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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 21, 1957
74th Year, Number 37
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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