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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1956)
L 1 B R A R y U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. Follow-up School Meeting Friday a ionow-up conference on President Eisenhowed's White House conference on education ' will be held Friday evening at .7:30 at the lone school cafetor- ium, with S. E. Brogoitti of Helix, Oregon representative to the Washington meeting, as the main speaker. The follow-up conferences, which are being held in various areas throughout the state, are planned to bring back to the peo pie the report of what was ac complished at the Washington, D C, meeting held late last fall. The idsa was developed by the President and district meetings were held last summer and early fall to formulate the educational problems which would be taken up at the national White House meeting in Washington. Brogoitti will give a report on the results of that meeting. Following Brogoitti's report, which will be given at a general meeting, Bradley Fancher, con ference chairman, will divide the meeting into smaller groups for individual discussion of the fol lowing problems relating to edu cation and how the answers re ported at the Washington meet ing can be applied locally. The subjects will include: how can we organize our schools more efficiently and economically? What are . our school building needs? How can we get enough good teachers and keep them? How do we finance our school Ground Observer Need Seen Here Master segeant Robert Cole man of Hermiston, Air Force rep resentative for the ground ob server corps for Umatilla and Morrow county, and MSgt. W. G. Corpe, from the Eastern Oregon Filter Center at Bend were In the county Monday working with Ervin Anderson, local GOC super visors and others in behalf of more active participation In the Ground Observer work in this area. The two men stated that they hope to organize an active Ground Observer Corps here and that Sgt. Coleman will speak to the chamber of commerce next Monday and before the Heppner city council at its next meeting April 2. o Two Heppner Students In Pacific Honoraries PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Spe- cial Dorothy Dobyns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noel K. Dobyns, lone, and Lyle Jensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Nash of Hepp ner were tapped as members of Boxerettes and Intercollegiate Knights respectively. These two organizations are honoraries for freshman .and sophomore men and women. Miss Dobyns is a freshman taking a liberal arts course and is a graduate of lone high school where she was active in many different activities and was girl league president. Miss Dobyns is now a member of Theta Nu Al pha sorority at Pacific. Jensen is also a freshman ma joring in journalism and is a graduate of Heppner high school He is a member of Phi Beta Tau fraternity and is also a member of the university's paper staff. CIVIC LEAGUE TO MEET MONDAY NIGHT The Heppner Civic League will meet at 8 p. m. Monday, March 26 in the kindergarten room at the school. This will be the meeting , that was postponed from last week. o Mrs. Mary Van Stevens has had as her guest this week Mrs. Ovidia Dewey, of White Salmon, Wash. VALUABLE, BUT NOT Misunderstanding Puts High Price on Porkys If the interpretation a Willam ette valley man gave a story carried last week in the Gazette Times and picked up by news services were correct, a porcu pine's life would be worth a lot of money but his chances as survival would be mighty poor. Every able-bodied hunter in the state would be looking for the prickly animals. The GT story told that the supervisors of the Heppner Soil Conservation district had put up $25 from district funds to be used for prizes and bounties in the annual porky contest sponsored buildings and operate them? How can we obtain continuous public interest in education? Leaders in the discussion groups will be Lloyd Howton, Ray Heimbigner, L. E, Dick and Dewey West. Following these discussions, each leader will re port their conclusions to the general meeting. The problems to be discussed at the conference are ones which plague all school districts and which ultimately reflect in school taxes. The meeting is open to the public, all persons interested in schools and tax problems are urged to attend the meeting, o Five Years Seen Till River Towns Will Be Drowned Residents of Boardman, Arling-, ton and other communities along the Columbia can expect it to be at least five years before their towns and property will be drowned out by the backwater of the John Day dam. This information was revealed by members of the Corps of Engl neers at a meeting of 75 inter ested persons at Boardman Wed nesday night. The meeting, sponsored by the Boardman Com mercial Club, was another in a recent series held by the club to determine what effect the build ing of the dam will have on river-front communities. Speakers at the meeting were Alvin Ross, coordinator; B. C. Christensen, and M. K. Tysor, real estate division, of the Army engineers, all from Walla Walla, The men told the group that there are several "its" connect ed with any time schedule on the dam. First of all money must be appropriated by congress be fore anything can be done. If and when the money is voted the dam will be two years In the planning stage, then there will be