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L I 8RARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. NEW YEAR STARTS COLD- r Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 8, 1959 Winter Grip Dips EPPNErV Mercury w Winter welcomed the new year with a real wallop when the first really cold spell of the winter descended on the northwest the night of January 1. The cold grip was not relaxed until Tuesday morning in Heppner, and at least late Wednesday in Lexington, lone and communities closer to the Columbia. The coldest night to be record ed here in nearly two years came early Saturday when the official government thermometer at the Heppner weather station dropped to 5 below zero. Sunday morn ing it got down to -4 tfnd on Monday the maximum was only 12 degrees. Several nearby ther mometers recorded -11 and -12 Saturday morning. It was not un common to find a 10 degree variance within a few miles. About an inch of snow accom panied the first drop in tempera ture Thursday night and Friday morning and another inch fell In Heppner Sunday night. lone re ported as much as four inches total during the past week and even more fell in places along Accident Kills Rev George Little Word was received Wednes day in Heppner of the death of the Rev George R S Little, former rector of All Saints' Episcopal church. He was killed Tuesday in an automobile accident near Tro na, California. No additional de tails were immediately available. Rev Little had only recently taken over as rector of the Epis copal parish at Trona, which is near San Diego. He is survived by his wife Ann; a son George, who is with the armed forces at San Diego; and a daughter Grace. A special service is scheduled for 10 a m Friday at All Saints' church here. It has been asked that in lieu of flowers that donations be made for a memorial at All Saints' church. the Columbia. The snow which auickly packed on streets and highways made driving hazardous in an directions and caused one serious car accident and several other minor ones. Mrs Frank Ander son, Ruggs, was taken to Pio neer Memorial hospital Monday suffering' from a collar bone and other injuries when her car and a state highway snow plow col lided a short distance west of Ruees. Damaee to her new 1959 station waeon was considerable. The snow plow was driven by Harry Moses, Heppner. Several other minor accidents were reported during the week, but there were no injuries. The first break in the cold snap was reported from the Hardman area late Monday when warm south winds brought tempera turps un sharnlv. The Chinook didn't reach Hepnper until Tues day morning, and Wednesday afternoon the area from lone west was still in the grip of sub-freezing temperatures. Strong, warm south winds buf feted HerjDner from mid-morn ing Wednesday rapidly clearing the remaining snow, out tnese had not effected the lone area even by Wednesday afternoon. The sub-zero cold was the pause of at lesat three major rural fires over the weekend, but the layer of snow was sufficient to give ample protection to iau seeded wheat. Further word was received Wednesday nieht that Rev Little's death was caused by a heart attack according to a pny sician's report. He apparently was unable to bring his car to a complete stop alter Deing stricken. Cassius C Mallory, Native of Heppner, Dies in Florida Cassius Chester Mallory, 68, former president of Grace Steam ship Lines, died last week at Lake Wales, Fla. Mr Mallorv was born in Hepp ner and was the grandson of A Mallorv. the first county judge of Morrow county. His father was William L Mallory, a pioneer stockgrower and operator of a sawmill south of Hardman. Later the family moved to lone and Mr Mallory graduated irom lone hitrh school in 1907. Mr Mallory and his brother visited Heppner last summer 101 the first time in many years. lone Girl Wins Baby "Jackpot" Morrow county's first 1959 baby was a nice bin eirl. Robin Mar tina Hausler, 9 pounds and 7 ounces, who arrived at z.ai p m nn Januarv 2 to claim "First Baby" honors for herself and her parents, Mr and Mrs Joe Hausier of lone. Rohin will eet plenty of at tention at home for she has three sisters and a brother to take care of her. Thev are Carol Leilani, 4tt; Betty, 8; Cathy, 9; end Joe Jr. 11. Rv timing her arrival as she did, Robin won for herself and her folks a host of prizes and (rifts offered bv Heppner stores o " - - , , . and business. Her Dad is princi- , . s pal of the lone grade scnooi ana teaches hieh school mathematics. They have lived in lone for five years. Two other voune ladies tried awfull hard to get in on the "loot" hut thev lust coudn't wait quite long enough. They are Kim Marie, daughter of Mr and Mrs Del Jordan of Heppner who was born at 11 a m Decern oer u; and Carol Ann, daughter of Mr nnH Mrs DeWavne HiEbee of Spray. She arrived about four hours too soon, coming into me world at 7:52 p m December 31. Copies 10 Cents 75th Year, Number 44 1m Five County Men Are Appointed To Port Commission Governor Robert D Holmes Wednesday morning adv