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2 HEPPNER GAZETTE -TIMES. Thursday, September 21. 1967 HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner. Oregon 97836 Phone 676-9228 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner llazotte established March 30, 1SS3, The Heppner Times established November IS, 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1912. national f.:v;srAr:r; ' (f PUBUSHIIS WASSOCIATION EDITOR AND POBUSHER . ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER WESLEY A. SHERMAN HELEN E. SHERMAN ARNOLD RAYMOND Shop Foreman Printer GAIL BCRKENBtNE Society Circulation Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Every Thursday and Entered at as Second tiass .Matter. Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 ajn. until noon Saturday. REGGIE PASCAL Linotype Operator RANDY STTLLMAJf Apprentice JIM SHERMAN Pressman SinRle Copy 10 Cents. Published the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, Buy in the Moonlight During the past several years, Heppner merchants have been developing a series of promotional events, designed to stimulate continued Interest in the city as a trading center and to offer fun and attraction for the shopping public. Al though some distance away from larger towns, they realize that in this time of speedy transportation it is necessary to remain competitive with the larger neighbors. Several years ago, the Heppner merchants started Christ mas Opening and this popular event has continued with its window guessing contest It will be held again this year on the weekend after Thanksgiving. Four years ago, the Sidewalk Bazaar was staged for the first time. Some had the idea that this event would be a "flop," but it proved to be a real fun time, with both merch ants and the public getting considerable enjoyment from it. The 1967 event was probably the best of all with the shop pers getting fine bargains and the merchants making a good record in sales. Last year, under the leadership of Bob Henry, then mer chants chairman, Crazy Days was started. This, too, proved to be a hit in the fall month in which it was staged. Merchants dressed up in crazy costumes in keeping with the event. Crazy Days is planned for this year on October 27 and 28. Now another special event has been added to the promo tional program. Moonlight Sale will be staged for the first time Friday night, being limited to 7 to 10 p.m. Frankly, some of the Heppner merchants are skeptical about the re sponse of the public in the evening hours. Nevertheless, most of the store owners are participating wholeheartedly and will be anxious to see whether the public responds. If there is a good response, Moonlight Sale will undoubtedly become an annual event If the people like these events, If they like the spirit that the merchants show in staging them, and if they want them continued, the one way to make this evident is to come out and visit the stores to check their offerings. A review of the merchandise offered shows that there are many outstanding buys for Moonlight Sale. It will be novel to have most of the stores open on this Friday evening. If this appeals to you, visit the stores during Moonlight Sale. Unfortunately, it was discovered at a late time that the teachers' reception at Heppner Elementary school is on the same night The merchants would have liked to avoid any conflict, and they set the date for the sale about a month ago, avoiding home football games, opening of deer season and other conflicts. They did not know about the teachers' reception which was only in the early planning stages then. However, those who want to attend both have an hour be fore the reception to visit the stores, and perhaps there will be some time after the reception before they close. Now, we note that Spike Pardee, formerly of the Gazette Times staff and now with the Lake County Examiner, Lake view, writes to Ed Gonty and says that Heppner cannot have a Moonlight Sale Friday night, because, in checking his al manac, he finds there will be no moonlight that night. We'll agree that we probbaly won't be able to see it, but the moon is always shining somewhere in the universe, and thereby we can rationalize that this is a Moonlight Sale. Heppner merchants are hoping that the public will en joy buying "in the Moonlight" even though the lunar lumi nation may not be visible to the human eye. Slow Drivers Must Pull Over At last! Oregon lawmakers may have provided at least a partial answer to slow drivers. Senate Bill 319 became Oregon law yesterday. It requires slow moving vehicles on two-lane highways to pull over at the first