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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1967)
L I 0RARY u or o t u a e e , ORE 97403 Whoopee! We're In! I III il ipn mm (manMM.Mnai , in in, -w-m i . lu ' iiwurf . lH-LDtimtF ; s : ''rr!.',J- ' )(' Zff ' Wl S&m U'itiVi u 17 " TV ' (Mr YIPPEE AND HALLELUJAH I This was th glee'ul seen In the Heppner High gym Friday night when th Muntangs topped Sherman County. 52 to 45. to gain a lint place tie one mor with th Hu.kies. Th victory also assured a spot for th Mustangs In th district tournament at La Grand March 3 and 4. Shown in an impromptu victory celobratlon are Keppner High root- (G T Photo) Heppner, Sherman Again Tied at Top; Final League Game Here Friday Basketball Standings GREATER OREGON LEAGUE Western Division W L Heppner 8 3 Sherman 8 3 Burns 7 4 Grant Union 6 5 Enterprise 5 Madras 3 fl Wnhtonka 2 9 'Completed schedule) Last Week's Results Friday Sherman 45 at Heppner 52, Mad ras CI a Wnhtonka 59, Bums .10 at Enterprise 49. Saturday Heppner (il at Madras 5-1, Wah tonka 46 at Sherman 8(1, Grant Union 68 at Enterprise 49. Final Games Friday: Wah tonka at Heppner, Burns at John Hay, Sherman at Madras. Now In a tie with Sherman for first place In the Greater Oregon League, Heppner heads Into the home .stretch against last place Wnhtonka here Fri day night In an all-Important fray which concludes the regu lar season hoop schedule for both quintets. It's a must win contest for the Mustangs In several ways. Should Heppner win, It would assure them of cither undisput ed first place, or tie them with Two More lone High Senior Chosen Princess Bernlece Matthews, one of tho 17-year-old twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Matth ews, has been selected by Wil lows Grange to represent the lone community on the 1967 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo court. Learning of her selection, the new princess was overcome with joy and declared It to be "a dream come true," fulfilling many of her childhood interests and desires. Princess Bernlece had spent 12 years of her life on the Gab ert Kanch where she learned to rldo nt an early age. Since moving to town, she has con tinued to ride on the ranch of her uncle, Franklin Ely, where she keeps her quarter horse, "Snookle." During her 12 years of school ing In lone, Bernlece has been an outstanding leader In school .activities. Her twin sister, Den iece, Is also a popular senior this year at lone High school, where both are honor students. The two were also delegates of the . lone Legion Auxiliary to Girls' State Convention In Sa lem last summer. Another hon or came to Bernlece when her article was Judged winner of the Oregon Wheat League Newspaper Article Contest. School activities are many for the new princess. She has been a varsity cheerleader for two Sherman, depending upon the otiti-omc of the concurrent Sher man Madras game. But, should the Blue and Cold lose while the Huskies finish victoriously, It would drop Heppner Into sec ond, possibly a second place tie. The likelihood of the latter will hinge upon the results of Fri day night's Bums at John Day battle. While Heppner has already clinched a berth In the District 7-A 2 tournnment at La Grande March 3 and 4, finishing the league's play as king of the mountain would be a definite plus for the Horsemen. The first place team plays the third place western division "five" In the opening series of the March hoopfest. while the second place club will face the first place sound from the eastern division (Vale). In the event of a first place lie, according to Coach Bob ("lough, Heppner would flip a coin with Sherman for tournament-placing berths. Neverthe less, each would receive a tro phy symbolic of first place In league action. Wnhtonka, which has been down on Its hoop fortunes all year long, would no doubt love to reverse tho wrath of Lady Luck and knock the Mustangs Named for I967 Royal Court PRINCESS BERNIECE MATTHEWS years, is In band and chorus Is a member of National Hon or Society, is president of Girls Athletic Association, is active in pep club and pep band and works on the annual and paper staff. She has been a member of 4-H clubs for the past six years, active In sewing and cooking clubs. She eniovs the outdoor sports of riding and boating, and helps the family with household duties of cooking and sewing. Following graduation, Prin cess Berniece plans to enroll In the fall at Oregon College of Education, where she will ma jor In