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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.