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LIBRARY U or 0 E U G E N E . C T C 07103 Kafchy Hinton Chosen As Princess for Court Kathy Hinton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clove Hinton of Board man, ha bHn wlected to rep resent the Boardman Tilllcum club as the thtrtt princess on the 1!X8 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo court. She will loin Prin ces Man-la Jonea and Princess Sheila Lucianl on the court of Queen Berniece Matthewa. A fourth princess la to be announc- PRINCESS KATHY HINTON Weather Blamed For Poor Qualify Of TV Reception Unusual weather conditions are held responsible for recent poor quality of television recep tion over the microwave system that serves Heppner, according to Telecommunications of Ore gon, owner of the microwave system. Robert S. McCaw, president of Telecommunications, notified Carl Spaulding, manager of Heppner TV, Inc., In response to inquiries about fading problems that the fades are caused by "weather factors such as tem perature inversion or ducting." "Heavy valley fogs seem to be the worst cause," he wrote. "Sometimes it can be freezing near the ground and 60 degrees in the area in which our beam path operates. He said that even the tele phone company has "drop-outs" on their microwave on occasions, Directors of Heppner TV, Inc., discussed the matter at their meeting last week. McCaw informed them that Telecommunications expects to apply to the Federal Communl cations Commission "immediate, ly" for increased power up to 10 watts, as compared with the present one watt from Goodnoe Hills to Spout springs. "This should tend to mini, mize some of the outage prob lem." he said. He also said that the entire system is being checked out this month to put it in its peak of operational perfection. "Your concern about micro wave fading problems is one which we certainly share with you," he said. "Naturally, we want to give you tne oest serv ice possible for as low a rate as we can." His letter to Heppner TV was supported by another from J. B. Hatfield, Seattle, consulting ra dio engineer. "The microwave reception has been fading out of the picture at times, resulting in complaints from CATV and other users of microwave systems, Hatfield wrote. Hatfield said that if increased power is granted by the FCC, "this plan should offer some as sistance in overcoming the problem due to unusual weather conditions." ed, who will represent the Lena community. Princess Kathy, an attractive 17-year-old senior at Riverside High school, has taken part in many of the school's activities. She has served as cheerleader for the past two years, giving her wholehearted support to the school's athletic teams. At the same time she has maintained a good scholastic rating and In her Junior year was chosen for membership In the National Honor Society. During this year she has served as student body secretary, after being a member of the student council for two years. She participates actively in the Girls' Athletic Associa tion and In sports. Before moving to Boardman at the beginning of her soph omore year, Kathy lived with her family in Ukiah, where she was a member of the Evergreen Riding Association. The new princess had learned to ride at an early age, and has gained much of her riding experience while helping her grandfather on his ranch, as well as help ing with cattle drives in the mountains. Riding horses is placed at the too of the list of Kathy's fa vorite hobbies, followed by swimming and the other out door sports. She has been an active member of 4-H livestock, sewing and cooking clubs. Besides her parents, her fam ily includes two sisters, Judy, age 15, and 13-year-old Georgia, who also enjoy riding. Following high school gradu ation, Princess Kathy's future plans include attending Links Business college in Boise, Ida ho, followed by training to be an airline hostess. For her summer appearances with the court, Kathy plans to ride a favorite family quarter horse, "Babydoll," owned by her grandfather, George Hinton. 84th Year Number 52 0W tilir THE EPPNER GAZ TIMES Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, February 22, 1968 10 Cents zi mi rft r-"a ica,-. : 'f1 . -vlfc '' " ' ' """' ' J HEADING FOR THE district 7-B basketball tournament In Pendleton next Wednesday are the lone High Cardinals, who hold second place in the Morrow-Umatilla B league with two games left to play this week-end. On the sauad are (front row. from left). Ron Falmateer. Neal Christopherson, Keith Nelson, Scott Wilson. Ron Christopherson, and Kerry Peterson. Back row loacn tugene uocKter, bod Ball, cnrls Lovgren, Frank Halvorsen, Jim Swanson and Eddie Sher man. Earl Pettyjohn was absent when the picture was taken. (Also see cage S. this paper) (Jim Johnson Photo) State Report on Elementary Schools Says Instruction Good; Hits Buildings Boeing Speaker Billed for SPADA Instructional programs at Heppner and lone Elementary schools have been rated as at "standard or above but the Heppner Elementary gymnas ium, the Heppner junior high building, and the lone Elemen tary building have been rated sub-standard in a number ot re spects by a report from the State Department of Education. Both Heppner and lone Ele mentary schools will be listed as "Non-standard" until a plan of correction is prepared