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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September 9, 1954
71st Year, Number 26
School
City Gets Offer
For Purchase of
Park Property
The Heppner city council Tues
day night received an offer from
the Texaco Oil Company to pur
chase a 100x100 foot lot of the
city park property on Main street
immediately north of the Tum-A-Lum
Lumber company on which
it wants to build a modern ser
vice station.
Council members discussed the
offer at length, attempting to de
termine whether the city should
sell any or all of the property
or keep it for park purposes. It
was pointed out that if the land
is sold, it would mean removal
of the present old civic center
building, on which th local Jay
Cees have had a lease, and which
they had hoped to repair for
general use. The organization
recently, however, has disbanded
and in effect forfeited their lease.
Th council decided to postpone
decision on the offer until the
wishes of the people can be de
termined. Another story elsewhere
in this paper tells one suggested
plan for developing the area into
a useful park and asks city resi
dents to indicate their opinion
on a straw ballot.
The general concensus of opin
ion of the members present at the
meeting was that the area either
I e developed into a park as ori
ginally planned or sold for busi
ness purposes. One council mem
her indicated that if it is made
into a park, he and another local'
resident will donate $1,000 eacli
toward the erection of a founda
tion on the property.
The group received the resig
nation of Harry Tamblyn as city
recorder who asked to be re
lieved of his duties after the first
Monday in October. lie stated
that physical disability and plans
to be away from the city for sev
eral months prompted the resig
nation. The council voted to give Frank
Parker a 20 year lease on a small
section of city-owned property on
the west hill in return for Par
ker's tnking his adjacent wheat
field out of production and plant
ing it to grass to prevent west
side streets from receiving fur
ther mud baths such as they fre
quently get when the area is in
summerfallow. The city will
furnish the seed for the land.
About 20 acres is involved.
Mrs. Jack Loyd, chairman of
the Jaycee-Ette kindergarten
committee which holds kinder
garten .classes in a section of the
old civis center building asked
tin? council's help in preventing
the parking of log and lumber
trucks in front of the class
grounds, stating that they were
a hazard to the children. The
council ordered the erection of
limited time parking signs in the
section
Following the receiving of com
plaints,, the council ordered the
city marshall to instruct the own
ers of two trailer houses to re
move them from the city street the St. Johns depot in Portland,
and property in the west end of , Schmidt had been agent at
town They had been parked on ' Echo since the war and prior to
city property for several months, i that time was operator there. His
and permanent residents of the ( wife and three small girls ac
area made the complaint. 'companied him.
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GRAND SWEEPSTAKES parade float winner was this entry of the Heppner Soroptimist Club which
depicted tha club s ruethods of promoting youth rctivities. Riding are Jack Monagle and Dick
Ksncnsr, president and vice president of the Heppner high school student body; Adelia Ander
son college scholarship winner, and Virginia Gonty, winner of the club's 4-H scholarship.
(Lyons Studio Photo)
Registration Up;
FRIDAY'S SCHOOL BOND ELECTION, if approved, will provide
money for the construction of this new elementary school on the
recently approved Prock-Devin property Just north of the present
school. Plans c;ll for a 12 classroom and a multipurpose room
building to be built .on two levels to take advantage of the na
N. Morrow Fair
Opens Today al
Boardman Grounds
The North Morrow county Fair
opened its doors today at Board
man for the start of a three-day
run. Many improvements have
been made to the grounds and a
full program is planned for the
three days. v
All entries closed at 6 o'clock
today and 4-H judging was sche-'
duled to start at 2 p. m. Thurs
day The Friday program in
cludes 4-II and F. F. A. judging
starting at 8 a. m. and from 1
o'clock on the schedule calls for
the 4-H style revue, the pig
scramble and a wide variety of
other entertainment.
The parade will leave the
Boardman school at 10 a. m. on
Saturday and a big group of
prizes await the winners of the
top floats. Saturday afternoon
attractions include a concert by
the Irrigon band, a bike parade,
horse races and several other
events.
Fair board members have in
dicated that this year's show will
excell any previously held at
Boardman.
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Echo Man New UP
Depot Agent Here
E. II. Schmidt, formerly of Echo
took over his duties last week as
Union Pacific station agent at
1 Heppner, replacing F. C. Tolue
!son, who recently transferred to
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SADJDLE WINNER Bob Gammell, Heppner cowboy who made the
best time in the Morrow county amateur calf roping at the rodeo,
is shown receiving his award, a handmade saddle, from Queen
Grace Miller following the final show performance last Sunday.
(Alex Thompson Photo)
La Verne Hams Buys
Eubanks Truck Line
La Verne Hams announced this
week that he has purchased the
Eubanks Truck Line from Bob
Miller. Headquarters will remain
in lone, he said, and at least for
the time being, will carry the
original name.
