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emptier L I IRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. Copies -10 Gents mum Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 13, 1957 74th Year, Number 14 n , , , mm .it ' a" JUNGLE OF SCRAP IRON - Two of the 15 Bonneville transmission line towers in north Morrow county which bowed before the winds in last Wednesday's destructive thunderstorm which also demol ished several buildings at the Frank Wilkinson sheep camp near Boardman and cused heavy wheat loss in some fields in the eiia qi me county. Meany two miles of the 230,000 volt power nuiiauiiaaioii line oeiween racwary and Detroit are still on the s Mua aaa a oinciais estimated damages at over $200,000, Tho urinria thnt it i .... . . w -" ""si incac luwers were estimated at over iuu nines an nour, Uil rnotoJ Polling Places Announced For Wheat Referendum The Morrow county ASC office today announced polling places ior me marketing quota referen dum vote which will be held on 1 hursday, June 20. Polls will be open in all three places from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and farmers eligible are urged to vote in the referendum. The North and South Heppner and a part of the Eightmile district will vote at the Heppner Legion hall, the Mor. gan, lone and remainder of the Eightmile district at the lone Leg ion hall; and residents of the Lex. ington and Alpine communities at the Lexington Grange hall. Any person who will be en gaged in the production of wheat lor harvest of 15 acres or more In 1958 or is entitled to share in the proceeds of the 1958 wheat crop is eligible to a vote In the referendum. Absentee ballots may be obtained from the local ASC office, Paul Tews, office man ager announced. The secretary of agriculture has proclaimed marketing quotas on wheat for next year, but growers must approve them in a referen dum vote. For further informa tion see the county agent's column in this week's paper. o Delegates Leave For Girls State Sunday Misses Helen Graham and Jo ann Brosnan of Heppner and Kay Sherer of lone left by train Sun day for Salem where they will be for a week attending Gifls State. Miss Graham and Miss Sherer were sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliaries of Heppner and lone and Miss Brosnan by Sorop timist International of Heppner. Rainbow Girls To Attend State Meeting Those from Heppner attending the Rainbow Assembly to be held in The Dalles starting June 16 are Meredith Thomson, grand repre sentative; Helen Graham, mem ber of the grand choir; Judy Brin die, Sandra Jones, Sharon Keith ley, Fern Albert, Judie Spaulding, Judy Cochell, Janice Martin, Ber. nice Thomson, Frances Slocum, Lynn Thomas, Barbara Warren, Phyllis Quackenbush, Janice Beamer, Mrs. Paul Jones, motner advisor, Mrs. James Thomson. Mrs. Roy Quackenbush, and Mrs. Claude Graham. -o Junior Legion Game Sunday At lone The Junior Legion baseball team will open its season Sunday after noon when they play Milton Freewater on the lone diamond, starting at 2:30 p.m. About 20 boys from Heppner, Lexington and lone have turned out for practice with Ernie Drake as coach and Floyd Savers as manager. Other games already scheduled for the season are with Pendle ton and John Day, with several others tentatively planned. Admission for the Sunday game will be 50 cents. o North Morrow Suffers Worst Storm Damage Last Wednesday's (June 5) storm which brought strong winds and some rain to Heppner caused heavy damage in many other sec tions of the state including the loss of 15 Bonneville Power trans mission towers and other destruc tion in north Morrow county Wheat loss due to hail and winds was also serious in sections of the county. Damage to the Bonneville tow ers was set at a minimum of $2200,000 and the Frank Wilkin son sheep camp near the downed towers suffered heavy loss when numerous sheds and buildings were over-turned and scattered like match sticks. No definite es timate was placed on damage at the Wilkinson ranch but it was expected to run at least $4,000 to $5,000. Sheep and several trailers had been moved away before the storm hit which saved a much heavier loss. Wheat Downed ine worst part of the storm followed a path across the lower end of Morrow and Gilliam coun ties and in the Morgan and Cecil areas there were numerous re ports of total or partial croD loss aue to nau. Ranches in that area suffering the worst included those of Lee Pettyjohn, Jody Morrison, Donald Linnell. the Hartfield Wranglers Slate Sand Hollow Stampede The Wranglers will hold their Sand Hollow Stampede Sunday, June 