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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1968)
1 1 BFART u or o CU3ENE, ORE. 07403 Morrow County Fair to Open Hlere Tuesday Supt. Mankin Expects Many Horse Show Entries An excellent turnout of cn-1 Knsln Electric Co op., $10; Van tries Is expected tor the annual Winkle's Motel and Chevron jworrow county Horse bhow on Service, $15. Friday. August 23. acrordlngto Bln Fflr., of John Day wll Ired Mankin. who la i In i his i 20 th be the Judge again this year, ear as superintendent of the and Howard Bryant is listed for now' ringmaster once more. Gene Mankin predicts a record or Pierce will be announcer and near-record number of entries Mrs Alice Vance will be seerc- because of the Increasing Inter- tary. horse breeding In the 85th Year Number 25 THE 7 . W ED EPPNER GAZ 1Q ii- u E-TIME n,t In county. The show will start at 9 a.m. at the rodeo grounds and con tinue throughout the day with coniormatlon and halter class es In the morning and perform a nee classes In the afternoon. The various divisions are listed in the Morrow county fair pre mium book. Sponsored by club, the show county horses only. In addition to the premiums offered through the fair, many prizes have been donated for additional incentive to the participating owners, Supt. Mankin has donated two sets of saddle bags and a stable horse blanket for the first three places In the barrel race. Murrays Rexall Drug has giv en a grazing bit and Heppner Lumber Company, by Mary Aiaicom, two orioles. Other prizes donated as of Tuesday include many awards and gift certificates, among mem being tne follow. ing: Turner, Van Marter and Bryant, $10; Bank of Eastern Oregon. $15; Elma's Apparel, 5o and $10 gift certificates; ners Men s wear, $13 gitt cer nrst National Bank, $15; Gard tificate; Dr. Jim Norene, $10; P. W. Mahoney, $25; Columbia Hardman Rural Postal Service Ends This Month Officers of the sponsoring wranglers are BUI Mealy, pres ident; Donald Hough, vice pres ident; and Mrs. Hon Currin, sec retary. Directors include Art Vance, Norman Nelson, Rolce Fulleton, Bob Bergstrom and Mankin. Entries for the show close at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, August 21. without except on. the suoer- me wranglers mtendent states. is lor Morrow Principal Sets New Student Registration It seems Impossible but sum mer is rapidly nearine to a close and registration of all first grade casn students and students new to Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, August 15, 1968 10 Cents tj i,, . I. ; : .3 . -.-.-.-"7-. .r. ..j.J.,:: W- ."-yl.'-'r i-r. -: 1 ' ,f irM the school district will begin August 28-29, according to an nouncement by Alan Martin. principal. Registration hours at the Ele mentary school will be from 9- 12 a.m., and 1-4' p.m., both days. Registration fees are broken down as follows: registration for all grades, $1; insurance fees, all grades. $1 : towel fees for grades five through eight, $1; and athletic fees for grades five through eight, fifty cents. Ail students entering lirst grade will be required to pre sent a birth certificate and all lirst and ninth grade students must present medical and den tal examination forms. ' ' " ' ' 4 J j r-'-MV' X x if Jf ' v. 'T-' TV V Five Combines Used To Finish Harvest For III Neighbor Friends and neighbors used five combines to finish the Job of harvesting for Dean Hunt of Lexington last week when he was hospitalized be cause of a blood clot in his leg. Among the volunteers were Gene Majeski, Paul Brown, Roger and Bob Campbell, Ken Peck and Ed Hunt. They cov ered about 900 acres to fin ish tiic harvest Job and haul ed the grain to the elevator. Hunt had started the har vest but became ill and had to go to the hospital. The neighbors rallied last Thurs day with the harvest equip ment and finished the Job for him. The stricken man returned home Saturday but is expect ed to be confined for some time yet. Through the kindness of his neighbors, he is not worried about getting his harvest completed. HotL "iVfc.!?o,fiL.',Ivf KoT MANY BUSINESSES support the Morrow county Fair and Rodeo in many ways, not the least of dents insurance lees nave been Whi-h i innntinn