The line holds a class I permit
and can haul to all sections of
the state.
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Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barger,
Centralia, Wash., former Heppner
residents, were here for the fair
and rodeo.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Boyer of
John Day were in Heppner to at
tend the fair and rodeo.
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Heppner Bond
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glgmentaru,
architects
tural slope of the ground. A $290,000 bond issue is being request
ed and it is hoped that bids will be low enough to allow construc
tion of the building as shown. If not only 10 of the classrooms
will be built. The polling place is at the school building and
voting will be from 2 to 8 p. m.
County 4-H Girls,
Local Fair Winners,
At State Fair
A big group of Morrow county
4-H club girls who won awards
in various divisions and classes
at the Morrow county fair left
today for Salem to enter compe
tition in the state fair, Maude
Casswell, county extension agent
reports this week.
Those who will enter the style
revue at Salem which starts about
2:30 Friday are Janice Martin,
clothing III with a cotton dress;
Sally Palmer, clothing IV who
will display a tailored dress
which was judged the best cos
tume at the local fair; Meredith
Thomson, clothing IV will show
her best dress.
In other classes to be held Fri
day afternoon Janet Wright will
enter the canning contest which
she won here. She will be judged
on methods and skills and the
finished product.
Maxine Sicard, Boardman, who
won the local bread baking will
enter the same competition at
the state fair.
. Accompanying the girls will be
Mrs. Elmer Palmer, Mrs. Randall
Martin, Mrs. James Thomson
and Mrs. George Sicard.
riO NOISE,
NO MONEY!
Well over a year ago the city
of Heppner made a fast deal
and sold their old fire siren to
the city of Arlington for $100.
Tuesday the Heppner council
received a letter from the
Arlington council, that they
weren't going to pay the bill
and were sending the over
grown foghorn back.
The complaint: the thing
blew Just twice and since then
nobody has been able to get a
peep out of it
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Rev and Mrs. Earl L. Soward
and Wayne spent Monday In
Salem where they attended the
State Fair.
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Walter H. Farrens
Passes Monday
Services will bo held Friday at
2 p. rn. at the Heppner Metho
dist church for Walter H. Farrens,
7.'1, who passed away September
6 at St. Anthony's hospital in
Pendleton following a long ill
ness. He was a native of Morrow
county.
Mr. Farrens was born May 21,
1881 near llardman and was the
son of John F. M. and Eliza Far
rens. Ho had lived in this area
all of his life and had been en
gaged in farming during mof of
it.
He is survived by his wife Elln,
Heppner; two sons Verl L. of Sun
nyside, Wash., and Poland, Port
land; two daughters, Mrs. Lucille
Parish, Pendleton, and Mrs. Dolly
Fraters, Heppner; one brother,
Ernest of Yakima, Wash., and
nine grandchildren.
Rev. Lester D. Bouhlen will of
ficiate at the services with t'res
wick and Seuel Mortuary tin
charge of arrangements. Inter
ment will 1)0 in Heppner Maso
nic cemetery.
U. S. SENATOR GUY CORDON,
who will speak in Heppner
Thursday evening, September
16.
Senator Cordon To
Talk Here Thursday
Plans are being made this
week by the local Cordon-for-Sen-ator
committee, fur a double-barrelled
meeting next Thursday,
Sept. 1G in the evening when
U. S. Senator Guy Cordon will be
in Heppner on a speaking tour.
The committee plans to hold a
no-host dinner meeting at 6:30
at O'Donnell's cafe arid then to
move to the court room in the
court house for an open meeting.
Both are open to the public and
the latter will start at 8 p. m.
Senator Cordon, who has served
13 years in the senate, is seeking
reelection over his democratic
opponent Richard Neuberger. No
indication has been given as to
the subject of his talks, though in
his other recent speeches he has
discusyed local as well as na
tional issues.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry O'Donnell,
Jr., have returned from a weeks
vacation spent fishing at Priest
Lake, Idaho.
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Election Friday
Hepppner Grade
School Gains Ik
More Students
First day registration figures
at Heppner, lone and Lexington
schools showed a general in
crease in students with the already-bulging
Heppner grade
school showing the greatest gain.
The Heppner grade school regis
tered 3-11 pupils in the first eight
grades on Tuesday, which is 21
more than the highest figure for
last year, and superintendent II.
V. Reed said Wednesday that at
least 10 to 15 more are expected
to register within the next week
or two. '
Incoming first graders again
provided the greatest worry to
local school officials though four
other grades, 2nd, 5th, (ith and
8th are seriously overcrowded
too. The first grade group has 58
students and the second .grade
5!) which are taught In two first,
two second and one combination
first and second grade classes.
