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HEPPNER GAZETTE Heppner Runners Set New Records In Track Meet Coach Don McClure's Heppner High school track team was high squad for A-2 schools in the Eastern Oregon Elks invitational track meet in Pendleton Satur day, and the Mustang entries set some new school marks and one record for the invitational meet. Lee Padberg cracked the record for the mile in the Eastern Ore gon meet as he won it in 4:32.6, edging (he old mark of 4:32.7, set by Terry Smith of Athena last year. Smith ran second to Padberg this year. In doing so, Padberg also cracked his own Heppner High school record of 4:37.7. Archie Ball bettered his own Heppner school record in the high hurdles as he came in third at Pendleton. He ran the dis tance in 15.8 and shattered Tom Driscoll's former school mark of 16.2. Ball had a good chance to cop the low hurdles after winning his heat in 21.7. In the finals, however, lie; hit the first hurdle, fell, and then got up and fin ished fourth. Winning time was 21.2. Padberg bettered his own school record in the half-mile as he ran it in 2:03.5, good for fourth place. His previous best was 2:07.6. Completing the point perfor mances for the team, Eddie Howard took fourth place in the 100-yard dash. In the novice division, Shan Applegate won the broad jump with a leap of 19' 5 'a", and Doug Dubu(iie was second in the high jumn at 5' 3". Three freshmen, Dean Robinson, Dean Lovgron and John Wagenblast, turned in good performances. Robinson and Lovgron finished just out of the placings in the half-mile and Wagenblast ran sixth in the mile with a time of 5:13. Pendleton topped the meet fol lowed by another A-l school, llermislon, and La Grande in thin!. Baker was fourth and Heppner fifth with 14 points. Mac-Ill trailed Heppner. Wm. Cunningham III In Pendleton William' Cunningham was taken to SI. Anthony's hospital Monday, suffering from internal hemorrhaging. His wife and daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bletell, accom panied him. Mr. Cunningham will remain Ihere for observation. MOTHEQSE Sunday, May 13 Is Mom's Day Out Special Dinners HAM TURKEY FRIED CHICKEN ROAST BEEF SEA FOODS FREE To Eoch Mother- AFRICAN VIOLET PLANT HOTEL ELLA SARGENT ' "-jL 1 j " ' '" for exciting itv-I s I V' WEIGHTLESSNESS J l ' ' 'Xilv 'Her. V h I , ;;-$L On M 1 NEW XN nY ,ar,h ! NEW (eathtrlitt Glov-Ett re iTiirm irr m mi rcM i ncnii i c oiuv-ci is nave an the Comfort Features such as Vamp Lining . . Steel Shank , . Sturdy Counter . . . Full Grain Glove leather Uppers . . Full Wedge Cushion Crepe Sole. Get that "FEATHERLITENESS feeling In the NEW Featherlite Glov-Ett Serv- ice Shoe, GON - TIMES, Thursday, May 10, 1962 Over The Tee Cup With ol' man weather getting in his licks, it was a wet and battered bunch of gal golfers that played our first Tri-City Tournament Tuesday. John Day sent five fabulously good sports (and good golfers, too), Thelma Driscoll, Barb Gibson, Jessie Ray, Blanche Kilpatrick and our "own" Jackie Labhart. Kinzua was represented by good friends Marie Hulett, Jolene Guinn, Mary Miller, Marge Boving, Bertha Allen and Lavina Con ner. Heppner had out Marie Mc Quarrie, Hazel Mahoney, Bebe Munkers, Kay Robinson, Donna McCurdy, Hester Creswick, Helen Schaffitz, Roberta Dougherty, Jan Agee, LaFyrne Pratt, Kay Anderson, Corkie Norene and yours truly. Three foursomes finished and three didn't. Two foursomes got together under the trees and built a fire, but still ended up good and wet. In my foursome were good Oregonians, playing through the downpour and light ning. Award winner for John Day was Jackie, with a beautiful low gross of 37, Marie Hulett of Kin zua, and a tie between Marie and me for Heppner gals. We all got golf balls. Hidden hole winners were Jolene of Kinzua and Barb Gibson of John Day. Tin; tourney was under the supervision of Corkie, Kay A. and Bebe and what a smooth threesome that turned out to be. They had coffee and punch at three different holes (but we passed 'em all up to finish be fore we had to swim back.) With the help of Herb Hamilton and his Wishing Well crew, we had chicken-a-la-carte, with salads and cake furnished by our mem bers. Death Takes Niece Of Mrs. Griffin Mrs. Jesse Griffin returned last Thursday from a visit with her son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Griffin in Portland. While visiting there, she re ceived word of the death of a niece, Mrs. George Ritchie in Tye Valley, who had served as postmistress there for the past seventeen years. She was attend ing the state postal convention on the coast when she was stricken with a heart attack. Mrs. Griffin accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Lindstrorn