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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1952)
L I BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE . School End Near; 25 To Graduate Friday Closing activities at the Hepp. nor schools this week include commencement exercises for 25 graduating seniors to be held Fri day night, May 23, at 8 p. m. from the High School gymnasium. Walter J. Mead of Lewis and Clark College will give the main address. j A large attendance of Darents and friends attended the bacca laureate services for the seniors Sunday evening in the gymnas ium. Final exams were given in the high school Wednesday and Thursday and picnics are slated for grade school classes this Thursday. All grade and high school students will convene at 1 p. m. on Friday to complete the Many Awards Given At Eighth Grade Graduation On the evening of May twen tieth, the Eighth Grade Class of Heppner held their Commence ment Exercises in the school gym. Delbert Piper, the first semester president, was presiding. The guests were Mrs. Heath, who Is president of the American Legion Auxiliary. Neil Beamer, the Com mander of the Boys Sportsman Club, Rev. Soward, who gave the invocation, Rev. Fast, who gave the benediction, and Mr. Grant. The welcoming address was given by the Salutatorian, Nancy Adams. The class history was read by Darlene Connor. Virginia Andre sen read the class prophecy. Four students of the band played in a French horn quartet. Marvin Wightman and Michael Monahan presented the class with gifts. Ceuld You Imagine was read by Diane Grant. Judy Thompson re cited the class poem. Sandra Lan ham read the Class Grumbler. Lynda Borman and Eugene Ruhl played a piano duet. The Class Will was read by Donna Lovgren. Nona Fast, the Valedictorian, gave the farewell address. The following awards were given; 4 in music, to Lynda Bor man, Jay Sumner and Darlene Connor; three Current Event awards to Jay Sumner, Lance Tibbies and James Monahan; two Spoiling awards to Carolun Cal vin and Nancy Anderson, one achievement award to Dale Sta ger, two honor student awards to Nancy Anderson,. Salutatorian and Nona Fast, Valedictorian. Neil Beamer presented a special award in American history to James Monahan. The American Legion Auxiliary presented a Citizenship medal to Nancy An derson and also presented gifts for first and second place essays in girls division who were Judy Thompson and Darlene Connor, boys division who were Skip Ruhl and Joe Privett. Mr. Juett was presented a gift from the class and Mrs. Lyng holm and Mr. Peterson received flowers. Mr. Juett, the principal present ed the well earned diplomas. -o Bob Deeter To Be Pool Lifeguard Bob Deeter will be lifeguard at the swimming pool this summer, Dr. L. D. Tibbies, pool chairman, announced today. The pool is scheduled to open about the mid dle of June. Deeter received special train ing in water safety and first aid while in the navy. He came here recently from Denver, Colorado and has opened Bob's Gun Shop. o Stores Plan To Close On Memorial Day . The merchant's committee of the Chamber of Commerce has re commended that the stores close on Memorial Day, Friday, May 30. They will be open for business on Saturday. County Voters Vary But Slightly From ! ! . I - hi t ' - V' - : ' I j V ---'-v - f - v " 'A' -'h 1 II ,n', m n If! I , C A. Tom ORE year's activities and receive their report cards. Included on the high school commencement program will be the invocation by James Smith, benediction by Eleanor Rice, the presentation of diplomas by Bar ton Clark, chairman of the school board, a selection "The Whiffen poof Song" by the senior boys chorus, the presentation of the class by James Vanover, princi pal, the presenting of awards by Superintendent L. L. Pate and the processional and recessoinal numbers by the school band. j A picnic for the first, second and third grades will be held on the Courthouse lawn Thursday,! the fourth grade will hold their picnic at the Andy Van Schoiack ranch on Rhea creek, the fifth grade will also gather at Rhea creek, the sixth grade will meet at Wightman's Blue Mountain ranch above Hardman, the sev enth grade at the Claude Buschke cabin and the eighth grade at the Winchester cabin on Willow creek. o This Weekend Set For Poppy Sale In honor of the war dead from Argonne to Korea, the American Legion Auxiliary will sell Mem orial poppies in Heppner and Lex ington this Friday and Saturday. The sale is under the direction of Mrs. Russell