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NEW CITY OFFICIALS who took over their duties Monday night are
Mayor W. C. Collins, center, and councilmen Erling Storro, left and
E. E. Gonty, right. Gonty had served one term several years ago
and was appointed in December to fill an unexpired term. Both
he and Storro were elected to full terms in the November election.
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MAYOR BILL COLLINS enjoys the comforts of a new overstuffed
mayor's "throne" Monday night, the temporary "gift" of a couple
of playful council members. The bright red chair was in place
at the mayor's position at the council table when Collins arrived
to take over his new duties as head of city government and on it
was a big sign saying, "For His Honor the Mayor for his first
night in office ONLY." Though the names of the thoughtful city
fathers who provided the chair were not revealed, it looked
very much like one on display at Case Furniture Co.
(G. T. Photos)
W. C. Collins Takes
Over as New Mayor;
Councilmen Sworn in
W. C. Collins took over the
reigns of city government Mon
day night as Heppner's new
mayor and five councilmen were
sworn in at the first meeting of
the new term.
Collins, owner of the Heppner
Cleaners, took over the mayor's
duties from W. C. Rosewall who
did not run for reelection. He
has served as a member of the
council for six years.
In a brief speech after ac
cepting the office, Collins told
the council that city affairs were
running smoothly and that it
was his hope that they could con.
tinue that way, but warned the
council that it faced one major
problem in the coming year, the
replacement of eight miles of the
city's large water main from its
upper wells. Engineers are al
ready at work surveying the line
and will soon present an esti
mate of the cost of renovating the
inadequate pipeline. The council
will face the task of providing
the funds for the work, which
will probably have to come from
a bond issue.
The pipeline, which was laid
of concrete pipe many years ago,
has been giving the city much
trouble in recent years, but the
present road construction on
Willow creek, under which some
of the pipeline is laid, forces im
mriiate action to renew the pipe.
The line wanders badly up andj
down hills and across tieias ana
it is proposed to lay a new steel
line along the shoulders of the
newly graded Willow crek road.
At the present time the city loses
over half the water pumped from
the wells through the line be
cause of leakage and breakage.
New Council Members
Councilmen who were sworn in
at Monday's meeting are Allen
Case, Al Lamb, rhilip Blakney,
and Robert Penland. All were
former council members and re
elected. New members are E. E.
Gonay, who was elected in the
November election, but appointed
in December to fill the unexpired
term of Robert Grabill who moved
away from Heppner; and Erling
Storro. This is Storro's first term
on the city group, Gonty having
served one term previously.
Heppner school attorney Brad
ley Fancher appeared before the
nnrii tn reauest the city's feel
ing toward possible vacation of
a section of Baltimore street easi
of Wrillow creek and west of
Court street. The street is dedi
cated but is not used except for
pedestrian traffic. It bisects
school property. Tentative agree.
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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 10, 1957
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ment was given for the closure
when proper request is made by
the school district. The school
plans to use the area for future
expansion.
A building permit for a $7,000
residence was granted to Glen W.
Smith which will be built on
Morgan street. The council also
ordered that a city-owned lot on
Morgan street be offered for sals.
Mayor Collins announced the
appointment of J. J. Nys as city
attorney, Dr. W. H. Wolff as city
health officer, and Dean Gilman
as police chief. All currently hold
those jobs. He also made the
following committee appoint,
ments:
City services, library, fire de
partment, swim pool, parks and
street lights, Robert Penland,
Allen Case, E. E. Gonty.
Finance, fees, licenses, office
hours, budget, personnel, Philip
Blakney, Erling Storro, Allen
Case, the superintendent and the
city attorney.
Police protection: Allen Case,
Robert Penland, Philip Blakney.
Sanitation and health: E. E.
Gonty, Al Lamb, Erling Storro,
the city superintendent and the
health officer.
March cf Dimes
Contributions Gain
The Morrow county March of
Dimes drive has collected $308.36
up to Wednesday it was announ
ced today by Miss Joyce Buschke,
drive treasurer.
