PAGE SIX HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 2, 1937 THE Hehisch Published by the Journalism Class of Heppner High School Calendar of Events Dec. 10 Basketball: Adams vs. Heppner. Dec. 17 "The King's Courtship," Hgh School Operetta. H.H.S. Athletics Financial Success Basketball season has been offi cially opened in Heppner high. In the opening game the team played in new outfits purchased this year by the student body. So far in this school year athletics have enjoyed financial success and the excellent support of the towns people. If throughout the basketball season this same loyal support con tinues, Heppner will have finished a very successful year from a finan cial standpoint. The Upper Columbia league is di vided into two groups, made up of the smaller schools and the larger schools. The teams in the "A" are Arlington, Fossil, Heppner and Con don. The winners in each leagui will play for the championship. H.H.S. Practice Game With CCC The basketball team played its first game of the season, a pre-open er practice game, with the local CCC camp, last Friday evening. As indi cated by the score, 19 to 38 in favor of Heppner, it is evident that promising future is in store for the squad this coming season. Thougn well based on fundamentals, there are many rough spots to be polished off, mostly with the aid of exper ience. Van Marter proved himself capable of holding down his repu tation by a series of running shots mainly responsible for the victory, Aiken and Coxen, two promising first stringers, took good care of the ever necessary defensive end of the game. All "subs" saw action, most of whom are freshmen, stars of last year's grade school team, who dis play great possibilities of becoming a future team to beat. H.H.S. Fifth Grade News The fifth grade had a Thanksgiv ing program last Wednesday. It was enjoyed by all the fifth grade pupils, also their mothers and mends. The fifth grade pupils held a meet ing in their room. They elected new officers as follows: President, Mary lou Ferguson; vice-president, Ted Ferguson; secretary, Kathryn How ell; treasurer, Glenn McMurtry; re porter, Patricia Kenny; sergeant-at arms, Frank Christenson. H.H.S. Eighth Grade News The eighth grade elected new of ficers for the six weeks. These were as follows: President, Kay Ferguson; vice-president, Billy Padberg; secre tary, Calvin Crawford; reporter, Bil ly Scrivner; patrolman, Junior Gree ley; librarian, Lib Healy; yell leader, Peggy Tamblyn. Monday, the grade school team played the freshmen in basketball The score was 42 to 10 in favor of the freshmen. H.H.S. Ten Years Ago A new playground is being con structed . . . The basketball team is getting new warmup suits and jer seys . . . The basketball floor is be ing lined. The new court is the larg est in the conference. Five Years Ago The Home Econ omics club had a party in the base ment of the school house last Sat urday night. . . Intramural debating was started this week. . . Basketball practice started Monday. One Year Ago Heppner defeated Echo in the first game of the season on the local floor. . . It was decided that the name of the team be changed due to the lack of Irishmen in the school. It will be picked later. H H S i Guess Who? ' She is short in stature; Hair is dark and curly, Dark eyes. A freshman Always has a smile for everyone Has a well-liked brother; Lives on Willow creek Final hint ask Rufus Hill. PINTO POINTS The attention of local sports fans will be diverted for a short time, ap proximately three months, to the in door sport of the maple court. Of! course the name of that diversion is quite familiar. Commonly known as basketball, the object of the game is to drop the circular ball through the mesh net for a total score greater than that of the opposing team, whether it is done by straight' bas ketball methods or by sleight-of-hand work. As to who will emerge on top of the newly formed league, composed of Heppner, Arlington, Fossil, and Condon, is a question the answer to which anyone would give a wooden nickel to rightfully and correctly possess. However, the "grapevine" tele graph has a way of secretly dispens ing inside news, and from the infor mation gained through that usually reliable source, Arlington is the team to beat. Why? Because the Honker town has on its squad, five return ing veterans who composed the team that reached the semi-finals in the district tournament last spring. This district, by the way, comprises more territory than any in the state. Fos sil has enough reporting lettermen this year to more than form a for midable quintet. The dopesters have the Condon outlook figured as ques tionable, the Gilliam county basket ball ambassadors' chances having been strengthened by the reporting to practice of Don Jones, transfer from the Grant Union quintet John Day, which also reached the semi-finals in the '37 meet. Figuring the future of the local hoopsters is task no one craves, including yours truly. With Van Marter the only re turning letter-earner, the prospects of a successful second term will be hampered by the possibility of his ineligibility. The tenure of his po sition at center hangs on the results of the decision to be rendered in De cember by the Tregon State High School Athletic association. To prove that girls participating in SDorts become as mfunated and aroused as do boys, the writer ques- toined a feminine student of this school who was formerly the same of the lone institute of learning. As center on the lone basketball team that was playing the girls' squad from Umatilla, she received or was made the victim of an act rarely seen or heard of on the basketball court. The center opposing this local student had fouled the then-lone miss three times in rapid order while trying to gain for herself a gift shot. On the fourth time, which meant be ing excused permanently from that particular game, so tired was the girl from the river town that she let loose with a swing that hit the lone center flush on the jaw, setting her on the floor and putting blinker on the lights as far as she was concerned. And for several min utes, the twirling stars twinkled quite brightly. Curfew chatter . . . The opening game of the current basketball sea son for the Mustangs, last Tuesday night, placed the locals in the posi tion of host to the lone hoopsters. . the last time these