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Three Counties Join In Welfare Service Plan Three counties, Gilliam, Wheeler and Morrow, will com bine welfare services under one administrative unit next month, County Judge Oscar Peterson an nounces. The action followed formal approval by the Gilliam and Wheeler county public welfare commissions and the Morrow county commission in a joint discussion last Thursday. Par ticipating in the discussion were Eugene Pugh of the State Public Welfare Co m m 1 s s i o n, Dale O'Hara, administrator of the Gilliam-Wheeler county offices, and Lowell Chally, administra tor for Morrow county. Combining the services of the three counties is a new concept in welfare services, Chally said. Primary benefit anticipated from such a consolidation is economy in administration. Chally was appointed admin istrator for the tri-county area, and his salary was increased Sr0 per month above that as Morrow county administrator. Savings by the combining of the services will mean about $3500 per year in the three counties of which some $1300 to $1800 saving will be made to Morrow county. Tiie only increase in staff an ticipated will be a half-time sec retarial position. Services will be available out of offices to be maintained at ileppner, Condon and Fossil. Secretaries presently serving with the commissions are Betty McDonald of Ileppner and Janet Phillips of Condon. men ii-siiiiiimi M1.-..-J - consKieraoiy ii toh i umn im. new pian, tiiany nai.i. mi. ority of each county commission is in no way lessened, ana an actions taken during each month in public assistance matters must still meet with their ap proval as before. Hermiston Check Given to Support Dam Project Trip A check for $.T was presented to the Ileppner -.Morrow County Chamber of Commerce at its Monday luncheon meding by Joe Bums, president of the Hermiston Chamber of Com merce, to be added to a fund to send a delegate to Washing ton, D. C, in early June in the interests of the Willow Creek dam protect. "We supported the dam at the hearing earlier this year," Burns said, "and we are willing to go farther." He added that he wish ed the Hermiston group was In a position to give more because their feeling is that the project will be of definile benefit to the entire area. Oliver Creswiek, chairman of the development commit tit1 of the Heppner-Morrow Chamber and a stalwart promoter of the dam, has been chosen to rep resent the group at the forth coming Rivers and Harbors Con gress that begins June 3. He has received a schedule from Herb West Jr. of the Inland Empire Waterways association for the Congress! listing appointments at the White House, at a House appropriations hearing, Senate appropriations hearing, Bureau of the Budget, Interstate Com merce Commission, Fe d e r a 1 Power Commission, Department of the Army, Department of In terior, U. S. Corps of Engineers, and Department of Commerce. County Judge Oscar Peterson will represent the county at the Congress and Mayor Al Lamb may possibly attend in the in terests of the City of Ileppner. The fund being solicited to send Creswiek is lagging and any sufficiently interested in promoting the project are asked to forward contributions to Bert Huff, treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce, or Wes Sherman, secretary. Mothers Are Guests Of 4 H Cooking Club Kettles and Spoons 4-H club entertained their mothers and some other guests at a coffee hour April 27. We held it around the fireplace tit the home of our leader, Mrs. Robert Abrams. We served apple crisp which she had made that morning, and coffee. Our mothers had an op portunity to become better ac quainted and to learn more about our club. Present were a special guest, Miss Margaret MeCarter. our track teacher from school, Teresa Wright, and members Mareia Lovgren and mother, Mrs. Marshall Lovgren; Kathy Matthews and mother, Mrs. Ver lin Matthews; Susan Starks and mother, Mrs. Charles Starks; Susan Chally and mother, Mrs. Lowell Chally; Linda Cooper and mother, Mrs. Estel Field; Susan Melbv and mother, Mrs. Arnold Melbv: Frances Abrams and Mrs. Abrams, and Debbie Young, whose mother was not present, On Mav 1 we planned to en tertain the Golden Stitches club but Mary Pierce was the only member of our guest club who was able to come. We played a sewing game and a cooking game. Susan Melby, reporter Mr. and Mr. Miles Doris and family, Sacramento, Calif., vis ited her sister and family. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Jonasson. They were here the week of April 22. Each county presently has pro grams covering old age assis tance, aid to dependent child ren, aid to the disabled, aid to the blind, general assistance, foster care and child welfare ser vices. In addition all three counties participate in the surplus food program. 