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LIBRARY 0 Of 9 IUQENE. Two Princesses Named To Complete Rodeo Court Ual Court of (lie Mr-1 Hip newt-M princesses Join tw County Klr and iufflru waa Queen Judy nhrrrr of Iim Prln- completed ilurlnu the week after th lUwwilman Tillu urn Women'a tub selected Mta Susan Mc Coy iia a ptliicvi ami the Wrang lent Club of lleppner ! Mlos i:rn l.vnrt Winchester following mm pet it ion at the club irroumJs. Sunday. Hunan, now a freshman at Ore. irnn Mate University, U daugh ter ut Mr. anil Mr. Warrrn Mc. Coy of Irrlgon, and Krna, a lun lor In lli'inT High school, I daughter oi Mr and Mra. F.rnle Winchester of lleppner. : PRINCESS SUSAN March Fund Drive For Red Cross Seeks $1354 Goal March funil drive of the Amer ican Red Cross will get under wnv In Morrow county probably Monday under the slogan. "Join Itp join In." Jack Locke, drive chairman for the Morrow county rhapter, announces. Goal of the campaign In Mor row county Is $1354. Just a little above the $12)0 rob I f 1961. lx-ke said. The county met Its ton I In the '04 tlrtve. Of the total. $814 Is budgeted for the national organization, or 00.12. nnd $.M). or 39.K8. will remain with the local chapter for use on local services. Frank Turner has agreed to solicit businesses In lleppner for their contributions and member ships and Mrs. Gar Swanson will head a committee In lone to work there. A house-to-house solicitation Is also slated for lleppner and Is In the planning stage, Locke announces. At the present time he is working on organizing the drive, too, in the north end of the county. "Certainly the floods of re cent months have- given dra matic evidence of the need for Rod Cross and the good that It does," Locke said. 'This disaster aid Is Just one of tho many bene fits that come from the organi zation." County Judge Paul Jones urg ed support of the drive. "We all tend to take the Red Cross for granted," he said. "Wo expect it to aid disaster victims. We expect it to teach our child ren how to swim. We expect it to be the nation's largest col lector of blood. We expect it to help in our hospitals and in our nursing homes. "This is Dcrhans a high com pliment, one reserved for those real Institutions that mark our lives. But in all this 'expecting' we tend to forget that it is our Red Cross we're talking about. "If we expect it to do all these things, we, too, must be willing to do our part giving of our dollars and our time and our energy. "Join Up . . . Join In this March," he said. "It's our Red Cross." Water Forecast Sets Meeting on Saturday The annual Water Forecast meeting, which will give out in formation of importance to all of Morrow county, will be held this Saturday, March 6. at 1:30 p.m. nt the Umatilla Electric Co-op in Hcrmlston. W. T. Frost, of the Soil Con servation Service, will report on snow surveys and water forecasts. r (. . " i lv .. J. .-it j FR1NCXSSTRWA ORE eras Kail l.urUnl represent ma the Mn community, anil run cess Virginia Mik irprrwii Int! thi lx-!ilni;loii Grange. prince Susan was lrn In Pendleton hut has lived In Irr I Kn all her life Hr father U employed by Ilia U. 8. Army Corps of Engineer. An honor student at Riverside lllth school last year. Mla Mr. Coy waa valedictorian of the rlass of KM. Shi waa active In Hrti, band. Future llomcmak crs and 4 II dub work. Susan played, volleyball all f(ur year and held an office In the Girls' Athletic assotiat- I Ion. .She was In hand four veara t and played In the all state hand. Ihirlna three yeara of high school, aha waa also a band majorette and taught baton lea. i son to other students. Continuing her hand interest at OSU. where she la going on j a scholarship, Susan made the 1 trip to I he Uose llowl came with the band and haa been rhoarn ! i a a frefthmnn pep rally gin. In high ac-hiMil Mte was hoM-n iii.mi-muki-r of Totnorrw dur- Ing her wnlor year Suan has i Ix-en In 4 II aooui Ul yeura arm - In rook- aked. haa a won a atate blue rtbtmn in cook- In lor roils inai nor on TUf Irrli?on tirinns horse. "Cinnamon," and colt named "Pepsi." Princess F.rna ranks high M-hohiHtirallv at llepi'iier High. l elng a mermVr of the National j Honor Sorlety. and also has a heavy load of extra curruuiar I ad Mt lea. i She Is vice president of tne Junior class and Is prom chair-j man: she is a member of the j Girls' l.eairue nnd a member of! the Future IPttnernakers of America ; Mie Is in the rep ciuo and Is Iho a member of the Girls' Athletic Association. Prin cess Krna also works on the an nual Muff. The lleppner princess U truly representative of this community for he has lived here all of her 1 years nnd "he has ridden a horse practically since Infancy. She has Ix-en a memlx'r of the Wranglers club all of her Hie and has participated frequently In competition of the Oregon Barrel Racing association, of which she Is a member. Krna also Is an adlve memlx-r In the new local Mareshales Women's rldtni; club. Itlncesa Krna will appear at the rodeo on her horse, "Polly." a 7-year-old thorobred. She