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L I BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE Copies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September 6, 1956 73rd Year, Number 26 Ipppet feette North Morrow Fair Starts Today 'At Boardman By Mary Lee Marlow The North Morrow county fair win oe held this week, starting Thursday, Sept. 6, and lasting through Saturday. All entries must be in by 6 p. m. Thursday, Judging will start Friday at 8 a. m., beginning with F. F. A. entries. There will be entertain ment in the afternoon. Judges win be Mrs. Mary Parker. Pen dleton, home economics, and Eon Davis, Olex, livestock. Name' of the agricultural judge was not available. Saturday morning at 10 o'clock the parade will start at the school house, going through town and ending at the fair grounds Prizes will be given for the three best floats, and a prize for novel ty will also be given. In the afternoon a pig scramble will be held at one o'clock, followed by a bicycle parade. The Irrigon school band will play. Races will be held in the afternoon at the fair grounds, with Lowell Shat tuck of Boardman in charge. A dance will be held in the, fair building in the evening Sat urday, starting at nine o'clock, sponsored by the Irrigon grange. Officers of the fair are Roy Partlow, president; Mrs. Ralph Skoubo, secretary; Mrs. Ronald Black, treasurer, all of Boardman. Directors are Emmett Rogers, Boardman, and Mrs. Paul Slaugh ter, Irrigon. Parade chairmen are Willard Baker, Boardman, and Mac McCoy, Irrigon. Program chairmen are Russell Miller and Lowell Shattuck. Clarence Medlock. Rites Held Today Clarence Elmer Medlock, 64 years of age, passed away Sep tember 3 at Pioneer .Memorial hospital following an illness of many years. He had been a patient at the hospital here since December 1950, and had been in ill health for a number of years prior. Services were held today (Thursday) at 2 p. m. at the Creswick Mortuary chapel with Rev. Charles V. Knox officiating. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery. Mr. Medlock was born April 14, 1892 at Coos Bay and had lived in this area for many years. Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Maud McRoberts, Heppner; and Mrs. Sadie McCorn, Grants Pass; two half-brothers, George Med lock, Ukiah; and Rube Medlock, address unknown. He also leaves two step-daughters. o District County Meet Here Tuesday The fall meeting series of the Association of Oregon Counties will begin in Pendleton Monday, September 10, President Lloyd Rea, Baker county judge, report ed today. Judge Rea, together with F. L. Phipps, executive secretary, The Dalles, will conduct the district meetings. Also expected to be present will be members of the county courts of each district. John Cattrall, engineer; county and city relations division; Ore gon State Highway Department, along with B. J. McClarty, Bu reau of Public Roads, will attend all of the district meetings in order to discuss the new high way bill and how it affects the county road systems. The second district meeting will be held in Heppner Tuesday for members of this six-county district. FAIR CROCHET AND CAKE WNNERS NAMED Mrs. Blaine Chapel of Hard man was the winner of the na tional needlecraft crochet con test at the Morrow county fair. 'Her tablecloth was judged best of all entries. .. Mrs. Alex Green won first place in the Oregon Wheat Lea gue cake baking contest and as a result is eligible to enter the state bake-off sponsored by the league. It will be held late this year in Portland. o Mrs. Harry Howard and child ren of Kent, Wash., visited her sister Mrs. Gertrude Applegate during the rodeo. Joe French, who returned Aug. 24 from 18 months service in Seoul, Korea has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Rose Frances. He - left Tuesday to start the prac tice of law in Pendleton. Mrs. " Frances and her son and the Raymond French family spent last week in Seaside. h- --v ' n-Jr -f. -n-'-xJ TOP BRONC RIDER, and winner of the Northwest amateur bronc riding championship, was Bud Godby, Gooding, Idaho cowboy. God by here was receiving congratulations from roder queen Patsy Wright and Ralph Schwalbe of Hamiey and Company, donors of the fine saddle. Godby rode to top place in the finals on a horse known as "Unknown". Rocky Rockabar.Medicine Hat Canada was second and Matthew Dick of Nespelem, Washington, came in third. F A ROICE FULLETON, Heppner won the prize saddle as the fastest amateur calf roper and is shown receiving his award from Mrs. Jean Mallory of Heppner Pine Mills, donors of the saddle. Fulle ton roped his two calves in an average time of 44 seconds. Bob Buschke and Don Evans, both of Heppner, were runnersup. ... (Wilson Photo) Rosary Crusade Rally Planned Here Father P. J. Gaire, pastor of St. Patrick's catholfc church, is sponsoring a motor cavalca'de of this parish for a Rosary crusade rally to be held by Father Patrick Peyton of Albany; N. Y. in Pen dleton on Sunday, Sept 9 at 8 p. m. Father Peyton is conducting this crusade to enlist the Catho lics .of the diocese of Baker to recite the daily Rosary and for family prayer. These rally cru