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City Dads Authorize 2nd Burner Miscellaneous matters ranging from a muscle-building bar for the city park to a second burner for the city dump were covered at an hour-long meeting of the city council Monday night with Mayor Al Lamb presiding. Acting on a motion by Council man Ed Gonty, the city dads voted to authorize construction of the burner at a cost in the neighborhood of $895. It was pointed out that the burner is needed to alleviate fire hazard and to handle the volume of debris hauled to the dump. Noting that insurance coverage on the swimming pool building is inadequate at only $1000, the council voted to increase insur ance on the structure to $5000, calling for an added premium of about $53 for two years left to run on the original policy, A letter was read from Man ager Jerald Rea of Tri-County Equipment Company expressing appreciation to the council for their permission to use the street and sidewalk for equips ment on John Deere Day recently, As a result of Leonard Schwarz calling attention to a dangerous situation at the foot of the hill on Chase street, the council voted to install a stop sign at the northeast corner of the lntersec tion with Cannon. Stop signs previously were erected on the west side of the intersection and on the south. Several councilmen noted that the spot was scene of several accidents and more "near misses. Mayor Lamb called attention to the fact that budget time is approi hcang danau lm approaching and authorized the finance committee, composed of Councilmen Carl Spaulding, Le Roy Gardner and Ed Gonty, to start work on the preliminary budget. He asked that city de partment heads have estimates of their needs for the coming fis cal year by the time of the May council meeting. A request by the Heppner-Mor-row County Chamber of Com merce to block Willow street near Hotel Heppner for "Salute to Spring" festivities on April 14 was approved, and the coun cil also gave permission to hood parking meters for that day. Request to install no parking signs on the alley near Creswick Mortuary was considered by the council. After discussion it was decided that the councilmen should go look at the situation and decide on the matter later. Proposal to add to playground equipment at the city park was considered. City Superintendent Vic Groshens proposed that some type of horizontal bar for child ren to climb on be installed. The matter was left to a committee composed of Councilmen Earl Ayres, Gardner and Conley Lan ham for decision. Building permits were author ized as follows; Paul Doherty, 348 North Main, to alter and re pair living quarters in the Hepp ner Laundry Building, $8000; Stanley Cox, 560 E. Cowins, al teration of residence, $5900; A, L. Daggett, 545 Minor Street, alter ation of residence, $2000; and N. D. Bailey, 280 W. Water, repair burned out area in apartment, $2800. Two Days Left On 2-for-1 Sale Both new and old subscribers of the Gazette-Times have only two days left to take advantage of the 2 for 1 plus lc offer, the publishers state. Final date of the sale is Sat urday, April 7, and the offer will not be repeated after that time. Until then a person may take out a new or renewal subscrip tion at the regular rate and re ceive another year's subscrip tion for lc (plus postage out of the county). Many new subscribers have been added since the start of the campaign two weeks ago, ex panding the Gazette-Times "fam ily" considerably. Final First Aid Course Starts April 9 Third, and last, in the series of standard American Red Cross First Aid classes is scheduled to begin April 9, at the home of the instructor, Bill Crook, Anyone interested in taking advantage of this last course is asked to contact Mr. Crook by Monday noon, April 9, so names can be placed on regis tration. Two and one-half hour classes will be held on April 9, 13, 20 and 27, with certificates given on the last night. Response has been very good to other classes held during the year. Judy Brannon Tries Monorail, 'Needle' One of the first in Heppner to ride the Monorail at the site of the forthcoming Seattle World's Fair was Judy Bran non who was a visitor in Seattle from Friday through Monday. She also went up to the observation platform of the space needle. Both experiences were thrilling, she said. Judy made the trip from Pendleton by air and visited with her friend, Robert Laugh lin, while in Seattle. b 10 Cents Community Opens Hearts To Danny Benefit Dance At lone Legion Hail People in the area whose emotions have been touched by concern over the well-being of four-year-old Danny AUers of lone following a freak accident DANNY AKEHS Al Lamb Back From Trip East; Eyes Farm Plans Prospects are that the national farm program will be a "con tinuation of what he have," Al Lamb, manager of Morrow Coun ty Grain Growers, said upon his return from a trip of nearly three weeks that took him to Wash ington, D. C. He left March 15 and was back over the week end and reported on the trip to the Heppner-Morrow Cou n t y Chamber of Commerce Monday. "It is hard to say what will haDnen." he said, but . pointed out that only 84 representatives in the House are from truly farm areas and only 30 in the senate are considered true representa tives of farm states. He said that there is consid erable unhappiness in Congress with the present program as be ing too costly. The administra tion's wheat program is similar to the Wheat League's proposal, but Lamb said that he doubts if it will go through. In Washington, he attended the directors' meeting of the National Association of Farmer Cooperatives after stopping at a meeting of the National Feed and Grain Dealers in Denver, , Colo, He said that he was interested in the new tax bill that will tax patrons on earnings of coopera tives, which in effect is a tax on cooperatives. The bill has been passed out of the House, and Lamb said that he feels it is a "pretty fair method of hand ling the matter." In Washington, he visited with Congressman Al Ullman, Sena tors Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuberger, and Congress man Walter Norblad. Rep. Ullman is now back on full time work in Congress after a serious auto accident that resulted in loss of a leg. Mrs. Ullman, who has been wearing a cast under her right arm, has now discarded it in favor of a brace. ) V v, . ? Heppner High To Host Invitational Trade Meet Probably the biggest track meet ever to be held in Heppner will be Saturday when the Hepp ner Invitational is staged, Ath letic Director Bob Cantonwine of the high school here said Wed nesday. Field events start at 1 p. m. and running events will be at 2. Eleven schools have sent en tries for the meet, and some outstanding competition is ex pected in running events partic ularly. Besides the host school, the following will be represen ted: Weston, McEwen, Arling ton, Umatilla, Riverside, Condon, Wheeler, Stanfield, all B schools; John Day and Pilot Rock, A-2 schools. Host Heppner is A-2. lone, which is not featuring track this year, may also send some competitors. One race that looms as a clas sic is that between Lee Padberg of Heppner High and Terry Smith of McEwen in the mile. Smith won the mile at the Mac Hi Speed Carnival Friday, but Padburg was close on his heels. Ron Carnes of Pilot Rock and Eddie Howard of Heppner will stage another duel in the 100. Howard turned in a time of 10.2 at Mac-Hi Friday for a new school mark. All Morrow county high schools Gazette-Times aturday in January will have a further opportunity to show it Saturday night at the lone Legion hall, A community sponsored dance is planned in his behalf with many of the organizations joining to gether to make it a big affair. Little Danny, son of Mr. and Mrs. .Libert Akers, has shown a tremendous spirit through all the medical treatments connec ted with surgery and time spent in hospitals in Heppner ana fen dleton during the past three months. He is showing marked improvement but must still visit his doctor each week. Music for the dance will be furnished by Rietmann s orches tra. Organizations are donating cakes for a cake walk and food for the supper served with the lone Garden club in charge. Tickets have been on sale for some time for $1 per ticket, The dance is set to begin at 9:0U p. m. Danny suffered serious Intern al injuries in a freak accident January 25 when a car being serviced in his father's garage in lone rolled on a hoist and pinned the child against the wall. Surgery has been necessary twice and his parents have been most appreciative of the help toward meeting medical expen ses. He was four years old last Christmas, Red Cross Total Hits $925 Here Annual campaign for the American Red Cross in Morrow county has reached $925 in total donations to date, Mrs. H. J. Stroeber, publicity chairman, said. This is still far short of the re vised goal, now set at $1021, Work of solicitation is contin uing in Heppner and throughout the county in an effort to reach the quota. Mrs. Stroeber reminded the public that the Red Cross in Ore gon, tor the year ending June 30, 1961, gave help to 11,064 ser vicemen or their families and assisted 4,681 veterans or their families. Red Cross disbursed $54,100 either in interest-free loans or in outright grants. J he regional blood center, In Portland, collected 61,330 pints of blood in Oregon and south western Washington, and a total of 46,959 pints 'of blood Was provided for patients in 77 hos' pitals serving 31 counties in Ore gon. Absentees May Vote On School Budget Registered voters who will not be in the county at the time of the annual school budget elec tion, to be held April 16 from 2 to 8 p. m may cast ballots by absentee, Administrator Ro bert Van Houte points out. To qualify for an absentee bal lot the registered voter must ap ply more than five days prior to the election, making the dead line April 11. Application should be made to Beverly Gunderson, clerk of the school district, at the county courthouse, will be in the meet and most of the teams in the Morrow Umatilla B league will be par ticipating. Representing Heppner in the various events will be: 100 yard, Bill Weatherford; 220, Howard McBath; 440, Bruce Moyer and Larry Muessig; 880, Padberg, Gene