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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 28, 1955 72nd Year, Number 7
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Two-Thirds of lone
School Faculty
Resign Positions
New Superintendent
And Coach Named
The lone school board this
week revealed that it will have
to find replacements for eight of
the 12 teaching and administra
tive positions in the school sys
tern following the recent accept
ance of resignations from seven
teachers. Superintendent Chester
L. Ward had resigned last Decern
ber, effective at the end of this
school year, and his replacement
was made known this week.
Teachers who resigned their
positions at the conclusion of the
current school year include Mrs
Annajoan Miller, Mrs. Cecelia
Kobernick, John Jordan, Mrs.
Mabel Maris, Heinz Pruss and
Donald Springer. One other
teaching position, that of the 7th
and 8th grade, had been vacant
for several months and will also
have to be filled by next fall.
Superintendent Ward has been
teaching this class.
The four teachers who have
accepted contracts for next year
are Joe Hausler, 4th and 5th
grades; Lorena Akers, 2nd and
3rd grades; Gladys Ely, 6th grade
and Grant Rigby, Industrial arts
and science.
In revealing the unusually
heavy losses in the teaching and
administrative staff in the sys
tem, school board members in
dicated that there was no single
specific reason for the large num
ber of resignations.'
New Superintendent Named
It was also revealed that Phil
Newitt, junior high school princi
pal at Dallas, Oregon from 1952
to 1954, had accepted the posi
tion of superintendent to replace
Ward who had resigned late last
year.
Newitt has not taught during
the current year, having resigned
his Dallas post last fall because
of illness. He and his wife plan
to move to lone early-in July, it
was said.
One other position also has
been filled for next year, with the
announcement that Larry Pryce,
who will graduate from Eastern
Oregon College at La Grande this
June, has accepted the post on
the high school staff as coach
and teacher.
Ward said Wednesday that he
will move to the Portland metro
politan area where he has accept
ed a position for next year.
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Conservation Meet
To Mark Observance
Of 'Week', May 1-7
Supervisors of the Heppner Soil
Conservation District in schedul
ing their regular monthly meet
ing for May 3rd, are extending
an invitation to all interested
farm and town people alike and
are dedicating the meeting to
conservation in observance of
Oregon Conservation Week, May
1st to 7th. Anticipating that there
will be interest the meeting is
scheduled to be held at the
County Court room at 8:00 p. m.
Besides regular business, plans
for observing the week will be
discussed and conservation films
will be shown. Everyone is invit
ed to attend.
Response to Easter
Seals is Urged
An appeal for persons to re
spond to the Easter Seals they
received for the Oregon Society
for Crippled Children and Adults
has been issued by La Verne Van
Marter Jr., county chairman, who
reports that returns are more
than $40,000 behind a year ago.
Van Marter said there are many
thousands of Oregon residents
who have failed to make any re
turn, and he expressed hope that
"a majority of them really intend
to do something but just haven't
gotten around to it as yet." Re
turns can be made to Easter Seals
care of the person's post office.
"The fact that Easter is now
past doesn't make any differ
ence," Van Marter stated. "We
hope that people will continue to
use and buy Easter Seals so that
the great work of the society can
continue without curtailment."
Easter Seals were mailed to ap
proximately 450,000 residents of
Oregon and so far only a very
small percentage of the people
have responded, the records show.
FOOD SALE PLANNED
The Lutheran Ladies Aid will
hold a food sale Saturday, April
30 at the Heppner Red and White
store starting at 10:30 a. m.
First Showing On
Heppner TV Cable
Set For Friday
Heppner residents will have
their first opportunity Friday
afternoon and evening to view
television "piped in" from the re
cently installed tower west ' of
town and relayed over the par
tially completed cable system
now under construction by the
Heppner TV Co-op.
The showing will be held at
the Heppner civic center building
in the city park and all television
dealers in the area have been
invited to participate in the show
and display their sets at the
building.
The co-op's cable transmission
system is not yet completed, but
the line has been strung into
town as far as the park building.
