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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, August 18, 19S2 lUIHIMMMUIIMIhMIIMMimWIIIHIIIIMMMUIIIIIIIIIIII MOBBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER . PHONE 676-9228 The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. HELEN E. SHERMAN Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL WESLEY A. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman NEWSPAPER XSSOCMMON Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $4.00 Year; Else where $4.50 Year. Single Copy '10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. OFFICE HOURS: 8 a.m. t0 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m IMMIIIMMIIIIIIIHIIIIIItlllllllllltmH Morrow Puts Its Best Foot Forward Morrow county puts its best foot forward at its annual fair. It is the time when its choice products are proudly displayed. Golden wheat comes fresh from the cutting, and big branny steers are groomed with meticulous attention. Mother picks out her best jar of pickles, and after pondering over the best po: ies in her garden, gets them ready, too, for the big show. For 4-H and FFA youth, fairtime is the highlight of the year. They test the best they have to offer in good sportsmanship with that of their neighbors. At the style revue, girls unveil the dresses they have made and they eagerly hope for blue ribbons, too, on their cooking, baking and canning. There is little froth and foolishness at the Morrow county fair, but the thrills and excitement are there in abundance. There's feverish work of preparation after weeks of antici pation, and next week comes the culmination. From the start on Tuesday, the program is packed with interesting events until the close on Friday. One of the most popular spots will be the new "snack shack," sponsored by the 4-H council. The aroma of hotdogs and ham burgers will waft into many a nostril, and the temptation will be strong to the hungry crowds. Start of the fair and rodeo festivities will be Saturday night on the main intersection when Queen Marlone will officially take her place as reigning royalty following coronation cer emonies. From that time on, with the fair coming next week August 21 through 24; the Wranglers' horse show scheduled August 31; and the rodeo due September 1 and 2, there will be a calendar full of activity for Morrow county residents and friends who come to share the fun. It's time to get in the spirit and join the crowds. Umatilla Papers Mark Centennial This is centennial year for neighboring Umatilla county, and their fair, August 15-18 at Hermiston, is geared to commem orate the event with special attractions in a jam-packed pro gram. In a unique venture on the occasion of the centennial and Century Fair, the six weeklies of Umatilla county joined in producing a 40-page tabloid historical supplement. Staffs of the papers Hermiston Herald, Pilot Rock News, Umatilla Sun, Athena Press, Milton -Freewater Valley Herald, and Pendleton Record pooled their labor, talents, skills and resources in producing the paper, and the supplement went out to their combined circulation of some 10,000 with last week's editions of the six papers. Their unified effort was well done, and the finished product is a historical work that is not only absorbing to read but provides information worth keeping for future reference. On this occasion of the Umatilla county centennial we extend congratulations to our neighboring county and also to the papers who are doing such a good job to herald it. Casey Stengel's First Half-Century "Casey Stengel has been in the major leagues 50 years this year," comments the Oregon Statesman, Salem, editorially. , That is a statement that, facetiously, can he interpreted two ways. "This year" undoubtedly seems like 50 years to Old Case with the drubbing his New York Mets have been taking, but, of course, the Statesman is referring to the venerable manager's long career, including his successful years at the head of the Yanks. Casey no longer is in the limelight as he was as manager of the Yanks, but we doubt if he has lost any of the affection that many thousands of fans hold for him. Even with their rather dismal first-year record in the Nat ional league, the New York Mets probably have more pop ularity in our part of the country than the Yanks have, although the Yanks still engender a great deal of respect as a fine ball club. Ralph Honk, successor to Stengel, is proving a capable manager, and this, with all due credit to llouk, is disappointing