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Newspaper Page TextL I BRARY U OF 0 t U S E N E , 0 P. E 07103 FCC Grants Microwave Permit Microwave xrmlt. requested by Telecommunications of Ore gon, Inc., to servo Heppner TV, Inc., won granted Friday, May 8. bv thd Federal Communica tion Commlsiilon, according to a telephone. nifKNOKO received by Carl Kptiuldlng, secretary treusurer of Heppner TV, from Robert 8. MeCaw. president of Telecommunications, Wed n e dav. Tlila grant will enable tho cabin system to receive micro 83rd Year Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, May 12, I i i i . p KAREN HAMS Ion High Valedictorian Top Ranking Named at lone High Karen Hams, daughter of Mr. The salutatorian was co-cap-and Mrs. Vester Hams, has been ' tain of the lone High football chonen as valedictorian of the lone High class of 16, and Mark llulvorscn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lwls Halvorsen, has been selected salutatorian, Everett Holsteln, principal, announces. Karen has attained a grade point averuge of 3.51 and Is the only girl In the senior cla&.i. Murk made an average of 3.01 In his four years at school. The valedictorian is Girls' league president and Is senior class secretary-treasurer and news reporter. She is editor of the annual and exchange edi tor for the school paper, "Tho Cardinal." She was homecoming queen and Is a member of tho l'ep club. Karen has been secretary treasurer m her cluss in ,-vihm1 every year during the four years und was homcuming princess her sophomore year. Among 5. other honors and activities ing her school career wore these: Girls' State delegate, cheerlead er us a sophomore, played vol leyball In freshman and sopho more years, librarian during her first two years, assistant secre tin y-licu.suu-r 01 t,,u &tuu..it txxiv a a junior, .student band I director as a Junior, member of the pep band us a freshman, part worthy advisor of the Rain bow Girls and a Junior auxil iary member. She plans to ultend Western Business University In Cortland where she will take a legal sec returial cuur- llulvorscn was a four-aport man lootonu, bnsKCiDau, Duse bull und track- lor four years und also took gymnastics as a freshman and sophomore. He Mas Cass pixslunii in ircMi man and Junior years, has been a member of the student body couiit.li u'lir yiurs nntl picsen.iy Is student council chairman and student body president. He has been a member of the lettermen's club for four yenrs and Is president of It this yeur. Murk has been In tho band for four years and was vice presiui nt o! ine bund as u sopn omore and Junior. Tour Scheduled Friday, May 20 Annual adult conservation tour will be Ftiday, May 20, centering around the County Conservation Farm of the year. The bus will leave the coun ty fairgrounds at 9 a.m. and all furmers are encouraged to at tend. A special Invitation Is al so extended to women, business people and clergymen. Practices to be observed on the trip Include strip cropping, diversion ditches, stubble mulching, grass and alfalfa seedlngs, trial wheat plots and irrigation dams. Roger Palmer, chairman of the tour, reminds everyone to brin sack lunches und climb aboard ready to start at 9 a.m. They will be back by 3 o'clock. wave service from tho same company now serving the La Grande, (taker, and Union area. The contract lned by tho board of directors of Heppner TV guarantees a Grade A picture delivered to the antenna Kite. Microwave servlro will furnish slgnubi from KATU, channel 2, Cortland ; KION, channel 6, Cort land; KGW, channel H. Cortland; ond KOAI', channel 10, Cortland, the educational station. During auch tlrn-s when chan the mm GAZETTE-TIM if . . i - . i - . ;1 Y 7 j MARK HALVORSEN Ion Hlqh Salutatorian Seniors and basketball teams and will play In the Shrine East-West All Star football game In Pen dleton In August Mark has won several troph ies as a water skier, participat ing In summer time. He Is a inemot-r 01 Hie A Vv.tt.A. century club and has held a master's rating in Jumping. He takes part in the annual Labor Uuv water ski show at Hut Kock State Curk. The event hus become well-known through i.ie w.HK 01 Kay Heimoigner wno also coached the Halvorscn Helmblgner trampoline team. Mark plans to enroll at East ern Oregon College In tho talL Primary Election Ballots Printed In This Paper Primary election In Oregon Is now 12 days uway, but there has been so little activity on the local level that one would scarcely realize an election Is impending. Oldtime observers say that this Is the quietest primary election within their recollec tlons. Only one contest Is on the ballot for a major county of fice, that being the Democratic riui) fir iniinlu udtuwcnr hotwfOn Haskcll sharrard and Bob wiugiiitn. v inner of this contest I will probably