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PROOF OF A GOOD HARVEST This pile of 150.000 bushels of
wheat at the North Lexington elevator of the Morrow County
Grain Growers is indication of the heavy grain crop now being
harvested in the county. Shipping is now under way and with
in a few days this big pile will be in local elevators or on its
way to downstream terminals.
Harvest in
Shipping Eases Storage
Wheat and barley is rolling in
to elevators in ever increasing
amounts as the county's harvest
gets into full swing and indi
cations are better than ever that
farmers will harvest the greatest
grain crop in history.
All elevators in the county are
now receiving grain and the hea
vy crop is best indicated by the
150,000 bushel pile of wheat
which now covers the ground at
the North Lexington elevator of
the Morrow County Grain Grow
ers.
Al Lamb, MCGG manager said
Tuesday that by that evening
the co-op has received about 1,
000,000 bushels of grain and that
both the North Lexington and
Lexington elevators of the com
pany expect to handle 800,000
each. This will be 200,000 bushels
greater than any previous year
at North Lexington and 150,000
greater than any other year at
State Given Pat on
Back for Traffic
Record Over Fourth
Oregon's "safe and sane" dri
vers got a gubernatorial pat on
the back Monday from Governor
Holmes after the state completed
a 78-hour Fourth of July week
end without a single traffic fa
tality. ' . " '
But the long list of drowning
victims, and an explosion in Port
land prompted the Governor to
initiate action aimed at preven
ting recurrence of these tra
gedies. "We are justly entitled to feel
lucky and proud of the three
day death-free record on our
highways and streets," Governor
Holmes said Monday. "I would
like to congratulate all Oregon
ians for the fine record, and
commend the police and safety
agencies which contributed so
much to making it possible." the
Governor said.
Oregon had the best highway
record in the U S for the holidays,
Governor Holmes noted. Oregon
was the largest by more than
twice of eight states enjoying
a deathless 4th on the highways.
Even more impressive said Gov
ernor Holmes, who had taken to
radio, TV and newspapers in an
appeal for safe driving, was the
fact that it was an almost un
precedented record for the state.
The last death -free Independence
Day was in 1951 when the holi
day fell on a Wednesday, short
ening the record period to 30
hours.
The Governor said he was
greatly concerned that such trag
edies as the fireworks explosion
in Portland could occur in Ore
gon and said he was asking
state fire marshall Hugh Earle
to begin studies upon which new
legislation could be based to pre
vent recurrence. "It seems ap
parent to me that we need laws
which will prevent the storage
of explosives in or near residen
tial aieas," Governor Holmes
said. "It is a great tragedy too, that
our beaches, lakes and streams
which offer so much in the way
of fun in Oregon, should cause
so much grief from drownings,"
Governor Holmes said of the
state's ten water victims of the
holiday in an appeal for water
safety measures and education
of the public to dangers in the
water.
ALL SAINTS
EPISCOPAL SERVICES
The Rev Wilbur Layton will
conduct services at All Saints
Episcopal church Sunday, July
13. Holy Communion will be at
8:00 am and 10:30 am,
VISITS AT COAST
Mrs Floyd Adams and Mr and
Mrs Wallace Malone of Mill
Valley, Calif visited recently in
Oceanlake with Mrs Adam's fa
ther, Robert Clark, Sr, In Port
land they were met by Mrs
Adam's brother, Robert Clark, Jr
of Chicago who accompanied
them to Oceanlake.
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Full Swing;
(the Lexington facility.
The plug in storage facilities
due to heavy harvesting and
large crops was aleviated con
siderably Tuesday when the first
ocean-going barge loaded out
65,000 bushels at one load from
the MCGG dock at Paterson Fer
ry. This is the first time such
a sizeable barge has been .hand
led at the dock and it was loaded
to only about two-thirds of its
capacity because of low water
conditions. The big barge, which
looks like a converted Liberty
ship, is operated by the Upper
Columbia River Towing company
and has been used on the com
pany's Portland-Alaska run.
Additional shipments of grain
to other storage facilities in Port
land and elsewhere will allow
the Grain Growers to immediat
ely start picking up the 150,000
bushels of grain now on the
ground at North Lexington,
Lamb said. Daily train service
is scheduled to start Monday.
