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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1958)
L I 1RASY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. Wheat ra, Eqyopnient Bum Wednesday Gty -Voters: To Decide on londs For Water Sysieon Residents of Heppner will pro bably be called upon sometime in the coming months to ex press their desire on whether to bend the city for money with which to complete the installat ion of approximately six miles of new steel water feeder main from the upper city wells on Wil low creek. The council started action on the project at its Monday night meeting by ordering an engi neer's survey to determine cost estimates. The project has been in the back of council members' minds for several years and it has been known that the new installation would have to be made event ually. What finally brought things to a head was the heavy water consumption during the past two months when the Hepp ner residents were using all the water the city could get down the old, leaky concrete line and for a time it was feared that it would be necessary to restrict water use when, during one 24 hour period, the water level in the city's big 1,000,000 gallon res ervoir dropped two feet despite constant pumping at-both wells up to the line's capacity of 720, 000 gallons a day. The old con crete line, which constantly re quires repair, is also thought to be the source of some minor wa ter contamination which occas ionally shows up in water tests. The only answer to the latter problem is either a new line or chlorination of all water, some thing that most residents object to unless absolutely necessary. Last year the city laid two miles of steel line near the up per end of the system and at that time obtained an easement from the county for a right-of-way for the line along the new Willow creek road. At the pre sent time, much of the line fol lows land contours over hills and through fields making it exterm ely difficult to repair. Another thro miles of steel pipe con nects the newest city well on. rl Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 7, 1958 GAZ fir Copies 10 Cents 75th Year, Number 22 hefore the voters to see if they will approve a bond issue for the job. The old concrete line is in such condition that it will stand no DumDine pressure, only gra vity flow. There is ample water available from the city's wells if it could be gotten into town and citv superintendent Vic Gro- shens estimated that with a new steel line the amount of water available to residents would be nearly doubled. To Ask For Bids In other business the council authorized the calling for bids for a new city dump truck and voted to grant Morrow county and Pioneer Memorial hospital the right to connect to the city water mains in case of emer gency. At the present time, the hospital and the court house us es water from the county well on the court house grounds and stored in the reservoir on cross hill. Capacity is low and the tie up to the city supply would be for emergency use only, it was stated. Work will be started shortly nn the construction of an en closed burner for the city dump. Materials will be ordered by tne ritv and worw will be done by Becket Equipment Co. Fires have been a problem for years at. tne dump, and during tne summer no burning of trash is being done in an effort to save sur rounding fields of grain. Buildina Permits Ok'd Building permits were issued to John Lane, West willow street, alterations and repairs, $1000; Martha Van Schoiack, replace sidewalk, $160. $tv Rodeo Reserved Tickets oh Sale Advanced sale of reserved Buckaroo seats for the August ?n nnH 31 nerformances oi tne iicuia LUC 1 1 V- - 'J . vv I the Wilkinson ranch with the rodeo will go on sale Saturday, city. This line, and a mile of j August 9 at the Bank of Eas cast iron pipe directly below the tern Oregon, it, was announced unnor wplls Is in good condit- todav. , ion and would not have to be The-' reserved seats are all In The council roughly estimated that replacing the six miles of old line with new steel pipe would cost between $100,000 and $120,000, but the engineer's sur vey will give a more accurate estimate. When the survey is completed, the council indicat ed that it will put the matter Hospital Patients To See Coming Rodeo The executive board of the Pioneer Memorial Hospital Aux iliary met Monday afternoon at the Bank of Eastern Oregon. Plans were made for some of the geriatric patients to see the rodeo this year. Mrs Kay Ledford, presiding secretary, informed the group of the importance of all visitors to the downstairs patients check ing with a registered nurse be fore taking anything to eat to the patients. "Some patients are diabetic and even too much fresh fruit can cause trouble", en iH Mrs Ledford. The next auxiliary meeting will be held Tuesday, September 9 at 