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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. or: . m irate 0 80th Year THE IIP HA '77TI7rTrnr; Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 16, 1963 Spokane Firm Calls Bowl Meet An organization meeting call ed for "the purpose of deciding whether there is sufficient in terest for finalization of plans for an eight-lane bowling alley in Heppner has been called by the Spokane, Wn., firm of Joy, Higgins and Henderson. The meeting will be at the Catholic parish hall Tuesday night, May 21, at . 8 p.m., the firm announced. It was stressed that it is important to have a good show of interest in determ ining whether or not the con cern will continue plans. Hank Higgins will represent the company and also present will be Art Dyke who would be owner-manager of the pro posed operation. Higgins told the Gazette Times Wednesday that the company would construct a building in Heppner if plans ma terialize. It would be large enough to accommodate eight lanes with AMF or Brunswick pin spotting equipment. The building would be air condition ed and heated. Adequate park ing would be provided on the site which would be in down town Heppner. He said that the company has been instrumental in building, leasing or operating more than 20 bowling establishments in Idaho, Washington and Oregon. In this state, their lanes are in Dallas and Burns. They operate the Atomic Lanes in Washing ton. Oliver Creswick, who has in dicated considerable interest in opening bowling lanes here, said Wednesday that he had not heard of the plans of the Spo kane firm, to go ahead on their own although he had talked with them about other possibil ities. He said that he and his wife are still interested in setting up lanes in Heppner and have been negotiating with a con tractor on construction of a building to lease. Response to a recent survey that Creswick conducted was good, he said. Music Groups To Stage Concert Heppner High school band and chorus will appear in spring concert Friday evening, May 17, at 8 p.m. in the gymnasium. The band, under the direction of Arnold Melby, will be heard in a variety of numbers includ ing march, semi-classical and popular. Richard Clark will be featured as baritone soloist. Chorus and vocal ensembles, with Mrs. Ola Mae Groshens di recting, will add variety to the evening's program. The mixed chorus will present five numbers, and a boys ensemble, composed of John Privette, Douglas An derson, John Pfeiffer, Spencer Sampson, Gene Olson and Roger Schoonover will be heard in two numbers. Another vocal group is the girls ensemble, composed of Pam Cochell, Judy Hamilton, Lorraine Leonnig and Shirley Carlson. Accompanist for the choral groups is Marti Dixon. A special feature in the pro gram will be a piano solo by Mrs. Groshens. Her number will be "Sextette from Luciadi Lam mermoor" by Conizetti, arranged for left hand alone. Admission is set at 75c for adults, 50c for high school stu dents and 25c for grade school students. Tickets purchased for the grade school concert Monday night will also admit for the sec ond concert. Awards Night Due May 22 in Gym Awards Night at Heppner High school will be Wednesday night at 8 p.m. in the high school gym, Principal Gordon Pratt an nounces. At that time each department of the school will present honors and awards for student achieve ments throughout the year. Ath letic, scholastic and activity awards will be given. Awards Night was tried for the first time here last year, and it proved so successful that it was billed again this year. The public is invited. 11 FIRST OFFICIAL photo of Morrow csw 7 .fx U C O a V" t f I appearance at the Arlington Rodeo recently. F rom left are Princess Sharon Donovan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Donovan, Boardman, rep resenting the Tillicum club; Princess Shannon Mahoney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Mahoney. Heppner, representing the Wranglers; Queen Sandra Eubanks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo hn Eubanks, lone; Princess Louisa Pointer, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Pointer, Lexington, rep resenting the Lexington Grange; and Princess Nancy Cleveland, daughter of district. Plans for 1963 Rodeo Already Taking Shape One sure sign that summer is coming on is the fact that plan ning is well underway for the 1963 Morrow County Rodeo un der the leadership of Floyd Jones, chairman. At a meeting earlier this month, details already seemed to be pretty well in hand for the various events, although the August 31-September 1 date is still a long way off and some Changes may be made. Bill Jones has been hired as announcer for the rodeo, a job that he performed here in 1961. Chuck Blalock of Redmond has been hired as a clown and Rose City Sound will take care of speaking equipment. Oregon Barrel Racing assoc iation sanction has been given to that part of the program. It was decided at the meeting to close the Morrow County Derby entries to local compet itors if at least five local en tries signed up, otherwise the field would be open. Other events will be pretty much the same as in past years with perhaps a few changes. In cluded will be the Northwest Saddle Bronc riding, bareback riding, bull riding, calf roping, cow milking, head and heeling, Morrow county amateur roping, Calgary roping, Morrow county derby, quarter-mile open race (non-registered), wild horse race, barrel racing, flag racing, pony racing, registered quarterhorse race, and exhibition riding. Fred Gimbel, Chamber of Com merce representative on