Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current, September 01, 1960, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textu or o y 3 c n r , out. Classes J 'Jar? Tuesday All i-vunly huuU will ip,-n( Neat I all ht.W In h eoun thrlr door neu Tui-.l4- la id k. i.artk-uUrly ih In the mmming ihtj.-h )uunster HEPPNEK: GA2ET !32 Acre Site Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September I, 1960 PtirfhaPfl fof NCW II -Til M Mho lire ?miU-4 lo fill nearly ku available curuom tactic ily la rapacity the 19t0 61 nihoul year Kan. A full day of lau U r.lan tied fur o-nlng day, bue Mill make regular runa and cafeteria Mill be in operation. Children Mho Mill be entering school for the first time are anked to register Friday, Sept 2 between Bam and 3 p m and all flrt grader are required to have a rlnh certificate and a health certificate showing a recent en amlnatjon by a dot-tor. All new high school studenta are also asked to rcgUter be twecn 9 a m and noon on the same day but freshmen Mho reg Istered last spring Mill not be required to register on Friday. County superintendent Robert Van lloute aald this Meek that all school bus routes Mill be essentially the same as last year except for some minor chances and parents concerned have been advised of these chances. south end. are expected to bej ) Qr Pgr CoDV operating nearly at rapacity bvl y Rainbow Girls 77th Year, Number 26 A ,a; v lavroom on their float around the theme J ' J v I I - fc V , y- 4 western city "Over the Rainbow" tix sweep- J 1 1, 1 1 I f U . I V I s Mere com- Makes honors Saturday In the I 1.. y Vfcv I the purchase (air and nnleo parade. They also ; XF' V I e new build- won flrt ulace In their division. ( 4. V , the time reltraton Is complet ed lleppner etiwet the create! Iih re.e In the high school where cIom to 2J0 student are CM-tiNl, During the summer the mtiillpurpoM' rnm In the Hep. pner grade schmil has leen tern loranly partltioneil Into four elementary r"ms to provl needed classroom space until the Win Parade di Sweepstakes Award ! -1 ' I 1 Tlr ing MMicri miii temporarily nouse fa,r ,heme of p4lry TaIe grade students, but Mhich even- enrrled out bv many uany miii p. a pan or a new n.r, ... them 4 II club high school plant. It Is doubted flllnf 01(! Wciman in Ihe thut this building can be built ch,." uhl.-h on iod divisional ami put imo use mis scnoui year. .,ri m()nev for orcanizatlons. All county scnoois are ruiiy Th i,,n(,r M.,,hor- club float .. .1 I . - .... "I"'U -. t,la,.t ,K-ond n this division. uilh thnu from Hllllam and I - .!.... i .j . I This year's parade Mas ac n lin in twu 1 1 1 n rs a i i-i nicvj a jiv I - . t . hool Morkshop Wednesday at iio.wnr hlh hv,t H s one ui me m i"-. '' " i j.ii... ik. r ih affair Mas the Long I'reeK scnooi band Mhlch has won acclaim In the Rose Festival parade and .. v. ! 1 Jmem plan: avail :1 Heppner School The MnrtM tour.ty s. hI Utard Tueday completed ar rangemetit for tha punha cf pprovlmately 33 acres of land In the northwest sTtl..n of llep pner which Mill be ued a the site of a new hlh Sihiml plant. The sellers Mere Mr and Mrs Frank S Parker. Total purchase prli- uf Ihe properly mss $1X316-23 Mhlch In cludc-s ihe price nf Ihe land and approximately $200 fr acre f.r soil bank contracts. The land lies on a step at the Mest end of Water street and south of Morgan street and ac cess Mill he gained through an extension of Water street. An other road will be built Into the prH-rt.v from the county road which borders the west side of the site. The district will obtain occu- pancy of the east half of the property Immediately and will take ownership of th Mest half on January 1, 1!'1. The Portland architect firm of Tuft and ll.iysllp will have rep. resentatlves In lleppner at the next school board meeting to discuss plans and development of a building progtam and board members hope that preliminary ns for the building will be able next week. Construction of a four to six the Shrine All Star football game PARADE SWEEPSTAKES WINNER