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2 2 HEPPNCR GAZETTE-TIMES. Thurador. MoT 9. 1968 THE T HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES Heppnar. Oregon 97838 Pbon 76 9228 - MTTiwt wrwQMvrn Tirvina oKianusnea novemuvi - - - - 1912. V NATIONAL NEWSPAPER NIWSPAMk pUtllSHikS ASSOCIATION WT LT.T..rAI g.'l f TTTM WESLET A. SHERMAN HELEN E. SHERMAN ARNOLD RAYMOND Shop Foreman Printer GAIL BURKENBINE Society Circulation Subscription Rates: $1.50 lear. Every Thursday and Entered at as Second Class Matter. Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 pm until noon Saturday. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER "'.'.LI ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER REGGIE FASCAL Linotype Operator RANDY STILLMAN Apprentice JIM SHERMAN Pressman Single Copy 10 Cents. Published the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, ., Monday throuch Friday; 9 a.m. Food Costs Declining Consumers today are spending 17', percent of their In come on food, a smaller percentage than ever before. This compares with 19M when the consumer was spending about 25 percent of the family budget for food, according to the Aeri Business Council of Oregon. Today's nil time low is expected to continue to drop to approximately 15 percent by 1970. m,na While this Is pood news to the consumer, its making things tougher on the farmer. In IMS, the farmer received 53c of each dollar spent for food at the retail level Now, this figure has dropped to 32c. The poor profit picture has reduced the number of farms in Oregon from 59,000 to 37,000 in the Pa!tGovernorSTom McCall recently noted, "The greatest threat to the continued abundance of family farm agriculture Is that farm income will continually be so low as to drive most farmers out of business." For many foods, the farmer receives so small a part that if he gave his products away, retail prices would decline very little. As an example, the retail price of a loaf of bread is about 25c. The Farmer receives 3 cents for his wheat. lth free wheat, the bread would still cost 22c a loaf. Agri-Business Council recently conducted a statewide pub lic opinion survey in which the majority of Oregonians stated they did not think the farmer was getting his fair share of the food dollar. These people felt, however, that some mysterious middle man was taking a big chunk of the profit from the farmer. Using the "loaf of bread" example, there are middlemen. The transportation industry gets its share from moving the wheat several times. A percentage of each dollar also goes for stor age and warehousing. The mills get part of the dollar, as does the bakery and the super market. Yet these "middlemen" are not mysterious, nor are their charges exorbitant. ,.. Who, then, is taking the profit out of farming? Agribusi ness Council contends it 'is the consumer. The association says, "The reason the farmer is not getting his fair share is that he is subsidizing the consumer with low food prices." Something has to give. Agri-Business Council asserts that food prices must increase and this increase must be passed on to the farmer. ' The Rhyming Philosopher PATIENCE HOW PATIENTLY BESIDE A BROOK OR STANDING IN THE SURGING SURF, THE FISHERMAN WILL BAIT HIS HOOK AS THOUGH WITHOUT A CARE ON EARTH. HE'LL WAIT FOR HOURS. THEN TRY AGAIN AND CAST AT EVRY SPOT IN SIGHT; REBAIT HIS HOOK AND NOT COMPLAIN IF FISH AT TIMES ARE SLOW TO BITE. AT HOME, IN OFFICE, SHOP OR STORE HE MAY BE CRANKY. NERVES ALL TENSE, AND NOT THE SAME CHAP ANYMORE, WHICH FAILS TO MAKE A BIT OF SENSE. THERE'S LOTS OF PEOPLE JUST LIKE HIM, AND YOU AND I ARE NOT IMMUNE. OUR STARK APPROACH TO WORK IS GRIM, WITH PATIENCE SADLY OUT OF TUNE. WE'D CULTIVATE LESS IRRITANTS AND SLEEP MUCH EASIER AT NIGHT IF WE'D RELAX AND CHANGE OUR STANCE, LIKE WAITING FOR THE FISH TO BITE. HARRY W. FLETCHER I Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman TO THE EDITOR Memorable Tour To Everyone of Morrow County: As a chaperon of the eighth graders who visited your county April 26, 27, and 28, I wish to thank you for the wonderful time we had in Morrow County. We wish to say "Thank You' to all those people who contrib uted time and money to make our visit in Morrow County pos sible: the sponsors, the host families, the people whom we met on the scheduled tour, those who served the delicious dinner on Friday, the girls who dem onstrated horsemanship, our bus drivers and those who did the hours of planning and paper work to make our visit one we will never forget. You of Morrow County have cast your "wheat" bread upon, the water and I'm sure it will return to you fourfold. The students who visited your rural community will make bet ter sportsmen and will have more respect for the farmer be cause of their stay in your home. They will make better voters and legislators because they know that you have prob lems too. They will make