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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. November 8. 1962 Farm Bureau Meet Set for La Grande November 11-14 La Grande will be the scene of the 31st annual convention of the Oregon Farm Bureau federa tion, JNovember n-14. Headquar ters for meetings will be the Sac ajawea hotel, where speeches and reDOrts will hp hparH anH luncheons and dinners will be served. One of the key speakers will be Dr. Ernest Wilkinson, president 01 cngnam Young university, who will speak at the Monday morning general session on the topic "An Outsider Looks at the Farmer." Other events will include the banquet in honor of the recipi ents of the Distinguished Ser vice to Agriculture award and tne dK-Years' Service to Agricul ture awards Tuesday, November id; a panel discussion of tax pro blems moderated by State Repre' sentative George Annala, Hood River, manager of Oregon Tax Research; and a panel Tuesday afternoon concerning nat u r a 1 resources. Monday afternoon will aiso De given to an open resolu rions meeting, at which any arm Bureau member will have the opportunity to discuss pend ing resolutions. Additional activities will be the candlelight vesper service at the La Grande First Methodist church Sunday evening, at which the associate minister of the Walla Walla Central Christ ian church, Rev. William Bailey, will speak on the topic "We Are inankiui." preceding the vesper service will be a reception honoring past ana present VFBF board mem bers and 1962 county presidents and their wives. Also on Sunday and throughout the convention the "Fabu Fair" will be set up displaying commodities of van ous counties and projects and yearbooks of county Farm Bu reaus. Monday noon the ann u a 1 Farm Bureau women's luncheon and annual meeting is schedul ed. The voting delegates' dinner will be at 5:30 that evening, followed by the awards program, with OFBF second vice president Barry Brownell presiding. Special guests at the distin guished service awards banquet Tuesday evening will be Secre tary of State Howell Appling, acting as toastmaster, and Miss Adrienne Ellison, Mt Angel, Oregon Dairy princess. Because of the recent death of Wiley Clowers, Madras, who had been elected OFBF president at the 1961 convention, it will be necessary to elect a new presi dent to fill the remaining year of Mr. Clowers' unexpired term. This will be done Wednesday morning. TO THE EDITOR School Menus November 13-16 n o MONDAY (Holiday school) TUESDAY Spanish Rice, green beans, carrot sticks, apple sauce, milk and bread and but ter. WEDNESDAY Weiners with barbecue sauce, baked potatoes with butter, celery sticks, fruit, bread and butter and millk. THURSDAY Macar o n i and cheese, tossed salad, berry cob bler, bread and butter and milk. FRIDAY Tomato soup, Sal omon loafr celery and carrot 'sticks, fruit, bread and butter fand milk. I - ' - - ! Notice to suhscriberg: "Whett i vou chance vour atklreats plelse "notify us promptly: Jfie fiigeUan - - - . . To the Editor: Since the Morrow County School Board made public its decision to relocate the River side Hieh school in the Board man area, there have been many rumors to the effect that the people of Boardman were not lntprpstprl in thp lnratinn nf thp school. I suppose this feeling has been generated because the cit izens of Boardman have taken the course of action necessary in a Democratic country. The ac tion I speak of is that of letting your elected representative speak tor you, not naving moD rep rpspntatinn Our course of action has been that of preparing brochures of fantunl matprial fnr thp hoard's consideration and allowing our elected representatives to speaK for us. Of course this plan of action does not draw as mucn publicity or create as mucn ex Htpmpnt as thp writing of bellie erent letters or showing up at tho District Rnard meetings with large delegations, witn tne ex press Intention ot pressuring tne Board into taking action in their favor. This rnmmunitv drew UD a three page brochure of facts and information rppardins the relo cation of Riverside High school and the City of Boardman. This letter was then circulated thrnuph thp Boardman area and in one afternoon alone 168 sig natures were obtained, iavor ing placing the new school in the Boardman city limits. Many more signatures could nave been obtained had more time been available. A rpppn t lpttpr tn thp editor ontained a somewhat mislead ing statement. The letter saia in offpft that if the school is rebuilt in the Boardman area, and the town of Boardman does not relocate the school will then be "located in a sagebrush wild erness." This statement could be quite misleading to people unfamiliar with the Boardman area. This statement is untrue hooansp thprp is an irrigated project here that will not be af fected by the back waters of the John Day Dam. This area largp share of the student population and of the school taxes. This irrigated area will remain regardless oi me rainpntirm nf thp npw Boardman townsite. This year for example, only six of the High school stu dents reside on property that will be anected oy tne pooi waiei of the John Day Dam. The par ents of one of these students hoc. airpaHv nnrnhased land in an unaffected area, and others have expressed their intention to relocate in the new Boardman Townsite. I would like to take this oppor tunity to publicly thank the