The show is planned to give resi
dents an opportunity to see how
the pictures will look in town and
also to give the nuTnerous deal
ers a chance to show their latest
sets. There will be no admission
charge and most dealers plan to
have their sets installed and
operating by 3 o'clock in the af
ternoon. The show will continue
until 11 p. m it was said.
The co-op, known officially as
Heppner TV, Incorporated, is cur
rently installing the receiving
and coaxial cable transmission
system and expects to have the
entire system operating within
the next few weeks. No individ
ual -sidential or business hook
ups will be made until the entire
system is completed, it was an
nounced, so that all members
could start getting TV reception
at the same time.
Adventist Church
Dedication Saturday
The Heppner Seventh-day Ad
ventist church will be dedicated
at special services to be held at
11 a. m. Saturday, April 30, pastor
Robert E. Becker announces.
Elder C. Lester Bond, president,
and Elder H. J. Perkins, treasurer
of the Upper Columbia Confer
ence of Seventh-day Adventist
will participate in the dedicatory
service. Bond will be speaker at
the Jl o'clock service and Perkins
will follow with, the dedicatory
charge.
Musical numbers by Miss Myr-
lene Glein, vocalist, and Richard
Tompkins, violinist, will be pre
sent during the service. The
pastor will conclude the service
by singing the traditional "Bless
This House."
The public is invited.
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VALEDICTORIAN. Dennis Swan
son, chosen at lone High school
early this month He is the
son of 'Mr. and Mrs. Garland
Swanson and has been the top
Rtudent for four years.
IONE HIGH SCHOOL Salutator
ian, Lawrence Jones, son of Mr,
and Mrs. Lawrence Jones, Sr.
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The co-op is also interested in
securing additional memberships
which entitle the holder to one
television hookup to his home or
place of business. Charge for a
residential membership (and
hookup) is $133 with a monthly
fee of $3.50 plus tax of 28 cents.
At the present time only chan
nel 19 (Yakima-Pasco) will be
seen on the cable system, but it is
expected to get good reception
from at least one and bossibly
two more channels in the near
future.
The picture was first put on the
line last Sunday evening and
since then a monitoring set has
been in continuous operation
Those who have seen it, report
that, the picture is as good or
better than that received in many
locations in Portland.
Several pages of advertising in
this issue of the Gazette Times
announce the showing and tell of
the various makes of television
sets now available to the public
at local dealer's showrooms. All
makes will be on display at the
showing, it was said.
Stock Growers lo
Meet Friday
The Morrow County Livestock
Growers Association with Ray
mond French as president an
nounces that the first general
livestock association meeting for
1955 will be held at the County
Court Room in Heppner on Fri
day evening, April 29. The meet
ing will begin at 8:00 p. m. and
all livestock men are urged to
attend.
Main business for the meeting
will be action on committee re
ports that have been working
since their appointment in Feb
ruary. Recommendations from
the committee will be drafted to
be presented" at the Oregon Cat
tleman's Association annual
meeting which will be held in
Corvallis, May 9, 10 and 11. Com
mittees to report are livestock
marketing, Frank Anderson,
chairman; game law committee,
Gerald Swaggart, .chairman;
livestock disease control, Jim
Lindsay, chairman; range and
pasture . improvement, Norman
Nelson, chairman; and insect and
rodent control, Dick Wilkinson,
chairman.
Morrow County Leads
State in Reaching
Cancer Drive Quota
Morrow county again is the
first county in the state to go
over the top on its fund raising
campaign for the Cancer Cru
sade, Mrs. Howard Pettyjohn,
chairman, was informed early I
this week. This is the third con
secutive year that the county has
topped the rest of the state.
The local committee reported
in enough last Saturday to put
it over its quota, according to re
ports. A total of $723.60 has been
received to date, and the drive
will continue through the rest of
the month.
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Miss Pat Majeske
Hurt in Accident
Miss Pat Majeske, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Majeske of
Lexington suffered serious in
juries to one arm and painful
cuts and bruises last Friday
morning when her car went out
of control at McNab and over
turned. She was on her way
home from her work in Portland
to visit her parents at the time
of the accident.