i s e d county judge Oscar Peterson that he was appointing five Morrow county men as commissioners 01 the Morrow county port district. Formation of the port district was approved by voters at the Novem ber general election. The five named to direct the operations of the district are, Dewey West, Jr and George Weiss, both of Boardman; War ren McCoy of Irrigon; Al Lamb, Heppner; and Garland Swanson of lone. They will serve a term to be determined by lot at their first meeting which must be held fivp davs from the date of their appointment which was made ef fective January 7, according 10 the word from the governor. The commission will have the power and duty to aid in the industrial and other development of th cnuntv. Transportation by water is expected to be one phase of development that the commis sion will study after it gets or ganized. I ; ''.. , . . t. . . : i ' - ' jf V " ' '' C-t, . , y . , t f " v 4 - I ROARING FLAMES were completely destroying this rural home of Guy Hastings last Saturday aiternoon wnen mis pnoio was taken by Heppner fire chief C A Ruggles. The fire was dis covered in time to allow removal of most furnishings, but nothing could be done to save the house. WEATHER Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Hi 62 64 39 16 13 12 20 48 Low Prec. 47 34 13 .09 5 4 .08 2 10 20 Tr Prpcinitation for the week .17 inches, all in snow; for Decem ber, 1.63; for 1958, 15.27 inches; for January 1959 .17 incnes Local Dogs Reported As Sheep Killers Sheriff C J D Bauman said this week that he has received re ports that several dogs have been chasing stock near Heppner and that some sheep were killed by dogs over a week ago. In making the announcement he reminded dog owners that un der the law farmers can kill dogs caught killing stock. The invading dogs are thought to be from Heppner and the Sheriff urged dog owners in town to keep a closer eye on their canines or run the risk of having them shot. Mrs D A Wilson of Corvallls is here to spend the holidays with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs Willard Blake. 1958 Fire Loss Takes Big Jump Loss bv fire in Heppner during 1958 took a big jump over the previous year and only about one-third of the total was cover ed by insurance, a tally of fire department records revealed. The 1958 loss was $12,207.15 which was nearlv 10 times the unusually low 1957 loss of only $1,244.59. Of the total damage $5,478.85 was to buildings and $6,728.30 was to contents. The value of buildings and contents at risk in the year's blazes amounted to $153,425. The most damaeine fire to oc cur durlner the vear occurred In December when the Paul Doherty living quarters in the Heppner Laundry building was ournea. i.nss here was estimated at $8,000. The loss figures compiled hv the department did not in clude any estimate of loss from the several grass fires during the summer. The Heooner department an swered a total of 25 alarms dur ing the year, five more than in 1957. Two of these were mutual aid calls, one of which was a false alarm which resulted in an arrest and conviction. One other false alarm was answered. Durin? the vear the depart ment completed installation of its new air horn alarm system, added two powerful portable lights to its equipment and a small amount of fire hose, mere are 15 volunteers on the depart ment who operate two pieces of regular fire equipment. Last vear's fire loss nearly reached the loss in 1956 of $14,062 which was the highest in several years. IJ'f -. - .1 v -r-x km Mill Offers Fire Truck Temporarily For Rural Use Heppner Pine Mills Monday offered the Heppner fire depart ment the temporary use of Its own fire truck for fighting rural fires near town if the city would provide a place to store it where it could be kept from freezing and in operating condition. The cltv Immediately accepted the offer and is currently trying to find some suitable place to house It. The city fire hall has no additional room and the re mainder of the city hall Is un heated. The truck must be kept above freezing to keep water in its tank and pumps from freez ing and making the equipment useless. The mill made the offer follow ing last weekend's three rural fires which destroyed or dam aired homes. The Heppner city equipment is not allowed to an swer calls outside the city limits because of regulations. In makinz the offer, the mill management said it would be purely on a temporary basis as it would need the eauipment again within a few months, but that they understood that efforts are nnw heinc made to form a rural fire district around Heppner. The truck could serve some value In the meantime while such a dis trict was beine organized. The mill has no heated storage for the truck so consequently pvorvthlne but its big pump is inoperable during the winter. It Is canable of carrvine sufficient water to be of some help in case of rural fires. The Heppner department will man the equipment if a place can be found to keep it, which it has not yet been able to do. NOTHING WAS LEFT of this Rhea Creek