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J HEPPNER GAZETTE - GAZETTE-TIMES HeppBM. Oregon 97836 MORHOW COUHTTS NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gaxette established March 30. 1SS3. The Heppner Times established Kovember 18, 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1911 gljjl NlWIFAPIt Vi-ASSOCIATION WESLET A. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 pjn, Monday through Friday; 9 ajn. until noon Saturday. Subscription Rates: $4 50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. They Studied and Liked It One of the happiest days o( the year In the life of a child, so we have been led to believe, is the last day of school In the spring. He then looks forward to a nice long summer, free for swimming and other pursuits, without being both ered with the toils and discipline of school. But this year in Morrow county quite a number of child ren returned' to elementary school for some six weeks of additional work to help them with difficulties they had been having in various subjects. Every indication points to the fact that the summer school, which ends this week, was a fine success. The young sters studied, and they liked it. Since the school sessions were only a half day five days a week the children had plenty of time for most normal summer activities. They were in a situation in the classroom that as devoid of the more competitive pressure of winter classes. Teachers, who had a smaller number of children than in regular school, had time to work with the particular needs of each pupil. As a result, when school convenes in the fall, many of the youngsters will probably show rather remark able progress. Their work was carefully evaluated and graded. Some of the children began to achieve good grades and success in subjects that had brought discouragement In their winter classes. Their interest was heightened because of their suc cess. Field trips, one for each class, not only provided addition al educational experiences but also a happy reward for the summer labors. The upper four grades here will go to Mary Hill museum Thursday as a conclusion to the summer ses sion. One of the teachers remarked that she worked even hard er in the summer than she did with classes in the winter. It can be seen that with attention focused on specific needs of the children and with the good attitude they showed, there would be some added inducement on the part of a dedicated teacher to work even harder. Michael lolar, administrator of A. C. Houghton school, Ir rigon, was in charge of the summer session, and he and his staff deserve credit for an excellent job. They conducted the session in such a manner that it brounght no taint of "being slow" to the pupils. Rather, it heightened their self-respect Parents are surprised at the manner in which their child ren pitched into the summer work and enjoyed it. This shows that the staff did a creditable job of furnishing in centives for the children. The pupils, having made gains on their specific problems, should be able to face the next school year with greater eagerness. Full scholastic evaluation of the program will not be made until results of achievement tests have been compiled. "We can't work miracles in six weeks," one of the teach ers remarked. But all indications are that the results will be good. "At least some of the pupils won't slip back through the summer," the same teacher said. Excellent cooperation by parents has been a factor in the success of summer school, the teacher pointed out This is the first year that the program has been conduct ed in Heppner, although summer remedial work has been in progress for a number of years in the north end of the county- Since cost of the program was borne by the federal gov ernment, it is not known at this time whether it will be con tinued next summer. It is to be hoped that it will, for it is a step in rounding out the educational program here, giving an additional boost to children who can well use the help. It could be predicted that if the summer school program continues in 1967, there may be more applicants than the staff can accommodate, not that there is a large number of backward pupils here, but because many parents will feel that their children, too, can profit from the added work. A NEIGHBORING EDITOR SAYS . . . Get Convicted and Win Votes (By CONNIE JOHNSON, Editor, Blue Mountain Eagle) How many Americans would support or vote for a Presi dent who was facing a 13-year prison term? Very, very few most likely. Yet it happened recently. The Teamsters union re elected Jimmy Hoffa as their leader for another five years, although he may be spending it in the clink. This is something we can't understand. We don't see how any self-respecting truck driver can keep this on his con science. We'd rather think that this fiasco is not the honest attitude of the truck drivers, but the workings of bureaucrat ic officials high up in the union. Hoffa has the union sewed up with his manipulatioas of the recent national Teamsters convention. That's where he made the statement, "To hell with our enemies." Where Hof fa gets the word, "our", is beyond us. The drivers we meet every day on the