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Heppner Player Named
On East All -Star Team
Two Morrow county high
school football stars were chosen
this week to play on next fall's
East-West Shrine Ail-Star foot
ball game in Fendleton. They are
Len Ray Schwarz, Heppner high
school senior who will play a
, tackle spot, and Robert Parson
of Irrigon high school, a back
field man.
Len Ray was one of the bul
warks of the 1957 Mustang squad
which started out the past sea
son as one of the strongest in the
league but fell by the wayside
later because of such heavy cas
ualties due to the flu epidemic
that the final game had to be
cancelled. He has played four
years of football for Heppner.
The Heppner All-Star candi
date is the son of Mr and Mrs
Leonard Schwarz. He is active in
many school activities in addit
ion to sports. Only recently he
was named Heppner high senior
citizen of the month and he serv
es as student body vice president,
FBLA vice president, president
of the student council and is a
member of the National Honor
Society. He was a co-captain of
this year's Mustang football
team.
Oher boys from this area who
were chosen on the East All-Star
team include Verlyn Schulz,
txno; Dean Whiteley, McEwen;
Gary Porter, Pilot Rock; Dick
Connor, Weston; Mike Remillard,
Umatilla; and Caxl Reeder, Helix.
Stanfield, last season's state B
champion also placed three play
ers on the East squad. They are
Norman Evans, Paul Forrey and
John Houk.
School Class Aids
Care Food Crusade
Students of the fourth grade of
Heppner grade school have prov
ed themselves active internation
al good neighbors by joining
CARE's Food Crusade.
Their contribution has sent 110
pounds of food overseas to hung
ry children and adults. Twelve
countries of the free world are
receiving the Food Crusade pack
ages, through CARE, the foreign
relief agency. These are the $1
surplus food parcels contain'ng
22 pounds of nourishing surplus
foods given to CARE by the
United States government for dis
tribution to the needy in foreign
countries. ,
Each package goe in the name
of the donor, the one dollar help
ing to cover costs of packaging
and delivery. Many orphans, ref
ugee families escaped from Iron
Curtain areas, and others who
are victims of flo'ods and drough
ts and other disasters, benefit
from the campaign.
Each package also contains a
message of friendship from
America in the language of the
recipient country, serving as an
important phase of America's
people-to-people program of good
will and friendship.
P-TA STUDY OF JUVENILE PROBLEMS
MAKES SEVERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
The Heppner Parent-Teacher
Association held its first meeting
of the new year Wednesday, Jan
uary 8 in th multi-purpose room
of the grade school. The business
meeting was opened by president
Mrs Kemp Dick. Mrs Harlan Mc
Curdy reported a profit of $65
from the serving of an Elks din
ner on December 19. The typing
study group is to begin soon and
will consist of 24 hours of in
struction at a cost of about 25
cents per hour to each member
of the group. Mrs Paul Warren
announced that there were 138
paid-up memberships, somewhat
less than the goal of 240. Cards
will be sent out to lagging mem
bers. Mrs Bechdolt's room won
the room count.
Immediately following the bus
iness meeting the program on ju
venile problems began. A discus
sion panel under moderator Bill
Labhart was made up of these
students and adults: Doug Grib-
Panel Develops Many Facts
The first phase in a Lexington
P-TA study on possible school re
organization plans for this sect
ion of Morrow county was held
Tuesday evening at the Lexing
ton school. The program was a
panel discussion on what could
and should be done to improve
high school facilities in Heppner,
Lexington and lone in line with
the new state school reorganizat
ion law,.
Taking the affirmative side
was Gordon Pratt, Heppner high
school principal; the negative
was argued by Ray Heimbigner,
lone; discussing transportation
problems was Oren Felthouse,
Hermiston, who has held the
transportation contract for the
Hermiston schools for 34 years;
and taking the taxpayers angle
It .
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LEN RAY SCHWARZ, Heppner
this week was picked for East
All-Star Shrine football team.
