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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1965)
uijtAitr u or o CUQCNC, ORE 074OJ Mmiy Wri Towards Opening off Cooniy Fdr 1 82nd Year Number 24 THE w-rra uiii i ! - J J " - ETTE TIME Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 12, 1965 QUEEN JUDT SHERER Saturday Dance, Coronation Due For Queen Judy A fitting climax to buy and exciting Hummer appearances for Queen Judy Sherer and her court will bo the official coro nation ceremonies Saturday evening at the rodeo grounds at 8:51 p.m. Queen Judy and her four prin. refines. Krna Winchester of llepp ner, Karla Luclanl of Lena, Vir ginia Ma leak of Lexington, and Susan McCoy of Irrlgon, will ride In the opening parade which will feature former queen still residing In the area. The parade will form at 7:30 at the city parte. After the coronation, festivi ties will continue at the Queen's Dance In the fair pavilion, the lant In the series of pre-rodeo dances. L'ach of the dances for the four princesses have been very auccessful, attracting larg- er man average crowds. Furnishing the music for this week's dance will be the Road. Runners of La Grande, starting at 10 p.m. There will bo no dance next week, because of tho Kant-West Shrine game In Pen dleton, and the following week will be rodeo week-end, with dunces planned for both Friday and Saturday nluhts. Placing the crown on our at tractive 19-year-old queen will truly climax her accomplish- ' mcnts, bestowing an honor which almost every Morrow county gin would hope for. Winning honors, however, Is not new to Queen Judy, who has proved herself an outstand ing horsewoman as well as bring popular In school, where sno has appeared several times on courts of royalty. Judy Is the youngest daughter or Mr. and Mrs. Harold (Doc) Sheror, who live on an Irriga tion farm four miles northwest of lone, raising mostly alfalfa and cattle. Her mother came from Missouri when a small girl, and her father was born In Idaho, but came here when small and was raised in the lone community. For the past 30 years, Sherer has worked for the county road department, re cently as county supervisor. Like other members of the royal court, Queen Judy was born In Pendleton and cele brates her birthday on January zn. jne was corn m 1946. She has an older brother, Dick, who, witn nis wire ana three sons are ranching the Heimblgner Place near lone. An older sis tcr is Mrs. Wayne (Kay) Pierce, and with her husband and one daughter own and operate the Redmond Music Center. . The attractive brunette com Dieted her first year at Eastern Oregon College at La Grande last spring, and will return this fall to continue her studies, ma Joring in secretarial science. ,ast year she was admitted to Alpha Phi Epsllon, an honorary secretarial organization. One of the highlights In her riding career was when she competed for Miss PIP (Pacific International Parade) In Port land October 5. 1963, and was chosen as a princess for the P. L Show, riding In the P. I. Parade and presenting trophies and rib bons to winners In the show. Our queen Is an excellent rid er, as was evident In her pub lic appearances as a princess in the royal court last year. She rides her favorite thoroughbred gelding. "Rocket," which she has had for six years and broke by herself. She started racing a favorite Shetland, "Rusty," In (Continued on page 8) Foimer Queens To Participate; Parade Scheduled Coronation of Queen Judv hnerer will be in ceremonies to be held Saturday night with the Junior Chamber of Commerce In charge of the program. Preceding the coronation will he a parade, starting at 7:30, through downtown Heppner. All former queens still residing In the vicinity will Join the 1965 queen and court In the parade, which will start at the city park and go up Main Street and out the highway to the rodeo grounds. Program at the rodeo grounds win start at 8:15 with presenta Hon of former queens. Eva Grlf f 1th. who was Eva Padberg, was queen of the second annual county rodeo In 1923. will place the royal tiara on the head of Queen Judy. A brief western musical pro gram Is planned as a part of the festivities. There have been 40 rodeo queens from 1922 through 1964. For three years, 1942 through 19-14. no rodoo was held on ac count of World War II. Harley Sager and Wayne liar sin are In charge of the coro nation for the Jaycees. The pub lic Is invited to attend the cere monies at the rodeo grounds without charge. Bargains Listed For Back-ro-School; Free Parking Friday Attention Is coital to Back to-School bargains and other portal nrt li.Ud bf Hep. sr builnMs la this wk's Caitt-TuiiMu This la tfa regular monthly promotion waak, and aapbaaU la on bock-to-Kboot a d a with start of school only 26 days away. It will baaia TuMdoy. September 7. the day alter Labor