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LIBRARY U OF 0 E U GENE. ORE. Board Changes School School children of Morrow county were given a few days reprieve by thex board of direc tors of school district R-l when they convened at the regular meeting Monday night. The di rectors reversed their previous action on a tentative opening date of August 30 and decided upon the date of September 4 the Tuesday following Labor Day, to open classes in the county. Robert Van Houte, county school administrator, said that the teachers' workshop will con1 vene on August 28 rather than August 27 as previously planned. Although not set by board action, spring vacation may be cut to three days because of the later opening date. Dick Wilkinson was elected chairman of the board in this the first meeting of the 1962-63 fiscal year. He succeeds D. 0. Nelson and presided at the meeting Monday night. Harvey Warner of Irrigon was elected vice chairman. Van Houte said that finan cially the district concluded the year with total expenditures of $861,907.11, which is $8,866.89 below the $870,774 budgeted. Re ceipts beyond those estimated bring the cash carryover to something in the neighborhood of $15,000, he reported. Director Harvey Warner re ported on building progress on the A. C. Houghton elementary school addition at Irrigon, stat ing that the work is proceeding very well with most of the framework up, foundation and steel work done. Beams for the ceiling were expected later this week. Van Houte reported on the National Education Association convention in Denver, pointing out the attempts being made to unionize teachers and the resis tance of the NEA to the move ment. The action has gained a strong start in parts of the east, however, and in New York city, 18,000 of the 40,000 teachers there are members of the union, he said. Date of August 15, a Wednes day, was set for the regular board meeting in August due to conflicts around the regular date of Monday, August 13. However, the board voted to con tinue with the second Monday of each month as the regular meeting night through the com ing year. Formal action was taken to authorize the opening of bids on the construction of the new Lexington-Heppner school on the night of Tuesday, July 24, at 8 p.m. Contracts were offered two new teachers in the system, and only one girls' physical edu cation teacher remains to be hired to complete the staff, Van Houte said. The board approved contracts to John Cummings as a science teacher in Heppner High school, and to Larry O'Rourke as a Spanish and English teacher in Heppner high. Cummings previously taught at Sweet Home and Salem. He is married and has one child. O'Rourke has had no teaching experience but earned his de gree at the University of Port land after attending St. Joseph's Academy in Pendleton. He is married and has three children. The board accepted a recom mendation submitted by petition of Hardman-Ruggs citizens to appoint H. C. Lesley to the ad visory committee to fill a va cancy, and he was unanimously appointed by vote of the direc tors. Harold Wright and Barton Clark who had tied in an elec tion this spring for the post each submitted statements to the board that they did not wish to serve. Little Leaguers Named All-Stars Fourteen outstanding Little League baseball players from the four league teams here were selected Friday night for the All-Star team roster which will play an All-Star team in The Dalles in the area playoffs. The games will be played July 20 and 21 with two games each night. The local All-Stars will play in the second game, at 8:00 p.m. Friday, July 20. Winners of the Friday night games will meet Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. for the championship, and the losers will meet at 6:30 p.m. for third place. The Braves, tied with the In dians for first place in the sec ond half of play, landed the most members on the All-Star team with five. They include Steve Pettyjohn, David Hall, Randy Stillman, all 12 years old, and 11 year-old twins, Kevan and Kent Pratt. The In dian members are Jeff Turner, Chris Lovgren, Russell Kilkenny, and Ken Nelson, all 12. The Giants have Roger Leonnig, Rick Johnston, Dennis O'Donnell, and Steve Baker, all 12. The Dodgers placed Mike Smith, 12, on the team and Kit Anderson, 11, as alternate. The team will practice the week preceding the games in preparation for the playoffs in The Dalles. Date In a formality, the board auth orized Van Houte to apply for funds for the district under Pub lie Law 874. which assists dis tricts where children of federal employees attend schools and work some additional hardships on the district. It also authorized application for funds under the National Defense Kducation Act, The board meeting was ad journed about 10:30, earliest of any meeting for many months MRS. ELAINE ESSELSTYN Executive secretary, Mid-Colum bia Planning Council. Council, Ebasco Work on Survey Of South Morrow C. R. Cavanaeh, project direc tor of Ebasco Services, Inc., and Mrs. Elaine Esselstyn, executive secretary of Mid-Columbia Plan ning Council, met with repre sentatives of Heppner and Mor row county Tuesday night to compile information for a study of resources of the southern part ot the county. The group was particularly concerned with park and rec reational possibilities in the southern part of the county, to gether with developments of roads and highways. 