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eppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 15, 1959
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76th Year, Number 32
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Negotiations are currently in pro
gress for the purchase of Heppner
Pine Mills, Inc. by the Kinzua Corp
oration, owners of the Kinzua mills
at Kinzua and extensive timber hold
ings in Wheeler and Morrow counties,
it was announced late Wednesday by
Paul Koenig, manager of Heppner
Pine.
While all arrangements for the sale
have not been completed, Koenig said
it appeared that agreement on all
points will probably be reached by
this weekend and a complete announ
cement story of the sale released at
that time.
Assurance was given Wednesday by
Maurice Brown, resident manager for
Kinzua Corporation, that the Hepp
Equalization of
Rural City Power
Rates Possible
Elimination of the difference
between rural and urban resi
dential service electric rates may
result from the proposed revis
ion of Pacific Power & Light
Company's rates now being re
viewed by the Oregon Public
Utility Commissioner, It was re
ported Wednesday.
At the close of eight days of
the PUC's cross-examination of
power company witnesses, a
spokesman for the company
stated Pacific Power would be
agreeable to the elimination of
the difference if the commission
er finds that the two groups of
consumers should be served at
the same rates.
Rural consumers in eastern
Oregon and Oregon coast coun
ties now pay about 35 cents a
month more for residential ser
vice. The latest public sessions be
fore a PUC board of examiners
in Salem were another step in
the exhaustive investigation be
ing conducted by the state reg
ulatory authority into Pacific
Power's request for rate Increas
es averaging 14,5 percent to meet
the rising costs of doing busi
ness. The company had presented
testimony to the three-man
board last April in support of
its request. The PUC staff later
will present testimony to the
examiners before the commiss
ioner makes a decision.
The questioning- during the
latest PUC sessions concerning
the company's record construc
tion of power dams for gener
ating electricity to serve Ore
gon, its contracts for purchase of
large blocks of power from the
Priest Rapids project on the main
Columbia River, and its need for
increased revenues to offset the
cumulative effect of inflation on
its operating and construction
costs.
Lutherans Attend
League Convention
The Heppner Luther Leaguers
of the Hope and Valby Luther
an churches attended the fall
Luther League convention at
Hermiston last Saturday and
Sunday.
Those attending were Karen
Lundell, Marlene and Bobby
Fetsch, Diane McCurdy, Jeanne
and Judy Schmidt, and Cheryle
Hartman. The Rev and Mrs John
Rydgren attended on Sunday.
Mrs Henry Krebs and Mis Bill
Marshall of Arlington visited
last Friday at the home of Mr
and Mrs Robert Lowe.
Robert Abrams flew to Seattle
last weekend to attend the Stan
ford Washington University
game.
John McRoberts was in Hepp
ner Thursday evening and stay'
ed at the Alex Thompson home
"YOU NAME IT, WE'VE GOT IT,'
SAY RUMMAGE SALE DIRECTORS
The Heppner Civic League will
hold its annual fall rummage
sale Friday and Saturday, Oct
ober 16 and 17 at the Bruce
Motors showroom.
The sale will open at 8:00 a
m on a first come, first serve
basis, with all items priced and
displayed.
A large assortment of both
winter and summer clothing has
been sorted and where necessary
cleaned through the courtesy of
the Heppner Cleaners.
Buyers will also find Venetian
blinds, steam iron, radios, kitch
en clock, curtains, toys, books,
dishes, vases, double spring and
mattress, a washer and dryer
plus many other items.
Washing and ironing to insure
freshness of stored clothing was
done by Mrs George Stillman,
Mrs Robert Hopper, Mrs Jack
Ployhar, Mrs Jack Van Winkle
and' Mrs George Rugg.
Clerking for the sale .will be
Mrs Bill Labhart, Mrs Bob Flatt,
Mrs Andy Van Schoiack, Mrs
"Don't Shoot Wires"
Plea of Phone Co.
