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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1958)
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 'newspaper PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter tUDHSneu .vtiy iiJ,J riMV,..rlon,,,l,DrnUIVlVi3r ? ncrlo Pnnv in Cents. Subscription Rates: Morrow and His Office Door Was Always Open In making the announcement last week that he was resigning as county judge, Garnet Barratt took a step that he didn't want to take and one that many persons tried to talk him out of, but one that was taken because of necessity. His health forced the resignation, and It Is a wise man who will hoed the advice of doctors. Garnet Barratt, during his nine years as judge, two as county commissioner, and more as a public official in various capacities, has served Morrow county well. And, we know, that even though he will now hold no official office, he will continue to work for the best Interests of the county and its people. Being a public official has its rewards. . . and its headaches too. We know of more than one time when judge Barratt had justifiable cause to throw up the job and go back to the relative peace of just being a private citizen where he could do the complaining instead of having to answer to the kicks--but he didn't do it. He stayed with the job of leading the operation of county government. During his years as judge his accomplishments have been many and the county Is better because of them. He led the fight to get a county hospital and now that it is a reality we doubt that there is a thinking person in the area who doesn't ap preciate the value of Pioneer Memorial. In any county, roads are always major Item of expend iture of budgeted money, and Morrow has pro gressed far in recent years in the development of its county thorofares. The county now owns Its own rock crusher, making possible the production of rock at a fraction of the cost of contract crush ing. Many county roads have been hard-surfaced during the past five or more years, and almost every road in the county at least has a gravel surface. Through the efforts of Judge Barratt several hun dreds of thousands of dollars have come to Mor row county for the construction of new highways, modernization or surfacing of existing roads. These moneys have been provided from co-operative state, federal or forest funds, and they have added materially to the miles of good roads that we can now, or soon will be able to enjoy. Such money doesn't Just "come," it must be fought for. There are a great many more nice things that could be said about Garnet Barratt, but we think one of his greatest accomplishments, has been to unite all sections of the county Into one work ing group. During his terms in office, residents of the north end of the county have been just as welcome In his office in the court house as have residents of Heppner, Lexington and lone, and he has listened to their complaints and tried to meet the demands for better roads, or other county services, regardless of where they lived. He was instrumental in getting the bombing From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anttaraoa The program for the seventh on nual Oregon agricultural chem ical applicator short course is out. The short course will be held at Oregon State college on January STAR THEATER Thurs.. Fri., Sat., Jan 9. 10, 11 Hell's Canyon Out laws Dale Robertson, Brian Keith TLUS 20,000,000 Miles to Earth Superior Science-fiction Sua. Mon., Jan 12, 13 The Sun Also Rises Ava Gardner, Tyrone Power, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn and many more. Sunday at 4 and 6:30. Tues., Wod., Jan 14, 15 Texas William Holden and Glenn Ford. Ever-widening circles of discriminating Westerners - are discovering. Oly .otYMflA MWm COMPANY, 01YMPI. ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCIIEN PENLAND Associate Publisher Oram t-ounues, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31. Those in terested can have a program by writing to Rex Warren, farm crops specialist, Oregon State college. Livestock growers are reminded that the registration period for the beef commission has been ex tended to January 21. Two-thirds of our livestock erowers have not registered to make them eligible to vote in the beef commission referendum. Commissions are be. coming popular these days with the fryer and broiler producers recently approving formation of an Oregon fryer commission by an overwhelming majority. To create a commission a two-thirds majority of those voting is re quired, with all the votes cast representing at least one-third of the commodity production. At a recent meeting of the Ore gon Wheat Growers League, Mor row county wheat growers fared well in appointment to committ ees. Our farmers ended up with mor committee appointbents than anv other county. Appoint ed for 1958 on the various com mittees were: domestic wheat utilization committee, Mrs