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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. TUunday. April ! 170 A X1.C i7 ! " GAZETTE-TlMbb Heppner. Oreqoa 979M Phone 676-BZZB MORROW C0UKTT8 NEWSPAPER The Heppm r Gawtte established March 30. lX3 The ll.ppner ffme"ehUblUhed Nuverntx-r 18. 18U7. Consolidated H-bruary 15. 1912 MEMBERS OF NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSN. AND OREGON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSN. CHARLIE 6 DOROTHY HEARD. Editor & Publishers ARNOLD RAYMOND. REGGIE PASCAL A Plant Kortman L.notype Operator ALICE VANCE New Circulation i Subscription Rates: $3 00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Mailed Single Co 15 CVnts in Advance.; Minimum Billing 50 cents. Publish J "Thurlclay and Entered at the Post Office at ll-ppncr. Oregon. s.-1-ond Class Matter. OH Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.rru Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. m il noon Saturday. IT'S THE LAW A Mate law has been paused that counties must be zoned by Dec. 31. 1971. The Planning Commission of Morrow f unty Is developing a comprehensive land use plan and ion- ordinance that will meet the state requirements. The people of Morrow County through the efforts of the County agent are becoming aware of some of the environ mental and land use problems that face Oregon citizens. It Is Important that citizens understand some of these problems and passible ways of coping with them through planning and Make an effort to see the County Agents presentation, ( . i .. V n n f nmwmnrsA mnt(nf7 A I at a urange meeting, v.nu"iu-i v-v..,. ....... .... -Home Extension meeting ... but see It! You'll be glad you did. f AND They Watt So uofttfeD W . .. .. . i -1 DOT'S JOTS just a sood many y.-a Mo. Fmma MvKinnoy. iintl. whm PrHnnrt will moot An. ,wfn K Womon wanted r ,8 wllh iMrtluok iiupncr at J t,i OPW Don and Judy 6:3o p.m. Business meeting will m . t l at home and since lM.Rln at 8:00 with election of in only cwk peanut Slate officers. All members are KS! sandwUhos I nover Ml urged to attend. 1 could be gone very . Recrntlv I paid my UOWDeiies uuwo ..nn a member and MM kj-if Wlr LETTERS TO EDITOR National Library Week READING IS FOR EVERYBODY! children, friends, young, middle-aged and old. We hope that you have been able to pick up that S-xtka book, periodical, pamphlet or newspaper during this NATION AL LIBRARY WEEK and have been reading not only this week, but all other weeks. Libraries welcome you! Visit them! Browse around! We are sure you will find something that interests you and some thing that enriches your life. One of our former President's stated in an address to Congress: "In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to the world founded upon four essen tial human freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression every where in the world. The second Is freedom for every person to worship God in his own way everywhere In the world. The third is freedom from want everywhere In the world. The fourth is freedom from fear everywhere in the world." READING will not only satisfy our basic NEED, URGE and CURIOSITY for knowledge and enjoyment and help us become better people, but it will help us to strive for, protect and preserve the above freedoms. ENJOY IT! By MADGE THOMSON A truck full of cotton collided with a truck loaded with chickens and it took two hours for the cotton-picking chicken pluckors and the chicken-picking cotton pluckers to clean up the mess. REMEMBER THIS? . . . . f , REMINISCE! FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO April 16, 1925 C. W. McNamer closed a deal the past week whereby he takes over the equipment of the City Market from B. F. Swaggart, and he will again enter the busi ness In Heppner. A head-on collision between the Ford car of Art Parker and the big Apperson of Alex John son of Fossil occurred on the highway just this side of the Ed Clark place at about 8:30 Sunday evening. The result was two badly crippled automobiles, but fortunately there were no serious injuries. Abundant showers have been the order for the past few days and Morrow County, generally, has received a good drenching which will be of great benefit to crops and range, Cohn Auto Company this week delivered to J. W. Beymer, bank er and ranchman of this city, a fine special six Willys-Knight sedan. Mrs. Belle Corder, former stu dent of the Arkansas School for the blind, will give an enter tainment at Star Theatre in this city on Monday evening, ' April 27th. The program will consist of about 20 numbers of read ing, recitation, instrumental and vocal music. Heppner and Lexington high school teams played a good snappy game of baseball last Friday on the Lexington dia mond. The score was 3 to 2 in Lexington's favor. Olin S. Hodsdon of College pinr Wash., accompanied by Mrs. Hodsdon, spent a day or so in Lexington ana ueppner, being on their way to The Dal les, where Mr. Hodsdon was on the program for the Easter mor ning service held there at Pul- nit Tttvk. Mr. Hodsdon's father was an early missionary to the Northwest and had preacneu from this rock in the early days. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lowry and Mrs R W. Lowrv were given a farewell reception and dinner at the Methodist Community church on Tuesday evening. R. W. Lowry has locatea perma nnntlv nt Vancouver, and the family this morning departed for that city to Join mm. The camp grounds at Lexing ton have been crowded with tourists every night the past few days. Pioneer Ponderings By W. S. CAVERHILL Tighten the Bolts The political leaders at the national level are itching to change something and moaning about the cost of political cam paigns. They want ro uniter wiw the voting age. There is no pan acea in that. Our coffee club think we have a better sugges tion for effective government. ti.a H,ut wav to reduce election expense would be to lengthen the term of U. 5. Representatives to four years. A two year term adds to turmoil. Set the presi the boy to worK at nu u - . f ,h date without breaking out with polit- Howe er in we a ical "goose pimples" every time he fceard a footstep behind him. Mary Kay Hughes Third in Contest r m IT1 A I f This morning Odile Groshens( mmamg Dustness a the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Anderson were Mrs. Amelia Martin daughter. Suzanne, of Portland. u MnHna Brvcmt recently returned from a visit. She visited Mrs. Miles Martin at lerwmigei Plaza. In Portland and visited Rnh Brvant in i .1 I -1 ...1 .. inlrt InP 1 1 1 1" I LiBnuni - I nas. . Portland. She I i mi TVii"ri3 unr called Ravine she and her inc temporarily in their motners aionj? une, nww a house, pending sale or ii. vane hut m-pirni-i ,r hns horn coinc through old pic And mailine to relatives. She found one of my mother and dad. Mr. and Mrs. w. a. Kicn- ardson, taken in Portland one time at a Rose Show so is mail ing it to me and I probably will send it on to the museum. Odile said her son, Fred Lu- per, spent sometime in Aiasna he worked in a Title and Insurance Office. Coming to Eu gene he did this for awhile dui CHUCK WAGON From O. G. Crawford's column "Random Thouehts. . ." In the Aug. 19, 1948 Gazette-Times was found this interesting item: What a pity there was not a nhntnirrnnher nresent last Fri day when the frog was released from the 46 year imprisonment in the wall ol tne Morrow coun ty courthouse! But it may not be too late. Jarvis cnanee minKs the museum specimen may turn up again, that being a habit of Drlsoners. For the benefit of those of our readers who may not have read of the unusual occurrence, we hasten to report that a workman digging a short trench at the rear ol the court house uncovered a frog that had been sealed in the basement wall since the time the build- I n a was constructed in 1902. TnspH nn on the bank it land ed near the toe of Chaffee's foot and out of curiosity he shunted it around. Shortly the "genus rana" ODened its eves, oeean to test its limbs and soon hopped off to see if any ol its Kina were in the neighborhood. It has not been seen since but Chaffee thinks it can't be far away and that he will find it one of these days. Mayor Bill Collins recently got letter from New Jersey from the "Society For The Investiga tion of the Unexplained". They ran into the above item about a Heppner frog in the New York They would like an affidavit when the frog was uncovered. Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose. n i..j chn had n visit in sa- illding business. , ,u h icir in-law Mrs. nji frir,d Nnrma lem with her sister in-iaw, mi-. Frederickson Lee, is getting Carl Hanks. shens girls are sisters of Emile Groshens of Heppner. Very truly yours, Josephine Mahoncy Baker Portland 97201 Dear Sir: I, too, am a faithful reader of the Gazette Times. I look for ward to each Monday when I receive my paper. I'm writing in regards to your fine article in the Feb. 26 Gazette-Times on the charter members of the FFA. As I read this article I was nr at the aericultural side of it, but that this whole class was just the right age for service and as best I know most of them did their service. With a class this size we note hap pily as far as we know we only have one departed class member. I hope I'm right. I may stand to be corrected as it has been years since Pve seen some of the class members. , Thank "you very much. Keep up the good writing. Hubert Hudson 498 Beverly Dr., Areata, Calif. 