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NORTHWEST BUCKING CHAMPIONSHIP TO
BE NEW EVENT FOR THIS YEAR'S RODEO
Pendleton RoundUp
Offers Top Event
To Heppner Show
The rodeo committee of the
Morrow county fair and rodeo
announced today that this
year's rodeo will have one of
the top riding events of the
west as a result of the offer of
the Pendleton Round-Up as
sociation to give the Heppner
show the Northwest amateur
bucking championship which
has been a major event
of the Pendleton Round-Up for
the past three decades.
The offer was immediately
accepted by the Morrow county
rodeo committee and arrange
' ments are being made to give
it a prominent spot in the Sep
tember show.
The Round-Up board said
that due to a survey made last
year, it had decided to forego
the Northwest saddle bronc
bucking championship for 1955
on a trial basis from year to
year and that it was felt that
Heppner was the logical show
to have the event. Lester Ham
ley of Hamley and Co., Pendle
ton said that his company will
donate a saddle for the event
as it has done in the past
In making the announcement,
the Round-Up board emphasized
that there will be no shortage
of bucking in its show as a result
of the move, as there will be two
or three exhibition bucking
horses saddled from snubbing
horses as it was done in the old
west before the days of chutes.
The Northwest bucking will be
replaced by the world's cham
pionship bull riding, board mem
bers revealed.
Last year at the Round-Up
there were 38 entries in the
Northwest amateur' bucking
event and the Heppner committee
has made arrangements to con
tract 50 horses to meet expected
requirements.
Ed Ring of Wilbur, Washing
ton will provide rodeo stock for
the Morrow county Fair and Ro
deo September 1, 2, 3 and 4, it
was decided last week at a meet
ing of the rodeo committee. In
land Empire Shows of Lewiston,
Idaho will supply the carnival
for the fair.
Rodeo stock contracted in
cludes 50 bucking horses, 30 cal
ves and 12 dogging steers while
cows for the events will be ob
tained locally. Entrance fees
have been set at $25 for the calf
roping, $20 for the cow milking
and $15 for the bareback riding
and dogging with day money of
$75 set for each event.
As has been previously an
nounced, this year's show will be
strictly amateur and plans are
under consideration to provide a
special Saturday night show un
der the recently installed lights.
Possible events may be a special
Calgary roping event, a go
around of a calf roping or a spe
cial bucking event. Several pos
sibilities, including one or more
special events not previously
held, are being considered, it was
said.
The committee accepted the of-
fer of Empire Machinery Com
pany to provide a public address
system for the rodeo and appli
cations are now being accepted
for announcer.
Becknsr Honored
The committee voted to honor
Lee Beckner, a former rodeo presi
dent and well known stockman
who died recently, by placing a
western book in the Heppner
library and with special events at
the fall rodeo.
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Boardmcn Road
Oiling Bids Called
The state highway commission
has announced it will receive
bids at Portland on April 13 for
the oiling of 1090 miles of county
roads to a width of 18 feet on the
federal secondary hiway system
near Eoardman.
The three roads to be im
proved are 8.19 miles on the
Peters-Messner Junction road
1.48 miles on the Peters road and
1.23 miles on the Smith road.
Roy Neill underwent surgery
at St. Anthony's hospital In Pen
dleton on Tuesday.
Heppner Oregon, Thursday, April 7,
Heppner and lone
School Bands Win
Excellent Ratings
Three local school bands, the
Heppner high and grade, and the
lone high school band, all re
ceived excellent ratings at the
Eastern Oregon music festival
held last weekend at La Grande.
Both the Heppner and the lone
bands rated excellent in the com
petition in the senior division
and the Heppner grade school
group won the same rating in the
junior division.
Band ensembles from Heppner
in the senior division also rated
excellent included a clarinet duet
composed of Lynda Borman and
Jay Sumner, accompanied by
Carol Anderson and a horn duet
which included Darlene Connor
and Frances Duran accompanied
by Lynda Borman. A good rat
ing was given Janet Kendall,
Janet Wright and Roger Harris,
accompanied by Mary Ruth
Green.
junior division clarinet quar
tet composed of Jeanne Collins,
Barbara Dobbie, Tom Driscoll
and Renn Harris also received an
excellent rating.
