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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1957)
k Copies 1 0 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Wedreceerj f - - , -H.-m7T;-- v ... . lone Girl Wins f": ... . . Qff&W- ' 3 m National Honors MmimSj ''.'.- In Jr. Olympics ! 1 1 - Vssrf : ; li -11 If- .ii VT- 1 It If O f-iJlrii J i i ii 1 1 1 f rii ii r aw , r rr a i i r j fh , I - - ' M ii t 11 u ir h A h r.. . - : -vw?"f brate the occasion with an open house during ine I"""; . .... mm I A H..ai(i4 f WIIOAII PnQTOl 1 The bank was ectabiisnea nere jasi nua i 74th Year, Number 42 THE HEPPNER BRANCH ol the Bank of Eastern Oregon will move into this new, modern building next Saturday and will cele- tening of New Bank Of BO Building Set Saturday Afternoon Formal opening of the new Bank, are Marion Weatherford, building of the Heppner branch Arlington, president; L. C. Bucn . t-;w nLr- v'Vncfnn: v ce Dresident and 01 me canK 01 Mawm ic6vi n-.., " ' T , be held next Saturday ai will ternoon with a public open house scheduled for 1:30 to & ociock, it was announced today by Gene Pierce, Heppner manager. The new ultra-modern bank structure on north Main street will provide the institution with facilities equal to any in the state, bank officials report and the open house is planned to give the general public an op portunity to examine the building. Th mnrlem brick and block building, 36 by 74 feet in size represents an investment of $80 mn including fixtures, and incor- nnmtpa the newest facilities for the service and convenience of customers. A large parking lot adioins the building. The main feature nf the buildine is the large lobby which provides am nle room for teller's windows, of ficials offices, bookkeeping area and customer space. Centered at the rear of the lobby is the 18 inch thick steel reintorcea con rrota vault with its three inch thick steel door. A large direc tors meeting room opens off the main lobby. Modern colors and office equipment are used throughout. In Temporary Quarters The Heppner branch of the bank opened August 10 in tem porary quarters in the Empire Machinery Company building and construction started on the new building on September 10. Thom as Vadnais, Portland, was the architect for the structure, and the Mid-State Construction corn nan v of The Dalles won the gen eral construction contract. Many of the furnishings were supplied locally. The bank will open for business Saturday morning in its new home and will then close at noon that day, reopening at 1:30 for its open house. The day's pro gram will include a live radio broadcast over KUBE from the hank at 11 a. m., organ music throughout the day played by Klineensmith well known ppndleton oreanist: special gifts of orchids to all the women who visit during the afternoon, and mfte fnr mpn and children; and rofrpshments will be served all afternoon. There will also be spec ial prizes offered. The staff of the Heppner branch includes Gene Pierce, manager; Wm. F. Siewert, assistant man ager; Marion Green, teller; and Mona Howard, bookkeeper. Officials of the Bank tf East ern Oregon which has its head office at Arlington, and until the opening of the local brancn was known as the Gilliam County cashier. Directors are D. L. Lem ons, Mel Brady, Arthur Hoag ana John Krebs. all of Arlington; Ar thur Allen, Boardman; Garland Swanson, lone; Frank Anderson and Howard Bryant, botn oi nep-nner. The most recent combined statement for the bank, issued stitution has capital stock of 9l0 nnn R,,mlus S80.000. unaiviaea nmfit $31 .180.37. Total deposits 9n9qqi 79 and loans and Hispnnnts amount to S967,41o.l( Total resources are listed as $2,. 323,473.40. V If v4 Two Church Choirs Present Cantata The rholrs of the Christian and Methnrilst rhurehes oresented "A Snni? of Christmas", tne story oi the Nativity as told in Christmas enntrs. rarols ana uioiicai ver it was revealed last week that Miss Kay Sherer, senior at lone high school, nas piacea umu m the girls' senior division ot tne running high jump in the Nat ional Junior Olympics. Her best jump was four teet, nine inaies. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sherer of lone. Kay will be the honored guest nf thP Portland Junior Chamber of commerce at a luncheon ai the Multnomah hotel on Tuesday January 7. In the letter notifying Kay ot the honor, Dorothea Lenscn, air- iwtnr nf recreation for the city of Portland, said. "The City oi rorti.inH is Droud of you. lour .portsmanship and athletic abil ity has brought recognition to Oregon." Besides being an outstanding athlete, Kay has also been an honor student and leader at lone high school. She has served as student body secretary and trea surer and is one oi me mree cheerleaders who won first place award at the recent nasKetoau jamboree at Umatilla, bhe was chosen homecoming queen uy nei fellow students this fall and was chosen as the first "Girl of the Month" hv the lone faculty The Dree-on Junior Olympics were held in Portland early last summer. o- Next Free Chest X-Ray Date Scheduled For January 5 The Morrow county TB and Health association annonuces that the next day