Attack Claims
Earle A Bryant
Earl A Bryant, 44 was found
dead in his car late Saturday
afternoon by his wife and a
friend Cecil Hicks who were in
vestigating his " absence from
home. The car was parked in
front of the office of Dr Wallace
Wolff in Heppner and he appar
ently had died from a heart at
tack approximately an hour be
fore he was discovered.
Earl Allen Bryant was born
Nov 23, 1913 in Independence,
Virginia and came to Heppner
with his family in 1917. He at
tended schools in Heppner and
was a member of the Christian
church and the Heppner Elks
lodge.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, Jan 14 at the Heppner
Christian church with the Rev
Charles Knox and the Rev Lester
Boulden officiating. Elks grave
side rites were conducted at the
Heppner Masonic cemetery.
He is survived by his wife
Mary; one son Robert and one
daughter, Mrs Sharon Cutsforth;
his mother Mrs Madge Bryant,
Heppner; a brother Howard of
Heppner; two step-sons, John
and Jim Cason, and one grand
child. Creswick llcriiiafy-Was1 In
charge of arrangements.
WEATHER
The Heppner weather station
reports:
Hi Low Prec
Thursday 41 24
Friday 39 28
Saturday 4G 30 .02
Sunday 54 42 .14
Monday 48 35 .45
Tuesday 49 35 .03
Wednesday 53 41 .10
Rainfall for the week .74; for
January .80 inch.
ble, Bob Mahoney, Ed Groshens,
Peggy Applegate, Susie McQuar
rie, Gordon Pratt, Mrs Creston
Robinson, Vic Kreimeyer, Mrs
Labhart, Rev Lester Boulden. It
was stated that we have fewer
serious problems than do the peo
ple of some other areas. In dis
cussing those problems which do
exist here the panel set forth
these important suggestions for
positive action: construction of
a drag strip, operation of a skat
ing rink, a school drivers' train
ing program, stricter enforce
ment of present law which pro
hibits smoking in public by min
ors, a commercially-operated spot
for late snacks and dancing on
weekends, more parties given in
the young people's homes, more
activities within the family, and
more parental cooperation with
low enforcement.
This panel discussion and pro
gram of action were the direct
results of the P-TA study group
on juvenile problems.
was Kenneth Peck, Lexington
rancher, O W Cutsforth was mod
erator. About 55 persons attend
ed the meeting.
Pratt told of four surveys made
in the 1930's when it was found
that structural changes were nec
essary here. He said curriculum
and personnel are the most im
portant and that smaller schools
are not usually able to give ad
vanced mathematics, sciences,
languages, ect. He said a unified
school would eliminate duplicat
ion of teachers, library facilities,
school plants ect, and that clas
ses which now have five or six
pupils are expensive.
In taking the negative side of
the debate, Heimbigner said the
choice of a unified school site
would probably be in Heppner
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Copies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday
Increase Seen
In Number of
Concerns in County
"There are more business con
cerns in Morrow county today
than in 1956" states J Harry
White, district manager of Dun
& Bradstreet in Portland. Figures
obtained from a physical count
of the Dun & Bradstreet refer
ence book for November 1957
totaled 95 manufacturers, whole
salers and retailers in this area
as compared to 92 listings in
1956.
The reference book, incidental
ly, lists manufacturers, whole
salers and retailers. It does not
include some of the service and
professional businesses such as
barber and beauty shops, stock
and real estate brokers. Thus the
figure for businesses in Morrow
county actually would be higher
than the number quoted above.
The credit reporting agency
will mail over 3,000,000 requests
for financial statements on Jan
uary 1 to all businesses listed in
the reference book. The Portland
office will mail approximately
30,000 such requests to firms in
Oregon and Wash and the fin
ancial statements received pro
vide a basis for a credit rating,
White states "more than 95 per
cent of all commercial transac
tions are made on credit terms
and the rating book is a key
factor in these transactions."
