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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. k Gazette-Times Copies 10c Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 3, 1958 75th Year, Number 4 EPPNE Continuation of Lexington High School Aim of Signers During the past week to 10 days 70 residents of the Lexing ton school district have signed a statement that they desire that the Lexington high school be maintained as in the past. Their statement was made public this week in opposition to the effort of another group within the dis trict, the Educational Betterment Committee, which is seeking im mediate Improvement in the op portunity for the young people of the Lexington community. Both groups, according to their statements, are interested in the formation of a Union high school among the three adjacent school districts of Lexington, Heppner and lone, but they are in dis agreement over the method of obtaining such a union school and the timing of such action. The statement signed by the 70 residents recently states; "We, the undersigned, being parents and friends of pupils in the Lex ington school system feel that we have a right tc express our views concerning transportation of Lex i mwMMt 'y 9 i. W K- . .IT, it. (M . A i La? rs: vrt'-- ' ( 4 , fly A SEVEN WEEKS OLD KOREAN ORPHAN boy last week arrived in Heppner to make his home with his new pc-ent. Mr and Mrs Hubert Wilson. The young man arrived in Portland last Thursday aboard the Harry Holt "Babylift" plane and was met by his new parents and sister. The boy has been named Clay ton and will soon be Joined by another Korean orphan young ster, a six-months old girl who would have made the trip across the ocean last week except that she came down with the chickenpox just before flight time. Holding the youngster is Mrs Wilson; beside her is her husband and their daughter Ro genia. The Wilsons recently met a Holt plane in San Francisco to get another Korean baby, but it had died on the trip across the Pacific. (GT Phot) PLANNING COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS CHANGES IN TAX STRUCTURE The tax committee, one of sev eral studying and making rec ommendations at the recent town and country planning conference in Morrow county, gave the fol lowing ammended report to the conference. The committee was headed by W W Weatherford. "In reviewing the tax struct ure and tax mechanics of the county and of the state it has been our endeavor to stay as close to our own problems as possible. We have arrived at the following conclusions and rec ommendations: "1 That, inasmuch as the taxes are controlled and voted by the majority of the populat ion and that a greater proport ion of these people do not bear the tax load of this voted indebt edness; it has been agreed that the state find a broader base for taxing purposes, reducing the property taxes for the exclusive use of the cities, towns and coun ties. It is recommended that a modified form of sales tax be enacted to be used exclusively for schools thereby relieving some of the pressure from property and income taxes (this tax to be distributed as a direct income tax offset.) FBLA Sets Public Initiation, Program The Heppner high school chap ter of the Future Business Lead ers of America will hold a talent show and public initiation Tues day evening, April 8 in the mul tipurpose room of the grade school. The program win include the FBLA initiation and conferring of degrees which will be follow ed by a one act play and other extra entertainment. Proceeds from the admission charge will be used to send members to the state convention in Corvallis Ap "ril 11 and 12. The public initiation is being held to give townspeople a bet ter understanding of the organ ization and its work. ington high school students to i Another school, teeline that a union hish school is by far the 'best solution to the problem for all communities, and not just Lexington we fear that a mer ger would endanger chances for t a union high school in the lore seeable future. "We further feel that the curr ieulum offered at Lexington high school is sufficient for the needs of the great majority of our stu rfpnts. Even if there are deficien cies, members of the faculty at Lexington high school are fully qualified to teach many more subjects if there is desire among the students. It is our content inn that the advantages in curr ieulum offered at either Heppner or lone are not sumcient to jus tify transporting Lexington stu dents. "The necessity for transportat ion of our students would, we feel, seriously hinder any oppor tunity for participation in extra curricular activities. This diffi culty would itself overrule many mwm 2 We recommend that a stu dy be made of the capital gains tax in regards to timber, mining and oils, and that steps be taken if necessary to reduce the usurp tion of laws intent or eliminate the law entirely. "3 Since the useful economic life of a cow is from two to ' seven years, it Is recommended . that the assessed value be cut 50 on cattle eight years and older. This would conform to the 'same tax pattern now existant iin the sheep industry. "4We strongly urge that the state allow farmers to make year ly withholding tax returns rather than the present quarterly re turns. It is felt that since we make one yearly tax return, that farmers are financially respon sible enough so that the state would not be jeopardized finan cially by allowing annual pay ment of withholding