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I I OPARY U OF O r u 1 1 v. r , out. Directors Contract Ikmrit of directors f Morrow, county nhool cllatiM It I Voted !V to 1 at meeting Monday tilht not In renew the contract of lltllant Urown, rlrmentary mIhm admtnlKtrator In 'lnr for the iHt ai years. The action tame In an meeting after the malirr had ln-en tlliMiiwd In an executive m'mIihi. 11t advtoorv hoard hail otcd 6 2 attalnM lh renewal In recommending the action to the school iMiard. No naon i stated by the dlrriori for the art ion, but It wia clear that itl uixlorii had centered on administrative mat ters. Director Irvln Itaurh of ! tritrton was Iho only one to vote In favor of retaining Urown. c halrman Howard Cleveland did not vote, alnce It Is customary that ti Vole only In breaking a tie Tle action came aa a surprise to many In Ihe romtnunlty, ami number rapreajied their feel Ings t Ihe i;an tte Tlmra In per son or by telephone. Consensus of these comment was to the effect that Urown haa aerved aa a conscientious and responsible administrator. Contacted Wed""SY night, Riuwn aald that he did not wl;i to comment on the matter but ha Id that he had not been of. fWlally notified nor Riven the rcaaona for Ihe action. He aald. JIM DOHEHTY thrUlad local baakatbaU tana r rid ay niqht whan be fired four long ahota to a row te ecore eight quick points aqalmt the Sbermaa Huaklea. He will be to action rrtdar nigh here avatnat Wahteoka Wahtonka Hoopers Due Here Friday; lone in Showdown Important games face both the Heppner MiiHtansa and the lono CnrrtlnaN In basketball Friday nlk'ht with the Heppner five playing Wahtonka here while lone travels to Umatilla In a showdown for the leadership of the Umatilla-Morrow B league. Then, having done battle In their separate leagues, the Cards and Mustangs will turn to each other to go at It In a return game of their home-and home series Saturday night. Thev will meet In the lone gym with the Hepp ner Frosh playing the lone Jay veca In the preliminary at 6:.I0 and the main event following. The Mustangs will entertain DeSales of Walla Walla at home Tuesday night, February 2, In a return game. The Heppner lads topped DcSalca In their first game on December 11, and a scheduled return game here on December 19 was postponed on account of bad weather. Jayvee teams will open the evening at 6:30. In Wahtonka. the Heppner five has a highly respected ad versary In the Greater Oregon league although the team from The Dalles took It on the chin from rilot Rock Friday night, 58 to 43. This brought the Rockets into second place In the western division, behind Grant Union, which defeated Burns, now in third. Wahtonka was scheduled to play Grant Union Saturday night but the game was postponed because of bad weather. Heppner's klngs-X games with Pilot Rock, also scheduled Sat urday, were postponed, too, no cause of Ihe Icy conditions. Coach Bob Clough's team Is surging back after Its rough road trip to the southland and they hope to add Wahtonka as another rung of the ladder in their climb towards the top of the loop. Coach Gene Dockter's ramb ling Cardinals, defeated only by McEwen of Athena in league play, would like nothing better than to defeat Umatilla for un disputed first place in the 2 county B league. Their game Friday night will complete the first half of play in their circuit and a win would set them up good for the coming eight games. While the game with Heppner Saturday night has no bearing on their league standings, the Cardinals would like to even the loss they took In the Mustangs corral recently. It is certain that they will be a harder team to beat at lone, despite the fact that they cannot match the re serve strength of the Heppner club. Kefase Renewal however, that Chairman Ove- land had come li see him hut thai he vtii gone at the time, Supl. David Puller kald that he aliM had gone Id Mf Urown hut roii Id not reach I. in.. iiupt. l"otler aald lhal there are no candidate for Ihe iltlon In mind al Ihe present II me. Th IMiard eel Iho dale of Tuee ilav. February 23. to consider the matter of teacher contracta. I !