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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1951)
L 1 SRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE Schools To Open September 10, Some Registration Early Opening date for Heppner schools will be Monday, Septem ber 10 and school officials an nounced this week that regis tration dates have been set for all students. All high school students must register at the building at any time Monday, Tuesday, or. Wed nesday, September 3, 4 or 5, Classes are scheduled for the first day of school and all students are urged to have their registration completed prior to that day. Students entering the first eight "grades will register on the first day of school as no pre-school registration is required in the lower grades. Schedule Changed A change in school hours and periods was announced by Leo nard L. Pate, principal. The new schedule calls for a six period day instead of the seven period schedule in operation last year. The schedule of hours has also been changed with school taking up at a ociock until vz noon, and from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. The new hours will apply to all grades with the exception of the four primary classes. Two new teachers are included on this year's faculty, and one position is still open. Mrs. Les lie Grant will teach a 3rd grade, and James Allen is the new agriculture and general science teacher. Pate stated he expected ap proximately the same number of students this year as last, but that no definite figure could be as certained until . registration is completed. Last year Heppner schools registered 317 children in the grades and 122 in high school, for a total of 439. The tentative grade arrangement this year will include: 1st grade and one combination 1st and 2nd a full second, two 3rd grades, one each 4th through 8th grades and a combination 7th and 8th. Plans call for lunches to be ser ved again this year starting with the first day of school at a charge of 25c per meal. Pate asked that new residents in rural areas contact him prior to school opening and advise him of their address that school buses can be routed properly to pick up children. Unless he is advised many new students will be miss ed by drivers. The fee schedule for the com ing school year as set up by of ficials and students are request ed to bring' the money with them at the time or registration. For high school students the fees will be. Books, $5.00; towel fee $2.50; insurance, 65c; typing fee, $2.50; shop ticket, $2.00. For students entering the first four grades the The Story of Your Pioneer Memorial Hospital Maternity Is Busiest Department- iff (i n 1 ,.-f . l . 'J c One of the busiest departments at Pioneer Memorial hospital is the maternity department where 114 babies have been brought into the world since the hospital's opening on June 18, 1950 an aver age of one new Morrow county citizen every four days. This week, we are going to take our much travelled imaginary patient, Mrs. X. into this very important division of hospital service. She. will be given preliminary admittance to the labor room, one of the most attractively appointed rooms in the hospitaL entirely separate from other hospital patient rooms and Immediately ad jacent to the delivery room where she will be transferred at the proper time. Mrs. X can wait with assurance that her baby will be born in one of the most modern and com pletely equipped delivery rooms to be found in any hospital, re gardless of size, for all the lat est equipment awaits the call of any doctor, and, regardless of what type of delivery may be re quired. Through the generosity of Heppner Elks lodge, Mrs. X knows that should her baby re quire it, there is an oxygen-air pressure lock, similar to an iron lunge, into which her new born fee is $1.25 which includes insur. ance; and 5th to 8th graders will paya room fee of $1.25 which in cludes insurance and a towel fee of $1.25. Parents of beginning first grad ers are asked to provide a birth certificate to assure proper name and registration of the child. o Heppner To Host Morrow Teochers at Pre-School Workshop Morrow county grade and high school teachers will gather in Heppner Thursday and Friday of next week to attend the regular pre-school workshop held in the Heppner school buildings. A full two-day program has been arranged carrying through the two days with four outside educators scheduled to conduct the program. They are Victor N. Phelps, general division, Port land; Hoyt Franchere, associate professor of English, general ex tension division, Portland; Flor ence Edwards, education con sultant, Webster Publishing com pany; and Bernice Hughes, edu cation consultant, Scott-Fores-man company. Theme for the workshop is "In provement of instruction in the language arts." Members of the Heppner Parent-Teachers association will ser ve the teachers luncheon both days of the meeting. o Heppner Legion Commander Elected to District Post Jack Edmondson, Commander of Heppner American egion Post No. 87, was elected district commander of American Legion district 6 at a meeting in Pend leton Monday night. Edmondson has been active in the Legion for the past few years, being Finance officer before be ing elected commander of the Heppner post this last year. He is chairman of the Morrow county March of Dimes, is