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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1959)
1 3RARy IJ OF o L 5 E V F a - Princess Janice to Be Feted at Dance r Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 6, 1959 G AZETTE-Tl M ES A Copies 10 Cents 76th Year Number 22 I n M n V r V . PRINCESS JANICE MARTIN The fourth princess dance in the annual series of dances pre ceeding the fair and rodeo will be held Saturday night at the fair pavilion in Heppner honor ing Princess Janice Martin, rep resentative of the Lena commun ity on the 1959 royal court. Princess Janice, 18, is the dau ghter of Mr and Mrs Randall Martin, Butter creek ranchers. She Is 5 feet, 66 Inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and has light brown hair. She graduated this spring from Heppner high school as valedictorian of her class and she was extremely active In school functions. Among her many activities she was editor of the Hehisch; state reporter for the Future Business Leaders of America. She Is a 10-year 4-H club member and is a past worthy advisor of the Rainbow SUPERINTENDENTS AND RODEO HORSE Fred Mankin superintendent of the Morrow County Fair and Ro deo horse show states that most of the committee members have been selected to assist with the show on Friday, August 28 at the fair and rodeo grounds. The show, which is sponsored by the Wranglers riding club, will start with the halter classes at' 9:00 A M and the performance classes at 1:15 P M. Entries must be made to Fred Mankin before 8:00 P M Wed nesday, August 26. Any Morrow WEATHER Hi Thursday 82 Friday 89 Saturday 94 , Sunday 92 Monday 85 Tuesday 85 Wednesday 76 Rainfall for the week, for July .11; for August, for the year 7.62 Inches. Low 49 54 68 53 45 49 45 none; none; A Centennial Year Historical Feature . 5 " ninBinwTTrrr i ' HOW MANY OLD TIMERS REMEMBER when this constituted the student body of Heppner high school? This picture was taken in front of the old school in 1899 and is the property of Katie Minert of Heppner. The group includes, first row left to right Fannie Woodward. Minnie Irwin, Ralph Thompson, Katie Minert Edna Mallory, Eva Bartholomew, Will Dutton, Ida Howard, Min nie Phillips, Ralph Bishop, Nettie Shelly, Gus.ie Mallory, George Vincent Second row, Professor Howard George Hughes, Glen Willingham, Pearl Basey, Iva Blake, Grace Hager, Mary Lazer, Sadie Mr-rvrrv Bessie Edwards, Martin Anderson. Third row. Miss Bolsiger, teacher, Charles Connor, Mvra Yeager, Birdie Gilliam, Ayers, Treasa Fletcher. Fourth or Paul Maris, Matt Hughes. A Girls. She is an excellent seam stress and is now making her own clothes for this fall when she plans to enter Oregon State College to major in home econ omics. Princess Janice will be seen at the rodeo and fair functions on Smokey, her own 8 year old char coal gelding. During the summer the prin cess Janice helps on her father's ranch driving wheat truck and other jobs. She is also helping an IFYE student to get acquain ted with farming methods on the ranch. sponsored by the fair board, willdid to Joil? the city, they feature the music of Johnny K's;"""111 1 orchestra from Pasco and danc ing will be from 10 until 2 o'clock. Admission will be $1.50 per person. NAMED FOR FAIR SHOW DIVISIONS county resident may enter a horse in this show that has been owned and kept in Morrow . county at least 30 davs before the show. Chairmen for class A the halter and conformation class are: Jer ry Dougherty, colts foaled In 1959; Don Evans, yearlings foal ed in 1958; Harry Dinges, two be tested (oday. A small amount year olds foaled in 1957; Marion of cieanup work remains to be Finch stallions, 3 years and over; done but tnat tne pipe can De Cornett Green, maris, three years cutover into use as soon as the or over; Al Fetsch, geldings, testing and chlorination is corn three years and over; Ralph pieted. Beamer, mare ana produce; neu Beamer, mare and nursing colt; Wm Smethurst, get of sire; John Eubanks and Wayne Martin, Shetland ponies up to and in cluding 44 Inches and other ponies over 44 inches and under 50 inches. Fred Mankin states that reg ulations on junior equitation, western pleasure horse, reining, cowcutting and junior calf rop ing have some changes from last (Continued on Page 8) Ona Gilliam, Trank Rood, Essie row, (standing high) Oscar Borg, Wagon Sewer System for City Use Only, Council States The Heppner city council Mon day night reiterated its previous ly announced stand that It will not furnish sewer service to res idents outside the city limits. In other words, if they want to get on the city sewers they must come inside the city limits. The action was taken follow ing a request from several resi dents of Barratt's addition along the Hinton creek road asking if they could hook on to the sewer system and what the cost would be. The council explained that the residents of the city are paying, both bv taxes and a sewer charge, for the cost of the sewer system and the sewage disposal plant, and that It would be un fair to allow outside use of these expensive facilities except on an equal basis. An estimate has been made by the city's engin eers of the cost of a sewer con nection for the Hinton creek area and this was placed at about $11,000 for the total project ex cept for the Individual hookons. Even if the residents of the area the installation, the same as any other new development now within the city. In other business the council heard complaints that a few resi dents were burning garbage and members pointed out that it is contrary to city ordinance to burn garbage at any time in any kind of an outside burner. The ordi nance specifies that only grass, leaves and similar cuttings can iDe ournea, ana men oniy oy permit. Everett Den Herder, pipeline contractor, reported to the coun cil that his firm has completed the laying of the new water line on Willow creek and that it will Fjve building permits totaling $5,650 were approved by the council. They were granted to Tom Nelson, alternations and re pair, $500; H D McCurdy, Jr. alterations, $1500; Frank Adkins, alterations, $2000; Leonard Schwarz, alterations, $150; James Lovgren, new structure, $150. Mr and Mrs John Hartman and Cheryl and Tony were at Leh man Springs for a short vacat ion trip over the weekend. 