the board, has come up with some new ideas on parking that will be outlined at a later date. These are expected to facilitate faster! movement of the crowd at the Dean Morris Speaks; Creswick Gets Award "Good creative ideas are the most valuable thing in the world," Dean Victor P. Morris, dean emeritus of the school of business, University of Oregon told the 72 members of the Heppner-Morrow County Cham ber of Commerce and guests at their annual banquet in the Legion hall Monday night. "They are more valuable than discovering gold," he added. "The whole area of develop ment swings around really good creative ideas. On such ideas you folks will build this area here." The address came after Dr. C. M. Wagner, president of the Chamber, had presented the an nual Certificate of Recognition to Oliver Creswick, chairman of the Chamber's development com mittee, for his outstanding work in that position. He cited his work towards promotion of the Willow Creek dam project, work on highway development and other projects. Another important feature of -TIM County's 1963 F air and Rodeo Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cleveland, same time keep gate crashing at a minimum. Queen Sandra Eubanks and her princesses have already re ceived their outfits for the rodeo and are making appearances at other rodeos and shows as they occur. First publicity pictures have been taken, and date of first dance in the pre-rodeo sea son has been scheduled for July 13. Those on the rodeo commit tee attending the recent meeting included Chairman Jones, Ger ald Swaggert, Gimbel, John Eubanks, Jack Loyd, Wes Sher man, Al Fetsch and Bert Huff, secretary. Main Street Gets New Paying Job Heppner's Main street, from the Main street bridge over Wil low Creek to midway between May and Willow, took on a smooth new black finish Wed nesdav as statp hifhwav work- men gave it a new asphaltie ' coating. The paving job, which necessi tated rerouting traffic around the main downtown district for a time, is a part of the improve ment work now underway be tween Heppner and points north. Due for reconstruction soon are the two Willow Creek bridges and the Hinton creek bridge in Heppner. according to Larry Smitton, maintenance sup crintendent for this district of the highway department. the meeting was the final pay ment of $600 to the Elks lodge for retirement of field lighting bonds at the rodeo grounds. Treasurer Bert Huff made the presentation of the check to Bob Flatt, exalted ruler of the Elks. Fred Gimbel reviewed the work of the Chamber for the year in his report of activities. Included were resumes of the work done in development, youth work, work on forestry, merch ants promotions, rodeo, and many other projects. Text of his report will be printed in the May 23 edition of the Gazette Times. , The meeting was preceeded with a social hour with Bert Huff in charge. After the meal was served by the members of the Legion auxiliary and their Legionnaire assistants, Elder El wood Boyd of the Seventh-day Adventist church gave the in vocation. Entertainment was by Gene Heliker, who played a trumpet Number 1 1 HEPPNER 10 Cents Court is this on taken at their Heppner, representing the Lena (Lyons Photo), Wheat Referendum Vote Due Tuesday Vote on the important wheat referendum deciding on the 1964 wheat program will be Tuesday, May 21, and a high percentage of ranchers in Mor row county are expected to turn out to the polls. Polling places are T r i County Equipment Co. in Heppner, Lexington Grange, hall, lone Legion hall, and Boardman city hall. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. To be approved, the refer endum must pass by a two thirds vote of farmers and ranchers casting ballots across the country. Today (Thursday) was the deadline for obtain ing absentee ballots from the ASCS office by those who ex pect to be out of the county on Tuesday. Those who have questions regarding their eligibility to vote should check with the ASCS office. Other details are on farm pages of this paper. Kinzua Coming For Golf Tourney Willow Creek Golf club will be host to Kinzua golfers for a day of play Sunday on the Wil low Creek course, Clint Mc Quarrie, president, announces. Play will start at 9 a.m., and all members, both men and wo men, are asked to be on hand. "This will be a fun event," the president said. There will be various prizes to be awarded at the end of the day. No joint luncheon is planned for this event. OLIVER CRESWICK. chairman of tht Chamber of Commerce derelopment committee. l:-:. ::'! ' 1. .. - ... J. ;. Martin Recall Spurs Move; Only Two Members Remaiw Four directors of Morrow County School District R-l, in censed over the recall of Director Fredrick Martin on May 6, tend ered their resignations as direc tors at the regular May school board meeting Monday night. Following closely after the action came the resignation of Robert Van Houte, county school superintendent, to be effective July 1. The resignations leave the dis trict with only two members re maining on ttoo board, L. E. (Ed) Dick of Heppner, whose term ex pires July 1 of this year, and Special Election Slated June 22 for Election of directors to fill four vacancies on the Morrow County District R-l board will be held on Saturday, June 22, Robert Abrams, attorney for the school district, announced Wednesday after conferring with Supt. Rob ert Van Houte by telephone. The administrator was on a trip to Salem and the valley. Previously the date of May 24 had been set for the election, but it was found that to have the election at that time would be illegal because