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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1958)
U OF 0 ! 1 any for Blazes r Copies 10 Cents Heavy Water Use Brings Call For Care in Irrigating The extreme heat and result ing heavy use of water for irri gation forced Heppner city super intendent Vic Groshens to ask all city water users to use extra care not to waste any of the precious liquid and to limit sprinkling of lawns and gardens to the cooler hours of the morn ing and evening. Groshens reported that both city wells are now pumping 500 gallons a minute, (720,000 cal- Ions per day) which is the maxi mum that can be brought into tne reservoirs through the feed er line down Willow creek. Even with this heavy pumping, the water level in the city's big reser voir on Balm Fork dropped two ieet during the one 24 hour per iod early this week. Groshens asked that residents do not sprinkle or irrigate be tween 9 am and 4 pm to give tne city a chance to refill the reservoirs during that period. He also asked that hoses not be left running all night. The super intendent pointed out that sprinkling during the heat of the day was practically useless, in asmuch as practically all of the water evaporates as fast as it runs. A substantial level of water must be kept in the reservoirs at all times for fire protection, and if customer use were to continue to exceed available supply it would be necessary to limit Irri gation in order to hold a sub stanfial reserve, Groshens indi cated. Work Starts on New Addition to Fair Pavilion The Morrow county fair board Tuesday night approved the con struction of a 30 by 60 foot ad dition to the fair pavilion and were given assurance by the builder that it should be ready for use by fair time, late in August. The building will be of block construction to match the present building and will adjoin the west end of the present structure. It will house added display space, provide facilities for demonstrat ions and contests and will also be available for general use dur ing the rest of the year. The contractor is Louie Case of Heppner. HOSPITAL AUXILIARY TO MEET MONDAY 'An executive meeting of the hospital auxiliary has been call ed for Monday, August 4 at 2:30 pm at the director's room of the Bank of Eastern Oregon. All members are urged to attend. GRANGE TO HOLD PICNIC The Rhea Creek Grange will hold its annual picnic at the since 1951 and the family are Claud White ranch Sunday, Aug ! members of the Assembly of God 3, at 1 pm. All members and fam- church. The first baby they plan ilies are invited. Bring your own ned to adopt died enroute to the service. Coffee will be furnished, states. Vr SA I fcl inn ili I il T 1 " aHMtaM GETS GOLD SEAL AWARD Helen Graham, president of the Heppner high school chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America, is holding the Gold Seal award recently awarded the chapter by, the national convention in St Louis, Mo. It is made to less than 10 percent of the chapters and is given for outstanding work in school and community relations. Reading the award is Dr E K Schaffitz, one of the club's sponsors. (GT Photo) G AZETTE Boardman Sponsoring Saturday Night Dana The third in the series of week ly Morrow county Fair and Ro deo dances will be held Sautr day night at the fair pavilion in Heppner under the sponsorship of the Tillicum club of Board man. Though the Boardman club, which normally sponsors one 6 More Korean Orphans Arrive Six more Korean orphans ar rived last week to make their homes with families of this area, Five of the youngsters, three girls and two boys were brought to this country by the Rev Bill Collier, pastor of the lone Baptist church and a teacher at Arling ton. The other was obtained through Harry Holt, Creswell farmer who originated the well known "babylift." Two families, the Bill B Mar quardt s and the Carl Mar quardt's of Lexington, each got a boy and a girl, and Rev Col lier and his wife kept one seven- months old girl. The sixth young ster will make its home with Mr and Mrs Hubert Wilson of Hepp ner, who about three months ago adopted a Korean boy. Mr and Mrs Bill Marquardt adopted a five year old girl Choi- He-Ryun, who has been renamed Penny Esther, and a five year old boy, Kim YunKuel who has been renamed Bruce Daniel. The Carl Marquardt family now have a two year old girl, Grl-Kim Ack who has been renamed Joyce Vonita; and a boy, Wyne Isac who has the new name of James Dale Marquardt. Both the Marquardt families are well known here and the new mo thers are the former Rena and Betty Messenger, daughters of Mr and Mrs T E Messenger of Mitchell. Rev Collier made the trip to Korea on the Holt plane and made the arrangements for the youngster's adoption's indepen dently of Mr Holt. The new Wil son baby has been named Jua- nita Joy and more information on her is contained in a seperate story. Hubert Wilsons Adopt Korean Orphan Girl Mr and Mrs Hubert Wilson, who adopted a Korean orphan boy last March, received a baby gin through the Harry Holt or phan airlift in Portland last Fri day. The new baby is a 10 month old girl whom they have named Juanita Joy. Their Korean boy, now months old, Is named Clayton Calvin. The other member of the Wil son family Is Rogenia Faye, 10 year old. Wilson has been em ployed at the Heppner post office "7 -i ; '! ' . T r-f 4 '' Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 31, 1958 princess on the royal court, this year has no member on the court