Using the Dun & Bradstreet
reference book as a guide it is
interesting to note the number
of names listed for the three prin
cipal communities in Morrow
county: Heppner 56, lone 16 and
Lexington 9.
Mrs Gerald Swaggart
New President of
County Cow Belles
The Morrow county Cow Belles
held their annual meeting Jan
11 with Mrs Dave Campbell, Bly,
state Cow Belles' president as the
main speaker. She gave a brief
I.istory of tiit -..tale orguiilzalion,
told of the projects that have
been completed and were now
being supported including meat
demonstration for 4-H members
at county fairs, the school meat
program and Fathers Day con
test. Mr and Mrs Campbell are
Klamath county cattlemen where
he was state Grassman of the
year for 1957 and also one of
the four district winners of state
cattleman, Other guests were Mrs
Ted Hyde, publicity chairman for
the state association from Klam
ath county, and Mrs Ewing Hynd,
president of the Umatilla county
Cow Belles.
Officers elected for the coming
year were Mrs Gerald Swaggart,
president; Mrs Raymond French,
first vice president; Mrs George
Rugg, second vice president and
Mrs John Graves secretary-treasurer.
Mrs Ralph Beamer was ap
pointed chairman of the cook
book and candy sales committee.
Mrs Claude White is the out
going president and the latter
part of March was set for the
next meeting of the group.
Lex VFW Auxiliary To
Hold Mothers' March
The Lexington VFW Auxiliary,
which recently took over the
March of Dimes drive In the Lex
ington area, will hold a Mother's
March on Polio Thursday evening
Jan 30, it was announced this
week by Mrs Bill Van Winkle,
chairman of the Auxiliary com
mittee. The Mother's March will be
held as it has in past years, with
persons desiring to aid, asked to
leav,e their porch lights on that
night.
because of teacher's needs, hos
pital ect and that lone children
are already riding as far as time
will permit. He said that Morrow
county now graduates 14 times
more children from college than
the national average.
He also said that the state de
partment of education doesn't
know what it wants and emph
asized that an act of consolation
is permanent and that he did not
want to turn the education of
Ione's children and purse strings
over to Heppner. He recommend
ed the establishment of a junior
college in the area.
Transportation is Problem
Mr Felthouse pointed out that
the duplication of bus routes is
expensive but admitted that
some is necessary because of
March of Dimes to
Benefit from HHS
Senior Work Day
"Fight Polio with dimes" is the
slogan for the Heppner high
school seniors who are sponsor
ing a senior work day Saturday,
Jan 18. They'll do any kind of
work, they say.
The seniors offer their work to
residents of Heppner on Satur
day and as they get paid for their
work the money will be turned
over to the March of Dimes. Their
slogan is, "As we sponsor a work
day, we help the polio victims
with our pay!'
Anyone having odd jobs, win
dows that need washing, yard
work to be done, ironing to catch
up, is asked to call a senior. To
reserve the services of one of
these community-minded young
people call 6-9762 any time, the
high school 6-9138 between 8:45
and 3:45 or the Heppner Cleaners
between 3:45 and 6 pm.
Heppner High Girl
Named for Award
The Betty Crocker Homemaker
of Tomorrow in Heppner high
school in Joann Brosnan.
She received the highest
score in a written examination
on homemaking knowledge and
attitudes given Dec 3 to senior
girls in the graduating class.
Her examination paper will be
entered in competition to name
this state's candidate for the
title of All-American Homemak
er of Tomorrow and will also
be considered for the runnerup
award in the state. For her
achievement she will receive an
award pin designed by Trifari
of New York.
The national winner in the
fourth annual Betty Crocker
search conducted among 327,000
young women in 11,800 of the
nation's public, private and pa
rochial high schools will be nam
ed in April at a banquet in the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New
York City.
General Mil's is sponsor of
the program designed to assist
schools in education for home
and family living. This year's
hug entry brisS the four year
participation over the million
mark. A total of 1,071,000 girls
has enrolled in this national
homemaking project since it was
launched in 1955. A total of $106
000 in scholarships will be awar
ded this year.