Vern on Munkers. vice chairman: De duction and land use committee, Frank Anderson, chairman; con-1 V, BEER TV . "Ifr the Water WH., V.f.H - NATIONAL EDITORIAL association I J U range road constructed which aided greatly in tieing together the two wiaeiy-spaeeci secuuua of Morrow county. Its value, especially during harvest has been well demonstrated. Garnet Barratt has not done his job alone, for he has been aided and guided by two able com missioners, but the job of leading the county's destiny has been his. He has done it well. We don't look for him to retire, except from the detail of a jb tnat no one takes because of the monetary return. He has, and still will have the heart and soul of a good public official, and he will still be around to do whatever he may be called upon to do by Morrow county's new judge, whoever he may be. We hope his services will be used. Time for a Face-Lif ting Before anyone gets around to reading this, most persons will probably already have noticed that today's GT looks a little different than it has for a good many years. We decided that the beginn ing of the new year was a gd time to lve the paper some face-lifting. A couple of changes are fairly obvious--a brand new front page "flag" or heading, and the elim ination of full width head rules and date lines on inside pages. There are a couple of other chang es too, which aren't so obvious, but do a little to modernize the looks of the paper--a new style "30" rule at the end of stories and the elimination of all periods in news stories except at the en9 of sentences. In checking back we found that the Old Eng lish type "Heppner Gazette Times" heading was adopted in October or November, 1925, so we felt it was about time to give It a rest and get a new one. Old English style headings are used by probably 75 percent of all papers for some rea son which we have never understood. Our new one is called "Shadow" type face and will be us ing it in several different sizes and styles. The elimination of full width top-of-page head rules and date lines will give a litle extra space on each page for news and advertising and they served no useful purpose anyway. Starting with most stories in this issue we are eliminating the use of periods in all cases except at the end of sentences. Now, for example the story will read: Mr and Mrs John J Jones, In stead of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Jones. This is going to create a little problem for the whole crew, for you don't just forget a habit that has been carr ied on for years and years. We are doing our best to remember that periods are probably the most useless item In the English alphabet, but we' know that for a while at least, some of them will continue to creep in out of habit. Anyway, even if we can't get everything going all at the same time, here's our new look. We, hope you like it servation man of the year, Ken neth Peck, Member; Federal ag ricultural programs committee, Al Bunch, vice chairman; trans portation committee, Vernon Mun kers. chairman; sub-committee on Columbia River development, Oscar Peterson, chairman; repre sentative to the Pacific Northwest Grain and Grain products assoc iatlon. Vernon Munkers; noml nations committee, Kenneth Smouse, member. The Oregon wheat Growers League is expan- ding its work this year in getting the wishes of tne wneat iarmer carried out. It will employ an assistant secretary on a full time basis and another man to worn on the Far East program. Morrow county's dairy popu lation was increased this past week when 4-H club leaders Ber nard Doherty and Marcel Jones brought a pick-up load of 12 dairy heifers from Tillamook. The heifers are from Tillamooks Dairy Herd Improvement Association tested cows with hieh producing records. Most of this load went' to 4-H club members. Those get-' tine dalrv calves from this load were Judy Jones, Heppner; Ron nie Jones, Heppner; Maureen uo herty, Heppner; Frank McFad den, Heppner; Tony Doherty, Hep. nnor: Karen Nelson. Lexineton: Sherry Smouse, lone; Mike Palm er, Lexington; Jerry Anderson,1 Heppner; received a guernsey for an FFA prolect and Don Rob-. lnson, Kenneth Smouse, Marcel; Jones, heifers to raise for fam- makes Olympia refreshingly different 4 Early Campaign Charge Do "Back East" Republican pundits consider Oregon hope less? The agenda of the first GOP campaign drive fn the Northwest leaves this positive impression. Big-name speakers have been dated around here in Washing ton, Montana, Idaho and Calif ornia but none in Oregon. The nearest Republican rally now scheduled hereabouts is at Van couver, Washington, date not an nounced. The early bird start of this year's campaign in the Northwest is reported to be the result of conclusions arrived at after a big pow wow In New York early in November. The slogan adopted was, "Everything has happened to the Republicans--So what?" This pow wow was declared to be a pow wow to wow all pow