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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1962)
2 HEPPNER CAZETTT TIMES. Thursday. January 25. 1963 Sirpjinrr Otottr-OItnuui MOUOW COUJ1II HEWSf APEI FHONE 221 The lhppner Curtt established March 30. 1883. The Heppner Tlmei esUbllahed November 18, 1897. Consolidated reonwry 13, 1912. HELEN E. SHERMAN Auoclate Pubuhei NATION At I0ITOIIAI Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman WESLEY A. SHEBMAN Editor and Publish HIMItl AiocunM Subscription Rt: Morrow and Grant Counties, $4.00 Year; Ele where L50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cent. Published Every Thursday and Entered t the foet OUlut at Heppner, Oregon, aa Second Claaa Matter. Information on the School Bond Issue With the action by the board of directors of Morrow County Mhuol district R 1 in calling for a vote February 20 on a bond issue fur school construction at Heppner, Boardman and Irritfon tomes a bifi Job of Informing voters and residents on fuels relative to the proposal. Those who have been following school matters have known that the additions to complete Unil-A In Ueppner have been under dUcusHlon for some time. It also is well known that the John Day reservoir will force relocation and reconstruction of Kiverside school at Boardman. While the Federal government compensates lor the bulk of this, there will be additional costs to the district to provide a standard building to adequately serve school needs there. The project at A. C. Houghton school, irrigon, would add two classrooms, a library and a cafetorium to accom modate the school population and make it possible to move two classes of elementary children from their temporary housing in an old high school building. Role of this paper In the month prior to election will be to make an clfort to get the facts in relation to needs, costs and plans and to report them objectively In the news columns. It is our desire to print the data as accurately as possible so that voters in the county may have access to information that will help form a basis for a considered decision. As soon as they can be obtained from the architects, sketches of the proposed buildings in all three areas will be printed for benefit of those who have no other opportunity to view the plans. If, after reading our reports, residents of the county find any important information lacking or feel we have erred in pre senting the facts, we would appreciate it if these things were called to our attention. If there are additional questions, we would like to hear of them so that we may seek the answers. In setting the date of February 26 for the election, the di rectors expressed the belief that this period would allow time for complete explanation and dissemination of information. At the same time they felt that because decision of voters eitliei pro or con will affect the school budget for the year l2-63, decision on the matter should be made in time so that adjust ments to the budget could be made before the budget comes up for public hearing and vote. Now is the Time to Join the Chamber As the Chamber of Commerce Is starting another year, the time Is here for old members to sign up again and new members to join. Dues schedule Is low and the benefits are many. Treasurer Bert Huff has pointed out that the $15 charged per quarter (three months) includes the price of the regular Monday luncheons, and if a member attends every luncheon, the chamber, in etfect, is actually paying him a few cents at the end of the year. Thus, ail the other promotional work and benefits theoretically are "for free." Every businessman of the area should belong to this group. There are those who cynically declare that "it doesn't do any good," but they are wrong. Just recently in this column were listed a few of the accomplishments of last year, and there are many more. It Is the logical thing for any businessman truly interested in his community to join the Chamber of Commerce. He needs it, and the organization needs his support. Farmers are Invited to Join, too, for in this type of area, agri culture comprises a large part of the basic economy. One of the most faithful members of the Heppner-Morrovv County Chamber of Commerce is a farmer, O. W. Cutsforth, and he has proved to be a one-man liaison between farmers and business, constantly reminding what things need to be done to help agri culture here. Some of these have resulted in action important to the area. The Chamber of Commerce has been considering the neces sity of higher dues to help with its financial problems that is, to have iunds to provide for its worthwhile activities and pro jects. However, a simple solution is merely to add more members. It is true that some of the present membership has been somewhat delinquent in calling on non-members and inviting them to Join. This is partly due to the fact that all are busy and just do not get to it. But the cordial invitation is there, and ull will find a welcome reception in the organization. There is a place for new ideas that you may furnish and new projects that you may wish to see developed. If, however, you have none in particular to offer, you will still enjoy and benefit from the exchange of ideas and from the programs at the weekly meet ings. How Secretary Freeman Sees It (Reprinted As Quotation From Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman From "Notable and Quotable," Wall Street Journal). Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman Off In the distance and perhaps not such a great distance at that I seem to hear the echo of a question repeated many times in the past: "Do you think the Government owes the farmers a living, or a guaranteed Income, or price supports, or economic security?" The answer of course is "no" but it owes the farmer what it owes to every American conditions under which he has an opportunity to earn a fair Income. Let me explain this answer. First, I believe that equality of economic opportunity is an Integral part of our ideals of democratic government and our principals of free enterprise. All individuals who perform ser vices and produce goods that are essential to society (and certainly nothing is more essential than the products of our farms) have a right to expect the opportunity to gain a reward for their efforts that is commensurate with that earned by others exerting a comparable effort. No other major segment of our economy has made as rapid strides forward in efficiency and productivity as has agriculture. Output per man-hour in agriculture increased more than three times as fast as in non agricultural industries during the lSWs. One hour of farm labor produces four times as much food and other crops as it did in 1920. One farm worker today product, enough for himself and 25 others. Wrho has benefited from this phenomenal increase in pro ductivity? First of all, benefits have gone to the American consumer, who now pets more food at less real cost than ever before in history in any place on earth. On the average the American consumer spends only one-fifth of his Income to provide food for himself and his family, as compared with 40 in most other advanced countries and a much larger proportion in main lands. Secondly, hungry men, women and children throughout the world have been provided with food. We are thus able to make an important contribution to economic growth and progress under freedom in the developing areas of the world. And may I emphasize, In this connection, that within our agricultural productivity there lies a potent weapon against communism, of which we have not yet made effective use. Recently I was told by one of the leaders in India that they were not nearly s impressed with America's ability to produce automobiles and appliances and lCBM's as they were with our ability to produce more than enough food with only !',, of cur working force. DALE MARTIN. International Farm Exchange louth, might well have wished that he had (.tayed In sunny Greece. He seem ed to he beset with troubles on hw visit to Morrow county, most of them due to the severe weath er, but he left a very good Im pression here nevertheless. He had a rough time getting over via Condon, and we under standed his car had a tendency to freeze up. Snowdrifts Just about had him stalled. When he appeared at Rhea Creek grange Saturday night alter meeting with the 4-11 Junior leaders earl ier In the day, his slide projec tor cave him trouble, but the will be here that night I Friday, too). We couldn't miss that game. Think a good counter Invitation might be for the (Jem and Min eral society to attend the game ana tnrow rocks at uurns. PROBABLY ONE of the most serious subscribers to the Ga zctte-Tlmes Is Carl Troedson of lone. Visiting? In town Vvednes day, he told us that he has every copy of the GT since 1932 but one. It was Inadvertently mis Placed or accidentlv destroyed That means something like l.VXJ copies that he has put away. Carl k;iv that t hts r.ftnn romp in few interruptions Just acted as I handy for reference, like when Intermissions between his very I the Ritchie family of Seattle fine pictures. I wanted to trace their family We have noted from other tree, weekly papers that Dale has I of course, we have complete been traveling all over. He has a rigorous speaking schedule to meet. You can see his picture In almost any eastern Oregon weekly that you pick up. A cood crowd braved the weather to attend the Rhea Creek grange, and we enjoyed their pot luck supper and Martin's ap- icarance as guests oi ine group, files well beyond that date, but the earliest files were destroyed in a fire and so actually do not go back too many years In view of the venerable history oi me GT. MR. AND MRS. HERB EKSTROM of lone battled some real bad storms coming home from the irfm iinli-'s description of the I Hereford show at Denver. Tired country, Greece is still quite icoiu ana weary as mey neareu backward In the way of machin-(Morrow county they thought ery, appliances ana convenien-1 longingly or ineir warm nume es, being handicappea Dy aiana oi taxing a gooa noi oaui. lack of manufacturing and pow-1 But alas! When they got home er. but it is starting to come into I they found the pipes frozen, its own. I drains frozen and the place cold. He reports that Greece looks P ley didn't get a hot oatn untu nrwin fn i j nirpfi iaips as a i "aja fi.n l frlon1 tmrt ifi i iirl v hnrnticf i qih t in thnnuh Ha iwnnip I GiLjho r KhNlH. editor or me til v.n un I I ci r TA..1 1.-. do get a false impression oi US onerman ujumy uuMiai, is from U. S. movies and reports of one of the most widely quoted le integration-segregation bat- i euuora in me siaie. u ui iari comments niaue msi wcttiv rings the bell. "One way for legislators to relieve the cost of serving people would be to do fewer things, pass fewer bills, name fewer In terim committees, investigate I tie in the south. .., , , . Charles Nerpel, left, editor of Motor Trend magazine, presents Edward D. Rollert, general manager of Buick and vice president of General Motors, with the magazine's annual "Car of the Year Award." The coveted award, the "Oscar" of the automobile industry, was presented to Buick for the design and development of the V-8 engine. Heppncr High" Names Term Class Officers Clans oifinr have been ! l-d br the net-olid hall of tl m lil tr at Heppncr Ih-h school. 