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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,
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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