L I BRAKY u or 0 tUCCNE. ORE Considers Mew Farm Venture Number 38 CUlrisf filOS pODUDOilgJ GAZETTE-TIMES 8 1st Year THEHf " HEPPNEn Net Income r.f IW.X'H for Hi Vear ending May .11, I'M. In the face if rt prediction lhat the Morrow County Grain (Jpmrti HuuM ! 'lucky to break even" iwlrd ith en thulam Hi lh annual MOHJ meeting Monday rtlghl la the fair pavilion. However. Prenldent Caul Jones and Manager Al Lamb predi.t.'d that "Hi gravy train u finMied." and lh itMiiM'iiivtf Mill nri to rind liter wavs of "raining a living." President Jones In lili rewrf, aid lhal nhoi.l t k for ward to other area of farm tul ne." adding. "I would like li rwimmrml carncut rtnnilderjtlon to ckpamOon Into other areaa f service." The meeting that Marled with the annual dinner f ihamplon beef, served by memU-ra of lhr Willi a Cranio, found a rapir It v crowd In attendance. The cooperative's members elected tarry Undiay and reelcc- ted Lewis llalvoraen aa din-el r, and elected leo AfthtH-ck, Ittidy liergtrom, Fugene Hall. Melvln Moyrr. I). ( JWlMin, Kenneth I'almer and Iton Haguewood a associate directors. Irvln Kauch prcM-nfed thr rcrt for the nom inating committee, other nom inated were Al Ilunrh and Doug las Drake for director, and Oren Brace and Kd Hunt at aaaoclate dlrrctora. Paul Ilrown. secretary for 14 Irale atlenlloit on how I he looli are umh," he tald. Hnuer of North Pacific r. claimed In hla talk lhal the Morrow County twain linger iKilarwe alieet la "lerrlftc" with an '! to llittiiliiv ratio of 23 to 1. He recalled of being In the I rounty 12 yeara ago when the , nMiin-rallve "was In real trouble" and hlt'hly complimented the management f.r the rfflclent foh done. Kotrr-r Palmer, tnm Galnca wheat won the county grand haniidoniihlp, waa rcM-ntcd an award !y Lamb. Kenneth Turner of the llcpp. ner Soil I 'onurrvatlon riltrlt In troduced Mla lirwrt for lite ranve management talk and her mother. Mr. Janet Grove ah tearhi-r at lle.iner High. County Tax Payments Top Million Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 19, 1961 10 cents commendation f'r Ins Inns and Rood aervlce. At the director' meet I nit following the general meeting Larry Lindsay waa clec te secretary and Lcwla Ha Ivor aen vie president. Jonea wa re. elected president. Lamb treaa urer. and Harlan MeCurdy, Jr, assistant secretary-treasurer. The full program Included talk by Marlon I). Thomaa. ag ricultural economist of Oregon State University; by John Bauer, altant manager of North Pa cific Grain Grower; and by Anita Grovea. Heppner High aehool atudent who gave her prize-winning talk on range management In the Soil Conner vatlon dutrlrt competition. 'See editorial, page 2). Heppner HIch school's talent ed dance band entertaliu-d with selection and the ever-popular doir prizes of champion locker beef were presented. Among the wlnnera were Mrs. Irvln Kauch, Mrs. Bill Doherty. Mu Donna George. Mm. Gar Swanson. timer Palmer. Mra. Pick Wl;kln. aon, Mra. Adolph Majeake, Roy LlmHtmm. Pave Baker, and Mra. David Baum In hla report. President Jonea aald that for the flrat time this year each patron received 2S"i of hla patronage dividend In cah. Ha aim reported receiving a check for $12,000 aa the MCGO ahare earnings from the North Pacific Co-op. Manager Lamb aald that he 23 paid to patrons exceeded the legal requirement of 20 payments. He pointed out that the cooperative did not retire any of the older certlflcalea be. cause of the fact that "the future Is somewhat uncertain." Total assets are listed at $1,563,400 as against total lia bllitlea of only $23,208, he re-1 ported. Lamb said that being a mem ber of North Pacific Co-op brought Morrow county growers close to the market. "By being- a member wo arc as good as being In Japan, he aald. referring to the market de veloped there. Good management bv North Pacific mado It poss ible for them to return ic per bushel for the $1Z,CXXJ payment to MCGG. and Lamb predicted that this return will continue to crow from vear to year. In reviewing operations since 1954. the manager pointed out that total earnings of Ml ou have now exceeded $14 million, Manager Lamb predicted that next year may show a pront or $30,000 or $10,000. "I will predict we will not show a loss," ho