to many fans. Quite a few would like to see the mighty Yanks toppled from their perch in the American league, and a great many are rooting for the Mets to pick themselves off the floor and come back with a sizzling team in the National loop. Maybe it's just the American way of sympathizing with the underdog. TO THE EDITOR. . . Sir: We have 2700 languages in the world, a wholly unnecessary bur den on the schools, the students and the taxpayers. If we had a good grasp of our own language, for communication with our own people, and a world second lan guage, for communication with others, that is all we need. The Colorado State Board of Educa tion was moved by our language situation to recommend a univer sal language, for use throughout the world. Think of the tremen dous saving to the taxpayer in money and to the schools in class rooms and teachers, which we need so badly. We already have such a lan guage, already spoken in over liO countries, and growing stead ily. We need only finish learning it, and it is easy to learn. On Feb. 25, 1900, an American plane and a Brazilian, landing at Rio de Janiero, collided and fell in the sea, with a loss of nearly 100 lives, due to language mis understanding. With our rapidly Increasing air travel, that danger too, is increasing. We cannot al ways be sure that the control towers know the language of all the pilots, or that the pilots know the language of all the towers. They have a World Congress yearly (132 in Denmark and '05 in Japan). It lasts about a week, with over 2000 attendeneo, from about 40 countries, with all pro ceedings in Esperanto. Russia formerly suppressed Es peranto, apparently hoping to make Russian the world lan guage, but has now relaxed their restrictions and there are now a bout 1000 Esperantists in Gorky alone. If you want more information about Esperanto, ask your li brary or write to us. The Esperanto Club Box 792. Placerville, Calif. H. E. Dillinger To The Editor: Under Real Estate, Heppner uazette-l imes, Thursday Auuust 2, 1902, appears ad: For Sale Kemodeled 3 bedroom home. ..In cludes birth kitchen." Please, Mr. Sherman, WHAT is a birth kitch en? As one vitally, politically. actively uiieresieu in bringing a- bout more liberal birth control laws I find such an ad no end disconcerting. A "birth kitchen" yet! When I'm fighting might and main to bring about a less ened interest in births of any kind. The above paragraph is face tiously intended for your area. Believe me, the same is not true in this neck of the woods. Here one is all too aware of the men ace of an ever exploding popula tion. Since I longingly look for ward to eventual retirement in the less inundated country of my birth, you can readily appreciate my chagrin upon reading such an ad. I am not a misanthrope not yet, anyway. Too many good and true friends in Morrow County deter me from succumbing to the appellation. The Troedsons of lone, especially Vomer and Mar garet, who for many a year have gifted me with a weekly copy of The Heppner Gazette. (Elaine, I promise not to wait 'till Xinas to answer your grand letter.) Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman, on the fine job you are doing as "new" owners of The Heppner Gazette-Times. I enclose a clipping from the Los Angeles Times revealing the good judge ment of one Kov trait, who retir ed from the hectic Hollywood scene to edit and publish the Skamania County Pioneer in Ste venson, Washington. Mrs. S. (Inez E.) Pomerantz 10123 Cohasset St. Van Nuys, California HEPPNER WINDOWS have blos somed forth again with color ful scenes of cowboys, broncs, bulldogging all heralding the forthcoming rodeo. The pictures are the work of Roy (Cowboy) Larson and his wife who did the same job last year. They come without notice appearing from nowhere. They whizz through the town paint ing the windows for any merch ant who wishes to pay the nom inal fee, and suddenly they are gone. We would venture that they went from here to Pendle ton to do the same job for the Roundup there. Their skill is admirable, and it doesn't take more than 30 minutes for any of the windows, even the most lavish jobs. Larson, who hails from Okla homa, is 58 years old and has been at this window painting work for more than 40 years. He claims to have painted more windows than anyone else in the world. The pair travel all over the country and for 35 years have painted western murals for the Madison Square Garden show. ALSO WORKING to dress up the town for Fair and Rodeo are Vic Groshens and his men. They have been working