The amount is almost identi
cal to that collected in the same
period last year.
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NEW JANITOR HIRED
The Heppner school board Tues.
day night approved the employ
ment of James Angell as custo
dian to replace Harold Erwin.
Angell took over his new duties
Jan. 2.
The board went over the new
teacher salary schedule and ap
proved a tentative one-year leave
of absence for one teacher.
BAND PARENTS SET MEET
The Heppner band parents club
will meet in the hgih school band
room Monday evening, January
14 at 8 p. m., it has been an
nounced. Main business of the
evening will be planning for the
annual carnival.
Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Jordan
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Flatt
were weekend visitors In Spokane.
Federal Bureau
To Build Heppner
Spray. Highway
The county court was informed
this week by the state highway
commission that due to the ex
tremely heavy load pui on ihe
commission by the big federal
highway program, it has turned
over the surveying and contract
ing for the improvement of the
Heppner-Spray highway to the
Bureau of Public Roads.
The transfer will make no
changes in the plan to allocate
$250,000 for the improvement of
the highway, but will mean that
the work will be done much
quicker than if the state were
to keep control of the project,
county judge Garnet Barratt said
Wednesday. The plans call for
the contract to be let and the
first leg of the work to be done
this year.
The court also announced a
tentative five-year county road
improvement plan which will
shortly be submitted to the state
highway commission for appro
val. The work will be done
through joint use of federal, state
and county road funds.
Two years of the plan will see
completion of the paving of the
Willow creek road, another one
year will be used to pave the
five and one-half miles of the
McNab-Olex road from McNab to
the county line, and the balance
of the money for the five years
will be scheduled for the paving
of the bombing range road.
The court emphasized that the
program was only tentative, but
because of the federal highway
program, the state highway com
mission now asks all counties to
present a five-year road im
provement plan. In the past the
county planned ahead only two
years.
Clinic Scheduled
An immunization clinic will be
held in the offices of the Mor
row county health department In
Heppner on the third Friday of
each month between the hours of
1 and 3 p. m., it was announced
this week by Mrs. Velma Glass,
county health nurse. The date for
the first clinic is January 18.
Immunization for smallpox,
diphtheria-whooping cough, . te
tanus and poliomyelitis will be
given. There will be no charge.
Gooseberry Rainfall
Heavier Than Heppner
Leonard Carlson, Gooseberry
weather observer, reported this
week that his records show that
13.46 inches of rain fell in that
area during 1956. That is two
inches more than was recorded in
Heppner for the same period,
just the opposite of the usual pat
tern which normally finds Hepp-
new two or three inches "wetter"
than at the Gooseberry station.
The figures compare with 14.44
for 1955 at Gooseberry.
Carlson reports that only 2.84
inches has fallen since Septem
ber 1, 1955 with .92 ccming down
in December.
CLASS DATE CHANGED
The adult soils class held at
Heppner high school has been
postponed from Monday to Tues
day night, Jan. 15 due to the
donkey basketball game sche
duled for the regular meeting
date.
HEPPNER STUDENT
WORLD CLOTHING
The student council of Heppner
high school has adopted the
denim council plan, a project for
Nation Association of Student
Councils.
Each council participating
adopts a project which will bene,
fit the community or the nation.
The top 20 awards will consist
of $25 each in United States sav
ing bonds, plus a framed certi
ficate. These awards will be pre.
sented to the student councils
who have initiated and com
pleted the most outstanding com
munity service drives during the
current school year. Runnersup
will receive framed, honorable
mention certificates.
Laurel Allstott is the chairman
of the local drive, which will be
gin January 21 and continue
through the 25th.
The aim of World Clothing
week, this year, Is to cloth one
million children and adults. The
distribution Is through the Chris-
Spray Girl Suffers
Gunshot Wound in
Head, Condition Good
A 13 year old Spray girl, Bonnie
Hawk was brought to Pioneer Me.
morial hospital Tuesday evening
suffering from a gunshot wound
above her left eye. The girl is
reported in good condition and
doctors reported that it is almost
miraculous that she is still alive.