sades in Eastern Oregon, will be linked with other meetings to be held in Oregon, Washington, Ida ho, Montana and Alaska. Father Gaire announced that he has selected Richard Bruntfer as the general chairman and Paul Koenig as associate direc tor. The Bernard Doherty family will recite one decade of the Rosary at Pendleton on Sunday night. o Judy Howton is Style Revue Winner Judy Howton of lone won the grand champion in the the 4-H style revue held Thursday night at the fair pavilion. Her flowered tan faile sheath dress with Chinese type duster won her the title. Other awards presented at the style revue were to Judy Schmidt, Heppner, champion clothing demonstrator; Marilyn Morgan, lone, champion cooking demon strator; Janet Wright, Heppner, champion home economics judge; and Lona White, champion home economics judge, junior division. the famous Hamiey and Company "l it Three Local Entries Win at State Fair Only three local residents won blue ribbons or first places with their state fair entries, winner lists showed today. One Heppner 4-H girl, Julie Pfeiffer, won a blue ribbon on her sponge cake. Two winners in open classes were Betty Bunch, Heppner, first place for portrait art; and Ray Smith, Heppner, first for alfalfa or sweet clover extracted honey. o Blouse Workshop Preliminaries Set Preliminaries for the child ren's blouse workshop will be held Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 1 p. m. at the club house in Hepp ner, and at 1 p. m. Thursday, Sept. 13 at the Pine City school, it was announced this week. This workshop is to show how to make children's blouses and shirts and suitable patterns and materials will be explained at tne workshop. Those interested are asked to buy nothing until after the meeting. All women planning to partici pate in the workshop must at tend one of the preliminary meet ings, it was said. o PARTIAL LIST OF FAIR WINNERS GIVEN A partial list of fair and rodeo winners will be found in numer ous stories in today's Gazette Times. Time and space limitations prevent the running of all win ners this week, but it is hoped to complete the list next week. O - A of Pendleton saddle, top prize in (Wilson Photo) Soroptimists Take lop Parade Prize; Winners Named The Heppner Soroptimist club float won the grand sweepstakes prize at Saturday's rodeo parade after taking first place in the adult organization float division. The parade was one of the long est and best in recent years. Other parade winners were: juvenile organizations, first, 4-H group; second, Rainbow Girls; third, Munkers and neighbor hood children. Adult organizations: first, So roptimists; second, Civic League; third Heppner Fire Department. Business floats: first, Dick's Greenhouse; second, Phil's Phar macy; third, J. C. Penney. The best riding club was the Umatilla Sage Riders with the Heppner Wranglers second; best family group, Ray Papineau; best mounted cowboy, Buck Lieuallen; best mounted cowgirl, Linda Stewart; oldest cowboy, Lotus Robison; oldest cowgirl, Katie Currin; youngest cowboy, Mark Llywellan. In the juvenile division, child's float, Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe Morris and Van Winkle, first; Bob Davidson, Lexington, second; Ma and Pa Kettle mov ing, Jean Martin, Steve Lind strom, third.. Best pet, Kathy and Larry Ayers, first; LeRoy Gardner and Bill Cox, second; Kathy Casebeer, third. Best juvenile cowboy, Jim my Lindsay first; Steven Dean Pettyjohn, second; Larry Heath, third. Best Juvenile cowgirl, Nancy Ferrell, first; Martha Pet erson, second; Mary Johnson, third. Judging was done by the Main Street Cowboys of Pendleton. THE WILLOW CREEK STORY- Irrigation (This is the third and last in a series of articles on floods and water problems along Willow Creek. The Information was prepared by Quentin Bowman, engineer for the state water re sources board. This article covers irrigation in the valley,) About 7,200 acres of bottom lands are in the basin, most of which have established rights to waters of the streams for irriga tion, but the water supply is so undependable that only about 60 percent are irrigated. The census for 1920 listed a total of 7,160 acres under irrigation, but the Irrigated area has steadily decreased, and the 1940 census indicates that the total Irrigated lands in the basin have been re duced to 4,330 acres. Irrigation water is applied when available during the spring and summer months, but acute water short ages are frequently experienced and crops are often lost on this account. The early spring run off would, in most years, provide sufficient water for later irriga tion if means were available to Air Base Man Dies Here Following Auto -Accident One Condon Air Force man died Monday morning at Pioneer Me morial hospital from injuries re ceived in an auto accident which occurred early Sunday morning about one mile west of Fossil. Two other air base men who were with him in the car were also injured. Dead is Fred R. Neve, 19 years of age, whose home was Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He suffered multiple fractures and other in juries. He was owner anu driver of the car. Also injured and brought to