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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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).