by the school district and is approved by the State Department of rub lie Instruction, the evaluation report stated. The evaluation took place on October 23 and 24, 1967, and the report has just been received here. Al Martin, principal of Hepp ner Elementary school, express ed pleasure at the fact that the instructional program and staff were rated "standard or above" and said that this is testimony to the good work being done by teachers here. A synopsis of the points listed as "nonstandard (below the minimum standards required for public schools) follows: Heppner Elementary Gymnas ium 1. Ventilation unsatisfact ory; 2. walls and floors in poor shape; 3. master temperature control needed; 4. auxiliary ex it from girls shower room is needed; 5. drinking fountains and toilet facilities bad; 6. un protected bare light bulbs; 7. damage due to leakage. Gener al statement gym area, shower and dressing rooms unsatisfactory. Junior High Building Toilet rooms in poor shape and dirty. Outside Stop and go signal is a safety device but every effort should be made to vacate the street. lone Elementary (Main build ing) 1. Basement areas where toilet rooms are located are un attractive and dreary; 2. base ment ventilation poor or non existent; 3. stairs are steep; 4'. 7th and 8th grade housed in el ementary building part time; 5. library for grades 5-12 housed in high school buildings (none for 5th and 6th grades in elemen tary building); 6. acoustics poor in classrooms. Outside need blacktopping under elementary play area. with the physical plant, the schools were rated standard. In cluded are such categories as In structional program, library in structional media, guidance, school term, school staff, admin istration and auxiliary services. Plans for correction are requir ed within 90 days, which means no later than May 14. When the plans of correction are approved, the classifications will be chang ed to "conditionally standard" for the term identified in the plans for correcting the deficien cies. Auditorium portion of the Heppner Elementary evmnas ium was closed recently after some plaster fell from the ceil ing and the rest was removed Martin said that the section would remain closed until re pairs are made because it does not meet state fire prevention standards in the present condit ion. A long ranee plannine com mittee has been' appointed and recently viewed some of the known deficiencies at the HeDD ner Elementary plant with an idea or considering what should be done to improve them. Board Renews Contracts; Six Resignations Accepted W. E. Clothier, assistant pub lic relations manager, Aerospace Group, The Boeing Co., will be the featured speaker at the an nual moaHntr nf th Rnnpo Aap Industrial Park Development As-' Throughout the report, in sociation which is to be held areas other than tnose dealing Tuesday, February 27, beginning at 8 p.m. at the uki; Duuaing in Hermiston. Ted A. Smith of Pendleton, president of the Space Age group, said the public is invited and urged to attend tne meet ing and hear Clothier outline the overall objectives ot tne na tion's space program. He will show films on Saturn V, the Apollo spaceship, and the Lunar Orbiter. Boeing is the prime contractor for the first stage of the Saturn V, the largest space engine ev er constructed, and it is the Saturn which will boost the Apollo into space carrying the first astronauts bound for a soft landing on the moon sometime late in 1969. Clothier has been with Boeing since 1964' and prior to that was with General Electric at Rich land for five years. In addition to the presenta tion by Clothier, the Space Age group will conduct its annual meeting including election of officers, and three new direct ors. ' Six teacher resignations were accepted but contract renewals were offered to all others of the certified staff due for renewal in the Morrow county school dis trict by the board of directors at the regular board meeting Monday night. Resignations include Mrs. El sie Gugle and Mrs. Nellie Wat- erson, both teaching in A. (J. Houghton Elementary, Irrigon; Mrs. Carol Tolar, Boardman El ementary school; John Bonnier, lone High school; Tom Cald well and Mrs. Justine Weather ford, both teaching in Heppner Elementary school. Mrs. Gugle plans to join her husband in Bend; Mrs. Water son is retiring; and Mrs. Tolar resigned because there will be no elementary school in Board man next year and under dis trict policy she may not teach under her husband, who is prin cipal at A. C. Houghton school where the elementary school will be when Riverside School is completed. Those offered contract renew als are as follows: Second One-Year Contracts A. C. Houghton Mildred Ba ker. Riverside Paul Herbst, Ro berta Jenkins. lone Schools Rains Stop Skiers At Arbuckle Mt. Saturday was a beautiful day for skiing at Arbuckle Mount ain and the 4-H skiers had a good time, but rains that came Saturday night brought a halt to the fun on the hill. Jaycees started to operate the tow Sunday but the warm rains had turned snow to slush and so the Arbuckle course is shut down until further notice Ed Dick of Arbuckle Mount ain Corporation said that it will take a foot of snow before ski ing can be resumed. Other courses east of the Cascades are having the same difficulty. However, past experience has