Miss Majeske was taken to
Pioneer Memorial hospital for
treatment but was released Mon
day and will remain at her home
for some time.
She has been working as sur
gery nurse at Good Samaritan
hospital in Portland for the past
several months.
MILL MAN SUFFERS
INJURY IN FALL
Stanley Doe, sawyer at Hepp
ner Pine Mills, was painfully but
not seriously hurt Wednesday
afternoon when he fell about 15
feet into a timber while working
on the remodeling of the plant.
Doe was taken to Pioneer Me
morial hospital where it was
found he suffered cracked ribs
and a chipped pelvis.
1914 Costumes to
Be Featured at
Homemakers Meet
The annual Homemakers Fes
tival will feature the 10th anni
versary of home economics ex
tension work in Morrow county
on May 3 at the new gymnasium
in Boardman. All homemakers
in the county are invited to at
tend this festival.
The big feature of the day will
be a style show featuring cos
tumes from 1914 when home eco
nomics extension first began in
the U. S to the present day style
revue of costumes made in the
better dress workshop in Morrow
county this year. Mrs. W. A.
Ruggles is in charge of style re
vue plans.
Registration will begin at 9:30
a. m. with Mrs. Russell Miller in
charge.
Mrs. W. E. Garner will preside
at the morning session which will
begin at 10:00 a. m. Mrs. Norman
Nelson will lead group singing
accompanied by Mrs. Markham
Baker. Miss Murle Scales of Ore
gon State College will bring
greetings from the college. Miss
Beverly Bradshaw will present
the county committee and unit
chairman. A solo will be sung
by Mrs. Thurman Johnson. N. C.
Anderson will review the pro
gress of extension service work
in agriculture, home economics
and 4-H club work in Morrow
county, and there will be greet
ings from the past home econo
mics agents and Introduction of
alumni county committee mem
bers. The "Hungry Five" will
present a musical number.
Lunch will be served at noon
by the women of the Greenfield
Grange at the Grange hall.
The closets in the county have
been searched for old clothes.
High hats are being brushed, full
petticoats of the 1914 era, short
dresses of the gay "20's" are be
ing pressed in readiness for the
style revue which will be the
afternoon program.
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Two-CountyATrack
Meet Tuesday to Be
First Lighted Event
Fourteen B high school track
teams in Morrow and Umatilla
counties have been invited to
participate in the Morrow-Umatilla
league championship track
meet to be held Tuesday night
May 3 at the Heppner rodeo field.
It will be the first event to be
held under the recently installed
lights.
It is not known yet how many
of the schools will send teams to
participate, but it is certain that
Pilot Rock, which is the top team
in the league, plans to enter
several events.
The meet will start at 7:30.
Rainfall For Month -Tops
Two Inches
Nearly everybody was about
ready this week to ask Jupe Plu
vlus to have a heart and save a
little of his rain until June as
two storms during the past week'
dropped well over an inch of
moisture on the Heppner area.
The precipitation brought to 2.28
inches the amount to be recorded
here since April 1. This com
pares with only .97 inch for April,
1954.
As is usual, Heppner got more
rain than did some of the other
sections of the county, however
all points have recorded fairly
heavy fall during the month. At
Gooseberry 1.7Q inches has been
checked during the month.. This
far surpasses the .67 for April,
1954.
Considerable runoff from the
mountain snowpack has brought
all streams up during the past
several days with the result that
most ranchers along the creek
bottoms have had ample water
for irrigating fields which were
becoming parched.
Library Receives
Several New Books
Books received recently at the
Heppner public library include:
Locked Safe Mystery by Pallas;
To Have and Not to Hold, Lyon;
Sue Barton -Staff Nurse, Boyl
ston; Tree Wagon, Lampman;
Prom Trouble, Summers; Earth
breakers, Haycock; Desperate
Hours, Hayes; Freeholders, Brown;
Faith of Mrs. Keueen, Flannigan
Paris Mitchell of King's Row, Bel
lamann; Raintree County, Lock
ridge; Beach Red, Bowman; Only
Parenty, Rich; Red Doe, Mayrant;
Indigo Bend, Braham; Smoke
Eater, Rathjen; Smoke Jumpers,
Jorgensen; Phantom Mustang,
Richard.
