C 1 BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. Tear-Around Operta Is Hepp ncr Details Completed Final papers were signed Tues day in Seattle for the sale of Heppner Pine Mills, Inc to Kin zua Corporation, it was announ ced Wednesday by Paul Koenig, Heppner Pine manager.and Mau rice Brown, Kinzua manager. Announcement was made over two weeks ago that the sale was pending, but final word was Officers Elected For County 4-H Club Council Mrs L A McCabe, lone, was chosen as president of the south Morrow county 4-H council at the October meeting held at the Carl Rhea home, Alpine, on Thursday, October 22, according to Esther Kirmis, Morrow county extension agent. This is the sec ond time Mrs McCabe, a 12 year 4-H loader has served in this capacity. Other officers elected Include: Roy Martin, Lexington, vice pres ident; Mrs Walter Corley, lone, treasurer and Mrs N C Anderson, Heppner, secretary. All these of ficers were elected for a one year term. Reports were given by the pro gram, food and hostessing com mittees at this meeting on plans for the annual 4-H achievement pp.rty to be held in the Heppner fair pavilion on Saturday, Nov ember 7. A potluck dinner, beginning at 6:30 P Ai is planned for the even ing. Special musical entertain ment by the Leonnig family of the "Wagon Wheel" restaurant of Heppner will proceed the pre sentation of pins and awards to 4-H members who have com pleted their year's projects. County agent, N C Anderson, asked for suggestions from the group as to the program the lead ers vould like to see presented at the 4-H leader training meet ing scheduled for November 21 in Heppner. Helps in how to maintain the interest of club members, the interest of parents, planning a program, and pub licizing 4-H to the communities were suggested. Representatives from the state 4-11 club office have been asked to this meeting to give help and guidance In the county's 4-H program. A luncheon at the Wagon Wheel cafe in Heppner Is plan ned for the leaders on this train ing day. uJ- : a 1 : ' v. V) t) cm" ?. 1 Ww&if & I'' ' AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE Members of the Farm Credit Board of Spokane returned home last week after attending a four dory national conference of Farm Credit Directors in Washington, D C. The photo above was snapped in a tour at the national agricultural research center at Beltsville, Md while they were viewing th results of experiments on swine. Shown are (left to right) George L Watt, BuhL Idaho; Oscar G Swenson, Malone, Wash; and William F Barratt of Heppner. . ... ........ b h EPPNEfc Copies 10 Cents Pne Sae delayed while both companies worked out terms of the sale. Kinzua will take over the Heppner operation in the near future, but the exact date was not revealed. Mr Brown again emphasized Wednesday that the Heppner mill will continue to operate and that it will be run on a 12-months-a-year basis. He also said that no personnel changes are planned here. Frown wili assume the position of manager of both the Kinzua and the Heppner plants and will continue to live at Kinzua. Koe nig announced no immediate plans for the future. Final papers to complete the large transaction which includ ed all of the Heppner Pine Mills physical assets and timber hold ings were signed Tuesday in Seattle. Taking part in the final work was Harry O'Donnell, Bry ant Dunn and Ed Stutchell, of ficers of the Kinzua Corporation; and Winfield Boyd, Yakima, Heppner Pine auditor, and Duke Warnok, Palo Alto, California, secretary-treasurer of Heppner Pine. The Heppner company was owned by Maurice Hitchcock, White Swan, Washington and Dant and Warnock of Palo Alto. Brown told the Gazette-Tlme& that the aquisition of the Hepp ner plant will give Kinzua a better integrated operation, In asmuch as a sizeable amount of that company's timber hold ings He closer to Heppner than they do to the . Kinzuamili in Wheeler county. Pomona Grange to Meet at Rhea Creek Pomona Grange will meet Sat urday, Oct 31 at the Rhea Creek Grange hall starting at 10:30 a m. Olga Wilson of the state grange legislative committee will speak on the part the grange plays In getting legislation pass ed. There will be a canning con test judged between 11 a m and noon. Those who enter must bring a sales slip of purchase of White Satin sugar with the fruit they are entering in the contest and the sugar sack. Visiting for several days over the weekend and this week at the homo of Mr and Mrs Ambrose Chapin were Mr and Mrs Harry Slyter of