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HEPFNER GAZETTE -TIMES. Thursday. August 24. 1967 THE GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner. Oreqon 97836 Phon 676-9228 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1SS3. The Heppner Times established November 18. 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NEWS PA MR PUtllSHIII ASSOCIATION WESLET A. SHERMAN HELEN E. SHERMAN ARNOLD RAYMOND Shop Foreman Printer JIM SHERMAN Pressman Subscription Rhtes: $450 Year. Every Thursday and Entered at as second Liass Matter. Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., until noon Saturday. Crime in the United States Released on August 10 by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is an 186-page book, "Crime in the United States." This is an annual report of crime statistics, but this particular edition, reporting on the year 1966, is one that should disturb every decent and law abiding citizen In the nation. With 1967 more than half gone and with the Increase in the number of riots and a notable rise in lawlessness across the country, it may well be that next year's report will present an even more shocking picture. Can any adult recall any time when there was more open flaunting of the law than there is today even to the admonitions, under the guise of free speech, to burn and destroy? A "Crime Clock" in the book shows that in 1966 six serious crimes were committed in this country every minute. There was a murder every 48 minutes, a case of forcible rape every 21 minutes, an aggravated assault every two min utes, a robbery every minutes, a burglary every 23 sec onds, a larceny ($50 and over) every 35 seconds, and an auto theft every 57 seconds. Almost 3,750,000 serious crimes were reported in 1966, an increase of 11 percent over 1965. Risk of becoming a victim of serious crime increased 10 percent with almost two vic tims per each 100 inhabitants. Firearms were used to commit more than 6300 murders and 43,500 aggravated assaults in 1966. Daytime burglaries of residences rose 140 percent in 1966 over I960. Property worth more than $1.2 billion was lost as a result of 153,400 robberies, 1,370,000 burglaries, 2,790,000 larcenies, and 557,000 auto thefts. Arrests of juveniles for serious crimes increased 54' per cent in 1966 over 1960. Arrests for Narcotic Drug Law viola tions rose 82 percent in the same period, influenced primarily by marijuana arrests in the Western States. Police solutions of serious crimes declined eight percent in 1966, but police recoveries of property stolen in crimes re duced the loss by 55 percent. Fifty-five percent of offenders released to the street in 1963 were rearrested within 2Va years, and 57 of the pris oners released on parole were rearrested in 2H years. Eighty three percent of those persons acquitted or dismissed in 1963 were rearrested within 30 months. It is interesting to note that a vastly higher percentage of crimes committed against persons were cleared as com pared with those committed against property. In 1966, 89 of the murders were cleared, as were 83 of the negligent manslaughters, 62 of the forcible rape cases, and 72 of the aggravated assault cases. But look at the crimes against property: Only 32 of the robbery cases were cleared; only 22 of the burglary cases; 19 of the larceny cases; and only 23 of the auto theft cases. Thus, if your car was stolen in 1966 somewhere in the United States, you had a mathematical chance of less than one in four of getting it back! That presents a pretty grim picture, and it is almost a certainty that it is growing worse continually. It makes an irony of our pointing to any "backward" people of the world and calling them "uncivilized." Is this what being "civil ized" means? Yet we know that the vast majority of our population is law-abiding. Probably their greatest crime is their leth argy and their apathetic attitude. Our people are too prone to take the attitude that 'It can't happen here," or "It won't happen to me." Or, if they see something in the nature of a law violation, the reaction is to "let the cops take care of it." Meanwhile, the Supreme Court makes decisions that make it increasingly easier for the criminal and ever hard er for a police officer, stretching the premise of "protecting the innocent." If the trend continues to exaggerate the pro tection of the individual, the general public may become afraid to live in this country. Even now, women and child ren dare not go out in some of our larger cities at night, or even in some areas in the daytime. This in the land of Freedom and Liberty? It's time for the people in our nation to become aggres sive in upholding the law and in working towards its en forcement. Are we going to step back and hide as criminals pursue their lawless courses? It is one thing to take a book like this and to be appal led, in due measure and with sufficiently smug detachment, but when one thinks of the misery and the suffering these crimes caused the grief they brought, it is different. There is a good