HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. May 90. 1968 I
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Second Vote on the Budget
Next Monday, registered Morrow county voters will cast
ballots on the 19G8 69 budget of the county school district
for the second time. This would Recm to indicate that the
first diction resulted In defeat for the budget, but It did not,
since It held a 3-vote affirmative margin with five votes In
question. No one knows for sure whether the five votes would
have changed the result, but it did cast the outcome under
a cloud, and the school directors voluntarily decided to refer
it back to the people.
There seems to be little question that the second vote will
draw a better turnout than the first, although the Initial re
sponse was not bad as school elections go. However, it was
not truly representative of the feeling of all registered voters
since only about a quarter of those eligible went to the polls.
Those who arc In favor of the budget surely must now
understand that their votes are Important In view of the
close balloting at the first presentation.
On the other hand, some who are opposed to the budget
but who did not vote in early May may find encouragement
from the close contest and get out to cast a "no" vote on
Monday.
So there is reason to believe that Monday's election will
bring a better cross section of thinking on the matter.
This paper again recommends a "yes" vote on the budg
et. Examination shows that the 1968-69 budget is a tight
one, although circumstances make It necessary to Increase
the tax levy considerably. In percentage of tax per true cash
value of property, however, it is not increased as much as
many think.
It has been explained through this paper a number of
times that a substantial part of the tax increase is due to
a decline In receipts rather than an Increase in expenditures
alone. When Supt. Ron Daniels, the directors and the budget
committee adopted this budget it was done as a "realistic" es
timate for the year and one that would correct the deficit sit
uation that has existed for two years.
Of the expenditures that are increased, most of them are
ones over which the district and the budget committee have
no control such as capital outlay Items, which have soared.
Those who have tolled in preparation of this budget have
sought places that could be cut without impairing the school
program. We are convinced that no more significant cuts can
be made without hurting program of Importance to at least
some of the students.
A cut in the budget of $1000 would mean a reduction of
only one cent in actual taxes per $1000 of true cash value
of property owned by a taxpayer. Thus a cut of $50,000 would
save only 50c per $1000 TCV. Continuing this thought a bit
more if one owns property assessed at $10,000 for instance,
he would save just $5 per1 year on a budget cut of $50,000.
Such a cut certainly could not be made without making a
serious inroad into the school program. This would be equiv
alent to almost twice the increase in school salaries given
teachers this year and it would save a $10,000 property own
er only $5 per year!
Parents with children in school will realize that the
school program is more important than that. Those who do
not have children in school should realize that even to them
the school system is of considerably more benefit than the
amount Involved.
It seems to us that this is a time to show faith In the
school system. The budget has been prepared by solid and
sound people who, too, have to pay the tax and who well
know how property taxes are hurting a good many of our
residents. But they also know the consequences. The admin
istration has been doing an excellent, conscientious job.
The system has made considerable progress. Just a year
or so ago a drive was on across the country in an effort to
get and hold good teachers. Progress has been made on this,
and the staff is performing very well. Defeat of the budget
could cause another upheaval, and this the county does not
want.
If there were a cheaper way to run the schools and at
the same time maintain good standards of education, there
wouldn't be a person in the county against it Certainly every
one is Interested in economy.
However, examination shows that the administration and
the budget committee are doing about the best possible job
of holding costs down in view of conditions that confront
them.
Assuming that the voter is truly Interested In good schools,
we see no other logical way to go then to approve the budg
et. Each election costs $600, which isn't great but it is ad
ditional cost. Defeat of the 1968-69 budget could bring other
consequences that would be more costly, especially to the
educational background of the children involved.
Some of us are in a position to recognize personally that
a good educational background is an excellent investment.
Some have grown children who are now commanding good
salaries that they would not be getting if they had not re
ceived the foundation in education. Some of us sweat and
tolled to pay the taxes to see them through, but it is con
siderably easier to justify that toil when we see them bene
fitting from the results of it.
We note that every one of lone High's graduating class
expects to continue to college. What a great thing! A high
percentage of Heppner and Riverside graduates plan to con
tinue also. Each one of these with a good educational back
ground has a good chance to make a success In his chosen
field.