two teams met, Jim Driscoll, star Mustang player of two years ago, set something of a record as far as high scoring is con cerned . . . this son of the school s janitor went stark wild at the hoop that night and ran up the amazing total of 31 points, the entire Hepp ner five scoring 47 tallies, which gave Driscoll a very favorable percentage of total points scored . . . this high score of the aforementioned basket bailer was also 8 more points than the sum of the lone score. The smart est boxer on last Wednesday's box ing card was not a Yeljiw Jacket from Boardman but a "Wild Irish man" from Heppner . . . Jack Healy proved himself to be the cleverest fist flinger on the socking menu . . . this son of Erin has a peculiar left punch that swings almost entirely from the elbow . . . when his op ponent, who carried the name of Mc Donald, split the atmosphere with a round-house swing, Healy quickly tepped inside the swing and let fly with his elbow-swivel punch. Hepp ner's "farmer boy" leather pushers may have annexed the smoker from Boardman, but they were also the annexers of something besides a vic tory . . . when it came time to ex amine the local FFA boys for bruises, broken bones, and the like, some of them were the possessors, proud or otherwise, of a few of the blackest shiners seen in these parts for some time. Arlington high considers itself holder of the Class B high school football championship. This writer is not questioning that claim, but ac cording to a Portland paper, that team was undefeated both this sea son and last by other Class B teams, and received only one defeat in Oregon, that by Hermiston, a Class A team. Now, that's where the case of a technicality steps in. The Honk ers, as previously stated, claim to be undefeated both this season and last by teams of its same class. If the students of Arlington high, the members of its football team, the athletic manager, and the coach, Vince Barrett, will scout through the records, they will discover un doubtedly to their surprise, that Ar lington "unblemished" record has a black spot on it. In 1936, playing on the Arlington home field, the Hepp ner team, led by Len Gilman, who as a freshman this year at Pacific uni versity was the leading scorer in the iNortnwest conierence, opened up with an effective variety of running and passing plays that all but swept Arlington off its feet. The host team that day, who in a previous game had knocked over Heppner 12-0, lost to Heppner s Mustangs by two touch downs and two conversions tor a total of 14 points. (Hermiston, it must be noted, also defeated Arlington, 6-0, in 1936.) And with that defeat Arlington lost all rightful claim to the title of having been undefeated both this season and last. Another thing, Hermiston is not rated as a Class A team, Class A meaning that school has an enrollment of more than 150 students. As Hermiston is in the same group as Arlington, that gives the Honkers three defeats in Oregon, covering this season and last. As just a reminder, sports readers were misinformed when they read that Arlington has been undefeated both this season and last by other Class B teams. H.H.S. , Gossip What's this! Some freshmen boys are feeling sort of let down because of the vacation. Seniors, get busy; you can't let this happen. What next? Bethal Blake has just found out a new technique used by the college boys. Another crash on the market! Jacksin Gilliam and Betty Robinson have split up. It couldn't be because of a certain dance. Have you noticed the popularity of a certain student since he has the use of the family car? Some students are wondering who Joe. Aiken's next flame will be. If anyone has some suggestion, he might help Joe. Flash! John Crawford has taken a sudden interest in church. Sybil Howell joined the Christian church. It must be a fad! Everyone seems to be using the Southern accent now. What's this? Two college boys and two high school girls were seen rid ing in the country Friday. Somebody said that you can fool some of the teachers all the time and all of the teachers some of the time, but you can't fool all of the teachers all the time. Ho hum, guess I'll sign off oh, wait a second Harriet Hager was seen about town over the vacation. She is thinking of attending the uni versity next year. NEWS FLASH! Donne Bennett can come out of seclusion now that the vacation is over. Mr. Peavy: "Use 'cauterize' in a sentence. Joe: "I knew she was mine the mo ment I caught her eyes." Jean: "Why the patch over your eye.' Rufus: "Had a big blowout last night." Coach: "Has your wife changed very much since you married her?" Mr. Blankenship: "Yes; my hab its, my friends, and my hours." Kemp D.: "Mother, you didn't ex pect to have so many people to din ner, did you?" Kemp's M.: "Did a little bird tell your , Kemp: "Yeah, the little piece of turkey on my plate." Emmet: "Mother, what did you do with my shirt?" Mother: "I sent it to the laundry." Emmet: "Ye gods, the whole his tory of Ireland was on the cuffs." Jackson: "Two seats." Arlene: "A little bird told me you were going to give me a box of can dy for Christmas." Jack: "It must have been a little cuckoo." Harriet: "How many ribs have you, Omer?" Omer: "I don't know. I'm so aw fully ticklish I never could count them." Harold: "What did you get in Geometry today?" Jackson: "90." Harold: "How far were you from the answer?" Don E.: "Name some liquid that won't freeze." Laura S.: "Hot water." Don B.'s Dad: "Son, I'm spanking you because I love you." Don B.: "Dad, I wish I were big enough to return your love." Mr. Bennett: "Did you test that oil?" L. Wehmeyer: (wiping off his mouth): "Yeah, and it sure tasted awful!" J. Logie Richardson and Dr. J. H. McCrady spent Thanksgiving in Portland. TRUCKING ANYWHERE FOR HIRE Two Trucks in Operation Insured Carrier Livestock Hauling a Specialty Arthur E. Ritchie Phone 212 lone, Ore. Professional Directory A. D. McMurdo, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Trained Norse Assistant Office in Masonic Building Heppner, Oregon Morrow County Abstract & Title Co. INC. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE TITLE INSURANCE Office New Peters Building A Home for the Aged Home-like care and surroundings with graduate nurse in constant charge. Inquire for rates, includ ing room and meals. 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