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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1953)
U OF o EUSENS. ORE. j-. $ Jj 11 IT Hpnnner. Orenon. Thursday. Mav 21. 1953 Single Copies 10 cents 70th Year, Number 10 Seriousness of Local School Is Outlined in Statement by Voters To Decide Problem Board Highway Worker Killed at Junction This Pint Made His First Gallon Ir - i i 'IT'S AN HONOR TO GIVE BLOOD", said Bill Olson, the first donor to check in during the Elks sponsored Bloodmobile visit here last week. Olson, who became a "galloner" with this pint, expressed the hope that the quota would be reached during the short visit. His wish was nearly granted, as Korean servicemen will receive 121 pints from local doners. He is shown here with the Red Cross nurse, watching the simple operation. (GT Photo) Date Set For Heppner Cemetery District Hearing The county court has set Mon day, June 8 at 10 a. m. as the date for a hearing on the forma tion of a Heppner cemetery dis trict after receiving petitions re questing such a district. The proposed district, which would be formed to take over or build necessary cemeteries within the boundaries of the district to provided proper care and upkeep, would include all land within the present borders of Heppner school district No. 1. The petitions which . were circulated by members of the Heppner Soroptimist club were filed with the court on May 7. Th law governing the formation of such districts requires that any remonstrance presented at the time of the hearing shall be in the form of a petition bearing the signatures of 25 percent of the residents within the affect ed area. If there is no objection the court has tentatively set July 10 as date for the election of di rectors. The directors will then establish the amount of the ne cessary tax levy which will be passed by the voters at a special election. The law limits the levy to not more than 3 mills. Boardman recently formed such a district and the court has set Monday, June 15 as the date for the election of directors to govern its operations. Eight to Graduate Friday at lone Eight lone high school students will receive their diplomas at the graduation exercises at 8 p. m. Friday, May 2',v at the hool. Wallace McRea, superintendent of schools at Pendleton will be the speaker. School officials Wednesday an nounced that Don Bristow had been chosen Valedictorian and Mike Reininger will be Saluta torian of the class. The graduating seniors are: Donald Bristow, Mike Reininger, James Morgan, Wilda Dalzell, Margaret Hubbard, Herbert Ek- strom, Edward Sanders and Ru dolph Bergstrom. o Lex Graduation lo Be May 21 t Exercises for wmt.iv.. v Dtvtlir3' I-jHH-, J li'li-""- , the Lexington graduating classes , Virginia Gonty, Victor Groshens, win ue nciu " ii. Kooena iiannon, jay nuu- auditorium Friday, May 22, at 8 sor)i poy Hughes, Alice Peterson, p. m. Mr. Edward Elliott, superin- Jay Surnner, Harry Harris, Gary tendena of schools at Umatilla joncSi janet Keithfey, Shirley Ko Oregon will deliver the com-j nonen .Arthur Mahan, Diane Mc mencement address. Franklin iNabb Marjivn Mona'gle, Edgar Miles will give the valedictory l0lson, Marilyn Pettyjohn, Louis nrllwcc nrwl TVinalri Hlfnt Of the t--.-.L. CI, mum Tncyp OUUllM " . . . - atl. viiii, v... eighth grade class, the welcome tSrnallwood, Elaine Stone, Ida Sue .Stratum, Christine Mwaggan, Meridith Thomson, Janet Wright, Carol. Hoffman, Norman Keenan, Richard Ziglor and Larry Osborne. Bradford M. Long, 30, a cat driver fur. the Goodfellow Bros. Construction company, contract Heavy Enrollment Figures Show Need for Classrooms Grade School Site At Tuesday Election ywii.