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Thurs., Feb. 1, 1963 GAZETTE-TIMES HEPPNER, OREGON Heppner High Names Semester Honor Students Semester honor roll for Hep pner High school students at taining a 3.33 and above scholas tic average for the first semes ter was announced this week by Principal Gordon Pratt. Because of incomplete math grades at the time report cards were last given out, it has not been possible to get an accurate roll for the sec ond nine weeks period. Three students attained a per fect 4.0 average for the first semester. These were Ann Jones, senior; Bill Sherman, junior, and Mark Brown, freshman. In the senior class, honor stu dents were Shan Applegate, 3.80; Jacquelyn Brindle, 3.82; Shirley Carlson, 3-6G; Bill Cox, 3.40; Mar tha Doherty, 3.80; Leanne Joynes, 3.66, and Ann Jones, 4.0. Junior honor students were Jennifer Brindle, 3.50; Sherron Bunch, 3.50; Martha Dixon, 3.42; Gail Hoskins, 3.33; Marcia Rands, 3.60, and Bill Sherman, 4.0. Sophomores attaining the re quired average were Carl Bau rnan, 3.82; Barbara Blake, 3.50; Lee Daggett, 3.33; Stuart Dick, 3.06; Tony Doherty, 3.50; Jean Stockard, 3.71; Mike Sweek, 3.42, and John Wagenblast, 3.50. Honor students in the freshmen class were Mark Brown, 4.0; Maureen Doherty, 3.50; Tim Drls coll, 3.82; Karen French, 3.6G; David Matheny, 3.33; Mark Mur ray, 3 50, and Steve Warren, 3.50. Council Elects Gonty President Ed Gonty, veteran member of the cily council, was unanimous ly elected president of the coun cil for 1963 at the regular meet ing Monday night. He will act as mayor and preside at council meetings at times when the may or is absent. City officers reappointed by Mayor Al Lamb include Jos J. Nys, cily attorney; Dean Oilman, police chief; and Dr. Wallace Wolff, health officer. Council committees appointed are as follows: City services (library, swim ming pool, parks, street lights) LcRoy Gardner, chairman, Earl Ayres, Conley Lanham. Fire department Ed Gonty chairman, John Pfeiffer, Carl Spaukling. Finance (fees, licenses, bud get, personnel and office hours), Carl Spaulding, chairman, Gonty, Gardner. Streets, property and ordinan ces Lanham, chairman, Gonty, Gardner. Police protection Gardner, enairman, L,annam, Ayres. Sanitation and health Spauld ing, chairman, Gardner. Water Pfeiffer, chairman, Gonty, Lanham. Brosnan Making Good Improvement Joseph Brosnan of Portland, is "much better, fully conscious and reasonably comfortable," his doctor reported Thursday. Brosnan, 51, Is in the Pioneer Memorial hospital recovering from multiple fractures and other injuries suffered In the 2 car collision two miles north of lone on January 25. Brosnan, driver of one of the cars, was the only survivor of the accident which resulted In the death of Mancell Townsend, 18, lone, lone occupant of the other car; Brosnan's wife, Ther esa M. Brosnan, 51, his daugh ter, Theresa A., 9, and son, John Paul, 11. The doctor said that Brosnan will remain in the hospital for perhaps six more weeks. He could be transferred to Portland, but said that he preferred to remain here until he could go home. Page 6 BE A BEST-TRESSED VALENTINE LOIS' BEAUTY SHOP Heppner, Phone 676-9603 Threat of Flood Here Brings Scare Monday (Continued lrom page 1) day, 44 Friday and 55 Saturday. This took off most of the snow in this area. The climb contin ued Sunday with a maximum of 65 degrees but the flooding w.' ers subsided nearby because the heavy runoff was over. Monday brought an unseason ably high temperature of 71 but late in the afternoon a heavy rain came that resulted in a spout that descended down Shobe canyon. Other spouts were reported to have hit on Balm Fork and Willow creek. As the torrent came down Shobe for the second time in three days, and the threat of flood was possible from the con vergence of cascades down Wil low and Balm Fork, an emer gency alert was sounded about 5:50 ' p.m. Fire Chief Charles Ruggles and city firemen went to alert families whose homes might be in the path of the poss ible flood and asked them to evacuate. The waters coming down Shobe backed up at the bottle neck of the bridge on Chase and overflowed at that point so that Chase street assumed the pro portions of a river. Many fam ilies living on the street left their homes for higher ground, and a big pool formed at the corner of Chase and Center, threatening to flood the Morrow