Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current, September 15, 1966, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI I CRARV U OF 0 EUGENE, our 0 7 10 J 83rd Year Number 29 HEPPNER GAZET -TTTM1K II UJLVII- Hcppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, September 15, 1966 10 cents THE 1 IW TE - - ' . 1 7 City Posts Up for Vote November 8 Seven t.f nine ! Ivt city positions will be on tin1 hiillnl ill the 1 1 1 1 1 nl the general election on Tuesday, November 8, u check wild Mr. Flalne George, rliy recorder, shows. Four council position will be mi tho ballot, ttrt well HM thime of mayor, treasurer and recorder. H.eguhir term of Mm. KrncM iMary Jci.nl McCabe, treasurer, und of Mi. George, recorder, ex pire of Jiinuiiy J, l'.hi7, Alw, louneliman l.eltoy Gardner and Carl Spiiuhilnu will complete i heir regular lotir-ycnr term a of thiit date. Therefore, these lour position must he on the i ullot. In addition, the mayor posit Ion must conic lo n vote because W. C. UtlM'Wnll was ii)Milntcd to I lir mhuoii following the dentil "I At Limit), nod, according tu the clrul'T. serves only until the next election when lie may be a candidal! for election It he l hlHKiCS. Two cnuiielliiien, Harlan Me i urdv Jr., And Hill Cox, wero ap- olhled to till Vacancies, mill h,j they, Iih, iiiunt stand lor elec tion If they wish to continue In nfllce, MeCurdy wan nppolntel to the vacuncy left on the coun i II when KowwhII wus elevated tu mayor, i ml Cox wuh Just re cently HpiHilnled to fill tlic Vac .mcy led when Councilman li.isKcll Shurrard resigned. This mediiK Hint only two elec tive off lifts In lhe city govern mem will lie holdover!i They .tie Win- C Colllim, whose four Scar term a counciliniin does not expire until January 1, 1969, anil Unvui MeU'ixl, councilman wIhim' term expire on the name .Lite. Candidates for the elective xslton comlnit up on the No vember ballot may file by petit ion, and copies il the lrm arc obtainable (mm the office o( Mm. (ieori'e. Such petitions must tic completed and filed -0 days prior to tin election. Candidates for the offices must reside within the city limits of lleppner for at lea t one year tmmeillalely precced lrii; election and must be quail fled electors of tile city. Ski Season Plans Getting Underway; Work Days Slated Plans fur the ski season at Arbucklc Mountain course were Kicked off at a meeting of dir ectors and others Interested last Thursday night. It was definitely decided to oocrate the course again this vear with first skiing set for Monday, December 26. Work days will start Sunday and will continue for the next six week-ends. Any interested in helping are asked to contact Hob Hcnrv at the J. C. l'enney Company fllor'- Projects to be undertaken will le Hie removal of trees on the run li ml removing humps on the course to make n smoother run It Is also expected to move the tow motor from the bottom of the hill to tho top of the pres ent tow. Some real Rood news came for the Arbuckle Mountain Cor miration when it was announced that the State Highway Depart ment will assume responsibil ity for keeping the road to the it.urse open this winter. This Is In line with the new policy of using state crews to keep roads to all public ski areas open. Lorcn Lueore of the U. b. for est Service and Henry went to the course Wednesday to check the course In preparation for the forthcoming work parties. Personnel for the ski patrol has been pretty wel affirmed ami among those planning to work in this capacity In t season are Alan Martin, Ken Peck, Don Wise, Gerald Bunch, liirtis Culp, Lucore, and Henry, A first aid course will start soon, i Negotiations are also under way to arrange for a bus to haul skiers to the hill on Saturdays during the season, but no defl nite announcement has been made as yet. Present plans are that the course will operate each day of. the holiday vacation week start ing December 26 and after that week It will operate on week ends until April 1. Family season tickets will be sold in advance for those wish ing to buy them to provide sea son's skiine at reduced rates. ED HIEMSTRA (right), nw had football coach at Heppntr high, and Adrian Cook, aulntant coach, will male thtr horn dobut Friday night whan th Mustangs go agalnit th Condon Blu DvlU on tht rodoo ground Hold. (Heppner High Photo). Mustangs to Open Here with Condon lleppner Hind's football team, .new coaches In action Head alter losliij: Its opener on the Conch Kd lllemstra. Assistant road Krli.ay to Pilot Itock, li to I Adrian Cook and Assistant 0, hiip.-s l );et on the wIiiiiIiik tall In the home opener here Friday ni ht The Mustangs will perform before a heme crowd on the ro lled grimmis "Kains me t on- ...ii IU...IUK, "'"lineup n- that which went out v. In..