HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thunder. January 11. I96
THE
HEPPNER
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MOHHOW COUNTTS NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette established March 30. 1883. The Heppner
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1912.
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Plight of Nyssa and Vale
Maybe, as a practical matter, one might paraphrase an
old saying and come up with an axiom for high school ath
letic teams: "No team can serve two leagues."
This Is the problem that Vale and Nyssa of the Greater
Oregon league face with the announcement that football
games In the league next year will be played on a round
robin basis. This means that every team in the league will
play every other team, regardless of whether they are !n
the east or the west.
The round robin will mean that each Greater Oregon team
will have nine league games with the champion represent
ing the A-2 district in state playoffs.
In this part of the state, where distances between schools
Is great, it has been difficult to devise a league that would
provide equal competition for all. Until recently, most of the
competition has been in the west. Only Enterprise, Nyssa and
Vale have competed In the eastern division, making it rela
tively easy to win a ttle. Vale's Vikings, who seem to be
perennially strong, have emerged winners year after year.
Meanwhile, the other seven Heppner, Grant Union, Wah
tonka, Madras, Sherman County, Burns, and Pilot Rock have
gone through tough schedules against each other to produce
a division champion.
Pilot Rock, which dropped out of A-2 ranks for a while
but now Is back, was shunted into the eastern division this
past season, which meant some long road trips for the Rock
ets as well as their opponents.
Nyssa and Vale for many years have been tied to the
Snake River Valley conference in Idaho. This is convenient
for them because most of the schools are within 25-50 mile
range, such as Weiser, Payette, Parma and others. They have
common interests, and they have a good league.
However, with the Vikings and Bulldogs allied with the
Snake River Valley, the Greater Oregon has always been be
set with problems and complications.
League members recently took the bull by the horns
and decided that the two far east teams would have to de
cide whether they want to play in Oregon or Idaho. This is
a pretty stern edict, but a reasonable one.
While Vale and Nyssa have competed in the short end
of the circuit, their championships cannot be minimized. Vale
has been so strong and dominated that end of the league
so long that, in football, one almost concedes the Vikings
to be the annual winner. West teams have had little luck
in trying to subdue them in district playoffs, and Vale's rec
ord of state championships surely has been a boom to the
Greater Oregon banner.
While the Vikings ties are strong with the Idaho teams,
they are not eligible to compete in championships in the
Potato State. Their trophy case must be bulging with awards
won In Oregon. It would be a good guess that if they can
not squeeze out of the plight In which they now find them
selves, they will reluctantly bid adieu to Idaho teams and
come home to the Greater Oregon League.
In doing so, though, they will have trips far beyond those
of their past seasons.
Addition of Vale, particularly, to a round robin will mean
a tougher schedule for the rest of the teams unless the Vik
ings undergo some unexpected drought.
If they continue as powerful as in the past, it might be
speculated perhaps facetiously that some of the league
members who voted for the round robin may regret it.
One wouldn't think that the round robin schedule will
continue very many years. Once the Viks and Bulldogs
pledge allegiance to the GO league the circuit may decide
on an equitable east-west split that will eliminate some of
the long trips that will be demanded by the round robin.
The hope is that Vale and Nyssa will think first of Oregon
competition without being wooed by the attractive Idaho
teams.
TO THE EDITOR
'Complete Coverage'
Dear Wes and Helen:
Peggy and I extend to you
our sincere wishes for a very
happy and prosperous new year.
We enclose our check for an
other year's subscription to the
Heppner Gazette-Times. Al
though our many friends in
Morrow county keep us well ad
vised as to important personal
events during the year, we are
indebted to the Gazette for a
complete coverage of news and
events that are vital to the wel
fare of Morrow county and its
fine citizens.
Thanks for your efforts.
Sincerely,
Garnet Barratt
901 Longwood Loop
Mesa, Arizona 85201
Couple Make Steady
Gains After Surgery
r-Viorloa Mnnncrl Is ronvalesc
ing in Pendleton and expected
to be nome soon ionowing ma
inr ciiruorv in November and
. December. He is reported as
making satisfactory recovery
following amputations of part
of the left leg.
Mrs. Monagle is staying with
him in Pendleton until he re
turns home, and to be nearby
for medical care for herself. She
underwent major eye surgery to
her left eye on December 15.
Their son, Lany, has been tak
ing care of the family ranch
since he came home from serv
ice in Vietnam in early November.
