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HEPPNER GAZETTE -TIMES, Thursday. January 9. 1364 THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES MOBBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883 The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February Id, 1912. NATIONAL EDITORIAL! 1IAC8"4N i . r NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION WESLEY A. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher HELEN E. SHERMAN Associate Publisher as Second Class Matter. ,.............-- ""' tMMIMMMmMMHMINMMMMMMII What's Happening to the Mail? Complaining about the U. S. post office department is prob ably no more effective than a complaint about high taxes, but Has appeared recently that instead of getting better, the service offered by the department is getting worse Whatever is wrong is not the fault of the local offices. In places we've lived we have never known a pos master to be other than very accommodating, courteous, helpful and cff.c X There have been many cases when they have gone beyond the line of duty to be helpful. This is true in Heppner, and it is true with Ihe local carriers. But somewhere in the bowels of the system-and we think it is in the big cities-something is wrong. Mail coming from California often takes an unusually long time to arrive in manv instances and sometimes it does not arrive at all. For instance, this newspaper office ordered Christmas cards from a Los Angeles supply house on December 10 for a local customer: The cards have not arrived at this writing, although they were invoiced out of the office there on December 12. Another expected package also failed to arrive. Still a third parcel took nine days to make the trip from Los Angeles. The Christmas season with its unusually heavy volume of mail is difficult, of course, and It imposes unusual demands on the postal system. But it is the same rush that has come every year since the department was started and by now it should be geared to take whatever steps are necessary to move the mail in stride. . First class mail is delayed during these rush periods, and with important business mail tied up In the tidal wave of Christmas cards it imposes a hardship on those businesses which depend upon mail for their commerce. We have had more and more complaints about newspapers from this office not reaching their destinations on time even though they invariably leave here at the same time every Thursday One subscriber In La Grande said he never receives his paper earlier than the ensuing Monday. Another In Port land has complained of getting his a week late. Packages coming by parcel post seem to be getting rougher and rougher treatment. In this area, parcel post offers an out on shipment of smaller items needed instead of paying the premium cost on freight, but packages are coming through in increasingly battered condition. This office often orders envelopes from a supplier by parcel post. They are well packaged, but seldom does a box arrive without one end being crushed. Postmaster Jim Driscoll believes that this is due to the fact that the department Is experimenting with sorting machines instead of handling the packages manually in larger offices. Apparently considerably more research needs to be done! By and large, our postal system is a wonderful thing and a marvelous service. It has been so reliable that the public takes it for granted that its mail will come through in the shortest possible time. Volume has increased exceedingly, of course, and this im poses great demands. But with this good foundation, it now appears that the de partment is losing ground, even in the face of the Zip Code. Indeed, it seems that service has worsened from about the time of the inception of this code. To date, there has been only token use of the code, and maybe this is adding some confusion. Some conscientiously have ad justed their habits to include the code but others seem to be disdainfully adopting an attitude of passive resistance towards U Many have been unable to see how the Zip Code can im prove service, and others like us have adopted the attitude that If the department is convinced it will expedite service, the best thing to do Is to cooperate, even though we don't under stand all about it. But if good results are to come, they are not evident as yet. It certainly is evident that 90 of the mail coming through is without Zip Code addresses, and the system could not be effective in the face of this response. Postmaster Driscoll is good about hearing complaints and he does his best to check them out, sending letters up the line, but at that point they seem to get lost. Now that the public is paying more for postal service, it would not seem unreasonable that it could expect the depart ment to improve its service so that it keeps pace with the present-day demands on communication. It would still be interesting to know what happens to the parcels coming from the south. Do they get caught at the bottom of a pile in a big sorting station somewhere with more coming in