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Dress-Up
Program Includes
Dunk Tank, Other
"Wet" Features
Saturday evening at 7:30 will
mark the opening of a two
weeks period of Dress-Up act
ivities in Heppner which will
culminate with the annual Mor
row County Fair and Rodeo, Aug
ust 26 to 30.
The Saturday night Dress-Up
parade and accompanying pro
gram is expected to be one of
the best in some time, according
to Rod Murray, chairman of the
special chamber of commerce
committee which will handle the
coronation and program. The
parade itself is under the spon
sorship of the Wranglers.
The big event of the evening
will be the coronation of Queen
Sharon Cutsforth and the presen
tation of the members of her
court, princesses Joan Moe, Rhea
Creek; Janice Martin, Lena; Judy
Cochell, Lexington; and Susan
Partlow, Boardman. The festiv
ities will be held immediately
following the parade, in which
the court will ride, on a plat
form in front of the Heppner Ho
tel. Another interesting part of the
program will be a tug of war,
"which might turn Into a water
fight, will be held on Main street
by two teams of chamber mem
bers, and other heavy-weight re
cruits from the area. To keep
the boys honest and to mark the
center line of the rope battle,
the fire department will provide
a stream of water from a fire
hose. There is a very good chance
that the losers, and maybe even
the winners, might get a little
wet.
Water is expected to play an
other part in the evening's pro
gram as the chamber committee
announced that a dunk tank will
again be in operation that night,
and for the remainder of the time
before the fair and rodeo. West
ern attire, and particularly the
special "Morrow County Fair and
Rodeo" neckties, will be consid
ered a vital part of all resident's
wearing apparel starting Satur
day, and the committee today
served notice that to keep out of
the dunk tank, residents better
have on a tie. The ties, by the
way are available at many local
stores for just $1.
The parade is to start promptly
at 7:30 it was announced, and
Wranglers officials asked that
members who will ride In the
parade gather at the north end
of the Main street in ample time
to get In line. At the conclusion
of the parade, Queen Sharon and
her court will be presented at the
platform where she will be
crowned by chamber president,
Robert Abrams.
The concluding event of the
evening will be the annual
Queen's dance to be held at the
fair pavilion starting at 10 o
clock where Queen Sharbn and
her court will again appear be
fore the public.
Parade Prizes To Be
Listed Next Week
The divisions for the grand ro
deo parade on Saturday morn
tntr August 29. will be similar to
other years and a complete prize
list will be published m next
wppk's Gazette Times.
The theme of the parade is to
be Centennial Days, in keeping
with the theme of the fair and
the merchants committee of the
Heppner-Morrow chamber of
commerce hopes this theme will
be kept in mind when the floats
are planned.
It is hoped that many organi
zations and Individuals will enter
in the parade and make this the
best one ever.
Mr and Mrs Ray Ayers and
family were picnicking at the
Columbia River on Sunday,
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Copies 10 Cents
Parade,
Queen Sharon Due
For Honors at Dance
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QUEEN SHARON
Miss Sharon Cutsforth, Queen
of the 1959 Morrow County Fair
and Rodeo will be honored at
her own Queen's dance Satur
day night at the fair pavilion
following her coronation during
the Dress-Up parade in down
town Heppner earlier In the
evening.
Little Change Due
In 1960 Soil Plan
With the exception of a few
changes the 1960 Conservation
Reserve program will be similar
to the 1959 program, whereby
a farmer agrees to take part or
all of his land out of production
and seed it to permanent vege
tative cover and in return re
ceives cost-shares on the seed
for the vegetative cover and an
annual rental per acre for the
contracted acres, it was announ
ced this week by the local ASC
office.
From August 24 to September
10, the office will accept requests
for basic farm rates. Applicat
ions for contract will then be
filed from September 14 through
September 24.
To encourage bidding in 1960
only applications offering land
at less than the basic farm rate
will be eligible. Farms that have
been idle the past two years
are not eligible. Land that is
cash rented may not be accepted
at a rate in excess of the actual
cash rent being paid.
Land that has changed owner
ship since December 31, 1956,
will not be eligible to designate
as Conservation Reserve, if 1960jments for the girls who have
is the first year of the contract.
unless the new ownership was
acquired by will or succession
as a result of the death of the
previous owner.
Land that has been operated
by a tenant in either 1958 or
1959 may only be placed under
contract if a tenant is shown as
sharing in the annual payment
on the contract. Should a tenant
leave and not be replaced after
the contract Is approved, the
tenants share will not be paid
to anyone.
Vegetative cover must be
maintained for the entire con
tract period.
Complete information on In
dividual farm contracts can be
obtained at the ASC office in
Heppner.
