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Newspaper Page TextI I DF AST u or 0 IJZLUZ . ORE. " Bombing Range Record Defended By Ullman Governor Hatfield was unin formed" In his accusation on the Boardman tombing Rang land rxchang uild her Monday night, tt public meeting at th Morrow t'nuntv Fairgrounds anrwx. r ranged hy arc Democratic leader. Branding as false, Governor Hatfield's statement In Pendl ton Saturday that the Ullman amendment to th Boardman land exchange legislation wa "headed off", and had )op&r dler the legislation, th Con pressman said. "The fart I that my amendment passed unani moubly In Congress and with out the amendment th legla latlon would have (ailed." Th Governor hai demonstra ted flagrant Irresponsibility by making th Boardman exchange a political football." unman charged. Using original docu ment, he gave hi audience a step by-step report of the Board man proceedings for th past two vears. beclnnlnu with a letter from Morrow Judge Oscar Peterson dated Dec.. lioa, re ouestlne his help In gaining re turn of the land either to the original owner or to th county as th Air Force had declared it surplus to them. Ullman said that he arranged and personally participated In both meetings that brought the Governor's representatives, the Defense Department, and the Navy together. "The safeguards for the people of Oregon that were adopted In the final action. Including the public domain sta tus of the land, were Included at my Insistence", he said. Many months before Governor Hatfield expressed an Interest In the land exchange. Ullman said, he had Intervened to delay the proposed permanent transfer of the bombing range from the Air Force to the Navy. 'This Is the only reason the land was avail able for transfer early this year." "A year after I had been work ing on the project the Governor entered the picture Jan. 4th, 19G0," Ullman said. The Senate Committee In its report to the Navy In Aug. 1959 gave the first official recognition of the Boardman Range's indus trial potential and incorporated my statement verbatim regard ing the impact on this area of the John Day Reservoir." Charging that Governor Hat field was "caught short" when he prematurely announced through the press on March 23 that he had personally arranged the transfer with Defense De partment officials. Ullman said. "He soon found out that such an exchange was Impossible without Congressional action." miman said his concern for the full protection of the people r rwtTnn in the Boardman land tne lull pruiecwun kji i 1 i nf Oregon in the Boardman land exchange, and his insistence on proper legal and legislative pro cedures were matters of record. The Congressman backed up his contention of "making a pol itical football of the Boardman exchange" by reading from a letter written by the Governor, dated Jan. 30 In which the Gov ernor extended thanks for Ullman's cooperation In the Boardman transfer and stated that he would "look to you for continued advice and assis tance." Stating that he did not wish to deal In personalities but had been forced into answering charges, Ullman ended with a plea for keeping politics out of the Boardman development. "Let's hope from here on we can proceed in a statesmanlike man ner to meet the great issues involved," he said. The Ullman talk was pre ceded by short addresses by Ben Musa, state representative, and Orville Cutsforth, four-county chairman of the Farmers for Kennedy Committee. Introduced were Frank Weatherford, Olex, State Representative for the 22nd district, and county officials. Congressman Ullman and his party were guests at the home of Mrs. Harry Duvall Monday and spent part of Tuesday in the Heppner area meeting the voters. WEATHER Hi Low Prec. 83 55 -21 70 52 -37 55 36 -34 55 29 -03 56 30 52 36 57 42 .04 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Maximum temperature. 66 Minimum, 33 Rainfall for the week 1.02; for September 24; for the year 10.65 Inches. HtEPPNErX lUc Copy Juvenile Advisory Council Appointed By Judge Peterson A seven member Juvenile lsory council wa formed tnu week with the appointment persons to mtv on th council by Morrow County Judg Oscar Peterson. Appointed were Gordon Pratt and th Rev. Bruc C. ipnoer from Heppner; uon juajeMw, f vi.r.inn- Mr. Norman Nelson and Mr. Roland Borgstrom. Ion Harold Baker. Boardman. and v,.,n,,n It Ceberdlng. irrigon. ni. vmun will study the prob lem of Juvenile delinquency in the county and will work with the county Juvenile authorities .w-Mintr whether the situa tion require a counsellor for the young peopl or Morrow. tIa frtrmi tlnn of this BdvtS jiii- ,...