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HEPPNER GAZETTE -TIMES, Thursday. October 6. 1968 THE pr HEPrNEK GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner. Oregon 87836 MOKBOW COUMTTS HEWSPAPEB The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1SS3. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1911 NATIONAL NEWSPAMt W1 ASf NIWSPAMt PUIlllHltl ASSOCIATION S)C6T6N WESLEY A. SHERMAN HELEN E. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Associate Publish Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 pjn, Monday through Friday; 9 ajn, until noon Saturday. Subscription Rates: $-150 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. Depressive Prosperity Irony of the nation's so-called wave of unprecedented pros perlty with the consequent high interest rates and "tight money." which leaves most of us a bit confused and befud dled, struck home here this week. Barney Malcom, president of Heppner Lumber Co., Indi cated that his operation is a "victim" of this "prosperity." Be cause interest rates are high and money Is tight, construction across the nation has dwindled, and the market for lumber has declined. Therefore, Heppner Lumber Co. will be shut down, begin ning Monday, for an Indefinite period. This will have depres sive effects on this area, not only from loss of payroll, but also from loss of revenue that is fed back through the com pany for needed services and supplies. For Instance, the mill is one of the largest customers of the power company, and the shut down will hurt them. Freight lines are hurt because they will no longer truck goods and supplies to the mill, and others will be hurt In an Inter-connected chain reaction. It is difficult for a great many of us, who are not expert in economics, to understand why workmen must sacrifice Jobs, and payrolls must be lost to communities dependent on them because our country Is considered too prosperous. Maybe it Is necessary for some communities to be such scapegoats and make such sacrifices, but we know one thing for sure it smarts! It Is hard to feel other than bitter about It, especially when it hits such an operation as Heppner Lumber Co. This com pany has been a true friend of this community. Malcom has weathered all kinds of distress floods, fire, personal phys ical trouble, and the continuous squeeze against the little sawmill operation. But he has gritted his teeth and tenaciously moved for ward, building a better and better operation. He has offered employment to men who really needed it When college boys sought summer work, they could often find it at Heppner Lumber. To us, Malcom's Heppner Lumber Co. represents something of the classical American business tradition, as we were taught it in school years ago: One who has the initiative and re sourcefulness can get ahead in this land of the free if he is ambitious and works hard, persevering against handicaps. But today we are getting so involved with the complex ities of Big Government, string-pulling economics, and arti ficial controls that our free enterprise system Is relentlessly being destroyed. In Its place is coming some vague ogre that is bewildering many of us and which we don't like at all. True, when a rancher gets in distress because of the drought (on the ranges), or a freeze hits (as with the peas in Milton-Freewater); or when a local government is hit by floods (as with our county roads two years ago), beneficient Big Brother in Washington jumps in to help, if one can fer ret all his red tape and regulations. But where is Big Brother's help for Bamey? Here's a fighter who can step into the ring and by his fortitude can win his battle against a gamut of adversaries, but when another stealthy opponent (in the person of high level government economics) comes up behind him and hits him over the head with a mallet, it may be a kayo blow. And when all the Barneys in the United States gets kayo ed, then what? Dead Ducks and Killed Colts As is true every hunting season, reports have started to come in of offenses that errant hunters have committed against ranchers and other property owners. One rancher tells of giving dove hunters permission to hunt on his property. After they had gone, he found all his tame ducks missing. The presumption is that the visitors bagged the ducks. But perhaps this is an understandable mistake. Ducks and doves are so much alike! After all, their names both start with a "d"! Another report comes of a rancher's colt being shot. Again, it is hard to tell a colt from a deer, since they both have four legs! The same old question crops up: What to do about