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Damage Minor in
Monday Blow; High
Temperatures Hold
The immediate Heppner area
luckily was missed by most of
the big windstorm which struck
the state Monday night shortly
after midnight with only minor
damage being reported. Other
sections of the state suffered
fairly heavy damage and receiv
ed considerably more rain than
fell here.
The only serious casualty of
the blow was a small wooden
equipment building located at
the base of the Heppner TV an
tenna tower on top of the hill
west of town. It was blown com
pletely off its foundations and
badly broken up. It contained no
equipment, however, but had the
storm occurred a few weeks lat
er it would have held a size
able amount of costly equipment.
The antenna tower itself was not
damaged..
The weather during the past
week continued to be as unreas
onable as it has been for most
of the winter. An unusual high
of 71 degrees was recorded her
Friday with Maximums during
the rest of the week being most
ly in the 60's. The coldest tem
perature here was 36 degrees ear
ly Wednesday morning.
Another one-third of an inch
of rain has fallen since last Thur
sday bringing the month's total
to 2.25 inches and keeping all
streams running quite high and
muddy. Most farmland in the
higher elevations is completely
saturated with some fields be-
sinning to show some erosion. I
The lighter sandy soils are still
able to hold about all the mois-
ture that falls.
Heart Sunday
Response Good
On Heart Sunday, Feb 23 j Robert Abrams, present dis-
volunteers throughout the county trict attorney, who will be up
received a very fine response, ltor election this year, has also
was reported this week by tne
Rev Merlin Zier, county Heart
drive chairman.
Tho chairman pxnressed aDDre-
ciation to the high school stud-
ents and members of the Lexlng-
ton American Legion auxiliary
anH tho innp rhanter of EDsilon
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S gma Alpha sorority wno were uie Mau.-mt.-m mai uC wuu.u i.ui ii " b,,
in charge of Heart Sunday. Rev, be candidate for reelection and, ton, past district deputies. All
Zier also expressed his apprec'so far as is known today, no one were accompanied by their wives.
iation to themany people who has expressed any interest in The all day celebrat on feat-
mailed in their Heart fund en- the position nor have their been,ured degree work by officers of
velopes, showing tneir concern
over the need for further researcn
to combat heart disease.
a complete tabuition of funds
received during the drive was
not yet available, but will be an
nounced later.
Local Stockmen
Buy and Sell at
Recent Bull Sale
PENDLETON, Heppner cattle
men figured prominently among
buyers and sellers at the recent
(Feb 19-20) "Blue Tag Range
Bull Sale", here, sponsored by
the Oregon Hereford Association.
Kirk and Robinson, Heppner,
sold a single bull to Dick Reed,
Mikkalo, for $570. A July, 1956
bull, he was Larry A Mischief
15th by Larry Dom Again 334th.
Among buyers were the follow
inging Heppner cattlemen:
Claude J White, E H Miller, Jr,
William Smethurst Jr, John Grav
es, and Don Greenup.
Charles Chandler, Baker was
named president of the Oregon
Hereford Association during the
group's annual business meeting.
Norman Jacob, Merrill, is the
new vice president; and Dick
Richards, Warren, was re-elected
secretary. Three year directors
named are John Northam, Eu
gene, and Robert Hopper, Adams;
two year directors elected are
Bill Duff, Adams and Jack Mc-
Caffery, Powell Butte. Carryover
directors are John Horton, Klam
ath Falls; Frank Anderson, Hep
pner; and Bill Wolfe, Wallowa.
Hospital Auxiliary to
Have First Meeting
The newly formed Hospital
Auxiliary will have their first
meeting Monday evening, March
3 at 7:30 p m at the court house.
Guest speaker will be Barbara
Lynch of Hermiston, president of
the Hermiston hospital auxiliary.
Mrs Gar Swanson of lone is
president of the Morrow county
group.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Mattoon
were in Portland the first of the
week.
Red and Yellow
Ribbons Work of
Oil Survey Party
Last week's request by this
newspaper for information
about the red and yellow rib
bons to be found along most
roads in the area brought the
information that they are
markings for a survey being
made bY the Humbolt Oil
Company.
Complete details are not
available, but it Is under
stood that the company is
making a geological survey
of underground strata in the
area. Whether any test drill
ing may be done in the fut
ure presumably will depend
on the results of the study.
County Office
Filings Still
Slow Coming In
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snow surveys.
With only slightly over a week j February usually shows an in
until the deadline for filing for crease in the water content of
county offices, county clerk Bruce
Lindsay reported Wednesday mat dccreascd frrn 12.8 inches meas
there have been only two petit-' ured the end of January. Unus-
ions turned in to his office. There
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are iour oiuees open. ; in considerable water leaving
Lindsay himself has filed for , the watershed earlier than usual,
the democratic nomination to Soils are wet and unfrozen be
succeed himself as clerk, and ' neath the snow.
