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L I iFARY u or o EUGENE. ORE. 97403, Voters Face Long Ballots with Few Local Races at Primary Election May 28 It'i less than throe weeks un til time of the primary elec tlon, which la scheduled for Tuesday. May 28, throughout the Suite of Oregon. Interest U intensifying among the nation al and Kioto offices, but there are only two contests on the county level. Democrats throughout the county will choose between John Mollahnn and Bert Corbin, both currently Heppner police offi cers, as they nominate a can didate for sheriff. Voters In Ir rigon and Boardman will de cide between Ernest Jorgensen, incumbent, and Zearl Gillespie for Justice of the peace, 5th dis trict, on the nonpartisan ballot. These two arc the only local contests on the three ballots Democratic, Republican and nonpartisan. But If there is a shortage of contests on the local levels the state and national levels have enough to make up the difference. It takes a lot of candidates to make a ballot 3ti Inches lone, and that Is what Democrats will face when they bo to the polls. The predominant part of the ballot, however, Is made up of candidates for delegates to the national Democratic convention. Eighty-three are running for the 25 delegates at large positions, and six are running for the two delegate positions from the sec ond Congressional district. The Republican ballot Is some nine inches shorter, since It contains only 42 candidates for the GOP national convention at large, 10 to be elected, and 13 candidates for delegate from the second district, two to be elected. DEMOCRATIC On the Democratic ballot, vot ers will choose between three candidates for President of the United States: Lyndon B. John son, whose name remains on the ballot even though he has an nounced that he Is not a can didate; Robert B. Kennedy; and Eugene McCarthy. Hubert Hum phrey, who has announced nat ionally that he is a candidate for president, is on the ballot as a vice presidential candidate. For U. S. senator, again Demo crats will have three choices for the one nomination: Sen. Wayne Morse, Incumbent; Robert B. Duncan; and I'hil McAlmond. Eor representatives in Con gress, Cong. Al Ullman, Incum bent and holder of the office for many years, runs unoppos ed. On the state level, George Van Hoomlsscn and M. A. (Cap) Yegge vie for the secretary of state nomination, and for state treasurer, Robert W. Straub, in cumbent, is running unopposed. For attorney-general, Robert Y. Thornton, incumbent and longtime holder of the office, is without opposition. The Democratic ballot has no candidates for state senator (18th district, of which Morrow county Is a part), or for state representative (2sth district, of which the county is also a part). On the county level, Mrs. Sadie Parrlsh. county clerk, runs unopposed for the nomination to the position she has held for years. Corbin and Mollahan vie for the sheriff nomination, and there are no candidates for county commissioner and coun ty treasurer. Of some interest locally as well as statewide are the can didates for Democratic national committeeman with six on the ballot seeking the one position, and for national commltteewonv an, with four seeking the one post. REPUBLICAN Since Gov. Nelson Rockefeller withdrew his name from the Oregon primary only two can didates for president remain on the Republican ballot even though the New York governor has since changed his mind and announced his candidacy on the' national level. Competing for the Oregon GOP nod are Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan. No candidates are entered for vie president. For United States senator, John S. Boyd and Robert W. I'Hckwood are seeking the nom ination, and for representative in Congress, second district, three candidates seek to carry the Republican banner Into the teneral election in the fall: Wm. W. Qulgley, Marv Root and Ev erett Thoren. Thoren of Baker has entered two previous cam paigns for the position and Root, of Madras, has been ac tively working throughout this area. Clay Myers, Secretary of State, is challenged for the Republi can nomination for this position by F. F. (Monte) Montgomery, and Ancel Page is the lone Re publican candidate for state treasurer. Lee Johnson is running unop posed on the GOP ballot for the nomination as attorney gen eral, seeking to compete against the Demociat, Thornton, in the fall election. Kenneth A. Jernstcdt Is thf Republican candidate for state senator (18th district) with no opposition, and Irvin Mann, Jr., Incumbent, Is running unoppos ed for stute representotive (28th district). In county positions, Walter Hayes, Incumbent, seeks nomi nation for the commissioner post he now holds, and Mrs. Sylvia McDaniel also is a candidate for county treasurer, a position she has held for years. C. J. D. Bauman. veteran of all county office holders, is a candidate again for the Republican nomi nation for sheriff and has no opposition until the general election. There are no candi dates on the ballot for county clerk. Three