Pag 8
Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 21, 1957
Mustangs Split
Wins, Losses in
Week's Hoop Play
By Jim Morels
The Heppner Mustangs were
on their home court again Frl
day night where they encount
ered the highly rated Cougars
of Echo and came out on the
short end of a 71-53 clawing.
The Mustangs fought nip and
tuck in the first stanza as the
score stood at 16-12 in favor of
the Cougars as the teams enter
ed the second panel of play. In
this period the scoring and play
ing was again close as both
teams put forth a bid for the lead.
But the Mustangs were not very
successful as they were trailing
35 .27 at intermission.
After the half the Cougars be
gan to roll as they outplayed the
Mustangs and gained a 60-35
lead by the last period. In the
last quadrant the Mustangs pull
ed a full court press in a last
minute effort but it proved futile
as the Echo quint went on to vic
tory. Scoring Heppner (53) Gro
shens 9, AldermanS, Dougherty 7,
Ruhl 4, Morris 13, Connor 6,
Laughlin 6.
Echo (71) Jackson 20, S. Ra
mos6, M. Ramos 13, Smith 18,
Jordan 6, Correa 5, Meyers, Camp,
bell, O'Brien 1, Ress2.
Win From Lexington
Coach Larry Dowen's Mus
tangs traveled to Lexington Fri
day night where they rolled over
the Jackrabbits by a 61-44 count.
The Mustangs raced to a quick
lead of 18-6 in the first stanza.
The Lexington quint started
to hit in the second panel as they
ripped the cords for 10 points
but this seemed to do them very
little good as the Horsemen
dunked 16 more and were lead
ing by a comfortable 3416 mar
gin at intermission time.
After the half the Mustangs
kept the pressure on the Lex
five and by the end of the third
quadrant they had built up a
lead of 49-24. The Mustang se
cond five took over halfway
through the third period and
they turned In a very fine per
formance as they potted 18 of
Heppner's total of 27 last half
points.
Scoring:
Heppner (61) Groshens, 0;
Alderman, 4; Ruhl, 15; Morris,
16; Dougherty, 10; Laughlin, 4;
Huffman, 7; Flug, 0; Pettyjohn,
2; Connor 3.
Lexington (44) Loyva, 0; Do
herty, 6; Noland, 4; Herman, 11;
Patrick, 0; Miles, 11; CornelisoTi,
6; Hunt, 3.
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ARROW POINTS to 9000 -acre tract being purchased by Pacific Power
& Light company near Hanford Atomic Energy Works to have
a site available for a future atomic power plant. Site is on tho
Columbia river about 35 miles east of Yakima, Wash.
PACIFIC POWER TELLS OF PLANS
FOR FUTURE ATOMIC POWER PLANT
IONE NEWS
Mrs. Louis Carlson gave a
party Friday, Feb. 15 In honor of
her daughter, Sandra's fifth
birthday. Overnight guests were
Anita Crawford, Kristine Peter
son, Debbie Warren and Linda
Pettyjohn. Others were Susan
Jane and Billy Jepson, Jodie and
Jerry Snow, Darlene, David and
Michael Warren, Cynthia Craw
ford, Earl James, Jerry and Nancy
Pettyjohn and Cheri Carlson.
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Justice And
Municipal Courts
Donald E. Fldlcr, drunk and
resisting arrest, forfeited $70
bail.
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YAKIMA, Wn., (Special) ac
quisition by Pacific Power &
Light company of about 14
square miles of land near the
Hanford Atomic Eneregy Works
reservation to have a site avail
able for a future atomic power
plant was announced Tuesday
In Yakima by - Paul B. McKee,
president of the utility firm.
Part of the 9,000-acre tract has
already been purchased and the
Pacific company soon will exer
cise the options it holds on the
remainder of the land, he said.
McKee reported that Pacifiic
Power & Light, Washington
Water Power, Portland General
Electric and Montana Power
companies have indicated by let
ter to Admiral Lewis Strauss,
chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission in Washington, D. C,
that the group is actively inter
ested in atomic power possibilities.
All or part of this group might
be participants in the future con
struction of an atomic plant on
the site which Pacific now has
available for such a purpose,
Strauss was told.
About 35 miles east of Yakima,
the site adjoins the eastern
boundary of the U. S. firing range
military reservation and Is very
close to the Hanford reservation's
western boundary. Most of the
land is now useful only for sea
sonal grazing.
The relatively isolated tract
lies on the south bank of a curve
In the Columbia river a few miles
downstream from the Priest Rap
ids dam site.
