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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1968)
LIBFABY a or o EUGENE:, ORE 07403 - SPEED 40 MILES Hike in Postage Rates to Go into Effect on Sunday city limits for distribution through post office boxes. This 1m an increase of two cents per ounce Decause at present these drop letters may be mailed for four cents per ounce. All bills and statements of account, regardless of the meth od of preparation or quantity of identical pieces mailed, wiil be subject to the first cluss rate. Postmaster Drlscoll says that he anticipates no particular froblems in implementing the ncrease here. As of Wednesday he had not received a supolv of six-cent stamps for the first class letter demand and also had not received 10c airmail stamps. He expects them in soon, however. If they do not arrive in time a letter to another within the for increase, combinations will Increased rates for all classes of mall except parcel post and International mall will go Into effect on Sunday, January 7, Postmaster James Drlscoll re minded postal customers this week. The first-class rate will be Increased to six cents per ounce or fraction of an ounoe for piec es weighing 13 ounces or less. At the same time the rate for postal cards will be increased to five cents each. Of particular Interest locally Is the fact that the special rate for drop letters (those mailed to others inside the city limits) will no longer be subject to a rate lower than the regular rate. Thus. It will cost six cents for a Heppner postal patron to mail be sold, such as 5c and lc stamps for the 6c postage. He said that he expects It will be a month or six weeks before the post office makes its conver sion completely. He has order ed a stock of government stamp ed envelopes of all sizes with the 6c stamps but he has been advised that It may be some time before these are received because of the heavy demand ail over the United States. In the meantime, users of government-stamped envelopes may purchase ones on which the Dost office staff has added lc stamps to the 5c denomination. Rates for airmail weighing seven ounces and under will be Increased to 10 cents per ounce or fraction. Airmail weighing over seven ounces is subject to I the air parcel post rates. Air parcel post rates In the 5-pound-and-under weight range ure changed. They will be com puted by zone in one-half pound weight increments. The rute for air cards will be increased to eight cents each. Postage rates for controlled circulation publications will be increased and other changes and increaj?s will be mado In second-class mail. Basic single per piece rate In third-class mail will be Increns ed to six cents for the first two ounces plus two cents for each additional ounce. General in creases will be made in bulk rates. In fourth-class mall, the sur face parcel post rates and cata log rates will remain unchang ed. However, the special fourth-1 class rate and the library rate will bo Increased, Changes will be made In the definition of books mailable at the special rate, and provision will be made for mailing books Issued as supplements to other books. A new service will be provld-, ed whereby a mailer may re quest, by marking a piece "Ad dress Correction Requested," to be notified of the addressee's new address when first-class mail Is forwarded. A charge of 15 cents will be made for this service. Mailers who have on hand envelopes or cards prepaid with stamps at the old rates may revalue such materials by af fixing postage or meter stamps sufficient to cover postage at the appropriate new rate. 73 Eg? . " I I i POLICE CHIEF Glen Kolkhorst points to new 40 mile per hour designated speed sign Just installed by the state at the north ern city limits of Heppner. The designated speed has been In creased from 25 miles per hour on the stretch entering the city. New downtown designated speed is now 25 miles per hour. The chief cautions that the basic rule still applies, however. (G-T Photo). New Signs Designate Speed Zone Changes 84th Year Number 45 THE aiF : Sf HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, January 4, 1968 10 Cents Nine-Pound Boy First 1968 Baby Oregon's speed control board has authorized a designated speed of 25 miles per hour through downtown Heppner and 40 miles per hour on the high way from a point near the Wil low Creek bridge on the north side of town to the north city limits. This was revealed at the meeting of the citv council Mon day night when it