because the girl of their choice was forced to withdraw, they are holding their regular dance as usual. In place of call ing it a Princess dance, they are designating it as a Rodeo dance and club members have promised that good music and a good time will be in store for everyone. Music for the affair will be provided by The Shadows orches tra of Walla Walla, a band new to dancers of this area, but one which provides excellent popular music. Dancing will be from to 1 and admission has been set at $1.50 per person or $2.00 per couple. Members of the Tillicum club will be in attendance at a refreshment stand during the evening. The Sad "Tail" of A Siamese Cat. . . A Siamese cat belonging to Mr and Mrs AI Bunch really got the "hot seat" last week but apparently will live to tell the tale. It may be shy most of its own talL however.' The cat was run up a pow er pole at the neighboring Paul Brown ranch by a dog and got tangled up in a - transformer and lead-in wir es with the result that it got well lit up. Fred Gimbel, Pa cific Power and Light com pany lineman estimated that the cat took a 7200 volt Jolt of electricity before being knocked to the ground. At the veterinarians, where the mouser is now recuperat ing, the doctor says every thing is going as well as could be expected, though it may be necessary to ampu tate the animal's tail. Arlington Cut-off Road Being Asked By Local Interests County judge Oscar Peterson and Garland Swanson of lone, along with several interested persons from Arlington, are In Salern to attend a hearing Fri day of the state highway com mission. The group is there to request improvement of the pro posed cut-off road between lone and Arlington which would leave the Willow creek highway near Morgan and go cross-country to hit the Condon Arlington high way just south of Arlington. It will be asked that the state take over this present county road and improve it as an alter nate to the present highway on down Willow creek to Heppner junction. Heppner FBLA Wins Top Award For Business Activities The Heppner chapter of Fu ture Business leaders of America last week received notification that it had been awarded a spec ial Gold Award for outstanding work in business. It was issued at the national convention. The local chapter took part in many school and community affairs during the past year in cluding work with the county fair, helped the chamber of com merce with Christmas activities, took part in the Easter Seal drive, did duplicating work for local organizations, made regu lar hospital visits and wrote let ters and cards for those who were unable to do so themselves. A member of the Heppner FBLA chapter, Jim Morris, was president of the state FBLA last year, and Janice Martin will be editor of the state chapter maga zine for the coming year. Local officers are Helen Graham, presi dent; Len Ray Schwarz, vice president; Janice Martin, secre tary; Rodger Harris, treasurer; Cella Boulden, reporter. Mrs Roy Kirk, school instruct or, is chapter advisor, and she is assisted by Dr E K Schaffitz and Gene Pierce. Fl M ES 75th Year, Number 21 Mercury Hits 100 Here Monday; Entire Month Hot It is "probably no news to any body, but it has been mighty hot for the past several days even by weather bureau stan dards. The mercury in the official government thermometer at the Heppner weather station climb ed to the 100 mark Monday for the first time in over two years, and even with that record, Hepp ner was one of the coolest places in the state. On the same day Pendleton temperatures climbed to 108 and at Boardman a scorch ing 115 was recorded. The tem perature in downtown Heppner was reported to be 105 or 106 with some residents willing to swear that it hit 120. The month of July has been one of the hottest in many years in almost all sections of Oregon, and even Portland, which norm ally brags about its rain is be hind Heppner for the month. If none falls Thursday in Portland, that city will have received ab solutely none during July, and even Heppner has done better than that for .06 inch fell here. The last, however was .05 which fell on July 6 and hardly settled the dust. Temperatures here have been abnormally high all through July. A check of Heppner wea ther records shows that the mer cury hit 100 on one day; the 90's on 10 days; the 80's on 12 days; and the high 70's on five days. The "coldest" minimum during the entire month came on the first day of July when a low of 43 was recorded. The high est minimum came last Monday night when it only cooled off to a warm 71 degrees on other days the minimums were in the 50's and 60's. The coolest day of the month also came on July 1 when the temperature got only to 71 degrees, the same temper ature as Monday night's high minimum. During the past seven days the coolest day was last Thursday with an 87, during the rest of the time 90 or better has been the order of the day. Pool Gets Workout; New Lessons Due New beginners, Intermediate and swimmers classes will begin Friday, Aug 1 at the Heppner pool, instructor Tom Hughes an nounced today. The two previous series of classes have been well attended and will provide oppor- unior and senior lifesavlng and to learn toswim, or for advanced lessons. Hughes also announced that unior and senior difesaving and advanced swimming classes will start on August 14. The junior lifesavlng classes are open to anyone 12 through 15 years of age or those in the 8th through the 10th grades. Persons above