Little is known of how the
accident occurred other than that
she was at the home of her par
ents Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hawk
who live in Kahler Basin near
Spray. It is thought that pro
bably she was accidently shot by
another child, but details are un
known. The shooting happened
about noon, but it was after six
p. m. before the girl arrived here.
The bullet, thought to be either
22 or a 32 caliber, entered just
above the eye,- ranging down
ward to lodge well down in her
neck. No vital' vessels or organs
wer ehit, and the girl remembers
nothing about the shot. Her doc
tor said it is not uncommon for
a person to have such a loss of
memory with a head injury.
The girl's parents were away
from home at the time of the
shooting.
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Series of Coffee
Parties To Aid
March of Dimes Drive
To speed the day when polio
will be wiped out completely
as a disease that threatens young
and old, March of Dimes volun
teers Mrs. Paul Koenlg and Mrs.
Jack Loyd from Morrow county
were invited to be guests of Mrs.
Elmo Smith at a First Lady cof
fee party held in Salem Jan. 8.
March of Dimes coffee chair
men in each of Oregon's counties
will reach into towns all over the
state to capitalize on the popu
larity of coffee drinking, for the
benefit of the Dimes drive.
Mrs. Koenig, local coffee chair
man, has stated that the first
coffee party in Morrow county
will be held Friday, Jan. 11 which
she hopes will be the first in a
chain of coffee parties to be held
throughout the county during
January to assist the March of
Dimes. Thirty guests have been
invited to the first party and
each invited guest is asked to
have a coffee In her home with
10 invited guests. All returns
will go to the polio fund.
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Farm Bureau to Open
Membership Drive
Don Heliker, organization di
rector of the Morrow County Farm
Bureau, attended the state-wide
organizational captain's meet
ing held Monday, Jan. 7 at Bend.
Also attending from here were
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Rauch, Mr.
and Mrs. Gene Majeske, Gene
Cutsforth, Herman Blettell, John
Wightman and Harold Beach.
For the first time this year the
Oregon Farm Bureau Federation
will hold a state-wide member
ship drive and complete mem
bership acquisition early in the
year.
The campaign in Morrow
county will start on Jan. 14 and
will open with a kickoff break
fast at the Don Heliker home.
Heliker said that all plans are
arranged for the county drive
and he expects that by Jan. 17
the county will have reached its
quota for the year.
He stressed the importance of
having a large and active mem
bership in order to work effec
tively for the interests of the
farmers of the county. Among
the important issues to have the
attention of the Bureau during
the coming year are taxes, mar
keting of farm products and
transportation.
COUNCIL ADOPTS
WEEK PROGRAM
tian Children's fund, Inc., and
clean, wearable, infant's, child
ren's and adult clothing of all
types is needed. There will be
a truck pick up through the city,
as anyone wishing to donate
clothing is to ring the school, and
someone will pick up the items,
People who live out of town, but
wishing to donate, are asked to
bring their items to the Heppner
city hall. The clothing gifts
should be wrapped in paper and
shoes tied in pairs.
The World Clothing week is
conducted under the auspices of
the Christian Children's fund, Inc.
and clothing is distributed free,
overseas, through more than 200
orphanages, aided by CCF in 30
countries. In handicapped areas
of the United States, clothing Is
given free and to any needy child
or family upon the recommenda
tion of school authorities. Cloth
ing will also be sent to any area
In the United States which may
be stricken by any disaster,
73rd Year, Number 44
NAVY ENS. DONALD E. SLAKE,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl J.
Blake of Heppner, was recently
graduated from the Navy's pre.
flight school at Pensacola, Fla.
He is now assigned to the Sau
flcy Field Naval Auxiliary air
station, also at Pensacola, for
primary flight training.
Board Vacancies
Filled by Court
The county court, at its first
meeting of the new year last
week, announced several ap
pointments to county boards.
