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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Grange. Urges
Farmer Vote on
Wheat Quotas
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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.