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85th Year
Number 9
THE HEPPNER
GAZETTE-TIMES
Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, April 25, 1968
10 Cents
ounfv to Host Annual 8fh Grade Tour
tosy Time
Cutters Rate
Spring Meet
Here 'Tops'
wun o entries rrom more
than 50 competing horses, the
wranglers' th annual Spring
Meet set a new record of par
ticipation here Saturday and
Sunday.
This was the most entries In
the history of the event, and
many thought it was the best
of the nine cow cutting meets
held here to date, Gene Pierce,
secretary, said.
Owners brought horses from
many points around the north
west, coming from as far as
Ladner, B. C. Some expressed
the opinion that competition in
the Heppner event is the "tough
est" of any of the cutting meets
in which they participate.
The well-trained horses per
formed superbly in six different
classes of cutting events at the
covered arena at the fair
grounds. A Wrangler playday
bunaay atternoon at the club
grounds concluded the event.
No average trophy was award
ed in the open class. A four
way tie resulted in the second
go-round after Haley's Daisy,
owned by Melvin McGuire of
Yakima, Wash., won the first
go-round. Tied In the second
round were Senora George, own
ed by Doris Tyson of Murphy,
Idaho; Rey Jay's Pete, owned by
S. J. Agnew of Centralia, Wash.;
For Amble, also owned by Ag
new; and Century 21, owned by
J. D. Storms of Newberg.
Second in the first go-round
was a 2-way tie. between Miss
Penny, owned by Bob Hartsell
of Selah. Wash., and Mulino
Tempest, owned by Rainbird
Farms of Kstacada. There was
a 5-way tie for fourth between
Missile Joe, owned by Frank
Bates of Boise; Irish Rainbow,
owned by Bob Mote of Tigard;
Rey Jay's Pete; For Amble and
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Rummage Sale
To Sfarf Friday
Doors of the former Tryco
building will be opened at 8:00
a.m. Friday for the opening of
the annual spring rummage
sale of the Heppner Civic
League. A good selection of
clothing, household articles,
toys, dishes, appliances, furni
ture, will be among the many,
many items waiting for the
bargain-hunter, according to
Mrs. Bud Peck and Mrs. Jerry
Rood, co-chairmen.
The sale will be in progress
from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fri
day and again 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Friday night, and from 9:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday.
Drawing considerable interest
will be the sealed bids for a
three-wheel bicycle.
A plant sale is planned for
both days.
Starting at 9:30 a.m. Satur
day, an assortment of home
baked foods will be placed oni
Proceeds from the sale are
needed to carry on activities of
the kindergarten classes into
next year. In addition to help
ing ' purchase needed supplies
and equipment, scholarships are
given to needy children who
could not otherwise attend.
BOB (LEFT) AND HERB PETERSON, Just chosen Morrow county's
conservation Man ol tne Year, kneel In trashy tallow on their
Petersons Bros, ranch in the Valbv district Strip cropping shows
up in tne oacKgrouna. (Photo by Gene Winters).
Peterson Brothers
Conservation Men
Rising Lake Draws
Crowd of Sightseers
BOARDMAN Hundreds of
people have been coming in
off the highway at Boardman
to look at the Umatilla Lake
forming back of John Day
Dam. They started coming
Wednesday of last week and
continued all through the
weekend. Many former resi
dents of Boardman have been
coming also. A steady line of
cars could be seen going over
the railroad overpass at any
time.
Mrs. Emile Ash, who lives
near the old highway overpass
on the old road to Irrigon, re
ported Sunday that she saw
15 deer coming from the dir
ection of the river and going
off into the desert east of her
house. It is thought they may
have been on one of the is
lands in the river and when
the water came up they had
to swim for the south shore
of the river.
Several boats were taking
advantage of the marina on
Sunday.
By GENE WINTERS
Morrow County Extension Agent
An Impressive conservation
program adopted to control wa
ter and keep soil in place has
earned Herbert and Robert Pe
terson of lone the 1968 Morrow
County Conservation Award. The
announcement was made this
week at the Morrow County
Wheat Growers association an
nual spring meeting Tuesday
night following a tour by a sel
ection committee.
