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Final Princess Dance
For Sharon Cutsforth
Copies 10 Cents
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 15, 1957
74th Year, Number 23
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PRINCESS SHARON CUTSFORTH
The fourth and final princess the court, driving wheat and hay
dance in the pre-fair and rodeo
series will be held Saturday night
at the fair pavilion in honor of
princess Sharon Cutsforth of lone.
The dance is given under the
sponsorship of Willows grange of
lone.
Stately princess Sharon, 18, the
daughter of Mrs. Don Heliker,
lone, and O. W. Cutsforth, Lex
ington, stands five foot five, and
like the other members of this
year's royal court is a blonde. She
is a graduate of lone high school
this year and has made plans to
enter the University of Oregon
this fall.
At lone high school she was
editor of the school paper her
junior year and editor of the an
nual as a senior. She was a mem
ber of the girls' league, chorus,
volleyball and baseball teams all
during high school.
Like most other members of
Pioneer Days to
Be Parade Theme
"Pioneer. Days" will be the
theme for this year's Morrow
county fair and rodeo, and the
same idea will be carried out In
the annual parade on Saturday,
August 21, it was revealed this
week. Organizations and busi
nesses planning to enter floats
in the parade are being urged to
make their float theme coincide
with the overall parade theme,
it was said.
The merchants committee of
the chamber of commerce will
again have charge of providing
prize money for the various par
ade divisions, and C. E. McQuar
rie, committee chairman, said
Wednesday that a full list of di
visions and prize money will be
announced next week.
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New Superintends
Has Arrived in lone
Dallas Shockley, new superin
tendent of the lone school, is now
in lone preparing for the open
ing of school on September 2.
He was formerly principal
of the grade school at Athena
for three years and prior to that
he taught in the Athena school
for two years.
Mr Shockley is married and
has three children, a girl who
will enter the first grade this
year, a boy four years old aijd
another girl one and one-half
years.
He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Portland, his wife is a
native of Portland, and Battle
ground, Washington was Mr.
Shockley's home.
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BARBER SHOP SOLD
Steve Howard has sold the
Heppner Barber Shop to Bill Ed
wards of Pendleton. Edwards will
take over the operation of the
shop immediately.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Hamner
and children of Gresham were
visiting her relatives in Heppner
this week.
trucks and herding cattle are all
in a days work for Princess Shar-
jon. Outside activities and inter
ests include charcoal drawing
and making shell jewelry and
she has won prizes for both in
open class exhibits at the fair.
She was a 4H club member for
two years, a three-year grange
member and a pennant bearer
n the rodeo parade.
She likes to ride and dance and
the piano is another of her hob
bies. Having a princess in the fam
ily is not new in Sharons case
for two of her sisters have served
on former royal courts, Faye In
19-19 and Vesta in 1948.
Providing the music for Princ
ess Sharon's dance will be John
ny K's orchestra of Pasco and
the group will feature Bert Wells,
of KEPR-TV fame. Admission
price is $1.50 per person.
Though this is the final princ
cess aance, tne toiiowing weeK
will feature the Queen's dance
and two rodeo dances are sched
uled for Friday and Saturday,
August 30 and 31.
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Oregon "History
Mystery" Feature
New in Gazette Times
Beginning this week this pa
per will present a weekly "Hist
ory Mystery" feature about an
article of historical interest. A
picture of the article with clues
as to the identity and origin will
be given. See how good a guesser
you are on each week.s object.
The name of the object, what it
was used for, and other notes of
interest will be printed upside
down in case you don't identify
the object shown.
This entertaining feature is
presented for its educational and
interest value by the Gazette
Times in cooperation with the
Oregon Historical society.
The society is continually
seaching for items of historical
interest. If your home contains an
article that you believe would
make a good Mystery object,
write to the Oregon Historical So
ciety in Portland. Describe the
article and give as much inform
ation about it as possible.
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BAND PRACTICE CALLED
Band practice for high schol
students will start Monday. Aift
ust 19 at 6:30 p.m. The grade
school band will start their pract
ice Tuesday, August 20 at 9:00
a.m.
