LIBRAS? U OF 0 hi EUGENE. ORE. rc K A Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 19, 1954 71st Year, Number 23 SCHOOL SITE VOTED Elks Donate Funds For Lighting Of Rodeo Field Fair And Rodeo Grounds Readied; Dress-Up Parade Set Considerable progress was made this week on plans to in stall lights on the Heppner rodeo field, chamber of commerce com mittee members report. One of the biggest hurdles, that of raising the necessary money, appeared at least parti ally jumped, when trustees of the Heppner Elks lodge offered to donate half the necessary money for the installation. It Is expected that the total Cbst will run in the neighborhood of $11, 000 which will make the Elks donation about $5,500, C. W. Rosewall committee chairman announced. The rest of the money may be raised through season ticket sales, issuance of interpst-free bonds or other plans. The committee also expressed the hope that possibly some of the labor of preparing, and erect ing the poles and installing the lights may be donated which will serve to reduce the total cost. The committee has received several sets of plans for the field lighting and as soon as final ar rangements can be worked out they hope to order the necessary equipment. It is doubtful that the lights" can be ready for the first two Heppner high school home football games, Sept. 17, and 24, but is hoped that they can be ready for use in time for one or two games later. The present plan calls for suf ficient lighting for night football and softball though not enough fnr tcpu lar baseball which re quires considerably more light. There will be plenty, however, for other events, such as horse , shows, races, etc. Heppner's rodeo field is the. roping event, which was held for scene of considerable activity as the first time last year. workers are setting ready lor tlie.&aaaie lop rn uirr nnntv vhnw Sent. 4 and D The fair pavilion and grounds have been getting their fall "face lifting" to serve their part in the show which runs from Sept. 2 to 4. The rodeo committee announ ced this week that the rodeo grounds are now being prepared for the two-day show which Will find some of the country's top cowboys, and plenty of local tal ent too, performing for the crowds. Christensen Brothers of Fuppne will furnish the rodeo stock and Mel Lambert, also of Fuwne. will announce the Sat nrdav and Sunday shows. Chris tnnspn Brothers are noted lor thpir string of rodeo stock having furnished animals for the Oregon State Fair lor many vpars. as well as for the Pen dleton Round-Up, the Puyallup, Wash, fair, the Lewiston, iaano show, the Ellensburg, Wash, rodeo, in addition to many of the big California rodeos. The rodeo events this year will include all those so popular in past years with the exception of the wild cow milking. This event has been dropped but a rfbbon roping event has been scheduled in its place, Harold Erwin, arena director has announced. Top in terest as far as local performers are concerned, will again be the Morrow countv amateur calf rop ing which is open only to ama teur ropers who live within the pnllnt V. There will also be a jun ior Morrow -county amateuralf ... . VV A. -1W J, I , - t - ' . ' ,.- , . rj ' ft i i ..-... .. , - ;jr t 1 ' h id"-'"-- ),-"' ft I v ;'1 t-.-.'" - ' .'.r -J .-.' The winner of the county ama teur calf roping will receive a handsome saddle donated by tne Heppner Lumber Company and made by Joe Snyder, former Heppner saddlemaker. Second award in the event is an en graved sterling silver belt buckle given bv the Tum-A-Lum Lum ber company, and a western hat presented by Wilson s Men s Wear will co to the third place winner. Jack's Chevron fetation is giving a silver buckle to the winner of the junior roping, with the J. C. Penney company offer ing a set of roping spurs to the second place winner. With the spurs will go a set of straps made and donated by Ken Green, Heppner saddlemaker. Again this year the top ail- around rowbov will receive a sterling silver and gold bolt buckle given by the Heppner hotel. A tronhv for the winner of the flag race has been offered by Farley Motor company. Fair buttons have been on saie for nearly two weeks, and the rodeo committee announced tnai resprvpd seat tickets for the rodeo will be placed on sale within a few days. General admission and grandstand rodeo tickets will be available at the gates during rnden nerformances. The Wranglers, sponsors of the popular cowboy breakfast, ser ved Sunday morning at the fair grounds, are now making plans for that event with Dimples Mun kers general chairman for the breakfast which' last year drew nearly 50o hungry customers. Dress-Up Parade Set The first big event of rodeo week will be the annual Dress Up parade which will be held on Friday night, Aug. 27 in down town Hennner. This event will be under the direction of the Heppner Lions club and will in-; elude the coronation of Queen Grace Miller and the presenta-j tion of her royal court. Following the parade and coronation there will bL several special dance ; numbers presented by students of Etta Shepard, dancing instructor and several special costume numbers presented by the Hepp ner Square Dance club, ine Queen's dance at the fair pavil ion will conclude tne evening. 