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IU1 It- lilBillllllliillllls OCIAL H APPENIN6S 'llil'lillillliBlililililiillll liillUIIII'IIPH Former Resident of Morrow County Has 96th Birthday Mrs Caroline Hale Cason cel ebrated her 96th birthday at the Centervllle grange hall, near Goldendale, Washington on Sun day, March 16. She was born March 16, 1862 at Brownsville, Oregon and came to Eastern Oregon in early 1870's to settle on Skinner creek above Heppner in a log cabin. She liv ed there during the Indian scare of 1878, when the settlers left their homes and came to Hepp ner for protection. i ' She married Charles L Cason, who later became a Baptist min ister, and they lived on Shutler flat for several years. They even tually .settled in the Lonerock area where she lived until a few years ago when she went to Goldendale. She was chosen queen mother of the Eastern Oregon Pioneer Association picnic in 1950. C Present for the celebration were all ner children, Including five jeneratlons, Caroline Cason; her 4 n, Willis Cason; his daughter, Nyna Knighten; her son, and laughter, Raymond Knighten uid Margaret Stangel, and their ihildren Kenneth, Donald and Theresa Knighten and Dale, Glen md Leanne Stangel. Others present were Mr and Mrs Vrley Brown, Mr and Mrs Joe lassing and family, Mrs Alberta lassing, Mrs Mary Ritzechke, rlr and Mrs Bob Gentle, all of - Joldendale; Mr and Mrs Wood ow Tucker and family, Herm ston; Mr and Mrs Guy Cason, Ir and Mrs John Vaughn, Mrs 'earl Jones all of Portland; Mr - .nd Mrs Clay Hale, Mr and Mrs enry Hale, Milton Hale, Topp nish, Washington; Mr and Mrs ewis Cason, Peggy and Steve Istberg, Beaverton; Willis Cas n, Mr and Mrs Elmer Knighten, Hex; Mr and Mrs Raymond 'jiighten and family, Mayville; r and Mrs Charles Spangel and imily, Condon and Mrs Earle ryant and sons John and James ason of Heppner. Extension Unit Meets At Merritt Gray Home The Heppner Extension Unit met at the home of Mrs Merritt Gray for an afternoon meeting. The project lesson given by Hallene Price, extension home management specialist, was se lecting pictures for the home. After the project lesson the hostess served refreshments to Mrs Gene Ferguson, Mrs Al Fet Coming Events Friday. March 21 Elks teenage party. Sans Soucl Rebekah lodge. Saturday, March 22 Elks crab feed and dance Tuesday, March 25 Bookworms Degree of Honor. Wednesday, March 26 Willows lodge no 66, IOOF Thursday, March 27 Soroptl mists, noon at O'Donnell's. Elks Friday, March 28 Ruth chapter no 32, OES. . Pratt Twins Have Seventh Birthday On Saturday, Mrs Gordon Pratt invited several young friends to or-h Mrc d n-oi iKr.o n..i luncneun to teieuraie me sev Warren, Mrs Doug Drake, Mrs nth birthday their twln sons' Frank Davidson, Mrs Clive Hus ton and Miss Price. Family Here To Celebrate Birthday Of Frank S Parker Frank S Parker celebrated his 82nd birthday Sunday when all of the children of Mr and Mrs Parker were home for the day. Those present were Mrs Franc es Mitchell and Mr and Mrs Jack Kevan and Kent Attending were Philip and Mark Blakney, Mark Koenig, Mark Labhart, Larry Bellenbrock, Larry Brinda, Martha and Mary Pierce. Games were played following luncheon, Mrs Gribble Hostess For Sewing Club The Sewing club met last Wed nesday afternoon at the home of DeWitt of Portland; Mr and Mrs Mrs Lowell Gribble. Vawter Parker and Bucky, Hood j . Those present were Mrs Claude River; Mr and Mrs John Parker, Graham, Mrs P W Mahoney, Mrs Tony and Gregory, Pendleton; E K Schaffitz, Mrs Raymond and Mr and Mrs Fred Hoskins, Ferguson, Mrs John Pfeiffer, Mrs Gail, Marie and Macolm, Hepp- Carl Spauldlng, Mrs C E Mc ner. uarrie, Mrs Jack Bedford and Mrs Kobert Feniana. Soroptimists Hear Finalists In Contest Four Initiated At Rainbow Meeting Tom Driscoll and Renn Harris. both students at Heppner high' At the Monday evening meet school and finalists in the Unit- ing of Ruth Assembly, Rainbow ed Nations Pilgrimage contest, 'for Girls, at the Masonic temple, gave their speeches at the noon J initiation was held for Pamela meeting Thursday of Soroptimist Cochell, Judy Hamilton, Nancy "ouple To Celebrate JOth Anniversary 'All friends and relatives of Mr nd Mrs R E Allstott, Sr are in Ited to their 60th wedding an Iversity celebration to be held t the tl-RC building, adjacent