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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. : . Ji , ' - --i-r- -7?T Mannie Squakin, Neil Beamer Win Rodeo Saddles I' I . - . . 4 f ' ' Y . , - f ............ " - -t NORTHWEST SADDLE BRONC CHAMP. Mannie Squakin of Oro ville, Washington receives his famous Hamley saddle Sunday afternoon from Ralph Schwalbe, treasurer of Hamley Saddle Company of Pendleton, makers and donors of the top award for the well-known event which is a major attraction at the- Mor row county fair and rodeo. (GT Photo) Remodeled E6ii ? reef wjien neppner stuaents start back to school next Monday morning at 8:45, they will find 7 1 TV it. many cnanges awaiting them, particularly in the high school building which has undergone extensive remodeling during the summer months. Classes will start Monday in all county schools with varying registration times having been set in the several schools. Heppner grade school students were to have registered Tuesday and Wednesday and all entering first graders are checking in this afternoon (Thursday). High school registration here will be from 9 to 12 and 1 to 4 o'clock Friday. School officials stated that students needing to make changes in their schedules may do so on the opening day of school. lone Library To Observe "Week" By ECHO PALMATEER The annual "Know Your Li brary Week" will start at the lone public library Sept 15 and will end Sept 18 with a silver tea 2 to 4:30 pm to which the public is invited. On Monday morning, Sept 15 the following will go to the grade school and give reviews of the new books from the library to the pupils: Mrs Dixon Smith, the 1st grade; Mrs Floyd Bailey, 2nd grade; Mrs John Proudfoot, 3rd grade; Mrs Roy Lindstrom, 4th grade; Mrs Norman Nelson, 5th and 6th grades and Mrs Charles O'Connor the 7th and 8th grades. The grade school pupils will visit the library as follows: On Monday, Sept 15 the 1st grade will come at 1 pm and the 2nd grade will come at 2 pm; with Mrs Echo Palmateer, Mrs Mabel Cotter and Mrs Arvilla Swan son in charge. On Tuesday, Sept 16, the 3rd grade will come at 1 pm an the 4th grade at 2 pm; with Mrs Proudfcrot, Mrs Smith and Mrs Fannie Griffith in charge; On Wednesday the 5th and 6th grades will come at 1 pm and the 7th and 8th grades at 2 pm with Mrs Norman Nel son, Mrs Victor Rietman and Mrs Omar Rietmann in charge. The high school students will come at the regular library hours. Mrs Verner Troedson and Mrs Proudfoot will have charge of the tea. The lone public library is spon sored by the Women's Topic club which finances it with, other aids. The city of lone gives $100 a year, the Heppner Elks $50 a year and many generous donations of both money and books are given by members and friends of the club. The library, housed in the city hall, is very modern. It has a large number of subscribers and the shelves are now so over crowded with books that it is necessary to have new island shelves made. Through the cooperation with the lone school faculty an ex cellent selection of books is made and purchased each year, espec ially childrens books. Members f tne library board are, Mrs Dixon Smith, president; Mis Fannie Griffith, vice presi dent; Mrs Victor Rietmann, sec retary and treasurer; Mrs Ver ner . Troedson and Mrs John Proudfoot. Mrs Echo Palmateer is the librarian. Library days are Mondays and Thursdays 3 to 5 pm and dur-J ing the school year it is open Wednesdays 10:30 am to 11:30 1 am, A large number of the school children use the library on Wed-, nesday mornings. s ii ,. i ii n "iiiii j; 1 1 I, -I C Mewer Completion of the Heppner high school remodeling is hoped for bv this weekend, but it is expected that some small amount of painting and finishing work will have to carry over until classes are under way. Practl cally the entire second floor of the building has been remodeled to provide a new, modern science laboratory and classroom, new commercial and typing depart ment and a remodeled library and study hall. The old stage in the former auditorium room which has been used for a study hall in recent years, has been removed and that area converted into the library and study hall. The science lab will occupy the northwest corner of the building on the second floor and has ben greatly enlarg ed. Much new modern equip ment will also be available for student use. Nearly all class rooms have been refinished and new tile floors have been laid in most rooms, Remodeling of the cafeteria, kitchen, lunchrooms and home making departments were com pleted during the past three years. r, ,., . tu wmb; about nwnnnA , OA fPU.. I increase of about 20 pupils. The M main about the same as last year, though a slight increase would not be unexpected. School officials stated today that a full schedule of classes buses will make their regular run that day and that the cafe teria will be in operation. Cafe teria fees will also remain Jthe samp a last vear with students being charged 25 cents for meals and adults 30 cents. H:L CLAMI C... ign dCnOOl reeS Remain The Same The fees this year at Heppner high school are being kept