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Late Report
Says Blaze
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Hundreds Called
To Battle Flames;
Force Cut To 250
Heppner, Oregon Thursdoy, July 20, 1961
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PRINCESS MARLENE FETSCH
Princess Marlene
As 'Queen for a Night'
At Saturday Dance
Princess Marlene Fetsch will i where she is a Junior. In the
bo honored at the first princess ummer time she helps In out
dance of the 1961 Fair and Rodeo work J1" 'h J
season Saturday night at the
fairgrounds pavilion. She is the
16-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Fetsch, Lexington.
Princess Marlene Is a stat
uesque brownette who has been
riding since she was two years
old. She is a Junior leader of the
411 Rough Riders club, a mem
ber of the Wranglers Riding club,
and has won many events spon
sored by that organization. She
is also a member of the Oregon
Barrel Racing association, and
has been flag bearer for the ro
deo parades for the past four
years.
Princess Marlene is sponsored
by the Lexington Grange.
Outdoor activities appeal to
this attractive girl. Her slim,
trim figure is the result of much
riding, swimming and working
in the out-of-doors. She takes
care of her own animals be
fore going each morning the 20
miles to Heppner high school
at Kinzua
Cuts Night Shift
Closing down of the night shift
of the Kinzua Corporation saw
mill at Kinzua has been announ
ced by the company to become
effective July 30. The change
does not affect the operations
at Heppner in any manner, M.
J. O'Donnell, president, said.
While the immediate action of
closing down the shift at Kinzua
is due to current economic con
ditions, the one shift operation
there will enable Kinzua Corp
oration to keep its forests in
perpetual sustained yield oper
ations, O'Donnell said.
. The action was voted at a re
cent board of directors meeting
of the corporation.
"Despite vigorous sales efforts
and very severe price cutting,
we find ourselves unable to re
duce our excessive inventory of
lumber," O'Donnell said.
"We want to express our sin
cere thanks to all of our em
ployees for the fine cooperation
we have had from them in past
years."
The president added that the
local management plans to make
every effort to help secure ap
propriate employment for those
who must leave.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ott
Now Operate Cafe
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ott have
taken over the Wagon Wheel
Cafe from Ruth Bass, who had to
quit the business due to
health.
Ill i
o chanEe in name or oper-;
ation is planned.
,, rit Vma hopn emDloved
-til viv 1 - .
voar sh u
now managing the business, with
Ott helping out at nights.
" t prpwa.
Is cooking for harvest crews.
Her talents inciuae ew...K .u ,
she makes good part of her
Her talents Include sewing and
num clothes. She is active In
school organizations, belongs to
the Pep club, the drill team,
Girls' League, Girls' Athletic as
sociation, and Future Business
Leaders of America. She is vice
president of the Future Home
makers of American, and has re
cently held the office of Love in
the Ruth Assembly No. 50, Order
of Rainbow for Girls in Heppner.
Her church work Includes mem
bership In Hope Lutheran church,
vice presidency of Luther League,
mil teaching a vacation Bible
school class for younger child
ren In tne summer.
princess Marlene will ride
"Scats' Cougar," a blue roan
gelding in the official appear
ances. He is a registered quarter
horse. The Leonnlg Orchestra will
provide the music for Princess
Marlene's dance beginning at
10:00 p. m., July 22.
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LITTLE LEAGUE All-Stors wlU
art . ! i. -wr r 'a
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b:-nmn um
21-22. Front row tirom leu; vavia uiuj, uuu-. w i - " - ,., Tff
Bcger Leonnlg. GianU; and Jerry StefemL Indlaw. Middle row-Stere Pettyjohf Brerrw Jeff
Tulner. IndiaiL, Darld HalL Bras, Jim Dohwty. Brar.s, Gen. Heliker. Indian; cmd Chri. Lor
gren. Indian. Back row-Chris Lahhart. Brakes; HusmU Kilkenny. Indians; and Stan Ranch. In
dians. Not present for picture was alternate Bandy Stillman, Braves.
League Stars Point for Playoffs
Little League Managers How-
ard Petty john and Art Stefan!
have been practicing the league
All-Stars for the past weex in
preparation for the up-coming
area playoirs in ine uaue rn-
- ,
rinv and Saturdav
The Heppner All-Stars will
play at 6:00 p. m. PAT. on in-
10c Copy
Merchants Slale
Clearance Sales,
Lucky Buck Buys
Free parking? Special buy In
61 business eiiJ!hmentsT Yr.
