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LIBRARY U OF 0 eugc:; or.:. 81st Year Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 21, 1964 lone and fl'--' 'i .' ' I " l -I f .... - FIRST OFFICIAL photo of the 1364 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo court was taken at the recent Arlington rodeo, their first appearance of the season. In the court are (from left) Princess Dewena West of Boardman, Princess Terryl Greenup of Lena, Queen Shannon Mahoney of Heppner, Prin cess Judy Sherer of lone and Princess Martha Doherty of Lexington. (Lyons Photo) Red Cross Schedules Annual Meet Date Annual meeting of Morrow county's "rejuvenated" Red Cross chapter will be on Monday night, June 22, it was decided at a meeting of the pro tern board of directors at the Bank of East ern Oregon Monday night with Chairman Jerald Rea presiding. At the forthcoming meeting a slate of directors will be elected to serve for rotating terms. It was tentatively decided that 15 members would make up the board, but the Rev. Melvin Dixon, and Lowell Chally were named as a committee to review proposed by-laws which includes the number of directors, and they will make recommendation on the number. The by-laws are to be pre sented for adoption at the an nual meeting. A nominating committee to select a slate of directors was named by Chairman Rea, in cluding Will O'Harra, chairman, Mrs. Orville Cutsforth and Mrs. Edna Turner. Following the annual meeting the new directors will meet and choose officers, including a chapter chairman, vice chair man, secretary and treasurer. The chairman said that he can not continue to serve since he will move to Condon on June 1 to enter business there. Chairman Rea said that a Red Cross nurse who has been serv ing in Alaska since the earth quake is scheduled as guest speaker and may have motion pictures to show of the disaster area. Narce Caliva of Yakima, Wn field representative, will be present. It was reported at the meet ing that the annual fund drive, headed by Mrs. Matt Hughes with Mrs. Edna Turner assist COACH BOB CLOUGH, formerly head basketball coach at Reedsport, will take the helm for Heppner High school bask eteers this year. He and his family, including wife, Barb ara, and children, Ginny, 12, and Linda 9, will move to Heppner soon. THE iif Heppner High ' ing, has collected $1234.09 to wards the goal of $1287 and en velopes from ten workers are yet to be turned in, leaving only $43 to go. Mrs. Cutsforth, blood chair man, said that plans are under consideration to bring the Red Cross mobile unit back in the fall to finish filling the quota left unfilled at the last, visit. A 100-pint goal was sought at that time, but only some 60 pints were given. On the assent of the directors, she said that she would write and suggest a date between September 15 and 21 for the visit. Those present at the meeting were Chairman Rea, Mr. and Mrs. Chally, Mrs. Bethel Hein richs, O'Harra, Mrs. Cutsforth, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. H. J. Stroeber, Wes Sherman, and the Rev. Dixon. Awards Assembly Set Monday Night Annual awards assembly at Heppner High school will be Monday night at 7:30 in the high school cafetorium, Mrs. Margaret Kirk of the faculty announces. All athletic awards win be given, as well as those for journ alism, speech and drama. Cit izenship award will be given to the senior who has demonstra ted outstanding citizenship. Girl and Bov of the Year will be announced and girls and boys chosen for each of the var ious months of the school year will be introduced. Attendance awards will also be given. The public is invited. COACH JIM POTTER, currently mentor at New Plymouth, Ida, will come to Heppner as head football coach to start in the fall. He is married and has two small children, ages one and 212 years. band bii ". iku. -j. ' .Ji(N frnrTr FE-TIME j , -sr.- - Harley Soger Named To Head Jaycees Morrow County Jaycee com mittee elected its officers at a no-host dinner meeting at the Wagon Wheel Cafe Wed nesday night. Named to head the infant organization, as its president, was Harley Sager. Assisting Sager in leadership of the group is Chuck McKin non, vice president; Doug Gob ble, secretary treasurer; and Don McClure and Jim Gordon, directors. Members of the com mittee also discussed various projects for community service and appointed several commit tees to look further Into the matter. lone Swim Pool To Open June 2 Swimming pool at lone will open Tuesday, June 2, it is an nounced. Regular hours will be from 2 until 5 p.m. and from 7 until 9 p.m., Tuesdays through Sundays. Season tickets will be the same as last year, $4 for child ren, $6 for high school, $9 for adults, and $18 per family ticket. For daily swims without sea son tickets prices will be: Child ren, 15c; high school, 25c; and adults, 50c. Beginners lessons will start on Tuesday, June 16, and will con tinue in the morning through June 26, except for Saturdays and Sundays. Season tickets will include lessons, but those without such tickets will be charged 15c per lesson. Women's swim lessons will be on Satur day mornings at 9:30 and will be 50c or included with a sea son ticket. Completion of Band Room Brings Cheers At Heppner