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1 LIlRAir u or EUGENE. ORE. Warm-Up Pushes Snow Moisture Into the Ground A welcome warming trend made Itself felt over nearly all of Marrow county Tuesday and Wednesday and by Wednesday afternoon hills were beginning to show bare spot and streets were becoming a sloppy mess as nearly a foot of snow made Its way down gutters the past week and only on a couple of occasions was there any freezing rain, but constant below freezing temperatures until Tuesday kept the snow layer from disappear ing. The warming first hit the mountains and higher elevations Saturday and Sunday making many roads In those areas slop py but the cold layer continued to remain In the valleys until Tuesday when clouds disappear ed and the sun started the thaw. Last week it was feared that should a wind come up, many roads would soon be drifted full, but luckily very little blow was experienced In any part of the county. Farmers welcomed the gradual thaw of the past three days which allowed nearly all of the one and one-third Inches of moisture In the snow pack to soak Into the ground. Streams were running a little more water by Wednesday than a week ago, but all were clear and no area has reported any erosion from the thaw. boiidly packed ice and snow on highways and roads during most of the past two weeks has made driving hazardous in all directions, but no serious acci dents have been reported in the entire period. Walking on Hepp ners ice-coated sidewalks was a major problem during early morning hours both Monday and b Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 28, 1960 GA2ET ITIMES Copies 10 Cents 76th Year, Number 46 t . ' a f '' ' 1 " ." J if. i La . "I A' - -'5 :i 4.H j: Li ' S V County Weed Meeting Set For Feb 2 at Heppner N'ew chemicals for fence and roadside spraying, rye control Immunization Clinics Again Set In County Schools The Morrow county health de- nir.c rP mTTtrrptrc ha mmu th A.-intH counts .Partment will again hold Immu- w - . a I n i 'In oil AMtnt., U7 l th. JA IJrWWl nr. h n,nr. vAniilnn ... ... ""'"J agent. Miss Esther Kir mis. and Mrs Walter Corley, extension secretary, in preparation of Miss Kir mis visit to each home makers club during the month of February on behalf of this in ternational women's organization. HOMEMAKERS TO HEAR ACWW STORY DURING FEBRUARY VISITS TO UNITS "We mothers of the world be- (organization has acted as an ad Tuesday after a light rain had hipvp w are stronn enoueh to visory body to the U N Economic spread throughout the world anal"E - " in si nnnn ntr nhM wun ctitt ... . . ii - ' inonasnip ana unaersianams , mMnnns nnH imirvv rrhnrirpn'n states Mrs Alice Berry, Ausirai- Fund) vvlth saj of greeting frozen during the night. Several persons suffered falls, but no broken bones have been report ed. ITntll tha cinch all Hisnnnnare ia, president Of the ACWW (AS- LrfIq nnj rrrk nr TrPflt" eon " . , . - r, ... , i, sowaieu oumy vuiiien ui n.v tributlons at Hallowe'en time World.) will ho rtispneQpH hv iha onurttv Believing that a society witn agent. such a good purpose should be Unit member3 and othcr lnter. studied, fcsther Minus, Morrow ested persons are Invited to at- from streets, night-time temper atures will continue to create very slick streets and roads In the mornings. Mustangs Again Win 1, Lose 1 Over Weekend tend any of these scheduled county extension agent, will be visiting eah extension unit in meetlng8 arouml the county: line county on us uenau, uuung the month of February. With the use of all types of visuals Miss Esther Kirmis will present the historical back' Ground of this international country womens organization, its aims, its accomplishments, and its program work. Since the United Nations came into being in 1916 the ACWW By NEAL PENLAND Coach Clint Agee's Heppner Mustangs again split their week end basketball play by rolling over Riverside of Boardman Fri- ta! "lg?LVJ?J6Jl f?u"g Stefani's Restaurant gin so to 45. Again Open After Guards Ron Gray and Dennis forceA Shutdown Riverside with their brilliant Stefani's Fine Food restaurant back court work. Heppner open- at lone has been back in busi ed things up fast when they I ness for the past week after be- dumped in 13 points in the first, ine closed down for a