4 HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES,
'63 Leaves Record
Both Good and Bad
(Continued from page 1)
of lone was recalled by vote at
a special election May 6, after
which four directors resigned
D. O. Nelson, Robert Sicard, Mrs.
Esther Anderson and Dick Wilk
inson. At a special election on
June 22, four new directors wera
elected, Howard Cleveland and
Ken Baity of Heppner, Irvin
Rauch of Lexington and Roy
Partlow of Boardman. MiHon
Morgan of lone was appointed
to fill Hie unexpired term of
Fred Martin. Andy Van Schoiack
of Heppner had been elected to
replace Kd Dick who did not seek
a new term.
Supt. Robert Van Houte also
resigned, and the new board
chose Wayne Brubaeher of Wal
lace, Idaho, to succeed him.
The conflict on school matters
was also evident in the district
budget. As initially presented for
vote on April 22, it sought
$1,028,000 in general fund expen
ditures and was defeated, 274
yes to 097 no. It was then revised
and reduced to 991,000 and was
approved on June 22 by a 2Ms
to 1 margin.
Great interest was shown in
the wheat referendum on the
1904 program here. Local growers
voted in favor by the greatest
margin of any county, record
ing a 91 yes vote on May 21,
but it was defeated throughout
the nation, and growers faced
an uncertain future. At year's
end there still was no wheat pro
gram for the 1904 crop but grow
ers were pressing for action on
a voluntary certificate plan in
congress.
Despite a cool summer and
some rain, the 19(53 wheat crop
proved to be considerably better
than average in most parts of
the county.
Morrow County Grain Growers
listed earnings at $114,000 for the
1902 crop year at their annual
meeting.
The county budget was held
within the 6 limitation for the
1903-04 year with estimated
expenditures of $543,878, but it
caused controversy when the fig
ure for the county extension
agent was cut at the final bud
get hearing. Fearing this would
mean the loss of one of three
county agents, many residents
protested and finally raised vol
untary fund of $3400 to assure
retention of the three agents.
However, this proved to be of
no avail after the state proposal
was defeated in October and the
third agent, Joe Hay, was re
moved as one of many around
the state who lost their jobs
when a general curtailment was
ordered by the State Borad of
Higher Education.
On July 18 it was announced
that Heppner was classified by
the employment service as an
"area of substantial unemploy
ment." This brought disagree
ment from a number of business
men, but it qualified the area
for public works projects under
the Public Works Acceleration
Administration. Later, a $70,000
PWAA project was approved for
the Heppner district, U. S. Forest
Service, to improve Tup per
Guard Station and construct
roads.
Other items of general interest
in the year's news were these:
Approval by the Heppner city
council of an envelope plan for
parking meter violations where
in a violator might place 25c in
an envelope in lieu of paying a
fine. It appeared to b eworking
very successfully.
Noting with memories of horror
of the GOlli anniversary of the
1903 Heppner flood on June 14.
Retirement of Mrs. Walter
(Ruby) Roberts as lone postmas
ter after 11 years of service and
appointment of Mrs. Charles
(June) O'Connor to succed her.
Gain in school enrollment to
1194 noted in the county at. the
start of school September 3, 38
students more than 19G2.
Appointment of Clarence Rose
wall to the Heppner city coun
cil to succeed Conley Lanham
who resigned to take an extend
ed trip abroad.
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Resignation of Milton Biegel
as county commissioner and ap
pointment of Walter Hayes,
Boardman, to take his place af
ter December 1.
Proposal of Columbia Basin
Electric Cooperative to buy pow
er systems of Pacific Power in
Heppner, Fossil and Condon and
exchange other territoritios with
the company to bo culminated
after the start of the new year.
Payment of $1,492,000 is ineolv
ed. Impact of the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy on
November 22 must rank as one
of the year's top news stories
and the most tragic one. Local
residents, like those everywhere,
were deeply affected. Many
memorial services were held and
a day of mourning was observed.
At year's end Al Lamb was
elected to the presidency of the
Heppner-Morrow County Cham
ber fo Commerce for 1904.
There was little activity on the
political front because this was
a non-election year. Oliver Cres
wick was appointed justice of
the peace to succeed J. O. llager,
justice for many years, who died
early in 1903.
