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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday, January 12, 1967 THE GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner, Oregon 97836 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Hoppnor Gazette established March 30, 1SS3. The Heppner Times established November IS. 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NEWSPAMIt IISHIIS SOCIATION WESLET A. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. until noon Saturday. Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. School Proposal Looks Good Sound thinking Is evidenced in the plan being proposed by Principal Dick Carpenter of Heppner High School and Prin cipal Al Martin of Heppner Elementary School to make six year schools at each plant. Under their proposal, the seventh and eighth grades would go to the high school, and with the ninth grade, would form a Junior high school in the same building but operating as a separate entity from the senior high school, which would be composed of sophomores, juniors and seniors. The elementary school would be composed of grades one through six. There are a number of excellent advantages for such a plan, all of which add up to offering a better education ion the students involved and to giving the taxpayers better val ue for the money spent on education. The proposed division would more nearly balance the stu dent load between the two schools. The elementary school now. In grades one through eight, has approximately 460 students. The high school started the year with 184 students. Under the six-year plan, the junior-senior high would have a total of about 300 to 310 students, and the elementary would have some 340 students. The principals explain that the change would give fuller use of the facilities at the high school plant, where from four to six classrooms are currently not In use during various per iods of the day. At the same time It would relieve conges tion being experienced in the old building (former high school) at the elementary plant Perhaps more important, though, Is the fact that students would gain better educational opportunities because the ex panded enrollment at the junior-senior high level would make it possible for teachers to spread themselves In their own fields. For instance, an English teacher who now also teaches social science to fill out his day would be able to spend all his time in his special field by dropping down to teach also In the seventh and eighth grades. There could be more possibility for ability-interest group ing of students, and more attention to Individual differences. Students who need more help In a subject would have more chance of getting this help, and those with special abilities could receive more challenges through homogeneous group ing. Under the proposal, the junior high that would be a "school within a school" would be in the same building as the senior high school but would have no connection with the upper students, except their contact in passing In the halls or in riding to school on buses. Classes would be kept separately between the schools, although some teachers would give instruction on both levels. Lunch periods would be giv en at different times. While the thought comes that it may not be good to have the younger students "exposed" to the older high school students, there is probably more common interest between a seventh grader and a high school senior, for instance, than there is between a first grader and an eighth grader which Is the situation now in the elementary school. And while the seventh grader and 12th grader would go to school in the same building, they actually would have little more contact than they have at present, since rural children of all ages now ride the buses. The junior high age youngsters would benefit from the new high school plant and its facilities. They would have opportunity for home economics courses, industrial arts, and for students of special abilities, an earlier exposure to such subjects as algebra, geometry-, foreign languages, biology and typing. Congestion is now being experienced in the old high school building (referred to as the Junior high). The narrow hall way, particularly on the upper level, poses a problem with more than 200 students using the building. This building would continue to be used, but some of the upper rooms could be converted to study halls, reading rooms, audio-visual room, storage of equipment and so on. Principal Martin reports, too, that the stage of the multipurpose room of the primary building has been closed off and is used as a class room, though unheated. Under the six-year system, the stage could be opened again for use in school presentations as it was originally intended. As presented, the change could be made with no addit