GRASS FIRE CONTROLLED
Heppner firemen were called
out Sunday afternoon to control
a grass fire on a vacant lot ad
joining the Episcopal church.
There was no damage.
Weekend visitors at the Bill
Scrivener home were Mr. and
Mrs Arleigh Berger, Monte and
Kelley of Forest Grove
... Mr. and Mrs. Harry O'DonnelL
Jr., and Mr and Mrs. P. W. Ma
honey, Eob and Shannon and Di
ane McCurdy have returned frfom
a weeks fishing at Priest Lake,
Idaho.
35 Bushel Average
Certain For 195?
County Wheat Crop
As the 1957 harvest comes clos
er to its end, continued reports
verify that Morrow county is ex
periencing the heaviest crop in
its history.
hilo complete figures can
not yet be compiled, Al Lamb,
manager of the Morrow County
Grain Growers, said Wednesday
that wheat will undoubtedly av
erage 35 bushels to the acre and
barley 40 bushels the greatest
per-acre production in the coun
ty's history.
As indication of the amount of
grain grown in the county can
be seen from the quantity being
handled by the MCGG. Lamb
said that by the end of harvest
the co-op expects to handle
slightly over 3,000,000 bushels of
wheat and barley. Added to this
will be about another half mil
lion bushels now going into farm
storage. Last year the MCGG
handled 2,600,000 bushels during
harvest which was the biggest
year the co-op had had up to
that time.
Lamb said there had been no
serious storage problem even
with the extremely heavy crop.
Over 800,000 bushels have been
shipped out by rail and barge and
hauling is still going on, but no
problem is forseen and no wheat
has had to be ground-stored. Ab
out 75,000 bushels per day are
still coming into the elevators at
Ruggs, Heppner, Lexington, lone
and McNab with the North Lex
ington facility the only one clos
ed down.
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Heppner Experiencing
a r i j lii c
voidest jummer
In Over 40 Years
This summer, unless Old Sol
sneaks in a Sunday punch some
time within the next couple of
weeks, will pdobably go down
in local weather records as the
"coldest" in the, history of the
weather bureau, observer Len
Gilliam reported this week.
The highest temperature rec
orded so far this summer was a
92 on July 6 with most of the
daytime highs during the past
couple of weeks being in the high
70's and low 80's. Eighty degrees
was the highest recorded here
during the past seven days.
In the more than 40 years that
records have been kept in Hepp
ner the previous low maximum
temperature was 93 which was
set well over 20 years ago Gilliam
said. Normally the mercury will
get into the 100's for at least a
few days each summer.
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School Teaching
Staff Complete
The Heppner school board
Tuesday night completed hiring
its staff for the coming year and
announced that Tom Hughes, a
former graduate of Heppner high
chool and a graduate of Linfield
College in 1952, has accepted the
position as 8th grade teacher and
assistant high school football
coach. Mrs. Fred Hoskins Jr. will
teach half days in the elementary
school. Another part-time teach-1
er will be Mrs. James Mallon who
will be high school girls phys
ical education teacher.
Hughes, who is the son of Mr
and Mrs. Joe Hughes of Heppner,
comes here from Fossil. He is
married and has four children.
In other business the board
awarded Rosewall Motor Comp
any the service and maintenance
contract for school buses for the
coming school year; Turner, Van
Marter and Bryant the bus insur
ance contract and the Union Oil
Co. the fuel oil contract for next
year.
Dean Connor was appointed asLommMW mPPt.n Mondav noon
a fufl time custodian and tne
board approved a change in title
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vice-principal to principal.
Raymond French presided at
his first meeting as board chair
man having been named to that
position at the last meeting of the
directors.
Mrs. Mary Van Stevens, The
Dalles, former mayor of Heppner,
was visiting over the weekend at
the Claude Graham home.
Mr. and Mrs Roy Kirk, Hepp
ner high school teachers, have
returned from Pullman, Wash
Itigton where they spent the summer.
