Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current, May 14, 1964, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 1 BRARY U OF 0 ORE . 81st Yeai THE m Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 14, 1964 Graduation Set In Three Schools Commencement time is at hand for Morrow county's three high schools and Riverside's bac calaureate at Boardman will be the first in the ceremonies scheduled for seniors of 1964. The baccalaureate at River side will be Sunday, May 17, at 8 p.m. in the school gymnasium with Dr. Earle P. Cochran, re tired Presbyterian minister of Pendleton, delivering the ser mon on, "Some Ways of felling Right from Wrong." The Rev. George Hash of the Community Baptist church, Irri gon, and the Rev. Herman R. Burg of the Community Church, Boardman, will participate. Mrs. Frank Stewart will be soloist, Mrs. Albert Partlow will be or ganist and Mrs. La Verne Partlow will be pianist. Riverside's class of 16 seniors will also be the first in the county to have commencement exercises. They will be on Friday night, May 22, at 8 o'clock in the gymnasium with Howard A. Anderson, dean of men, Eastern Oregon College, speaking on :he subject, "A Today for Tomor row's World." Susan Lorraine McCoy will give the valedictory address and Sharon Ann Donovan will give the salutatory address. Ron Dan iels, principal, will present the class and Roy Partlow, school director, will present diplomas. In the class are Leonard Guy Bedord, Sharon Ann Donovan, Elnora Ruth . Eppenbach, Allyn Frank Hobbs, Ted Stuart Hoff man, Roger Michael McCoy, Susan Lorraine McCoy, Kathleen Marie McGinnes, Patricia Louise Miller, Shirley Gay Munger, Thomas Kent Parsons, James Francis Russell, Robin Hugh Schmeder, Vivian Eliz a b e t h Templeton, Faula Marcelle Wil liams, and Sheryl Maureen Witherspoon. Baccalaureate exercises for both lone and Heppner High schools will be Sunday, May 24, at 8 p.m. in the respective schools. Father Raymond Beard of St. Patrick's Catholic church will speak at the Heppner bac calaureate and the Rev. Charles Knox, pastor of the Heppner Christian church, will give the sermon at the lone service. Heppner High's comme nee ment will be at 8 p.m. Wednes day, May 27, in the new high school, and there will be no out side speaker. Valedictorian is Bill Sherman and salutatorian is Jennifer Brindle. lone High's commencement will be at 8 p.m., Thursday, May 28, in the high school gym and Ewald Turner will .give the com Thompson Sheep Killed by Dogs Eight ewes and 13 lambs in sheep flocks on the Terry Thompson ranch were killed last week in two nights by dogs, Thompson said Monday. Loss was placed between $300 and $400 by the owner. , Thompson said that he be lieves that dogs coming from town did the damage. In an early morning hour he spotted two German short hairs on the place and thinks they may have been responsible. He served notice that any dogs found prowling on the place will be shot Some relief may be piven the owner through county re imbursement, but he did not know just what this would amount to. This is another incident in a continuing problem. The county completed its new dog pound sometime ago, but Thompson states that it has had little use. The city last year agreed to buy a tranquilizer pellet gun for use by officers in catching dogs run ning at large arter the pound was completed, but Mayor Al Lamb said Monday that the gun has not yet been purchased. Thompson said that the sheep, easy prey for the dogs, attract the attention of the marauding animals when they start to run from them. The dogs constdrr it something or a game and kill for the sport of it, leaving the dead sneep untouched, GAZETTE-TIME mencement address. Arleta Mc Cabe is valedictorian and Tom Heimbigner is salutatorian. Complete information on the lone and Heppner exercises will be printed next week. Auxiliary Sets Poppy Days Sale Next Week-end "Wear a Poppy . . . America's silent tribute to her heroes." This will be the urge of those on Heppner streets May 22 and 23 selling the red memorial poppies in the annual American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Day Sale. Mrs. Richard (Sib) Wells is again serving as chairman of the local poppy committee, with the assistance of Mrs. Clarence Bauman and other volunteers in the auxiliary, junior members and Rainbow Girls. A display will be put in the window of Lairds' Variety Store to call spec ial attention to the memorial observance. A stand will be set up on Main street, and everyone is asked to stop and buy a crepe paper poppy. By accepting one of these poppies from a member of the American Legion Auxiliary or some other volunteer, aid is given the living