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Scouts Get Awards At Honor Dinner By LaVELLE PARTLOW (Held over from last week) IRRIGON Bojr Scout Troop No. 667 Court of Honor was held at the A. C. Houghton Cafetor ium last Tuesday evening, pre ceded by a potluck dinner. Re ceiving admission as Tender foot Scouts were Dennis Lamb and Jody Tatone. Jim McGinnis was advanced to 1st class Scout Merit badges were awraded the following: Bob McRae, Tom VanHorn, Jim McGinnis, Tom Olin and Duane Lamb. Bob Mc Rae was awarded an instructor's badge, and Harold Stitzel and Richard Ryan received recruiting chips. Perfect attendance pins were awarded to David Franke, Jim McGinnis, and Tom Van Horn. Tom VanHorn received an official boy scout knife for sell ing the most tickets for the Scout Circus. A special candlelight cere mony was held honoring Tom VanHorn, who advanced to Life Scout Participating in the cere mony were Grant Harmon of Hermiston, who was Tommy s Cubmaster when VanHorns lived in Hermiston, and Joe Flink, who has been active in Scout work in Hermiston for several years. During the ceremony Tom presented a miniature Life badge to his mother and pinned it for her. Mrs. VanHorn then presented Tom with his Life badge. Mrs. McCoy Gets State Office Mrs. Dean Acock and Mrs. Warren McCoy were in Corvallis last week, where they attended a Ladies Home Extension State convention. During the conven tion, Mrs. Warren McCoy was nominated and elected as State Representative for District 7, Umatilla, Morrow, Grant and Gilliam counties. The conven tion, which consisted of class sessions, luncheons and a ban quet, was held on the Oregon State University campus. One of the highlights was the Internat ional Banquet held Wednesday night, when foreign students at tending the University, attired themselves in their native dress, and told of their homelands. While there, Mrs. Acock and Mrs. McCoy visited with Mrs. M. E. Hadwick and Mrs. Dave Kaul, June Goodwin, former, Irri gon residents. The ladies return ed to Irrigon Thursday evening. A total of 971 ladies from all over the state attended the con vention. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Stewart of La Grande visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Stewart over the week-end. - Mrs. Earl Isom was in charge of the Mother's Day program presented at the Assembly of God church Sunday morning. A Mother's Day song was sung by the beginners, recitations given by the Primaries, and a skit, "Songs Our Mothers Loved" was presented by the Jr. Choir, with Ricky Snyder narrating, and Frances McDonald dramatizing the different scenes. Each mother present received a cor sage, and plants were awarded to Mrs. Pete Sharp, Mrs. Bill Schmeder and Mrs. Lillie B. Warner. The Junior choir pre sented a program for the Golden Age club in Hermiston Tuesday, May 19. Mothers were honored at the Baptist church Sunday morning, and plants for oldest mothers went to Mrs. Frank Smawley and Mrs. John Paxson. Mrs. Wayne Eppenbach received the plant for the youngest mother. A special musical quartet, com posed of Susan McCoy, flute; Janice Eppenbach and Georgene Hash, clarinets, and Larry Mar low at the piano. Mr. and Mrs. John Swearingen and Geraldine drove to Boise over the week-end to visit their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Garry Pittock and Patty. Rev. Walter Warner of Port land drove to Irrigon Monday to visit his mother, Mrs. Lillie B. Warner and other relatives. He returned to his home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stewart arrived in Irrigon Monday to visit their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Stew art, Sharon and Tommy, and Mrs. Stewart's mother, Mrs. Ruth McCoy, and other relatives. Boys from the 7th and 8th grade of A. C. Houghton school will participate in an invitation al track meet at Arlington Fri day, May 15, at 1:30 p.m. Cub Scouts Den 1 will meet at Mrs. Bill Lesley's home Tues day, May 19, from 4:15 to 5:15. Cub Scouts Den No. 2 will meet the same day at Mrs. Don Adams from 3:15 to 4:30. Menus at A. C. Houghton school for the week of May 18 to 22 are as follows: Monday Bar becued pork, potatoes, grape fruit, green salad, pudding; Tuesday Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, buttered carrots, cheese cake; Wednesday Beef stew, hot rolls, fruit, cake; Thursday Po tato salad, lunch meat, green beans, pineapple pudding; Fri day Tuna and noodle casserole, cottage cheese and peach salad; cherry crunch. Riverside Sets Graduation The Senior class of Riverside High school toured Blue Moun tain College and Eastern Oregon College Monday. Baccalaureate for Riverside High school will be held at the Riverside High school gymnasium Sunday even ing, May 17, at s:ui) p.m. com mencement will be at the gym