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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1967)
REPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday, May 8S. 1967 i n ii. li v a u izni i I t I ir a . c- 1 1 . - fcs v.l ZAJ . . L, 1 .1 - OTT SUPT. VIC CBOSHENS points to the old pump at the swim ming pool. This is part ol the mechanical installations that would be replaced in rebuilding the poo I. Voters will decide on the $110,000 venture at the bond election Wednesday. May (G-T Photo). Pierce Makes Speedy Gains After Surgery Gene Pierce, president of the Bank of Eastern Oregon, is re cuperatini at St Anthony hos pital in Pendleton this week following surgery performed Thursday, May 18, to remedy a back ailment. According to Bill Siewert, of the bank. Pierce was on his feet Monday and was scheduled to walk a little on Tuesday. He hoped to return home sometime this week-end for further con valescence. For the present he is receiving mall and visitors at Rm. 414 at the hospital. From Portland including Flart's Truck Service PHONE 989-8420 For Fast and Dependable FREIGHT TBUCK SEE VICE Daily Overnight Service Saturdays MOVING? CALL US GENE ORWICr Kit Anderson Gets Grant in Science Kit Anderson, who is complet ing his junior year at Clack amas High school, has receiv ed a grant from the National Science Foundation to studv in chemistry research this summer at prairie View A and M near Houston, Texas. He will study there from June 11 until July 22. Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Anderson, who are current ly in Niamey, Niger, Africa, vis ited with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David An- derson, here over the week-end and also visited with other iriends. Kit formerly attended Hepp ner high school and also spent a year with his parents in Af rica before going to Clackamas. He said that his mother plans to return to the United States in June, and his father will complete his two years in Af rica in August, after which he plans to return to resume in county extension work on some assignment in the state. See us tor envelopes of clnds. The Gazette-Times. TRUCK TIRES ...VALUE-PRICED! Put a full size... full weight truck tire on your Delivery Truck TODAY! I v j fSr I 1 1 III NYLON CORD CONSTRUCTION Plus $2.65 federal Excise Tax 6.50-16 6 ply rating NO TRADE NEEDED enerai Ford's Tire Service County Budget Within 6 Limit; " Some Costs Up (Continued rrom page 1) federal governments to Improve present piirks and develop new sites. Several are under consid eration at the present time for fish impoundments. The $UX0 for the history book public a 1 1 o n comes about through request of the Morrow . 1 County Historical association . "tiand interested citizens who are seeking to raise some $7500 felt necessary to get the book writ ten, compiled and published. Equipment Prorided In the wav of equipment, the sum of $5300 for the micro-film j machine in the clerk's office will j replace present photostat equip 1 ment. Cost of t his machine would be offset by some $5700 estimated as coming to the of fice through fees paid to the county for handling documents. The assessor's office shows the sum of $6,500 for final pay ment on the posting machine, which was partially paid In the current year's budget. An ad dressograph machine was fully paid in the current budget. Emergency operations center for civil defense has already been installed in the basement of the courthouse. But the new budget provides for a sum of $600 for civil defense director's salary, $1300 for radio and EOC materials, $800 for wiring. $1000 for emergency shelter facilities and $100 for travel and conven tion expense. Budget for welfare shows a welcome decrease,, down from $14,672 to $12,438. An item of $1000 for Ditch Creek channel repair for 1966-67 has been elim inated from the ensuing budg et, as was $150 for the 4-H club contribution. Jail expense has been dropped by $1000 from $2500 to $1500 and water mas ter's expense is down from $1700 to $1500. Payment for county and home demonstration agents Is up about $900 going to $13,472 from $12,575. This is for the county's share of expense of operating the extension offices and sal aries are not included since they are paid through the state. Insurance Down Budget for the planning com mittee has been dropped from $1500 to $1000, and insurance expense shows a decrease to $3000 from the $5000 of the cur rent year. The general operating contin gency fund has been increased from $9,055 to $13,000. Provision Is also made in the budget for the county to become a part ot the inland Empire Wa terways association, an organl zation that has played an ac tive role in working for the Wil low Creek project and other de velopments. A total of $250 is earmarked for this purpose. Budget for roads, while listed at $318,797, Includes $71,409 on loan from the State of Oregon, dating back to the winter floods of two years ago. The to tal road budget is actually $247,388, only slightly up from the $245,870 of 1966-67. Budget for the fair and rodeo department lists total expendi tures of $78,380 with most it ems about the same as for the current year with the exception of $43,890 in the sinking fund for a new grandstand at the rodeo grounds. In the way of resources, the budget shows expected gains in several areas: Trailer license distribution, up to S2.200 from $1,100; Surplus Food refund, up to $800 from $750; cigarette tax distribution, to $6500 from noth ing in the current vear: 5 ex cess liquor revenue from the state, $1200 from nothing in iat-b(; justice court lines, es timated to be $12,000 in the coming vear as compared to $10,000. Hearing on the budeet will be vveanesaay, June 7, in the of fice of the county Judge, and any citizen may come to the meeting to