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HEPPNER GAZETTE -TIMES. THE GAZ ETTE-TIMES BcpptMi. Oregoa 1783 MORROW COUH1T S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gawtte established March 30 1SS3. The Heppner Time established November 18. 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NIWIPAPII PUIUSHIII ASSOCIATION 1 1 WESLET A. SHERMAN HESJE: kh Editor and Publish Assodato PuUUhot Office Hours: 8 sun. to 6 pjn, Monday through Friday; 9 am until noon Saturday. Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cent. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner. Oregon, as Second Class Hatter. Lick 'Em or Join 'Em? Great must be the quandary of the housewife of today. In view of the movement to protest against alleged high prices of groceries, she must decide whether she wants to continue licking trading stamps or to Join those asking for a decline In prices. t It seems to be kind of a paradox. The hue and cry for a 10 percent cut In prices is coming from housewives, who ask that supermarkets eliminate trading stamps and trade gim micks. On the other hand, it seemed pretty well understood that the demand for firms to give trading stamps came from the female side of households. One has heard some pretty astounding stories of their zeal to procure and save stamps. Therefore, a person may wonder just how many of the feminine grocery shoppers would concur, on a popular vote, that trading stamps should be discontinued . It was inevitable that the sensitive ears of the stamp com panies would perk up at the current movement to deflate prices. In today's mail comes a 3-page "news" release from one large company attempting to prove the case that trad ing stamps have no great effect in prices. It quotes the De partment of Labor as announcing that "any effect trading stamps could have had was so inconsequential as not to merit their Inclusion" In the consideration of the Consumer Price Index. The stamp companies may be able to put up a good case, but somewhere, somehow, someone has to pay for these stamps. If it doesn't ultimately fall to the consumer, it is a surprising thing indeed. But it doesn't seem reasonable that trading stamps and gimmicks should be blamed entirely for the alleged high PnirT the first place, it would have to be shown that food prices are unreasonably high. Certainly, they have gone up. but have they gone up out of proportion to everything else? One could probably find quite a few items on grocers' shelves that have climbed very little In price. It has to be conceded, though, that some items have gone up rather sharply. . But who is getting the benefit of the increases? Every Indication is that it isn't going to the farmer. He seems to be the last one on the totem pole to get the benefit of any price rise. . We can't concur with the demonstrating housewives that the supermarkets are getting rich, either. They operate on a pretty fine margin. A good many of their advertised items are sold right at cost One thing that must figure in price increases on some items is the rather elaborate packaging. The grocer no long er scoops a pound of sugar from the barrel, as he did in the general store days. It comes in neat packages or sacks. Many items are put up in pressurized cans. One can find all man ner of inviting packages on shelves of the market Our consumers are getting pretty well spoiled on this mat ter of packaging. Standards of pure foods figure in the matter, too. The packaging assures cleanliness and freshness of prod ucts. , . But the cost of the packaging nowadays must take a sub stantial cut out of the price of many products. Another thing that must figure in today's grocery' costs & the high cost of labor. In our nation where labor is general ly unionized, wages are high. When the women complain of food prices, do they bother to compare the wages their hus bands were getting with those of two, three or five years ago? In the producing and handling of food products, substan tial portions must go to these wages at the processing and distributing levels. Another factor is freight. It takes money to handle and deliver these food products, and this cost continues to rise. Still another thing that enters the picture is that of sky rocketing costs imposed by the government. Every little bus iness knows how much more he is paying now, as compared with a few years ago, on social security, unemployment in surance, for collecting Uncle Sam's withholding taxes, and so on. On food prices, this must enter the picture from every lev el the processing, the distributing, and right up through the local market. All have to pay their shares of these costs. But back to the trading stamps: We know of some busi nesses who give customers their choice, either the stamps or a small discount on purchases. Maybe some markets could work out a plan where the protestors could be given a small percentage of their grocery' bills in foods and merchandise rather than in stamps. This should help on food bills. We've always felt that trading stamps are a little ridic ulous, but human beings don't seem to want to do everything that is just