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L I BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. I i Lity Lommittee To Eye Zoning for the City of Heppner received preliminary attention at the regular meeting of the city council Monday night, and May or Al Lamb appointed a council committee composed of Clarence Rosewall, chairman, Ed Gonty and John Pfeiffer to do some checking on what steps would be necessary to establish zoning and the cost involved. The matter came up after the council approved three building permits, two of which were for alterations. "With no zones and no regu lations we might wake up with a big problem some day," the mayor said. The thinking has been that the Willow Creek pro ject, u culminated, and the Boe ing project might result in an influx of population at a later time. While recent changes concern ing the city dump seem to have worked out satisfactorily on a local basis, a letter from William B. Culham, district sanitarian for the State of Oregon, revealed that the state is not satisfied with Heppner's method of hand ling its dump. He said in the letter that the city should consider a landfill operation and pointed out that the proposed Willow Creek dam would encroach on the present site. He suggested that the city make some long range plans on its refuse disposal. Culham said that all com mercial establishments and res idences in the city should sub scribe to the franchised disposal service and that all vehicles going to the dump must be cov- j ered. . Councilman Rosewall suggest ed that the city might consider seeking a location for a new dump in case the Willow Creek dam is built. The mayor turned the matter over to the sanitation committee, composed of Council men Carl Spaulding, LeRoy Gardner and Rosewall. Councilman Gonty asked that the council take action to lessen the dip on Willow Street at the Main street intersection. It was installed recently to carry runoff water to avoid flooding on Willow Street at periods of heavy rains. He said that it is a hazard to traffic because the dip is too severe. This matter was referred to the street com mittee. Bill Cox appeared at the meet County to Clear Arbuckle Road A tractor with a bulldozer will clear the road to Arbuckle Mountain Ski area sometime be fore the week-end, Judge Oscar Peterson said Thursday. A dele gation of some 10 persons ap peared at the county court meet ing Wednesday to request again that the work be done. The judge said that the road crew would have cleared the road last week but could not get a rig to do it. The tractor and dozer will come from the north end of the county where they have been used on other work, he said. In other action by the court, E. E. Christenson of Irrigon was appointed to the county planning commission, succeeding Milton Bigel, former county commis sioner and planning commission member, who resigned December 1 of last year when he moved to Pendleton. Others on the com mission are Clarence Rosewall, Heppner, chairman; Paul Brown, Heppner, secretary; Roy Lind strom, lone; and Vern Russell, Boardman. The court also agreed to purch ase a Ford truck for the county weed control program, the judge said. WEATHER By LEONARD GILLIAM Hi Low Prec. Thursday 55 27 Friday 47 30 Saturday 47 36 .02 Sunday 51 30 .02 Monday 46 28 Tuesday 48 40 .01 Wednesday 55 33 .03 Total precipitation for the month of February was .54". Next Bloodmobile Visit March 23; Summary Given Next visit of the blood bank in Morrow county will be on Monday, March 23, Mrs. O. W. Cutsforth, local chairman, an nounces. The goal will be 100 pints. Place and time of the visit will be announced later, she said. A summary of the Columbia River regional blood program shows that during 1963 the re gion passed the quarter-million mark in units of blood processed since the program started in No vember, 1948. The first 15 years have brought growth from the first year's lim ited production of 3,000 pints for part of the needs of residents of five counties to the present 15,000 pints annual production for blood needs of about 500,000 people in the 14-county region. The 15,500 pints collected last Zoning ing and asked if action could be taken by the city to clean up a lot under private owner ship located adjacent to the creamery. Recorder Ted Smith was asked to contact the owner in an effort to secure cooperation on the matter. Lowell Chally submitted a re quest that the city place a street light on Gilmore street back of the courthouse parking lot. This also was referred to committee for recommendation. Building permits appro v e d were as follows: Arthur Burken- bine, add three rooms to trailer house, $1000; Al Lamb, 160 N. Court, new siding, $2000; Milo Prindle, Campbell Street, new residence, $20,000. WILL SPEAK IN MORROW COUNTY Dean Wimer, Ore gon's IFYE to Northern Ire land in 1963, will make various appearances in the county on March 13 and 14. Ho will be the main speaker at the an nual 4-H Leaders banquet on Saturday night March 14. IFYE Speaker Coming to County For 2-Day Visit Dean Wimer, Oregon's IFYE to North Ireland in 1963, will bring a touch of the Irish to Morrow county on March 13 and 14 when he makes various ap pearances around the county, ac