road have no "enemies". Hoffa himself Is the one with the enemies, and he has only himself to blame. No respectable organization can gain the public's favor when some of its officials appear in the news every now and then on criminal charges. This is why we'd like to see the "knights of the road" band together to clean the trash from their organization. They might claim that the present Teamster leadership has brought them higher wages and benefits, but a more ethical group of officers could do the same thing without creating so much public opinion against the union. Heppner Class of '59 Plans for Reunion A reunion picnic for the Heppner High school class of 1959 is being planned for noon on Sunday, August 14, on the Morrow County Court house iwn. Mrs. Dick Ruhl reports that ir.formation is being sent out inviting classmates, teachers and their families to attend. TIMES. Thurador. July 28. 1966 NATIONAL NEWSPAPCl r.mnrsii'.inm HELEN E. SHERMAN Assodata Publish Has Operation Cal Sumner, formerly of Hepp ner, underwent an operation for hernia Tuesday in the Pioneer Memorial hospital of Prineville. His daughter, Mrs. Jim Lovgren, and son, Jack Sumner, flew to Prineville in Jack's plane Mon day evening and returned Tues day evening following the op eration. They reported that he Is recovering fine from the sur gery. The Cal Sumners now live in Prineville. Chaff and Wes WE MAY BE worse procrasti nated than Fibber McGee in cleaning his closet (as old ra dio fans will recall . but we hope to move the GT office into the butldtng next door that we acquired from the Oonley Lanhams before the snow flies. In doing so. we expect to eliminate some of the confusion of papers that threaten to slide off the heaped-high shelves and suffocate us one day. When Marion Abrams came to work here and we scooped out a small space for her to call her own. we warned her about this exposure to possible cat astrophe. At her right is the heap of exchange papers that come In at the rate of about 60 per week; towering above her are sales and trade cata logs, price books, telephone dir ectories, and a stack of reports and documents from almost ev- erv conceivable govern m e n t agency- And a display of ra diant signs blocks her view to the window and the outside world. To date we have been lulled into a false sense of indiffer- i ence about our clutter for two reasons: 1. Everyone tells us it was worse when Bob Penland was editor. It has been said that the wallside shelves of the of fice were heaped so high when he was here that nothing else could be made to stick on them. At the same time, it is reported, he had an uncanny sense of thrusting a hand into the pile and coming up with the paper or document he wanted. (If you read this at Tillamook. Bob, we'll give equal space for re buttal). 2. Governor Mark Hatfield dropped in for a short visit year or two ago. When he came, we told him that if we knew he were coming, we'd have cleaned up the place. Where upon, he said in very kind tones that he thought the G-T office looked fairly neat for a weekly newspaper office. So. although there are Democrats who be lieve that the governor is never right about anything, we have rationalized that what Is good enough for the governor should be all right with us. Maybe we will be like the "lifers" we once saw on a tour of the state penitentiary. Some were living in an old brick por tion of the ancient structure with ragged and dirty burlap hanging for privacy on the in side of the bars. When a new modern cellblock was built, the warden had a time getting them to move. The old brick hide away was home to them. WE HAVE one feature in the old office that we'll have to move to the new quarters. This is our gravity-nullifying perpen dicular newspaper file fastener. It holds the file of printed G-Ts on display for reference. 'Fantastic Potential' Sometimes it takes the fresh perspective of a newcomer to an area to see advantages and possibilities that long time residents tend to overlook. The natives may be prone to take their resources for granted. Since they have spent little time elsewhere, they have little concrete way of comparing how much more fortunate they may be than those who live in other places. Tom Harper, city manager of Hermiston, who came to Ore gon 5'i years ago from Kansas, illustrates the point of the fresh perspective. In a talk to the Chamber of Commerce here Monday, he said, "There is so much potential in this entire area It's fan tastic." Now perhaps there are quite a number of Heppnerites who love their town and Morrow county who look around the rolling wheat and cattle lands and see no "fantastic" possi bilities at all. Harper continued: "You have all the water you need. "You have all the power you need. "You have the wide open spaces. "Your weather is a real good factor on your side. "Industry is looking for such areas." Hmmmm. Think a minute. Do New York or Los Angeles have all the water they need? Does any big city in the east have all the power it needs? Who has more wide open space than we? And where Is the weather better? Harper believes that one of the reasons that more Indus try does not come to this part of the northwest Is that It