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LIBRARY V OF 0 f EUGENE , ORE. Copies 10 Cents Lexington Names Valedictorian, Salutatorian Lexington high school week named the two top this stu amis m its senior graduating class Miss Cherry Grey was Liioben valedictorian and Donald Lasteel, salutatorian. Cherry, who has attended T.py ington hieh schml for fnnr von ra is the daughter of Mrs. Nita Gray who is now teaching at Ukiah, Oregon, but formerly taught at , Lexington. Cherrv has been cheerleader for the past two years una nas oeen active in G. A. A. during all the time she has been in high school. Donald transferred to Lexing ton high from Casper, Wyoming ac rne beginning of his junior year and has taken an active part in all school functions. He Is a brother of Mrs. Bernard Doher ty and lives with the Dohertvs, He was named winner of one of the Heppner Elks scholarships ana plans to continue his educa tion at the University of Oregon, Commencement May 24 Graduation exercises at Lex ington are planned for Thursday evening, May 24 in the school auditorium. Baccalaureate will be in the Lexington Christian church, Sunday May 20, at 8:00 p. m. Commencement speaker will be John M. Miller, professor of edu cation at Eastern Oregon College ot hlucation, awards will be pre sented by superintendent Law rence Brent and diplomas will be given by Ellwynne Peck, school board chairman. The senior class comprises four students. In addition to Miss Gray and Casteel, there are James Leo Laney, and Larry Ray Hen derson. Eighth grade graduation will be held at the same time and students who will enter high school next year are Dennis Do herty, Robert Davidson, Stanley Schoonover, Gregory Leyva, Paula Barak, Charlene Jones, Rosetta Laney and Russell Dol ven. Chamber to Make Kinzua Visit Monday The Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce will tour the Kinzua Pine Mills operation next Monday, it was announced this week at the regular meeting. The organization has been invited to visit the plant and have lunch with the Kinzua management. The group will go in private cars and the caravan plans to leave the Turner, Van Marter and Bryant office at 8:30 Monday morning. Last Monday's program in cluded a Conservation talk by Or. ville Cutsforth and a film on fishing presented by Glenn Ward, o Maxine Sicard is Named Fair Princess The Boardman Tillicum club bacame the first organization to name a princess for the 1956 Mor row county fair and rodeo when they named Miss Maxine Sicard to the royal court. Maxine, 16, is a junior at the Boardman high school and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Sicard. A complete story on princess Maxine will be run later. ERNEST DRAKE, co-valedictorian of the lone high school senior class who shares honors with Anna Jepsen. Emesfs picture failed to arrive last week in time to run with the others of his scbooL LEXINGTON high school valed ictorian. Miss Cherry Gray. uiraiMiM ui AL&m&mmtm SALUTATORIAN of Lexington graduating class ..is . Donald Casteel. Red Cross Drive Nets Over $2200 The final tabulation of results of the Red Cross drive showed a total of $2210 was raised during the campaign. This amounts to 80 percent of the drive quota and is 23 percent over last year, Dick Brunner, county drive chairman said today. Local Red Cross officials are well pleased with the results and the actual county coverage was very good this year, Brunner reported, with particularly fine reports coming in from the Board- man and Irrigon areas. Brunner extended his thanks to all the county solicitors fortheir fine cooperation and outstanding results. Boy Scouts Plant 400 Pine Seedlings Ten Heppner Boy Scouts ob served Scout Conservation month last Sunday when they planted over 400 Ponderosa pine seed lings on the Paul Webb property on i norn creek. They were super vised by scoutmaster Ken Keel ing and forest ranger, Vic Krel meyer. The forest service furnished the two-year old trees and Hepp ner Pine Mills supplied trans portation for the boys. Taking part in the day-long workout were Kenneth and Donald Keel ing, John and James Cason, Ted Turner, Mike and John Koenig, Donald Hughes, James Farra and Greg Kreimeyer. o . Observance of Forest Rules is Requested With a few warm spring days comes the urge to load up the family and head for the woods for fishing, hunting porcupines or picnicing, and local forest ranger Vic Kreimeyer suggest that the first trip is the time es tablish the pattern of righ habits of fire prevention and camping courtesy. He urges travelers to use the ash tray for cigarettes, have an axe, shovel and bucket with the camping gear at all times and build fires only in a safe place. Put out fires before leaving, and clean up the camp so you will want to return to it again, o FALL BREAKS LEG Arthur Keene of lone is a pa tient in Pioneer Memorial hospi tal with a broken leg. He suffer ed the injury last week while irrigating on his farm on Rhea Creek. He fell about 8 feet from a headgate. EXAMINER COMING A drivers license examiner will be in Heppner at the court house Tuesday, May 8 from 9:30 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. HOSPITAL OPEN HOUSE POSTPONED; CHEST X-RAYS PLANNED SUNDAY Jock Angel, Pioneer Memorial Mrs. Mervin Leonard, Lexington hospital administrator, announ ced