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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE Prfk Pewer, tkmhk Be mm m Meet Set to Define Advisory Board Role An attempt to more clearly define the duties and responsi bilities of advisory school boards in Morrow county will be made at a meeting with the directors of the Morrow county district R-l at a meeting scheduled for Monday night, December 2, in the lone school at 7:30. All advisory boards in the county and school administra tors are asked to be at the meet ing. It was called for at the reg ular school board meeting Mon day night when Director Andy Van Schoiack said that such a sseslon is needed so that ad visory boards may know what is expected of them. His sentiments were echoed by several board members in the audience, including Wm. Parker of Irrigon, Bob Rietmann of lone and Homer Hughes, Heppner. Names of Phillip Mahoney and Mrs. Paul Brown were submitted to the directors upon recommen dation by Administrators Gordon Pratt and Hillard Brown to fill vacancies on the Heppner ad visory board that occurred when Howard Cleveland and Van Schoiack were elected as direc tors. Van Schoiack objected to this method of filling the vacancies and said that it should be done by action of the advisory board itself rather than by recommen dation of administrators. He moved that Homer Hughes be appointed acting chairman of the advisory board and that a meeting of the remaining mem bers be called to recommend names to the district board for appointment. The motion was carried. Parker, in supporting Van Schoiack's proposal on the meet ing with advisory committees, said that the Irrigon committee formerly met regularly but de cided it was "wasting its time." Rietmann said that there has been a "hit and miss" policy about the role of the advisory groups. He said all advisory com mittees in the county should have the same authority. P. E. Expenses Eyed Amount of funds spent in the district for physical education supplies came under scrutiny when Director Irvin Rauch point ed out that the amount spent for P. E. supplies so far this year is listed In the district's fin ancial report at $2,209, already exceeding the $900 budgeted by $1,309. Persual of the point re vealed that one bill was paid for $1187 for such supplies in September and $965 for another In October. Chairman Milton Morgan asked Mrs. Beverly Gunderson, clerk, to look up the itemized bills at a later time so that they may be reviewed by the board. Highest sum bud geted in the 1963-64 budget for physical education supplies for any school was $400 for Hepp ner. Pay Day Changed Monthly pay day in the district was changed by the board from the last Friday in each month to the last school day in each month. The change was made because bank interest is figured on the balance at the end of the month, and the move is expected to bring in more interest money. A new pay scale for activity bus drivers was adopted, fixing the wage at $1.75 per hour from departure time to return time with $10 additional allowed for expenses on overnight trips. Insurance List Reviewed Upon recommen d a t i o n of Turner, Van Marter and Bryant Agency, the board passed a mo tion that a list of participating agents handling district fire in surance be limited to those still active in business and residing in Morrow county. It was pointed out that several now listed are no longer in business here and three are listed who are located in Umatilla county. . Report from Attorney Robert Abrams was read, pointing out that a deed from original donors of Pine City school property limits use of property to school purposes only. In case it is sold or used for other purposes, heirs of the donors have the right to purchase it for a sum of $50. This revelation tempo r a r i 1 y stymied the board's plan to sell the property. It is now rented for $25 per month, but a recent bill was paid to a plumber for $300 and the board has consid ered it a liability. Matter of dis posing of the property was tabled until a later meeting. George Property Discussed Some consideration was also given to the matter of selling the "George property," now owned by the district in Hepp ner. A standardization report from the state indicated that since the high school has moved to the new building and both the old high school and grade school serve elementary pur poses, the George property could be disposed of without affecting standardization. However, Director Van Schoi ack suggested that the board look further into the matter be fore offering the property for sale. Some of the land includes shop property and a part is used for parking buses in summer, he said. The matter was tabled for the time being. Rambler Bid Accepted Bid of Farley Motor Co. on an 8-cynnaer Kamoier seaan was accepted ior a new district auto to replace the old car of the administrator and the red station wagon. These two cars and an older vehicle were ac cepted as tradeins and the bal ance of the bid price on the Rambler, with power brakes, power steering and other feat ures, was $1084.85. Farley also entered a bid on a Pontiac Tem