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LIBRARY u or o EUGENE, ORE . 97403 84th Year Number 8 Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, April 20, 1967 10 Cents r-. -4 v..,. f ' . ... - ' v rj ""-.-"- - eWw ii . ihv4. GAZETTE-TIMES - 4 - ' -1 ' ft A ' - :j District R-l Budget Approved Board Vote Mav 1;l P"'"" All PrednctS Pederson to Run A. -A TOMMY TURNER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Turner, haa a whole armload ol pup In tht lint grade room ol Mrs. Cleo Rob. Iruon at Heppner Elementary school. But there U something different about these thro pup they art coyote cub. Tom my dad located a coyote don, found the three pups and lent them to school lor the children to tee. He called the Portland soo and made arrangements to send them there adter the local youngster had an opportunity to ee them. (G-T Photo by Spike Pardee). Y' " it i ' . . s : 1 LARRT LINDSAT Lindsay Named To Commission l.nrrv Uwlsnv of Loxlneton hns bfcn nppolntod to the Mor row County Port rommlsslon, euccocdiriK ine inia linrncy ftiui com, It wns Biinouiiccd this Untisav. a Mnchrr. Is a life. lone resident of the county. He Is president of the Morrow county Livestock Growers and l n director and secretary of the Morrow County Grain Grow ers. "Nobody was regarded with more respect and admiration than Barney Mnlcom," Lindsay nald Monday. "No one can flu his shoes, but I will do mv best to follow In his footsteps.1' The new commissioner said that he Is Interested In order ly development of the county, lie Is well acquainted with the north end of the county since the Lindsay Ranches have ex tensive holdings In the range lands) of that part of the county. Lindsay graduated from the University of Portland In busi ness administration and attend ed Georgetown Law Center In Washington, U. C, for a year. He served as a lieutenant -in the' Air Force as an accounting and finance officer for a year in 191.2-63. Ho will serve on this appoint ment until the end of 18 but may seek reelection to the po sition for an ensuing term. Current chairman of the com mission Is Dewey West of Board man. Other members are Dick Krebs of . Cecil, Garland Swan son of lone and Oscar Peterson of lone. Mulcom was elected to the commission In November, 1966, after winning both Kepubllcan and Democratic nominations in the primaries. He served from the first of January until his death February 28. The commission named Lind say to succeed Maleom at Its meeting last Thursday. ' - Lucore's Father Killed in Crash Friend Lucore, 63. of Gresh am. was killed In an auto col lislon 20 miles south of The Dalles Sunday afternoon In an accident that claimed the lives of two others. Six other mem bers of the Lucore family were Injured. Lucore Is father of Loren Lu core of Heppner, who Is fire control officer on the Heppner Ranger District. The Loren Lu core family left Immediately for The Dalle after hearing of the airldent. Injured members of the Lu core family were taken to The Dulles hospital. Included were Mrs. Elsie Lucore, mother of Loren; Lorraine Paunblad, 30, sister of Loren; her husband. Dale Palmblnd. 38; and three Pulmblad children. Darleno, 14, David 16, and Dorcne, 10. No Information was available on condition of the injured per sons, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Lucore left their children with Mr. and Mrs. Ken Methvln here when they went to The Dalles Sunday and said that they expected to return by mid week. Mrs. Meth vln said late Tuesday afternoon that she understood they had continued on to Gresham, ap parently to assist with funeral arrangements. lhe fatal accident happened on U. S. Highway 197 about 20 miles south of The Dalles. A car driven by Orvllle Jones, 38, The Dalles, northbound collid ed with the station wagon which was driven bv Palmbiad. Jones and Dale Lister, 16, also of The Dalles, were the others killed in the accident. Each vehicle contained seven persons. Five in the Jones car were Injured, Including Mrs. Ruth Jones, 36, wife of the driv er, and their children, Tracy 8, and Casey 9; Chris Brace, 14, and Robert Stratton, 16. lhe Palmblads and Mr. and Mrs. Lucore were headed to Gresham when the accidonr oc curred, according to newspaper accounts. The Rev. Don Pederson, pas tor of Hope and Valhy Lutheran churches, said Monday that he would ucccpt tho position of