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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
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Vi-ASSOCIATION
WESLET A. SHERMAN
Editor and Publisher
Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 pjn, Monday through Friday; 9 ajn.
until noon Saturday.
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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
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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
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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.
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SERVICE BY
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