county Creamery. Owner Bill Cox and his son worked to keep the waters out and succeeded in doing so. In an earlier year, the creamery sustained consid erable damage from a similar flood. Confusion was rampant during the emergency. Many residents did not realize what was hap pening and came to see. Ming ling with the curious, they caus ed congestion on downtown streets and on South Main. A number of families drove up to the new high school for sanc tuary and remained in their cars there until the threat had passed. Two families livine on the Condon-Heppner highway report ed many persons coming out from town. narklne in their driveways which prevented them from getting out. But the rumored nooci tnai was halfway expected to come down Willow creek and Balm Fork never occurred. The Wil low Creek channel through the city rolled with high water but never came close to overflowing its banks. Water from street runoff pour ed in the basement apartment of Vivian Haguewood in Case Apartments at the corner of Cen ter and Main and did extensive damage. It also flooded the Mor row County Welfare office in the same building. When the emergency alert sounded, most of the downtown business houses were closed im mediately. Chief of Police Dean Gilman and Fire Chief Ruggles were considerably concerned about the confusion and congestion that resulted from the alert. The chief stationed himself at the coiner of Main and Willow in an attempt to divert traffic from the Imperiled areas, but many cars and vehicles went through to create congestion near the scene of trouble. Elsewhere In the county high waters flooded highways at many points. It ran over the road at several places between Heppner and Lexington, and at the edge of Heppner ran down on to No. 1 fairway of the golf course again. Beyond North Lex iiiL'ton elevator, the water was over the hlehwav near the Bill Doherty place, and Butter creek flooded. The Harry proudtoot home was in the flood area. The floods followed a period of extreme hazard on the high ways in the previous days when sleet brought a glaze of ice. Many high school basketball games were cancelled Saturday night, including the games scheduled by both Heppner and lone high schools. Those who attended the Heppner High game at Umatilla Friday night found It very difficult to get home with the stretch of highway just north of Heppner particularly hazardous. Men at the Heppner Lumber Company coming off the night shift there early Saturday morning were reported to have had an extremely difficult time getting up the rise to the high way to go home. Some streets were covered with Look Lovely, Alluring For Val entine's Day . . .With A New, Expertly Styled Coiffure. Call Now For An Appointment . . . And Make Yourself The "BEST-TRESSED VALENTINE" Rene Shirley-Jo Jean-Carol Ann-Lois lone, Phone 422-7234 gooey mud following the Mon day storm in Heppner and some residents were busy with mop ping up the messes in their homes. Although some feared for a time that another 1903 flood wa developing, it failed to mater ialize, for which the entire com munity was thankful. Weather report for the week from Leonard Gilliam, observer: Thursday 43 14 .44 1.3 inches snow .14 sleet .11 rain .34 rain .14 rain Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday 44 55 65 71 65 65 25 27 44 36 41 31 DEAN LOVGREN, confined to the Good Samaritan hospital, Fort land, with back injuries fol lowing an auto accident near Heppner December 30 is shown in his bed at the hos pital in a photo taken by his uncle. Bob Lovgren. Despite his long confinement. Dean maintains a cheerful attitude as the photo shows. Welding Class To Start Monday An adult education class of the Blue Mountain Community col lege will start in Heppner Mon day night, February 11, at the high school shop, beginning at 7 p. m. Ten have signed up for the course, which will consist of 30 hours of instruction on acetylene and arc welding. W. W. Weather ford is the instructor. Fee of $25 covers the course, including welding rod and sup plies. The flood threat of Monday evening interrupted schedul e d start of typing classes in the adult program. Although 16 had signed up, only one or two came tor the scheduled start at 7 p. m., undoubtedly because of the flood scare. A bookkeeping class, held the same evening, but at the later hour of 8:30 had good attendance with 12 coming. Mrs. Everett