Each Betty Crocker Homemak
er of Tomorrow will receive a
$1,500 scholarship and an edu
cational trip with her school ad
visor to Washington, D C, colon
ial Williamsburg, Va, and New
York City. A $500 scholarship
will be awarded the second rank,
ing girl in each state. The school
of the state winner will receive
a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica.
The scholarship of the young
woman named All American
Homemaker of Tomorrow will
be raised to $5,000. Girls who
rank second, third and fourth in
the nation will receive $4,000,
$3,000 and $2,000 scholarships,
respectively.
Little League Ball
Meeting Called
There will be a meeting Mon
day evening, Jan 20 at the Hep
pner school cafeteria for the pur
pose of organizing Little League
baseball for next season.
It is reported that several per
sons have inquired about such
a meeting, and all interested per
sons are urged to attend.
HUNTERS AND ANGLERS
TO MEET
The Morrow county Hunters
and Anglers will meet Monday
evening Jan 20 at the court
house. Tentative fishing regulat
ions will be discussed as will
the predatory contest. Election of
officers will be held.
On Reorganization
geographical conditions. Looking
at the problems of the area from
a transportation standpoint, he
felt a high school should bo built
betwen Heppner and Lexington,
possibly about six miles below
Heppner. One big bus could tran
sport all lone and Lexington
youngsters and two could handle
students from Heppner.
Felthouse said large buses
cost about 55 cents a mile to
operate, but with care such buses
should last 10 years.
Large School More Efficient
Kenneth Feck compared the
costs of operating three high
schools here with that of the
North Marion high school near
Woodburn which is a combinat
ion of three former small schools
and has about the same attend
January 16 1958
Need for Greater
Scout Program Seen
By Youth Group
Representatives from Board
man, Lexington, lone and Hep
pner high schools attended a
meeting Jan 6 of the Morrow
county youth activities commit
tee of the county planning con
ference. Mrs E M Baker of lone
is chairman of the group.
Problems of youth discipline
and possible activities were dis
cussed and the need for a com
munity calendar was brought
out. A wider Boy Scout program
in the county was recommended,
but it was pointed out that the
reason for the lack of a bigger
j scouting program is due to the
lack of adult leadership.
Reports were heard from the
students of Heppner high school
who attended the governor's com
mUtee on children and youth in
Salem, and they reported that
a teenage code had been drawn
up there.
In other discussions it was
pointed out that even youngsters
thought that teachers should
have the right to discipline stu
dents and that parents should
back up the teachers. It was also
shown that teenagers as a rule
are pretty well behaved and that
only a small percentage of this
group causes worry.
The information gained from
this and other committees will
be reported later to the plan
ning conference.
Thompson Retires
As PCA President
Ralph I Thompson, after serv
ing as a member of the board of
directors of the Pendleton Pro
duction Credit Association since
1941 and as vice president since
1914 and as president during the
past year retired from the board
and as president at the annual
meeting of stockholders held at
Pendleton.
Paul Hisler, 49 years old, prom
inent livestock operator located
in Morrow county, was elected on
the board of directors to fill the
vacancy caused by Mr Thomp
son's retirement. He is a former
member of the National Farm
Loan Association and one of the
original stockholders of the Pen
dleton Production Credit Assoc
iation. He is married and has two
daughters and one son.
At the organization meeting of
the board, Charles F Litch, a
stockman of Enterprise, and a
member of the board of directors
for the past 15 years was elected
president. He is also president of
the La Grande National Farm
Loan Association.
Myron C Hug, a farmer of Sum
merville, Oregon and a member
of the board for the past 10 years
was elected vice president.
Other officers re-elected were:
W E Moore, secretary-treasurer
and assistant secretary-treasur-eis
Barbara Short and James Sou
thern all of Pendleton.
Attendance at the meeting was
225 members and guests. 25 mem
bers and guests attended from
Morrow county.
