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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1963)
L I 3RARY U OF 0 E U S E ?J Z . 0. Flood Threat Monday Brings Emergency Alert, Scare Saturday Runoff Hits Homes Here 79th Year Number 49 HEPPNER 7 tti rrn rrr Tin g . THE TW GA D HUE" EL. A4 HARLAN McCURDY, JR.. hands over a heavy sack full of money to Mrs. Jack (Shirley) Loyd. county chairman for the March of Dimes, after the benefit basketball game between Heppner and lone xown teams nere last Thursday night. Despite the terrible weather, the gate brought $252. McCurdy represents Morrow County Grain Growers as sponsors of the Heppner team. (G-T Photo) Benefit Billed at lone: Game Here Nets $252 Plenty of basketball action is in store for fans at the lone High school gym Thursday night, February 14, when the Heppner lownies play the Condon All Stars, and the lone Townies take on either Echo or Hermiston in a March of Dimes benefit. Heppner and Condon already have had two nip and tuck bail games, each winning one. Con don took the first encounter, but Heppner, sponsored by Morrow County Grain Growers, evened the series at the second meet ing. The Condon club is led by Ted Schadowitz, an all-time great at eastern Oregon College of Ed ucation. Pete Glennie, special services coordinator for the March of Dimes here, says, 'They are tough. They re loaded with talent." lone, composed of ex-high school stars and sponsored by Art Stefani, Jr., made a good showing against the Heppner club at the first March of Dimes benefit here last Thursday night, although they were defeated by the bigger Heppner team, 87 to 56. Other fine entertainment is planned on the coming program. The Heimbigner-Halvorsen tram poline team, popular at events throughout the northwest, will perform at halftime at one of the games, and the lone grade school chorus will sing at the half of the other game. Admission will be $1 for adults, 25c for students and 10c for children, Glennie states. First game will get underway at 7:15 p.m. Gate at the game here last Thursday brought $252 for the March of Dimes despite the mis erable weather that made it dif ficult for fans to get out. The Heppner gym was nearly full for the tilt. Clint Agee, big center of the MCGG team, poured 25 points Oil Co-op Bills Annual Meeting Dividends of $13,877 for the past year will be declared at the annual meeting of the Lex ington Oil Co-op which will be on Tuesday, February 12, start ing at 10:30 a.m., Joel Engelman, manager, announces. The meet ing will be in the Lexington Grange hall and dinner will be served at noon by the Lexing ton Home Economics club. Demonstrations by women of the co-op will include those of millinery by Mrs. Ewing Hynd and flower plaques by Mrs. Har old Peck. Many other crafts will be on display and all members are urged to take part in the Hen House Fair. Three directors will be elec ted at the annual meeting for 2-year terms. Those whose terms expire this year are Kenneth Palmer, Archie Munkers and Kenneth Peck. Holdover direc tors are John Ledbetter and Mil lard Nolan. President Millard Nolan will be in charge of the meeting. Door prizes will be given during the day. Officers of the co-op will be elected later by the board of directors. Regular meeting of the Co-op Biddies was held February 4 with Mrs. Edna Turner and Mrs. Irene Nolan as hostesses. Next meeting will be Monday, March 4, at 1:30 at the Lexington city hall. Program will be given by Mrs. Ewing Hynd, demonstrat ing some phase of millinery. - through the hoop to lead all players and was followed by Bob Cantonwine, also of Heppner, with 20. Eddie Groshens paced the lone five with 12, and Wayne Ball had 11. Heppner took a commanding lead early in the game but the shorter lone five came back with determination to eome within four points in the third quarter. At this point, Agee and Canton wine caught fire and pulled the MCGG five awav aeain. Grade school children played in preliminary and halftime games. At halftime, Clint McQuarrie of Central Market presented a basketball to young Bob Dobbs as the boy selling most tickets to the benefit, and Bill Blake of Wilson's Men's Wear gave sweat ers to Amanda Smith and Mary Pierce as prizes in topping the girls In ticket sales. Joint PTA Groups lo Hear Speaker From Pendleton Heppner and Lexington PTA's will meet jointly next Wednes day night at 8:00 in the Heppner grade school multipurpose room. Dr. r. M. Barber, stair psychia trist at Eastern Oregon State hospital in Pendleton, will be guest speaker. Dr. Barber, who is also director of education and re search at the hospital, will dis cuss out-patient facilities for children and adults. There will be a question box into which members of the audience may drop questions for Dr. Barber to discuss. Founders' Day will be cele brated following the meeting, with arrangements for the tradi tional cake celebrating another birthday for PTA under the supervision of fifth grade room mothers, Mrs. David Wright and Mrs. Orval Matheny, and their assistants, Mrs. Marshall Lev- gren and Mrs. Bud Peck. This is the first of two PTA meetings at which staff members from the Eastern Oregon State hospital will speak. On March 12 at 8:00 at the Lexington school, Dr. Martin Gish and Dr. L. H. Burman, psychiatrist and psy chologist respectively, will dis cuss the emotional problems of school-age children, their recog nition and what can be done about them in the home, the school, and by professional help when necessary. The two PTA organizations Issue a cordial invitation to the public to attend their meetings. Washington Birthday Promotion Planned Plans for a Washington's Birthday promotion in Heppner are underway through the mer chants committee of the Cham ber of Commerce, Randall Peter son, chairman, announces. All merchans are asked to take part with special buys appropri ate for the occasion. Special advertising will be planned for the sale. This is the first of a series of special events that will be offer ed throughout the year. Further details will be given next week. Merchants wishing further infor mation are asked to contact Peterson. ., v.,, V A I 1 '- -. ' , ( V - .'