exactly reasonable and logical. If a housewife figured her time and effort of collecting stamps, pasting them in books, and going somewhere to exchange them, the suspicion is that she would come out at the little end. But then, there is the joy of getting some article that one has always dri-amed of, and which one would probably not other wise purchase. Quite a few husbands have to learn to live with trading stamps, and quite a few, too, have had barbed words scald their ears when they failed to bring the stamps home with purchases. There has been little indication of an uprising of house wives in this area, and it is some consolation to see the pro tests coming from outside areas, in view of the fact that we occasionally hear someone say how much better he can do by shopping out of the area. We'll stand by our local grocers. They're doing a good job on a low margin. As to gimmicks and trading stamps, each housewife will have to decide whether she prefers licking 'em (the stamps) or joining the 1966 version of the Carrie Nation movement 84 of Every 100 Voted Sadie Karrish, county clerk, and Rod Thomson, assessor, have calculated that Morrow county came through with an 8-1 percent vote in the general election last week. That means that out of every 100 registered voters in Mor row county, all but 16 cast ballots in the election. Consider ing all those who had to be away for various reasons, those who were ailing, and those who couldn't make it for other reasons, there couldn't have been many left who took an at titude of 'The heck with it!" Although no figures have come to this office from else where, it is a pretty good guess to say that Morrow county's voting percentage must have been among the highest in the state. Certainly it is a record of which our people may be proud. Cli presidential years have considerably less pull at the Thursday. Hwmbti IT. 1966 HEFFNEK N1TIONAI MFWOilll 1 l")C6,6N Chaff and Wes Sherman IN THE OLD DAYS, when times j were touch, newspapers Kepi . i ln thdl, rural I.VAtintw ' 111 ....... - uniter a barter svstcm. A farm er might bring in a half cord of wood or a pound of churned butter In exchange for a years subscription. Times have changed, and sub scriptions bring cash or checks. but editors seem to continue living off the fat of the land. We're ashamed to confess that the G-T publishers won again at the Morrow County Grain Growers annual meeting the other night. (Guess we should call it "annual meeting" instead of "meeting" because we al ways seem to win some of the grand champion 4H mean. While we haven't kept tb ulation. that is either three times in five years or four times in six vears enough to cause an uprising from those who have never won. to the point 01 tarring and feathering us. But in Harlan McCurdys let ter of invitation to us, he has it over his signature twrit by hand), thai the drawings would not be rigged, nor never had been rigged. We re not sure that we can eat that delicious meat in en suing weeks without some tinge of conscience, and we wouldn't feel too badly If the MCGG gang fixed up packages of bones and gristle for us next year. THE AMERICAN LEGION aux iliary has always been real nice to the paper. Every year ox so the state organization sends us out a certificate thanking us for all we have done for them (which really doesn't amount to shucks). This always gives a bit of joy, though, knowing that our news story efforts for the organization are appreciated. (Maybe, when we get into our new office, we might find space to hang some of these on the wall). But the real reward from the auxiliary came this week when Hazel Hamlin brought in a de licious apple pie. It was a big one and a delectable one. That surely hits the spot. Now if we keep on getting such tokens of appreciation, someone is going to have to bring us Metracal to show grat itude. Otherwise it won't be long until we won't be able to get through the doors of the new office. MAYBE SOME HERE didn't no tice the writeup of the lone L'mapine football game a num ber of weeks ago as printed ln the G-T. It told of how lone scored three touchdowns before the visitors even touched the football. Two kickoffs by lone were caught by the wind and the ball came back to them, whereupon they marched for touchdowns after having scored initially following a Umapine kickofl. We thought this interesting enough to send to A. P. The bureau chief in Portland, Frank Wetzel, concurred and wrote us a note about it, saying, "We put it on our national sports wire, and I'll bet it gets wide usage." Reason for this explanation is that Gar Swanson showed us a clipping the other night tak en from Stars and Stripes and sent to him from Turkey by Gene Campbell, now in service over there. It is the story of the lone football team's unique rec ord. It appears the bureau chief was right it did get wide us age. We didn't get a chance to get all the dope from Gar about Campbell, though, and we're interested in him. Gar said he is at Talova. Turkey, but we can't find such a place in our atlas and can't get the Swan sons by phone today. FOR HEAVENS SAKES , will someone please come to the