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1 1 BRARr v or o tVQZUZ, QKZ. 07403 THERE'LL BE SANTA, TREATS, PRIZES Number 39 B3rd Year IT IT CCirisffiios Opening Due on Saturday There will be a double holiday occasion in Heppner this week. Just after families enjoy the first holiday on Thursday, they are invited to participate in Christmas Opening, which is scheduled for downtown Heppner on Saturday, November 26. Santa Claus is scheduled to arrive at the main downtown corner at 2 p.m. Saturday, riding on a fire truck. He will have treats for all the children who come to see him. Throughout the day, the Christmas win dow guessing contest, which has been so pop ular here for the past five years, will be con ducted again with 13 firms offering fine mer chandise prizes. In mot cases, those taking part tn the content will guess retail value of each store's dis play of gift merchandise on deftlgnutcd by a window post r, but other wll Ifraturc var iation of this theme. The one milking the closest guess will receive that store's rrl.e. The content Is open from 9 a.m. un til 4 p.m. at the atore. An nouncement of winner will be posted in the Individual stores at 4:30 p m. flrma participating and the prlwa they will give away are ai follow: CMt Furniture Co.. coffee ta ble; Central Market. 12 lb. tur key: Elma's Apparel. $10 gift certificate; Gardner' Men' Wear, Puritan Ion sleeve sweater: G?M Time, $10 cash; MiLadte. sweater; Mur ray Itexnll Drug. Instamatle 104 camera: J. C. Penney Co., $10 Early American bespread; Peterson's Jeweler, silver plat ed Ice bucket; Sear Merchant Store, teflon electric fry pan; Tum-A-I.um Lumber Co. elec tric drill: Van's Variety, large Mighty t Tonka toy Otuck; JWei cm Auto. $10 oft on any Item in the store. , Additional detail n the con test may be found In the Cham ber of com mere advertisement on pag 1, section 2. Street lighting and decora tion are to be In place by time of the opening with Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative again doing the work a a communi ty service and with the Cham ber of Commerce furnishing the light. A big Christmas tree la also expected to beset up In a prom inent tilaee In or near the downtown ntersectlon with Oris Crisp togging volunteering to obtain the tree tor me commu nltv to enlov. Tielng In with the Christmas ijenlnK will be the Soroptlmlst Club's annual Turkey Hop, a teen-age dance. Saturday night .it the Fair Pavilion with music to be furnished by the musical combo, The Henchmen, who are heng called upon to fll engage ments throughout eastern Ore gon and Idaho. The Thanksgiving-Christmas Opening week end was set for the Turkey Hop by the Soroptlmlsts In order to furnish entertainment for col lege students home for the hol iday. Also scheduled for the even ng to furnish entertainment for adults is the Elks' post -Thanksgiving dance In the Elks' tem ple as a club room activity. Merchants throughout Hepp ner arc offering hundreds of fine bargains in gift merchan P'-S'fil -V - tsr IP mil V' " cti Lit Q LA'iiUUyl , 1 HEPPNER'S HENCHMEN will play for the Soroptimlst-sponsored Turkey Hop at the fair pavilion Saturday night From left are Roger Leonnlg, drums; Jim Sherman, lead guitar; Kathy Melby, oraan; and Tim Smith, bass guitar. In the two years they have been organized, the Hench men have been in demand filling engagements throughout Eastern Oregon, playing at Pendle ton, The Dalles, Condon, Hormlston, Fossil, lone, John Day, La Grande, and Heppner. (G-T Photo) dise and are displaying won Item ' for the earfv shopper. derful. selection of gift Items Advertisements throughout this paper tell of the bargains and offerings for the Christmas Opening event. Sample copie of the Gazette Times will go to Spray. Kin- xua and Monument communi ties as an Invltaton for them to join the tun here at Christ mas Opening. Everyone from far and near la welcome to come and participate. Judges Select '67 Parade Theme "Fashions and Flowers" will ba the theme of the 1967 Mor row county rodeo parade, it 1 announced by Randall Peterson, chairman of the committee of the Heppner Morrow county Chamber ol Commerce, after Judge had made the selection trom entries submitted in a re cent contest. , The winning entry was sub mitted by Mabel B. Cotter of lone. Contest was held early for the forthcoming event In order that organizations and others might have a longer time to plan their entries In the parade. Previous parades had the fol lowing themes: 'The Soaring tiOV "Songs Old and New," 1963; "Famous Quota lions." 