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Ii9l Plan
And Pri District
Given Voter OK
,County voters approved both
special measures Tuesday which
called for the establishment of a
port district within the county
and the, formation of a county
unit school system. Both carried
' by a heavy majority.
The vote on the port district
bill was 949 yes to 261 no and
it received approval in every pre
cinct except at Hardman.
The county unit school measure
was approved 876 to 508. It car
ried by a wide margin In all
precincts except Boardman and
Irrigon. In Boardman the vote
was 67 no 64 yes; and at Irrigon
the vote was yes 81, no 89.
After the vote has been can-
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 6, 1958
Copies 10 Cents
75th year, Number 35
Big Blow Brings
Down Wires, Trees
The first "big blow" of the
winter sailed In on Morrow
county, and the entire northwest,
Monday night causing long pow
er outages in many places and
minor damage In Heppner, Lex
ington and lone.
Winds at Heppner were strong
enough to blow down several
trpps and signboards, loosen a
few shingles and break a few
windows, but did not cause ma
jor damage. It has been reported
that a tree fell on the mountain
cabin belonging to Claude Cox
but that damage there was not
great. HeDDner's cable TV an
tenna system probably suffered
as much as anything, with sev
eral of the antennas wound up
nkp a mass of wire and covered
with grass and flying sagebrush
and tumbleweed.
Heppner suffered three power
outages during the evening, two
of which were attributed directly
to the storm. The first occurred
about 5:30 when a fuse blew at
the HeDDner PP&L substation
About 9 o'clock, power went out
throughout the entire area ana
wasn't restored locally for almost
two hours. Arlineton and ton
don residents suffered outages
lactincr nn tn 15 hours while
PP&L and REA crews worked to
ppt lines back into operation
Very little rain fell In Heppner
from the storm, but at lone and
in the northern end of the county
a near-cloudburst was reported.
The heaviest storm damage
was reported in Walla Walla and
Lewiston, Idaho.
vassed and the county court has
determined that the port district
has been formed, the governor
will appoint a board of five com
missioners to operate the district.
The commission will have the
power to develop port facilities
alone the Columbia river and to
work for the development of the
area for industrial purposes.
In giving approval to the coun- j
ty unit school measure, the vot
ers automatically voted back Into
the county school system approx
imately $1,000,000 in property
valuation which has been going
to adjacent joint school districts
in Gilliam and Umatilla counties.
A new county school board com
posed of the chairmen of the
existing school districts will op
erate the district until a regular
election is held to name the reg
ular members of the county
school board.
No changes in the operation
of any school in the county will
be made at least until tne ena
of the current school year.
This measure was discussed at
length bv the county school re
orcan iation committee, and its
adoption is classed as a step to
ward complying with the state
school reorganization law.
Frank i Weafherfonl Wins
Harry Dinges and
Gene Ferauson
Win County Races Ram - for Sflfilfl Iff HaUSfi
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Boardman Chooses
City Officials
Roardman voters Tuesday elec
ted Joe Tatone mayor, giving him
49 votes. Bernice Kuhn was un
opposed for recorder-treasurer
and received 57 votes.
Seven Dersons were seeking the
three council positions and voters
gave the nod to Kay uronquist,
3fi votes-Arthur Al'cflfi. 35: Wayne
Kuhn, 32. The, others running
were Mable Peck, 20, waiter
Haves 19. Seth Russell 14, Clyde
Tannehill 13 and Ray Brown 9.
Power Co-op Sets
Annual Meeting
All Heppner City
Officials Reelected
There were no contests for any
City of Heppner office and voters
Tuesday, reelected six men to
thpir former Dosts.
Put back into office for another
term were William C Collins as
mnvnr He received 480 votes.
Three councilmen were named,
Phil Blakney, 450; Al Lamb, 440;
e anH rowell Cribble. 435. Also re
elected was Ted Smith, recorder,
with 480 votes and La Verne Van
Marter with 487 votes.
WEATHER
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Hi Low Prec.
65 25
62 34
73 38 .01
63 45 .08
56 45 .03
64 40 .03
54 42 .13
Rainfall for the week .28; for
October .22; for November .28;
for the year 11.44 inches.