hi. ni. n,-i.. . nw. Hardman rural postal station will be closed at the end of the business day on Friday, August 23, 1968, according to James H. Driscoll, Heppner postmaster .Patrons or the station will be paid by the . district, but due to reduction in school budget tunds this year, parents will pay $1, and the district will supply matching funds by pay ing the additional si. Towel tees lor grades five vide admittance for the student into all grade school home games. Lunch tickets may be purch ased at the time of registration and cost will be the same as previous years, daily tickets, twenty-nve cents or $5 per montn. serbyslr in MMviLe, wium nas umi eAienu- iaundry fees and towel replace- ,(?L.l"eoA5mnunusl5" "cn on ment. Athletic fees are used in ".f"yJ:S lri T'" P"t of cost of supplying equip- .. """ ment and uniforms tor Elemen- on the existing route, or on the tary school sports and also pro- Since September 1, 1957, Mrs. Marie Lesley has operated the postal unit at Hardman as a contract rural station for the Post Office Department. Prior to that date, Mrs. Lesley held the position of postmaster at Hard man, having been appointed to that position in April, 1946. During both her tenure as postmaster and contract station operator, the Lesleys have pro vided space for the postal unit in their country store. Mrs. Lesley s decision to retire as operator of the contract station was personal, in order to take advantage of certain retirement benefits. The post office department has decided that the erection or re modeling of other quarters is not feasible, and that eiticient ser vice will b 3 provided by the Star Koute carrier, according to Fost master Driscoll. which is donating prizes and trophies. This group includes some of those who are giving prizes to tne rodeo, as well as some of the fair and rodeo officials. Standina from left are Oris Pad- berg, Padberg Machinery, Inc.) Herman Green j Harlan McCurdy. Jr., general manager. Morrow County Grain Growers, Inc.; Terrel Benge, representing the Heppner Elks lodge; Jim Farley, Far ley Motor Co.; p. W. Mahoney, Mahoney and Abrams, attorneys; Mrs. Nona SowelL Klnzua Cor poration; and Earl Avres, HeDDner Auto Bales. Inc. In front are (from left) Archie Munkers of the rodeo committee; Paul Hisler, chairman of the fair board; John Venaid, secretary, fair com mittee; Charley Daly, vice chairman of the rodeo committee, who is in charge of troDhies and prizes, and Rod Murray of Murrays Hcxall Drug. The saddles pictured are two of the major priz es, one going to the all-aound cowboy and the Other to the winner of the Morrow county ama- Sen. Wayne Morse Expected Monday Senator Wayne Morse is ex pected to arrive in Heppner some time before noon Monday and to remain for a visit of three or four hours. County Judge Paul Jones states. Event Offers Premiums Of $5,500 Morrow county's 1968 Fair will swing Its doors open wide Tues day to greet the public at the start of its four day stand. It will continue with a program full of events thiough the Morrow coun ty horse show on Friday, August 23. Preparations are now under way at the fairgrounds, and community booths and exlbits will be going up this weekend. All must be ready by opening time of 9 a. m. Tuesday. Premiums totaling $5,500 may be paid at this year's fair, Gail Mccarty, county extension agent, told the Chamber of Commerce in a "fair preview" talk Monday. Last year a total of $4,713.63 was paid, but Indications this year point to more entries. The larger sum was budgeted for premiums this year. FAIH PROGRAM PRINTED ON PAGE 1. SECTION 2 Complete program' for the Morrow county Fair is printed in the dislay advertisement on page 1, section 2, of this pa per, together with other in formation. Other fair messages are al so included in section 2. teur calf roping. (G-T Photo). Dr. Jones Chosen Hospital Staff Head Dr. Gerald Jones was elected president of the medical staff of Pioneer Memorial hospital at the regular monthly meeting of the staff. Dr. A. D. McMurdo was nom inated for the position but de clined in favor of Dr. Jones. Dr. L. D. Tibbies was elected vice president and Dr. H. S. Hu bei was chosen secretary-treasurer. National Forest Lands Stay Open Lands in the National