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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. Rep. Ullman Due !Fr Visit Here Congressman Al Ullman of Oregon's sceond district left Washington, D. C, Wednesday on a trip to his home, and will be in Heppner for a visit and meetings on Monday and Tues day, Al Lamb, Morrow County Democratic committee chairman said. He has commitments in Pen dleton for luncheon and an af ternoon meeting, but will be here to attend a board of direc tors meeting of Columbia Basin Electric cooperative at 6 p.m. Time of this meeting was changed from the previously scheduled 3 p.m. in deference to the Pendleton engagements. Monday night, Cong. Ullman will speak at a no-host dinner at Stefani's restaurant In lone, starting at 7:30. The dinner is open to all who wish to attend and no advance reservations are necessary. It wil be $2 per plate, and It will be on a "first come, first served" basis, Lamb said. After spending the night in Heppner, Congressman Ullman will appear for a talk before the Heppner High school student body at 10:30 Tuesday morning. He expects to leave the county about noon Tuesday. Lamb said that this is strictly a business trip, and the congress man will not spend any time hunting here, as he has done on occasions in the past. He is spending about 10 days visiting numerous cities in his district. Willow Creek Project Engineer Goes to Michigan Willard E. Sivley,- one of the Engineers who has been work ing for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Willow Creek dam project, has gone to Ann Arbor, Michigan, after be ing selected in August as one of two Corps engineers in the country to attend the University of Michigan for study on a mas ter's degree in natural resources, according to County Judge Oscar Peterson. In a letter to Judge Peterson, Sivley said, "I'm very proud and happy to have been given this chance to improve myself and my future performance with the government. Getting back to the books is tough, but I am trying very hard to make my study habits come back. My family will arrive next Sunday. I'll re turn to Walla Walla and my old job next June. "I'm sure my leaving won't affect your Heppner Dam report for I think it was in good shape when I left. I might suggest that you check on it every so often just to make sure it is pro gressing. Mr. Neil Meadowcroft will take ver my function on the project. "Before I left I talked to our division office in Portland and they are working hard on their review. They said it would be sent back to Walla Walla with their comments in September. They also mention you had called Mr. Fernald and planned to visit the General on 26 Aug ust 1963. (Judge Peterson vis ited with General Lapsley Aug ust 27). From my talks with them I know of no major changes that they would recommend. "I've always enjoyed the re lations that I have had with you and Oliver (Creswick). I've always considered you as friends as well as business as sociates. I also have a soft spot for Heppner and its need for a multiple purpose dam. I think that between the three of us we have come up with a very good water resource plan. When I finish this education here at the University of Michigan, may be I will have some fresh ideas for improvements on the studies that will take place after you get it authorized." Chamber Meeting Bills Rep. Smith Rep. Jack Smith is tentatively scheduled to speak at the reg ular luncheon meeting of the Heppner-Morrow County Cham ber of Commerce in the Wagon Wheel Cafe on Monday. The organization asked him to come and discuss the tax ref erendum that will face voters at a special election October 15. When contacted, Rep. Smith was found to have some con flicting plans but may be abte to clear them to appear here. He also plans to attend the Al Ullman dinner at lone Monday night. Smith represents five eastern Oregon count i e s, of which Morrow is one, in the state legislature. Specialist Consulted County Clerk Sadie Parrish is expected home this evening (Thursday) from Portland where she received treatment by an eye specialist for complications resulting from a scratch on the eveball that had bothered her since early Monday morning. She was referred to the specialist Tuesday, staying at the home of her sen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Parrish in Portland. She responded well to treatmeitf and expects to be back at work soon. REP. AL ULLMAN Work Started On Anson Wright Memorial Park Work on the Anson Wright Memorial Park was started with a field day called on September 21 by the Rhea Creek Grange. Shovels, ,axes, chain saws and bulldozers were kept busy. Anson Wright came to this area in 1871 with his parents when 12 years of age, and this land has remained in the family since. This year, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright deeded 11 acres to the county for a park, with the community suggesting it be named in honor of Anson Wright. Kinzua