MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
;V. ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
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It's Everybody's Show
Next week Is Morrow county's big week and
if each person living hereabouts hasn't already
taken the time to nurse along some extra-special
flowers or cucumbers In the garden, or pick out
some of their handiwork of the past year to enter
in one of the hundreds of fair display divisions,
you'd better get at It right now!
Our 4-H youngsters work all year to prepare
for their fair week exhibits, yet, the thing that
makes a really good fair Is to have the par
ticipation of many of the adults of the county.
Pick out those extra special tomatoes you've
been growing, or a couple of bales of alfalfa, or
whatever else you have grown or made, or pain
ted, or photographed and get them entered in
this year's fair. Your neighbors and friends will
like to see what you've done and you might Just
come out with enough prize money to buy the
seeds for next year's garden.
But, whether you can get an entry ready or not,
be sure to take In the big show. All of Heppner
and Morrow county will be here to welcome you
to both the fair and the rodeo. It's everybody's
show. . . let's everybody take part.
Censorship Through Taxation
Ask anyone what the Internal Revenue Ser
vice is and you'll get some such answer as this:
"It's a Federal administrative agency, whose
duty is to collect taxes as provided in revenue
laws passed by Congress."
But the Internal Revenue Service Is going far
afield from its proper and established function.
It is, in effect, setting itself up as censor of what
enterprises and organizations may say within
the province of business management
Here Is the remarkable and menacing story.
Internal Revenue Service has ruled that electric
utility companies cannot regard the cost of insti
tutional advertising, which presents their side
of the public-vs-private power controversy, as a
legitimate business expense, deductible in In
come tax returns.
Internal Revenue Service has also ruled that
the cost of literature opposing socialism Issued
by one of the country's most respected profes
sional organizations, the Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons, Is not exempt from tax.
Internal Revenue Service has also disallowed
public relations advertising placed over a four
year period by the Timken Roller Bearing Com
pany. This advertising discussed the Bill of Rights,
Capitalism vs. Socialism, principles of taxation,
and other such matter.
In other words, Internal Revenue Service holds
that advertising designed to sell products or ser
vices is a legitimate business deduction but
that advertising designed to maintain an eco
nomic and political climate In which private en
terprises may successfully produce those products
and services is not. It is attempting to muzzle
the right of people to speak their minds freely
and without penalty and, In doing that, to
prevent other people from knowing and weigh
ing both sides of controversies.
If Internal Revenue Service's incredible stand
is malntajned, no one will be immune. Anyone
may be faced with the choice of accepting bureau
cratic censorship or of paying a heavy penalty
for exerting absolutely basic rights which are
supposed to be guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
This Is one of the ways in which dictatorship begins.
THIRTY YEARS APO
From the files of the
Gazette-Times
August 23, 1928
, Mr and Mrs Roy Missildine
have disposed of their Heppner
-rom
The
County Agent's Office
By N. C Anderson
Tuesday of this week, the var- vide further information.
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It'MUL'IiLt; uruyeriy iu oiauuii yi juus ngeiiLitra cuiiueiucu wuu , iiMl nin, ,.....
P Remington for the Episcopal conservation had explained to vle d" a " 'eZJZ vZ7j
church, and the same will here- iha naZrn n.. vlelds are rePrted this year to,
after be used as a parsonage for serve prof?ram wnich will be put be tne hlShest ,n tne history of
me pastor or me locai cnurcn. lnto effect thls fall The pr0gram
has been changed materially,
C W McNamer, president of a.med at ppttinz more cartlci
the Heppner Rodeo association, pation, Morrow county's average
announces the election this week pay rate hag been ralsed to $16
of "Bill" Kilkenny, a prominent per acre noweVer, the maximum
rodeo performer in years past, farm pay rate wln be determlned
as director of the association to on a farm productivlty index.
succeed the late L V Gentry. ThIs lndex wlll be determlned
'by the county A S C committee
Frank Turner was In receipt from lnforrnati0n which they
of the news on Saturday that the nave ,n the offlce and whlch
big high school building at Mon- they w,n get from farmers wno
ument was on ft re, and the re- make R request for the establish
suit was that the building was t of a maxlmum farm pay.
entirely gutted. ment rate Although maximum
A party of Heppner golfers en-31 payment rates will be es
loved playing the Walla Walla tablished, farmers may make a
country club course Sunday. Ma- bid for putting their land under
king the trip were L Van Marter, the Conservation Reserve for a
Paul Gemmcll, Earl and Leonard payment less than the maximum
Gilliam, Alva Jones, D A Wilson, allowed. The object here would
V Crawford and Ed Burnett. itiuuu mtu men iau.i
was accepted sinue h is ieu uiui
the now program will draw more
sign-ups than there will be mon
ey available for payment. Prior
ity will be established by lower
bids or in the order In which
applications are received In the
county A S C office.
Opening date for requests will
be September 2 with closing date
October 3. Two weeks will be
given then for farmers to sign
actual contracts after maximum
farm payment rates have been
established and priorities deter
the county, evidently there are
other places that are also hav
ing such yields. Early this month
Minneapolis had 1438 cars of
barley, the largest number ever
received in a single day In the
history of the Grain Exchange.
