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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 10, 1955
71st Year, Number 52
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Winner of District
Playoffs To Meet
Knappa in
By Larry Mollahan
The Heppner high school
Mustangs, winners of the dis
trict 6-B basketball tournament
at Maupin Scturday night, left
Wednesday morning for Salem
and will play their first game
of the state playoffs tonight at
7:30 against Knappa. If they
get over this hurdle they will
meet the winner of the Prairie
. City-Harrisburg game Friday
night at 8:45.
This is the third trip the
Mustangs have made to the
state tournament in as many
years and will come up against
the top B schools of the state
including Powers, Malin, Mill
City, Karrisburg who took top
honors last year. Prairie City,
Enterprise and Knappa.
The final tourney games will
be played Saturday with the
championship to be decided at
8:45.
Takes Maupin Series
For the third time in three
years the Heppner Mustangs have
won the District 6-B basketball
tournament. The first game was
with St. Mary's of The Dalles
and Heppner downed the Gaels
53 to 36 Thursday afternoon.
Coming against Culver Friday
evening the Mustangs experien
ced no trouble in winning 49 to
42. In the final game Saturday
night Heppner won what gener
ally was supposed to be a close
game from Maupin, 51 to 26.
Three Mustangs received all
star honors, those going to Jerry
Haguewood, Skip Rhul and cap
tain, Dick Kononen". ' " "
A pleasant surprise was the
awarding of the sportsmanship
trophy to Heppner. With the
largest rooting section at the
tournament, Heppner fans, stu
dents and cheerleaders are to be
congratulated.
A contributing factor in Hepp
ner's winning of the tourney
was that every man on the team
was a potential point maker.
Usually a team has one star,
bottle him up and you have the
game half won. With Heppner, if
a team let go one man to guard
another it just meant two more
points for the Mustangs.
Coach Larry Dovven had the
team confident, in perfect shape
and in a winning mood.
In the first ten seconds of play
against St. Mary's it was evident
to the crowd of one thousand or
over that Heppner was out to
win.
Pulling into a 31 to 25 lead at
the half Heppner demonstrated
beautiful ball handling, hawk
ing and dribbling.
Dick Kononen, Larry Dowen's
field marshal, played an excel
lent game, working play after
play through the key. Using a
slow approach and blurring exe
cution play that left the stands
breathless, Heppner was ahead
all thirty two minutes of play.
Kononen put in 19 points for
Heppner topped only by John
McCormick, St. Mary's star who
made 21.
Heppner scoring: Kononen 19,
Grabill 2, Jensen 3 Beamer 4, D.
Piper 2, Ruhl 10, Haguewood 13,
Culver. Clipped
Culver was no match for the
win hungry Mustangs. Heppner
moved relentlessly into a 25 to 12
lead at the intermission time. It
was only after the bench came
into the game that Culver cut
down the margin to seven points.
Jerry Haguewood was one
point ahead of Bob Grabill and
Dick Kononen with 11 points for
high point man. Neil Beamer was
rebounding and controlled the
boards practically the whole
game for Heppner.
Heppner scoring: Kononen 10,
Grabill 10, Jensen 1, Beamer 8, D.
Piper 3, Ruhl 6, Haguewood 11.
Maupin Loses Final
Again Heppner was on the big
side of a winning score. Saturday
found Heppner in a faceoff with
the Maupin Redsides for the
Championship.
Bob Grabill was a game stop
per every time he went into the
air and dropped in 3o foot jump
shots for 15 points.
Skip Ruhl the fastest man on
the Heppner squad was like a fox
with the ball if the Maupin
First Game
guards made a slow or sloppy
pass, there would go Ruhl and
pounce on it and be down and
under for two points.
Ron Paulson 67" Maupin een
ter was rendered practically help
less by a type of zone where the
tall center was lucky to get -his
hands on the ball at all and if
he did he was immediately sur
rounded by a high jumping trio
of Kononen, Beamer and GrabilL
Paulson succeeded in making
only two points while the night
before he dumped In 16 against
Moro.
Heppner scoring. Kononen 8,
Grabill 15, Beamer 10, Ruhl 8,
Haguewood 10.
