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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.
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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.
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Rodeo Reserved
Tickets oh Sale
Advanced sale of reserved
Buckaroo seats for the August
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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,
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.