. . - ; " ' , 1 Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 7, 1963 Recreation Plan Runs Into Snag Proposal bv a community com mittee for a municipal recreation building, financed bv a bond is sue and to be leased to a private operator, appears to have hit a iegal snag. Jos. J. Nys, city attorney, ad vised the city council at a spe cial meeting Wednesday night tnat in his opinion it would not be legal for the city to construct such a building and lease it to a private operator. He felt that to comply with the law. the city would have to operate the pro posed motion picture theatre and Dowiing alley itself, just as it does the swimming pool. City Recorder Ted Smith tele phoned the office of the League of Oregon Cities in Eugene Thurs day morning and talked with the statt attorney there who express ed tne same opinion. "He was very dubious about it," Smith said. The League's at torney will further investigate the matter and send a letter about it to City Attorney Nys. In all instances around the state where cities have construct ed recreational facilities, such as the Memorial Coliseum in Port land, the city also assumes the management. Mayor Al Lamb said Wednes day night after the meeting that ne did not believe that the City of Heppner would be interested in "going into the recreation business." The proposal to construct the building by a municipal bond issue was offered by the commit tee to do something about the need for recreation here when it was apparent that private capi tal could not be found to do it. Several have been interested In starting a bowling alley but none have reached the culmina tion stage. Councilman Ed Gonty, chair man of a special committee ap pointed bv the mayor recently to stuay tne plans oi tne communi ty committee, reported to the regular meeting of the council Monday night and recommended that the citizens' petitions be ac cepted and that an ordinance be drawn to start to implement the bond issue. The committee, however, sug gested that the price of the building ($195,000) was too high and that if the site by the creek were chosen, the structure should be elevated to alleviate the dan ger of flooding. It also recom mended that the proposed rental structure be studied with the thinking that the proposed $150 per month for the theatre and $550 per month for the bowling alley were too low. Mayor Lamb pointed out that there were many questions on the proposal that would need to be studied before the matter could be submitted for vote. "Unless we can answer more questions on it, it would be doubtful of passing," he said. The council committee had talked with two prospective op erators and said that each was eager to go ahead with the oper ation of the recreation center on a lease basis. At the Monday meeting At torney Nys was instructed to gel the necessary information for the writing of an ordinance, and the mayor appointed a committee composed of Gonty, chairman; Nys, Clarence Rosewall of the citizens' committee, another member to be appointed by the Chamber of Commerce, and him self as mayor to visit with the bonding attorneys in Portland to check on proper procedure on calling the bond election. However, with the develop ment Wednesday night it ap peared that any turtner action will be delayed until after a def inite ruling is made on whether it is legal and possible to pro ceed. , Wheat Program To Be Discussed Morrow County's ASC commit tee will hold a meeting Monday, February 11, at 1:15 p. m. in the Lexington Grange hall to discuss the 1963 wheat and feed grain programs, Dave McLeod of the ASC office announces. All farmers and interested persons are invited to come and take part in the discussion. Questions pertaining to the pro gram will be answered. t: . , Kit THIS PICTURE gives only a vague m"1 ra o uuny, waiers pouring aown unoDe canyon Hooded pastures, ripped fences and threatened a few homes, as well as farm buildings. Here the torrent is shown flooding the road to the Marcel Jones residence along the Condon highway. (G-T Photo) City and County To Declare War On Dogs at Large War has been declared here on dogs running at large and the city and county will use a new weapon to fight it. This word came through Chief of Police Dean Gilman who had met with the county court and Monday night asked the city council to provide a share of the weapon to fight this war. He said that the county has decided to build a dog pound near the county shops and had asked the city to share the ex pense of a gun that shoots tranquilizer pellets for use in catching the animals. The pel let is a humane" device that brings no pain and causes the animal