Wallace, Dean Robinson; mile, Padberg, Alvin Wagenblast, Doug Anderson; low hurdles, Archie Ball and Don Munkers; high hurdles, Ball and David Proudfoot; broad jump, Mayer, Weatherford, Howard; high jump, Doug Dubuque; Pole vault, Ball; discus, Moyer, Dubuque, Merlin Hughes; javelin, Du buque, Munkers, Lovgren; shot put, John Porter, Bruce Spencer, Hughes. Cantonwine said that the host school is hoping for a good day for the invitational, which has been held here for several years but in the past has not attrac ted so many entries as this year, The public is invited, and no admission will be charged. A good turnout would be apprec iated, Cantonwine said. The Mustang eindermen will travel to the Arlington invitation on April 14 and will hold the Willow Creek relays here on April 21. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 5, 1962 ft - . I . i - " ',M---y " ) " , . , is ." DARREL REISCH lone Principal Takes Boise Post After Year Here Darrel Reisch, administrative principal at lone High school for the current school year, has accepted a position as vice- prin cipal of a Boise, Idaho, junior high school and will leave after the close of school in June. Announcement of his decision is expected to be made at the school board meeting Monday night. He had been tendered a contract for the coming year, along with other administrative principals in the system, but he said this week he believes the new position will attordi greater opportunity in the educational field. It is possible that it may ieaa to a pnncipaiship in the large system within a reason able time. About 800 students will be In the school that he will serye, Reisch came to lone from Kuna, Idaho, where he was high school and junior high principal. He-is a graduate of Northwest Nazarene college, Nampa, Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. Reisch have four children. County Administrator Robert Van Houte said that he regretted that the system is losing Reisch. Four Young People In One-Car Accident Four young people were shaken up and two of them re ceived lacerations in a one-car accident 12 miles south of Hepp ner on highway 207 near the Ray Wright home early Sunday morning. Mike Lessor, 17, Heppner, driv er of the car, and Fran Heath, 16, Heppner, were treated for cuts my a doctor and released. The other two passengers, Pat Mahon, 16, Heppner, and Joe Taylor, 24, Cecil, were shaken up but required no medical at tention. Wednesday morning Miss Mahon was receiving treat ment on her back, she reported. The older model Ford sedan turned over once and landed on the wheels in the Ray Wright field as Lesser lost control on the curve. The car was badly damaged In the accident. Gates, Signs Stolen On Bombing Range Theft of a number of gates, signs and electric fencing on 25,000 acres of land in South east Parcel B, Boardman Bomb ing Range, was reported to Sher iff C. J. D. Bauman by Van Hub bard, lone rancher, Wednesday, Hubbard has offered a $100 re ward for arrest and conviction of those responsible and extends the offer to include anyone found guilty of destroying prop erty or trespassing on the land in the future. He said that he is leasing the land and will be running cattle on the property. Removal of the gates and fencing can cause ser ious loss to him, Hubbard said. He believes that the damage was done sometime Sunday or Sun day night. Kid Costume Winners To Receive Prizes Prizes will be given to the three kids in the funniest cos tumes in Spring Salute parade on Saturday, April 14, Chair man Randall Peterson announ ces. First prize will be $5, sec ond $3, and third $2. In addition, each child in the parade will receive an ice cream bar, 100 to be furnished by Morrow County Creamery and 100 by Hager's Dairy with their compliments. If more are needed, the Chamber of Com merce will make arrangements to provide them, Peterson said. All children are urged to plan now to take part 79th Year, Number 5 Laird Men Members Of '25-Year Club Death of John F. Laird in Hermiston March 26 at the age of 91 brought to light an oddity on the masculine side of the Laird family tree. The elderly Mr. Laird was just 25 years older than his only son, Floyd E. Laird, who lived with him at Hermiston. In turn, Floyd is exactly 25 years older than his only son, Harold Laird, of Heppner. And to complete the "25-year slub" of only sons, Tommy Laird, only son of Harold Laird, is just 25 years younger than his dad. Blood Bank Visit Due Here Soon; County Quota Set Organization of the annual American Red Cross Blood Bank program is now underway in the county, headed by Mrs. Or vllle Cutsforth, chairman. A quota of 90 pints Is set as this year's goal when the mo bile bank makes its visit here the afternoon of Monday, April 23. It has been a year since the last visit of the unit. It Is hoped that at least 120 possible donors will be registered by the date of drawing. To fulfill donor requirements, one must be between the ages of 18 and 59. Lengthy require ments include: donor should not have had a blood transfusion or surgery within the past 6 weeks before drawing; must not have had