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1 1 BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. 80th Year Number 38 Holiday Opening Prize List Grows HEPPNER the -mm1 gaz: Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 21, 1963 iVICGG Reviews 11 Years' Progress Something of a spirit of thanksgiving pervaded the an nual meeting of Morrow County Grain Growers held Monday night in the fair pavilion with some 300 persons attending. The dinner, although featuring cham pion 4-H roast beef instead of turkey, was bountiful enough to be a Thanksgiving dinner. It was served and prepared by the Rhea Creek Grange. President Paul Jones noted the spirit of thanksgiving when he recounted in his report the pro gress that had been made by the cooperative in the past 11 vears. "We were broke in the fall of 1953. We had no credit and our license was suspended. It looked as if we would have to close the doors," he said. "We are now free of debt for the first time since we were organized, and it is a wonderful record." The president gave much of the credit to the progress of the cooperative to Manager Al Lamb who came 11 years ago. "It couldn't have been done without a manager with a coop erative background," he said. President Jones also declared that several of the directors can take a great deal of credit for the healthy condition of the Grain Growers. He told how, in the .darker days, a number of direc tors had signed notes in the amount of $50,000 to keep the operation going.. - He pointed to construction of the Hoag-Warner storage facil ities, and to expanded storage facilities at Heppner and lone in recent years. The president commended employees of the co operative, stating, "Lots of credit must be given to the outside crew." He had words of praise for Assistant Manager Harlan McCurdy who is ill and could not attend the jneeting, and in troduced other employees who were present at the meeting. A bonus plan contributes to keen interest on the part of employees, the president declared. Jones emphasized the almost phenomenal change in the coop erative's financial structure by citing the fact that it has dis tributed $505,400 to its farmer members in the past 10 years. In addition it has cashed pre ferred stock and ownership cer tificates in the amount of $100, 000. Operating report for the fis cal year ended May 31, 1963, shows net earnings of $114,417.94 and assets of $1,480,745. In the year ended the Grain Growers received 2 million bushels of grain into the ele vators, but there is nothing to indicate that there will be a greater volume in future years. - President Jones said that the cooperative expects a reasonable profit for 1963-64 but not as much as in some bumper years of the past. Manager Lamb called atten tion to reports in the annual program and also said that next year's profit may be expected to be down. "At 4c per bushel handling, we are not going to get rich," he said, "while everything else has gone up." He pointed out that at least 13 of this year's crop was sold at harvest time because growers felt the price would not hold. By selling early, however, they lost at least 20c per bushel, he said. Storage in the Morrow County Grain Growers' elevators at the present time is as low as it has ever been, Lamb said. For this reason, he does not look for much more income for the co-op this year. One problem developed in handling this year's crop when much of it came in too moist, inviting it to become "buggy," Lamb declared. This may have been due to accepting the grain Local Role Dale E. Price of Eugene, direc tor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education's Civil De fense program, told about 70 per sons from Umatilla and Morrow counties attending a one-day conference in Pendleton Wednes day, November 13, that there can be no civil defense without local government action. Price chose the topic "Civil Defense at the Local Level" and emphasized the need for federal guidance. "There must be some determ ination, nationally, as to our needs; however, nothing can happen unless local officials and community leaders take the initiative to develop programs w'thin this broad guidance," he said. "Many people feel that in a disaster, some outside force, or government agency, will come in and save the local people. We have to realize that if anything 11 too early in the day at harvest time before dew and moisture had been dried by the sun. In the future, it is contemplated that the elevators will not start receiving grain so early in the day. Bob Tanke, president of North Pacific Grain Growers, urged members of the cooperatives to (Continued on page 8) Marcia Wins Third In State Contest; District Honored Marcia Rands, who carried Heppner's banner all the way to the state finals in the Soil Conservation speech contest, won third place in the state last Thursday afternoon at Grants Pass. The contest was conducted as a feature of the 3-day meet ing of the Oregon Association of Soil Conservation districts. Another honor came to Hepp ner when Raymond French, dis trict supervisor, received a plaque as state winner of the Goodyear award, topping all other conservation districts in Oregon. Attending