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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1960)
L I START U OF O f U 3 t 'I f . Monday's 103 Highest Temperature in 19 Tears J .... I mm m SI "Please Don't Wasle Any Wafer Plea of City Oiy tf Heppner water uer jm-i an all time record during the pact month In the amount l water romumN, reported city water superintendent Vie Gro .hen. A Mai of over Sl.OlW.ftO gallon of water ha been umh In the city during the pant 30 day. Croshen ald the city U very lucky to have uffkicnt water supply for auch demand, but noted early thU week that rump Ing from the clty'a upjef well had to be reduced to keep the water level from dropping. The city la now pumping T00.0O0 gal lona a day from Ita two well. which Is a reduction from the 820.000 gallon a day that wa being obtained before the one well had to be klowed down. The extremely hot weather of the past week haa pushed water use to Ita highest point In his tory and the city water depart ment this week asked all users not to waste water. Groshcns said that If everyone will coop crate there should be no neces slty for rationing. He pointed out that sprinkling an dirrlgat ion should be done In the early morning or evening rather than during the heat of the day when evaporation makes such lrriga tion almost useless. So far there Is no necessity to ration water, Groshens said, but should the supply drop further, it might be necessary later in the summer. 2 Promoted In Forest Service Victor Kreimeycr, district for est ranger, announces the pro motion of Raymond Williamson to the assistant position in the Heooner district. He fills the position vacated when Fred Prussing was trans ferred to retrlon 4. Also in line for promotion was Sam Nigel who was promoted from timber sale officer to timber manage ment assistant, the position which Williamson held. A replacement for the timber sale officer has not been announ ced. Number Listed For Rural Fire Calls Several residents living with in the boundaries of the Heppner rural fire district have asked re cently how to report a fire or call for help. All fire calls should be made directly to the Heppner Fire De partment fire number which is listed in the telephone book. It is 6-9109. Calls will also be ta ken by fire chief C A Ruggles or assistant chief Robert Pen land at the Gazette-Times, but calling the fire department num ber is the quickest and surest method. In case additional equip ment Is needed a call to the county agent's office can pro vide a list of additional volun teer equipment in the area which may be pressed into service If needed. The Heppner department can answer" calls only within the Heppner rural fire district, but later, when county owned fire equipment is operating it may be possible to develop a mutual aid agreement among the var ious departments for the benefit of all areas. Three pieces of county-owned equipment are now under construction. Scottish Visitor Leaves Thursday Mr and Mrs Randall Martin and Janice were in Arlington Thursday morning to take Miss Rhoda Campbell to catch a bus for California. Miss Campbell is the IFYE student who has been visiting at the Martin ranch and she is on her way to California to visit relatives from her home land, who live there. While she was here the Mar tins took her on a trip of the Wallowa country and to Hat Point to see Heus wnjuu. ( On Monday and Tuesday even- ings of last week around w u'b3 "l ! nn p called at ine aianiu iiuhic TseV m Campbell's slides ? Scotland and to hear her tell of her homeland. , of ner nomeianu. mt rmk w Baker of Kenne- Mr Frame w sajcer ""r" wi"k was a guest recently of Mr and Mrs Charles Vaughn. I HEPPNErVz 10 Cents Lexington Dance Due V , U;..-- ...I PRINCESS CHARLENE JONES Saturday night Princess Char- lene Jones of Lexington will be the guest of honor at her own Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Princess dance at the Heppner fair pavilion. Princess Charlene is a 5 foot, inch tall brunette with brown hair and blue eyes. She is the rlauchter of Mr and Mrs Charles C Jones and is being sponsored by the Lexington Grange. The nrincess was born in Yak ima, Washington but moved to Lexington when she was five years old and has lived three ince. She attended tne vexing- ton schools lor 11 years, u dif fering to the lone high school last year to graduate with the :lass of 1960. During her high school years in Lexington she was secretary of her class for three years, stu dent body secretary for one year and assistant editor of the school New Government Trapper Due Here Carl McDaniel, government trapper in the Heppner area, an nounced this week that John Wharton has been assigned as trapper for Morrow and Umatilla counties replacing Joe Baltrenas who resigned in May. Wharton comes here irom Mal heur county where he has been with the wildlife service. He will split his time between the Butter Creek area of Morrow county and Umatilla county. McDaniel recently attended a meeting of government hunters in Bend and won a first place tie in a shooting match. MONAHAN BOYS HOME Mr and Mrs James Monahan had their three sons home with them last week for a visit Mike Mnnahan was here from Port land; Major James Monahan of I -Spokane and Sp4 William Mon- RECEIVES SALES AWARD ahan of Port Whittier Alaska. Heppner auto William (Billy) is staying on to' 2cs y' d Jast spend his 30 day leave with his tQ recejve the PontSac parents. Wt.ns TRj.p tn.r.,n son of Mr i !''"'