aid of Bob Henry? The poor man is going around like a sad sack, and that is no way for an ap parel store manager to look. Bob went to the Wheat Grow ers luncheon recently. When he left, he took what he thought was his top coat, a dark-colored iob. But when he put It on la ter, he found it several sizes too big. The sleeves came down over his hands, and the shoulders droop. If you look closely be hind all that garment, you can find traces of the countenance of Bob Henry. Now somewhere in Morrow county is a big guy whose top. coat suddenly got way too lit tle. The sleeves must come halfway up to his elbows. polls than the presidential election years. This one was some thing of an exception with the Duncan-Hatfield contest, the McCall-Straub contest, and the several local races that stim ulated interest. Some of the credit for the good turnouts must reflect to the credit of the county central committees both Republican and Democrat who have been very active. They brought most of the candidates to Morrow county from the top level down. They engaged in advertising and promotional activi ties that whetted voter interest. This is part of it. Another thing is that Morrow county people just seem to take more interest' in affairs affecting them than those in some of the more populated parts of the state. Person to person, they have more knowledge in what is going on. It's as John Bauer said at the Grain Growers meeting Mon day night, "You people have gotten so much more knowledge able in the past 21 years, it's just terrifying." Certainly his choice of the word, "terrifying," is not to be construed literally, for he meant "gratifying" more than "ter rifying." And it truly Is gratifying when such a high percentage goes to the polls at an off-presidential general election. It makes a person think that democratic government is really functioning. Chatter Will this man please give Bob call? It should prove to be mutually satisfactory! SEEMS AS If we are getting a run of good jokesters here lately. The annual meeting speakers are carry ing on where the witty politicians left oil. The latest: John Bauer, manager of North Pacific Grains, Portland told the MCGG meeting the other night about how the Texan wanted to Impress the Japanese buyer who had come to tins country to purchase wheat. The Texan, in glowing terms, told how many sections there were ln his ranch. The Japa nese envoy didn't bat an eye He then told In even greater figures, through an interpreter, how many jlflion acres waa In his spread. Still no flicker of amazement Nonplussed, the Lone Star state rancher then coasted to the interpreter. "Tell him that If he got ln my car and drove the perimeter of my ranch, he could be gone all day and still not get around it." After this message had been relayed, a flicker of a smile crossed the face of the visitor, "Ah so," he said. "I understand. I've had a car nke rat myself." TO THE EDITOR. . Mr. Editor: Please give me space In the Gazette-Times to plead In defense- of the turtle and the mourning doves, to show why thev must have the protection of the law at all levels of gov ernment. If they are to survive the hunters' guns as living spe cies of life. Our doves are our most beautiful of all birds, yet, they are the most hunted, har assed and persecuted birds of this century. Each year over 70 per cent of all doves are elim inated. Some by forces of na ture, but most doves are des troyed by so-called American sportsmen. The legal kill for 1964 was estimated at 20.000.000 doves. The cripple loss averaged 26 per cent of the bag. This leaves a near six million birds wtth broken legs, wings and pinions to suffer days, even weeks be fore God In the form of death set His own free. There were many more mil lions killed from wires with slingshots, with BB guns, and by men and women who know not "the manhood" of rever ence for hfK,' , So we asK how long can our children know "the wings of a dove covered with silver, Its pinions of green gold?" Or the voice of the turtledove In our land? For Indeed it is sad when man can only measure beauty down the barrel of a shotgun, or life through the sights of a hiEh-powered rifle. With 70 per cent of all doves destroyed each year, the dove will soon Join the long list of vanished life, and again man will find himself much poorer in living beauty. But the lust to kill, the greed to destroy, the shedding of blood, and the lack of pity and mercy in the thoughts of men must be sat isfied. Thank you. Howard H. Caudle 419 North 18th St. Grand Junction, Colo. 81501 Dear Editor: I would like to take this time to say "thank you 'chuknik' (very much)" for my village people and myself. In regards to the lovely, most helpful pack ages that have been sent by Mrs. Larry Cook, Mrs. Delpha Jones, Mrs. Florence McMillan, Mrs. Ruby Colley, Mrs. Frieda Majeske, Mrs. Ruth Robinson, Mrs. Fay Ruhl, the Heppner Variety Store, and of course my mother and dad, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Van Winkle. Arlene (my roommate) and I have use for everything that has been sent to us. We both realize the careful thought and consideration that have been