insufficient time would be allowed between filing deadline for candidates and the date of election, and also insufficient time would be al lowed to comply with statutes on giving legal notice of the election. The procedure of calling for an election to help work the dis trict out of its dilemma In the wake of the mass resignations of directors Monday night was rec ommended by Jim Turnbull of the State Department of tduca tion when Supt. Van Houte tele phoned him Tuesday. Filing deadline for those seek ing the four director positions is Tuesday, May 21. Those to be chosen must come from the following zones, , one from each: Lexington, Heppner (inside city limits), Heppner (outside city limits), and Boardman. The vacancy left with the re call of Director Fredrick Martin will not be filled by vote at the election. It Is the responsibility of the school board to appoint a successor for this position. The new director must be from the lone zone, and he will be chosen after the new board is elected. It has been reported that Milton Morgan will be recommended by petitions being circulated in lone for the position. Petitions must carry the names of 40 registered voters to be legal. This is 3 of the total who cast votes in the last school election. Some had the impres sion that 18 names were suf ficient, but this was because last year's school election did not poll nearly as many votes as this year's election. Thus the greater number is required. Two petitions already have been submitted for Heppner can didates, each bearing 21 signa tures, Clerk Beverly Gunderson said, but they will have to be re-circulated for more names. One nominates Howard Cleve land for the position outside the Heppner city limits, and the other nominates Ken Batty for the post inside the city limits. Mrs. Gunderson said that forms for at least eight petitions have been sent out from her of fice. They are also available at 11 school offices in the various communities of the county. One of the pressing matters facing the district that of gain ing approval of a school budget may be acted upon ahead of the special election for direc tors. The budget committee, as in terpreted by Attorney Abrams, may meet as a legal entity even though only two directors re- j solo, accompanied by Marti Dix on, and by Laura Sumner, who played a saxophone solo, also accompanied by Miss Dixon. Dean Morris, who has visited Heppner on probably three oc casions a number of years ago twice as a commencement speak er, told of his work on an ec onomic mission to Korea for two years and tied the problems of that country in with develop ment problems in America. "Biggest problem is getting people to cooperate and work to gether," he declared. Empha sizing the significance of good local leadership, he said that an area may have the best of nat ural resources, but with poor leadership, it "won't get any place." Looking to Morrow county, he declared, "Some areas are des perately shy of important re sources. Population is often too great in comparison with the resources. But I cannot say you are shy on resources. Your first great resource is living space Harvey Warner of Irrigon. Those quitting their positions were D. O. Nelson, Lexington; Robert Sicard, Boardman; Dick Wilkin son, chairman for the 1962-63 year, Heppner; and Mrs. Esther Anderson, Heppner. Van Houte tendered his res-, ignation to Mrs. Beverly Gun derson, district clerk, Tuesday morning. He said that he will remain on the job. until June 15, then take two weeks vacation that he has coming and will re tire from the position as of July 1. "In a democratic society, Directors main in office. The committee is composed of the seven mem bers of the school board and seven citizen members, all of whom have equal status on the committee. Since two directors remain in office, they, with the citizen members, would bring the (Continued on page 8) Little League Opens Saturday Little League baseball sum mer action gets underway Sat urday afternoon with a double header at the Little League park. The first game will start at 1:30 p.m., pitting the Giants against the Braves. The second game will follow with the Indians and Dodgers battling it out. To start the afternoon off, the four teams will parade down Main street in uniform and with a marching band of junior high band students at 1 p.m. They are asked to assemble at Farra's Shoe Shop at 12:45 in full unl form. Some 60 young boys between the ages of nine and 12 inclusive will start this summer season of league bsaeball. Also playing during the summer are iarm teams in Heppner, Lexington, and lone which will include 30 to 40 more boys. The League Is divided into two 18-game halves with each team playing nine games each half. At the close of the season 14 outstanding 11 and 12-year-olds will be se lected to play on the AH Star team which will enter compe tition in The Dalles in mid-July, Schedule for next week's play: May 20 Braves vs. Dodgers May 21 Giants vs. Indians May 22 Dodgers vs. Giants. May 23 Indians vs. Braves. Ed Dick Elected Heppner W Head L. E. (Ed) Dick was elected president of Heppner TV, Inc., for the coming year at the an nual meeting held Tuesday night. Harry O'Donnell was cho sen vice president. E. E. (Ed) Gonty was reelected to the board of directors and re tires as president of the corp oration. One driector is elected every years for a five-year term. Besides Gonty and the two of ficers, other directors are Has kell Sharrard and Con ley Lan ham. Carl Spaulding was reappoint ed by the directors as secretary treasurer. The group heard a financial report and discussed