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MErfWtl 0AZITTC T1MI1. Thursday. Octobw M. 11 rypnpr ferttr-Stmeii momow couirm nnntAtt PRONS I iXM Tht Heppner Caietle. established March 30. 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18. 1897. Consolid.ttd February 15. 1912. WESLIT A. SHERMAN Editor easd Publisher HELEN E SHERMAN Associate Publisher NATIONAL IplTOBIAl lc6"tN nyrH '-' rrra Chaff nd Chatter By Wes Sherman Subecrlotlon Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, HOO Year; Dm- where H30 Year. Single Copy 10 Cent. Published Every Thursday and Entered at tht Post Office at Meppner. Oregon, aa oecona Claaa Matter. How the Merchant Supports the Farmer After last week's editorial In which It was stated that the local merchant, among other thlnRs. "la supporting the firmer. hVphone rang, and the caller asked ui to explain what mer chua are doing to aupport the farmer. His connection was bad, and ao he couldn't hear our reply. Thus, we will go Into It here. The merchant probably doea more for the farmer than we know, but here are a few thlnga that occur to us: 1 lie offers goods and service that the farmer must have In his' operation. Up and coming merchants seek continuously to Improve services to farmers. Last week, for Instance, one Imple ment dealer here announced a complete farm service with a man In the field to help with their problems. Pacific Power and Llcht not technically a merchant but certainly In the com mercial category, announced the employment of an agronomist to work with farmers. 2. The merchant pays taxes, some small portion of which eventually goes to support the farm program. 3. Merchants work toward legislation of benefit to farmers. We re looking at a letter written In March to the Chamber of Com merce from Kep. Frank Weatherford. which says, "In response to your telegram ... In which you advise the opposition of the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce to House Bill 1391, relating to herbicides, this bill Is now In my Agriculture and Livestock Committee. I fully realize the necessity for spray Ing In our area, and there will be an amendment to the bill so that It will not affect u. or the bill itself will be killed." The Chamber of Commerce carefully watches legislation that may be of Interest to Morrow county farmers. 4. Merchants support local programs of benefit to farmers. Attention recently was brought by Orvllle Cutsforth to the out break of Knapp weed in the county. The Chamber of Commerce, recognizing the problem, voted to ask the county court and budget committee to appropriate funds to try to eradicate the weed. 5. Farm organizations are backed by local merchants. Busi nessmen participate In meetings, support projects of these groups. Mike Whitesmith, C. of C. president, currently is working on a plan for a Farm Organization day In Heppner. 6. Merchants back 4-H programs and farm youth with contri butions and help. They have supplied funds to send farm youth to camps, shows and celebrations. "Thank You" letters in the chamber files from a number of them attest to this support. 7. Support of the Morrow county fair and rodeo, in which merchants have a good part. Is another evidence of cooperation with farmers. 8. Improvement projects that will benefit farmers receive merchant support. One such that may help farmers with soil con servation, flood control and possibly Irrigation Is the Willow Creek project. 9. Merchants seek to promote agricultural interests of the county. Recent evidence ot this was the Morrow county booth at the Pacific International Livestock exposition. It did not turn out as well as planned, to be sure, but it was largely developed around the agriculture theme the volume of wneat and live stock in the county, strip cropping and other points. Merchants, through the Chamber ot Commerce, invested some &!U0 In pre paring this booth. Literature of promotional nature developed by the Chamber of Commerce also features agriculture. There are other ways, too. The merchant is solidly behind such programs as soil conservation, lie knows that his property is tied up with the future of the soil. There are the intangibles the normal support that the farmer probably does not see every day. We happened to be In a local store when the severe lightning storm struck on August 14. The merchant Immediately started to close his store when he re alized that fires were running rampant on farmlands. He said , he might be able to help. "Do you have a farm?" we asked. "No," he replied, "but maybe I can do something to help the farmers." As we see It, farmers and merchants of Morrow county are almost Irrevocably Interdependent on each other. Prosperity of the one hinges on prosperity