vaccination, allergy shots or antibiotics within two weeks before; must be one year after pregnancy, full-term or mis carriage; two weeks since a cold, flu, sore throat or fever, 1 week since dental surgery or tooth extraction; 24 hours since dip therla, tetanus, polio, typhoid or tick shots, and 24 hours after vitamin or liver shots. Registration can be made any time between now and April 23 with Mrs. Cutsforth, or she will be happy to answer any ques tions regarding the program. Need is great in our hospitals at all times. She encourages every one to "make a pint investment in your Blood Bank if you ever need a 'dividend,' It will be ready for you to withdraw." School Paper Gets National Honor The Hehisch, Heppner High of'Vinnl ctllrlont TlPWKnnrMT. hns ' reCeived First Class Honor Rating in the National Scholastic Press association competition, the staff and Mrs. Margaret Kirk, advisor, have been advised. Approximately 1000 papers were entered, and only four in the same classification ranked higher than the Hehisch. They attained Ail-American ranking. The Heppner High paper was one of only six mimeographed papers in the nation to receive First Class Honor rating. This Is the second such honor to come to the staff this year. The Hehisch also received a first class rating from Columbia Scho lastic Press association, one of very few papers in the state of Oregon to be so recognized. Ed itors are Bob Irby and Don Hughes. 'Salute to Spring' Style Show Set Five Heppner firms will co operate in presenting a style show of spring apparel at the Merchant's "Salute to bpnng" on Satorday, April 14, Chairman Randall Peterson announces. Some 30 high school girls and boys will participate as models in the show which will be held near Hotel Heppner on Willow street, weather perm 1 1 1 1 n g. Among those wno win iurnisn clothing are J. C. Penney Co., Elma's Apparel, MiLadies, Wil son's Men's Wear and Gonty's Shoe Store. Sportswear and spring lines will be featured. Esther Kirmls Is making ar rangements for the show and Beverly Davidson will be com mentator. This will be just one feature of the gala day planned by the merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The downtown spring parade will start at 2 p. m. with both Heppner and lone high school bands and the Heppner High First National Buys Bond Issue With an effective interest rate of 3.22, the First National Bank of Oregon was low bidder on the Morrow County School dis trict R-l bond isuse of $870,000 when bids were opened at 2 p. m., Monday. Sale of the bonds was awarded to the bank at a meeting of the school board Monday night. U. S. National Bank submitted the only other bid on the bonds, and its ettective interest rate was 3.3685, just slightly high er than First National, Admin istrator Robert Van Houte said The bond issue was voted in the Gala Carnival Slated April 14 Annual Band Parents' carnival is set for Saturday, April 14, at the air Pavilion complete with supper, band music and fun games throughout the evening. Starting off the gala event is the supper at 5:00 p. m. with musical entertainment during the 5-7 p. m. serving time pro vided by the school bands. A full evening of entertain ment planned to please all from 6 to 60 will continue with lots of excitement. Back again is the ever-popular dunk tank, fish ponds, dart throw, and added this year are the cork gun shoot and cotton candy stand. Bud Peck, club president, stat ed the committees have worked hard on the project and every thing is nearing readiness for the expected crowd. Funds raised from this annual event are used to purchase uni forms for the Heppner bands and for scholarships to send de serving band students to a month's summer school at Wash ington State university. Science Fair Set This Week-end School science fair, with" ex hibits from science departments of both grade and high schools, will be In the elementary school multipurpose room Friday even ing, starting at 7 p. m., and on Saturday from 9 a. m. until noon, Don Cole, science teacher, an nounces. Many different models and science projects will be on dis play at the fair which is held In cooperation with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. The local fair is preliminary to the regional science fair in Pen dleton next week. Students of Willard Staley, physical science teacher at the high school, Don McClure, biol ogy, and Cole will participate locally. The exhibits will be judged' and certificates awarded for the best ones. The public is invited to the fair. Skiing Still Good On Arbuckle Course Skiing is still good at Arbuckle Mountain course with about three feet of packed snow on the run and four feet of un packed snow In other places, Ken Peck of the Arbuckle Mt. Ski club states. It is expected that ski en thusiasts will still be able to pursue the sport until later this month, he said. Road condition to the course is much improved, although thaw may make it pretty mushy in spots. WEATHER (Leonard Gilliam, observer) HI Low Prec. Thursday 58 29 Friday 60 29 Saturday 66 35 Sunday 67 30 Monday 63 31 Tuesday 63 39 Wednesday 68 39 .11 