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SCHOOL Or JOURNAL ISM UMlVffcfilTY or OfiCIOfl tVQtUZ Chi r40u 07401 Call to Classes Sounds for 8:45 TuesdayCreen (PirS WlBil S.h'U tf Morrow county UIGinlik.ltf al Heppiier Klu- IThomaon, librarian; IH a n n ei Richard Mifntyre, fifth grade;! " i't ri Turaday ifunrilnn, Ntrm lit 7, unit MKit ircUliafl'Mi utty much Mil .f the May, it rMHilrtl that full tlava of tlana Murk will be Urn urarr In all im hiMtla, Hon Mill move on frgular Miictiuii' lliruuh'hiiul the itjun ly. liiiMtvliv training workshop fur leaclu-ra waa Ik hi Tuesday at Iffliron, ami rrvUtratiori fur Uum altidcntt n't 'if rk'iirnl from lal year U underway al variant m luMtla thla week Thirty two new alaff int-mlM'ia, Including two rln Ipnl. air llklrtl ly Supt. David 1'ollcr. The ru w pilmlpaU an Clayton Nor ton at II-..iut High an.J Jack ami, in nt ar y. Hrw ii-at'lu-r ate m fulluwa: Mne llltli Mr tVcdla Ail commercial; llctwn Cae, AM.ij llciiuian, ItlKli ami rlo rirmary band; Jamce Martin, wlcme; Stephen Jllilts, fcnglliih and --h. lone l lriiunlary Mr lone Marl In. third grade; J.-rry Mar- lui, H'Vriiih grade ami math; Mr. (ta Mlva. fifth trade. Ilrpptwr IHiih llarlt y llarrl. mm la Unln; Robert Manx, w fence; I 'alt Holland, clrlvrr training lalo at Ion anil River MiiU'i ami liliali coach; Kirk ll'rn, biology; Mra. Madge $mmk Slixtn, l.m-ILIt lhrlmn and Irrlgon ( limit' Mman, band. lurtlinan primary Carol Fjrrly, primary. A, I. Houghton, Irrlgon--Mra, Janet IXHkwrllrr, fifth grade; Mr. r-lcanor Sergertt. aiaili Kiadf; (inlifun Mitwoilliy, third grade; Itran Kwcnort, eighth grade and roach. MiMi-r Kli-rnrnlary Mra. Alma Andi'MoM, llilrd grade Mra. Inline J Hili.'k', n-cond grade; Mra Patricia Iluoliway, art laliMi at high achooli; HarWy llarri, aUth grade; Mra. ta- "ml 14'Uhman, first frrade; Mra. Beverly Mil ii tyre find grade; hit. Jelw raye Morria. fourth grade; II If ford William, alilh grade; Mra. francta Williams, I.nh ifrati "-r mH that he trcls that lh ilUtrli't haa an rxrrll-nt U ulty thla ) ar and nprnwd ottlinlam fr an xrriunt ah(il iar. N-IkmiI Mhfdiilt (IU for a lioililjy vn H"lrmhtf 17 far the ivridlilon l(und Up and an. othrr on Novtmb-r II, Vctf-rana Day. lliar.kuL'lvInK varation will r NuvrrnlM-r Jf and V(I and ChrUtrnaa vacation will atari with dumlmal time on Doci'in (Continued on 1'age 51 82nd Year THE Number 27 mm ' GAZETTE- On Top ivestfs '65 HIE EPPMEK TIME Hcppncr, Oregon, Thursday, September 2, 1965 10 cents Parad e earns DC S Prai DEPICTING A TINTTPE from tha family album, thla lovely float of the SoropUmUt dab took grand ewtptakat In tha rodao parada aa wall aa flrat prlia for adult float. Diana SchafllU. daughter of Dr. and Mra. Ed Schaffltx. la tha "old-faahlonad girl on tha float She la wearing high achool graduation dieta of Mra. CTara Cartaon. Tha family album U on tha front of tha float. Cold trim, pink roaea and pink ahadow box aet off tha float which was bail colly dona In white. Soroptlmlata heme won grand eweepitakea In the parade for years. (Gaxette-Tlmea photo). Dr. L. D. Tibbies Named Director On School Board Dr. L. D. Tibbies was appoint' oil a director of the Morrow County School Board t a spec lal meeting of the board Mon day night. Ho will fill the vac ancy left by the resignation of Andy Van Scholack, who moved from the county. Dr. Tibbies will serve until the school election In May. Earl ier this year he was chosen Mor- Tow County Father of the Year by the CowBelles and has been active In community affairs and C hamber of Commerce work for many years. The board voted to subsidize school annuals In the county to eliminate "advertising" being solicited from local merchants. Supt. David Potter pointed out that when students solicit the businessmen they lose school time. He said that he felt it discriminatory to call on busi ness people to subsidize the an nuals when they receive very little benefit from the "aclver Using." Total cost that the dis. trlct will have to carry on lssu ing the annuals will be $1200, and It was voted to set aside such a sum for the purpose. Bid of Kuhn's earage of Board man to service buses in that area was accepted. Plans for the new Riverside High school were studied at the meeting, and the board also dis cussed a plan for obtaining Mousing ror teachers, particular ly In Boardman, through pri yate capital, In lieu of having teacherages under district own ership. , Supt. Potter reported that he was called to lone a week ago tc meet with the city council to consider flood control stops there. The board authorized hfm to work with the city council on the problem. Appointment of Mrs. Marie Ball as secretary of the lone schools was confirmed by the directors. WEATHER By LEONARD GILLIAM August 2M-icpt. 1 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Hi 72 72 fi7 '.) 