Honors Achieved
Countless honors were achiev
ed by Morrow county residents
and organizations in 1903, and
these are only a few of them:
Ilynd Bros, of Cecil named
Liveslockmen of the year on Jan
uary 10; Ann Jones was valedic
torian and Martha Doherfy salut
atorian of Heppner High school
class of 19G3; Louise Pointer was
valedictorian and William Akers
was salutatorian of lone High
school class of 1903; Joan Healy,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Healy, was queen of the
Shrine football game August 24;
John Porter, ex lleppner football
star, was selected to play in the
Ijinip; Oliver Creswick received
Itie Chamber of Commerce cer
tificate of recognition at its an
nual banquet May 13 for his
work as chairman of the develop
ment committee; Gar Swanson
of lone was named as Conser
vation Man of the Year June
G; Dr. Ed Schaffitz was chosen
by Morrow County CowBelles as
Father of the Year; Morrow
county's rodeo court won first
place among courts in the Port
land Rose Festival in early June;
the Rev. Charles Knox was cho
sen Minister of the, Year by the
state convention of the Oregon
Christian churches; Phyllis Nel
son was chosen as one of 10 from
Oregon to be a delegate to the
national Future llomemakers
convention in Kansas City; Chris
Brown was chosen a member of
the national FFA band for the
convention also held in Kansas
City, and several delegates from
the Heppner High chapter attend
ed; Marcia Rands won top hon
ors in the IOOF sponsored Unit
ed Nations Pilgrimage and took
a trip to the United Nations in
New York, leaving July 9; L. L.
Gilliam was presented a pin by
the Weather Bureau for 30 years
service as weather observer in
Heppner; the Heppner Soil Con
servation district was chosen by
the Goodyear company for its
grand award in Oregon and two
men, Gar Swanson and Raymond
French, represented the district
at a trip to Goodyear Farms in
Arizona in December; Mae Grif
fith, former lleppnerite, won the
all-around cowboy title at the
Pendleton Round-Up on Septem
ber 14; Dick Ruhl brought more
athletic recognition for his home
county with his exploits as an
outstanding member of the Ore
team; Judy Sherer of lone was
gon State University football
chosen princess of the Pacific
International Livestock exposit
ion in October; Jerry and Eddie
Brosnan were named Livestock
men of the Year and presented
awards at a joint banquet on
November 2, the date being mov
ed ahead from the usual January
date; Marcia Rands won local,
area and semifinal speech con
tests in Soil Conservation dis
trict competition and won third
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in the state finals: Milton Mor
gan was elected president of the
Oregon Wheat league December
7; Lt. Dennis E. Swanson was
presented the Air Medal for his
service in Vietnam; and Herb
Ekstrom and sons showed the
grand champion junior yearling
bull at the Poll-O-Rama, Sac
ramento, Calif., November 30 to
December 2.
Accidents
A number af tragic accidents
occurred in 1963, the worst claim
ing four lives in an auto acci
dent two miles from lone on Jan
uary 25. Killed were Mancell
Townsend, 18, lone; Mrs. Theresa
M. Brosnan, 51, of Portland; her
daughter, Theresa A. Brosnan, 9,
and her son, John Paul Brosnan,
11. The husband and father, Joe
Brosnan, was seriously injured.
Leonard Wise, 28, Heppner
was killed in an auto accident
near Echo June 22.
First drowning in Bull Prairie
reservoir claimed the life of Glen
Douglas Beith, 17, Hood River.
August 2.
One death was attributed to
hunting during deer season. Dan
iel Regis Alexander, 52, Herm
iston, died in the, Johnson Creek
area from a heart attack October
15.
Lewis Allyn, 58, died in an
auto accident near Lexington
August 9, and Mrs. Norah Kling
er, 75, mother of Ken Klinger
of Lexington, was killed in an
auto accident on Highway 30 on
December 13.
Three young men escaped
death in a serious auto accident
that opened the year 1903 when
they collided with a pickup truck
near Heppner on the night of
December 30, 1902. Seriously in
jured were Dean Lovgrcn, 15,
and John Privett, 17. Bill Slruth
ers was less seriously hurt. Lov
grcn underwent long hospitali
zation and is still confined to
a wheel chair. The community
greeted him with a homecoming
from a Portland hospital when
he returned here June 22. He is
now attending Heppner High
school. (
Mel Boyer escaped serious in
jury June 14 when his airplane
"pancaked" while spraying
weeds on the Wilkinson ranch
June 14. The, plane was a total
loss.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Doherty sus
tained grave injuries when their
car skidded on slick pavement
near the Alpine road junction on
the highway to Butter Creek De
cember 1, and they remained
hospitalized in Heppner at the
year's end.