it? Ranchers don't want to be "anti-hunter." Many of them like to hunt themselves, and more and more are setting up sys tems where visitors may use their lands with permission. Some are issuing cards for the hunters to carry. Maybe some day sportsmen and sports organizations will realize that more and more lands, especially in foothills, are being closed to them and will come up with some voluntary policing of their own numbers. We've always felt that if they would add a small fee to hunting licenses to go into a fund for restitution of damages caused by the wanton or Ig norant minority, it would help the situation. Connie Johnson, editor of the Blue Mountain Eagle, John Day, last week had an editorial tale that might be a sug gestion for the Old Pros in hunting to use in controlling the "greenhorns": Deer Hunters Fail Test Deer hunting safety is something all sportsmen can afford to bone up on no matter how expert you are in the woods, accidents can happen, and do. Every year I think one of the most effective sportsman training programs was one told to me by an Old Pro who lived up in Alaska. The Old Pro and a bunch of his buddies were great hunt ers up north. They had a cabin in the best hunting grounds on the continent. Every year they bagged trophy deer, moose and elk. The word about their success began to circulate around the territory, and before long they had outsiders begging to move in with them. Now some of these "greenhorns" offered all kinds of money to Join the Old Pro and his boys on their hunts. This went over fairly well. The old hunters were get ting rich, but soon their prime hunting grounds were being chopped up, burned and game was being killed and left for the wolverines. Then one day one of the old boys was singed in the tail section by a creasing .270 slug. This was it! "We'll Just have to teach these greenhorns how good hunters act," the Old Pro said after applying moose grease and a friction tape band age to his friend's, wound. So that night, instead of telling their usual off-color stor ies, the old boys came up with a plan. And when a new group of greenhorns came into camp the next week, the Old Pro and his cronies were all ready. . . When they set out into the woods for the big hunt, each greenhorn was accompanied by an oldtimer. According to the "plan" the greenhorn was outfitted with a large empty pack Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman THAT PENETRATING fire horn Interrupted the Wednesday morning stillness, and the won dering concern that everyone feels when It sounds swept ov er our people: "Where Is it? Whose place is on fire?" The report came to the G-T that the Mollahan house was on fire. From the amount of smoke observed, the firemen felt that It would be totally in volved bv the time they reached the home, three miles out. The trucks left with sirens howling, and Spike Pardee, G-T photographer, was hard on their heels In his little red Volvo, ready to get the pictures of this venerable house before it was consumed by fire. But the story has a happy ending. Tweren't no fire. Tney were fumigating the house, and the "smoke seeping out of the building was from this work in progress. were happy that we have no pictures to print of the Molla han house in flames. ED GONTY'S sharp eyes spot ted a little story in the Ore gon Journal Tue s d a y that brought him promptly to the G-T otiiee in the manner of one bearing great tidings. The story told of the Senate appropriations subcommittee to include funds to start construct ion of the Ririe dam and res ervoir project In eastern Oregon. The second paragraph was the one that excited Ed's Interest: "Sens. Frank Church and Len Jordan said the subcommittee added $200,000 to the public works appropriation bill to start construction of the project on Willow Creek." Could it be that out Willow Creek project was the one re ferred to? With Ed. we took the atlas and spotted the town of Ririe in eastern Idaho. And there. clearly marked on the map. Is Willow Creek flowing by Ririe. Shucks. BOB CANTONWINE, now bas ketball coach for the Dallas Dragons, came back to "home country" over the week-end to hunt the big buck and dropped in for a visit. It appears as if he has a few more grey hairs, but he Is still the same Bob. Rapid Robert had a rough in itiation In Dallas when he left his position as hoop coach here a couple of years ago. He didn't have much material. Dallas was on a rather Jong predominantly losing string, and they are in a league of real stiff competit ion in the TYV. He lost 11 games in a row, and that was pretty tender going for a fellow who