O'Donnell. The two-day downtown sale will be handled by Mrs. Creston Robinson, Mrs. Don Bellenbrook, Mrs. Bill Labhart, Mrs. Mike Sal ing, Mrs. Willard Blake, Mrs. Jack Bailey, Mrs. Chris Brown, Mrs. Bill Heath, Mrs. Jack Van Winkle, Mrs. Bill Courtney, Mrs. Earl Evans and Mrs. Gene Fer guson. On Saturday the following girls will assist the Auxiliary in selling from house to house: Misses Don na Hudson, Colleen Bailey, Mer edith Ann Sorlien, Beth Ball, Pat sy Alberts, Janice Prock and Betty Lou Moyer. Mrs. Bill Nichols is heading the sale in Lexington and will be assisted by several girls, o School Budget Passed By 343 to 195 Vote County voters passed the six percent school budget limitation tax by a vote of 343 for and 195 against at an election held in all county school districts Thursday, May 15. The tax base'of $115,191.60 was exceeded by $307,714.40 this year, making the total county school budget $422,906.00. Votes by districts were Heppner 86 for and 62 against; Irrigon, 96 for, 1 against; Lexington, 20 for, Boardman, 100 for and 1 against; lone, 13 for and 129 against; Mor gan, no votes; Devine, 8 for, 1 against; Hardman, 6 for and Sand Hollow, 4 for and 1 against. ' Henry Zivney, Boardman, has accepted the nomination of direc tor of the Rural School Board from lone I to replace R. Vernon Jones who decided not to run again. Zone I comprises the Boardman and Irrigon districts. - J. J. Nys has accepted the nomi nation for Zone IV in the Heppner area. Terms are for three years. Election of the Rural Board members and a director for each school district will be held at the annual meetings in all districts on June 16, according to Leslie Grant, county school superinten dent. Two Princesses Chosen For Rodeo Two princeses were chosen this week for the Morrow county Rodeo to be held September 6 and 7. Wilma Dalzell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dalzell of lone Is being sponsored by Willows Grange. She attends school in lone. Shirley Meyers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Meyers of Butter Creek also was announced this week as a princess. She attends school in Echo. urn f-riiuk Jack Stelwer Single Copies 10 cents I r. GRADUATINC seniors who have completed their educution ot Heppner High schcol are shown here. Front row, left to right, Dorothy Ellis, Rieta Graves, Nancy Zinter, Marilyn Bergstrom, Gayle Al bert Afton Eberhardt. Bernelce Huston, EleanorRice. Second row, Gary Ccnnor, Don Blake, Roy Taylor, John Wagner, Jack James Smith, Michael Lanham. Also graduating Fwday night but not pictured are Floyd Green, Allen Hughes, Elwayne Bergstrom, Kenneth Turner and Lynn Rill. (GT Photo) Wheat Support Price Set at $2.21 The P. M. A. announced this week that price support on wheat for Morrow county has been set at $2.21 a bushel. This is an Increase of five cents over the 1951 price. The 1952 rates were calculated on the basis of the $2.17 per bus hel national average price sup port level, announced August 29, 1951 and are subject to an in crease of 90 percent if the wheat parity price at the beginning of the marketing year, July 1, 1952 is greater than $2.17. The support rate on barley for 1952 will be $1.31 per bushel. Any further information re ceived on price support rates will be announced as it is received by the county P. M. A. office. o 4-Hers Being Selected For Summer School More than 1800 boys and girls most of them equipped with scholarships, are expected to at tend the 1952 4-H Summer School, June 17 to 27, at Oregon State college, reports L. J. Allen, state 4-H leader. The scholarships are awarded for outstanding 4-H achievement by agricultural, business and ser vice groups, home extension units, and some private individ uals. As usual, attendance is set up on the basis of county quotas, with more applicants than avail able accommodations at the col lege. Therefore, throughout the state, county committees of ex tension agents and 4-H club leaders are selecting the young people, aged 12 and over, who best qualify for the scholarships. Space will be at a premium on the campus this year. The Paci fic division of the American As sociation for the Advancement of Science, 1000 strong, will meet at OSC June 16 to 21. Former Heppner Boy Dies Of Injuries Word has been received of the death of Jack Sherman 12. son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sherman of Oregon City. The Shermans re sided in Heppner until about a year ago. He died of injuries sustained when he was hit by