director on the Morrow County School board If he Is elected by wrlteln vote at the board election scheduled Monday. May 1. He nald that he was concern ed about the apathy shown by lack of candidates from the city of Heppner and on this basis offered himself as a candidate. One position from within the Heppner city limits Is open, since Kenneth Butty, present director, decided not to be a candidate to succeed himself. No other candidates filed for election by the deadline for nomination petitions late In March. Jack Sumner, who represents the Heppner rural area, filed petition for reelection. Term of Dr. L. D. Tibbies, second direct or from the city of Heppner, doe not expire at this time. All other members of the roard of directors from other parts of the county arc hold over members and are not up for election. Several advisory committee members are to be chosen at the forthcoming election from various parts of the county. Directors on the board are chosen from the county at large, but advisory committee members are elected only by votes of those whose area they represent. ' 1 .... . - J Trip to Boeing Planned on May 8 Tentative da to for the iiepp ner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce trip to the Boeing in stallation In north Morrow county is set for Monday, May 8, Herman Winter, president, announced at the Chamber's regular meeting Monday. The business and professional people are planning the tour at tho invitation of The Boeing Company. At the same time, the Port Commission will take the tour ing party on a Jaunt to show their plans along the waterfront It Is expected that luncheon will be at the Nomad Restaur ant in Boardman. The port trip Is expected to be in the morn ing with the Boeing visit In the afternoon. Most of the day will be used in making the tour. Non-members may attend but are asked to make reservations with President Winter in ad vance. Maximum accommoda-1 tlon at the restaurant is 52, he said. 'I'-.-.. MRS. CHARLES RUGGLES draw winning entry In lint week Who's Who contest at Gazette-Times. The slip "she holds proved to be the entry ol Nelson Connor who won cash prises of $30. ' (G-T Photo). Nelson $30 in Go nnorWins AI tAl vvno s vvno But Irrigon Vote 'Yes' Nelson Connor of Heppner Is $30 richer because he entered the Who's Who contest, spons ored by Heppner merchants and the Gazette-Times, last week. His name was drawn Tuesday afternoon from the 128 entries submitted at the four featured stores, and he won a $5 prize for this. Because he also had all the Who's Who clues listed correctly, as found in advertise ments of the participating stores, he received another $25. The first man featured in the contest was Dick Carpenter, Heppner High school principal. The 15 clues, scattered in ads of firms taking part in Who's Who were: "Seaside," "Beth," . - v.rf. County Budget Meet Scheduled April 27 i " " Morrow county budget com mittee will have its first offic ial meeting Thursday, April 27, at 9 a.m. in the county court room, County Judge Paul Jones, budget officer, announces. A final Informal work session wilVi be. held Thursday by' the committee. Outlook for the budget is that it will stav with in tho 6 per cent limitation dos. Students Recruit Donors in Contest Students from all four classes at Heppner High have been soliciting adults in the Hepp ner area to give blood In the May 1 Blood Drawing In their tiass nume. Points will be awarded to the class that encourages the most adults to give blood Tho class that accumulates the most points will be awarded a free one-half day off. Points were also plven to th classes according to the amount of articles thev broueht to the Country Store at the Band Carn ival At the present time, the sophomores are ahead with the most points, followed by the seniors. The winning class will be announced shortly after the blood drawing. Equalization Board To Meet on May 8 Morrow county board of equalization will meet on Mon day, May 8, Assessor Rod Thomson announocs. At that time it will consider any errors mndo In valuations, descriptions and qualities of land, lots, or other property 'as sessed by the county assessor. Anyone interested is renuired to appear on the date set at plte rising costs, the Judge said, the county courthouse. i p 4 -V Lj i ! v . -.oV r " a iffiiiii'ri 5 : I f 1 h ?' bill w If-: i i If Sr7 ; I ( li l t ALTHOUGH TROUT season opens this week-end, many local angiers nave been engrossed in trying their lucR in the spring salmon run on the Columbia. Mrs. Vic (Virginia) Groshens here holds a 28 pound chinook that ! caught Saturday above the mouth of Willow Creek on the river. It was the biggest fish she has ever caught, and she used a 12 pound line with Spin-Glo to get the big one. Husband Vic failed to score, but others In the area reported good catches. (Photo by G. Pardee). "Brenda," "Glenda," "twins," "Libby." "St. Paul," "educator," -mil, ".bfuis , no.