- . 'and Mrs James Lovgren spent a few days last week at Janteen Beach as a guest oi tne t-ast Qreponian of Pendleton. He won the tnp by getting ni , r - .ii.i,0 number of new subscriptions to the paper. ! G AZET Princess Saturday paper. She was active In sports, being on the volleyball team, a three year member of the GAA, and a member of the Girls League for one year. She was also active in dramatics and took first place in the student body play as a sophomore. In lone she served as feature editor of the lone Cardinal. She is a four year 4-H club member in a cooking club, three years in a sewing and one year in a knit ting club. Princess Charlene plans to enter Western University of bus iness in Portland following her exciting summer as a princess. She is a member of the Lexing ton Christian church where she teaches a primary Sunday school class. Sharing in her excitement is a brother Kenneth, and Charlene has an aunt Pat McMillan Saw yer who was on the court in 1954. A fairly new horsewoman, Charlene will ride Little Red, a registered quarterhorse belong ing to William Smethurst. She was a banner bearer In the 1959 rodeo. Wes Tittle and his Tri-County Boys from Redmond will pro vide the music for Charlene's dance which Is scheduled to open at 10 p m. Wheat Truck Starts Thursday Blaze A wheat truck belonging to Mildred Bergstrom threw a con necting rod just before noon to day on the Condon highway near the Eight Mile intersection and set fire to surrounding grass and a small amount of grain belong ing to Fred Mankin. Quick action on the part of neighbors and the Morrow County Grain Growers fire truck prevented spread of the fire. The truck was completely destroyed. 'Motor division Knudson trophy ifor outstanding sales effort dur- ;in? Pontiac's 19G0 sales contest. He has also received a ..... . - . truck division award for sales .during the past model year. Mr and Mrs E L Florence of r.uSn.r .. tth hia r,aront Mr and end w orman Florence. Heppner, Oregon, Thursdoy, July 21, 1690 r If PORT DISTRICT MAY PICK UP LAND OPTIONS ON RIVER Th P't of Mom'W at a meet ing lt week tltaruhkrd the jwu. Utility f taking up option tm a MfatU pice of land In the northeast corner of tit county that wa originally Intended to be att accewi one between the Columbia River and the Board man Bombing Range. The land wa optioned by the Mate department of planning and development, but the de partment waa unable to ottaln a complete corridor, to moved It operation to the west end of the range where the needed land was obtained. The stale game commission I also Interested In this land a a possible (oration for a wildlife refuge. Port commissioner Indicated that financing probably could be arranged for the purchase of New Library Hours Announced At the quarterly meeting of the Heppner city library board on July 12 new library hour were set, due to Increased cir culation. The library will be open one hour earlier in the after noons beginning August 1, with the hours being Mondays and Wednesday 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p m and on Saturday 2 to 5 p m only. Mrs Harry Dinges was elected president of the board and other officers named were Mrs Cornett Green, vice president and Mrs Sm Turner, secrf 'ory-treasurer. Trustees are J O Turner, one year; Mrs Ture Peterson, two years and Mrs Alex Thompson, three years. On the book committee are Mrs Ray Smith, Mrs Dinges, Mrs Elmer Schmidt, Mrs P W Ma honey, Mrs Peterson, Mrs Blanche Brown and William Sowell. Mrs Brown, librarian, announ ced that for the fiscal year July 1. 1959 to July 1, 19C0 there were 3119 adult books checked out, 4595 for juveniles and 407 new books were added to the library with 251 new borrowers being added. Car Wreck, Fire, Broken Leg Hit Family in Minutes Troubles came in bunches Sunday morning for Mr and Mrs Aurby Wlllard who live on the E C Dougherty ranch near Sand Hollow. But without Wlllard's quick action there could have been many more. Mrs Willard and their small child were coming to town in the family car when the child caused a distraction and the car went over a bank. Willard who was following in a pickup jump ed from the road to see about his family, who incidentally were unhurt, and broke a bone in his leg. He loaded the family in the pickup to go back to the ranch to get a tractor to pull the car back on the road only to see it erupt in a cloud of smoke. Willard got the tractor and bulldozed dirt over the car to put out the fire and kept it from getting into an adjacent wheat field where it could have destroy ed hundreds of acres of grain. Now Willard is driving truck with a cast on his leg. Al Ullman to Visit In County Saturday Congressman Al Ullman will meet Morrow county citizens and friends on the patio of the New't O'Harra home in Lexington at 8 p m Saturday, July 23, according to Al Lamb, county Democratic chairman. This will be an informal gath ering and