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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1956)
LIIRAKY U OF 0 EUSEME. ORE. Copies 1 0 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 1 6, 1 956 73rd Year, Number 23 Coronation, Dress-Up Parade Scheduled for Saturday Evening Plans For 2nd Bank Are Stymied Arlington Bank Directors Plan Appeal of Ruling Directors of the Gilliam County Bank of Arlington revealed this week that state superintendent of banks A. A. Rogers has rejected their request to be allowed to establish a branch bank in Hepp ner. L. C. Buchner, vice-president and cashier said that the direc tors were disappointed at the re jection but stated that they are maKing plans to appeal the rul ing to the state banking board which consists of the governor, secretary of state and state treas urer. Buchner said that the refusal was based on the grounds that Heppner was not in the tributary trading area of the home bank at Arlington and therefore could not be allowed. The directors plan to appeal on the basis that other banks have been granted the right to establish branches out side their primary area and cite the examples of the First Nation al Bank of Portland, The United States National bank, both of which have branches throughout Oregon; and a state bank with headquarters in -Hillsboro which has branches in Hood River and Tillamook. They plan continuing attempts to be allowed to estab lish a branch here. Buchner said the state bank examiner indicated that the Gil liam county bank might be al lowed to establish a branch at lone if desired, but what action the directors might take on such a plan is uncertain. The Arlington bank announced in May that it was making ap plication for a Heppner branch and at that time expressed the hope that it could be in operation by September. The bank was es tablished at Arlington 11 years ago and officers are Marion Weatherford, president; Earl Hoag, vice-president; L. C. Buch ner, vice-president and cashier; John Krebs and B. L. Lemon di rectors. Encephalitis Outbreak Misses County Horses Ed Ring, stock contractor for the Morrow county fair and rodeo, sent word this week that all his hrses have been vacci nated for equine encephalitis which has been reported among I animals in Umatilla and Union counties. County agent N. C. Anderson said Wednesday that so far there have been no cases of the di sease among horses in this area, but said that the supply of vac cine is very short. Local drug stores had a small amount of vac cine on hand when the outbreak came but are now completely sold out. They don't expect to be able to get more for at least two weeks. Hot Weather Again Strikes County Genuine summer weather re turned to Morrow county this week as the mercury climbed to an official 95 degrees in Heppner Monday. Sunday, saw the ther mometer reach 91 and Tuesday's high was 90 degrees. Minimums for the past few days have all been in the high 50's or 60's. Tuesday clouds covered most of the area but only served to in crease the heat as the higher humidity did nothing to lower the temperature. Scattered lightn ing storms have been reported in the mountains but the forest ser vice office in Heppner reported that it has had no fires during recent days. The . government weather forecast calls for more scattered lightning storms, how ever. One fire was reported on state land on the Van Duzen place on Wall creek Monday night, but it was controlled after it spread over about 15 acres. V t;.-v.. "j- . 'lJ v A 't , : . ' C :k ' QUEEN PATRICIA WRIGHT Saturday Rodeo Dance Honors Queen Patsy Miss Patrkia An.; Wright, cele brated queen of this year's Mor row county fair and rodeo, will be honored at her own Queen s dance Saturday night following her coronation earlier in the even ing during the Dress-Up parade. The dance is the last in the series of royalty dances which preceed the opeing of the fair and rodeo. Queen Patsy, as she is known to hundreds of county residents, though she prefers to be called Pat, has gained much unexpect ed though certainly not undeser ved, recognition during the past summer. She is a 10-year 4-H club member and as a result of many activities in that organiza tion was chosen to attend the na tional 4-H summer camp at Washington, D. C. While there she, along with a 4-H boy from Iowa, were selected to appear on recent national Firestone Tire and Rubber company television and radio program as represen tatives of the nation's 4-H boys and girls. She is the first Mor row county fair and roaeo queen to be so honored. Queen Pat completed her 10 years in 4-H work last fall and during that time completed a total of 20 home economics and livestock projects in addition to two years of junior leadership work in the clubs. Her list of fair awards received during the past 10 years is impressive and though her projects have been varied, clothing is her favorite. She has carried that project for seven years and as a result makes a great many of her own clothes. She made the dress she appeared in on her TV program. Her mo ther has been her clothing club leader and Mrs. Wright has re cently completed 10 years as a 4-H club leader. Patricia has counselled at 4-H camps and has taught many classes at camp. She has at tended three state summer schools and has been active in the Oregon State college 4-H clubs. She has had a great Inter est in the International Farm Youth Exchange program and serrved as county co-chairman for that program. She met many of the delegates to come to Ore gon on that program