Boardman Resident
Dies in Pendleton
After Long Illness
BOARDMAN Catherine Mc
Entire, 77, a 38-year resident of
the Boardman community, died
Saturday, January 6, in a Pen
dleton hospital following a long
illness.
She was born in Longford,
Ireland, February 3, 1890. She
was married to John McEntire
on February 15, 1917, in New
York City. After coming to Ore
gon they resided at Arlington
and Cecil before coming to the
Boardman area in 1929, where
they have since made their
home. Her husband preceded
her in death in December, 1964.
Mrs. McEntire was a member
of the Catholic Church and of
the Altar Society.
Recitation of the rosary was
at Burns Mortuary Chapel in
Hermiston Tuesday evening and
the funeral mass was Wednes
day morning at 10:00 a.m. at
St Patrick's Catholic church in
Irrigon, with Father Simon
Coughlan as celebrant. Inter
ment followed in Boardman
Riverview cemetery.
Surviving are one son, John,
of Boardman; one daughter,
Josephine, of Portland; five sis
ters, two In Ireland, one in Eng
land and two in New York City.
A recent visitor at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Spaulding
has been Mrs. Spaulding's
mother, Mrs. Jessie Simpson of
Springfield. Mrs. Simpson arriv
ed to enjoy the Christmas and
New Years holidays ana re
mained to be here to help her
eranddauehter, Janice, celebrate
The Rhyming Philosopher
BEGINNING
COME LIFT L'P YOUR HEARTS AND BE SINGING,
SOME RIFT IN THE CLOUDS MAY APPEAR;
EACH DAY THERE'S A NEWER BEGINNING
AWAITING THE FLOUTING OF FEAR.
NO PROBLEM WAS EVER THE GREATEST.
NO PAIN BUTS BEEN SUFFERED BEFORE;
AND NOTHING IS EVER THE LATEST
SINCE TIME CREATES NEW EVERMORE.
THERE'S ALWAYS NEW HEIGHTS TO BE SCALING,
NEW CHALLENGES TESTING YOUR SKILL.
NO USE SITTING DOWN AND BEWAILING:
GET MOVING TO WIN WITH A WILL.
IN SPITE OF WHAT SOME HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.
NOT ALL THATS WORTHWHILE HAS BEEN DONE;
AND ONLY THE WEAK STAND ASTONISHED
WHEN UNATTAINED GOALS HAVE BEEN WON.
YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO GET STARTED.
AND NEVER TOO YOUNG FOR A TRY.
THINK NOT OF THE PAST THATS DEPARTED,
BUT HAIL THE NEW DAWN IN THE SKY!
HARRY W. FLETCHER
Rhyming Feature
Starts This Week
With this Issue of The Gt-wtte-Times,
new feature,
"The Rhyming Philosopher,"
Is being started on a weekly
basin.
The "rhyming philosopher"
U Harry W. Fletcher of Mon
terey county. Calif., who has
served as an editor, publish
er and printer. While object
ing to being called a poet,
Fletcher comments on various
sublecta in rhyme, rangtng
from litterbugs to friendship.
His friends in Monterey
county felt that his talents
should be offered outside his
home county and consequent
ly have sent it to other week
ly papers for consideration.
Gazette-Times publishers
felt that its readers might en
joy the feature. Comments on
It are invited.
'loneer
Chaff md Chatter
Wes Sherman
BEFORE THE backshop of The
Gazette-Times was rewired a
few years ago, it wasn't too un
common to come up to press
time, onlv to have a motor start
blowing fuses or some other
electrical disorder.
It was then that we would
send out a frantic call for Her
man Stroeber. And he would
come, day or nignt, to Daie us
out and get the current flowing
properly again.
Sometimes, wnue ne was
helDiner here, he'd get calls
from others who had emergen
cies in their electrical systems
maybe an irrigation pump
motor eone dead. He a leave
from here to help someone else.
Stroeber seemed to be almost
the indispensable man at the
Kinzua mill. Were it not tor
him, or someone like him, the
plant undoubtedly would have
had more shutdowns than it
ha had.
Fortunately, there is a little
better situation in the electrical
repair line here now. Rich Vin
son has come along to bolster
Randv Lott s staff and others
are doing work in the electrical
field.
Death claimed Herman Mon
day, lust when it seemed that
he was making a good recovery
from his illness. Although he is
pone, we'll remember his will-
ineness to help us out and oth
ers in the community.
