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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 19, 1962
Gazette-Tim
10 Cents
79th Year, Number 20
AIR CORRIDORS of the Navy bombing range south of Boardman are shown in this sketch with
shaded portions showing proposed revisions. Following a hearing in Pendleton last Wednesday the
Navy and Federal Aeronautics Agency have agreed to recommend reducing corridors for low
level bombing practice from 20 nautical miles from target to about 10 miles on the east and
southwest corridors. This will relieve restrictions on private fliers and on flying for farm spraying.
dusting and fertilizing.
Agreement Set
On Air Corridors
Compromise on restrictions to
private flying in Morrow county
that had brought considerable
concern apparently was reached
to most everyone's satisfaction
at a meeting in Pendleton last
Wednesday. The restrict ions
were those pioposed by the Navy
in reaching its target on the
Boardman bomb range through
three air corridors.
Private fliers had objected to
restrictions that would have pro
hibited flying lower than 3500
feet in the corridor areas. Orville
Cutsforth told the Federal Aero
nautics Agency committee at the
meeting that the corridors with
the restrictions "would put the
dusters and spray planes out of
business" and declared that crop
losses in the county would ap
proximate $1,000,000 annually.
Representatives of the Navy,
the FAA, the state and civic
agencies agreed on reduced re
strictions which seemed to meet
the objections of flying farmers,
spray pilots and others.
Commander R. D. Nelson,
Navy airspace officer of Los
Angeles, agreed to recommend
reducing the extent of the pro
posed corridors on the east and
the southwest to 10 nautical
miles, instead of 20 nautical
miles from the target.
Approval of reducing the cor
ridors must be obtained from the
FAA and the Navy in Washing
ton, D. C, however, and this will
mean a delay of another 30 to
40 days before final completion
of the deal with Boeing on the
Boardman site.
The Morrow county court,
county grange, and the Oregon
Pilots association had passed
resolutions protesting the pro
posed restrictions of the Navy
and a petition had been circ
ulated in the county with more
than 150 signatures obtained.
If the proposed agreement is
accepted in Washington, it will
mean that Butter Creek cattle
ranches to the east and the
wheat ranches to the southwest
will be excluded from the re
strictions. The Navy, too, has
agreed to release the restricted
area for use by spray pilots on
week-ends and in early morning
hours.
Through the corridors, the
Nnvv's twin-iet A3D bombers
"eet down on the deck" to sim
ulate sneaking in under enemy
rnrlnr and drop simulated nu
clear bombs into the target area
Lt. R. C. Farrell, Whidbey Is
land. Wn., said that the Navy
was willing to take any steps
necessary to permit spray pilots
and flying farmers to continue
operations.
Fred S. McKnight, FAA super
visor for the Seattle area, pre
sided at the meeting. He and
George Reid of the airspace
County Oiling
Program Underway
Oiling program by county
road crew is now underway,
rnnntv Judge Peterson said
Tuesday. The crew early this
week was engaged in doing
some work inside the Heppner
city limits near the hospital for
which it will be reimbursed by
nmnortv owners, and a iob oiling
a loop in a new section of the
Heppner cemetery.
Next on the agenda is the
r,iiin(7 of 1'4 to two miles on
the Jordan Canyon road towards
the baseline, after which lVa
miles above the Rietmann grade
nn t hp old Boardman road near
lone is scheduled. To follow is
1'2 miles on tne roaa oy ie
Po,,i Rrmvn nlaee and then l1?
miles on the Balm Fork road.
It is also hoped to include l'i
miles near Eightmile, the judge
aid. Work outlined is expected
to take about two months.
The work is done in V.i mile
stretches to spread it arouna
the various areas of the county,
he said.
branch of the Air Traffic Di
vision of the FAA, agreed to rec
ommend the changes.
Sam Mallicoat, director of the
state's Planning and Develop
ment Commission, was present
to tell of the importance of
speedy culmination of the deal
with Boeing without further de
lay.
Budget Vote
On College
Due Friday
Vote on the $246,979 budget
of the Blue Mountain Commun
ity College district will be Fri
day, July 20, with polls open
from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. in
polling places in the 2-county
district.
In Morrow county polling
places are at Heppner, Irrigon
and Lexington elementary
schools, at the lone school cafe
teria, and Riverside High school
in Boardman.
The budget, which calls for
$103,704 to be raised by taxation,
is for the purpose 01 providing
for administration, instruction,
operation of plant, maintenance
of plant, fixed charges, capital
outlay, interest and emergency
fund of the community college.
It is estimated that the amount
to be raised by taxation will
require a levy ot 1.18 muis
around the district.