With hunting season in full
swing Pacific Telephone today
made its annual "Don't Shoot
Us" plea, according to D A Short,
manager for Heppner.
In past 12 months the com
pany's cables, wires and other
equipment throughout the state
has been hit by gunfire 218
times. The repair bill $10,000.
"Nearly every call for emer
gency aid ambulance service,
police, fire or a call to a doctor's
office travels via telephone wires
or cables," Short said.
In addition many telephone
circuits are part of the nation's
air defense warning system.
They also are used in many
places for the control of other
vital utility services water,
power and gas.
"The end result of shooting
telephone cables can be far more
serious than just inconvenience
to telephone callers or the cost
of repairs," according to Short.
The phone company is reluc
tant to call its gunshot damage
malicious. Most of its is acci
dental or caused bp hunters who
don't realize the consequences.
'There's something irresista
ble about a bird on a telephone
wire or cable when a rifle's in
hand. Unfortunately, the cable
seems to be hit more often than
the bird," said Short.
WEATHER
Hi Low Prec.
Thursday 58 46 .03
Friday 63 47
Saturday 56 33
Sunday 67 41 .25
Monday 69 47
Tuesday 64' 40
Wednesday 70 50
Rainfall for the week .28; for
October .28; for the year 9.49
inches.
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ner Pine mill will continue to operate.
He was in Heppner Wednesday dis
cussing the sale terms with Koenig
and assuring empoyees that the prob-.
able new owners plan to continue the
operation of the entire mill here.
A sizeable amount of Kinzua's
timber lies closer to Heppner than it
does to the Kinzua mill in Wheeler
county.
Kinzua Corporation is owned large
ly by a group of stockholders in
Seattle and Heppner Pine Mills is
owned by Maurice Hitchcock, White
Swan, Washington, and Dant and
Warnock, Inc, Palo Alto, California.
Hitchcock and Dant purchased the
Heppner mill in December 1954 from
Orville Smith and P W Mahoney.
Robert Hopper, Mrs Del Jordan,
Mrs Jim Norene, Mrs Jack Ploy,
har, Mrs Tom Hughes, Mrs Bud
Marshall, Mrs George Stillman,
Mrs Wallace Wolff, Mrs L L
Robbins, Mrs David Eckman, Mrs
Robert Abrams, Mrs Marion
Green, Mrs Jim Wilhelm, Mrs
Ed Wilson and Mrs Elmer Berry.
Paul Jones Heads
Farmers Union
The Farmers Union met Tues
day evening at the Clarence
Rosewall home in Heppner.
Rosewall and Al Lamb gave
a report on Senator Humphreys
recent visit in Pendleton. Seven
members of the Farmers Union
attended the luncheon there.
County judge Oscar Peterson
gave a report on a state taxation
committee meeting that he at
tended recently in Salem. This
was followed by a discussion on
taxes.
Paul Jones was elected presi
dent, succeeding Al Bunch, who
retired after two terms as presi
dent and he was the initial or
ganizer of the local in Morrow
tounty. Other officers elected
were Paul Brown, vice president
and Betty Brown was retained
as secretary.
Among a group that left Wed
nesday for the Farmers Union !
convention in Salem were Mrj
and Mrs Al Lamb, Mr and Mrs i
Alvin Bunch, Mr and Mrs Max
Barclay, and Mr and Mrs Paul
Jones. Barclay is the voting
delegate at the convention,
from Morrow county.
The next meeting will be held
at the Newt O'Harra home In
Lexington on November 10.
McKenzie Ordination
Service Slated
The ordination of Rod Mc
Kenzie, pastor of the lone Com
munity church will be held on
Wednesday, November 4, it was
announced this week.
The special service will be
hlld in the evening and will be
preceeded by a dinner at the
church.
RHEA CREEK GRANGE
BOOSTER NIGHT
The annual booster night of
the Rhea Creek grange will be
held at the grange hall Saturday,
October 17 at 7:30 p m.
A card party will be held for
all members and their friends.
