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, 4 HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, THE GAZETTE-TIMES MOBBOW COUITXTS NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NIWS'AMt rUIHIHIM ASSOCIATION WESLEY A. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Eveursday and Entered at as Second Class Matter. IIMHIIMIHMIHHHIHIHMIIIHII THE JOY AND HOPE OF EASTER By The REV. WALTER B. CROWELL Pastor, lone United Church of Christ We Eather In our churches on Easter Sunday for one purpose to celebrate the fact "Christ the Lord is risen." Whatever the nature of Christ's resurrection was, the fact Is that Christ con quored death. Easter is the celebration of that glorious victory. This is an event that we celebrate every Sunday in our churches. Would you be surprised, if on a certain Sunday in OctobCT you would find yourself singing in one of your worship services, "Christ the Lord is Risen Today! Alleluia!"? Perhaps many would think that the organist by mistake had turned to the wrong page, or the minister's secretary had selected the wrong number for the order of service. But why? Have we forgotten that as Christians we gather for worship on Sunday, rather than on Saturday, because it was on the first day of the week that the discovery of Christ's victory over death was made. Every Sunday is a celebration of what Easter declares. Without this fact there never could have been a Christian church. If the story had ended on Good Friday with the crucifixion, none of us would be Christians today. Bishop G. Ashton Oldham once said that "the stone was moved not t0 let Jesus out but to let the disciples In." This may well be the truth, for the open tomb let the disciples enter into the glory of a new faith. They came expecting to find a dead Jesus; they were met with the revelation of a risen Lord. They came in the depth of despair; they left radiant with hope. They came in fear; they left with courage. The best Christians wlil be in church on Easter Sunday not to see the flowers, or to hear the music, or even to hear a sermon. They will be there to seek a living presence. They will seek one who can make life more meaningful; one who can put purpose and significance and faith into life. We need someone who can give us hope for our confused, bewildered and divided world. This was at the heart of the Easter message. John, the author of the last book in the New Testament, was writing about the risen Christ. He said, "When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, 'Fear not, I amf the first and the last, and the living one; I died, and behold I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades." Rev. 1:17, 18. J. B. Phillips in his translation makes this last to read, "I hold in my hand the keys of death and the grave." The risen Christ spoke to John In his prison camp, "Fear not to live I am the living One." Our fear-filled age needs this message now more than ever before. We need the assurance that beside us, and within us, Is the Divine Presence with wisdom to guide us, strength to protect us, and love to keep us to the end. All the way from the Upper Room in Jerusalem down to our day there has been an unbroken succession of men and women for whom Christ Is not merely an immortal memory but an abiding presence and an unfailing source of power. The living Christ then said to John, his suffering servant, "Fear not to die I died, and behold, I am alive forevermore." The risen Christ speaks these gracious words from the other side of the grave to confirm what he told his disciples while he was with them In the flesh, "Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God believe also In me." What happened to Jesus is our hope. What happened to his followers Is our great assurance. They saw in the resurrection of Christ the certainty of their own resurrection. This helped them to remember and rely on his promises, 'That where I am you may be also," and "Because I live, you will live also." Their faith in his promises enabled them to say, "0 death, where Is thy sting? O' grave, where Is thy victory? Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." The Holy Spirit, God in their hearts, gave them power to live and trust In "Jesus Christ, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel." Finally, the living risen Christ said to his trusting servant, "Fear not what comes after death I hold In my hand the keys of death and the grave." Those who know the true meaning of Easter will say, "Nothing can separate me from the love of Christ, neither death," nor any other calamity. We need have no fear of what comes after the grave provided we have allowed Christ to be our Savior and Lord while living, for he says, "I have the keys of death and the grave." It is good to know that truth cannot be entombed; it is en couraging to realize that believers cannot be excluded from what lies beyond the stone. Evil may seal the hopes of mankind in some grave, but God always has the last word. When God enters life, stones are rolled away. The account says, "the guards trembled." Of course they did. Man cannot defeat God. The moral order of the universe can be a frightening thing. But to all who believe-, it is the ground for hope. On this Easter