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Hcppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, September 15, 1966
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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