was reported that the board had given rurth er consideration to the speeds in Heppner. Previously it had recommended a speed of 30 miles per hour in the downtown district, but the council request ed that this be reduced to 25 miles per hour. The 40 mile designated speed at the north end of town ups the previous limit by 15 miles per hour, since it was previ ously posted at 25 mph. The 25 mile speed through town increases the previously posted speed by five miles per hour, since it was formerly 20 miles per hour. New signs have already been erected. Police Chief Glen Kolkhorst cautioned the motoring public, however, that the basic rule still applies. The posted speeds may be too high when condit ions make it prudent to travel at slower speeds. (See editorial comment, page 2). Meeting Short The year's first council meet ing was a short one, being com pleted in less than an hour. Councilman Bill Collins re ported to the council that he had checked on the need for a railing near the bottom of the Chase street hill on the east side. After some discussion, in stallation of the railing was ap proved to prevent cars from slip ping off in inclement weather. Collins said that he could not recommend removing the stop sign from the bottom of the hill. At a previous meeting, It was pointed out that traffic in icy weather has a difficult time stopping at the bottom of the hill. However, Collins said that the sign was installed to help eliminate speeding. He also pointed out that poplar trees alongside the hill make it a blind corner for traffic coming to the intersection from the east on Cannon Steret, and that a driver must get well into the intersection before he can see if anyone is coming down the hill. The council discussed the pos sibility of removing the trees, but took no action. Swim Pool Talked Progress of the reconstruction of the swimming pool was re viewed, and a letter from En gineers Clark and Groff was read, recommending a row of tile on the inside lip of the gut ter around the pool. The letter was a copy of one written to McCormack Construction Co. and pointed out that the council had previously approved the tile. Sandblasting of the old pool Is nearing completion, and roof was in process of being install ed on the bath house. The council approved the of fer of the Bank of Eastern Ore gon to supply a new clock for the pool to replace the old one that also had been given by the bank. The offer was unanimous ly approved. Mrs. Elaine George, recorder, reported that a check for $23, 688.62 for taxes from Morrow county had been received. This1 represents much of the city share of property taxes for the year 1967-68, together with some back taxes and other payments, Collins Reelected Bill Collins was releected chairman of the council and Harlan McCurdy, Jr., was chos en again as budget officer. Both held these same positions last year. Mayor W. C. Rosewall asked committee members to continue serving for the coming year in their same appointments as last year. It was reported that a mailed notice to Johnnie Hill to remove the "livestock" from his proper' ty had been returned unclaim ed. However, it was also report ed that the poultry and animals are gone. The city had refused to grant him a permit to keep them. A liquor permit was approved for Cars Tavern, and an appll cation by Wavel Wilkinson to build a flower box at a cost of $200 was granted. Federal Reserve Names Anderson Frank Anderson, Heppner rancher, has been appointed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as a dir ector of the Portland branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, it was announced Saturday. The appointment is for a two year term and became effective January 1. Anderson succeeds Graham J. Barbey, president of the Barbey Packing Co., Astoria, whose term on the board has expired. Ralph J. Voss, president of the First National Bank of Oregon, was also appointed a director by the board of the Federal Re serve Bank of San Francisco. He succeeds E. J. Kolar, retired chairman of the board of the U. S. National Bank of Oregon, whose term has expired. Robert F. Dwyer, Portland lumberman, who has been a member of the board, was ele vated to chairman effective January 1. Barbey had previous ly served as chairman. A 9-pound, 4 ounce boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Kenison of Heppner, arrived at Pioneer Memorial hospital Wednesday, January 3, at 4:50 p.m. to be come First Baby of Morrow county of 1968. The boy had not been named as of Wednesday night. He joins one brother, Kevin, i, in the Lindstrom Dies; Service Saturday Paul Franklin Lindstrom, 60, lone, died of an apparent heart attack late Wednesday night in Good Samaritan hospital, Port land. Lindstrom underwent major surgery for a hernia condition on Tuesday morning, and show ed every indication of making satisfactory recovery from the operation until complications developed suddenly the follow ing night with the heart seiz ure. He had been enjoying rel atively good health previously. Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 6, at 2:00 p.m., at lone United Church of Christ. Interment will follow in High View Cemetery, with Sweeney Mortuary in charge of arrangements. Surviving are his wife, Edris; two sons. Roy A. and Arthur; one brother, Roy W., all of lone; two sisters, Mrs. Edna Helina, Seattle, and Mrs. Louise Crutch er, Gresham. Four More Inches Of Snow Falls family. Father of Morrow coun ty's first baby is employed by the Heppner Ranger district, U. S. Forest Service. As the first baby of the year, the Kenison baby will receive many prizes from local merch ants and organizations. Parents will be given a letter from The Gazette-Times later this week and they will arrange to obtain tnc prizes from the donors. Pioneer Memorial hospital's gift to the baby's parents is a 25 reduction of the hospital bill. Other prizes reach more than $150 in total value. Donors, whose prizes were all listed in last week's paper, in clude Hager's Dairy, Morrow County Grain Growers, Heppner Cleaners, Bank of Eastern Ore gon, Pettyjohn's. Farm and Building Supply, The Gazette- Times, Heppner Nor-Gas, Col umbia Basin Electric Coopera tive. First National Bank, Fulleton Chevrolet. M & K Company. Mi Ladies Apparel, Heppner Auto Parts, Central Market, Turner Van Marter and Bryant, Peter son's Jewelers, Economy Market, Gonty's, Gardner's Men's Wear, J. C. Penney Company. Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., Case Furniture Co., Van's Variety. Western Auto, C. A. Ruggles In surance, Murrays Rexall Drug, Lott's Electric. Jack's Chevron Service, Thomson's Grocery and Elma's Apparel. PV " -I- "v;.- v'-" Tl t . - . ir . I mi i i- -i- T ' -' STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT John Rawlins (right) of Heppner High School congratulates Dave Hall (lelft) and Bill McLeod, co-captains of the Mustangs' basketball team in the Mid-Columbia Holiday tournament upon the team's winning the championship in the tourney. They hold the trophy that the Mustangs brought back. (HHS Photo). HHS Hoopers Breeze To Tournament Title By GARY KEMP (Tourney Scores on Page 5) Heppner High brought home the trophy for the first Mid-Columbia Christmas basketball tournament, played December 28 and 29 at Moro. Teams competing in the tour- Townwide Sale Set Next Week A townwide January Clear ance Sale is scheduled by Hepp ner merchants for Friday and Saturday. January 12 and 13, Bill Hust, chairman of the mer chants' committee of the Hepp- ner-Morrow county Chamber of Commerce announces. Merchants decided to hold the sale at a meeting held at the Wagon Wheel Cafe last Thurs day. Many are now taking in ventory and the sale will be designed to reduce stock, giving the public the advantage of lower prices. Other events planned for 1968 are as follows: Sidewalk Bazaar in July, Crazy Days in Septem ber, Moonlight Sale in October, and Christmas Opening in No vember. Some discussion was held about the possibility of holding another Moonlight sale in April, but this will be de cided later. Snow covered the landscape again in Heppner this week with four inches reported by Don Gilliam, weather observer, And it appeared that this snow might do more good than the previous snow in December. It seemed to have a higher moisture content and ground was not so frozen when it ar rived. However, it was , pretty well localized and some areas received little. Those in higher altitudes received more, Three inches fell on New Year's day and another inch was added Tuesday morning, Gilli am reported. Meanwhile high temperatures ranged between 35 and 54 and lows between 19 and 32. Complete report for the week Is as follows: Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesdya ( 3 inch snow) Total precipitation for 1967, 8.64 inches. Normal, 12.95 inch es. Hi Low Prec. 54' 32 48 28 46 27 45 29 .02 42 32 .55 35 19 .06 snow; one inch lone, Heppner Vie Tuesday; Mustangs on Road Friday Green Reappointed To Budget Group Marion Green was