Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1958)
T. I BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. b Copies 10c Heppner Oregon, Thursday, March 6, 1958 74th Year, Number 52 u a Win i l'FPPNPR ftA7 M r-V 41 M 41 U -x 41 " J 4 VI - i .. . V u .-..; - . . " f ?t v. f). j (.': K-i- j ,"t i 9 m mml fell nah Hearing Method Disliked By Morrow Delegation Morrow county's hopes for a direct highway link between Boardman and the Yakima val ley received a setback last week end when the Oregon state high way commission voiced strong favoritism for a change in the route to bring it into the state over the Umatilla bridge. The commission's engineers had prev iously stated that the bridge was not feasible for use in any fed eral inter-state highway system. The attitude of the commission members and the engineers dis appointed Morrow county rep resentatives who attended the hearing held last Thursday and Friday in Portland and present ed this area's arguments in sup port of the Boardman crossing which had previously been pro; posed by the Federal highway engineers and approved by the Washington state highway de partment. Bucking the Washnig ton and Morrow county propos al was a Umatilla county dele gation headed by county judge Sam Cook" who pleaded that if a new bridge were to be built at Boardman, it would break the Umatilla toll bridge on which there is over $5,000,000 still ow ing. The Umatilla group asked, and the highway commission agreed that the planned highway from Ellensburg to Oregon be rerouted from a point near Satus In the lower Yakima valley to follow a more easterly direction to the north end of the Umatilla bridge which is nearly 20 miles up stream from the proposed Board man crossing at Blalock Island. An Oregon highway engineer stated that the new routing would require little or no' ad ditional length of road in Wash ington, but this statement has been seriously questioned by county judge Oscar Peterson and others from here who attended the hearing. They claim the Umatilla route will require at least 10 miles of additional high way in Washington and about 12 to 15 miles more in Oregon. In addition, the Morrow group point ed out that to bring the high way through Umatilla, Hermis ton and Stanfield would be bringing it into a bottleneck area of heavy population and high property costs. The Morrow delegation ex pressed displeasure with the com mission's method of announcing its decision at least a full day ne "w held by Ralph Thomp ahead of the Friday afternoon son- Heppner, who Is not seeking hearing when the local group reelection, was scheduled to present its side The one office where a prim fif the case. Some of those from ; ary contest is assured Is that of borrow county and Boardman ' assessor. Incumbent Harry Ding who presented briefs at the hear-' es filed several weeks ago and ing have stated since that the 'this week Delmer Buschke of hearing was in effect "a waste of Heppner filed petitions seeking time" inasmuch as the commiss- the nomination. Both are Repub ion members apparently had licans. made up their minds on the The other filing was made by question before the Morrow county judge Oscar Peterson, Re group had been given a chance publican, who seeks a full term, to speak. He was appointed in January by Joint Discussion Due Governor Robert D Holmes to ThP Oregon commission act- fill the vacancy created by the ii all v left the issue up in the air though they made their ideas known, for the whole plan must be approved by both the Oregon and Washington highway com-, mission and the Federal planners before the project can receive a final OK. Whether the Washing- ton commission will acceed to the Oregon plan is not known, but joint discussions were slated for sometime this month by the Oregon highway commission. j The Morrow county delegation has sent its briefs and lnformat- ion on to the Washington com- mission and is urging that group to hold to its original plan for a river crossing at Boardman. , WCATHFD W t A I rl Cri Hi 47 46 46 47 49 47 LOW PreC 31 25 Tr Snow' Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday 24 25 32 30 33 .06 Wednesday 55 Rainfall for the week .06; March .06; for the year 3.87 In ches. CHAB Ltu siitu A crab feed, an annual event of the Heppner Elks lodge, will be held Saturday evening, March 22, it was announced this week by lodge officers. Council Approves New Mouse Numbering Plan For Heppner 5 ; ', Hr IP . ? - S LT (jg) DONALD E BLAKE, son pner, receives his Navy Wings ouicer iapi ueorge d inauee. ne was aesiynaiea a navai aviaior at the Naval air station at Hutchinson, Kansas. He qualified as a navai aviaior teo n, roiiowing preliminary mum-enginea , . ' a I I I in 1 , a A 1 training, ana la now undergoing n