was this 1ot1t float "Over the Rainbow- which wot antarad bw pageant. Other bands present! ths Heppner Rainbow Girls. II wot on oftht outstanding floats to carry out the fair them of Fairy "'asroom building Mill start as Talt Lan. (Photo by C A Ruaalesl M500" " arrangements can be compjeiea, me txwra indicated were from lone. Riverside high school and Heppner. Though It didn't win any prize, an old Kumiey uu i-uw iracior and a McCormlck thresher dls played by Ken Turner and O W Cutsforth attracted much atten tion. The old outfit was dem onstrated for the parade M-atchers who had trouble seeing all that Kindergarten to Register Sept 2 Registration for the klndergar wno naa irouo.e . ... a. heJd Frd g went on because of the J bud L 2 from u(jQ tQ The new buildings Mill ultimat ely become a new high school. but for the present the rooms Mill be used for grade school classes. The entire plant will be The city of Heppner received pond or stream. It will carry planned for easy conversion Into HEPPNER GETS DELIVERY ON NEW RURAL FIRE PUMPER TOP MORROW COUNTY CALF ROPER Ron Currln of Heppner ra celres his saddle and congratulations from Queen Susan Partlow Creek as bis prize for being the fastest roper In the Morrow County Amateur Calf Roping. The saddle was donated by Kinzua Corp of 50 or 60 year old dust that erupted from the thresher Mhen It was started up. Regardless of the noise, the outfit worked Other winners In the parade .nc.uueu. uu,. gartcn a child must be five years Ra nbow Girls, first: Willow ..., ,vi Country Club, second; the George house. There will be two sessions of classes each day and they will both start Sep t ember 7. To be eligible to attend kinder oration of Heppner. (GT Photo) ';' ' v - " - " . " 'A . ;' mm mJ uffci i Ui I BUCKING CHAMPION Don Griffith of Condon holds the saddle he won from Hamley and Company of Pendleton for winning the Northwest Amateur Saddle Bronc championship at last week's rodeo. The prize was presented by Ralph Schwalbe, left of Ham leys. (GT Photo) Baldy Ski Club, third. Business floats: Phil's Phar macy, first; Farra's Shoe Shop, second. Juvenile floats; Bobby Dobbs, first, Charlotte Relnsch, second, Larry Frank, third. Juv- of age before November 15, I960. "P-M registration fee will be $10, payable at the time of reg 1st rat Ion. The monthly fee Is $7.50 and at the first of the month parents will be billed for this. The cost for the first month will be $17.50, b it-Jbsequent am II a nnlo Tha Patrna rhllnrpn first: Scott girls, second; Dee Padberg, third. Judged the best riding club The registration fee includes accident insurance and all sup I nil na anA onlllnmortf rttAtA diir. was the Heppner Wranglers and f the Spur and Burr club second. , h , of Best comic was Dean Massey; kindergartn to prepare the pre best juvenile boy costume was ,u,,ln Jm.hm nl LJi ZS emotionally and socially for en- Juvenile girl was Linda Williams. The oldest mounted cowboy award went to Antone Cunha of Uklah. Museum Receives New Displays PRICES HOLD UP WELL AT 4-H LIVESTOCK AUCTION AT FAIR Prices received by 4-H boys and girls at the thirteenth an nual 4-H livestock auction sale held last Thursday evening were excellent regardless of the weak ness of terminal market prices. Thirty four head of lambs sold for an average sale price of 34c a pound; 24 hogs at 27c and 18 steers at 31 average. These prices compared to 33.2c for sheep in 1959; 37c for hogs and 38c for beef. Northwestern Live stock Company supported the sale with a four price of 19.75 on hogs; and 25.75 on beef with Cohn Livestock Company sup porting lambs at 18c for prime; 17c for choice and 15 c for good grade lambs. Morrow County Grain Growers again purchased the champion Hereford steer which will be slaughtered and served at their annual meeting later this fall. The grand and reserve champion steers were exhibited by Eric Anderson, Heppner this year with the grand champion steer going on to state fair. The reserve champion which sold through the sale brought 60c. Morrow County