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RONALD BAKER, 4-H member, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Baker, lone,
is shown above with Governor Earl Snell Achievement trophy.
Ronald was chosen as Oregon's outstanding 4-H member in
achievements during 1951. Ronald, who is now attending Wash
ington State College enrolled in animal husbandry, was one of
four from Oregon chosen to attend national 4-H club camp at
Washington, D. C last June; Chosen Grand Champion livestock
showman, highest individual livestock judge and exhibited the
champion shorthorn steer at Oregon Wheat Growers League fat
show and sale in June, 1351. Grand champion fat steer at the
Morrow County Fair and Rodeo was fattened and shown by Ronald.
The Governor Snell trophy, champion showmanship and judging
trophies, with the Rhina Kramer trophy won by the Morrow County
4-H judging team ot Pacific International are exhibited in Humph
reys Drug store window as a part of the 1951 4-H achievements
during national 4-H club week, March 1-9.
Cut Courtesy East Oregonian
A "DUSTER"
Council Abandons New
Well As Hopeless
Heppner council members
Monday evening voted to aban
don drilling of the new cily well
about one and . one-half miles
east of town on Willow creek and
Investigate a possible new site for
another well. The present loca
tion was given up as a "dry hole".
The group decided to stop fur
ther drilling when it was reported
the drilling contractor A. A. Du
rand of Walla Walla, had reached
a depth of 590 feet without find
ing water in any quantity. Mem-
Mcny Suggestions
Mode at C of C Meet
Chamber of commerce members
Monday had what was classified
on their program calendar as a
"grip? session." It proved to be
a meeting filled with more ideas
than just gripes.
Robert Tenland, publisher of
the Gazette Times, asked whether
the counly or the state was re
sponsible for road signs through
out the county and urged a pro
gram to obtain proper marking
of roads throughout the area.
County judge Garnet Barratt ex
plained the state installed them,
on county roads, but that the
county was responsible for main
tenance. Wayne West told of the
forest service's troubles in keep
ing the signs up after they were
placed stating the upkeep was
higher than the original cost. He
said much of the loss of road
signs was attributable to hunters
who used them for target prac
tice. Dr. A. D. McMurdo suggest -1
ed the use of the slogan "shoot
the porkys instead of the signs",
might aid in cutting down on the (
porcupine population in ine
mountains and also save many
signs.
While on the Blatter of signs
it was suggested by other mem
bers that a campaign be started
urging city residents to install
house numbers on their homes.
It was pointed out that very few
houses in Heppner had numbers,
making it extremely hard for
visitors or newcomers to find an
address. The city council also
came in for discussion when it
was suggested that many inter
sections are in need of street
signs.
Mayor J. O. Turner urged all
chamber members to attend the
council meeting Monday night to
hear the engineers report concern
ing the proposed sewer system.
hers felt that even should a vein
be struck, the present depth was
too great, to allow pumping the
flow at a reasonable cost.
Members expressed the belief
that a crack, which was encoun
tered at slightly over 200 feet, had
probably siphoned off the water
which had been expected at
that depth.
The drilling contract with Du-
rand allows the city to abandon
the present well if desired, and
move to a new location. Several
new sites have been proposed, one
being about four miles up Willow
creek from Heppner near the end"
of .the present new steel pipe
line. j
The need for additional water
was stressed when a proposal was
presented requesting the exten
sion of an adequate water main;
up Hinton creek to the city limits1
to accommodate several planned
new houses in that area and also
to provide sufficient water pres-l
sure to allow for irrigation of the
Rodeo field when it is turfed, j
Adequate fire protection for the!
fair buildings and county shops j
would also be provided by the!
new main. The council agreed to I
do everything possible to extend
the main ad provide the water if
it could be done, but pointed out
that during the driest summer I
months last year the city was
hard pressed to keep up with the
demand for water. It was hoped
the now abandoned well would
alleviate the shortage.
The council also granted build
ing permits to Cleve and Martha
Van Schoiack for a $12,000 resi
dence being built on Gales street
and to Harry Duvall for a $20,
000 residence on south Court
street.