of the other, and they work together for the common gootl. We have no doubt that the farmer supports the merchants In as many ways as the businessman backs him. Problems of the merchant and farmer in our county are closely tied together. Indeed, many Morrow merchants have farm backgrounds and farm operations of their own. You Can Still Buy Better At Home (From Blue Mountain Beagle, John Day) A customer walked into Benson Brothers Shoe store In John Day recently and said to Jack Benson, one of the store owners, as he pointed to a pair of shoes marked $9.95, "I can buy those same shoes from a mail order house for only $8.99." "Okay," said Benson, "I will sell you the shoes for $8.99 plus 54c postage." The customer paid this amount and reached for the shoes wanting to try them on his own feet. "No," said Benson, "111 put them on the shelf and you can call for them In 10 days, as it would take that long for your mail order to return and you do not try on the shoes which you see pictured in a catalogue." Returning 10 days later, the customer WAN Clvpn hl null- rf shoes neatly wrapped and with his name on the package. He sat down to try on his new shoes. "No," stated Benson, "you take them home and try them on Just as you would do with a mall order." The next day the customer returned and requested another pair of shoes one-half size larger than the ones he had claimed the previous day. To his request, Benson replied: "Okay." As he wrapped an other pair of shoes, he said, "And thai will be another $1 08 for postage both ways. We ll put this pair on the shelf and you can call for them in 10 days, as it would take that much time to make the exchange with the mail order house." The customer shook his head and said, "Jack, you win How about you giving me a good fit in those shoes right now and we'll forget all about the mail order houses?" The moral of this story is simply this: The customer gets his shoes fitted properly, Benson gets his regular price for his mer chandlse, and the customer's money stays at home where it is working for all of the people of Grant county. -vmp HIS Ml'ST n of drm days. At ham It la a peculiar day for a Wednesday In the news ii.t idant. The crew has all rone home with the plant down because -f the power outage and it k Ilk an all-night session tonight. It is kind of lonesome altting i,, r.. In the semi darkness, aa quiet as a Sunday afternoon, when the oeratlon should be In iih tiKual frantic Wednesday afternoon bustle. Makes ua ap predate electricity anyway. Our troubles started earlier to day. While out Willow Creek thla morning had a flat tire. When we went to change It, we found the Jack missing. By using an old post aa lever over a big rock and piling rocks under the axle, we man aged to hoist the car up enough so that we could dig under the flat on the highway shoulder and make the change. This put us well behind schedule, but we thought by really humping, we could catch up. But we diani reckon with the power outage. So If this paper isn't printed and you don't read this, you'll know the reason wny. But we couldn't resist going pheasant hunting eariy mis morning with our visiting friends and had a real nice time anyway with the kind help of Dick Wilkinson. WE LEARNED a little about pheasant hunting in Morrow county the hard way. The birds are "stKoky" by this time of the season, all right. But they look mighty big and fat and pretty as they feed In the creek bottoms. But when you go to bag them, they get up and sail into the hills and draws. If you feel like a cross between a decathlon champion and a mountain goat, you can go up after them. But Just when you get about within shooting distance, they get up and sail as pretty as you please across the valley to the hilltops on the otner siue. I've never seen a China rooster laueh. but I am sure they must give a hunter the horse laugh at a time like this. One cock got a little too cocky this morning. He took olf ana sailed away, high up, but failed to notice the high power line that was in his path, crashed into the wire and went into a spin. We watched as he bounced on the ground, but he got away somehow. The accident appar ently didn't electrify him Just energized the bird. i WE'RE MIGHTY proud, as all Morrow county Is, of the per formance of Gary Van Blokland, Sandra Eubanks, the Herb Ek- stroms and Ralph Beamer at the Pacific International Livestock exDosition this year. i They proved that Morrow is the place where grand cnam- pions not merely champions- are made. Gary, witn his grano champion steer and Sandra with her grand champion gelding have set marks that will be mighty hard to match for some time to come. Coneratulations to all our winners! WE HAVE one idea that may