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fllvlf Copies 10c State Re tests Creek Park The parks department of the state highway commission will not assist with the development of a public park on Rock Creek, the chamber of commerce was advised Monday in a letter from the H B Glaisyer, commission sec retary. Some time ago the chamber along with several granges and other county organizations, ask ed the park department to study the site at the junction of Rock and Chapin creeks as a possible site for a state park. It was point Window Service Hours Shortened At Post Office A change in service hours at the Heppner post office will start next Monday, it was announced today by postmaster James H Driscoll. The changes will be made because of an ordered re duction of hours for postal clerks. Starting Monday window ser vice will be available from 8:30 a m to 5 p m, but final mail dis patch will remain at 6 o'clock, the same as it is at the present time. Currently the windows are open from 9:30" to 6 p m. Driscoll said he received orders Wednesday to shorten the hours of service and the original plan was to close the windows and step up dispatch time to 5 p m, an hour earlier than at present. This suggestion brought consid erable objection from business men who heard of the plan. Wed nesday afternoon Driscoll receiv ed word from A J Tonsing, Port land, district post office operat ions manager, that if service windows are closed at 5, actual mail dispatch could be held another hour until 6 o'clock. The early closing may cause some inconvenience to persons wishing to mail packages or pur chase stamps, for Driscoll said it will be impossible for the one clerk on duty to handle any such sales and also prepare late mailed letters for dispatch dur ing the hour between 5 and 6 o'clock. The Saturday schedule of 8 a m to noon for window service and 6 p m dispatch will remain the same as at the present. Driscoll said the Heppner off ice has been one of the few in Oregon where the windows have remained open until 6 o'clock, and he expressed pleasure with the latest arrangements that will still allow letter mail to be re ceived until the 6pm deadline. Jack W Griffin Services Held Sunday At lone Church Funeral services were held for Jack W Griffin, 62, at lone Com munity church Sunday Feb 2 with Rev Floyd S Bailey offic iating. Mrs Paul Pettyjohn sang accompanied by Mrs Cleo Drake. The pall bearers were Robert Botts, Howard Crowell, Clifford Aldrich and Jack Warren. Mr Griffin died in Hermiston Thursday Jan 30. He was a res ident of Lexington and was a former resident of lone. Burial was in the lone cemetery with Burns Mortuary of Hermiston in charge of the arrangements. He is survived by his wife, Frances, of Lexington, four sons, Billy and Jack Griffin of Lexington; Ted Griffin of Garden Grove, Calif; Charles Griffin of Stenson Beach, Calif; one daughter, Mrs Betty Jane Buchanan of Berkeley, Calif, and nine grand-children. He was a brother-in law of John and James Botts of lone. Relatives attending the funeral . from a distance were, Mrs Jane dleton high school this year. The Santos and daughter. Sharon, 'students will come from Pendle- George Harris, Miss Norma Barn-jton with Wallace McCrae, super- es, Wayne Harris, Richard Harris, intendent of schools in that city. Mr and Mrs Robert Harris, James' it js hoped that n large group Harris, all of Seattle; Lester Col- will be preSent to become aquain- pitts, Mrs Charles Cooley, Mr and te(j Mrs Robert Botts and family of Mrs James Hermiston; Gene Graham and" h f h daughter r,ancy, of Sela Mrs William Barratt comprise Md pf!'B n r!, 'the hospitality committee and Mrs Robert Buchanan, aU of Cal- Mfg Bprnard .forma; Mr and Mrs Lem Cooley , ard cleveland and Mrs Fred and son, Bob and Mr and Mrs V Gimbd the refreshment comml. R Cissile Natchez, Wash; Mr and tt Mrs Jack Warren of Heppner; i ' Mrs Daniel Graves of Taft Calif; 'UTTLE BASEBALt Mr and Mrs Richard Botts of MEETING CALLED Irrigon; Mr and Mrs Alez Kary of Gresham; Mr and Mrs Ronald There will be a meeting of par Fahl and children of Portland; 'ents and persons interested In Jack and Billy Griffin of Lexing- Little League baseball Monday ton; Charles Dugan of Heppner, at 8 p m in the Heppner school and his wife Mrs Frances Griff- cafeteria, it was announced to in, Lexington. !day. pnpr' gazette- Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February Proposal ec! out that there is no publicly owned park or recreational area in the county and the groups felt that the Rock creek site would make an ideal park. The state parks department agreed that the site was ex cellent but stated that it doubt ed that it would be used very little by anyone except local res idents. The letter said, in part," . . . The area was