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L I ORARY o or 0 EUGENE OTvE. 87403 Lake Umatilla Formed: 85th Year Number 8 Recreation Plans Eyed A major milestone In the de velopment of the Mid-Columbia area was reached this week when the John Duy Dam on the Columbia Kiver was closed and Lake Umatilla, 76 miles long, was formed. With the closure of the dam Tuesday morning, water fed from heavy discharge of a num ber of dams uprlver brought the level of the new lake up at the rate of one foot per hour. It was expected to reach a depth of some 80 feet above tho normal river level at the dam, and the former Arlington and Boardman townsltes were ex pected to be inundated by Fri day when Lake Umatilla reach es Its minimum pool elevation of 257 feet at the dam. The new lake will be a last step In mak ing a series of slack water lakes out of the river. All traces of the former RIv-1 erslde school at Boardman near the river was gone after It was razed by salvage contractors last week. Move to the partially con strut-led new school building was completed also last week when students were on spring vacation, rlrst day or high school In the new structure, ut Hizing only the classroom area, was Monday and Principal Dan Daltoso reported that all went smoothly in view of the liml tations of the unfinished struc ture. Primary pupils are going to school in the Greenfield Grange hall. There was little heat in the new school building because the main heating system has not been completed. Supplementary heating was supplied by small electric space heaters. Hundreds Watch Rise Hundreds flocked to the river , m, ,i .. ,i, .... .mi ..in. i in i. ; - '' "" . f J ; .,..' 1 BISHOP LANE W. BARTON Church to Honor Retired Bishop Of E. 0. District Members and friends of All Saints' Episcopal church will say farewell this Sunday, April 21, to the Rt. Rev. Lane W. Bar ton, D. D., who will retire as Bishop of Missionary District of Eastern Oregon early In the fall. according to announcement by Rev. Dirk Rinehart, rector. By the middle of October a new Bishop will have been elected to serve the district. Bishop Barton has made many visitations to Heppner over the past 22 years, and has confirm ed many adults and young peo pie at the Heppner church. This Sunday, for the last time, the Bishop will confirm young peo ple from both Heppner and Con don. Also during worship, six men will receive Lay Readers' licenses from Bishop Barton. Each license represents many hours of supervised study, which has prepared the men to con duct worship during the rector's absence. Heppner men who will be presented licenses will in clude Bob Abrams, Ned Clark and Herman Winter. Following the 11:00 a.m. wor ship, Bishop and Mrs. Barton will be honored at a potluck dinner in the parish hall. All friends of the Bishop are encour aged to be present. Bishop Barton has had a long and active tenure. He establish ed the district headquarters in Bend when he came to Oregon nearly 22 years ago. He has seen church membership in the district grow from 3,400 to 7,600; the number of parishes increas ed firom six to 13; value of church pioperties raised from around $800,000 to $2,600,000. Merchants Slate Moonlight Sale Heppner merchants will hold their second Moonlight Sale on Friday night. April 26. from 7 until 10 pm., Bill Hust, merch ants committee chairman of the Heppner-Morrow county Cham ber of Commerce, announces. Extra special values will be offered during the three-hour period. The Moonlight Sale bar gains will be available only during that time and will not be on sale at reduced prices before the time nor after. Many of the participating merchants have bought merch andise especially for this event, Hust said. As an added feature, each of the stores is planning to have an exceptionally "hot" buy to be offered at 9 p.m. only. It is planned that the stores will close at the regular time on the Friday and then reopen for the Moonlight Sale event MEETING SCHEDULED All Heppner merchants are asked to be present at a "Dutch treat" luncheon meet ing Friday at noon in the Wagon Wheel Cafe to com- plete plans for the forthcom-' ing Moonlight Sale, Bill Hust, merchants chairman, announces. Tuesday to ee the filling of the lake, but It did not come in a spectacular manner, ap waring to be gradual. Sight seers were warned away from the rlverbanks In order that they not be caught napping by the rising water. Over the week-end. those In (crested In Indian art If lets went to the river armed with rollers, cloth and ink to obtain impres sions of the Indian writings that the rivers rise would Inundate. At the Heppner-Morrow coun ty Chamber of Commerce meet Ing here Monday, Tom Slater, landscape architect of the Army Corps of Engineers, walla wai la district, told something of the plan for filling Lake Umatilla and gave information on parks and recreational facilities that are being developed along the huge reservoir. He said that projects above McNary Dam were spilling wa ter to fill the reservoir, starting with flow from Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho Fri day. When the minimum pool is reached after three days, the navigation locks at John Day Dam will operate and the Coast Guard buoy tender Bluebell will be the first ship to come through this on Saturday. 