10 Cuts Slated On R- Budget; Another Meet Set (Continued from page 1) right at the state standard with some as low as 21 (in first grade) and some classes of 80 or more. Some in the audience sugges ted that a savings might be made by combining the eighth grade! home economies program with t')at of the high school. Brown pointed out that under the bus shut! If service required to do this. 2IJ minutes of a 52 minute class period is lost, making a "farce" of the pro gram. The trip between schools requires 12 minutes each way, he said. Fred Nelson asked why con tracts must be let to teachers before the budget election, and he was told by Director L. K. Dick that the date for offering contracts to teachers is fixed by iaw. i;n.seoii earner ii.ul pro- Driseoll ))(;,s(.,i that the school budget be inrst submit ed n the ta or early winier so that if it is not approved there would be more time to revamp it to the public's satisfaction. Director Harvey Warner of Irrigon suggested that a serial levy be proposed for completion of the Ileppner high school, de leting it from the budget, and including enough to build a shop for the new school, together with other possible needs in the district. " I feel the people should be consulted more on thuse things," Warner said. Director D. O. Nelson said that to have the contractor come back to do work left unfinished while the building was in construction would "cost double." Mrs. J. L. Barak said that (lie people had no confidence left in the school proposuls and cited the matter of establishing the special services director position as one breach of faith with the public. Terry Thompson pointed out what lie considered to be some small discrepancies in costs for various items in the budget that he felt should be explained, among them six primary chairs for lone at $!)0 as against 12 primary chairs at Irrigon for $100, and a set of encyclopedias at Ileppner for $250 as compared with a set for Irrigon at $230. Superintendent Robert Van Houte said that the encyclo pedias were for different levels of attainment and therefore of different cost. Some of the it;ms asked for by the admin istrators are not set exactly be cause of varying costs, but are "rounded off," he said. Others had matters to bring up in the 2'a-hour session with an occasional heated exchange but Chairman Anderson kept the session well under control. At the midway point, the meeting took a recess while many en joyed a coffee break at the urn provided in the room. Freedom Savings Bond Sale Opens; Quota is $34,000 The second annual Freedom Savings Bonds Drive Is under way all over the nation, accord ing to Thomas S. Prideaux, Chairman of the Oregon Savings Bonds Committee. "With the Nation deeply con cerned over dangerous prob lems in many parts of the globe, and with most Americans much more aware than they have been in years of the importance to them personally of our her itage of freedom, it is hoped that every family in the State with a regular income will buy at least one Savings Bond during the drle period endng July Fourth," Prideaux said. A state wide feature of the opening of this year's Freedom Bond Drive will lie a radio and television production of a spec ial concert by the Eugene Glee men, perhaps the best-known male vocal group In Oregon. The concert is composed of songs known and loved by most Amer ican adults and will be con cluded bv the singing of two old favorites, "The Land of the Empire Builders" and "The Ore gon Trail." County Chairman J. 11. Bed ford announces that while no county quotas are being assign ed for the Freedom Drive per iod, all major cities and towns in the State have been asked to assume dollar goals equal to their last years' sales In May and June plus a small increase. Quota assigned for this city is $3-1 .(XX). The concert by the Eugene Gleemch has been entitled "The Sounds of Freedom," and it is hoped that the Freedom Bond Drive can be climaxed in all major towns and cities in the state by the announcement or quotas reached. QUEEN Large Crowd Watches Crowning of Queen A large attendance was pres ent at the Masonic hall Satur day evening for the crowning ceremonies of Joan Marie Healy, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Healy, who will reign as queen for the Shrine East-West football game in Pen dleton August 24. Joan was presented by Ruth Assembly, Order of Rainbow for Girls, including Dianne Schaf fitz, associate worthy advisor; Debra Young, Judy Jones, Mary Pierce, Janis Baker and Jan Ha ger. Janis and Judy sang their own arrangement of "Around the World," accompanied by Mrs. Virginia Turner at the piano. Escorting the little queen elect