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u or o EUGENE, ORE. Greatest Election Interest eppmer Gazette-Time Seen In Races Fr Only One County Contest Due Friday Primary Politicians today were wind ing up their oratory and hand shaking and will await the ver dict of the state's voters who go to the primary polls Friday to make their decisions. The entire primary campaign throughout the entire state has dragged its feet quite badly as tar as any genuine "whoop-and holler" battles were concerned though there are plenty of con tested offices to attract the at tention of voters. The biggest fight for votes will be in the governor's races on both tickets as the Democrats have three men seeking the seat, incumbent Robert D Holmes, Lew Wallace and Riley W Smith; and the Republicans six aspirants, Mark Hatfield, secre tary of state; Sig Unander, state treasurer; Warren Gill, state sen ator; Albert Eichman, who wants legalized gambling; George W Livingston and Orval Rasor, who primarily just want the job, Since ballots were printed, Ra sor has decided to get out of the race, but will still probably receive a few votes. There are no national or state contests on the local ballot though Republicans will have to choose between the incumbent Harry Dinges and Delmer Bus chke, both of Heppner, for the nomination as county assessor. Republicans will have one name on the ballot for repre sentative in congress from the second district. He is Marion T Weatherford of Arlington. Seek ing the nomination for the same seat on the Democratic ballot is incumbent Al Ullman of Ba ker. Frank M Weatherford of Olex is after the Democratic nominat ion as state representative and Orville Cutsforth of Lexington seeks the same seat as a Repub lican. Both are unopposed in the primary. Other unopposed candidates are Democrats Bruce Lindsay, incumbent for county clerk, and Jasper E Myers, county commis sioner. E 0 "Gene" Ferguson is unopposed as a Republican seek ing the county commissioner's seat. On the non-partisan ballot three men , are seeking position number 3 for judge of the su preme court. They are Samuel M Bowe, Boyd R Overhulse and Gordon Sloan. Two men want position number seven on the supreme court, present George Rossman and Jason Lee of Sa lem. All voters will also have an opportunity to vote on the spec ial 10 mill county road tax levy which appears on the non-partisan ballot. The measure calls for a 10 mill road tax for a per iod of five years. Polls will be open from 8 am to 8 pm and a complete list of polling places appears in an ad jacent story. Primary Election Polls Listed County clerk Bruce Lindsay today released the list of poll ing places for the May 16 pri mary election: Northwest Heppner Empire Machinery. Northeast Heppner Empire Machinery. Southwest Heppner Court house. Southeast Heppner co u r t 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. Game Commission to Make Pond Surveys In Heppner Area Game commission engineers are scheduled to survey Dry Swale and Bull Prairie reservoir sites in the Heppner Ranger dis trict in May, it was reported this week by Glenn Ward, local commission representative. If the cost of constructing these impoundments is feasible, they will be built in cooperation with the Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and the Game Commission for angling. These and other pond projects on Willow creek have been urg ed by local residents for the pur pose of providing fishing and water storage. V -Tt&MiwA. i. ,-, ij 1 1 Ventolin CONSERVATION WEEK PROGRAM at Monday's meeting of the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce included, left to right, Janice Etainor, Heppner high school; Mardine Baker, lone high school; Tom Kelseth, Oregon State Soil Conservation ist who was the guest speaker; Newt O'Harra, Lexington, county Conservation Week chairman; Keith Peck, Lexington high school; and Jack Loyd, chamber president. Each high school had con servation displays prepared for the meeting. (GT Photo) Conservationist Speaks at C of C Morrow county has one of the outstanding soil conservation districts of the state, Tom Hel seth, Oregon state conservation ist, told the chamber of com merce Monday, noon, during a program designed to publicize National Conservation Week, May 11 to 18. Helseth recorded the history of the conservation movement from its beginning with the home stead act of 1862 and traced it up to the present day. He said that many of the past programs have failed because the govern ment agencies gave the man on the land no voice in the plan. Now however, he said, the many fine programs are working be cause the wishes of the farm ers are given consideration and made the basis of the plans. Newt O'Harra was in charge of the Conservation Week pro gram which' included the intro duction of Jack Sumner and his wife, recently named county Conservation Man of the Year; presentation of directors of the Heppner soil district and others interester in the work. On dis play were conservation posters and material which has been de veloped by students in the Hepp ner, Lexington and lone high schools. Students from each school were also guests at the meeting. Hospital Sets Open House Next Sunday Residents of the county are invited