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Board Revises Budget
For Presentation
At Second Election
The Morrow county school board voted Wednesday night at
a special meeting held at the court house In Heppner, to re
duce the instruction costs item in the school budget by $20
000 and resubmit the budget to the voters at the earliest possible
date. This item would be reduced from $481,391 to $461,391.
The special meeting was held to determine what action could
be taken to get voters to approve an operating budget for the
county's schools following the defeat of the first budget at Mon
day's election.
Several board members arid residents who attended the meet
ing stated that they felt the main objection of voters was to the
increase in teachers salaries and it was from the salary part
of the budget that, the $20,000 would be removed.
The board was told that there was no way that it could
effect an across-the-board slash in teacher's pay increases grant
ed by the board for the coming year, inasmuch as contracts
had already been signed and sent out and were binding on
the district. The average increase for next year had been set
at $700, but it was pointed out that because several new
teachers with less experience rating in the county have been
hired, the average Increase is now only $616.
Th question as to whether the teacher's contracts could be
revised had been discussed widely prior to the meeting, but
both the board's attorney Robert Abrams ,and a state depart
ment official said Wednesday that the contracts must be hon
ored at the stated salary scale.
In reducing the teaching cost item in the budget, the board
indicated that it would accomplish this saving by reducing the
number of teachers to be hired that some classes would have
to be combined. How the classes would be consolidated was not
determined at last night's meeting, but discussion centered
around the possibility of transporting the students in two Lex
ington grade classes to Heppner or lone, and of combining
a Boardman and Irrigon grade. In these cases the classes are
small and could be combined. This could mean a saving of one
teacher in north end schools and two in the south. No decision
was made on this, however.
The date for the next budget hearing and election will be
set as soon as allowable under the law.
No action was taken on whether to resubmit the special build
ing fund levy of $130,000, which was also defeated.
Members of the newly elected county administrative school
board declined to take over the operation of the schools from
the county unit board which will go out of existence July 1.
The statement had been made that the budget would be the
problem of the new board, but most of the members of the new
board, who were in attendance at the meeting, along with the
county unit board, indicated t' felt nothing could be gained
by such action. They did, he- . c, sit in on the entire discussion.
Morrow county voters Monday
defeated aWounty school budget
calling for a tax levy of $471,
612.98 outside the 6 percent lim
itation, and a special $130,000
building fund levy. Both were
buried by nearly a two-to-one
negative majority.
The budget was defeated in
four of the county's six school
voting precincts, Heppner, Lex
ington, Boardman and Hardman.
The only two precincts to ap
prove it were lone and Irrigon.
The special building fund levy
also lost in four precincts, those
being Heppner, Lexington, lone
and Hardman. Irrigon and Board-
man were the only two areas
to give an OK to this levy.
The total vote on the budget
was No 470; Yes 297. The spec
ial building levy vote was No
497; Yes 273.
Monday's defeat was the first
for a school budget in the coun
ty in many years, and in some
districts it is thought to be the
first one in history.
The overall school budget for
operation of all the schools in
the county was $799,253 which
included the amount outside the
6 percent limitation. Only $327,
641 of the total figure falls in
side the 6 percent limitation
which can be raised without the
necessity of a special vote of
the people.
Board Must Act
The county school board must
now determine what action shall
be taken and there appears to
be some disagreement as to
which school board, the county
unit 5 man board which goes
out of office July 1, or the newly
elected 7 man county, admini
strative board, will fall heir to
the job of preparing a new bud
get. Fredrick Martin, lone, a
newly elected member of the
seven-man board, stated that
James Turnbull, assistant super
intendent of public Instruction,
has ruled that the budget is the
responsibility of the new board
which will assume office July 1.
However, the county unit board
is still In existence and is the
group which prepared the pres
ent budget which was defeated.
