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HEPPNER GAZETTE THEW fim HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES mobbow comrrrs newspapeb The Heppner Gazette, established March 30. 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15. 1912. WESLEY A. SHERMAN HELEN E. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Associate Publisher NIWSPAMI rumsMits ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: Morrow County, $4.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. Come to Morrow Today! Communities throughout the state of Oregon this summer have been cooperating with the state's Welcome to Oregon com mittee to encourage tourism and boost their various localities. Through the efforts of Fred Gimbel, Morrow county chair man of Welcome to Oregon, Morrow county's summer effort is culminated in this issue of the Gazette-Times with the special section on Welcome to Morrow County. Support and sponsorship of merchants and organizations of the county has made the section possible, and it is hoped that it will give some infor mation of Interest to friends and relatives of county residents that might attract them here for more frequent visits. It is further hoped that it will bring new friends who may be in trigued with Morrow county and what it has to offer. The slogan for this current effort is "Come to Morrow Today," and this could be emphasized by residents when they contact others to come for visits. From two pages of the supple ment In this paper, brochures will be printed for free distribution and they may be obtained from any of the sponsors or from Gimbel. The brochures will be so designed that they can be mailed easily, and the home folks are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to spread the good word about Morrow county. Statewide, the emphasis this year is "Stay and Play Another Day." If every tourist would stay one more day when he comes to Oregon on a vacation, the total economic effect would be astounding, and that is what the committee knows. It would seem a Mttle crass to say that we are interested in visits only for the money that tourists would leave. Such is not the case. It is nice to have friends and relatives come so that residents may share with them the pride that the home folks have in the county. A tourist to the state of Oregon cannot say that he has truly seen (he state until he has visited Morrow county, because there are scenic attractions and other features here that are unique to this part of the state. Morrow county, despite all its other virtues, has not done a good job of heralding its own virtues and many tourists plying highway 30 zip right by with out realizing what a vast and beautiful country lies Just to the south. Residents are urged to extend their hands and give warm welcomes to those who come to visit. This is probably a needless admonition for friendliness and hospitality are traditional In Morrow county. But in correspondence and contact with those elsewhere, extend the Invitation, "Come to Morrow Today!" How About a New Heavyweight Category? Man, through a natural evolution process, seems to be gaining in stature all the time. Statistics will show that the average male is an inch or two taller than was the average perhaps 50 years ago. Basketball teams are taller. Players 6-9 and 6-10 on college teams are not uncommon. An owner of a bicycle shop told us the other day that bike manufacturers are coming out with taller and bigger bicycles because the youngsters who ride them are getting bigger for their ages. New records are being set in sports all the time as man learns to use his increasing larger physical frame to better advantage. Once was a time, for instance, that the four-minute mile was deemed an impossibility. Now athletes break four minutes with regularity. Unless one does break four minutes in an international mile race the runner has little chance of coming in better than fourth. Floyd Patterson, in the heavyweight fight the other night, was a little man In physical stature compared to his opponent. Patterson weighed only 195, and Sonny Liston had him topped In every physical category reach, biceps, legs and every de partment. Liston weighed 21 pounds more. The thought occurs that as long as we are stuck with boxing as a sport it may be time to consider setting higher limits for the heavyweight class or of establishing a "super heavyweight" division. This might include, say, those 215 pounds and over. It was quite obvious that Patterson Just didn't have the physique to cope with the bigger man, and how the American public could enjoy the second slaughter, after witnessing it before between the same two opponents, is a little hard to figure. The Oregonlan had six stories concerning the fight on the front page of its sports section Wednesday, almost monopolizing the page. An Inside page, too, was almost completely used for carryovers on the stories. It's a little hard to stomach. Boxing has had some long hard looks In the past couple of years because of the deaths and maimings that it has caused. But it has an appeal, perhaps sadistic, that retains some mass popularity. It cannot be considered sporting by any standard, though, to match athletes of unequal stature. Some times the big boys can't perform nearly as well as the smaller ones, as Prlmo Camera proved to his dismay many years ago, but it seems to us that the big hulks should have to compete against others of proportionate size. Otherwise it Is no contest and a farce that dupes the people. Patterson is to be admired for his pluck and courage, but he didn't have a chance, and Liston really has nothing to crow about in victory. Legion Meel to Convene In Pendleton Pendleton will host the 43rd annual state convention of the American Legion and Auxiliary with registration opening on Wednesday, July 31, at 10 a.m. at headquarters In the Temple Hotel. The Joint confab will con clude August 3 with the Drum and Bugle Corps competition at 8 p.m. In the Round-Up grounds. Mrs. Jack Larson, department president, American Legion Aux iliary, will preside over the Aux iliary meetings and Al Frlesen, department commander of the Legion will have charge of the Legion meetings. They will be honored at a joint banquet Aug ust 1, 7 p.m.. at the Pendleton High school cafeteria. Each morning during the con vention a cowboy style break fast will be held from 6 to 9 a.m. Friday morning the Hepp ner Auxiliary will be hosts for the past and present secretary and treasurer's breakfast at (lunther's restaurant The Post commanders and unit presidents are to be at a reception at the Temple Hotel from 5 to 7 p.m. August 2 and on Saturday, Aug -TIMES. Thursday. July 25. 