shown that some heavy snows have fallen after mid-February, and if this holds true this year, the course will be placed in op eration again. Rep. Irvin Mann Candidate Again Rep. Irvin Mann, Jr., Repub lican, of Stanfield has announc ed he will be a candidate for a third term in the Oregon House of Representatives, to represent Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Morrow and Umatilla counties. In the last two sessions of the legislature Mann served on the Fish and Game, Taxation, and Agriculture committees and is serving his fourth year on the Oregon Interstate Coopera tion Commission. He has represented Oregon at the western conference of the National Council of State Gov ernments in 1965, 1966 and 1967. Rep. Mann is a past president of the Oregon Cattlemen's As sociation and of the Umatilla Port Commission Earlier, Mann announced his intention to file for delegate to the Republican National Con vention from the second congres sional district. Anna Lee James, Darrell James, Anne Mather, Jack Trujillo, Dar rel Wilson. Heppner High Ce celia Delmore, Robert Mather, Dean Naffziger, Alice Riley, Robert Simkins. Heppner Ele mentary Arnim Freeman, Joan Thompson. Third One-Year Contracts A. C. Houghton Robert Byrd. Riverside Robert Chilman. lone Schools Edwin Kessler. Hepp ner Elementary Terry Lince cum, Judy Gochnauer. Heppner High Jane Rawlins, Gary Thompson, Hal Whitaker, Elmer Weitzel, Doris Brosnan, Adrian Cook, Ed Hiemstra. 1-Year Contracts, Part Time Heppner High Mary Ann Hilderbrand, Leona Winters. First 3-Year Contracts A. C. Houghton Eleanor Ser gent. lone Schools Lloyd John son, lone Martin, Jerry Martin. Heppner Elementary Dorothy Agee, Alena Anderson, Jessie Faye Morris, Clifford Williams, Frances Williams. Heppner High Dale Holland, Kirk Horn, Ar nie Hedman, Madge Thomson. 3-Year Contract Renewals A. C. Houghton Gladys Hobbs. Riverside and Boardman Delia Lindsay, LaVern Part low, lone Schools Beth Hynd, Jack Loyd. Heppner Elementary Cleo Robinson, Kathryn Hos kins. Teachers must serve in the district for three years before they are eligible for three-year contracts. A considerable number of teachers who currently are on three-year contracts have addit ional time to go on their pres ent contracts and therefore are not up for renewal at this time. Consequently, their names are not listed above Cardinals Point To District Meet; Open Wednesday With two games still to play in their regular league season, the lone High Cardinals have cinched a place in the district 7-B basketball tournament that will open in the armory in Pen dleton Wednesday, February 28. Coach Gene Dockter's team is Installed firmly in second place in the league at this writing with games yet to play against Echo there Friday night and Helix at lone Saturday night. Regardless of the outcome of these games, the Redbirds will be in the district tournament. since the top five of the nine teams get to enter. It yet re mains to be determined, how' ever, when the Cardinals will op en in the tournament. Outcome of the week-end games will have a bearing on the pairings. The lone five will begin tour nament play on Wednesday, but the time and the opponent are yet to be established. Should the Redbirds top third- place Echo and win over lowly Helix the ensuing night, undis puted second place will be theirs. There is no chance of undisputed claim to first place in the circuit and very little hcance of tieing league-leading McEwen, since the Scotties have only two losses to the lone team's four. One of the losses was to lone and the other was to the Umapine Chiefs Saturday night. I WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY) lig Sole SMs; ,275 Pies Offered cafurdoy Friday, S Personal Property Deadline March 1 Deadline for filing personal property tax returns of inven tories taken as of January 1, 1968, is on March 2, Rod Thom son, Morrow county assessor, re minds personal property taxpay ers. After that date a penalty will be charged, and those who fail to meet the deadline may not receive the benefit of personal property tax relief offered through the State of Oregon. Thomson said Tuesday that he estimated about one-third of the total returns are yet to come in. Those who file promptly help expedite the work in the assessor's office, and coopera tion from the public will be ap preciated, he said. Merchants expect to distrib ute more than 1275 cherry pies to customers Friday and Satur day in connection with their an nual George wasnmgton s mrtn day Sale, which starts today (Thursday) and runs tnrougn Saturday. The pies are only three-inches In diameter but they are of good quality and will be enjoy ed by everyone, Bill Hust, mer chants chairman, declares. The nies will be given with a minimum purchase made in any of the participating stores as long as that store's supply of pies holds out. They will be offered on a "first come, first served basis" on Friday and Saturday. "This year's Washington's Birthday Sale features bargains, bargains, bargains," Hust states. The second section of this paper is loaded with advertisements heralding bargain buys. Many of them are in denominations of "22" in keeping with Wash ington's birthdav on February 22. Sale prices are gooa ror tnree davs Thursday tnrougn Satur day but the pies will be giv en beginning