HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, August 18, 19S2
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MOBBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
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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
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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.
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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.
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