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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1958)
i MORBOW. COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established Mareh 30, 1883. The Heppner Tlmtg astablished November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 16, 1912 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL xmm.'.n.'.i. a published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rstes: Morrow and Grant Counties. $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. TO THE EDITOR ... To The Editor: Our little articles, recently published In the Oregonian about Owen Wlster and Col John Watermelon Redington has brought about many pleasant repercussions. That letter to Ger trude Parker from her brother, Garfield Crawford, cert a I n 1 y brought back many pleasant memories of the early days In Heppner. I knew Garfield from the first day he landed In Hepp ner, and I remember when he used to be, a combination of roust-a-bout, printers Devil and reporter for the old Heppner Ga zette. Then, there was the fine letter I received from Portland from two fine friends, the secre tary and housekeeper for Fred Lockley, old time feature writer on the Sunday section of the Portland Journal, but at the time of the Heppner Flood of 1903, part owner and reporter of the Pendleton East Oregonian. Mr Lockley has been a wonderful friend of mine since the days of the great flood, and has help ed me In many ways in pre paring and writing my Morrow county history. - Mr Lockley Is now past 90, totally blind, and confined in the Good Samaritan hospital In Portland from sick ness from which he will never recover. He was a life-long friend of Col John W Redlngton. Mr Lockley sent along his best regards to the Gazette Times publisher. Then last Thursday I had a wonderful surprise. Ber nice Redlngton, third daughter of Col Redington, and her sister, Mrs Donald J Stewart (Elizabeth Redington) the youngest daugh ter of the Col come to Castle Rock and spent the afternoon with us. The other two sisters, Mable and Marian, live In Cali fornia Elizabeth was only four years old when the Redlngton family left Heppner forever sometime In the earl part of 1901. Bernice remembers Gar field Crawford very well and saw him around the Gazette office frequently. Bernice is a retired journalist, a long time writer for the Seattle Times. She Is now on her way to California to continue her study of the raising of sheep. She intends to go Into the sheep raising business and asked me If there were as many sheep STAR THEATER Thurs., Fri., Sat., Aug. 28, 29, 30 Walt Disney's Peter Pan Plus Yaqui Drums With Rod Cameron Sun., Mon., Aug. 21, Sept 1 Ten North Frederick Gary Cooper, Diane Varsl, Suzy Tarker Tues WedU Sept 2, 3, Toy Tiger With Jeff Chandler, Lorain Day, Tim Ilovey. OUR GUARD RATES HIGH This is the third consecutive year our Oregon National Guard has led In the eight western states of the Sixth Army area in "superior" ratings for annual armory Inspections, according to word received by MaJ Gen Thom as E Rilea adjutant general, from Lt Gen Charles D Parler, Sixth Army commander. General Rilea said, "We are very proud of their enviable re cord." The Sixth Army tabulation of the percentages of the overall ratings awarded within each state showed Oregon leading with ratings with 21.8 percent. Second was Washington with 18.2 percent. The inspections were made by the regular army inspector gen- eral on training, administration, supply and maintenance. i O'CONNELL FILES Kenneth J O'Connell filed in' the state elections bureau Thurs-1 day for Justice of the Supreme Court at the November general election. He was nominated for the of fice at a convention held in Port land. He was appointed a mem ber of the Supreme Court to suc ceed James T Brand, who resign ed to teach in a Florida college. VOTER PAMPHLETS EARLY A timely approach was made this week for one of the State Printing Department's big jobs. Freeman Holmer, election and notarial division director said Wednesday the press work on the 900,000 voter pamphlets will be gin about Sept 8. The first see ment of the job will be printed In Salem and Portland. PAPER HANGERS HARVEST Many Oregon district attorneys are advising merchants that this is the "harvest season" for bad check operators. Cashing bad pa per Is easier for these swindlers when a flood of checks is being raised In Morrow county as there were when she was a girl there. She asked about many of our old schoolmates of the Heppner school, but most of the ones she