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Americans may never become reconciled to the fact that
morals cannot be legislated tor people. There is no law that
uill regulate a man's desire for alcohol, when fells like it. He
will fulfill hi sexual desires no matter what the law says. He
will gamble just as there are cracks to spit at,
horseshoes to pitch, or horses to run. Yet government has
spent 150 years trying to control the morals of this country,
and it has been Its most significant failure, as any rational
person would have (and did) predict. This week we were
treated to the spectacle of the Oregon City Elks Lodge being
fined $750 for unlawful gambling. Big deal. Some district
attorney with an eye on higher office surely must be at work
in Oregon City. Perhaps he would explain why he hasn't
raided the Catholic Church's perennial bingo games, and
thrown some good father into the dungeon. Or lock up the 4 11
Club the next time they toss a "cake walk" to raise funds for
worthy projects. What does he propose to do about the
Shriners who every year sell lottery tickets to raise funds for
crippled children? And what is the law going to do with me,
who each day "matches" three or four friends to see who
buys the coffee at the Wagon Wheel? If the law locked up
every person who violated the gaming laws of this state,
there wouldn't be enough people outside to turn the cell key.
But we will keep right on hiring expensive policemen to
arrest us for doing what we know we're going to keep right on
doing !
Everything is a gamble. You are betting every morning
that you'll make it through the day. You bet your life when
you cross the street. You bet your life the food you eat doesn't
contain ptomaine poison. The farmer bets his crop will miss
the drouth, the hail, and low prices at harvest time. The
rancher bets every minute of every day that disease won't
wipe out his herd. All gamble that it will rain before disaster
strikes : all of us gamble it won't keep raining once it starts.
Survival itself is a gamble with the elements, the economy,
and the government. But the same man who gambles every
day of his life for survival is often the first man in line to vote
to outlaw a slot machine and a friendly game of poker-on
grounds that such wagering is immoral.
The city council voted to retain parking meters on city
streets Monday night. It also voted to have the meters
repaired at a cost of $10 each, plus parts. Five hundred
dollars is appropriated to get the project started. Ten meters
are to be sent to the factory each month for repair until all 118
are in working order. So the city will spend approximately
S1200 to repair these street-side two-headed bandits, a
disgrace to the city and an insult to the man who wants to
stop and shop in Heppner. There is $365 a month coming in
from the meters as revenue. Take $50 a month away from
that for repairs. Then take $100 a month away from that to
pay a man to collect the nickels. That leaves about $215 a
month. Few cities would spend $215 a month to make its
streets ugly-or to encourage people to park and shop
elsewhere. Shopping centers are in direct competition with
small city businesses ; parking is free in all shopping centers,
I personally will drive 10 miles out of my way to avoid having
to pay tribute for the privilege of parking on streets I've
already paid for, and in order to get out and spend my money.
People don't have to pay these nickel-eaters any more, and
sooner or later Heppner will be forced to do what is should do
now--tear those unsightly, penny-ante monsters out by their
roots.
I'm getting along fine without having to eat all that pork
beef, chicken and lamb. All one has to do is to learn to
barbecue peanut butter, and life goes on like as before. I
heard of a butcher down south who was training a new clerk,
and his orders were: "If somebody comes in and asks the
price of two pork chops, you say, 'five dollars.' Then you
watch the customer very carefully. If he doesn't wince, you
say. ' and 95 cents.' Then you watch him even more carefully
and if he still doesn't wince, you say, 'Each!'" Murray's
Drug is expecting a new and fabulous perfume any day: Eau
de Bacon and Eggs. The Terror of Willow Creek claims his
old Bull Durham sacks are finally coming in handy. He uses
them as shopping bags. Things certainly have changed.
Coming back from Northern California last week I sustained
considerable damage when my U-Haul truck hit a chicken
that was crossing the highway-$5.95 for a headlight lens and
$95.00 for the chicken. And I didn't even get the salvage!
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EDITOR:
You recall a few weeks ago we had several ads in the
Gazette-Times from Santa Rosa and Sebastopol, California. I
ran into two people who placed those ads from Santa Rosa.
One reported that our expert cleaning technician, Bill
Collins, came by his filling station and identified himself as
being from Heppner, then claimed the gallon of free gas he
had advertised for any Heppnerite who stpooed by his place.
Then, at Benjelmo's Delicatessen, the owner said he hadn't
had his Gazette-Times more than two hours before some
woman came rushing in with her own copy, and wanted to
know why he was advertising in the Heppner newspaper.