pest and Fulleton Chevrolet en tered bids on two Chevrolet models. The Rambler bid low of the four. was Morrow County Grain Growers To Meet Monday Robert Tanke of Spokane, president of North Pacific Grain Growers, will be featured speak er at the annual meeting of Morrow County Grain Growers Monday night, November 18, Al Lamb, manager, announces. During his presentation, Tanke will show colored slides on his travels to India. Some 300 persons are expected at the meeting, which will be gin with dinner in the fair grounds pavilion, Heppner, at 6 p.m. Women of the Rhea Creek grange will prepare and serve the dinner. The grand champion 4-H steer from the county fair will provide the choice main course. In the business session three directors will be elected to serve 3-year terms. Nominees are: Walter Jacobs, lone; Elmer Palmer, Heppner; E. H. Miller, Jr., Lexington. Seven associate directors will be elected for one-year terms. Nominees are Larry Lindsay, Gene Majeske, Al Fetsch, and Stanley Kemp, all of Lexington; Charles Doherty and Raymond Lundell, both of lone; Robert Jones, Heppner; Archie Bech dolt, Hardman; and Leo Ash beck, Butter Creek. President Paul Jones and Man ager Al Lamb will give their annual reports, and there will be some open discussion on pol icies of the association. Ten door prizes, consisting ,of one whole steer divided into six prizes and other gifts, will be given. Group Proposes 5-Member Board A request to enlarge the Mor row county Fair Board from three to five members was pro posed at a session of the county court last Wednesday. Asking for the action were Don Robin son, Wilbur Van Blokland, both of Heppner, and Kurt Ganten bein, Boardman, all representing the fair committee. They asked that a woman be one of the members. It would be the intention to give the north end of the county representation on the board, and the inclusion of a woman would be designed to give better con sideration for home economics for the fair. The request was taken under advisement until those assoc iated with the fair and rodeo could be consulted. On the present fair board are Al Fetsch, Bernard Doherty and Orville Cutsforth. Gantenbein and Art Allen, also of Boardman, asked that $5500 of the money received for North Morrow fair buildings be placed in a separate account for use on a new 4-H building in the north end of the county. The money has been budgeted by the county for this purpose. District Attorney Herman Win ter advised placing the sum in a savings account, deposited in trust at a bank. The money would be turned over to the North Morrow 4-H club council when it is ready to replace the Linn-Gillespie Memor i a 1 4-H building in the new townsite. state Engineer Okays Application Application for assistance in planning and carrying out works of improvement under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566) for the Rhea Creek watershed has been approved by the Ore gon State Engineer, T. P. Hel seth, state conservationist, has advised the Heppner Soil Con servation district. "We are now transmitting this watershed application to the ad ministrator of the Soil Conser vation Service for his consider ation," Helseth said. After gaining the administra tor's approval the application is returned and the state places a priority on it with studies to follow. Interest in developing a Rhea Creek project has been evident for some time. Several meetings have been held to consider possi bilities and proposed sites for ouities and proposed sites dams have been discussed. 80th Year THEllF ; HEPPNER gazette-tim; Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 14, 1963 ' ' In JOE BANKS, Veteran comic star of the Harlem Clowns, will lead the famed fun-makers into town for an evening of basketball wizardry and laughs. The Court Comics will be here Monday, November 18, when they play the Morrow All-Stars at the old high school gym. Game time will be 9:00 p.m. Clowns To Meet All-Stars Monday Basketball at its funniest will come to Heppner Monday, No vember 18, when the Harlem Clowns invade town for a game with the Morrow All-Stars. The affair is slated to start at 9:00 p. .m at the old high school gym. The Harlem team has been in the business since 1934 and really know its stuff. The clowns entertained crowds from coast to coast and have played in sev eral foreign countries. Their an tics have drawn the raves and laughs of thousands. The opposing All-Stars will be composed of local netters who will be out to put the skids to the Clowns but will probably have just that done to them. On the local casaba team will be Bob Cantonwine, Pete Glen nie, Don McClure, Jerry Jona sson and Harley Sager of Hepp ner; Ted Talbott and Ron Dan- ials of Riverside; and Dick Strait of lone. Another possible player for the locals will be Clint Agee. Refereeing the tussle will be Jim Sutherland, Heppner High football coach, and Tom Hughes or Don Cole from the Heppner Elementary school teaching staff. Schools Sound Call For Substitutes Substitute teachers are in de mand in the Heppner schools, and anyone with teaching ex perience who may be interested in acting as a