-.. ory council was recommended by a group or close to luu pt-muiw ...hn attended a meeting spon sored by the White House Con ference on Children and Youth last week at the courthouse.. Thnw nresent represented dlf- izatlons In the coun- tv. Sneaking at this meeting were Jim Harness, Umatilla county Juvenile director; Uma tilla County Judge Sam Cook. and Umatilla County District ai- IVJt III J ... , whom recommended the hiring p irhnrrl i ourson. an "i of a counsellor to deal wnn ju venile problems. The new juve ,n mrlo In the state of Oregon requires that there be an agency In each county to Investigate complaints against Juveniles and anther background of the cases to present to the Judge. An organizational meeting 01 the council has been called for Monday night at 8 p.m. In the courthouse. District Attorney Robert Abrams and Judge Peter- son will outline ine uuura council members. Three Local Horses To Compete At PI Three local stockmen are en tering horses in competition at the Oregon State Quarter Horse Association annual show at the r,ii Ttomntinnai in Portland i iv- iiv.t..w. - Friday and Saturday. Rod Murray wm enter nis laou show stallion, Pistol Ray, In the halter class. This colt is out of an outstanding brood mare re cently purchased by Murray from Morris Ray of Prairie City. The horse won third at the Emmett, Idaho, show this summer. Monkey Cue, owned by Jim Valentine, will be entered in the reining and western pleasure class. This three-year-old stallion recently returned from California where he had been in training for cutting and reining. Ralph Beamer's Demlno Melo dy, a black quarter horse mare, is rapidly coming to the top in cutting horse competition. She won one go-around and placed first at Ellensburg, Wash., this summer and won the cutting contest in the open event at the Umatilla County Fair this year. She has been doing very well for the past three years, and will be entered in the cutting horse competition at the PL Other local people planning on attending the show in Portland Include Mr. and Mrs. William Smethurst, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Roice Fulleton and children. The Fulletons have Just bought two yearling permanent register ed quarter horse geldings from Eldon Harvey of Pendleton. The colts were sired by Jim Bloom's stallion named Barbeque. The Fulletons are now halter break ing them and getting them used to being handled at the home ranch. Mrs. Harry Duvall had as her dinner guests Monday evening, Congressman and Mrs. Al Ull man, Ron Ahern and Lyle Down ing. The Ullman's remained over until Tuesday afternoon. Other guests over Saturday and Sunday were Mrs. Duvall" cousin and husband. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Tubbs of Portland. GAZETTE- ( A flock of bouncing babies will be smiling, frowning ana ma king faces tor a patient pho tographer at J. C Penney Co. MaiiHn and Tuesdor. Oct. 17 and 18. Bay Mike Whitesmith. manager of tne store, rixj ria Up, a photographic concern .klrh work exclusively throusb Penner. will be at th store to take pictures of do dim ana cnu dren up to the age of fi years. The picture above was taken in Heppner last " Can you 'den tify the baby Elevator Fire At Emert Ranch Still Burning Delbert Emert's grain elevator about one and one half miles east of lone caught fire yester dav about noon and was still burning this morning. The 60-foot elevator was filled with from 20 to 30 thousand bushels of grain. Responding to the call yesterday were the Hep pner rural truck, the fire depart ments from lone, Ordnance, Ar lington, and volunteers. Cause of the blaze was thought to be slippage of a belt. The fire start ed In the top and burned from the top down. The elevator Is only three to four vears old and has been used as a feed mixing plant. It Is a wood frame structure with a metal facing. The fierce fire melted the metal and burned it as fast as the wood, witnesses said. The elevator was covered by Insurance but the grain was not. HenDner truck was called back to fight a stubble and grass blaze on the John Hanna jr. ran eh about five miles up Hin- ton creek about 2:30. Several hundred acres of Hanna's grass and stubble burned before the two rural rigs from Heppner were able to put the fire out, in the stiff breeze which was blowing at the time. Firemen were on the call until 6:00 p. m. The fire was started from stubble burning on the ranch. The Heppner rural truck was called back to the lone elevator, fighting It at press time. Silver Tea Will Benefit Library The new city library In the Library-Museum building will be the scene of a silver tea Sun-1 day afternoon between the hours of three and five when the Book-; worms entertain at a library, benefit. I Mrs. Ike Cole, president of the Bookworms and general chair man for the tea said that a con ducted tour by club members will be held for those who wish to become better acquainted with the library arrangement. All proceeds raised will be turned over to the library board to operate the library. The public is cordially invited to attend. Van Winkle Wins Jack Van Winkle won third prize in a contest sponsored by the Chevron company among 250 dealers. The contest was based on the increase of sales in the first seven months of the year over sales of the pre vious year. Van Winkle's prize is a Pol aroid Land Camera. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Anderson are at the coast this week vis iting friends at Coos Bay and Seaside. Heppner, Oregon. Thurs Joy, October 13, 1960 local Cattlemen Enter Top Stock In Show and Sale Kccicred Pulled Hereford cattle breeder will Bailor No v ember 11 at Pendleton to attend and participate In the eighth an nual show and 1 event .n ored by th Roundup Polled lien-ford Association, according to announcement ly ovulation president Jam Campbell. Sixty top quality bnvding anl-mi-u ulll he on display and the public U Invited to their official (.bowing at 9:30 A. M. John Roy. er. Potnetoy. Wash, will again officiate as Judge. Officers and committeemen In charge of arrangements Include. James Campbell. Lonenvk. pres. Ident; Roy Robinson, Mt. Ver nni mile committee chairman and members. B. J. Doherty. Hep pner and James Roth rock. Adams. Livestock entries Include con signments from those leading1 herds of Oregon and Washington. Floyd Worden. Heppner: Harvey Barnard, Estacada; Leo Barnett, Condon; Gerald Bergstrom. Hep pner; Stanley Crocker. Center vllle. Wash.; B. J. Doherty. Hep pner; D. B. Fleet, Island City; G. A. and Norman Ireland, On tario; Kirk and Robinson. Hep pner; James E. Roan, Ellensburg, Wash.; Roy Robinson. Mt. Ver non; James Rothrock. Adams; u'liiiim Minkoff. Clat s k a n I e: Charles Riemcke, Yakima, Wash; Ben Robinson, Imbler; Larry Starr. Summerville; Jack Sum ner, Heppner; John A. wani, Enumclaw. Wash.; Bill Wolfe. Wallowa and James E. Wolfe, Pomeroy, Wash. Hospital Auxiliary Gets Sewing Machine The HosDltal Auxiliary of Pio neer Memorial hospital, meeting at the Lexlncton City Hall Mon day, were told a used sewing machine had been purchased Tor , use in the hospital. Women ofi the Auxiliary do repair sewing, at the hospital and the machine) will be used in this work. It Is to be paid for by donations from the group. The Lexington women mem bers are sewing for the hospital during the month of October. Members present Included Irene Swanson, Faye Munkers, Lola Breeding, Ann Bergstrom, Catherine Thome, Virginia Rose wall, June Spencer, Leila Palmer, Faye Ruhl, Mrs. Harry Bongers, Velma Glass and Erda Peiper. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Ruhl and Mrs. Palmer. Rhea Creek 4-H Club Elects Officers The meeting of the Rhea Creek Livestock 4-H club was called to order by Vice President, Archie Ball. We elected officers for the coming year. They were: presi dent, Kenneth Wright; vice pres ident, Dale Van Blokland; sec retary, Gary Van Blokland; and news reporter, Bob Harris. Mr. Wilbur Van BJokland will be our leader for the new year. We voted to have our meet ings on the first Sunday of each month at 2:00 p. m. The meeting was adjourned and Mrs. Frank Anderson served refreshments. Bob Harris, reporter tn, r,i -' vr f j - r - &-) "J, t L Members of the Heppner CWic League axe busy thU wek preparing forThV Rummage Sale to be held at th old Central Market build na Oct 2122. Pictured are Mrs. Bob Flatt. Mrs. Calrln Sherman, of the Pickup committee. Mrs. Marlon Green and Mrs. Jim Prock. 0 M ES 77th Year, Number 32 SCHOOL CENSUS TO BE TAKEN Ruben Van I Knit. Morrow county nhool ui-fintedont, ha announced the school een mi utll U taken In th coun ty by th Parent Teacher As .HlatUn of the various itchooU. He ha urtfed full co-operation of all paivnts In supply ing Information about every thild In their home. He said that th money re ceived from the state 1 de pendant on the accuracy of the count and the number of children tabulated will affect the amount received. The census count I expec ted to be under way In the county next week, and must be completed by the end of October to comply with the stat law. Mourino Ncuberger To Be Entertained Here Tomorrow Mrs. Marcel Jones will be hos tess to a TV Coffee Hour for Maurlne Ncuberger at her home near Heppner according to Al Lamb, County Democratic Chair man. The affair will begin at 10 A. M. on Friday, October 14. with a TV broadcast over a statewide chain of station from Portland. This gathering will be duplicated In almost every Ore gon city. The Coffee