Day. rr parking will prevail throughout the elty ea rrtday to make It more conrn!nt for shoppers. Raadars me advuwd to chock advertising throughout this paper for top values and b6 for the coming school Year. Rain Again Halts Harvest; Estimate 75 Completed Rain akin to the tropical monsoon variety came In good, ly quant!?? Wednesday after- noon and Hpht and for the third time brought a halt to the coun- tys grain harvest. It came with harvest estl- mated between GOri and 75i complete. In the northern part of the county, harvest Is virtually over, and the rush was long past at the North Lexington elevator. Al Lamb, Morrow County Grain Growers manager said. He hart expected It to be completed there by the end of the week, but the rain will extend this date. At lone. McNab. and Lexinp- ton the situation was about the same the Intake was dwind ling, but Heppner and Ruggs elevators were In full swing when the rain hit. Vleld on wheat was running somewhat below expectation. Lamb said, averaging about 25 bushel to the acre. It had been anticipated that It mlcht run 30 bushels. The crop, therefore, appears to re similar to last vear. but oual. lty now seems to be suffering somewhat by the mid-harvest rains. It Is also harder to thresh he said. With the interruptions, it Is a certainty that the harvest will be one of the latest In recent years after coming on slowly at ine siari or tne season. Leonard Gilliam, weather ob server, reported Wednesday's rain in jieppner as .41 inch. Hot muggy weather prevailed through the week with five con secutive days reaching maxl mums of 93 to 95 degrees. ' i 1 Dig Event Just Twelve Days Away iW also page 2, S"ction 2) Suddenly It's county fair seas- THIS BIG GENERATOR, weighing mote than fou r tons. U being moved Into place at Pioneer Mem. orial Hospital for use at times of emergency lor power supply. Ned Sweek Is driver of the fork lilt truck. Elmer Moe Is in the center, and Bob Lowe helps direct the Job at the right (Will O-Harra Photo) Generator Placed On Hospital Pad For Emergencies CfSest X-Ray Unit Coming Next Week Complete report for the week is as follows: Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Hi 85 93 95 95 94 93 82 Low 52 56 57 55 55 62 59 Prec, .41 18 Horse Show Prizes Set For August 27 Event Eighteen fine prizes are of fered to winners in the annual Morrow county open horse show, which will be held Friday, Aug ust 27, at the rodeo grounds, Fred Mankln, superintendent, announces. Another big show Is expected with the finest of Morrow coun ty horses performing. Mrs. Archie (Dimple) Munk- ers will be secretary of the show, and Ken Waud of Othello. Wn.. will be judge. Gene Pierce will be announcer and Howard Bry-1 ant will be ring master. Cor nctt Green will be In charge of calf roping, John Eubanks of barrel racing. Ralph Beamer and Floyd Jones of cow cutting, and Jim Morene of trail class. Prizes to be offered and their donors are as follows: Gray's Saddlery, saddle blank et, for hackamore, class C, lot 7: Jim rforene, pony halter for class B, lot 1; Gardner's Men's Wear, $10 gift certificate for first and $5 gift certificate for second In western pleasure. class C, lot 4; Columbia Basin Electric, halter for first in class C lots 3 and 2; Turner. Van Marter and Bryant, halter for second prize, class C, lots 3 and 2, 11 and under. Heppner Lumber Co. (Barney Maicom). bridle for class C, lot 1, and bridle for class C. lot 2. Junior equitation; First National Bank, $10 bridle for first and $5 bridle for second, class C, lot 11, cow cutting; Bank of East ern Oregon, $10 bridle for first and $5 halter for second, class C, lot 5, western pleasure, 17 and over. Elma's Apparel. $10 eift cer tlflcate for first and $5 certifi 6, to 14" years; Fred Mankln, $10 cate for second, class C, lot saddle pad for first and $5 sad die blanket for second, barrel racing, class C, lot 9; Murrays Kexall Drug (Rod Murray), rein ing bit. open reining class; and Roiee Fulleton, pair of spurs for junior calf roping. Wrangler club officers who as sist with the show are Jerry Dougherty, president; Roice Ful leton. vice president; Donna Webb, secretary; and Archie Munkers. Fred Mankln. Norman Nelson, Art Vance and Beverlv Steagall, directors. Additional details of the show are included In the 1965 countv fair premium list available from the county agent's office. With the assistance of Elmer Moe and Ned Sweek of KInzua Corporation, an 8400 lb. diesel generator was placed on its con crete pad near the north end of Pioneer Memorial hospital Sat urday. It will provide power for the hospital In case of a general outage over the regular power system. Administrator Will O' Harra said. Sweek drove a fork lift truck .U- . 