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V OF 0 EUGENE. ORE TTE-TlHES Copies 10c Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 8, 1958 75th Year, Number 9 Gaze 1 - . V ' ' ' J ; ,N ' if r Vi n d n n Q C!3 2 . r i j u Local CD Crews Get Workout In Test Alert The Morrow county Civilian Defense organization, hardly more than one year old, showed up very well in the two day nationwide Operation Alert held Tuesday and Wednesday. Some snafus showed up in the early stages of the test alert, but in nearly every case, they came from other sections of the state, and not the local organ ization. The first, and worst ball-up, came early Tuesday when, due to a misunderstanding at the Pendleton district warning cen ter Morrow and several other counties received no word of the start of the alert which came at 7:36 am. Word was received by Norman Nelson, county CD head, at his headquarters in the court house at 10 o'clock that morning, two and one-half hours late, and it came through radio monitor ing of other county's CD com munications. Though the plan was slow in setting started here, the event ual results are probably among the best in the entire state. On the credit side of the ledger were the following results: Every community in Morrow countv took active cart. Every school in the county held test fire drills and tsoara- man and Irrigon schools carried out evacuation drills. Every city sounded some form of warning alarm. Everv fire department in the county conducted a "dry run" to test turnout and facilities. Medical facilities were survey ed and supplies checked and ac counted. Emergency' radio communi cations were established immed iately and were used through out the two days. - Emergency welfare operations werp established. Arrangements were made to Dublish emergency newspapers Available food and housing suDDlies were tallied. A continuing pattern of radio active fallout was plotted nere The basis for the test was the dropping of nuclear bombs on Portland. Salem, Redmond and Klamath Falls with the first one hitting Portland shortly before in am Tuesday. By plotting the wind direction it was found that the fallout pattern would have made The Dalles "hot" within three hours; the edge of the cloud could have been to Wil lows by 3:45 pm, and to Hermis ton bv 6:45 cm Tuesday requir ing evacuation of all those areas Within a 12 hour period riepp ner, Lexington and lone would havo been within the cloud pat tern and here it would have been necessary to stay in shelter for 36 hours or evacuate. Nelson pointed out that the fallout pattern would hold true for about 60 percent of the year due to prevailing west winds. Nelson stated that he received much aid from Heppner high school students who assisted him and that a plan has been set up for future aid from this source. Radio communications were handled for the local headquart ers by several local amateurs in cluding Glenn Way, in whose shop most communications were handled, Earl Blake, Ray Smith, Ralph Taylor, Mickey Van Schoi ack, Stanley Holm and Will O' Harra. kelson expressed satisfaction with the results of the test and stated that he will be called to Sflipm CD headauarters May 19 to report on how it was handled here. He said he received fine cooperation from all sections. Mrs James Mounts Dies in Alaska Word has been received of the death of Mrs James Mounts (Marie Akers) at Fairbanks, Alaska on April 22. She was 46 years of age and was born Oct 11, 1911 in Toppenish, Washing ton, the daughter of Mr and Mrs A L Tucker of Fairbanks. Both she and her parents were form er Heppner residents. She is survived by her hus band and one daughter, Ida. Burial was in a Grandview, Washington cemetery. - I it t ':'-.' yy' - s I "Si ALERT MEANT MUCH WORK to man Nelson of Boardman who is snown nere pioiung raaio an ive fallout ever the county Tuesday from information supplied to him through emergency radio communications. Nelson estab lished his headquarters at the sheriff's office in the courthouse and received reports there from all segments of the county's m nrrrnniTntinn. The test alert was acclaimed a success from the countv viewpoint at least, on the state level. .nw tTTM rTTPtwn TrsT RTERT Tho HeDDner Fire Depart ment joined with other county equipment and plans for an emergency uvuwb xeieno Without prior 'warning to firemen, they were called to an imag inary fire at Interior Warehouse in northwest Heppner. The call rnme ot 11 am and a good response resuuea. mi i-uwwj Death Claims Hilma Anderson Funeral services were held Monday at 10 o'clock for Hilma Marie Anderson, 69, who passed away May 2 at Pioneer Mem orial hospital following a ling ering illness. Rites were conduct ed at All Saints' . Episcopal church by the Rev Lane W Bar ton, Bishop of Eastern Oregon. Mrs Anderson was a native of Morrow county, having been born November 28, 1888 at Eight mile. She was a member of the Rebekah' lodge and the Luther an church. Her husband, Frank Anderson, preceeded her in death in 1919. She is survived by one son, Frank Anderson, and one daugh ter, Mrs James Farley, both ot Heppner; five sisters, Mrs Flor Recket. Miss Esther Berg- strom, Mrs Hanna Anderson, all of Heppner; Mrs Ellen Allyn Portland: Mrs Emma Long, Mil- waukie, Wis; four brothers, Carl and John Bergstrom, Heppner; tfdwin Berestrom, lone; and Wil fred Bergstrom of Portland. She also leaves five grandcnimren. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery with Cres wick Mortuary in charge of ar rangements. Regional Farm Bureau Meeting Set Lex Grange May 14 nilliam. Morrow and Umatilla county Farm Bureaus will hold a regional meeting at tne Lex ington Granee hall, May 15 starting with a potluck dinner at fi Dm. All Morrow Bureau members are urged to attend The program will include dis cussions on: Farm Bureau worn en's urogram by Mrs John Dev eroux, OFBF women's chairman; state issues, by George Dewey executive secretary; national iss hps hv Gerald Deterine, presi dent; county FB achievement program by Cliff Wright, ciireci rr of orsanization: publicity and news reporting by Scott Lamb, information director; ana com modity by Howard Fujii, com modity director. The Morrow county Farm Bur eau will furnish the potluck vv it , rri. . -J county Civil Defense Director Nor- and apparently functioned well (GT Photo) CD agencies Tuesday in testing Primary Election Polls Listed Countv clerk Bruce Lindsay today released the list of poll ing places for the May lb pri mary election': Northwest Heppner Empire Machinery Northeast Heppner Empire Heppner Court Heppner court Machinery Southwest house. Southeast house. lone city hall. Lexington Odd Fellows buil ding. Boardman Grange hall. Irrigon schoolhouse. Hardman Odd Fellows hall. Polls will be open from 8 am to 8 pm. Student Officers Named At Heppner Student hodv elections were held at Heppner high school Tuesday noon with Renn Harris being chosen president for next year and Bob Mahoney vice pres ident. The election was preceed ed by a period of campaign snpeches. i . Other officers named included Celia Boulden, secretary; Con nip Anderson, assistant treasur er: historian. Mickey Van Schoi- ack; and Tom Driscoll, sergeant at arms. Cheerleaders will be Carolyn Carter. Carol K Ander son, Celia Boulden and Carolyn McDaniel. Picnic Committee Asks For Donations Officers of the county pioneer association, hosts for the annual Memorial day pioneer picnic, this week are asking for donat ions for meat for the picnic. The picnic is always potluck, but the local organization supplies the meat, and needs funds to enable it to do so. Anyone wishing to help is as ked to call Lennie Louden, 6-5313; Mrs Give Huston or Dr A D McMurdo. Mr and Mrs Donald E Turner and children of Portland were at the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs J O Turner, from Friday un til Sunday. Soil Judging to Be Part of Week's Conservation Plan The first soil judging field day and contest to be held in Mor row county will be an event of Conservation Week and will be held at the Newt O'Harra ranch near Lexington on May 15. How ard Cushman, Soil Conservation ist, OSC and Elmer Hill, Soil Sci entist, soil Conservation Service will assist with the field day and contest. Those attending will have the opportunity to exam ine soil profiles in the area and use the soil judging card. Be ginning at 11 am those present vill be coached in what to look for in judging soil. After lunch all will have the opportunity to learn by going through a soil judging contest sponsored joint ly by the Boardman and Hepp ner Soil Conservation Districts. Substantial prizes have been do nated by Inland Chemical, Cen tral Fertilizer and Les Wyman pf Heppner and lone, lhere will be prizt;s for men, for women and for youth. Those attending are asked to hrinc a sack lunch with the O'Harra's providing coffee. Every one is invited to attend. - Soil Week Program, Area Practices Outlined A total of 539 acres of strip cropping was established in the Heppner Soil Conservation Dis trict in April, according to the monthly progress,, report given at a meeting of supervisors lues day night in the First National Bank building. A lirpalr .rlnwn rf tha tnlnl shows 154 acres contour stripped on the ranch of Don Peterson; 243 acres for C N Jones and Sons; 102 acres on the Raymond Lun dell ranch and 40 on the Jack Sumner farm. Two new district cooperators, Kenneth Turner and Kenneth Batty, plan to establish 250 acres each of strips this year to bring the total to over 1000 acres. At present over 10,000 ac res of farm land are In strip cropping in the district, the re port showed. Tom Helseth, Oregon State Conservationist, Soil Conservat ion Service, Portland, will be guest sneaker at the Morrow- Heppner Chamber of Commerce at the noon lunclieon Monday, May 12, at O'Donnell's Cafe, Newt O'Harra, county chairman for state conservation week, May 11-18, announced. Other conser vation week activities will in clude school exhibits on conser vation week, soil stewardship Sunday observances in local churches and soil judging