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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September 8, 1955
72nd Year, Number 26
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HOWARD BRYANT, who was judged top roper in the Morrow county
amateur calf roping, is shown receiving his saddle and con
gratulations from Paul Koenig, manager of the Heppner Pine Mills,
donor of the prize event Awards were made at the conclusion of
the Sunday show.
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NORTHWEST BRONC RIDING CHAMPION, Norman Goree of Arling
ton, receives the top prize, a coveted Hamley saddle, from Ralph
Schwalbe,, treasurer of Hamley & Company, Pendleton saddle
maker who donated the prize. Goree also went home with a good
share of the $1,250 prize money for the event. (Thompson Photo)
Rodeo Parade One of Best Seen Here;
Soroptimists Win Sweepstakes Award
A sizeable crowd braved "just
plain hot" September sunshine
Saturday morning to watch one of
the largest and best rodeo pa
rades seen here in recent years.
The parade sparkled with,
many new royal courts, riding
organizations, juvenile groups
and other organizations which
have not participated in previous
parades. Features of the parade,
in addition to float and organi
zation winners listed below in
cluded three bands; numerous
riding groups; four royal courts;
the Spinnerettes from Pendleton,
agroup of young rope-spinning
cowgirls; the Pendleton Main
Street Cowboys from Pendleton
and their calliope and a big
group of youngsters.
The grand sweepstakes award
in the float division went to the
Heppner Soroptimist club with
its attractive entry depicting
"service for youth". Other win-
npr in this division were the
Squared Up Rounders, second;
and the Rhea Creek Grange,
third.
Over $400 in prize money was
awarded to division winners by
the chamber of commerce, spon
cnra nf the narade which was
lead bv color bearers Harry Din-
ges and James Lindsay. Also
riding were Queen Carol Ann
Wislesworth and her court as
well as courts from the Pendle
ton Rcund-Up, Grant county fair
and the Umatilla fair. Riding
groups included were the Hepp--ner
Wranglers, Evergreen Riding
club from Ukiah, Pendleton Mus
tangers, the Umatilla Sage Rid-
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The Heppner football team also
had a float in the parade.
Other winners were:
Juvenile floats. Morrow county
4-H, first; Lexington Cub Scouts,
second, Doris Morris, Heppner,
third; business floats: Pacific
Power and Light, first, Morrow
County Grain Growers, second;
Empire Machinery Co., third.
Best mounted cowboy, Howard
Bryant; best mounted cowgirl,
Mary Lou Lazinka; oldest cow
boy, Lote Robison; oldest cow
girl, Mrs. Lennie Louden; young
est cowboy, Gene Crowell; young
est cowgirl, Francine Lieuallen;
best comic, Tony Upton; best fam
ily group, Mr .and Mrs. Roice
Fulleton and family.
Bands: Irrigon high school
band, first; Echo drum and bugle
corps, second; riding clubs: Uma
tilla Sage Riders, first; Wranglers
riding club, second; best pets:
Melody Bailoy, first, Don Keeling,
second, Frank Harshmari, third;
juvenile division: James Farra,
first, Dennis Morgan, second, Tony
Upton, third; juvenile cowboys:
Larry Heath first, Tim Driscoll,
second, Chuck Huggett, third;
juvenile cowgirls: Anna Marie
Brindle, first, Christy Koenig, se
cond, Jennifer Brindje, third.
Judges were Ford Robertson,
Verne James, Doe Daley and Le
Roy McElvine of the Pendleton
Main Street Cowboys.
All children partcipating were
given silver dollars and members
of the Spinnerettes from Pendle
ton donated their money to the
Red Cross disaster fund.
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County Swelters
As Mercury Hits
99 Degrees Here
The thunder storm which came
over Heppner early this morning
dropped a little rain and cooled
temperatures, but it did start
one small spot fire near Nine
Top cabin, south of Tupper
guard station, the forest service
ipported. It is the first fire
in this district.
Haze made visibility low in
the mountains and a patrol plane
was sent out this afternoon to
check the area. No rain fell in
the mountains.
Morrcnv county residents, in
company with most of the rest
of the western part of the United
States, continued to swelter on
Wednesday, the eighth straight
day of the summer's worst heat
wave while forest service offi
cials were keeping their fingers
crossed hoping for more of the
good luck that has kept them
from having any fires in the
Heppner district of the Umatilla
National Forest.
An official high temperature of
99 degrees thought to be a record
for this time of year, was checked
on both Monday and Tuesday
at the Heppner weather station.
