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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 .
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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