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MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
Tht Heppnw Gaaettt, stabllhed March 30, 1883. The Heppnw Time published
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, February 20. 1953
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From the files of the
Gazette Times
February 23, 1923
A trainer of many years ex
perience, in the person of Jor
gene M Christiansen, is now em
ployed at the Eastern Oregon
Stock Farm of B F Swaggart of
Lexington.
ODD ENDS...
CAPE CANAVERAL, OREGON?
Morrow county this week could claim another
news "first" at least for the current season,
when three members of the lone Rocket Club
got their experimental missile off the ground
last Sunday. The launching was completely succ
essful, too for once it got into the air, nobody has
seen anything more of it.
We sort of doubt that the launching was so
perfect that the rocket is still going up, but at
least it got high enough that it disappeared in
the clouds and that's a pretty good accomplish
ment when compared to some of the other launch
ing attempts of recent months.
Wonder if we might be able to get a Cape
Canaveral, junior grade, established locally?
WHAT ARE THEY?
Our curiosity has gotten the best of us recently,
so we are asking the help of our readers!
In traveling over this section of the country,
we have found literally hundreds of bright red
and yellow ribbons dangling from power poles,
fence posts, sage brush etc. Each one is attached
to a little metal tag on which are numbers and
letters. These decorations can be found all the
way down Willow creek, across the Morgan-Arlington
road, on highway 30, and many other
county roads.
We've asked a dozen people what it is all
about, but nobody can give us a reasonable an
swer. If some of our readers know, we'd apprec
iate a letter for there must be many othrs who
are as curious as are we.
CALENDAR OF POLITICS AND TAXES
Just as a reminder to those who are thinking
about running for county, state or federal offices,
you only have until March 7 to file there's
always room for one more on whatever band
wagon you want. Also, personal property tax
payers should get their statements in to the
county assessor before March 2 or pay a penalty.
And, if you didn't pay your second quarter's
property tax by last Friday, you should have
It's now overdue!
Mrs Harry Quackenbush de
parted for Portland the past week
where she will spend a short
time visiting relatives.
From Th
County Agent's Office
By N. C Anderson
Eighty one 4 II leaders from sist of four sets of triplets and
seven Columbia Basin counties one set of quadruplets. The ewes
attended the 4 H leaders work-!are takin& care ot a11 of these
. . n . . 'lambs and to date Don has not
shop at Condon on February 12 h d t supplement the ewes'
and 13. During the one and one- ' IIIr ho n. onnivwimato,v
half day conference adult and 2nn upar, nrp stm rMn
Junior leaders discussed 4 H act
lvleies, record keeping, working
with club members and actual
problems relating to projects.
Those attending from Morrow
county were Mrs E M Baker, Mrs
Clarence Brenner and Mrs L A
McCabe, lone; Mrs Merritt Gray
and Mrs Andy Van Schoiack,
Heppner; and Mrs Kenneth Pal
mer, Lexington. William Rill,
Heppner attended as Junior lead--er.
Don Greenup, Heppner breed
er of registered Suffolk sheep has
a record lamb crop which would
be hard to beat. He has five
ewes with 16 lambs which con-
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THEATER
Thurs., Fri., Feb 20, 21
Devil's Hairpin
Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace,
Mary Astor.
PLUS
Black Patch
Western with George Montgomery
NO SHOW SAT., FEB. 22
Sun., Mon., Feb 23, 24
The Pajama Game
Doris Day, John Raltt, Carol
Haney, and many others
Tues., WedTFeb, 25, 28
The Bridges at Toko
Ri
Grace Kelly, William Holdcn.
FAMILY NIGHTS
200 head are still lambing and
to date Don has a 170 lamb
crop. Can anyone beat this record?
Reports from Don Robinson.
Heppner and Herbert Ekstrom,
lone are that they enjoyed the
experiences of the Red Bluff bull
sale at Red Bluff, California
early this month. They found
that the price of bulls had raised
considerably with the average as
high as $200 on one breed over
prices received a year ago. The
average sale price of 261 Here
ford bulls sold was $759.19. Herb
consigned three bulls; Don sev
en bulls. Don Is participating In
the Blue Tag show and sale at
Pendleton this week and has bulls
consigned to several others, in
cluding the Columbia Empire
Polled Hereford sale which will
be held soon.
Recently announced Is the 16th
annual weed control conference
which will bo held at the Dav
enport Hotel in Spokane on
March 18, 19 and 20th. During
the 3 day session the latest re
search In weed control of all typ
es will be presented by research
people from the west. For those
who might be interested, a com
plete agenda of the program is
available at this office.