a truck. Survivors include his parents and three sisters, Nancy and Kathleen at home and Mrs. Bill Hinton of Heppner. Services are tentatively plan ned for Saturday morning in Oregon City. Steiwer, Tom Win Representative Nod Morrow county voters last Fri day pretty well followed the choice of the rest of the state in the election of federal state and local officials. Notable exceptions to the rule occurred in the race for state treasurer, attorney gene, ral, and representative in con gress from the second district all on the Republican ballot. Demo cratic vote went in accord with the state trend. In the Repblican race for state treasurer Morrow county favored Jack Lynch 309 over Sig Unander 204, although the final count showed Unander the win ner by a wide majority. Heppner, C v a Q a n A -V.w 't ,i ft' , . ' i" ' in n i ' 1 1 ' ' Yeager, Albert Burkenbine, James BIDS ASKED FOR HEPPNER JUNCTION ARLINGTON HIGHWAY RELOCATION A report from the state high way commission announced that it will accept bids on May 27 for the grading of the middle unit of the Arlington-Heppner Junction section of the relocated Columbia river highway. The section is 6.74 miles In length. According to the commission, this project marks the first stage in the improvement to modern standard of the highway between Arlington and Heppner Junction and extends from a point 2.2 miles east of Arlington to a point .9 of a mile west of the junction with the Heppner highway. The new location lies south of the present route, traversing new Two Heppner Girls To Attend Girls' State Marjorie Ann Pierson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Pierson, and Rita Cox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Cox, have been chosen to attend Girls' State this year by the American Legion Auxil iary. This is a program to pro mote understanding of the Ore gon system of legislature and is held at Willamette University in Salem between June 8 and 15.lt is sponsored by the American Le gion Auxiliary. All the girls of the junior class of Heppner high school were el igible for Girls' State and were rated by the faculty as to chara cter, scholastic ability and jor sonality. The two selected to rep resent Heppner were finally chosen by members of the local organization. Mrs. Howard Petty john is in charge of the local project for girls' State. o Baumon Attends Civil Defense Meet C. J. D. Bauman, Morrow county civil defense head returned Wed nesday from Portland where he attended a two-day meeting 'of 9th area civil defense heads. Bauman stated there were sev eral defense heads from Wash ington, D. C. as speakers on the program. There were representatives from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and a part of Montana. DAVID COX GETS DIPLOMA David Cox was inadvertantly left out of the eighth grade grad uating list last week He marched up for his diploma with the rest of his class Tuesday night. o Mrs. Jack Loyd and son return ed Monday from John Day where she visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Trowbridge. State in Their E. O. Stadter of Bend was the county choice for attorney gene ral, though the state selected John B. McCourt of Portland. Giles French, Moro publisher, was Morrow county's favorite for congress by a wide majority, yet he lost by an .equally large vote in the second district to Sam Coon of Baker. R. B. Rands, Boardman and C. A. Tom, Rufus, were first and second choices for the two open positions in the state legislature from the 22nd district, by county voters, but of the two,- Tom was the only winner, district-wise. J. P. Steiwer of Fossil took top spot in the district with Tom a close second. Only nine votes sepa rated the two winners in the final tally. In most of the rest of the Re publican contests local voters fol lowed the rest of the Btate. There a$ette Oregon, Thursday, May v ? ' l'. Q, v S i .1 n, ;, Prock, Charles Stout, Keith Connor, country with light curvature and grades throughout. The grading width is to be 50 feet to provide for a future 21 foot pavement with 10 foot shoulders on each side. At the same time the commis sion will receive bids for the rock surfacing of the 5.01 mile York Ranch-Hay Creek section of the Wasco-Heppner highway extend ing from the end of the oil about five miles -west of Condon on westerly another five miles. o Wm. Barkla Services Held Here Friday Funeral services for William F. Barkla were held Friday, May 1G, at 2 p. m. at the Masonic Temple with Rev. J. Palmer Sorlien