The site also is near a key
center of power transmission
lines at Vernita, where both Pa
cific Power & Light and the Bon
neville power admisistration
have substations.
"Our company and the others
of the group have for more than
three years been studying the
atomic power situation." McKee
said, "and we have iield a num
ber of serious discussions with
the A EC.
"As long as economic hydro
electric developments can be
carried on, it is obviously in the
Interest of power consumers of
the region that such develop
ments go forward vigorously. We
estimate that it will require
about $150,000,000 a year from
the four companies to carry on
their part of the hydro program.
"However, the time Is coming
when the region will have to
turn to thermal energy to keep
up with its rapidly growing power
requirements", he noted. "At
present, atomic power is much
more expensive than available
hydro, but we look for great pro
gress to be made in reducing
atomic costs in the foreseeable
future, and wd want to be ready
to take action at the proper
time."
Lack of native oil and gas in
the area and other natural fuel
problems make the possibilities
of nuclear energy of special in
terest to the Pacific Northwest,
McKee commented.
Selection of tho chosen site
followed a survey of possible lo
cations for atomic power develop.
ment, he stated.
The Pacific Power & Light-
Washington Water Power Mon
tana Power Portland General
Electric group in 1954 entered
into an atomic power study con
tract with the AEC and for two
years had a study team ot Han
ford.
At the present time, Pacific
Power and Washington Water
Power are members of the Rocky
Mountain nuclear power study
group, which has a team of engi
neers at Idaho Falls, Idaho, where
the Arco facility of the AEC is
located. In the Rocky Mountain
group are six electric companies
and four industrial and engi
neering organizations.
HOSPITAL NEWS
New Arrivals To Mr. and Mrs.
James Ware, Condon, a 6 lb. 1014
ozj girl born Feb. 10, named Re
becca Lynn. To Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Brock, Kinzua, a 7 lb. 5 oz.
boy born Feb. 19, named Johnny.
Medical George Petteys, lone;
Mary Lundell, lone; Hanna An
derson, Heppner; Connie Hoover,
Fossil, dismissed; Pamela Brad
shaw, Heppner, dismissed; Eva
Penington, Condon; James Ben
nett, Condon, dismissed.
Major Surgery Delores Mun
jar, Spray, dismissed; Thoral
Broadus, Heppner; Joel Engle
man, lone; Burton Moore, fossil;
Nina Case, Heppner; Leta Smith,
Condon; Kenneth Johnson, Con
don.
Minor Surgery Agnes Kienlen,
Hermiston, dismissed; Janet and
Ronnie Palmateer, lone, dismis
sed; Larry Brinda, Heppner, dis
missed; Dorothy Krebs, Cecil.
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CAY BLUE BIRDS
The Gay Blue Birds met Feb.
19, at the Episcopal parish house.
We had a business meeting and
practiced our songs. Refresh
ments were served by Judy and
Nancy Ferrell.
Teresa Monahan, scribe
Monument
L. J. Matteson and Mr. and
Mrs. R. K. Kingman of Alturas,
Calif., were weekend guests here
visiting their folks, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Matteson and Dale.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Scott and
son Robert Dale of Long Creek
were here Sunday to join the
family reunion of the Mattesons.
Molvin Rounds took a load of
fertilizer to Portland the first of
the week and Monday morning
he left with a load of scrap iron
for Portland.
Most of the snow Is gone in
town.
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Pacific Telephone
Invests Millions
In New Facilities
Pacific Telephone's annual re
port, released today by President
Mark R. Sullivan, shows the com
pany set new records in every
thing but earnings in 1956.
This newspaper received an
advance copy of the report from
Heppner manager D. A. Short,
who said copies will soon be
available to the public at the
business office.
Almost $423 million, or $1.6
million for every working day,
went into new telephone plant
and additions. A record outlay
of a single year, this figure top
ped the 1955 construction program
by more than $122 million.
Better than 513,000 telephones,
reported as the highest one-year
gain ever made, were added in
19'6. The company's six-millionth
telephone was installed last July.
At year's end the company had
over 6'4 million phones working
in Oregon, Washington, Califor
nia, the northern part of Idaho
and Nevada.
"Our rate of earnings in 1956
stayed just about where it was
in 1955;" Sullivan said. "In
fact as the year closed, it was
trending downward sharply due
to increased costs, particularly
wage Increases granted in the
last month or two of the year.".
Earnings per share of common
stock were listed at 9.57, com
pared to $9.82 per share in 1955.