Portland. Gazette-Tim ! j :7n i iiim mil ii mi i IB 1" it i "I ri " infill nil in 1 1 II m If iii i J THAILAND VISITOR Yanyong Charanyananda, left, director of education of a Thailand province, discusses the Heppner high school agricultural education program with L L Robbins, agri cultural instructor at Heppner high school. Mr Charanyananda spent last week in Morrow county studying the educational program of a county-wide school system in an agricultural area He will spend nearly six months studying various phases of education in the United States. (GT Photo) Heppner Speech Winner to Enter Area Contest Clifford Green, Heppner was judged winner of the Heppner Soil Conservation District spon sored speech contest held on Tuesday of this week. Second and third place winners were Sharon Keithley and Candy Ein spahr respectively, both of Hepp ner. There topic was range and pasture conservation. As first place winner, Clifford Green will participate in an area speech contest sponsored by the Oregon Association of Soil Con servation Districts-at Hormlston on Thursday evening. Winner of the area coniest will receive an expense paid trip to the annual meeting of the Oregon Associat ion of Soil Conservation Districts to be held in Salem on November Z and 6. Clifford is a member of the local FFA chapter. Prizes were provided for the first, sec ond and third place winners by the Emco, Inc.. Morrow county equipment dealers. An Invitation to attend the speech content to be held at the civic recreation center in Her miston on Thursday, October 29 is extended by N C Anderson, county extension agent and sec retary of the Heppner Soil Con servation District. Sponsored by the Hormlston Toastmaster and Toastmistrcss clubs the contest will get under way at 7:30 P M. Mr and Mrs James Farley and daughters were In Portland over the weekend. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 29, 1959 Planned By Kinzua Conservationists To Hear Hatfield With the field of soil conser vation as his theme, Gov Mark Hatfield will be the banquet speaker at the 11th annual meet ing of the Oregon Association of Soil Conservation Districts at Salem, next Thursday Night, Nov 5. The gathering of farmer and rancher supervisors of the state's 57 soil conservation districts will also hear ai their luncheon speaker, ThuKday, Donald A Williams, auialnlstrator, U S Soil Conservation Service, Wash ington, D C, who will speak on current soil and water develop ments. Major discussion at the three day session, which opens Tues day morning, Nov 4, with the annual soil judging contest, deals with the problem of grow ing more and better forage feed on a large share of Oregon's pasture and range lands. Six of the state's top dairymen and stockmen will lead discussion. Members of OASCD's Women's Auxiliary will hold their annual breakfast and business meeting Friday morning with Mrs Jim McCrae, vice-president, Wallowa, presiding. She will also preside at the supervisors' closing gen eral luncheon Friday noon. Mrs McCrae, who is the wife of the association's vice-presl dpnt, believes a farm wife's place Is at the side of her husband at the annual meeting of district supervisors. She says, "Our job Is to help get our men to attend and sup port the OASCD meeting and to show them that we believe as firmly in good land and water, use as they do. "You know we farm women pitch In and help run the farm. What happens to our soil and water resources is just as much mr business as the men's. Elmer E Peterson, Portland, Is piesldent of the district associa tion with Jim McCrae, Wallowa, vice-president; Merritt Parks, Ft Rock, secretary, and Ben Christ ensen, Harrisburg, treasurer. The OASCD's key committee chairman are: legislative, Ralph Wilson, Salem; finance, Ben Christensen, Harrisburg; public speaking and education, Lloyd Gift, Bonanza, who also heads the public lands committee; and resolutions, Chet Jensen, Rogue River. Mr end Mrs H L Dodson of Bend and their daughter, Mrs Ray Williams and their grand son Gray Gassner were week end guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Bill Turner. WEATHER HI Low Prec. Thursday 72 48 .15 Friday 72 57 .18 Saturday 77 52 Sunday 79 40 Monday 61 32 Tuesday 53 36 Wednesday 58 39 Rainfall for the week .33; for October .71; for the year 9.92 Inches. 