constantly so the bottom of the pile is never worked? It would be Interesting to see what happens to take nine days for a parcel to get from Los Angeles. Arthritis Cripples the Young, Too W A X ' Chair and Chatter wes Sherman B SEVERELY crippled by rheumatoid arthritis, the" hand belong to five girls, aged 9 to 12, who art under treatment at the Marth of Dimei-financed Arthritis Treatment Center, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago. The youngsters are about to immerse their hands for several minutes in a tub of hot paraffin, a form of therapy which lessens pain, reduces stiffness in the finger joints, Increases circulation and sometimes prevents contractures and "clenching." March of Dimes programs assist II million Americans afflicted by arthritis diseases. DOES ANYONE know anything of an ancient stone sepulcher that is supposed to be located near Lexington? Mrs. Donna L. Thurber, who represents a San Francisco con cern which is engaged in getting out folders for the Union Oil company has written to the Chamber of Commerce asking for the information. At thp nresent time this firm is engaged in publishing a folder on "Mystery Spots" for Union 76: and in two letters to the Cham ber asks about this sepulcher. The folder is printed and dis tributed for benefit of tourists and includes such famous "Mystery Spots" as the Win chester House, San Jose, Calif.; the house that defies gravity at Gold Hill; Trees of Mystery in Northern California where red wood "roots" grow up and the "trunks" grow down; and a place in the "Bigfoot" country where footprints seven inches wide and 18 inches long keep appearing in the Trinity wilderness. In the most recent letter she speaks of the "ancient Mayan sepulcher" near Lexington but does not state where she heard about it. At a recent Chamber of Com merce meeting with Orville Cuts forth and other old timers present, no one could shed any light on it. Is there anyone around who can? If not, it will probably have to go in a file with Gar Swan son's dinosaur. IF" GARNET Barratt. now of Mesa, Ariz., is going to appear on the TV program, Bonanza, he doesn't know about it. This is the word that comes via Mr. and Mrs. Marion Saline of Pendle ton, brother and sister-in-law of Mike Saline of Heppner. The Pendleton couple is in Arizona for the winter, saw Gar net and he said the rumor of his expected TV debut is all news to him. Now the Bonanza's ratings in this area will fall down to norm al once more. Still think our ex-iudee would have made a good actor with Lome Green. V W W VIC GROSHENS, city superin- tendent, says we left out one of the most important local de velopments of the year in the summary story on 1963 last week. This is the digging of the city's artesian well, which has sup plied 20 million gallons of good water since it was put on the line. The water flows at tne rate of about 110,000 gallons per day without pumping. V V V ALSO HEARD we failed to men tion some of the new signs around the community in the little item about the bright ap nearance Main street is taking We didn't really try to name them all, but we did miss Pete McMurtry's new sign at Hepp ner Auto Parts. dent since childhood days. He recalls the Indians coming through in the spring of 'the year and also remembers the freighters making the trip from Heppner to Long Creek. WE CAN'T help but share the pleasure that Sgt. Jim Chaun cey of the Condon Air Force Station and other personnel there leel on the selection oi their monthly paper as the best in the Air Defense Command across the United States in its category, for stations with per sonnel of 1000 or less. It is really quite an achievement for them, and the Gazette-Times shares, because it composes and prints the Daoer. "The Scope," for them. Lt. Tom Goldie, public in- iormation otticer wno ma mucn of the work building up the paper, has been transferred but Sgt. Chauncey now does most of the work on the publication under Lt. Joe Bigelow, lniorma tion officer. Citation and presentation of the award will come at a later date at the station, according to word from Major Richard Sol omon, commander. ARS Inspectors Find Vast Pest Array at Borders IN SUMMER time on the lakes in the state there is a contro versv between water skiiers and fishermen, each annoying the other. Soon we may nave an other winter controversy on the lakes that between cold weain er fishermen and ice skaters. At Bull Prairie fishing is now in full swine with those wno en 1ov choiiDine holes in the ice Skaters are also enjoying me frozen lake surface, and win un til they plop into one of the fishermen s holes. A word of caution that comes via the Rev. Melvin Dixon: If you do go fishing at Bull Prairie, don't leave your pole unattend ed. PETERSON'S JEWELERS, we dis covered the other day, is a second post office in Heppner. If you need stamps and don't get' to the post office before the window closes at five, Randall will sell them to you at least he did to Frank S. Parker, who apparently is a pretty regular customer. Frank, though, declares