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APRIL 1st PRESENTATION of this remarkable telescopic gun sight
was made Tuesday by a group of Heppner business men to
Gene Pierce, manager of the Heppner branch of the Bank of
Eastern Oregon who here is examining his "loot." The sight,
made primarily out of an old beer can, came complete with sev
eral unusual Innovations said to be of great help to a hunter
These refinements, not found on usual sights, included a pro
pellor (annemometer) in front to record the velocity of the wind,
a wind direction guage, a compass, sun dial and a bunch of keys
valuable for opening sardine cans, mountain cabins, etc. There
was also a red light, which according to the lengthy instruct
ions which went with the gift, would light up when the cross
hairs were centered on a deer. The invention was thought to be
the brain child of a couple of local hunting enthusiasts who re
fused to divulge their names until the device is securely pat
ented. After receiving the gift during a formal presentation.
Pierce was so overwhelmed by the group's generosity and
thoughtfulness that he treated the entire gathering to coffee
and donut (1). The gunsight will be placed on display in the
bank until hunting season. (Special April Fool's GT Photo)
Track Squad Opens
Saturday at M-F
The Heppner High track squad
will take part in their first meet
of the season Saturday after
noon when they go to Milton
Froewatcr to participate in the
Mac-High Carnival of Speed.
. About 30 schools from Eastern
Oregon and Southwestern Wash
ington will take part.
Twelve Heppner boys will
make the trip and enter in the
following events: Dan Brosnan,
440 yard dash and relay; Tom
Driscoll, 100 yard dash, 440 re
lay and broad jump; Gerald
Bunch, 220; Neal Penland, 100
yard dash, 220 and relay; Bob
Huffman, 880 yard dash; Tom
Green, 880, high jump, broad
jump, and alternate for relay;
Renn Harris, mile; Sam Green,
mile; Tom Howell, shot put, dis
cus, javelin and relay; Doug
Cribble, javelin and pole vault;
Bob Mahoney, pole vault; Omer
Huston, high jump. Len Ray
Schwarz, who enters in the shot
put and discus will be unable
to make the trip.
The track schedule for .this
spring will include: April 12,
Condon, Arlington, Fossil, Lex
ington at Heppner. April 19, Pil
ot Rock invitational, 1 pm. April
25, Heppner invitational, 7:30 p
m. May 3, Eastern Oregon invi
tational at La Grande, 10 am.
May 7, county meet at Heppner,
7:30 pm. May 10, district meet
atjlermlston if qualify in coun
ty, 1:30. May 17, state meet at
Springfield if qualified In dis
trict John F Kiggins
Enlists in Navy
The enlistment of John Fred
erick Kiggins Jr of Heppner on
March 21 was announced today
by chief Ray Baumnn, Navy re
cruiter for this district. Kiggins
was sworn in at Portland and
then flown to San Diego, Calif
for his basic training. Upon com
pletion of boot camp, he will be
given 14 days leave before going
to a fleet assignment.
Chief Baumann also stated
that there are other vacancies
still existing in most all the
branches of the Navy including
aviation for those qualified. In
formation can be obtained by
contacting at the Pendleton Navy
recruiting station or by calling
CR 6-2G-12. He also makes a reg
ular trip through the Heppner
area on the third Tuesday of each
month and is at the Heppner
post office at noon on those days.
- TIMES, Thursday, April 3, 1958
FFA Members Place
In Recent Contest
The Heppner FFA chapter par -
ticipated in the district skills and peace was sn0Wn and appli
contest held recently at the new cations for identity cards were
agriculture snop ar. ine Liaaes.
Those attending and their re
spective skills were Tom Currin,
arc welding and agriculture
math; Ned Clark, oxy-acetylene
cutting; Dickie Robinson, oxy
acotyline brazing; Cliff Green,
rafter cutting; Mike Gray, tool
sharpening; Al.Osmin, tool iden
tification; and Robert Nichols in
rope work.
Mike Gray won fist place in
tool sharpening; Cliff Green sec
ond in rafter cutting and Dickie
Robinson second in brazing.
In the afternoon a soil judg
ing contest was held In which
Mike Gray, Cliff Green and Al
Osmin participated as a team.
County Cow Belles
Plan "Father" Award
The Morrow county Cow Belles,
meeting March 2G at Heppner,
approved the purchase of a sterl
ing silver belt buckle for the
county winner of the Father of
the Year contest, and a door prize
to be given at the state conven
tion. Mrs Gerald Swaggart, pres
ident, presided.
Mrs N C Anderson was appoin
ted chairman of the 411 beef
demonstration contest and Is to
contact the various cooking clubs
on the project.
