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1 1 SMI Y u or i CUQCNf, OKt. 07403 82ncJ Year Number 46 r - jSSf , KQEPPNEK GAZET FE-TME FV r ( a' ... - Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 13, 1966 10 cents W -' "a. jm m T . Jv THE fr f r Zoning Hearing Set At Boardman Monday Hearing on a pr.wl ton Ing ordinary fur Mi row euun Iv will l- Monday. Jnury 17, at H p rn. in KiverUde High school, Boardman. Marin (Jrrrn, Mtrrtary for the county toning rommlMlon, announces. An Interim toning ordinance v I hp area north of the Wll lamette laM m to cover the vicinity of the embryo "apace aye" industrial complex wa adopted In tho aprinjt of VM2 Since state law provide that such an Interim ordinance can remain In effect no longer than three veara, the Interim ordin ance la no longer effective. More than a year ago. the planning commUslon began to consider adoption of permanent inning regulation for north of the base line baaed on a com prehensive plan of development, according to Chairman Clarence KoftewalL Ttie proposed ordinance rovers aome l'J typewritten page and provide for agricultural, agri cultural reidcntlal. commercial and Industrial zones. It would art UP requirement for u of the oteriy n the various loro-s. establish of ta or parcel of properly that could be sold, designate maximum building height and make oth er provision dealgrM-d to pro mote orderly development of the area. .Zoning would Include area ouuide city limit only. While that being conaldered at the itfetent time la the area north of the baae line onlv. It I contemplated that eventual ly zoning will be extended to cover the ret of the county a wen. The communion 1 holdlne mi rearing to determine reac Hon of the public to the pro poaal. prior to any further ac Hon. It I expected that conild erable interrat will be ahown at the meeting and that the provision may Invoke consid erable diacuaaion. Copies of the proponed ordi nance may he obtained for re view from County Judge Paul jones, cn airman kok-wsu or Green. 1 : - i :', QUEEN ERfIA LTNN WINCHESTER Erna Chosen Rrna Lynn Wlncheater, dau t-hter of Mr. and Mrs. hrnl Wlncheater, ha been elected a queen of the 1!N"6 Morrow county Fair and Kodeo by the rodeo committee. Selection was made at the regular meeting last Wednesday with chairman K. H. (Tad I Miller, Jr.. preald ing. It la doubtful If the county ha ever had a queen with more enthusiasm. She ha been a lover of horse all of her life and has ridden since she was able to stay In the saddle. With vivacious personality and a contagious smile, she 1 known for her friendly dlsposlt Ion. Titian-haired and brown-eyed Queen-elect Krna Is a senior In lleppnrr High school and served as a princess on the court for 1965. She Is a member of the National Honor Society and par tlclpntes In many school actlvl tie. Erna, member of a family keenly Interested In riding and l In the rodeo, appeared In her first rodeo parade at the age of one year, held In the saddle In front of her mother. She has been In each ensuing parade but one. As a lifelong member of the Wranglers club, she has been hester Wine Queen Council Passes Sewer Fee Hike. Sower charges in the City of Ileppner will Increase $1 per month for commercial and res idential users alike 'With the frtoruary bills. The city council passed an ordinance, containing the emergency clause, that pro vides for the Increase when it met in special session for the purpose Monday night. Residential rate will go to $2 per month. The commercial rates vary according to the amount of use, but the Increase will be $1 per user. The action waa taken when It was found that the reveaues coming to the aewer department of the city were not sufficient to cover operation costs and amortization of bonds. fro day I an ardent competitor and juent winner In play events. She has be-on a strong competitor In Oregon Barrel rac Inn uttHociulion contests, and is active In the women's riding organization, the Mare.shales. The queen-elect has one bro ther. Lt. Lowell Turner, now serving with the Air Force on duty In Turkey. Her father was not present Tuesday night when Director Don Greenup of the ro deo board brought the news of her choice as queen since he on a trip to the east, but both the new queen and her, mother were delighted. I-our princesses In tho court will he chosen later, their selec tion being made by