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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1963)
I I BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. 80th Year Number 41 LEAGUE CHOOSES OFFICERS HEPPNER AZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, December 12, 1963 10 Cent Morrow to Lose II III PWI I I ) j r" m MM WALTER HAYES of Boardman is shown taking the oath of office as Morrow county commissioner with Mrs. Sadie Fairish, county clerk, administering the oath. Witnessing the ceremony are Commissioner E. 0. (Gene) Ferguson (left) and County Judge Oscar Peterson. (G-T Photo) Free Movie Saturday; Santa Back "Return of Rusty," a full length motion picture, will be shown as a free feature for all kids of the area Saturday after noon at 2 p.m. in the Heppner Elks temple under the joint sponsorship of the Elks and the Heppner-Morrow County Cham ber of Commerce. Three cartoons, totaling about 30 minutes, will also be shown on the program, making the full show about two hours in length. All the youngsters in the area are invited. Santa Claus will return to Heppner for the day, too, mak ing his downtown appearances starting at 11 p.m. and contin uing through the day. He is ex pected to have treats for all the kiddies who contact him. Plans for this Saturday's pre Christmas special events were made by Randall Peterson, chair man of the merchants commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce. On the ensuing Saturday, De cember 21, meters in Heppner will be hooded for the free park ing convenience of shoppers. They will not be covered on this coming Saturday, however. Community Chorus To Practice Sunday Third practice of the Commun ity Christmas chorus has been announced for Sunday afternoon, December 15, at 4:30 p.m. at All Saints' Episcopal church. Under the direction of Gordon Pratt, the singers will present a public concert of sacred Christ mas music in the Episcopal church Sunday afternoon, De cember 22, at 3 p.m. Anyone interested in joining the chorus is invited to attend the practice on Sunday. High School Variety Program Set Tuesday Drama, singing, dances and pantomime are included in Heppner High school's first var iety Christmas program that will be presented Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the multipurpose room of the new school. The school's drama and music departments are cooperating in staging "Christmas Fantasies," which is presented without charge to the public. Directors include Mrs. Janet Groves, scenes; Gordon Pratt, choir; and Arnold Melby, band. Narrators will be Mary John son and Bill Sherman. Don Ma jeske will play the role of Santa Claus. The high school band will open the program with the num ber, "Christmas Fantasy," after which a street scene will be de picted with the following cast: Passersby Sharon Hams, Cheryl Bellenbrock, Patty Collins, Lisa Collins, Laurie Barratt, Dean Robinson, Jim Barclay. Chip munks Ginny Moore, Pam Co chell, Judy Jones. The doll Sher idan Wyman. Toy soldiers Dick Struckmeier, Gene Heliker. Man ikinsKaren McCurdy, Diane Fulleton, Barbara Bloodsworth, Jean Sicwert. After the band plays another number, "Carol of the Drums," dragon and cannibals, will be v V.T ' ff if :T- ' ii n inn rriirfirir-M m i n i it nil"" r '' ' i. ,t . " Ailing Calf Elk Finds Sanctuary At Wilkinson's Glen Ward, state game agent, thought he had been working too hard when he saw what, for all the world appear ed to be an elk crossing the road in front of him within a mile or two of town as he drove down the Willow Creek Tues day evening. He stopped and got out of his car. Dick Payne came up. "I want you to verify this," he said to Dick. "Is that an elk?" Dick agreed that it was in deed a calf elk and then told Glen that it had been staying in Dick Wilkinson's corral for at least the past week. The calf, probably six months old, has an injury around its mouth, perhaps a wound from a hunter's bullet. Payne caught the calf and hauled it to Dr. Jim Norene who examined it and treated it. Then he took it back to the pasture, gave it grain and is continuing to give it medicine prescribed by Dr. Norene. The jaw is deformde so it can't close its front teeth to graze. They covered it with a tarpaulin to protect it from the cold weather. With Ward's consent, Payne plans to continue to doctor the calf until it gets better and then will haul it back to the mountains and release it. Santa Claus Due At Wrangler Party Santa Claus will be present at a Christmas party of the Wranglers club at 8 p.m., Sat urday night, December 14, at the club house. Election of officers will be held during the business meet ing that will precede the fes tivities. Other entertainment planned for the evening will include a variety program, exchange of gifts and treats for all. All Wrangler memebrs and their guests are cordially invited. kept secret. Others in the cast a second Christmas scene, " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas," will be presented with the cast in cluding Stuart Dick as Pa, Vicki Barratt as Ma, and David An derson as Grandpa. The choir will conduct a candle lighting service, singing "What Child is This?" and "O Come, O Come, Emanuel." A one-act play, "Grandma and Mistletoe," will feature a cast as follows: Pat Van Winkle as Mollie, Leora Van Winkle as Mrs. Rodgers, Anita Groves as Grand ma and David Clark as Jim. Bill Sherman and Judy Smith will dance a Christmas polka, after which a Christmas Island scene will be shown. Some of the characters, including the include Gail Hoskins as Rudolph; Anna Marie Brindle, Linda Bru bacher, and Barbara Blake as Santa's helpers; and the chip munks for their second