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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1961)
u- HtttHtn GAxrm Tints, Thursday. --.t C 2jrimrr ferltr-uiimrs NOMOW COOKTTS HtWf FAFfi FHONC 922 The llpner Gaitta. Mtatllshed Mrh 30. iwa The llrppner Time established November l. 1H97. Consolidated February 15. 1112 WESLEY A. SHERMAN Editor and Publish! ni wiriru f UIUIHIII AIIOCIAflOM HELEN t IMCRHAN AMOciatt fubJUhtr NATION At lOITOIIAl V I AsgcATIfN Chaff Chatter By Wes Sherman l.lTTl-K CATHY J. "' .! an American will build It, We'll Subscription Hat; Morrow and Grant Countle. MM) Year; Else where MM Year. Single Copy 10 Cerd. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Iost Office at Heppner. Oregon, at Second Clas Matter. Action-Pocked Week-end in Store Here Now that the best of Morrow county'a agricultural produce and livestock have been on display and the 4 II and FFA cluba particularly have made a proud allowing at the county fair, the awie change here thla week to actln and entertainment. It .imi a a very full week end with plenty for everyone to do and see. The Wranglers horse ahow. which In reality Is a part of the fair, will take the center of the atage Friday, and a great deal of hard work and planning has gone Into It preparation. There are many horw? lover In the county, and the animal show the good breeding and grooming about which their owner are ao painstakingly careful. Saturday morning come the excitement and fanfare of the atreet parade that will thrill adult and children alike. One fine thing about the event of fair and rodeo week Is that the children arid young people have ao prominent a part. They have a major part In the fair, they have a great place In the parade, they take part In the horse how and even have aome event In the rodeo. Saturday afternoon the rip-roaring rodeo allow open, and it will be followed by a special ahow Saturday night. The rodeo dame will wind up a real big day. Probably the events of Saturday will almost merge with those of Sunday for some, because those who attend the dance and who also work on the Wrangler' breakfast will get little sleep. The breukfast oxns to the public at 7 a. m. Sunday. The morning Sunday will be open, and everyone may at tend church services before the rodeo program Sunday after noon, completing the festivities. It Is good that Labor Day Is coming up because those who have been so busy with events of the fair and rodeo period may well nigh be exhausted. Then conies the rush of back to school on Tuesday! This must be one of the busiest week ends of the year In Morrow county. Our gaily-bedecked town opens its door to all, and invites everyone to join in the happy time. We Vote to Stay With 3 Months Vacation At this time of summer's waning, many a mother, distraught with her youngsters' wails of "What'll I do now, mother?," longingly anticipates her offsprings' return to school. Reflecting In this vein, J. W. Forrester, In his "Of Cabbages and Kings" column In the East Oregonlan recently proposed that summer school vacation be cut from three months to two months. He writes, "The length of vacation from school is a carry over from a condition which either no longer exists In most communities or if It does exist Is of far less Importance than it once was." He declares that although there was a time when children were depended upon to do farm work, machinery now has tended to displace this need. Another point made Is that labor laws now are so stringent that young people are In fact cut out of working In many Jobs. The column also ponders whether teachers need three months vacation. "If a vole were taken," writes the columnist, "we think most children and their parents would say that one month of vacation was enough. But most teachers need more than that. They would settle, we think, for two months." But vote of the Gazette-Times editor would be to stick with three months, for many reasons. In the first place, we believe that In many sections of the state, labor of high school students, particularly, Is vital to agriculture. Just in the valley a week ago, sound trucks were going around appealing for pickers in bean fields in the Salem area. Friends of our children In the valley will be working right up to the time school starts. We know of many cases where school boards almost annually are petitioned to postpone school In the fall to get vegetable and fruit crops harvested. There are other cases In some years where berry growers seek to have children dismissed earlier In the spring in order to get Into the strawberry fields. A good many college youths need all the work they can get In the summer to keep going In the winter. A mere two months' "vacation" would be a real hardship for them with the high cost of higher education. We'll agree that our child labor laws do restrict employment of young people, but we also think some of these provisions are ridiculous (which probably will await expounding for an other editorial). We think the laws should be amended to be - fair and consistent. While mothers may get bored with long hours of children underfoot, we also know how bored both teachers and pupils get when the sun breaks through in springtime after a long winter in class. Another two or three weeks of trying to teach children with "spring fever" would threaten mass resignations of teachers. Some are about at their wits' end now by the end of May. Students would learn little and teachers would be dis traught with longer sessions. We seriously doubt, too, if our younger elementary pupils in the culture and society we have developed for them, are conditioned to stick out a longer school year. We know