of lone to the funeral services in Tye Valley on Thursday, with burial following at The Dalles. Mr. Ritchie was raised in the lone community. GRILL i POPULAR COLORS 4 4 s TV'S f fc x vl ONLY I llt IIIIUII UdlllS In Primary Vote As lime Nears (Continued from Page 1) measures ballot. One state measure would revise the con stitutional provision on the six percent tax limitation and the other would amend the consti tution by prividing that legisla tors' salaries shall be establish ed and paid in the same manner as the salaries of other elected state officers (see editorial page for comment). The local measure would es tablish a $115,000 tax base for Morrow county roads. This was reviewed in some detail in last week's paper, and Judge Oscar Peterson comments on it this week on the editorial page. Candidates for county assessor and for commissioner have re viewed their qualifications for the offices they seek. Oliver Creswick, seeking elec tion as assessor after being ap pointed to that position last year, came to Heppner 16 years ago. He has been in the mort uary business here during that time and served as president of the Tri-district Funeral Direc tors' association two terms. He also was a member of the board of directors of the Oregon Fun eral Directors' association for one term and is a memoer ol the National Funeral Directors' association. During World War II he served for 4 k years in the Air Force as a radio operator and para chute rigger. He attended the New England Institute of Em balming after the war, then came to Baker where he worked three years in a mortuary be fore coming to Heppner. Mr. and Mrs. Creswick have four sons and a married daugh ter. Sons are David, attending Eastern Oregon College: Ronald Heppner High school senior; and Donald, a high school sophomore, Daughter is Mrs. Betty Ann Gentry of Milton-Freew a t e r. Creswick has served as worship ful master of A.F. and A.M. No, 69 two different years, 1956 and 1961, and is a past high priest, R.A.M. He is a member of the Eastern Star and is past patron is a member of the Methodist church, where he has served as chairman of the official board. and is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Creswick was appointed asses sor in mid-year, 1961, after the late Harry Dinges left the of flee. He states that he favors getting as much tax-exempt property on the tax rolls as pos sihle and favors equitable assess ments for all, without either con cession or penalty. Roderick S. Thomson, present deputy assessor, has had 4 Mi years experience in the assessor's office here, much of that time as acting assessor while the late Mr. Dinges was too ill to be in the office. A native of Mor row county, Thomson has had 27 years of business experience. Ex copt for short periods in Walla Walla, Wn., and in Pendleton, Thomson has been in Morrow county, working for 11 years with Union Oil company and in the grocery business with his brother, Jim Thomson, for 12 years. He and Mrs. Thomson have their home in Heppner. During World War II he served for two years with the Navy. in seeking the ottice ot asses sor, Thomson pointed out that he has no other business interests "1 will do my best if I am elected to the office," he said. "I will appreciate the support of all voiers." In his candidacy for county ( ommissioner, lierl Akers of lone f.dvocates a "new approach to Utter county government." He stresses "better planning, better public relations, and better plan i i.i" of expenditure of budgeted fuiids." lie was born and reared i.i lone and graduated from high school there in 193-1. Akers has farmed ever since on a place 1-1 i-iiles south of lone on the Goose berry Road. He served on the s.liiiol board two terms, retired from the post, then served an other two years just before the county school reorganization. Akers has twice been master of Willows grange. He and Mrs, Akeis have three sons and a Walter J. :er j. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR u ""J . f ; Ai.t . ... Walter J. Pearson "You Know Where He Stands" (Pd. Tol. Adv., Pearson For Gov. Com., James O. Burns, Condon Lexington PTA Sets 'School's Out' Picnic A community picnic Is plan ned in Lexington by the Parent-Teacher association for Friday, June 1, Mrs. Bob Kil kenny, president, announces. Potluck lunch will be served at noon, and organized games will be played thereafter. School buses will run in the morning to bring children to the elementary school to get their report cards at the close of the school year, she said. All in the area are advised to make plans now to attend the picnic. Spring Music Concert May 18 Over 100 students will partici pate