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eekend Traffic Accidents Claim Lives of Two
Mrs Jack Davis,
Washington Man
Are Wreck Victims
' A sobering series of traffic
accidents over the past weekend
in Morrow county claimed the
lives of two persons, put four
otners in the hospital with in
juries and either damaged or de
stroyed six vehicles. The fatali-
ties ended a death-free traffic
record of almost two years in
Morrow county.
The first to lose her life In the
series of crashes was Mrs Jack
Davis, 40 of Rhea creek. She was
killed about 4 o'clock Saturday
afternoon when the Jeep pick
up she was drivine went out nf
control in loose gravel near the
top of Basie grade leading Into
Sanford Canyon and overturned
pinning her in the crushed cab.
Sunday evening, Phillip R Pfei
fer, 36 of Vancouver, Washington
died in a two-car crash about two
miles west of Boardman on high
way 30. Injured In this crash
were- Mrs Pfeifer, her sister
Fonda Barbara Lucian, 39 of
Denver and the Pfeifer's two sons
Joseph 9, and Phillip 12. They
were returning from a visit in
Denver when their car collided
with a pickup driven by Conrad
Hofferber, 67 of Twin Falls, Ida
ho. Wreck Pins Victim
Mrs Davis died while enroute
home apparently to Investigate
a report that there was a fire
either on the Davis ranch or
nearby (The fire destroyed a
haystack on the Jim Hayes ranch
which adjoins Davis's). Near the
top of the grade down into San
ford canyon the car struck loose
gravel, going over an enbank
ment and overturning about 40
feet below the road. The cab was
badly crushed with ; Mrs Davis
being caught in the' wreckage.
The ambulance, a doctor and a
wrecker were called immediately
by another motorist who was
close behind Mrs Davis, but it
took nearly an hour to extricate
her from the mangled cab.
Mr Pfeifer died instantly in
the Boardman accident which
put the other members of his
family in St Anthony's hospital
in Pendleton. According .to. state
police who investigated, his car
and Hofferber's pickup collided
nearly head-on on a straight
stretch of highway. A coroner's
inquest was held here Tuesday
but no recommendation was re
turned by the jury. Hofferber was
cited by state police for. falling
to drive on the right side of the
highway, but he has pleaded not
guilty to the charge and a hear
ing has been set for early in
September.
Other Accidents Numerous
Three other single-car wrecks
occurred Friday, Saturday and
Sunday in this section of the
county, but in none of these were
there any serious injuries. Fri
day morning a car driven by H D
McCurdy Jr of Heppner over
turned about four miles below
Heppner on highway 74 when he
left the road in an attempt to '
miss a vehicle driven by Phil '
G Emert of lone which was re
portedly crossing the highway.
The two cars did not hit but Mc
Curdy's car suffered about $1,000
damage when it rolled over. The
jjriver suffered only bruises.
Friday evening a car driven by
Dale Gardner struck a calf be
longing to the Bechdolt ranch on
the Rock Creek road about three
miles south of Hardman. The
calf was killed and the car was
damaged to the extent, of $300
but Gardner was not injured.
In the final accident of the
weekend, a car driven by Earl L
Miller of Lexington went out of
control Sunday evening about a
mile east of Lexington of high
way 74 and skidded into a power
pole breaking off the pole and
putting sections of Heppner and
Lexington out' of power for over
an hour. According t the acci
dent report, Miller was attemp
ting to light a cigarette when
he lost control of the car In
shoulder gravel. It skidded a
considerable distance before hit
ting the pole. He was not hurt
and though the car sustained
considerable damage, it was
driven from the scene.
The five weekend accidents
brought to nine the number of
traffic wrecks to occur in Mor
row county within 30 days. All
except for Sunday's crash at
Boardman were one-car accidents
in which a total of two persons
have died and 12 others have
been more or less seriously in
jured. VISIT FROM MISSOURI
Mr and Mrs Donald Duvall and
son Ronald of St Joseph, Mo are
visiting with their sister-in-law,
Mrs Harry Duvall. They all mo
tored to Portland last weekend
to visit relatives and returned by
way of Seattle.
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OF MY FIRES -
A continuation of high temper
atures which for the past 10 days
have stayed in the high 80's and
90's began to- take its toll as
numerous grain, range and grass
fires spotted the county during
the past several days.
The most serious fire of the
week started about 1 pm Mon
day on the Harvey Smith ranch
southwest of lone, probably from
a machinery spark, and before
it was finally brought under con
trol five hours later had burned
an estimated 7000 to 10,000 acres.
Burned were between 550 and 600
acres of standing wheat and
close to 1000 acres of stubble.
The balance was in grass and
range land.