Think for a moment of the combined salaries they may
receive in the future as college graduates, compared to what
they would receive had they not been prepared to continue.
This would amortize the investment in schools here and in
dicates that paying for schools is truly a wise investment
and not just a cost.
There are rumors around the streets in regard to the com
ing election. The best advice is to discount them. If you want
information, it is readily available from a reliable source
from the superintendent, or from a school board member.
A good affirmative vote for the budget would contribute
to sound and realistic fiscal management for the school sys
tem and it is important to assure continued progress towards
desirable educational standards.
This is a time to show faith and confidence with a yes
vote.
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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY. On Mot 31. th Heppner High School
class of 1918 will obsenr Its sotn anniversary. Th nineteen
abore or pictured as sophomores in the class when the photo
was taken by Bert Sigsbee, father of Mrs. Elaine George, in 1916.
Ten of these graduated with the class in 1918. according to re
collections of Garnet Barrett a member of the class and former
Morrow county judge. Several of the remaining nine graduated
from other schools. Barratt is able to identify all but the young
woman in the center of the front row. Front row (from left)
Earl Gordon. Norma Fredrickson (Lee), (unidentified). Lena
Hughes (Kelly). Paul GemmelL Second row Kenneth Binns.
Merle Parker. Loa Briggs (Taylor). Nera Hayes. Hannah Wil-
Chaff and Chatter
Wes Sherman
WHILE sitting here on this
Tuesday evening, waiting lor
Morrow county's counting
boards to get their lobs done,
we'll get the weekly column
written.
We feel for the counting
boards who have to wade
through the mass of candidates
(especially delegates to the na
tional conventions) on the long
ballots. As of 10:45 p.m. we have
only complete returns from one
precinct (Lexington) but N. t.
Heppner is about to finish, and
Southeast Heppner probably will
be coming before long,
has been done for many years,
and probably is required by law
even yet, although we don t
know for sure. It is the tradit
ional duty of the board chair
man to come out and announce.
"Hear ye, the polls are closed!"
aner 8 p.m. on election day.
On the one hand, we have
the hearkening back to the
time of the town crier, so to
speak, while on the other, com
puters are doing the Job for us.
VOTE SEEMED to be heavy for
a primary with 81 vote re
corded in the Southeast Heppner
In a general election, which , Rl nd JLK. 2,5?
does not have such a mass of
candidates, the election returns
would be getting pretty well
wrapped up by this time,
WHEN they changed the tradit
lonal date of the primary
election from the third Friday of
May to a Tuesday, they didn
consult weekly newspaper edi
tors
Most little newspapers get in
volved in the job of collecting
unofficial returns, and to have
it come on the night before
publication is lust a bit much,
One faces the prospect of stay
ing up all night or most of
it and tnen getting into tne
grind of putting the paper out
the next day.
But we'll live through it,
Should be able to catch up on
sleep on Memorial Day,
IT SEEMS a bit strange to sit
here waiting lor election re
turns while television, through
its computer projections, has the
whole thing wrapped up and
the winners all determined. The
CBS boys, back in the east, had
their job all done long ago and
signed off before we right here
in the home state get one pre
cinct complete from our own
county!
The way this magic is per
formed is that they through
pre-arrangement with correspon
dents all over the state get
impartial returns just as soon
after 8 p.m. as they can.
This smattering from over a
wide area gives them enough
to establish a trend and pro. ee
tions are made from these. Thus,
lust a few minutes after 8 o
clock television was predicting
a McCarthy victory over Kenne
dy. This looked good, all right,
in Morrow county since McCar
thy held a lead over Bobby in
the four Incomplete returns that
we picked up and fed, via the
National Election Serv i c e,
through the Portland center and
consequently into the computers.
After this early pickup of in
complete returns, there is a long
dry spell while the counting
boards toil, and the complete re
turns don't begin to sift through
until late in the night.
But in the metro center of
Portland additional precincts
are picked up and added to the
totals as soon as they can be
gathered.
We're still from Missouri, so
to speak, on this computer ar
rangement that has the outcome
all established before the ma
jority of votes are counted.
We suspect that the operators
count on the broad base of re
turns from a wide area to give
them validity, but we would
think that conditions could con
verge in such a manner to up
set the applecart. For instance,
in Morrow county, the Heppner
precincts are picked up tirst.
Their voting habits are consid
erably different from those in
Irrigon and Boardman, which
came in considerably later.
How suppose the same situa
tion prevailed in quite a few of
the counties. After a trend seem
ed to be established, it may be
reversed. That would seem to be
enough to make the lights flash
and the sparks fly from the
computer.
Northeast Heppner precinct.
Lexington, too, went nearly
80, and probably the rest of
the county will follow in about
the same proportion.
BEFORE SIGNING off, we'll
have to say a word about Mor
row county's happiest man, re
gardless of how the election
turns out. He is Don Evans, who
is as tickled with that artesian
well as if he'd struck, a pot of
gold at the end of a rainbow.
It was chilly Saturday, with a
penetrating wind and threat of1
rain, when he went to install
that cap and valve on the new
well with the aid of Nate Mc-
Bride and Roy French, the well
driller.
But Don started peeling off
his outer duds and plunged
right in while the beautiful wa
ter drenched him. He got the
job done. That valve is a heavy
outfit which required McBride's
wrecker to hoist around and
drop into place.
He was real generous to all
the onlookers, too. "One free
drink to everybody!" he ex
claimed. But you have to fur
nish your own cups.
son (Jones). Florence Ralston, Isabel Wilton (Crawford). Wil
liam Crawford. Clyde Cox. Back row Garnet Barratt, Edgar
Copenhaver. Cbarlos Barlow, Waldon Straiqht Norton Wlnnard.
The 12 in the graduating class, includinq 10 among those pictur
ed above, were Norma Fredrickson (Mrs. Fred Lee). Portland;
Loa Briqas (Mrs. Ray Taylor). Heppner; Neva Hayes (deceased);
Hannah Wilson (Mrs. Alva Jones) (deceased); Isabel Wilson
(Mrs. William Crawford) (deceased); William Crawford (deceas
ed); Norton Wlnnard (deceased); Kenneth Binns (deceased);
Florence Ralston, Casper. Wyo.; Alice Potter (not pictured) (de
ceased); Arthur Campbell (not pictured). Terre Haute, Ind.; and
Garnet Barratt. Mesa. Ariz. (Photo by Bert Sigsbee).
Few Left from Heppner
Class of 50 Years Ago
TO THE
EDITOR.'. .
Pioneer
Ponderings
By W. S. CAVERHILL
Have You Taken a Walk?
WE NOTED that when the polls
closed in the Northwest Hepp
ner precinct, Lucy Peterson
came out and proclaimed, "Hear
ye, the polls are closed!" This
So much public Interest has
been aroused , in walking 50
miles or less, it seems I should
get into the act before it be
gins to lag. I don't mean the
walking part. I mean the talk
ing part. At my age I have no
intention of pushing a coliec
tion of corns and a sensitive
bunion or two over and beyond
some place or , other.
More walking is a good idea.
but I doubt if it will ever be as
popular as some of our former
crazes, such as sky watching,
marathon dancing, pole sitting,
leatherbedding, and ooondog
gling.
In the early days of the Koad
South country, there were some
remarkable walkers. I remember
Emmitt Bar who summered a
band of sheep on upper Long
Creek. I never saw the man on
a horse. He would tend camp
on foot, take a half sack of flour
and a slab of bacon on his back
and hit for the mountains, or
carry a three gallon bucket of
eggs to town to sell. He was a
"natural" walker.
Then there was my Uncle
Enoch who loped in on us from
Vancouver, B. C, in a pair of
moccasins, stayed a couple of
months and loped on again to
Florida for the winter.
I myself, did the 18 miles from
the Brownlee school house to
our ranch in three hours. Hav
ing thus established myself an
Uncle Enoch, it : seemed unnec
essary to enter the present rat
race.
However, if you do walk, there
is no better place to do it than
the Road South. The scenery will
break the monotony, and if your
arches break down or you are
immobilized by a "Charley
horse," the settlers will pick
you up.
If a reunion were held for
the Heppner High school grad
uatlng class of 50 years ago
1918 no more than five or six
could attend, for the rest of the
class is deceased.
Garnet Barratt, who was a
member of the class, said that
he had hoped to arrange a re
union of the surviving class
mates, but decided against it
when he considered how far they
nave separated.
Mrs. Ray Taylor (Loa Briggs)
is the only surviving member
living in Morrow county. Mrs.
Lena Kelly (Lena Hughes) was
a member of the class as a
sophomore but did not graduate
with the Heppner class. Howev
er, Mrs. Kelly lives in Heppner
and was for many years a
teacher in Heppner public
scnoois. bne stui does substi
tute teaching.
Actual 50th anniversary of the
class is May 31, 1968, and the
history of the class, with indi
vidual pictures, is a part of the
1918 edition or the school annu
al, according to Barratt.
Barratt sent the picture ac
companying this article and
states, "I am sure this picture
would revive memories of quite
a number of your subscribers
and would probably provide a
little amusement also.
"They were a great gang, and
like all sophomores, they all
had the 'mostest'. Of these 19
members, 10 of them graduated
with the class of 1918. Most of
the others finished their aca
demic courses in other schools
or in other divisions of school
curriculum.'
Barratt recounted a story con
cerning "some of us who bare
ly made it."
"Bill crawiord and I were
partners in the chemistry labor
atory," he writes, "and we did
not know until three hours be
fore the class was to graduate
wnetner we had passed our fi
nal exams in chemistry.
"We had to make a 75 grade
in our final exam in order to
finish our science course. We
answered seven of the 10 ques
tions in the final and thereby
got a final grade of 70. Mr. H.
H. Hoffman, the high school su
perintendent and also our chem
istry instructor, said that was
a good average for us and fi
nally approved our graduation
with the class. (He was very
gracious about this but also
knew we would not continue in
school if we didn't graduate).
We could have been two of the
most notorious 'smart alex'
dropouts in Heppner school his
torv."
Of the 19 in the sophomore
picture, only seven survive, ac
cording to Barratt's best rccol
lections, and only five of the
graduating class of 12.
TO THE EDITOR
Papers Feed Cattle
Dear Editor:
From "Organic Gardening and
Farming," a magazine devoted
to better gardening and farm
ing naturally, comes another
use for old newspapers.
We quote: "Cattle subscribe
to newspaper diet. New uses for
old newspapers keep turning up.
Dairy scientists at Penn State
University have found that
ground-up newsprint and molas
ses make a good nutritious cat
tle feed. Heifers gained as much
weight on the mixture as an
other group given a high qual
ity feed supplement. Both re
ceived the same amount of con
ventional corn silage in the 56
day test. The test cows digest
ed 2 Mi pounds of paper a day,
stomaching the bad news along
with the good. And, according to
the researcher, they liked news
print as much as the higher
priced suck magazines."
Now, any new news on the
uses to which our newspapers
are put?
Art Crawford
4852 Kingston Way,
San Jose, Calif.
Strawberry P. O.
Dear Helen and Wesley:
I have, like many others.
been quite Interested in your in-
formal Ion on Gooseterrv and H
post office and It history.
However. I have not w-en any
mention of there ever bring a
place called Strawberry.
It was located about nine
miles north of Lexington and
was named for the wild straw
berries that grew there.
I have the original diploma
commissioning Jesse C White as
the postmaster on March 7, 1901.
It was signed In Wushlncton on
the thirteenth day of April.
1904. bv the postmaster general.
Henry J. I'ayne. I have this be
cause Jesse White was my
grandfather.
However, this seems to not
have been a post office but for
about four vears for on Decem
ber 31, 1908, it was discontinued.
Thanks for letting me nut mv
little bit in. Best of wishes to
all the people in Morrow county.
Laverne Henderson
1001 Oak Street
Hood River, Oregon
(Editor's Note: Thanks for the
Interesting information. Giles
French hus now compiled infor
mation on Morrow county post
offices which we will publish as
soon as we get the rush of the
primary election out of the way.
His list shows that the Straw
berry past office was establish
ed on March 7, 1904, and con
tinued until December 31, 1908,
with J. C. White as the post
master, corroborating your information).
Who Gets Credit?
lone, Oregon
May 24, 1968
Dear Mr. Sherman:
Now who gets the credit?
Please count me, among
many, as one who believes that
all the credit is due to God our
Father and maker, with His Son
Jesus Christ, for the rain we so
urgently needed.
"For He maketh His sun to
rise on the evil and on the good.
and sendeth rain on the lust
and on the unjust. '
Who made the mountains?
Who made the trees?
Who made rivers that
Flow to the seas?
And who sends the rain
When the ground is dry?
Somebody bigger than you
and I.
Sincerely,
Esther Barnett
The Rhyming Philosopher
QUESTION
WHAT MAKES A ROOSTER CROW AT NIGHT?
DOES HE REMEMBER SOME FORGOTTEN HEN,
OR VAINLY SEEK TO EXPEDITE
THE DAWN; OR JUST AN AFTERTHOUGHT AMEN?
WHY SHOULD A TREE GROW TALL AND STRAIGHT?
TO SEEK THE SUN, OR MAYBE TO DEFY
THE PULL OF GRAVITY, AND WAIT
WITH ARMS OUTSTRETCHED, PERHAPS TO SOMEDAY
FLY?
WHAT MOTIVATES THE SEARCH FOR SPACE?
THE NEED TO COLONIZE ANOTHER EARTH
FOR FUTURE HORDES TO FIND A PLACE
TO LIVE? SO WHY NOT HALT THE NEED AT BIRTH?
AND WHY SHOULD MEN WITH SUCH SHORT YEARS
FOR LIFE, WASTE ENERGIES IN HATE AND WAR?
WHY SPOIL THE YEARN TO LOVE WITH TEARS
WHEN PEACE AND BEAUTY STAND AT OPEN DOOR?
HARRY W. FLETCHER
Seeks SOC Alumni
To the Editor:
The Alumni Association of
Southern Oregon College is at
tempting to locate graduates of
the school living in the area
who are not on the current
mailing list, as new chapters
and a number of class reunions
are being planned.
Any graduate who has not
been receiving the Alumni
Newsletter is asked to contact
Hugh G. Simpson, Alumni Dir
ector at SOC The spring News
letter will soon be in the mail
and anyone who has not receiv
ed a copy within the last vear
will receive one upon notifica
tion of the Association's perma
nent mailing list
Thank you very much for this
and other past services your
publication has performed for
our college.
Yours very truly,
Hugh G. Simpson
Likes Kind Words
Dear Mr. Sherman:
Thank you so much for the
kind words about "Music in
May" in your May 9 "Chaff and
Chatter" column.
We have forwarded a copy of
the clipping to Standard OIl
producers of the Standard
School Broadcast. I know that
they, and Carmen Dragon, will
appreciate it also.
Sincerely yours,
(Mrs.) Maxine Sullivan
Public Information Assistant
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Coming Events
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE
ON MORROW COUNTY
SCHOOL BUDGET
MONDAY, JUNE 3
PIONEER MEMORIAL
PICNIC
Thursday, May 30, Heppner
rair ravnion
Registration from 10:30 a.m
Potluck dinner, noon
All old-timers urged to at
tena
GOLDEN AGE CLUB
Regular meeting, Tuesday,
June 4
Episcopal Parish Hall
Potluck dinner and entertain
ment
COUNTY GUN CLUB
14th Annual Spring Shoot
Sunday, June 2
AUCTION & BARBECUE
Willows Grange Hall, lone
Saturday, June 1
Auction starts at 10:30 a.m.,
Beef Barbecue Dinner at
12:30 p.m.
Lots of fun for everyone
Sponsored by lone United
Church of Christ
SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC
SERVICE BY
C. A. RUGGLES
Insurance Agency
P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625
Heppner