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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, THy m& HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES MOBBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established Times established November 18, 1912. O"" NIWSPAMt PUIUIHItl ASSOCIATION WESLEY A. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. IMIIIIIMllllllllllllllt'lll'M,,,l"IIIIM,MMIIIIMMMMIIMIIIIMMIMilllHMIIHIIMHMIIHIIIIHIIHIIMMlHmiW' Good for President Flemming! There used to be an old joke to the effect that a college bred person was a "half-baked" individual who went to an institution of higher education to "loaf" around and was nothing but a "crumb" in his home town. In recent years, however, this playboy image of the college student has tended to disappear, probably because it seems to be much tougher to get through college today than it used to be. The competition is keener, and vast new avenues of technical knowledge have been opened. It appears, though, that not all the college playboys are gone, judging by the recent request of the Student Union Board at (he University of Oregon to permit selling of beer to legal-age students in a room of the Erb Memorial Union building. This would seem to have all the earmarks of pointing towards the lush life in college again with the idea of making a four year holiday out of higher instruction, Those taxpayers who seriously are doing their level best to maintain institutions of higher education may well look with raised eyebrows at this student request, even though an on-campus "pub" might not be itself supported by taxes. It is to be hoped that this request does not reflect the majority of students' thinking. President Arthur S. Flemming dealt with the request, with one word, "No." Then he added a few others to clarify his position. Good for President Flemming! He gave the request exactly the treatment it should have received. Lions Score Another Hit lone Lions club, which has made rousing successes of a number of civic and community projects during the past three or four years, has scored another hit in public service. The club has decked out the City of lone in new street signs, which make it much easier for newcomers, especially, to find various residences and other addresses. One resident in the community commented how difficult it was recently for a doctor to find the residence of a person needing emergency treatment and how the signs will now help prevent sucli delays. There is some tendency for old-timers in a small community to think that street signs are unnecessary on the grounds that "everyone knows where everyone else lives anyhow." But there are a surprising number of new residents who are at a complete loss when someone says, "Oh, he lives down behind the old Joe Doakcs place." v Thus, the Lions have done their community a real service. As was editorialized in this paper a couple of years ago (and which got something of the "everybody knows everybody" treat ment), Heppner should follow suit. If the city cannot finance it, the project might be a good one for some enterprising group. Travel Enjoyed By Kinzua Folk By VIRGINIA KELSO KINZUA Mr. and Mrs. Don Stinkard went to liend Saturday morning where they spent the week-end as housoguests of Mr, and Mrs. Herbert Ekstrom. Mr. and Mrs. Clay Phillips were in Heppner Wednesday for medical attention. Mrs. Betty Shell left Thursday for Elgin where she will be em nloved bv Mr. and Mrs. Dean Moore. Mrs. Alan Guinn and daugh ters spent several days in Port land last week where Alana had the braces . removed from her teeth. Han Pickens of Chester, Calif omia, arrived Friday to spend several days visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Kay Cody. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Allen and family went to Portland Sat urday to spend the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Blank and son Travis. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rice and children were in The Dalles Sat urday for business and shopping Mrs. John Murray underwent major surgery last Monday at St. Vincents hospital in Portland. Miss Marlene Bailey of Kodiak, Alaska, spent Hie week-end here visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Craig and family. Bill Stephens returned over the week-end from Wieser, Idaho and went to work Monday. Son Born to Samples Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Samples of Medford became the parents of a son Sunday, February 23. The baby weighed 9 lbs., G oz. and lias been named Andrew Robert. Ho joins a sister Dianne. Grand parents are Mr. and Mrs. Mark Samples of Jacksonville, form erly of Kinzua. Mrs. Marie Wall entertained the members of the Auxiliary card club at her home Thurs day evening. High for pinochle was won by Virginia Sitton, low by Evelyn Smith, and floating by Naurine Benson. Grand high was won by Margaret McConncll and grand low by Virginia Kelso. High for bridge was won by Marie Wall and grand high by Joline Guinn. Others enjoying the evening were Meridel Wham, Dm Huek, Bertha Allen, Lily May Nistad, and Arlene Schroe dor. Mr. and Mrs. Derrell Bird and sons went to Heppner Sunday for medical care for Donnie. The Kinzua Women's club met Thursday afternoon at the Kit chen with Lois Hollomon and Bonn e Campbell as hostesses. Thursday, March 5, 1964 March 30, 1883. The Heppner la7. consolidated eoruary id, NATIONAL EDITORIAL. HELEN E. SHERMAN Associate Publisher After a short business meeting, the balance of the afternoon was spent picking out and ordering materials for their bazaar whinh will be held sometime in No vember. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hollomon and daughters of Hermiston spent the week-end here visit ing with Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hollomon. They were accompan ied by Mrs. William Fawcett of Stanfield, who visited with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ball. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Perry took Mrs. Lige Long and Jim Long to Arlington Friday where they took the bus to Portland. Mrs. Long will visit with her son and his family while her brother-in-law will have med ical attention. Visiting here over the week end were Mr. and Mrs. Jesse emmer of La Grande and Mr. and Mrs. Lvle Zemmcr and fam ily of Bates. The Lyle Zemmers visnou ner parents, the Delbert Barzees. Mr. and Mrs. Ame Slinkard went to Spokane Monday on business. Enroute they planned to visit friends at Baker and La Grande. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hyatt and family of Willamina visited dur ing the week-end at the Way land Hyatt home. Attend Flchter Services in lone Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hollomon went to Heppner Wednesday night and on to lone Thursday to attend the funeral services for George Fichter who was killed in a traffic accident In Portland last Friday night. At one time Mr. Fichter owned the land where Camp 5 is now located and was well known around Kin zua. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ferrel went to Tortlaiul Friday for a medical cheekun for Mr P,rwl While there they visited the Bur- ion i eisons. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Michel and family went to Hermiston Fri day for busincssand shopping. Gene Mortimore went lo Twickenham KrlHnv n vicit tin Howard Mortimores. When lie re turned home Saturday his cousin Billy Sehultz came with hi remained until Sunday when the uwwaiu iuorumores came alter him. Spending Friday and Satur day with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon rerry were Air. and Mrs. Roscoe Rush and family and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Nesselrodt and fam ily all of Long Creek and Mrs. Hoyd Larkin and son of Day ville. Mr. and Mrs. Slim Rhoton were business visitors to Pendleton Saturday. Marvin Hamilton and Mike Michel went to Portland Tues day on a business trip. Chaff and Wes AL DUNBAR, newcomer here, has made a unique offer to the public. He invites anyone who has unwanted animals of any kind cats, dogs, squirrels, coons, or what have you to give them to him. He has bought a 2-acre place at Lexington and will take the animals and provide for them there. So if you have some pet that you must dispose of, but don't want to kill, give it to Al. He says he has barns on the place in which he can keep them. Also a collector of deer horns, he plans to decorate the place liberally with the horns. If the county had known that it was going to have such an animal lover coming here, it wouldn't have had to build the dog pound! Anyone interested may call at Cal's Tavern where he is a chef. WE WANT to welcome Chuck McLean and Bob Eggers as newcomers to the business com munity in Heppner. They have taken over operation of the Wagon Wheel Cafe, and we wish them the best of success. We know that Chuck, former fire control officer in the Heppner Ranger district, has a back ground in the restaurant busi ness and know too, that he and Bob, also formerly with the For estry department, are determined to do a top job of serving the community in the restaurant. A community such as Heppner can support the several good res taurants it has, making a good combination with the excellent motels and hotel that it has to serve visitors as well as the home folks. BETTY, FULLETON picked up a copy of the Gazette-Times and saw the ad that was promoting classified advertising in the paper. "Turn Trash into Cash," she read aloud. "Hmmm. We ought to sell Roice's guns. He never uses them." "Go ahead," we urged, "run an ad on them." "No," she replied, "I better not. He might use them on me." COMING TO us via Randall Pet erson from Stanley Minor is the little souvenir booklet of the Heppner Gazette, New Year's Ed ition, 1902. Probably some other old-timers have them, too. It is a very interesting book let with some excellent pictures in it. We noticed that in 1901 a total of 5,000,000 pounds of wool was sold from Morrow county at an average of 9 cents per pound! Wool was really the big product for the county in those days. However, this was not all pro duced in the county, since some came from adjoining counties. Morrow county's production for the year was 2,350,000 pounds. Stock shipments from Heppner for the year were 59,000 sheep, 1800 cattle, and 1200 horses and mules. The First National Bank had deposits of $500,000 which wasn't much as eomparde with today, but the dollar was considerably bigger in those days. Other excerpts from the book: "Good wheat land can be purchased from $2.50 to $10 per acre." "During the year 1901, John Harbke in the lone district pur chased 640 acres of land for $5 an acre. He put it in wheat. After the crop was