to a minimum with no increase in student body card fees or other fees charged last year, it was announced this week. Fees that will be collected on the opening day of school, Mon day, Sept 8 are a book fee of $5, towell fee of $2.50 for all those enrolled in physical educa tion, $1.00 fee for paper for typ ing students, $5 student body cara ana tne iee ior me annual will be $J.5U. Two Weekend Wrecks Cause No Injuries T" 1 .J x , 1 iwu tal ""e4 over the Labor Day weekend near Heppner, but neither caus ed any serious injury. The two happened within minutes of each other and within less than a mile of each other Just east of Heppner on the Hinton creek highway. In both instances the drivers reported that they fell asleep at the wheel. A car driven by David S Bar- nett of Heppner went off the road about two and one-half miles east of town at about 4 a m Sunday. Barnett was accom panied by his wife and neither was hurt though the car was badly damaged. The Barnett accident was dis covered by another motorist who was on his way to town with Jack Monagle whose car had left the road just east of the other accident. Damage was minor to the Monagle car. Mrs Brownie Devore Hoyt of Pendleton was here over the weekend and attended the rodeo. IV " -' 5A r a TOP CALF ROPER of Morrow ueamer, oi Heppner, shown receiving . his Hamley saddle which was donated by Heppner Pine Mills, from Queen Pat SteagalL His time was the fastest of the 13 local ropers who were vieing for the favorite prize. r Copies 10 Cents NOW THIS IS GETTING MONOTONOUS Mrs Pete Hams of lone was driving a loaded gravel truck toward lone Wednesday ev ening when it tangled with a cow on the bridge Just north of the North Lexing ton MCGG elevator. She was unhurt but both the cow and the truck were pretty well "hcrmburger-ized." Ironically, Just one year ago her husband was driv ing a similar truck load of gravel and struck a simi lar cow in exactly the same spot Both cows belonged to Dar- rell Coppack of Athena Finally, Jackets Feel Good Again! The first real break in the hot weather that most people didn't think would ever end, came last nine ill ireauv Lillet; lllumiia. T a,most everyb'od lt wag u'Ptpnmo ml inf Saturday and Sunday saw the mercury climb into the 80's again but on Wednesday morning jack ets were in order as the tempera tl I Po rlrnnnnrl r1aoT rlnum 4-n 07 morning since May 14 when it was 36 degrees. August undoubtedly ' held the all-time local record for consis tently h'gh temperatures and it came Pretty close to equalling tne ail-time low tor rainiau-but not Q.une. uunng me momn just over, Heppner received .01 inch of rain- That's not much- but several montns in ine nistory oi the local weather station have seen not even a drop fall, Supposedly, accordine to the weatherman, there is a slight chance that some rain might fall here during the next few days. This newspaper will have to see it to belive it! WEATHER Hi Low , 82 64 70 51 75 51 81 50 ' 86 53 75 42 68 37 week, none; Thursday Friday Saturday Sundav Monday Tuesday Wednesday for August. .01: for the vear. r,ARO sM , : :0' ... V ' , - NaT" ( o I ' r ; ; .v.V V , . TROPHY WINNER of a new' event at last weekend's rodeo, the Queen and Court race, was Morrow county fair and rodeo Queen Pert SteagalL She handily defeated her opponents, members of the Ukiah rodeo royal court (GT Photo) county amateurs for 1958 is Neil (GT Photo) Gazette-Tim Building Permits Point to High Construction Here The Heppner city council Tues day approved six building per mits totalling $109,500 to set a record for construction during any one month for : over two years. One other permit for new construction was rejected. The largest single permit was Issued to the Heppner Elks lodee for a $76,000 alteration and re pair project that will completely remodel the lodge's two story building on Main street Work is already under way on this Job. New construction included a $10,000 permit to the Seventh Day Advennst church for. a 40 by 60 foot recreation center" being built adjacent to the church; James Mallon, $14,000 residence in Bar ratt edition; Cornett Green, an $8,000 residence on Water street. Alteration and repair permits were granted to R G Watkins, Elder street, remodeling; and J G Barratt, $1,000 warehouse re modeling, Linden Way. An application for a building permit for a $7,000 warehouse building on Linden Way and Morgan street from Cornett Green was rejected by the council be cause the specifications called for frame construction. Accord ing to city ordinance, such a building which will be used for storage of grain or grain products must be of fireproof construction. In other business, the council awarded the Rosewall Motor Company the contract for the purchase of a new dump truck for city use. The Ford dealer's bid of $4,535 was low among the three bidders. The top bid was less than $200 higher than the winning bid. The perennial problem the city dump came in for discus sion again with the difficulty this time concerning trash being dropped along the road leading to the dump. The council warn ed citizens using the facility that a state law governs the dumping or dropping of trash or refuse along a public road and that the law provides for a fine for offenders. It was felt that in most cases the trash was dropped in advertently, but the council ask ed dump grounds users to make an effort to pick up anything they might drop along the way. Mr and Mrs Paul McCarty of Portland visited Friday and Sat urday at the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs Charles Becket, and other relatives. V r- vt l ' ? t . fc . 