16 at the Don Evans ranch, it was announced this week. The ride will start from the Cohn place on Hinton creek at 10 a.m., with lunch at noon and the show to start at 1 p.m., Several extra events are planned for the show including cow riding, calf roping, wild cow milking and others, it was announced. Bill Heath New Legion Commander Tt!11 TT At- J dm necim oi Heppner was elected commander of the Hepp ner American Legion post Mon- day night. He and other incoming omcers win ce installed Monday, June 17 at 8 p.m. niu i. tn miners wno win assume new duties are Phil Blakney, first vice commander; L. E. Dick, second vice commander; Jack C. Flug, adjutant; Jack Bailey, finance of. ficer; Elmer Heath, sgt. at arms; and Rev. Earl Soward, chaplain. Newly elected trustees are Alva Jones, Forrest Thornburg, district commander, and Harlan McCurdy Heppner Students Participate In The Junior Olympics Meet COLUMBIA BASIN CO-OP IN NEW POWER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION """to -- r&t The Pacific Northwest's newest corporation for development of Columbia Basin power supplies was organized June 6 at Spokane, Washington, by 12 electric cooper atlves operating in three states. "Our purpose is the establish ment of a new corporate entity through which our members may develop and transmit their own common supplies of electric ener gy under terms of federal rural electrification statutes," N. V. Fisher, chairman protem, of the new group announced. Name of the new enterprise, in corporated under the laws of Washington, is Lewis-Clark G. & T. Cooperative, Inc. Charter mem. ber cooperatives participating are: Washington: Inland Power and Light, Spokane; Benton Rural Electric, Prosser; Big Bend Elec tric, Ritzzville; Columbia County Electric, Dayton; Lincoln Electric, Davenport; Nespelem Valley Elec tric, Nespelem. Idaho: Northern Lights, Inc., Sandpoint; Clearwater Power, Lewiston; Idaho County Power & Light, Grangeville; Kootenai Rural Electric, Coeur d'Alene. Oregon: Eastern Oregon Elec tric, Pendleton; Columbia Basin Cooperative, Heppner. Incorporators of the new organ ization are: R. R. McClure, Lester Mann, Henry Baker, Carl Worn mack, Ralph Ethier, James W. Whittaker, D. I. Hopkins, Paul W. Smick, Edgar H. Collison, Arthur C, Jacquot, N. V. Fisher, P. J. Miller. Articles of incorporation, ap proved by the membership at the June 6 meeting, state the princi pal purposes of the cooperative are the generation, manufacture, purchase, acquisition, exchange, sale and accumulation of all types and kinds of electric energy and other products and services for its members, including but not limited to atomic power, steam and hydro and to transmit, dis tribute, furnish, sell and dispose of such electric energy and other products to its members. The articles provide the cooper ative's principal place of business will be at Walla Walla, Wash. '.Rapid growth in the demands for power in our market areas have made it mandatory for us to make plans for at least a part of our own future power supplies" was the comment of chairman N. V. Fisher. Spokesmen for the new corpor ation did not specify exactly the power sources they expect to de velop. They stated they are plan ning to retain competent engi neering counsel for the explora tion of hydro and steam genera tion possibilities which can be lo cated in such a way as to take full advantage of the northwest transmission grid and which can be geared into any program for full development of the Columbia Basin. Although 12 cooperative utilities participated in forming the new cooperative, officers said it is permissible for other qualified or ganlzations to become members. Those from Heppner participating in the State Junior Olympics meet in Portland Saturday were Mike Heaiy, Tom Howell, Dan Brosnan, ueraidine Swaggart, Joann Rob ison, Julie Pfeiffer. Libhv Van Schoiack, Cara Lee Corbin, LeRoy uaraner, Kenneth Wright, Darryl Dick, Rodney Flug, Pamela Brad shaw, Marylin Calvin, Tom Green, Sam Green, Tom Driscoll, Fern Albert, Ronnie Gray, N eal Pen land, Mary Slocum and Wilma Bothwell. Those taking cars and accom panying them were Mr. and Mrs. Jim Healy, Mrs. Gerald Swaggart, Mrs. LeRoy Gardner, Mrs. Richard Calvin and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Albert. ranch, Lodan ranch, Palmateer ranch, the Baffus ranch and the Krebs ranch. In some fields in the area only about one head of wheat in 50 to 100 was left stand ing and there were also reports of damage to summer fallow fields ine neaviesi storm area was about two miles wide but there were other reports of varying amounts