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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE , ORE Gar Swanson Chosen Morrow's 80th Year Number 14 Conservation Man of the Year HEPPNER A complete strip-cropping pro gram on 1920 acres of crop land has brought Garland Swanson of lone the title of 1963 Conser vation Man of the Year for Mor row county. The selection will be announ ced officially at the annual meeting of the county Wheat Growers association tues day night, June 11, at the Lexington Grange hall at 8 p.m. Ralph McEwen, new admini trator of the Oregon Wheat Com mission, will be the principal speaker at the meeting and will discuss foreign wheat markets in his talk. Paul Tews, president, is in charge of the meeting. Swanson was selected as the Conservation Man for 1963 by a committee composed of Bob Jep sen, lone, chairman; Elmer Palmer of Eightmile, 1962 win ner of the conservation title; Raymond Lundell, representing the soil conservation district; Tews, as representative of the ASCS; Nels Anderson, county agent; and Ralph Richards, soil conservationist, the latter two being ex -officio members. After operating a grain buying business in 1933 that was started by his father, Swanson began operation of his first farm in 1938, and it has been enlarged to the present size. Interest in farming came nat urally for Gar since his father interspersed farming ventures with the grain buying business. The father, John Emil Swanson, operated the Farmers Elevator Co. in lone, and became the first manageT of Morrow County Grain Growers when it started in June, 1930. Gar, who at various times was also in the farm machinery bus iness and had the Standard Oil wholesale business in lone, built elevators on the east end of lone and sold them in 1946 to Archer Daniels Midland Co., which la ter sold them to the Morrow County Grain Growers. Swanson's wheat field south of lone, 1200 acres in all, presents a beautiful picture of strip cropping with 26 strips carefully established, each 203 feet wide. They are designed to fit his farm implements so that there is no wasted motion. The strips are a mile and a half long. In addition to providing ease of operation, the strips offer fire protection by interspersing the fallow strips with strips of grain. The straight edges took some care to achieve with Gar finally using the ingenious method of sighting with a telecsope rifle to set stakes in a straight line. This ingenuity characterizes htf 1963 Conservation ' Man of the Year. He built the first hyd-raulically-controlled hitch for drilling wheat on steep land, and he was one of the first to use a weeder with penetrating shovels for making stubble mulch and used the disk plow before turning to the more mod ern implements for making trashy fallow. "I have never moldboard plow ed an acre in my life," he de clared. Gar built his own air com pressor to operate greasing equipment, and uses the same compressor to fill tractor fuel tanks. Other implements about the operation show the inventive ness used in changing them to fit his specific needs. Another interesting conserva tion practice is that of construc tion of six silt retaining dams to prevent deep soil erosion and make possible the strip cropping of this entire field. More than 500 hours were spent by Swan son on his own bulldozer in erecting his silt dams and smoothing up canyons for ease of operation. The result has been very satisfactory. Swanson has seeded grass on 380 acres. This fall the remain ing part of his soil bank seed ing expires, and strip cropping will be .finished for the entire ranch. Some soil bank will be left in strips that will be fitted in to a grass rotation if future farm programs allow. Also installed on the farm op eration are three bird guzzlers as an additional conservation practice. The Swanson family lives in a beautiful home on the south east edge of lone, and it was designed for their family living. They built the home in 1948, and in ensuing years, two of their children were married, Jean Ann to Kenneth Turner, and Lt. Dennis Swanson now ser ving in the Air Force ROTC, to Joan Ingram of Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. Turner live in their home in Sandhollow and Lt. and Mrs. Swanson are currently at Fort Bragg, N. C, after he com pleted a hitch of duty in Viet nam. Jean Ann attended Maryl hurst College, near Portland for a year before her marriage. John, 19, who has completed his sophomore year at Portland University, is home part time, and Jim, 12, has just completed his sixth grade at lone. Although Jim is the only child living at home full time, the big place with its large rooms and full basement for games and gatherings remains a popular spot for the entire family. Grandchildren now have come along to enjoy it, too. The Turners have Cheryle Ann, 4, and Lori Marie, 2, and Lt. and Mrs. Swanson have Michael, 3, and Antoinette, 2. The sons have been a great help to Gar in his farm operation, first Dennis, and now John when he is home from college, and with young Jim coming on. "A fellow would think the kids weren't interested in farm- (Continued on page 8) t A . rJYH ' ;YJ I - Y - -.