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a HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thurtdtry. February IS. 1968 7 Tm THE IIEPFNER GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner. Oregon 97638 Phone 676-9228 MORROW COUNTTS NEWSPAPEH The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Hcppner Times estaDUsnea novemoei io, iovi. iunsuiiuau.-u icuiuh 1912. NIWSPAMI SHIIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WESLET A. SHERMAN HELEN E. SHERMAN ARNOLD RAYMOND Shop Foreman Printer CAIL BURKENBINE Society Circulation EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER REGGIE PASCAL Linotype Operator RANDY S TILLMAN Apprentice JIM SHERMAN Pressman Subscription Rates: $1.50 Year. SlrtRle Copy 10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class jviauer. Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. until noon Saturday. Heart Diseases: Local Problem Obituaries printed in this newspaper offer persuasive tes timony that the challenge of heart and blood vessel diseases far from being an abstract and distant national Issue is in reality the number one health problem right here in this community. These diseases are responsible for more than 54 percent of all deaths In the nation, and chances are that about the same ratio applies here. "Heart attack," "stroke," "hypertensive heart disease," "congestive heart failure," "high blood pressure," "rheumatic heart disease" and "congenital heart disease" are words that appear often on death certificates In this community. Can anything be done about it? Yes, indeed. We have been doing something about it. Since the onset of massive heart research programs in 1950, the cardiovascular death rate among persons aged below 65 has declined about 15 percent. Virtually every advance has been speeded by your Heart Fund dollars. But much remains to be done. You can help by support ing the 19G8 Heart Fund Campaign through your contributions and your volunteer services. The campaign is conducted throughout February, reaching its high point through Heart Week, February 19 to 26. Give so more will live! Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman WHEN people pass on the street, unless they know each other, they assume an impersonal air ami walk right by. One would think they never noticed any thing about the persons they passed. If you really believe this, try carrying a white wig down Main street some day. You will get all kinds of glances, com ments, and double takes. While the human is inclined to assume an impersonal air in casual contacts with his fellows, he also has an innate curiosity. He just can't help but wonder "what is that guy doing with that bushy white wig?" So it was Monday when we went around taking pictures of merchants wearing the wig. And if you think the public was cur ious about us carrying the wig, how do you think they reacted when they saw Bill Hust, Le Roy Gardner, Ed Gonty or Mary Van Blokland getting Ihoir pic tures taken wilh the wig warm ing their heads? You'd think they never saw any business person wear a long bushy white wig before! Well, sir, they are preparing for George Washington's birth day. They are having their an nual promotion and next week :you should see some of those pictures in the paper in their advertising. As one said, "What a merchant has to go through these days to sell a little merchandise!" But it should be great tun. They are going to give away a total of one thousand (1,000) three-inch cherry pies, by George, and if you think we're lying about that, you can take your hatchet and cut down our cherry tree. IT ISN'T an exaggeration to say that Andrew Hanners, execu tive director of the Oregon Council on Alcohol Problems, held his audience spellbound during his nine talks here Sun day and Monday. He is truly a brilliant speaker, one who would impress even the late Dale Cnrnetrie. He had a fresh, humorous and interesting approach to the sub ject of alcoholic problems but beneath it all he was very much in earnest. Hanners told the C of C how he had appeared before a service club in a California city at its invitation. Their regular meet ing place was in a bar. When the proprietor heaird that a speaker on alcoholic problems was coming, he set up tree drinks for the club members. By tne time Hanners spoke, most of the boys were feeling pretty gay, but they gave him a very good neair-ina- nevertheless. A number of the points he left with his audiences should get some people thinking: 57 of the fatal auto accidents in this state have drinking drivers Involved; only 2.8 convictions on drunken driving cases. If we're seious about our alleged concern for traffic deaths, we should work towards doing something about that. The legislature, for some rea son, hasn't taken a very tough attitude on the problem, al though it has been strongly rec ommended by the governor. SAY! What beautiful basketball the Mustangs played over the week-end. They were really a transformed team from what they appeared earlier in the sea son. If they lacked "heart" be fore, they showed gobs of if Fri day and Saturday, together with worlds of . desire and teamwork. Think of it! In the last three games they have won over Mad ras, Sherman and Wahtonka by an average of 31 points per game! Go to it boys! We need three more victories now! CONGRATULATIONS to Randy Stillman for being selected al ternate on the A-2 Shrine East team. We confess we're a bit dis appointed that he didn't make the regular team but figure he would have been there if he had had more than one year of reg ular football. It Is rare that a person goes out as a senior and makes a star rating. Can't understand why Morrow county was missed almost com pletely on the Shrine team and the Greater Oregon league, too, was almost ignored. The Vale Vikings landed one, Enterprise one, but only one came from the