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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, June 12, 1958 Three Way Tie Arouses Interest In Little League The Willow Creek Little Lea gue was In a three way tie at the end of the first series of games Tuesday night. The Giants, Braves and Dodg ers each have won two games and the Indians are trailing with no wins as yet. The scores at the end of the first six games looked like this: Indians 8, Giants 9; Dodgers 3, Braves 14; Indians 13, Braves 26; Giants 5, Dodgers 12; Indians 8, Dodgers 11; Braves 7, Giants 16. The schedule for the next week is; June 16, Braves vs In dians; June 17, Dodgers vs Giants; June 18, Indians vs Dod gers; June 19, Braves vs Giants. Much interest has been shown In the Little League games with a good crowd watching the gam es each night. The playing field is in good shape and the players look proud and snappy in their new uniforms. No admission is charged for games, but the hat is passed to defray expenses of balls and bats. Only two bats have been brok en so far by the heavy hitting Little Leaguers. Forest Guard School Scheduled At Tupper Between 60 and 70 fire con trol personnel of the Umatilla national forest will attend guard school at Tupper guard station in the Heppner district June 23 through June 27, forest officials reported this week. Rangers of the six districts in the Umatilla forest who will serve as instructors are Vic Kreimeyer, Heppner; Homer Oft, Walla Walla; Mr DeWltz, Pom eroy; Fenton Whitney, Dale and J Hughes, Pendleton. Assistant instructors will be district as sistants. Charles Rector, Pendle ton, Is forest supervisor. Donald Clark, Heppner, will be camp boss and Sam McDanlels, assistant camp boss. Cooks will be Mrs McDanlels, and Mrs Ow en Leathers. Courses will be given in map reading, fire detection, use of fire tools, smoke chasing, small fires, small crew action and gen eral duties. Guests of Mr and Mrs Carl Spaulding over the weekend were her mother, Mrs Jessie Simpson of Springfield and Mr and Mrs Earl Friedly of Vida. On Sunday they attended a Sim pson reunion picnic in Walla Walla, Washington. Swimming Hours Set; Classes Start July 1 Swimming pool hours announ ced this week by Tom Hughes, lifeguard and swimming instruc tor, will be 1 to 4 pm and 6:30 to 8 pm on Tuesdays through Fridays and from 1 to 5 pm on Sundays. The pool will be closed for maintenance on Mondays. Swimming classes will start July 1 beginning at 9 o'clock in the mornings. Classes, to run in two-week daily sessions, will include sections for beginners, Intermediate, advanced, junior life saving and senior life sav ing. Adult classes will be sched uled at night if enough sign up, Hughes said. Those interested in swimming classes are asked to register at the pool desk with Janice Dris coll. Hughes asked students to plan uninterrupted two week classes that will not be broken into by vacations from town. A dollar registration class fee has been set for pool maintenance. If a student drops during a two week class session he must re register and pay the fee for en rolling again, it was pointed out. Daily ticket rates are 15 cents for grade student, 25 cents for high school and 50 cents for adults. Single season tickets are grades, $1; high school, $6 and adults $9. Family and season tickets will be $18. Hughes took two weeks of Red Cross instruction at Hermiston prior to the opening of the pool. Also taking the classes were Mrs Tom Hughes and Bill Hughes. Mrs Hughes, who will teach the adult swimming class, would like to start the lessons on Mon day, June 16 if enough are in terested. The time will be 6:00 to 6:30 pm or whatever time is convenient for class members. Those interested are asked to contact the office at the swim ming pool or Mr or Mrs Hughes. LOOSE SMUT COMMON IN MIDWEST, SHOWING UP HERE IN BURT WHEAT Loose smut, a wheat fungus common in the midwest, is show ing up on Burt in limited a mounts, N C Anderson, Morrow county extension agent, reports. He says the fungus, new to this area, has shown up on a few heads of the new breadtype hard 'white winter wheat for the past j two years. I In