Grain Growers was heav iest buyers of steers with four head. Paul Pettyjohn bought two with Roy Martin, Frank Ander son. Barnev Doherty. Bank of Eastern Oregon. Mrs Bill Do-: herty, Lindsay Ranch, Miller Brothers. Don Greenup, Kay An derson. O W Cutsforth. Odd Fel lows Lodge and Cornett Green purchasing steers. A new buyer at this years sale was Ella's GrilL Heppner who purchased the greatest num ber of animals of any buyer, Purchasing the grand and re serve champion swine for 37 and 35c respectively, they sent all of their purchases to slaughter to be served through their res taurants. Their purchases consis ted of nine hogs and six lambs. The grand champion lamb ex hibited by Maureen Doherty was purchased by Northwestern Live stock Company for 58c a pound and O W Cutsforth bought the reserve champion lamb exhibited by Martha Doherty for 45c. Charles Ruggles buying a white faced lamb exhibited by Bobby Ball donated the lamb, the proceeds to go to a 4-H sum mer school scholarship. The lamb was sold to Jerry Daggett with Oliver Creswick, E M Baker, and Oscar Peterson donating pro ceeds. Other buyers of lambs were Turner, Van Marter and Bryant 2 head; Paul Webb; Bar ratt Sales; Ekstrom Chemicals; Harold Beach; Farley Pontlac; Cornett Green; Jerry Anderson; Leo Ashbeck; Harold Wright; Norman Nelson; Oliver Creswick; Phil Mahoney; Emeo Inc; Andy Van Schoiack; Kay Anderson 2 head; Mary Beamer; Ervin Rauch; Hazel Mahoney, Bill Do herty; Dr W H Wolff; and Don Turner. A donation lamo given by Kenneth Lynn Smouse bought bv bank of Eastern uregon, trance Into the first grade. Kindergarten will be held every day the public school is in session. It will have the same holidays and same vacations. If school Is closed for any reason the kindergarten will also be closed, and will resume when school is started again. On registration day, two class es will be assigned. The first Many new items of interest session from 8:30 to 10:15 a m havo heen added to the Morrow and the second session from county museum since its opening 10:30 a m to 12:15 noon. Those early in June, it was revealed who live out or town ana win this week by members of the be using the school buses will museum commission. be automatically enrolled in ine a !tir,a i o . first session. ly mounted collection of 16 frames of Indian arrowheads and trade beads found in Morrow county and the Bonneville dam area loaned by Robert Harrison of Lexington. The L E Bisbee family has loaned an interesting collection which includes a wed ding dress of Mrs Oren Farns- worth, a bride of 1873 and the delivery Tuesday on Its new 750 gallon permlnute pumper fire truck which was designed prl marlly for fighting fire In the recently organized Heppner rural fire district, but which will add materially to city fire equipment The new truck, which Is the largest and most completely equipped piece of fire fighting equipment In Morrow county was built by Western States Fire Equipment of Cornelius, Oregon on a 4-wheel drive International truck supplied by Lexington Equipment Co. The cost of the completely equipped truck was slightly more than $20,000. The truck has a front mounted 750 gallon per minute pump that can take water either from the truck's own 1000 gallon tank, city hydrants or any available School Bus "Stop " Law Soon Effective School superintendent Robert Van Houte this week reminded all motorists that Oregon's school matching tie and kid gloves . bus law will again be in effect which were worn by the groom; i with the opening of school the two quaint little parasols carried ' first of next week. During the by Mrs Oren Farnsworth and summer the law Is inoperative Mrs T H Bisbee, mother of Lou because of vacation. Bisbee. Also there is a group of The law requires that all motor sterling spoons collected from vehicles which are either over many places. Staking or meeting a school bus a Nohle saddle made In 1907,' that is loading or unloading pu- owned by Mrs Creed Owens and , pUs must stop until the flashing given by Mrs Scott