The Peterson Brothers opera
tion consists of 5400 acres crop
land and about 2000 acres of
rangeland. Most of this is on
the Peterson Ranch and the
Gabbert Ranch. In their opera
tion are leased and deeded
lands. These lands are on Hard
man Ridge, near Valby Church,
and west of Gooseberry near
Dry Fork. Most of the soils are
classified as Condon and Mor
row upland soils on their con
servation farm plan. The crop
land is listed as having land
capability 3 or 4 depending up
on soil depth and slope. They
are cooperators with the Hepp
ner Conservation District and
the Agriculture Conservation
Program.
Stubble mulch seed bed prep
aration has been adapted to the
lands between diversion ditches
and contour strips. This year
2800 acres are in stubble mulch.
Chisels are used as the first
operation when possible. Where
soddy conditions exist a light
discing followed by chisels and
rod weeders has kept adequate
straw on the surface. Use of the
light discs has been necessary
on the narrower strips where
two passes of the chisels at right
angles would be difficult.
Practices Supplement Mulch
Contour strip cropping, diver
sions and seeded waterways are
practices supplementing stubble
mulch. Nearly 700 acres on one
place is in contour strips. Over
17 miles of diversions have been
established. Diversions have
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Daylight Saying
Starts on Sunday
April 28 is the last Sunday,
in April, and like it or not,
that is the date fixed by law
for daylight saving time to
begin for the spring and sum
mer season.
- Clocks should be set ahead
one hour. The official time of
the change is 2 a.m. Sunday,
but no one will complain if
a person retired earlier Satur
day night and sets his clocks
ahead at that time.
The "lost" hour will be
made up in October when the
switch back is made on the
last Sunday of that month.
Due for Kids
This Week
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Three busy days await tour
ing Portland Eighth Graders
and their hosts here Friday
through Sunday when Morrow
county will extend a welcome to
the fifth annual Eighth Grade
tour.
Thirty-four eighth graders and
two chaperones. Bob Reyburn of
Boise school and Mrs. Alice Ell
is of Binnsmead school, will be
in the group that is due to ar
rive at the first stop in Morrow
county at 11 a.m. Friday after
leaving the city at 7 a.m., Tour
Director Gail McCarty states.
Simultaneously, three other
counties Sherman, Gilliam and
Wasco will be hosts to others
from the metropolitan area. In
all, 140 city youngsters from the
Portland schools and the School
of the Blind in Salem will visit
eastern Oregon under sponsor
ship of the Oregon Wheat Grow
ers League, the Soil Conserva
tion Service, Oregon State Exten'
sion Service, livestock associa'
tions and other erouos.
In Morrow county, the host
and sponsor is the Morrow coun
ty Wheat Growers association.
Co-sponsors include the Morrow
county schools, the Morrow
county Livestock Growers asso
ciation, the Heppner Soil and
Water Conservation district, and
the Morrow county Extension
Service.
To See Rural Life
Each visiting student will be
housed and. entertained by a
host family,' lisua'lly one -which
includes an eighth grader. While
the "city kids" are here, they
will see rural life in the home,
school, and church to gain a
better understanding between
urban and rural areas.
They will observe cattle oper
ations, horse raising, irrigation
and seeding operations, pest
control, harvesting equipment
and farm living.
The group will depart from
Couch school in Portland at 7
a.m. and, coming via school bus
furnished by Morrow county.
will arrive at the Walt Wiggles
worth hay ranch at approxi
mately 11 a.m.
At 11:30 they will go to the
Jasper Myers ranch to meet
their hosts, assemble for an or
ientation meeting, meet
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DONT LET Marge Gardner ct Gardner's Men's Wear tool you. Merchants are not going to be a
bit sleepy at Moonlight Sale Friday niqh! tvhen they will offer bargains great enough to make
shoppers wide awake, they say. Mrs. Gardner donned nightgown and nightcap, held the lamp
and suppressed a yawn to publicize the coming sale while the big round moon looked on. As
a practical matier. tne moon in wis photo may be tne only one to be seen Friday night but if
the moon doesn't shine, the merchants wilt
(G-T Photo).
