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THE V HEPPNEB
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HEPPNER. OREGON
Marcia Rands
Takes Top Honors
In I00F Speakoff
Marcia Rands, Ileppner High
school junior, was judged first
place winner Sunday over six
other contestants entered in the
annual United Nations Pilgrim
age for vouth speech contest
in Pendleton, becond place hon
ors went to Doris Ditlow, of Uma
tilla High school and daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Ditlow,
Ilermiston. Marcia is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Groves, Heppner.
In winning the top award,
Marcia will be the recipient of
a month-long, expense-paid, ed
ucational trip east to visit the
United Nations in Washington,
D. C, taking In other historical
places of interest on the tour in
Canada, eastern and southern
United States. The pilgrimage is
sponsored each year by the Odd
fellows and Rebekah lodge or
ganizations.
Oregon youth will meet in Port
land July 3 when students, chap
erones and parents will get ac
quainted, then leave the follow
ing morning by bus for Spokane
where they will pick up Wash
ington delegates, continuing
north to add delegates of British
Columbia. The trip will include
parts of Canada, the Great Lakes,
one week in New York City,
Washington D. C, then returning
through the southern states.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete McMurtry
were among those attending the
speak-off, and have served on
the cpmmittee In charge of its
arrangements since 1952. This is
the fourth year that Ileppner has
had a first place winner. Jack
Sumner won the trip in 1952;
Mrs. Sally (Palmer) Green, and
Mrs. Joan (Brosnan) Richardson
in later years.
A good crowd attended the
contest, held in the IOOF hall in
Pendleton. Contestants were en
tered from Umapine, Riverside,
Pendleton, Umatilla, Helix, Mil
ton -Freewater and Ileppner.
Fair Board Eyes
Flooring Job
Morrow county's fair board is
considering installation of wood
flooring over the concrete in the
county fair pavilion, Orville
Cutsforth of the board told the
Chamber of Commerce at the
Monday meeting.
Plywood would be laid over
4x4's on the concrete, and the
flooring would be placed on the
plywood. This would make it
possible to use the building for
roller skating when the structure
was not in use for other purposes.
It would also broaden the versa
tility of the building so that it
could be used for other activities
with more comfort and conven
ience. The floor area is 60x90 feet.
There is some problem with
moisture, and because graveling
outside has caused the ground
level to be higher than the con
crete floor, water seeps in dur
ing times of storms. The board
and county court are now con
sidering ways to alleviate this
problem.
Cutsforth said it is estimated
that the job would require about
$5000.
St. Patrick's Day
Dinner Set Sunday
All members of a family may
enjoy a fine roast beef dinner
for only $6 at the St. Patrick's
dinner Sunday at the Catholic
parish hall, those who do not
have a large family may buy
individual tickets at $1.75 each
and 75c for children under 12.
A large crowd is expected for
the dinner
School Budget
Shows Increase
Medical Self-Help
Class Still Open
Those interested in taking the
medical selt-help training pro
gram in connection with Civil
Defense may still take part al
though the first class was held
Wednesday night, Joe Hay and
Bill Crqoke. instructors, state.
Because of conflicting meet
ings and activities only six were
present for the opening session.
Hay discussed radioactive fall
out and Crooke gave instructions
on treatment of shock.
These first phases will be re
view at the coming session on
Wednesday night at 7:30 in the
circuit court room of the court
house and all are invited to at
tend to become Informed.
Justice Court News
March 12 Jessie Miles John
son, 31, failure to stop for school
bus, $.J0 bail and $15 suspended.
March 11 Ronnie Leonnig, 20,
no vehicle license, $5 bail for
feited.
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iContinued Irom page 1)
school supreintendent's salary is
the same as last year at $11,000,
but administrators will receive
an additional $7200, divided
among them largely in accord
ance with their increments on
the salary schedule. Instruction
al services for 1963-64 total $603,
492, by far the largest part of
the budget.
Division for operation of plant
is up about $9,000, due to ad
ditional custodial staff needed,
supplies, heat and utilities. Fixed
charges climb because of addit
ional insurance for the build
ings, additional Social Security
and State Industrial Accident
fund. Some of the climb in Social
Security is due to the higher
rate .set by the Federal govern
ment and some is attributed to
added staff. In all, fixed charges
are up from $45,500 to $52,000.