candidates are on the ballot for the one national com mitteeman position and Mrs. Collis Moore national commit teewoman, seeks reelection un opposed to serve her purty on the notional level. NONPARTISAN In Morrow county, only the Gillespie-Jorgensen contest for Justice of the peace In the north end Is on the nonpartisan bal lot In the way of a local of fice. This will appear only on Boardman and Irrigon ballots. Morrow county voters will cast ballots, along with others in the state, for position one, Ore gon Supreme Court Judge. Can didates are Wm. M. McAllister, Incumbent, and Reuben Lenske. Candidates for port commis sloner have been established as nonpartisan for the first time this year, and although Morrow county has terms to fill, the candidates will not appear on the primary ballot because all are unopposed. They will bo elected at the time of the gen- (Continued on pace 8) Councilmen Cover Wide Ranqe of Matters at Meet Heppner city councilmen cov ered a wide range of matters at their regular monthly meeting Monday night, and in doing so, had their municipal mettle test ed with some of the problems that came up. The zoning ordinance came back to haunt them when Dick Robison applied for a building permit for a concrete pad for a trailer house on Chase street, which is zoned as a commercial area. The councilmen expressed sympathy to his plan but debat ed how to grant the permit in view of the fact that residences are not permitted in commer cial zones. Councilman David McLeod moved that the commercial zone be altered in this area so that the permit could be granted, but the motion died for lack of a second. This satisfied no one, since the council seemed to favor the permit. Councilman Joe Balfe said that he was not against the change of zone but felt it improper for the council to in itiate the action, saying that he believed Robison should apply for an amendment. Robison said he could not un derstand why this area should be a commercial zone when there is no need for more com mercial structures. "I'm paying taxes on this property and can't use it," he said. Finally the matter was settled amicablv when Robison agreed that he would apply to the city recorder for an amendment. This will involve public hearings and other legal procedures. Another building permit was granted without problem. This was to Howard Cleveland, 3suuu, for remodeling the old Clark house on Court St. To Invoke Penalty More dissatisfaction was ex pressed by the councilmen on some of the work on the new swimming pool. Supt. Vic Gro shens said that the engineers had checked the bottom ol tne pool and said that another coat of finish material should be ap plied. He had been told that they would write a letter about the matter in the near future, but since then, nothing further has been heard from them It was also reported that no further work had been done on the deck about which some dis satisfaction had been expressed at the last council meeting be cause of a "patched" area. Councilman McLeod said that it was his understanding that under terms of the city's agree ment with the engineers that they would come to report to the council from time to time, but they have not appeared. A motion was passed instruct ing the city attorney to ask the engineers to appear at a meet ing here and to invoke the pen alty provisions of the contract. Under terms of the agreement with the contractors, work was to have been completed by April 15. A sum is provided as pen-1 alty for each day that work is unfinished beyond the schedul ed completion date. Seek Surplus Water Phil Mahoney and Dr. Ed Schaffitz represented the Willow Creek Country club at tne meeting to ask the council for the outflow irom tne city dis posal plant for use in irrigating the golf course. Plan is to use some 3650 feet of plastic pipe in carrying the water to the course. Mahoney told the council that the golf club has never asked the city for support of any kind, although many municipalities give financial support to such courses since benefits from the recreational facilities accrue to the good of the city. He proposed that the city and the club form an agreement that would offer the course the water at $1 per year. Mahoney added that the city, under such an agreement, would guarantee nothing but to give the club the surplus water. Because the water never came from Willow Creek, it does not have to go back to Willow Creek, Mahoney said, and the city is under no obligation to "pour one drop of water back" into the creek. The council decided to check with the state engineer before acting to see if any question in volving water rights is present ed. Mayor W. C. Rosewall re ferred the matter to the sanita tion and health committee with instructions to contact the state engineer. City Faces Action City Attorney Bob Abrams re ported to the council that the city faces action by a private party who seeks to recover dam ages as a result of an Incident involving the dip across Willow Street at the Main street Inter section. The man was pulling a trailer on