substitute is asked to apply to Mrs. Beverly Gunder son, clerk of Morrow county schools. Greatest need is for elemen tary teachers, Mrs. Gunderson said. Hillard Brown, elementary principal, was unable to find anyone to work as a substitute early this week when he needed to replace regular teachers who were absent because of illness. Kinzua Man Kills 1 000-1 b. Bull Elk KINZUA What is thought to be the largest bull elk killed in this area was taken last week by Bob Slinkard who went hunting one evening af ter work. He shot the elk about three miles from Kinzua. Its estimated weight was 1000 pounds and it dressed out 500 pounds. Horns were almost a perfect match and were 48 Inches across and 43 inches high. Dick Richards to Speak To Wheat Growers Dick Richards, manager, North Pacific Grain Growers will be the featured speaker at the lunchon during the annual fall meeting of the Morrow County Wheat Growers association, to be held in Willows Grange hall, lone, Tuesday, November 19. This meeting will be a work session, N. C, Anderson, county extension agent and secretary of the association, states. It will start at 9 a.m. Seven standing commit tees will meet during the day, draft ing recommendations which will be of county significance as well as resolutions requiring state Merchants Slate Holiday Opening November 29, 30 Christmas Opening in Heppner will be November 29 and 30, Randall Peterson, chairman of the merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce, announ ces, j It is planned to have the Christmas window guessing con test for the third consecutive year, and stores participating will give prizes to those guessing closest to retail value of merch andise displays or variations to suit the type of business. By that time, stores will have Christmas gocds on display with selections it, their best. Santa Claus will arrive to greet child ren, and it is hoped that Heppner streets will be fully decorated for the holiday season. Peterson said that each busi ness will be furnished with a mimeographed sheet on plans for the opening within a day or two. Each is asked to select a prize for the window contest with value in the neighborhood of $10 suggested. Further announcement will be made in the next two issues of the Gazette-Times. Christmas Opening, as in the past two years, will be on the week-end after Thanksgiving. The Gazette-Times will be printed on Wednesday of that week so that it will go in the mail ahead of the holiday. Deadline Friday On Tax Payments Friday, November 15, is the deadline for payment of 1963-64 property taxes in order to take advantage of rebates offered, Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman state Those who pay their property tax bills in full by November 15 will receive 3 rebates. Those who pay half will receive 1 rebates. Taxpayers may also elect to pay quarterly, but no rebate is offered under this method. Mrs. Elvira Irby, tax deputy, said that payments through Wednesday totaled $674,612.42, well over half of the total amount to be collected of $1, 213,521.05. However, some larger paments were being received Thursday (today) and a rush of payments was expected on the final day. Many of the larger concerns and utilities do not pay until the last day of the rebate period. Those who payments are mail ed with a postmark of November 15 will receive rebates although the payments may not be re ceived in the office until Mon day. Bands to be Heard In Two Assemblies Grade and high school bands will present assembly programs in their respective schools Friday under the leadership of Arnold Melby, band instructor. Grade school students will demonstrate their band instruments, telling what they are and how they are played. The assembly will start at S a.m. in the multi purpose room. Parents and friends of grade school students are invited to be present. In the afternoon, high school students will be heard in a con cert, starting at 1:30 p.m. Be sides band numbers, solos and novelty numbers will be played. This is also open to the public, with parents and friends Invited. and national attention. These will be passed on to the Oregon Wheat Growers League for ac tion at their annual meeting in Portland December 5, 6 and 7. Morrow county ranchers have often asked who sets export sub sidies, how often and the reasons for the various price fluctuations in these subsidies. These are only part of the explorations of world market prices that will be considered by Richards at the luncheon. He will outline the steps that a producer's wheat goes through from the time he sells it at approximately $2.00 per ousnel on the larm until it reaches the destination at the export market. With the recent Russian sales and increased world market, wheat growers will want to hear how these wheat export sales are made. Standing committees are fed eral agricultural programs, pro duction and land use, marketing and transportation, taxation and legislation, public relations, youth activities and domestic wheat utilization. Some of the items on the agenda of these committees are: Do farmers need an accelerated public relations program? If