cording to Esther Kirmis, Mor row county extension agent. Dean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wimer, was born and raised on a farm at Brownsville, Oregon. He has five brothers. When he was chosen as an IFYE, he had completed two years at Oregon State Univer sity majoring in general agri culture. He was a 4-H member for eight years and also took part in the campus 4-H club at OSC. He also attended the National 4-H Club Congress, Chicago, in 1959 and 1960. His future plans are to continue college to be come an extension agent and work with youth, according to the college information special ist. Besides his 4-H activities he was active in Boy Scouting for eight years, and served as a jun ior assistant Scoutmaster for two years. He was also a mem ber of the Explorer Scouts for two years as well as being ac tive in church and high school groups, according to the college. His itinerary in Morrow coun ty will include the following: March 138:45 A. M., Heppner High school (Present Day Prob lems class); 11:30 A.M., lone High school (entire group); 2:30 P.M., Heppner High school (an other Present Day Problems class). March 146:30 P.M., 4-H Leader's Banquet, Rhea Creek Grange hall. He will be a house guest of the Wilbur Van Blokland family, Ruggs, while visiting in the county, says the agent. year went to patients in all 40 hospitals in the region. Whole blood administered totaled 10, 618 units, in addition to 217 units of serum albumin, 185 packed red cells, 206 units of single donor fresh frozen plasma, 25 units of fibrinogen and 577 vials of gamma globulin. On behalf of local residents who received blood while in communities outside the region, 992 pints of blood were shipped as replacements. Advance re placements for persons under going open-heart surgery in Seattle required an additional 353 pints. Blood for the medical needs of the region came from the vol untary donations of men and women in 50 communities where 120 Bloodmobile visits were made in the year. Win Highway 81st Year A AJLJLJ Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 5, 1964 Local, State, National Candidates File With Election Signup Deadline Looming Max Jones Seeks Post On Court Only one dav remains for can didates to toss their hats in the political ring for the primary election. Deadline for filing is Friday at 5 p.m., according to Mrs. Sadie Parrish, county clerk. HASKALL SHARRARD FILES FOR JUDGE Haskall Sharrard of Heppner, filed for Morrow county judge on the Democratic ticket Thursday afternoon, making the sixth candidate in the race. On the local level. Max Jones of Irrigon was the lastest candi date to file, having entered pe titions Wednesday for the posit ion of commissioner on the Dem ocratic ticket. He will oppose Commissioner Walter Hayes of Boardman who is serving on the county court by appointment to fill the vacancy created by the resignation last year of Milton Biegel. Hayes has filed for re election on the Republican ticket. Only other filing during the week was that of Lloyd Berger, Irrigon, Democrat, last Thursday for Morrow County port commis sioner. He seeks a four-year term and is the second Democrat to file for the three 4-year positions up this year. Al Lamb filed some time ago for reelection, Two Republicans seek 4-year terms, lhey are Dick Krebs and Dewey West. Joe Tatone, Democrat and Don Turner, Re publican, have filed on their re spective tickets for the one 2 year term open. In filing for commissioner, Jones said Wednesday that he felt a change is needed in the county court and that more pro gressive leadership is needed. He is a native of Irrigon, having been born and reared there. He is chairman of the Boardman Soil Conservation district, is a past 4-H leader and was chair man of the North Morrow Lead ers Council for many years. Jones comes from a pioneer local family. His father was R. V. Jones who lived in the Eight mile district for many years and moved to Irrigon in 1914. As of this writing, the onl" county position which will have contests on the party tickets in the primary is that of judge. Three Republicans will vie for the nomination, incumbent Os car Peterson," Oliver (Jreswick, and Ambrose Chapin, and on the 'Continued on page 8) lone Lions Club Installs Signs lone Lions club recently com pleted another in a series of community projects. They bought new street signs for the city and placed them on all through streets and all side streets. Residents state that the metal signs add greatly to the com munity, making it much easier to direct newcomers to various locations and place addresses. Marion Green was chairman of the project. He said the club is now considering a project of placing house numbers on resi dences. The active club this week sponsored the basketball game for benefit of the band uniform fund and has conducted many other projects to help civic en deavors, including planting of trees prcoured by the Garden club, installing seat belts, sell ing brooms for aid to the blind, giving scholarships to high school students, and others. More Help Needed At Golf Course Work is proceeding very well at the Willow Creek golf course on improvement projects, but more help is needed this week end, President Clint McQuarrie said. Anyone in the club who can help for an hour or two, or longer, is asked to come out and give a hand. Work on the clubhouse is one of the principal items of business. Crewman Killed in Accident ALFRED H. CORBETT f III WW ' l 1 I? U !V TOM McCALL REP. AL 'TLLMAN 1 Jh r .