con test Thursday, May 15, at 11 am at the O'Harra ranch near Lex ington. Other conservation practices in the district included In the April progress report showed 480 acres of grass-legume seed ings; 137 acres of land leveled on the ranches of Jasper Meyers, Darrel Padberg, Earl McKinney and E B Wattenburger and con servation farm plan completed on 3,672 acres on the Valentine Rice ranch. Reorganization To Be Subject of Two P-TA Programs Both the Heppner and the lone P TA's will hear talks next Wed nesday, May 14 on school dis trict reorganization. Fredrick Martin, chairman of the school reorganization committee, will speak at the Heppner meeting, and Robert Abrams, a committee member will speak to the lone group. Martin just returned from a state meeting at Salem, and is expected . to give a very inter esting talk. School Budget Up For Monday Vote Voters of all school districts in the county will go to the polls Monday, May 12 to vote on the county school budget which calls for an appropriation of $370,424.11 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation for the op eration of all county schools for the coming fiscal year. Numerous Board Members Named In Monday Vote One hundred and seventy-two voters turned out Monday to cast their votes in the Lexington school election and overwhelm ingly voted to retain their pre sent high school. The vote was 121 to 51. The total vote is probably something of a record as it rep resents well over 90 percent ot the registered voters and this compares with a total vote of 8 in 1957 and 5 in 1956. In other contests at Lexington, E H (Tad) Miller won a spot on the non-high board for zone II with 50 votes. He was follow ed by Elwynne Peck with 29, Bill Parsons 18, Eldon Padberg 5, Lucille Peck 5. Bernard Do herty won the post on the Lex ington school board by a mar gin of 116 to 39 for Lucille Peck. The vote on the discontinuance of the Lexington high school which would require transpor tation of students to other schools climaxed a period of in tense controversy with feeling running high on both sides. The plan was designated as a temp orary measure to provide equal educational opportunity until such a time as consolidation of the schools might be put into effect. All Districts, Vote In other districts of the coun tv. all of whom voted on Mon day, the following results were reported: Heppner Raymond French was reelected to a five year term on the local board with 75 votes. He was unopposed. Dick Wilk inson edged out Phil Blakney 42 to 37 for a post on the rural school board from zone IV, and Garland Swans received 62 votes to 11 for L E Dick for the mem ber at large on the rural board. lone Bryce Keene was reelec ted to the local board 32 votes to 2 for Ray Heimbigner. Garland Swanson received 33 for member at large on the rural board, and Irma Morrison 1. Irrigon-Bessie hodos iuccu- hoard 72 votes. Rural board, Zone lirk'on Bessie Hobbs, local Warner 1: rural, member at large, Garland Swanson 20, Jam es Henderson 2, Lloyd Berger 3. Non high board, zone I, Warren McCoy 9, William Smeder 6, James Henderson 8, Andrew Skiles 6. " Boardman Local board Har old Kress 31. Rural board, zone I, James Henderson 30, Russell Miller 1. Rural board, member at large, Garland Swanson 24. Non high board, zone I, Willard Baker 9, Dewey West 4, Roy Part low 3, Henry Zivney 3. Hardman Local board, Vein Batty 2; rural board, member at large, Garland Swanson 2. The unofficial tally shows Wil lard Baker, Boardman, and War ren McCoy of Irrigon are tied for the non-high board from zone I with nine votes each. Garland Swanson easily won the rural board seat with 246 votes. Hospital Slates Open House During "Week In observance of National Hos- Mav 11 to 17, Pio neer Memorial hospital will hold an open house on Sunday, May is fmm 2 to 6 pm. There will be guided tours provided all visi tors and refreshments win oe served by members of the new ly formed hospital auxiliary. The county has one oi me oest equipped hospitals in the state, Auxiliary members stated, and the public is invited to visit their hospital and become oeuer ac quainted with the facilities that are available. Work Starts On Park Ski Facility ifpaw work on a ski slide addition to facilities at Cutsforth nark on Herren creek started early this week, when a crew of three men and a bulldozer from Heppner Pine Mills was sent to the area. The slide will be located on the hill above the park and will be about 800 feet long and 600 to 800 feet wide. The mill is donating the work for the de velopment of the park area. COUNTY CONSERVATIONISTS named Morrow county Conservation Man oi tne xear, du ue wouldn't be photographed without his wife, who has played a big part in his winning of the award. The announcement of the award came at the beginning of the nationwide observance of Conservation Week. (Wilson Studio) Young Rancher Wins Conservation Title Because of excellent conservat ion methods of farming steep and shallow lands on his 922 acre farm in the Eightmile area, Jack Sumner