had been used to winning in Hepp ner. But Bob has done fine work at Dallas. (This comes via Gor don Kunke. coach there for years and now assistant super intendent, when he visitea nere during the summer). He has yet to win a pennant, but his teams are now holding their own, al though he gets up ana paces the floor when he thinks of prospects for the coming sea son. Coach Bob had fine words for Coach Ed Hiemstra. They were opponents when Ed coached at West Linn a couple seasons ago. And Ed has the same respect for Bob's work. AFTER COUNCIL meeting Mon day night, Carl Spaulding, manager of Heppner TV, took Mavor Clarence Rosewall. Coun oilmen Harlan McCurdy and Bill Cox, and the editor on a tour of the new microwave In stallation at the top of the high hill west of town. We have to marvel at the tal ent and genius of the men who have figured out how to trans mit and receive pictures via the air waves. A big "dish," about 10 feet in diameter and concave in shape, sits inside the new concrete building on the hill, facing a wall made of Plex-O- Glass and pointing toward Goodnoe hill near Arlington, where other apparatus will re lay TV signals from Portland. As we crudely understand It, the signals come through the wall, hit the renter of the "dish" and bounce back Into a little square pipe, which lends up ov er the dish and down to receiv ers, one for each channel. From the receivers the signals go In to more apparatus (which Carl calls "rcmodulat ors". Then thev are channeled through a small cable, and nil on the same cable, mind you, to the down town headquarters. Here, the different channels are somehow unscrambled and fed into local homes. The "dish" Is placed inside the building to protect it from influence of the weather. Odd ly enough. It cannot be behind a glass wall because the glass tends to distort the signal, but the plastic does not. The room Is equipped with a heater and air conditioner to keep the equipment at the prop er temperature year around. Carl says that Oregon Tele communications, which supplies the microwave service, will have an Investment of about SSO.OOO in the local system $20.0tH) per channel. It wiil take a long time to recover that in the fee charg ed to Heppner TV. Some wiseacre says that the pictures will be coming over the sets here upside down because the dish was installed wrong side up, but this makes no dif ference. Carl and Don Wise in stalled the' dish themselves, and one has to marvel how they got it into the building. They put it through the Plex-O-Glass side, but if you see the hole In comparison to the size of the "dish," you'd swear it would never go through. TV viewers have been having a bit of a bad time here lately with the Wasco translator shut down because their local people weren't giving the financial support they had to have. This cut off our Portland stations. But lust be patient. Prospects are that television here is going to be much better than ever when the microwave installa tion Is complete and kinks are worked out of the delicate equipment. A LOT of names of rodeo hands familiar to local people will perform at the arena shows of thd th annual Pnfffif Tntnr. national Livestock Exposition In Portland ocrprwe, EYir tho firs trrt tho PT will hrlno tnapfher fhf ton rnntest. ants of the Northwest Rodeo as- sociaion in the Northwest fin als rodeo. Championship con testants will ht thp ton 15 men of the associations in each of six events saddle bronc, bare back and bull riding, calf rop ing, bulldogging and team rop ing. Amnnty them lire mnnv who competed in our Morrow coun ty rodeo, and some who have been here at every rodeo for years. For instance, uibb uregg, the NRA's leading bronc buster, is well known here. He Is from Dayville and won the bronc riding here in late August. Jyme (pronounced Jimmy! Stoner, president of NRA, will be there. He was at the Morrow rodeo and is a banker at Baker be sides being a rodeo cowboy. Darrell Waddill of Seattle, lead ing team roping, will be com peting at the PI. You'll find his name on many Heppner rodeo programs, and he competed here this year. Besides having some fine Mor row county stock from such ranches as Herb Ekstroms and Kirk and Robinson, the PI will tMo intorosttner rodeo en tertainment. It will be a show that many here will want to We haven't asked him, but we know that John Venard, who has been promoting ticket sales here, can supply you. Give him a call or go see him at First National. Eastern Oregon Phone Company Completes Goals Now In Its tenth year of ex istence, the Eastern Oregon Tel ephone Co. servim; Pilot Rock. Ronrdooin and I'klah llA!t Com pletrd mnnv of its service coals in Its continuing effort to brliu: hotter communication nervier to its customers. In June. the company had 70t telephones. 