remonstrate, or to speak for the budget. Marion Green is chairman of the budget committee, and oth er members are D. O. Nelson and Vernon Russell, together with the county court. ,0 0 all lone Pool to Open For Season June 3 IONE The lone swimming pool will open for swimming on June 3 at 2:00 p.m. The pool will open daily, except Monday, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and from 7:00 p.m to 9:00 p.m. The charge for a season ticket for the entire family is $18.00. The cost for an individual season ticket will be $9. There will be a charge of 15 cents for pre schoolers and students in grades one through six for each swim ming period, if they do not have a season ticket. The charge for grades seven through 12 will be 25 cents per swimming period. Adults will be charged 50 cents. Season tickets will go on sale &t the high school office on Monday, May 22. Season tickets shiuld be bought before June 3 as all swimmers must either have a season ticket or pay the ieguiar price ior swimming. Swimming lessons will be given from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, for be ginning swimmers from June 20 to July 7. This program is for the young children who are Just learning to swim. Gordon Mey ers will be the lifeguard this year. Would you like to have your favorite Gazette-Times photo? Come in and place your order at the Gazette-Times, 4 I i' - V-l: v M'. 'V mm -;, i L -rrsi i . t -n ! .A i I SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING a Standard rint Aid coun Mon- i '"Mij wvi K iiwoukii di am nvppnvr iir aeparnnent and the Morrow county road crew. Instructing the lour-week course was William L. Bohlender. eatery consultant lor the State Compensation Dept., Pendleton. Those completing the course were (tront row) Forrie Burkenbine, John Privett Stan Cox; (second row) Herman Green, Jerry Hollomon, Bill Farm. Sn . !! WalkM- Bufk Gentry; (third row) Vera Nolan. Clyde Allstott Wayne Harsin, Gerald Samples. Proud foot Buys Bull At Hyland Auction Paul Piotiitfoot, 1H, son of Mr. n ml Mrs. John Pnmilfoot, lone, flew (rom Portland to HlKhinore, S 1)., t attend the $J00,IXM) Ankonv llvlaiul Angiw auction sale M.iy JO. lie purchased the top wiling yearling bull. Ankonlait Presi dent No. !SKi, to further In crease the quality of his regis tered Antis herd. Hefore the nale he toured the 10,000 ncre Anknny Hyland ranch ah ii nue.it "of 1-e.sler l.cachmao of Khtneliack, N. V co-owner of the ranch. Leach wan had been with Paul lit Tcin last year timing the an imal American Ant;us tiNHoclat Inn t'lial'enge Tour. TYTEWItlTKH IHMIONS for Mil make of machine, JIHc; Car ter's X-Pert Cnrbon Picr, ;t!K? pki;; boxed typing paper, NX) sheets, $1.1)3; adding niachlno paper, 2.c roll: eiirhonleil and non-cnrbonlzed sales books, ml other office supplies, t!a-rotto-Tlmes office. Mrs. Elder Wins $5 in Who's Who; Next Prize $55 Mrs. Maurice Elder of Ilenn- ner won $5 in this week's Who's Who contest when her cntrv slip was drawn Tuesday afternoon by County Judge Paul Jones, act ing as judge in this week's con test. She correctly Identified Bill Siewert as the "Who's Who" person of the week, but missed winning $23 more when she fail ed to list all clues. She had 12 of the 15 correct. This means that $25 addition al will be added for next week's contest so that a person who correctly Identifies the week's person and lists all clues cor rectly from ads in the paper stands to win $55 If his name is drawn from all those enter ing the contest. Mrs. Elder listed the follow ing clues: Margaret, Barbara, Jean, Elks, Quaid, cashier, white collar, glasses, rrom Midwest, ' William, Nicky, and Orofino. She failed to list the other three: Paula. Navy, llillsboro. Interest In the contest has malntalne a high pitch with many entries being deposited in the four boxes each week. To qualify for the coming contest, the entrant should lo cate all the clues scattered In ads In this week's (Msy 25 1 pa per. Identify the person and write his name, together with the clues, and the entrnnt's name and address on piece of paper. This must be deposit ed In one of the four stores of the week J. C. Penney Co., Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., Elma's Apparel or Central Market. A plane trip to California was enjoyed May 7 14 by Mrs. Jim Loveren. hr slutnr.ln.lnw Mm Jack Sumner, her mother, Mrs. Cal Sumner of Prlnevllle. and Mrs. Bob Bergstrom. The plane, Piloted bv Mrs. Jack ?n made a stop at Stockton, where Mrs. RiTPtiirnm emtnt .mmr.l days with a brother and sister- in-iaw, air. ana Mrs. w. A. Tur ner nnd famllv Thn nrlw.ro tinned nn In Mnllhn n.n..l. where thi-v visltoH Jnu Ciimmi, did considerable sight seeing Iri ine area and visited with rela tives in San Carina and Kantu Kosa. II I C-.V2VVr I 1 HI CST I I I'IHM MOW I I tyy 1 GALLON FREE WITH PURCHASE OF 4 GALLONS OF ANY COLOfctffcf KM UMITED TIME ONLY! Pettyjohn's Form & Builders Supply f 1 v J 3EWA JU Tt'T7l; -y?ys'vsytM.nejesw. i-"!!,;. ,1.1." j0- u m 1 . . ?w mm DM I This picture shows damages caused when cm insulator is broken. Short circuit that resulted caused a fire that almost completely bumed on pole of a double pole structure. Such damage may cause power outages that are costly to power users. Repairs are costly to the power company. will be paid by Columbia Basin Electric Co-op for information leading to the arrest and convic tion of anyone found shooting or breaking insulators on any of Columbia Basin's power lines. Willful damage or deliberately committing other acts that cause interruption of service is against the law, and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This applies to any of the lines of Columbia Basin in Morrow, Wheeler or Gilliam counties. 5) Diioiuibo(ni iectrnc Co-op Serving Morrow, Wheeler and Gilliam Counties
