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WiRARy U OF o EUE. ORE. Lexington High's Last Graduating Class b Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 28, 1959 Gazette-Tim a Copies 10 Cents 76th Year, Number 12 I I ll I f I I Af ' I RECEIVING DIPLOMAS at Lexington high school's final grad uating class because the school has been discontinued at the end of the present year, are top row from left. Hank Pointer, Dora Sue Davidson, Lee Cornelison. Second row, Barbara Steagall, Laddie Henderson, Judy Darnielle. Bottom row. Earl Papineau, Steven Klinger, Keith Peck. 26 Seniors Receive Awards, Diplomas At Commencement "Nothing better mirrors" the community than this class here ionight. What we think is im portant as a community reflects in what the class thinks Is im portant." These were the words spoken by Wallace McCrea, sup erintendent of the Pendleton schools, to the 1959 graduating class of Heppner high school last night at the gymnasium. McCrea said that education which met the needs of the pio neers 100 years ago is not suf ficient for today. Guide posts of one generation often become road blocks for another gener ation. Diplomas were presented to the 26 graduating seniors by Al vin Bunch, chairman of the Mor row county school board, and other awards were presented to the following by superintendent Joe H Stewart: Valedictorian, Janice Martin; salutatorian, Renn Harris; stu dent body officer pins to Renn Harris, Robert Mahoney, Celia Boulden, Susan McQuarrie. School spirit awards went to Dick Ruhl and Kay Keithley Reed and outstanding athlete a wards to Dick Ruhl and Marilyn Calvin. Outstanding citizens a wards were given Renn Harris and Janice Martin. University of Oregon, Eric Al len certificate for outstanding work as a newspaper writer, Jan ice Martin; University of Oregon J Turnbull yearbook award, Renn Harris and the Hehisch service plaque went to Janice Martin. The John Phillip Sousa award for the best student in music was received by Renn Harris. The local P-TA year tuition scholarship went to Marilyn Cal vin. Soroptimist $100 scholarship, Joan Spencer. Elks scholarships, Janice Mar tin and Renn Harris, $200 each; Stevan Flug, $100. Heppner Pine Mills, Renn Har ris, $300; Stevan Flug, $250. FBLA scholarship for best stu dent in business, Janice Driscoll. A state tuition scholarship, Stevan Flug; Willamette Univer sity scholarship Renn Harris, $250. Raymond Gray 4-H scholar ships, Carole Anne Anderson and Janice Martin. The Fagan Beauty School scholarship, Nancy Slocum. The class citizenship and school spirit plaque went to the senior class and Kay Keithley Reed, senior class president, pre sented the remainder of the class treasury to the Mustang, year book, treasury. Gordon Pratt and Vic Krei meyer sang a duet from "Cruci fixion," accompanied by Mrs Kreimeyer at the piano. Musical selections for the ex ercises were provided by the high school band under the direction of Arnold Melby, and the class colors, lavender and pink were used in the decorations. Kenneth Jones Wins Three Championships At Portland Shoot Kenneth Jones, son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Jones nd a sen ior at lone high school, won the junior singles championship, the men's.doubles and the all-around championship at the state trap shoot in Portland Sunday. In the all-around his score was 380 out of 400. Kenneth will go to the national shoot in Ohio in August. His father accompanied him to Port land. Centennial Tickets On Sale Here at Pre-Opening Rate Residents of Morrow county who wish to avail themselves of the chance to purchase reduced rate admission tickets to the Ore gon Centennial exposition may get them at both Heppner banks. The special offer of a book of six adult tickets for $500 and six children's (ages 6 to 17) tick ets for $2.50 will remain open only until the exposition opens In Portland, June 10. After that time admission prices will be $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. Both the Bank of Eastern Ore gon and the First National Bank of Oregon now have the tickets for sale. Highway Foreman Plans Retirement Frank Davidson, foreman of the Heppner division of the state highway department for the past 20 years, will retire June 1 and move to Baker to make his home. Davidson joined the state high way department In 1926 and first worked on the Baker-Unity road. He has been a foreman with the department for 30 years and was transferred to Heppner from Sen eca. He and Mrs Davidson will leave next week for their new home. Taking Davidson's place as foreman of the Heppner division will