1.17S.S wire miles of plant and an Invest ment of $2K.fi2l. In June. I'.MW. this has grown to l.lW phones, .1,275 wire miles of plant and an Investment of $S.W,57l. man ager Walter Karnopp said On October 17. lo. direct distance dialing equipment sim ilar to the svstem at Pilot Koek and I'klah will go Into service for Bonrdmnn subscribers. This brand new. fast-growing city with a dial board 24 times lar iter than the old one. cut Into service June. l'.HUi. has 31 times as much outside plant as it had In June. I'.KiTv The major ity of the residential area of Boardtnan and the entire busi ness has underground telephone service. The long distance trunks at Bonrdman will be Increased from eli;lu to 15 on IVtoher IV, and at Pilot Ruck and I'klah In February, -r.H7. new long distance trunks of the latest de sign will be Increased to 2'J cir cuits. At Bonrdmnn on June, l'Xj. all the rural lines were cut to two parties per rural line and at Pilot Rock and I'kiah the present rural line fill of 2.78 per line will be cut to two Per line wherever economically pos sible. This reduction required n 200 line central office addition at Pilot Rock and by June of 1907, will have increased the subscriber carriers from 21 to 13 solid state carriers. The Eastern Oregon Telephone Co. Is unique In being the only company In Oregon with only two parties per rural line in a rural exchange area. This month, a rate reduction was filed with the I't'C, which gave all city subscribers in all exchanges one party and two party service for the same rate as thev had paid for two party and four party service. This re duction accomplished over a 14 month period has saved the subscribers $9513.00 a year for this Improved service. At Pilot Rock In l'.Kil, nn en larged base rate area resulted In savings yearly for rural cus tomers In the new base of $152 per year. To continue to bring the lat est advances a PUC approved plan will give subscribers In 1972 all electric switchboards, with all the exotic services they afford and push button phones for all subscribers. "A difficult challenge was presented to the company In at taining the high service goals It has met as it hus less than 3.34 subscribers per mile or line in the three sparsely settled Oregon counties it operates In, where as the A and B company average Is G9.65 per mile of line," karnopp said. "The projects began In 1956, and completed to June, l'JOO, cost In excess of $612,950. How ever, the present service could not have been achieved for this amount. It was only with high ly skilled technicians and the rehabilitation of selected used equipment that $159,000 was savde, enabling us to provide the existing and ruture serv ices at the present rates. With out the savings of $159,000, a substantial rate increase would have resulted if the capltol costs and fixed charges on this large amount of money had been spent," he added. TO THE EDITOR Pear People: T!ie Northern lights are shin Inc The grass has all but turn rd brown; the duck, Reese and swans hnve settled down With a frlnKinc of snow, and hard nlt attached to the Northern wind. I Ruew. t can now av that winter has come mv way. It's time for mv long underwear, a Prka and n pair or two of mukluks. The summer, as cool as It was, ha been good to Arlene la VISTA roommate I and me. .......... i...r..,i lot In these past few months. We've gained In weight, muscle, M'trlt, nn' sharpness to the eve. We went to Berrv lamp across the Bay to pick the tun dra dry of its blue, black ami salmon berries. We've hunted, we've danced (Eskimo style), we rook, and wr rlran o It's not all work, as It may seem Scrwol Is here, and Just like the kids at home, deer student an' waiting fur the next holi day to come near Arlene Is busv with adult classes of English, math and history Ami mv kindergarten class of 21 four year olds Is a lone way from being easy. It's a new world to them, as well as for me. Some of them plav, some laugh, and then I have those who Just want their mommy. With the lovely xople here who live In the oorCNt country in the United States, our work Is cut out for us I won't be bored, and I don't feel alone In no time at nil. my year will he over and I'll In- home, I know I will miss n year of mv schooling, but this. too. Is an education, and I want to share It with you. I miss you all l.eora Van Winkle Ilxier Bay, Alaska with mouth open and rym pop. I'lllR! Memory bring bark to mn tho (art that Chrlslophrraon'i ilne