All band members appeared at
the festival in their new uni
forms which were recently pur
chased through the efforts of the
band parents club.
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First Grid Game .
To Be With Burns
Local school officials said this
week that arrangements have
been completed for the Heppner
football team to play its first
game next fall under the new
lights at the rodeo field against
Burns high school. It . wil be
played on September 30.
The game will be a special
game sponsored by the Heppner
Morrow county chamber of com
merce as a benefit for the fund
to pay off bond-holders who
helped finance the lighting sys
tem. Teams will play for ex
penses with the remainder to go
into the light fund.
The game os expected to be
an excellent one as Burns is
classified as an A school.
New Vets Instructor
Teaching Farm Class
Tom Fraser, veteran agricul
tural instructor of Pendleton, an
nounced this week that veterans
who are interested in the veter
ans on -the farm training pro
gram which will be given here,
should contact either him at the
class on Wednesday evenings or
Llewellyn Robbins. local F. F. A
instructor at the high school
Fraser replaces Bill Barratt who
has resigned the post as in
structor which he held for some
time.
Fraser particularly advised
Korean veterans that they have
only 24 months from the time of
their release to sign for such
training. ,
The class is held Wednesday
evenings starting at 8 p. m. at
the Heppner high school.
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BARLOWS RETURN HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barlow
have returned to their home in
Heppner after a visit of
several months with relatives in
Eugene.
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JUST IN CASE some persons might not believe that Morrow county has a grasshopper problem,
oicture. suDDOsedlv taken during last year's "minor" Infestation, should dispel any doubt,
cording to reports few of the critters would stand still long
but this one apparently was caught unawares. The Identity of
shot Is unknown.
Validity of Names
On Street Petitions
Is Questioned
City attorney J J. Nys told the
city council Monday night that
there is a question as to the
validity of some of the names
appearing on petitions presented
to the council last fall requesting
the improvement of several
streets on the west side of Hepp
ner. The statement was made after
the council had asked the attor
ney to prepare the necessary or
dinance setting up an improve
ment district in the area con
cerned so that work could get
started this spring on the request
ed improvements Nys said that
not all petitions had been checked
but agreed to do so before the
next council meeting.
The petitions had asked for the
curbing and paving of Gale
street from May to Willow creek
and the cross streets of Center,
Baltimore, Church, Water and
Jones. The improvement of the
short unnamed street leading in
to the Seventh Day Adventist
church was also asked in the pe
titions. The council has request
ed an estimate on the cost of the
work from its engineers.
New Bridge Planned
Plans for a new concrete and
steel bridge across Willow creek
from Main street to the school
grounds were examined and
work on that project is planned
for this 'summer. The present
wooden bridge is nearly 40 years
old and has been called danger
ous.
A request from William Duran
was heard asking that the city
close an alley adjacent to his
property on south Court street.
He said it was not used by resi
dents but that it was only used as
a turn-around for "squirrelers".
He was told that such a clos
ure would have to be petitioned
by residents before the council
could take action.
A new building permit ordi
nance was read twice and pas
sed to the next meeting for final
approval.
MARCH RAINFALL ADDS OVER ONE
INCH OF MOISTURE IN HEPPNER AREA
March rainfall of 1.30 inches in
Heppner materially brightened
crop prospects in the area and
brought the highest precipita
tion of any month since last Aug
ust, Len Gilliam, weather re
corder reports. Rainfall during
March 1954 was 1.12 inches.
The month's increase brought
to 5.45 inches the total to fall
here since last September.
Heppner received more than
any other section of the county,
though all areas received con
sideiable moisture during the
month. Gooseberry reports 1.25
inches; Ralph Crum, north lone,
.22 inches; Lloyd Howton, south
lone .55 inch; E. M. Derrick,
Eighlmile .95 inch; and Kenneth
Peck, Lexington, 1.07 inches.
The moisture and the consider
ably warmer weather during the
past few days has brought most
grain up noticably with fall
wheat in the north end of the
county showing nicely. Consider
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1955
'He Helps Those
Who Help Themselves'
At the Morrow County Grain
Growers anniversary banquet
Tuesday night several door
prizes were given away. Among
them a $50 savings bond.