It l Lucky Buck Day In Hepp
nor Main Saturday. July 22.
Pete McMurtry. Lucky Buck
rhalrnun. said that total of
STri.OO again will be drawn with
names of the lucky winners to
be read at 2:30 p. m. In the store
of the participating merchants.
iwaux f summer clearance
sulcs In progress, this Saturday
will bi an unusually line Mirny
eluded are Peterson's Jewelry,
ntlltam and Blsbee, Fenney's,
L. E. Dick, MiLadles, Elma's Ap
parel, Phil's Pharmacy, Hum
phreys Rexall Drug.
Another order of the buckskins
has been printed In the bright
blue, red and black colors for
h committee bv the Gazette-
Times. McMurtry stressed that'
necessary because so
C Luckv Bucks were being re-
deemed but are so unusual and
attractive that they are being
held as souvenlers.
With $25 first prize, $10 sec
ond prize, three $5.00 prizes and
five $1.00 prizes, 10 persons stand
to win If they are in one of the
stores where the names are read
at 2:30 Saturday.
Mrs. Olson Collapses
Mrs. Bill Olson, Lexington, Is
Ill IIUllCCl mciiiui aaw-uf-o
after collapsing while at work
f niAMAA XfAmnr a hAsnltAi
Satiirrinv nipht. Mrs. Olson, a
cook at the Hotel Grill, worked
all night Saturday helping with
extra food for firefighters, then
continued working Sunday. She
collapsed while making sand
wiches for the firefighters late
Sunday, and was taken to the
hospital Monday morning, suffer
ing from exhaustion.
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represent the Heppner league In
day with the two other teams
meeting at 8:00 p. m. The win
ners will square off at 8:00 p. m.
Saturday, and the losers will
play the top half of the double
header on Saturday at 6:00 p. m.
The players, managers, and
parents will leave Heppner at
1:00 p. m. Friday from the Mu-
will be an unusually line Mirny ' VC'IP fca -;-Wr."TZta'SS f iV-M?-. - X
Buck bargain day. Among those t .S , . "V 0 Xy, 7"X7?: JlW''"- -k' ' ? '"..' A. vjl
who have announced sales are tf.'SY
Case Furniture Store, clearance J (V. J V'VtV ? W.f?l'V t M''i il'7;t I V V, ftf-'fttfl
of furniture; Gonty's. annual 2 k , ; V' JvT .V f t J ' f-v 't' , i ' ! -V'' V I H ' J,'''' 4 6
for 1 shoe sale; Wilson's Men's M ; J. A titf??. ' - ! J -iV.W
Wear, summer clearance ofwo-u- W V'-- ' V ' ' '. ii ? ' v ii IL-,. fJ A ( t - t , I
III IO m-n rtear; Lotf. Electric.1 ti Ai'i i.V' 'j! ' -- Y! t iV I
LUC; clearance of appliances to make AV f .. .T .i-. nfi l' 1l (f. vVL J1 ; . W if?. I ' Vx I
room for new stock; Tyco, clear- .' . .iy iMV ViSV.v .VT'AI ; ViVi'A: !f W AV 'k'i ?'.f 'T; 1
nee of used combines. fV '.'rt,(.; J V V" j ? .-J'' ;v7mV
In addition, many others are 4i jr
advertising discounts and b.( fcV&V W
ealn tables of special merchan-; ... .
rilse for Lucky BUCK Vy. in-. , , .. Tinn hr...t wn In full iwina. Runnlna tha eorabina hara
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is Charles Daly and Billy Doherty (not vlslbla) was drlrlng th truck. (G-T Photo)
County Grain
l?iresi Smie
(Pictures also on page 10)
Grain yield this year in Mor
row county seems destined to
be the poorest experienced here
since 1955, a check through sec
tions of the county where harvest
is completed or In progress
shows.
Some expect that the yield will
be only about half that of an
average year, but there is ainer-
rf nnlnlnn on flVeraffe.
vnv. . " '
depending on the length of time
considered. The average of the
past 15, running about 27 bu
shels to the acre, Is considerable
higher than the average prev
iously, which would have been
20 bushels or less to the acre.