Yield Seen High
The current crop is reported as
running very high in both Lex
ington and North Lexington with
wheat running from 30 to 35
bushels per acre and barley 40
to 45 bushels. The quality is also
reported good.
Some hail damage is showing
up in fields in the McNab area,
it has been reported, with dam
age there fairly high in some
places. The damage came during
a storm about two weeks ago.
Some farmers in the extreme
north section of the wheat belt
are reported nearly through har
vesting and others in the higher
elevations are already at work
or planning to start within the
next few days. In both cases, har
vesting is nearly two weeks a
head of normal dates.
Little League
Ends First Half
Two games have been played
this week to finish the first half
of the Willow Little League
schedule except for one make up
game between the Indians and
the Giants to be played Friday
evening.
On Monday the Dodgers clean
ed up on the Indians by a score
of 23 to 3 .Tuesday saw the
Giants defeat the Braves in an
exciting contest 14 to 5. In this
game the Giants came from be
hind 0 to 5 in the third Inning
to go ahead and stay there for
the rest of the contest.
Wednesday will start the sec
ond half of play pitting the
Giants against the Indians. On
Thursday the Braves and Giants
will tangle in what should be a
real contest.
The standings at the end of
the first half of league play are:
won lost makeup
Giants 5 3 1
Dodgers 5 4 0
Braves 5 4 0
Indians 2 6 1
Dr McMurdo Speaks
To Hospital Auxiliary
The Pioneer Memorial hospital
auxiliary held its quarterly
meeting Monday evening at the
lone Legion hall.
Dr A D McMurdo was the guest
speaker and gave much encour
agement to the group and help-
ful ideas for geriatric patients.
Reports were given by Mrs
Wallace Wolff, Mrs Alex Green
and Mrs Cecil Jones,
Harry Bongers, administrator
of the hospital, told the group
how much happier the patients
seem since the auxiliary started
their visiting program and he
complimented the group on the
work they have done.
A picnic is planned for the
nursing home patients to be held
July 27 at the court house lawn.
Other plans discussed Include a
bookmobile tea.
Refreshments were served by
the lone members of the auxiliary.
Special Funds fo
Pave Section of
Bomb Range Road
The county court Tuesday de
cided to continue with plans for
paving a portion of the North
Lexington-Boardman (bombing
range cut off) road in the near
future, despite considerable ap
posistion to the proposal from
several persons in the lone area
The court held a public hear
ing on the plan Tuesday after
noon at which time nearly a do
zen persons from the lone area
presented their arguments a
gainst the proposal and urged
that the money be spent on com
pleting the paving of the upper
section of the Rhea Creek road
between Jordan and Ruggs. The
lone city council also sent
letter to the court urging that
the bombing range road paving
be dropped.
The court based its final de
cision to pave about 10 miles of
the bombing range road large
ly on the recommendation of
state highway engineers and the
fact that some of the money to
be used for the Job had to be
allocated and approved within
a very short time. Court mem
bers pointed out that the bomb
ing range road, though not hard
surfaced, was built to state spec
ifications and can be paved lm
mediately without additional
construction other than laying
additional base rock under the
surfacing. Before the Rhea Creek
road should be paved, it was
stressed, it would have to be re
built in a large part, and the
county would not have time to
do this work before the deadline
for accepting the state and fed
eral money. If the money Is not
used, It will be lost to the county.
The money to pave the bomb
ing range road will come from
a special "crash" highway fund
of $23,000 of which the county
would be required to put up only
5 percent matching money, and
one years regular f As roaa
money of approximately $63,000
to which the county must add
20 percent. In addition to this
amount of state and federal road
money, the Morrow County Grain
Growers has offered to put up
$10,000 toward the work.
Many Arguments Presented
Those opposed to the bombing
range road paving argued that
the road served only a small
section of the county, though
proponents emphasized that a
bulk of the wheat from North
Lexington, Lexington, Heppner
and Ruggs elevators is now be
ing trucked over the road to the
Morrow County Grain Growers
Hogue-Warner dock near the old
Paterson Ferry landing and that
the road is a direct tie between
the two ends of the county.
