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L I BRARY U OF 0 E U G E N C r ORE. 80th Year Soil District Meet Slated Tuesday Eve (See page 3, section 2) William Coffield of Portland, SCS watershed planning leader, and Ken Keudell, also of Port land, representing the Farmers Home Administration, will be speakers at the annual meeting of the Heppner Soil and Water Conservation district, to be Tues day night, February 4', in !he Lexington Grange hall. The two will talk on phases of watershed development. Two men who represented the district at oooclyear tarms in Arizona after the district won the Goodyear award in Oregon will open the meeting with a re port at 7:30 p.m. on "Our Ex periences in Arizona." The two who made the trip are Garland Swanson, Conservation Man of the Year in Morrow County, and Raymond French, chairman of the district's supervisors. They will illustrate their report with colored slides. At the business session, sup ervisors will be elected to fill the expired terms of Robert H. Jepsen, Raymond Lundell and W. C. Rosewall. Progress and financial report and machinery report will be given. Refreshments will be provided by Bristow's Grocery and Lex ington Implement Company. The public is invited. "Come and bring a neighbor," says N. C. Anderson, secretary of the dis trict. Major Committee Members Chosen By School System Members of three major coun ty-wide school advisory commit tees have been announced by Wayne A. Brubacher, county school superintendent, following their appointment by the board of directors of Morrow County School district R-l and local ad visory committees. The three committees were recommended at a recent joint meeting of local advisory com mittees with the board of direc tors, and the action was auth orized at a succeeding school board meeting. The committees are: main tenance (building and grounds), transportation, and education and curriculum. First committee to meet will be that of transportation here on Saturday. Members will in spect older buses of the district to plan for transportation needs in the future. On this new county-wide transportation committee are Or ville Buchanan, Irrigon; Ralph Skoubo, Boardman; Charles Jones, lone-Cecil; Eldon Padberg, Lexington; Clarence Baker, Hepp ner; Milton Morgan, Harvey Warner, Irvin Rauch, Kenneth Batty and Andy Van Schoiack, all of the school board; and Bru bacher, ex officio. On the education and curric ulum committee are Warren McCoy, Irrigon, Mrs. Dewey West, Boardman; Helen McCabe, lone Cecil; Vesta Kilkenny, Lexing ton; Betty Brown, Heppner; Mor gan, Roy Partlow, Warner, Rauch and Howard Cleveland, all of the school board; and Brubacher, ex officio. On the maintenance commit tee are William Parker, Irrigon; Earl McQuaw, Boardman; Bob Rietmann, lone-Cecil; Gene Ma jeske, Lexington; Homer Hughes, Heppner; Morgan, Partlow, Bat ty, Van Schoiack and Cleveland of the school board; and Bru bacher, ex officio. The new committees are de signed so that those from various parts of the county may become familiar with aspects and prob lems of the educational program in all parts of the district. Jackson Injured Unloading Cattle Ralph Jackson of Hermiston, formerly associated with Lexing ton Implement Company, suff ered a painful injury Tuesday when he was caught between two cattle trucks on the Ron Haguewood place south of Hepp ner. Two cattle trucks were being backed together so that cattle could be transferred from one to the other. Jackson got caught between them and was crushed in the chest. Jackson was brought to a doc tor in Heppner who said that he escaped serious injury al though he was bruised and suff ered injuries to his ribs. Jackson went home to Hermiston after treatment here. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 30, 1964 f ' - CT- , jl.- - LJ jl ljij L,-J ,;.rH NEARING COMPLETION on Heppner's eastern skyline is the new Church ol the Nazarene under con struction by Richard Kealiner of Wheatridge, Colo., contractor. The Rev. J. G. Weller, pastor, said Thursday that the congregation hopes to be using the church about March 1. a month ahead of the planning schedule. Interior painting is now being done, and floor tile will be laid soon. Some brick trim is yet to be added to the exterior. (G-T Photo) Oregonian Article Says Boeing Plans Groundbreaking in February Groundbreaking ceremonies on the Boardman space age indus trial site will be held by the Boeing Company in mid-February, according to an article by Albert L. McCready, associate editor of The Oregonian, in Wed nesday's issue of that paper. The writer reported on an in terview with Lysle A. Wood, vice president and general manager of Boeing's aero-space division. Call for bids by the company for roads, parking lots and build ing foundations will be made this week, McReady reported, and actual start of this work will be coordinated with the on site ceremony. "While Boeing won't reveal in advance the nature or purpose of the structures it plans to erect at Boardman, or how much it expects to spend there, the sum involved only in this preliminary program is large enough to widen Oregon eyes," the story in the Oregonian said. Wood was quoted as saying, "We're starting work right now because we need these facilities as soon as we can get them. Not long ago we had to pass up Scouts, Explorers Schedule Banquet Boy Scout troop 