-i v'i - ii - 4 . . i 7. . i r ! trict No. 1 will go to the polls' ner at noon Wednesday trom in- me serious need ior auuiiionai iaciiiui-s. next Tuesday, May 26 to pass' juries received when his tractor The statement stresses the urgency ot reaching a (tension on me Following a meeting Monday esening at which time the Hepp ner school board met with Howard C. Heed, new superintendent, and ors for the New Heppner Junction Stewart Tuft, of Freeman, Hayslip and Tuft, Portland architects, to highway approach, died in no- lay plans ior me eqming senooi year, mc ooaru issucu a siainm-m neer Memorial hospital at Hepp- explaining in detail the problems to be faced next fall and told of unon the recommendation of the rolled down an embankment, ae- location for a new building, the first step m getting an improvement school board that the planned Uwding to reports. (plan started, and points out that it will take nearly a lull year to According to available uuor-; prepare plans, obtain bonding approv al, can ior imis aim consumi mation, Long's home address was a building. Residents of school district No. 1 are asked to express Kennewick, Washington, but he their approval of a site at a special election next Tuesday. Tuft was had been living at Boardman present to give th" board more information on building costs and wnne worKing on me nrppiici space reiiuiirnn-nis iu-mi.iuu Junction protect. His parents the state board ot education, lie are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Long, expressed the opinion that the Folsom, Calif. ICason site selected by the board s,.UX)t overcrowded and substan He was brought to Heppner by. was adequate to meet state stand- ,i.u(1 the Condon ambulance, but died aids. Even O DC r a tors Can Make Mistakes Heppner firemen Sunday even ing reported to the fire hall in answer to the siren only to find it was another "drv run." It was an obvious mistake, but couldn't be charged against any local resident. The person on the other end of the fire phone was a telephone operator who was more surpi iseo than the firemen when she got the answer"fire department' to her call. She was trying to reach a local physician. Telephone officials have not yet been able to trace down the reason for the wrong numner. o Eighth Grade to Graduate 41- new elementary school be built on the tract of land known as the Cason property. The polling place will be the Heppner city hall and it will "be open from 2 p. m. to 8 p. m. The site election is called to clear away legal difficulties re grading the purchase of the pro perty, and at a later election the voters will be asked to approve a special bond issue 10 provide funds for the construction of a building upon the site, if it is ap nroved. No authority to bond is being asked at this time. If the Cason site is approved the school board will order the architects to prepare plans and cost figures for a building, so that the amount of necessary bonds can be ascertained. A complete description of the DroDertv appears elsewhere in this issue of the Gazette Times in a legal announcing the election. o lone Fire District Faces Re-Formation Proponents of the lone Rural Fire Protection district which was formed last year, face the task of starting all over again it they want to get the district in oper ation. In an opinion recently given the county court by district at torney Bradley D. Fancher, the district was illegally formed be- shortly after reaching here will be taken up by the high school and still leave me graue Twelve From Area Leave For Army Gilliam tri county Local Board No. 31 has announced the names of twelve registrants' including five volun teers, who will depart from ton bv Plans Outlined The statement releasei board follows: "Enrollment numbers Hennner schools for tin school year are such that the par ents should stop and give serious thought as 'o where the students iit t,, !, hniKil :md if anil ulli'll Morrow and Wheeler u,y are im)Vidod with a physi cal plant, will this housing be adequate to make it possible for the teachers to give your child the training he or she deserves tlon at 2:30 p. m. Thursday May. 21, for the Armed Forces Indue-1 Chester L. Ward Named lone School Superintendent tone school officials announced Wednesday that Chester L. Ward of Prairie City had accepted me position as superintendent of the lone schools. He win replace Henry Osibov who resigned to take up his similar duties at Col ton, Oregon. He will take up his duties in lone August 1. Ward is a graduate of Oregon College of Education, studying later at the University of Califor nia and Oregon State. He re ceived his Masters degree from California in 1935. up pomes well experienced in -eheol a fnim-tranon naving rectors mav contract With anv been superintendent of schools at town or city to pr0vi(le fire equip and is his birthright 1 , ,ll.