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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, March 5, 1964 Mrs. Currin Honored On 81st Birthday Friends and relatives called at the home of Mrs. Katie Currin on Sunday to share with her the celebration of her 8lst Dirtnaay. Birthdav cake, baked by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. George Currin, delighted the honored guest, and was shared with others who called during the day, These included her granddaugh ter, Mrs. Ron Currin and sons, Mrs. Annie Healy, Mrs. Sarah Farley, Mrs. Mattie Green, Mrs, Mary Johnston, Mrs. Anna Marie Wilson, Mrs. Lucille Parrish and son. Alvin Avers. Mrs. Currin was born Kather- ine Ellen Brosnan on March 1, 1883, at the family farm, now owned bv the Jerry Brosnan family. She married Hugh Cur rin in 1005 and were homestead ers on Butter Creek. They moved to Heppner about 15 years ago, leaving their son, ueorge, 10 op erate the farm. Mr. Currin died in 1954. Mrs. Currin will be remember ed as a colorful participant in the Heppner rodeos, riding side saddle through many parados until she was past 45 years of age. Friday Card Club Has New Member Mrs. Toussent Dubuque is a new member of the Friday after noon pinochle club, taking the place of Mrs. Earl Evans. Along with being hostess when the club met at her home iriaay, ivus. Orian Wright had high score for the afternoon and teamed with Mrs. Max Hams to win uie pin ochle. Low score went to Mrs. Art Watkins. Also joining in on the card fun were Mrs. Fred Mankin, Mrs. Carlie Beckett, Mrs. Hannah An derson and Mrs. Walter Beckett. Birthday Dinner Set For Rhea Grange Meet During the regular grange meeting at Rhea Creek Grange hall Friday, March 13, members having birthdays during the first three months of the year will be honored. There will be a pot luck dinner before the meeting, starting at 6:30 p.m. The March meeting of the Rhea Creek Home Extension club will be at the home of Mrs. Ray Drake. Pendleton IOOF Team To Assist Initiation Members of Willows IOOF Lodge No. 66 will entertain the first degree team of the Pendle ton IOOF Lodge No. 32 at an initiatory meeting on Saturday, March 14. The team will assist in conducting initiation for nine new members coming into the local lodge. Dinner served at the hall also slated for the event. Cards, Pirates Finish Season In Tournament is Kinzua News Mr. and Mrs. Tom Schoolcraft and Roy Blevins went to Pen dleton Wednesday to meet Mrs. Blevins who was returning from several months at Etowah, Tenn. The Friendship club was en tertained Wednesday night at the community hall with Ann Bastlan as hostess to the group. High was won by Rosie Graham, low by Marilyn Bailey, and float ing by Rosie Graham and Molly Day. Special guests of the club were Lola Ferrel and Jean Med lock with regular members present being VI Slinkard, Rita Coulee, Carol Norris, Joan Michel, Myrna Zltek, and Naomi Rice. Mrs. Robert Kyle and children went to Madras Thursday on business and to visit the Boyd Browns. They returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Rusty Medlock and family went to Post Falls, Idaho Saturday to spend the week-end visiting Mr. and Mrs. William Messerselimlilt and family-Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Sharp went to Portland Tuesday where Mr. Sharp entered the Portland Osteopathic hospital for Wednes day surgery.. Mr. and Mrs. Bill MeMinn re turned home last Monday from Portland where they had spent several days visiting relatives and friends. A new employee at the Kin zua Mercantile is David O. Whit sett of HermisUm who went to work Monday morning. Mrs. Mary Williams and Mis. Cora Bumside of Spray spent Thursday evening and Friday visiting at the W. C. Freeman and Jack Sitton homes. Four-H Horse CSub Rides in Indoor Arena Two Tracker 4 11 club met March 2 at the Wrangler club house, with Judy Nyman call ing the meeting to order. We answered roll call by giving our horse's name. We went over safely rules. Refreshments were furnished by Mrs. Wolff and Mrs. Alder man. Afti r refreshments we practiced riding in the indoor arena. Floyd Jones showed us how to trim a horse's mane. Then we played some game's. Marcla Jones, reporter Youth Found Guilty Daryl Dick, 18, was found guilty in justice court jury trial Friday on a charge of violation of the basic rule. He was fined $50 by Justice of the Peace Ol iver Creswick who stipulated that the fine was to be paid by working at the courthouse as janitor's assistant at the rate of $5 per day. Dick had pleaded In nocent to the chare e. Two Morrow county high school basketball teams compel ed in the District 7-B basket ball tournament in Hermiston last week and both turned in fine performances. The two teams, lone and Riverside, col lided Thursday in the first round of tourney action and the Pirates had to go all out to whip lone 36-34. Riverside finished the sea son as the number two team in the Umatilla-Morrow league and the Cardinals finished in seventh place in the loop. In the Riverside-lone scrap. Jay Ball led the lone scorers with 12 points. Gronquist and Hobbs duplicated Ball's feat as each of the Pirate cagers hit the hoop for 12. Friday, the