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LIBRARY U OF 0 E U Q E N T. , OR Details Delay Completion of . Heppner' Pine Sale Negotiations are still In pro gress this week for the sale of Heppner Pine Mills to Kinzua Corporation and final announce ment of completion of the trans action cannot yet be made, Paul Kpenlg, Heppner Pine manager said today. Koenig stated that complete agreement had been reached for the sale of Heppner Pine stock to Kinzua Corporation, but that additional time will be required to complete all the details and make final arrangements for Kinzua to take over operation of the Heppner plant. As stated last week in a Gazette-Times story, the Heppner operation will be continued as in the past, under the new own ership. Maurice Brown, manager of the Kinzua plant at Kinzua emphasized this during a visit here last week. Chamber Gives OK To Cub Scout Financing Program The Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday voted approval of a financing plan for the local Cub Scouts and at the same time urged all members and local residents to support the program. Ralph Richmond, Cub Scout masvr told the chamber that the scouts planned to sell fruit cakes this lall with all proceeds to go to rhe support of the cub program here, but said that they didn't went to impose on local businesses who might be sell ing a similar product during the Christmas season. Chamber members gave the plan their unanimous approval. Yanyong Cnaranyananda, edu cational director from Thailand, who is studying the Morrow county school system, spoke briefly at the meeting. The chamber also voted to a gain sponsor the Farm-City week banquet to be held during the week of Nov 20 to 26. Hallowe'en Hayride Plans Being Made A popular October event for area youngsters, the Soroptimist club Hallowe'en hayride is again being planned, it was announced this week by club members. It will be held on Saturday night, October 31. The hayride is open to all Heppner school students from the 7th grade through the senior class. Features of the evening's fun wlil include dinner, games, dancing and skits. Further information on time of departure of trucks, etc, will be made next week. Methodist Youth From Area To Gather Here Sunday A Methodist Youth rally will be held Sunday, October 25 from 4 to 7 p m at the Heppner Meth odist church with youth groups from Echo, Milton -Fre e w a t e r, Weston, Hermiston and Pendle ton attending. Registration and games will occupy the first hour and at 5 p m Dr Gish, a psychiatrist, will speak on Incerfaith Marriages and Dating. All young people in the community are invited to hear Dr Gish speak. Dinner will be served from 5:45 to 6:30 and a worship service in the church sanctuary will follow. All Heppner MYF members are reminded that they are to furnish a meat dish for the din ner. Court Gains Support The recent meeting at Board-1 land to the county is well de man concerning the release by fined in the letter. the Federal government of the Boardman bombing range appar ently accomplished little along the lines that it was hoped by many in the county that it might (j e. to get the government to acknowledge that the land isn't needed for governmental use), but it did show the county court, the Morrow county port commission and other interested persons what they could expect to face in the form of an argu ment against such release. The following letter was re ceived last week by county judge Oscar Peterson from Heppner at torney J O Turner. It shows that there Is beginning to be general tounty-wide support for the court's attempts to regain con trol over the sizeable section of county land. The value of this ?xrJ I?: pi r WOOL CONTEST WINNER-Jean Martin, lone, models the dress that won her first place in the Junior division of the "Make It Yourself With Wool" contest last weekend in Pendleton. She will enter the stats finals. lone Girl Wins Wool Contest Jean Martin, 16, lone, model ing a two-piece wool beige dress, placed first in the junior divis ion of the district "Make-It-Your- self-With-Wool" contest held at the Vert memorial auditorium in Pendleton on October 17, accord ing to Miss Esther Kirmis, Mor row county extension agent. Twelve contestants competed in the junior division girls be tween the ages of 14 and 17. Other divisions included the "Sub-deb" division for girls 13 to 16; and the senior group for girls 18-22 inclusive. Jean's rostume, which she made as her' 4-H club project this year, was a two-piece dress of 100 beige wool. The blouse had dark brown braid trim (which formed a wide "V" from the shoulders to the waist), three-quarter length sleeves, and a small peter pan collar. Her accessories consisted of a fla mingo blue hat with a matching pin, brown gloves, purse, and shoes. The contest is sponsored an nually by the Oregon Wool Growers Auxiliary. District win ners are given an expense paid trip to the state finals at Port land, November 5-7. National finals are in San Antonio, Tex as. Winners are named in junior and senior divisions. Numerous state and national prizes which Include scholarships savings bonds, and sewing ma chines are given. The national grand prize winner receives a two-week trip to Europe. 