chance that someone in your family, or someone close to you, may be a victim of a major crime within the next year. Not every citizen can stop a murder or abort a bank rob bery, but he can give full cooperation to officers; he can treat them with respect; he can teach his children to consider police officers as friends; he can stop calling them "cops"; he can educate his youngsters in the little matters of law observance. Public apathy makes a great spawning ground for crime; and lack of respect for the law adds fertilizer to hasten its growth. Ceglias to Visit Father in New York Mr. and Mrs. John Ceglia, Sr., and their son John, left today (Thursday) for New York State where they will visit his father, Carl Ceglia, at Locust Valley on Long Island. The father is 81 years old, and the Ceglias have not seen him since Mrs. Carl Ceglia died five or six years ago. On the trip they will also stop at Louisville, Ky., to visit relatives of Mrs. Ceglia. They are going by car and expect to be gone about three weeKs. During their absence Warren Plocharsky will open their auto wrecking yard and repair shop in evenings. It will be closed during the daytime. HEPPNER NATIONAL NEWSPAPER 5551 6T,7N EDITOR AND PCBLISHEH ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER REGGIE PASCAL Linotype Operator RANDY STCLLMAN Apprentice Single Copv 10 Cents, Published the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, Monday through Friday; 9 ajn Mr. and Mrs, Carl Rhea, Steve and Lori. returned Fririav fmm a two-weeks vacation. During me trip tney visited relatives in Ogden, Utah, in Denver, Colo., and at Daniel, Wyo. Blake May Undergo Surgery in Salem Bill Blake of Monmouth, form er resident here, is a patient in Salem Memorial Hospital, where he was admitted Saturday and placed in traction for a chronic back condition, according to In formation received here by his sister, Mrs. Bethel Heinrichs. It is expected that surgery may be required next week to correct fhe condition. He occu pies Room 215 at Salem Mem orial. G65 Winter St.. S. F... and would enjoy hearing from his menus nere. Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman IT SURELY Is good to hear the Heppner band practicing and see the musicians marching j around town in preparation for, the Saturday parade: with men numbers Including youngsters to adults, they are resolved that thev are going to make a good showing in the parade. More power to thorn and to Director Arnie Hodman! WHEN A NEW police chief comes to town, a person might wonder just how much monkey business ho will toler ate. Read this anecdote about Po lice Chief Glen Kolkhorst and then you can answer the ques tion about him: He was making his rounds of parking meters the other day and came to a real nice pick up with a fine camper mount ed on it The rig carried Wash ington license plates, but the time on the adjoining meter had expired. The chief looked in the cab, saw no one, checked the back and still saw no occupants. So he started to write a ticket. But Just as he did so, the horn honk ed. Mystified, he looked In the cab again, but no occupant was visible. He started again to write the ticket, but the horn sounded once more. The chief took another quick look through the cab window and thought he discerned some movement. Upon closer inspec tion he located the honker. It was a little monkey, clad in a diaper, who was performing the monkey business. Just then the owners arrived. The chief laughingly suggested that they had the monkey train ed to sound an alarm when they were about to get a ticket, but thev pleaded not guilty. The chief handed them the ticket and told them to tear it up, since they had arrived be fore he got the job done. IF A FELLOW has been selling Shell gasoline for years, you wouldn't expect him to buy Richfield in the same town. But that's the way it is in a small town. One of the first if not the first customers at Wes' Richfield grand opening here just a while back was Jim Far ley, who pumped Shell gasoline for years before he sold his sta tion to Jerry Daggett. Real nice of Jim to make this gesture, wasn't it? It surely was even if he did happen to run out of gas at that early morning hour just in front of the new station! SOME OF OUR Heppner home- makers have been real ingen ious in their methods of beat ing the heat. Take Mrs. Ed Hiemstra, for instance. She found that she had a lot of house cleaning to do last week at the peak of the heat wave. But she kept cool doing it. She put on her bathing suit, went into the shower and stood under the cooling water. She "drip dried" a few minutes, then went to the cleaning until she became too warm. Then she went back to the shower. This continued until the housework was done in relative comfort MRS. FORRIE BURKENBINE was probably one of the few housewives that kept at her baking through the hot days, and she did it without heating the house. How? Easy. The Bur kenbines have a vacation trail er. She went out in it and did the baking in the small oven, leaving the house nice and cool. WE NOTE