Also granted by the council was
a new two-year garbage contract
to Herman Green.
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CREDIT BUREAU SOLD
Gertrude AnnlPfatp who has
operated the Merchants Credit
Bureau in Heppner for some time
announced this week that she has
sold the business to Marvin
Wightman and Harold J. Sanders
Jr. They will operate it in con
nection with their insurance
business.
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Mrs. Douglas Ogletree return
ed Monday to her teaching posi
tion in the Heppner grade school
after an absence of several weeks
due to illness.
isposal
County Fishing
Expected Good,
Stocking Due
Morrow county fishermen are
assured ample fish again this
year according to a letter received
last week by the Morrow county
Hunters and Anglers club from
the state game commission.
The letter was read at the first
meeting of this year by the or
ganization February 26 and stat
ed the commission planned to
stock Willow, Rock and Rhea
creeks and possibly Little Butter
creek, if necessary arrangements
can be completed. President L.
D. Tibbies appointed a committee
to investigate the stocking of the
latter stream.
Dr. L. D. Tibbies was reelected
president of the group, Mrs. Paul
Brown secretary-treasurer, both
for their third term, and Carl Me
Daniel was chosen vice president
to replace F. C. Tolleson who has
served for the past two years.
It was decided to again reserve
fishing grounds for the young
sters on Willow Creek as was
done last year. With the cooper
ation of Steve Thompson and
Frank Wilkinson the younger set
enjoyed some fishing, and they
have agreed to again allow their
property to be posted for the sole
use of boys and girls. The clever
signs made by Mrs. Henry Tetz
will be placed in prominent spots
marking the area reserved.
The Crow, Raven, and Magpie
Contest will also be hnld this
year.. The committee in charge,
headed by Gar Swanson of lone,
will announce opening date and
farther details of the contest. The
Hynd Brothers of Cecil have again
contributed $25.00 to be used as a
prize.
Wayne West of the Forest Ser
vice made a plea to members
present to help rid the forests of
porcupines, and it was decided to
hold a porcupine contest.
Frank Andresen donated $15.00
in trade to be set up as one of the
prizes. When the committee in
charge completes details they
will be announced.
Considerable discussion was
held on the pheasant situation
and Bob Corthell of the game
commission urged the group to
undertake methods of preserving
cover for birds. A new game bird
called the Chukker Partridge may
be released in Eastern Oregon
this year by the game commission
and the secretary was advised to
write and ask for a share of these
to be released in Morrow county,
The Morrow County Hunters
and Anglers voted to join
Oregon Wildlife Federation.
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Paul Brown showed the group
some fishing movies.
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Lexinqton Schools to
Lose Two Teachers
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus P. Balser
who have both taught in the Lex
ington schools for the past two
yeas stated this week that they
are resigning from their positions
at the end of the present school
year,
Balser taught the 7th and 8th
'grades and Mrs, Balser the 3rd
and 4tn. Balser was also in
charge of elementary grade ath
letics and served as cub scout
master in Lexington.
They made no statement as to
their future plans other than that
they hoped to get into a larger
school system.
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Heppner FFA Tops
Hermiston Hoopsters
Heppner FFA chapter came out
victors over Hermiston FFA mem
bers Friday night in two basket
ball games played here. The A
team won 57 to 37 and the B
squad easily conquered the Her
miston boys 35 to 10.
Jim Sumner and Melvin Piper
, officiated both games.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walter had
as their guests over the weekend
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Walker and his brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Laine
Walker of Goldendale, Washing
ton. LaVerne Van Marter, Sr. arrived
Sunday from Portland and will
remain for a time in Heppner with
his son and dauehter-in-law. Mr.
' and Mrs. Laverne Van Marter, Jr.
Plant:
HEPPNER ELIMINATED IN TOURNAMENT
PLAY, DROPS SECOND GAME TO MAUPIN
Ileppner's Mustangs, though
winning their first game of the
district 6B basketball tournament
at The Dalles Monday from Dufur
by a score of 47 to 27, couldn't
find the basket Tuesday and went
down to defeat before a Moupln
squad to the tune of 36 to 32.