Harry Dinges, assessor, has filed I
for his present position. The oth-1
or nffipps which will be oDen are,
county judge, and one county '
commissioner.
Judge Oscar E Peterson has an- j
nounced that he will file for
election to the position to which
he was recently appointed bv
Governor Robert Holmes, but pre-
sent commissioner Ralph I Thorn-
pson, whose term expires at the 'vice president, Ontario, who
end of the year, has announced . made his official visitation to
that he will not be a candidatethe lodge; Bunk Moore, second
Ud to. the present time, no one
has rjubliclv announced that thev
would seek the post and no fil-
ings have been made. I
The filing deadline is Friday,
i March 7. I
filed for nomination with his fil-
ing being made through the sec
Iretary of state's office.
Another position of interest to
residents of Morrow county is
that 01 tne state representative ,
seat now neid by unaries Alien
Tom of Rufus. Tom recently made .
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Immunization Clinic
Schedule Revealed
The county school immunizat
ion clinic schedule for the month
of March was announced today
by Mrs Velma Glass, county
health nurse. It will be held at
the schools on the following
dates:
Heppner, March 4 at 9 a m.
Lexington, March 11 at 9 a m.
lone, March 11, at 10 a m.
Irrigon, March 13, at 9 a m.
Boardman, March 13 at 11 a m.
ATTENDS SEMINAR
The Rev Lester Boulden, pastor
of the Heppner Methodist church
was in Corvallis three days last
week to attend seminar on
teaching intermediates. The sem
inar was held at the first Metho
dist church there and was con
ducted by the church's board of
education.
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ON ITS WAY TO ALASKA This Alaska Elks Cerebral Palsy emerg- presents the second in a series
ency mobile unit stopped briefly in Heppner last Saturday on Its of articles covering those recom
way to Alaska from Flint Michigan. The unit will be put In mendations. Because of their
service by the Alaska Elks lodges and is being delivered across ; length, the reports will be briefed
the country by the Exalted Rulers of over 50 Elks lodges across in these articles, but in the near
the country each delivered the car to the next lodge on tha future, a complete report will be
route. Shown here are left Heppner Exalted Ruler William Lab-
hart and Pendleton Exalted Ruler William Brown who drove th
car to Hermiston as the next
display here during the Heppner Elks lodge's 61st anniversary
party last Saturday. (GT Photo)
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February
Mountain Water
Supply Still
Above Average
Water content of the Arbuckle
mountain snow pack averages 11
percent above the 15 year aver
age according to snow measure
ments taken Wednesday, Febru
ary 26 on the Arbuckle snow
course. Tom Wilson, Soil Conser
vation Service, and Glen Ward,
Oregon State Game Commission,
reported 31 inches of snow with
a water content of 12.4 inches.
Measurements taken last year in
February showed a snow depth
of only 12 inches with 5.8 inches
of water. In 1956 at the end of
February, snow depth was 51 in
ches with 15.2 inches of water
and in 1955, measurements show
ed 38 inches of snow with 10.1
inches of water.
A water content of 11.2 inches
is the 15 year average for this
time of year according to records
of federal and state cooperative
the snow pack, but this year has
uauy warm weather has resulted
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Birthday Party
Among the 600 persons who
attended the 61st birthday eel-
ebration of Heppner Elks lodge
358 Saturday were the following
officers of the Oregon State Elks
association: jacK juoson, iirsi
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vice president, Pnneville;
Stefani, fourth vice president,
Oregon City and John Graham,1
assistant sergeant at arms, Sa-
lem
Other special guests were Val
Bulger, past president of OSEA,
'Portland; Rex Cruse, chairman'
of the Oregon Elks Hawaiian
tour, Portland; A f vengeien,
past exalted ruler of Portland
lodge; Adrian Carmine, exalted
ruler of Condon lodge; William
R Brown, exalted ruler of Pend-
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vme jvines, pasi exaueu miur
of Baker lodge; Frank Wells,
tTiofnvi or, C U ITrllo Arlincr.
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afternoon.
