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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1968)
LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, OhZ. 07 AOS R-l Board Morrow county's school board let service mid supply bids lor Hie year at it mwlinn in Lex ington Monday nlhl. reached an agreement with the city of Lexington on the school play ground there, discussed remod clinic nniU at lleppner Elemcn tnry school, and acted on a wide variety of business. Gasoline contract went to Standard Oil Company at a price of 22.15c per gallon In lone. 22.15c at lleppner. 21.85c at lrrlgon and 21.85c at Board man. Bus service bids were award ed to lone Chevron Station, lone; Kuhn's 76, Boardmnn; and the contract for Irrlgon was held up pending discussion of prices with the lone bidder In that city. Standard Oil Co. received the contract for dlesel fuel at .143c per gallon. lone Chevron Station 85th Year rAZETTE Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday July 18, ASCSto Pay $2 Million To Farmers Payments totaling about $2 million will be made starting August 1 to approximately 450 farmers in Morrow county par ticipating in the 1968-wheat program, by the county agricul tural stabilization and conserva tion service (ASCS) office. The certificate value Is based on the difference between July 1. 1968, wheat parity price of $2.63 per bushel and the 1968 crop national average loan rate of $1.25 per bushel. Certificate payments to farmers are based on projected production on 40 of 1968 wheat acreage allot ments. For 1967-crop wheat, cer tificates worth $1.36 per bushel were issued on 35 of the pro jected production of the allotted acres. Certificate payments add sub stantially to the income farm ers receive from marketing their 1968 wheat crop. The $2 million in certificate payments when re lated to the total production on the 123 thousand acres of al lotment on participating farms reflects an income, as an aver age, of 55 cents on each bushel produced by cooperators, as compared to 48 cents on eligi ble 1967 crop wheat. In determining total return per bushel for wheat, cooperat ors divide their certificate pay ment by their total production to get an average per bushel payment. By adding this to the price they receive in the mar ket, participants in the program find their total return per bush Wheat marketing certificates are authorized by the two-price wheat provisions of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965. Un der this law, farmers participat- j i un nrheat nrnprflm are guaranteed 100 percent of wheat ThisasubsStant a ly "bota ers arm mcome for wheat while permit-1 competitive in worm iraae cnan pels. Millers and others who pur chase the wheat marketing cer tificates at 75 cents per bushel to cover the quantities of wheat processed for domestic food use. The remainder of the certificate payment is made up by the gov ernment. Bazaar Response Reported Good Response at the Sidewalk Ba zaar was reported by Heppner merchants to be very good at the event Friday and Saturday. Mrs. LeEoy Gardner, acting chairman of the Merchants Committee, said that a number of businesses reported an in crease in sales above last years event. Some said that they had a greater response on Friday than Saturday, but some others found the reverse to be true The dunk tank, sponsored by the elementary PTA, apparently suffered by the relatively cool spell. Despite the work of the sponsors, it barely cleared ex penses. Rather expensive insur ance had to be paid from the proceeds to protect the organiza tion in the case of accident. Arnold Raymond, PTA presi dent, said that it netted about $1 after expenses. Several merchants have sug gested that next year the Ba zaar be limited to one day but to continue into the evening to allow out-of-towners an oppor tunity to get in and take ad vantage of the bargains. This will be considered at fu ture meetings of the committee. Lets Bids; Playground received the antl freeze award at $155 per gallon, and West ern Fuel won the PS 300 fuel oil contrail at $383 per barrel. Contract bus runs were award ed as follows: HosklnsKh.es Creek, to Bryce Keene. 316c per mile for 32 miles. $1800 for the school year; I'almateer. Kinder lone run, to Art Stefanl. 313c per mile. 7H miles $1,316.76; Pe-terson-McElllKott run. to Bob Peterson. 