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GAZETTE-TIMES
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HELEN C SHERMAN
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Subscription Rate: 14 50 Year. Sinirle Copy 10 CenU. PuMUhrd
Every Thursday and Entered at the ltt Office at Heppner. Oregon,
a Second Class Matter.
WESLEY A. SHERMAN
Editor and Publisher
Tournament Bound Again!
We have to check our Impulse when we write or apeak
of the Heppner Hlfih basketball team because our tendency
la to to Into superlatives that could get things out of perspect
ive. Maybe not too much need be aald. because the team has
spoken this season for Itself as It did last year. This Is re
fleeted In the excitement that is gripping the Heppner area
this week with district tournament fever on every hand.
This year the Mustangs are bona fide champions. They
won the western division of the Greater Oregon league by
sweeping the "clutch series" over Burns and John Day here
Friday and Saturday. This Is the first championship for the
H-men since they have been in A-2 competition. Their last
basketball championship was 10 years ago when Heppner
played in class B.
Support from local people, which has been so much In
evidence through the season, will reach its peak this week
end when the residents of Heppner will virtually move to La
Grande in force.
Without going Into superlatives, we'll say that we think
Heppner has a solid ball club with unusual poise for high
school team. They are a quick-thinking bunch, they can move
fast and they are tough on defense.
The tournament lsnt going to be easy. It will have to be
played a game at a time, and Heppner Isn't the only fine
team that will be In the competition. Any of the four will
have a good crack at the title, and It Is up to the Mustangs
to demonstrate again that they are the best We think they
can do this. . .
We congratulate Coach Bob Clough and the team on their
championship, and we add our voice to the hundreds who
wish them the best In the district tournament
Tree Farms Have Birthday
The Tree Farm program, sponsored by the forest Indus
try started its 25th year In January, according to information
from American Forest Products Industries. Such "farms- are
privately owned forested areas where trees are grown and
harvested as a crop for more than 5.000 products made from
wood today. ,
As of January. 1966. Oregon had 487 Tree Farms covering
4,897,365 acres, an Increase of 94,136 acres over that of a year
Regional sponsors of the Tree Farm program In Oregon
are Industrial Forestry Association In the Douglas fir area
and Western Wood Products association in the western pine
area east of the Cascade mountains.
What a change this concept has made in good forest man
agement! . .,, .
It wasn't so long ago that the "cut and run" philosophy
prevailed In the timber Industry. Some enlightened leaders
in the industry then realized that conservation and sustained
yield management were necessary to preserve timber resourc
es for posterity.
One of these leaders was George Gerllnger of Willamette
Valley Lumber Company, considered among the pioneers In
the field. Today, if one goes Into Willamette Valley's Black
Rock management area, in the coast range out of Falls City,
and climbs to a high vantage point, he can see green acre
ages of growing timber in different stages on all hands, Just
like a forest garden. Through sustained yield management
there should be a perpetual supply of timber.
Kinzua Corporation Is among the enlightened operations
which have Tree Farms. It would appear that this is even
more important in eastern Oregon where It takes much long
er for timber to develop than it does in the western part of
the state.
We shudder to think what our forest resources would look
like now if the sustained yield concept and Tree Farming
hadn't developed when it did.
The program is a credit to private owners who have had
the vision of looking into the needs of the future.
Gazette-Times Starts 83rd Year
With this issue, the Gazette-Times is starting its 83rd
year, having been established in March, 1883, when the Ga
zette was born. Fourteen years later the Heppner Times made
its debut in 1897, and they were consolidated in 1912.
Since 1883, the paper has been in continuous operation,
and unless someone can tell us to the contrary, we believe
that It is the oldest business still In existence in the county.
Having passed four score years by three, the Gazette-Times
has to be considered a venerable institution. Its present pub
lishers are mere infants in continuing the publication, hav
ing been here for only five years. Preceding us going back
to the time of John Watermelon Reddington were some
colorful and outstanding editors.