western division (and not very far west) Simmons of Grant Union. Pioneer Ponderings Br W. S. CAVERHILL The more I see, the less I like it. I am referring to massed hu manity when the TV programs are crowded with squirming so ciety, protest marchers and sit down rioters, and the daily pa pers are cluttered with pictures and stories of such doings. I am glad that I have no part in them. If our national turbulence over races, religion, and auto mation ever overtakes me, I am glad that I have a way of tem porary escape. Of course, it is the Road South where winding roads break the monotony of freeway speeds where some people still live and work by "standard" time, where camping and fishing is good and people are not all in a hurry. A heap of good living can be crowded into a leisurely taken trip into the Blue Mountains and Harney Valley beyond. It can be yours to enjoy, un less you hunger for speedways and crowds of hysterical people, frenzied by emotional agitators. The people you will meet have lived too long in an atmosphere of serenity to be disturbed by our national or international spasms. If you are one of those human units who like to say of a presidential convention, or ri otous disturbance, "I was there", the Road South country has lit tle to offer you. For myself, I want to be able to say, "I wasn't there." LETTERS 10 112 EDITOR r: Paper's Many Uses To the Editor: What manner of men are those that would use old news papers for anti-freeze? Well. In the good old days the family Journal, after serving Its orig inal purpose ns a news mediu, whs put to many uses and your "Chaff and Chatter" comment on the First National Bank of Thursday, February 1, 19G8, brings to mind some incidents In this regard appropriate, we hope, to the above theme. The newspapers brought to light during the bank's remod eling and new addition could well have been published (1933) In a vear in which the G. T. won the Sigma Delta Chi (jour nalistic fraternity) award as being the "Best Weekly News paper In the State of Oregon." The G. T. won this coveted and well-merited award at least twice during the years that Vaw- ter and Spencer Crawford were its Dublishers. So the best was good enough for the old First National for Insulating or what. Let us hope all of the banks "paper" was as good! I am reminded ot ine inci dent related by my sister Vir ginia Turner. This was but a short time after she and her husband, the late Jesse O. Tur ner, had taken up abode on the Turner ranch. One afternoon her "next door" neighbor, the late Ben F. Swaggart, came to the door, dusty, tired, thirsty and hungry. Seems he had been looking for strays horses, mules, jennets or jacks he had a lot of them In each category. After he had eaten, he began looking around for a newspa per. "Dangit," he said, "I am clean out of cigarette papers, but here is a Gazette-Times and if you don't mind, I will tear off this corner and roll one; that's about all the paper is good for any way." With that he proceeded to light up. "I lust know," says Virginia, "he made that remark because my father was the publisher." However, using the newspaper for "rolling your own" was not uncommon among tobacco us ers. An old timer in Heppner, Jim Williams, would use noth ing else. Then another Incident (and not uncommon) was related to me by a man in San Francisco who had but recently (1961) ta ken a lease on a hotel on Gough street. This old wooden structure had become "run down" and called for a complete renovation from basement to garret as well as an overall paint job, both inside and out. When they start ed on the main floor and the stairways they found three lay ers ot old carpet, eacn carper, going down on the one below and in between the carpets and on the bottom, were copious lay ers of mostly San Francisco daily newspapers going back for 60 years. (Unbelievable?) Here was a history of the city through a most interesting per iod, but still short of the "days of old, the days of gold, the days of '49." "There were no moths, no fleas or other infestive bugs," says my friend, who added that the printers ink could nave act ed as an insecticide. The floors, the newspapers and the carpets were free from dampness, he said. Many of the kitchen walls of early homes were insulated against heat and cold by the family newspapers, so the good bank was only following a long- established trend of those ear lier times. Until the rolls on the market shelves became more available and popular, the news papers and such catalogs as Sears-Roebuck and "Monkey Ward" were much in demand. The catalogs, which as a rule, were hung on the wall by a stout cord, waned In popularity when they came out with that "slick" paper in order to get a better print on the cuts used in illustrating their many wares. So the newspapers are "one up" In that regard. And by the way, Zellcrbach has a good thing going nowadays. They not only manufacture newsprint, but are one of the leading producers of toilet paper, among many oth er products. We only mention Zee as they are well known on the Coast. Others In this high ly competitive field include Georgia-Pacific and Blake Mof fitt and many others. So $4.50 is a bargain, anyway you look at it. Ail the weekly news, the fine constructive edi torials, comment, market media and booster for everything good in the community. After that, the insulation or other varied uses. Indeed, a family institu tion of mighty proportions. Art Crawford 4852 Kingston Way San Jose, Calif. 