ional staff, with no additional facilities, and without a change in the school budget It would require that a few teachers be moved from the elementary school to the high school building. It is envisioned that the system would bring more effect ive use of resources and talents available. It would mean putting the modern high school building to better use while lessening the use on the less efficient plant (present Junior" high building). When the Riverside High School building is completed at Boardman, the north end of the county will go on such a six-year system, with all the lower grades going to school at Irrigon, while grades 7 through 12 go to Riverside. The same system could well bring benefits in a stronger educa tional program here. The matter will come before the school board at the meet ing Monday night in Heppner High School library at 7:30, and school patrons interested are invited to attend the meet ing. It has been discussed and unanimously approved by the Heppner advisory board and was to be brought to the atten tion of parents at the elementary PTA meeting Wednesday night. It is a proposal that merits serious consideration. If It meets with favor, it could be implemented for the school year 1967-68. At first glance it appears that there are many benefits to be gained with few disadvantages apparent. Smiths Enjoy Plane Trip During Holidays Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Smith flew to Ventura. Calif., Decem ber 23, to visit his brother and fistPr-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Fmith and daughter Barbara. Also visiting with the Dick Smith family were another bro ther, Ted Smith, of Heppner and his wife, Ella. While they were in Califor nia, the Harvey Smiths also vis ited Frances Wilson, in Sun City and Frank Engkraft, for merly of Heppner, in Ontario. HEPPNER NATIONAL NEWSPAPER HELEN E. SHERMAN Assoc! at Publisher They then continued on to Las Vegas, to visit Earl Wilson in that city, returning to lone by plane last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Anderson enjoyed a reunion with family members during the Christmas holidays. Gathering together at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Al Parent and girls in Salem were the Andersons, their daughter and granddaughter, Mrs. Dee Martin and Suzanne and a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Porter, all of Port land, and the Parents. The Tail Wags the Dog We see by the morning paper that football coaches are now crumbling because enforced television time outs for com mercials may come Just at the time their teams are making sustained drives or at other inopportune moments. The commercial becomes the Big Thing and cannot be denied, whether it be for cigarettes, deodorant, an automobile or some kind of hair goop. Even the most super of Super Bowls must stop on cue for The Commercial. Thus the tall on television wags the dog. A Portland TV station came out with a special hour-long telecast on Oregon Inauguration's day. There was a rather elaborate title introduction with pictures of the Capitol grounds and so on, and the viewer watted withj some antic ipation to see the opening scenes of the production. But when the camera shifted, what came Into view? One woman Jawing another, "You've got bad breath!" That was a rather lowly start for the 1967 legislative session! We don't know Just where this Is going to lead to even tually, since commercials are vital to the support of televis ion, but we are thankful that in our medium newspapers the "commercials" (advertisements) are not the obnoxiously intruding things that they are on TV. Short of getting up and turning off his set. the TV viewer must sit through the commercials, whether he wants to or not. Newspapers give the reader a freedom of choice. He can read the ads or leave 'em alone. That's the Spirit! Because not many students signed up for band at Hepp ner High school this year, there has been no pep band for the early basketball games. But apparently the students decided that this was a situa tion that could not continue. They got together, apparently on their own volition and sparked by an editorial in the high school paper, came up with a volunteer pep band. There is plenty of fine talent In the schools, and we un derstand 30 turned out for some of the practices. Those who went to the Enterprise game Saturday night saw and heard the result. The kids were good. Their effect on school spirit and morale cannot be underestimate!. This sort of spirit helps restore faith of some of those dis illusioned adults who are prone to think that the modern younger generation will do nothing without ample pay or credit. ft These kids saw the need and met It w That's the spirit! TO THE EDITOR... iwwpwiri''r.uwiw'y'''w ' , . N , - " J ' . y ' t X. r" t t -v. k . r