safe spot and let fas'er traffic go by. On multi-lane highways, like freeways, slower drivers must use the right lane and leave the left lane clear for passing cars. The slow moving vehicle law attempts to put into effect what traffic engineers have known for a long time: that traffic f'owing smoothly has fewer accidents. The trouble be gins when cars begin to pass, moving in and out of traffic lanes and when traffic travels at a wide range of speeds. Records of the Department of Motor Vehicles show that last year 2.058 accidents occurred when drivers tried to pass the car ahead. And 21 persons were killed by passing ma neuvers! Ironically, the slow driver isn't often involved in the accident he causes. The driver behind, who may become im patient and try a risky pass, or the innocent driver of an oncoming car, is the one who pays. We urge drivers of slower moving vehicles, such as trail ers, trucks or small cars, and drivers who simply enjoy driv ing slower to continue their present low speed if they feel safer. But remember the new law and the hazard you pre sent to other drivers. If you see cars piled up behind you, pull over and let traffic at normal speeds flow smoothly by! Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman OCPT to Hold Workshop Here ANSWERS to the little tost in this column last week: No. 3 is false. No. 6 is true, and the other nine should have been marked as uncertain. If vou had more than six or seven right, you are a pretty sharp cookie. Maybe it proves you don't take things for grant ed, and perhaps aren't much of a rumor motiKer. If you had a score of less than six. you're like most of the rest of us. If you disagree with any of the answers, check them against the story. As it said in the in structions, the test was design ed to trii-k you, and you may have thought it said something it didn t say. If it still bugs you, drop in sometime and we'll go over it with vou. We wouldn t want you to lose any sleep on this ac count! WHILE GETTING up the mater ial for the "Welcome Teach er page (page 5, section l or this issue), we were struck with the length of sen-ice of some of the teachers in our Morrow county school district. So we started doing a little figuring tand just about went bugs do ing it!. We don't guarantee these fig ures for they were done quick ly. We find, however, that Mor row county teachers are any thing but inexperienced. They don't leave this system as fast as we have been prone to think, and apparently find it a pretty Rood place to work. The 1967-68 teachers direct ory, according to our count, lists 90 teachers and administrators. There are six administrators, counting Ron Daniels, superin tendent, and 84 teachers. Now, the 90 including the current year have a total of 622 years in the Morrow county system! This averages nearly seven years experience in the district Not included is the ex perience that the teachers have had elsewhere, and this would add to a tidy number of years, too. School faculty that tops the list of veterans is that at Board man Elementary- The four teachers there have a total of 68 years in the district,- and Dante Daltoso, principal, adds another seven. With him includ ed, the staff's average experi ence is 15 years. Mrs. Zoe Bill ings, the veteran of the entire county system with 31 years, has close to having the total teaching experience there, but Lavern Partlow has 19 years and Edith Partlow 15 years. In figuring the averages, where teachers work in more than one school ve added their total years here in each school, but they were credited for just one school in the county total of 622 years. lone Elementary teachers have the second highest tenure in the county. The seven teach ers and principal there total 70 years experience in the county, led by Mrs. Gladys Ely's 28 years. This is an average of 10 years' experience here. Riverside's 11-member faculty has 94 years experience, with an average of just under nine years: Heppner Elementary's 29 have a total of 244 years in the svstem for an S year (plus, av erage; A. C. Houghton's 11 have 87 years, or Just under an S year average Heppner High school, where many on the faculty were new last year, has an average of lust over three years. Twenty fix o teachers have n total of 79 years in the district. The "youngsters" in the dis trict are at lone High with an average of just over two years. Eleven on the faculty have n total of 24 years experience in Morrow county. WE WOl'LO.NT want to attempt to draw anv conclusions from these cursory statistics. At first glance, however, it appears that elementary teachers stick long er than those