the meeting were Ralph Richards, conservationist of the Heppner district, Mr. and Mrs. French, Mrs. Maurice Groves, mother of Miss Rands, together with the speech con testant and her brother and sis ter. State champion of the speech contest is Lois Hobbs of Klam ath Falls and second was Dave Albright of Silver Creek. Irt all, five competed In the finals. Speaking of the Heppner ent rant, Richards said, "We're real proud of her and her showing." He confessed to disagreeing with the judges and confided that he felt Marcia's talk to be the best of the five. In reaching the state finals, Marcia won the local compe tition against five other contes tants, the area against three others, and the semi-finals against three others. This showing makes a re markable record for Heppner during a 3-year period. Beverly Davidson was third in the state in 1961, Martha Doherty was state champion in 1962, and now Miss Rands sustains the state record with the third this year. Civil Defense Seeks Department Leaders For County Work Seeking to renew interest in Civil Defense in Morrow county, a more closely knit organization is sought by local leaders. Pre paredness for natural disasters, as well as nuclear attack, is of importance. Additional help is needed to head the following departments of civil defense in Morrow coun ty: Public relations, health and welfare, medical, transportation and communications in all areas of the county. Individuals or or ganizations interested in helping in any of these departments are asked to contact Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman, director, or Mrs. Jane Mattair, who has an unlisted phone number, 676-5567. "Medical Self-Help" class is expected to start in the near future, which studies emergen cy medical care as well as simple first aid training. Civil Defense leaders from this area will attend a state meeting in Salem on Friday. of Civil Defense Discussed at is going to be done to save the local people, it will have to be done locally, using local re sources," he said. The kind of civil defense pro gram a community has, Price added, depends upon the needs of the community as defined within the federal guidelines and on the human and material resources available to meet these needs. There is legislation being con sidered in Congress that will broaden the present federal law to include planning and assis tance in natural disasters as well as war-caused disasters. Price said, if approved in its present form, the legislation would pro vide Federal financing to com munities which are contemplat ing construction of public build ings in which fallout shrl'ers can be provided on a dual-use basis. Price said action on Civil De 11 JJ JONEL HILL. State Public Util ity Commissioner, will be the principal speaker at the an nual meeting of Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative at the fair pavilion. Heppner. Friday. Columbia Basin Annual Meeting Set for Friday Jonel C. Hill, Public Utility Commissioner of Oregon, will speak at the annual meeting of the members of Columhia T?asin Electric Cooperative Friday, Har- ley xoung, manager, announces. The talk will highlight the annual session which begins at 10:30 a.m. The address by Hill will be at 1 p.m. with the public invited. The morning's program is for members only, but the public is welcome to the after noon meeting. Adding special significance to this annual .neetin? is thp iwpnt announcement of .the proposed excnange or service between Pa cific Power and Light Company and Columbia Basin through which the cooperative will ac quire systems of the private com pany in several cities of Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler counties. Registration for members is scheduled at 10:30 a.m.. to hp followed by the showing of a motion picture. Dinner will be served at 11:30 a.m. hv wnmpn of the Rhea Creek Grange Home economics club. Entertainment will follow at 12:30 after which the regular meeting will ensue. Walter Jaeger of Condon will give the president's report, Jack Hynd Jr., will give the secretary treasurer's report and Young will give the manager's report, all after the talk by Commissioner Hill. Election of directors for a three year term will be held. Nom inees include Kenneth Smouse, Lewis Halvorsen, Henry Baker and Raymond Lundell, all of lone; Dick Wilkinson and Ron Currin, both of Heppner. On the nominating committee are Louis Carlson, lone; Orva E. Dyer, Mayville; O. E. Wright, Al Bunch, Paul Hisler and C. N. Jones, all of Heppner. Present directors include Jaeg er; Hynd, Richard Krebs of Cecil; Smouse and Baker of lone; Wal ter Wright of Hardman; Elmer Palmer and Wilkinson, both of Heppner; and Virgil West, Bla lock. A pranrl dnnr nrtrp nf $100 a'ift certificate towards purchase of any electrical appliance of the winner's choice will be given. WEATHER By LEONARD GILLIAM Hi Low Prec. Thursday 49 31 .33 Friday 53 35 Saturday 49 43 Sunday 51 34 Monday 52 39 .01 Tuesday 55 31 Wednesday 40 23 fense might be compared to ac tion on military defense, in that it depends upon strong leader ship. The extent to which these government functions are carried out in a community will prob ably depend upon the attitude