800 Eggs Collected Slater told of Operation Mother Goose in which the Fish and Wildlife Service picked up 800 unhatched goose eggs by helicopter and other means to save them from inundation. It was hoped that parks along Lake Umatilla would be com pleted by this summer, Slater said, but the schedule could not be met. Concentration has been on the "underwater" work, that part which will be inundated with the forming of the reser voir. This includes driving pil ing, building breakwaters, pro viding launching ramps and working on boat basins. Some parking lots also have been rough graded. Facilities will be operable soon at several parks for those who want to launch boats, but he said that more money must be appropriated until the areas will look like parks. The plan is to do the rest of the work as soon as possible. Slater said that it is estimat ed that 400,000 recreation visit ors will come to the parks an (Continued on page 8) the m mm m BPPNEI2 GA ZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, April 18, 1968 10 Cents ScI ibl .Board Meets in New Buil lone Merit Mother Due For Honors in Salem Big Band Carnival Billed Saturday; Support Urged Dr. Wolff Files For R-l Director Dr. Wallace Wolff has filed petition for director of Morrow County School District R-l for zone VII, and seven candidates have filed for advisory commit tee positions around the county, Ron Daniels, district superinten dent, announces. Dr. L. D. Tibbies, now direct or from zone VII (Heppner), will not be a candidate for re election. Election will be on Monday, May 6. At the same time, voters of the district will cast ballots on the 1968-69 budget. The slate of eight director and advisory committee candidates means that there is one candi date for every position open, but there are no contests for any of the positions. Those up for election for the advisory committee places are: Heppner-Lexington Advisory Committee Mary Ann Barclay, Lexington, 3-year term; Jerry Sweeney, Heppner, 2-year term; and Edda Mae Lovgren, Hepp ner, 3-year term. lone Advisory Committee Dorothy Krebs, Cecil, 3-year term; Gene Rietmann, lone, 3 year term. Boardman Advisory Commit- tee Shirley Zielinski, 3-year A carnlval-like atmosphere, with booths, prizes, fun and eames. will Drevail Saturday night. April 20, at the fair pa vilion, when the PTA units and band departments 01 Dotn iiepp ner Hish and Elementary schools combine talents to produce and present the annual band carni val General chairman for the event is Paul Warren, who is assisted by PTA presidents, Mrs. Wallace Wolff and W. W. Weatherford, and band director, Arnie Hed man. A full evening of fun and games, and lots of prizes is as sured for those attending, with the hope that this year's band carnival will be one of the most exciting events sponsored here. Dinner will be served from 30-7:30 p.m., and will feature a baroecuea Deer piate, not aog plate, or plain hot dog, served with a variety of delicious sal ads, desserts, coffee and punch. Bands will entertain during the dinner period. The real fun will begin at 6:30, when the variety of booths will ODen for business, among which are the country store, fish pond, dart throw, and many others. A bookstore, featuring comic books and hard back books, will be run by the fifth grade class. Sixth graders will be in charge of the cake walk; seventh grade will have charge of the telegram booth, and eighth graders will operate the ever popular aunK tanK The evening's fun will be fur ther enhanced with the appear ance of the mysterious Madame LaZonga. who specializes in fortune telling and palm read ings Elementary candidates for the kine and aueen contest are Christy Bradley and John Myers, sixth grade: Barbara snerman and David Eckman, seventh grade; and Debbie McLeod and Bruce Bergstrom, eighth grade. Jim Sherman and Susan Melby are the high school candidates. Winners will be announced dur ing the carnival and will re ceive three-piece luggage sets as prizes. Youth and parents alike will be invited to attend the dance immediately following the car nival, which will be held in the fair pavilion. Musical entertain ment will be provided by "The Living Souls," a five-piece teen age dance band from Pendleton. Door prizes to be given away at this year's carnival include an Arvin 10 transistor portable radio, complete with case and earphones, an Arvin 4' transis crophone, and a family ticket to the new Heppner city swim ming pool. Proceeds from the carnival event will be used by the PTA to provide special scholarships. Paper to Print Pictures Taken Of Local Children tprm. Irrigon Advisory Committee tor portable tape recorder, with Wanda Witherspoon, 3-year two reels of tape, plug-in ear term, phones and remote control mi- Periodically for a number of years The Gazette -Times has run a pictorial feature of the youngsters in this area as "Cit izens of Tomorrow." In the near future the paper will again publish