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80th Year
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HEPPNER
GAZETTE-TIMES
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 25, 1963
10 Cents
Economic Study Completed
for Mid-Columbia Area
Agriculture and its allied pro
cessing industries can be expec
ted to remain the major ec-
onomic force over the next 20
to &u years in the Mid-Columbia
area embracing six coun
ties, including Morrow, an 186
page regional development pro
gram just completed by Ebasco
Services, Inc., for the Mid-Columbia
Planning Council states.
The extensive report, prepared
after a thorough study of the
area through the past year, in
cludes sections on the Mid
Columbia economy, natural and
man-made facilities, population
and employment, growth prob
lems and prospects, approaches
to an industrial development
program, the preliminary reg
ional development plan, and a
summary of principal findings,
conclusions and recommenda
tions. Members of the 6-county coun
cil, including Judge Oscar Pet
erson of Morrow, met in The
Dalles Friday and received the
report The judge said that now
that this study has been com
pleted, it is time to move for
ward and act on the recommen
dations. He said that he has
written to the State Department
of Planning and Development,
pointing out the need to go
ahead and the need for finan
cing to accomplish desired re
sults. The report goes into consider
able detail on the industries ex
isting in the six counties, in
cluding agriculture, manufac- j
vice industries. It analyzes the
tax structure, considers climate,
land use, transportation and
public facilities. It discusses
population trends, deals with
the labor force and employment.
Regional assets and liabilities
are pointed out, together with
general considerations in attrac
ting industry.
Single copies of the study
have been placed in the hands
of the county court (Judge Pet
erson), with the Port Commis
sion (Dewey West and Garland
Swanson), county planning com
mission (Clarence Rosewall),
Chamber of Commerce (Oliver
Creswick), library in Heppner,
library in lone, and the Gazette
Times. Those who wish to read
them are invited to contact any
of these sources.
Some of the conclusions of
the report are these:
Increased farm mechanization,
together with the growth of
corporate and similar large
farming operations, can be ex
pected to further reduce agri
cultural employment opportun
ities in the years ahead.
The dominance of wheat and
other grain crops can be expec
ted to continue as new export
markets are developed and local
commercial livestock feeding op
erations become more attractive
and profitable.
Increases in the amount of freezing operations, and space
acreage under irrigation result
ing from projects currently un
der consideration, and new irri
gation projects to be developed
over the next two to five dec
ades, will increase agricultural
diversification.
Organizations Asked
To Attend Meeting
Heads of organization in
Morrow county, inclu ding
municipalities, industries,
farm groups, service organi
zations and others are urged
by Judge Peterson to be at a
meeting in the county court
house, Pendleton, Monday at
1 p.m. for the purpose of set
ting up an advisory commit
tee for the area to start pro
cedures for followup on the
Mid-Columbia Planning Coun
cil's study of the area.
He stated that he has con
tacted some of the organiza
tions but cannot reach them
all and urges good participa
tion at the meeting.
Prospects for im m e d i a t e
growth of new manufacturing
industries are limited. Near-
term manufacturing prospects
appear most favorable for in
dustries allied to agriculture,
such as feed and seed processing
and food packing, canning and
age developmetns.
Based on present information,
the Boardman Space Age Indus
trial Park and other known in
dustrial development plans will
not, by themselves, provide suf
ficient momentum to achieve
sustained regional growth dur
ing the 1960's and 1970's.
Regional recreational resourc
es offer unique opportunities for
early development to broaden
the economy and provide new
employment.
Approximately 10.000 new iobs
would De required to provide em
ployment for young people who
will join the Mid-Columbia labor
force between 1960 and 1980.
The target protection of a dod-
ulation of about 125,000 by 1980
will require the net addition of
about 8,000 jobs. Anticipated re
ductions in agricultural and con
struction employment will place
the burden of providing new em
ployment opportunities on man
ufacturing and service indus
tries. Creation of a sufficient num
ber of new jobs to meet the 1980
employment target will require
a vigorous and sustained reg
ional development effort.
Action plans for economic de
velopment aimed at achieving
these population and employ
ment targets will require coord
inated effort on a regional ba
sis, rather than purely local ef
forts by separate county and
port district agencies.