A strange floor and tournament
jitters apparently accounted for
the loss of shooting eye as most
of Ileppner's top. scorers through-
Snow Survey Shows
Water Content High
Water content of the mountain
snow pack averages 43 percent
above normal and 30 percent
higher than last year at this time
according to snow measurements
taken Friday. February 29, on the
Arbuckle mountain snow course,
Tom Wilson of the Soil Conserva
tion Service and Walt Ray of the
Forest Service skiied into the
snow course and reported 44
inches of snow with a water con
tent of 15.2 inches. Measure
ments taken on February 26 on
the course last year showed a
snow depth of 33 inches and a
water content of 11.7 inches.
A water content of 10.6 Inches
is the average for this time of
year according to records of the
federal and state cooperative
snow surveys.
Representative Race
Gets More Entries
Interest picked up this week in
the race for the two open state
representative seats from this dis
trict as one more man filed and
another indicated his intention.
A Condon Democrat, Robert
Smith announced his candidacy
and R. B. Rands of Boardman in
dicated Wednesday that he would
seek the seat on the Republican
ballot. Previous filings have
placed two Republicans in the
race for the two open positions.
They are C. A. Tom, Rufus and
J. P. "Jack" Steiwer of Fossil.
Rands is the first Morrow
county man to show interest in
the positions. Deadline for filing
is March 7.
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Heppner Boy Scouts
Visit McNary Dam
29 Heppner Boy Scouts accom
panied their scout leader, Brad
ley Fancher, spent most of Satur
day at McNary going through the
dam.
The boys were taken up in a
school bus driven by Harry Mun
kers, and dam officials spent over
three hours showing the scouts
through the giant operation.
"BOYS TOWN OF THE
TELLS OF OPERATION
The history and operation of
Camp Columbia, the Boys Town'
of the West, at White Salmon,
Washington was explained to
members of the Soroptimist club
and many interested visitors last
Thursday by Major F. H. Blake,
camp superintendent and founder
of the project.
Major Blake explained the
camp was established two years
ago for the purpose of giving
leadership to wayward boys from
8 to 16 years of age. There are
now 19 boys at the camp who
have come from juvenile courts
and private families in Oregon
and Washington. Major Blake
emphasized that the camp is de
pendent entirely upon public do
nations for its source of revenue
It receives no state or federal
aid..
The Idea of starting such a
camp was the majors, and he was
assigned three men from Fort
Lewis to aid him in the project.
All three of the men became so
engrossed in the plan that they
assigned their GI life insurance to
the camp and this Insurance,
from Sgt. Jerry Capwell, who was
later killed in Korea, provided
the necessary funds to see it
through the first year of its aper
ation. The camp, located eight miles
from White Salmon, consists of
80 acres of land and a single
farmhouse when it was taken
over by the major. Since that
time additional dormitories have
been built by the boys as they
were needed and could be con-
Estimated
out the season failed to connect
consistently. ,
Though eliminated from further
competition by the Tuesday night
defeat, the squad and coach Hal
Whitbeck remained in The Dalles
to watch the rest of the tourney.
Monday's games found the fol
lowing teams coming out on top;
Troutdale won over Mosier; Fos
sil over Arlington; Wasco over
LaPine; Culver over Sisters. Cas
cade locks over Condon; 'Moro
over St. Marys; Maupin ofer Ru
fus and Heppner over Dufur.
Tuesday's encounters found
Parkdale measuring Fossil 46-34;
Culver taking Wasco 59-25; Cas
cade Locks defeating Moro 38-36
and Maupin eliminating Heppner
36-32.
Scores of Wednesday's games
were not available.
Speech Festival Set
At lone March 12
The Morrow county school
speech festival will be held at
lone Wednesday, March 12 at the
lone school. lone superintendent,
Henry Osibov is festival manager
and Mrs. Gladys Ely is county
chairman for the event.
The festival is scheduled to
open at 1:30 with both elemen
tary and high school speaking to
be completed during the after
noon and a series of one-act plays
presented in the evening. Miss
Helen McCune and Mrs. Ellen
Coffey of the Pendleton schools
will act as judges.