73 Hi mi 51 43 ;w 41 40 4 Prec Total precipitation for the month of August was 1.157 sec ond wettest month recorded, sec ond to August, 1911, with total of 2.1S Inches. Golfers Invited To Open House Willow Creek Country club in vites all golfers (and would-be golfers) to Open House Sunday, September 5, at 2 p.m. Every one newcomers to the area, vis itors for the weekend, non members and members are welcome. "If you don't own clubs, you may share with your golfing partner, or we may be able to outfit you for the day. We will have a few extra sticks down there," the committee in charge announces. "A potluck dinner will be held after the play ,so bring some thing to put on the eating table and we will all get acquainted. Your children are also Invited to the potluck, so plan to get them down there after the golf ing Is over." Champion Float Won't Be Entered In Round-Up Event Bank Invites All To Open House Heppner branch. First Na tional Bank, invites everyone to open house Wednesday, Sep tember 8, throughout the day. This will be the occasion of ob serving the 100th anniversary of the First National Bank of Ore-Eon. Coffee, punch and cake will be served. In extending the invitation to everyone to attend, John Ve nafd, manager, and staff said that they hope to see "each and every one of their patrons at some time during the day. It's sad but true. Like Cinderella's beautiful carriage that turned back Into i pumpkin at midnight, the Soroptimist club's grand sweep stakes float won't be In the Dressup Parade at the Pendle ton Round-Up this year. Having been dismantled Mon day night, the lovely float now looks something less pretty than pumpkin. It s just a bare and weary old trailer. The Chamber of Commerce, wishing to reciprocate for the excellent support from Pendle ton In the rodeo parade, voted Monday to nay expenses of haul ing the float to the Round-Uo city, since it was felt imprac tical to pull the trailer that dis tance. It is not only worn and tired, but its tires are worn, too. Truckers contacted, however, had nothing big enough to haul it, since it Is 19 feet long, some eight feet wide, and with the ig picture frame is 12 feet high. The Soroptimist club directors discussed all possibilities Mon day, then reluctantly decided there was no practical way to get the lob done. Having made the decision, they started at once turning it back into a pumpkin. They resolved, however, that this will not happen again. Their conclusion was that it should not be the Chamber's respon sibility to pay their way to Pen- rtlitnn Tho rtlroptnro vntH tn recommend to the membership money this year to be used in funding a better trailer or base for the float so that It could travel the highways In safety and thus represent Heppner at future parades of the neighbor ing cities. Should the Soroptlmlsts win a major prize in the parade next year, their entry may have the happy ending of the Cinder ella story. ises Soroptimists Sweepstakes Winners Again Drawing aocoladf as it do-s most every year Hcppncr's ro deo parade this year received compliments from many quart er as one of the finest. It was a long one and Included many fine entries, with an unusually large number from neighboring cities, and aomc from farther away. A perennial winner, the Sorop limist club won grand sweep slakes with ita float. The Farn ily Album,", featuring a "tin tle" with a pretty girl as the picture in an old-fashioned frame. She was Diane Srhaffltz. daughter t4 Dr. and Mrs. Ed Schaffitz. Te Soroptimist float. w hich ret ui red some throe weeks. of ,Vfln time work for member , and "Soroptlmistcrs" (husbands) to produce, also won first prize In the adult organi zation division. Sweepstakes brought a cash prize of $50 and the first prize for adult organizations brought First In floats for youth org anizations was the 4-H clubs' entry. "Morrow's First 4-H Health Club." and second was the Rainbow Girls' float. "Gard en of Memories." Prizes were $23 and $15. Second in the adult division was the Mother's club float feat uring 'Mother." Mrs. Frank Parker. The Wranglers club humorous entry featuring old timers was third. Prizes were $15 and $10. Columbia Basin Electric re ceived a first in the commercial division wth another humorous entry, depicting the days before electricity. Prize was S25- Floats of the Hermiston area swept the division for entries from out of the county. The V'- ; it y r n mm dfy L -Tk I THERE JUST Isn't anything faked about Cornett Green's big grin In this picture. He was undoubtedly the happiest guy at the rodeo Sunday when he won the Morrow County Amateur Calf Rop ing trophy saddle, presented here by Queen Judy. Cornett work ed at it for 16 years, but always some kind of hard lack pre vented htm from winning. The crowd was about as happy as he was when the popular local man won. (Gazette-Times photo). Green's Win Ends ifcYear Battle with Pesky Calves I'm sleeping i that's for ' it, (Continued on page S) "Right now with it! I'll use sure!" This was Cornett Green's reply Wednesday to the ques tion of what he is going to do with his beautiful new hand made saddle. He won it Sun day, a trophy from Kinzua Corporation, for bee o m i n g Morrow County's new ama teur calf roping champion. The saddle shows the crafts manship of its makers, Gray's Saddlery. For Cornie, It completed a 16-year battle with the pesky calves. He has competed for it every year, without exception, since the event was initiated in 1950. His story was a classic case of "always a bridesmaid but never a bride." During the 16 i . ; - UP x L5 - J J... i rrr..l ,!i KEN WAUD. county agent of Othello, Wn- had a real busy week at the fair and horse show here. He fudged through the week at the fair and then spent Friday as judge at the horse show, drawing commendation lor an excellent Job. He Is shown an nouncing results and making comments on one of the classes at the horse show. Behind him is Gene Pierce, president of the Bank of Eastern Oregon, who was announcer for the show. (Story on Page 8) (Gazette-Times Photo). years, he four times came in second, and had a couple of thirds. Last year, he led in the first go-around but failed to rope his calf in the second and lost out It will be remembered, too, that he competed in the 1964 rodeo while convalescing from a Droken neck, suflered in a bad fall from a truck at his feed and seed business. Green had go-rounds of 32.3 and 32.2 for a total time of 643. Bob Steagall, who had a first go-round of 29.9, had a chance to beat him out Sun day, but Bob failed to rope his calf and had to be content with second place, winning a pair of cowboy boots from Del Brown of Pendleton. Jerry Dougherty came in third and gets a hat from Gardner's Men's Wear. Cornie could have used third prize, too, as it turned out. Fellow cowboys grabbed him, once it was apparent that he had won, and in an old tra dition, tore off the brim of his straw headgear. They created quite a commotion in front of the buckeroo grandstand in the process. Green went around with his bob-tailed hat and would have posed in it with his fine new saddle trophy, but photogra p h e r s asked him to remove it. 'Oh, they're nasty boys," said Cornett of his colleagues. "But that's always been the custom." He said Neil Beam- er and Howard Bryant were tne perpetrators. At 53, Green was one of the oldest performers at the show. Others his age admire his agility, but he admits the bones creak a bit when he wrestles one of the calves. Next year? He can't compete for the amateur calf roping title again, now that he has made the grade, and surely the show will be something less because of his absence from the event, "My wife thinks she's retir ing me," he said, but he left the matter at this indefinite point. Chances are Cornett will be doing something