light refreshments will be served. The public is invited to get better acquainted with the second district Congressman who is on his way to Washing ton, D C from the Democratic National convention at Los An geles where he served as a delegate. Ft n es '77th Year, Number 20 the pinpetty whUh county jude tWar Vtern Mid ""lll proe an extremely aluable a-M-t for the port lr future in duoirUl derl"pment. Much of It lie along the Columbia. The Port commlwdoner went on record a favoring the con tribution of to the budget of the al -county planning com mi&sion whUh U now being form.il. The money I Included In the port budget. The Port of Morrow anion fol lowed a request of the Mid Col umbia regional planning com mission that each port district and county In the organization put money Into the planning group's budget on a voluntary basis. Such money would make possible the establishment of a permanent office with a hired planning consultant. The five ports Involved are In Umatilla, Morrow. Gilliam. Wasco and Hood River counties. Sherman county Is also a member, but It has no port district. The regional planning commis sion Is to help plan for the com ing Industrial development of the mid-Columbia region which Is expected to come from the de velopment of the Boardman Bombing Range into a space age industrial park. The Umatilla county court and the Port of Umatilla both have Indicated that they will each put up $1500 for the commission budcet. and Judge Peterson said it is possible that the Morrow county court will be able to pro vide a like amount. Graveside Rites to Be Here Friday for Spencer Akers, 87 Word has been received here of the death Monday of Spencer Akers, 87, at his home in Aums vllle, Oregon. A heart attack was reported to be the cause of death. A daughter, Mrs Charles Barlow, left Tuesday for Aumsville. Graveside services will be held Friday at 1:30 p m at the Hep pner Masonic cemetery with Rev Charles Knox officiating. Mr Akers had been a resident of Morrow county for many years before moving to the Willamette Valley several years ago. A complete obituary win De published next week. School Employees Urged to Get Health Certificates All employees of Morrow county schools are reminded that Oregon school law requires a school health certificate regis tered with the county school of fice prior to Sept 8. The requirements for a health certificate include a negative chest X-ray or a negative tuber culin skin test. A tuberculin Patch test is not acceptable. Chest X-rays are available without charge at Pioneer Mem orial hospital on Wednesday, August 3 from 7 to 8:30 p m and on Wednesday, Sept 7 at the same hours. If an appointment is made with the technician at some other time, a chest film is available for $1.50. The cost of this is assumed by the Morrow County TB and Health assoc iation. If chest X-rays are taken In the offices of private physicians they must be sent to a qualified radiologist, appointed by the state board of health, for in terpretation. All certificates must be countersigned by the Morrow county health officer before they can be registered. Certificate forms for both chest X-rays and skin tests are avail able in the offices of private physicians and at the county health department In the court house. Mr and Mr Jo Stewart and daughter Linda of Halfway were in Heppner on Tuesday. Mr and Mr Jim demerit, for merly of Sigourney. Iowa now of Long Beach, California, were euests of Bess Huddleston this week. 4 JJL A Continuing Brings Rash of Fires Id'l irf h ie. Wt.def tM K..lrt rftth-t i4 U-e aun.H.rr duiing tbe 11 -en !4 and M. hA, h-n t'-e ftuial i,orri.m-nt thcimoiT.rtrf here ft-ai lte l 103 d.'ttee. that iraUmg wl a 13 )cf leixtd tt heat- M.,n.jy inaiked the thud diy in a rw tnai Hie wihui iH-tituie in IUpcr went over the 1 mark. It H'J on Jai uidav and 103 Sunday. Tuesday a maximum dropped t.i a met Vi denrec. but many petiwn com- l Uute.l more of the beat trial iav lhan oreUoUjy OUC 10 - j - - higher humidity. Wvn with the Wal thermom Hem redlnj: rll oer 100, Hep pner w fl one of the coolest apt it In thi part or lutein iregon. Boardman recorded a 111 on Sun day. 110 Monday ami lur iue day. and llermlston outdid that record Tuesday with an unomc l.il IIS. Arlington. howeer. prob ably laid claim to the dublou honor of being the hottest upot In the state Sunday wnen an unofficial 123 degree wa chalk ed up. Should anyone doubt that the entire month of July ha been Heat Hurling Some Grain Crops Morrow county's 1900 wheat and barley crop Is (touring Into elevators at the rate of 10,000 to 100.000 bushels a day with a considerable portion of the high er elevation fields not yet har vesting despite the fine ripen ing weather of the past weeK. Al Lamb, Morrow County Grain Growers manager, saia Wednesday that about 90,000 bushels a day are being deliv ered to the co op's elevators with Lexington and North Lexington facilities handling the greatest load. All elevators are now re ceiving Borne grain, he said. The extremely hot weather of the past week undoubtedly hurt some of the crops in the higher elevations where it was still quite green when the heat wave started, but early crop lorecasis for a