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I! HURT vir t COqCNE. ORE 07403 Post Office Adds Hours For Holidays Additional hour of window service for the Heppner post of fice uml (hi Lexington and llnrdrnan rural stations on two Saturdays, December 10 and 17, lire announced by Jumin II. Drlwoll, postmaster. Window will be open from H:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday, December 10. On Saturday, De cember 17, service will tx ex tended from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Mall will Im received for dis tribution to lock boxes on two Sunday. December 11 and 1H, nt licppner, and patrons with box service are urged to pick up. mall on those date. There will bo no atar route box delivery or general dellv. rv of mall on Sundays, Drls coll said. At Heppner, on Mondays (h mil Kb Fridays beginning Dei-ember 12 and ending Decem ber 23, the parcel post and stamp sale window will remain open until 6 p.m. The money order service window will not have extended hour of service on these week days. Patrons are urged to pack all parcels carefully In strung con tainers, to address carefully, us I nil "Zip Code." of destination, and to mall as early as posl ble In December. It .i suggested that a slip of paper with address of the ad- dresser and list of contents be placed Inside each parcel, Just in case the outside label should become damaged In transit, and tt Is necessary to examine or re-pack contents. lour cents will tarry an tin sealed Christmas card to its M)lnt of delivery anywhere In the United States, but five cent will carry It first class. Princ-oll IMiints out. The first class rate exedltes delivery. 1'rlorlty Is (liven I" all distribution prix-cssc to Items Ix'iulng this rate of iMistage. "We recommend that valua ble articles le Insured and per ishable articles be sent 'secla! delivery'," Drlseoll said. Prizes Offered For Decorations Prizes totaling $T0 are offer ed in the annual Christmas decoration contest sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce with the prize money coming from a donor who prefers to remain snony mous. The prizes will be distributed among winners in two categor ies, yard lighting and decora tions, and window lighting and decorations. The breakdown Is as follows: Yard First. $15; second. $12.50; third. $10. Window First, $10; second. $7.50; third, $5. Mrs. Avon Melby is chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee and Orvllle Cutsforth and Hurley Young are members of the committee. Those wishing to enter the contest ate Invited to leave their names and addresses at the Gazette-Times, together with the category In which they are entering. Judging will be done on Wed nesday, December 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. It Is fXx'cted that win ners will keep their displays lighted each night between Christmas and New Years. Certificates of award will be presented to commercial estab lishments Judged to have the best Christmas windows, but no prize money will be awarded In this category. Vale Woman Hurt In Auto Accident Mr. and Mrs. Mick Fulleton and their two daughters, all of Vale, and Becky Fulleton, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Koice Ful leton of Heppner, wore Involved In an accident Saturday morn ing about 2'4 miles north of lone on the Willow Creek high way. Mick and Rolee Fulleton are brothers. Mrs. Mick Fulleton suffered a broken collarbone, and all others escaped with minor in juries. Mrs. Fulleton was taken to the Pioneer Memorial hospit al In the ambulance and was dismissed Saturday night. The family group was en route to Portland to attend the Vale-North Catholic state A-2 championship football game af ter being together here since Thanksgiving day. Upon round ing a curve, they came upon a herd of cattle on the highway. A car had stopped in the lane ahead of them, and Fulleton at tempted to swerve to the out side to avoid a collision, accord ing to a report given by Mrs. Roiee Fulleton. However, a pick up was coming towards them in that lane. The driver then went to the highway shoulder, the ear tipped over on the shoul der and slid some distance on its top. Their car was rather badly damaged. Without seeing then home school win the champion ship, the four from Vale head ed back home Sunday, at least happy in the knowledge that the Vikings won. Gazette-Times to Reach Subscribers Earlier Beginning with this Issue, publication time of the Gazette Timet will he moved up so that most subscribers will receive papers earlier In the week than in the past, Mr. and Mrs. We Sherman, publishers, announce. Subscribers In the city of Heppner will receive papers on Thursday morning Instead of lato Thursday afternoon. Hepp ner rural subscribers and resi dents In towns thouuhout the Kastern Oregon area will re ceive them during the day Thursday Instead of on Friday. No papers will be sold over the counter until Thursday morning. lone and Lexington rural box holders will not get their pa