The Columbia Basin Electric
Cn-oD will hold its annual meet
ing Saturday, November 8 at the
Memorial hall in Condon witn
an address by Howard Morgan
Oregon Dublic utilities commiss
loner scheduled as one oi me
Mrrh noints of the urogram.
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Registration has been set at
10:30 and a movie, 'Tnis is iva'
will shown at 11 o'clock. Follow
inc the noon luncheon, the reg
ular meeting will open at 1
o'clock. In addition to reports oy
the Dresldent. Kennetn bmouse
of lone; secretary-treasurer, Jack
Hynd Jr of Cecil; and manager
Harley Young of Heppner, there
will he election of directors and
several other items of interest
including the talk by Mr Mor
gan. Fcrur directors will be elected
out of a slate of eight who have
been chosen by a nominating
committee.. Those running are
James Hoag, Blalock; Walter
Hulden, Arlington; Wayne An
fWsnn and Ralph Eakln, Con
don; Jack Hynd Jr and Dick
Krttbs, Cecil; John Graves oi
Hardman and Walter Wright of
Heppner. Hoag, Anderson, Hynd
and Graves are currently mem
bers of the board.
The co-op, which serves a wide
area of Morrow and Gilliam coun
ties, has been in existence for
more than lo years and now
operates 55 miles of transmission
line and 881 miles of distribu
tion system.
Harrv Dinges. Republican, in
cumbent countv assessor, was re
turned to office for another term
when he handily defeated his
Democratic opponent, Batie Rand
of Irrigon. Dinges polled 970 votes
and Rand 639.
Dineres. who has served one
full term In office, carried all
county precincts except Board
man and Irrleon where Rana car
ried bv a comfortable majority
In the other county contest,
E O "Gene" Ferguson of Hepp
nor edged his Democratic oppon
ent for the county commissioner
post Jasper E Myers of Butter
Creek 840 to 74b. iNeitner man
waged any special campaign for
the nosltion.
Three other county oniciais
were elected Tuesday, but none
had anv oDttosition. They were
Oscar Peterson, county judge;
Rruce Lindsav. county clem, ana
Robert Abrams. district attorney.
Peterson and Abrams had been
appointed to their present ons
and were seeking voter approval
for a regular term, and Lindsay
was unopposed lor reelection.
Power Blackout
Due Sunday A M
All "Pacific Power and Light
customers in the Heppner area,
and Columbia Basin Kiectnc co
on members on Willow. Big and
Little Butter creeks, Balm Fork,
Sand Hollow and Blackhorse, will
he without nower for about four
hours Sunday morning, company
officials advised this weeK.
The outage Is necessary to al
low Installation of new trans
formers at both PP&L and the
REA Heppner substations. The
hlarkout is to start at 2 a m
Sunday and crews hope to have
the power back on by b ociock.
The new transformers man?
completion of a recent program
to increase the capacity of both
substations here. The main pow
er feeder will be raised to 69,000
volts and the new transformers
will about double present capaci
ties.
Frank M Weatherford, Olex
Democrat, edged out Orville Cuts-
fortn, KepuDii
can of Lexing
ton, for state
representat i v e
fromthe 22nd
district In one
one of the clos
est r a c e s of
Tuesday's elec
tion. The final
tally, with all
but one Gilliam
county precinct having reported,
gave Weatherford 'ib to (Juts-
forth's 1985. The one is small and
cannot effect the outcome.
Cutsforth carried Morrow coun-
ty 868 to 722 for Weatherford,
but lost by a small margin in
both Gilliam and Sherman coun
ties. The men were less than 30
votes apart until complete re
turns from Wheeler county gave
Weatherford the bulge 495 to l
for Cutsforth. Cutsforth carried
all Morrow precincts except
Boardman and Irrigon.
Weatherford will take office in
January filling the seat previous
ly held by C A Tom of Rufus who
did not seek reelection.
The vote by counties showed:
Morrow Cutsforth 868, Weath
erford 722.
Gilliam Cutsforth 536, Weath
erford 614.
Wheeler Cuts forth
Weatherford 495.
Sherman Cutsforth
Weatherford 500.
251,
394
Heppner Voters OK
School Bonds-But . .
