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Sheila Luciani Princess
Sheila Luclanl, who has lived
nil of her 17 active years In
Morrow county, was notified
this week that she had been
selected by the Lexington
Grange to be Its princess on the
1DG8 Morrow County Fair and
Rodeo court.
The new princess was select
ed at the last meeting of the
grange on Friday. February 9,
by vote of the grange member
ship. Candidates are not restrict
ed to daughters oi grange mem
bers, and the Luclanis arc not
members of the grange, al
though their large ranch oper
ation on Butter Creek has kept
them In touch with progressive
farm organizations.
The stately, attractive daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lu
cinnl Is a senior at Heppner
High school. She transferred to
the Heppner schools when she
was in the 6th grade, after at
tending the earlier grades in
the Echo grade school.
Sheila has grown up on the
large grain and cattle ranch of
her parents and has had much
riding experience. She has been
riding since she was six years
of age and has been active in
horse and livestock 4-H clubs
for eight years. She enjoys the
outdoor sports and has helped
her father with driving wheat
trucks during harvest the past
two summers.
For her official appearances
through the summer, princess
Sheila will ride her favorite
quarter horse "Honey." She will
add grace and dignity to the
court of Queen Berniece Matth
ews of lone and recently elect
ed Princess Marda Jones of the
Heppner Wranglers.
During her four years at
Heppner High school, Sheila has
been very active in school ac
tivities, and at the same time
has maintained a high scholast
ic rating. This year she holds
three responsible offices, which
include treasurer of the student
body, president of Future Home
makers of America club, and
captain of the pep club's drill
team. She is a member of the
National Honor Society, of the
Girls' League, of the Pep Club
and of the student council.
At the annual Sweetheart
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EPPNER
GAZETTE-TIME
Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, February 15, 1968
10 Cents
Tipsy Driver Conviction
Rate Low, Speaker Says
PRINCESS SHEILA LUCIANI
Ball of FHA and FFA on Feb
ruary 3, Sheila was crowned
queen and, with King Alfred
Drake reigned over the court of
the other princesses and their
attendants.
Besides her parents, she has
an older sister, Karla, in beauty
training In Portland: a younger
sister, Patty, and a 10-year-old
orotner, John Henry.
Conviction rate on drunken
driving in Oregon Is only 2.8,
one of the lowest of any states
in the nation, Andrew Manners,
executive director of the Oregon
Council on Alcohol Problems,
told members of the Heppner
Morrow county Chamber of
Commerce Monday at their reg
ular luncheon meeting.
This was one of nine address
es made by Hanners In two days
In the area. He spoke to church
groups Sunday and at schools
in Heppner and lone Monday.
In Oregon, traffic accidents
cost $122,000,000 per year, Han
ners declared. Drinking was in
volved in 57 of the fatal ac
cidents. He pointed out that while
are
Two Home Games
Loom Important
For Mustang Five
"-Basketball Standings
GREATER OREGON LEAGUE
WESTERN DIVISION
VV
Pilot Rock 4
Heppner 3
Wahtonka 3
Sherman 1
Madras 1
EASTERN DIVISION
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Vale 5
Grant Union 3
Burns 3
Enterprise 2
Nyssa 2
By BOB DOBBS
Three basketball games
left on the league schedule for
the Mustangs. At home this
week-end, the Horsemen play
host to the Pilot Rock Rockets,
the next evening it is time for
the Madras High crew to try
their hands at the Mustangs on
the Heppner floor.
The Friday night clash with
Pilot Rock could be the most
important game in a series of
important games. Mustang pow
er will be greatly taxed and
tested in this league meeting.
At the close of the first tilt, Pilot
Rock had pulled out a victory
by a slim 73-70 margin.
This week-end's play may be
the deciding factor on the tour
nament berths from the west
ern division. Heppner could pull
into the number one spot if the
Rockets fall both nights. (The
Rockets meet Wahtonka on Sat
urday night.)
The Friday night encounter is
a "must win situation ior Doin
teams. The Rockets must win if
they want to stay on top, and
the Horsemen must win if they
want to stay in the running for
the district championship.
Saturday will be the second
squaring-off for Madras and
Heppner this year. Not quite
two weeks ago the Horsemen
invaded Madras; their fired-up
defense and powerhouse offense
set the Mustangs in the win
ner's circle with an 81-51 margin.