response to grower interest in the strange new smut, Ander- in this area. It may turn out to be an ideal target for loose smut, and its." agronomic habits may permit the fungus to maintain a foothold in the area. Some special studies are being planned to evaluate the loose smut problem and by next sum mer we should have more defi nite answers concerning this spe cific problem in Oregon. In the meantime experts be son says infected fields have,lleve inere is little reason for been surveyed when Dr W b farmers to be greatly concerned. Raymer, plant pathologist, Ore- Incidence of loose smut is so low gon state college, toured the ' u"s year mat even a iu to 20- fold Increase of the fungus in this year's seed would not cause any appreciable loss of yield In next year's crop. Justice and Municipal Courts Dallas Albert Rea, no brakes, $10 fine. Lewis W Ball, running stop sign, $5 bail forfieted. Charles R Jones, speeding, $20 fine. GRADUATES WITH HONORS BABE ROTH PRACTICE SET Miss Harriet Isom, daughter of Mr and Mrs Blaine Isom of Echo, and former Heppner residents, graduated with the highest hon ors of the class of 1958 from The Babe Ruth baseball lea gue will start practice Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the rodeo grounds at 5:30 pm. Dar rell Powers and Tom Hughes Mills College in Berkeley, Calif-will coach, ornia. FORMER RESIDENT VISITS HERE Edward C (Tina) Hale, Ta- coma, Wash, was visiting old ! Miss Mildred Clowry visited in Gresham with Mrs Julia Hicks last week. I Bill Hughes left Monday for ' Condon where he will be life guard and swimming instructor with Don Phillips, Pendleton, at the new Condon swimming pool. Hughes is a senior at Pacific RETURN FROM REUNION Mr and Mrs Ralph Thompson returned Monday from Corvallis where they attended the 50th anniversary reunion of his grad uating class from Oregon State college. Of the 82 graduates of the class of 1908 there were 42 present for the reunion. county with him last week. The extent and nature of the smut infection are decribed by the experts as followsi next years crop. 'ployed 44 years. bo far only a very small per centage of Burt plants has been infested. There has been little or no increase of loose smut during the past two years. And im-.c iiu.u ifdsun io ueueve, Mr and Mrs Harold Dobyns re- were a visit to Vatican Citv ...v..oC i-ui ucai iurriea to rneir nome at lone where thev saw the Porje and ye.ar- . .... J (Wednesday, June 4 from a trip I the tulips in Holland, the worlds cumraiwurauo Europe. I largest whole sale flower dis- from dwarf, and common or, Thp K t w, trihutnrs Th, visits vi stinking smut usually found in York eavl April 24, and i Luxenbourg and Manaco, where "l sailed on the Queen Elizabeth Dobyns tried his luck at the ca friends in Heppner this week Mr Hale, who lived here 50 years ago and ran the Star Theater, said the town is better looking than when he left. At that time , University. the population was 900. Mr and Mrs Garnet Barratt Mr Hale has retired from a were visitors in Salem last week, door factory where he was em- j Mr nA Mr, Clmidft Buschke. I THE HAROLD DOBYNS RETURN FROM EUROPEAN TOUR AND WORLDS FAIR smut spores germinate on the wheat flower and grow inside the kernel. When the plant heads, the whole head is al ready covered with smut spores. The spores are loose and free to blow around, and by this process infect other heads in the flowering stage. Loose smut spores require high humidity to germinate. Since Oregon's wheat areas are usually for South Hampton, England. They toured England and went to The Hague and Hook of Hol land on the USS Amsterdam. They toured Europe mostly by train and motor coaches. On the coaches there were 39 tourists, one tourist guide and driver. In France they were very un easy. On the long bridges there were 15 to 20 police on each side of the bridge and from three . . , . , , "'"C w viiucv nuvs uju mice dry during the wheat flowering to four truck loads of soldiers .stage, any oose smut spores on each end. While in Paris they around usually die instead of saw the Follies Bregere and in germinating. Loose s m u t London they saw a stage show