The budget includes expendi
ture of some $60,000 that the
board authorized from surplus
to complete the Heppner-Lexing-ton
high school building, includ
ing the multipurpose room, the
band room, equipment for the
gymnasium and equipping the
remainder of the building.
Although this shows in the
total expenditures, the cost is not
included in the amount to be
raised by taxes because it comes
from cash carryover that was
budgeted last year. Included in
the carryover were unexpended
items, trie unexpended emergen
cy fund and collection of delin
quent taxes in excess of that
budgeted.
Estimated receipts from other
than taxes that will be applied
against the general fund total
$278,000, including the $60,000
surplus. Receipts from basic
school support are estimated at
$160,000.
An item for textbooks is about
double that of last year, climb
ing from $4,450 to $9,000. Supt.
Robert Van Houte states that the
district buys its books in large
quantities every other year. The
coming year is the "heavy"
year.
The administration portion ot
the budget shows a small in
crease of $800. Transportation is
down about $600, and health ser
vices are up bv 3U0.
The budget was approved by
the budget committee last week
after lengthy work, many meet
ings and hearings. Frank Ander
son is chairman ot the commit
tee and Mrs. Roland (Donna)
Bergstrom is secretary. Other cit
izen members of committee are
Jim Driscoll, Mrs. Howard Petty
ilohn, Ralph Skoubo, Warren Mc
Coy and Mervin Leonard. Mem
bers of the school board are also
members of the budget commit
tee.
Public hearing on the budget
will be April 1 at 8 p.m. in the
circuit court room of the court
house. At that time any objec
tions or remonstrances may be
presented, and the committee
(will answer questions or explain
the budget to those interested.
Illness lakes
Fred Pettyjohn
Final rites for Fred Pettyjohn,
75, of lone, were held Monday,
March 11, at 2 p.m. at First
Christian church in Heppner.
The Rev. William Alsup offic
iated, with interment following
In Heppner Masonic cemetery.
In ill health for several years,
Mr. Pettyjohn died at his ranch
home on Rhea Creek Friday,
March 8.
He was born February 2, 1888
in Ava, Mo., the son of Mr. and
Mrs. William S. Pettyjohn. He
was married to Laura Edna
Jackson on November 2, 1907,
in Missouri. They have lived on
their ranch home on Rhea Creek
for the past 16 years, originally
coming to Morrow county about
48 years ago.
Surviving him are two daugh
ters, Gertrude Graves, Pilot
Rock; and Hazel Hynd, Cecil;
five sons, Earl G. and James
C. of lone, Ellis L. and Clyde
F. of Heppner and Claude J. with
the Navy in Guam. Also two
sisters, Minta Webb, Walla
Walla, Wn and Mira Medlock,
Ava, Mo.; three brothers, A.chie
in Illinois, Raymond, Heppner,
and Noah, Sparingfield, Mo., also
17 grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren.
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Directors Offer
Teacher Contracts
For Coming Year
(Continued from page 1)
for an opinion, but it may be
six weeks before the ruling is
handed down, Abrams said.
On motion of the board, 18
teachers in the system, who had
been given Day adjustments for
special activities, were placed on
their proper steps on the salary
schedule.
Director Fred Martin and Van
Houte reported on legislative
matters affecting the district,
among them being bills affec
ting basic school support funds,
a transportation reorganization
bill which would pay the dist
rict 50 of the costs of trans
portation instead of the present
30, and a bill that would allow
school directors to serve even
though the companies they rep
resent have a pecuniary interest
In the district provided the direc
tor does not have more than 5
of the stock in the company.
Pink-and-blue resignation of
Gladys Hobbs, Irrigon teacher,
was accepted by the board, ef
fective immediately.
The board approved a motion
to provide trapsportation for stu
dents to Morrow county schools
for students living in the Ord
nance area in lieu of paying
their tuition to Hermiston as has
been the case this year.
Budget for 1963-64 was form
ally adopted by the board. (Story
on the budget is elsewhere in
this paper).
A policy in regard to substi
tute teachers was adopted. Un
der this plan, a substitute teach
er who serves more than 15 days
continuously will have his pay
computed on the basis of his
proper step on the school salary
schedule, according to his train
ing and experience, but no high
er than step 6.
Supt. Van Houte asked the
board for permission to destroy
outdated school records, includ
ing old ballots, and this permis
sion was granted. In so doing,
he files a legal form that lists
the material destroyed in detail.