4-H girls and home economics students enrolled In advanced sewing are urged to consider en tering this contest this coming year. Jean is a junior in lone high school and the daughter of Mr and Mrs Fredrick Martin. Mr and Mrs Roscoe Sloblg of The Dalles, former Heppner res idents, were weekend guests at the home of Mr and Mrs John Eergstrom. Miss Phyllis Brunson of Port land was visiting at the home of Mrs Earle Bryant over the weekend. Mrs Wallace Wolff and Mrs Bill Collins spent the day In Pen dleton Wednesday. Judy Collins was home for the weekend from Portland visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs Bill Collins. Dear Sir: I want to express my apprec iation of your efforts in an at tempt to have the bombing range lands in Morrow county returned to Morrow county and to the tax rolls. The hearing held In Board man last week was most in effective so far as presenting the actual situation. I am aware that you stood almost alone at that hearing against Army and XNavy experts and several other gov ernment men, who presented the matter almost wholly as a one sided proposition. As I view the matter, the U S Army, during the war, took most of this land from Morrow county and private owners, some 92,000 acres of it, for a bombing range. The army used this land for that purpose for a time, but on Stone Machinery New Caterpillar Dealer in Area A new Caterpillar dealer, Stone Machinery Company is now serv ing Morrow county as well as Umatilla, Gilliam, Sherman, Wasco and Wheeler counties in Oregon and Walla Walla, Col umbia and Klickitat counties in Washington, it was revealed this week. Howard Stone is presi dent and general manager, and Alf Transeth, is secretary-treasurer of the new company. Slone Machinery will operate stores In Walla Walla, Pendle ton, Arlington and The Dalles, and will have two resident ser vicemen on duty In Hepner. In addition to Mr Stone and Mr Transeth, Merle Wagoner will be agriculture sales manager; Bert MUIer will manage the Walla Walla store; John Wil liams, formerly manager of the Heppner Empire Machinery Com pany store, will manage the Pendleton store. Jack Jensen is the Arlington store manager and Wally Ward, heads The Dalles store. Charles Kirk and Calvin Sher man, previously witn Empire Machinery in Heppner, will be resident service men for Morrow county and will live In Heppner and many of the same people who have served Oregon cus tomers for Empire will continue with Stone Machinery. Bill Glen- nie parts manager at Heppner will have the same position at Pendleton. Mr Stone was the Arlington store manager for Braden Trac tor & Equipment Company, pre decessor to Empire Machinery, from 1936 to 1950 and in 1950 was named general manager for the entire Braden operation. In 1956 he became president and general manager of Stone Ma chinery Company with stores in Walla Walla and Dayton, Washington and will con tinue as president of the new ex panded organization. Mr Stone said this week that he "looks forward to becoming a part of the communities we are now serving and want to assist In every way possible the continued growth of the State of Oregon." The former Empire store in Heppner was recently taken over by EMCO, Inc, John Deere farm equipment dealers. G-rs PICTURES AGAIN GO ASTRAY For the second time In recent weeks, cuts scheduled for pub lication in today's Gazette-Times apparently got the wanderlust and wound up In some other paper's hands. If they show up next week they'll be run then, late or not! INJURIES SLIGHT Donna Raymond, 2 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Arnold Raymond of Heppner suffered a cut on the forehead Sunday night when her parents' car went off the road a short distance west of Heppner and overturned. In the car were her parents, an older sister and an infant bro ther, none of whom were Injur ed, though well shaken up. The car was totally demolish ed. for Bombing Range Release August 12. 