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I I BPART U Of 0 I cusnir, one. Joe Defeats Peiherso for Morrow Jud City Council Buys New Fire Truck llepporc titv nunii Momlay nlftit lite hid of the Wentrfn Mate H lijulpmrnt i i.iiu.nv .f ( ..fin Hut f furn- ikhinjl and ltiill!m; a V ration ir minute lift pump truk mounted on a Fold i hiuU. t out itueti wn n-rptaine In I he lai Ihi.UtI . Dial ji m..unl which I nH coered n thla rara budget Tin I'M .i tUUrl ba ory fl.lUil tt the iHiuii-mrfit. loial ft Ulidh will nmi to HMfi Although It U r-1l that the old Imtk. whlrh will to k I I. will hilnif up l'i .'.'. V.t rltv la iiot riniwiwi-red to rpend more for an Item than that lul Krtrd. hrnre the balance I' iik1 $13l rtiut ! l f-rr .1 to next vcar'a budget, an.l the truth rannot lx delivered until after July J of r-t vrar Ilvrrv had leen raperted a month earlier. June 1. VM'A. Th WeHcm State Mil luted II (.: KM for the rhakl an.J $10.,1ti for furnl-hlnu nl bull. I In the fire pumper lly. Another atep toward city tuning was taken when the court il patKit a resolution ask ing for anlitance from the lloua ln an Home Uninon agency ami the State Hoard of Higher Kditcatlon to. finance the work for establishing rotting here. If the application for fund It ap proved, the rlty would pay SI. MJV and the other agem-los would contribute l!.tt. Ixvuvolori on a Green l:Uer ordinance resulted In the coun cil asking Attorney Hob Ahrnm to check further on the matter, lie brought to their attention an ordinance from the City of 8 1st Year THE Number 36 GAZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 5, 1964 10 cents Lamb Retains Post as Mayor Voters Pick Mrs. George Recorder District ann s ICICS usa I t (Continued on page 3) Vels Day Program, Feed Set al lone In observance of Veteran ly the lone Amctlcan Legion lM",t will apMior a program at lone ' Mrmorlal fietd on Wedncmljy. November 11. atartlng at 10:30 a m , the xd annountva. Hie public U Invited to attend thi program. In the evrnlnf a pancake din ner will be aerved by the Auxil iary from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Admin aion will be $1 for adults and 5ov for grade achool puplU. Pr(XH,eda will be used to help nay for a new roof on the Legion hall. . Jaycees Schedule Charter Banquet Charter banquet of the Hepp ner chapter, Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be Saturday, No vember M. In the American Legion hall. Dr. Robert Todd, banquet chairman, announces. At this time the chapter will be presented and charter mem bers will be Introduced. The atatc Joycce president Is sched uled as ft Ruest, and an out aide speaker will also be present. Tickets to the banquet will be $2 per plate, and those Interested In purchasing them are nsked to contact Dr. Todd, t I h 'A X 1 c- (Vote tabulation on page 4) Paul Jones of Heppner defcatwl Judge Ocar Peter son, incumbent for Morrow county judge Tuesday in the general election by a margin of 211 votes. Jones, a Democrat, polled 1115 votes as he won margin in five precincts, and Peterson, Republican, tallied 931 as he gained favor in four of the county precincts. The race was of top interest on the local level and proved to be close w ith Heppner voting about evenly for the two candidates. Margin of victory for Jones came in the IJoardman and Irrigon precincts where he ran better than 3 to 1, while Judge Peterson wa strong at lone with a 2-to-l lead there. UNLIKE tomi modara rancbara. Rarmond Trtnch. 1964 Cattleman of tb Taar. apanda a groat dal of tlmo In tbo saddle and foals right at homo thoro. Horo bo la shown la bis corrals on bis stock borso, -Sonny.' Fourth Generation Cattleman Chosen Stockman of V ear (See also page 2, Sec. 2) Raymond French, fourth gen eratlon cattleman who ranches more than 8-100 acres on Butter Creek, has bien chosen 19o4 LtveMockman of the Year for Morrow county. He will be honored and pre nented with an award Saturday nlr.hl at the FarmtltyUve I Mock Growers banquet in the IleDuner Illi'h school multipur !.( room. The banquet will climax the two-day program of the lbth annual meeting or the stock growers. The ranch, some 30 miles from Heppner. Is at a location where Big Butter creek Is pretty little. Spacious and comfortable home Col. Burchell Votes Here After Cross-Country Trip Colonel Edward Burchell, who Is stationed In Washington, D. C, with the army undoubtedly came the longest distance to vote In Morrow county Tuesday. He and his wife traveled nil the way from their residence at An nonduic, Va., near Washington, n. c. Col. Burchell. deputy director of supply for the Supply and Maintenance command, former ly resided in Lexington and has maintained his residence in Heppner, voting by absentee in previous elections. It was necessary