week quarter. At half time Heppner while the source of a seepage of could only manage to stay a- pasoline Into the bulldins was Feb 3, Rhea Creek unit, Frank S Parker home, Heppner. Feb 4, lone unit, E M Baker home, lone. Feb 9, Heppner unit, Delia Scrivner's home, Heppner. Feb 10, Fine City unit, Pine City school. Feb 11, Irrigon unit, Warren McCoy home, Irrigon. Feb 16, Boardman unit, Arnold Hoffman home, Boardman. Feb 18, Lena unit, Dallas Cra ber home, Heppner. Several School Meetings Scheduled During Coming Days Three Important school meet ings are scheduled for the near future In the county. I The first will be the special building committee meeting which will be held Tuesday, Feb 2 . V . k research In morning glory con cafetorium. The county school , and chcmll.al ;um fal budget committee will meet the'. ,., K , , . following night at the Heppner I . .... ,r. grade school multipurpose room ' eh ,s so, for Tues,aVi Fcb6 and on Monday. Feb 8 the coun- ruary 2 R(?x Warreni farm crops ,y ... ",sneelalist. OSC. and Doan Swan. weed research specialist, Pendle ton branch experiment station will lead the discussion. N C Anderson, county agent and Os car Teterson, county judge will have spots on the program. The meeting wt'l be held at the fair annex building from 10 A M to 4 pm. Dean Swan will report on chemical summer fallow, a new promise to simplified fallow and weed control combinations. Mr Swan in cooperation with Ore gon State College and the Pen dleton branch exDerlment sta- schools during February, March tion has a series of plots using ana April, it was announcea mis week by Mrs Velma Glass, coun ty health nurse, j All vaccines are offered with out charge and Include small- GR0W-YOUR.OWN-TR0UT IDEA GETS START IN COUNTY f to' tn I monthly meeting at the court houe. All are open to the public. promising chemicals for cheat grass and other weed control throughout the Columbia Basin. Various rates and types of chem lcals were used. Gar Leyva, NICE CATCH Kit son oi Mr and Mrs N C Anderson of Heppner. displays his catch of nine Kamloops trout taken lait Sunday through the ice on one of three ponds on the Don Greenup ranm near Heppner. The largest was ust 12 inches long. The trout were planted last May as one and one-half inch finger lings and have shown a surprising growth in nine months. (Yet. its legal to catch 'em this time of year through the ice as long as its from a private pond.) An Interesting new crop has Inches In length and last Sun- shown that it can be produced day. Kit Anderson, son of Mr ami Mrs im c Anaerson or iiepp- In Morrow county one that most persons wouldn't look for n a dry land wheat country. The crop Is fish! Last May 3500 one and one- half inch Kamloops trout were planted In three man made ponds on the Don Greenup ranch east of Heppner. By August the fish were found to average 9 Great Decisions To Begin Here During February 'County Takes Over Lexington Airport manage head by one point, but in the investigated. tnira period scored zv points to Riverside's 2. Gray and Doherty led Heppner scoring with 14 and 12. Saturday night Heppner trav eled to Elgin in a return game that saw the Mustangs bow 80 - to 45. Elgin had three terrific quarters, scoring in the twenties each period. At the half Heppner was far behind 21 to 44 Tom Driscoll, Dennis Doherty and Tom Green led Heppner scoring with 11 points each while Crouser found the hoop for 28 for Elgin. The JV's also split their games, beating Riverside 42-40 but losing to Elgin 51-35. Bruce Mover led the team both nights with 9 and 15 points. Heppner Green 7 Webb 2 Driscoll 8 Doherty 12 Gray 14 Riverside West 8 Flug Partlow 5 Obermeler 9 Beeler 6 Subs-Heppner: Mover, Tibbies, Gardner, Dick, Da v 1 d s o n 2, George 2, Kerr. Riverside: Hobbs, McKay 2, Waks. Getz 6, Kieth. Heppner Green 11 Davidson 4 Driscoll 11 Doherty 11 Gray 6 Elgin Crouser 29 Cason 13 Showers 4 Saver 9 Obert 15 Morrow county has taken over ownership and operation of the I.pxincton alrnort nnr! will re Many gallons of gasoline or name it the Morrow county air petroleum product were bailed out of the basement and a sump dug outside of the building, but the source of the seepage still hasn't been found. The restaur ant was ordered closed at the time of the find for fear