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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1963)
L I BRARY U OF 0 E U 3 E N E , ORE . 79th Year Number 52 HEPPNER IE-TIM Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 28, 1963 10 Cents .niM.u...,....i, ljm 'y mmmmm,mmjm m wmtXftrf-fFiyi;n'm',m -'.-av ; 'wvVjm'v.n- 11;! lit to 'if 1 ,i 'ft? if U if I v v s i;.. i: . Uip fi plpf I1 fill 1,-tC liny ' 1 iT--' f,i''k'' '' f ES MANY FUTURE FARMER achievements were evident last Wednesday when honors were presented at the annual Heppner FFA chapter banquet In the Catholic parish hall. Bill Struthers, Chapter president (fourth from right) is shown handing plaque to James M. Hager of Heppner after Hager was named honorary member. Bob Hager (left) was one of three cited for outstanding achieve ment; John Wagenblast (second from left) was chosen Star Farmer and received many other awards; Harold Gray (second from right) was citea lor outstanaing achievements, as was rresi dent Struthers; Hollis McDonald of The Dalles, State FFA president, (third from right) was prin cipal speaker; and Gerald Jonasson (right) presented awards. Many Honors Given At FFA Banquet John Wagenblast of Heppner High chapter, Future farmers of America, was named chapter star farmer and James M. Hager was initiated as an honorary member at the chapter s annual parent and son banquet attend ed by some 150 members, par ents and other guests in the Catholic Parish hall Wednesday night, February 20. Wagenblast, a sophomore in high school, received a number of other honors for his outstand ing work, including a $10 prize for his first year farming pro gram, speech trophy from the Rhea Creek grange, scholarship pin, and a pin from the Morrow County Livestock Growers for his work on a beef project. He also was presented a jacket from the Pendleton Grain Growers for winning a contest on his first year's record book recently. Dick Flaize was selected out standing freshman in the FFA program, and received a knife donated bv Trvco Equipment Co, Cited for outstanding achieve ment in the chapter and award ed plaques from the Bank of Eastern Oregon were Bill Struth ers, Harold Gray and Bob Hager. Frank Osmin received the first place soil conservation trophy from the Heppner Soil Conser vation district, together with a Foundation medal, and William Rill received the second place conservation trophy, given by Ralph Richards. Osmin also re ceived a $5 second prize for his initial farming program. Ken Wright received the ro tating plaque for general live stock excellence, and he also re ceived a pin for his sheep pro ject. Melvin McDaniel received a pin for his swine project. Tony Doherty, second to Wag- Ella's Grill Sold To Arlington Couple Mrs. Tom (Ella) Sargent, own er of Ella's Grill, Wednesday an nounced sale of the restaurant to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Petty john, Arlington. The new owners will assume management Fri day, March 1. Mrs. Sargent will leave to join her husband at Cutler City. She has been a resident of Heppner lor the past seven years. Sargent, now working with M. and M. Plumbing at Taft, was formerly with Gilliam and Bisbee Hard ware. Mr. and Mrs. Pettyjohn are both well known here, having lived in the community for 40 years before moving to Arlington six years ago. Mrs. Pettyjohn will remain in Arlington until the end of the school year so their daughter, Betty, may complete her sophomore year. They will maintain the same employees. Restaurant hours will be extend ed to 9:00 p. m. daily. Sherman Heppner High's high hopes for a state tournament basketball team, sustained through one of its best seasons on record, died Tuesday night. Sherman county's high-geared team won the playoff game to decide supremacy of the west ern division of the Greater Ore gon league in the neutral Con don gym, 66-62, before an over flow crowd estimated at 1100 persons. The teams were tied at the end of the regular season, each with a record of seven wins and one loss. Balance of the Moro five and accurate shooting at crucial mo ments of the game proved to be the deciding factor of the con test. Hustle exhibited by the influenza-ridden Mustangs brought the battle right down to the wire, and with only 37 sec onds left in the game they were just one point short, 62-63. With only 13 seconds to go, the Hepp ner five still had a chance as they worked the ball under their own basket. It went out of errblast in scholarship by a small margin, was presented a pin for tins achievement. khA foundation pins were awarded as