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I I S F A ?. Y U OF 0 r Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 12, 1962 Gazette-Tim 10 Cents 79th Year, Number 6 ' YvV- 'Wv C): " 7 USi BOARDING one of the Air Force's new supersonic T-38 Talons while a ground crewman looks on is 2nd Lt. Lowell T. Turner, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Winchester of Heppner. Lt. Turner receiv ed his pilot wings at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, March 30. (Official U. S. Air Force Photo) Heppner Man Wins Wi ngsfor Jet Talon' The first Air Force student pilots to blaze their way through basic (raining in supersonic air craft received their pilot wings at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, March 30. Among the graduates was 2nd Lt. Lowell L Turner, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Winchester of Hepp ner. Lieutenant Turner and his classmates spent the past six months at Air Training Com mand's Randolph Air Force Base in Texas learning to fly the Air Force's new supersonic T-38 "Talon." The T-38, which is built by the Northrop Corp., Is a high performance jet trainer that holds the unique position of be ing just split seconds behind the nation's most modern combat aircraft, the F-110, for the inter national time-to-climb record. The T-38 is capable of speeds in excess of Mach 1.2 (850 mph) in level flight. Mr. and Mrs. Winchester miss ed seeing their son graduate by one day, having made a trip to Randolph two weeks ago but failing to arrive for the cere mony. Lt. and Mrs. Turner ac companied them on the home ward trip as far as Boise, Idaho, and then spent some time visit ing in Bend and Redmond. They are expected to arrive here this week while he is on leave. After returning to duty, Lt. Turner will be stationed at Phoenix, Ariz., for continued training. Mrs. Winchester, who operates Lois' Beauty Shop, said that she didn't climb in one of the planes that her son flies. "I was afraid to," she said, adding, "I don't see how he knows what all those gadgets are for." The graduation marked a ma jor milestone in Air Force pilot training history and points with significance to the quantum leaps the Air Force pilot training program has taken in recent years. For example, not too many years past student pilots began their training in the PT-17 and Leonard Herrick Named for lone Leonard Herrick, who has taught at Helix for six years and the last two as principal, was offered a contract by the Morrow county district school board Mon day night to become administra tive principal at lone. His wife, Esther, also was of fered a contract to teach in the grade school at lone. They have one 12-vear-old son. Herrick will succeed Darrel Reisch who recently announced that he has accepted a position at Boise, Idaho, but since then 4 has been offered the new posit ion of director of special services in Morrow county. The board received resig nations of Mrs. Mary' Lou Dal toso of the elementary school at Boardman, of Mrs. Maxine Riet mann at lone and Mrs. Robert Johnson of Lexington. COME, progressed to the T-6 for their basic training. The T-6, which was considered a pretty hot air craft by students then, had a top cruising speed of about 160 mph less than the landing speed of the T-38. Aslronauts Sheppard, Grissom Continuea From Page 6 Children to Have Free Pictures, Paper to Publish It is an undisputed fact that the responsibilities of tomor row's world, our Nation, and Community will rest upon the shoulders of the children of to day. Since this is true, the pub lishers of this newspaper would like to give you a good look at these future "World Builders," The only way we can do this is by publishing pictures of them in a feature series. To assure the latest and best reproduction pic tures they must all be of uni form size and quality. An expert children's photog rapher with all the necessary equipment for this specialized work will be at lone Thursday, April 26, at the banquet room of Stefani's Fine Foods from 10 a. m. until 7 p. m., and in Hepp ner Friday, April 27, at the Heppner Hotel, from 10 a. m. to 7 p. m. There is no charge to parents. There are absolutely no strings to this invitation. It is bonaflde in every sense of the word. Par ents do not have to be subscrib ers, nor even readers of this newspaper to take advantage of this feature. Neither are they ob ligated to purchase pictures after they are taken. Those who want some additional prints may ob tain them by arrangement with the Studio representative when they select the pose they want printed in the paper. It is en tirely up to them. The Gazette-Times sim p 1 y wants pictures of all the young sters and the more, the better. Children who have been photo graphed for this feature In prev ious years are especially invited to return, so that we may see how they have changed. So the mothers and fathers of the com munity in which this newspaper circulates should remember the dates and not fail to bring their children to the photographer. Parents will be mighty glad afterwards, if they did, and very, very sorry if they do not permit their children to participate in this event. The kiddies will have much fun and both mother and dad and the youngsters, too will be very proud to see their picture" in print later. No ap pointment is necessary. There is no age limit. Those responding may come at any time during studio hours. All children must be accompan ied by a parent or guardian. Photography will be handled by Woltz Studios of Des Moines. ;0W THE Central Market Changes Revealed Promotion of Forrest Burken bine to store manager of Central Market is announced this week by Clint McQuarrie, general manager and owner. At the same time, McQuarrie announced that Ernest McCabe has been en gaged to operate the meat de partment, coming here from Bay City, McCabe, a Morrow county man, formerly worked as meat department manager at Bris tow's in lone for some 11 or 12 