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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. MOHROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER PHONE 6-9228 The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. WESLEY A. SHERMAN HELEN E. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Associate Publisher NEWSPAPER PUIUSMIIS AflOOAKON Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $4.00 Year; Else where K50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. im,mHMiiii,miimmtHiii 11 tmitiHtiii Pray, What Season May This Be? During the past few days a number of requests have been directed our way for writing editorials: One prominent citizen complained that too many dogs are running at large and declared, "I wish you'd write an editorial." Another came in and told of the "squirrel" drivers that are "raising Cain" around town and keeping good citizens awake at night. He asserted that some young drivers travel as fast as 60 miles per hour on city streets and that it will only be a matter of time until some innocent child is killed. And Wednesday a rather frightened lady who had discovered that her young son was playing along the banks of Willow Creek suggested that we call the public's attention to the dangers of allowing children to play on the creek bank. These are worthy complaints that need to be called to the attention of all the public, no doubt. But we couldn't help but think that it wouldn't take much of a detective to figure out, from these stirrings, lust what season of the year this is. We'll try to kill three birds with one stone: As to the dogs, we don't have much hope, except to point out, rather wearily, once again, that we have the utmost respect for dog lovers. However, they must remember that just as it is with children other people may not think as highly or lovingly of theirs as they do. It is a good idea for each to do his best to see that his pets do not intrude on others. As to the "Squirrel" drivers, this comes close to home to us. We've battled that one zealously elsewhere but were hoping that the young citizens here would know better how to conduct themselves behind the wheel. To this time we have not person ally observed many vehicular violations by young drivers here, but there must be considerable by what we have been told by several residents in the past few days. Our position is squarely behind citizens who demand that youthful drivers live up to the law, and we will do everything we can that is consistent with this position. And as to Willow Creek, it is an enticing danger spot this time of year. The creek is running high, and as the sun comes out and children frolic about, it is the natural thing for them to head for the creek. Parents, still dull from the hibernation of winter, may not be so qiuck to think of the creek's temptations as the children. May this, then, serve as a reminder to them to take steps to prevent a drowning tragedy. Les, indeed, irresistible spring is here, but not all the stirrings it awakens in mankind are pointed towards sate and congenial pursuits. Now Is The Time to Register This is an off-presidential election year, and the interest is not nearly as great for the impending primary (May 18) ;is it is at a time when the presidency is betore the people for decision. However, there are a couple of contests that should enliven the local scene a bit, as well as some good races on the state and national levels upon which Morrow county residents will have a chance to cast ballots. There will be two state measures on the 6 limitation and on legislative salaries that are worthy of attention, and the county will present its measure calling for a road tax base to raise $115,000 annually in lieu of the serial levy that has brought some recent difficulty. There is enough to generate interest in the election so that u person need not think he will be voting from a sense of duty alone. Although election time is still more than a month and a half away, now is the time to think about registering. Qualified newcomers are reminded that deadline for registration is at 8 p. m. on Tuesday, April 17 in the county clerk's office of the courthouse. Anyone unsure about his voting status should check with the clerk. Now is the time to do it. April 17 Is only 1!) days awav and April 18 will be too late. Over The Tee Cup By DEE CRIBBLE Haiti, rain go away we want to play! nu me siari or goir lessons by instructor John ISnyder, we would at least like' to practice what we are learning. With the start of golf lessons This past week, in spite of th weather, has found ninny living to finish the hauling ..11 t . I I I I- men of soil to nil ill the swaninv area around On