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HEFPNEH CAZETTEHMES, ThuradcT. April i wmV IIEFFNER GAZETTE-TIMES THE HeppoM Oregon 97836 Fboat 876-8221 The HoDDner Gazette established March 30. 1883. The Heppner Timet established November 18, 1KT7. Consolidated Jebruary 13, 1912. NIWSPAHI lltHIII ASSOCIATION NATIONAL NIWSPAMR WESLEY A. SHERMAN HELEN E. SHERMAN ARNOLD RAYMOND Shop Foreman Printer GAIL BURKENBINE Society Circulation Subscription Rates: $1.50 Year. Every Thursday and Entered at as Second Class Matter. Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. until noon Saturday. . EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER REGGIE PASCAL Linotype Operator RANDY STILLMAN Apprentice JIM SHERMAN Prncuman Sincle Copy 10 Cents. Published the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon Mondny through Friday; 9 a.m OTHER EDITORS SAY . . . High Finance Explained The head of the foreign aid program appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee recently to testify on the $3.1 billion foreign aid budget proposed by the President. A reading of the hearings makes It possible to print here, In a few inches of type, a simplified lesson In high finance. If you've had trouble understanding high finance In the past, bear with us. It Is all very simple, really. If you pay 6 percent, or some such rate of Interest on the money you have borrowed to pay for your car, or your house, you will appreciate the economy that foreign govern ments realize In being able to borrow money from the Inter national Development Association at less than 1 percent. The actual interest rate Is 34 of 1 percent. Keep that 34' of 1 percent Interest rate In mind. It is the foundation of our quick lesson In high finance. Now a million dollars Is a lot of money. Some of us work a lifetime without accumulating that much. But In high fi nance, It's pocket-money. Vice Presidents of the United States have been known to promise $100 million in U. S. aid money over breakfast coffee. Technically, of course, the $100 mil lion Is a loan. So let's use that convenient round figure as our example. The head of a "developing" country borrows $100 million; the interest rate is 34 of 1 percent $750,000 a year Interest. But Washington doesn't have the $100 million in hand. It has to sell government bonds to raise the money. And It pays at least 4.65 percent Interest on the bonds. Any fool can see that there's a loss on that deal. Uncle Sam pays $4,650,000 In interest on the $100 million, but recovers only $750,000 when he puts It out on loan. You can go broke doing that. Right? At the rate of $3,900,000 a year. But as we mentioned, the foreign aid budget is $3.1 billion, not $100 million. So Uncle Sam plans to go broke faster. You see? High finance Is simple. The banker who pays 4.65 percent Interest on money he borrows, and who loans the same money at 34 of 1 percent, Is going to be very popular. He'll have a waiting list of clients who want to borrow money. But it developed in the hearings that last year banker Uncle Sam paid out $465 million in interest on government bonds to "foreign official institutions and international or ganizations." What governments? That is "highly confiden tial" information. Is it possible, you ask, that some foreign governments borrow money at 34' of 1 percent interest, invested in U. S. government bonds which pay 4.65 interest, and pocketed the difference? Could be. Nobody can find out. From Woodburn Independent The Rhyming Philosopher IMPETUS YOU'LL NEVER SEE THE DAY TO DAWN WHKN YOU'RE NO LONGER YOU. NO MORTAL MAN HAS YET KEEN BORN TO MAKK THE WORLD ANEW. BUT SOMEWIIFRE DKKP WITHIN EACH SOUL TI1KKE SPRINGS THE URGE TO TRY TO SF.K.K EXI'KKSSION IN SOME GOAL WHICH NOTHING SHALL DENY. THE INFANT LEAPS WITHIN THE WOMB, AND CHILDREN MUST REBEL; WHILE. ON HIS JOURNEY TO THE TOMB. THE ADULT FEELS THE SPELL. SOME MYSTIC FORCE OF UNKNOWN BIRTH COMPELS US EACH TO RISE AND CLAIM A BETTER LIFE ON EARTH OR LOOK TOWARD THE SKIES. TO STAND ERECT AND OVERCOME, TO REACH BEYOND A STAR. TO