for him to make n staff visit to the Uma tilla Ordnance depot, and so he timed the trip to permit him to vote in his home county. They arrived here last Wednesday, vis ited with brothcrs-ln-law Jim Healv and Jerry Daggett and families, and left Tuesday for Salem to visit his mother, Mrs. Mae Burchell. Col. Burchell cast his ballot in the S. E. Heppner precinct. "We've traveled all over the world but wo are still coming back to Oregon to live whc.i we retire," he said. Col. Burchell, who played foot ball at Lexington High school with L. E. Ruhl, was looking forward to watching Dick Ruhl perform for Oregon State Uni versity against Indiana at Cor vallis Saturday. The Burchells keep in touch with the home folks through the i COL. EDWARD BURCHELL Gazette-Times, which they wouldn't be without. They re newed their subscription while on the visit here. "We find that we recognize about one out of 10 names in the paper," the colonel said. He left Morrow county in iiu and has been in service since that time, returning in May af ter a year's service in Korea. occupied by the French family is the same house In which Ray mond spnt his earliest days after being born In Pendleton 37 years ago. Dillard French, grandfather of tnls year's Livestockman, home steaded part ot the ranch. Later Herbert French, Raymond's father, operated the ranch until hW death 29 years ago. Following the father's death, the family lived in Heppner for a number of years. Raymond at tended school in Pendleton for a year, but graduated rrom nign school here. He entered the navy In 11M5 and was stationed at Colorado Springs with the rank of seaman, getting a year of college while in service. During he lime lie attended Heppner High school he met a pretty cheerleader wnue ne was playing football at Condon. He and Norma Denton were married in 191(5 and went back to the ranch In the spring of 1947. They have remained there since. In addition to the 5C00 acres in the ranch. Raymond rents 2800 acres in the adjoining place ot his mother, Mrs. Rose Francis of Pendleton, and Raymond's uncle. Jack French, rents the rest of her ranch. Known as a good efficient cat tle rancher, Raymond gets over tin- rolling hills of his broad rangelands in a 4-wheel drive rip in a manner that would do credit to a television commer cial. But probably more often he s (Continued on page 8) Joe Balfe Joins Herman Winter Joe Balfe of Salem, Willam ette University graduate who passed the Oregon State bar ex amination this year, has Joined Herman Winter, attorney, as a partner in the law office, it was announced this week. Balfe, with his wife and thrie children, moved to Heppner Sun day. He formerly served with the Oregon state police and has served four years in the Air Force with a year in Korea. Balfe's home originally was In Beaverton and he graduated from Beaverton High school. In the family are Rogene, 6, Cyril, 4, and John, 5 months. Full Program Set By Stock Growers For Annual Meet Sixteenth annual meeting of the Morrow county Livestock Growers association- will start at the county fairgrounds Friday morning (tomorrow) at 10 a.m. From then on. for two days the program will be crowded with events ranging from the opening stallion show to the concluding banquet Saturday night in the Heppner High school multipur pose room, starting at 6.30. Morrow county CowBelles will be hostesses for luncheon Fri day at the fairgrounds and a nominal admission will be charged to help their treasury. Irvin Mann of Stanfleld, mem ber of the Oregon Beef council and representative-elect from the 28th district, will speak at 1:30 on beef imports and how they affect cattle prices. This will be followed at 2:15 p.m. by a dis cussion on nutrition and live stock management with Dr. Mc-1 Arthur, superintendent. Eastern i Oregon Experiment Station, lead- ing the discussion. Officers' and committee re- j ports will be given Saturday morning as the first order of, hnirn; uith a nrocress rennrt t on the Oregon Cattlemen's as sociation to follow. Dick Sned don of the program committees of the American National Cattle men's association will tell of the convention. A ton feature of the afternoon session will be "What We Know About Baby Calf Losses" by Dr. Glenn B. Rea, state veterinarian. Report of the nominating com mittee will be made later in the dav and election of directors will be held to fill vacancies of ex pired terms of Dick Wilkinson, Harold Wright. Ralph Beamer and Raymond French. A social get-together will be ut 5:30 Saturday with the Hepp ner branch, First National Bank, as host. On Friday morning the Bank of Eastern Oregon will serve coffee and doughnuts with their compliments. The Saturday night banquet is jointly sponsored by the stock Growers, the Heppner conser vation district and the Heppner Morrow county Chamber of Com merce. An exceptional program is planned this year with Stew art Bledsoe of Ellensburg, Wn., as principal speaker. He will show colored slides and speak Al Lamb won another term as mavor of Heppner Tuesday whrn he edged Kd Gonty In the city's voting. 