Estimated receipts from reg
ular fees and tuition, from the
state community college fund,
and from sale of books and sup
plieswould be $143,275.
The college will succeed the
Pendleton Technical school and
will provide vocational and tech
nical training, college transier
courses, and adult education.
All properly registered voters
in the 2-county district are el
igible to vote on the budget.
Voters approved formation of
the district by a 4-to-l margin
recently and elected directors,
but it is necessary now to ap
prove a budget for the operation
of the college before it can get
underway.
Vote Approves
Cemetery Unit
Voters of lone and Lexington
Monday approved formation 01
the lone-Lexington cemetery
Maintenance district by a count
of 79 yes to 10 no, Mrs. Sadie
Parrish, county clerk, reported
after votes were counted. In lone
precinct the vote was 47 to 0.
and in Lexington it was 32 to
4. ... .
Directors elected were Ainen
Lindstrom, Ellwynne Peck and
Carl Troedson.
The board of directors now
must nrpDare a budcet for sub
mission for consideration of the
district residents. Since it is too
late to get the levy on tne tax
rolls this year, the levy for the
district will not go on until the
fiscal year 1963-64.
Rodeo Queen, Court
To Visit Chamber
Rodeo Queen Marlene Fetsch
and her roval court will be
guests of the Heppner-Morrow
County Chamber of Commerce
at the regular luncheon meet
ine Monday. President Fred
Gimbel announces.
Princesses are Diana Petty
john of lone, Irene Potts of
Boardman. Diana Fulleton of
HeDDner. and Jacquie Brindle
rpnresentinz the Lena commun
itv. Mrs. Roice (Betty) Fulle
ton, chaperone, will accompany
them on their visit to tne Lnam
ber.
Three Grass Fires
Laid to Youngsters
Three grass fires in 10 days
within the Heppner city limits,
the last one coming Wednes
day morning, are thought to
be the work of youngsters
playing with matches, Fire
Chief Charles Ruggles said.
The Wednesday fire was be
hind the home of Leonard L.
Gilliam and was confined to
grass with no damage re
ported. However, the fire was
licking around a garage and
might have done serious dam
age if it had not been dis
covered promptly.
The chief said that neither
of two other fires had caused
general alarms but they fol
lowed the same pattern. A box
of matches was found at the
Wednesday fire, and the chief
has names of youngsters who
will be questioned about the
fires.
Ullman Supports
Farm Amendment
Congressman Al Ullman sent
a letter Wednesday to all Demo
cratic members of the House of
Representatives urging their
support of an amendment to the
new farm bill, his office reported
to the Gazette-Times.
The amendment would grant
authority to the Secretary of
Agriculture to increase wheat
acreage allotments, in areas and
on farms of historic production,
of any kind of wheat which is
in short supply. If approved by
the house, this provision would
apply to soft white wheat, which
is grown extensively in eastern
Oregon,
"I believe that it is important
that any tarm legislation en
acted fully recognize the differ
ent uses and supply and demand
situation of the various kinds
of wheat," Ullman pointed out
in his letter.
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ALL-STARS selected from the four teams of the Willow Creek Little League will go to The Dalle
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Snow (rear). Players are (front row, from left) Rick Johnston.
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Jeff Turner, Chris Lovgren and
ternate Kit Anderson.
Indians Win
Little League baseball sum
mer action is over here, and
now all enthusiasm is turned
toward The Dalles for the area
playoffs this week-end. The Wil
low Creek All-Stars will play an
All-Star team from The Dalles
area at The Dalles in the second
game of a doubleheader Friday
night at 8:00 p.m. The winners
will then meet at 8:00 p.m. Sat
urday night for the champion
ship. The Indians wrapped up the
first place spot in the second
hall of play as they defeated
Fire Levels
Second Barn
In Week
Fire that broke out in newly
stored hav in the barn of Ken
neth Turner, Sandhollow, almost
one week exactly from the fire
that destroyed the Melvin Mover
barn seven miles away on July
10, leveled the barn and destroy
ed 35 tons of baled hay Tuesday
afternoon, Turner said.
With Denny Swanson, just
home from the service, and
Doug Dubuque, Turner was
working in a shop nearby when
they noticed the flames in the
barn. Within minutes the entire
structure was engulfed, and the
owner said that it seemed to
burn up within five minutes.
Dubuque and Swanson battled
the spreading blaze and saved
another stack of baled hay out
side the barn, Turner went to
summon aid, and the Heppner
Rural Fire Protection district
truck responded with Fire Chief
Ruggles, Bill Farra and Fred
Gimbel.
Lowell Gribble also responded
with a snrav tank.