"You ever been in my store?" He asked her. "No," she
replied. "Then," he said, "that's why I advertised in the
Heppner newspaper." He said he got more results from his
one ad in the Heppner Enlightener than he got from one he
placed in his hometown paper. My point is that if Bill Collins
would drive 725 miles to fill up his gas tank, and get one free
gallon, he might drive around the corner to a Heppner
merchant and do the same thing-if the fellow ever thought
about inserting an ad in the first place!
I'll bet I saw a million head of cattle between Santa Rosa
and Heppner last weekend, and it made me wonder just how
severe the meat shortage really is. Then I ran across the
Aug. 1 cattle report put out by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. According to the report, on July 1, 1973, there
were nearly 131 million head of cattle and calves compared
with 122 million on Jan. 1. The number of all cows and heifers
that have calved and are on hand this July 1 total 53.8 million
head, up 4 per cent from July 1 last year. Beef cattle are up 6
per cent nationally. Milk cows are down only 2 per cent from
last year. The cow inventory in the three top cattle
states-Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma-have present-day
increases of 15.9 and 4 per cent respectively from July 1, 1972.
The record year for calf production was 1972. The 1973
prediction is that 1973 will break that record. So the so-called
shortage is not with the producers of meat. The fault is with
the U.S. government, which is allowing foreign nations to
outbid us on our own beef. This makes beef cost Americans
more. Which means that Americans are paying the cost of
the beef sent to Japan, and I hope the Japanese have the
courtesy to thank the American consumer for picking up the
tab for their beef!
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I love what you have done to the paper. I am enclosing my
check for a year's subscription. The articles are so
informative and interesting. Your spirited approach is just
what Morrow County needs to get everybody interested and
involved in community issues and activies.
I am glad to see more news about the younger people. I
haven't kept in touch much since graduating from Heppner
High in 1969. so I am always looking for news of my old
friends.
Some of your readers may like to write to my brother,
Lee, who graduated from Heppner in 1970. He has been
stationed in Japan since April with the Air Force. His
address is: AlC Lee E. Huson, 544645626 Box 1107, 6921
Security Wing, APO San Francisco, Ca. 96210.
Our parents. Jay and Leona Huson. and sister Mary are
living in Umatilla. Last September the Soil Conservation
Service transferred him from Tillamook to the Hermiston
office. I am working for an advertising agency in Portland. I
really love my job but like to come back to the Eastern
Oregon country quite a bit.
Good luck with you paper. I hope you like Heppner as much
as we did.
KAY HUSON,
Portland
EDITOR:
I just read your July 19 issue and it came to mind that the
Gazette-Times is the only paper serving all of Morrow
. County. Being new to the area I feel that you have failed to
recognize the fact that the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo is
the main event of the year.
Our Fair and Rodeo Court represents Morrow County and
it is my feeling that each member of the court deserves to be
pictured on the front page of the paper. So, my finding the
picture of Princess Sherry Kemp on the back pages of the
paper prompted me to call this oversight to your attention.
Really, sir, do you feel that the Sidewalk Bazaar warranted
the whole front page of the paper?
I'm sure others share my views and that you do understand
my feelings.
SHERRI O'BRIEN,
Pendleton
(ED. NOTE-There is no one page of this newspaper any
more or less important than the other. )
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DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Ed Doolittle allowed during
the session at the country
store Saturday night that waht
this country needs more than
a good five-cent anything or a,
freeze on prices is a freeze on
the standard of living.
Ed told the fellers that he
had saw by the papers where
it now takes $11,446 a year fer
a family of four to keep up
what the U.S. Labor Depart
ment called a "moderate
standard of living."
What has gone up faster
than the price of hamburger,
declared Ed, is living in the
manner to which we become
accustomed. Ed was of a mind
that "moderate living" today
would of been called filthy rich
living 25 year ago.
Ever time Congress meets,
moderate living gits more
expensive, was Ed's words.
He said we got along a heap
cheaper back when we used to
compare ourselfs with the
Russians, and we figgered we
was well off if we had more
food, more spare time and
more gadgits in the house than
they did.
Actual, Ed said, we has gone
so far ahead of the Russians
we has gone back to compar
ing with one another, and ever
time a new and bigger color
TV is made all of us that ain't
got one is living below the
Guvernment's poverty level.
