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L I DRARY U Of 0 cuccrir. cz. Cfoainrapiioinis Prepaire for Sfeite Meet 82nd Year Number 3 THE GAZETTTE-T M Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 18, 1965 10 cents 80 Pints Blood Needed at Unit Visit March 29 Needed badly: Donors for 80 pints of blood. I ThU Is the goal for the visit of the Red Croas mobile unit here on Monday, March 29, and an effort la being made to en list support of the public to at tain that goal. The blood bank will Ihj In the Elk Temple and drawing! will be made from 3 to 6 p m., Mr. Orvllle Cutnforth. Morrow county Red Croa blood chairman, states. In the last two vllta, Heppner has fallen far abort of making the quota. The total ahould have been 197 plnta, and only i VI plnta were delivered. If communities do not make a bttter showing than this. It will be very difficult to suMaln the highly lmHrtant blood program. The IU'v. Dill Alsup responded la.it week to Mrs. Cutsforth'a call for aid In recruitment of donors, and he was to meet with mem bers of his Assembly of God rhurrh Wednesday night to ask them to organize for a telephone campaign nrxt week lo contact potential donors. Mrs. Cuuforth said that she greatly apprec iated this generous rcIonte. Both men and women are ell gtble for donations, and mem hers of all races art Included Donors mut weigh at least 110 pounds and eight weeks mutt elapse between donation. It la necessary to wait six months after any blood trans fusion or surgery, and wait two weeks after vaccinations or antl blotirs are given. Twenty-four hours should elapse alter lm munlzatlons for diphtheria and other ailments. However., there Is no waiting period for Sabln oral vaccine. One year should bo allowed after pregnancy, two years after Incidence of malaria, two weeks after the common cold and 21 hours after liver, vitamin and most other Injec tions. One week should elapse after dental surgery or tooth ex traction. Those of ages 18 to 5!) are per mitted to give blood If they are otherwise eligible. Single minors, 18 to 21, however, must have written consent of parent or guardian. Purpose of setting up donor requirements Is two-fold, Mrs. Cutsforth said. It Is to protect the donor's health and to pro vide a safe bottle of blood for transfusion. Those who wish to give a pint of blood can help considerably by volunteering. They should call the Rev. Alsup (676-55X1) or Mrs. Cutsforth (989-8473). Mrs. Cutsforth will be out of town from Monday until Thurs day of next week but may be reached the remainder of thl3 week or after next Thursday. i 7, ' 1 V 0 I Si V i i ,r r . -r Mustangs to Play Dayton in First Tilt (See also page C and 7) Wearing the new crown of district 7-A-2 champ ions, lleppner High's basketball team will leave Sun day at C a.m. for the state A-2 tournament at Coos Bay, a 380-mile trip. They defeated Pilot Rock, 61-19, and Grant Union, 53-15, at the district tournament, La Grande, Friday and Saturday to earn the trip. The Mustangs will play their first came at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 22, against Dayton, 7th-ranked in the state. Dayton defeated Nestucca in a Yawama League playoff in overtime Monday night. C6-62. to gain the state tournament Heppner's 16-7 record, statistically speaking, is one of the poorest in the tournament, but does not take into account the fast rise in late season, climaxed by four straight playoff and district tournament victories after the end of the regular season. J Heppner Games To Be Broadcast; 3 Firms Sponsor DISTRICT CHAMPIONS I Admiring their' district title trophy lm. ' mediately after the final boskttboll gam at La Grand Saturday night or the winning Heppner High Mustangs, rrom left are Mac neskina. Coach Bob Clough. Bruce Spencer. Warn Evans. Log Fire Does $2000 in Damage At Heppner Lumber Expense-Paid Trip Postponed by Dicks To Attend Tourney The L. E. Dicks faced a tough decision this week, but there could be only one an swer. They had earned a 3-day expense paid trip to Reno for purchases of Norgo applian ces through their store as a result of sales and had ar ranged to take It during spring vacation when Mrs. Dick, a teacher at Heppner High, would be out of school. But when the Mustangs earned the right to enter the state tournament, they