600, Explorer troop 600 and Boy Scout troop 86 will sponsor a banquet Satur day, February 15, at the Legion hall in Heppner. Starting time for the affair is 6 p.m. The dinner, which will feature barbecued beef, is sponsored in the hope of stimulating interest in the scouting movement in the community, according to Paul Warren, Explorer Scout leader. Warren stated that the food will be delicious and that en tertainment will be on tap for the evening. Everyone is invited to attend the banquet. Admission for the dinner is $1 for adults and $.75 for children. Postcards Needed to Back Mike for Campus Queen Mike Morrison, sophom ore Oregon State University coed from lone who ruled over the 8th annual Far West Classic in Portland as Queen Mike, is one of four finalists in the 13th annual Campus Queen contest sponsored by a national maga zine (Sport). The 5-foot, 4V2-inch brunette beauty from Oregon State was named along with coeds from the University of Texas, Uni versity of Colorado and West Virginia University as a finalist in the nationwide competition. Final selection will be through a tabulation of postcard votes, according to Don Cady, presi dent of the Portland Linebackers a chance to bid on a very large aerospace contract because we didn't have the kind of develop ment and testing grounds Board- Boeing Contract On Record Here Contract between the Boe ing Company and State of Ore gon on the Boardman indus trial site was placed on record in the office of Mrs. Sadie Par rish, Morrow county clerk, Tuesday. Harry O'Donnell of Morrow County Abstract and Title Company, handling title insur ance on the transaction, re ceived the document and took it to the courthouse for re cording. It was photographed and entered in the records. O'Donnell said that it will be sent to Gillia.m county Thursday to be entered on record there, since part of the transaction involves Gilliam county. Lease agreement, legal de scription, modifications and other details are included in the document of some 68 pages. Tobacco Clinic May Be Offered Again Elder Elwood Boyd, pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist church, states that another to bacco clinic may be held here if there is enough interest to warrant it. A 5-day clinic was sponsored by the church in Heppner last year, designed to help those who are interested in quitting smok ing. Those who might wish to par ticipate in such a clinic are ask ed to contact Dr. H. S. Huber or Dr. C. M. Wagner. It is believed that interest in the matter has increased since the federal report was made re cently on the relation of smoking to lung cancer and other dis eases. and one of the Far West Classic sponsors. Votes must be cast no later than Saturday, February 1. Postcards supporting the Ore gon candidate should be mailed to Campus Queen Contest, P. O. Box 4344, Grand Central Station, New York, N. Y. Miss Morrison is the 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jodie Morrison of lone. She is active in many campus events. The Beaver coed is a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority and is a major in elementary education. She was Miss Spring Sports at OSU, a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity's rose court and was a sponsor of the Persh ing Rifles for the army ROTC. man will give us." The story said that Wood is convinced the Boardman tract will live up to the most optimis tic forecasts of its sponsors in terms of investment, utilization, employment and payrolls. "He sees the liklihood Boeing in years to come will build rocket components j' its Seattle shops, assemble and test them at Boardman and then barge them down the Columbia along the Pacific Coast to Southern California," the article said. "Some of the ideas being kicked around by Wood's crys tal gazers would startle even a science fiction fan. For example, serious thought is being given to adapting nuclear power to lightweight but enormous ma chines designed to move great quantities of earth in a hurry for roadbuilding or canal construc tion, or gigantic land-clearing devices that could transform areas of tropical jungle into agri cultural fields." The article said that state of ficials and civic leaders would be invited to the mid-February groundbreaking. 'Budget School' Set February 5 In order to acquaint those concerned with preparation of budgets with the new state bud get law, a "Local Budget Law School" will be held Wednesday, February 5, at 2 p.m. in the county courthouse, County Judge Oscar Peterson and Assessor Rod Thomson announce. The 1963 legislature rewrote the budget law as it applies to the taxing districts (cities, school districts, fire districts, cemetery districts, and others). The school will assist those who will pre pare budgets and levy taxes for the next fiscal year, in light of the new law. "Taxing districts can very easily come up with illegal bud gets if they are not familiar with the changes in the law," Thomson said. Under the new law, each tax ing body must appoint a bud get officer who is responsible for an initial drafting of the budget and preparation of a budget message. Representatives of the State Tax Commission will be present to explain the new law and an swer any questions which may be presented. WEATHER By LEONARD GILLIAM Hi Low Prec. Thursday 40 30 .14 Friday 50 36 .07 Saturday 55 40 .51 Sunday 45 29 Monday 55 27 