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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE Three Air Force Men Injured in Saturday Accident Three Air Force men stationed at the Condon Air Base were in jured, one seriously, Saturday night when the car in which they were riding left the road, ap parently at high speed, and over turned. The accident occured just before midnight about a mile east of Heppner on the Hinton creek highway. Most seriously hurt with se vere cerebral concussion was Staff Sergeant Carl Terwilliger, 22, of Parker, Pennsylvania. He was reported as driver and own er of the late model Oldsmobile sedan which was completely de molished. He has not regained consciousness since the crash. Others in the car were A2c Clarence Grant Lee, 20, whose home is in San Francisco. He sufferel a broken jaw. Attending physicians reported Tuesday that he is much improved and will be transferred to a Spokane hospital by plane today. The least seriously injured of the three was A2c Joseph Flor ian Bordynoski, 20, of Berkley, Michigan who suffered an injur ed hand and a sprained right knee. He will probably be re leased from the hospital today. According to information from investigating Air Force officers and state police, the car was traveling toward Heppner at the time of the accident. It left the road on the upper side striking a big boulder which upset the vehicle which continued sliding on its top and side across the highway and overturning in a field below the road. The car traveled a total of 620 feet eith er in the ditch or on its top be fore coming to a stop. After it struck the boulder, police report ed it leaped through the air near ly 40 feet. All three men were thrown from the vehicle which caught fire, but was extinguished quick ly by passing motorists. Another car arrived on the scene within minutes of the acci dent, and occupants immediately summoned DrCM Wagner, who lives nearby. After emergency treatment, all were taken to Pio neer Memorial hospital by am bulance. State police and Air Force offi cers placed no blame for the wreck, stating that it was still under investigation. Terwilliger was the only mar ried man of the injured trio. His wife and one child live in Condon. Sole of Lexington Wheat Ranch Told One of the largest ranch sales to be completed recently in Mor row county was the purchase of a 1700 acre wheat operation near Lexington by Mr and Mrs C W Rosewall of Heppner. The proper ty was purchased from Grace Peters Maxwell of Los Angeles. It was operated by Mrs Harry Duvall and farmed by Bergen Ledbetter and had been under the management of Leonard Floan of Portland. Mrs Duvall will continue to op erate the ranch, it was reported. The ranch was purchased by the Rosewalls for $115,000 cash it was reported by H C "Hap" Wood, Portland broker who han dled the transaction. He stated it is the third large Eastern Oregon ranch to be sold for cash in the past six months. WEATHER Hi 80 90 70 70 69 71 Low 51 51 45 42 49 43 Prec. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Rainfall .13 .01 for for June 1.18; July .01; for the year to Juiy 1, 10.42; first six months -last year 10.01 inches, I .-A m or . J. L" . jf. ., r , - COURT STREET PAVEMENT goes down in a hurry early this week when trucks started hauling hot asphalt mix from Hermis ton plant for the Russell Olson Construction company, contract ors for the Heppner street improvement project The curbing and pavement job will probably be completed by Wednesday giving the city another three blocks of modern street. Here the .!. i. i : r.n .f thu ctrfne nf rrenhaltie Con- paving macnu.. CT0t6 Copies 10 Cents 7 - . . - . j.. t TOTALLY DEMOLISHED CAR in which three Condon Air Base men were riding Saturday night when it left the highway about a mile east of Heppner on the Hinton creek highway and over turned. All three occupants were hurt one seriously. The car slid nearly 200 feet on its top or side before going into a field. (GT Photo) Three-Day Closing Planned by Stores Practically all Heppner, Lex ington and lone stores, offices and business houses will close Thursday night, July 3 and re main closed until Monday morn ing, in the first observance lo cally of a three-day holiday. A few business, such as ser vice stations ana restaurants, and garages plan to remain open either all three days or reopen on Saturday to handle necessary trade. First National Shows Deposit Hike; Local Figures Take Dip Deposit