3 GRAND SWEEPSTAKES WINNER of Saturday's parade was this beautiful float entaered by the Heppner Soroptimist club. Based around the song. Ml See You In My Dreams, it was constructed of pink ond white flowers. It lzation division. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September 4, 1958 Hundreds Join Fight Against Monday Fire All available Heppner fire de partment equipment and men, at least 200 volunteer firefighters, and many other pieces of farm and flrefighting equipment spent nearly three hours Labor Day afternoon chasing the city s big gest grass fire of the season. The combined efforts of everyone kept the wind-fanned flames from de stroying any buildings but many were endangered before the fire was stopped. The first alarm was sounded at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon on a call from near Linden Way and Morgan street where the fire started in tall grass near the state highway department shops. Before the city's two trucks could reach the north end of town the flames had traveled over two blocks and were already threat ening houses on North Main street, Aiken and Elder streets and the Pacific Power and Light substation on Linden Way. With in another 15 to 20 minutes the fire had moved clear across the canyon leading north from the end of Aiken street and over the next hill and was threatening buildings at the fair grounds. . Before the fire was finally con tained it had burned over an area roughly one and one-half 500 ACRES BURNED A grass fire started Wednes day afternon on the Howard Cleveland ranch on upper Willow creek and burned over 400 to 500 acres before it was controlled. No buildings were lost miles long and about a mile wide denuding approximately 700 ac res of grass and grazing land. Four separate calls for help were received on the fire depart ment phone and several others were called into other firemen during the height of the blaze and instructions were relayed to equipment by police and volun teers. Several times it was nec essary to move trucks from one end of the fire line to the other. Other Equipment Helps Aiding the Heppner depart ment was the Morrow County Grain Growers fire truck from Lexington, an outfit belonging to Bill Barratt and several jeeps and pickups loaded with water barrels, sacks and men. Much of the four wheel drive equipment was vital in stopping the fire at the top of the hills north of town. Quick installation of fair grounds sprinkling equipment around buildings and hay piles near the fair buildings were credited with preventing the loss of one or more of those facilities as the fire burned close to the edge of Hinton creek immediately behind Violators Find Radar Really Wor Quite a number of Morrow county motorists found out first hand last weekend how radar is used by state police In check ing and catching traffic offen ders, though not all enjoyed the lesson. Following a warning a couple of weeks ago by all law enforce ment officials that they were cracking down on traffic viola tors as a result of the continuing number of accidents in this area, state police put their mobile ra dar speed unit into operation 4 1 . . .rfli',""l,,'' also won first place in the organ (GT Photo) 75th Year, Number 26 the buildings In several places. No buildings were burned but several were threatened when the fire came to within a few feet of them. Two piles of lum ber and other materials were de stroyed near the state highway shops. The rolling clouds of smoke which could be seen from Lex ington and from the mountains attracted hundreds of spectators, many of whom Joined in the fight before it was over. An investigation by city police revealed that the whole thing started because two little boys were playing with matches. SproptimistsWin Top Parade Prize The Heppner Soroptimist club took the topp prizes' for float en tries in Saturday's rodeo parade by winning first place in the adult float division and then going on to garner the additional sweepstakes prize of $50. Their entry is pictured elsewhere in to day's paper. In the juvenile float division, first place was won by the Rain bow Girls entry and second went to the 411 club council. Phil's Pharmacy walked off with first place in the business float division with a replica of the Old Woman In the Shoe. Sec ond went to Heppner. Pine Mills and third to McBride's Body Shop. Other winners were: best rid ing club, 1st, Wranglers; 2nd, Umatilla Sage Riders; best comic, Leon Kennedy; best family group, Ray Paplneau family; best mounted cowboy, Bill Smethurst; best mounted cowgirl, Linda Dryer; oldest cowboy, Frank S Parker; youngest