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KCfPNCX GAZETTE-TIMES. Thurtdery. January It 1964 THE S: IiEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner. Or g on 97836 Phone C7S-922J MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSMFER The Heppner Ca-tte established March 30, ISO. The Heppner Time eMabJlsr.ea ."avemoer io, (.uiudjiuiwu rcuiuaiy aj, 7 'n WSPAMI PUtlllHMS ASSOCIATION WESLET A. SHERMAIf HELEN E. SHERMAIf ARNOLD RAYMOND Srtop Yoremtn Printer GAIL BCRKENBINE Society Circulation NATIONAL NIWSfAPri r hl.'JIlTWIftlll EDITOR AND PUBUSHEH ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER REGGIE PASCAL Linotype Operator RANDY STTLLMA3 Apprentice JIM SHERMAN Pressman Subscription Rates: SL50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post OUice at Heppner, Oregon, aa Second Class Matter. Office Hours: 8 a m. to 6 p.m.. Monday through Friday; 9 ajn. until noon Saturday. Our Talkative People Sometime e suspect that at the heart cf some of the problems In thu country U the fact that rr.oit of us talk too much. But if the booklet. The World's Telephones." Is a true Index, perhaps we aren't a-s bad as the Canadians. This points out that Canada retained I's world title on telephone conversations during the year 1D66. averaging 661 per per son. The United States was the second most talkative with 618 calls per person. However, the United States has far more telephones than any other country with 93,789.000. This is close to half of ail the telephones in the world 208.5OTj.CiO0. Certainly the lines of communication must be better by far in the United States than in the USSR, which has only an estimated 8,400.000 telephones. If our population is 200 million, then our number of telephones average nearly one to every two persons. The interesting booklet on The World's Telephones, pub lished by American Telephone & Telegraph Company and dis tributed here by Pacific Northwest Bell, points out that the number of telephones Increased by 13.4 million in the year 1966. The marvelous progress made by telephone systems for our talkative people Is brought out by the fact that now a person may sit at his desk, or take the phone in his home, and reach a person at any of 96 per cent of the world's tele phones. A person can call places that he has never heard of. In 1967 connections were established with Brunei, Cayman Is lands, Qatar, the Spanish Sahara, and Greenland. Operator dialing of calls from the United States was extended to Nor way, Spain, Sweden, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. The time is rapidly approaching when many United States customers will be able to dial their overseas calls directly. Second to the United States in the number of telephones would you guess it? is Japan with more than 16 million telephones. If you have often tried to reach a party by telephone and found the line busy, it Is understandale. There were nearly 122'i billion calls made in the United States during the year 1966! Probably there are many parents who will aver that the big increase in the number of calls in this country is due to the fact that their daughters are reaching teen age! Now this ease of communication, as contrasted with the days of our grandfathers, may be considered a detriment a contribution to the softening of our people. But watch a teen ager on the telephone, and it is difficult to tell whether she Is talking to a friend or taking a course in physical education. She (and we use the personal pronoun in the feminine gender advisedly) will stand on her head, or lop over the davenport with head down to the floor and feet draped over the back, or do a jig on one foot while carry ing on an animated conversation. But if the telephone companies have made it easy for us to be a talkative people, it is nothing compared to what they have in store for us. We see by the ads (unfortunately not In this paper) that the scientific wizards of the telephone companies are specu lating on the development of dial telephones, without wires, to wear on the wrists; others that permit one to view the person to whom he is talking (in color, no less!); and home telephones may be used to reach computers for figuring in come taxes or getting any type of information. One day the time will come when your home telephone can be set to follow you and transfer calls to you, wherever you may be. About the same time, you will be able to dial your kitchen stove when you're away and turn on the oven so the roast will be done when you arrive back home. A hundred years from now or lessour population will be doing things by telephone that we can scarcely imagine. Our talkative nation will look back then at the old pioneers of 1968 and wonder how the hardy people of that early age ever got along without these taken-for-granted conveniences. OUCH! POSTAGE HIKE PAINFUL Going to Move? Please Notify Paper of Change of Address