Tuesday 54 35 .03 Wednesday 47 29 .09 January precipitation 1.23". Number 48 10 cents Benefit Tilt Set Tonight For Dimes It will be Blue Mountain Col lege versus the Morrow County Grain Growers All-Stars on the basketball court tonight, but re gardless of the outcome, the March of Dimes will be the win ner. The two squads will play in the new Heppner High gymnas ium, with the preliminary start ing at 7 p.m. Fifth and sixth graders- wlil play in the opener and will also perform at half- time. Blue Mountain currently Is running at the top of its league with a 4-0 record, and they will pit their ability against the MCGG outfit that is composed of former college and high school stars, now in Gilliam and Morrow counties. Admission is 75c for adults, 25c for students and 10c tor children. All proceeds will go to the March of Dimes. Pete Glennie, March of Dimes chairman, said Wednesday that ticket sales have been "slow" for the contest, and he urged the public to respond for the worthy purpose. Children of fifth, sixth, sev enth and eighth grades in lone and Heppner are competing for prizes in a ticket sales contest. Among those to be awarded are three lines of bowling each for a boy and girl, three Hit Parade records donated by Gonty's, a Shaeffer pen from Phil's Pharm acy, a basketball from Central Market, and a sweater from Wil son's Men's Wear. The prizes will be awarded this evening at the ball game. A skating party that was held Tuesday night for the March of Dimes proved to be an excellent success with $69.90 turned over to the cause. A good crowd of grade school students was on hand for the early session, start ing at 6:30, and another good attendance from high school stu dents followed at a later session. The skating rink was donated for the evening by Glen Ward and Shorty Hudson. Glennie said that March of Dimes mailers are not being re turned very fast and urged those who received them to insert do nations and mail them as soon as possible. Sylvia McDaniel Completes Filing Sylvia McDaniel, Republican, filed her candidacy for reelection as Morrow county treasurer in the offici; of Mrs. Sadie Parrish, county dork, Wednesday. Commissioner Walter Hayes completed his filing for county commissioner Monday. He has served since December following the resignation of Milton Biegel, former commissioner. Hayes is a Republican. These were the only signs of political activity in this election year in the courtnouse tnis week, although Mrs. Parrish said that one more petition is out for an Incumbent. High School Bills One-Act Plays For February 13 Heppner high school's drama department will present three one-act plays to the public in the Heppner high school multi purpose room Thursday, Febru ary 13, at 8:00 p.m. The date was originally set for Saturday, February 1, but was changed because conflicts did not allow the cast sufficient practice time. These plays are, "Beyond the Door," a mystery melodrama; "Why I Am a Bachelor," a hil arious comedy about the pitfalls of married life; and "Drag Race," a teen age drama in a police court. The cast chosen for the play, "Beyond the Door," is Nancy Cleveland as Ruth, Anita Groves as Alice, Richard Clark as Paul, and David Clark as Officer Mor gan. The play, "Why I Am a Bach elor," finds Doug Anderson as the lecturer, Marcia Rands as Attorney Submits Written Statement On Power Exchange P. W. Mahonry, attorney, filed with the Public Utility Commis sion Monday a written protest to the exchange of facilities be tween Pacific Power and Light Company and Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative. The protest was signed by Ma honey, acting for Kinzua Corp oration and five citizens of Wheeler and Gilliam counties. They are Edwin Ashcr, member of the city council, City of Fos sil; Dr. R. E. Reilly, president of the Fossil Community club; W. II. Steiwer, Sr., chairman, Wheeler county budget commit tee; County Judge James O. Burns of Gilliam county; and M. Snell Weatherford, represent ing the protestants of the com munities of Olex, Rock Creek and Mikkalo. Mahoney, who had requested Lack of Access To New Highway Brings Concern At a special meeting of chs Boardman City Council and City Planning Commission Tuesday night, Mayor Dewey West ex pressed concern about the fact that when U. S. Highway 80 N. is relocated through Boardman, eight county roads, six paved and two graveled that now cross the highway, will be severed completely. Mayor West pointed out that some residents living on the west end of the irrigation pro ject that now have to drive mile to get o he highway would have to travel a distance of 16 miles to get to the same place on the highway if they stayed on a paved road. The gravel roads in the area are at times almost impassable, he said. He urged that everyone who uses these roads and all others concerned contact the Morrow county court in writing to pro test this action and to propose that an access road parallel to Highway 80N be built on the south side of it from the Irrigon North Lexington interchange to the bombing range-airport inter change. The court will hold its month ly meeting February 5. These letters of protest should be in their hands by then. Also at the meeting a draft of the subdivision and zoning ordinance for the City of Board man, which will be a guide in the development of the new town and surrounding area, was