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Newspaper Page TextLIBRARY U OF EUGENE, ORE. 07403 17 tj Ell rr 1 83rd Year Number 17 oam Hires rnncipai. K-l y i Teachers; Three teacher and princi pal for lleppner High school were offered contract by tha board of director of Morrow County School District H I t the regular meeting Tueday night, Eight rcwlgnntlon, Home of which had previously been reported, were accepted from various nchool In the district. The resignation Inclu d e d thowe of Mr. La Hue Brlgg, 2nd grade, Heppner Elementary; Richard Mrlntyre, Mh grade, lleppner Elementary; Donald McCture, physical rducat I o n and couch, lleppner High school; Joe HiiUNler, mathemat Ira, lleppner High; Donald Clark, lunRuuge art 7th grade, lleppner Klementary; Mr. Lou ise Clark, librarian, lleppner Klementnry; Opal Sllva, 5th grade, lone elementary; and Mr. Naomi Irishman, lat Krade, lleppner Elementary. Klchard L, Carpenter, who at the preHent time I principal at St. Paul High school, waa of fered a one year contract a Heppner High principal. Teacher offered contract In clude the following: Rodney White. Albany, social atudle Principal Accepts Heppner Contract Richard L. Carpenter of St. Paul accepted the contract a principal of lleppner High whool Wednesday. David R. Potter, superintendent of Mor row County School, said. The superintendent contact ed Carpenter by telephone Wednesday morning after the school board offered the St. Paul man a one-year contract Tuesday night. Carenter ha been princi pal at St. Paul High school for the past two year and taught In the me aehool for five years prior to becoming principal. He will be 33 year of age later this month. Mr. and Mr. Carpenter have twin daughters, age 12. The new principal ha a bachelor of science degree from the University of Ore gon In 1959 and will receive a master degree from Port land State College this year. It I not known when he will come to Heppner this Hummer, but he will need housing. Supt. Potter said. Anv person having Informa tion on housing available are asked to contact the school office at Lexington. and Spanish at Heppner High school; Hal Whltukcr, Anton, Texas, vocational agriculture, Heppner High school; and El mer Weltzcl. Talent, mathemat ics, Heppner High school. White received hi bachelor of arts degree at Oregon College of Education this year. Whlta kcr has a bachelor of science degree In vocational agriculture and 10 years of teaching exper ience. Weltzel graduated from Southern Oregon College with u bachelor of arta degree this year. Contract Change Mad Changes in coaching assign ments ut Heppner High school with contract adjustments were approved by the board for two coaches previously hired. Adri an Cook, who has a bachelor of science degree from South ern Oregon College and two years experience, will be head football coach. Charles Carr, a graduate of Oregon College of Kducutlon at Monmouth, will be Jayvce football couch and will us.sl.st in basketball. Cook Is 26 years ot age, Is married nnd has no children. Carr Is 37, la married and has two children. Among other contract adjust ments were those for Dan Dal toso who was elevated to vice principal for Rlversldo High school; for Ron Daniels, River side principal, who will assist In supervision of construction of the New Riverside High school building; and for Mich ael Tolar, A. C. Houghton prin cipal, who hus received his master's degree. Additional pay for Daniels for his supervisory work will come from the Army Corps of Engineers administra tion budget, Supt. David Potter suld. No Mora Resignations In recommending that the eight resignations of teachers be accepted, Supt. Potter asked the board to authorize sending of a letter to all other Btaff members that no further resig nations for the 1906-67 year will be accepted, except for circum stances beyond the control of the teacher or administrator In volved. This action was approv ed by the board. All non-certified personnel In the district were recommended for rehiring by Supt. Potter with the exception of Mrs. Marie Ball, school secretary at lone, who asked that she did not wish to be considered for con tinued employment. The super intendent ao recommended that Darrel Vinson be appoint ed a