said. However, with decrease In storage and surpluses gone in the Northwest, Lamb said that the cooperative needs to seek additional services "to help you as growers and help your in come." He added, "I don't feel any cooperative can stand still and stay in business." Thomas, Introduced by Paul Tews, president of the Morrow county Wheat Growers assoc. iation said that problems con nected with wheat have been of concern for many years. He reviewed how the government gave land to railroads to reach agriculture years ago In order to take produce to the markets of the world and how the land grant colleges received their grants to help research that re sulted In development of productivity. Speaking of the Federal wheat program, he said no government farm program has pleased every one, lie declared that there used to bo a very great uncertainty us to what would happen to prices without government con trol and wide fluctuation result ed. "While at times government subsidies have Irritated you, there Is quite a lot of evidence that we are hotter off than with out them," he said. "Government has more tools and can do a more effective Job of managing the price of wheat and Income than ever before," he said. Thomas compared mar ket splitting to atom splitting, declaring. "It can be used for good or bad. We must concen- Payments of property taxea In Morrow rounty proromed aa of clom of buRlneM TueMtay after- itumn tolll.1 11 fUl "ttv M yeara. retired from the poaltlon cording to Information from the thla year and waa given henrtv offui. of Mra. Mvlra Irby, tax hkimniiiiilallftM 9 nm hit Inn m at nfl la. aepuiy. This represent more than 79 of the total roll of JUU.529, and many of the mailed pay menta were yet to be processed aa of W'rdncaday. It was expected that payment made prior to the discount. In- ciuuing tnoar postmarked No vember 15 or before, will approx imaie me same percentage as In other recent years, running MS to H7. The largest cheek received for taxea waa JT3.fC2.63 from the Pacific Gaa Transmission Com pany. L'nlon Pacific paid Jll.. 217.3ft and Klruua Corporation paid J36.4KC.17. Some taxpayers lost their dls- counts when they went to pay their taxea Mondny, November 16. thinking that they would b accepted1 for discounts because the deadline of November 13 fell on Sunday and the office la normally cloned on Saturday, which In thla case was Novem ber 14. A state tax commission ruling, however, doea not permit giving f v. t - - C I ; J HirUtma Owning In Heppner fmm I pro. on that day anJ ha with window guelng rontett. t will havn irrat. t.,r n ih. i,i.. .-ani i nui, ireaia lor in kiaa. lUunianra- of gift rner- on display, la at hedul- j and an at j ihanlHM o f ed for Salt CHAIITCR of tha Morrow county chapter. Junior Chamber of Cosrunarca. was proaantod to Praaldant Harlay 5ajr (Ult) by state fraaidant Drr Croea (nabt) of Madras at tha charter banquot Sat uraay niabL Larry Burd (canter) of retxUetera. at ode rtco proaJdant was tocutmatter at tha baa- quot (C-T Photo) Churches Set Thanksgiving Joint Service yaycees Given Charter At Saturday Banquet the discounts on November 16. and tnev wero not allowed. A provision In the law states that they will not bo accented for discounts on the day following November 15 when It falls on Sunday. The aame provision applied acrosa the state. The ruling re. ceived publicity In some dally newspapers and over some ele- vision stations but was not an nounced locally In advance. Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman tel. phoned Judge Peter M. Gunnar. Salem, of the Oregon Tax Court Thursday to determine if relief could be granted those who lost discounts bv the misunderstand ing. He was advised that the taxpayer has no recourse, and If the discounts had been allowed for payments made Monday, the shreiff'a office would be open for suit for the amount of the dis counts allowed. Churches of the community, uniting under the auspices of the ministerial association, will hold a united Thanksgiving ser vice In the Heppner Nazarene church on Thanksgiving Eve Wednesday. November 25. at 7:30. o'clock, the Kev. Melvln Dixon, president of the a.vtoc latlon, announces. "The time of the service is departure from the usual