just hasn't "discovered" it. In the early negotiations for the Marlette mobile homes factory, an official of the company was aloof on the Idea because of the "severe winters" he'd heard about. Statistics are available to show this to be in error. In the end, one of the reasons Marlette selected Hermis ton was the climate. The company liked the dryness. They could store their wooden materials outside without damage. And it could be added, there are no hurricanes, have been no earthquakes, and no tornadoes. Harper left a position as assistant city manager of the City of Hutchinson, Kansas, which lists a population of 37,574 by the 1960 census, to accept the city managership in Herm iston, population only 4,402 In the 1960 census. Why? He had quite a future ahead of him in Kansas. Merely because he could see the great possibilities for development here, where the water is, where the power Is, where the climate is good, where the air Is clean, and where there is room. And 5'- years later, he's happy he made the decision. He envisions the entire area from Hermiston to Tri Cities as an industrial complex some day. Everyone who heard Harper got a zestful lift from the perspective he presented. The time is not far off when the Willow Creek dam will be a reality; when the Bureau of Land Management lands and private lands will be irrigated to the north of us; when industry springs up along the Columbia river with the John Day dam reservoir providing new possibilities, and when new unforeseen development comes to southern Morrow county. Ten years from now there will be many who will begin to realize that the Tom Harpers were right. The development will bring added prosperity; It will also bring some prob lems and some sacrifices, particularly for those who would rather keep the area "as it is now." But it's coming. There are too many advantages here to deny it. Chatter Sherman This Is an ingenious device that has attracted the admira tion of salesmen tho come to check the ads) from far and wide. It Is so delicately bal anced and precisely designed that it would try the skill of moon shot electronic technic ians to duplicate. And It Is made of the slm plest materials. An eight penny nail Is stuck In the fiberboard th.it covers the wall. Through constant usage, the nail hole has become several times too large, allowing the nail to hang at about a 45 degree angle. The binder twine connected to file exerts enough pressure, through the wetght of the papers, to hold the file In place. It'll sure take some doing to set It up In the new office, but if we didn't have this, people might never know that this is a li'l ol' country' weekly when we get all gussied up. But don't hold vour breath till we move. Remember Fibber McGee's closet. ITS JUST a little hard to be lieve the contributed com rnont in "Personality Parade" of one of the Sunday supplements that Mia Farrow has measure ments of 20-20-20. If so. though, this mav make her marriage to Frank Sinatra a little more credible. He must have 20-20 vision. INCONGRUITIES of our bone ficient government: 1. When negotiating officials of unions which had caused the : airlines strike said they couldn't get to a meeting on arbitration , because of lack of commercial ' air transportation, the federal government furnis h e d them transportation In military air- craft. 2. Russians In their fleet of trawlers come to gobhle up the salmon and other fish In the ocean Just off the Oregon coast oblivious to the protests ana anxious observations bv those concerned about losing this re source. Some of the Russians get sick, so our humane toast j Guard takes them off their ships, haul them to the hospit- ! al, so they can get wen ana poach some more. That's turn ing the other cheek! THE NEW Undersea Garden at Newport is one of the most intrwtinp thlncs that Nona Sowell has ever seen, she said upon return from her vacation. The marine attraction has a huge underwater viewing room that gives artrtopus eye view of life in Yaqutna Bay. Gover nor Hatfield dedicated the Un dersea Garden last week-end and It is now open to the pub lic from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. through the summer. Bv the way, Nona was on that vacation with six or seven high school girls and they "roughed" it in a nicely furnished loaned home at Wecoma Beach We Miggested that their Influence must have restore! some youth ful energy In her. "Yes," grumbled Nona, "If you like to cinik and keep house all day for a bunch of high school girls." N.lV her husband. Gerald, field as sistant with the V. S. Wildlife sVrvii kiiw a iltte nnti'looe in the Sugar Bowl area between here and I'klah lie was near enough to see mh details as ihe small horn. that a doe an telope carries. She did not have a kid with her as far as he could sec. A herder In the arm had seen her before, but didn't tell anyone because he didn't think they would believe him. Rood has been trapping half time In Umatilla county and halftime In Morrow county for five years and has never before seen an antelope In his terri tory. He is hoping that .some might be drifting to this area. WE'D SAY that dally paper completely flubbed on the storv about Ken Jones