was Tom Tuttle and Chris Lasson of tiie Pendleton chapter, DoMolay. She was crowned Queen Joan I by Harry Myers of Condon. Father Raymond Beard gave the opening prayer at the coro nation, and Dr. C. M. Wagner, president, extended greetings from the Heppner-Morrow Coun ty Chamber of Commerce. Bill Isom of Pendleton gave a brief history of Shrine hospitals, and a large picture of Queen .loan was presented to her parents by Jack Saul of Pendleton. John Porter, Ileppner High school senior who will play with tiie East team, was introduced, along with Dennis Herbison, Condon, and John Partlow, al- Taxpayers May Appeal to Boards Oregon property taxpayers have until May 20 to appeal this year's assessments to their County Boards of Equalization. Each county board will con vene on Monday, May 13, for its annual review of assessments and, under Oregon law, a prop erty owner may appear in per son or be represented by an at torney before the Board when it considers petitions for reduction of assessments. Tiie Morrow county board will convene Mon day, May 13, at the courthouse. On the board are Raymond French, Henry Baker and Judge Oscar Peterson. Taxpayers cannot wait until receiving their tax statements in the fall to appeal their assess ments. If they do not know the assessed value of their property at this time, they can learn it i at the county assessor's office. By multiplying the assessed value by four (except in Mut nomah county), they can de termine the true cash (market) value. Multnomah county will use a 33-1 3 ratio this year and property owners there can determine the market value by multiplying assessed value by three. If a taxpayer f.cls the asses sor's market value is out of line with comparable properties in the district, he may appeal by petition to the County Board of Equalization. Forms for tlvs purpose are available in most assessor's offices or at the coun ty clerk's office. From the board the taxpayer may appeal to the State Tax Commission (or, in the case of real property, directly to the Ore gon Tax Court's Small Claims Division if the market value as determined bv the Board is not more than $23,000). -1. y. t " JOAN I ternate, Boardman. Ron Crab tree, alterate of lone, could not be present. The Rev. Charles V. Knox closed the ceremonies with a prayer. Queen Joan attends Heppner Elementary school and is a sec ond grader in the room of Mrs. Anita Stockard. Joan has five sisters, Patti, ll'i; Susan, 7; Mary Lynn, 6; Janice, 32; and Maureen, 2. Grandmother's are Mrs. John Healy of Heppner and Mrs. Hen ry Lazinka, Pendleton. Joan's favorite pastime is rid ing her horse. She loves all an imals and living on a ranch enables her to enjoy her animal friends. She also likes music and singing. At the age of 13 months it was discovered that Joan had congenital dislocated hips. She was treated from February, 1956. to March, 1958, periodically at the Shrine Hospital in Portland. After surgery on both hips early in 195S and in December, 1957. she was able to learn to walk for the first time normally since her first hospitalization. Joan's aunt, Miss Cecilia Healy of Portland, is a former Heppner Fair and Rodeo Queen. Her mother. Kathryn, was 1950 queen of the Pendleton Round up; her aunt, Jean Lazinka, was Round-up princess in 1951; an other aunt, Mrs. Ron (Judy) Cur rin was queen of the Round up in 195X, and still another aunt. Mary Lou Lazinka. was queen of the Round-up in 1961. Out-of-town guests at the cor onation included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Isom, Mr., and Mrs. Jack Saul, and Mrs. Henry Lazinka, all of Pendhton; Mr. and Mrs. Julius Gimhel, Hermiston; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jaeger, Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson, Walter Jaeger and Carl Myers, all of Condon. Rainbow dignitaries present were Mrs. Jim (Mary Ellen) My ers. Uuth assembly mother ad visor, and Mrs. Ruby Beckett, grand chapter mother advisor. Refreshments were served in the dining room. WEATHER Vt " ' ' . I 1 (By Leonard Gilliam) Weather report for the week of May 2-9 is as follows: Hi Low Prec. Thursday 54 36 .08 Friday 55 35 .03 Saturday 65 39 .36 Sunday 02 43 .07 Mondav 62 40 .48 Tuesday 57 39 .03 Wednesday 59 43 .02 Total precipitation for the past week was 1.07 inches. WHERE TO GO FOR BETTER CAR SERVICE FOR ONE STOP SERVICE TAKE YOUR CAR TO Wayne's Chevron STATION Open Daily 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Building Permits Show Spurt Here; Five Homes Start Five new homes are now un der construction in Heppner, it was revealed at the city coun cil meeting Monday night when building permits were approved. The five new structures are list ed at a total of $51,500, and six additional permits for