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NEW RODEO FIELD LIGHTS do an excellent job of turning night into day at the big oval This photo
was taken one night last week by Alex Thompson while the lights were turned on for their first
night test. Lights will be used next Tuesday night for the first time for a 14 school trackmeet.
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FIELD LIGHTING COMMITTEE and other interested chamber of
commerce and school members gathered In the center of the rodeo
field to have their picture taken by the glare of the new lights.
No flash was used to obtain this picture. Shown left to right:
Jack Loyd, Jack Bedford, Dr. E. K. Schaffitz, J. R. Huffman, Jeff
Carter, W. C. Rosewall, H. C. Reed and Ed Collison.
(Photo by Alex Thompson)
Local Polio Vaccine
Not From Cutter Lab
None of the limited amount of
Salk Polio vaccine which, has
been administered to children in
the Heppner area came from the
Cutter Laboratories, Inc. the
concern which recalled its ship
ments Wednesday after several
reports of adverse effects among
children taking it were received
Dr. Clifford Wagner and Dr. Stan
ley J. Kirk of the Heppner Clinic
said late Wednesday.
All unused portions of the vac
cine from the company were re
called Wednesday after several
deaths were reported among
KEELING NEW HUNTERS AND ANGLERS
PREXY; CONTEST WINNERS NAMED
At the Morrow County Hunters
and Anglers club meeting Tues
day evening at the Legion hall,
Kenneth Keeling was elected the
new president for the coming
year. His staff of new officers
include Ervin Anderson, vice
president; Mrs. Paul Brown, secretary-treasurer.
The group has been very in
active during the past year but
they will now meet regularly
once a mnth.
Awards were made for the por
cupine, crow and magpie and
raven contests for the last year.
In the porcupine contest Omer
Huston won a 22 rifle, donated
by the Heppner Pine Mills, with
a 131 points. Others winning in
this contest were Frank Harsh
man a pen, given by Dick's Rich-
Two Heppner Students
Are Honorary Choice
EASTERN OREGON COLLEGE,
La Grande (Special) Adelia An
derson and Constance Newman of
Heppner were initiated into Sig
ma Alpha Chi, Eastern Oregon
College women's honorary, Fri
day, April 15 at 7:00 p. m. They
were among thirty-three girls
Initiated, being the largest group
in the history of Sigma Alpha Chi.
The meaning of the organlza-
tion was explained to the inlti -
ates, and the pledge administered
to them. The new members were
then welcomed personally by the
older members. Each Initiate was
asked to read a favorite poem.
Following the poetry selections,
every girl introduced herself to
the group. A brief history of the
organization was given by Dr.
Zabel, and refreshments were
then served.
Mrs. Willard Blake has gone to
Corvallis for a few days to visit
her mother, Mrs. Dave Wilson
who is soon to undergo surgery.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rood of
Elgin were weekend visitors at
the home of Mr. Rood's sister,
Mrs. Lester Doolittle of Heppner.
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children who had received the
vaccine. It is not known whether
or not the vaccine was at fault.
The two Heppner doctors are
the only ones who have so far
received any of the vaccine, it
was said. All first and second
grade children in the county will
be given the shots free of charge
eventually, but no vaccine has
been received from the state for
the immunizations.
The small amount which has
been given here privately was
manufactured by other compan-
ies, the doctors said.
field, with lo points; Mike Mona
han a flashlight, from Jack Van
Winkle with 15 points; Johnny
Parsons a reel from Aiken's, with
54 points and Alfred Osmin a
flashlight, from Farley's, with 52
points.
In the crow and magpie con
test a case of 22 shells donated
by Ervin Anderson was won by
Lowell Lee Turner with 620 pionts.
Albert Osmin won a telescope
pole from Gilliam and Bisbee's,
with 400 points and a cleaning
outfit from Case Furniture was
received by Gale Cox with 60
points.
