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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. May 17 .1962 ers Action Spring Concert Date Moved to Wednesday n Riverside Site Selection School Board Def Parents and friends of music students, who have given much time through the year to im prove in hand and chorus work, will have the opportunity to hear the 125 young people in a spring concert Wednesday evening, May 23, in the gymnasium auditor ium at 8 p. m. The concert, previously sched uled for this Friday evening, was postponed until Wednesday, due to the illness this week of the music director, Arnold Melhy, and his inability to attend re hearsals. Opening the program will be the seventh and eighth grade honor band. Besides the band numbers two soloists will be featured, Steve Warren on the sousaphone and Martha Peck with an alto saxaphone solo. The high school chorus has chosen four vocal numbers, with student accompanists, Carol Burkenbinc, Kathy Melby and Judy Schmidt at the piano. A varied group of numbers will b(. played by the high school band, made up of several out standing and capable students in each instrument division. Sol oists will be Judy Schmidt and Jennifer Brindle. Varsity-Faculty To Vie In Night Baseball Game The Heppner High school var sity baseball team will seek to break a 3 to 3 tie in games with the faculty and senior baseball experts when they meet Thurs day evening under the lights at the rodeo field. Each of the teams have won three in the past six years of the traditional game. The seventh annual duel will test each team over a span of five innings to see if youth can triumph over ago and experience Slated for starting pitcher for the varsity is this year's veteran, Kenny Smith. The faculty will adopt two high school seniors, Larry Green and Laddie Dick, to do their pitching. Making up the high school team will be LeRoy Gardner, Rodney Ayers, Bill Cox, Lflck Springer, Shan Applegate, Ken Smith, Carl liauman, Stuart Dick, und Don Munkers. The "professors" will Include Bob Cantonwine, Gerald Jon fisson, Don McClure, Jim Suther land, 1'ete Glennie, Clint Agee, Matt Hughes, Don Cole, Bob Johnson, with the two adopted Iwirlors, Green and Dick. An admission lee of 50c for adults, 25c for students, and l()c for small children will be charg ed to cover expenses of the field and lights. Several of the band and chorus students took part in the "Music in May" festival in Forest Grove this past week-end. Money received from sale of tickets for the concert Is added to the scholarship fund, used to send deserving students to summer music schools and to aid others in entering college study this fall, according to Mr. Melby. The director and members of Hie music department express special appreciation to business men of the area for their fine support and interest in the schol arship program and In the concert. Graduation Programs Set For May 27, 29 Graduating seniors will get final examinations out of the way May 21 and 25 and don cap and gown for baccalaureate services in the school gym nasium Sunday, May 27. Guest speaker for the baccalaureate program is the liev. Kenneth Robinson, pastor of Hope and Valby Lutheran churches. The processional will begin at 8.00 p. m. On Tuesday, May 29, diplomas and special awards will he given at commencement exercises. Giv ing the valedictory speech is Sandra Ilarshman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kverett Ilarshman, and the salutatory remarks by Judy Ann Schmidt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Klmer Schmidt. Guest commencement speaker will he Hester Turner, dean of women at Lewis and Clark col lege, Portland. Al Lamb Writes From Chad; Sees Native Dances Mayor Al Lamb of Heppner has arrived in Africa with the Trade Mission of which he is a member and wrote to the Gaztte-Times on May 7 of his trip to date. Writing from said, "I arrived morning about 7 overly hot here ainly warmed by a day in London, then day in Paris. Nice day don, but it rained all Paris. "Went to the native and native quarters yesterday. There are almost 4000 Europeans and, 90,000 Chadeans here in this city. My visit in the native city and with them was really some thing. The people here (Chads) are very friendly. Saw a native spear dance and heard the Bongo drums. Was alone there part of the time but felt perfectly sate. "Visited the foreign minister, e minister of agriculture and Ft. Lamy, he here yesterday a. m. It wasn't then but cert- noon. Stopped another In Lon- day In market H 1 " w 4 ffl ' " if" s1 ' '2i -if G 13 LOOKING LIKE a man from MARS as he surveys the Elks club building