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The Heppner Gazette, established March 30. 18K3. The Ihppner
Time, established November 18, 1897. Consolidated rebruary 13.
1912.
Chaff and Chatter
Wes Sherman
WESLEY A. SHERMAN
Editor and Publisher
HELEN E. SHERMAN
AMOclate Publisher
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HELEN COX must be an optimia-
IH ort Of JHThon.
"1 taw ihe firt robin today,"
she declared ulih a lint? of
exciUTiiiTt In her voice over the
phone Wednesday morning, "Did
ou II?'
".Nob. I didn't." I replied b.
I ween coughs and ami lie. "1
(xln't se oImt the tub ob my
hanekercheb
"Oil?" came the sympathetic
rejoinder Tmcthinif wrong:
'.Nob." I answered, "Just got
a i-od Id tnv nods."
Isn't it Ihe darndest thing. Just
as you happily nettle down to be
TO THE
EDITOR
To
We didn't really plan It thai
y It came about like many
Important Inventions, quite by
accident
Out tt Harold Wrlghtt at ;!"rtT"!nLi"..f'h.wu "nd. um
Ruggs, we were trying to get a
The Editor:
1 wonder If I
eerie of letter
at a recent school board meet
ing 1 made the suggestion that
If we must make further capital
didn't start a
writing when
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Class Matter.
School Buildings and County Roads
Since the early December meeting of the District It 1 school
board, there has been considerable misunderstanding in circu
lation concerning the board's attitude towards the serial levy
on county roads.
From a number of quarters has come criticism towards the
board for proposing to take funds that would 'Jeopardize the
road program." In the story about the board meeting that ap
peared in this paper, we thought it was made clear that the
pro-xsal did not come from the board but rather from Orvllle
Cut-siorth, who appeared as a private citizen and taxpayer.
Apparently, however, some have misconstrued the story. As
was pointed out In the original article, the board took the po
sition that it could not seek to encroach on funds designated
lor another purpose or lor another branch of local government,
and Director Ed Dick made this quite clear when he made the
statement at the board meeting to Mr. Cutstortli. At that time
Mr. Dick said, and the other members of the board concurred,
that all tax money belongs to the people and any move to ear
mark it should properly come from the people.
We have noted, too, that some apparently believe that Mr.
Cutsforth is a member of the school board and thereby felt
he proposed this in the name of tho noard. lie is not, but pre
sented the idea forthrightly In what he thought might be a
solution to the school problem without hurling the taxpayer.
Among those who erroneously thought the board had designs
on the county road levy was County Judge Oscar Peterson, who
wrote a letter to the editor on the matter, pointing out the uses
of the road funds.
The truth Is, the matter never came up at the meeting until
It was proposed from the audience via Mr. Cutsforth.
In turning away from any expressed or Implied Intentions
relative to the roud funds, tiie board acted in proper manner.
The school program has to stand on its own merits, and the road
program likewise. JNeither should work to impair the other.
However, it cannot be suld that Cutsforth was not within
his rights in making the suggestion, lie is a taxpayer and he
expressed an idea that he believes might solve a knotty problem.
Purpose of this editorial is merely to keep the record straight
and dispel rumors that have cropped up.
The school board as yet has not proposed to the public any
method of financing the building program that it believes
necessary In the county. Architect Stewart Tuft was present at
the January meeting Monday night to show proposed sketches
to complete the new Heppner High school plant, but a con
sideration of cost and financing was deferred until the sketches
could be scrutinized and studied by the directors. Projects at
Hoard man and Irrigon are similarly under scrutiny.
In a letter to the editor on this page, Mr. Custforth asks if
any count has been taken of children who will be entering school
from this end of the county. We cannot answer the question,
because we don't know. However, we have been told that en
rollment at Heppner high this year is 204 and that it will reach
250 within two years as the wave of heavy enrollment in the
grade school surges through. Classes of 5th and 6th grade phys
ical education, 7th and th grade homemaking and 7th and
8th grade shop will be dropped from the grade school curriculum
in the coming school year because there is no room for them.
Urade school pupils now meeting in the old high school building
cannot go there next year because high school enrollment crowds
them out.
Only a fool would say that the people of the county can
build new schools without paying for them, but it may be
possible to work out a plan by bonding and cutting out the
school serial levy that would not Increase taxes, although the
bonded Indebtedness would be spread out for some time.