'CLi '"'..... . .:.' XI Princess Christine Swaggart Redding Man Joins Mill as Controller Keesling W. Thayer this week joined the organization of the Heppner Lumber Company as controller, C. W. Kraft, president revealed this week. Mr. Thayer, who will have charcre of the accounting activi ties of both the Heppner and the Elgin mills, comes with a nie time of experience in accounting and in thp lumber industry, ne comes here from Redding, Calif, where he was engaged in public accounting work and prior to that was auditor for the Ross Lumber Company at Medford. He is now residing at the Fly ing A Motel and he and Mrs. Thayer will make their home in Heppner. Final Princess Dance Set for Saturday Night The final Princess dance lead ing up to the main events of the Morrow county fair and rodeo, and honoring in turn the four princesses in the royal court will be held Saturday night at the Heppner fair pavilion for Chris iinp Swacsart who is being spon sored by the Lena Community. Princess Christine, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Swaggart of Butter creek, is a five foot. one-quarter inch blue eyed blonde and is a junior at Heppner high school. She is an avid horsewoman and has been riding almost since she could walk. She started riding in races . tho n7P of 10 vears and indi- that her first love is a V. 1 Princess Christine will ride her own registered thorobred mare Polly Swag, which was given to her by her grandfather following the death of her former horse, Skeeter Bill. She has broke seve ral hnrp5 including her own Thunderstorm Brings Heavy Rain, Lightning The thunderstorm which hit Heppner and this section of Mor row county early Sunday morn ing brought an assortment of rain, hail and lightning which did only a small amount of dam age to crops but put a temporary stop to most harvesting opera tions. The storm hit early in the morning and dropped .48 inch of rain at Heppner. Ligmning $290,000 BOND VOIE SET FOR SEPTEMBER 10 In one of the most decisive votes in many years the voters of the Heppner scnooi ciismct tai urday said "yes" in a loud voice when they approved the Proek Devin site as the location for a new grade school building. The vote was 320 yes, to 2G no. The overwhelming majority for the location immediately north of the present school pro perty caused the board to take immediate action in calling for another election to place before the voters the question of a $290, 000 bond issue with which to fi nance construction of the badly needed building. The bond elec tion has been set for Friday, Sep tember 10, the earliest possible date when it will conform to necessary legal requirements. The board members expressed gratification at the Saturday vote.for while it drew about 100 less voters than did a recent bond election to build on the Tum-A-Lum site, the heavy majority in favor of the proposal gave xnc- board strong indication that the general public favored its pro posed plan. In calling for the $200,000 bond issue with which to construct n new building, the board indicat ed that it hoped to be able to build an 10 or 12 classroom and multipurpose room building for that amount. Flans will be drawn for the 12 room building with an alternate included in the call for bids which would reduce the rooms to 10 should the cost run more than the money available. The board must also purchase a small amount of additional ground, culvert Htnton creek where it flows through the pro perty, do considerable leveling and filling and make arrange ments for traffic control on D street which runs between the present school and the Prock-Do-vin land. It is not presently planned to close or replace the street, but control traffic by the means of lichts or special signs. At at least an additional $25, 000 or $30,000 would be needed if the street were to be moved. Saturday's favorable vote was the first of two steps needed to assure the district the ultimate release of $50,000 in state basic school support funds which were withheld August 1 by the state because the district had not pro vided proper housing facilities for its students. According to infor mation from the state board, ap proval of the requested bond Is sue will bring an immediate re lease of the money to the district. Saturday's vote was the fourth held in the district in an attempt to get a building program under way. One previous site was re jected, and another approved, but a bond Issue for the latter was badly defeated early last month at a special election. Architects are now preparing pirns for a building for the Prock Devin site so that if the bond is sue receives voter approval, bids can be called on construction with the least possible delay. At least three and possibly more classes will be forced to meet in churches or other temporary quarters at the start of school early next month and the board desires to get actual construction started as early as possible if funds are made available, though the building could not be com pleted in time to serve during much, if any, of the coming ichool year, it was said. - , , 1 . - , : NEW FIBE EQUIPMENT This unique invention of Ja'cU Loyd, local Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company manager, might well save many acres of grass or grain In tuture lires. Loyd, who noticed that i ahnrtnna f uip atk at anv field or grass mere was uiwujs u du. . - tire, built this rack and on it hung a 50 gallon drum filled with water and wet sacks. When the need arises, he merely backs the pickup, which has a lift bed, under the rack, hoists the bed a few inches which raises the barrel off the hook and heads tor the Ue. The rack and drum hangs tn the lumber company yard on Mam . i : ito Spweral local residents have sug- sireer reuuy ii uumtu.