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t I BKARY U OF 0 l j a z n e . 0 r E 07403 Ken Jones, lone, Wins World Trapshoof in 297 of 300 Number 21 Hits Scored a Title - -a 83rd Year V . ;. i PRINCESS SUSAN Princess Next for lltuhltght of the summer for Princes Susan Llndstrom of lone will be the rodeo dance In her honor Saturday night, July 2.1, at the Heppner Fair pavil ion. The princess In sponsored bv Willow Grange of lne, who will also tnke care of the con-D-sslon during the dance, which marts at 9:30 p.m. She Invite her many friends In the lurroundlng areas to romp and enloy the evening with her and with the other lovely princesses and queen In thU year's court. Attendance at last week' dunce honoring Princess Mardeo Chllder of Boardman was ex cellent. The Increasingly pop. ulr local combo, 'Hie llemn men. will provlile music for this week dance. Princes Susan, attractive and stately daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy W. Llndstrom, was a graduate with this year's class at lleppner High school. Born In IVndleton. she reached her lHth birthday on April 16, and has lived all her years In lone. During these year she has de veloped many talents, among them expert horsemanship, ac complished In swimming and water skiing, and has develop ed natural talents In music, dancing, and other arts. After completing college, Susan has aspirations of becoming an air line hostctu. , The lorn, princess Is a member of Hope Lutheran church, and participate In many of the church activities. During the summer months Princes Susan keep busy help ing her parents with duties con nected with operating the fam ily farm near lone, helping the past week with harvesting bar ley and cooking for extra farm help. She has an older brother, Stephen, a Junior at Pacific Lu theran college In Tacoma, and a younger sister, Christina, who will enter the 6th grade In lone. The honor princess has eag erly participated In community und school activities, A popular and faithful member of Assem bly No. 89, Order of Rainbow for Girls, Susan has held many offices Including that of worthy advisor; Is a past grand choir director for Rainbow Girls In Oregon, and has been a dele gate several times to Grand As sembly, Her congenial personal ity has brought her many friends in lone and Heppner schools, and In clubs In her community. Accomplished riding abilities of Miss Llndstrom have devcl oped through the past eight years that she has been active as a member and a leader in 4-H horse club. She now In structs others In the lone Horse flies club as a Junior leader. In the 1965 Horse Show, Susan placed second In showmanship; in 1964 her horse Judging team placed first, and in competition at the state fair, won third place. She has received several ribbons in 411 Horse Shows and In Wrangler shows, and for two years has been a 4-H pennant bearer In the fair and rodeo parade, s Since May she has been train Ing her new three-year-old sor rel quarter horse, "Ricky Rook le," which she Is riding In her public appearances this sum mer. With their chaperone, Mrs. Dimple Munkers, the court will travel to tho Elgin Stampede for a special appearance this Sun day. They will ride in the Chief Joseph Days parade and show next week-end, staying over UNDSTSOM Susan Honors night Friday. A dance at the fair pavilion next Saturday will honor Prin ces Barbara Bloodsworth, spon sored by the Lexington Grange. Music will be furnished by The Dante of Heppner. Scasidcr Refuses Test; Has License Suspended, Fined Haiold Warren Lathrtip, 3H, of Seaside', who was arrested by state police at Lexington July 12 on a charge of driv ing while under the Influence of Intoxicating liquor, refused to take the balloon test for drunkenness when he was brought to the city hall In Heppner slKTtly after his ar rest. Tills was the first time an attempt was made here to ad minister the test to a ierion suspected of drunk enness since the new Oregon law on the mallei went Into effect, Chief of Police Dean Oilman said. Later in the court of Karl Soward, Justice of the peace, i.athrop pleaded guilty to the drunken driving charge. He was fined $.100 and was sen tenced to 60 days In Jail. How ever, the sentence was suspen ded when he committed him self voluntarily to the state hospital, Pendleton, for treat ment. His license may be sus pended for a period of fX) days for his refusal to take the test, u provision now In state law. The license will