full-time custodian at Heppner High school, instead of part time bus driver and part time custodian. These recom mendations were approved by the board. - v Gets Resignations Rauch Reelected Irvln Rauch of Lexington, who ha nerved a chairman of the district board for the past year, wa reelected to that posit Ion upon the insistence of his fel low directors. This breaks a precedent In which the chair man ha served for only one year before the position rotat ed to another director. However, Oregon school law provide that a member may serve a chair man for two consecutive year. Maxwell Jones of Irrlgon waa elected vice chairman. Riverside Delay Talked Delays In progress toward construction of Riverside High school were discussed at the meeting. Supt. Potter Raid that the building mUNt be completed by September 1. 1967. "We're not ready to call for bid because of a number of small technical detail," he aid. The district is experienc ing some difficulty in getting some Item approved by the Pacific Gas Gets 'Go-Ahead'; lone Plant Scheduled for '67 Pacific Gas Transmission Company will break ground within a few day on the first project in a $13.9 million ex pansion program In the Pacific Northwest, Vice Resident and General Manager Charles Pen nypucker Smith has announced. A 9,000-horsepower compres sor station at lone I scheduled for construction in 19ti7, ac cording to a news release from the company. Thl Is expected to cost $2,309,000. The two-year program of the company is part of a $30 mil lion expansion on both the Cunadiun und U. S. portions of the 1,100-mlle Alberta-Californ-la "big Yard" natural gas pipe line, Smith said. Start of construction follows approval by the Federal Power Commission In Washing ton, D. C, of the company's appli cation for an Import license and a certificate of public conven ience and necessity to Install new compressor horsepower. IHT will step up delivery of Canadian gas to northern Cali fornia via the pipeline that crosses Morrow county. Now av eraging 413 million cubic feet a day. It will be Increased by 100 million cubic feet about November X of this year and an additional 100 million cubic feet about November 1, 1907, Smith said. First new compressor units to be Installed will be those in Spokane county, Wash., where a 9.100-horsepower station will be constructed at Rosalia at a cost of $2,141,000, and in Jeffer son county, Oregon, where a lti.OOO-horsepower station will be built at Madras at a cost of $1,273,000. Tiiese are the only two phas es of the expansion program scheduled for construction this year. Those coming In 1907 in clude the lone station, and oth er work as follows: Enlarge ment of a Sandpolnt, Idaho, compressor; new supervisory gas control equipment at oper ating headquarters in Spokane; modification of Wallula, Wash., compressor station; new com pressor station at Bonanza In Klamath county; modification 47 Get Semester Honors Forty-seven -students at Hepp ner High school made the hon or roll for the second semes ter, according to announcement from the school office. Seniors topped the roll with 16, follow ed by juniors with 14, sopho mores with 10 and freshmen with seven. Three students made perfect 4.00 grade point averages. They are Karen French, senior and class valedictorian; Martha Peck, junior; and Merrl Lee Ja cobs, sophomore. Forty-eight were Included on the honor roll for the fourth nine weeks period, Juniors led this list with 17, followed by seniors with 16, sophomores with 10 and freshmen with five. Maralce Murray, junior, was the only student to receive a 4.00 grade point average for the nine weeks period. Those making semester hon ors were as follows: Seniors Karen French, 4.00; Murk Brown, salututorian, 3.83; Maureen Doherty, 3.83; Margar et Green, 3.83; Gayle Batty, 3.66; Shlrlee Erwin, 3.66; Barbara Grlbble, 3.66; Jean Healy, 3.66; Mark Murray, 3.66; Cherilyn Smouse, 3.66; Brenda Young, 3.66; Trisha Farley, 3.50; Erna Winchester, 3.50; Sheridan Wy man, 3.50; Tim Drlscoll, 3.33; and Joan Stockard, 3.33. Juniors Martha Peck, 4.00; Maralee Murray, 3.83; Linda Clark, 3.66; Carol Rawlins, 3.66; Nonda Clark, 3.50; Erin Dick, 3.50; Verlna French, 3.50; Jill Schmidt, 3.50; Barbara Bloods worth, 3.33; Jan Hager, 3.33; Jim Jacobs, 