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150 School Musicians
Coming Friday for
All -Day Band Festival
More than 150 band students
. will gather In Heppner Friday
to take part in the second an
nual band festival sponsored by
. the Heppner high school music
department and the chamber of
. commerce.
' Students will come from Pilot
Rock, Riverside high school, Echo.
' lone and Heppner for the dav
long instruction sessions and
concert. During the afternoon
(4:15) the bands will parade In
downtown Heppner and the
chamber will present a trophy to
the best marching band.
Jewett G Kepley, supervisor of
music In the Pendleton schools
Electric Co-op
Schedules Annual
Meeting Saturday
The annual meeting of the
Columbia Basin Electric Cooper
ative will be held Saturday, Nov
14 at the fair pavilion in Hepp
ner with registration of mem
bers slated to start at 10:30 a m
and the business meeting at 1
p m.
Gus Norwood, Vancouver, Wn,
executive secretary of the North
west Public Power Association,
will be the guest speaker and
will talk on "Getting the most
out of the Columbia."
Following the registration per
iod, a film, "The Voice Beneath
the Sea," which shows the lay
ing the the Transatlantic tele
phone cable. This is expected to
be a very interesting film as
some of the scenes were taken
during a hurricane. A free lunch,
prepared by women of the Rhea
Creek Grange, will be served
starting at 11:30 and will be pre
ceded by muscial entertainment
by the Leonnig family of Hepp
ner. At the business meeting, three
directors are to be elected for
terms of three years. Those
whose terms have expired are
Walter Jaeger, Condon; Walter
Wright, Hardman and J I Han
na, Heppner., Mr Hanna is re
tiring from the board after hav
ing served continuously since
1947. Nominated to fill these
posts are Walter Jaeger, Walter
Wright, Dick Wilkinson, Hepp
ner; Virgil West, Blalock; and
Raymond French, Heppner.
Harley Young, co-op manager,
states that the treasurer's re
port will show that the company
has total assets of $2,091,534, of
which $1,732,914 Is invested in
utility plant, transmission and
distribution lines. A total of
$2,067,289 has been borrowed
from the Rural Electrification
Administration. Of this amount
$332,826 In principal and $191,446
in interest has been repaid.
Operating revenues for the
year ending June 1, 1959 show in
come from sales of electric en
ergy amounted to $184,326, which
is an increase of 7 percent over
the previous year. At present the
cooperative has 55 miles of 69,000
volt transmission line and 881
miles of distribution line in ser
vice. It serves 881 consumers in
Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler
counties and the average farm
consumption Is 1377 killowatt
hours at a cost of $23.84 per
month.
All members are urged to at
tend the meeting, and Young an
nounced that numerous electrical
appliances will be given away
as door prizes. There will also
be a grand prize.
Mr and Mrs Tress McCllntoclc
and son Gale of Monmouth, for
mer Heppner residents, were vis
iting here over the weekend.
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SOIL DISTRICT WINS PLAQUE John Wlghtman, center, holds
the Goodyear plaque presented to the Heppner Soil Conser
vation District last week at the state conservation service an
nual meeting In Salem. The local district won second place
in the state. With Mr Wightman, is another supervisor, Alvin
Wagenblast, left, and district conservationist Ralph Richards.
(GT Photo)
will be the guest conductor for
the massed concert to be presen
ted at the high school gym at
8 p m. He received his bachelor
of music and master of music
degrees from Illinois Wesleyan
University. His music experience
includes 12 years of professional
work in dance bands and theater
circuits; 11 years of teaching in
high schools where his bands
won many state and national
contests, and 12 years at Pen
dleton where his musicians have
been first division winners for
11 of those years.
Guest soloists for the concert
will be John Strall of Tacoma,
and Richard Hahn of Spokane.
Both are outstanding flutists and
are members of the band and
orchestra at Washington State
University where they are music
majors.
Arnold Melby, Heppner music
director and supervisor of the
festival said this week, "We are
fortunate to be able to obtain
these outstanding soloists and
our guest conductor."
Special instruction sessions
will be held during the day and
the public is invited to attend
the evening concert
William L McCaleb
Token by Death;
Rites Held Wednesday
William L McCaleb, 83 passed
away November 9 at Pioneer
Memorial hospital where he had
been a patient for several weeks.
He had been a resident of this
irea for many years.