be suspend ed for a period as a result of the drunken driving convic tion. Whether the suspensions will run consecutively tr con currently was not learned. Lathrop was observed driv ing In mi erratic manner on the highway near the Klnzua mill, and this was reported to police. Tht arrest ensued at Lexington at 1:20 p.m. July 12. When ho wws brought to the city hall, Lathrop twice refus ed the balloon test, and In his refusal used profane and abus ive language, Chief Gtlman said. The chief said he told him to stop using the profane language, which caused a greater outburst. In an ensu ing scuflle, Lathrop ripped Oilman's shirt and scratched him superficially. G-T Rated Among Nation's Top Five Small Papers in Agriculture Service Official results f the 1966 National Newspaper Association Contest places the Heppner Gazette-Times among the top five small weekly papers In the na tion in the service to agricul ture category, a contest report received Monday from the NNA shows. The Morrow county paper re ceived an honorable mention, along with the Russell Springs, Ky., Times Journal. The Spin dale, N. C, Sun was first In this category for weeklies un der 4,000 circulation, and the Dumas, Ark., Clarion was sec ond. Third was the Amery, Wis., Free Press. The Gazette-Times and the Kentucky papers were the only two to receive honor able mention. A preliminary announcement, GAZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, July 21, Grain Harvest in Full Swing Following Storms Hail, Rain Pelt Ranches, Crops In Some Sections (Also see page 1, Section 2) Hall and rain storms brought heavy damage to grain and some ranches in some sections of Morrow county last Thursday evening with loss to the crop reported as high as 100 per cent In some cases. The hall storm seemed to split to cover two separate ar eas, one In the southeast part of the county covering the Kightmlle and Gooseberry dis tricts, then going down Rhea Creek. The country around the Valby Lutheran church was hard hit. The other storm cen ter was In the Morgan and Ce cil districts with the Krebs Bros, ranch taking heavy dam age. One Insurance agent said that one of his ranchers lost all but about 40 acres of his total crop of some 400 acres. The southern storm went as far south as the Bill McCUntock ranch In Morrow county and ex tended on Into Gilliam county. Rainfall In some parts of the county was reported as much as nearly an inch coming In about a half-hour period. There was no storm damage In the Lexington area, and In Heppner a strong wind came up but rain fall was too light to measure, and there was no hall. Don Gilliam, weather observ er, reported no rain for the week In Heppner. Days were balmy, and high temperature of 89 de grees was recorded on Monday. Complete report for the week Is as follows: HI Low Prec. Thursday 82 49 Friday 84 52 Saturduy 83 55 Sunday 85 54 Monday 89 48 Tuesday 80 47 Wednesday 79 47 House Trailer Tax $11,000 in Morrow Kach of Oregon's 36 counties recently received a bumper share of the nearly $1,760,000 In 1966 house trailer taxes col lected by the Department of Mo tor Vehicles. According to Vern L. Hill, director of the Depart ment, checks representing each county's share were mailed last week. The total of $1,757,942 Is an increase of $287,042 over the 1965 collections. The added rev enue comes from an Increase In mobile homes registered In the state. In 1965, there was a total of 54,775 mobile homes registered. In 1966, this increased 5.707 to a totol of 60,482. This represents a 19.5 per cent Increase In to tal registrations. Director Hill said Morrow county's share of the collection, based upon 338 house trailer ap plications Is $11,053.90. This Is an Increase of $1,549.86 from last year's collections. In 1965, Morrow county received $9,504. 