so, what do you suggest? Should the league con tinue to support the junior live stock show as in the past? What are your suggestions for main taining present levels of research in view of tax reductions as a result of the October 15 election? Do you favor a sales tax? If so, what items should be ex empt? What are your ideas for a new wheat program? Should the League ask for a price dis count on Burt wheat, because of its undesirable qualities? Do you agree with ICC that freight rates should go back to the 1958 level? These are but a few of the issues that will be discussed. Husbands and wives are invited to attend and take part in the day's program, Anderson says. County Officials To Attend Meet County Judge Oscar Peterson and Commissioners Gene Fer guson and Milton Biegel are scheduled to attend the annual convention of the Association of Oregon Counties in Portland next week. The meetings will begin Wednesday after registration Tuesday night and will continue through Friday. Among topics to be considered will be water pollution, current legal problems, budget proced ures, county parks, and county road classification and priority systems. Bernard F. Hillenbrand, exec utive director of the National Association of Counties, will be keynote speaker. Frank Leahy, former Notre Dame head foot ball coach, will be banquet speaker Thursday night. Resolutions to be considered at a business meeting Friday in clude a proposal to increase the state gasoline tax one cent and another to provide for payment to counties of a shrae of federal fees charged for grazing priv ileges on federal lands under the Bureau of Land Management. Committee to Request Study on Irrigation U. S. Bureau of Reclamation will be asked to make a detailed study of irrigation possibilities from the proposed Willow Creek dam project, it was decided at a recent meeting at the Morrow county courthouse. A steering committee, com posed of ranchers who irrigate along the creek, will ask for the comprehensive survey, On the committee, which was appointed by the county court, are Earl Evans, Kenneth Palmer, Lewis Halvorsen, Herb Hynd and Dick Wilkinson. It is planned to form a corp oration to implement the study. This will provide a legal entity which can do business with the government In requesting the survey, and , if irrigation is deemed feasible later, in sign ing a contract for water to be held in the dam for the purpose. Bureau of Reclamation repre sentatives, E. Carl Huish and Lee Robinson, both of Spokane, explained there is nothing bind ing on the corporation or any Number 37 10 Cents Marcia Rands Talks Today in Finals Of Speech Contest Marcia Rands, Heppner High school senior, won the semi finals of the Soil Conservation speech contest at Hermiston last Thursday night, and is competing today at the state meeting of the soil conserva tion districts in the state speech finals. This is the third straight year that a Heppner student has gone all the way to the state, which requires winning a local, area and semifinal contest first. Beverly David son placed third in the state in 1961, and Martha Doherty won first last year. The competition among semi-finalists was scheduled at 1 p.m. today on the topic of "Woodland Management in a Soil Conservation Distr i c t." Marcia was judged best of six local contests here two weeks ago, won the area at Herm iston and then won the semi finals, also at Hermiston. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Groves. Her mother and sister, Anita Groves, accompanied her. Ralph Richards, soil conser vationist, is also attending the meeting. Radio KUBE Aids Post in Staging Hop November 22 With the cooperation of Radio Station KUBE, Explorer Scout post No. 600 of Heppner will sponsor a "Record Hop" in the American Legion hall triday, November 22, starting at 8 p.m. A disc jockey of the station will be on hand to be master of ceremonies at the event and spin latest dance records, accord ing to Paul Warren, leader of the post. Purpose of the "Record Hop" Is to stimulate more Interest in the rejuvenated Scout moyem e n t here, and to raise funds for the post treasury. Anyone over 14 is invited. There will be no ticket sales for the event but admission will be by donation. All persons interested in the Scouting movement are urged to support the event. The post assures a good time for all. Co-op Bills Hill For Annual Meet Jonel Hill, Public Utility Com missioner for the State of Oregon, will be the speaker at the annual meeting of the Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative Friday, No vember 22, at the Morrow county fair pavilion, Heppner. Registration for the meeting will start at 10:30 a.m., Harley Young, manager, states. Lunch eon will be served at noon by women of the Rhea Creek grange, and the regular meeting will be at 1 p.m. A $100 gift certificate which may be applied towards the pur chase of any appliance of the winner's choice will be grand door prize, and small electrical appliances will be given as ad ditional door prizes. rancher on the creek until a con tract requesting irrigation is formally presented the govern ment. Quentln