cowboy, Kirk Robinson; youngest cowgirl, (tie) Becky Fulleton and Karla Weath erford. Juvenile division: child's floats, 1st, Ivona Bethel; 2nd, John Koe nig, Tim Loyd and Ted Turner; 3rd, Helen Anderson. Best pet: 1st, Betty Pettyjohn; 2nd, Bobble Morris; 3rd, Ivan Adlard. Best Juvenile cowboy; 1st, Larry Hall day; 2nd, Blue Mountain Boys; 3rd, Brian Thompson. Best juv enile cowgirl: 1st, Judy Sherer; 2nd, Diane Marshall; 3rd, Janet Palmateer. Heppner high school won first for the best band and a group of youngsters calling themselves the "Purple People Eaters" won second. The latter group was one of the most unique entries in the parade and as they marched they passed out slips saying, "I'm a Purple People Eater from outer space. If you don't believe me (Continued on Page 8) last weekend and by Monday officers had handed out between 25 and 30 citations for violation of the basic rule, excessive speed, etc., "and, there'll be more to come if things don't get better," one of the officers said Monday. The radar unit was the object of much interest to many of those who received tickets which were marked "radar" and also among some of the younger set who not only wanted to keep out of the toils of the law but also to see the "thing" work the high A likeable Indian boy from Oroville, Washington, Mannie Squakin, outrode all other bronc riders Saturday and Sunday to win the coveted Hamley saddle as the Northwest Amateur Sad dle Bronc champion of 1958. He has been rodeoing for nearly 18 years and has tried for four years at the Morrow county fair and rodeo to take home the top prize. Another Hamley saddle is now the property of Neil Beamer of Heppner because he showed up all other local ropers in the Mor row county amateur calf roping, always one of the top events of the show. Second prize of a belt from Ella's Grill and a buckle from Tum-A-Lum Lumber com pany went to Charley Daly with Tad Miller taking third honors of a western hat presented by Wilson's Men's Wear. The annual show attracted the greatest number of spectators In its history, rodeo committee of ficials reported this week, and many visitors who watched the three performances said that it was one of the fastest moving shows they had ever seen. The weather was bright and sunny over the weekend, though may- De just a little warmer than some might have wished. Other Winners Named Other cowboys who went home with winnings included, in or der of their placing: Northwest saddle bronc Man nie Squakin, Zack Keyes, Gary McQuinn, Kenny Holoway. Calf roping Bud Ingram, Dick Powers, Bill Ward, Jim Fought. Bull riding Rocky Rockabar. Jim Whiteside, Mac Griffith. Cow milking Eddie Hagen. Floyd Plumlee, Dave Smith, Max Nogle, Bud Ingram, Roger Nell- son. Bulldogglng Mac Griffith. Jack McCarty, Zeb Smith, Max Nogie. Bareback riding Gary Greg, Dave Elford, Mac Griffith, Bob Featherly. Calgary roping Bill Conboy, Floyd Jones, Roice Fulleton, Bud Ingram. Wild horse race Lester Her mann, Ron Currln, Ray Paplneau. Wild cow riding Jim West Ron Currln, Pat O'Brien. Queen's flag race Heppner, Ukiah. Chariot race Jim Valentine, Ray Papineau, Russell Dolven. Morrow county derby Floyd Hutehlns entry ridden by David Creswick, Wayne Paplneau, Christine Swaggart The most excitement of the en tire show came after the finish of the final event of the last day. Four of the 10 horses in the Mor row county derby got into a Jam during the pull-up after the fin ish and fell injuring three of the riders and throwing a fourth. Ta ken to Pioneer Memorial hospital by ambulance and state police were Bill Healy, Christine Swag gart and Lillian Sawyer. Healy was the most seriously injured with concussion and bruises when his horse rolled over him. The two girls sustained several facial cuts and bruises but were released after treatment. Services Saturday For Bertha Johnson Funeral services were held Saturday for Alice Bertha John son 77, who died August 28 at her home in Heppner. She had been in ill health fot some time. Mrs Johnson was born July 16, 1881 at Lonerock, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Dean and she had lived In this Immediate area for the past 25 years. She is survived by one son, Victor of The Dalles, four grand children and seven great-grandchildren. Services were conducted by the Rev Charles Knox at the Heppner Christian church with burial In the Heppner Masonic cemetery. Creswick Mortuary was in charge of arrangements. Visitors in Heppner during the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Included, Mr and Mrs H P Fer guson of Oswego, parents of Mrs Bill Barratt,, and Mr and Mrs Al Hunter and children of Seattle. Mrs Hunter and Mrs Barratt are sisters. interest came from the fact that not a person, as far as is known, found the unit, how it was hid den or what kind of a vehicle It was carried in. That was a well-kept secret by the officers manning it. Another secret of the state offi cers is whether it is still here or has been moved to another area and if lt has been moved, when lt is coming back? The answers to those questions weren't answered by the patrolmen.