inquired about are now dead. The sisters brought me many more letters, pictures and stories of their famous father, Col John Watermelon Redlngton, and they would make Interesting reading for old time residents of Heppner, especially the letters written be tween Mr Redington and Billy Morrow, old time owner of the old Palace Hotel. These letters were about the ownership of 168 acres of land, including Mult nomah Falls, which the Oregon Railroad and Navagatlon Co had Induced Mr Redington to pur chase an option to buy the land and the falls. The option was given for $1.00 and the whole price for the 168 acres and the falls was $8,000. Years later the city of Portland condemned the site of the falls for a city park and brought suit against Mr Redlngton to quiet the title. I have all the papers in connect ion with this suit. O M Yeager Castle Rock, Wn leashed by farm workers and pickers. The district attorneys advise merchants and others to require Identification and if not produc ed, to turn down the check. An other request they make is to get a good description of the person attempting to pass the check. This will give authorities a chance to apprehend guilty persons. NEW JUDGE GROUP Associate Justice Tom Clark of the U S Supreme Court has ap pointed three judges from each of the nine western states to set up a structure for the proposed association. Judge Val Sloper, of Marlon County, one of the Ore gon appointees left for a San Francisco meeting of the group Monday. HIGHWAY TRAFFIC DOWN The State Highway Depart ment's monthly count for July, released Tuesday, was 1.1 per cent below the previous year as recorded at 48 rural locations. Statewide rural decrease for the month was recorded despite a 4.5 per cent increase at five locations reflecting urban traffic trends. In the first seven months of 1958 rural traffic was up three tenths of one percent while ur ban traffic was 2.4 percent high er than a year ago. Durfng the first six months of the year 1 percent more gasoline was consumed than in the same period of 1957. However, gasoline consumption was 1.5 percent be low the 1956 travel peak. OEC DEDICATION The dedication of a new dor mitory for women, a physical education building and a central heating - plant on the Eastern Oregon college campus in La Grande will be observed Sept 8 by the Board of Higher Educat Ion which will be joined by gov ernor Robert D Holmes. OPINION BY THORNTON A proposal to have their po sitions put under Civil Service is being discussed by the assis tant attorney generals employ ed in the State Department of Justice. The law boys In the Depart ment of Justice want justice-as like . . . "It Is my opinion," averred At torney General Robert Y Thorn ton, "that the assistant attorney generals are divided and that a definite decision will not be an nounced for sometime." The attorney general said he first proposed a discussion of en tering Civil Service when he was elected in 1953. "The salaries of assistant attorney generals," said Thornton, "have been Increased the past few years and resig- lipon several occasions during nations are becoming fewer." THIRTY YEARS AGO From the files of the Gazette Times August 30, 1928 Phlllln Mahnnev. son of Mr and Mrs W P Mahoney of this city, has passed the Oregon state Dar examination, according to notice received this week. John Kenny and family of Sand Hollow arrived Tuesday from a vacation trip that took them as far east as Ontario, where they have relatives resid ing. All the former grade school fa culty will be on hand this year, with the exception of Miss Mar tha Wilson, who has been in the primary department for the last two years. Miss Wilson's place will be taken by Miss tsetn Bleakman. Miss Mildred Clowry and Miss Dorothy Herren spent Tuesday and Wednesday In Pendleton. The family of Claude Cox re turned from Newport, Oregon on Sunday. lone News Jerry Bristow left this week for Brookings where he will teach in the schools. A C Swanson returned home from the Pioneer Memorial hos pital last week. i Mr and Mrs Rietmann are va cationing at the coast. Mr and Mrs John Eubanks and daughter, Sandra and Mr and Mrs Don Linnell and family at tended the Wasco county fair and rodeo at Tygh Valley Friday of last week. Sandra entered the races and Rodney Linnell won a prize in the 4 H pole bending contest which Is performed on horses. , Mr and Mrs C E Brenner spent the weekend in Portland. Mrs Vela Eubanks and grandson, Leonard Eubanks, of Portland, came home with them. Mr and Mrs Don Scheelar and children of Salem were