There will also be a reception
at 7:30, honoring Mr and Mrs
Ben Anderson, who have been
grange members for 36 years.
ATTEND CONFERENCE
Mrs Harold Laird and Miss
Marguerite Glavey, Heppner
teachers, attended the annual
fall conference of the Internat
ional Reading Association held
recently in Portland.
2 Heppner Students
At FFA Convention
In Kansas City
Al Osmin and William Rill
left by train Saturday morning
for Kansas City, Mo to represent
the Heppner FFA chapter at the
national convention.
Al, son of Mr and Mrs A L
Osmin, is a senior at Heppner
high and is the president of the
Heppner FFA chapter.
William, son of Mr and Mrs L
H Rill, is a sophomore at Hepp
ner, and Is the chapter treasurer.
Both boys were elected by the
local chapter members from their
activities in FFA and their out
standing supervised farming pro
grams. S
They will attend meetings and
visit different points of inter
est. They will return this com
ing Sunday.
Th!s trip was made possible
by help from the Heppner Elks
lodge, the Heppner ICOF lodge,
the Heppner Pine Mills, Morrow
County Grain Growers, and the
Heppner high school student
body.
Early Tax Payments
Bring Money Rolling
In To Sheriff
Sheriff and tax collector, C J D
Bauman said Wednesday that
over $130,000 in 1959-60 taxes
had already been received at the
county tax office; This Is a near
record for early payment.
The tax statements were mail
ed about two weeks ago and
the deadline, for first payment
is not until November 15, Bau
man said. The total tax billing
was just over $1,000,000.
Many counties have not yet
mailed out statements, while
Morrow has already received
nearly one-sixth of its payments.
Merchandise Lost
To lone Burglar
The Melena Building Supply
Store at lone was burglarized
last Friday night and owner Mel
vln Melena reported to police and
sheriff C J D Bauman that a
bout $200 in merchandise was
stolen. ,
The building was entered by
cutting through a panel in a
rear door and opening the lock.
A wide assortment of merchan
dise was taken including numer
ous tools and small appliances
such as electric mixers, frying
pans, coffee makers, etc.
Police are continuing their in
vestigation.
Mrs Robinson Heads
Women Golf Group
The women of the Willow
Creek Country Club met Thurs
day morning, at the home of
Mrs P W Mahoney, for a coffee
hour and a business meeting.
Mrs Creston Robinson was
elected president of the organi
zation for the coming year and
Mrs Richard Meador, secretary
treasurer. Outgoing officers are
Mrs Mahoney, Mrs Raymond Fer
guson and Mrs Charles Collins.
INJURED IN WRECK
Lester Wyman of Uklah was
hospitalized with a knee Injury
Friday when the car he was driv
ing collided with one reportedly
driven by Charles Monagle. The
accident occurred about 15 miles
east of Heppner on highway 74.
Mr and Mrs Monagle were also
hospitalized with Injuries.
FOR SALE CHEAP-ONE GREAT
BIG MIXTURE OF GRAIN
Someone bent either on ven
geance, or with an extremely
odd sense of humor, was the
cause of a conglomeration of
seed wheat, grass seed, barley
and pellets at the Newt O'Harra"
ranch at Lexington.
The unknown party, or parties,
cut with a sharp knife, every
sack of piled grain, grass seed,
seed barley and pellets and
oDened bins of feed barley so
that all the various grains ran
out into one big unusable mess
in OHarra's barn. The many
sacks of treated seed wheat was
so badly mixed with the other
grains and seeds that most of
it is not even fit for cattle feed.
The loss has been estimated
at several hundred dollars.
The damage was discovered
Wheat Growers
Make Plans For
Fall Meeting
Meeting last Thursday even
lng, the executive committee of
the Morrow County Wheat Grow
ers Association made plans for
their annual fall meeting, which
will be held November 10. It
will be held at the Lexington
Grange hall, as in the past sev
eral years, beginning at 9:30 A
M, announces N C Anderson,
county extension agent and sec
retary of the association.