Struckmeier is instructor for both classes. Legion Officers Speak At Meeting Some 40 persons attended the potluck supper and meetings of ine American Legion and Auxili ary at the Legion hall Monday night. Special guests were Mr. and Mrs. Rory Moore, Athena, and Lee Allen, Pendleton. Moore is District 6 commander and Alien is vice commander. Following the chicken dinner the guests spoke to the group and joined the Legion members in their meeting. At the same time the auxiliary held its busi ness meeting on the main floor. The auxiliary will hold a pub lic card party at the Legion hall Monday, February 11, starting at 8:00 p. m. with both pinochle and bridge in play. Spring Ski Equipment Sale ALL ITEMS 20 OFF REGULAR PRICES EXCEPT HEAD SKIS INCLUDES EQUIPMENT, CLOTHING, BOOTS Sal PECKS' SKI SHOP Heppner Hermiston Firm Wins Contract For New City Wei Een Dreyer Well Drilling of Hermiston was successful bidder for digging a new well to supple ment the City of Heppner water supply with the offer of $3570 for a 200 ft. well submitted at the bid opening Monday night. Three other firms entered bids, including G. M. Janssen Co. lone: Yager Drilling Co., Walla Walla, Wn.; and Barron and Strayer, Beaverton. The bids were taken under ad visement and were studied by the water committee, composed of Councilmen John Pfeiffer, Ed Gonty, and Conley Lanham, who reported back to a special meet ing Wednesday night, recom mending that the contract go to Dreyer as low bidder. Completion of the new well is expected by May 1. The bid was within the amount allowed in the city bud get. At the special meeting Wed nesday night, the council decided to enforce the city ordinance to restrain dumping in city streams and drainage ditches. All resi dents are urged to cooperate by refraining from dumping in these waterways. Violators will be prosecuted under the provis ions of the ordinance. The debris becomes a serious hazard at times of flood threats, it was emphasized. The city will also clean ditches within the city limits above the Chase street bridge where the bottleneck occurred Monday night, causing water to pour down Chase. The culvert at the bridge will be cleaned out and opened up. "If property owners will help us keep these ditches clean, it will help eliminate the hazard," Mayor Lamb said. He commended City superin tendent Vic Groshens at the Monday nieht council meeting for the good work of city crews in cleaning out the Willow Creek channel. "If it were not for this work, we would have been in a lot worse shape," he said. The council also had good words for those who dynamited ice jams in the creek below Heppner Saturday, preventing backing ud ot water and Hood ing in the lower reaches. County workers and private individuals were believed to be the ones who did the work. Ed Dick appeared as a citizen to discuss the problems of run off water that hit residents of hospital hill area Saturday. "We recognize that these water conditions are not generally a city problem," he said. He said that residents are working with the Soil Conserva tion district to survey the area for a diversion ditch. However, Dick said that he felt that trouble at his place was caused when the parking area was established at the hospital and the access road on the south was constructed. This diverted normal drainage and has caused water to run into his yard and basement, he said. The matter was turned over to the street committee, com posed of Councilmen Lanham, Gonty and LeRoy Gardner. Recognizing more complaints from those living in the area of the city dump, the council dis cussed steps that might be taken to prevent trash and debris from being scattered along the road way and from being blown by the winds from the dumping grounds. The sanitation commit tee, headed by Councilman Carl Spaulding, was delegated to meet with Herman Green, oper ator of the city garbage disposal service, on the matter. Chief of Police Dean Gilman asked the council for instruc tions on "how hard" he should enforce parking meter violations. This evoked considerable dis cussion. Recorder Ted Smith said that From Monday, Feb. 1 1 Through Feb. 16 Cards Play Two Games This Week Two more league games are on tap for the lone High school bas ketball team this wppk.p n A . They face Echo at home Friday i a i . , ni a return league game, ano then travel to Helix Saturday night for a