which a motorcycle was mounted. When he drove over the dip, the cycle bounced off. Damages of $o5 are sought. Hearing in small claims court has been set for May 24 at 2 p.m. Attorney Abrams suggest ed that the mayor appear and request that Jurisdiction be turn ed over to justice court so that the city attorney would have the right to present an answer. Discuss Police Limits When Councilman McLeod asked for information on the limits of the jurisdiction of city (Continued on page 8) 85th Year Number 1 1 GAZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, May 9, 1968- 10 Cents Budge? Jaycee Officers Assume Duties FULLERTON W. LUEDDE Luedde to Serve Church in lone IONE The pulpit committee is pleased to announce that Ful- lerton W. (Mike) Luedde has ac cepted the call to the lone United Church of Christ. He will assume his duties here on July following his graduation in June with a B. D. degree from Yale Divinity School. Luedde, 25, received his ear lier education from John Bur roughs High school in Ladue, Mo., and graduated from Trin ity University in San Antonio, Texas, in 1965 with a B. A. in Philosophy. Seminary field education ex perience was gained as student assistant in the United Church of Christ in East Haven, Conn and as student assistant in Lutheran (LCA) church, also in New Haven. He has served as assistant chaplain at the Ho mer Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., and spent six sum mers as Wisconsin Boys Camp as chaplain, counselor, and dir ector of the riding program, and as a water ski instructor. Luedde, who has spent sum mers working on ranches with cattle and who has trained hor ses in Tennessee and Missouri, was impressed with country in and around Morrow county. He and his wife, Allison, who were married in December, 1964', will be moving into the parsonage the last of June. The young couple has one son. F. W. Lued de III (nicknamed "Colt") who was born March 20, 1967. Installation and Initiation cer emonies for Morrow county Jay cees was held Saturday evening, May 4, at tne Wagon Wheel banquet room, with Bob Rich ards, outgoing state vice presi dent of the Oregon Jaycees con ducting the program. The ceremonies began with a flag salute by everyone present, followed by invocation by Paul Arbogast, Jaycee chaplain, New officers installed were Jerry Hollomon, president; Bruce Rigby, 1st vice president; Tom Wilson, 2nd vice president; Pat Wonser, secretary; Al Osmin, treasurer; Lyle Jensen, internal director, and Jay Dee Hudson, external director. Richards challenged the new officers, as each was installed to perform his job enthusiastic ally; stating that the future suc cess of the club is his respon sibility. He urged all club mem bers to get behind the new of ficers and work to make a bet ter organization. New members initiated in cluded Frank Osmin, Al Osmin, and Ken Evans. Morrow county Outstanding Jaycee of the Year honors were shared by two members, Clyde Allstott and Jerry Samples. Each received a trophy for outstand- activities, nig corunuuuons io me uiuo Passes by Three-Vote Margin 286 to 283 Count Gives Slim Win Demos Lead GOP In Morrow County Democratic registration In Morrow county is Just 100 more than the Republican reg istration, according to figures released Tuesday by Mrs. Sa die Parrish, county clerk. Democratic total is 1120 while the Republican count is 1020. Independents and others total 31 in the county. Total registration, compiled after the final day to register (April 27) is 2171. This is not the county's highest total. At the general election in 1964, a total of 2314 were register ed. For the primary election of the same year, the total was 2207. Rawlins Ch Father of osen Y ear William E. Rawlins, a prom inent lone rancher and horti culturist, has been chosen as the 1968 Morrow County Father of the Year. His choice has been announced by the Morrow Coun ty CowBelles, as a result of en thusiastic nomination and sup port by the Empire Builders 4-H club, the sponsoring youth group. Along with other county nom inees, he is now competing with other winners around the state for the honor of being Oregon's Father of the Year. He and his wife, Jane, a Hepp ner High school English teach er, enjoy the challenge of rais ing their four active children, Thomas Alan (20), Carol Jo (19). both students at Oregon State University; John Edward (17), a senior at Heppner High school, and Charles Mark (9), a Heppner Elementary student. All make outstanding contribu tions to their schools and are involved in a wide variety of thnh,t lh . ntir,,T rvdwuns lias ucvuicu nmii.y nr;r,w rivrto AiTctotr p incurs to working with youth presented a past president's award. BILL RAWLINS Spark plug awards were pre sented to John Privett, Allstott Hollomon, Samples and Wilson Spoke awards were presented by incoming state vice president Paul Budke of Pilot Rock, to Richard Vinson, Rigby, Dan An derson, Bill Struthers, Reggie Pascal, Bob Hager and Al Os min. President Jerry Hollomon pre sented a resume of past year's activities and reported on the success