meet Rod Thoin I son, Republican Incumbent, In the general election In Novem ber for the position. Thomson is without opposition on the GOP ballot. I A little more Interest is gen- crating on the state and na tional levels. Races for gover nor, United States senator, rep resentatives In Congress, state superintendent of public instruc tion, and labor commissioner add some spark to tnc Daiiois. One candidate, Wm. E. Qulg ley of Baker, visited in Heppner tins wcck en route to a apiaK Ing engagement in Condon. Quigley opposes Al Ullman on the Democratic ticket for Con gress. On his visit, he express ed some disfavor with the pres ent udmlnitratlon. Ballots are printed in this pa per on page 4, section 2, in cluding Republican und Demo cratic. Nonpartisan ballot is on page 2, section 2. These are nearly exact lucsimihes of bal lots that will be given to vo ters on May 2-1 and are printed in (lie pi.pcr by the county in accordance with state law. Voters are advised to save these printed copies for refer ence before going to the polls. Some will find that candidates appear on their official ballots In different order, because law rcaulres that names be rotated In printing tho ballots so that each candidate will bo at the top of his section number of times. nel 10 U off the air, KPTV, Heppner TV, Inc., will build channel 12, Portland, will be a new alr-condltloned micro carried by the system. Channel; wave building to house the new 10 signs off the air at 10:30 prn. weekdays, does not oper ate on week -ends and ia off the air during the auramcr from Juno until September. Equipment for the transmis sion service has been ordered for August delivery, McCaw auld. It should be Installed and In optvatlon for the fall pro grams. 1966 'Mrs. Stcagall Gets 'Best Mom' Award (See I'll lie 'Letters 21 to the Kdltor', Mrs. George Stcagall, whose son, George, Jr.. thinks she is the "He 4 Mom," and wrote a letter telling why, was honor ed on Mother's Iny when she received a dinner with her family at the W'Bgon Wheel Cafe. The dinner, for the immed iate family, was given by the Chamber of Commerce as a part ' of Its Mother's Weekend promotion. George, Jr., a jmpll at Hepp ner Elementary school, was one of (3 who entered the con test. Crie was a free dinner with the trimmings for the family and especially honor ing mother. Vote on Zoning Set for November After Hearing Decision on whether lands north of the Base Line In. Mor row county shall be toned will rest with voters in tnat area in an election to be held In connection with the general election In November. This action was the result of a public hearing on a proposed zoning ordinance, held Tues day. May 3, In the county court house when a number of Inter ested persons appeared, most of them opposed to the plan. The county court called for the election at the conclusion of the hearing. Virgil Selzer. lands branch chief of the Bureau of Land Management state office, Port land, told the court that the area must be zoned If north Morrow BLM lands are to be sold In large tracts. Some 70 persons have filed for the BLM lands for Irriga tion development under the Desert fcntry act of 1877. How- ever, me Bureau ana Morrow iininru nuii'iB h n n irn ut iracwir tavor towards outright sale of the land. At the Heppner-Morrow Coun ty Chamber of Commerce meet ing Monday, County Judge Paul Jones was accompanied by Leo Simmons of Baker, land agent for BLM. After some explanation on the matter of desert entry and outright sale of the federal lands as the two possible meth ods for disposition, the Judge called for a show of hands from the membership on the num ber who favored outright sale. Most of those attending raised their hands. There was no rec ommendation by the chamber, and the informal vote was merely a determination of ap parent feeling by the member ship. The Judge said that the coun ty court plans to contact the people in the county to deter mine how the land should be disposed of. If sale is decided upon, it was pointed out that under a prcf erence clause, a contiguous land owner has the right to meet the high bid for the adjoining federal land in 30 days. Under desert entry, no taxes would be paid until a patent is issued by the government This could go as long as six or seven years, Simmons said. Some 10,000 acres of BLM lands are Involved. At the zoning hearing May 3, Richard Ivey, engineering con sultnnt, was present to answer questions posed by those who appeared. The hearing started at 10 a.m. and was not con eluded until late afternoon. WEATHER Official weather report for the week of May 5-11 is as follows: Hi Low Pree. Thursday 91 54 Friday 69 39 .02 Saturday 74 42 Sunday 77 50 Monday 83 36 Tuesday 60 42 .Wednesday 66 40 to Heppner System facilities. It also will furnish the