-t t i, ' 1 y i 1L j l mum iM 1ml f'n.,r.ij ' ' 1 j EVERETT J. THOREN & . . . .. f ft . - A wMgrom m-im n -i r 11 n mmr ROBERT W. STRAUB Mustangs Face Vale In District Tournament Heppner's Mustang basketball five will have the honor of play ing the District 7-A-2 basketball powerhouse in La Grande this week-end as they meet the num ber one seeded team in the tour ney, Vale. The game with the Vikings from the eastern half of the Greater Oregon loop looms as a winner-take-all battle. If the Mustangs could upset the michty Vikings, their momentum from the victory might well carry them into the winners' role in the tourney. In the first half of the Friday night show, the Burns Hilanders, conquerors of the Mustangs in last- Friday's game, meet the enterprise Savages. The games are scheduled for 8:00 and 9:15 p.m. on Friday evening, with Heppner playing in the second game. The winners of the Friday night contests will meet Satur day night for the championship of the Greater Oregon league and a berth in the state A-2 tourney. The losers of Friday's games will meet in the consoli dation round on Saturday. Little is known in these parts about the Enterprise club but the second place team from the east ern half of the loop showed good power in a Saturday night win over the Sherman Huskies for the fourth spot in the tourney iound. The Savages won the squeaker over the tough Huskies, 44-43, and everyone here knows the capabilities of the Sherman five. Vale, the first place finisher on the eastern side of the loop, comes to the tournament sport ing a season's record of 18-4. which is impressive considering HOWARD BELTON that the losses were to A-l On tario and to two of the top prep teams in Idaho, Emmett and Weiser. With their record, the Vikings have to be rated as the team to beat in the district. Burns, the first place finisher from the western half of the loop, brings an 8-4 league record to the affair. The Hilanders start ed slow this season and came on strong in the second half of league play to win the division crown. Burns is rated as a good contender for the state tourney. Heppner must be considered the dark horse. The Mustangs have a record of 17-5 for the season. The local quint is an in experienced club but can be tough on a given night. Onp. big problem for the Horsemen in re cent games has been their shoot ing percentage. With a few breaks from the basketball gods and a .300 shooting percentage, the Heppner crew could walk off with all the goodies from the tournament. Another asset of the Mustangs is their fine spirit. If spirit will win games, the Mus tangs will win their share. Spring Vacation To Start March 16 That most glorious time of the first part of the calendar year for school students spring vacationis lust a short time away. It will start on Monday, March 16, and con tinue through the week. Thus, children and teachers will have from the close of school on March 13 untii the morning of Monday, March 23, to recuperate from the rig ors of their academic labors. Number 1 3PPNER 10 cents Statewide Positions Get Interest Activity in state and national politics of interest to Morrow county stirred this week as can didates stepped up to meet the Friday filing deadline. Martin Buchanan, Milton Freewater, Democrat, who an nounced several weeks ago that he would seek the position of representative in the legislature from the 28th district, completed his filing in Salem last Thurs day. The district includes Mor row, Gilliam, Wheeler, Sherman and Umatilla counties. Buchan an is a native of eastern Oregon and is a pea and wheat grower near Milton-Freewater. This is his first bid for elective office. He has participated in a variety of public affairs at the community, county and state levels, and recently completed seven years on the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Buchanan is the only candi date for the post on the Demo cratic ballot and Irvin Mann of Stanfield, who filed earlier, is the only candidate to date on the Republican ticket. The two seek the seat which will bo yielded by Rep. Jack Smith of Condon who will not seek reelection. Oregon's second district Con gressional position attracted an other candidate when Everett J. Thoren, Elgin, declared for the Republican nomination. He will be on the ballot opposing the Rev. Willard Cromwell of Herm- iston who filed earlier. Incumbent Congressman Al Ullman, who also filed recently is the lone candidate on the Democratic ticket. Thoren is in the lumber busi ness in Elgin. He was born in Grcsham, served in World War II as a bomber crew chief, and was in the lumber business in Washington before going to El gin in 1959. Al Lamb teleph o n e d the (Continued on page 8; Mr. and Mrs. Ayres Win European Trip In Mercury Contest Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ayres will leave for Europe in late April on an expense-paid two weeks' trip for winning first place in a