AFTER SEEING four Rose Bowl
games, Dr. A. D. McMurdo, our
good physician-surgeon neigh
bor across the street, should be
getting to be a little expert on
the annual January 1 game.
After returning from a flying
trip both literally and figurat
ively) to Pasadena this year, he
is in a position to give an ex
ceptionally good description of
one part of the Bowl the goal
posts.
There was some son oi mix-
up on tickets, and wnen ur.
McMurdo reached the Coliseum,
he found that his seat was dir
ectly behind one of the goal
posts. He had saort of hoped for
tickets on the 50-yard line but
didn't know for sure because his
son, Scott, of Corvallis had ob
tained them and had arranged
for them to be picked up at
will-call on arrival.
This poor location was a bad
reak after going all that dis
tance.
May we suggest that next
year the doctor take a portable
TV set just in case.
He left Heppner on December
29, .driving to Portland to be
with son, Ted, then he and Scott
flew down, stopping at San
Francisco to see the doctor's
brothers, Percy F. and Hew B.
McMurdo.
ALMOST AS disappointed as
Dr. McMurdo were the parents
and basketball fans who went
to Enterprise Saturday night to
see the game that wasn't play
ed. The highway was very icy for
a time over the Blues to La
Grande, and a truck mishap vir
tually blocked one of the bridg
es near the Union county seat.
The player bus was held up
there for an hour and 45 min
utes, but officers let cars pro
ceed. So some of the Heppner
fans passed the player bus and
continued on to Enterprise, on
ly to find the gym dark and
deserted.
After the long delay, and with
conditions being what they
were, the decision was made for
the team to turn back, and state
police stopped the spectator bus
and advised them, nut tnere
was no way to advise the par
ents and fans.
Making the situation worse,
the would-be spectators upon
arrival at Enterprise, though
advised that the game would
not be played, were sure that
the information was wrong be
cause they had passed the play
er bus at La Grande.
Parents reported? that, ironic
ally, the road from La Grande
to Enterprise was clear and dry
even the dreaded Minam
grade. But information that the
team had received apparently
was discouraging, and so they
headed home with Leonard
Munkers at the wheel of the
bus.
When the bus came over the
Blues the highway was really
slick, but by the time tne spec
tators came over, the route had
been sanded and wasn't bad at
all.
Well, no one was hurt even
though some of the fans had
a long ride in the cool of the
winter. It appears to us that
anytime conditions seem to be
such as to jeopardize the safety
of the players and students, the
right decision is to turn back.
Thev had no wav of knowing
that worse conditions didn't
face them ahead nor that the
highways might be more dif
ficult to travel later at night.
Ponderings
8r W. S. CAVERHILL
An A cms of Hallucination
No other name can be given
for the behavior of two charac
ters found in a field north of
town. The report (there Is some
evidence to support it) concerns
the actions of a couple of boys
who much have been under the
Influence of LSD. No combina
tion of Scotch whiskev. mount
ain moonshine, and larkspur
could have provided the "trip
the boys were on. They were
"far out and going high .
It seems that a passerby saw
a man fly-fishing in the dust of
a summer fallowed field. His
partner in a boat trailer was
parked by the roadside. The
fasserby inquired about the fel
ow in the field. "Oh, he's my
buddy. He had been fishing all
night I'm taking the boat out to
bring him in." That's the story
as we got it. The boys were not
morons. Their expensive outfit
proved that. So, if you happen
to see a lad climbing a tree
backward or a midget trying to
upset a mountain, think noth
ing of it. He is just an addict
on a "trip".
Columbia Basin's
Phones Changed
TeleDhone numbers at the
Heppner office of Columbia Bas
in Electric Co-op are now 676
9146 and 676-9147, Manager Har
ley Young advises.
A new system has been in
stalled, and if one phone is
busy, the other will ring auto
matically, he said.
All in the area are advised
to jot down the numbers in their
telephone books for use in case
of an emergency. The new sys
tem is another step in an en
deavor to give increasingly bet
ter service to all power users,
Young said.
Mrs. LeRoy Gardner has been
in Portland since last Tuesday
to be, near her father, Fred
Payne of The Dalles, during his
convalescence at St. Vincent's
hospital. He is reported to be
improving very satisfactorily
following an operation there.
LeRoy Gardner went to Portland
over the week-end and expects
to go again Friday and accom
pany Mrs. Gardner home Saturday.