A recommendation will be pre
sented at the state convention
at Ontario In May that entry
blanks for the Father of the Year
contest be sent to counties by
the first of each year. A letter
was read from Mrs Dave Camp
bell, state Cow Belle president,
on the presentation of "Beef
Sweet Candy" to the senate mem
bers in Washington D C, and a
letter of thanks was also re
ceived by the local group thank
ing them for the gift given Mrs
Campbell during the annual
meeting of the Morrow county
Cow Belles in January,
The next meeting was tenta
tively set for June 16 and will
be primarily a social meeting in
the evening at the Elks lounge.
Mrs Don Robinson will be enter
tainment chairman and Mrs
George Rugg in charge of re
freshments. Justice and
Municipal Courts
Ellis Edward Ball, excessive
motor noise, $10 fine.
Janice Beamer, parking restri
cted zone $1 fine.
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'53 Mustang Football
:edule Announced
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The Heppner Mustang's 1958
! football schedule was released
! this week by school officials.
;Thrt rofrnlarQ uill nlau ninfl earn. '
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es, opening at home Sept 12,
aaint wsiWa anH thon tv.
JV's will have four games.
Sept 12, Wallowa, here
Sept 19. Condon, there
Sept 26, Fossil, here
Oct 3, Pilot Rock, here
Oct 10, Stanfield, there
ct 17, Maupin, here
Oct 24, Umatilla, there
Oct 31, Moro, there
Nov 8, Echo, here
The JV's will play Hermiston
there on Sept 23; Pilot Rock here,
Sept 29; Hermiston here Oct 7;
and Pilot Rock there Oct 14.
Local GOC Group
Hears Training Talk
Members of the Heppner
Ground Observer Corps met for
their regular monthly meeting
March 31 at the home of Mrs
Nels Anderson.
Mrs Ray Smith, Post supervis
or, introduced MSgt Ralph a
Bragg of Arlington, new sector
sergeant for this area. He con
ducted a short training course
and spoke on Air Force base
tours and radar trips. MSgt Ro
bert D Coleman of La Grande
gave a lecture on Organization
of the Air Force, one of a series
of lectures scheduled to be giv
en on different sections of the
Air Force during the coming
months.
A movie depicting the team-
, work of the armed forces in war
filled out by m0mbers. Refresh-
ments were served at the close
of the meeting by the hostess.
I he next meeting will be April
28 at the home of Mrs Riley
Munkers.
Junior Rodeo Queen
Tryouts Are Slated
The Fossil junior rodeo, May
10-11, sponsored by the Bit and
Spur club of Fossil, this week
announced that all girls between
the ages of 9 to 18 are invited
to try out for the queen select
ion to be held April 12 at 2 pm
at the Fossil fairgrounds. Girls volve patrons in 50 Oregon cit
must be on horseback and will; ies and augment the West Coast
be judged on horsemanship, per-1 Telephone Company's annual
sonality and appearance. A queen take $600,000.
and two princesses will be select- j The suspension is for a per
ed. iod of six months during which
Judges will be Mrs Parr Norton, Investigation will be made by
Ashwood, Oregon, Mrs Desmond
Robinson, Spray, and Mrs Char
les Lange, Fossil.
AT AGRICULTURE MEET
Attending the Eastern Oregon
Agriculture conference Monday
at Pendleton sponsored by the
Oregon Bankers Association in ' ed the higher rates would affect
cooperation with Oregon State 6n 898 cust0mers in the compan
college, were Jack Bedford, man-' ys Ecavcrton, LaGrande and
ager of the Heppner branch of Coos Bav districts,
the First National Bank of Port-1 ATTENDING ATOMIC TALKS
land; Gene Pierce, Heppner man-i Oregon's Attorney General
ager of the Bank of Eastern Ore- !nobert Y Thornton left for Wash
gon, and Garland Swanson of jngt0n, D C last Sunday to con-
une. wrs uecuora accompanied
her husband to Pendleton.
ARCHIE PADBERGS
HAVE DINNER GUESTS
Dinner guests last Tuesday at
the home of Mr and Mrs Archie
Padberg were Mr and Mrs Lester
Harrison of Condon; Mr and Mrs
Edwin Tucker and family of
Salem; Eldon Tucker, lone; Mr
and Mrs Frank Cecil of Spray;
Nora and Elvera Myers of The
Dalles; Eddy Lewallen of The
Dalles; and Mr and Mrs Mike
Mcadlock of Spray.
EXAMINER COMING
A drivers license examiner will
be on duty in Heppner at the
court house Tuesday, April 8 be
tween 9:30 am and 3:30 pm.
