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Monday on School
Board Members
County voter are reminded
that they will caln go to th
pulls next Monday, May 2 for
a apodal school election. tm
time It will lw for the purpose
of naming four directors to the
county school board, and the
selection of the various local
committee members.
There are no contests In three
ol the county rones. Irrlgon.
where Harvey Warner Is unop
posed; lone, where Fredrick
Martin is seeking reelection;
and Heppner, where Mrs Elaine
George Is unoposed. Voters In
the Lexington zone will have
a choice between D O Nelson,
the present board member, and
Don Turner, who also seeks the
position.
Each community will name its
own local committee members.
rolling places will be in the
school houses in each area, and
all four Heppner precincts will
vote at the multipurpose room of
the Heppner grade school. The
polls will be open from 2 until
8 pm.
Co-op Homemokers
Instruction Set for
Tuesday, Wednesday
Free classes In cake decorating
and textile painting are start
ing next week for all women
interested In this area, announ
ced Mrs L A McCabe, chairman
of the Lexington Oil Co-op com
mittee for the homemaker shows.
Starting at 9 a m Tuesday,
May 3 and continuing in two
hour classes throughout the two
days, instruction will be given
by Inez of California, originator
of a new kind of textile paints
and painting method. The class
es are to be held at the Lex
ington IOOF hall.
The schedule calls for:
May 3-
9-11 a m cake decorating, les
son one.
11 a m eat sack lunches.
12-2 p m textile painting, les
son one.
3-5 p m cake decorating, lesson
two.
7-9 p m textile painting, lesson
two.
May 4-
9-11 a m textile painting, les
son three.
11 a m eat sack lunches.
12-2 p m cake decorating, les
son three.
3-5 p m Tote bag lesson.
7-9 p m cake decorating, lesson
four.
Rural Fire District
Prepares Budget
Elsewhere in today's paper is
published the 1960-61 budget for
the Heppner rural fire district
which is set up this time as a
special one year levy to raise a
total of $6,000 to be used to
furnish fire protection for the
district
The special levy will be voted
on by residents of the district
living outside the city limits of
Heprner at the same time as the
Primary election May 20.
The fire district was formed
last year by a vote of the people,
but it could not levy a tax until
the coming year due to an un
gual interpretation of the law.
Tiie May 20 vote will provide
a 1 year levy only, then at the
peneral election in November,
the district will vote itself a reg
ular tax base which will apply
in subsequent years.
The budget of $6,000 will a
mount to a levy of less than
4 mills on valuation of well
over $1,500,000.
The district plans to contract
with the City of Heppner for fire
protection, and the city this week
rnened bids for a fire truck to
serve the area. During the past
-oar it has provided limited pro
tection with its own city equip
ment. SERVICES CHANGED
The time for both worship
service and Sunday school at
Valby Lutheran church wi.I tie
changed to 9 a m starting next
Sunday, it was announced t.as
week by Rev John Rydgren. ser
vices will also be held every
undy. rather than ever- other
week as in the past
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MondoT night at the Lexington Grange halL Tad Miller.
I960 CONSERVATIONISTS DO
'ABOUT FACE' IN PRACTICES
.. ..-til m Hn and Datlence is
.11 .u io nooiori'V This was the
remark made by Morrow coun
ty's Conservation Man of the
Year when visited last week by
a selection committee.
t..i rirovoe Hardman was
fnf thi honor because
snnicu -
of his grass seeding and stubble
mulch farming program In an
area that has been slow to a
dopt practices of this kind. He
is sold on the program and while
his practices have been adequate
At . . W mrA KoAn
In the lew years uie "avc
in effect, further refinements
may be necessary.
Buying the present ranch in
19"4, the Graves' found that too
much soil had been lost from
the cropland to trust to cnance
in keeping what was left. That
hrtan Dlannine
for the present practices which
are now proving practical in
keeping the son wiwie
longs.
First, was a program of grass
seeding on steep, badly eroded,
'draws" and irregular piei-ea.
.i.i of thp!r seedines
of Nomad alfalfa, Intermediate
wheatgrass, aita iesque, uium-
a tinihv nnrl meadow fox-
II1UJ1U lliiiwi'V
tail, used in various mixtures
to suit the condition, one would
that snmo of this
nevei n""" "
was almost beyond seeding with
hardly enougn son it-it iu es
tablish grass. Eighty acres of
cropland, 15 acres of range land
of bottom land,
on Rock Creek, which has been
previously drained, have been
seeded to grass legume mixtures.