be Ed Wilson of Uklah, who formerly worked out of this dis trict. Businesses to Observe Holiday Practically all stores, business es and offices, including the post office, will be closed Saturday in observance of the Memorial day holiday. WEATHER Hi Thursday 65 Friday 59 Saturday 72 Low 47 41 49 Prec. .01 Sunday i 72 49 Monday 77 43 - Tuesday 61 36 Wednesday 62 40 Rainfall for the week .01; for May .73; for the year 6.61 inches. Mrs E A Vaughan of Portland and Mrs Guy Boyer of John Day will be Memorial weekend guests of Mrs Josie Jones. Boanlmafi Objects Change in Status of School About 70 residents of the Boardman area last night indi cated strongly that they did not favor the elimination of the 7th and 8th grade class in the Board man school which would mean that those students would be transported to Irrigon, and they made it plain that they did not want to see the county school budget reduced if it meant re ducing their school facilities. The big group met last night in a two and one-half hour mass meeting to discuss the school budget and to protest sending their students to Irrigon. A five man steering committee was Board Trims School Budget; Election June 29 The county school budget com mittee, meeting with the county school board, Friday night ap proved a new school budget $25,000 lower than the one voted down last week by county voters, It will be submitted to the voters at another special election on June 29. Following the budget's defeat May 18, the board had revised the teaching cost item by $20,000, and the budget committee fur ther reducted this item by $5,000 by recommending the closing of the Hardman school and the transportation of the 14 students into Heppner. A contract has al ready been issued for a teacher at Hardman, but she can be used in the Heppner schools. The Clos ure would result in an additional saving. The state department of edu cation had notified the Morrow county board that the Hardman school was below standard and had given it until August 12 to submit plans to bring the school up to standard. The board indi cated that this requirement could best be met by closing the school and transporting the students to Heppner where there were better facilities and better education opportunities. The other $20,000 saving will be made by reducing the Lex ington school to the four pri mary grades and transporting students in the fifth, sixth, sev enth and eighth grades to Hepp ner and lone. This would result in the elimination of two teach ers there. It is ajso planned to eliminate the seventh and eighth grades at the boardman school where the staff can then be re duced by one teacher. These stu dents will be transported to the Irrigon school. Additional savings in the bud get can be made by hiring of replacement teachers In the county at lower figures than or iginally expected due to less teaching experience. This has al ready resulted In a saving of $5,000 over the original budget figure, and will place the total operating cost of county schools at $773,693. The original budget, which was defeated, was slight ly more than $799,000. It was planned to hold the sec ond election on Monday, June 22, but due to the necessity of having to republish the budget, the time required to conform to the budget law will necessitate setting the election a week later, June 29. It is presently planned to publish the new budget in this paper starting next week. Rites Held Here For 2-Year Old Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Heppner Chris tian church for Ronald Richard Steers, 2 years old, who passed away May 22 at Poulson, Mon tana. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Steers. The lad was born June 17, 1956 at Poulson with a congenital de fect and had been given only a short time to live. He is survived by his parents, one brother and one sister, and both grandmoth ers, Mrs Pearl Steers and Mrs Perry Wilson. The Rev Charles Knox offic iated at the services and burial was In the Heppner Masonic cemetery. named to work on the problem and to contact the county school board to make their feelings known. The members of this committee are Gene Taylor, Dew ey West, Ralph Skoubo, Earl Mc Quaw and Roy Partlow. Many persons present at the meeting felt that the Boardman school offered, better educational facilities because of shop equip ment, etc, than did the Irrigon plant. Rev Willis Geyer Takes Pastorate at Milton-Freewater Rev Willis Geyer, minister of the Heppner Assembly of God church, left today for Milton Freewater where he will take over the pastorate of the Assem bly of God church. Mr and