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V L ! BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE 07103 West Wishes to the Seniors!, Morrow ofing Follows State Tren '"i:::r:zir: - il W.ll don A clow of '661 fi Laughlin Wins Top Local Race 83rd Year Number 13 Continue r your winning woyi. HEPPNER County -'V as the r : mm 80 to Graduate Across County Eighty senior, divided among three high school In Morrow county Mrt) scheduled to gradu ale tit commencement exercises next week. Nino are on the roll r( the rlaiu o( imai at lone, 18 nt Riverside and 53 at Hepp ner, Baccalaureate exercUe will Ih held simultaneously Sunday night at the three schools, but commencement exercises will b on consecutive nights begin ning Wednesday o( next week. Senior Pictures Printed Pages 6, 7 Picture of seniors In the Heppner and lone High class es of 1908 arc printed on pages 6 and 7 of thin section of the paper, together with congratulatory messages from (Urn of thU area. Rlverstde High pictures will be printed In the paper next week. Riverside commencement will b Wednesday night at 8 o'clock In the arhool gymnasium. Ilepp. ner commencement will be Thursday night, June 2. In the school gymnasium, and lone commencement will be Friday night. June 3. In the school Ki mnitwlum. The Rev. Al Boschee will de liver the fiermon for Heppner High baccalaureate at service in the school rafetorlum Sun day night at 8 p.m. The Rev. Kenneth Robinson will also par tlclpate., and Mrs. Pauline Mill er will be soloist. Mrs. OU Mae Ooshens will play the proces sional and rectwallonal. At the lone baccalaure ate In the school rafetorlum Sunday night at 7:30, the Rev. Walter B. Crowell will give the sermon, and the Rev. Don Mo Curty will participate. Gene Rletmnnn will play the proces xlonnl and recessional. Sermon at the Rlvenlde High baccalaureate Sunday night at 8 o'clock In the school gymnas ium will be the Rev. Jack Naff of Kermlston with the Rev. Her bert Vaughan and the Rev. Her man R. Burg participating. The Riverside High chorus will sing two hymns, and processional and recessional will be played by Mrs. Albert Partlow on the organ and Mrs. LaVerne Tart low on the piano. President Wallace W. McCrae of Blue Mountain Community College will bo, commencement speaker at both Riverside High and lone High. Michael Vernon Smith wilt give the valedictory address and Penelope Fossey the salutatory at the exercises at Riverside High Wednesday night Principal Ron Daniels will present the class and Ralph Skoubo of the couny school board will present diplomas. Bon Pa (I row of Portland Stato College will be speaker at Hepp ner High commencement Thurs day night. Karen French will give the valedictory address and Mark Brown the salutatory. Awards will be presented by Principal Clayton Norton, the Museum Director Tells of Plan For Agricultural Wing at OMSI Plan to add a new wing de voted to the modern science of agriculture at the Oregon Mu seum of Science and Industry In Portland was discussed by Loren McKlnley, director of the museum, In a talk to tho Hep-ner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday. The wing will be constructed nt a cost of $200,000 of which some $120,000 has already been raised and Is in the bank, Mc Klnley said. While he was in Heppner, he learned upon call ing Portland that an eastern concern had offered to donate a $80,000 heating unit to the wing. One of tho purposes of the new wing is to create better understanding between urban and rural areas, the speaker said. "The economic Importance of agriculture must be told. The metropolitan merchants don't realize they have a stake in agriculture," he said. Cost of the structure is being met by popular subscription arid 34 of Oregon's 36 counties are organized to help. The on vumt will be presented by Mrs llernlce Struckmeler, one of the class advisors, and diplomas win ih presented by Chairman Irvln Ranch of the school board. Valodlclory at lone High Fri day night will be by Karen Hams and Mark Halvorsen will give the salutatory. Robert Ba ker, senior class president, will Introduce President McCrae as the speaker of the evening. Principal Everett Holnteln will present awards, and Don Mc Elligott of the school board will present diplomas. Principal Decides To Refuse Post Warren B Schelbner of Bridge Krt, Wn.. who hud been offered a contract for principal of Hepp ner High school, has decided to refuse the offer, Supt. David R. Potter said this week. He had planned to accept but had been given a contract at more money and a shorter work year at a larger