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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1967)
2- HEPPNEB GAZETTE-TIMES. Thundery. Augut 31. 1967 ara eclare RAINBOW GIRLS, on of the m DRUGS P c9 OQQO 7 UJ , 1L Jr-r ..fH - 4 r f J- - i ",nn i iiHumijt, nil, iin.ii n a,, . tel. mm'Vm-mmmm, m w -n , jf :Vy . "V i v -'11 n n 11 I -"i 1 r U 11" - - -- - kciilm 1? I f J t- i - ran . k.,v. perennial winners with their floats la the rodeo parades, again won a first place la the youth organizations divis ion (left). Girls riding on their beautiful float are Linda Heath (left), Linda Orwick. Pattt Ho well. JU1 Padberg and Jana Lee Scott. The lloat de picted an "Old Fashioned Garden." MOST SPECTACULAR entry In the rodeo parade was that or the Lutheran churches ol eastern Oregon and Washing ton, cominq from Milton-Free-water (right). The lloat com memorated the 450th Refor mation. Brought to Heppncr bT Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ring hand, the entry won first place in the out-of-town div ision. Lutheran churches of a wide area contributed to cost of construction of the lloat which Is appearing In nine celebrations this summer. It folds Into a very small "pack age" for traveling. According to the parade rules, it is not eligible tor competition in sweepstakes, which is limited to local entries. STEVE WACENBLAST (left) shows his grand champion Black Angus steer that brought him top honors in Future Farmers of America competition at the county fair. Steve, like his older brother, John, is compiling an out standing record with the fine stock that he is raising. The 965 lb. steer brought 62c per lb. at the livestock auction and was sold to Highland Ma chinery Cc Condon. In the background is Dave HaiL who won many FTA awards at the fair. FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Hepp ner branch, again underwrote the livestock auction sale at the county iair, and the crew is shown in this picture. From right are Pat Wonser, Jim Wishart Mrs. Jim Lovgren. Norman Supple, and Mrs. Dean Oilman. Mrs. John Ven ard, who also helped while her husband was working on details of the rodeo as secre tary, is not in this picture. Mrs. Venard (Clista) perform ed yeoman service both on the fair and rodeo. MOTHER'S CLUB float (left), took third place in adult or ganizations division. Children of many lands were featured. On the float were Joe Steph ens (Mexican), Sally Wishart (Chinese). Bobette Jones (American Indian), Evelyn Lucore (Dutch), Ricky Ander son (African), in authentic costume that he brought from Africa; and Susie Wishart (Japanese). wr ANOTHER of the four self-pro-pelled floats that were out standing and brought delight to crowds at the parade was that of the Hermiston Cham ber of Commerce (right). This took second place in the out-of-town division against the tough competition of the Lu theran church (loot HEPPNER POST, American Leg ion, stirred patriotism in the hearts of parade watchers with their float (left), first that they have entered in re cent parades. Servicemen and ex . servicemen represented were from World War I to the Vietnam conflict Color guard is Ed Baker and Jim Driscoll; from World War I are Earl Gilliam and Frank Hamlin; from World War II are Riley Munkers and Bill Heath; from the Korean war. Joe Yocom and Clayton Sweek; and from the Vietnam war, Larry Heath and Bob Kindle. . , 4 ONE OF THE very interesting exhibits at li.e county fair was the booth of the Oregon Game Commission (right), which featured fish hatcher ies. Fifteen hatcheries produce 25 million fish for release in Oregon lakes and streams an nually, the booth showed. Glen Ward, state game agent, was responsible for getting the booth set up at the fair. (ALL GAZETTE-TIMES PHOTOS) - r -i -mm i in tii-- inn ' I---'-'' --.i "-' it-rn -ii i'llinm-rl in .v. 1 ) I , HTBir - .: ,:rn - - -1 .; j - ii 1 1 1 n ' I ' A. - 3 4 i r m r TFT 1 ' if i i 'I .11.. Ilimln il-i"" , ...... . .,. . . i ; i t l.-.n.i..,ri miw. g.t 1 . ; .. . W ' 3 - - ..-if . -5.