Students Sound Call
For Blood Donors
Heppner High school students contacts and get the public to
are sounding a call for blood
donors for the visit of the Red
Cross bloodmobile here on Tues
day, April 30, from 2 to 6 p.m.
The students took the Job of
sponsoring the unit's visit here
Just a year ago, and they made
such a success of it that they
were asked to do the job again.
And they are doing it.
They have organized compe
tition among classes to make
leaders and hear an explanation
of the week-end by Mccarty.
Lunch will be at noon with
the cooperation of the Pine City
Extension unit and C & B Live
stock. A film on sheep feeding
operations will be shown by
Tom Watson, C & B sheep man
ager, at 12:45.
At 1:45 they will continue to
the George Currin and Sons cat
tle ranch to see branding and
vaccinating of calves ana a cow
spraying demonstration. Mrs.
Bill Healy will describe and
demonstrate horsemanship and
Hack Bloom will show the
youngsters how to shoe horses.
This will finish the active
tour for the day, and host fam
ilies of the Heppner area will
pick up their visitors at the
Heppner Elementary School at
4 p.m. and those of the lone
area will meet the guests at
lone High School at 4:30.
Tax Ruling Changes
School Levy Figure
A ruling by the State Tax
Commission makes It necessary
to change the published rate of
levy on the forthcoming school
budget election, Morrow county
School District R-l, from $8.85
to $9.85 per thousand dollars
of true cash value of taxable
property, Ron Daniels, district
superintendent, said Tuesday.
The change in rate for the
published election notice (print
ed in The Gazette-Times for the
first of two times last week) is
necessary because of the vary
ing tax levies in the different
taxing codes in the county-wide
district.
The $8.85 per $1000 true cash
tour,value ls a high average figure
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throughout the district, Daniels
explained, but the commission
has ruled that an average fig
ure cannot be used. Instead, it
has directed that the election
ballot must contain the high
est levy rate to be assessed in
any code area.
donate. Donors wfll give credit
to the class of his choice when
he appears at the Elks Temple
where the unit will be set up.
Points awarded will go to
wards the citizenship contest.
General chairman of the com
mittee sponsoring the drawing
is John Rawlins, senior, and stu
dent body president. Some 12
students are on his committee.
They will help unload equip
ment, do typing and record
work, act as receptionists and
ushers to the donor room, and
homemaking students will take
care of the canteen service.
Goal for the blood drawing Is
90 pints. The students pushed
it over that goal last year, the
first time the goal was met in
several visits.
Students will provide most of
the help for the visit, except for
the professional staff nurses,
doctors and others associated
with the Red Cross bloodmobile.
Local doctors share in helping
at the center, working on a ro
tating basis.
The public is urged to respond
at this drawing because the
need continues to be urgent.
potn pecs use oi tne war emer
gency in Vietnam and because
of heavy demands for blood
supplies at home.
Appointments are not essen
tlal. but it is helpful if thev are
made in advance. These may
be made by calling or notifying
any high school student, by call
ing Mrs. Orvllle Cutsforth (Ph.
676-9436), or the Elks Temple
(Ph. 676-8993).
Three-Hour Sale
Lists Top Values
Here Friday Night
Cook Gets Award
For Outstanding Work
GAIL McCARTY, Morrow county extension agent and director of the Portland Eighth Grade Tour
here, is shown (standing) with eighth graders and parents at cm orientation meeting at Holla
day school Portland, Monday. April 15. Thirty-four Portland youngsthers and two chaperones
will visit in the county this weekend.
Larry Cook, Heppner, had the
distinction of being chosen the
1968 recipient of the General
Grand Chapter Award at the an
nual convocation of the Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons
of Oregon, held in Portland on
April 10. He was one of nine
throughout the state chosen for
this honor.