Corporation has given a lease to the county of 14 acres which makes a total of 25 acres in the park, located 8 miles south of Hardman on Rock Creek, Highway 207. The Rhea Creek Grange, who first suggested the establish ment of a countv park on the North side of the Blue Moun tains, is supported by several other organizations. A minimum of funds was budgeted by the county for development of the spring and restrooms. Tables, stoves and garbage cans will have to come later by donations. If anyone would like to help with either labor or donations, he may contact Oscar Peterson, Raymond Wright, or John Berg strom. The members who helped on the field day were Mr. and Mrs. John Graves, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Graves, Raymond Wright, Tom Huston, Doc Babb, Oscar Peter son, Orville Cutsforth, Marilyn, Gerald, and John Bergstrom, Mr. and Mrs. Orian Wright, Mrs. Harold Wright, Tom and Dave Springer, Wilbur VanBlokland and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright. New Boy Scout Units Organized Chandler Jackson, chairman of Oregon Trail district, Blue Mountain council Boy Scouts of America, announces the organi zation of a new Boy Scout troop and Explorer post in Heppner. The troop and post are sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The units will be known as Troop 600 and Post 600. Ernie Christopherson is the new Scout master of Troop 600. Eight scouts are charter members of the troop, which will meet each Thursday night. Paul Warren is the new Ex plorer advisor of the post, with five high school young men as charter members. The two Boy Scout units have active and varied programs planned for the coming year. WEATHER By LEONARD GILLIAM Hi Low Prec. Thursday 76 45 Friday 77 48 Saturday 80 61 Sunday 85 53 .06 Monday 73 41 Tuesday 75 45 Wednesday 82 49 Motorists Warned About Crosswalks Chief of Police Dean Gilman calls attention to the fact that motorists are becoming in creasingly careless in their at tention to crosswalks in Hepp ner. He points out that many drivers are failing to yield the right-of-way to pedestri a n s using the crosswalks and em phasizes that the law requires a motorist to stop when the crosswalk is occupied. Violations are often noticed in the crosswalk near Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company which carries a heavy pedestrian traffic of school children. Fail ure to stop for them endangers their safety. The chief asks that all drivers in the area heed this warning and adds that if the situation does not improve, more stringent action must be Sherman Translator Down Because of the fact that the translator of the North Sherman TV Co-op will not be transmit ting for at least 30 days, Hepp ner television viewers will not receive two Portland stations, KOIN-TV and KGW-TV, during that time, Carl Spaulding, man ager of Heppner TV, Inc., said Wednesday. The local system has been depending on transmision from this translator, located north of the Columbia River from Rufus, for reception of the two Portland stations. Operation of the trans lator was shut down this week, and neither KOIN-TV nor KGW TV has been seen here since. A letter from the North Sher man Co-op advised Heppner TV, "Please be advised that because of insufficient public support of our television service, we are discontinuing transmission of the television signal for an in 80th Year THEW HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon, Thursday,' September 26, Farmers Eye Wheat Price Climb Current sharp rises in wheat prices have the watchful at tention of growers in this area, Al Lamb, manager of the Mor row County Grain Growers, said Wednesday. Within the last five days the price has jumped about 10c per bushel so that as of Wednesday the price stood up to $2.17 for soft white and $2.19 on club. Price at harvest time was ap proximately $1.95, he said. Barley is also up to about $47.50 per ton as compared with a price of $40 during harvest. Although quite a number of growers have already sold their wheat from this year's harvest, Lamb estimated that about half the crop is still in the farmers' hands. Reason for the increase in price, the Grain Growers' man ager theorized, is probably the fact that available supplies are quite low. There is no govern ment inventory in this area and that across the nation is being witnneia. Big sale ot wheat to China and Russia recently took a great amount of available grain from the market. Government subsidies have gone up with the rise in the market, and thus the buyer is paying no more for the wheat. Lamb said. Despite the sharp increase in price, farmers are not selling rapidly as yet while keeping a keen eye on the market. Lamb advised the growers to keep in "constant touch" with the market and telephone the Grain Growers for current mar ket reports. He said that sharp variations could come about in a period of three or four days. The price increase is unexpec ted good news for the