These seedings are used to
provide winter hay supplies and
pasture for the 160 cattle run
on the ranch.
With water-erosion patterns
well established on the ranch
a trashy fallow program was
initiated in 1957, but not before
many other practices designed
to stop water erosion were tried,
unsuccessfully. Although neigh
bors advised against it, a second
hand tool bar, which Mr Graves
savs he bought "cneap sianeo.
him in tne presem biuuuic
mulch program on his 642 acres
of grain land. A skew treader
added later completed the only
expenditure in this changeover
to conservation wiuiu
The program consists of two
operations using spike points on
the tool bar, skew treading
when conditions are favorable,
and rod weeding as needed. The
rod weeding, which many times
i i.,irv,0H tn he the trouble-
15 dLLJaJiin-
some operation is done with
. . i .
"old ena-anven vct..o.
t- i,- 1 (tnnfl with a conven-
tional disc drill modified from
seven to ten incn spacing io get
Creswick Takes Over
Ambulance Service
Creswick Mortuary, owned and
operated by Mr and Mrs Oliver
Creswick, this week announce
the inclusion of the Creswick
Ambulance Service with the
company's business effective
Mav 1.
Creswicks will take over the
operation cf the Morrow county
ambulance which for the past
several vears has beon rperated
!y Pioneer Memorial hospital.
Thev will provide 21 hour service
and" Alex Thompson and Robert
Lowe will serve as rt-lief drivers.
All calls t-jT arr.bular.ee ser
vice af:er May 1 will be taken
at the Creswick Mortuary num
ber 6-9600.
Heppner, Oregon. Thursdoy, April 23, I960
PTTE-TH M
through straw normally pro
duced in an 18 men raimau.
Tho vprsatilltv of the winner
In chnwn In adaDtine machinery
to establish these conservation
practices. In converting tne aisc
Hriti tr wider snaclnc all work
was done In the home shop
which Is used every aay.
Tnhn nrimits that this conver-
cin war made bv the "trial and
error" method and that it in
volved many trips to tne snop
...ith drill ononer attachments
for changes to go through straw.
Th ranch chosen as winner
consists of 3200 acres of most
of which Is used for the quality
herd of commercial Herefords
and a small herd of registerea
Shorthorns. The livestock oper
ation won for the uraves- me
title Cattleman of the Year in
1957.
ATakinf? the selection -for this
annual Morrow County Wheat
growers Association project were
Tad Miller, Heppner; Raymond
Lundell, and Bod jepsen, wne.
thA annual SDrinn
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meeting of this assoclatloin held
at tha Lexington Grange hall on
April 25th, Emco, Inc. paid tri
bute to the conservation worn
hin(T done bv the Graves by
awarding them with the tradit
ional plaque.
GOP Majority in
County Narrowed
TJot.nhiipnns still hold an edee
In registered voters in Morrow
county, but their majority is
gradually narrowed by Demo
nmia final registration figures
compiled last week by Sadie
Parrish, county cierK, snow.
The total registration of per
tone A p-ihle to vote in the May
20 Primary election is 2199, the
lowest in many years, ana oi
these 1,148 are Republicans,
1,036 Democrats and 15 non
partisan. The Democrats hold a
majority in only two precincts
in the county.
In 1958 registration figures
were 1210 Republicans, 987 Dem
ocrats and 13 non-partisans; ana
in 1956 there were 1267 GOP's,
935 Demos and 25 listed as non
partisan.
County Bond Sales
Show Big Jump
"During the first quarter of
1960, residents of this county
purchased a total of $54,081
worth of U S Savings Bonds",
county chairman Jack Bedford
said here today. "March sales
were $11,107. This is one of 17
Oregon counties where both fig
ures were ahead of the 1959
figures. March 1959 figures were
only $10,906.
"E and H sales for the whole
state for March amounted to
$3,074,295, 9.0 ahead of last
year. State sales for the first
quarter improved, too."
In discussing how the local
record of continued investment
in savings bonds is benefiting
the community, the chairman
fintrd that 'Yesterday's savings
are bf-ins spent for today's
want; today's savings will be
stimulating the economy to
jrr.orrcw. So we volunteers in the
treasury's bond program like to
av. The time to save and en-
j courage others to save, is always
NOW"'.
77th Year, Number 8
Local Science
Fair Entry Wins
Gold Medal Award
Pan Wardwell. Hfppru-r Hth
grade ntudent. ! rcelvid on of
the "6 cold tnedil wrd at
the Northwest Selene Fair In
Portland this week. HI entry
was cloud chamber which
showed th formation of clouds
and the cause of rainfall.