Thanksgiving morning service, but it Is deemed that commun ity cooperation will make the venlnar effort worthwhile," th Itev., Dixon salCL Each pastor is designating persons in his church to furnish rides for older members who mar need transportation. The llev. Walter B. Crowell, minister or the lone United Church of Christ, will bring the inanKsgiving message. All ministers In the associat ion, with the exception of two who will be out of town, will participate In the service. Taking part win te tne kc vs.. Bill Aisup, Assembly of God; Melvln Dixon, Methodist; J. G. Weller. Church of the Nazarene; C. Bruce Spen cer. All Saints' Episcopal; Ken neth Robinson. Hope and Valbv Lutheran; Elwood Boyd. Soventh day Adventist: and Walter Crowell. lone United Church of Christ. "All persons are welcome, and everyone in the community is urged to attend and worshiD in giving thanks." the Rev. Dixon said. Morrow county Junior Cham ber of Commerce, the newest Jaycee chapter in the state, re ceived iu charter at a dinner dance meeting in the American Legion hall here Friday night with 82 persons attending. State President Dave Green of Madras presented the charter and gavel to Harley Sager, pres ident of the Morrow Jaycees, and Dick Hlndman of Baker, state vice president, presented a scroll with the Jaycee creed. Toastmaster at the dinner was Larry Burd of Pendleton, state vice president, and a good rep- resentatlon from other chapters around the state was present to greet tne newest chapter and assure a good start. In all. 15 chapters were reD- resented. Don Chance. Hillsboro. a national director, was among those present Besides Hillsboro, Baker, Madras and Pendleton. j other chapters represented were me Dalles. Eugene. Woodburn. ) iBeaverton. Tigard. John Day, wue 10 in Qcu'norauon oc me 'iiooa tuver, Keampnd. Condon TV Cable System Shifts Channels Saturday. November 2?t Merthanta committee. heaud by i;.l Dirk, chairman, met Sim day to make plana for the oen Injf and It wat derided that It will Ih much the aame aa in th pat three years. The window gueaalng content wlili h la rxjiected to offer a lotal of some J'iO to $. In prizes, will be held from 9 am. until 4 '30 p m. on Saturday. November W- Santa Claus will be on hand Ads and Copy Needed Early for Next Week Bkoom of the TbankaqlvUia Holiday and to clea advance notice of the ChrUtznaa Open ing celebration, the Gazette Tunes will bo printed a day early next week. It will bo placed In the poet ol flees lata Wednesday afternoon at Hepp ner, lone and Lexington. It Is particularly requested that thoce who will have Ci play ads for Chrtatmas Open ina bar malarial ready as soon aa possible. Because of the short week and a shortage of help on the ataff. any ad vertiser who can turn in next week's copy by tomorrow (Fri day) will qodn the appreciation of the etalL All correspondents a a d etbera aubmittlna news ore asked to remember the early paper. All material should bo in by Tuesday and earlier if possible. Sample copies of the paper will go to boxholdors In the Kiarua. Spray and Monument areas aa a moans of inviting them to come to Heppoer for Christmas opening. Hho rome to visit with him. In the window guelng con test, erh part let pa line mtn-h-ant will put in a window dis play of ift merchandise, and the contestants are to guess the total retail value of the menh. anriin duptayed. The one com. Ing clet to actual value will win that atore'a prie. I hen is no obligation in entering the content, and everyone may enter a gucua at all participating tr.rn. Prize of each merchant will approximate $10. and it Is ex peeled that 2 will participate. It la hoped that IhrlMniaa lights can be placed on down town streets bv that lime nd that a tree might alto he e-er-ted at the main corner to help kick off fcstivltlca. The mert hanta are considering a free holiday motion picture how for the kids at a later date. If this materialise. It will be announced later. Full details on Christinas Opening will be printed in next week's Gazette-Times, together with a list of prizes offered and advertisements showing gift merchandise available in local stores. The paper will be out a day earlier, on Wednesday. No vember 25, because of the Thanksgiving