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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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Oregon, Thursday, May
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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