-.wrf ,,f .. . .... I 1 It HUUIM UIIVIUIH III Wl ion station at I'ortuin. . Aner a- tors wilI ,)P as folIows: final screening at Portland, the b h (.Q S(1W)n(, 30; thin, group will continue to Port Lewisj ,() f.fth 4(). six(h Washington, for army assign-;10; (,ilhIlli :i0, Tlu. ment. i.. ,.n f- oi ii. i 'Mau- MdllUilULl V.HII i'i I i'u'ii.- Included in the May quota are , h? , ,(.s the following B'lly Joe R.et-I' make eu'ry effort to mann lone; ; Harlan Paul fraw- hose stan(,.irUs or we a(,0 ford. lone; Eugene An hony Do-! ibilitv (lt losini, our state hertv. lone; V ill.am i Clyde Hub- whi(,il amo(mts ,0 $,, 0()0 bard. lone; William Russell Keys,, . . mils ... h,vv). 'ossil; Charles Thomas White, ' ,'' ,,!..,;, v,.,0 i,,i,,. Since the district has no bonded btedness the slate could take the attitude that little effort has Spray: Clyde Rolland Jlarrison,' lhls tiim Tne sla, l LT i ii'ii i ) Wnrnvin f:nf W . Cm ; Armond F.arl Brit Spray; in(lob1(H,noss the slat(1 could talu William Harvev Booher. (V),(on-. rf.,t u. don; Franklin Glen Adams, (V), aisirici was liieiny lOMiit-u "f-jiams tv-, fossn; (.arson nenry . .. , t)) j , cause the incorporated town ofiVehrs, Jr. tV), Condon; and one , . proj,pms lone was included within the 'transfer from Missouri, Loyd ' ' ' '' boundaries of the district, and the Merle Hudson, Kinzua. 'ttoom fian uiven r .,.i,iii- imro nlliiit',1,1 in i ,. . i . i ; , i , . r; ,nir.iii. on,i "The it:kIii jiml room nssii'll vote in the election for directors, two transfers will accompany the ment for next year would be set 'though, would probably still be anient with out The district was formed by order the group to Portlnd for physicals. nn,,n4r nniiH nftnr Tmti.i r .. I ..I,. jn . . n ; . , , .. Kc.,n in Ulc luiuiivv .uiiii iiiiu i'i if iMinsu-lllllisi in Viuniun Ulilil- tions asking for its formation dies of the armed forces during were presented. According to the district attor neys interpretation of the law governing such districts, the di- , i i,.! ...ntlwaldnort. Coauille and at Prairie graduate 41 eighth grade pupils City. He a so spent several years i no an nci; srtnnt PveeilllVP at a this vear at commencement exer cises to be held at the high school gymnasium at 7:30 p. m. May 27. Following the graduation cere mony a dance will be held in honor of the students. On Mon day, May 25 the eighth grade banquet will be held at the Chris tian church. Friends ot me stu dents are invited to attend. Jay Sumner has been named class Valedictorian and Shirley Kononen, Salutatarian. Members of the class are Rich ard Applegate, Laurel Allstott, Dee Bailey, Beverley Baker, Judy Bargcr, Brenda Bengtson, Phyllis Biddle, dean Connor, Jerry Dough prtv. Viola Duran, Delores Easter, Beverley Elde, Francine Francis, to nn rents and guests. Mr. El- wynne Peck, school board chair man will award the diplomas, and Rev. Wetzel will give the in vocation. Graduating seniors are as fol lows: Max Breeding, Shirley Mc Carl, Monte McDonald, Denward McMillan, and Franklin Miles. Eighth graders who will re ceive elementary certificates are as follows: Edward Botts, t'aui Breeding, ' Maureen Groves, Don ald Hunt, George Hermann, Patsy McDonald, Gerald Messenger, Vern Nolan, and Anna Marie Winters. Formal classroom activities will close this Friday at the Lexington school. Class picnics will be held on Monday and re port cards issued on Wednesday, May 27. o Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Turner and Mrs. Floyd Adams spent the week end in Portland. Lanham Initiated Into OSC Honorary OREGON STATE COLLEGE. Corvallis Michael C. Lanham of Heppner is one of the 38 recently initiated into Thanes, sophomore men's service honorary at Oregon State college. Traditional duties of the or ganization include enforcing freshman rulings, supervising election systems and registering campus visitors at several all- school weekends. Membership is based on scholarship, leadership. cooperation and service n an assistant executive at a Portland Military academy. The school board recently inter viewed six candidates for teach ing positions at lone and said that two contracts had been of fered. They had not yet been re turned by the applicants. They announced the employment of Grand Riebv. Palouse, Washing ton as the new shop instructor for next vear. He will arrive in lone early in June to set up the shon nrocram and aid in pur chasing