Arrivals the first week In Aug
ust nearly quadrupled the week
before. With a big supply of this
Important feed grain on hand,
"Chats With Your
Home Agent
BY ESTHER KIRMIS
It's surely "melon season" in
Morrow county these days. This
was brought to my attention this
past week when Miss Betty
Sedgewick, of the Oregon State
college extension staff of Cor-
vallis. and I made a visit to
he Boardman and Irrigon area.
Melon stands along the main
highways were doing a thriving
business and out in the fields
you saw melons being stacked
and crated ready for that all
important trip to the Portland
Market.
We met up with Charles Early,
Irrigon melon grower, at the
filling station and when Betty
expressed interest in taking a
crate of cantaloupe back to the
extension staff in Corvallls, he
invited us to his farm to make
a deal. Here we met his charm
ing, Australian-born, wife who
insisted that we sample each
type of melon they raise. We
were both thoroughly delighted
and "water-logged" by the time
of our departure. Mrs Early also
has a garden of lovely dahlias
which she should surely exhibit
at the Boardman fair Sept
ember ll-13th,
While in Irrigon we called up
on Mrs Milton Biegel, chairman
of our extension unit's county
committee to discuss extra-curricular
plans for our program
year. Mrs Biegel is librarian at
Umatilla and expressed great in
terest In our extension project
lesson, "Know Your Oregon." She
is making a collection of books
and magazines at the library
in connection with the Oregon
Centennial. It was a Joy to see
the Blegle's home. They have the
Columbia river in their back
yard a very peaceful spot.
In Boardman we met with 4-H
leaders of the Boardman and Ir
rigon area at the home of Mrs
Don David. We discussed plans
for the 4-H club's part in the
Boardman fair to be held Sept
ember ll-13th. A Style Revue
was planned and each club will
present one demonstration in
connection with the project they
are carrying. An invitation will
be extended to Miss Marja Virk
kala, IFYE exchange student to
speak on her native Finland.
Miss Virkkala will be guest at
the E M Baker ranch at lone
for three weeks this September.
4-H home economics clubs that
will take part in the Boardman
fair Include "Happy Sewers"-Mrs
M E Hadwlck, Irrigon, leader;
Sandra Davis, assistant; "Fun
and Sun" - Mrs Angela Gustaf
son, Irrigon, leader; Judy Berger,
assistant; "Needle and Thread
Same Boardman
Teachers to Return-
The Boardman public school
will open on Monday, Sept 8
at 8:30 for a full schedule. The
school lunch program will be in
operation the first day, it was
announced.
The faculty will be the same
na last vear. Mrs Zoe Billings
will teach first and second grades j
She received her bachelor oi
science degree In education from
EOC this summer. Mrs Mildred
Baker will again teach the third
and fourth grades. She has been
attending several workshops this
summer at EOC at La Grande.
Other teachers include Mrs La
Vern Partlow, fifth and . sixth
grades; Richard E Waymire, sev
enth and eighth grades and the
high school athletic coach sue
reedini? Marion Morlan who will
nnt poach this vear; Ronald'
Black, vocational agriculture, al
gebra, 9th grade math and bio
logy; Maripn Morlan, band, com
merce and girls P E; Harold Gau
ger, English, chemistry and 11
hrarv. Mr Gaueer has been at
tending summer session at the
University of Denver and he
holds a master of science degree
from Purdue University. Superin
tendent Slgvald O Aase will be
beginning his third year at
Boardman and he attended a
workshop at Portland State this
summer.
Robert Harwood will again be
school custodian and bus driver.
A new bus driver will be Ed
Skoubo who succeds Bud Ball
who resigned. Mrs Ellen Graham
will continue as head cook and
Mrs Luda Ball will be her assis
tant. The school board consists of
Henry Gantenbein, chairman;
Willard Baker, Arnln Hug, Roy
Partlow and Harold Kress who
was chairman for 1957-58. Sever
al rooms have been redecorated
and floors reflnished for the
opening of classes.
Enrollment is expected to be
about the same as last year in
the high school and a slight in
crease is due in the grades.
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. Augugt 21, i95a
JOBLESS PAT IN STRIKES
Nearly 2000 Oregon laborers
, hanafH Halm9 with
nave mcu
the State Unemployment Com
pensation Commission for time'
lost during uiapmca
General Contractors ana elat
ing Engineers, and Teamsters.
Each case will be reviewed
seperately, according to commis
sion officials.
-ncotinn law states. "An
uni"""'-"" ----
i-,hi,,q1 is disaualified for
lilU!VH-W 1 ,
benefits for any week that his
unemployment is due to a isuur
dispute wnicn is m ti
gress at the factory, establish
ment or other premises at which
he is or was last employed or
at which he claims employment
rights by union agreement or
otherwise."
A qualifying paragraph, how
ever, states, "This does not ap
ply if it is shown to the satis
faction of the commission that
the individual is not participat
ing in or financing or directly
interested in the labor dispute
which caused his unemployment".