follows: Poultry farming, Chris Brown; crop farming, John Wagen blast farm mechanics, Melvin McDan iel; farm electrification, Harold (Continued on Page 6) Music Departments To Present Concert The concert band of Heppne. High school will be heard in i special program of individual and group numbers in the high school auditorium Thursday evening (tonight) at 8 p. m. Also on the program is a girls' vocal quintet, heard in two groups of numbers. A clarinet duet number will be played by Annamarie Brindle ana Kathy Ray; alto saxaphone solo, banuy McDonald; bass solo, Steve Warren; French horn solo, barah btrait, and baritone solo Richard Clark. Appearing in the girls' quintet are Pam Cochell. faherron Bunch. Shirley Carlson and Judi Hamil ton, accompanied by Lorraine Leonnig. Joining in popular trumpet trio numbers are John Cleveland, Uins Brown and Dick Struck meier. Other instrumental solos will be heard on the flute, by Janis Baker; trumpet, Dick Struck -meier and tenor saxaphone, Laura Sumner. Accompanists are Marti Dixon and Mrs. Ola Mae Groshens. Di recting band numbers ' will be Arnold Melby, and vocal num- beis by Mrs. Uroshens. Cardinals to Face Monument in Meet Ione's resurging Cardinals will face Monument tonight (Thurs day) at 7 p.m. in the district 7-B basketball tournament at the Pendleton armory. If they win, they will play the winner of the Athena-Mt. Vernon game at 8:30 p.m. Friday, and visitors of the contest will be in the finals Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Winner of the tournament goes to the state B tournament. Should lone lose tonight, the Cards will play at 3 p.m., Friday in con solation. Coach Glenn Biehl's team fin ished third in the Umatilla Morrow B league, and the first four teams qualify for the dis trict meet, together with four from the south. An added feature of the tourn ament will be the performance of the three Halvorsen boys and Tom Heimbigner of lone on the trampoline at halftime of the second game tonight, (Thursday). Wins, Mustangs' Hopes bounds, and the Heppner part isans felt that a Sherman lad touched it last, but the offic ials ruled a jump ball. Sherman got the tip, and that did the trick. Three more points were added to the winners' total on a single free throw by Bill Rayon and two by Bill Doolin as time ran out. Heppner had the lead eight times during the ball game, but never by more than one point. They were ahead, 6 to 5, in the first quarter; 25-24 and 27-26 in the second quarter; and five times in the blazing third quart er that kept the crowd in a frenzy, 42-41, 44-43, 46-45, 48-47, and 50-49. Only once was the game tied, that at 12-12 in the first quarter. The Huskies were ahead of the Mustangs five points at half time, 37-32, and in the fourth quarter built up the margin to eight points at one time, 52-60, after Ken Blagg had fired one through the hoop with only 3:32 (G-T Photo) REMEMBER National 4-H Club Week Set For March 2-9 Morrow county 4-H clubs are making plans to celebrate Nat ional 4-H Club Week, March 2-9 announced Joe Hay, Morrow county extension agent. Forty four clubs with close to 350 Mor row county 4-H members will join 2,250,000 other 4-H members of the nation to publicize this well-known youth program sponsored by the Extension Ser vice. Club members will again be putting up window displays in stores throughout the county de picting some ot tne projects and activities the club has carried out through the year. In addition to the window dis plays, the National 4-H Club Week committee, consisting of Mrs. Leo Ashbeck, Pine City, chairman; Mrs. Roger Campbell, Lexington; Mrs. Roland Berg- strom, lone and Everett Struck- meier, Heppner, have planned other activities to be carried out through the week. Club mem bers will present programs at the Heppner-Morrow county Chamber of Commerce on Mon day, March 4; the Heppner Sor- optimist club Thursday noon, March 7, and at the Rhea Creek and Lexington Granges, March 8 and 9. Other activities include the sending of "thank-you- grams from the county agent s office on behalf of all 4-H mem bers and leaders to "Friends of 4-H" for their fine support throughout the year. They will be wearing 4-H tags on their shirts and dresses to school to let other boys and girls know they are 4-H club members. Restaurants throughout the county will be supplied with placards for their tables con taining the 4-H pledge on one side and a table grace on the other side. The Heppner Gazette-Times will be carrying a special sec tion for 4-H news in their March 7 edition. left to go. Seemingly hopelessly