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MORROW COUNTY'S NIWIIAFIB
The Heppnw Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppne Time Hlihed
November 18, 1897. Connolidated February 15, 1912
NSWSPAPIR
PUBLISHERS
ASSOCIATION
Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner,
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Yeaf; Elsewhere
TO THE
EDITOR . . .
Dear Sir:
As a graduate of Lexington
high school (1956) I was very dis
turbed to learn of the activities
of the "Educational Betterment
Committee" directed at closing
Lexlngon High school. Most of
the arguments used by this or
ganization are either fallacious
or ridiculous.
Perhaps the biggest argument
of this organization (who, inci
dentally violated a federal law
by sending anonymous letters
through the mail) was the de
ficiency of the curriculum offer
ed by Lexington. If a complaint
is to be justified here, it must
be on the grounds that the curr
iculum does not prepare stud
ents for college.
In my own personal exper
ience (I am a sophomore at the
University of Oregon)' I have
found that people from smaller
schools are better prepared for
college than those from large
schools offering all feasible
high-school courses. It is true
that those coming from larger
schools may be better intellect
ually prepared for college stud
ies, but their immaturity more
than offsets this advantage.
Scholastic deficiencies can be
made up, but there is never
another chance to grow up.
It is my contention that
Lexington High school off
ers an opporunity to achieve ma
turity that could not be match
ed by any merger.
Very Truly yours,
Don Casteel
To The Editor:
I read with interest your edi
torial of March 20, regarding the
founder of the Heppner Gazette.
You said that several old-timers
had told you that it was John
Watermelon Reddington that
founded the Gazette, but you are
all wrong. Following Is a con
densed history of the Morrow
County Press:
The "Gazette" was established
on March 30, 1883 by a joint
stock company, with Henry Hep-
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and Heppner residents who
live on Aiken, Water or K
streets, or north of these streets
to the city limits may reg
lser at the boxofflee for free
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ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publleher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
pner, Jack Morrow, Ellis Minor
and several other old-timers,
with J A Stine as a principal
owner and the very first editor.
Less than a year later the pap
er was sold to John W Redding
ton, an old Indian scout and re
porter. He kept the paper for a
little less than five years then
sold it to the Rev Henry Rasmus
(uncle of Orve's). Rev Rasmus
was one of the very first preach
ers in Heppner and was a Bap
tist. Mr Rasmus kept the paper
till sometime in 1886 when he
sold it to the Patterson Publish
ing Co, with Otis Patterson as
edior. When Otis Patterson mov
ed to The Dalles he turned the
paper over to Corleis Merritt,-who
continued as editor until Feb
ruary, 1900, when the paper was
again sold to Mr Reddington. He
kept the paper for only a few
months and sold out to Warnock
and Mitchell. In a short time
Fred Warnock bought out his
partner, and kept the paper un
til he sold it in 1911 to Vawter
Crawford.
The Gazette's first rival was
the "Heppner Record", but this
paper was soon absorbed by the
Gazette. On March 1, 1892, the
Gazette issued its first semi
weekly. The Gazette published
many large issues of this paper
and sent it to all the eastern
states, advertising the advantag
es of coming to Morrow county
to live. The semi-weekly was dis
continued in 1897.
On November 18, 1897, the
Shutt Publishing Company in
vaded the field and established
the "Heppner Times" with E M
Shutt as editor. At this time the
Gazette changed to an eight page
weekly and has remained a
weekly ever since. The Heppner
Times was a four page weekly.
About a year or so after the
Heppner Times was established,
the "lone Herald" and the "Hard
man Homestead" was launched
in the county. The lone Herald
was established on December 28,
1898, with Miss McMicken as
owner and editor. The Hardman
Homestead gave up in 1900 and
transfered its subscription list to
the Heppner Times. In January,
1899, the "lone Post," edited by
G S Parker came out as a rival
of the "lone Herald." In March,
1900, Mr Parker sold the lone
Post to J G Crawford, who sold
it to Miss Virginia Doaton the
following July. Miss Deaton was
still running this paper at the
time of the Heppner flood of
1903, then sold out to the Gazete
and quit the field for good. Her
paper was a four-page six col
umn weekly.
Sometime after Mr Crawford
bought the Gazette from War
nock, he purchased the Heppner
Times and edited the two pap
ers under the name "Heppner
Gazette Times" and to this day
It has been known by that name.
The "Bunehgrass Blade" was
esablished In Lexington some
time in 1886 by Jerry Nunan and
gave up the ghost about 4 years
later. The Lexington Budget was
published for a little while, but
was not a success as a newspap
er. Now comes Mr A J Hicks, who
for a number of years owned and
edited the Spokane Spokesman.
He sold this paper and went to
Ellensburg, Wash in the fall of
1889, then sold out and went to
Heppner the latter part of 1891
and purchased the Heppner Tim
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es. He sold out a little later and
went to Castle Rock, Wash and
bought the Cowlitz County Ad
vocate, but later sold this paper
and returned to Heppner and
bought out the interests of the
Heppner Times from Mr Shutt
in 1910.
In 1913 came a young man by
the name of E G Harlan who
with his brother L K Harlan es
tablished the "Heppner Herald"
and later on in the year pub
lished for a few months the "lone
Bulleton" with L K Harlan as
editor. There was a dispute be
tween Vawter Crawford and E G
Harlan about which one brought
the first linotype machine into
Morrow county. Mr Harlan told
me (Yeager) that he had pur
chased the machine ahead of
Mr Crawford, but through a mis
take of the railroad in deliver
ing it to the Gazette Times of
fice, he supposed he had to take
second place. The Harlans' also
started a little paper either in
Irrigon or Boardman, but it soon
quit. Mr Harlan put up a brave
front, but lacked the financial
support and soon went to the
wall, leaving the county with
the old "Gazette" once more in
full control of the county press.