Mrs Geyer and family are moving this week. Rev Geyer came to Heppner six years ago from Colton, Ore gon. He has served as president and secretary-treasurer of the Heppner Ministerial association and as safety chairman for the P-TA . He will retain his section al office as church Sunday school representative, and during the past six years he has been buyer for the church's camp at Brooks, in the Willamette valley. Rev Homer Wolfington of Van couver, Washington has been named to the pastorate of the Heppner church to replace Rev Geyer. Mr and Mrs Wolfington will move to Heppner by June 7. It - House Committee OK's Dam Funds A story out of Washington D C late last week reported that Representative AI Ull man's request for $18,400 for a resurvey of the Willow creek dam had been approv ed by a house sub-committee. Ullman had asked that the money be Included in the Army Engineer's budget for the coming year. Many local organizations and individuals have been seeking approval of the funds by Congress. Karl Beach Gets West Point Nod Karl L Beach, 17, son of Mr and Mrs Harold Beach of Lex ington recently received Con gressman Al Ullman's principal appointment to West Point. He will graduate from Herm iston high school this week and while a student there has been active in school activities. He was a senior class president, secretary-treasurer of the National Honor Society, a member of the Letterman's club, president of the Booster club and was on the track and basketball teams. Besides his school activities, he has been active in 4-H club work and is president of the Lexington livestock club and the Hermis ton junior leaders club. -A .1 ' S T .. TWO HURT IN SUNDAY WRECK Ronald McCreery, 20 of Pendle ton suffered a broken rib, concussion, internal injuries and lacerations when this car in which he was riding went out of control about two miles south of Heppner and went over a 30 foot bank. The driver was Floyd Larkin, 21, also of Pendleton who was not seriously hurt The car landed wrong side up in the canyon below the R R Fulleton residence. (GT Photo) to Any Ask Original Budget The main purpose of the meet ing was to inform the people as to why the budget had to be re duced as has been proposed by the school board following its defeat at the May 18 election. It was the concensus of opinion of those present that they would like to see the budget re-submitted to the voters in the orig inal form. (The new school budget plan calls for combining Irrigon and Boairdman 7th and 8th grade classes in the Irrigon school, closing the Hardman grade school, and eliminating the 5th through 8th grades at Lexington. This plan would eliminate three teachers from the county school system and save about $25,000.) In the first budget election Boardman voters defeated the budget 36 to 14. Heppner, Lex ington and Hardman voters vot ed "No." Henry Gantenbine a school board member, answered quest ions on the budget and Willard Baker presided at the meeting. Fire District Gets Unanimous OK From Voters The formation of the Heppner rural fire district received over whelming approval of voters last Friday in fact it was so over whelming that not a single per son voted against It. The vote was 21 to 0. The voters at the same time elected five directors to operate the new district and all were chosen unanimously with no write-in candidates being record ed. They are Dick Wilkinson, Thomas J Wells, Robert Lowe, Harold Evans and Ralph Beamer. The county court will canvass the vote Friday and announce the official results which are not expected to show any change from the original count. After being officially notified of their election, the new board is expected to meet Immediately to formulate a budget and ar range for fire protection for res idents within the new district. This can be done either by form ing Its own department or con tracting for protection with the Heppner fire department. Fishing Prospects Should be Bright The state fish commission Monday released 3000 legal size rainbow trout in Willow and Rhea creeks which should give local anglers added encourage ment over the coming holiday weekend. All were planted in the upper areas of both streams. State police also reported that catflshlng In the sloughs of the Boardman area has been excel cent in regent days. The fish are much larger than usual and there have been lots of them caught. Mrs Alma Gilliam of Portland Is visiting this week with her sister, Mrs Charles Barlow. Centennial Year Historical Feature I V FIRST HEPPNER HIGH GRADUATES Here is the first class to ever receive diplomas from Heppner High