weens oi aavancea uuirun ion in the Navy's P2V Neptune patrol bomber. Resent Filings Indkafe Increased Political Interest A rash of near last-minute fil ings early this week gave ass urance that there will be a con test for at least one county of fice in the May primary elect ion, and the possibility of more. One office, that of county com missioner, which until this week had interested no one, now has two persons seeking it one Dem ocrat and one Republican. E O (Gene) Ferguson, Heppner Re publican filed for the position, and Jasper Myers, Butter Creek rancher, has indicated that he will seek the Democratic nom ination for the job. Wednesday he had filed one petition, and stated that his complete filing would be made before the dead line, Friday at 5 p in, The open commissioner's position is the resignation of judge Garnett Barratt. Peterson had previously said that he rjlanned to file, oiex Man Files Late Wednesday word was re ceived that Frank Weatherford, 1 oiex rancher, had filed in Salem , for the Democratic nomination for the state legislature from the 22nd district which includes Mor- row, Gilliam, Wheeler and Sher-; man counties. The seat has been held by Charles Allen Tom of Rufus who is not seeking re-1 election. So far no Republican has shown any interest in the job. I Weatherford, who has a ranch at uiex ana a cauie operation at Kimberlv in Grant county, pre- jvlously served two terms as Gil- iiam county commissioner and on VJICX -UUUl iuaiu. lie ai- tended schools in Oiex and Ar- lington and is a eraduate 0re' i has three grown children. On the state level the hottest , contests appeared to be in the governor's race where up to Wed "Z. nesday, five Republicans and tnree uemocrais naa meu. ine strongest Republicans appeared to be state treasurer Sig Unander and secretary of state Mark Hat- jfieldi though the reCent entry of warren uni oi Luanun is caus ing some concern in Republican circles. The Democrats have Gov- ernor Robert D Holmes, former legislator Lew Wallace, and of Mr and Mrs Earl Blake of Hep. of Gold' from his commanding Multnomah county assessor Wil ey Smith all in the running. Also of local Interest will be ' the contest for the second dis-1 UlL'L SL'cU ill Hie U O IsUilgie&Sf. Incumbent Al Ullman, Democrat, t,een talked for many years ln'NOrfeS Committees is seeking reelection; and the Re-j Heppner but prior to Monday A First Meetl'lld publicans have Marlon Weather- nlght-s actlon by the council) Mt r,rsi ford of Arlington running for theinothing definite had been done At the first official meeting of post. Weatherford is a brother ( towards putting one into affect, the newly organized Morrow of Frank Weatherford, who is One of the biggest advantages 1 county hospital auxiliary, Mrs running on the Democratic tick et for state representative, Girls to Tackle All Kinds of Jobs Dlirina "Hobo Week"lare rePrte1 onlv as somebody's chairman of the name committee. S house or business building. There 1 Mrs Alex Green was named The Heppner chapter of the have been several times in re- j chairman of a committee to org Future Homemakers of America icent years when the department anize a calendar of all holidays will have a Hobo Week March 10ibefore belng able' to locate a flre to la inclusive. Tne gins win work evenings after school, Sat-'the urday and Saturday evening at various 1nhs. TIipv arp not work ing for an hourly wage, since they vary in age and training, 1 but are to be paid for the tasks' when completed. J The girls are interested in baby sitting jobs, window washing, furniture polishing, raking yards, weeding flower gardens, assis-, ting with house cleaning and many others. The Hobo Week is a means for , the girls to raise funds for the chapter. ELKS SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS IF !i v. : I announced last Thursday night at the lodge meeting, rust place awards, one each to a boy and a girl, are $200 and second place winners receive S100 each. Top winners have a chance to com pete in district and state contests. Pictured are John Hartman, left scholarship contest chairman, and William Labhart extreme right exalted ruler. Winners, left to right are Jim Morris, Hepp ner, first; Tom Currln, Heppner, second; Mardlne Baker, lone, second; and Joann Brosmaa, Hepp ner, first place for girls, (Wilson Photo) A new house numbering sys tem will be put into effect in Heppner by about the middle of this year as a result of action taken Monday night by the city council when it approved a sys tematic numbering plan proposed by a council member, Robert Penland. The new system, which will replace a completely inadequate and largely unknown method, will include a complete renumb ering program and the install ation of house numbers on every