of ficiating. Frank S. Parker was acting master of the Masonic ser vice, Mrs. J. O. Turner was the pianist and Mrs. Kathryn Hos kins sang two hymns. The body was taken to Spokane by Phelps Funeral home for in terment in the Fairmount ceme tery. Graveside services were con ducted by th Tyrolean Lodge No. of Spokane. Mr. Barkla was born Decem ber 10, 1878 in Norwich, England and passed away May 15 at his home in Heppner. He was a mem ber of Heppner Lodge No. G9, A. F. and A. M. and El Katif Shrine Temple 'and the Scottish Rite in Spokane. He was an engineer for the past 12 years at the Heppner Lumber Company, which closed for the funeral services. Pall bearers were Charles Stout, James J. Hayes, Douglas Ogletree, Marion Hayden, Archie Ball and Albert Connor. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Beulah Barkla, Heppner; one son, Lewis Barkla of Baker; a step-son Robert Deoler of Heppner and one grandson. o VAN MARTERS PARENTS OF A SON Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Van Mar tcr, Jr. are the parents of a son horn May 16 at St. Anthony's hos pital in Pendleton. The young man weighed eight pounds l'2 ozs. and has been named La- Verne HI. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Ball and Mrs. V. R. Runnion of Heppner and LaVerne Van Marter, Sr. of Port land. AMERICAN LEGION TO MEET Members of the American Le gion are urged to join the eeme toiy clean-up detail at 7 o'clock Monday night, followed by the nomination of officers at the Le gion hall. Choice of Candidates for were no races for any county of fice, with uncontested incum bents polling heavy votes in all cases. A complete list of the Morrow county vote for most contested offices showed. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN Jess Card 228 Glen R. Jack 166 Lowell C. Paget 158 Charles L. Paine 231 DELEGATES TO NAT.' CONVEN. SECOND DISTRICT U. S. Balentine 92 Geo. T. Cochran 193 Alfred F. Cunha 351 H. H. DeArmond 281 Howard Dent Jr, 371 Robt. D. Lytle 85 William B. Morse 191 PRESIDENT Eisenhower 565 MacArthur 54 22, 1 952 VANOVER BECOMES PRINCIPAL AT LEXINGTON; SCHWAB GOES TO ECHO James Vanover, principal and social science and Is assistant commercial teacher at the Hepp-1 coach at Heppner high school will nor high school, has resigned his' replace Vanover as principal, position to become superintend In addition to Vanover, other dent of the Lexington high school, : resignations on the high school it was announced this week. Carl staff this spring were turned in Schwab, who has been superin- by Robert Collins, band; Richard tendent at the Lexington school (Knight, English; Harold Whit for the past two years, is leaving beck, coach and physical educa te become superintendent of theition and Mrs. Phyllis Knight, Echo public schools. Vanover came here in 1919 from Potter, Neb., and has been acting principal for the past two years, He received his B. A. in business administration from King Col lege, Bristol, Tenn. and his mast ers degree in business education from the College of Education in Greely, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs Vanover are the parents of three children. Schwab, who has been super intendent and coach at Lexing ton for the past two years, has had six years teaching experi ence, received his degree from Pacific University and his mas ters in education from the Uni versity of Oregon. He will have a staff of 13 teachers at Echo. Mr. and Mrs. Schwab and two daughters will live in a house provided by the Echo school dis trict. Clarence Johnson, who teaches Three Car Accidents Occur on Weekend Three minor car accidents were reported here over the weekend. Clarence "Larry" Shields of The Dalles fell asleep at the wheel and ran his car into a culvert on Franklin hill on the Lena road Saturday night. Shields' a brother-in-law of Mrs. Randall Martin, was driving from Condon to the Martin ranch when the accident occur red. He received treatment at the Pioneer hospital. Bill Furlong did considerable damage to his car when he turned his car over on Heppner hill on Saturday night. He escaped without injury. Mrs. Lucille Owens backed in to a corner of the railroad depot Sunday evening when her auto matic drive shifted into reverse. The damage was negligible. O' County Totals Show High Vote Percentage The total vote In Morrow county ran practically as heavy as did the rest of the state even though there were no purely local con tests to draw interest. 