I the park, at Hermiston on Sun ay, March 23 from 2:30 to 7:00 m. International of Heppner. The Oddfellows lodge sponsors the contest each year and R G McMurtry, representative of that organization, spoke about the contest and introduced the boys. Also a guest was Gordon Pratt, principal of Heppner high school. Mrs Pratt Entertains Renegers Bridge Club Mrs Gordon Pratt entertained the Renegers bridge club at her home Friday evening. Present were Mrs Larry Dowen, Mrs Richard T Meador, Mrs La Verne Van Marter Jr, Mrs Eddie Gunderson, Mrs Frank Anderson, Mrs Eugene Hall, Mrs Gene Pierce, Mrs James Norene, Mrs; William Labhart, Mrs James J Farley, Mrs Bill Barratt and Mrs Alex Thompson. Mrs Barratt won high score and Mrs Anderson second. Moyer and Doris Morris. Final plans were made for the stag dinner which the girls are giving tonight (Thursday) for the Elks lodge. Heppner High School SCOOP ?T7T i k 1 1 IF HEPPNER. CAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday, March 20, 1958 Judy Groshens; secretary, Diana 1 TMintu D ,-. a II Fulleton; new roportrr. Maryt0Unty Payroll Ann Johnson; song leader, Tam ara Smith. Miss Hallene Price explained our project for the coming year. Our next meeting will be at Diana Fulleton's home. March 25. Mary Ann Johnson, reporter L j " W . RHEA CREEK LIVESTOCK CLUB The Rhea Creek livestock club met at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Anderson on Sunday, March 16. The meeting was called to or der by president William Rill and each member answered roll by telling how his project was com- ing. The minutes of the previous meeting were read by secretary Kenny Wright. Our leader read a letter from N C Anderson which had to do with The Dalles. After the meeting was adjourned, de licious refreshments were serv ed. Visitors were Leonard Rill, A C Ball and Mrs Taul Webb. Archie Ball, reporter m Shows Jump in Numbers; Total Down FALLING PRACTICE IMPORTANT Knowledge ol how to fall Is important to physically handicapped children, and little Larry Reese of Eugene seems to enjoy the practice session at the Easter Seal hospital school In Eugene, where Mist Marcelle Montgomery, physical therapist supervises. The schooL where younsters from over 20 Oregon counties attend, is financed through Easter Seal sale, which opened March 6. Morrow joined most of the rest of the counties in Oregon in showing a drop in total payroll for the first nine months of 1957, according to figures just released by the state unemployment com pensation commission. The total number of persons covered by unemployment compensation, hawever, was higher than for the same period in 1956. Covered payrolls in the county for the nine-months period a mounted to $988,782 compared to $1,044,611 for the same period in 1956. The number of covered workers jumped 11.3 percent, however, form 389 to 433. The percentage increase in the num ber of workers covered by the commission reports was second only to Jefferson county, where a dam construction project has GET MORE out of life, go out to the Star Theater tonight. HASKELL'S TV & Radio Repair INLAND CHEMICAL BUILDING North Chase St. Heppner HASKELL SHARRARD, Owner Phone 6-9103 Evenings 6-5846 r Zhose chassis wouAral Tillh tt: Static-0 If your chassis noise annoys you, why not rumble ,-. into your Union Oil Station... say "Stop Wear" t lubrication, please" ... and see how quietly you glide out! wim M mi SmH u limerick about vour ?f favorite Union Oil product or tervlc. If published, wt'll Mnd you check for $25.00. Write to 76 Llmerlckt, Union Oil Co., Union Oil Center, P.O. Bo 7600. Lot Angelet 54, Calif. UNION OIL COMPANY of California TUB! IN: The 76 Spar Club on ABC-TV . Free Sport Book it jour Union By JAN BEAMER A rushed up school week, with many activities being crowded into the three days resulted from spring vacation. A student body meeting was held Tuesday, pre sided over by president Ed Grosh ens. Senior citizen pins were a warded to Len Ray Schwarz Peggy Applegate and Janice Beamer. Coles' Studio of Pendleton is finally getting pictures straight ened up and the balance will come when money for the pict ures is paid. All students are urged to clear up balances due on pictures as soon as possible. Older members of the annual staff met during last weekend, along with Mrs