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Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, July 11, 1968
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Annual Sidewalk Bazaar This Week
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PRINCESS MARCIA JONES
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Princess Marcia Jones will be
the first of this year's Morrow
county Fair and Rodeo court to
receive individual honors. Her
dance will be Saturday night
July 13, at the Heppner fair
pavilion, with the popular West
era Gentlemen of Condon pro
viding the music.
Marcia, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Jones, represents the
Wranglers riding club on the
court of Queen Berniece Matth
ews. Other princesses are Sue
Ellen Greenup, Kathy Hinton
and Sheila Luciani.
During her 17 active years of
growing up on her parents Hin
ton Creek Ranch, Marcia has de
veloped a love for horses and
riding that comes "natural". She
has been at home in the sad
die since she first started to
ride alone at the age of three.
Her family, which includes her
parents and her brother, Greg,
have had pride in raising and
training fine horses and have
been awarded many times for
their accomplishments. Family
interest in the fairs and rodeos
have been shown through the
father's work on the fair and
rodeo boards, at horse shows
and rodeo shows. Her mother,
an elementary teacher, has also
been active in work at the fairs.
The young princess won her
first trophy belt in Wrangler
competition when she was six;
won the pole bending trophy at
the Wrangler show in 1962 and
the 4-H Small Fray Showman
ship award the same year. In
1966 she entered the 4-H State
Fair after placing first in horse
manship and second in show
manship. Another highlight that
year was winning the reserve
youth all-around trophy at the
Columbia Basin Quarter Horse
show in Hermiston. She com
petes at home and away in cow
cutting, was champion in her
division at Madras in both 1966
and 1967, and was 'winner of
the Novice class here in 1967.
Marcia has gained recognition
this summer by winning ribbons
in barrels and pole bending in
the Kennewick and Walla Walla
Shows, placed third in the
Queen's special events races in
Hermiston, placed second in
barrel racing in the Condon
Fourth of July shows, and was
this year's winner in her divis
ion in the Wrangler Play Day
events.
For her appearances with the
court this summer, Princess Mar
cia rides her well trained reg
isterde quarter horse, Tico Chex.
She is keeping .busy during
the summer months helping her
parents on the ranch, pulling
rye, helping in harvest and with
general ranch chores.
Princess Marcia will enter her
senior year at Heppner High
school this fall, where she is
active in many of its activities.
College plans are indefinite now,
but she is thinking serously of
Blue Mountain Community Col
lege and continuing her riding
activities there.
Preceding the dance Saturday
her parents will be hosts for a
dinner for the court at their
home. She cordially invites all
her friends to join them later
at the dance.
Merchants will move hund
reds of bargain items to the
Main street sidewalks here Fri
day and Saturday as they pre
pent their Fifth Annual Side
walk Bazaar.
Joining in the fun and festiv
ity will be at least 10 organiza
tions with sales, exhibits and
booths of varous kinds.
There will be a dunk tank to
provide fun and entertainment,
sponsored by the Elementary
PTA; one store will have free
ice cream cones for the public;
another will feature a popular
grab bag; and still another will
have a "fish pond."
There will be a display of
paintings by the new Artists
club; Sno-cones will be for sale
by the Mothers club; Pronto
pups will be available for the
hungry from the Rebekahs; and
"Jaycee Juice" will be offered
to the thirsty. The Rockhounds
will have a display of articles
and a sale; the Three Links club
will have a bake sale; the East
ern Star and Royal Arch 'Wid
ows' will join for a sale of
novelties; and the Methodist
WSCS will have a food sale.
This year's Bazaar will prob
ably have the greatest partici
pation by local merchants since
it was started five years ago.
Many of the exceptional bar
gains offered are advertised in
this paper, principally in the
second section.
Taking part are Western Auto
Storet Gardner's ,Men's Wear,
Peterson's Jewelers,' J. C Penney
Co.. Gontv's. MiLadies Apparel.
