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Page 4 Thurs., April 18, 1963 GAZETTE-TIMES HEPPNER, OREGON World War I Vets Set Charter Meet Installation date for Condon Barracks 3096, World War I Vet erans, is Sunday, April 21 at 1 p.m. at the Veterans Hall, Condon, George I. Murray, dis trict commander, Hood River, an nounces. Prospective members of the Condon-Heppner areas who have not signed the Condon charter application should bring their discharge or other evidence of military service, dates and serial numbers. "Double up for transportation with another World War I Vet eran and bring your wife along," Murray states. The next district meeting of all World War I Bar racks will be in The Dalles audi torium Sunday, April 28, starting with a potluck dinner at noon. BOWLING BITS By JO PETTYJOHN Examiner Coming A drivers license examiner will be on duty in Heppner Tues day, April 30, 1963, at the court house between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., according to an announcement received from the Department of Motor Vehicles of Oregon. Persons wishing original licenses or per mits to drive are asked to file applications well ahead of the scheduled closing hour in order to assure time for completion of the required license test. By JO PETTYJOHN WHEW, THE men's second half of tournament play ended with tension and excitement as the Heppner Elks team came on to overtake the Hi-Ho Club and win first place. The Lexington Oil Co-op finished in third place and the Bi-County boys are holding down seventh spot. In games Monday night the Elks won all four from UPRR, and the Hi-Ho team lost three and one-half to the Quarterbacks to put the Elks in first by one-half game! ! That is really shaving a little close, fellows! The Llks and Hi Ho, winners of first half of play, will meet in a match within the next two weeks to decide the league winner. In other action the Lexington co-op boys won three trom Bi County to hold onto third place For the Elks, four of the team had over 500 series with Vic Groshens and Jimmy Miller tied for top of 531. Jimmy and Gene Orwick tied for high game of 190. Vernon Munkers had high series for Co-op with a 534 and Dean Hunt had high game of 199. Archie Munktrs is groaning a little because he had 198! Bob Kilkenny had high series for Bi-County of 524 and Pat Cuts forth edged out Bob for high game with a 189, Bob had 188. Distracting, huh? The three men's teams from here, with other Echo league teams, will bowl in a 2-day tournament in Echo Monday and Tuesday Jfor(T) (ML CALIFORNIA SURF MOTEL Right on the Beach i( Rooms, Suites, Kitchen Apts. -k Patios overlooking the ocean if Phone, Free TV it: Free morning coffee ic One mile to city center it Credit Cards Honored 2010 E. Ocean Blvd. . LONG BEACH FREE! Write for literature and new TRAVEL GUIDE k Hrttofl f'ne m0Te'1 from coair coast, Inspec- rca ana appro vou vy .unyrc gi niuiui iiuioii nights. Also the playoff dates will be set by then. 0 0 0 WELL, PADBERG Machinery is still riding on the "magic car pet" as they "bowled over" MCGG Wednesday night on their way to the top. Only Sheets Clothing and a few "if's" stand in their way to win first, which will be decided after this week's matches. In MCGG's downfall last week, the Pad berg gals were still bowling great guns with Iris Campbell and sub Mary Snyder leading the way. Iris had high game with a 204 and Mary had high series of 546. For MCGG Cherry Hermann had high game of 163 and Lois Hunt had high series of 435. The MCGG gais are in fourth place. In other action the Turner, Van Marter, Bryant gals couldn't find their mark as they lost 2 'a to Echo Hotel to stay in sixth place. Vesta Kilkenny had high game and series for Turner with 158 and 460. If Padberg wins first for this half they will meet Eagle Valley in a match later to determine the league winner. National Foundation Offers Student Aid The Morrow county chapter of the National Medical Founda tion is giving for the first time a full tuition grant and a part tuition grant to students who are Interested in health careers. Any student in Morrow county meeting the required specifica tions is eligible. The grant will be given only to beginning sophomores in col lege or above, unless beginning freshmen were to enroll in a course of study approved by the board. The student must also have a 2.5 GPA the term pre ceding the application for the succeeding term. Grants shall be based primarily on need, with a maximum of $500 available. Applicants should apply to Gordon Pratt, Heppner High school principal, by letter, stat ing their qualifications. Tuition grants would be based on exist ing tuition fees at the Univer sity of Oregon. King, Queen Reign At lone School Dance A March of Dimes dance, spon sored by the lone High school Girls' League, was held in the school cafeteria Saturday even ing, April 6. The dance honored the high school boys, who beat the girls in a contest to see who could get the most money for the March of Dimes. At 10 p.m. the crowning cere money of a King and Queen was held. Cheryle Lundell, soph omore, was elected Queen and crowned by Marvin Padberg, president of the Lettermen's club. Joe Halvorsen, sophomore, was elected King, and crowned by Judy Sherer, acting Girls' League president. The honored couple danced to the Peppermint Twist, to carry out the theme of the dance, the "Peppermint Lounge." Heppner Ponies Win First Three Games Baseball is In the air ever where and the Heppner Junior high Ponies proved they know how the game is played as they downed three opponents in as many starts. They have three games left on their spring schedule. They play lone in lone Friday at 1:30 p.m. for their second meeting