modulation equipment con verting the microwave signals to cable use. This will Involve considerable cost for the local company, but officials feci that the Improved picture quality will offset the expenditures. Announcement of the permit approval came Just the morning after the annual meeting of 3PFNEH ES Fine Program Scheduled For Wheat League Meet With a fine program planned, , an extra lnige attendance is ex- ! pected at the spring meeting of 1 the Morrow County Wheat League on Tuesday, May 17, at 8 p.m. In the Lexington Grange! hall, Louis Carlson, president, I states. i Print-lpal speaker will be John' Bauer, manager of North Pacific Grain Growers, Portland. An nouncement will also be made of the selection of the l!(6f Con servation Man of the Year, and he will be presented at The meeting. Special committee reports will be given on the business agen da, Carlson states. Live enter tainment Is planned, and re freshments will be served through, the courtesy of High land Machinery Company. Con don, with women of the Lexing ton Grange doing the serving. Fred Schneider, a market de velopment director for Western Wheat Associates, will be un able to attend because of other commitments. He had been ten tatively scheduled, as a speaker witn Bauer. Bauer has been general man ager for North Pacific Grain Growers for about a year after serving as assistant manager since June 1, 1962. Previously he was employed by Pendleton Grain Growers since 1946 and School Music Program Slated For Wednesday "Sing Along with Songs of Long Ago" -will be the theme of the vocal music Droeram of ; the Hepner Elementary school. Mrs. Ola Mae Grosnens, in pro structor, announces. The gram, featuring 5th, bth, Tth, and 8th grade general music classes, will be Wednesday, May 18, In the Junior high gym. Setting will be an open air cafe, bandstand and stage in a city park. Songs will be from the gay 9Cs through the 1920's. Skits will pantomine songs, and there will be barbershop' and beauty shop groups, girls! doing the Charleston, a style show of bathing beauties and Martha Peck, high school Jun-1 with doing excellent work un dresses of the era, and solos. , ior, will play a tenor saxophone ; w toe aavtrae conaii i o n s Pupils also will depict perform ing traveling groups coming to the park to entertain. Including Hawaiian singers, hula dancers and hillbilly groups. There will be no admission charge. The Golden Age club will be special guests at the program with a section to be reserved for them. Memorial Picnic Calls Old-Timers The Pioneer Memorial Day picnic is tho principal obser vance planned for Heppner for Memorial Day. Many old-timers and former residents are expec ted to return for the day, Mon day, May 30. Directing the ar rangements are Oscar Peterson, president, and Mrs. Claude Gra ham, secretary. Registration will start at the county fair pavilion at 11:00 a.m., with the Soroptimist club in charge. Acting as special hos tesses this year will be mem bers of ths Heppner Golden Age club. The picnic dinner will be served at 12:30 p.m., with the Rebekah Lodge women in charee of the kitchen. Those attending are asked to bring hot dishes, vegetables, salads and desserts. Coffee, milk, ham, bread, ice cream and table service will be furnished by the committee. Girls in the Rainbow Assembly will assist in waiting on the tables. Heppner TV, Inc., held Tuesday night. Haskell Sharrard was elected to the board of direct ors for another five year term, ('resident now Is Conley Lan ham, and E. E. Gonty la vice president Other directors are Kiley Munkcrs and L. E. Dick. Spauldlng was reelected secretary-treasurer and Don Wise is technician. Financial report and reports by the technicians were given at the meeting, which was held in Spaulding's office. Number 1 1 10 cents 1 JOHN BATTER was operations manager with that firm when he resigned to accept the Portland position. in I9:u-mi he worked lor the First National. Bank of Oregon In Astoria and Pendleton, during which time he served as assis tant cashier and loan officer. He was in sirvice from 1942 to 1946, serving as a radar lieutenant in the South Pacific. During the time he was in Pendleton, Bauer was president of the Pendleton Round-Up for two years and was active in community affairs. He went to grade school in Enterprise, to high school in Pendleton and to college at the University of Oregon. Bands to Combine For Concert Here Friday Evening Combined bands of Heppner Elementary and Heppner High schools will present a spring concert at the Heppner Junior rllu?c; 13 at 8 p.m.. Director Arnold Melby announces. Some 130 band students will participate, he said, Including those starting in the fifth grade throueh the four years Of high school. Novelty, popular and classical ! numbers are on the program, solo with band accompaniment As a novelty presentation, Steve Warren will play a piccolo part in 'The Stars and Stripes Forever" on his Sousaphone. Admlsslon to the program will ho ru. tcr orinlto nnrt 9. for and students. Melby says one purpose of the program Is to show parents how their children have prog ressed during the year. 