Case Furniture Co., Van's Var
iety, Murrays Rexall Drug, El
ma's Apparel, Central Market,
and Lott's Electric. Others, out
of the downtown business area,
such as Pettyjohn's Farm and
Building Supply and Ford's Tire
Service, will have "extra-special"
buys at their places of bus
iness to participate in the event.
Mrs. LeRoy Gardner, chairman
of the merchants committee,
said that a large crowd is ex
pected, and all from far and
near are invited to come and
get the gala Sidewalk Bazaar
spirit.
There will be- free parking In
Heppner lor the two days to ac
commodate shoppers.
The merchants are hoping
that the weather will turn cool
er. but the bargains will still
be hot. Anyone who finds it too
warm may volunteer to be a
"target" at the dunk tank and
get a free swim.
Besides their sale, the Rock
club will have gaily wrapped
grab packages. The club s meet
ing room will be open lor peo
pie to see the displays and the
newly purchased machinery us
ed for cutting and polishing
gem stones. Members or any in
terested persons witn stones
which they would like to sell
or display are asked to contact
Mrs. E. E. Gonty, president of
the club.
Those who wish added enter
tainment after the Sidewalk Ba
zaar Saturday are invited to at
tend the Princess Dance for
Marcia Jones at the Heppner
Fair Pavilion, starting at 9:30
p.m. Saturday.
L-Leaque All Stars
To Play July 19-20
With a season record of 16
wins and two losses, the In
dians Little League team has
been declared this year's first
place winner. Lindsay Kincaid
of lone has been coaching the
team.
Resting in second place were
the Giants, coached by Joe Yo
com, followed by the Dodgers,
coached by Dave McLeod, and
the Braves, with Al Boschee as
coach.
Eighteen games were plaved
through the season, with 15
players on each team. Farm
teams were also going in Hepp
ner and lone.
An all-star team will be cho
sen from the four teams which
will compete in the district
playoff next week, July 19 and
20.
Week's Weather Hottest
Since August of I96I
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THIS TYPE of big bird, rarely seen in the Heppner area, has been quite prominent the past
few days. A number of helicopters have been brouqht in to Ilqnt tirei to the soutn. mis one.
from Lewiston, is piloted by Jim Vogan and was snapped by the camera prior to landing Tues
day morning at the Forest Service compound lust behind the Gilliam and Bisbee building. In
set shows the 'copter just after Vogan set it down. The trip from Tupper Work Center, a dis
tance of some 38 miles, takes 14 minutes by helicopter. (G-T Photos).
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JERRY ADAMSON
Albany Man Here
As New Manager
Of Penney Store
With four days of the past
week topping 100 degrees and
the other three in the 90's, the
Heppner area has been under
going sizzling heat that has
hurt the maturing wheat crop,
fostered a rash of lightning-set
fires, and caused the population
to seek relief by every cool ave
nue at its command.
Saturday brought a maximum
of 103 degrees, according to Don
Gilliam, official observer. This
was the hottest day recorded
since the 107 degrees of Aug
ust 5, 1961.
Record high here is 108 de
grees which was posted July 25,
1928. Another hot one was the
107 on July 28, 1939.
But last summer cannot be
forgotten. From August 9
through 20 were 12 days in a
row above 95 degrees and in
cluding four consecutive days
above 100, one of the longest
sustained heat spells if not the
longest in Heppner's history.
Those days ran 95, 95, 97, 96,
S8, 97, 99, 102, 102, 100, 101, 96.
The current string of hot days
started Tuesday, July 2, with
temperature of 94. Wednesday
hit 99, followed by three days
above 100, dropping to 97 Sun
day, back to 101 Monday, and !
dipping to 90 Tuesday.
Residents noticed an unusual
ly warn night Friday when the
mercury didn't fall below 75 de
grees. Harvest gained momentum in
the north end of the county des
pite tne heat, but some of the
results are disappointing on
yield. One of the highest yields
reported Dy any rancher to date
is 18 bushels from the northern
area, which did not benefit
lrom much ram. Another report
ed 14 bushels.