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MONTE EVANS seated on his horse, herds some of the 22 head
of registered Angus cows with calves which comprise his FFA
project. In Future Farmer Week, February 17-24, special observ
ance will be placed here on FFA activities.' Monte is a member
cf the Heppner High chapter. (See also page 5).
there Is no legal definition of
drunkenness In Oregon, most
courts consider .15 of 1 of al
cohol in fluids of the body as
intoxication. States or countries
which have denied intoxication
at lower points have cut their
traffic death tolls sharply, he
said, in some cases as much as
half.
Throughout the nation, drink
ing costs industry $2 billion per
year, the speaker said.
Hanners outlined how alcohol
dulls the brain, reaching its
highest functions first and with
succeeding Intoxication drop
ping into the area of muscular
coordination. He pointed out
that accidents caused by drink
ing are due more to a loss of
judgment rather than from 1m
pairment of muscular coordina
tion and chlded the legislature
for its unwillingness to recog
nize this fact in considering
laws on drinking and driving.
The fluent and affable speak
er, who held the rapt attention
of his audience with his polish
ed presentation, traced the stag
es of intoxication from that of
a drink or two (.05 oi 1 al
cohol in fluids of the body) to
the point of lethal drunkenness
(.50 of 1 of alcohol).
A drink or two was described
ns entering a "silly" stage
where the person is not intoxi
cated, but at a party he may
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Plans have been completed
for the annual campaign for the
Heart Fund during Heart Week
of February 19-20, Jim Wlshart.
Morrow county chairman, said
Tuesday.
In Heppner, Rainbow Girls
will conduct a house-to-house
drive for donations to the fund.
Rural areas will be contacted
through mailers to be sent from
Wlshart's office at the Heppner
branch, First National Bank.
Chairmen In Heppner are Mrs.
Jim Lovgren and Mrs. Pat Won
ser. Organizing the campaign in
other parts of the county are
the following local chairmen:
Boardman, Mrs. J. M. Phillips;
Hardman, Mrs. Adrian Bechdolt;
lone, Mrs. Wayne Ball; Irrigon,
Mrs. Fay Eppcnbach; Lexing
ton, Mrs. John Ledbetter.
Mrs. Lovgren, besides being
Heppner co-chairman, is treas
urer for the Heart Fund In Mor
row county.
There is no established Roal
for the drive, but last year's
total was $836.78.
"Were hopeful of exceeding
that amount this year," Wish-
art said. He pointed out that In
Morrow county , 48 of the
deaths are from heart ailments.
This is somewhat below the na
tional average of 54.
During the past year, a num
ber of prominent citizens of Mor
row county had died from heart
ailments.
Wishart asked that Heppner
residents be prepared with their
contributions when Rainbow
Girls call, and he asked that
those in rural areas send in their
mailed donations promptly. A
similar response is requested in
other communities throughout
the county.
Heppner Chapter, how dry we are
FFA, to Observe
National Week
P. 0., Courthouse
To Close Feb. 22
There will be no postal serv
ice on George Washington's
birthday, Thursday, February 22,
and the county courthouse will
also be closed on that day.
There will be no incoming or
outgoing mail, and mail will
not be distributed to the postal
boxes.
Banks, the city hall and vir
tually all other business estab
lishments here will be open as
usual. Mrs. Elaine George, city
recorder, says that there will be
no municipal court on the holi
day. The Gazette-Times, which will
carry George Washington's
Birthday promotional advertis
ing, will be in the post office
boxes late Wednesday afternoon.
By JOHN HARRIS
National Future Farmers of
America Week is February 17-
24. Activities observed during
the week include some of the
high points of the year for the
Heppner High school cnapter.
One of these high points is
the annual parent-son banquet
and presentation of awards, to
be held the evening of Febru
ary 22 in the high school cafe
torium. At the banquet Jeff Wal
lace. State Sentinel from Uma-
pine, will be the guest speak
er. Honored at the banquet will
be Ken Wright, Heppner's first
American Farmer. Dave Hall,
applicant for State Farmer and
candidate for a state office, will
be the master of ceremonies.
On Monday, February 19,
Hall, who is chapter president.
will speak to the Chamber of
Commerce on some of the aims
and purposes of FFA and the
work of the local cnapter.
The FFA was organized in
1928 in Kansas City, Mo. From
this start the organization has
grown steadily. The first nation
al convention had 33 delegates,
while the 1967 convention had
over 11,000 from all the states
in the United States and Puer
to Rico.
The Heppner chapter present
ly has 21 active members and
has been growing steadily in
the past two years. Its goal,
presently, is to achieve a high
er agricultural enrollment and
initiate more members into the
organization. Hal Whitaker is
advisor of the chapter.