no damage, although the amount of tranquilizer do sage depends on the size of the animal. After the animals are im pounded a period of five days is provided for the owner to redeem them before they are destroyed. Chief Gilman said that con ditions near the schools have become atrocious with the dog packs jumping on children and causing considerable trouble. Previous warnings have been given owners to keep them away from school grounds. On one recent day. the chief said, a large German shepherd had two small children backed against the school building and might have hurt them ex cept an adult came by and came to the youngsters' rescue. The council voted to pav half the $180 cost of the pellet gun and needed supplies to be effective when the pound is completed. If it is necessary to amend existing ordinances to provide tor the dog control, it is ap parent that the council is in a mood to take the action. rrigafors Talk Willow Project Some 15 farmers who Irrigate in the Willow Creek basin at tended a meeting at the Lexing ton Grange hall Tuesday after noon to discuss questions and problems concerning the propos ed irrigation district of the Wil low Creek project. County Agent Nels Anderson presided, and two men from the Bureau of Reclamation, Carl Huish and Lee Robinson, both of Spokane, together with Allen Robertson and W. E. Sivley of the Corps of Army Engineers and Quention Bowman of the State Water Resources Board were pre sent to answer questions. "Most of the men went away feeling very good," Anderson said. "The Engineers said that it was one of the best meetings of its kind that they had attended." Anderson said that Huish and Robinson did a particularly good pb in answering questions tnat had broubht doubts in the minds of some of the farmers about the project. One man who had Indicated previous opposition said that he planned to write a letter to tne Engineers to be entered with the public hearing testimo n y in favor of the project. "Everyone asked questions not just one or two," Anderson said. Several indicated that they would be interested in taking a trip to Burnt River project in Baker county to see a similar project in operation and talk with those involved there. q? t . ,w Idea of what happened Saturday iirnwiik. ' 1)iir-i -liml It,-,.. T.. . - m t u i f at. v .. WHAT EMERGENCY SIGNALS MEAN If you are new to the area, or have forgotten the meaning of Heppner's emergency signals, Fire Chief Charles Ruggles reminds of their significance. It is ad vised that this be clipped out of the paper and saved. FIRE SIGNAL (AIR HORN) City fire alarm 12 blasts, four series of three blasts each, separated by 10 second intervals. Rural alarm three blasts separated by intervals. Noon on Mondays one blast, except on the first Mon day when the full city sequence (12 blasts) is sounded as a test in compliance with state law. Fire meetings two blasts on the second and fourth Monday evenings of each month. CITY SIREN (For flood and Civil Defense alarms only) Alert for flood threats Three sequences of three soundings (total of nine); the series separated by 10- second intervals. Civil Defense alert Five minutes continuous blast, no intervals. Notice to evacuate Continuous blowing of siren with 10 second intervals between each series of three. Mustangs Face 'Big One' Against Moro Here Friday The big game of the season the return game with Sherman Heppner High basketball team here Friday night with the jay vee opener starting at b:jU. Undefeated Heppner is closely pressed for Greater Oregon league leadership by Sherman County, which has met defeat only at the hands of the Mus tangs at Moro on January 11, 68 to 54. This "big one" might be the crucial contest in deciding the western division championship. Should Heppner come out on top, they will have a full two- game lead on the field with three to play. However, should they lose, the Moro five will temporarily, at least, take over top spot because each team shall have lost one, and Moro has played more league games than Heppner. Mustang followers were hop ing that either John Day or Burns would down Sherman at Moro last week-end, but the Sherman five took both contests, troun cing Grant Union and defeating the Highlanders by two points. This means that the visitors are pressing closely behind the Mustangs as they arrive here Friday night. In the first meeting, although Heppner won by 14 points, it was a mighty close struggle through three quarters. Sherman led at halftime, 26-23, but falt ered in the last half while Hepp ner exploded with 42 points. Each team has the possibility of running rampant on a scor ing splurge and some of this may develop Friday night. While Heppner has the ad vantage of the home floor, the Elks Memorial Planned Sunday Memorial service for departed brothers of Heppner Elks' lodge No. 358 will be Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Elks Temple here. Exalted Ruler Conley Lanham will pre side and Jerry Daggett is in charge of the program. All Elks and their ladies are urged to be present, and the meeting is also open to the pub lic. Special ceremonies will in clude those who have died dur ing the past year. 10 Cents y Utah... " i i 1 when the chlnook came and , Mustangs find their cramped quarters something of a disad- vantage and this about equalizes things. Their record on away games is as good or better as those at home on the "stage" in the