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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1967)
Jl HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday- August 31. 1967 ces County Fair Prod Many Champions iMj - i - 'il r INIM...1..,M.1,,M1MIIJ ,1 . , Mill . . ..1 4' If I ; ft 'A L-w-r-J :,v, , , i-tt!-Si i l nil mi mi-MUn i m -- .: i V- : mn -" ' ' - t fo 1 M . .i, '',i-..v . tto -'trlrftmiii i . 1 -v ' 'Mir E3B v. y , i . WINNERS of the Oregon Wheat League's cake baking contest at the fair are shown at left. Mrs. Al Fetuch of Lexington (center) won first; Mrs. Rot W. Lindstrom of lone (right) was second; and Mrs. Roy Davis of Heppner (left) was third. Judging of the white layer cakes with white moun tain frotlng was done by Mrs. Vance Purophrey of Union, who found scoring very close among the three. Mrs. Fetsch is eligible to enter the state bake-off later this year with Mrs. Lindstrom as first alter nate and Mrs. Davis as sec ond alternate. WORK of school children in Morrow county formed an im pressive display in one corner of the fair pavilion. Children had hundreds of entries here, as well as in Children's Corn er and other parts of the fair to show their budding talents. i v ; GRAND CHAMPION 4-H club lamb was shown at the fair by Bill Greenup (far left). The 92 lb. lamb was sold to Don Robinson at a price of 50c per lb. GRAND CHAMPION FFA lamb was won at the fair by Bob Harris (left). The 100 lb. lamb was sold to Northwest ern Livestock Commission Co. at a price of 60c per lb. MRS. NELS ANDERSON, back from Niger, Africa, was at the fair to present the N. C An derson trophy for grand cham pion all-around showman (4-H) at the county fair to Larry Pettyjohn (right). Ricky Anderson, young son Of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, was on hand to see the job was done right. Nets Anderson is due home from Africa about' Sept ember 10. NOTING 100 years of service of the Grange, the exhibit of the Rhea Creek Grange (far left) was fudged sweepstakes win ner of community booths at the fair. It featured a Wheel of Progress and grains. ALBERT PHILLIPS (leift) re ceives trophy from Hal Whit aker, Smith-Hughes instructor at Heppner High school, for his outstanding FFA Hereford project The award is given by the Oregon Hereford association. WINNER of the Flag Race tro phy, presented by Farley Mo tor Co., at the rodeo this year was the Heppner Wranglers. At right Princess Rubianne Fulleton prefnts the trophy to the Wrangler team Patti Pettyjohn of lone, Greg Brooks of Arlington, and Mrs. Sandra (Eubanks) Rodriguez of lone. Races were particularly thril ling this year. Two riders were dismounted at about the same time in the Sunday race, but both immediately resumed the race. Umatilla Sage Riders won on Saturday, but Wrang lers won Sunday and received the trophy because they post ed the best time. THE LATEST in farm machin ery was on display at the lair and in the parade over the weekend. This fine piece of equipment (left) was en tered in the parade by Ken neth Turner. His little dau ghter (a courageous girl) is riding with him. ALLYN WITHEKRITE shows the grand champion FFA swine at the livestock auction at the fair Thursday night (right). Ringmen included in the pho , to are (far left back to cam era) Deane Graves and Don Greenup. At right in photo is Harold Erwin. Gary Van Blok land, just back from armed service, also assisted. Don Wink of Hermiston, who has helped with the Morrow fair for years, was auctioneer. Gail McCarty was master of cere monies at the awards pro gram preceding the auction. Pig scramble again was a principal feature of the evening. It II 13 II i II 1 1 H 71 i .. i ' p va mm 1 r n. i r . i r X 1. ' W II 1 0 . f04 it ... t f V- i 111 j- v J A v f f I v i f it ii .-i. .'tf-.-c. ( ifti- I - .-r.- gh - , i v,j E I . -4." . t v ' j t,1...'M'-, llll I HI" (ALL PHOTOS By GAZETTE-TIMES) ili 4t6fkismwSij ill