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MRS. T. H. (JENNIE) LOWE, twin
sister of Will G. Hynd who died
last week, passed away Wed
nesday in Portland. Photo was
taken on her 87th birthday.
Death Takes Second
Twin Within Week
Just one week to the day after
funeral services were held for her
twin brother, Will G. Hynd, Mrs.
T. H. (Jennie) Lowe died at her
home in Portland.; Death came
Wednesday afternoon, August 14
after a lengthy illnes..
Until Mr. Hynd's death on Aug
ust 4, he and Mrs. Lowe had been
Oregon's oldest set of twins. They
would have celebrated their 89th
birthday on Soptembr 22.
Mrs. Lowe was born September
22, 1868 at Low Butterby county,
Durham, England and she came
to Oregon in October, 1913. Her
twin brother came here several
years ahead, arriving in Heppner
in 1892. Mr. and Mrs. Lowe had
four children, all bom in Eng
land, though they all now Jive
in Oregon or Washington.
Funeral services will be hold
from St. Peter's Episcopal church
82nd and Pine streets in Tortland,
at 3 p.m. Friday. Burial will be
in Portland
Surviving are her husband, two
sons, Bill and Bob Lowe of Hepp
ner; two daughters, Mrs. Henry
Krebs Sr., Arlington, and Mrs.
Emory Lehman who lives in
Washington, and four grandchild
ren. She also leaves three broth
ers, David Hynd, Heppner, Charles
and Jack Hynd, Pendleton, and
a sister, Mrs. M. L. (Maggie) Case
of Tendleton.
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Rules Given For
Morrow County Derby
Members of the rodeo com
mittee today reminded local res
idents who might be planning to
enter the Morrow county derby,
one of the top contests in the fair
and rodeo show, that rules gov
erning the event require that any
horse to be run in the event must
have been owned by a resident
of the county for at least six
months, and that it shall have
been kept in the county for a
like period.
The rule governing the rider ol
the horse states that the rider
must be a resident of the county,
a member of the family or the
owner and he must be at least
14 years of age or older.
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ROYAL COURTS ARE
CHAMBER GUESTS
Queen Christine Swaggart and
her court of Morrow county fair
and rodeo princesses and their
(Chaperone, Mrs. Don Heliker,
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draft OFFICE CLOSED
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The office of the tri -county Sel
ective Service in Condon will be
closed from August 15 through
August 23. Regular office hours
will be resumed August 26 at 1
p. m.
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Mr. and Mrs. Marion Harnett
and son, Melvin, of Lebanon,
left Thursday after spending ten
days at the home of her mother,
Mrs. Henry Scherzlnger.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Dutton
and four children of Eugene were
here last week as guests of Mr
and Mrs. Claude Graham.
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Special Awards Added for Fair;
Earlier Opening Date Emphasized
As fair time grows near, plans
and arrangements for one of tlie
host fairs yet, materialize. A num
ber of incentives for drawing
more exhibits in some depart
ments have been added while ;fll
divisions have been checked
through making additions to in
clude everything produced and
made by Morrow county farmers
and humsmakers.
Among the special events this
year is a sweepstakes award for
the best hay exhibit. This is hoped
to draw many more hay exhibits
including legume, grass-legume
mixed or grain. Added in that de
partment this year is ensilage;
cither grain, alfalfa -grass, corn
or sorgum. The w li e a t sweep
stakes will again be offered. In
the saddle horse division a special
award given for the champion
working horse added this vear.
Both in the halter and perform
ance classes are Shetland ponies
upto and including 44 inches and
other ponies under 50 inches.
The National Needlecraft cro
cheting award will be given this
year again. A special hand en
graved cup will be awarded the
entry judged the best crocheted
article in the fair and special
ribbons will also be given. The
Oregon Wheatgrowers League is
again sponsoring the cake bak
ing contest with a yellow cake
made with a solid type fat and
whole eggs being the exhibit re.
quired this year. First place win
ner will be eligible to enter the
state bake-off for the $100 state
award.