and has worked to help raise money for it. ' Her campus 4-H club work has included being coordinator of a state 4-H annual with the jun ior leader clubs of the county. She has received several scholar ships because of her 4-H work. Queen Pat is a graduate of Heppner high school where she was chosen salutatorian of her class. She was active in the school band, a member of the annual and paper staffs, Nation al Honor society, held class of fices including student body sec retary ner senior year; was chosen homecoming queen when a senior. She has completed her fresh man year at OSC where she has been registered in home econo mics. She says however, that she is considering changing her ma jor to the school of science. Her plans for the future are still in definite. Her college activities have been many and include be ing social chairman of her house, a member of the home economics club, campus 4-H club and is one of 32 freshman girls who was chosen for next year's "Talons", a service honorary for sophomore girls. Even with all this, she earned a 3.2 grade point during her freshman year. The blonde, 5 foot, 7 inch queen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright who lives on a 7,000 acre Hereford cattle ranch near Ruggs. She has one sister, Janet, 16, who is also a blonde. Queen Pat will be seen during the parade and the rodeo riding her uncle's sorrell horse, Cricket, and she and her four princesses have been kept mighty busy this summer traveling and riding at other rodeos and shows in East ern Oregon. During this summer, when she wasn't traveling between her home and Washington, D. C. or New York, Pat has been help, ing her parents on their ranch. She is a good cook and also rated by her father as an excellent hay hand. I , , s ,-..'' , -J THE 43 ROOM HOTEL HEPPNER has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Van den Biesen of Portland from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Kaffesieder, also of Portland who has owned it since 1945. The hotel has been operated by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sanders Sr. who have managed it for the past 11 years... Van den Biesen'g said they planned considerable redecorating but did not know whether they would operate it themselves or on lease. They are former hotel and restaurant operators in Montana (GT Photo) Pre-Fair Program And Parade to Start at 7:30 The final pre-fair and rodeo events which lead up to Morrow county's big show August 29 through September 2 will be held this Saturday night opening with the annual Dress-Up parade scheduled to start in downtown Heppner at 7:30.' It will be fol lowed by the presentation of the royal court and the coronation of Queen Patricia Wright. Final event of the evening will be the' Queen's dance at the pavilion. The annual Dress-Up parade which formally opens fair week will be under the direction of the Wranglers with Howard Bryant in charge of the event. All Wrang ler members and other groups planning to take part in the parade are asked by the chair man to gather at the north end Nobody Wanted A Swell Time- For a while Tuesday and Wednesday it appeared that the Dress-Up parade and coro nation program might either have to be postponed or be staged without its star perfor merQueen Fatsy. Her doctor thought she was coming down with the mumps I Late Wednesday, however, further medical ..examination determined that she wag suffer ing only from a glandular dis turbance which had symptoms similar to mumps. That announcement brought great sighs of relief from not only Queen Patsy but also pa rade and coronation chairmen. of Main street near the Tum-A-Lum Lumber company by 7 o'clock Saturday evening. The coronation of Queen Patsy will be held on a platform in front of the Heppner Hotel and the program is under the direc tion of the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce. A short program is planned with several musical numbers to be presented by the Heppner high school band. Chamber president, Phil Blakney will officially crown Miss Wright. To be presented along with the queen will be princesses Pat Steagall, Lexington; Janet Myers, of Lena; Sue Coleman of lone and Maxine Sicard of Boardman. This year's Dress-Up parade has again been set ahead one week from its usual date because of the Shrine All-Star football game which will be held in Pen dleton August 25. Final event of Saturday even ing's program will be the annual Queen's dance which will start at 10 o'clock at the fair pavilion. A top five piece orchestra from Kennewlck, will provide the music, it was announced by Jack Van winkle, chairman of the dance committee for the fair board. o Mrs. Venice Styles of Portland is visiting her mother, Mrs. Josie Jones of Heppner. Mr. and Mrs. Jack O'Connor of Fallon, Nevada were Heppner visitor Wednesday. O'Connor was a former J. C. Penney Co. mana ger here. Farmers Still tavesiicig One Of County's Biggest Crops Farmers are still hauling what appears to be one of the largest crops of wheat and barley ever produced in Morrow county, ac cording to preliminary figures taktm while harvesting is still going on In most sections. Preliminary figures compiled Wednesday by Al Lamb, mana ger of the Morrow County Grain Growers showed the average per acre of wheat grown by the co op's members to be approximate ly 28 bushels. Barley has run about 30 bushels to the acre. Lamb said that grain Is still coming in to all the.MCGG ele- vators at the rate of about 60, OCX) bushels a day with Ruggs, Heppner and Lexington receiv