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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1961)
HltTKtt CAXETTZTIMIS TktwUr. ApU 11 INS Tae Heppner Ciutt. eetatOHhed March 30. im The Xrtpner Tir euUshed November M, 1197. Consolidated February 15, 1913 tfrf&l NIWIPAMI VAIIOCUflON W. a WXLDMAJt Edits a4 NtlUW rumen u wodkaji JUeedate fUUlMt NATIONAL fOITOMAl Subscription RU-: Harrow and Grant County U00 Year; Dwhere MJM Year. fUnfleG.py 10fnta. Published Evry Thurlay and Entered at U fun Office at Heppner. Onion. as Sond CUss Matter A PIONEER OREGON NEWSPAPER The followlnf U extracted from a story by George Turn bull In tht April Utue of tht 'Orfton rubltsher," In which he writes about pioneer Oregon newspapers: Seven early Oregon weeklies which hav com successfully patt their 73th birthday anniversary may be worth a little attention In this issue of the publUher. The earllett two of these art the Blue Mountain Eagle. now published at John Day. In Grant County, and the Dallas ItemlzerObserver, of Dallas, Polk County. The other five are the Lakevlew Examiner, the Sllverton Appeal-Tribune, the St. Helens Mist, the Veppoet Gasette-Tlmes. the Fossil Journal. Of course, Oregon's oldest dally papers, the Oregonlan and the Oregon Statesman, Salem, started as weeklies, but their weekly Issues have long since been given up. The seven touched on In this Issue of Oregon Publisher have never entered the dally field. In some details, the story of these papers compares In In terest with the ssga of the Oregon dallies. Some of Oregon's most Interesting editors and publishers have been In the weekly field. Let's pick up a few of the details of Interest in these old timers . . . It's difficult to start writing about the Heppner Gazette- Times without drifting over into recollections of the colorful cracks and odd displays of wit achieved by Gen. O. O. Howard s Indian scout J. W. Redlngton. the paper's most picturesque editor. In those early days there didn't seem to be enough news to keep a reporter busy, and Redlngton used to fill In by selling advertising and pursuing the elusive subscriber. "I attached one subscriber," he once reported, "by swapping a year's subscription for a bear to Merchant Wolfard st Silver ton." This happy warrior of the plains Is credited with having given Owen Wlstcr a lot of good stuff for "The Virginian." But Redlngton didn't start the Gazette. Credit for that goes to J. II. Stlne, who launched several other Oregon papers. He ran off the first Issue of the Gazette on his old Washington hand-press March 30, 1883. He didn't stay long; he was always eager to be going somewhere. Redlngton was his successor. The new owner Is remembered for the snappy billboards he set up along the north central Oregon roads to advertise his paper. He proclaimed that his newspaper was going to be "Hell on Horsethleves and Hypo crites" and "Bang-up for Bustles." To read his paper, one would get the idea that Redlngton was always looking for a fight. But Brant Ducey, U. of O. graduate student, who is doing a full-length story of Redlngton, Is convinced that the old scout really was mild-mannered and peaceful and that any fights he had were forced on him. The Times, the other half of the combined paper, the second of that name in Heppner (the first was the creature of young Homer Hallock) was started by another of those Inveterate founders of papers, E. M. Shutt, who got the paper going on Nov. 18, 1897. Elected sheriff in 1902, he sold the paper to A. J. Hicks, who is remembered as having installed a real type-setting machine, a Simplex, to set up his paper. Vawter Crawford took over the Gazette in 1910. In 1912 he bought the Times from Shutt, who had taken It back, and consolidated the two papers. The paper remained In the Craw ford family for close to forty years. It was sold to Robert Pen-, land, formerly of the Lebanon Express, In 1951, and Penland carried on until last October, when he sold to the present owners, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wildman from Phoenix, Arizona. In 1961, the Gazette-Times is still Hell on Horsethleves. We're working out a policy on Hypocrites. w.o.w. Kathleen Mahoney Mather, PendJeton, was a visitor of her sister, Mrs. A. C Ball, over the week end. Several women of the Heppner Methodist church will attend the, district meeting of the Women's Society of Christian Service in The Dalles Friday. STAR THEATER Friw SaU April 14-15 The Last Days Of Pompeii Steve Reeves. Barbara Carroll Angel Aranda. The mighty spectacle or the city that died In the flames from erupting Vesuvius, rius a wuv ox Chiller, House On A Haunted Hill Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart Sua. Moa. April 16-17 Butterfield 8 Elizabeth Taylor and an all star cast in John O'Hara's dar ing noveL CS and Color. Adult drama. Sunday at S and 7iOS (ONE NEWS Mrs. Bob Peterson and Mrs. Louis Carlson were In Pendleton on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Aune and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Parker and son and Mrs. Ray Barnett visited in Irrlgon at the home of Mrs. Fred Buchanan on Sunday.. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sherer and Judy were Portland visitors on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Crawford spent a few days last week in Portland where their daughter, Marlene, had dental work done. Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Brlstowl received word from their son and daughter-in-law, Lt and Mrs. John P. Brlstow, that they had adopted a son, Douglas James, who was born March 30. Long Distance Nation-Wide Moving Service Mayflower Agents Padded Vans PENLAND BROS. TSAKSPES CO. Pendleton, Oregon Phone CR 8 3111 II y Neigabors TO THE EDITOR . . "Now, Fenator, do you think it was fair to slip your fiscal problem in with hie hossewerkT" !r Fir; I am writing this letter to the editor In r-frd to the article printed n the lait Utue .f the Hrppner GarHte. Thurdy. April 6. 1'JCl. This ankle pertslns to the rwnt rollUlon c.f the police car and the car driven by my wife I am not going to put my wife's verkrt of this collision In this article. ! Imatlne a story could be wrlttt-n and printed in the paper Hating that she was completely In the right. My fuel ing la that hrr tide f the story as for a public sentiment Is con cerned would have no bearing on the outcome or decision In who was responsible for the acci dent. I feel that the Insurance companies are capable of de ciding who was at fault, without my passing Judgement on what cauaed the accident. There is one thing that should have been added to the art die in last week's paper, the traffic ticket which was issued was for violation of the basic rule, doing GO m p.h. In a 23 mph, rone. The $.10.00 fine for this violation I am told, by an attorney, was very high for a person never having a traffic or parking ticket of any kind. 30 YEARS AGO Tram the tilee el the Geietie-Tiaaee The fiur Theater will be tlu ed Monday and TwrU Urn the prrM-nt talkie equipment Mill be replaced with more modern equipment. llrppnrr's golf course ifenta Its mot Inviting appearance this prlng. having undergone much improvement. Roderick Thomson and Terre! Pence. OSC students, were home on the wrek-end. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rice of Artrtlan Well farm, were visitors It wasn't explained that the traffic violation and the wreck were two seperate cases, neither having any bearing on the other. Also the damage to my car was stated at 3200.00. the correct fig ure is $539.00. 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