Olher members of the board
include: Ralph G Saylor of Echo
and Frank Duff of Adams.
Otto F Allgaier, vice president
of the Federal Intermediate
Credit Bank of Spokane and Brad
ford Lightly of the firm of Yergen
and Meyere were guest speakers
at the meeting.
Mr and Mrs Joe Stewart and
Linda were in Fossil on Sunday
to attend a surprise party In
honor of Mr Stewart's father on
his 75th birthday. About 40 nei
ghbors and friends from the Bap
tist church attended.
ance as Heppner, Lexington and
lone. At N Marion 13 teachers
costing $70,500 a year serve the
school. Total plant operation and
transportation cost is $129,234.
By comparison to handle the 215
students in the three schools here
it requires 21 teachers at a cost
of $101,724, and plant operation
of $175,327. A comparison of per
pupil costs was made by Peck
with Portland at $213, N Marion
$510 and the average of Heppner
Lexington and lone at $815.
Peck also emphasized that in
a unified school teachers could
teach their specialty and that
overall it appeared that the tax
payer would get more for his
money.
In a question and answer per
iod which followed the prepar
74th Year, Number 44
Christmas Seal Sale
Returns Slightly
Below 1956 Amount
$115n has been turned in to
date on the 1957 TB and Health
Association Christmas Seal sale,
according to Mrs L E Dick, J
county seal sale chairman. The
amount is slightly below the col
lection at this time last year.
The 1956 sale totalled $1384 when
the books were closed.
Reminders have been mailed in
Heppner and in Lexington to
those who have not made their
contributions. The Community
seal chairman to whom money
may be sent are Mrs Bemice Lott,
Lexington; Mrs Noel Dobyns,
lone; Mrs Ruth Coy, Irrigon; Mrs
Russell Miller, Boardman; and
Mrs Dick, Heppner.
Christmas seal donations have
purchased a $3000 X-ray mach
ine used at Pioneer Memorial
hospital in Heppner for chest X
rays. The program finances free
X-rays once a month (the first
Wednesday), the cost of having
the X-rays read by Dr Goehling,
and other county health services.
94 of the money received from
the seal sale remains in Morrow
county; the remaining 6 is used
for national research on TB. pre
vention and cure.
Stockholders and
Officers Reelected
At Bank of EO Meet
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Bank of East
ern Oregon was held at Arling
ton Jan 9 with over 75 percent
of the more than 100 stockhold
ers present.
Main business was the election
of directors and all who had been
serving were reelected. They were
Marion T Weatherford, Earl P
Hoag, John W Krebs, D L Lemon
and L C Buchner, all of Arling
ton; Arthur A Allen, Boardman;
Garland Swanson, lone; Howard
Bryant and Frank Anderson, Hep
pner. M L Brady was reelected
associate director. ,
Following the stockholders
meeting, the directors met and
reelected the following officers:
Marion T Weatherford, president;
Earl P Hoag, vice president; L C
Buchner, vice president and cash
ier; H D Wright, assistant cash
ier; Gene Pierce and Wm F Sie
wert, manager and assistant
manager respectively of the Hep
pner branch.
Reports of the very satisfactory
progress of the bank during the
past year were given, also esti
mates of what might be expected
during 1958. Total deposits of the
bank were $2,336,159.33 and
loans were $1,147,657.94 at the
end of the year.
President Weatherford stated
that 1957 was perhaps the most
outstanding since the bank was
originally organized as the Gil
liam County Bank in early 1945.
The name of the bank was
changed, additional stock was
sold to increase the capital stru
cture which would enable the
bank to serve many more cust
omers because of Increased loan
and other limits, and a branch
was established in Heppner with
an attractive new building con
structed for it.
A social hour was held after
the meeting with coffee and cake
served by wives of the directors.
Heppner Chess Club
To Meet Mondays
The Heppner chess club has re
organized and will meet in the
city hall on Monday evenings
at 7:30.