- maximum Wedesday n the same league, the schools. UgM,ls, Pilot Koek with Jim Uo- " 5 degiees was 20 degrees beliic clow nelghborH always .rly , in,. ,,arlerback spot cooler th.ir the 5 of last Thins ilcvel.ip a strong rivalry and a ,..,, HMmT(i Th,,w , Con. 1 .lay and Friday, gmid conlest Is expin-ted. ,;,, Alll, ilt Hssji,, (,v Couch The rain was giKid news to the It will lu the first chancp that j Jerry Tucker, has a roster of 40 I hunters as well as the raneheis. home lulm will have to see the r MRS. MARJORIE WILCOXEN Morrow County Extension Agent New Extension Agent Begins Duties in County Mrs. Charles lMar(oriel Wll coxen, new Morrow county ex tension agent, arrived In llepp ner last week from Sacramento, Calif, to take over full time duties of the county office. Along with the other county agents, Kugene Winters and Gall McCarty, Mrs. Wilcoxen Is spending this week in Corval Ms, attending annual staff con ferences and become acquainted with procedures In Oregon ex tension work. Mrs. Wilcoxen will be a wel comed addition to the county staff and will soon be working personally with adult extension units and with young people In their 411 programs. Her friend ly and congenial personality is expected to help make friends quickly over the county. The new county agent has been a former teacher in Jun ior and senior high schools In the Sacramento area. She holds a B.A. degree from San Jose State college in l!Xi2, majoring in home economics. She has done custom dressmaking for the past 12 years, with sewing and knitting her "most favorite" Interests. She is making her home In lleppner with her husband and 19-year-old duufihter, Nancy, who plans to enroll winter term at Blue Mountain college In Pendleton. Their 22-year-old son, Don, continues to live In Sacramento where he is employ ed. The county has been without a full time home extension agent since Miss Donna George left in Juno for further study. Miss Taml Young, aRent-at-large for the summer has been serving Gilliam and Morrow counties temporarily, and will return to colleRe this fall. ! y t'harles Carr. Came time is H p.m., and bar nnj; stroncly adverse weather, a li.ri;e crowd l.s expected. Coach lllemstra will field ir,.ny mu, M t)u snrnp S;,rtiM(, .boys, almost the same number i.s llepimei carries on its roster F.ach squail has eleven seniors. lleppner merchants again this year are furnishing free pro crams for football fans, Hiid thew w. he distributed at each home game in the stands. I They i!s-i .-pnnsur a page In ' this paper telling about the coming home game 'Set page :i. State Gives Okeh On Parks Grant Approval at the state level has been given to a $t200 matching fund contribution to Morrow county parks under the Land and Water Conservation act. County Judge Paul Jones said Wednesday. Federal approval s vet to be Cv,- i ne grant, when finally ap proved, will be matched by county funds to make improve ments to Cutsforth and Anson Wright Memorial parks, the ludge said. Work was started on Improve ments at the Cutsforth park on the assumption that this could be done In advance of the ap nioval of the contribution. It was stopped when it was learn ed that approval must be forth coming first, the ludge said. Work had begun on providing trailer spaces with utility con ned ions at the park. Approval on the matching funds for the county must first he given by the area office In Tacoma, Wn and then by the office in Washington, D. C, the ludge said. Martin Buchanan Gives Oregon's tax study committee has recommended a 3 tier cent sales tax It the l'a property tax limitation Is placed on the ballot and is passed, and has recommended a 2 per cent sales tax if the limitation Is not pass ed, Martin Buchanan, a mem ber of the committee, told the lleppner-Morrow County Cham ber of Commerce Monday in an address. Buchanan, candidate for state representative from the 28th dis trict on the Democratic ticket, said that he supported the 3 per cent tax If the limitation i.s passed but was opposed to the 2 per cent tax if the meas ure fails, "I opposed this, as I feel we should stay with our concept of the income tax with a net receipts tax if necessary," he said. "Only under the reality of the Vt property tax limita tion and Its revolutionary im pact on Oregon's local tax structure do I believe that a sales tax is needed at this time." The Mllton-Freewater rancher said that although he does not favor the proposed 1V4 limita tion, he felt it unfortunate that It may be kept off the ballot Heavy Rainfall Brings oyer Inch Here Wednesday Knouk'h rainfall came to the lleppner area Wednesday to make up for lost time after a long dry hik-II. The steady drenching rain ad ded up to 1.19 Inches during lhe day and Rave the area a good MiakliiR. 'lhln was by far the heaviest rain for a single day during the year to date. July 1 recorded .(!.'