93521 PROPERTY TAX FAX If you have a question con cerning real or personal prop erty please state all the facts as briefly as possible and mail it to Mrs. Joyce Ritch, Morrow County Special Assessor, Box 742, Heppner, Ore. QUESTION: I bought my farm 23 years ago and I have not sold or bought any land since. Part of the land is open seeded pasture which was once fanned. The re mainder is stump land with some young timber. I raise sheep on the land. Do I qualify for farm deferral? ANSWER: Based on the information giv- : lntA r-M i r rm-triortv ft nUL! LUICI liug ill mv. -I 1 1 lit yUUt juwi iv. vj Journal American of Dec. 6, 1948. could qualify for farm deferral if that portion of the land with from someone who was present young timber on it was less than A pal brought in this clipping: Tri-Met has Just received its first check on the employers' payroll tax. It comes from And rew Mershon, president, Tomor row Land Development Co. The check is for cents. Mershon writes the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation Dis trict: "Our nine directors are each paid $1 per year, giving us a total tax liability of $0.04'2. Of course, the directors have not been paid for the first and sec 20 acres, and the whole parcel has produced a gross income oi $500 per year for three of the last five years. Check with your assessor for further details. adds to turmoil, set tne pi cm- - ' f this year as yct, lJJ ana TTuppose we uldcamply iiu icmiuuu. -- ...jtn the letter ol tne law anu the cost of elections, and allow with le"" rlv Mvments. (Anril 11 which we view as a particularly portentous one for paying Tri-Met taxes, and your agency's pressing financial need, the board of directors has in structed me to make a full year's navment. Of course, we expect Mary Kay Hughes placed third that -ven.ua.b , Trivet ex- in the tvDine II contest at the Future Business Leaders Associ ation Leadership Conference held in Eugene April 10 and 11. Mary Kay typed 75 words a minute with 4 errors. Judy Gentry, FBLA president, Kathv Sweeney, Marcia Young, and Linda Eckman atended the convention. Jack Simkins, advis or, drove the girls to Eugene. nnnrt mwiratinns to take in 1iiv( " t - - the area of our main concern, Morrow County. In closing, let me admonish you with the class ic word of my own father, "Don't spend it all in one place." We're usually pretty peaceful. But the guy we'd like to invite behind the barn is the feller who invented taxes! TEST YOUR SKILL at the dunk tank or try any of the many games at the Band Carnival April 25. Prizes! Prizes! Prizes I School Lunch Menus Presented Through Courtesy of Heppner Branch FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OREGOS Heppner Elementary and High Schools Monday, April 20 Beef and noodles, peas, pickled beets, fruit crisp, hot rolls, milk. Tuesdav, April 21 Sloppy Joe, buttered corn, vegetable salad, ice cream, milk. Wednesday, April 22 White beans with ham, cabbage salad, whole wheat muffins, butter, jellv, berry cobbler, milk. Thursday, April 23 Meat sandwich, potato chips, " pork and beans, cabbage salad, cin namon rolls, fruit, milk- Friday. April 24 Creamed tuna on biscuit, buttered peas and carrots, celery sticks, peach es, cookies, milk. weekend attended my " It rt.rt.-d out real fun 1 V.u . from Joan Gilliam of he Condon Globe Times sug- posting I ride Parish Hall here This was great besides were Fj "cousins" and had never ...v.. This cousin bit is conversation .1 onh but May Gilliam.1 sis ter. Myrtle Perry. as married to my uncle. I had never been on the nlgn Jy l Condon to Biggs Jet which I Joyed very- much and was pretty surprised at the i Jonn Day canyon that we crossed. Jean and I hit it off and chat tered like crazy all the way to Portland where she shopped with her daughter for bridesmaids dress material for a June wed . n tn Lebanon ?'n v stater. Cheslah Young and drove from there to "rv.nllte for tne sessions. n.- .0innc were especially a tr Interest the high School journalism students at tending in entering this field, fii o.t mnrn later on this. Got a "cool" saying from our nephew Bill, freshman at Lin- !..u. "Thow are two kinds OI people in this world, the good and tne oaa anu ur cide which is which." HMMUimlHMIIMMNIHWIHIII JVomen on the Go! imKMMttMHtNIMtHIHtlHMHIHHHfl JUSTINE WEATHERFORD a ;n week's visit in eastern states has helped me better ap preciate some of Morrow Coun ty's blessings sucn as e"o" wa tnr frosh air. uncrammed road ways, and being able to move about freely day or nignt wuu out fear of bombings or crim inal attacks. fko wachinirtnn. D. C. area offers so much in historical and educational viewing. The Wil liamsburg Restoration, Mt. Ver non, and Arlington cemetery thrilled me. In the