1956. the Ar Force of the Army declared this land excess and was about to turn it back to the county, when the Navy acquired it, I don't know how, as a training field for its air force. So far as I have been able to learn, very little use of this land has been made by the Navy, except that I do recall a couple of bombs were dropped on the City of Ione-thus making the range somewhat of a hazard to our towns' people. Then, too, I understand that the Ordinance Depot used it for detonating some of Its obsolete ammunition, but it would not appear that they would need 92,000 acres for that purpose. Our tax rate has increased tre mendously during the past few years and I understand that if this land were returned to Mor- Copies 10 Cents Rites Held Here Wednesday For Lawrence Redding Services were held Wednesday afternoon at Creswick Mortuary chapel for Lawrence Redding, 78 who died October 18 at Pioneer Memorial hospital when he had been a patient for two and one half years. Mr Redding was born August 20, 1881 In Henry county, Miss ouri and came to Morrow county in 1902. He first settled north of Lexington then moved to the Eight Mile area where he spent most the rest of his life ranching. He lived in Salem for a short time before coming back to Hep pner two and one-half years a go. He was a member of the Meth odist church. He is survived by one son Boyd, Los Angeles; one daughter, Alona Anderson, Heppner; one brother, Arch Redding, Ellens burg, Wash; seven grandchild ren and four great grandchildren. Another brother died in 1945. The Rev Earl Soward offic iated at the rites and Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery. Joseph A Mahon Killed Thursday In Woods Accident Funeral services were held Monday at the Nazarene church In Elgin for Joseph A Mahon, 47, who was killed Thursday after noon in a logging accident near Elgin. Mr Mahon was born Feb 9, 1912 at Leadville, Colorado, the son of Joe and Nellie Mahon, and had lived in Heppner most of his life. His father passed away last May and one brother was killed, also In a logging acci dent, In 1950..1, , He is survived by his wife Maxlne: four children Tommy, Jean, Bobby and Michael; one brother Jack of La Grande; four sisters, Colleen Helget, Lebanon; Nellie Blodgett, Corvallls; Hanna Osborn, Mitchell; Celia Matteson, Heppner; and his mother, Nellie Mahon of Heppner. Interment was In the Elgin cemetery. Roland Ekstrom Shows Reserve Beef At PI Exposition Roland Ekstrom of lone won reserve champion honors in the 4-H beef competition at this year's Pacific International Live stock Exposition. His entry was in the heavy Hereford division, according to word received here today. Several other Morrow county club members also placed In sev eral divisions and their awards are recounted in the county agent's column elsewhere In to day's paper. Wranglers Announce Buckburger Feed The Heppner Wranglers will hold their annual Buckburger feed Saturday evening at the fair pavilion starting at 6:30, It was announced today. The expected crowd will re- nnlpo neo nf th navilinn facil itles which are much larger than at the club house. irow county and to private in- vestors, as much as $50,000.00 per year in taxes migni De re- ceived by the county, which would afford a tax reduction on the already overburdened land owners and taxpayers. It Is quite apparent that this land Is not now worth that amount to war activities. It Is unfortunate that the people of this county are required to lose so much for so little gain by the Army and Navy, "in time of peace". This land is much more val uable to the county's economy now than it was some 15 or 20 years ago when it was taken from it. Then it was regarded only as grazing land, whereas now, much of the land lying ad jacent to it has been converted to farming land and no doubt much more of the bombing field could be converted to farming Gazette-Times THAI EDUCATION BEING PATTERNED AFTER AMERICA, VISITOR RELATES "After the war, when Thailand entered the membership of the United Nations, people,, mostly Americans, went to Thailand to set up an educational system,' Nal Yanvong Charanji.nanda told member;; and guests of the Soroptimist club of Heppner at their United Nations Dfy ob servance, Wednesday at the Wa gon Wheel. Originally Thailand, all of the educational facilities of which are under the control of the gov ernment, provided education by following Ihe old (not the pres ent) Biitlsh system. Later they established the 4-3-3 system by which tiny child, after finish ing the fotu-tn grade, could leave school. Under this me'hci they soon forgot iheir limited school er and v.tre not prepared with at.y means of earning a liveli hood, which Is not enu.h as things ere now. So, at tre pres ent time, 1 Is mandatory, lor both 'joys and girls, to finish the seventh grade, It. visitor related, since receiving assis tance from the United