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Ken Jones, lone, Wins World Trapshoof in
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Hits Scored
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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
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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
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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.