given very care ful consideration by the plann ing section of the park division. While it was found to be a very delightful place, and could be developed into a spot of great interest, it felt that its use would be almost entirely local. For that reason it is the feeling of the commission that it should be developed by the local commun ity or county. The commission does appreciate your effort in the search for areas of recreational value even though some cannot be developed by the state." The matter was turned over to the chamber recreation and wild life committee for further consid eration and the thought was ex pressed that the state possibly was overlooking the fact that highway 207, on which the site is located, is now being paved across the mountains and that in a few years it will be carrying considerably more tourist traff ic than it now. does Death Takes Korean Orphan Destined for Heppner Family The Korean orphan baby who died last week enroute to this country on the Harry Holt "baby- lift" plane had been adopted by Mr and Mrs Hubert WUson of Heppner. The Wilsons were in San Francisco to get the eight month old girl when they re ceived word that she had died from pneumonia while the plane was delayed at Wake Island while crossing the Pacific. The little girl Is the first of the many hundreds of Korean children brought to this country by Holt, Creswell, Oregon farm er, to die during the trip over the ocean. Chamber Hears of Need for Leadership In Youth Activities Mrs E M Baker of lone report ed to the chamber of commerce Monday noon on the work of the youth activities committee of the Morrow county Town and Coun try Planning conference and told the group that more adult lead ership is needed in nearly all fields of youth activities. Mrs Baker said that there isn't any complete agreement on youth activity problems, even among the youngsters themselves. She reported that a survey of county school students showed some youngsters feel more activities are needed, while many others say there are already plenty of them. She told how the group was trying to delve into the overall problem and that a final report will be made at the conference to be held February 18 at the Lexington Grange hall. Exchange Students To Speak at P-TA "Become aquainted with our global friends," is the slogan for the P-TA meeting to be held Wednesday, February 12 at 8:00 p m in the grade school multi purpose room. Two foreign exchange students will be present to speak. They are Francoise Nanur of France and Wolfgang Steise of Germany, both of whom are attending Pen wmm WIU1I.WHII1HL ilMMIPIIIMIilll.MI'mMamMWWi'yi . . J '-f . " . i : ?' - J ': ... $ f I ; 1 .4 4 v;- -. ' ; i : ' j ."') . , 17 - - ' 1 i iiifi-i ' i i iiniriiiimiiinit iiiiiiiiiii L .1 I. ibmiim3LJLmmMii. "J SOIL MEN DISCUSS REPORT Officers of the Heppner Soil Conservation District are shown dis cussing the annual report which was presented at the recent annual meeting of the organizat ion. Shown left to right are Raymond French who was reelected district chairman; N C Ander son, secretary, showing the and Ralph Saylor, Echo, past Soil District Notes Work At Annual Meeting More strip cropping and reduct ion of stubble with stubble re ducing implements before plow ing were among the goals and recommendations of conservat ion practices for 1958 made by supervisors of the Heppner soil conservation district at its ann ual meeting Monday night at the Lexington Grange hall. More than 50 attended. Raymond French, Heppner and Donald Peterson lone, were re elected to four-year terms as dis trict supervisors. Officers re elected were French, chairman; Peterson, vice chairman; Ray mond Lundell, lone; treasurer and N C Anderson, Heppner, sec retary. A progress report covering 16 years since the formation of the district showed 266 active district cooperators covering a total of 784,251 acres. Major conservat ion practices established to date include 9,837 acres of strip crop ping; 33,684 acres of contour farming; 4,835 acres of conservat ion crop rotations; 680,001 acres of range improvement; 129,504 acres of crop residue utilization; 3,925 acres, brush control; 3,519 acres, range seeding; 42,815 lin ear feet of channel improve ments; 60 diversion dams; 2,643 acres land leveling; 101 ponds constructed; 3,466 acres, improv ed water application; 2,239 acres, pasture planting; 30 acres, wind break planting and 145 acres wildlife area improvement. Conservation farm planning in the Heppner district is over 87 per cent complete with only 30 farms remaining in the area without plans, the report showed Many of the plans are in need bf revision and will receive first priority after present applications are serviced, it was pointed out. District owned equipment for rental to cooperators