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HEPPNER GAZETTE nib rj -nd.".. GAZETTE-TIMES MOBBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established Times established November 18, 1912. NIWIPAHI nalltlllll vui T ASSOCIATION WESLEY A. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Every Thursday and Entered at as Second Class Matter. r" More Firemen Needed Forrest Burkenbine, one of those taking the Dale Carnegie course in effective speaking, chose a topic close to his heart at a recent session when he spoke on the urgent need for more firemen in the Heppner department. His talk was one that the entire community should have heard, and perhaps this means will help reach a larger audience. At the present time, he reported, the fire department is at a low ebb in personnel with only nine regular members. This is a critical point and something that should cause concern throughout the community. If a major fire struck, the department would be seriously handicapped by lack of trained personnel. It isn't enough to volunteer service at the time of an emerg encya fireman has to know the equipment and how to use it to be of maximum benefit when a major fire comes. Those untrained, while their intentions may be the best, are sometimes more of a hindrance than a help because they do not know, which moves to make at a fire and cannot readily respond to the directions of the chief or his assistants. Nine members might be plenty for smaller fires, but con sider that perhaps half of this number might be out of town, say on a week-end when a fire might strike. Then what? Those loyal to the department are hard workers who con scientiously turn out for drills and fires, but too few are taking two much of the load, and too many are perfectly willing to let. them do it. Burkenbine points out that there are many young men in the community who could be excellent firemen and should devote some of their time to community service. Their employers should be willing to share by letting them have time off when fire strikes. It is one of those things where all should share for the common good. Fire season will be coming soon. This is a good time to give some thought to Burkenbine's good point an excellent time to submit an application for membership in the fire de partment. Consumers Don't Benefit- by 'Cheap' Beef At the time when livestock producers are appealing for relief from an increase in beef imports from Australia, the State Department, on the other hand, has asked exporting countries to impose a voluntary reduction in the amount of beef imports. The voluntary reduction is not the answer, producers state. In her "Washington Calling" report, Senator Maurine Neu bcrger states that domestic production of fed beef increased some 10 per cent last year and figured ire the price decline for producers here. She had another interesting comment to make concerning the consumer at this time of low prices on beef: "Your representatives in Congress are also interested in the consumer position and are checking into the food chains which do not appear to be passing on to consumers the benefits of the ruinously low prices which farmers are now receiving for their cattle," she writes. "A perusal of grocery store advertise ments in the Washington (D. C.) area shows that steak now selling for $1.09 per pound was 77 cents per pound a year earlier; roasts at 30 cents per pound last year are now 41 cents per pound. At the same time cattle prices declined $2.43 J)er 100 pounds during the last year. The big users of cheap im ported beef arc these same stores." Highway Workers Get Safety Award Two members of the Heppner crew of the State Highway De partment's traffic and mainten ance division have earned 14 year safe driving awards, the department announces. They are John Nlelson and Edwin C. Wil son. Dallas M. McDanlel has earned a 9 year award and Har old L. Curnutt an 8-year award. Lloyd A. Moyer received a 1-year award. Others in the area to earn safe driving awards are as follows: Arlington Charles L. Potts, 11 years; Elvin L. Ely, 13 years; and William J. Packer, 1 year. Spray James Roland, 14 years; Roby C. Chappoll, 13 years; Her man L. Munjar, 10 years; and Robert E. MeCray, 5 years. Con don Ralph SlrutluMs and Oscar E. Kippee, both 14 years; Mark R. Phillips and Clifford E. Siler, both 4 years. Fossil Herman Munjar Sr., and Truman E. Wil son, both 14 years; Lavon I). Marin', 11 years; and Gary 11. Couture, 7 years. A total of 1,114 drivers in the division across the state earned the awards for the year l!K53. Of this total, only 115 earned the 14-year awards. To cam n safe driving award, a highway employee must drive Tift per cent of his working time during the year and must do it without be coming involved in a prevent able accident. Mr. and Mrs. Royce Fulleton attended a Chevrolet meeting at the Sheraton Hotel in Portland last Tuesday, returning home late Tuesday night. Among those attending the Columbia Basin Rock show of the Three Rivers Mineralogy club at Richland, Wn., Sunday were Mr, and Mrs. Walter Edger and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gonty, son Doug, and Avery Taylor Jr. THE CAZETTE-lIMES AGENT FOR MOORE BUSINESS FORMS - TIMES, Thursday, April 9, 1964 HEPPNER March 30, 1883. The Heppner 1897. consolidated epruary id, NATIONAL EOITOIIAL HELEN E. SHERMAN Associate Publisher Single Copy 10 Cents. Published the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, PTA Talent Show Slated for May 1 May 1 has been chosen as the