To this time, and after attending each regular school board
meeting for the past six months, it is apparent to us that the
board is proceeding logically on the problem, which eventually
will be placed in the hands of the people for decision. Whatever
method of financing is proposed, the voters and taxpayers will
be the final judges.
thing comes along to upset the
applecart by telling you spring
Is on the way
But Helen is undaunted, bhe is
telling the world about It in her
ad on spring llowers ("see page
6, this tion'
REP. FPANK WEATHERFOKD
has a Mmole solution for small
communities who are trying to
offer ambulance service in tne
face of stiff new state regulations
that require additional attend
anls. eouiiment and licenses.
At a recent purine nearing. ne
reoorted to the Chamber oi com
merce Monday, he told the gath
crimr. "If we have to comply,
we will dmplv have to shoot the
imtients and bring them in as
corpses.
Heuulatlons aren't so stiff, ap
parently, on stiffs to put it in
. , ,,f ,t. 'ti.h
Hie veiiiniunsi ui me
rlunlls."
The renresentatlve said that
he thought the rules would be
eased for smaller communities,
but a storv in the East Oregon-
Ian Wednesday eveninu said that
the State Board of Health had
overridden "strong objections
from the timber Industry and
adopted slate regulations for
ambulance service in Oregon."
It rather appears that the State
Board of Health Is saying mat
If a sick or hurt patient can't
good phctn of him as a candi
date for Uvesimkman of the
nlc and oozv. We snapped the
Western po- or Harold with
ome of his Hereford herd, but
the cattle were as skittish as
politician ai a uress conference,
Harold was Installed on top of
tne ren.-e at the rltiht angle, but
every time he would slide close
enough to the cows, they'd move
away, we were also on the top,
holding the camera and equip
ment and with no hands left to
use In balancing, and tried to
maneuver down towards him.
l-inally the Herefords were
backed Into a corner and could
go no farther. Harold was in the
right spot and we stopped with
fet planted on the board second
from the top and shins braced
against the top hoard. Down be
low was a good big mudhole,
nice and ozzv. We snapped the
picture O.K. and then started to
lose balance. At this point the
new "Twist was invented.
We pirouetted and pitched,
hips sagging to the right and to
tne left. Our arms went in wild
gesticulation, and the mudhole
was ever beckoning.
There came a moment when
he knew all was lost. The urge
was to give un. toss the camera
clear and nosedive into the mud
and manure in as dignified a
manner as possible. But we gave
It one more college try, did a
few more gyrations of the Twist,
gouged the shin bones harder
into the ton board and finally
recovered enough to snap out of
It
Thu3, we cheated the mud.
Harold was quite unimpressed
by the Fence Kail Twist, "bay,
i UugW in by ir Sm'" 'if
Other Editors' Opinion
Doesn't Advertising Pay?
Yes, It's a funny world . . .
"Isn't It funny that so many businessmen will get up in
the morning, refresh themselves with a dose of advertised fruit
juice; clean their teeth with an advertised toothpaste and ad
vertised brush; shave with an advertised razor; wash with an
advertised soap; put on advertised underwear; shirt collar, and
shoes; seat themselves at the table and eat an advertised
breakfast food and bread; drink advertised tea, coffee or cocoa;
put on advertised hat and gloves; light an advertised cigarette
with an advertised match; go to the station in nn advertised
motor car; give letters to a typist who types on an advertised
machine using advertised carbons; sign their letters with an
advertised pen, containing advertised ink; and turn down a
proposal to advertise on the grounds that ADVERTISING
DOESN'T PAY!" Market Research International Shoe Company.
wearing a white coat, he can't
be brought In at all. For one
provision does require the wear
! ing of white bv ambulance per
sonnel.
WELL, you see a lot of folks
doing the "Twist" on TV tnese
days, but we've Invented a new
version. "The Twist on the Top
Board of a Foedlot Fence." Some
of those fancv steppers ought to
try It.
Booklets Now Out
About Fallout
County civil defense director
C. J. D. Bauman today announ
ced t hat the post offices are
being shipped quantities of the
new Department of Defense
booklet, "Fallout Protection,
What to Know and Do About
Nuclear Attack." Copies will be
available soon at the public
service windows of all post of
fices in Morrow county. No dl
rect mailing will be made as
originally announced by the De
partment of Doiense.