appear ance. A Goodnight scene will include the entire cast, with choir and band, and the band will con clude with "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." More than 75 students will take part in the program. For the first time also this year, black lighting will be used in several of the numbers for a heightened effect. Mercury Descends To Seven Degrees With 1 -Inch Snow Temperature plu m m e t i n g down to a minimum of seven degrees above zero Wednesday morning to record the low for the week and for the winter to date, Leonard L. Gilliam, weather observer, reports. This, however, was just one degree colder than the previous night. Temperature never climb ed over the freezing level during the first three days of the week after the downward trend that came over the week-end with 1.08 iniches of snow falling late Sunday. High for the week goes back to last Thursday' when 51 degrees was recorded as the maximum. The snow cover came in just about right for farmers over much of the county, thus pro tecting planted grain from freez ing. However, County Agent Nels Anderson said that in some parts of the county, particularly in some of the Butter Creek area, there was not enough snowfall to give protection. Icy conditions of roads made a hazardous condition for those who had to be on the highway during the week. Those traveling said that the worst conditions were encountered close to Hepp ner with the roads clear in the northern part of the county. How ever, the Willow Creek highway as far as Cecil was slick at one time during the week. Hi Low Prec. Thursday 51 26 .24 Friday 47 27 Saturday 47 28 .06 Sunday 35 28 .23 Monday 32 8 1.08" snow Tuesday 27 7 Wednesday 29 12 Two Youths Admit School Breakins Two Heppner High school youths have admitted breaking into lone High school, Heppner elementary school and Heppner High school, the latter on at least two occasions, Principal Gordon Pratt said Tuesday. The boys, one a junior and the other a senior, also admitted taking county school vehicles on three occasions during the night for rides. District Attorney Herman Win ter said that the two will have a hearing in juvenile court, over which County Judge Oscar Peter son presides, on charges yet to be filed on complaint of the school district board. The two are also accused of taking concessions from Heppner High school, valued at not more than $3, the principal said. Other petty acts of vandalism were committed during the en tries, including scattering of paper in the halls at lone. Admittance was gained to Heppner High school by taking a key from Principal Pratt's desk while he was out of the office. Keys were also taken out of Principal Hillard Brown's closet in his office at Heppner elemen tary school. Identity of the youths was traced after one of the county scnools pickups was noticed be ing driven in Lexington at an early morning hour recently. When the two were suspected of the acts they were questioned by Principal Pratt but did not admit participation until one of their mothers was able to per suade her son to tell of his part in the ma'ter. Later th; tw told full details to the principal and Chief of Police Dean Gilman. Club Morrow county will lose one of its county agents on January 15, 1964, as a result of cuts ord ered through the state extension service, it is announced by N. C. Anderson, chairman of the Mor row county extension staff. To be terminated here will be the services of the agent in 4-H and agriculture, a position that has been held by Joe Hay for the past 4& years. This is one of 18 county ex tension agent positions across the state that is being term inated at this time, according to Gene M. Lear, associate director, Oregon State University exten sion service. Elimination of these positions results from budget cuts necessitated following the October 15 state tax referendum, which was defeated. The 4-H and adult programs that were the responsibility of Hay will be carried by Agents Anderson and Esther Kirmis. Miss Kirmis, home extension agent who has shared in the 4-H club work, will have added 4-H program administration, and An derson will share in both the 4-H and adult agriculture respon sibilities. Since Anderson has had no 4-H responsibilities for the past three years, this will mean some curtailment in other services by the local extension staff. A def inite decision of program curtail ment will be made soon, Ander son said. Elimination of the position here will mean that Hay will no longer be associated with the extension service. His plans at this time are not definite, but he is considering some positions which may be open to him in other ventures. Loss of one of the three county agents comes as an ironic de velopment to the many in the county, who j'rDtesi.ed after the county budget committee cut the local extension budget at the final budget hearing earlier this year. As a result of protest meet ings an organization was formed to raise a fund of $3400 from Farm Reappraisal To Get Underway Actual reappraisal work of farms and lands outside of cities in Morrow county will get under way by January 1, Bob Fielder and Bill Johnson, appraisers, said Tuesday. Johnson will start on lands in the northern part of the coun ty and Fielder will begin work valuing wheat lands, they said. In recent weeks they have been valuing buildings and classifying lands which have been involved in sales during the past few years. These rep resent about 10 of the property in the county outside of cities, they said. In appraising the farms, they will use the ratio of 25 to true cash value. The assessments will not go on the property tax roll until the 1965-66 tax year. The two