school In Wash ington, Supt. Potter said. A special meeting tonight (Thursday) of the school board will consider this turn of events. Supt. Potter sold that he had few other applications to be considered at this time. He said, however, that Ron DnnlcW, prlrmipnl of Riverside High school, had decided not to take a leive of absence that he has been granted by the board but to stay on the job here In lead to work through pre -construction and construction of the new Riverside High school at Bonrdnmn. Thomson Roommate Airplane Victim Sunday's airplane crash that took the lives of four Eastern Oregon College students brought sadness to the Jim Thomson family here for one of the victims. Michael Ervln. 18. of Pilot Rock, was roommate of their son. Bruce Thomson, at the college. The two had been roommates all through their freshmen year, and Ervln's death was a shock to Bruce, the Intter's father said. Pilot of the plane was Jerry Krelzenberk. 20, Enterprise. The two others killed were Aaron Hovey, 19, of The Dalles and Don Johnson of Madras. The four were en route home from Corvallls when the plane crash ed about seven miles southeast of Battle Mountain at an ele vation of 5H00 feet. Cause of the crash was listed as unknown at the Inst report. Ervln played basketball for Pilot Rock High school before graduating In 15. He was on the team that played Heppner in the 1964-65 season. Bruce called his parents to tell them of the tragedy. Ap parently the entire EOC campus was stunned by the multiple futullty. ly two who are not are Mor row and Gilliam counties, and McKlnley was here to stimu late organizations In these two counties. No goal Is set on the amount to be given by each county but a suggested figure Is 10 cents per person, making $500 a possible sum to come from Morrow. Many counties have oversubscribed their1 goals, he said. Warne Nunn, assistant to Governor Hatfield who will be In Heppner on Memorial Day, will assist at the ground-breaking of the new agricultural wing at OMSI on Tuesday, May 31, McKlnley stated. Another purpose of the wing will be to encourage young peo ple to enter the field of agri culture for the future. "Average agu of the Ameri can farmer today Is 58 years of age," McKlnley said. For the 5000 graduating from college In agriculture last year, there were 15,000 fine positions awaiting them, he added. OMSI, opened in 1958, has 350,000 visitors per year. The development is the largest edu cational program of this kind Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, May 26, Plans Near Final Stage for Pioneer Picnic Monday Monday, Memorial Day, is the day when once again many will return for Morrow County's Pio neer Picnic at the county fair pavilion. Plenty of time for vis King Is planned, and only a short program will be present ed. Those on the program will be Warm Nunn of Salem and O. M. Vaeger of Castle Rock, Wn. Music will consist of songs by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Marouardt and violin solos by Mrs. Carl Smouse. Election of new officers also will be on the order of business for the afternoon. All residents and past real- dents of the area are Invited to come to the celebration; rec Istratlon will start at 11:00 a.m. with the Soroptlmlst club In charge; members of the Gold en Age club will be special hostesses. At 12:30 pm. there will be a picnic dinner under the direc tion of the Rebekah Lodge women with the help of the girls of the Rainbow Assembly, loffec, milk, ham, bread, ice cream ana table service will be furnished by the committee, and those attending are asked to bring hot dishes, salads and desserts. This year's picnic Is under the direction of Oscar Peterson, president, and Mrs. Claude Gra ham, secretary. Expenses of the annual affair are met by do nations given at the picnic Surveys Review Reservoir Sites Survey of possible fish im poundment sites by the State Came Commission in the moun tains southeast of Heppner show that the proposed Herrln Mead ows location Is a "bigger proj ect than we can handle," Or vllle Cut.sforth, county parks commission chairman, reported to the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday. "There Is no hill on the south side to hunk a dam to," he said with a smile. When the men made the sur vey, however, they found a good site - two miles farther from Heppner below Linger Longer, Cut.sforth said. Another good location is at Parker's Mill, he said. This would flood 50 acres. Still another Ideal site in another location In the county Is that In Burton Valley, six miles from U. S. Forest