bet ter citizens because they were educated last week-end in Mor row County. . Robert H. Reyburn Boise School Portland, Oregon Publicity Liked Dear Mr. Sherman: On behalf of the elementary and high school PTA officers, Arnie Hedman and the hand the carnival chairman, Paul Warren, and all of the commit tees we would like to thank vou and your staff for the pub licity given the carnival in your paper. We really appreciated it. Also, we would like to thank evenone that helped with the carnival and all of the people in the community who attend ed. Sincerely, Claudine Warren, Sec. High School PTA Rev. and Mrs. Dirk Rinehatt and daughter Ann traveled to Port Orchard Sunday, April 21, to enable Rev. Rinehart to at tend a week's leadership skills institute. Mrs. Rinehart and Ann then spent the week visit ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hawkins, on Orcas Is land. On Saturday, the Rine harts visited Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stearns in Moses Lake, while the group attended a dog show ing in Yakima, in which the Rinehart's doc, Abby. was en tered. On Sunday, the couple stopped and visited with the Royer Lunds in Toppenish be fore resuming their trip home Monday. Pioneer Ponderings By W. S. CAVERHILL AN "INVADER" That is what the SCS call the growth of juniper trees that are crowding out forage in the grass lands of the John Day water shed. There is not complete agreement among the interested agencies on why the invasion occurred, but all agree that it is a menace. Grant County Agent Bill Farrel is directing a unique program of eradication on a trial plot of 100 acres on the bench lands south of Mt. Vernon. Two types of removal are in use. One, a bulldozer to push and pile; the other two D8 cats driven about 200 feet apart pull a ship's anchor chain (90 lb. per foot) studded with . .....tinnc nf railroad iron welded to each link in alternate directions. Comparative cosi ng ures are being kept. It is an in teresting experiment that in volves burning the removed trees. Some individual ranchers are attacking the problem in a different way. They chain-saw the trees down and let them lie. The skeleton of the tree provides protection of a limited area. By the time the skeleton decays a small area of forage has been restored. For those ranchers who have a limited and scatter ed invasion, this seems to be the better and most economical solution. What caused the in vasion? Was it overgrazing? Was it a climatic change? No one seems to know for sure. WE'VE RECEIVED some more interesting inform a 1 1 o n on Gooseberry and Eightmile (this ic tnrninir nut to be Quite a thing!) but will have to hold it back this week because of lack of space and lack of time. We will try and make it n,Hn't poali7A sn manv DeoDle were so interested, but appar ently that was quite a piace in the early days. WE'VE HEARD a great deal about student demonstrations recently. Well, we saw one Sat urday night only this was the kind that we all like to see. We witnessed 550 of the Northwest's finest high school musicians r.i,'a nna nf tho mnst imnressive and inspiring demonstrations one can imagine at Pacific Univer sity's Music In May in forest Grove. This was enough to warm the cockles of your heart and restore your faith in the future of Amer ica. Internationally famous con ductors, Carmen Dragon, who has been director of the Stand ard School Broadcast for 19 years, has written musical scores for some 30 movies, and often ap pears on television, directed the orchestra (and the kids obvious ly adored him). Vaelaw Nelhvbel. who achiev ed fame as composer and ar ranger lor tne swiss nauunui Radio but has been a famous Amprionn eom noser since 1957. directed the band. Like Dragon, he was tremendous! Chorus was directed by Frank Hnlman. ronductor of the Port land Symphonic Choir. He is well Known aiso ior ins uiu work. Tho ctanrtinc-room-onlv crowd was on its feet with standing ovations several times during the course of the evening, and the ovation at the conclusion rivaled that at a national polit ical convention, but perhaps not so boisterous. We have never heard John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" played so impressively as the some 250-piece Music in May band played it. Every mus ician gave it all he had, and as Mrs. Co-Publisher said, "This alone was worth the trip." Eastern Oregon was very well represented with students from Burns, John Day, Wahtonka, Wheeler county, Pendleton, and Heppner among them from ourr area. Son Jim Sherman did his part on the Sousaphone for dear old Heppner High. Surely never suspected that the Alma Mater had such a great thing going. They are going to outgrow any facilities they have in Forest Grove it would seem to us. If you think the young gener ation of today doesn't have what it takes, we wish you could have been at Music in May Saturday night. WE WANT to write a few words