has a 2 year-old brother, Lt. Iwell Turner, serving with the Air Force In South Carolina. Probably tew gtrla have had any more exposure to the Mor row county rodeo or more Inter est In It than Krna. She has missed only one rodeo parade In her life. Band Concert Set At Heppner High lleppner High school band and dance band will appear in con cert in the multipurpose room of the school Wednesday night, March 10, at 8 p.m.. Director Arnold Melby announces. A variety of numbers will be presented on the program. Solo ists will be Chris Brown, cornet; Bruce Thomson, clarinet; and Rick Hat lev. alto saxophone. The public Is Invited to at tend the concert. R-l School Budget Printed First Time First publication of the 1965 66 budget of Morrow county School District R-l la in this Issue of the Gazette-Times. It was approved and adopted by the budget committee, of which Frank Anderson Is chairman, at a meeting In Boardman last Thurs day night Details on the budget were reviewed In an earlier story In the Gaiette-T 1 m e s. Only changes made were addition of some $4,000, of which $1000 Is lor a teacher inservice train ing program. $500 for a test ing program, $500 lor a sum mer achoool remedial program at Irrlgon and $2000 (or a study with Umatilla county on the total vocational program. The budget calls for total taxes to be levied of $828,557 and mlllage levy Is expected to be down slightly from last year. Public hearing on the budget will be March 22 at 8 p.m. In the courthouse. Humphreys Drug to Expansion of Humphreys Rex- all Drug to Include the space now occupied bv the Red and White store, adjoining to the north, Is announced by Mr. ana Mrs. Rod Murray, owners of the drug storo. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Quacken bush, owners of Red and White, said that they will close the store about mid-March after be ing associated in the grocery business in Heppner for many years. Thev have operated the Red and White store for about 10 years. The Murrays. who bought the drug store from Mrs. Lcta (Humphreys) Thomas in 1959, said that thev will use the new space for their Rexall Sale on April 1-10. As soon thereafter as plans can be worked out, re- Mustangs, Savages Vie for District 82nd Year j Number ! THE Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 4, 1965 f rm w u' u y-s: w ! v;r a A TOTAL of 1556 jan of membarthlp la tba Elks lodqt la rep resented by thU group o( 38 Old Tlmeri who wera honored ofl Old Tuners night at the Heppner lodge lait Thursday nightf with Exalted Buler Pat O'Brien presiding. Member present with longest tenure was Frank Turner (1ront row. far right) with 56 years. Others and years of membership are as lollows (front row, from left) La Verne Van Mart ex Sr. 46; Pat Mollaban, 46; Walter Beckett 48; Emil Croshens, 46r Jack French. 46; Claud Cox. 45; John Carter. 48. Second row J. J. Hayes. 35; Jim Thorn - Service Saturday For Flora J. Nys Death came to Mrs. Flora Nys, widow of the late Attny. Jos. J. Nys. about 6:30 Wednesday evening, March 3. She had made her home In Portland with her nephew nnd niece, Mr. and Mrs. Clarno McLaughlin, the past few months. Mrs. Nys had been in failing health the oast vear. since the death of her husband on Jan uary 12 of last year. Funeral services will be at All Saints' Episcopal church Sat urday afternoon, March 6, at 1:00 p.m.. with the kcv. ramcr Bruce Spencer officiating. A requiem mass will be heard at 7:.T0 a.m. Saturday. Interment will be In the Heppner Masonic cemetery. Services are under ar rangement of Gilbert F. Burk and the Jacobson Funeral Home of Portland. Highway Department Promises New Sign A new sign directing the route to Heppner via the bomb range road at the interchange near Boardman on Highway SON has been promised by the State Highway Department, n A letter read at the Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday from the department said that a sign designating the exit to lleppner for westbound traffic would be installed. However, it pointed out a difficulty involved In doing the same for castbound traffic because present signs carry the maximum wording al lowed by the Federal Highway System. The letter was in response to requests to the department by the Chamber of Commerce and the county court, asking that the route to the south be better designated. modeling will proceed, and a section of the wall between the buildings will be cut out in or- der to combine the spaces as one large unit The Murray family came to Heppner in 1957, and he was em ployed as a pharmacist In Hum phreys Drug for 14 years be fore they purchased the store in 1959. About two years ago, they expanded their business inter ests to Condon, buying out prev ious owners to open Murrays' Condon Pharmacy there. Ouackenbush began his work with groceries with the old Safe way store here in the 1930's, and was with that firm for seven years. Later he worked for C. W. (Mac) McNamer in the old Cent ral Market after which he and Harry Van Horn bought out M. V 1 MP mZlflfLVlALl