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The Heppner Gazette established
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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.
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- TIMES, Thursday, April 9, 1964
HEPPNER
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NATIONAL EOITOIIAL
HELEN E. SHERMAN
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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?
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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.
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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.
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