after the fire was brought under control Friday is Fire Chief Charles Ruggles (left). Conferring with him is LeRoy Gardner, past exalted ruler of the Elks. (G-T Photo) Reisch Accepts Post as Special Services Director t commerce, and the president of Chad. The Chad Chamber of Commerce and mayors are giv ing us a reception tonight. Will have our first conferences with business men and plain Chad eans this anernoon. tins is an agricultural nation. Am in a very nice hotel here with air conditioning. Hotel overlooks the river and I can see a Cameroon native village across it. So long for now. Sincerely, Al Lamb." Annual Poppy Sales To Get Underway Mrs. Frank Hamlin, American Legion auxiliary president, an nounces the annual Poppy Day on Iriday, May 25. The poppy committee, headed by Mrs. Oma Cox, has been busy making cor sages and readying the poppies lor the event. Sales will be conducted from the entrance to the J. C. Penney store and auxiliary members daughters will assist in the house-to-house campaign. These poppies, worn in honor of more than a half-million American war dead and nearly one million wounded during both World Wars and the Korean conflict, are made by veterans in hospitals and workshops in 10 states. Disabled servicemen are paid for each hand-made red crepe paper poppy, and the ma terials are furnished free by the American Legion auxiliary in the states where the hospitals are located. All proceeds from the poppy sales go directly to aid disabled veterans or mem tiers of their families. Auxiliary volunteers and Rain bow girls will work Friday and Saturday to help make the Poppy Day program a success and help the veterans of the wars. Mrs. Hamlin asks each citizen to do his part by wear ing a poppy May 25 and 2G. Girls Inspire First Public Flower Show Here May 26 ueppner has in prospect, as far as is known, its first public spring flower show, which will be staged in the showroom of Heppner Auto Sales on Saturday, Mav 20. The project came about be cause eleven girls in a -1 11 cloth ing club, the Heppner Sow A longs, wanted to do something for their community. A survey of the town showed many iris, peonies and other plantings in bloom and suggested a beautiful flower show. The girls began to plan and develop their ideas. All local gardeners are invited to bring blooms and arrange ments for exhibit. Entries will he rcceied between 8 and 10 a. m. on May 20. The show will be judged by an aecredihnl flower show judge. A silver tea will be served between 2:00 and! ::.) p. m. Any money received above the cost of presenting the show will be sent to the Inter national Farm Youth Exchange program in Oregon. General chairman is Jeanne Slockard, club president, assisted by the leader. Mrs. William Raw lins. Other committee chairmen are Lynn Hurkenbine, staging; Judy Smith, publicity; Joan Stockard, judges; Jean Siewert, entries, and Janis Baker, hos pitality. The following general rules are made for exhibitors; 1. All amateur gardeners are wilh one class or entry class invited to exhibit allowed in each subdivision. 2. Kntries will be received from S to 10 a. m. Saturday, May 20. .t. containers for the horti culture classes will be furnished by the show. I. All property must be marked with the name of the exhibitor. fi. Kntries will be removed at .:.Ht p. m. or shortly thereafter I). Judges decisions will be inial. Blue, red and yellow rib bons will be awarded first, sec ond and third in each class. 7. A sweepstakes ribbon will be awarded the exhibitor win ning the most blue ribbons. In case of tie, red ribbons will be counted. In the horticulture division, all specimens must be grown by the exhibitor and labelled with name and variety if possible. Iris will be divided into three classes, peonies into four classes. Other classes will be for pansies, painted daisies, primroses, roses, scilla, tulips, flowering shrubs and others not listed. Ribbons will be awarded for varieties of decorative arrangements. A jun ior section for exhibitors 12 years of age or under will be in horti culture classes and design or arrangement classes. Further information mav be secured bv calling Jean Stock ard. liVii OOSl, or Mrs. Rawlins. t7t-970t. Darrel Reisch, administrative principal at lone for the past year, Wednesday accepted the position of director of special ser vices of Morrow County School District R-l. He was recently offered contract for the new po sition that was created at the April meeting of the school board. Robert Van Iloute, county school administrator, said that as special services director, Reisch will have broad duties. He will be in charge of the pro gram tor