961 Repub licans, of a registration total of 1441 voted, and 431 of 826 Demo crats went to the polls. The figure gave the Repub licans practically a 68 percent turnout, the same as the state, while the Democrats got slightly more than 50 percent of its regis trants out. o RICHFIELD STATION CHANGES HANDS Ray Barnett and son Paul of lone last week leased the Rich field service station in Heppner, and have opened for business Paul is employed to operate the place. They plan to open every nay except Sundays. MRS. LYNGHOLM TO EUROPE Mrs. Ethel Lyngholm, seventh grade teacher, will leave soon after school is out for New York where she will sail on the Queen Mary for a seven week's tour of England and Scotland. She will stop in Nebraska to pick up her father who will accompany her on the trip. o Mrs. Frances Mitchell left Fri day for a few days in Portland. Morse 25 Schneider 2 Stassen 32 Warren 199 REPRESEN. IN CONGRESS SECOND DISTRICT Sam Coon 257 Giles L. French 453 Ernest F. Hinkle 130 STATE TREASURER Jack Lynch 309 Fred Robinson 272 Sig Unander 204 , ATTORNEY GENERAL Alex G. Barry 132 Leonard I. Lindas 149 John B. MeCourt 215 E. O. Stadter 250 STATE REPRESENTATIVE 22nd DISTRICT Collis P. Moore 213 R. B. Rands 523 J. P. Steiwer 312 C. A. Tom 500 1 STATE REPRESENTATIVE tRmesi Volume 69, Number 10 physical education and health. Tllman Juett has resigned as elementary and junior high prin cipal. At lone Russell DeBondt, coach and science teacher, has been called back into the Marines. He Is a first lieutenant in the re serves and will report for duty in the Pacific after re-induction In Seattle in June and three months training course in El Toro, Calif. Eugene Gherke, coach and in structor at Mt. Vernon, Ore., the past year, will replace DeBondt at lone. He has had five years of education at the University of Oregon and also taught in Kla math county. At Hardman Mrs. Ila M. Albert has signed her contract to re turn for her second year of teach ing at the grade school there. Teachers who are leaving the Lexington school system this year are Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Balser, and Mrs. Winona Leonard. The Balsers are going to Woodland, Wash., where he will be ele mentary principal and she will teach in the grades. They have been at Lexington for the past two years. E. R. Forbes, superintendent and band Instructor at Boardman has resigned to become principal of the Wheeler county high school at Fossil. o WSB Representative Here To Aid Farmers In Wage Adjustments Charles Leatherman, represent ing the Wage Stabilization Board will be In the court house in Heppner on Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24 to assist farmers in preparing individual requests for wage adjustments for agricul tural labor, according to word from the county agent's office. More than 100 farmers attend ed the meeting held here May 6 and many also attended the meeting held In Pendleton on May 10 sponsored by the Oregon Wheat Growers league. The de cision reached at the two meet ings, were that there were too many factors concerned in hiring agricultural workers In the Col umbia basin to establish a celling for the area and It was decided that individuals should make their own request for adjustmetns with the WSB. Leatherman will be here from 9 to 6 on Friday and 8 to 12 noon on Saturday. o Carrie F. McMillan Buried at Lexington Funeral services were held on Monday, May 19 for Carrie E. Mc Mil lan at the Ross Hollywood chapel in Portland. Burial was In the Lexington I. O. O. F. cemetery. She is survived by one son, Sylvan and a sister, Mrs. Effie A. Parker, Tuscon, Arizona. Mrs. Mc Millan was preceded in death by her husband, George McMillan, a brother of J. F. McMillan, o BIBLE SCHOOL TO START JUNE 9 The Daily vacation Bible school sponsored by the Union Womens Missionary Society for Heppner will be held June 914. Grades one to three as of this year and pre school children will be held at the Methodist church and grades four to nine at the Church of Christ. Most Offices (Totals for the District) J. P. Steiwer 1241 C. A. Tom 1232 R. B. Rands 1087 Collis P. Moore 827 COUNTY COMMISSIONER Russell K. Miller ... 804 COUNTY CLERK C. W. Barlow 837 SHERIFF C. J. D. Bauman 845 CORONER Oliver Creswick 727 DEMOCRATIC BALLOT NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN.. Mike Declcco 141 Monroe Sweetland 237 NATNL COMMITTEEWOMAN Mrs. Lillian M. Burton 205 Margaret Cawood 133 DELEGATES NAT. CONVENTION SECOND DISTRICT Eva Nelson 175 i Horace A. Beal 97 I (Continued on page 8)