'Wl 8 Leezer, Ralph Swinburne, Mabel Curtis Rhea Charles Horner, Owen Train Attracts Crowd To Boardman NEW TELEPHONE SERVICE for week. Here Pacific Telephone while Mrs Harold Evans watches. Big Rural Area Gets Dial Phones Telephone men were install ing the last phones in Pacific Telephone's large rural project south of Heppner last week, ac cording to manager Dallas Short. W L Boyer, plant service fore man for the company at Hermis ton has been supervising the in stallation work. His regular crews have been assisted by tele phone men from -other parts of il A X - me siaie. Cost of the rural telephone im provement project was estimated at $113,500. The new facilities will replace farmer line service which had served the area. The first phones of the pro- ect were installed on JUiy 11. Subscribers have been changed to dial service as their pnones were Installed. Magneto tele phones were discontinued with the changeover. Long distance assistance calls area now handled by the Pacific Telephone operators In Pendle ton instead of Arlington as was the case prior to the change. The resources of the telephone company's construction forces were put to the test by the im provement program. More tnan 500 pounds of blasting powder were used to assist with the dig eine of holes for the phone poles. A farmer's horse was hired to help the men pull long strands of wire into places where It was not possible to use trucks. Frank E Parker of Heppner supplied the horse. The nroiect involved the plac ing of 54,000 feet of aerial cable, 320 poles, 180 anchors, 170 miles of aerial wire and maKing ap proximately 315 contacts on REA power poles. Richards Takes Conservation Post . Ralnh Richards arrived this week to assume duties as conser vatlonist for the Heppner Soil Conservation District. He re places Tom Wilson, who left re cently to take a similar post in Idaho. Richards come here from June- ment on the job. tion City where he served in a The only other field fire re similar capacity for two years, ported during the past week Prior to that he had been in the burned about 40 acres of wheat soil service for 18 years at Bell-; and a couple of hundred acres ingham, Washington. He was of stubble on the Ted Palmateer born in south-eastern Idaho, and John Eubanks ranches near graduated at Utah State Agri - cultural College and spent two years at Moro, Oregon. Mr and Mrs Richards have three children, two sons in col lege and one girl who is a soph omore in high school. His family will move here about the end of this month. Craig Sumner, son of Mr and Mrs Tom Sumner of Arlington, is visiting at the home of his aunt and uncle, Mr and Mrs Jim Lovgren. Jack Loyd was home for the weekend from La Grande where he Is attending summer school at Eastern Oregon College. subscribers in the Hardman-Heppner area went into service this installer John Ray explains the Where, Oh Where Did G-T's Cuts Go? One of the main features of this week's Gazette-Times was to be a picture series of the Wagon Train's stop at Boardman, the arrest for horse stealing, the trial, etc.. but the pictures will have to wait until next week. Somewhere between the engravers and the Gazette Times all the cuts of this interesting event got lost They should have been In our hands by press time, but as yet they have failed to show up. They'll be run next week, anyway, even if they will be a little behind times. Range Land, Wheat Go Up in Flames During Past Week A fire starting from a truck burned several acres of grain Wednesday after noon on the Dougherty and O'Brien ranches in Sand Hol low. The exact amount of loss is not yet known, but it was not thought to be great. One of the first major range fires to occur in the Heppner area started late last Thursday afternoon on Hinton creek, ap parently from a spark from a burner at the stud mill, and be fore being controlled travelled over the ridge to the Willow creek road. No wheat was burned, but sev eral hundred acres of range land belonging to Dallas Craber, Earl Blake and Ralph Thompson was blackened. The fire was fought for nearly two hours by the Morrow County Grain Growers, Heppner Fire De partment rural and Forest Ser vice trucks, a Gar Aviation plane, and many neighbors and towns people. The volunteer county fire control organization aided mater ially In getting men and equip- 1 Morgan. Mr and Mrs Philip Blakney and Mrs Elwyn Hughes were in Portland Saturday to attend the gift show and returned Sunday. Mark and Philip Blakney accom panied them to Portland and were met Sunday by their grand mother, Mrs Doris Lehman who took them to Paulsbo, Washing ton for a visit at her home. Mr and Mrs W A Donnelly and Mr and Mrs Bill Rauchfess of Millbrae, California were house guests last weekend at the home of Mr and Mrs J C Sumner. Mrs Donnelly is the sister of Mrs Sumner. use of the phones to Judy Evans Break Seen in Finding Boardman School Ownership A break appeared this week in the Impasse over who owns the Boardman school when letter was received by Robert Abrams, attorney for the Morrow