date for the annual ITA Talent Show, according to Mrs. Ed Dick, PTA president. It will l)e held in the grade school gymnasium, and conducted in a similar manner to that of last year's successful event. Mrs. Willard Blake has been named general chairman and is selecting committees to assist her. Entry blanks will soon be available and it is expected that many will enter. Contestants are asked to sign up early and a preliminary tryout will bo staged a few days before the show. Cash prizes will be awarded winners in several divisions. Proceeds of the Talent Show will go into the ITA scholarship fund to assist Heppner High graduates who plan to enter the teaching field. In recent years the terms of the scholarship have been widened so that students alreadv in college are eligible as well as graduating seniors from this year's class, according to Mrs. Dick. Since a number of students are interested in the scholarships, a successful Talent Show will enable the committee to help several students. Lexington Grange Bills Film, Talk A local motion picture film on skiing at Arbuckle Mountain and Cutsfoith park will be shown as a program feature of the Lexing ton Change meeting Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the grange hall. Scott McMurdo of Corvallis will be present to speak on re tirement, and Bill Weatherford, candidate for Morrow county judge, will also speak. Announcement will be made of the winners of the Lexington Home Ec club's dress contest. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Marquardt of Lexington were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Raymond on Sunday afternoon. Chaff and Wes TAKE 35 or 40 students of jun ior high school age and you have your hands full any time with all that youthful energy generating. But give each a noisemaker and things could easily get out of hand. That's what Arnold Melby has to cope with in his junior high school band. With their sousa phones, drums, trumpets, clari nets and trombones, they have the means of deafening any cit izen of the community. But if you take that same en ergy and have the ability to get them to develop controlled sound, skillfully coordinated, you have a topnotch band. Somehow Director Melby has brought the best out of the youngsters, and they won unani mous "1" rating at the recent festival in Pendleton. All judges were enthusiastic in their ac claim of the Heppner junior high band. It was a fine achievement. We don't envy Director Mel- by's job. It takes some real lung power to out-shout the drums and the tubas, and one would think a director would have lar yngitis most of the time. But We do admire him and the kids for the job they have done. This, by the way,, was a fine time for them to gain the honor for it should lend impetus to the band carnival Saturday night. Those who attend the carnival not only are assured of a good time but they are helping promote band work in this com munity. They not only add life. color and music to the commun ity but also do a great deal by their appearances elsewhere to advertise and promote our area. NOT BEING a literary genius, our first thought was that Mrs. Blanche Brown, librarian, was playing an April Fool joke on us when she brought in a list of the new books at the library. Included, for instance, were A Savage Place," by Slaughter (Savage Placer Slaughter.' Sounds like an Indian massacre). Next on the list was "Dead Water," by Marsh (Dead Water? Marsh? Maybe this one is on the Everglades). But the most un likely title of all is "African Creeks I Have Been Up." (What old grammatical rule does that title violate?) Some might con tend that a lot of authors (and editors) are "up the creek," or should be. But this is not to speak dis paragingly of these books. They probably are all very excellent volumes and well worth the read ing. In this liberty of levity that we have taken we might focus some attention on National Li brary week coming up and em phasize the fact that Heppner has one of the finest libraries for any town in the state in pro portion, to size, and we are in deed fortunate in that fact. The library continues to get good use despite the competition of television and other modern diversions. It could stand more use, and more of us citizens could well profit from using it more often. DROPPING in the other day to chat a bit on things on the Kirk and Robinson spread, Don Robinson mentioned the fine mild winter that we have been through but commented on the uneven spread of moisture. Those in the hills are well off with the snow while those in the northern part of the county haven't had their share of mois ture at all. But even in the high er country the wind has been bad so far. Robinson believes it has blown longer and harder than any time he can remember. In doing so it dries the soil and takes the moisture. One thing we will suffer for as a result of the mild winter, though, is that it has been a fine to bring a bumper crop of bugs, Robinson avers. It wasn't cold enough to lay the insect pests low, and we can expect the worst from them this summer. WHILE TALKING of things agri cultural, we were amused by Bob Jepsen's definition of an ag riculture researcher at a meet ing the other night. "He's the follow who tells the farmer something he already knows in language he can't un derstand," Bob declared. IT IS with mixed emotions that we contemplate Coach Bob Cantonwine's leaving to assume head basketball coaching duties at Dallas High school. It is a fine position for him and a won derful place to live, but we'll miss him here. Bob will have his hands full there, competing in the tough TYV league with laree schools all around, but we are sure that he will do a fine job. We know that he leaves Heppner with considerable reluc tance, particularly because he believes in the boys that are coming up here at Heppner High. We at the paper enjoyed working with him and bmsting his fine teams, and we know he Fergeson on Roll Allen D. Fergeson, junior in the School of Engineering at Oregon State University, made the winter term honor roll there, it is announced. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fergeson, now of Spray and formerly of Heppner. To be eligible for honor roll listing, students must make at least a B-plus average for the term. Chatter Sherman will enjoy the same relations with the good people of Dallas, our stamping grounds for 15 years. AMONG THOSE who had feel ings of both shock and grati tude because of the Alaskan earthquake is Margaret Mc Carter, Heppner High girls' phys ical education teacher. Before coming here two years ago she taught girls' physical education at Anchorage. Her successor, the present P. E. teacher in the school, was killed in the earth quake. TO THE EDITOR. . . Dear Mr. Shermn: Mrs. Heinrichs sent me a clip ping of the front page story on the chapter reorganization meet ing from your issue of March 19. I wish to say, frankly and honestly, that this is one of the finest articles I have seen so far in Red Cross. It is extremely ac curate reporting and I intend to have it filed at Western Area office in San Francisco as part of the official report on the meet ing. Just as I was about to send it in today, however, I turned the clipping over and noted there was an editorial, "A New Start for the Red Cross" which was half clipped away! This looks so good, too, that I have to write to ask whether you can send me part of this page so clipped as to include both the editorial and the page 1 story? We will cer tainly appreciate this very much. And, I also have to be some what amused. I recall asking someone at the meeting (I wish I could remember whom) whether the event might appear in the local newspaper and was told it was rare that any organi zation received mention in the paper! So, I suppose we should be doubly thankful, although I have over the years had enough contact with editors to know that newsworthy items are always welcome and, space permitting, Consideration is given to all re quests. Or, do you possibly have two newspapers at Heppner? Of course, the big Red Cross news at the moment is our dis aster relief and rehabilitation operations in Alaska and Calif ornia. This has affected Red Cross in practically every chap ter and overseas as well, where- ever we have U. S. servicemen or dependeents who have fam ily members in Alaska, Calif ornia or Hawaii. We know that thousands of welfare inquiries have poured into Alaska, espec ially. From Yakima alone, we have sent almost 750 in 22 days. Some of the inquirers have re ceived replies already. The nurse from my field team was sent immediately to Alaska from Yakima and my counter part field representative serving Western Washington also flew up there immediately. My sup erior from San Francisco also went over the week-end. Some thirty-nine disaster workers were rushed up there, many from their posts in the Ohio floods area. Quite a few more who are disas ter trained and qualified, in cluding me, are standing by, as staffing is not yet completed. We will have disaster staff (both professionals and trained vol unteers) up there for weeks, if not months, and this will likely be one of the most costly oper ations we have ever had. You may be interested in knowing that Red Cross chapters may accept contributions specif ically designated for Red Cross relief to Alaska earthquake and Crescent City, California, tidal wave victims. However, by indi cating Red Cross will accept re stricted contributions for either disaster, this does not mean the Red Cross is seeking restricted donations. We must accept and utilize re stricted contributions or many American people will contribute such funds to other organiza tions in being or to be evolved and none has responsibility ex cept the Red Cross to represent the American people and govern ment in alleviating suffering of disaster victims. We continue, however to be in need of funds to help finance the year-round disaster opera tions and all major service pro grams. Therefore, we hope con tributors who have not already offered their annual support of the total Red Cross will donate to their local chpaters during the March drive. The March drive will continue until solici tation is completed, even though this may not occur by the end of March. The other point Red Cross makes is that if restricted con tributions are made, they will hopefully be an additional gift of the donor and not given in lieu of annual support of the Red Cross. The foregoing information is official and just released by Western Area headquarters. It may be helpful if you should happen to receive inquiries about financial help and the Red Cross. Thank you, Mr. Sherman, for your support, both as a pub lisher and a board member of Morrow County Chapter. We will be grateful if you can send the clipping requested. Sincerely, Narce Caliva Field Representative African Student Talks to Seniors On Visit Here Abraham Macavore, a foreign exchange student from Sierra Leone, Africa, spoke to Heppner seniors last week. A freshman at the University