ing the most. In the total amount of wheat handled by the Grain Growers it appears that they will receive more this year than at any other time in the history of the co-op, Lamb said he expects, that by the time harvest is completed Social Security Payments High Over $10,000 per month is be ing paid to Morrow county resi dents who are beneficiaries of Social Security, the chamber of commerce was told Monday by John A. Miller, field representa tive for the Social Security ad ministration from La Grande Miller explained how Social Security has been expanded since it was first authorized In 1936 and said that today nine out of 10 workers in the county are covered. Most self-employed per sons are also covered under its provisions. He told that bene fits now run from $45 per month minimum per person to a maxi mum individual benefit of $108.50 per month. The family maximum is now $200. He said that work ers now have disability benefits, under certain conditions, as a result of recent changes in the law. Miller was accompanied by Bill Ross, another field represen tative from the La Grande office. New County Map Being Prepared by Highway Department Bob Swain, from the traffic engineer's office of the state hiphwav donartment. Salpm Is currently mapping all of Morrow county in preparation for the pre paring of a new complete map of the area. The new maps will show all state and county roads, bridges, culverts and drainages and will include all recent improvements. All city and town streets will also be shown, county judge Garnet Barratt reported. Swain is being assisted by Harry Tamblyn and the work is expected to take about six weeks. SEVERAL NEW DIVISIONS OFFERED AT FAIR; GROUNDS READIED FOR CROWD With the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo less than two weeks away, activities at the grounds are picking up momentum and those concerned with the actual administration of the fair and rodeo are checking last minute preparations. Little building has been done at the grounds this year as fa cilities have been improved con siderably to take - care of In creased exhibits over the past several years. At the rodeo grounds new chutes of a perma nent modern construction which will facilitate quicker movement of rodeo stock and speed up the events have been completed this summer. Grounds are In the best shape ever. At the fair grounds exhib its will be expanded into the dance pavilion end of the fair pavilion and will take care of the crowded conditions which have existed as exhibits have in creased. This year all youth activity exhibits such as 4 -H, FHA, and FFA will be housed In the dance hall end. This was made possible by the canceling of the Friday night dance, which In the past has been poor financi ally. Several changes have been made in the fair this year In cluding an earlier entry date. This year the fair will open offi cially on Wednesday noon, Aug ust 29 in place of the original Thursday morning as in the past years. This will give superinten dents Wednesday morning to get entries in place and will enable judges to have an extra half day of judging time so that ribbons can be put In place for the fair going public. 4-H club entries will close at 9:00 a. m. Wednes day morning, with a number of 4-H home economic actlcities be they will have received around 2,500,000 bushels of wheat and barley and that there will be another 500,000 to 600,000 bushels in farm storage which they will receive later. This is about one- half million bushels more than the big crop year of 1948. The overall crop average in the county for both wheat and barley will run between 29 and A RECORD? 80 Bushel Average Tops Wheat Yield That this year's wheat har vest has been one of the best in the history of the county has been proved by many reports of 40 to 45 bushel yields, but one field in the Sand Hollow area probably can claim the all-time local record for dry land farming. O. W. Cutsforth reports this week that one 177 acre field yielded 80 bushels to the acre of Elmar wheat. He said that a very close check was kept on the field and that figures act ually showed slightly over an 80 bushel average. "I'll settle for 80." Cutsforth said. 'That's the best I've ever gotten." o County Republicans Plan Fund Drive; Urge Registration County Republicanc this week anounced plans for a fund drive to meet their quota of $1600 set by the state Republican central committee to meet campaign ex penses of candidates who are running In the general election. The county committee has set plans of raising one dollar from each registered Republican In the county which will be enough to nearly meet the quota. Fifteen percent of the money wilt be kept In the county for local use. The names of all precinct com mltteemen and women in the county are listed below and of ficers expressed the hope that volunteer workers would contact their local committee members for assignment as block workers etc. They are; South Heppner. Olive Hughes; North Heppner, Rachel Dick and Robert Penland; Hardman, Mrs. Walter Wright; Irrigon, Marguerite Houghton; lone, Margaret Troedson and Henry Peterson; Lexington, Lu cille Peck and Don Hatfield; . Boardman, Dewey West Jr. u was pointed out tnat any committee member will accept donations for the fund. The committee also urged all county residents to check their registration and pointed out that ir a voter has not voted in at least one of the last two elections (a primary or general) or had moved Into a different precinct, he must register before he will be allowed