free pictures of all children who are brought by their parents or guardians tor photos to be taken in Hepp ner and lone. In lone the pictures will be taken from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Friday, April 26, at the American Legion Hall. In Hepp ner they will be taken also from 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at the Heppner Hotel. Pictures in Color An expert children's photogra pher will take the pictures to assure uniform quality and size for best reproduction. This year they will be taken in natural color. Parents are advised to dress the children colorfully to take full advantage of the beauty of color photography. The pictures in the newspaper will run in black and white. There are absolutely "no strings to this invitation nor are there any charges to the parents. They do not have to be subscribers of this newspaper to participate. JNeither are the par ents obliged to purchase any of the color pictures taken. Those who might desire color photographs may obtain them by making arrangements with the studio representatives when they select the pose they wish to see printed in The Gazette-Times. There is ne age limit and old er children and family groups are especially welcome. Appointments Asked Appointments may be made by calling Mrs. Lindsay Kincaid at lone (Ph. 422-7418) or Mrs. Arnold Raymond at Heppner (Ph. 676-5820). While appoint- ments are not necessary to have the children DhotoeraDhed. it could avoid having to wait. Those interested are urged to check the dates on their calen dars now and help us make this a memorable community feature. Photography will be handled by the Dansville, N. Y., office of Woltz Studios, Inc. Mrs. Lewis (Dot) Halvorsen of lone will be honored, togeth er with seven , other Oregon mothers, as an ; Oregon Merit Mother by the Oregon State Mother's Association Tuesday, April 23, at the Marion Motor Hotel in Salem, Mrs. Vivian Pe terson of St. Helens, president of the association, announces. The event win particularly honor Mrs. Anne Kennedy Smith of Portland who has been cho sen Oregon Mother of the Year. Highlight of the event will be presentations by Governor lom McCall at the : State Capitol Building at 2 p.m. Mrs. Halvorsen was nominat ed for Oregon Mother of the Year by the lone Masonic lodge recently. She was not chosen as the 1968 Mother but Is among the eight who are to be cited as Oregon Merit Mothers, utn ers are Mrs. Lucy Avis, Mrs. Evelyn Cross, Mrs. Ida Pope, Mrs. Mary Diamond, Mrs. Mild red Wilson, Mrs. Grace WUch and Mrs. Elsie Zatterberg, all from other parts of the state. The event Tuesday will start at 10:30 with a "brunch" at 11 a.m. A program will be present ed at the motor hotel after which the group will go to the capitol building for the gover nor's presentations. Reservations have been made for members of Mrs. Halvorsen's family and other relatives, but no more can be accommodated. In nominating Mrs. Halvor sen, the lone lodge's letter stat ed, "She has always been avail able to take the lead In our installation dinners and other functions. Each year the lodge is host to the local high school boys and their men teachers at a banquet. We always ask the Order of Eastern Star to neip, and Mrs. Halvorsen' is always there, bringing along a group of Rainbow Girls to serve." In the Eastern Star, Mrs. Hal vorsen has held an office every year for 21 years and has led the order as worthy matron three times. She has been inter ested in Rainbow Girls for 10 years and organized an assem blv in lone in 1961. She is active in many other groups in the community, in eluding PTA, lone United Church of Christ, and Grange, bhe is a past master of Willows Grange and has served as secretary for 13 vears. The Halvorsens have four children, Mrs. Linda May Prock of Heppner; Joe Halvorsen, a junior at Eastern Oregon Col lege; Mark Halvorsen, sopho more at EOC; and Frank Hal vorsen, junior at lone High. In addition, they reared two fos ter daughters, Judy and Alyce Mason.. All six have made fine rec ords of achievement, attaining many honors in their school i s MRS. LEWIS HALVORSEN Cliff Harris Buys Tum-A-Lum Site Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Harris, owners of Harris Drive-in, have purchased property and build ings of Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company, which adjoins their drive-in, Mrs. Harris confirmed Tuesday. Expectations are that the property will be developed with office spaces, an upholstery shop, barber shop and addition al parking for the restaurant, she said. Other ventures are also being considered to be added to the site. Tum-A-Lum announced last week that the 48-year-old firm is quitting business here, and a sale is currently in progress to dispose of stock. Harris is in Lebanon this week and was not available to give further details on plans for the site. Mrs. Harris said that it is planned to start the project in the very near future. years. The boys have been ex ceptionally fine athletes. "The affectionate bond be tween members of the family is readily discernible wherever they are seen together," the