19ti4: "The Good Old Davs" 1965; and "Between the Book Ends," 1966. Holiday Dance Set for Youth For the enjoyment of youth and young adults In the sur rounding areas during the Thanksgiving holidays, a pub lic dance will be held at the County Fair Pavilion on Satur day evening, November 26, un der the sponsorship of the Sor optimist Club. Music for the evening will be furnished by The Henchmen, a popular teenage combo. Danc ing will be from 9:30 to 12:30 and admission will be $1.50 per person, with concessions to be served by the club members. Skating hours at the pavilion that evening will be from 6:30 to 9:30, according to Wayne Harsln, manager. Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, November Morrow 1966 Farm Electric Co-op Margin Reported at $123,000 Columbia Basin Electric Co operative's rift margin lor the year July 1, 1965, to June 30. l'.MKi. was $1ZW, It was re ported to registered members present at the annual meeting DR. GERALD A. JOKES Dr. Gerald Jones To Open Practice One again there is activity at the. Heppner Clinic Dr. Gerald A. Jones, M.D., and hla wife. Elsie, are here from Portland getting the building ready to open hi general prac tice in Heppner the first of next week. Dr. Jones had a well es tablished medical practice in Portland for 11 years. A graduate In 1954 of Loma Lindu School of Medicine in California, Dr. Jones took his Internship at Portland Sanitar ium and Hospital. K ethen started practice In July, 1955. After nearly 11 years to the day, he move to Palmer. Alas ka, with the expectation of es tablishing a practice in the heart of the great outdoor coun try, but he found that there was no need for another doc tor In that area, so he moved to Heppner. His wife will assist him in the clinic, servng as reception ist and assistant. Dr. and Mrs. Jones have four children only one of whom is living at home. Two sons are married nnd one son is away at school. Daughter Terry Lynne Is living at home. A veteran of World War H, Dr. Jones Is a member of the Seventh-day Adventlst church, of the Oregon State Medical So ciety, of the American Medical Society, and of the Academy of General Practice. The entire family Is fond of the outdoors and hope to find time soon to enjoy the recrea tional facilities of the area in to which they have moved. Office hours of the new doc tor nnd other Information are listed in an announceme n t elsewhere in this paper; f f GAZETTE in Fossil on Thursday, Novem ber 17. s Operating Income v.as plated at $6X4.13'.), and expenses were $573,121. leaving the margin as retmrted. Walter Jaeger of Con don gave the president' report ; ......1 T 1 s ana jbck uynu, r., oi imi gave the secretary-treasurer's report. 4 Manager Harley Young. In' his report, listed among highlights of the year the relocation of three miles of power line in and near the City of Heppner for re building the state highway en tering the city: the trimming of approximately 65 huge poplar trees In the City of Fossil; the Increase in cost of power since the Bonneville; Power Adminis tration's rate increase tx-came. effective' January 1; and the purchase of new equipment dur ing the year, t He described the growth- of Irrigation In Morrow county and in the north end of Gil liam county with consequent Increase In power' consumption, and he told of the loss of the large commercial load with the closure of the Kaiser Aluminum pozznlan plant located In Shut tier Can von In Gilliam county. While the power company lost this large commercial account, Gilliam county lost approxi mately -12 full time jobs for its residents with the closure, Young said. Financial ftiU DlscuiMd Manaecr Young discussed the supphtmttntal financing bill which the rural electric cooper ! atives of the nation are trying to get passed in Congress. Bas ic aim of the supplemental fi nancinjr. pxopwn is to make capital lnvesv.n 4 funds 'avail able to the nral electric coop eratives without the assistance of the government loan funds under the present program, he said. Attorney Herman Winter out lined proposed amendments to the Columbia Basin Co-op's by laws. These pertain principally to joint membership of husband and wite and clarity tne zones from which the directors are elected. The amendments were approved by voice vote of those attending. Owen W. Hurd, managing dir ector of the Washington Public Power Supply System of Kenne wick, Wash., explained opera tion of the Hanford steam gen erator and the way it was built and financed. In his address principal talk of the annual meeting, Hurd al so discussed benefits of the generator to the Northwest dur ing the low water season just experienced. The speaker also talked of the High Mountain Sheep dam on the Snake Riv er. Directors Elected Directors elected for three year terms include the following: Randall Peterson, for City of Heppner; Kenneth Smouse for rural director, zone 3; Raymond Lundell, rural director, zone 4; and Dick Wilkinson, rural dlr- ector, zone 5. go about household tasks. Mr. Other candidates for these Jones, 84, who sustained rela positions were: W. C. Rosewall, tively minor injuries in the Heppner; Earl MeCabe. zone 3; Pendleton accident, is able to Paul Tews, zone 4; and How- be about and is doing fine fol ard Cleveland, zone 5. lowing the operation. It is Lundell takes the directorship thought that the accident, which left by Henry Baker who had was a collision with a pickup served on the Columbia Basin truck at the junction of the for the past 26 years. He was airport road, might have aggra (Continued on page 8) vated a former condition. THE COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING EVE SERVICE All Saints' Episcopal Church Heppner, Oregon November 23, 1966 (ORDER OF THE ORGAN PRELUDE , . CALL TO WORSHIP Rev. Dirk Rinehart (Psalm 100) HYMN "We Gather Together" No. 315 PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING - - - Rev. Walter Crowell RESPONSIVE READING ... - Rev. Dirk Rinehart (Psalm 103, Book of Common Prayer, p. 466) CHORAL HYMN The Junior Choir "O That I Had a Thousand Voices" Mentzer THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION - - Rev. Walter Crowell WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS ' , OFFERTORY PRAYER .... Rev. Melvin Dixon OUR WORSHIP THROUGH GIVING .... Offertory THE DOXOLOGY pfAnrar. nv the scrtptiirits - - - Rev. Melvin Dixon VOCAL SOLO' ("Praise the Lord, O My Soul ) Samuel Wesley SERMON Rev. Al Boschee ("We Give Thanks!") HYMN "Now Thank We All Our God" No. 276 THE BENEDICTION - - Rev. Al Boschee THE ORGAN POSTLUDE 24, 1966 Income Placed at IO,586,000 at r f k v - sb m KENNETH KINDLE of Heppner. a medical specialist with the XJ. S. Army Cavalry in Vietnam, give a strep shot to a baby ' the . village out of An Khe. A doctor and medic go once each ' week to give medical teratment Kindle Promoted At Vietnam Post Kenneth R. Kindle, serving In the U. S. Army Cavalry, 1st Division, Helico p t e r Assault Support, Aviation Battalion (Air mobile), was recently promoted to medical specialist 5 "buck sergeant," according to word re ceived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Heath, of Heppner. On a recent two weeks fur lough in Hong Kong, he surprised- his -mother wth a phone call from there. Kindle' year tour of duty In Vietnam will be over -sin the middle of December. After tak ing a furlough upon, his-return .ia the Cnited.. States, he will go to school tor 10 months at Madigan Army Hospital at Fort Lewis, wash. 'Prior to' going to Vietnam he served in Korea for seven months. Kindle graduated from Heppner High school with the class ol 19b4. Mr. and Mrs. Jones Back Home Again Mr. and Mrs. - C N.- Jones ar rived home again Saturday af ter a long ordeal that followed an auto accident in Pendleton a number of weeks ago. Their son and daughter-in-law, Coun ty Judge and Mrs. Paul Jones, brought them home from Port land. Following the accident, in which Mrs. Jones sustained a broken leg, it was necessary for Mr. Jones to go to the Eman uel hospital. Portland, for cor rective surgery. He underwent the operation on . .November 7 and after a week's stay in the hospital, spent another week at the Imperial Hotel convalescing. When Mrs. Jones was able to make the trip, she went to Port land to join her husband. Now they are home again, and al though Mrs. Jones, who is 78, is confined to a wheelchair, she is able to maneuver about and 7:30 p.m. SERVICE) Pauline Miller -TIMES ill 1 Rep. Mann Plans Tour of Counties To Discuss Ideas State Representat I v e Irvin Mann. Jr., of Sianfield announc ed plans to tour the four coun ties in eastern Oreeon he rep resents, outside of Umatilla county, on Thursday and Fri dav. December 1 and 2. to de vefop attitudes on problems that will be facing the 1967 legis lative session in January. On the tour he will discuss with local citizens- problems peculiar to the varous communities, The tour will open at the Sherman County courthouse in -fMoro on Thursday, December 1, at 10 a.m. County Judge ver non Miller is making arrange ments for the visit. The legis lator will then move to Con don where he will appear at the Gilliam County courthouse at 1:30 p.m. County Judge James O. Burns is In charge of the arrangements. The day will be concluded with a tour of the Arlington development with Judge Burns, Mavor Les Grant and the Ar lington city council. The legLslative tour will con tinue on Friday, December 2, with a meeting at the Wheeler County courthouse in Fossil at 10 a.m. County Judge Clarence Asher and W. H. Steiwer. Sr., are making arrangements. At 1:30 p.m. Mann will be in the Morrow County courthouse in Hennner with Judge Paul Jones in charge. The tour will conclude in Boardman at 4' p.m. where Judge Jones, Mayor Dew ey West and other community leaders will conduct a tour of the proposed Morrow County port facilities and the new town of Boardman. Representative Mann empha sized in announcing plans for the tour that he is anxious to meet and discuss legislative problems and