2:30 pm at the Bank of Eastern Oregon, Instead of the usual first Monday. the new grandstand on the north side of the rodeo field immediat ely behind the bucking chutes giving those seat holders an ideal vew of the rodeo worKings. There are aDDroxibatelv 400 seats in the new stands, all of which will he reserved. All seats in the south grand stand and bleachers will now be classified as general admission. The reserved seats will cost $3.00 general admission $1.75 and stu dents 75c. No Seats will be re served for the Saturday night show with general admission charge being set at $1.00 and 50 cents. General admission tickets will be available at the gates. KNOW ANY GOOD NAMES? Help of Residents Asked in Finding New City Street Names The Heppner city council wants the residents of the city to help in the naming and re naming of several of the city's streets as a part of its current Droeram to renumber all houses and businesses In town. The discrepancy in several street names, and numerous others that have never been of ficially named will cause con siderable trouble under the new numbering plan, for the council pointed out that it won't do much good to have house num bers if the street doesn't even have a name. Among those streets which will have to be renamed are one of the city's two Willow streets, one of two Center streets and North street which under the new plan would wind up being North North street which would be somewhat confusing. Several streets have no for mally approved names and the council wants to give them pro Der titles. Among those are Lin den Way (the highway to Lex ington which will probably be left with that name inasmuch as most persons accept that name though it has never been made official); the street lead ing from south Court to Balm fork and the city dump its only title on maps is '"county road."; on the oDDOsite side of Willow creek from "county road" is a well populated street officially known as Race Track street and often called Hager street which should be given an official title, with a little more dignity. The short street leading from Water street to the Seventh Day streets will also require names county and the town of Moro, 1 ... . 1 1L. as they have houses facing them. wnlc" "en 18 pronounceu me tu 1 1 .... . i ) i oallltr. night that these streets be nam ed "Lanes" or "Ways". It is also ARNOLD MELBY. who has taken over his duties as new band and music instructor in the Heppner schools. New Band Instructor Arrives in Heppner; Practice Slated The HeDDner school board this week announced the hiring of Arnold E Melbv. 45. as new school band and music instruc tor. Mr and Mrs Melby and their two children have already moved here from fossil wnere he has taught for the past two years. Mr Melbv is a graduate of, or has attended several midwestern and Pacific coast schools in cluding Concordia college, Moor- head, Minn; the University or Idaho, .Portland State, Pacific University, the University of Oregon and the Minneapolis School of Musjc. He has been a member of or directed several college bands and orchestras and was director of band and vocal music in schools at Salem, South Priest River, Idaho; Myrtle Point, Adventist church has no name, i iUnnnK 44- mno ruattO1 QQ KrOwTl Aloha and Foss . Oregon, tie is i"e planned to rename "A", "D", and "K" streets which, though they now cany official titles are in various Darts of town and their alphabetical sequence is entire ly out of order. Members of the council in dis cussing the renaming suggested that the ramily names or pio neer residents might be used but recommended that the name Morrow be eliminated because of its confusion with Morrow Local residents who have suggestions for new street nam es are urged to send them either to the Heppner city recorder or to the Gazette-Times ana pro bablv at the next council meet ing members will select the new names from those offered. Work on actual installation of the house numbers is expected to start within a short time ana it is planned to Install street name s gns throughout Hepp ner as money can be obtained from the budget. Princess Karen to be Honored Saturday a member of the Masonic lodge, Lions club and American Legion. The new instructor announcea street, only to find that another Brown street already exists in the northeast section of town. ine new insiruuiui ouiiuum.w -------- , , that the Heppner band program ; Several alleys and short stub will start August 11 with tne sixth grade to practice at 9 am Mondav through Friday and the seventh and eighth grades at 10 o'clock on the same days, Hign school band practice will start August 18 at 8 pm. New students who, play instru ments are invited to attend prac tice and all college students and adults in the community are in vited to come to practice with the band for the rodeo. Melby expressed the hope