(' tora approved a contract between Architect Howard Leon ard i;i-r of Portland, aubleet to the approval bv Attorney k.b Ahrams. ;ia-r was rhoM-n a architect for new buildings to be constructed for Itoardman and Irrlgon. r' will te on the fee. Kiited arale of 7' tut the lliftt JIKKnnl of construction coat. TX for Ihe neat 1'MM) and 6S for cost above $,jU,. Following the aiMMial meeting 'directors considered budget mat tcrs In a w ork session, pan if ulqrly tlioiu sections relating la buildinc and ground, and alv) discussed salaries of non ccrtl fled la-rsonnel to considerable length. Heart Campaign Seeks $800 Goal In Morrow County The WA Heart Fund cam paign, earhea(ilng force In the iiHtlonwiile fight agalntt heart and blood vrac illneaws which now accounts for 55 per cent of all deaths, will get underway here and In li.V other Amer lean communities. Monday. Feb ruarv 1. Continuing through the month. It will reach Its high point with a residential canvas during Heart Week, from Mon day. February IV through Sun day, February 21. General chairman of the Mor winty campaign la Harley ? Sager. Other Important post in the at ! I re being filled by 1 Mrs. Frank Hamlin, chairman of the Heppner campaign; Mrs. , John Lcdbctter. campaign chair man In Lexington, ann vjiroi Miller, heading the drive In lone. Mrs. Hamlin will work i cloudy with the local American Legion Auxiliary in me Dusiness establishment canvans. an im iMrtant phaM of the month long drive. The American Legion Auxiliary was the first organi sation to donate to the American Heart Aaaoclation on a national bttKl. donating (r.0.000 in 11K8. and has continued each year to play an Important role toward the success of the appeal. The local Heart Fund goal Is A vear ago the total realiz ed was $0-13.23. These public con tributions are used to support research, education and com munity service programs of the Oregon Heart Association. PTA to Sponsor Show February 10 Favorite hobbles and collec tions which persons have and wish to share with others will be welcomed at the PTA-sjon-wired Hobbies and Collectors Show, set for Wednesday even ing, February 10. at the Hepp ner High school multipurpose room. It Is hoped that a wide var iety of crafts, art, historical or any lavorlte collection 01 Doin adults and youth will be en tered. There will be tables set up for display, and those en tering are asked to bring articles between 3 and 5:00 that after noon, and are asked to pick them up immediately after the meet ing. Information may be secured from Mrs. Clint McQuarrle or Mrs. Lowell Grlbble, committee chairmen. A short business meeting will begin at 8 p.m., and observance of Founder's Day will be during the evening and social hour. Wranglers to Plan For Cutting Event The Wranglers club will make plans for the spring cow cutting event at a meeting Tuesday night, February 2, at the fair grounds. The cutting event Is to be held this year on April 17 and 18. Also at the meeting a motion picture film, "The Horse Amer ica Made," concerning the Amer ican saddle horse, will be shown. Jerry Dougherty, club president, will be In charge. Group Considers Forming Mental Health Clinic in County As a result of a Tuesday night meeting with representatives of the Mental Health Division, Ore gon State Board of Control, a committee of citizens will study the possibilities of forming a mental health clinic to serve Morrow county. Judge Paul Jones will act as temporary chairman of the group, working with doctors, teachers, ministers and other county officials as the volunteer committee Interested In the mat ter. At a no-host dinner meeting In All Saints' Episcopal parish hall Tuesday night, Robert E. Stevens, mental health plan c realms on Pi 81st Year THE GAZE Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, Jonuory 28, 1965 REP. IHVIN MANN of StanJield. a member of the legialature a a frethman rcpreaeatatlTe from the 28th district including Morrow county. U shown conferring with Governor Mark Hatlield In Salem as the leglalatlre session gets undarway. Bank of EO Shows Gains in Deposits, . Loans, Earnings For the eighth consecutive year the Bank of Eastern Ore gon made substantial gains In deposits, loans and earnings. It was reported at the regular an nual meeting of the stockhold ers held Wednesday. January 20. at Arlington in the new city hall. Of the 1500 shares of stock outstanding. 1203 were either present or represented by proxy. During the business meeting the plans of the new Arlington office were presented to those present and the financing of the building was discussed. It was pointed out that some $17,500 was set aside in the bank's re serves and undivided profits during 1964 in contemplation of having to build and move in 1965 or 1966. Directors elected to serve dur ing 1065 were John W. Krebs, Karl P. Hoag, D. L. Lemon and Dave Childs. all of Arlington. Arthur A. Allen of Boardman, Gar Swanson of lone, and How ard Brvant. R. B. Ferguson and Gene Pierce, all of Heppner. John Krebs was re-elected as chairman of the board of direc tors and Gene Pierce was re elected president. William F. Slewert of Heppner was elec ted vice president and cashier. James F. Green was re elected assistant cashier and manager of the Arlington office and Mar lon C. Green was re-elected as sistant cashier and manager of the lone office. Advanced