wows. Planned along strictly ultra modern business management practices, where "business man agers are literally going back to school," politicians were schooled in advance methods, even on, how to select candidates, when not to go home, how not to pick up the check and how to re member little Mary's birthday and send her a pretty card, so papa and mama will like and vote for Republicans, and other trivia. What sparked all this? A re search firm came up with these horrible and revolting (to GOP), details. It is a catastrophic list--difficult to name the worst first: Categorically, there Is the con tinuing increase in Democratic registrations. Next, President Eisenhower's re curring sickness, spotlighting the ily cows. There are several orders at present for additional dairy heifers. It has been found that the calves can be brought back In much better condition by going after a load than having them expressed to the county. Those who might be interested in these calves can pool their orders at this office and order them dir ect from the Tillamook Dairy Herd Improvement Association at Tillamook. Mr and Mrs Barton Clark, Hep pner; were the first couple to pur chase banquet tickets for the ann ual meeting of the Morrow County Livestock Growers association to be held Saturday evening. Tick ets can be purchased from tile First National Bank, GeraldSwag- gait or this office. ! In the models most people prefer, a new Chevrolet costs less than the other two low-priced cars. Yet Chevrolet is the only truly new car in its field. And ever Chevy is lower, wider and nine lively inches longer. Your dollars never had it so good! With all its startling new advances and stunning new style, Chevy is still priced right down at the bottom of the ladder. And look at what you get for the low price you pay! You get boldly sculp tured new beauty with the quality crafts manship of Body by Fisher. You get the year's big buy-even the lowest See your local exhausted Dulles and an ill-defined Nixon. The battle against racial inte gration in public schools which has spread from Arkansas into Texas and neighboring states. The South will never forget Eisenhower's ordering troops into Little Rock to enforce integration. Not last nor least, are the bi partisan attacks in congress over the Eisenhower "spending bud get" which contrasts meaning ly with the prosperity ebb. Republicans are rightfully a larmed at the national level, over the report of these frank alleged truisms, not set up on an intrua tive basis but soundly set down by experts employed by party pundits. Political Student Fund Senator and Mrs. Richard Neu berger have given Willamette University $500 to help students interested in teaching or partici pating in government and politics, President G. Herbert Smith ann ounced Thursday. The money came from fees the Democratic senator received from articles in Harper's and Railway Progress magazines. Want Hatfield To Run The press, radio, TV and talk generally give Secretary of State Mark Hatfield top rating as a successful candidate for anything he wants to run for. Many Re publican king-makers confess he is the only man who can defeat Governor Holmes. Just as many of the Republican kingmakers would have him run against U. S. Senator Richard L. Neuberger at the second next election, in 1960. The Senator's term expires in 1961. Norblad On Campaign Recess First District Congressman Walter Norblad gave up his polit ical offices in Salem last week to be at the national capital when congress resumes next He made his campaign head week. quarters here while congress was not in session and traveled over the First District counties dili gently repairing his political fences. Stcry Of The Week A recurring report is to the eff ect that U. S. Senator Richard I.. Neuberser is about to cive the Democratic donkey in Oregon a gentle start by "throwing his hat in the ring" for the Demo cratic nomination for governor. With Governor Holmes and Lew Wallace this would make the best three-cornered political scran L i Oregon has witnessed for many years. The likelihood of the Sena tor's success could put State Sen ator Genp Lewis in the U. S. Sen ate by appointment by Governor Neubtrger. This would, however, rob U. S. Senator Wayne Morse of an expert campaign worker, who managed his Portland cam paign headquarters in his succ essful campaign in 1956. Those who know Senator Neu berger well say he is not over of in the models most people buy priced models bring you full measure of Chevy's new length. You get Chev rolet's own special brand of perform ance and economy. In fact, you get the one car in the low-price field that per forms in the high-price class! Stop by your Chevrolet dealer's and let him prove it. He's making quick ajjyiauaia anu prompt deliveries! authorized Chevrolet dealer for .asEd on 2- HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. January 9 1958 Boardman Notes By Mary Lee Marlow A New Year's