they do It In other countries but they have different systems, and their children perhaps are not used to some of the luxuries and privileges enjoyed by those in the United States. Then how about family vacations? In a small plant, such as our newspaper, for Instance, when one man Is gone, the rest of the staff tries to fill in for him. Thus, only one may be gone at a time. Even with three months. It Is hard to find enough available time for family vacations so that all may have their turn before school comes again, and there is an inevitable rush in August. We think this holds true in many small busi nesses. We know of some school boards that are now putting teachers on 10 months actual service, staying a couple of weeks after school to take care of matters that need attention and coming two weeks early in the fall to take part in workshops, curriculum conferences, and planning meetings. Maybe this is a good thing, but school boards in their salary schedules , now put quite a premium on advanced training and summer time is the only time many of thorn have to get it. Cut their vacation to two months, and you either cut their time for further training or cut them out of any real vacation. And a teacher does need a vacation after facing for nine months the same children that mothers are so happy to send them. Forrester says he'd like to see some brave school board cut the summer to two months and offers to hold their coats. This Indeed will have to be a brave school board, and we might be among those yipping at their heels, for we thlr.k the tra ditional three months Is Just fine. l.,,t.l Into the ffle the other day and Interrupted hrr dads ping with the question. 'Dd dy. M lul ut IT.rLtma?" Th did stop u cold, and the main toon thought came that Mime TV tf..rmer, rushing the M M.n. mufti hac turt out with "White Chiistman" already. We coMalm-d our thought and replied. -No. ChiUtma U a lung time away " Tlii-n ramr the Mg puttied look. "Well." she iwlidered. "the flags are out all over the street and stores," So we explained that this Is Itod.-o week and that there will be fun at the big parade. That got us off the hook. arrets Wf gut caught on on of those miu rt r !' Sunday Mght. The family decided to tak a ride, got started late and went farthrr than .ii-ted. We went to I'kUh and continued on to 1.4 Grande, arriving ther In the dark. Headed home, we came on to the new freeway imw nearlng completion between L Grande and Pendleton. Only the two lane that will earrv eastbound traffic were oiM-n and thi was iemrarlly uM'ii lor two-way traffic. However, going out of La Grande, we started fooling with the car radio and ripped out an exit to a little community before we realized " off the freeway. Then we floundered around In . ihe dark trvlnif to get back on TO THE EDITOR SOME OF thse who had leading roles In the fair are a little bit concerned about now tney can ... nl . hf,uH toward go about thanking all those who worked so hard to make the fair Ihe fine success that It was. It w-ems as if It is an almost Im possible job iM-cause of the large numbers involved, it occurs to us that with the fair, the horse show, rodeo, Wranglers' breakfast, parade and all. Just about everyone In the county shall have had some connection and some work to do. So maybe the best thing to do would be for each person to turn to his neighbor and say, 'Thank you for the good Job on the fair and rodeo!" WE ATTENDED a rodeo board meeting the other night and watched Floyd Jones, chairman, Max Barclay, secretary, John Eubank. Bill Smethurst, Jack La Grande again. There were few sign to go by on the old high way, now a frontage road. Finally we got back on the freeway, but found oursclve headed west on the lane that were a yet unopened. Acros the fence dividing the highway, traf fic waa going both direction on the east bound lane. We had no alternative but to proceed and gingerly moved ahead, waiting momentarily to drop Into the chasm left by an uncompleted span, but we had no such trouble. The funny part came, though, when a driver, also proceeding west but acros the fence from us. noticed that car was moving up (us) on the westbound lanes. He slowed down perceptibly, and we could read his mind. He ler Mr. Sherman: pie rrtvni fixt roiidnion In the ..ne and Heppner are re called the flood of 11 tt. At that time my father. Joseph A Wotdrry. lived In lone. It I my understanding that he wa given a gold hradfd cane b) the otieit uf lone In recognition of aid that he gave during the flood. Thl cne U In p.rion of my slter. Velmalet Woolery !!, Hennepin. Illinois. The in itial "J. A. W.". in script, are engraved on the tp and under them is the Inscription "Dec. 2. l'.KXl" We are wondering If any of your reader recall or have Infor mation with resjie I to the reason and occasion of the presentation of thl cane. We would be very grateful for any Information. I look forward each week to reading your newsy and friendly paper with It wealth of locals, not only from Heppner, but lone. Ilardman and Monument. How and where else could I get thl new? Sincerely your. Josephine Woolery Conway 18S0 Funston, Ave.. San Francisco 16. Calif. Woops! Paper Crn With Wrong Outline. All we cm My U tt feaea this eiWMti el Us 4 H Styl Peeve is Uu. fabfef nd Julie Nailla. fcee f4 ease el kuase. la the rush f ttiaf ! thu peal (elf end p-re4e d Ittoa el Tba Geieite-Tlaae, wa ( the wreae ruttlae a4ef the picture el these y la die on p9 II. The reewit i rather ludioeu. TW etter wa set discovered until tae whole aectiea wa rue tee late ta recti! 