At the North Lexington ele
vator of the Morrow County
Grain Growers, Bert Corbln said
Friday that he checked in 82
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area PlT ln 'fa" J"1.!
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seum to give the boys time for wheat stalks, are well below
M ' , Aj . - .h,.1,!..,. iov. tn the f elds check
er meai ana uicm:
to work out on the field before ed.
game time. The players are to Lamb believes that rust ng
meet at the municipal hall in ured in the damage. It laid the
The Dalles at 3:30 to sign ln I wheat open to the sun and hear
u-hnse Darents are unable to at
Bi.u . - -
rriv instructions, suyi
tend will stay with U L. boys
In The Dalles Friday night.
YoeDd Imms
1955 Cirop
truckloads of grain the previous Another bumper year was In
day. At a comparable time in 1948, and there Is some differ
harvest last year, the average ence of opinion whether yield
was running between 150 and then was above 1959. The yield
160 truckloads per day, he said. ! last year wa3 about 25 bushels
Among ranchers interviewed, to the acre,
all In the more northern part of) The county agent said that a
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IflC Wilt a l"g I uwiiig ai ca, jiciu
running between 13 and 16 bu -
shels to the acre. One reported
that one part of his place was
as low as 11 Dusneis.
Ranchers who last year were
using two trucks to service their
combines ln the fields this year
are handling it with one truck.
At the Wm. Doherty place, son
Billy Doherty Is doing all the
hauling, using two trucks, mak
lng the trip to the elevator ln one
while the other is loaded and
awaits his return.
Another rancner, D. O. Nelson,
u. iMeison,-
put It another way. 'My trucks
have to go twice as far this year.
to get a load, he said. !
There is some hope that the ,
county's southern fields, located
In higher areas and harvested
later, may bring up the average,
but this remains to be seen.
ai i.mh manacerof theMor-
row County Grain Growers, said
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that tne coumy win uu wen hlmseu tnrougn tne leg xuesaay
average 20 bushels to the acre in evening while cleaning a gun
wheat and 30 in barley. i jn his trailer home at Neill's
"Tonnage of barleyls not down Traner court, according to his at
much, but it is of poor quality," tending physician,
he said. Both quantity and qual- . A bulet trom the 22 auto.
ity of wheat are down. matlc went through a muscle in
Lamb said that some farmers (he left ,pg about four lncneg
were having poorer yields than aboye the knee enterlng the up
others for no apparent reason. ; 8urface and emerging on the
. . . I . nn nr ' r A . ...
-mere is no su.e
m "it a a Knotted vear.
net in. a. ... i -
The poor yield is something of
a surprising development. Sev
eral said that just a few weeks
ago the coming crop looked as
M he a 30 to 40-bushel
crop. That has made harvest all
the more disappointing.
Heads were not as well filled
as It appeared they would be.
County Agent Nels Anderson,
who examined some of the grain
In Omar wheat fields, pointed
out that the kernels are pinched
and deformed. Heads that could
carry as many as 100 kernels
in a good year have as few as
OA barnoll this VPaT.
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June hot weather u wameu
rf thp damaee, and
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adding evidence to the theory
.i... inn.Hotn-AA davs stunted
the grain is the fact that the
umi me -r .
heads, which snouia oe
th "flaz leaf" of the
. aamaee, uc
I "
ot rAnt vear for yield was
in 1959 when the county average
was about 34 bushels to the acre.
78th Year, Number 20
oiunj vn-i- vu . t j
! ago across the county revealed
that a 20-bushel crop is needed
i for the farmer to break even and
snow some inieresi on ma in-
vestment. However, one contac
ted Friday said that he believed
that in his instance he could
break even with a 15-bushel crop
but would have nothing left for
equipment and other needs.
Lamb said that while the crop
is down in Morrow county, re
ports are that It Is even poorer
in other sections of the North
west. At this time, with no carry
. It
nnf , hB dieted he.
fore nex year,s crop comeS( thu-
taklng care of any surplus sit-
, one
Accidental dhOf
njure- HeDDfier Man
mlures "eppner man
; WUi Madden, 23, Heppner, shot
.... . a m
eft outer surface of the leg,
I ., in hu
then imbeddine Itself in the
couch on which he was sitting.
The flesh wound was treated
by a local doctor and the pat
lent released to return home. He
said he thought the gun was
empty.
Madden Is employed by Jed
Wilson & Son as a truck driver
delivering crushed rock for the
road between Ruggs and lone.
Musa To Speak
Boardman--Mrs. W. G. Seehafer
Morrow County Pomona Grange
lecturer, announcer that Ben
Musa, state senator, will be the
k t th, pomona
, 6"c v, . .... ...... nn
i meeting lo De neia uiy i
wm Grange In lone. The
" ...
, meetine Will sian i iu . in.
WEATHER
Hi
Low
Prec.
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
102
98
96
83
88
91
92
68
59
59
49
51
53
56
Thursday
Maximum temperature, 102.
Minimum. 49.
The greatest fire to hit the
Heppner rea since at least 1JC
has laid wate to a total of 30.210
acres as of Thursday.
Slarting In the Heppner Dis
trict of the fmatllU National
Foreot Friday nlKht. the Ditch
Cwk fire took 7.40 acres be
rr inmniiiff th north fork of
the John Day Into state protected
land.
I lore It consumed 22.730 acre
before being brought under con
trol Wednesday tugnt.
Siau Forestry personnel sue-
ceded In building fire line
around the south bulge at that
time.
rt movlnir flames brought
out hundreds of men and equip
ment from all over the North
west to fight the blMe. Grass
and timber on range and forest
land was consumed.
Ctarilnir as one of 21 fires set
K liohinlnir Fridav nliiht. the
Ditch Creek fire fast became an
uncontrolled Inferno. Saturday
tnr fiphtera was Issued and
they started arriving Saturday
night.
From then until late Monday
a continuing stream of men and
supplies went througn neppner
on the way to the big blaze.
Two other fires of the 21 also
were stubborn. The Sunflower
ru firA humed until 220 acres
were covered, and the one at
the Thorn Spring consumed I7ixi
acres. Both were brought under
control Monday morning and
fighters were released for the
big blaze on Ditch Creek.
Jump John Day
Sunday night the flames Jump
ed the John Day north fork In
to state protected land. Run
ning south ln rlmrock country
through deep draws and rough
terrain, fighters found It Imposs
ible to use either a great amount
of machinery, planes, or men ln
this area. The blaze was con
trolled with flrellnes on the east
and west, but could not be con
tained In the south until wea
nesday night
Under adverse conamons wiui
20 to 25 mile per hour winds and
12 to 14 per cent humidity, the
rangeland in the south disap
peared under the advancing
flames. When brought under con
trol the fire had laid waste 22,
730 acres of state protected land.
No monetary estimate of the
damage has been made.
In the Heppner district of the
National Forest, the fire, which
Is still called the Ditch Creek
fire, although It extended far
from Ditch creek soon after it
started, took In 7,480 acres. The
perimeter around the aemonsneu
area is 15 miles.
A rough estimate of 3 million
board feet of timber lost was
tv, i, rart a v hv Gene O'Keefe
of the education and Information
office, U. S. Forest service, ron
land. Permanent Damage Seen
"Watershed damage is an in
tangible thing which cannot be
measured in dollars and cents,"
O'Keefe said. Permanent injury
to winter range for wildlife will
result with many deer and elk
migrating to other ranges.
From a high of 840 men fight
ing fire Monday and Tuesday,
only 250 were reported still on
the fire lines. The fire is in the
mopping up stages, with only a
few snags and logs left burning
ir. tho Hennner district section.
O'Keefe said Thursday morning
that 100 men, all local peopie,
,.,m Via thA onlv ones on the
Ditch Creek fire Friday, with 25
on the other two.
Wright T. Mallery, supervisor
of the Umatilla National Forest,
Pendleton, reported from the area
Wednesday that plans for reha
bilitation of the area are already
ln progress. The Forest Service
will plant grass and trees on
steep ground to cut down on
erosion and to hold the solL
In fighting the blaze a new
system was used which the For
est service reported proved very
effective. Two helicopters from
the Evergreen Flying Service.
McMinnville. that were equipped
with tanks for spraying crops,
were loaded with water and de
tergent and used to hover over
hot spots in the mopping up
stages. This is the first time such
use had been made of helicopters
and those on the fire were en
thusiastic about the results. Heli
copters were also ued t0 trans
fer men and supplies on the fire
line and to bring the Injured
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