Opponents also felt that when
the proposed Morgan-Arlington
cutoff road is built, greatly short
ening the distance into Arling
ton, that the bomb range road
would become practically useless.
This was strongly denied by the
proponents of the project.
Rhea Creek Not Dropped J
The court made it plain, that
even though it is going ahead
with its plan to pave the bomb
Ing range route, it Is not leav
ing the completion of the Rhea
Creek road out of its overall pro-
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gram and that it has plans to
place that work next on the
agenda, again stressing that'
county road crews had much
work to do on the road before
it can be prepared for paving.
At the present time the entire
county road crew Is completing
rebuilding and rocking of the
McNab-Olex road which will be
paved under state contract with-
m A planned the north 10 miles
of the bombing range road will'
get the pavement Inasmuch as it
has already been approved for
the job by the state h ghway
department thereby eliminating
further delays which would be
ifflttani,nA danger on and after July
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Final Rites Held
For John Darcy
Requium mass was celebrated
Tuesday, July 8 for John Darcy, '
73, who passed away at Pioneer j
Memorial hospital July 4, follow
ing a long Illness.
Mr Darcv was born October 20,
1884 at Countv Lelthrim, Ireland,
and had lived in the Heppner
area for about 40 years. He had
jbeen g gheep mani orkng for
Hynd Brothers for many years.
Surviving are three sisters and
one brother still living in Ire
land, one sister in New York and
one nephew, Frank Cooney of
Sparks, Nevada.
Rosary was recited at St Pat
rick's Catholic church Tuesday
evening with the Rev Patrick J
Gaire. Interment was in the Hep
pner Masonic cemetery with
Creswick Mortuary in charge.
HAS EYE SURGERY
Loyal Parker is in the Veter-
an's hospital in Portland recov-
ering from eye surgery performed
on Monday.
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Law Interpretation
Drops Fair Board
Jo Three Members
A change in the status of the
Morrow county fair board was
ordered Wednesday by the coun
ty court when district attorney
Robert Abrams advised the court
that its recent appointment of
two additional members to the
board was contrary to state law
governing fair boards,
The interpretation of the law
meant that the fair board can
consist of only three members,
made it necessary for the court
to withdraw its appointment of
two additional members which
were added about two months
ago. The two appointed, who are
now out of Jobs on the board
are Mrs John Graves and Ron
Currin.
The three members who now
comprise the fair board are
Charles Carlson, lone, chairman;
Gerald Swaggart, Butter creek;
and MacCoy of Irrigon.
The court made the additional
appointments at the request of
several county groups and organ
izations who felt that a five
member board would give bet
ter representation. The additions
were made without the know
ledge of the court that it was
violating a state statute.
The change in the member
ship of the fair board is expect
ed to call for some reshuffling
of positions and officials to get
its operations back on a legal
status though just how this will
be done is not known at the
present time as the now three
member board has not had an
opportunity to meet since the il
legality of the former board was
determined.
The five-member board . held
a meeting Monday night to con
sider fair business and at that
time accepted the resignation of
Carl Spaulding as treasurer. It
also elected Mrs John Graves
treasurer. She also has been ser
ving as secretary.
In other action at the Monday
night meeting, the group dis
cussed a plan to seed the entire
rodeo arena and accepted an of
fer of the Heppner school dis
trict to pay half the cost of grass
seed. With the entire arena, ex
cept the race track seeded, it
will be possible to play football
games in front of the new grand
stand on the north side of the
field.
Several improvements in dis
play facilities on the fair grounds
were given approval.
The board also agreed to a pro
posal of the merchants commit
tee of the chamber of commerce
that it aid in the advertising and
promotion of the fair and rodeo
and handle this work. The board
agreed to allow $300 for adver-
tising and promotion with the
merchants committee to put up
as much additional money as
possible to supplement the fund.
CmAL:.. Da,..M.'AM
NOW In Effect in
National Forests
A Nat,ona, Foregt flreas wkh.
,n the Umatnia Nationai Forest
h designated by region-
foregter gtonas
on wh,ch smokl
. . ru,Klt lQe tv,
4, 1958 and extending to Oct
ober 31, 1958.
