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alette ttSRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE Copies 10c Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 21, 1957 74th Year, Number 37 IfT.A. A -A. A . Farm-City Week Banquet to Hear Extension Speaker J. Ralph Beck, assistant direc tor of Oregon State college ex tension service, will be the guest speaker at the second annual Farm-City Week banquet next Monday evening at the Legion hall in Heppner. The affair is sponsored Jointly by the Hepp-ner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce, the Heppner Soil Con servation district and the Mor row County Farm Bureau. Awards will be presented dur ing the banquet to Burton Peck & Son, Lexington, county conser vation farmers of the year, and to Dick Wilkinson and George Rugg, county grassmen of the year. The conservation winners are honored by the soil district and the grassmen by the Farm Bureau. Other presentations are scheduled and the past directors of the Heppner Soil Conserva tion district will be special guests. The banquet will start at 6:30 and it is open to the public. Tick ets are now on sale at the First National Bank or the county ag ent's office, or they may be pur chased at the door. The annual Farm-City Week observance is backed by the chamber of commerce and many farmer organizations as a means of creating a better understand ing of the point problems facing both groups, as well as further ing farm-city relations. Erma D. Wickersham Killed, Husband Hurt In Friday Accident Mrs. Erma Duvall Wickersham of Portland was killed instantly Friday night in a car-truck col lision a few miles west of The Dalles. Her husband, Ralph O. Wickersham was seriously injur ed and was taken to a hospital in The Dalles for treatment. The driver of the truck succumbed a few hours later from his injuries. Mr. and Mrs. Wickersham were on their way to Heppner at the time of the accident to visit her mother, Mrs. Harry Duvall. Early this week Mr. Wickersham was transferred to Emanuel hospital in Portland where he was report ed improving but still in serious condition. Mrs. Wickersham was born Dec. 15, 1911 at Stanfield and moved to the North Lexington area in 1916. She was a graduate of Lexington high school in 1929, attended the University of Oregon for two years and graduated from Oregon Col . lege of Education at Monmouth. She taught at Rufus until her marriage to Ralph Wickersham of Portland in 1934. She had been teaching in the Parkrose schools and had been very active in com munity affairs there. She was a member of the Parkrose Com munity church. She is survived by her husband; one son Loren, of Portland; a daughter, Iris, of San Jose, Calif., and her mother, Mrs. Harry Du vall of Heppner. Clyde L Bailey Taken by Death Clyde Leslie Bailey 60, died Nov. 17 at Pioneer Memorial hospital following a brief illness. . Mr. Bailey was born Dec, 6, 1896 at Red Lodge, Montana and came to this vicinity in 1914 where he had made his home since. He was a veteran of World War I. Surviving him are two broth ers, Raymond H. Bailey of Hepp ner and Charles E. Bailey of Mol alla. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Creswick Mortuary chapel with the Rev. Lester Boul den officiating. Military grave side rites were held at Fossil. GT Requests Early Copy for Next Week Gazette Times news corres pondents and advertisers are asked to have copy for next week's p:per in to the office at least one day earlier than usu al because of early publication of the Thanksgiving paper. The Gazette Times will go to press Wednesday instead of Thursday as usual to let (he staff enjoy the holiday. Local delivery will be one day ahead, but in other crreas delivery will be on Friday as usual because the holiday i also observed by the post offices. illlllllllMJ1UHMimiLII Mllj igMMn W Hiil i tiwt m o mm wmmmmw ' ' II ' " ' 1 zJb "i ft, ln , .pqafgffa PENDLETON MEN'S CHORUS, well known singing group, will pe presented in a public con cert Friday evening at hte Heppner school gymnasium. Pictured in the foreground are Dave Hamley, immediate past-president and Mrs. Ann Mehoney, accompanist New president is Bill Ormsby. second from right in