LIBRARY U OF 0 E j g E z ORE . Highwoy Speed Zone Wins Favor Setting of a speed limit on the highway north from the Heppner city limits oast the Kin- zua Corporation plant mav be asked by the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce as a result of discussion at the reg ular meeting Monday. Dr. C. M. Wagner, president, has appointed a committee com posed of Herman Winter, chair man; Bob Abrams. Al Lamb. Paul Jones and Frank Turner to invistigate proper procedure for establishment of a speed zone and to report recommendations at a coming meeting. The matter was brought to the attention of the Chamber by Frank Turner, who said that he felt something should be done in view of the rather hazardous and congested nature of the highway in that area and the bad accident record on the stretch. Mrs. Nona Sowell of Kinzua Corporation said that traffic generally disregards the only caution signs, "Trucks," that are posted both at the north and south ends of the Kinzua prop erty and use the short straight stretch as a speedway. Gene Pierce suggested that in vestigation also include other entrances to the city, pointing out particularly that traffic speeds down the hill to Hepp ner on the Condon highway. A 25-mile per hour zone ex tends to the city limits on the north, but there is no posted speed farther north. It is understood that action on a speed zone must be done by action of the state highway de partment. The local committee will seek to determine whether the matter should be presented to them through petition, by res olution or other means. Tabor Seriously III in Minnesota Roy Tabor, critically ill in St. Mary's hospital, Rochester, Minn., has had 13 blood trans fusions as of Thursday morn ing, the Gazette-Times was advised by Mrs. Frank Adkins who had just talked with Mrs. Tabor at Rochester by tele phone. Bleeding has stopped, and physicians are waiting for Ta bor to gain strength before performing surgery and take more X-xays of his stomach. Roy W. Tabor, former soil con servationist here, is in critical condition at St. Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minn., according to word received by friends here this week. At first thought to be leukemia, his condition was diagnosed as cancer after an operation had been performed. He has been troubled with internal bleeding and has been given six blood transfusions. Tabor entered the hospital at Rochester Tuesday, October 22, and Mrs. Tabor made the trip with him. His sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Latch am, live in Rochester. The Tabors' four children, in cluding two of pre-school age, flew east to be with their parents Monday. The family moved to Hermis ton from Heppner in June after he had been transferred to the soil conservation district there. Mrs. Tabor was formerly teacher of the Heppner kindergarten. Topic Club Bills Movie as Benefit A full-length color movie, "Belles on Their Toes," will be shown to the public Sunday evening, November 3, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the lone School Cafetorium. It is a family-type film, and a sequal to "Cheaper by the Dozen," shown here last year. The film is sponsored by the lone Topic club as a public ser vice, with money taken in on admissions to be used for benefit of the lone public library. Mem bers of the club will furnish desserts which will be sold as concessions at the show. Admission prices are set at 75c for adults; 50c for high school students; 25c for grade school students, and pre-schoolers are free. Starring in the film are Jeanne Crain, Debra Paget, Myrna Loy, Jeffrey Hunter, Ed ward Arnold and Hoagy Car michael. M & R to Observe First Anniversary First anniversary of M & R Company, owned by Matt Hughes and Ray Ayers, will be observed Friday at the store on Main street next door to Heppner Cleaners. The owners invite everyone to drop in for the occasion Friday. Hughes and Ayers started the firm as a floor covering and heating concern after leaving Case Furniture Co. where they were emplyoed for a number of years. They later expanded to add a stock of furniture to their lines. One of the features of their anniversary will be special bar gains for the occasion. 80th Year GAZ Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 31, 1963 2-Day Stock Grower Meet Set to Open i ,r.,,,jv r? r t ! LIVESTOCKMAN of the Year title is shared as a father and son operation in Morrow county again this year. Jerry Brosnan (right) and son, Eddie, are shown in a pasture on their place with Hereford bulls in the background. Two other sons are Dan, now in the Air Force in Japan, and John, who is employed by Charles Carlson. Mrs. Joann Robison of Heppner is a daughter. (G-T Photo) Brosnans, Butter Creek Ranchers In 4th Generation, Win '63 Honor Life and livelihood of the Brosnan family has centered around cattle raising on the same ranch on Little Butter creek continuously since the late 1860's, -when Jeremiah Brosnan came from Ireland and settled in the peaceful little valley. Now in the fourth generation on the same place, grandson and great grandsons have brought honor to the name of the pioneer Irishman that would swell his heart with pride if he were but around to know of it. The grandson, Jerry Brosnan and son, Eddie, have been cho sen Morrow County Livestock Men of the Year for 1963. Two other sons, Dan, 20, now in the Air Force in Japan, and John, 26, who spearheads ranch oper ations for Charles Carlson of lone, also have a right to a share of the title for the part they have played in develop ing