Both the 5th and (ith grades have
one full classroom each and one
combination 5th and tit h is re
quired to handle the students.
The 8th grade has 35 students
who are still housed in one room
though school officials say they
are nearly hanging out the win
dows. lone School Up
Superintendent Chester Ward
reports the lone grade school
showed a gain of 9 in the first
eight grades with a total of 101
registered so far. The high
school dropped one to 47 students,
but Ward said that they know of
S or more to come in the grades
and at least four in the high
school The greatest squeeze at
lone comes in the 2nd, 3rd and
(ith grades where rooms are oper
..ting at cepacity. One teacher
and one additional classroom has
been put into use there.
The Lexington school is the
only one reporting to show any
decrease, and that is, only minor
with a drop of two in the high!
(Continued on page 8) .
Do You Wont A Pork?
Straw Ballot Asks
People's Opinion on
Park Development
Do the people of Heppner want
a city park?
The people themselves are to
hnve a chance to express their
op Hon in a straw ballot printed
below and initiated jointly 'by
(he city council and the Gazette
Times.
As told in another story in to
day's paper, the Heppner council
has received an offer of a major
oil company to buy a section of
the so-called city park proorty
on north Main street on which
it wants to build a service sta
tion. The land is a good business
property, but it has tentatively
been reserved for a park, though
practically nothing has been done
in recent years to make it into
one for it still holds a clutter of
old buildings, including the civic
center building, piles of junk and
other trash.
If even a part of the site Is sold,
the remainder would be useless
as a park, so probably it all
should be sold if any of it is, the
council reasoned. Yet, to make
the area into a usable park, ad
ditional money will be needed,
so the council and the Gazette
Times ask what the people think
of the following idea:
Keep the land and ask the vot
ers to appove (at a legal elec
CITY PARK STRAW BALLOT
To the suggestion that the Heppner city council keep
its present park property; ask the voters to approve a
special 2-mill, 5 year tax levy (not a bond issue) to
finance removing all the old buildings, clean up the
grounds, grass, fence and landscape the area and build
rest rooms and other facilities, I vote
YES
NO.
Mail or bring this ballot to
School Problem
Solution Hoped
In Friday Vote
Registered voters of school dis
trict No. 1 will make their fifth
trip to the polls Friday, Septem
ber 10 in an attempt to get a new
school building program started
in the district. The Friday elec
tion seeks approval of a $290,000
bond issue to finance construction
of a 10 or 12 room and multipur
pose room grade building on the
recently approved Prock-Devin
site.
The special election is the
culmination of many months of
work by board members and the
school officials In an attempt to
find a plan which will be ac
ceptable to the residents of the
district. One previous site has
been rejected, another approved
only to have a bond issue for the
site defeated. The most recent
vote gave overwhelming approval
to use the Prock-Devin land
which lies immediately north of
the present school plant. If the
issue passes the board will im
mediately call for bids on the
construction of a two-level ele
mentary building which will
house either 10 or 12 classrooms
and a multipurpose room.
Polls Open 2 to 8
The polling place will bo open
from 2 until 8 o'clock and the
election will be held at the school.
The board this week stressed
the urgent need for voter appro
val of the bond plan pointing out
that first day registration at the
Heppner school showed an In
crease of 21 students in the first
8 grades, with the assurance that
late registrants will raise that
figure by 10 to 15 within two or
three weeks.
The school is presently using
six temporary and substandard
rooms to house grade school stu
dents. Two of the rooms are
basement rooms, two are in the
temporary hand room and two
first grade classes are being
taught in church basements,
Continued on Page 8
tion, not on this straw vote) n
two mill special levy for a five
year period for the purpose of
cleaning off all the old buildings;
removing the present useless
trees and junk; seeding land
scaping and fencing the area and
building rest rooms and tables.
The plan is purely tentative
and the 2-mill, 5-year tax is only
a suggestion, though it is a rea
sonable one and would bring in
approximately $12,500 over the
five years, enough to build a
pretty respectable and useful
park. (As an example of what it
would cost a taxpayer, a home as
sessed at $1500 would pay $3 per
year, or a total of $15 in the five
years .
Your vote on this straw ballot
will not bind the council to any
definite program, but Is only to
give them an Idea as to what the
people of Heppner would like to
have in the way of a park, if
any. If your vote is "yes", a
workable program will have to be
developed; If it is "no ' the coun
cil will probably either take other
action (such as selling the land)
or let It stay as it is.
Help the council decide . . .
check the ballot below and either
mail or bring it to t!e Gazette
Times.
the Heppner Gazette Times i