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HcrrNti CAirrrt TUT? as-a GAZETTE nosrow coairrri KtwspAfti The UriprK-r Garette established March 30. 1KSJ. The llepprjer Smel established .November 18, 1KT7. Consolidate lebruary IX 1912. rftj" NlWSMMt fe&'yl,IHI,, N giAIIOCIATIOM WESLXT A. SHERMAN Editor and Publish Of fir Hour: 8 am. to 6 pm until noon Saturday. Subscription Rates: S4.50 Year. Every Thursday and littered at at Second Class Matter. Incredible Copriccs of Mother Nature Cloudbursts from sudden surnme r storms bring even more Incredulity on the caprices of Old Mother Nature than the devastating deluge of winter. It Is nothing but Incredulous when a family U swept away , & hS .fw being hit by a huge ; tSrt warning, as the Redman family experienced near rdMon Monday night The father said It had been raining allghtly onlv 30 minutes. The spout had hit farther up and roared d?wTa cVn"n towards thi home. When It hit the house he Sin's -expWed- and the mother drowned Iwept away It was rather miraculous that the whole family wasn't lost. . . The father told how cold the water was from he Ice. In credible? Yes-ln the middle of the summer! But the Ice ac cumulated from the heavy halL From out in the Eightmlle country comes the story fi mixed with mud and straw to a depth of three feet and per SnsTa half acre in extent where it accumulated against a cXrt a. it iwep dSn to the Heppner-Condon highway. It SlI Uk"n?t5n for this to melt even In the warmth of mid-summer. This, too. seems incredible. Countv Judge Paul Jones reported loss of all his cross fenced corral he.dwalls of a culvert, and wunty Mdg at SpC ! Rainfall at his house was measured at Just Inch but It must have been considerably more at the source of the spout Again, it is Incredible. The big Heppner flood of 1903 was incredible. It brought devastation on a greater scale than anything since, but 62 S hasn't changed the natural conditions nor the caprice of o7d Mother Nat Jre a bit It still remains that when thunder Seads Vhe7 and heavy black clouds form, this country is lufnerab'e w water spouts. And when the deluge hits the dry eS ft acts to seal the soiL Running off in a torrent. It gate volume as it goes and carries any kind of debris in its path with it At the same time It rips and gouges, washing away valu able top soil in accordance with a natural plan of erosion and geologic evolution. Men's commendable efforts at conserva tion can only seek to check the damage. They cannot stop it when f it Sn to a fierce battle with the elements Man and his facilities must give way, as they have done this week. This land is a good land. It has been good to the people who populate it Those who live here are accustomed to these freakish storms and their sudden terrifying nature They know that all canyons can't be dammed, and the possiblimes for location of waterspouts are as many as the multitude or canyons in the area. After the storms comes the cleanup for those unfortunate enough to be hit. and help and sympathy goes to them from their neighbors. They resume working and using the good earth. But always remaining with them is something of the awe and incredulity at the onslaughts and caprices of Old Mother Nature. Diet of Drivel in Store on TV It might be considered natural that newspapers should vent some harsh criticism on television on the theory that it it k,. mniitruiv nplthpr of these mea ls a competing raoiiuiui ui - la seriously consider the other as competition with the excep tion of vying for advertising. It is pretty generally understood that they play separate roles In modern life. Newspaper peo ple, looking for entertainment and Information, like to watch television Just as TV people undoubtedly enjoy reading the morning paper at breakfast Television must be considered a marvelous invention In an electronic age, and it has the possibilities of making great contributions to the common good. But the continuing trend that It Is showing Is nothing short of dismaying. It is so sensi tive to its rating system that it is turning to trivia and feed ing the public a diet of driveL A look at what television promises for the coming season affirms this. The industry has conceded that it is aiming its are to be the mam entrees in siore vx me masses. Sad to say, the programs which we adult "squares" con sider to be the better ones the ones which could make some contribution to culture and more significant entertainment are bowing out. Their ratings show that they are not capturing the bulk of the viewers. Our children are not watching the kids programs, such as "Lassie" and Disney's "Wonderful World of Color." They get their kicks out of the frothy com edy shows and some of the more bizarre creations of TV