While the Heppner paper has always been small, It has
always been a real good paper. It has always had something
to say; it has played an important role In the development
of the area; and it has always been a spokesman for Morrow
county.
Small town newspapers have often said to be on the wane,
and small town publishers have been described as "vanishing
Americans," but William A. Dorr, editor of the Publishers
Auxiliary, points out that 45,836561 people subscribe to week
lies and dailies in towns of less than 100,000 compared to
39,415,388 in cities of more than 100,000.
He thinks that hometown newspapers could be the most
powerful influence in America, and he cites a good editorial
page as the greatest need of the hometown paper, as well as
a local columnist who has his fingers on the pulse of the
community.
Review of the Gazette-Times files shows that editors have
met these qualifications very well In the past
There is still a challenge In the small town newspaper
field, and probably one of the greatest compensations for the
publisher is that he is making some contributions to the
good of the community and its people.
Speech Clinic Held In Morrow Schools
Morrow County Schools diag
nostic speech clinic was held on
Saturday, February 12 at Irri
ron, lone and Heppner schools.
Ernest Cristler, director of Spe
cial Education, Umatilla Coun
tv Schools, who conducted the
clinic, was assisted by speech
therapists, Mrs. Sally Rothrock
and Mrs. Peggy Aschermann, of
the Umatilla County' School sys
tem. Nineteen children were seen
for diagnosis of various speech
problems according to Mrs. Low
ell Chally, R.N., who helped to
schedule referrals and to coor
dinate the clinics.
Kathy Mclby Speaks for UN
"We dare not delroy the only Institution which U man's
hope for peace In the world." says Kathy Melby In her talk
on the I'nlted Nation. -We muil do everything we can to
strengthen this orsanUatlon."
Kathy U In competition for a trip to the I'nlted Nation
thl lummer ami will compete Sunday at the IOOF hall. IVn
diet on. In the dlttrtct final for the United Nation Pllgram-
which I sporuwred by the Odd Fellow lodge.
At time when the United Nation organliatlon ha ap
peared In Jeopardy, It I good to have young people jiving ser
lou thought to It Importance. It la logical that our youth
fchould have irtkuUr Inuret In pae becaui It U from
the rank of the young that thoae fighting war In the world
are recruited. Thl I to be their world and that of their child
ren. Maybe from the Idealism of youth can come a stronger
rganltatlon to foster the brotherhood of man.
Kathy I to be congratulated tot her fine talk and for the
thinking that ha gone Into It. We wUh her well In the fi
nals Sunday.
R, G. llYte) McMurtry of the local IOOF lodge point out
that since the (VI J Fellow atarted the United Nation Pil
grimage competition In 19V2. five student from here have
earned the right to make the trip to New York. That' an
enviable record, and thl project of the lodge I a worthy one
as It seek to promote world understanding and friendship.
Chaff nd Chatter
Wes Sherman
A LITTLE MORE on Sheepskin
Scrip. Ksued In Heppner our
In the depression days of 1933:
From the March 9. 1933. Ga-lette-Times.
this poem by A. B.
Grav:
A little Baa Baa lost his pelt
When change was getting
low:
Now Mary wears it In her belt.
To use as Heppner d o-u-g h!
Bv Mav. 1933. It became ap
parent that mast of the issue
would wind up in the hands of
souvenir collectors. In the May
11 Issue of the G T was a story
that said. In part:
In the slightly more man
two months time since the scrip
first made its appearance, it has
gained nationwide recognition,
as evidenced by the voluminous
letter file of the secretary (Leon
ard Gilliam).
Included in the files are let
ters on official stationery from
almost every state In the union
as well as from cabinet mem
hr ran pressmen and senators
of the national government, all
expressing thanks for pieces oi
the leather money sent mem oj
the trustees.
-From New York to Calliornia
letters were received requesting
souvenir pieces. It has gone in
to museums in Austria, isew
York. Cedar Rapids, Minneapo
lis and Astoria.