and maintaining the 3000 acre ranch as an efficient cattle operation. Formal presentation of the title will be made to the Bros nans at the annual Livestock Growers and Farm-City banquet Saturday night in the multi purpose room of the new Hepp ner High school. When Jeremiah first came to Morrow county and chose the Little Butter Creek site to settle, probably because of the fine spring located in the front yard of where the farm house stands, he bought 160 acres, homestead -ed other tracts and bought home steads from others to accumu late the 3000 acres. The ranch has remained the same size through the years. Included on the ranch are 100 acres of irrigated bottom, which produces hay needed on the ranch. A new leveling of 10 k acres will add to the produc tion that provides sufficient quantities of good alfalfa hay for the herd. In addition to the home place, 2,800 acres which comprise what is known as the "Campbell Place," have been leased for so many years that it is considered a part of the total operation. Twenty-eight miles away are 18 sections of forest allotment that are now in non-use being developed by the Ukiah Forest Service district with range land seedings. In another year the Brosnans will have this back in their operation. They have an allotment for 40 head on the "Fivemile" allot ment and lease 8,768 acres from Kinzua Corporation at Buckaroo Flat. This makes an ideal oper ation. Late fall, winter and early spring grazing is at home, where calving is done, and then cattle are moved to the Campbell place for about six weeks before they are moved again to the summer range at Buckaroo Flat, Silver Creek and Fivemile allotments. Mrs. Brosnan, who was ready to turn around and go back to Monmouth when she first came to teach at the Lena school in 1935 but who has found a fine and happy life on the ranch, noints out that the family makes a holiday out of the cattle drives, camping along the route. When the CCC (Civilian Con servation Corps) boys were work TTE-TIME ( ', - 1 I --' ; :i ing in the county prior to World War II, they made some range developments in the Little Butter Creek area. Most important of them were five springs that were developed on the range. The Brosnans over the years have added five ponds which help dis tribute stock over the range on the home place, five more on the Campbell place, six on Buck aroo Flat and six on the Silver Creek allotment. In addition, the Brosnans agree in their lease to seed skid roads, landings and trails on the Flat each year when logging has been done. Good stands of grasses established in these areas indicate the type of range management that has improved tracts under control by the Bros nans. There are so many miles of fence on these different holdings that Jerry can't even guess the total. In this cow-calf operation, the calves have been sold to a re peat buyer for several years. Lowell Steen, Milton-Freewater cattle feedlot operator, has paid a premium for Brosnan calves for the past four years and has It " , ' V ' - - rr ' V" -vv - -- ) - ONE OF THE PONDS developed at the Jerry Brosnan ranch to help distribute cattle over the rangelands is pictured here. Good fresh water comes all season lonq from an underground spring. Frosnan i kneelina bv the edge of the pond where water over flows from the pooL The runoff continues through dry periods. (G-T Photo) V -T . indicated that he will be in the market for the 1964 production. These are delivered to his feed lot on October 15 each year. At present he Brosnans have 225 cows, 30 replacement heifers and 10 bulls. No special culling program is established but each cow is identified by a tatoo and as cows let down on their pro duction, they go to market, rather than being culled by age. Jerry "swears by" a practice that he says really pays off for him in his heifer selection. The large, better quality heifer calves are cut out each fall with their mothers. Knowing each cow in dividually, the Brosnans size them up on their past records and decide whether each heifer calf is good enough to go into the herd. These heifers are then grained for the winter as calves and then again as 2-year-olds after calving. Given this boost of grain, calves from the 2-year-old heif ers cannot be distinguished from the older cows. Bulls are also grained 30 days before turning them out with the cows at the (Continued on page S ' 1 f ' i s 4 , i " i ' . ,- - - Number 35 HEPPNER 10 Cents Combined Banquet Is Highlight For the first time this year, banquets of the Morrow County Livestock growers, the Cham ber of Commerce and the Soil Conservation Service will be combined into one affair. It will be the climaxing highlight of trio 15th annual meeting ul the livestock growers and will be in the new Heppner High school multipurpose room Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Those attending will get more than full value for their money. Besides the usual delicious meal, they will see presentation of both Gar Swanson as Conserva tion Man of the Year and Jerry and Lddie Brosnan as Livestock Men of the Year. They will be treated to one of the most un usual entertainment features de veloped in the state in "Sights and Sounds of Oregon," to be presented by Dr. Don Hunter, head of the audio-visual depart ment of the University of Ore gon. Dr. Hunter has taken beautiful colored slides and, by using stereophonic sound, brings the sounds associated with the scenes in a clever and affectively coordinated program. A musical Rroup from the high school will bring some 30 minutes of