While a complete report of the
Morrow County Town and Coun
try Planning Conference which
was held on Tuesday of this
week will be found in another
part of tills paper, we cannot re
sist making a few comments
personally. It was the thought of
NEW 4 H CLUB IS
BEING ORGANIZED
A 4 H club in child care Is
being organized in Heppner for
those girls ages 10 to 14 who
are interested in learning about
caring for babies and small
children. ,
Anyone wishing to join should
contact Connie Anderson or Car
il K Anderson who will be the
leaders for the club.
an excellent job in presenting to
the people in attendance in a
short period of time, background
and recommendations which
their committees had brought
out over the past few weeks. A
few, who had not participated In
actual committee meetings, re
alized the amount of work which
has been done by the committees
this winter. Everyone who work
ed in this planning of the fut
ure of our county should be con
gratulated. Persons from outside
the county who have attended
a series of these conferences
thought it the best one they had
attended from the standpoint of
recommendations presented and
the amount of participation by
people in attendance. Those of us
who have followed this closely
are proud to have been a part of
it.
The conferesce did not bring to
an end the work of these com
mittees. They will continue to
function and with the help of
everyone including organized
croups and individuals will bring
about those things which will
omprove our county. Many of the
recommendations made at the
conference are now in the process
of action. Several of these were
pointed out during the conference
including such programs as the
driver training program, accel
erated coyote control program
investigation of the possibility of
establishing a port commission
and others. Advocates of a county
museum were happy to have a
report from Bob Abrams that an
anonymous person was provid
ing funds to get this under way
and that Dona Barnett and Trina
Parker. Lexincton had offered
manv who I talked to alter the
conference as well as my own ; their home, free of cost, for the
thought that the chairman did 'museum.
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Clarence Bauman, O B Flory,
G Cowins, Milt Spurlock and
Spencer Crawford made up a
party of Heppner Legionaires
who attended the district con
ference of the organization at
Athena Monday.
The Heppner telephone ex
change now serves a total of 400
telephones according to D J But
in San Francisco who
diwy.
Veteran Employment
both political parties are making
sure that every office will have
one or more candidates at the
primaries.
Assignment To India
Robert R Johnson, of Salem,
formerly director of the State De
partment of Finance and Admin
istration left Saturday for Wash
ington, D C where he will. con
sult with the state department
hnfiro nrnfnorK n cy tr TnHin nn fin
assignment under an assistance Cattle 0wners Vote
contract between the India and
the United States governments.
This will be Johnson's third
foreign assignment. In 1952 and
1955 he was in Greece as an ad
visor to the civil government.
Other state services in Oregon In
cludes that of director of the
Civil Service Commission and the
"Little Hoover" committee on re
organization of state govern
ment. Famous Stamps Recovered
Stamp collectors, particularly
those in Oregon, will be happy
to learn of the capture of three
had his 3,474 owners have registered.
Both beef and dairy cattle own
ers may vote In the referendum
Veteran emp oymen c hnics - agricultural de-
are scheduled n four Oregon , ent The commisslon m
cities to famiharize veterans with V
job opportunities in federa ser- two.thirdof the cattle owners
vice as well as private industry,! . . . .. .
the U S Civil Service Commission who take part in the pool,
has announced. Accolade For Solon
The clinic schedule Includes . Senator Lee V Ohmart's eight
Medford, Feb 17; Roseburg, Feb!y0ars service in the Legislature
18; hugene, ten ia, ana jha9 made him far less than trie-
land. Feb 20. lutinv nhnnt- filino- fnr tp.
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election to another 16-hour-a-day
cner, manager oi tne racinc xei- j ig-vear-old bovs who took a rare
ephone and Telegraph company 'collection of Holv Land- stamps
at The Dalles.
Frank W Turner made a trip
to Portland daring the past week, oeen presented to the Jewish
going uown wun ms uuck wnu National Fund by Taylor who is
some machinery for delivery ln'a Methodist layman. Most of the
that were assembled by a Port
land man, Fred T Taylor. The 14
album collection- had recently
the city.
Supt and Mrs J M Burgess gave
a delightful party at their home
on Friday evening with four
tables of bridge in play.
stamps were found when two of
the boys were arrested in Tampa,
Florida and implicated the third
Monday, Feb 24 is the last day
cattle owners can register with
the State Agricultural Depart
ment to be able to vote on the discerning
whether a state beef commission senator.
128 day joust. There are a num
ber of senators about the state
who have the same reaction as
Marion county
is wanted. Already more than
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Candidate Filing Slow
There was a big slack last
week in candidate filings at the
state elections bureau. Long
time employees at the Capitol
say they never saw it as slow at
this time of an election year.
After Valentines Day there are
only fifteen state office days on
which candidates can file if they
expect their names and slogans
to appear on the primary election
ballot. This apathy, or appre
hension, does not mean there
might be uncontested offices on
the last day.
The racket will be poor this
year for political gypsies who
scan the nominating lists in the
state elections bureau hoping to
find a last minute vcancy for an
office everyone has overlooked.
Ever since the present primary
law was enacted in 1905, to suc
ceed the corupt old system, these
scrutineers have been more or
less active.
This year the committee of
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