HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday, October 4, 1962
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HEPPNER
GAZETTE-TIMES
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The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner
Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15,
1912.
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The Change in the Classroom
It is rather a novel experience for one who taught school
20 years ago to return to the classroom as a visitor and notice
the change in methods today.
Hlllard Brown, elementary teacher, invited the editor on
the spur of the moment to visit two sixth grade mathematics
classes one day last week. New concepts of teaching the subject
were used.
In the class of Mrs. Inez Meador the pupils were working
on a new idea of using other bases rather than the base 10 that
has long been the foundation for our system of arithmetic. She
pointed out that other systems might for example, use base
4, base 5 or base 6, and her pupils showed good understanding
of how this works out. They went to the board for our benefit and
demonstrated. Their comprehension, we're sure, far exceeds
ours of this subject after this initial exposure.
In the class of Mrs. Inez Erwin, the pupils were doing
work on multiplication tables, but it is not done simply by
memory any more, as we understand it. Here, too, the youngsters
seemed confident and competent.
But the thing that impressed us most on these short visits
is the difference in demeanor of the children in the classes
as contrasted with the old days when the editor was in school
and later taught in high school.
Every child seems alert, willing and ready to step up and
perform with eagerness. As we recall it, In the days of some
time ago, many of the pupils in any class were afraid to
budge from their seats and had a horror of a visitor coming
into the room. The youngster who was as "quiet as a mouse"
was often deemed a model student.
Now a visitor seems to be received as casually but courteously
as a person coming to the child's home and one notes little
expression of fear or concern on the bright faces.
We speculated with Mr. Brown on what has caused the
difference. We agreed that a change in discipline has some
thing to do with it.
Twenty years ago the discipline was more formal in most
classes. A child didn't dare whisper, and to be caught chewing
gum might have brought a severe penalty. Emphasis was on
quiet and orderliness.
Now there seems to be almost a planned disorderlincss,
but it seems to us that the child seems much more at home in
the classroom and that the learning situation is nurtured as
a result.
American Education Week Is still a little time away this
fall, but parents and townspeople shouldn't wait until then to
visit the schools. Just drop in unnanounced some day if you
really want to see what is going on in the classroom. You may
have some pleasant surprises with what your children are
doing.
Economic Aftermath at Seaside
In today's mail came a news release announcing an Indian
Summer festival at Seaside and an accompanying note hinted
that the coastal city has been hurt economically because of the
reaction to the riots there on Labor Day week-end.
Loss of tourism at Seaside, when one thinks of it, is about
the same as a sawmill-supported town losing its lumber industry.
The tourist trade is No. 1 income for Seaside and other coastal
towns. When visitors don't come, recession does.
Although some of the business people in Seaside probably
are partially responsible for bringing this current situation on
themselves those who sold liquor to minors and encouraged any
thing that would bring in a dollar to their coffers, the town
as a whole deserves no tourist boycott.
Seaside has long been a favorite resort for many, and it is
hoped that it continues to get a good coastal trade. So far as we
can determine, the officials there are to be commended for the
way they held firm in dealing with riot offenders, although in
a mess of that kind some innocent persons have been mistakenly
arrested.
Oregon's coastline presents some of the most beautiful
scenery in the world and it is one of our greatest attractions.
Even Eastern Oregonians have a right to take pride in it and
share the enjoyment of visiting there.
Last summer when we registered at a coastal town for our
"vacation" a 3-day week-end a motel owner noted we were
from Heppner.
"Eastern Oregon people are our favorite people!" She ex
claimed with genuine cordiality. We have reason to believe that
this wasn't a "malarky" because we never evoked any comment
IN THE OFFICE of Sadie Par-
nsh, county clerk, luesday
there issued a loud crash from
an adjoining room. Mary Bryant
had just left the sideroom a
moment before and jumped in
voluntarily. One could almost
see the question marks and ex
clamation points in Sadie's
startled eyes.
Investigation showed a win
dow was shattered in the room,
high above the floor in an upper
pane. The loud clatter came
from the fact that the rock which
went through the window had
struck metal Venetian blinds and
they had reverberated like the
clashing cymbals.
1 Furtive investigation through
the window, however, revealed
nn rlictnrhpH nprsnn niitsirle.
Shorty Hudson was innocently
mowing the lawn with the rot
ary power mower.