first row; and the director is Robert Benson, extreme left in the second row. The concert is being sponsored by the chamber of commerce. ', . . .... Pendleton Chorus To Give Concert The first outside musical or ganization to be presented in con cert in Heppner in some time, will be heard Friday night at 8 p. m. at the Heppner school gymnas ium. The group is the Pendleton Men's Chorus, one of the best known singing groups in this part of the state. The 29-member chorus has re ceived high acclaim in the Pend leton area on its past performan ces and is making Heppner its first concert of the current sea son. The group is directed by Robert Henson and will present a varied program of well known choral selections, popular, class ical and semi-classical songs. The selections are said to have appeal to all age groups. The concert is being sponsored by the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce and is slated as a benefit for that or ganization's rodeo field lighting fund. Tickets are on sale by all chamber members or will be av ailable at the door. Admission will be $1.00 for adults and 50 cents for all children and stud ents. Elsie M. Petersen Claimed by Death; Services to be Friday Elsie Marie Petersen, 77, of lone died at Pioneer Memorial hos pital Tuesday. She had been in poor health for some time, but had been hospitalized only a short time before her death. Mrs. Petersen was born Sept, 7, 1880 in Denmark and had lived in Lexington and lone for the past 35 years. She was a member of the Lutheran church, Holly Re- bekah lodge and Willows grange of lone. She is survived by three sons; Elmer, lone; Harry, Dayville; and August of Yakima, Wash.; one daughter, Mrs. Anna Ball, lone; 16 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. She also leaves two sisters and two brothers in Denmark. Services will be held Friday, Nov. 22 at 2:30 p.m. at the lone Community church with the Rev. Floyd S. Bailey officiating. Inter ment will be in the Lexington IOOF cemetery with the Lexing ton Rebekah lodge conducting graveside services. Creswick Mor tuary is in charge of arrange ments. Fred Tibbits, 56, Dies Here Sunday Fred Tibbits, an employee of the Union Pacific railroad and a res ident of Heppner for the past 14 years, died suddenly at Pioneer Memorial hospital. He was 56 years of age. Mr. Tibbits was born April 15, 1901 at Doon, Iowa. He is survived by two sisters, Sarah Kukendall, Deadwood, S.D. and Harriet Smith who lives in Io. He also leaves one brother, Clyde, of Valley Springs, S. D. Funeral services were held to day (Thursday) at 2 p.m. at Cres wick Mortuary chapel with the Rev. Charles Knox officiating. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery. POST OFFICE AGAIN PUBLIC IN "MAIL Heppner postmaster James H. Driscoll today called for early mailing of Christmas packages and stated, "Early mailing of all Christmas cards and gifts is the biggest single factor in getting all of the mail delivered before Christmas. Post office facilities are adequate, extra help will be available, and everything is gear ed up "to handle a record Christ mas mail in Heppner this year." The postmaster suggested that special care be taken in preparing gift packages for mailing and urged making sure that all ad dresses are legible and complete. Driscoll said that if the public will follow these three simple dules, they will be certain to have all gifts delivered before Christ mas: wrap them securely, add ress thorn correctly and mail them early. Free labels will again be av ailable at the post office for "local" and "out of town" bundles of Christmas cards which will greatly speed handling in the post Crabtree Reelected lone Grange Head Leo Crabtree was reelected master of the lone Willows grange at annual elections held Saturday evening. He has headed the org anization for the past year. Other officers elected include: Hershal Townsend, overseer; Mrs. Hershal Townsend, lecturer; Wate Crawford, steward; Marion Pal mer, assistant steward; Mrs. Wate Crawford, chaiplain; Mrs. James Lindsay, treasurer; Mrs. Lewis Halvorsen, secretary; Mrs. Marion Palmer, lady assistant steward; A. W. McLeod, gatekeeper; Bren da Kay Townsend, Ceres; Mrs. Harold