Cards met the Echo Cougars and battled the Echo club to the wire to win, 46-42. lone built a six point lead at the half and made it stand for the victory over the Cougars Mark Halvorsen led the lone scorers in the contest as he rang the bell lor 17 tallies. Riverside was not so fortunate In the Friday action. The Pirates bumped heads with the highly regarded Weston Tigers and came out on the short end ot a 47-29 score. Riverside jumped to a quick lead in the first stan za of the contest and appeared headed for victory but the Pir ates went ice-cold in the third period of the game and failed to connect for any tallies. Skoubo led the Pirate scorers In the Weston clash as he count ed 12 marks. In Saturday action, the Pirates outlasted the Umatilla Vikings to gain the third place trophy for the tourney. Riverside jump ed to an early 10-point lead and quenched a second-half Uma tilla rally to gain the victory. Gronquist led the Riverside vic tory wtih 16 points. lone was less fortunate in the final round as they lost a bid for fourth place In the tourney, 52-43, to the tough Helix Grizz lies. Steve Lindstrom turned in a fine performance and popped the net for 20 points. McEwcn of Athena won the right to represent the dsitrict in the state tournament by stop ping Weston, 62-39. in Satur day's final game. Hilanders Topple Mustang Quint In Playoff Tilt Heppner's basketball Mustangs will enter the District 7-A-2 tournament in La Grande this week-end as the number two entry from the western half of the Greater Oregon league fol lowing the Mustangs' defeat at the hands of a hot-handed Burns crew in Bend Friday night. Burns jumped to an early lead and coasted to a 63-40 win over the Horsemen. Burns seemed unstoppable in the first half of the Friday game. The Hilanders pounded the net unmercifully in the first two stanzas for a .650 shootL.g percentage and a 40-18 lead over the bewildered Ikppnerites at the intermission break. The second half of the con test was on a more even basis as the Horsemen found the huop for 22 points and the Hilanders added 23 marks to their mount ing score. The Mustangs had a hard time finding the range during the eame. They hit the mark on 12 of 55 attempts for a meager .218 shooting percentage. After their fantastic display of scoring tal ent in the first half, the in landers cooled a bit in the second half and shot a .376 for the even ing, hitting 22 of 57 shots. The loss in the contest to tne Hilanders left the Mustangs as the second place team in the leaeue and gave the Hilanders the number one rating. Heppner's final league record is 8-4 ana the Hilanders stand at 8-3. The Mustangs over-all record for the season is 17-5. Carl Bauman led the Heppner scorers witn It points. Bruce Spencer came up with a good effort to back Bauman and the Mustangs as he hit the -twine for 13 Doints. BURNS (63) palmer (, Alien Wilbur 3. Kessel 9. Sawser 5, Garrison 1, Berg 8, Anderson lo, Jones 4. Gunderson b. Barnett. HEPPNER (40) Snyder, ciarK, Bauman 17, Spencer 13, Smith Evans 1, Brown, Barratt d, Hanna 5, Wagenblast. SCHOOL MENUS Heppner- Lexington March S-13. 1964 MONDAY Chili beans, corn bread, cabbage salad, milk, fruit, butter and honey. TUESDAY Hamburger cas serole, buttered carrots, pickles, cake, fruit, bread and butter, and milk. WEDNESDAY Tuna and noodles, creamed peas, celery sticks, applesauce cake, bread, butter and milk. THURSDAY Mashed potatoes, ham sandwiches, pickled beets, spinach, Jell-O fruit salad and milk. FRIDAY Tomato soup, fish sticks with tartar sauce, lettuce wedges, dressing, cake, fruit and milk. Dan Brosnan Gets Promotion in AF Daniel K. Brosnan of Heppner, has been promoted to airman first class in the United States Air Force. Airman Brosnan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Brosnan of Rt. 2, Heppner, is assigned to the 67th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron here as a mapping specialist. The airman is a graduate of Heppner High school. Lexington House Has Two Fires A house in Lexington, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hunt and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hills, was a hot place last week. Two fires occurred in the house during the week, one on Wed nesday and one on Saturday, doing approximately $1200 dam age, Mrs. Hunt said. The Wednesday fire broke out under an oil circulator, damag ing linoleum and the floor and ruined the heater. A wood heater replaced it, and heat from the new stove ignited walls Satur day. The Lexington fire depart ment was called to extinguish the fires and neighbors and friends also responded to help. It will be necessary to replace the floor, repair the wall, install new linoleum and redecorate, Mrs. Hunt said. Tabor Family Returns To Hermiston Home Mrs. Roy (Becky) Tabor and her four children have returned to their home in Hermiston af ter spending several weeks in Minnesota. The family went east at the time of the illness of Mr. Tabor last November. They stayed at the homes of relatives in Roch ester and Spring Valley, Minn., during his prolonged illness with leukemia which took his life on January 20. 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