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LIBRARY U OF 0 . EUGENE, ORE. ffanea apptier 71st Year, Number 19 Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 22, 1954 unday Another School Site Election Is Planned Here on August 14 In an effort to find some means 'a warning to the board that un of solving lleppner's school build-(less a definite plan of expansion ing problems that will meet the jymroval of the voters of the dis trict, the board of school district No. 1 Friday decided to call for another special site election to be held on .Saturday, August 14. The location which the board will ask approval is the Prock Devine area, and other adjacent land immediately north of the present school building. Part of the area is already owned by the school district, but according to present plans, if the area meets School 'officials revealed to day that due to legal techni calities which must be resolved, the r rmouncod site ejection will be held as soon as the beard can get ai opinion from the state board of education. The proposed location must also be epproved by the state befcre it can be used and this is expected to take some additional time. The board hopes to hold the election as planned on August 14, but the difficulties may de lay it some, it was announced. with voter approval, the district would purchase a strip off the south side of the Kemp Dick and W. O. George properties to square up the school site. Even though the district now owns part of this land it could not build upon it without specific approval of the voters. The hoard has again requested the aid of representatives of the state board of education, who must approve the site as meeting state standards, in establishing just how much land must be in cluded in the area, though the tentative plan calls for the pur chase of enough of the Dick and the George property to make the plat approximately rectangular. To give the site sufficient usable area it is also planned to cul vert Hinton creek in its present channel which runs the length of the site, and fill in and level the ground. The building would probably be a two-or three level structure to make best use of the natural sloping ground forma tion, the board indicated. No definite figures are yet available on the cost of the need ed additional land or the culvert ing of the creek and other work necessary to get the site ready for use. Also, should the site meet the approval of voters, com pletely new building plans will have to be prepared before the amount of a subsequent bond is sue can be determined. No Bond Revote The board decided to ask for another site election on the Prock Deivn area rather than request. another election for the approval of a bond issue which would al low them to build on the previ ously approved Tum-A-Lum site, feeling that many of the objec tions to the bond issue passage came from the dislike of the site. The board is faced with a seri ous problem of trying to find some building plan that will meet 'the approval of the voters of the district and also getting some thing started immediately to pacify the state board of educa tion who two weeks ago issued Logged Areas in Blue Mountains Closed to Entry Certain fores! areas in the Blue Mountains adjacent to Heppner have been closed to entry because Cnnstruction Starts of excessive inflammable debris' or,STrucr,on JOriS on the ground, it was announcedOn Safety Island ihis week by the Forest service i The area, which is desriibed inj State highway depaitnient detail in a legal publication else-1 workmen Tuesday started con where in this issue, is roughly 1 struction of a triangular shaped classified as the Tupper-Red Hill 'safety island in the center of the and the Dull Prairie-Flatiron sec- three-way intersection in front of lions of the Eastern Oregon Log-1 the court house. It will probably gin" Company area. Main roads) be completed within a few clays, through the lands may be usedj The safety island will l at any time, but other entry is j lighted and will hold road signs by permit only. Termits may be! that have been nearly inconspi obtained at the Heppner office of cuous because of their distance the UmatillaNational Forest or at the Tupper Cuart station. The lands closed are logged off areas where there is an excess of slash. The boundaries are now being posted. Car Crash Kill was presented by August 1, the state would be forced to withhold the districts basic school support funds, which are estimated at $50,500 for the coming year. Should the district loose the funds normally received from the stale, either a special local levy would be required, or many nor mal school operations would have to be eliminated. Under present plans the board must ask for site approval at a tnecial election, and then when plans and cost figures are com piled, ask for voter approval of a special bond issue