Include a terracer, cultipacker, Brillion packer, noble blade and grass legume drill, according to the re port. During 1957 the district re ceived applications from 10 new icooperators totaling 35,363 acres, bringing total applications to 323 covering approximately 904,580 acres. , Charles Ross, extension forest er, Oregon State college, showed colored slides illustrating beaut ification and protection of farm steads with windbreaks. Every Eastern Oregon farm should have a windbreak for comfort and beauty he said. "Sixteen years of soil and wat er progress in the Heppner SCD illustrated with colored slides in the district was discussed by Tom Wilson, work unit conservation ist, soil conservation service. French presided at the session and presented Orian Wright with a past supervisor's plaque. Other members of the current board of supervises are John Wightman, Heppner and Alvin Wagenblast, Lexington. Advisory supervisors are Charles Carlson, Don Mc Elligott, lone; Dick Krebs, Cecil; Joe Doherty, Pilot Rock; W E Hughes, Heppner; Kenneth Peck, Gene Cutsforth, New't O'Harra, Lexington. , Refreshments after the meet ing were furnished by the Lex ington Implement company and Hatfield grocery. Mr and Mrs Lowell Cribble returned Sunday from a weeks business trip and vacation to Phoenix, Arizona. 6, 1958 report to Charles Ross, extension presiaem ox xne..itue oou vgnseivauou maunis. uauu ruuiu; FLOWERS AND TREES SHOW BLOOMS AS WINTER FAILS TO APPEAR-YET! The calendar says its winter, but from the temperature and the actions of many flowers and trees, spring is either here or winter certainly has lost its grip. Two weeks ago this paper re ported a tulip in full bloom and since that time there have been many other reports that plants and trees are coming to life and Dimes Drive Nets Nearly $1200 Since January 20 A total of $1199.24 has been turned in since January 20 in the 1958 March of Dimes drive, it was reported this week. This does not include .all monies re ceived to date, for a full account ing of money which came in prior to January 20 is not complete. Holding the honors for the greatest collection is Heppner high school's Teens For Polio campaign which netted the drive $542.63. The Heppner grade school added $105 and Elks act ivities another $21.40. The March of Dimes benefit shoot given by the Morrow county gun club and the Elks showed a profit of $140 and the Mother's March on Polio under the chairmanship of Mrs Rod Murray netted $104.45. Coin collections since Jan 20 are $38.45, it was reported. A total of $113.68 was received from campaign work in lone with $126.68 coming from many coffee hours and $17 from mailers. In Lexington polio mailers brought in $100.63. The present total drive figure is thought to be in the vicinity of $1800, but it was emphasized that there are still several com munities which haven't made any report to date. Sayers Moves To Portland Post Office Floyd Sayers, career postal clerk in the Heppner post office has been transferred to the down town Portland office and will start his new duties there next Saturday. Sayers came to Heppner from Portland in October, 1951 and during his more than six years here has been very active In civic affairs. He served as com mander of the Heppner Leg ion post for one year, worked in Junior Legion baseball and sev eral other sport activities, was a member of the Heppner Jay Cees, and served as drive chair man for several county-wide fund campaigns. Sayers' wife operates Kay's Fountain-Lunch and will remain here with their family until the end of the school year. The vacancy in the local post office staff will be filled by Mrs Vern Edwards. WEATHER The Heppner weather station reports: Hi Low Thursday 51 34 Friday 51 34 Saturday 52 34 Sunday 48 33 Monday 41 30 Tuesday 48 32 Wednesday 46 34 Prec .10 .02 .22 Rainfall for the week .34; for January 1.56; for February .22; for the year 1.78 Inches. Times 74th Year, Number 48 forester at Oregon State college. showing buds and sprouts. All 'are at least a month ahead of normal. The latest report tells of a l;irge maple tree in a yard on north Gale street in full bloom. There have been no other reports of tulips showing color, but nearly every yard shows tulip and daf fodil leaves well above ground. Many rose bushes and other shrubs and bushes have been showing leaves for one or two weeks. Several long-time residents of the county have reported the present winter to be the warmest and most "open" in their mem ory. The lowest temperature record ed at Heppner during the past week was only 30 degrees, and the coldest it has been the en tire winter was 18 above. Snow has fallen on only two occasions and neither time did it last long enough to much more than Whit en the ground for a few minutes. Funeral Services