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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday, December 5. 1963
Postmaster Lists
Tips to Expedite
Holiday Mailing
To assist Santa Claus and "Mr.
Zip," postal patrons are again
asked to use the Local and Out-of-town
labels which have been
placed in their post office boxes
and made otherwise available
Jim Driscoll, Heppner postmaster,
states.
"From past experience it can
be stated with thankful apprec
iation that many hours of labor
have been saved in the local op
eration by the kind cooperation
of the public In this regard," he
said "This year afford3 still a
greater opportunity for reducing
transit labor costs If all patrons
will conscientiously use Zip Code
numbers in addressing their
Christmas mail destined for de
livery out of Morrow county or
adjacent counties."
There will be extended hours
of window service for acceptance
of parcel post at Heppner be
ginning Monday, December 9,
and the window will remain
open until 6:00 p.m. The money
order srevice window will close
at the regular hour of 5:00 p.m.
On Saturday December 14, and
Saturday, December 21, after
noon hours will be kept at Hepp
ner until 6:00 p.m. for parcel
post business and until 5:00 p.m.
at the money order window. The
Lexington Rural Station will also
grant extended window service
on the above two Saturdays.
This year unsealed Christmas
cards will be 4 cents each, and
sealed cards 5 cents each.
"The Postal Service is ready,
so please bring the bulk of your
mailing as early as possible to
insure delivery by Christmas,"
Driscoll said.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Yackley
and Joe of The Dalles were
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Nels Anderson Wednesday
night and Thanksgiving Day.
Mr. Yackley Is a brother of Mrs.
Anderson. Mr. Anderson, who has
been 111 with tonsilitis, spent
most of the day in bed but said
that he was able to do some
visiting with the guests.
Frosty Freeze
Chills Area Here
A persistent cold spell with a
chilling pall of fog and heavy
frost has held in this area
through the week. Temperature
dropped as low as 16 last Friday
night and minimums have been
at least 10 degrees below freez
ing throughout the week.
For three days Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday the temper
ature never climbed above freez
ing, the high being 27 on Sun
day. However, Wednesday went
two degrees above freezing at
34 maximum and hope was for
somewhat warmer weather.
Heavy frosts brought some
power outages on rural lines but
these were rapidly corrected by
crews of Columbia Basin Electric.
The cold spell also added to
the hazard on the highway with
slick spots at various points. One
bad accident occurred Sunday
morning, and all drivers were
urged to travel with caution.
Complete report from Leonard
L. Gilliam is as follows:
Hi Low Free.
Wednesday 48 22
Thursday 41 18
Friday 42 20
Saturday 42 16
Sunday 27 20
Monday 25 21
Tuesday 26 21
Wednesday 34 22
Mrs. Peterson III
Mrs. Oscar Peterson, wife of
County Judge Peterson, entered
Pioneer Memorial hospital
Thursday for treatment and rest
after suffering from a bad cold,
persistent cough and some chest
congestion. Judge Peterson said
that he believes that she will
respond quickly to the care there
and soon be able to go home
again.
Mrs. Oma Cox, Heppner resi
dent for many years, plans to
move to Walla Walla, Wn., about
December 15 to be near an aunt
whose husband died recently.
She Is in Walla Walla this week
making preparations for the
move. The many friends of Mrs.
Cox regret that site is leaving
but have expressed good wishes
for her In her new home.
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Church Youth Plan
Skate at Cutsforth
Young people of St. Albin's
Acolyte of All Saints' Episcopal
church will meet at the church
at 9 a.m. Saturday for an ice
skating trip to Cutsforth Park
pond, according to announce
ments by Father Bruce Spencer.
Transportation will be furn
ished for members and their
friends. All are asked to dress
warmly and bring their own
skates. A cookout is planned for
the noon meal.
School Reading
Program Subject
Of PTA Meeting
"What is Developmental Read
ing?" will be answered at the
December meeting of the Hepp
ner PTA, Wednesday, December
11, at 7:30 p.m. at the high
school cafctorium.
Faculty members will discuss
the reading instruction which is
given to all Heppner high school
students this year. The materials
and machines used will be dem
onstrated and a reading film will
be shown.
Mrs. Jim Myers and Mrs. Stan
ley Cox, third grade room rep
resentatives, and their assist
ants, Mrs. Marion Green and Mrs.
Ernie McCabo, will be hostesses
at the meeting.
Sweatshirts in Heppner high
school and grade school colors
will be sold in a few days at
the schools as a PTA money
making project. Mrs. Bill Sowell
of the ways and means commit
tee is chairman of the sale.
