2 HEPPNER GAZETTE - GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner. Oregon 97836 Phone 676-9223 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30. 1SS3. The Heppner Times established November IS. 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1912. tii&1 NIWSPAMR CWT PUBUSHUI W-ASSOCIATION WESLEY A. SHERMAN ... HELEN E. SHERMAN ROD (SriKE) PARDEE Advertising Manager Photographer MARION ABRAMS Society Circulation JIM SHERMAN Pressman 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. Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.. Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. until noon Saturday. 'They Just Stood There . . Heppner's municipal swimming pool has had a fine rec ord for very few accidents, and this speaks well for the supervision there through the years. There was near tragedy at the pool last Thursday even ing, however, and from the shock of it comes some thoughts on being prepared for the future, as well as some ideas that may help prevent future incidents. Were it not for the action of Stuart Dick, lifeguard, a life surely would have been lost. He brought a young woman from the bottom of the pool and managed to get her out, but she was not breathing and there was no pulse. He described the color of her face as a "dark blue." Dick showed excellent training in proceeding with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, even though it seemed that it was too late. He stuck with it until she started breathing. He recognized that the girl had a physical ailment that probably contributed to the mishap, and he had to adjust the normal mouth-to-mouth procedure, under additional handicap, to save her life. Startling is the fact that this young woman apparently was at the bottom of the pool in nine feet of water for some time before she was noticed there. In the particular spot where she had gone down, it is dif ficult for the lifeguard to see the bottom from his stand. Al so, the bottom of the pool was dirty, and the young woman's suit apparently blended with the discoloration on the bottom. The "new" pool will remedy some of these conditions. As Dick points out, there is no way to clean the bottom of the pool now without draining it. A vacuum cleaner is need ed, and it is understood that one will be part of the equip ment for the new pool. Would it be possible to get one now? Lights underwater around the wall of the pool would help prevent this situation. The city has planned on getting them for the "new" pool, if the money is available. The inci dent last Thursday points up the fact that these lights are not just a frill but are important to safety. A rather stunning thing that comes to light out of the incident was the reaction or lack of reaction by the other swimmers. It would seem that some education needs to be given the swimmers on this point. Some of the others appar ently noticed the young woman lying still in the deepest part of the pool but thought little of it Finally, one girl told another swimmer to go tell the lifeguard instead of recog nizing real trouble and hastening to go or to shout immed iately to the lifeguard herself. When Stuart brought the young woman to the surface and over to the side of the pool, he had the problem of get ting her over the relatively high ledge at the edge. He called for assistance, but the youngsters were too stunned or fright ened to respond. There were no adults swimming on this even ing. He had to get her over the ledge himself and in doing so lacerated her knees on the edge. "They froze," he said. "They just stood there and watch ed." The lifeguard then called for someone to run and call the ambulance, but again came the dull reaction. Eventually, someone went to Peggy Snyder inside the bath house, and she went to a neighborhood house to call the ambulance, not knowing what the problem was. The high ledge at the pool's edge is another thing that will be corrected with the rebuilt pool. Jerry Sweeney called attention to this very thing when plans for the pool were being considered. He said, "If it is necessary for a lifeguard to rescue someone, he'll have a hard time getting them out." The "new" pool will have "rollout" edges near the water lev el. Another point: There is no telephone at the pool. When it is necessary to get an ambulance, someone has to run to a nearby house. It would seem that this should be corrected. In reflecting back, Dick blames himself for not specifical ly designating some one person to go call for the ambulance, and to tell them to specify, in calling, what the problem was. Since Peggy got the information second hand, she knew only that there had been an accident and relayed that information. Consequently, the ambulance arrived without a resuscitator. The fact