It wasn't too hard to figure
what happened. The mower had
picked up a rock, about two
inches long and an inch thick,
and rifled it through the glass
pane. It had traveled some 50
feet from the mower and gain
ed about 20 feet of elevation
before it broke the glass. Then
it struck the blind with such
force that it put an S-curve in
the end of it.
It's amazing the force those
mowers generate. They can be
a lethal weapon when they run
over rocks.
IT HAS ALWAYS been a hunt
ing oddity that when a hus
band and wife go hunting to
gether and get a little ol' spike
early in the season, it comes
in with the wife's tag on it.
Then, of course, poppa goes out
to hunt again.
So it was with a Hermiston
couple whose case is now on
record in the office of J. O.
Hager, justice of the peace.
A state officer stopped a car,
bearing a small deer, the other
day to check the hunters, and
found that the animal bore the
wife's tae. But sadly, son of the
couple was in a following car,
and officers also stopped this
car for a routine check. In the
course of the conversation the
young man told how his dad
had been successful in bagging
the deer that was loaded on the
car ahead.
Now father faces a charge of
failure to tag his deer with his
own tag.
Heretofore, we had always fig
ured that the law recognized
this practice, but this incident
doesn't appear to bear it out.
ANOTHER CASE of an over
zealous hunter showed up at
Fulleton Chevrolet garage the
other day. Loyd Burkenbine fixed
on the many occasions that we signed in at other motels on
week-end visits when we lived in the western part of the state.
Eastern Oregon has a fascination for the coastal and valley
people who are intrigued with the seas of wheat and the wide
open spaces. Perhaps the coast has a similar fascination for
Eastern Oregonians. In any event, we are sure that resort
owners there will extend the welcome mat to visitors.
Irrigation Survey Encouraging
Results of a survey taken to determine the amount of Interest
in the irrigation feature of the proposed Willow Creek dam
are very encouraging to those in favor of the project.
Oliver Creswick and Quentin Bowman, the latter of the
State Water Resources board, found only two of 28 property hold
ers along Willow Creek from Heppner to the Columbia River
who were against this irrigation plan. Others who signed
statements indicated that they would be interested in irrigating
a total of 2280 acres.
This means that when the Willow Creek project comes
up for public hearing in November, the irrigation feature will be
included in the proposed design. If interest in irrigation is
sustained as one of the dam's multipurposes, it has just that
much more likelihood of becoming a reality, for the multi
purpose use idea has become strong in determining whether
such projects are actually undertaken.
Health Assoc. Places
Complimentary Issues
One project added this year to
the health program of the Mor
row Cnuntv Tuberculosis and
Health Assoc. is the placing of
complimentary suDscripnon cop
ies of "Today's Health" in li
braries and public offices, accord
ing to Mrs. W. W. Weatherford,
president.
The association supplies all
city libraries in the county, as
well as elementary and high
school libraries; all beauty and
harhop slinns In the rountv: the
Pioneer Memorial hospital; Hotel
Heppner; Home extension ageni
and the county health depart-
mpnfr.
These magazines are but one
phase ol neaith programs carriea
on in the county, all of which are
financed by the Christmas Seal
sale and administered by volun
teers. The association continues
to sponsor free X-rays each
month for the public.
Sunday dinner guests at the
home ot Mr. ana Mrs. tan Mar
quardt and family of Lexington
were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Green
and daughter, Betty Fae, also
of Lexington. After dinner games
were played and the group en
joyed seeing films bv Mr. Green
of movies taken August 4 at the
Holt Korean orphan picnic at
Cresswell.
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a radiator of a rig that had a
bullet hole in it, apparently the
result of an accidental shot by
its hunter-owner.
Well, it would seem reason
able enough to mistake a car
or pickup for a deer. After all,
the vehicles have horns, too,
don't they?
THAT REMINDS us of the fellow
who a couple of months ago
was arrested for shooting a bull
elk in Clatsop county out of
season. His alabi? He said that
he mistook it for a fox. Now
there's an ideal hunting com
panion. DR. A. D. McMURDO went hunt
ing the other day with his two
sons, Charles Jr. of Portland and
Scott H. McMurdo of Corvallis.