Chairman Al Lamb asked R.
B. Rice, one of the original di
rectors of the co-op, who was
sitting at the head table, to
draw a number from the hat.
He drew his own number.
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Wafer Prospects
Better, Mountain
Snow Pack Deep
Water content on the Adbuckle
mountain snow pack is 31 per
cent above the 25 year average
and 60 per cent above last year
at this same time, according to
measurements taken by Tom
Wilson of the Soil Conservation
Service who skiied into the area
Wednesday.
A total of 43 inches of snow
with a water content of 14.2
inches was measured March 30
while a year ago at this time the
snow cover was 23 inches with a
water content of 8.9 inches. Aver
age water content this time of
year is 10.8 inches according to
25 year records of federal-state
cooperative surveys.
During the 25 year period water
content of snow has varied on
April 1 from a high of 17.7 inches
in 1933 to a low of zera in 1913.
Soils were found' to be satur
ated on North Jones prairie
where the snow course is located.
Upland forested soils are only
moderately moist, Wilson said.
Rising streams in the water
shed during the past few days of
warm, rainy weather indicated
that at least pait of the soil
moisture deficit occurring from
below normal rainfall during the
fall and winter months has been
corrected and normal runoff can
be expected. W. T. Frost, Soil
Conservation Service stream fore
caster, Portland, has indicated
that with normal rainfall during
April, May and June the present
snowpack should insure at least
one good irrigation for Willow
and Butter creek bottomlands.
able seeding has been done also,
it was reported.
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Band Benefit Carnival
To be Held at Fair
Pavilion April 16
Plans are progressing for the
school band uniform benefit car
nival to be held at the Heppner
fair pavilion Saturday, April 16.
It is under the sponsorship of the
Lions club and the Band Parents
club.
A full evening's entertainment
is promised by committee mem
bers who have been making ar
rangements for the numerous
booths which will be operated
from 6 o'clock until midnight. A
food booth is also planned and
visitors are urged to bring the
family there for dinner.
The carnival is being held to
raise money for the purchase of
new uniforms for both the high
school and the grade school
bands.
this
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enough to be harnessed for work,
the photographer who took this
72nd Year, Number 4
Kindergarten Vote
In District No. 1
Set For Tuesday
The question of whether or not
the kindergarten will become a
part of the Heppner school sys
tem will be decided at a special
election next Tuesday, April 12
Voting will be held at the school
and the polls will be open from 2
until 8 p. m.
The question will be put be
fore the voters of school district
No. 1 as the result of petitions
circulated in the district by the
members of the Heppner Civic
League which now sponsores the
kindergarten as a private oper
ation. Over 300 signatures were
obtained asking the school board
o call an election on the pro
posal. i
Thoutrh the. League took the
initiative in circulating the peti
tions, it has taken a neutral
stan don the suggestion. Officers
said that numerous requests had
been made to have the nursery
school included in the school
system, so the organization took
the step to have the question
settled at the polls. It was made
plain however, that even if the
proposal is voted down, the Lea
gue will continue to operate the
kindergarten on a tuition basis,
as has been done in the past.
Next year a room in the present
school building has been pro
mised to house the class which
has been held in the old Hepp
ner civic center building.
The Question to be voted on
Tuesday is only weather the kin
dergarten should be incorporated
in the school system. If the plan
is approved, then a 1-mill special
levy will be asked at another eiec
tion, as funds for its operation
probably cannot be obtained
from rural school rrfoneys. It was
pointed out that a 1-mill levy will
not be sufficient to pay the en
tire cost of the class, but the
Civic League has agreed to pro
vide what ever additional funds
are needed.
Argument Given
All voters in the district will
receive a letter within the next
few days telling of the plan and
presenting argument in favor
and against it. The letters are
being sent out by the League and
committee consisting of Mrs.
Frank Anderson, Mrs. Alvin
Bunch, Mrs. L. E. Dick Jr. and
Mrs. James Sumner have had
charge of preparing the argu
ments for and against.
Inasmuch as all voters in the
district will receive the letters
giving both sides of the proposal,
the numerous points of discus
sion will not be presented here,
but voters are urged to watch for
the mailing and read the pro
posal carefully for a full under
standing of the plan.