the poor quality of signal being received from channel 6 (KGW TV). Only five stockholders, In ad dition to the directors, were present for the meeting. you can go you have freedom of movement." Dean Morris said that the State of Oregon isn't "exactly situated" for great development at the moment. "I think it is going to come but not for a while." He took the new brochure of the Chamber of Commerce, point ed to the map It contains and discussed the "great recreational potential in the county." Standard of living has risen tremendously In this country in the past 100 years, he said, and now "threatens to outrun us." One form that it is taking is that related to recreation. In the United States today, for industry not to grow and change is for it not to survive, he said in quoting an article in Time magazine. "What troubles us is how to grow and in what direction to change." The Chamber of Commerce holds the key point of economic life in the area, he concluded. strong piiblic support is essential if our schools arc to be effective." Van Houte said in a statement. "I sincerely trust that the people of this district will give strong support to their new school board and now superintendent." He has served as administra tor for four years. Director Nelson read a state ment giving the feelings of the four who resigned. Its text is as follows: "Since the advent of the ad ministrative district in Morrow County, there has been increased resentment against the admin istrative district, against mem bers of the board, and against the administrator of the district. "Direct results of this have been the v recent recall of Mr. Martin and the defeat of the budget by a three-to-one vote. "In our opinion the admin istrative district is here to stay and should be supported by the people of Morrow county. "The recall of Mr. Martin was unjust. The recall should have been instituted against each board member and not just Mr. Martin. We,, the members of the board, are equally as guilty of the charges made by the recall committee as was Mr. Martin. "For these and other reasons we take this opportunity to pre sent our resignations to Mrs. Gunderson, clerk of the district. "It is our hope that by his action and by subsequent actions when new members are appoint ed to this board that better sup port, unity and harmony will prevail throughout the county." Although there had been rum ors of possible resignations be cause of the stormy and bitter strife that has marked school operations here recently, and it was also rumored that other re call petitions would be circu lated, the mass resignation came as a surprise to even those closest to the operations of the board. Administrator Van Houte had said after the recall of Director Martin that he would not be surprised if other directors re signed but said alter me Mon day meeting that the joint action of the four coming as it did, was a surprise to him. Wilkinson and Mrs. Anderson were both elected for five year terms last year after previous service on the board and thus had four years left to serve. Wilkinson had been elected for a one-year term In 1961 and then reelected in 1962, and Mrs. Anderson had been appointed early last year to fill the un expired term of Mrs. Elaine George and was reelected at the May, 1962, election. Nelson was elected three years ago to serve for the Lexington zone and thus had two years left to serve on his regular term. Sicard was elected two years ago for a three-year term and had one more year to serve. Dick, one of the two remain ing members, was out of town because of his father's death at Helena, Mont., and thus was not at the meeting. Me was due back in Heppner today (Thurs day). Warner was the only one of the board members at the meeting who did not resign. On the shoulders of these two men currently rests the responsibility for the school system, and Dick's tenure is short-lived because he will be replaced by Andy Van Schoiack on July 1. Van Schoi ack, currently a member of the Heppner advisory board, was elected to the school board po sition at the May 6 election. Van Houte, who has weathered a stormy time almost from the inception of his administration here, said that he is looking for another position elsewhere In the state and currently is being con sidered for two. He served as president of the Oregon Educa tion association for the 1962-63 year and has worked on commit tees of the National Education association. Other resignations may be forthcoming. Robert Abr a m s, school attorney, said that Ma honey and Abrams will resign as school attorneys as soon as there is a quorum on the board to whom they can submit the resignation. Their resignation must be acted upon by the board, and since there is not a quorum on the board, it cannot meet and conduct business. The resignations have intensi fied a situation of unrest throughout the school system. Administrators of some of the schools are known to be look ing for positions elsewhere. The district faces the job of getting a budget passed for op erational needs for the system for 1963-64, of getting new direc tors elected to replace those who have resigned, of finding a new administrator, and of filling va cancies that will occur on the school staff. A report that Frank Anderson, chairman of the budget com mittee, had resigned, published In a daily paper, is Incorrect. He has not resigned and has not given any indication that he Intends to. Attorney Abrams said that members of the budget commit tee probably would find them selves in the same position that he is in, should they wish to (Continued on page 8)