in the annual Spring Band and Chorus Concert next Friday, May 18, according to Arnold Mel- by, music director, beginning at 8 p. m. in the high school gym nasium. The program will be made up of numbers by the high school band, high school chorus and grade school honor band, as well as soloists in each department. The concert is sponsored each year by business men who back the music scholarship program, making possible funds to send students to summer school and assisting in fall college entran ces for deserving students. Ad mission prices are set at 75c for adults, 50c for high school stu dents and 25c for grade school students. The following Friday, May 28, the fifth and sixth grade bands and vocal groups from grades one through eight will be heard in a separate concert. FFA Boys Name Officer Slate New officers of the Heppner High school chapter, Future Farmers of America, were elec ted at the most recent meeting of the group. Bill Struthers was chosen president; Harold Gray, vice president; Dick btruckmeier, secretary; Dean Robinson, treas urer; Bob Hager, reporter; Don Van Winkle, sentinel; and Ken neth Wright, officer at large. It was decided by the chap ter to hold meetings during the summer in order that it may continue on a well-organized basis for the time that school opens in tne lan, urn ouicers will remain at their posts through the summer, and then the chapter will have its "Pass ing of the Gavel" ceremony. daughter, the boys being Bill, a high school junior; isoD, a sophomore in Columbia Basin Junior college; and Beil, Jr., en gaged in farm work. Daughter is Bonnie, attending grade school in lone. E. O. (Gene) Ferguson, present commissioner, is completing his first 4-year term in the ottice. He said that he had considered retiring from the position but was urged by friends to seek a econd term. I'erguson has uvea in Heppner 4o years, owns a farm and formerly owned and operated the Chevrolet garage for 17 years. He is a member of the Elks lodge and was trustee for many years. Born in Oklahoma, ne nrsi came to Oregon with his family in 1905. They returned to Ukia- loma but came back to Uregon lo stay in 191b, lust going to Lake county before he came to Heppner in 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson nave three children, all married, two sons and a daughter. In seeking a second term, fer yuson states that he is running a las record, "it is my uesire 10 protect the taxpayers' money iml make it eo as iar as u hould go," he said. He said that lie does not make any promises hat he cannot fulfill but rather believes in "common sense in landiing the office, K-rguson ivs that he is particularly in erested in eood toads ana uiving them reach all parts of lie county. Pi Pearson President, State Senate, 1959 State Treasurer, 1949-53 Successful Businessman State Elks' Meet Calls Delegates The 1962 Oregon State Elks Association convention will be held in Ontarin Mau in thrnncrh May 12. President Fred Stefani win preside. Registration will start at noon, MaV 10 and rnntinup thrnnch May 12. Attending from Heppner lodge No. 358 will be a number of delegates and other memhprs according to Conley Lanham, ex- aneu ruier. uoing as delegates will be Bob Flatt, Dr. Wallace Wolff. Pat fVRrion Hlon Bob Brindle, Claude Graham! cunt Agee, LaVern Van Marter and Lanham. Van Marter is a member of the ritualistic InH committee. Also planning to go are Lowell Gribble and Harlan McCurdy Jr., both of whom will enter the Elks' finlf tniirnnmont Wives of the members will go with them. Thursday (today) at 1:00 p. m. there will be a business meet ing of the officers and com mittee chairman. Friday, 9:00 a. m. to 11:30 a. m., there will be a special order of business, open to the public, press, radio, and tele vision stations; which will in clude reports of youth leader ship, scholarship, veterans, and Elks eye clinic committees. Saturday morning the annual election will be held and the new officers elected and In stalled. 2:30 p. m. Saturday, a parade will be held. It is reported from head quarters that there will be ap- nroximatelv 2 Fidn rptris t p r rl delegates from the 52 lodges in uregon. Two Heppner Men Hurt in Accident Robert Laughlin, 21, son of Mrs. Ilene Wyman of Heppner, was seriously injured in an aut omobile accident Saturday morn ing while returning with two companions trom work on the night shift at Boeing Airplane plant in Seattle, Mrs. Wyman said. Riding in a car driven by John Blake, son of Keithley Blake, Heppner, and another passenger, Dean Moss, Robert sustained the most serious in juries of the three. They were taken to St. Francis Xavier Cabnni hospital, Seattle, where Robert was found to have