Oliver Devin was the winner In
the raven contest with 160 points,
he received a knife from Heppner
Hardware.
Points were based on one point
each for porcupine noses; in the
crow and magpie contest legs
counted five points and eggs
counted two points; ten points for
legs and three for eggs were
given in the raven contest.
Seven lone Musicians
To Take Part in
PU Music Festival
Chosen from a select list of
Oregon and Washington high
school musicians, seven students
will represent lone high school
lat the eighth annual Music In
May festival at Pacific Univer
sity In Forest Grove, Oregon, May
12, 13, and 14.
Attending from lone will be:
Gary Brenner, Richard Ekstrom,
Malcolm McKinney, Lawrence
Rietmann, Dennis Swanson, Jean
Swanson, Gerry White, and di
rector, Donald Springer.
Five hundred of the northwest's
top performers are selected by
their directors each spring to form
a 200 piece band, a 220-voice
chorus, and an 80-piece sym
phony orchestra to play under
well-known guest conductors. In
cluded in the three-day event Is
a network radio broadcast and a
concert by the three groups at the
conclusion of the festival.
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Wheat Growers
Hear of Progress
On Parity Plan
Approximately 65 farmers at
tended the annual spring meet
ing of the Morrow County Wheat
Growers Association held at the
Lexington Grange hall last Fri
day evening. Featured on the
program were reports of the
standing committees a report on
farm legislation In Washington,
D. C, the Oregon Wheat Growers
League home economist program,
the Conservation Man of the Year
program and major activities of
the Oregon Wheat Growers Lea
gue. Frank Anderson, chairman
presided.
Bob Taylor, Administrator Ore
gon Wheat Commission, and
Umatilla county wheat farmer,
reported to the farmers activities
of the Oregon Wheat Growers
League in Washington D. C. Tay.
lor pointed out that the Oregon
Wheat Growers League has been
active in Washington D. C. since
Congress with major emphasis
on bringing before Congressmen
the advantages of a domestic
parity plan in an attempt to
solve the plight of the wheat far
mer. He stated that Oregon dele
gations were much respected In
the capital and that farmer rep
resentatives of the league and the
National Association of Wheat
Growers were making progress '
towards the adoption of the plan
In Congress this year. He also
gave a long list of projects which
are being given attention In
Washington that would be of
benefit to our farmers.
Reporting on activities of the
newly organized domestic wheat
utilization committee, Mrs. H. G.
Campbell, Echo, explained that
thirteen projects had been out
lined for this women's group for
the year. Introducing Miss Nalda
Whybark, home economist, Ore
gon Wheat Growers League, Miss
Whybark outlined her program
In developing market for wheat
products. She pointed out that
her program was based on the
theory that with 160,000,000 peo
ple, which population has more
than doubled over 40 years ago.
that the consumption of wheat
products had increased only 4
during this large Increase of
population. Her report showed
that It was necessary to have an
active progrem for the consump
tion of wheat foods if the in
dustry was to compete with other
commodities that are doing much
promotion work to compete In
filling the three and one' half
pint stomach of the human being.
Kenneth Smouse, President of
the Oregon Wheat Growers Lea
gue, outlined the major activities
of the league for the year, point
ing out that the program was
based on recommendations from
wheat growers in the state. He
stated that these many and var
ied recommendations and pro
jects are being worked upon by
19 committees composed of al
most 150 wheat growers of the
state. Mr. Smouse pointed out
that the number one project for
the year was on a long time
wheat program with special em
phasis on the domestic parity
plan in congress now.
Other committees reported on
progress and activities.
The group voted to recommend
to the Oregon Wheat Growers
League that the 1955 annual
meeting be held at Pendleton.
The Morrow county association
is host this year, but it was felt
that facilities to handle the at
tendance would not be adequate
at Heppner.
WELFARE HEAD TO BE NAMED
George (Duke) Warner, wel
fare administrator in Morrow
county, who has resigned to take
a position in Bend will stay here
another week.
The Welfare Commission will
make the selection of his re
placement next Monday It has
announced.