When Uncle Sam's post office department increased postage rates, he also made some other increases that many people don't realize. One such is a 50 increase on the cost of notifying publications of address changes when the recipient of the publication doesn't take care of the matter himself. Prior to January 1, a paper paid the post office 10c for each such notice. Now it pays 15c. In a year's time, even on a small paper like the Gazette-Times, there are a great many such notices, for quite a few subscribers fail to remember to notify the paper when they move or otherwise change their addresses. The postage hike thus gets the paper going and com ing. Its second class rates were increased, and when it is not delivered because of an address deficiency, it has to pay the advanced rate for the post office notice. Sometimes several papers pile up in a post office un delivered, all destined for the same address. And the pa per may get several notices at 15c each notifying that the address is insufficient or has been changed. If all subscribers will be thoughtful and courteous enough as many are to notify The Gazette-Times in advance when an address will be changed, this post f tfice charge will be avoided and the paper will follow the subscriber to his new address without delay. The paper is absorbing, for the present, the increase in mailing costs, but this consideration on address changes will be appreciated. And one thing more when you notify the paper of your address change, will you please also give your former address. We know where many of our subscribers live when we recognize their names, but out of 1700, we don't know them alL and giving the old address as well as the new one is most helpful in making the change. The Rhyming Philosopher POSTERITY I ESTABLISH NO CLAIM TO A MANSION OF FAME OR A HOUSE FELL OF Ml'SKlM TREASURE: BUT I N W MUST CONFESS WE'VE AMAZED WL'ITE A MESS OK RELICS OF PAST HUMAN PLEASURES. WE'VE PAVED CORKS I HAVE POPPED AND THE LOt KS THAT HAVE STOPPED AND BALL-POINTED PENS LONG EXPIRED OLD SCH-. iOL BOOKS AND PENCILS AND KITCHEN UTENSILS. AND GADGETS WHICH SINCE CAME U.V.VIRED. THERE'S BOXES OF LETTERS FROM OLD FRIENDS AND DEBTORS. AND TOOLS WHICH HAVE LONG LOST THEIR HANDLES. THE KITCHEN S A HAVEN FOR COOK BOOKS WE'RE SAVES G. PLUS CARTONS OF USED BIRTHDAY CANDLES. THE ATTIC IS LOADED WITH GARMENTS OUT MODED. AND CHESTS FI LL OF TOYS. MOSTLY BROKEN. THERE'S TRAPS FOR OUR GOPHERS. AND UNDER STUFFED SOFAS. AND SOUVENIR PLATES FROM HOBOKEN. WE MAY HAVE OBSESSIONS FOR HOARDING POSSESSIONS. RUT SOMEDAY IT WON'T LOOK SO FIWY IF SOME LUCKY GRANDCHILD DISCOVERS THIS JUNK HAS NOW BECOME ANTIQUES WORTH MONEY. HARRY W. FLETCHER Chaff Chatter Wes Sherman IT HAS been said that a broad general education best fits a person for the newspaper busi ness, and we can verily believe it. One never knows what he is going to need to know. Take the storv this week on grade school auditorium-gymna sium where they have removed all the plaster. It reminded us of the old story of Chicken Little and we wanted to use this in connec tion with the piece on the gym. We remembered the part, all right, about the thing (forgot ten what the "thing" was) fall ing on the head of Chicken Lit tle, and then the little chick going into hysteria and report- son regarded us with wondering eyes, men soitly intoned, "For sooth and gadzooks. thee may well verily be right." And thereupon he turned up the volume on his record play er featuring Herb Alcert and the Tijuana Brass. SO YOU don't know about this modern generation. Watching a favorite TV pro gram the other night, we were interrupted when grade school daughter came up with books and papers in hand. "Will you help me with mv exponetal notations?" she said (and I hope this is spelled cor rectly). Walter Beckef, Son of Pioneers, Dies January II Walter W. Bucket, who had tw-en a resident of this area for the past M years, died Thurs day. January 11, In Pioneer i Memorial hospital following short illness. He would have reached his 83rd birthday in February. Funeral services were held Saturday January 13. at 2:00 p.m. at the First Methodist chunh. with the Rev. Melvln Dixon officiating. Vault Inter ment was In Heppner Masonic cemetery witn Sweeney Mortuary in cnarge of the arrangements. He was born February 24, 1hj5. in Weston, the son of J. W. and Catherine Stall Becket, He was brought by his pioneer parents to the Eightmile area when he was one year old, where the family settled on a homestead ranch. On June 3, 1908, he was mar ried to Carrie Forbes in Portland. They were engaged in wheat ranching in the Eightmile and Liberty districts until his retire ment in 1946, when they moved into Heppner. He was an active member of Heppner Elks Lodge No. 358, of Heppner Masonic Lodge No. 69, AF&AM and a patron of Ruth Chapter No. 32, Order of Eastern Star. Surviving are his wife, Carrie, of Heppner; a