that he could have a good turnout and could make a good showing for the WEATHER Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Hi 89 94 94 94 80 78 88 Low 53 55 58 54 47 50 54 Prec Rainfall for Julv .06: for Aug ust, trace; for the year 10.57 Inches. Mrs Jennie Lewis of Clack amas, is visiting at the home of her grandson Eddie Gunderson. Finnish Girl to Be IF YE Guest at Morrow County Ranch Miss Marja Virkkala, 29, IFYE exchange student from Ranta koski Kaustinen, Finland, will arrive in Morrow county around September 2nd to be the guest of the E M Baker family of lone. Marja will be the third If it student to live in Morrow county. In 1953 two young men from make a good showing ior me , hosted Shrine All-Star football game uaaor an and u d and the rodeo. NO MORE PORTLAND Mrs Dean Gilman is removing the word "Portland" from the window sign at the Heppner branch of the (now) First National Bank of Oregon. The statewide banking organization last Friday changed its name to be more In keep, ing with its growing activities in the ttate. Watchng the oper ation U manager Jack Bedford, (GT Photo) Dodgers Cinch Second Half Little League Title The Dodgers cinched the sec ond half of t)lav in the Willow Creek Little League Thursday by beating the Braves is to . iney will nlav the Giants next week to determine the championship of the summer s piay. Monday the Braves snapped out of their slump to defeat the Indians 10-5 in a very wen play ed game and on Tuesday the Dodgers tangled with the Giants to come out on top with a 12 to 1 score. Wednesday night the Dodgers wind up their second half of play with a game against the Indians and the Giants and Brav es will close out the season to night. The All-Stars will play in Pen dleton Friday evening at 7 o' clock against a Little League team there. They will also play Condon soon in a return game. The farm teams closed their play for the summer with a game Tuesday between the Tigers and the Yankees. The Yankees won 3-2. League standings, now com nlete exceot for the games Wed nesday and tonight are for the last hall: Wins Losses Dodgers 7 7 Giants 3 5 Braves 3 5 Indians 3 5 by the E M Baker and Lloyd Howton families of lone. The International Farm Youth Exchange (IFYE) is an exten sion rwoeram activity dedicated to better understanding among the rural DeoDle of the wona. Under the program, young farm nonnlo are exchanged between the United States and over 50 countries to live and work with farm families learning their hosts' "wav of life" bv living it Begun in 1948, the exchange is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. in the United States no govern mont funds are used to finance the IFYE exchanges. Each state extension service that partici pates in the project agrees to underwrite at least $800 ol tne post of each two-wav exchange- that is, sending a delegate out of the United States and receiv ing a foreign youth exchange. State contributions are raised nrimarilv bv local 4-H clubs, farm organizations, service clubs, local business firms and Indi viduals. The rest of the budget is contributed by foundations, industries and persons interest ed in rural and international un derstanding. Marja is the only girl in a farm family of five which range in ages from herself, the eldest, to a young brother of nine. She can read some English and is of the Lutheran faith. She has com pleted primary training in her pducation and has attended a home economics school. She came to Oregon on August 3rd and will visit with another Oregon family before she arrives in Mor row county. Prior to this she has been living with host fam ilies in New Jersey. 4 i 1 - 1 , jf ',- 1 ' " ' V . .J , V t .) s.!, : i f PRINCESS KAREN VALENTINE The final princess dance of the 1958 pre-fair and rodeo act ivities will be held Saturday night at the fair pavilion in Hennner. It will be for Miss Kar en Valentine, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jim Valentine of Rhea creek, who is being sponsored on the royal court by the Rhea Creek Grange. Princess Karen is 18 years of age, is five feet, five and one half inches tall, weighs 137 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes. She graduated last June from Heppner high school and has announced plans to at tend Kinman Business college in Spokane this fall, bhe was hnm in HeDDner. then moved to Echo where she lived until about four years ago and she has lour sisters, Kay, 21, Linda, 13, Tan na. 10 and Kim 8 years old. During her high school years she took part in numerous extra curricular activities including sprvin? as treasurer of the Fu ture Homemakers of America, secretary of the Girls Athletic Association and Pep ciud presi rtpnt. She laved volleyball, ten nis and in the school band and pep band. She was also a mem hpr nf the Future Business Lead ers of America and enjoyed her membership