second meetine with that team. Now running with a 7.4 mark Coach Glenn Biehl's lads will have three more league games after this week-end, including a makeup contest with Athena. They finish regular season of Dlav on the wppk-pnrf of Febru ary 15 and 16 with Umatilla at icne on tne jTiaay nignt and lone at Umapine for the Satur day night tilt. revenue from the meters, at one time UD tn ahnut $44nn nor vonr will probably be less than $3000 mis year. The chief said that he had not been cheeking nn thp mptors very consistently and said that mere was a auierence ot opin ion as to whether he should or Should not. Whpn mptpra ni hooded on city promotion days, ine revenue is cut to some ex tent also. Councilman Lanham saiH ho felt the ordinance should be en forced or the meters should be taken out. Councilman Pfpiffpr silCTBOctorl that the Chamber of Commerce be contacted about starting the envelope system again that was in use several years ago. Under this plan, businessmen put up a fund to provide the officers with small coins to feed the meters when violations are observed. Then one of the en velopes is inserted under the windshield wiper blade instead of a ticket. The envelope asks the owner to put a nickel in the envelope and return it to the nearest store. The system lasted about two years on the previous try, Chief Gilman said. He added that lo cal people "killed the system" by consistent ignoring of the parking meters and also ignor ing the request to return the en velopes with the nickels inside. Councilman Gonty was desig nated to talk the matter over with the Chamber of Commerce at the coming Monday meeting to see if the businessmen would be interested In starting the pro gram again. Permit for alterations and re pairs was granted to Ivan Brown, 455 Linden Way, $2000 for add ing a bedroom. The council also authorized the operator of the city sewage disposal plant to take a forth coming shortcourse at Oregon State university and thp citv will pay $8 for registration and textbook as well as soma tmu. eling expenses. A TIP FROM CUPID: On Valentine's Day Take TO THE BASKETBALL GAMES AT IONE HIGH GYM THURSDAY, FEB. 14 STARTING AT 7:15 P.M. HEPPNER vs CONDON Townies Townies HOSPITAL Patients admitted to Pioneer Memorial hospital this week are: rci.ii Maiu Tfinua: James E. Morgan, lone; Ruby Billingsley, Kinzua; Jack Flug, Heppner; and Oren Medlock, Spray. . Thosp dismissed during this same period were: Frank Stan ley, Heppner; Jeff Glennie, Heppner; Walter Wallace, Lex ington; Iris Campbell, Lexing ton? Trtn I.pp Eneelman. lone: Austin Devin, Heppner; and Lin da Butler, Condon. Municipal and Justice Court News Patrick Mollahan, Heppner, failure to yield right of way, bail $15, fine $10, $5 suspended. Marvin Padberg, lone, violating the basic rule, bail $10, fine $10. Merlvn E. Stone, Heppner, no lights on motor scooter, bail $15, fine $10, $5 suspended. Elmer Burnside, charged witn giving alcohol liquor to person under 21 years of age, pleaded not guilty, trial set for February 11, 10:30 a.m. in Justice court. INCOME TAX SERVICE Needing Help On Income Tax Returns? For Reasonable Rates See Robert L. Porter Public Accountant 233 Gale St. HEPPNER CLINIC BLDG. Ph. 676-5531 SANTONA LINOLEUM LOWER PRICED PRODUCT OF SANDRAN MANUFACTURERS At Special ? 1. 29 s YD 9x12 Room For Only $25.00 EXPERIENCED INSTALLATION AVAILABLE OTHER NAME BRANDS IN STOCK CASE FURNITURE CO. Heppner Gil Lujan and Arnie Hedman Ph. 676-9432 AND IONE vs Hermiston MARCH OF DIMES BENEFIT HALFTIME ENTERTAINMENT BY HEIMBIGNER-HALVORSEN TRAMPO LINE ACT AND BY IONE GRADE SCHOOL CHORUS ADM. : Adults $1 - Students 25c - Kids 1 0c Early Alarm Due To Doyle Key Fire A general fire alarm, sounder! at about 4:50 p- m. Wednesday, took firemen to the Doyle Key home, 440 South Main. Source of the trouble was in the baseemnt, where a short-circuit in elec trical wiring had apparently oc curred, Fire Chief Charles Rug gles.' said. The house was filled with dense smoke, but there was no structural damage. A girl in the family who awakened early had aroused the rest of the family when she found the living room nnea witn smoKe. Eleven men answerprl tlm alarm and were on duty one hour and 40 minutes. The fire was out in less than 15 minutes, but thev remained while smoke cleared to see that it did not break out again. 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