! of an Inch followed by .42 on July 2. Added to lhe .09 on Tuesday and the .15 on Sunday, tiii brought rainfall for the week t1) 1.33, according to Don Gillhrn, weather observer. The 1.19 Wednesday did not Inesday did not ; & -St.' " , . A Ind of a record .1 ' rainfall, but i!1 " : been enough 'o.. '.' '' i-l, to the recordl, -. y-1. "' ir sure. Gilliam I - . ' approach any kl for a slncle day' it might have be senit a rn rvm it books to sec for sure. Gilliam i said that one dav several vearsti ago nere reeuruett M inches, but he had not checked out the date. Most ; metiers rejoiced at ee- ing the rain come, but some res- rvnliim UK llflit fnr lh P.... (Iletun Round-Up. It was reiiort-I cd. IhoUL'h. that rainfall there Wednesday was not as heavy as ; ii was nere. Temiieratun's dropped with the coming of the rain, and fur e.aces and heating systems , around ti-wn were pressed into i With the dry conditions in th woods, they had bivn fearing a postimnenient of the deer sea son sch -duled to Mart October 1, but it looks much better lor litem now. Mix W 85 HI 70 70 61 65 Mhi. 51 HI 47 l! 3S 40 50 Tree. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday .15 .011 1.1!) Wife of Spaceman Gordon Related Here Con.vrn for the safe space flight of aMionauts Charles Con rad and l.ichard Gordon in their Gemini K spacecraft has been of special importance to Mrs. C. K. Lynch, lleppner, and her lamily. this week. A nice of Mrs. Lynch, the former Barbara Jane "Field, is the wife of spaceman Richard Cordon. She is the daughter of Mrs. Ly itch's brother and sister in law, M. and Mrs. C. W. Fields of Freeland, Wn., and married Gordon two years after he joined the Navy. Both Cohiad and Gordon serv ed in Fighter Squadron tH'i at Miramar i Calif. t Naval Air Sta lion when they applied for job-; as astronauts, and have been close friends through all their training in the space corps. Gor don was a graduate of the Uni wsity of Washington In 1951, and in I'.til set an air speed record of 8,;;) mi'es an hour and a transeoi.linental speed record of 2 hours and -17 minutes in a Navy jet from Los Angeles o New York. His wife and six children re side In Houston. Texas. Hi; mother, n widow, lives in Seattle. by a "narrow and technical de cision of the courts." Problems 'Real' "Just because the li prop, erty tax limitation may have lost its turn on the ballot doesn't mean that this problem is not real or has been swept under the rug and neatly forgotten," he said. In reviewing Oregon's taxing system, the speaker said that the state has two major budg etary systems local and gen eral fund budgets. The local budgetary system is supported by local property tax with school budgets taking nearly 70 of all local monies raised. Total property tax lev ies in Oregon in 1966 totaled $294,000,000. In 1967 it is esti mated that this will increase to $346,000,000. The last general fund budget was $485,000,000, including min imum property tax relief. "Present estimates piace the general fund sources of Income at $530,000,000 with a probable .ncrease to $590,000,000 In the 1967-69 biennium," Buchanan stated, This is one area of budgeting in Oregon that has been doing "real well," he added. The econ- ' .if' t i it 4"". - ' li -rrf ' !b . v. J . ' ..TI iB. C u., ,, . - ' V E'- N 4 ' - WORK WAS UNDERWAY at full tilt pace this week by E. H. Itschner and Company of MolaUa on the ob of improving a stretch of Highway 74 from Heppner to a point 2.84 miles north under contract to the State Highway Commission. Top photo shows rock crusher set up near the proj ect and bottom shows heary equipment engaged in straighteninq a cunre. Other equipment at other points is visible in the background. The company submitted a bid of $233,255 on the pro), ect at the July 28 commission meeting. Two 12 foot lanes of highway will be provided and the stretch will be straightened and grade improved. The highway department called for complet ion of the job in 80 calendar days. Columbia Basin Electric power line are being moved away from the highway to allow room for the improvement project-. - (G-T Photos). lone, Arlington To Play Saturday lone end Arlington High M-hool football teams will meet on the Cardinals' field Saturday aftern-Kin, second game of the season fo the lone 8-man unit The Cardinals lost to Dufur last week in their opener, 31-25, but displayed a good offensive attack and hope to come back with a win against Arlington. , Coach Gordon Meyers expects to be without the services of Keith Nelson, halfback, who was injured In the Dufur game, but Monte Crum will probably slep into that spot. After the Arlington game, the Cards take to the road against Mt. Vein ui September 23 and Riverside September 30 before returning October 7 against F.eho at lone. Fish Talk Slated At Chamber Meeting Russell Bristow, executive sec retary of the Columbia River Fishermen's Union, Astoria, has been invited to speak Monday, Septembei 19, at the regular meeting of the Heppner-Morrow county Chamber of Commerce, Gene Winters, program chair ;i'aii, announces. A talk at the Chamber cf Commerce recently presented the sports fishermen's side of the fish controversy, and the fisher icn's union asked for an op l'rt unity to speak to present the 0 h.