city, I par ticularly enjoyed visiting the Capitol, the White House, tne National Botanical Garden, sev eral parts of the Smithsonian Institute, the National Art Gal lery, the Corcoran Gallery, St. John's Church, and seeing the great monuments and fine stat uary about the tidal Dasin ana in the District of Columbia's parks. Important people I happened to see were Senators Eugene Mc Carthy, Edward Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, and TV newsman David Brinkley. Two things which disturbed me somewhat were the high percentage ot empty desks in the U. S. Senate and the great number ot secur ity police stationed throughout all federal buildings. Seeing New York City througn its smog from the top of the Empire State Building, driving along Broadway and on Fifth Avenue, going past the United Nations buildings, viewing three skyscrapers shattered by bombs that very morning, whizzing through many blocks of clutter ed, poorly repaired tenements, and feeling some of the people's fears and tensions, reinforced my opinion that life in New York City is only pleasant for people with lots of money. Visiting with friends in Green wich, Conn., and at Ossining, N. Y., also pointed up the con trast between the smaller wealthy class and the vast cul turally deprived class. In Greenwich, I went through a most gorgeous hospital with many large and beautifully equipped departments including a most luxurious norary. The Metro-liner trains which race across parts of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey at speeds up to 125 miles per hour, and from which people may telephone ahead to arrange appointments, were marvelous. The new Department n f Tntprinr Tniir.mnhilps mnlfp Capital Mall sight-seeing much simpler than it has been. Traf fic everywhere is terrific. Being shown about the Uni versity of Maryland and the Un iversity of Michigan was pleas ing. Students at both schools dress much like students in Eu gene. Ann Arbor, Mich., where I visited with cousins for three days, appealed to me as a place to live and learn. Chicago is an intense, boom ing city. My visit to the huge Merchandise Mart and tour through the headquarters of the j t leia enterprises r.aucaiionai Corporation (The World Bxk Company) was exciting. I heard the company president announce that the Chicago postal workers had just gone on strike and that all business would be greatly disturbed for an indefinite time. In Chicago I stayed with a friend whose large three-story house near the University of Chicago is only one block away from a huge Negro neighbor hood. We walked along the rf Lake Michiean Satur day morning, March 21, before I flew home to Oregon, ine ire-hieh-rise apartment Chicago and the other cities are home to hundreds of thousands of families who can not even imagine how we live in Morrow County. This wppk's Woman on the Go is interested in people and her adopted community, Heppner. She teaches a weekly GED class. Attends a study class on Thurs day eveninz taught by the Rev. Edwin Cutting. Takes China painting from Mary Nikander. Is a member of Book Worms and Soroptimists. In her spare time she sells World Books. She says she likes to think she kinda helps husband Bill on the ranch too. Willows Grange Meet Saturday The Spring CowBelles meeting will Mart with a pot luck dinner Ht noon April at tne episcopal re, Mrs. Mary Fltzgeraia, Mate CowBelles president, will be present at this meeting. Mrs. Dorrls Graves will show her slides and talk on her col orful trip to India. The CowBelles urge all new and former members to please attend. Gazette-Times want ads pay. Phone 676-9228 for G-T want ad service. COMMUNITY BILLBOARD APRIL 1218 National Library Week APRIL 21 First aid course, fourth ses sion Jr. High Library APRIL 22 lone Garden Club Spring Flower Sale APRIL 18 lone Legion Auxiliary Trav eling Food Sale, 1:00 p.m. Proceeds to Child Welfare APRIL 24-25 Civic League Annual Spring Rummage and Baked Foods Sale Former Van's Variety bldg. APRIL 25-26 Wranglers Cow Cutting Fair Arena, 7:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. (Sunday) APRIL 25 Band Carnival Fair Pavilion Dinner, Carni val, Dance SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 If no answer call Ray Boyce. 676-5384 Heppner SPRINGTIME... Is Planting Time Perennials Bulbs Mums Dahlias And Other Miscellaneous Varieties At The Annual I0NE GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 From 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. I0NE LEGION HALL Pie and Coffee Served Throughout the Day THIS MESSAGE SPONSORED BY YOUR HOME-OWNED BANK AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE OF astern Oregon V MEMBER. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION IONE