- - I y k h L -Y , J . VjN; t ,r' --," , . - . ' .1 ' I - ; , ; ;- k , . ' 4 rj' - 4 sis- 3, 4 - 1 5 .....5 ftfc k..-.. -.!,. y vij :...,r assf x..i4 t xf.v$f4 m V ? .- Jr' ' -J YY-Y: j Y T' sas t-d GAR SWANSON of lone, chosen Morrow county's Conservation Man of the Year, holds a handful of stubble mulch on his farm op eration south of lone. Strip cropping undulate3 over the land scape in the background. (G-T Photo) Class of '63 Reaches New Scholarship Peak "What the world needs most today are 'creative individuals' that are willing to tackle any crisis, are willing to accept any challenge, will use their full po tential, and will never stop learning." These were words of challenge to Heppner High graduates by their commence ment speaker, Dr. Henry. Tetz, professor at Oregon College of Education, and former school superintendent in Morrow coun ty, at commencement exercises Wednesday, May 29, in the high school gymnasium. A packed audience of friends and relatives of the 32 graduat ing seniors observed with inter est and pride the recognition given them through words of praise and awarding of mon etary aid for further education A new peak was reached in the awarding ot $6400. in schol arships for advanced learning; an increase of $2000 over what was given last year. Graduates processed in their blue and gold caps and gowns to music by the nign school band. Following the invocation by Rev. Kenneth Robinson, Martha Doherty welcomed those attending in her salutatory speech and challenged fellow classmates to "stand up and be square in the world of chang ing values, being careful to ob serve and preserve the right val ues in life. Her emphasis was on believing in honesty, loyalty, courage and hard work, all ba sic through the years in the founding of our country. A vocal solo, "Climb Every Mountain," was sung by Gordon Pratt, high school principal. Valedictory speach by Miss Ann Jones, expressed apprec iation to faculty and parents for their dedicated help through their years of school. She spoke on "Wisdom is Truth empha sizing the fact that no man is wise enough by himself and has constant need for more wisdom; that every man should strive for some goal in life and is no long er able to live and work inde pendently. "The greatest concern of man is to know how to fill his place in creation," the speaker pointed out. Following the inspiring ad dress of the main speaker, Dr. Tetz, Mr. Pratt presided over the presentation of awards. County Budget Adopted, Printed Morrow county budget, calling for total estimated expenditures of $543,878 for the year 1963-64, has been adopted by the budget committee and is published for the first time in this paper on page 2, section 2. The amount to be raised by taxes is set at $171,674, as com pared with $162,213 in the 1962 R3 budget. All this is within the 6 limitation. In addition, $115, 000 voted by the people as a road serial levy, is not subject to the 6 limitation. Hearing on the budget will be June 28 at 10 a.m. in the court house. On the budget committee pre Henry Baker, chairman. Gene Pierce, secretary, Paul Slaughter, all citizen members; and Judge Oscar Peterson and Commissioners Gene Ferguson and Milton Biegel, members of the county court WEATHER By Leonard Gilliam Weather report for the past week is as follows: Hi Low Prec. Wednesday 83 49 Thursday 77 62 .02 Friday 74 46 Saturday 72 49 Sunday 66 42 Monday 70 44 Tuesday 74 46 .03 Wednesday 67 44 State scholarships were award ed five graduates. Bill Cox was recipient of partial fee and tu ition scholarship to Oregon Col lege of Education; Virginia Springer received an alternate fee and tuition scholarship to Oregon College of Education; Jacqueline Brindle was awarded full tuition scholarship to East ern Oregon College, and Leanne Joynes received a four year part ial tuition