High By DOUG ANDERSON Heppner High school welcomes a new addition to the building the long awaited band room. It's a dream come true for Arn old Melby and Gordon Pratt, the music directors. The band room, completed on this year's budget at the cost of $18,045, is unique in many ways. The room is entirely soundproof with 250 pound doors separating the office, two practice rooms, and a storage room. Its walls zig-zag, a form of soundproof ing. A soundproof picture window installed in the office provides observation of the whole room. The windows are built at the 'op of the wall, providing ample light and discouraging distrac tion. Two rooms next to this are still incompleted and the ad ministration hopes these will be on next year's budget at the cost of approximately $8,000-$9,000. These two rooms are the con ference room and the student lounge. Visitors are urged to be the guests of Heppner High school and view the new rooms, pride of the students and faculty. HEPPNER Exe rcises 53 to Get Diplomas; Baccalaureates Sunday (Pictures on pages 4, 5) Thirty-nine students of the class of 1964 at Heppner High school and 14' In the senior class at lone High will graduate at commencement exercises sched uled next week. Baccalaureate exercises for each school will be held Sunday night, May z wun the services to be in the cafetoriums of the respective sclv.51s, each at 8 p. m. The Rev. Father Raymond Beard of St. Patrick's Catholic church will deliver the sermon at the Heppner service, and the Rev. Father Bruce Spencer of All Saints' Episcopal church will give the invocation and benedic tion. Mrs. Ola Mae Groshens will play the processional and recessional. In the lone service, the Rev. Charles Knox, pastor of the Heppner Christian church, will give the baccaiaureate sermon, and the Rev. Walter B. Crowell, pastor of the lone United Church of Christ, will participate with the invoctaion and scripture reading. Teresa Tucker will be soloist and Gene Rietmann will play the processional and re cessional. Commencement at iieppner will also be in the high school cafetorium, on Wednesday, May 27, at 8 p.m. I here will be no outside speaker but members of the class will give the addresses. Bill Sherman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wes Sherman, will give the valedictory and Jennifer Brindle daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brindle, will present the salut atory address. Heppner School Needs 4 Teachers Heppner Elementary school will need four teachers to re place faculty members who are leaving the system, Wayne Bru bacher, superintendent, announ ces. Teachers resigning are Mrs. Lois Kirk, 5th grade; Mrs. Betty Cacek, first grade; Don Cole, 7th and 8th grade science; and Mrs. Janet Agee, girls physical edu cation. Cleo Robinson of Lexington will replace Mrs. Cacek but the other postions are yet to be filled. An additional sixth grade teach er for another 6th grade room is needed. In addition to other changes in the county announced last week, Dick Strait has resigned as coach and industrial arts teacher at lone High in order to resume college study. l - . -W ' 'v,'s t WORK OF REBUILDING Main Street bridges in Heppner is underway under contract of State High way Commission to Schroder Construction Co., Inc. Here workmen of the company are shown wrecking a portion of the Hinton Creek bridge while men of Columbia Basin Electric are en gaged in removing power wires to the line on tie opposite side of the bridge. Contract fof rebuild ing the Hinton bridge and erecting a new Willow Creek bridge was let for $100,910 by the com mission. (G-T Photo) Number 12 10 cents Slated Lee Padberg, senior class president and son of Mr. and Mrs. Elden Padberg of Lexing ton, will give the opening ad dress. Presentation of awards will be by Principal Gordon Pratt, and James Sutherland, class advisor, will present the class. Milton Morgan, chairman of the school district board of directors, will present diplomas. The Rev. Mel vin Dixon, pastor of the Hepp ner Methodist church, will de liver the invocation and pro nounce the benediction. Process ional and recessional will be by the high school band. Ewald Turner, Pendleton, vice principal of Helen McCure junior high and past president of the National Education Association, will give the address at Ione's commencement to be Thursday night, May 28, at 8 pm.. in the high school gymnasium. Arleta McCabe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl McCahe, will give' the valedictory address and Tom Heimbigner, son of Mr. and Airs. Ray Heimbigner, will present the salutatory address. Teresa Tucker will be soloist and a trio, composed of Sue Townsend, . ert) a memDers of the graduat ing class, will sing a number. Principal Gene Harryman will present awards and Chairman Morgan will present, diplomas. Invocation will be by the Rev. Kenneth Robinson, pastor of Hope and Valby Lutheran churches, and the Rev. Crowell will pronounce the benediction Gene Rietmann again will play the processional and recessional. In the class at Heppner High are Alvln Avers, MeJodye Berry, Jennifer Brindle, Shcrron Bunch Brenner, Richard Clark, Pamela Cochell, John Cole, Donald Cres wick, Daryl Dick, Martha Dixon Douglas