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The Heppner Gazette, established March 30. 1883. The Heppnet
Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15,
1912.
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The Challenge of the School Crisis
At the annual banquet of the Heppner-Morrow County
Chamber of Commerce Monday night, Victor P. Morris, dean
emeritus of the School of Business, University of Oregon, in a
talk on "Problems of Development" made the point that "the
biggest problem in development is getting people to cooperate
and work together."
At almost that precise moment, four members of the Morrow
County District R-l school board were tendering their resig
nations at a meeting in the courthouse in the wake of the
Fredrick Martin recall and climaxing a long period of strife
and controversy in school matters here. The following morning
Superintendent Robert Van Houte turned in his resignation
to Beverly Gunderson, district clerk.
The dean, who last visited In Heppner many years ago,
couldn't have made a more appropriate point if he had been
fully abreast of the school strife in the county and had been
talking directly to those involved.
"Most important In an area is the people, not the natural
resources," he had said. "If you have even meager resources
but the right kind of people pushing, you'll get a pretty good
living out of it." Previously he surveyed the resources that are
available here and declared, "You are not shy on important
resources."
Inability of our people to reach agreement on the operation
of the school system is the most distressing problem in the
county and has brought about a split that is detrimental to
our development and continuously disturbing to our residents
adults and students alike.
Regardless of the criticism that had been aimed at them,
and the differences of opinion, the retiring directors served
well. They gave unstintingly of their time and effort in an
attempt to provide an excellent educational system here in
the face of problems that seemed insurmountable. They took
personal abuse beyond that which anyone could be called
upon to bear, and they took it with equanimity.
Progress has been made In facilities and educational pro
gram here despite the adversity and controversy, and this is
a credit to the retiring administration, including the board
and administrator Van Houte.
We ask a great deal of those who volunteer their services
for the school board for our benefit and for our children. We1
expect them to devote many hours of time without any com
pensation; we expect them to find answers to problems that
no one else can solve; we expect them to smile in the face of
criticism.
After his resignation Monday night Dick Wilkinson said,
"There was a time that I could walk down the street of any
town in Morrow county and laugh and joke with almost anyone
I met, but not any more. People turn away from me."
This mass resignation leaves the school system in a critical
situation. After the special election that will be held May 24
an entirely new board will be called upon to take over where
the other one left off. Only the lone remaining member, Harvey
Warner of Irrigon, will be oriented to the problems and workings
of the system and probably few will be versed on school laws,
state standards and other matters necessary In conducting an
educational system of this magnitude.
Because of the resignation of the administrator, Robert
Van Houte, the new board will not have the experience of a
trained person to lean on, but rather will have the job of getting
a competent person to head the system. This will be no easy task
in Itself.
The matter of getting the budget passed will be a first
and primary task facing the new board, without which there
would be insufficient operational funds with which to conduct
the school program.
There will be many administrative problems. There will
be the job of finding teachers and perhaps some other school
administrators to replace those who may leave the system.
Thus, the lot of the new board will not be an enviable one.
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- TIMES. Thursday, May 16, 1963
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THE OTHER day we chanced to
drop into an eatery in Port
land that had 26 different var
ieties of hamburger on the
menu. There was a kind of
hamburger prepared in a man
ner befitting almost every ma
jor country in the world and,
of course, a number of them
particularly peculiar to the good
old U.S.A.
What a great Institution the
hamburger is! Verily, I believe
half our children would starve
to death without it.
Take the family out to eat on
a special occasion and give the
kids the rare opportunity to
choose anything on the menu.
Thev will pass by the most
tasty delicacies and come up
with a hamburger and fries!
You can buy excellent ham
burgers here in Heppner and
that, certainly, is as it should
be in an area that excels in
the production of top quality
beef.
On a busy Thursday we often
send out for a hamburger while
getting the final press run ready
to go, rather than take time to
sit down to a meal.
They have come from several
different places, and it is always
hard to try to figure out which
restaurant produces the most de
licious hamburger. We have
quit trying.
The thought does strike us,
though, that in this area we
could do considerably more
right here at home to promote
beef, which is one of Morrow
county s principal sources of in
come. It would be good to see
one our our restaurants come
out with some extra special top
quality beef features and do
some promoting on their menus
about the excellence of the beef
wc raise here.
There Is a little restaurant in
a small town on the North San
tiam river that features prime
rib. Although located far from
true cattle country, this operator
imports the very best, and his
customers come irom many
miles, passing by a good many
other restaurants, to enjoy this
prime rib.
We're writing this just after
supper after eating a portion
of a very fine beef roast so
pardon us, if we seem to get
carried away.
ONE OF the many things in this
world that is perpetually per
plexing to us is this matter of
water witching. Is it is or is it
ain't reliable?
Some months ago when Vic
Groshens somberly reported to
the council that water would be
found on a certain unlikely
looking spot on the Norman
Florence property because the
place had been witched and a
strong impulse came through
there, I confess that the thought
As Winston Churchill once said, nothing can be promised but
"blood, sweat, toil and tears."