are the only ones who will be engaged ini the work, and they will carry identifica tion cards. Johnson said that new con struction in urban areas will also be appraised before the first of the year. County Appoints Trade Commission At the request of the Assoc iation of Oregon Counties, the Morrow county court has appoint ed a Trade Commission, com posed of three members, whose duty will be to assist In im proving interstate sales and ex porting of Oregon products. Named to the county commis sion are Nels Anderson, county extension agent; Harold Wright of Ruggs; and D. O. Nelson of Lexington. County Judge Oscar Peterson said that Wright was appointed to promote livestock and Nelson to promote wheat. Such commissions throughout the state will join to assist with a trade mission to Hawaii on February 12 to 16 at the time of the meeting of the National Association of County Officials there. An exhibit of items mark ted in Hawaii from the main land will be shown at that time. Those from Morrow county are livestock and wheat. The Association of Oregon Counties sponsors the trade com mission plan in cooperation with he State of Oregon's Depart ment of Planning and Development. 4-H Agent ft f -lb JOE HAY private subscriptions to assure that all three county agent pos itions would remain. The fund was raised, and the group felt its work was successfully com pleted until the budget cut de veloped at the state level. Since Hay shall have worked for just over six months of the current budget year, it is prob able that money raised for the third agent will be pro rated and that for the part of the year that he will not serve may be le turned. It was expected that the county court would take suffic ient funds from its emergency fund, when the allowed bud get was exhausted, to reimburse for the third agent. Whether this will still be done is not known at this time. If it is done, all the money collected on the volun tary drive would be returned to the donors. A county extension advisory committee is in the process of (Continued on page 8) Entry Deadline In Light Contest Set December 21 Those who wish to enter Hepp ner's annual home and commer cial Christmas lighting and dec oration contest have just nine more days left to register, Mrs. Avon Melby, chairman for the sponsoring Chamber of Com merce, announces. Deadline for entries is Satur day, December 21, at 5 p.m. and judging will be Sunday, Decem ber 22, from 3 to 5 p.m. It is requested that lighting and dec orations remain on disp 1 a y through Sunday, December 29, so that all may have a chance to see them. A total of $60 in cash is offer ed to winners of first, second and third in three categories, as follows: Store windows: First, $10; sec ond, $7.50; third, $5. Residential outdoor light and displays: First, $10; second, $7.50; and third, $5. Residential windows (inside decorations and lighting visible from the street): First, $7.50; second, $5; and third, $2.50. All that an entrant need to do to register is to leave the name or telephone it to the Gazette Times prior to the deadline on December 21, together with the location so that judges may find it. Firemen Practice As Historic House Goes Up in Flame Flames consumed a historic home in Heppner Sunday but the destruction was accom plish under the supervision of the fire department which was helping to complete the razing of the structure. Located near Gale on Water street, the house was built by Henry Johnson, then a local carpenter, many years ago. He was living in it at the time of the flood in 1903. E. W. Moyer owned the place for many years, and John Wood of Enterprise, brother-in-law of Mrs. Lucille Owens, a daugh ter of Moyer, had started to tear the house down when he called upon the fire depart ment to finish the job. The house srrved as a hos pital in the 1930's. Its departure from the local scene made a nice warm fire on a cold day. Fire Chief Charles Ruggles said that seven men of the de partment were out for the burn ing and it made a good prac tice session for them. The roof almost literally ''blew up" when cold water poured in underneath it hit the hot flames, the chief said. HI '1 II MJMMMBiaMMMMMIilta NEW SLATE OF OFFICERS was elected Saturday. December 7, by the Oregon Wheat Growers League before adjourning its annual state meeting in Portland. In the center is the new president. Milton Morgan of lone. Surrounding him are (from left) L. E. Kaseberg, Wasco, outgoing president; Melvin Pace. Enterprise. 1st vice president; Don Woodward, Pendleton, 2nd vice president; and John H. Welbes, Pendelton, executive vice president. Milt Morgan Elected Growers' President In the closing session of its 36lh annual state meeting in Portland on Saturday, the Ore gon Wheat Growers League passed several important resolut ions and elected its 1964 officers. L. E. Kaseberg, outgoing presi dent, was chairman of the meet ing. Milton Morgan, lone, and this year's first vice president, was elected as the organization's president. Melvin Pace of La Lower Grades Ready to Stage Yule Program A happy Yuletide spirit will prevail at the elementary grade school program Wednesday night, December 18, at 7:30 p.m. on the stage of the old high school gym. Grades 1 through 4 will combine! to entertain parents and friends in a varied musical program around the theme, "Christmas Means So Many Things," under the direction of Mrs. Ola Mae Groshens, vocal instructor. Opening the program will be a few songs and rhythm band numbers by the kindergarten class, under the supervision of Mrs. Gerald Jonasson, teacher. First graders will set the holi day scene with a Christmas pa rade marching before spectators on bleachers