First Aid Course Starts Monday An advanced course in Red Cross first aid will start Mon day, February 1. at 7:30 In the Junior High school library, ac cording to Bill Crook, instructor and chapter chairman. Over 20 persons successfully completed the first session of standard first aid classes last Monday night and are eligible for the advanced course. The class will last two hours of each Monday evening through the month of February. ning coordinator; Dorothy Col lard, psychiatric nursing con sultant; and Dr. Clement Vlck ery, assistant administrator of the Oregon State hospital, Sa lem, discussed the matter of mental health and the possibil ity of setting up a clinic here. Some 25 citizens, including doc tors, county officals. teachers, nurses, attorneys, and others, were present to ask questions. After a three-hour session, it was apparent that enough in terest was expressed on the mat ter to warrant further investi gation. A volunteer committee of some 10 persons agreed to meet again on February 24 in a."-" 4raf TTE-TIMES 1 " i Tax Study Bill Pleases, Rep. Mann A decision Friday of the House of Representatives tax ation committee to Introduce as a committee bill a measure creating a permanent legislative tax study committee was report ed by Irvln Mann, Jr., of Stan field, who represents the 28th legislative district and is a member of the taxation com mittee. Mann expressed pleasure that the measure would have the nrestlee of being a committee- sponsored bill. "The success or tnis dih wouia be the first concrete step to ward needed tax reform and ar riving at base-broadening tax procedures that will be able to withstand the inevitable reier- endum that awaits any new tax law." he said. Mann added that although no new taxes might be needed lor the next biennium. it was ap oarent that normal increase in education's requirements would bring about a necessity for new taxes in the 1967 session and the Dormanent tax study committee would be the "ideal vehicle to study such base-broade n i n R taxes that are needed in order that we may have some mean ingful reduction in property taxes." Old Hearing Aids, Eye Glasses Sought In a campaign being staged for the charitable organization, "Eves for the Needy," the Altar Society of St. William's church, lone, is seeking old eye glasses and discarded hearing aids. Mrs. Dick McElligott is chairman of the local project. Collection boxes are to be placed in Hick's Market and Bristow's Market, lone; Del's Market. Lexington; Phil's Phar macy. Bank of Eastern Oregon and First National Bank, Hepp ner. All who have glasses or hear insr aids of no further value to them are asked to give them to this cause. The lone Lions club Is cooperating in supporting the project. the parish hall at 7:30 to con sider what steps might be taken towards the formation of a clinic, what scope it might include, and possible ways and means of im plementing it. Father C Bruce Spencer, who called the meeting and presid ed, introduced Stevens who or iented the group on the subject of mental health, tracing pro gress made in the field from the times that those with mental problems were considered "out of reach" to opportunities now existing for prevention and treatment Stevens said, "Exciting things are happening in mental health. w V jl Number 48 HFPPNEn 10 cents Club Leaders Receive Awards For Achievement Mrs. L. A. McCabe. lone, was given a diamond and gold pin In honor of her 20th vear of 4 II leadership at the Morrow County Ml Leader's banquet, January 27. Others receiving- recognition for the 19C3 GI 4 II year are: 13th vear Mrs. K. M, Baker. Mrs. Louis Carlson, ana Everett Struf kmoier; 12th year Mrs. N. C. Andervin; 11th year Mrs. Andrew Skiles; 9th year Wilbur Van Blokland; 7th year Mrs. Mildred Davidson, Marcel Jones, and Mrs. John Swearlngen; 6th year Charles Daly, Mrs. F. J. i Murtbihaw. Mrs. W. E. Rawlins. Gary Tullls. and Mrs. B. J. Do-1 herty; 5th year Mrs. Roland i Bcrgstrom, Weldon Wltherrite, i and B. J. Doherty; 4th year- Mrs. Gene Cutsforth. Mrs. Keith Ilea. Kurt Gantenbein, Mrs. Louis Shade and Barbara Wlth errite: and 3rd year Rachel Harnett and Pat O Brien: Mrs. Leo Ashbeck. Mrs. Howard Crow-1 ell. Andrew Skiles and Chester, Wilson. I Second year recognition was ! given Mrs. Frank Anderson, Mrs. Robert Abrams. Mrs. Larv Cook, Raymond French. Mrs. Bill Gen try', Floyd Jones. Gene Hall, Mrs. William J. Doherty. Mrs. Nor man Nelson. Gene Harryman, O. J. King. Mrs. George Sawyer, Mrs. Harold Van Horn. Harold Van Horn, and Mrs. Arnold Hoff man. First year leaders are: Robert Bergstrom, Mrs. Harriett Evans, Dean Graves. Mrs. Lorine Led better. Mrs. Dave McLeod. Mrs. Wallace Wolff. Mrs. Ernest Chrlsto p h e rso n. Mrs. Ralph Crum. Herb