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1 1 si; Any u or o EU5CNC, ORE 07403 Tree, Lights Up; Prizes Offered in Guessing Contest Christmas Opening Saturday! tKa Hi mi page 1, Section 2) llilll.tv M'lmn make lit de but In llepprwr Hit wk rnd at th annual thrMma Oi-n ink'. p""tfcd lv lit" Chamber ( Cmtmii -rt e, ami all la ready fr lli vala rvrnt. . raiding to lioli Henry, ihnlimn of the merchants commute of h ( hanilHf if Commerce. tiueat of honor, of nmrae. will tx thai famiiua gentle man. Sin la Claua, Mho U aeheduled to arme at 1 pm. being Iran Mrted to the main downtown ttttwr on on of I he tly'i bright red fire truck II Mill have treats fur all the kiddie hn come lo him. Nineteen merchant have an nourxvd that they Mill take part In the guewilng conteM, whti h Mill be lirld here for the fifth nmwcuilvc year, and they will award 2 fine ntrt, mt of Mhlrh are of at Ica.t IU In value. In mHt tnatances. the person la rue the retail value of mn rharulUe In a MlmlifW or other (tUlav, hut In aome rac the lailltiatit Mill iru-M the num i r of nail In a Jar, or aorne miiiii.ir Kimr. The ttmtrit I iiH-n from am. until i M) pm. and there u nu roil or obligation. I.'ntry allpa are available In rach participating alore. and the almple rules are printed In a I liamtx-r of t omrtwrc din pl.iv advert lMrnent on aee 1, mi t Ion i. of thli oaix-r. Any one m ho la able to tome to m n to take part l Invited to join the fun. Winner names Mill le tot- ed In window tarda In each tore at the romlUftln of the rnti-t and they Mill alo le annountvd In item wcrk's Ga zette-Time. Only lulre Pie and thetr wives are not ell- Klhl lo lake part. All of the prliea are fine ClirUtma preterit In thern M-ht-s. They are as follows: Van's Variety, a tricycle; IVter a JeMi-liys, sterling silver rake stand with dale; wentern Auto. Sir in mert-han iUr; Cray's Saddlery, 910 gift certificate; (ionlya. tranltor radio; J C, ivnney Co.. f 10 lft certificate; Murrays lteall Iiug. i-arher IV n; i.uiiam and Uitee Hardware, teflon oiated West Hi-nd kittle and lid; ltmmy Market, a unl fruit rake: (.aniru ra Men a V raj. a sweat er; ; He Time, flu In rash; I till a lliarmary, a hheafh-r Nn; Caie Furniture, a table mp: lleppner Auto Part, set of auto flwr msts; Turn A Lum l.ufnlnf ( umpany, a Winch eletirlc drill; M a It Company, an rletirlc toaMer; MiLdlei. 110 In merchandise; Flma'a Ap- arei. 910 gut certificate; and cntral Market (two Prliini an Inntamatlc camera and 3) run coffee crcoUtor. It la sugpeted that Ihoae par- llrlpatlnie tlip the lut from the top of pave I. section 2. In thu paper to eulde them In making me rounaa rvaturuay. rontributlnar to the rotor and apint 01 the event is the Christ mas street liifhtlnif that was In-1 stslleU In mid-week by rrews I of Columbia Haaln Klertric Co op, and lite community Christ mas tree, obtained tliruut.'h the rounesy of Oris Irtup. lutein cmirartor, and rreled Wednes day by Columbia Basin and City 01 iieppner crews. A siM-cial invitation U ex- tended to Ihoae In rural arras and neighboring communities to come to lleppner for Christ mas Openlnc " Henrv said. "You'll have a great lime, you win en toy seeing the Mtde var- ety of fine ChrUtmaa merrhan- dlae offered by lleppner stores. and you will have an opportu nity to get your shopplns- done eariy. 1 mm Number 40 82nd Year the mmr i DEPPBIEK GAZETTE-TEME Hcppncr, Oregon, Thursday, December 2, 1965 10 cents Collision Claims Chicago Couple East of Boardman A Chicago couple, Mr. and Mm ( rl S. IImmI, w ni killed lute Mornlny afternoon In a heit'ton ctillulon that occurred atiout seven miles eut of lloard man tn Highway In Morrow county. 17ie actident hapHnvd us it result of a prior accident In which a piikup, mounted with camper, and a trailer It was pulling overturned on the cat bound lan of traffic. State police and volunteers directed traffic Into the single lane on the north side of the hlnhway around the hunting Sttir arxl debris. TJie hk-hwav Is only two-lane at the place of the accident. A car driven hv F.Jirl Taylor of While Hird. Idaho. going east, had sloped at the scene and was then directed Into the open lane. Hood, traveling west. apparently did not see the flag man, and his small foreign car without slowing down, collided with the Taylor car, It was re ported. Hood died nlmo.st Instantly and his wife died within a few minutes after the cra.sh. Taylor was treated In Hermlston for cuts sustained In the accident. anu nis wire was held