in high schools. We wouldn't want to suggest that teachers with less experi ence aren't doing as good a Job as the veterans. Some who have come here within the past three years are tremendous. But in view of last year's movement to get and hold good teachers ti wouldn't seem that we have too much to worry about. It did seem last year that an extraordinary number left the district. Of the 84 teachers, we count new In the county WIIKN YOU see the teachers who have served for so long, ou wonder how thev can keep looking so young. One would think that some of the qm-l ies, uiieslious ami problems of the oungsteis would make them iiKl before their time, but, on the other hand, the work with the children apparently einlmes them with n Fountain of Youth. As we an- welcoming teach ers mid thinking of teachers' roeept ions, we salute the veter ans. From information supplied us, these are the ones with 10 years or more experience In Morrow county: THIRTY or more: Zoe Hillings, Ho, oilman Elementary (3D. TWENTY or more: Gladys Ely, lone Elementary i2Sl; Juanita Cartnlchael. Heppner I Elementary (26), Ron Black. Riverside (241, Joyce Smith, A. C. Houghton t20. Velva Been- dolt. Heppner Elementary i24, Ruth Cov, Riverside (2Ji, Ruth Bent ley, A. C. Houghton2 (22i, Marguerite C.lavey, Heppner El ementary (211. TEN or more: Lavern Partlow, Boardmnn Elementary (191, Beth Hynd, lone Elementary 118), Edith Partlow, Boardmnn Elementary (15). Mildred Han na, Heppner Elementary (15). Inez Erwin, Heppner Element ary (15), Frieda Slocum, Hepp ner Elementary (15), Cleo Rob inson, Heppner Eleetfntury (14), Kathryn Hosklns, Heppner Ele mentary (14), Anita Stockard, Heppner Hemciitary 111). wl Meador, Heppner Elementary ill. Clint Agce, llenpner Ele mentary (101, and U-stev l.r rou. Riverside (10). Congratulation to these teachers who have devoted so main years educating our child ren! We might note that. 1ciim' some have taught for u erlod here and later rrlurnitt and some have taught In M-veral ilil ferent schools within the coun ty, we cannot guarantee our fig ures We'll correct any which are found to be In error. BILL WEATIIERFORl) calls with a complaint after we printed picture of the school "Hood" on the front page last week. He nald that when Mm Weatherford saw the picture of her, she divided ho wa.s get ting too plump and put the whole family on n crash diet! Now BUI holds us resHinslble, Rushing to Bill's aid, we would like to point out that when that picture was taken, Mrs. Weatherford was real itd and half mad. That would make anyone down In the Jobber and make the face look lunger than normal. Weil Nurelv hate to sec Bill turned Into a scarecrow because of the likes of us. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Page 6, Sec. 2 Pioneer Pondcrings Bv W. S. CAVERIIILL A. C RUBY A recent letter from n render of the tlnrtle, reciting the cir cumstance of it Kheep deal be tween Hill Beaiuer and A. C, Rubv. brlni! to nilnd the con tribution Ruhv made to the live-sliK-k Industry of Eastern Ore gon. It was In horses. The Kuliy horse farm whs somewhere near Portland. There, from an Imported stink, lie raised draft type stallion for distribution to Eastern Oregon ranchers. The wheat raising country provided a wide and ex panding market for work tennis nl it price that was profitable. Rubv moved Into the situa tion by selling a registered stal lion to an association of horse misers for $-1.1X10. either for cash or Joint notes payable over a thri-e vear period. The stallion was given uneclal care and was placed "at stud" In various places with a fixed charge fur service. Horse raising was an Import ant part of the economy until we came Into the machine age. It la no longer so, but for many vears A. C, Ruhv did much to Improve the quality of the hors es used on the wheat lands of the Inland Empire. COMMUNITY f Officers for this district of the Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers will sponsor a "School of Information" on Wednesday, September 27, in the Heppner High school cafeteria. Registra tion will start at 9:30 a.m. Mrs. Arthur Farr, first vice president of OCPT, will conduct the meeting, and at 10:30 a spe cial program on information about the new "Stop Teen Smok ing" project and other phases of PTA work will be held. Lunch will be served in the cafeteria and the sessions are scheduled to close by 3:30 p.m. The executive PTA council is urged to attend, and special dis cussions are planned for PTA officers and committee leaders. Mr. and Mrs LeRoy Gardner went to Portland early this week to attend the holiday and spring clothing market, which is be