Students, Friends Mourn
Death of Mrs. Weatherford
Dvess Backs
Wheat Program;
168 Hear Talks
(Text of talk page 3, section 2)
"Contrary to what some critics
say, this 1964 wheat program
can be one of the most flexible
farm programs ever devised,"
Jim Dyess, northwest area di
rector of the ASCS and former
executive vice president of the
National Association of Wheat
Growers, told a large audience
of ranchers and businessmem in
an address at the fair pavilion
Monday night.
Dyess and Nels Anderson, Mor
row county agent, shared the
speaker's platform in discussing
the program. The former, who
is said to be among the best
informed in the United States
on the wheat proposal, showed
slides to illustrate the points of
the proposed program as well as
speaking to the audience.
Anderson took the case of a
typical wheat ranch and follow
ed, step by step, the effects on
the owner's economy if the
wheat program is approved at
the May 21 referendum and If it
is defeated.
The audience was composed of
168 listeners, the largest crowd
Anderson said, that has gath
ered for a farm meeting during
the time he has been in the
county with the exception of one
countywide planning conference
a number of years ago.
After an illness of nearly two
years, Mrs. W. W. (Lucile)
Weatherford, 53, died in the Uni
versity of Oregon Medical
School hospital last Thursday.
Friends, relatives, students
and former students filled the
Arlington Methodist church to
near capacity Monday afternoon
for funeral services. Officiating
were the Rev. Raymond Kratzer,
district superintendent of the
Nazarene church, Yakima, Wn
and the Rev. Bill Briggs, pastor
of the Arlington Methodist
church.
Interment was in the Weath
erford family plot in the Arling
ton cemetery.
Mrs. Weatherford, who had
taught school both prior to and
after her marriage, had con
tinued active in her work as
a Heppner High school teacher
until late last fall, when it was
necessary for her to be hospit
alized. Continued checks failed
to diagnose the exact nature of
her malady. After initial hospit
alization, she later resumed her
teaching duties, but was forced
to go back for treatment and
was unable to return.
Mrs. Weatherford's teaching
career started in Wisconsin af
ter she had gone through high
school and college there with
honors. She completed a regular
four-year course at Reedsburg
High school in that state in
three years, and also completed
the normal 4-year course at Osh
kosh Teachers College in three
years. She had attained her mas
ters degree in mathematics and
was on the verge of getting her
doctorate in education at the
University of Wisconsin when
she married Mr. Weatherford on
December 26, 1939, at . Reedsburg.
It was while she was studying
for her doctor's degree at the
University of Wisconsin that she
taught there, and she also
taught at Ball State Teachers
College at Muncie, Ind. .
Mrs. Weatherford was born
December 24, 1910, in Oshkosh,
the daughter of Christian and
Margaret Madsen.
Following their marriage in
1939, the Weatherfords came to
his native Oregon to live, first
going to Prineville where they
lived for one year. For the next
two years they were in Arling
ton where he worked on the
Weatherford home ranch, and
then they moved to Portland
where he had been hired by the
state to teach auto mechanics
at Benson Polytechnic but in
stead started a vocational and
welding school in Portland.
In 1946 they bought a ranch
at Eightmile, remaining there
for two years before buying their
present ranch, the instone place,
on Butter Creek.
Mrs. Weatherford resu m e d
teaching in 1953 at Lexington
High school and remained there
until it was closed, after which
she came to Heppner High
school and had taught there
tour years.
Principal Gordon Pratt ex
pressed the feelings of the fac
ulty and students when he said,
"She was a wonderful teacher.
She was very proficient and was
well liked. Her death is a great
loss to the faculty."
Among students who had ta
ken her instruction were several
who ranked very high in nat
ional tests, and she had the rep
utation of being an outstanding
mathematics teacher.
The high school was closed
here Monday in her memory and
many of the students attended
the funeral.
Fast Time Slated
To Start on Sunday
Like it or not, daylight
saving time, passed through
out the state at the last gen
eral election, will start Sunday
morning in Morrow county as
throughout the rest of Oregon.
At that time, clocks will be
set ahead an hour, and this
will continue until late Octob
er, provided the state follows
the proposal in the legislature
to add another month to the
fast time to conform to Calif
ornia. Originally, dayli g h t
time was scheduled to con
clude in September.
Postmaster Jim': Drlscoll of
the Heppner post office states
that the post office will con
form to daylight time, and
Supt. Robert Van: Houte said
that schools will ; also go on
the fast time schedule, begin
ning Monday.
Parade, Contests, Free Ice Cream,
Breakfast, Carnival Offered Public
New Bridges Due
To Be Installed;
Improvements Set
Indications are that Heppner
will have three new or remodel
ed highway bridges soon, Larry
Smitton, Pendleton, maintenance
superintendent of this district
for the State Highway Depart
ment, told members of the
Heppner-Morrow County Cham
ber of Commerce Monday.
He said that he has been ask
ed to obtain descriptions of lots
adjacent to the two Willow
Creek bridges (one near the
courthouse and one on Main
street between Quaid and
Church) and the one over Hin
ton Creek on the north side of
town.
Smitton said that indications
are that contracts will be let by
the Highway Commission soon
on the bridge work. The Wil
low Creek bridge on Main street
particularly, has been pointed
out as a hazardous soot and
has been pinpointed for widen
ing for years. Delav has hwn
blamed on the possibility of
tne willow Lreek dam project
which reportedly may change
me cnannei. However, U. S.
Army Engineers recently stated
that if the dam is built, the
channel will not be changed
enougn to alter any bridge con
struction that might be done.
Narrowness of the bridge, to
gether with the sharp angle of
the highway on the north side,
creates tne nazard.
At the same time, Smitton told
of work being done on the Wil
low Creek highway to the north.
A paving plant will be brought
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Dressup parade.
Frog jumping contest.
Mayors' straw hat toss.
Cltywide bargains.
Free parking.
Free breakfast.
Free ice cream.
Band carnival.
These are just a few of the
attractions listed for Heppner's
Spring Festival which loom as
a gala event for the area this
week-end. Queen Laura Lee
Sumner and her court, Princess
es Carol Tholberg and Shirley
Carlson, will rule over the fes
tive events, most of which will
occur Saturday.
Randall Peterson, chairman,
states that the parade is sched
uled to start at 2 p.m. with
assembling point at Tum-A-Lum
Lumber Company. Kids of the
area are Invited to dress in com
ical costumes, and the one jud
ged funniest will receive a $5
prize. Second will get $3 and
third, $2.
Morrow County's fair and ro
deo Queen, Sandra Eubanks, and
her court rae scheduled to make
their first official appearance
of the year in the parade and
will share limelight with the
Festival court.
REFLECTING the spring season are these Heppner High school
students, ell seniors, who comprise Spring Festival court for
the big event this week-end. Queen (seated) is Laura Lee
Sumner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C Sumner; and princesses
are Carol Tholberg (left), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Tholberg, and Shirley Carlson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Hartle.
Hounds Abandon Ship as Hunter
Takes Unscheduled Wild Ride
ber of the Order of Eastern Star,
and was a member of Phi Lamb
da Theta, national honorary sor
ority, at the University of Wis
consin. She had served as pres
ident of the Morrow County Tu
berculosis and Health associat
ion for several years, was a
member of the Rhea Creek
Grange and a member of the
Presbyterian church in Reeds
burg, Wise. She had written sev
eral articles for national edu
cational publications.
Survivors include the hus
band, Mr. Weatherford; son
Billy, 16, student at Heppner
High school; daughter, Karla
Kristin, 10; and two cousins, Mrs.
Walter (Kitty) Peavy, McMinn
ville; and Martin Nelson, Fond
du Lac, Wise.
Joan Healy Named
Queen for Game
Joan Healy, 8-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Healy
of Butter Creek, has been selec
ted by a Shrine committee as
queen for the Shrine All-Star
football game which will be in
Pendleton August 24, according
to Larry Cook of Heppner, rajah
for the Wheeler-Gilliam county
Shrine club.