Bowman, Salem, rep resentative from the State Water Resources board, emphasi zed that the purpose of the study would be merely to gain infor mation about irrigation, and no one would be obligated In favor of or against formation of an Irrigation district as a result of it Nell F. Meadowcroft of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers told of progress on the report of the dam project. It is now being completed in final form in the Walla Walla office and is ex pected to go to the Portland reg ional office in the very near future. It is expected that it will be sent to Washington, D. C, by mid-December or the first of January. If no obstacles arise, the re port should be included in the omnibus bill in Congress next year. Co-opto Buy Existing City Systems Columbia Basin Electric Co-op, Inc., and Pacific Power and Light Company announced Wed nesday an agreement for sale and exchange of electric facil ities and service areas to con solidate their respective systems In Gilliam, Wheeler and Mor row counties. In a joint statement released by Walter Jaeger, Condon, presi dent of the co-op, and D. It. McClung, president of PP&L, it was explained the consolidations would result in each system op erating in contigous portions of the three counties and would avoid duplication of facilities and intermingling of service areas. Subject to approvals by the Oregon Public Utility Commis sioner, the Federal Power Com mission and the Rural Electric Administration, the transfers would become effective January 1. Terms of the agreement pro vide for the co-op to pay a net amount of $1,492,000 to Pacific Power for the company's distri bution properties in Olex and Condon in Gilliam county, Fos sil in Wheeler county and lone, Lexlgton and Heppner In Morrow county and their neighboring rural areas. Pacific Power would acquire two sectors of the co-op's present service area bordering the Col umbia River in Gilliam and Morrow counties, including the major portion of the Boardman bombing range and the adjacent Space Age Industrial Park. As a result of the transfers, Pacific would serve a consoli dated area along the Columbia, reaching from a point nearly six miles west of Blalock eastward 40 miles to the eastern edge of the Boardman range and varying from six to 14 miles in depth. PP&L would continue serving Arlington, which is near the center of the consolidated area. The co-op would acquire some 2,000 customers now served by PP&L, who would continue to be served at their present rates, according to the co-op. The power company would serve a group of the co-ops customers in and near Blalock. The joint announcement said both utilities have agreed to con tinue to deliver energy for one another's systems to make the most beneficial ' utilization of their facilities. A 69,000-volt transmission line owned by the co op, reaching from Klondike In Sherman coun ty to a substation near Blalock, would be transferred to pacific Power and become a part of that company's transmission net work. If the sale and transfers are consummated after approval by the agencies involved, Fred Glmbel, who has served as lineman-agent for Pacific Power here for about 7 years, said that he plans to remain with Pacific Power, and with his fam ily will move to a position with the company elsewhere. Harley Young, manager of Columbia Basin, said that the Pacific Power employees would be absorbed into the co-op org anization should they elect to stay in the community. Gimbel said that he expects to remain for a "reasonable length of time" to help acquaint Columbia Basin men with the Pacific Power systems in Hepp ner, lone and Lexington. Both Mr. and Mrs Gimbel have been very active in the commun ity. Gimbel is a past president of the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Morrow County Rodeo Board, the Elks lodge, the Masons, and served as chairman of the trustees of the Methodist church. Mrs. Gimbel is an of ficer in the PTA, a member of the Order of Eastern Star, and is organist for the Methodist church. To explain the proposal, rep resentatives of the two firms met in informal sessions this week with city councils of Hepp ner, Condon, Lexington, Fossil and lone and with county judges and Chamber of Commerce of ficials. In the group were Gimbel, Young, Homer Beale, Oregon di vision manager of Pacific Power, and Jack Hynd of the Columbia Basin board of directors. Four-H Judging Day To Be November 16 Four-H livestock members will be "learning by doing" when they attend the first 4-H live stock judging day of the 1963-64 4-H year on Saturday, Novem ber 16, reports Joe Hay, County Extension Agent. The judging day will be held at the Weldon WItherrite farm, mile north of Pine City, starting at 1:30. Learning by doing is one of the basic teaching methods of 4-H club work, Hay noted. Four H livestock members attending the Judging day will be judging several classes of livestock, learning how to give oral and written reasons for their placlngs. Scores from this judging day will be used for selecting 4-H judging teams for the State Fair and Pacific International Live stock Exposition.