equipment for the new shop. o Hope It Was A Good Sandwich Last Friday night, the Keppner high school track team members who were at Corvallis taking part in the state B track meet decided to make a trip to Salem to watch the Marciano-Walcott fight on television. The idea was gcod but their timing was off. Arriving in Salem during the preliminaries, they de cided to run out for a sand wich expecting to get back to the TV set at about the start of the second round. They got back as planned, but the fight ended with a knockout after 2 minutes and 25 seconds of the first round. They had made the trip to Sclem for nothing but a sandwich. ment and protection for residents in the rural area, but the resi dents of an incorporated muni cipality may not vote in the elec tion, nor can it be included within the district for tax purposes. The court issued an order early this month holding up the funds of the district now in the county- treasurer's hands until new pe titions can be circulated and an order issued by the court to give it a legal base. A tax of 1.5 mills was levied last vear. but due to the lack of time, the court indi cated it would be impossible to hold a hearing and reform the district in time to get a levy on the tax rolls for the coming year o the past month include Robert Keith Connor (Army), Heppner; Robert Lyle Riddle, (Army), Lex ington; Paul George Jtinehart (Air f(ce) Condon: Georce Wes ley Russell (Air Force), Irrigon; Donald Keenan (Navy), Heppner; and Paul Victor Barnett (Army), lone. Only volunteer inductees will be forwarded from local board No. 31 during the month of June, states Mrs. Florence L. Morgan, clerk. up somewhat in this manner, Room 121 first graders Room 221 first Room 312 first, 0 second Room 42-1 second Room 521 third Room (i 21 third Room 7 28 fourth Room 812 fourth, 12 fifth Room 928 fifth. "The Gth, 7ih and 8th grades would be departmentalized in order to give a more adequate program, providing music, art, I'. E. etc. Also these youngsters are reachinir the stage in their physical development where the demand for physical activity I must be met by providing the op portunity to move at given per Kid Anglers Warned About Toolnapping Kids who have been fishing in the three mile restricted child- ron's fishing area above Hennner arp asked bv a resident of that for a division of this group the strip to be a little more careful! same as the present freshman class, which means mai next year's freshman and sophomore classes will require six more class periods added to the sche dule. This will require three more class rooms. However, in combining physical education, some room space as at the present time. "These enrollment figures call 'for 13 rooms in the elementary the'department, and in the present J plant there are only 10 rooms in the i available. This being bad enough m-,i r, i in Hip elomentarv L'radcs. there still is the high school problem to face, and to make it more force ful, there must be three rooms made available due to large classes. Site Choice Told 'The board of education, recoc- nizinc these factors of the needs of the children of Heppner, and with considerable study and con sultation with architects and state consultants, picked the Ca son property which, in the opin ion of Mr. Tult, of the architec tural firm of Freeman, Hayslip and Tuft, 'is adequate for a 10 room elementary school with a multipurpose room. There is also enough area around the proposed building to meet state standards required for outdoor activities.' Secondly, 'The expense of devel oping the site for building con struction and outdoor activities would be a minimum.' " Time Needed "The architects can do no work on plans for the proposed school until the site is settled upon, after which it takes 8 to 10 weeks before j lans can be completed for the contractors to have any thing upon which to establish their bids. Before contractors place a bid it takes another three to four weeks to gather data for them, so at the least, it would take three months before a bid would be submitted to the hoard. !The time element must, be con sidered as it takes 8 to 9 months to construct such a building, weather permitting. The longer the delay in getting construction started, the longer your child will have to be housed in temporary units for the