Ekstrom. Jr.. Jim Pettyjohn. Mrs. William Spohn, Mrs. Ewing Hynd, Mrs. Henry Krebs, Mrs. Harold Baker, Harold Baker. Mrs. Floyd Hobbs, Mrs. Max Jones, Oils Lathrop. Mrs. Charles Mead. Mrs. Wilbur Olin. Mrs. Richard Ryan, and Ted Tal- bott. Chamber to Have Lunch at School Heppner - Morrow county! Chamber of Commerce will have luncheon at the high school Monday, it is announced by Randall Peterson, president. Members and guests will be transported by bus from the Wagon Wheel Cafe. Those plan ning to go on the bus are asked to be at the cafe at noon sharp. Mike Benge Home From Vietnam Duty; To Leave Sunday Mike Benge of lone, who has been working with Internat ional Volunteer Services in Kontum province, Vietnam, arrived home Saturday for a week's visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Terrel Benge, and friends here. He will leave again Sunday for Washington, D. C, flying from Pendleton, to prepare for an assignment in federal em ployment after which he will return to Vietnam for two more years under the new program, this will not be associated with International Volunteer Services. Benge, 29, arrived by bus in Arlington where he was met by his parents. He left Viet nam by air and came via Hon olulu to Portland, spending two weeks in Hawaii en route. Mike lost weight in work ing with the Montagnards in Vietnam but regained some of it on his vacation in Hawaii. He was away from the con flict in Vietnam, and he said that he enjoyed his work very much. A graduate of lone High school and Oregon State Uni versity, Benge also stopped to visit at OSU on the trip home. He is making several talks at schools and local organiza tions while he is here. We are making progress even if it is just that we can now talk about mental health." He said that everyone may de velop a mental health problem. One out of every 10 has such a problem and one family in four is involved Mental illness fills more beds tnan all other illnesses combined. Also, mental disorders may strike any age a child in school, a college student, or an elderly person. Incidence is as great in small towns as it is in large cities. Stevens said the mentally ill may roughly be divided into two categories the neurotics. Rampag Lena Bridge Out; Fairground Covered This will be known as thelfome four Inches winter in the iuxmu mat would n't quit. Illnton Creek, which behaved lUelf In the Chrlxtmaa floud, and Little Butter Creek went on rampages early Thursday (to day), fed by heavy rains In the mountains and melting anow. The atate highway bridge at Ix-na was washed out on the Heppner Pilot Rock road and aevrral bridges on the county road up Little Butter Creek were taken out. County Judge Paul Jones aald. The flay French and Paul HUler families were Iso lated by the flooding, and French asked the county to re pair damage as quickly as poss ible because he must haul hay to feed his stock. County shops and Ihe fair buildings were surrounded by the swollen Hinton creek early Thursday. Water came In the shops, but it was swept out by the county crews. Little damage was done. The flood waters came up VEELE KAISER. Spokane, agron omist with the Soil Conser vation Service, will be the speaker at the annual meet' lnq of the Heppner Soil Con servation district WeanesdaT night at 7:30 at the Lexington Grange ball. Top Interest Due In Annual Meet On Conservation (See Also Pases 4 and 5) Unusual Interest is expected In the annual meeting of the Heppner Soil and Water Conser vation district Wednesday night at the Lexington grange hall at 7:30 because of heavy damage done in the county by the De cember flood. Problems brought by the flood and measures to stem reccur ence will be considered in the evening's program. Verle Kaiser, Spokane, agron omist for the Soil Conservation Service, will be the principal speaker. He will discuss the place of terraces, waterways and diversions in a complete soil and water conservation program. Although working out of the Washington State office, Kaiser works throughout the dryland farming areas of Idaho, Oregon and Washington. He has had 30 years service in conservation work in the Northwest, first starting with the Soil Erosion Service, which became the Soil Conservation Service in April, 1935. For 13 years he was area con servationist with headquarters at Colfax, Wn., but has been at Spokane since 1955. His first pos ition was at Moscow, Idaho, where he worked under Leo An derson, brother of N. C Ander son. Morrow county agent Kaiser has made three trips to Iran in a consulting capacity to help with their conservation pro gram, just getting underway. "They are working to develop the land enough to produce food enough to keep alive," he said. Slides of the Christmas flood will be shown at