95130 From Quang Tri Dear Mr. Sherman: We are now defending an air field at Quang Trl. Each night for a week we have been hit by either enemy rockets or mor tars, or enemy elements trying to overrun our perimeter. As I write this letter from In side a bunker, I can hear our own guns firing on enemy po kIi Ions. Amidst all this, at my side is the Gazette-Times. Across the many miles I would like to ex tend my hand and heartfelt thanks for a truly fine paper. It brings that so much needed cheer into this ever sorrowful land. I write this letter to let you know how greatly I appre elate the Heppner Gazette. My best wishes to all my friends in Heppner. The very best or this New Year to you and your fine staff. One thing, Mr. Sherman, which Is so very nice about this year (1968) is that (Dear God willing) I can leave Vietnam. Sincerely yours, Cpl. Larry J. Muesslg USMC Quang Trl, R. V. N. (Editor's Note: For those who may wish to write to Larry, his address is: 13 H and S Co. SI Sec, FPO, San Francisco, Calif. 96602). More than a Dream To the Editor: I want to thank you in the behalf of our Port Commission for the fine writeup you made about our panel discussion last Tuesday evening, January 6. The possibility of getting a thermal nuclear power plant may at the moment seem as mostly wishful thinking but when we think of the tremen dous resources we have here in North Morrow county, both for industrial as well as agricultural development, it can be well within the realm of reality and within not too distant a future. A plant that is very compact, very clean, there Is no dust, soot or smoke, costing in the neigh borhood of $125 million to $140 million dollars and furnishing employment for some 70 or 80 people (mostly specialized) would certainly be an asset to anv eommunitv. And with the great possibil-1 that the District Attorney was ity for the need for large blocks quoted in the February 6 East Vehement Protest Feb. 10, 19C8 To the Editor: Wo deeply regret that the 'so called marijuana Issue' was published in last week's paper without an adequate and thor ough Investigation. Not that we are trying to suppress a poten tial problem, or that we are marijuana lovers or that we are trying to avoid the 'so-called' serious problem. But we take issue with the story on the front page as well as the editorial for the follow ing reasons: First, they have no 'absolute basts of fact. Not one shred of concrete evidence nns been found. Not one person has been apprehended as of this date. If there is any evidence, which we strongly doubt, it is oniy near say. If there is 'strong evidence' then we suggest that local of ficials are not doing their duty, for the violators should have been apprehended or at least questioned. Secondly, we vehemently pro test the manner in which Judge Jones and the editor used in breaking the story. When re sponsible officials throw out a threat (when they can't make it stick) by saying: "We have the names of four youths who are users or suppliers, and we will embarrass them by reveal ing their names if necessary," that is tantamount to the red- hunting McCarthy era, when in nocent people were victimized by a "do-gooder." To break the story in this way was In poor taste, and certainly ethically questionable, in light of the fact Mrs. Beraic Lamb left from Umatilla by bus to visit her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cunninghum and family In Ontario this week. Her son Wayne, who has been working in Portland was homo to visit for the week-end before returning to his Job with First National Bank. COMMUNITY J BILLBOARD K of electrical energy it no doubt behooves us all, as Rupert Ken nedy pointed out, to work for the expanded development. I, too, feel that we should do this and the reward is great, So again, thank you for the tine support. Sincerely, Oscar E. Peterson Mike Sweeney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sweeney, has pledged to the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Oregon in S:ugene. Sweeney, a freshman at the university, has chosen the study of pre-law as his major. He is a 1967 graduate of Hepp ner High school. The Rhyming Philosopher VALENTINE ACCORDING TO THE BEST HISTORIC SOURCES THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY STATES THIS IS THE TIME FOR BIRDS TO UNITE FORCES AND PROPAGATE THE SPECIES WITH THEIR MATES. SAINT VALENTINE DECIDED IT WAS BETTER FOR HUMAN LOVERS NOT TO BE SO BOLD, BUT SEND THEIR MESSAGE BY A CARD OR LETTER TO STATE THEIR CASE OR GET THEIR STORY TOLD. AS TIME WENT ON THIS CUSTOM CHANGED ITS FEATURES AND LEFT THE BIRDS TO MAKE OUT BEST THEY COULD, WHILE VALENTINES EXCHANGED WITH FRIENDS AND TEACHERS EXPRESSED THE KIND OF LOVE THEY UNDERSTOOD. BUT LOVE, LIKE MAN HIMSELF, HAS MANY FACES, WITH INFLUENCE OF SMALL OR WIDE EFFECT, FROM MOTHERS' SMILES TO LOVERS' QUICK EMBRACES, THOUGH OFTEN TOO CONFINED OR INDIRECT. LOVE UNEXPRESSED SOON DIES FOR WANT OF GIVING, WHILE HUNGRY HEARTS CRY PLEADING AT YOUR GATE. SO SPREAD YOUR GIFT OF LOVE AMONG THE LIVING THAT LOVE MAY RULE THE WORLD INSTEAD OF HATE. HARRY W. FLETCHER Oregonian as saying he didn't have the evidence to press charges against anyone. Third, by using the press in an attempt to correct the poten tial problem, you only created a 'juicy piece of gossip.' Already young people's names are being passed in the school and com munity as possible suspects. This malicious gossip results in slander, defamation of charac ter, and a witch-hunt, which has resulted in unnecessary hu miliation and emotional suffer ing for at least one young per son. This is a pretty high price tor a sensational story. We feel certain that both Judge Jones and yourself were well-meaning in exposing this story as you did. Nevertheless, we believe that a public expla nation is in order, and that the truth be known so that the gos sip will come to an end in our community. Sincerely, The Rev. Donald R. Pederson The Rev. Dirk T. Rinehart Coming Events HEPPNER HIGH BASKETBALL Pilot Rock at Heppner, Fri rinv. Feh. 16 Madras at Heppner, Saturday, Feb. 17 Sherman at Sherman, Satur rinv. Feb. 24 District Tournament, March 1-2 All league games Support the Mustangs! FFA BANQUET Thursday. 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