But with the system in a near-chaotic state, perhaps our
people will tend to unite and cooperate. Certainly everyone must
now recognize the gravity of the situation and the stakes
involved.
If harmony can be achieved on the school front as a result
of the recent recall and resignations, those who formerly served
would undoubtedly be first to applaud. But this harmony will
not come easy. Those who have found it easy to criticize will
come to know that it is considerably more difficult when the
personal pronoun is changed from "they" to "we."
Nevertheless, this is the time for each person earnestly to
do his part in achieving accord. The public should first do its
best in obtaining the best group of directors to serve, then do
everything it can to help the board in an effort to provide the
type of educational system that children in the county deserve.
This may be an excellent time to resolve to minimize criticism.
The best motive should be to boost and help.
While matters are now at a low ebb, the situation is not
hopeless.
It is possible to get a new board that will serve with energy
and that will work zealously for the education of our youngsters.
It is possible to get the people's approval of a budget prior to
the legal deadline. It is possible to find an administrator who
can serve the county well. And with the spirit of the people
willing, it is possible to achieve harmony on this difficult school
problem.
It is the responsibility of each individual now to do his
part towards this end. As Dean Morris said, the biggest problem
is that of cooperating and working together. If we can do that,
we can take much of the "blood and tears" out of Churchill's
famous statement as it applies here, but we know that the
"sweat" and "toil" will remain.
This is the real challenge of the present school crisis.
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crossed my mind that Vic would
look a little foolish if they came
up with a dry run for the city
well.
This witching business, after
all, is one of those things that
just don't make good sense. How
can water a hundred feet or so
below ground make a willow
stick dip and dance?
Well, you could go up now
to that spot that Vic said would
produce water and declare to
him that lie is all wet, but you
would be all wet because you
would be standing in the new
little creek that was born from
the well that has just come in
on that selfsame spot. It is a
good husky flow.
The odd part of the whole
thing to us that Vic isn't a bit
surprised. He knew there was
water there all the time. After
all, it was witched, wasn't it?
ONE OF THE young lone men
who flies through the air with
the greatest of ease from the
trampoline has an excellent
chance to set a state B pole
vault record in the track meet
at Bend Saturday. He is Tom
Heimbigner 6t the now well
known HeimbignerHalvo r s e n
trampoline act.
State B record in the vault is
12 feet, but in practice this week
Tom went 12' 3V and was
going to try for 12' 6" before
the meet.
We're hoping that he not only
wins the state championship
but comes through with that
record. He should be cautioned
though, not to make his vault
until after Astronaut Cooper has
passed over. Going as high as he
does there is liable to be a
collision.
TO THE EDITOR
Dear Mr. Editor:
We the undersigned Farm
Bureau members of Morrow
County urge a "Yes" vote on the
1964 Wheat Program, Tuesday,
May 21.
Our State Farm Bureau has for
the past two years favored a
similar type Wheat Program and
in each of these years it was
taken to the National Conven
tion where it did not get out of
committee.
We feel that a "Yes" vote will
provide a long-range wheat pro
gram designed to bring produc
tion into balance with need, and
eivine the farmer, both large
and small, the flexability that
is necessary. At the same time
this program is designed to re
duce the surplus built up in the
'50's. This will reduce govern
ment costs to you, the taxpayer.
Herman Blettell
Norman Nelson
Robert H. Jepsen
Gene Cutsforth
Irwin Rauch
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Soil Stewardship
Week Emphasizes
Future Challenge
By DONALD A. WILLIAMS
Administrator
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
"We Turn Our Eyes to the
Future" is a fitting theme for
the observance of Soil Steward
ship Week, May 19 through 26,
for we face major decisions as
the management of our soil and
water in a swiftly changing pat
tern of land use. What we de
cide today will have far-reaching
effects tomorrow.
Soil Stewardship Week is a
time to reflect on the pleasures
and benefits we derive from
God's life-giving gifts of soil
and water. It is a time to re
member that these gifts were
given to use for continuing use
not just for today. That they
were bestowed on all of us not
just a few. That we all are utter
ly dependent on them for our
very existence, to say nothing
of our standard of living.
These are the material things.
We should never cease to be
grateful also for the richness
that land and water add to our
lives. What greater source of in
ner pleasure and serenity has
our Creator given us than a
beautiful landscape or a rippling
stream? We have been blessed
with much, and much is ex
pected of us as stewards of these'
blessings.
Today we are placing more
demands on our land and water
resources than ever before. New
housing spreads out from cities
into once-agricultural lands.
New industries look for locations
where water is plentiful. Non
farm folks look for open, green
places for recreation and relax
ation. Air conditioning systems
and other modern improvements
call for increasing amounts of
opportunities.
It is up to us, as good stewards,
to develop the potential richness
of our soil and water resources.
Conserve them we must, but
conserving them means using
them to fulfill our needs. Future
generations will thus be grate
ful for the blessings that have
been ours and are theirs.
Land owners and operators in
the more than 2,900 soil and
water conservation dist r i c t s
across the Nation are looking to
the future. They have broaden
ed their concepts to include re
source conservation planning for
community-wide benefits. Urban
people, too, are coming to rec
ognize their direct role in re
source development and are
joining the team.