harvested, ho sold the grain and after payinc; all expenses had money enough left from the sale of the crop to pav for the land. "Big threshing machines with powerful traction engines thresh all the way from 1200 to 2000 sacks of wheat a day, each sack containing two bushels. To run such a big outfit, it takes a small army of men who work from daylight to dark." "City officials at Heppner: Frank Gilliam, mayor; J. P. Wil liams, recorder; L. W. Briggs, treasurer; J. J. Roberts, E. W. Rhea, George Noble, Thos. Quaid, O. E. Famsworth and Phil Cohn, councilmen." "During the past year Heppner lias made a bigger growth than for several years." The article lists many improvements in the business district and says, "J. L. Yeager carries a large stock of furniture;" "D. W. Ilornor is a well-known saddle manufactui- CLEAN UP PAINT UP We Have FULLER Paints In Thousands Of Colors WALLPAPER TOO!! "For all your hcatin; o d f'oor covering n-jeds" M&R COMPANY Heppner ph. 676-9418 Chatter Sherman er;" "J. L. Gibson is a pioneer barber," and so on. Big spreads are devoted to the plush Palace Hotel, Gilliam and Bisbee Hard ware, Minor and Company De partment stores. (Alas, the next year undid many of the improve ments and washed away many of the businesses in the Great Flood of 1903). There are articles in the book let about lone, "The principal wheat shipping point in Morrow county," Lexington, Eight Mile, and Hardman. Another, by R. F. Hynd tells about the sheep and wool industry. We thank Mr. Minor for send ing us the booklet and if any one would like to see it, they are invited to drop in. WE HAD SOME rela fun around the Gazette-Times last week. Mrs. Ken Peck and Mrs. Harold Laird brought down about 20 second grade pupils on Thurs day morning to see the action here on press day. The young sters prove to very flattering spectators as they hold every thing they view in awe. One of the nicest things to us, though, is the "Thank You" from them that follows their visit. Each one wrote us a "thank you" note. From their cute letters we gather that they enjoyed watch ing the big Miehle newspaper press print the papers the best of all with the linotype machine a close second. Wish we had the room to print all their letters, but do not. They also sent down a copy of their paper, "The Two's News," which is a real creditable journalistic achievement. Banner headline of this issue was the big scoop, "Second Grade Visits Gazette Times!" WE HAD to make a circulation count for a national advertis ing agency the other day and were somewhat surprised to find that the G-T goes to 35 of Ore gon's 36 counties all except Curry (What's the matter, Curry?) and to 30 of the nat ions 50 states, in addition to several foreign countries. We didn't realize that we got around quite that much. Services Held In Grass Valley For A. W. McLeod Alexander William McLeod, a long time resident of Sherman and Morrow counties, died Sat urday, February 29, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alvin WatT- enblast, near Lexington, at u.e age of 73. He had been in ill health for some time. He was born March 19, 1S90, at Kent, Oregon. In 1912 he was married to Zeta Mae Andrews. Eight children were born to this unison, five daughters and three sons. His wife preceded him in death on May 10, 1951. He later married Gertrude Grenfell of McMinnville. She died January 3, 1961. Funeral services were at the Grass Valley Community church on Wednesday, March 4, at 2 p.m., with Rev. Melvin Dixon, Heppner, officiating, and ser vices under the direction of Smith-Colloway Mortuary. Inter ment was in Grass Valley cem etery. Survivors include the five daughters, Mrs. Cecil Stephens, The Dalles; Mrs. George Kruger, Leonore, Idaho; Mrs. Randall Martin, Heppner; Mrs. Jack Cor win, Tampa, Fla.; Mrs. Alvin Wagenblast, Lexington; two sons, David A. of Heppner, and Corliss A. of Vancouver, Wn. One son, Alexander E. died in 1931. Other survivors include nine grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild, 1 brother, W. A. McLeod of Salem, and two half-sisters, Erma Laffoon and Elsie Martin, both of Kent, Oregon. Visiting in Heppner last Thurs day, before returning to their homes following the Tuesday funeral services for their mother, Mrs. Helen Brown in Monument, were Capt, Frank Christenson, Amarillo, Tex., Alton (Pete) Christenson and his wife. Port land, and Chet Christenson of Honolulu, Hawaii. Al Ullman Files For Reelection To Congress Post Congressman Al Ullman an nounced Wednesday that he has filed for re-election to Congress from Oregon's 2nd Congressional district. The Baker Democrat Is currently serving his fourth term. Ullman, as a member of the Ways and Means committee, al so serves on the Committee on Committees for the Democratic majority. Prior to being elected by his Democratic colleagues to Ways and Means, he served four years on the House Interior com mittee, beginning with his first term in 1957. He cited several recent achievements for the district: The new start on the Baker Valley Reclamation Project, cur rent construction of the John Day Dam and The Dalles Pro ject, Western Division, and com pletion of Bully Creek, Crooked River and Klamath Extension Projects. He also pointed to the allocation of 1963 Accelerated Public Works funds to finance early construction of community facilities, hospitals, public land and