Hour will continue through Mrs. Neuberger's state wide broadcast from 10 to 10:30 A. M. Issues. lone Candidates Selected Ione's mayor, Charles O'Con nor was nominated at Tuesday night's council meeting as a can didate for re election to the office of mayor at the November elec tion. Other candidates nominated for re election were: Mrs. Cleo Drake, treasurer; Mrs. Howard Crowell, recorder; these being 2 year terms. Councilmen for a 4 year term were Omar Rlet mann, Fred Martin and Roy Llndstrom. Councilmen remaining in of fice for another 2 years are, Mrs. Robert DeSpaln, Bill Rietmann, and James Barnett. Logger Escapes With Minor Injuries In Woods Mishap A Kinzua logger, Vern K. Evans, was found to have only bruises when cut out of the cab in which he was pinned Monday when the loaded truck he was driving turned over. The accident occurred on the Shaw creek grade, a long steep hill in the woods approximately 25 miles from Heppner. The trailer brakes apparently failed and the truck turned upside down at the foot of the grade. A logging crew working close by witnessed the accident and used a hacksaw to release the driver who was pinned in by the steering wheel. Gasoline fumes made it Impossible to use a torch. T - T' - rt , 1 ft t Richard Kononen's Death Occurs Monday At Pioneer Hospital Ittchard LaWnie Konunen i-dkx-d ay at IVmrrr Mem oilal tuopital Mnday morning He u Unn in lleji'in-r. h ;M. li'17. and had fcjx-iJ hi rn tu lf In th area rxeept hen am ay at mIhx.I IK wa lb koit tt Mr. itnJ Mr IVnJamlii Kornmen, attm dn th Heppner tkhool and graduated from Hepprur hlfih mIio4 In June. l'JVV June 19. !'."'., he wa united In tnarrlai: with Barbara Bark horn of Stotkton. California, at Stockton. II graduated from Oregon Stat College. June 6 of Ihl ear. I survived by hi widow Barbara, who Is a teacher at Stockton, California; his mother Kathleen Cx. one sister. Shirley Kotionen. grandparent. Mr. and Mrs. William Cunningham, and a step father. Clarence Cox. all of Heppner; and one step Pro ther Eddie Cox. of Colvllle. Washington; several aunt and uncles. Services were held at 2:00 p m. Wednesday at the All Saints' Episcopal church, the Rev. Bruce Seneor officiating, interment was In th Heppner Masonic cemetery. The family suggested contrl buttons b made to the Cancer Fund In memorlum. lone High Construction To Start In '61 Decision to offer a contract to Haysllp & Tuft, Portland ar chitectural firm, for construction of new hlch school at lone was reached at the regular school board meeting of the Morrow county board Monday night. The new building will be a six room unit, and Is expected to be located south of the present gymnasium. Construction Is expected to start in the late spring of 19G1. Haysllp 4 Turt receiveu me i. i.i on the Ilennner-Lexlngton high school to be located at Heppner earlier this year ana the sentiment of the board was that tax money could be saved by extending this bid to cover construction of the lone plant at this time. The board action Is In accord with the announced building for Morrow county erhnnl! over a four year period which calls for building In Hep pner, lone, Irrigon ana uoara man. The Heppner building, a four civ rnnm 11 n it. is to be built on the recently purchased Frank S. Parker land west of the city proper. Construction is expecieo tn st.-irt soon under a $130,000 special four-year serial levy passed by the voters at the last school election. The building win snrve for unner grades at first, but eventually is to De a complete high school plant with all facilities necessary. The 32-acre site will include, a foot ball field. The lone unit will be usea as il on completion, which is hoped for the 1961 fall term. Financing will come out of the second part of the four year serial levy, In the amount of $130,000.00. Third year plans call for con struction of additional class rooms and a multi purpose room at Irrigon; fourth year funds are ear-marked for relocation nr,H now facilities at Boardman when backwater from the John Day dam necessitates relocation of the town. . , Completion of the high scnooi at Heppner will be dependent on additional financing. At the Monday night meeting iha hnnrH also decided to open the Morgan street entrance into the new Heppner scnooi sue as tho first entrance. Plans cur rently call for another, as yet unnamed entrance, wnn a one way traffic plan at first Open ing the Morgan street entrance will enable the contractors to to the property with equipment necessary to start construction. In further business, the board decided that the bid for bus re pair from Kuhn's Garage, Board man, had been received too late and the work will continue to go to Taylor's Texaco at Irrigon. Barnett's Chevron Stution at lone was awarded the bid for bus repairs there as far as fa cilities will permit Any addit ional repairs will be assigned at the discretion of the local ad ministrator. Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Harri son of Othello v isited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burt Corbin this weekend. Mr. Harrison and his father, Thomas Harrison who was visiting In Lexington, went hunt;ng with Mr. Corbin. Gas Company Gives Details On Construction ( 'instruction f th Pacific Gas Trais.tiiUi.loti Cun.pany pljlln .toj.tt to carry natural gas from Alix-tia, Canada, to California i scheduled to lfc-in this fall. i.ptPM'iitatlv of th company aid her Wednesday. The find cf 43 mile tf pip will begin arriving at Hlnki M.m.lay. ho said. Th pip Is In 10 foot lengths, has a men niKl V diameter and Is on half Inch thick, and Is loaded 11 to i carload. Over a period of time, -o-vi , ,,u u in h. delivered at r. i v ... . ' " ... - ----- Hinkle, representing about 1S.0O0 tons. i,.i.,n ) ait a distribution center for the pip. Sixty-two miles In more than 7tW carloads ..111 .. ili'liW r.it there. Work will start at both locations soon In welding together two 4U iooi ix-tlt)na which is done before It Is moved to th field. v ..in., will be laid in this ..... until corinc although it U iMlng laid at both ends of th project during the winter ! Bnl.t. The winter work will consist of welding the pip ... i i. in,r iho bed where water Him ii.j .i-i - - - crossings, roads and highways. and other barriers occur. -i.. ni hfl laid In this area beginning In April. The work will ho done In sections, with .i.- ,.n,.n lavlnu slmultan- eously. In this area one of the outfits will work to lone i.vn. Bend and one will start at lone nd work to Rosalia, vvasning- ton. The Joint venture organization r Western Pipeline, Inc. of Aus- ir... h j p. Nelll and 1111, UA" .... " ' - Co., Inc. of Dallas was awarded he bid for the 4 iue nsl'- Hon from the tJaiuornia unc Rosalia, Washington. Repre ntatlves of this company are ...i .x in the county CXpcci--u IV soon. Although the contractors . .I..tl,. arttVt will bring certain special "" them to the Job, they plan to . i M n a rvc a . hi ire as many wormiieii ibl e locally along tne route ui ne. n...n ,.ianu mil for no perm anent Installations In Morrow than thf line It- COllIllJ' uiuli ii... self, the company representative suid. A future compressor station is planned at lone but there are no immediate plans for building it. The site is being acquired now, however. The pipeline will deliver 415 million cubic feet of natural gas dally Into California. It Is de signed to carry up to 800 million cubic feet At the present time the company does not have con tracts covering more than the 415 million cubic feet which will start flowing with completion of the line. Any installation at lone will be dedendent on obtaining more gas, he said. The proposed lone station will be an automatic station and will be serviced from both Hinkle, where a large ser vice crew will be stationed, and from Condon, which Is also scheduled for permanent, per ,.r.i r.t tminprl technicians. The OUl 1 V. 4 V v - site at lone will be used also to store pipe and equipment. wu.u takes up quite a large tract. Where the construction com panies will make their head quarters is pot known and will not be determined until company representatives arrive In the. area. No Influx of people which would cause any hardship on the facilities of the area, such as schools, is anticipated even from the construction crews, the Pac ific Gas Transmission Company representative said. If the present picture should change, authorities here will be notified Immediately, he indicated. The pipeline will be paying in taxes for more facilities than those connected with its operation will use, in all areas of the 1400 mile project, he said. The Pacific Gas' Transmission portion of the Alberta-California pipeline will represent a capital investment of around 120 million dollars, of which more than half will be spent in Oregon. "Al- , berta-California Pipeline will will have a good tax Impact on the county," the company rep resentative promised. El Paso Natural Gas Co. will receive 152 million cubic feet a day which will be delivered to Spokane and other points In Ore gon, Washington and Idaho, which El Paso may name. This will give an additional amount of gas to the three states for use. Total construction of the pipe line is expected to take about one year, though construction crews will not be In any one area more than an anticipated approximate three-month period. The gas is expected to flow In the early winter of 1961-62.