333; Pam McCabe, 3.33; Kathy Melby, 3.33; and Marsha Sowell, 3.33. Engineers that were Included In the design memo, Potter said. "We must come to some con clusion." Daniels said "our backs are to the wall on time." Letter from Architect Howard Clazer called attention to some of the Items that are holding up approval of the protect. Fur ther meeting with the Engi neer will be held soon to iron out the problems. The board authorized the dl. trict clerk, Mr. Alice Vance, to borrow funds up to $250,000, If and when It becomes, necessary, to pay bill Incurred In the construction of the new high school. Tills action was taken on advice of the school district's auditor. In construction of the school, the district pays for work contracted and is later re imbursed by the Army Corps of Engineer. It was pointed out that the Corps Is billed for In terest Incurred on the loan. School official are uncertain (Continued on page Sj of compressor station at Dia mond Junction; and enlarge ment of meter station at Malin, both also In Klamath county, A possible maintenance base In Oregon at a site not yet de termined Is also helng consid ered, lone has been mentioned as a possibility for this base. Sidewalk Bazaar Interest Mounts Nine organizations have al ready made arrangements to participate with booths and sales of various kinds In the Sidewalk Bazaar on Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9, Bob Henry, chairman, told the Heppner-Morrow County Cham ber of Commerce "Monday. This is In addition to the stores and businesses that will participate In the sale. "We have had a much better response from merchants than In the past," the chairman said. Tills will be the third annual Sidewalk Bazaar. Both of the first two events were fine suc cesses, but according to Hen ry's prediction, the 1966 Bazaar will be even better. "We need more 'fun type' promotions for the Bazaar, he said. Organizations which have not already made arrangements to take part are invited to stop In at Gardner's Men's Wear and choose a space on the sidewalk Jaycees will move their new Little League building to the downtown district for the Ba zaar, they have announced. They will give away a .30 06 rifle to a winner at the con clusion of the two-day event. Merchants and organizations are asked to start plunning for promotion of their sales and exhibits now. The Gazette Times will need all Bazaar ad vertising by Friday, July 1, be cause of the intervening July 4 holiday prior to the July 7 edition which will be the Side walk Bazaar edition. Sophomores Merrl Lee Ja cobs, 4.00; David Hall, 3.83; Steve Pettyjohn. 3.83; John Raw lins, 3.83; Sheila Luclanl, 3.66; Vickie Robinson. 3.66; Beth Ford, 3.66; Helen Anderson, 3.33; Russell Kilkenny, 3.33; and Norita Marquardt, 3.33. Freshmen Sue Greenup, 3.83; Sara Miller, 3.83; Terry Peck, 3.83; Teresa Harshman, 3.50; Pattl Holt, 3.50; Debbie Bennett, 3.33; and Sheryl Britt, 3.33. On the nine weeks list were: Seniors Mark Brown, 3.83; Shirlee Erwin, 3.83; Karen French, 3.83; Margaret Green, 3.83; Barbara Cribble 3.83; Mark Murray, 3.83 Gayle Batty, 3.66; Maureen Doherty. 3.66; Jean Healy, 3.66; Cherilyn Smouse, 3.66; Brenda Young, 3.66; Trisha Farley, 3.50; Erna Winchester, 3.50; Sheridan Wyman, 3.50; Tim Drlscoll, 3.33; and Tim Tullis, 3.33. Juniors Maralee Murray, 4.00; Martha Peck, 3.83; Carol Rawlins, 3.83; Linda Clark, 3.66; Nonda Clark, 3.50; Erin Dick, 3.50; Verlna French, 3.50; Jim Jacobs, 3.50; Jill Schmidt. 3.50; Mike Sweeney, 3.50; Barbara Bloodsworth, 3.33; Jan Hager, 3.33; Pnm McCabo, 3.33; Kathy Melby, 3.33; Donna Potter, 3.33; Marsha Sowell, .3.33; and Steve Wagenblast, 3.33. Sophomores Merri Lee Ja cobs, 3.83; Steve Pettyjohn, 3.83; Sheila Luclanl, 3.66; John Raw lins, 3.66; Vickie Robinson, 3.66; David Hall, 3.50; Beth Ford, 3.50; Helen Anderson, 3.33; Nancy Doherty, 3.33; and Nor ita Marquardt, 3.33. Freshmen Terry Peck, 3.83; Sue Greenup, 3.66; Sara Miller, 3.66; Pattl Holt, 3.50; and Ter esa Harshman, 3.33. GAZE1 Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, June 23, Cheerleaders to Fly To Squaw Valley Pam MeCabe, Peggy Snyder, Verlna French, and Marsha Lovgren Heppner High cheer leaders, are looking forward to their summer's training ses sion with extra