to attend an open house at Pioneer Memorial hospital Sunday, May 18 from 2 to 6 pm. The affair is being held in ob servance of National Hospital week. Numerous improvements have been made in the hospital fa cilities and grounds during the past year, and guided tours of the entire plant, one of the most modern and complete in the en tire state, will be conducted by members of the hospital auxil iary. The same group will also serve light refreshments to all visitors. Local GOC Post Checks Plane Which Crashed Saturday A four motor Boeing cargo plane which crashed late Sat urday afternoon near Madras passed over Heppner earlier that day at a very low altitude and was reported in to the Bend Fil ter Center by members of the Heppner Ground Observer Corps. Sgt Ralph A Bragg of Arling ton stated this week that Mrs Ray Smith, who is in charge of the Heppner GOC post, was one of four GOC members to report the plane as flying in an unus ual fashion and gave credit to her and the other members for their work. He state that with the Bend Filter center knowing the whereabouts of the plane, it was a simple matter to get im mediate aid to it following the crash. The pilot and co-pilot were uninjured, though the plane burned, and they report ed that they were making a fuel consumption test flight of the craft. Billy Insto&e was in Heppner the first of the week from Hood River. He has just returned from spending the winter in Arizona. Governor . Friday Meeting to' Organize Local Centennial Group A meeting of all persons and organizations interested in the formation of a county-wide Ore gon Centennial committee, are urged to attend a special organ ization meeting to be held Fri day evening, May 16 at 8 pm at O'Donnell's lounge. The meet ing is being called by the cham ber of commerce. Ted Hallock, representative of the Oregon Centennial Commis sion spoke to a group last Fri day night explaining how the county can tie in with next year's celebration and what should be done to get the local program started. Sunday Storm Brings 1-Inch Rain Heppner and most of Morrow county seemingly sat squarely under a big black cloud Sunday that dumped out great quanti ties of rain to drown out many weekend fishing and golfing plans. The Heppner weather station recorded a total of .95 inch fell here during the day, the heav iest fall to be seen here since October 1, 1957 when an all time one-day record fall of 2.05 in ches was measured here. The rain started falling about daylight Sunday and continued uninterrupted until nearly dark bringing all streams up rapidly and washing out all fishing prospects for several days. The downpour also caused consider able washing in farm lands throughout the area though the heavy grass growth and well developed grain prevented much worse erosion. Mud was wash ed onto roads in several places and nearly five inches of new snow was reported high in the mountains. Well over one inch of rain was reported from ran chers living in elevations higher than Heppner. Though the fall was lighter to the north, all sections of the county received heavy precipitation. Rev Merlin Zier To Leave for Boston Graduate School The Rev Merlin Zier, pastor of Hope Lutheran church, will leave here late this month for Massachusettes where he will report on June 1 to Wocester State Hospital close to Boston. Rev Zier will do graduate work in the field of psychology and mental health,- The course leads to a master's degree in psychol ogy from Andover Newton Sem inary and the program is set up by the Institute of Pastoral Care which is headquartered at the seminary. The program is designed for the minister to have clinical training at a state hospital work ing with psychologists and psy chiatrists. Upon completion of the training he will be qualified to serve on the professional staff and review case histories in a state hospital. This is a new field which has been opened for clergymen with certified training to represent the church in the program of men tal health. It is said to be a pioneer field for the clergy. Rev Zier has served the local church for the past three years. He and his family will move this week. Copies 10c Unit School Plan Gets Approval of County Committee A measure asking that a coun ty unit school plan be establish ed in Morrow county was ap proved at a mooting of the Coun ty School Reorganization Com mittee last week in Heppner and will be placed on the ballot in the November general elections, committee members have an nounced. , The action followed filing of petitions with the county court signed by over 150 persons ask ing for a vote to put into effect a county unit school plan. The petitions were presented to the reorganization committee 'by the county court at the Thursday night session. The county unit plan would replace all ' present individual school districts and boards in the county and centralize purchas ing, hiring and other admin istrative functions in the hands of a manager or county super intendent, it , was poinaed out. At a meeting Friday night called by the Lexington Educat ion Betterment Committee at the grange hall, Fred Martin, lone, chairman of the County School Reorganization Committee, dis cussed the county unit system. "One advantage of such a plan