today that the open house, ongonally set for next Sunday at the hospital, has been post poned indefinitely. The free chest X-Rays planned as part of the open house program, will still be given to all who desire them between 9 a. m. and 4 p, m. on Sunday, however. Angel said the open house has been postponed because the hos pital is so heavily loaded with patients, many of them critical, that it was deemed inadvisable to allow a general influx of visi tors. During the past week there have been as many as 49 patients in tne institution designed to accommodate 44 persons, and it was felt that it would be unwise to allow a crowd in the building under the circumstances. The chest X-Ray is sponsored by the Morrow county TB and Health association and funds for this project come from money raised by sale of Christmas seals. 1 50 ATTEND WRANGLERS BALM FORK BRAWL, EVENT WINNERS NAMED The Balm Fork Brawl, held Sun. day at the Beamer Ranch was at tended by about 150 persons. 42 riders were from Heppner. Hosts for the potluck dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beamer, Mr. and Mrs. Cornett Green, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Green, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Webb and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hager. The affair was the first of the season. The second Wrangler party is sheduled for May 13, at the Randall Martin ranch. Participants in the musical ropes were for the Juniors: Kit George, Marlene Fetsch, and Ger aldine Swaggart; intermediates: Christine Swaggart, Larry Fetsch, and Barbara Steagall; seniors: R. R. Fulleton, Cornett Green and Bill Healy. Winners in the relay bat race were first; Pat Steagall and Bar- Mayor Resigns Post Because of Move; Sells Businesses Mrs. Mary Stevens, owner of Mary Van's Flower and Dress shops, and mayor of Heppnr, announced this week that she has sold her two businesses and will move to The Dalles where she has purchased the Peacock Flower Shop. The flower shop has been pur chased by Maryette Wright who will operate it under the name of Heppner Flower Shop. Mrs. Gladys Connor bought the dress shop which will be known as Connor's Dress Shop in the fu ture. Mrs. Stevens will resign her position as mayor and the city council is expected to appoint a successor at next Monday night meeting. She took over as Heppner's first woman mayor in January 1955. Over 150 Attend Homemakers Meet About 150 women of Morrow county gathered at the fair pa vilion in Heppner Tuesday for the Homemakers Festival Miss Viola Hansen, represen tative from Oregon State Col lege, was prevailed upon to model a hand knit dress she had made, during the style show where 25 women modeled the suits they had made during the tailoring work shops. Also dur ing the morning meeting each unit chairman gave a report of the year's work for their unit. Mrs. W. A. Ruggles of Lexing ton presided ot the morning meeting and Mrs. Lloyd Berger of Irrigon presided during the af ternoon session, the program of which was pictures of home and rural life around the world shown by Henry Baker, O. W. Cutsforth and Norman Nelson. The county committee bought gavel this year to be given to the extension unit giving the best demonstration or having the best exhibit each festival and the Lexington unit received it this time. The Heppner Mothers club gave a skit on home safety and Mrs. Norman Nelson and Mrs. Earl Elake had charge of the sing ing. Pine City and Lena units were hostesses for the day and a luncheon was served at noon, j Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, - president of the association re vealed that $1,222.82 was raised from the sale this year with $7337 going to the national as sociation, $244.56 to the state and $904.89 remaining in the county for health projects. During the hospital open house last year 111 X-Rays were taken which were paid for by the as sociation. The association had a booth at last year's fair at which time X-rays were offered and 21 given. During the year the county health nurse gave tuber culin patch tests to 1002 children in the county which showed 35 reactors from the tests. AH tests were paid for by the association and follow ups, where parents are unable to pay, are financed by the group. Throughout the year 17 large X-rays, ordered by physicians were paid for by the association and it also pays for postage on routine X-ray films taken by the hospital of all admissions. bara Steagall; 2nd: Dimples Munkers and Katherine Healy; 3rd: Sandra Eubanks and Bobby Hutehins. Winners in the bending race were for, the juniors: Sandra Eu banks 1st; Geraldine Swaggart 2nd; Bobby Fetsch 3rd; intermedi ates: Pat Steagall, 1st; Barbara Steagall, 2nd; Janice Beamer, 3rd: seniors: Bob Steagall and Roice Fulleton tied for 1st; Cor nett Green, 2nd; Neil Beamer, Bill Healy and Bob Buschke, tied for 3rd. In the clover leaf barrel race, for the juniors, Sandra Eubanks and Goraldine Swaggart tied for 1st place; Bobby Fetsch and Kit George tied for 2nd place and Marlene Fetsch and Diane Ful leton tied for 3rd. In the inter mediate division, Barbara Stea gall and Christine Swaggart tied tor 1st; Pat Steagall won second place and Jim Steaga.il and Joan Brosnan tied for third. In the senior division, Katherine Healy and Cornett Green tied for first; Roice