growers, but a little disconcerting to those who have already disposed of their crops. Wrights Sell 59 Of Registered Stock Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wright of Ruggs made one of the largest single sales last week of regis tered beef stock thought to have occurred directly between grow ers in the history of Morrow county. The Wrights shipped 59 head of registered Hereford bulls to the Whitehorse Ranch in South eastern Oregon. All had been raised by Wright, who in 1961, had the honor of being judged Livestock Man of the Year, and has constantly gained recognit ion as an outstanding herdsman. He and his family have raised considerable championship stock. Hunt Prospects Good; Fire Danger High Saturday is "D-Day" for deer hunters, and mass invasion of local forests and range lands is getting underway to be ready at the crack of dawn on open ing day. The State Game Commission estimates that 260,000 hunters will be out at various times through the season, and most of them will be on deck at dawn the first day. Deer prospects appear good, the commission reports. The buck population is said to be on par with last year in most areas, but down slightly in a few others. Local hunters might tend to declare that the Heppner area's deer population is on the de cline, but this won't dissuade hundreds from getting out for definite period starting Monday, September 23. We wish to thank you for your continued support of our translator, and hope to improve service to you in the future." Spaulding said he understands the Co-op has obtained permis sion from the Federal Communi cations Commision, from which it receives its license, to be shut down for 30 days. This period will give an opportunity to over haul antennas and rebuild equip ment However, it is believed that the cooperative feels that it is not receiving the financial sup port it requires, particularly from those enjoying its reception near the unit. The translator, in effect, picks up and re-broad-casts transmision from the Port land stations. Home owners with sets in the area close to the Sherman Translator pick up the reception with their own anten Booster Breakfast To Back Mustangs For Home Opener Businessmen and women of the Heppner area and others interested are invited to join in a no-host "Booster Break fast" to support the Heppner High school football team Fri day prior to the opening home football game against Uma tilla High Friday night. The breakfast will be at 7 a.m. in the Wagon Wheel Cafe with Heppner High coaches as guests. Also invited as guests are Principal . Gordon Pratt, Wayne Brubacher, superinten dent of schools, and captains of the high school football team. The "Booster Breakfast," de signed to stir up local en thusiasm for the openi n g game, is sponsored by the Heppner-Morrow County Cham ber of Commerce. Of the 24 attending the regular meet ing Monday, 20 said that they would plan to be at the break fast. The breakfast is not lim ited to Chambf-r of Commerce members. ' Extension Agent Fund 'Oyer Top' Campaign to secure $3400 in voluntary funds to restore the county extension budget to nor mal was successfully concluded this week, Mrs. E. Markham Baker, lone, secretary, stated. Workers have received the full amount, which is to be placed in escrow in a bank in order to assure that the county retain all three of its extension agents. The extension budget was pared at the county budget hearing early in the summer by the amount of $3400. Citi zens' protest meetings were held and petitions circulated asking that it be restored, but -this course was held to be illegal. The county court was then asked to agree to take the amount from the emergency fund when that approved by the budget is exhausted. The fund that has been raised will be held in escrow until that time came. If, for some reason, the needed funds are not forthcom ing from the emergency fund, the voluntary contributions will be used to support the extension budget. If the emergency fund is used, however, the voluntary donations will be returned to the contributors. For several weeks the Exten sion Emergency Fund campaign has been proceeding with volun teers doing the solicitation and Dick Wilkinson acting as chair man. Ken Smouse of lone ha3 served as treasurer and Mrs. Baker as secretary. They reported that reception from the public has been very good, and asked that each one be thanked for his participation. the opening. Some old-timers and foresters say they have seen the most deer of any recent year, and a high percentage of bucks. Heppner district of the U. S. Forest Service reports that, al though there has been consider able rain in higher elevations, it has been warm and dry for some time. If weather continues as it is, fire danger will be high by the week-end. Burning index in the woods Wednesday was 57, a high danger level. Hunter patrols of the Forest Service will be on hand through the district and seven men of the staff