the orgs School Board Meet Scheduled Tonight January meeting of the board of directors of Morrow County Shxl district ft 1 will be to night (Thursday) at 7:30 In the Lexington school administra tion building. The mfting wa postponed from the regular Tuesday meet Ing night because of conflicts. Work Started On Road Link County road crews have start ed construction of a road that will give access to lands east of the Bomb Range road and south of Highway 80.N. County Judge Paul Jones said Wednes day. The road will extend north and south for five miles and will own the lands to a front ace road that the county has asked the State Highway De partment and the Bureau of Public Roads to construct. For some time the county court has been urging the state and federal agencies to con struct the frontage road of some six miles to parallel 80N In or der to elve property owners ac cess without the necessity of going all the way back to the bomb range to reach the high way Interchange. Until recently the highway croups have turned aown ine nlzatlons they will represent In 'county request. However, al : a the county. Phill Emert, Jr. Tells of Work At Blind School Peterson Leaves On Southern Tour Oscar E. Peterson left Tues day on the 19G6 Oregon Wheat Growers league tour to South America and expects to return to Morrow county in about a month. Going by air, the touring wheat growers will go to Pan ama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil be fore their return to California and then Oregon. Work being done by the Ore gon School for the Blind in Sa lem was described by Phill (Skip) Emert, Jr., a teacher at the school and son of Mr. and Mrs. Phill Emert of lone, at the meeting of the lone Lions club Monday night. The Lions have as a national project their work with the blind. Emert said that there are 120 students at the school. In ad dition to the blind there are 17 cases of youngsters with brain amace and similar handicaps. He said It Isn't necessary for a cntid to he totally blind to at tend the school and pointed out that there are some 34.000 child ren in the state who suffer from varying degrees of blindness. The speaker described field trips during which the students see" animals or crowing thincs by the reel. Cost of the school Is about $3000 por student per school year, paid by the state with the exception of medication and clothing which are paid by par ents. Children of ages 5Va through Junior high age attend. Emert, who has been at the school for 3V4 years, showed slides of his work and the stu dents. He said that special projects conducted by such croups as the Lions club are a great help and particularly cit ed the Salem Lions who furnish ed funds to build a room with different typos of floor surface rugs, cement, linoleum and oth ers so the blind could learn to adjust to walking under vary ing conditions. Bob Henry of Heppner also spoke at the meeting, telling of the Arbuckle Mountain ski bus and plans for the ski operation this winter. recent meeting in Pendleton, the Judge said that he was given assurance that the trontage road will be constructed to tie in with an overpass connecting with the Patterson Ferry road provided the county would con struct the five-mile strip. It Is estimated that the front age road will cost approximate ly $20,000 per mile and the ov erpass structure will be $150, 000. The county road will be con structed at minimum cost, the Judee said. It will connect with an east-west road that already extends to the bomb range road. He said that he had expected definite confirmation of the fed eral and state committment Wednesday on the frontage road, but at a late hour had not received it. If the frontage road were not constructed, the judge said, there would be no access to the new highway on ine soutn siae from the bomb range road east to the county line. 100 Skiers Out At Arbuckle Mf. Willow Project Hearing Called For February 8 t A public meeting to anawer questions and furnish specific Information on the proposed Willow Creek project has been wt for Tuesday, February 8, at 1:30 p.m.. County Judge Paul Jones announced this week. Meeting place ,was tentatively annonced a the county court room, but If it appears that a larger crowd will come than the room will hold, another meet In' j)lace will J. chosen. This will be announced at a later date. Among agencies to be