of an explosion. The building has now been port, the county court revealed this week. The field, which was originally donated to the city of Lexington has been deeded to the county by Lexington and will continue to be operated as a municipal field. The county plans to lease the operation of Gar Leyva who sealed off to prevent further has been operating the facility seepage and the restaurant is f0T a number of years. again serving customers. Deadline Near For Obtaining 1959 Crop Commodity Loans The county was asked to take over the field to assure its con tinued operation as a public port. It is one of the few county func tions which "pays", rather than "costs" as the lease agreement brings a small return to the Producers of wheat, barley, county. rye and oats are reminded that February 1 is the final date J County Awards Bids fice. Loans should be disbursed as soon as possible after county office approval. The final date for disbursing all 1959 loans is February 15, it was announced. Subs. Heppner-Moyer, Tibbie". 2, Gardner, Dick, Webb, Georr i, Creswick. Elgin, Nelson 4. 'ant, Wate. Conatser, Lyman I. ENLISTS IN AKSnr Ed Groshens. son of Mr and Mrs Vic Groshens of Heppner recently enlisted in the Army and is now at Fort Ord. Calif where he is receiving his basic training. He left Heppner early in January. Dr and Mrs C M Wagner were at To"gate Thursday for skiing, recer.t Color Television Set on Display The Heppner TV cable co-op has recently purchased a color television set, the only operating one in Heppner. and has the unit on display at local dealers. During much of the past month the set was in operation at Haskell & Haskett show rooms on North Main street, and starting about Firuarj" 1 it will be in operation at Gor.ty's. t. The set verv number of color shows are now being telecast. Many persons watched the Roe Bowl game and ot.ner specie programs ir. weeks. On Gas and Diesel The county court Tuesday a- warded bids for the supplying of gasoline and diesel fuel for county use during 1960. Low bidders were the Shell Oil Company for gasoline at 21.7 cents per gallon; and the Union Oil Company for diesel at 12.7 cents. pox vaccination; whooping spray applicator, Lexington, co cough and tetanus combination; operating with the experiment station has applied many of these plots by air for compar Ison with ground applied chem lcals. Newest morning glory con trol recommendations will also be given by Mr Swan, who has over the past few years carried out a series of experimental plots in Morrow and other counties. Rex Warren, farm crops spec ialist, from OSC will discuss miscellaneous perennial weed control, Fence row and roadside spraying, an ever increasing pro blem will also be discussed by Mr Warren. A progress report on the coun ty spray program for 1959 will be discussed by N C Anderson, county extension agent. Oscar Peterson, county Judge will lead loans in 1959, the Department a discussion m the enforcement of Veterans' Affairs announced of the weed district law which that starting January 18, its loan was requested at the 1959 weed 1 ...11, 1 I . . u . . ' . . I . volume will oe icuuccu jiiuic . iiiccuiig. shortage of loan funds. Newest developments in an The veterans' department last nual selective weed control In year granted 5170 loans to World cereals will be discussed. A short typhoid and polio vaccines. Both parents and pre-school children will be welcome at the clln'cs. The schedule will be: Heppner, February 9, March 8, April 5 from 9 to 11 a m. Lexington and lone, February 16, March 15, April 12. Boardman and Irrigon, Febru ary 23, March 22 and April 19. Parents are asked to check at, the latter four schools to find the time of the clinics. State Veteran's Loan Volume to Drop During 1960 After setting a new record for Oregon veterans' farm and home War II and Korean veterans In the amount of $52,932,550, ex ceeding the previous high year time will be spent on a report of the volunteer fire prevention program which drew much In- of 1957 by more than $16,600,000 . terest at last year's weed meet and by nearly 1200 loans. In in2 and which was carried that year, 3979 veterans borrow- J through to some success during last year's fire season Co-sponsoring the annual weed meetinu for the second year is the Morrow County Farm Bureau. Door prizes are being provided by this farm organi zation will be drawn during the day. Smaller Water Bills On Tap in ha been performing satisfO.