Mor row County scnooi eoaru iui tnoir timp and pffort sDent in determining the location of the new Riverside High scnooi. i am sure there were some locai that were not pleased with the Board's decision to send all the elementary students to Irrigon, especially tne iirst ttur, crraHpc I have not heard one word of criticism and I know that no public meetings nave been held or any lawyers hired in an pffnrt tn ppt this decision changed. I am sure the decision ,i,qo maiin ui th thp future edu cation of the children foremost in the minds of the Board mem bers. The city of Boardman will re innnta anH nnt havinc a school IC MJ..av " located here could hinder the growth of the new development. Future industrial workers might hpsitate to locate in Boardman if there Is no school in the vicin ity. However, I am sure tne new settlers would not stop this side rtf Wprmictnn an d this certainlv would .affect the growth and economy of the wnoie county. k . Kespecuuny yuuia, " , Mrs. Nathan Thorpe Boardman, Oregon MONTGOMERY WARD Hermiston, Oregon roadloom Scale Carpet, Padding and Installation All at One Low Sale Price Free Estimates, Expert Measuring In Your Home Choose From Actual Samples in our Catalog Store HURRY SALE ENDS NOV. 14 (Sale Prices Available only in your Catalog Store.) Phone 567-5541 279 Main St. Hermiston, Oregon Soil Supervisors Seek Cooperation On Rental Charges Heppner Soil Conservation dis trict supervisors meeting last Thursday night discussed meth ods of speeding up collection of bills from cooperators who ob tain the various services of the district. While technical service is provided at no cost to the co operators a rental charge on equipment owned and stakes furnished for laying out various practices is made. Equipment available through the district is a erass-legume seeder, two packers, and a terracer. "Since these charees provide the oper ating expenses and the limited funds that the district super visors have for operations we are appealing to the public who avail themselves of these to pay these bills to treasurer, Raymond Lundell at the very earliest poss ible dates," says Raymond French, chairman. Kenneth Turner, district super visor, was appointed by the board to look into descriptions of and prices on a "burrow build er" which the supervisors have had request for rental. If ade quate interest Is shown to super visors who will be visiting with persons who have a rodent prob lem, such a machine will be purchased. Ralph Richards, work unit conservationist for the district, reported on progress of the Rhea Creek watershed project, said the steering committee has been active since their election on Oc tober 9, making inspections of various dam sites since the meeting. The supervisors went on record favoring a formal re quest for the proposed Rhea Creek small watershed project. Supervisors also agreed to co- sponsor with the Gilliam county SCD the Rock Creek Small Watershed project with that dis trict has applied for. The dam site, located in Gilliam county, it will in no way affect the Heppner district, however, since it does involve watershed area within this district approval of the Heppner supervisors was necessary. Plans were made for atten dance at the annual meeting, Oregon Association of Soil Con servation Districts, being held In Eugene this week. The super visors budgeted expense money for Martha Doherty, regional conservation speech winner who will participate in the state con test on November 8. Others plan ning to attend the district meet ing are Mrs. Bernard J. Donerty, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Richards and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Palmer. Other business conducted by the supervisors consisted of plans for Farm-City Banquet scheduled to be held at the Lex ington Grange hall on Decem ber 11: plans for the soil con servation district workshop to be held in Hermiston on November 20 and ordering soil conservation placemats. Certificates of elec tion were distributed to all sup ervisors being made available by the State Soil Conservation com mittee. Plans were made for re pairing the district owned ter racer to put it in better shape for rental to cooperating farmers. A progress report presented by Work Unit Conservat i o n i s t, Ralph Richards, indicated that there had been much activity in soil conservation work during the month of October. Conser vation plans had been signed by Frank Anderson and new cooper ators, Robert and Shannon Ma Surveys have been made for an honev and Bert Corbin added. irrigation diversion dam at the Charles Daly ranch; leveling at the Marion Palmer and Healy ranches; a spring development and 750 feet of tile drains at the Allyn Hughes ranch; 310 foot diversions at the L. H. Rill ranch and 500 feet channel change at the Marion Palmer ranch. Conservation activities completed were 6 acres of pas ture planting at the A. L. Os min ranch; land leveling at the Luke Bibbv. W. J. Bucknam and Albert Wright ranches; channel chanee and channel improve ment at the Albert Wright ranch; 8,830 feet of diversion ditches at the Leonard Rill ranch. Regular monthly meetings of the Heppner SCD supervisors are held on the first Tuesday even ing of the month. The public is nvited to attend these meetings which are held at 8:00 p.m. at the Soil Conservation Service office. 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