On all other days in the past
week the mercury has hit 89 or
higher. Several unofficial ther
mometers in the Lexington and
lone' areas recorded highs of 103
and 104 early this week.
Most persons felt the heat the
worst on Monday when a slight
early morning overcast raised the
humidity reading for the very
low percentage of earlier days.
Monday night was also the warm
est experienced here In several
years when the mercury dropped
only to a warm 63. At midnight
Monday if still read about 74.
The hot weather wasn't con-
' fined just to the lower areas as
mercury readings taken at for
est service lookouts at Tamarack
and Madison lookouts Tuesday
showed temperatures of 92 and
87. Fire danger in the moun
tains was extremely high as the
forest service has had daytime
humidity readings of only 11 to
22 percent. Thunderstorms,
which have been plagueing other
sections of the state and setting
hundeds of forest fires, came in
over the mountains Monday night
and though they missed the
Heppner district, three small
fires were started by lightning in
the Ukiah district. All were small
,and quickly controlled.'
Forest officials urged anyone
having to go into the mountains
to use extra-care as all areas are
tinder dry. Many mountain
streams have either completely
dried up or are just a mere
trickle.
A high overcast Wednesday in
much of the county gave some
small amount of relief from the
heat, but the only thing the wea
therman would say was more of
the same with the possibility of
some thunderstorms to give only
temporary relief
The Heppner temperatures fort
the past week were:
Max Min.
89 49
90 49
93 58
93 51
90 55
99 63
99 58
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Truck Destroyed
By Fire Wednesday
Fire, apparently starting in
straw from a hot exhaust, com
pletely destroyed a truck belong
ing to Floyd Jones late Wednes
day afternoon at the junction of
Hinton Creek and Sand Hollow
roads.
The truck was being used to
haul straw from the rodeo barns
to the Ed Craber place and car
ried a full load at the time the
fire broke out. It had just been
driven into a field and unload
ing started when Craber noticed
that the entire area around the
truck was afire.
Flames spread in the dry
grass and straw and burned over
about an acre of ground before
being stopped. Efforts to put out
the fire in the truck proved futile
and workers concentrated their
efforts to keep the fire from
spreading to adjoining fields.
Guests at the Don Robinson
ranch over the weekend were
Mrs. Merle Kirk of Hermiston;
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Robinson, Mt.
Vernon and Mrs. James ' Brown
and son Michael of Pendleton.
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FLAMING WRECK Still smoking
ing to extinguish the gafoline fed flames in this pickup truck
belonging to Art Young, Heppner, which overturned and burned
last Friday night after being struck by another car. The occu
pants of this truck, Mr. and Mrs. Young and their small son, es
caped with onlf minor injuries. (Lyons Ttudio Photo)
School Registration
Near Last Year's Totals
First day registration figures
at Heppner Lexington and lone
schools showed a very slight
drop in the total number of stu-
dents returning, but by the end
of the week all schools look for
an increase as late-registering
students show up.
School total figures taken at
the end of the first day of class
es show Heppner with 4G3 stu
dents, compared with 470 at the
end of two weeks last year (the
earliest date comparisons could
be made..) 132 are in high school
and 331 in the grades.
lone checked in 43 in the high
school and 102 in the grades
compared with 47 and 101 last
year. Lexington registered a
total of 98 students, 28 in the
high school, up six,' and 70 in the
grades, down four.
First day registrations are
North Morrow Fair
Opens Friday,
Money Assured
The North Morrow county fair
gets under way tomorrow morn
ing at Boardman with sufficient
money guaranteed by the county
court to put on a good show de
spite the fact that it was an
nounced last week by the fair
board that it was forced to with
hold regular funds due to a state
law forbidding the use of state
money for the support of more
than one fair in a county. "
The county court, pulled the
North county fair out of its fi
nancial dilemma Wednesday
when it voted to appropriate up
to $2,500 from county funds to de
fray premium costs and insure a
fair there this year. Lack of time
prevented the north Morrow fair
board, from obtaining money
through any means but the em
ergency fund.
Friday's program calls for the
start of judging at 8 a. fh. to be
followed by a full day of enter
tainment. On Saturday a fair
parade will start at 10 a. m. with
many prizes scheduled for win
ners of float contests. In the
afternoon a bike parade is sche
duled and a pig scramble is set
for 1 p. m.
The fair will be short all regu
lar 4-H entries and divisions this
year as that section was held on
August 26 to give winners an
opportunity to go on to the state
fair ' which is being held this
week in Salem. All other entries
and exhibits are expected to
equal or better last year's it was
said this week by fair officials.