Dan won a top award at the
Heppner Science Fair alut three
weeks ago, and entered his dis
play In the district fair the fol
lowing week in Pendleton where
It received a vtind top place
certificate. This entitled him to
enter hU exhibit at the Portland
showing which will continue
Mav 6. The exhibits are
on display at the Oregon
Museum of Science ana inaustry.
Seventy-six gold medals and
122 sliver medals were awarded
. th final ludctnu. Both a-
wards signify outstanding work
In the sciences.
The gold medal winners, who
represent nearly 80,000 students
local science fairs
throughout the area this year,
will be guests or nonor at ine
annual science awards dinner
to be held May 28 at Portland
State College. At this time win
ners will be given OMSI trophies
whlrh svmbollze outstanding
work In scientific fields.
Morrow County OEA
Officers Installed
At Heppner Banquet
The Morrow County Oregon
Education Assn held the final
dinner meeting of the year Mon
day evenins. April 18 at the caf
eteria at the ' Heppner high
school.
Officers installed were Ronald
Black, Boardman. president; Joe
Hausler, lone, first vice presi
dent; Juanita Carmlchael, Lex
tncton. second vice president;
Helen Stitzel, Irrlgon, secretary
and Katherlne Hoskins, Heppner,
treasurer. Velva Bechdolt is the
outgoing president.
Two delegates to tne jsauonai
Education Assn' conference to be
held In Los Angeles in June were
elected. Robert Van Houte,
county superintendent, was
named NEA delegate and Ann
Reynolds, lone, was chosen del
egate to the department of class
room teachers.
Following- the banquet, which
was prepared and served by the
Heppner P-TA, a mm oi me
Fairview Home at Salem was
shown.
The program consisted oi two
,Yihnr hv a trio. Pam Cochell,
Ginny Lou Turner and Virginia
Moore. They sang "I Passed by
Your Window" and "Moments
to Remember." Sharon Bunch
sang 'Trees" and there were
three numbers by the Heppner
owpnth grade square dancers,
Barbara Blake, Dennis Warren,
Bruce Spencer, Pat Van winKie,
Karen McCurdy, Sherrill Mc
Donald, Tanna Valentine and
Ken Evans.
County Welfare
Medical Advisory
Committee Named
A county welfare medical ad
visory committee, composed of
county medical vendors, has
been appointed by the Morrow
county Public Welfare Commis
sion, according to Oscar Peter
son, chairman and county Judge.
Tho mpmbers Include Doctors
Harold S Huber, Darrel Martin,
David Baylink. C M Wagner, W
H Wolff, A D McMurdo, L D
Tibbies, Robert Pfelffer and Ed
ward K Schaffltz; pharmacists
Phil Blakney and Rod Murray;
Harry Bongers, hospital admin
istrator, and Faye Munkers, rep
resentative of the county public
welfare commission.
The first meeting is scheduled
for 8 pm. May 5 at the board
room of the Heppner branch of
the Bank of Eastern Oregon with
Mis Munkers as temporary
chairman.
EXAMINER COMING
A drivers license examiner will
be on duty in Heppner at the
court house Tuesday. May 3 from
9:30 a m to 3:30 p m.
Gen Pierc went to Portland
Sunday on business and return
ed to Heppner on Monday.
In Bombing tage
Art-!h-r hur.il tl,rd
lt at wn-k in the M,
Cfttlnj," the Ftsli-fl Mrrnmrnl
to rtleaw th Biiardman B'm
blrj: Uir.ge (. IndiuirU! u.
uh'ii the U1 emrftfetu-y U-ard
tri-! t rerr fU2. tit i.
lnlmre the Navy fr any rv
l-nM in mnc H equipment
fn-m the rn; to the new ulte
Jtj u'.itheaotem Oregon.
Through the rffort f Gover
nor Hatfield, the tt depart
ment of planning and develop
ment. nl other, the ijuvetn
ment ha agreed to t vhainre
the aor Boardman ranj:
fr an equal amount of land
In Northern Lake county in the
Wae.tntlr area. Th emergency
fund appropriation appears to
tn inr f the final step In com
p!i ting th transfer.
Rural Fire Truck
Bids Are Opened
The lletumer city council Mon
day night opened bids for a new
Ha A fire numpcr truck which
will be designed to serve the
Heppner rural fire district.