victims of the past three wars, while also hon oring the dead, Mrs. Wells points out. The poppies have an even greater significance than the flowers which bloomed on the battlefields of Europe. They have been made in hospitals and work shops where the suffering of war still exists. The disabled veterans who make these flow ers are able to gain a dual bene fit from their work the poppy program gives many men their only opportunity to support themselves and their families; and it offers them a productive pastime with whicli to combat long hours in the hospital wards. Money given in exchange for poppies goes directly to the wel fare activities of -the American Legion and Auxiliary; all funds are used for the aid ;f disabled veterans, their families, and the families of deceased servicemen, the local committee emphasizes. Two Coaches Hired; New Teachers Name Robert L. Clough, head basket ball coach and math teacher in Reedsport Union high school for the past seven years, has been offered a contract by the Morrow County school district board as head basketball coach and American Problems teacher at Heppner High, Wayne Brubacher, county school superintendent, announces. Clough will succeed Bob Can tonwine, who has accepted a position as head basketball coach and teacher at Dallas High school. James M. Potter, head football coach at New Plymouth, Idaho, High school for the past four years, has been tendered a con tract as Heppner High's head football coach, Brubacher said. He will succeed James Suther land, who has accepted a posit ion at Cottage Grove High. Clough was born in Ailington and attended high school there before going to Oregon State col lege where he received his bach elor of science and master of science degrees. He studied bas ketball under Coach Slats Gill. Before going to Reedsport he coached and taught at North Powder High school for one year. His wife, Mrs. Clough, is a daughter of Frieda Slocum of Heppner. Potter went to high school at Eagle, Idaho, and attended col lege at Boise Junior College and University of Idaho before grad uating from College of Idaho at Caldwell with a B. A. degree. Besides coacning football at New Plymouth, he helped with basketball and track and won the Snake River Valley League B basketball championship in the current school year. He also on . ' . t I ' fL f Si if''' Z i " . 1 h-tA 7 SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE HONOR CHORUS has had many requests through the year to appear on programs. The talented group has been directed by Mrs. Ola Mae Groshens, music teacher. Members are, front row (from left): Bonnie KesselL Rita Pettyjohn, Sara Miller, Pcrtti Holt, Martha Pierce, Jill Padberg, Vicki Robinson, Nancy Doherty, Paula Siewert and Barbara Brubacher. Back row: Melvin Ashbeck, Alvin Ashbeck, David Hall, Calvin Ashbeck, Michael Smith and Bill McLeod. Delegates Report Progress on Project Willow Creek dam project Is Becoming well known in offic ial circles in Washington. D. C, and has gained staunch support oy oniciais in the U. S. Army Corps ot Engineers, Oliver (Jres wick and County Judge Oscar Peterson reported to the Hepp-ner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday. The two went to Washington two weeks ago with a delega tion from Inland Empire Water ways, Creswick representing the Chamber of Commerce as its development committee chair man and Judge Peterson going at his own expense as a director of the waterways association. Of the 30 in the delegation, five were from Oregon, includ ing the two from Heppner. During their few days in Washington, they met with of ficials in the Department of the Interior, with the Bureau of (he Budget, the Interstate Commerce Commission, House Appropriat ions committee, the Federal Power Commission and the Senate Appropriations commit- d taught and coached in the New Meadow, Idaho, High school from 1957-60. Potter is married and has two small children. Brubacher also announced that contracts have been offered three other teachers; Virginia Buch of Corvallis, who will grad uate from Oregon State Univer sity in June, to teach home ec onomics at Heppner High. She will replace Mrs. Elmer Schmidt who has resigned. Jim Deeney of Onalaska, Wn., will teach mathematics at lone. Deeney has had a number of years of teaching experience. Rose Hoosier of Stanfield and one time a Heppner elementary teacher who will teach fifth grade at Irrigon. To date, a total of five Hepp ner High teachers are listed among those who will not be back next year: John Cummings, Ronald Ingle, Mrs. Schmidt, Can tonwine and Sutherland. Cum mings has received a National Defense Education scholarship for further study. Mrs. Conley (Vi) Lanham is expected to return to the staff after a year's leave of absence to travel in Europe, and Joe Hausler will come to Heppner as a science teacher from lone High. At lone, Principal Gene Harry man will not return and Everett Holstein will succeed him. Anita James, lone High English teach er, will not be back and the position is yet to be filled. Irrigon will lose Mrs. Gladys Hobbs, fifth grade teacher, and Myron Riddle, eighth grade teacher and coach, both from the Houghton school. HEPPNER tee. They had a luncheon meet ing with Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington stato. At the Bureau of the Budget they feared that the Willow pro ject might receive a setback when they were advised that there might not be an Omnibus bill in Congress this year. Such a bill authorizes projects such as this but does not appropriate money for them. However, the local delegates were advised in other quarters that if an Omnibus bill were not introduced, it would be the first election year that one has not been proposed. At the Corps of Engineers they were advised that the Willow project had been sent back to Portland to the district office to work towards clarifying the benefit-cost ratio with partic ular attention to the irrigation feature in the hope of bettering the present ratio of 1.2 to 1. Judge Peterson, upon his re turn, went to the district office and was advised that the project report would be back in Wash ington, D. C, in time for the Rivers and Harbors Congress in July. He learned that the dis trict is keenly concerned about the project and anxious that it be ready for action in July. After the project is presented at the Rivers and Harbors Con gress, if it is reported favorably, the project report Is submitted to all governmental agencies in the Northwest who have any in terest in it whatsoever for ex amination for 90 days. Then it would go back to Washington to be included in the ommous bill for authorization by Con gress. Memorial Picnic Plans Underway The annual Morrow County Memorial Day Pioneer Picnic and Reunion will be held again on Saturday, May 30, at the fair pavilion building in Heppner. Don Turner, last year's chair man, will be attending grad uation exercises at St. Paul's school in Walla Walla, where daughter, Ginny Lou, will re ceive her diploma. His uncle, F. W. Turner, will be in charge of the outing, ably assisted by the Peterson brothers, Oscar and Henry. "Uncle Frank" assures all vis itors that there will be a bare minimum of speeches and max imum time for getting acquaint ed. Secretary of the Pioneer Association, Mrs. Ed Gonty, is in charge of committees, and is ar ranging a potluck lunch and an experienced registration and hospitality committee. There will be several awards including a prize for the oldest Morrow county pioneer attend ing, the native of the county traveling the longest distance to the meeting, the youngest baby attending, and the oldest couple with most years of residence in the county. No winner may re ceive more than one awaicl. lcoIIf Number 1 1 10 cents School Concerts Well Received On Two Nights Band and chorus departments in the Heppner schools combin ed their talents last week to present entertaining programs lor tneir parents and trlends. A large crowd was on hand Tues day evening, May 5, in the old high school gym for the spring concert of the grade school band and general music classes, with the 5th through 8th grades par ticipating. "Music Around the World." was cleverly presented under the direction ot Mrs. Ola Mae Groshens, with children in cos tume singing songs represent ing seven foreign countries. A honor chorus of 7th and 8th graders showed exceptional tal ent and balance in their singing of favorite USA songs. A variety of march and mod ern numbers showed accomplish ments of 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade bands, under the direction of Arnold Melby. Soloists in the honor band were John Rawlins on the French horn and Jenny Blake on the clarinet. Piano ac companists were Sheila Luciani and Ricky Gimbel. m i . li . r mm . 