Named to the fair board for a
three year term was Raymond B.
Ferguson of Heppner who re
places W. E. Hughes, and Max
Jones of Irrigon who fills the
unexpired term of Willard Jones,
also of Irrigon. Ferguson has been
serving as fair manager but was
not a member of the board.
George Wiese of Boardman
was appointed to the equaliza
tion board and Don Kenny of Irri
gon was named to a three year
term on the county budget board
replacing Walter Hayes of Board
man. Jack Van Winkle of Heppner
was appointed to a five year term
on the hospital board, and Dr. A.
D. McMurdo was reappointed to a
two year term as county health
officer.
Golf Club to Name
New Officers Monday
The first 1957 meeting of the
Willow Creek Country Club will
be held Monday evening at 8
o'clock in the Elks lounge, it was
announced this week by Bradley
Fancher, club secretary.
The meeting is to discuss plans
for the coming year and to elect
officers.
Late last fall the group com
pleted work on four holes of the
new golf course just west of
Heppner with the result that some
play was enjoyed by members.
The meeting is open to mem
bers and interested persons.
EXAMINER COMING
A drivers license examiner will
be on duty in Heppner at the
court house on Tuesday, January
15 between 9:30 a. m. and 3:30
p. m.
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MORROW COUNTY'S FIRST ARRIVAL, little Cathryn Ann. is being
held my her mother Mrs. William Zlnter of lone. The young lady
arrived at 1 :32 a. m. January 1 and as a result won for herself and
her parents a big collection of gifts offered by local merchants.
(Wilson Photo)
County Cattlemen
Open Meet Friday
A program of particular in
terest to not only cattlemen of
the county but also the general
public will open Friday at 10
o'clock at the Elks temple when
the first session of the 1957 an
nual meeting of the Morrow
County Livestock Growers Asso
ciation gets under way.
Friday sessions will inemde
various committee reports, a re
port on current legislation affect
ing livestock and a panel discus
sion on "Financing Land and
Livestock" by B. 0. Tclyea of
the Pendleton N. F. L. A., J. E.
Herberger, Northwest Livestock
P. C. A., and L. E. Tibbets, agri
culture field representative of the
First National Bank of Portland.
Saturday sessions will include
additional reports from commit
tees in the organization, a special
film, election of officers, and a
panel discussion on "Market
Trends and Problems" by Si Wil
liams, auctioneer and livestock
sales management expert; Pros-
ser Clarke of Benson, Clarke and
Bodine of Portland; and Harold A.
Cohn, dealer and feed lot opera
tor of Heppner. Moderator will be
Ervie Williams of Portland.
From 5 p. m. Saturday there
will be a social hour held in the
ladies lounge of the Elks club
sponsored by the Heppner Branch
of the First National Bank of
Portland and the annual ban
quet will start at 6:30 at the fair
pavilion.
Main speaker at the banquet
will be Ervie Williams, president
of the Portland Union Stockyards
and well known personage in this
area. Banquet tickets are now on
sale at the First National Bank
and the county agent's office, it
was announced.
All the meetings are open to
the public and officers of the as
sociation invite all local resi-
Ground Observer
Group Formed Here
Organization of a Ground Ob
server Corps unit was formed
early this week with members
of the Heppner Mother's Club
forming the nucleus of the group.
It will be a community group
composed of housewives, at least
to start, who will observe from
their own homes on a rotation
schedule.
Mrs. Kay Smith was named
supervisor and Mrs. Tom Wilson
will accept night alert calls.
Serving daily in turn will be
Mrs. Norman Peters, Mrs. Ken
neth Keeling, Mrs. Llewelyn Rob
bins, Mrs. Nels Anderson and
Mrs. Roice Fulleton.
Sgt. Coleman, area coordinator
for the GOC, who has tried for
some months to get an organiza
tion started in the Heppner area,
met with the group Monday at the
home of Mrs. Elmer Schmidt and
gave those present Instruction
and training in observing and re
porting planes.