Grand Opening
Proves Success
About 85 persons turned out
for the grand opening of Petty
john's Farm and Builder's Sup
ply, Friday. The business, form
erly Barratt Sales, was taken
over by Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Pettyjohn early in November.
The Pettyjohns combined their
official opening with the Christ
mas opening of the Heppner
merchants.
Coffee and doughnuts were
served to the guests and partici
pants in the opening. There were
also treats for the youngsters
who showed for the event.
Four prizes were awarded at
the opening, one for the Christ
mas opening and three door
prizes. Jean Stahley and Steve
Hutchens, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Hutchens, tied for the
merchants' opening prize.
The three door prizes were
awarded by drawing. Those win
ning prizes were: Mrs. Jack
Healy, transistor radio; Mrs.
John Graves, paint for one room;
and Teresa Hughes, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Hugnes, a
small fire extinguisher.
Maurice Miller, General Paint
slaesman, gave a painting dem
onstration tor homeowners.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parrish, ac
companied by her brother and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Huttdleston, of Hermiston, went
to Othello, Wn., to enjoy Thanks
giving as guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Waud and lamely. Mrs.
Waud is a niece ot Mr. and Mrs.
Parrish. Mr. Waud, county ageni
and known here as a judge at
the county fair, was home trom
Washington State college where
he has been taking work to
wards a master's degree.
Mrs. Toe Hartle and family
motored to Vale last Wednesday
where they met her daughter,
Miss Shirley Carson, and spent
I hanksgiving dav at the home
of Mr. llartle's mother, Mrs.
Viola Justus. During the week-
Legislators Talk
Boardman Lease
At Friday Meet
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Hansell who referred to the de
bate on the bills as, "Space age
pork." He said that it is time
to do something about the bills
because if they are defeated it
would mean that Boeing could
back out of the lease and leave
the area in want of a taker.
As to the legality of the lease,
Rep. Hansell said that it Is up
to the courts to determine
whether or not the lease is legal.
He also pointed out that there
is no unanimity of legal opin
ion on the matter.
During the rebuttal, Sen. Musa
pointed to the fact that there
are other sites along the Colum
bia and that they might attract
the company if the Boardman
squabble continues. The other
debaters talked along the same
lines as they did in their in
itial statements.
After the rebuttal period the
meeting was opened to written
questions from the audience.
Most of the questions seemed
aimed in the direction of the
proposed tax freeze and were di
rected to members of each team.
One question asked whether
the development of industry on
the land would be taxed accord
ing to the "freeze" scale or on
a progressive scale, determined
by the county assessor. It was
pointed out that the land which
remained undeveloped would re
main under the "freeze" which
would be adjusted every 10 years
and the land on which develop
ment took place would be taxed
according to its increase in value
as a result of the development.
Another pertinent question ask
ed by the audience was concern
ed with how much the land has
brought in tax payments in the
past. It was pointed out that the
land has brought very little in
taxes as related to Its size.
Before the debate had started,
Judge Peterson made a short
statement in regard to the Boe
ing deal. He stated that the land
involved had been purchased by
the Navy during the war at a low
price. Morrow county had sold
the land to the Navy and the
land was not available to Mor
row when it was most needed,
he said. Judge Peterson referred
to the Navy as being "hard to
deal with." He said that the
people of Morrow were not in on
the dealings for the lease but
that they had been willing to
trust the "higher-ups" to do the
job of negotiating. Peterson said
that the people of Morrow want
to get something done and are
disappointed that the deal had
not been closed.
Later that evening the court
made a statement in which it
supported the passage of House
Bill 1014 and opposed the pas
sage of House Bill 1020, the bill
which would have put into ef
fect the tax "freeze."
Also, before the debate, Bill
Belt of Hermiston, chairman of
the space-age association, ex
plained a few facets of the de
velopment of space-age industry
and outlined the purpose of the
meeting as being an informative
debate to acquaint the people of
this area with the details of the
deal.
Moderator was Wallace Mc
Crae, president of Blue Moun
tain College in Pendleton. Mc
Crae introduced the speakers
and added a few side comments
about the debate for the radio
audience which was listening to
the affair over KUMA radio in
Pendleton.
Assassination Deeply Moves
French People, Lanhams Write
People in France were prob
ably almost as stunned and
shocked by the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy as
those in the United States, Mrs.
Conley Lanham of Heppner
writes in a letter from Luynes,
France, where she and her hus
band are spending a few months
and attending school.
Television coverage of the
tragedy was complete, and the
French were greatly moved with
the news, she reports.