to finance the purchase and construction. , The coining election will be the fourth that the board has called in an attempt to get a building program going here. Voters pre viously turned down the Cason site, then approved the Tum-A-Lum site only to reject a bond issue to build on that area two weeks ago. Wheat Growers to Vote Friday on Marketing Quotas Wheat growers of the nation will decide this Friday whether they want to use marketing quo tas for their 1955 crop. A re minder of the referendum comes from N. C. Anderson, Morrow county extension agent. Quotas have been set up be cause or the large available wheat supplies, but the decision of whether they will be put into effect rests with the nation's wheat growers who will vote at the referendum. At least two- thirds of the growers voting must approve the quotas before they can get into effect. Last year they were approved by nearly 90 percent of the growers. Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p. m. and the voting places are the lone Legion hall, the Heppner Legion hall, and the Lexington Grange hall. Funeral Services For Mrs. Orlena Ray Held in lone Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Or lena Ray, 78, were held Saturday, July 17 at the lone Community church with Rev. Wilfred McKay, pastor of the lone Nazarene church officiating. She died in Portland on July 15. Mrs. Ray Barnett sang with Mrs. Cleo Drake accompanying Pall bearers were Omar and Wal- ter Rietmann, Walter Robert Walter Dobyns, G. A. Pettys and Ray Barnett. Interment was in the lone cemetery. Mrs. Ray was born in lone and was the daughter of the late John and Missouri Jordan. She had lived in this community nearly all of her life until a few years ago when she moved to Portland. She was married to V. M. Ray on Dec. 30, 1901, and Mr. Ray died in 1927. She is survived by one son John Ray of Cascade Locks and a brother, Luke Jordan of Portland, and five grandchildren. Relatives attending the funeral were Luke Jordan and daughter, Mrs. Edith Doran of Portland: Mr. and Mrs .John Ray and family! oi iascaae locks ana Mr. ana Mrs. Harry Dinges of Heppner. from the intersection. It will also make possible much shorter and safer school crossing lanes at the interection. Cost of the project is being born by the highway department. Dance To v v: QUEEN GP.ACE MILLER and her for the tfodeo photographer. day night at the Kickoff Patsy Wright, Janet Howtcn, Kickoff Dance Set Here For . Saturday Night The annual Kickoff dance this Saturday night at the fair pavil ion in Heppner will open the ser ies of dances and activities lead ing up to the Morrow county fair and rodeo on September 2, 3, 4 and 5. The first dance, which will pre sent Queen Grace Miller of Board -man and her entire court, will be given under the sponsorship of the fair board, and will be fol lowed on succeeding Saturday nights with individual princess dances given by the various granges who are sponsoring a princess. The members of Queen Grace's court are Christine Swag gart, Lena community; Deanna Steagall, Lexington Grange; Patsy Wright, Rhea Creek Grange; and Janet Howton, lone Grange. Music for Saturday night's dance will be furnished by Duke Warner's orchestra ami Jack Van Winkle, dance chairman has an nounced that the admission price will be $1.50 per person. The princess dances which will follow on successive Saturday nights are Princess Deanna, July 31; Princess Janet, August 7; Princess Patsy, August 14; Prin cess Christine, August 21. The dance honoring Queen Grace will he held here August 27, and the regular rodeo dances are sche duled for the nights of Septem ber 3 and 4. High School Class Receives Award The bookkeeping class of Hepp ner high school has received a redseal certificate of superior achievement in the recent 17th annual International bookkeep ing contest sponsored by the Business Education World, it has been announced. Superior achievement certifi-, cates, suitable for framing and display in the classroom were awarded to students whose club ratings merited awards. Gold seal certificates for a rating of 275 and better; red seal certifi cates for a rating of 250-274 and blue seal certificates for a score of 215-249. A silver trophy was awarded to the winning school, Albuquerque, N. M. This is the first year that Hepp ner high school has entered the contest. ! i 5 j if : Ui Wi WsW W& - l - H Huddlwton disappeared from his KJVi i' Ifr&l, 'I ' , K-.f job 14 years ago and he has never B l&SJ? &,MM' "itV 4J I been seen since. Las. Friday a pJy s4mm ,,,ontifud as K,1,,ii- M- fc-i i-V Xs 'lA 5" . Knight, about 4G, walked into a F:&Vi --V-fFi , iriW Walla Walla store where the for- j W U&i tj v " f V VMJ mer Mrs. Huddleston was work- KS'i &if i .