of each. Guests for the evening were Mayor and Mrs. Clarence Rose- wall and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Walker. Mayor Rosewall spoke briefly, thanking the Jaycees for the many accomplishments done for the city of Heppner, and urging all members to continue the fine work. groups, including being a lead er in 4-H clubs, as a teacher In St. Patrick's Catholic church, in volunteering help on Biology field trips, in promoting inter est in garden and horticulture work, in grain and livestock pro jects, and many others. He has taken an active part in 4-H clubs to which his child ren belonged, and has had leadership in the Rhea Creek Livestock club. In his work with the high school biology depart ment he enjoys serving as chap erone or bus driver on field trips, and enjoys helping the students make bird identifications. He contributes many hours to high school catechism classes and regularly teacnes 9th and 10th grades at St. Patrick's Society and takes care of the lawns and flower beds at the church in his spare time. Recognized as an authority on dahlia culture, he has gained prominence, his garden work is always pleasing to the eye, and contributes his time generously to flower shows of the lone Gar den club as an exhibitor and arranger. The Empire Builders chose to nominate Rawlins as a candi date for the honor "because we feel that he is an outstanding man who gets along well with young people. His willingness to help in whatever way he can and his friendliness wins him respect and friendship from peo pie of all ages." The CowBelles will entertain in Rawlins' honor at their an- church. Besides being a teach- nual Father of the Year Barbe er, he belongs to the Holy Name I cue in June. Chamber Talks of Willow, Kelly Projects Not A Drop! Another seven days without rain was chalked up on Morrow county's weather scorecard this week, according to Don Gilliam, weather observer. Maximum temperature climbed as high as 74 on Friday and minimums hovered around the freezing point. Complete report for the week is as follows: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Hi Low Prec. 63 34 67 31 74 37 68 39 53 34 60 34 64 30 Willow Creek project, with a report from Washington, D. C, by Oscar Peterson, and the Kelly and Penland Prairie proj ects, with comments by Orville Cutsforth, took the center of in terest at the Heppner-Morrow county Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday. Peterson returned last Thurs day night after going to Wash ington, D. C, with the delega tion from Inland Empire Wa terways of which he is a direct or and member of the executive committee. He told of his presentations in the interests of the Willow Project and the Columbia South- side project. First hearing was last Monday morning when he, and others, spoke before the House of Representatives, sub committee on public works. Bruce Cowen, executive vice president of IEW, and Cong. Al Ullman also appeared before this group. In the afternoon of the same day, an appearance was made before the Bureau of the Budg et Peterson's testimony before the sub-committee on public works was entered in the Con gressional Record. He told of the flood that took 247 lives in 1903 and of subsequent lesser floods, Peterson joined with the IEW in asking for az5,UOO lor precon struction work on the Willow Project. He told of the tremen dotis potential for irrigation un der the Columbia Southside Droiect. Also Included on the Itinerary in Washington were stops at the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, the Federal Power Commis sion (where thermal nuclear plants were discussed), and at the Bureau of Reclamation where Peterson again testified for the Southside project. At a luncheon with Northwest senators, Peterson met with Senators Magnuson and Jackson of Washington and Sen. Morse of Oregon together with other officials visiting from the north west. He told of the cooperation re ceived from Senator Morse in working for Northwest projects and later called attention to work being done by Senator Hatfield towards the Willow Creek project. This was Peterson's fifth trip to the nation's capital in the interests of projects here. Cutsforth told the chamber that he is in something of a dilemma in regard to develop ment of Kelly and Penland prairies as fish impoundment sites, in view of the fact that the Bureau of Outdoor Recrea tion has refused to provide funds for Kelly development on the grounds that it will obli gate another federal agency, the U. S. Forest Service, to provide access roads and recreational facilities. Cutsforth arranged to purch ase the private property at Kelly to hold on 5-year option for the county. He said another individual would like to purch ase the property from him for pasture. Some have proposed that pri vate individuals would be inter ested in developing Penland by ouying snares at sjuuo each and reserving 100 ft. frontage for each share around the lake. This would make it a semi-private development, he said. (Continued on page 8) By the slim margin of