Scheduled Friday For Robert Gammell Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p m at the Creswick Mortuary chapel for Robert Gam mel, 82 years of age, who passed away February 4 following a long illness. The Rev Charles Knox will officiate. Mr Gammell was born October 10, 1875 at Villesca, Iowa and came to Morrow county 47 years ago from Wyoming. He died at Pioneer Memorial hospital where he had been a patient for the past one and one-half years. He is survived by his wife Le- Vonnie of Heppner; three sons, Mancel of Grand Junction, Color-1 mainder of Garnet Barratt's un ado, Lester of Adams, Oregon and , expired term (three years) or Marvin of Heppner; two daught- whether he would have to run for ers Mrs Mary reamer ana Mrs ner; 1U grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Interment will be in the Hepp nor Masonic cemetery. Council Discusses Purchase of Lot In one of the shortest meetings in many months, the Heppner city council Monday night dis cussed plans for the possible joint purchase with the county of a lot at the corner of south Court and May streets to allow widening of that corner before the street is paved later this year. If it is obtained, the re mainder of the lot will be clear ed and used by the county for a parking lot to serve the court house. One building permit for $400 for alterations and repair was is sued to Larry Dowen, and further investigation will be made on a new house numbering plan for the city. Bull Riding Again On Rodeo Program Ed Ring of Wilbur, Washing ton has been hired again to furn ish the stock for the 1958 Morrow county fair and rodeo, fillowing a meeting of the rodeo committee Tuesday evening. It was also announced that bull riding would be included in this year's program after an ab sence of two years. . Mr and Mrg Jack Bedford re- turned Tuesday from a few days In Portland. Umatilla Losing Ground In Battle For Highway The Umatilla county court was into Oregon at Boardman and continuing this week to grasp at all straws in an effort to find support for its contention that the proposed Ellensburg-Oregon highway should cross the Colum bia river over t he Umatilla bridge rathor than be routed further west and cross the river on a new bridge at Boardman. Federal highway planners, the Washington state highway com mission, the Morrow county court the Heppner Morrow County chamber of Commerce, the City of Boardman, and several other groups want the road to come BOARDMAN FERRY START SEEN Boardman and Morrow county may soon again have a direct ferry link with the Washington shore, it has been reported this week. E W Peck, Boardman, re portedly is planning to start the operation of a cross-Columbia ferry within a short time having leased equip ment from the Stevenson Towboat company of Stev enson, Washington. The fer ry landing on the Oregon shore would be about three quarters of a mile west of Boardman and the Washing ton end would connect with the road formerly used by traffic taking the old Pater son ferry which was purch ased by the Umatilla Bridge Company and discontinued some time ago. According to reports, the new ferry may be placed in operation within a short time. Interest Begins To Perk Up for County Offices Some interest is being shown in local politics this week, as the deadline for the filing for nom inations comes closer, but on Wednesday no actual filings had yet been made, county clerk Bruce Lindsay reported. The last day for filing is Friday, March 7. Five county offices will be op en this year. They are county judge, one county commissioner, district attorney, county clerk and assessor. Also all county pre cinct committeemen and women are elected at the primary elect- Ion. Four incumbents Wednesday indicated that they will file to succeed themselves within the next few weeks. They are county Judge Oscar E Peterson, clerk Bruce Lindsay, assessor Harry Dinges and district attorney Robert Abrams. Commissioner Ralph I Thompson stated that he will not run for another term and so far no one has indicated an interest in the job. Some misunderstanding arose earlier as to whether judge Pet- erson was nnDin(G(i for the re the post at the COming election, In the announcement of the ap pointment from Governor Holmes office, it was stated that he would serve for the remainder of the term, but district attorney Abrams since has determined that the law requires the ap pointee to run for the position at the next general election fol lowing his appointment. Peter son said that he will file shortly. So far the only county post that hasn't attracted any takers Is the one commissioner's job now held by Thompson. Neither has anyone shown any interest in any of the precinct posts, but these frequently are filled by write-in. Missionaries Slated At lone