read. The planning commission will make a study of these two ordinances. Vernon Russell, president of the commission, has called an other special meeting to take further action on this on Feb ruary 4, which is the regular council meeting night. This is a result of a 12 months study by James M. Berkey, planning con sultant for the Bureau of Mun icipal Research. X-Rays Available Free chest X-rays will be avail able again Wednesday, February 5, at Pioneer Memorial hospital between 7:00 and 8:30 p.m., to all residents of Morrow county. The free X-rays are sponsored the first Wednesday of each month by the Morrow County TB and Health Dept. and resi dents are encouraged to take ad vantage of this service. Henrietta, Larry Muesslg as Al gernon, and Sheridan Wyman as Ida May, Mary Johnson as Hen rietta's mother and Anita Groves as Aunt Emma. ' In the cast of "Drag Race" are Lee Padberg as Officer Ritter, Dean Robinson as Officer Quim by, Larry Muesslg as Martin, Da vid Clark as Ken, Mary Johnson as Ginny, Tanna Valentine as Enid, Bill Sherman as Mr. Mit chell, Vickie Barratt as Mr$. Mitchell, and Karen McCurdy as Mrs. Rush. ! These plays will be judged at the February 12 performance and the winning play will be taken to the Pacific University one-act play festival at Forest Grove on March 7. The best actor and actress in a leading role will be chosen and the best actor and actress In a supporting role will also be sel ected at the local performance. Admission is 50c for adults and 25c for children. the right to file a written pro test when he appeared at a pub lic hearing on the exchange here last week, said Wednesday that he believes more guarantses should be made before the ex change is completed. Included in his protest were four principal points: 1. That there had been no re quest by the people in the area involved to become members of Columbia Basin Cooperative, but if the exchange were completed they would become members of a cooperative with a $3 million Indebtedness. 2. That the three counties in volved would lose $13,500 in ad valorem taxes as a result of the transaction. Although the coop erative board has agreed to make up this loss by a "tax dis placement donation" for two years, Mahoney said the action of the directors can be revoked at any time, and there is no as surance that the donation will continue after the two-year per iod. "A mere promise by the president that he will vote for the donation in the future is not sufficient," Mahoney said. "It is not binding and has no legal effect." 3. While the cooperative pro poses to keep the same power rates, there is no assurance that future boards won't change them, the attorney said. He also pointed out that the Public Util ity Commission loses its power to regulate the rates when the facilities are owned by the co operative. 4. That borrowing money from the government at 2 by the cooperative when the going in terest rate is about 5 is in the nature of subsidy. Mahoney said that this government subsidy is not necessary when adequate service is presently being given by Pacific Power and Light Co. The protest was filed on the last of the five days granted by the Public Utility examiner to enter It. At the same time he granted an additional five days for the cooperative and its at torney to submit a written, an swer. This time would expire Saturday. Harley Young, manager of the cooperative, said that he had not received a copy of Mahoney's protest as of Wednesday, but said that the cooperative would probably submit a short reply. Position of the five from Wheeler and Gilliam counties on the matter was stated in a letter submitted to the Gazette Times editor and printed on the editorial page of this issue, . 'Not Candidate Says Weatherford Frank Weatherford of Olex, former representative In the state legislature from this dis trict, said Wednesday that he has definitely decided not to en ter the legislative race this year. He had been frequently mention ed as a possible Democratic can didate for the post. Weatherford lost his seat In the legislature in 1962 when Jack Smith of Condon, also a Democrat, defeated him in the primary election that year. Smith later defeated Gaylord Madison Republican, of Echo in the gen eral election. Rep. Smith announced recently that he would not seek a second term, and Weatherford was con sidered as a possible candidate. Meanwhile, Irvin Mann of Stan field has field for the legisla tive post on the Republican tick et and Martin Buchanan has filed on the Democratic ticket. The 28th district now embraces five counties, including Morrow. Weatherford spent the last legislative session In a position as chief doorkeeper at the state house chambers, giving him a good chance to observe and keep posted on legislative matters, but he said Wednesday that he would not seek this employment again. After a period of hospitaliza tion several weeks ago, the ex representative was looking fit and trim on his visit here. Annual Meeting Of Co-op Slated Annual meeting of the Lexlng ton Oil Co-op Is scheduled 'for Tuesday, February 11, at 10:30 a.m. in the Lexington Grange hall, Joel Engelman, manager, states. Co-op Biddies will stage a homecraft and art demonstra tion exhibit, and free luncheon will be served at noon by Ihe Lexington Home Economics club. Officers for the coming year wlil be elected. Door prizes will be given.