With the many active projects
now under way through the Ore
gon Wheat Growers League and
with problems facing the wheat
farmer it is expected that par
ticipation in this year's annual
fall meeting will be great In
order to be better informed on
these situations, officers and
standing committeemen will at
tend a special workshop spon
sored by the Oregon Wheat
Growers League to be held in
Pendleton, October 22. During
the day chairmen of the domes
tic wheat utilization) production
and land use, wheat disposal and
market development, federal ag
grlcultural programs, taxation
and legislation and youth act
ivities committees will learn of
the many new developments on
a state and national scope which
they can take to the county
meetings for discussion and act
ion. The nomination committee
composed of Frank Anderson,
Heppner; Henry Baker, lone; and
Tad Miller, Lexington was sel
ected to present prospective can
didates for the offices of chair
man, vice chairman and secre
tary for the coming year. A num
ber of valuable door prizes and
a noon luncheon are again be
lng planned as "attendance-get-
ters."
Attending the Thursday even
ing meeting were chairman Max
Barclay; vice chairman, Walter
Jacobs; Frederick Martin, chair
man of the taxation and legis
lation committee; Louis Carlson,
chairman, federal agricultural
programs; Earl McCabe, vice
chairman, federal agricultural
programs; Don Peterson, chair
man, marketing and transportat
ion committee; Paul Tews, vice
chairman, marketing and trans
portation committee; Kenneth
Turner, chairman, production and
land use committee; Melvln
Moyer, vice chairman, produc
tion and land use committee; N
C Anderson, secretary and Joe
Hay, county agent
Thai Educator
To Visit Here
Mr Nai Yanyong Charanya
nanda, education director of Sur
lndr province, Thailand, will vis
it Morrow county high schools
during the week of October 19
to 23. Mr Charanyananda is vis
iting the United States under the
sponsorship of the Asia Foun
dation of San Francisco.
The National Education Assoc
iation suggested he visit Morrow
county as one where he could
study a county-wide school sys
tem in an agricultural area. He
is also Interested in vocational
programs in the various schools.
Surlndr province has about
530,000 people and 96,000 school
students.
last Friday and immediately re
ported to police, but O'Harra
stated that he cannot pinpoint
the time of the maliciousness
because no one had had occas
sion to be in the barn for about
two weeks prior to the discovery
of the damage.
The sacks of the various grains
and seeds were stacked in sep
arate piles but all ran together
on the floor when the sacks
were silt About all that will be
salvageable will be what little
seed remained in each sack. The
mixture of pellets and feed bar
ley doesn't pose too much of a
problem as it can still be fed
mixed.
Police are still investigating,
but haven't reported any encour
aging leads.
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NO PARTY, but plenty ol attention was accorded Mrs Ellen
"Grandma" Rieth Monday on her 103rd birthday. She has been
a resident of the Northwest for 99, and of Morrow county for
34 of those years. (Photo by Echo Palmateer)
"Grandma" Rieth
Celebrates 103rd
Birthday Monday
"Grandma" Ellen Rieth cele
brated her 103rd birthday very
quietly Monday, Oct 12 at the
home of her daughter, Mrs Paul
O'Meara, lone, with whom she
has made her home for the past
34 years.
Father Raymond Beard of Hep
pner visited her in the morn
ing and she received many cards
and other gifts.
Mrs Rieth is in fairly good
health and has the use of all
her faculties except her hearing
which has failed her in recent
years. She reads with the aid
of a reading glass. She also as
sists with light house work and
writes letters and until the past
year she attended St William's
Catholic church regularly.
Mrs Rieth is Morrow county's
oldest resident and was born
School Building
Study in Offing
Members of the Morrow county
school board Monday night made
plans to visit all schools in the
north end of the county on Oct
ober 27. The members recently
toured all the buildings in the
southern part of the county to
acquaint themselves with pres
ent and future needs and facil
ities. Recently the board appointed
all the members of the various
community school advisory com
mittees on a special building
committee to study the plant
needs in the various areas, and
at its Monday night meeting a
greed to place several commun
ity residents on each of the com
mittees. It was felt that inas
much as the advisory committees
are composed of residents of a
combination of districts, that in
dividual towns should also have
representation on the building
committees.