scholarship. Ann Jones, through the University of Oregon Development Fund, was granted a $500 per year, tour year scholarship at U of O. Elks scholarships went to Martha Doherty, first place girl winner; Ann Jones, second place girl winner, and Shan Applegate, first place boy winner. Harlan McCurdy, Jr., presented the American Legion scholar ships to Jack Flug and Leann Joynes. Based on outstanding partici pation' in the band during grade and high school years, $200 scholarships were presented to Laura Lee Sumner and John Cleveland by Bud Peck, in be half of the Band Parents' club. A music scholarship of $100 to a deserving student in the music department was awarded Shirley Carlson. Shirley was also (Continued on page 8) WAV, v y, . I , I - j -yl j ZJ " "' t : ifigmijj-mu- ,. - ... :-&mmm0m.t-&- v s "J' I Y ' . VALBY LUTHERAN Church's parish hall addition (right in the picture) will be dedicated Sunday afternoon at a special service in the church, located some 18 miles south of lone. The church history spans 77 years in Morrow county. Morning worship will be at 11 o'clock with pMluck dinner to be at 12:30 and the dedication service at 2 p.m. (G-T Photo) Valby Dedication Another milestone in the ven erable history of Valby Luth eran church, located 18 miles south of lone, will take place Sunday at services dedicating the addition to the parish hall. At the same time an altar rug will be dedicated in memory of Ben Anderson and paraments in memory of Mancell Townsend. Morning worship will be at 11 a.m., and potluck dinner will follow at 12:30 with the dedi cation set for 2 p.m., Pastor Ken neth Robinson announces. Ser vices of Hope Lutheran church in Heppner will be adjusted so that its members may attend services here and then go to the events at Valby. Service here will be at 9 a.m. with Sunday School following at 10 a.m. Seventy-fifth anniversary of Valby Lutheran church was held In 1961. Initial worship service GAD Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 6, 1963 '0-Ahead Given Merchants to Honor Fathers Next Week Merchants of Heppner will honor fathers of the area at their first annual Fathers Day promotion next week -end, Randall Peterson, chairman of the merchants committee an nounces. Father's Day is June 16, and the observance here will be June 15. Special bargains for Father's Day will be offered together with other appropriate attractions to be announced next week. Free Swim Due At Pool Saturday Swim season here will be in augurated with free swimming on opening day, Saturday, start ing at 1 p.m. at the municipal pool. Afternoon session will be from 1 to 4 and the evening swim time will be from 6 to 8 with Tom Hughes, lifeguard, in charge. . f Regular hours of the pool will continue as 1 to 4 and 6:30 to 8 through the summer on Tues days through Saturdays. On Sun days it will be open from 1 until 5 p.m. Season swim tickets should be purchased at the city hall and schedule of prices is as follows: Family season ticket, $18; adult season ticket, $9; high school season ticket $6; grade school season ticket, $4. Man Gets Probation On Money Charge Charles Cloy Gulliford, 26, of Stanfield was placed on five years probaficB" by Judge Wil liam Wells In circuit court in Pendleton Friday after the de fendant had pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Gulliford was accused of sell ing worthless health and acci dent insurance policies in Mor row county and was charged on a Morrow county indictment, Dis trict Attorney Herman Winter said. The judge ordered that he make restitution of monei' col lected on the sale of the policies. Service was conducted by Dr. Erik Nor elius on Palm Sunday, 1886, and the church was formally chart ered the following day with 17 members. Construction of the church building was completed in 1896, first church to be built in Mor row county. The first worship service con ducted by Dr. Norelius was in the home of Carl Anderson, and the second worship service was conducted the following day. April 19, 1886, at the home 6f;?ervices weue f" thv, Swedish John Jensen. After the men had eaten their noon meal, accord ing to the "Memoirs of Dr. Nor elius," they went out, sat on the woodpile and there organized the Valby church. Starting with the 17 members, the group grew slowly and by 1896 there were 40 communicant members and 41 children. i ir- . i nnnrn f JJL II Nels Anderson Gets Dow 5-State Study Tour Grant Recipient of a Dow Study Tour scholarship grant, County Agent Nels Anderson will