nasium Friday evening, May 22. The annual A. C. Houghton PTA Community Picnic will be held at the school grounds Sun day afternoon, May 24. The pot luck dinner will begin at 1:00 p.m., and will be followed by games, races and a baseball game. The A. C. Houghton Track The Highlander By MICHAEL D. BENGE Ban Me Thuot Viet Nam Driving down a path worn through the jungle of the High lands of Viet Nam, we come up on a Montagnard village. It looks much like our old forts in the Indian days for there are high pointed stakes set in the ground but the. similarity ends there. Surrounding these poles are two other fences of sharpened bam boo stays. Between each of these fences there are sharpened bam boo spikes driven into the ground facing outward. The gate is shut tight but we call out to the guard "Suih Asei meli, Kao jung nao ama kao." ("Hello, how are you? I want to go to the house of my father"). The guard answers and smiles, then begins to open the gates to let us in, for he knows us, as we have been here many times be fore. As we enter he shakes our hand and save in rohirn "QuiVi Asei Meli." The village is about 30 long houses, built on nilintrs ma Ho nt wood, the house of woven bam- doo and the roof of straw. We walk to one of the long houses Which hOUSe 3ft tn dfl nonnlo onH climb the stairs hewn from a large log. There are two sets of stairs, one for the men and another for the women, which have the symbol of productivity carved in them. There is a plat form before entering th which serves as a working area for the women pounding and gleaning rice, for weaving of cloth or baskets or at night time, meet Will be held at iho cohnnl grounds Thursday, May 14, at w:uu a.m. Mrs. Bill Littrell drove to Walla Walla Monday to visit her grandsons. Stuvo rVirfa. topher and Jimmy Littrell. ana Mrs. jonn caliif are parents of a baby boy, Ronald Lee. born Mav 3. Rnnnlrt T.m weighed 4 lbs., 15y2 oz., and has one older brother. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Lou Gustin of Umatilla and pa ternal crandparents nr Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Zehner. Califf, who is stationed at the Naval Supply Base and Winter Harbor, Maine, was on dutv when hio wifo called to be taken to the hos pital, and Mrs. Califf was the first patient to utilize the new amDuiance tnat had arrived at the base that afternnnn. and Califf the first serviceman to drive it. Mr. and Mrs. flpnp Andrews Kenneth and Anita of Portland spent Thursday through Sunday visiting witn Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Zehner, Melody and Da vid. Other week-end guests at the Zehner rpsirienrp wprp Mr and Mrs. Sidney Zehner, Rudy ana Laura ot Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Edwards, Debbie Patti and Garv of Ppndlpton were dinner guests of the Zehn- ers bunday afternoon. a place to keep the chickens from the various nocturnal prowlers. As we enter we are greeted by the various male members of the household who are seated or lying prostrate on mats, for the front portion of the house is reserved for them. One sees giant narrow beds hewn from logs which serve for sleeping. The head of the house hold greets us and then his wife and the other women of the household. The rear of the long house is sectioned into cooking quarters and a few small rooms to be used by the married couples. We are asked to be seated on woven straw mats covering a portion of the split bamboo floor through which you can see the pigs, chickens and buffalo or cows wandering beneath the house. The house is like a long dark hallway, dimly lighted by the sunshine filtering through the cracks in the bamboo thatch walls. We are given pillows to prop ourselves on and you gaze at the roof and see the tightly bound rice straw and elephant grass roof which surprisingly keeps the house cool in the day time but retains the heat to keep it warm at night, even though the wind may whistle through the walls and floor. As you gaze around the dark ened house you see several of the young men bringing buckets of water carried on poles from the nearby stream, tying large jars of fermented rice to upright bamboo fasented to a beam in the ceiling and to a hole in a board on which sets the wine jug. These jars of wine hold from 5 to 15 gallons of liquid, they are shaped like a flower vase and are of glazed clay ceramics. Leaves are stuffed in the jar on top of the rice to keep it from floating to the top and then water is poured to the brim of the jar and then a bamboo straw is thrust to the bottom. In this way the water is drawn through the fermented rice and as each cup full is drawn off another is poured in to keep tne luice jug full. As one can imagine the more wine that is drank from the jar the weaker the solution be comes. One sees several of these jars in a row. All