1 i Housing will be built around A mobile chest X-ray unit will be In Morrow county August 19 through August 21 in order to give free chest X-rays to the public. Mrs. Wm. L. Cox. presl dent of the Morrow countv coun cil of the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health association, announ ces. This is the first time that the unit has been in Heppner for several years, and Mrs. Cox urges even-one to have a chest X-ray taken. The unit will make its first I U CentS With the 1965 fair Jut 12 dy away, superintendents, commit- lees, ana otners involved are working at a fast pace to ret an in rcaninrs by opening oay - August zi. At the tame time. 4 If and Ft A members all over the coun ty are getting th-lr exhibits In nape, whether they be live strxk. home economy's, or some other Interest. Tho-u who will enter open classes are similarly busy getting ready for fair. Gall Mccarty, county extens ion agent, said that total regis tration of I II animals for the fair already tops last year with 50 In beef, 49 In sheep. 20 In swine. 15 in dairy. 25 In poul try and 10 In rabbits, in addit ion, there are M or 37 saddle horses, he said. The sheep a-d wine are below last year slight ly but all the rest exceed 1'AX'n flr. Jerry Jonasson. Heppner High FFA chapter advisor, said that the tractor contest, held here for the first time lat year, will be held ajrain on Thursday morn ing. August 26. at 10 a.m., spon sored and administered by the Farm Bureau. Lat year mor than a dozen boys took part, all members of the FFA. and sim ilar Interest Is expected this year. Only wheel tractors will be used. While the hundreds of exhib its In 4-H. FFA. and open class es are the substance of the fair showing Morrow county's finest other attractions vie for Interest, Traditional events include the annual pig scramble, which will be Thursday night, the live stock auction on the same night, the 4-H dress revue at 8 p.m. Wednesday night in the Cath olic parish hall, the pet show Thursday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. with the parade of pets In the Judging arena at 11:30. and the annual cake baking contest sponsored by the Oregon Wheat League. Saddle 'horse projects will pre lude the fair on Monday, Aug ust 23. but ' main activity will get in full swine at 10 a.m. Tuesday. School exhibits are to be In place at 10 a.m. and all 4-H and FFA entries In home economics and agriculture will be closed at 10:30. Three changes have been it to protect It from the elements. The eenerator was Durchased from war surplus for $625. a fraction of the list price of $14,000. O Harra said. Bob Lowe and O'Harra borrowed a truck and went to Salem to haul it home. It apparently saw service in Alaska and was equipped to op erate in temperatures down to 60 degrees below zero. Here it will be outfitted for service to 20 degrees below zero. It was filthy when purchased. but under the masterful hands of Lowe it has assumed an al most new look. He gave It a thorough cleaning and painting. and now It is already to produce electricity at the rate of 125 KVA (kilovolt amperes). This is ade quate to supply the hosDltal's full needs, although the demand may run to 100 KVA at the hos pital, OTIarra said. A tank on the Eenerator will hold enough diesel fuel for 24 hours running, but an addition al supply is kept at tho hospital for another 48 hours. ust 19. from 2 to 6 P.m- and will be in Heppner the next twd days, being stationed, near Mur rays Rexall Drug at the main downtown corner. It will take X-rays from 10 ajn. until 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. on Friday, August 20, and from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 21. Mrs. Lowell Chally, county health nurse, said that every one should have a chest X-ray at least once each year. Besides finding defects of the lungs, the X-ray will also show ab- normaltics of the heart Plans for the visit were made at a meeting In the Bank of Eastern Oregon, August 4. Vis iting, with the Morrow county TB and Health association on behalf of the mobile unit were Don Swanson. Don Harman and Ray Buckwalter of La Grande, They pointed out that there has made from the program In the been a six per cent Increase in Iair premium dooks. roods juag tuberculosis in 1965, and that contest in 4-H will be at 92 operative cancer patients 2:45 Tuesday instead of 1:30 as have been discovered In the ' previously printed, and 4-H Portland area through the chest ' preparation contests will be at X-rays. (3:30 on the same day instead Volunteers to assist with the!0' 2:30 as originally announced, unit's visit will come from a Open class livestock Judging number of organizations, among 'will be et 2 p.m. Wednesday in them being the Mother's crub, j stead of 2 p.m. Thursday. Episcopal church. Rainbow Girls, Everyone gets hungry during Soroptimists, Catholic Altar so- the fair, and the 4-H Snack ciety, county extension office.. Shack