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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1966)
HEPFNER GAZETTE -TIMES. Thundery. September 1. 1966 FEflii,s mm mm dbtow Count1 Mil IS J i) skA ' . i 1 ' . 1 S f - 4 .1 J ... L, .i 1. .xlmv,! t'w -...?Vi ka . r 1' . . ll THTS SHOT, looking north on the east side of Main street gives an idea ol the size cl the crowd that witnessed Saturdays rodeo parade here. Picture was taken from the reviewing stand where La Verne Van Marter, Jr- and Harold Erwin were posted to announce the parade over a public aaaress system. (G-T Photo) RIGHT OUT OF the book. "Wizard of Oz." was this float of lone Assembly, Rainbow Girls, which took second placo In the ro deo parade for floats from juvenile organizations. lone's partic ipation contributed a great deal to the success of the parade and received many appreciative comments. "ii I ';'k.w ( i W'-v - ... i n '. .... j mp h i n.i fc-'i,' i' ,t ,11. w i HERMISTON Chamber of Commerce won first or out of county floats in the rodeo parade. Lovely girls rode on the colorful gold and green float. ' " -- -- - r-; -l . i.i in, am i. tea' THE BOOK OF BOOKS The Bible was featured by Ruth chapter. Rainbow Girls, in their float in the rodeo parade Saturday. Inscription described the Bible as the "No. 1 Best Seller." A Rain bow centered the beautiful entry, and girls on the float included Kathy and Sue Melby, Linda tieatn, Martha Feck ana Linda Orwick. (G-T Photo) - ib i jw -w? f7 k t' rrr : rj k i"Tu f ;r f ; I LL-m I , SyA CREW OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK again a:ted as clerks at the 4-H and FFA livestock auc tion at the county fair. This photo shows them busily on the job. Seated (from left) are Mrs. Dean (Mary Ellen) Gilman, Harley Sager, Mrs. Jim (Jeanne) Lovgren, Jim Wishart and Wayne Lamb. Standing behind the group is Mrs. John Venard, wife of Manager John Venard. As sec retary of the rodeo, Venard was busy on the stock drawing for the rodeo when the photo was taken- (G-T Photo by Bill Johnson) "WISHING THE BEST FOR YOU" was the friendly Inscription on the float of the Condon Commercial club In the rodeo parade. This beautiful float, with horn of plenty in front and sunburst in the back, carried two pretty girls from the Gilliam county seat . ' k 1 t ? I - 1 Y'-'i'- i v Vy I. A ' Y St I .f I, ' , ' v ' " THE PIGS were lively but the children proved livelier at the an nual pig scramble at the Morrow county fair last Thursday night In this photo, however, one little girl Is grabbing saw dust after her intended catch eluded her. Boys in the back ground are making a dash for other porkers. ROGER BR ITT must be ono of the youngest winners of a maor event in the hUtory of tho Morrow county rodeo. He won bull riding against the top field of NRA cowboys over the week-end and piled up enough points In the rodeo to capture the Orvllle Cut ifortli trophy and a SSO canh award am Morrow county's All Around. Prince Susan Llndstrom Is shown prenentlng him with the trophy for all-around and trophy buckle from Ron Leonnlq at the Wagon Wheel for tint In bull riding. Roqer Is 16 yoars ol aqe and will be a Junior at Hoppnor High this fall. His paienl!i aro Mr. ana Mrs. i-mn bum wno came nere from Madras two years ago. Roger has been riding since he was a small boy. (G-T Photo) "Y , I , I K-Y;rr f f . YY1- -. IJ : 1 hxr W A YY4 iY,. ?l'.:r.... 10Y1 . - -i , 1 1 asw.l ANOTHER MORROW COUNTY COWBOY who has tried for the calf roping titlo for sevoral years and finally met with success is Bob Stcagall, who won the Morrow county amateur call rop ing championship at the rodeo ovor the week-end. Stegall was second last year. Queen Erna Wlnchostor prosonts him with the custom made saddlo glvon by Klnzua Corporation. Coincident ally, Steagall. who is a cowboy only part time. Is omploycd by Klnzua Corporation here. Stcaqall won both go-rounds of the roping with a time of 19.9 the first day and 23.7 the sec ond dav- (G-T Photo) 1 ; ' '' f i : . ... S ' ! ' "": V k it I DR. S. E. (STAN) McGOUGH, Pendleton, had a busy day as Judge of the open class horse show at the rodeo grounds Fri day. He saw some fine horses during the day. Fred Mankln. superintendent of the show, said that he thought the horses In this show were the finest In the 18 year history of the event. Picture of the champion all-around performance horse, "Frosty," owned by Art Vance, will bo printed next week. It could not be processed in time for this week's paper. (G-T Photo)
