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Cardinals Finish In Fifth Place; McEwen Nabs Tourney Title lone High school's basketball team missed the championship and high placings In the district 7-B tournament at Pendleton Thursday througn Saturday, but it inreaienea to go an the way. The two teams who defeated the Cardinals McEwen of Athena, the eventual champions, and the Weston Tigers had to call forth all out efforts to subdue the lone basketeers. After defeating Monument, 62 to 42, Thursday, the Cards lost to Athena in a stirring battle, 55 to 44, and then bowed in consola tion to Weston after leading through most of the contest, 58 to 56. The big test of the tournament was against McEwen, champions of the Umatille-Morrow B lea gue, Friday. The Cards had thumped them in the last regu lar game of the season and were bent on doing it again. They al most did. The Cardinals jumped to a 17 11 lead by the end of the first quarter, and a ding dong battle ensued in the second period be fore the Umatilla county five pulled into a halftime tie, paced bv Bob McMillan and Mike Shields, at 29-29. In the third period, the Scot ties started to edge away, and went into the last period with a seven point margin, 42 to 35, holding the lead the rest of the distance. Ron Crabtree, the tournament's second high scorer with a total of 54 points, drilled seven field goals and two free throws for 16 points for lone, one of three Cards in double figures. Jim Martin had 12, and the Rollie Ek strom, third high scorer for the lone Wins Trophy For Sportsmanship Although they lost two heartbreaking games that would have meant the district 7-B championship, lone High school was judged the best in sportsmanship at the tourna ment at Pendleton Thursday through Saturday. The school received the sportsman ship trophy, given by the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce. The Award was presented by Earl Ferguson, Weston, tourna ment director, to Tass Morri son, student body president. Ferguson compliment e d all schools and participants for the sportsmanship they displayed. meet with a total of 50 points, had 10. McMillan, the McEwen floor ace, had 17 for game high honors, followed by Shields with 13 and Coppock with 10. The battle for third place was one of the tournament's most thrilling games and proved to be a heartbreaking loss for the Car dinals. Weston naa been upset by Riverside, and lone 'had lost to Athena. The losers met in the game just before the champion ship contest Saturday night, and the Cards were out to skin the Tigers. Through three periods they held the lead, but Weston fought back in the fourth quar ter to tie the count, and the game winning basket, fired by Walt Clark, was in the air as the final horn sounded. With Crabtree ana Ekstrom blazing away at the bucket at better than .500 percentages, WATCH FOR John Deere Day Coming Soon RUCQ Heppner Tri-County Equipment Co. Ph. 676-9258 lone dominated the first half, leading at the end of the first quarter, 17-9, and at intermis sion, 31 to 23. Weston outpointed them in the third period, how ever, 16 to 11, and went into the fourth quarter trailing by only three. The winners were behind as much as 12 points at one time during the game, but with one minute to go in the last quarter they tied it at 55-all when Jim Hutchinson hit from the floor. He made it a three-point play when he sank a free throw. An Icne free throw knotted the score at 56 each, and it looked as if it would go into overtime until Clark put up the shot that went through the hoop as the horn went off. Crabtree was high point man in this one with 22 on eight field goals of 15 attempts and six free throws. Ekstrom also had eight on 15 tries from the floor, but only had two chances on the free throw line and made one good. Vaughn Darrow led Weston with 18, firing nine field goals. lone, which had placed third in the league standings, opened the tournament with a decisive win over Monument, 62 to 42, winning all quarters and stead ily surging ahead. The winners held halftime lead of 28 to 20. Sam Howell of Monument, how ever, was high scorer with 24, followed by Ekstrom's 23. Crab tree had 16. In capturing the tournament, Athena downed Mt. Vernon, lone and Riverside, winning over the Pirates in the finals, 52 to 34, for the championship. Coach Ted Talbott's Pirates proved to be the darkhorses of the tournament as they reached the finals and played fine basketball. Prairie City won fourth place in consolation, beating the Mt. Vernon Bears, 59 to 39. Walt Clark of Weston topped the scoring in the tournament with his 66 points, followed by Crabtree at 54 and Ekstrom at 50. Athena will face Lowell in the first round of the state B tourna ment at Bend on March 14. Although the result of the tournament was somewhat dis appointing for lone because of the two close losses, it capped an excellent year for the Cardi nals who came on strong through the season after getting off to a slow start in league play. Climax was their defeat of Athena in the last game of the regular season, the only loss the Scotties suffered by a B school. Ion?" 16 12 18 Monument 12 8 9 1342 IONE 62 Fg 2 8 5 1 1 10 0 2 0 2 1 1 3 0 0 0 Martin Ekstrom Crabtree Klinger Heimbigner J. Halvorsen Akers Padberg Mrogan Ft Pf Tp 2 3 6 7 5 6 4 2 2 2 3 23 16 4 4 2 4 3 0 Totals 21 20 22 62 MONUMENT 42 Fg Ft Pf Tp Capon i n i t Gienger 3 2 2 8 Enright 0 13 1 Howell 11 2 4 24 Vandetta 1 1 S d Fleming u l l Harris 0 0 3 0 Chittock 0 10 1 Totals lone Athena 17 S 22 42 17 12 11 18 6 0 44 13 1355 IONE 44 Martin Ekstrom Crabtree Klinger Heimbigner Akers , Padberg Totals McEWEN 55 Smith Coppock Shields McMillan Whitney Morasch . McEwen Kellar Fg 5 4 7 1 1 0 0 Ft rt Tp 2 0 12 2 4 2 3 0- 3 2 2 0 0 10 16 2 4 0 0 0 0 18 8 12 41 Fg 3 4 6 7 3 0 0 0 Ft Pf Tp 1 5 7 2 3 10 1 1 13 3 1 17 2 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .Totals 