Her letter follows:
Dear Wes and Helen,
Living in a small village in
France is quite an experience
for us. This village, Luynes, is
located in the chateau country
of the Loire Valley, the valley
of the Kings. Luynes Is approx
imately the size of Heppner,
population-wise, and one won
ders where all the people live.
As one walks the narrow street
bordering the limestone bluff, he
begins to understand because
many of the homes are cave
homes dug right into the bluff.
Some of them are quite nice and
modern, according to French
standards; but others, I'm sure
are not too far removed from
the name 'cave' designates.
We have been having some
wonderful experiences living in
France, many of which will be
forgotten, but Friday evening
was the start of some experiences
we will long remember and
which we want to share with you
because they are representative
of the reaction of the French
people to the assassination of
President Kennedy.
It was almost 8 p.m. Friday
evening when we heard Madame
Alazard, our proprietor, come
running up the stairs. She fairly
burst into the room and breath
lessly asked us If we were listen
ing to the news. Then she told
us about the shooting, but she
said that the President was still
alive. We followed her down
stairs to watch TV for awhile,
but no further news was being
given and we returned to our
studying. Not too many minutes
later up she came again with
The Frank Hamlins had as
their guests Thanksgiving Day,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wright, Mr.
and Mrs. Dale Gray and Mr. and
Mrs. Delmer Buschke, Mike and
Kyle.
the news of his death. Again we
went down and spent the rest of
the evening because the French
TV station kept giving last min
ute bulletins. This went on un
til almost midnight even though
French TV usually terminates at
11 p.m. Madame's daughter and
son-in-law (Dr. and Mrs. Pages)
came the latter part of the even
ing to get the latest news. Had
this assassination happened to
a high official in their own
country, these three French
people could not have been more
affected.
Saturday and Sunday I don't
know how many different people
here in the village made it a
point to stop us, to shake hands
(the typical French greeting
among the French old and
young) and to offer their con
dolences. Almost without excep
tion this remark was made,
"How terrible it is for the people
of the United States and the
world. Your President was loved
by us." We noticed, too, that
wherever the French Tricolor
was displayed it was either at
half-mast or draped in black.
There are students from all
over the world here at the In
stitute d' Etudes Francaises de
Touraine in Tours where we are
studying. Monday morning when
students began to arrive, it
seemed that everyone was still
so very much dazed. There wasn't
the usual hubbub of voices and
the laughter to which we were
accustomed. Faces were very
sober and grave looking. At the
beginning of our class, and I
have reason to believe in all
classes, the professor expressed
sympathy to the few Americans
in his class. Afternoon classes
were postponed for an hour so
that the students could attend at
2:30 the brief ceremony in mem
ory of President Kennedy. This
ceremony took place in the
American Memorial square
around a bronze statue dedica
ted to the American soldiers who
fought here in the two World
Wars. In spite of the cold, blus
tery wind hundreds of people of
all ages were gathered there
for the ceremony which lasted
only a few minutes. The French
soldiers made up the honor
guard and, of course, a group
of our own soldiers were there.
One of our boys sounded taps.
There were two prayers the first
in French and one could hear
the French people in the crowd
murmering the prayer along
with the priest, and the other
prayer was in English. Several
wreaths were placed at the base
of the statue. An Oregonian, Mrs.
Helen Davis of Parkrose H. S.
Portland, who is on sabbatical
leave and studying at the Insti
tute, helped place one of the
wreaths. Again sadness was writ
ten on all faces in the crowd.
We came home early from
classes Monday p.m. to watch as
much of the funeral rites as
would be televised. Madame,
who teaches in the girls' school
here in Luynes, brought three
of her pupils to watch. So they,
Madame, her housekeeper, and
we watched the procession mov
ing through the streets of Wash
ington and into the cathedral.
That was it. The broadcast was
coming direct by Telestar and
reception was no longer possible.
During these last few days the
French radio and television sta
tions and the newspapers have
done a marvelous coverage of
the events, keeping the people
informed. From all appearances
France was in mourning almost
as much as the United States.
We couldn't keep from feeling
when we would see a French
flag at half-mast or draped in
black that there must be a tre
mendously good friendship be
tween the two nations.
In spite of the friendship,
however, we surely miss all the
familiar sights and faces of
home. It's going to be mighty
good to see the "Lady in N. Y.
Harbor" before too many more
months roll by.
Even though it is a bit pre
mature, Conley and I want to
wish you and others a most
happy and joyous holiday sea
son. Au Revoir
Vi Lanham
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