years. He and his wife have four children and will live in a house to be vacated by the Robert Snow family and owned by Dr. C. M. Wagner. The Snows are moving to La Grande. Burkenbine has been employ ed by the McQuarries since the new store was opened in Feb ruary, 1960. Prior to that he op erated the meat department in the old store for two years. WEATHER (Leonard Gilliam, observer) Hi Low Prec. Thursday 65 38 Friday 69 42 Saturday 56 38 .53 Sunday 50 41 .07 Monday 52 28 Tuesday 58 3- Wednesday 64 37 Claude Cox Still Lively Years of Operating Morrow County Creamery W. O. (Claude) Cox, whose plain-spoken witticisms and joshings to the man on the street qualify him as one of Heppner's most colorful persons, looked back this week on 46 years in business here. He confided that he is as eager, alive and rarin' to go as when he first entered the Morrow County Creamery on April 1, 1916. Those who know him (and who doesn't?) realize that this is true. The man who has guided the creamery to a gross volume of more than $100,000, triple of what it was a number of years ago, is on the job every day pro ducing Pride of Oregon ice cream and butter. "Pride of Oregon" is no mere catch-title for Morrow County Creamery products in the mind of Cox, who shares ownership of the business with his wife, Clara. She has been a partner since 1938. No one could be more proud of his business and his products than Claude, who leaves nothing undone to maintain best standards of quality. Fiercely indepen dent, Cox points out that he is the only remaining independent cream ery in Eastern Oregon and one of the few independents left in the state. Assisted by his son, Bill, who has been with him for 25 years, the lively man who hailed from Virginia markets his products in Gilliam, Wheeler and Morrow counties, running regular routes to stores and outlets in these FUN AT HEPPNER'S R-l Board Hears Charges on Buses, yes Riverside Site Complaints that some of the buses operated by Morrow Coun ty School District R-l have been on the road in an unsafe con dition reached a climax at the regular board of director's meet ing Monday night. Several resi dents of the district spoke on the matter that was presented in detail last week by Andy Van School Budget Vote Due Monday Across County Vote on the 1962-63 budget of Morrow county school district R-l will be Monday from 2 to 8 p. m. Ballots may be cast by registered voters at polling places in the area in which they live. Polling places and election boards are as follows: Irrigon (A. C. Houghton school) Marguerite Houghton, chairman, Itol Rucker, Minnie Skiles. Boardman (Riverside school) Margaret Thorpe, chairman, El vira Harwood, Grace Macom ber. Ruggs-Hardman (Rhea Creek Grange hall) Harriet Hall, chairman, Mildred Wright, Mary Wright. Heppner (Elementary school) Laurel Van Marter, chairman, June Spencer, Edda Lovgren. Pine City (schoolhouse) Bea trice Luciani, chairman, Barbara Witherrite, Carmen French. lone (high -scnool ) Donna Bergstrom, chairman, Margaret Akers, Kathenne Lindstrom. Lexington (schoolhouse) Del pha Jones, chairman, LaVern Henderson, Lorina Ledbetter. Although total general fund expenditures in the budget will be up some $24,500 above the current year's total, an increase in receipts from sources other than taxes will mean that tax levy will be slightly down. The amount above the 6 lim itation on which voters will cast ballots is $484,160 as compared . n it Atn t J iL . i ji a. 4 with $197,162 in the budget for 1961-62. No one appeared to remon strate on the budget at the hear ing Monday, March 26. The esti mates were published in two issues of the paper recently and copies of these are available for anyone who wishes to see them. An explanation of the budget was also printed in a news story in one of the issues of publi cation. f tz CLAUDE COX, standing beside County Creamery, is observing his 46th anniversary in the business here this month. areas. Stores in Condon sell more Pride of Oregon than any other place, he points out. In the winter, Bill is on the road four days each week and in the summer, six days per week, going as far as Kinzua, Monument and Arlington. Be- Schoiack in a letter to the editor of the Gazette-Times. Agreement was reached later in the meeting when the board proposed that the Hardman bus, particularly, be brought in for a garage check every two weeks. The charges centered on the Hardman bus which was said to have harder use than others be cause of the type of roads on which it travels. This problem and the perplex ing matter of where to locate the relocated Riverside high school, as well as when to make the decision on the new site, occu pied most of the time at the long board meetine. Conflicting views on the north end site have been presented by residents of Boardman antl Irrigon with the communities differing in their ideas on where the school should ue locarea. The board took the position that a recommendation of the Boardman and Irrigon advisory boards should be made prior to a formal decision. The advisory groups have been unable to come to a solution. At the Monday meeting, however, the directors set the time of April 30 as dead line for the advisory boards' de cision. If none is forthcoming, the district board will act on the matter, and a special meeting has been set for May 7 at River side school to discuss the site selection. As a result of the complaints on the bus maintenance in the district, the board decided to em ploy a director of special services which will include supervision of buses, direction of the men- tally retarded program, handling remedial reading and similar ac tivities. This is a matter that has been under consideration for some time but was decided at this meeting because of the com plaints on the buses. Van Schoiack opened the mat ter when he presented to the board a list of recommendations in regard to the buses. He asked removal of a "school employee," whom he did not name, from all bus service and maintenance with the possible alternative of doing only oil changes and gas ing the buses. He asked that a check list for all "grease mon- kevs1 . be provided for use in servicing buses. All buses, un der his proposal, would be taken to the garage every 5,000 to 10, 000 miles for an inspection. One school board member in each area would hire a qualified mechanic and invite a third per son to help to make spot checks on the buses every three or four weeks with "no advance warn ings." (Continued on Page 6) and Eager some of the machinery at Morrow (G-T Photo) sides selling its own Pride of Oregon products, the creamery acts as wholesaler of Kraft pro ducts and Tillamook cheeses. Capacity of ice cream produc tion is 500 gallons per day, and it is made in 19 flavors. Butter capacity is 1000 pounds per day. 