.North Lexington elevator of
tne Morrow County Grain Grow
ers is becoming a busy place,
Lexington elevator is ODeratine'.
and the lone elevator is also re
ceiving. Some said that the hot weath
er has cut the county crop ave
rage as much as five bushels,
causing the grain which is not
fully matured to shrivel.
Complete weather report is as
follows:
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Hi Low Prec.
99 57
101 62
102 58
103 75
97 62
101 60
90 65
Gerald A. (Jerry) Adamson of
Albany arrived in Heppner Fn
day to become manager of the
J. C. Penney Co. store here, sue
ceeding Bill Hust, who has been
transferred to Arlington, Wn., as
manager of the Penney rtore
there.
The transfer to Heppner was
as sudden for Adamson as the
transfer to Washington was for
Hust. The new manager here
has been an assistant at the
Albany Penney store for the
past three years and for
years prior was in the compa
ny's store at Hood River.
He thus has been with the
company for 7Vz years, and the
move to Heppner promotes him
to managership.
Adamson has a wife, Bonnie,
and two children, Troy, 4, and
Jodi Rae, 21 months. The fam
ily will move to Heppner later
in the summer.
Adamson must leave Thurs
day for National Guard Camp
for a period of two weeks to
fulfill his service commitment.
This, however, will terminate
his tour of duty after six years
service with the national guard.
He said that he welcomes the
move to Heppner and is famil
iar with eastern Oregon because
he was reared in the Parkdale
area near Hood River. Adamson
says that he particularly enjoys
hunting and fishing.
Hust returned late last week
after officially starting work at
Arlington earlier in the week.
While he and his family enjoy
ed living in Heppner, they are
now looking forwad to moving
to the new location and the
chance to advance in the com
'anv. Hust, who has been here
for 1 years, said that the hous
ing situation is tight there and
he is having some trouble lo
cating a home. He returned to
Arlington Sunday, but his fam
ily remained here while he is
seeking housing.
Forest fires in this area
were all reported under con
trol and in "mopping up"
Ftages Wednesday afternoon.
Allen Nistad, general mana
ger of Kinzua Corporation,
said all the mill crew was off
the Snowshoe fire lines and
"back in town," although
Eastern Oregon Logging men
were still working on the fire.
The mill at Kinzua was in
full operation. Nistad's late
report was that some 1000-1500
acres of Kinzua logged over
land were covered by the
Snowshoe fire which burned
a total of some 4500 acres, all
under state protection. Kinzua
Corp. will start logging timber
hit by the fire immediately
and also offers to log that of
other private owners whose
timber "ts burned and who
wish to salvage it, Nistad
said. The company will confer
with the state on reseedinq
operations and expects to have
them underway by Septemb
ber. The Devil's Den fire
which was fought by the U.S.
Forest Service, was also un
der control and being "mop
ped Up."
Friday's Lightning Sets
Range and Grass Fires
Friday evening's lightning
storm, coming on the heels of
a 102-degree day, set a number
of range and grain fires across
the county, including one esti
mated at some 5000 acres near
the southern ends of the Navy
Bomb Range and The Boeing
Company s leased area.
Mervin (Red) Leonard of Lex
ington said that part of the big
ranee fire was in the area that
he leases from the Navy for
range and estimated that it cov
ered some 2500 acres of the
14,000 he leases. Remainder of
the fire apparently was on land
in the Shirley Rugs operation at
the south end of the Boeing
tract and might equal the acre
age burned on land under his
lease, Leonard said.
He said that he had saved
the range for fall grazing. If it
had been grazed more closely
earlier this year, the fire may
not have spread so rapidly, lie
said.
Damage is not only from loss
of the grass but will expose
the shifting sandy soil to eros
ion, principally by blowing.
Larry Lindsay and his crew
observed the fire, but they were
busy with a small one of their
own and couldnt get to it. They
were harvesting on their Juni
per ranch about 7:30 p.m. when
a lightning strike hit the field
and started a fire. D. O. Nel
son's . fire outfit came to the
scene and helped put It out,
holding it to about an acre.
