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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.