Rids were received from three
Portland area fire apparatus
firms and varied from $19,723
to 523.000. The specifications
called for a large 4 wheel drive
tmrk with 750 eallon per minute
pump, at least a 750 gallon water
tank, two high pressure nose
reels. 1300 feet of fire hose and
much other equipment. The bids
wnre turned over to the fire com
mittee for study and the council
Is expected to make the award
at its regular meeting next Mon
day night.
Delivery of the truck, wnicn
U honed for within 90 to 120
days, will give the Heppner fire
dnnartment a niece of equipment
specifically designed to fight
fires In the rural areas wncre
it Is frequently necessary to
pump while the truck Is in mo
tion it will also add materially
to the protection the department
can offer within me city.
Th enulnment will ultimately
be paid for from funds received
from the rural district wnicn
ninno to contract with the city
to provide fire protection for the
rural area. Even thougn xne ais
trlct has not yet voted its tax
levy for next year (to De aone
r.n M..v 20). directors and the
council felt there would be no
difficulty, so the city is going
ohm.,! with olans to purchase
equipment. If it were to wait
until al! formalities were com
pleted it would be impossible to
get the new trucK in time ior
,iiiiinor the comine fire
season when it is needed the
most. Even now it will be wen
int.. Julv at the earliest before
delivery can be expected.
Minstrel Show
Planned by P-TA
May 13 and 14 the Heppner
T-TA will present its second an
nual minstrel show featuring lo
cal talent from the lower grades
through high school, and teach
ers, parents, and grandparents.
End men are being selected
by Oliver Creswick. Gene Pierce
is assembling the dialogue for
the show and will again be in
terlocutor. Other chairman include Mrs
Jim Angell, ticket sales; Mrs
Roy Kirk, make-up and pro
grams; Mrs Ken Keeling, prop
erties; Mrs Oliver Creswick, cos
tumes; Mrs L E Dick, coordinat
ing chairman.
John Copeland is director and
Mrs Fred Gimbel will be ac
companist. Arnold Melby is
music director and much of the
music will be fumlshea Dy mem
bers of the high school band
and orchestra.
Grade school tumbling and
singing are being rehearsed un
der the direction of Mrs Harold
Laird and Mrs Fred Hoskins, Jr.
Cemetery Cleanup
Set of lone, Morgan
A general cleanup of the lone
and Morgan cemeteries will be
held May 14 beginning at 9 a m
and everyone in the community
has been urged to assist. A pot
luck dinner will be served at
noon at the Rebekah hall. The
project is being sponsored by the
IOOF and Rebekah lodges and
Willows Grange.
Anyone who has plots with
unmarked graves and wishing
to make a donation for markers
may contact Mrs David Rlet
inann, lone.
Big Svep
It wan r lltn-d tlmt no iw
it.lually eit lb 't mtwy
li b Mnt iiiutry u e
evtd to !'' '" H)olnjr Ct
land 1 tHHic' t n me toaia
man tane In th pc at In
dutrtl ! th
create out if th Tanfi t4 ad
jacent property. Th Navy. h'W
ever, had to be aw.urel that
i .oiu-y would b avaitabl from
fco r. guaranteed iwMjrce to cover
It moving eMnM'.
T. department of planning
MRS HAROLD DUNCAN to be
fMtured at Hommakri M
tWal hare.
Festival Speaker
To Be Delegate
To ACWW Meeting
Homemaker festival speaker,
Mrs Harold Duncan, Carlton,
Oregon will speak at the
Catholic parish hall, Heppner,
at noon on Friday, Apru 3.
Her toolc. "On to Scotland"
will Include a report on the In
ternational Associated country
women of the World's conven
tion held In Edinburg. Scotland
last summer. She will show
colored slides of her trip.
"Homemakers Around the
World" will be the featured
theme of the festival, which will
begin at 11:00 a m with the
Rhea Creek extension unit as
hostesses. There will time for
roTistratlon and to view the ex
hibits of each unit, before the
luncheon which will be served
at noon by the women of the
Catholic church.
In addition to attending the
eonference. Mrs Duncan took a
post tour and visited eight other
European countries.
This Yamhill county resident,
has been active in extension
work for 16 years. She served
as ACWW chairman in tne
county for four years and served
as United Nations chairman on
the state council for three years.
This active extension woman
lives on a 30 acres English wal
nut farm In Carlton and is in
partnership with her brothers
who raise over 10,000 turkeys
a year. Mr Duncan passed away
in 1949.
WEATHER
HI Low
Thursday 60 31
Friday 54 24
Saturday 48 33
Sunday 59 36
Prec,
.18
.02
.25
.08
Monday 57 32
Tuesday 60 38 .07
Wednesday 60 40 .01
Precipitation (rain and snow)
for the week .61; for April 1.11;
for the year 5.10 inches.
