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.
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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