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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1962)
I I 3PARY u or o f v : :' : . cr. rate TOW County Disagrees On 3 IVleasures (See Table. Page 2) When it came to measures in Tuesday's election, Morrow county voters were in a "Yes1 mood. They gave affirmative majorities to all nine measures on tne ballot except for the day iKUi oavuiK lime Dill, uii me inree measures con sidered to be the most import , ant statewide No. 6, daylight having; no. y, reapportionment and No. 10, repeal of school re organization the vote in Mor row county was the reverse of the tinal result around the state, On daylight saving, the coun ty voted 608 yes to 1064 no, but last count statewide was 373,261 yes and 218,577 no. On reapport ionment, the county voted strong ly in favor of it, 1033 yes to 366 no, out it was defeated by a large margin in the state, 197,504 to 312,254. On repeal of school reorganization, the county voted nearly 2 to 1 in favor, 1027 to 581, but the state turned it down t.y more than 100,000 votes, 190 470 yes to 305,069 no. Morrow voters favored the other six measures on the ballot and followed the state trend on them. On the six per cent limi tation amendment (No. 7) the vote in Morrow was 769 yes to 478 no; on reorganizing the militia (No. 1) the vote was 844 yes, 588 no; on forest debt limit (No. 2) it was 866 yes to 466 no; on road debt limit (No. 3), it was 907 yes, 444 no; on power debt limit (No. 4), it was 823 yes, 464 no; and on creation and jurisdiction of state courts (No 5), it was 831 yes, 452 no. The state voted yes on every measure except those of legis lative reapportionment and school law repeal. Measure No. 10 found a split in the county with all Heppner precincts voting against repeal of school reorganization, al though two of the four were by close margins. However, all other precincts of the county polled large margins for the re peal measure. In Southwest Heppner, the no vote was by only live, 100 yes to 105 no, and in Northwest Heppner, it was by only 11, 109 to 120. In South east Heppner, however, the no margin approached 2 to 1, 47 yes to 75 no; and in Northeast Heppner it was also nearly 2 to 1 in opposition, 57 yes to 100 no. Elsewhere, though, the affirm ative was decisive: Boardman, 109 yes to 51 no; Irrigon, 167 yes to 33 no; Lexington, 152 yes to 51 no; lone, 261 yes to 41 no; and Hardman, 25 yes to 5 no. Every precinct voted strongly in favor of legislative reapport ionment, which would have Grain Growers Bill Allen loin Allen Tom, The Dalles, presi dent of the Oregon Wheat Grow ers league, will speak at the annual meeting of the Morrow County Grain Growers on Mon day, November 19, in the fair grounds pavilion, Heppner. The meeting will open with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Champion 4-H roast beef will provide the entree. Also on the program will be Martha Doherty, state finalist in the Soil Conservation District speech contest, who will present her talk on Water Conservation. At the business session two directors will be elected for 3 year terms, and seven associate directors will be elected for 1 year terms. Annual statement will be presented by President Paul Jones and annual report will be given by Manager Al Lamb. Ten door prizes, six of them consisting of 4-H champion beef, will be given. Boeing Speaker To Highlight Meet Annual meeting of Columbia Basin Electric Co-op will be Fri day, November 9, at Memorial Hall, Condon, with Dr. Walter Hiltner, chief of the propulsion unit of Aero-Space division, Boe ing Company, principal speaker at the meeting. Dr. Hiltner will speak on the subject, "What is Ahead in the Conquest of Space?" Registration for the meeting will start at 10:30, and two movies will be shown before the 11:30 lunch. One is entitled "Fish and Dams," and the other is "Men, Ice and Steel." Both are fine movies, according to Harley Young, manager. The luncheon, to be served by women of the Eastern Star, will be for members and invited guests. The public is invited to the meeting, which starts at 1 p.m., and many local persons will be interested in hearing Dr. Hiltner. President's report will be gi ven by Walter Jaeger, Condon, Jack ilynd, Jr., Cecil, will give the secretary's report, and Young will give his annual manager's report. made Morrow a part of a three county representative district in stead of the present five-county district. It failed by 115,000 vote's around the state, however. Only one precinct in the coun ty voted for daylight saving, and that was Northwest Heppner, 124 to 119. Baby Suffocates In Crib at Home Tracy Lynn Phegley, 3-months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs James Phegley of