William Lee McCaleb was born
in Frederick county, Virginia,
Oct 29, 1876. He came with his
family to San Francisco when
he was seven years old and soon
moved to Oswego, Ore. They
iater settled on a farm near
Monmouth. He graduated in 1894
from what Is now Oregon College
of Education In Monmouth.
As a young man he was en
gaged In business In Turner, Ore
and later came to Eastern Ore
gon for his health. He was en
gineer for the city power plant
in Condon before he became
roadmaster for that area and
also was connected with early-
day telephone Installation In Gil
liam, Morrow and Grant coun
ties.
Many of the roads still used
in Morrow county were surveyed
and constructed under the super
vision of Mr McCaleb while he
was roadmaster from 1919 to
1934.
In 1917 he married Mary Eliza
beth Morgan and to them was
born two sons, who survive, and
one daughter who died in in
fancy. Mrs McCaleb died in 1942.
In 1948 he was married to Mary
A Hyde who died in 1951.
Services were held Wednesday
at 2 p m at the Heppner Christian
church with the Rev Charles
Knox officiating.
Survivors are his sons William
L, Jr of Roseburg, and Omer K,
of Portland.
Interment was in Heppner Ma
sonic cemetery with Creswick
Mortuary In charge.
Barn Blaze Causes
Only Small Damage
Heppner firemen controlled a
set fire Friday evening in an
old barn on the Casebeer prop
erty on Linden Way before It
had caused more than about $60
damage.
Firemen answered the call at
about 6:15 p m and found a fire
burning in paper and straw on
the second floor of the barn. It
Is surmised by chief C A Ruggles
that it was set by youngsters.
Two other small fires had been
started, but had gone out before
causing any damage.
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GUEST CONDUCTOR J G Kep
ley. music supervisor for Pen'
dleton schools, will conduct
massed bands Friday at the
band festival.
Annual MCGG
Meeting Monday
The Morrow County Grain
Growers annual meeting will be
held Monday evening, Nov 16
at the fair pavilion in Heppner
with the dinner slated to start
at 6 p m, Al Lamb, co-op man
ager announces.
A business meeting will follow
the dinner with reports to be
given by various officers and the
manager. There will also be an
election to name two directors
and seven associate directors.
A short program of musical en
tertainment will be presented by
the Leonnig family of Heppner
and several door prizes of pack
ages of Morrow county fair 4-H
grand champion steer will be
given away. The top beef will
also be served at the dinner
which is to be put on by the
women of the Rhea Creek
Grange.
The annual report, to be given
at the meeting, will show that
the co-op handled a total of
4,115,000 bushels of grain dur
ing the 1958 harvest year. During
the same period the company
had a gross income of $3,300,000.
It operates elevators at seven lo
cations In the county In addit
ion to dock facilities at Pater
son Ferry on the Columbia.
The MCGG also recently an
nounced that It Is now redeem
ing all class A series 3 capital
reserve certificates which were
issued as patronage earnings on
the 1943 crop. This will amount
to $55,000 and is the second pa
tronage refund made this year.
This call will remain open until
December 31.
Public to Hear UN
Pilgrimage Delegates
Wednesday at IOOF
The public is Invited to hear
Miss Leslie Keller and Ted
Thornstad, the United Nations
Pilgrimage tour winners for this
year, who will give a report and
show pictures of their trip at
the Heppner Oddfellows hall
Wednesday, Nov 18 it 8 p m.
Some persons have heard the
reports, but previously time did
not permit the showing of their
pictures. There will also be time
for questions and answers.
The Pendleton and Morrow
county distiicts met in Pendle
ton Sunday to plan for the com
ing contest. Mrs Altha Kirk was
re-elected chairman and Pete
McMurtry was again named sec-
retaiy -treasurer.
"Will he U N bo able to solve
the problems of the wend?" was
chosen as the topic for tne essay
for the coming contest, and all
eligible students are urged to
participate. Contest details will
hi i.i the hands of all area school
inniiiciors in the rear future,
it was stated.
Heppner Soil
District Winner
Two directors of the Heppner
Soil Conservation District, John
Wightman, and Alvin Wagen
blast, and conservationist Ralph
Richards have returned from
Salem where they attended the
annual meeting of the Oregon
State Soil Conservation Service.
Heppner district, a second place
award Goodyear plaque for their
excellent work among Oregon
soil districts. Four years ago the
Heppner district won first place
award marks the first time any
j Oregon district has won two ex
cellence plaques.
The district was formed in 1941
I and Mr Wightman has been a
(Supervisor since the beginning.