A few more persons who are
willing to assist the organization
and take a turn of one day every
two weeks or so are needed to
fill out the list of observers, it
was said. Anyone interested is
asked to contact either Mrs.
Smith at 6-5330 or Mrs. Robbins
at 6-9723 for information.
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dents wfio can to take in at
least some of the meetings.
Association officers for the
past year are John Graves, presi-
dent; Bill Barratt, vice-president;
Gerald Swaggart, treasurer; and
N. C. Anderson, sesretary.
1'ommittee chairmen who will
make reports during the two-day
meeting include Frank Anderson,
Don Robinson, Herbert Hynd, Dr.
James Norene, W. W Weather
ford, Ralph Beamer, Dick Wilkin
son, W. E. Hughes and Raymond
French.
All regular meetings will be
held in the Elks temple with the
banquet set for the fair pavilion.
Soil District
Makes Plans for
Annual Meeting
A panel on conservation and
a talk by Dr. Burton Wood, agri
cultural economist, Oregon State
college, will be featured at the
annual meeting of the Heppner
Soil Conservation district Tues
day, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p. m. at
the Lexington Grange hall, dis
trict supervisors have announced.
Panel members who met with
supervisors at their regular
monthly meeting in the bank
building Tuesday afternoon are
Jack Angel, hospital administra
tor; Joe Stewart, superintendent
of the Heppner schools; L. E.
Tibbets, agricultural field rep
resentative of the First National
Bank; Kenneth Peck, state con
servation winner and Alvin
Wagenblast, second in the state
grassman contest. John Denison,
Pendleton, area conservationist,
Soil Conservation services, will be
moderator.
Also slated Jot the meeting,
which is open to the public, is a
film on conservation, election for
the expired term of Newt O'Harra,
Lexington and refreshments.
A December progress report
submitted showed 18 acres of
land leveling completed, 2000
feet of stream channel align
ment and 1900 feet of permanent
irrigation ditch established on
the William Barratt ranch and 65
acres of surveys for land level
ing on the Howard Cleveland
ranch and the Pine City ranch,
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First Snow of Year
Falls Here This
Week, Amount Small
The first snow of 1957 fell In
Heppner early Monday morning
and again late Tuesday afternoon
but it was not heavy enough to
measure nor did it last long.
Temperatures remained in the
high twenties at night and rose
to about 40 degrees during the
day early this week, but the wea
ther bureau keeps announcing
that by Thursday or Friday most
of this section of Oregon can ex
pect lower temperatures and the
possibility of.more snow,
(Editor's note please notice
that the above forecast was made
by the weather bureau, not this
newspaper. We hold an almost
perfect record for having the
weather do just exactly the op
posite of what we say it will in
news stories or editorials, so we
disclaim any credit or blame for
the above.)
Many New Telephones
Added During Year
In Morrow Towns
Pacific Telephone during 1956
went over the 41)0,000 mark in
the total of telephones it is serv
ing in the state of Oregon.
As the year drew to a close
there were 492,791 telephones in
its 85 exchanges. That is a 5.2
per cent Increase over the first
of the year when the total was
166,551 telephones.
Locally, according to manager
D. A. Short, the growth in num
ber of telephones has generally
kept pace with that throughout
the state. Figures given by Short
showing the number of telephone
for exchanges in this area (with
the year's Increase in brackets)
are:
Heppner, 724 (17); Pendleton,
6,454 (373); Athena, 491 (14);
Echo, 220(16); Hermiston, 2,627
(114); lone, 199 (11); Lexington,
131, (9); Milton-Freewater, 2,199
(117); Stanfield, 280 (14); Uma
tilla 754 (loss of 3); Weston, 213
(28). "
Latest figures released recent
ly by The American Telephone
and Telcpraph Company show
the United States has 59 million
of the world's over 101 million
telephones.
In its yearly statistical sum
mary, "The World's Telephones,"
the company states that the two
most talkative areas in the
world are Hawaii, with 647 con
versations per person, and Alaska
with 572.