The award is made by the
governing body of the interna
tional organization, and is pre
sented each vear to an outstand
ing Royal Arch Mason, selected
by representatives of the Grand
Chapter.
Cook Is both a York Rite and
Scottish Rite mason, a member
and past master of Fossil Lodge
No. 89, A.F. & A.M., and lor sev
eral years was a member and
chairman of the Grand Lodge
Committee on Masonic Instruc
tion, holding a life certificate
for proficiency in the Masonic
ritual.
He is a past high priest of
the Heppner Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons, and serves at
present as its secretary. He is
a member of Umatilla Council
No. 6, Royal and Select Masters,
and of Pendleton Commandery
No. 7. He also belongs to the
Scottish Rite at Baker and to Al
Kader Shrine in Portland.
As a member of the Shrine,
Cook has worked with the col
lection of food supplies in East
ern Oregon and Idaho for the
Shrine Feed Caravan, which
each vear takes truckloads of
food to the Shrine hospital In
Portland. He has taken an ac
tive part in the work connect
ed with the annual Shrine foot
ball eame at Pendleton, a work
requiring the efforts of a consld-
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erable number of individuals
and committees to collect mon
ey, select a queen, prepare pub
licity, and make other arrange
ments. He ls now serving his
fourth year as Rajah for this
district.
At present, Cook Is working
with the other officers of Hepp
ner Chapter of Royal Arch Mas
ons in preparing a 75th anniver
sary celebration and reception
for members who are officers of
the Grand Chapter, to be held
here June 15.
"Bargains by Moonlight" will
be the theme of the second
Moonlight Sale to be held in
Heppner this on Friday night,
April 26, from 7 to 10 p.m., Bill
Hust, chairman of the merch
ants committee of the Chamber
of Commerce, announces.
More bargains than ever be
fore are offered in this promo
tional event, he said. More
stores are participating than at
the highly successful first Moon
light Sale last September.
An extra-special feature of
this sale will be offering par
ticularly outstanding buys in
most of the stores at 9 p.m. for
one hour only. These will be in
addition to the very special bar
gains on sale through the course
of the evening.
Seventeen stores have an
nounced that they will be open
for the extra hours. These in
clude Gonty's, J. C. Penney Co.,
Fulleton Chevrolet, Farley Mo
tor Co., Heppner Auto Sales, Pe
terson's Jewelers, Van's Variety.
Gardner's Men's Wear, Murray
Rexall Drug, Miladies Apparel,
Elma's Apparel, Lott's Electric,
Case Furniture Co., Pettyjohn's
Farm and Building Supply.
Economy Market, Thomson Bros.
Grocery and Western Auto.
Some are planning extra at
tractions for the shopping pub
lic, including door prizes, free
coffee and cookies, and other
ideas to provide a gala evening
for shoppers. .
Response to the First Moon
light Sale far exceeded expecta
tions of the merchants, and they
have endeavored to make this
even greater for the public, Hust
said. Meetings have been held
regularly by the store owners
to plan for the event. Many
have bought special merchan
dise just for the Moonlight Sale.
Those who wisn to take ad
vantage of the 9 p.m'. specials
are advised to he at the par
ticular store promptly at the
hour set, because in some cas
es only a few items will go on
sale, and thev will be offered
on a "first come, first served"
basis.
Hust said he couldn't promise
that the moon will be out Fri
day night but declared that the
merchants will be out In force
anyway to serve the public.
Stores will maintain regular
hours Friday and then reopen
at 7 p.m. for the three-hour sale.
In most cases, prices advertised
will be good for the night sale
only. They will not be offered
in advance nor afterward.
Not Registered?
Deadline Saturday
, If you are not registered to
vote, Saturday ls the last day
to change your status, Mrs.
Sadie Parrish, county clerk,
states.. -. .
Those who wish to vote in
the primary elections on May
28 must be properly registered
before 8 p.m. on April 27.
For convenience of late reg
istrants, the clerk's office will
be open Saturday from 8:30
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SEE SECTION TWO
FOR BARGAIN BUYS
in the
MOONLIGHT SALE
FRIDAY NIGHT