totals of $794,390,100 a gain of more than $42,000,000 over a year ago, were reported by First National bank of Port land in response to the call by the comptroller of the currency for statements of conditions as of June 23, according to C B Stephenson, president of the statewide banking system. Figures released by the Hepp ner branch of First National re veal that on June 23 deposits at the branch were $5,156,237 and loans were $3,629,026, ac cording to J H Bedford, manager. Released at the same time were comparable totals for the branch for the June call for statements one year ago. On that date, deposits were $5,819,409 and loans totaled $3,728,582. The 77 offices of First National reported loans of $361,588,628 in the June 23 call, Stephenson said. This is a decline of $35,001,790 over the total reported one year ago, and $598,102 less than the March 4 call by the comptroller. Deposits have increased $17,951, 792 throughout the system since that date, Stephenson added. RECOVERING FROM SURGERY Rev Willis Geyer, who recent ly underwent surgery at the Sil verton hospital, was released Fri- i day ana is witn relatives in Woodburn. He and Mrs Geyer 1 hope to be home in Heppner on Monday. Mr and Mrs Oliver Creswick and family and Mr and Mrs Frank Creswick and son of Los Angeles visited Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Duane Gen try in Milton-Freewater. - r r -- Gazette-Time Lutheran Churches Install New Pastor; Picnic Slated The Rev and Mrs John Ryd gren and daughter, Janel arriv ed in Heppner June 28 and was installed the following day at Valby Lutheran church at 9:15 and at Hope Lutheran in Hepp ner at the 11 o'clock service. Next Sunday Hope Lutheran will receive the Lord's Supper and Rev Rydgren's sermon will consider "The Minister's Plat form." During the service the Sunday school attendance awards will be given under the direction of Mrs Orval Matheny, Sunday school superintendent. Valby Lutheran will hold its 25th annual picnic Sunday, July 6 at Cutsforth Park starting at 1 pm with members of Hope Lu theran and other interested per sons invited. Services will be held at Valby July 13 at 9:30 when the Lord's Supper will be received. Ex-County Resident Dies at Hermiston Funeral services for Oliver D Forbes, 74, who died June 14 were held June 16 at Hermiston. Mr Forbes was born March 30, 1884 at Adrian, Missouri and had resided in Morrow county for 50 years. He is survived by one daugh ter, Mrs Thelma Osteen, Oakdale, California; a brother, R E Forbes of Hermiston; one sister, Mrs Florence M Bragg, Butler, Miss ouri, and one grandson. Local Highway Crews Get Safety Awards Thirty State Highway Depart ment maintenance crews locat ed throughout the state are re ceiving awards of merit for achieving spotless safety records in 1957, state highway engineer W C Williams has announced. Each of the maintenance crews operated for the entire year with no personal injuries and with no vehicle accidents for which they were responsible. "The crews winning these awards deserve a great deal of credit" Williams said. "Because of the type of equipment operat ed and the hazardous conditions under which these men work it takes a determined effort to achieve a perfect safety record." The awards program has been in effect for two years. Main tenance crews winning their second award are located at Jew ell, Prineville, Post, Paisley, Sun tex, Redmond, Madras, Pilot Rock, South Pendleton, Heppner, Enterprise, Burns, Jordan Valley, Arlington, Richland and Hermis ton. First year awards have been won by crews located at Esta cada, Dallas, Waldport, Veneta, Prospect, Drain, Lincoln, Fort Klamath Odell Lake, John Day, Long Creek, Fossil, Ukiah and LaGrande. Miss Sally Cohn, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Cohn, left Sunday for Eastern Oregon col lege at LaGrande where she will attend the summer session. Mr and Mrs James Barratt and family and Mrs David Wilson returned to their homes in Cor vallis the first of the week after a visit here with relatives. Mr and Mrs Carl Spauldlng and Mr and Mrs Charles Carl son of lone spent last weekend flt Taft Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 3, 1958 SHADES OF THE OLD DAYS 'Look Out Pardner, ts A Runaway . . While other Eastern Oregon towns have recently come up with some of the drama of the old west in the form of family feuds, shootings etc.. Heppner this week claimed the distinction of being the first town in Ore gon in