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17 KINZUA NEWS If VIRGINIA LIO lllrlil over turn laM nnkl Mm. Hartley Itensim and Mr (latence lUiiKiit wei lmlin UHn In 1'iNnlon Tuesday, Ml. IVtt llrtrr and Mrs Itoln-it Krl went to Uayvllle haturday rvrnlnif to annul a limtf iiiwiltf 4 ;nl Wheeler riaslniastrf nl t'lrrka (itiniii. They i're ttiwnpaitlod by Mr. anil Mrs, (;l-n KrUay i( ray. Mr. Naomi Hire im .! Tuesday evening Hi tr rrlrtnl ship Club al her home. Ilifth wa won fy Irene Sainplwi, luw hy VI Kllnkard. ami I Ion (Inn ly Karhara MUmre ami Omnle TllrH. tMhff rernl vme Ada Shell. Mavis )IT, ami puile Jean Mttun. Mr. ami Mr, lull Mi.Mlmi have moved Into Ihe hue re cently vacated by Mr. ami Mr. Hud Fulton when they moved to imI la imke Itii'lr litmir. Mr. ami Mr. Dave Mttoii ami Ja-k KUturt were business visit ors in K-nnevlk, Wah. Satur day. Sunday, Mr. and Mr. Mtton and granddaughter IMiM spent the day In Spray with Mr. t'ra Utirnsldo. The laiubledeck tlub ha. I Ha regular session of card Wednea day evening with I.lly May Ms tail a hostess. IIIl-Ii hih won by Marilyn Bailey, low by Kath ryn Flack, ami floating by Vir ginia Hilton and Ada Srhell. Others present were MarJ lW ln. Virginia Kelso, Margaret Mel'onnell, VI Mlnkard, lionnle Camplx-ll. Helen Wright, and Marge Anlu r. Boeing Site Blossoms In Desert Country ICuntlnued from tfc While newsmen stood newsmen stood tm lp uf lha ti-fct stand, fl.ir of whih Ik a steel tratliiL' annoum rniriit rtmv ovrr a loud iK-nklinf ay lent whli h rommunlrates to all part of tiie site thai a test of the steam fllr system would take pUre In five minute. They descended to watch. Steam Pirnn from a 2.1'tflO gallon acvumulator on the K rou ml beside the atand. Ik-fore tunning a r krt engine ciurini: a tit. atearn la pumped through the two stage ejector iw, pull Inir air I nun the dlfluner I'll". Thl creates a partial vacuum to almulate altitude of a'rol- matrly U),(M) feet where the engine U designed to oerate. IWIe r'lalnc.l (hat the engine rwuM nl be flrrd at aa level condition. Durlnir the eln1or tent, atram w a rrlt aw-d for a period of aev eral mlnuto with accompany- Init roar loud enough to drown out any talking. It neatcu a brirht white cloud that dlnalpat- ed In the bright clear air of a warm dav. An elevator, big enough to hold half the crowd of newt-m-n ami company official, car rlml the men to the too of the aland. They walked dow n a ateel CLASS OF I965 Hcppncr Auto Parts Ph. 676-9232 Heppnar Spray Road Gravel Project Scheduled Among bldi to be received by the Oregon State Highway Com- mLlon at It meeting In Sa lem on June 8 I one for a nroj ret on 1500 mile of the Mor row county line-Spray Junction ectlon of the Heppner-Spray hk-hwav. according to Informa- tUin from the public relations office of the commission. The project Involve atone aur f.iclntf of the ISmlle Btretth Hie atone will le proiuced and hauled to the roadbed by the contractor, after which It will be compacted by the atate. flan alv call for S.nno cubic vara. of crushed material to be placed In Hiork ille for ui by atale highway maintenance crowa. fountv JudL'e Paul Jone con tnri.Ml Irrv Smltton of the hichwav department for thl. K-ilon to obtain more Informa tion on the project. Smltton aald that no paving I Involved. Some oil will be mixed with the gravel to curtail dust. The proj ect I acheduled to repair worn condition of the present gravel ed highway. Smltton ald that no paving 1 acheduled either lhl year or next on the high woy. o far a he knows. At the aame time, Judge Jones learned that the highway do purtment will continue with the project of widening the Willow ( reek highway to the north this fall. Including llorsct.noc ucim, and Improving shoulders. No work will be clone until fall, however. , , Smltton also reported that widening of the Willow Creek bridge near the courthouse in Hcppncr l scheduled for some time In the 1W5-67 blcnnlum italrway on the opposite aide. On tp of live ti-M aland are two tanka, one with a rapacity of f,7 iiunt f-r ll'iuld oy grn and the other with a rapar. ity of ixiunda for ll'iuld hydrogen. Karli provide piojl laid during let run of the pro pulnlun a)ktema. Tlie let atand. contrary to the lmpreulon that many have, was not built for tenting rocket en gine but rather for testing ea otic fuel and space syttcm. lit, valve, pump and other part muM he able to stand the itreM that cwne when fuel, which range to degreea be. low cro, hit 2xi degrees aboe zero almoM lntanlaneouly. An III. 10 rratt and Whitney engine wa on hand during the tour. It will lie uwd In the let. Ing. Standing only alxtut six feet hU-h, It l a comtdex mechan m that was devi lotted to pow er the third stage of the Centaur , satellite. Newsmen were not taken Into the "clean" room, where