tax. "5 The opinion of the com mittee is, that while there might be injustices in the county ap praisal system, these seeming injustices can be ironed out when brought to light. However the general feelins that we are not i receiving proper economic value for our tax dollar is extremely high. This feeling is not direct ed at any one level, but includes all: state and local. i The conference also moved , adoption of an amendment as-( king that distribution formula , of the basic school fund be bas-1 ed on population, valuation, in come, school costs, etc. Continued study on all subjects was also urged. WEATHER Hi Low Prec Thursday 55 29 Friday 56 37 .02 Saturday 56 32 .12 Sunday 53 32 .06 Monday 55 39 .09 Tuesday 55 38 .06 Wednesday 57 34 .26 Rainfall for the week .61; for March 1.59; for April .32; for the year 5.72 inches. of the apparent advantages of another school, Many of the stu dents at Lexington high school are working for scholarships in many cases a scholarship be ing the only way they could go to college and if they were for ced to enter another school, would automatically lose any chance at a scholarship. "Moreover, the fact must be faced that, in the case of trans portation, Lexington would have no voice in school affairs. Lex ington parents would, in effect, lose all control of their children's school environment, A rift would, we believe, inevitably grow be tween parent and child, destroy ing the close companionship with our children which we value highly. "Having considered all these factors, we wish to go on record as being opposed to transpor tation of Lexington students at this time." (The names of the signers of the above statement are given below) Unionization Desired Both Groups have publicly stated that they desire a union high school. The Education Bet terment Committee is urging im mediate action be taken to place Lexington high school students in nearby larger schools because of their feeling that district re organization and possible union ization will take several years, and that present students afe being deprived of equal educat ional opportunities which could be obtained In lone and Heppner schools. The latter group, whose statement appears above, feels that eventual unionization could be hindered if the Lexington high school was to be (in effect) made inoperative immediately through transportation of its pu pils to other schools. Signing the last statement were, Mr and Mrs B J Doherty, Mrs Delpha K Jones, Florence McMillan, W E McMillan, George Irvin, Jo Irvin, Dona E Barnett, Trantiie B Parker, Edith Mun- kers, Robert H Davidson, Mil dred L Davidson, Eileen Padberg, Mrs William Nichols, Ina B Nich ols, Lulu Merle Cornelison, Jos eph H Cornedison, Leonard Mun kers, K K Marshall, Myrtle Mar shall. Al Winkleman, Kay Winkle- man, O G Breeding, Lola Breed ing, Cora Warner, Marie Steagall, Gladys Van Winkle, Oris Pad berg, Archie Nichols, Catie Pad berg, Mrs Eugene Wardwell, Alonzo Henderson, LaVerne Hen derson, Burt Darnielle, Elmer E Padberg, George Hermann, Cher ry Hermann, Alice Majeske, Nor ma L Marquardt, Iris Miller, Gena Leonard, Frances McMil lan, Clarice McFaddan, E E Mc- Faddan, Ruth M Robinson, Cora B Allyn, Lewis W Allyn. Mr and Mrs Carl M Marquardt, Mr and Mrs Bill B Marquardt, Mr and Mrs Homer W Hughes, Annetta B Klinger, Charles C Jones, R B Shoun, Henry M Bree ding, Mrs A F Majeske, Asa L Way, June Cooper, William H N!chols, Ray I Papineau, Gae Papineau, Dorothy Edwards, John Edwards, Alex Hunt, El wood E Hunt, Mr and Mrs Frank lin Messenger, Eunice Darnielle. Mrs Lula Rumble Buried Wednesday Mrs Lula G Rumble, who died March 22 at Pendleton was bur ied March 26 in the family plot at the Heppner Masonic ceme tery. Mrs Rumble was an early day resident of Heppner and was the former Mrs Willard Herren. She at one time owned and operated a hospital in the building on Water street now owned by E W Moyer, but illness has kept her confined to the state hospital in Pendleton for many years. Her second husband, Frank Rumble, passed away about two years ago in Montana. The only information available about her is that she was born in 1870 in Alabama and she lea ves one daughter who lives in New York City. TO SHOW PICTURES Judge Oscar Peterson will show his pictures of Europe and the Holy Land at the Pomona grange meeting at Irrigon April 12. The meeting will start at 10 am. Guin Stuart of Arvin, Calif. and his son and daughter, Mr and Mrs Richard Stuart of Stay ton, Ore visited his sister, Mrs Ealor Huston last weekend. EASTER LILIES are being pinned on Heppner chief of police Dean Gilman by Helen Graham, left and Joann Brosnan, members of the Heppner chapter of the Future Business Leaders of Amer ica, who are aiding in the sale of the flowers to assist the Easter Seal drive for crippled children. The lily sale is sponsored by the Heppner Soroptimist club and is being aided by the Camp Fire Girls as well as the FBLA members. The sale will continue this weekend. (GT Photo) Lexington Graduate Named Foreign Exchange Student Word has been received that Don Casteel, a graduate of Lex ington high school and now a student at the University of Ore gon, has been selected by the U of O as their foreign exchange student for the 1958-59 college year. He was selected from a large group of applicants for the honor. Casteel will attend college in the Netherlands and while there will have an opportunity to at tend the World's Fair In Bruss els. He is a brother of