' . . Chase National oanK oi
New York was the largest sing
Ia ml rrhaser of the scrlD. buy
ing all told six complete sets of
it But probably no greater ae
mand was shown from any
Dlace. In Droportion to Its size,
than from Silverton. Oregon, to
which place the secretary was
kept busy lor a lime lining rc
peat orders."
IF ANY LONELY person wants
tn Mtneripnce togetherness.
wo'ti recommend that he attend
basketball game at MCArmur
Court. University of uregon.
On Dad's Dav weeK-ena we
rented two square feet of space
each (Mr. and Mrs. S.) lor two
hours to see the UCLA-uregon
basketball game. Among others
from HetJDner tnere were xne
nr. Tibbies. Sheriff Baumans
rH Don Turners.
Since our son Bin naa me
flu. the Dad's Day tneme was
bit dampened lor us, dui we
nloved watching the uucks
hat the Uelans lust the same.
When you attend a game m
McArthur Court, it's best to
Imvp vour knees outside. If you
are in the neighborhood of 6
feet tall, the only place for them
is in the back of me person sit
finer in front of VOU.
The Baumans. we understand,
were sitting in the top balcony.
As we remember those heavenly
seats, access to whicn is gainea
by a contusing maze oi stair
ways in which a person can De'
come hopelessly lost, they were
made for slim Jims. A fellow
with a broad beam has to mould
himself Into them. And in that
lofty perch you might have to
duck occasionally to avoia a
satellite in orbit
Well, back down in our sec
tion U, a person twists his legs
around and attempts to seme
down, holding his coat on his
lap, sticking the wife's wet um
brella and purse below the seat,
and tilting his head forward to
keep from getting biffed on the
back of the neck by purses that
lady spectators carry in the row
behind. (Or you could get some
kid's carmel corn stuck in your
hair).
About the time you work
yourself into a position that is
semi-comfortable, the game is
about to begin, and the band
strikes up the national anthem.
So you begin to unwind, unload
your lap, pull your knees out
of the back of the fellow ahead
and stand at attention.
You just get good and seated
again when the pepsters start
reeling off "Mighty Oregon."
This is the signal lor everyone
to pop up as if someone had
suddenly placed a tack in every
chair.
Thousands clap in unison at
this inspiring song.
When a team like Oregon
beats a team like UCLA, it is
indeed a great achievement, and
this prompts the band to break
forth with "Mighty Oregon" on
the slightest provocation, where
in the jack-in-the-box procedure
is repeated.
This game was televised, and,
of course, that takes precedence
over everything else. Occasion
ally they call an "officials'
time out" for no apparent rea
son. This Is so the sponsors, try
ing to get their money's worth,1
ran fill the boob tubes with
commercials.
Before the game started the
TV director was all over the
place down on the fli Set
TO THE
EDITOR.
To the Editor:
Well, here I am again t won
der If the ieoile f Heppner
ever get tired of me. Thl time
It I about Heppner photogra
pher. The earliest one I know
of was that Col. i. W. Reding
ton. earlv day publisher of the
Caxctte, ucd to do a little pic
ture taking, then the next one
win man bv the name of Pan
nee. Cant think of hi find
name but he had daughter
named Joale Panner, a school
mate of mv slider. Mr. Mvra
IHn'k, who live near Heppner.