like beavers on the streets. You can hear them rustling around sweeping and scraping in the early morning hours, even before the sun seems to be up very far. They have been painting new white crosswalks and parking stalls. The white, instead of yellow, conforms to the state system, which, in turn, conforms to the federal system. Oregon has al ways preferred yellow, but the federal government dema n d s white on interstate highways. TYPICAL of the feeling about the 4-H camp, recently con cluded at Cutsforth, is that ex pressed by Mrs. James (Myra) Harper of Boardman in a letter to Esther Kirmis, home agent, written July 16. "This is Monday eve, and I think Pa ml Annp has fust about run out of 'what happened at camp'," Mrs. Harper writes. " 'What fun! What meals! What hikes! Oh, golly what fun!' Unquote. "All I can say, is if the others had half the fun Carol Anne did, they had a wonderful time. I just couldn't pass the oppor- hinitv nn tn tell vol! what a largo part you had in all this. So, maybe all the worn anu nlnnninfj and nrenaration VOU had to dn was worth it after all! ! "Thank you so much for givinf Carol Anne the time of her life Thank Yoei Bear (Joe Hay) Inn T diipss he was the lit of the party! ! With much grat itude to you both, Myra Harper.' WE GET some 40 weekly papers rrom arouna tno siaie as ex changes and enjoy reading them at odd moments. Noticed a col umn hv Giles French of Moro in the Sherman county journal chiding L. H. (Lair Hill) Gregory snorts editor of the Oreconian, fur c.nvimr fhnt hp (Greeorv) would not dare walk through the Deschutes valley even though clad in all kinds of protective wear against rattlesnakes. "As one whose first lesson on the outdoors consisted ot instruc tion nhntir what to do at thf siirht of n snake." ouoth French o ' t "and wno nas neon stopped in hw Irnrks hv innumernn e iz- ards and whose heart has flut tered by the sound of dried sun- COMMUNITY BILLBOARD Coming Events HEPPNER SWIMMING TOOL Open daily, except Mondays Classes for all ages. 9 a.m., Tuesdays thru Fridays $1 instruction foe LEGION MOVIES Friday, 8 p.m., Legion Hall Always a Good Show! This week "Fort Vengeance." Plus cartoon, "Crime Buster." DRESS-UP PARADE and QUEEN CORONATION Saturday, August 18 Downtown Heppner Festivities start, 7:00 p.m. Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Dance For Queen Marlone Fotsch Saturday, August 18 Fair Pavilion, Heppner COME TO THE FAIR! Back our 4-11 clubs with your attendance and participation. Tuesday, August 21, thru Friday, August 24. This space will be used each week to announce com ing events of a public service nature at no charge. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency Heppner P.O. Box 611 PH. 676-9625 flower day after day, let us say that Greg could walk the entire length of the Deschutes barefoot ed with less danger than he would encounter by stepping out on the streets of Portland after dark. When it comes to snakes, give us the rattling kind." Then in The Dalles Optimist, George Lindsay commented on French's remarks, saying, "Well put, Giles." Lindsay, writing in his Barbed Wire column, mentioned the re cent incident in Horse Heaven country, which he says is reputed to have more rattlesnakes per square yard than anyplace, where a young chap out coyote hunting got bit by a rattlesnake on the calf of the leg. Not having a knife, he shot a hole in the calf of the leg to induce bleed ing. "Before anyone else tries this," George advised, "we'd suggest it has hazards, mainly those induc ed if bullet is soft or hollow pointed. Then it would result in major wound." All of which points up the fact that, regardless of how the wheat crop turns out, this seems to be a bumper year for snakes. Martha Matteson reported a man getting bitten near Monument while working in his yard, and we notice another story in Hal Schiltz' Myrtle Creek Mail about a couple of men killing a 36-inch rattlesnake there. Ed Gonty said that someone saw a rattler back of his place on the hill just west of Heppner earlier this summer, and he clamped the lid on the kids go ing up there to play. It is common knowledge that the rattlers are In pretty good abundance up on Rock Creek, and they tell us that others are located on Hinton Creek. But Nels Anderson, who has been in the county 12 or 13 years and gets around probably as much as anyone, says that he has yet to see his first rattler in the county, although he knows they're here. When we taught school at Elk ton in 1938-39, the populace used to organize when