repairs or improvements brought the to tal approvals to $61,900. Two homes are being built on cemetery hill by the A and R Construction Company, being lo cated on Skyline Drive, each at a cost of $13,000. Haskell Shar rard is listed as owner of a new residence in progress at 580 Chase Street, for which a $0500 permit was issued. Carl W. Thorpe is building a new resi dence in lot 9, block 4 at a listed cost of $10,000 and R. B. Ferguson is constructing a home on Hager Street with cost placed at $9,000. Permits approved for alter ations and repairs were these: Glen Ward, 535 South Chase, $4,000, addition of bedroom, bathroom and carport. Lyle Matteson, 575 Hager Street, $200 for repairs. I Don Bellenbrock, 175 North Court, $3,400, new siding, roof, windows and porch. Joe Wright, 160 N. Gilmore, $300, alterations and repairs. Archie Padberg, $1000, garage. Methodist Church, $1500, car port and storage room. The sudden spurt is quite a change from 1962 when not a single new home was built in Heppner. Graduation Dates Set in County End of the school year is fast approaching, and Morrow coun ty high schools are in the pro cess of making plans for com mencement and baccalaureate exercises. In Heppner, the class of 1963 did not have the privilege of attending school in the new building, but it will have the honor of being the first class to graduate from it. Both com mencement and baccalaureate will be in the new high school gym with baccalaureate set for Sunday, May 26, at 8 p.m. and commencement following on the night of Wednesday, May 29, also at 8 o'clock. In lone, baccalaureate will be at the same time as that in Heppner, on Sunday, May 26, at 8 p.m. in the lone gymnasium, but commencement will be on Tuesday night, May 28, at 8 o'clock in the gymnasium. Riverside High's baccalaureate will come early, scheduled for Sunday, May 19, at 8 p.m. in the gym and commencement will be Friday, May 24, at 8 p.m., also in the gymnasium. New City Well Shows Good Flow Heppner's new well for domes tie water supply, located on the Norman Florence property up Willow Creek, has come in with a good flow of water, Vic Gro shens, city superintendent, re ported to "the city council Mon day night. The well was undergoing tests Wednesday afternoon. At the Monday meeting. Groshens said that the initial flow at the well was about 500 gallons per min ute but had tapered off to 231 eallons after the initial surge. The Wednesday tests were to check out its capacity with more accuracy. The water was of 56-degree temperature and is good and soft, he said. HOSPITAL Patients admitted to Pioneer Memorial hospital for medical care during the past week are the following: Claire O'Donnell, Heppner; Gary Couture, Fossil; Betliene Denton, Kinzua; Laur ance Williams, Heppner; Clyde Cole, Heppner; Lota Wallace, Fossil; L. D. Vinson, Kimberly; Harry Coghill, Condon; Jeanne Lovgren, Heppner: Norma Naley, Condon; Russell Stroube, Spray, and Martha Cole, Heppner. Patients dismissed during this same period were: Floyd Jones, Heppner; Lucinda Hudspeth, Condon; Rodney Whitesmith, Heppner; Gwen Randall, Hepp ner. Mr. and Mrs. Arnie Hedman were in Seaside over the week end as chaperones for the lone senior class trip. HEPPNER GAZETTE Council Group To Eye Plans For Development A special committee, appoint ed by the mayor and responsible to the city council, will seek ways to promote recreational and other development here, it was decided at the Monday evening meeting of the council. In taking the action, the city dads acted on a request by Clar ence Rosewall to continue efforts toward recreational development to stimulate activity here. He proposed that the special committee look into the possi bilities for obtaining a skating rink, a motion picture theater, or other facilities that will make the community more attractive. With improvements on the highway to the north, it will be come increasingly easy for res idents to leave to find enter tainment elsewhere, he said. "I hate to see us dry up," Rosewall declared. The council acted favorably on his proposal and authorized the mayor to appoint a commit tee of three, including two coun cilmen, who in turn would elect two citizen members. Mayor Al Lamb appointed Councilman Earl Ayres as chairman, Coun cilman Conley Lanham and Ol iver Creswiek as a citizen mem ber. The latter is chairman of the Chamber of Commerce de velopment committee. Ayres and Rosewall were among leaders in the recent pro posal for the city to float a bond issue to build a bowling alley. The proposed plan was de clared illegal by a League of Oregon Cities attorney just as it was entering the point of be ing formally proposed to the people. The council also considered a proposal, also submitted by Rosewall, to