that the youngsters at the pool didn't rush to Stuart's aid at the time of crisis gives a person pause, but maybe it points up something else. Do we take it for grant ed that our children will know when someone is drowning, and thereby assume too much? Who has told them specifical ly what a drowning person acts like? They seldom see a person in real trouble in the water, and perhaps no one has ever told them just what to do when it happens. It would seem that users of the pool might profit by holding practice drills at unannounced times through the season. The lifeguard could show the youngsters how to help him get a person out of the pool, instruct the kids in how to go call an ambulance, how to recognize a person in trouble, and even the elemental matter of how to call the lifeguard. There has been much material on how to save a drowning person, how to give artificial respiration, and so on, but have we overlooked the elemental things of teaching our children how to recognize a person who is in trouble in the water, and the details of how to lend a hand. We think, too, that the city should consider having two fulltime lifeguards on duty at all times. Dick has had some help part time, but not all the time. When the pool gets as much use as it does in a summer like this one, it would seem to be a difficult chore for one per son to keep an eye on all the swimmers. If one were station ed on his "tower" while another was moving about the side of the pool, the swimmers would get better policing. This young lifeguard did an outstanding piece of work in saving the life of the Portland girl last Thursday night, and he is to be commended for it. But looking back, there are some good lessons to be learned in seeing that it doesn't happen again. If your youngster is a swimmer, this is a good time to take him aside and discuss with him how to recognize anoth er swimmer in trouble, point up the urgency of shouting to the lifeguard immediately, and give him some pointers on how to lend a helping hand without getting in the way. TIMES. Thursday. July 20. 1967, HEPPNER NATIONAL NEWSPAPER 5551 1""8"7" EDITOR AND PUBLISHER .. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER ARNOLD RAYMOND Shop Foreman Printer REGGIE PASCAL Linotype Operator RANDY STILLMAN Apprentice Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman WITH SPIKE PARDEE gone from the staff, leaving Friday, and off to seek his fortune somewhere else, we were back on the advertising beat again' this week. After hibernating in the GT office for the past eight months, it was kind of nice get-1 ting out to see the improve- j ments that have boon made ( around town. When we went Into Central i Market, we didn't rooogni.o it. I We hadn't boon in the store for six weeks, since Momma Pub-1 lisher has been buying the gro- J eeries. Clint and Co. have reallv boon I doing things, with the old back end of the store now devoted to a self-service meat depart ment. All the meats are neatly wrapped and labeled. Ernie McCabe of the meat de partment has a smile a mile wide, as if he had just discov ered a miracle. He makes a pile of hamburger, puts it in one machine and it comes out in ev en quantities. Then he wraps it with some self-sealing paper on another new gadget. A taut wire cuts the paper. Then he puts the packages, one at a time on a scale. A com puter automatically prints a la bel with the weight, price per lb., and the value of the pack age. This thing works so neatly it even excludes the weight of the paper, so the old days of a butcher weighing his thumb with the product are gone. Ernie then pushes the pack age against the label, which is automatically waxed with an adhesive, and the label adheres to the package. Quite a far cry from the old days. Up above some big beautiful raised letters, "Quality Meats," adorn the new section, with a raised and painted replica of a steer in between. Birch panel ing forms the backdrop. The old office, from which Clint used to survey his king dom is gone. There is a new office in front of the building to give better service to bill paying customers, and Clint and Forrie Burkenbine have a hidey-hole in the back room for Memories Of The Old Fair building By ART CRAWFORD PART IV 1907 "Money Panic" On a warm summer day in 1907 I was drafted for the most important task of my young life. My duty, to prevent a "run" on the Lexington branch of the Bank of Heppner. Rumor had it that some of the depositors in the area were becoming a bit nervous over the banking situa tion. So if a run on the branch came about there would be am ple funds on hand to pay off to the last depositor. It was the "money panic" year. The year of the "Clearing House Certificates" and things were getting a bit touchy throughout the country