'Between Bookends' To be Parade Theme "Between the Bookends" will be the theme of the 1966 Mor row county Rodeo parade- This was decided by judges from the entries submitted recently in the 1966 contest to Randall Peterson, chairman of the Heppner - Morrow County Chamber of Commerce parade committee. Mrs. Bill (Ida) Farra sub mitted the winning entry. Oth ers which received considerat ion were "Welcome, Stranger," "Heait's Desire," "Fairyland," "Heroes of the Early West," "God Bless Your Parade," "Past, Present and Future," "The Sound of Music," and "The Old West Will Never Die." Former themes were: "The Soaring 60's," 1961; (none in 1962); "Songs Old and New," 1963; '"Famous Quotations," 1964; and "The Good Old Days," 1965. A '! y 0 . r. LAiU School Directors Name Principals Principals for lone schools and Heppner High school were hired by Morrow County School Dis trict R-l directors Tuesday nignt subject to checking references In their areas and obtaining the recommendations of the advis ory committees and board mem bers from the area in which each will be working. Harold Beggs is the candidate for the lone position. Now liv ing in Boise, Idaho, he has been In teaching for nine years. He is 34 years of age, Is married and City and District Budgets Printed In This Paper Budgets of the City of Hepp ner, Heppner Rural Fire Protec tion district and lone-Lexington cemetery district are printed on pages 2, 3 and 4 of section 2 of this paper. All hold within the 6 per cent limitation. Total budget requirements In all funds of the city budget are listed at S189.179. down from the S209.991.27 of last vear. Howev- er, resources other than taxes are also down, from $185,37753 tc $162,523 Taxes to be levied for the coming year are set at I $27,454 as compared with $26,- 499 for 1965-66. vl The budget has been ap 1 proved by the budget commit ,j tee, of which Gene Pierce is chairman. Hearing on the budg ' et is set for Tuesday night, May i 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the city hall. ' Any person may appear at that time to discuss the budget. The rural fire protection budg-. et shows total requirements of $6,082.37 of which $4,690.00 is to be raised bv taxes. Require ments for 1965-66 totaled $5, 309 with an Identical sum, $4,690.00 raised by taxes. An equipment fund of $1,524.87 is set up from resources in the district this year. On some of the printed cop- le of the fire district budget, the item, "Less Budget Resources,-Except Taxes to be Levied," in its financial summary Is in correctly stated through error in copying computations when the budget - was prepared. The correct figure is $1524.87, which is the amount of the equipment fund. The error was discovered during the press run and was changed. The entire second pub lication next week will be cor rect. Public hearing on the fire budget will be June 15 at the fair annex building at 7:30 p.m. Total taxes to be levied by the lone-Lexington Cemetery district will drop to $10,629.85 for 1966-67, as compared with $12,617.77 for 1965-66. Total budget reouirements are fieured I at $17,111.11. Public hearing will I ho prlHav VTaw 97 of ft Tt m In the lone city hall. Spray Mill Fire Hits Log Deck Fire at the Spray sawmill of Heppner Lumber Co. destroyed an estimated one half-mUHon feet o salvage tlmber m a log deck Tuesday night. i The blaze, fanned by a strong i wind, roared throueh the drv timber. Firemen from Kinzua, Fossil Wheeled countv. State Forestry Department, U. S. For- i est Service, and Spray, battled i the fire. - They were credited brought about by the wind. I A night watchman had been on duty until 10 p.m. and the ,wtts uiawiveicu awui j.. 'Origin was undetermined, al- n5",Z ".tlf.Q ..V "Main. num a uuwict i have isTiited it. 1 The Spray mill is newly re built after being virtually des troyed by floods more than a year ago. Barney Maicom op erates the mill ac Spray as Weil as the mill owned by the same company in Heppner. Engineers Coming To Chamber Meet NIel Meadowcroft and Joel Griffith of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers' district office, Walla Walla, will be present a the Monday Luncheon meet ing of the Chamber of Com merce. They have been asked to speak on local responsibili ties that must be undertaken before the Willow Creek proj ect is completed. The two will meet Immedi ately after the . luncheon with representative-; ef i.