recent visitors at the home of his sis ter and. family, Mr and Mrs Leo Crabtree. Mrs Arvllla Swanson returned home Saturday from Milwaukle where she visited relatives for five weeks. Her son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs Frank Lundell returned home with her and left Sunday. Several from here attended the East-West Shrine football game in Pendleton Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs Noel Dobyns spent the weekend here. They return ed to Portland Monday where Mrs Dobyns will take medical treat ments. Robert Akers, Linda Heimbig ner and Leann Padberg attend ed the west high school press institute at the school of journal ism at the University of Ore gon last week. Mr and Mrs Garry Tullis and sons recently returned from a trip to Tennessee where they vis ited relatives. They visited In Knoxville and Chatanooga. They went by way of Salt Lake, Den ver and stopped at Yellowstone park. The Tullis' returned home Sun day from a trip to Brookings Arlington Man Named District Head Of Business Group Announcement of the appoint ment of L C Buchner of the Bank of Eastern Oregon at Arlington as chairman of the Morrow ana Gilliam county chapter of the National Federation of Indepen dent Business, was made today by E L Stanley, district manager of the federation in this area. Each business member of this organization maintains a voting membership and Is polled by bal lot each month on the bills and issues that effect business enter prises in the nation. In an effort to do everything I possible to maintain the Ameri can way of life and keep the free competitive system of busi ness, the businessmen express their own personal opinion on the ballots each month and turn them over to Buchner who makes a tabulation of the vote. This tabulation is sent, with the signed ballots, directly to Congressman Al Ullman in Washington. This action takes place before members of Con press vote on debatable issues and the ballots give the mem bers an Indication of the person al opinions of his independent business constituents. HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thundery, August 28, Monument News where they visited her brother and famllv. Mr and Mrs Art Vance and-at Grants Pass they visited his brother and lamuy, Mr and Mrs John Tullis. Milton Morean and Roy Lind- strom returned home Sunday from a weeks fishing nip to Astoria and the coast. They had fair luck getting fish. USE GAZETTE TIMES CLASSIFIED ADS Brenda Asher spent a few days visiting Laura Lee Shank. Her home is In Kimbeny. J Mrs Ella Kenton of Portland .visited her brother Boyd Hinton and others during the past week. She returned home Saturday. Hugh Johnson Is now staying at the rest home In Vale, Ore gon. Laura Lee Shank, Nancy Hell ly, Hank and Jerry Cupper and Harold Reynolds were In John Day Saturday evening to the show "Old Yeller." Mr and Mrs Henry Cupper went to LaGrande for the week end to visit their daughter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs Joe Bat-1 ty. Mr and Mrs Ned Sweek and family of Heppner were visiting here Saturday with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr and Mrs George Capon. Darrell Farrens was here Sat urday from his camp at Happy Jack to visit with his iamny. Ivan Gienger of Washington visited at the Fred Shank home Sunday. LEXINGTON Mrs Eldon Padberg was called to Portland last week by the death of an aunt in that city. Al Frost was called to La Grande on Monday evening by the serious illness of his father who is a patient in a hospital there. Mr and Mrs Harold Beach and children and Mr and Mrs Jack Barak have returned from a vis it to Western Washington and the coast. BOARDMAN Mr and Mrs Jim Harding of Sacramento Calif are visiting Mrs Harding's mother, Mrs Eff Miller and her brothers and sis ters-in-law, Mr and Mrs Russen" Miller and Mr and Mrs Bob Mil ler. Over the weekend the Hard ing's went to Corbett to visit at the home of Mr and Mrs Rabh Baker, and the Bob Millers went to Gresham to visit Mrs Miller's brother-in-law and sister, Mr and Mrs Carl Gaede. Mr and Mrs A R Cooley of Fresno, Calif are visiting at the home of Mrs Coofey's brother-in-law and sister, Mr and Mrs Clvde Tannehill. " MAGIC is a five-letter word for wait uisneys PETER pan Star Theater, Thusrday-Frlday' Saturday. Also good hoof-and-saddle drama. NOW AT YOUR GROCERS' NATURAL III HEVEB HEATED 01 BLEACHED Clarified by sunshine, this Naturally superior honey has all the flavor of the flowers. "Lickln Good!" 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