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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1959)
f OF 9 City's First Traffic Light Due at School Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 15, 1959 Gazette-Tim 75th Year, Number 45 Copies 10 Cents Livestock Growers 4 .! i. ' . - A t 11 4 ' ? Vj '-ft !fe life? :'v-K:r y nL V' 'IX.. - tli-l,i Tin., i fri iti iinfTmftTwillntiH lwyhH'yirtl' Snr-ftHMrtMiil' iT--1- UNION PACIFIC'S agricultural improvement car will bring staff of soil specialists to Heppner January 23 to help Morrow farmers combat erosion on their fields. County agent N C Anderson points out that soil runoff begins with billions of raindrop explosions such as one magnified in inset photo graph. U P ag car will also visit Condon, January 22, and Pilot Rock. January 26. Area Water Supply Reserve Only Fair; Snow is Missing The water supply , outlook for the Umatilla, Morrow and Gil liam counties Is only fair accord ing to a report released today by W T Frost, snow survey super visor for U S Department of Agri culture, Soil Conservation Service and Oregon Agricultural experi ment station. Much more snow is needed to create a favorable sit uation; particularly for those irri gators served from streams with out reservoirs. Water content of snow is low, with two of the three surveyed courses reported as zero. These were Emigrant Springs and Mea cham measured on December 23. Tollgate as of that date had 2.4 inches of water or about 20 per cent of last year. Watershed soils are moderately well wetted. The melting of most of November snowfall coupled with recent December rains have improved these moisture condit ions. Cold Springs and McKay reser voirs hold 13 percent more water than last year at this date. They are currently storing 93 percent of normal. Since October 1st the Umatilla river has had a flow 107 per cent of normal. Both November and December flow were above normal, while October flow was below normal at 52 percent. The state-wide outlook for Ore gon's 1959 water supply, as of this early winter date, is not good. However, reservoired water supplies are excellent with most reservoirs holding well above av erage amounts. The mountain snow-pack averages a new record low according to current snow surveys. The next report on snow sur veys and water supply conditions will be issued on February 8, 1959. Careful! Uncle Sam Doesn't Like This! Tolice and post office officials this week were investigating the damaging of several mailboxes between Heppner and Lexington and issued a warning that it is a federal offense to molest or damage a mailbox. Sometime Saturday night five rural mailboxes between Hepp ner and Lexington were pushed over, apparently by a car which was run against the post or box. Police reported some leads and were continuing the investiga tion. Invitation Received For Alaska Inaugural Mr and Mrs Allen Case of Hep pner this week received an in vitation to attend the inaugural ball to be held in Juneau, Alacka, Saturday, January 17, but the rasp's will be unable to attend. Tho invitation was sent to tvmm hv Mr and Mrs Hugh Wade, t rtita nf thffc first secreiaiy ui oni- new state of Alaska. Mrs Wade is the former Madge Case, a cousin of Mr Case. Final Rites Held Here Monday for Harvey 0 Bauman Funeral services for Harvey Oscar Bauman, 68, were held Monday afternoon at the' Hepp ner Masonic hall. Mr Bauman passed away January 8 at a The Dalles hospital. He was a resi dent of Arlington. Mr Bauman was born August 8, 1890 at Akron Ohio. He had been a resident of Arlington for 8 years, and prior to that lived in Nampa, Idaho and Heppner. Hp was a veteran of World War I, a member of the Heppner Methodist churcn, tne Heppner Masonic lodge and the Heppner American Legion post. He is survived by his wife, Bernice, Arlington; two daugh ters, Mrs Carolyn Rock, San An- gelo, Texas; Mrs Marjorie Gar mendia. Nanrna. Idaho: a son, James David Bauman, Salt Lake City; one brother, C J D Bauman, Heppner; three sisters, Mrs Esther Writer. Olvmnia. Wash; Mrs Walter Lyons, Portland; and Mrs Allen Brown or Monument. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery with Spencer and Libby Funeral Home or ine Dalles in charge. Swaggart to Head Fair Board; Dates Set For Aug 27-30 Gerald Swaggart was named chairman of the Morrow county fair board at a meeting Tuesday evening. He replaces Charles Carlson of lone, who resigned several weeks ago. Other mem bers of the board are Bernard Doherty and Al Fetsch. The board set the dates for the 1959 fair as Thursday, Fri day, Saturday and Sunday, Aug ust 27, 28, 29 and 30. This is one week earlier than usual but it will allow local participants an j opportunity to enter in the state fair. No dates have yet been set for the rodeo. In other business the board hired Raymond Ferguson as fair and rodeo grounds manager and it was agreed to allow all Mor row county non-profit organiza tions to use the new fair build ing annex free of charge for busi ness meetings providing the building is left in the same con dition that it was found. Weather Moderates, Also Gets Wetter Temperatures moderated con siderably during the past week with the only sub-freezing re cording at the Heppner weather station coming Wednesday when the mercury dropped to 28 de grees. The weekend saw heavy rains come to nearly all sections of the state. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Heppner received a total of .80 inch which was well under that recorded in other sections of the county. During - j- that same period as much as inai Balilc yenuu as uiucu as 10 inches fell in other sections! of Oregon. UP Ag Car Due In Heppner, Jan 23 Morrow county farmers will hear five speakers point up the need for "saving our soil" when the Union Pacific agricultural improvement car visits Heppner, January 23. The SOS car, as the railroad calls it this year, will be parked at the deDot. The meetings will be held at 9:30 a m and 1:30 n m. said county agent N C Anderson, program chalrm a n The car has a seating capacity of, 55. ' Cooperating with Anderson and the Union Pacific's agricultural department in presenting the pro gram are tne sou conservation service and Oregon State college. Cal Crandall, U P agricultural agent, will open each session, telling about the purpose of the Ag car and then showing a color movie "The World at Your Feet". The movie dramatizes the action of wind and water on soil. Tom Wilson, SCS unit conser vationist, will point out the con servation needs in Morrow coun ty, and Don Peterson, former county conservation of the year, will tell about his experiences with soil. E R Jackman, OSC farm crops specialist, will tell how machin ery, nitrocen. farm practices, grass and alfalfa can check soil runoff. Results of conservation re search at the Pendleton branch experiment station will be re ported by Supt Merrill Oveson Anderson will announce the recommendations of the 1958 Town and Country Planning Con ference on soil conservation. Soil meetings will also be held on the U P car at Condon, Jan uary 22, at 12:45 and 2 pm, and at Pilot Rock, January , at 2:30 and 7 pm. The Condon meetings will in elude talks by Jackman and a Danel of three farmers and an SCS conservationist discussing the "problems and solutions for good trashy fallow." .Turkman. Oveson and John Dennison, area SCS man, will speak at Pilot Rock. Ed Hoeft, state winner of the conservation farmer title, will tell how he has checked erosion on his fields. Steven Wiles Rites Held Monday at lone Funeral services were held for Steven L Wiles Monday at 2 p m at the Baptist church in lone with the Rev Charles V Knox, pastor of the Christian church in Heppner orriciating. Mr Wiles was born in Logan, Mo, Oct 28, 1895 and died at his home Jan 9. He came to this community in 1907. He Is sur vived by his wife, Hazel, one steDdauehter. Mrs Carl (Juanlta) Schulz of Rock Creek and one stenson. James Morean of lone; two sisters, Mrs Lester (Vida) Brittin of Tygh Valley and Mrs Ned (Jessie) Carr of The Dalles and one brother, Floyd Wiles of XUilCi Interment was In the lone rvniMi.lLr Mnrtnnrv ctmeici y aim ww"vn j iiciu at v of Heppner had charge of the.gon the first Monday afternoon arangements. I in February. To Gather For Ansiyal Meeting a maloritv of the county's cattlemen are expected to gather in HoDDner Friday and Satur day for the annual meeting of Reorganization ommittee Sels District Hearings The county school reorganiza tion committee met at the lone school Thursday evening, Jan 8 with about 50 persons from Hep pner, Lexington, lone ana teen in attendance. Fredrick Martin of lone is chairman. The oblect of the meeting was to Dresent preliminary plans lor forming an administrative dis trict under the new law. Hear ings on this will be held in Feb ruary. One meeting will be held in lone, one in Heppner and one in Boardman. Zoning of districts was discussed but no action was taken. Five board members will be elected in May, and also a committee from each district. Persons from Heppner, Lexing ton and lone asked that two men from' the state department of education be sent here to discuss sites for schools and transporta tion and to determine whether it would be feasible to have one or two high schools in the south part of the county. ' Cecil was well represented and stated that residents tnere pre ferred to remain in the Arling ton district. Mrs Jones New Auxiliary Head Mrs Cecil Jones of Lexington was elected president of the Pio neer Memorial hospital auxiliary at its Quarterly meeting Mon day evening at the court house. Other officers elected were Mrs Gar Swanson. lone, vice presi- dent; Mrs Kenneth palmer, Lex - - lngton, secretary and Mrs Clar ence Rosewall, Heppner, treasur er. The members of the noml nating committee were Mrs Cecil Thome, Miss Leta Humphreys and Mrs Mervin Leonard. It was reported that after the Durchase of the bulletin boards for the patients In the nursing home by the auxiliary, several donations were made to help with a worthwhile project for the hosDita . bv the lone uaraen club, a 4-H group, Willows HEC of lone and two individuals in lone. Prolects for 1959 were discuss ed and Mrs Alex Green of Hepp ner eave a report on what naa been done for tray favors during the pftt year and anyone In terested in helping witn iavors for holidays