Fulleton and Bill Healy ciea ior second; and Bob Steagall and tteve Green tied for third Winners in the turn around race were Bobby Fetsch, 1st; Jim Stea gall, 2nd; and David George, 3rd. In calf roping, Neil Beamer and Cornett Green tied for first at 19 seconds; Cliff Adair was se cond with 21.5 seconds and Don Evans was third with 30 seconds. Stake race winners were; in the junior division; Sandra Eubanks, 1st; Bobby Fetch, 2nd; Marlene Fetsch, Kit George and Bobby Hutehins, tied for third: inter mediates; Larry Fetsch and Christine Swaggart, tied for first; Jim Steagall, second and Pat Steagall, third: seniors; Neil Beamer, Katherine Healy, Bill Healy and Cornett Green tied for first; Bob Buschke, second and Bob Steagall and Dimples Mun kers tied for third. In cow riding; Jack Edmond- son was first; Mack Griffith, se cond, Bob Buschke, 3rd and Jim Green, 4th. iimers ior tne events were Archie Munkers, Merlyn Robin son, Marion Finch, John Eubanks. Judges for cow riding were Oscar George, and Don Robinson. Bill Barratt was the announcer and Herman Green was the starter for the races. Elks Ritual Team At Condon Meeting The ritual team of the Heppner Elks lodge were visitors at Con don Sunday, together with teams from Condon, Hood River, Hermis ton, Enterprise, Baker and La Grande. The team from Heppner in cluded La Verne Van Marter, Ex alted Ruler; Jack Bailey, secre tary; Alton Yarnell, leading knight; William Labhart, loyal knight; John Hartman, lecturing knight; Del Jordan, esquire; Everett Keithley, chaplain, Glenn Ward, inner guard. The Condon meeting was the district deputy spring clinic for the purpose of working on the ritual. La Verne Van Mailer and Everett Keithley were chosen from the Heppner team to put on the ritual Sunday. o FISH PLANTED TODAY IN MORROW COUNTY STREAMS The state game commission to day brought In a truck load of legal size trout which were plant ed in Willow and Rhea creeks. These are the first fish to be put in local streams this year. May 3, 1956 ."J .-Is, HEPPNER HIGH SCHOOL Vale dictorian is Miss Nancy An derson. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Anderson. SALUTATORIAN of the Heppner graduating class is Lynda Borman Dunlap, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Borman. Clean-Up Week Drive in Heppner Starts Friday A special chamber of commerce committee today announced the start of a clean-up week cam paign in Heppner. The drive will start Friday and continue on through May 12. Local residents are urged to clean out basements, attics, gar ages, back yards and vacant lots and place all rubbish on the curb in front of their house where It will be picked up during the week. A general pickup will be made by Herman Green, Heppner gar bage collector on Friday and Saturday, May 11 and 12, and earlier pickups will be made by city of Heppner crews earlier in the week, whenever time is avail able for the work. Chairman of the special cham hnr committee is Dr. E. K. Schaf fitz, who this week asked all residents to join in and give the town a thorough cleaning. There will be no charge for the pickup service, but citizens are asked to pile rubbish as neatly as possible and to aid with loading when ever possible. Bobbie Akers Suffers Fractured Ankle Bobbie Akers, 13 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Berl Akers of lone received a fractured ankle when the iron rails of a cattle guard fell on him near his home Saturday. Bobbie was raising the guard with a tractor to clean out some debris when the rails fell on him. He was brought to Pioneer Me morial hospital by ambulance where he was treated by local physicians and a specialist from Pendleton. o , MORROW FIRST COUNTY OVER TOP IN CANCER DRIVE Wednesday Morrow county be came, the first county in the state to go over the top in the Amer ican Cancer society's crusade for Oregon, according to H. B. Cooper of Portland, state chair man. Mrs. Howard Pettyjohn of Heppner is head of the campaign for this county. IONE BAND CONCERT SET FOR MONDAY NIGHT The lone grade and high school bands and the school chorus will present their spring concert Mon day, May 7 at 7:30 In the school cafetorium. A varied program of interest to all Is planned. Admission will be adults 50c, students 25c and grade students 10c. J yj I J A V V Y ' . . Shoppers Due For Special Weekend Buys The Merchants of Heppner in cooperation with the Heppner Morrow county Chamber of Com merce will hold their first 1956 Heppner value days this Friday and Saturday. The special merchandising event is being widely promoted throughout all of Morrow county and much of Wheeler and north western Grant county and the special values offered by local merchants is expected to draw a great number of out-of-town shoppers, Dick Brunner, chair man of the merchants committee said today. The Value Days merchandising idea has been carried on by the chamber several times during the past two or three years and from early indications, this Rainfall During April Practically Nil in County During the winter months the abundance of rainfall made top news for Morrow county readers, but during April if they had re lied on the same subject, they would practically have drawn a blank. Heppner apparently was the wettest spot in the county during the month just completed, but even then, the .09 inch