Friday Night Dance
Set For Students
The Young Peoples Fellowship
of All Saints' Episcopal church
In Heppner will give a dance for
all young people of the commun
ity of high school age and over
this Friday at 8:00 p. m. at the
parish house on Gale St.
Mrs. Claude Graham is chair
man of the committee on ar
rangements with Mr. and Mrs. P.
W. Mahoney, Mr. and Mrs. Low
ell Gribble, Mr. and Mrs. James
Thomson and Melvin Piper as
sisting.
while Heppner firemen are try
always short of the total students
to show up by the end of the
first week, and school officials
at Heppner said that they know
of at least a half dozen who
registered the second day but
were not included in the above
figures. Largest classes here are
in the second and third grades
with another large group show
ing up in the fifth, sixth and
seventh grades.
The classroom problem in
Heppner was greatly eased this
year with the completion of five
of the ten rooms in the new grade
school building making it pos
sible to move all classes out of
the basement of the old building.
Grade List Given
Following is a breakdown of
registrations by grades at Hepp
ner with a comparison with last
year's first week figures:
Last Yr.
1st grade 42 55
2nd grade 50 56
3rd grade 56 32
Ih grade 32 43
5th grade 43 37
Gth grade 42 50
7th grade 42 26
8th grade 24 2G
High school
Freshmen 31 35
Sophomore 29 31
Junior 34 43
Senior 38 31
A breakdown of the lone school
registration showed:
1st grade 15
2nd grade 13
3rd grade 12
4th grade 13
5th grade 10
Gth grade 9
7th grade 18
8th grade 12
High school
Freshmen 9
Sophomore 8
Junior 12
Senior 14
Lexington has 70 in the ele-
mentary grades and 28 in the
high school, an increase of two
over last year.
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Two County Couples
Leave This Week on
Round-The-World Trip
Two Morrow county couples,
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Cutsforth of
Lexington and Mr. and Mrs
Franklin Lindstrom. lone, will
leave this weekend from Los Ang
eles on the start of a round-the
world plane trip that will take
them across the Pacific to Asia
across that continent, into Africa
Europe and back across the U.S.
The two couples will leave Sept
13 with 24 other persons from
the west coast aboard a special
chartered DC-6 on the tour or
ganized by Dr. Theodore Jack
man, staff photographer for the
Roval Geographical Society of
London. The tour is an experi
mental trip planned to test the
feasibility of establishing reg
ular tours on a similar pattern.
The itinerary Includes a three
day stop at Honolulu: a week
in Japan; stops at Hong Kong,
Manila, Singapore, New Delhi
and Ceylon, India; Iraq; Iran;
Turkey; Egypt; a 30-day stop
over in the Holy Land; Rome
and Milan, Italy; Switzerland;
Germany; Denmark; Sweden;
Belgium; Paris and the British
Isles.
Plans call for the group to be
back in Pendleton December 20.
Street Paving
Appears
Any possibility that a street
improveent district might be
formed in Heppner to curb and
pave several west side streets
appeared to be stymied Tuesday
night when the city council re
ceived a remonstrance petition
asking that the plan be dropped.
Over a year ago the council ac
cepted petitions from residents
on the affected streets asking that
a district be set up to improve
about 15 blocks on the west side
of town. Last month the council
received engineers's plans and
Accident, Fire
Injures One and
Destroys Vehicles
One man suffered a severe cut
face and three other persons, one
a 17 month old boy, escaped with
only bruises in a spectacular car
accident and fire Friday night on
the highway at the west end of
Heppner.
Injured was Frank "Blackie"
Cain of Heppner, a passenger in
a drlverless car which according
to police reports, coasted down a
hill above the highway near In
terior warehouse and struck
broadside -a pickup in which
were riding Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ton A. (Art) Young and their 17
month old boy, Frankie.
The impact overturned the
pickup In the middle of the high
way and the car immediately
caught fire from spilled gasoline
in a 5o gallon drum being carried
in the pickup, The quick action
of Mike Saling, who lives nearby
was credited with possibly sav
ing the lives of the Youngs, Sal
ing opened the door of the truck
and pulled Mrs. Young to safety
then aided Young and the boy in
getting out of the flaming ve
hide. They suffered only brui
ses and minor hurts.
The second car, an old model
sedan, continued on across the
road and stopped about 150 feet
away after running into the In
terior warehouse building. The
car was registered to James II.
Brannon of Heppner, but police
reported that no one was at the
wheel at the time of the accident.
The Brannon car was consider
ed a total loss, and Young's pick
up suffered several hundred dol
lars damage, mostly from fire.