State .Tournament
The high school studentbody
gave their team a big sendoff
Wednesday morning for Salem
where the Mustangs will play
Knappa Thursday afternoon.
Knappa according to reports has
two 6'4" eagers and the rest of
the team range on down to six
foot.
A large number of fans, par
ents, and students are planning
on attending the games.
O'Harra Named
Conservation Head
New officers of the Heppner
Soil Conservation district elected
at a meeting Tuesday night at
the county agent's office include
Newt O'Harra, Lexington, chair
man; Donald Peterson, lone, vice
chairman and Raymond Lundell,
lone, treasurer. N. C. Anderson
is secretary of the organization.
A report of the annual conven
tion of the national association
of soil conservation districts at
San Diego, Calif., was given by
John Wightman, delegate from
the Heppner district.
A total of 12,197 acres of con
servation surveys, 1,450 feet of
stream channel and 1,500 feet of
irrigation ditch engineering sur
veys were completed. in the dis
trict during January and Febru
ary, the progress report showed.
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Adequate Funds Seen
To Continue Tri-
County Rain-Making
The continuation of cloud
seeding in the county was as
sured at a meeting last week of
the directors of the Tri-County
Weather Research and interested
ranchers at Heppner when $4,000
was obtained to finance rain
making operations from March 1
through June.
Collections had been adequate
in Gilliam and Sherman counties
to continue the program but Mor
row county has been behind in
its payments. Operating cost is
$1,000 per month per county and
group has a contract with the
Weather Modification Company
of Redlands, Calif.
Directors of the Tri-County or
ganization from now on will be
on a cash basis. If case pay
ments didn't cover the contract,
ranchers would have their money
refunded or payments pro-rated.
The hail program operated out
of Condon last year is being con
tinued on a separate basis by
Gilliam county ranchers who felt
that the operation had been very
successful in protecting the area
from hail.
The cloud seeding had been
started in 1950 by the three
county group but was discontin
ued last December.
Directors attending the meet
ing were Delbert Emert, Ralph
Crum, both of lone; Harold Van
Buskirk, Echo. George Wilson
and Dean Pinkerton, Sherman
county. George Wilson of Kent is
president of the organization.
CEREMONIAL PLANNED
A Camp Fire Ceremonial for
Camp Fire girls and Blue Birds
of Heppner will be held Sunday,
March 13 at 3 p. m. at the Ma
sonic Temple, it was announced
this week.
Anyone interested in the Camp
Fire program is invited to at
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HEPPNER MUSTANGS basketball
trict honors and today open play in the state B basketball tourna
ment at Salem. They are front row, left to right, Lowell Lee Tur
ner, Jim Hayes, Lyle Jensen, John Piper, Jerry Haguewood, Skip
Ruhl. Back row, Coach Larry Dowen, Bob GrabilL Neil Beamer,
Dick Kononen, Delbert Piper, Nelson Connor, manager.
Immunization
Clinics Set For
County Schools
Immunization clinic for school
and pre-school children will
be held in all county schools,
Dr. A. D. McMurdo, county health
officer 'and attending physician,
announced this week.
Clinics will be held at monthly
Intervals during March, April and
May for the completion of the
Immunization series. Signed
permit slips from parents must
be presented at the time of im
munization for all school child
ren, Dr. McMurdo emphasized.
The immunizations offered and
recommended for children of all
ages are:
Smallpox every live years, all
ages.
Diphtheria tetanus combina
tionfor all school age children
six through 15 years. A booster
every three years after first ser
ies which requires two injections
a month apart.
Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping
cough combination for pre
school age, booster one year after
first series, then every three
years. First series requires three
injections a month apart.
Typhoid all ages, booster
every year after first series. First
series requires three injections a
week or more apart.
Immunization materials are
not furnished by the state board
of health this year, so a small
charge of 25 cents for smallpox,
25 cents for the diphtheria com
bination and 50 cents for typhoid
will be made.
Following is the schedule for
all county schools and both
school age and pre-school child
ren will be taken at those times.
Heppner and Hardman March
15, April 12, May 10 at 9 a. m.
at Heppner school.
Irrigon school March 29,
April 14, May 12 at 9 a. m.
