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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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