04. Fees collected by the Depart ment of Motor Vehicles are based on a two per cent ap praisal of the market value of ench unit. This tax is collected In lieu of a property tax. received perhaps a month ago, had indicated that the Heppner paper had won honorable men tion in the category. However, It was Interpreted by the pub Ushers that the paper was one of 200 in the agriculture serv ice category to receive honor able mention. Instead, it meant that the Gazette-Times was one of 200 papers among -the 2806 submitting entries In the 33 cat egories that received any award. Only six papers In Oregon won honors in the 1966 NNA contest. The Hlllsboro Argus won a second place for best news picture, a third for news paper promotion, and an hon orable mention for classified advertising. The Stayton Mall won a third for best feat u r e New Grade Principal Enthused about Area It would be hard to find a person coming to Heppner with more enthusiasm than Alan R. Martin, who has just signed a contract to be principal of Hepp ner Elementary school. He ar rived here Monday to spend most of the week preparatory to moving with his family af ter they find suitable housing. Martin, who enjoys hunting, but with a camera Instead of a rifle, was thrilled with the pros pects of living here. "I can't wait to get out on some of those roads," he said. Already he has noticed wonder ful picture possibilities every where. In Portland. Where he obtain ed both his undergraduate de gree and master's degree at Portland State College, he didn't like the congestion. There were three accidents on the street near the Martin residence within a short time. This wor ried the Martins because their two little daughters, Debbie, 9, and Diane, 8, had little other place to play than In the street. They welcome living In an area where there Is no such conges tion. "I like the solitude," Martin said. "I could enjoy getting out on one of these high hills and Just sitting there to look over the country." -,-.... Skiing is another major In terest of the Martin family and they look forward to pursuing the hobby on the slopes of Ar buckle Slountain. During five years In the Hood River area, where Martin taught the eighth grade In Mid-Valley school at Odell, he was a member of the ski patrol and was an instruc tor in basic skiing. He was al so a member of a mountain res ale group. Mrs. Martin (Mary Ann) took up the hobby rather than to stay home alone when Alan was skiing, and now she is as en thuslastlc as he about it The girls have become skiers, too, to make It a family affair. 27 Pistols Stolen From Rauch Home Twenty-seven pistols from the collection of Irvin Rauch of North Lexington were found missing Sunday evening from the office of his ranch home, state police report. The Rauch family has been encaged In harvest work and discovered the theft when they came In from the fields. Loss was confined to the pis tols, so far as could be deter mined. The entire collection was gone with the exception of a few that were in another part of the house. Rifles were not taken. Rauch valued the pistols at about $700, although replace ment cost would be consider ably more. Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman and Heppner city police are work ing with state police in an ef fort to solve the case. story, that written by Jack Pow ell, who has a number of friends In Heppner. The Brookings Har bor Pilot and the Ontario Ar gus each won honorable men tion for special issues, and the Lake Oswego Review won an honorable mention for best use of photographs. .. . Pages from the Gazette-Times which composed its entry in the service to agriculture category were on aispiay at tne tnree day NNA convention in Boston, Mass., last week with the win ners In all caegorles. Mr. and Mrs. Wes Sherman, publishers, were Invited to at tend to receive a certificate of award but could not make the trip. It will be mailed to the paper. 1966 i ---.5- -w wqrr' -r-sri ..:- ALAN B. MARTIN Martin, who is 31. stands 6-2 and presents a lean and active figure. Most of his experiPTT in teaching was at OdelL after which he returned to Portland State College. He worked as a graduate assistant at Portland State for a year while obtain ing his master's degree in ele mentary education. Then followed a year as teacher at the Dale Ickes Ele mentary school in Milwaukie. He had accepted an offer to re turn to Odell for the coming year when he was contacted for the principalshlp here. Included with his elementary (Continued on page 8) Agriculture Said to Hold Key to State's Future It may be more advantageous i to Oregon to attempt to develop agriculture to gain additional new income than to go all out in an attempt to attract more "smokestack" types of industry to the state. So said State Senator Walter Leth, chairman of the State In terim Committee on Agricul ture, recently at a meeting of the Rural Area Development committee in Salem. Gene Winters, Morrow county extension agent, brought ex cerpts of Sen. Leth's remarks to the attention of the Heppner Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday to show