Winning schools will enter the
district speech meeting to be
held at Whitman college in Wal
la Walla, March 14 and 15.
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February Rainfall
Stays Below Normal
February rainfall, though still
below normal, reached nearly to
the average with the late month
snow and rain bringing the total
precipitation for the month as
recorded at the Heppner weather
station, to 1.14 inches. Rainfall
during February a year ago to
taled 1.31 inches.
Reports from the Gooseberry
weather station, operated by
Leonard Carlson, showed a slight
edge over the Heppner recording
with 1.22 inches falling during
the month.
CITY HALL DEDICATION
DATE CHANGED
Date of the dedication of the
new lone city hall building was
erroneously given as March 15 in
last week's story about the plans.
The dedication program will be
held on Sunday, March 30 and it
is planned to have several former
lone mayors present for the event.
WEST" DIRECTOR
OF BOYS' CAMP
structed. At the present time,
Major Blake and his wife are the
entire staff, though each boy has
own jobs to do around the area.
There is no set charge, in the
case of a boy received from a
private family, and two-thirds of
the boys there at the present are
on a "free" basis. Families who
are able to or wish to, may donate
towards the boys care. No tax
funds are accepted, as in the case
of boys assigned to the camp from
courts. Though the direction of
the operation is entirely handled
byMajor Blake, an advisory board
of nine persons handles the fi
nancial end of the project.
Major Blake told the group that
for the first time, the camp will
soon have a definite budget to
operate on, for the Eagles lodge of
Oregon recently voted at a con
vention in Klamath Falls to "big
brother" the camp and provide a
set amount for its continuation.
"Our past record has been ex
ceptionally good," explained the
major, practically all of the boys
have been returned as useful
members of society.
The major stated that though
they were in need of many things
to enlarge the camp, which they
expect to increase to 30 boys this
spring, one of the most pressing
is transportation as they must
take the boys several miles to
school.
The Soroptimist club brought
Major Blake to Heppner and the
meeting was attended by many
Interested members of other
groups.
Council Accepts Engineers Plans;
Bond Issue Vote to be Called Soon
Plans, specifications and cost estimates for a sewer system and
sewage disposal plant designed to care for the present and future
needs of Heppner were presented to the city council Monday evening
by L. K. Clark and Gilbort Groff, Salem engineers.
The plan, as presented in detail to the council, and accepted by
the group, would include a complete system of main trunk lines
and laterals to collect sewage from every part of the city, all neces
sary residential and business hook up lines extending from the
laterals to the property lines and a disposal plant designed to pro
vide waste treatment up to 90','!). The estimated cost of the entire
Extension of lone
Gooseberry Oiled
Road Probable
A four to five mile extension
of the lone-Gooseberry oiled road
seemed a certainty Wednesday
when a delegation of residents
from that area appeared before
the county court with a petition
requesting the improvement and
checks totaling nearly $8,000 to
be used as match money with
the county for the project.
The court agreed to go ahead
with the project in the immediate
future and the length of the
oiling extension would depend
upon whether the group could
raise additional funds. Cost for
oiling the requested five miles
would run $20,000 and if a total
of $10,000 is raised among the
residents in the area the entire
five mile stretch will be surfaced.
However, enough funds are avail
able at the present time to oil
four miles of the road.
The court assured the delega
tion that the grading and gravel
ing preparatory to the oiling
would be done immediately as
the county rock crusher was being
moved and could be set up in the
area within the next few days.
Considerable graveling would be
done in the area at the same time.
Oiling could not be started un
til later in the spring due to the
weather conditions.
County judge Garnet Barratt
pointed out that several stretches
of county roads have been oiled or
improved in recent years through
the cooperation of the ranchers
using the roads. Last summer a
section of Reitmann grade, north
of lone, was oiled by means of
matching money put up by the
ranchers.