Mrs Ber nard Doherty. Special Election Slated April 14 In Heppner District Voters of Heppner school dis trict No 1 will be asked to ap prove a Special levy for complet ian of the improvement fund to modernize and remodel the high school science laboratory, com mercial department and library. The special election will be held Monday, April 14 from 2 to 8 pm In the multipurpose room of the grade school. The special levy will be for one year only and will raise $25,000 to complete a fund of $50,000 needed for the project. Last year a like amount was approved by the voters and has been held in the special fund until the total amount could be collected over the two-year per iod. If approved, the money will make possible a major step in the long-range program to mod ernize the local school plant. Two years ago the cafeteria and lunch room facilities were enlarged and brought up to date, and the school's homemaking depart- ment has been completed. The laboratory and commercial de partment remodeling is a part of the overall improvement plan recommended by a former plan ning committee and approved by the school board some time ago. The necessary tax levy to raise the $25,000 will run for only one year, the 1958-59 fiscal year. County Red Cross Drive Lagging Badly Only slightly more than 50 per cent of the 1958 county Red Cross quota has been received to date, Robert Abrams, county drive head revealed this week, In making a plea to residents to send in their contributions quick ly. The county goal was set at $1800 and by early this week on ly$993.43 had been collected by volunteer workers and mail sol icitation.' A breakdown of collect ions shows $548.53 from Hepp ner, $202.30 from Lexington and $242.60 from lone. Education Committee Meeting Changed The meeting of the Lexington Education Betterment committee scheduled for Monday evening, April 7 has been changed to Fri day evening, April 11 at the Lex ington grange hall at 8:00 pm. An interesting program plann ed around a panel discussion has been arranged and all residents of the Lexington community are especially urged to attend. Mr and Mrs Lester Doolittle re turned home Thursday from Tempe, Arizona where they have spent the past 4V4 months. Holy Week, Easier Services Planned By Area Churches All churches In the Heppner Lexington and lone areas are planning special services for the remainder of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. A community Good Friday ser vice will be held at 1 o'clock at All Saints' Episcopal church with Heppner churches participating. St Patrick's Catholic church has scheduled Good Friday services for 2:30 that afternoon. At lone Easter Sunday sunrise services are planned for 6 a m in the city park to be followed by a breakfast at the Community church. A program will be held there at 10 am with services at 11 am. The same time schedule will be observed at the lone church of the Nazarene. Way of the Cross will be observed at St Williams Catholic church at 8 pm Friday and low mass will be said Sunday at 9 am. Holy Saturday services at St Patrick's in Heppner include Blessing of the Paschal Candle and Holy Water Font at 6 pm with High mass at 6:45. Low mass is set for 7:30 am. Sunday and High mass at 10:30. The Heppner Methodist church will join with the Christian church for a Youth Fellowship sunrise sprvice at the Christian church Sunday at 6 am and wor ship services are scheduled for 8:30 and 11 o'clock Easter Sun day. Sunday services will be at 11 am at Hope Lutheran church with an Easter egg hunt plan ned for the children following. All Saints' Episcopal will have Holy 'Communion and a youth breakfast at 8 am Sunday fol lowed at 10:30 with Festival Eu charist and sermon. Other area churches are plan ning special Easier observances at regular times or as announced to the congregations. Cancer Cursade Opens in County April marks the launching of the 1958 Cancer Crusade which will continue throughout the month which has been designat ed Cancer Control month by an act of congress. Envelopes have been mailed by Mrs Harlan McCurdy Jr, Can cer Crusade chairman, to all Mor row county residents for the con venience of those who wish to contribute to the drive. A person al contact will be made of the business houses in Heppner and lone, it was announced. The nation-widetarget of the Cancer Society is $30 million which Is needed to sustain the momentum of the war against the number two killer in the United States. It is being wag ed on three fronts, education, re search and service. The slogan again this year, as in the past two years, is "Fight cancer with a checkup and a check." Regular health checkups are proven to be the best protect ion against needless death from cancer. Morrow county has been the first county in Oregon for the past seven years to reach its quota in the drive and the drive committee expresses the hope that public response will again put the county over the top quickly. Fair, Rodeo Dates Set; Royal Court Revealed The complete 1958 Morrow county fair and rodeo royal court was named this week and plan ning work is currently under way for the big annual county-wide event which will be held August 27 through the 31st. As previously announced, Pa tricia Steagall of Lexington will rule over the fair and rodeo. Prin cesses who will make up her royal court will be Ann Belle Coleman, sponsored by the lone Grange; Karen Valentine, spon sored by the Rhea Creek Grange; Joann Brosnan, the representa