eve watch party was held at the Community church from 9pm till midnight. Games were played in the base ment, and refreshments were ser ved. The program included a clar inet solo, "Onward Christian Soldiers," by Eileen Ely; medley of choruses by the junior choir; solo, "Beyond the Sunset," by Marcia Woolley of Pasco, Wash; piano solo, "How Great Thou Art" by Jim Miller. There were also group singing, a Bible quiz, and a bible story on the felt board by Miss Dorothy Walton. Two films on the book of Acts were shown, "Every Christian a Miss ionary" and "Triumphant." New Year's Day was clear and cold here, the temperatures be ing down to 13 above, with fog a good part of the day. Mini mum temperature Thursday was 26 above, and has been about the same since, At 2 p m Monday the thermometer stood at 37 a bove. No snow had fallen here by then. The next meeting of the Boardman P T A will be held at the schoolhouse Thursday, Jan m .. at 7:30 d m At this time Dr C M Wagner of Heppner will be present to give polio snots to an nprsnns u nder forty years of age. Money for the shots will come from the March of Dimes, so wiu be given free of charge. This is the first of the series of three shots to be given. Dr Wagner will also speak at the meeting. Mr and Mrs Vern Carpenter are the parents of a son, born Dec 31 at the Grand Ronde hospital in La Grande. He has been named William Russell. Grand parents are Mr and Mrs Russell Miller of Boardman, and Mr and Mrs Tom Carpenter of La Grande. Great-grandparent is Mrs Effie Miller of Boardman. The baby weighed seven pounds, six ounces. Miss Barbara Anderegg enter tained a group f young people with a New Year's Eve party at her home. Guests were Susan Partlow. Ivan Kress, Jim Thorpe, Jim Miller, Larry West, Bob Tay- ! lor, Lorelei Hamilton, Bill Getz, i Carolyn Baker, Dean King, Wanda i Forthman, Jerry Peck, Lloyd Ba jker, Bill Aardappel and Roger . Zivnev. Mr and Mrs W D Maxwell and children Sandra and Billie of Portland were recent visitors at the home of Maxwell's parents, Mr and Mrs Earl Briggs. Mr and Mrs Dean Ekleberry of The Dalles, and Mr and Mrs Tom Delaney (Cora Ekleberry) of Ma dias were overnight visitors at the home of Mrs Ekleberry's bro sold on life as a U. S. Senator and would rather follow his vocation (now his avocation) as a dis tinguished author. the TTie Bel Air 4 only cor in Us and Safely display quick aVmlsal-mmpt delivery! g2i factory ust prices for comparable ther-in-law and sister, Mr and Mrs Elvin Ely, one night last week. New Year's visitors at the Ely home were Mr and Mrs Char ley Woolley and daughter Marcia of Pasco, Wash. Other recentvis itors were Mrs Eldon Lilly and children of La Grande. Ivan Kress has returned home from a visit with relatives in Lewiston, Idaho. His cousin, Le Roy Kress returned here with him to visit. Weekend visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs Harold Kress were his brother and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs Lawrence Kress, and his mo ther, Mrs Emma Kress, and their daughter, Pat Kress, all of Lew iston, Ida. Leroy Kress returned home with them. Mr and Mrs George Ramsay and Mrs Lulu Potts of The Dalles, were visitors New Year's at the home of Mr and Mrs Leo Potts. Mr and Mrs Zearl Gillespie took their son, Pvt Donald Gill espie espie, to Portland Saturday where he took the plane back to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Dinner guests New Year's at the home of Mr and Mrs Russell Mill er were Miller's brother-in-law and sister, Mr and Mrs Ralph Baker of Corbett, and Mr and Mrs Dean Griffin of Vanvouver, Wash, Mrs Effie Miller, who had been visiting at the Baker home cince before Christmas, returned here with them. Other guests were Mr and Mrs Bob Miller and Mr and Mrs Harold Baker and sons Ran dy and Ronnie. Mr and Mrs LeRoy Fussell have returned from a ten day holiday trip visiting relatives In Salem, Portland and coast points. They spent Christmas at the home of Mrs Fussell's brother and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs Glenn Coch ran. Guests New Year's Day at the home of Gilmer Bolson were his son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs Ralph Tabasinske and chil dren Gary Loren and Ann of Rich land, Wash, and his brother Carl Bolson ,of Hermiston. Dinner guests New Year's Eve at the home of Mr and Mrs Char les Anderegg were Mr and Mrs Tom Gardner, Mr and Mrs Hen ry Zivney and son Roger, Mr and Mrs A R Fortner and Ralph Was mer. Mr and Mrs Don Downey and sons Jerry and Wayne and Mrs Continued on page 7 LIVESTOCK MARKET Cattle Hogs Sheep SALE EVERY TUESDAY 12 Noon On U. S. Hiway No. 30 NORTHWESTERN LIVESTOCK COMMISSION CO. JO 7-6655 Hermiston, Oregon Frank Wink & Sons. Owners Don Wink Mgr. Res. Hermiston JO 7-3111 - Door Sedan. Chevy'i fht field with Body by Fisher Plate Class oil oround. Only franckieed Chevrolet deaUrt this famous trademark - "7. crs Buien n MOM sedan and hardtop models.