Heppner, was round dead in her crib at 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning, the ap parents victim of accidental suf focation, Dr. L. D. Tibbies, Mor row county medical examiner, reported. The baby slept in the crib be side her mother's bed. When Mrs. Phegley attended her about mid night, nothing was noticed to be amiss. When the mother arose at 7:30, she discovered the tragedy. sne caned a doctor, who came to the home and in turn called Dr. Tibbies. The medical examiner said that death apparently oc curred about 3:30. having suf focated from blankets in the crib. lracy Lynn is one of five daughters of the Phegleys. She was born August 2, 1962. The iatner, who is working awav from home, was not here when the accident occurred. hristmas Event Plans Go Ahead Plans are moviner ahead for Heppner's Christmas Opening event on Saturday, November 24, Mike Whitesmith, chairman, an nounces. It is expected that the city will be decorated for the holiday season by that time with a Christmas tree to be in Dlace. Merchants will have Chrsitmas merchandise ready, and it is hoped to have a visit from Santa Claus on the day. une ot the teatures of Christ mas Opening will be a window guessing contest, similar to that held last year. The public will be invited to participate and to guess retail value of merchan dise in store windows. The one coming closest to the actual amount will win that stores prize. At the present time, somp 20 stores and businesses have signed up to offer prizes, each of value of $10 or more, and others will be in on the fun soon. Complete details on Christmas Opening, which will be two days after Thanksgiving, will be in the next two issues of the Gazette-Times. Bank President Retires; Pierce New L. C. Buchner. president and cashier of the Bank of Eastern Oregon and its founder as Gil liam County Bank in Arlington, has announced his retirement as of October 1, 1962 Buchner, or "Buck" as he is known in the banking fraternity, came from the Commercial Bank in Hillsboro to establish the Gil liam County Bank in Arlington which opened for business on March 3, 1945. Growth of the bank has been steady through the years, from the initial cap italization of $25,000 and $10,000 in a guaranty fund to total cap ital accounts of over $350,000 as of September 29, 1962. Buchner has been the executive officer of the bank since it was founded. Gene Pierce, vice president and managing officer of the Heppner and lone branches, will replace Buchner as executive officer of the bank. Jim Green, assistant cashier at Arlington, will act as manager of that of fice. Other officers are Marion Green and Bill Siewert at Hepp ner and lone. D. L. Lemon of Arlington, is chairman of the board of directors, Earl P. Hoag is vice president, and John Krebs of Arlington, Art Allen of Board man, Gar Swanson of lone and Howard. Bryant and Pierce of Heppner are other members of the board. Graduating from Oregon State University in 1921 with a teach ing certificate, Buchner taught school in Pendleton High school for three years. He began his banking career in June of 1925 in the Bank of Amity, Amity, Ore. In November of that year, he went to Vancouver, Wn., where he was employed in a bank there for two years. Return ing to Oregon, he worked for a time in the Bank of Madras, and then joined the Fisrt National Bank of Portland and worked in their Estacada, Woodburn and Albany branches before resign ing to join the staff of the Com mercial Bank in Hillsboro. Upon the suggestion of the late A. A. Rogers, then state Number 36 ..JniurAM- - ii i I III Ml III "TV " tBTrfrrmm. " THE W F GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 8, 1962 r V ;Vi m ' - fJ ' t Mi . fsf f t If ! f H 11 J , 'I . I I HEADY FOR their quarter-final state playoff game with Crane at lone Friday afternoon at 1:30 are these members of the Cardinals. Front row (from loft) Robert Emert, manager; Mike Palmer (33), Jay Ball (42), Tim Tullis (40), Mark Halvorsen (29). Bob Cmm mm. Tnhn r tj Joe Herusler (27). Second row v; " nn.cis ouu wcopaui uuu oucn vnenn Diem, bock row Tom Helmbig ner (35), Joe Halvorsen (26). Ron Crabtree (43). Steve Lindstrom (32), Mary Padberg (39), Jim I'luiuu ooj uuu nujiie lksuuiu lone to In Playoff Game Friday Undefeated lone faces an un known football quantity Friday anernoon when Crane comes to play the Cardinals in a state quarter-final 8-man B grid game at r.aj on the iciiG field. After zipping through all op position, both non-conference and in the Umatilla-Morrow 8 man league, the Cards will meet a team about which thev know very little. Coach Glenn Biehl reports that John potter, who formerly coach ed Mt. Vernon, is now mentor ot the Crane team. The star quarterback