ETTE '-,' '. ' !' ' j : l' , ': i ,7 -i , ill ! Auto Rolls Over; Seat Belt" Saves Serious Injury Mrs. Ola Buggies, well edu- cated by her son, Insurance 1 man Charles Ruggles, to use seat belts In her auto, escaped serious injury in an accident i Monday afternoon because she j was using a seat belt. Driving alone towards Moro I to attend graveside services for j Mrs. Charles Ruggles' mother, ! Mrs. T. B. Searcy, the elder i Mrs. Ruggles" car went out of ! control a few miles from her destination and rolled down a 16 or 18 ft. embankment, com ing to rest in an upright posit ion. Windshield of the vehicle was shattered, and the top was smashed but Mrs. Ruggles sus tained only a bruised hand and wrist and was shaken up in the accident. She was taken to a hospital in The Dalles for treatment but was dismissed shortly afterwards. She missed the graveside service which followed a fun eral service in Portland for Mis. Searcy, who had died at the age of 93. Mrs. Ruggles' son and daughter-in-law had attended the Portland services and went on to Moro. expecting to meet Mrs. Ola Ruggles there. She arrived from The Dalles after the service and came home with tho couple. Her car ar rived Tuesday towed by a wrecker. It was seriously dam aged. Had she not been wearing the seat belt, Mrs. Ruggles un doubtedly would have been thrown from the car and may have been very seriously in jured by the jagged glass in the windshield. She said that at the time of the accident she was going at a rather slow rate of speed and started to put her foot on the brake, but placed a portion of her foot on the accelerator instead. Expand D. Clark in a grocery business that they operated next to Gonty's store. It was following this that Mr. and Mrs. Quackenbush started to operate the Red and White store. Roy has been working at Del's Market, Lexington, for some time while Mrs. Quackenbush has managed the Red and White store. He will continue at the position in Lexington and she will join the staff of Humphreys Rexall. Any stock in the grocery not sold by time of closing the store will be sold through Del's. Mr. and Mrs. Murray said that the enlarged space will give them more room for an expand ing stock of merchandise and will provide a more modern store with greater customer con venience to serve the area. -TIMES son. 35; E. E. Gilliam. 48; Max Buschke. 40; Dr. A. D. McMuxdo. 48; Francis Doherty. 33; Luke Blbby. 31; Balph Jackion. 45; BUI Doherty. 35. Third row John Bergstrom. 44; E. Wm, Bergstrom. 45; Carl Bergitrom. 45; U L. Gilliam. 43; Walter Hayes. 48; Harvey MlUer. 41; Barney Doherty. 42; Harold Cohn. 49; and Jim Co wins. 45. Back row Claude Graham. 32; Earl Evans. 42; Gene Fergueon. 33; Cot Swanson. 37; Eb Hughes. 31; Paul Hisler, 31; P. W. Mahoney. 34; Norman Kelson. 30; Alfred Bergstrom. 40; Bay Ferguson. 36; BUI Bucknugv. 36; and W. L. Cox. 30. CHERTLE LUHDELL Heppner, lone Seniors Receive Elks' Awards Cheryle Ann Lundell, lone High senior, and Stuart Dick, Heppner High senior, were an nounced as winners of Elks' Leadership awards by Heppner Lodge No. 358 at the recent 68th annual celebration of the lodge. Cheryle is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lundell of lone and Stuart is son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dick of Heppner. Ac companying the honors Is a 850 U. S. Savings Bond for each of the winners. The lone senior is a cheer leader this year, secretary of the band, is on the yearbook staff, and is a member of the student council. She participated in the Soil Conservation speech con test and is a member of Quill and Scroll. As a junior she was student bodv secretary-treasurer and was president of her class. She was yearbook editor and served on the school paper staff. Record Wet Turns To Near-Record Dry After experiencing the wet test month in history in De cember, Mother Nature turned an about-face in February, when the second driest month in history was recorded, accord ing to Leonard Gilliam, offic ial weather observer. Moisture reached a record of 4.40" in December, but fell off to a mere nothing .19" in February. The lowest record in the 55-year records of Mr. Gilliam was in 1920, with a .17". HI Low Prec. 65 40 60 39 50 30 45 23 47 22 Tr. 46 21 50 23 Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 10 cents X J Li -I STUART DICK During that year she represented the school at Girls' State and was winner of the State Wheat League essay contest. Cheryle was also student body secretary-treasurer as a sophomore and held the same office for her classes as a freshman and sophomore. She won the district Law Day contest as a sophomore. Active in music, she has been accompanist for chorus and the girls' trio. During her four years in high school she has been a member of the Girls' League each year. Cheryle has won awards for outstanding work in English and journalism. Stuart, president of the Nat ional Honor Society chapter this year, was class president of his junior class and vice president of his freshman class. He was