3.V1. to 3U. Gonty, lonjj time member of the coun cil and presently president of the council, carried one precinct tut lost in three. NorthweKt Heppner went for Cmty. 12 to 118; Southwest Heppner favored Lamb. 6 to 75 as rtia ronneai iieppner, to 61. and Southeast Heppner, 70 to 52. Mrs. Elaine George won the rleht to succeed Ted Smith as recorder by winning the position over Conley Lanham. 512 to 195. Smith will retire at the end of his current term. Mrs. George carried all precincts. Her mother formerly held a similar position with the city years ago . Mrs. Ernest tMarv Jean) Me Calx? edged Harlan McCurdy Jr. for city treasurer, 350 to 323, each winning two precincts. Mc Curdy carried Southwest Hepp ner, 78 to 70. and Northeast Iieppner, 75 to 73. while Mrs. McCabe won In Northwest Hepp ner. 138 to 102. and in South east Heppner. 69 to 68. All four candidates for coun ell positions were elected, since all ran without opposition. The elected for - four-year terms include V7. C Rosewaxi, the only incumbent in the group, 592: W. C. Collins. 583, and David A McLeond. 550. Haskell Shairard won the 2-year term. polling 520 votes. Mrs. Kincaid Fails To Vote First Time Since Suffrage Won Mrs. Clara Kincaid of lone was unable to vote Tuesday. That wouldn't be news if it happened to any of many citizens, but it is news in her case. She has voted in every presidential election since women won suffrage in 1920. Mrs. Kincaid. 89. became ill and entered Pioneer Memorial hospital Saturday, too late to apply for an absentee ballot. She could not have voted Tues day because she was too ill. At last report, however, she was "getting along fine" but probably will be hospitalized for a month or so. 92 Percent Vote Cast In County! Posting a whopping 92 percent turnout at the polls Tuesday, Morrow county voters Indicated by this response that they took seriously the slogan. "If you vote, the choice is yours; If you don't vote, the choice is theirs." A total of 213-1 out of the countv's registration of 2331 cast ballots In the election, accord ing to Mrs. Sadie ParrUh. county clerk. That leaves only 197 across the county who failed to vote, and of this number quite a few have moved away. In Southeast Heppner. the turnout was almost unbeliev able. Out of a registration of 184. a total of 180 cast ballots, leaving only four who failed to show up. That gives this precinct a record of 98 percent Northeast Heppner was just 16 short of a complete turnout with 221 balloting out of 237. Southwest Heppner was Just 20 off the perfect mark with. 251 voting, and Northwest Heppner lacked Just 22 of total saturation with 2S8 out of 310 turnine out. Thus, in all of Heppner and; only in Sherman county, and is adjoining rural areas which vote . included among Republicans In somewhat of a surprise, voters of the county defeated the propped road serial levy, lffjj to H5. All precincts but one voted against the measure by small margins. It would have provided $100,000 per year for three years for county roads. Such serial levies have been ap proved easily in the past, and the county has operated under this system for some 12 years. Races for state representative and state senator In Morrow county were close, but in each case the county voted for the man who won In the district. Ben Musa of The Dalles, incum bent for state senate. 18th dis trict, narrowly edged Giles French of Moro in Morrow coun ty by 69 votes, gaining his strength in Boardman and Irri gon where he ran 3 to 1 over his Republican opponent French lost Lexington by a small mar gin but won handily in all other precincts of the county. Musa was successful in his bid to re tain his senate seat in the dis trict, but a final count was not available by Thursday morning. Irvin Mann, Republican, of Stanfield topped Martin Buch anan, Democrat of Milton-Free-water in the county by another slim majority. 1079 to 983, only 96 votes difference. Again the two north end precincts heavily favored Buchanan while Mann ran strongly throughout the rest or the county. Mann won throughout the district losing in the city, only 62 failed to ar rive at the polls. Hardman. with the lightest registration in the county, had 34 of 39 voting: 23 failed to vote at Irrigon. 