will be stationed in four patrol areas Tupper, Bull Prairie, Ditch Creek, and Wheel er Point. for 30 Days; Heppner Misses nas. While the cooperative asks that each pay $1 per channel per month, many do not do so, and there apparently is no way that the cooperative can require the payment. In the case of Heppner TV, the signal is picked up by its antennas from the Sherman Translator and Is fed througn the cable system. The Heppner system has been paying $10 per month to the Sherman Co-op, noting that it is on a fringe area of reception and requiring a high degree of local ampli fication. The board of directors of Sher man cooperative sent out a gen eral statement with its letter, saying, 'The board of directors is of the opinion that the quality of the rebroadcast signal and the general reliability of the trans lator can be increased by in creasing the frequency of main tenance to once every two weeks. 1963 Vikings Billed For First Game Fresh from their first victory of the year pver Condon, 12 to 7, Friday, the Heppner High school football team will go on display before the home folks Friday night at the rodeo grounds when it meets the Uma tilla High Vikings, starting at 8 p.m. Although the Vikings are a B school, this home opener for the Mustangs will find them with their hands full. The visitors are big, tough and full of spirit. Behind them is a 12-6 win over Pilot Rock, which, like Heppner Is an A-2 Greater Oregon league team. Cards Take Road For Game at Echo Ione's football team will travel to! Echo Friday after noon at 2:30 for its second game of the season. This will be the Cardinals' first league game of the year. In their non-league home opener Friday they defeated Arlington, 45 to 7. Details are in a story elsewhere in this paper. The Vikings have men who top 200 pounds, including Gil bert Thonstad, junior tackle at 217. Heppner has three who are listed at 200 pounds, including senior tackle Don Majeske, jun ior tackle David Hanna, and sophomore tackle Jim Barclay. The Mustangs went through the Condon game without addit ional injuries but are still miss ing Paul Swaggart, junior guard, who was hurt earlier, as well as Dean Robinson, junior back. Lee Padberg seems to be at full strength again after an injury in practice prior to the Enter prise game. Coach Jim Sutherland has the opinion that while the Mustangs showed considerable improve ment against Condon Friday, they will have to be even more improved to down Umatilla Fri day night. "Umatilla is one of the strong- Mrs. Papineau Hurt In Auto Accident Mrs. Gloria Gay Papineau, 30, Lexington, sustained a com pound fracture of the elbow in an auto accident in early morn ing hours Saturday, September 21. She said she lost control of her car on the southern outskirts of Lexington, resulting in the accident. Surgery was performed on the elbow, and she was dismissed from Pioneer Memorial hospital Monday. The state has lifted its local closures and hunters will be per mitted in areas that were closed during the summer. However, the fire season is not closed and warming fires will not be per mitted until rains come. In addition to regular hours, the office of the Heppner Ranger District will be open Saturday, from 8 to 12 p.m. and from 1 to 5 p.m. for information. Wright T. Mallery, forest sup ervisor of the Umatilla Forest, which includes the Heppner dis trict, has issued a news release welcoming all hunters. "The enjoyment of hunting and the harvesting of big game is one of the multiple uses !n the management of the National Forest," he said. This entails a larger expenditure of money, and so we need great er public support in the way of donations or monthly payments from those people receiving the signal. We would like to remind the public that this corporation going into its fifth year of oper ation, has not received the com plete support of the community of users and therefore is carrying a $2,203 maintenance deficit on its books. This represents money that has been borrowed and so must be repaid to the lenders." There is no way that the sig nal from the translator can be beamed on a selective basis, and anyone with an antenna suffic ient to pick it up can enjoy the reception. This, Spaulding ex plained, is different from micro wave, which beams the signal to a certain spot. It is believed that many who live in trailer houses in the con struction areas along the Colum 1 "'v. 1 '' '4 ... . '' ' ' ' K COACH JIM SUTHERLAND est B schools In the area," he says. A good-sized home crowd is expected to be on hand for the opener, first of four home games billed for the season. Season tickets are on sale at $2.50 each. Because the skating rink will be open also on Friday night, it is announced that skating patrons will use the upper gate. Ticket takers for the football game will be stationed at the lower gate. All those planning to go skating should go on to the upper gate that leads through the Little League field to the fair