-torily and quite a PASTORS PLAN POTLUCK All the pastors of the Heppner ministerial association and their families will hold a potluck din ner at Hope Lutheran church Sunday at 6 p m. It was recently adopted at an association meeting mat sucn dinners will be held the last unaay oi live bunaay montns to better the already fine fellow ship existing among the clergy of Heppner. XA drivers license examiner will Fred Pointer of Corraf m wai V on duty m Heppner Tues- a weekend guest at t.T , home t jy. eD at me coun nouse of Mr and Mrs Jim DVoll. ' itween 9 30 a m and 3:30 p m. ed $36,269,000. But department director H Saalfeld said the final amount of loan funds will have been committed to borrowers as of January 18, and loans starting on that date are being scheduled for funds at the rate of 120 a month. Loans In 1959 averaged 430 a month In other words," Saalfeld said, "loans In 1960 will be lim ited to funds received from vet erans' loan repayments, after we pay operating expenses, princl pal and interest on bonds out standing, and annual property taxes." The first 120 loans on the new scheduling basis will be set up to receive closing funds In April; the next 120 in May, and so on. This condition will last at least through 1960. What happens af ter that will depend upon the outcome of a measure on the ballot In next November's gen eral election to set a higher lim it on the amount of bonds that may be issued to finance the loan program. Since the loan program start ed in 1945, the veterans de partment has granted 29.271 loans in the amount of $208,645, 224. Borrowers have repaid ap proximately $96,693,000 in nrin- cipal and interest, and they are FLUE FIRE BURNS lePoA 8t .1 r, l The Heppner fire department $1800,000 a month. Of the 29 red tQ thfi GUjn 271 loans granted. fiffT wen home op West Center street last Thursday night to Heppner water users will get a moratorium on any big water bills for a month, It was an nounced this week by the water department. All February 1 bills will be for Just minimum charges. The reason for the smaller bills, In many Instances, is that because of the layer of snow and ice city crews have been unable to read water meters. The respite will be purely tem porary, however, ror tne next month the extra gallonage will appear on water bills. In instances where a home or business only uses up to the minimum charge, no difference will be noted in bills. outstanding on December 31 the amount of $145,760,643. The program has been 6elf sustaining, paying all of the loan division's operating expenses, the principal and interest on bonds issued to obtain loan funds, and earning more than $6,210,000 in net operating rev enue since 1945. Oregon's annual review :aain issues in American forelg policy will start in February when residents of 27 countle: will meet In "Great Decisions discussion groups. Miss Esther Kirmis of Heppner Is Morrow county chairman. Early reports indicate that more study groups are being formed this year than In 1959 when some 6,000 Oregonians dls cussed current topics in more than 400 groups. The program also is carried by high school social studies classes and each Issue is reviewed by Oregon newspapers, television and radio stations. Mrs Mabel Mack, assistant dir ector of Oregon State College ex tension service and co-chairman of the state Great Decisions pro gram, stressed the Importance of Americans understanding the full range of international prob lems they face. She pointed out that Great De cislons groups give participants an opportunity to study facts and arrive at an Informed opin Ion. Group members study fact sheet material prepared by the Foreign Policy Asso elation (FPA) and discuss one key issue each week for an eight-week period. Sets of fact sheets and extra ballots may be secured In each county from the Great De cislons chairman. At the end of each discussion, participants will record their opinions on individual ballots. Summary of ballots cast in Ore gon will be sent to FPA as well as ballots from the 43 other states participating in the Great Decisions program. State and