and play Condon there May 3 at 1:00 p.m., following with a return game there May 11 at 1:00 p.m. to close out the season. In the opening game here with lone the Junior High team blanked the lone graders, 11-0, with Jim Doherty handling the mound duties for the Ponies. He allowed no hits, struck out seven, walked one, and hit one by a pitched ball. The teams held fairly even for three innings with Heppner leading, 2-0, and then the Ponies blasted nine runs in the fourth. In another close game until the fourth inning, the Ponies broke up a 1-1 tie to beat the Pilot Rock club, 5-1, getting four runs in the fourth. The game was played here Friday. Doherty again pitched for the Heppner graders allowing one run on one hit, striking out eight, and walking one. Chapman and Lankford handled the pitching duties for the Pilot Rock team. They gave up five runs on one hit, three walks and six strike outs. In a return game at Pilot Rock Monday the Heppner Ponies broke up a 6-6 tie at the end of the regulation 5-inning play to send it into an extra inning and went on to win 8-6. Dennis O'Donnell went the distance on the mound for the Ponies to give up six runs on one hit. He had four strikeouts and 1U waiKs, Pilot Rock scroed four runs in the bottom of the first to take the lead, 4-2, but Heppner picked up a run in the second and three in the third to lead 6-4. The Pilot Rock team came right back in the fifth with two runs to tie the score and put it into extra innings. Lankford and Dunn shared mound duties for the Rockets giving up eight runs on five hits, five walks, and five strikeouts. Heppner bovs playing are Kit Anderson, Roger Leonnig, Jen Turner, Jim Doherty, Steve Pettyiohn, Russell Kilke n n y, Dennis O Donnell, Rick Johnston, Bob Dobbs, Dennis Carlson, 6tan Rauch, and Steve Wagenblast. 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Mrs. Marg aret Miller (Baptist) will hold a session for administrators. Participants are invited from all churches in communities sur rounding the Pendleton area, They are urged to plan to at tend the full day and to bring their own curriculum materials for reference materials. A book display of titles of special rele vance to the Vacation Church School will be furnished by the Cokesbury Store in Portland. Free Chest X-Rays Coming to Irrigon The Mobile Chest X-Ray Unit from the Tuberculosis Control Section of the State Board of Health will be in Irrigon on Fri day, April 26. The unit will be parked at the A. C. Houghton school between the hours of 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. All persons over 15 years of age are eligible to have a chest x-ray without charge. Those un der 15 years will not be x-rayed unless they are contacts of known cases of tuberculosis or are positive tuberculin skin test reactors. School employees may take advantage of this opportunity to receive their chest x-ray for cert ification in the 1963-64 school year. This service is sponsored by the Morrow County TB and Health Association and the Mor row County Health Department. Mrs. Robert Ryan and Mrs. Perry Pummel will serve as vol unteer clerks. The facilities of the school (electric power, etc.) are made available by Morrow County School Board. Illness is Fatal To Mrs. Garrison Mrs. Ernest (Edna) Garrison, 54, died at her home in Heppner Monday after a long illness. Recitation of the rosary was Wednesday, April 17, at 7:30 at Creswick Mortuary and requiem mass was today (Thurs day) at 11 a.m. in St. Patrick's Catholic church with Father Raymond Beard officiating. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery. Mrs. Garrison was born at Scotts Mills on February 26, 1909, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lauren B. Thomas. She was married to Ernest Garrison January 26, 1934, in Wenatchee, Wn and came to Heppner in 1955 from Tillamook. She had been ill with cancer for three years. Surviving are the husband, Ernest Garrison; a daughter, Mrs. Imogene Gee of Port Or ford; a son, Lauren L. Garrison, Beaverton; two brothers, Free man Thomas, Prineville, and Clayton Thomas, Scotts Mills; a sister, Eddie Sowa of Molalla; the mother, Katherine A. Thomas, Mulino; and five grandsons. Club Learns Races On April 6 the Two Tracker 4-H horse club met at the Frank Anderson home for a training meeting. We all took our horses and learned how to barrel race, potato race and how to do the figure eight, and also how to lead our horse correctly. There was a new member, her name is Tom Steagall Enters Portland Hospital Tommy Steagall, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Steagall, Lex ington, was transferred to the University of Oregon Medical School hospital in Portland by his parents on April 6. He will be under observation of specialists, with possible fur ther surgery, and will be con fined in the hospital for several weeks. Those wishing to write cards or letters may send them to him at the hospital, Floor 8A, 3181 S. W. Sam Jackson Park Row, Portland. He is always happy to hear from his friends and rel Coffee Hour Benefit In Lexington Friday Holly Rebekah Lodge will sponsor a coffee hour Friday afternoon, April 19, at the Lex ington IOOF hall as a benefit to aid the county cancer fund. Pinochle, bridge and Chinese checkers will be in play after 1:30 p.m. Admission will be in dividual donations to the fund. Lexington chairman for the drive is Mrs. Kenneth Klinger. Amanda Smith. Mrs. Anderson served sack lunch, then we rode to Ruggs. The guests present were Joe Hay, Orville Weiss, Frank An derson, Bob Bergstrom and Mrs. Albert Wright. David Wright, reporter Boxed typing paper reason ably priced at the Gazette Times. 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