4-H, FFA Youth Score Heavily In Fair Events
Everyone was a winner at the
recent 4-H and FFA activities
of the Morrow County Fair. A
few were given special recog
nition, . however, for outstanding
efforts and exhibits at the an
nual awards presentation, pre
ceding the livestock auction sale.
Those" honored at that time
included: All-Around Grand
Champion Livestock Showman,
Roland Ekstrom, lone. Roland
was chosen for this award after
having won the senior beef show
manship contest and judged
grand champion beef showman
competing with intermedi ate
beef showman, Steve Pettviohn
and junior beef showman, John
Harris.
Champion Dairy showman was
Barbara Bloodsworth who won
as an intermediate and showed
against junior dairy showman,
Jim Bloodsworth, and senior
dairy showman, Terryl Ann
Greenup.
Winning the intermed late
sheep showmanship contest was
Maureen Doherty. She was cho
sen champion dairy showman
over junior sheep shoujman, Pattl
Healy, and senior showman, Ed
French.
Steve Pettyjohn, also winner of
the intermediate beef showman
ship contest, was chosen as
champion swine showman over
junior showman, Larry Petty
john, and senior showman, Mit
chell Ashbeck. He was selected
as reserve Ail-Around Grand
Champion showman.
Trophies provided for the jun
ior showman were by Jordan
Elevator; intermediate showman,
by Lexington Oil Co-op; and sen
ior showman by Morrow County
Grain Growers.
In the FFA showmanship con
tests, Kenneth Wright, Heppner,
was grand champion showman
with his sheep, with Dean Rob
inson as reserve champion show
man. Trophies were also presented
at this time to junior and senior
winners of the 4-H livestock jud
ging contest. The junior contest
was won by Steve Pettyjohn, re
ceiving the trophy provided by
Ford's Tire Service, with senior
winner, Kenneth Wright, being
presented the Wes' Richfield
plaque.
Teams to represent Morrow
Condon Meat Co.
Custom Killing and
Curing
Custom Cutting and
Wrapping
Phone 384-2261
After Hours Call
Condon 384-3389
Warren Morgan-Frank Payne
county at State Fair were selec
ted from scores from this contest
and three others held during the
year, n the livestock judging
team will be Dale Van Blokland,
Keneth Wright, and David Hall,
all of the Rhea Creek Livestock
club. A dairy judging team will
be made up of Sue Greenup,
Maureen and Martha Doherty.
Grand champion shownn,
Roland Ekstrom, went on to win
several other awards: the grand
champion beef showman, pre
sented by Ekstrom Farm Chem
icals, the champion Hereford
awards, presented by Herbert
Ekstrom and Sons, as well as a
chenille livestock award pre
sented by Joe Hay for champion
fat steer.
Other winners in these awards
were champion Guernsey heifer,
Terryl Ann Greenup; champion
market hogs, Cherilyn Smouse,
and champion market lamb,
Nancy Doherty. Several new
awards were presented this year.
Among them were one for the
best 4-H beef breeding herd, pre
sented by Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Wright, to Mitchell Ashbeck of
Echo.
John Wagenblast won the best
Polled Hereford exhibit award,
presented by Don Robinson,
Heppner, with his FFA project
of Polled Herefords. Contributing
toward this award were a grand
champion bull, grand champion
female and first place cow and
calf in the FFA beef exhibits.
The Oregon Poll-ettes award,
new this year, presented by the
Oregon Polled Hereford Auxil
iary, went to Maureen Doherty
with the top 4-H Polled Here
ford market animal exhibit and
to her brother, Tony, with the
same type exhibit in FFA.
A new contest this year was
herdsmanship, which was jud
ged during the entire fair. Clubs
were judged on exhibitor's ap
pearance, cooperation and team
work, courtesy, conduct, and
friendliness, work done by 4-H
members, animals clean and
comfortable, regular feeding and
care, securely tied, bedding, al
leys, stalls and pens clean, food
and equipment and stall cards.
The rotating trophy, provided by
the Blackhorse Livestock club
was won by the Rhea Creek Live
stock club. Herds were judged
separately with Rhea Creek
taking first in beef; Buttercreek
Junction Livestock club, first in
swine; Blackhorse Livestock club,
first in sheep, and the Hoof and
Horn Livestock club, first in
dairy. The contest created a lot
of competition and everyone re
marked on the cleanliness of the
barns as a result of this contest.
The annual pig scramble, an
event preceding the livestock
auction sale, was a big attrac
tion again with seven boys and
girls catching pigs, which will
be raised as 4-H projects during
the year. Winning pigs in the
scramble and required to exhibit
HERE'S A LESSON
THAT'S EASY TO LEARN,
EASY TO FORGET, BUT
NEVER FORGOTTEN IF
LEARNED TH E HARD WAY
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. . It's the care around small children, how to
to guard against death or injury from that modem
monster, the carl
But You Will Never Forget
If you are responsible for a child's death or injury.
Ifs too dear a lesson, so lefs keep it a constant
rule to drive with extra caution where children
might play in the streets, run across them, or ride
bicycles in front of you.
C. A. Ruggles
INSURANCE AGENCY
P. . Box 247. Heppner
Ph. 676-9625
them at the 1964 show were Bill
and Gregory Greenup, Deniece
Bloodsworth, Gary Mun k e r s,
Stephen Lane, Sharon Witherrite,
and George Peck.