of key officials toward these re sponsibilities. He noted it is important to have some system for evaluat ing the program. Many commun ities have a tendency to evaluate the program on the basis of cost, rather than on the basis of re quirement, after which budgets and staffing can be determined. He suggested using existing departments of local government to the maximum extent possible as opposed to setting up large indepond'nt Civil Defense staffs. Coordination by county and municipal civil defense special ists is necessary, he added. A county organization and pro gram should provide the struc 11 11AT1L. Joint Thanksgiving Service Scheduled Protestant churches of south ern Morrow county will com bine for a special Thanksgiv ing service, Thursday, Novem ber 28, at All Saints' Episcopal church, the Rev. Bill Alsup, chairman, announces. The ser vice is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. A special Thanksgiving mes sage will be given by the Rev. Charles Knox, pastor of the First Christian church in Hep pner. Other ministers of the South Morrow Ministerial as sociation will participate, Rev. Alsup states. The public is urged to sup port this annual service, and the association asks that mem bers and friends of their den ominations set aside this time to loin in a devotional period of family thanksgiving. Lexington House Complete Loss Following Blaze Lexington ' citizens responded to an alarm and 'doused a fire which gutted a house in the community Tuesday morning around 10 a.m. The house, lo cated across from the old Hen derson garage building on main street, is owned by Denny Mc Millan and was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Wade Bothwell. In terior was completely gutted. No one was in the house at the time of the fire. Cause of the fire was not de termined. It was speculated, however, that it started from either spontaneous combustion or a faulty chimney. Gene Orwick, who was work ing at his station at the time the fire started said that at first he thought the smoke he saw up the street was coming from some trash in the area that the telephone company was burning. The phone company was trim ming some trees in the commun ity. Orwick's attention was drawn to the house when a gas tank on a lawn mower which was sitting on the porch exploded and sent a sheet of flame belch ing from the front. Orwick then gave the alarm. A high wind in the area hamp ered fire fighters when they first arrived and made their efforts to bring the fire under control more difficult. The men speculated that the house may have burned to the ground if it had not been for insulation in the ceiling. The insulation acted as control on the fire until firemen were able to extinguish the blaze. McMillan said that the house was a total loss but that it was insured. At the time of the fire neither Mr. nor Mrs. Bothwell was available for comment and it was not known whether or not their belongings, which were also a total loss, were insured. Benefit Food Sale Planned for Tabors Heppner Civic League will sponsor a benefit food sale Sat urday, November 23, at Central Market, with proceeds to be sent to the Roy Tabor family in Rochester, Minn., to help with medical expenses. Mr. Tabor has been hospitalized in Rochester for several weeks, and the fam ily has made the trip east to be near him. Mrs. Tabor was kindergarten teacher for the Civic League be fore they moved to Hermiston early in the summer. Mr. Tabor will be remembered as the genial "old Santa" of previous years. Donations of either food or cash will be gratefully accepted by the organization. The sale will be between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. ture to which municipalities and other communities may relate their programs. He stressed the importance of establishing prior ities for efforts and uses of re sources in the communities. Price said a written annual program should be prepared by communities for use in directing their Civl Defense activities. This will insure continuity of effort and will assist in scheduling ac tivities in order of importance. Price's talk was the highlight of the program. In the morning session were talks by Gordon Newton on 'The Moaning and Importance of Civil Defense To day" and "Oregon State Civil Defense;" bv Louis Farnsworth on "Nuclear Weapons" and "Fed eral Civil Defense Program;" and by Price and James McAllister on "Civil Defense at Local Levels." No-host luncheon was at Gun thcr's Fireside restaurant. In the 10 Cents 1 . , " j .. R. L. (BOB) HENRY has arrived to assume his duties as new manager of the J. C Penney store in Heppner. Bob Henry Starts As Store Manager L. R, (Bob Henry, who has started as new manager of the Heppner Penney store, has been with the company for nine years. This is his first managerial pos ition with the company and his first exposure to living in east ern Oregon. Bob replaced Mike Whitesmith who was transferred to the Hood River store. Henry, who spent AVt years with the company in Moses Lake, Wn., and 4y years in the Oregon City store, said that Moses Lake was the closest he had come to living in eastern Oregon until this time. - ..: - Henry is married and he and his