Pioneer Memorial hospital by ambulance were Richard Miller, 20 of Myrtle Point, Oregon, who suffered a lacerated scalp and face; and Jerome Far ar, 19, Minneapolis, Minn., who had a fractured left arm, dislo cated wrist and facial lacerations. Both Miller and Farar were transferred by plane to an Army hospital at Geigcr Field, Spo kane. Five Air Force men who were seriously injured just a week ago, were transferred to the same hospital from here by heli copter and ambulance plane. Accidents Numerous The Labor Day Fair and rodeo weekend saw several other car accidents in this area, but no one huffered any serious injury. Early Sunday a car driven by Malcolm McKinney struck a bridge just north of the North Lexington grain elevator and overturned. McKinney reported that he went to sleep while driving. The car was demol ished but McKinney escaped with only scratches. He credited the use of seat belts for preventing his injury. Sometime Monday evening a car driven by Leonara coie oi Kinzua left the Condon-Heppner highway near Eightmile and overturned several times. The car was a total loss but Cole reportedly was not hurt. Two cars driven by A. C. bwan- son of lone and Donald Hunt of Lexington collided Sunday even ing just west of Heppner onus. Ing considerable damage to both vehicles but no injuries. Other weekend casualties in cluded Thoral Broadus who suf fered a broken leg when kicked by a horse at the rodeo grounds. Broadus was on duty with the hospital ambulance when the accident occurred. Several cowboys taking part in the rodeo were taken to the hos pital for treatment of injured arms and legs, but none were classified as serious. Injured Air Force Men Fly Out of Lexington Airport There was excitement at the Lexington airport Tuesday when DC3 army plane landed and took aboard the airforce men who had been injured in a car accident near Condon. The plane flew them to Gieger field at Spo kane. They were brought to Lexing ton by the Heppner ambulance from Pioneer Memorial hospital where they have been patients since the accident. The plane was about as large as the field can accommodate. Last week five men from the Condon air force base were trans ferred from the hospital by heir copter to Pendleton and fhence to the army hospital by plane. Benefits Seen from Proposed Dam store the surplus flow. The rights to the diversion and use of the waters of Willow creek were adjlgicated by court decree in 1910 and certain incom plete rights were the subject of a supplemental decree in 1917. Present practice is generally to divert water whenever it is avail able to the full extent of ditch capacities with little recognition of regulating the use according to rights. This is due principally to the extremely variable water supply which is generally quite large in the early spring but within a few weeks the flow re cedes jnd provides little water for later irrigation purposes. Recognition Is given to prior rights and rotation of use is prac ticed to some extent along the lower 12 miles of the valley. In the valley below Heppner there is a total of 69 separate diversion rights for the irriga tion of 3,760 acres. The areas under these rights vary 1ft size from 0.33 to 236.33 acres. The relatively steep gradients of Wil low creek permit water users to Schools Again See Student Increase Youngsters poured into the Heppner schools Wednesday for their first day of the new year and by this morning the first eight grades were bulging with 31 more students than were ac commodated at the peak period last year. A further increase is expected during the next week or two as more families return from vacation periods The first day registration to taled 366 children in the first eight grades which compares with 335 at the highest point last year. The fourth grade is the largest with 57 students, closely followed by the first and third grades which each have 51. Registration in the high school is down slightly from last year, but this is common for the first week. To date 117 students have returned compared with a high of 134 last year. Superintendent Joe Stewart said today that there will be enough late registrations in the upper grades to at least Kindergarten Sign-Up Set For Friday, Classes Open Monday Registration of children for kindergarten will be held Friday, Sept. 7 from 1 to 4 p. m. in the kindergarten room in the base ment of the high school, it was announced today. Classes will begin Monday at 9 a. m. To be eligible youngsters must be 5 years of age before Novem ber 15. Registration fee is $10 with a monthly fee of $6.50 per child, or at a rate of 50 cents per day if the child attends less than 13 days in any one month. Out of town children who are unable to attend more than a few days a month are allowed a credit of $5.00 of the initial registration fee to apply on their attendance fee. Mrs. Roy Tabor, a certified ele mentary ieacher, w 1 1 1 be Instructor this year, Mrs. J. W. Noreno, kindergarten board chair man has announced. The nur sery class is sponsored by the Heppner Civic League. o County Water Group Plans Important Meet An important public meeting of the Morrow county water re