outdistanced, the M u st a n g s came roaring back. John Porter hit a free throw, and Dick Spring er made good on one of two gift shots. At 2:41 Lee Padberg, who played a courageous game with a temperature of 102 as he battled both the flu and Sher man county, whipped in a buck et, then jumped in another at 2:02, bringing the count to 58-61. Rayon connected to make it 58 63, but with 54 seconds left, Shan Applegate desperately ap plied the steam for the Mus tangs, driving in for two points and quickly following with two more at 37 seconds to go, making it one point short, 62-63. Concluding personal fouls were committed in desperation and the Moro five made good on them to capture the game. There was no denying the fin esse displayed by the winners. Official record shows their shoot ing average at 37 on 25 of 68 attempts, but most Heppner observers would swear it was Golf Club Plans Biggest Year; Work Days Set Willow Creek Golf club antici- been lined up to assist, includ pates its biggest year, both in ing four trucks, two caterpillars, improvements on. the Heppner two other tractors and a grader, course and in interest, Clint Mc- "It isn't often that we get this Quarrie, president, said Thurs- much equipment assembled at day morning. Many plans have the same time, and we need been made, initiation lee ior membership has been lowered, several maior projects are sched uled, and a special rate is offer ed for students who wish to play. Of immediate importance are the work days scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday, and the club is calling upon all of its members to respond to help out. A fleet of heavy equipment has Justice of Peace James 0. Hager Claimed by Death Justice James O! Hager, 85, the "grand old man" of the Morrow County courthouse, died Satur day, February 23, after being in poor health for a number of months. He had served as justice of the peace for the sixth district, Hepp ner, for 25 years, and when he ran for re-election last year, he was the oldest man running for election for any position in the state. Justice Hager ran. without opposition and his re-election was a foregone conclusion be cause of the respect and esteem with which he was held. Funeral services were Wednes day at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church here with the Rev. Melvin Dixon officiating. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic ceme tery. Born at a sheep camp at Cay use Station near Athena in Uma tilla county, February 6, 1878, Hager's life was a colorful one that stretched back through a colorful era. He was the only son in a family that included eight sisters.- .... . . The family moved to Heppner when he was a tot, and his par ents were engaged in the sheep business here. Hager attended Heppner High school and grad uated from it in 1894, then at tended the University of Oregon before returning to the tamily ranch. He has lived here ever since. On September 29, 1909, he was married to Emma M. Baird m HeDDner. They continued ranch ing until he was 35 years of age, and then they went into the dravage business. On February 2i, 1937, he was appointed justice of the peace bv Governor Charles Martin and served continuously until he was forced to resign after suffering a stroke. Larry Cook, Sr., was appointed pro tern justice of the oeace during his illness, and Oliver Creswick was appointed by Governor Mark Hatfield to the post after Mr. Hager's re cent resignation. When he was elected last fall, it was the fifth time that he had won the pos ition at the polls. A longtime member of the Heppner Methodist church, Jus tice Hager also was a member of Neighbors of Woodcraft and formerly had been active in the Heppner Elks lodge. Besides the widow, Mrs. Emma M. Hager, he is survived by two sons, Homer E. Hager of Herm iston and James M. Hager of Heppner; a daughter, Mrs. Har riet E. Shaw of Washington, D. C; five sisters, Mrs. Grace Storey of Chilliwack, B. C, Canada, Mrs. Edith Leach of Pendleton, Mrs. Sybil Bran and Mrs. Ruth Mc Murdo, both of Heppner, and Mrs. Marie Sims of Pendleton; and four grandchildren. better than that. Heppner made 23 on 68 attempts for about 33. From one point of view, the game was lost on the free throw line for the Mustangs because they hit only 16 of 33 attempts in that department while Sher man made good on 16 of 26 tries. Doug Bish, Ron Johnson and Doolin were the big guns in the Sherman attack and they pro vided a one-two-three punch that was mighty tough to han dle. Since Bish and Johnson are only juniors it doesn't bode well for