MOHROW COUNTY'S NEW8PAPEB
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established
November 18, 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1912
PUIUIHItl
ASSOCIATION
ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
NATION A I EDITORIAL
Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Mattej
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Where Doctors are Discouraged
A few months a?o Harrier's magazine Pub
lished an article on Britain's socialized medicine
system. Th author had much praise for it. and
cifpd the fact that when he suffered a chipped
elbow he was piven free care.
This brought a letter from an American doc
tor, which Harper's publishes in its July Issue.
This doctor found that statement's in the pre
ceding article "sound like the ecstasies of a con
firmed freeloader who has discovered a saloon
which still offprs the old-time free lunch." Then
he went on: "There is a widening gap between
the quality of medicine as it is practiced in the
United States and in Great Britain. According to
Dr Alistair Luton, an English physician now in
the United States under a Ford Foundation grant,
this is a typical English doctor's day:
"50 patients before lunch.
"50 patients after lunch.
"20 or 30 house calls dally.
"Should we wonder that the English doctor
is discouraged and unable to keep up with the
march of medicine?"
Deterioration of standards and services is al
ways a result of socialism socialized medicine
Included. It could happen here, Just as it has
happened in England. And anyone who thinks
that the socialized medicine issue is dead so far
as the U S is concerned had better think again
A current proposal, for instance, would provide
government-paid medical and hospital care to
people drawing Social Security payments. Once
that precedent was established, it would De just
a matter of time before other groups demanded
and received similar treatment. As the old
Chinese proverb has it, the longest journey be
sins with a single step.
(Industrial News Review)
Sure, We're Useful!
"The weekly newspaper is uniquely an Amer
lean institution. Nowhere else in the world will
be found a system of journalism anywhere near
the completeness of the American weekly news
paper. Nowhere else In the world will one find
a newspaper primarily interested In busie s birth
day, nor a system that so thoroughly reflects
the trivia of events that make up the life of all
of us.
"Many have said over the years that the
weekly newspaper would disappear because it
is totally unnecessary. They have been proven
wrong. The weekly has grown stronger and has
become even more firmly entrenched into the
American way of life. . . .
(Somerset, Ky., Journal)
TO THE
EDITOR
To the Editor:
Thought you might be Inter
ested in the old picture which I
am sending under seperate cover.
In the fall of 1902, Contractor
Joseph Hockett and I built the
new steam laundry on the banks
of Willow creek in upper Hepp
ner for an old Dutchman named
Krug. This new laundry washed
away in the big flood of 1903
and the Krugs were drowned.
Several months after the flood,
Robert Wills and sons built the
new laundry shown In this old
photo, on Water Street across
from my father and mother's
home, now owned by N D Bailey.
The Wills family operated this
laundry for a couple of years or
so, then sold out to a Mr Fred
Shotwell, of Portland who ran
it for years before selling out
to Hank and Gertrude Vance. Joe
Westoff finally bought the busi
ness and operated it until it
From The
County Agent's Office
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From the files of the
Gazette-Times
August 1, 1929
Eighteen children gathered at
the Earl Blake home on Second
street In lone Monday afternoon
to help Mary Kathenne BiaKe
celebrate her seventh birthday.
Ruth Missildlne was tendered
a birthday party at the home of
Mr and Mrs Frank Turner In
this city on Saturday afternoon,
by Jeanette and Annabel Turner
and Marjorie Happold.
DEMOCRATS ARE SAD
Campaign grapevine from
Washington D C reveals that re
oont nniiHcal lockeving in the
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presidential race nas ieu v.c
President Nixon stymied and his
Russian trip, designed to get "him
on the front page of the nation's
-v,.,.fnr,i newspapers, will not take me
HEPPNER r.AZETTE-TlMES, Thursday, July 30, 19S9
Clota Tax Commission officials
say that the revision to the old
bill for lower income
would not cripple the state finan
cially.