Sunduv. number 7 green. Ned Swock. Ed Si'liaffitz. Francis Doherlv. Clint Agee, Clint McQuarrie and Grib .spent the full day hauling and smoothing the new soil. Few were brave enough to start out Sunday, but did see VI and Conley l.anham, Donna and Harlan McCurdy, Bev and Kd Cundeison, Kay and Frank An derson, Judge Carntiehael, Morrie Croves and trances Doherty, fin ishing just before the rains came. Donna tells me there is Just one spot left for a lesson be tween 1 0 : ;U) and 11:00 on Sun day. Anyone wishing to avail himself of that time, check with Donna McCurdy. The slash crew lias taken the doubt out of "did tnv ball go in the creek, or didn't it?" It looks just grand all along the creek. Weather permitting, Ladles Day will start next Tuesday. If rain continues, please be my guest at a coffee hour at niv home at 10:00. We will elect new officers and plan our sum mer play. See you Tuesday, gals, rain or shine! WATER WELL DRILLING John Hwthoy Call Collect JO 7-6371 After 5:00 P. M. Bonded & Licensed Thursday, March 29, 1362 NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASKbciMTii mum i milium, urn mimimmiM High School Debaters Compete In Meet Debate teams fruin Heppner High school were entered in a district dehate tournament in Ilormiston on Friday, March 23. The affirmative team of Martha Doherty and Sandra Harshman won its debate with Pendleton. Laura Lee Sumner and Libby Van Schoiack upheld the negative in a dehate against Ilermiston's affirmative, and lost in a close decision. It was one in a series of "round robin" debates planned before the state tournament in April. W ASSDCftATICyN BE SAFE - BE SURE with PRESCRIPTION QUALITY Six Leltermen ' Workout at lone On Early Drills Six baseball lettermen, joined by nine other prospects, are working out regularly at lone high school for the diamond season ahead, Coach Glenn Biehl reports. Weather has held things pretty much in abeyance for the time, but it is hoped that a little sunshine will give the boys a chance to get in shape for the first game with Stanfield at lone on Friday, April 6. The Card inals last year lost two games and finished second In the league. They play in the Umatilla Morrow B league and will have four games in the circuit as well as three non-conference, includ ing two with Heppner. Veterans back for duty are Wayne Hams, catcher and out fielder; Bill Akers, outfielder; Rollie Ekstrom, pitcher and in fielder; Ken Klinger, outfielder and pitcher who was last year's leading hitter; Ken Nelson, out fielder; and Ron Crabtree, in fielder. Joining these lettermen are the following prospects; Mancell Townsend, catcher and outfield er; Steve Lindstrom, first base; Joe Palmer, outfielder; Bill Klinger, infielder; Dallas Dalzell, outfielder; John Rea, outfielder; Tom Pointer, infielder; Joe Halv orsen, outfielder; and Les Mad den, infielder. After opening against Stan field, the team plays Heppner at lone on April 10. On Friday, April 13, it goes against Uma tilla at lone, and then on Thurs day, April 19, meets Heppner at Heppner. Riverside travels to lone for a tilt on April 27, and St. Joseph faces the Cardinals In a non-league game at lone on May 4. Final game of the regular season will be with Umatilla at Umatilla on May 11. Heppner Hoopers Average 54.3 Points Per Game Heppner High school's basket ball team averaged 54.3 points per game in the season just ended, figures released by Coach Hob Cantonwine show. The squad scored 943 points, making good on 332 of 91)7 field goal attempts and hitting 279 or 496 fiee throw tries. Their field goal shooting average was .333 and free throw average was .57. The squad captured 203 of fensive rebounds and 391 defen sive rebounds. Through the season, the boys committeed 352 personal fouls, or an average of 19.8 per game. Lee Padberg led in scoring with 250 points on 88 field goals and 80 free throws; Bruce Moyer was second with 218 points on 83 field goals and 52 free throws; Shan Applegate had 140 points on 50 field goals and 40 free throws; Doug Dubuque had 96 points on 36 buckets and 24 gift tosses; and John Porter had 89 on 25 from the floor and 39 from the free throw line. Others scoring were: Dick Springer, 23 fg, 22 ft 68; LeRoy Gardner, 10 fg, 13 ft 33; Kit George, 7 fg, 3 ft 17; Ken Wright, 6 fg, 4 ft 16; Bill Cox 3 ft, 2 ft 8; and Ken Smith, 1 fg, 0 ft 2. Padberg also took top honors in rebounds, picking off 121 on defense and 55 on offense, Moyer was second on defense with 65, and Dubuque was second on of fense willi 39. In the number of violations committed, Mover and Applegate tied at 73 each with Padberg close behind with 56. Dubuque was the team's "mean man" with 66 personal fouls, followed closely by Padberg with 