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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. July 25. 1963 Erstwhile 'Hiick Finns' Forget Welcome' Job (Continued from page 1) the rolling, brown hills that stretched on and on to the nor Izon. Fred had urged the Galaxle across an open Held to get to this spot and pointed out that it was a favorite haunt lor hunt ers on the opening of deer sea son, at that time sounding like the front lines in World war We entered the timber country and continued to the place where the road hit the Shaw Creek Grade, then went to Cutsforth park to take some pictures, Going on up Coal Mine hill, we mutually decided to forget the matter of making this route for tourists because they undoubt edly would get lost anyway, Having once made this decision, we could conscientiously enjoy the trip for the rest of the way, Serenity of the woods on this beautiful day was wonderful. It was one of those times of such intense quiet that the sheer still ness seemed noisy. We went through the high prairies with their tall grass kept verdantly green by late rains this year. We came to the Ditch Creek area, and veered off to Claude Cox' cabin but found that he was not at home. We marvel ed at the construction of the grain bin cabin of Howard Bry ant and Cornett Green (Fred said he thought they were In together on it) which adjoins the Cox place. Going back to the main "high way," we headed down the creek and came upon Mr. and Mrs. Cox fishing. By now it was get ting around 6 p.m. and we start ed to look for deer. Soon we came upon a sleek doe at the roadside who stared at us transfixed, her big ears motionless. Her fearless little fawn kept right on munching his grass, his hide a lighter tan than his mother's. Suddenly mamma decided that these strangers were up to no good, somehow transmitted this news to her young one, and they hiked off through the brush. On we went at our 10 mile per hour pace past Swale Creek where we stopped so that Fred could put up a Forest Service sign that had been toppled over in a pile of debris. A short distance later we spot ted a pair of doe deer, and then came upon a spike. By now, this trip was concentrated strictly on being a deer-observing parly, and what a game it was! A mile or so down the rond we spotted a marvelous three point buck, and gave Gimbel the word to slop. This creature For One-Stop Service Take Your Car To Wayne's Chevron Service At Heppner Ford 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. week days 7 am. to 6 p.m. Saturdays looked like the monarch of the animal kingdom, as his hide glistened in the sun. Fat and sassy, he stood looking, at us haughtily. In the meantime we had discovered another bucK few hundred feet away, also a 3-point. Finally the monarch's prudence got the better of his pride as we stepped out of the car in the hope of getting his Picture. He beat a graceful lop ing retreat into the brush, just tar enough to be out of sight, but we could still see part of his hide through the twigs and brambles as he covertly watched us. No. 2 buck then took off, and together the pair pene trated deeper into the sanctuary of the woods. Just a few moments more down the road we spotted a forked horn off to the left. He stood like a statue while we got out and took his picture. (If only we had had a telephoto lens this trip!) Soon Tunner Guard Station came into view. We stopped for a drink of water and then hur ried on at our 10 m.p.h.. It was half-past supper time, but these two entranced delinquents never gave it a thought. Coming to the forks of a road, Fred consulted his map. He thought he had been here before but wasn't sure, his passenger waited patiently while he flip ped a mental coin in his head, and then, of course, struck down the road which looked to be the more adventuresome. It was .adventuresome. It had some dandy "pan busters" but the Ford crunched over them I with just a few "ouches!" The road seemed to get less and less as the obvious doubt In Fred's mind grew more and more. Finally we came to a sign that pointed "Bull Prairie" as being thataway, but the driver figured Bull Prarie maybe should be t'otherway. He voiced an expletive or two for the kids" who are always "fooling with those signs." Well, this was no boulevard, but it did have one set of tire tracks showing, so we plunged on. We had to stop and open a couple of gates and then found ourselves driving through the front vard of a lonely mountain cabin, smoke wafting lazily out Is stovepipe. A man and nis wife, sitting in the front yard, looked startled to see a car hove into view, but we continued on ust as if we traveled this route every day, waving to them gaily as we tia.ssori. Another Va-mile, though, and the map came out. Another junc tion. No signs pointing out Bull Prairie. The only sign was that showing the way to "Big Cat Springs." Fred admitted he had never been there at least not since it was a little cat. Resourcefully, we spotted a fire closure map