in the ro deo. But a man couldn't have been happier than Green when he was awarded the saddle, and he showed it. And every person in the crowd who has watched him for years felt a happy thrill for him. Neil Beomer Gefs County Ail-Around Two days of f,mt pared action were completed at the Morrw County llixl.t) Sunday afternoon, and aftt-r the l.t raif waa roped and ihe lat brnc waa rW ien, Dick Powers of Ellmaburg, Wn., emerged as the All Around Champion of the show, the flmt man to win the new title. Cornett Green of Heppner won the Morrow County Amateur If Roping championship and delighted the crowd In doing so. Power received a trophy sad dle made by Gray'a Saddlery and donated by Lexington Oil Co-op, Lexington Implement Company. PadU-rg Machinery Co. and Morrow County Grain Growers. He aUo received a breast collar from Gray's Sad- dlcry. Green's covet-d aaddle trophy was made by Severe Bros., Pen dleton, and was pre!ented by Kinzua Corporation. Powers, a slim cowboy who wears glasses, fok the Ail Around tit!e because of his ex- cellent showing in cow milk In?, with a big assist on his calf roping. He turned in a time of 2(5.4 in cow milking to pace the field by nearly a five sec ond margin In that event. He was fourth in calf roping Sun day In the good time of 15.4. D-an Longgood of Walla Wal la was a close second for the Ail-Around with a first in the averages in bulldogging with a total time for two go-rounds of 14.5. getting second on Saturday afternoon with 5.6 and third Sunday with 8.9. He teamed with Bill Ward of Athena for first in the averages for team roping with total time of 38.7. and he came up with a fourth in averages on calf roping at 37.5. Billy King of Renton. Wn.. was third in the Ail-Around competition, scoring second In calf roping averages at 32.7 and teaming with Darrell Waddlll. another Washington mwbov. for second in team roping on the Sunday go-round. Billy also had a sixth place In the averages in cow milking. Gib Gregg led In the aver ages on bronc riding with 103 points and won a pair of chaps from Gray's Saddlery in addit ion to his prize money. Sid Britt of Spray showed his fellow cow boys the way in bareback rid ing with a total of 108 points in the averages for first place. This won him a pair of chaps from Severe Bros. In bull riding it was Grant Gibbs of Union with 54 points who paced the field and the $35 trophy buckle from the New York Store, Pendleton, went to him along with his prize mon ey. Neil Beamer's first place in the averages on calf roping with 32.4 for two go-rounds kept the title on one of the open events at home. The Heppner man's good showing in this event con tributed to capturing the title of Morrow County AU-Around this year, and brought him the Orville Cutsforth family revolv ing trophy, together with an added prize of $50 from the family. Second in Morrow county calf roping was Bob Steagall, be- (Continued on page 5) Ken Peck Home Razed by Fire While Owners Gone FAIR. RODEO PICTURES. STORIES ON PAGES 2. 5. 6, 7, 8. SECTION I; AND 1. 2 SECTION 2 Mr. and Mrs. Ken Peck and daughter Martha returned home from vacation Saturday to find their home near Lexington in smoking ruins, leveled by fire. Son Steven did not go on the vacation trip but was away from home when the fire, of unde termined origin, broke out in early afternoon. It was believed to have started around some of the appliances in the kitchen. When Steve returned to find the house ablaze, he summoned help, but it was impossible to save it. Nothing was retrieved from the building. The three on the trip had the clothing and personal possessions that they took on vacation, but Steve emerged only with the clothing that he was wearing. The loss was partially cov ered by insurance, Mrs. Peck said. The family fortunately had some household goods in their mountain cabin. Temporarily they are living in a second house at the Paul Brown place near Heppner. Peck's grandfather homestead ed on the place, and the house was built about 1885. Ken has lived there most of his life, and he and his wife have lived there since their marriage in 1945. They had visited Mrs. Peck's mother In Eugene and his moth er in Canyonvllle on the vaca tion trip.