elementary education. She Is looking forward to an exciting summer "as a member of the court of Queen Verlna French. Other princesses an nounced are Ruby Fulleton of Morrow County Wranglers and Maureen Doherty of the Lexing ton Grange. ; from their lofty perch. Unfortu- nately for the Eagles, a glance at last week-end's results re veals that their starters, Includ ng big guns Gary Rlcketts and Mike Helseth, either did not nlav or saw very little action. Their return to action, regard less of the reasons for their re cent lack of playing time, will enhance the Wahonka's hopes, of course. Wahtonka will probably rely upon their standard ball-control offense. But, should they still be short handed at game time, as far as experienced talent foes, speculation arises that they might carry It one step fur ther. This would mean an out-and-out stall, such as the ones employed against collegiate powerhouse UCLA at various times this year, or one reminis cent of the 1963-64 Mustang gang. The latter, it will be re called, enabled Heppner to reach the district tournament after derailing a strong Sher man quint In a playoff game). But regardless of Wahtonka's recent hoop status, the Mus tangs aren't forgetting their previous Eagle encounter. In that one, Heppner had to battle for their lives to finish in front, 51-42. This fray could well be one like it. Grange Selects Maureen Doherty Royalty came again into the Bernard Doherty family with the naming of their daughter, Maureen, to the 1967 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Court Princess Maureen will repre sent the Lexington Grange. She was selected at the last meet ing Saturday, February 11, by vote of the grange membership. Candidates are not restricted to daughters of grange members, and the Dohertys are not mem bers of the grange. Last summer Maureen repre sented Morrow county as a princess on the Spray rodeo court. Her older sister, Martha, served in 1964 as a princess with the Morrow county court. The 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Doherty is this year attending the Uni versity of Oregon where she is enrolled as a freshman In pre mising. She was a member of the 19G6 grauating class of Heppner High school. Maureen has grown up on the ranch in Blackhorse Canyon which has been in the Doherty family since the 1880's, home steaded by her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Doherty af ter they came here from Ire land, and birthplace of her fa ther. During her nine years of work In 4-H clubs, she has won many honors In sheep, dairy and beef livestock projects, In- Corps Offers $1 Million Cash U. S. Army Corp of Engineers hail made proposal of a $1 million cash settlement to Mor row County School District H I as the answer to the apparent Htalumnte on construction of RIviTKlde High '.School. Under this uropoMl, th district would build tho school.. 83rd Year Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursdoy, Februory Elks to Observe 70th Anniversary Here on Saturday Seventieth anniversary Heppner Lodge No. 358, Benev olent and Protective Order of Elks, will be observed Saturday at the Elks Annual In the lodge temple here, Jerry Daggett, ex alted ruler, announces. Preparatloas are being made for a large attendance with fea tures of the program starting at 1 p.m. and continuing until Sunday morning. Registration will begin at U a.m. In the Heppner Ford show room and will continue throughout the day Saturday for members and guests. j Ladles champagne tea and wig showing will be at St. Pat rick's parish hall from 1 to 2 p.m. after which the Elks' la dles card party will be held In the same half with bridge, pi nochle and yahtzce In play. Meanwhile, members of the lodge will attend a lodge sess ion at 2 p.m. In the Elks' tem ple with Condon lodge No. 1869 putting on the degree work. R. R. (Whltey) Schroth, second vice president of the Oregon btate tiks association, will pre sent awards for youth leader ship following the degree work. A social time for the Elks and ladles will be held in the lounge of the temple from 4:30 until 9:30 p.m. Dinner will start at 6 p.m. In St. rvrtck'i parish hall and will continue until 8 p.m. with the Rhea Creek Grange In charge of prepara tion and serving. Dance will be at the Elks temple beginning at 9:30 p.m. with music by Roy Miller's or chestra and will continue until 1:30 a.m. Breakfast will be served following the dance. Registration fee will be $3.50 icr person, which includes the swIss steak dinner, entertain