for ob servation at the hospital there. Bodies of Hood. 51, and his wife, Olive Rebecca Hood, 41, were brought to Sweeney Mort- uary here and wore shipped east Tuesday for final services. Hood's body was sent lo Alva, Okla., for services and inter ment, and Mrs. Hood's body was shipped to Tell City, In dlana. r The couple was en route to jaeomn, vvn.. to visit his daugh tcr. Mrs. Malcolm Smith, when the accident occurred. Their home address was 10G2 West Bryn Mawr Ave., Chicago. Identity of the hunters in the pickup was not reported. Their rather top heavy rig overturn ed after passing a large scml truck and trailer traveling in the opposite direction. It was theorized that ok suc tion between the vehicles in pausing caused the camper to sway and go out of control. iook some three hours to ciear me highway of the debris oi me overturned vehicles and the cars in the collision. Both oi me auios wore total losses Dates are Chosen For Fair, Rodeo Morrow county rodeo In 19G6 will be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 27 and 28, Jack Locke, secretary, announced fol lowing a meeting of the rodeo board- The fair board has spt thA dates of August 23 through. 26 iui uie uuuniy lair. WEATHER Br LEONARD GILLIAM Official weather report for the ween or.. November 24-December 1 Is as follows: til, f''- J. r, t .v..-: . - i I ) . , ii , ii iii.,ii i ; if i I . t v 1 1 I ii i - II I II 1 1 . . " 1 . I i . . 1 1 i i i;; tr i ui1' v, -r-i ( I Annual Christmas Lighting Contest Offers $60 Prizes Sixty dollars In prizes are again offered in the annual Christmas home lighting contest spoasored by the Heppner-Mor-row County Chamb;r of Com merce. Mrs. Avon Mclby. chair man, announces. The prize money is offered for the best residential lighting and display with $15 for the second prize and $10 for the third prize. In addition, a $10 prize is offer ed as a special ' rt for the best dVetifatcd rWdeutiarwin- (low. A poster of commendation will be awarded for the best commercial window entry. Points to be considered in Judging, according to Mrs. Mel by, are; carrying out one theme, 40 points: simplicity. 20 points: originality, 20 points; and neat ness and general appeal. 20 points. Those who wish to enter mav do so at the Gazette-Times of fice, either in person or bv tel ephone, until noon on Thurs day. December 23. A committee of out-of-town judges will do its judging promptly at 6 p.m. on the same day. All residents are urged to dec orate in keeping with the sea son and add to the Christmas spirit. W 1.1 X. K V Downtown Heppner, I p.m. Saturday Auction to End Long Life Or Gilliam and Bisbee Murrays to Hold Grand Opening Grand opening of the store's new gift section is announced for Saturday at Murrays Rexall Drug by Mr. and Mrs. Rod Mur ray, owners of the store. The store was remodeled and enlarged to include space for merly occupied by the Red and White store earlier this year, but grand opening was delayed until all work was completed. The owners are timing the open ing to tie in with Heppner's Christmas Opening on Saturday. The new section primarily con tains nicer gift items, raneinrr from toys to fine china sets. The i older section of the store also contains a wide assortment of gift items. In inviting the public to come and attend the grand opening. the Murrays announce that they axe serving coiiee and cookies all day Saturday, and they are offering some special bargains as "door busters. They are par tidpating in the Christmas win dow guessing contest and have other special attractions in keeping with the season and the opening. GARY W ATKINS. II, had to strain to hold these two good-sUed Kasalv -M a a 1 - m & . muiNa up mqn long enougn to nova nu picture token. One Is a 9-pounder and th other first fish h ayer caught Is seven pounds. Ther wer tha (G-T Photo). Open House Set Sunday at College Blue Mountain Community college will show off its new building Sunday afternoon, De cember 5. it was announced by President Wallace McCrae. An open house, to be held from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the new campus on the west edge of Pendleton, will feature static displays and animated exhibits depicting various phas es of -college life. The new building, completed early this fall, is the first of several expected to be erected on the new site. Plans for fu ture buildings will be shown at the open house. Members of the College Board, administration. faculty faculty wives, and stu dent body will