The voters of Heppner school,
district No 1 Saturday approved!
for the second time, a $20,000
bond issue for the purchase and
imnrovement of additional pro
perty adjacent to the elementary
school. The vote was 118 yes to
95 no. - . 1
Just over three weetcs ago a
special election was held for the
same purpose and the bona issue
was approved at that time 121
to 63, but the whole thing was
declared void because of a tech
nicality, so a second election was
set for last Saturday.
Even though the bond Issue
was OK'd by the voters the sec
ond time and no technical hitch
es have shown up in the election
proceedure, there appearea Wed
nesday to be another difficulty
thrown in the way of selling the
bonds. The trouble this time, ac
cording to some legal Interpreta
tion Is because of Tuesday's vote
which established a county unit
school system in the county. The
thinking here being that because
there is no longer a Heppner
I school district No 1 (all districts
I are now a oar of the one Mor
row county district) it may be
hard or impossible to sell tne
bonds. According to avanaDie in
formation, the state department
feels the Tuesday vote will make
no difference and the bonds can
be sold, but other legal thought
is that the bonding attorney may
not approve them for sale.
Seemingly, only time will tell
and, in the meantime, the Hepp
ner school board is going on with
its preparations to sell the bonds.
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MARK HATFIELD swept to a
big victory over Robert Holmes
for Governor.
POSTOFFICE TO OBSERVE HOLIDAY,
CHRISTMAS MAILING HELP GIVEN
Heart Pamphlet
Racks Distributed
Tn an effort to overcome fears
and misconceptions about Heart
Disease, Velma Glass oi tne Mor
row County Heart Council pre
sented to Harrv Bongers of Plo
neer Memorial hospital an at
tractive pamphlet rack contain
inu literature on heart disease.
Rnrh namnhlets as "How the
Doctor Examines Your Heart,"
"Your Blood Pressure" and "5
Facts You Should Know About
Hpart nisease" are aimed at en
lightening the public on the
latest facts on this subject.
This sprvire Is one Dhase of the
Oregon Heart Association's 3-fold
program of Education, Kesearcn
and Community Service.
EXAMINER COMING
A drivers license examiner will
be on duty in Heppner at the
court house on Tuesday, Nov 18
from 9:30 a m to 3:30 p m.
Post office patrons are remin
ded that Tuesday, November 11,
is one of the eight national noil
days observed by the Federal
government and the local post
office will be closed ior ousiness
on that day. No mail will be re
ceived for distribution, and no
mail will be dispatched.,
The attention of the public is
also pa lied to the date. Novem
ber 15, which is the suggested
deadline for mailing Christmas
narrpls to military personnel
overseas. If entered in the post
office by that date, Uncle bam
can assure you that all parcels
win rpach their destination by
Christmas. All parcels should be
boxed, wrapped in strong paper,
and securely tied. Improperly
nrpnnrpd Darcels cannot be ac
cepted. Many APO's and some
FPO's (Army and wavy post oi
fippsi are located where the 1m
portation of currency, tobacco,
and cigarettes is proniDiteu
Check this with your local post,
master before preparing the par.
noi various size and weight lim
its annlv. but generally a parcel
should weigh no more than 50
pounds and be longer man u
inches. Many APO's require that
customs declaration forms be at-
taphpH to the Darcel. To insure
properly complying with require
ments parcels destined to punua
requiring customs declaration
shoniri have the following in
scription thereon "certified to
be a bona fide gut, personal
effects, or items for personal use
of military personnel or depen
dents thereof."
pprsonnel of the local post of
fice will gladly assist anyone
having questions concerning pro
per preparation of mail for mlli
tnrv forces overseas, Postmaster
James H Driscoll, stated.
City Water To Get Chlorine
AL ULLMAN Voters returned
him to Washington for a second
term In Congress.
The state board of health has
ordered the City of Heppner to
start chlorinating Its water sup
ply because of repeated bad tests,
the city council was Informed
Monday night by letter.
Heppner has not had to chlori
nate its drinking water In past
years except on special occasions
when work was being done on a
section of pipe line or the city
distribution system and it had
been hoped by the council tnat
it would not be necessary. Coun
cil members expressed the opin
ion that the bad tests were be
ing received because of seepage
into the old concrete water line
on Willow creek, six miles of
which the council is considering
asking for a bond Issue to re
place with new steel pipe.