that he had at Mt Vernon is also now at Crane. The visitors lost only one game tnis year, that an early season affair to Prairie Citv. 32-0, but improved enough to down the same team later in the year by a close margin. Admission for the Friday after noon game will be $1 for adults, 50c for students, and 25c for grade schoolers. Executive L, C BUCHNER Retires from bank post superintendent of banks, he went to Arlington and, together with several business men and farmers in the area, established the Gilliam County Bank. On July 1, 1957, the name of the bank changed to the Bank of Eastern Oregon in anticipation of adding a branch at Heppner. This branch was opened on Aug ust 12, 1957, in the lobby of Em pire Machinery Company and moved to its new building on December 29, 1957. A second branch at lone was established on June 15, 1959. Upon retiring, Buchner stated that he has had many rich and rewarding experiences in the banking business and he has al ways felt that banking present ed more opportunities to do more for people than any other occupation. The Buchners have sold their residence in Arling ton and are now living in Mesa, Ariz., wher they plan to make their home. UhL .9 ri. mi 5 sag??, tfv Ken Klinger (44 ), Mancell Townsend (25), Les Madden (24). Garv (G-T Photo) Meet Crane Coach Biehl announced that his starting lineup probably will be Jim Martin and Rollie Ek strom, ends; Co-captain Marvin Padberg and Joe Halvorsen, guards; Gary Morgan, center; Co captain Ron Crabtree, quarter back; Ken Klinger, halfback; and either Les Madden or Tom Heimbigner at the other half back spot. In reaching the quarter-finals Navy Plane Bomb Hits Cecil Ranch One of the navy's bombs missed its bullseye by a wide margin sometime last week but came within a quarter mile of scoring a hit on the home of Robert Bafus on Fair view Ranch, about four miles west of Cecil, Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman said Wednesday. The bomb, which does not carry explosives, dug a crater 12 feet long, eight feet wide and three feet deep, the sher iff said. Sizable steel chunks were scattered about the area. None of those on the ranch heard or saw the drop, but the crater was discovered later. Sheriff Bauman took fragments to the ground crew chief at the Boardman Naval station Wednesday afternoon, and the chief said that there was no doubt that they were portions of one of their prac tice bombs. He said that ap parently one of the planes, probably coming from the south, had dropped the bomb prematurely. No previous report had been made of the incident, and the chief did not kno - about it. He said that he would trans mit the information to superior officers. The bombs dropped by the navy's planes on their prac tice runs are of substantial size, 20 inches in diameter and eight feet in length. They are made of rather light gauge metal, but still weigh 2000 pounds each, the sheriff was told. "We're Just thankful it did n't hit someone and that no one was killed," Sheriff Bau man said. Target of the practice range is several miles east of where the bomb landed. Ski Club Booster Meeting Slated Booster Night meeting of the Arbuckle Mountain Ski club will be at the Legion hall in Heppner, rather than at the fair pavilion as previously announced. There is a conflicting meeting at the pavilion. The meeting, which will open with a potluck dinner at 6:30, will be Tuesday night, Novem ber 13. Highlight of the evening will be the showing of a movie of the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif., with Miles Lodmel of Walla Walla, Wn narrating in person. He took the film at the Olympics. There will be a prize drawing for a Polaroid camera. 79th Year HEPPNER 10 Cents sssb the Cards won four league games, Riverside, Umapine, Helix and Echo, most of them by large scores. They also downed Culver and Wishram, Wn., in non league games. If lone is successful in win ning over Crane, the team will probably be matched with Here ford, a perennial opponent in playoffs, irrthe semi-finals. From all indications, though, Crane will be a mighty tough op ponent and Coach Biehl says the Cardinal squad will have its hands full to come out on top. The lone team in three years of 8-man football has won one state championship (1960), was once runnerup (1961), and this year faces its third state test. Date of the semi-final game, which hinges on outcome of play this year, is yet to be decided. It could be next week or the week following, Coach Biehl said. If lone wins over Crane, it would be in this part of the state, since the Cards did all the trav eling last year. The Crane game was orig inally announced for November 16 or 17, but It was found nec essary to play this week. The Friday