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Local Penney Store
Scene of Burglary
What police officers termed a
"break and exit" rather than the
usual "break and enter" occurred
sometime Tuesday night . when
an unknown burglar robbed the
Heppner J. C. Penney store of ap
proximately $100 In cash. All the
money was rolled in packages
and was in small change, mana
ger Jeff Carter reported.
Police said the burglar appar
ently was hidden In the store
when it was locked up Tuesday
evening as clues' showed that
exit from the building was gained
by smashing out a small window
in the rear stock room. All the
broken glass from the window
was on the outside of the build
ing, which police said indicated
that it had been broken from the
inside. All other windows are
barred and doors locked so that
they could not be opened from
the inside without a key.
As far as could be told no mer
chandise was taken.
NEW OFFICER ON DUTY
Kenneth Green has accepted
the position of day police officer
in Heppner, chief Floyd Hutchins
has announced. Green takes over
Hutchins' position which has
been vacant since he was ap
pointed chief to replace George
Reld who resigned last week.
Special Good Friday
And Easter Church
Services! Scheduled
A series of PreEaster and Eas-,
ler services are scheduled in
nearly all churches in Heppner,
Lexington and lone with the first
to be special union Good Friday
services which vill be held from
12 noon until 3 o'clock at the
Heppner Methodist church.
Four Heppner ministers, Rev.
Lester Boulden, Methodist; Earl
L. Soward, Christian; Willis Geyer
and John R. Reeves will take part
n tne uoou rruuiy sfn urs
which will be divided into sepa
rate 20 minute services.
Beginning Thursday evening
and continuing through Easter
Sunday the lone church of the
Nazarene will hold special Holy
Week services. The Communion
of the Lord's Supper will be com
memorated in the Thursday night
service and Rev. Harmon Schmel
zembach, a student at Northwest
Nazarene College at Nampa, Ida
ho will speak at the Friday and
Saturday night services and both
services on Sunday. A special
Wheat Growers
Spring Meeting
lo be at Lexington
Meeting Monday night, the exe
cutive committee of the Morrow-
County Wheat Growers Associa
tion set plans for their annual
spring meeting. It will be held
at the Lexington' Grange hall at
7:30 p. m., April 22nd, announces
N. C. Anderson, secretary-treas
urer.
Included on the program which
should draw all Morrow county
wheat growers, is Bob Taylor,
administrator, Oregon Wheat
Commission, who has been active
in forwarding the wants of wheat
growers in farm legislation in
Washington D. C. Taylor spent
considerable amount of time dur
ing the month of January, with
farm legislation and other mat
ters concerning wheal farmers.
The Oregon Wheat Growers Lea
gue has had someone in Wash
ington since the first of the year
which will be reported on by
Taylor.
Kenneth Smouse, president Ore
gon Wheat Growers League will
report on league activities, while
Miss Niada Whybark, home eco
nomist, Oregon Wheat League,
will report on her program. Al
Bunch, Heppner, chairman of the
Conservation Man of the Year
program, will outline this acti
vity for selecting the top
Conservation Man of the Year
for the state. Plans are-underway
now for selection of outstand
ing conservationist in each of the
communities in Morrow county.
Reports of committees will be
the main business of the meet
ing. Recommendations made by
Morrow county farmers at the
fall meeting which in many
cases comprize projects for the
Wheat League for the year, will
be given as the progress report.
Those reporting will be Henry
Baker, lone, chairman, wheat dis
posal and transportation commit
tee; Vernon Munkers. Lexington,
chairman federal agricultural1
programs; Henry reterson, lone,
chairman taxation and legisla
ture; Garland Swanson, lone,
chairman production and land
use; D. O. Nelson, Lexington,
youth activities; and Mrs. H.
G. Campbell, Echo, chairman do
mestic wheat utilization.
Those attending the Monday
night meeting were Frank Ander
son, Heppner, chairman; Ken
neth Peck, Lexington, vice chair
man; Henry Baker, lone; Ken
neth Smouse, lone; Vernon Mun
kers, Lexington; Al Bunch, Hepp
ner; and N. C. Anderson, secre
tary-treasurer. Dr. Cleveland
Gerard, soils assistant, Pendle
ton branch experiment station,
also attended the meeting. Ken
neth Peck, Lexington, was made
publicity man for this meeting.