-35S," -pun cipal.". "Skyline," M. -S.," "U of O," and "Portland State." Carpenter, who formerly Uv ea in beasiae, has three dau ghters, two of whom are twins, namea Beth, Brenda, Glenda His . wife is Libby. The high scnooi principal was lormer su perintendent at St Paul. A tall man, he lives and works on a hill, his home being on Skyline Drive. He is a member of BPOE No. 358. Carpenter has an M S. degree and attended University of Oregon and Portland State. Connor, this week's winner, is employed at Kinzua as a fireman for Kinzua Corporation and works swing shift Mrs. Charles Ruggles did the drawing for the contest Tues day, thereby acting as an im partial judge. Another $30 awaits winner of the contest in this week's pa per. Featured stores this week are J. C. Penney Company, Turn-A-Lum Lumber Co., Elma's Ap parel and Central Market. Com plete rules of the contest will be found in the Who's Who an nouncement on page five of this section. Entrants are to deposit their entries in any of the four stores in the above paragraph before next Tuesday. Winner of $5 is the first name to be drawn next Tuesday afternoon. If this per son also has all the clues list ed correctly on his entry, he will receive an additional $25. If not, the $25 prize will be added to the accumulated prize for the following week. Clues may be found in any of the ads of firms whose names are In the Who's Who display, including these firms ads in other parts of the paper, v By a vote of 227 yes to 134 no, the 196Z-68 budget for Mor row County School District R-l won approval in the election held Monday throughout the district. Only one precinct In the coun ty voted against it This was at Irrigon where the count was 20 yes to 32 no. Boardman roll ed up the highset ratio in favor at 33 yes to 4 no. Heppner fa vored it 88 to 39. lone , voters cast 55 ballots in favor and 43 against; Lexington posted 15 hrj iavor and 10 against; and Hard-man-Ruggs voted 16 yes to 6 no. The affirmative vote through out the county, while only a margin of 93 votes, was inter preted as vote of confidence in the school system, since the election came at a time when concern over high property tax is at its peak and there has teen no definite assurance of relief. The budget Is well above that for the current school year and calls for a tax levy of $652,000 above the six per cent limitation. This was the fourth consecu tive year that the county school budget has been approved on the first try after some stormy times previously. Last year, the vote was 208 yes to 70 no, a margin of 138 votes. In 1965, it was approved by more than a 3-to-l margin, 476 to 151. In 1964, it passed by a vote of 327 to 167, an affir mative majority of 160. In 1963 a year of controversy on school rnatters-x-the -budget was aereatea on the first try, 274 to 697, in April, but was approved two months later af ter some cuts were made, 540 yes to 216 no. In some prior years, the budget was voted down twice before being approv ed at a third election. The margin this year 93 votes was the narrowest affir mative vote of the four consec utive successful years. The turn out was light with onlv 361 voting, but it was not as light as in iw wnen only Z78 both ered to go to the polls. Committee Checks Grandstand Cost lone Schedules Spring Cleanup Spring Cleanup In the City of lone is scheduled .for Friday and Saturday April 28 and 29, May w Jim Barnett announces. - The city has arranged for trucks to make pickups on those days. Property owners are ad vised to clean lots and trash from around their places and place it by . streets or other places where it is accessible. It will be picked up and hauled away. - : Mayor Barnett said that some property owners have been not ified by the city to clean Up lots, arid this will give them