The city does not presently own
a chlorinator, but does have one
at the swimming pool which may
be possible to convert for use In
the city water system.
The so-called "bad" tests do
not necessarily mean that the
water Is unfit for use, but state
requirements on municipal water
supply are very rigid and even
a small amount oi loreign matter
can require chlorination for pub
lic protection.
The council also called a spec
ial meeting for next Monday
night to discuss with engineers
the cost of installing new steel
pipe in the feeder line, which
when completed is certain to
eliminate the need for the chlor
inating. In other business, handled
largely by the light of flashlights
due to a storm -caused power
outage, the council approved re
newal beer or liauor licenses ior
The Elks, Court Street Market,
Heppner Market, O Donne 11 s
Cafe, Thomson Bros and Central
Market. A new wine license ap
plication from Central Market
was also OK'd.
Building permits were issued
to J G Barratt for a $12,000 new
residence in Barratt Heights; to
W N Montgomery, new residence
$3,000; and to Kenneth Keeling,
repairs and alterations, $500.
Nearly 500 visit
Historical Van
During Heppner Stop
At least 481 persons filed
through the Centennial van of
hlstorv Saturday ana unaay
during its visit to Heppner. The
van is on a tour oi tne entire
statP and is being used to ac
quaint Oregon residents with
some of the history oi tneir state
prior to the centennial celebra
tion next year.
The number of visitors here
was said to be very gratifying
anH ran a higher percentage than
in several areas where the van
has stopped in recent days. The
Hisniav Is sDonsored by the Ore
gon Historical Society and the
Oregon Trucking industry.
P-TA Committee Plans
Study Discussion
ThP P-TA studv group commit
tee met at the V L Kreimeyer
home recently and decided upon
thp following subjects as possi
bilities for this year's study
courses; 1. general matn, re
fresher course including book
tpnincr and income-tax lnfor
mation. 2. photography 3. first
oM d the Oregon Centennial 5.
a short course In the use of ma
chines such as radioactive fall
out detection kit, geiger counter,
etc 6. study discussion course on
the adolescent, as given In the
P-TA magazine.
All members of tne r-iA aim
anyone in the community inter
ested in taking these courses are
urged to attend the next meet
ing, November 12, so that they
mQir clan tin.
r ...Ill u.
The committee tnen wm ue
able to determine which courses
tn r.tfar this season.
iv -
Anyone interested in signing
up and unable to attend this next
P-TA meeting is urged to call
tho chairman. Mrs Vic Krelmey-
Pr or assistant chairman, Mrs
Harlan McCurdy.
O'Connor Named
Mayor of lone
lone voters Tuesday named
Charles O'Connor as their new
mayor giving him 80 votes to
143 for his opponent E W Brlstow.
I In the race for councilmen Bill
Rietmann (88), James Barnett
(70) and Mrs Robert DeSpain
(fifi) received the most votes to
defeat their opponents, Omar
Rietmann with GZ, timer Hoitz
with 50 and Hugh Salter who
rpppived 50 votes. Mrs Adon Ham-
lett received 11 write-in votes.
Mrs Howard' Crowell polled 109
votes for citv recorder to win. the
post from Mrs Vester Hams who
received 20 write-ins. Echo rai-
matcer was unopposed for treas
urer, receiving 137 votes.
Jordan Elevator
Pays Stock Dividend
Stockholders of the Jordan Ele
vator eomDanv received their an
nual stock dividend this weeK
company officials have announ
ced. This makes the third year
that Jordan Elevator has paid
a 20 percent dividend return on
its stock.
Present officers of the corpora
tion are Oscar Peterson, presi
dent; Kenneth Smouse, secre
tary; M V Nolan and L A Mc-
Cabe, directors; and Paul retty
john, director and manager.
EARLY COPY ASKED
Because of the postoffice be
ra nloSPO1 On Tuesday, Novem
ber 11, all correspondents are
nWpd to eet what news they can
in one day early for this next
week.
It Must Be Spring!
Heppner has some flowers
that apparently aie trying to
compete with the lilacs that
were reported last week to be
blooming at lone.