'li" pr.-M.I.'iit choi.-n me Archie Ball, senior: Mike Jimith. Junior; Diane Fulleton, m homcm-4, and Jean Stockurd. ftt-shnu-n, Other officers named are Bruce .Mvrr, Nice president of senior class; Beverly Bl.ike -M-cret .rv; Bob Fetsch. treasurer; Nat Wel.h, sergeant -at -arm. The juniors chose Laura Lee Sumner vke president lit charj-e of the pM-m and Shirley Carlet vice pn-i lent In charge of the liitn.nn !. inda V.ili-nline wai elected secietaiy, J4ikie Brin-tle, treasurer and .' hn Porter. kt ei .mi al arms. Lav id Geonre Ix-came v ice president of the sophomore class; ul Ho .kins. M'cretioy: i.inny Lou Turner, treasurer; and Sen- cer Sampson, sergeant -at -arms. Vice president of tne iresnmen It Wayne F.vans; secretary is Shrrril McDonald; treasurer Is Kathv Ray and sereeant at arms Is Stuart Dick. LEN OILMAN'S part in prevent- ine the hilackine of the Con- mental Airlines Boeing 707 jet- iner at Kl I'aso, jexas. is tuny chronicled in an article, "Ten Hours of Terror," In the February I fewer things. The voters might be issue of True magazine, written I so happy over that they would by Joseph P. Blank. A picture oil raise the wages." t I he ex-Heppner man, now Border atrol inspector, is included in the article. The immediate stir that the incident caused is told in the storv. President John Ken nedy himself had a direct andj active part in giving Instructions and making decisions wnue Leon Beardon and his son, Cody, held the crew and hostages in the plane. Hundreds of onicers, airlines and terminal personnel, the FBI and others were involved outside the jetliner which was Giles also comes ud with some picturesque synonyms. In one of his editorials he described some thing as having about as much chance as "a paraffin dog chas ing a cast Iron cat in Hades." described as "half as long as market Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dick were in Portland Friday and Saturday viewing the Portland Home Show. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Harsh - man are in Spokane, Wn this week attending the buyers' a toot nail iieiu, wnue me in tense drama was going on inside. Gilman finally found the op portunity to end the matter when he tooK advantage oi an open ing and clobbered Beardon with his fist, breaking a bone in his hand at the same time. His mother Is Mrs. Viola Gilman of Henpner. of course, and broth er is Chief of Police Dean Gil man. True magazines for February are getting scarce around here but we found that Humphreys Drug had a couple left the other day. If you can't find a copy and want to read the story, wen loan you ours. WHOSE RESPONSIBLE for the cold weather? Well, it couldn't be Claude Cox and his son, Billy, at the Morrow County Creamery because they have been having too much trouble with their ice machine. It couldn't have gone beserk to spread this much cold. The ma- nine has had a couple oi costly breakdowns recently. It s a good thing that it didn t happen in the summer time. But three cheers for the cream ery! They are advertising their Pride of Oregon ice cream this week (see page 1, sec. 2) and pointing out that it is just as good in cold weather as warm weather. Claude said the other av that they are upping the butterfat to 13 again to make it even smoother. Their ice cream is another of the good things about living In Morrow county. DUST COVERING on top of the snow brought some perplexed explanations around, and the East Oregonlan blames it on winds blowing from the Palouse country. But the Sou Conser vation Service ought to apprec iate this probably sending back topsoil that winds in the other direction took away from the county on some previous occasion. However, the recent winds must have been stronger than we suspected. We read that dust particles in the mechanism de layed the astronaut flight. Sup pose the Palouse dust went all the way to Cape Canaveral? MRS TERRY BLEVINS, secretary to our professional neighbor. Jos. J. Nys, dmpped in to invite us to the rockhounds' meeting Saturday night. We'd like to go except for the fact that the Heppner-Burns basketball game Mrs. Judy Brannon and daugh ter, Tamie, visited over the week end In Oermiston with Jan Beamer. Insurance H AGENT nun you Ami" if "Whadda I need any insurance for?" C. A. RUGGLES INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 6-9625 Heppner, Oregon Box 611 Factory Fresh '"LONGER1"" An Allot "A" Battery it "dry charged"ct the factory and it activated the day you boy it not one moment be , fore! You get factory frethnett, plus real economy when you choose an Atlat Battery. Dry Charged Batteries 6 OR 12 VOLT ATLAS Jack's Chevron Station PH. 6-9995 Heppner No Matter What The Groundhog Sees . . . We More I! See Plenty Cold Weather BE READY HERE ARE WE HAVE WITH LOTS OF WARM CLOTHES. A FEW OF THE MANY TOP VALUES TO OFFER IN FAMOUS QUALITY BRAND MEN'S WEAR. (Groundhog Day is February 2) SWEATERS JACKETS TOP COATS m r if f U f ' ""I ii Xmmmrn i ) - r r Saturday Matinee "PIT and PENDULUM" plus Two Cartoons 1:00 P. M. Students. Adults 50c Children 20c Star Theatre ONE GROUP JACK TS y2 OFF WILSONS M'S WEAR 'THE STORE OF PERSONAL SERVICE'