as a whole. Father told me to sad dle up Old Henry, my grand father, J. V. Crawford's pride and joy, and ride him around to the bank's rear entrance on Center street. This I did. Mr. Wharton and my father came out and tied a canvas bag of money to the saddle horn and I was in structed to mosey down the road to Lexington and hand the bag over to Mr. McAllister, the branch manager. I was assured that no one would suspect a boy on a horse, so there would be absolutely no danger. They were so right, but it was a long nine miles for me. Up to the front door of the bank I rode and just sat there astride Old Henry. After awhile Mr. McAl lister came out of the bank to see what I wanted and when I pointed to the money bag he could scarcely believe it. For while he knew the money was being "rushed" as a safeguard against a rumored run on the bank, little did he think the job would be entrusted to a 14 year old boy. The run on the bank at Lexington never even tuated, I am glad to report. Fabled Well Down Below On my most recent visit to Heppner, May-June 1967, I made a point of going over the ground upon which the Fair Building had stood lor so many years. What I was particularly look ing for was some sign of indi cation there had really been a well under the venerable struc ture. Old oldtimers always said there was a well and that it produced excellent and very cold water. When the big flood came, its waters rushed all around the Fair Building, which was probably some 200 feet from where the flood reached its crest. The basement was filled with water and mud. (By the way, I never did find out just how much of a basement was under the building). After the flood relief workers had completed the huge task of clearing away the wreckage and debris generally, a pump crew set to work getting the mud and slime, along with the wa ter out of the Fair building basement. The work of pump ing went on for days. As I re member, the hose looked like it might have been borrowed their business office now. Oh, I tell you. If a guy doesn't keep up with things and get around thev make all kinds of improvements without you knowing it. ANOTHER ONE of those sur prise visitors materialized from nowhere Friday morning in the person of Cone Tongue of Stayton. Some will remember that Gone was our rodeo pa rade grand marshal n few years back, riding his famous stallion, "Mr. Chevrolet." Well, sir, Gene was headed for Salmon River country In Idaho this week. He'd stopped by to see his longtime friends, the Paul Browns. Jim Farley and others, and dropped in to join us in a cup of coffee. Gene won just about all the honors available with "Mr. Chevrolet." He took the Grand National at the Cow Palace, and has accumulated many ether trophies from major shows. Gene rode the beautiful horse in the Pasadena Rase Parade for several consecutive years at the invitation of the festival asso ciation. But now he has gone into another exciting avocation, in addition to selling Chevrolet from his garage in Stayton. He has become a river guide. This apparently stems from his in terest in the North Santium White Water festival, now held annually. He is among those who promoted this event, and this year some 200 crafts of nil kinds and descriptions partici pated. Weather was nasty, but everyone got soaking wet and had a good time. Just before visiting here, Gene had been down on the Rogue River, guiding a party, and he was headed to meet a party of dignitaries on the Salmon, Among those expected to be In his boat was Senator J. W. Ful bright of Arkansas. So Gene Is going to take Sen. Fulbrlght down the "River of No Return." But knowing Mr. Teague. we're sure hell get the senator back all right. from the fire department and the pump was a double action rig that was manually operat ed by a long up rght handle that was moved forward and backward. Water and mud seemed to run down the gutter in a steady stream but there was so much silt, which had to be shoveled into a wagon and carted away to some dis tant point of dumping. City of ficials were highly concerned over the sanitation problems and they were taking all pos sible precaution. Finally the day came when there wasn't much comng through the hose but clear wa ter, then there was nothing at all. Before pulling out the rip, it was decided to wait a coupie of days and then try the pump again. This time the water came out in quantity and it was crystal clear. Again there was no more water, so an in vestigation got under way and what did they discover? The nozzle of the hose was found to have dropped into the old well. For several days they had been pumping the old well dry. This could have gone on end lessly, so the pumping crew fi nally decided to call it a day and they quit for good. So there must have