These committees will be sel
ected In the near future.
Many State Civil
Service Jobs Open
Employment opportunities are
still available according to the
Oregon state civil service com
mission for several positions, it
was announced this week. Open
positions include clerical, fiscal,
administrative, beautician at
Fairview home, offset duplicator
operator I, tabulating machine
operator trainee, photography as
sistant, field examiner I, person
nel technician in, archival as
sistant for the Oregon state li
brary. The following positions are
open for those with a minimum
of two years of college or two
years of library experience or a
combination of the above: li
brary assistant, editor I and II.
Positions open for those with
college degrees include: recreat
ional therapist, physical thera
pist, revenue auditor I, casework
er I. phsychiatrlc nursing in
structor at Oregon state hospital,
Institution teacher I Fairview
home, Hlllcrest school for girls,
state penitentiary, and McLaren
school for boys; alcohol educa
tion supervisor, dlrector-o 1 d e r
workers division, and X-ray tech
nician I.
Information, on the examlnat
ions may be obtained at the of
fice of the county school super
intendent in the court house.
October 12, 1856 at Neosha, Miss
ouri and crossed the plains In
1SG0. She was married to Eugene
Rieth Sept 7, 1875 and lived In
Pendleton. They had three
daughters and one son. Those
still living are her daughter, Mrs
O'Meara In lone and her son,
F J Rieth of Harrington, Wash
ington. She has nine grandchild
ren, 22 great-grandchildren and
14 great-great-grandchildren.
Grandma Rieth recalls much
early day history of this area
and of the troubles with the
Indians. The town of Rieth near
Pendleton was named for her
husband and his brothers, Jacob
and Joseph Rieth.
Farm Census Plans
Readied in Oregon;
400 Workers Heeded
One of your neighbors soon
may be knocking at your door
In his role as farm census taker.
About 300,000 census takers
(enumerators) are being hired by
the Bureau of Census to help
gather information from farmers
in their area. Oregon will need
about 400 to take this count of
the state's second most Impor
tant industry, Marlon D Thomas,
extension agricultural economist
at Oregon State College, reports.
Edward G Bates, Eugene, and
Homer E Ralney, Bend, have
been named field assistants for
the 1959 census. Bates will dir
ect 20 crew leaders and 271 cen
sus takers in Western Oregon
this fall, and Ralney will be in
charge of 10 crew leaders and
118 census takers in Eastern Ore
gon. Census taking will start Oct
ober 28 in eastern counties and
Nov 11 in western Oregon areas.
Enumerators will be hired by
local crew leaders in early Oct
ober. Each enumerator is assigned to
work in his locality. His Job is
to help record all important facts
about agriculture. To do this, he
will visit every home in his dis
trict that has any farming oper
ations and get information from
the person in charge. Enumer
ators first receive 12 hours of
special training in census defi
nitions, use of questlonalres, map
reading and interviewing.
Who can become a census
taker? Among other qualifica
tions, an enumerator must be a
citizen at least 18 years of age
with a high school education or
Its equivalent. He must pass a
test, be able to conduct inter
views, have a knowledge of
farming, have a car available
and live In the rural area near
his assignment His most impor
tnt responsibilities are to collect
accurate Information and to keep
It confidential.
When crew leaders are chosen,
their names will be announced
In local newspapers so persons
Interested in becoming enumer
ators can apply to them.
CIVIC LEAGUE TO MEET
A Civic League meeting will
be held Monday, October 19
at the home of Mrs Bud Collins,
535 N Main Street
Mr and Mrs Paul Koenig and
Mr and Mrs Bill Turner went
to White Swan the first of the
week on business.
Hunting guests over the week
end at the Howard Cleveland
home were Al Conser and Ted
Mesch of Portland.