precau tion are taken to keep even the tiniest particle out of the sys tem that connect furl tanks and other Installation. Any dirt In the system could wrruk voc, and It must be a pretty painstaking Job In trie dusty and area that make up the Uoardman site. fitting IPX) feet from the test stand In the blockhouse with concrete wall perhaps l' ft. thick In the front and a foot thick, on the sides. Here are the elaborate Instrument which re cord data from the testing. In formation Is recorded on a H track tape recorder and a bank of 40 strip tapes. The blockhouse Is equipped with It own weather station which calculates temperatures at varying level. Television sets In the control house give the oK-rators a closeup view of what Is going on during the testing. Water for the operation Is pumped from an till ft. well that is eqiilped with a turbine pump of WKJO gallon per minute ca pacity. A storage tank will hold gallons. On the ground around the test stand are long, slim noz zles Miinting toward the stand. In case of a fire or explosion these can shoot streams of water under ISO ounds pressure onto the stand and are control led from the blockhouse. Some 40 men are now cm ployed at the site. Including 0 technicians. Leonard Bonifacl Is site manager but he was not present at the time of the tour, since he divides h I time be tween Boardman and Seattle. Quite a number of those em ployed there now live at Herm Iston. , The whole thing may look a little grotesque and bizarre to the livestock which graze out side the fenced area, but It may be the birth of a new Industrial era lor Morrow couniy. ,' : - x II fi I- I KCPFMER GAZtTTt TlMtS, Ta.rsdoy. Mr tO. IMS JOHN BASIC (Uft), osalstanl managsr of Tbt Bolnj Company's t st tin 7 pro J set la Monow county, and Walter MursMa. sanlor uparrisor. erplalosd th project on a tour to tho slto by now popor and ttUvlsloa naa last Tuosday. (Boa log Fboto) Utii -Vf'f 1 IF - DONT LET THE hard hat fool you I Theso aren't Boeing official nor technicians 4ut We Sherman, editor 01 tno Heppner ca- latto-TUn, and Georg Lindsay of The Dalle Cnroniclo stand lag near tho base of the hug saxophone-shaped, diffuser plpo at tho Boeing test stand on tht Boardman sit. The plpo is de signed to dissipate blast from rocket engines above. (Photo by Dean Holme. Hermiston Herald). She May Forget Math . . . He May Forget Latin . But They'll . Always Remember A Graduation Gift From HUMPHREYS Gifts Hell Use Dopp Kits College Dictionaries Travel Alarm Clocks Cameras Gifts She'll Use Stationery-Foil Imprinting Trina Bags and Bonnets Jewelry ( Cosmetics Gift Wrapping Too At Humphreys Rexall Drug Ph. 676.9610 Heppner ' II ,WulJ I J 1(2 CLASS OF y vAND mp'. Wgj?f V :A BEST WISHES M ; S Si, I J VI FOR CONTINUED h nU:-..----44?r ) SUCCESS. -Htmmmmi Kids Scour Town On Cleanup Day "It went beautifully? We were . very hajy Hh the alas!" Tills was the evaluation f rrlnclpal Gordon ITalt t4 Ih wittH done by lleii""r High stu dents ho iartlipated en masM In a iltywlde spring cb anup Friday. Ills M-nilmrnis were rhwl by Athlrtlc Inrector 1'ite Cilennle. who was faculty advisor In charge. "It was terrific!- he aald. The entire student body was (liimiMM'd at ll:.J am. and en Joyed a hot dog fwd at noon on the football field N-f"f e starting their cleanup campaign. They had divided the town Into four parts with each of the four claskes taking a sertlon. Judges were named to plk the class which did the best J"b of the (lean up. After lunch, they went to work and by 2 pm. had the lob done. The 13 or 14 pickup thai they had on the prolct each hauled at least five loada of trash to the city dump. Some of It blew off en route, and a de tail walked the road from Hope Lutheran church to the dump (0 pick up all the litter along the road. A surprising number of resi dents had placed trash on the curbs for them to pick up. Other students cleaned trash from streets, alleys and other places. Some swept and washed side walk and even streets In some place. Student Judges Jean Stock- ard, senior; Brenda Young. Jun ior: Marsha Sowell. sophomore: and Jim Sherman, freshman declared the contest a draw. Bui In cnsulnsr athletic competition back at the high school, the freshmen amassed the most points and so won the trophy a waste basket with a ribbon at tached. It will go into the tro phy case as a rotating prize. Chamber of Commerce gave 15 cases of pop to the students for their lunch In commendation lor their efforts. A Sock Hop in the evening concluded the busy day. MM SNKIIO Nil IIHaHUI muzz ill.-, .i rftl-lrfe-f l.i fMiirT.iislWr 1, 1 5F We're proud of you, dear graduate. You have shown your selves worthy of shap ing the future that lies In your hands. We wish you every success. 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