entertainment while the banquet is served. Gene Pierce, master of ceremonies, will also offer remarks on farm-city relationships. Tickets for the banquet are on sale at the First National Bank and Bank of Eastern Oregon in Heppner, and the banquet is open to the public. Stock growers will open their sessions tomorrow (Friday) at the fairgrounds at 10:30 with a display of labor saving equip ment. CowBelles will serve luncheon at the fair annex. Bank of Eastern Oregon will serve cof fee and doughnuts earlier in the morning, so all attending are assured of being well fed. At 1:30 a session will be de voted to hay quality with Nor man Goetze, farm crops spec ialist of Oregon Stat? Univer sity, in charge. Coupled with this presentation will be 90-minute flim on new haying methods. Commi 1 1 e e meetings will follow later in the afternoon. On Saturday, Morrow County CowBelles will convene in the Odd Fellows hall, and a high light of their program will be a showing of color slides of Europe, taken by Mrs. Larry Lindsay on her trip there. She was formerly an instructor at the University of Portland. Officers and committee reports and talks by Ken Wright and Herman Winter will be on the program of the stock growers at the Elks temple Saturday morn ing. Ron Baker, chairman, beef advisory committee, and Nels Anderson will speak at after noon sessions and important committee reports will be given. Resolutions will also be pre sented. Door prizes will be given throughout the day, and a social hour will be sponsored by the First National Bank at 5:30. WEATHER By LEONARD GILLIAM Hi Low Thursday 66 40 Friday 55 46 Saturday 55 27 Sunday 51 28 Monday 53 30 Tuesday 56 31 Wednesday 55 28 Tree. .03 Marcia Rands Wins Speech Contest Marcia Rands, senior in Hepp ner High school, won first place in the Soil Conservation speech contest Monday night with her talk on the established subject, "Woodland Management in the Heppner Soil Conservation Dis trict." Opening her speech with the remark, "A tree is the tallest thing that grows," Marcia stressed the importance of tim ber in living today and develop ed her theme around practices that conserve woodlands and thereby preserve and extend the benefits of forest lands. Jean Stockard was awarded second place by the judges and Bill Sherman won the third place trophy. All three received tro phies given by Morrow County Grain Growers. Marcia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Groves, was sched uled to compete in the area competition at Hermiston to Homecoming Slated At Final Grid Game Heppner High school will cele brate its 1963 football Home coming Friday when the Mus tang eleven plays host to the Sherman Huskies in their final grid tilt of the season. The Homecoming festivities will begin Friday at noon when students from the high school will be taken by bus to the center of town to hold a pep rally. The rally will last about 15 minutes and the students will return to the school for their afternoon classes. Friday evening at 5:30 a pa rade will be assembled at the rodeo field. Each class from the high school will be represented by a float in the parade. Also, past football players from Hepp- Pettyjohns Buy Barratt Sales; Hamlins Retire Sale of Barratt Sales Co. to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pettyjohn of Heppner by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hamlin, owners for the past two years, is announced this week by the Hamlins. The deal is effective as of No vember 1, and the new owners will assume operation at that time. Name of the firm will be changed to Pettyjohn Farm and Builders Supply, and they will continue to handle building ma terials and farm needs. Pettyjohn, who is employed as a grader by Kinzua Corpor ation, will continue in this po sition until after the first of the year. He will work after 4 p.m. daily and on Saturdays. Mrs. Pettyjohn, who has worked as society editor and advertising assistant for the Gazette-Times for several years, will devote virtually full time to the busi ness, and Mr. Hamlin will assist until the new owners are thor oughly familiar with its oper ation. Mrs. Pettyjohn has resigned from the Gazette-Times staff and will no longer write her popular column, "Social Lites," Jim Morris, who recently joined the staff, will assume her adver tising duties and a part time em ployee will be hired to handle society news. Announcement of the new staff member will be made next week. Hamlin worked for Garnett Barratt for four years before he and his wife bought the concern. They now plan to retire and may later take a trip or two but will continue to make their home here. Pettyjohn has been employed by Kinzua Corporation for 15 years. Both Mr. and Mrs. Petty john are very well known here. She has lived here all of her life, being the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Graves, and he has lived here most of his life. Evening English Class to Start Evening class of English 303. Contemporary American Litera ture, 3 hours, will start In Hepp ner Tuesday evening, November 5, Hillard Brown, adult exten sion representative, states. Ronald Bayes will be teachct of the class which will meet in the home economics room of the junior high school. He is a pro fessor at Eastern Oregon Col lege. The class will convene for or ganization at 7:30. Any wishing more information may contact Brown at the Heppner Elemen tary school. Cub Scout Leaders Call Pack Meeting First Cub Scout pack meeting of the newly organized troop has been called by their leaders for Saturday