in the, "Heppner Coliseum," portrayed by second graders. They express their gift wishes, through song, to Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus, and in turn present eifts to them. Third grade students are pre paring a choral reading of the story, "The Shoemaker and the Elves," combined with other Christmas songs. Fourth and fifth grade child ren will close the evening with special chorus numbers, solos and ensembles of favorite Christ mas and sacred music. Lexington grades 1 through 4, also under direction of Mrs. Groshens, will be seen in a spec ial Christmas program Thurs day evening, December 19, in the Lexington auditorium, at 7:30 p.m. Teachers are assisting Mrs. Groshens to help prepare a full evening of singing and speaking numbers, including solos and novelty numbers. The program presented by band and vocal students in 6th, 71 h and 8th grades Tuesday night was well received by a near-capacity audience at the old high school gym. School Directors Cover Wide Range at Meet Directors of Morrow County School District R-l at their reg ular meeting Monday night cov ered a range of matters, includ ing the following: 1. Reaffirmed a resolution of the "old" board that the district would not pay tuition to Echo for Morrow county students at tending there. 2. Talked again of the puzzling matter of disposing of Pine City school property and tabled the matter again. 3. Passed a motion to open the bids on completion of the Hepp ner High school music rooms on Monday night, December 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the courthouse, as advertised. 4. Confirmed appointments of the Heppner advisory committee choices of Mrs. Paul Brown and Clarence Baker to fill vacancies on the advisory board. 5. Rescheduled a meeting of the directors with all of the county's advisory boards at lone on Thursday, January 2, at 7:30 p.m. 6. Considered further the pur chase of additional property ad jacent to the Irrigon school. 7. Discussed filling vacancies on the budget committee that will occur with expiring terms of two members. 8. Decided to pay advisors of school annuals a flat $100 for their extra work outside of class Grande was elected first vice president, Don Woodward, Pen dleton, was named to the post of second vice presdient, and John H. Welbes, also of Pendle ton, was re-elected executive vice president. At an earlier meeting of the League's executive committee, it was determined that 12 mem bers will represent the Oregon body at the annual national con vention in Amarillo, Texas, in January. Included will be the new president and his wife, out going president Kaseberg; Allen Tom, The Dalles; Robert Jcpsen, lone; Thomas Vaughn, Jr., Pen dleton; Walt Jacobs, lone; Glen Brogoitti, Helix; Larry Kaseberg, Wasco, and the three vice presi dents. The wheat producer members voted overwhelmingly to support the sale of wheat "to any foreign country recognized b.v the United States and willing and able to buy wheat for dollars under normal credit terms." The word ing was obviously aimed at ex cluding Red China, not recog nized by the U. S., from any grain sale. Qualifying its support of the Iron Curtain trade proposal, the league resolution specified that "shipping restrictions be elim inated and that any such re quirement relative to wheat be similar to other commodities sold to dollar market countries." A second resolution submitted by the league's marketing and transportation committee was al so adopted by the full member ship. This vote backed the Pa cific Northwest Grain Associat ion, the Oregon Wheat Commis sion and several railroads in their efforts to block a proposed rail rate increase on grain com modities. The resolution condemned A recent Interstate Commerce Com mission report which declared the Northwest rate scale In ef fect since 1960 to be unjust, un fair and unreasonable, and which recommended higher tar- ills on regional grain products. A third major proposal adop ted by the farm body was a res olution calling for a voluntary wheat certificate program of fed eral subsidy legislation. Amendments to the resolution provide for the retention of a feed grain substitution clause in future wheat measures, and the continued enforcement of acreage allotments through 1964. After next year, the League rec ommended that wheat farmers should not lose or increase wheat history for future allotments as a result of over planting. The farm group also voted to support the enactment of a sales tax in Oregon. time on the annuals, Instead of an hourly rate for the extra work. 9. Heard a presentation on re medial reading program at lone elementary school and Heppner elementary school by Principals Leonard Herrick and Hillard Brown and discussed possibility of expanding the programs. As to the matter of paying tuition to the Echo students, the. board expressed the feeling that there is no reason that the stu dents cannot come to Morrow county schools if they would choose to do so. The county sys tem runs a bus near their homes on Butter Creek and would drive to them If they decided to come to this county. About eight stu dents are involved. In view of the resolution adopted by the district board on May 26, 1960, denying the payment of tuition to Echo, the present board reaf firmed this decision. On the Pine City property, it has been determined that the deed reads that the property must be used for school purposes. If it is not so used, heirs of the donors have the right to purchase the property for $50. The board would like to dispose of the property because expense of maintenance exceeds rental re ceived. Attorney Bob Abrams discussed the problems involved. (Continued on Page 4)