Dobyns, Pomona; Mildred Seehafer, Flora; On the execu tive committee are Mrs. Harvey Ring, Harold Dobyns and Earl Morgan. Elks Make Final Appeal for Deer Hides A final appeal was issued this week by the Heppner Elks lodge for elk, deer and cow hides which will be used by the lodge in a veteran's rehabilitation project. All kinds of hides, either fresh or dry, will be accepted by the lodge and shipped to California for tanning, then returned to Ore gon hospitals for vet's uses. The deadline for the collection is Nov. 24. Hides may be left at either the Elks, Farley Motor Co., or Van Winkle's Chevron station in Hepp ner; Gene's Chevron in Lexing ton, or Barnett's Chevron station in lone. IN SANITARIUM Mrs. Ada Cason, formerly of Heppner, is now convalescing in the Sandy Blvd. sanatarium, 1954 N.E. 45th ave, Portland, operated by Anabel Turner Allison, also a former Heppner resident. Mrs. Ca son suffered a slight stroke re cently and would appreciate hearing from friends in this area. o Mr. and Mrs. Claude Graham were in Portland a few days this week. ASKS HELP OF EARLY" CAMPAIGN office. Christmas cards sent first class receive fastest service and it is urged that return addresses be placed on envelopes. Cards and packages for out-of-town destinations to distant points should be mailed well be fore Dec. 10 to assure delivery, and mail for local delivery at least a week ahead of Chrismas. o Sputniks Subject of Colonel's C of C Talk Col. J. O. Guthrie, commanding officer of Umatilla Ordnace De pot, discussed the Russian sput niks at the Monday noon meeting of the chamber of commerce, and stated that the United States could launch its own satellite now, if desired. Col. Guthrie told of the various missile and satellite programs be ing conducted by the army and other branches of the armed serv ices, and said that a U.S. space satellite could be launched at any time, but questioned wheth er it would be worth it. He said the cost would be extremely great and questioned the Justifi cation of the expense unless ample information was received in return. He said there is no reason for panic and stated that the army has been ordered to launch a satellite in the near future. lone HS Students - Make Honor Roll lone school officials this week released the high school honor roll list for the first school peri od. On the list are: Seniors: Mardine Baker; Anne Belle Coleman; Grace McCabe; Ray Sherer. Juniors: Leann Pad berg. Sophomores: Mary Emert; Phil Emert; Linda Heimbigner; Karen Lundell; Melvin Martin; Grant Rigb y,Jr. Freshmen: Ken neth Lynn Smouse. Karen Lundell received all 4's. On the honorable mention list were Berl Akers, Billy Seehafer, Kenneth Jones, Evelyn Jepsen and Jean Martin. Christian Church Plans Special Sunday : Next Sunday morning is slated ps Harvest Festival Sunday at the Heppner Christian church, it was announced this week. A goal of $1500 has been set and the' money will be used to make need ed repairs to the heating plant, redecorate much of the basement of the building, landscape and paint the exterior of the church building. A special service will be held during the morning worsnlp in observance of Thanksgiving. The church is also conducting its "Adventures in Christian Stewardship" program and men of the church are calling on mem bers explaining the new pro gram and receiving individual and family commitments. Last Wednesday the church held its Loyalty dinner with 80 persons in attendance. Talks on the steward ship program were given by Roy Neil!, Frank S. Parker, C. N. Jones and Paul Jones. The religious film, "All That I Have", was shown. Sunday, Dec. 1 will be ob served as victory Sunday. 