school. They received them in 1893. The five graduates, who are now all dead, were, back row, Roy Glasscock, Jay Shipley, Frank Jones. Front row, Effie Fields (Rhea) and Ben Patterson. This picture is the prop, perry of Mrs Charlotte Scherzinger who graduated from Heppner High just 60 years ago last Tuesday. Also of interest is the list of those who composed the second graduating class from the school. The class of 1894 included Osmin Hager, Joe Hayes, Walter Van Duyn, Lutie Farnsworth, Maud Rush and John Horner. Memorial Day Picnic Crowd is Expected One of the year's most pop ular events, the Memorial day pioneer picnic, is expected to a gain attract one of its largest crowds, Mrs Sam Turner, sec retary, said today. The affair will be held at the fair pavilion In Heppner starting with a potluck dinner at noon. Local residents as well as for mer residents and visitors are Invited to attend the picnic and an interesting program has been arranged for the afternoon. For mer county judge Garnet Barratt will be the guest speaker and he will talk on Morrow county history in keeping with the state's Centennial. Musical selec tions will be offered by a Hepp ner high school girls trio com posed of Judy Cochell, Fern Al bert and Janice Martin. Another vocalist will be Gordon Pratt, Heppner high school principal. The picnic committee has an nounced that the affair Is plan ned as a potluck dinner, but that it will provide meat, rolls, Ice cream and coffee. Inasmuch as there is no dues to the organi zation, money for the food has been contributed by local resi dents. The annual picnic, which was started about five years ago, has attracted an increasing number of persons each year. Last year Heppner Pool To Open on June 8 The Heppner swimming pool will open on Monday, June 8, if this spring's fickle weather finally decides to warm up enough to make it worth while, it was revealed this week. Regular swimming hours will be from 1 to 5 and 6 to 8 o'clock daily except Monday. Tom Hughes will again be life guard and swimming instructor. Season tickets will be a vailable and the city has asked that these be purchased at the city hall prior to the opening of the pool. The prices will be $9 for adult, $6 for high school students and $4 for grade school students. Individual swim charg es will be 50 cents for adults, 25 cents for high school and 15 cents for grade school students. Swimming lessons will start later in June. WATER TO BE OFF The Heppner water depart ment has announced that all city water will be shut off be tween 5 and 7am Saturday, May 30 to allow for some valve changes in the supply line. about 180 persons attended. The committee which handles the arrangements Is composed of Karl Miller, chairman, Mrs Claud White, vice chairman, and Mrs Sam Turner, secretary. It Is open to the public. City Awards Water Pipe and Laying Contracts The Heppner city council Mon day night awarded contracts for the purchase of six miles of steel pipe and the laying of the pipe. The contracts went to Beall Pipe and Tank Corp of Portland to supply the pipe, and to Everett Den Herder of Medford for the laying. Den Herder's bid, which wag the lowest of 14 bidders, was $38,564.45 for the laying of the entire pipeline project, and sub sequent checking of all bids by the city's engineers confirmed the original belief of the council that his bid was the best. The council discussed at length the pipe bid before deciding to accept a higher priced pipe than was originally planned. Beall Pipe and Tank, and all other bidders, submitted bids on as phalt coated and coal tar coated pipe and the council Monday ap proved the purchase of the coal tar coated pipe at a cost of about $15,000 more than the as phalt coated pipe. The engineers explained that the coal tar coating could norm ally be expected to outlast the asphalt coated pipe by as much as 20 or more years The cost of the pipe finally decided upon will be $85,218.71. Beall's bid for supplying asphalt coated pipe was $69,939.06. The council al30 authorized a revision of the size couplings for the line which resulted In a sav ing of $2,233.95. The total cost of the renewal of the six miles of pipeline, and the other small amount of pipe replacement within the city lim its called for in the bids Is ex pected to run about $131,806.50. This is well below the $140,000 which the city has available from the sale of its water bond Issue. Den Herder told the council Monday that if the pipe is receiv ed on the job In time, he hopes to have the project completed by August 1, though his bid pro vision allowed another 30 days.