send Mayor Lamb to the Rivers and Harbors Con gress in Washington, D. C, in June in the interests of the Wil low Creek dam. Mayor Lamb said that he would be in Washington to a meeting of the board of the Nat ional Farmer Cooperatives later this month and may be able to serve the additional purpose on the one trip. The council authorized him to speak for the 'city in meeting with governmental officials in the capitol. The councils committee oi three to make preliminary prep arations of the 1963-64 budget composed of Carl Spaulding, Le Roy Gardner and Ed Gonty, scheduled a meeting for Wed nesday night to discuss the bud get. The council will consider the proposed budget at its meeting Monday, June 3, and will meet with the citizen's committee on Wednesday, June 5. . In another action at the meet ing, the council discussed whether it wished to apply for stored water trom the Willow Creek dam if it is completed. The water committee was in structed to find out how much is available and what the charge would be. Consensus of the coun cilmen was that it would be a wise move to apply for some of the stored water. The council went on record as favoring a bill in the legislature that would allow cities to do business up to $500 per year with its elected officials. Considerable discussion cen tered on trailer houses at the meeting and this led to consid eration of possibility of enact ing a zoning ordinance. It was decided to consider including money in the budget to provide for taking steps towards a zon ing ordinance. Roy I. Norene, Portland, vis ited here four days last week with his son and family, Dr. and Airs. Jim iNorene. '3 - CALIFORNIA SURF MOTEL Right Beach Rooms. k Phone. Free morning coffee One mile to city center k Credit Cards Honored 2010 E. Ocean Bird. LONG BEACH n Writ for literature and I, lilting fin motels from coat i in ana epprovea d v.ongren or moror noreu. - TIMES. Thursday. May 9, 1963 Referendum Vote Details Given Information on the 1962 wheat program which is the concern of all wheat producers, is avail able at the Agricultural Stab ilization and Conservation Ser vice office in Heppner, Dave Mc Leod, manager said. For the con venience of all producers, the of fice will be open Monday through Saturday from now un til May 21, the date of the refer endum vote. Absentee ballots are available for those voters" who will not be able to go to the polls on Tuesday, May 21. Absentee ballots must be obtain ed in person, from any ASCS office, and prior to May 16 or five days before the referendum. All producers on a farm with less than 15 acres for wheat in 1964 must sign at the ASCS of fice no later than May 13, 1963 to be eligible to vote. These small growers, if eligible to vote, would also be eligible for price support and diversion payments. All producers should be famil iar with the alternatives and then indicate their decision in the May 21 referendum, McLeod said. Polls will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the follow ing locations: Tri-County Equip ment Co., Heppner; Lexington Grange hall, Lexington; lone Legion hall, lone; Boardman city hall, Boardman. New First Graders To Visit in Schools Visitation day for children who will enter their first year of school at Heppner or Lex ington elementary schools next year has been announced for Tuesday, May 14, according to Hillard Brown, administrative principal. Children are invited to visit one of the first grade rooms from 1:00 to 2:15 p.m. in either Lexington or Heppner. A general meeting is sched uled for 2:40 p.m. in the Hepp ner multi-purpose room when policies and procedures of the schools will be explained and children and parents will have an opportunity to meet the first grade teachers. To be eligible for first grade enrollment the child must have reached his sixth birthday be fore November 15 of this year. Typewriters Taken At Riverside High Burglars entered Rivers i d e High school at Boardman some time Tuesday night and stole eight typewriters with a value of about $1500 to $1600, Robert Van Houte, county superinten dent of schools reported Wed nesday. Entrance was gained by breaking out a window of the building and the typewriters were removed via the same route. The school had 20 type writers in the classroom from which the eight were taken. They were not insured because of the high cost of burglary in surance, the superintendent said. Administrator Ron Daniels re ported the loss and state police are working on the case. Condon Meat Co. Custom Killing and Curing Custom Cutting and Wrapping Phone 384-2261 After Hours Call Condon 384-3389 Warren Morgan-Frank Payne on Suites. the J27 Kitchen Apts. Patios overlooking the ocean Ftm TV FREE! new TRAVEL GUIDE ta coojr, Intpec- IB