Date Change Noted
Special attention is called to
the change in fair dates this year
with 4-H activities starting on
Two New Members
Named to Rural Board
Two new mebers have been ap
pointed to the rural school beard
to bring that group up to seven
members, as is required by n new
law passed by the last legisla
ture. Dewey West, Jr. of Boardman
ju.tg nnnnint,H rpnnnllv ffi twn
year term and Tuesday night theK'U1'1 the IKf tlont lf c
'joard named Gailand Swanson. by lh rf 'Stion of E L. Mort
lone, to a one year term. Both on, wh? had beC" P'ousjy ap.
men have had over a dozen years j polntod manager. Morton left to
experience on local school boards. lnake a PlUn. wit th,e Tsall
Other members of the ryrai Business Administration in Idaho.
board are J. J. Nys, Heppner; Al
onzo Henderson, Lexington;
James Henderson, Irrigon; Adrain
Bechdolt, Hardman and Fredrick
Martin, lone.
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County Picnic Again
Planned During Fair
The chamber of commerce will
again co-sponsor the annual
county picnic held on Saturday
noon of the fair week, it was an
nounced Monday at the group's
meeting. The Heppner Civic
League will assist the chamber
in preparing and serving the
food.
The chamber and the county
court jointly sponsor the picnic
for all fair and rodeo visitors and
ocal residents. It is held at the
court house park.
The group instructed the sec
retary to write a letter of apprec
iation to county agent'N. C. And
erson for the column he wrote re-
cently on the need for adequate
farm fire prevention. The article
appeared in th August 1 issue
the Gazette Times.
BIG SPILL This trailer carrying wheat from the Ruggs elevator
of the Morrow County Grain Growers to the Paterson Ferry dock
flipped over Sunday night south of Heppner when the big truck
owned by Willcmctte Hauling and driven by Don Lapham, Port
land, took to the ditch to miss an oncoming car which rounded
a turn on the wrong side of the road. The driver managed to get
the truck back on the road but the trailer tipped spilling consid
erable wheat and damaging the vehicle. The car did not stop.
(GT Photo)
Tuesday, August 27 and open
class exhibits and judging be
ginning on Wednesday, August
28. With this early starting date
the fair will be finished on Fri
day in place of Saturday. With
this stepped up schedule the 411
style revue will be held on Wed
nesday eening. the 4-H pig
scramble and fat auction sale on
Thursday evening and the special
night show on Friday evening.
During the past number of years
these special events have been
held one night later in the week.
A full schedule of judges are
now lined up and can be an
nounced. Judging 4 H home eco
nomics contests and exhibits will
be Mrs. Kimball Tellefson, Herm
islon, and JVlrs Russell McKinnon,
Four Morrow Men
Named Directors
Of New Bank
A special stockholders meeting
of the Bank of Eastern Oregon
was held last Friday night at
Arlington just prior to the open
ing Saturday morning of the new
Heppner branch of the bank, and
four Morrow county men were
named directors of the organiza
tion. Chosen by the stockholders were
Arthur A. Allen, Boardman; Gar
land Swanson, lone; Howard Bry
ant and Frank Anderson of Hepp
ner. The other directors are Mari
on T. Weatherford, Arlington,
president; Earl P. lloag, John W.
Krebs, D. L. Lemon; and L. C.
Buchner. Stockholders present at
the meeting expressed pleasure
with the wide spread of repre
sentation of the board.
The new Heppner branch open
ed Saturday in temporary quart
ers with many persons viewing
the concern and the numerous
bouquets of flowers sent by well
wishers. Acting manager of the Heppner
branch is Wm. F. Siewert. He
Siewert has had 15 years bank
ing experience in Minnesota, Ida
ho and with the Commercial Bank
of Oregon at Hillsboro which was
merged with the United States
National of Portland. He was as
sistant manager with them at the
time he accepted the position
here. He will be assisted by Harv
ey D. Wright, well known in
Heppner.
New equipment installed last
week is a Bell and Howell micro
filmer which films automatically
all checks either on the local
bank or other banks handled
through here. This service will
make it possible for customers to
get a photostatic copy of all
checks in case of loss of the orig
inal. Building Plans Readied
It was announced this week
that plans and specifications for
the new building were reviewed
by the board of directors recently
and it is planned to call for bids
immediately with the opening
date set for 7 p.m. August 26.