Church Mr and Mrs Emil Rilling, miss ionaries to Southern Rhodesia, will conduct special services to night (Thursday- at the lone Baptist church at 7:30. The pub lic is invited to attend. Mrs Rillings is the former Phyllis Casebolt who helped con duct summer vacation Bible school some years ago at the Heppner Christian church. WINDOW BLOWN OUT BY STOVE BLAST A big plate glass window In front of the Pacific Power and Light company office was blown out Sunday night about 11 o' clock when an oil stove in the rear of the building backfired. The blast blew the pipe off the stove and set fire to a nearby mop. It also scattered soot throughout the entire building. i connect with highways 30 and 730 at that point. During the past week Umatilla county judge D R (Sam) Cook solicited the aid of the Benton county (Washington) court at Prosser in supporting its claim that the new road should be routed through Prosser and into the Umatilla bridge. This how ever, fell flat, when the Benton court declined to get into the fight by stating that they con sidered their work limited to county roads and didn't intend to get tangled up in any arg ument over the proposed federal highway. The Umatilla county judge re ceived another rebuff during the week at the hands of an Oregon highway official who indicated that it was doubtful if the fed eral planners would accept the Umatilla bridge as a part of any federal highway system largely because it was too narrow for even two lanes by federal stand ards and also that the highway would require a four lane river crossing. Tri-Cities Help Asked The Umatilla court also sought the aid of the Kennewick chamb er of commerce ,and other cham bers in the Tri-CiHes area aid which possibly could tend to only further confuse the issue. The chambers of commerce in that area would like to see the pro posed road take a completely dif erent route than proposed by either of the other plans, one which would come clear into the Tri-Cities area before turning south into Oregon. The Washing ton highway department how ever, already has approved the federal route which would run from Ellonsburg to a point near Toppenlsh then swing south to a point on the Columbia river ap proximately opposite Boardman on the Washington shore. How actively Umatilla is fight ing the proposed route is shown in a story in last Saturday's Walla Walla Union-Bulletin which quoted judge Cook as charging the highway commiss ions of both states with giving Umatilla county the "run around" on the issue. It stated that Cook said the Umatilla county court is taking direct act Ion in an attempt to block the Morrow county entry, and that special delivery letters have been sent to all of Oregon's congress men. Oregon To Act Umatilla county has received the support of Governor Robert D Holmes who last week asked the state highway commission to give consideration to the Uma tilla proposal. It was in the same story, which came out of Salem, that state highway engineer W C Williams said that the federal government would never approve the use of the Umatilla bridge on a federal freeway because it was too narrow. Before the overall road plan can be developed, wherever it may fmally be located, the Ore gon state highway commission must also approve the route as has the Washington commission. It will be considered by the Ore gon commission at its meeting in Portland February 27. The Morrow county court has indicated that it will have rep- resentation at the commission meeting to urge acceptance of the Boardman route. 48 Youngsters to Get Swim Awards Forty eight Heppner boys and girls will soon receive certificates for completing beginning and intermediate swimming lessons during last summer's Red Cross swimming instruction at the Heppner pool, it was revealed this week. The certificates were received recently by Mrs Orville Cuasforth, county Red Cross head. Sixty-five beginners started the course with 28 completing the Instruction. Twenty-nine started in the intermediate group and 20 finished. The beginners who will short ly receive their certificates are Eric Anderson, Mark and Chris Brown, Greg Kreimeyer, Kerby Bailey, David Matheny, Jerry Waggoner, Gary Dick, Vickie Kreimeyer, Patty Collins, Linda Heath, Judy Jones Bob Harris, Mike Sweek, Meredith Webb, Wayne Evans, Deane Robison, Ronnie Jones, Steve Pettyjohn, Diane Warren, Linda Thompson, Maralee Murray, Ronnie Cris man. Mark Murray, Brenda Young, Nancy Cleveland, Betty Angel, Rogena Wilson. Intermediates are Bruce Thom son, Ann Jones, Ted Turner, Judy Schmidt, Karen McCurdy, Marline Fetsch Dianne Schaffitz, Barbara Blake, Rodney Ayers, Gary Dow ne, Charyl Bellenbrock, Larry Heath, Tim Driscoll, Bob Massey, Roseann Ayers, Coral Oslund, Jay Ball, Bill Snyder, Patty Mahon and Laura Summers.