State and National
Problems Discussed at
Farm Bureau Meeting
The regular meeting of the
Morrow County Farm Bureau was
held at the Markham Baker home
on February 20. There were sev
eral important questions discus
sed at this meeting among which
were the Blanket Primary of Ore
gon, Reappraisal of property, Re
apportionment of the Legislature,
the Pelton Dam, and Universal
Military Training. While no defi
nite action was taken on these
questions they will be further
discussed at the next Center
meetings and then brought up
again at the next county meeting
for action. All members should
watch for the dates of their cen
ter meetings and plan to be pre
sent to express their views on
these subjects before our recom
mendations are sent in to the
slate.
Kenneth Smouse reparted on
information which has been re
ceived regarding the development
of North Morrow County and that
further surveys will be made In
1954.
Ralph Crum announced that
the Interim Committee on Rain
making will hold a hearing in
Arlington on March 22 and asked
that recommendations be made
at that time as to what we want
in the way of legislation on this
subject. The Centers are being
asked to make such recommen
dations. Though the Centers at
lone and Lexington have been
active for over a year, the Hepp
ner Center has not yet been or
ganized and those members will
be invited to attend the Lexing
ton Center until such time that
the Heppner center can be organ
ized. The next county meeting will
be held on Tuesday, March 25, the
place to be announced later.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitmer Wright
returned Mnday evening from a
five day visit to Portland and
Salem. In Salem they were guests
of Mrs. Wright s sister and hus
band, Mr. and Mrs. A. Burr Black,
project was established by the
engineers at $318,500 and was
designed to meet all state and
city sanitary requirements.
The two men, in explaining the
various phases of the collection
and disposal system, described
the operation of the disposal
plant, which would be located
near or below the northwestern
city limits, and that the sewer
system was planned to give grav
ity drainage throughout its en
tire length and also for practical
ly all basements. A breakdown
of the cost estimates showed
$168,000 for the main sewer col
lection system, $21,618 for the
house connection spurs, and
$128,882 as the cost for the treat
ment plant.
Clark told council members the
sewer system was planned to ac
commodate a population of 3,500,
and the treatment plant would
serve a city of 2,500. He stated
the plant was designed smaller
than the collection system be
cause it could readily be added
to in future years at a minimum
cost should the need arise, where
as the cost of enlarging the sew
ers would be extensive. The two
men stated their future popula
tion figures were based on an ex
amination of growth figure for
the area for past years.
Financing Plan
The engineers also suggested
a financing plan which included
a bond issue of $250,000 and indi
vidual assessments amounting to
approximately $100 per lot. The
actual amount of the necessary
bond issue and basis for deter
mining just how it would be paid
was discussed at length by the
council members and although
no definite plan was decided upon
concensus of the members ap
peared .to be that the city would
probably ask for a bond issue of
$300,000 which would finance the
entire project and eliminate the
extra individual lot assessments.
The assistance of bonding attor
neys will be sought before a defi
nite plan is established.
If such a plan is set up the
only additional out-of-pocket cost
to property owners would be the
cost of extending their present
home or business sewer system
to their property line. The engi
neers plan called for running the
individual resident's connections
up to the property line from the
sewer.
The engineers "also suggested
that the bonds be written for a
25 year period, or at least a por
tion of them, and showed that
they could be paid off with not
more than a 10 mill tax levy, the
same amount now assessed which
was voted last year, and a con
tinuation of the present $1.00 flat
residential sewer use fee now be
ing paid by city residents. Pos
sibly, they suggested, this fee
might need to be raised to $1.50
per month.
The council, in accepting the
plans, set in motion the necessary
procedures to call for an early
vote of the people on the proposed
bond issue. City attorney, J. J.
Nys was instructed to immediate
ly contact the Portland law firm
which must pass upon municipal
bond issues and request their as
sistance in setting up the most
feasible plan. The council ex
pressed the hope that the meas
ure could be put up to the people
at the Primary election on May
16.
The bond issue must be passed
by a vote of the people before the
bonds can be sold and bids called
for on the construction.
Maps Shown
The engineering firm presented
maps of the sewage system and
the disposal plant which show in
detail the recommended plan.
The main trunk collector system
would start with an eight inch
main at the upper ends, near the
school on north Court street and
up Willow creek on south Court
and gradually increase to a 15
inch main at the lower end of the
system. The disposal plant was
designed to require practically no
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