very active in Boy Scout work and was re cently initiated into the Elks Lodge. o STORES CLOSED MONDAY The merchants committee of the chamber of commerce an nounced this week that Heppner stores will be closed next Mon day in the usual observance of Labor Day. o Mrs. W. O. George and two .boys and Dorothy Green left Wed nesday for a three day visit to Lehman Springs. If Jp v 5- f - . . ! may be placed should the infant require resuscitation and oxy genation or have respiratory dif ficulties. Doctors claim the lives of three babies have been saved or given a much better start be cause of the availability of this piece of equipment Mrs. X's baby will be transfer red into a completely modern air conditioned and humidified nur sery capable of caring for the (Continued on page 6) $3.00 Year, 10c Copy THE PARADE OF ROYALTY- Queen Ingrid First a princess . . . Now a Queen! The royal overseer for this year's Morrow county fair and rodeo is Queen Ingrid Her mann, 17 year-old brunette, who in 1949 represented Willows grange as. fair princess, tjueen Ingrid, who was crown ed by mayor J. O. Turner Satur day night following the Dress- Up parade, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gotfried Hermann, lone Rancher. Though the new queen is a native of Chicago, she has taken to her western home with, ease and fervor. Her many activities in 4-H and other work attest to her enjoyment of west ern living. Queen Ingrid is a 1951 gradu ate of lone high school where she was Salutatorian of her gradu ating class. In addition she was Girls League president and sec JAYCEE KINDERGARTEN PLANS FINAL; FEW MORE SUPPLIES STILL REQUIRED Kiddies attending the Jay Cee ette kindergarten and nursery school this fall will enjoy play ground equipment which has been donated to the Jay Cee-ettes by former residents of the Matte son community The equipment was purchased for the use of children attending the Matteson school, which has been closed for a number of years. The kind ergarten board has asked per mission of the park board to place the equipment, which is portable, on the grounds adjacent to the civic center building where the school is conducted. All such donations of equip ment, whether as large as a slide or as small as a book, are gratefully received by the Jay Cee-ettes, who finance their school beyond the revenue de rived through the fees paid for the children who attend by their parents. Items in need of small repairs or paint can be used, as well as good out-grown toys. The kindergarten board requested j that readers scan the following list of needed items: Phonograph, a large doll; doll bed and bedding; small broom, mop, dust pan; ironing board; doll buggy; doll dishes and cook ing utensils two small saw horses; large serviceable ball; large wagon; tricycle; assorted toy trucks, cars, tractors, and similar items blocks of scrap RAIN! Tuesday Shower First Since July 5 And the rain camel Tuesday's showers in Mor row county, while not heavy, dropped .10 inches of rain on the area according to county weatherman Leonard Carl son, lone. This is the first measurable rainfall since July 5 when .14 inches fell on the county. Practically all harvesting in the county is completed and ranchers generally ap preciated the meager showers Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August A ' ? "'- A s" v . : ! - , t : Hermann retary-treasurer of " the student body her final school year. She was chosen junior-senior prom queen and was awarded the Sen ior citizenship award for 1951. She is 5 feet 5 Inches tall, has brown hair and hazel eyes. In 1950 she showed the grand champion calf at Heppner and the reserve champion at The Dalles show this spring. She will be seen in the rodeo parade and at the show riding her own sorrel gelding Juniper. .. The queen's future plans call for her attendance at Kunnan Business University in Spokane to continue her education and she also plans to share a cattle herd with Irv Mann of Adams. Saturday night's dance, to be held at the Heppner fair pav ilion will be in her honor. lumber; toy figures of people and animals; children's records and books. Members of" the Kindergarten board, Mrs. John Pfeiffer, Mrs. Bill Barratt, and Mrs. Edwin Dick, may be notified and will pick up the articles. The school will open Monday, September 10, at 10 a.m. at the civic center. Mothers are asked to bring their youngsters to the opening session. The children will play under supervision while Mrs. Grace Drake, instructor, dis cusses the school with the mothers. Heppner Gridders Work Hard on Conditioning Drills Under the watchful eyes of Coaches Hal Whitbeck and Clar ence Johnson the "Heppner Hope fuls" have been working long anH HnrH nn ihpW fnnthnll fitnHa. mentais an(j according to eye witnesses have been taking their bumps" well. The first week, work has been stressed on conditioning mainly and the perfect execution of fundamentals, plus a fair a mount of body contact Many of the boys still carry ex cess weight which should leave them during the next week and leave the boys in excellent physi cal condition for the first game of the season, which is September 14, 1951 when the "Redsides" from Maupin, last years cham pions, will play host to the "Mus tangs". Heppner opens its season a gainst last year's champions at Maupin, September 14. The com plete schedule is: Sept 14, Maupin