BE, ALIVE AND VENTURESOME, IS KNOWING WHAT WE ARE SOME CALL IT MAN'S ETERNAL FIGHT TO RISE FROM SWAMP AND SOD. TO CONQUER NIGHT AND REACH FOR LIGHT WHILE SOME JUST CALL IT GOD. HARRY W. FLETCHER Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman Pioneer Ponderings Br w. s. CAVERHILL Our Internal Problem Those of us who are fortun ate enough to live far away from the cities that are having racial disturbances are not well qualified to suggest solutions, but we are deeply concerned. Some of us feel that the trag ic death of Dr. King may lead to more serious and construct ive thinking and action by both whites and blacks. There is con siderable evidence that the ed ucated negro leaders are begin ning to move toward the eco nomic development of the ne gro communities as entitles in stead of forced integration by transportation to schools and work. If provision were made under top negro leadership for negro ownership of homes, banks, stores and all business opera tions in the ghettos, it would at least establish a hard core of satisfied citizens. That would go far to prevent riots and present opportunities for young people that do not now exist. That is the way it looks to us Who are far away from the trouble spots. TO THE EDITOR. . . Easter Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Allstott and family were Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Peck and family of Rufus; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Butler and family of May ville; Mr. and Mrs. R. D. All stott and family of Hermiston; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Allstott and family of Pendleton; and Allstott's mother, Mrs. Dolly Allstott of Gresham. Mrs All stott remained to visit for the week before traveling to Herm iston on Sunday to visit for an additional week before return ing to her home. All the All stott children attended the din ner with the exception of one daughter, Mrs. Wilbur Jackson of Gresham. Says Thank You' April 22, 1968 To the Editor: As chairman of the Heppner Hierh P.T.A. and also as a citizen of the community, I wish to ex press sincere thanks to the par ents and the businesses of the community that cooperated so freely with donations of goods and personal services which made this year's band carnival a real success. Everyone should express spe cial thanks to Mrs. Wallace Wolff, president of Heppner Ele mentary P.T.A.; to Arnie Hea man. band director, and to Paul Warren, chairman for the high school's carnival committee, for their organization and hard work In putting this carnival together. W. W. Weatherford Sincerely, Mrs. Delia Murray of Union Is spending a week visiting at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Smith. SAY, this Is going to be another one of those Dusy ana enjuy- able week-ends around nere with s number of ble events in store the fifth annual Portland Eighth Grade tour, the Heppner merchants' Moonlight Sale Fri day night, the Civic Leagues Rummaee Sale, and goodness knows what all. The Jaycees are going to operate Jack's service station to boost their project work on a generous arrange ment with Jack VanWinkle Saturday and Sunday, and on Tuesday the Red Cross blood drawing will be held in Hepp ner with HcDDner High students doing the work of promoting it and taking care oi many juas at the center. when the students did the lob about a year ago on the last visit of the mobile unit, they boosted the drawing over the top. This was the first time that was accomplished here for a number of visits. Chances are they will do the same this time. It Is gooa 10 see ine youngsters teach their elders a lesson in getting tnings aone in view of some of the bad pub licity teen-agers and youth have been getting arouna tne nation AND can vou believe it? it's time to set clocks ahead an hour to iro on daylight time, The last Sunday of April is the official time for the change as nrescribed bv state law. Omc- ial hour is 2 a.m. but probably most folks will set their time pieces ahead before they retire Saturday night. So, don't forget and get