another three years of pre liminary construction before any of the communities would be ef fected. There is also still the question of whether the dam will be built by the government of in "partnership" with private utilities. The meeting was organized on a question and answer plan, and many more questions were raised by those present. The time ele ment, however, was the most im portant in most people's minds. The Boardman Commercial Club has spearheaded a program during recent months aimed at determining what problems river communities will face and how they can be met. o Holy Week Church Services Scheduled A series of special Holy Week church services will be held in various churches in this area starting next Tuesday evening, it was announced this week. Special services will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the Lexington Christian church with Rev. A. Shirley of lone bringing the message. Wednesday even-1 ing services will be held at the Heppner Assembly of God church with Rev. Norman Northrup of Lexington giving the sermon. Thursday there will be candle light communion services at the Heppner Methodist church with Rev. Lester Boulden and Rev". Charles Knox in charge. Special Good Friday and Eas ter Sunday services are also planned by most Heppner, Lex ington and lone churches and these schedules will be given next week. The public is invited fo attend all the special services. WORTH $25.00 by the Morrow County Hunters and Anglers. Wednesday Ralph Taylor, secretary of the sports men's club received the follow ing letter from a man who will remain unidentified: "Dear Sir: To whom it may concern. I saw a piece in the paper where you were going to pay $25.0o a piece for porcupines, and was wonder ing if that goes for anyone who wants to come down there and hunt them? If so, please answer by return mail and let me know, will you?" Hunters and Anglers president Copies 10 Cents Heppner Girl Wins UNITED NATIONS PILGRIMAGE Heppner high school junior, is y - v - -J; .1 Z. - - 1 . - - 4? I . ' ; I, I - ' ' i if, 3 ' , . - ': iwl ft li'tt.togmtiM-'oMlii Murtry, local Odd Fellow contest chairman, on being selected to represent this lodge in the district finals to be held Saturday night ct Pendleton. Shown with them is Jay Sumner, alternate who was runner-up in the final judging. The final judging for the local contest was held at Monday's chamber of commerce meeting with both students giving their contest speeches before the group. The winner of the Saturday competition from among contestants from Morrow and Umatilla county will be given a three week trip to New York to visit the United Nations. The contest is sponsored by the Odd Fellows lodges and 14 students from Oregon will make the trip. (GT Photo) Voter Registration Places in County Listed by Clerk Residents are reminded again that proper registration is neces sary to vote in the May primary election, and the county clerk this week issued a list of regis trars In the county where citizens may register. Registrars are: for North and South Heppner and the Hardman areas, the county clerk's office in the courthouse; Lexington, Mrs Emma Breshears at the post office; lone, Paul Pettyjohn at the General Petroleum plant; Boardman, Walter Hayes store; and Irrigon, at the home of Mrs. Marguerite Howton. Persons who are properly regis tered and have voted at least once during the last election year need not re-register, but those who have moved since the last election, or did not vote during that year, must be properly re gistered if they expect to vote. New election laws now in ef fect make it necessary for a voter to be registered in the pre cinct in which he lives. If a voter has moved and not changed registration he will not be al lowed to vote in his former pre cinct. The new election laws are quite stringent and a violation of them can result in a sizeable fine. The deadline for registering, to be able to vote in the primary election, is April 17, o Heppner FFA Named "Master Chapter" At State Meeting OREGON STATE COLLEGE The Future Farmers of America chapter at Heppner high school has been named one of Oregon's "master chapters" for 1956 the highest honor given to a high school FFA group, Thirty-three of Oregon's 86 chapters qualified this year on the basis of outstanding activl ties and accomplishments In FFA work. Adviser for the local chapter is Llewellyn Robbins. Announcement of the master chapter ratings was made last week at the twenty-eighth an nual FFA convention at Oregon State college. More than 400 boys and their chapter advisers from across Oregon attended the four-day meeting this year, o Mr. and Mrs. George Combes and son of Portland were Hepp ner visitors over the weekend. Ken Keeling said today, "it just ain't so. We want to get rid of the porkys and our contest will include a bounty and valuable prizes that will be announced at a later date, but the bounty will NOT be $25.00 each." In connection with the porcu pine eradication contest, Keeling revealed that several additional individuals or concerns have put up cash or merchandise to be used as prizes in the contest. Included are Heppner Pine Mills; Eastern Oregon Logging Co., Kinzua; Leo L. Flower, Monument; Heppner Soil Conservation District; Mor Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 22, Local UN Contest contest winner Mary Jo Stewart being congratulated by R. G. Mc Van