that Bob DeSpain, our franly truck driver, is beating the heat, too, running his route in those comfortable looking shorts that he's wearing. We get a kick out of Bob. No matter where you pass him on Morrow county's highways and Pioneer Ponderings Bv W. S. CAVERHILL Leon Minear's "loose-handled" listing of sub-standard schools deserves sharp criticism, and his "weak-kneed" justifica tion for it is even more unpalat able. His contention that his of fice is short handed and his records not up to date is a poor picture to present to the tax payers. I am sure that many of the small districts in the Road South country that have felt the last of the standardization pro gram inspectors will agree that Leon is not short of helpers but that he has too d--n many of 'em. In standardization, tolerance should be observed. For exam ple, Lincoln High School of Portland has thousands of pup ils and no play ground? Sub standard? Mt. Vernon, a thousand acres to play on and only 60 pupils. Sub standard? Somewhere common sense should prevail. byways, he always gives you a franly wave. He seems to know everyone. Now you don't mi1 bread truck drivers doing that around Portland, Salem or Eugene, do vou? ALTHOUGH admittedly preju diced, Heppner football tans came away from the Slirlne All Star football game in Pendleton Saturday night convinced that the West's dominance would have been reduced if the Mus tangs' Jim Doherty had seen more action in the contest. Prob ably that's a common complaint that All-Star coaches hear from supporters of favorite sons. The Heppner star was consign ed to limited duty punts, kick off returns and some defensive action. The 33 14 loss to the West wasn't due in any measure to Jim's failure to do his part. He never made a miscue in the time he was in the game. He got off some booming punts and never a bad one; he made a couple of nice runbacks on the kickoff for good yardage; he played a fine game on defense, stopping runners several times although the game announcer didn't give him credit; und the only time we recall he packed the ball on offense he made a crucial first down for the East We believe that Jim could have sharpened the East's passing game, which looked pretty bad in the first half of the game. Doherty wasn't in the game more than one-fourth the total time, but he showed himself as a topnotch gridder. and Morrow county is proud of his perlor ma nee. Despite the fact that West's dominance cooled the ardor of eastern fans, the Shriners put on a good show at the game for their very worthy cause- In the pageantry, performance of the Elks'sponsored drum and bugle corps of Baker was out standing. We'd surely like to see them here for next year's rodeo weekend. Randall Peterson call ed Mondiy and tried to get them for this rodeo but found that tliey had other commitments. WE COULD hardly believe It when we heard on TV the other night that all the build ings at Northwestern Livestock Commission Company had burn ed to the ground. We extend most sincere sympathy to Don Wink and his crew there. Thev have a great following in Morrow county, of course. We have built up quite a happy business relationship over the telephone with) them, getting their market reports like clock work every Tuesday evening and hearing of their sales. After weeks and weeks of get ting these reports, we expected that we would have to use something else in their spot on the classified page this week. But no, the telephone call came as usual just a short time ago. They held a Tuesday sale, buildings or no, and the report is in as usual. Good for them. They are going to rebuild, and in the meantime will use quarters of the Hermiston Live stock Commission Co. for their sales. May the future hold better things in store for them! Mrs. Anne Doherty Gets Masters Degree Mrs. Anne Lindsell Doherty, wife of Dennis D. Doherty, re ceved her Master of Education degree at the University of Ore gon's summer commencement exercises on Saturday, August 12, in Eugene. She is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lindsell, Jr., of Portland, and the daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Doherty, Heppner. At the university she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Her husband, Dennis, was graduated from the unver sity in 1964, and did not receive a degree this summer, as was reported last week. Mrs. Doherty did several weeks of substitute teaching in the English department of Heppner High school during the second semester of last year. A master of education degree was also presented to James Michael Healy, son of James P. Healv. at this vear's largest I summer commencement at the U. of O., when more than a thousand candidates received degrees. Sylva Wells Struck By Backing Auto Sylva Wells of Heppner sus tained contusions and bruises to her arm and forehead last Thursday afternoon when she was struck by a car backing from a diagonal parking space near Central Market. Mrs. Wells was knocked to the pavement by the rear of the car, which was driven by Arnold Pieper of Lexington. Pieper did not see Mrs. Wells, who apparently was crossing the street in the middle of the block. She was treated for the injuries which apparently were not serious. Police Chief Glen Kolkhorst investigated the accident. He said that circumstances indicat-: ed Pieper was operating his ve hicle legally and Just did not see Mrs. Wells. When the im pact occurred, he stopped Immediately. TO THE EDITOR. Putting Up Mail Pour Editors: Just u ramble In Ihe Heppner Scone: When Wallace Smead was postmaster in the Fair building site. "Putting Up The Mall" was a morning ritual that was at tended bv every businessman, clerk, doctor and man about town. The rush hour was ap proximately 8;;W to 9:30 as I best recall anil the hall of the post office lobby was lined as expectant recipients waited and watched their box door, as u was possible to see through to the clerks putting mail In Ihe boxes and even maybe hoar 'em clop In a letter now and then. Mv father, Claude Cox, us ually was In the receiving lino, too, most mornings ut his box 108 and later 616. Dr. McMurilo must have had one close as he and dad often exchanged pleas antries as two ex-Vlrglnlans are wont to do, spiced bv a few bum Jokes and oven a little free stylo wrestling, much to the amusement of the captive au dioncc. It was The Big Thing of the business day and certainly look ed forward to and enjoyed by all and sundry. To mv brother, William Lee. and I. It was a treat to get In on this Big Big man's world. It seemed no less Important an event to us than wedding, graduation or may be supper at a Chinese Cafe, of which Heppner had severul at that date. After the first class mail was up, we brothers who did chores in the creamery for dad often got to make the second run to the post office for the second class mail and the call-fur-package-cards. That was an ad venture, too, as it might mean packages which contained who knows what, like new traps, mail rotler catalogs, fur house quotations, ad infinitum. It was about this time In the eai-lv twenties that we brothers answered ads in the Oregon Farmer to four fur houses. We picked ones In St. Louis, Den ver. NYC and Sedro-Woolcy, Wn. They must have sold our name mailing list for In two short years dad was bringing home half of a 30 lb. butter box full of fur quotations. In fact we at one time counted correspondence and quotations of 31. Boy, were we In business! Needless to say, we never came up to our hopes and dreams of becoming rich In the fur trade. Our few weasel, muskrat, mink, and badger hardly paid the fur houses' postage. We numbered among our trapping buddies of those tremelous years, Cornett Green, Nolan Turner, Lowell Turner, Robert Jones, although It real ly was a bit competitive as the fur bearers didn't recognize who was first but the pocket econo my did. So it goes down ol' memory lane, as It looked from the post office In The Fair build ing. Yours truly, CLAIR H. COX, CORVALL1S Dream Comes True August 10, 1967 A dream has Just come true. I have just had a beautiful, fas cinating and Interesting trip and day. We left Portland Tues day morning at 8 o'clock and went through the beautiful Cas cade mountains and little towns along the way, past Mt. Hood and on and on, going on High way 26 from here, an excellent highway. It takes three hours each way. We went to the Warm Springs Indian Agency and where the Warm Springs, Piute and Was co Indians live. A nice little vil lage with nice little houses and trim lawns; brick government buildings. We went from there to Kah-Nee-Ta, a wonderful summer resort owned and op erated by the Indians. I am happy to tell you I went swimming and swam, for over a half hour. I had not been In for over 10 years. I was not ev en "winded". We ate at one of those tables by the window, fresh salmon caught by the .In NEW GAS PRICES EFFECTIVE NOW CHEVRON - SUPREME - JACK'S CHEVRON STATION 294 N. MAIN bp V w 4 LANCE TTBBLE3 Narymon Hudson Gets Advancement Jerrv Hudson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert K. Hudson of Ar rata, Calif., a member of Navy Fighter Squndron 211. ha re ceived a rating advancement, according to word received here by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Hudson. (Vimimitutor P. H. Sneer has ii-vittiin Lirfu'a minfliil fldllflO them of the advancement result ing from Jerry's participation In sorvlce-wldo competitive exam inations. "Men like your son who apply themselves to study and on-the-job training Inevit ably become the responsible leaders of the future In all fac i m( th Nnvv." Commander Spoor wrote. The squadron la now operating in support oi U. S. policy with the Seventh Fleet In the South China Sea. It Is expected that he will be hnmi iin Iavo to attend the wedding of his sister, Sharon, to James Mil leiiana, in Areata on October 15. dians. The Warm Springs river ran In front of the restaurant and It was clear and fresh. We returned bv way of Sim- nasho, an Indian village. The rock formations along the way were fabulous. At times we were on top of the world where we could see The