Smith lost about 200 acres of
wheat and 100 acres of stubble;
on the Oren Brace ranch about
530 acres of stubble and all of
his range was lost; the McElll
gott ranch lost approximately 350
acres of wheat and 180 acres of
stubble. Another 400 acre field
of standing wheat was threaten
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lone Princess To Be
Honored At Dance
The second member of the 1958
Morrow County Fair and Rodeo
royal court will be the guest of
honor at next Saturday's prin
cess dance to be held at the fair
pavilion in Heppner. She is Miss
Ann Belle. Coleman who is being
sponsored by Willows Grange of
lone.
Princess Ann Belle, who is the
daughter of Mrs Ida Coleman of
lone, Is 17 years of age and Is
the tallest member of the court
at 5 feet 7 inches. She has brown
hair and hazel eyes and graduat
ed In June from lone high school.
During her years at lone high
school she took part In many
activities and held several of
fices including treasurer of Girls'
League; class secretary; assist
ant secretary-treasurer of the
student body and assistant edi
tor of the school paper. She was
a member of the pep band and
dance band, served on the an
nual staff played volleyball was
a member of the track team, drill
team and tumbling team and for
Gazet
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ed but firefighters succeeded in
controlling the fire at that point
with only minor damage. Others
to lose range was the Kincaid
ranch where about a quarter-
section was burned.
The fire started on the south
side of Eightmile canyon and
followed up that side for about
eight miles before it was stopped.
The 'creek prevented it from
going to the north.
One of the biggest crews of
firefighters to be assembled In
this area in some time fought
the. fire on a day when the of
ficial temperature at Heppner
was 92 degrees, and undoubtedly
10 or 15 degrees hotter In the
open fields. Over a dozen spray
rigs and six tractors were. in use
as was fire equipment from Ar
lington, Olex, Condon, lone and
Lexington. Also helping was
equipment from the Hynd ranch
at Cecil and the Weatherford
ranch , near Arlington. At the
peak of the blaze it is reported
that several hundred firefight-
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BELLE COLEMAN
two years was selected for the
Music In May Festival at Pacific
University. She has had five
years of 4-H club work with pro-
jects in horsemanship," cooking
and sewlne.
f Princess Ann Belle broke her
own horse and enjoys helping
with cattle drives. She says her
favorite hobbies are horseback
riding, swimming and music.
Miss Coleman has five bro
thers and sisters: Jean Crawford,
Gwen Healy, Wally Gaarsland,
Joann Ripon and Sue Ekstrom
and two of them are former fair
and rodeo princesses. They were
Gwen Healy In 1946 and Sue
Ekstrom in 1956.
Her plans for the future In
clude attending Oregon Techni
cal Institute where she will take
a general business course.
Providing the music for this
second Princess dance will be
Rod Esselstyn's orchestra of Pen
dleton and dancing is scheduled
from 10 til 2.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 24, 1958
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WEATHER CAUSE
OVER COUNTY
ers were at work. Wind was not
generally heavy, though spotty,
and on several occasions the
flames jumped roads and fire
breaks. It burned to within less
than one-quarter of a mile of the
McElligott building
Hay Lost To Fire
In other fires during the week,
about 50 tons of baled hay went
up in smoke at the James Hayes
ranch on upper Rhea creek Sat
urday afternoon. It Is thought the
fire started when a power line
fuse blew out dropping hot ma
terial into grass near the hay
stack. The hay was piled near a
barn, but It was saved by the
August.lst to
Bring Higher
Rates for Letters
Effective 6:01 pm Thursday,
July 31 all local citizens will
have to pungle up at least an
extra penny if they want to mail
a letter or a post card.
Postal rate Increases which go
into effect near the end of next
week will make a sizeable dif
ference In all . mailings, either
first class air mail or Postcards
Hefcpner postmaster James H
Drlscoll "announced this week.
The postmaster general has set
the last collection hour as the
terminating time for rates in ef
fect July 31, and since 6 pm is
the last collection from the lo
cal drop, mail received after that
time must have sufficient pos
tage to cover the rates in effect
August 1.
The new schedule or rates will
be:
Local delivery letter mail
(this mail Intended for a local
boxholder, or general delivery
patron of this office), 3 cents
per ounce.
Out of town mail (mail for
patrons not residents of Heppner,
including all patrons serviced by
star route from this office), 4
cents per ounce.
Postal, or post cards new rate
3 cents each.
Airmail letters for delivery in
United States, Canada or Mexi
co new rate 7 cents per ounce.
Airmail postal, or post cards
for delivery in the United States,
Canada or Mexico new rate, 5
cents each.
Driscoll explained that there
are numerous other changes ef
fecting third class mail, books,
films, magazines, papers etc,
which will be explained to pat
rons when they present this type
of material for mailing. There
are also several changes in rates
to most foreign countries, but
they are too numerous to en
umerate. Rites Held For
Alta Mae Davis
Funeral services for Alta Mae
Davis who died Saturday after
noon when her car overturned
south of Heppner were held
Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the Hep
pner Methodist church. The Rev
Lester D Boulden officiated.