Leadership awards for out
standing high school students
from lone, Lexington and Hep
pner were presented to winners
Phyllis Quackenbush and Eddie
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Groshens, both of Heppner high
school, during lodge. Both are
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was presented
bond.
a $25 savings
WEATHER
The Heppner weather station
reports:
Hi Low
Thursday 60 44 .16
Friday 62 42
Saturday 71 40
Sunday 59 40 .05
Monday 65 47
Tuesday 60 '42 .11
Wednesday 53 36
Rainfall for the week .32; for
February 2.25; for the year 3.81
inches.
step on its route. The car was on
It's Been So Wet In Eastern
That Even The Lambs Wear
WHAT THE WELL DRESSED LAMB WILL WEAR is demonstrated by these three lambs, who are re
cent arrivals to the big family of sheep owned by the Wilkinson ranches of Heppner. The small
plastic raincoats were tried out this year for the first time at the Wilkinson lambing operation
at Six-Mile canyon near Boardman and proved highly efficient according to George Ruggv one of
the ranch operators. The raincoats give the new-born extra protection against the weather and
Rugg reports losses would undoubtedly be cut greatly during cold or wet lambing seasons. The
coats are put 'on the lambs shortly after birth and are held on by a light elastic band which goes
i... Kohinrt ho front iAa. After a counle of weeks as the lamb grows and no longer needs the
protection, the light plastic will break and the coat will drop off. Only a limited number of the
raincoats have been used this year, Rugg said, because the weather has been very mild, though
wet In cold weather they help
Annual Red Cross
Fund Drive to
Start March 1
The annual Morrow county Red
Cross drive will get under way
Mapnh , at,vo rha.
mn phnrt Ahrnmc nnnnnnron
tod with plans cornpieted for
a 'personal contact drive in near
personal
ly all sections of the county.
ADrdll
Abrams said that Mrs Williams
i ahhart will serve as resident-
Labhart Z HepPnev Znh
'ah.cnBaa" bus"
Phil JH
SdeMOi ox
forth. Lexington; Mrs Verner
forth, Lexington; Mrs
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luue, aiiu iiiciiiutia vt
the Tillicum club In Boardman.
The need for generous donat
ions to the annual campaign was
pointed out by president Eisen-
hwer J" a r?cen statement,
"TVio nnct vnar hno hfpn a cnstlv
The past year has been a costly
one for the Red Cross. Disaster
reserves have been exhausted and
funds available for national
Jrae f7 "e
In March, therefore, when the
Red Cross makes its annual ap
peal for funds, it must receive an
unusually generous response.
Red Cross officials have also
pointed out that the past year
Precjwas one of the most expensive In!fcet scheduled for sale.
the history of the organization
TVin rrtanxi Hicnctorc thrnll (rhnilt
the country completely drained
Pnrf cmct furwia fnr that tvno nf
a
The Morrow county quota for
1958 is slightly over $1850 and
Abrams expressed the hope that,'" a "P'V'ts Ba"-- """-" ""
the nnnta con d be exceeded bv a
sizeable amount.
PARTY CANCELLED
The Elks teenage party which
had been scheduled for Friday
night has been cancelled, it was
announced Wednesday, because
of the Heppner-lrrigon basket-
ball game which will be played
that evening at Umatilla. '
Education,
Last week's town and country
planning conference was the cul
mination of many weeks of in
tensive study of the countys pro
blems by a great many inter
ested residents and several hun
dred recommendations were
made by the several committees
taking part.
This week the Gazette Times
published and will be available
to help guide the county's future.
This week the report of the public
education committee, headed by
Gene Cutsforth, is given. It deals
27, 1958
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the lamb retain body warmth.
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'GIT ALONG LITTLE LAMB" Mother ewe didn't particularly rel
ish the Idea of a photographer pointing a camera at her off
spring and here nudges one of the "coated" lambs out of danger,
At the Wilkinson ranch the crew is about half way through lamb
i 4i nn chPAn with an unusually high percentage of Iambs be-
incr born. The first 1300 ewes to
hwo Keen nearlv 20 sets 01 tnpieis. V
Nearly 30 Million
Feet of Timber
Planned for Sale
The planned timber sales pro
gram for the Umatilla National
Forest for 1958, as announced by
; supervisor Charles M Rector, lists
tracts totaling 181 million board
In the Heppner ranger district
'a total of 29.7 million feet will
be put up for sale in the follow-
ling areas: Black Mountain, 10
million teet to go on saie in un
spring; Wall Creek, 15 million
minion iu ub uiu una nun.
mer, with an additional 700,000
feet to be sold in various small
sales-
in uie uiuci iau6i.i .lunu,
of the forest 12.6 million feet of
timber will be sold in the Dale
1 district; 15.1 million in Pomeroy;-
25.9 million in Ukiah; and 44
million in the Walla Walla dis-
thict.
Roads, Government Get Study
with school reorganization, col -
lege entrance exams and quail-
fications, the county road pro-
gram, future needs of education, 'ommending a junior college and 2. The county court keep a cur
taxes and farmer-city public re- a trade school In this area of .rent map of school bus and mail
lations. Following are the main Oregon.
recommendations: 6. The rural school board work
EDUCATION j out a driver training program for
1. That the people of this area 'schools In this county which is
acquaint themselves with every ' financed by $1 extra on driver
phase of the school reorganizat-' licenses.
ion program. i ROADS
2. Study be given to the need j 1. The continued ten mill spec
for basic education needs and 1 ial road levy for five years, with
special education needs with an 1 possible change in levy at that
outlook for a broader curriculum; 'time. Reasons felt it should be
3. That parents accompany j continued are that there would
students when they register and be only $56,500.00 available for
that registration be held In
spring rather than fall.