ment at 11:15 p.m. and other events, Daggett states. David McLeod Is chairman of the anniversary committee. Calvin Sherman, Gene Orwick, and Dnrrell Padberg are on the entertainment committee and Jack VanWinkle Is in charge of reservations. Claude Graham heads transportation and Clint Agee Is In charge of registra tion. Daggett, Glen Ward, and La Verne Van Marter, Jr., are on the credentials and Invitations committee. Officers' wives are in charge of the activities for ladies. Marshall Lovgren Is club (Continued on page 8) PRINCESS MAUREEN DOHERTY eluding the 1964 grand cham pionship as livestock showman at the Morrow County Fair. She served for four years as a jun ior leader, and was a 4-H camp counselor for two years. Her parents and others In the fam ily have worked consistently as 4-H leaders, especially in live stock clubs. Although her interests turn to the out-of-doors with animals and riding as her favorite hob bies, Maureen has been very ac tive in school. In 1965 she was chosen as a delegate to Girls' State, she has held several class offices while In high school, was a member of the debate team and a member of the National Honor Society. Princess Maureen will ride "Duke", an eight-year-old geld ing in her court appearances. Duke is a rodeo veteran, hav ing been Martha's horse in 1964 (Continued on page 8) f i- Y Thin was announced and dis cussed at a special meeting of the district directors at A. C. Houghton school, Irrigon, Mon day night. In addition to the $1 million, the Corps would share In Interim housing cost If the new school Is not built by April, 1968, Supt. TT1 r .- ' . V W ...A : fc. A ll .. of' I U i- ... if ' - NO. THIS wasn't taken in the rr lairrouna. spnmuinq system, apparently irrigating tlie grounds, built up shields of Ice oa a row of trees, contradicting the sunshine of the bright day. (G-T Photo) R-l Board New Board of directors of Morrow County School District R-l Mon day night approved a new sal ary schedule with a base of $5800 for a beginning teacher with a bachelor degree. The ac tion was taken at a special meeting at A. C. Houghton school, Irrigon. Steps on the scale have 4 increments. Teachers with less than a bachelor degree would start at $-1872 per year and could continue through seven steps (for years of experience) to $6496 at the seventh step. Those with a bachelor degree would start at the $5800 with no ex perience and could climb to $7890 at the ninth step. Those with bachelor degree plus 30 hours of advanced training would start at $6032 with no ex perience and could go to the Uth step at $8586. Those with master degree, or a bachelor de gree plus 60 hours, would start at $6264 for no experience and could continue through the 12th step at $90d2. A teacher with a master's degree plus 30 hours could eventually reach a salary of $9282. highest on the sched ule, at the 12th step. Starting salary In the system now for a teacher of no exper ience and with a bachelor de gree is $5200. It Is estimated that the new schedule would increase in structional salaries in the dis trict by a total of approximate ly $80,000. ' Only Two Vote When the matter came to a motion before the board, it pass ed by a vote of two in favor to none against. All but two board members abstained from voting. Spray Rodeo Sets Kickoff Dance Kickoff dance for the Spray Rodeo will be Saturday night, February 25, at the Legion Hall in Spray, it is announced. Music will be by Jim O'Brien of Prineville and supper will be served at intermission by the Spray High school student "body. Candidates for rodeo queen will appear at the dance. Among them will be Erna Lynn Winchester, Morrow county Fair and Rodeo queen for 1966, who will be in the Spray rodeo court this year. Another In the court will be Nancy Stirewalt of Kimberly. A third girl, yet to be chosen, will represent John Day. Date of the Spray rodeo is May 20 and 21. Admission to the kickoff dance will be $1.50 per person. The dance starts at 10 p.m. and continues until 2:30 a.m. Salary Scale David R. Potter reported. The figure Is considerable less than that to which the Corps had agreed originally $1,242,. 