Service land. This is in an old dry lake valley but is on private land. A detailed survey will be re turned soon, Cutsforth said. At that time a priority will be sot up on either the Parker's Mill site or he other one near Her rln Meadows. Both of them are on Wilkinson land, he said. in the nation. This year there wore 110,000 entries from child ren and youth in the science fair sponsored by OMSI. The museum operated four science camps, the director said, one of which is located near Fossil. OMSI receives only $5000 in tax support per bleiinlum, and this will be phased out this year, McKlnley said. "We feel a tax-supported mu seum would wither and die," he added. The museum started as a dream in the mind of Dr. J. C. Stevens when he was 22, and it became a reality when he was 82, according to the speak er. Stevens collected materials in boxes, and these were once opened in the old Portland Ho tel for display. The hotel was torn down, and they were moved to a private home. This was torn down to make way for the Sheraton Hotel. Now they are in the museum located adjacent to the Portland Zoo off Canyon Road. McKlnley was Introduced by Gene Winters, program chairman. H ' .an if a; f :: S"'v! - ( ' h f t , If y i DONNA CEORGE Donna George Resigns Position As County Agent Miss Donna George, county extension agent In home eco nomics in Morrow county since September, 1964, has resigned her position here, according to Gene Winters, county agent. She plans to go to Ashland to continue her education at Southern Oregon College where she will take courses to qual ify her to enter the teaching field. Miss George expects to leave the county about June 16. While In the county. Miss George has devoted lier time about equally between 411 club work and home economics work. She accepted the posit ion here following the death of Miss Esther Kirmls. former county extension agent. Miss George came from Montana where she was raised and at tended school. She has been active in com munlty and church work here as well as working with groups affiliated with the county ex tension service. It Is hoped that the home eco. nomlcs staff vacancy will be filled soon. Winters said. How ever, there Is a scarcity of qual ified persons for such positions, ho added. Graduates to Get Degrees at EOC Saturday, June 4 Four Morrow County students will receive degrees at Eastern Oregon College's 37th annual commencement Saturday, June 4, at 10:00 a.m. in the EOC Col iseum. Principal Michael Tolar of Irrigon Grade School will re ceive a Master of Science De gree In Education, one of three master's degrees to be award ed out of a total of 142 de grees. Jeanne Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Collins, Hepp ner, will receive a Bachelor of Science Degree in General Stud ies. A Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education will be awarded Bruce Mover, Heppner, son of Melvin Mover and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Harlan McCur dy Jr. Mover lived with Mr. and Mrs. William Cunningham while attending school In Hepp ner. Another Morrow County grad uate is Ann Schmeder of Irri gon who will receive a Bach elor of Science Degree in Edu cation. Commencement speaker will be Dr. William Stafford, Profes sor of English at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. Stores to Close On Memorial Day With the first holday of the season coming Monday Memorial Day stores in Heppner will be closed with the exception of a few serv ice establishments. . Many local persons will at tend the annual Old Timers picnic at the fairgrounds and others will take advantage of the long week-end for trips and outings. No observance, other than the picnic, is scheduled here to mark the significance of Memorial Day. iu 11 juriij 1966 Ain't It Never Gonna Rain No Mo? Only .0 in May With farm crops crying for rain and hopes for a good har vest fading, the month of May ppears destined to close out with very meager moisture on the record books. The month to date has brought only .07 inch of rain, and the year to date has to taled only 3.15 Inches, accord ing to Don Gilliam, who is handling weather observing du ties tor his Zatner while the latter Is undergoing medical treatment in Portland. May of 1964 brought less rain with only .02 inch recorded in the 31 -day period, but the Ap ril and May total for this year combined may be an all-time low for these two months. April brought only .08 inch and, thus, the two months total only .15. in 1964, April had SO lncn, making .92 Inch for April and May, 1964. Total rainfall for the