residential and business build ing in Heppner. It is planned to follow the numbering with a street sign installation as money becomes available. The house numbering program will be financed by means of a special levy of $1.00 for one month fonlvl which will he nrtrl. ed to au Water bills within the cjty. The levy will be made at about the time the numbers are installed probably sometime be- tween late May and Julv J J The new numbering plan calls for four divisions of the city, north, south, east and west with the two dividing streets being Main and May streets, the same as Is being used at the present time. Block numbers will run 100 to the block in every direction from the central point the inter section of Main and May streets. Angle streets, such as Linden Way, Riverside, Race Track street (better known as the Willow creek road) and others will be numbered by the distance they lie east or west of Main street. Each block will carry 100 num bers and if annexations are made to the city In the future, the numbering plan Is designed to Include such areas in a logical manner which will conform to an presently numbered areas, Numbers Bier Heln A revised numherlnu nlan has of a new plan will be to aid I the fire department in locating lire cans, ai tne present it is chairman of the charter commit almost a necessity that firemen 'tee, Mrs C E McQuarrie, chair know where each city resident man of the membership corn lives because most fire alarms mlttee and Mrs Gene Pierce, was iurceu o iry several sxreeis After the numbers are Installed, Heppner telephone directory will also carry complete street addresses for all subscribers which will aid materially In dlr- ection finding. As tentatively planned, the new house numbers will all be Identical in style and will be placed in approximately the same position on all buildings: either directly above the door, or in the case of residences, on one side of the door where easily readable. The numbers will be aluminum with bright numbers I (Continued on Page 6) t w S Jill - : ''it v t,- aM. lili ; Senior winners of the annual ELKS lodge scholarship contest were Morrow Sends 2 Delegates to 4-H Week Conference Two Morrow county 4-H club members, Janet Wright of Hepp ner and Karl Beach, Lexington, will be delegates to a "Know Your State Government" meeting held Friday and Saturday in Sal em as part of the observances of 4-H club week. The week is being observed throughout Mor row county with 4-H window dis plays and special activities. The two Morrow representativ es to attend the Salem confer ence, the first to be held on state government, were chosen because of their records of accomplish ments in 4-H projects, church, school and community activities, Both have outstanding records in 4-H work. All delegates to the Salem con ference will be Interviewed to select two top boys and girls to represent Oregon at the nation al 4-H conference at Washing ton D C in June. Two years ago Janet's sister, Patricia was sel ected to attend the national con ference. Locally 4-H week has been ob served by window displays In several stores in Heppner, Lex ington and lone and by members appearing at civic group and other meetings. Governor Robert D Holmes joined In the observance of the week by Issuing a proclamation that congratulated the members on their efforts and praised the 4-H program for Its many values in youth development and lead ership. The announcement of the win ners of the national club con ference trips will conclude the Salem conference Saturday after noon. Hosoital Auxiliary , ,.. Garland Swanson, president ap pointed Mrs Jean Mallory as ana arrange ior aiiiereni organ izations to remember the hos pital patients on specific holi days thropgh the year. days through the year. Rosebaum, members of the Good Shepherd hospital auxiliary of Hermiston, spoke to the group, telling them about their organ izatlon and gave suggestions that will be very helpful to this new group, Mrs Kathleen Leadrord, new supervisor of nurses for Pioneer Memorial hospital, was Intro duced and spoke briefly. Monday, March 31 has been set as the date for the next gen eral meeting. MRS FRANK Mrs Frank Is "Mother Morrow county's first Mother of the Year was named this week : by a selection committee of thej county Pomona Grange. She is. Mrs Frank S Parker, 77 year old great-grandmother who lives on a ranch at the western edge of Heppner. Mrs Parker, who has lived in Heppner since 1913, was born in 1880 at Waitsburg, Washington, the daughter of J V and Eliza beth Crawford. Following her marriage to Frank Parker In 1905, the couple lived for a short time in Pendleton and Cove where her husband operated light plants. In 1908 they moved to a cattle Herbert G West To Be C of C Banquet Speaker