-e .ty pim ty, planning commission, Cham ber, game commission. Forest Service and others to begin co ordination of local responsibili ties on the project. At the May 23 meeting of the chamber, Loren D. McKlnley, museum director of the Oregon Museum of Science and Indus try, will speak, Gene Winters, program chairman, announces. There will be no chamber meet ing on May 30, Memorial Day. has four chldrcn. Beggs has a master of education in school administration. Warren Scheibner, now prin cipal of the Junior-senior high at Bridgeport, Wn., is the candi date for principal of Heppner High. He has eight years of teaching and administrative ex perience and also has a master of education degree in school ad ministration and physical edu cation. Scheibner is 35, is mar ried and has three children. The school of which he is now prin cipal has approximately 200 stu dents enrolled. Daniels on Leave While tentatively gaining two principals, the district lost an other for a year. Ron Daniels, principal of Riverside High school, was granted a year's leave of absence to accept a teaching assistantship at Wash ington State University to en able him to work towards a doc torate in education. Daniels said that he would be willing to assist the district or the building program at River side In any way he can while his leave is effective. It will be gin June 13. The board offered contracts to three teachers. Adrian Cook, with two years teaching exper ience and a bachelor of science degree at Southern Oregon Col- lege, Is scheduled to teach soc ial studies at Heppner High. He is 28, married, and has no child ren. Mrs. Gene Winters, with four years teaching experience and presently teaching physical ed ucation, was hired to teach home economics at Heppner High half time. She obtained her bachelor of science degree from North Dakota State. Miss Terry Diane Lincecum is scheduled to teach art in Hepp ner schools. She will come with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Oregon. She is single and has no teaching ex perience. The board accepted the resig nation of Mrs. Beverly Mclntyre, Heppner Elementary teac her, who plans to teach next year in Bend. Sumner loins Board Jack Sumner, newly chosen board member, took the oath of office at the Tuesday meeting and started as a director of the district. The board authorized the call ing for bids on supplies and equipment, three school buses, service for vehicles for next year, fuel oil, gasoline, anti freeze, and for operation of bus runs for student routes with eight or less students. It was authorized that the em ergency clause be invoked in seeking two of the three buses to be purchased and that action be taken at once because of the expected difficulty in obtaining them. The board approved a field trip for the advanced biology class of Heppner High to Tilla mook and waidport on the weekend of May 1415 with Kirk Horn, teacher, in charge. Horn presented a schedule of the trip to the board. At the request of Horn, Mrs. Rachel Dick, chairman of the curriculum committee, and Mrs. Violet Lar.ham, counselor, the board agreed to dropping biol ogy I as a graduation require ment at Heppner High school. One year of science of some kind will continue to be required for graduation. Acts on Housing The board passed a motion stating a position of being op posed to "being in the private housing business" but because of present conditions, agreed that there was no choice but to provide housing in some instan ces for the immediate future. In view of this, a motion was also pa'ed to purchase two lots in Boardman and purchase or negotiate for one lot in lone. The teacher housing commitee has recommended construct ion of one three bedroom house and one three-bedroom duplex in Boardman, and one three-bedroom house in lone. An attempt to settle the mat ter of the laundry for Heppner Elementary school was delay ed again when it was tabled af ter a committee report, pending more investigation of the possi bility of & joint venture with Pioneer Memorial hospital. Church Use Talked Use of school buildings for summer church educational pro grams was granted lor this sum mer, but the matter was turned over to thi-; policy committee to form policy recommendations as a future guide on such use. Churches now pay for custodian and utilities when they use the facilities. Chairman Irvin Rauch and Supt. David Potter were auth orized to meet with an insur ance agent and take out ade quate boiler insurance for the school system. Meeting of the joint advisory committees of the county school system has been set for Mon day, May 16, at 8 p.m. in the Lexington office. - June meeting of the school board will be June 21 at 8 p.m. in the Lexington office. Morrow Umatilla School Board Associat ion meeting will be at Gunthers' Restaurant in Pendleton May 19 at 6:30 p.m.