-tH." r i.SA t .vT tV . " j v .fc-ri.Vijt. . '& ..W4uJ ing and said, "I know where Hud- Arlington Open Fair and Rodeo Activities P.oyal court took time the othi r day to climb off their horses and pose The Queen and her princesses will appear for the first time Satur dance at the fair pnihon. Flwwu, Queen Grace, Deanna Steagal!, Christine Swaggart. (Lyons Photo) TAX RELIEF FOR SEEN IN FEDERAL A telegram received today from representative Sam Coon said that house and senate con ferees Wednesday approved le gislation eliminating the ad mission tax on non-profit com munity rodeos. Final clearance by the house is required be fore the bill goes to the presi dent. WASHINGTON Eastern Ore gon's cowboy congressman this week asked the government to take the tax off rodeos. Rep. Sam Coon, who was 22 years a cattleman before he went to Washington, urged an amend ment to the general tax revision bill that would repeal the fed eral admissions tax on non-profit community rodeos and historical pageants. In a letter to Dan Reed, chair man of the House Ways and Means committee, Sam Coon de clared, "With the present high costs of operation, I think it only fair to remove the burden placed on these non-profit community enterprises by federal taxation.'' Coon introduced a bill in Con gress last March to provide for rodeo tax relief. A similar mea sure was approved by the Sen ate July 2 as an amendment V the general revenue bill. The Ernsdorff to Leave For Lewiston Post John B. Krnsdorff, administra tor at Pioneer Memorial hospital, revealed today that he has re signed his position here to ac cept a similar one as head of St. Joseph's hospital at Lewiston, Idaho. He will leave here Octo ber 1. Ernsdorff came here about three years ago and has remained administrator of the local hospi tal except for about six months when he was in Spokane. He has been very active in both civic and church activities. The hospital board said that no replacement has yet been found. o GRANGE PICNIC SET Rhea Creek Grange members and friends will hold their annual picnic at the Claud White ranch' in the mountains on July 25 starting at 3 o clock. Coffee and ice cream will be fur nished and everyone is asked to bring his own plates and silver, from left to right, are Princesses LOCAL RODEO LEGISLATION revuiuo bill is now before a Senate-House conference committee, of which Rep. Reed is a member. Coon stated that nearly every one of the 18 counties in Eastern Oreg'.m has at least one commun ity rodeo, and some have several. "The world-famous Pendleton Round Up", he added, "is the best known of the shows in my district." "Value Days" Are Again Offered Here The second in a series of city wide sales events, Heppner Value Days, will be held this Friday and Saturday with nearly every store in Heppner participating in the chamber of commerce spon sored event. Three pages of special advertis ing in this issue of the Gazette Times advises residents of this area of the values! being offered during the weekend. The Value Days idea, designed to encourage trading with local merchants and show that mer chandise values offered here are equal to those offered in larger shopping centers, was developed by the merchants committee un der the direction Phil Blakney, chairman. One such event was held last February and another is planned later this year. Free Parking Again All parking meters in Heppner will be hooded on Friday and Saturday through the courtesy of the city council who have co operated in granting free nark ing priv ileges to all shoppers dur ing the two days. o Night Officer Leaves, New Policeman Due Cl'ief of '(dice George Iteid said tod iy that Thomas Walker, night marsh ill here for the past seve ral months, has resigned and plans to return to his former home near Seattle . Reid said that he has hired "Hutch" Huichins to replace Mr. Walker and that the new officer will bc;;in duty here the first of the week. Hutchins has been on the T'matilla police department for the past several years. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Reed and David returned last weekend from a few days In Eugene. M an 200 Acres Burned In Wednesday Grain And Pasture Fire A field and ratine fire, the first of the season in this area, burned over between 150 and 200 acres of wheat and range land on the Bill MeClintock ranch in Gooseberry Wednesday afternoon It was controlled before it spread to adjacent wheat fields. According to reports the fire apparently started along the Con don hichwav and spread rapidly i in thn strong wind. MeClintoek's were harvesting near the place! where the fire'staited and were! able to get on the blaze immedi- ately. One 62 acre wheat field j was burned, but this was already; nearly half harvested, MeClintock said. MeClintock extended his thanks: to the many neighbors who as-1 sisted his crew in fighting the fire and also to the lone fire de-!""5 "l "avemng ai an execs partment who answered the eall,s,ve rat0 of speed, left the road t0 a() before