writers' minds. Television people might well say and they do that they feel it incumbent on them to give the public what it demands, and it is sad that the public doesn't have better taste than it exemplifies in its viewing habits. So our miraculous inven tion, which could accomplish so much good, Is dissipating In to a biff waste of time for millions of people. One may look forward to a quier evening w wnwiuug y u it will contribute something worth remembering or present entertainment worthy of viewing. But many times after spend ing an evening so engaged a person wonders how he could be such a sucker. The Milton -Freewater Valley Herald recently editorialized as follows: , Back in the 30's at 9 o'clock every Sunday evening many West Coast radio listeners glued their ears to their superheterodynes for the tear-jerking adventures of Mother and Father Barber and their almost limitless gaggle of offspring and descendants. : For 30 minutes, the pathos flowed freely and America delighted In an Inside peek at the "true confessions" of a family of gabby incompe tents struggling with the confusions of unimportant frus trations. ' , , , Now television has slicked up the same old format, borrowed the characters and incidents from Grace Metol ious' peeping-tom expose of the foibles and frailties of a New England town and given over two evening sessions a week to "Peyton Place." ' Where "One Man's Family" at least kept within the bounds of good moral taste a dictate of those times "Peyton Place," on the other hand, seems eager to grovel in all the contamination it dares foist upon a mass of titillating curiosity-seekers. And nnur n are told, with a trumpet fanfare heralding an announcement of vital Import, "Peyton Place" will be presented not twice but thrice a . week commencing this fall. To paraphrase another radio personality of the past, "Archie" of "Duffy's Tavern," "Perish Forbid." But "Pey- times, TfcdT. )t . mi nEPPNnn -TIMES NATION A I IDItOMAl HELEN C SHERMAN Associate PuMUbst ., Monday through Friday: 9 am. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published the rot Uince at ueppner, vrrs. WATCH FOR THE OREGON ROAD RAT TRAIN TOtntSELT o spot a Hood Bat On good dual Me Iowa I . .- U V...W. hi. Knn a ah out at otbf djtV rs. (Oregon Tronic Safetf Commission) Many Awards Given at School 50th Reunion By MARTHA RATTESON fnvi!frvr Aniiroximate. I., iwml Attended the 501 h nniwrurv arhool reunion of the Monument school on Sun- day. July 1& uuest dook and name plates were furnish. ed bv the Monument Empire Builders. . . Many were presented awards at the program on Sunday af ternoon. The oldest graduate present, from the class of 1923, was Sudle Couture of Fossil; one who traveled the farthest was Dianna Ogle, from Chico. Calif.; one who traveled in the most states, (43 . Sara Smith of Pendleton; one who traveled in most states and abroad. (2 years in Germa ny. Dianna Ogle. The youngest grandmother present was Naomi Bowman. Waitsburg. Wn.; one with most children. (9. Anna Robertson. Mt. Vernon; one with most grandchildren. (19. Anna Rob ertson; one with greyest hair, Sylvia McDaniel. Heppner; oth ers with most greying hair. Ellen Moore. Ellen and Mattie Stub blefield. Monument; the baldest head. Roy "Shortie" Cork. Bend. One with highest college de gree. Joe Batty of La Crande; one living in Monument or sur rounding area the longest. Roy "Shortie" Cork. Bend; one liv ing in most Orecon cities, Roy "Barney" Cork, Prineville. it riooidMt to hold anoth er reunion in another five years. 1970. A , Those attending from out of town were Ann Robertson. Isa bell Herburger, Cedric Herburg er, Mt Vernon; Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Clevenger and children, Tacom. Wn.; Mr. and Mrs. Har old Wright. Robert Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Sweek and children. Mr. and Mrs. Barton Clark (he taught the years 1939 42); Theta Stratton; Sylvia Mc Daniel; Shirley Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Creston Robinson, Curtis Sweek, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Steers and children, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilson and child ren, all of Heppner. Others were Helen Gollyhorn Mulkey, Irrigon; Mr. and Mrs. Herb Copeland, Salem; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Detto and daughter (teachers in 1946-48) Oregon City; Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Cork and children. Prineville; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith, Pendleton; Dale L. Matteson. Pilot Rock; Lolah Wilson, lone; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cauture, David Conklin and Tim my Jewell, all of Fossil. From John Day were Phil Boyer. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gregg and children, Mrs. Carolyn Ash er, Mr. and Mrs. Rho Bleakman. From Bend were Mr. and Mrs. Keith Romesey; Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Cork, Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Leslie and children, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cork, Mrs. Clerissa Cork, Mrs. Manila Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Robbins. Others present were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bowman, Waitsburg, Wn.; Mr. and Mrs. Larry Lessy and son, Seattle, Wn.; Mr. and Mrs. Vic Wiese, Milton-Freewat-er; Mr. and Mrs. David C Stuart and daughter, Bonanza, Ore.; Effie Lovely and Zlrl Robertson, both of Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Howell and children, Gales Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dale, Valsetz; Hank Cupper, Jr., Mr,- and Mrs. Joe Batty and ton Place" has accomplished one thing If nothing else it is the greatest single argument in favor of educational TV! And on television's slanting of its programs to the teen agers, the Blue Mountain Eagle of John Day speaks up. An article in the TV supplement quotes television star Dick Clark in claiming a $25 billion market among the na tion's teenage group. This could mean more and more oi our television programming being slanted toward teenage viewers a We have some brilliant teenagers these days, and ' we're confident they will be able to handle the tough tasks ahead. But in the meantime, we hope the TV ex perts do not forget that the total U. S. market amounts to about $600 billion a year (the amount of goods and serv- ices produced and sold). Adults have been known to spend a little money now and then, too. It is obvious that high costs make it rather imperative for the television industry to be conscious of ratings in attract ing advertisers, but at the same time it should develop a re cponsibility to contribute more constructively to the American It goes without saying that newspapers have a lot of faults, too, but If they followed the same philosophy as televtsioni they would devote the majority of their space to comlo strips "in response to Juvenile demand. ' KINZUA NEWS Mrs. Jean Med look and noru John and Mike went to l"ot Falls. Idaho, on FrWv to visit with Mr. and Mrs. William Mes-MTM-hmtdt and Mr. and Mrs. Dell Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Slim Rhoton re- Inrniol hnm last ThUPMiaV from The Dalles where Slim has com pleted hta medical care. Mr nt Mr. Robert Ferrcl and Mrs. Frank Ferrcl went to John Day Saturday on pusinr and lor medical care iur Mrs. James Walker went to Portland Sunday to scWt Christ, mas merchandise for the Klnzua Mercantile. Cleve Robbins spent the week end In Portland where he had medical care. He brought Sara Bowman home from Castle Rock where she had been visiting her grandparents. -kii.irun vfr n, Mrs. Henry lliuuirii, - Cupper, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bat- ty. Mr. ana wr. n , and Lewis Batty, Jr.. all of La Grande. , , Mr. and Mrs. Mike Ogle and children came from Chleo, ! Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Welch. Bates. Ore.; Marie Blackwell (a teacher In 1945-46. and Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Stussl. Long Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Round. Dawllle; Mr. and Mrs. Breeding and Mrs. Lydia Wilson. Grcsh- am. . From Klmberly were Jean Hill. Elizabeth and Nancy Stir r ais mil Mr. and Mrs. George Capon, Delsla Sweek, Clara Flowers. Wayne Leathers, Jr.. Mr. and Mrs. wayne warn r. cr riarixsa CamDDell and daughter, Mrs. Donna Camp bell. ' . Attending from Monument were Jan Cavender, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Boyer and child At VI Ian Moore. Laura Lee 1 V 1 1, -t .- - v ci l, tc. nH Mrs rleorpe Stirritt Ellen Stubblcfleld, Jack Sweek and son uoug. xvir. aim Mrs. Jack Forrest and children, rtnrct Irene Forrest Paul Jewell, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Port er. Mr. and Mrs. amey mua grave, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Round, Mr. and Mrs. Elzy Emery. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Enrlght and son Gall, Mr. and Mrs. Verne Matteson and children. Joe Elder, Wave Jack son and Martha Matteson. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Miller took their son-in-law and dau ghter, Mr. and Mrs, Roger Ash mead and baby to Fossil last Thursday to visit his mother, Mrs. Doris Ashmead. Mr. mv MrWtllls. Mrs. Billle Jean Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wheeler moved the lurnuure oi Barbara Glenger to Pendleton last Thursday. Mrs. Joe Wheeler took Brenda Ricker to John Day last Friday to meet her sister and continue on home with her to Walla Walla. . , Ellen Moore has gone to iiepp ner to visit her sister for a while ' formerly of Monument and Pendleton, and his new bride were visitors Sat urday with his uncles, Tann Tz VIrter The newlVWedS will make their home in Port land. ' ' . . TJnlnnn. Mrs. 1 J. Matteson and Mrs. Elmer Mat teson were business visitors in Portland July 12-14. Frank Elder and Elmer Mat teson came In Saturday after hulldinff fence six weeks for Percy Cecil. ;. Chaff nd Wes THK CV PL'BliSIIER looked out the doorway at the heavy rain tato Monday afternoon and made this altv comment: "Our country Is Morton country, said he, -When It raln It poura." Ml. NKUSON. a fugitive from hi harrt with his arm in a line, was running around town in the deluee wearing a T ahlrt. atutortiing the moMute. hi only coiMvrn bring hrlhor It wa hailliiK on the crop back home. It wasn't. They took a Utile rain thrre, which atopintl them a whllf. but they were back In harvrst Wednesday and 1V waa right ba.k In the tliuk of It. bad arm and all. He cot the arm trouble being a !ood samarltan. A woman had trouble with the fan U-lt on her car near the Nelson ranch on Ihe bomb range road. 11 went to clve aid. and In fixing, the fan belt, twisted hl arm In auch a manner as to pull aonw lUa menta. and he has been hitched ui In the harness ever since. LAST WEt'K we retried on the Improvements to the rodeo ground. Including the new catch iHn. We neglected to aay that these were installed with membtvs of the rodeo hoard do in ihe tabor. Charlie Dalv was one of the moving aplrlta of the project. The men wno om ine i, ,k iiu'tii a lot of time on it. and. of course. th'v don"t get a cent lor the work. It will help make h..ttrr thnur inis vear. anu that Is all the reward they want. JACK KRIEGER, In charge of timber management for the Heppner Ranger district, gave a very interesting talk to the Chamber of Commerce Monday about projected plans for the district, particularly In the area of recreation. One novel thing that he re ported is that campers using the forests fit Into a rating wale for the type of camp that they need for the users' respective wants. The ratings are based on what they call Recreation Experience .Modification Level." A camp site which has mast of the conveniences of home Is considered "Keml 5" while one for the hardy outdoorsman, equipped only in a natural rus tic state would be "Rem! 1" and the proportionate levels are In between. This Is a bit disconcerting to the writer who qualifies as a Rem! 5 despite the fact that he feels he Is really next to the great out-of-doors when he gets out In the vacation trailer. It kind of nips at one's pride. Now a guy like Gene Pierce or Bob Abrams. or these many rugged hunters who plow through snow, sleet and rain In mld-wlnter to run down an elk. all may throw out their chests and declare they are Reml l's. Gene likes to explore primi tive areas and Abrams climbs the mountain peaks. Bob may spend the night in a little pup tent on the edge of a glacier at high altitude. You'd think the Forest Service would have to come up with a rating of Rcml 00 for him. , For the Reml l'ers, the Forest Service only has to find a pretty spot in some glade, toss a few rocks on the area where the camper is likely to roll out his blanket Just to make him feel comfortable and the camp site Is ready. All the man with hair on his chest has to do, then, Is flop down after an exhausting day, ring his rustic bed with a horse hair rope to keep the rattlers away, and drop off into a deep sleep. For the Reml 5'ers, though, it is a different story. They (we) have to have sturdy tables with steel and concrete underpinning in our camp area. Hot and cold running water must be at hand. There should be electrical con nections for the trailer. (How else is a guy gonna use his elec tric razor or plug In his blanket? And you wouldn't want the ice cream to melt In the refriger ator). Matter of . fact, the Forestry hnva should consider running their Reml scale to 9 or 10 and put in a TV cable at a popular campgrounds like Bull Prairie, and they could make it real handy if they installed air com pressors with hoses at each place so a fellow could inflate his air mattresses, inner tubes lor swimming, and other assorted paraphernalia. They already give us some thing of maid service, in a man ner of speaking. They have someone come around bright unA earlv earn morning to emD- ty the garbage cans, which are lined with plastic bags. Mavhe some dav theV will have campsite room service, and all you will nave to ao is press a bell button and someone will come to hear your desires. Yep, us old Reml 5'ers sure Hire miiirh It. far from civili zation, with no telephone Jang ling to shatter your nerves; BEVERLY GUNDERSON