for receiving cnesi X-rays free of charge win De Wednesday, January 8 between the hours of 7 and 8:JU p. m. The X-rays are paid for by the loral TB and Health association I I" V, i i KAY SHERER, lone high school senior who received third place in the running high lump in the National Junior Olympics. Big Prizes Offered In Ninth National Essay Contest The tenth annual national es cau mntpst on employment of the physically handicapped, open to all high school juniors ana sen inrc in Morrow countv. is now under way. The contest is spon corPft pach vear by the presi dent's committee on employment of the physically nanaicappeu and cooperating governors com mittees. The title of this year's essay is "How Hiring the Handicapped Helps You and Me." National cash prizes are $1000 for first; $400, second; $300, third; $200 fourth, and $100 for fifth. The prize winners also receive an expense-free trip to Washing ton n c. tn nreunn. nrizes will be given to winners in bonds with $100 to first, $50 to second, ana ea oh to third fourth ana linn The essay winning first place in orannniurf hp pnterea in ine Witfcwn- national contest. The nisahled American Veter ans contribute the prizes on the national level. The Oregon Macn inists' Council, Portland Aerie No. 4 of the Fraternal Order oi tagies and the Disabled American vei erans, Department of Oregon, con tribute the state prizes. The deadline for entering es cave IS Fehruarv 14, 1958. This is the onlv contest spon sored by the federal government io onnrovprt hv the National Association of Secondary School Drinpinais Ruoenntendents, nign school principals and teachers have given enthusiastic endorse ment to the contest, run pai tit ulars will be mailed to all high school principals in Oregon. o Mr. and Mrs, James Barratt and children and Mrs. David Wil son, all of Corvallis, are visiting here over the holidays with relatives. ROGER W. BABSON Babson Forecast Due Next Week The Gazette Times will again nnhiish Rahson's Business and Financial Forecast ior xaoo. u will appear in next week's paper. A careful checking of the Bab son Predictions made in the Bus iness and Financial Forecast ior 1957 upholds the remarkable ev erage of the past years by being 88 percent correct. Below is the score for the last five years. It holds the best and highest record for annual forecasts on U. S. fut ure business. , The forecast for 1957 was 88 nerrent rorroct: 1956 85 percent; 1955 84 pefcent; 1954 86 percent and 1953 84 percent. Watch for this special reaiure in next week's Gazette Times. o Early Publication Date Set For GT This Next Week week the Gazette Times will go to press early be cause of the holiday. Tnis manes it neoecsarv for all ad copy to ne in the GT office not later than HatnrHav and news copy by Mon gol, mnmlnp tn he included In thic nnnpr - The paper win De in me "" Tuesday afternoon and because nf the necessity oi wonuag through the wpekend the Ol 01 fioo will he closed Wednesday and Thursday of next week. o - .!,, ses by Koy Kingwa.a, u e - ger. Methodist churcn inursaay eve- ---- -- -- h nmS- t honefit from this service . ... i ; wian kj v...-.. - - - Norman peters wasjne uucl- , SQ and tneir own Tb nnA Aro T ntn KreimPVOri ... . i:- Ill u.. im anu ' curt Men in association win uv; the organis Rev. Lester Boulden f he amount, (Tmm the invorat nn. Kev unaries . . j & it,- nam,tm and aave The X-rays are now being reau a,,u "V " hv Dr. V. H. Gehling, St. Antno tne oeneaiction. . .. . . ponrtlPtnn. Dr. Soloists were Mrs. Fred Hosklns, ' . n arrrpluGA radio- Mrs. Charles Knox, Mrs. Norman j and reports are Deing re Peters, Gordon Pratt and Victor ? . ,thi t wceks from Churches Planning' Special Christmas Eye Services All Saints' " Episcopal church will begin the observance of the season of Christmastide, the Nat ivity of Jesus Christ, this Tuesday night at 11:45 p. m. This service will be a Choral Eucharist and in addition to this "First Mass of Christ" at mid nipht. a second celebration will be offered at 9;00 a.m. with the same brief sermon. The celebration of Christmas tide will continue through Jan uarv 5 and on Friday, the Day of St. John, a loner with observance of St. Stephen, there will be two celebrations of the Holy Sacra ment at 10:00 a. m. and 8:00 p.m. On Wednesday, January 1, there will be one service only, Holy Eucharist at 10:00 a. m. At St. Patrick's Catholic church there will be high Mass at mid night December 24 and low Mass at 9:30 a. m. Christmas day. In lone at St. Williams Catholic church there will be low Mass at 8:00 a. m. on Christmas day On Christmas eve at 7:30 p. m the Hope Lutheran Sunday scheol will eive a paeeant. The Guitling Star, written by the Sunday school staff, with a speciar feat ute being a welcome spc!:en by Sunday school members ln.Eng lish. German and Swedish. Most other churches in the area had their special services this last Sunday with Sunday school programs and parties o District Soils Man Wins Award For Conservation a certificate of merit and a r.ash award for outstanding ac complishment in contour strip- cropping in the Heppner son con servation district has been award ed to Tom