that some of Randall's stamps aren't of top quality. He wanted a penny rebate on one that had a corner torn off. Noticed that Frank licks the corner of the envelope instead of the stamp. Declares it is bet ter tasting. That's a good cue for us. We'll have to develop flavors for envelopes we sell in our job printing plant, maybe in straw berry, cherry, raspberry, orange, lemon and lime. THERE'S AN interesting article in the January issue of North west Ruralite on the town of Monument, picture of which is on the front cover. It tells of the town being incorporated in 1SU4 after a post office was first lo cated there October 27, 1S74. At one time a newspaper, the Mon ument Enterprise, was publish ed there by Billy Crabtrre. fath er of Mrs. Wave Jackson, who still lives there. Tile story also tells of Mark Stubblefirld, 82, another resi- From time to time we hear criticisms mainly of the nuis ance of plant inspections or quarantines. Many people have complained of losing some fruit or something at state lines or thf Canadian hnrdpr whilp nn have come to life which might maKe some oi us utuer unuer stand and anniwiatp whv these inspections or quarantines are necessary. Those responsible for the in spections, the Agricultural Re search Service, insneetors inter cept an average of one plant pest . 1 ..,.,i u evt-iy j.u iiiiniues aiuunu me clock. In the last decade, these ly a quarter of a million insects diseases, nematodes, mites, and snails from entering the United States. Their action safeguards me prouueuve aDimy oi u. a. Agriculture. Withmit mnnt niinrantinp in crxantnrc Tnio'Vit tint ha thp hpet fed and best clothed people in tne wono. witnoui mese inspec tors nnp Ampriran farmpr cnuld not produce enough for himself and 28 fellow Americans. Here ara nmp pvnmn P5' 'SlYtv bright red berries in a suitcase. Just a souvenir to show the folks back home, an air passenger thmiaht Thnv vuprp. rnffpp hprrips fmm Rr:i7i!' thpv wprp nrpttv and they were infested with the Mediterranean truit tiy. But not too long ago another traveler, at Loredo, Tex., obvious lv did nnt knnw ahnut thp rpf ulations. Inspectors tound orchids stutied into his pocKeis and tree conHc nnnpnnlnd in hie mnnpv belt. Both the flowers and the seeds harbored dangerous plant pests. ARS inspectors are stationed at malor U.S. airports, sea ports, and border crossings to pnfnrpp thp nlant niiarantines Since 1953, these inspectors have marlp 2.1(1747 interventions of in- jpfts disfaeps npmatodes. mites and snails. These interceptions included many ot tne worio s most important plant pests. In cluded upfp the Euro Dean cherry fruit fly, Mediterranean fruit fly, melon fly, Mexican fruit flv, olive fruit fly, Oriental fruit flv, West Indian fruit fly, oitrus black fly, Durra stem bor er, Khapra bettle, Mediterran ean land snail, pink bollworm, Japanese citrus scale, Cancrosis B. citrus canker, golden nema tode, sweet orange scab and scab and black spotted citrus. During the fiscal year ending June 30. 1963, ARS inspected 144.601 airplanes, 59,556 ships, 25,962.219 vehicles and 66,010 rail road cars. They also coop erated with custom officials in examining 43,910,990 packages. Thev intercepted damaging plant pests 31,439 times and found 394,915 lots of prohibited plant material. In addition, by accident, they found the second largest ship ment of nurp hproin ever in tercepted in the United States, stopped last October at the Mex ican border. While this job is io; custom officials, an alert ARS plant quarantine inspector dis covered the heroin in a tourist car. The inspector became sus picious when he tested the cars' rear seat with his knee and noticed that it was unusually hard. A search revealed 27 plas tic bacs of heroin jammed up under the springs. Thirty-nine more bags were behind the four door panels. Jones to Head Farmers Union; Vote Resolution At a recent meeting of the Farmer's Union, Morrow county lnnal disrnssinn was held on fair trade and the world market, with particular emphasis on Deei and poultry. Dffipprs fnr 1 Qfi4 wprp plpcred. Clarence Rosewall retired from the president s chair, after serv ing for 1962 and 1963. He was succeeded by Marcel Jones. Paul Brown was elected vice presi dent, and Mrs. Orville Cutsforth replaced Mrs. Paul Brown as secretary-treasurer. Bob Jepsen, representing the Wheat League, reported on the Oregon Wheat League meeting held in Portland. He urged all wheat growers to write immed iately to congressmen concern ing a voluntary wheat program. Mr. Jepsen also read resolutions from five wheat raising states, all favoring the voluntary wheat plan. The local Farmer's Union then passed the following res olution: "Whereas: The Morrow Coun ty Farmers Union wholeheart edly supports the Oregon btate Wheat League stand, that we take aggressive steps to secure a voluntary program for wheat, encompassing the principles oi the CERTIFICATE PLAN (urg ing a voluntary certiticate pro gram)." Smith Offers Class n Radio, Electronics A class in elementary elec tronics, radio theory and prac tice will