Marter Named To Head Elks La Verne Van Marter Jr. of Heppner has been namer new exalted ruler of the Heppner Elks lodge. He will take over from Milton Morgan, lone, who has served for the past year. The elec tion was held March 15. Other officers chosen last week include Alton H. Yarnell, lone, leading knight; William Labhart, loyal knight, John Hartman, lec turing knight; Jack Bailey, sec retary; H. D. McCurdy, Jr., treas urer; R. B. Ferguson, trustee; and Lowell Gribble, tiler. Other lodge officers are ap pointive and will be announced within a short time by the new exalted ruler. Installation of the new officers will be held April 5. L. E. Dick Named President of Heppner Parent-Teachers L. E. Dick was elected presi dent of the Heppner P-TA at the organization's annual election held last Wednesday. Other new officers are Mrs. Marvin Smith, vice president; Mrs. Douglas Drake, treasurer and Mrs. John Hanna, Jr., secretary. Dick replaces Lowell Gribble who has headed the group for the past year. Plans were made to send dele gates to the state P-TA conven tion next month, and the pro gram included short talks by Vic Groshens, city superintendent, who told of the water system; State patrolman, Bill Labhart who spoke on the work of the state police; Robert Penland, who told of the work and organiza tion of the Heppner fire depart ment; and Jack Van Winkle who explained the Elks eye clinic program. Everett Keithley was program chairman. o RURAL SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET TUESDAY A special meeting of the rural school board will be held Tues day, March 27 at 7:30 p. m. at the court house. The consideration of district budgets will be the main business. SOCIAL SECURITY MAN DUE A social security representative will be at the city hall in Hepp ner from 9 a. m. to noon on Wed nesday, March 28. row County Livestock Growers association; North Fork Timber Co.; and Aiken's Place. The money will be used to buy prizes and to pay a bounty for the porky noses turned in. The damage to trees that por cupines inflict has caused rising concern among conservation, for estry and sportsmen's groups throughout the state and several organizations are now sponsor ing porky contests in an effort to control the bark-eating pests. The Morrow County Hunters and Anglers have sponsored a local contest for several years and hope to enlarge its scope In 1956. mmtttt AN END TO PARKING TICKETS-? "Give-Back-a-Nickel" Parking Plan to Start This Weekend The Heppner-Morrow county chamber of commerce's new "please put-a-nickel-in -the enve lope" parking plan will be put into effect starting this weekend it was announced today by Phil Blakney, chamber president. The plan which is patterned after similar ideas used in sev eral other' Oregon towns, is to provide local police officers with nickles and bright orange enve looes which will be used in place of parking meter violation clta Hons. It works like this: When the officer, in making his rounds, finds a car parked by an expired meter, he will put a nickel in the meter from a special fund set up by the Hepp ner merchants and will place a small bright orange envelope under the windshield swipe in stead of the usual parking ticket which normally costs the car owner a fine of $1. On the envelope is an explana tion of what has been done and a request that the car owner place a nickel in the envelope ' and leave it at the nearest store where it will go back into the special fund to keep other shop pers from having to pay the $1 parking fine. If everybody cooperates, as it Is hoped they will, the fund should remain intact and the plan work able. Folice plan to watch for habitual violators, however, and after a trial period, persons who continue to "forget" to deposit money in the meters or return the envelopes can expect to re- Basin Projects Committee To Meet Here March 28 The Upper Columbia River Ba sin projects committee will meet Wednesday, March 28 at 8 p. m. at the court house in Heppner it was announced today by Newt O'Harra, county committee chair man. The program calls for sub committee reports to be made by the following chairmen: Bill Barratt, irrigation; Garnet Bar ratt, flood control; Kenneth Smouse, power; Al Lamb, naviga. tion; Orville Cutsforth, recrea tion; Garland Swanson, munici pal and domestic uses; Oscar Peterson, industrial and mining development; Don Kenny, drain age; and Dr. L. D. Tibbies, polu- tion control. Also schduled is a panel dis cussion with state representa tive Allen Tom and Don Lane, executive secretary of the seven- man Project board in charge. All interested persons are urged to attend the meeting. I, . ' 5 r. . - , La .- , '- 1 ,4 .- f ' ' I..,. vi VI ' f r v v..:,, a- P n A LOT TO CATCH UP ON These two sisters, one a former resident of Heppner, had a lot to talk about when they met recently for the first time in 53 years. Mrs. Elizabeth Mead, 92, right, now a resi dent of Seattle, and her sister, Mrs. Laura Carroll of Osceola, Mo., are shown during their reunion which took place on Mrs. Mead's birthday. Mrs. Mead lived in Heppner from 1903 until 1950 and is the mother of Mrs. Phil Griffin of Heppner and Mrs. Si Walker, formerly of here who now lives in Portland. Mrs. Mead last saw her sister, who is 77, in Osceola in 1902. 