Furlong is red lights on the bus are turned an item the museum had been off. The law has been in effect hoping to find. Another display in Oregon for some years and is a very old pack saddle which has resulted in a much lower had been on many mountain accident rate. trans, ana nas Deen loanea Dy, Mrs Ellen Moore. T PLANNING MEETING A great many other articles! County judge Oscar Peterson have also been donated recently, will be in Portland today (Thurs- Since the opening of the mu- dav) for a meeting of the State scum June 1, over 1300 visitors planning and development have registered, many from out 'group. There will be nationally of the state. I known persons there to talk to the group. Heppner Jeweler, J. 0. Peterson Taken by Death J O Peterson, well known Hep pner jeweler, passed away Aug ust 31 at his home following an illness of more than a year. He was 67 years of age. John O Peterson was born In Anaconda, Montana September 29, 1892 and he came to Heppner in 1928 when he purchased the Buhn Jewelry Store. He had been in the jewelry business here since that time. He was marrlad to Bertha Lewis on June 3, 1928 in Heppner. Mr Peterson was a member of Heppner lodge no 69 AF & AM and the Heppner Elks lodge. Survivors are his wife Bertha, one son Randall, both of Hep pner; and one sister, Mrs C O Jaeckel of Portland. Services will be held Friday at 2:00 o'clock at the Heppner Christian church with the Rev Charles Knox officiating. Inter ment will be in the Heppner Masonic cemetery. Creswick Mortuary Is In charge of arrangements. WEATHER Thursday Friday Saturday Oscar Peterson, Billy Doherty Sunday and Ella's Grill brought jlib for the Morrow County 4 H Club Council. In addition to the purchases made by Ella s Gri.l others buy- (Coatinued on Pagt 6) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Rainfall for the Hi 68 72 68 71 80 74 84 M-eek, Mr and Mrs Loyd Burkenbine Low and family returned Saturday 44 I from a three weeks trip to Palco, Kansas where they visited Mrs Burkenblne'a parents, Mr and Mrs C C Brassfield. William Monaban left last Thursday for Port Whittier, Alas ka where he is stationed with the Army. He had been home for 44 46 38 50 46 50 none, for August 1.06. for the year 9.39 30 days with his parents, Mr and inches. Mrs James Monahan. Heppner Swim Pool To Close for Year The Heppner swimming pool will close for the season Sunday evening, Sept 4, or possibly be fore, should the weather turn off cold during the weekend and cut use of the pool, it was announced today. The pool has been In constant use since its opening early in June, according to Tom Hughes, lifeguard and instructor and on many days during the hottest part of the summer well over 200 youngsters used It daily. 1000 feet of 24 Inch rnd 300 feet a modern high school building. of 1H Inch hose In addition to Ample room Is available on the two high pressure booster lines, new site for future expansion The two l'i inch lines and the an t0 accommodate an athletic two booster lines are classified ''ol' anl all other necessary fa- as "hot" lines by firemen, which ciHIles. It can be served by city means that the truck can drive water ana sewer. up to a fire and Immediately wonsiruciion or me new miiia- nlace four lines of water in lnR win be nnanced by the spec- action without the necessity of $130,000 special levy which laying hydrant lines. It Is also was approved last spring by designed to pump while the county voters. truck Is In motion so that it I can combat grain and field fires. Karen Lundell IS The new rig will for the first time provide adequate fire pro tection In the rural district. Since the district was formed, over a year ago, the city has been pro vldlng what protection It cot with its city trucks, however none but a Jeep were designed for anything but city service, Department members had their first drills on the new truck Tuesday and Wednesday nights and today the truck Is under going final tests by state fire underwriters prior to Its accep tance by the city. For the