Mrs Davis was born July 19,
1918 at Grass Valley, Oregon, the
daughter of Mr and Mrs O E Ba
ker. She was married to Jack
Davis in 1936 at Grand Coulee,
Washington.
She is survived by her hus
band; two daughters, Patricia
Graves, Heppner, and Beulah Fay
Davis, Rhea Creek; three half
sisters, Deloris Wilson, Darlene
Padberg and Beverly Steagall,
all of Lexington; her parents, Mr
and Mrs E O Baker, Lexington;
three brothers, Opher Baker, Ne
braska; Dale Baker, France; Ed
ward Baker, lone; and two
grandchildren.
Interment was in the Heppner
Masonic cemetery with Creswick
Mortuary In charge of arrangements.
75th Year, Number 20
.quick efforts of neighbors. The
blown fuse was on a lead to an
' irrigation pump which put it out
. of commission and made the fire
fighting more difficult
Tuesday evening a small a
mount of stubble burned on the
W A Ruggles ranch near Lexing
ton but it was controlled before
spreading. It is thought that this
fire was probably started from
an airplane which was seen fly
ing low over the field just before
the fire broke out
Wednesday afternoon a small
amount of stubble burned on the
Norman Florence ranch on upper
Willow creek. This fire reported
ly started from a combine.
Sunday morning Heppner fire
men answered a general alarm
to control a grassfire near Dick's
Greenhouse in the northeast part
of town. It was quickly controlled
before any serious damage re
sulted. The Heppner ranger district of
the Umatilla National Forest re
ported that its crews controlled
one small lightning-set fire in
the mountains over the weekend.
It covered less than an acre.
About 3:30 Tuesday afternoon
a fire started in the fuel bin at
Heppner Pine Mills but it was
quickly brought under control
before any serious damage re
culled. Automatic sprinklers
quickly controlled the flames
and the mill fire crew completed
the job. It caused .a shutdown of
operations for about four hours.
Many From Here
Attending Cove Camp
The Rev and Mrs Charles Knox
will be counselors at the Christ
ian church Intermediate camp at
Cove next week. John J Stratton
and John Privett will be attend
ing the camp from the Heppner
church.
The Sunday morning worship
services at the Heppner church
will be in charge of the elders
with Joe Stewart and Earl Sow
ard presiding. The Knoxes and
two boys will return home Aug
ust 2.
Last week six girls from the
Heppner church attended camp
at Cove. They were Gayle Hos
kins, Mary Ann Johnson, Judy
Jones, Linda Stewart, Jean and
Joan Stockard. This week five
boys are attending the camp.
They are David and George Van
Schoiack, Ray Jones, Ronnie
Jones and Dan McBrlde. They
will return Saturday.
The Heppner church has built
a cabin at the camp grounds.
It is 18 by 24 feet, has natural
cedar siding and a metal roof
and was built by 19 volunteer
workers.
Lunch Supervisor
At State Conference
Mrs Homer Hager, Heppner
high school homemaklng teacher
and school lunch supervisor, re
turned last weekend from Cor
vallls where she attended a
school lunch conference sponsor
ed by the department of Insti
tution management of the school
of home economics at Oregon
State college and the school
lunch section of the State De
partment of Education.
Mrs Hager states that approx
imately 200 school lunch cooks
and supervisors attended. This
is the second state conference
to be held at the college, the
previous one was during the
summer of 1955.
ATTEND RECEPTION
Mr and Mrs Frank S Parker
visited last weekend at Hood Ri
ver with their son Vawter and
family and on Saturday evening
attended a reception given by the
Hood River Eastern Star chapter
for Mrs Daisy Thompson, worthy
grand matron, and Mrs Ruth
Shepherd, grand chaplain. Both
are members of the Hood River
chapter.
Mr and Mr Conley Lanham of
Hillsboro were visiting in Hepp
ner this week.
MRS JACK DAVIS of Rhea Creek died in the wreckage of this pick
up Saturday when it went off the road leading into Sanford
Canyon and pinned her in the wreckage. She had received word
of a fire near her home and was on her way to investigate
when the accident occurred. (Photo by C A Ruggles)
Grain Growers Show
Profit of $160,000
For Year's Operation
A recently completed audit of
the Morrow County Grain Grow
ers showed that the 1957 crop
year was a profitable year for
the co-op. The corporation hand
led a total of 3,480,000 bushels
of grain at a net profit of ap
proximately $160,000.
The company's net profit for
the past five years ending May
31, 1958, has been $765,913, the
report showed. Total assets of
the company are listed at $1,558,
255.41.
The complete balance sheet re
port will be published next week
by the co-op manager, Al lamb
stated.
