Ma t;onic cemetery with Creswlck Mortuary in charge of arrange ments. Navy Reinlistments Get Old Ratings "Former Navy men, discharged since October 1955, can now re enlist In the Navy with the rat ing held at discharge if their rating is within one of the many groups recently opened by the Chief of Naval Personnel," Lieut enant Comander C. Helm, officer in charge of Navy recruiting an nounced today in Portland. Those ratings opened are in the fields of aviation, engineer ing and hull, deck, electronics and administration, and in some cases, include the top grades ol the enlisted structure, Ex-sailors who have recently been discharged and desire to investigate these opportunities are urged to contact their local Navy recruiters. "The Navy has also opened many service schools for the pur pose of changing rates for those recently discharged," Commander Helm stated and asks that Int erested and qualified men call or write for more details. WEATHER The Heppner weather station reports; Hi Low Pr. Thurs. 61 39 . Friday 63 42 . Sat. 64 42 . Sun. 66 53 .09 Mon. 65 44 .07 Tues. 57 32 . Wed. 56 36 . Rainfall for the week .16; for October 2.81; for the year, 14.29 Inches, 17, 1957 BIRDS AND DOES DUE TO DODGE BUCKSHOT AND BULLETS SATURDAY Creek bottoms and grain fields will resound with the booms of .nai.y shoiguns next Saturday morning when hunters take to the fields in search of pheasants. A change in the game laws this year opens the season at 8 a.m. Saturday, but game offle ais have emphasized that on subsequent days the opening time is governed by the times given hi the game laws pamphlet and each day is different. Also opening Saturday is the eithersex deer season which is expected to attract a big number of hunters. It runs for three days only, ending Monday night. Hallowe'en UNICEF Drive Again Planned in County Many Heppner and lone young sters, and probably those in other county comunitles, will again trick or treat for small change instead of favors as part of the UNICEF Hallowe'en program, UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund and this will Be the sixth year that it has been carried on in this country. Heppner youngsters are asked to meet at either the Lutheran. Christian or Episcopal churches at 6:45 p.m.. Hallowe'en, Thurs day, Oct. 31 where they will pick up banks, material and an adult to accompany the group. The drive here is being sponsored by the Methodist, Christian, Episco pal, Lutheran and Assembly of uoa cnurcnes, After the trick or treat drive all youngsters are to go to the multi-purpose room of the grade school where the P-TA will serve refreshments, provide a cartoon film for entertainment and aw ard. prizes for the best costumes. At lone the UNICEF trick or treat drive will be sponsored by tne lone Parent-Teachers. The .UNICEF drive slogan is, "I he Trick is to Treat all the world's children," and last year the youngsters of the country, while doing their traditional Hallowe'en doorbell ringing col lected more than three-quarters of a million dollars which brought medical aid, milk and vitamins t0 37,000,000 children In almost 100 countries of the world. Each year the amount collected has grown the 1956 collection was almost a quarter-million greater than the previous year. o Death Takes Former Hardman Woman Frances Hams Staysa, 72, Tilla mook, passed away October 1 In Portland where she had been visiting. She was born September 1.1, 1&?5 at Hardman, the daughter oi Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hams. She lived in Hardman until the afe of 25, vv.ien she went to Portland where .he rparried Bob Staysa on April 27, 1911. He preceded icr in. death on December 18, 1953. Suivi ors are two sisters, Mrs Myrtle Wade and Mrs. Minnie Paul, Portland; three brothers, Hoy Hams, Portland; James Hams, Hardman and Charles Hams, Hillsboro. There was private commitment at the Rivervlew Abbey with vault entombment. School Hot Lunch Clinic Slated Here The Heppner high school will be the site of a district meeting of school food handlers to be held Monday. Those In charge of school hot lunch programs from all county schools as well as those in Gilliam county will be present. Mrs. Laura Wells, head of the state hot lunch program will hold the clinic on better meth ods of handling foods, serving, mpnus and related subjects. o CLINIC SET FRIDAY The monthly immunization clinic will be held tomorrow (Fri day) from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Mor row county health department offices in Pioneer Memorial hos pital. o NO SCHOOL MONDAY School bejls will ring only for teachers next Monday as classes will be closed to allow all county teachers to attend the Institute to be held in Baker. The pheasant hunting in this area is expected to be the best in years as more birds have been reported in the county than at any time in recent year. o EUGENE PIERCE, formerly of Pendleton, who last week was named manager of the Hepp ner branch of the Bank of Eastern Oregon. He will move his family here as soon as housing can be found. (GT Photo) College Preparation P-TA Talk Subject; Study Groups Set The Heppner Parent-Teacher Association met Wednesday, Oct ober 9 in the multi-purpose room of the Heppner grade school. Dr Lyle Johnson, dean of students and acting registrar at Eastern Oregon College was guest speak er. He spoke on preparing for Col lege, Scholastically, Socially and Financially; first discussing the things necessary to successful college work and then giving specific recommendations for col lege preparation during high school. He stressed the fact that a determined student can nearly always manage to go to college with the aid of scholarships and part time work. An informal pan el discussion followed. Those taking part wei'p: Mrs. Tom WH"- son, Mrs. William Labhart, Mr. Gordon