holiday. """""w-awai Carnegie Meeting Draws 35 Persons Columbia Basin Cuts Late Payment Charge Several significant actions were taken at the annual meeting of Columbia Basin Electric Coop erative in Memorial Hall. Con- aon. Wednesday night with some 250 persons attending. A 5 penalty for late Davment of accounts for rural customers was eliminated, and a $3.50 monthly amortization charge mat nas Been assessed to rural customers was also eliminated. Charge for rental of Securitv Lights was reduced to $3 per month from the former charge of $3.75 that had been' in effect by Columbia Basin and from the harge of $4.00 per month for those of Pacific Power and Light Company. Security Lights are' mercury vapor lights installed for Illumination of outside areas n yards, on farms and behind business buildings. Six Incumbent directors were reelected, including Ernest Lear. city dirotcor. Condon: Wm. A. Steiwer. Sr., city director, Fossil; C. Kosewall, city director, Ieppner: Dick Krebs, Elmer Palmer, and Jack Hynd, rural directors. Other nominees were II. C. Wright, Floyd Johnson. Wes Sherman. Don Peterson and Wayne Anderson. Holdover directors include Walter J. Jaeger, Condon; Ken neth J. Smouse and Henry E. Baker, both of lone; Dick Wil kinson and Walter W. Wright.) both of Heppner: and Virgil W. West, Arlington. At a meeting following the annual meeting, all officers were reelected, including Jaeger, president; Krebs, vice president; Hynd. secretary-treasurer: and Harley Young, manager. Gus Norwood, executive sec retary of the Northwest Public Power association, gave the prin cipal talk of the eveninc. dis cussing the power lntertie with California and the Canadian treaty on water storage. Reports were given bv Presl dent Jaeger, Secretary Hynd and manager Young. The cooperative showed ODer atlng revenue of $319,132 for the year ending June 30 and a net margin of $12,668. Total assets are figured at $3,710,744. State Seeks Bids On Morrow Gravel At its meeting in Salem on December 8 the Oregon State Highway Commission will re ceive bids on 15 projects esti mated to cost approximately $20,020,000. Among the projects is one for rock production for the lone Heppner section of the Heppner highway, a news release from the commission states. Plans call for stockpiling of 15,0(X) cubic yards of crushed material. Completion d ate on this bid Is set for May 15. Skiing Now Possible Arbuckle Mountain ski Area is now open t0 limited skiing, with 10 inches of fresh snow on the hill, according to Ken Peck who visited the area early this week. Roads are open, but the carrying of chains is advised. Continued improvements are be ing maae on the hill, with a new tow soon to be in ODeration and new restrooms nearly completed. picture qualrty'from the-North Sherman TV Ca-op translator. Channel 2. Portland, has been temporarily replaced by Channel 25, Richland, on the cable sys tem of Heppner TV, Inc., Carl Spaulding, secretary treasurer, said Wednesday. The substitution was made In stead of leaving the Channel 2 slot blank because Channel 25 carries some ABC network pro grams. Spaulding said. The board of directors has decided that as soon as the signal from KATU- TV via the translator is usable It will be placed back on the system. An amplifier at the golf course. which has been causing poor picture transmission throughout the system for the past few months, has been located bv Don Wise, technician for the system. He was unable to' locate the trouble before Tuesday because the difficulty would not show up on his test equipment A new amplifier has been ordered to replace the one causing the dls turbance. Until the new amnll- fler is received or the old one is repaired there is liable to be some co-channel crossing. Wise saia. County Officers Attend Convention In Four county officials are Portland this week attending the 59th annual convention of the Association of Oregon Counties at the Benton hotel. From Mor row county are Judge Oscar Pet- erson. Commissioners Walter Hayes and Gene Ferguson, and Sadie Parrish. county clerk. Also attending is Judce Wt Paul Jones. General session of the eonven. tion started Wednesday with a Keynote aaaress by D. L. Pen hollow, county ludee of De- schutes