7 the domaoe. Te partially make ued, w have the UU pie ture aala la thi sectiew and sk their tote, I for the error that came ta eery hectic week. iinrimihtprilv wax terrified with Loyd and Bob Steagall In action. (h ,dea somehow he, too. They have all their plans In good shoui,i be on the side tha shape and the rodeo should go off like clockwork. Smethurst has spent a lot of lime as chairman of the parade for years and everyone has ad mired how he has put the pieces together so well. No, I never know who or what Is going to be in It until they show up Just before the start," said he. "But when parade time comes, they're there. They al ways come from somewhere." Bill says he wants to retire from the chairmanship this year, figures he's had It long enough. It appeared that the rest of the board might agree to this only If he would lend his experience in an honorary and advisory capacity. THREE CHEEKS for the Heppner Hitrh school band, and three 1 more for the Kiverside band. The Mustang band won first for A-2 schools at the Shrine game in Pendleton Saturday night, and Riverside (Boardman-I r r 1 g o n) took first for B schools. These are fine honors with which to start the school year. Director Arnold Melby whipped his band into shape quickly here, and they are marching more sprltely even before the start of school than many high school bands ever do by the end of the school year. A good marching high school band can put a lot of pep into a community and do a lot of fine advertising for it. Heppner can surely be proud of its blue and gold clad kids. IT IS SAID that when a bigger and better mousetrap is built, Dear Editor: From our peculiar vantage point we have, over the years watched the transformation from a firetrap of an old building to the lovely combination library and museum that now replace It. They, plus the well proport loned lawn, flowers and trees surrounding It do a much larger city honor. We would like to expres an "orchid" In print to those citl zens who made it possible and to the staff who are so ably maintaining it The Blsbees should be on the side that we were, and that suddenly round ing one of those sweeping curves ahead would come speeding car, two abreast, with no place for him to go. He probably figured that he had missed a sign direc ting him to the other side of the highway. The last we saw of him as we forged ahead found him almost I stopped, searching for a way to could ease across the fence. All get across that fence. We left the time we were in the wrong, him floundering, as If torn be-1 but the other motorist took the tween the Impulse of trying to mental punishment crash the fence or of turning! These freeways are wonderful, around. We, went merrily along 'but a fellow surely can get until we found a spot where we mousetrapped on them, all right. Dear Editor and Wife: We want to thank you for mailing the paper to our address here at our summer home on the Metolius River. We looked for ward to Saturday noon when we would receive the news from home and the county. We are sorry to hear of so many sad death, and to learn of Ihe flash flood at lone, aorry Ihe Masons ate so discouraged. It bring back Ihe disaster we had at Lexington May 1923. a flash flood, many place were flooded with our a general mer chandise store tV. F. Barnett A Co. I. At that time we had a large stock. We lost ome $15,000 and were out of bustnes for 30 day try Ins to salvage what we could. A pile of lumlM-r broke In our warehouse, filling the basement and Hooding all of the store, In which the current wa so strong It tipped over the show cases and counter with most everything In them damaged, also furnace, scale, break ing out doors, and finally wash ing out much merchandise. The only things untouched were on high shelve, those were propcd back a soon as we could get in. We had much help from many people, and all was appreciated. Much has been done to con trol water but this is something you cannot tell about, as It comes In a different way. Hope the Masons will take courage and go ahead. We stayed In business 21 years afterwards but never fully recovered from this loss. Yours truly, Dona E. Barnett Trannle B. Parker Sisters and members of the firm. Episcopal Church Sets Rodeo Barbecue Ail Saints Fpiao)t rtiurh wilt t(e It artftosl baibevue, hcl I rain )er during ite-i tin. i ?.t rt.urtti tef. and I p m JUturday, it U an riuonred Hartw-rti pit U dug in a tat ant lot adjoining, and a full meat s served In Ihe put. lie dur!li lite benefit. The public may rome any lime during the three hours, and both adult and child ten may have all they can eat Mr the f ne of admission. Tte barbecued beef will be the main course, but the -iilmming will provide a lull meal. Rhea Grange to Serve Lunch at Horse Show Those who wish to remain t Ihe ground during the Wrang lers' horse show Friday may en- J.y eating lunch there during the Hoot lutetmtssion. The Ithe Cm-k Grange will serve dinner at the fatr pavilion. It I announced, starting promp tly at noon. Mr. Al Fattnt end two daugh fern. Lucene. are visiting mis week with her family. Mr. and Mrs. Krvln Anderon. County Assessor Oliver Cre wick and family left Tuesday to attend the state county as sessor's convention at Newport. They will remain at the coast when the convention ends Friday for a few days of fishing. STAR THEATER TiL, Sat, Sptmbf 1-2 Frontier Uprising Jim Davis. Nancy lladley. Solid outdoor drama of the early trek to California and Oregon. TLL'S Run Silent, Run Deep Clark Gable. Burt Lancaster. Repeat run of an excellent ac tion film. Start 7:30. Fatur break 8:S5 out at 10:30 Sun-. Morw September 3-4 The Last Sunset Rock Hudson. Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cot tpn. Carol Lvnley. 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