repre sented at the meeting are the U. S. Army Corps of Lngineers. the State Water Resources Board and the Bureau of Recla mation. The district watermas- ter Is also expected to be pres ent Every person with questions on the project Is asked to be present at the meeting. The judge said that ensuing meetings will probably be nec essary to consider specific mat ters in connection with the ir rigatlon feature, but questions on Irrigation will be discussed at the February 8 meeting a so. OmCEES WHO will b la char? of th Northwest Rode association con ran tl on here Saturday and Sunday are (from left) BUI Ward Of Athena, president; Jean Stanton of Redmond, traaa urer; Dick rower of Ellenabura, Wow eolf roping director and vie president In !9$4; and J ann Crtifita of Spray, secretary. INI IRA Cimvin)Hin) I 1 1 Ch amps Champions In seven events will be awarded trophies by the Northwest Rodeo association at its annual convention to be held In Heppner this week-end with an estimated 100 expected. These trophies will be presented at the avsociatlon s banquet at p.m. Saturday following the opening business sessions In WEATHER By LEONARD CI1XIAM Arbuckle Mountain ski course set new records Saturday and Sunday with an even 100 skiers enjoying the sport there. Bob Henry said. Thirty-eight came Saturday, most of them on the bus being operated each Satur day from Condon via lone and Heppner, and 62 were on hand Sunday. In addition, there were about 10 spectators Sunday, he said. The road to the course had been cleared by county crews. "It was the best clearing lob I've ever seen," Henry said. He reported the bus as beln? extremely successful on Its maiden run. Ten more skiers can be accommodated before capacity is reached on the bus, ne saia. The tow at Arbuckle operated at capacity Sunday for a 2- hour period. Official weather report for the week of January 6-12 is as follows: HI Low Prec. Thursday Si 43 .03 Friday 59 40 Saturday 47 29 Sunday 43 30 Monday 49 35 .03 Tuesday 46 36 Wednseday 49 41 .06 Claude Pettyjohn Back from Vietnam Chief Radarman Claude Pettyjohn. USN. son of Mrs. Fred Pettyjohn of lone, has returned to Lone Beach. Calif., aboard the destroyer USS Maddox. after completing operations off. the V ietnamese coast with the Sev enth Fleet. Destroyers are high-spee ships used primarily in anti submarine warfare. They also operate .offensively against sur face ships, defend against air borne attack, and provide gun fire support for amphibious as saults. While deployed with the Sev enth Fleet. Maddox visited Hong Kong and ports in Japan, Tai wan (Formosa) and the Philip pine Islands. Mrs. Turner Visits; Husband in Turkey Mrs. Lowell L. Turner and her two and one-half year old daughter, Kim, left Saturday by train for their home in Myrtle Beach. S. C. They were accom panied as far as Chicago by Mrs. Turner s father-in-law, Er nie Winchester, who was con tinuing on to Boston, Mass., where he plans to spend two or three weeks visiting friends and relatives, among them, his mother, Mrs, Etta Whitworth. Mrs. Turner, the former Edith Morris, has been visiting here for some six weeks. Her hus band, a captain in the U. S. Air Force, is currently on a tour of duty In Turkey. Mil I I UBIIHII . i m .i V . ;.c; x v .. ;; ..j , J - ' v .. . - , n 4 the dormitory building at thetness for the two-da v meetiniy. fairgrounds Saturday afternoon. Bill Ward of Athena, presi startlng at 1 p.m. dent, will be In charge of busi- This Is the first year that ness sessions which will con- Ileppner has been host to the tinue until 5 p.m. Saturday af convention, which was held ternoon and from 10 to 12 Sun last year in Yakima. Wn. Rolce day morning. Fulleton has been In charge of Miss Delene Johnson of Con local arrangements and said don. "Miss NRA" for 1965, will that all appears to be In readi- participate In ceremonies and "Miss KRA" for 1966 will be chosen. Saddles will be given to those who have accumulated enough points at -rodeos through the year, to - become champions in the .various"1 events. These sad dles were made by Gray's Sad dlery In Heppner. Among the winners announc ed are: Bill Herrera, Toppenlsh. WrL. bareback rldini?: Bill Ward. calf roping: Gene Jordan. Mitch- ell, saddle bronc riding: Chuck Irrigon Boy Scout Acts Fast to Save- Life .of. Brother.. By LaVELLE PARTLOW IRRIGON Prompt action by Johns. Eugene, bulldogging; Boy