2'J4c per mll'i 7-2 $;kxj: Llmtstmm, Dohcrty, Rit rnann, McCnbe run. to Lillian Bovce, at 24 5c per mile, 62 mllc-s. $2.7tx); and Schiller Ranch Pine Cltv run, to Mar ilyn Schiller, 29c per mile, W) miles. $3,097.20. playground Settled Discussions on the school play ground at Lexington have con tinued for about a year, but the matter was resolved easily THESE WILLOW CREEK Little h 1 j"' 3' ' ' " - The Dalles tills aiternoon jinursaayj ui i f-"- -a"-'- - , M phillo Carlson. In tured and the teams from which they were chasen are (seated, from left) "'"Pj""?. aiarS- Gary Hunt Giants; Charley McElligott, Indians; (second row) Dctvid McL Dcgers. Douas Anderson. Giants; John Boyer, Indians; Mark Cutsforth, Dodgers; Mike i Wm . Dodg ers; Trac? Wilson. Giants; (back row) Mike P'DLTantL 'ofcred "e Rick Kincaid. coach; John Healy. Braves; and Jerry Gentry. ; dtnafe Giants. N P'IS. Pettyjohn and Paul Peterson, also regular members of the AU-Stars. and Frearue n.t ternate. . Little Leaguers Enter District Playoffs Today Chosen from four competing tnami, nr tho hasis nf their sea- wUl "go to The Dalles today (Thursday) to. open in district iHnn with I.inflsav Km- Yocom of Lexington as assist ant coach. The team will play another group of Little Leaguers from The Dalles at a field in the Wahtonka district, starting at 4' p.m If the Willow Creek club wins in the first round, they advance to another game Fri day afternoon. If they lose to day, they are out of the tour nament, but if they win, they will play at least two more games, since the competition goes into double elimination on Friday. Championship will be decided Saturday. The All -Stars are composed of players from the rosters of the Indians, Willow Creek league champions, as well as from the Dodgers, Braves and Giants. The Indians, coached by Kin caid, compiled a 16-2 record over the season to win first in both halves of play. The Giants, coached by Yocom, came out second in both halves. Among those going to The Dalles to take the All-Stars to the playoffs are Mrs. Eddie Gun derson, Mrs. David McLeod, Mrs. Fritz Cutsforth, Kincaid and Yocom. Sponsors of the four teams are: Morrow County Grain Growers, Indians; Kinzua Cor poration, Giants; IOOF, Dodg ers; and Elks Lodge, Braves. Umpires who have served through the season include Dr. L. D. Tibbies, Rick Johnston, Bill Johnson, Tom Wilson, Al Osmin, Reggie Pascal, Bob and Bill Rietmann, Syril Gal Iaher, and Louis Carlson. Morrow county Jaycees spon sor the Willow Creek Little League, and Wayne Harsin is president of the league. Norman Supple is vice-president. when the Lexington city coun rllmen met with the school board Monday night. The board agreed to di-ed the playground to the city with two stipulations: 1. That It main tain the playground for public use and never sell It for pri vate use. 2. That the property be returned to the school dis trict If the time ever comes that a school is reopened In Lex int'ton. , The district's attorney was In structed to draw up an agree ment to this effect for both par tic to sign. The city previous ly had indicated a willingness to maintain the playground for public use if it were deeded to the city, but the board was re luctant to deed the property un loss provision was made for Its reverting to the district If such a need arises. 1968 Leajue All-Stars will opea Forest Fires Situation in forest lands to the south, including that in the Heppner Ranger district and that under state and private protection, was back to near normal this week except for some 5000 blackened acres. Loren Lucore, fire control of ficer on the Heppner district, said that most of the personnel from out of this area has left after the strenuous duty here. The 900-acre Devil's Den fire is virtually out and cool, but a patrol remains on the Snow Ba sin fire, in state protected area, which covered an estimate 4060 acres and destroyed houses and buildings at the Leonard Collin place near Winlock. Both of the major fires were on state-protected lands, but the Forest Service took jurisdiction cn the Devil's Den fire to as sist the beleaguered state crews which had more fire trouble farther south as well as the big Snow Basin fire to battle. Lucore said that the U. S. For est Service took action on Is fires after the lightning storm of Friday night, July 5. Largest one, except for the Devil's Den fire, was the Squaw fire which covered 20 acres All others were less than 10 acres. The fire control officer corrob orated that this already has been the worst fire season since 1961, when the disastrous Ditch Creek fire occurred. These fires have come earlier in the sea son than the big one in 1961. Until the lightning storm hit, the local record was clean with no fires reported. Then they all came at once. While most of the fires were lightning set, the very first was a man-caused fire from a lighted cigarette in the Sunflower Flats area, .Lu core said. Rain of 35 inch came to the forest area over the week-end, helping to extinguish the smoul dering fires. However, as of Tuesday the benefits were gone, since the woods was drying again. Humidity Tuesday was reported at 45. During the re cent hot spell it went as low as 9. There is no public closure of U. S. Forest Service lands as yet, Lucore said, but it may be M 'OMp iMjp Agreement Reached n.mjwlatina f!nta Told v Supt, ltn Daniels reported that a representative of Eastern Oregon Construction Co. had re viewed remodeling proposals at