leave Sunday for Salt Lake City, Utah, to join county agents from 11 western states for a month-long trip in five states. The Morrow county agent is the only one chosen this year from the state of Oregon. On the tour, which has a broad itin erary, he will view various farm ing practices, demonstrations, irrigation projects fertility pro grams, food industries, and agri business. In doing so, he will go through Colorado, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona with the others on the tour. All expenses are paid but transportation to and from Salt Lake City, and this is at the expense of the recipient. County Agent Anderson will be allowed two weeks educational time for the tour, and the rest is charged to his annual leave. The study tour is sponsored by Dow Chemical Co. of Midland, Mich., and was started several years ago. Other county agents from Oregon have been awarded similar grants in the first years of the sponsored tour. Anderson will fly by Jet to Salt Lake Sunday, and the tour begins Monday. He hopes to be able to find some time to visit a sister in Phoenix, Ariz., while he is gone and expects to be home on June 29. Lance Tibbies Due To Receive Degree Warren Lance Tibbies, son of Dr. and Mrs. L. D. Tibbies of Heppner, will receive the bach elor of law degree at the 86th annual Commencement exercises at the University of Oregon Sun day, June 9, at 2:30, in Eugene. Tibbies completed his under graduate work three years ago, and expects to take the bar ex amination this summer. Dr. and Mrs. Tibbies expect to go to the commencement, A to tal of 1851 candidates for ad vanced and baccalaureate de grees will be presented at the exercises. Slated In 1896 the small congregation elected a building committee to erect the church building, and a 5-acre tract of land was donated by Andrew Peterson as the site for the church and the cemetery. The building was dedicated Oc tober 24, 1897, having been erec ted and furnished at a cost of $458.82. While the church member ship was composed principally of Swedish immigrants and thr Swedish to English began early in the history of the church. At the present time there are ahout ?0 communicant members and more than 40 children en rolled in Sunday school. The public is extended a corJ ial invitation to attend the dedi cation services Sunday. rTM J on Bowling Lanes I. Vt t ' f-J''ji NELS ANDERSON Committee Gives City Budget Okay; Hearing Slated Calling for total expenditures of $142,940, the city budget for Heppner for 1963-64 was adopted by the budget committee Wed. nesday night after being approve ed by the city council at its regular meeting Monday night. The total tax lew needed $23,754.00 is well within the 6 limitation, except for $5,360 not subject to the limitation. Re ceipts from sources other than taxes are estimated a $127,878. James II. Myers was elected chairman of the budget commit tee and Alvlra Irby is secretary. Hearing on the budget will be July 1 at 8 p.m. at the city hall. The budget calls for expen ditures of $57,980 in the general fund, $7,500 in the general road, fund, $12,000 in the state tax street fund, $46,360 in the water fund, $18,280 in the sewer fund and $820 in the sewer extension fund.. A sum of $5000 is listed as a transfer from the general fund to the fire department re serve fund to go towards the purchase of a new fire truck. Cash balance in this reserve fund as of July 1, 1963, is set at $3,000. The amount to be raised by taxes is up only $199.50 above the 1962-63 budget when the sum to be raised by taxes was set at $23,554.50. Small salary increases are pro vided for some city employees, and a new floor covering for the city hall is provided under re pairs of the "public properties' section. Expenditures for park ing meters has been increased to $1500 to permit purchase of new meters. A total of 100 will be purchased Instead of the 75 prev- ously planned. Maintenance ol the meters is also provided in the figure. Paint for the swim pool brings about a $200 Increase in supplies for the pool. Under the street department there is an increase from $750 hist year to $1,382 for supplies. This is for creek channel main tenance, Superintendent Vic Groshens said . The city superintendent's sal ary is split for the first time this year in the budget, part coming under street department and part under water depart ment. Besides the chairman and the secretary, the budget committee is composed of C. E. McQuarrie, Glen Ward, Pirl Howell, and Gene Pierce as