65 and WHEN YOU BUY THE BOTTLE OF 100 ONLY AQQ 7U ISt Vitamin -minerals MAINTENANCE' SQUIBB utailtotm VlGRAN 4 millllimilllllllHIHIIIIIIimiimiHIKHIimiHIIIHHItlllUHNUIMHIM Chaff and Wes Sherman llllllIIIIIIIHlMIIHHIIIimilM(IHIIHIIWHIMIIHIIHIMHIWM POOR MAX Barclay! He's a man without a party now. An ar dent Democrat who supported the election of President John Kennedy in 1960, he was listed as treasurer of the county com mittee supporting the reelection of Governor Mark Hatfield, Re publican, in a story released by Chairman Henry Peterson last week. It didn't take long after the paper was out for the telephone to start ringing at the G-T household. Fortunately, the ed itor wasn't home when the in itial shock wave reacted, and Max was restrained when he spoke to Mrs. Editor. But if Max was really hot un der the collar about it, he had cooled by the time we talked to him. He was inclined to think it would be a good Idea to be treasurer of a Republican com mittee so that he could collect more money from them to turn over to the Democrats. As for our part, we've got the list that Chairman Peterson brought in, and it says "Max Barclay, treasurer," plain as day. tor the benefit of Maxs Demo cratic friends, it wasn't his fault, so far as we can tell. Just this moment got a call from Chairman Peterson who ex plained that the treasurer should be Jack Barak, Lexington, and the mixup came due to the sim ilarity of last names. "It's a nice compliment for Barclay," said Peterson, "and it would be good for him to be on the committee, but we won't let him on." SPEAKING of the Hatfield cam paign, It is odd that all the county campaign chairmen around the state uttered the same words upon acceptance of their respective responsibilities. Quotation from Mr. Peterson, Morrow chairman, presented to us as follows: "In accepting the appointment, he (Mr. Peterson) said, 'Mark Hatfield's integrity, ability and record indicate an approach to government that is in the interest of all the people of Oregon." In going over the some 50 papers that we get as exchanges, we find the identical quotation from chairmen in each of the counties. In a story in The Dalles Opti mist announcing the appoint ment of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Keith as chairmen, for instance, are these words, "In accepting the appointment Keith noted that 'Mark Hatfield's integrity, ability and record indicate .... etc . . . . etc. . ." And so it went in the others. We voted for Mr. Hatfield in the last election and probably will again, but we think that his county campaign chairmen should be intelligent enough to speak for themselves without having words put into their mouths. TELEVISION GETS its wires crossed sometimes, too. We were watching the program, "Hawaiian Eye," the other night on Channel 2. Apparently the new KATU-TV, Portland, had a particularly strong signal that night and was interfering with the local channel. In this one scene, at a Hawaiian luau, a particularly shapely girl was doing a particularly smooth and flexible version of the hula while her audience watched silently spellbound. Suddenly the words boomed through, "It's the new 1962 Buick with the Hydramatic drive!" Well, we can't say for sure what model she was, but she possessed a Hydramatic drive all right. Moyer with 60. Moyer topped the team in as sists with 30, followed by Apple gate with 28 and Padberg with 16. NOW IS THE TIME Tc Buy Your Pork WE WILL CUT IT CUBE IT SMOKE IT GRIND TOUR SAUSAGE ALSO RENDER THE LARD ALL FOR ONLY NO CHARGE OR BRING IN TOUR OWN DRESSED PORK AND WE WILL PROCESS IT FOR YOU AS DESCRIBED ABOVE FOR 10c PER LB. Court Street Market Phone Chatter THESE SMART college kids! No. 1 son, home on spring va cation, picked up a copy of last week's Gazette-Times, and noted that his father (me) was on a committee of the Morrow County Livestock Growers association. "Broo-thur!" he exclaimed, "You never saw a cow before coming here!" But to new friends I say, don't you believe it. I remember seeing a cow once in Columbia county. NOT MANY MEN can tell their wives to "Go fly a kite" and get away with it. But Darrel Reisch, lone high school prin cipal, did last week. It was a nice windy day, the kids had a kite, and he suggested to Mrs. Reisch that she take them and fly a kite. So she did. WE HAVE mixed emotions about Mrs. Gladys Workman's book, "Only When I Laugh," conden sed version of which appears in the latest issue of Reader's Di gest. Our first school teaching job was at Elkton on the Ump qua, just a few miles from where Mrs. Workman lived, and that was about the time she was there. A number of the names she writes about were friends of mine, among them the "Mrs. Hudson" who