representative on the student council as a sophomore, serg-eant-at-arms of the student council as a junior and chair man of the school evaluation committee this year. In speech, he was a finalist in the local Soil Conservation contest in 1963 and was second place winner in the similar con test in 1964. He was local winner of the United Nations essay con- test- , t. Stuart is a member of the Science club. Speech club and the "H" club as well as other organizations mentioned above. He was a delegate to the student council workshop in Pendleton and represented the school at Bovs State in 1963. An outstanding athlete, he has lettered in three sports, football, baseball and basketball and was co-captain of the 1964 foot ball team. He has been a starter on the varsity basketball team this year and a floor leader. In baseball, he is a four-year letter man, having earned his first letter in that sport as a freshman. erth Saturday Game Set To Decide Determined that they are rolnir to battle their way to the dutrut A 2 banketball tourna ment at I (iran.V on March 12 and 13. the lleppner Illvrm team will meet the lat otMtacle between them and the tourna ment Saturday night In the blf new irym at Milton rreewatrr. The obstacle la Knterprl High, second place finisher In the eastern division of the theater Oregon league, lleppner will meet the Savages at H pm, and the winner gratis the fourth berth In the tournament. Three teams are already In the district fray Pilot Rork and firant L'nlon. one-two finishers In the western division, and Nyssa. first place winner of the east. The fourth berth goes to the winner of the playoff Sat urday night. After toainu to Pilot Rock In a squeaker here Saturday, the Mustangs have had to come back the hard way. Thev had to travel all the way to Baker Tuesday night and put up one of their best games of the year In beating the Inlanders in a cliff hanger. 70 to CM. There will be plenty of room In the big Milton-Freewatcr gym. and It is hoped that a mass of Heppner supporters will make the trip to root for them. Ad mission will be SI per adult and 75 for students. In two earlier meetings this year. Heppner and KnterprLse have become well acquainted. Heppner won the first game here. 53 to 47. a margin of 11 points, but Enterprise took the game on tne havas?es court oy a 4 point margin. 61-57. Thus a good game Is promised Satur day night. Winner will have the honor of meeting Pilot Rock In the first davs action at Lastern uregon College. La Grande. March 12, with Nyssa and Grant Union competing in the other opening action. Heart Fund Drive Brings in $457; Goal Not Reached A warm-hearted response was made in the county to the Heart Week volunteers who conducted the door-to-door collection on be half of the Oregon Heart As sociation during the week of February 14 through 2U Harley Sager, Morrow county Heart Fund chairman, said. Ruth Assembly No. 50. Order of Rainbow for Girls, under the leadershiD of their mother ad visor, Mrs. Dean Hunt, reported a generous welcome from the Heppner and Lexington residen tial areas and the results at this time total $201.13. Final tallies from the Irrigon, Boardman and lone areas are yet to be received. The Heppner business block solicitation, handled by the American Legion Auxiliary with Mrs. Frank Hamlin as chair man, brought a total contri bution of $216.50. Rural contri butions received bv mail to date amount to $40.00. The grand total realized at this point is $457.63. still considerably under the county Heart goal set at $800.00. Those who were not contacted by Heart Week volunteers, espec ially in the rural areas, may still send in contributions to the campaign headqurters at the Heppner Branch of the First National Bank, in care of Sager. Sheriff Hits Storm On Oklahoma Trip To Get Prisoner Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman was glad to get home Thursday night after a wearying trip to McAlester, Okla., which he made to bring a prisoner, Robert Slaton, back to the county. The arrested man Is charged with burglary and is in the Umatilla county jail awaiting action of the Morrow county grand jury Friday. He la ac cused of taking some $400 from the Hitchin' Post, Boardman, In January while working there as a dishwasher. Slaton is held in lieu of posting $2500 bail and was arrested on a felony warrant. Sheriff Batiman left by train at 2:20 a.m. Sunday, going to Kansas City, Mo., and then to Tulsa, Okla., by train before continuing from there by bus. He hit the widely publicized blizzard at Kansas City and the bus ride into McAlester was a difficult and memorable trip in the storm. After obtaining his prisoner, who had waived extradition, the sheriff waited only for the next transportaton out of Mc Alester and went via bus with. Slaton from there to Kansas City, where they boarded the train. Travel on the train was by day coach, and the sheriff didn't get much sleep on the trip. He said that he was dis appointed in Oklahoma, see ing mainly scrub oak trees on the routes he took. i
