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- ↑ "Weekly Gazette/Heppner Gazette/Gazette-Times". Historic Oregon Newspapers.
- ↑ [https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn97071042/1972-08-24/ed-2/seq-49/ Newspapers in Morrow County, Heppner Gazette-Times, August 24, 1972, Centennial Edition, page 9.]
- ↑ Turnbull, George S. (1939). . . Binfords & Mort.
- ↑ "More Heppner Gazette-Times! - Oregon Digital Newspaper Program". odnp.uoregon.edu.
- ↑ "Morrow County now represented in Historic Oregon Newspapers online! - Oregon Digital Newspaper Program". odnp.uoregon.edu.
- ↑ "Heppner Gazette-Times newspaper - MondoTimes.com". www.mondotimes.com.