brought into the state on plants aj tne paladium from the midwest has usually I Dobyns attended the Internat failed to reappear the second 'jonai Post Congress at Vienna, season- I Austria. He was formerly with Since loose smut has never, the U S Fish and Wildlife ser been a problem in the state, re- vlce but is now in a pest ex sistance to the fungus has not, termination business of his own. sincf at Monte Carlo and won. In Vienna they took a gondola ride. They enjoyed the food in Eng land, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland but didn't enjoy it so much in Germany, Italy and France. On the return trip they sailed from Cherbourg on the Queen Mary. WOMEN'S FELLOWSHIP TO MEET The Women's Fellowship group will meet Tuesday, June 1,7 at 2:30 pm at the church in Lexington. Slides on natives of Panama will be shown by Mrs Fuller of Hermiston. The public is invited. been bred into the wheat de veloped In this region. It is known that loose smut is carried over inside the seed but not in the soil, like stinking smut. It does not impart an odor to harvested wheat, does not Mrs Dobyns remained in Lu- 'TEACHER RECEIVES DEGREE cerne, Switzerland while her . . T . . ... husband attended the Congress. . Hartr'et 1 wh u.ln She took a sea air tram ride lne. he Past recived hfr which went 7,000 ft in the air. .bachelor of science degree in They attended the World's I e?utlor, fron regon ?,oll5e Fair in Brussels, which they en Mr and Mrs Max Buschke, Jerry Buschke, Ralph Benge, Terrel Benge, Matt Hughes and Doyle Key spent the weekend fishing at Westport, Wash. Loyd Bur kenbine was fishing there dur ing the week. Mr and Mrs Paul Doolittle and two sons of Portland were week end guests of Mr and Mrs Lester Doolittle. Mr and Mrs Alfred Mattoon returned Sunday from Roseburg where they attended the Elks convention. Mr and Mrs O T Kuch of Port land are visiting at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs Alfred Mattoon. Also visiting at the Mattoon home is Mrs Emma McCoy, sister of Mrs Kuch. All boys from 13 through 15 years of age are invited to turn out. Mr and Mrs Guy Shafer of Hermiston were Sunday evening visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Colley of Lexington. Olie Reede and son Kenneth of Spray visited one day last week at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Colley in Lexington. They were on their way home from the Hermiston stock sale. On Sunday Mr and Mrs Colley visited at the Reede ranch where he fished and Mrs Colley and Mrs Reede drove up to see the logging operations on Boloney creek. Mrs Emma Evans left Tues- day for her home in Portland after visiting the past two weeks at the homes of her sons and daughters-in-law, Mr and Mrs, Harold Evans, Mr and M;s How ard Evans and Mr and Mrs Earl Evans. Mr and Mrs Tress McClintock of Monmouth, former residents, were visiting here on Friday. Dr and Mrs L D Tibbies left Saturday for Salem where they were called by the death of his brother, Mortimer Tibbies. Mr and Mrs C A Ruggles were in Portland over the weekend. of Education at Monmouth this affect the quality of the wheat : invoH von, m,, Tho fair ;o0isPrlnS- harvested and therefore does not covered mostly by air tram and uiaw a uucKuge penally, u aoes motor coach. destroy the wheat kernels In the PARENTS OF DAUGHTER Mr and Mrs Don Clapuci (Peggy Wightman) of Concord, California are the parents of an 8 lb 2 oz girl born June 4. She has been named Margaret Patricia. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs M R Wightman of Tamoles, Cal ifornia and John Wightman of Heppner is great grandfather and Mrs L A Humphreys of Salem is great grandmother. infected heads, and can reduce yields. The fungus cannot be control led by seed treatment with fun Other high lights of the trip TV SYSTEM INSPECTED Wayne Aylward of the Blue Mr and Mrs Edwin Brosten, Elk River, Ida, were visitors at the John W Graves ranch Fri day and Saturday. Mrs Brosten, the former Eva Wilcox, is a sister of Mrs Graves. A family eicides. A snecial hot water unj.i. rM r woii nr.i reunion in honor of the Brostens treatment is necessary. This Is : ia, Washington