reappoint ed to the Morrow county budg et committee Wednesday by the Morrow county court. Other members are Vernon Russell of Boardman and D. O. Nelson of Lexington, as well as the three members of the coun ty court, Judge Paul Jones and Commissioners Walter Hayes and Jack VanWinkle. The court had intended to make other committee appoint ments at its Wednesday meet ing but found its agenda too crowded with details to get to them. They will be made at a later date. By GARY KEMP The Heppner High Mustangs are preparing for basketball games Friday, January 5, and Tuesday, January 9, in which they will travel to Enterprise, then will be hosts to lone High. Friday, January 5, the Mus tangs go to Enterprise for their return game with the Enterprise Savages. When the Savages played at Heppner In December they were clobbered, 79-60. This will be a tell-tale game for Coach Clough's team, which is coming off a two-game win ning streak, squaring its record at 4-4. They have lost to lone, Grant Union, Condon, and De- Sales, and defeated Burns, En terprise, Wahtonka, and Colum bia High of White Salmon, Wash. The latter two wins were last week in the Mid -Columbia Christmas tourney, where Hepp ner brought home the trophy. The Friday night game with Enterprise could determine whe ther the Mustangs have finally decided to play basketball or were iust lucky at the Moro event. Nothing is particularly at stake as far as the spectators are concerned as the game is an other non-league tilt. Last Tues day night Enterprise, playing at Pilot Eock, was dumped, 63-54. The Mustangs' second encoun ter with the- lone Cardinals will be Tuesday, January 9, on the Mustangs' home court. They lost their iirst game witn lone by 59-52, with the Cardinals coming on strong at the close to snatch the victory. lone is rolling along but the Mustangs seem to have found themselves and are able to play ball since they got trimmed by the De Sales Irish. It will be interesting to see if the Mustangs can check Frank Halvorsen next Tuesday, night and prevent the high-scoring spree of 23 points that he made in the first of the two tradition al battles between the neighbor schools. The game promises to be an other hard fought battle. The preliminary, at 6:30, again matches the exciting Mustang frosh with the Card inal Jayvees. When the teams met at lone, the Heppner young sters were victorious. Annual Chili Feed To Precede Game Prior to the lone High-Hepp-ner High basketball game Tuesday night at the Heppner High gym the annual chili and chicken and noodle feed will be held in the high school cafetorium from 5 until 7 p.m., sponsored by the Hepp ner grade and high school PTA organizations. An advance sale of tickets for the dinner will be held starting today (Thursday). Tickets will be sold by stu dents who will compete for prizes. Student who sells the most tickets will receive $5, and second place winner will receive $3. Any student sell ing $10 or more worth of tick ets will receive a free ticket to the dinner. Family tickets will be sold this year at a cost of $5 to encourage family attendance. Single adult and high school age tickets are $1, grade school students 50c and pre schoolers will be admitted without charge. Menu includes chili, chicken and noodles, tossed green sal ad with choice of dressing, rel ish dish, French bread, pie, coffee and punch. General chairman is Mrs. Jerry Sweeney, who will be assisted by Mrs. Bernard Mar shall, Mrs. Joe Balfe, Mrs. Pat Cutsforth, Mrs. Jerry Dough erty, Mrs. Bud Peck, Mrs. Paul Warren, Mrs. Howard Petty john, Mrs. Bill Gentry, Mrs. Wilbur Worden, and Mrs. Bill Weatherford. ney were Wahtonka, Sherman County, Columbia (White Sal mon, Wash.), and Heppner. , Thursday night the Mustangs took on the Wahtonka Eagles from The Dalles and did a good lob of routing them. The Mus tangs opened up an early lead which they never relinquished as their fast break was work ing successfully and resulted in a lopsided b4-45 score. The Mus tangs also did a good job on the boards with Jon O'Donnell and Gary Kemp pulling down 10 rebounds each while Russell Kilkenny grabbed nine. Friday night the Mustangs encountered ? tough first quar ter but -after that the Columbia High school Bruins were never in the game. The Bruins had gained the finals by a decisive defeat of Sherman County Thursday evening. Coach Bob Clough's boys again did a marvelous job on the boards with Kilkenny nab bing 17, Kemp 11, and O'Don nell 10 rebounds. The Heppner fastbreak can again be attrib