Forest Service roads and recreation facilities as "a val uable contribution to the econ omy of the District and the wel fare of its citizens." Other flood control and rec lamation projects considered by Ullman to be "vital to the growth of the region" and which are currently in the planning stages are: Pendleton Project, Grande Ronde-Catherine Creek, Walla Walla Project, Central Division, Deschutes Project, Wil low Creek Dam and John Day River and Burnt River developments. Club to Help IFYE The March 1 meeting of the Rhea Creek Livestock club was called to order by Bob Harris, president, at the Rhea Creeke Grange hall. We talked about the money in our treasury and decided to give the IFYE program. Then we talked about our projects. The meeting was adjourned. Nels Anderson show ed us some slides on judging. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Gene Hall. John Harris, reporter Bades Move Here Mr. and Mrs. Loren Bade and family of Echo will move to Heppner Saturday and will live in the Tom Howell Apartments. Bade is Fuller Brush repreesnta tive for Morrow county and has served this area from Echo for four or five years. In the family are three children, two boys, 4 and 5 years old, and a girl, eight months. F ' .fx Kiwiit., v jmA - aSAsatoS This one has trfe others beat coming and going! The 'Jeep' Gladiator has optional auto matic transmission, power steering and power brakes to make driving easier, and inde pendent front suspension to soak up road shocks. And look at the wide, comfortable front seat and tremendous visibility. Still, it's a brute for work! Virtually indestructible in the 'Jeep' traditition. 120" or 126 wheelbase. GVW's up to a thumping 8600 pounds. KAISER Jeep CORPORATION tmm MlllMtM ttlMMtt asar um mast show on mir One -Shot Roscoe As Told By ORVILLE W. CUTSFORTH (Editor's note: This is an other in the series of anec dotes about the late Roscoe Cox, Morrow county outdoors man, who died last year). We built a hunting lodge up where Roscoe stayed, at the mouth o Herron Creek. We hunted there a lot. Two years ago Roscoe was getting rather feeble, but he still hunted and he was still the best hunter in the outfit. But he hunt ed alone because he couldn't keep up with us. We were hunt ing along and we had pretty good luck. I think we killed among the bunch of us about 7 elk. We didn't hear of Roscoe killing any. The day after the season was over we were making wood for the ski camp that winter and Roscoe came up to help. Old Pappy Leyva and I were piling wood inside of the cabin and Roscoe was outside helping buck up this wood. One of the men said to him, "Roscoe, too bad you didn't get an elk this year." "Who said I didn't get any elk. I killed two bulls," Roscoe said. I turned to Pappy Leyva and I said, "Pappy, . I got $100 dollars that Roscoe killed those two bulls with two shots, will you call me?" Pappy saw him shoot those coyotes, and Pappy wouldn't call me. So I went outside and said, "Roscoe, those two bulls, how many shots?" Roscoe's face got long and sad and he held up his hand with three fingers, three shots. I said, "Three shots, how come?" "Well," he said, "One of them was leaving, going off through the brush, and I had to turn him around before I could kill him." Fraternity Taps Two Larry Green of Heppner and Bob Davidson of Lexington, stu dents at Eastern Oregon College, have been named to Theta Delta Phi, honorary scholastic fratern ity. Larry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Green, is a sophomore majoring in social science, and Bob, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Davidson, is a senior in second ary education. The two were among 13 chosen for the hon orary. Election to membership is based upon high attainment in college studies. brute! 4-wheel drive 'JEEF GLADIATOR the beautiful bruta Farley Motor HFPPKIFR nRFKOKI Girl Has Surgery Kathleen Crooke, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Crooke of Heppner, is recover ing in St. Anthony's hospital, Pendleton, from recent surgery following a kidney infection. She has been in the hospital about two weeks and is expec ted to be released some time this week. The girl is showing good progress following the operation, her father said. Cecil Club Started The second meeting of the new 4-H club in the Cecil area was held at the home of the leader, Mrs. Ewing Hynd, on February 24. This is a mixed project group of knitting and leather craft. The group named the club "Bee's Busy Buddies." Marlene Magill gave a demon stration on knitting hair bands and Clint Krebs gave a demonl stration on making leather book marks. Games were played with Jane Krebs as leader. Next meet ing will be March 6. Clint Krebs, reporter G ) COMMUNITY ) BILLBOARD Coming Events DISTRICT TOURNAMENT La Grande, March 6, 7 Heppner vs. Vale, Friday, 9:15 p.m. EOC gymnasium. PTA MEETING Wednesday, March 11, 8:00 p.m.. Special Founders Day program. Past presidents and teachers welcome. High school multipurp o s e room. ORDER OF RAINBOW GIRLS Father-Daughter Banquet Tuesday, March 10, 6:30 p. m. Masonic Hall. HEPPNER EXTENSION UNIT Monday, March 9, 10:30 a.m. Wavel Wilkinson home. Project lesson, "Come Catch a Rainbow." LEGION AND AUXILIARY Annual Birthday celebration Sunday, March 15, 7 p.m. Special program. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner Co. (Tes, 9 P.m. ch. 25)