4-H Skiers Open
Season January 6
At Arbuckle Mt.
Br CHERI CARLSON
It was a very exciting day!
For some, it was a first! For
others it was a belated contin
uation of last vear. Yes. it was
an exciting day, for January 6
was the opening day of the 1963
ski season at Arbuckle Mount
ain. The Morrow county 4-H Ski
club boarded the bus at lone,
Lexington and Heppner to Init
iate the new snow pack In the
Blues! Dick McElllgott, 4 H lead
er, and, by the way bus driver,
introduced 14 new members to
the 24 veteran skiers from last
year. Upon arrival at the ski
area, this year's officers were
elected as follows: Tom Stockard,
president; Rick Barneit, vice
president; Kathleen Ayres, secre
tary; and Cheri Carlson, nes
report ur.
After the formalities of the
day were concluded, the snow
rush began. Veteran skiers pro
ceeded to pack the hill and
swoosh the ski runs while the
beginning skiers received their
first lessons. Sprained ankles
and other minor casualties re
mained light, resulting in a
good day's skiing for the ski
patrol consisting of Alan Mar
tin, Heppner Grade school prin
cipal, and Lorcn Lucore, of the
U. S. Forest Service.
Arbuckle Mountain lies ap
proximately 30 miles east of
Heppner. Traveling up Willow
Creek road, ski fans will find
hard packed, well-bladed roads
leading to the area. Facilities
at the ski area include a basic
ski lodge with a good selection
of candies, soft drinks and
snacks for lunch. An improved
rope tow this year pulls skiers
up the challenging timDer stua
ded slopes, almost to the sum
mit. There the most basic ski
student will behold an awesome
view of the Blue Mountains sel
dom seen bv manv. During the
past year, McElligott, along
with other interested people,
has made a number of im
provements on the slope. These
include removing timber at the
upper landing and thinning of
pole thickets in trail areas, bince
this is a public ski area used
by 4-H clubs, and since public
funds help to maintain roads
leading to the area, we of the
Morrow 4-h bki Club invite and
mee anvone who would like to
enjoy the snow and out of doors
to come on up to Arbuckle and
ski in the sky.
Cheri Carlson
News Reporter
Boy's Leg Broken
In Skiing Mishap
Chris Culp, 44. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Curtis Culp, is at home
with a cast on hU leg ua re
sult of a skiing accident on op
ening weekend at Arbuckle
Mountain Sunday.
The boy was one of a num-
.... ,riiniiruli.ra learnintr to
ski when ho took a tumble and
broke the lea In four places.
His father suid that it was a
kmni, if,! u'bk rh'ht there.
along with members of the ski
patrol to assist ins nun.
ThA knu la iindnnnted and
says that he is Ruing back as
soon as ne is auiu.
nna nt thn 4-11 VOUthS Suffer-
.j m i0M,a(lnn tn tha forehead
Saturday when ho took a spill
and his head nit tne up oi nis
ski.
41 COMMUNITY
BILLBOARD
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Struck-
meter have returned to Oregon
after living the past six months
at Bonsall, Calif. They moved
last week to Feeder Spring
Ranch near Arlington where
thev will make their home
Their son, Earl, has remained
In Heppner during this school
year to complete his senior year.
Mrs. Struckmeier was a former
commercial teacher in the Hepp
ner High school.
Coming Events
HEPPNER HIGH
BASKETBALL
DeSales at Heppner
Saturday, Jan. 13
Burns at Heppner
Friday. Jan. 19
Pilot Rock at Pilot Rock
Fri., Jan. 12, League game
ADULT EDUCATION
Organizational Meetine
Thurs., Jan. 11, 7 p.m.
Honnnpr Hich schnol
Variety of courses through
BMCC
REBEKAH-ODD FELLOW
niMMirp g. INSTALLATION
Willows IOOF Hall. Heooner
Saturday, Jan. w
Dinner, 6:dO p.m.; instana
tion at s:uo p.m.
ELKS DINNER
Swedish Smorgasbord Dinner
Saturday, Jan. W, b.JO p.m.
Followed by dancing to West
ern Gentlemen
Old Timer's Night, Jan. 25
ARBUCKLE SKIING
Bus leaves Heppner Library
each Sat. morning, 8 a.m.,
returns 5 p.m.
SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC
SERVICE BY
C. A. RUGGLES
Insurance Agency
O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625
Heppner
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