at Maupin Sept. 21 Echo at Echo. Sept. 28 Parkdale at Heppner Oct 5 Prairie City at Prairie ' City. Oct. 12 Umatilla at Heppner, Oct. 20 Wheeler High at Fossil. Oct 26 Grant Union at Heppner Nov. 2 Moro at Heppner. fcette Dress-Up Parade Opens Rodeo Fair Program, Grounds Readied Tri-Counfy Weather Group Discusses Rain Contract Further experiments will be necessary before conclusive re suits of cloud seeding in Gilliam, Morrow and Sherman counties can be determined, Robert Beau mont, O.S.C. Meteorologist told directors of Tti -County Weather Research and the Oregon Wheat Commission at a meeting in Arl ington Friday. Beaumont was as signed the task of evaluating the Tri-County Weather Research program. ! F. E. Price, Dean of O. S. C School of Agriculture and Dir ector of the Experiment Station, also encouraged farmers to con tinue the experiment for two or three years. It was agreed that at the end of that period it may be determined that cloud seeding will not increase rainfall but members of the organization are anxious to learn this. Beaumont's report was prelim inary but an official published analysis of the project will be released this fall. Although from 118 to 140 of normal precipi tation fell in the area during the period generators were operating, surrounding unseeded areas re ceived a similar increase, Beau mont said. Directors interviewed two or ganizations about a cloud seed ing program for the coming year. Bob Elliot of the North American Weather Consultants explained a proposed cloud seeding program for the Tri-County area. He re commended the use of 11 gener ators located close to the project. This concern now has cloud seed ing contracts with the City of San Diego, City of Santa Barbara and the California Edison Company. Bud Arnold, Farmers Air Ser vice representative, explained that they would like to obtain the 1951-52 contract. "We would use ground generators and air planes", Arnold said. Walter White, Manager of Warner Springs Irrigation Project, Vale, Oregon, stated they were satis fied with a contract which they had with Farmers Air Service duringt he past winter. "Our re servoir is full for the first time In four years". White said. Directors took all information under advisement and will not award a contract until after a meeting scheduled with Dr. Krick August 29. o JayCee State Officer Visits Heppner Leo Chapin, national director for the Junior Chamber of Com merce for Oregon, made an offi cial visitation to the Heppner club last Wednesday and Thurs day meeting with officers of the local group. Wednesday evening the local officers met with Chapin in a business meeting at the home of Ed Dick while Mrs. Bill Barratt entertainted Mrs. Chapin and wives of the officers at their ranch home. They were overnight guests of the Barratts. Chapln's home is in Portland, o Miss Rita Keenan and Mr. and Mrs. Erlen Born have returned home from Los Angeles. They were met Saturday in Arlington by Delores Keenan and Carl Thorpe. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Marshall and children are up from the val ley for a visit at the home of Mrs. Marshall's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hughes. Weekend Mail Service Curtailed Under Heppner's new mail delivery schedule will go into effect Sat urday, September 1, with the a warding of a contract to Vernon and Robert V. Flatt, operators of Flatt's Truck Service, to haul this city's mail to and from Arling ton. The new schedule leaves Mon day through Friday mail depar ture the same as before, 6:00 p. m., but Saturday and Sunday schedules are changed. Mail will leave the Heppner post offioe at 12:00 noon on Saturday and at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday. The truck returning to Arlington Sunday morning Immediately following 30, 1951 Kangaroo Court Set For Saturday, List of Violators Grows The first session of the Kang eroo Court was postponed from Wednesday night until Saturday . . . but that doesn't mean vio lators are going to get off with out proper attention, according to members of the JayCees, who are handling the mock trials. Saturday night's session will start at 7:30 and JayCees assure all victims that attorneys will be available for their defense. A placard, will be posted on the rodeo ticket booth in downtown Heppner listing the names of all violators who are to be tried. Al ready this list includes Bob Ord way, Jeff Carter, Father McCor mack, John Ernsdorff and James Farley. JayCees say there will be more by trial time. A second session will be held next Wednesday night. Fine's col lected at the trials will be di vided among the Fair and rodeo association, 4-H clubs and the ayCees for use on that club's park project. o Additional Housing Needed for Fair Harvey Wilhite, chamber of commerce rodeo housing chairman asked this week for anyone having spare rooms they desire to rent out dur ing the fair and rodeo to get In touch with him at Hum phrey's drug store. Housing facilities are al ways at a premium during the weekend and he is list ing all available rooms. Any one having an extra room is urged to call him at 602. o Pre-School Health Examination Dates Set For Children 1 Health examinations for pu pils entering the first grade in the Heppner School will be held at Heppner School on Tuesday morning, September 4th, and Thursday morning, September 6th. Parents