the mentally retarded, he will supervise the district wide program of testing, he will be in charge of student and par ent counselling except in the personal relationship between faculty and students, he will be in charge of transportation in the district, he will supervise a program ot summer education, he will develop a program for the "educationally able and cifted." and he will handle the Future Teacher program. Reisch will also operate school district public relations program. In the area of transportation he will act in a supervisory ca pacity and will supervise bus servicing and repairs. Ho will review and revise bus routes keeD transportation records, schedule the activity bus, handle bus bid specifications and bus bid information, and work on im nrovement of safety. Bus drivers will be under his supervision, but ininil discipline will remain the responsibility of the local ad ministrator. In the area of student and parent counselling, with special emphasis at lone and Riverside, he will analyze test results at the hieh schol level, give occu pational, personality and achievement tests, counsel stu dents and parents about vocat ional training and college op- nortunities. and maintain records. The new director will work in the area of evaluating and ord ering tesis, van Iiuuie sum, and when requested by the ad ministrator, will develop and supervise a local testing pro gram, lie win ueveiop uisuni- wide reports on the program, and develop forms so that staff mem bers can interpret test results. In his public relations capacity, he will be liaison for news media for the district, and he will edit the monthly school district news letter. He will also organize prep aration of brochures when need ed, and when called upon, will organize speakers and programs for community meetings. As advisor to Future Teacher organization. Reisch will mee with student groups of Future Teachers and he will assist in organization of a chapter in this county. Salary for the position has been fixed at $8354 per year. Groshens Wins Cleanup Contest Emile Groshens, whose home is on the hill north of Pioneer Memorial hospital, is winner of a $10 prize offered by the Hepp-ner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce in their annual clean up contest, President Fred Gim bel announced at the Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday. Winners were chosen, last week by a committee of judges with the Soroptimist club cooperating as co-sponsor. On the judging committee were Frank Turner and Mrs. Nona Sowell of the Chamber and Mrs. Betty Fulle ton from the Soroptimists. Named for honorable mention were Clarence Johnson and John Rogers. Special commendation went to two business firms, Cent ral Market and Case Furniture Company for their sidewalk dec orations, and in the case of the furniture firm, for a new paint job. Also receiving mention were L. L. Gilliam, Rachel Harnett, City of Heppner for cleanup of property by Ed Gonty's, Herman Stroeber, Hope Lutheran church, Nellie Anderson, Len Schwarz, Glenn Irby, Del Piper, Glenn Smith, Tilman Hague, Nellie Doney, Charlie Vaughn, A. T. Harris, Charley Beckett and Gene Pierce. Gimbel said that the commit tee was surprised at the amount ot improvement and cleanup work that had been done and advised others to tour the town and see for themselves. Morrow county's school board at its regular meeting Monday night turned back proposals from both Boardman and Irri gon to select their respective rec ommended sites for relocation of Riverside High school. A motion by Director Harvey Warner of Irrigon that the Pat terson Ferry site be selected, midway between Irrigon and the interchange on the relocated stretch of the Columbia Rivpr highway now under construction, died for lack of a second. Similarly, a motion by Direc tor Robert Sicard of Boardman that the first six grades of the elementary school and Riverside High school be located at "site B" about a half mile south of the interchange at the junction of the bomb range road with ooo U. S. 30 (Interstate 80) also died for lack of a second. Director Sicard made another attempt with the same fate. He moved that the seventh and eighth grades from the two towns be combined with the high school on site B and the first six grades go to the Houghton school at Irrigon. This, too, died for lack of a second. Some 25 interested persons from Irrigon were present to back their position. in the end, however, the only motion that carried on the mat ter and this without a dissent ing vote was that action on the site selection be deferred until the August meeting of the board. Members of the