has been named Morrow county "conservation man of the year" by a select ion committee headed by Max Barclay, vice president of the Morrow County Wheat Growers Association. Petitions Ask Vote on County Unit School Plan Petitions carrying the signa tures of over 150 persons were filed late Wednesday with the county court asking for a vote to put into effect a county unit school plan in Morrow county. The court is expected to pre sent the petitions to the county school reorganization committee at its meeting in Heppner to night (Thursday) for the approv al of that group which must be rpf-pived heforp the measure can c , t j tcr V, . R.ipflv. thp county unit plan would replace all present indi vidual school districts and boards in the county and cen tralize purchasing, hiring, etc., in the hands of a manager or county superintendent. One ad vantage of such a plan, it was ixiinted out. is that the entire county would be included In the district (unit) and would auto matically return to the county tax valuation which now goes to Echo and Arlington because of the overlapping into Morrow countv of some Umatilla and Gilliam county districts. It is claimed that the establishment of a county unit is about the only way that such valuation can be returned to the county. That valuation is approximate ly $1,800,000. Recently the county reorgan ization committee made a tent ative recommendation that the county be divided into two dis tricts, one in the north of the county, and one for the Heppner, lone, Lexington and Hardman areas. However, it is said that such a two-district plan will not rftake possible the return of tax valuation to the county as would be possible under the county un it proposal. Under a "county unit plan, board members would be elect ed from zones in the county which would assure that each area would be represented. WEATHER HI 69 69 73 65 68 66 Low 45 42 43 36 43 45 48 Prec Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday .47 .11 Wednesday 65 Rainfall for the week .58; for May .58; for the year 7.81 in ches. ' LITTLE LEAGUE SETS FIELD DAY SATURDAY All Little Leaguers are asked tn attend a Little League field ,1.,., C.jtnrrl'i,, iit 7 nm. The field! day will be held at the school ball field. Jack Sumner, left, this week was Mr and Mrs Sumner, who pur chased the ranch in June, 1956, have contour stripped 540 acres of cropland, practice stubble mulching and seeded 40 acres of grass legumes this spring for improved pastures. In addition to wheat product ion, Sumner runs 25 head of reg istered polled Herefords. He started his herd while a junior in high school when he first pur chased five head of the register ed stock. Sumner started ranching af ter his graduation from Heppner high school in 1953 when he was valedictorian of his class. In 1952 he was a district winner in the United Nations Pilgrimage con test to New York City. In Nov ember, 1953, Sumner was marr ied to Rita Cox, also Heppner high school graduate. They have two sons, John, 3 Va years and Charlie, 2 years. , A member of the Odd Fellows lodge, Sumner this year Is chair man of the Umatilla-Morrow county United Nations Pilgrim age for Youth contest; he Is a member , of the Farm Bureau, the county and state Cattlemens' Association, the Oregon and Am erican Polled Hereford Associat ions, the Masons, Eastern Star and Elks lodges and a cooper ator with the Heppner Soil Con servation District. Born at Prine ville, Sumner eame here with his parents in 1945. Mrs Sumner is a member of the Morrow Coun ty Cow Belles, the Eastern Star and Rebekah lodges. Primary Ballots Published Today Appearing in today's Gazette Times are reproductions of the ballots all county voters will re ceive when they go to the polls Friday, May 16 for the primary election. The ballots are published un der terms of a new law passed by the last legislature which is intended to largely replace the need for sample ballots. Both the Republican and Democratic ballots are shown as is the non partisan ballot which also In cludes the special county road tax levy measure. A limited number of sample ballots are still available, how ever, and may be obtained at the county clerk's office. Mrs Eppa Ward Rites Held at The Dalles Funeral services for Mrs Ep pa Ward who passed away at Newport, Oregon, were held Tuesday at Smith-Calaway cha pel in The Dalles with commit tal at Parklawn Memorial Gar dens. She was the widow of the late Del Ward. Mr and Mrs Ward were long time residents of Heppner and Morrow county, at one time own ing the Heppner Hotel. Mrs Ward was the former Ep pa Wilson of Monument. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs Lot tie Farnsworth of Tne Danes anu Mrs Helen Knappenberg of Port land. Mrs J J Nys of Heppner is a sister-in-law. Mrs Ward was a member of the Episcopal church, Order of Eastern Star of Heppner, and Daughters of the Nile. Going down from Heppner were Frank Turner, Ed Bennett, Alva Jones. Lou Bisbee and Har lan McCurdy Sr who served as , pallbearers, Mrs A D McMurdo i and Mrs JNys.