Kirk and fin ally broke a hunk off that huge berg of work! They expect to have everything- completed and ready to mail by next week. Al though no headlines have been received, staff members are a waiting arrival of the headlines so the final touch can be added, thus completing the annual. All those extra hours of work sure seemed to have paid ' off for paper staff members and their advisor, Mrs Kirk. The Heppner High school Heh isch was one of the six Oregon and Washington student news papers and magazines to receive the coveted medalist top honor rating given annualy by the Col umbia Scholastic Press Associat ion. This is the first year for the Hehisch to earn such an award but the staff hopes to keep the quality of the paper at its best so as this will not be the last time to win such an honor. An Associated Press story told of the award and local readers of the Oregonian, Journal, and East Oregonian learned of the honor as soon as the staff. The Pendleton Lantern and Madras White Buffalo also received med alist awards. Jim Morris and Judie Spauld- ing were co-editors of the issues submitted. Other Key staff pos itions were Janice Martin, as sociate editor; Helen Graham, business manager; Phyllis Quack enbush and Janice Beamer, pro duction managers. Eddie Grosh ens was principal feature and editorial writer with other re porting done by Carolyn McDan lei, Bob Mahoney, Steve Flug, Duane Alderman, Bernice Thom son, and , Cella Boulden. The Heppner chapter of FBLA met at the school Wednesday ev ening, March 12 for their reg ular night meeting. Plans for state convention were discussed and passed by members attend ing. Also, among new projects was the explaining of various activities which will help with the Easter Seal drive. The club will sell lilies, pickup contain ers, have school donations and cup cake sales to help this worthy cause. All are asked to partici pate and help make this drive highly successful REMEMBER We have children right here in Morrow county needing such help!! The drive will get start ed March 27-28-29 for selling lil iesBe Sure And Get Yours. The test time is now here again. Only a few have been given, but next week we'll be swamped! The nine-weeks quarter ends March 28. grandchildren and groat -grandchildren of some pioneer families you read about. Crystals come with open and closed faces. I could go on giving you the names of the faces but Randy would erase them before I could de cipher them and those I could figure out then, I can't now. One looks like Octrohedron-the others are a mess. Better come next time and get it straight. Mm CHILD CARE CLUB The Child's Care club had a meeting March 11 and since this was our first meeting we did not call it to order. We elected the following officers: president, Martha Peterson; vice president, YOUR,' iJ ndependait lmurand 11 AGENT "SHVIJYOO imi TRIPLING? If you are thinking about driving Out of the state this year; 20 states, & 4 provinces, require Liability higher than here! A special Insurance Card is needed In most Canadian Provinces! To drive your car there without it Is really taking chances! Please keep these things in mind; Don't you take the chance! Keep your driving trip pleasant By preparing in advance! For ALL Your Insurance Needs C A RUGGLES INSURANCE AGENCY hr PHONE 6-9625 HEPPNER, OREGON BOX 611 Hllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllli COURT STREET MARKET ROCK HOUND'S CORNER By JOHN NEWMAN The Saturday, March 15 meet ing revealed that spring is here in the rock world with shows coming up all over the state: Sweet Home this Saturdaw, Mad ras Swapping day March 30, which is a potluck; Prineville Pow Wow. May 29-31; Central Oregon Rock Show at Bend arm ory, July 4, 5 and 6. Several in California between times, then the big show at Pasco, August 30 to Sept 1. There have been two new bab ies born who are seeking admiss ion to the Federation, Ashland, and Newburg. The entertainment was a po tato-paring success. You wouldn't think a rock hound would be afraid of soiling his hands, but for reason we had spare knives and potatoes. Everyone present had a good time and the potat oes that were used wound up with more faces than they had eyes. Randy Peterson is an ex cellent instructor. 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