in tribute to a fine friend and former associate who died unex pectedly last Wednesday Jack Powell of Stayton, who was our news editor during the three years we were co-publisher of the Stayton Mail. Jack was not well known here, but he did have some good con nections with Heppner. He in University of Oregon days was a roommate of Dr. Francis Nick erson. Jack was also a friend of Ed Dick, of Howard Cleveland, and of Bob Penland, former edi tor of The Gazette-Times. Bob used to run his column, "Jack's Jottings," from time to time in the G-T a number of years ago. We, too, have quoted him rath er frequently. This man was an outstanding feature writer and columnist. He was a master of satire and a great humorist. .Jack had sort of a Will Rogers slant in a more sophisticated way, in which he could poke a jab at a fellow and make his target laugh when he read it in Jack's Jot tings. He was like Will Rogers in another way, too. Everyone liked him, and he seldom seemed to get riled, no matter wnai ine provocation. It was easy come, easy go with him. 7nilr nnro it-rntA nnrl said that he would like to spend a sum mer over here doing ieaiures on the many subjects that deserve to be written. We had hoped that this could be arranged some time, but it is too late now. What rich stories and an ecdotes he would have dug out from Morrow's past had he been here! Well, early last Wednesday morning, Jack, 52, went to the high school track to do some jogging. He didn't return. A heart attack took his life and he was found on the track by Fred Graham, the high school principal, a close friend of his. In recent years, Jack devoted his time to high school teach ing English and journalism but continued his award-winning column in The Mail. We had always urged him to try for greater fields such as the national magazines for we were convinced he had the tal ent for it. He did have some articles published and not too long ago had an item in "Life Birth of Grandson Calls Mrs. Peterson Mrs. Lucv Peterson returned Mondav from Portland where she had visited the past week with her son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Bill (Martha) Long, and became acquainted with her newest grandson, Al den Brian Lone II. Little Alden Brian was born Thursday morning. April 25, and weighed 8 lb.. S oz. Besides his maternal grandmother. Mrs. Peterson, he is welcomed by his paternal grandrnv?:ts, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lonsi of La Grande. ? Beginning Tonight! (THURSDAY. MAY 9) PROPHETIC PREACHING CRUSADE CONDUCTED BY Kenneth and Lily Wells (DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY) During the second week of the Prophetic Preaching Mis sion now in progress at the Heppner Church of the Naz arene, Mrs. Lily Wells, Evan gelist, will conduct a Children's Hour from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Mon day through Friday, starting Monday, May 13. There will be illustrated songs and choruses, Bible stories. Object lessons and colonul Flannel graphs. All chi'.dten are in vited to attend. ... Heppner Church of the Nazarene Hear These Challenging Messages STEVE PETTYJOHN Heppner Senior Achieves Private Pilot's License Steve Pcttvlohn, IS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pettyjohn, re cently received his private pil ot license after completing ap proximately one and a half years of trainine. Steve passed written and flight exams in Portland in De cember and at Martin Field in Walla Walla in March. Approx imately 40 hours of flying are involved in preparing for a li cense, which include 20 hours dual flight, (both student and instructor), and 20 hours of so lo, which includes 10 hours of solo cross country, five hours of instrument flying, and two trips solo cross country of a distance of 100 miles or more. Completing his flying require ments mainly on week-ends, he is probably the only high school student pilot in this area. Steve is a graduating senior with the class of 1968 at Hepp ner High school and has plans to attend Oregon State Univer sity in the fall, where he will take ROTC training. He has been an honor student during his high school years, maintain ing a grade point average of about 3.8. At the same time he has been a three-year letterman in football and two-year letter man in basketball and track, editor this year of the school paper and vice-president of the student body, as well as active in many class and group activities. Board Date Changed The advisory board of the Heppner Neighborhood Center will not hold a board meeting during the month of May, due to conflicts with school activities. Next board meeting has been scheduled for Monday. June 17. in These United States" in the Reader's Digest. All those who knew Jack will realize the world was brighten ed a great deal by his being here. This was the consolation we felt at his funeral Sunday afternoon, and we know this