1963 NATIONAL EDITORIAL ust 3. the past and present district presidents will be guests at breakfast at the Tapadera at 7 a.m. All reservations for din ner and breakfasts scheduled should be made with Mrs. Her man Desler, Box 163, Pendleton. Meetings will be held in the Vert Auditorium with exhibits shown in the Vert club room. Committee meetings will be held in the McCune Junior High school. At noon, August 3, C. D. De Loach, assistant director of the FBI, will speak to the joint meet ing of the American Legion and Auxiliary. At 6 p.m. on this day, a western style barbecue will be held at the Indian Village at the Round-Up grounds with the Bugle and Drum competition concluding the annual confab. Headquarters for Heppner Post No. 87 and Auxiliary Unit will be at the Long Horn Motel, and delegates are asked to get in touch with them now for any necessary reservations. File cards and guides, 3x5, 4x6 and 5x8 at the Gazette-Times. Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman WELL, IT is appropriate to have interesting visitors to the newspaper office while we were putting out the "Welcome to Morrow County" supplement. A very interesting visitor Wed nesday was G. C. Henricksen, di rector of the Portland Commun ity College, who with his wife is on a vacation trip seeking out the byways in this part of the country. Henricksen's first trip to Mor row county was in 1912, and that is what makes this visit so in teresting. His father was a min ister, and the family lived in Omaha, Neb. The reverend got the urge to go west to a new mission field, put his family in their Flanders car and struck out for Portland. Because of the early undepen dability of autos, the Henriksens started out in a caravan of other cars, including such as a Duryea, EMF and other makes that now resurrect distant memories. When the caravan arrived at Green River, Wyo., the Henrik sens were forced to go the rest of the distance alone because all the others veered south to California. For some reason, when they got to Oregon they came through Morrow county, including Hepp ner and lone, instead of travel ing the Columbia River. They went on northwest to the John Day River and had to make a ferry crossing between Olex and Klondike. The operator of the horse-drawn ferry charged them $15 for the crossing and asked for another $10 to pull them up the hill on the other side where the narrow road was composed of deep sand. The Rev. Henrlksen was irked at this treatment and refused to pay the $10, preferring to try to battle it up the hill without help. The motorists inched ahead slowly, perspiring and working to get the Flanders to the top. When they were about half way up, a team and wagon ap peared on the scene, headed the other direction. There wasn't room for them to pass. The min ister agreed to back down if the occupants of the wagon would help the travelers up the hill, and the consent was given. So back down went the Flanders. Then the team and wagon came down the hill and headed up the river without stopping. Now with his ministerial equan imity really challenged, the Rev. Mr. Henriksen procured a revol ver from under the seat of the Flanders and shot three times over the disappearing wagon. This stopped them, and they came back to help. Since the crooked old Colum bia River highway with its loops was not yet constructed (to come three years later), the Flanders and Henriksen family had to board a boat to complete the journey to Portland. The trip from Omaha took 23 days. Henriksen said Wednesday he has since covered the same distance in 47 hours. It cost the family $975 and four sets of tires were worn out on the trip. They got their gasoline at blacksmith shops since there were no service stations in those days. Henriksen was visiting Earl Blake here also. The two are both radio "hams" and often talk by short wave. Henriksen said that he has been asked to write a book about this 1912 journey and may get around to it one of these days. He has been told that the Flanders was the only car that arrived in Port land from the east in that year of 1912. WE COULDN'T figure out how we could possibly have rain on July 24 in Morrow county, but decided later in the day that it must be the fault of an other visitor, Albert Weisen danger, Salem, executive secre tary of Keep Oregon Green as sociation. He and Mrs. Welsendanger dropped in, and perhaps Al ar ranged the rain to keep things dampened down in the interests of Keeping Oregon Green! How ever, he declared they expected to find hot weather over here. ONE OF THOSE pestiferous type gremlins got in the story about Phyllis Nelson going to the nat ional FHA (Future Homemakers of America) convention, and the story referred to the national FFA (Future Farmers of Amer ica) convention. But this did not perturb Phyllis (daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Nelson, Lexing ton.) She said that she really would have enjoyed attending the national FFA convention. She undoubtedly would be a real popular delegate there, too! HEPPNER'S CHAMBER of Com- meree Is going to have a "ride in" to the meeting on August 25 to stir up interest in the 19(53 Fair and Rodeo. Each member is to ride to the meeting place (Wagon Wheel Cafe) on a