Vote Due Friday
On Fire District
Residents of the area included
in the proposed Heppner rural
fir district will ballot tomorrow
(Friday) from 8am until 8
p m on the formation oi tne ais
trirt and the election of five dlr
ectors to operate it. The voting
will be held at the fair pavmon
nnp
Only residents living outside
the city limits of Heppner ana
within the specified boundaries
of the proposed district are ell
orihio to vote.
The five who are seeking the
dirwtnrs' nosts are Dick Wilkin
son, Thomas J Wells, Robert
Lowe, Harold Evans and Kaipn
Beamer.
The question will probably be
settled within a few days.
The board has the option to
resubmit the present budget for
another vote or it can revise it
which will require republication
before another vote can be set.
The board was to meet last
night (Wednesday) to hear a re
port by state department mem
bers on a transportation and
schooling needs, and it was ex
pected to take some action on
the budget at that time.
The vote by precincts was:
Budget
Yes No
Heppner - 129 243
Irrigon . 46 27
Lexington . 21 101
Boardman 14 36
lone 84 48
Hardman 3 15
SPECIAL LEVY
Yes No
Heppner 113 " 258
Irrigon 48 25
Lexington 13 110
Boardman 29 21
lone 65 67
Hardman 5 13
Sadie Parrish
Appointed Clerk
The Morrow county court Tues
day accepted the resignation of
Bruce Lindsay as county clerk
effective June 1 and appointed
Mrs Sadie Parrish to fill the post
until the next general election.
Mrs Parrish has served as dep
uty clerk under Lindsay and has
been in the office for 11 years.
She at one time served as acting
clerk following the death of
Charles Barlow.
Little League Ball
Players Asked to
Meet Next Saturday
All Little League, Pee Wee and
Babe Ruth ball players are ask
ed to be at the rodeo field at
1 o'clock next . Saturday, May
23 where plans will be complet
ed for the opening of the coming
baseball season.
All boys 13 through 15 who
want to play in the Babe Ruth
league must bring their regis
tration cards with them at that
time.
BROTHER DIES IN
ALBANY PLANT ACCIDENT
An Albany man, Donald Willis
Raymond, died Tuesday morning
at the Wah Chang Corp metals
plant when he suffocated while
trying to recover metal from a
smelter and breathed argon gas.
Mr Raymond Is a brother of
Arnold Raymond, Heppner, lin
otype operator at the Gazette
Times. Services have been set for
Saturday at Albany.
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City Opens Bids
For Renewal of
Water Pipeline
The Beall Pipe and Tank Cor
poration of Portland, and Ever
ett M Den Herder of Medford
were the apparent low bidders
for the supplying and laying of
about six miles of City of Hepp
ner water pipeline. The bids were
opened at a special council meet
ing Monday night.
Awarding of the bids was post
poned one week to give the city's
engineers time to check all bids.
The Beall Pipe and Tank bid
for the three different sizes and
weights of pipe required for the
entire renewal project was $69,
939.06 and was presented at a
base pipe cost of $1.68 per foot.
The next lowest bid was offered
by Waterworks Supply Company
at a base price of $1.7681 per
foot.
Den Herder's bid for faying
the pipe was $38,564.45 and
closely behind him was the P S
Lord Company of Portland with
a bid of $38,669.05. Four other
bids were bunched closely be
hind the two low bidders.
There was a wide difference
among the 14 firms bidding for
the laying contract, the highest
being $77,543.78, double that of
Den Herder's. Five firms enter
ed bids to -supply the pipe.
Den Herder agreed to have the
ob completed by September L
Should the council elect to ac
cept the low bids on the kind
of pipe specified at the lowest
price, the total cost of the pro
ject, including engineering fees,
would be about $116,00o which
is well below the $140,000 made
available through a special bond
levy. The lowest bid price, quot
ed above, was for asphalt coat
ed pipe. Bids were also asked
on coal tar lined and coated pipe
which was bid in by Beall Pipe
and Tank at a base price of $2.11
per foot, and the council may
elect to take that pipe over the
cheaper offer.