completely rounding the Missing Walla Walla Man Brother of Heppner Woman A story from Walla Walla that ran in Portland papers luesday concerning a Walla walla man who has been mysteriously miss ing for 11 years, caused consider able interest with at least one Heppner resident. She is Mrs. Frances Orwick, sister of the missing man. According to the story Kenneth dleston is buried and who killed him." According to the story which was also verified by Mrs. Orwick, McKnight refused to give any more information either to the missing man's former wife or to police, though he reportedly of fered to take the woman, alone, to the place where her former husband is supposed to be bur ied. McKnight has a long petty criminal record ranging nearly the width of the United States. Mrs. Orwick said Wednesday that the man has not yet given out any information or told how he obtained what Information ho did have. Bend Firm Wins Street Repair Bid The city council Monday night awarded the contract to seal and resurface between 25 and 30 blocks of city streets to the Coast Blacktop Paving Company, Bend, who submitted the low bid of $1,653.85. The company is owned by H. J. Curl, Jr. More than 19500 square yards of one, two and three lift surfac- ing will be placed on various streets to preserve ana improve them. No new paving will be done under the contract, only re surfacing of those already having an oil mat. The company Is expected to start work next week. FIRE CALL ANSWERED Heppner firemen were called to the Walter Barger residence on Linden Way Wednesday morn ing to control a grass fire that had started from a burning trash fire. There was no damage. r f WRECKED CAR in which Eill Wickland was killed when it struck a bridge abutment Just south of Heppner Sunday afternoon. The ether live persons in the car were taken to Pioneer Memorial hospital where four of them are still confined. This accident was the 18th to occur in tho same place in the past seven years. (GT Photo) njures Fatal Accident 18th to Occur At Same Location I lleppner's notorious "dead , man's corner" claimed another car carrying six persons left the road ami crashed into a bridge abutment. Killed outright was Bill Wickland, and the otiier five occupants all suffered iniuries ' varying from minor to critical All the men were residents of the Arlington area, The accident occurred about G o'clock Sunday evening at a turn about one-fourth mile south of Heppner on the Condon highway. I It is the same spot where 17 other accidents, three of them fatal, have occurred sincfc 1917. The car- wnlLn accorumg io reports turn anu me driver was unaoie to get it back onto the pavement before reaching the cement bridge. The right front corner of the machine struck the bridge shoving the wheel, fender and the body back into the right side of the front seat. Wickland was rid ing on the outside of this seat, according to police reports. Tihhp injured included: Leslie Con boy who suffered a dislocated hip, fractured left leg, fractured left hand, possible skull fracture and lacerations. Melvln Haes, fractured left leg and right arm. . , Pete Wheelhouse, fractured hip, possible skull fracture and frac tured elbow. Bill Jolliff, driver of the car, suffered chest injuries and a slight concussion. Bill Anderson who suffered only minor injuries and was released from the hospital. Four of the injured men were ranch workers in the Arlington area, and the other two, including Wickland, were power line con struction workers for the Bonne ville Power Administration, The car, a 1954 Mercury was a total wreck. Victim Born in Arlington William Arthur Wickland, 25, was born in Arlington May 24, 1929, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wickland. He attended school In Arlington and had played football against Heppner teams in past years. Before he went, Into the military service in World War II he had been a pro minent rodeo performer having ridden in the Pendleton Round Up and other rodeos In this area. Since his return to civilian life he had been a power line construc tion worker. He was unmarried and lived at home on his parent's ranch near Arlington. Funeral services were held at the Arlington Nazarene church Wednesday afternoon with Eev Browning officiating. He is survived by his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Tom (Phyllis) Sumner, Arlington, and Mrs. Har old (Pearl) Blank of North Pow- dcr, three nieces and one nephew. SWIM HOURS CHANGED Beginning Wednesday, July 28 the lone swimming pool will be open in the evenings between 8 and 10 p. m , it vas announced today. These hours will continue through harvest it was said. Next Mond.iy and Tuesday the pool will be closed for the pur pose of making minor repairs. Mr. and Ms. Jeif Curler had as over night guests Saturday Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Curl, Jr. of Bend.