Friday. Some items will be found to be reduced to one-third of nor mal price; many others are of fered at half price; some prices are slashed as much as $125 on items such as color TV sets; there are bargains on trinkets; and there are bargains on ma jor articles. To add a little fun to the event, manv of the merchants posed in a "George Washington" wig and their pictures accompa ny their advertising in this pa per. Free parking will be the order of the day on Friday. All shop- SECTION 2 HERALDS WASHINGTON SALE Section 2 of this paper Is devoted largely to advertising for the George Washington Birthday Sale in Heppner. Readers are urged to check the section carefully for extra special bargains. pers may park at any place in town without feeding the me ters or fear of gettingr a ticket. Hust invites all, from far or near, to come and get their cherry pies and to take advant flpe of the bargains offered in the Washington's Birthday Sale. "This is the best ever," ne de clared. Merchants participating in the George Washington Sale are Lott's Electric, Gardner's Men's Wear, Gonty's Elma's Apparel, Case Furniture uo., retersons Jewelers, MiLadles Apparel, J. C. Penney Co., Central Market, Murravs Rexall Drug, Van's Variety and Pettyjohn's Farm and Building Supply. Crown at Stake for HHS In Game with Sherman No Joke; Good Soak Good soaking rain, recorded in Heppner at a total of .66 inch came during the week, Don Gil liam, official weather observer, reports. Heaviest rainfall occur red on Monday with J2S inch, followed by .21 inch Tuesday. Complete report for the week of February 14 through February 20 is as follows: Hi Low Prec. Wednesday 38 17 Thursday 36 27 tr. Friday 44 20 Saturday 37 26 .10 Sunday 56 36 .07 Monday 65 50 .28 Tuesday 60 47 .21 Snow Programs Planned For Chamber Meet Programs for three coming meetings of the Heppner-Mor-row county Chamber of Com merce have been scheduled by Mrs. Avon Melby, program chairman. On Mondav. February 26, Wal lace McCrae, president of Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, will speak. Program feature at the March 11 meet ing will be a talk by Warren Merrill, industrial representa tive of the State of Oregon's Economic Development Division, and on March 18, Rupert Spear man, Spokane, will talk on the Bureau of Reclamation's work on the Willow Creek project WESTERN DIVISION GREATER OREGON LEAGUE Basketball Standings W L Heppner 5 2 Pilot Rock 5 2 Wahtonka 4 2 Sherman 1 5 Madras 1 0 Friday night games: Pilot Rock vs. Wahtonka; Madras vs. Sherman. Saturday night games: Hepp ner at Sherman: Wahtonka vs, Madras. Heooner High travels to Moro Saturday to meet the snerman Huskies in the last regular sea son tilt. The Mustangs are cur rently tied for the first position in the Greater Oregon Western division and are assured of no worse than a tie for second. The race between the three top teams of the western division goes down to the wire this week end, however, and the outcome will leave two teams tied either for first or second place. Should there be a tie for west ern division champion, no play off will be required. A drawing will determine which team will play as "first in the Greater Oregon League Tournament at La Grande. March 1 and 2, and which will be considered "sec ond." In the case of a tie for second, however, a play-off on a neutral floor will be required to determine which school goes to the tournament. tangs anticipate a tough battle. Sherman is traditionally tough at home, despite its poor 1967 68 record. The first tilt this year between the two was played here and the Mustangs put on their finest show of defense. The boys from Sherman couldn't get the shot they wanted and Heppner had no problem at all handling the boards when the Huskies did shoot. A win Saturday night would set Heppner up for their third sub-district crown in four years. In the '64-65 season the Mus tangs earned an A-2 tournament berth through two play-offs and the league championship. Their La Grande victories sent them to their first A-2 state tourney. The last two seasons Heppner has journeyed to the La Grande tournament via a first-place ranking in the league, and this is the way they hope to go again this year. The alternative, from losing to Sherman, would like ly mean a play-off with Wah tonka or Pilot Rock, with each of whom the Mustangs have -split this season. Fiiot Kock has been nungry for a trip to Coos Bay since Heppner snatched the berth from them three years ago. Wahtonka, which made the trip last year, surprised Heppner at The Dalles and can't be counted out. Lack of teamwork cost the Mustangs several games earlier in the season, iney are puinng Wahtonka could conceivably tators with d ball-handling, eliminate itself, of course, by losing both its games this week end but this outcome is unlike ly since its Saturday night foe, hapless Madras, hasn't shown much this season. Heppner could go into the first place tie by defeating Sher man Saturday night. Since Pilot Rock fell to the Huskies on the Moro floor, however, the Mus- some beautiful long jumpers, control of the boards, and high percentages from the foul line- but not all these in tne same game usually. If they can put all these skills together for the upcoming games they'll be hard to beat. Bill McLeod, John McCabe, (Continued on page 8)