Mrs Archie Padberg ha
two Easter lilies that have
been blooming for over two
weeks.
Hatfield, Ullman
Given Nod by
Morrow Voters
An unusually large number of
Morrow county voters went to the
polls Tuesday and cast their bal
lots in almost exactly the same
pattern as did the voters of the
rest of the state. A 75 percent
vote was tallied here.
Morrow countv gave Mark Hat
field the edge over governor Ro
bert Holmes 878 to 751 in tne
hotiv rontpsted governor's race;
J D
they approved of Al Ullman,
Democrat for representative in
Congress, 880, to 723 for Marion
Wpatherford. a Dattern which
was followed throughout most of
the rest of the second district;
thev Dicked another Democrat,
Norman O Nilsen, for state labor
commissioner over Republican
Lyle E McCauley, 901 to dm.
On the 13 state measures, Mor
row voters approved nine of
them, and again following the
state pattern, rejected four. The
four voted down were measure
no 2, Increasing funds for vet
pvan s loans: No 3. salaries of
state legislators; No 4, the capital
punishment bill; and jno iu, tne
state power development mea
sure. They also approved by a
wide majority the two county
measures on the ballot, and a
more complete story on those
votes appears in a separate story.
Most of the county's nine pre
cincts held pretty well to their
normal pattern of favoring Re
publican candidates, ine one
big change noted was In the
Roarriman nreeinct which usually
favors the Republicans by a wide
margin. Tuesday, however, its
voters had other Ideas and gave
all Democratic candidates about
a two to one majority. In so
doing, they joined forces with
their neighboring irrigon precinct
which has cast a strong Demo
cratic vote for years.
The heavy vote, whlcn ran ai
most exactly 75 percent of the
registered voters, Is unusual m
an off-year election Dut it i
(bought that high interest In the
two county measures ana iocui
contests for assessor and county
commissioner brought . out . tne
vote.
Totals Given
Following are the complete un
official totals for all of the coun
ty's nine precincts:
n.nrpenntatlve In Congress. 2nd
district Ullman, D, 880; Weath
erford, R, 723.
Governor Mark Hatneiu, k,
878; Robert Holmes, D, 751.
Commissioner bureau of labor
-Norman O Nilsen, D, 901; Lyle
E McCauley, R, 559.
Slate representative Una dis
trict Orville Cutsforth, R, 868;
Frank Weatherford, D, 722.
ponntu commissioner t u
"Gene" Ferguson, R, 840; Jasper
E Myers, D, 746.
County clerk Bruce Lindsay,
1455.
fountv Assessor Harry Dinges,
It, 970; Batie P Rand, D, 639.
County judge Oscar merson,
I486.
District Attorney Robert
Abrams, 1442.
State Measures
No 1 fixing state boundaries,
Yes 1038, no 235.
No 2 Increasing veterans
loans, yes 661, no 744. .
No 3 Salaries of state legis
lators, yes 616, no 797.
N0 4 Capital punisnmeni, yc
675, no 715.
No 5 Financing urban reae-
velopment, yes 609, no 519.
No 6 Modifying county ueui
limitation, yes 645, no 459.
No 7 Special grand jury um,
yes 939, no 250.
No 8 Authorizing timeiem
use of state institution, yes 747,
no 422.
No 9 Temporary judges, yes
947, no 243.
No 10 State power develop
ment, yes 579, no 620.
No 11 County home rule, yes
781, no 284.
No 12 Discontinue state io
hospitals, yes 769, no 284.
i.i Pprsons eligible to
serve in state legislature, yes 827,
no 465.
County Measures
Measure providing for the for
mation of a port district in Mor
row county, yes 949, no 261.
Measure providing for the for
mation of a county unit school
system, yes 876, no 508.
Non-Partisan Ballot
JnriVfl of the supreme court,
position No 2, Kenneth J O-Con-nell,
1032.
Judge of the supreme court,
position No 3, Gordon Sloan, 1013.
Judge of the supreme court,
position No 7, George Rossman,
1017.
Superintendent of public In
struction, Rex Putriam, 1136.
Weekend hunting guests at the
home of Rev and Mrs Bruce Spen
cer were Gene Mast and Allen
Miller of Myrtle Point, Oregon. ,