76th Year, Number 34 Hallowe'en Hayride UNICEF Drive - Slated Saturday . Hallowe'en night will be the occasion of two popular events, sponsored locally for and by the youngsters of the area. The older youngsters, those from the 7th grade through high school, will again be the guests of the Heppner Soroptimist club on thjir annual Hallowe'en hay- rido, and the smaller children will take part in the growing "Trick or Treat for UNICEF" pro gram, sponsored in Heppner by the mintslerlcal association. It will also be conducted In lone and Lexington. Hayride plans call for trucks! to leave from the Heppner school promptly at 6 p m Saturday. All will be taken for a short ride then will go to the fair pavilion where they will enjoy dinner, games and dancing. This affair is limited to Heppner school youngsters because of the In ability of the Soroptimist club to handle any more students. Prizes of S7.50, $5 and $2.50 will be awarded to the classes putting on the three best five minute skits or entertainment following the dinner. It was em phasized that all youngsters must ride on the trucks If they are to attend and that once they arc in the fair pavilion they will be required to remain Inside un til the end of the party. Students will be returned to the school at 10.30. UNICEF Collection Due Saturday evening little spooks and goblins, spacemen and witches will ring the doorbells of Heppner and townsfolks will hear the familiar chant, "Trick or Treat" only this time It will not always stop there. It will be 'Trick or Treat for UNICEF!" Sponsored locally by the min isterial association, and nation ally bv the U S Committee for UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund Hallowe'en pro gram will be carried out at the same time In 10,000 other com munities. Last year more than two million American youngsters participated 'n the biggest pro ject ever carried out by children to help children. Each ponny collected by the trick or treaters wearing the UNICEF black and orange tag Saturday night can mean five glasses of milk for a needy child overseas, or the BCG vaccine to protect him frcm tuberculosis. A nickel's worth of UNICEF pen icillin will cure a child of yaws, a crippling tropical disease. The Junior citizens of Hepp- ner participating In Trick or Treat for UNICEF will meet at then respective churches at 6:30. They will canvass the neighbor hcod in small groups, escorted by young adults who are also volunteering their time. After the collection, all will meet at the Episcopal parish hall where a counting party will be held with some good movies. The Reverend, Mr Rydgren, pastor of Hope Lutheran church and chairman of the ministerial association points out that UNI CEF is not a give away, program. Governments that request Its aid spend an average of more than $2.50 for each $1.00 received In UNICEF supplies. UNICEF Is entirely supported by voluntary contributions. About 90 comes from governments and the rest from organizations or Individ uals. In 1958, 87 countlres con tributed 20 million dollars. As- -sbtance given Is on the basis of need, regardless of political belief, race or creed a basic con cept of all UN assistance and differences that mean nothing to children. ATTEND MARCH OF. DIMES CAMPAIGN MEET Mrs Velma Glass, Morrow county health nurse, and Mar lene Griffin, chairman of the March of Dimes campaign for Heppner high school, were In Spokane Monday to attend a March of Dimes pre-campaign planning meeting at the Dav enport Hotel. Heppner High Paper WINNERS OF THE TROPHIES given by the education advisory committee of the Oregon Centennial Commission were presen ted the trophies recently at the closing luncheon of the Oregon High School Press Conference on the University of Oregon cam pus. Accepting the trophy for the best non-letter press Centennial issue was Barbara Siewert. assistant editor (left) and Mrs Margaret Kirk, advisor, of the Hehisch of Heppner high schooL The awards were made to the best Centennial editions of high school newspapers and yearbooks in the state. GAME LAW VIOLATORS TO FACE CIVIL COURT ACTION IN FUTURE In addition to the criminal penalties now Imposed, game law violators will In the future face civil court action as well for unlawfully killing game an imals. Such court action would be instituted against the offen der by the state for the collec tion of damages to the public gnme resources. Such a precedent was set up last Friday, when the game com mission at Its regular monthly meeting declared It to be the UN Pilgrimage Delegates Speak To Chamber Monday Two area delegates to the IOOF sponsored United Nations Pilgrimage for Youth, Miss Les lie Keller, Hermiston, and Ted ihornstad of Umatilla, were puests at Monday's