of hail damage in the area southwest of Heppner. The storm struck without warn ing and was preceeded by a heavy dust storm here, however Hepp ner caught only a small corner of the main blow which traveled the entire width of the state in a few hours. There were numerous power outages here during the storm, but they lasted only short periods. o Beaverton Firm Gets Oiling Bid For Willow Road Annual School Meeting And Elections June 1? The Barney Helser Rock Pro auction company of Beaverton was awarded the bid for the pro duction of crushed rock and the oiling of 12. miles of the Willow creek road from Heppner to the mountains, the state highwav commission announced this week. The low bid was for $119,758.5o! ihe bids were opened afa spe cial meeting of the commission last week in Salem and will be formally awarded at the regular meeting later this month. The early opening was scheduled to allow the contractor ample time for the work. According to the contract the Helser company will start by July 15 and must complete the 1oh in 60 working days. The total cost the project will be $134,897 which includes engineeriner and other costs. The county's share of the project is $2680,. county judge Garnet Barratt said Wed. nesday. County road crews have been working for nearly a year on re locating and widening the entire length of the road preparatory tn the paving and will have their part of the work done within a hort time. Annual school meetings will be held in all county school districts next Monday, June 1 for the elec tion of directors and the approval or special levies in some districts, In the Heppner and lone dis i wets pons win be open from to 8 p.m., though in some of the other districts they may be kept open only from 2 to 3 p.m. if the aismct board desires. Heppner will elect one director ior a five-year term and Jack Loyd has filed t0 succeed himself on the board. Voters will also be asked to approve a special lew ui mj,wu ior a special construe tion fund. The election will be held in the multipurpose room nf ine grade school. lone will elect one director for a five-year term and candidates are Alfred Nelson Jr., Dave Baker and Ray Heimbigner. They will aiso vote on a rural board di rector and that candidate is Fred Martin. In addition lone voters will pass on a special capital outlay meas. ure calling for $2,470 for the pur. pose of improveing the heating system in tne main building, im provements around the swimming anu wauing pooi, purchasing ad ditional band Instruments, a pub lie address system, darkening cur tains for the cafetorium and other instructional equipment. o- Many Students Are Home For Summer Among the college students from here home for the summer vaca tion are Lance Tibbies. Wavne Soward, Sally Cohn, University of Oregon; James Hayes, Skip Ruhl, Patsy Wright, Dick Kononen, Adelia Anderson, Oregon State college; Jean Marie Graham, Mary Ruth Green, Nancy Ander son, David Cox, Mike Monahan, Eastern Oregon College; Lyle Jen sen, Steve Green, Neil Beamer, Pacific University; James Mona han, Jack Monagle, Portland Uni versity. o Little League Ball Gets Underway Here Little Legaue baseball got un derway this week with the form ing of four teams. The practice schedule for the teams is Monday, Ed Dick and Jim Driscoll team; Tuesday, Keel ing and Hitchcock team; Wednes day, Leon Ball and Marcel Jones team; Thursday, Ray Ayers team. All practice sessions will begin at 6 p.m. The first scheduled game will be Tuesday June 25 between the Ray Ayers team and Leon Ball Marcel Jones team. On Thursday, June 27 the Ed Dick-Jim Driscoll team will play the Keeling-Hitch-cock team. Anyone wishing to go out for the teams, who has not yet signed up should contact Jim Mallon. Heppner F.F.A. .Wins Honors At The Dalles Show Mike Gray, Cliff Green. Bill Pettyjohn and Bill Irby, Heppner ..a. ooys, took top honors at The Dalles Fat Stock show last week. In the livestock judging contest of two classes of beef, two sheep and two swine the Heppner boys placed second out of 15 chapters participating. Mike Gray walked away with the high judge banner, scoring 562.7 points from a possible B00. Bill Pettyjohn placed ninth and received a ribbon for his judging ability. There were approximate ly 65 entered in the judging con test. In the beef judging and placing of the entire group of light Here. ford steers, M:'ke Gray received champion and reserve champion on his two steers, weighing 910 lbs. and 880 lbs., grading high choice and choice respectively. Bill Pettyjohn received third place in the FFA Angus-Shorthorn division with his Shorthorn weighing 1040 lbs. and grading choice. From the six steers shown from the Heppner chapter, five steers were entered in the "group of five steers from one school contest" and won second place. Other steers shown were two steers of the Heppner FFA chap ter's feed out and shown by Cliff Green, of these two. one graded choice and the other good with weights of 975 lbs. and 910 lbs. Bill Irby was showing his steer which graded good and weighed 800 lbs. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fastabend and family of Kennewick visited over the weekend at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Ruggles. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Nash and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Lin. coin Nash and two daughters vis. ited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Palmer in lone Friday evening. Area Conservation Report Reveals Progress in District The May progress report of the Heppner Conservation district. given at a meeting of district supervisors Tuesday night at the Bank building showed 60 acres of grass-legume pastures seeded, 5900 feet of diversions stakes on the McElligott Bros, ranch. lone and surveys made for 24 acres of land leveling. in addition 48 acres of land leveling was completed on the ranches of Tom Michos, Heppner ana Lawrence Doherty, Pine City; five stock pond surveys made on the ranches of Randall Martin and Hugh Perrin and one irrigation ieservoir surveyed for Raymond Ferguson. A district conservation plan was signed for the ranch of Dr. H. S. Huber. A scholarship of $20 for the range youth camp at Tupper. sponsored by the American Socie ty of range management, was ap. proved by members. Attending were Raymond French, Donald Peterson, Ray. mond Lundell, John Wlghtman, Alvin Wagenblast, Tom Wilson, soil conservation service, and John Denlson, Pendleton, area conserv ationist of the S.C.S. o Al Lamb To View Signing of New Law Al Lamb, manager of the Mor row County Grain Growers and president of the Oregon Coopera tive council, has been invited to be in Salem Thursday to be pres ent for the signing of the new Oregon Cooperative code law, by Governor Robert D. Holmes. o- AUXILIARY PLANS MEET The Heppner American Legion Auxiliary will meet Tuesday, June 18 at 8 p.m. at Legion hall for installation of new officers, it was announced today. o Mrs. Elaine S. George, Kit and David, were in Portland the first part of the week on business. Local PPOL Crews Win Safety Council Commendation A "Certificate of Commenda tion" of the National Safety Council has been awarded Hepp ner district employees of Pacific Power & Light company for achieving a record of four years without a disabling loss-time ac cident. J. R. Huffman, local manager. reported the citation honors a safety performance of 371,418 man-hours for work during the period January 12, 1953 to Decem ber 31, 1956. The district's safety record is still unmarred by a loss-time mishap, Huffman reported. Fons J. Hughes, safety director of PP&L, sent his congratulations to the district crews under S. A. Kari, district line superintendent, and noted the outstanding record was achieved during a Deriod which included record-breaking construction activity. Hughes reported the comDanv's safety program currently is near ing another record of one-million man-hours of safe work for the entire system. There have been no loss-time accidents for 11 con secutive weeks, thru June 2. for total of 926,540 man-hours of safe work, he said. County Budget Down Slightly; Heppner's Climbs Lutherans To Use New Church Sunday Friends and members of Hope Lutheran church will begin using their new church for the first time when services will be conducted this Sunday, June 16. The church was organized two years ago with 34 members and subsequently purchased a section of property in the southeast part of Heppner and have erected a contemporary style church on the corner of Alfalfa and County road. ihe date of the dedication has been set for September 15, but the church is far enough along now for occupancy, with many items to be completed by volunteer help unng the summer, It was an nounced by Gene Cutsforth, Gene Majcske and Al Fetsch of the building committee. Regular services are held everv Sunday at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school and adult classes at 10:30 m. The public is always cord ially invited to attend services. o ilden H. Williams uneral Services Held Here Wednesday Funeral services were held Wed nesday afternoon at Creswick Mortuary for Tilden H. Williams, 81, who passed away in Baker on