In terms of return on average in
vested capital, earnings amount
ed to 6.46 per cent. Dividends
paid out were $7 per common
share or 73.1 per cent of earn
ings. Revenues for the year topped
1955 by $76 million or 11 per
cent. But expenses also in
creased In just about the same
proportions, Sullivan noted. In
cluding taxes, expenses were $66
million more than in 1955.
Wages were "by far the big
gest single expense in our busi
ness." Sullivan's report shows
they totaled $112 million, of $42
million above 1955. Addition of
4,877 new employees brought the
number on the payroll to 90,
773. Practically all employees
received pay increases, Sullivan
said.
Sullivan noted a marked trend
toward the "better telephoned
home" in his company's territory.
"Ten years ago", he said, "only
one out of 35 homes had more
than one telephone; now one
out of eight has."
Colored telephones, too, ap
peared popular with the public.
Last year, Pacific installed a
third of a million colored sets.
One major project completed
in 1956 was a microwave system
between Oakland and Portland
that closed the last link in a
radio-relay chain stretching from
San Diego to Seattle and Spo
kane. Another was a new coax
ial cable between Los Angeles
and Oakland.
Looking ahead, Sullivan fore
cast continued growth for the
Pacific West. "By 1966," he pre
dicted, "we should be serving at
least 11 million telephones in
stead of 6 million. We should
have something like $4 to $5
billion worth of plant instead of
$2 bilion."
"In short," Sullivan concluded
"if we are to keep pace with the
growing West, it appears we will
be called on in the next ten
years to just about double the
number of telephones we have
in service, and double our dollar
investment in plant'
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IONE LIVESTOCK CLUB
The lone 4-H Livestock club
meeting was held at Kenneth
Nelson's home Sunday afternoon
February 10.
The roll call was answered by
giving a report on our 4-H pro
ject. Kenneth Smouse, Jr. was
absent because of illness.
Mr. Nelson showed us how to
cut off the teeth of baby pigs.
Mr. Smouse showed a film on
judging sheep.
Most of the members bought
a new 4-H club notebook.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Fred Nelson at the close of
the meeting.
William Akers, reporter
STITCH AND CHAT CLUB
The Stitch and Chat 4-H sew
ing group met February 19. j
We had a short business meet
ing and refreshments. After the
meeting we played a game and
worked on our projects.
One girl has finished ner pro
ject.
Libby Van Schoiack, reporter
RHEA CREEK LIVESTOCK CLUB
The meeting was called to or
der by president Kenny Wright.
We had our 4-H pledge. Roll
call was to tell your birthdate.
We bought 4-H notebooks. We
discussed rings and coats.
Our next meeting will be
March 17 at the Rhea Creek
grange hall. Mr. N. C. Anderson
will show slides.
We made halters for our calves.
Refreshments were served.
William Rill, reporter
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Soil Bank Reserve
Sign-Up Extended
Sign-up date for the 1957 con
servation reserve program of the
Soil Bank has been extended
from March 15 to April 15, reports
Robert T. Lister, Prineville, the
chairman of the Oregon state
agricultural stabilization and
conservation (ASC) committee.
This means farmers have an
extra month to plan and sign
up for conservation projects un
der the program, Lister said. But
he urged farmers to contact their
county ASC office soon, because
applications for projects under
the conservation reserve are be
ing accepted on a "first come
first served" basis.
The conservation reserve is a
national farm program aimed at
cutting the acreage of soil-depleting
crops and reducing the
flow of surplus farm products
into government warehouses.
Under the program, however,
farmers have an opportunity to
receive substantial government
assistance often up to 80 per
cent of the actual cost as they
shift their crop land into soil and
water conserving uses. Annual
"rental" payments are then made
to farmers to help them main
tain their incomes while their
land is being conserved and im
proved until needed in the future.
More information about the
conservation reserve and help in
signing up under the program
is available from county ASC of
fices and county extension offices.
Local News In Brief
Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Anderson
attended the Wheat Commission
meeting in Portland this week.
Ray Ainsworth arrived Sunday
from Sun Valley to visit his cou
sin, Mrs. Delbert Wright.
Don Poison cf the First Na
tional Bank, Portland, is at the
Heppner Branch, temporarily
replacing R. E. Ferrell, who is
moving to Moro.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Turner re
turned Sunday after three days
in Portland visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fastebend
and children of Kennewick, were ,
weekend guests of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Ruggles.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. George Bradley,
William Collins, Floyd Sayers and
Marion Huggett were in Salem
over the weekend for a bowling
tournament.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Padberg
had as their guests over the
weekend, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Padberg of Pendleton.
My Neighbors
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