is that the entire county would be included in the district unit and would automatically re turn to the county tax valuation which now goes to Echo and Ar lington because of overlapping into Morrow County of some Umatilla and Gilliam County districts. "Estimate of that valuation is some $1,800,000. About $39,000 of school money now goes annually into other counties." he said. "Re-districting is a requirement of the county unit plan." Recently the county reorgani zation committee made a tenta tive recommendation that the county be divided into two dis tricts, one in the north and one for the Hepgner, lone, Lexing ton and Har'iman areas. Since then the committee changed its recommendation as the two-district plan will not make possi ble the return of tax valuation to the county as under the coun ty unit plan, it was pointed out. Under a county unit plan, board members would be elect ed from zones in the county which would assure representat ions from each area. Glen H McLachlan Services Held Here Wednesday Morning Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at the Hepp ner Methodist church for Glen H McLachlan, 50 a resident of Hep pner for the past 12 years. Mr McLachlan died Sunday at Pio neer Memorial hospital after suffering a heart attack earlier that day at his home. Mr McLachlan was born at Moro September 2, 1907. Surviving are his wife Leona, Heppner; one son Darrel of Heppner; a daughter, Leila Sul livan, Van Nuys, Calif; two bro thers, Wendell F McLachlan, Boise, and Roland M McLach lan, Moro; two sisters, Lucille Harrington, Eugene, and Evelyn Chamness of Madras. He also leaves his mother, Mollie Mc lachlan of Moro and five grand children. Services were conducted by the Rev Lester Boulden and bur ial was in the Park Lawn ceme tery at The Dalles. Creswick Mortuary was in charge of ar rangements. L E Dick To Head Heppner TV, Inc L E Dick, Jr was elected pres ident of Heppner TV, Inc at their annual meeting Monday night at the Legion hall. Other officers elected by the group were E E Gonty, vice pres ident; board members, Haskell Sharrard, Glen Way and John Venard. Carl Spaulding was ap pointed by the board as secretary-treasurer. It was announced that the board will meet the first Wed nesday of each month until fur ther notice. Little League to Select Teams All boys interested in Little League baseball are asked to re port at the field at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Officials stat ed that teams will be chosen at that time. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 15, 1958 n fir " ' v HELPING IN THE CONSERVATION and reforestaMor. of cutoor met oi the umatuia National Forest are these members of the Heppner high school Future Farmer of America chapter who are setting out Ponderosa Pine seedlings. Left to right are Ned Clark. Clifford Green and FFA advisor, Llewellyn Robbins. The group set out about 7000 trees on two Saturdays. 56,000 Baby Pine Trees Planted in Heppner District Heppner FFA boys cooperating with Forest Service crews recent ly completed a tree planting pro gram on cutover Forest Service lands that resulted in 56,000 pon derosa pine seedlings being set out. The Forest Service crews be gan planting April 7, as early as they could get into the areas to be planted. As a community service, the Heppner chapter of the FFA contributed two Satur days of their personal time plan ting approximately 7,000 of the 56,000 trees. Planting conditions have been good this year with an abun dance of soil moisture and above average rainfall during the plan ting period. Excellent survival is expected. The project is a small step; to ward the goal of full production from the . nation's timberland. More than 114 million acres, or 23 percent of the commercial for est land area, is non-stocked or poorly stocked, the Forest Ser vice reports. Planting is one of the most effective means of gett ing this vast area into product ion. Approximately 400,000 acres are being planted annually. This area is being increased each year and is expected to reach 800,000 acres by 19G5-1974, but even at this rate many acres of forest land will remain unplan ted and not producing sawtimber by 2000. Legion Installs New Officers At the Monday evening meet ing of Heppner Post No 86, American Legion the new offi cers were installed for the com-1 ing year with L E Dick as the commander. Other officers are Elmer Heath, 1st vice commander; Don Fred erickson, 2nd vice commander; Bill Labhart, adjutant; Bill Heath, finance officer; D E Hud son, sergeant at arms; Jack Flug, chaplain and Pine Thornburg, executive committee. The installation was conduct ed by Elias Quaempts of Miss ion Post No 140, district com mander. Another visitor from the Misspn Post was Elzie Farrow. There will be a district caucus at Hermiston on Sunday, May 25 at a joint meeting with the auxiliary. The next meeting here will be Monday, May 19 at 8:00 pm. Refreshments will be served af ter the meeting. Willow and Rhea Creeks Get Trout If rains will let up for a while to give streams a chance to clear, local fishermen should ex pect some good fishing in coun ty streams as a result of the planting Monday of 3000 legal size trout in Willow and Rhea creeks. A tame commission truck loaded wilh