posted on a tree and knew that a tack on that sign should give our location. It did. While the sign warned that this was closed to entry, we remembered that the warden had told us that all county roads were open to travel. It looked like a county road to us, and anyway, it was the only way out. We opened the gate and took it. In less than a mile we Lifesaving Swim Lessons to Start Swimming lessons at the Heppner city pool were called off during the morning hours this week by Tom Hughes, in structor, due to cool temperature of the water. The pool was drained and cleaned over the week-end and takes a few days to get the temperature up to normal for morning use. Those who had not completed their last two weeks session of lessons, are asked to come again next wee to complete them, Hughes states. The final two weeks sessions of lessons will start next week for new students. Also to start Monday are the junior and sen ior life saving classes. Boys and girls between ages 12 and 16 may sign up for the junior life saving and their classes will be held during the morning hours, Those enrolling In senior life saving must be lb or over or in the 11th grade of school or above. They are asked to call or see Hughes to state pref erence for lessons in the morn ings or after 8 p.m. and which ever the majority prefer, a time will be set accordingly. Adults are also invited to take the sen or life saving lessons. With the ncrease in family boating rec reation, there is an ever grow ing need for life saving training, Hughes advises. PUBLIC NOTICE OF RATIO The1 State Tax Commission meeting as the 19G3 state board of equalization has found that the 1963 ratio of 25 posted by the assessor of Morrow County and approved by the Morrow County board of equali zation is above the ratio based upon ratio studies of the State Tax Commission. The State Tax Commission has subscribed Its ratio In place of the 25 percent ratio as required by ORS 309.410. The ratio substituted by the State Tax Commission is 19 percent. t came to another road that point ed back the way we came as being Wilson Prairie. This brought the dawning to Fred. His countenance brighten ed and he was "at home" once more. From there on to Bull Prairie was easy just a couple more gates and we came into the lower side. The lake was beautiful with the sun shimmer ing on its quiet surface at 8 p.m. On this day few campers disturbed its serenity. Not even Ranger Bob Cantonwine was in evidence, but like the deer, he was undoubtedly there some where. Realizing that our wives might be concerned, we rushed on to the next stopping place. Gimbel knew a spot where a doe usually grazed in one of those lush draws. As our eyes searched through the roadside, sure enough we spotted her, then looked for the fawn that was usually at her side. But the little guy was not to be seen. On the highway, homeward bound, we bounced through the construction project until we fin ally reached pavement once more, the first since Lena. In one big meadow we spot ted two forked horns in the dis tance and stopped to give them the eye. Later we saw another right by the highway. Even at close to 9 p.m. we were able to get his picture. Out of the deer country, the driver stepped on the gas (which he was about out of) and the two Huck Finns were home again in a few minutes, weary after a hard day's work routing trips for tourists! We figured we had seen about 20 deer, about half bucks and half does, but no telling how many more saw us. We had neglected finishing the job on the Welcome to Ore gon supplement, but decided we could do that Sunday afternoon. When Sunday came, however, the lure of Bull Prairie was too powerful. We had to go back there with the families. We took the work along but never look ed at it. There was too much lazying to do in the shade, too much puddling to do along the lake shore while the kids fished and went for a ride in the row boat. As it turned out, we were dog goned lucky to get out a Wel come to Morrow supplement at Too Late To Classify FOR SALE Apt. house size Frigidaire. Call 676-9279. 21c WORK WANTED 16 yr. old girl wants work helping in harvest work. Connie Christopherson, Ph. G76-5322. 21-22c (MIBHDfMHIG ra33a!SBni30ir w si-! mm t w 1 GAZETTE-TIMES Second Princess Dance to Honor Shannon Mahoney (Continued from page 1) Just prior to graduation she re ceived the Bonnie WIIpv Inurnal. ism award and won a certificate ior straight news writing. Another of the outstanding Honors sne received was the cit izenship award for the school, ine nrsi one given bv the school. She was a member of the Hepp ner High chaDter of the National Honor Society and was a member of international Quill and Scroll. In the wav of conventions. Shannon was a delegate to the press conference in Seattle last year, was a delegate to the State FHA convention and to Girls' State. She was a orincess of the FHA and FFA Sweetheart ball courts for two years, as a sophomore and again as a senior. Active in the Order of Rain bow for