lleppner Elementary school and given a summary of costs, An Hem of $16,000 In the budget for this purpose was pared to $12,000. Cost estimate are as follows: Replacing two doors, repairing two doors, and ileclricul work. $1800. tThls would come from maintenance budget where $3000 Is provided, Bulunce would go to pulntlng ; and mainten ance), i Boys' rest room remodeling. $6,8-10. Plans had been made for remodeling the room, but this will not be done In view of the curtailed budget. Gvm-auditorium: Restore and lower celling, new lighting. Number 21 10 Cents 'ljSJZ Cool; Hazard Remains necessary to go into a closure if weather continues to Dring adverse conditions. Loggers may be asked to go on hoot owl shifts. Meanwhile, Kinzua corpora Ik Vi nh- Aa,: l-s ; J, s ' - r ; . sly . ' flrr 'vh st .. , t) ' jf .r. " . ... : DESTROYED by the Snow Basin forest fire In the Winlock area of Wheeler county was the well-known landmark, known as Stone House, on the Peter Hartman place. Pictures show two views of the burned house. Also lost was the house in which Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Collin lived (not pictured) Just a few feet from Stone House. The Collins' lost virtually all their po ssessions in the fire. They found safety in a pasture where they remained from 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, until 1 ajn. Sunday when ranchers drove through the fire to rescue them. (Photos courtesy Condon Globe-Tunes). $4204: additional exist In girls' shower room. $633: ventilation In boys' and girls' dressing rooms. $1200. Daniels said that it Is hoped that enough funds can be "pick ed up" to also remodel the girls' locker room Including walls, floor and celling repair at an estimated cost of $1755. Kepair to boys' locker room would cost $1350, but Daniels said that this can wait These steps were recommen ded following a state inspec tion last year to bring the school conditionally up to standard. Held Architect's Fee The board decided to withhold payment of some $866.16 for Architect Howard Loonara uia zer for services to date, not pre (Continued on page 8) Community Needs Shown in Survey Taken by Chamber If opinions of some 50 enno In thfl mmmUllllV ner- who " V ' ' Mil - " " rirwt tn a Cnamner of Commerce survey are valid, some of the greatest needs In the Heppner area are programs to combat luvenile delinquency, lor industrial development and growth, and park facilities. This was the report of Jerry Sweeney, second vice president of the Chamber, who, with the aid of his college son, Mike, tabulated results of a survey sheet given to Chamber mem bers and a few others in the community. Sweeney gave a preliminary report on the sur vey at the Chamber meeting Monday. In the survey, the person checked various Items as to whether they were "critical is sues" liere, "significant Issues," ' moderate Issues," "potential is sues," or "not an issue." They also wrote in what they considered to be the most crit ical problems in the communi ty. A total of 96 of those reply ing mentioned the need for pro grams to combat juvenile delin quency; 89 cited the need for industrial development and growth; 80 for recreation pro grams for youth; and 80 for programs for the aged. In the category of critical Is sues, industrial development was listed by 40.9; taxation by 47.9; education for the dis advantaged by 29.4; programs to combat juvenile delinquency k moot,, tmininc of law en forcement officials by 35.4; addiction (drug, alcohol) by 31.59; programs for the agpri, 25; and theatre, 25. In the category of significant issues, park facilities received attention of 71.5; budget and taxation, 50; street conditions, 25: orograms for exceptional children, 62.5; police-community relations, 43.7; addiction (drue. alcohol). 31.5; and pov erty, 31.5. , t Sweeney maae n ciear vnai he reported only the more pro (Continued on page 8) tion was proceeding with plans to get on lis ianus ui me nuw Basin burn to salvage timber hit by the fire and preparations are underway for reseeding the area before fall. ,Jm it f I i . ,- ' I" x ir : .. : I . w . f .y - y , ' . - . ; f f fl t ,. 1 PRINCESS SUE ELLEN GREENUP Dance to Honor Princess Sue Prlneess Sue Ellen Greenuu. carrying on in true family tra dition, is represeniing rer friends and neighUors in tne 1 .onn rnmmnnitv. northeast Of Heppner, in this year's Morrow County Fair ana Koaeo coun. Deserving nonor win come t thp second Drlncess dance, to be held at the fair pavilion Saturday night, July 20. Music will be furnished by a Hood River combo, Tommy B. and The Chain Reactions. A truly native princess, oue Ellen was born and raised in Morrow county, and has lived all her 18 active years on the family's large stock and grain ranch, ten miles northeast of Heppner . at the head of Hlnton Creek, known as the Kilkenny ranch. The " attractive, brown-eyed miss is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Greenup