at once a thumping begins on a brass gong laying on the legs of two men, one beating it with a heavy rawhide drum stick and the other regulating the tones. It begins in a steady pulsating beat taking you back a thousand years to any of the Malayan, Polynesian tribes. The same rhythm then a higher gong breaks in with an alternating beat and then the other different tones from various sized brass gongs weaving in and out break ing on different tones and beats, One soon finds himself almost hypnotized until it is broken by the shattering thunder of a huge U..1 L1J. J Jit- l 1 1 uuuaiu niue arum wun oeiis tied across the top which In creases the din and then slowly fades away into the once again haunting rhythm of the gongs. You notice a man dressed in a bright jacket with red binding and brass buttons, a turban tied around his head. He draws water from the largest wine jug and sprinkles a little wine on all the gongs, drum, a knife and a chicken he is carrying. Now he becomes closer to you and beckons you to another straw mat, separate from the others, and has you face the wall, for today you had been asked to come to the village for adoption into the family and a sacrifice given for you. The rhythm stops and the holy man of the house hold holds a chicken over your head, sprinkles you with the wine, waves the chicken iwir and forth and begins a low chant some oi wnicn you can under stand: Buon Kram November 2, 1963. This man is to be made part of H-Jon and Y-Bham. We offer a sacrifice for Mr. Benge. Mr. Benge is our son. We love you very much. You also love us like your par ents. Eternally loving. The offered name is Y-Ben HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, May 21, 1964 wished to Mr. Benge. Good Healthcalled to the jug to refresh and Eternally. We present our love to you so that we offer to you a jug of wine, a hen and these bracelets on your wrist and wish Y-Ben good health Don't be sad now and always remember your parents in the village. Then he beckons you to rise and you then sit before the huge jug of wine and a brass bracelet is put on your wrist while you grasp the bamboo straw in three fingers of your right hand, the same which has the bracelet. The holy man, never releasing the bracelet, repeats the cere mony along with all the names of everyone in the family. Then your father places a bracelet up on your wrist followed by your mother and all of the female members of the family. Now you are to drink three cans of wine from the straw, then your father, your mother, the women of the immediate family and then the other members according to their position or age. Then all of the wine jars are started, each person called ac cording to their turn. Again the pulsating rhythm of the gongs begin and the drinking is taken serious note. Each musician is Intermission is taken also. At first it startles you to see the mothers, a pipe in her mouth or the ever present beetle nut of the far east, drink from the straw and then turn to prod the small unweaned baby on her back to take a sip. The young and old in turn drink the wine but it seems as though it takes a little more age to develop the taste for the wine. A small boy wan ders by puffing a cloud of smoke from the mothers or fathers pipe. You go to another part of the house to eat and see many dishes set before you, if you try counting maybe 13 or 14' for this is a festive occassion. Unless they wander upon a forest an imal the ceremonies are the only time that meat is killed and eaten. Four or five of the older or more important members of the family are seated around the bowls of rice, vegetables, salad, dried meats, fish, egg plant fruits or some jungle plants. When you patronize Gazette Times advertisers, you help make a better paper. Tell them you saw It In the Gazette-Times. Notice Of Budget Hearing The budget for Boardman Cemetery Maintenance District for the fiscal year 1964-1965, beginning July 1, 1964, as detailed and summarized In the accompanying schedules, was prepared on an accounting basis consistent with that used in prior years. Major changes, if any, and their effects on this budget are set forth in an accompanying statement A meeting of the Boardman Cemetery Maintenance District will be held June 13, 1964, at 7:30 p.m., at Boardman City Hall for the purpose of holding a public hearing on this budget. Any person may appear to discuss the budget, or any part of it. ZEARL J. GILLESPIE, Chairman of Governing Body FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1964 General Tax Levy Computation Fund Total Budget Requirements $3,660 Less Budget Resources, Except Taxes to Be Levied 2,125 Taxes Necessary to Balance Budget 1,535 Add Taxes Estimated Not to Be Received During Ensuing Year 250 TOTAL TAXES TO BE LEVIED $1,785 Analysis of Taxes