While at the meeting, the men
tooK part in a soil Judging con
te?t and toured a small water
shed project on the Little Pud
ding river In Marion county.
Speakers Included Governor
Mark Hatfield, and Don Wil
Hams, Washington, D C chief
of the Soil Conservation Service.
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lone High
Win Way Into State Semifinals
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CARDINAL GRIDDERS Members of the lone high school football
squad who last week won the district title and will meet
Sisters Saturday in the state semifinals are No 40, Joe Palmer.
31. Ken Nelson. 29, Bob Akers, 33 Wayne Hams, 39, Steve Riley.
Bruce Rigby, assistant manager, (no number) 22, Melvln Mar
tin, 34, Gary Morgan, 38, Jim Martin, 27, Marvin Padberg. 26.
The Mt Vernon Bears threaten
ed to run the lone Cardinals
right off the fiPld In the opening
minutes of theto district 6 man
football playoff game Saturday
afternoon at Heppner, but the
Cardinals withstood the opening
shock and roared back to win
57 to 12 to clinch the district
3 championship.
The vlctorv moved the lone
squad into the state semi-finals
and they will meet Sisters next
Saturday at 2 p m on the Sisters
field.
In the Mt Vernon game. Jay
Smith, Bear quarterback, took
the opening kickoff and ran IS
vards for a touchdown to put
Mt Vernon in front 6 to 0. Jack
Crum came back for lone on
their second play to go 50 yards
for the tie'ng touchdown. Fran
cis Rea kicked the conversion
to put lone in front 8 to 6. After
an exchange of fumbles, Ken
SAGE Equipment
Being Installed
At Condon AFB
CONDON Burroughs Corpor
ation engineers and U S Air
Force technicians this week are
installing a huge data processing
system here, signalling the com
munity's entrance Into its role
In continental air defense.
The data processing equip
ment labeled ANFST-2, is the
chief building block for SAGE
(Semi-Automatlc Ground En
vironment), a nationwide radar
and data processing network.
The purpose of the Burroughs
built "T-2" Is to process enemy
and friendly target Information
picked up by radars In outlying
sites and transmit the data to
direction centers. There it Is co
ordinated with target lnforma
tlon from other sites to alert de
fense weapons.
The ANFST-2 is designed to
operate with all surveillance ra
dar sets used in continental air
defense. The equipment accepts
raw video data from all search
radar types now In field use.
The "T-2," duplexed for high
est reliability, defines the target
as picked up by radar to with
in a single small block of range,
and figures range deviation to a
minimum. The device figures
target azimuth with great accur
acy and also transmits target
height information.
The site will be maintained
by technicians of Burroughs
Corporation's military field ser
vice division who will make
thplr homes in nearbv commun.
'ities.
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Slaughters flflf Vernon To
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Delano scored for Mt Vernon on
a beautifully executed reverse
piay to again put the Bears in
front 12 to S.
At that point the Cardinals
took command and Crum, who
during tiie game made 238 yards
CAUSE OF MONDAY'S 'SHAKE'
REMAINS UNANSWERED
An earthauake? A sonic boom?
A blast from the bombing range?
Nobodv seems to know what
caused the earth to shake and
windows to rattle at 1:10 p m
Monday.
The disturbance caused a def
inite uo-an-down movement In
Heppner which shook windows
and dishes In various places and
even moved a chair several In
ches, but It was not accompanied
by any "boom" such as normally
is experienced when a Jet plane
breaks the sound barrier. Sev
eral persons In Lexington re
ported the same sensation, ad
dine that it was accompanied
by a rumble, but not a boom;
and at lone the janitor of the
lone school said the shock was
Census to Bring
Farm Statistics
Up to Date
The 1959 census of agriculture,
now under way In Morrow coun
ty, will bring up to date iarm
statistics last collected In 1954,
when the farm census revealed
the following facts:
The value of all products sold
in 1954 by farm operators was
$9,436,927.
The value of all crops sold
was $7,266,084 and included $7,
237,419 for field crops, $26,495
for vegetables, $1,774 for fruits
and nuts, and $396 for horti
cultural specialties.
The value of all livestock and
livestock products sold was $2,
101,343 and Included $136,801
for dairy products, $91,441 for
poultry and poultry products and
$1,823,101 for livestock and live
stock products.
The value of forest products
sold from the county's farms was
503,500.