will be "operating full and officers of the TB and time , to . serve food, coffee, soft Health association. Committees , drinks and nthpr itpms tn th have been appointed, and thev : crowd. It will be ooen for break. are starting to work. , :fast throughout the fair. Rhea Creek grange Home Ec Iclub will be back again this year to serve supper at tne rair grounds on Thursday, August 26, from 4:30 to 7:00. If weather is hot, the women expect to have a cool luncheon, but if it ; turns cool, they will have a j menu , of hot dishes, according to the report this week. Mrs. Glenn (Lenna) Smith. receive 8ff7fi wno as fair secretary Is one of .k," T.JZr uZ ine Dusiest women m tne coun- Morrow to Get Sum of $98,676 For Tax Relief Morrow will klo - t. 1 .L 19& t rrXrZ days, says that all booth Vandals Damage Announcer Stand Rodeo Director Charles Daly reported at the rodeo board meeting Wednesday night that considerable vandalism has been done at the rodeo grounds. The announcer's stand above the buckaroo grandstand was torn up and a gate to the stand was found on the field. A carpenter had spent considerable time im proving the stand last year. A window was also broken in the fair pavilion. Daly said. The board was considering what action to take to locate those responsible. One director suggested that if youngsters are found guilty of the acts, they should be sentenced to spending several days weed in? the rodeo grounds, a job that must be done before rodeo. City Fire Truck Delivered Here Heppner"s new city fire truck was delivered by Western States nelius Wednesday afternoon and CfnoMu"n0i?fL u..f"d retary of State Tom McCall no tifed the County Assessor Rod Thomson in a letter mailed from Salem Tuesday (August 10th). Total statewide relief for the year under the legislation will amount to $13,544,681, according to McCall, who said it will re sult in an average tax cut of $10.75 on a $10,000 home. The law requires the Seoretarv of State to notify each county as sessor of the millage relief and county share. It also directs the secretary of state to distribute the surplus to the county treas urers not later than November 15. Relief for this year will amount to 4.3 mills for 34 of the 36 counties. It will be 3.8 mills was scheduled to undergo tests tooay. The pumper Is rated at 750 gallons per minute and is mounted on a Ford chassis. The chassis was furnished by Hepp ner Auto and western States built the pumper body and out fitted the truck. Fire Chief Ken Goode of Cor nelius brought the truck here for delivery. Three hours of pumping under state supervision were scheduled at the city swim ming pool Monday for the tests that It was to undergo. Cost of the truck was approx imately $13,500 and is to be paid for out of budgeted city funds. Fire Chief Charles Ruggles and others of the volunteer fire department spent part of Wed nesday evening getting ac quainted with the new pumper. mills for Sherman county. The assigned ratio for the 34 Is 25 per cent, Multnomah's is 28 per cent, bnerman s is 21 per cent. McCall explained that the assigned ratio represents the re lationship between the assessed evaluation and true cash value. The new law provides for $12, 500.000 In state relief to local property this year. It further provides that any amount above the surplus estimated for the biennium, which ended June 30, shall be added to the $12,500.- 000. The State Department of Fi nance and Administration cer tified to McCall a surplus of $36,210,665. Since the legislature estimated last spring that the surplus for the biennium would 681 was added to the total of be $35,165,984. a sum of $1.044.. this year's relief. space has been taken in the pa vilion, but at last report a few tables were left for those who wished to have commercial dis plays. . One improvement made re cently at the fairgrounds will be of considerable help at the times of livestock judging and showing. Seating facilities were added in the arena, and this will undoubtedly expedite the showing of the animals, since the crowd may sit back and watch in comfort New facilities are also provided for poultry and rabbits In a small addition at one of the barns. Many trophies and prizes, to gether with hundreds of dollars in premiums, await winners at the fair. In short, it appears that all is in readiness for the event As one person put it "Now. if we can just get harvest over in time. . Plans Being Made For Kindergarten Kindergarten registration in Heppner will be on September 1 from 1 until 4 p.m. in the kin dergarten room at the grade school, the committee in charge announces. Registration fee will be $10 which includes supplies and in surance. Monthly fee will be $3 which goes to offset operating expenses. Partial scholarships will be available. The kindergarten Is sponsored by the Heppner Civic League.