Without this aid, it might have
turned into another major fire,
Lindsay said.
Wind Shift Helps
In the darkness, Lindsay
could only surmise where the
larger fire was burning to the
north but was anxious about
their range. Before they could
get there, however, the wind
shifted, and the ensuing east
wind caused the fire to run
back into itself, helping subdue
it.
Glow from the range fire was
plainly visible in Heppner
where men of the Heppner fire
department had assembled to
answer calls in this area.
Fire Chief Forrest Burkenbine
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2-County Mental
Health Committee
Chooses Officers
Advisory committee for the
Umatilla - Morrow Community
Mental Health Clinic held an or
ganization meeting in Pendle
ton Monday night and elected
Judge Henry Kaye as chairman.
Dr. Wallace Wolff of Heppner
was chosen vice-chairman, and
Dr. Alton Alderman, Umatilla
county health officer, will be ad
ministrator of the clinic.
Plan for the clinic has been
developing for some time, and
this year both Morrow and Uma
tilla counties provided funds In
their 1968-69 budgets to make
its culmination possible. Funds
are contributed on the basis of
some $2400 from Morrow county
and $22,000 from Umatilla coun
ty with the total being match
ed by the state, resulting in a
budget of some $48,000 for the
year.
On the advisory committee
from Morrow county are Dr.
Wolff. Mrs. Harrv O'Donnell, al
so of Heppner, and Ron Daniels,
superintendent of Morrow coun
ty schools, Boardman.
Dr. Alderman will begin in
terviewing applicants soon for
different positions in connection
with the clinic, according, to
Judge Kaye.
Also at the Monday meeting,
the group discussed matters of
policy and plans for the clinic.
Several hundred men engag
ed in battling two major forest
fires the Snowshoe Basin fire
which started eight miles east
of Kinzua, and the Devil's Den
fire, just south of the Heppner
ranger district boundary of the
Umatilla National Forest start
ed mopping-up operations Tues
day with the hope that they
could keep the blazes under con
trol. These two fires in Wheeler
county were largest of many
started In this part of the state
by lightning strikes which oc
curred principally Friday even
ing. It is estimated that in all
more than 5000 acres were cov
ered by the fires, making this
the worst forest conflagration
here since the big Ditch Creek
fire of 1961. Some 12,000 acres
were burned in that fire.
Harry (Swede) Pearson of
John Day, district forester for
the East Central forestry district
for Oregon, said at mid-day
Tuesday that he estimated the
Snowshoe Basin fire had cover
ed 4500 acres. It ran to the west
and south, coming within two
miles of Kinzua's Camp Five
but never approaching closer
than eight miles from Kinzua. It
was ringed again Monday night
and the fire lines seemed to be
holding Tuesday.
Reports that residents of Kin
zua were preparing to evacuate
at one time were unfounded.
Allen Nistad, general manager
of Kinzua Corporation, said
Tuesday that "some of the peo
ple got a little nervous" but the
company town was never ser
iously threatened.
Pearson said that about 225
men were working on the Snow
shoe fire Tuesday, composed of
seven 25-man crews of Mexican
nationals, men of Eastern Ore
gon Logging Company, the mill
crew of Kinzua, state forestry-
men and others.
Nistad said that some 1000
acres of the fire is Kinzua Corp.
acreage and estimated two mil
lion feet of timber were burn
ed. Home Destroyed
The farm home of the Leon
ard Collins family was destroy
ed by the blaze which also
claimed their barn, car, other
buildings and most of their be
longings. It swept towards the Alder
Creek road, towards the John
Day River, covering an area
some five miles long and bulg
ing out to about two miles wide.
Other farmers used crawler
tractors to bulldoze fire lines to
protect their places. Among oth
er farm homes threatened were
those of Bud Nash and Martin
Britt.
While the Snowshoe Basin
fire, in state -protected area, was
battled under the state direc
tion, U. S. Forest Service crews
took control of the Devil's Den
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