000 plus contingencies, the school superintendent said. The Corps asked for a counter proposal, and the board approv ed an outline of the procedure for such a proposal. It Is to be -tim: 23, .1967 3' lv5-' - 1 .. i vt , Far North. It was snapped at 2 pjn. Monday at the Morrow coun- Approves The matter came before the board Monday nieht after it was discussed at a dinner meeting of the Morrow county chapter of the Oregon Education associa tion earlier in the evening. The teachers approved the schedule, a compromise from one they had presented to the board at a previous meeting, with some minor revisions. Proposed sched ule that had been offered by the professional negotiation com mittee, now established by state law, set the beginning base sal ary at S6000 with 4 incre ments. The board tentatively recommended the $5800 base as a compromise, which the coun ty teachers approved at their dinner meeting. Mrs. Violet Lanham presided t discussion on the matter, and Principal Mick Tolar of Hough ton school was In charge of the dinner meeting. At the board meeting,- direct ors, also approved an adminis trators' salary schedule on an index formula. It provides .12 lhove the basic teachers' sched ule, plus .01 for each year of administration up to .04. An ad ditional .01 is provided the ad ministrator for each five teach ers serving under him. The schedule is also extended to 11 months but the index figures apply only for 9V4 months. The new schedule will mean an in crease in salary for adminis trators. All of those whose con tracts are expiring this school year were offered new contracts, at the regular board meeting earlier this month. Reject Coaches' Plea The board at the Monday meeting rejected a proposal by coaches that the salary index for coaching be increased. They asked that head coaches be giv en an index figure of .10 and assistants .07. The index figure at the present time for head coaches is .08 and for assist ants .04. The budget committee ap proved a revised budget calen dar, which calls for the next work session to be February 28 at Lexington at 7:30. Committee approval of the budget Is ex pected on March 6 at the lone High school at a meeting to be gin at 7:30. Publication dates for the budget are now set for March 9 and March 16 in the Gazette Times, and the public hearing will be March 28 in the Lexing ton school office, starting at 7:30. Budget election is dated ril 17. Ap- At the special meeting the board also discussed legislation and viewed a display of paint ings by Rose Hoosier of Irrigon. The paintings will be on exhib ition at Tli a Hi . n.i 7antnnirai Wash., from March 1 to April i ' made within a day or two with Supt. Potter and Ron Daniels, Riverside High principal, work ing out details subject to ap proval by the school board. Time has expired on bids off ered by firms on the school structure, the low being more than $1,700,000. All bids were rejected by the Army Corps. 'Number 52 10 Cents Pirl Howells Sell Plant, Station ' Mr. and Mrs. Pirl Howell, who have been Union Oil dis tributors in Heppner for 22 years, have sold .their bulk plant and service ' station to Mike Gray, they announced this week. The Howells have had the plant for 22 years and the serv ice station for 10 years. Gray will begin as Union dis tributor on February 25 when he begins operation of the bulk plant, and will take over the service station as of March 1. He will continue his automot ive business from the service station, specializing in tune-up work and light repair. He will hire a driver to as sist at the bulk plant Gray has operated Gray's Re pair Shop on Morgan street for the past four years. He states that hours at the service sta tion beginning March 1 will be from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m., sev en days a week. The Howells state that they plan to devote more time on their enjoyable interests of hunting and fishing. Pipers Purchase Lexington Market Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Piper of Lexington have purchased Del's Market in Lexington from Mr. and Mrs. Elden Padberg, it was announced late last week. The sale became effective as of Feb ruary 15. Piper has been manager of the store since the Padbergs purch ased the store from Elwynne Peck about four years ago. Post office facilities will con tinue to be operated in connec tion with the store. No immediate changes are planned by the new owners, Pi per said. Mrs. Padberg, who has work ed in the store during the period of the Padberg's ownership, said that she is looking forward to being at home and "catching up on a lot of things." WEATHER By DON GILLIAM Official weather report for the week of February 15-21 is as follows: ' S, ..' ' t I: ' J HI Low Prec. 44 29 .04 48 23 .tr. 52 36 .07 52 31 .05 43 20 56 23 53 23 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Indicates hail or snow.