home of Jack Davis following an early morning lire Tuesday, uavis was asieep m a nearby trailer when the blaze broke out and was unable to save any belongings from the building. Cause of the fire is unknown. (Pht by C A. Ruggles) Arrangements Near Completion for Livestock Meeting Arrangements are nearing completion this week for the an nual Morrow County Livestock Growers meeting to be held In Heppner Friday and Saturday, January 16 and 17. A full two day program is scheduled that will be of interest to all cattlemen, and a popular event, tried last year for the first time, a "bull day" will again be held on Friday. Local cattlemen are urged to bring their animals to the fair grounds for trading. An auction is set for that after noon to handle animals that aren't traded. Well known speakers are be ing programmed and the annual banquet will be held at the fair pavilion Saturday evening. March of Dimes Adult Mathematics Class Starts Monday A general mathematics class snnnsnred bv the Heppner P-TA will start Monday, Jan 12 at 7:30 p m at the high school with M C Huggett as instructor. Twentv-four adult students have already signed up for the course, and anyone who is ln tprpsted can call Mrs Vic Krei- meyer, 6-5322 for information. -t Ty ill , . M . " i ; V''V (1 I 'i tt Luriiffr " f A MASS REMOVAL of tonsils was performed recently at Pioneer . . , i ;i nn thocA aiv members of the same family. Memorial huswim - - The six are children of Mr and Mrs Archie Esteb of lone andt thev are, from left Konaia ii. ineiesa 4q, eiuT ludv 7 and Undo 4. One other youngster, Barbara, 2 yean old. was a little too young o 4 " Christian Church Sets Doctrine Class The First Christian church is conducting a pastor's class on Christian doctrine begin n i n g Sunday evening at 7 o'clock, and will continue each Sunday until Easter. The class will be taugnt by the Rev Charles Knox, min ister, and Is for anyone Interested in the subject Also on February 22 to March fi the Rev Harrv Baird. pastor of the Central Christian church of uroiia Wnlln will hp the enest minister for a preaching mission. ' their full support Rev Rydgren to Head County Heart Drive Rev John Rydgren, pastor of Hone Lutheran church of Hepp- nor and Valbv Lutheran of lone has accepted appointment as Morrow rountv chairman ior me 1QM) Heart Fund campaign of the Oregon Heart Association, ac cording to Eddie Mays, roruanu restaurant owner and state chair man. The campaign begins with the opening of Heart Month, Feb ruary 1, and continues through February 28 when the nation wide drive is climaxed as thous ands of volunteers stage a door-to-door Heart Sunday campaign. Rev Rydgren and other county rhairmen from throughout the state will attend a pre-campaign meeting January 17 at the uni versity of Oregon medical school, whpre thev will learn first-hand how Heart Fund money Is spent for research and education. "We are gratified that Rev Rydgren has agreed to direct the Heart Fund campaign in Morrow county," Mays said, "and are ponfirlpnt the people of Morrow county will give the campaign lkAt, full aiinnort." Support Needed Effective aid to children crip pled by polio, arthritis and birth defects will require major sup port from the 1959 March of Dimes, Cene Pierce, Morrow county campaign director, said today. "Patient aid has always been the largest single program of the National Foundation, which sponsors the March of Dimes," the director said. "Over the years 325,000 polio patients have bene fited by it. Now that program will be extended to cover patients through age 18 suffering from arthritis and certain birth de fects, or congenital malforma tions. And funds are still need ed for at least 50,000 polio pa tients on our chapter rolls." Thp Mnrmw chanter of the Nat ional Foundation in 1958 paid out $500.00 for hospital, medical and other expenses incurred by two polio patients in Morrow county. Nationally, March of Dimes funds nrovided $18,900,000 in pa tient aid for about 50,000 patients in 1958. tinder the new program, March of Dimes assistance will be offer or tn arthritis sufferers through aao is the director explained, adding: "At least 11,000,000 people in the USA suffer with some form of rheumatic disease. Of 16,000 children likely t0 seek treatment In a year, some 5,000 to 6,000 may need treatment as extensive as that required for paralytic polio." Patient aid also will be exten ded to victims of birth defects (congenital malformations) in volving the central nervous sys tem, through age 18. An estima ted 8,000 such patients seek med ical care each year. County and City Officials Start Terms in Office Several county and city offic ials were sworn in this week, either as new officers or at the start of new terms. A new county commissioner, r.ene Fpreuson of Heppner, was sworn In Tuesday to start his term of office. He replaces Kaipn i Thnmnsnn who had served for three terms. County judge Oscar Peterson also started a run term of office. Pour Tfpnnner cltv officials, mayor W C Collins and council men Phil