to vote at the No vember general election. ing held during the morning. A new addition at this year's fair is that of the "dollar dinner contest" which will be judged during the entire day Wednes day. In hopes to encourage more poultry exhibits, Mrs. W. W. Wea therford has arranged with the fair board for feeding and water ing poultry this year. Mrs Wea therford believes that this should be an added attraction to poultdy exhibitors and Is looking for ward to an increase in numbers in that department. New addi tion in the hay and grass division, with Alvln Bunch as superinten dent, is the best bale of legume hay which will be judged sepa rately from grain hay and grass legume mixed. The grain division has .been revised and will include, this year, a special lot of cleanest sample direct from the combine, uncleaned. This Is expected to be a large drawing card from far- mers who boast of the best job of t, . , 4. i. a .. thrashing on their farm. A sweep stakes trophy will be awarded this year to the champion wheat exhibitor through the courtesy of Morrow County Grain Growers. Safflower and field corn have been added to the grain division for 1956. The National Needle craft crochet contest, which pro vides a special hand engraved cup for the best crocheted article in the fair and the Oregon Wheat Growers League baking contest started last year, offer competi tion in the home economics de partment. This year's cake bak ing contest provides for a butter cake with the first place winner eligible to enter the state bake off at the annual Wheat League meeting for the $100 prize. In the 4-H club division, a new contest was provided this year for (Continued on Page 8) 30 bushels to the acre. Lamb stressed that these figures are subject to correction later, inas much as there is much harvest ing still going on, but the final figure isn't expected to change greatly. Storage facilities are expected to be able to handle all grain that is harvested from now on, though the MCGG now has about 300,000 bushels stored on the ground at the North Lexington elevator. Some ranchers in the lower end of the county have already completed harvesting, but it is expected to be about September 1 before work will be completed in the higher elevations. The July hot weather seeming ly did not hurt grain In the lower sections of the county, as it was more advanced, but there have been a few reports of pinching in the later sections where the wheat was still green when the heat hit. Dates Set For Registration in Heppner Schools Heppner school officials an nounced this week that registra tion of new students and first graders will be on Tuesday after noon, Sept. 4 and students who attended Heppner schools last year on Wednesday morning, Sept. 5. Classes will be held all day Wednesday. . Parents are requested to accom- , pany first graders for registra tion which may also be done on Thursday and Friday, August 30 and 31, it was revealed. It was also announced that parents with special registration problems may consult superintendent Joe Stew art at any time during the week of August 27 to 31. Teachers have called to report August 30 and 31 to get rooms, lesson plans, books, etc., in order and then will be excused for the fair. A teacher's workshop will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 4. L. L. Robbins, vocational agri culture Instructor attended the school board meeting last week to discuss an advisory committee for the agricultural program and the board selected a committee of five farmers who will advise Rob- bins as to what they believe are the most important aspects of the program. Howard Cleveland, chairman of the school board, N. C. Anderson, county agent, and Tom Wilson, soil conserva tionist will act as consultants to the committee. All school bus drivers have been signed for the coming year and It was announced that the two new buses will be put on the Lena -Butter creek and the Clark's canyon runs. Physical examinations In addition to health certificates will be re quired for all bus drivers. The board awarded the con tract for bus Insurance for the coming year to Ruggles Insur ance company. Other contracts were awarded to Union Oil Co. for fuel oil; Rosewall Motor com pany for bus maintenance and to Dick's Richfield station for bus service for the year. Board chairman Cleveland an nounced plans to attend a meet ing this week of the rural school board to discuss setting up a policy of tuition for students who wish to attend Heppner schools from outside the district. 8-Year Old Girl Hit By Wheat Truck Karen Ramsey, eight-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ramsey of Heppner, was Injured Friday afternoon when she was struck by a wheat truck on the highway near the western city limits of town. According to Elwynne Peck, driver of the truck which belong ed to Alvln Bunch, the girl rode nnfn I, U i ,.U L. - U 1 . 1 ,i.t, ..,,. u ..,..., (Without warning and he was un- able to keep from hitting her. She was taken to the Pioneer Me morial hospital by ambulance where she was treated for con cussion, facial cuts and possible broken ankle. WEATHER BALLOON FOUND NEAR IONE Leo Crabtree Tuesday found a weather balloon and attached radiosonde equipment In a wheatfield on the Bob Rietmann ranch south of lone. According to markings the bal loon had been sent up from the Yakima Firing Range on March 14, 1956 and the finder is asked to return the equipment to the Lexington Signal Depot, Lexing ton, Ky. The equipment was slightly battered but not destroyed.