Forest remain open to the public des pite closure of lands under state protection recently, Loren Lu' core, fire control officer of the Heppner Ranger. district, Umatil la National Forest, said Tues day. Many of the lands under state protection are privately cwned, and when fire hazard becomes serious, private own ers often seek closure, Lucore explained. Since national forests are publicly owned, closure is necessary only when conditions become acute. Since the closure of state lands, however, many have ask ed whether they may pass through state-protected lands to reach the national forest areas. Lucore said that this may be done on county roads and main traveled roads only, and then for through travel only. 'Dry Storm' Sets Fires in Forest Three forest fires on the Hepp ner Ranger district were started in a "dry storm" early Tuesday morning, Lren Lucore, lire con trol officer reported. The lightning started about 1 a. m., routing men to fires in the Potamus creek area and the Lov lett Corral area. Two were re ported at the latter place. The three fires were quickly extinguished, all before reaching one-tenth of an acre. Rain follow ed, and "socked in" the area so that planes could not be used to attempt to locate more fires. The rain brought .36 inch be tween 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tues day at Madison Butte, and .56 inch at Tamarack. Businesses Give Awards, Prizes for 1968 Rodeo Man Hurt in Fall David Hanna, employee of Heppner Lumber Company, was taken to Pioneer Memorial hos pital Tuesday morning after he fell from the barker at the mill. He dropped about six feet in the fall and struck his head on a block of wood, according to information from the company management. Hanna did not appear to be seriously hurt, but he was knocked unconscious and was sent to the hospital for observation. Trophies, prizes and awards totaling an estimated $1300 will be given to winners at the 1968 Morrow county rodeo, according to Charley Daly, vice chairman cf the rodeo, who is in charge of trophies. Cash purses for events in the rodeo total $1785 Heading the list of prizes again are the two custom made saddles. One is presented to the champion all-around cowboy and is donated jointly by Mor row County Grain Growers and Padberg Machinery, Inc., Lex ington. The other is given by Kinzua Corporation to the win ner of Morrow county amateur roninE'. Both of the beautiful hand-tooled saddles were made this year by Severe Bros. Sad dlery, Pendleton. The Morrow county all-around cowboy will receive a leg on the revolving three-year trophy presented bv the Orvilie Cuts forth family as well as a $50 cash award from the family. Sid Britt was last year's winner of this event. A total of $100 in cash will go to the winner of the Mor row county derby, $50 of which is donated by the Heppner Elks lodge and $50 by P. W. Maho ney, attorney. Mosquitoes Wage Voracious Battle, But . Cutsforth Brings Tot of Gold' Back from Alaska Orvilie Cutsforth has return ed to Heppner from a five weeks trip in Alaska, bearing a small "pot" of gold, but he didn't find it at the end of a rainbow. He got it the hard way by painstakingly sluicing in Weise creek after removing some four feet of overburden with D-8 Cat erpillars, at the same time fighting "clouds" of hungry mosquitoes and trying to get around on tundra so deep and soft that a man can't walk on it. The gold he brought back some 26 ounces of it filled a jar about the size of a jelly g!ass. It was of high quality, mostly small nuggets ranging up to the size of the tip of a man's little finger. He values it at $2500. He said that this type of gold is in demand from jewelers who will pay $100 an ounce for it, considerably above the $32 per ounce that one would get from the government. Cutsforth and two other men ETd McCanse of La Grande and Gary Dedest of Minneapolis, formed a company that centers its operations at Clary Creek where a dredge is located. They have taken leases on 700 acres of land for the gold operation. The community of Clary Creek consists of a number of tar pa per shacks around the dredge, which was brought in during the winter of 1941 when the ground was frozen, eliminating the problem of battling the