Two trucks loaded with wheat
broke through county bridges
during the year, one of the Sun
Trucking company in Blackhorse
canyon near Lexington March 8
and one of Inland Navigation
company in the, Eightmile dis
trict on October 14. No one was
hurt in either incident. However,
this resulted in a 10-ton load
limit being imposed on the coun
ty bridges, a matter that brought
considerable protest from farm
ers and truckers.
A grocery truck provided a
rather spectacular accident when
it overturned near lone on April
10. No one was hurt in the acci
dent and most of the big load
of groceries was salvaged.
Fires
Fires were held to a minimum
in the county in 19G3. Both forest
fires and field fires were held
to relatively light losses, al
though a rash of forest fires
broke out late in hunting season.
A ranch house, owned by the
Charles Carlsons, was destroyed
by fire January 19. They did not
live in the house. Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Springer were left homeless
for a time and lost all of their
household goods when fire de
stroyed their residence at Ruggs
May 9. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Both
well also lost all their belong
ings when fire gutted their home
in Lexington November 19.
Fair and Rodeo
Fine weather smiled on the
Morrow county fair, horse show
and rodeo this year and all
events were declared very suc
cessful.. Fair and rodeo queen
was Sandra Eubanks of lone and
her court was composed of Louise
Pointer of Lexington, Shannon
Mahoney and Nancy Cleveland
of Heppner, and Sharon Dono
van of Boardman. Heppner's Sor
opiimist club won grand sweep
stakes in the rodeo parade on
August 31, Howard Bryant's
Becky Bar was champion perfor
mance horse at the Wranglers
horse show August 30, and Gene
Jordan of Macos, Colo., was
Northwest Saddle Bronc cham-
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pion at the rodeo. Bill Healy won
the Morrow County Amateur
calf roping event. A record num
ber of cowboys entered the rodeo.
Sports
It was a better than average
year in the county for high
school sports. Probably top
achievement was lone football
team winning its sixth consecu
tive Umatilla-Morrow B league
championship, but it lost in a
quarter-final game to Mt. Ver
non, 34-13. Heppner tied with
Sherman for the Greater Oregon
western division bask e t b a 1 1
championship but lost in a play
off game that decided the right
to play Vale for a state title
berth. lone was third in its
league in basketball and Hepp
ner's football team finished the
'63 season with a record of five
wins and three losses.
Of prime sports interest here
was the opening of Fiesta Lanes.
Many leagues were in full swing
at the end of the year with both
men and women, as well as jun
iors, participating.
Weather
Old 19G3 was a rather mild
year weather-wise. It brought
6.2 inches of snow in January
and this was followed by threat
of a flood in Heppner on Feb
ruary 7 that caused excitement
throughout the city. Damage was
not as great as feared, however.
Summer was very mild and cool
with moisture hampering the
grain harvest. Use of the swim
ming pool fell far below normal.
As winter entered the scene in
December once more, lowest
temperature recorded was seven
degrees above zero on December
11.
Deaths
Many deaths of local persons,
former residents, and relatives of
residents brought sadness. Some
of the more prominent residents
who died during the year in
cluded Justice J. O. Hager on
February 23; Mrs. W. W. Weath
erford, April 18; Russell O'Don
nell, May 20, followed closely
by the death of his mother, Mrs.
Claire O'Donnell, May 22; Harold
Evans, October 10; and Mary
Pearl Devine, October 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hills, son
Clayton and daughter Creigh, ar
rived Christmas Eve from their
home in Coos Bay to enjoy the
holiday season at the home of
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Har
ris. I
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Heppner
Condon Air Force
Paper Rated Best
Newspaper of the 636th Radar
Squadron, U. S. Air Force, at Con
don, has won first place in the
annual Air Defence Command
newspaper contest held Decem
ber 12 at headquarters ADC at
Colorado Springs, Colo., it has
been announced.
The paper, "The Scope," is pub
lished monthly by the squadron
and is printed by the Gazette
Times in Heppner.
The Scope was started by Capt.
Roland Noel in 1961 and was
published regularly after De
cember, 1962, with 2d Lt. Thomas
K. Goldie, information officer,
in charge. He was assisted by
Staff Sergeant Henry Bixler.
After Lt. Goldie left the sta
tion in July, 1963, Staff Sergeant
James B. Chauncey had the ma
jor responsibility for the paper
under the direction of 2d Lt.