an opportunity to get the job done. Cooperation of residents is ask ed in making the city clean. A 5-member committee has been chosen by the Morrow County Fair board to investi gate the possibilities of a new grandstand at the rodeo grounds and to make recommendations to the board- Named to the committee are Jack Sumner, representing the school district; Joe Balfe, repre senting the Chamber of Com merce; Jerry Samples, represent ing the Junior Chamber of Com merce; Archie Munkers. renre. senting the rodeo committee; ana Hon Curnn, . representing the fair committee. The committee was authoriz- ed by action of the fair board at its February 20 meeting. The members met with the board at the regular fair board mptino Monday night - .... ... me committee win ao re search on costs of various types of grandstands, consider what sort of facility might be con structed, and do other ground work. It has been made clear" that the construction of a new grand stand may be some years away, depending largely on costs in re lation to funds available. Another meeting of the com mittee has been set up with the fair board for May 3 at 5 p.m. at the fairgrounds. On the board are Floyd Jones, chairman, Mrs. v.illiam Rawlins, Zearl Gilles pie, Paul Hisler and George Luc lani. Lucianl succeeded Bernard' Doherty on the board following Doherty's resignation in January. WEATHER ; By DON GILLIAM 1 Official weather report for the week .of April 12-18 is as follows: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday GEORGE DEWEY George Dewey Due At League Meet To Talk on Taxes George Dewey of Salem, leg islative counsel for the Oregon Wheat Growers League, will discuss the current property tax situation as principal speaker at the spring meeting of the Morrow County Wheat League Friday night April 21, in the Lexington Grange Hall, starting at 8 p.m. Ken Turner, president of the county league, said that Dewey will endeavor to "paint the pic ture" of the complex tax prob lem. Among questions to be considered will he the property tax offset, sales tax, broader based Income tax. tax exemo- tions and basic school fund re distribution. "Mr. Dewey's observations of proposed property tax offset should be of keen interest to farmers, businessmen, and all taxpayers," Turner said. Announcement of the 1967 Conservation Man of the Year will also be made at the meet ing with Bob Rietmann, lone, vice president of the county league, revealing the name of the winner and introducing him to the group. Another feature will be the appearance of E. A. Redman, area director of Workmen's Compensation, who will discuss the new law which Is binding on all farmers with more than a $1500 payroll. Pertinent wheat Industry news will be given by Bob Jep sen, president of the Oregon Wheat Growers League, and John .Welbes, executive vice president of the league, will al so have an important message. Coffee and doughnuts will be served at the conclusion of the meeting. "The Morrow County Wheat Growers association extends an invitation to the public to at tend this informative session. wnicn is pan or tne regular spring meeting," President Tur ner said. - - - " ' BILL BARRATT Hi Low Prec. 56 35 59 34 .07 52 26 .02 51 30 .... 55 30 - - 55 32 .13 53 39 .01 Barratt Receives Bank Promotion William F. (Bill) Barratt, for merly of Heppner, has been elected senior vice-president of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Spokane to - succeed Carl H. Nieberg, who has been chosen president, it is announc-. ed by George W. Lacey, chair man of the bank's board of dir ectors. . Nieberg succeeds Paul F. Mat son, who will retire. The chang es are to be effective as of July 1. Upon his retirement Matson will be in his 40th year of seryi ice with the bank. . ' . Barratt served two 3-year terms as a director of the Farm Credit Banks of Spokane before becoming assistant to the FICB president in 1964. A native of Heppner, the, bank's new sen ior vice-president was 'graduat ed from Oregon State Univer sity with a degree-in agricul tural economics and served as a tank destroyer officer during World War II. He is a major ity stockholder in Barr att Ranches, Inc., of Heppner. Nieberg is a native of St Louis, Mo., and was graduated from St. Louis Univer sit y School of Business Administra tion. He was engaged in com mercial banking from 1922 to 1941.