Nations, ihc educational system fol'owed in the United Stales has been adapted to Thailand. The basic reading, writing and arithmetic are the subjects taught; how ever, since Thailand ha three languages and many dialects, many children who cannot speak Thai must, for one year be taught nothing but how to speak the language. Mr Charanyananda, who is iducational dirtctor of Durlndr Province in Thailand, states he had rleaned many ideas from his vHt to Morrow county under the sponsorship of the Asia Foundation, National Education Association and Oregon Educa tion Association. It Is the policy of his government to send teach ers to the United States to study educational systems here and a dapt them to Thailund. Because lone Cardinals Top League in 6-Man Football The lone high school Card inals scored a 46 to o victory over the St Joseph Blue Jays at lone Friday of last week to notch their 5th consecutive league decision and win the Umatilla -Morrow 6-man foot ball League championship. The Cardinals were sparked by the explosive running of half back Jack Crum and the defen sive wizardry or end, Francis r.ea. Crum scored on runs from scrimmage of 5 and 51 yards, on a return of the opening kick- off for 65 yards and on a pass lateral play from quarterback, Wayne Hams to Rea to Crum for 50 yards. Rea intercepted two passes and recovered two fum bles as well as making many tackles. Rea also kicked 5 extra points In 6 tries. Other touchdowns were made by Greg Leyva on a pass-lateral play from Hams to John Swan son to Leyva for 30 yards and by Tommy Martin on a 20 yard run. lone plays its next game at Hereford in sub-district playoff on Oct do at w p m, land, if it were permitted. Then, too, with the proposed building of more dams on the river, much of this land could be irrigated and more of it, because of the water backed up by the dams, manv excellent industrial cites umnirt hp nrovided. None of which can ever come to pass so long as It Is held as it is now presently held. I do not pro pose to Intimate that I know the needs of the Army and Navy, nor whether other cites could be obtained for their required act ivities, but at present, it seems that it is costing Morrow county a great deal for so little use by the Navy. I appreciate your efforts In be half of the county's economy and I would recommend that other citizens Join you in making a proper showing of this matter. JESSE O TURNER Heppner, Qrpgnn Thursday. October 22, 1959 90 of Thailand is agricultural, Mr Charanyananda was espec ially anxious to study a rural area as well as one in which the entire educational system was under one county organization. This made Morrow county Just the type of community in which he was interested. Manv interesting points were brought out during a questions ar."I answer period. Schools in Thailand have the same problems as those in Amer ica, difficulty of retaining teacn- ers In rural areas ana never enough money to do all the things that need to be done, au money comes in Thailand from the Federal government. Thailand is one of the few Asian countries which exports food. The diet consists of rice three times a day, lots of chick en, much hot chili sauce. Thailand also exports rice, tin, rubber and teak; there Is no housing problem and wood Is cheap. There la waste In the operation of the BChools because they are ieparated. It is the hope in Thai land to someday consolidate them, Mr Charanyananda said. When asked about the Mini- ence of Communism In his coun try, Mr Charanyananda said, Our country Is near enma. Laos Is next to us and by now (I have been away from home for 30 days) has been Invaded by Com munists. Laos has asked neip from the United Nations. Laos Is rieht on our borders. As for Thailand, we hate Communism and Communists. We are Budd hists; we try to live together and help each other. I don't suppose we will become Communist but we are afraid, that they will carry aggression against us but wo will try to prevent them from coming. Thailand has made progress with highways and there Is the American financed Friendship Highway, four lanes Just like here." Mr Charanyananda, the father of five sons, all working in edu cation or taking advanced edu cation, and one daughter closed his talk with the very captivating phrase, "I Invite you to long life, good complexion, well health and happiness." Robert Van Houte, Morrow county school superintendent, made some explanatory remarks preceding his introduction of the guest speaker. Mrs Conley Lan ham was program chairman. Copper Tooling Workshop To be Held In Heppner Nov 10 People In the Heppner com munity will be given an oppor tunity to learn the fundamentals of copper tooling at