Joseph P. Bigelow, information
officer.
The contest is a part of an
Air Force-wide competition held
each year. Each major air com
mand forwards to Air Force the
first place winners of the com
mand contest and a final judg
ing will be held by the Air Force
to select the best newspapers
serving the many organizations
of the Air Force.
Those who picked The Scope
as the best at Air Command
headquarters were civilians con
nected with news media and
public relations departments of
industrial companies. The Scope
was in competition with 21 other
papers to receive the top award.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sumner and
their children are spending the
holidays in Heppner visiting
friends and relatives. They will
return to their home in Corvallis
where Mr. Sumner is an instruc
tor in agrciulture engineering at
Oregon State University.
Mrs. Bob Abrams traveled by
train during the holiday season
to southwest Utah, where she
met her mother, Mrs. Sara Mor
row, who was motoring from her
home in Prcscott, Ariz. The two
made the trip from Utah to Hepp
ner in Mrs. Morrow's automobile
and she is enjoying a short visit
at the Abrams home here.
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Morris Quits Staff
To Return to EOC
Jim Morris, who has worked
on news and advertising at the
Gazette-Times for the past, three
months, is leaving the staff this
week in order to return to East
ern Oregon College, La Grande,
for registration Monday to com
plete work for a degree.
Prior to going back to college,
though, he was scheduled to go
to Portland for physical exam
ination Friday for armed ser
vice classification.
Morris was employed by the
paper with the understanding
that he would return to college
for the winter term. His assis
tance helped carry the staff over
a busy holiday period, and he
will be missed when he leaves.
Farra In Training
E2 James Farra left Thursday
to return to Great Lakes, 111.
where he is attending electronic
technicians' school at the Navy's
Great Lakes Naval Training Sta
tion. Farra has been attending the
school for seven months and has
five months to go before he com
pletes his training.
He has been in Heppner at the
home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Farra, for the duration
of his current leave, which start
ed December 23.
Farra said that there are about
21,000 personnel at the base, in
cluding 7,000 men in the train
ing school.
SCHOOL MENUS
Heppner and Lexington
January 3-10
FRIDAY Tomato soup, Tuna
sandwiches, salad, oatmeal
cookies, fruit and milk.
MONDAY Hamburger casser
ole (Mor), spinach, carrot sticks,
bread and butter and milk.
TUESDAY Fried chi c k e n,
gravy, pickled beets, buttered
corn, bread and butter, milk and
fruit.
WEDNESDAY Navy beans
and Ham, fruit salad, cabbage
salad, milk and hot rolls and
butter.
THURSDAY Canned meat and
gravy, rice, green beans, cake,
fruit, carrot sticks, bread and
butter and milk.
FRIDAY Mushroom soup,
tuna sandwiches, cheese sticks,
cake, fruit, green salad and milk.
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Jobless Benefits
To Be Increased
SALEM (Special) The New
Year will bring several changes
to Oregon unemployment insur
ance benefits law.
Firstly, the new law increases
the maximum weekly benefit
amount from $40 a week to $44
a week and the minimum
amount from $15 to $20.
Secondly, the weekly benefit
will now be figured on the basis
of 1.25 percent of the claimant's
total base year wages, rather
than l26th of the claimant's
highest base year quarter wages.
Since a number of claimants
who filed in 1963 will have
claims carried over into the new
year, the benefits division of the
Department of Employment has
had to refigure thousands of
claims because of these changes
in the law.
Of course, those filing claims
after the first of the year will
automatically have their claims
determined under the new law.
Under the new law also, the
claimant's benefit year, the year
in which it is determined he is
eligible for benefits, begins on
the day he files his claim.
The Employment Department
estimates that; some 75,000
claims had to be refigured. It is
also estimated that the increas
ed benefit amounts will cost
some $500,000 annually depend
ing of course, on the extent of
unemployment.
The unemployment insurance
trust fund has the best balance
its had for a number of years.
On December 20 it contained
$72.1 million compared to $56.1
million a year earlier.
As a consequence, the new law
also will give many employers
reduced unemployment insurance
tax rates beginning January 1,
1964. The rates will vary from
1.8 percent to 2.7 percent depend
ing on their experience rating.
Among out-of-town visitors
here for the holidays were A. H.
Bergstrom and daughter, Anna
Lvn, of Portland. They arrived
Christmas day to spend the
week-end at the home of Mr.
Bergstroms brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Becket.
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