national summaries will be for warded to the U S state depart ment. Information about the 1960 Great Decisions program Is a- vailable from county Great De cisions chairmen and county ex tension agents. In Oregon, Great Decisions is co-sponsored by Oregon State College extension service and the general extension division of the state system of higher education in cooperation with the FPA, the state department of education, state library, and some 25 state wide organizations. ner, fishing through the Ice on the ponds, came up with nine fine fat fish averaging conser vatively one-third of a pound each. The largest fish was an even foot long and had a cleaned weight of about 10 ounces. Kit's dad, who is county agent, got to figuring what the rate of meat production was out of the three ponds, and came up with some quite surprising fig- lures: 3500 fish each weighing a conservative one-third pound, in three ponds covering three acres, equals a total of 1163 pounds of nice fresh fish. This is an average of 400 pounds of meat per acre In Just nine months. To make the story even more interesting, the fish have not been artificially fed they have m nrln Y r f crrrwtri Vi am t Via riot. UKiili. iiiv i giun it via viiv i u v ural feed found In the ponds. There Is a further Incentive for local ranchers to grow their own fish when you plant your own In private ponds, you can fish for them at any time of the year, in any manner you see fit, and you don't need a fish ing license to do It. Anybody for a nice fresh foot long trout for dinner? Chaplaincy Plan Set For Hospital The Heppner ministerial assoc iation began in January a newly organized chaplaincy program for Pioneer Memorial hospital. The proposed program as pre sented to the hospital board con- Ists of visitations to all main floor patients each day of the week by different clergy of the association. Once a week a visit Is made to all the patients in the geriatrics ward. This Is also done on the rotation system. Be ginning In February devotional services, 10 to 15 minutes in length, will be held for the ger iatric patients Sundays at 1 p m. The chaplaincy program also provides for a chaplain of the month. Each month a different clergy Is on call should an emer gency arise where pastoral help requested but no preference of denomination Is given. The hospital board approved the program at Its January 21st meeting. Those clergy now in the Hepp ner association are Rev Knox, Rev McGhee, Father Spencer, Rev Wolfgang, Rev Rydgren, Father Beard and Rev Vorles. Suppose It's Spring? Pussy Willows are In bloom at the Bill Weatherford ranch near Lena. Even though they poked their way out through the snow and Ice, Weatherford thinks they are about 15 days earlier than last year, so maybe the winter hasn't been so bad after all. EXAMINEE" GgJMING control a flue no damage fire. There was WEATHER Hi Low Thursday 22 14 Friday 23 11 Saturday 29 1! Sunday 29 15 Monday 30 15 Tuesday 45 25 Wednesday 49 29 Prec. Tr Rainfall for the week a trace; for January 1.32 Inches. INCOME TAXES SUBJECT OF CHAMBER TALK P W Mahoney, Heppner attor ney, spoke to the Heppner-Mor-row county Chamber of Com merce Monday noon on income taxes. He explained changes that are in effect for this year and how many of the tax law's pro visions apply to the individual. Beginners Typing Course To Start The beginners typing course, sponsored by the P-TA, will hold its first class Thursday, Febru ary 4 at 7:30 in the Heppner high school. The course will be taught by D G Lujan of lone, who announ ces that a small fee will be charged for purchasing typing books and paper. The course will last approx imately six weeks. At present there are 12 people signed up for this class and any one else Interested is asked to please contact Mrs William Lab hart or Mrs Creston Robinson. Harlan McCurdf Jr and Al Lamb were in Portland several days last week to attend a meet ing of the North Pacific Grain Growers. They returned Sunday. County Republicans Schedule Meeting A meeting of the Morrow coun ty Republican committee has been set for 8 p m Wednesday, February 3 at the Turner. Van Marter and Bryant Insurance of fice in Heppner, it was announ ced this week by Mrs Kenneth Peck, chairman. All Interested Republicans are urged to attend.