been a well under the Fair Building after all. But flood or no flood, Sylvia Shipley Wells remarked when I related the above story to her, "They seemed always to be pumping water out of the base ment of that building when I was a little girl living back on Gale street." (Case Apartments now occupy the site of the old Shipley home). I agreed with Sylvia and suggested it was more likely due to poor street drainage than anything else. But that old well, that's a story persisting in lgeend if not in fact. So Ave Atque Vale You grand old pile of brick Your destiny met fulfillment And your days were filled with pride All Heppner folks just loved you To the very day you died There even may have been tears shed For the fond memories that you held Twas brutal treatment that they gave you An ignominious end and also, alas Your successor, tho neat and tidy, too Will be selling Richfield oil and gas, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wishart, Hood River, visited over the week-end in Heppner with his brother and family, the Jim Wisharts. Misses Gail Batty, Karen Me- Curdy and Susan Lindstrom, all summer school students at Ore gon State University, enjoyed a short week-end vacation at their respective homes, Boardman to Bid Farewell to Old Town at Picnic By MARY LEE MARLOW HO A HUMAN Plans are being made for a no bust community picnic to be held here Sunday, August X on the school l.twn for anyone who has ever lived hero or had friends hero. Since the old town of Board man is now mm existent and everything Is none except the school and the old eltv hall building this wltl be the last af fair held in the old town. All are Invited to attend. Anyone wanting further In formation mav contact Mrs. Har old Baker. Mrs I.aVern Part low, Mrs. Leonard Hedord or Mrs. El don Shannon. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Soohufor wore hosts for the annual Greenfield Grange picnic on the lawn at their home Sunday af temoon. There were 22 present. Out of town guests were Rus sell Bclshoo of Moro, mid Mr. and Mrs. Kav Brown of I'ma tilla. Others Included Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Donovan, Mr. and Kirs. Chub Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Baker and son Dale, Mr and Mrs. Kenneth Hroadbcnt and children Cnllv, Klckie and Marty. Mrs. Waller Hayes, Mrs Rollin Bishop, Jack McEtitire. Mrs. Leo Root and Mrs. Frank Mar low. The Boardman Cltv Council last week awarded a garbage franchise to the Hermlston San itary Service, operated by F. E. Sullivan. The citv will bill for this service In the future, put ting It on the water and sew age bill. For any further Infor mation on this rail the citv hall. Z. J. Gillespie announced that water and sewage service had 1)1011 completed In the first ad dition to the city of Boardman. and this will give the city 11) more services. Princess Dane Planned The Boardman Tlllieum Club held a pot luck dinner Tuesday night of last week at the home of Mrs. LaVern Part low for members and their families. Fi nal plans were made for the princess dance In honor of Linda Tatone on August 5 at Heppner. Mrs. Ralph Skoubo Is chairman of the music committee and an nounced music would be fur nished bv "The Gophers" of The Dalles. Mrs. Dewey West, Mrs. Carroll Donovan and Mrs. Rno aid Black will be In charge of the food. Plans were made to take a tour of the Boeing test site July II. The next meeting will be held August H. the place to be an nounced later. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parmer and daughter Sue of Metropolis, 111., visited from Friday to Tues day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ilarwood. They are former residents here. Visitors last week at the Ilarwood home were Harwood's brother-in-law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bro ten of Tacoma, Wash. Mrs. Leo Root went to Wasco Wednesday of last week to visit at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ver non Root, and accompanied them to Portland where they visited Mrs. Root's brothers and sisters-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Mefford and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mefford. They brought her home Frday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ball and Mrs. Glen Carpenter returned home Sunday from a nine day's trip which took them to Glacier National Park in Montana, and to Lomond, Lctheridge and Banff, Alta., Canada, and back through British Columbia. They also attended the Calgary Stam pede. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Rlsley and children Melodic, Bobbie, Tarn mie and Grace Ellen went to Payette, Idaho Saturday to vis it at the home of Mrs. Risley's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Forthman. Mrs. Rlsley and children remained there for a week's visit. Mr. and Mrs. LaVern Boyian of Hermlston were Sunday visit ors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Daniels. Mrs. Roy Partlow and daugh ter Joannie and Mrs. Harold Baker and daughters Karon and Kristin went to Portland last Friday to visit overnight at the home of Mrs. Partlow's sister, Mrs. Helen Wahistrom. Ron Ba ker returned home with them after spending two weeks at Perry's Sport Camp there. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Russell at tended a reunion of the Russell and Boers families last Satur day at Mayer State Park near Rowena. There were about 75 present. The Russell's visited ov ernight in The Dalles at the homo of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Reed. Mrs. Elvln Ely wont to Whit stran, Wash. Monday to take her grandchildren Renee and Ricky Ely to visit at the home of her son-in-law and (laugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Newell Vaught, for two weeks. Rena Ely is visiting her other grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Os borne, in Hermston. Russell and Tommy Carpenter of Payette, Idaho, are visiting for two weeks at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Jenkins. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vcrn Carpenter, brought them down a week ago. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Daniels and children Pam, Vicky and Scott have returned from a week's visit in Caldwell, Idaho, at Ihe home of Daniels' parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bedord iff! QqI om snpnp Initiative Moves Seen As Tax Structure Threats In Ignoring the "what's Ihe nti" critics and reaffirming Ills Intention to call the legislature iiilo special session this tall, Govonor Tom Mi-Call apparently thinks something can be done I out proiwrty taxes without re course to some Initiative petit Inn Ideas now being promoted. Such faith In Oregon legislat ive process can be justified by the reeiwil, according to some students of taxation, despite the 17 assembly's failure to reach agreement on any local tax re In f plan- In recent years, they note, law makers have directly reduced homeowners' bills ttvrough the Property Tax Belief Act of I'.ktf nutl referral of the successful cigarette tax to Oregon voters Indirect relief has come by way of Increases In basic school sup port and other state money dir ected to local aid; the new gas ol.no tax li. crease will give more road ami recreation area funds to cities and counties. Furthermore, they point out, legislators have eased th bur d e n o n rlderly homeowners through the senior citizens' homestead exemption and have fought off elimination of tho state personal In come tax deduction now al lowed on property taxes paid. And despite popular clamor for repeal or property-tax exempt- ... -I... . i.. li 'lis, rieviea siaie icauors consis tently have refused to allow ap plication of lot-si taxes to home- twners' personal property. This practice oreotes a tug tat) in numv states, untl Is a significant exemption not allowed business taxpayers. Mindful of Oregon s business climate, legislators have encour aged business growth through legislation as the Inventory Tax Relief Act of lmVTi. That act Is phasing out half of Oregon's In ventory tax, which actually is a property tax paid by business men on goods in stock. Other Incentives to spur growth In business and employment have Included exemption from tax liability of goods shipped In to Oregon for transhipment else where, the "green belt'' provision tillering property tax relief to fanners and the exemption from taxation of buildings while un der construction. Beginning Sept 1.1, persons or Industries Install lug anil pollution facilities, in stead of being penalized for lin- Pioneer Ponderings By W. S. CAVERHILL Monday Morning's Desk "Straws In the wind" and rubbish In the mall are the con ditions and things that a busi ness man must wallow In on Monday morning before he es tablishes the day's course of work. lie must scan the news head lines for International shock waves, the weather forecast, the stock market anda his appoint ment calendar. There will be a pile of mall matter from cur rent bills to Insurance and med ical advice from experts. There will be circulars on special op portunities to Improve your In come, sharpen your memory, and what to feed the dog. Whether you are obese, anem ic or flat chested, sooner or la ter some eager beaver will mall you a remedy. There will al ways be "straws In the wind" and rubbish in the mall, and the best way to avoid the an noyance of them is to come an hour late. By thnt time your secretary will have riffled out the junk and will be ready to give you an outline for work. She will have a consensus of your personal Image among your customers and perhaps add a spot of local gossip that has nothing to do with your busi ness. and son Billee anad Mrs. Guy Ferguson have returned home from a trip to Long Beach, Wash. They were gone four days. Mrs. Bedord and Billee spent the week-end at Brush Prairie, Wash., visiting her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Vcrn Moe. Shirley Earwood, Mrs. Ralph Skoubo and Ella Sutton left Sunday to take a group of youngsters to Pinecroft Camp near Blanchard, Idaho. They In cluded Larry and Susan Ball and Diane Rash. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rash went to Walla Walla, Wash. Sunday afternoon to got the youngsters who spent last week at the Klwanis Camp there. They were Linda Ball, Dale and David Lindall, Tracee Ferguson and Tamara McKenzle. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Culp and Mrs. tiene Winters were In Port land Wednesday, July 12. to sel ect fabrics for Mrs. Gulp's home salesroom. by Evtrtlt I. CutUr piovlng properly, will be allow ed some tox relief on the tlew equipment. Most Important for both home- owners and business Is the high degree of uniformity of assess ment nnd administration among id! classifications of property which lias been achieved over the years. Because of this, tax experts note, IHogott has pooomo the model state Insofar as prop erty tax equality Is concerned. Ill spite of past legislative of ftits, most also will agree that property taxes are too high, that we iilaiv too much reliance on local taxes to support burgeon ing local needs. IJke current legislators, however, thev fall to agree on an answer to proper ly tax .-ellef demands. Harmony conies closer when considering ways NOT to solve the dilemma, some of which are embodied In Initiative proposals. Among these are well publi cized Ideas to place a flat 1 or I u per cent limitation on prop rty taxes through Constitutional amendment. Although appealing on the surface, these generally are regarded as disastrous, for such limitations would slice local revenues from one-third to half without providing other re sources to pay education and local government cts. Other proposals gaining favor In recent weeks would extend property tax relief only to home owners. Such Ideas, whose pro ponents Include State Treasur er Robert Straub, Portland Young Republican Club and some Dem ocratic legislative lenders are be ing challenged on grounds that ( 1 1 they display lack of confi dence In the record compiled by legislators and l2 they would severely damage Oregon's busi ness climate. On the latter point, those who would seek equal relief for nil classes of property argue that business and industry already shoulder the greatest proerty tax burden Scclal relief to re. Identlal prox-rtv owners would shltt on even larger iiereentage onto business property. More industry and year-round employment provide the an swer to a balanced, lion seas onal Oregon economy, according to businessmen. This Is partic ularly Important In a state where the three largest Indus tries forest products, agricul ture and tourism are highly seasonal. And Oregon's uniform property tax structure, they maintain, provides a major in ducement to expansion and di versification of Industry which in turn, means more jobs. In any case, the threat to Oregon's economy posed by such plans, ami the defeat of a num I er of school budgets nrour.d the state, is causing some re evaluation of the whole tax re form program. Governor Met 'all said last week he may call it special session earlier than September "If a crisis Inter venes." And present legislators, de spite the taxation record to be written In Salem over many earlier years, now are learning from the folks at home that ill feeling over 17 session re sults Is widespread and will not easily le forgotten. Coming Events HEPPNER SWIMMING POOL Open Tuesdays thru Frl days, 1 to 4 p.m., and 7 to 9 p.m. Open Saturdays and Sundays, 2 to 7 p.m. Closed Mondays Second session of swimming classes for beginners, Inter mediates and swimmers to start July 24 Parents swim free Friday nights when accompanying children RODEO DANCE Honoring Princess Maureen Doherty of Lexington Saturday, July 22, 9:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Heppner Fair Pavilion Music by Tho Henchmen of Heppner. Everyone Welcome! LITTLE LEAGUE TOURNEY District Tournament, Friday, Saturday, July 21, 22 Hood River field Willow Creek League, first game, Friday, 4:00 p.m. MORROW COUNTY PICNIC Annual Morrow County Picnic Sunday, August 6 Laurelhurst Park, Portland Potluck dinner Everyone welcome. Englishman's son SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency Heppner P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 COMMUNITY 1 BIUBRD