weather got warm in the spring and went out on rattler-killing parties. They would get several hundred snakes in one spot in a crack in the rocks. Among the few who DIDN'T participate on those hunts was W. Sherman, who is pretty much on the side of L. H. Gregory in this interchange between Franch and Lindsay. ONCE TRAVELING betw e e n Mountain Home and Bliss in Idaho, we stopped to rest and sauntered across the sagebrush. Accidentally kicked aga i n s t some brush and heard a noise like seeds rustling in hollow pods. Looked down and there was a menacing rattler at our feet. If Bill Collins had been there to watch us clear out, he would have sworn that the object he saw skittering over the brush would beat the one he spotted in the heavens last week. We never bothered to touch first base in getting back to the car for sure. Used to get a charge reading some of the episodes of the late great war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, about his fear of snakes. July Bond Sales Top $18,000 Here "Sales of Treasury Department Series E and H Savings Bonds in Morrow county for the month of July amounted to $18,771," it was announced today by County Sa vings Bonds Chairman Jack Bed ford. "The sales total for all of Ore gon last month was $2,702,306," the county chairman said. "Since the first of the year, sales of small denomination Bonds have increased throughout the Nation. During the first-quarter, for example, small denomin ations accounted for 57 of the National sales of $1.2 billion. It is believed that at least part of this increase is attributable to the growing number of persons who use the Payroll Savings Plan for buying savings Bonds at the plants where they work." He could stand the worst com bat, but a garter snake would send him ki-yiing. Good old Oregon, which is pretty much free of pestiferous things, seems to be getting pretty well populated with ratt lers, wherever you go. Stayton, just west of Salem, from whence we. came, had its Rattlesnake Hill where they are reputed to be in abundance. But we have been an Oregon ian all of our lives, and to this date, the cool, non-speaking re lationship between us and ratt lers still stands. We've had none come to visit, and we haven't gone out to call on them. And we'd just as soon that it would stay that way. Hunters Reminded Of Elk Deadline Oregon elk hunters are re minded by the game commission that they have only until 5 p. m. August 29 to file applications for the permit elk hunts. The public drawing is scheduled for 10 a. m. September 7. Applications for the elk permit hunts may be obtained at li cense dealers with the purchase of the general season elk tag. This application contains the same serial number as the tag and becomes a unit permit when validated by the commission. The individual may file application for only one elk permit. Success ful applicants for antlerless per mits last year are not eligible to apply this year. As announced earlier, no gen eral elk season will be held in the Catsop, Wilson and Trask u nits on the north coast, and in the Douglas and Suislaw units in southern Oregon. Bull elk hunts in these units will be on a permit basis only, and hunters must possess an elk permit for that unit and an unused elk tag. Any hunter who applies for, but does not receive, an elk per mit in units where no general season will be held is eligible for a refund by presenting his elk tag to the game commission. Applications for refund will not be accepted after September 27, 1962. Who wishes to give himself an abundance of trouble, Let him equip these two things: A ship and a woman. No two things in volve more bother for neither is ever sufficiently adorned. Buy Now While Stocks Are Complete New Shipments Arriving Daily SHIRTS A good selection of cotton wash shirts in either short or long sleeves. $195 TO $C95 SOX ALLEN-A STRETCH SOX WITH 5-YR. GUARANTEE ONLY $-100 SHOES NEW SHIPMENT A complete line of the famous Weyenberg shoes including 14 styles in STEP-INS 1295 T0 $20 95 JACKETS - SWEATERS A good selection from Lee, Kandel, McGregor, Jantzen and Arrow $J95 TO $2J95 PAWTS A Wide Variety of Styles, Fabrics And Colors In Tapered And Semi-Tapered Styles From $4.29 To $7.50 UNDERWEAR Briefs For Boys And Men, Priced From 89c To $1.25 TEE-SHIRTS 100 Cotton Ny Ion rein forced, either short sleeves or sleeveless 95cT$1.50 MORE SOX BY THE DOZENS! Including crew sox for boys and men 59e T ?1.50 Hey! DON'T MISS THE BIG FAIR AUGUST 21-24 Morrow Fairgrounds WILSONS MEN'S WEAR The Store of Personal Service'