wa ilia flrai I hail k. . - w - virwi privileged lo ', and 1 was . lowed lo even touch It) All In all. one of mv great red let trr days. Slnrerelv. Carl P. Linn, Nome, Alaska Mr. and Mrs. H. f. Smith. Mm. Bud Chamber of Hood Itlver and Mm. Vrrna Hvlton of Mrdford were visitors on Mon day. September 20, with Mr t.re Scrivener. Mr. Smith la brother of Mm, Srrivner,, and Mrs, Chambers ami Mrs. llylton are nieces. on his back. The Old Pro got stuck with one of the greenest of the greenhorns in the bunch. But this was fine, the Old Pro thought, because the "plan" would surely get a good work out on this trip. Just after the two left camp, the greenhorn took a snap shot at a bald eagle flying overhead with his .338 magnum and missed. For this the Old Pro picked up a big rock and dropped it in the greenhorn's empty pack sack. "This is the only way you'll learn to leave protected birds alone," said the Old Pro. "Now you carry that rock." Later the greenhorn broke a strand of wire on a fence while climbing over it. The Old Pro dropped another rock in his partner's sack. This went on all day. Once when the greenhorn left a campfire burning, he was awarded two big rocks. And then he saw something coming through the bush was it a deer? He blasted away at the bush and after a return barrage of swear words he found out that it was another hunter. Three more rocks in the pack. By the end of the day, the greenhorn had pulled all kinds of boners and was carrying about 80 pounds of rocks to pay for them. This was terrible, he thought as he and the Old Pro were approaching the cabin at the end of the day's hunt. And it was really cold now. If they didn't get to the cabirj before long, he'd freeze to death for sure. i Then, the final part of the "plan" came Into view. This would prove whether the greenhorn or, any of his young co horts would pass the sportsman's test. The two hunters came upon a deep river on the other side was the cabin, and safety from freezing cold. It was evi dent they'd have to swim across. And the Old Pro stood be hind the greenhorn his gun raised to make sure the green horn took his pack of rocks with him. "No litterbugging" the Old Pro said. Later that night as they sat around the dinner table the Old Pro and his boys were surprised how many of the green horns didn't make it back across the river. To the Editor: I have hern receiving my Gazette-Times regularly here In the land of snow and blow. You will understand, however, that It Is a week to ten days old when It arrives but still news to me. Have (wen following the ac counts of the progress of the fair and rodeo season ami final results of same 1 was partic ularly Interested In your front page picture and Item caption ed, "Anvone Remember 53 Years Ago'" Hence this letter. I wish to answer that question. I was there and the young fellow running alongside in tho picture could well lx myself. There Is no doubt that I was doing that very same thing (cOMMUNITY ) BILLBOARD Coming Events HEPPNER HIGH FOOTBALL Friday, tVtobrr 7. 8 p.m. Heppner vs. Bums, (League gamei Heppner Rodeo Ground HIGH SCHOOL RECEPTION Wednesday. Vt. 12. High School Multipurpose Room IHiiluck dinner 6:30 p.m. fol. lowed bv get acquainted meeting, 8 p.m. Steclal welcome, teachers and parents HARVEST SMORGASBORD Sunday. October 16, 3-7 p m. St Patrick's Parish Hall Public Wrlcomn Hunters, come as you are MORROW COUNTY ROU.ER KINK ()en Fridays. Saturdays, 10 pm. Sundays, 2 5 t Heppner Fair Pavilion. 7- p m. ELKS PINOCHLE TOURNAMENT Wednesday, Oct. 12. 8 pm. First night of tournament play SPONSORED A3 A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. (HIGGLES Insurance Agency BeppOet f. a o ui ra m-sus Money receipt books in duD- licate and triplicate are on sale at tne uazeue-Times. STORM DOORS By WEPCO Aluminum Combinations, Self Storing, Pr Hunj, Popular Si iot SPECIAL SIZES AVAILABLE $P)95 TUM-A-LUM Lumber Co. Heppner, Oregon ph. 678-9212 DONT BE CARELESS MililLMiiiMMBwiiJtsMt '.. ".. .', OCT. 9-15 IS FIRE PREVENTION WEEK Your Best Insurance Against Property Damage and Personal Injury Is Caution, Every Day You can never be too careful when it comes to preventing fire I That's why good safety habits at home, at work, at play are the rulo, never the exception. At home, check often to guard against accumulation of flammable debris, faulty wiring, other fire hazards. At work, obey (Ire department regulations to the letter. At play, make sure camp, fires are out. dead out. Caution now may save lives later. 1 THIS MESSAGE SPONSORED IN YOUH INTEREST BY: VMMMmMM C. A. RUGGLES AGENCY TURNER, VAN MARTER & BRYANT AGENCY