uted with winning the game for the Mustangs as they just out ran Columbia. The score was 56-41. After the close of the game the Mustangs' co-captains, Dave Hall and Bill McLeod, and Coach Clough received the championship trophy for the team. Wahtonka captured Reservoir Crack Being Repaired By City Workmen A crack In the main city wa ter reservoir that allowed an es timated 70 gallons of water per minute to escape is now being repaired by a three-man city crew, including City Superin tendent Vic Groshens, Wayne Harsln and Bud Springer. The reservoir, which holds 780,000 gallons of water, is dry during the repair Job and has been for the past three weeks. At this time of year, when de mand for water is relatively low. the west reservoir, second of the city's storage system, Is adequate for the municipal sup ply. It holds 330,000 gallons. The crack in the reservoir lo cated on Cemetery Hill extends horizontally around the 330 ft. circumference of the reservoir and ranges from a hairline to one-eighth inch wide, Groshens said. The crack apparently dates back to the construction of the reservoir, which was in 1947. The concrete was to be poured in a continuous operation, but it was stopped for -a time due to an equipment breakdown. When it resumed, the two sec tions did not bond perfectly. A previous repair job on the crack was done at a cost of $1700, but It has not held. In the fall, the city crew cleaned out the crack on the outside of the reservoir, filled it with rich concrete grout and coated it with an epoxy glue and fibreglass. Dirt was then banked around the outside. Groshens said that part of the problem is caused by Intense summer heat on the broad ex panse of exposed concrete, fol lowed by drop in temperature during cool evenings. This caus es an expansion and contraction. Currently the three men are working inside the reservoir. chipping out the crack and fill ing it with a pliable epoxy. Gro shens said the work in the fall eliminated 70 percent of the leak. The inside work may not eliminate it completely but should stop at least 90 percent of the trouble, he said. place In the four-game holiday event by downing the host team, Sherman, 56-49. With the location of the tour nament changing from year to year, the 1968 tourney will have the Wahtonka Eagles as hosts. Arbuckle to Open Saturday Morning Arbuckle Mountain ski course will open to the public Satur day morning for the season with a new layer of snow bol stering the thin layer that exist ed before the week-end. Two buses, one from Condon and one covering the lone-Lex-ington-Heppner areas, will carry 4'-H club ski members to the course for their first outing at Arbuckle. Dick McElligott is in charge of the 4-H skiers. On Sunday, Morrow county Jaycees will start operating the tow. As planned, the 4-H clubs will be in charge of operation on Saturdays and the Jaycees will do the work on Sundays for the minimum of nine week ends of skiing. Ed Dick of the ski corpora tion said that he and Clyde Allstott were at the grounds Sundav to take care of some third details before opening, and Mc- Annual Meet Slated On Conservation Annual meeting of the Hepp ner Soil and Water Conservation district is scheduled for Tues day night, February 6, in the Lexington Grange Hall, Ray mond French, chairman of the supervisors for the district, an nounces. O'Gara to Speak At Chamber Meet Lorin C. O'Gara, director of the Blue Mountain Economic Development Council, is sched uled as speaker of the regular luncheon meeting of the Hepp-ner-Morrow county Chamber of Commerce in the Wagon Wheel Cafe Monday at noon. Officers of the new year, elected in December, are to be installed at the meeting. to Elligott was out this week complete other details. It is expected that the course will be open at 10 a.m. each Saturday and Sunday and will continue operation until 4 p.m. Season tickets are available now from Herman Winter of the corporation at his law office in Heppner at $60 per family or $25 for an individual ticket. A daily ticket is $2. Dick said that the road is in good condition, and skiers of all ages are welcome to come up for the opening week-end. Elementary PTA Meets Wednesday Heppner Grade school PTA will meet on Wednesday, Jan uary 10, at 8:00 p.m. in the multipurpose room at the grade school. A short business meeting will be held and school principal Alan Martin will conduct the program, according to Mrs. Her man Winter, program chaiman. Parents and teachers are urg ed to attend this meeting.