that age must enter the senior classes. The instruction classes are held in the morning. Hughes reported that the ex tremely hot weather of the past week has brought the heaviest use of the pool of any time dur ing the summer. Last week 1505 persons were checked in with an average of 250 per day. On sev eral occasions the afternoon swim load of youngsters has nearly reached the saturation1 point of the pool, but It has not been necessary yet to limit the time allowed in the pool. Hughes also reminded local residents that the pool is availa ble on Mondays and evenings for private parties and that such arrangements can be made at the pool office. FREE CHEST X-RAYS SLATED Free chest X-rays will be given Wednesday, Aug 6, between the hours of 7 and 8:30 at the Pio neer Memorial hospital for resi dents of Morrow county. School employees are reminded that this is the last X-ray date before school opens. 400 Acre Fire On Potamus Creek Biggest in Area The Forest Service report ed Thursday noon that The Potamus fire was under con trol and in the mop up stage. The size of the fire was also , scaled down to about 300 acres. It is expected that all of the Heppner Pine Mills crew which has been on the fire lines for two days will be out by this evening. The Service also said the Black Mountain fire Is out and that only one other small spot fire has shown up during the past 24 hours. A continuation of the extrem ely hot weather, fairly brisk winds, and a Monday evening lightning storm combined to cause forest service, state forest ry and private ' timber owners considerable trouble Tuesday and Wednesday. Fourteen forest fires were reported in the Uma tilla National Forest with sev eral others on state and private lands. The biggest blaze was report ed to have covered about 400 acres by Wednesday afternoon and was located in the Potamus creek -Mallory creek section of the Blue Mountains near the North Fork of the John Day ri ver. It started sometime Monday night during the heavy electrical storm which went over this sect ion of the state starting many fires in the timber. The fire was burning on state owned land but was within about one-quarter mile of the Umatilla National Forest boun dary and Heppner ranger Vic Kreimeyer was aiding the crews fighting the fire. As close as could be determined there was approximately 50 men fighting the fire which is in heavy tim ber on rough ground near the breaks of the John Day. Tuesday afternoon 18 men from the Hepp ner Pine Mills woods crew were sent into the lines and Wednes day afternoon another 10 from the planer crew at the mill In Heppner was sent out to help. The mill's planer had to be Shut down, and the mill will probably go down shortly because no logs are coming in from the woods operation. In addition it was reported by the state forestry office In Kin zua that 14 men were fighting the fire from the Monument sta tion and that another 25 had been sent from Pilot Rock. Little information was avail able from the fire area, but it was thought late wecinesaay that the fire had been surroun ded and probably could be con trolled unless winds get too strong. The Forest Service'called into action a B-25 plane from La- Grande Tuesday afternoon to dump 1000 gallons of slurry (wet water) on the flames in an ef fort to slow down the spread. Food and equipment was air dropped to the fire fighters Wed nesday morning and evening by the Forest Service. Many Fires Started The lightning storm which lol- lowed a day of over 100 degree will added to the occupant's wa temDeratures. started at least 14,ter bill, probably on the Septem fires in the Heppner ranger dis trict of the Umatilla National Forest. All but two were spot fires which were quickly con trolled or were drowned by the heavy rains which fell in some sections of the maintains. One other fire which caused concern for a while was a three acre blaze on the north side of Black Mountain near the head of Shaw creek. It was under control Wed nesday. The state office at Kinzua re ported that a 50 acre fire on Wil son creek in Kinzua Corporation timber and slash was put out by the Kinzua crew but six others had been set Monday night in that same general area; three in the Monument district and an other eight in the John Day dis trict. All these were on state or private lands. Several other large fires were reported in the LaGrande district of the Nation al Forest, one was said to cover about 300 to 350 acres. Storm "Dry" Here Heppner received only the tail end of the Monday night storm which put on a bright display of lightning but dropped no measurable rain. Condon was re ported to have received a heavy downpour and two or three grain or stubble fires was said to have been started in the area near the Morrow-Gilliam county line. No report of damage was avail able. Only one grain fire was re ported during the past week In this area. This occurred on the Delbert Emert ranch near lone where between 40 and 50 acres Continued on Page 8 ! :r I Ell' F if'-- v ' - I J3 "iU i'-i r 'Ait gs.j a s '? jot v i o MlH AWAITING INSTALLATION at Pacific Power & Light company's Heppner substation is this big 3,000-kva power transformer, which will play a key part in the company's 1958 electric sys tem improvement program for the Heppner area. The trans former will boost the power output of the substation to meet the area's use of electricity vhlch has Increased sharply during the past several years. Inspecting the big power unit is