1 Ebasco currently is conducting a resource survey for the six county planning council. Morrow is one of the six participating counties. Meeting with Mrs. Esselstyn and Cavanagh were Fred Gim bel, president of the Heppner Morrow county Chamber of Com merce; Robert Van Houte, county school administrator; Clarence Rosewall, president of the Farm ers Union; and County Judge Oscar Peterson. They reviewed work that has been done on roads, parks and recreational facilities and pre sented possibilities for future development. After the Ebasco survey is completed later this year, public hearings will be held in various localities as a phase of the de velopment plan for the area. Next meeting of the Mid-Columbia Council will be at The Dalles in early August, tne meeting being changed from the prev iously scheduled date of July 20, Judge Peterson said. Youth Held in Jail On Auto Theft Count Wilbur Wade Warren of Hepp ner has been held in the Uma tilla county jail on a charge of auto theft in lieu of posting $2000 bail, Sheriff C. J. D. Bau man said Tuesday. The youth was arrested in Klamath Falls last week and admitted taking a 1955 Ford from Heppner Auto Sales, Inc., used car lot here, the sheriff said. Sheriff and Mrs. Bauman made the trip to Klamath Falls and returned Warren here last Friday. Warren was being held in jail for the grand jury, he said. Fire Danger High But No Trouble Yet Conditions in the Heppner district of the Umatilla Nat ional Forest are not good from a fire danger standpoint, but as of Thursday no fires had been reported, Sam Miller, dis trict ranger, said. Because of dry conditions, the hazard is considered as high and extreme precautions are necessary for fire preven tion, he said. Lightning has been forecast daily for the past six or seven days and is fore cast again through Friday at least, but none has come as yet, Miller said. The report is that there is a 60 or 70 chance of a lightning storm. Foresters have their fingers crossed particularly because they are approaching the an niversary of the big Ditch Creek fire that hit the area last year. This started on July 14 of last year. f"" y " .PWW, j j " ""' '' Barley 10 Cents Kickoff Dance Set Saturday Fair and rodeo season will be ushered in Saturday night in Morrow county with the Kick- off Dance scheduled in the fair pavilion, Heppner, starting at 10 p.m. This will be the chance for the public to meet and congrat ulate Queen Marlene Fetsch and her court of princesses, Diana Pettyjohn of lone, Irene Potts of Boardman, Jacquie Brindle of the Lena community and Diana Fulleton of Heppner. Leonnig's Orchestra will fur nish music for the dance, and the Degree of Honor will serve lunch. Admission is $1.50 per person, and dancing will con tinue until 2 a.m. The Kickoff Dance is the first of seven dances that will be held on Saturday nights from now on until rodeo is over. Each of the princesses will have a dance in her honor, the Queen's dance will then be held prior to the rodeo, and the rodeo dance will complete the schedule on September 1. Dollar Days Set Here Saturday Heppner Merchants are join ing in offering special bargains to the public in city-wide Dollar Days here this week-end. Some list their offerings for Friday and Saturday but others are good only on Saturday. Virtually all retailers in the city are participating in the event, which was authorized at a recent meeting of the Merch ants committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Advertisements list the bar gains on pages 4 and 5 ot tnis section and others are scattered throughout the paper. Free parking will be a special privilege for Dollar Day Satur day, Mrs. Elma Harshman, chair man of the Merchants commit tee, announces. Hoods will be placed over the meters Saturday, through cooperation with the city, and no one will have to pay the usual parking fee. Wranglers Slate Ride, Campout Some 70 or 80 members of the Wranglers club and guests are expected to participate in a ride and campout this week-end with the destination being the Ernie Winchester place on Ditch Creek. Riders will leave