son Laurence, Heppner; a son-in-law, Claude Buschke, Heppner; a sister, Mary Becket. Heppner; two brothers. Gen. John Beckett. La Jolla. Calif., and Charlie Beckett, Heppner. Also, four grandchild ren and three great-grandchildren. Serving as pallbearers at the service were Gerald Bergstrom, Arnold Springer, Ervln Anderson. Frank Anderson, Don Gilliam and Jack Healy. Vocalist was Janet Johnson and organist was Pauline Miller. Pioneer Ponderings Br W. S. CAVERHILL TO THE EDITOR Our Fiscal Tornado That has built uo an econom ic turbulence that has clouded our tusines-s skies witn aencu spending, time payments, inter national imbalance ana waas oi paper money threaten our nresent nrosoentv. It began as a small wninwina (a dust devil In the early JOs. The national debt was 35 billi on and was increased, with some misgivings, to $50 billion. Since then there has been lit tle official concern about its In crease. The Vietnam war is costing 2 billion a month. That mav end eventually, but the in terest on the national debt, cost ing 1 billion a month, will go on forever. The demands for in creases in wages by service and industrial workers, granted and yet to be met, add to the tur bulence. Unless Congress and the ad ministration take courageous and early action, this cowboy leaning against the corral gate makes this economic forecast: "Cloudy." Likes Philosophy Di ar Helen and Wes: Compliments and thanks to you for sharing Harry W. Flet cher's wonderful "rhyming phil osophy" with your readers. If the rest of his work carries that type of advice I'm sure the sick, greedy old mixedup world could use some more of his dignified, encouraging suggestions, ana I m hoping you win continue to helo him sow more of his up lifting thoughts and JdeaLi. Sincerely Lois Winchester (Ed. Note: Other readers have called to say they also enjoyed this new feature in The Gazette Times. The second rhyme Is printed on this page, and the feature will be continued indefinitely). Rt Rev. and Mrs. Lane Bar ton of Bend visited In Heppner Saturday and Sunday at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Dirk Rinehart. Rev. Barton conducted services of confirmation at All Saints' Episcopal church on Sun day morning. Following the services, a coffee hour in honor of the Bartons was held in the parish hall of the church. r .T.iui.. -u.. ...i i... .- n inp' 71,15 was enueh to pull my ng. ' pvpc Aii-av frnm Ihp tlihp pupn But we couldn't remember to whom he spread the story. So we queried Mrs. Sherman and Gail Burkenbine, as fol lows: "To whom did Chicken Little report that the sky was falling?" Both looked up from their work simultaneously and re plied in unison, "What!?!" And we got two searching glances similar to those we often get when members of the staff have some concern that we are going oil our rocker again. HOWEVER, neither could bring enlightenment, and we let it pass, but Gail went to work on it. Fifteen minutes later when I went by her desk, she enumer ated: "Foxy-loxy, ducky-lucky and turKey-iurky." Then it was our turn to give her an incredulous look, until we tumbled that she was just coming up with the answer to an editorial request. And Mrs. Co-Publisher added Hennv-penny." Well, sir, we felt right proud of our staff that they are so well versed in literature. See how the broad general educa tion comes in? WE WERE trvine to convey some of this to son Jim who needed some convincing that English literature is worth the taking. "You run into Shakesperian quotations every day," said his father from the depths of his wisdom. "Some of our most common expressions have their backgrounds in Shakespeare, and we don't even realize it. Sometimes it is difficult to in terpret articles which refer to Shakespeare's characters in analogies unless we know them through his works." The lecture over, 17-year-old though Ironside was about to crush an arch criminal with a castigating diatribe. "Ex-what notations?" we ejac ulated. "Exponetal notations," she re plied calmly. (And again we apologize to her teacher if the spelling is undermining the in structor's good works). "What subject does it have to do with?" " "Math." (She didn't add "of course, but it was in her eyes anybody knows what expon etal notations are). "Well, honey," we confessed, "I don't know anything about them, haven't heard of them." We had to be honest about it. She shut her book, went to her room and we got in on the end of Ironside's diatribe. And to think that they didn t have enough adults sign up for the Blue Mountain even ing course on "New Math for Parents" to offer the subject. Shame, shame! OH, THESE kids today may know their exponetal nota tions all right, but we'll wager they can't tell you a thing about Chicken Little! had a fabulous career, and most of us realize that it would take a big book to do a complete ac count of his life. Services Held For Curtis Rhea J COMMUNITY U J