chamber of commerce meeting and told of their last summer's trip to the east. Both students related their ex periences on the month-long trip and told of the many interesting and educational events that they were able to attend. They were Introduced by R G McMurtry and Mrs Altha Kirk, members of the Oddfellows and Rebekah UN committee for Morrow and Uma tilla counties. The two later spoke at Heppner high school, and on November 18 they will show pictures of their trip at the Heppner IOOF hi) 11. Heppner Grid Squad Sees Portland Game Members of the Heppner high school football team were invited to be house guests of the mem bers of the Maupln team after the game there Friday evening, and attend their homecoming activities. On Saturday morning the Heppner boys went on to Port to see the University of Oregon University of Washington foot ball game and they returned home Saturday night. Those going were Dennis Do herty, Mike Koenig, Larry Tib bies, Bob Davidson, Tom Glass, Tom Drlscoll, Neal Penland, Bill Monagle, Micky Van Scholack, John Stratton, Dick Springer, Jerry Davidson, Bill Cox, Don Hughes, Merlin Hughes, Archie Ball and Chuck Smallwood. Parents and teachers taking cars were Bernard Doherty, Gor don Tratt, Mrs Velma Glass and James Mallon. Elks Officers Attend Ritualistic Contest Officers of the Heppner Elks lodge who attended the officers state ritualistic contest In Bend last weekend were Delmer Jor dan, exalted ruler; Everett Keith ley, leading knight; Lowell Grlb- ble, loyal knight; LeRoy Gard ner, lecturing knight; Harley Young, chaplain; Kemp Dick, Inner guard; Conley Lanham, es quire; Bob Flatt, as candidate and LaVerne Van Marter and Harlan McCurdy, Jr, coaches. Bill Flatt of Condon was in town Sunday and visited friends. Wins Award policy of the commission to make every attempt to collect statutory damages for unlawfully taken game animals as provided by OKS 496.705. Phil Schneider, state game dir ector, speaking for the commis sioners, said the civil action pol icy was adopted In an attempt to provide an additional deter rent to the willful violation of the hunting laws. Although the law providing for th recovery of damages to the state has been on the statutes for some time, Schneider said that the commission has been reluctant in the past to use the tool against game law offenders. Flagrant violations, increasing In number the past few years, prompted tile commission to take a closer look at the situation from which the damage recov ery policy was adopted. Under the statutes provided by ORS 496.705, the game commls slon has the authority to instl tute suit for recovery of dam ages for the unlawful killing of any of the game birds. and an imals which are the property of the state. The statute sets the liability for the illegal killing of game birds and animals shall be as follows: elk, not less than $100 nor more than $300; deer, not less than $100 nor more than $200; mountain sheep, not less then $100 nor more than $300; mountain goat, not less than $100 nor more than $300; antelope, not less than $100 nor mori than $200;' any protected game bird or waterfowl, not less than $2 nor more than $5. Such civil liability shall be In addition to other penalties as prescribed In this act for the unlawful killing of game birds and animals. Schneider said that under the policy the commission will In stitute civil suit for recovery of damages when a defendant has been convicted of the crime of unlawfully killing game ani mals, and whore a defendant was not convicted, but sufficient evidence exists to sustain recov ery. Although not limited to the following categories, civil action would be considered when the crime- Included killing game out of season; killing by prohibited methods; exceeding the bag lim it; killing illegal animals (does, spikes, etc.); lack of license or Improper license or tag; and kill ing In preserves or other unauth orized place. Creswick Attending Radiological School Oliver Creswick, Heppner, is In Salem this week attending a ra diological Instrument operation school being conducted by the state of Oregon and the Civil De fense department. He Is represen ting Heppner and the Umatilla National Forest. The Heppner district is the only ranger district In Umatilla National Forest that has radiol ogical detection Instruments as only one district in each Nat ional Forest is selected to own and operate such equipment Heppner district ranger Victor Kreimeyer has also been school ed In the operation of the equipment.