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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
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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 31, 1963
2-Day Stock Grower Meet Set to Open
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.