We have been endowed with
a great trust. All of us not just
a few of us have the responsi
bility for stewardship and to
plan for our needs for today and
the future.
Jim Casoa, Portland, visited
his mother, Mrs. Mary Bryant,
over the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Ade Petersen,
White Swan, Wn., were week
end visitors at the home of her
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. David Eckman, and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ruggles
motored to Portland over the
week-end to visit Mrs. Ruggles'
mother, Mrs. Lena Searcy, Mrs.
Ola Ruggles met them in Port
land for the trip home Sunday.
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SOIL STEWARDSHIP
WEEK
With the fitting theme,
"We Turn Our Eyes To The
Future," the Oregon Assoc
iation of Soil Conservation Dis
tricts will, during the period,
May 19 through 26, coordinate
in Oregon the national obser
vance of Soil Stewardship
Week.
I would urge all citizens to
join with the OASCD and
clergy in highlighting this
particular period as a time
for reflection on the pleasures
and benefits which we derive
from God's life-giving gifts
of soil and water. We have
been endowed with a great
trust. All of us have the re
sponsibility for stewardship of
great natural wealth of re
resources as we plan to meet
our needs for today and the
future.
It is up to us as good stew
ards to develop the potential
richness of our soil and water
resources, for we are placing
greater demands upon these
resources than at any previous
time in historv.
May we, during Soil Stew
ardship Week, make obvious
our gratitude for the richness
of our land and renew our
pledge to conserve our soil,
woods, water, wildlife and
mineral resources.
MARK O. HATFIELD,
GOVERNOR OF OREGON
Medical Course
Completed by 72
The Greenfield Grange of
Boardman and the Irrigon Ex
tension unit last month sponsor
ed two separate classes in Med
ical Self-Help, according to
County Civilian Defense chair
man, C. J. D. Bauman, Heppner.
Certificates of completion are
now in the mail for the 72 men,
women, and high school stu
dents that took part.
The program consisted of six
lessons, in film .strip form, on
radioactive fallout, first aid,
shock, bleeding, fractures and
burns, water and food, nursing
care of the sick and injured, and
emergency childbirth. Th e s e
lessons are used in the county
to acquaint the citizenry with
emergency action in case of
flood, atomic attach or other
catastrophe, explained the direc
tor. William Crooke and Charles
McLean, first aid instructors;
Mrs. Velma Glass, county health
nurse; and Esther Kirmis and
Joe Hay, Morrow county exten
sion agents were instructors for
various parts of the course.
It is hoped that by fall other
granges or local organizations
in the southern part of the coun
ty will sponsor these classes for
their members, says Bauman.
Inquiry can be made through
him or the county agent's office.
Medical Self-Help certificates
were issued to the following:
From Irrigon: Lynn Abercrom
bie, Marjorie Acock, Mary
Adams, Lucille Coleman, Lloyd
Cooley, Vern Cooley, Virginia
Fegert, Alda Graybeal, Verdie
Isom, Ellen M. Caudle, Frances
McCoy, H. J. McGinnes, Marg
aret McGinnes, Sylvia Morgan,
Dalores Pummel, Perry Pummel,
Irma Renor, Juanita Ryan, Mar
jorie Shade, Charles Schriever,
Minnie Skiles, Andrew Skiles,
Ida Slaughter, Joyce Smith,
Stephen Smith, Helen Stitzel,
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Mrs. Annie Smouse, Mrs. Edna
Turner, Mrs. Ola Ruggles and
Mrs. Mattie Green journeyed to
Albany and Corvallis last week.
Mrs. Smouse visited her daugh
ter and son-in-law, Dr. and Mrs.
R. K. Baker, and family in Cor
vallis while the other ladies at
tended a Methodist women's
meeting in Albany. Sunday they
viewed the Ice Follies in Port
land before returning home.
Mrs. Jim Hunt and children,
Marta and Richie of Dufur are
visiting this week with Mrs.
Hunt's grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Beckett.
Gertrude Van Horn, Harvey C.
Warner, Linda Warner, Zepha
Warner.
From Boardman: Bettie Ball,
Delbert Ball, Harriett Bedord,
Ronald Black,, Mrs. Eva Briggs,
Julie Crews, Margaret Donovan,
Sharon Donovan, Guy Ferguson,
Wilma Ferguson, Ruth Flock,
Herrin, Cora Hescock, Barbara
Hug. Nels Kristensen, Anna Mae
McQuaw, Mildred McQuaw, Rod
Miland, Edna Munker, Shirley
Munger, LaVern Partlow, Wanda
Perguson, Bessie Scales, Wanda
Scales, Pansy Seehafer, Carolyn
J. Skoubo, Mary Sledge, Dorene
Summers, John W. Summers,
Richard Summers, Chart o 1 1 e
Thornhill, Margaret Thorpe,
Sandl Thorpe, Teresa Thorpe,
Mrs. Fortune Wagner, Franell
Walker, Dewena West, Jeanne
West, Mrs. Lyle Williams, Mr3.
Jessie Jorden.
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