regional sales contest of Mercury and Comet automo bilies. Ayres received the announce ment of the first place achieve ment Wednesday. Record of Heppner Auto Sales, Inc., top pod that of dealers in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Ida ho. Exact date of departure has not been announced, but Mr. and Mrs. Ayres will meet some 225 other dealers and their wives from across the United States in New York City, prob ably late in April. The group will fly in four jet planes to Rome, where they will spend a week, and then travel to Paris, for another week, before returning home. IMES Beta Omega Backs Easter Seal Sale; Rainbow Helps Sale of Easter seals in Morrow county for benefit of the Oregon Society for Crippled Children and adults is underway under the leadership of Beta Omega sor ority of lone with Mrs. Robert (Darlene) Hoskins as chairman. Rainbow Girls of lone plan to hold a sale of paper Easter lilies for the society at a date to be announced, and they hope to come to Heppner to conduct the sale here as a public service pro ject. The county has a goal of $500 in the sale, which figures out just a little more than 10c per person in the county. In 1963, a total of $480 was received, and the highest contribution for the purpose was made by county res idents in 1958 when $709 was turned in to the society. The Oregon Society is part of an established national program at Work Art Bailey, Arlington, Is Victim Art Bailey, 58, Arlington, died of injuries suffered about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday while he was working with a State Highway road crew near Morgan on the Willow Creek highway. Bailey, a flagman, sustained a crushed chest when a Scoop mobile backed into him, accord ing to State Police Sergeant Ver lin Combs and State Officer Jim Gordon, who investigated. Elvin E. Ely of Boardman was driver of the Scoopmobile. He told the officers that he was backing the machine at a very slow speed when he felt a bump. He turned around and saw Bailey sitting on the ground in a "hunched" position. The man said that he thought he would be all right. The right side of his chest was crushed, however. Apparent ly he was hit by the single rear wheel of the Scoopmobile, but it evidently did not run clear over him. Fellow workmen put him in a station wagon and headed for Heppner while summoning the Pioneer Memorial ambulance by radio. The ambulance met the station wagon and brought Bailey on to Heppner. The man had lapsed into un consciousness and apparently died about the time the ambu lance reached the hospital, short ly after 1 p.m. The body was taken to Cres- wick Mortuary, and funeral ar rangements are pending. Survivors include the widow. Mrs. Nina Bailey, and three grown children, including a son in Arlington and one in Port land, and a married daughter in Hormiston. Wagon Wheel Cafe Changes Hands Chuck McLean and Bob Eg- gers, well-known residents of Heppner, have announced that they ure the new managers of the Waon Wheel Cafe in Hepp ner. the two men took over op eration of the cafe, formerly op erated by Mr. and Mrs. Ron Leon nig of Heppner, on Saturday, February 29. They will lease the business from Mr. and Mrs. Leon nig. Both men were employed by the U. S. Forest Service prior to assuming duties in connec tion with the cafe. No changes in personnel are contemplated at this time, ac cording to McLean. McLean stated that there are plans to redecorate the estab lishment. He said that the re decoration will be made as soon as arrangements can be made. More specialized service will be a feature of the business un der the new management. Mc Lean said that either he or Eg gers will make trips to various parts of the country to get types of food that are in season, such as seafood and produce, and that these foods will be featured as specials at the restaurant. Another service of the restaur ant will be that the banquet room will be made available for private dinners upon reservation. Also, the back dining room, be hind the lounge, will be opened for noon hour customers. Holy Name Society Plans Beef Dinner A roast beef dinner for St. Pat rick's Day is scheduled for Sun day afternoon, March 15, by the Holy Name Society, Catholic men's organization, it is announ ced. James Healy will be general chairman of this annual event, which is open to the public. New officers elected by the society for 1964 are Bill Rawlins, president; Larry Lindsay, vice president; and Francis Doherty, secretary-treasurer. to provide rehabilitation care to crippled children and adults and is starting its 17th year of ser vice in the state. It operates the Children's Hos pital school, Eugene, provides in dividual case service, maintains Camp Easter Seal at Tenmile Lakes, and provides mobile ther apy clinics. During its years of work, sev eral in Morrow county have been aided by the program. One of the latest is Dean Lovgren of Heppner, who was seriously in jured in an auto accident more than a year ago. Susan Lindstrom of lone is worthy advisor of the Rainbow Girls who will conduct the lily sale. Easter seals have been mailed throughout the county, and those who receive them are re quested to return contributions promptly to aid in this cause.