board, other than Warner and Sicard, took the position that too many ques ooo Hearing Presents Views Of Boardman and Irrigon Open House Set At Condon Base Condon Air Force Station, a radar site located approximately seven miles west ot Condon, will hold open house in conjunction with the nationwide celebration of Armed Forces Day on Sun day, May 20, from noon until 5 o'clock. Visitors will have an oppor tunity to tour the facilities on base including the radar sets, computers and other complex ectronic equipment used in the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) system of national defense. Other scheduled events in clude a jet formation fly-over, displays by the U. S. Army, movies, and a concert by the Condon High school band and other attractions designed to make the dav informative and enjoyable for persons of all ages. Oregon State Senator Ben Musa will be Guest of Honor for the occasion. Refreshments will be availahle in the base dining nan througn- uit the dav free of charge for ill visitors. tj Plans Taking Shape For Memorial Picnic Awards Assembly Set For Tuesday Evening A full evening will be given to the recognition of outstand ing student achievements in Heppner High school the past year at the annual Awards As sembly. 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, in the high school gymnasium. In previous years, the assem bly has been held during school hours and for students only. The change to an evening hour will make it possible for parents and nterest ed friends, as well as stu dents, to attend the assembly, and is open to the public. Honors which students have earned throughout the year will be recognized and letters in sports and awards in other de partments will be given. Scholar ship awards will not be announ ced until the night of senior graduation. A hearing was held bv the Morrow County school board at Boardman May 7 for the purpose of obtaining all the facts pertaining to the relocation of the Riverside High school. Since the two towns of Boardman and Irrigon have not been able to agree on a site for the school, the board felt that the two com munities should be given a chance to present each side, and then the board will decide which site will be the more suitable for the school. Delwin Nelson, chairman of the board, was in charge of the hearing. Each town was given 45 minutes to present its facts. Ralph Skoubo, chairman of the local advisory committee in Boardman, was the first speaker. He read a letter which had been drawn up by the committee, stating that it felt the school should be located in the city of Boardman. Among the reasons were that there would be an in crease in attendance in the school due to the Boeing industry coming here, and that Boardman will be the only town in this area on the new federal freeway. The second speaker was Arthur Allen, representing the Boardman city council, who gave the his tory of what has been done to date on the problem of relo cating the city when it is inun dated by the John Day Dam. Nathan Thorpe was the next speaker, mentioning the fact that the original plan was to have the high school located between the two towns, with the eighth grades staying in each town. At present the Boardman seventh and eighth grades go to Irrigon Thorpe stated that some Board' man residents favored the site at the Lexington cutoff road five miles east of town where the new underpass is being constructed. Earl McQuaw stated that Mor row county would miss a great opportunity in not putting the school in Boardman. First speaker for Irrigon was Warren McCoy, who read a letter from the local advisory commit tee there, stating that it feels the school should be equal dis tance between the towns, and that the Patterson Ferry site is best. Reasons are that the land is level there, with good iriga tion and drainage possible, ac cess to highway 730, that the school would have good fire pro tection since it would be in Irri gon's rural fire district. Howard Gollyhorn, the second speaker for Irrigon, stated that more land would be available at the Patterson Ferry site, and that there would be plenty of room! for teacherages, recreation, park ing lots and bus terminals. He also asked the board to con-1 sider building underground shel ters there. Another possibility, he said, would be building an airstrip landing there in the future. He compared the school situation to other communities in the area that had worked out satisfactorily. William Parker challenged Thorpe's statement that the orig inal plan was to have the schools seperate, and said that Irrigon went to Boardman to save the Boardman school when the