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CUTSFORTH
Queen Sharon, 20 is the
daughter of Mrs Don Hellker,
lone and O W Cutsforth of Lex
ington, and is a junior in phys
ical education, health and rec
reation at the University of Ore
gon. The five foot, five inch tall
brunette graduated from lone
high school in 1957, and that
same year was chosen as a prin
cess on the fair and rodeo court.
Two years before she was a
princess of the Arlington rodeo.
While in high school Sharon
served as editor of the school
paper as a junior and annual
editor in her senior year. At the
University of Oregon she is sec
retary of the Majors club. She
is also a member of the Wrang
lers and is a 3 year 4-H club
member.
As is befitting a rodeo queen,
her favorite hobby is horses and
she will ride her own 7 year
old American saddlebred mare,
Ga; but she also likes the piano
and has hopes that someday she
may teach dancing.
Like most of the rest of the
court, Queen Sharon has plenty
of Jobs to do during the sum
mer around her family s ranch
where she drives truck, helps
with the harvest, and even gets
in on some occasional fence teacher at Heppner high school,
building or anything else that He formerly taught in the Sil
needs doing. verton schools and with his hir-
Sharon has two older sisters ing. all teaching positions in the
who also have served on the
fair and rodeo court. They are
Faye Olsen, who was a princess
In 1949; and Vesta Kilkenny,
1948.
Sharon's mother is serving as
chaperon for the 1959 court, and
her step-father, Don Hellker has
spent much time helping with
the horses and with arrange
made numerous trips to appear
at other rodeos, fairs, etc
throughout this section of the
state.
Johnny K's orchestra will pro
vide the music for the Queen's
dance which is slated to start
at 10 o'clock. Admission will be
$1.50 per person,
Mr and Mrs Edward Rice and
daughter of Seattle have been
visiting the last two weeks at
the home of his parents, Mr and
Mrs R B Rice.
Guests last week at the home
of Mr and Mrs James Mallon
were her mother, Mrs G H Van
Horn of Vale, her sister, Mrs
Bud Down of La Grande and
her two nephews, Bob and Bill
Harshman of Boise.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursdoy, August 13, 1959
Schools to Open
In County Sept 8;
Teachers Hired
All Morrow county schools will
open Tuesday, September 8,
though pre-reglstration and
teacher reporting is scheduled
for several days earlier, it was
decided Monday night at the reg
ular meeting ., of the Morrow
county school board.
A full day of classes is plan
ned on the opening day, but
pre-registration of students is
set for Thursday morning, Sept
3, and teachers are to report on
September 1. The year's schedule
which was approved by the
board, calls for 179 days of class
es during the year with vaca
tions scheduled on Nov 26 and
27 for Thanksgiving; Dec 23 to
Jan 4 for Christmas and March
16 to 18 for spring vacation.
In other action the board es
tablished the policy that students
attending all school activities
away from school shall be trans
ported in school buses rather
than in private cars. This will
Include football and basketball
games, music festivals and sim
ilar events.
' The board again continued ac
ceptance of the appraisal re
port on all property in the coun
ty due to several technical ques
tions which remained unanswer
ed The Heppner Civic League was
granted use of the George house
on the Heppner school grounds
for use as a kindergarten class
room. The kindergarten class had
been held in the high school, but
all available rooms will be re
quired for the coming year..
Suit Seen Possible
Robert Abrams, Heppner at
torney and legal representative
for the board, was authorized to
serve as agent for the board
and to accept service for any le
gal action which may be forth
coming in the near future. It Is
understood that several residents
of Hardman, Lexington and
Boardman have retained an at
torney and plan to file suit to
prevent announced changes in
school operation in the three
towns. The suit had not been
filed at the time of the Monday
meeting but Abrams told the
board that he understoood that
It soon would be,
The group accepted' bids for
gasoline, service, tires, etc. for
the county's school buses, but
delayed in awarding any con
tracts until the bids could be
studied.
A contract was approved for
John Copeland to be English
.county are now rilled.
Superintendent Robert Van
Houte recently announced that
there will be 21 new teachers In
the county system this year. The
new ones at Heppner high school
Include Clarence Johnson, librar
ian, formerly Heppner grade
school principal; Lucille Weath-
erford, mathematics, formerly at
Lexington; and Mr Copeland.
Five new teachers have been
hired for the Heppner grade
school. They are Shirley Mallon,
1st grade; Clifford Williams and
his wife, Kellogg, Idaho. 7th
grades, Frieda Slocum, former
ly at the closed Hardman school,
7th grade; Hilliard Brown, Sen
eca, new principal, and his wife
Lucille will teach a 1st grade.