county school district, from the Bureau of Reclamation at Boise, Idaho. It now appears that the Board man school district did have a right to the land on which the school stands. Survey work was completed and the plat was approved by the General Land office July 15, 1918 setting aside lot 6 of section 8 containing 10.08 acres for school purposes, according to the letter. The question of who owned the property and the buildings came up a couple of weeks ago when it was found that no right of entry papers were on file in Boardman. Ownership and right of entry are of particular im- portance due to the fact that the school location will be flooded by the backwater of the John Day dam. If no right of entry could be established, the federal government would own the land and the buildings and no pay ment could be expected by the school district. The buildings were erected on land belonging to the bureau of reclamation. No clear title was ever given the school district and the board was aavisea inai uieie was u way by which a patent could be. obtained for the 10.08 acres cov ered by the supplemental survey under which they were built ex cept by a special act of congress, and no such act was ever passed. However, In 1951 the bureau of reclamation revoted the with drawal returning the land to the bureau of land management with the expectation that It would be turned over to the City of Boardman. In 1952 the federal power act gave authority over the land to the federal power commission. Abrams emph a s 1 z e d that though the district does not now have ownership of the Boardman school plant its legal status Is now much better toward proving equity In the property. Benefit Baseball Game Set Sunday For Hospitalized Boy A special benefit baseball game between the Little League All-Stars and the Babe Ruth club will be played Sunday evening, Aug 9 at the rodeo grounds in Heppner. Proceeds from the game will go to Don Munkers, coach of one of the Little League teams, whose small son Eddie, Is a pat lent in Doernbecher hospital In Portland. Game time Is 7 P M and It Is being sponsored by the coaches and managers of the several teams. Horse Stealing rial, Dinner Highlight Program A mock trial for "hoss steal ing" and a huge feed of baked Columbia river steelhead and Morrow county watermelons were among the top features of a day long program Tuesday for the arrival in the county of the fam ed On-To-Oregon Wagon Train which is nearing the end of its four-month trip across the coun try. The festivities and the unusual dinner was viewed by more than 2500 persons during the day. The seven-wagon train was met near the Morrow-Umatilla county line by Morrow County Fair and Rodeo queen Sharon Cutsforth and her court who es corted the train on into Board- man. Just before they reached town, however, they were set upon by a posse led by sheriff J D Bauman, all attired in proper old-time attire and bran dishing some unusual "shooting irons" who arrested the trains scout, Gall Carnlne for horse stealing. The sheriff and his men had found an old white mare, which reportedly belonged to a Boardman citizen, tied to one of the wagons. After the train had completed its day's trip on to the school grounds at Boardman where they set up camp and the entire party was given lunch and took the afternoon to rest up. One mock trial was held dur ing the afternoon, at which time wagonmaster Tex Serpa was aquitted of any part in the horse stealing charge. This trial, and the arrest, as well as the train's arrival in Boardman was filmed by a Portland TV station for pre sentation on the station that night. In the evening the full-fledged trial was held with the properly handcuffed defendant being brought before "Judge" Buster Rands. District attorney Robert Abrams of Heppner was prose cuting attorney and Carnlne was defended by J O Turner, Heppner attorney. During the trial Car nine was "examined" by the sup posedly noted psychiatrist "Doc" Orville Cutsforth and found to be sane (some had questioned his sanity because of the looks of the 22 year old plug he was accused of stealing). (Edltor'a note: there was also an uncon firmed rumor making the rounds that the sway-backed mare had been spirited Into the train by the good "doctor" someplace back up the line, but this couldn't be verified). During the trial, which was held In the best traditions of the old westisrlght under a pre ,, LDnln. a v.th nrn-. u wltnesses tu'rned out to also be members of the jury who shortly found the defendant guilty and ordered him hanged. The order was carried out Im mediately, In effigy. Program Varied The short program, which wag MC'd by Boardman mayor, Joe Tatone, Included presentation of Mrs Klitz, oldest pioneer in north Morrow county; two vocal num bers by groups of students under the direction of Mrs LaVern Part low; songs and dances by Queen Sharon and her princesses; a short welcome by county Judge Oscar Peterson; and two presen tations to the Wagon Train by a group from Walla Walla, which city is also celebrating its lOOth birthday. Following the dinner, square dancing was enjoyed by the crowd on the school grounds. It was estimated that at least 1200 persons watched the pro gram. The dinner was served to be tween 800 and 900 persons and had been prepared by members of the Boardman Tilllcum club and other county groups and was served on the school grounds. The closeness of the Wagon Train camp to the highway at tracted hundreds of visitors who were traveling the road. Many registered during the dinner and well over a dozen states were represented. The train arrived In Boardman at 12:30 Tuesday, right on sched (Continued on Page 8)