Then a Mr. Park came but did
not tav long. He had hi of
fice or gallery up over the old
Caxctte office next to Billy
Stewart' llverv stable. Then
about 1K"W came man named
l W. Gllhouen. I am not ure.
but I think Mike Calloway
came and bought out t.llhou
en. Mike sold out to Bert Sic
bee. but the sale tllj not go
through because the great flood
of l'.KO came alone, but Mr
Sigbce noon took over and
worked at that alone witn the
theater until hi death. Probably
Frank Turner can tell you more
about this. Then there wa a
Mr. Pernell Imay be spcllctl
wrong) came and tened up a
ralli-rv In the old Rrlgg prop
erty lust after Mr. Brittus built
their new house. A short time
"n."Urri PJ2: 1 before we moved to Cattle Rock,
an opening shot, climbing over
the laps of some spectator near
nice young man named Ly
. u.. l. i -... ona came, dui miuii niwtt-ii
llchta to focu on the sport
casters. One gets the feeling
that some dav they will decide
what team will shoot what bas
ket and when
HermLston or near there. Ale
Thompson and his wife once
took local picture, and o did
Charley Barlow.
I wonder how many Heppner
Old Mac Court Is a great place! T J'"2
rH.thi m E haii mow Kw1ak Um- )im'a K'andfath-
Z i hM, T7hn ihosT IT I" Pt P with Mr. Kaufman
pep and spirit than tnoe all . .,., , .,, . -1 1 w.i.
most sports palaces. Mavbe If - ' h;,;"" "
because they are packed so "a- as.h" ISX J"
ClJ0Cf. 5' i,Jnd thev were stranded there
ed )
gon
bump
Inetor
Jim Barnett of Oregon who spe
cialized In this game on swish
ing long ones from the deep
' . . dfAml ( wm until rAli' Krv
i whale of a ball game. Ore- 'i." T":r' k S
had to be at a peak to me, Io."s.anlJE5. ii
.thf .HV...- r.r.K.'on. shop In a building right
corners, is among The Most!
where Murray drug store now
stands. I do not know who owns
that corner now. Jim's grand
father never got to Walla Wal
la. The first man he met on the
street was Henry Heppner,
virtually every student carries " J??
an umbrella on rainy days. They ! "! a J soda pop work
take a lot of early day Heppner
pictures. Maybe his granddau-
even pack them around and use
them as canes when It's Just
a bit overcast. If a male colleg
ian carried an umbrella 25 years
ago, he would probably have
drawn some snickers from his
fellows. Oh, we're not knocking
the, umbrella carriers. It makes;
good sense. Just a difference In;
times. i
How these students manage
to hold an umbrella, though,
and have a load of books un
der each arm Is something hard
to figure. It's a real feat of dex
terity. Some day someone will come
along with an umbrella that Is
attached to a shoulder harness,
giving the person a portable
roof with no hands needed to
hold It. He should make a for
tune. . j
Mrs. Lula White arrived by 1
plane In Pendleton Friday from
Anaheim, Calif., where she had
been spending the winter with ,
her son, Vivian White and fam-!
ily. She was called here by the
death of her sister, Lenna Waid
in Stanfield. She and her broth
er, Vernon Wald, are spending
a few davs mis weeK wun ineir
sister, Mrs. Amanda Duvall. i
Tell the advertiser you saw it :
in the Gazette-Times. '
Jr. Olympic Award
Given Craig Sumner
Craig Sumner. 11 vear old aon
of Mr. anil Mr. Tout .Sumner of
Arlington, ha received a Nat
ional Track and Held award for
placing mh-oihI lit the nation for
lilch jump In hi ace group In
the National Junior Olympic fin
al. Award were given at a I'ott
land Athhlle Adulation bail
quel at tlio Benson Hotel TueJ
day. February when ath'ete
who pi. iced In the final of the
1W.5 AA'J Junior Olympic were
honored. Craltf and hi parent
were among those who attended
I'lrot place Jump, nationally,
wa 4 ft. 10 In , for 11 year old,
and Craig placed aecond at 4 ft
8 In., however he had previously
cleared 4 f 1 . 11 In.
He I Hi grandson of Mr. and
Mr. Cal Sumner of I'rlnevllle
and nephew of Mr. Jim Uv
gren, Meppner.