Wilson, soil conser vationist for the local district. Wilson received notification of the award last week. Fach vear the awards and im provement committee of the So:l Conservation Service names em ployees in the service for the incentive awards. The Henpner Soil District has previously been acclaimed as one of the top districts in Oregon and the nation and Wilson has been given much credit for the fine record by the district's directors. An example of the outstanding work done here in the strip crop ping field is shown by the tact that out of approximately 12,500 acres of contour cropping in Ore gon, almost 10,000 acres lie witn- in the Heppner district. Wilson has been invited to pre sent a paper on "Progress in strip cropping on Eastern Oregon grain lands" at the 31st annual meeting of the Northwest Scien tific Association to be held Dec. 27 and 28 in Spokane. Soil conservation is one of many phases of science which will be under discussion at the meeting. Other catagories include botany, biology, geology forestry, engin eering and manv more. Wilson has been conservation ist here since 1940. the date of the X-ray. -o- Kreimeyer .Sopranos were Mrs. Fred Hos kins, Mrs. Joe Stewart, Miss Mary RTJGGLES RETURN HOME Evelyn Tucker, Mrs. Norman ret ers. Mrs. Fred Gimbel, Miss Shir ley Nash and Miss Sharon Case. Altos were Mrs. Charles Knox, Miss Judy Cochell, Miss Janice Martin, Miss Celia Bouiaen ana Miss Sheryl Harris. Tenors: Joe Stewart and Gordon Pratt. Basses were Victor Kreimeyer and Renn Harris. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Ruggles have returned from Portland where they attended a reunion of Mrs. Ruggles' family. On their way home they stopped in Moro and picked up Mr. Ruggles' mother, Mrs. W. A. Ruggles, who had been with her mother, Mrs. Len ora Cauthers, who has been ill. WEATHER weather station The Heppner reports: Hi Low Pr. Thursday 48 36 .03 Friday 53 39 .42 Saturday 51 37 .19 Sunday 45 32 .19 Monday 45 29 Rainfall for the week .83; for December 2.00; for the year 17.57 inches. xfi PV1 Young Hereford Bull Brings Good Price and one-half month old registered Hereford bull from the Herbert Ekstrom herd at lone was solo" last week to the Golden Hills Hprpford Ranch of Grass Valley. The animal weighed 850 pounds and brougnt i,uw, an exceptionally gooa price ior a young bull. Th FVstrnm hprd is Compos ed of about 70 head of registered Herefords. c- Mrs. Anne Smouse left last week for Rochester, Minn, where she will spend the holidays with her daughter and family. mmm m v XitW WAS Wm.. wish Ys?vVi ' YOU SSyK May the nfinite Wessings of this joyous sea- jmJ con nhulp w itli vou and vour family. i ltIV 1.7" L THE STAFF OF THE if PJ, HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES & 07 - IwU: rtt 1 $ 4 Morrow Still Tops In Bond Sales Thnnch Morrow county sav ings bonds slipped greatly last month $5,295 compared with $23,011 for the same month last year it is still one or oniy six r-onntips in the entire state of Oregon which has shown a gain in Series li and H oonas saies iui the first 11 months of the year. Throuofh November 30, savings bonds sales in the county have totaled $253,181, a gain of ap nroYlmntelv $2,000 over last year for the same period. November sales in the county snowea tne onnnsite trend, for they were down to $5,295 compared with $23,011 for the same montn m 1956. Statewide, bond sales were down somewhat also, but not nearly as much as were local sales. In Oregon $2,285,129 In bonds were purchased during No vember 1957, while sales in the same month of 1956 were $2,937, 310. The only other counties in Ore gon to have purchased more bonds in the first 11 months of this year were Columbia, Gilliam, Lake, Wasco and Washington. All the state's other 30 counties fell behind last year, some by as much as nearly 50. per cent. Jack Bedford, manager of the Heppner branch of the First Nat ional Bank of Portland, county sales chairman, reponea mai manv ncrsons are now buying savings bonds for Christmas gifts and reminded prospective buyers that free gift folders for the oonas may be obtained at your bank when bond purchases are made. o 13 From Morrow County At OSC OREGON STATE COLLEGE Thirteen students from Morrow county are enrolled this year at Oregon State college, according to a report issued by the regis trar's office at the college. Ten of the 13 are from Heppner. All of Oregon's 36 counties, 37 states all U. S. territories and 37 other countries are represen ted this year in the record 7676 student group at OSC. This year's enrollment is nearly 200 above the old record set in 1947 when the peak was recorded In the en rollment of World War II veter- Students listed Include: Leo A. Skoubo, Boardman; Heppner Adelia A. Anderson, Maureen A. Groves, Patricia P. Hardy, James H. Hayes, Richard L. Kononen, James B. Miller, Gerald C. Sum ner, Meredith J. Thomson and Janet L. Wright. Donald L. Hunt and Otto E. Ruhl are from Lex ington. o GROUND OBSERVER CORPS There will be a meeting of the Ground Observer Corps on Mon day, December 30 at the home of Mrs. Ray Smith at 2 p. m. Credit will be given members for attending this meeting.