BILLBOARD K GORDON McNABB of the Asso ciated Press. Portland, called Monday and told us that the AP is doing a feature story on Dr. A. D. McMurdo. The East Ore gonian is providing it for them, and Avon Melby has written it for the EO. McNabb was interested in Dr. McMurdo's age. So we went across the street to visit our good neighbor. Well." said the aoctor wnen we asked him about his age, it's like the active old fellow said when he was asked his age, 'My age is none of my business'." We're looking forward to see ing the story. The doctor has BILL JONES, editor of the Lar iat, which is published in Van couver, Wash., had some very nice comments about Joann Griffith of Spray in his last is sue of the publication, which is read widely by all interested in horses and rodeos. We re print his comments because we heartily agree with him. All who have worked with Mrs. Griffith on anything to do with the Northwest Rodeo association undoubtedly assent. "Again we are tickled pink to see Mrs. Don' (Joann) Griffith reelected to the important post or secretary-Treasurer and pub licity (of NRA). Joann has real ly pulled her weight and much more in the NRA team these past years and is certainly a credit and invaluable asset. "The Lariat is especially pleased to welcome Joann again for 1968 because of her fine as sistance with news stories and pictures, her reliability, grac- iousness and friendliness. It has been a privileee to work with and for Joann and the NRA and the Lariat treasures this asso ciation and pledges to continue our help to the best of our abil ity in "68." Well said, BilL ALWAYS A WELCOMED GIFT A gift subscription to the Gazette-Times. Only $4.50 per year anywhere, with gift cer tificate. 47tfx Curtis C. Rhea, a former Rhea Creek rancher, died Wednesday, January 10, in Hiersche's Nurs ing Home in Pendleton at the age of so. He had been In fail ing health the past two years. He had made his home in Stan- field since 1921, after leaving the lamily ranch. Services were held at Burns Mortuary Chapel, Hermiston, on Saturday, January 13, at 2:00 p.m., with the Rev. Leon Bolen pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating. Mr. Rhea was born at Heppner, the son of C. A. and Sophronia Rhea. The parents were the first settlers in the Rhea Creek area. He was a 62-year member of Heppner Elks Lodge No. 3o8. Graveside services were conduc ted at the Echo cemetery by five of the lodge members, Claude Graham. Darrell Padberg. Dave McLeod, Marshall Lovgren and Bob Mahoney. Survivors are the widow, Ma bel of Phoenix, Ariz.; two sons, Carl W- of Lexington and Robert W. of Stanfield; five daughters, Sophronia Kirkham of Island City, Oregon, Alice Buckley of laKima, vasn., Marie Hednck of Stanfield, Mary Ashbeck and Josephine Liesegang, both of Echoi a sister, Josephine Jones, Heppner; 17 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were six grand sons, Jim Liesegang, Don Hed rick, Curtis L. Rhea, Calvin Ash beck, Melvin Ashbeck and Alvin Ashbeck. Jim Dyck and children Jimmy and Susie of Cheney, Wn., have been recent visitors the past sev eral week-ends at the home of his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Art Dyck, and to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Connie Dyck, while Mr. Dyck is a patient at Pioneer Memorial hospital. j Coming Events HEPPNER HIGH BASKETBALL Burns at Heppner Friday, Jan. 19 Grant Union at John Day Saturday, January 20 Wahtonka at The Dalles Friday, January 26, league game Support the Mustangs! ELKS DINNER Swedish Smorgasbord Dinner Saturday, Jan. 20, 6:30 p.m, Followed by dancing to West ern Gentlemen Old Timer's Night, Jan. 25 ARBUCKLE SKIING Bus leaves Heppner Library eacn sat. morning, 8 a.m., returns 5 p.m. POMONA GRANGE Monthly meeting, Saturday, January 27. 10 a.m. Willows Grange Hall, lone Dinner at noon, program at 1:30 p.m. All Grangers urged to attend Old Timer's Night and Clam Feed, Thursday, Jan. 25 PUBLIC CARD PARTY St Patrick's Parish Hall Monday, January 29, 8 p.m. Bridge and Pinochle, $1 admission Everyone welcome each Sat. morning, 9 a.m., returns 4 p.m. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner TAJ SWEDISH SMORGASBORD SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 HEPPNER ELKS TEMPLE Varieties of Swedish Dishes MEATS. VEGETABLES. SALADS, DESSERTS SERVED FROM 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. Enjoy the Dinner and Dancing To Music by THE WESTERN GENTLEMEN Of Condon From 9:00 P.M. FULL EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT $2.50 Per Person i i i i i i ings i NOTICE This is the Final notice to taxpayers before the real property tax foreclosure is published in the Heppner Gazette-Times a Unpaid taxes for the year 1964-1965 or prior are delinquent and subject to foreclosure. Payments must be made by February 15 to avoid foreclosure proceed- C. J. D. BAUMAN Sheriff and Tax Collector Morrow County