be on hand to conduct tours and discuss the Blue Mountain Community Col lege program. Refreshments will be served throughout the day. A new observatory telescope obtained recently from the Tins ley Laboratories in California will be on display at the open house. The telescope, built for plane tary and stellar observation, is one of several items of equip ment to be on display. Also on display will be a portable tele scope used for planetary and solar observation plus laborator ies, classrooms and other facil ities on the new campus. Entire stock of Gilliam and Bisbee Hardw are will be sold at auction on Friday and Satur day, December 10 and 11. and the store, probably the oldest in the area, will be closed there after, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Buschke, owners, announce this week. The auction, to be cried by Donald Kennedy of Portland will start at 10 a.m. Friday, De cember 10, and continue through ine two aays. A wide range of merchandise will be sold, in cluding the plumbing, pipe fit tings, electrical goods, house wares, small appliances, tools, iisning tackle, guns and am munition, miscellaneous hard ware, and some of the stores office and shop equipment and nxtures. Buschke and John Key bought me store as of February l. 1955. from Leonard Gilliam. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gilliam and Lou Bis bee. Mrs. (Margaret) Buschke bought Key s interest in Janu ary, 1958, and the Buschkes have operated the store as a husband and wife partnership since that time. The store has served the com munity for some 80 vears and has had a history of beine one of Heppner's best merchandis ing enterprises. Mr. and Mrs. Buschke state that they plan to remain in Heppner and will devote their 1 time to less confining endeav ors. They own the building which houses upstairs the rent al offices for the ASCS office, the county extension office, the Soil Conservation district office and the U. S. Forest Service ranger district office. The Buschkes said that this notice and their display adver tisement on page 2 of this pa per are the first announcements that they have made, even to closest friends and relatives. They said that they are making the move with some reluctance and regret. - since they realize that loss of the store will be felt by the community and by those who worked and devel oped the business in past years. However, they said that thev re fused offers made by others to buy the store on the theory that any new owners might prefer to get a fresh start with all new stock and equipment Coffee and cookies will be served during the auction sale, and the first 200 buyers will receive small free gifts, they said. Heppner Booster Buttons on Sale An additional supply of Heppner Booster buttons have arrived and are now on sale, Mrs. Clint (Marie) McQuar- rie of the newly-formed Hep pner Boosters announces. The initial order of 100 but tons was sold out. and an ad ditional 100 were ordered. These arrived Monday. Calls have been received for 44 of the new supply, so only 56 more are available. Anyone wishing to purchase the big celluloid and metal buttons may get them from the Eddie Gundersons, the Gene Halls, the Jerry Sween- eys, the Ernest McCabes, or the Marion Greens. Proceeds from the sale will go towards boosting all local school ac tivities. Those going to the basket ball games at Enterprise and DeSales (Walla Walla) this week-end are reminded to wear their buttons to boost the Mustangs. Hi Low Wednesday 38 25 Thursday 44 33 Friday 42 33 Saturday 47 29 Sunday 48 20 Monday 42 26 Tuesday 45 23 Wednesday 55 31 Total precipitation for month of November was Inches. Prec. .27 JOS the 1.84 2 Good Steelheads Gary Watkins, 11, Catches First Fish, If Gary Watkins, 11, con tinues the way he's started, he's going to be a whale of a fisherman some day. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Watkins, caught the first fish he ever landed on the Columbia Rivor Sat urday, November 20. His first catch was a 9-lb. steelhead, and his second fish was a 7- pounder. i Most youngsters are con tent to get a small trout, just over the minimum six inches, on their first outings, but Gary initiated his tackle on the gamey steelhead. Fishing in a boat with his father and Dave Eckmwn, Gary made his catches be tween 7:30 and 8 a.m. near the mouth of the Umatilla River. His father managed to land one on the outing and Eckman also landed one. Gary used a flatfish lure to hook his steelhead. They were frozen when he brought them in to have his picture taken with them. Basketball Teams to Start Action in Games on Road Basketball makes its debut on the 1905 sports stage this week end for both Heppner and lone High schools, but fans of eith er team will have to travel if they wish to see them In action for their openers. Coach Bob Cloueh s HeDDner High team plays Enterprise there Friday night in a doub- lcheader with the Jayvees start ing the action and varsity con test to follow. Coach Gene Dockter's lone Cardinals go to Umatilla Friday nignt for a jamboree with Stan field. Riverside, Hermlston Jay veos, Echo and Umatilla. Their scheduled game with Umatilla High at lone on Saturday night has been cancelled because of conflicts with other activities at Umatilla High, Coach Dockter said. This was to have been the home opener for the Cards. All Veterans to Start Coach Cloufrh said that he lans to start an all-veteran line-up against Enterprise with Gene Ileliker and Jim Doherty at the guard positions, Mac Hos kins at center and David Clark and Jim Jacobs at the forward spots. It mav be recalled that the Mustangs defeated Enterprise, 58-50. to win their way to the district tournament at La Grande at the end of the '64-65 season, the game being played at Milton-Freewater. it may be presumed that the Savages would like to square this, al though this season's non-count ing opener will have none of Season Basketball Tickers Go on Sale Season basketball tickets for Heppner High school games are now on sale, Prin cipal Clayton Norton announ ces. Members of the H-club (Lettermen) are conducting the sale. The ticket sells for $7.50 and is good for the nine home games. Any wishing tickets who are not contacted may call the school. (Phone 676-913S). the stakes that the last game had. Coach Dockter has pretty op timistic hopes for his lone team, having lost just one letterman, but a fine one, Joe Halvorsen from last year's team. He has seven lettermen back and will start five of them in the lam boree. lone plays Stanfield in the first jamboree game, start ing at 7 p.m. and playing two lu-mtnute halves. lone Starts rets. Too The coach said that he ex pects to start Jay Ball. 5-8 sen lor. and Stan Holstein. 5-10 senior, at the guard positions: Wes Holstein. 6-1, junior, and Leon Magill, 6-0 junior, at the at the forward spots: and Rod ney Linnell, 6-1, senior, at cen ter. Mark Halvorsen, 5-114, sen ior, a mainstay on last year's club, is just now gettine over a broken finger suffered in foot ball and is not ready for ac tion. The coach hopes that he well be able to play starting next week. Virgil Morgan, junior guard. is the other letterman who will be counted on heavily this sea son. Three others making up the varsity are Leland Magill, jun ior forward: Monte Crum, jun ior, guard; and Chris Lovgren sopnomore lorward. The jamboree will be held be tween half of the teams of the Morrow-Umatilla B league while another for the other half of the league is in progress in another town. Following the Stanfield-Ione game, Riverside will take on the Hermiston jayvees. and Umatilla will conclude the eve ning's program against Echo. One of the highlights of the Jamboree will be awarding of the coveted sportsmanship trophy. Cards Eye League Opener With the Umatilla came Sat urday night cancelled, the Cards will be idle on that night but swing right into league play the ensuing Friday nieht. De cember 10. against Pilot Rock on the Rockets' court Pilot Rock dropped down from A-2 ranks this year and is now a member of the B league. Coach Dock ter figures that they will be one of the "teams to beat" in the circuit Although they lost Rich Mikel they have three fine vet erans back from last year's starting five. Many other teams in the league, however, were hard hit by graduation. Ione's first home game will be against Riverside in the Cards gym on Friday night, December 17. In speaking to the HeDDner- Morrow county Chamber of Commerce about his team Mon day, Coach Clough said that the Mustangs this year will have pretty good" height and should be a stronger rebounding team than last year. All the starters are experienced, including the tournament wars on the district and state levels. Clark has the big lob of fill. ing the shoes of Carl Bauman. and Jacobs, the solid junior, steps into the spot at which Bill Snyder generally started last year. Snyder is not out for basketball this year,- the coach said. (Continued on page 8)