A feller tha t a in 't got but one
TV and one car ain't got a
chanct to qualify fer the
moderate living side of life,
Ed allowed.
Clem Webster's preacher
had stopped by the store, and
he was full agreed with Ed.
The preacher said folks in this
country is confusing affluence
with inflation, and he said
affluence was living better
than you got to.
He said it's confusing to talk
about a loss of useable income
when we keep setting records
in sales of new cars, boats and
campers, not to mention spare
homes at the shore and in the
mountains. The preacher said
he had saw where, even after
allowing fer price increases,
useable family income in this
country is up 22 percent since
1965."
General speaking, broke in
Clem, people has got numb to
money loose in this country.
Clem said he used to worry
about the $400 or so billion the
Guvernment is in debt, but
now he can read about 20 .
consultants gitting $100 a day
apiece to help Nixon figger a
legal way out of the Watergate
and it jest seems like the way
to do things in Washington.
Gem said he never had
heard of a billion anything
until he was 30 year old and
some sanitary worker from
the county seat was talking
about germs on the dipper at
the church pump.
During the New Deal he
heard billion used in connec
tion with money and he ain't
heard it used no other way
since.
Personal, Mister Edior, I
come from the discussion with
the idee that you newspaper
editors is handling the afflu
ence and inflation news in a
bad way. Stead of reporting
where the dollar slid on the
Paris exchange, tell us about
the salted pitachio exchange. I
put a penny in one of them
machines in the barbershop
last week and it give me four
nuts. I got 10 Ave year ago.
Yours truly,
MAYOR ROY
EDITOR:
Three cheers and many thanks for the grand job Marsha
Young and Judy Gentry are doing with our newly formed
swim team.
As far as I can find out, Heppner has never had a team
before these young people put their talents together and got
the ball rolling.
The team had real competition when it met at Prineville.
Marsha had to stay here and tend the pool, so Judy was on
her own.
She looked great alongside the "professional" coaches the
other teams had. The coaches came up to encourage her on
the good work that had been done in the short time the team
has been in existence.
We've got a lot to learn in these competitions, but with
people like Marsha and Judy our team will be well trained.
The entire town should be proud of them. Give them and
the team support at the swim meet on Aug. 19.
DONNA BERGSTROM
Heppner
EDITOR:
History unfolds on the second floor of the Pioneer Court
House, I found out when I went in one day.
First, a pleasant young guard on the floor directed me to
the second floor and this I reached by riding the elevator, the
shell of which is the original cage of iron, now all gold and
white. But the case inside is entirely new and electric.
Arriving, I was peering in doors when Helen Murdock,
secretary to Judge Alfred Goodwin, offered to show me
about.
Perhaps the most interesting room Is the United States
Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit. The furniture in all of the rooms
is old and solid wood and completely refinished.
Furniture and clocks from a by gone era have come from
Montana, Washington and California. Large hand-carved
tables were unbelievalbly beautiful; a tall upstanding desk
and one reclaimed from former court houses are back in
daily use.
Five of the original white marble fireplaces and one red
one have been cleaned and are as they were in the Judge's
chambers (originally the only heat).
In Judge John F. Kilkenny's office I saw P.W. Mahoney's
large rolltop'desk which he had used in his own law office in
Heppner and which he had given to his old and dear friend,
Johnny Kilkenny, to keep always in his Judge's chambers.
The roll top desk had formerly belong to Calvin L. Sweek, a
Heppner attorney and later a Circuit Judge in Pendleton, and
before that to C.E. Woodson, Heppner attorney and a former
state legislator.
Mr. Woodson's daughter, Margaret Woodson Beere, has
followed in her father's footsteps, and has been an attorney in
Los Angeles for many years.
John F. Kilkenny is the senior circuit judge of the Court of
Appeals. Judge Kilkenny was born in Heppner and later
practiced law in Pendleton before moving to Portland.
His secretary is Louise Kopp of Pendleton, so Eastern
Oregon has contributed its bit in beautiful furniture and nice
people to the Pioneer Court House, for which Judge Kilkenny
has labored many years to bring to its fruition in historic
interest and beauty.
JOSEPHINE MAHONEY BAKER,
Portland'
P.S. So as not to forget the historic past, Judge Kilkenny
owns one highly polished solid brass cuspidor given him by
his father, John S. Kilkenny, when he first started his young
law practice, (This was called a "spittoon" in those early
practical years).