Firemen used a farm pond as
source of water and had two
1'o-inch lines and a single 2"2
inch line for use in dousing tne
hlaze. The pond proved to be a
blessing in controlling the fire,
Chief Ruggles said,
Total loss was in the neigh
horhood of $3500, Turner said
He valued the barn at about
S2500 and the hay at $750. In
addition some corrals and other
installations were destroyed.
Annarentlv the fire started
from spontaneous combustion.
Turner said that lt was the best
hay crop that he had ever had
and thought that it was dry
when it was stored, but appar
ently it had not properly cured
in some rjlaces.
Turner gave a great deal of
credit to those who came to his
aid. "If I had been alone, it
might have . gotten to the big
barn and then would have
doomed the house," he said.
Loss is onlv about half cover
ed by insurance, Turner said. He
found out, however, tnat nis
hay is covered, and he did not
think at first that it was.
The fire broke out about 3
p.m. Tuesday, whereas the Moy
er fire occurred just after 3
p.m. on the previous Tuesday
with
loss of $iu,uuu to 3U,UUU.
WEATHER
(Leonard Gilliam, observer)
Hi low Prec.
Thursday 82 49
Friday 74 46
Saturday 76 44
Sunday 78 45
Monday 83 47
Tuesday 73 39
Wednesday 75 43
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First; All-Star Game Set
the Braves Friday night, 2-0, in
an exciting game. Russell Kil
kenny worked on the mound for
the Indians to allow no runs on
three hits, walked seven, and
struck out five. The Braves
started Randy Stillman with
Larry Pettyjohn relieving him in
the fourth. They teamed up to
allow two runs on one hit, struck
out five, and walked five.
The Ail-Star team is prac
ticing each night this week
under the leadership of Ken
Sawyer and Ernie Snow in prep
aration for the area playoffs.
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Billed Saturday
Princess Dianna Pettyjohn of
lone, 18-year-old blu e e y e d
blonde, will be honored at her
rodeo princess dance at the lone
Legion hall Saturday night, July
21, starting at 10 p.m.
Leonnig's orchestra will play
and admission will be $1,50 per
person. Dancing will continue
until 2 a.m.
Princess Dianna, graduate of
lone High school with the class
of 19G2, is daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Pettyjohn. She was
active in school affairs, having
been a member of the band and
the pep band, a singer in the
glee club, and a member of the
volleyball team.
Being a princess in the rodeo
court is not her first experience
as royalty, for she was chosen
homecoming queen during the
football season of the school
year.
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They will have 12 of the 15 boys
going as 12-year olds and eight
of the boys were on the All-Star
team which won its first game
In the playoffs last summer and
then was defeated In the cham
pionship game. Those going
again this year are David Hall,
Steve Pettyjohn, Randy Stillman,
Chris Lovgren, Jeff Turner, Rus
sell Kilkenny, Roger Leonnig
and Rick Johnston. Others on
the team are Dennis O'Donnell,
Mike Smith, Steve Baker, Ken
Nelson, Kent and Kevan Pratt,
and Kit Anderson, alternate.
Da
nee
She served as vice president
of the senior class and also was
vice president of the Girls
League at lone High.
The lone princess has com
pleted seven years of 4-H club
work and has been an active
member in the cooking class
for four years and has com
pleted three years in the saddle
club. An accomplished rider, she
has ridden since she was eight
years old. This is one of her
main hobbies and another in
terest is swimming.
Princess Dianna expects to en
ter Pacific University in the fall
where she plans to enroll In an
art course. She has one brother,
Paul Jr., who is married and
has one daughter, Kimber.
The 5 ft. 8 inch blonde rep
resents the Willows Grange on
the court. This is the first of
the princess dances, following
the kickoff dance for the rodeo
season last week in Heppner. A
very large crowd was on hand
for the opener in the fair pa
vilion in Heppner.
Cub Meet Cancelled
An announcement was made
this week that the August meet
ing of the Cub Scouts has been
cancelled due to lack of atten
dance. No meeting will be held
until sometime in September.
Four-H Camp
At Cutsforth
After four days at Cutsforth
park, Morrow county 4-H youths
who were divided into four
groups Snagglepusses, II u c k
Hounds, Toppers and lioKey
Wolves bid farewell to their
"Jellystone park" Sunday at the
conclusion ot anotner success
ful 4-H camp.
A sack lunch preceded the
camp breakup, and a large con
tingent of parents was on hand
to get the youngsters and see
the concluding ceremonies of the
camp session.
