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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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church, 11:00 a. m., Sunday,
April 1. Open house at 3:00
p. m.
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