of Oregon, Mac avore is majoring in political science. While here he was a guest of his college roommate, Roger Doherty. Macavore's first comme n t s were mainly about his country, "Sierra Leone," he explained, "means 'Roaring Lion'." Telling about his government, he men tioned that there are 72 mem bers of Parliament. Sixty are elected and the other 12 are tn bal chiefs. Macavore is the son of a tribal chief. The top office of his country is the Prime Min ister. The main religion of Sierra Leone is Christianity, followed by Mohammedanism, with many of the people also being Cam olic. "Sierra Leone is very rich in minerals with between one and two million dollars worth of dia monds being mined each year," he said. Agriculture is the main Industry of the country, and be cause of this, the greatest per centage of work is done by man power. Macavore stated that his father has 13 wives, he has 30 half brothers and sisters and his grandfather was imprisoned dur ing the Hot Tax War of 1898 while fighting for independence. Macavore has been in the United States six months and decided to come to America after the dis couragement of running for Par liament and being defeated by seven votes. "The United States is looked upon as very powerful, my people feel that the black are consid ered inferior over here. Your rac ial problem is very well known, but the United States is gener ally accepted," was Macavore's estimate of the American image in Sierra Leone. Macavore ex plained that English is taught in the schools but education is not free, and because of this 55 of his people are illiterate. Macavore kept the students laughing with his keen sense of humor and was continually flooded with questions until the bell called the reluctant students back to class. Mrs. Norman Lynn, Portland and Mrs. Lynn's sister-in-law, Mrs. John Adamson, and nephew, Allan, of Kingston Surrey, Eng land, were week-end guests of Mrs. Mary Bryant. Mrs. Lynn is a sister of Mrs. Bryant. Mrs. Adamson and her nephew are on an extended visit in this country and were very impressed with the western part of the U. S. WHERE'S EVERYBODY? iff X RUMMAGE SALE Friday and Saturday, April 10 and 11 OLD BAKERY BUILDING (Next to MiLadies Apparel, Main Street, Heppner) 8 A.M to 6 P. M. Each Day PROCEEDS GO TO THE KINDERGARTEN FUND CLOTHING FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Dishes 0 Dodads Trinkets Appliances Seat Covers Whatchamacallits Knick Knacks Jewelry THIS MESSAGE SPONSORED DANK OF Ski Club Slates Sale Of Bulbs as Project Members of the Arbuckle Ski club will start the sale of elec tric light bulbs next Monday, as a money-making project to raise funds to develop the Arbuckle Mountain Ski area, it has been announced by Arnold Melby, club president. A famous make line of pre tested light bulbs, guaranteed to last two full years, at prices ranging from 50c to 65c, will be available from the club mem bers. The ski area has been a pop ular spot for week-end skiers the past winter. It will continue to stay open Saturday and Sun day afternoons from 12:00 to 4:30, with tow in operation, as long as snow conditions remain good. Recent snow has improved skiing and roads are being kept open. National Library Week Coming; New Books Added National Library week will be observed next week and empha sis on the week will be placed here, according to Mrs. Blanche Brown, librarian. Posters and other promotional material are to be distributed to call attention to the week, under the theme, "Reading is the Key." As a feature of National Li brary week, overdue books brought in to the local library during that time will not be charged for, Mrs. Brown said. Twenty-three new adult books have been added at the library. Some of these are suitable as reference works for students. New juvenile and young adult books are being added and a list will be published soon. The adult books are: "The Torch Is Passed," Assoc iated Press; "East of the Cas cades," by Brogan; "Westward Tilt," by Morgan; "Stone Age on the Columbia," by Strong; "Gov ernors of Oregon," by Turnbull; Chinook: A History and Dict ionary;" "The Oregon Story," by Atterbury; "Nefertiti, " by Wells; "Naked Came I," by Weiss; "The Scent of Water," by Goudge; "Af rican Creeks I Have Been Up," by Spencer. "The First Day of Friday," by Tracy; "The Bedford Incident," by Rascovich; "Reuben, Reuben," by DeVries; "The Shoes of the Fisherman," by West; "The Rich mond Rain," by Hodge; "A Shade of Difference," by Drury; "The Spy Who Came m From the Gold," by le Carre; "The Last Love," by Costain; "A Savage Place," by Slaughter; "Dead Water," by Marsh; "Fuel for the Flame, by Waugh. BY YOUR HOME-OWNED BANK vJEastem Oregon HEPPNER ARLINGTON lONE MEMBER. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION REMEMBER THOSE YOU LOVED WITH A MEMORIAL GIFT TO THE COMMUNITY It BILLBOARD Coming Events BETTER DRESS WORKSHOP Fourth meeting, Apr. 13, 10:00 a.m. Lexington School (upstairs). Mrs. Beulah Hynd, instructor. PACK MEETING Heppner Cub Scouts Friday, April 10, 7:00 p.m. Grade school cafeteria. Den chiefs and parents urged to at tend. SPRING RUMMAGE SALE Old Bakery Building, Friday, Saturday, April 10, 11. Lots of fine bargains! Support the Kindergarten. BAND CARNIVAL Lots of fun for everyone! Saturday, April 11, Fair Pa vilion building. Supper served 5:30 to 6:30. Gateway opens at 6:30. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner They've Gone To The HEPPNER CIVIC LEAGUE'S Spring AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE
