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L I 3RARY U OF 0 tUGENE. ORE. Marim Recalled; Van Schoiack Wins Election MOTHER'S DAY SUNDAY MAY 12 Free Carnations Saturday To Mothers From Heppner Merchants School Bands, Choral Groups Bill Concerts Springtime is concert time! Putting final touches to ac complishments in Heppner band and chorus for the year are members of the 5th and 6th grade bands, the 7th and 8th grade honor band and vocal groups in the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades. All these will be heard in spring concert Wed nesday, May 15, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the high school gym nasium. A variety of band numbers under the direction of Arnold Melby, will combine with chor us groups under the direction of Mrs. Ola Mae Groshens for a full evening's program. On Friday evening, May 18, the high school band and chorus will entertain in a public con cert, starting at 8 p.m., featur ing soloists and small groups. A special feature of the even ing will be a piano number by Mrs. Groshens. A single admission price is good for both concerts and is 75c for adults, 50c for high school students. Terry Peck will be trombone soloist at the grade school con cert and a trumpet quartet, com posed of Ricky Gimbel, Ricky Johnston, John Dubuque and Dennis Carlson, also will play. At the high schooj. conceit, Spring Concert At lone Friday (See picture, page 1, section 2) lone Schools' annual spring band concert will be Friday, May 10 at 8 p.m. in the high school gym with students playing un der the direction of Arnold Mel by. The beginner's band, the in termediate band, and the high school band will perform. The high school's mixed chorus will present numbers un der the direction of Joe Haus ler. To be featured during the evening will be two soloists, Jerry Stefani on the saxophone and John McElligott on the bar itone. There will be no charge for admission and the public is invited. Business Drop Predicted Price of wheat will go to some where between 90c to $1.30 if the 1964 wheat program is de feated at the May 21 referen dum vote, Milton Morgan of lone, vice president of the Ore gon Wheat League, told mem bers of the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce at their luncheon meeting Monday. As a consequence, wheat ranchers' income will be down about 30 and business will be seriously hurt here, he said. Morgan told how average pro duction has gained from 12 bushels per acre from the time of the 1938 act to 25 bushels at the present time. Record crop was in 1958 at 27 bushels for the national average. He reviewed how the wheat league has been trying to get a two-price plan through for years, being vetoed by the president in 1956 and this time being passed by Congress and signed by the president. "We produce more wheat than we can feed, seed, market or give away," Morgan said. At the beginning of the 1962 market year, the nation had a carry over of 1.2 billion bushels of which will also be in the gym nasium, Richard Clark will be instrumental soloist on his bar itone. Various ensembles, choral and instrumental, also will be featured. These concerts are the only ones for which any admission is charged, Director Melby states. Proceeds are used for paying for pins and awards to be given in the music department and to go toward scholarships. It is hoped that a large crowd will be on hand because an ex cellent program is planned for each concert. The public is urged to take advantage of the "2-for-1" admission ticket. Dean Morris Due At Annual C of C Banquet Monday Dean Victor P. Morris of the University of Oregon will he the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Heppncr-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday night at 6:30 in the American Legion hall, Hillard Brown, banquet committee chair man, announces. Dr. C. M. Wagner, chamber president, will present the final check for $600 to Exalted Ruler Bob Flatt of Heppner lodge No. 358, B.P.O.E., from the Cham-, ber to the Elks on the field lights at the rodeo grounds. An intsrumental group from the high school, seven in the en semble, will present musical en tertainment. A certificate of recognition will also be presented to some one who has rendered a partic ular community service during the year. Dr. Wagner said. Past President Fred Gimbel will review accomplishments of the Chamber of Commerce for 1962. American Legion auxiliary will prepare and serve the din ner, and it will be preceded by a social hour starting at 5:30. Tickets to the dinner, $2.25 per person, may be obtained trom Phil's Pharmacy, the Bank of Eastern Oregon, or the First National Bank. Guests are in- vited. wheat. A "safe" carryover is considered to be between 600 and 700 million bushels. The Secretary of Agriculture based his figures for the current proposal on 600 million bushels of wheat for feed and domestic use and an equivalent amour for export. Of that exported, only 220,000,000 bushels goes through commercial channels and the rest is "giveaway" wheat, Morgan said. Storage of grain now costs the government about $1 million per day, he declared. The 1964 program has two main advantages over the 1962 program, he said. 1. It is a more flexible program. The rancher can overseed his allotment and put the overage under bond. If he has a poor year or partial crop failure, he can take it out of bond and fulfill his certifi cates. 2. It stabilizes the price at $2 on export and domestic wheat. Morgan declared the 1964 program would provide for ord erly reduction of surplus to bal ance supply and demand; it would maintain adequate re serves; it would yield a fair 80th Year Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 9, 1963 Carnations Given To Honor Mothers Heppner stores will give free carnations to mothers who call in the stores Satur day, May 11, Randall Peterson, chairman of the Heppner-Mor-row County Chamber of Com merce merchants committee, announces. Some 900 carna tions are ready to honor the mothers as a feature of the merchants' Mother's Day ob servance. The carnations will be given away at the following stores: Central Market, J. C. Penney Co., Gilliam and Bisbee, Peter son's Jewelers, Farley Motor Co., MiLadies, Gonty's, Phil's Pharmacy, Elma's Apparel, Case Furniture, Wagon Wheel Cafe, Fred's Cafe, Hotel Grill, Humphreys Rexall Drug, M&R Company, Lairds', Economy Market, and Heppner Red and White. Fire Burns Out Ion Springers; Levels Building Fire that broke out while they were visiting in Heppner destroy ed all the household goods and personal belongings of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Springer, Ruggs, ex cept for the clothing that they were wearing and the car they were driving. Bakery Sale Set To Aid Springers In benefit to the Tom Springers, who lost all of their possessions in a fire Satur day night, a bakery sale will be held at Economy Market Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., with proceeds to go to the Springers. Donations will be accepted through the day Friday and until 2 p.m. Saturday, when the baked items will be auc-v tioned off by Bob Runnion. The blaze leveled the building in which they resided, a struc ture owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wright that formerly was a schoolhouse. Wright said that the building was valued at between $8000 and $10,000 and was partially insured. The Springers' belong ings, which carried no insurance, included a quantity of television and radio equipment, guns, cam eras, clothing and household goods and loss was placed in excess of $5000. Springer, who is employed by Wright, devoted part time to ra dio and television work. Mrs. Springer works at Pioneer Mem orial hospital and formerly was employed by Economy Market. Origin of the fire is unknown. Because of dense fog, the Wrights and Wilbur Van Blok lands who live close by did not notice the blaze until a motorist traveling the Heppner-Condon highway stopped to notify them. At that time the building was about one-third engulfed in flame, Mrs. Wright said. It ap peared to have started near the front of the structure. Because of its advanced stage, the fire department was not summoned. A cylinder of pro pane gas was moved away from the side of the house and a pickup truck, owned by Wright, was removed trom the area. Otherwise nothing was saved. Mr. and Mrs. Springer are now living in the Wrights' bunk- house. if Vote Loses price to producer and consumer (in Morrow county the grower would receive $2.02 per bushel); it would prevent wheat acreage from adversely affecting other commodities; and it would re duce government storage costs with 150 million to 200 million going out of surplus. If the referendum is defeated, 40 million bushels of "hot wheat" will go on the market, he said. Should the program not be ap proved, little hope was held by the speaker for any alternative program to be passed by Con gress. He quoted Senator Allen Eilender, Chairman of the Sen ate Agriculture committee and Rep. Harold Cooley of the House of Representatives that nothing more will come out the agricul ture committees if the program does not pass. The referendum vote is for one year. If the program doesn't work as planned during that year, it may be voted out, Mor gan said. The speaker was introduced by Harley Young, program chairman. Thirty-five members and guests were present. the m mw heppner GAZETTE-TIMES 1 rf- - ... i . m ,r 1 1 sir a t NEW STUDENT BODY officers of Heppner High school will have the honor of being the first to serve in the , new building here next year. They were elected Friday after a week's campaign ing for the election. President is Bill Sherman (seated, center). Vice president is Steve Peck (seated, third from left) and secretary is Gail Hoskins (seated, third from right). Other officers are (seated, from left), Jean Stockard, historian; Vickie Barratt, assistant treasurer, Jennifer Brindle, treasurer and song leader (second from right), Stuart Dick, sergeant-at-arms. Back row (from left), Barbara Blake, yell queen, Diana Fulleton, Karen McCurdy, and Ginny Moore, all yell leaders; and Anna Marie Brindle, song leader. Not present for the picture was Pat Van Winkle, another song leader. (G-T Photo) 10 Cut on District R-l Budget Proposed as 'Starting Point' A 10 per cent "down the line" cut of the Morrow County dis trict school budget was agreed upon as a starting point prior to re-submission of the once defeated budget at a meeting of the district budget committee Tuesday night in the Heppner Elementary multi-purpose room. The plan of Roing "down the line" and cutting 10 in every 4- 1 MARTI DIXON Legion Auxiliary Chooses Junior Girls for State Two Heppner High school jun iors, Jennifer Brindle and Marti Dixon, have been selected by the local chapter of American Legion Auxiliary as delegates to the 22nd annual session of Girls State on the Willamette Uni versity campus, from June 10 16. Jennifer is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brindle, and Marti's parents are the Rev. and Mrs. Mel Dixon, all of Heppner. Tlie girls were chosen as most nearly meeting the important qualifications of leaders h i p, character, courage, hon e s t y, scholarship, cooperativeness and physical fitness, displayed in school and private life, as set up by the sponsoring organi zation. They are both active in school functions, as well as being honor students in their studies. Miss Brindle was recently elected student body treasurer and a song leader for the com ing year. She is on the commit tee in charge of preparations for the junior-senior prom, and has been active in class and student council activities, girls' league, and sports. Her Girls State ex penses will be paid by the aux iliary unit. Miss Dixon entered school here this year as a transfer from Medford High school where her father had previously been min ister of a Methodist church. In her three years of high school she has been active in speech, on debate teams, is accompanist for the girls' chorus, band per formances and other music func tions, is an honor student, and is taking a second year German course under instruction of Mrs. W f i x C o 1 ... i ' t I it, n I . J I. ill V.. . w-t - mi nit:" place possible with the excep tion of capital outlay was sug gested by Jim Driscoll, citizen member of the committee. He pointed out that this could re sult in a reduction of some $35,000, and moved that the action be taken. It was second ed and passed without a dis senting vote. Others on the committee and it. , ... f ? ,1 f JENNIFER BRINDLE Ray Williamson. The auxiliary sponsors her as a delegate, with expenses paid by the Heppner Soroptimist club. Through the Girls Slate pro gram, the auxiliary seeks through actual practice, to bring into realization the responsibil ities, rights and duties of Amer ican citizenship, to arouse the love of democracy and sense of freedom. Also attending the conven tion will be Mrs. Frank Hamlin, local auxiliary president. She will serve as an advisor to the delegation of girls. Alternates selected were Gail Hoskins and Phyllis Nelson. Chamber Urges Airstrip Paving Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce at its reg ular meeting Monday passed a resolution asking the county court to use $2000 from its gen eral fund to pave the runway at the Lexington airport, which is county owned. Orville Cutsforth, who pro posed the action, said that the project would be of great bene fit to air traffic and encourage more use of the airport. Some pilots shy away from it because of the unpaved strip, he said. Cutsforth said that the county has the $2000 available from revenue that has accumulated from us of the airport. Number 10 10 Cents some in the good-sized audience agreed that it was a starting place, and other cuts might be made at another meeting sched uled for Thursday, May 16, at the new Heppner high school at 7:30. The meeting was called for the new school in order that the committee might have a first hand look at what was planned in the way of expenditures from the 1963-64 budget for complet ion of the new school. Driscoll said that the $35,000 reduction, while not a sizeable amount in view of the proposed $1,028,000 budget that was soundly defeated in the April 22 election, would bring the to tal below $1 million. Prior to this action, however, members of the audience had brought out many points that they considered were factors in defeat of the budget. Bob Rictmann of the lone ad visory committee listed eight factors that he said played a part in the defeat. 1. General dissatisfaction of the county ad ministrative system. 2. Dissatis faction with the county school administrator. 3. Dissatisfaction with the employment of a spec ial services director. 4. Includ ing a sum for transportation of students in the area of one school to another school in the district. 5. Duplication of trans portation. 6. Capital outlay In the budget for completion of the Heppner school. 7. Failure of ad ministrators to justify the bud get to the people of the county. 8. Budget too high "all he way through." Budget Committee Chairman Frank Anderson said that some of the reasons cited are not in the power of the budget com mittee to correct. Don McElligott, who said that his children were among those riding the activity bus, pointed out that his family would be willing to forego the activity bus. He also said that the cap ital outlay included in the bud get for the Heppner school com pletion should have been pre sented to the people in the form of a serial levy. Driscoll first proposed that the largest item in the budget, that for teacher salaries, might he reduced by expanding the class room load for teachers to 30 stu dents in the classrooms, which he understood to be state stan dard. Administrator Hillard Brown of Heppner Elementary school said in reply that state stand ard for elementary schools is 25 per classroom and that teach er load in the Heppner school Is (Continued on page 8) School Vote Results RECALL Yes No HARDMAN 44 I 21 PINE CITY 12 13 LEXINGTON lONE 74 46 229 45 BOARDMAN IRRIGON 32 121 178 18 HEPPNER 154 324 TOTAL 723 588 ! College Post Goes to Horn; Budget Passes By a vote of 723 to 588, Fred Martin of lone was recalled from his position as director on the Morrow County school board in school . evictions Monday. Five of the seven areas in the coun ty voted in favor of the recall and Heppner and Buardman polled majorities against it. Andy Van Schoiack of Hepp ner was elected to the one board position open to begin with the coming fiscal year, defeating Conley Lanham, also of Hepp ner. 784 to 532. Tile successful candidate, who at the present lime is on the Heppner advisory board, won in five voting areas and lost in Heppner and Board man. Budget on the Blue Mountain Community College, calling for a tax levy of $11 !. 683.25, polled a majority in Morrow county, 682 to 541. In Umatilla county the count was 2,liS,i yes to 1,949 no, making the total vote 3,067 yes to 1,949 no. Elected to the Blue Mountain college board was Brent Horn of Hermiston who defeated incum bent Jack Hodgen of Pendleton, 2180 to 2198. Horn won in Mor row county, 529 to 441. Chosen for advisory boards around the district were; Hus ton Lesley, representing Hard man on the Heppner advisory board; Homer Hughes represent ing Lexington on the Heppner board; Gene Maleske to the Lexington elementary advisory board; Cecil Jones representing Lexington on the lone advisory board; Orville Buchanan who de feated Bill Schmeder for a po sition on the Inigon advisory board; and Ralph Skoubo and Mrs. Dewey West, both elected to the Boardman advisory board on writeln votes. Martin's recall becomes effec tive immediately under the law, and he did not appear at a budget committee meeting, which Includes members of the school board, Tuesday night in Heppner. No announcement lias been made of a possible successor to the position. It is the board of directors responsibility to make the appointment to be effective until next year's school election, and the successor must come from the lone zone. In balloting on the recall, which was main factor In the heavy turnout of votes through out the county, Martin lost heavilv in lone and Irrigon. lone, from where the recall pe tition initiated that charged that he failed to represent the will of the majority on the board, ran more than 5-to-l in favor of the recall with a tally of 229 to 45, but in Irrigon the majority was nearly 10-to-l at 178 in favor to 18 against. On the other hand, Boardman voted nearly 4 to-1 to retain Martin, 32 yes for the recall to 121 no, and Heppner voters sup ported him more than 2-to-l, 151 for the recall to 324 opposed. In defeating Lanham, Van Schoiack ran up big majorities In Irrigon, at 172 to 23; lone, at 232 to 45; and Lexington, 90 to 31, bpt Boardman went solid ly for Lanham, 134 to 18, and Heppner gave Lanham a 60-vote margin, 270 to 210. With more than 1300 votes cast, the total turnout was among the heaviest, if not the heaviest, to be recorded in a school eleclon here. Percentage of voters to registration was high in all areas of the county with the exception of Heppner where the total was less than 50. Turnout in Heppner was 486 as compared with a regis tration of approximately 1000. The balloting brought out more than 300 more than recent school budget election. Director Van Schoiack will be gin his 5-year term of office at the first meeting In July. Martin had served three of the five years of his term, and thus was recalled with two year3 to go. Heppner IV Sets Annual Meeting Annual meeting of Heppner TV, Inc., will be Tuesday, May 14, at 8 p.m. In the American Legion hall, Carl Spaulding, manager, announces. One board member will be elected for a 5-year term and financial report will be given. All members are invited to at tend. COLLEGE COLLECF Van BUDGET DIRECTOR Scho- Lan- Hod lack ham Yh No gen Horn 48 18 II 21 36 l 11 I 32 14 11 l 14 F 10 I; 8 17 90 31 49 I 57 48 40 J32 18 45 106 154 98 94 134 90 45 i 67 42 172 23 98 82 57 I 89 152 I 215 210 i 270 II 304 157 784 532 682 541 ! 441 1 529