Guests at the home of Mr and
Mrs C H rrivett are their daugh
ter, Mrs Allen Brown and son
of LaGrande and their son Joe
Privett from San Diego, who has
just completed his basic training
in the Navy,
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! HOSPITAL NEWS
New arrival To Mr and Mrs
Richard Lawrence Feller, Hepp
ner, a 7 lb boy, born March 29,
named Richard Edgar.
Patients Melvin Wham, Kin-
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Kinzua, dismissed; Hilma An-
derson, Heppner; Ronald Rounds,
Condon, dismissed; William E
Ward, Heppner; Gerald Samples,
Kinzua, dismissed; Lyle Kincaid,
lone; Robert Ferrell, Kinzua; Al-
lonzo Edwards, Lexington; Mar-
jorie Angell, Heppner; Gladys
Muzzy, Kinzua; June Ledbetter,
(Lexington, dismissed; Marion
j Marie Geer, Fossil; Ernie Ken
nedy, Condon; Myrna Marie
Lane, Heppner; Newton Matte
son, Heppner.
By MURRAY WADE
SO RED THE HEAD
The 1958 political campaign is
going to be a 50 50 or fight
show with the bad boys throw
ing all they've got and those
on the receiving end throwing
more right back a rollicking
show a whole series of them
with the two party impresarios,
GOP Jim Short and Dave Epps,
the Democratic wonder boy, de-
yeloping a new strategy program
for each event.
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Last Saturday night in Port-
iami ine isjo uregun uemwiai-
ic campaign kickoff dinner fill
ed the Columbia Athletic club's
immense dining room at $10 a
plate to net the party almost
$5,000.
Lew Wallace, Democratic can
didate for governor, introduced
Governor Holmes, who introduc
ed the speaker, United States
Senator Wayne L Morse. The
senator diagnosed the Eisenhow
er administration in terms that
.wowed the crowd
HOLDS PHONE RATES DOWN
A suspension of telephone rate
increases was made this week by
Public Utility Commissioner
Howard Morgan that would in-
the PUD staff, said Commission-
pr Morgan, and a series of hear
ings will be scheduled to determ
ine whether the proposed rate
increases are in the public inter
est and are necessary to provide
a reasonable return on the com-
pany investment.
i Commissioner Morean estimat-
for witn the Atomic Energy Com-
mission about possible needs for
nuclear projects.
Conferences with members of
the Oregon congressional dele
gation have been scheduled con
cerning a suit filed by himself
on Feb 28 to enjoin federal of
ficials from "juggling" the form
ula for approprloting federal -forestry
highway funds. He indicat
ed a possible compromise in the
case which threatens to deprive
the state of Oregon of $1,845,651
of federal forest highway funds
this year.
STATE'S USED CAR LOT
A socialistic angle might work
better for all the used car deal
ers in Oregon, who just now are
not too prosperous, if they could
let the state sell their stock or
if they could sell as fast and for
prices the state gets when they
have a sale.
Last Friday used state vehic
les sold at the rate of one every
two minutes at the state fair
grounds. The 67 vehicles, which ranged
from 1956 passenger cars to
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QUEEN CANDIDATES for the Lexington high school Sweetheart
ball, a yearly event sponsored by the Lexington P-TA. The girls
were nominated by their classmates and are elected by popular
vote of the townspeople through jars into which money is placed.
The money is used to buy gifts for the queen and her court. Left
to right are Barbara Steapall, a junior; Pat Steagall, senior, both
of whom are the aaugnters ot
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Joan FamcK, a senior ana ine
The ball and athletic banquet
at the school gym.
heavy duty trucks and garden
tractors sold at an average of
13 per cent higher than the of
ficial whole sale price set by the
National Automobile Dealer's
Assn.
The 250 who attended the sale
left $32,645.
STATE PARKS DRAW MORE
A new record of 8,626,475 was
set in 1957 for day visitors at
state parks. This was the 10th
brokcn
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I Top attendance was drawn by
iyaquina Bay State Park at New-
nnrt wjth 7fioR4! Statp Pflrk
near Coos Bay, was sec
ond with 361,278. Fort Stevens
State Park, at the mouth of the
Columbia river drew 313,701, up
143,421 over 1956. World famed
Crown Point in the Columbia
River Highway, by-passed by the
water level express route, de
clined from 364,200 in 1955, drew
only 193,197 in 1957.
AVERT HAMBURGER LAW
' Sixty days after new standards
went into effect 15 per cent of
hamburger tested for ingredients
were found to be in violation of
the Oregon law.
O K Beals chief of the State
Department of Agriculture food
and dairies division reported
that 4 out of 41 samples analyz
ed were found to contain ben
zoate. One contained nitrate and
one contained too much fat. Both
benzoate and nitrate are preserv
atives. Beals said the department is
also examining labels on ham
burger packages and checking
placards used in bulk meat cas
es for compliance with the man
datory labeling orders.