Overnight guests Wednesday
at the Dick Meador home were
Mr and Mrs Merald Buhler of
Shoshone, Idaho. Mrs Meador
and dauehter TamI accompanied
them to Portland Thursday to
visit relatives.
Mr and Mrs Carl Spauldlng
and daughter Janice returned
Sunday from Eugene and Coos
Bay where they had been visit
ing for several days.
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John Johnson, 35 Roland Ekstrom, Tom Harris, manager (no
number), 28, John Swanson, 41, Greg Leyva, 25, Grant Rigby,
Jr, 23. Francis Rea, 30, Jack Crura, 36, Tom Martin. 32, Russell
Dolven. Not shown are Chuck Hudson, coach, and Don Olmscheld
assistant coach. (Photo by Grant Rigby)
on 11 cuirles, scored three quick
touchdowns on runs of 60, 16 and
32 yards. Rea picked up a turn
ble which lesulted from a jarring
tackle by Tom Martin, and ram
bled 22 yards for a score. Greg
Leyva streaked 8 yards to score
so great he thought the boiler
in the heating plant had blown
up. According to other reports,
there was more sound at lone.
At the time of the shake, there
were no jet planes visible In
the sky from Heppner, though
several persons In other sections
of the county reported that sev
eral planes were seen in the air
at about that time and that there
was a very loud boom about 1:10
or 1:15 over the Condon area.
As far as Is known, there was
no damage.
The Gazette-Times reported
the Incident to the Associated
Press office in Portland and a
check was to be made of the
University of Washington sies
mograph at Seattle. It apparently
did not register there.
Sonic booms are getting to be
common In the Morrow county
area, and according to reports,
even more of them can be expec
ted during the next few days be
cause of a special air force test
alert.
But, what caused Monday's
commotion remains a mystery.
Farm-City Banquet
Tickets go on Sale
Tickets went on sale this week
for the annual Farm-City Week
banquet which will be held Mon
day evening, Nov 23 at the Hepp
ner Legion hall. It Is sponsored
jointly by the Heppner-Morrow
County Chamber of Commerce
and the Heppner Soil Conser
vation District
The tickets may be obtained
from any director of the district
or at either Heppner bank.
A program of interest to both
farm and city dwellers has been
developed and a good speaker
13 promised.
WEATHER
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Thursday
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Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
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Rainfall for the week, none;
for Novtmber .08; for the year,
10.03 Inches.
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lone's last touchdown of the first
half behind a booming block by
Ken Nelson that took out two
Mt Vernon defenders. During this
surge Rea added two conversions
and the half ended with lone
in front 42 to 12.
lone took the kickoff at the
start of the second half and scor
ed In six plays. Wayne Hams
arched a long aerial to John
Swanson as he raced Into the
Mt Vernon end zone. The play
started on the Mt Vernon 28 yard
line and pass traveled 45 yards
in the air. Rea again kicked the
conversion and lone led 50 to 12.
The Cardinals stopped a Mt
Vernon drive on the lone 3 and
needing only 7 points to end the
game (which Is stopped when
any team Is 45 points In the
lead) went to work. Swanson
took a short pass from Hams and
went 35 yards, Crum carried to
18 and Tom Martin galloped for
14 more. Hams then fired a pass
over the middle on which Nelson
made a leaping catch for the
touchdown. Rea passed to Swan
son for the conversion to give
lone a 45 point lead and the
game.
A sizeable crowd watched the
contest which was played In
nearly perfect football weather.
Taxes Roll In;
Deadline Near
The sheriff's office this week
is receiving checks from three
of the county's largest taxpay
ers, the Union Pacific Railroad,
Morrow County Grain Growers
and Pacfllc Power and Light The
deadline for payment of taxes,
either to get the full discount,
or to make first quarter payment
is Monday, Nov 16.
The largest check came from
Union Taciflc which added $61,
355 to the county's coffers. The
company also paid $56,133 to
Gilliam and $286,408 to Umatilla
county. Its total property tax In
Oregon Is $1,362,663.
Morrow County Grain Growers
has sent Its check for $19,784.98,
to make It the third largest tax
payer In the county, and Pacific
Power and Light Is paying a bill
of $13,076.11, according to J R
Huffman, Heppner PP&L man
ager. PP&L will pay a total of
$2,626,015.42 In property taxes to
28 Oregon counties in which It
operates.
Sheriff Bauman announced
this week that inasmuch as the
usual tax-paying deadline of
Nov 15 falls on Sunday, pay.
ments will be accepted on Mon
day, Nov 16 without penalty.