county, president of the association. Workshops and panel sessions on county suburban problems. county fairs, and countv roads were scheduled for the after noon of November 18 and on the morning of November 19. The association's annal business meeting started Thursday after noon. Proposed legislation to be con sidered for recommendation in clude bills to increase the state gas tax one cent and earmark the revenue for city streets and county roads; to increase the Statutory fees for court and clerk services; to repeal the manda tory county school levy; to in crease the state's share of funds for community mental health programs; to permit creation of county park districts; and to per mit the use of certain county liquor revenues to meet public weiiare costs. Judge Peterson attended a session of the economic develop ment committee, of which he is a member, Tuesday night The convention continues through Friday. nd the new Morrow countv chapter. . . - As principal speaker of the evening. Green urged the mem- oers to be active in taking posit ions on problems and helping In incur soiuuon. "You and L with the power we nave as an organization, can become the watchdogs of our civilization" he said. "But don'i become Just watchdogs and sit hack and bark. Let's do something aoout ii He urged members to take an active part In community affairs, to una prooiems. to man for their solution, and eo to work on tnem. A social hour preceded the stek dinner. and dancing con eluded the evening. Co-chairmen of the event, were Don McClure and Dr. Robert Todd with Presi dent Sager and Charles McKin non also working on the project Now ready to function under its own colors .the enthusiastic new chapter is ready to work on an active program of community affairs . Besides Sager as president, of. ficers are McKlnnon, vice presi- aenr; uoug onooie, secretary treasurer; and Jim Gordon and McClure, directors. Membership is composed of men from 21 to 35 years of age, and regular meetings are sched uled for the first and third Wed nesdays of each month at 8 p.m. in the Javcee hall in the Case building. Thirty-five persons attended the demonstration meeting of the Carnegie course at the EdIs- copal parish hall Tuesday night. wun bod Marsh or Parkdale. as sociate sponsor, explaining plans for a second Carnegie class here. R. G. tPetel McMurtrv. a grad uate of the first course held in Heppner earlier this year, gave a memory demonstration, and Wayne Lamb. Mrs. C, M. Wagner and Wes Sherman, also grad uates, of the first course, gave talks about the class. It is planner to start the com ng course on Tuesday nlpht. Annual meeting of the Morrow iT.m k,V, " Ji.?;:. ,n the Annual Rodeo Meeting Slated county rodeo board will be Wed nesday, December 2, at the dorm ltory building at the countv iairgrounas. jack Locke, secre tary. announces. At this time the report of the nominating committee will be heard after which election will be held for two board positions. Those whose terms are expiring are oeraid bwaggart and Archie Munkers. Floyd Jones. - who has served as chairman of the board for a number of years, has resigned, and Fred Mankin, director, has also designed. Appointment of two to fill their positions will be made following the annual meeting. Other business will also be presented at the meeting. Anv wno are interested in attending are invixea to come. pansn nan. Tweniy-iive are needed in the class in order to give the course. Members of the Soroptimist club are local sponsors of the coming course, and their share of the proceeds will go towards a scholarship for a local high school senior. Mrs. Wes Sherman, president, opened the Tuesday meeting and introduced Marsh to the group. - - More are needed to form the class, and anyone interested is invited to contact Mrs. Sherman or any member of the Sorocti- mist club. The public is invited to the meeting December 1 without any obligation to see how the class is conducted. Particularly urged to attend at this one session are all of the graduates of the first course here. Eleven of the 24 graduates were at the Tuesday night meeting. Coffee and cookies were serv ed by the Soroptimists. Annual Lighting Contest Scheduled Heppner Credit Group Formed A Heppner retail