Cutsforth park at 2 p.m. Saturday and go through the mountains to the Winchester place. Winn Crist will again act as chef for dinner at the Winchester place, and the group will cam there for the night before re turning sometime Sunday. Kinzua, County Share County Road Projects With the help of Kinzua Corp oration, Morrow county is pro- ceding with two road improve ment projects that will be of significance to the county. Judge Oscar Peterson said Wednesday. Kinzua and the county jointly are improving a three-mile sec tion at the Shaw Creek grade on the road that runs from Heppner to Ukiah, and work is expected to be in full swing next week. In the southern part of the county, improvement of 2.3 miles of a county road to com plete a stretch to the Grant coun ty line is "definitely on the county agenda," Judge Peterson said. This will serve traffic be tween Morrow county and the Monument area, providing a closer route between the points. In this area, Kinzua Corporation has offered use of 4.1 miles of its graveled road to link with improvements made by Grant county to the county line. It is planned to get the Ukiah road in such condition that it may be used most of the year Harvest Now Getting info Full Swing Ga: ZETTE ""Wart JI . mm . i - TWISTERS ON A STICK were enjoyed at last year's 4-H camp at Cutsforth park. Similar activities are planned for this year's camp, now in session. Above from left are Kathy Blake. Leslee Meador, both of Heppner, Toni Olin and Gerry Swearingen, both of Irrigon. Yogi Welcomes County 4-Her's to Summer Camp "Welcome again to Jellystone" will be the Yogi Bear chant heard by 60 young boys and girls who are camped this week at Cutsforth Park, 20 miles southeast of Heppner for the an nual Morrow County 4-H Sum mer Camp, according to Esther Kirmis and Joe Hay, Morrow county .extension agents. The night before camp opened the agents held an orientation meeting for ten counsellors who assist in running the camp. Counsellors this year include Douglas Anderson, Ronnie Bels ma, Judy Smith, and Dale Van Blokland, Heppner; Cheryl Cor ley, Steven Lindstrom, and Ar leta McCabe, lone; Penny Jones, Shirley Jackson, Irrigon; and Mitchell Ashbeck, Echo. Nine to 13-year-old 4-H camp ers met at the Heppner fair grounds at 1:00 o'clock Thurs day noon and were transported to the site by two trucks fur nished by Frank Anderson and Don Greenup, Heppner. The camp program is made up of classes of singing, cere monies, camp cook-outs, story telling, and stunt night. Sports, hiking, and crafts are on the free choice list. Special classes are being taught by Mrs. Velma Glass, Morrow county health nurse; Lee Hanson, Pacific Power and Light Co., Portland; Charles Mc Lean, forest service, Heppner; and Glenn Ward, state game commission, Heppner. "Camping is a recreational ex perience that helps boys and girls grow emotionally and de velop well-rounded personal ities," says the agents, "Camp ing is a group experience that is different from home and fam ily or groups like school, clubs and church. Camp shapes in terests and abilities among the youth and gives them a sense of belonging that comes with 24 hours a day living together." A Sunday morning service is scheduled for protostant camp ers at 9:00 a.m. Arrangements except in periods of heavy snow and severe weather, the judg said. The three mile stretch will be straightened and improved with both the county and Kin zua furnishing bulldozers and other equipment. Members of the Heppner-Mor-row County Chamber of Com merce had pressed the improve ments of these roads and repre sentatives of the development committee urged the work at a meeting of the county court last Wednesday. They hope that eventually the road to Ukiah will provide a short cut be tween the John Day highway and Highway 30 (Interstate 80) via Heppner and Morrow county. The road to the south is of im portance because of the resi dents of the Monument area who come to do business in Morrow county. Judge Peterson, Dick Wilkin son, Milo Prindle, logging super intendent of Kinzua Corp., and Bill Scott, also of Kinzua, took a trip to both project areas Wed- nesday to plan for the work. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 12, 1962 are being made for Catholic campers to come into Heppner. Rev. Earl Soward, Heppner, will be the Sunday speaker. Alternating tours of coal mine hill and fire fighting with the forest service are also on deck for Sunday morning. Parents will come for their children at noon on Sunday and assist with the taking down of camp. Sack lunches will be served to the campers, but par ents and guests will need to bring their own. Coffee and punch will be served to all from the kitchen. Regular staff members include Mrs. N. C. Anderson, Heppner, and Mrs. Ernie Kirsch, Condon, camp cooks; and N. C. Anderson, Esther Kirmis and Joe Hay, county extension agents. Rodeo Board Sets Plans for Event Morrow county's Rodeo board perfected some of its plans for the coming rodeo at a meeting Tuesday night in the Gilliam and Bisbee building with Floyd Jones, chairman, presiding. Randall Peterson, who has been named by the Chamber of Commerce to handle judging and prizes for the parade on Saturday, September 1, was present to correlate plans with the board, and Elmer Schmidt, who will head ticket takers for the Chamber of Commerce at rodeo gates, also attended. There will be no reserved seat tickets this year and admission will be $2 for adults and $1 for students at the Saturday and Sunday afternoon shows. Ad mission at the Saturday night show will be $1 and 50c. Ray French was named again to man the calf chutes, and Chairman Jones said it will be necessary to find another field man to take the place of Gerald Swaggart, who has acted in that capacity in the past. He broke his leg recently and will not be able to function on the field. It was announced that John Van Belle will bring his famous bucking horse, Blizzard, to the rodeo again this year. Plans were made for a flag race with a $15 entry fee to be charged. Al Fetsch said that King's Carnival had contracted to come for the rodeo and is expected to be in operation as of Friday, August 31, for three days but will not operate during the time of the rodeo shows. New programs for the rodeo and fair have been printed and were distributed at the meeting. Copies of the program are a vailable at the Gazette-Times office or from Al Fetsch. Jack Loyd was named to take charge of the street decorations for the coming event. WEATHER (Leonard Gilliam, observer) Hi Low Prec. Thursday 74 42 Friday 74 41 Saturday 82 49 Sunday 90 52 Monday 86 51 Tuesday 88 50 Wednesday 87 55 n M ES 79th Year, Number 19 Pre-Harvest Fire Brings Heavy Loss A pie-harvest fire Tuesday afternoon at the Melvin E. Moy er place, Blackhorse Canyon, caused loss estimated bv Moyer and his mother, Mrs. Lora Moyer, at somewhere between $10,000 and $12,000. This does not in clude insured loss to a barn and shop that was destroyed in the fire, Moyer said. Four trucks were destroyed and two others were damaged. A combine was saved from the fire but one tire was ablaze when firemen and neighbors ex tinguished it. Also saved from flames were two tractors, one a wheel tractor and the other a crawler type, and a pickup truck. Moyer and his mother had gone to Pendleton to get some repair work done on a combine radiator and were not at home when the fire started. Probably the first to spot the smoke was Armin Wihlon at the Lexington airport. He headed to the scene with a tank truck and water. In the meantime, calls started coming in to Heppner Fire Chief Charles Ruggles from residents who had spotted the smoke but none knew where the fire was located. The rural rig was dispatched from town at 3:45, but when the fire was located, the shop building had been totally destroyed. Neighbors and other volun teers had succeeded in getting the two tractors out of the range of the fire and the pickup truck. Two other small trucks by the combine were ablaze. One carried greasing equipment and the other had a gasoline tank on the back. The bed of the gasoline tank burned enough to dump off the gasoline, and then the truck was saved, Ruggles said. The house, just a short dis tance away, was threatened from sparks but under the watchful eyes of the volunteers, it was prevented from catching fire. Fire burned in tne grass around the building in a space of about 150 feet in diameter. Grain that was reached was too green to burn, and the fire stopped there. No one could explain now me fire started. Moyer expressed the belief that it started in grass just outside the building, but Fred Gimbel, one of three Hepp ner tinmen who answered the call, speculated that it may have started inside the building. Bin Farra and Chief Ruggles were the others on the call. All shoD equipment and tools were destroyed, together with a considerable quantity of stacked lumber in the building. Moyer said all his equipment was ' ouncned ragomer- as nt was preparing for harvest. Had it not been tor the lortneoming harvest, the trucks would, have been scattered and damage would have been lighter. The fire came as a severe blow to the Moyers, but they asked that their appreciation be extended to those who pitched in and battled the blaze. Cemetery Vote Slated Monday Special election on the for mation of the lone-Lexington cemetery district will be held Monday, July 16, from 2 to 7 p.m. with polling places in the lone and Lexington city halls. Voters in the lone and Lex ington