will bring some solace to his wife, Henrietta, and family. And so we very reluctantly say "Thirty" to this very good friend. Bridal Shower Party Honors Miss Scalese A bridal shower honoring Miss Marilynn Scalese, bride elect of U'Rov Gardner. Jr.. wo held Friday evening. May J. in Uie Methodist church Roelul rooms About 45 friends attended the lovely shower and special guest for the evening was Marilynn mother. Mrs. A. J. Scalese of Portland. Candies, streamers and flow ers, carrying out the pink color theme which Miss Scalese will use In her wedding, were used as decorations about the church rooms. . Guests were served refresh ments of small open faced sand wiches with coffee and tea. poured bv Mrs. LeRoy Gardner, mother of the groom-elect, fol lowing the opening of many lovely gifts bv the honoree. Hostesses for the event were Mrs. Jack Van Winkle, Mrs. Harold Erwln, Mrs. Mary Mai- m- lM1l.,i. Von mnUinnrt. com, mis. imiuui ' - Mrs. Snoda Blake, Mrs. Paul Heinrichs, ana jura. mm Hughes. -IV. .,.,,na fVllinlft Will CX- 1 hit j uu "( change marriage vows on Sun day. May b, ai t p.m., . Patrick's Catholic church in Heppner. Party Compliments Infant and Mother A cradle shower honoring Mrs. Jerry Dougherty and her one-month-old son, Scotty. was held Thursday, May 2, at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Turner, with Mrs. Bruce Griffith and Mrs. Don Stroeber as assisting host esses. Following the opening of the shower gifts, guests spent the remainder of the evening play ing pinochle, with Mrs. Lyle Jensen holding high score and Mrs. Fritz Cutsforth winning second high. Guests attending in addition to the honoree, included Mrs. Tad Miller, Mrs. Bill Healy, Mrs. Ron Currin, Mrs. Jensen, Mrs. Bob Steagall, Mrs. Pat Cutsforth, and Mrs. Fritz Cutsforth. Refreshments of strawberry shortcake and coffee were en joyed at the close of the even ing. Peggy Crisp to Wed John Ray in June Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith of Cecil announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Miss Margaret (Peggy) Lou Crisp, to Pfc. John W. Ray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard O'Harra. Miss Crisp, who is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Oris Crisp of Hepp ner, graduated with the class of 1964 at Arlington High school. She is currently employed as a nurses aide at Pioneer Memorial hospital. Pfc. Ray is presently stationed at Ft. Lawton, Wn., where he serves as crew chief on a helicopter. He entered the Army in April of last year. The wedding is being plan ned for June 16, and will be held at All Saints' Episcopal church in Heppner. Ted Toll has been accepted for a 10-weeks training course at Colorado State college at Pueblo, Colo., in auto technol ogy according to his mother, Mr Rill Richards of SDrav. He started April 28 and at the com pletion of the course will have only SIX days leu in me army. He has been stationed at Ft. Carson. Warren to Graduate From 2-Ycor College c.. run.l.t Wnrren. son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Warren of Heppner. will RruuuBK? niur. May 10, from liiks lollege ut Itexburu. Idaho. Kicks Is a two. venr college operated by the ...... ,... C.lxla rhiircli As a L.iMM'1 vny .......... --- sophomore. Warren will gradu ate with an assocuue mpre a lunlor college diploma. The C87 graduates comprise the largest graduating cluss in the history of the college, ac m Kid rod Stephenson, dln-clor of admissions. Baccalaureate services win u--..m Thnrvfliiv. Mav 9. Warren will graduate with honors, being listed as a siuueiu wn a out point average of 3.33 or above. Saturday quests at th home of Mr. and Mrs. Vern Kelthley and family were Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sargent and children, Murk and Rhonda, of Klnzua. Sargent Is with the personnel depart ment of Kinzua mill and par ticipated in fire prevention demonstrations held Saturday afternoon at the Klnzua mill in Heppner. 1 COMMUNITY U ) BILLBOARD k Coming Events ANNUAL HOMEMAKERS ACHIEVEMENT DAY Wednesday, May 15, 1:00 p.m. Heppner Fair Pavilion Dorothy Brown, OSU extens ion specialist, guest speak er Public welcome MOTHERS' TEA Mondav, May 13, 2 p.m. By Heppner High Girls League High School Cafetorium All 8th grade and high school girls and mothers invited HEPPNER BACCALAUREATE AND COMMENCEMENT Baccalaureate, Sunday, May 19, 8 p.m., Multipurpose room Commencement, Thursday, May 23, 8 p.m. High School Gymnasium Public welcome ART SHOWING Sunday, May 12, lone Amer ican Legion Hall, 12:30-5:30 p.m. Paintings of art students in area of Dr. McDevitt on display Public welcome TEENAGE ROAD-E-O Local competition, Sunday, May 18, fairgrounds, 1 p.m. Sponsored by Morrow County Jaycees Enter now at School, Jack's Chevron, Ford Garage or with Jerry Hollomon SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. 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