credit assoc iation was formed at a luncheon meetingin the Wagon Wheel Cafe with Don Ross, customer service division, Credit Bureaus, inc., and JKoy Temple, sales representative of the Umatilla county bureau, present. Some 12 local businesses were represent ed at the meeting. One of the purposes of the as sociation will be to exchange information on slow and delin quent accounts. It will encourage . prompt Davment of retail ac counts and speakers will seek Outdoor residence lighting and Sixty dollars in cash prizes are to be offered again this year in Heppners annual Christmas lighting contest it is announ ced. The prize money Is used to encourage residents and busi nesses to decorate their homes and stores in order to make a more beautiful citv for the Christmas season. Prizes are offered as follows: to give a better credit education to the local iirms. Next meeting of the associat ion will be on Wednesday. De cember 16, also a noon luncheon, Wheat Growers Elect Jepsen; Hear Thomas Morrow Countv Wheat Growers elected Bob Jepsen of lone pres ident for the coming year, passed recommendations to be made to the iortheoming Oregon Wheat League meeting, and heard Mar ion D. Thomas, OSU agricultural economist, speak at their all day meeting in St. Patrick's parish hall Tuesday. A feature of the association meeting was the noon luncheon at which many businessmen at tended as guests to hear the talk by Thomas on "What's Wheat Worth?" 'The government has the tools to control the price of wheat as it has never had before," he said. "Whether it has too many or too tew I don t know. The real Important thing is how we use tnese tools. He commended the Morrow county association, stating, were tortunate to have those who talk and think about these things." What wheat is worth depends on four things, he said: 1. On where it is located. For instance, it is now worth more in Portland than it is in Morrow county, but it is conceivable that it might be changed to be worth more here than there by some such circumstance as develop ing a market cattle and hog iceaing program. Im not suggesting this is going to happen tomorrow or the next day," he said. 2. What the product is used for. He pointed out there is not much use for meat other than food. Wheat, however, has many uses, and its worth differs for each of these uses. 3. The matter of time. It is worth less when it is in abun dance, such as at harvest time, than when it is not in such abundance. 4. Availability of substitutes. There are no substitutes for wheat as seed, but there are substitutes for it as food. The speaker pointed out the difference between value and price and said that its price de pends in part on value but also on abundance. "Air is free because it Is so abundant," he said by way of illustration, at the same time pointing out that it is vitallv Thursday important to everyone. "As vet. Friday no one has been able to con-1 Saturday trol if he added. Sunday It was necessary to devise Monday display, $10 first; $7.50, second; $5 third. Store windows. $10. first; $7.50, second; and $5, third. Residential window lighting (and inside decorations visible in window), $7.50, frst; $5, sec ond; and $2.50, third. To be eligible, the home or business decorated must be in side the Heppner citv limits. Contestants are asked to register and a deadline will be set at a later time. Those who wish to enter now may sien ud at the Gazette-Times office . Explorers to Hold Dote Dance Friday Explorer Scout cabinet of the Oregon Trail and Umatilla dis tricts is sponsoring an Exnlorer date dance Friday, November 20, in Hermiston irom 8 until 11 p.m. at the ward chapel of the D. S. church. Participating will be Exolorer Post No. 600 of Heppner. spon sored by the L. D. S. church here, and all boys, 14 years and over, whether members or not, are in vited. There will be no admission charge for the dance which is the first of the season. Paul Warren, leader of nost 600 invites all boys interested in the dance or interested in loining the post to contact him. WEATHER By LEONARD GILLIAM Weather report for the week of November 12-18 is as follows: Prec. .02 (Continued on page 8) Tuesday Wednesday Hi 47 43 36 41 37 38 33 Low 30 28 23 23 22 22 22