1 iwo ingnis later, may i, tne Heppner High band, under the direction of Mr. Melby, and the high school chorus, under the direction of Gordon Pratt, pre sented a Spring Concert of ac complished numbers in the high school multipurpose 100m. Band numbers presented a variety in tempo and expression and were well received by the audience. Soloists included Richard Clark on the baritone and Jennifer Brindle on the tenor saxophone. The mixed chorus was heard in the serious number, "Praise Ye the Lord," the favorite "Shine ?n Harvest Moon," and the color ful "Blue Tango." The programs were well at tended, with proceeds from ticket sales going to the music scholarship fund for graduates and to send students to summer school Lamb, McCurdy Buy lone Firm Al Lamb and Harlan McCurdy, Jr., have purchased Builders Supply, lone, from Mel Melena, they have announced. Harlan McCurdy, Sr., will be in charge of operation of the business. Lamb said. Melena, a resident of lone for 10 years, has purchased Haines Grain and Feed at Haines ana expects to go there soon to as sume operation of the business. The Melena home at lone has been sold to Mrs. Georgia Brew ster of Portland, mother of Mrs. Vemer Troedson. Melena came to lone from Elgin where he had been office manager for his father who was engaged in con struction work. The new owners said that the name of the business will be changed to lone Builders Supply. we Judge Race Draws Top Local Interest Voters going to the polls Fri day, May 15, for the primary election will be handed ballots nearly a yard long, and they will make selections for nomi nations on all levels, from county positions to national of fices. Polls will be open in Morrow county's nine precincts from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., and estimates on the vote turnout range any where from 60 to 80 percent of the total registration of 2,201. Both Democratic and Repub lican ballots are 30 inches long. each containing long lists of can didates lor delegates to national Parched Farms Cry for Rain; Crops, Range Hurt With rangelands drv and grain fields developing brown spots because of lack of mois ture, ranchers of the area anx iously continue to look for rain which fails to come. Keen concern is felt here be cause of the lack of moisture. Grain fields in the northern part of the county and in the areu southwest of lone seem to be suffering particularly. A check of the weather rec ord from January 1 shows that 3.80 inches of rain were record ed in Heppner for the 4 Vi months period, less than an inch per month during the late win ter and early spring season. Ironically, water supply out look for the irrigation season is considered near average. This is due to the heavy snowfall in the mountains, but it only empha sizes the plight of the wheat and cattle rancher who does not ben efit from this source of supply. iA good rain in the near future would still do great good here, although some damage has un doubtedly been done and can not be rectified. The Department of Agrlcul ture's crop-weather summary for the week ending May 8 reports that some cattle are being sold because of a feed shortage. In some cases, cattle which would normally depend on ranges are already being fed. Sunday brought a trace or rain in the Heppner area, and dark clouds have held promise periodically that a good storm might be in prospect, but winds have prevailed and chased the clouds away. Crop prospects for barley and wheat looked good early this year, but the lack of moisture is taking a toll and now grow ers fear that production will be sadly curtailed because of the continued drought. While rains drenched Port land and valley cities this week, Morrow county remained sunny and dry. This was a true as it was in January when the Wil lamette valley was flooded with near record rains but Morrow County recorded only occasional showers. The snow that reached depths of four feet in tiie moun initio fnilnrl in nnmo in IliA uHot 11 and cattle lands to provide mois ture for range and crops. Prec. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Not yet! Tax Commission Grants Appeals Appeals of 12 urban and com mercial property taxpayers on the tax ratio used in levying 1903-64 property taxes in Mor row County have all been grant ed by the State Tax Commission. Both Assessor Rd Thomson and Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman received copies of the opinions and orders from the commission this week. The 12 property holders in a series of hearings in December of last year asked relief on the grounds that the tax commission had established the ratio of 19 in Morrow county but that they, as urban property holders, had paid on the basis of the county's posted ratio of 25, thereby re sulting in an inflated true cash value with consequently higher taxes. Some 25 pieces of property are involved. In the opinions and orders issued by the commission, the assessor and sheriff are ordered to make adjustments on !he taxes charged to these prop erty holders on the 1963-64 roll. As of Wednesday, no decision had been made by the county officials on how these adjust ments are to be made. It was expected that a procedure will be worked out after the county court and assessor discuss the matter. The total