primary department as well as curtailing the program for the upper elementary grades and the high school. "The board of education has all these factors in mind as well as the very definite thought of the about licking up stray tools that might be lying around, lie re ported that some fence repairing tools had turned up missing dur ing the past few days. The resident didn't want to make any threats toward the POPPY DAYS HERE American Legion and Auxiliary members will again sell the well- known poppies in county towns lllla i'llUciy anu OMIUUIUJ, 4H llltlli: unj n. ...I.., jv r-. i proceeds will.go to disabled Ore- young lishermen, but jusr wameu. music ami ak gon veterans. to remind them that they are 'can be saved. In planning for nr, nriunin nrniiprtv whilp there. ' three temporary units for grade Mr. and Mrs. Miles are in Salem'and consequently any equipment, students in the primary depart where she is a patient at the in the fields probably belongs to ment, those three rooms made Salem Memorial Hospital. the owner of the land. .available in the present building i,.,!.. -ride mil f,,r four n vn i i.i hie cost to every parent in dollars and 'rooms for the upper grades. cents which is very easily set "In the high school classes, be- wn in black and white, nut u cause of the large incoming must be remembered there is no freshman class, there will be need way in wnicn uouar anu cems value can ne piacea on an ade quate education for your child. Present Property Not Adequate "In the opinion of the present local school board and the archi tects, the Cason site will allow the construction of additional school facilities that will meet the approval of the State Depart ment of Education at the least cost to the taxpayers. The state department also has advised the local board that the present district-owned site and grounds (Continued on page 8) Week's Rainfall Nearly One Inch Farlv week storms that drop . rt,l nnni-i dnr-i Kin rain mrnr mnut rjy i t i i i v. . , i wi l.liut 1 ai'lL mill Lanham. freshman in pusiness nf lhe state af ded another .79 , .u ...... . . . and technology, is the son iConley Lanham of Heppner. inch to the Morrow county total, 'according to Len Gilliam, Hepp j ner weather reporter. .64 inch fell on Monday and another .15 inch ion Tuesday to bring the May j total to 1.23 inches.. The total since January 1 is now 7.47 COUNTY VOTERS APPROVE RURAL SCHOOL BUDGET BY WIDE MARGIN Voters in seven county school I was cast. The total county vote inches, districts approved by a wide ma- was 183 yes, 33 no. Two discticts The rainfall was general over lo t" the rural school budget have not yet voted. nearly the entire county and in which requested approval to ex- Final tabulation of the ballots most sections was heavy enough ceed the 6 percent limitation law showed: by $316,386.90. I In only one district, Heppner Heppner No. 1, was the balloting even Irrigon close and there approval was Lexington . given by a vote of 33 yes to 25 Boardman no. In two districts there were Devine no opposing votes, and in three lone others, only one negative ballot Sand Hollow Yes No 33 25 . 64 1 . 31 0 34 5 5 1 7 1 - .. 9 0 to stop most farm cultivation Total Wheat and range land, though, 58 benefited from the downpour, 65 most of it now being reported in 31 excellent condition. 39 6 Jack Forsythe and Byron Mim- 8 naugh of Portland were visitors 9 In town Wednesday. ' 'v. .' -w- -rm- " - ARCHITECT'S SKETCH of how the proposed new Heppner elemen tary school will be situated on the Cason site property if the location is approved by voters at next Tuesday's special election, and a bond issue is voted at a later election. The above draw ing was not intended to show the building as it will ultimately appear, but only to show it in relation to the property and ad jacent buildings. The actual building could very possibly be of an entirely different style and shape. The street at the right is Morgan street, and an access street would be constructed to join Water street off to the left-center of the drawing. The house shown on the property is the Cason residence. Total area in the site is approximately 32 acres, with about 6 acres or slightly less on the level. The remainder lies on the hillside behind the building, a part of which Is also usable for playground area.