a;;v-v 'I " TDMBLEWEEDS IN ALL THEIR GLORY: Mesa, Ariz., decided to have a tumbleweed tree instead of a pine Christmas tree this year, with the beautiful results shown above. Garnet Barratt former Morrow county Judge and now living in Arizona, sent this clipping of the tumbleweed Christmas tree from a Mesa newspaper. He referred to a recent Chaff and Chatter item about a road being clogged the Editor). Arizona Tumbleweed Dear Wes & Helen: Greetings & Best Wishes. May the new year be a progressive and prosperous one for you ana the citizens of Morrow County this coming year. I trust the new office and enlarged shop area will Inspire you to even greater achievement with each weekly issue. To insure our re ceipt of each issue I am en closing our check for a yearly subscription. I look forward to each issue even if some weeks it is a week or more In arriv ing here. Your experience with the road full of "tumble weed" as re ported in the December 8th is sue surely brought back mem ories of many such incidents traveling the back roads of Morrow County. In the days be fore all the farming interests believed in "clean cultivation" and the county was limited to a meager maintenance of coun ty roads by restricted funds, the narrow, deep rutted rights-of-way would fill up with either tumble weed or deep snow. The snow filled roads were usually insurmountable. If one couldn t go around then he Just had to go back. However, the tumble weed would burn and a lighted match would soon clear the way without danger to the farm fences as the roads were nar row and the ruts were deep. When I travel the roads and highways of Morrow County these days every mile is a bad memory of the past. During the past 20 years the citizens of Morrow County with foresight, perseverance and tax money, in cooperation with the county courts, have eliminated many of these inconveniences and the county is blessed with one of the best county road systems in the state To them I will al I was a great practical joKcr. lit vv . ,,.! neighbor across (he street. Boh V, ... " .".3 Stover, J. C. Penney manager, " , " ,. ? w as also a practical Joker. ' f , J When Dalpez felt this "gun" a " " ! 'liln hls rlbs- "e kn(,w' oi 0011 pw' . , .$ oV '".jjlthat it was held by Stever. and - - 1 t J ! played along with the gag. 4(Ji 5 y' r r 'i A - vj . n,'v with tumbleweed (See Letters to (SPUR Photo by Dale Welker). ways remember and owe a deep debt of gratitude. I am also en closing a copy of a picture to show how they use tumble weeds down this way. Yes, they do grow them here also. Sincerely, Garnet Barratt Warp's Museum Dear Mr. Editor: Often in your paper an ad of the Warp's screen cloth appears. It Is interesting to note that this fine old western company had built In Mlnden, Neb., what I'd call the finest family mus eum of its kind. The admission is modest and if it were used on American farms since 1850 they have it. It is arranged as a village complete with church, rail depot, engine and caboose, land office, city hall, some 50 100 old cars on exhibit, thresh ers, traction engines, barber shop, country store, fire equip ment, etc, etc, etc. This Pio neer Village which is located on HWY 6 a main east-west route in Nebraska is without a doubt one of the nation's top treats in nostalgia from Grand pa to juniors something for ev eryone and surpassed not oven by the Metropolitan of NCY or Smithsonian of DC. When on any cross country forays to pass this wonderful show up is to rob one's self of great genuine enjoyment in American lore. Clair Hampton Cox, Realtor 127 N. 4th Corvallis, Oregon Doug Gunderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gunderson is re covering from . corrective log surgery performed December 28 at Emanuel hospital in Port land. His family took him to Portland December 27 and re- - turned January 2. Chaff "d Wes WHEN WE HEAD last week of the two robbers who ab ducted a Safewav manager ami his wife in Baker and took (hem to (lie store where the culprits made off with several thousand dollars, we were struck with the similarity of a case that hapiened perhaps VI years ago in Dallas. The modus operandi was almost Identical. In the Baker case, the two came to the home of the Safe wav manage and forced him and his wife to go to the store In downtown Baker, using the manager's car. After robbing the store, the men returned the couple to the home, tied them and fled In the "borrowed" car. It later was found abandoned We recall the Dallas case quite vlvldlv because of Its dra matic circumstances and be cause it Involved nome pood friends, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Da Inez. The writer had Just returned home from teaching an even ing class at tX'E In Monmouth and had settled down to watch ing Playhouse 90 on television. Oddly enough the TV program concerned a kidnapping case. It was sometime after 10 p.m. when the telephone rang with someone giving us the news break that the Dalpez family had been abducted and the Safewav store robbed. We grabbed the camera and went to the Dalpcz home. By this time, Henry and his wife were back Intact but still shud dering from the experience. Dalpez said that he had come home from the store after work ing late and drove his car In to the darkness of the garage. As he got out of the car, he felt what appeared to be a gun poking him in the ribs, and a husky voice demanded that Dalpez go Into the house. Now. the Safeway manager was a great practical Joker. Ills BOO in his ribs, he knew, of course, inai It was neiu vy aiever, uiu I nlnvn.1 nlnna with thn 011l When the two got Into the living room of the home. though, it took no second look for Dalpez to realize that this was no Joke. (We've always wished that we had a picture of his face at that moment!) The fellow who held the re volver was dead serious. He asked If there were any child- TO THE EDITOR Died in Flood To the Editor: In my last letter (o you. I made a mistake In saying Mr. Hart was the station master at (he old OR it N depot. Mr. Hart had either died at the time of the big flood or retired. His oldest son, Fred Hart, was still working there. The new agent's name was J. M. Kernan. Mr. and Mrs. Kernan had two teenage sons. When the big flood came sweeping down on the south side of the old depot, Mr. and Mrs. Kernan became excited and ran around the platform and were swept away and drowned. Fred Hart grabbed the two Kernan boys und escaped to the hill to the north. Via Hart, sister of Fred, was coming home from Europe in 1912 (nine years after the flood) and was on the big new "Ti tanic" ship that struck a big Iceberg on April M at about 10:30 on Sunday night and sank to the bo((om at about 2:20 the next morning. The ship Car- oathia reached there In time to save 703 of the survivors. One of these survivors was Miss Hart. In the old days at Heppner and Lexington, the depot agent had fine living quarters on the second story. I have been up there many times when I was a small boy in Heppner. I do not know if the old water tank is still standing there, but it was a big wooden water tank where the engine filled her boilers with water. (Ed. Note: It's gone now). We boys and some girls used to get up enough courage to climb the tall ladder and get to the roof. We thought we were almost to the sky then. O, what wonder ful days we used to have there. No automobiles then. You can ask Lou Blsbce about this. My father had his furniture store right next to Gilliam and Bis bee's hardware store where Ed Gonty's store is. I hope everyone in Morrow county had a wonderful Christ mas and Happy New Year. I have just been reading a special edition of the Heppner Times, dated Thursday, June 16, 1903. Just two days after the big flood. Sometimes It seems like this was only yesterday. O. M.I Yeager Box 476 Castle Rock, Wa.sh. COLE ELECTRIC Motor Rewinding INDUSTRIAL - COMMERCIAL FARM AND HOME Pendleton 276-7761 Chatter Sherman ren In the home. The quaver Ing parents replied that their children were In bed I" their rooms. The man demanded that (hey he brought out. Then, holding all at gunpoint, he herded (he entire family In (o the Dalpez car and road the manager drive him to the more. The robber stayed In the car with the revolver on the wife ml children. Insisting that Dalpez go In and clean out the safe. Henrv wasn't about to dls ,i . i. r.l..r uiih M family oin itiv im" .- In Jeopardy. He scooped out all the cash and It was a goodly sum Mien brought It back to the robber. Then the man told Dalpez to drive i he car home. There he ..minted the children and Mrs. Dalpez to go free, but kept the manager in me car 10 uir the cetawav. This was a tough lime for the wife, as she saw her husband drive off with (he man holding (he gun on mm. She mil Id well nlctur what mlelil hnnnen In htm. Hu( a short distance In the countrv. Dalpez was turned loo.se ami he got home unharm ed. The couple was still Mini lied by the experlcmv when we gol mere 13 or iuuiun later. ci...,,ff T.,.,1- NvutV ilf now Neufeldt. diveascd. did an admirable Job ..iifor.