decid ed the trip to Nevada would have to wait because their son, Stuart, Is on the Muts tang team. It's hard to keep parents away from a tourna ment when a son is involved. The free trip to Reno will wait until summer. The Dicks will be In Coos Bay next week. The man who refuses to be flooded out won't allow himself to be burned out either. Barney Malcom, whose saw mill at Spray suffered such heavy damage In December and January floods, took another blow Monday when the cold deck logs caught fire at his Heppner Lumber Co. plant doing damage estimated at $2, 000 before being brought under control. The fire, of undetermined ori gin, started Just before noon. It spread rapidly In the unusually dry pile of logs, lleppner fire men responded and found they had a long-term Job on their hands because of the difficulty of getting water between the logs and penetrating deep enough to extinguish the blaze. The men worked throughout the day and Into the night, pouring thousands of gallons of water on the cold deck. Water was pump ed from Willow Creek. Some salvage can be gained from the damaged Pile, but Mai. com estimated the loss at $2,000. Firemen used a 2 Inch hose on the blaze, and in lifting it up and around to get at the fire, found themselves a stiff and sore group of men by the close of the day. Another fire broke out Tues day and threatened to get into the logs again but was confined to an area where an old wood pile used to be. Malcom had no definite idea how the fire may have started Monday, saying that it could have been from a spark from the burner or perhaps from a cigarette tossed from a' passing car. Despite his perennial good nature, it is recommended that no one make Jokes to Barney about getting his floods and fires together so that one could offset the other. Students to Work To Help Defray Costs to Coos Bay Heppner High school stu dents are going to have a busy work week end to help raise money to pay expenses of tak ing their band and cheerlead ers to the state basketball tournament at Coos Bay. (Jlrls of the school will wash windows in the downtown dis trict Saturday and will be around to solicit the business from the various merchants. Margaret Marks is in charge of this project. Boys plan to hold a car wash at Jack's Chevron Service sta tion, and Fullelon's Chevrolet Saturday and will welcome all the business they can get. Seniors will be at Jack's and Juniors at Fullcton's. Cheerleaders plan to serve coffee and cookies Saturday, probably in the building next to Turner. Van Marter and Bryant that housed Pecks' Ski Shop through the winter months. Donations will be ta ken. The coffee will be served from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Giving a big boost to the plans for the trip is the Band Parents' club which will make a $500 donation against the expenses. Proceeds from the admission to a school dance, sponsored by the senior class Friday, night, will go to the trip costs. This was a prevlously-sched-uled dance, but It had not been planned to charge admis sion. The students later decid ed to charge a small admis sion to help finance the tourn ament trip, 75c for couples, 50c for singles. The two busses carrying the band, cheerleaders and others will leave at 6 a.m. Monday. The band will stay at the Chandler Hotel. On Rslikcf, Tim DrlscolL Copt Carl Bauman, Darid Clark, Stuart Dick, Mark Brown, BUI Sards. Jim Jacob and Jim Do horry. Tb toam downed Grant Union in tb finals. S3 -45. aitor tripping Pilot Bock tn night bofor. 61-49. (C-T Photo) Heppner in for 4th lone Won Second Twice Time; WEATHER By LEONARD GILLIAM HI Low Prec. Friday 56 27 .09 Saturday 52 24 Sunday 58 29 Monday 60 30 Tuesday 65 32 Wednesday 47 22 .06 snow Thursday 33 13 By WES SHERMAN As Heppner High's 1965 bas ketball team Joins the ranks of the great teams in the school's maplecourt history, a little re search reveals that this is the fourth team from the school that has won Its way to a state tournament. However, the current squad is the first team to go to an A-2 tournament. Those in previous years were all prior to the time that Heppner had grown to A-2 size, and they came in the con secutive years of 1953, 1954, and 1955. Ione's Cardinals have made the best showing from this area. finishing second in the state B tournament at Salem in 1954 and second again in 1961 when the tournament was at Bend. Fifth In '53. 