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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1981)
Sifting through the TIMESjv Fifty Vmh Ago The Jan. 1,1931, Issue of the Gazette-Times reports that Christmas saw 250 Heppner kiddies gather at the Elks Temple to receive gifts from a community Santa (Charles Cox). Along with 250 adults who accompanied the child ren, 500 people greeting Santa made up the largest Christ mas gathering ever. All child ren under 14 years of age were given gifts. The Elks Christmas com mittee under Roy Ohlesch lager, chairman, handled most of the preparation work and had charge of the gift -giving. The Kanouse orchestra from Condon, which played for the dance later in the evening ohliged with several elections while the crowd was assembling before Santa's arrival. Marriage licenses issued exceeded divorce decrees granted in Morrow County by 18, in 1930. with licenses totalling 23 and decrees, five. Stockholders of the Black horse Telephone Company met Saturday afternoon at the courthouse. Among those at tending were O. A. Devin, R. W. Turner, W.B. Tucker and W.G. McCarty. Lost about 65 head of fine wool ewe lambs : these sheep bear various marks and brands, some having over slope in both ears, some with overbite in left ear, only; brands - some with green circle, some with green dot, others with red letter S. Reward for Information lead- ato recovery. O'Connor )8., Heppner. January Clearance Sale, Winter coats and dresses greatly reduced; hats one-half price; also one lot at f 1 00 while they last ...Curran Ready to Wear and Millinery. J.C. Penney while sale offers large terry bath towels, 25 cents; 81 X 99 sheets, 87 cents ; while outing flannel, 27 Inches wide, 10 cents a yard and finer quality, rayon bed spreads at $1 98. Twenty-five Year Aro Phil Blakney, Heppner pharmacist, was named pres ident of the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Com merce. The chamber elected directors early in Decem ber and from this group the new president and other officers were named by the board's members. On the board are Blakney, Jack Angell. chosen first vice pres ident; Jack Bailey, Becond vice-president; James J. Far ley, Jack Flug, Dick Brunner, Dr. Wallace H. Wolff, Newt O'Harra and Al Lamb. County gets one of its wettest years in 1955. Tab ulations show that the Hepp ner weather Btation checked 16.25 inches for the year just past. This compares with only 11.61 in 1954 but is slightly under the 17.09 inches which fell in 1953. Heppner post office shows slight gain in business for '55, according to Postmaster James Driscoll. Robert Grabill, manager of the Heppner store of Km pi re Machinery Company was sworn in as a new council member to fill the unexpired term of Jeff Carter, who resigned in November when he moved from the city. New construction and re modeling work done in Hepp ner during lt)55 reached a record high of $344,725 it was revealed this week by a check of building permits issued by the city. The largest single item to show during the year was the new Heppner grade school which was built at a cost of over $257,000, though it was not necessary to obtain a permit for this building. The 1955 figure is more than three times that for 1954, when a total of $119,050 in new building work was started in the city. Five Years Ago Everyone is cordially in vited to visit the public library for an open house on Sunday, Jan. 4. Members of the AAUW Children's Room Committee who will serve as hostesses and guides are Karen Beck and (olieen Fluke, lone; Linda Johnson, Mary Pat Lande, Pat Edmundson, Pauline Bier, Cathy Peck, Judy Hirni. Kita Wolff and Justine Weatherford, all Heppner. Every book in the library has been moved within the last two months. The recent com pletion of the Children's Room was the major reason for the book moving, the librarian, Mrs. Weatherford explained. The lone Garden Club is again sponsoring the Twelfth Night Observance and burn ing of the greens at the Rietmann lot. Jan. at 3:30 The Heppner Gazett p.m. Everybody is asked to put his Christmas greens out so that they can be gathered this week by Eldon Tucker. Cupcakes will be served by the club members after the King ing of a few carols to mark the end of the Twelve Days of fhrisfmfl e-Tlmes, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January I, 1 MI-SEVEN Mr. Charles Nelson has Just returned from Red Arsenal, AB, Florida and North Caro lina. While there he visited Miss Lisa Maness and her family. While most of the residents of Heppner were enjoying Christmas Eve with their friends and families some vandals were having a good time destroying property. Les Paustain reported to Heppner police that persons unknown bad stolen 62 of his outdoor lights. 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