two schools were consolidated three years ago. Don Adams, the last speaker for Irrigon, stated that he thought the interchange being built at the Lexington cutoff junction was a man-made death trap for school buses and he did not approve of that site for the school. Applegate Will Head Students For Next Year Votes were cast by students of Heppner High school Tuesday noon for their choices for new officers of the student body for the coming year. Final count showed that Shan Applegate was elected to lead the students in the office of president; Mike Smith, vice president; Linda Valentine, sec retary; Jennifer Brindle, assis tant treasurer (with Laura Sum ner moving up automatically to treasurer.) Bill Sherman, serg-eant-at-arms, and Gail Hoskins, historian. Karen McCurdy was chosen queen of the cheerleaders, along with Marlene Fetsch, Barbara Blake and Kathy Ray. Three songleaders were elected with Ginny Lou Turner, queen; Vir ginia Moore and Jean biewert. The election followed a stu dent assembly when managers and candidates gave short cam paign speeches, expressing their ideas on student government and functions of the student council. During Dast weeks of campaign' ing, teams of. candidates had competed under the banners of Liberals' and the "talents. Other students nominated for the above offices were John Cleveland, president; Ann Jones, student council president; Shir ley Carlson and Marlene Fetsch, secretary; Ginny Lou Moore, as sistant treasurer; David Proud- foot, sergeant-at-arms, and Phyl lis Nelson, historian. Ordnance Depot Bills Open House Saturday Registration for out-of-town and local residents attending the annual Pioneer Memorial Dav re union picnic May 30 will get underway at 11:00 a. m., accord ing to Mrs. Gene Ferguson, sec retarv of the committee in charge. It will be held again at the Morrow county fair pavilion, with members of the Soroptimist club in charge of registration. A buffet Picnic dinner will be served at noon with the local Assembly of Rainbow girls as sisting with the serving. Ladies from the Rhea Creek Home Ec onomics club will be in charge of the kitchen. Miss Leta Humphreys is gen eral chairman and encourages local people to extend a special invitation now to out-of-town relatives and friends to be present. Editorials On Page 2, Section 2 The 574 civilian workers and military complement of seven officers at Umatilla Ordnanci Depot will play host from Satur day, May 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 o m to an armvd forces day crowd which will see a variety of exhi bits and activities of "Power for Peace", theme of the national observance. Dr. Arthur S. Flemming. presi dent of the University of Oregon will deliver the main address at the afternoon program, starting at 3:15 p.m. with musical selec tions by the Hermiston High school band. Master of ceremo nies will be Joseph E. Burns president of the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce. Invoca tion will be given by the Rev. Willard Cromwell of' the First Christian church of Hermiston. Bus and rail tours of the depot will continue most of the day. begining at 9:00 a.m. Visitors will see the manifold activities of storage, maintenance, and de-, molition carried on at the IS. 000 acre depot, Oregon s largest mili tary installation, which was 20 years old last October. Free buses will leave Hermis ton every JO minutes, beginins it 9:00 a.m., carrying visitors to and from the depot throughout the day. Buses will also run from Imatilla. Echo and Stam.eld to the depot at 8:30. 10:00 and 11:10 o m. The post restaurant will be open from 9:00 to 3:00, and luncheon will be served from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Exhibits will include the Cor roral, Hercules and Ajax mis dental prosthetic laboratiry; Air Force survival gear; Naval Elec tronics display; small business booth; and equipment, hand tools and weapon display by Company C or the 379th Eng' r.iering Battalion (Amphibious USAR; plus many other displays and attractions. The Walla Walla Skydive Inc., of Walla Walla, Washing ton, will put on a parac h u I e jumping exhibition during ttr open House festivites, starting at 1:30 p.m. At 2 PM Company "B" of the lsbth Infantry of the Oreeon Na tional Guard unit in Penuleton, will give a field tactical demot stration. Free movies will be shown con tinuously from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M inese turns will show military t'cties, firepower, mobility, nev. weapons and equipment, and other interesting items. For the evening's entertain nient the officers' club is spo:. soring a dance for all employees and their