Plans call for a start of construe
ofltion shortly after September 1,
c-fficials said.
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Pendleton. Both have judged
tnese exnions in pasi years ai me
fair. Judging open class home
economics exhibits will be Mrs.
L. J. Marks, Fossil; Mrs. John
Parker, Pendleton; Mrs. Vera fl
exander, Pendleton assisted by
Mrs. McKinnon. Miss Alma Rohr
man, Pendleton will be the flow
er judge. L. J. Marks, Fossil, will
judge 4-H livestock exhibits and
contests, and the horse show on
Friday. Charles Gallon, LaGrande
will judge miscellaneous 4-H
ivestock, open class horticulture,
poultry and rabbits, farm crops
and livestock.
All judges are qualified and
are on the Oregon State Fair as
sociation judges list. All have
Judged here in past years with
the exception of Mrs. L. J. Marks
and Charles Gallon, La Grande.
Entries for booths at this year's
fair are coming in slower than
in past years. In the commercial
booth class Glen Way of Hepp
ner Electronic Service, Heppner
Pine Mills and Jim Allen repre
senting the New York Life Insur
ance company have made reserv
ations. Organizational booths
have been reserved by the Rhea
Creek Grange, Morrow County
Cowbelles, and the Morrow Coun
ty Health Association. Those who
wish booths are urged to contact
N. C. Anderson, secretary, soon
so that booth space might be ar
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48 Youngsters
Complete Training
Swimming classes ended Wed
nesday at the Heppner pool and
instructor Larry Dowen reports
that 90 youngsters toog beginners
lessons and 30 Intermediate In
struction. Of that group, 28 be
ginners and 20 intermediate pas
sed their tests.
Classes have been held five
days a week since early in June.
Beginners who completed the
course are: Eric Andreson, Mark.
Brown, Chris Brown, Greg Krel
meyer, Kerby Bailey, David Ma
theny, Jerry Wagoner, Gary Dick,
Vickie Kreimeyer, Patti Collins,
Linda Heath, Judy Jones. Bob
Harris, Mike Sweek, Meredith
Webb, Wayne Evans, Dean Rob
inson, Ronnie Jones, Steve Petty
John, Diane Warren, Linda
Thompson, Marglee Murray, Ron
Chrisman, Mark Murray, Brenda
Young, Nancy Cleveland, Betty
Angell, Rogenla Wilson.
Completing the intermediate
classes were Bruce Thomson,
Ann Jones, Ted Turner, Judy
Schmidt, Karen McMurdy, Marl
ene Fetsch, Dianne Schaffitz,
Barbara Blake, Rodney Ayers,
Gary Dowen, Cheryl Bellenbrock,
Tim Driscoll, Bob Massey, Rose
ann Myers, Carol Oslund, Patty
Mahon, Jay Ball, Larry Heath,
Bill Snyder, Laura Sumner.
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County Bond Sales
Continue to Climb
Word has been received here
today by county chairman Jack
Bedford that sales of United
States Treasury Department Sav
ings Bonds in this county in July
were $9,910, compared with $5,
220 last year.
"Series E and II Bond sales for
the state of Oregon were con
sidered quite satisfactory by Sav
ings Bonds officials" said Bed
ford. "Sales last month for the
state were $2,918,409, down $274,
568, or 8.6 from last year. While
sales were somewhat lower, they
are off less percentage-wise Tor
July than for the year to date,
which will no doubt keep Oregon
in a better position percentage,
wise than is the nation as a
whole."
EXAMINER COMING
A drivers license examiner will
be on duty in Heppner Tuesday.
August 27 at the court house be
tween 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
WEATHER
The Heppner weather station
reports for the past week:
Hi Low
Thursday 79 51
Friday 79 51
Saturday 79 47
Sunday 76 45
Monday 75 47
Tuesday 78 46
Wednesday 80 45
Rainfall for the week, none; for
August, .14; for the year, 10.27
inches.