Pratt and Mr. John Hob son, dean of men at Oregon Tech nological Institute. Mr. and Mrs. William Barratt were in charge of the program. P-TA president Mrs. Kemp Dick then conducted an eventful bus iness meeting. A report was giv en on the Midland district coun cil workshop held Oct. 2 in Con don and attended by Mrs. Kerrfp. Dick, Mrs. Marion Huggett, Mrs. Leon Ball, Mrs. Paul Warren and Mrs. Victor Kreimeyer. The P-TA budget was discussed and pas sed. A list of study groups was presented by Mrs. William Rawl- ns and Mrs. Victor Kreimeyer, o-chaimen. It was decided that the P-TA would sponsor the child ren's collection for UNICEF at Hallowe'en and that room moth ers would, provide refreshments for a treat and movie cartoon aft- r the collection. The four study groups which will be sponsored by the P-TA nclude typing, to be given by Mrs. Roy Kirk; reorganization of school districts with Jack Flug as leader; juvenile problems un der the direction of Mr. and Mrs. William Labhart: and great re ligions of the world by Rev. Mer lin Zler. It is planned to hold the first two study groups before Christ mas and the others in January and February. Persons wishing to sign up for the groups may con tact Mrs. William Rawlins 6t Mrs. Vic Kreimeyer. Refreshments of pumpkin pie and coffee were served by Junior mothers, Mrs. Clinton McQuarrie, Mrs. Mike Saling, Mrs. Archie Alderman and senior mothers, Mrs. Al Fetsch, Mrs. George Cur rin, Mrs, Carl Spaulding. o ATTEND CONVENTION Miss Leta Humphreys, presid ent, Mrs. E. E. Gonty, delegate, Mrs. Elaine S. George, regional committee member on education, and Mrs. George Gertson of Hepp ner and Mrs. Lucy Rodgers of Portland were members of Sor optimist International of Hepp ner attending the district No. 2 meeting at Vancouver, Washing ton, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Humphreys served on the resolu tions committee. Mrs. George presented the program on edu cation. Mrs. Gonty was accomp anied by Mr. Gonty and Douglas, o CIVIC LEAGUE TO MEET The Heppner Civic League will meet Monday evening, October 21 at All Saints' Episcopal par ish house at 8 p.m. J, - T--'""V 1 v H Vv ""''' " ril 74th Year, Number 32 BIDS ASKED FOR HEPPNER SPRAY ROAD JOB The Bureau of Public Roads through supervisor of the Port land office, B. M. French, an nounced Tuesday that bids are being called for the grading and surfacing of 4.2 miles of the Heppner-Spray highway. The announcement was made Tuesday that bids will be re ceived until 10 a.m. October 30 at the BPR office in Portland. The contract will call for the relocation and paving of the northernmost section of the pres ently unpaved section of the highway south from the end of the pavement at the junction of Rock and Chapin creeks near Hardman. Earlier this year, $250,- 000 was appropriated hv the Bureau for the start of the im provement of the road over the mountains to the John Dav river and engineering work was done in January and February. According to reports much of the 12 miles of the highway in Morrow county between Rock creek and the Wheeler county line is to be completely delocated to provide a better grade. The overall program calls for the completion of the relocation and the paving of the entire road In subsequent years. Much effort has been expended during the past five years by individuals and organizations both in Morrow and Grant coirn-, ties to get the highway placed on an improvement schedule. The present call for bids is the first step toward completion of the project. o 150 Deer Hides Glen Ward, chairman of the Heppner Elks hide collection pro gram, reports that to date ap proximately 150 deer hides have been turned in to the lodge. These hides will be taken to Albany for shipment to tanners in Cali fornia and then returned to Ore gon and distributed to hospital ized veterans for physical ther apy work. The first shipment of hides will leave here Oct. 23. Ward urges everyone who has any hides, or knows of any deer. elk or cattle hides, to bring them to the receiving stations at Farley Motor Company and Jack's Chev ron Station in Heppner: Gene's 'hevron in Lexington and Bar- nett's Chevron at lone. If they cannot be brought in, a call to either Ward or Bill Labhart will result in a pickup. o Nazarene Church Schedules Revival Special daily revival services will be conducted at the lone Church of the Nazarene at 7:30 each evening from Oct 2 through Oct. 27, the Rev. Charles A. Wilk es, pastor, announced this week. The evangelist will be the Rev. Glenn A. Chaffee of Panorama City, Calif., a preacher and youth leader of unusual ability. Services will be held in the lone Grange hall. HOSPITAL NEWS NEW ARRIVALS To Mr. and Mrs. Rosco Leman Rush, Kinzua, a 7 lb 12Vi oz. boy born Oct. 11, named Thomas Wayne. To Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Eugene Garrett, Condon, a 6 lb 13 oz. girl born Oct. 11, named Barbara Lee. To Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eugene Davis, a 6 lb 10V4 oz. girl born Oct. 15, named Alice Louise. To Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hyatt, Kinzua, a 6 lb 15 oz. boy born Oct. 15, nam ed Samuel Duane. To Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lawrence, Hepp ner, a 7 lb 13 oz. boy born Oct. 17. MEDICAL John Darcy, Cecil; Jean Rugg, Hardman, dismissed: John Spieos, Condon, dismissed; Gerald Davis, Condon, dismissed; Keith Morgan, Condon, dismissed; Rita Ovlatt, Heppner, dismissed; Gene R. Hughy, Bonneville; Ed ith Hayes, Heppner (deceased): James L. Shrum, Fossil; Nora Greenfield, Fossil; Hervel Petty john, Arlington, dismissed; Alice Best, Kinzua. MINOR SURGERY John R. Hart man, Heppner; Janet Clare Dur tow, Fossil; Olive Cox, Monu ment. Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Wagoner and family spent the weekend in Portland. P