Interest this year. They , will go to the Squaw Valley Cheer Leader Camp from June 28 until July 2. Part of the thrill of the trip will be provided by Orvllle Cutsforth who has offered to fly the girls down and back In his plane., He will stay with his daughtur In Sacramento during the Jour days of the camp. i High school leaders from all over the country attend the Squaw Valley camp. The girls will study stunts, yells for all sports, skits, chants, routines, tumbling, sportsmanship and way of bolstering school spir it. They will participate In practice pep rallies, bonfires and parades. Sparetlme racrea Hon at the camp in the Olym pic ViUage will Include ten nis, hiking, Ice skating, swim ming and sky rides. Decision to go to a different yell leader's school was made because three girls had at tended the school at Lewis and Clark the previous year. Costs of the trip are shared by the school and the stu dents. Jones, Cutsforth Explain Proposed Parks District County Judge Paul Jones and Orvllle Cutsforth, chairman of the county parks commission, explained the proposal to es tablish a county parks district at the meeting of the Heppner Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday. The district was proposed re cently by the parks commission following a Joint meeting with the county planning commis sion. It would Include all of the county with the exception of Boardman and Irrlgon where districts are already set up. Judge Jones said that the district would seek to match state and federal funds with funds from the local level. The state marine fund of some $2400 would be available but it must be used in connection with ma rinas only. Funds available through the new Federal con servation fund would make some $6200 to $6400 available annually to the county. A tax levy, expected to be about one-half mill, would pro vide matching money. At the present time the county includes $2000 in Its budget for parks, so the difference that would be raised in added taxes would be $6000 approximately. Because of a restriction in the law that requires that a dis trict be formed for a certain number of weeks before the matter is submitted to the coun ty assessor for inclusion on the tax rolls, the judge said that it probably would not be possi ble to form such a district this year, even if the public favors it. However, it is possible that it may be ready to be submit ted to voters at the time of the general election in November. Cutsforth said that he met with Robert Wilder of the State Parks and Recreation division last week in connection with the proposed Swale Creek im poundment. Wilder was of the opinion that the idea of using match ing federal funds for develop ment of the site, which is on U. S. Forest Service land, would not be possible because of the fait that federal funds cannot be matched with federal funds. Giving of the site would prob ably be construed the same as federal funds he told Cutsforth. Cutsforth said that in view of this, the parks commission is checking on the possibility of leasing the site. However, if this is done, the clearing would have to be done by the local group and not by the For est Service. He said that he is checking further also on the question of whether the giving of the land by the Forest Serv ice would be construed as "matching federal funds with federal funds." i Nevertheless, the parks com mission chairman said that if the Swale Creek project cannot be accomplished, the county has several other sites that should be developed, including those on Rock Creek, Ditch Creek and at North Jones Prairie. The parks district should be formed to get "revolving fund money" on hand in order to be prepared for needed development, he said. !" mi i LEONARD L, GILLIAM, weather observer In Heppner for 33 years. died In Portland Tuesday. Member of a lamlly prominent in Heppner history, Gilliam was and Bisbee Hardware. The picture shows him at his weather station at his home. Death Takes Len Gilliam; Funeral Services Friday Leonard L. (Len) Gilliam, 80, with the Rev. Melvin Dixon, a member of one of Heppner's most prominent early families, died In Portland early Tuesday morning, June 21. He had been associated for years in the Gil liam and Bisbee Hardware, one of Heppner's