Teachers offered three-year
contracts are: Michael Tolar,
Irrigon; William Spohn, lone;
Lucile Peck. Inez Meador, Violet
Lanham, Robert Cantonwine and
Grace Schmidt, all of Heppner.
Offered one-year contr acts
were: Ellen Caudle, Ted Taibott,
Al Reeves, all of Irrigon; vernita
Taibott, Evelyn Mclnnes, Dante
Daltoso, James Harper, Board
man and Riverside High; Lyla
Ash, Beth Hynd, Esther Herrick,
Les Mathews, Glenn Biehl and
Dick Strait, all of lone; Juanita
Duffy, Jackie Glennie, Pauline
Miller, Lois Kirk, Don Cole, Ola
Mae Groshens, Kathryn Hoskins,
James Sutherland, Be r n i e c e
Struckmeier, Larry O'Rou r k e,
Don McClure, Gerald Johasson,
Janet Groves, Peter Glennie,
John Cummings, Margaret Mc-
Carter, all of Heppner; Fordyce
Hills, Lorene Jones and Cleo
Robinson, all of Lexington.
Contract for Aletha Grytness,
lone, was rejected.
Currently serving on three-
year contracts, which do not ex
pire this year, are the follow
ing: Clint Agee, Velva Bechdolt,
Ruth Bentley, Zoe Billings, Ron
Black, Millard Brown, Lucille
Brown, Juanita Carmichael, Don
Clark, Louise Clark, Ruth Coy,
Gladys Ely, Inez Erwin, Marg
uerite Glavey, Elsie Gugle, Mil
dred Hanna, Joe Hausler, Tom
Hughes, Clarence Johnson, Marg
aret Kirk, Roy Kirk, Donalda
Knighten, Arolene Laird, Les
Leroux, Delia Lindsay, Jack
Loyd, Gilbert Lujan, Arnold Mel
by, Donald Olmscheid, LaVern
Partlow, Gordon Pratt, Frieda
Slocum, Joyce Smith, Helen
Stitzel, Anita Stockard, Robert
Van Houte and Lucile Weather
ford. Olmscheid, LaVern Partlow, Gor
don Pratt, Frieda Slocum, Joyce
Smith, Helen Stitzel, Aanita
Stockard, Robert Van Houte and
Lucil Weatherford.
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Oliver A. Devin
Dies March 8;
Services Tuesday
Oliver Austin Devin, 81, resi
dent of this area since 1884, died
at his home in Heppner Friday.
Funeral services were Tuesday
at the Heppner Christian church
with Rev. Charles Knox offic
iating. Interment was in the Ma
sonic cemetery, Heppner.
Born November 12, 1881, near
Boliver in Polk County, Missouri,
he was the first child and only
son of M. J. and Sarah Devin. '
In the spring of 1884, when
Austin, as he was known, was a
small lad, the family moved
west. At that time the closest
railroad to this area was Uma
tilla. The Devin family settled
in the Blackhorse vicinity. At
that time, the area there was
all waving bunchgrass and had
no fences. Morrow county was
yet to be designated as a county.
The young man attended high
school in Heppner after having
gone to grade school in country
school houses. He worked hard
on the ranch that he and his
father acquired in the Sandhol
low district, engaging in sheep
and cattle raising and later
wheat farming.
In September, 1935, he mar
ried Estella McRoberts and they
made their home in Heppner.
He was employed at the saw
mill and also did farm work. He
later worked on his timberland
near Parker's Mill.
Several years ago he suffered
a series of strokes which para
lyzed his right arm and later his
speech was affected. This caused
confinement and eventually re
sulted in his death.
Devin was truly a pioneer in
the settling of the Heppner area,
and he had a full share in early
day history. In the flood of 1903
he barely escaped but remained
in town, working shoulder to
shoulder with those helping to
relieve the havoc.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Estella Devin, who cared for him
throughout his illness; a son,
Oliver; a grandson; a grand
daughter; several stepsons and
step daughters; and six sisters,
Mrs. J. E. (Vella) Walton of Yak
ima, Wn., Mrs. Letha Archer and
Mrs. Ora Wyland of Heppner
Mrs. O. M. (Tena) Scott and
Mrs. M. N. (Altha) Kirk of Herm
iston; and Mrs. W. H. (Dessa;
Hofstetter of Monmouth; to
gether with many nieces, neph
ews, other relatives and friends.