placed with each package. We are most grateful to all. It's like Christmas a little bit early. This way we have a chance to put all of our snow to use, too. Again, we say thank you. I hope this letter finds you all well and happy, as we two are. Leora Van Winkle Vista Volunteer Hooper Bay, Alaska Officer Advises Immunizations Against Polio Oregon Board of Health this week reminded parents that thousands of the states pre school children haven't been Immunized against pollomycllt Is and warned the crippling dls ease eon recur In epidemic num bers unless children arc protect ed As an example. Dr. Richard II. Wilcox. State Health Officer. pointed to an outbreak this year in Texas which has resulted In 55 cases of paralytic polio and two deaths. Significantly. Or. Wilcox said, all but one of the cases Involv ed children from onc-tosU years old. Forty two of the vic tims whose cases were checked had never received any polio vaccine and another eleven hadn't received the full series of vaccine. The lone case out side the preschool group was a seven-year-old. The Texas epidemic started In January, accelerated during the summer months, and reached peak In August when eleven children became 111. About 14-V 000 doses of oral vaccine distrib uted by the State Health De partment and administered by the State Medical Society ap parently halted the outbreak. One new case was recorded In September and another In Octo ber. Dr. Wilcox pointed out that the Texas epidemic was respon sible for most of the country's polio toll so far this year. The entire nation has recorded only 68 cases just 13 outside Texas. He said that while Oregon this year hasn't had a single case of confirmed polio, the state still has about 50,000 children between the ages of one and five who haven't been Immunized against the disease. "This Is a large population of susceptible children.'' Dr. Wilcox said: "ln spite of a drastic re duction of polio cases since the vaccine program was undertak en eleven years ago. we still face renewed epidemics of the disease because of a decline In interest in Immunization pro grams." Dr. Wilcox advised all par ents to take their children to a private physician for a regular program of Immunization against polio and other prevent able childhood diseases such as measles, diptherla, whooping cough, tetanus, and smallpox. Those who do not have ac cess to regular private care should consult their local health department. 2-County Report On Manpower To be Presented The recently completed Man power Resource Report of Mor rqw and Umatilla counties will be discussed and distributed at the regular meeting of the Pen dleton Chamber of Commerce at Gunther's Restaurant, Pendle ton, on Friday, November 18, be ginning at 11:45 a.m. J. N. Peet, commissioner, De partment of Employment, and Eldon Cone, director, Oregon State Employment Service, will discuss the 51-page publication which shows the labor needs, demands and trends in various occupations through 1970 in Umatilla and Morrow counties. The publication was compil ed bv area analysts, local work ers and the Manpower Services section of the Department of Employment in cooperation with chambers of commerce at Pen dleton, Milton-Freewater, Hepp ner and Hermiston. "The publication will be a valuable reference for schools planning courses for future training, for employers making future plans, to individuals who wish to make a vacational choice and to all persons who are involved in the planning of the economy of Umatilla and Morrow counties," Gordon Clut ter, manager, Department of Employment, Pendleton, said. There will be a question and answer period following the pre sentation of this valuable pub lication, Clutter said. All inter ested are urged to call 276-7411 for reservations. Smith Improving Glenn Smith, still confined to Pioneer Memorial hospital fol lowing a light heart attack suf fered nearly two weeks ago, Is showing improvement, accord ing to his wife, Lenna. lie nopes to be able to go home soon and is in cheerful spirits but Is un dergoing tests. Smith, a sawyer for Kinzua Corporation, suffer ed the attack while out hunt ing Saturday, November 5. POWER CONTROL ELECTRIC MOTOR SERVICE WE REPAIR: Elactiic Motors Power Tool Hydraulic Jack Alemlt Equipment 421 8. C 4th Pendleton Phone 278-5862 School Bells By DAVID It POTTER. Superintendent Morrow County Schools A couple of weeks ago we fit lit IIP, i ..tin f our minv out standing teachers This week we would like to leaiure siiom er of our school team. Mr Wallace (Mike) Matth ews Is storting his sixth venr as custodian of lone High school and bus driver for thnt attend ance area. Officially "Mike" Is i i.. ,i iii. inhs mention- ..i t,v. hut like so many of our personnel he docs much more man just nic jom " ed. "Mike" drives activity bus- Riverside to Play Semi-Final Game With Burnt River Riverside High school s 8 man football town, which has gone farther than any previous team In the school's history, will piny It state semi final game with Burnt Klvcr at Boardman Sat uiday afternoon. Marling at l::i0 Ron Daniels, Riverside princi pal, announces. Records of the two teams In dicate th.