'SPRING SALUTE SATURDAY k A 1WM j -i" 11; PRINCESS JACQUIE BEINDLE Jacquie Named Princess Jacquie Brlndle, 17. just chosen to represent the Lena community on the 1962 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo court, put her riding ability to practical use at an early age. She rode to school in Enterprise, Wallowa county, before she came here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Bob) Brindle, seven years ago. The family lives 14 miles from Heppner up Hinton creek, and Jacquie still has plenty of op portunity for riding as she and her sisters, Jennifer, 15, and Anne, 14, help about the place. Princess Jacquie's activities Tuesday Deadline For Primary Signup If you aren't registered to vote and do not register by 8 p. m. Tuesday, April 17, you won't get to vote in the pri mary election on Friday, May 18. This is the word from Mrs. Sadie Parrish, county clerk, who offers it as a last-minute reminder. Anyone who did not vote here in the election year of 1960 and has not register ed since, should check up on his current status. Those who have moved into another precinct within the county, too, should register in the new precinct. Registration may be completed in the office of the county clerk in the courthouse. After 46 In addition the creamery can produce 1500 pounds of ice per day, gets its pure water from its own well. Last summer the ice production was taxed to supply tne neeas or crews constructing the natural gas pipeline through the area. D. R. Tash is a particularly valued employee at the creamery and now is almost solely re sponsible for the production end or the business. He has been on the job since 1934, and the own ers give him much of the credit for the fine quality of the pro ducts being made there. A newer employee is John Piper, and another Bill Cox, grandson of Claude and a high school student, helps out in the summer time. He is sometimes called "Billy" to avoid confusion but this is a name that he per sonally does not recognize. Da vid Cox, another of Bill's sons, also was employed at the cream ery before entering service last year. Claude Cox came west from Virginia alone in 1905 after leav ing a school teaching job at the age of 19. He worked on ranches for Vk years before returning to Virginia to be married to Clara Hampton in his home town of Galax. They returned west, and for some years he worked a3 a de liveryman here for local stores. Then in 1916 he bought stock in the local creamery, then operated (Continued on Page 6) y Brindl P rmcess cover quite a range, from 4-H work to church interests. At the same time she is busy In Hepp ner High school where she is a junior. She has been degree chairman of the Future Home makers of America chapter for two years and this year is treas urer of the chapter. She was a delegate to the state convention just held in March. The princess is a member of the National Honor Society, of the Girls' Ath letic association andi of the Girls' League. She also is in the Pep club and has served as treasurer of the freshman and junior classes. As an eighth grader she was basketball rally queen at a jam boree in Boardman and so re ceived an early start at serving royalty for festivities. During her three years at Heppner high school, Jacquie has been on the honor roll each year. In 4-H for five years, she has taken part in forestry, livestock, sewing and riding clubs and has held offices in each. She was formerly a member of the Wranglers but other activities made it necessary for the family to drop out. Among her church activities is singing in the choir at St. Pat rick's Catholic church in Hepp ner. Selection of Jacquie was by the Lena community and she will represent the entire com munity In the coming events. She will ride her Appaloosa colt, "Kitten," in the shows. Board Names Mrs. Fulleton; Evenis Changed At a meeting of the Morrow County Rodeo board Wednes day night, Mrs. Roice (Betty) Fulleton was officially chosen as chaperone for the fair and rodeo court. She will accompany them on all of their excursions to represent the county to other points and be with them at local appearances as well. The five girls of the court were in Pendleton last week to pur chase outfits for the coming event, but they will not be here in time to wear at their appear ance for the Heppner "Salute to Spring" Saturday. Members of the rodeo board decided to eliminate the chariot race from events on the pro gram this year but will add a registered quarterhorse race for Morrow county horses only over a quarter-mile distance. Also planned by the board is a Morrow county futurity race for two year olds that will be started in 1963. This will be for Morrow county-owned registered quarterhorse only. The board chose John Van Belle of Outlook, Wn., again to furnish stock for the rodeo and hired an announcer for the an nual event that will be held Sep tember 1 and 2. Models To Report Esther Klrmis, style show co ordinator, asks that those who are modeling to report to the store which they represent by 2:00 p. m. Saturday. All models will meet in the Heppner Hotel lobby by 2:45 to be ready for the style show. V