guests at 9:30 p.m Tk" dance will be held in the UOD officers' mess, and music will be furnished by "The Candle Lighr ers", tions are yet to be answered in the north end of the county and the center of development is yet too uncertain because of the failure to choose a definite relocated town site for Boardman and because of the lack of know ledge about the Boeing develop ment, to make an intelligent de cision on site selection for the school at this time. Chairman D. O. Nelson said, "We can't make a decision un til we know all the facts. We can't pick a site and then after it is chosen, wish we had placed it somewhere else." Director L. E. Dick declared that schools should be built for the children who attend them. "They should be located as near to the greatest number as possi ble," he said. "We know the geographical center there but not the center of population." The board had met with ad visory committees of Boardman and Irrigon to hear their recom mendations, and it had been hoped that a decision could be reached soon thereafter. How ever, the committees could not reach a common agreement. In stating the case for Irrigon, Director Warner pointed out that the school should be located some distance from the Boeing development because of expected noises and vibrations there. The Patterson Ferry site would be in the center between the towns, he pointed out. Warren McCoy, former school board member and member of the Irrigon committee, acted as a spokesman tor the delegation from that town. When it was evident that a choice would not be made Monday night, he ad vised the board to pick out "two or three sites" and take options on them. Robert Van Houte, school administrator, said that acres are available at Patter son herry site and 80 acres are also available at site B. Director Fred Martin stated opposition to having the junior high and senior high students in one building. William Parker of Irrigon de clared that site B is located near a flyway corridor for navy planes and said that the noise would be an objection. The question of the Army En gineers attitude towards the re location site came up. No one knew for certain whether it could be moved as far awav as Irrigon. School District Attorney Robert Abrams said that in his attempts to find out, he was advised that the governing principle was "the continuation of service for the group being served." The school board voted in fa vor of allowing school employees to apply lor tax-sheltered an nuities under a law passed re cently by Congress. By electing to put part of their income in the annuities, the employees avoid a high tax bracket. Taxes are paid on the annuities after retirement age. The arrangement involves no cost to the district except for some additional book keeping, it was pointed out. Fred Nelson of lone, in the audience, spoke against the matter and asked the board to forget these "matters of tax ex emptions." He felt it wrong that some school employees who are in a position to set aside funds for the annuities benefit by low er taxes in the tax-sheltered plan. Director Martin replied that if the other districts permit such benefits as provided under the law, teachers will go where they can obtain them. Gordon Pratt, Heppner administrative princi pal, said that teachers here had voted unanimously in favor of the plan. Matter of a new school dis trict office was discussed but no action was taken. Considered, but informally tabled, was an office in the George property in Heppner. Also discussed was the proposal to move the office to the Lexington elementary school but nothing was decided. Direc tor Dick suggested that the board explore the possibility of paying rent for an office. Mrs. Fordyce Hills of Monu ment was offered a contract as a first grade teacher at Lexington. FFA Varsity Team lakes Top Honors In Stock Judging The varsity team of Heppner High school FFA Chapter came home from an FFA Livestock Judging contest in Milton-Free-water Friday with first place honors over all teams entered in the Blue Mt. district. The team is made up of three senior boys, Archie Ball, Gary Van Blokland and William Kill, with Bob Fetsch and Merlin Hughes also entered in prelim inary tryouts. Kenny Wright, an alternate, placed second highest in individ ual scoring, with Archie taking fourth and Gary placing sixth of all boys entered in individual judging. A freshman team also entered in competition, composed of John Wagenblast, Tony Doherty and Dean Robinson. The boys were accompanied by their instructor, Gerald Jonassori. The varsity team will also judge at the junior livestock show in The Dalles early in June.