Blakney, Lowell Grib- hiP. and Allen Case also started new terms in office. They were sworn in Monday night. Pendleton Man New Tum-A-Lum Manager Tim Mnore took over duties January 1 as new manager or thp Hennner retail yard of the Tum-A-Lum Lumoer company no renlnees Jack Loya wno re signed from the company after serving as manager nere ior nearly 10 years. Moore, a native of Pendleton, came here from that city, but he previously had been manager of Tum-A Lums roruana ymu. Prior to that time he had his own construction company in Pendleton. Mr and Mrs Moore and their four children moved here about Christmas time. Crists Take Over Heppner Restaurant Mr and Mrs Win Crist have announced the purchase of Kay's Fountain, Main and Center streets, from Mrs Kay Sayers wno has operated it for several years. ThP Crists have been in Hepp ner for four years, and plan to run the restaurant as a family nnoration. Mrs Sayers plans to move iu Portland. Miss Esther Kirmls, Morrow county home demonstration agent, returned to Heppner Sun day from Lisbon, North Dakota where she had been recuperating from an accident and spending the holidays with relatives. Hospital Auxiliary To Elect Officers The Pioneer Memorial hospital Auxiliary will meet Monday, Jan 12 at 8 p m at the court house, It was announced today. Elec tion of officers will be held in addition, the program will be planned for the coming year and a summary of the first year's work will be given. Two Completely Destroyed, Third Suffers Damage Two rural homes were complet ely destroyed by fire and another suffered considerable damage over the weekend, In a series of disastrous blazes that were charged to the sub zero cold which held this entire area in Its grip for several days. The two homes completely de stroyed were owned by Guy Hast ings, Just south of Heppner on the Condon highway, and by Jack Davis, Upper Rhea creek. The third house, which was only damaged, belonged to Marcel Jones, south of Heppner. The first of the fires leveled the Hastings home about one half mile south of Heppner at about 4:30 Saturday afternoon. The cause was thought to be de fective wiring. The fire was dis- , covered in its early stages and a call was placed to the Heppner fire department which could not respond with equipment because the house was located outside oi the citv limits. Fire chief C A Ruggles and several firemen and neighbors aided in getting most personal beloncings out of the house before it went up in flames. Hastings estimated that nearly 75 percent of his household and personal effects were saved. No definite figure was placed on the loss, but it was estimated at an excess of $4,000. There wa9 some Insurance on the building. The temperature was about 10 above zero when the fire broke out, and the lack of wind prob ably saved adjoining houses ano buildings. The heavy smoke drif ted into town and brought dozens of calls to the Heppner fire de partment. Sunday Morning Blaze Shortly before 10 a m Sunday a smouldering fire was discov ered at the Marcel Jones home, about one-half mile south of the Hastings house which had been destroyed the night before. It started from a defective fireplace and burned through paneling and studding before being dis covered. A considerable amount of one living room wall had to be torn away before it could De extinguished. Heppner firemen again aided personally, but as In the previous blaze couia not oner equipment. Damage was estimated roughly at about $1,000. Thp second home to be com pletely destroyed with all con tents was the Jack Davis nome on Rhea creek. Davis, who was living In a trailer house near his home, was awakened at 1 a m Tuesday by the flames. No cause was determined and ne was un able to save any furniture or personal belongings. . Loss was placed above $8,00O, and there was some insurance on both house and contents. ThP HeDoner fire department answered two calls within the city during the same period, neither of which did any great namairp. A silent call was an swered at 2:30 Sunday morning when a resident thought smone was coming from a home near the high school. This proved to be erroneous. Later Sunday morning a flooded oil lurnace at thp Lester Wvman home on Green street called firemen. It was quickly controlled with only minor damage. Considerable complaint was received by fire department members following the two near by rural fires, because equip ment was not sent to aid. sev eral years ago the city council publicly announced mat cuy equipment could not answer alarms outside tne cuy iimus except under mutual aid agree ments. The council again reiter ated this stand at its Monday night meeting, explaining that it had no other choice under the law. A more complete explana tion of this reasoning and regu lation can be found In an edi torial on page 2 of today's paper. nw Year'g auests at the home of Mr and Mrs Archie Padberg were her two sons and their iam illes, Mr and Mrs Edwin Tucker, Salem and Mr and Mrs Eldon Tucker, lone; and Mr and Mrs Bill Nichols, Lexington. home.