tive of the Lena community; and Wanda Forthman, Boardman, who will be sponsored by the Tillicum club. Fair events will follow a pat tern similar to those of last year, it was revealed. Most of the jud ges who have served previous ly have been invited for this fall, and the announcement will be made shortly of superinten dents for the various divisions. The fair will be August 27, 28 and 29 and the rodeo Saturday and Sunday, August 30 and 31. There will be three performances including a Saturday night show. New Chutes Being Built An improvement to the rodeo grounds will be the construction of new chutes which are now being built. The fair board au thorized funds up to $5,000 for the project and it is hoped that out of that amount It may be possible to add some seating ca pacity on that side of the field. An added event for the 1958 show will be bull riding, which was dropped several years ago. The ever-popular chariot race is again planned and there are al ready indications that interest in this event will bring consid erable competition. Ed Ring of Wilbur, Washington has been signed to provide the rodeo stock. The Saturday night rodeo per formance is again scheduled this year, rather than Friday night which was made necessary last year because of a conflict with the Shrine B All Star football game . in Fendleton. This year the Shrine 'game is set for Sat urday, August 23. Of particular interest to the youngsters Is the word that Knight Amusement company car- Elks Sponsored Easter Egg Hunt Set For Saturday Local youngsters are invited to join In an Easter egg hunt to be held Sautrday morning at the court house park and the fair grounds. The hunt is being spon sored by the Heppner Elks lodge, exalted ruler John Hartman an nounces, with William Labhart as general chairman for the ev ent. All children up to and includ ing five years of age will have the run of the court house lawn where 500 eggs will be awaiting them. Boys and girls from 6 through 10 years are to have their hunt at the fair grounds and they, too, will have 500 col ored eggs hidden in the area. Both hunts will start promptly at 10 o'clock Saturday morning and the chairman stated that there will be many, many prizes awaiting lucky youngsters in both groups. The two age groups were sep erated this year to provide more room for the popular event, and to keep the smaller yongsters from getting run over by the older ones In their search for prize eggs. ....LM AM.! ' If I 8 I jo ii M a j V !vJ - Jyy BIG CALENDAR is being hung in a prominent place in the lobby of the Bank of Eastern Oregon by Gene Pierce, manager. The calendar will be available to all organizations, clubs, etc. who wish to schedule coming events, or check future dates for con flicts. (GT Photo) nival has been signed for fair week. It is the same group that appeared last year, but several additional adult rides will be added this year. Dances Scheduled The dance committee today an nounced the dates for the sev eral princess, queen's and rodeo dances and stated that Johnny K's orchestra of Pasco will play for the Fri and Sat night rodeo dances, the kickoff dance, Queen's dance and the Lena dance. Following is the dance schedule: Kickoff Dance, July 12 Lena Dance, July 19 lone, July 26 Boardman, August 2 Khea Creek, August 9 Queens Dance, August 16 Rodeo Dances, August 29, 30. Mountain Water Supply Now Nearly Double Last Year Water content of the Arbuckle mountain snowpack is 36 per cent above average and almost twice as much as last year at this time. Measurements taken Thursday, March 27, by Tom Wil son, Soil Conservation Service, and Vie Kreimeyer, Forest Ser vice, showed 35 inches of snow with 14.7 inches of water. Last year's snow survey at the end of March measured a snow depth of 19 Inches with 7.8 in ches of water. Snow depth in March 1956 was 36 Inches with 15.5 inches of water and in 1955 snow depth was 43 Inches with 14.2 inches of water. A water content of 10.8 Inches is the longtime average for this time of year according to fed eral state cooperative snow sur vey records. Soils are wet and unfrozen beneath the snow pack. Water supply forecasts are made for water users by the Soli Conservation Service each year from data secured by snow sur vey measurments. Snow survey data, taken over a period of years, related to stream flow his tory, soil moisture, and rainfall records, make forecasting possi ble. These forecasts will be made public at a series of meetings throughout Oregon sponsored by the SCS, Oregon agricultural ex periment station, Oregon Exten sion Service, and other cooperat ors. The meeting for the Heppner-Umatilla-Walla Walla areas will be hold Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 pm at the Umatilla Electric Co operative building at Hermlston. Manes Barton and W T Frost, Soil Conservation Service, Port land, will present the water sup ply outlook. Wranglers Planning Auction Sale The Wranglers Riding club has announced plans to hold a special benefit auction sale Sat urday, April 19 to raise funds for the completion of the clubs new corrals west of Heppner. Club members are now solici ting all types of donations for the sale and officers state that they already have promise of a great many useful articles. Any one having items they want to donate are asked to call either Herman Green or Roice Fulleton in Heppner; Archie Munkers at Lexington, or John Eubanka at lone. All donations will be pick ed up whenever convenient. T - MS ;