to Be Levied Within 6 Limitation . . $1785 TOTAL TAXES TO BE LEVIED "$1,785 TS TRADE 'N' TRAVEL TIME AT YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER'S 'i1 1 L JIEj 1 I lira Five different lines of cars forty five different models to choose from. Come early and trade great! Now that spring's in full swing, you'll find new Chevrolet perfect for picking. , Luxury First, there's the big Jet-smooth Chevrolet. Sumptuous and soft riding. Over 700 sound stoppers throughout the car to blot out noise. Interiors luxuriously done up in the newest and softest vinyls. I Trade what you're driving for one of these, and you won't want to trade seats with anybody else on the road. Spirit Next, Chevelle. The beautifully. in-between size car that combines small car handling oomph with big car comfort. Eleven different models that you can equip with just about any extra-coat option you can imagine. No place to go this summer? Get a new Chevelle you'll think of something. Economy Chevy II the car that takes to inexpensive vacations natu rally. It just goes and goes, and where it stops nobody knows. Eight models to pick from, including wagons with enough room to swallow up an eight- foot Christmas tree. (Plan ahead, we always say.) Fun Then there's Corvair. The fun one with the engine in the rear for, unbelievable traction. Spring mud,' summer sand, winter snow nothing stops it. I Corvette. The enthusiast's car. Sting Ray Sport Coupe and Con vertible. Still America's only true sports cars. They do for your driv ing what holidays do for Kids. Performance And with any new , Chevrolet you choose, you can pick from a wide range of stand-) ard or extra-cost high performance engines. t Either way, whether you've got some place special to go this summer or not, when you trade for one of Chev rolet's five great high way per formers you'll travel I FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1963 General Tax Levy Computation Fund Total Budget Requirements $3,800 Less Budget Resources, Except Taxes to Be Levied 2,000 Taxes Necessary to Balance Budget 1,800 TOTAL TAXES TO BE LEVIED $1,800 Analysis of Taxes to Be Levied Within 6 Limitation $1,800 TOTAL, TAXES TO BE LEVIED $1,800 Petty Cash Balance, July 1 Current Ensuing Year Year (Actual) (Estimated) 15 1.80 Approved by Budget Committee May 8, 1964. ARTHUR A. ALLEN Chairman of Budget Committee GENERAL FUND RESOURCES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1964-1965, BEGINNING JULY I, 1964 HISTORICAL DATA ACTUAL Budget For Second First Budget Ensuing Year Preceding Preceding Current Approved Year Year Year $ $ $2,000.00 'Available Cash on Hand (Cash Basis) $2,000 1,800.00 1,800.00 1,800.00 Previously Levied Taxes Estimated To Be Received During Ensuing Year 100 Other Resources Sale of Lot 25 Total Resources, Except Taxes to Be Levied $2,125 Taxes Necessary to Balance Budget 1,535 $1,800.00 $1,800.00 $3,800.00 Total Resources $3,660 'Includes Unappropriated Balance budgeted last year. GENERAL FUND REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY Treasurer Department FOR FISCAL YEAR 1964-1965, BEGINNING JULY 1, 1965 11 '"Mi1 a lRADEiriUVEl THE GREAT HIGHWAY PERFORMERS-Models shown top to bottom: Corvette Sting Ray, Corvair Monza Spyder, Chevy H Nova Super Sport Coupe, Chevelle Malibu Super Sport, Chevrolet Impala Super Sport. Fullefon Chewole 36-3764' Heppner, Oregon t Company HISTORICAL DATA ACTUAL Second First Budget Preceding Preceding Current Year Year Year $ 800.00 $ 800.00 $ 800.00 $ 175.48 50.58 189.80 24.50 $ 440.36 $ 28.10 921.46 $2,189.92 20.63 $ 820.63 $ 272.11 49.57 174.10 61.21 77.89 $ 634.88 54.14" $1,509.65 $ 800.00 40.00 $ 840.00 $ 400.00 100.00 300.00 70.00 $ 870.00 $ 250.00 90.00 1,100.00 $1,440.00 $ 50.00 600.00 $3,800.00 Budget For Ensuing Year Approved Personal Services Caretaker $ 800 Secretary 100 Other Labor 170 Total Personal Services $1,070 Materials and Services: Maintenance and Repairs $ 400 Miscellaneous and Office 150 Audit and Legal Fees 300 Employer Tax 90 Travel and Miscellaneous 100 Advertising 50 Total Materials and Services $1,090 Delinquent Taxes Cash Working Fund Moving Cemetery Capital Outlay: Equipment 900 Contingency 600 Total Requirements $3,660 GENERAL RESERVE FUND SUMMARY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1964-1965, BEGINNING JULY 1. 1964 HISTORICAL DATA ACTUAL Second Preceding Year 1,800.00 First Preceding Year 1,800.00 Budget Current Year $2,000.00 1,800.00 $3,800.00 Budget For Ensuing Year Approved Resources: Available Cash on Hand (Cash Basis) $2,000 Previously Levied Taxes Estimated To Be Received During Ensuing Year 100 Transferred To Other Funds Sale of Lots 25 Total Resources, Except Taxes to Be Levied $2,125 Taxes Necessary to Balance Budget 1,535 Total Resources $3,660 Total Requirements $3,660