winning the world's championship trap shooting championship. He wasn't identified In the Al' slur les as an Oregon boy, anil so sports editors probably missed the fact, and didn't give it the plav It medited. We think It Is a gre'at feat, and we're mlghtv happy to have the world's champion from Mor row county. We oongrautlate him. and ills parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jones. SOMEHOW. In whlllng awav a few moments at the while away parlor of Turner. Van Marter and Bryant, Insurance, Mondav evening, we got to talk ing with Cornell Green about getting up In the morning. He started telling about earlv rls- ,.r Lnnu- mnfionlni Mulnh oeamcr as one. lie mav go 10 bed at 7:30 p.m., but he gets up about -Jam. or thereabouts. Ralph, says c'ornett. mav work a while ami then call someone on business about 5:30 or 6,00. unable to realize why they should sleep all dav. The late Frank Wilkinson was another who used to get up before dawn. He occasionally would telephone his daughter, Shirley Rugg. before the sun yawned over the hills. Shirley, says C'or nett, would answer the phone sleepily, listen to her dad's query, and then reply. "I don't know dad. Call me tomorrow." Apparently Wavel Wilkinson is just like her late husband. The Soroptimist gals who took a trip with her to a convention riH'i-ntR- said thnf slu nn,. 1.... fore the rest of them hail hard ly gone to sliH'p. Then she would sit quietly on the edge of the bed and knit until the Little Things lITfi- j that Count! j I GAZETTE-TIMES School Bells By DAVID R. POTTER Superintendent. Mot row County School In Ihe llciipncr Gaelle Times last week the following article appeared: "G-T Hated Among Nation Top Five Small Papci 111 Agriculture Service." The article goes on to . "Official results of the I'.KUl Na tlonal NewTtplT Association contest place the Heppner Ga lette 'lime among the top five small weekly paper In the na tlon In the Service to Agrl culture category." In behalf of Ihe in hool and the people of Morrow County, congratulations I feel thai we should point out also that We and Mr Sherman do an excellent job In manv other area of reHirting In reporting school events, no one could ask for a more com plete and fair Job of presenting the events to the public The paiH-r constantly strive to pro mote education. The remrtlng I factual. Interesting, and Infor mative The editor are willing sleepy peeper were opened around her Forsooth. If Mime such ranch er as lleamrr should rail the G T when he gets up on a Thursday morning, he might catch us before we get to lied. TO KEEP the recxird straight, we must report that we didn't quote Orvllle Ciitsforth proper lv when we wrote that he would vote against the P limitation measure In Novemlicr. We hail a phone call or two about It. but not from Orvllle But he was In today, and we usked him He said that lie expect to vote for it even though it I a poorly written bill Ix-cause he think something must tc done about the property tax load. Or vllle said he noticed that we didn't have It right In the pa per, but said that he figured he had kind of confused every one In hi talk, and didn't think It would make any difference to anyone how he fell any way. lie's wrong about that. Those who called It to our attention were quite interested Being on the other aide, we hope lie changes his mind be fore November but a of now he doesn't Intend to. Ye, the Gaette ilme can print the form you need for busi ness or ranch use. Phone 676-922S Like, ART POINT wedding invitations! One of the moit im portant little details which are necessary to make your wedding success. Art Point invitations are always socially correct in every detail, you will be proud to send them to your friends as it marks you as a person of extreme good taste. A price and a style for every bride-to-be; from $14.93 for 100 and up! Reception or At Home footnotes on the wedding no extra charge. Let our Society Editor have all the details about your wed ding plans. OUR GIFT TO THE NEWLYWEDS -One Year Subscription to Gazette-Times With Each Order of Wedding Invitations. to promote new ochool pro gram; however, they are alio keenly aware of coM, taxation and other problem that face the Individual, biuilnewiea anil Krotip within nut area. Mr .Sherman fee U atrongly that achool district need lo cal control. He ha pointed out time and again proponed legit Intton that might destroy part of our local control. In summary, I feel that If Ihe G-T wa rated for It con IrlbutUin to education, It would rate In the "top five" alo. communityP a billboard ( Coming Events ELKS DANCE Saturday, July .TO Western Style, live mualc In lounge, 9 30 p.m. 1:30 a.m. PRINCESS DANCE For Prince Barbara Blood- worth of l-exington Saturday. July 30. 9:30 p.m. to 1:00 a m. Music by The Dantea of Heppner Lunch nerved by Lexington Grange. POMONA GRANGE Saturday, July 30, dinner al 7 p m , meeting at 8 p.m. Sxtial film and memorial service. MORROW COUNTY PICNIC Annual Picnic, former Mor row County resident and friend l.nurrlhurst Park. Portland Sunday. July 31, Put luck din ner, noon. SPONSORED AS A rUBUC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency Rtppcat t. O. Bo 247 PH. (76-962S