Sunday the church should gratefully recall how "for us and our salvation Christ was crucified, dead and burled." But on the third day He arose victorious over the forces of darkness and the powers of evil. And now he carries the keys, "is King of Kings and Lord of Lords," the "First and the Last and the Living One." PRAYER O God of Life Eternal, we thank thee for the Easter message of triumph over sin and death. Thou didst raise up Jesus from the dead. Thou has declared him to bo the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead. Confirm us in this, the faith of our fathers, and in all the everlasting hopes that have risen in the human heart. May Christ the Lord who trium phed over death make us conquer every evil. As at that Easter dawn long ago he appeared to the disciples with the benediction of peace so may he appear to us and to our world. Amen. Mrs. Lavelle Dick, Gary and Diane of Corvallls, arrived on Saturday for a visit with her son, Daryl, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Pi poor. Mrs. Dick re turned the following day, accom panied to Toitland by Larry Ilollac'ay who had spent his spring vacation with his grand parents, the Piepers. Mrs. Pleper will return Diane and Gary to Corvallls Sunday, at the end of their spring vacation. Thursday. March 26, 1964 HEPPNER NATIONAL I0ITORIAI ASfSpCfoTipW C7 J i HELEN E. SHERMAN Associate Publisher Single Copy 10 Cents. Published the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, Mrs. Mike Whitesmith, Rodney and Terri, of Hood River, were guests from Monday until Thurs day of last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Bennett and family. The family visited here while Mr. Whitesmith attended a district Penney manager's meeting in Yakima. They are getting settled at their new home at 401 June Street, Hood River, and enjoy the new location. Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman AN INTERESTING coincidence exists between two princesses who have just been chosen for the 1964 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo court. Final selections for the court are complete, and two of the princesses are Dewena West, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey West of Boardman, rep resenting the Tillicum club, and Terryl (Tag) Greenup, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Greenup of Heppner, representing the Lena community. The coincidence Is that Dew ena and Tag were born on the same day in the same hospital in Pendleton, 16 years ago last October 28. In calling Mrs. West about her daughters' selection Wednesday, we mentioned the names of the other princesses. When she heard that Terryl was selected, she told us of the coin cidence. Then when we called Mrs. Greenup at the other end of the county and mentioned that Dew ena was a princess, she also ex claimed about the coincidence. Apparently Mrs. West and Mrs. Greenup have scarcely seen each other since the occasion m the Pendleton hospital, but they will have lots of opportunity to renew acquaintances at rodeo time. AS ANOTHER story in this paper reports, tne state oi uregon has not elected a lustice to the state Supreme Court from East ern Oregon for more than 50 years. But this year, circuit Judge Edward Howell of John nav is making real strone bid for position No. 7 on the Supreme Court bench. Ho is nnnnsed bv three others for the position all from the western part or tne state, ana hopes to get strong support from voteTS in this part of Oregm. Judge Howell visited in Hepp ner Wednesday in the interest nt his ranHidarv. His ludicial experience is broad because he has been called upon to preside in court at various times in 28 of Oregon's 36 counties. When Hrniit court dockets eet over loaded in more populous areas, other circuit judges irom less populated parts of the state are called in to preside in part of their cases. Judge Howell has been called upon In this capacity so often that he estimates he has traveled more than 240,000 miles to fill these court assignments. Judge Howell, member of the rwcrrm Rar for 2.1 vears. served as Supreme Court justice pro-tem in lyfao ana ii. The funniest thing happened tr him rpopntlv in Los Aneeles. He had taken a trip down there and was standing on a street corner when an officer came up and questioned him as a suspect in an armed robbery. It finally got to the place where the judge was called upon to identity himself. When he told the officer he was a circuit judge In, Orpenn. similar to a iudee of Superior Court In the State of California, the cop thought he was hearing a real cock and bull story. When it came to light that JiiHpp Howell was telline the truth, the officer wasn't a bit abashed apparently feeling that he saw his duty and he "done" it. AFTER LAST week's story about his rescuing a pupil who got his finger stuck in a classroom desk. Nate McBride has been re ceiving fan mail. One letter came from Portland, dated March 21, quote: "Having read the article, and seen the picture of your heroic rescue in the recent issue of the Gazette-Times; I would like the opportunity of both congratulat ing, and complimenting you for the apparent calmness, and com posure, that you are able to maintain during an emergency major surgery. Especially