of children who will be six by November 15, are re quested to bring their children to this clinic or take them to the family physician at their own expense for a physical examina tion. This is required by the Ore gon School Law. Examination blanks are in the local doctors' offices or the Health department in the courthouse. . Children whose last names be gin with the letters. A through B are requested to come to the clinic at 9:30, Tues day, September 4. C through II are to come at 10:30 on Tuesday, September 4. I through P are to come at 9:30, Thursday, September 6. Q through Z are to come at 10:00, Thursday, September 6. Parents are asked to notify the school secretary, phone number 32, whether they plan to attend the clinic or take their child to the family doctor. o Orville Parent of Oaksdale, Washington will move his fam ily to Heppner in the near future. Parent has accepted a position as appliance repair and serviceman for the appliance department of Hodge Chevrolet comany. He formerly operated his own repair shop In Oaksdale. Mrs. Nora Myers of The Dalles and her two granddaughters San dra and Patty of Cendon visited her sister Mildred Tucker over the weekend. delivery of incoming mall to the post office. Flatt's have been carrying the mail during recent years under a subcontract from the Union Pacific railroad. Their new con tract runs until June 30, 1954. James Driscoll, Heppner post mater, has written to post office authorities, asking that the pre vious late departure schedule be continued, but has received no answer to his request. Holiday delivery will be the same as the Sunday schedule. When the conditions of the new contract were first publicized, Sunday and holiday delivery was Volume 68, Number 24 - Heppner's fair and rodeo pro gram got off to a flvine start last Saturday night with the annual Dress-Up parade and coronation of the queen. A downtown street program of square dancing was enjoyed by the large crowd and was follewed by the last of the princess dances at the fair pavi lion. . Included in the evening parade was the Heppner high school band, making its first public ap pearance of the fall. Mayor J. O. Turner crowned Ingrid Hermann Queen of the Morrow county fair and rodeo in an appropriate cere mony on a stand in front of the Heppner hotel. Queen Ingrid will reign over the four-day program, September 6 to 9. Many riding and marching groups and floats participated in the parade, designed as a kick off for ceremonies to follow and also as a reminder to Heppner residents that they must be pro perly attired in western apparel or run the risk of a fine or dunk ing at the hands of Kangeroo Court judges. First court session will be held Saturday night. The Heppner JayCees were, in charge of the Dress-Up parade which was under the general chairmanship of Ed Gonty. Plans for the Fair and rodeo itself are progressing rapidly ac cording to members of the var ious boards. The two new fair show buildings to replace those destroyed by fire Sunday, August 19, are nearing completion. Sev eral cash and material donations, in addition to considerable volun teer labor, has aided the fair board materially in getting the structures rebuilt. Indications are that the new buildings will be completed by this weekend, less than two weeks since the fire. Many other Improvements and changes are being made to the fair and rodeo grounds Including badly needed additions to rest" room facilities. Rodeo committees report the field will be In condition and everything In readiness for the first day of the rodeo, September 8. Harold Erwin, rodeo chair man, announced that George Prescott has been signed to an nounce the three day show. Pres cott will also announce the Pend leton Roundup show. The Wranglers stated that their part of the show Is in readiness, and that they have spent nearly $1,000 during the past year re pairing horse show barns and in stalling rest rooms and showers in their club building. The Wran gler's share the building with 4-H clubs and make their facilities available to the 4-Hers during the fair days. They also stated that arrange ments are complete for the Wran gler Cowboy Breakfast to be ser ved Sunday morning from 7:00 to 9:30." Word coming from the cooks tell that even better-than-ever food will await the early risers. o Corley Found Guilty of Manslaughter, To Be Sentenced Saturday Walter Corley was found guil ty of manslaughter by a jury which 'returned its verdict after five hours of deliberation. Cor ley was accused of the shooting of Charles R. Marple, lone, on May 8 of this year. At the culmination of the four day trial heard by circuit Judge, W. C. Perry, the Jury retired late Thursday afternlon and return ed at 10:30 that evening with the manslaughter verdict. Judge Perry will pronounce sentence Saturday morning, Sep tember 1. New Schedule entirely eliminated, but efforts by Driscoll resulted in the early morning delivery. Flatt was in Portland early this week discussing the contract with postal officials and there was a chance that a later departure might be agreed upon by the de partment and Flatt even though the contract calls for an Immed iate return to Arlington on Sun day morning. This change of schedule will apparently change the passenger departure time. The combination passenger carrier and truck has been leaving Heppner at 10 p.m. nightly.