Joan will be crowned as queen
at ceremonies in the Masonic
hall, Heppner, Saturday night,
May 4, Cook said. Pictures and
publicity will follow in the pro
motion of the annual big game.
ner and Lexington, a protect
that will take about 10 days.
The corner near the Halvorsen
place, about two miles north of
lone, scene of a number of fatal
accidents, one of which claimed
four lives early this year, will
be widened and improved, Smit
ton said. Because of the fact that
a telephone line runs at the top
of the bluff above and the rail
road track is near the other
side, the project will pose con
siderable problem, the superin
tendent said. However the
rocky cliff will be cut down to
widen the curve.
Delegations from the county,
led by Judge Oscar rtetersoh,
have appeared at meetings of the
highway commission to urge im
provement of the highway.
Carl McDaniel, government
hunter, had an unexpected
wild ride down a hillside over
rough terrain in his Jeep Wed
nesday after a bar that holds
the clutch and brakes broke.
He suffered bruises and skin
ned hands in the process but
after treatment by a doctor,
came back to spend the rest
of the day looking for his two
hounds who "abandoned ship"
during the rough going.
McDaniel was hunting coy
otes in the area of McElil
gott's place and was in the
process of turning the Jeep
around at the top of the steep
hillside when the failure came.
Figuring that he was going
too fast to turn, he headed
straight down the hill, boun
cing and jouncing at a high
rate of speed and out of con
trol except for steering. He
rode 'er out across two creek
banks but one of the hounds
in the pickup bed of the rig
came hurtling . through the
back window, and bounded
on top of McDaniel beforo
crashing into the windshield
then he hied himself out the
door and across country on
foot. The other followed.
McDaniel's rig crashed into
a hillside on the other side,
and for a few minutes he
nursed his Injuries, which con
sisted of a bruised head, bruis
es on both legs and skinned
hands. He was treated by a
doctor but refused to go to the
hospital and was back afield
Thursday.
One of the fugitive hounds
appeared at the Don McEUl
gott place and the other one
was recovered at the Ilershal
Townsends.
The coyotes, at last report,
were still living happily but
perhaps not ever after. '
"The reason that I didn't get
hurt worse," said Carl, "was
because the main bump was
on my hard head."
Cleaning Up? You
May Win $10 Prize
If you are among the those
who have been doing or are
planning to do considerable
work in your yard and garden
this week, you might as well
register with the possibility
of winning a $10 prize.
This amount is offered by
the Chamber of Commerce to
the one showing the best job
of Improving on his place dur
ing this Cleanup Week, which
has been proclaimed as such
by Mayor Al Lamb.
Participants must register
with Randall Peterson at Pet
erson's Jewelers by tomorrow
(Friday) to be eligible for
judging.
Band Carnival Set For Saturday Night
Committees are working in
high gear to put the finishing
touches on details of the Band
Carnival to be Saturday night
at the fair pavilion. The evening
will lead off with supper served
at 5:30 with band music during
the dinner hour to be furnished
by the Honor Band.
The "Gay-Way" will open at
6:30 with fish ponds, guessing
games, fish bowl game, Country
Store, Dunk-Tank, bingo, dart
throw, cork guns and others de
signed to please all ages.
Drawings for the door nrizes
will be made throughout the
evening and winners must be
present to win. Drawings for the
Marlin Lever-Matic .22 rifle and
chaise lounge wlil be made late
in the evening and the winners
need not be present to win.
Menu for the supper Is chicken
and noodles, chili, salad, sand
wiches, pie or cake and coffee.
The meal will be served cafe
teria style.
All proceeds from the carnival
are used to purchase band uni
forms and to send deserving
band students to a 4-weeks sum
mer school at WSU.
Public is Invited
To lone High Prom
I he public is invited to the
lone High school Drom to be
held in the old gymnasium at
lone Saturday nieht. Judv Shpr-
er of the junior class announces.
it will start at 9 p.m., giving
those wishing to attend the band
carnival in Heppner a chance to
do so.
'No' Vote Swamps
Budget
Morrow County School district
R-l's 1963-64 budget, calling for
more than $1 million in general
fund expenditures, bowed to de
cisive defeat in the countywide
election Monday, 274 yes to 697
no.