quite , a number of years to have a runaway Heavy Winds Topple Trees in Boardman Area By MARY LEE MARLOW Melon growers suffered more damage and losses in another hard wind storm here last Thurs day. Trees toppled on houses and dust was so thick that visibility was very poor all over the area. The west end of the project was hit the hardest. Three large trees fell on the house occupied by Ira Hinkley, owned by Claud Worden. No one was in the house at the time. A caterpillar and car owned by John Partlow park ed in the yard were damaged, as well as Hinkley's pickup. A whole row of trees fell in the yard at the Bob Coder home on Ed Kunze road, some of them striking the house, but did not do much damage. More large trees fell in the yard at the Char He Dillon farm adjoining the Coder place. There were few farms in the west end that didn't have at least one tree down and several in the east end. Tele phone and electric lines were down the power was disrupted for most of the night. The storm struck about 4 pm and brought thick dust at first, but this was followed by hard rain, and four tenths of an inch fell in less than an hour. Friday more tragedy struck when a haystack burned on the farm of Arnold Hoffman in the west end. There were reportedly about 85 tons of baled hay which burned. The fire was of unknown origin, and although the Boardman fire truck went to the scene, could not save the hay. The barn nearby was threatened for a while, but the fire fighters kept it from burning. Hoffman stated the hay was not covered by insurance. f ' "'flit'''".! A' A , PACIFIC POWER and Ught company is now working on a major power voltage improvement In the lone area which will greatly improve and strengthen the area's electric service. Shown above, as they make ready to convert a section of residential line, are nnir ll..min VraA CmAar Inn riaht. foreman, and Walter Bryant while Scotty Walters the area are being increased 75th Year, Number 17 horse and buggy take off down its Main street. The excitement took place Sunday afternoon when Har old Johnston, owner of the Heppner Slaughter House stopped his horse-drawn rig in front of Bucknum's Ta vern to visit. Playfully, a bystander unhitched the lines from the horse which shortly got frightened and started down the street. Johnston rode the buggy nearly a block before bail ing off and landing in a sitting position in the middle of Main street The horse ran nearly four blocks before the buggy crashed into the rear fender of a car belonging to Ernie Winchester which was park ed in front of his home at Main and Church streets. There the horse broke the rigging and calmly walked across the intersection to en joy the lush grass in the yard around Dr Wallace Wolff's office. Total casualties added up to one well dented car fen der, two broken buggy wheels, a sad-looking set of rigging and one sore poster ior belonging to Johnston. Fireworks, Dance Slated at lone The only formal observance of the Fourth of July in this area will be held in lone Thursday night, July 3 under the sponsor ship of the lone American Legion post A special Fourth of July dance will be held at the Legion hall and will be preceeded by a free fireworks display at the lone Memorial field. No special observance is slated in Heppner, and most stores in Heppner, Lexington and lone will be closed for the three-day holiday. MEET PLACE CHANGED Location of the July 8 meet ing of the Morrow County Re publican Central committee has been changed from the Metho dist church basement to the Hep pner city hall, it was announced today. It is scheduled for 8 pm. assists from below. Voltages in irom z,4uu to hmw voiu. 1 I r ( f I V MARDINE BAKER of lone is a member of the royal court of the McNary Acqua Capers to be presented over the Fourth. (Lyons Photo) lone Girl Chosen On Royal Court of McNary Aqua Capers Mardine Baker, lovely 18 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs E Markham Baker, is Ione's repre sentative in McNary Aqua Ca pers royal court. She graduated from lone high school this spring as valedict orian of her class. She received the citizenship and Journalism awards and served as editor of the school annual. She played in the high school band and the dance band and was selected from the band to attend Music in May at Forest Grove for the past two years. Mardine is a 10 year 411 mem ber and served as junior lead er for four years. She plans to enroll at the University of Ore- gqn in