Boardman school March 29,
April 14, May 12 at 1 p. m.
lone school March 22, April
19, May 17 at 9 a. m.
Lexington school March 22,
April 19, May 17 at 10:30 a. m.
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Rate Increases at
Hospital Announced
The hospital board announced
today that a rate increase will be
put into effect at Pioneer Memor
ial hospital on March 15. It is
being made to bring the hospi
tal's charges up closed to the
Oregon standard hospital rates,
but will still be somewhat be
low the state scale.
The new rates will be $12.50
per day for a two-bed semi pri
vate room; $11.50 for a 4-bed
ward, and $16.00 for a private
room. This compares with $15.25.
$13.75 and $16.75 as the standard
rate schedule.
It was also announced that the
new wing is completed and fur
nished and already is nearly full,
and that an open house in the
new unit will be held on May 8
in connection with National Hos
pital week. At that time free
chest X-Rays will be given and
the building opened to public in
spection. o
Ray Gill of London, Kentucky,
has been visiting at the home of
his cousin and family, Mr. and
Mrs. W. O. George.
Sate
squad who last week took dis-
Thomas N. White
Of lone Taken by
Death Here Saturday
Funeral services were held for
Thomas Nelson White, 75, Tues
day at 10:30 a. m. in the lone
Community church with Rev. Al
fred Shirley officiating. Oliver
Creswick of Heppner sang The
Old Rugged Cross and In a Gar
den, accompanied by rs. E. M.
Baker. Pall bearers were Sam
Esteb, Walter and Noel Dobyns,
Lewis and Elmer Ball and Roy
Lindstrom.
. Mr. White was born in Dot,
Washington, in the Roosevelt
community, November 16, 1879
and died in lone March 5. He
had lived in the Roosevelt area
until 1936 when he and Mrs.
White moved to Idaho and Walla
Walla. They had lived in lone
for the past 10 years.
He and Mrs. White celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary
on February 20. He was a mem
ber of the Presbyterian church.
Surviving are his wife, Edythe,
three sons, Gordon, Wayne and
Dale, all of lone; four grand
children and two great-grandchildren;
two sisters, Mrs. Eliza
beth Jordan and Mrs. May Bur
oker both of Portland, and one
brother, Horace A. White of Glen
wood, Wash. Two sons, Omar and
Loyal proceeded him in death.
Creswick and Scuell Mortuary
had charge of the arrangements
with interment and graveside
services in the Tahoma cemetery
in Yakima with Shaw and Son in
charge there.
Irrigation Prospects
To Be Discussed
Most of Oregon's irrigation
water users will have the oppor
tunity to hear final water sup
ply forecasts for 1955 along with
suggestions as to the best ways
of utilizing that water for crops
in a series of regional meetings
March 14 through April 7.
The meetings are a cooperative
effort of the USDA soil conser
vation service, U. S. weather bu
reau, and the Oregon State col
lege agricultural extension ser
vice, and experiment station.
Water forecasts are based or
records of more than 10o mea
sured snow courses, and include
snowcover, soil moisture, reser
voired water, precipitation, and
stream flow, throughout the state.
The first meeting of the series,
for the Umatilla-Walla Walla
region of the state, will be held
March 14, at Pendleton starting
at 9 a. m.
Episcopal Church
Sets Confirmation
A special weekend is planned
for March 12 and 13 at All
Saint's Episcopal church, it has
been announced by Rev. John R.
Reeves, rector.
A potluck supper will be held
Saturday evening at 6:30 spon
sored by the couple's club in
honor of Bishop and Mrs. Lane
W. Barton of Bend.
On Sunday all members and
friends of the church are invited
to a confirmation service at 11
a. m. which will be followed by a
coffee hour and reception for the
new members sponsored by the
women's auxiliary.
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William L. McCaleb has re
turned from a two months visit
with relatives in Portland and
other points in the valley.
Blakney Named
To Fill Vacant
Council Position
Tnil Blakney, local druggist,
was sworn in Monday night as a
new member of the Heppner city
council. He was appointed by
mayor Mary Van Stevens to fill
the unexpired term of Jack Van
Winkle who, had resigned the
position early in January. Blak
ney will serve by appointment
until the next regular election.