The bids will be awarded next
Monday night and work on the
project is expected to start with
in about 30 days.
Rev Lester Boulden
Accepts New
Pastorate in State
The Rev Lester Boulden, pastor
of the Heppner Methodist church,
has resigned to accept another
pastorate in Oregon, the loca
tion of which cannot yet be an
nounced. He and his family will
leave for his new position shortly
after June 1.
The Bouldens came to Heppner
from Weston In June, 1953. Mr
Boulden has served as chairman
of home service of the Red Cross;
head of the Morrow county chap
ter of the National Foundation
(polio); institutional represen
tative for the Cub Scouts and a
member of the executive board
of the Blue Mountain Boy Scout
council; he has done some 4-H
work, has been chairman of the
Little League and served on sev
eral chamber of commerce youth
committees.
Mrs Boulden has taught in the
Heppner schools most of the
time they have been in Heppner.
The Boulden's daughter, Celia,
will graduate from Heppner high
school next week.
A replacement pastor will be
named before June 1.
Adventist School
Slates Graduation
The first 8th grade graduation
exercises at the Heppner Seventh
held Tuesday, May 26 at 8 p m
Day Adventist school will be
at the church with Elder Melvin
Lukens, College Place, Wash as
speaker.
Three students will graduate.
They are Bill Wagner, Christina
Ross and Bob Hager. Dean Why
bark is the teacher.
RECRUITER COMING
Acting gunnery Ser g e a n t
Thomas O McGehee, Marine
Corps recruiter for this area will
be at the Heppner Hotel Sat
urday, May 30 from 8 a m to
3pm..
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Copies 10 Cents
Many School Plant Changes Are
Recommended in County Survey
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BARBARA ANDEREGG
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EVANGELINA PEDRAZA
Boardman Names
Top Seniors
By MARY LEE MARLOW
Valedictorian for the 1959
graduating class of Boardman
hl?h school will be Barbara An-
deregg, daughter of Mr and Mrs
Charles Anderegg. Evangelina
Pedraza. daughter of Mr and Mrs
Joe Pedraza, will be salutatorlan.
Miss Anderegg graduates with
a grade point average of 3.6.
She has been on the student
council all four years of high
school, was cheerleader four
years, member of the Pep club
and GA4 all four years. She was
winner of the Betty Crocker
Homemaker of Tomorrow this
year in her school, was editor
of the school paper, and on the
paper staff two years.
She also was class vice-president
and was student body secretary-treasurer
for the past two
years. She was class represen
tative two years and last year
was princess for the McNary
Aqua Capers.
Miss Pedraza graduates with
a grade point average of 2.5.
She attended high school in
Richland, Wash before coming
here for her senior year. She
was carnival princess, on the
paper staff, was class represen
tative, and a member of the Pep
club this year. She was on the
student council and member of
the GAA for two years.
WEATHER
Hi
Thursday
Friday 71
Saturday 60
Sunday 66
Low Prec.
54
43 .04
35
47 -.19
Monday 57 35 .30
Tuesday 57 41 Tr
Wednesday 57 45
Rainfall for the week .53; for
May, .72; for the year, 6.60 inches.
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Gazette-Times
County Schools Set
Year-End Exercises
Activities in all county schools
are rapidly coming to a close for
the year as preparations are un
der way for Baccalaureate and
Commencement exercises to be
held next week.
In all schools baccalaureate
services are scheduled for Sun
day and in Heppner and Lex
ington graduation exercises will
be held Wednesday night, May
27. lone and Boardman grad
uation exercises are scheduled
for Thursday night.
Heppner
Baccalaureate services for the
Heppner high school graduating
class of 26 students will be held
Sunday at 8 p m at the Meth
odist church with the Rev C
Bruce Spencer, rector of All
Saints' Episcopal church, deliv
ering the sermon.