serious internal injuries. He will be a patient there for several weeks. Blake was not hurt ser ously and was treated only as an out patient. Moss received extensive lacerations and was confined for a short time. Going over to see Robert dur ing the week-end were Mr. and Mrs. Don Greenup, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kilkenny and Judy Brannon. Mrs. Wyman expected to be released from Pioneer Memorial hospital Wednesday where she has been a patient since April 19. Class Visits Paper Pupils of Mrs. Floyd Jones' fourth grade class of Lexington elementary school saw the r.a. zette-Times in the process of be ing printed last Thursday when thev Visited on n fielH trin Thou also toured other local nnint's of interest in Heppner. With A Lovely Gift From Case Furniture Case 249 N. Main Photo Proofs Due For Showing Soon Jack Fixter, photographer for Woltz Studios, who recently took children's pictures in lone and Heppner which will be run in the Gazette-Times as a news feature, will return next week to show the proofs of the pic tures, he announces. For those taken in lone, proofs will be shown Friday, May 18, from noon until 7 p. m. at the banquet room, Stefani's Fine Food. For those taken in Heppner, they will be- shown Saturday, May 19, from 9 a. m. until 6 p. m. in the Heppner Hotel. Parents are invited to come and see the proofs at any time during these hours, Fixter said. Stote Health Board To Sponsor School A "Food Service School" will be held in the old Library rooms of the Heppner city hall Wed nesday, May 16, for afternoon and evening sessions, presented by the Oregon State Board of Health in cooperation with the Morrow County Health Depart ment. The program is designed mainly for handlers of food in the schools, hospital, restaurants, and other public food service out lets, it will bring up to date in formation and chance for dis cussion on any problems. Any one who helps in preparing foods in any volume is asked to at tend the school at either session. Classes will start at 2:30 in the afternoon and at 8 p. m. On the program are two films on food service, discussions on construction, maintenance and use of utensils, and discussion on the cleaning and maint enance of toilet rooms. Speakers will be William B. Culham, district sanitarian, Pen dleton, and Duane T. Ohlsen, sanitarian on the Oregon state board of health, Portland. Flower Arranacmenrs CORSAGES GOOD SELECTION OF MOTHER'S DAY GIFT ITEMS RON'S FLOWERS 323 N. Main Table, Pole and Floor LAMPS WUNDA WEVE Throw RUGS HASSOCKS, TABLES FOR REAL COMFORT, GIVE CHAIRS BERKLINER AND BARCA LOUNGER Davenport and Chair Sets Bedroom Sets Furniture Co. Ph. 676-9432 Doug Gribble Home Home to be with his mother on Mother's Day is Douglas Gribble, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Gribble, who is serving with the army in the 2nd armor ed division at Ft. Hood, Texas. He is on 20-day leave from his post and hitch-hiked his way home. To join the group Sunday will be another son of the Gribbles, Stuart, who is attend ing Eastern Oregon College. Hospital News Patients this week in Pioneer Memorial hospital are: Peggy Britt, Spray; Georgianna Hull, Fossil; Frances Kay Orwick, Condon; Betty Karen Curnutt, Heppner; Kyoko Kline, Condon; Philip Carlson, lone. Those dismissed this week were: Orval Matheny, Heppner; James H. Morgan, lone; George DeLaurie, Heppner; Cathy Schil ler, Echo; and Donald St. Ger main, Spokane. Mr and Mrs. Richard Apple- gate, Heppner, are the parents of a son, William Brian, born May 4. The young fellow weigh ed 6 pounds 12 ounces. Grand parents are Mrs. Freida Slocum, Mrs. Gertrude Applegate, and Ivan Applegate, Pendleton. Great-grandmother is Mrs. Fran ces McMillan, Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell are the parents of a son born May 6. He weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces and was named Tim othy Scott. He joins three broth ers,' Michael, Patrick, and Steven, and one sister, Mary Catherine. Grandparents are Mrs. Neil Arn old, Hermiston, and Patrick Campbell, Lone Rock. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Abrams are the parents of a daughter, Alice Catherine, and weighed 8 pounds 13 ounces. The young miss, born May 9, joins three sisters, Francis, Elizabeth, and Mary, and one brother, Robbie. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. RirharH Ahrams. Honolulu. Mrs. Sara Morrow, Prescott, Ariz. Great-grandparents are Mr. ana Mrs. Richard H. Abrams, Seattle Remember Mother On Her Day SUNDAY. MAY 13 Potted Plants Cut Flowers Ph. 676-5532 PICTURES, ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS KNICK-KNACK SHELVES AND OTHER GIFTS I J v