69 YEARS AGO . . . Coming of Railroad Cause for Celebration Sixty-nine years ago next Tues day there was cause for great cel ebration in Heppner ... it was the day the railroad was com pleted. A short account of that big ev ent is found in a clipping from sonic unknown newspaper which County Planning Groups Working The first of the committees of the Morrow county Town and Country planning conference staited work this week following the kick-off meeting of the con ference last week at the court house. Meeting Tuesday was the youth activities sub-committee under the chairmanship of Mrs. E. M. Baker of lone. The group develop ed 10 problems that members felt should be discussed at future meetings. The 10 problems listed are: 1; need for more recreational acti vities; 2; A study of participation in youth organizations; 3: Need for more leader training; 4: Need for parents interest; 5: better con trol of liquor and cigarette sales; 6: enforcement of driving age law; 7: more use of school facili ties for youth activities; 8: need for facilities for border-line juve nile delinquents; 9: need for more counseling within the schools; 10: more help for handicapped child ren. The committee grouped the 10 problems into four groups for further study and set the next meeting for Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. at the court house. At that time prob loms of better control of liquor and cigarette sales, enforcement of driving age law, and need for facilities for border-line juvenile delinquents will be discussed. Attending the Tuesday meeting were Mrs. Andy Van Schoiack, Mrs. Randall Martin, Mrs. Robert Brindle, Rev. Lester Bouldcn, Heppner; Mrs. Kenneth Palmer, Lexington; Mrs. Mike Matthews, Rev. Floyd Bailey, Mrs. E. M. Ba ker, lone; Beverly Bradshaw and N. C. Anderson, county agents. All but one committee chair man has now been selected for the overall conference, it was reveal ed and all committees plan to get work under way within two weeks. Many town and country people will be asked to serve on various committees and active support is hoped for. o Six Guard Planes Land at Lexington Six National Guard planes from Portland with 12 persons aboerd landed at the Lexington airport Sunday. The planes were clearly marked with U.S. and Ore gon state signs, but caused a con siderable amount of excitement locally. The planes were on a training flight and stayed in Lex only a short time before continuing their flight. en frvi v. ti :irutl k - . V i RECEIVES AWARD Rev. Lester ner Methodist church, is shown receiving an award and check from S. W. Pettigrew, Pacific cocst director of the Sears-Roebuck ... foundation. The award was made at the recent town-and-country conference at Corvallis. The award was given for improvement in the church building and has been kept by Mrs. Pearl De vine of Heppner and was recent ly brought to the Gazette Times with the thought that it might be of interest on the eve of that an niversary. It reads: "Heppner was sure a happy town on November 26, 1888, so happy that the mayor made a speech. The Willow Creek branch of the O. R. & N. railroad was completed as far as that town, and everybody celebrated. One thousand people took part. Head ed by the band, the mayor, city louncilmen, company E of the Oregon national guard, and 200 school children marched to the depot grounds, whore the mayof Henry Blackman spoke. As the last words of the oration went ringing down the valley, J. L. Morrow and Henry Heppner, Pio neer settlers in that part of the state, drove the last spike, the militiamen fired three volleys, and that night a free grand ball was given." No doubt it was one of the biggest clays in the early history of the town and if copies of the local papers were available, they would give the whole account of the day, probably including the mayor's ringing speech word for word. However, no real early day files of local papers remain, as all were lost in fires since the turn of the century. o Prizes Due Heppner Christmas Shoppers A special Christmas season city wide promotion will be announc ed in next week's Gazette Times. It is being sponsored by the mer chants committee of the cham ber of commerce and will offer many valuable prizes to lucky shoppe.rs. Watch for details next week. o P-TA Program on Education Week The Heppner P-TA met Wed nesday evening November 13 at the multipurpose room of the yrade school. Kenneth Keeling, vice presid ent, presided at the meeting in the absence of the president, Mrs. Kemp Dick, and Clarence John son acted as secretary. Mrs. Harlan McCurdy, ways and means chairman, announced that the P-TA will help with an Elks stag dinner on Dec. 19. Mrs. Vic Kreimeyer reported that the juv enile problems study