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Red Cross Drive
Falls Short of Goal
The Morrow county Red Cross
drive ended early this week with
only $1,6000 of its quota of $2,
579 collected, Jack Angel, county
chairman has reported. It is the
first year, according to records,
that the county has failed to
meet its quota.
Angel said a check of con
tributors indicated the lack of
small $1.00 contributions led to
the shortage as most large con
tributions came In about the
same as In past years.
A special Red Cross board meet
ing has been called for Tuesday
April 12.
Easter program and Sunday
school is planned at 10 a. m. Sun
Jay. Sunrise Services Set
Special Easter Sunrise services
are plenned by lone Commun
ity church which will be held at
5 a. m. on the hill south of lone.
This will be followed by a
breakfast at the church. The
Christian and Methodist young
people will also hold sunrise ser
vices at the Christian church at
S a. m. and they will be followed
by a breakfast for the young
folks at the Christian church.
Mass of the Pre-Sanetified
starting at noon and followed by
Stations of the Cross at 2:30 will
be observed at St. Patrick's Catho
lic church on Good Friday. Holy
Saturday services are scheduled
at 6:30 a. m. and the choir under
the direction of Miss Marguerite
Glavey will present special Eas
ter music at high Mass at 9:30
Sunday at Heppner. There will
also be Mass at the lone church
at 8 a. m. An Easter egg hunt
will also be held on the church
grounds following the Sunday
Mass, Rev. Francis McCormack
announced.
Special Easter services Sunday
are planned at all Heppner
churches with many calling for
special Easter music. An Easter
cantata is also scheduled at the
Lexington Christian church, it
was announced.
A special service will be held
Saturday at the Heppner Seventh
Day Adventist church dedicated
to "The Glorious Hope of His
sooon return."
Many churches are also sche
duling special Sunday school
programs either on Saturday or
Sunday.
Need For Farmer
Co-ops Recounted
At MCGG Banquet
"Farmer-owned cooperatives
are a component part of the pro
fit system and they are not re
ceiving tax benefits over other
types of business." L. C. Wall
mark, vice president of the Spo
kane Bank for Cooperatives, told
300 persons Tuesday evening at
the 25th anniversary banquet of
the Morrow County Grain Grow
ers. Wallmark was the main speak
er on a program that included
a report by manager Al Lamb,
a short talk by president L. L.
Howton and a brief history of the
founding and early efforts of the
farmers of the county to form
the cooperative recounted by R. B.
Rice, one of the first directors of
the company.
Wallmark told the group how
the cooperative movement had
aided the farmer in many ways
and recounted numerous instan
ces where other businesses have
formed similar groups to aid
themselves in combating compe
tition and gaining better market
ing or purchasing positions. He
named several grocery purchas
ing cooperatives which do many
millions of dollars of business
each year. Other lines using the
co-op idea to advantage are drug
firms, department stores, hard
ware businesses, newspaper wire
service, and freight forwarding
companies. He said that time
has shown that co-ops are a
necessary part of business.
Formed in 1930
R. B. Rice, one of the founders
of Morrow County Grain Growers,
told how the organization was
formed in 193rj with practically
no cash, as merely a marketing
agency ,and how, since then it
has grown to be the largest
marketing and grain storage or
ganization In the county with fa
cilities located at seven strategic
points In the county.
Manager Lamb told the group
that when the annual audit is
completed in June of this year,
the directors have voted to make
available $50,000 to be used for
payment of 1941 crop dividends
and 1915 ownership certificates.
This will be the first payment
made on such certificates In
many years, he said.
During the turkey dinner
which was prepared by members
of the Heppner Legion auxiliary
members of the Heppner high
school band and orchestra pro
vided several selections.
Several out of town guests
were present Including several
officers of the Pendleton Grain
Growers and the Condon Grain
Growers, officials of the Inland
Navigation Company and others.
Each guest received a special
anniversary pen and every fam
ily a rain gauge.