trout dumped half its load In each of the two creeks Monday but roilly waters have kept most anglers from going after the fish yet. The trout averaged 8 Inches in length and came from Oak Springs hatchery near Maupin. W C Rosewall attended a Ford dealers council In Pendleton on Tuesday. County Schools Plan Graduation Programs With the end of the school year only a few days away, all county high schools are complet ing' arrangements for baccalaur eate and commencement exer cises next week. All schools are scheduling bac calaureate services Sunday at 8 pm. Heppner's will be held at the Christian church with the Rev Willis Geyer giving the ser mon. Lexington has set baccal aureate services at the Lexing ton Christian church with the Rev Norman Northrup; and Ione's will be at the Community church at 7:30 with the Rev Floyd Bailey delivering the ser mon. The Boardman baccalaur eate will be held at the school gym at 8 pm with the Rev Ro bert E Drewes, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church of Her miston giving the sermon. Commencement exercises will be held Wednesday, May 21 at 8 o'clock at the high school gym for the 26 members of the sen ior class. J W Forrester Jr, edi tor of the Pendleton East Ore gonian will be the graduation speaker. Lexington will hold ils com mencement program at the school auditorium Wednesday evening and the speaker will be Francis Nickcrson, executive sec retary, high school-college re lations committee of the Oregon state system of higher educat ion. The lone commencement spea ker will be Henry Tetz, assist ant professor of education and philosophy at Oregon College of Education at Monmouth, and a former Morrow county superin tendent of schools. Graduation will be held Thursday, May 22 at 8 o'clock at the school cafe- torium. At the Boardman high school graduation will be held Thurs day night at the gym with the speaker to be Carlos Easlcy of Eastern Oregon College at La Grande. In most schools eighth grade graduation exercises will be held the same night as the high school or the preceeding even ing. At Heppner the 26 seniors who will receive their diplomas and awards are Margaret Ann Apple gate, Janice Beamer, Jerry Brace, Joann Brosnan, Robert Bryant, Judith Collins, Kay Corbin, Tom Currin, Beulah Davis, Larry Fetsch, Burke Gentry, Helen Gra ham, Carol Groshens, Ed Grosh- ens, Rodger Harris, Margaret Hughes, Robert Laughlin, Will iam Monahan, James Morris, Le land Proffitt, Phyllis Quacken- bush, Len Ray Schwarz, Judith Brannon, Karen Valentine, Bet ty Wilson, Nancy Huffman. At Lexington six seniors will receive awards. They are Pat New Band Teacher Named for Heppner The Heppner school board this week announced the appoint ments of Arnold Melby as band and crforus instructor in the high school for next year. He has taught at Fossil since 1956. Mr Melby attended college in Minnesota and Idaho, and at Pacific University and the Uni versity of Oregon. He is married and has two children. The family will move to Hepp ner as soon as housing can be obtained. 75th Year, Number 10 lands in tho Hsppner Ranger dig. Steagall, Inez Frost, Joan Pat rick, Dexter Miles, Hugo Leyva and John Darnielle. lone will graduate seven sen iors. They are Berl Akers Jr, Mardine May Baker, Helen Lou ise Botts, Ann Belle Coleman, Grace Louise McCabe, Billie Jo ann Seehafer and Barbara Kay Sherer. The names of the Boardman high school senior class was not available. Voters Approve School Budget By Wide Margin A very small number of voters Monday overwhelmingly approv ed the Morrow county school budget 207 to 26. The total budget figure for the operation of all the county's schools was $705,409.87, which represented an increase of $22, 418.56 over the current year. The amount of tax in excess of the 6 percent limitation is $370,424. 11 and the total estimated tax levy has been set at $533,743.55. The vote by districts was Hep pner 60 yes and 16 no; lone 33 and 6; Hardman 10 and 0; Lex ington 24 and 0; Irrigon 53 and 3 and Boardman 27 and 1. Fire Hazards Noted in Checks Members of the Heppner fire' department completed the first phase of their home fire inspect ion program recently with ap proximately two-thirds of all residents in the city having been inspected or contacted, chief C A Ruggles reports. A total of 259 calls were made with inspections being made in 167 cases. At the remaining 92 homes no one was home at the time of the Inspection or ad mittance was refused by the res idents. Leading the list of fire haz ards found in the inspections were excessive or defective ex tension cord wirings with 58 such Instances noted and report ed to the homeowner. Other haz ards included 18 unsafe wiring; 23 fuseboxes overloaded, com bustibles too close to stove or furnace in 3 cases; defective flue or flue stops, 5; stove pipes not properly installed, 1; flammable liquids not properly stored 1. In 97 homes no hazards of any kind were found by the firemen. The inspection program was the first to be carried out loc ally and it is planned to con tinue the work next year. WEATHER Hi Low Prec. Thursday 71 46 Friday 75 44 Saturday 75 45 Sunday 75 45 .16 Monday 48 35 .79 Tuesday 54 31 Wednesday 61 36 Rainfall for the week .95; for May 1.53; for the year 8.76 inches.