307 of 330 turning out; and Boardman and Lexing- fnn Mrh missed 100 bv 35 vot ers with 255 of 290 in Board man voting and 241 of 276 in Lexington. At lone, largest pre- who were elected to give the party a majority in the State House of Representatives. In national and state contests, the county trend generally fol lowed that voted around the rest of the state. Al Ullman crushed Everett Thoren. Republican, 1552 to 545. in Morrow county as he did around the second Congressional cinct in the county. 357 of 394 district and easily retained his voted, or 91 per cent WEATHER Weather report for the week of October 29 November 4 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Hi 57 65 62 65 55 60 54 Low 42 38 44 41 23 38 33 Prec. .13 .02 Tr. l . :, tr ' awv ft s J L place in the U. S. Congress. Tom McCall withstood the Democratic tide in the county's north end and claimed Morrow county as he roiled into office as secretary of state over Senator Alfred Corbett McCall polled 1115 in the county to 948 for Sen. Corbett McCall won in all precincts but Boardman and Irri gon, losing them by better than 3 to 1 margins. The north end vote was particularly interest ing in view of the fact that Sen. Corbett had been one of the leaders in the state legislature in favor of abandoning the Boe ing project at the time of the special session of the legislature. Morrow county went into the column for Bob Straub, Demo crat, for state treasurer over in cumbent Howard Belton, Repub lican, again bceause of the north end vote. Belton won all the other precincts but Hard man and Lexington, but lost the county by a slim margin, 1031 to 982. Robert Y. Thornton, Demo cratic incumbent for state at- i torney general, won easily in the WINNERS in the local conservation speech contest hero last week j county over his Republican chal were Anita uroves iieii), mi oiuun v';i . 7 and Mark Brown, third. Miss Groves also placed second in the area and semi-final contests. Anita Groves Takes First In Local Speech Contest Anita Groves. Heppner High school senior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Groves, first Dlace in the local con servation speech contest last Wednesday at the high school, took second in the area contest at Pilot Rock last Thursday night, but bowed out of the competition at Arlington when she came in second in the semi finals there. The winner of the semi-finals, Marjorie Dale of Helix, who also won first at Pilot Rock, will con tinue to the state finals. In the local contest, Miss Groves topped a field of eight contestants, five from Heppner lone. Eecona nnrf thrfA from on "Russia for Real" following i place went to Stuart Dick, son of Mr. ana Mrs. l. r jjicr., aim a reopie-io-reopie tour ne iook to that country recently. Presentations of the Livestock Man of the Year, Raymond French, and of the Conservation Man of the Year, Kenneth Turn er, will be at the banquet third went to Mark Brown, son ofMr. and Mrs. Paul Brown. Other contestants were Cher yle Ann Lundell. lone; Lee O'Connor. lone; C h e r i 1 y n Smouse, lone; Maureen Doherty, Heppner; and Tim Driscoll, Heppner. Topic for the seven-minute speeches this year was range management Kenneth Turner was chairman of the contest and Pastor Kenneth Robinson, Gene Pierce, and Bob Jepsen were Judges. Ralph Richards was timekeeper. Elmer Palmer, vice president of Morrow County Grain Grow ers, presented trophies given by the Grain Growers to the three winners and each contestant re ceived a bronze speech pin. In the area contest at Pilot Rock five were in the compe tition, and Miss Groves placed second. There were four in the semi-finals at Arlington which was presented before the high school student body and other spectators. Competing besides the two winners were Sonja Sweeney of Bend, mid-state dis trict champion, and Loren Mc Nab of Wasco. leneer. Merlin EsteD. as he did around the state. Count here was 1390 for Thornton; 647 for Estep. Like the landslide across the nation, Morrow county voted strongly for President Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater, 1470 to 632. Walter H. Hayes, Republican, retained his position as Morrow county commissioner by break ing the Democratic vote in his home precinct His opponent, Maxwell Jones, Democrat, claim ed a whopping 9 to 1 margin in his home Irrigon precinct, 271 to 31, but Hayes polled 167 to 76 for Jones in Boardman and won. 1083 to 943, in the county. Hayes ran strongly in the rest of the county except for Lexing ton, but Irrigon, last to come in on election night, cut down the incumbent's apparently decisive lead to the final 140-vote edge. Joe Tatone of Boardman top ped Don Turner for the county port commission, 2 year term, 1168 to 881, winning In all pre cincts. For the four-year term, the three "incumbents, Dick Krebs, Al Lamb and Dewey West, won the places. Krebs tallied 1464 votes. West 1423 and Lamb 1370. Lloyd Berger was unsuc cessful in his race with 1185 votes. (Continued on page 8)