operated the party line. I taught one of her child ren. These were fine people, and I am sure that Mrs. Workman means them no harm by bring ing out their more colorful and picturesque points. But somehow the method la distasteful to me, lust as were the characteriza tions in Betty MacDonald, who wrote "The Egg and I," some years back. It doesn't take much to pick out a fellow man's frail ties and make him look ridic ulous In the eyes of the world. Someone could do It to authors, too. Mrs. Workman didn't even bother to change their real names in her book. IN THE same Issue of the Read er's Digest is another article that we recommend to anyone who is a friend of magazines and newspapers to read. It is entitled, "Second-class Mail Rates Can Ruin First-Class Mag azines." They can ruin first class newspapers, too, and the proposed raise before Congress is a threat to all papers and magazines. Some fine magazines have been unable to weather the increasing high cost of publi cation, and the proposed raise will be a near knockout blow to others. The same is true for news papers. As we figure it, the Gazette-Times mailing expe n s e will more than double under the proposal. Those who value their publications should read the Reader's Digest article and then contact their Congressmen. FRIENDS of the Bob Penlands, ex-publishers of the Gazette Times, may be interested to know that they moved their Livermore (Calif.) Herald and News offices and plant into their new building in the week prior to March 20 at Livermore. The move culminates a long period of planning, construction, and hard work. ACTIVITY at Lexington and lone shows that spring is on the way. Lexington Implement and Padberg Machinery are busy getting farmers' equipment ready for spring, we noted on a launt there last week. And Paul Pettyjohn at lone is completing interior remodeling of his build- STAR THEATER Phone 6-9278 If no answer call 6-9452 FOR WRAPPING 6-9643 44c Attend Anniversary Of Corvallis Parents Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fergeson were in Corvallis Sunday, March 11, for the 60th wedding anni versary and open nouse oi rvirs. Fergeson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Slick. They remained until Wednes day to bring their son, Dennis, with them for his spring va natinn at firocron State Univer sity. He returned to college Sun day in company wun iiii ureen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Green. ing. It is going to be real nice. Offices are all paneled and the ivnrlr or on ovpn has new white ceiling tile above. It's going to make a real neat ana cozy piace of business. WE NEGLECTED to get a story in the paper about Lexington Oil Co-op after their annual meeting in February but note in talking with Manager Joel Engelman that the business had one of its Desi years in iox. Made gains in quite a few de partments. Only one prior year topped total sales. He and his crew were real busy the other day getting ready for spring business, too. Gazette Times is authorized dealer for Moore Business Forms in this area. Call 6-9228 for your needs. BUSINESS MACHINE SERVICE Office Supplies, Office Equip ment, Business Machines. IN HEPPNER 1st & 3rd Week of Every Month DON BALL, Sere. Dept. 120 Mala St., Hermlston Phone JO 7-51 H Just $59500 fx w HsrVi Color TV vatoe, ttyltrtg end perfontenca to ft your budget 8m the color-bright realism cf RCA'i ntw Clare-proof High Fidelity Color 7uU-tR unaurpaieed picture-pulling power d tuper-Powerful "New Vleta" Tuner. Yours In a handsome eJIwood Contemporary upright conaote. Enjoy performance-proved RCA Victor Color TV now at this low, low prtcel Qui tiSST TRUSTED KAMI ID TOEV18I0D Wm la Movti&i (otgi TV RCA COPPER BONDED SECURITY SEAL ED CIRCUIT BOARDS ARE PRECISION CRAFTED and are the most uniform . . . most dependable TV circuits ever devel oped. NO old-fashioned hand wiring to come loose or short circuit. Lott's Electric COMMUNITY Vf 'niLnif"MriS'lltljiij Coming Events ELKS DANCE Heppner, lone High school students, Elks hall Friday, 7:30 to 11:00 p. m. CARD PARTY Lexington Grange hall, Sat urday, March 31, 8:00 p. m. Admission: 50c each. DEDICATION New Arlington Meth o d i s t church, 11:00 a. m., Sunday, April 1. Open house at 3:00 p. m. SKIING AT-ARBUCKLE 4 ft. snow, good skiing if it isn't raining. This space will be used each week to announce com ing events of a public service nature at no charge. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency Heppner P. O. Box 611 PH. 6-9625 1962 Wirt Dlinty Production. Li'dwij Von Dilkl llirl in Walt Disniv's "Wondntul World at Color" Sundayi on NBC Tba BARRJE Mfl UUA SW1W MVVWM tanjurHnetipiciurt nauuoino I Tha BARRJE (M CP 369 N. Mala Ph. 6-5811