Herbert G West, Walla Walla, executive vice president of the Inland Empire Waterways as sociation; and manager of the Walla Walla port commission, will be the guest speaker at the annual banquet of the Heppner Morrow county Chamber of Com merce, it was revealed Monday at the chamber meeting. The annual banquet has been slated for Monday night, March 24 at the Legion hall, and Is open to the public. West will speak on port com missions and how they can aid in the development of Columbia river properties. Through the ef forts of his commission at Walla Walla, a big new paper mill is now under construction at Wallula, a part of the commiss ion's area of operation. The establishment of a port commission in Morrow county has been discussed locally and was recommended by the recent town and country planning con ference. A more complete program for the banquet will be announced in the near future by members of the special chamber committ ee In charge. Granddaughter of Early Settler Dies Last Week Word was received this week of the death late in February of Mrs Cora Rhea Lamkin at the Masonic home in Forest Grove. She was the granddaugh ter of two of the earliest sett lers In Morrow county who are still remembered by place names In this area, Cecil and Rhea creek. Morrow county history records Include much about Mrs Lam kin's grandparents, according to Bert Mason, now of Portland who Is one of this county's most able historians. Her grandparents, Mr and Mrs Williom Y Cecil cross ed the plains to Oregon in 1862 and settled where the Oregon Trail crossed Willow Creek. They established a post office and tavern there In 18G7. Her other grandparents, the Rhcas settled on what was then known as the west fork of Willow creek. The name was later changed to Rhea creek. T II Rhea was married to Henrietta Cecil and a daughter Cora was born in the Rhea creek home. She attended the Rhea and Heppner schools. Services were held March 2 at Hillsbbro. Survivors include cousins Mrs Josie Jones, Mrs Norah Rasmus, E W Rhea, C C Rhea and Carl H Rhea. S PARKER S Parker - of Year" ranch In Hell's Canyon where they spent four years, seldom seeing anyone from the outside world. Mr and Mrs Parker celebrated the golden wedding anniversary in 1955, and their sons and daughters, all of whom attended colleges and universities in the state are Mrs Frances Mitchell, Portland bookkeeper; Vawter Parker. Hood River lawyer; John, a Pendleton accountant; and Mrs Fred Hoskins, Jr a Heppner housewife and school teacher. Mrs Parker has been a mem ber of the Christian church since she was 8 years old and has taught Sunday school since she was 14. At the present time she teaches an adult Bible class of 30 members all of whom are over 93 years of age and six are over 80. She is a past matron and secretary of the Eastern Star and a former member of the P-TA. Crawfordsvllle in the Willam ette valley was named for her grandfather, P V Crawford; and her maternal grandfather, J A Dunlap, was a member of the second legislature of the Oregon Territory. Mr and Mrs Parker have 10 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Pioneer Heppner Woman Dies Funeral services were held at All Saints' Episcopal church Monday for Mrs S M Morgan, 82 who passed away February 26 at San Francisco following a short illness. The Rev John Evans of. ficiated at the final rites and burial was In the Heppner Ma sonic cemetery. Mrs Morgan, the former Lutle Farnsworth, was born October 12, 1875 at Heppner to the pioneer family of Mr and Mrs Orrin E Farnsworth. She attended Hepp ner high school and graduated with the first class In 1894. She lived Intermittently in Heppner from that time on. She is survived by her son Edward K Young of San Fran cisco and a brother Karl Farn worth of The Dalles. There are also several nelces and nephews. Mrs Chas Wentworth Dies February 22 At California Home Mrs Charles Wentworth, 82, a former resident of Heppner, died February 22 in Pasadena, Calif where she has resided for the past 20 years. Mrs Wentworth, the former Lil lian Bisbee, was born In Hepp ner January 19, 1876, the daugh ter of a pioneer family here, Mr and Mrs Timothy II Bisbee. She attended school here and grad uated from the second Heppner high school graduating class in 1895. She was married to the Rev Charles Wentworth in 1903. Clifford and Charles; two daugh- She is survived by two sons, ters, Lucille and Florence; a brother Louis E Bisbee of Hepp ner and several grandchildren. Burial was in Pasedena. Parents Of Little Leaguers To Meet All parents of boys interested In Little League baseball will meet Monday evening, March 10 in the school cafeteria at 7:30. Reports from committees will be heard and a system of team selection will be decided upon.