Commencement exercises will
lorn Wilson Takes
Position in Iddho
Tom Wilson, conservationist
for the Heppner Soil Conserva
tion District since its formation
in 1941 will leave June 15 for
Sand Point, Idaho where he will
assume similar duties with the
Bonner Soil Conservation District.
Mr and Mrs Wilson came to
Heppner in 1940 when he was
conservationist for the CCC camp
here. When the Heppner Soil
district was formed the follow
ing year he moved into that
position which he has held since,
except for three years duty In the
Armed Forces.
During the years Wilson has
been with Heppner SCD it has
ranked high among such dis
tricts In the state, and in 1954
won the Oregon award in the
Goodyear program, the first year
that program was placed on a
nationwide basis.
Wilson has served ns exalted
ruler of the Heppner Elks lodge
and secretary of the chamber of
commerce.
Wilson's replacement has not
yet been named by the state
conservationist
Abrams Named
New C of C Head
Robert Abrams has been nam
ed president of the Heppner-Mor-row
County Chamber of Com
merce to succeed Rod Murray
who last week presented his res
ignation to the board of directors.
Murray stated that his business
made it nearly Impossible to at
tend meetings regularly.
Abrams has been vice presi
dent of the organization. Murray
told the board that he will serve
as chairman of the merchants
committee, an important post
which he can more easily han
dle. A new secretary and treasurer
will also be named in the near
future.
At Monday's meeting plans
were made to work with the
Boardman chamber in preparing
a program to be held when the
Oregon Centennial wagon train
reaches this part of the state.
The train is scheduled to make
an overnight stop at Boardman
about August 1.
KINDERGARTEN OPEN HOUSE
The Civic League kindergarten
committee will have an open
house at the kindergarten room
in the high school Tuesday, May
26 from 3 to 4 p m for parents
of all children who will be In
kindergarten next year.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 21 , 1959
start at 8 o'clock, Wednesday at
the gymnasium with Wallace
McCrea, superintendent of the
Pendleton schools to give the
commencement address. Class
valedictorian is Miss Janet Mar
tin and salutatorlan is Renne
Harris.
Class members who will com
plete their secondary education
that night' are Duane Alderman,
Norma Geyer Alderman, Carole
Anne Anderson, Celia Boulden,
Marilyn Calvin, Sharon Case,
Ned Clark, Gayle Cox, Janice
Driscoll, Stevan Flug, Douglas
Grlbble, Renne Harris, Robert
Huffman, Kay Kelthley Reed, Ro
bert Mahoney, Janice Martin,
Carolyn McDaniel, Susan Mc
Quarrle, Joan Moe, Rhoda Ott,
Ruth Peterson, Larry Prock, Ri
chard Robison, Richard Ruhl,
Nancy Slocum, Joan Spencer.
Lexington
Lexington high school bacca
laureate services will be held at
S' p m Sunday at the high school
auditorium with Rev Patrick
Gaire, pastor of St Patrick's
church delivering tha aermon.
Graduation exercises will be
held Wednesday at 8 p m at the
auditorium with Delmar Rich
ards principal of the Gardiner
elementary school delivering the
address. Top seniors are Robert
"Hank" Pointer, valedictorian,
and Dora Sue Davidson, salut
atorlan.
Members of Lexington's last
graduating class include Pointer,
Miss Davidson, Barbara Steagall,
Keith Peck, Earl Lee Papineau,
Judy Darnielle, Ladd Henderson,
Robert Steven Kllnger, Lee Cor-
nellson.
lone
Dr A J Buttrey, conference min
ister and superlntedent of the
Congregational confer ence of
Oregon, will deliver the bacca
laureate sermon for the lone
graduating class Sunday at 11
a m at the lone Comunlty church.
church.
Graduation exercises for the
1959 class will be held Thursday
at 8 p m at the school cafe
torium with E Dean Anderson,
head of student teaching at Port
land State College slated as
commencement speaker. Vale
dictorian is Miss Leann Padberg
and salutatorlan is Kenneth
Jones.