June 7. He was born in Clarksville, Vir ginia, October 22, 1876. He came to Morrow county about 1900 and on January 7, 1906 was married to Corda Keithley. They farmed for many years in the Hardman and Eightmile area. Survivors are three sons, Lawr ence, Heppner; Tilden, Jr., Ordn a nee; Ellis, Stockton, Calif: two daughters, Lucy Swanson, Eugene and Laura Nelson, Halfway, Ore., and 12 grandchildren. His wife and a son Floyd preceeded him in death. Rev. Charles Knox officiated at the service and Interment was in the Hardman cemetery. o Mr. and Mrs. Alex Thompson anu lamiy visited over the week end in Bend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Fancher. O. G. Crawford of Delake and Portland, former publisher of the Gazette Times, was visiting in Heppner on Friday. Completion this week of both county and City of Heppner budg ets reveals that one shows a slight drop from last year while the other an increase over the 1956 57 figure. The county budget estimates total expenditures of $388,355 for the coming year, which is an in crease of $14,392 above the pres. ent year, but the cost to the tax. payer for county services will be down $7,405, or about one-half mill, due to larger cash carryover and other reciepts. The amount to be raised by taxes for the 1957 58 year will be $118,705 compared to $126,110 for the present vear. The major Increases in expenses are to be round In the fair fund, hospital maintenance and general road funds, but even these are minor. Heppner's budget took just the opposite trend than did the coun ty estimate. Total expenses are down nearly $5,000 from last year, but the amount to be raised by taxes jumped nearly $6,900. The increase in taxes was due to the fact that the city had a cash car ryover at the end of the current year nearly $13,000 smaller than for the previous year. The amount to be raised by taxes for general city use is $14,864.50 which is inside the 6 per cent limitation allowed by law. Special levies voted by the people total approxi mately $19,000. The reason the city's cash car ryover showed such a drop Is that all available funds from the cur lent budget were used to buy pipe for replacement of the city water feeder systm. Both the city and county budgets remained within the 6 per cent limitation and both are published in full elsewhere in today's pa per. o Grange. Urges Farmer Vote on Wheat Quotas -4 !' eM.lmV .or JrtB", ill ' CHAMPION FFA UVESTOCK JUDGE at The Dalles Fat Stock Show and Sale last week was Mike Gray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Gray of Heppner. Hero Mike, who Is a member of tho Heppner high school FFA chapter. Is shown holding the banner ho re ceived. He also showed two light Hereford steers which were Judged champion and reserve champion. (GT Photo) The Lexington grange met Sat urday evening June 8 and it was urged that all wheat farmers vote on wheat quotas on June 20. Committee .reports elven in cluded legislative committee with Orville Cutsforth as chairman, who reported on new grain stand, ards as discussed by Marion Weatherford at the spring Wheat League meeting. Kenneth Smouse, cnairman or the agriculture com mittee reported that the Wheat League Fat Stock show at The Dalles was a success and remind ed members that they now have a seed committee in Morrow countv. Anyone having fields with clean seed should have them inspected before harvest. Resolution on relocation of high way 74 for Lexington, lone and Arlington area down Four mile canyon was prepared to send to Pomona on June 29. Mrs. Orville Cutsforth reported that a loud speaker had been or dered. The committee appointed for the princess dance was Lyle Cox, Orville Cutsforth and Cecil Jones. The program, under the direc tion of Mrs. Cutsforth, lecturer, was on Fathers Day and Dairy Month and included a reading "When Pa Was Young," by Alvin Wagenblast; a talk by judge Gar. net Barrttt, fathers in Morrow county and Juvenile delinquency; a piano duet by John and Steven Wagenblast; The origin of the first cheese, a talk by the lectur er; a reading "What The Old Cow Said," by Kenneth Smouse nnH the program closed with a quiz game on famous fathers. Burton Peck won a prize for being the oldest father and having the most grandchildren and great grandchildren; Lyle Cox, the youngest father; Garnet Barratt, the handsomest father and Or ville Cutsforth, the baldest and having the most children. WEATHER Hi Thursday 9Q Friday 73 Saturday 77 Sunday 72 Monday 74 Tuesday 76 Wednesday 81 Rainfall for week Low Rain 54 .15 49 51 44 45 51 46 .09 24; for June .25; for the year 9.8S inches.