Hereford Meeting
Held at Boardman
About 125 people attended the
annual Oregon Polled Hereford
Association picnic and business
meeting Sunday held at the Bar
nett Hereford Ranrh In- Board
man. Mr and Mrs Leo Barnett
were hosts for the affair, and
co-hosts were Mr and Mrs Ron
ald Haas, who live on the ranch.
Barnett Is president of the assoc
iation. Other officers present In
cluded Ed Jenks of Tangent, vice
president, and Mrs Harold Buck
ner of Terrebonne, secretary.
Polled Hereford breeders were
present from all sections of Ore
gon, as well as a number of top
Horned Hereford breeders and
cattle people from Washington
and California.
The Pulled Hereford Associat
ion was represented by Lyle
Hoyt of LodI, California, west
coast representative; and Ralph
Cook of Medford, national direct
or of the association.
The American Hereford Assoc
iation was represented by Darrel
Brown of Walla Walla, Wash.
Representing cattle publicat
ions were: Sherm Guttrldge of
Baker, Western Livestock Jour
nal; Robert McKeller of Pendle
ton, Pacific Stockman; Charles
Eggelston of Denver, Colorado,
Polled Hereford World; and Dan
Selnick of Walla Walla, Wash,
Northwest Livestock Reporter.
Also present were SI Williams,
auctioneer and sales manager of
Pendleton, and John Mette of
Stockman's Service, also of Pen
dleton! The picnic was potluck, with
the hosts furnishing both roast
beef and barbecued beef, with
beans, ice cream, pop and local
watermelon.
This Is the first time the an
nual meeting has been held in
this vicinity.
TIPS FOR EXHIBITING FLOWERS IS
GIVEN BY IONE GARDEN CLUB
(This is the first of a series of
four articles on preparing and
exhibiting flowers for the fair
or the coming flower show. The
articles are prepared by members
of the lone Garden club).
By JANE RAWLINS
Greetings to Morrow county
flower lovers from the members
of the lone Garden club.
At our last club meeting we
were talking flower show It's
that time of year and we're feel
ing downright pleased with the
increase in Morrow County flow
er growers and exhibitors. The
flower show of the county fair
is Its most rapidly growing sect
ion, and last fall our own gar
den club show saw an increase
of around 150 entries over the
previous year. -
Because of this Increase and of
numerous questions and requests
from exhibitors and the public
concerning exhibiting and the
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Peak of County
Grain Harvest
Now Seen Past
About 85,000 bushels of wheat
and barley are comlnz in to all
elevators of the Morrow County
urain Growers each day, mana
ger Al Lamb said Wednesday as
the peak of the county's harvest
appears to be past. At the peak
about 125,000 bushels were be
ing received a day.
The heaviest haullner is now
coming in to the Heppner and
Ruggs elevators and eight trucks
are hauling out of the Ruees fa
cility to keep ahead of the in
coming grain. Nearly all har
vesting is completed in the North
Lexington area, and volume has
dropped greatly at Lexington,
lone and McNab.
Nearlv a.baree load of erain
a day Is being shipped out of
tne Hogue-warncr dock on the
Columbia and the dock has just
completed loading out the 90,000
bushel ocean barge for the third
tune. Daily train service . by Un
ion Pacific has aided In keep
ing ahead of the Incoming har
vest as about 20 cars a day are
being loaded out at all MCGG
elevators on the rail line.
Lamb said that continued har
vesting has verified the com
pany's earlier estimate that the
county average would show
wheat to be running 30 to 35
bushels and barley from 40 to 45.
Yields in North Lexington were
heavier than normal, and in
most of the rest of the county
they are expected to be about
the same as last year.
Rev Patrick Gaire
Leaves For Ireland
The Rev Patrick Gaire will
leave this evening (Thursday) by
plane, from Pendleton, for List-
owel, County Kerri, Ireland to see
his father, Maurice Gaire.
The Rev Gaire received a
cablegram Tuesday evening tell
ing him of the serious Illness of
his father and passport arrange
ments were made through Sena
tor Wayne Morse. He expects to
return to Heppner in September.
WEATHER
HI Low
90 60
94 65
88 58
90 54
92 52
92 57
89 54
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Rainfall for the week, none;
for July .06; for the year 10.57
inches.
decisions of the judges, some
members of our club (by the
gracious permission of your edi
tor) will present a series of four
articles on the mechanics of ex
hibiting flowers and the stan
dards for judging them, which
we hope will be helpful to pro
spective exhibitors. Our informa
tion is based on standards ac
cepted by the National Council
of State Garden Clubs, of which,
through the Oregon Federation
the lone Club is a member. Incl
dently, the judges at both the
fair and garden club shows are
accredited by the Federation.
First off, if you grow flowers,
by all means cut and exhibit
some this fall.
Before going into your garden
to cut, read your premium list
schedule to be sure of the num.
ber of blooms or stems required
and cut more than this to take
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