- gested that the fire department designate the equipment as Truck no. 3." iz:- - Boulden Named New Polio Head Rev. Lester Boulden, pastor of the Heppner Methodist church was named Tuesday night as president of the Morrow county chapter of the National rounua tion for Infantile Paralysis, at a meeting of chapter officers and members. Assisting Rev. Boulden will be Floyd Sayers, vice president; Mrs. James Ware, secretary, .and Robert Ferrell, treasurer. The same board of directors will serve another year, it was announced. TV. are the postmistresses in Lexington, lone, Boaruman ana TrHiTim: Mrs. Jack Loyd ana a representative of the IWA CIO in Heppner. He has not yet neen designated by the union. The group made plans for an intensive drive to raise funds during the special two-week i.-mcriipiicv March of Dimes fhivp now beinL' held in the county and the nation, and sties prf Hip need of obtaining addi tional funds with which to fight the dreaded disease. It was pointed out that county funds nm at a vorv low point, due both to the outlay for patient care within the county during tne past vnar and the loaning of a con siderablp amount of local money m Hin National Foundation, i lie hpaw incedence of polio in the nation this year has depleted the Foundation's funds' and necessi tated the emergency drive. Special envelopes requesting donations are to be placed in the mail within the next few days, it w,i Kaid. A special benefit baseball game is planned for Sunday at the rodeo field, to raise money, it was announced this week. Heppner Man Injured By Accidental Shot rtiftnn Swan. Heppner, was nainfullv but not critically in I V jured late Sunday wnen ne vas accident lv shot in the chest with a 22 caliber rifle while showing the gun to his wife at their home. Swan was bent over at the time of the shot, and the bullet entered his chest lust below the heart pnntinuini? downward through the abdomen and lodging in his hin. Attcndinc phvsicians report that he is making satisfactory nrocress at Pioneer Memorial hrmnital wherp he was immedi ately taken for treatment. Swan is employed by Morrow county. rai norses, intiuums -- - , and several Shetland for others. I strikes in two or more sections of Thmitrh thev are her first love, horses are not her entire life, for as any girl who lives on a farm, she helps, une or ncr jobs is to spot trucks during har vest. She is also active in 4-H work, having had two years of cooking and sewing. For activi ties, her other favorites are danc ing and swimming, nuke Warner and his orchestra will provide the music for Satur- iirai : """'-. hinh wm Ktart at rodeo, saying "I would ratner go ud, u tea rodeo than any place else". 1 10 o'clock. town resulted in several burned out telephones and local disrup tions of power in several places. Some hail accompanied me storm and there were reports from both Eightmile and the But ter Creek sections of some dam age to unharvested wheat. The extent of the losses is not yet known. The storm brought to .63 inch the total rain to fall here over the weekend, all of It coming from similar storms. Food Demonstration Contest for 4-Hers Set For Local Fair All 411 cookery club members will have an opportunity to take part in the baked food demon stration contest at the 'county fair. Mrs. Maud C. Casswell, county agent, home economics, states that there will be divisions for both individuals and teams. Besides bread baking, this con test could include all other kinds of baked food, even macaroni and cheese. Girls are judged on their demonstration rather than on the baked food itself. Oregon is on of the six states that have been picked for the baked food demonstration. Mor-p-irls that are work ing on cookery demonstrations are looking forward to entering this demonstration contest. Special Dimes Drive Benefit Baseball Game Set Sunday A benefit baseball game be tween the Ione-Heppner Junior legion team and the "Mule skinners," an aggregation ol local ex-big and little league diamond stars, will be held on Sunday at 2 p. m. at the Hepp ner Rodeo field, team manager Floyd Sayers announced today. The game will be played to raise funds for the Emergency March of Dimes drive now be ing held throughout the nation to raise money for polio aid. No admission will be charged, but donations will be taken during the game. The two teams have played one previous game, but no score was made known, pro bably to save one squad or the other embarassment It promi ses to provide plenty of enter tainment. Both teams are sponsored by the Heppner Legion Post o Saturday Rodeo Parade Plans Set; Divisions Listed Phil Rlaknev. chairman of the chamber of commerce rodeo pa rade committee revealed today that plans. for the annual Satur day parade are progressing rap idly and said that divisions will be handled similar to last year's parade. Plans call for three sections, one for organizations, one for in-, dividual and group entries and another for juvenile entries. Under the organization section, first, second and third prizes will be awarded for juvenile, adult, and business entries with this section judged 25 percent on dea, 25 on participation and 50 percent on decoration. The second section will include awards for the best mounted cowboy and cowgirl, oldest cow- bov and cowgirl, youngest cow boy and cowgirl, best organized and conducted riding club, best comic and the best family group. This section will be judged 25 percent on originality, 