the possible role of agriculture in the state's future. The state senator said that two University of Oregon pro fessors are presently making a comprehensive study of the economy of Oregon. Preliminary results of the study shows that more money needs to be brought into Oregon. If the agrilultural income In Oregon were Increased by $10 million, this would increase em ployment by 1,720 new jobs, the study shows. Sen. Leth declared that it would not be too diffi cult to increase ag income by this amount if the proper ac tion were taken. "For example, we produce ap proximately 500,000 head of feeder cattle in Oregon annual ly." Winters quoted Sen. Leth as saying. "However, In 1962 only about 140,000 head were fed In the state. Increasing this by 110,000 head or only feeding half of the production of feed er cattle in the state would util ize thousands of tons of local ly grown feed grains that are riow shipped out of state also. If a net income of $10 a head were realized, It would add more than $1 million to net In come of feeders. ' As a deficit producer of slaughter beef, most of these cattle would be pro cessed in the state. This in crease tn slaughter and feeding activity would provide at least 300 new jobs." Winter told of the Polk coun ty senator's report on a recent trip to California as presented to the RAD committee meeting. "California is not on the road to starvation." he said. . "Agri cultural production has been ln creased by 10 percent over the 10 cents Yield Appears To be Better Than Expected Despite interruptions by hail and rain storms, grain harvest is going full scale around much of Morrow county this week. Harlan McCurdy, Jr., manager oi Morrow county Grain Grow ers, teporterf that through Mon day wheat totaling 290,000 bush ls had been received at the MCGG elevators and barley har vest reached 313,000 bushels. At the North Lexington eleva tor on Friday 35,000 bushels of wheat and barley were received in the single day. This is con sidered a "big take" for one day at tne elevator. By Wednesday, however, the North Lexington elevator, in the neart of the area in the county that is generally first to harvest, had tapered down considerably. Elevators of the Grain Growers were working in all sections of the coun'y with barley being re ceived at Ruggs, southernmost of the elevators. Wheat yield was running be tween 25 and 30 bushels to the acre, considerably better than many had expected in view of the drouth in the spring, and barley appears to be running bout three-fourths ton per acre, good quality," McCurdy said. Both appear to be of "pretty Total barley and wheat har vest tnrough the cooperative has reached as much as three mill Ion bushels in a very good year with the average of perhaps two to 214 million bushel. Thus, for an average year, the total of 603,000 bushels harvest ed through Monday would in dicate the crop about one-third in at this time. past 10 years and will probably Increase another 10 percent dur ing the next 10 years. While land area has declined from 17 Vi million acres to 13 mil lion acres in farming over the past 10 years, a million addit ional acres of Irrigated land have been added and there will be another 3 to 4 million acres under irrigation by 1970. This will further increase productiv ity. Present water supplies are adequate to irrigate another 2 to 4 million acres. Some of the Oregon products that could find possible markets in California include beef, feed grain, cher ries, bushberrles, manufactured dairy products, poultry and pro cessed potatoes." Leth called for the state's In dustries to forget about solving agricultural problems, timber problems, fish and wildlife problems separately and instead to work towards greater cooper ation among all segments of the state's economy. Episcopal Rector Ordained as Deacon Dirk Rinehart, who will be the new rector of All Saints' Episcopal church in Heppner, was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church Friday even ing, July 15, in Ascension Church in Cove, by the RL Rev. Lane Barton, bishop of Eastern Oregon. Those from the church in Heppner who were present at the ceremony were: Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rosewall, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Loyd, Bob Abrams, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jones, Steven and Michael. Participating in the service were Mr. Rinehart's wife, Kar