23 9 12 55 lone 17 14 11 1656 Weston 9 14 16 1958 IONE 56 Fg Ft Pf Tp Martin 2 13 5 Ekstrom 8 1 3 17 Crabtree 8 6 2 22 Padberg 0 0 2 0 Akers 3 2 3 8 Heimbigner 10 12 Klinger 10 3 2 M. Halvorsen 0 0 0 0 Totals 23 10 17 56 WESTON 58 Fg Ft Pf Tp Lieuallen 10 3 2 Darrow 9 0 3 18 Hutchinson 2 2 0 6 Sloan 0 0 3 0 Clark 4 6 1 14 Turnev 3 4 1 10 Meier 12 4 4 Benzel 10 0 2 Laurence 10 0 2 Totals 22 14 15 58 Onlv one family in our New York neighborhood lives with in its income. They borrow money to do it. lone Church Sets Auction June 8 Members and friends of the lone Community church are making plans for an auction to be held Saturday, June 8. A mong items that may be sold are furniture, tools, machinery, household items. SDortincr P. quipment, canned foods, baby furniture, electrical appliances, good usable clothing, books, yarn or yarn scraps, yardage, toys, jewelry, sewing equip ment, musical instruments, re cords, camera equipment, chil dren s outdoor play equipment, garden tools, lawn furniture, livestock and mlscellaneo u s items. The committee is seeking to develop a tentative list of items to be auctioned as soon as possible. Those who -have us able items they would like to have picked up should call Mrs. Bill Rietmann (phone 422-7296). The auction will be in lone, and there will be a barbecue held on the same day. There will also be a snack bar open during the auction. Don Winks of Hermiston will be auctioneer. Committee chairmen are as follows; John Jepson, arrange ments; Glenn Biehl, publicity; Mrs. Norman Nelson, snack bar. Other members of the plan ning committee are Bob Jep son, Mrs. Bill Rietmann, Mrs. Garry Tullis, Jack Barak, Omar Rietmann, Mrs. Ella Burgoyne, Melvin Melena and Mrs. Mark ham Baker. HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday, March 7, 1963 Relatives Travel Here Several out-of-town relatives and friends were here last week for the funeral services of James O. Hager on Wednesday, Feb ruary 27. A daughter, Mrs. C. A. (Har riet) Shaw, came by train from Washington, DC; a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Homer E. Hager were here from Hermiston. Others here for the day were Scott McMurdo, Corval- lis, and Ted McMurdo, Portland, both nephews; Mrs. Frank Mc Kenzie, Hermiston, a cousin; Mrs. La Grande Guild, Sno homish, Wn a niece; Mrs. A. S. Shaw and Mrs Otis Hampton, both of Pendleton, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Monahan, Condon. Mrs. Shaw stayed at the Hager home for the week-end. Mrs. Hager and Mrs. A. D. McMurdo accompanied her by train to Portland the first of the week. On their return to Hinkle Sta tion Wednesday, she continued on east and Mrs, Hager and Mrs. McMurdo completed their trip home by car. Needy Children Grants Increased Federal grants of approxi mately $5,770,900 for aid to Ore gon's needy children and aged, onna, and oisaoied adults in the quarter beginning January 1, 1963, were announced today Dy . w. nunter, Kegionai Di rector of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco. By program, the Federal grants are: old-ace assistance. $2,672.- 000; aid to families with depen dent children, $2,258,500; aid to the blind, $63,000; and aid to the permanently and totally disab led, $777,300. The amount of grants is based on Oregon's estimates of how much it will spend in the cur rent quarter. Over-and under payments will be adjusted in future grants. The Federal share is determined by a formula in volving States' per capita in come. Remaining costs are paid from State and local funds. Federal grants to all states for this quarter amounted to $673, 426,000, an increase of about $44 million over the same quarter one year ago. Mr. and Mrs. Newt O'Harra, Lexington, left by car Wednes day for Tucson, Arizona, where they expect to spend at least three weeks vacationing. With added tours in the south, they plan to be away five or six weeks. Night Phone Toll Reduction Coming A plan providing new, lower long distance rates on station to station calls within Oregon between 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. was announced Fridav bv Pa cific Northwest Bell, Dale Slush er, manager in Pendleton, said. The night time calling plan was filed with Oregon Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill Friday, to become effective on April 1. Slusher said the plan will mean reductions of from five tents to 45 cents on station calls in Oregon. The lower rates apply on station calls 91 airline miles or more placed between 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. For example, a niuht station call from Heppner to Baker now costs $.55 for the first three min utes. New charges for the same call would be $.50. A night sta tion call from Heppner to Med ford now costs $.95 for the first three minutes. New charges for tne same call would be $.65. The phone company also filed with the Public Utility Com missioner minor revisions in both day and night person to person long distance charges within Oregon. These adjustments will mean small decreases in some person to person call charges, no chan ges in others, and small in creases in others, manager said. Money receipt books in dupli cate and triplicate are on sale at the Gazette-Times. BILT- RITE SOFA Now $99.50 WAS $259 Three Different Makes of Dinette Sets To Choose From Small New Occasional Chairs Plastic Window Shades, 36", $1.79 Traverse Rods Coming Soon: Additional 4-Piece Sectionals Liberal Terms We Deliver CASE FURNITURE CO. Heppner Ph. 676-9432 We Extend A Hearty ON OUR 5th YOUR DEALER FOR: Pontiac 15 Years (From March, 1948) Willys --13 Years (From November, 1949) Buick 1 1 Years (From August, 1952) GMC II Years (From August, 1952) Rambler -2 Years (From November, 1960) Mm-' SALES and SERVICE Come In For COFFEE DOUGHNUTS FRIDAY. MARCH 8. AND UNTIL NOON SATURDAY. 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