a community workshop to be held at the home of Mrs Raymond Drake, Hepp ner on November 10, starting at 10:30 A M accbrding to Mrs Gene Ferguson, chairman of the Heppner extension unit. Training for project leaders ior all the extension units in tne county was given early in Oct ober at Pine City school by Mrs William Bcrgstrom and Mrs Ray Drake, Heppner; and Mrs Les tcr Cox. Lexington. Mrs William Heath and Mrs Riley Munkers of the Heppner extension unit took the training at this workshop. They, along with Mrs Drake, are now ready to present the ame copper work shop in the Heppner community. A fee of 52.25 per person will be charged. This will Include four tools and a sheet of copper 10x12 on which a person can work. Other material needed, which will need to be brought by the enrollee, Include a tur kish towel, rags, large water glass, dry ball point pen, and piece of masonlte or glass (a hard working surface). Eacn per son will bring a sack lunch. 'If any person outside of the Heppner extension unit would like to take this training," states Mrs Ferguson, "please call me soon so that arrangements for housing, tools, and metal can be made. If we have more than Mrs Brake's house can handle we will move to the annex build ing at the Heppner fairgrounds." . Mrs Ferguson's telephone num ber Is 6-9256. Mr and Mrs John Pflffer and family were in Portland Sunday and Monday. 76th Year, Number 55 Wednesday Blaze Damages Home In South Heppner Heppner firemen extinguished a blaze in the Jack Everly home on the Condon highway Wed nesday morning before the fire had an opportunity to destroy the house, which only recently had been moved to the site from a downtown location. The fire started In the kitchen and destroyed one wall and part of the ceiling before being stop ped. It was eating Its way Into the attic by the time firemen arrived but quick action pre vented further spread. The house is located Just Inside the city limits beyond reach of water mains so firemen were forced to use only what water they carried on trucks. Mr and Mrs Everly were on their way to Portland when the fire broke out and had left the house only a few minutes before. Damage was estimated by chief C A Ruggles at about $6(XX Tuesday afternoon firemen were called to the hill near the Bud Marshall home In north Heppner to control a small grass- fire. A very young lad playing with matches admitted starting the fire and he wasn't at all happy with the results, accord ing to his parents. Rummage Sale Shows $350 Profit . Mrs David Eckman, president of the Heppner Civic League an nounced Monday that last week's rummage sale netted $353.14 for the support of the Heppner Kin dergarten. The success of the Bale was due largely to the generous do nations of Heppner people and help from Heppner businesses, Mrs Eckman said. Those con tributing special services were the Heppner Cleaners, Bruce Mo tors, Gilliam and Bisbee, Jack's Chevron Station In Heppner and Gene's Chevron Station In Lex ington. Thanks also went out to Matt Hughes, Joe Stewart, Bob Heinz, Bob Abrams, David Eck man, Del Jordan, kindergarten mothers and League members, it was stated. It was explained that the fact that a kindergarten has been maintained In Heppner for 11 years Is worthy of note and that few Oregon towns of this size have such a program. League of ficers praised Mrs Ray Tabor for her high level of teaching work In the kindergarten. Savings Bonds Sales Drop in County Word was received today by Jack Bedford, chairman of the county savings bonds commit tee, that sales of E and H sav ings bonds In this county in September totaled $2,402. A year ano, county sales were $5,616. The report showed that sales In Oregon last month were $2,352,591. A year ago state sales totaled $2,740,090. "It Is too early to determine the effect the recent raise In rates in savings bonds will have on future sales," said chairman Bedford. "All of us hoping, of course, that the new 3-34 in terest rate on E and II savings bonds held to maturity will at tract many new buyers In the county. Owners of bonds bought prior to June 1 of this year have received an Increase of approx imately one-half of one percent of these securities. The United States Treasury dpartment has thus demonstrated Its intent to be completely fair with those who buy savings bonds." Counties showing Increased sales In September over the cor responding month of 1958 are Crook, Jefferson, Lake, Umatilla, Union and Washington. WEATHER Hi Low Prec. 83 53 66 35 63 33 64 37 62 3G 64 45 .10 62 37 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Rainfall for the week, .10; for October, .38; for the year 9.59 October .38; for the year 9.59 In.