drill team participating. Queen Ronnie Belsma, "Miss Salute to Spring," accompanied by her princesses, Rose Nash and Julie Pfeiffer. will lead the parade and reign over the event. Car dealers will supply new 1962 autos to carrv them In style. Cub Scouts and Bluebirds will be in the line of march together with all kids of the community who wish to dress in costume, Chairman Peterson said. Oene Pierce will be parade announcer. The style show will be after the parade, and the trampoline and unlcycle acts of Mark, Joe and Frank Halvorsen and Tom Heimbigner will be a special attraction on the downtown street. Parking meters will be hooded for the day by special permission of the city council. Merchants throughout the community will have new spring lines on dis Plav, together with goods for Easter. Many will offer special bargains throughout the week end. district by a narrow margin on February 26. The interest rate was consider ed favorable by the school board. In estimates made at the time the bond issue was proposed to the public, the board had used the tentative figure of 3.7 in terest. The actual interest to be paid to First National over the 20-year period will be approxi mately $37,000 less than that fig ured In the early estimates. However, under terms of the bid, interest will be paid on the redemption of the bonds at the rate of 4 for the first four years (1963-66), then drop to 3y4 for the next 14 years (1967-1980). The final two years (1981-82) will be paid at the rate of 3 interest. Incorporated in the effective interest rate is a premium al lowed of 6c per $100 of the bond issue. It is expected that sale of the bonds will be culminated some time this month, Van Houte said. Funds will be placed In savings accounts at interest un til needed, he said, bringing some return back to the district. With the bonds sold, the school board lost no time pro ceeding towards construction of buildings at Heppner and Irrigon. The members met with Archi tect Stewart Tuft Monday night and went over the plans for the Heppner-Lexington High school and the Irrigon grade schwI addition In detail. Plans for the high school building were approved but those for Irrigon had been ap proved previously. The architects were advised to proceed with detailed plans and specifications and to have them ready as soon as nossible so that call for con struction bids may be expedited. Call for bids on the A. u Houehton school addition may be ready by early May, and that for the Lexington-Heppner High school may be ready by later the same month, Van Houte saidi. The Irrigon addition will In clude cafeteria, library and classrooms, while the Heppner Lexington High school will be a complete high school unit with physical education plant, class rooms, library, science rooms, vo cat ional shop, homema king room, multipurpose room and other facilities. The present Unlt- A will form one part of the new building. . Seniors Place Most Students On Honor Roll Honor roll of students in Hepp ner Hum scnooi acnieving a grade point average of 3.25 and better have been announced for the first nine weeks of the sec ond semester. Seniors topping this average Include Beverlv Blake. 3.50: Don ald Clark, 3.33; Ronald Creswick, 3.33; Cheryl Crist, 3.33; Kenneth Daggett, 4.00; Beverly Davidson, 3.33; Norma Fergeson, 3.57; San dra Harshman, 4.00; Rose Nash, 3.33; Nancy Peck, 3.33; Judy Schmidt, 3.80; Mary Shannon, 3.33, and Linda Van Winkle, 3.66. On the list from the junior class are Shan Applegate, 3.66; Jackie Brindle, 3.50; Ann Jones, 4.00; Shirley Carlson, 3.33; Mar tha Doherty, 4.uo, ana i.aura Sumner with 3.83. The three sophomores making top grades were Jennifer Brindle, 3.33; uall HosKins, j.jj; anu Bill Sherman 3.83. Freshmen honor students in clude Carl Bauman, 3.66; Barb ara Blake, 3.50; Lee Daggett, 3.50; Stuart Dick, 3.0b; Tony Dohertv. 3.33: Jean stocKaru, 3.66; Mike Sweek, 3.50, and John Wagenblast, 3.&U. Two Cars Damaged In Collision Sunday A two-car accident on a city street here Sunday morning re sulted in slightly damaged cars and no Injuries to persons In volved. The accident happened at an Intersection on the Heppner cemetery hill road when a late model car, driven by Tom Wells, Vancouver, Wn., hit the left front side of a car driven by Mrs. Leonard Schwarz. Mrs. Schwarz, alone in her car, was going south on the hill road and Wells, ac companied by Mrs. Wells, was traveling west on tne cross roaa. Wells had lust purchased his car from a local dealer, it was reported. Ads Needed Early For April 12 Paper Because of the extra work involved in publication of the "Salute to Spring" edition of the Gazette-Times, early ad vertising copy is needed. Any merchants who are able to get material ready Friday for next week's ads will find an appreciative response from the staff. They are asked to call the paper when ready if they are not contacted by a staff member previously. Help will be given gladly on layout or other problems. It is planned to publish a special Spring Salute section. Extra copies of the paper will be sent to boxholders in out lying communities near Mor row county.