Everyone interested in chess is
urged to attend. If you want to
learn and know nothing about
the game, come and take some.
lessons.
As soon as possible there will
be chess matches arranged with
other clubs.
of County
ed talks Pratt reiterated that in
a larger school teachers would
be hired to teach In their field.
Heimbigner said that small
schools can Improve if the peo
ple want them to.
Felthouse said that, "We are
trying to teach our children to
make a living. Our foundations
are good."
In reviewing figures, Peck said
it is costing $38,000 to $40,000 a
year more to run our three
schools than it would a single
school and he showed how with
this saving, and the $39,000 In
county school taxes annually
paid to the Echo district, and
$10,500 to Arlington (which he
felt would stay in the county by
changing district boundaries to
the agreement of residents of
Morrow Only
County With No
'57 Traffic Deaths
Morrow county holds the dis
tinction of being the only county
in the state of Oregon to get
through the year of 1957 with
out a single traffic fatality, it
was revealed this week by the
state department of motor vehic
les. The record is even more im
pressive inasmuch as the year
went down in the records as the
second worst "traffic death -wise"
in the state's history.
Several counties ended the
year w'ith only one traffic death
Grant, Lake, Sherman and Wall
owa, but none other than Mor
row kept their record clean for
the year.
The most traffic deaths (87)
occured in Multnomah county
and others high up on the list
were Lane with 29, Douglas with
28, Clackamas, Marion and Linn
with 26 each, and Jackson and
Klamath with 25 each.
The department of motor ve
hicles records show a total of 462
persons died in the state in traff
ic during 1957. News service
tallys run even higher with the
Associated Press report finding
489 killed.
Several spectacular accidents
occured during the year. One near
Bend in June killed five mem
bers of one family and on June 3
five others died in a head-on
crash south of Huntington.
During the last several weeks
of 1957, all state agencies and
law officers concentrated on con
trolling traffic accidents.
Many Planning
Groups Meeting
Committees of the Morrow
county Town and Country plan
ning conference continued ac
tive during the past week study
ing and reporting their findings
in readiness for the planning con
ference which will be held early
in February. General chairman
Kenneth Peck has called a meet
ing of his planning council for
Thursday, Jan 16 at which time
the date will be set and arrange
ments planned for this import
ant event. The council is made
up of the six major committee
chairmen and presidents of maj
or commodity groups in Morrow
county.
In addition to the six major
committees, over 20 sub-committees
are gathering information
and investigating problems and
opportunities for consideration
by all county people. Meeting
last week were sub-committees
on roads, livestock marketing
and management, sheep produc
tion and livestock disease con
trol of the livestock committee;
the youth activities, farm crops,
and conservation and land use
committees. Holding meetings
early this week were the live
stock and home and community
living committees.
The livestock committee meet
ing Tuesday night had reports
from their livestock insecticides
and chemicals, commercial and
purebred livestock, roads, live
stock marketing and manage
ment, sheep production and feeds
and feeding sub- committees.
These sub-committees presented
over 40 recommendations for con
sideration by the livestock com
mittee. The home and community liv
ing committee this week mailed
a survey form to over 1000 fam
ilies in the county asking them
for information which w'll be
used in making comparisons of
the progress in the county over
the past 20 years in housing and
nutrition. Also included in the
survey is needed information on
the Morrow county museum pro
ject undertaken by that commit
tee. Sub-committees of the farm
crops committee are investigat
ing possibilities of marketing
surplus grains through livestock;
cost phase of wheat production
and farm programs.
Schools
those areas if a unified school
were built) that a new high
school could be built at no ad
ditional tax cost.
Study to Continue
Only the consolation of high
schools was considered in the
plan for it was felt that element
ary schools should remain as
they are and by relieving the
pressure of high school students,
grade facilities would then be
adequate. ,
It was voted 52 to 3 to continue
the study which was started at
this meeting.
The study has no actual legal
standing, but it was felt the in
formation presented can be of
help to the appointed county
school reorganization committee
in future decisions.