evening, November 2, at 7:30 p.m. In the old high school gymnasium. All cubs are to be accompanied by their par ents. All interested boys between the ages of 8 and 12 years are invited to the meeting with their parents. Anyone desiring further information may contact Mrs. Alice McCabe. night (Thursday). If she should win this contest, she will go on to the semi-finals, and win ner of that event will compete for the state title at a later date. Last year, Martha Doh e r t y, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Doherty, brought the state championship home to Heppner and in the previous year Bev erly Davidson of Heppner won third in the state finals. Miss Stockard is daughter of Mrs. Anita Stockard and Sher man is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wes Sherman. Ol hers competing were John Wagenblast, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Wagenblast; Stuart Dick, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dick; and Phyllis Nelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Nelson. The six had been selected from 10 Heppner High school students who prepared speeches on the subject. Preliminary elim ination trials were held in the speech class at the school. ner High will be invited to ride in the parade. The five prin cesses, one to be crowned queen during the halftime of the foot ball game, will lead the parade from the rodeo field through town and to the old high school where a bonfire rally will be held in the lower field. From here the festivities will switch to the field where the football game will be under way at 8 p.m. During the halftime of the game the captain of the football team will crown the queen of the Homecoming. Fol lowing the game there will be a dance at the high school. Alum ni are especially invited to at tend. Princesses for the Home coming are Ginny Moore, Diana Fulloton, Barbara Blake, Karen McCurdy and Pat Van Winkle. When kickoff time arrives, the Mustangs will be going against the Sherman Huskies, a club that has yet to win a ball game this season. The Huskies operate from a pro-style offense which makes extensive use of wide flankers and flexed ends. Their basic attack is through the air but their attack suffered when Doug Bish, their quarterback, broke his foot. The defensive line of the Hus kies will give the Mustangs one of their best tests of the season. The Huskie unit averages well over the 200 pound mark. Heppner came through the Burns scrap in good physical shape and should be ready to go full tilt against the Huskies. During the game, several seniors will be seeing their last football action for the gold and blue. Those lost via the graduation route will be: Lee Padberg, Larry Muessig, Raymond Nich ols, John Cole, Don Creswick, Jerry Greenup, Don Majeske, uaryi dick, Ken Wright and Richard Clark. The planning of the Home coming will be through the letterman's club, the student council and the faculty of Hepp ner nign scnooi. Veterans Day Set As School Holiday Veterans' Day, November 11, fallinfi' this VPnr nn a Mnnrlnv will be a school holiday, Wayne' Brubacher. Morrow rnuntv sun. erintendent, announces. All scnoois in the county, as well as the county school office, will oe ciosea ior the day. A legal holiday, Veterans' Day will find the county courthouse, post office, city hall, and banks also closed. Ghosts and Goblins Go Forth Tonight To Mark Halloween Within a few minutes after this paper Is printed, ghosts and goblins, witches and devils will be abroad in the streets. These, however, will be cos tumed kids observing their an nual Halloween celebration. An army of "trick or treat ers" is expected to be knocking on doors everywhere, and the occupants will rush to comply with some goodies to forestall any threatened depredations. However, the record may show that every few young sters who have not been "treated" have gone through with their threats to "trick." Heppner has been a relatively quiet place during the past few Halloweens and pranks, particularly those of destruc tive type, have been few in deed. This year merchants have in vited children of the commun ity to paint their windows in the Halloween spirit and are offering prizes of $5, $3, and $2 for first, second and third best jobs. What the response will be has not been indi cated, although the youngsters will be doing the job after school today if they accept the invitation. Judges will make their decisions on prize awards tonight. Other entertainment is pro vided at the Roller Skating rink where a special skate is planned for Halloween with treats offered by the operators, Glen Ward and Shorty Hudson. Some church youth will ask for canned goods instead of treats to help out with descrv ing causes. In case you are frightened, don't be alarmed. Chances are the goblins won't getcha to night. Those of the 10 who did not receive any of the three major awards were presented pin3 for their participation. Carl Bau man, son of Sheriff and Mrs. C. J. D. Bauman, who had en tered but did not speak in the contest Monday night, was the only one present of the four non finalists. Judges, who had a difficult job because of the keen compe tition, were Al Lamb, Herman Winter and the Rev. Kenneth Robinson. Bob Jepsen, a supervisor of the Heppner Soil Conservation district, presided at the contest, explained its purposes and told of the work of the district while judges were deliberating on win ners. Kenneth Turner, co-chairman of the event with Jepsen, also assisted. Ralph Richards, soil conservationist, was timer.