Lexington grade school, three
new teachers: Fern Bennell, Sen
eca, principal and 1st grade; Ro
berta Davis, La Grande, 3rd
grade; Donald Knlghten, Moro,
2nd grade.
lone grade school, four new:
Donald Clark, Heppner. 5th
grade; Jack Loyd, Heppner, 6th
grade; James Monroe, Bruno,
Idaho, 7th grade; Don Olmscheld,
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76th Year, 'Number 23
Saturday
Relief Fund For
Roscburg Residents
Started by C of C
A special committee was nam
ed Monday by the chamber of
commerce to accept donations for
relief of blasted or burned out
residents of Roseburg. Chairman
of the committee is Frank Turn
er and he will be assisted by
W C Collins.
Turner said today that dona
tions will be accepted by either
member of the committee or they
can be made directly to the Red
Cross and marked for a special
Roseburg relief fund.
Shipping Slowdown
Causing Grain
Storage Pinch
A shortage of barges and
freight cars was beginning to
pinch storage facilities of the
Morrow County Grain Growers
this week, but Al Lamb, MCGG
manager said Wednesday if one
barge and a few more cars are
forthcoming late this week, prob
ably no wheat will have to go
on the ground.
Harvest is slowing down In
most of the county, though all
stations of the MCGG except
North Lexington are still receiv
Ing grain. The pinch is being
felt worst at the Ruggs elevator
which is now receiving the bulk
of the harvest. Still about 50,000
bushels a day are being deliver
ed to the co-op, Lamb said, and
from all appearances it will re
ceive a total of about 3,000,000
bushels of the county's 1959 crop.
This will equal or better last
year's record crop and Lamb said
that this year's wheat will aver
age 35 bushels to the acre and
barley will go over a ton to the
acre.
At the present time the Grain
Growers is trucking from Ruggs
to Heppner, and it is hoped that
shipping will be able to keep a-
head of harvesting. Lamb said
that this area has had very little
storage problem in comparison
with Eastern Washington, where
it Is reported that already over
1,000,000 bushels are on the
ground.
Contrast of Old
And New to be
Style foevue Theme
A comparison of centennial
fashions and modern fashions
will be the theme of the 4-H
style revue to be held on the
Thursday evening of the Morrow
county fair to be held at Hepp
ner, August 27-29, according to
Miss Esther Kirmis, Morrow
county extension agent.
The style revue committee
consisting of Mrs Andy Van
Schoiack and Mrs Merritt Gray,
Hennner: and Mrs Loren Leath-
ers, lone; met at the home oi
Mrs Leathers last Friday to lay
plans for the 4-H fashion show.
In keeping with the fair theme,
"Centennial Days", the commit
tee of 4-H leaders and Miss
Esther Kirmis decided on the
comparison of old and new fash
ions as a vehicle to present tne
4-H clothing projects of the year.
Over 70 4 11 girls enrolled in
clothing are eligible to partlcl
Date In this showing. Twenty
five 4-H members, enrolled in
other 4-H home economics pro
jects, have been asked to appear
in centennial costume to con
trast the styles.
A mountain and wheat field
mural, sketched by Mrs Leathers,
will provide the backdrop for the
stage. A visit by the Jewish ped
dler to the pioneer woman, out
side her log cabin home will
set the stage for the presentation
of styles of yesteryear and to
day. Musical numbers will be add
ed to make the revue an en
joyable evening's entertainment
Three Communities
Ask That Classes be
Retained as
Three separate suits were filed Just before noon today in
the Morrow county circuit court which seek to prevent the
Morrow county school board from making' planned changes
In the operation of three of the county's schools for the coming
year.
Groupg of residents of Boardman, Lexington and Hardman
ask In their legal actions that (1) the school board be restrained
from transferring students of the 5th, Gth. 7th and 8th grades
at Lexington to Heppner, lone or any other city lor their edu
cation; (2) the board be restrained from sending the 7th and
8th giade students of Boardman to the Irrigon school; and, (3)
the board be restrained from transferring the students of grades
one through 8 at Hardman to the Heppner grade school
The suits were filed for the three groups of plaintiffs by the
law firm of Kilkenny and Fabre and John Kottkamp. Pendleton.
The suits, all of which arei
based on the same points of
law, charge that on the forma
tion of the Morrow county ad
ministrative school district,
proper and lawful notices of
hearing of said preliminary com-1
prehensive reorganization plan
were not given; that no election
was ever held to determine
whether the legal voters of the
county desired the county to be
formed into an administrative
district; that no election was
ever held to determine if voters
of the county desired to discon
tinue the county unit school sys
tem; and that Oregon laws
which provide for the formation
of an administrative school dis
trict without a vote of the
people are In violation of
due process of law therefore no
valid legal administrative school
district was ever formed.
The suits also claim that the
Morrow county united school dis
trict has never been discontinued
in compliance with the law, so
remains in effect, and that the
board therefore has no right nor
authority to effect a transfer of
elementary school classes.