Reports to the state depart
ment of elections indicate that
petitions now being circulated
for referral are 80 per cent com
pleted and will be delivered to
the department by August 3. The
Continued on page 7
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mi ana kits u j , ;; n, x,,e Kan-lno cam
. -. L'nn . sr1 W UUL Ul 1 u .w ---n
r.rJv."H ,r T Paign. For this most Republi
u?. 0,,uLl. v," " Ik" cans are happy as he has never
.e f""e;"r" wl' m I been considered the lily-white
way iu xviauiaiu raii " ..
Crawford has accepted a posit
ion as city editor on the Herald
with Bruce Dennis.
Mltchel Thorn, manager of the
Pacific Power and Light Com
pany at HeDDner, with Mrs
Thorn, is enjoying the vacation
season at Oceanside, Oregon.
Eph Eskelson and W W Smead
returned on Thursday last from
a fishing trip to Paulina and
East lakes south of Bend. They
bagged the limit of fish.
In sodium chlorate patches ig
nited from the friction of cattle
hooves came on Monday of this
week. In this part of the story
on how dangerous sodium chlor
ate can be a young mans foot
candidate of all time. Nearly all
the Democratic pundits are sad
dened at-the prospects or not
having Nixon as a target at the
head of the Republican ticket
next November.
July was a bad month for Nixon:
Thomas Dewey extolled Nelson
Rockefeller.
The Nixon biography (Harp
ers) lust published, is too com
plete a work to make votes for
its hero.
Chief Justice Warren assailed
Dick, calling him "the tricky
one" among other names.
It is beginning to be under
stood why President Eisenhower
suggested that his brother ac
company Nixon on his Russian
trip.
New York Republican Chair'
man Judson Morehouse is taking
time off for a wider swing
Oregon's cash farm receipts
during the first 5 months of 1959
ran about 4 below the same
months of 1958. Livestock re
ceipts were off about 4H and
crops off about ZVt. So far
both farm prices and volume of
marketing in Oregon are below
last years. Wage rates are high
er this year, property taxes are
up, and Interest rates have in
creased on top of that farmers
are paying higher prices for feed
er livestock, feed, farm ma
chinery, and motor vehicles. Seed
and fertilizer are about the only
important cost items that carry
lower price tags than last year.
The Department of Agriculture
has estimated that farm workers
Including farm operators, re
ceived an average return of 78c
an hour for labor and manage
ment In 1958. In contrast factory
burned to the ground. Joe built , workers were paid an average
his new laundry up on Main .0I -1J an nour-
street after the fire. This old
picture was taken in the fall of For those ranchers who have
1909, long before Joe Westoff been asking about the conser
came to Heppner. Olive and I'vatlon reserve program they will
were married in Apr'l, 1909 and
came back to Heppner to live.
My mother, Mrs James L Yeager
always helped out at the laun
dry across the street when they
By N C ANDERSON
3. The priority system of ac.
cepting applications has been
modified to assure first consid
eration to farmers who were un
able to participate in the 1959
program because of lack of
funds. As in 1959, the 1960 con
servation' reserve will be con
ducted on an offer and accep
tance basis. Forms for farmers to
usein requesting rate determin
ation for their farms will be
available from the county ASC
office about the middle of Aug
ust. The period for filing such
request will be August 24
through September 10. In setting
the basic annual per acre rate
for land offered, the county com
mittee will take Into consider
ation the productivity of the land
and the rate will be limited to
the local fair rental value of the
land based on crops harvested in
the past 5 years. When all ell
giole crop land on the farm Is to
be retired, the rate will gen
erally be set 10 higher than
the rate for only part of the eli
gible land. We would suggest
that those who are interested
was badly burned. A full laced
I boot worn in putting out sodium I around the country just to see
chlorate a monin ago igniieu . HECORD loans rOR vets
for no good reason other than A total of 4,149 loans were
that conditions were eventually made to veterans in the fiscal
just right. Before the fire could; year ending July 1, making a
be stopped or the boot removed " flu 1U' l" r ,B r
a nainfui hum wna the result, erans Department. The loans in-
Tho ffra jtrmlfl wall hauA cnrfwi volved $42,084,350.