sources planning committee has been s?t for Tuesday night, Sept. 18 at 8 p. m. at the court house, chairman Newt O'Harra announ ced this week. It is planned to have the state water resources board engineer present, as well as representatives from the Ayny Engineers to dis cuss flood control dams and Ir rigation prospects. All committee members and interester persons are urged to be present. o Dr. and Mrs. Dick O'Shea and son Pat of Oswego were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cohn. Mr. and Mrs. Don Bennett re turned Monday from a weekend of hunting antelope in the special area in south eastern Oregon: Both were successful in getting an antelope. John Wagner left Tuesday for La Grande to register for the fall term at Eastern Oregon College. divert from the stream by use of dams, approximately bank height, located almost adjacent to the lands to be served. The narrow stream channel cut to depths of 6 or 8 feet below the valley floor provides the main conveyance channel for the dis tribution of water throughout the 35 mile length of the narrow valley. Separate diversions and lands are scattered along both sides of the stream In a "neck lace pattern" o that return flow, seepage and surface waters from one tract are generally available to the next lower diversion. Un Irrigated land along the valley floor and some of the lower hill side slopes, which are in dry-land wheat or sage brush, might be developed by irrigation if low cost water were available. It is improbable, however, that these lands could compete with the bottom lands already developed which lie along the stream. Flood Problem All damaging floods in the Willow creek basin have result ed from the cloudburst type of bring the figure up to last year. Total registration in the entire school system is up over 1955-56 with a total of 483 youngsters compared to 4G9 at last year's peak. Two classes are required in all elementary grades except for the fifth which is the small est with 32 students. Registration by grades shows: First, (2 classes) 51 Second, (2 classes) 40 Third, (2 classes) 51 Fourth, (2 classes) 57 Fifth, (1 class) 32 Sixth, (2 classes) 45 Seventh, (2 classes) 42 Eighth, (2 classes) 48 High School Freshmen, 27 Sophomores, 27 Juniors, 31 Seniors, 32 Teachers Named 28 teachers are now on the staff of the Heppner system. They are: urst grades, Mrs. Edna Tur ner, Janice Crowley; second, Aro lene Laird, Kathryn Hoskins; third, Mildred Hanna, Velma Bechdolt; fourth, Lena Kelly, Ila Albert; fifth, Miss Marguerite Glavey; sixth, Inez Edwin, Law rence Crowley; seventh, James Mallon, Blanche Boulden; eighth, Richard Willis John Snyder. Clarence Johnson is elementary principal. High school teachers are Marie Clary, librarian; Larry Dowen, basketball coach, PE, and history; Joyce Fett, Girls PE; Katherine Ilager, home ec; Stanley Holm, history and mathematics; Marion Huggett, science and mathema tics; Margaret Kirk, commercial; Roy Kirk, social studies; Norman Peters, music; Gordon Pratt, vice- principal and English; L. L. Rob- bins, agriculture. Joe Stewart Is superintendent. o Champion Beef Brings Owner 61c An 8G0 pound grand champion 4-H Hereford brought top money of 61 cents per pound to Gary Van Blokland, Heppner, at the annual 4-H and F. F. A. fat stock auction Friday night at the fair. The purchaser was the Morrow County Grain Growers. Jerry Anderson of Heppner realized 48 cents per pound for his reserve champion Hereford at the sale which was purchased by the Gilliam County Bank while 17 other animals brought from 25 cents to 33 cents per pound. Top price for lambs went to Phyllis Nelson, Lexington for her grand champion which brought $1.10. The reserve champion shown by Kenneth Lynn Smouse, Lexington brought 35 cents. There were a total of 21 sheep put on the block by auctioneer Don Wink. The top hog price of 29 cents went to Dennis Doherty of Hepp- ner and Kenneth Nelson of lone, who showed the grand and re serve champion animals. Two pens of hogs were put on sale by Robert Campbell, Echo and Tom Pointer of Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Gilliam of Condon were guests of his father, Len Gilliam over -the weekend. . storms. Although the Intensive rainfall covers relatively small areas, the run-off is extremely high, and concentration of flow is fast due to the treeless hills, barren and steepsided gulches and coulees leading to the main water courses. Channel capacity sufficient to pass the natural peak flow of major floods at Heppner would require tho re moval of a large part of tha city to adjacent hills. The construc tion of an adequate flood chan nel through the 22-mile rural area on Rhea creek for which pro tection is desired is Impracticable. Storage reservoirs of sufficient capacity for complete control of the maximum-possible floods were found to be uneconomical. The most practical solution to the flood problem appears to be the construction of detention reser voirs to halt the first pecipitous rush of floodwaters and the sub sequent expeditious release of stored floodwater to improved channel capacities in order to provide storage space for storms that may follow.