55 The Mustangs were fifth twice in the state B event in 1953 and in 1955. In 1954 they lost their first two games and dldn t place in the top rankings. In the year of 1954, both lone and Heppner were in the state classic. Heppner representing district 6B and lone carrying tne banner of district 7B. Steve Trukosltz was coach of the Mustangs In 1953 when they sailed through tne district b-b tournament, defeating Cascade Locks. 54-50. in the finals after downing Rufus, 55-43. and Sis ters. 47-32. At the state meet the Mus tangs were bumped by Chiloquin in the first round. 60-46, but came back to thump Drain. 59 47, and edge Knappa, 55-54, for the fifth place. Quite a rivalry develoned with tne cagers Irom the little coastal town of Knappa. They gained revenge the following year over Heppner, when they won by one point, 50 51. in bouncing the Mustangs from the state event On the 1953 Mustang team were Eugene (Skip) Ruhl, Lyle Jensen, Les Case, Jerry Hague wood. Jim Hayes, Bob Grabill, Dick Kononen. Mike Grant, Jack Sumner, Bill Hughes. Roland Tavlor. and Nelson Connor and Wayne Soward, managers. Sum ner was chosen as a district ail- star and was named to the state all-star second team. Taylor was picked as a reserve for the dis trict all-star. Echo defeated Elgin to be come state champions in 1953. Both Teams Go in '54 In 1954. Heppner won the 6B district tournament bv defeating St. Marys of The Dalles in two playoff games, 46 to 37 and 44 to 35. Ione's Cards meanwhile copped the 7B tourney by tak ing two playoff games over Mt. Vernon, 57-49 and 44-35. The Cardinals, coached by Russ DeBondr, ran their consec utive winning streak to 25 through two games of the state tournament before bowing in the finals to Harrisburg, 69-63. They trounced Mill City. 65-52. and tipped Elgin, 43-45, in the first two games. In the finals, the loss to Harrisburg was a heart breaker bceause the score was tied, 59-59. with only four minutes to play. Playing lor lone that year were Duane Baker, an all-star first team choice; and Dick Rea, au-state second team pick: Tommy White, Sammy Barnett, uee Palmer. Dick Ekstrom. Den nis Swanson, Malcom McKinney, Jerry Brtstow ana Herbert Peter son. Garry Brenner was manager. (Continued on page 8) Good news for thos who bar to star behind I All games in which Bepp, Dr plays in tb state A-2 basketball tournament at Coos Bay next week will be broad, cast here through the courtesy of three sponsorlna firms the Bank of Eastern Oregon, Mor row Countr Grain Growers and Heppner TV. Inc. The broadcasts will come over the FM music channel on television sets (Channel 3). They will be audio only, since they will not be telecast How, ever, by the arrangement of uiing the FM channel they should come In "load and clear," according to Gene Pierce of the Bank of Eastern Oregon who made arrange ments lor the broadcast The first aame will be 7:30 pan. Monday, and the second will be either 3:30 or 8:45 Tues day, depending on whether they win or lose in the iirst round, If Heppner wins one or botn of its first two. they will play Wednesday, and this game also will be- broadcast Ted A. Smith of Radio Stat ion KTJMA states that the Ore gon Association of Broad casters originates all the state playoff games, and KTJMA will pick up a feed from the network. Arrangements tor the broad, casts were made at consider able cost to the sponsors, and it is a gesture that fans who are left at home really appreciate. Spring Vacation To Close Schools In case there is any parent child or teacher in the county who does not realize it spring vacation is next week in Mor row county schools, and school will be dismissed for the en tire week. It will take up again on Monday, March 29. Throughout the county there will be various and sundry plans for using the time, but most popular diversion for those In the Heppner area will be attendance at the state basketball tournament at Coos Bay to watch Mustangs play. Farley to Mark 17th Anniversary Farley Motor Company will observe its 17th anniversary in the auto and truck business in Heppner Friday, Jim Farley, owner announces. The public is invited to come in for coflee and doughnuts dur ing the day with Farley