Of the 60 4-H'ers who took
part, 10 were selected as out
standing campers and honored
at Sunday recognition cere
monies prior to the Sunday camp
service. They are: Diana Cuts
forth, Lexington; John Harris,
Christy Watkins, Calvin Ash
beck, Bobby Dobbs, Judy Nyman,
Bobbv Peck, and Barbara Bloods-
worth, all of Heppner; Bonnie
Akers, lone; and Anna Sue Les
ley, Irrigon.
Camp opened last Thursday
with a "Pow-wow" at 3 p.m
Yogi Bear story telling was a
feature of the first evening, and
council ring ceremonies con
cluded the day.
Flag raising, camp Inspection,
morning and afternoon classes
and activities, free choice time,
and flag lowering were on the
regular daily schedule. A "Yogi
Bear's Party" was held Friday
evening, and a campers' talent
First Wheat
Harvested;
Barley Rolls
Wheat has started to roll Into
elevators in the northern part
of Morrow county as the harvest
gets underway in the "early"
section of the county. However,
it will not be until next weeK
that the harvest there begins
to reach its peak, according to
Al Lamb, manager of the Mor
row County Grain Growers.
The crop is still a question
mark since it is too early to
tell what the yield and quality
will be.
First loads that have come in
have been spotty, Lamb reported.
Some has been very good, but
some has been rather poor. There
are various speculations on the
poorer wheat, ranging from
ideas of spray damage, frost,
and lack of moisture. However,
the Grain Growers manager said
that he does not feel that the
damage is from lack of moisture.
County Agent Nels Anderson
said that he believes the wheat
harvest will be up a good 10
bushels on the average from the
light crop of last year. He fig
ured last year's average to be
about 18 bushel and expects this
year's to approach 28.
Lamb predicted that on the
county-wide average this would
probably be about right but said
that because of smaller acreage
this year, the total yield might
not run much about the luoi
season. However, average in
come to the farmers should be
considerably greater, although
some with poor crops might be
less.
Barley has passed Its peak
at the North Lexington elevator.
Yield continues very good but
the test weight Is short, Lamb
said. Other elevators around the
county are just starting on bar
ley. Most of the early wheat Is
coming into the North Lexington
and Hogue-Warner elevators. As
of Thursday, daily average of
barley coming to the Morrow
County Grain Growers elevators
was 30,000 bushels and wheat
was 25,000 bushels.
Anderson said that first bar
ley coming to Heppner was
"awfully good but light."
Around the county barley is
averaging better than a ton to
the acre.
The county agent said that
the wheat crop would have been
better If the area had been fav
ored by a June rain, but the cool
weather helps take the place of
the moisture.
Loose Clamp Causes
2-Hour Power Outage
A clamp connecting wires on
a 66,000-volt highllne of Pacific
Power and Light company came
loose and allowed a jumper wire
to fall thereby causing failure
of one log of the power system
last Thursday afternoon. The
failure resulted In a general
outage In lone, Lexington and
Heppner for about two hours
and 20 minutes, Fred Gimbel,
lineman-manager, said.
The trouble centered on a line
near lone and came just before
5 p.m. last Thursday. Arlington
also was off for about 10
minutes but switched to another
line, Gimbel said. Power service
was restored shortly after 7 p.m.
Draws 60
For Four Days
night was a Saturday evening
feature.
On Sunday morning special
features consisted of tours to
Coal Mine hill and demonstra
tions of fire fighting by the U. S.
Forest Service.
Class activities were conduc
ted In wildlife, forestry, crafts,
electricity and safety.
Camp stan included in. u
Anderson, county exte nsion
agent; Mrs. N. C. Anderson,
camp cook; Mrs. Velma Glass,
county health nurse; Lee Han
son, Pacific Power and Light Co.,
Portland; Joe Hay, extension
agent; Esther Klrmis, extension
agent; Mrs. Ernie Klrsch, Con
don, camp cook; cnanes Mc
Lean, U. S. Forest Service, Rev.
Earl Soward, Sunday service
speaker; Steven Judd, State
Wildlife, Salem; Tom Futter,
David Creswick and Bob Can
tonwine, all with the Forest Ser
vice, Heppner.
Camp counsellors were Doug
las Anderson, Ronnie Belsma,
Judy Smith and Dale Van Blok
land. HeDDner: Penny Jones and
Shirley Jackson, Irrigon; Steven
Lindstrom, Jean Martin, and
Arleta McCabe, lone; and Mit
chel Ashbeck, Echo. Gene Pierce
on behalf of the Bank of Eastern
Oregon furnished watermelon
for a feed at the camp.
Weather was nippy through
the session, holding swimming
to a minimum, but otherwise
was fair and enjoyable.