Official weather report for the
two weeks period of January 31
February 13, as compiled by
Don Giiliam, weather observer,
is as follows:
Hi Low Prec.
January 31 45 28
February 1 54 37
2 62 41 .01
3 54 42 .01
4 60 41 .03
5 44 35 .16
6 42 31
7 40 29
8 36 24
9 33 30
10 33 29
11 32 21
12 32 26
13 38 20
Latest word on Mike Benge,
32, who last week was reported
to be missing after a Vict Cong
attack on Ban Me Thuot, Viet
nam, is that he is believed to
be a captive o tthe yiet Cong.
Following1, the first report to
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Hughes in
a telephone call Irom washing
ton, D. C, February 2, stating
that he was missing. Mrs.
Hughes received another call
Thursday, February 8, from the
AID office in Washington stat
ing that Hanoi Radio had re
ported that Mike was captured.
Since Thursday, there has
been no further information, and
nothing has been learned on
succeeding calls to Washington.
Benge, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Terrel Benge of lone, has work
ed with the Montagnards in the
Central Highlands of Vietnam
for the past six years. He has
been honored by the Montag
nards many times and is the
adopted son of Ama Heo, Mon
tagnard chief.
The capture Is believed to
have taken place when Viet
Cong overran Ban Me Thuot
early this month.
TAXI, MISTER? Roy Shaw of Toronto, Canada, stands with Herb
Hynd (right) by Shaw's "Kingsway" taxi. The Canadian picked
up passengers in Toronto, took them to Los Angeles and has
stepped to visit in Morrow county on the homeward trip.
(G-T Photo)
Taxi Driver Hauls Fare
3550 Miles; Visits Here
Roy Shaw of Toronto, Canada,
must have set some kind ot rec
ord when he used his taxi to
carry three persons on a 3552
mile trip from his home city to
Los Angeles, Calif. It could be
one of the longest passenger
paying trips in history.
He was hired to transport a
couple and their 6 -year-old
daughter to the California met
ropolis, and he made the trip
in nine days with the trunk full
of luggage and more piled on
the front seat beside him.
The couple had often been his
customers in Toronto, and never
having owned a car, when they
decided to move to California,
they asked if he would take
them there.
Shaw agreed, making a spe
cial rate for the trip. They went
via New Orleans, leaving lor
onto on January 7, and they
Twin Boys Arrive
On Birthday of
Great Grandfather
February 5 was a red letter
day in the life of Sam Mc
Daniel of Hardman. It not on
ly was his birthday, but the
day that his first great grand
children were born. Adding to
the significance was the fact
that they are twin great
grandsons, children of Mr. and
Mrs. Aaron Stubblefield of
Walla Walla, Wash.
The twins are Douglas Joseph
and Jeffrey Aaron Stubble
field, each of whom weighed
four pounds at birth.
Mrs. Maxine Mahons, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. McDan
iel, is maternal grandmother
and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stub
blefield of Walla Walla are
paternal grandparents. Mrs.
Nellie Mahons of Heppner is
also a great grandmother.
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found time for considerable
sightseeing, although they ave
raged about 400 miles per day,
But for some in Morrow coun
ty, the happy part came when
Shaw stooped oil here tor a vis
it on his homeward trip. He is
a first cousin of Herb Hynd of
Cecil and he Is an uncle of Mrs.
Gus Peterson of Top (just above
Monument) and of Mrs. George
Stubblefield, also of Monument.
When the taxicab drove unex
pectedly into the yard at the
Hynd place the other day. Herb
told his wife, Beth, "It looks
like another one of those sheep-herders."
He explained that in the old
days, one of their sheep herd
ers might go to town on a day
off and come back the best way
he could, which sometimes was
by hiring a taxi.
Shaw and Hynd had not seen
each other for 60 years, and the
Toronto man tried to represent
himself as a cattle buyer to fool
his cousin. But Herb declared,
"He didn't look like a cattle
buyer to me."
Some 60 years ago, Herb went
back to Canada on a visit with
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Merchants Offer
1000 Cherry Pies
In Coming Event
Heppner merchants expect to
give away 1000 small cherry
pies from Thursday, February 22
through 24, in a Washington's
Birthday promotion, Bill Hust,
chairman of the merchants
committee, announces.