date was chosen because Crane wanted to make the trip while school was out for teach- ers institute in their area. WEATHER Hi 99 48 48 50 60 61 52 Low 41 42 39 42 25 29 36 Prec. Thursday Friday Saturday fog .08 .06 .02 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Hi twmm 'Ghost Goes West' Set for Staging Here Colorful Western drama, with characters to match, will be pre sented on the stage of the Hep pner High school gym Friday and Saturday evenings, Novem ber 9 and 10, in the production of the student body play, "The Ghost Goes West." Curtain time is 8:00 p. m. The cast of 27 characters is coached by Mrs. Janet Groves, head of the drama and speech departments. Action of the story takes place In Boot Hill Cemetery and the nearby ranch house of Big Joe Jude, a few miles from Tomb stone, Arizona. Sixteen characters are present ed in the prologue of the play. They are, for the most part, the colorful outlaws and badmen who once lived in Tombstone in the 1880's and around whom many stories have been written. The Chamber of Commerce of Tombstone sent the cast authen tic information about these peo ple and the story told in the pro logue reveals some of the color ful historic events of the 1880's in Tombstone. Portraying the part of Doreen Delaney, a venturesome, spirited girl who is proud of her herit age, is Ginny Moore; Caleb Jones, a shrewd, weather-beaten old cowboy-miner and a spry 80 Smith Gets Nod; Ullman Re-elected Democrats won four of five national, state and district con tests in Morrow county voters' preferences in Tuesday's gen eral election, and in each case the local vote was the same as the statewide or district victor, The county went for Wavne Morse, Democrat Incumbent, for u. b. senator; for Al Ullman, Democrat incumbent, for Con gressman; for Governor Mark Hattield, Republican, for a sec ond term in his office; for Nor man O. Nilsen. Democrat ineum bent, for second term as labor commissioner; and for Jack Smith, Condon, Democrat, for Morrow Cities Elect Officers City elections around Morrow county Tuesday found most In cumbents Peine returned to of. fice, although a few new fn CPS will be seen on city councils when the next term starts in January. In Heppner, all ran without opposition, and only a few write m votes were tallied. Returned to office are the following (vote totals in parenthesis): Mayor Al Lamb (529); La Verne Van Marter, treasurer (557); Ted Smith, recorder (543); council men (4 years) Conley Lanham (509), Carl Spaulding (477), Le Roy Gardner (507); councilman (2 years), Earl Ayres (524). In lone, Charles O'Connor was reelected mayor without oppo sition. Hugh Salter was elected to the council, defeating Arnie Hodman and Edith Mathews. In cumbents reelected were Gladys Drake, treasurer; June Crowell, recorder; councilmen (4 years), Jim Barnett and Bill Rietmann. In Irrigon, Margaret Jorgen- son won a 2-year city council term by edging Marge blade, 76 to 74, with Don Adams trailing with 56 votes for the post. Ches ter Wilson was elected for a 4-year postion on the council with 57 votes to 52 for LaVelle Partlow and 43 for Warren Mc Coy. In Boardman, Dewey West, un opposed, was elected mayor. He gained 48 votes and will suc ceed Joe Tatone who polled eight votes on writeins. Ernabel Mit telsdorf, unopposed, was re elected recorder-treasurer with 61. Councilmen elected were Ver non Russell (51), Ed Kuhn (49) and Arthur Allen (47). Unsuc cessful candidate was Wally C. Hendrix, who polled 34. Hunter Breakfast Billed Saturday All hunters, their guests, and other early birds are invited to attend the breakfast Saturday morning at the Legion hall. Heppner Post 87, American Leg ion, will bo host for the break fast which starts at 4:30 a.m. and runs until 11:30 a.m. The menu includes ham, eggs, hotcakes, and coffee and the prices are $1.25 for adults and $.50 for children under 12. Riley Munkers and Don Bennett are heading the committee work ing on the second annual feed. The idea was started last fall during elk hunting season and plans were made to hold the event again. years old, Larry Musslg; Lorna Farnsworth, a talented and im aginative writer of Western scen arios, Mary Johnson; Gary Sampson, Doreen's fiance, is also a tenderfoot with some occasion al delusions of grandeur, Lee Padberg; Johnny Sutton, a rug gedly handsome actor, Doug Dubuque; Ma Clanton, a work worn woman who is emotionally allied with the past, Pam Coch ell; Elizabeth Mason, Ma's niece, Anita Groves, and Hallie Halla han, owner of a riding stables, Marcia Rands. Other leading characters are Bert Folger, played by Bill Weatherford; Kitty Sampson, portrayed by Nancy Cleveland, and Frank Snell, played by Don Majeske. Taking parts of the' prologue characters