SCHOOL DRIVERS FAIL TESis
Tha ctatn mntor vehicle depart
ment in testing school bus dri
vers is finding almost 23 percent
fail to pass tests under a new
law requiring me exammauuua
provided by the 1949 Legislature.
James F Johnson, director of
the motor vehicle department re-
tViot tha first crnnri of dri-
pulls Liiai nn- ti -
vers examined by his department
resulted in failure of fifteen
school bus drivers.
Working jointly with motor
vehicle department is the
Educational Department. 6
SCAN PRIVATE ELECTRICS
a r eaerai rower Commissi
staff report that some efi"
companies may be mis-classifv
ing expenditure in public vs mi
vate power advertising was
ven support Thursday by r
gon's Public Utilities Commit
loner Howard Morgan.
The expenditures are contri
buttons to an industry-wide ad"
vertislng campaign. The FPC has
declared that rla
. wwiij, Uig mesc
contributions as "operating ex
pense" may be a violation of the
commission's uniform system of
accounts.
A public hearing has been
Continued on cape x
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SMITH APIARIES
Phone 6-5330 Heppner
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STAR
THEATER
Thurs.. FrU Sat. Aug 21. 22, 23
Country Music
Holiday
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ferlln Husky
and others.
PLUS
Ride A Violent Mile
John Agar, Penny Edwards
Sun Mon., Aug. 24, 25
Run Silent,
Run Deep
Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster.
Sunday at 4, 6 and 8.
Tues.. Wad.. Aug. 26. 27
River Of No Return
Robert Mitchum, Marilyn
Monroe.
such as we have this year, It
looks as though there will need Mrs Don David, Boardman, lead
i., a uvCTlul.n ircunig .. Mrs Edna Hoffman, assis-
carried out. This could reflect
me uc-iuctiiu iui iccuti came
which has been great the coun
try throughout with prices
strengthening every day.
The Oregon Historical Society
and State Department of Agri
culture, who are co-sponsors,
have recently released the names
of 352 varified claimants for Ore
fon's first Century Farm honors.
The list represents 230 farms set
tled by their ancestors 100 or
more years ago. The present day
owners either live on and farm
the land or manage the farm
operations. Fifteen counties are
represented in the claims with
Wasco being the only county
east of the Cascades with cen
tury old farms .It had three. Mar
ion county produced the oldest
farm nfi42) and the most an.
mined. The program promises to pilcants (67). cllmax to the pro.
assist materially in geuuiK
land out of production tp allev
iate farm surpluses, to provide a
rotation type program and to
help In building-up land that no
doubt will be needed later as
population increases. The goal
for Oregon is 154,000 acres to be
signed up under the new pro-
Mothers Helpers" (foods
club) Mrs Don David, Board
man, leader; '.'The Jolly Cook
ers" Mrs Roy E Davis, Irrigon,
leader; Mrs Virginia Matlock, assistant.
gram will come September 2nd
at the Oregon State Fair when
Century Farm Day will be ob
served in fitting ceremonies. This
is a lead-up to the Centennial
observation in 1959.
Kiaiu. me liiaAiMiuiu taiui valu
ing from this program will still
remain at $5,000. Plans are be
ing made for educational pro
grams to acquaint everyone with
,The county A S C office can pro
MONUMENT
The State forestry in Monu
ment reported two class A fires
this past week.
A large number of people went
to Spray for a farewell party for
Mr and Mrs Fred Crolsant Fri
day evening and for a picnic on
Saturday.
Jf 3 3, f
STATE MONEY
The balance in Oregon's treas
ury of general fund money as
of July 31, 1958, was $103,873,940,
Secretary of State Mark Mark
Hatfield said Thursday.
Of this $6,053,422 was collected
by the State Tax Commission, Re
venue not yet received according
to budget estimates amount to
$110,726,891. There were $5,620,
065 in warrants outstanding.
The State Tax Commission re
ported Friday in giving its new
est estimate, an expected $30.6
million left in the general fund
when the fiscal biennium ends
June 30, 1959. This is just about
the same figure the Legislature
used in Its tax-cutting special
session last fall.
Tax Commission Chairman Carl
W Chambers predicts that tax
revenue of the current year,
which started July 1, will be
about $16 million less than last
year as full effect of the reduced
tax rates is felt. Tax officials
expect $88.7 million in the com
ing year from personal income
and corporation taxes.
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From where I sit ... ly Joe Marsh
mm
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Every so often I tee little
thlnfs that prove that folks
really are pretty wonderful!
Take last Saturday. I was
downtown when I saw a middle-aged
woman about to cross
a busy street. Just as she
started, the light changed, and
she hurried back to the curb.
But the big moving van that
was first In the long line of cars
had not moved.
"You cross first," the driver
of the van yelled. "But you're
holding up traffic," the woman
said. "Lady," replied the driver
,with good-natured wink, "let's
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you're stopping traffic!"
From where I sit, something
like that makes the "doer" and
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