amount to be adjusted had not been deter mined, i Hi Low 65 41 68 44' 69 46 62 33 74 42 73 37 61 28 Friday .party conventions. In addition to his party ballot, each voter will receive two more ballots, one containing State Measure No. 1, the $30 million college building bond proposal, and the other being the nonpartisan bal lot for Judicial offices. On the latter ballot will be the four candidates for position No. 7 on the Oregon Supreme Court bench. Three candidates for jus tice of the peace (Heppner dis trict) will be on the judiciary ballot for all precincts but Board man and Irrigon. They are the Rev. Earl Soward, William J. De vine and Avon Melby. In ad dition, Bert Corbin has been con ducting a writein campaign but is not on the ballot. At Lexington and lone, voters will recleve still one more ballot that on the budget election for the lone-Lexington Cemetery Maintenance district. Polling places are as follows: S. E. Heppner, county courthouse; S. W. Heppner, county court house; N. W. Heppner, Case building on Main Street (form er location of Pecks' Ski Shop); N. E. Heppner, old city library (next to city hall); Lexington, city hall; lone, city hall; Hard man, Odd Fellows hall; Board man, Greenfield Grange hall; Irrigon, old high school building (Houghton school). Although eyes of the nation are on Oregon because of the importance of the Republican race, this interest will be sur passed locally in Morrow county by the county judge race on both Democratic and Republican bal lots. The competition for the office has attracted more candidates than ever before in the county's history with three Republicans and a writein candidate vielng for the G.O.P. nomination and four candidates seeking the Democratic nomination. Most of the eight aspirants have conduc ted active campaigns, and be cause of the free-Ior-all nature of the race, outcome Is hard to -predict. On the Republican bal lot are Oliver creswicK, Ambrose Chapln and Berl Akers. Judge Oscar Peterson, who withdrew his name from the race after filing, has since announced his re-entry as a writrin candidate. On the Democratic ballot are W. W. f Bill) Weatherford, Paul Jones, Frank Hamlin and Has kell Sharrard. Except for the justice of the peace race, tne judge position is the only one in contention. On the Republican ballot, Walter Haves, incumbent, seeks nomi nation as countv commissioner. and Maxwell Jones of Irrigon is the onlv candidate for commis sioner on the Democratic ballot. Mrs. Sadie Parrish is unop posed for nomination as county clerk on the Democratic ballot, and there are no Republican candidates. Sheriff C. J. D. Bau man is unopposed for reelection on the Republican ballot, as is Mrs Sylvia McDaniol, treasurer. Neither has Impending opposit ion on the Democratic ballot. All candidates for the port commission are virtually assur ed nomination because each party is to nominate three for the one 4-year term and each ballot lists only two candidates, Al Lamb and Lloyd Berger on the Democratic side and John R. Krebs and Dewey West on the Republican side. Each ballot lists just one can didate for the 2-year term for port commissioner, Joseph Ta tone, Democrat, and Donald Turner, Republican. No contests will develop for state representative and state senator races until the general election. For the 28th district, state senate, Ben Musa of The Dalles is running unopposed on the Democratic ticket as the in cumbent and Giles French of Moro is unopposed as the Re publican challenger. For 18th district, state rep resentative, Martin Buchanan of Milton-Freewater, Democrat, is unopposed, as is Irvin Mann of Stanfield, Republican. Two are vleing for Republican nomination for Congress, second district, Willard Cromwell of Jlermiston and Everett Thoren of Elgin. Incumbent Al Ullman is the lone candidate on the Democratic ticket. For secretary of state, the Re publican ballot has two candi dates, Tom McCall and Dan Moste, both of Portland, while the Democratic ticket has three aspirants, M. A. (Cap) Yeggee, Alfred II. Corbett and Haroldi P. Steubs. The incumbent, How ell Appling, is not a candidate for reelection. Position of state treasurer has three Democratic candidates, Robert W. (Bob) Straub, Thomas M. Baggs and Vic Davis. Only candidate on the G.O.P. ticket Is incumbent Howard Belton. Attorney-General Robert Y. Thornton seeks Democratic nom ination for the same position, unopposed, and lone Republi can candidate for attorney-gen eral is Merlin Estep. At the national level, the presidential preference shows six candidates on the Republi can ballot, Barry uoidwater, Henry Cabot Lodge, Richard M. 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