HOSPITAL
Patients admitted to Pioneer
Memorial hospital this week are:
Brian Rietmann, lone; Shkby
Kackley, Condon; Ethel Frank,
Kinzua; Jack McVaughn, Lex
ington; Frank Botts, lone, and
Harold Erwin, Heppner.
I hose dismissed during th
Mustang Baseball
Slate Released
Heppner High school's base
ball schedule will start on Fri
day, March 29, with a game
with Riverside at 3:30 at Hepp
ner, Coach Pete Glennie announ
ces. Nine other games are sched
uled through the balance of the
season. Heppner will go to River
side on Saturday, March 30, for
a 12:30 game, and then more
than a week will elapse before
the diamondmen see action
again when they plav Mac Hi
at Heppner on April 9 at 3:30.
Other pre-league games will
be as follows: April 12, at Stan
field at 7 p.m.; April 16v at
Mac Hi at 3:30 p.m.; April 17,
Stanfield at Heppner at 3:30.
Four league games are sched
uled as follows: April 20, Sher
man County on the lone dia
mond at 1 p.m.; April 27, at
Pilot Rock at 1 p.m.; May 4,
Grant Union at Heppner at 1
p.m.; May 11, at Burns, 1 p.m.
Group Again Asks
Work on Highway
Bearing resolutions and letters
from several organizations of the
county, another delegation of
businessmen and county officials
went to Salem Thursday to ask
the State Highway Commission
again for Improvements to the
Willow Creek highway and con
struction of a short cut route d
Arlington via Four Mile canyon.
Scheduled to appear before the
commission were Oliver Cres
wick, chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce development com
mittee; Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman;
Allen Nistad of Kinzua Corpor
ation; Robert Van Houte, super
intendent of schools; County
Judge Oscar Peterson, and others.
same period were: Jimmy Am
nions, Mayville; Max Woods,
Kinzua; Susan Chally, Heppner;
Vern McCowan, Heppner; Edna
Garrison, Heppner; Earl Pap
ineau, Lexington; David and Dan
Vaughn, Monument; Lucille
Weatherford, Heppner; Tracy
Gimbel, Heppner, and Michael
Medlock, Kimberly.
Services Held
For Jack Flug,
Retired Educator
Services were held Tuesday
afternoon, March 12, for Jack
C. Flug, 68, at Hope Lutheran
church, Heppner, with the Rev.
Kenneth Robinson officiating.
Organist was Mrs. Marian Jon-
asson and vocalist was Gordon
Pratt. Interment was in the
Heppner Masonic Cemetery with
committal services by American
Legion Post No. 87.
Death came to Mr. Flug Fri
day, March 8, at Pioneer Mem
orial hospital. He had been in
ill health with a heart condition
for the past two years.
A retired school administrator,
he was well known in Morrow
county after serving as Morrow
county superintendent of schools,
coming to Heppner in 1954. He
was principal of Riverside High
school at Boardman from 1959
to 1961, then retiring due to ill
health. Previous to administra
tion, he was athletic coach at
Minot High school, North Da
kota, then served as coach and
principal at Waterton, S. D., for
17 years. Coming to Oregon in
1944, he served as superinten
dent at Reedsport for several
years.
Mr. Flug was born January
21, 1895, at Chippewa, Falls,
Wis., the son of Gustav and Hen
rietta Flug. On June 11, 1924, he
was married to Agne.s Lee at
Minot, N. D. He was a member
of Hope Lutheran church, Elks
Lodge 358, Heppner; American
Legion Post 87, Heppner, and
Aurora AF&AM No. 59, Reeds
port. Survivors include his widow,
three daughters, Jacqu e 1 i n e
Pitcher, Bend; Coleen Ellison,
San Mateo, Calif.; Vienne Hath
away, Portland; four sons, Jerry,
Salem; Steven, Corvallis; Rod
ney, Boardman, and Ronald,
Heppner. Four sisters, Ann Bar
rows, Chippewa Falls, Wis.;
Minnie Krahner and Adele Fina,
Kenosha, Wis., and Margaret
Holthaus, St. Louis, Mo,, and
nine grandchildren also survive.
Pallbears were Dewey West,
Jr., Ronald Black, Robert Strutz,
Clarence Johnson, Lowell Crib
ble and Harlan McCurdy, Jr.
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