-crncllt off ivr. lie got io work on (he case and . of deduction divided tlial the prime huxvi was not an outsider but a roan who lived with his family right In the middle of town. When Neufeldt went to the apart ment to question the occupants, he learned (hat (he husband was gone to parts unknown. The sheriff Immediately ct a stakeout. A man was Plant ed In the upstairs of a build ing adjoining (he apartment house to keep It under nurvell lance. As we recall. It was a coup le weeks before anything hap pened. Then one night, a city officer' kUNplcions wtve amus ed bv a car (hat drove slowly Into (own In (he prowl car (he policeman followed at sumo distance behind. The suspect's car went through the downtown district and out Washington Street. Then It pulled to a curb and (he lone occupant got out, walking back towards the cen ter of town but cutting across lawns and through alleys. Immediately the sheriff was alerted. He was ready. Several officers were posted around the apartment house. When the man started to climb the stairs to (he second floor apartment, the story unfolded as dramatic ally as the production on Play house 90. The sheriff commanded the man to halt. Floodlights were turned on him. as the officers advanced with pointed rifles and drawn pistols. He surren dered without a fight. The fellow was taken to the sheriff's office, and the Dalpez- i es were called to undergo another ordeal. They had to I come for identification. The f couple stood In a hallway of the sheriff's office when the S man was brought down from the second-story Jail. When Mrs. Dalpez looked j through the window separating i the hall and the office, she did not need to say anything. Her' expression told clearly enough that this was the man who had abducted them. j The robber wus duly proces- ! sed by law and was sentenced , to a long term In the penlten- ; tlary. It came to light that he had gone to California after the robbery and apparently squan- i dered virtually all of the stol- j en money at the race tracks, j Whether the man Is still In I custody or is on parole, we i don't know. But the similarity of j the Baker case was striking. ! JUST HAVING received a new 1967 Reader's Digest Alma- j nac, we glanced through It and j turned to the page on the Prln- j cipal World Floods. We were a bit chagrined to find Unit I the Heppner flood of 1903 was not listed, and wrote a letter to , the editors to tell them so. Then we looked up In our copy of the World Almanac and find More Fun, Always... At the TWO In SALEM 112 Rooms 745 185 Cunmiiciit, I F. ' 215 Cobr tut Pkooi: (503) 383 2451 Ptal, (603) 342 SIM tOTH INNS HAVI RESTAURANTS WITH 24-HOUR COFFll SHOfM SCHOOL LUNCH MENUS Hoppnvr EUiuantarf School and Hvppnvr Hiqit School January 13 111 January 1.1 Toasted chi-eic Kitndwtch, slewed tomatoea, up vide down fruit rake, milk, rule sIlHV. January 10 Sloppy Joe, spin ach, prnra and cottage cheese mill;. January 17 Chill, corn bread, Jell O salad, milk, cobbler or ap plesauce rake. January 18 Beef Mew, bread and huUcr. tomatoes, prune enkr an I milk. January 19 Mor, peas, milk, quick bread, fresh fruit. Mattl Groon, who sprat aotnt time before Christmas visiting her daughter. Mm. If Lund blad and Mm. Omer MoCateh In Portland, entered IVrtland Sanitarium Tuesday, December 27. and la receiving treatment for a hack aliment. Her addn-v at the hospital la Itoom No. 303 Portland Sanitarium. UOU) S. W Mm on t, Portland. Oregon 97713 (hat It la not Included there either. We don't know bv what mraa tire the el!(or divide on the magnitude of a disaster. How ever, some flood are listed where as few 37 died. He Hirts on the Heppner flood of l'.HU are still In some dispute, but accounts we hear range generally from 247 to 2T2 deaths with other estimates going higher. I Hut on the world scene, there . . .. i nave ixi-ii nmr ii-muir, irrn- hie fl'xl One In China In l!W9 lMm-n uwit- nii.ii iiiiiiiun live. Three "(hers In China claimed 31)0,000. WW.000 and imi.ooo In 1642. 1KK7 and 1911. The fliKKl of Johnstown, Pa., look an estimated 2,000 lives In INK), and 6,000 were dead after a tidal wave at Calves ton, Texas, In 1!KX). In Ohio and Indiana In 1913 a total of 730 liven were lost when the Ohio and Indiana rivers flooded, and In 192H, 450 died at St. Paula. Calif., when the St. Francis dam collapsed Flooding In Oregon and north ern California In 1933 when 74 tiled was listed In the alma nac. Property damage was net at $130 million. Maybe the Heppner flood wasnt Hated because property damage wasn't a heavy as many of thrae. If the editors respond, we'll find out. Coming Events HEPPNER HIGH BASKETBALL Heppner vs. Burn, Friday, Jan. 13. Heppner High gym Heppner vs. Grant Union, Sat., Jan. 14, Heppner High gym Heppner vs. Sherman. Friday, Jan. 20, Moro High gym. Suptort the Mustangs! CHRISTIAN CHURCH DINNER Sunday, January 15, 6:00 p.m. Heppner Christian Church host to Lexington Christ ian Church Church basement. LODGE INSTALLATION Sans Soucl Rebekahs, Wil lows IOOF, Joint Installa tl.m Saturday, Jan. 14, dinner, 6:30 Installation 8 p.m. Heppner IOOF Hall. ORGANIZATION MEETING Tuesday, January 17, 7:30 p.m. To organize Blue Mt. College extension classes Heppner High School. Variety of adult classes offered. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency Bappnar P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Sparkling New in EUGENE 150 Rooms communityI? billboard