Years ago, a small group of
Eightmile farmers organized a
newspaper company, but it fizz
led out and no paper was ever
published.
I do not know the exact year
that Vawter Crawford died, but
the Gazette Times was in posses
sion of the Crawford family un
til the year of 1951 when O G
Crawford sold the paper to Mr
and Mrs Robert Penland, who
still own and edit the paper. The
paper is still going strong under
the able management of the
Penlands' and it would take a
strong paper indeed,' to gain a
foothold in the newspaper field
of Morrow county.
Dr J Perry Conder started a
paper about 25 or 30 years ago,
which he had printed and mailed
to every one in the county, but
he soon gave this up.
Many more pages could be
written about the Morrow county
press and especially the one and
only Heppner "Gazette". When I
was a boy, my mother always
called our paper the "Gizzard"
and for a long time I thought
that was its name.
O M Yeager
Dear Editor:
Mr S G McMillan,' a native
son of Lexington has just inform
ed me that I left out one paper
which was published in Lexing
ton, The Wheatfield was one
which I overlooked. That paper
was published between the
Bunehgrass Blade and Budget.
Bert Mason
Milwaukie, Ore
County Agent's News '
Bill Barratt, president of the
Morrow County Livestockgrow
ers Association announces that
a meeting of the general mem
mership will be held on Monday
evening, April 7. This meeting
will be one of the more im
portant ones of that association
for the year when recommendat
ions will be discussed as pre
sented from the several active
committees of the Association
and resolutions adopted which
will go on to the Oregon Cattle- j
men's Association for considerat-
HEPPNER r.AZETTE -
NEWEST SPRING FASHIONS SEEN
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AT CIVIC LEAbuh j
Last Wednesday evening a
large crowd attended the annual
spring style show given by the
Heppner Civic League, at the
Elks temple, for the benefit of
the kindergarten.
The committee in charge of the
event included Mrs Fred Gimbel,
Mrs James Norene, Mrs William
Labhart and Mrs L E Dick. Mrs
Philip Blakney and Mrs Paul
Koenig were In charge of the
refreshments.
Mrs Labhart was commentat
or and Mrs Gordon Pratt played
background music. ;
Intermission numbers were vo
cal solos by Mrs Norman Peters,
accompanied by Mrs Vic Krei-
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From the files of the
Gazette-Times
March 29, 1928
The music study club held a
verv interesting meeting at the
A M Phelps home on last Mon
day evening.
B G Sigsbee was elected pres
ident of Heppner Country Club at
a meeting Monday evening and
Francis Doherty, secretary-treas
urer.
Mr and Mrs Henry Schwartz en
tertained a number of friends at
their home on Wednesday even
ing, the occassion being their
27th wedding anniversary.
The officers of the fourth grade
which were elected this week are
as follows: president, Ruby
Northness; door tender, Marshall
Fell; board cleaners, Lola May
Coxen and Genevieve Hanna;
flower tender, Billy McCabe;
nurses and doctors, whose duty
it Is to inspect the face, hands,
teeth and clothes of every pupil
each day the last one in each
row, and leaders, Viola Kirk and
Lloyd Burkenbine.
Miss Odile Groshens of Portland
was a weekend visitor with rel
atives and friends in Heppner,
her former home.
Last Saturday the Boy Scouts
took a hike up Willow creek.
They started at 5:30 and cooked
breakfast after reaching camp.
ion at their annual meeting. The
annual meeting of the Oregon
Cattlemen's Association will be
held in Ontario on May 12, 13
and 14. Livestockgrowers are
urged to attend this meeting
which will be held at the county
court room, beginning a 8:00 pm.
Those who have not had the op
portunity to join the Associat
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mever. and a dance by Sheridan i
Wyman and David George.
Local stores showed the latest
In spring fashions for women,
girls, children and boys. The cor
sages were donated by Dick's
Greenhouse and the Heppner
Flower Shop decorated the tables. j
Small fry modeling were Kathy j
and Karen Blake, Kent and Kev-:
an Pratt and Leslee and Tammy
Meador.
MnHplin? womens' dresses
were Mrs LaVerne Van Marter,
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of her grandmother, Mrs Gedola
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the 1926 dress of Mrs Sam Turn
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wearing the gown she chose for
her own wedding in February.
RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY
It is with profound sorrow that
Sans Souci Rebekah Lodge No
33 of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows adopts the follow
ing rseoultions:
Whereas, the Almighty Father
has seen fit to call our beloved
sister Bernice Groshens to her
eternal rest, and whereas, her
presence and help will be sore-,
ly missed. '
Therefore, be it resolved, that
Sans Souci Rebekah lodge No 33,'
in testimony of its loss and in
expression if its love, drape the
charter. Be it further resolved
the lodge be extended to the
family of our departed Bernice
Groshens, and be it further re
solved, that a copy of these res
olutions be spread on the min
utes of the lodge and that a
copy be sent to the bereaved fam
ily.
Her life was no brief candle,
but a splendid torch which will
continue to shine brightly for all
who knew her;
Even death has a wonderful mis
sion. Tho it robs us of those we love
It lifts our hearts from our surr
oundings To long for that meeting above.
No matter how great the despair
Doesn't Heaven seem nearer
and dearer
To know that our loved ones are
there.
Hazel C Bauman
Jessie Furlong
Naomi Matthews
Committee
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