your self tripped up. THE PORTLAND EIGHTH GRADE TOUR has proven to be one of the very fine events of the year here, and it will be good to have tne visiting young sters in the county again this week-end. This is the fifth year that the tour has been held, and this time the route around the coun ty will be in a different area from those in the past. This brings variety to the tour and keeps it from becoming a rou tine thing for those who spon sor it. We remember some of the Portland kids on the first tour. Those who came in 1964 are freshmen in colleee now as suming they continued their ed ucations after high scnooi. uur bet is that they think of their visit in Morrow county even yet, and with some fondness. On the tour pagre (page 6) of this paper is the photo taken a number of years ago .(per haps it was on the 1964 tour) of a lad gleefully "swimming" in a truckload of wheat. We re call how the visitors went wild when they got into that truck load of wheat. It tickled them pink. We wonder where this young "wheat swimmer" Is now. THERE'LL BE plenty of fun around Heppner Friday night at the Moonlight Sale, and we note from the ads In this pa per that there are some super duper bargains offered. Re sponse on the Moonlight Sale last September was far beyond the merchants' expectations, and as they present this sec ond one, they have tried to pro vide even better values for the shopping public. More stores than ever before have bought special new mer chandise to offer for this event. Somehow, a special sale such as this in a town like Heppner turns out to be a festive event. Everyone seems to get In the spirit, friends meet friends and quip and josh each other, and it proves tun ior everyone. The public's good response on these promotions encourages merchants to offer more such events. If you like them, you can show It bv turning out Fri day night by moonlight. The moon may not be shining here but it must be some place: GILES FRENCH was in Heppner for a couple of days tne tirst of the week, doing researcn to wards the Morrow county his torv. He can reallv dig out the information on our past and come up with things we've never heard of. This morning he mentioned, for instance, that the communi ty of Douclas was once an im portant shipping point in the countv. We never heard of it before. He wondered how Eightmile pot its name. "Eteht miles from where?" he asks. And also, how about Gooseberry? Can anyone enlighten him with the facts? LAST WEEK-END the G-T staff was ensased in printing what we call "the bed sheets." These are the primary election ballots and get the nickname because of their length. The Democratic ballot will be a full yard long. Nearly half of it is taken bv names of candi dates to the Demo national con vention. There are 83 candidates for 25 positions from the state at large, In addition to the can didates from the second con gressional district. Republican ballot win oe somewhat shorter, since there are not quite so many candi dates for the convention on it. but it also will be long enough. The ballots will be printed in the paper prior to election, and anyone who wants to vote, intelligently on the candidates for convention will have to do his home work before going to the polls. It would take quite a while to peruse them all In the votine booth unless a per son has some Idea of his choices For Weed Spraying Call on Mel Boyer Owner-Gar Aviation FIELD MAN Jim Pettyjohn Spraying Dusting-Fertilizing-Seeding DRY OR LIQUID FERTILIZER APPLICATION A GOOD JOB AT A FAIR PRICE You Can Find Us All Year Around AT THE LEXINGTON AIRPORT Phone 989-8422 Boy Returns Home After Head Surgery Steven Marlatt. sixyearokl m of Mr. and Mm. Ralph Mar latt, received serious head Injur leu last Wednesday, when he was kicked in the head by a horse, while playing near hl home. The youngster was rush ed to Pioneer Memorial hospital for emergency treatment before being transferred to Portland by ambulance, where he under went surgery for removal of bone fragments. He was confined to the hospi tal until Sunday, when