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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
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'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.
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Lex Graduation
lo Be May 21
t Exercises for
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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6 Jack Forsythe and Byron Mim-
8 naugh of Portland were visitors
9 In town Wednesday.
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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.