all other types of problems with as many people a possible and that he is hope ful of good public participation in the meetings. Riverside, Fossil to Play For State Football Crown Riverside High of Boardman and Wheeler County High of Fossil will provide an aU-East-ern Oregon finish to the 8-man class B football race when they clash for the state champion ship at Boardman Saturday af ternoon at 1:30. Coach Dan Daltoso's Riverside Pirates tied with Burnt River at Riverside Saturday but gained the final game on a statistical edge. Score was 20-20. Wheeler County tripped St. Paul Satur day at St. Paul, 26-21, to make the championship an eastern Oregon "neighborhood" affair. Burnt River and Riverside each scored in the first, second and fourth quarters. The first half touchdowns all brought the extra conversion points, but neither team could score extra points in the second half. The Pirates could have wrapped up a clearcut victory had it been able to tally on the extra point following the final touchdown. However, with 14' first downs against nine for Burnt River, the Riverside team, which for the first time this year won a league title, marched into the finals. Benson Leads Falcons Wheeler County, led by the running and passing of Steve 10 Cents Wheat Brings $6 Million To Head List Income to the 338 farms and ranches of Morrow county from cash farm marke'ings ior-rj is estimated to be $U),d,04. accoding to Gene Winters, Mor- ...... aK.nLi..n acront This preliminary estimate in cludes products sold or held for sale and also includes cer tain government payments. The estimate for the year was prepared by Winters; Gail Mc carty, county extension utm in livestock; and Robert Gang er, United States Department of Agriculture county statistician specialist. Crops account for three-quart ers of the total whh the remain der pimarily from livestock.. The total amount is close 10 xne farm income figure for 1963. Wheat including wheat cer tificate payments, leads with cash receipts totaling $5,929,- 639. County average ol wneai this year dropped to slightly below 24 bushels per acre. Yields varied from slightly above average on deeper sous to about one-hall average on the shallower soil types of the 110.100 acres harvested. Yieias and acreage were down from a year ago, out the price nas been up above that of 1965. Receipts from selling cattle and calves was second high in the cash Income at $2,152,000. This is slightly below that in - 1965 but is above other recent years. . Barley sales, including the feed grain diversion payments, totaled $1,472,166 from the 41, OOO. acres of barley harvested. r Sale of hay. vegetables, mel ons and tree iruits totaled $445,000. of which $369,000 was for the,, hay oops. Total value of hay prdouced was nearly SI million, but about 60. percent of the hay produced is fed on farms and ranches of the coun ty. Income from farm forest prod ucts was placed at $50,000. To tal income from all farm crops was gifured at $7502,805. Livestock and poultry,- form ing . the balance of agricultur al income here, brought total income of $2,683,242, broken down as follows: Beef cattle, $2,152,000; sheep and lambs, $244,000; wool (including gov ernment payments), $120,242; hogs, $16,000; dairy (milk and tee cream), $100,000; poultry. $40,000; miscellaneous animal products, $11,000. Morrow county usually ranks about 16th or 17th among the 36 counties of Oregon in cash farm marketing, Winters said. Because other statistics are not yet available, the ranking this year is not known as yet Mimeographed Income esti mates and statewide commod ity data sheets are available at the county extension office. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM (Week of November 17-22) Hi Low Prec Thursday 49 33 Friday 44 28 Saturday 67 35 .15 Sunday 58 38 M. Monday 53 36 .02 Tuesday 48 31 Benson, took a 13-8 halftime lead against St. Paul and add ed 13 more points in the third quarter for a 26-8 bulge. St. Paul came back with 13 in the final stanza but fell five points short of victory. Carroll Lathrop, senior end, started things off for Riverside against Burnt River when he recovered a fumble in the end zone for a touchdown. Gary Baird, left half, ran over the extra point to give the Pirates a 7-0 lead. Arriola of Burnt River took a pass from Vanecar, good for 28 yards, as the visitors came back to score in the first per iod. Coombs ran the point and the score was deadlocked, 7-7. In the second quarter Mike Partlow, right half for the Pir ates, grabbed an aerial strike from Chester Phillips, good for 20 yards and a touchdown. Baird made the extra point on a run, and the count stood 14 7. Striking again through the air, Burnt River evened the tal ly again when Coombs hit Van ecar on a pass that was good for 50 yards and six points. Coombs ran over for the extra (Continued on page 8)