the meeting, and a motion picture on Conser vation will be shown. One super visor will be elected at the busi ness session. Refreshments will be served with the compliments of Lex ington Implement Company and Central Market. stemmine from nervous disord ers, the constant worrier, and the psychotics, those who live in a dream world. Despite progress made in men tal health treatment, there are still in this country some states where a person must be crim inally prosecuted for mental ill ness before he may be hospit alized. Tranquilizing and energizing drugs have aided dramatically in treating cases and those hos pitalized in Oregon now have dropped to 3430 from a peak of some 5000 patients about 1958, Stevens said. The most signifi (Continued on page 8) above d.mf kills of the fair pavilion, but Glen Ward and Shoriv Hudwin said they were able to blick off the water, and contrary to some reports, the floor was not cov ered. Ward aald that they were able to mop up st-rpage around the doors as It rame In. The rodeo ground looktd more like the setting for a water carnival than for the rodeo or football games. It was a big wlndxwept lake Thursday morn ing. At the Bill Barratt ranch, the torrential Hinton Creek waters washed out dams and rattle were In Jeopardy. One woman reported seeing a cow swept In to the creek and It tumbled In the torrent going downstream, apparently to drown. The Willow Creek polf course appeared to be taking more damage and the creek seemed to be trying to cut a new chan nel across the bend where the bridge Is located. Fields below town on the Frank Parker and Fred Hosktns places and the Wlghtman place were covered. Tuesday night brought dam age in other parts of the county when heavy rains came and snows melted on the frozen ground. Several culverts and fills on county roads were wash ed out. a culvert In Juniper can yon, another near the Milt Mor gan place, fills by the Crabtree place at lone and another by the Markham Baker place. Judge Jones said that It was also re ported a temporary fill that had replaced December damage near the Oscar Peterson place went out Willow Creek did not overflow Its banks above Heppner but It was rolling strong. Ken Peck re ported that a culvert had filled with rocks about a quarter-mile above the pavement's end on the Willow Creek road, and it ap peared that the creek would wash out the road at that point County Agent Nels Anderson was making a check of damage Thursday, but said that it would be difficult to assess until the waters went down. By noon, they were receding and it appeared the crest had past unless there is more to come from the floods that apparently won t qutt: Heppner itself had only mild rains and there was no trouble Inside the city. As of 1 P.m. Thursday. lone had no trouble. Rhea Creek ap parently was not flooding sub stantially. Mayor Charlie O'Con nor said he had checked and didn't expect any trouble. "Maybe we're living right for a change," he said. Ai tn th rountv road damage. Judge Jones was very concerned. We Just can t keep aneaa or it," he said. Complete weather report irorn Hi Low Prec. 48 31 .09 42 26 .19 36 27 21 38 32 .05 snow 40 33 49 37 52 41 .11 Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Three Towns Set Mothers' March Plans are underway for the annual Mothers' March as part of the March of Dimes campaign, according to Mrs. Len Ray Schwarz, county chairman. A group of mothers will call on residents in Heppner, Lex ington and lone for donations. People wishing to donate are urged to turn their porch lights on that evening. Wednesday evening, February 3. is the date set for the March by mothers in Heppner and Lex ington. Mrs. Dick Robison and Mrs. Stacy Lovgren have been selected as co-chairmen of the drive in Heppner, with Mrs. Del bert Piper in charge in Lexing- t0Mrs. Ralph Kincaid. head of the volunteers in lone, announ ces that mothers will call on people in lone on Monday even ing, February 1. Contributions to the March of Dimes help finance birth defect study and treatment centers throughout the nation, along with polio care. Merchants' Meet To Plan for Year All Heppner merchants and any others interested are called to a meeting of the merchants' committee of the Heppner Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday night Feb ruary 1, at 7:30 in the old city library, Bob Henry, chairman, states. Promotion plans and merchan dising events for Heppner will be discussed. Among items to be considered will be another Side walk Bazaar, a "Moonlight Mad ness" sale, events surrounding the rodeo, crowning of the rodeo queen, and other monthly pro motions. Henry urges all merchants to be present in order that an effec tive program for the year may i be worked out.