25 on ap pearance and 5o percent on per formance. In the juvenile division first, second and third prizes will be awarded for the best child's float, best pet best juvenile cowboy and juvenile cowgirl. Judging in this section will give 50 percent lor originality, 25 for performance and 25 percent for decoration. A list of the prize amounts and further information will be re leased next week.Blakney said today. County Taxes to Show Reduction Of $110,000 Approximately $110,000 less local taxes will be collected next year in Morrow county, it was revealed this week by Mrs. Joe Hughes, county assessor who has ust completed preparation of tne annual statement of taxes. Total valuation in the county showed a drop from last year, as was previously announced, but to offset this, so did the tax mill- age. General taxes to be levied amount to 18.5 mills as against '''5X11 mills for this vear. Most of this reduction comes from the elimination of the special 5 mill hospital construction levy which was for one year only. The rural school levy snowed a reduction too, dropping from 33.5 mills this year to an average of 30.8 mills in most districts. Spe cial levies in some of the county districts will add to mat in spe cial cases, the statement showed. In most other instances the tax levy remained approximately the me as last vear. One excep tion was the .088 mill per acre levy for forest fire patrol wnicn showed an increase from .005 from last year. The assessor pointed out that this was due to the necessity of bringing this as sessment up to a current basis. This year the assessment is for one and one-half years, rather than for a single year which ac counts for the increase. The as sessment for fire patrol has al ways lagged one year behind until last year when a similar assessment plan was used. Greatest drop in valuation came in the personal property classilicailon wnicn snows a total of $2,178,160 compared with $3,021,310 last year. Part of tnis loss was made up witn a gain in real property of $375,000. The report also shows a few less cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses in the county, but regis ters an increase 140 chickens in the county and 50 additional stands of bees. Cattle dropped from 22,557 to 2l,383 and sheep and gKifs from 2(1,778 to 26,145. -o- Commercial Club Formed at Boardman New Physician Tokes Up Practice Here Dr. C. M. Wagner this week an nounced the association with him in the Heppner Clinic of Dr. Stanley J. Kirk of Los Angeles. Dr. Kirk and his wife and two year old son arrived last week and are living In one or tne cn nic apartments. Dr. Kirk, who has been prac ticing in Los Angeles, is a gradu ate of the College of Medical Evangelists there. Mrs. Kirk is also a rjhvsician. but does not plan to practice here at least for the present. BOARDMAN The business men of the city and community met Monday evening In the Grange hall for the purpose of oreanizintr a Commercial t luo The following officers were elec ted to serve the coming year. President, Mr. George V.'eise; Vice-president, Bud Phaneuf; Secretary, Ray Anderson; Treas urer, Dewey West Jr. Meeting night is to be the third Monday of each month, at 8 p. m. at the Greenfield Grange hall. Registration Set For Grade School The Heppner grade school will begin classes September 7 at 8:45 a. m. with registration of pupils to take place at that time, Clar ence Johnson, principal announ ced this week. All first grade pupils are asked to report to room B-2 In the main building for registration pur poses and parents of first grade children are asked to bring or send with the pupil a birth cer tificate so the age of the child may be accurately extended on the school records. Parents of first grade pupils are also reminded tnat tneir children should have a physical examination and the results en tered on the Oregon Pupil Medi cal record. These medical re cords have been distributed to all present and prospective first graders previously. The exami nation should be accomplished and the record should be on file at the county health office prior to the beginning of school. Par ents of first grade children who have moved into the community recently may obtain the record forms from the school office, the county superintendent of school's office, the county health otrice or the Gazette Times, Johnson said. All other grade school pupils new to the school system should report to the office of the grade school principal for registration. Other pupils may go directly to their rooms. -o- Mrs. Leonard Attends T. B. and Health Meet Mrs. Mervin Leonard of Lex ington has returned from Ash land where she attended the State Tuberculosis and Health Ass'n institute as Morrow county representative. The Institute was held on the campus of Southern Oregon Col lege of Education. o Mr. and Mrs. John Williams and Mike spent the weekend visiting In Baker. Kindergarten Opens On September 8 The Javcec Ette kindergarten committee announced this week that the kindergarten will open Sept. 8 at the civic center build ing with Mrs. Grace Drake as Instructor. The erouo has also called a meeting of the kindergarten hoard and mothers of children who may be enrolled for Friday, Aug. 20 at 8 p. m. at the civic center. FOOTBALL COACH HERE Mr. and Mrs. James Mallon this week moved into the Gomillion " house on Chase street. Mallon comes here from lone where he served as football coach. He has taken over his duties here as football coach at Heppner high school,