wife, Peggy, have two child ren, Jay, 5 and Mary, 6. He said that his family hasn't joined him here yet but will be 'coming to Heppner ns "soon as they sell their house in Glad stone. Henry said that they will live in the house Whitesmith rented until they can find an other place. Most of Henry's time is de voted to his job, but any spare time might find him skiing, a sport he enjoys. Henry is a native of Montana and graduated from Montana University in 1951. His wife is a native of Spokane, Wn. Henry commented that the most pleasant feature of Hepp ner Is its people. He said that he is impressed by the casual atmosphere the people create. Methodists Win Foundation Award Heppner's Methodist church has won a $150 cash award from the Sears-Roebuck foundation for church improvement, and the Rev. Mel Dixon and Oliver Cres wick, representing the church, received the award at a banquet Tuesday night in Eugene. The Heppner chu r c h was judged second in its class, one of three divisions based on the size of the church. Winning first prize in this class was the North Bend Methodist church, and it received $200. The presentations were made as a part of the annual assembly of the Oregon Council of Church es by Miss Jean Lovejoy, rep resenting the foundation. Awards were based on church improvements made during the year, including construct i o n, community service and program. Improvements at the local church included construction of a new carport and storage building that figured in the award. Meeting afternoon, several workshop sess ions met on various subjects con nected with civil defense and Oliver Creswick of Heppner was chairman of one group that dis cussed shelters in Morrow coun ty. The conference wound up Wed nesday afternoon with workshops on shelters, radiological defense, a film "About Fallout" and other discussions. Among those attending from Morrow county were: Judge Os car Peterson, Oliver Creswick, Dr. L. D. Tibbies, Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman. Paul Jones, Dave Mc Lcod, Wayne A. Brubacher, Gor don Pratt, W. S. (Sam) Miller, Ray Williamson, Lowell Chally, Charles Rugglcs, and the Rfv. Charles Knox, all of Heppner; Leonard Herrick and Ralph "rum, both of lone; Michael Tolar, Irrigon; and Ron Daniels, Boardman. Christmas Opening in Hepp ner is just nine days away, and a number of merchants have al ready announced prizes that they will give in the window guessing contest to be held Sat urday, November 30. Little has been heard from genial old Santa Claus, accord ing to Randall Peterson, chair man of the merchants committee of the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce, but indi cations are that he will be on hand to hear what youngsters of the area want for Christmas and will have candy treats for all who are on hand at the Opening. Peterson said that Fred Gim- Early Paper Slated; Public's Aid Asked Because of Thanksgiving and to give advance notice of the Christmas Opening cele bration, the Gazette-Times will be printed early next week and will be placed in the post of fices of Heppner, Lexington and lone late Wednesday af ternoon. Cooperation of the public is asked in submitting all news matter and advertising early. It is particularly requested that those who will have dis play ads for Christmas Open ing have material ready so that the staff may have it as soon as possible. Many ad vertising contacts will be made tomorrow (Friday) and coop eration will expedite the big job to be done, Sample copies of the paper will go to all boxholders in the Kinzua, Spray and Monu ment area as a means of in viting them to come to Hepp ner for Christmas Opening. Record Hop Set Friday; Radio Disc Jockey Due Ken Hickson, disc jockey of Radio Station KUBE. Pendleton, will be master of ceremonies at a Record Hop scheduled for Fri day night in the American Leg ion hall under the sponsorship M Boy scout Explorer Post 600, Heppner. The "Hop" is open to the pub lic and is staged to raise funds for the rejuvenated Boy Scout program here as well as to aid impetus to Scout movement In Heppner. Admission will be by donation, and anyone over 14 is invited. There will be no ticket sales for the event. Hickson will spin latest dance records, according to Paul War ren, master of the post. Scouts and leaders promise everyone who attends a good time. League to Sponsor Harvest Moon Ball Heppner High school Girl's League will entertain students, faculty and alumni at an an nual semi-formal dance Satur day evening, November 23, in the high school multi-purpose room. Theme for this year's dance is "Harvest Moon Ball," with Pam Cochell serving as general chairman. Dancing will be from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., with special enter tainment and decorations plan ned for the evening. A special invitation has been extended to all Heppner High alumni. Power Manager Tells Details of Exchange Exchange of farllitlps hptwppn racuic rower ana Light Com pany and Columhia RaKin Klnr. trie Cooperative, which was an nounced last week as proposed to become effective January 1, 1964, was the result of two years of study for means of providing best electric servicp tn thu rnnvnmor Harley