in the home resulting in much' The previous recora was in
loss. This is just another lesson 1957-58 fiscal year when 3184
in being careful in using this veierans uu. oo,,u.
bo interested to hear that the
U S Department of Agriculture in the conservation reserve pro
only recently announced plans . g
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, L ,..T the program will affect their
Since the farm and home fi
nancing program started in 1945,
some 26,388 veterans have bor-
chemical.
TTorlprnl tav rpfnnrt fnr nff.
highway farm use gasoline must rowed $179 046 1,324 The veterans
be filed between July 1 and have repaid 83 millions in prin--jrior
to October 1, 1959 covering clPal ,and .lnterecs0t;
the past year. You are entitled to1 During June, 533 veterans ap-
a refund of 3c per gallon on Plied oans' "gt 14 Je
gasoline used on your off -high-. fourth straight month that appli
way farming operations. Only cations topped the 500 mark,
one filing can be made per This is more than double the av
year. The necessary forms have age J5
been mailed to those who have TAX PETITION SIGNUP
made application- for the refund) ,The new legislative bill pro
In the past, however, we havering for higher income taxes
copies of the form here in the seems ce,rtaln b,en;efe"ed, to
office for those who m tent have,1" ""u
lost theirs or did not receive one.
CHURCH
ANNOUNCEMENTS
HOPE LUTHERAN CHUHCP
Alfalfa Street
Worship services 11:00 am.
Sunday school 9:45 am.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
Homer Wolfington, Pastor
Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.
Morning wodship, 11:00 am.
Evening service 7:30 pm.
ST PATRICK'S CHURCH
Heppner
Rev P J GAIRE, Pastor
Masses 7 and 10 a m Sunday.
Weekdays, 7:30 am.
ST WILLIAM'S CHURCH
lone
Mass 8:30 a m Sunday.
HEPPNER BAPTIST MISSIOM
Eld. Gordon Harris, supply pastor
at Degree of Honor Lodge room
every Sunday.
Sunday school, 10 a m.
Church services, 11 a m.
Mid week Bible study and
training. Wednesday, 7:30 In
homes.
SEVENTH DAT ADVENTIST
CHURCH
C L Vories, Pastor
Saturday sendees
Sabbath school, 9:45 A M.
Sermon. 11:00 A M.
"Voice of Prophecy' radio
broadcast over EGO every Sun
day. 9 PM.
"Quiet Hour" radio broadcast,
Portland, Oregon, KWJJ Monday
through Friday, 9:30 P M.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Charles V Knox, minister
Worship service 8:45.
Bible school 9:45.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
IOM
Rev J W Riley, Paator
Sunday school 10 am.
Morning worship 11 am.
Evening service, 7:30 pro.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday, at
7:30 P m.
ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Rev C Bruce Spencer, rector
Holy Communion, Sunday, 7:30
am.
Family service, 10:00 a m.
Holy Communion Wednesdays,
at 10 a m and 10 a m all Holy
days.
VALBY LUTHERAN CHURCH
Worship Services 9:15 am.
Sunday school 9:15 a m every
Sunday.
Services held the second and
fourth Sunday or the montn.
CHURCH OP JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER-DAT SAINTS
American Legion hall
Priesthood meeting, 8:30 am.
Sunday school at 10:30.
Sacrament service will begin . N
at 11:30. Those who are inter
ested are welcome to attend.
THE
HEPPNER METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday school, 9:15 a m.
Church Service, 10:00 a m.
lone News
IONE COMMUNITY CHURCH
Rod MacKenzle, Pastor
Church school and morning
worship at 9:30 A M.
The Senior Pilgrim Fellowship
group meeting at 7 P M.
LEXINGTON CHURCH OF
CHRIST
Rev Norman Northrup, Pastor
Sunday school 10:00 am.