Camp fire permits are not re
quired on the Umatilla forest,
but Is is a requirement that
camp fires be built in a safe
place cleared of all inflammable
material and that they be com
pletely put out Deiore oemg leit
even for a short while. Campers
are required to have in their
posession a shovel, axe and wa-
ter DucKet. All persons using tne
forests are urged to use extreme
care with their smoking and
camp fires. (
PORTLANDERS VISIT j
Mr and Mrs E Harvey Smith of
Portland were visiting in Hepp
ner early this week. Mr Smith
is working in this area in behalf
of Marion Weatherford, Arling
ton, Republican candidate for
Congressman. i
Mr and Mrs Creton Robinson
and family spent the weekend
visiting his parents, Mr and Mrs
Roy Robinson at Mt Vernon. The
two Robinson children remained
for a two weeks visit with their
grandparents. i
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Saturday Kickoff Dance to Open
1958 Fair and Rodeo Activities
Saturday night at 10 o'clock
marks the start of a six-week
period of events leading up to
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Y i, 7 n "lc. dance which always proves to be
KicKotr Dance. one of the most popular of the
Queen Pat Steagall of Lexing- entire season, will be Johhnv K's
ton and her royal court of prin- orchestra of Pasco which will al
cesses Anne Belle Coleman, Ione;;so provide the popular music for
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and Joan Brosnan of Lena will
Services Held Here
Saturday For
Mary R McDaniel
Funeral services were held
Saturday, July 5 at the Heppner
Christian church for Mary R Mc
Daniel who passed away July 2
at Good Shepherd hospital In
Hermiston. She was 74 years of
age.
Mrs McDaniel was born Oct
ober 21, 1883 in Kansas but liv
ed most of her life at Hardman.
She had moved to Hermiston a-
bout two years ago.
Survivors are her husband,
Charles of Hermiston; a daugh
ter, Mrs Zoe Billings, Boardman;
a son Everett Hadley, Boardman;
three sisters, Mrs Bert Bleak -man,
Hermiston; Mrs Maggie
Fuqua, Portland; and Mrs Bessie
Ramsdell, Gladstone; and two
grandchildren.
The Rev James Pfouts and the
Rev Joe Stephens officiated at
the services and burial was in
the IOOF cemetery in Hardman
with Burns Mortuary in charge
of arrangements.
Pallbearers were Kenneth Bat
ty, Everett Harshman, Guy Has
tings, Cary Hastings, Archie and
Adrain Bechdolt.
Many Attend Cove
Episcopal Camp
Among the young people now
attending the Episcopal summer
school at Cove are Tanna Valen
tine, Barbara Blake, Nancy Cleve
land, Paul Swaggart, Trova Rig
by, and Marjorie O'Connor.
Jim Lindsay and Tim Driscoll
attended the first session which
started June 24 and those plan
ning on attending the third sess
ion from July 14 to July 24 are
Geraldine Swaggart, Sharon
Lindsay, Shirley Gaines, Bever
ly Blake, Shannon Mahoney, Lin
da Valentine, John Cleveland,
Nat Webb, Archie Ball and Mer
lin Hughes.
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CARVES POWER CANYON Mammoth steel cylinders for lining
the power tunnel at Pacific Power & Light Company's Swift
hydroelectric project are dwarfed by 200-foot deep canyon-like
forebay carved into side of Cascade mountain at project site,
Forebay will funnel water stored in 12-mile-long Lewis River
reservoir to 1575-foot-long power tunnel leading to three turbine
generator's at PP&L's 250,000-kllowatt development
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 10, 1958
be the center of attraction and
it will be their first local public
appearance since their selection.
Providing the music for the
many of the coming dances, In
eluding the rodeo dances on Aug
ust 29 and 30.
During the coming weeks each
princess and the queen will be
honored at their own dance put
on by their sponsoring organi
zation. Next week, July 19, the
dance will honor princess Joan
under the sponsorship of the fair
committee; the lone dance will
be held July 26 under the aus
pices of the lone Grange; the
Boardman dance will be held
August 2, though their princess
was forced to withdraw from the
court a few weeks ago. This
dance will be sponsored by the
Patrick H Mollahan
Dies Here Sunday;
Rites Held Wednesday
Patrick Hart Mollahan, 70 who
died Sunday, July 6 at Pioneer
Memorial hospital following an
illness of eight months.