group is meeting every Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Labhart and Jack Flug announc ed the first meeting of the school reorganization study group for Tuesday, Nov. 19. Following the meeting Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Schmidt presented the program for National Educa tion week, a film entitled, Not By Chance. Joe Stewart, superin tendent of schools, introduced the film and spoke briefly. Refreshments were served lat er at the cafeteria by the fresh men and sophomore mothers. , i " f V f ii -j t , ' oulden, left, pastor of the Hepp community service program. MC6G Members At Annual Meeting Directors of the Morrow County Grain Growers reelected all four regular officers at the annual meeting of the cooperative held Monday at the fair pavilion. Named as president for an other term was A. C. Lindsay. He will be assisted by John Graves, vice president; Paul Jones secretary, and Al Lamb, treasurer. The membership also reelected three regular d I rectors to serve for another term. They are L. L. How- ton, Vernon Munkers and A. C. Lindsay. The seven associate di rectors elected wore C. K. reck, Al Bunch, Lloyd Rice, Walter Jac obs, Kenneth Kamerer, Elmer Palmer and Barton Clark. Between 175 and 200 persons at tended the mooting that was highlighted by the afternoon talk by Congressman Al Ullman who spoke on agricultural and local resources problems. He stated that he testified at a recent Army En gineer's hearing in Portland on the need for conserving natural resources of the area, including water storage. Ho said he also fa vors the construction of upstream dams on streams other than the Columbia or its main tributaries. He said regional politics was affecting agriculture legislation in congress and that the soil bank program has not proven satis factory. He asked for an expres sion of personal ideas on the pro gram, lie emphasized the need for a parity wheat program and stated that he felt such a pro gram was gaining acceptance in the house of representatives. He also expressed fear In the with drawing of foreign support for northwest wheat, as has been done, and said that there was a chance of permanently losing the orient as a soft white wheat mar ket. He praised the Oregon Wheat Commission for the selling job It has been doing. Ullman also said there was need for long range irrigation de velopment and said that he felt tight money and high interest rates can load to economic trou bles. Touching on the international scene, he said the United States is two years behind in missile development, but stressed that it won't take two years to catch up with the proper program. The other speaker of the after noon was A. M. Camp, president of the North Pacific Grain Grow ers. 38 Students Earn HHS Honor Grades Thirty-eight Heppner high school students made the honor roll during the first nine weeks period, school officials stated this week. Those listed on the high honor roll earned a grade point of 3.75 or better, and on the low honor roll, 3.00 to 3.5 One senior girl, Joann Brosnan, re ceived a perfect 4 point. Seniors, high: Joann Brosnan, 4; Helen Graham, 3.81; Low, Peg gy Applegate, 3.5; Tom Currin, 3.4; Carol Groshens, 3.3; Phyllis Quackenbush 3.25; Len Ray Sch warz, 3.2; Ed Grnshens, 315; Jan ice Beamer and Judie Spaulding, 3.06. f Juniors, high: Janice Martin, 3.81; Steven Flug, 3.75; Low, Renn Harris 3.G5; Carolyn McDaniel, 3.3; Larry Prock, 3.25. Sophomores, high, Tom Driscoll, 3.9; Jean Collins, 3.88; Carol K. Anderson 3.85. Low, Mickey Van Schoiack, 3.1; Clifford Green, 3.6; Carolyn Carter, 3.54; Wilma Both well, 3.5; Roseann Ayers, 3.4; Shirley Nash, 3.25; Connie Ander son. Freshmen, high: Doris Morris, 3.85; Low, Joan Schmidt Bill Monagle, 3.45; Sherrell Harris, 3.41; Larry Tibbies, 3.35; Mary Tucker, 3.29; Nancy Moyer, 3.2; Fern Albert, 3:15; Judy Brinda, 3.11; Dennis Ferguson and Ronnie Gray, 3.1 ; Dan Brosnon, 3.05, and Shirley Van Winkle 3.00. WEATHER The Heppner weather station reports: Hi 53 51 51 44 46 48 47 Low 39 38 24 "23 33 43 20 Pr. .09 Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues, Wed. .07 Rainfall for the week .16; for November .95; for the year, 15.45 inches. - ,,