citizen members, and the city council. Mayor Ai Lamb, and Coundlmen Ed Gon ty, Earl Ayres, Carl Spaulding, John Pfeiffer, LcRoy Gardner and Conley Lanham. Th( budget is published on pages 4 and 5 of this section of the paper. Office to Close At Noon Saturdays Through the summer months, office of the Gazette Times will close at noon on Saturdays. It will be open on the forenoon each Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon. Regular hours wlil be main tained on Mondays through Fridays, the office being open on those days from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. In case of emergency at any time while the office is closed, a member of the staff mav he readied by calling 676-9228, Wes Sherman; 676-5820, Arnold Raymond; or 676-9965, Joe Hartle. ES 10 Cents Firm to Acquire Site; Building To Start Soon A bowling alley is assured for Heppner! This was the good word brought to the Gazette-Times Wednesday by Hank Higglns of the firm of Joy, Iliggins and Henderson of Spokane. Although the advance ticket sale is still somewhat short of the $10,000 goal, Higgins said that the firm is satisfied with the response to date and has asked an attorney to start work ing on closure of purchase of propery for the bowling lanes site behind the Heppner Hotel. "More than 200 persons have signed for advance play tickets," Higgins said. "While this is short of our announced goal, lt is nevertheless very rewarding. We (of the firm) haven't done as much work ourselves here as in other places, but others have pitched in and we want to thank all who have evidenced this in terest." He said that if title to the property can be cleared at once, and no other obstacles come up start of construction on the lanes should be in the week of June 17. The 50x140 ft concrete block building will be located on the site 80x240 feet. "While there are still odds and ends to finish up, the bowling alley is assured," Higgins said. Clint McQuarrie and others pushing the drive to subscribe the $10,000 in advance ticket sales hope to go over the top soon, but Higgins said that he expects to close the sales on Saturday, June 15. After that time lt will not be possible to obtain the tickets that will allow play at the lanes at reduced rates after its open ing. Any money collected for the tickets is to be held in escrow until the lanes are in operation. They may be purchased at Gonty's, Central Market, Hepp ner Auto Sales in Heppner; Peck's Grocery in Lexington; and Jim's Service Station in lone. Denominations of $25, $50 and $100 are offered. Art Dyke of Cheney, who will operate the lanes, is not expec ted to come to Heppner, except for short periods, until at least two months. It is expected that play may start within 90 days after start of construction. New Pavilion Floor to Provide For Skating Rink Work is in progress on laying a new hardwood floor at the county fair pavilion at a cost of approximately $5000, Orvi 1 1 e Cutsforth of the fair board told the Chamber of Commerce here Monday. Arnold Melby has contracted with the board to do the job and the board expects to have a "No. 1 floor," Cutsforth said. Select long-length pecan floor ing will be used over a layer of plastic to prevent moisture from getting through. At the present time, the plastic is down and the sub-flooring is laid, but the entire job is expected to take several weeks. The pecan was chosen as be ing the best for roller skating, Cutsforts said. One man has ap proached the board about rent ing the building for a skating rink, he said. At the same time a ventilating fan is being installed to make it cooler in the summer time. While making it possible to use the building as a skating rink, the new floor will also make the pavilion more suitable for dancing and other purposes. Vandals Destroy Planted Petunias Things were looking bright and nice at Central Market on Memorial Day. Not only did the store have a new coat of paint, applied by Ernie Winchester, but Mrs. C. E. McQuarrie, wife of the owner, set out petunias in the planters In front of the store. The paint Job was still bright the next day, but the petunias weren't They had been pulled up, picked off and pinched so that the entire six dozen were destroyed. This was a considerable blow to the folks who were trying to do their part to make the town look nice. They suspected tha kids were responsible. If not, the fellow could apply for the "meanest man" title. And if kids did it, they weren't exactly little gentlemen, cither.