1956 ceive regular parking citations. The idea has the blessing of the city council. The same plan has been tried in several towns in the state with rather mixed results, it is re ported. Several are still con tinuing the idea with good re sults, though one or two com munities have discontinued it when their special fund ran out of money because parkers ne- Red Cross Drive at 30 Percent of Quota Returns are starting to pick up in the county Red Cross drive, Dick Brunner, county chairman reported today. $901.60 has been checked in as of March 20. This figure is only 30 percent of the county goal of $2818, but returns are expected to come in faster during the last week of the drive, Brunner said. Workers who have checked in during the past week include: Mrs. Harold Johnston, Mrs. R. B. Rice, Mrs. Lowell Gribble, Mrs, Marvin Smith and Bruce Lind say, all of Heppner; Mrs. James Lindsay, Morgan; Mrs. Ben An derson, Eightmile; Mrs. Marcel Jones, Dry Gulch; Mrs. Mary Wright, Ruggs, Mrs. Oleta Ward well, Blackhorse; Mrs. Ralph Beamer, Balm Fork; The Rhea Creek grange and Willow I. O. O. F. lodge. The Future Business Leaders club from Heppner high school turned in $22 from their car wash project last Saturday which makes a total of $75.75 from the high school group. Brunner said that there Is a Red Cross office at the bank to make it convenient for anyone who has been missed on the regu. lar canvass to make their dona tion to the drive. o Bud Wagner Injured In La Grande Accident John (Bud) Wagner of Hepp ner who is attending Eastern Oregon College at La Grande was painfully injured Monday night in an accident when a train lo comotive hit his car Vk miles East of La Grande. He suffered a broken noseface lacerations and shock and Miss Evelyn Miller of La Grande, who was with him, was seriously In jured. She is still on the criti cal list. The car was completely demolished. 73rd Year, Number 2 glected to return the envelopes and nickels. Blakney and other members of the committee who worked up the idea expressed the belief that when shoppers understand the plan it will work out well. "We are only trying to show people that we appreciate them shop ping in Heppner stores. Many times people will unintentional ly overlook a parking meter or unavoidably be unable to re turn before the meter has ex pired and we want to save them the $1 fine," the committee said. If the general public cooper ates, the idea may mean a vir tual end to parking tickets in Heppner. Awards Given Camp Fire Girls The annual Camp Fire Girls ceremonial was held Sunday afternoon, March 18 in the multi purpose room of the new grade school. Three Camp Fire groups, O kl zu with Mrs. E. Schmidt as lead er; O ki wa ni ta, Mrs. Helen Cox, leader; Wa can te ka, Mrs. Er vin Anderson, leader and three Blue Bird groups, Gay Bluebirds, Mrs. M. C. Huggett, leader; Merry Bluebirds, Mrs. Lewis Cason, leader; and Happy Bluebirds, Mrs. Clem Stockard, leader were all represented. The following program wa9 given, Wohelo by Libby Van Scholack; Processional; invoca tion, Rev. Merlin Zler; candle lighting, Wa can te ka Camp Fire girls; song, Camp Fire Law, by all groups; roll call, Carol Anderson; mistress of ceremon ies, Janice Martin; Navajo In dian Friendship Chant, all the groups; Bluebird songs, three Bluebird groups; Indian stick game, Ok wa ni ta Camp Fire girls; introduction of 1956 birth day project, Sandra Jones; song and game, Happy Bluebirds; choral reading, Merry Bluebirds; lion hunt, O kl zu Camp Fire girls; dance, Gay Bluebirds; pre sentation of awards, Rev. Char les Knox; candle extinguishing, Carol Anderson; song, Call of the Fire, all groups and the re cessional. The awards won were by the O kl zu Camp Fire girls were Trail Blazer rank by Darlene Turner, Cheryl Crist and Geral- dine Swaggart. Wood Gatherers rank, Sandra Campbell, Eliza beth Van Scholack, Diane Mc Curdy, Judy Schmidt, Sharon Lindsay, Peggy Estberg, Rose Marie . Nash, Shirlee Gaines, Beverly Blake and Mary Shan non. Fire Makers rank, Jeanne Schmidt. Polly Woe Swimming honors went to- Jeanne Schmidt, Darlene Turner, Diane McCurdy, Sharon Lindsay and Sandra Campbell. Judy Schmidt and Jeanne Schmidt received five year membership pins and Peggy Estberg a three year member ship The O ki wa ni ta Camp Fire girls receiving Firemakers cer tificates, 15, purple beads and Firemakers bracelets were Doris Morris, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Shirley Van Winkle, Julie Pfeif- for, Bernice Thomson, Mary Kay Sloeum, Sandra Jones, Francine Moyer and Sheryl Harris. They all received their five year but tons except Julie Pfelffer who hasn't been with the group that long. A service emblem for 10 hours service in community pro jects was received by Julie Pfelf fer. Those completing the 1955 birthday project requirements were Shirley Van Winkle, Bernice Thomson and Sandra Jones. Mrs. James Thomson, who Is a former leader of this group, was presented a gift by the girls. Janice Martin of the Wa can te ka Camp Fire group received the Wood Gatherers and Fire Makers ranks, a service emblem for 10 hours community service and the frog swimming honor. Receiving the Torch Bearers rank was Carol K. Anderson, she received her Torch Bearer pin and certificate for Torch Bearers craftsman in home making; Carol Anderson and Brenda Townsend earned the 1955 birth day project honor. Other Torch Bearers, who were absent but will receive their rank later are. Connie Anderson In folk lore; Bonnie Hannan, folk lore (Continued on page 6