ing held in the Hilton Hotel. They planned to go to the beach later in the week for a day or two before returning Friday. Jerry Anderson has returned to Heppner to work for Heppner Nor-Gas, moving with his wife and daughter from Coos Bay. Anderson worked for the local firm before going to Coos Bay and returned to the position here on August 15. Coming Events HEPPNER HIGH FOOTBALL Friday, Sept. 22, Burns at Burns, 8:00 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29, Wahtonka at The Dalles, League game, 8 p.m. Jayvee Game, Monday, Sept. 25 Grant Union at John Day, 6 p.m. Support the Mustangs! FALL FLOWER SHOW Sunday, Sept. 24, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. By lone Garden Club lone School Cafetorium Entries urged. Horticulture and flower arranging, jun ior and senior divisions Several special exhibits, Gem and Mineral displays Public Welcome TEACHERS RECEPTION Friday, Sept. 22, 8:00 p.m. Elementary Multi-purpose room Sponsored by Elementary PTA MOONLIGHT SALE Friday evening, Sept. 22, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Choose big bargains in down town Heppner stores Join in the fun SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-962S Heppner Dramatic! Distinctive! Daringly new! Chevy H Nova Corvette Sting Ray I $1 ,fr$r imiitL-" S11''11 "T1" Ufl0,,, Z Mffri"Mi '68s Top Secrets are hero Chevrolet Impale wm On WU The 1968 Chevrolets are the very essence of modern design. Every line, every curve Is in close harmony. It's a smooth, uncluttered look with roof lines compatible with body lines, grilles and bumpers that blend grace fully Into long, rounded fenders. Clean, flowing, beautiful in their simplicity, these '68 Chevrolets are rich and ad vanced In styling beyond any you've ever seen. A MORE SILENT RIDE And for 1968, we've gone to every length to give you more peace and quiet inside. The most sophisticated computers have been used to strategi cally place body mounts and success fully isolate noise and vibration. Shcrck absorbers have been improved. The wheel stance on many models is wider for greater smoothness. Ex haust systems have been redesigned to make them whisper-quiet. Even the clocks tick more softly. A sound car is a silent car. The '68 Chevrolets are the most silent, highest quality cars we've ver built. BETTER PERFORMANCE There are new engines, a bigger standard Six and V8. There's a new 250-hp V8 you can order that runs on regular fuel. Many new engine com ponents increase dependability and keep your new Chevrolet running stronger. There's a new rear axle ratio you can add for greater econ omy. On most engines equipped with automatic transmissions, there's a special heater for the carburetor which gives you more efficient per formance In cold weather. And with every engine, you get the new CM exhaust emission control. UNIQUE ASTRO VENTILATION There's a whole new Idea in ventila tion, called Astro Ventilation, for Ca maro, Corvette and the elegant Ca price Coupe. It's also available on many other models. By opening two new vent-ports on the instrument panel, you bring in outside air that can be directed where you want it. This way, you can leave your windows rolled up and add still more to your peace and quiet. PROVED SAFETY FEATURES You get the proved GM-developed energy absorbing steering column, folding front seat back latches, dual master cylinder brake system with warning light, plus many more new features. Among them: energy absorb ing front seat basks, and safety arm rests that shield tha door handles. MUCH MORE THAT8 NEW There are new roof lines, some formal and graceful, others sporty and quick. There are new Instrument panels, richly designod and all controls within easy reach. There are new Interiors, new vinyls, now fabrics, now colors. There are models with Hide-A-Way windshield wipers and headlights that disappear behind grilles. There are new side marker lamps, new recessed taillights. There's even a new Ignition alarm buzzor that reminds you not to walk away and leave your keys In the car. These are the newest, the most differ ent, the most dramatically changed Chevrolets ever. And they re at your Chevrolet dealer's now. You'll thor oughly enjoy slipping behind tht wheel, experiencing the smooth new handling and library-quiet ride and, more than anything, seeing and feel ing the even greater quality built Into every new Chevrolet for 1968. Be smart! Be sure! Buy now at your Chevrolet dealer's. There's more quality and value built Into Chevrolets than ever before, making every new 1968 model an even better buyf i ........ mmMh Fulleton Chevrolet Company Heppner, Oregon 97836