nominating letter said. "Their farm home, which is kept neat and tidy through the mother's guidance, is a center of youth ful activity, and it is not un common to have several extra boys for dinner without notice. Mr. and Mrs. Halvorsen have lived on the family ranch two miles from lone since their mar riage on December 30, 1936. Mrs. Halvorsen's nomination as Oregon Mother of the Year will remain on file for three years and she will be eligible for consideration as the state wide choice any year through that time. Telephone Operator Gets Aid to Woman Who Suffers Stroke Alertness of a Pendleton telephone operator resulted in bringing aid to a Heppner woman who suffered an ap parent stroke here Saturday. The unusual scries of circum stances were recounted by Dale Slusher, manager of the telephone company in Pendle ton. At 10:07 p.m. Saturday Mur iel Czubiak, evening operator In Pendleton, was in the pro cess of removing the connec tion on a long distance call from Heppner. However, she noticed the Heppner end of the call had not cleared. Mrs. Czubiak went on the line and heard a woman's voice ask for help. Unable to find out the woman's name or telephone number, Mrs. Czubiak notified her supervis or, Mrs. Helen Deakin, who contacted Bill McCoy, chief transmissionman. McCoy call ed Glen Mecham, installer repairman at Heppner, to have him trace the call. With the help of Paul Weston, trans missionman In Pendleton, they Identified the four sub scribers on the four party line. Mecham recognized names of two of the subscribers. He contacted the Heppner City Police, and together they checked the two addresses. At the second address they found Mrs. C. L. Stephenson lying on the floor after suf fering an apparent stroke. The police called for an am bulance and a doctor at about 11:15 p.m. Mrs. Stephenson was taken to the hospital where report Tuesday was that she was in fair condition. Mrs. Stephenson had taken the phone from its cradle be fore the long distance call had been completed. One of those involved in the call was also on her four party line, and when she took the phone off, it kept the line open and enabled the operator to hear her plea for help. Cow Cutters Coming For 9tfi Spring Meet Chilly, Chilly After hitting a warm 79 de grees last Wednesday, maxi mum temperatures here drop ped to a chilly 47 Tuesday, re port of Don uiiilam, weather observer, shows. Skiffs of light snow fell at various times but moisture was still conspicuous ly light. Complete report for the week is as ioaows Hi Low Prec. Wednesday 79 41 Thursday 63 37 Friday .45 20 Saturday 57 20 Sunday 60 39 Monday 51 35 .03 Tuesday 47 20 .01 Ninth annual spring cow cut ting meet of the Wranglers club will be staged in Heppner this week-end and it may attract a record number of entrants from around the Northwest. Gene Pierce of the sponsoring committee said that entrants are expected from the Seattle area, the Spokane area, from Boise, Yakima, Redmond, Med ford, Eugene, Salem, Portland, Vancouver and many other cit ies, as well as the local con tingent. Requests for entry blanks have come from all of these points and more, he said. The cutting events will be held in the covered arena of the Morrow county fairgrounds Sat urday night at 7 o'clock and will be continued there at 9 a.m. Sunday. Wranglers Playday will fol low at the Wrangler grounds at 1 p.m. Sunday with a special OBRA barrel racing event as the highlight. Competition in the cow cut ting this year will be divided into seven classes with two go rounds in each. They are as follows: Novice Novice, for hors es which have won less than $100, and novice rider; $100 Novice, for horses which have won less than $100, and any rider; $300 Novice, for horses which have won less than $300, and any rider; $750 Novice, for horses which have won less than $750, and any rider; Jun ior Registered, for registered quarter horses four years old and under, and any rider; Sen ior Registered, for registered quarter horses of more than four years, and any rider; and open. This competition is approved by the Northwest Quarter Horse association and the Cutting Horse association. This year, $200 has been add ed to the open purse. Every winner, determined by the ave rage, will get a horse blanket as a trophy. Judge of the event is Steve Bishop of Chimacum, Wash, At least two new local cut ting horses will be in the com petition this year, since Art Vance and Dr. Jim Norene have recently acquired horses that they expect to enter. In addit ion, veteran horses will be en tered by Floyd Jones, Ralph Beamer and others. On the Wrangler committee in charge are Beamer,' Howard Bryant, Jones, Fred Mankin, Bill Healy, Cornett Green, Vance, Roice Fulleton, Mrs. Vance, Bob Bergstrom, John Eubanks and Pierce. The public is welcome to come and watch the events at no admission charge. Budget Adopted; Few Changes Made School budget for the Morrow county district R-l was adopted by the board of directors at its regular meeting at the new Riv erside school, Boardman, Mon day night after some changes had been made at the budget hearing at Lexington on