He was born Sept 15, 1887 in
Legenomer, County Leitrlm Ire
land, the son of Peter and Ann
Hart Mollahan. He was a mem
ber of the Catholic church and
the Heppner Elks lodge. He had
lived .in Heppner for 54 years.
Surviving him are three sis
ters, Mrs Bessie Hullghan, Miss
Jennie Mollahan of .Brooklyn,
i New York, and Mrs Ann Charles
of Ireland; one brother, Frank
I Mollahan of Ireland.
Rosary was recited Tuesday at
8 pm at St Patrick's Catholic
church and Requiem Mass was
celebrated Wednesday at 10 o'
clock with Rev P J Gaire offic
iating. Pallbearers were William
Cunningham, John Kenny, Phil
Higgins, Charles Monagle, Law
rence Brady and Russell O'Don
nell. Interment was in the Heppner
Masonic cemetery with Creswick
Mortuary In charge.
Mr and Mrs Dewey Britt were
in LaGrande and Wallowa Lake
for the Fourth weekend. They
also stopped at Enterprise and
visited with Mr and Mrs Charles
Stout.
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Tillicum club. August 9 will see
the Rhea Creek dance for prin
cess Karen and on August 16
Queen Pat will have her own
dance.
The affair will be held at the
fair pavilion in Heppner with
dancing scheduled from 10 to 2.
Admission will be $1.50 per per
son, dance committee chairman
Al Fetsch has anounced.
City Council Urges
Continued Spray
Road Improvements
The Heppner city council went
on record Monday night urging
continuation of the improvement
program started this year on the
Heppner-Spray highway. The
group's action followed similar
appeals currently being made
to the chamber of commerce and
expected from the county court.
For many years efforts had
been made locally to get the
highway over the mountains in
to the John Day valley paved,
and only last year the first con
tract of approximately $250,000
was approved for rebuilding and
surfacing five miles of the road
south from the end of the pre
sent pavement at Chapln creek.
The council agreed with other
groups that a continuing pro
gram is needed until the entire
road Is paved from Heppner to
the John Day highway. The State
Highway Commission, Bureau of
Public Roads and Forest Service
will be advised of the city's
stand.
In other business the Russell
Olson Construction Co of Pen
dleton was awarded a contract
as low bidder for the sealing of
18,000 square yards of city
streets. The Olson bid was for
a total of $2,640. The only other
bidder was Leslie Harris of Pen
dleton. The council also approved
granting an easement for the
laying of cable across two city
streets to tie in a soon-to-be In
stalled police and defense radio
transmitter. The transmission
equipment will be installed on
cross hill east of town and re
mote control points are to be
established in the sheriff's of
fice and later at another point
in town. It will tie in the sher
iff's radio communication sys
tem with other law enforcement
agencies, and later the city po
lice will be tied in with the sys
tem. Mrs Caroline Cason
Taken By Death
Word has been received here
of the death July 8 at Golden-
dale, Washington of Mrs Caro
line Cason, 96, a former resi
dent of Lonerock.
Mrs Cason was born at Jeff
erson, Oregon, March 16, 1862
and had lived in Lonerock or this
immediate area all of her mar
ried life until moving to Wash
ington about eight years ago.
She is survived by two sons,
Willis of Olex, and Lewis of
Beaverton; and one daughter,
Delia Brown of California.
Funeral services will be Fri
day at 1:00 pm at Lonerock.
More Fish . . ..
Now, Just Find 'Em
Local angling got a shot in
the arm Wednesday when the
state fish commission planted a
truck load of legal sized trout
in Rhea and Willow creeks.
The full load of 3000 fish were
evenly divided between the two
streams and should provide fish
ermen with plenty of excitement
during the coming weeks if they
can find where they were plant
ed. WEATHER
Hi Low Prec.
Wednesday 76 57
Thursday 78 54 T
Friday 80 51
Saturday 84 53
Sunday 89 55
Monday 90 61 .05
Tuesday 86 53
Wednesday 86 53
Rainfall for the week .05; for
July .06; for the year 10.57 in
ches.