be started soon oy Kay Smith if enough demand is shown, he announced this weeK. Smith, an experienced and li censed technician, would like to have anvone interested get in touch with him or phone his home, 676-9725. He conducted such a class a few years ago, helping start several young people in interesting radio and "ham" oDeratine hobbies, ine piass will he oDen to men, wo men or young people and will probably meet in tne evenings. If enough interest is snown, an organizational meeting date will be called. One -Shot Roscoe As Told By ORVILLE W. CUTSFORTH Mrs. Smouse Spends Holidays with Bakers Mrs. Anne Smouse returned to her home here Monday after spending the holidays at the hnmp nf her son-in-law ano daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Richaid Baker and family in torvains, and visitine friends in Eugene. While at the Baker home she became acquainted with her new grandson, Dick Kiger, born to the Bakers on Thanksgiving Day. He weighed 8 lbs., 4 oz., and tnins three sisters. Deborah, r, Martha Ann, 6, and Elizabeth, 3. She accomDanied her son, Ken neth Smouse of lone, home from Corvallis where he went to re turn Kenneth Lynn to his studies at Oregon State Univer sity. (Editor's note: This is an other in the series of anec dotes about the late Roscoe Cox, Morrow county outdoors man.) nii Dncnnn Cnv and his 22 UUU ww.fc Winchester pump. We seldom saw him when he wasn't carry ing this little' rifle. t Viirv, nnp dnv when he came in from making'some wood and I said, "Koscoe, tnat ruie will be the death of you yet. He said, "Why?" "Well," I said, "Roscoe you 11 meet a bear up here one of these days (there are lots of bear here) you'll shoot him with that ,22 and you won't be able to stop him and he'll get you." I was up about a week later and Old Roscoe was grinning. He says "Orville, I did it." "Did what?" I says. He said, "I killed a bear with this .22." I said, "oh, no." He said, "Yes, the bear was going along the hillside and didn't see me. So I shot him be hind the front leg. The bear rati away, the dog, Old Bob, took after him, and the bear and the dog went around through the brush. Pretty soon the dog 'Kie yiked' and I knew he had the v,QS,r ir, q trAP. Sn I cut through the brush and got to the tree and the bear was up a sman tree and the tree was leaning over. The bear was dying and about to fall out of the tree. I knew he had life enough to kiii 'Old Bob. So I had to shoot him in the eye. Two shots. SCHOOL MENUS Week of January 13-17 MONDAY Snaehetti and meat balls, string beans, carrot sticks, fruit, milk, and bread and butter. TUESDAY Hamburger gravy, potatoes, celery sticks, fruit, milk and bread and butter. WEDNESDAY Navy beans and ham, cabbage salad, hot rolls and butter, fruit and miiK, Thursday Macaroni and cheese, Jell-O vegetable salad, cake, fruit, milk and bread ano butter. Wranglers Elect New Officers New officers were elected Tues day evening at the regular meet ing of the Wrangler Riding club. Elected president for the com ing year was Gene Harryman, lone High school principal. Other officers are Mrs. Beverly Steag all, vice president, Mr. and Mrs. Dimple Munkers, secretary treasurer. On the board of di rectors are Fred Mankin, Art Vance, Everett Struckmeier, Jerry Dougherty and George Luciani. Plans were made for the com The date of Sunday. January 19, was set for a work day at the wrangler piay grounds. Discussion was held on enriner nlavdavs. but no dates were scheduled. The Wranglers win sponsor a girl for princess of the Mor- rnu; Pnun tv Fair and Rodeo this year. The last Sunday in March will be tne time ior iryouis ai the playgrounds. Tha ninh's nhiective is to stim ulate more interest and activity for members this year. Dr. and Mrs. Jim Norene served refreshments to the 25 members attending. is- mm?- "use thft VflfJIflDS All lvinnre business forms the county to get the forms you need. ttrtday Potato soup, peanut butter sandwiches, lettuce salad, upside down cake and milk. DEFEND i FREEDOM BUYU.S. TO COMMUNITY BILLBOARD Cominq Events HEPPNER HIGH BASKETBALL Heppner vs. Sherman High ot Moro. Heppner Hign scnooi evm. Friday, January 10. .lavvee same. 6:15 P.m. Va'rsitv same. 8:00 P.m. Support the Mustangs! REBEKAH-ODU FhLX,UWa DINNER Saturday, January 11. IOOF Hall, 6:30 p.m. Joint installation of officers. HF.PPNER EXTENSION UNIT Home of Mrs. Frank Connor Tuesday, January 14 Noon luncheon. Lesson on "Wills." HF.PPNF.R PTA MEETING Elementary mult i p u r p o s e rnnm Wednesday, January 15, 7:30 p.m. Panel discussion. Band stu dents. SK-TTNf: AT ARRIJCKLE 20" to 30" packed snow on hill low operating Saturday, sun' da v Skiing hours, 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. Ski lessons available Satur day. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC RFRVTCR RY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppoer SHOE SuSC OUTSTANDING CLEARANCE! UTnAK.-t dm : Xv V w I - h o v ro( ; PRICES DRASTICALLY REDUCED! DRESS SHOES I90 CASUALS g90 AIR STEP'S REG. 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