horse. "We might as well," said Dr. C. M. Wagner, president, in pro posing it to the members. "Everyone has a horse." Yep, that's true. The C of C secretary (yours truly), who has generally depended upon Shanks' horses, has an old saw horse out back that he can dust off for the occasion. I keep i wsr OREGON IV&hi GREEN ja2fl ON A JUNKET with Fred Gim bel, county Welcome to Oregon chairman, Saturday, we visited the Lena Cemetery which long has intrigued Fred. If those who lie at rest in the cemetery could tell their stories, it would reveal some rich history of early Morrow county i i , si". : - "KILLED BY Indians near Wil low Springs" says this head stone marking the grave of H. Hale in the Lena cemetery. Markers In this cemetery give clues to colorful early history of the county and of tragedies that occurred. hardships, tragedies and forti tude by the pioneers. One row of markers mutely tells a sorrowful story. Five children of the Crawford family died at various dates in 1878, some only a few days apart. The historical booklet, "Yesteryears of Morrow," published in 1959, mentioned these five graves and ..V''.. L 0A FOR MORROW COUNTY FAIR AND RODEO PRINCESS SHANNON MONEY Sponsored WRANGLERS DANCE ON THE NEW HARDWOOD FLOOR ADMISSION $150 PER PERSON MUSIC BY LEOUHIG'S 0RGHESTE? Students Speak. . At Board man Church BOARDMAN Guest speakers at the Boardman Community church Sunday were Duane Hes ter and Wade Worthington, both students from the Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland. They were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Sum mers. Week-end visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Miland were Mrs. Miland's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gentry, and her sister, Mrs. Harvey Schmidt and children Buddy and Gayle, all of Prosser, Wn. Mr. and Mrs. John Summers and sons Richard and Ronnie have returned home from a month's trip, during which they traveled 3,000 miles through the western states. They also vis ited Summers' nephews, Eddie Summers at Salt Lake City, Utah, George Yeates in Calif ornia, and Less Summers in Eugene. - Shirley Munger has been vis iting relatives in Roseburg for the past month. conjectured that the youngsters probably died of diptheria. Can anyone shed further light on this? Another interesting marker is that of Harrison Hale, who was killed at Willow Springs, about 15 miles south of Pilot Rock, by Indians on July 6, 1878. "Yester years" gives a good account of this Indian attack at Willow Springs. The state park at Battle Mountain memorializes these skirmishes. The Lena cemtery is well-kept. We remarked to Fred as we viewed the plots that the de ceased must still be highly cher ished in their families because of the care shown. Despite the age of the graves some had re cently been decorated with flow ers. A number of the headstones had weathered wonderfully well. Some appear as if they had been placed there yesterday, but they mark graves more than 80 years old. All Moore business forms available through the Gazette Times. You need not go out of the county to get the forms you need. V - By CLUB ATURDAY, hh FAIR PAVILION HEPPNER Over The Tee Cup By DEE CRIBBLE With the nice weather to play in, and the course all green and mowed (thanks to Hutch and his helpers), 16 to 18 ladies have turned out for two weeks now for Ladies Day. Winners are be ginning to change, with the per sistent practice of mid-week day paying off. Kay Robinson has joined the gals that finally got in the 30V-she had a 38 last week, and Hester Creswick a 36. Nice golfin', gals. I still feel that a Twilight League play would be the ideal time. Sunday was too hot at 2:30, so many played at 6:30. This Tuesday Lucille Brown (Mrs. Hillard) was winner with the most strokes, and Leslie Meador with least putts. Play was planned by Lib Daggett and Donna McCurdy who served up the coffee and cookies and, since the young gals are playing too, there's punch at our "coffee break." My Barb wishes there wasn't a penalty for out-of-bounds on No. 4, (and Corbin's cows had better watch it.) New faces this week were Lil lian Sweek, Lib Daggett and Betty Rose, fresh from vacation. We're delighted to have all these ladies. Ruth Van Winl" h b"v ball retriever anyone finding it, please call her. Happy to report that Juanita Carmichael and Nan Brown are recovering from their car acci dent, and when the ribs are heal ed, they'll try again (they were returning from Pendleton after their first golf lesson, and flip ped into the ditch.) Be seein' ya. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gonty and two boys, Tom and Doug, drove to Seattle Friday evening to take their two grandchildren home. The children had been visiting here the past week. In Seattle the Gontys were guests of their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gonty. The Heppnerites re turned home Sunday. f r y1, ft 4 ' . i1 " &. ; - t " , i v 1-7 . ",'tv.ry- i Visiting at the Bill Farra home last Tuesday were Mrs. Farra's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Wiest, Sunnyside, Wn., and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hochhalter, Wishek, N. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ashcraft and sons, Grandview, Wn.; and Mrs. August Wiest, Sunnyvale, Calif. COMMUNITY If ) BILLBOARD K Coming Events LEGION MOVIES Friday, July 26, 8 p.m. "Sahara," starring Humphry Bogart and Lloyd Bridges. Plus cartoon. PRINCESS SHANNON RODEO DANCE Saturday, July 27 Fair Pavilion building Welcome Princess Shannon Mahoney and the Rodeo court. Sponsored by Wranglers club. Dancing from 10 to 2:00. Lunch served by Degree of Honor. POMONA GRANGE MEETING Saturday, July 27 Rhea Creek Grange hall. Starts at 10:30 a.m., dinner at noon. Program, 2:30 p.m., by Henry Baker. RHEA CREEK GRANGE ANNUAL PICNIC Sunday, August 11, 1 p.m. Chapin Creek. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner , v-... . i i . . DANCING 10 TO 2 SUPPER SERVED