Members of the senior class
include Ivan Richard Ayers, Ellis
Edward Ball, Susan Belmore,
John Lloyd Howton, Kenneth
Jones, Frank Jepsen, Leann Pad
berg, Paul G Pettyjohn Jr, Dallas
Rea, Mildred Seehafer and James
Glenn Swart.
Boardman
Boardman high school bacca
laureate services will be Sun
day at 8 p m at the Boardman
Community church with Merrill
E Shaw, missionary pastor con
ducting the services.
Graduation will be Thursday
at 8 p m at tha school gym
nasium. Members of the grad
uating class are Dean King, Bar
bara Anderegg, Lorelei Hamil
ton and Evangelina Pedraza.
Poppy Day Sale
Coming Saturday
Poppy day throughout Morrow
county and the rest of the county,
will be next Saturday, May 23,
and the members of the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary will be out
in force to sell them to the gen
eral public.
Auxiliary members emphasize
the meaning and significance of
the poppy by asking citizens to
remember that their coin drop
ped Into the poppy sellers box
aids the disabled veteran in a
hospital, the fatherless veteran's
family and is a tribute to those
who now lie beneath waving
popples in France, and other
battlefields of the world.
76th Year, Number 1 1
State Report
Suggests Two
High Schools
A long range school building
survey of Morrow county and
recommendations for the Im
provement of the county school
system were presented last night
by members of the schoolhouse
planning section of the state de
partment of education. The pre
sentation was made at a public
meeting at the court house and
the survey had been requested
by the school board to aid it in
its future decisions.
Because of the short time be
tween the meeting and the Ga
zette-Time's presstlme, only a
small amount of the report can
be given this week, but its sum
mary follows and a more com
plete story on the report will be
given In coming weeks. Basically
the report calls for three ele
mentary schools to be located in
Heppner, lone and Irrigon; two
primary schools (grades 1
through 4 only at Boardman and
Lexington; and two secondary
schools (high schools), one at
the greatest population center
in tha north, and one at the
greatest population center in the
south end of the county. The rec
ommended site for the south end
of the county was at the western
city limits of Heppner.
The Summary
Two secondary attendance cen
ters. 1. Boardman, Irrigon and
vicinity. 2. Cecil, Heppner, Hard
man, lone and Lexington. The
two high school plants should
be located In the communities
with the greatest concentration
of secondary students.
Three elementary attendance
centers. 1. Heppner. 2. lone. 3.
Irrigon.
Two primary attendance cen
ters. If enrollments in grades 1,
2, 3 and 4 continue high or in
crease, primary attendance cen
ters for Boardman and Lexing
ton should have consideration.
Immediate Needs
Boardman and Irrigon An ad
ministrative sub-district that en
compasses the north end of Mor
row county (Boardman and Irri
gon) and the northwest corner
of Umatilla county should have
first consideration. Another so
lution for Boardman and Irri
gon is a new plant located in
the community with the greatest
concentration of youth in secon
dary schools.
Cecil, lone, Lexington and
Heppner It Is recomme n d e d
that a new high school plant
be erected in the community
with the greatest concentration
of youth in high school atten
dance.
It is our recommendation that
the Irrigon elementary school
plant be expanded to house the
elementary pupils of both the
Boardman and Irrigon commun
ities. A primary school located
in the Boardman community may
merit consideration If enroll
ments in the first four gradesi
Justify it.
lone The combination secon
dary and elementary school
plant with general maintenance
and slight renovation can be
made Into an elementary cen
ter to serve the community until
new classroom facilities may be
planned and- constructed. The
new classroom wing should be
an addition to the multipurpose
unit (gym-cafetorlum) or loca
ted nearby.
Lexington A primary school
located in the Lexington com
munity may merit consideration
if enrollments in the first four
grades Justify it
Heppner If one secondary
school is acceptable to the pa
trons of lone, Lexington and
Heppner, our recommendation
for an elementary attendance
center for Heppner is:
1 The new elementary plant
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