first five months of 1964 was 353 inches as compared with the 3.15 Inch es for the same period this year. Average tor the Ilrst live months Is 6.29. A normal May brings 159 inches. Other nor mals are: January, 1.33; Feb ruary, 1.19; March 1.17: and Ap ril 1.31. This year's monthly record is: January, 1.43; Feb. ruary, 34; March, 1.03; April, .08; and May .07 (to the 26th). Meanwhile, temperatures con tinued to climb, pointing out that summer is on the way. Four days of the week were over 80 degrees, and Wednesday reached 83 nere. I Report for the week brings THE BLOODMOBILE IS COMING Bloodmobile Visit Due Here May 6; Quota Increased There will be a call for blood donors again on Monday. June 6, when the Bloodmobile is scheduled to come again to Heppner, according to word re ceived this week by Mrs. Or ville Cutsforth, blood program chairman for Red Cross in Mor row county. Last date of the visit of the Bloodmobile here was on November 29, of last year. Quota for blood will be In creased 10, Mrs. Cutsforth re ports, due to increased need for military use, as well as heavy local needs. Exact place and time of the drawing will be announced next week. National Mention Given G"T on Agriculture Service Judges in a National News paper Association co n t e s t have awarded the Heppner Gazette Times honora b 1 e mention in the service to agri culture category of a nation wide newspaper contest Some 2700 weekly papers with circulation of 41000 or less competed, and the Hepp ner Gazette-Times was judg ed among the best 200 for service to agriculture. The Gazette-Times has a circula tion of 1600, which means that it was competing with papers printed in cities of up to 5000 population or more. The Gazette-Times entry Is now on display with other top papers in the NNA office in Washington, D. C. The asso ciation has invited the pub lishers, Mr. and Mrs. Wes Sherman, to come to the na tional convention in Boston, 10 cents only zeros In the moisture col umn, as figures compiled by Don Gilliam show: High Low Prec. 83 64 .00 80 45 .00 73 36 .00 74 31 .00 76 41 .00 84 47 . .00 89 53 J0O Thursday t riday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Rodeo Plans Move Ahead; Saddle Club Coming Back Plans for the 1966 Morrow County Rodeo are probably far ther ahead at this time of year than ever before wdth the board of directors meeting regularly under the chairmanship of E. H. (Tad) Miller, Jr. Some good news was reported this week when the Salem Sad dle Club wrote to confirm that its drill team, composed of some 30 horses and riders, will be back again to perform at the rodeo, 'rhey appeared last year for the first time and received a fine reception here. .The return appearance was confirmed to Secretary John' Venard of the rodeo board by Mrs. Roxie Ballweber, secretary treasurer of the drill team. A painting protect will bright en up the facilities at the rodeo grounds. Ernie Winchester has been given the contract to paint the catch pens, calf chutes, bucking chutes, front of the grandstand, the air dates on the grandstand, and the buckeroo stands. Charley Daly has announced that he has trophies all lined up for the show this year. The New York Store of Pendleton will give its award to the cow boy judged to have the hardest luck in the rodeo. This award is donated by Jack Saul of the store. The futurity race will be om itted from the program in the 1966 rodeo and the $100 purse will be split between three other events, $50 being added to the saddle bronc purse, making it $350; $25 being added to the bareback riding, making it $125; and $25 to bull riding, making it $125. - Queen Erna Winchester and the 1966 rodeo court have made their first out-of-town appear ances at the Arlington rodeo and and at the Spray rodeo this past week-end. Swim Pool Slated To Open June 5 Vic Groshens, city superin tendent, and his crew are busy this week preparing the swim ming pool for the coming sea son. If all goes as planned, the pool will open Sunday, June 5, with the customary free swim ming on opening day from 1 until 4 p.m. Definite announcement as to hours, tickets and other details will be in next week's Heppner Gazette-Times. Mass., on Saturday, July 16, to receive a certificate in rec ognition of the award. (Ed. Note: Who'd get the paper out?). In entering the contest, the Gazette-Times submitted pa pers showing work done with the Heppner Soil and Water Conservation district, the 4-H clubs, the Eighth Grade Wheat Tour, Livestock Man of the Year, Conservation Man of the Year, the continuing weekly farm page, work with