First-class post offices will re
ceive 1500 copies; second-class
offices 250 copies; third-class of
fices 100 copies and each fourth
class office 50 copies. The coun
ty civil defense office will also
be shipped a quantity by the
State Civil Defense Agency. On
April 1, j!K2, any surplus in post
offices will be sent to civil de
fense offices for subsequent
handlin
The Department of Defense
announced the distribution of the
booklet on December 30. It is
a 48-page pocket-sized pamphlet
designed to give the American
people the facts they need to
know about the dangers of ther
monuclear attack and what they
can do to protect themselves. It
also describes the proposed nat
ional civil defense program.
A second Department of De
fense booklet on family shelter
designs and construction pro
ced u res is expected by the State
Civil Defense Agency during the
latter part of January. No plans
for distribution have been an
nounccd by the Department of
Defense as yet
he said nonchalantly, or words
to that effect. Don't suppose he
would be at all thrilled by a
visit to thr? Peppermint Lounge.
And we're surely with him on
that. It's too hard on the shins.
IF YOU don't like chili, you can
eat chicken end noodles at the
pie and chili fecd of the PTA
Tuesday night in the high school
cafeteria before the big ball
game between lone and Heppner.
Some like chili, but some prefer
chicken and noodles. However,
everybody likes pie. Those who
are watching their figures are
welcome to brine their Metrecal
along. Rolls and salad are fur-1
we have fairly good roads, we
should dlrrontinu moid of the
road building program and put
that money into school buildings.
Maybe a compromise of the two
program; is what we need.
1 felt that the taxpayer could
not ami would not vote for a
building program which would
Increase real taxes. Bill Weather
ford and now Ralph Crum would
be thinking along the same lines.
Let me say again that If I
have but one dollar to do a two
dollar tob. no board or admin
istrative group should attempt
to tell me what I shall buy. Only
the people can when they vote
the lunds. Then let this group or
board use these dedicated funds
to the best of their ability for
the purpose for which they were
voted
Coming back to schools, who
has gona to the county records
or the hospital records and got
ten a one and two year old child
census. How many one and two
year olds are there between Lex
ington and lone? How many be
twen Lexington and Sandhollow
up Blackhorse canyon? How
many up ( larks canyon on Social
Ridge to the Hardman road, or
between Lexington and the saw
mill? How many North. South,
Last and West of lone or on
upper Eightmile?
I can t believe mat a pop
ulation of 4800 people are rais
ing anymore children than they
did in Ihe '.TO's or '40 s. We have
the schools swallowing 16 years
of children In 8 years because
there was practically none born
between 1940 and 1948.
Remember we are raising and
educating children in Morrow
countv principally for the In
dustry elsewhere. I WONDER!
o. w. uuisionn
Archery Club Will
Organize Jan. 17
Because of a poor turnout at
the flrt called meeting of the
Blue Mountain Archery club, a
second reorganization meeting
has been called for Wednesday,
January 17. The group Is anxious
to get organized before spring
weather arrives. The meeting
will begin at 8:00 p. m. in the
old library rooms In the city
hall.
Mrs. Swonson Better
Mr. Miry Swanson of lone.
U showing eooc improvement at
St. An'hony's hospital. IVndle
ton, after fracturing her hip lte
last year. She was transferred
there from Pioneer Memorial hos
pital for specialist" treatment,
and her daughter In law, Mrs.
Gar Swanson of lone, said Tues
day that she is now able to be
up In a walker and may be per
mitted to return to the Gar
Swanson home later this week.
one Cottonettes
Plan For Field Trip
Leader. Mrs. Rea and five
members of the lone Cottonettes
-H sewine club met at Mrs.
Roa's home January 6 at 2 p. m.
Plans were made to take a
trip to Pendleton January 27 to
visit stores and learn about
selecting material for our pro
ject. We figured out the size pat
tern we would need for our gar
ment. The constitution was read and
adopted.
The next meeting will ne eD
nished.'bm Even if you do geWuary 3, at Karen Nelson's home,
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At Extension Meeting
The Hliea Creek extension unit
met January 3 in the grange
hall for the first meeting of the
new year. Cheese cookery was
the topic presented by project
leaders, Miss Marilyn Bergstrom
and Mrs. Ray Wright. Many in
terested ways of using new and
familiar kinds of cheese were
given. During a delightful lun
cheon those present sampled
many of the day's cheese recipes.
The business meeting follow
ing lunch, was conducted by Mrs.
Robert Bergstrom. Plans for the
card party and food sale to be
held March 17 at 7:30 p. m. were
presented by chairman of the
finance committee, Mrs. Owen
Leathers Jr. All members will
be working with her in making
this event a real success.
Those In attendance for the
January meeting were Mrs.
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