help in solving some of the county's weed problems we hear about. Just start a crafts class through an extension unit where they pick these diied weeds for arrangements. The associate ed itor anil her friend were out Sunday Hflernoon plucking some pretty weeds for fall arrange ments wiiile two subdued hus bands watched. The Idea Is that if you get enough women gathering thla roadside brush, you will elimi nate the weeds In time. There lan't much danger of preadlng the weed seed because it goes directly in the car trunk where It atayt until you get horn. Then It goea Into a box and la stored temporarily In tht basement, only to be forgotten. By the time It la "discovered" there years later, on the eesqul centennial cleanup. It should have lost Its powers of germi nation. WELL, If we dont cut this short. It will never get Into type on this hectic week. Linotype op erator Arnold Raymonds eyes are going to look like to burnt holes In a blanket by morning anyway. And It Is getting so dark we can't see the typewriter any more. Mrs. Allen Case was in Port land Monday through Wednea day last week on business. Ac companying her was Mrs. Ray Ayers who visited her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Gale McClintock. Surprise week-end guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Padberg were Mrs. Pad berg's daughter, Mary Evelyn Tucker, who is attending college at OCE in Monmouth, and Louie Bohles of Albany. Mr. and Mrs. John Welmer from Oregon City were recent! visitors at the Ken Smouse home. Mrs. Welmer is an aunt of Mrs. Smouse. Mrs. J. W. Farra and Mrs. Alice Luttrell attended the De gree of Honor district convention in Portland last Wednesday. While there they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Hiatt and returned home by train on Thursday. Welfare Talks I County Programs Miss Marguerite Thomason, field representative for the State PuLUc Welfare commission, at tended the Morrow county com mission mooting on Oct. 11. Un der consideration is a food sur plus ana woik renet program, according to commission chair man, Coumy Judge Oscar Peter son. Miss Thomason cited com parable costs of other counties who now have such programs. A relatively small population disbursed over a large area has made the feasibility and cost of administrating the programs questionable, Judge Peterson said. Lowell Chally, Morrow county welfare administrator, said there have boon no inquiries concern ing surplus food. His office does receive confiscated game which is distributed among the needy when available. Presently there are no able-bodied men on the welfare rolls. Chally said. How eei. during the winter months it is anticipated 6 to 12 men would be available at varying times for a work program if It were to be put n effect New Voters Manual Published For Public A new voter'e manual, con taining an easy-to-follow out- line of registration and voting procedures in Oregon, has been published by Secretary of State Howell Appling, Jr. Complied by the State Elections Division to include important dates and deadlines, basic registration and voting Information, and details for absentee voting, the Mi page manual Is designed to help voters learn more about elec tion procedures. In Issuing the manual, App ling pointed out that "timely registration and active partici pation" in elections is an im portant step for every citizen of voting age. He suggested the voter's manual should be studied by all who are unfamiliar with Oregon's election laws. Copies of the publication are now available without charge to Individuals, political organiza tions, and service groups, App ling said. Requests should be ad dressed to the State Elections Division at the Capitol in Salem. Motor Freight Decision Stands The Public Utility Commission will not re open a hearing on Union Pacific railroad's appll cation to operate a motor freight line to Morrow, Sherman, and Gilliam counties. The Informa tion waa made public In a letter to Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce from Jonel C. Hill, commissioner. "Flatts petition for a stay of the order, for leave to Intervene and for a hearing waa denied because Flatt consciously failed to exercise his statutory right and because It appeared that nothing new would or could be submitted which would mater ially affect the record, according to Piatt's own attorney," the let ter read In part It continued "The granting of a further hearing would simply establish a precedent whereby carrier could sit on nis WANTED Soft cotton rags. Gazette-Times Printing office. anv hands, or Just put up token op position and then if dissatisfied with a decision, obtain a second chance to cure the weak parts of his case." The letter was in response to a request from the chamber that the PUC re-open the hearing ao that "a full explanation could be obtained." In other business the cham ber discussed the reapportion ment of the state legislature as outlined by Howell Appling. Concensus was that Eastern Ore gon would suffer by such a plan, and would not receive adequate renresentatlon. President Mike Whitesmith asked the legislative committee to study alternate plans and to report at the next meeting. Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Parker were his niece, Mrs. Mildred Barger of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Burns of McKenzle Bridge, cousins of Mrs. Parker, and their daughter, Mrs. Fran ces Mitchell of Portland. Elwyne L. Hughes, SN. is home on ten-day leave visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elwyne Hughes. He is stationed at Blunts Reef lightship near Samoa, Cal ifornia. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jones. San dra and Jon Blake attended the wedding of Wayne Soward and Roberta Strickland in Ontario on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Stan Holm and family of Maupin were recent hunting guests of the Earl Blakes. rrem the rilee ef the Caserte-Tlmes Oct IS. 1931 More than people In he pavilion watched the demonstra tion context started in the after noon, the first Morrow county 4 II club fair held In Heppner Saturday. late Sunday afternoon when two uf them were taken Into custody In Heppner and the other sur rendered later. S TEARS AGO Oct 11. 19S8 The first general rain of the fall fell over Heppner and most uf the county Wednesday morn ing and deposited .34 to .40 of an Inch by early morning and still coming down. Heppner delegates, Harry Tamblyn. George Peck. G. A. ISleakman. Al Rankin. W. T. CamulM-U. W. L. McCaleb. and W. P. Mahoney. returned with a- William Collins filed for city "no" to request of getting the. mayor, Ed Gonty and Erllng llcppner-Ritter road through. Storro filed for the council spots ION E Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Troedson and daughter and Mr. and Mis. Bert Palmateer attend ed the fair in Hermlston. B. F. Swaggert. In town yester day from the Swaggert Buttes farm, reported missing some of his horses, possibly from hoss thieves. Ed Bennett was among local s)ortsmen landing a buck last week. IS YEARS AGO Morrow county 4-H clubbers win piemiums at P. I. Show in Portland. Ronald Baker, Helmuth Hermann, and Fritz Cutsforth caught "scramble" calves which they are to feed out for next year's show. A new sawmill enterprise for this area was announced with new machines being set up on the Dee Cox place on Willow Creek to cut 2,000,000 feet of timber there. Ranger Vic Krelmeyer said this week-end, patrols came across a number of unattended camp fires and urged all hunters to use extreme caution, even after Ihe rain. Three young bandits reached the end of the trail of crime In Portland Siesta Ulotcl SANDY BLVD. AT 119th ) 10 Min. to Airport 15 Min. to Downtown a) Free TV and Radio $6 For Couple BRING THIS AD FOR FREE MORNING COFFEE STAR THEATER FrU Sat. October. 27-28 Jules Verne's Master Of The World Fantastic, fabulous, actlonful science-fiction in the grand manner. Stirring music by Les Baxter, outstanding special effects. Vincent Price, Charles Bronson and a good cast PLUS The Battle Of Bloody Beach Audie Murphy, Gary Crosby, Dolores Michaels. Good drama of the fighting furies of the Pacific. Show starts 7:30 break at 9:25, out 10:45 Sun Mon October 29-30 Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea Adventure thrilled In a modern topical setting, a race from outer space to 7 miles below the sea. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Robert Sterling, Barbara Eden, Frankie Av alon, Peter Lorre, Michael An sara. Lots of plot, lots of ex citement for the whole family. Sunday at 5 and 7, Monday at 7:30 RON'S FLOWERS Invites You ill nun I -H-"ii""tf-""I-' - f - -WiCTM"lJMtt,Bja T To SATURDAY, October 28, At Our Shop 323 N. MAIN (Next Door To Heppner TV) Lax m-n ' mm 1.H1 ii mil . lw iC' .' I mm., , Mtiytwu aifc r iHiir-n irir im nmm limit i iijri,fitase . ? iiini i THIS PICTURE SHOWS PART OF OUR FLORAL SHOP AND FINE GIFT SELECTION We Are Proud of our new stock of gifts. Come in and browse Feast your eyes on the variety of inte resting items. Christmas is near Now is the time to start selecting. FREE GIFT TO ALL WHO CALL AT OUR SHOP OCTOBER 28 WITH OCR COMPLIMENTS FOR GRAND OPENING AND TO COM MEMORATE NATIONAL FLOWER WEEK. OCTOBER 22-29 We Have Been open for business for some time, but we are all ready to put our best foot forward and welcome you to our Grand Opening. -Ron Reid COFFEE and DOUGHNUTS 'ON US' SATURDAY, OCT. 28 - i f t