Girls. Shannon is a past worthy advisor for Ruth assem bly and in 1962-63 was grand honorary leader for Oregon. She attended the Supreme Assembly of Rainbow for Girls in Chicago last summer and has attended Oregon grand assemblies for four years. While a sophomore in high school, she was oueen ot tne Rainbow formal. The 5-3 light brunette con siders riding, sewing and cook ing as her favorite hobbies. She makes many of her own clothes, Princess Shannon expects to attend Pacific University next year where she will take a course in pre-nursing. Her only brother, Robert, will complete his college education at Pacific University in the coming school year after which he and his wife, Sharon, will operate the family ranch. The Saturday night dance will start at 10 p.m. and Leonnig's orchestra will play. The Degree of Honor will serve luncheon at the dance. First of the princess dances, that for Nancy Cleveland last Saturday night, proved to be very well attended and a good success. Highway Junction Bid Award Due At Its meeting In Salem on August 13 the State Highway Commission will receive bids for construction of an interchange at the junction of the Columbia River and Heppner highways, the highway department announces. The project is located 10 miles east of Arlington. The structure is to be 258 feet long and 30 feet wide. Completion is sched uled for the summer of 1964. This is one of 14 projects in the state for which calls for bids have been issued for action at the August 13 meeting. Cost of the projects will approximate $9 million. son Lou Gilliam Shows Some Improvement Lou Gilliam of Condon, of Leonard L. Gilliam of Hepp ner, is making "acceptable" pro gress in the Pioneer Memorial hospital after suffering a basal skull fracture in a fall on a tennis court at Condon on July 14, his doctor said Thursday. Gilliam, who was in a coma tose condition for several days, still has some periods of partial stupor but is able to converse nd feed himself, the doctor said. It is t'YniWprt th.it hf will ho confined for some time yet, the Hnrtnr Rflirl and it ia rtnccihlo that he may be transferred to a Portland hospital for special ized treatment. Leola Anne Joynes Gets Scholarship Leola Anne Joynes of Heppner is one of the nearly 150 students chosen to receive the 1963-64 cash awards scholarships iust announced bv the Oregon State Scholarship Commission. She was selected from a field of 600 applicants for this year's cash award scholarships admin istered by the Commission, ac cording to its chairman, E. B. Lemon. It is the goal of the Scholarship Commission to get into college students who de serve to be there but are unable to do so without financial assis tance. HOSPITAL Patients admitted to Pioneer Memorial hospital for medical care during the past week are the following: Alex Huber, Cecil; John Botts, lone; Anna Mc Namee, Heppner; Gordon Stod dard, Condon; Betty Curnutt, Heppner; Edna Hutchens, Hepp ner; Ted Montgomery, Spray, and Lynda Dunlap, Heppner. Those dismissed during this same period are: Danny Marsh all, Heppner; Roberta Dougherty, Heppner; Marilyn Hiatt, lone; Christina Watkins, Heppner; William Adams. Heppner. and John and Lilly Reeder, Pilot Rock. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bruzelius. Fossil, are parents of a 10 lb., IV2 oz. son, born Wednesday, July 24. He is named Eric Ed win. Mr. Bruzelius is minister of the Assembly of God church m tf ossil. Leaving Friday for a week at the beach is Mrs. Tom Hughes and tour children, Mike. David, Brian and Pamela. They will pick up Mrs. Hughes' mother, Mrs. Dorothy Stearns at Newberg, where they will see the Berrian Festival on Saturday. Mrs. Hughes will be on vacation from her work at First National Bank. all this week. The country is ust too entrancing! Npxt time wa hoar nf snmn. one who refers to our county as "sand and sagebrush" we have news for him! 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A passenger, Harold Wiggen of Seattle, jumped from the stalled auto and suffered only a minor knee injury. Peterson, who was reared in the Eightmile district and graduated from Heppner High school, had moved to Talent only recently from Seattle. After leaving here, he lived in Portland and then went to Seattle for a shorter time. Funeral services were sched uled for Friday in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Dobyns had planned to move to Eugene from lone Saturday. Other survivors incude two other brothers, Richard Peterson, Corvallis; Victor Peterson, The Dalles; and an adopted daughter. Leaving for Canada on a va cation trip Tuesday were the Rev. and Mrs. Melvin Dixon and daughters, Marti and Sharon. They expect to return some time next week after which the Rev. Dixon will go to the Indian Springs Methodist camp as a counsellor for one camp period. The Rev. Charles Knox, pastor of the Christian church, will occupy the Methodist church pul pit this Sunday while the pastor is gone. 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