precincts will decide whether to authorize the dis trict which would Improve and maintain cemeteries at lone and Lexington. At the same time they will vote on three directors for' the district. On the ballot are Albert Lindstrom, Ellwynne Peck and Carl Troedson. If the voter chooses, he may vote for other candidates as wrlteins. Should the district be ap proved, directors would then set up a budget that would be sub mitted for approval. Until the budget has been established, res idents will not know the amount of the tax except that a stat utory limit of four mills is set. However, they have the right to reject the budget if they wish. Ballot on the formation of the district and election of direc tors is published in this paper on page 4, section 2, as required by law. Late Rain Lack May Hurt Yield Barley harvest is In full swim? in the northern part of the county, and Al Lamb of Morrow county Grain Growers said Thursday morning that every grower in the area around North Lexington is in harvest. Some also is coming in at lone. The harvest is "beating a ton to the acre," Lamb said. Although the yield is good, the barley is good, the barley is not running too heavy, ranging from about 40 to 45 lb. Weight of 40 is necessary to make loan and 45 is necessary for top price, the grain growers' manager said. D. O. Nelson, one of the first to start, has been in harvest for about a week and said his crop looks very good. He expec ted to continue through most of this week before getting into wheat. Some growers said that their fields have been "running out of moisture" and this is hurt ing the crop. Mrs. Andy Van Schoiack said Thursday that their crop of barley in the north ern part of the county is not running as good as was ex pected. There is some fear that wheat may be pinched by the time of harvest. Although weather has not been excessively hot, the moisture has run low. without rain during the past month, and drying winds have hurt. It will be difficult to tell lust how much the crop is hurt until time of harvest. No wheat is coming in as yet but probably will start In the north end of the county by next week. College Budget Election July 20; Plans Outlined Voters of the Blue Mountain Community College district com posed of Morrow and Umatilla counties, are reminded to mark the date of July 20 on their calendars. Special election on the community college budget will be held on this date, and polls will be open from 2 until 8 p.m. Polling places in Morrow county include those at Heppner Elementary school, Irrigon Ele mentary school (A. C. Hough ton), Riverside High school, lone school cafeteria, and Lex ington Elementary school. The district was approved by the voters In the two counties recently by a 4-to-l margin and directors were elected. One of their duties was to set up a budget to be submitted to voters. The budget as prepared calls for total expenditures of $246, 979. Eslimated receipts are $143,275, and the balance to be raised by taxation is $103,704. Millage levy is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 1.18 mills. At the budget hearing in Pendleton recently no one ap- peared to remonstrate nor speak on the budget, director Robert Abrams, Heppner, said. To this date, approval has been gained by the directors to assume the entire operation of the Pendleton Public Schools' program in vocational-technical, business and adult education for the new college. Agreement has been reached, also, concerning rental of building, purchase of equipment, and transfer of staff contracts for 1962-63. The district has reached agree ment with the Pendleton Public Schools so that one-tenth each of the superintendent's and clerk's time shall be devoted to the administration of the college program. Next step in the formation of the college is obtaining voter approval of the budget. If this is done successfully, the district will develop plans to assume and expand the existing tech nical school program for the opening of community college classes in September. Mack's Cafe Sold To Mrs. Randall Mrs. Celestine Randall, Uma tilla, took over operation of Mack's Cafe here Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Max MacCormac sold the cafe to Mrs. Randall due to the recent illness suffered by Mr. MacCormac. Mrs. Lloyd Moyer, former own er of the cafe, will do the cook ing. Assisting Mrs. Randall in the front will be her two daughters, Arletha, 19, and Gayle, 18. She has another daughter, Gwendolyn, 21, who Is training as a practical nurse at St. Anthony hospital in Pen dleton. Mrs. Randall, recently widow ed when her husband suffered a fatal heart attack In February, lives with her daughters in the Thompson cabins. $$ Check Hepp ner Dollar Days Values Throughout This Paper $$