pavilion. Tools Stolen; Reward Offered Saddles and tools were taken from the ranch of Lee and Bill Scrivner either Saturday or Sun day, they reported to Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman. Among the items taken were three saddles, box end wrenches, socket sets, elec tric drill, electric grinder and many other tools, as well as gas oline, they reported. The two, father and son, offer a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and convic tion of those guilty. The ranch is located about half way be tween Condon and Heppner in Democrat gulch and no one lives on the place. Bill Scrivner said that it ap peared that the prowlers backed a truck or pickup to the farm shop and cleaned it out. The sheriff and state police are in vestigating. The summer has been excep tionally favorable for lush vege tative growth, which has made deer sleek and fat. However, the growth also supplies an abun dance of grass and weeds that dry quickly, furnishing fuel in which fire spreads quickly. Because of the potential danger from careless hunter smoking, camping and warming fires, Mallery urged all hunters to be careful. Camp fire permits are not re quired In the national forest area but they should always be built in an opening and never left unattended. An axe, shovel and bucket should always b carried in the camping gear. Those who smoke in the woods should do so in a safe place. Two Station! bia River are enjoying the re ception without paying for it, but they will lose this enter tainment while the translator is out of operation. Meanwhile, Heppner TV will continue to receive KEPR-TV and KNDU-TV, the two Wash ington stations, direct. Spaulding said that he had not actually talked to the directors of the North Sherman Co-op but planned to "do some traveling" next week to check into the matter. He felt that this explanation of the situation might answer some of the questions that may be asked by the 450 who have sets on the Heppner TV cable and thus avoid many telephone queries. While the letter from the co-op said that transmission would be down for an "indef inite period," Spaulding said it is understood this will be at least for 30 days. Number 30 10 Cents Biegel Plans To Resign County Post Milton Biegel, Morrow county commissioner for nearly three years, has tendered his resig nation from the county court to be effective December 1, County Judge Oscar Peterson said Wed nesday. Biegel is in the process of mov ing to Pendleton from Irrigon and cannot serve in the Morrow county position if he lives out of the county. The judge did not announce the. resignation, but when it was learned that Comml s s 1 o n er Blegel's address was being changed to Pendleton, Judge Peterson was asked if the com missioner had resigned. He con firmed that the resignation had been submitted. The commissioner is serving in the third year of a four-year term after his election in 1960. He would have been up for elec tion again next year. Judge Peterson said that the county court will appoint a suc cessor after the resignation Is effective December 1. It is ob liged to name a qualified person of the same party affiliation. Biegel Is a Republican. The Judge said that a "few names" had been suggested, but no one has been selected as the likely successor. The county court is comprised of the judge and two commis sioners, the other being Com missioner Gene Ferguson of Heppner who was elected for a 4-year term in 1962 after com pletlng his first term in the of fice. Space Park Land Transfer Okehed Congressman Al Ullman and Senators Wayne Morse and Maurice Neuberger announced Wednesday that Secretary of In terior Stewart Udall has approv ed the withdrawal of 689 acres of public land in the Boardman Space Age Park area for transfer to the Oregon State Corps of Engineers, thus paving the way for the final transfer of the land to the Boeing Company. This means that the state will be able to meet its commitments with Boeing and that the com pany will be able to begin Im mediately in development of the Industrial Park. According to the congreslonal delegation, an officer of the Corps of Engineers predicted that the final transfer can be completed by October 1. Earlier this month Congress man Ullman obtained the ap. proval of the Interior Commit tee, and particularly of Cong ressman Wayne Aspinall of Col orado, chairman of the commit tee, for the land transfer. At that time Ullman pointed out that this procedure normally would have taken several weeks, but because of Aspinall's coop eration, the action was expe dited. City Burn Ban Is Lifted Here Burning of refuse or debris within the city limits, not per mitted during the summer months, is now allowed but only after the fire department is not ified, Fire Chief Charles Ruggles said this week. The person burning Is respon sible for any damage that might occur as a result of the burning. He must also conform to the ordinance prohibiting burning of garbage.