oldest businesses, before it was sold February L ' ritualistic services by Heppner 1955, to Claude Buschke and!viic inHco Nn 35R "e,y-!Jl:!.wa,sJ'naL1:l uus '" . ' W, uy Mr. and Mrs. Buschke, conclud-; lng a history of some 80 years. For 33 years, Gilliam was of ficial weather Observer for Heppner. He was presented with a 30 year award for his service in 1933, and his work was of- ficlally recognized in a Depart- ment of Commerce . publication, The Cooperative Weather Ob - server," printed last year. Although he had been serious - ly ill with cancer for a num - ber of weeks, his death Tues- day came as a shock to rela - tives and close friends for he had been showing good response to treatment in Portland. Property Problems Delay Highway Job ler, telegraphing his 24-hour Problems in securing rights-; temperature and precipitation of-way for reconstruction of the, record daily to the Portland state highway from the bridges j Weather Bureau, in Heppner to a point some His weekly reports were fur three miles towards Lexington , nished to the Gazette-Times have delayed the project, Coun-1 and were publisned to keep the ty Judge Paul Jones said Mon-1 public posted on the weather, day. Besides his interest in the Fred Klaboe, assistant state weather, Mr. Gilliam was an highway engineer, told Jones at ardent fisherman and enjoyed a conference during the week trips to Bull Prairie and other that the contract on the project I lakes and streams with his son, will be awarded in September Don, and friends. by the highway commission but no improvement on the highway is foreseen for this year. Difficulty in secur i n g rights of way for the project is the reason for the delay. Previously it had been an nounced that awarding of the contract was scheduled for ear ly this summer. Judge Jones said that the project will cost $300,000. The highway is to be widened, straightened and rebuilt to a point somewhere between the Kinzua Corporation mill and the Mollahan place. Appendicitis Hits Youth at Camp Athletic Interest of Pat Kil kenny, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kilkenny of Lexington, in the sports camp of Len Casa nova at Eugene was cut short suddenly Wednesday when the boy came down with a case of appendicitis. He was reported as under going emergency surgery in a Eugene hospital, and Orville Cutsforth flew his daughter, Mrs. Kilkenny, mother of the boy, to Eugene to be with him. Young Kilkenny and Phil Ay res, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ayres, went to the camp last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ayres took them over and the group spent a night at the coast before tak ing the two boys to Eugene. The camp covers a period of two weeks, but indications are that Pat isn't going to be ac tive in the session from now on. $$$0C HEPPNER m eeJ E-TIME 1966 formerly a partner in Gilliam pastor of the Heppner Metho - dist church, and Paul Jones, acting worshipful master of Heppner lodge No. 69, AF & AM, officiating. Vault Interment will be in HpnnnpT Masonic remetprv with Mr. Gilliam was born at the! cnrll, Hnll parlrt, Ph p-iv ,i Tifi 1 "Vi rranic ana une j. umiam. Hisiyoid , Article are and. u-ith Tim RisrwA on taunri niu a ;ivii c c i m mic erated the Gilliam and Bisbee .Hardware for years. Leonard worked in the store for years and Jater he joined hs brother, Clinton C. and Earl E. Gilliam, 'anj l. E- (Lou) Bisbee. in a partnership in the store, the , men joining the firm at various 1 times. Bisbee is the son of Tim Bisbee. 1 Leonard's father served as mayor of Heppner at the time 0I tne flood m 1903 I ,-..,, ,,,. u death of his father. He has con tinued in that capacity since; thus, for 55 years the family has been the Weather Bureau's cooperative observer. For several years, until the service was discontinued, Gil iliam was a crop-weather report- (Continued on page 8) 26 County 4-H Youth Enjoy State Summer School Highlights of the Oregon 4-H Summer School which was held June 13 to June 18 in Corvallis, included Oregon Banker's Night with entertainment furnished by the Oregon Bankers Associa-, tion; youth reports with repre sentatives from National 4-H Congress, Collegiate 4-H Clubs, Oregon Youth Council and the Job Corps Conservation