the future of other western division teams next year. Doolin and big Jack Kellogg graduate but most of the other Huskies will be back, and Heppner can nave a go at the same club again. Bish connected for 23 points and everyone of them hurt the Mustang cause, Doolin pumped in 15 and Johnson made 14. On the Heppner side, Padberg (Continued on Page 6) Die every person to come and help use it, McQuarrie said. Those who can . come and spend all day, either Saturday or Sunday or both, and those who can come only for an hour are asked to turn out. They will haul dirt, fill ditches, level land, pick up rocks, and do all manner of other projects. No member will be permitted to play on the course while the work crew Is on hand. One of the major projects planned for the future is the finishing of the large house re cently donated to the club by Frank Turner into a clubhouse, notty pine has been donated for the inside finish, a large gas range of restaurant size has been given the club, and a refriger ator has also been donated. Two houses formerly owned by the railroad were purchased bv Turner for $300 and he gave them to the club. The club then moved them to their present lo cation near No. 1 tee. Another project scheduled is that of piping water from the well lo the house. Planting of a lawn is also Jiated. Work is also underway on con verting greens from sand to grass, No. 9 green is completed, No, 7 is started to grass, No. 1 needs fertilizer, top soil, and rocks must be removed, and No. 6 awaits solution of a vater problem. A ditch has been dug alor. the property line on No. 3 hole to take care of the water prob lem there. Work days will be called per iodically tbuughout the year, most likely to be on Sundays. Initiation fee will be reduced from $30 to $10 until July 1, but membership will remain at $30 per year. This includes a couple and their unmarried stu dent children. It is expected that many here will want to take advantage of the low Initiation fee and will join. Those intjr ested should see or call Clint McQuarrie or Mrs. Harlan (Don na) McCurdy, Jr., secretary., Students whose parents are not members may pay $10 for a half year or $20 for a full year's play for 25c for nine holes un til the end of the school year. At the club's recent annual meeting, all officers were re elected for another year, includ ing McQuarrie as president; Maurice Groves, vice president; Conley Lanham, treasurer; and Mrs. McCurdy, secretary. Activities committee, which will plan for Sunday play, set up rules for the course and also handicap rules, consi s t s ot Brown, chairman, Phil Mahoney, Harlan McCurdy, Jr., Lowell Gribble, Bob Cantonwine and Darrel Reisch. WEATHER (Leonard Gilliam, observer) Hi Low Prec. Thursday 52 31 Friday 59 33 Saturday 63 32 Sunday 63 38 Monday 67 43 .11 Tuesday 56 29 Wednesday 54 3b Total rainfall for February was an even I inches. 'Big Bad Bomb Cause ofjFuss, Furore, Turns Out to FLASH BULLETIN I Sheriif Bauman repor ted today (Thursday) that an enlisted man of the Navy came and claimed the "Big Bad Bomb" this morning. If all the energy created by the fuss and furore over dis covery of a small size smoke bomb here Saturday were con tained in a tight place, it would be 100 times that which could ever be generated by the bomb itself. Daily papers and wire ser vices made a big thing out of "the bomb" after it was found behind the Anne Smouse house on Hager Street (Willow Creek highway) Saturday by four girls. Radio and television picked it up. The Navy and Army Ordnance got into the act, and late Wednesday af ternoon sheriff C. J. D. Bauman received a call from Lieuten ant Commander D. K. Dagel of the 13th Naval District, Whidbey Island, Washington. The story was published Wednesday that the sheriff had buried the bomb on ord ers of the Navy when they de cided that it was a live bomb. However, when the story ap peared, "the bomb" was not y,syj j . jj ;1 . tf.y v rj: ,; ! :" - -Hi iir: J ' 1 -V: l) ' i H ill ? ' i m T 'J V .,J i L ' . if .1 mm.i,mmm,im!hmmmmMMim W. Iw.. 1...... i1lMll . r m ,. n, mmtmmilm (;t MRS BEVERLY DOHERTY, chairman of the ways and means com mittee of Beta Omega, lone, hands check to Mrs. Ruth Casebeer, director of nurses at Pioneer Memorial hospital, in payment for two Baumanometers for use in taking blood pressure (shown in foreground). Mrs. Darlene Hoskins, president of Beta Omega, looks on. The lone organization sponsors a similar project each year. (G-T Photo) Beta Omega Boosts Hospital with Gifts If you've been a patient In Pioneer Memorial hospital, chan ces are that