The council studied and passed
to the third reading a franchise
which would allow the Heppner
TV Inc., a corporative organiza
tion formed to install a cable
television system in the city,
to construct, operate and main
tain a coaxial cable system with
in the city limits. The ordinance
would grant them a 10 year fran
chise.
The ordinance will come before
the group again next Monday for
its third reading.
The council was read a letter
from the engineering firm of
Clark and Groff stating that the
estimated cost of curbing and
paving of several streets on the
west side of town, which had
been petitioned last fall, would
run between $2.75 and $3.50 per
front foot. Under the proposal
corner lots would be assessed
full charge for frontage and one
half the rate for depth on the
side street.
The council had received peti
tions from residents along Gale,
Center and Baltimore streets ask
ing that the street improvement
district be formed and the letter
was in response to a request for
an estimate of the cost.
Equipment Bid Awarded
The council received four bids
for the purchase of a new tractor
for the street department. The
low bid of $5,613.50 was entered
by Empire Machinery company
of Heppner and was accepted.
The unit will include a tractor
with a loading bucket, back hoe
blade, ditcher and broom, De
livery is expected within about
two weeks.
The group heard a discussion
on inequities in the present water
rate structure and the mayor ap
pointed a committee to study
the problem and report .at the
next regular meeting.
Camp Columbia
Benefit Sale Set
An auction sale of every con
ceivable type of useful article
for the benefit of Camp Colum
bia, the Boys Town of the West,
at White Salmon, Washington, is
planned for Saturday, March 19
at the old Heppner civic center
building, it was revealed today.
The sale arrangements are
lieing made by E. A. Wester
meyer, Hermiston, who is a mem
ber of the camp advisory council,
and it will be sponsored by all
civic, fraternal and service or
ganizations in the area, it was
said. Donations of any type of
useful article of value including
clothing, groceries, old farm or
other types of machinery, old
wagon wheels, furniture etc., ts
being requested from residents
of the area. Arrangements have
been made to have the dona
tions picked up where necessary
and anyone having anything to
give for. the sale are asked to
call either O. W. Cutsforth, Lex
ington, or Tum-A-Lum Lumber
Company in Heppner. Col. Red
Chamberlain of Hermiston will
do the auctioneering.
The camp for which the benefit
sale is to be held, was started
by Major and Mrs. F. II. Blake
several years ago as a home for
homeless boys, most of whom are
wards of a court. It is not tax
supported and receives its only
aid from numerous organiza
tions in Oregon and Washington
who have taken it upon them
selves to aid Major Blake in his
program to rehabilitate wayward
boys.
The sale will start at 11 a. m.
Saturday, March 19.
Curiosity Kills Cat
A cat at the Lexington air
port didn't live long enough to
let hig curiosity do him much
good.
Last Sunday a local flier en
tered his hangar at the field
and found that a big stray cat
had climbed up on a work
bench to examine a heavy
metal vise lieing near the edge.
The vise and the cat both fell
to the floor.
The mistake the cat made
was being on the bottom.
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SALLY PALMER, Heppner high SALUTATORIAN of the graduat
school senior who this week ing seniors at Heppner high
was named Valedictorian of school is Patsy Wright,
her class.
Heppner High Names
Top Honor Students
Two Heppner high school sen
ior girls who have attained the
highest scholastic averages dur
ing their four years were this
week named valedictorian and
salutatorian by school officials.
They are Sally Palmer and Pa
tricia Wright.
Miss Palmer, who is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Palmer,
attained the top grade average
of 96.5 percent and was named
valedictorian. In addition to at
taining the highest grade aver-
Heppner IV, Inc.
Sets Rate Plan
Directors of the recently form
ed Heppner TV, Inc., this week
announced a schedule of mem
bership and monthly charges for
residents and businesses who cle
sire to be serviced from the cable
system which the co-op plans to
install within the city.
The basic charge for member
ship in the co-op is $135 which
will give the holder of the mem
bership a vote in its operation
and one hookup to the cable.
The monthly charge varies from
$3.50 to $6.00 per month plus tax.