EDITOR:
Cassandra Chapel, lone, and I were fortunate enough to
have been selected by the local Odd Fellow and Rebekah
Lodges to represent them on the annual United Nations
Pilgrimage for Youth, sponsored by the lodges.
Now that our month-long trip is over; we are eager to share
our experiences. We saw so much and learned so much that
we feel we have something to tell.
I would like to take this opportunity to announce that we
will gladly make speaking dates with any organization in the
area-no matter what size-who might be interested in
hearing about our trip, either in general or on one specific
part.
We will be able to speak any time after mid-September.
Right now we are gathering our information and waiting for
our slides and photographs to be processed.
If any group is interested, they should write to me or
contact me at 989-8402.
Thank you for letting us use this means to announce our
availabiltiy. Your cooperation is really appreciated.
GREG DAVIDSON,
Lexington
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S5 Year Ago IBIS
Dr. N.E. Winnard was called to the Joe Batty place on
Eight Mile last Saturday to investigate a reported case of
small pox. He found on his arrival, that all the members of
the Batty family had had the disease and that is had spread to
some of the neighbors. Ray Young having been confined to
his bed. Dr. Winnard quarantined both the Batty family and
the Young Family and is keeping a close tab on the
neighborhood to see that no more cases develop which are not
reported. The disease was brought to this country by a
daughter of Mr. Batty who had been visiting The Dalles with
an aunt who had the small pox while she was there. The girl
was let out of quarrantine too soon, and two days after her
arrival home she was taken sick.
Word has been received here that Sam Stephens, Heppner
boy who enlisted in the Marines just after the United States
entered the war, was wounded some time ago in one of the
engagements in France. Sam received at Boche a bullet
through the hip and has been laid up in the hospital ever
since.
E H. Meyers, sheepbuyer, shipped out 14 cars of sheep
from the Heppner yards Monday morning, billed to Chicago.
The sheep consisted of ewes and lambs which Mr. Meyer
purchased from W. T. Matlock, L. V. Gentry, of Heppner and
Blakely & Clough of Monument.
The new fire alarm, an electric siren, is now installed to the
southeast corner of the roof of the Roberts building. The
switch board having arrived on Monday. The thing certainly
makes a horrible noise, and enough noise to wake the dead.
There will be no excuse for anyone not knowing there is a fire
when this alarm is turned loose.
What about houses in Heppner to care for those who will be
coming in town when school opens? Not a house to be had now
and the demand will grow rapidly in a very few weeks. The
situation was bad before the fire came and now it is of course
much worse. Can't something be done to relieve the situation
or will these people have to live in tents?
37 Years Ago 1936 t t ... .. .
Struck by a bolt of lightning, as an electrical storm passed
over the Rhea Creek section, the Emil Groshens home and
four other buildings were destroyed by fire.
Mr. Groshens gave an account of the fire saying, "I was
ready for bed and was reading, Bernice (Mrs. Groshens),
was working in the kitchen. Suddenly there was an explosion
and the house rocked. My first impression was that jje were
experiencing another earthquake. I got to my feet and went
to the kitchen and found Dernice, in a dazed condition. Going
to the sleeping porch, I found Dick kind of dazed and he
complained of something having struck him, an object of
some kind. When the boy looked out and observed that it was
getting light outside, I ran out and discovered that the house
was on fire.
What I saw outside gave the appearance of the house being
split in two. It was burning on both sides and the whole upper
story was ablaze. From the way the blaze was spreading I
knew it would be futile to try to use the water system and we
turned our attention to saving what we could.
Marion Green, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornett
Green, swallowed a foxtail just before noon yesterday. The
little fellow suffered considerable pain for a time, but the
offending morsel had gone the way of all food by the time the
doctor arrived, and he believed it would not give further
trouble.
One Year Ago 1972
Early -morning lightning between 6:00 and 6:30 Monday
caused minor damage in different parts of the county.
Perhaps the worst results of the electrical storm were at
the Lewis Halvorsen ranch outside lone. The family were
asleep when the lightning struck there about 6:00. It ruined
the TV tower, and in turn the high voltage shot through some
of the house circuits blowing out the TV, refrigerator and a
clock. The curtains also burned, as a result of the lightning.
The Gazette-Times received their new Compugraphic
machine. The new machine will replace the Justo-writer that
is now in use.
Harvest was temporally halted Tuesday as neighbors
rushed to the scene of a fire which broke out on the Harrison
Weatherford Circle W. Ranch and spread to the Harvey
Smith ranch.
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