to be chosen for princess honors. Her sister, Terryl Ann, served on the 1964' court Ahead of them were their aunt, Mae Kilkenny, now deceased, who was queen nf iha Ath Hennnnr rodeo in 1929, and their mother, the for mer Colleen Kilkenny, was a princess in 1941 ana a queen in iQdi Wai fathpr. too. has pro moted rodeos through his work on rodeo committees, was win ner of the Morrow county ama teur calf roping in 1952, and In trihntn in ha work with Cattle was selected Cattleman of the Year in 1960. He was also cno- Harvest Getting Into Full Swing iionmct uVilnh has been in progress for about two weeks in fhe northern part of the coun- it, nnur CrotHniT into fUll swing across the county. Some cutting is starting even suuui of Heppner Riley Munkers, manager or the grain division of Morrow County Grain Growers, said that all elevators of the cooperative are now open. One load came in to Heppner Saturday signal ing the start oi tne season imir. North Lexington is receiving it tha rata nf ahont 24.- 000 bushels per day, he said. Lexington, lone, McNab and the Ruees elevator are al so receiving grain. yuanty continues 10 good, but yield also continues v,a ir,,,, Wnt pnnucrh hflH been cut in the southern part of tho county to give an inaicauuu "i the general yieia nere as yet. Chamber to Hear Police Chief Talk Chief of Police Glen Kolkhorst will bo the speaker at the reg ular luncheon meeting oi tne Heppner-Morrow county Cham ber of Commerce in the Wagon whod Cafn hanouet room at noon Monday, July 22. He will speaK on puni; community relations. Cooler Temperatures dropped into the more comfortable 70's dur inr tho U7ppk hrineine' relief from last week's hot spells. A little rain came fnaay .ut oi an inch. Complete report for the week from Don Gilliam, official observer, is as ionows: Hi Low Prec. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday 92 93 74 82 78 74 76 55 57 57 47 55 55 43 .06 son by the CowBelles as the County Father of the Year In 1964. Princess Sue Ellen Is enjoy ing a busy summer helping with family cattle drives to their mountain reserves, in helping with harvest and cook ing for extra ranch help, and in taking care of her several head of beef, sheep and dairy cows which she raises as 4-H projects. She has become some mha nf an ovnprt in Rhnwman- ship and in judging dairy and sheep, winning riDDons ana tro phies in State 4-H and P-I judging contests. L,asi yeai one won first place in dairy and Eheep showmanship. She has taken grand champion 'Jioviors for two years in lambs and en tered them in the state fair. She expects to enter her dairy and sheep again this year at the county fair. Along with the outdoor life of raising livestock, the ambit- tmia nrinppss ffpts lots Of DraC- tice in her favorite recreation, horse back naing. Aitnougn mAmhor nf the Wranglers, she rlac nnt mmnote in nlflV dflVS VlVl. IIUl ...... f - . ... I - but has been a regular compet itor in roaeo cowgm races, auu has won many prizes in racing at the county fairs. For her appearances with the court this summer, Princess Sue Ellen is riding "Joker", a cross thoroughbred quarter horse. She will enter her senior year at HeDDner High school in the fall. Her pleasing personality ,,niir,rmecB tn hpln in stu dent activities, has brought her popularity. She will hold the of fices of vice president of both Pep Club and Future Business Leaders of America, is in charge of sports for Girls Athletic As sociation, and active in Future Homemakers of America club. She is also a member of the National Honor Society. Following the completion of her high school education, Sue Ellen plans to enter nurses training. Besides her parents and sis ter, Terryl, her family includes two brothers, Greg and Bill, and two younger sisters, Mary Ann and Bridget. With Queen Berniece Matth ews, Princesses Marcia Jones, Sheila Luciani and Kathy Hin ton, and their chaperone, Mrs. Dimple Munkers, she will ap pear with the court at the El gin Stampede parade and af ternoon show on Sunday, July 21. Van's Announces Liquidation Sale Liquidation sale of the entire stock of Van's Variety will be open to the public beginning Friday morning at 9 a m., Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Van Blokland, owners, state. The couple recently offered the store for sale, but it has not been sold to the present rjale Bennett of Portland, rep resenting Interstate Sales and Liquidators, is here to conduct the sale. , . Some of the several thousand of items in the store will go for 75 off, they state. Complete announcement of the sale is on page five of this paper. Mr. and Mrs. Van Blokland have operated Van's Variety for three years, having purchased it from Mrs. Arolene Laird. Mrs. Van Blokland stated that they are considering the possi bility of reopening business, af ter closing the variety store, to become a sewing center and featuring crafts.