Lcland Carlson Gets
Norway LDS Mission
Lrland Keith Carlon. a form
er Hepnner resident and on of
Mr. Hernlct llartle now of Mm
pa, M iho, will leave thl month
to fulfill an UDS. MisMon to the
Norwegian Mission In IHlo, Nor
way. A farewell testimonial wa
held In Im honor at the Nampa
2n. and Sth Ward Chapel on
February 27, with hi ilter.
Shirley Carlson, two brother.
Italph and Dennl Carlson, and
hi mother taking part.
Club Meets Tuesday
Member of the Golden Age
club will hold the first of It two
March meeting next Tuesday
evening. March S. at the epis
copal Parish hall, entertain
ment will follow the pot luck
dinner at 7 p.m., and visitor are
away we'eome.
ghter, Nina (Garrlgue) Snyder,
can tell you more about thl
than I can. A few more name
of old-timers: Archie Mathewa;
Archie Gilliam; Pr. Mcr-aii; inei
Vorus. married K. L. Freeland;
Mr. Kate Sleeve. teacher
mine): Arthur Clark, lewcier
football player); Arthur Smith.
lewe er: Jumbo iiugncs; men
Have: Dr. HiCB: McBrlde. wag
on maker with the Scrlvcnor
blacksmith shop on Main street;
Mabel Leezer. one of the first
t.-l.-nhone operators In Heppner.
So was Frank Turner. I think.
Many more name later on.
Sincerely your.
O. NL Ycagor
Castle Rock. Wash.
Illness Claims
N. D. Bailey, 86
NeUon Dougl Bailey, W'.,
died at hi home on Jone
Wert on Thursday, February 21.
after an IHnc which had con
fined him for (tovcral month
lie had Im'cii a resident of llepp
ner for 37 yrars. coming here
from Silverton In 1 and
worked In hi Hade a a rarpert
(er and cabinet maker until hU
retirement,
The sou of John Uusm II and
F.liatH-lh Balnea llaley, he w.i
born In Mil, Ml. August 21,
IH7i. '.le came to Oregon In
March. IHSji, with hi parent,
three brother and one llrr.
and lived with hi family In the
Albany area. On August 7. VMil,
he mri IimI Marv Sherlock In
Silverton. With their family,
they moved to Heppner In !;.".
lie wa a memlicr t Willow
IOOK Lodge No. M, Heppner.
Memorial ncrvli-e were held
at the First Methodist i hurt he
Saturdiy. February with the
Hev. Melvui PI noil officiating
Soloist was Mr Sam Miller,
with Mr.i C. C. Carmlchael at
the organ. Concluding aervlce
were at the Heppner Masonic
cemetery,
Besides hi widow, Mary, he 1
survived by tlx son. Arlo of St.
Helena; Harold of Kent. Wn.:
Nelson of West Linn: Francl of
Portland; Karl of fklah. Calif,
and Albert of San Haphae), Calif.
Also five daughter. Margaret
Stout of Olympla, Wn.; Klia-N-th
Johnson of Monument;
Ktliel llowir of Rom lxlge;
Pora I'arscn of Hols-. Ida , and
Maude Hughes of Heppner:
grandchlli'ren and 37 great
grandchildren.
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Coming Events
BASKETBALL
Dlatrict Tournament
F-astcrn Oregon College Gym.
La Grande
Friday. March 4. 7:30 pm.
Saturday. March 5.
Support the Mustang!
rt'BLIC CARD PARTY
Saturday. March S. 8 pm.
Uxlngton RX)F Hall
Bridge. IMnochle, Game
IToceed to IOOF Fund.
BOWLING TOURNEY
Heppner City Tournament,
Fiesta Lane
Men" and women' matches
March 11. 12. 13, 19, 20
Register now.
JAYCEE BASKETBALL
profrHslonal glrla' team, the
Redheads, versus local
Javcees
March 6, 8 p.m., High School
Gym.
OLD TIMERS' NIGHT
BPOE IxHlge No. 358
Elks Temple, Thursday,
March 3
Clam Feed, 6:15, meeting fol
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