the Wheat League, work In promotion of beef and the cattle industry, editorials on agriculture and cooperation between urban and rural in terests, and similar material. Announcement of the hon orable mention award was re ceived from Roswell S. Bos worth, Jr., chairman of the NNA Better Newspaper Con test committee. (Vote Tabulation, Page 4) With one exception. Morrow county voters followed the state trends in the primary election Tuesday. Walter S. Blake, can didate for superintendent or public Instruction, carried the county wltha total of 649 votes to 531 for Leon Minear, incum bent. Blake, former dean of stu dents at Willamette University, forged ahead at one time dur ing the state's returns, but Min ear pulled away in later tabu lations and was reelected. Tn all Athor atatn arA natfnn. al contests, the majority of the county voters agreed wun inose around the state. cal level was the contest be tween Bob (Butch) Laughlin and Haskell Sharrard for the rwmn-raH nntnl nation for county assessor. Laughlin won according to the unofficial tab ulation, 296 to 215. He had the tA aa In spvpn of the nln Dre- dncts, but in one S. E. Hepp ner ine two naa a ue voie ai 22-22, and in another Lexing ton taugniin emergen wun a one vote advantage, 29-28. Shar rard won in Boardman, 22 to 16. Vote was light with about 60 per cent of the approximately 2100 registered voters going to the polls. A total of 1281 cast ballots on the cigarette tax bill on the nonpartisan ballot, which would be about 61 of the registration. Like the state at large, Demo crats here gave a big majority to Robert Duncan for U. S. Sen ator His 3&1 vote total was al most exactly 2 to 1 over How ard Morgan s m. - County Democrats rolled up a 10 to 1 vote for Congressman Al Ullman over his challenger, William Quigley, giving Ull man 557 to 55 for Quigley. State Treasurer Robert Straub ended far in front of his near est opponent, .Ben Musa of The Dalles, ' 1 oY governor, receiving 349 to Musa's 186. Norman Ntlsen was 4 to 1 ov er C. D. Hoffman for the Bur eau of Labor commissioner po sition. Martin Buchanan, running unopposed for state representa tive, 28th district, polled 524 votes on the Demo ticket Jack Van Winkle, also unopposed, to taled 495 votes in gaining the nomination for Morrow county commissioner. On the Republican side. Gov ernor Mark Hatfield ran far A nt hlc mmnetitors but probably not as much as his state average. He received 459 votes, and his nearest compet itor, Jim Bacaiou. pouea iuo. i-aroH t. fiwn iinODDosed for the Republican nomination for Congress, 2nd district received 510 votes. . , Tom McCall, secretary oi State, ran 10 to 1 ahead of John Reynolds for the governor nom ination, 584 to 59. , Irvin Mann, seeking reelection to the state legislature from the 28th district, gained the Repub lican nomination, unopposed, and receved 573 votes. Herman Winter, running un opposed for Morrow county dis trict attorney, received 617 votes on the Republican ballot nigh est total recorded here in the election for any candidate. E. O. (Gene) Ferguson receiv ed the GOP nomination for the position he now holds, county commissioner, as he piled up 541 votes unopposed on the ticket Rod Thomson, unoppos ed for the assessor nomination, received 498 votes on the same ballot . , For Dort commissioner, an in teresting situation developed , . ha fact tnat xne Democratic ballot only had one candidate witn rwo u ed. Joe l atone reivcu o o tho candidate on the ballot, polling 419 votes. Re- ceiving tne mosi wmcmo the second position was Barney Malcom with six. Malcom was a candidate on the Republican ballot, polling 395, good for the second nomination on that tick- . u v. Pot Cwnnwn' 649. Dfl 1 Itivt um . . . l Since he was the high man in writeins on tne uemo duuoi, ue will go on the general election ballot as a nominee of both par ties, according to Mrs. iadie Parrish, county ciern. owaun and Tatone will be the other i tinnmrj rinilvhorn of nominees. Vl Irrigon ran third on the GOP ticket witn ui "u "aa ""v nominated. County voters favored the cig arette, tax bill with vote of 788 yes to 493 ho, while dis approving the measure that would give the state legislature power to detemlne how the state superintendent of public in struction should be chosen. They voted 442 yes to 767 no on this one. With the light ballots and the relatively light votes, the count was tabulated quickly in Mor row county, the whole job being completed by 10:30 p.m. Elec tion and counting boards, com posed mainly of experienced personnel, worked smoothly and efficiently.