AUXILIARY BOARD TO MEET
The executive board of the
Pioneer Memorial hospital aux
niarv will meet Monday after
noon at 2:00 p m at the Bank
of Eastern Oregon.
Mrs Wayne Chas of Redmond
i vlsltiner this week with her
sister and brother-in-law, Mr
and Mrs Ted Smith.
j T - . ! m.
HOLE-IN-ONE CONTEST PLANNED
TO RAISE LIGHTING BOND FUNDS
A hole-in-one contest to raise
money for retirement of the
Heppner rodeo field lights was
announced this week by the
chamber of commerce.
The contest, which is designed
for all comers, even though they
may not be golfers or have even
tried, will be held for four days
sometime late in May. During
the first three days of play, five
golf balls may be purchased for
$100 and the purchaser then
can try to drive them onto a
green 100 yards away. For every
Program
nd development h )'
twin ru annoum-rmert -f any
i.jrtU-ular Industry '!'
ev-nteropUtlnf th construction
of a plant on th l:.Jutftl rrk.
s-...i nwirhm have tatd that
Meral comparde r Interested
and that m r unuuicf,
-hot" pni tL Strle Cx'n'
tlnually bring heard that a
iir mlfcU manufacturing
company U contemplating '
u .f alreabl part of th
area, and the have nlthr
liern confirmed or denied by th
.(..,,,, I rnnl. At th tCnt public
meet Inn In Boardman. a member
uf th department Mii mi
urh lu-i-ottatUma had to be done
ucretly until they wer com
pleted.
Monday. Doug Trie Mvlal
mutant to Prenldent fcisen
ved In the atat to
do aom work on the Bombing
Hang project. He aald th ataiea
plun to treat a pac age In
dustrial park l "dramatic
M.ini.! of suae g vision."
and he predicted succe for th
project
Band Carnival on
Saturday Slate
On of norinc's popular events,
the annual Band Carnival will
open Its doors to the public Sat
urday at 5:3o t the fair pavil
ion, it was announced this week
by co-chairmen for the anair
Marcel Jones. Paul Warren and
Don Clark.
The rnfeterla will open earliest
chicken and noodles.
chill, hot dogs, salads and des
serts. During the evening a wiae
Ansnrtment of cames and enter
tainment is planned including a
dunk tank, fish pona, snuiue
board and numerous other
booths.
This year the Band Parents
Club Itself is putting on the
entire carnival with all money
raised to go for needed. extra
band uniforms for the Heppner
schools. .
Episcopalians Attend
District Convocation
Attending the Episcopal Mis
niotrtt nf Pastern Ore-
Diuimij
rv,niwiitinn at Prlnevllle
this weekend from here for the
adult convocation, the Itev ana
Mrs Bruce Spencer, Mr and Mrs
Rosewall and Robert
Abrams. For the youth convo
cation, Gerald Bunch, Kathy
Spencer, Harold Gray, Judy
Hamilton, Chris Spencer, Julie
Pfelffer, Bernlce Thomson and
Beverly Blake.
Kathy Spencer was elected as
represent the
youths at Synad which will meet
ai Camp Galilee at Lake Tahoe,
California. She will also be the
delegate for the Girls Friendly
Society, which will have its Nat
ional Assembly meeting in
In California.
Missionary to Speak
At lone Church
John R Blalock. a native of
Spray, who has served for many
years as a missionary to China
and Japan, will speak at the
lone First Baptist cnurcn ou
day, May 1 at 7:3o P m.
Mr Blalock spent his early life
around Spray and before World
War II went as a missionary
to China. Later he went to Japan
where he has served the past
several years. He and his wife
and three children are now at
their home in Terrebonne on a
two year furlough but will re
turn to Japan In June.
The public Is invited to hear
Mr Blalock and there will be
special pictures and songs.
WRANGLER'S RIDE
The first Wrangler ride of the
spring will be Sunday, May 1
at the Wrangler's grounds. Pot
luck dinner at 12 noon and the
show will start at 1:00 P m.
ball that stays on the green, the
driver will get five in the finals.
Daily prizes will be given in
three catagories: adults, high
school age, and pre-hlgh school.
Three major prizes will also be
awarded in the finals. All prizes
have been donated by local
merchants.
The contest will be held on
the rodeo field and additional
information as to dates and de
tails will be announced later,
Mike Whitesmith, chairman
stated.