The suits ask that the school
board be prevented from making
the planned changes in schools
until the questions raised are
decided in court t
Plaintiffs Named
Eight residents of Lexington,
five of Boardman and six of
Hardman are listed as the plain
tiffs in the actions.
They are, at Lexington: Eileen
Padberg, Homer Hughes, Gladys
Van Winkle, June Davidson, Lor
ine Ledbetter, Bernard Doherty,
William J Van Winkle, Annetta
Klinger. The Boardman plaintiffs
are Dewey West Jr, Gene E Tay
lor, Roy J Partlow, Ralph Skoubo,
Earl McQuaw; and at Hardman,
Cecil McDanlel, Darold Hams,
John Graves, O H Leathers, J E
Hams, H C Leslie.
Defendants In the cases are
the members of the school board,
Fredrick Martin, Henry Ganten
bein, James Henderson, Delwln
'Nelson, Alvin Bunch, L E Dick,
Jr, and Lowell Gribble,
What effect the suits will have
on the operation of the county's
schools at the start of classes
early next month, if any, Is not
yet known. Attorney for the
school board, Robert Abrams,
was out of town Thursday and
could not be reached for a state
ment. lone Sets Meeting
To Name School
Advisory Committee
A meeting has been called for
Tuesday, August 25 at the lone
school cafetorlum to elect an ad
visory committee for the lone
schools.
Three members of the 5-mem-
ber committee will be named
from the lone area, and one each
from Cecil and Lexington areas
as students from both of those
communities will be attending
the lone schools next year. Par
ents In all of these communities
who will have students in the
lone schools are urged to attend
the meeting.
EXAMINER COMING
A drivers license examiner will
be on duty In Heppner Tuesday,
Aug 25 at the court house from
9:30 a m to 3:30 p m.
WEATHER
HI Low Prec.
Thursday 77 46
Friday 85 50
Saturday 91 53
Sunday 90 52
Monday 89 53
Tuesday 88 51
Wednesday 82 50 .20
Rainfall for the week .02; for
August .02; for the year 7.64
Inches.
in Past
Contract for New
Museum-Library
Goes to McCormack
The McCormack Construction
Company of Tendleton this week
was awarded a contract for the
construction of the Morrow coun
ty museum and Heppner library
building. McCormack's low bid
was for $58,651.
Case Furniture Co of Heppner
was awarded a separate contract
for heating and ventilating on
a bid of $6,176.48.
The building, which is the gift
of Mrs Harry Duvall as a mem
orial to her late husband, will
be built on the south end of
the Heppner city park. Its con
struction is being handled by the
Morrow county museum commis
sion. The 54 by 72 foot building will
be constructed of concrete tile
with a brick veneer finish, the
south portion to be occupied by
the museum and the north half
by the library. It will be operated
jointly by the City of Heppner
and the county. '
Work will start on the build
ing probably within about two
weeks and the contract calls for
completion by April 15, 1960.
Furnishings for the building will
be obtained by subscription.
In all eight bids for the con
struction were received by the
commission, the highest being
only $65,000.
The commission was formed
late last year to accept Mrs Du
vall's donation and the group
has been working this year on
the preparation of plans for the
structure. W II Gilmore, Portland
is the architect. Members of the
commission are Mrs Duvall,
chairman; O W Cutsforth, vice
chairman; Mrs Ralph Thompson,
secretary, J O Turner, treasurer;
Herb Hynd, Mrs Omar Rletmann
and Mrs Ted Smith.
Jeep Accident
Injures Claude Cox
Claude cox, owner or ine Mor
row County Creamery, suffered
a broken hip Monday afternoon
when the Jeep in which he and
Jeff Walker were riding over
turned on a mountain road a
bout four miles above Scrlts
meters mill on upper Rhea creek.
The accident occured about
3:30 Monday afternoon, but it
was nearly 9:30 that evening be
fore Mr Cox was admitted to the
hospital for treatment. Walker,
who suffered some slight in
juries, got Cox out of the wreck
ed Jeep and covered him with
a blanket then hiked about four
miles to his camp to get his own
Jeep and drive down Rhea creek
to phone for help.
Physicians reported today that
he was improving but that he
would be confined to the hos
pital for several weeks.
Special Classes
On Hunter's Safety
Open to Youths
Heppner area youngsters who
wish to join classes in hunter's
safety may do so by contacting
either Glen Ward or Carl Mc
Danlel, Heppner. There Is no
charge for the classes and they
will be held whenever conven
ient with the youngsters.
The two men are Joining in
the state game commission's pro
gram of teaching safety, and Mc
Danlel said they are currently
teaching safety with firearms.
Bill Pettyjohn and Ray Hughes
left Monday for Portland where
they will leave for Coast Guard
training.