may contact Mrs Green. Two other prolects discussed for 1959 were that of different organizations adopting a room In the nursing home ana tne purcn asing of small name plates for the foot of the beds. A reriort for 1958 was written by Mrs Velma Glass and Mrs Gar Swanson and listed as the year's projects, a picnic on the court house lawn for nursing nome pa tients, bulletin boards for each one, guided tours for high school girls for the county to neip in terest them in becoming nurses, arrangements for some patients to attend the Morrow county ro deo and fair, showing slides and motion pictures to patients and the general visiting, reading and letter writing for the patients. It was suggested that a Future Nurses club be established In each high school In the county, if proper leadership can be found. Mrs Harry Bongers represented the auxiliary at the state con vention in Gearhart this last summer. It was announced that the ex I v - ; ecutive board meeting will be i V.M f tho T3-inlr nf Fastprn Ore- the Morrow County Livestock Growers association, and a full two-day program is on tap. It was announced yesterday that Frank McKennon, the new director of the state department of agriculture, will take part in the Saturday program and dis cussions and also will be featur ed at the popular annual ban quet Saturday night at the fair pavilion. A lot of activity is scheduled for the two days. Friday morn ing the second annual bull day will pet under wav with 25 young and 5 old bulls offered for sale or trade. Active trading will be- ein at 11 a m at the fair grounds with a planned auction sale set for 1:30 in the afternoon. Beginning at 2:00 D m there will be a general assembly with groups breaking up for commit tee meetings. All of the iirst dav's events will take place at the fair grounds, the bull day at the new corrals ana the com mittee meetings at the pavilion. Saturday's program will start at 9:30 and in addition to com mitteo renorts there will be dis cussions on the "proposed re-org anization of the state department of agriculture and its effect on the livestock industry," activities of the Oregon Cattlemen's assoc iation, and what the state assoc latlon can do for the local grow er. Pork production potentials will come in for discussion py Ben Kilgore, manager of the tea prated Livestock ranch. He will show slides on the newest meth ods of swine management and marketing. Cow Belles to Meet The stockmen's auxiliary or- aani-atinn. the Morrow County Cow Belles, will also meet dur ing the weekend with their pro gram set for 2 p m Friday at the fair pavilion. in addition to McKennon s brief remarks, the Saturday night hanmipt will feature presenta tions to the cattleman of the year and the father of the year. R:innnpt tickets are now on sale at the First National Bank of Oregon and the county agent's office. Mill Fire Truck to Be Used-"Not Answer To Big Problem" Tho iienoner fire department this week accepted the offer of the use of the Heppner Pine Mills fir truck for temporary use on rural calls, but at the same time warned rural residents that it isn't the answer to their fire prob lems. The department drilled with the truck Monday night, but to date no heated place has been found in Heppner where the rig onn hp stored ready for use. As a rosiiit. tho truck must be kept empty of water at all times to keep it from freezing, and it requires from 15 to 2D minutes to get it filled ana reaay to oper Tho nrpspnt HeoDner fire de partment quarters are to0 small another truck. Since last week's rash of rural fires, several interested persons ho,;, started the Heppner de partment and the Gazette-Times requesting petitions for the for oinn nf a rural fire district. A full description of the proposed district is required as part oi wie petition, and work is now being done on obtaining such descrip tion. It is hoped that the petitions can be ready for circulation wiw in a week or two. Mr and Mrs Blaine Isom of ronHlotnn were weekend guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Claude Graham. WEATHER Hi Low Prec. 56 44 59 50 63 37 .43 45 36 .12 55 37 .25 52 33 47 28 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Worlnpsdav Rainfall for the week .80; for January .97; for the year .37 m ches. fV:-- y.-' WHEN IT SAYS "STOP," YOU'D twn r.iimnn stands beside traffic signal recently purchased by the city of Heppner to control both car and foot traffic at the school crosswalk on Stansbury street which separates the grade and high schools. There has been a red blinker "stoplight" at the crosswalk for ever a year but it has been either ignored or not seen by a great many motorists, and city and school officials have been afraid that a child would be injured at the crossing. The new traffic light will stand in the middle of the street during school hours when In use and it will control not only automobile but pedestrian traffic as well. Parking of any kind will be pro hibited along the street both ways from the light to allow space for passing the light and to assure ample vision. Chief Oilman stated that there will be absolutely no excuse for any driver to miss seeing the new signal, and