some of the equip ment used in your care was do nated to the hospital by one of a number of organizations and Individuals. If you enter any time from now on, it is quite likely that one of the new Baumanometers, donated by Beta Omega, of lone, will be used on you. But don't be alarmed don't let the name frighten you. It is merely a device used in taking blood pressure and will supplement the smaller units used by the staff. This week Beta O rn e ? a, through its president, Mrs. k.)b ert (Darlene) Hoskins, Mis. Charles (Beverly) Doherty, chair- Foreclosure List Publication Due Real property foreclosure list for Morrow county will be pub lished probably next week, the office of Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman reports. Anyone who has two year taxes three or more years de linquent will appear on the list. Those who pay prior to the pub lication of the list will have their names removed. After the list is published, the delinquent taxpayer is charged a 2 penalty plus interest. Pub lication of the delinquent per sonal property list was published recently. be Gentle Little Smoker buried but peacefully reclin ing in the basement of the courthouse, awaiting someone from the Navy to come and pick it up. A major from the Umatilla Army Depot had ar rived earlier with a bomb ex pert, examined it and took the serial numbers, However, he refused to take custody of the bomb because It was property of the Navy. The expert said that he was of the opinion that a 12 gauge cartridge, used inside to dis charge smoke when it was triggered by the nose of the bomb hitting the earth, had not been exploded. This, he told the sheriff, was common, since many of the smoke bombs failed to go off. The cartridge, however, far from being a devastating device, is equal to that of a 12-gauge shotgun shell explosive. The "bomb" is less than three feet In length and about six Inches in diameter at the widest portion, tapering back to a fin at the end. It weighs about 25 pounds. It is much smaller than the practice bomb of the type that dug a crater near a Cecil home a few months ago after it was acci dentally released prematurely on a bomb run. man of the ways and means committee, and Mrs. Sam (Alkt) Crawford, a member of the same committee, presented a check for $100 to Mrs. Marvin (Ruth) Case beer, director of nurses, to pay for thn Baumanometers. The devices are floor models for taking blood pressure and will be used in the delivery room and in the recovery room. Beta Omega, which plans on at least one such project eacli year, is dedicated to such work. A few years ago they gave a dozen bathrobes to the hospital. On another occasion they gave monetary assistance to a nurs.i who was severely burned in an apartment fire, helping with her personal expenses and buying new clothing. Probably their largest public service project was piping water to the cemetery at lone, which cost in the neighborhood of $800. The organization is also con cerned with the Society for Crippled Children and Adults and has agreed to conduct the Easter Seal campaign here. Their aid, in this connection, ex tends to the Crippled Children s Hospital in Eugene. Money for the Baumanomcter was raised through a benefit movie and other undertakings. Beta Omega isn't a large or ganization, consisting of only about 20 members. But the work they have done to help others In their 10 years' existence has been significant here. Mrs. Casebeer put it inlo words. "We certainly do apprec iate these gifts. They mean a great deal to us." There is no indication that the little smoke bomb, painted orange, was dropped from an airplane to land near Heppner. Current theory Is that some one working on the removal of naval facilities from their old installation at the bomb range recently may have found it and brought it home as a souvenir. Children play 1 n g with it may have taken It to where it was found, the sher iff said. Meanwhile, the sheriff is getting a little provoked about all the fuss caused by "the bomb." If it is as lethal as the exaggerated stories have indicated, the courthouse has been In dire jeopardy for sev eral days. Nevertheless, the telephone company has profited from it. It has caused unnumerable long distance calls among the branches of service, to the sheriff, and between news papers and wire services. Lieutenant Commander Da gel has advised Sheriff Bau man that he would like to have it publicized that here after when bombs of any na ture are found in Morrow county, they be reported to the sheriff. The Navy, then, will come and pick them up.
