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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 12, 1962
Gazette-Tim
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79th Year, Number 6
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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