pcra beforw Friday because of the fact that routes are carried only every other day, unless they pick them up at the post offices. Also many subscribers out of the area will receive their cop ies on Friday. Those at distant 83rd Year THl gazette-tim; Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, December MAJOR MICHAEL LANHAM. son receives the Bronie Star Medal shaw Jr. at Ft Leavenworth, lions In Vietnam. Christmas Seals Being Delivered For Annual Sale With the delivery to the post office of the lihiti Christmas Seal envelopes containing sheets of gaily illustrated Seals and the traditional accompanying appeals, the Morrow county Comic I of the Kastern Region of the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health association has official ly launched Its (lot It annual Christmas Seal Campaign. Proceeds are used to cany on the fight against tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases, the illness of breathing. "Contributions to the Christ mas Seal Campaign fight tuber culosis, still a stubborn and dif ficult disease," says Mrs. Syl via McDanlel, Heppner, presi dent of the county council, "and also help to control other res piratory diseases ranging all the way from the common cold to the potentially fatal emphy sema." The Christmas Seal col ors are green, red, yellow, black and while, combined with flora and joyful little red birds, In addition to the traditonal red double-barred cross, longtime symbol of the anti tuberculosis movement. "Medical experts tell us that TB can eventually he eradicat ed and respiratory diseases can be reasonably controlled," Mrs. McDanlel said. "We're setting our sights to those targets. Suc cess will depend at least part ly on Improved prevention, de tection and treatment of these diseases. In this work we hope to play our part as we have done for many years. We are confident that the people of the community who have support ed us In the past will show that they are with us more than ever this year." Anyone who has not already received Christmas Seals in the mail or who would like to have more seals to use on holiday Chrstmas cards and packages may obtain them by writing to Mrs. McDanlel, Heppner, Oregon 1)7830. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM November 23-29 HI Low Prec. Wednesday 50 30 Thursday 53 35 Friday 53 35 .16 Saturday 49 32 Sunday . GO 35 Monday 5-1 42 ' ' .13 Tuesday 52 39 .02 points should get them a day earlier regardless of the time they are getting them now. The change, long contemplat ed, should accomplish a num ber of benefits for subscribers, for advertisers and for the newspaper staff. Both rural and town subscribers will receive the paper at approximately the same time. Businesses which advertise week-end specials will Ket longer and better coverage by the earlier delivery. At the same time, readers will have more opportunity to take ad vantage of these ads. The earlier publication will bring a better balanced week for the Gazette-Times staff be tween the newspaper and com mercial printing operations. The first three days of the week will be devoted largely to newspa per production, and the last of the week will be used for com mercial printing. Tapers for distribution to all points except licppner city box- i of ConUy Lanham of Heppner, from Colonel Benjamin D. Cap- Kansas, following combat opera- I (US Army Photo) Maj Mike Lanham Wins Bronze Star Army Major Michael C. Lan ham. son of Conley J. Lanham of Heppner, Ore., recently re ceived the Bronze Star Medal from Colonel Benjamin D. Cap shaw, Jr.. deputy assistant com mandant. Armv Command and General Staff College Ft. Leav enworth. Kan., during ceremon ies at Irv school November ! Maj. Lanham received the award for outstanding meritor ious service in combat opera tions against hostile forces in the Republic August, 1!H!5 of Vietnam from to August of this year. The major, a student at the eol'ege, entered on active duty j in liCit!. He received his com mission through the Reserve Of ficers' Training Corps program at Oregon State University, Cor vullis. where he received his B.S. degree in 1956. A member of Delta Chi fra ternity, he received his M.B.A. degree in 1!Hi) from the Univer sity of Pittsburgh (Pa.). His wife, Rosalie, is with him at Ft. Leavenworth. Fire Hits Home Thanksgiving Day Fire that broke out Inside the walls around a kitchen flue in the home of Mrs. Viola Oilman, 696 North Elder St., on Thanks giving morning caused some damage to the house before it was extinguished by the fire department. Wood sheeting under sheet rock was ignited by the over heated flue which served a trash burner located in the kitchen. It , was necessary for firemen to cut a hole in the xterior surface to locate the fire and put it out. Much of the damage to the home and kitchen was from smoke, but loss was covered by insurance, Mrs. Gilman said. " Efficient and careful work of the fire department brought words of gratitude from Mrs. Gilman. She aLso appreciated the work of neighbors, Includ ing Mllo Prindle who came ov er and went Into the smoke filled attic using a face mask. The holiday fire didn't spoil Mrs. Oilman's Thanksgiv i n g day. ' "I have a lot to be thankful for," she said. "It could have happened In the night." She added that the fact the fire was contained ' in the wall prevented It from getting air and thereby slowed its spread. holders will go Into the mails late Wednesday afternoon, and those for Heppner city residents will be In the office for distri bution the following morning. In Heppner, this will relieve some of the past pressure on the staff of Postmaster Jim Urlscoll. When the paper has been late, the post office crew has accommodated the Gazette Times by working beyond nor mal quitting time to get papers In the boxes. This cooperation has been very much appreciat ed. Under the new arrangement, If production Is delayed, the staff of the paper can work In to the night to get It out nd still make the Thursday morn ing deadline. Because of the change, most of the paper's deadlines must be moved to approximately one day earlier. Correspondents are asked to have their news to the paper by Mondays in all possi ble cases. Those in their com 1, 1966 District Realignment: Gets League Approval By MAC HOSKINS Realignment of District 7-A-2 football teams Into two new sub-districts has been recom mended by a seven to one league vote, according to Rich ard Carpenter. Heppner High school principal. Carpenter, who was Heppner representative to the Greater Oregon League meeting in Port land November 25, reports that the tentative shuffling of schools would result in two sub districts consisting of five teams each. The western division would be made up of Madras, Wahtonka, Sherman, Heppner, and Pilot Rock, while the east ern division would consist of Burns, Grant Union, Enterprise, Vale, and Nyssn. There is one stipulation, though. The recommendation must next go to the State Board of Control for final approval of the proposal. However, the new plan would appear to be more geographically sound, cutting down on most teams' traveling distances, as well as providing a more equal distribution of playing competition. Nyssa, Vale, and Enterprise, which have made up the 7-A-2 east ern division in the past, have previously been able to qual ify for state playoff competit ion with fewer league games than the members of the west ern division. The new bracketing is ten tative in the respect that Mad ras may return to A l ranks for the HHi9 school year. However, Pilot Rock, currently a "B" team, but with a student en rollment of over 220, well over the "B" maximum of 200), must return to the A-2 ranks in the 19t7-GS year. Prior to tliis year, Heppner, Wahtonka, Madras, Sherman, Burns, and John Day made up the western division. Enterprise Two Major Improvements Set At Gazette-Times Two major improvements ate underway at the Gazette Times and will be completed soon. The new office, to be lo cated in the space formerly occupied by Attorney Jos. Nys, Will be In use within a week or two. Work of remodeling the office was completed in late summer and early fall, but delay in making the move has been occasioned because of failure of desks to arrive. They arrived Monday, and the move will be made Jo the new space as soon as time can be found to make . the switch. Second improvement that will provide better coverage and allow for better use of pictures in the paper is the purchase of a Fairchild en graver. This makes engrav ings of pictures used In print ing. Formerly the paper has depended upon The Photo Graphic, Forest Grove, for these plastic engravings, but this work, through the pur chase of the new equipment, will now be done in the Gazette-Times plant. Pictures were mailed to Forest Grove each week, taking a minimum of three days. time. Wes Sherman, publisher, was notified that the new equipment was shipped from New York Monday and it will be placed in -service shortly after arrival. Purchase of the Fairchild machine has a nostalgic note, munities can assist them great ly by calling earlier with their news than In the past Advertising deadlines will al so be a day earlier, and Rod (Spike) Pardee, advertl sing manager, has been contacting businesses on this. Classified (want ad) advertising deadline will be 3 p.m. Tuesdays. All persons with local news Items churches, school newt, clubs, fraternal and similar ma terials should contact the Gazette Times on Mondays, leaving Tuesdays for cases on ly when It is Impossible to get It In earlier. While In the throes of mak ing the change, some problems are expected to occur, but the publishers ask that all bear with them while adjustments are being made. It is antici pated that the step will make a better paper. Comments from subscribers will be appreciated after the change has taken place. Number 40 10 Cents transferred from east to west 'or the current season. It is important to note, ac cording to Carpenter, that this proposal is so far onlv appli cable to the football teams. But there is a good chance, should the Board of Control approve the plan, that the League would seek extension to other sports as well. No doubt this will be further, discussed . at the next Greater Oregon League meeting, to be held December 19, at John Day. Other business which merited discussion involved basketball and track. The eight delegates to the meeting (Pilot Rock and Wah tonka were not present) work ed out the details of the March 3-4 district basketball tourna ment In La Grande. Three (Continued on page 8) Lexington Seobee Serves in Vietnam Apprentice Lester E. Wallace, an equipment operator construc tion man, is serving with the Naval Mobile Construction Ba-ttalion-10 (MCB-10). based at Camp Hoover, Da Nang Viet nam. He is the son of Mrs. Bus ter Padberg of Lexington. MCB-10 is providing construc tion support to the U. S. Mar ine Corps, according to a re lease from the Fleet Home Town News Center in Great Lakes, 111. The battalion was the first Seabee Battalion to arrive in Vietnam, making an amphibi ous landing at Chu Lai on May 7. 1965. While in Chu Lai, the Seabees built an expeditionary air field and other major facil ities in support of the Marines operating in the area. This is the second tour for the battalion, which is another first for MCB-10. as indicated in a letter from Hans Running of The Photo Graphic. "You were one of the first to get started with us back in 1951, when you were at Dal las," he writes, "and you have followed us around for a long time. I couldn't help but reflect the many, many years of fine association which we have had." Prior to the coming of the plastic "cut" through the Fairchild and similar ma chines, weekly newspapers were greatly restricted on use of pictures. The plastic en gravings made it possible to obtain quality pictures in print at lower cost and sig nalled a new era for the pa pers. Now many weeklies have switched to offset re production, and no such en gravings are required for them. However, many others, like the Gazette-Times, re main letterpress papers and are still relying on the plas tic engraving. The association with The Photo Graphic (formerly Grove Studio), which might be termed a pioneer in the commercial plastic engraving business, has indeed been a pleasant one, and their serv ice has been outstanding. Without their steady and faithful work, subscriber s would not have enjoyed the thousands of pictures which have been published in the last 20 years in the Gazette-Times. ES Mustangs Play Rockets In Opening Tilt There; lone Game Here Tuesday With a good " nucleus back from last year's team and some up-and-comers filling other po sitions, the 1906-67 edition of the Heppner High basketball team will make it debut Sat urday night at Pilot Rock. A doubleheader with the Rock eta, starting with the Jayvee contest at 6:30, will renew a keen rivalry between the two schools. Since Coach Mas Wat anabe's Rockets are now tem porarily in class B ranks, this opening will be non-counting, but the competition will bring memories of the days that they battled to the wire with Hepp ner In the Greater Oregon League. Season Basketball Tickets on Sale Season basketball tickets for 10 home games at Hepp ner High school are now on sale at Peterson's Jewelers and at the high school. They will also be on sale at the game Tuesday night. Coach Bob Clough announces. Price of the tickets is $8.50. The only home game except ed from the ticket Is the Heppner-Ione game on De cember 30. The game Tuesday night between the same two schools is included in the price. Coach Bob Clough, who In two seasons with the Mustangs has led his teams to district and sub-district championships, an nounces a starting lineup com posed of three of - last year's starters, all seniors,, and two juniors at guard positions. Mac Hoskins, 6-3 veteran, will lopen at center, and Jim Jacobs, 61, and Jim Doherty, 5-10, al so experienced from two cham pionship years, will be at the forward position. David Hall, 5- 10, who made the varsity in late season last year, will take one of the guard positions as a Junior, and either Randy Stillman, 5-9, or Bill McLeod, 5 10, both also juniors, will start at the other guard spot. Stillman has been ill this week, but if he is well and ab le to go, he may have the start ing nod, the coach said. All three of the juniors have been looking good in practice. ' Others that the coach may call upon are Steve Wagenblast, 6- 1, senior forward, back from last year's squad; Bob Harris, 5-10, senior guard, up from the jayvees; Steve Pettyjohn, 6-1. ' junior forward from last year's jayvees; MiKe Alsup, senior for ward, transfer from Sherman High; and Gary Kemp, 6-0 soph omore center from last year's freshman squad. Strongly counted in for the front line of the Mustangs at tack this year is Russ Kilkenny, junior, 6-3 forward, who is still recovering from an injured leg. Coach Clough said Kilkenny had his cast removed Tuesday and he may be practicing with the squad again soon. His height and ability will add strength to the team when he is able to regain form. Renewal of the inter-county rivalry between lone and Hepp ner High will provide the home opener Tuesday on the Mus tangs' court. Coach Gene Dock ter's squad has five seniors, one junior and is bolstered by four sophomores from last year's fine freshman team. Coach Dockter said that al though his team lacks experi ence for the season's start, the boys have fair height, and he expects they will give a good accounting for themselves in the 10-team Umatilla Morrow B league. The Cardinals hope to wind up in the top four in the circuit to make the district play offs. He has not named his start ers for any of the three contests they face this week the jam boree at Umatilla Friday night, the game at Wishram, Wash., Saturday night, nor the Hepp ner game here Tuesday. Seniors back are Leon Magill, 6 0, and Pat McElligott, 510, for wards; Leland Magill, 5-10, Montie Crum, 5-10, and Virgil Morgan, 5-11, guards. Only jun ior is Chris Lovgren, 6-1, guard. Sophomores are Jim Swanson, 6-2, center; Frank Halvorsen, 6-3, forward and center; Bob Ball, 5-7, and Eddie Sherman, 5-10, guards. The evening's doubleheader Tuesday will start at 6:30 with Heppner's freshmen playing the lone jayvees with the varsity game starting at 8 p.m. Rep. Mann to Visit Here Friday at 1 :30 Rep. Irvin Mann will be in Heppner Friday afternoon on the second day of his 2-day swing around four of the five counties in his 28th representa tive district. He will be at the courthouse at 1:30 to meet any one with ideas concerning forth coming legislation or matters of concern that should be brought to the attention of the representative. In mid-afternoon he will go to Boardman with Judge Paul Jones and with Mayor Dewey West will tour the proposed Morrow county port facilities and the new town there. . . j " ' ' ) Li COACH BOB CLOUGH Cardinals Slate Jamboree Friday, Wishram Saturday First action for lone High's basketball squad for the sea son will be Friday night at Umatilla . when the Cardinals compete in a jamboree com posed of half the teams in the Umatilla-Morrow B league. Coach Gene Dockter said. The Cards will open the evening's program against Echo, playing a game of two 10-minute halves. Riverside High will meet Hermiston's Jayvees in the second game, and the third will pit Stan field and Umatilla. On Saturday night the lone basketeers will travel to Wish ram, Wash., for a doublehead er there, opening with a jay-r- vee game, at 6:30 to be fol lowed by the varsity contest . at 8 o'clock. Information on this year's . Cardinal team is included in the story on the forthcoming lone - Hep p n e r game here Tuesday. Holiday Variety To Be on Display At Public Show IONE The theme "Christmas is Coming" has been chosen by the lone Garden Club for its second Christmas show to be staged in the Gilliam-Bisbee building in Heppner on Friday and Saturday, December 9 and 10. Members and friends of the Garden Club are invited to par ticipate. They hope the show may suggest many ideas for Christmas decorations, as well as to receive many suggestions from guest exhibitors. Sugges tions for business or church decorations, in addition to those for the home, will be welcomed. Desiring that more people will visit the show and have a part in the festivities, the show was moved to Heppner this year. Exhibits will be received on Thursday, December 8, from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. and Friday, De cember 9, from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. Care will be given all ex hibits, but the Garden Club will not be responsible for dam age or loss. Blue, red, and white ribbons will be given first, second, and third place winners. The show will be open to the Dublic from 2:00 to 10:00 p.nu on Friday, December 9, and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on December 10. All entries must be removed after 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. Further information may be obtained by contacting the gen eral chairman, Mrs. Omar Riet mann, phone 422-7274, or the staging chairman, Mrs. Don McCarty, phone 676-5923. PTA to Sponsor Feed Before Tuesday Game The annual PTA chicken -noodle and chili feed is plan ned for next Tuesday evening, December 6, when Heppner and lone basketball teams will com pete in the Heppner gymnasium in the first home game. Committees of the high school and elementary school PTA as sociations will be in charge of preparing and serving the din ner, with proceeds to be divid ed between the two groups, lone families are extended a cordial invitation to enjoy the feed prior to the game. On the menu will be chicken and noodles, chili beans, French bread, tossed salad, relishes, coffee, punch and pie. Tickets are being sold by the grade school children and will also be sold at the door. Prices are grade school students, 50c; high school students, 75c and adults, $1.00.