as host The company has held the Pontiac dealership for 17 years, dating back to March, 1948, but Farley sold Shell Products for two years previous to that He has been Willys dealer for 15 years since November 1949 and Buick and CMC dealer for 11 years since August 1952. The company has also been Rambler dealer lor four years since No vember, 1960. Other details of the annlver sary are included in an adver tisement on page 8 of this paper. School Budget Hearing Monday Hearing on the Morrow coun ty school budget for 1965-66 will be Monday, March 22, at 8 p.m. in the courthouse, residents of the district are reminded. At that time any person may speak on the budget, either for or against it Summary of the budget was published in the Gazette-Times on March 4 and 11. Any who wish to review it may do so at the newspaper office or may ob tain a copy from the county school office in the courthouse. Election on the budget will be Tuesday, April 13. Dayton enters with a record of 22 triumphs against only two losses. Two of the pirates. Mike Freeborn and Bill Darnell, are 19tO Yawama League Al Stars. The state tournament will open In th big Coos Bay gym Monday afternoon with Scrra Catholic of Salem playing North Catholic in the opener. Serra ranked No. 4 statewide and sec ond half winner of the Capital Conference, defeated Stavton. first half winner. In two of three playoff games to earn the right. It will enter with a record of 21-2. North Catholic, Cowapa League titlLst. like Heppner, has tasted defeat often and finished the regular season at 15-7. It is ranked No. 9. lust above the Mustangs. Second game of the ODeninz afternoon will pit No. 1 ranked Pleasant Hill against No. 3 ranked Myrtle Point Pleasant Is 21-0 for the year and Myrtle Point is 21-1. The No. 1 team is from the Emerald League and Myrtle Point is of the Sunset League. After lleppner and Dayton open the evening's bill. No. 2 ranked Phoenix 422-0) will play Reeds port, where Coach Clough was mentor before coming to Heppner. In the final game Mon day night to conclude the first round ef the tournament. Reeds port, ranked No. 5 In the state, has an 18-2 mark. If Heppner wins Its opener, it will play again Tuesday night at 8:45 against the winner of the Phoenix-Reeds port game. If it loses Monday nieht. it will play in consolation at 3:30 Tues day afternoon against the loser of the Phoenix-Reedsport tilt Wednesday play will depend on the results Tuesday. If Hepp ner should win its first two. it will go into the finals Wednes day night If it loses its first two, it will be eliminated Tues day. If it wins Monday night and loses Tuesday night it will play for third place in the pre- lminary Wednesday night If It loses the Monday game and its first consolation game, it will play for fifth place Wednesday afternoon. Coach Clough finds his team in top shape, and practice sess- 'ions following the district tourn ament have found them better than ever. The coach will take all 12 of his traveling squad, but only 10 will get to suit up, ac cording to tournament rules. The other two will watch as spec tators. The tournament pays all ex penses of the team, the coach and the principal It pays noth ing for the band, cheerleaders nor any others connected with the school, and the school does not share in the proceeds. Profit of the tournament goes to the Oregon State Activities Assoc iation for expenses Incurred in its activities program. Included on the player list are Captain Carl Bauman, Stuart Dick, Wayne Evans and Bruce Spencer, all seniors; Gene Hel- iker. Bill Snyder. Tim Drtscoll, David Clark and Mark Brown, juniors: Mac Hoskins. Jim Do- herty and Jim Jacobs, sopho mores. Bob Harris is team manager. The squad will be housed at the Bayshore Motel. Thev will have opportunity to practice on the tournament floor from 7 to 8 p.m. Sunday evening. A big contingent of parents ' and fans will make the trip to Coos Bay. Admission will be $6 for adult season tickets and $3 for student season tickets. Any single afternoon or evening's bill, except Wednesday night will be $1 for adults, 50c for students. The champion ship night will be $1.50 and $1.00. m r v v v x r i r i i i i rw ii a nw v i itii iiriiiiiiiii m in f m. Come and Shop During Heppner's Spring Opening Free Parking Saturday