4. That state laws pertaining
Oregon
Raincoats
(GT Photo)
lamb produced 140 percent. There
Mustangs Play Off
District Tie With
Irrigon Friday
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tangs wound up their regular (
basketball season Tuesday night
hy (icieating irrigon oi to 43 on
the local floor and thereby ear
nod themselves a chance to ag-
juiudin, lulnln nlav Irriuon Frldav nicht to
gee which of the tWQ toams wlll
iRQ ,nt0 the district playoffs In
Pendleton early In March
By virtus of their win over
Irrl,on the Mustangs ended the
l . 4i ,th r for
i third place in the western div-
i.sion oi uisinui i-a. me iwu win
meet on a neutral floor (Uma
tilla) Friday night to settle the
argument. The top three teams
in each division will enter the
( district tournament for a chance
to go to the state tournament.
1 to truancy be more rigidly en
forced.
5. Study be made towards rec
road budget whicn wouiu De tot
ally Inadequate to maintain
roads at present standards with-
74th Year, Number 51
Opposition to
Highway Route
Seen Easing Up
By MARY LEE MARLOW
BOARDMAN Dewey West was
installed as the new president of
Boardman Chamber of Commerce
at the meeting Wednesday of last
week at the Saddle Room of the
Hitchin' Post cafe. Arthur Allen,
the retiring president, was pre
sented with a trophy.
The most important topic of
discussion at the meeting was
the proposed Ellensburg-Board-man
federal highway. It was
brought out that the objections
that have been raised by the
groups and individuals from Um
atilla county are gradually eas
ing up, and that it is fairly ap
parent at this time that the orig
inal plan of building the road
from Ellensburg to a new bridge
across the Columbia river at
Boardman will be carried out.
The present plan is for rep
resentatives from the city of
Boardman, the Boardman Cham
ber of Commerce, the Boardman
Planning Commission, the Ilepp-nor-Morrow
county Chamber of
Commerce, the Morrow county
court, and the engineering firm
of Cornell-Howland-Hayes and
Merryfield, attend a hiwhway
commission meeting In Portland
Feb 28 in support of the Board
man crossing of the Ellensburg
highway. This will be a final fol
low up to an original proposal
of this route by a Boardman
group and the Morrow county
court some months ago.
Another topic of discussion at
the meeting was the new Board-
man ferry which E W Peck
plans to put In operation in the
near future. A ferry and barge
have been leased and the Morrow
county court has agreed to ac
quire necessary rights of way
and construct the road to the
ferry landing, which will be a-
bout three-quarters of a mile
west of Boardman. Negotiations
are now being carried out with
Benton county officials for the
same program on the Washington
side of the river. Property owners
on both sides of the river are
being contacted for right of ac
cess and for ferry landing privi
leges.
Out of town guests at the meet
ing were members of the Morrow
county court, Judge Oscar Pet
erson of lone, Commissioners
Ralph Thompson of Heppner, and
Russell Miller of Boardman. Oth
ers were Jack Lloyd, president
of the Heppner-Morrow county
Chamber of Commerce, and Bruce
Lindsay, vice president of the
Ileppner-Morrow county chamb
er of Commerce, both of Heppner.
Dinner was served to 27 people.
Lenten Series Starts
At Hope Lutheran
In keeping with the Lenten
season held sacred throughout
the Christian church, Tuesday ev
ening services will be held at
7:30 at the Hope Lutheran church.
The main part of the service
will be devoted to a pictorial re
v iew of the last weeks of Christ's
life upon earth. Using visual aids
recently released by Cathedral
Films, in which careful research
hM provlded accurate costuming
and background information, the
following subjects will be re-
viewed on consecutive Tuesday
evenings. Triumphlal entry and
cleansing of the temple, the pass
over supper and betrayal, the
trial, the crucifixion, the Ressur
rection and the Upper Room.
The public is invited to the
services.
X-RAY DATE MARCH 5
The next free chest X-ray date
at Pioneer Memorial hospital
will be Wednesray, March 5 from
7 to 8:30 p m. The service is
provided by the Morrow county
TB and Health association.
- 1 out any improving. Also would
probably lose match money oi
- federal and state government.
routes and that special attent
ion be given these roads in keep
ing them passable at all times.
3. Property owners adjoining
county roads take an interest in
control of weeds and prevention
of fire hazards by farming as
close possible to the road and
seeding right-of-ways down to
grass.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT
1. We believe that unwarranted
rumors have a deteriorating ef
fect on the morale of those people
dedicating their time, money and
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