prenursing this fall as an honor student. She is interested in all sports and loves water ski. She and her family spend almost every Sunday during the summer at the river where they enjoy boat ing and swimming. This sum mer she will be driving a truck during wheat harvest as she has done each summer since she was ten. She is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 137. "GO MAC" is the slogan of "McNary Aqua Capers" Beginn ing Saturday, June 28 with a dance and coronation of a queen selected from a dozen princess es and King Neptune picked from several prospects, a bang up 4th and 5th of July is plann ed. A water show of professional skiers and jumpers, a light plane air show, parades and fireworks over the Columbia River near Hat Rock state park above Mc Nary Dam are Included in the plans. Hospital Auxiliary To Meet In lone Dr A D McMurdo is to be the speaker at the quarterly meet ing of the Pioneer Memorial hos pital auxiliary to be held Mon day evening, July 7 at the lone Legion hall. It is hoped that all members and everyone interested in the auxiliary will attend this meet ing as reports will be given on what the organization has ac complished so far and what it hopes to do in the future. Correction Noted In Budget Story An incorrect interpretation of fund totals and budget figures in a Gazette-Times story of June 5, resulted in the story stating that the county budget for the coming year showed a decrease of $3,339. The story should have stated that the budget was In creased by that amount. The total of all budgeted funds for the 1958-59 year is $400,894, up from $397,855 for 1957-58. Due to a reduction of estimat ed receipts other than taxes, the amount to be raised by taxes for the coming year will be $133, 539 compared with $117,905 this year. LEAVES FOR CONVENTION Miss Leta Humphreys, Mrs Pearl Devlne and Mrs Clara B Gertson left last Wednesday for Huston, Texas where they will attend the convention of the American Federation of Soroptl mlst clubs. ' 4 ' j Rites Held Monday For Mrs Heath Funeral services were held Monday at the Heppner Christian church for Harriett Ethel Heath, 72 years of age, who passed away June 27 at Heppner. The Rev Charles Knox officiated at the rites and burial was in the Hepp ner Masonic cemetery. Mrs Heath was born June 15, 1886 in Casey, 111, the daughter of Samuel and Emeline Sheeks. She was married to William Heath December 19, 1906 and had jived in Heppner for 13 years. She was a member of the Baptist church and the Rhea Creek Grange. Mrs Heath is survived by her husband; seven sons, Forrest E, William C, Pearl A, Sam and El mer, all of Heppner; Alton, Kla math Falls; and Ralph, address unknown; one daughter, Jessie Abbott of Portland; two brothers, Winfield Sheeks and Orval Sheeks; one sister, Elizabeth Hayderi and seven grandchild ren. Creswick Mortuary was in charge of arrangements. Swimming Lessons Started at Pool Swimming classes for beginn ers, intermediates and swimmers started Wednesday morning at the Heppner pool under the dir ection of Tom Hughes, instruct or. The beginners class will start at 9 am, the intermediate at about 10 o'clock and the swim mers immediately following. They will be held six days a week, Monday through Saturday for two weeks. A second complete series will be given following the completion of the present class es. Hughes announced that there will be no classes on Friday or Saturday, July 4 or 5 because of the holiday. Registration for each series of classes is $1.00 per person. Selective Service Board Has New Hours Local Selective Service board number 31 which serves Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler counties, has announced new office hours for the summer. The office, which is in the Condon court house, will be open from 8 am to 4 pm Tuesday and Thursday and from 12 to 4 pm on triday. The new hours will be In ef fect until September 1, it was announced. Two new members have also been added to the boa'd. They are Earl P Hoag of Arlington and John Farris, lone, other members are Robert B Eaton, Condon, chairman: William F Barratt, Heppner and Jack P Stelwer, Fossil. AT ELKS CONVENTION La Verne Van Marter and Dana Saunders of John Day left Sun day to drive to the National Elks convention in New York City. They will go the northern route and return by the southern route. John Hartman, exalted ruler of the Heppner Elks lodge, and Mrs Hartman will leave by plane Fri day to attend the convention.