Bidding was active and prices
good at the annual 4-H and FFA
livestock sale. Selling were 2S
hogs, 19 sheep, 17 beef, and 1
dairy heifer. Price for grand and
reserve champion animals were
up from last year with the ex
ception of Iambs. Last year's
grand champion sold for $1 a
pound, this year the grand cham
pion exhibited by Nancy Doherty
was purchased by Northwest
Livestock commission for 65c.
Reserve champion lamb, shown
by Teresa Harshman purchased
by Turner, Van Marter and Bry
ant, sold for 47c. The average
price of the sale was 31c per
pound.
FFA grand champion lamb,
exhibited by Kenny Wright and
purchased by Dick Wilkinson for
49c a puon'd, was donated for
resale to the Extension Emer
gency Fund. Purchased by Ran
dall Martin the lamb was sold
again to Tad Miller and the lone
Branch, Bank of Eastern Oregon
with proceeds to go to the 4-H
Club Council.
Grand champion Yorksh i r e
market hog exhibited by Cher
ilyn Smouse, sold to Ekstrom
Farm Chemicals for 36c a pound,
Allyn Witherrite's reserve cham
pion Landrace brought 34c sell
ing to Inez Irwin.
Terry Ann Greenup sold a
Tillamook Dairy Heifer to Don
Pointer for $200.
Morrow County Grain Growers
were big buyers again this year,
purchasing the grand champion
4-H and FFA steers. They have
been repeat buyers of the grand
champion for many years and
this year bought 6 of the 17
steers as well as 2 hogs.
The FFA grand champion steer
shown by Tony Doherty brought
37c.
A new buyer this year was
Central Market who bought the
4-H Reserve Champion shown by
Maureen Doherty for 37c a
pound.
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. August 29, 1963
Irrigon Teaching
Staff Complete;
To Start Tuesday
By LaVELLE PARTLOW
IRRIGON School will com
mence at A. C. Houghton Ele
mentary on Tuesday, September
3, 8:30 a.m., with the following
staff: Principal, Mick Tolar; 1st
grade teacher, Mrs. Leon Bent
ley; 2nd grade, Mrs. Harold
Gugle; 3rd grade, Mrs. Ellen
Caudle; 4th grade, Mrs. Helen
Stitzel; 5th grade, Mrs. Floyd
Hobbs; 6th grade, Ted Talbott;
7th grade and Girls' Physical
Education, Mrs. Robert Smith;
8th grade and coach, Myron
Riddle; Band and Chorus, Al
Reeves.
Cooks for the year are Mrs.
Earl Isom and Mrs. Lloyd Cooley.
Custodians are Lloyd Cooley, and
Don Adams, substituting for Earl
Sanders, during his illness. Bus
drivers are Don Adams and Mrs.
Bill Lesley. Mrs. Vernon Stewart
has been hired as the school
secretary.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Rosen
crants and Dianna of Portland,
stayed overnight at the Albert
Partlow residence Friday even
ing. Mr. and Mrs. Rosencrants
left Saturday morning for Tol
gate and Wallowa Lake, and
Dianna remained in Irrigon for
the week.
Mrs. Bill Lesley is convales
cing at her home after recently
undergoing surgery at the Pen
dleton Community Memor i a 1
hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Elgin re
turned to Irrigon Friday morn
ing after a 2-week vacation in
Iowa. While in Salem, Iowa, they
helped celebrate the 89th birth
day of Mrs. Elgin's father, L. E.
Conard. They were joined there
by a sister of Mrs. Elgin, Mrs.
Kenneth Postel of Detroit, Mich.
They visited many relatives of
Mrs. Elgin in Salem, and visitea
Elgin's folks, Mr. and Mrs.
George G. Elgin in Burlington,
Iowa.
Daughter Born to DeChands
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil DeChand
are parents of a baby daughter,
Cheryl Luann, born August 10 at
Good Shepherd hospital. Cheryl
weighed 7 lb., 5 oz., and has
2 brothers and 2 sisters. Maternal
grandfather is Rollie Stickley
and paternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Ed DeChand.
Darwin Christiansen is spend
ing 3 weeks in Prosser, staying
with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hetzer
and family.
Misses Sharon Franke and
Janice Parker, employed in
Seattle at the Teamsters Wel
fare Office and Retail Clerks
Union 1105, respectively, spent
the week-end in Irrigon with
their folks, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Franke and family and Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Parker. The girls
will return to Seattle Sunday
evening, and plan to enter
Aeuerwalds Business Coll e g e
September 9 where Miss Franke
will take a secretarial course,
and Miss Parker will study Court
Reporting.
Myron Riddle, graduate of
Buena Vista College in Iowa,
has been hired as 8th grade
teacher and coach at A. C.
Houghton Elementary.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hobbs,
Vicky, Byron and Jyl left Thurs
day for Tacoma, Wn., for a few
days visit with Mr. and Mrs.
L. B. Dexter and family,
week in Pendleton with his sis
Howard Califf is spending a
ter, Mrs. Kenneth Edwards and
family.
Rev. George Hash, pastor of
the Irrigon Baptist church, and
a Hermiston school teacher, has
completed his summer school
classes, and will resume his pas
toral duties.
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