The affirmative vote was onlv
11 less than the successful 282
of last year when the budget
was approved on the first try
by a slim margin, but the neg
ative vote was nearly three
times as great as the 263 voting
no last year. Thus, some 400
more voted this year than at
the election last year.
Only one area Boardman
voted in favor of the budget. It
lost by a whisker in Heppner,
145 to 148. lone snowed It under
30 to 191, as did Irrigon, 20
to 179.
In Lexington the count was
14 yes, 78 no; Hardman-Ruggs,
11 yes, 49 no; and Pine City,
7 yes, 12 no.
The budget election was on
the matter of approving the
$554,410 over the 6 percent limi
tation. At a special school board
meeting Monday night, a motion
was approved to call the budget
committee together again to
consider possible adjustments
that could he made prior to
resubmission of the budget to the
voters. No date was specified for
the meeting and no date has
been considered for a second
vote.
Board members said that they
would like to have the public
express to them where they
would like to have cuts made.
Defeat of the budget was
nothing new in Morrow county.
Since the formation of the ad
ministrative district, it has gen
erally had a stormy time. In
19C1 It required three votes be
fore it was approved by the
people, and ft took two votes
in 1959. Last year's election
gave it the slim 22-vote margin.
At the meeting Monday night,
the board also voted to author
ize a contract with the U. S.
Army Corps of Engineers on the
Riverside High school relocation,
provided certain amendments
were made In the contract doc
ument. The board asked to elim
inate two exhibits in the con
tract, one of which locates the
school in the townsite of Board
man and the other which shows
a general floor plan of the
building.
The board also authorized
purchase of 31 acres of land
from the Northern Pacific Rail
road for a school site In the
Boardman townsite at $100 per
acre, although residents of Irri
gon had appeared to request
that the board not take any
action until after July 1. The
motion did not specify what the
site would be used for whether
it would be for the Riverside
High school or for an elementary
school location.
Miss Spring and her princess
es will ride in a convertible, and
new cars will be a part of the
parade lineup. Heppner High's
drill team will take part. Others
who wish to enter boats, trucks
or anything that contributes to
the spring theme are Invited to
do so. A city fire truck will also
be in the parade. Boy Scouts will
act as flag bearers at the head of
the parade.
Following the parade, will
come the competition between
Mayors Mervln (Red) Leonard of
Lexington, Charles O'Connor of
lone and Al Lamb of Heppner.
The three will engage In a straw
hat tossing contest to see who
can come closest to a bullseye
in the center of a circle. Each
will get two practice tosses,
and the third throw will be the
counting pitch. Winner will re
ceive a new hat to start the
Straw Hat Season.
It Is understood that several
In the younger generation have
been working with frogs for the
past few days to take part In
the frog jumping contest that
will come immediately after the
straw hat contest. Winner will
be the owner of the frog who
goes the longest distance In
three jumps, and cash prizes are
offered.
Free ice cream will bo given
to all kids dressed up for the
parade, courtesy of Hager's
Dairy and Morrow County
Creamery, Peterson said.
There will be free parking
throughout the day Saturday,
and free breakfast Saturday Is
offered at Central Market In a
promotion by the store there.
Other stores have sales starting,
and still others have special bar
gain buys for the week-end.
Completing the busy day of
fun will be the band carnival
at the fair pavilion which starts
with supper at 5:30. Gayway
opens at 6:30.
April Sets Mark
In Moisture Here
With six days yet to go In
the month, a record amount of
moisture already has been meas
ured for April, according to Leon
ard Gilliam, weather observer.
Through Wednesday, April 24,
the total stood at 3.29 Inches,
topping the former record of
3.08 inches set in 1920.
Heavy wet snow and consis
tent rainfall during the week of
April 13 to 20 accounted for most
of the month's total.
Temperatures and precipita
tion during the past week were:
HI Low Prec.
Thursday 52 37 .06
Friday 49 32 .24
Saturday 46 32 .69
Sunday 49 36
Monday 58 34
Tueday 59 32
Wednesday 59 37