Scout Charles McKenzie, 11- c rwers, Eilenshurg, Wn, year old son of Mr. and Mrs. P11 w milking; Bob Conforth, Charles McKenzie. Irrigon. was Hermiston, bull riding; and Bill instrumental in savin a tho lift. Ward, all-around. Brad Botta of . . . i . i ... . of his 4-year old brother, Danny, -uensourg wui not pe present last Tuesday morning. lo rewve n saaaie ior ream rhari hnm. frm chi roping because he is now in witn the nu and was assisting na hA his mother In carrvin? some ""5"" n"? OI uie year trash to burning barrels near T'" D.vo?e OI in.f the house. They had been away CT. , n l wm from the house only a few min- 5 U LLof . the. ylar utes when they heard little Dan- "' w "V6? hack t the. hn.. . Rookie of the Year will but Charles reached his brother ? n.9 Pnicers or me first, and discovered him in l11,1. e.ie"e?- : flamps from tho. xr-oict n . -rrue iiisj wincnesier r,ori !i iij kil v..!" I Is assisting with drawings for the? in a puddle of rain w.ler HJSLJS beside the door, extinguishing . w " " tho fi.m. a v,. I ter the banquet. '" n nciuc VL I1UL ici - I n . . . . . . . . eal was cookintr on the paq xMueion saia tnat ne nad re rL? ..S ZHu celved calls from several local vounestefs elothin eacrht nn residents offering to rent rooms fire from this flame. xo uiose aixenaing u moieis ana A nearby neighbor, Mrs. Ken- V",""ICI . " nt. i.mh a,, ifv- dations. Mr. and Mrs. Charles zies to Umatilla, where Danny -Ji .i was hospitalized overn i g h t. Wednesday morning he was transferred to Doernbecher Hos pital in Portland. tel will act as clearing agents on housing and will assist in placing the visitors. Starks and Jack VanWinkle of VanWink- Dr. Marvin John statin thp l'a Motel said Tuesday, how- vAimto, hoA tit. o lever, that not too many reser- de buTns on .his "kl Kf f. 52.-? .2 nands, arms and chest. I " . ' , Z: ll, ""i "'V When Mrs. Lamh asked "uiu ue miuwuimK mier in do so quickly, he replied. "From L,?"1" wh,AavAe housing reading .'Boys Life," a Boy .Scout "!b f. "1 lnI?lel 1 publication. Mrs. Lamb is the """" " v-"ow '"" " iie of Irrigon Scoutmaster Kenneth Lamb. Scoutmaster Lamb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Lamb of Heppner. said that he will nominate Charles for a Boy Scout life saving award, one of the high est honors given by the organ! zation. Letters supporting the nomi McKenzie and oth Team Takes Road To Start League With onlv one loss In 10 nre- leatrue cameo ann that hv n nation will be written by the single polntHeppner High's oasKetoaii team jumps into counting action this week when lt plays the Madras White Buf faloes at Madras Friday night. Madras last year was in the A-l ranks but dropped down to the A-2 class this year. The school has a highly regarded team and the Mustangs are ex pected to have thier hands full in the game. This will be the onlv action for the home five this week. On doctor, Mrs. ers Judge Appoints Economic Group Judge Paul Jones said Wed nesdav that he has nine resi dents to serve on a committee the ensuing week-end they face ' to study and implement provis ions or tne txonomic opportu nity act for Morrow county. In the group contacted by let ter are W. S. (Sam) Miller, the Rev. Earl Soward, James Bar nett. Gene Winters, Jack Gross nickle, Lowell Chally Mrs. Grace SHERRI LYNEE HOWARD, first baby of 1966 in Morrow county. was more Interested in sleeping than in getting publicity wnen this picture was taken with her mother. Mrs. William G. How ard. Friday at Pioneer Memorial hospital. Sherrt was just two days old at the time, herring been bom January 5. Her daddy is serving with the Air Force at Indian Mountain base, Alaska. (G-T Photo). their longest road trip when they go to Burns and John Day to face the Hilanders and Pros pectors on consecutive nights. ine Mustang Jayvees will seek to protect their undefeated record in the games. lone's Cardinals, meanwhile, Drake, the Rev. Al Boschee and have a single home game this James Farley. week-end, entertaining Echo The judge said that he ex- Friday night. After losing their pects this group to act as a first four league starts, the steering committee to check on Cards suddenly climbed nearer how the act may be of benefit their potential and took a pair to the county and to explore last week-end. They hope to possible joint action with Uma- make it three in a row against tilla county. Echo.