Pies will be given by partic-,
ipating merchants with purch
ases made by customers during
the Washington's Birthday Sale,
Hust said. The sale will begin
on Thursday, February 22, and
will continue through February
24. The pies will be given by
the stores on a "first come
first served" basis for as long
as they last.
The Washington's Birthday
promotion is an annual event
here, but this is the first time
that the merchants have given
the pies as a feature of the oc
casion.
Sale merchants will be offer
ed by most of Heppner's retail
businesses and the bargains
will be announced in advertise
ments In next week's Gazette-
Times.
'We expect this to be the big
gest and best Washington's
Birthday event in Heppner his
tory," Hust said.
A meeting of the merchants
committee will be held at noon
Friday in the Wagon Wheel
Cafe to complete plans for the
event. All merchants, whether
members of the Chamber of
Commerce or not, are urged to
attend.
There will be free parking on
Friday, February 23, for the con
veniece of shoppers.
Air Force Faces Red?
Educators' Trip to Academy Cut
When Plane Develops Trouble
HEPPNER HIGH STUDENTS in sophomore Home Economics class of Mrs. Eugene Winters get a
nrst nana look at cuts of meat demonstrated by Ernie Mccabe, manager oi the meat depart
ment at Central Market. The girls are making use of a $10 beef gift certificate presented them
by Morrow County CowBelles. (G-T Photo).
Beef Promoted In School Use By Certificates
One of the projects of the
Morrow County CowBelles is to
promote beef consumption in
homes and restaurants.
To encourage young girls who
are enrolled in Home Econom
ics classes in the county to be
come better educated in know
ing the various grades and cuts
of beef, the CowBelles have is
sued $10 beef certificates to each
of the homemaking departments
in Heppner. lone and Boardman,
Sophomore girls in Heppner
High school, under direction of
Mrs. Eugene Winters, visited the
meat department at Central
Market last week and saw a
demonstration by Ernie McCabe
as he cut up one-half of beef
and explained the various cuts
which were made. Part of the
foods and nutrition program at
the sophomore level includes
learning the cuts of meat, types
of meat cookery, which cuts to
to be used in purchasing beef use for moist heat and which
for their own classroom studies. ' are used for dry heat, such as
broiling, oven roasting and pan
broiling.
The presentation of the gift
certificate was made by Mrs.
Frank Anderson, president of
the Morrow County CowBelles.
She urges the giving of the cer
tificates throughout the year,
which are available locally at
First National Bank in a variety
of amounts.
The CowBelles organization
also supplies the homemaking
departments with film strips on
selection of meat cuts and cook
ery, to supplement their study.
Maybe somewhere in the
Air Force there were a few
red faces last week.
The trip planned by the Air
Force to take 34 educators, in
cluding Dick Carpenter, Hepp
ner High principal, to the Air
Force Academy, Colorado
Springs, Colo., for an orienta
tion session "got off the
ground," all right, but It
didn't quite come off as ex
pected. They all left as planned in
a C-29 airplane with Carpen
ter boarding at Eugene. The
departure was delayed for two
hours by fog.
As the plane neared the
Continental Divide, with the
passengers enjoying the lux
ury of being on the plane
equipped with davenos and
easy chairs, a hydraulic fail
ure developed. The system
controlled a generator on one
of the plane's two engines.
The pilot and crew then
headed for Hill Air Force Base
at Ogden, Utah, some 50 to
100 miles away. They arrived
there without Incident, and
the personnel at the base
proved fine hosts for two days
to the educators who were
supposed to be in Colorado
Springs.
Hill AFB is a control center
for the missile program and
Is also a repair depot for
planes damaged in Vietnam.
Some are brought back in box
es, Carpenter said.
Motto at the base in its re
pair program is to have "The
right part in the right place
at the right time." Some 20,
000 civilians work at the base.
The educators went through
an orientation program at Hill
AFB and were promised that
the trip to Colorado Springs
would be rescheduled at a la
ter date.
Carpenter had received a
firsthand glimpse of what the
Air Force does in time of
trouble, because he was in the
cockpit when the hydraulic
failure developed. He felt
pretty much at home because
he saw service in the Air
Force.
The educators came home
on the same specially-designed
airplane, but Carpenter
said it was a considerably
quieter bunch on the return
flight. They arrived In Port
land at 10:30 Saturday night.
"They gave us tremendous
treatment and hospitality,"
Carpenter said.
The trip to the Academy
was designed to acquaint the
educators with requirements
for entrance and other infor
mation that would be helpful
for the school adimr.istrators
to impart to their students in
counselling.