Owner occupants of residences
and renters will be charged $3.50
per month plus' 28 cents tax for
each set. Additional sets will be
charged $1.50 plus tax, plus the
actual cost of installing addi
tional hookups. It was also point
ed out that a person moving out
of town may sell his membership
within a limited 6-month period,
or if moving within town, he will
pay only the actual cost of the
hookup transfer.
Apartment houses will have
the same scale as above except
that for additional hookups a
charge of $75 plus a tax of $6.00
will be made and a monthly fee
of $3.50 plus 28 cents tax will be
collected.
TV dealers will be charged
$6.00 per month plus 48 cents tax
regardless of the number of sets
displayed, and restaurants, tav
erns, clubs and bars will be
charged $6.00 plus tax.
A contract membership plan
has been developed whereby a
membership may be purchased
for $15 down and 12 monlhlv
payments.
It was also announced that it is
possible that an additional hook
up fee will be charged to all who
fail to subscribe to membership
in the Heppner TV, Inc. until
after the activated cable has
passed their homes.
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Mercury Does Abrupt
About Face in Week
Morrow county residents were
treated to just about every kind of
weather that could be devised
duringthe past week with the
mercury setting a new low for
the winter on Friday and near
record highs early this week.
Most of the county experien
ced the coldest nights of the
winter last weekend when the of
ficial thermometer in Heppner
recorded 9 degrees above zero
early Friday morning. Other un
official temperature readings
were as low as zero in several
locations.
On the heels of the cold wea
ther, thermometers Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday jumped many
degrees with several reports of
the mercury hitting the 70 mark
during the day.
No general rain has fallen
since the storm which followed
the heavy winds of the previous
week.
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age during her four years of high
school, she was a winner of the
Odd Fellows United Nations Pil
grimage award in 1953, is a mem
mer of the National Honor So
ciety, has been editor of the high
school paper, The Hehisch; was
named home-coming princess
and queen, has held many class
and club offices and has been
active in girls' volleyball.
Miss Wright, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright,
earned a grade average of 95.2
percent for her four years at
Heppner high school. Her other
honors and activities include
membership in the National Hon
or Society, being chosen home
coming princess and queen,
numerous club and class offices,
an active 4-II club member, and
a member of the volleyball team.
The awards to the two top
students will be presented to
them at graduation and in addi
tion to local awards, the valedic
torian automatically becomes
eligible for scholarships to state
schools. As a rule the salutator
ian is also given similar scholar
ship opportunities.
Manager to Be
C of C Speaker
Admiral Gordon Rowe, mana
ger of the Port of Umatilla, will
be the speaker at the annual ban
quet of the Heppner-Morrow
county chamber of commerce next
Monday evening, Ed Collison,
chairman of the special banquet
committee announced this week.
Admiral Rowe took over the
position as manager of the Port
of Umatilla in September of last
year. He came from beattle
where he served on the port com- .
mission for six years, and as
chairman of the commission for
the past two years. He graduated
from the U. S. Naval Academy in
1917 and received his MS degree
from Harvard University. He ser
ved in many capacities in the
Navy in both World Wars In the
Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic thea
ters and was commander of sev
eral naval vessels and navy in-stallations-during
World War II.
During his tenure at Seattle,
Admiral Rowe was very active
in effort to obtain ekual posi
tions for Oregon and Washing
ton ports with California in rela
tion to business with the Orient.
A full program is planned for
the evening with the presenta
tion of numerous special awards
and reports of the year's activi
ties of the organization. The
first repayment of $1,600 on the
rodeo field lighting bonds will
also be made at the banquet.
The banquet is scheduled to
start at 7 p. m. with a social
hour to start at 6 p. m.
RED CROSS OFFICE
TO REMAIN OPEN
The downtown Red Cross drive
office in the former telephone
building will remain ,open for
another two weeks, Jack Angel,
drive chairman said today. It la
being manned by volunteers
from city church organizations.
Returns have begun to come in,
but it was emphasized that the
drive is far from reaching Its
goal.
EXAMINER COMING
A drivers license examiner
from the secretary of state's of
fice will be in Heppner at the
court house on Tuesday, March
15 from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m.