Tues day, April 9. The changes were minor and did not increase the budget ex penditures. A sum of $5000 was added un-fer instruction to provide the district's share of the cost of the Umatilla-Morrow media cen ter. Federal funds for support of the center expire in October of this year and the districts in the two counties must pick up the cost, according to Ron Dan iels, R-l superintendent. To compensate for this addit ion, two deletions were made. A sum of $1500 that had been budgeted for repairs and main tenance was taken out. This was to provide two sets of ex terior doors for Heppner Ele- mentarv school. In addition, $3500 was cut from improvement of sites, being a sum that had been set aside for the improvement of the road up the hill to Heppner High school. The total budget remains the same, and the proposed tax levy remains the same. Only two persons, other than' those connected with the schools, appeared at the hear ing, Daniels said. X-Ray Unit Due Residents of the area are urg ed to take advantage of the free X-Ray services of the Mobile X-Ray unit on Thursday and Friday In front of Murrays Rex all Drug store. Hours will be 11-2:00 and 3-6 p.m. on Thurs day, and 9-12 noon on Friday. IEi Students Have First Classes After Moving Directors of Morrow County School District R-l met in reg ular session in the new River side school, which Is partially completed, for the first time Monday night. Like the students who had at tended classes for the first day there Monday, the directors de pended on small electric heat ers to keep warm. Supt. Ron Daniels, in a prog ress report on the school, said that the move from the old school had been accomplished without trouble and students had adjusted to the new build ing smoothly despite the impair ments caused by the unfinished areas. He said that plaster has been cracking in some places on the under side of the exterior over hang, and that this problem is to be checked out by a plaster expert. Daniels also reported that grass in the cover crop or the area being landscaped is not growing as had been expected, and that the landscape engin eer and the landscape contract or must work out this problem between them. Since the heating system is not completed at the school, the students will depend largely on the small electric heaters until weather warms. Kirk Horn Resigns Written resignations of three teachers were read at the meet ing, including those of Kirk Horn, Heppner High biology teacher; Cecilia Delmore, Hepp ner High English and speech teacher; and jack Trujillo, lone High business teacher. Horn expects to continue his education with graduate work and said in his resignation that he hopes later to return to this area. Miss Delmore plans to continue her studies in speech and to work towards her mas ter's degree. The board approved the hir ing of Victor Marchek, who now teaches at Hermiston, for a so cial studies position at River side, and Sharon Donovan, a graduate of Riverside High, for an English position in the new school. She will teach language arts in the seventh and eightn grades. Miss Donovan is now completing her college work. Daniels said that this leaves only a few positions in the sys tem to be filled, and applica tions have been received for all of them. They are for counsel lor at Riverside, English and business at lone, two English positions and a biology teacher at Heppner High. Budgets Adopted A recently published supple mental budget, providing for transfer of $8000 to the teach- erage fund, was approved. This requires no vote because no tax levy is involved. The 1968-69 budget for the district was al so approved as changed at the public hearing April 9 and elec tion on the budget In the dis trict will be on May 6. Discussion was held on adver tising for purchase of school buses, and it was decided to ad vertise for one 30-passenger and one 54-passenger bus. Principal Dick Carpenter of Heppner High proposed a plan being considered at the high school for teaching language arts and social science in a combined class with two-hour blocks for freshmen and sopho mores and for juniors and sen iors. He asked permission for two teachers to be placed on an ex tended contract for an addition al week in the summer to work out plans for the course. Be cause of the uncertainty as to whether money would be avail able In the budget, the board deferred decision on this until the next meeting. Gordon Myers was approved as lifeguard for the lone swim ming pool for the coming sum mer. He also served as lifeguard there last summer. An eighth grade field trip to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and to Oregon His torical Society in Portland from A. C. Houghton school on May 10 was approved. Budget to be Short In his financial report, Supt. Daniels said that indications are that the district will not be able to finish this school year "in the black." "We may be $40,000 in the red," he said, adding that all indications point to the fact that receipts estimated in the 1967 68 budget will fall somewhere between $40,000 and $80,000 be low expectations. (Continued on page e) i