-r side. Ideas on Tax Problems 1 t "-.wo k MARVIN BUCHANAN omy has been on the Incline during the past four years. Local Pressure Great It is in the local budgetary system that pressure of the tax burden is felt the heaviest, he asserted. This burden varies widely in the state and from 1 ,?!'' . -SMS"! n .AMU" 1 si ftp " -11 ir New Time Schedule Set For Riverside School New time table for the con struction of Riverside High school, Boardman, was reviewed by the board of directors of School District R-l at the regu lar meeting Monday night at the Lexington school office. The revised schedule calls for opening of bids on the building December 6, Superinten dent David R. Potter said. Awarding of the contract is due on De cember li, and construction is scheduled to begin December 26. Completion date is scheduled for December 15, 1967, and move into the new building is expect ed to be undertaken on the day after Christmas next year, De cember 26, 1967. No one appeared to speak for or against the supplemental budget that was published on the project, funds for which are reimbursed by the Army Corps of Engineers. The budget hear ing was held just prior to the regular board meeting Monday night. The board adopted the budget unanimously. Architect Howard Glazer is to complete preliminary plans and specifications on the new school by October 10 and forward them to the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps will review the plans and return them to the county school board by October 19. Advertisement for bids will start November 3. county to county and city to city. "The area of greatest tax burden has fallen on the small home owner, people with farm lands where that is the major tax base, and people with fixed incomes who own homes." Buchanan declared in this connection that one of his main disagreements with the propos ed tax limitation is that in aim ing at helping the average home owner to save $120 per year in taxes, it would give the state's top ten utilities $1,300,000 per year each. He pointed out that "it is ob vious that the cost of local gov ernment has grown faster than the ability to pay in many counties in this state." Buchanan told of Oregon's ef forts on property tax relief: 1. Tax exempt property, amount ing to $10 billion, of which half is owned by federal, state and local governments. Other ex emptions Include property of fraternal and veterans groups, churches, lodges, bank deposits, motor vehicles, household goods, farm produce, senior citizens, merchandise in transit and oth- (Continued on page 8) i ' i i -A - -.'t uMl MUtt. A-Ji J ' '. A request to consider adding an assistant football coach at lone High school brought out some knotty angles for the dir ectors. The request, which was explained by Principal Harold Beggs, apparently came from Gordon Meyers and parents of some of the football bovs. Without any assistant, the football players are left on their own devices when it is neces sary for the coach to be away. This was the case recently when one of the players was injured. . Principal Beggs said that the squad is composed of 17 boys. The request brought a review of the situations at Riverside and Heppner High. Principal Ron Daniels, in answer to a question from the board, said that Riverside has 31 boys out for football, which is handled by Coach Dan Daltoso without assistance. Daltoso has never asked for help with the sport, he said. Principal Dick Carpenter said that between 50 and 60 boys are out at Heppner High, which has three coaches working on the sport, meaning that there are some 17 to 20 boys to each coach. One suggestion was made that a faculty member be des ignated as a trainer at lone with moderate pay, thereby al lowing some supervision with out the added expense of an as sistant coach. However, it was pointed out that such a person would become an assistant coach in actuality, whether he was so designated or not. The board telt the need of an advisory committee recom mendation on the matter, but it was noted that the committee would not meet again for a month, when football season would be past the peak. It was decided tnat Supt. Pot ter work with the administrat ors on the matter for a tempor ary solution, after which it will be taken to the advisory com mittee for consideration and recommendation. Pool Work Eyed Louis Carlson of Ione's advis ory committee spoke to the board on the condition of the lone swimming pool, pointing out the need for repairs. It was brought out that $1500 is al lowed in the budget for repairs to the pool, but one sandblast ing firm contacted submitted a price of 50c per square foot for sandblasting the pool, making the cost some $1900 for that phase of the repairs alone. Supt. Potter said that he would contact other firms on es timates for sandblasting but said that the only way to be sure of getting the repairs done within the budget is for employ ees of the district to do much of the work. (Continued on page 8)