Dubuque, Edward French, Diana Kulleton, David George, Jerry Greenup, Glenda Hills, Lyle Hopper, Kathryn Hos kins, Mary Johnson, Donald Ma- jeske, Robert Kindle, Virginia Moore, Lawrence Muessig, Phyl lis Nelson, Raymond Nichols, Elden Padberg, Stephen Peek, Martha Peterson, Marcia Rands, Dewey Schiller, Roger Schoon over, William Sherman, Aaron Smilh, Kenneth Smith, Richard Struckmeier, Dale Vance, Don ald Van Winkle, William Weath erford III and Kenneth Wright. In the class at lone High are Cherolyn Benson, Barbara Bishop, Eulenna Corley, Dallas Dalzcll, Delores Emert, Tom Heimbigner, Richard Hynd, Kenneth Klinger, Jr., Stephen Lindstrom, Arleta McCabe, Meredith Morrison, John Rea, Judith Sherer and Sue Townsend. S if eferson, Win Judge loces; Vote Kits 80 , , ... (Vote tabulation on page six, section 1 ) , County Judge Oscar Peterson, running as a writein, topped three Republican opponents on the ticket for county judge in the primary election Friday and will face Paul Jones of Heppner, who won the Democratic nom ination, in the general election in November. Jones defeated three other candidates in his party to become the choice. The contests for judge highlighted the in teresting election which brought out an 80 per cent vote in Morrow county, a respectable turnout for a primary election. Judge Nominees JUDGE OSCAR PETERSON Republican Nominee PAUL W. Democratic JONES Nominee ' j I 'I fv'.,:,',' 111 ' ; X j, y J V f w 7 13 it LJ WEATHER By LEONARD GILUAM Hi Low P Thursday (if 30 Friday 73 39 Saturday 78 37 Sunday 74 40 Monday 76 4(i Tuesday 78 45 Wednesday 70 38 Prec. tr. Jones In the only other local con test the Rev. Earl Soward topped three avowed candidates for Heppner justice of the peace on the nonpartisan ballot, just fall ing short of a majority that would have made it unnecessary for him to enter a runoff with second-place finisher, W. J. (Jirh) Devine of Heppner in the fall. Elections Director Rules Writein Legal The question of whether County Judge Oscar Peterson could accept the Republican nomination for judge as a writein candidate after having withdrawn from the race was answered Thursday by Jack Thompson, Oregon's director of elections. In a telephone conversation with County Clerk Sadie Par rish he ruled that the election was legal and that Judge Pet erson is the Republican nom inee, pointing out that the vote given to the judge Indi cates that it Is the will of the voters. Some had felt that when the judge signed a statement of withdrawal, indicating that he was not a candidate, it would invalidate his nomination. Morrow counly piled up a good margin for State Measure No. 1, the $30 million college building bond proposal, 1046 yes to 646 no. Only two of the coun ty's nine precincts entered neg ative votes on the measure, lone and Hardman, lone went against it by 10 votes, 147 yes to 157 no, while Hardman disapproved by five, 14 yes to 19 no. Most other precincts gave it resound ing approval, the greatest being Northwest Heppner's 194 yes to 64 no. Victory on the measure was in terpreted here as not only recog nition of the needs for the state's Institutions of higher education but also of the building plight of Blue Mountain Community College and the work that is being done by the new college. While Nelson Rockefeller was gaining his important victory in Oregon on the Republican pref erential ballot for president, Morrow county G.O.P. members proved to bo mavericks. They voted for Henry Cabot Lodge with 295 with Rockefeller in second at 198 and Richard Nixon third with 174. Barry Goldwater received 134. Rockefeller won only in the lone precinct, while Lodge captured seven precincts, and Irrigon gave an edge to Nixon. Running unopposed on the Democratic ticket, President Lyn don Johnson received 757 votes in the county. Everett Thoren of Elgin sur prised many pre election dopest- ers when he topped Willard Cromwell of Hermiston for the Republican nomination for Cong ress, second district, not only throughout the Congressional district but in Morrow county as well. In Morrow county, Crom well polled only 251 votes to 471 for Thoren, and the Elgin man captured every precinct. Thoren will oppose Al Ullman, Democratic incumbent, in No vember. Ullman tallied 726 votes a? the lone candidate for his office on his ticket. As he did throughout the state, Torn McCall swept over Dan Mosee for secretary of state on the Republican ballot. McCall polled 623 votes to 171 for Mos ee, better than a 3-to-l margin. However, his fellow Portlander topped McCall in two precincts here, Irrigon, 30 to 26, and Hard man, 10 to 5. Alfred Corbett of Protland won the Democratic secretary of state nomination almost as handily, defeating Harold P. Sleubs and M. A. (Cap) Yegge. Vote in Morrow county was 429 for Corbett, 192 for Steubs and 30 for Yegge. For state treasurer, incumbent Howard Belton, unopposed on the Republican ballot, polled 736, while Robert Straub, Demo crat, won the right to oppose him in November. Straub had 329 in Morrow county to 247 for Vic Davis and 69 for Thomas Baggs. Robert Y. Thornton, incumbent atorneygeneral, recei v e d 698 votes without opposition on the Democratic ballot, and Merlin Eytep, Republican, also unop- (Continued on page 8)