soft tundra. A man ran the dredge for 16 years before giving up the operation. Weise creek is over the moun tain from Clary Creek, perhaps 10 miles, and the only way they made it there was by hooking two D-8 Cats together and work ing 16 hours to get there. An airstrip was built with the Cats on which to land their light planes. Cutsforth reported on his ven ture at the Chamber of Com merce meeting Monday. He said that one day reached 104 de grees and another was 98 de grees. Mosquitoes Bad "It would be a pretty terrible country to be in alone," he said. The mosquitoes are vor acious and will cover a man's arms while he is working. Re pellent is essential. In entering the country, the men are required to carry sur vival kits and mosquito "dope". If they had to make an emer gency landing with their plane, a person would live only three or four days without the sur vival kit, Cutsforth said. An emergency radio is also an essential item. He had one that would send an SOS for 24 hours and carry for a distance cf 200 miles. Without the tundra,- the mos quitoes and the heat they ex perienced, the country is "oth erwise pleasant and good," the Heppner man said. He was im pressed with "hundreds of mil lions" of acres of grass stand ing three feet high. "There is a potential for thousands millions of steers," he said. Eighty percent of the land is covered with grass. In flying back to Bettles from Kiana, located in the north western part of Alaska, Cuts forth and his wife and daugh ter, who had flown up to meet him, covered 440 miles and crossed about 50 forest fires. Some 1200 men were said to be fighting one of the fires which was burning in spruce. These trees average only about five inches in diameter even though the trees are about 200 vears old. Cutsforth wondered why they are worth the effort of saving. 'They are good only for log cabins," he said. Hundreds of unfought forest fires have oc- (Continued on page 8) The "hard luck" cowboy again will receive fine consolation in the prizes given by Jack Saul of the New York Store, Pendle ton. A Bailey fur felt hat will be given each day to the cow boy who is judged to have been victim of the poorest luck. Second place finisher In the Morrow county amateur roping will receive a gift certificate for a pair of handmade boots from Heppner Lumber Company. For a number of years this has been donated by Del Brown of Pendleton, but illness has pre vented him from making the of fer this year. Heppner Lumber Co. kindly offered to give the prize. Third place finisher in the amateur roping will receive a gift certificate from Gardner's Men's Wear, Heppner. The Wagon Wheel, with Mr. and Mrs. Ron Palmer as new owners, will give a pair of spurs for first place in bull riding. Severe Bros, of Pendleton is giv ing a set of bareback rigging for first place in bareback riding. First place bulldogger will re ceive a silver buckle from Cor nett Green Feed, and first place winner in saddle bronc riding will receive a pair of chaps from Heppner Auto Sales, Inc. Twenty-five dollars in cash will go to the winner of the girls' barrel racing from Mur rays Rexall Drug, and Jim far- lev of Farlev Motor Co. will give a trophy to the winner of the flag race. Herman Green will present a trophy buckle to the winner of the Wranglers cow riding, and Mr. and Mrs. Wes Sherman of The Gazette-Times will give a trophy buckle to the winner of the novice bronc riding, new event this year. Most of the trophies are now on display in the window of Gardner's Men's Wear. Purses for the rodeo, as an nounced by John Venard, sec retary, are as follows: Saddle bronc riding, $250; calf roping, S10O; bull riding, $175; cow milking, $100; bulldogging, $100; bareback riding, $175; wild horse race, $100; OBRA girls' barrel racing, $100; Mor row county registered quarter! horse race, $100; Morow county dtby, 34 mile, $100; team rop ing. $100: quarter-mile open race, $t0; flag race, $100; other races $235. In addition, there will be a $50 donated prize for novice bronc riding. NON-MEMBERS INVITED WITH RESERVATIONS Non-members of the Cham ber of Commerce are invited on a "dutch-treat" basis to the luncheon Monday at which Sen. Morse will speak as long as space is available, