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LIBRARY U or 0 EUGENE , ORE Three High Schools Set Baccalaureates i 07403 i 85th Year Number 12 Students in the classes of ISHtf In Morrow county three high schools win nave tneir Dacca laureate services almost simul taneously Sunday night, Muy 19. Heppner High's baccalaureate will be In the high school gym naslum starting at 8 p.m. and Riverside High's service will be In the Board man community cnurcn, also at 8 p.m. lone High s program will be In the lone High School cafctorium. starting an hour curlier, at 7 p.m. The Rev.' A. H. Hazzurd, Inter im pustor of the lone United Church of Christ, will give the baccalaureate address at the lone High service, and the Rev. George Neeley of the Boardman Community Church, will address the Riverside seniors. Speaking to the graduating class nd aud ience at the Heppnor High ser vice win ue ine Kev. Dirk Kino hart, pastor of All Saints' Kpis copal church. Father Raymond Beard will participate In the lone service with invocation and benediction. Teresa Tucker will sing "Born Free" and Darrell James will play the processional and re cession n I, At the Riverside service, the Rev. Herbert E. Vaughn of the Community Baptist church of Irrigon will deliver the Invoca. tlon and the Rev. John H. Kenney of the Assembly of God Church, Irrigon, will pronounce the ben- Memorial Day Pioneer Picnic To Draw Crowd edict ion. Soloist will bo Mil. Terry Pummel, and processional and recessional will be pluyed by Mrs. Albert Part low, organist, and Mrs. Lavcrn l'arllow, plan 1st. The Rev. Melvln Dixon will give the invocation and pro nounce the benediction at the Hepimer service. Mrs. Dale Hol land will be soloist and Mrs. Ola Mae Groshens will play the processional ana recessional. Commencements of the schools will be on successive nights In their respwtlve comm unities, Ione's coming on Wednesday night. May 22: Heppner on Thursday night, May 23, at 8 p.m. in the high school gymnas ium; and Riverside's on 'Friday night, May 24, at 8 o'clock In the A. C. Houghton cafeteria. The public Is Invited to at tend the baccalaureate services. THjTW " HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, May 16, 1968 10 Cents Same School Budget Slated for Re-vote Farm Land Use Reappraisal Cuts County Cash Value Plans are well underway for the annual Pioneer Memorial Picnic, to be held on Memorial Day, May 30, at the fair pa vilion, according to announce ment by Harold Cohn, this year's chairman. Pioneer residents of Morrow county, who are now living in either district or nearby areas are urged to make plans now to attend, and enjoy a time of reminiscing and visiting. Registration will begin at 10:30 a.m., with members of the Soroptimist club in charge. As sisting Chairman Cohn with ad vance arrangements and con tacts are Mrs. Claude Graham secretary, and Mrs. Cohn. A potluck dinner will be serv ed at noon, with members of Sans Souci Rebekah lodge . in charge ol the kitchen. The Mem orial Picnic Association will fur nish the meat course, rolls, ice cream and beverages with those attending asked to complete the dinner with varieties of potluck dishes. Contributions will be ac cepted at the time of registra tion to help take care of the day's expenses. Members of Ruth Assembly, Order of Rain bow Girls, will help with serv ing the tables. Chairman Cohn promises to keep the program of introduc tions and acknowledgements to a minimum following the din ner to allow plenty of time for visiting among the old-timers present. Recognition will be giv en the oldest pioneer attending and the one coming the farth est distance. Door prizes are al so planned. Republicans Get Democrat Pamphlets In Machine Mixup Republicans in the Heppner area should be well versed on both tickets in the coming primary election. When the Voters' Pamphlets came out from the state last week, reg istered GOP voters here re ceived Democratic Voters' Pamphlets. This caused some to be puzzled, some were a little indignant, and still others probably never noticed the er ror, Mrs. Sadie Parrish, coun ty clerk, said. The error can be blamed on the machine age. Lists of reg istered voters to be sent to the state are compiled from plates that are run through an Ad dressograph machine. Repub licans are sorted from Demo crats automatically as the trays are inserted, but a small pin must be placed in a proper position to sort out the Republicans. Mrs. Parrish said that oper ation of the machine in the courthouse is a "new wrinkle" for her. She waited for a rep resentative of the Addresso graph firm to come and give proper instructions, but he didn't arrive before deadline to send in the lists. The confusion came when she sent through the lists without the pin in the proper place, and the Republicans were not properly sorted. Mrs. Parrish, .upon discover ing the error, called the state office and announced this week that Republicans will re ceive their Pamphlets within the next few days. With the Demo pamphlets in their hands, they can also become well informed on the opposit ion, even though they can't vote on that ticket "Most everyone was real nice about it," said Mrs. Par rish, who has been "snowed" with work during hectic budg et and election time. Graduation Set For lone Class Next Wednesday Graduation exercises for the Senior Class of lone High school will be held Wednesday, May 22, at 8:0U p.m.. in the high school gymnasium. William F. Maddron, speaker, is a resident of Eugene. He owns his business, Industrial Litho, and has written a book entitled "Vacation Air Mexico." He has served two terms as Chairman of the State Board of Aeronau tics: is a member of Central Lane Planning Commission. which is concerned with the long-range development of Cen tral Lane county; and has long heen active in community at iairs. Mr. Maourons son is a student at Harvard and his dau ghter will graduate from South Lugene High school this year, Kathy Keene is the valedic torian of Ione's Class of '68. Jan ice Snider will give the saluta tory address. Music for the occasion will be provided by Gene Rietmann on the organ. The Choralettes of lone High school will provide a musical selection, and Darrell James, a piano solo. Don McElligott, chairman of the district school board, will present diplomas to the follow ing graduating seniors: Neal Christopherson, Willa Johnson. Kathy Keene, Chris Loveren. rim Loyd, Jim McElligott, Maur een McElligott, Chuck Nelson, Terrie O'Connor, Janet Palma teer. Kerry Peterson, and Jan ice Snider. I Open house at Morrow County Baccalaureate is scheduled for Grain Growers in Lexineton is Sunday, May 19, at 7:00 p.m., in scheduled for Monday, May 20, ui June niu wiixi iree luncn 10 ue served from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Harlan McCurdy, general manager of the cooperative, announces. The lunch will be served at the ma chinery division 1 he cooperative last year merged with Lexington Oil Co operative and purchased Lexing ton Implement Co. from Mervin (Red) Leonard Many prizes will be given All It J j - tAWHV CAI. 111CT WjJCil HUUOC, iii vuuiik iiuexiseu unvers 01 p cnij 0, nnnnini the Morrow county area who bargains in equipment and other yC " ec uciuic items will be ottered. august j., .laoo, are invneo 10 Morrow county's true cash value was reduced by $3.551.U'.'5 as a result of the farm land use reappraisal mude last month, according to information from the assessor's office. The decrease in total property valuation was not as much as some had expected it to be. At one time, it was thought that the decrease might be as much as $8,000,000. Total valuation of the county on the 1967-68 tax roll was $98,339,688. This includes real property, personal property and utilities' assessments. Reduction from the land reappraisal will mean a cut of 3.61 in valua tion based on last year's total. However, the total true cash value of property in the county Is vet to be compiled for 1968- cn .. . -. , i . n:n t . l vu, aitui uiijk iu Din uuillisun, appraiser in the office. Assess ments for public utilities in the ' county are expected to be up, and could go as high as $1,000,000. This would cut the loss from the land reappraisal by approvlmately 30. Most of the land that was re appraised was grazing land, and cattle operators will receive the most benefit of the new method of evaluating farm lands. Johnson said that the decrease In the county's true cash value will not cause a great overall tax adjustment. The difference in the valuation, figurine the $3,551,995 decrease on last year's true cash total of $98,339,688 would amount to a tax levy of a Pout Joe per S1000 true cash value to the property taxpayer who must make up the differ ence. In Morrow countv there wew 144 applications for re-evalua tion and 583 tax lots were reap praised. IV. " j Unj MCGG Open House Planned Monday the cafeteria school. Jaycees' Teenage Auto Road-E-0 To be Saturday JOHN VENARD Manager, Heppner Branch, First National Bank of Oregon Bank Project Near Finish; Open House to be May 23 Customers and friends of the Heppner branch of the First Nat ional Bank of Oregon are invit ed to an all-day open house a week from today, on Thursday, May 23, to commemorate the ex tensively remodeled and expand ed banking facility. Doors will open at 10 a.m. and refresh ments will be. served by the PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it is for the best interest and benefit of the res idents of Heppner that their City present a clean and at tractive appearance, and WHEREAS each of us should strive to create a fa vorable impression upon our visitors throuph well cared-for homes and properties, and WHEREAS it is necessary that ALL citizens work to gether in a spring-cleaning project for the beautification of the buildings and grounds of homes, business houses and vacant lots, NOW, THEREFORE, I, W. C. ROSEWALL, Mayor of the City of Heppner, do hereby declare the week of May 20th through the 25th, 1968, to be Clean Up Week in Heppner and urge every citizen to join now, and in the future, in the care and maintenance of his property for the greater enjoyment of all. W. C. ROSEWALL, Mayor. participate Saturday in the Mor row county Jaycees' annual Teenage Road-E-O, which will be held at the county fair grounds, starting at 1 p.m. The Road-E-O is a test of driv ing skill for the young drivers, with prizes offered to the win ners, and the top drivers here will be eligible to compete in the state finals at Milwaukie, Oregon, on June 9. All expenses are paid for the winners going to state in this Jaycee-sponsored project. State winners go to a national contest that will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., during the week of August 3-8 Co-sponsoring the event with the Jaycees are Lincoln-Mercury dealers. John Privett. chairman fnr the Mnrrnw Javnane ctntoc that entry blanks are available here at Hpntinw Antn Ralpc Tnp at Van Winkle's Service Station; from Jerry Hollomon at Herjpner carDer &nop or irom the hieh scnoois in tne county. There are categories for both boys and girls. Last vear. Kathv ivieiDy oi Heppner won second in the state for girls and Jim Sher man of Heppner won tenth in the state for boys with the com petition being at Baker. Those competing here Satur day will take a simple written test to determine driving know ledge. They then will drive a car, furnished by the sponsors, over a prescribed obstacle course. Privett urges those interested to get their entry blanks at once and they may be turned in, when completed, to Privett at the service station, to the Ford garage, or to Jerry Hollomon. The public is invited to come and watch the Road-E-O. - r.m'T' """T r i ! II 1 I II Episcopal Church Ladies group through 5 p.m., according to John Venard, branch manager. New banking facilities include six teller windows, a conference room, bookkeeping room, and an employee lunch room. Parking spaces are provided for 17 ve hicles. Work on the $135,000 modern ization project began in Decem ber of 1967 when the contract was awarded to McCormack Con struction Company of Pendleton. Architect was Wesley V. Korman. Venard reported that the at tractive structure adds some 2,- au square leet or tioor space and "is one of which all our customers and employees are very proud. We have a lot more elbow room' and we plan to make our new conference room available for community meet ings." Visitors are also invited to take complete tours of the new banking office during the Thurs day open house. (Also see page 2) Dlrector of the Morrow coun ty school district last Thursday nigni declared the school Dudg et election of May 6 void be cause five ballots were cast In the election by voters who had not registered 30 days prior to me election. I he action was ta ken because of the close vote on the budget, which was 286 yes and 283 no. At a meeting of the directors and other members of the budg et committee Monday night, jway id, at the Lexington school office, it was decided to put the budget before voters again, without change, at an election on Monday, June 3. The action was taken after considerable discussion. Some 30 persons, In addition to the Construction Set On New Stands At Rodeo Grounds Construction is expected to be gin soon on a new all-steel grandstand at the rodeo grounds, the Morrow county tair Board has announced. A meeting was held Monday night to complete the planning and McCormack Construction Co. has been tendered the contract to do the job at a cost of ap proximately $39,700. Paul Hisler Is chairman of the fair board. The contract has been drawn and was awaiting signing by the construction nrm, according to Floyd Jones of the fair board. The new stands will accom modate 630 persons. This Is con siderably less than present ca pacity, but to build stands to provide for 1,000, which is about the capacity of the present wooden stands, would cost $75.- 000 or more, Jones said. The fair board did not have that much money available. The construction is expected to be finished by August 1, in time for this year's rodeo events. Last year the most tickets sold to a single performance of the rodeo was 540, and with the buckeroo stands across the field, which will seat 350, it is ex pected that the new stands will be ample to accommodate rodeo crowds. Provision is made in the planning so that the grandstand may be enlarged if the need is apparent and if the funds are available. Ample leg room will be provided with 30 inches, al lowed. This was one of the complaints against the present grandstand. A metal roof will be install ed on the new structure. Work of razing the old wood en stands will begin in the very near future. 9 Polling Places Listed For Primary Election Polling places for the primaryt The clerk urged the public election on Tuesday, May 28, in to plan to vote early on Morrow county will be the same election day in order to avoid MISS TERESA HARSHMAN MISS SARA MILLER Delegates Chosen For Girls' State WEATHER By DON GILLIAM Official weather report for the week of May 8-14 is as follows: Hi Low Free. Wednesday 71 35 Thursday 76 46 Friday 74' 42 Saturday 75 50 .01 Sunday 64 42 Monday 58 43 Tuesday 61 45 Two Heppner High school junior girls, Teresa Harshman and Sara Miller, have been sel ected by the local unit of Amer ican Legion Auxiliary as dele gates to attend the 27th annu al session of Girls' State. The state youth convention will be held on the Willamette Univer sity campus in Salem from June 9 to June 14. Teresa is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Harshman. and Sara's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Warren S. Miller, all of Hepp ner. Altenates selected are Sheryl Britt and Patti Holt. The young ladies are rated highly by faculty members on citizenship and various charac ter traits. Qualifications set up by the sponsoring organization include character, leadership, scholarship, courage, honesty, cooperativeness and physical fitness, displayed in school, at home, and in the community. Active in many student af fairs, and at the same time an honor student. Miss Miller is kept busy. She has been, vice president of the junior class, is a varsity cheerleader, member rof the Honor Society, active in Girls League and Pep Club, and in her sophomore year was chosen Girl of the Year for qual ities of leadership. Active in the Methodist church, she is a lead er in the United Youth Fellow ship, and is presently serving as worthy advisor of Ruth As sembly, Order of Rainbow for Girls. Miss Harshman, also an hon or student, has been active out side school in the Christian church, in 4-H livestock clubs. in Rainbow Girls and in other community groups. Her school offices have been treasurer of Future Homemakers of America, vice president of Future Busi ness Leaders of America, treas urer and vice-president of her class, as well as active in Girls League, Pep Club, Honor Soci ety, speech and dramatics. Ter esa was this years winner oi the local speech contest for the Conservation District and placed second in the area contest. Girls State expenses lor bara will be paid by the auxiliary. and those for Teresa will be taken care of by the Soroptimist club. as at the last election with one exception, Mrs. Sadie Parrish, county clerk, announces. Voters of the Northwest Hepp ner precinct will cast their bal lots in the Assembly of God church. They formerly voted in the Case Building which has been razed. Other polling places are as follows: Hardman Hardman Community Hall; Boardman Greenfield Grange building; Ir rigon Old Irrigon school; lone lone city hall; Lexington Lexington city hall; Northeast Heppner Old city library (next to city hall); Southeast Hepp ner county courthouse; South west Heppner county court house. Polling places will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. on elec tion day. Mrs. Parrish also points out that those who do not expect I to be in the county on election day or who may be physically unable to go to the polls are entitled to vote by absentee ballot. Application must be made for these ballots at least five days prior to election and the requests should be made in the voter's own handwriting. The absentee voter, of course, must be a duly registered voter. The completed absentee bal lots must be returned by the voter in time to be counted on election day. If they are not, they will not be counted, Mrs. Parrish said. the usual last minute rush that hits the boards. She said that it will be appreciated if all those who can vote early will come in during the morning and avoid the rush that develops, or those who are working during the day come, in after their quitting time. The long ballots will be dif ficult to count, particularly be cause of the many candidates for delegates to the national conventions. An early vote will expedite the counting. In all precincts but Hardman counting boards will be called and they will begin work at 9:30 a.m. it is expected to take well' into the night before the counting job is done. Porflander Dies In I-80N Mishap A Portland man, Nairn Mit chell Teeny, 36, died in a Herm iston hospital Monday from in juries received when his auto went out of control on Highway I-80N in Morrow county about 14 miles east of Arlington. The Associated Press quoted State Police Officer Gary Sheri dan as saying that Teeny's auto went out of control as he was driving east. Witnesses said a tire on his vehicle apparently blew out. He was driving alone. Ballots Printed In This Paper Facsimile ballots for the pri mary election are printed on pages 2, 3, 6 and 7 of section two of this paper. Publication prior to election is required by law to afford the public an opportunity to study the bal lots before voting. The Democratic ballot, which is actually 36 inches long, starts on page 2 and breaks over on page 3. The Re publican ballot starts on page 6 and breaks over on page 7. The nonpartisan ballot, which includes measures and Judic iary, is printed on page 7. The printed ballots are identical facsimiles with the official ballots except for the fact that names may be found to be in different order on the official ballots. Law pro vides that in printing the bal lots the names must be ro tated so that name of each candidate, as nearly as possi ble, is at the top of the list on a number of ballots equiv alent to each other candidate. Readers are advised to save these published ballots for their study and to assist in making choices prior to going to the polls. Because of the fact that ballots are rotated, it is well to remember num bers of the candidates desired to be selected in casting ballots. director and citizen budget committee members, were pres ent. Several spoke and asked questions about the budget, but consensus was, both from the budget members and the public, that the budget be submitted again "as Is." Chairman Elden Padberg of the budget committee and School Director Irvin Rauch said at the start of the meeting that they favored at least "token" cuts In the budget. Later, Dir ector Jack Sumner listed a num ber of Items that he felt might oe considered lor cutting. As Sumner presented the Items, however, Supt, Ron Dan iels explained why the items were in the budget. Sumner al so said that he realized that cutting them would only make a few cents difference in lax levy on each $1000 true cash value of property. Most Favor No Cuts Most of the members of the committee, which includes the directors and an equivalent number of lay members, felt that the budget should be sub mitted again in its entirety. It was reiterated that there is "no fat" in the budget and no place where a major cut may be made without taking out something important to the school program. Bob Sicard of Boardman, com mittee member, said that he felt taking anything out of the budget would bring additional "no" votes because it might eliminate something that is of special significance to children of some of the voters. Bryce Keene, a spectator at the meeting, said that he felt that it should be resubmitted in its entirety because of the fact that the number voting was only about 25 of the coun ty's registered voters. This, he said, was not a true expression of the wishes of all the people in the county. If, after the budget is resub mitted, it gets a negative vote, then ' stiff cuts of major items should be made, Keene said, al though they may hurt the school program. Bob Rietmann, another com mittee member, said, "We can't afford not to offer subjects that our children need to compete in areas outside of Morrow county." This came when it was propos ed that teaching loads be com bined and teacher cuts be made. Program Said Improving Chairman Don McElligott of the school board pointed to the fact .that the school program here has been making steady progress and that students are receiving better education than in the past. "We have fewer student drop outs in the county, and more students are going to college than ever before," he said. Supt. Daniels gave a review of he budget and some facts on taxes and the budgets ef fect on taxes at the start of the meeting. He pointed out that a cut of $1000 in the budget would mean a reduction of lc per $1000 of true cash value in the levy to the taxpayer. Hence, a reduction of $35,000 to $40,000 in the budget which totals $1,313,000 in the general fund would save only 35c to 40c per $1000 of property at true cash' value. Consequently, a person with a home or business as sessed at $10,000 would save $3.50 to $4.00 per year on such a cut. He also pointed out how the budget committee and board had diligently labored to offer a budget that was "tight" and declared that a conscientious at tempt has been made to hold it to necessities. The superintendent told of the committee's attempts to pro pose a realistic budget which would correct deficiencies in the receipts section and accrue to the good of the district in future years. For various reasons, re ceipts have not met expecta tions in the past two years with the result that deficits have oc curred. The 1968-69 budget seeks to correct this situation and put tne district hack on a solid footing," Daniels said. While the 1967-68 budget year will end with a deficit, this is not due to overexpending the budget, the superintendent said. It is due to the fact that re ceipts have not held up as an ticipated. The certified person nel around the system have been admonished to keep costs to a minimum, with the result that this year's budget is ex pected to be $10,000 to $15,000 underexpended, but the deficit will still occur because of the shortage of receipts and the fact that the year started with a def icit. School Aid Drops Daniels said that state basic school support has dropped to a low of 27 of the cost of ed ucating the children after once being at 37. When it came to a vote of the budget committee on the re submission of the budget in its present form, only Sumner vot ed in the negative on the voice vote, apparently feeling that token" cuts might be' made. In his statement followine the school board meeting last Thurs day night, when it was decid ed to call for another election. Supt. Daniels said: "This decision was made be cause five ballots were cast in the election by voters who had not registered 30 days prior to the election. Since the law re quires that voters must be reg istered at least 30 days prior to election, these five votes were (Continued on page 8)