warned that In the future there will be no warning notices Issued in other words, any motorist caught "running" the light will get a violation citation. The signal will be put Into operation Monday morning. (GT Photo) 1958 POST OFFICE BUSINESS TAKES BIG INCREASE OVER PREVIOUS YEAR "The 1958 Christmas season at the local post office was the omnnthest ooeration in the 21 years I have been associated with the office," Heppner postmaster, James H Driscoll said this week. "A preponderance of credit must go to the public for the excellent cooperation given In presenting the mail bundled and labeled for "out of town" and "local" delivery. This, along with the ability of the postal trans portation service to keep the mails on time, enabled the local force to keep well abreast of the rush at all times. The net re sult was a saving of 51 man hours during the peak 10 days Another Rural Fire Destroys Big Trailer Home Another rural fire occurred last week but was not reported until after last week's Gazette-Times had gone to press. It brought to four the number of damaging rural blazes to occur within four days. The latest fire completely de stroyed a 37 foot trailer house helonpins to Mr and Mrs George Rugg which was located on the Wilkinson ranch on Willow creeK above Heppner. It started from an unknown cause at about 12:30 a m Thursday and before it was controlled, damaged another trailer which was parked neamy and scorched paint on a truck which was used to tow the sec ond trailer Into the creek. Loss to the trailer and contents was estimated at over $7,000 which included destruction of a $500 two-way radio setup in the trailer. Damage to tne otner trailer was set at about $1000. The Ruggs did not happen to be staying In the trailer me ni(ht ft burned, though they were in a nearby house on the ranch and aided in controlling the flames. nurine the weekend prior to the Ruggs fire two rural homes near Heppner were completely destroyed by fire and another damaged. Wiese to Head Port Commission Gportre Wiese of Boardman, last week was named president of the newly organized Morrow county port commission. Al Lamb of Heppner was cnosen sec retary. The other three members of the commission are Warren Mc Coy of Irrigon, Dewey West of Boardman and Garland bwanson of lone. All were appointed last week by former governor Robert D Holmes. To meet the requirements of the law, members must draw lots to determine the length of their initial terms. At such a drawing West and Lamb drew two year terms; Wiese, Swanson and Mc Coy drew four year tenure. The first meeting was for or ganizational purposes only, and another is scheduled in the near future. BETTER1 Heppner chief of police the new Dortable "stoD and go" of the rush period," Driscoll con tinued. Postal receipts for 1958 again showed an increase over the pre vious year. A comparison gave: 1957 1st 6 months 2nd 6 months Total 1958 1st 6 months $10,612.64 $13,529.84 $24,142.48 $11,603.91 $16,702.21 $28,306.12 2nd 6 months Total Increased postage rates effec tive August 1, 1958 accounts for the $3,172.37 ncrease in tne lat ter part of the year. However, Driscoll noted that the Iirst six months was up $991.26 which re fleets a healthy local economic condition. Driscoll said there Is reason tn hoiipve that there was some resistance to the Increased cost of mailing Christmas cards, as cancellations for 23 days in Dec ember 1957 show 74,000 and in 1S58 only 70,328. Overall, it ap pears that business in tne com munitv must be at least on a par with 1957 if postal business can be used as an Indication. Irriqon Approves Consolidation With Boardman Schools Irrigon residents appear to be overwhelmingly in favor of con solidating their schools with the Boardman schools, a vote held early this week at a public meet ing showed. The vote was js to 1. A similar public meeting was held last night at the Boardman high school but results of that meeting are not yet known. Present at the meeting were members of the Irrigon school board and the county school board. The vote approved the consolidation for the 1959 fall term. Speakers at the meeting In cluded Jack Flug, county school superintendent; Wesley Hamil ton, Irrigon superintendent; and Fredrick Martin, lone, chairman of the county school reorganiza tion committee. It was explained that a new county unit school board and a three member local committee from each of the five zones In the county will be elected at the annual election on May 4. A written vote will be taken later of all residents in Irrigon Inasmuch as many were not at the meeting. Mrs Eppler Dickey Dies at John Day Funeral services for Mrs Epp ler Wyland Dickey were held January 10 at John "Day with burial In the Canyon City ceme tery. Mrs Dickey was born June 12, 1893 at Hardman, the daughter of the late James II and Leora Wyland. She passed away Jan uary 6 at John Day. Mrs Dickey is survived by one son, James Joe Giese, Mesa, Ariz; a daughter, Bonita of Mesa; one grandson, two granddaughters, one great-grandson, and several nieces and nephews. Mrs Dickey's brothers and sis ters preceeded her In death, one brother being drowned In the Heppner flood of 1903.