Worship 11:00 am.
Evening service, 7:30 pm.
Prayer meeting Tuesday, 7:30
pm.
Tree
Yard
Cattle
SPRAYING
Commercial fogging. Insect
and rodent controL termites,
grain elevators sprayed and
fogged. Free estimates, work
guaranteed.
AYERS PEST CONTROL
Phone 8-7133 lone
FOLLETT
MEAT CO.
Hermiston. Ore.
Ph. JO 7-8651
On Hermiston -McNary
Highway
CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING
WHOLESALE MEATS
renter of the nicture npxt to the snnenn Thla will ho tho fifth .
.i.
tall man. Mrs Jeff French is the
lady on the left. The men were
employes. I can't place the center
woman.
My brother, Harvey A Yeager
was the laundry driver then. No
tice the old covered laundry wa
gon. It was drawn by one old
horse. Olive and I had barely
got back to Heppner when Har
vey wanted to take me around
on his route one Monday morn
ing. I had on my new wedding
suit and my new brown derby
hat. Harvey wanted to show off a
bit as to his skill as a driver
and whipped up the old horse
into a gallop. Turning the corner
at Chase and May streets at a
dead run, the wagon turned over
and the old horse ran away. I
was not hurt, but my new suit
was torn and my beautiful new
brown derby wus smashed flat
Harvey promised he would buy
me a new hat, but he never did.
The old laundry burned to the
ground many years ago, after
Joe Westoff bought it. Notice the
old wooden sidewalk and the
old wagon. The barn was back
Further Information con-
The sequel to last weeks' front
page story relating experiences
STAR
THEATER
Thur FrL, Sat. July 30. 31.
Aug. 1
Winchester 73
James Stewart, Shelley Win
ters. TLUS
The Last Blitzkrieg
Van Johnson, Kerwm Mat
hews. Filmed in Holland.
Sun Mon Tues Aug. 2. 3. 4
Some Like It Hot
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis,
Jack Lemmon, George Raft,
Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien.
Sunday at 4, G:20, 8:40.
yi "e ceir.lng the program will be pub
program under which farmers ,ish d as ,t lsbavallabie.
contract to withdraw general.
crop land from production and
production and protect it with
conservation uses for a i period f steve Thompsons. flre Slarted
servation reserve will be similar
to the 1959 program. Detailed
information as to the applica
tion of changes will not be avail
able in the county ASC office
until mid-August. The basic
Oregon per-acre rate of payment
for 19G0 will be $16.00, same as
for 1959. The Oregon acreage
goal is 46,000 acres. The princi
ple conservation reserve changes
for next year that will affect
our farmers are as follows:
1. Land which has changed
ownership (except through in
herltanse) since December 31,
1956, is ineligible to enter the
program in I960.
2. If land under a 1960 con
servation reserve contract is sold
the contract may generally be
assumed by the purchaser only
after it has been In effect for
three years.
of the laundry. The Wills fam
lly built the big house down the
street a few years before the
flood and it is still standing.
Water street was nothing but
mud and dust in those days.
Please give credit for this old
picture to my sister, Mrs B H
Peck and myself, and please re
turn it to me as soon as possl
ble after publishing.
Sincerely yours,
O M Yeager
Castle Kock, Wash
Livestock Market
Cattle Hogs Sheep
SALE EVERY TUESDAY
12 Noon
On U. S. Hlway No. 30
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Kenneth Lundell of Hayward,
California is visiting his parents,
Mr and Mrs O L Lundell.
Mrs Walter Dobyns returned
home last week from Eugene
where she visited at the home
of her daughter and family, Mr
and Mrs Tad Hardesty.
Mrs Charles Smith of Olym
pia and he nephew, Paul Cun
ningham of Everett, Washington
left for their homes Tuesday after
visiting at the homes of Mrs
Fannie Griffith and Mr and Mrs
Roy Lindstrom.
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