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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.