In view of the fact that the case had been given up by another very fine doctor. "Should you decide to make a television appearance there is little reason to doubt that your following would be far greater than that of Kildare,- and your success should be much better than that of a few years back when you played the role of Nate the Mohawker at your local show house. Again my congratulations, an ardent admirer, Miss Fanny urown. Well, Nate still hasn't decided which one of his fine ribbing mends went to the trouble of sending that letter (or taking it to Portland to have it mailed from there, but he gets a big laugh out of it just the same. Meanwhile, he's known locally as "Nate of Rescue 8." SEQUEL to last week's pigeon story: Haskell Sharrard fin ally, via his short wave radio, tracked down the owner of the homing pigeon from Salem that was found by Bill Gentry near the mill here. It was a young bird that hadn't quite got its radar apparatus matured yet and lost its way on a flight. The owner told Gentry to keep it. So that is apparently what is being done. GOING ON in certain Eastern Oregon newspapers recently is a feud between editors over whose county has the best chuk ar hunting. Principal participants are Connie Johnson of the Blue Mountain Eagle, John Day, who sines the praises of Grant county and Bill Jenkins of the Malheur Enterprise, Vale, who waves the banner for Malheur. And now sallies forth Dwight Hinshaw of the Burns Times- Herald who stolidly declares, "There axe more chukars in Har ney county than in both Mal heur and Grant counties com bined!" We won't get into the argu ment We will just sit silently by in this real Utopia of chukar hunting in Morrow county and watch them fight over the feath ers, being careful to keep our screen door closed so that the local over-population of chukars doesn't swarm in and overrun our office. Entry of Dwight into the con troversy reminds us of the story of the mental patient in an in stitution who got such a charge out of watching two other pat ients argue over who was the real Napoleon. He knew, of course, that neither of the other guys was Napoleon because he was Bonaparte himself. TO THE EDITOR. . . To the Editor: "FOOD FOR THOUGHT" Everybody in this area has some stake In the agricultural economy and it is with deep concern that I have viewed the extreme slump in the prices of our two main agricultural crops. Wheat has gone down over 25c a bushel from the year's high and the September futures are selling In Chicago at $1.59 per bushel, meaning the lowest price locally in years for the 1964' crop. Beef prices for fat animals are at a 20 year low, with the im ports of beef at an all time high for the same period of time. What has the Administration done to correct these faults? NOTHING! While the Demo cratic Party, which is the ma jority party, Is in absolute con trol or the White House, xne Senate and House of Represen tatives, we have no Farm Bill for 1964. The time for plan- nine Is Dast. The cattle industry which has not asked for a Fed eral Subsidy has been turned down in its attempts to get leg islation to curb beef import as the recent action of the United States Senate clearly indicates. President L. B. Johnson de clares war against poverty and at the same time by his inaction creates poverty in this area. Sen ator Wayne Morse tries to estab lish an Indian school at longue Point (unsuccessfully). Senator Maurine Neuberger tries to tell tobacco companies what they must print on the cigarette pacK age without success but our Ad ministration controlled by the Democratic Party does nothing to help our agricultural economy. In the meantime as the March winds remind me of the thirties in our country, it is the feeling of the writer that an indictment for non-feance in office should be brought against the majority party. ' Very truly yours, P. W. Mahoney Dear Sir: I wonder if you would be kind enough to publish this in the Gazette-Times or assist me in some other way in a quest for data concerning a famous base ball player of the long ago. George Bechtel was one of the earliest of professional players, and is believed to have been born in Philadelphia, Pa. around 1848. He was an outfielder with various major league teams from 1871 to 1876 and is thought to have become a policeman in Philadelphia when his baseball days were over. I once visited the Philadelphia police department, thinking that their employment records might show if he had been pensioned, so that I might learn the date and place of his death. But they had no record of him available. Now I have been informed by Leo J. Gianella, of Colfax, Calif., that Bechtel died in Oregon and is buried in the Arlington cem etery along the Columbia River, but possibly on the Washington side. Apparently a public fund was raised by a newspaperman to provide his grave with a stone. Bechtel is supposed to have end ed his days as a bookkeeper for some lumber company. What I am trying to determine is the date and place of his death, and the names and ad dresses of any close associates or descendants. Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Lee Allen, Historian National Baseball Hall of Fame, Inc. Cooperstown, New York Change in Dates Of Clinics Told Immunization clinics schedul ed for this week in Morrow county schools have been post poned until Wednesday, April 1, Mrs. Lowell Chally, county health nurse, has announced. Second in the series of clinics was scheduled for this week, but the date was postponed because of the hih incidence of influ enza and other illnesses, Mrs. Chally said. Money receipt books In dup licate and triplicate are on sale at the Gazette -Times. 1 -"vvt V I A" k h if? ry i CA, a i ANITA GROVES (right) of Heppner won runnerup honors in the United Nations Pilgrimage speak-off in Pendleton March 8, and Kristine Youna of Helix won first place and a trip to New York City. The contest is sponsored by 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). Old Roscoe was a good cook and clean. rino enriner In lamhinc camD the cook got sick. Roscoe had to cook. He didn't like it, but he cooked. No nno kicked (thev didn't riarol ovront nno nld nine smok ing grouch, and he belly-ached or the coiiee oniy. Roscoe emptied the two-gallon pot whenever there was no room fnr nnffoo which wasn't often. The grouch claimed he got three cups oi coiiee in every one. Well, the grouch lost his pipe and ha hellv.nrhpd worse than ever. A week later the coffee pot naa to De cieanea, ana mere was the pipe. Th rnffpp was the samp but the pipe was cleaner. Services Held For Mrs. Boyer Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Jane Boyer, 77, were Thursday, March 19, at the Driskill Mort uary, John Day, with the Rev. Robert Parlour, St. Thomas Epis copal church, officiating. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery with the Rev. Albert Allen, St. Marks Episcopal church of Hood River, officiating. Mrs. Boyer died March 16 at Blue Mountain hospital, John Day, after a long illness. She was born in Abilene, Kans., June 3, 1886, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi May. Her family moved from Kansas to Woodburn in 1894 and several years later they moved to Sherman county. Educated in The Dalles schools and at Willamette University where she attended in 1906 and 1907, she came to Morrow county and Heppner to teach school. In 1911 she was married to Guy Bover at Chico, Calii. Mrs. Boyer was a resident of Grant county for 30 years and was part owner of Boyer's Furn iture store in John Day for 25 years. She was a member of the John Day Methodist church, a member of Julia chapter No. 56 of the Order of Eastern Star for 25 years, and a member of the Grant County Daughters of the Nile. She was also an organizer of the Morrow County Memorial association in Heppner. She is survived bv two sons. Donald Boyer of Mt. Vernon, and Phillip Boyer of John Day; a daughter, Mrs. Harry Moody of Belmont, Calif.; five grandchild ren, Martha Boyer, and Douglas, Donald, Maria and Paul Moody; two brothers, Col. T. E. May of Carmel, Calif., and Wallace May of Grass Valley; a sister, Mrs. A. E. Brandt of Gainesville, Fla.; and a sister, Mrs. Grace Zevely of Moro. RANCH AERO AIRPLANE SPRAYING CO. Owned and Operated By PAUL N. HANSEN Available for weed spraying and liquid fertilizing. John Lane Apartments No. 2, Heppner. Phone 676-9460 or 676-9294 Odd Fellow and Rebekah Lodges. Anita Groves Wins Second in Contest Anita Groves, Heppner High school junior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Groves, was runnerup in the annual United Nations Pilgrimage essay speak-off that was held in the Pendleton IOOF hall March 8. Winner of the pilgrimage was Kristine Young, junior at Gris wold High school in Helix. She will take a trip to the United Nations in New York this sum mer as a prize for her achieve ment with Anita as alternate in case Kristine cannot go. Eight contestants from as many schools participated in the speak-off with the subject being, "Why High School Students Should Be Concrened with the United Nations." The Pilgrimage contest Is sponsored by Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges. Judges were from the faculty of Blue Moun tain Community College, Pendle ton. Heppner Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are prominent backers of this project. Among those at tending from local lodges were Mrs. M. N. Kirk, Hermiston, chairman; Mr. and Mrs. R. G. (Pete) McMurtry, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Nash, Mrs. O. M. Scott and Mrs. Earl Eskelson. Coming Events BAKED FOODS SALE Friday, March 27, 11:00 a.m. Sponsored by Rhea Creek Extension Unit. Red and White Grocery. BETTER DRESS WORKSHOP Second meeting, March 30, 9:30 a.m. Lexington School (upstairs). Mrs. Beulah Hynd, instructor. GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE Hope Lutheran church, con tinuous, 12:30 to 3:20 p.m. All denominations invited. EASTER EGG HUNT Saturday, March 28, 10 a.m. City Park, Courthouse lawn, Fairgrounds. For pre-school ages through 6th grade. EASTER MONDAY CARD PARTY Episcopal Parish Hall. Dessert Bridge Pinochle Monday, March 30, 8:00 p.m. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLE5 Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner COMMUNITY U J BILLBOARD K your choice of on of 5 1964 CARS pick from . . . Chevy Impala Ford Galaxie 500 Plymouth Fury Rambler Ambassador Nothing to Buy! 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