surveyed the Frida 'evening with. an expensive anu ainicuit treat-, Heppner TV system last week , .,V'"V" j t ? a a ' Ta rvi i moo nrncant and recom- SEE FRIDAY 13TH SPECIALS PENP3KSI ft r" tih HI 4 V flNMmAa... si 1 1 -s i ri i s9 3! I 8 k ,8! S 8 3 Dan River, Galey & Lord and other head liners toam with our own Towncraft In pure sport shirt artistryl Thrill to our unusual metallics, the stellar perfor mance of Penney-tested Wash'N Wearsl 1.98 And 2.98 Men's Western Shirts Fancy chromspun Dan Ri ver plaids and plains 595 SUe HVi to 17 Big Mac Twill Pants 2x2 Army Twill, long wear ing Sanforized (Tan-Grey) 398 Size 29 to 42 Wash & Wear Gabardine Slacks Dacron & Rayon Gabardine slacks for men. 9! ,95 Size 29 to 36 White Cotton Pima Shirt Silky-Look cotton Broad cloth Long wearing San forized. 298 Size Wi to 17 m em. ir is n 1 nraciicai ior larpp t im,rntln,nnfn c o - lui liiiiuvcufciua iors 01 seen. mendations. On the basis of past exper- Aylward, who will submit a ience, we expect the present written reDort for board action. loose smut infection of Burt to stated the downtown system was disappear witnin a year or two. 'good but that amplifiers on the un me oiner nana, we can t top of the hill might be respaced uvenuoK timer pussioiiuies. closer together. mere is an outsiae cnance tnis may be a type of loose smut that is adapted to this region. There is also the fact that Burt is an entirely new type of wheat HOSPITAL NEWS New arrival To Mr and Mrs Chester W'illiams, Lexington, a G lb 8 oz boy, born June 9, named Thomas J. Patients dismissed Edwin House, Portland; Allen McNabb, Fossil; Jacquelynn McTimpeny, Heppner; Beverly Hatter, Kin zua; Alyce Scrivner, Heppner; Patrick Doherty, lone; Albert Stevenson, Condon; Donald Hill, Condon; Larretta Dobyns, lone; Newt O'Harra, Lexington; David Joyal, Condon; Jill Padberg, Lexington. Patients deceased-Rex Sweek, Monument; Avl McRoberts, Hep pner. Patients Kathy Nelson, Port land; Claire Anderson, Heppner; William Heath, Heppner; John Rogers, Lonerock; Edna Peck, Heppner. McFERRINS ARE GRANDPARENTS Mr and Mrs Carston Brand- hagen, Pendleton, former Hepp ner residents, are the parents of a 7 lb 12 oz son born June at St Anthony's hospital. He has been named David Jennings. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Loy McFerrin, Heppner. COWBELLES TO MEET The Morrow County Cowbelles will meet Monday, June 16, at 8 pm at the Elks club lounge. Mrs Don Robinson will be in charge of entertainment and Mrs George Rugg in charge of re freshments. Cowbelles are in vited to bring guests. PIERCES HAVE DAUGHTER Mr and Mrs Gene Pierce are the parents of a 7 lb 14 oz daugh ter, born June 2 at St Anthony's hospital in Pendleton. She has been named Molly Fay. Mrs Pierce and daughter re turned home Sunday. i 0 x;H m mill I 11 nil 1111 HWIMWIV" 5 V Vs? xx-V- BRIGHT NEW FACE SAME GOOD TASTE xxHx ;.xV?-vN v 4xy Hcidclberq n r r- n StV For years, Heidelberg's been the light modern beer of the Northwest. Now the outside's as light and modern as what's Inside. Take home a 6-pack or a case of the brew that's stow brewed... HEIDELBERQ-Thegood light beat. . rUK IHt families present. Mr and Mrs Raymond McDow ell returned the middle of the week from Grants Pass where they were called by the death of her brother-in-law. Weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Archie Padberg were his son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs Allen Springer and family of Hood River; her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs Edwin Tucker, Salem and his son, Vernon Padberg, Pen dleton. Mary Evelyn Tucker re turned with Mr and Mrs Spring er to Hood River for a two weeks visit. Mr and Mrs Frank Anderson and family left Monday for a business trip at The Dalles and Corvallis and will attend the Portland Rose Festival on their return. GAR AVIAT SPRAYING-FERTILIZING DUSTING-SEEDING HOME OWNED AND OPERATED We're As Near As Your Telephone PHONE LEXINGTON DAY OR NIGHT 3-8422 at INSURANCE TODAY! Don't risk the coiily tragtdy of a vicious hall storm without ike protection el Crop Kali bra act. 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