in the Wranglers Riding club. Like most of the rest of the 1958 court. Princess Karen choos es horseback riding and swim ming as her favorite sports. Plaving for Karen's dance will be Rod Esselstyn and nls or chestra from Pendleton. The final dance in the pre-falr week series will be the Queen's rianre which will be held at the fair pavilion Saturday, August 16. Over 3000 Acres Blackened by Flames in Week Another in the continuing ser ies of grain and grass fires which have destroyed well over 100,000 acres of grain and ranee land this summer in Morrow county, Wednesday afternoon claimed 120 acres of standing wheat, an unknown amount of stubble, over 2000 acres of grass and one truck. The area burned was north of Hlnton creek, northeast of Heppner. The lost wheat belonged to Jim Valentine and lav on ton of the ridge north of Hlnton creek. In addition Valentine lost about 200 acres of stubble and one truck, from which the fire started. An unknown amount of additional stubble fields was also burned and this area was estimated to be twice or three times the amount lost by Valentine. Before the blaze was stoDDed it also claimed at least 2000 acres of pasture grass on the John Han- na ranches. The fire started about 3:30 in the afternoon and before it was controlled it had burned clear to the HeDDner-Nve Junction high way at the forks of Hlnton creek. Firefighters finally used back fires around some of the Hanna buildings and haystacks to stop the spread of the names wnicn humeri an area rouehlv twn and one-half to three miles square. Between 200 and 3uu iirerifrnt ers and an uncounted number of tractors. sDrav rigs, and water- hauling pickups and trucks join ed in the fight to stop tne lire s spread. One spray plane from the Lexington airport dumped three loads of water on the leading edges of the fire to slow up the spread and aid ground workers. Four combines were working In the area, but all were removed from the path of the fire with out damage. The towering clouds of black smoke attracted help and view ers from many miles and several inquiries came in to the Hepp ner fire department as to the lo cation of the fire. Many local residents thought it was Just be hind the hospital. . . . Four Other Fire Four other fires during the past several days blackened manv hundreds more acres of grass and stubble, but the loss in these was comparatively small except for range. Saturday several hundred acres of grass on the Howard Cleve land ranch south of Willow creek kent firefighters busy for sev eral hours. It was stopped be fore it reached grain, according to reports. Monday an unestlmated a mount of stubble on the Ruhl ranch south of Lexington went up in smoke but that fire also was stopped before it got into standing barley. Tuesday afternoon the lone fire department aided in stopping a small grassfire on the Delbert V s, J I 'Coleman. It started from a trash ' i barrel and was stopped betore It reached a nearby barn. Also on Tuesday afternoon a considerable amount of stubble and grass was burned on the W E McMillan and Cutsforth ranches west of Lexington. A wooden cistern cover was de stroyed before the fire was stopped. The continuing hot weather, which has been in the 80's and 90's practically every day for the past three weeks or longer nas been the main factor in the nu merous fires. Wind however has been light most of the time when the fires occurred. The only heaw winds In recent days came on Sunday when little if any field activity was under way. Saturday Accident Causes no Injuries A car driven by Jerry Buschke of HeDDner struck a bank on Court street just north of the I it - . . . . n . Cnt intersection oi may uc 00i- ------- iv.i. ( . .. a i Mustang annual this next year uraav nigm ana ovenumeu mi . . ....... n UroJ ..cin-T ohm.t $innn He Is a memDer oi me at Renn Harris to Attend Workshop At Eugene Renn Harris, Heppner high school student body president for the coming year, will leave Sun day for the University of Ore gon at Eugene, where he will take part in a workshop program for student leaders August 10 15. Following this conference he will attend another designed for editors of school papers and year books. Harris will be eaitor oi tne rtnmntJ-e to the vehicle. Neither o - Rnsrhke or his Dassenger Miss Judy Collins were injured in the accident The accident report stated that it appeared that the car's pow er steering failed to work as he rounded the corner. The acci dent was Investigated by state police who later filed a com plaint against Buschke' for vio lation of the basic rule. Innal Honor Society. Quill and Scroll and this summer partici- oated in the JSSSI program ior students interested in science. ADULT BEGINNERS SWIM LESSONS SET Another class of swimming in struction for adult beginners will start Monday, August 11, Mrs Tom Hughes, Instructor has announced.