present, the new truck will have to stand on the street n front of the city hall because is too big to get into the present fire hall, which Is full anyway. A new fire hall design ed to house all four city and rural trucks Is now under con struction on West Willow street and Is expected to be completed within a few weeks. INJURED IN WOODS Steve KIncald received serious neck injuries Aug 17 while work ing In the woods on Little Butter creek for the M and R Logging Co. While felling a tree, it struck a small tree which flew back and hit Kincaid on the head. REBEKAKS TO MEET Sans SoucI Rebekah Lodge will hold its first fall meeting Fri day evening, September 2. Chamber Committees Say "Thanks" for Help During Rodeo The various committees of the Chamber of Commerce this week expressed their thanks to the many Individuals, organizations and groups that assisted with the chamber's numerous activ ities during the fair and rodeo. One of the chamber's major jobs Is handling prizes and judg ing during the rodeo parade and the help of members of the Pen dleton Main Street Cowboys in Judging was greatly appreciated. The interest of numerous out side royal courts and bands, one from as far away as Long Creek, In participating in the parade helped make It one of the best In years, committee members stated. They also expressed thanks for assistance given dur ing the annual picnic on Sat urday noon. Methodists Resume Regular Schedule The Methodist church this week announced the end of its summer schedule of services starting next Sunday, Sept 4. Sunday school will take up at 9:45 and morning worship ser vice at 11 o'clock. Every member and friend of the church Is urged to enter into the fall program of study and worship. TO OBSERVE HOLIDAY Practically all Heppner busi nesses and offices will be closed Monday, Sept 5 In observance of Labor Day. Delegate to Luther League Convention Miss Karen Rae Lundell of lone served as a delegate to the Constituting Convention of the Luther League of the American Lutheran Church (TALC) in Mil- waukie, Wis from Aug 16 to 21 for Valby and Hope Lutheran churches of Heppner. Rev John Rydgren, pastor of the two churches, also made the trip serving as chaplain for two buses from the North Pacific district. Prior to the convention, two chartered buses carrying Luther Leaguers from Washington, Ore gon, Idaho and British Columbia, left Seattle Aug 12 for Milwaukle. The first overnight stop was at Fargo, N Dak. The following norning the delegation attended church In Brainerd, Minn, and then went on to Duluth where they enjoyed a Port Harbor Yacht cruise. In Minneapolis they took a sightseeing tour of the city. The opening session of the con stitutional convention was held on Tuesday evening In the Mil waukle auditorium. 2600 dele gates from the United States and Canada met to adopt a consti tution, elect and install national officers for the youth movement of TALC. This church body, form ed by the merger of the Ameri can, Evangelical and United Evangelical Lutheran Churches, will begin its operation January 1, 1961. The total membership of the Luther League Is around 150,000 youth of high school age In approximately 5,000 congre gations. After five days the con vention closed with a mass com munion services. While in Milwaukle the entire delegation attended a Milwaukle Braves baseball game. From the convention, the North Pacific delegates went on to Chi cago for another sightseeing tour and then travelled non-stop to Spokane where Karen was met by her parents, Mr and Mrs Ray- mond Lundell and Cheryle. Rev Rydgren went on to Seattle where he was met by his family. RETURNS FROM EUROPEAN TRIP Mrs Clara B Gertson returned Sunday evening from a European tour. She accompanied Miss Leta Humphreys on part of the trip and Miss Humphreys remained in Europe and will return to Hep pner the last of November. On the return trip Mrs Gertson stop ped in St Paul to attend a Degree of Honor meeting. Mr and Mrs J O Turner wer at Cannon Beach for a few days vacation last week.