-u this will be n real close contest. Burnt River, in making n 6 0 league record, gave up only 26 points In the circuit. The team lost one non league game during the season In ihe quarter final round of stale play. Burnt River won over Harper, 4b 6 league victories were Hium over Pine Valley of Halfway, Eagle Valley, Huntington, Powd er Valley, Harper and St. Fran lis of Baker. Burnt River Is a big team with a 195 lb. back, Coombs, lending the offense. Rlversldi- also was undefeated In leagui' play, with a 4 0 rrr oid. Overall mark for the season was 7 1, with the sole loss be Ing to Dcfur curly in the year, 13 to 12 The IVates were second In the le.igue for five years In n row and finally emerged this year as champions. Bnckfleld Is formed by i hester Phillips, quarterback; Mike Parti o w, right hall; Gaxy Balrd, left half; and Bop Miliar, as an alternate. All nre seniors except Balrd, who Is a junior. In the line nre Mike Unnell, sophomore, and tm Jorgenson, senior, tackles; Ron Hlnklcy, senior, anC Carrol Lathrop, sen ior, endj; and Gregg Bvdurd, junior, center. Riverside defeated Prairie City to gain the semi finals. Should be hosts for the state finals At they top Burnt River, they will Boardman on November 2(5. St. Paul and Wheeler county (Fos sil) are playing the other semi final game Admission to Saturday's game will be $1 for adults and 50c for students. Those under six lire admitted without charge. Mrs. Edger Better Mrs. Walter Edger, who was In Pioneer Memorial hospital for about a week recently for treatment, Is now continuing treatment at St. Anthony hos pital. Pendleton. She expects to be there through this week. Re port from relatives Tuesday was to the effect that she Is showing considerable Improve ment and Is feeling much bet ter. SCHOOL LUNCH MENUS Heppner Elementary School and Heppner High School November 21 to 23 November 21 Chill, crackers, bread and butter, cabbage sul ad, milk, fruit. November 22 Roast turkey gravy, dressing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, rolls and but ter, jello fruit salad, green beans ala Heppner, Ice cream, milk. November 23 Sandwich, veg etable, milk, dessert. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Smith 11 1 last week for an extended trip to California where they will visit his brother. YEP, ONLY 38 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. NOW IS THE TIME TO ORDER YOUR PERSONALIZED CHRISTMAS CARDS. WE HAVE A GREAT SELEC TION IN EXCLUSIVE LINES THIS YEAR. WE INVITE YOU TO COME IN AND MAKE YOUR CHOICES NOW WITH OR WITHOUT NAME IMPRINTED. THE GAZETTE-TIMES es. he returns lost articles to students, he helps students out In many, tunny ways. He la at school fr every event, to le mire that "his" building Is not mistreated What im saying is thnt our lion certified cron nel; bus drivers, rook, custod ians, secretaries, anil omers. pluy a very Important part In the total school program of ki. I'l.iiiilv Thev olve manv hours above those required for their Jobs "Mike" and his wife. Edith, .-.vnllv -I'lrbrsteil their .TTvlh wedding anniversary. They have twin daughters, iierniece ana lienlcce. who are seniors at lone High school. Prior to coming to work for the school In lne, Mike ranch ed, worked In a warehouse, worked In lumbering and other Interesting Jobs. In closing we would like to tiny "thanks" to "Mike" and the total group who keep the school operating. Sewing Club Starts Sew a Bit Rip a Lot. a 4 II sewing club, waa organized Wednesday. November X Offi cer are; president, Kat h y Sweeney; vice-president. Mar cia Young; secretary, Mary O'. iMnnell; reporter. Therese Moore; treasurer. Barbara All stott and game leader, Tarn! Meador. Our leader la Mrs. John Prlvett. We met again on Wednesday. November Id. Therese Mote, reporter Mr. and Mr, r rands Bailey. son and daughter In law of Mrs. N. D Bailey, visited her last week end on Saturday and Sun day from Port land. They brought with them Maggie Reynolds, Mr. Bailey's twin sister, who came to move the Inst of her thing to Astoria where she will stay for a time with her daughter. Mr. Ernie Freels. Friends of the family will be Interested to know that David Bailey, son of the Fran cis Baileys, will be leaving for service In the Air Force In Viet Nam on December 8. Among the coUeoo students who were visiting their parent al home over the Veteran Day week-end were Brenda Young, Dick Struckmeler, lslle Mead or, Erna Winchester and Sandl McDonald. COMMUNITY BILLBOARD Coming Events BAKED FOOD SALE Saturday, November 19, from 9:30 a m. By WSCS of Methodist church Next door to Turner, Van Marter and Bryant Good selection of pre-Thanks- giving goodies. TURKEY SHOOT Morrow County Gun club Sunday. November 20, from 10:00 a.m. Heppner club grounds. THANKSGIVING DINNER Degree of Honor Members and Families Saturday, Nov. 19, 6:30 p.m. Christian Church basement THANKSGIVING SERVICE Community Thanksg I v I n g Service, Wednesday, Nov. 23. 7:30 pm. All Saints' Episcopal church. Sponsored by South Morrow Ministerial association. Public welcome. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency Htppntr P. O. Box 247 PH. 478-9625