his par ents brought him home. Mrs. Murlntr rnlwirt thllt although llf Is making rapid recovery and is up and around, he will re quire constant supervision for the next several weeks. John Rea, Lexington, returned to his home Friday following surgery In Pendleton Commun ity hosDltal to his left eve, fol lowing an accident at Heppner Lumber Company on April iu. He will be under medical care of Dr. Bruce Till lor several weeks, and then expects to re ceive an eye replacement In Portland after a 10-week period. Unrein Assigned To Okinawa Service hofnrehAnd. The G-T printed ballots for Gilliam and Wheeler counties last week with Ed Morgan, Gil liam countv clerk, and Jim Ma ha f fey. Condon Globe-Times publisher, present to help out. This week-end we turn to the Morrow countv ballots. Sadie Parrlsh. countv clerk, tvoed UD the coov for the ballots, and the white sheets she made up almost truly look like bed sheets. Mrs. Parrlsh Is a real veteran at these elections, and It surely is good to have the copy come In for printing in tne snape that she prepares. Indications are that there will be a lot of interest In the elec tion on May 28, but most of It will be from state and nation al races. County offices in Mor row. Wheeler and Gilliam, have very few contests. ) COMMUNITY U ) BILLBOARD K y.p.f ' i ii id Hi1" Coming Events TEENAGE DANCE Saturday, . April 27, 9:30 to 1:00 Heppner Fair Pavilion Music by The Henchmen, Heppner combo Everyone welcome OPEN HOUSE Willow Creek Country Club Sunday, April 28, 2-5 p.m. Public Invited BLOOD DRAWING Red Cross Bloodmobile Tuesday, April 30, 2-6 p.m. Elks Temple Help meet the quota TRAVELING PIE SALE Friday, May 3, from 3 p.m, Bv Javcee Wives Call Mrs. Jerry Samples or Mrs. Tom Wilson for orders for pies, delivered PUBLIC CARD PARTY St. Patrick's Altar Society, Monday, April 29, 8 p.m. Catholic Parish Hall Public invited PUBLIC CARD PARTIES Holly Rebekah Lodge, Lex Ington Wednesday, May 1, 12:30 p.m. Dessert Luncheon Lexington Grange Card Party Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m. Bridge, Pinochle, prizes, re freshments SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner More Fun, Always . . . eugene 215 Coburg Road Phone: (503) 342-5181 ,0O Frank Unrein, now serving with the Murines In Okinawa, has been promoted In rank to Lance Corporal, according to letter received by hi mother. Mrs. Jock MeTlmpeny, Heppiier. last week. Unrein completed trai n 1 n a as a mechanic at Camp Pendle ton on March 24. before being assigned overseas duty, lie would appreciate hearing from friends here, to the following mailing address: LCpl. Frank Unrein 23530743516, Trk. Co., HAS Btn.. 3rd FSR FMF Pac, FPO San FrancUco, 9iCOZ Mr. and Mr. John Venard traveled to Portland on Satur day, where Venard attended a bank mannger'i meeting the first of the week. Mrs. Venard visited her mother, Mrs. G. O. Dickey at Kaluma, Wash., and with a sister and brother and their families while her husband was at the meetings. AMAAVQ CIOQT IAMTV STORE HOURS 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. CHARGE IT! WW CARNIVAL l; Vyf GREAT NEWS! PENNEY'S SUMMER DRESS CARNIVAL IS BACK! Thinking summer? Start your fashion planning here! Fresher-than-air fashion looks, yours for the choosing! Everything a girl could want shifts and skimmers, tone-on-tone twosomes all destined for a season in town, in transit! Supple knits, breezy poplins, airy batistes, your fabric favorites . . . chosen especially for their ease of care. Sunny brights, hushed pastels, shadowy darks in prints and solids. Sizes for women, misses, juniors and petites. CANVAS SHOE PRICE BREAK All Women's, Children's, Men's Canvas Shoes Reduced Until Saturday! Women's Canvas Shoes, Reg. $2.99 now 2 for $5 Girls' Canvas Shoes, Reg. $2.99 pow 2 for $5 Children's Shoes, Reg. $2.99 now 2 for $5 Boys' Canvas Shoes, High Tops and Low Tops, Reg. $3.99 now 2 for $7 Men's Canvas Shoes, Low Quarters, Reg. $3.99 now 2 for $7 Men's Canvas Shoes, High Top Ke- 4-93 - now 2 for $8 Men's Canvas Boat Shoes, Ke?- 4-99 now 2 for $8