Heppner gym. Doug Dubuque is back in a Mustang suit after recovering from his knee operation. How ever, he Is far behind on prac tice, and he will have a diffi cult time catching up. Neverthe less, his return will strengthen the Mustangs, and Is greeted by his coach and team mates. Another capacity crowd is ex pected. The game with Pilot Rock, scheduled here for last Satur day night, was cancelled due to severe weather conditions. The schools are trying to work out a new date for the game but nothing had been settled by press time. The game with Moro is the only one here this week end. Wranglers Slate Princess Tryoufs Princess to represent the Wranglers club at the Morrow county rodeo on August 31 September 1 will be chosen af ter tryouts at the Wrangler grounds on Sunday, February 17, at 2 p.m. it is announced. Girls competing must be mem bers of the Wranglers to be eligi ble and must be either sopho mores, juniors, or seniors in high school. Their horses and saddles must pass the rodeo committee's approval. Out of town judges will be on hand to make the final selec tion and the winner will be chosen on the basis of riding ability. Band Parents Set Meeting Monday Eve Heppner Band Parents club will meet Monday evening, Feb ruary 11, at 7 p.m. in the high school band room, Bud Peck, president, announces. The sixth grade band will pre sent a concert for a highlight of the program. A discussion on the band carnival will also be held, Peck said. . . . s "s , Hi 1 Melting snow from a "real old- fashioned Chinook" and heavy rains brought threats of floods to the Heppner area Saturday and Monday. A number of homes, particu larly in the hospital hill and Fairview Way areas, were dam aged by runoff waters Saturday, An emergency alert that sounded ioiiowing a spout that caused a torrent down Shobe canyon Mon day evening brought a scare to city citizens with the result that a number of families tempor arily left their homes. The chinook started Fridav and continued through the week end, but the heavy runoff came Saturday, causing a cascading torrent of silt-laden chocolate colored water down Shobe can yon, paralleling the Condon highway, Saturday afternoon. Fences were washed out, access roads to homes along the high way were inundated, and pas tures were flooded. Monument Reports Weather Extremes Monument reported the big gest ice Jam on the John Day river in 22 years last week. Martha Matteson, Gaz e 1 1 e- Times correspondent, said that weather extremes ranged from 10 below zero Friday and Sat urday nights to 70 above at noon Monday. More details are on page 2, section 3. The Howard Pettyjohns report ed considerable loss of hay from the flood waters, and the Jim Devine residence was virtually surrounded by water. It poured under the house and halted op eration of the furnace in the res idence. The Willow Creek channel, re cently cleaned by city crews, handled the flow adequately even below the confluences with Balm Fork and Shobe both Sat- urday and Monday. Probably heaviest damage of the period, however, was not in flicted by the creeks but by the runoff from the hospital hill. The Clarence Johnson home on Fair view Way was one of the most seriously damaged. Bac king water pushed against a base ment wall and bowed It Inward. A fireplace was knocked out of alignment. The water under mined an outside walk and it tumbled down. To prevent the basement wall from collapsing, a hole was punched in It and water poured throught the base ment. Also hard hit were the Herman Stroebers where mud and water poured in around their home. Neighbors rushed to their aid and at one time 14 were counted on the job to assist In diverting the runoff. Carey Hastings said that eight inches of water came into his basement, causing some damage to the plastered wall of the fin ished basement. One bed was soaked. The L. E. Dicks were caught with the runoff diverted by the exit road from the hospital park ing lot and water and silt poured into their basement. A door was removed to allow it to run out of the daylight side of the base ment. Damage was also done at the homes of the LeRoy Gardners, Stanley Coxes, Wayne Harslns, Darrell McLaughlins, and others. Temperatures, which had been below freezing last week, climb ed to a maximum of 43 Thurs (Continued on Page 6) Dance to Benefit Hardman Center Hardman's new Community Center will benefit from the pro ceeds of the dance scheduled at Hardman, Saturday night, Feb ruary 9. The public is Invited to come for an evening of fun and to help raise the funds need ed for improvement of the cen ter. The community recently ac quired title to the Hardman school building from the Mor row county school district for the purpose of developing the center. Music of Roy Quackenbush will be featured at the dance and supper will be served. Lyle Jensen Buys Barber Shop Here Lyle Jensen, Bend, former Hep pner resident, purchased the Heppner Barber shop this week from Bill Edwards. Edwards will continue running the shop until February 19 when Jensen will assume ownership. Lyle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Nash, has been working In Bend and will move with his wife, Pat, and small son, Jody, to Heppner to make their home. Edwards bought the shop from the late John Key and has con tinued to operate it for about six years. He with his wife, Dotty, and three children reside south of Heppner on the Condon-Hep-pner highway.