Center; a Hootenanny, and a 4-H Tal ent Show. The 26 delegates from Mor row county also attended class es, assemblies, county meetings and such free time activities as dancing, bowling, rifle, swim ming, tennis, gymnastics, and a boys' and girls' track meet. Marge Shade, 4'-H leader from Irrigon, accompanied the dele gation as adult chaperone and Leonard Munkers transported the delegation to and from Cor vallis in the Morrow County School District's activity bus. Extension Agent Gail McCarty, also accompanied the group. Delegates going from the county and their sponsors are as follows: Melvin Ashbeck, Stewart's Groc e r y, Umatilla; Julie Ayres, Teen Seamers 4-H Club; Mary Kathryn Campbell, 10 cents Barbecue To Honor BobAbrams Everyone Is Invited to the Morrow County Cow Belles "Do-It-Yourself" barbecue Sunday, June 26, at the fairgrounds. The annual "dinner wili honor Bob Abrams 1966 Morrow County Father of the Year. He was nom inated for the honor by St Al ban's Acolytes of AH Saints' Episcopal church. Those attending are asked to bring their own steak or ham burger, table service and grill utensils. The gTill will be ready for barbecuing between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. The CowBelles and Morrow County Livestock will furnish the rest of the din ner. Abrams. partner in the law firm of Mahoney and Abrams, , is attorney for both the county ' school district and the Cltv of Heppner. He is a director of the I Boy Scouts, a director of Blue Mountain Community college. and is lay leader and lay vicar of All Saints' church. At the time of his selection, it was announced that he was chosen "because of the Job that he and Mrs. Abrams (Marian) have done in rearing their child ren, because he is highly re spected, and because he gives ! unselfishly of his time in com I munity activities with particu lar attention to youth projets." The Father of the Year, who formerly served as Morrow county district attorney. Is a member of the Masonic lodge, of Royal Arch Masons and of the Elks Lodge No. 358. ll.i , .1. fAlKC Denqe S YYOrK Work of Mike Benge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Terrel L. Benge of lone, with the Mon tagnards in Vietnam is des cribed in an article that ap peared in the Oregon Journal last Thursday. Rolla J. Crick, military edi tor of the Journal, wrote the article while accompanying Robert Dwyer, Portland lum berman, on a mission for the U. S. Agency for Internation al Development. The writer described his vis it with the Montagnards and then interviewed Benge, who has been serving in Vietnam for three years. He is assist ant province representative at Ban Me Thout for the U. S. Agency for International De velopment. The lone man discussed the possibilities that rhemical fer tilizers have in the agricul tural development there. He Is engaged in teaching the Mon tagnards but realizes that it will take time. There have been cases of using too much fertilizer and burning rice crops with it. "The point to remember here is that this is showing a farmer a new way to do something and that is hard even in the states, where peo ple have more education than they do here," Benge was quoted as saying. Benge's picture accompa nied the article. Rhea Creek Grange; Sandra Carlson, lone PTA; Linda Coop er, Bank of Eastern Oregon, Heppner; Lynda Early, Irrigon PTA; David Hall, Safeway; Ter esa Harshman, Elks, Heppner; Patti Healy, Lexington Imple ment Co.; Kay Huson, Soropti mist Club, Heppner; Merrilee Jacobs, Willows Grange. Also Sheila Luciani, Inland Empire Bank, Umatilla; Maur een McElligott, Morrow County Grain Growers; Christine Munk ers, Padberg Machinery and Del's Market; Chuck Nelson, U. S. National Bank, Hermiston; Keith Nelson, Umatilla Electric Cooperative Association, Herm iston; Sherri O'Brien, Turner, Van Marter & Bryant, Heppner; Kerry Peterson, Pendleton Grain Growers, Hemiston; Larry Pet tyjohn, Murrays Rexall Drug; Mike Smith, Heppner Auto Sales; Cherilyn Smouse, Lexing ton Oil Cooperative; Kathleen Sweeney, Central Market; Mark Tullis, North Morrow 4-H Coun cil; Leon Wilson, Boardman S.W.C.D. (A. Hoffman). A scholarship from Mahoney and Abrams of Heppner was used for bus and driver expens es not covered by the students' travel fees.