Fred Gimbel, PP&L serviceman. NEW HOUSE NUMBERS SOON TO BE INSTALLED ON ALL CITY BUILDINGS Work was started this week on preliminary planning for the complete renumbering of all houses and business buildings in Heppner and it Is hoped that actual installation of the num bers can start within a short time. M C Huggett, Heppner high school instructor, is now map ping the city and assigning num bers to all buildings and lots which may in the future hold buildings. As soon as the new black and aluminum numbers arrive, he will start installing them on every building In town. In very few cases will the new numbers coincide with present house numbers which are In evi dence on less than half the hous es and stores In town. Under the new system the town, will be divided into four sections; north, south, east, and west. The north south dividing line will be May street and Main street will divide the town east and west. A north west designation will be used in that section of town along Riverside Ave and Linden Way and a southeast designation will be used for the area along Race track street and the county road leading to Balm Fork. One hun dred numbers will be used for each city block with the first blocks from the dividing lines to begin with 100. Though in some areas streets may angle, houses there will'be numbered accord ing to their distance east or west from Main street or Its extension. The new house numbers will all be uniform and will be in stalled for the property owner by the city and a charge of $1.00 will be assessed against the pro perty for each set of numbers In stalled. Where a business or house requires two actual desig nations, $1.00 will be charged for each set of numbers. The cost ber 1 billing. The city council authorized the new numbering system several months ago and the overall plan was developed so that proper designations could be determin ed. The new system is expected to be a great aid to the fire de partment in determining the lo- Lexington Youth to Leave as Exchange Student to Holland Donald Casteel, a sophomore at the University of Oregon and a brother of Mrs B J Doherty of Lexington, will leave Sunday for New York on the first leg of a trip to The Netherlands where he will spend the next 12 months as an exchange student. Casteel was chosen for the ex change scholarship by the Inter fraternity council at the Univer sity, the sponsors of the pro gram. One Dutch student will at tend classes for the coming year at the U of O. The Lexington youth who is majoring In political science, will go by boat to Bremerhaven, Ger many, then to the Brussells World's Fair and to Brukelen, Netherlands where he will attend classes at The Netherlands In s t i t u t e for Representation Abroad, a foreign trade school. He will return to America late next summer. Michael Williams is spending a two weeks vacation with his uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs Dick Knoll at Medford. cation of fires. At the present time most alarms come in as the name of the resident which is n't always clear and can cause delays. It will also make it much easier for strangers to be direct ed to a certain location. It is also planned to Install new street signs as money be comes available and after the council takes action in renaming several streets which now either have duplicate names or no nam es at all. Teaching Staff Completed For Heppner Schools With the hiring of Mrs Bever ly Olesen as a sixth grade teach- er this week, the teaching staff of the Heppner schools is com plete for the coming year, school officials have announced. Mrs Olesen has taught in Sher wood and Norma, North Dakota and attended State Teachers col lege In Mlnot, N D. Mrs Oleson has two children and her hus band will arrive in the fall to reside and work here. Members of the high school staff Include Joe H Stewart, sup erintendent ; Gordon Pratt, principal, English; Mrs Madelyn Duke, librarian; Clinton Agee, basketball, boys' physical educa tion and history; Mrs Janet Agee, girls' P E and health; Mrs Kath erine Hager, home economics, lunch room supervisor; Stanley Holm, history and math;Iarion Huggett, science and math; Mar- garet Kirk, commercial; Roy Kirk, social studies; Arnold Mel by, band and chorus and L L Robbins, vocational ag. The elementary staff Include Clarence Johnson, principal; Mrs Edna Turner and Mrs Louise Clark, first grades; Mrs Arolene Laird, Mrs Kathryn Hosklns, Mrs Anita Stockard, second; Mrs Mil dred Hanna, Mrs Velva Bechdolt, third; Mrs Lena Kelly and Mrs Albert, fourth. Miss Marguerite Glavey, Ver non Flowers, fifth; Inez Erwin, Mrs Olesen, sixth; Mrs Blanche Boulden, seventh; Tom Hughes, James Mallon, eighth. Extensive remodeling, painting and cleaning are underway at the high school In preparation for the opening of school Sept ember 8. Work is well along on the remodeling of the library, science and commercial rooms and repainting of two classrooms on the first floor Is started. A contract for tiling the ceil ings in the lunchroom and base ment hallways has been award ed to Johnson Accoustical Ser vice of Portland and work on the project has been started. A bid for tiling the floors In the office and in rooms 9 and 10 has been accepted from the J A Wiley company In the high school building, It was reported. WEATHER HI Low 87 52 91 58 91 58 90 60 96 65 100 71 94 56 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Rainfall for the week, none; for July .06; for the year 10.57 Inches.