good crop still hold. Barley appears to be running lighter than usual, but wheat is report ed to be of good quality on the average. County Savings Bond Sales Jumps First Six Months "More United States savings bonds are held by American people than ever before in the 19-vear history of the program", state bond chairman Prldeaux said today when announcing state savings bond sales for the month of June. Morrow county sales for June were $4,094 and for the first six months of the year they amount to $79,508," the state chairman said. June sales in Oregon jumped substantially over those of a year ago. They were $2,678,104 com pared to $2,664,958 last June," he continued. State sales for the first-half of the year totaled $18,270,195." In Morrow county sales for the first half of 1960 were $12,306 over the same per iod for 1959. In commenting on the value of savings bonds holding to the community, he said that "more than $72 billions of United States savings bonds has been used In the past 19 years to improve or buy new homes, for education, retirement, and other benefits for the savers and their families." School Lunch Heads Attend Conference Mrs Andy Van Scholack and Mrs Homer Hager returned to Heppner last Thursday from Cor vallis where they attended the State School Lunch Conference at Oregon State College. About 300 school lunch personnel were in attendance. Prior to the meeting, Mrs Ha ger had been attending summer school at Oregon State College. Before going to Corvallis she at tended the State Homemaklng Teachers conference at the South Salem high school. Gene Ferguson was In Boisa, Idaho the first of the week to get an oiler for the county road crew. Mr and Mrs Mike Whitesmith and children were in Toppenish this last weekend to attend a wedding reception on Sunday. hot bpell hit. a thrck - rt!ur ts sd hv that on rery d t; !,.- July 1 tie ma urn trm priatur in llrl-pner ha Nen l drc tee or i.U'hrr. m-Mt!y i' 'e hlH H) and W a. lb kct maximum iw.rd4 thl nu-nth wa a modetatrly c4 7tS on July 1. Iwt4 Broaaa Heppner" on Monday wa the loUet day tnf July 17. t!ll. a thetk f Heppner Weather Ktation record allowed Titrt ail time hlh trmperture lex-r.ted here wa ItH on July ; l'..X That wa the hottet d.y In the W rr that weather record have leen kept hefe. HmI Bring TUa The continuing hot pell ha brought a rsh of fire throufih out the county and the Umatilla National Forest. The largest fire occurred Saturday when park fr.-m the Heppner city dump et off a blare that burned between Gut and 700 acre of grassland belonging to Bert Kane, FJwyn Hughe and llolce Fulleton. The Heppner fire department, aided by the Morrow County Grain Grower truck, fought the fire for over two hour. Last Friday a small amount of grassland on the Walter Ruggle ranch east of Lexington wa burned when a truck lost a act of dual wheels letting the axle drop on the pavement and show ering the area with sparks. A Heooner rural truck answerea the call but neighbor had the fire under control by the time It arrived. The Heppner department an swered another call Monday Just below Kinzua mill where a small patch of grass had burned, ap parently from a cigarette, mis blaze also had been controlled by passersby and neighbors. The lone department has also answered several calls In recent days, but none of the fire were serious. Vic Krelmeyer, Heppner dis trict ranger for the Umatilla Nat ional Forest, reported Wednes day that Tuesduy night's dry electrical Uorm set at least 101 fires In the Umatilla forest, but none of them in the Heppner district. The largest blaze, about 100 acres, was In the I'omeroy, Wash district, with Tendleton and Walla Walla districts taking the brunt of the storm. It was also reported that many fires were set by the same storm in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. Krelmeyer said that seven men from the Heppner district were sent to other districts Wednes day to help control the numer ous blazes. The Tuesday storm set two fires in state controlled land in the vicinity of Monument look out and south of the John Day river. The Forest Service reported that all mountain areas are ex tremely dry bringing the fire danger to its highest point in years. The Forest Service weather report Wednesday called for possible additional dry electric storms Wednesday nignt, ana also said that no relief Is in sight for Eastern Oregon. Confusin' Aint It? Several persons have noted that G-T stories about tem peratures or rainfall don't jibe with the Heppner weather report that appear in the same paper. There is a good reason. In today's story on the weather, we said it was 103 on Monday, yet the weather report on the same page said it was 103 on Tuesday. Here's why. Temperature reading are taken every morning with the result that the previous 24 hours' temperatures are credited to the day on which the reading is taken. As a result, for example, Mon day's 103 was recorded for Tuesday. It really didn't make much difference, though. Both days were hotter than IS-? I WEATHER Hi 92 91 96 101 102 103 97 Low 52 55 57 59 61 60 55 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday No rainfall for week or July. 8.33 inches for the year.