that fell here was hardly worth talking about. Leonard Carlson, weather observer at Gooseberry reported that he didn't even get moisture enough in the 30 days to settle the dust in the bottom of his rain gauge his record for the month was two goose-eggs. Carlson reported this year Is the first since he has been keep ing records that no rain fell dur ing April, and at Heppner, the lack of moisture set a 30 year re cord. By comparison 1.77 inches fell at Gooseberry In April 1955. The temperature during the month was above normal, how ever, with the mercury climbing into the high 70's and low 80's on several occasions. The heavy winter moisture has provided a good subsoil mois ture content, but most farmers are now hoping for a good shower to settle surface dust and aid growing crops. o Newitt to Leave lone Schools . Phil G. Newitt, superintendent of the lone schools, announced this week that he has accepted a position as superintendent of the Sunset Valley grade school which is located in Washington county just west of Portand. The school has 500 students and 25 teachers. Newitt came to lone from the Willamette valley last summer and he has been very active in community and church affairs. He will leave in June to assume his new position. o Child Immunization Complete in County The immunization program in county schools conducted by the Morrow county health department has been completed for the year, it was announced this week by Mrs. Velma Glass, county health nurse. Some of the children partici pating in the program have, for various reasons, not been able to complete their immunizations during the school clinic sessions and if parents of children with incompleted immunizations will contact Dr. A. D. McMurdo, the county health officer, arrange ments can be made to complete the series without charge. Notice, or "blue slips" have been sent home with children stating what immunizations were received and what shots are needed to complete the series, o Rock Club Slates Sunday Field Trip The Morrow county Gem and Mineral Society met April 25 at Hotel Heppner for a regular busi ness meeting at which a field trip was planned for Sunday, May 6. Those interested should be at the hotel at 8 a. m. At a previous meeting Dr. Clif ford Wagner showed many Inter esting pictures that he had made of the uranium producing areas at Moab, Utah and the Colorado plateau country. Refreshments were served by secretary, Mrs. Ora Evans. 73rd Year, Number 8 weekend selling event will be one of the biggest yet, commit tee members indicated. The merchandising event is lleppncr-wide with nearly all merchants offering special buys during the two days. Over two full pages of the weekend spe cials appear elsewhere in this is sue of the Gazette Times. Human Skeleton Found by Hunters Near Hardman A skeleton found Sunday by two Heppner fishermen who had tired of angling and were In search of coyote dens, apened up a minor mystery this week for sheriff C. J. D. Bauman and coro ner Oliver Creswick. The human skull was found near a rock bluff about five miles south of Hardman by Duane Al derman and Oliver Devin who happened to notice it partly buried. The two brought their find to police who with Creswick returned to the spot Monday and uncovered most of the rest of the skeleton. Shedding some light on who the skeleton might have been, were several painted inscriptions on rocks nearby where the bones were found. On a rock close to the grave was painted in red, "Frank Miller, Jan. 7, 1896. On another rock a few feet away were the words, "Frank Miller, born Sept. 11, 1879", and on a third, was the inscription "2 o'clock in the evening." Police speculated that possibly, considering the time of year, that the person might have fallen off the bluff and been killed and due to winter weather been buried where he died. There is also the possibility that the bones are those of an Indian as th, skull is shaped rather peculiarly. Bauman and Creswick found most of the rest of the skeleton and a piece of leathed that could be the remains of a pair of chaps. Due to loss by fire, the Gazette Times files do not go far enough back to make it possible to check on deaths at that time, though It is known that several Millers lived in the Hardman area be fore the turn of the century. Anyone having any information that might lead to the identifi cation of the bones is asked to contact sheriff Bauman. Creswick said Wednesday that he planned to take the skull to the Oregon Medical school labora tory in Portland shortly to see If more Identification can be made. Y JAMES POPHAM Heppner Teacher Gets Indiana U. Assistantship Award James Popham, social studies and speech teacher at Heppner high school, has been awarded a graduate assistantship worth approximately $1,500 for a nine months period at Indiana Univer sity, Bloomington, Ind. Popham will work on a doc torate in education in conjunction with his assistantship duties. It will take two years to obtain hia degrt'e. o EXTENSION UNIT TO MEET The Heppner Extension Unit will meet Tuesday May 8 at 10:30 a. m. at the home of Mrs. Sam Turner with Mrs. Ray Drake as sisting. A luncheon will be served at noon, with a small charge. All who are planning to attend are asked to call Mrs. Turner or Mrs. Drake by Monday noon. - -" ,mttrrrM- - . I f ..." -. ( -4