en, his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Grant H. Rinehart, Nyssa, and his brother-in-law, the Rev. Rusty Kimsey, Red mond, . - , ; Premium Books Out C Colorful new Oregon State Fair Premium Lists are now available from State Fair head quarters at Salem, reports How-; ard Maple, manager. These pre mium books are free. All neces sary information for making en tries at the 1966 State Fair are included in the List which this year Is illustrated. In Germany "That's my boy!" So exclaimed Mrs. Lawrence Jones of lone when the Gazette- Times editor, acting on a tip from Harlan McCurdy, called to ask If the Ken Jones who Tues day won the individual trap shooting title In the World Shooting Championships in Wiesbaden, Germany, is Mor row county's Ken Jones. He Is! " " Jone. of the Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, shot a perfect 110 Tuesday to win the title. He hit 297 of a possible 300 in the two-day event. On Monday, Jones, an airman first class, hit 197 of 200 clav pigeons and led the United States to the team title, according to a report in Wed nesday's Oregonian. USA Tops Russia Jones' victory gave the Unit ed States 11 titles to Russia's four in 22 championships that had been decided through Tues day. Fifteen more titles will be decided by the end of the week. Gheorge Enache of Romania was second in the individual championship after a 25-bird shootoff with Russia's Pavel Senichev after the two had tied at 292. In the last championships at Cairo In 1962, the Soviet Union won 22 and the USA seven of the 36 events. Other Americans placing in the individual standings were: Lieut Gordon Horner, Ft Ben ning. Ga.. 8th. with 289: First Sgt Billy Hicks, Quantico Mar ines, 11th, with 288; and Charles Jenson, Ft. Benning, 34th, with 282. Jones, Horner, Hicks and Jen- son won the team title Monday with a score of 768 of a possi ble 800. Father Also Champion The Morrow county man, who is 25, comes by his trapshoot ing skill naturally. His father, Lawrence Jones, won the Ore gon Amateur Trapshooters as sociation handicap title in 1957, and the Oregon title of the Pa cific International Trapshooters association in 1955. In 1963, he was president of the ATA in Oregon. Ken has won titles in Oregon and around the United States, including national events at Vandalla, Ohio, for a number of years. "But this is the biggest" Mrs. Jones exclaimed Wedne s d a y night, at the same time apol ogizing for her pride in the achievement of their son. "This is the top of the pyramid." -She said that he called be fore leaving for Germany. "I told him just to beat Rus sia, that's all I care." He did that Named All-American Sports Afield magazine named Kerr to the second All-American trapshooting team for con ventional shooters this year, and Skeeter magazine named him to the first All-American team for continental trap, also this year. Continental trapshoot ing is that used in the Olym pic games and in Europe. "So far as I know, he is the only one In America to make both teams," his mother said. Ken graduated from lone High school in 1959. He attend ed Willamette University for a year and then Columbia Basin Junior College for another year before entering the Air Force. He met his wife, the former Kathryn Brant of San Antonio, in Texas. They lived at Lack land and now have a one-year-old daughter, Alice. Kathryn's father is a career man in the Air Force, now serving in the Philippines. Where did he get his start in trapshooting? Got Start at Heppner "Why, right there in Hepp ner," came Mrs. Jones' voice over the phone, " at the Hepp ner Gun club." In the Air Force, Airman First Class Jones is in a marksman ship division, understandably enough, and spends much 01 his time shooting. Speaking of the new cham pionship, which brought contes tants from many nations, Mrs. Jones said, "It takes a little ability and a little luck. He has the ability, and this time he must have had the luck." Gazette-Times Buys Adjacent Building Purchase of the building ad Joinlnc the Gazette-Times build ing on the east side by Mr. and Mrs. Wes Sherman, publishers, from Mr. and Mrs. Conley Lan ham, was completed recently. . The building was occupied for years by Jos. J. Nys, attorney, until his death two or three years ago. At one time it was a telephone office. . It is planned to remodel the In terior of the addition into offices for the Gazette-Times in the near future with doorways to be cut Into the newspaper and job printing plant.