finishes hl week as clerk of the Mor- mw ennntv Rchool district after some 11 years of service as clerk of the county ana, prior 10 mai, the Heppner district. In a visit to the new Lexington office we asked to take her picture Mon day to use in the G-T, but she refused. But somehow that old camera happened to flash while she was straightening up the desk, and lo and behold, the resulting Chatter Sherman negative Is quite good We con sidered UsinK H despite her wish ra. but irllertln on the las of Invasion of tights of privacy, we decided that we had better not. bv has done an admirable Job as cletk, as everyone know, and as she leaves the office, we want to Join all those who com mend her for hor contribution to the schools and to education here. This paper has enjoyed very cordial and coieratlv relations with the muntv school olllce. as it has with all county offices, and the fine toplo on the atafti make our woik much moie pleasurable. The district Is fortunate In havtnir a person as capable and as well trained as Alice Vance to step Into Beverly's siwtt She knows school matters very well after aervlnj? as secretary at Heppner Hleh for a number of vear. and she look very nat ural In the county school office. THE LYNN PEARSONS got quite a surprise Monday night when they were coming home from Echo way about 10:30 p m. They came over a rise on the highway between Echo and the Junction to Butter Creek, and found the flood waters pouring over the highway for about a block long, l.vnn hit the brakes, and Ihe tires laid rubber on the high- way. but they plunged Into the surging waters. It came up to the doors before the car went dead, water having splashed over the motor. They were well out In the torrent Lynn didn't want to get out the driver's side because small logs and debrlrs were coming down and hitting the car on that side. He managed to get out the other side, climbed over the hood and opened it He took off the air cleaner and event uallv got the car started again, backing out to safety. He didn't know for sure how deep the water was farther on. but spec ulated that It might have been up to the waist Catches Limit Mr. and Mrs. Dave Potter and daughter Donna enjoyed a day of fishing in the ocean Mond.iy off the mouth of the Columbia River. Mr. Potter, county whool superintendent, brought back a limit of silver salmon (Ed. Note: Delicious, DaveM. Because of a busy summer, Mr. Potter plans to take his vacation piecemeal a day or so at a time arid the fishing trip accounted for one day. Know your nwspoper better What Is An Editorial? DEFINITION OF A NEWS BE PORT l A news report tells you what hap pened, to whom, where, when and how. It contains only the fact . , . without expression of a reporter's or editor's opinion. DEFINITION OF AH EDITORIALi This is an expression of opinion by the newspaper. It does not appear in the news columns, but on the edito rial page . . . a page designated as such. Remember that this editorial page is also open to expressions of opinion by our readers ... simply write a letter to the editor. Sure We Have GAZETTE-TIMES Hew Yorken Visit Vislitng Mr. and Mrs John I. (eglla. this wrk aw hi brother and sUler li law. Mr. and Mis. MUbael tVglla. of Ij.ng Island, N. V. They airlved Monday while on a month's va cation trip and rpect to leave Saturday. ThU Is their first vUlt to Ihppner. and they are rnjoving Ih country very muih Michael Ufam acquainted with ihe west while serving dur ing WM War II, Hit U't Ihe flit time they Ut here. TIm-v espwl to go home via Us Vegas, Nev.. and San Francisco, Tell the sdwrtlser you saw It In Ihe Gactle-TliiHB. ) COMMUNITY ) BILLBOARD Coming Events RODEO DANCE Honoring Princess Karla Luc lanl. Saturday, July 31. 10 p.m. Fair Pavilion. Heppner. Music by The Centa, Pasco. Supper served POMONA GRANGE Lexington Grange Hall Saturday, July Jl Barbecue Supper, 6:30 p.m. Business. Program SWIMMING POOL Oien Tuesday through Satur. day, 1 to , 7:w a;ju; o on Sundays. Closed Mondays. COUNTY PICNIC Annual Morrow County Pic- me. rnrolhurt Park. Portland. 11:00 am.. Coffee furnished. NOTICE, TRAVELERS SPECIAL Auto Insurance ID Card Is required In Canada. See your agent before you leave. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. a Box 247 PH. I7S-96M Hsppoet It Isn't a news story! And a news report isn't an editorial. Many newspaper readers confuse the two . . . very often call a news report an editorial. Opinions . . . about nearly every piece of news In the paper. But we don't voice those opin ions in the news reports. There, we tell you only what happened . . . not whether it Is right or wrong ... or what should or should not have been done. This Is the dif ference between news reports and editorials. HEPPNER