are Rodney Ayers, David Clark, David Anderson, LeRoy Gardner, Chris Spence, Judv Hamilton, David George, Tanna ValentI ne, Anthony Crooke, Terry Hutehens, Aaron Smith, Dean Robinson. Richard Clark, Glenda Hills, Spencer bampson, and Hester Delaney. On the production cast are Bill Strutters, stage manager; John Privett, assistant stage manager, Glenda Hills and Kitty O'Hara, prompters, David And e r s o n , sound effects, and Dean Robin son, lighting. state representative from the 28th district. All of these won election. A rather amazingly high turn out of voters cast ballots here with approximately 77 of the registered voters going to the polls. It had been predicted that the county's turnout would run high er than the state average, but it was hardly expected that the off-year election would hit a mark as high as 77. Hardest gained victory in the election was that by Smith as he barely edged Gavlord Mad ison, Echo, Republican, Final unofficial tabulation in the dis trict showed Smith with a 215 vote edge, 8636 to 8851. Morrow county's vote was 983 for Smith and 739 for Madison, a differ- ence of 244 votes and enough lor me viciors election. All but two precincts in the count v re corded majorities for Smith.' lone lavored Madison, 102 to 152. and Hardman voted 18 to 11 for Madison. Oddly enough, throughout the district, the four counties with small population topped a Uma- una county majority in swing ing the election to Smith. Mor row, Gilliam. Sherman and Wheeler all voted for the Con don Democrat while Umatilla alone the county with the large population had an edge for Madison. By counties, the vote was as follows: Umatilla Mad ison, 6742, Smith 6282: Wheeler. Madison, 257, Smith, 413; Sher man, Madison, 393, Smith, 522: and Morrow, Madison 739 Smith. 983. In Morrow county, Senator Morse polled 915 votes to 822 for challenger Sig Unander, Port land, Republican. However, five of the nine precincts favored Unander. They were Southeast Heppner, Northeast Hep pner, Northwest Heppner, lone and Hardman. In the race for Congress. Ull man had nearly a 2 to 1 ma- only here over Bob Chandler, Bend, Republican, 1117 to 627. Ullman won all precincts but Hardman. Governor Mark Hat field topped Attorney General Robert Thornton for governor, 1000 to 702. and In doing so won six of the nine precincts. Irrigon, Lexington and Hardman voted for Thornton by smull margins. Labor Commissioner Nilsen polled 983 votes in the county to 633 for Blair. There were no county contests here, but several- ran without opposition and polled large votes. Writeins were very scat tered. Rod Thomson, uncontested for assessor, received 1531 votes; E. O. (Gene) Ferguson, without a contest for commissioner, poll ed 1408; for port commission (two to be elected), Gar Swan son of lone polled 1160 and George Wlese 801. E. F. Hiigel, an announced writein candidate, picked up scattering votes around the county. Herman Win t e r, newly-appointed district attorney, whose name was not on the ballot, re ceived a suprisingly large num ber of writein votes and was elected handily to the position to which the governor had appoint ed him for the unexpired term of Robert Abrams, who resigned. Winter tallied 584 votes around the county. Justice of the Peace J. V. Ha- ger of Heppner, oldest candidate for olfice in the slate, swept back into his position with a high total. For justice of the peace district No. 5 (Irrigon and Boardman, there were no can didates on the ballot. Writein winner was Ernest Jorgenson of Irrigon, who polled 149 votes in the Irrigon precinct. Zearl Gillespie tallied 107 in Board man, and R. B. Rands, in cumbent justice of the peace who was not on the ballot, had 57. lone Lions Seek 'Mystery Caller' Wanted: A young lady with a nice voice to act as "mystery caller" for the lone Lions club. This was the plea sent out early this week by Jim Bar nett, club president, in an ef fort to find someone willing to cooperate in the club's plans to increase attendance at meetings. The president pointed out that weekly calls by club members have done pretty well in keeping attendance up. but the Lions still would like to make their attendance near ly 100 at each meeting. Their thinking is that a fem inine "mystery caller" might attract some Interest. Identity of the young lady will be kept secret, except to the president, and club members will be in vited to guess who she is. This is expected to stimulate con siderable interest Later in the year, she will be invited to a club dinner as a guest and will receive a gift for her efforts. All who would like to help the Lions' cause and would be willing to participate in the stunt as "mystery callers" are invited to call Barnett, phone 422-9595.