Young, manager of Col umbia Basin Electric, said Wed nesday. At the same time the exchange Is designed for elimination of costly duplication of facilities, he said. "Studies determined that Pa cific Power could better serve the area along the Columbia River," Young said. "They also determined that Columbia Basin, with its present service in the rural area, could consolidate Pa cific's outlying service areas in to one compact operating unit. This will enable Columbia Ba sin to improve Its services to the rural consumers in Gilliam and Wheeler counties and at the same time provide improved and additional services to the new consumers." Columbia Basin Electric in tends to establish a branch of fice in the Condon-Fossil area with a complele line and service crew capable of performing all construction and emergency maintenance required in the area, Young said. bel and Harley Young of Pacific Power and Columbia Basin Electric have assured him that colored lights will be in place on the streets for the occasion, and the town will begin to as sume a holiday atmosphere. Another large crowd is expec ted to be on hand for the guess ing contest, which will be open from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 30. Among prizes that have been announced by stores to this time are the following: Electric blanket from J. C. Penney Co., $12.98 lady's robe from Elma's Apparel; $10 cash from C. A. Rugglcs Insurance Agency; elec tric wall clock from Western Auto; set of table lamps from Case Furniture Co.; $17.75 Casco fire extinguisher from Heppner Auto Parts; Bams Knit sweater from MiLadies Apparel; transis tor radio from Gonty's; pair of ice skates from Peck's Ski Shop; and $10 cash from the Gazette Times. Complete list of prizes will be announced In next week's paper, together with other details of Christmas Opening and announ cements of special events plan ned for the occasion by individ ual stores. Merchants are advised to re port their prizes to the Gazette Times no later than Monday to be included in the list to be prepared. In the contest, all are eligible to participate. The contestant merely views the display set up by the merchant of holiday merchandise, goes into the store to obtain an entry blank and on it writes his guess as to the retail value of the merchandise, The one who comes closest to the actual value wins that store's prize, and the winner's name will be placed on a placard in the window after 4:30 p.m. Merchants will have displays of gift items ready for holiday shopping, but no purchase is re quired to participate in the con test. A major purpose or the con test is to show the public what a variety of gift items may be ob tained locally and to show how low the prices are. Some stores will have var iations of the contest to adapt to their particular type of bus iness.,, ' Displays are to be kept con cealed until starting time, 9 a.m., November 30. Santa Claus will be on hand that Saturday afternoon to greet children and hand out treats. Lighting Contest Offers $60 Prizes Sixty dollars In cash prizes ar6 to be offered again this year in Heppner's annual Chris t m a s lighting contest, Randall Peter son, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce merchants commit tee, announces. The prize money is given by an anonymous donor via the Chamber of Commerce and is used to encourage residents and businesses to decorate their homes and stores in order to make a more beautiful city for the Christmas season. Prizes are offered as follows: Out door residence lighting and display, $10, rirst; $7.50, second; $5, third. Store windows, $10, first; $7.50, second; and $5, third. Residential window lighting (and inside decorations visible in window), $7.50, first; $5, sec ond; anu third. To be eligible the home or business decroated must be in side the Heppner city limits. Con testants will be asked to reg ister and a deadline for regis tering will be set at a later time. Those who wish to enter now may sign up at the Gazette- Times office. "Rate schedules to all consum ers will not be disturbed in any manner whatsoever," Young said. "All commitments presently ex isting between Pacific Power and the city and county governments will be assumed by the Colum bia Basin Copoerative." The power cooperative man ager pointed out that another matter of concern is the tax rev enue to the counties involved. "Columbia Basin has included in all its studies of the exchange of facilities, maintaining the same level of tax revenue to the counties," he said. "There are other benefits to the local com munities, such as the increase of employees and additional pay rolls." At the annual meeting Friday the cooperative will act on an amendment to the by-laws which would give incorporated cities representation on the board of directors Immediately. As announced last week bv the two concerns, Columbia Basin will purchase systems now own ed by Pacific Power in Olex, Con don, Fossil, lone, Lexington and Heppner and neighboring rural areas at a net amount of $1,492, 00. Pacfiic Power will serve the area along the Columbia River and will serve the Boardman in dustrial park, including some territory previously granted to Columbia Basin.