Three Sisters, near Bond; Mt. Jefferson and Mt. Hood. Can you Imagine a skyline of all this? Josephine Muhoney Baker 2545 S. W. Terwllllgor. Portland 97'JOI Must Make Choice To the Editor: Our leaders on both sides seem to be In a state of con fusion lots of Ideas but no an swers to the trouble we arc in. If our leaders would Just heed the advice of our forefuthers with vision and m osier minds, thev can find the answer This is the big question, how can we police the world when we cannot police our own home land? Our great leaders in the past have repeatedly warned us not to get Involved In Asia. Thomas Jefferson, said, "I place economy among the first and mast Important virtues, and public debt the greatest danger to be feared." We must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. If we wish to maintain our inde pendence, we must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servi tude. If we can prevent our leaders from wasting the labors of our people under the pre tense of caring for them we will be wise. Dr. A. D. McMurdo Bill Huit manager of the J. C. Penney store here, was In Port land from Monday through Wednesday of last week to at tend a district meeting of the company. Plans were made for the next six months' operations and holiday merchandise was discussed. 35.9 per gal. 38.9 per gal. HEPPNER Lance Tibbies Takes New Post In Buffalo, N. Y. A I'lilversllv of Oiegnu staff member lias been appointed Deputy Service hlieclnr of a new ombudsman program In New York State l.anov Tibbies, who Is our ronllv special assistant to the director of the School I segre gation Institute, will ossinne his new dullos with Ihe Re search Foundation of the State of New York In lluHalo, Sept ember 1. He Is son of Dr. and Mrs 1.. ! Tibbies of Heppner. As an ombudsman, Tibbies will have the responsibility of protecting i-ltlenx against arbi trary notion of local government agencies. The ombudsman, alter receiv ing a complaint from a citizen alleging governmental abuse, Invest Ignlos and Intervene on behalf of the citizen with the governmental authority concern- ed. He doe not net counsel for the Individual, but remains independent and serves as a mediator or Intermediary. Prior to Tibbie npxlntment In June to the School Desegre gation Instil ute, he was staff attorney for four year at the University' Bureau of Munici pal Research and Service and the League of Oregon Cities. As staff attorney, Tibbie, dir ected the League' municipal ordinance codification program and answered legal Inquiries from Oregon city attorney. During the time he wa with the School Desegregation Insti tute, he aided In conducting program designed to help teachers and administrator meet the problem which are encountered In newly desegre gated schools. Tibbie received a B. S. degree with honors in economic from the University of Oregon and an LL. B. degree from the Unl vorsty of Oregon School of Law. He I a member of the Ore gon State Bar, the American Bar Association, the American Judi cature Society, and the Lane County Bur Association. He also has served a a mem ber of the Oregon State Bor Committee on Civil Right and the American Bar Association Cotnmttee on Local Government. Tibbies, who Is married ami has one child, has been living with his family In Eugene. They were In Heppner visiting his parents early this week. Pierces Go to Tulsa, Attend Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Gene Pierce, Martha and Mary, returned lost week-end from Tulsa. Okla., af ter attending the 50th wedding annlversury of Mrs. Pierce's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Baker, there. The girl had gone by air plane to Dallas, Texas, to visit with Mrs. Pierce's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Dalby, and returned with their parents following the an niversary observance. The trip by car covered Just over 4000 miles and took nine days of traveling. Weather wa nice In the south, and they found the hot weather only In the northwest. However, after one night' stop In Colorado they found Ice on the wind shield In the morning. COMMUNITY BILLBOARD Coming Events HEPPNER SWIMMING POOL Open Tuesdays thru Fri days, 1 to 4 p.m., and 7 to 9 p.m. Pool will be closed for rodeo Saturday & Sunday, Aug ust 26, 27 Pool closes for season Sun day, Sept. 3 KODEO DANCES Friday, August 25, 9:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Heppner Fair Pavilion Music by The Henchmen Dance, Western Style, Satur day, Aug. 2G, music by the Western Gentlemen of Con don Everyone Welcome! EPISCOPAL BARBECUE Saturday, August 26, 5 to 8 p.m. Pit-cooked beef bnrbecue din ner, adults $2; children, $1 Episcopal Parish Hall, corner Church and Gale Bring you family and your rodeo friends MORROW COUNTY FAIR and RODEO Pet Show, Pig Scramble, Thurs. Aug. 24 Open Class Horse Show, Fri day, Aug. 25, 9:00 a.m. Big Street Parade, Sat., Aug. 20, Downtown Heppner, 10 a.m. Rodeo, Sat. & Sun., Aug. 26, 27 Cowboy Breakfast, Sunday, 7:00 a.m. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner Year In N. Y. -. .