three votes, Morrow county s school budget for 1968-69 was approv ed at the school election Mon day. 286 to 283. Only two pre cincts of the six tallied affirm ative votes for the budget which will be up in tax levy some lb'o above last year. However, their margins were enough to offset and a little more the nega tive votes in the other four areas. Boardman and Heppner poll ed the affirmative votes with the count being 53-9 at Board- man, a ratio of nearly 6 to 1 in favor of the budget. Heppner tallied 118 for the budget and 85 against. Count from Heppner was late coming in, and it appeared un til it was tallied, that the budg et was going down to defeat It trailed by 30 votes, but tne Heppner balloting gave it a 33 vote edge, resulting in the mar gin of three votes. In other precincts, the count was as follows: Irrigon, 26 yes, 45 no; lone, 65 yes, 86 no; Lex ington, 16 yes, 37 no; Hardman, 8 yes, 21 no. Ron Daniels, district superin tendent, said that three votes were challenged by election board clerks because the voters' names were not in the poll books. The clerks are required by law to challenge such votes, he said. One was a Heppner voter, one an lone voter, and the third an Irrigon voter. A check with Mrs. Sadie Parrish, county clerk, re vealed that the Heppner and lone voters were properly and legally registered, but the one at Irrigon was not. This latter vote was not counted and is not in cluded in the total. Dr. Wallace Wolff, candidate for the board of directors from the Heppner zone, was elected unopposed. He will succeed Dr. L. D. Tibbies who will retire from the board July 1. Advisory committee members elected were as follows: lone Gene Rietmann and Dorothy Krebs; Heppner Jerry Sweeney, Edda Mae Lovgren, Mary Ann Barclay; Irrigon Wanda With- erspoon; Boardman bhiney Zieinski. A large number of writein votes for the various positions were polled, but none topped the listed candidates on the ballots. There was a candidate for each position, but all of them were unopposed. The vote this year was sub stantially larger than on the budget last year. Total in 1967 was 361 votes as compared with 569 this vear. Percentagewise, Hardman top ped the voter turnout with 29 voting out of 31 registered, or 9J7o. lone's percentage was bet ter than 40, but the county average was onlv 26. The election did not attract nearly the turnout of the stormy days early in the his tory of the administrative dis trict. It took three elections to pass the budget in 1961. In the first one, 868 voted; in the sec ond, 958; and in the third when it was approved 1103. In the Blue Mountian College election, held concurrently with the school election here, Oren Allison of Pendleton and Mrs. Verne Dale of Helix were re elected directors. They were on the ballot without opposition. Dem. Rep. Other Boardman 126 87 2 Hardman 12 19 0 lone 166 203 7 Irrigon 218 104 0 Lexington 120 101 7 N.E. Heppner 105 116 2 N. W. Heppner 169 159 7 S E Heppner 82 100 1 S. W. Heppner 122 131 5 TOTALS 1120 1020 31 l V II t . 1 s ' 1 1 REV. JACKSON E. GILLIAM Jackson Gilliam Chosen Bishop The Rev. Jackson E. Gilliam, rector of the Church of the In carnation, Great Falls, Mont., was elected Bishop of Montana following the special convention of the Episcopal Diocese at St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral in Helena, Mont., April 29. Seven nominees, one bishop and six priests, were selected from 32 nominees for the position of Bishop of Mon tana by the screening commit tee, with Father Gilliam receiv ing the final election. Born June 20. 1920. in HenD- ner, he is the son of Edwin Earle and Mary Elizabeth (Per ry) Gilliam, early county resi dents. He was educated in the public schools of Heppner and re ceived the Bachelor of Arts de gree from Whitman College with honors in Greek and Latin in 1942. Following service in the United States Armv as a First Lieutenant in the 7th Infantry Division serving in the Pacific theatre of operaion, he entered Virginia Theological Seminary, receiving the Bachelor of Divin ity degree in 1948 and Masters of Sacred Theology in 1949. These were followed by several post graduate studies. Father Gilliam was ordered deacon in 1948 and ordained priest in 1949 in All Saints' Episcopal church, Heppner, the first one to be ordained here. He was assigned first vicar of St. John's Mission in Hermiston and became its first rector in 1953. In 1954 he joined the staff of St. Mark's Cathedral in Min neapolis, Minn., as Canon for Christian Education, and re- mained as priest-in-charge un-' til 1955. The Church of the Incarnation at Great Falls called Father Gilliam as rector in August, 1955, where he now serves. Dur ing these years he has been a leader in parochial and diocesan activities, has served on policy making committees in the Dio cese, and given liberally of his time for civic and human rela tion projects throughout the state of Montana. In August of 1943 he was married to Margaret Kathleen Hindley. They are parents of three children, Anne (18), Mar garet Carol (16), and John (10).