Farmers in Oregon
To Plant 5 Fewer
Acres This Spring
Oregon farmers intend to
plant about 5 percent fewer acres
this spring than a year ago, ac
cording to Mrs Elvcra Horrell,
extension agricultural economist
at Oregon State college.
' Studying results of a question
naire sent recently to the nat
ion's farmers by the USDA crop
reporting service, Mrs Horrell
found that Oregon growers plan
to seed 18 percent fewer acres of
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will be held Saturday, April 11
spring wheat this year than in
1957. More acres were planted to
winter wheat last fall, however,
and this would still mean 8 per
cent more land in wheat this
year, she said.
The state's farmers also indi
cated they expect to plant 7 per
cent fewer acres of oats than last
spring, 3 percent less barley, 2
percent less sugar beets, and ex
pect to harvest 3 percent fewer
acres of hay. On the other side
of the ledger, Oregon farmers
said they intend to up their us
ually small corn acreages by 11
percent, and increase fall potato
acreages by 4 percent. Acreages
of dry field peas will be about
the same as last year, it was
reported.
Over the nation, small cuts in
the acreaee of spring planted
crops were indicated. If growers
carry out their March 1 intent-
ions, 'acreage of 16 major crops
planted in the spring would be
down 2 percent from a year ago,
Mrs Horrell said. And, the way
things look now, this means the
total planted acreage of 59 prin
cipal crops will be a shade be
low last year but even this
slight decrease would shrink the
planted acreage in the nation to
the smallest total in 40 years.
Even though acreages should
be cut this year, total product
ion could hold up, Mrs Horrell
reminded. Modern machinery,
use of fertilizer, and all-around
farming "know-how" have upped
yields greatly in recent years.
There is also the chance that
farmers may change their minds
before spring planting time is
over, Mrs Horrell emphasized.
The whole purpose of the spring
questionnaire is to let each farm
er know the thinking and tenta
tive plans of other farmers. Aft
er learning what other growers
intend to do, each farmer may
want to do some adjusting of
his own planting plans.
Price changes, labor supply,
amount of available money, gov
ernment programs, and the
weather could also change the
picture, Mrs Horrell added.
Mrs Stan Daughtery and dau
ghter Stanlyn of Cottage Grove
visited over the weekend at the
home of her sister and brother-in-law,
Mr and Mrs W C Collins.
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Findings of Winter
Beef Feed Trials
To Be Told April 9
Winter beef-feeding trials aim
ed at lowering costs for animal
gains will be reported to Oregon
cattlemen April 9 at the annual
Feeders' Day of the Oregon State
college Malheur branch experi
ment station near Ontario.
Test lots of yearling steers
have been on feed trials since
last November to compare new
methods of feeding designed to
fit commercial feed operations,
according to E N Hoffman, sup
erintendent of the branch stat
ion. The program will begin at
noon (Mountain Standard Time)
with a free lunch at the hranrh
statjon farm fjve miles south
i aKj west of Ontario, just off
tne Vaje highway. The public is
jnviteci. in addition to seeing re.
; sujts 0f tne winter feed trials,
1 rancners win get a report on use
f nplleted feeds for beef cattle
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by Dr D C Church, OSC animal
scientist. Pelleted feeds are slat
ed for trial at the branch ex
periment station next year.
This year's feeding program
tested 56 high-quality yearling
steers receiving stilbestrol hor
mone treatment and a new am
moniated form of molasses dried
beet pulp. Both materials were
used in combinations with locally-produced
Eastern Oregon
feeds.
The ammonialed beet pulp,
still an experimental product,
looked good in preliminary trials
at the Malheur station last year
and is expected to be on the
market soon.
The winter feeding trials com
pared gains between feeding stil
bestrol and implanting a small
pellet of the hormone in the ani
mal's ear. Comparisons will also
be drawn between animals re
ceiving the new ammoniated
beet pulp, regular molasses dried
jbect pulp, and protein concert-
I trate.
All animals-seven lots of
eight each will be on display
with liveweight grades. Animals
will he slaughtered for market
following the Feeders Day. OSC
will publish a project rejort in
cluding comparisons of slaughter
grades and live grades.
One lot of animals will re
ceive only the basic feed ration
without stilbestrol to measure
any economic advantages of us
ing the hormone. All animals
have had free-choice alfalfa.
The yearling steers are from the
Squaw Butte-Harney branch ex
periment station where long
range breeding trials are under
way to develop uniform fast
gaining animals.
Mr and Mrs C A Ruggles spent
the weekend in Kennewick, vis
iting at the home of their daugh-,
ter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs
Jack Fastabend.
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