The boys came out with a buck
and the doctor got none, but he
wasn't a bit abashed. He de
clared that he had to beat the
brush and dog it out for them
or they'd never got it.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY Herman
Winter is a civic-minded in
dividual. He told the Chamber
of Commerce at his introduction
Monday that he had noticed the
population sign at the city
limits showing 1657 and figured
that his family's coming would
raise that to 1662. Then he was
grieved to hear that another
family of 13 had moved out,
cutting it well below what it
was when he saw the sign.
To make matters worse, when
they moved over from Salem,
Herman said, they had such a
big load that they left the three
children home temporarily with
the grandparents, and so even
if no one else had moved out,
the population would only have
gone up to 1659.
THESE 1963 model cars are
about the most pleasing to us
of any year we can remember.
Both the Chevrolets and the Fords
have nice clean styling, distinc
tive lines, and the dealers can
be proud of them. Gone forever,
we hope, are the big tail fins.
Ford never did go in for them
too much, but Chevrolet threat
ened a few years ago with the
"table-top" rear.
Jim Farley, Pontiac-B u i c k
Rambler dealer here, had to hold
his peace last week while Earl
Ayres and Roice Fulleton strut
ted their stuff, but Jim will come
out now with a one-two-three
punch, putting all three lines of
his new cars on display. They
are really eye-catchers, too. I
sneaked a peek at one the other
day, and it is one of the neatest
packages in the vehicle line that
I've seen.
COUNCILMAN JOHN Pfeiffer is
Mining Claims
Surface Rights
Options Described
The Bureau of Land Manage
ment Viae infnrmprl Wrieht T.
Mallery, Umatilla Forest Super
visor, that September i9bz
was the date of first publication
of notice on the Morrow Area,,
County of Morrow, State of Ore
gon regarding surtace resource
rights on unpatented mining
rlaimc niirsnant tn Spction 5 of
the Act of July 23, 1955 (Public
Law 167, 84th Congress), inis
notice will be published for 9
consecutive weeks under the
heading "Notice to Mining Claim
ants, Oregon, 012474."
Maps of the Morrow Area now
being published and copies of
the Multiple Use Mining Law of
July 23, 1955, and of the pro
cedure for the determination of
surface rights set up by the law
are available for inspection at
the Forest Supervisor's office,
P. O. Box 119, Pendleton.
A claimant has two options
unrlpr thf law. He mav ignore
the notices, thereby waiving
rights to the surtace unxu ine
claim goes to patent yet main
taining his original mining
rights. The claimant may file
a verified statement asserting
his rights to the surface. In that
rasp, his claim will be examin
ed by mineral examiners.
Claims of questionable valid
ity will be considered before a
hearing officer of the Bureau of
Land Management, Department
of the Interior, who will make
the final decision. Both the
claimant and the Forest Service
will present their testimony at
the hearing. Whatever the de
cision, the claimant will retain
his mineral rights. If the de
cision is in the claimant's favor,
he also retains all surface rights.
WANT ADS RING ARE YOU
LISTENING? A Winter Money
land Of Results!
COMMUNITY I
) BILLBOARD
waging a one-man battle to
get something done about the
street gutters on Willow, just
off Main. When rain comes, they
fill up and overflow so that a
person can hardly get across the
street. Even when rain goes
away, slimy silt is left. We think
he has a good point because we
know how it is to try to get
across the street in heavy rain.
John thinks he has a solution
to install "California gutters"
across the street, but he hasn't
aroused much sympathy from
his council colleagues yet.
HEY! Anyone who thinks that
things aren't on the upswing
for the Heppner football team,
better look at the Oregon! an
football poll Wednesday. The
Mustangs got a vote in the A-2
bracket. Just one vote to be sure,
but that is the highest they have
rated for a few years now. There
are some nasty mean people who
declare Coach Jim Sutherland
voted for his own team in the
poll, but Honest Jim would never
do a thing like that.
Coming Events
LEGION MOVIES
Friday Night, 8:00 p.m.
Legion Hall
This week "Buffalo Bill Rides
Again."
Plus cartoon.
FOOTBALL GAME
Heppner High versus Stanfield
High.
Friday night, 8:00 p.m.
Stanfield Football Field
O.E.S. SOCIAL CLUB
Saturday, Oct. 6, 1:45 p.m.
Heppner Masonic Hall
PTA MEETING
Important Business; Interest
ing program. Multipurpose
room, 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 10
This space will be used
each week to announce com
ing events of a public service
nature at no charge.
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