He also lost a considerable
amount of camping equipment
which was burned.
The Heppner fire department
answered a general alarm call to
the accident and worked for
nearly one-half hour extinguish
ing the flames.
No charges have been filed.
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Collison Resigns
School Board Post
Edgar H. Collison, member of
the Heppner school board, sub
mitted his resignation Tuesday
night at the monthly board meet
ing. Collison gave his reason for
resigning, the press of business.
He is manager of the Columbia
Basin Electric co-op which re
cently received a loan from the
REA and will shortly start a big
construction program in Gilliam
and Morrow county. His resigna
tion Is to take effect immediately.
Collison was elected to the
board last year for a three year
term and he served during the
construction period of the new
grade school. His position will
be filled by appointment.
In other school business, the
board awarded the Union oil
company a contract for furnish
ing fueL oil during the coming
school year. Ruggles Insurance
was awarded the insurance on
the system's school buses and
also ordered to write a boiler
insurarce policy.
Two petitions were
submitted
by the Soroptimist club and WSCS
of the Methodist church, asking
that the new grade school be
named in honor of Mrs. Lucy
Rodgers, former Morrow county
school superintendent, teacher
and more recently county treas
urer. The board asked public
discussion of the proposal or the
submission of other names by
the general public. The matter
will be considered further at a
later meeting.
Pan
Stymie
specifications for the project and
ordered a resolution prepared
calling for the establishment of
such a district and announced
that a public hearing would be
held. At Tuesday's meeting the
resolution was adopted by the
council but if the signatures on
the remonstrance petition check
out as valid the petition will
void any previous actum.
Fom all appearances a suffi
cient number of names appeared
on the petition, city attorney J.
Nys reported, stating that he
estimated the signatures to rep
resent at least 70 percent of the
property owners on the streets.
Only a two-thirds majority is re
quired to kill the proposal.
The council received the peti
tion an dordered the city record
er to check the validity of signa
tures. If they check out the plan
will be dropped at least for the
present. Many of the names on
the remonstrance petition were
the same as those who signed
the original petitions asking that
the work be done.
In other action the council took
steps to notify the Heppner Civic
League to vacate the old civic
center building at the park and
to call for bids on the destruction
of the building. It had been used
by the organization to house kin
dergarten classes, but the classes
are now being held in the school.
The building will be torn down
to make way for park improve
ment work in the area.
Bids are to be called for again
for the construction of two con
crete footbridges across Willow
cheek, one leading to the school
from Main street and the other
at Lover's Lane. A call for bids
was issued several months ago,
but none were received.
Tree Spraying Talked
J. O. Turner appeared before
the council asking that it con
sider the passage of an ordinance
requiring the spraying of all elm
trees in the city. It was pointed
out that if the trees are not spray
ed at the proper time during the
year they become infested with
elm beetles and infect surround
ing trees. The matter was turned
over to a committee for study
and recommendation.
A report on the swimming pool
showed a very good year with
heavy use of the plant during the
summer. Plans were discussed
to install a heating system at
the pool by next year.
A building permit was granted
to John Lane for $3,500 remodel
ing at his building on west Wil
low street.
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Mrs, Avent Given
Life Sentence
Mrs. Ann Whitney Avent Tues
day was sentenced to a term of
life imprisonment in the state
penitentiary for the shooting of
Dcllmore Lessard, Portland at
torney, on June 4. I he sentence
was pronounced by circuit judge
William W. Wells and is manda
tory under state law.
The sentencing climaxed a
three day trial last week In which
a 12 man jury brought back a
verdict of guilty of second de
gree murder In the shooting.
In a pre-sentencing statement
Mrs. Avent, who had been quite
calm during most of the trial,
broke down and begged the court
for mercy saying that, "I meant
nothing wrong". She said that she
asked for nothing except for her
family and her boy. The shoot
ing occurred following a dis
cussion between her and Lessard
over custody of the boy.
Immediately following the
sentencing Mrs. Avent was taken
to Salem In the custody of the
sheriff C. J. D. Bauman.
DR. WOLFFS ARRIVE HOME
Dr .and Mrs. Wallace Wolff and
three children arrived in Hepp
ner September 1, from Puerto
Rico where Dr. Wolff had been
stationed with the Army.
They are guests at the home of
Mr. and rs. Tom Wilson, until
they can find suitable housing
and get settled.
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Vaughn. Jr.
and children of Pendleton and
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fredrick
son and two boys of Hermiston
were weekend guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. William
Barratt.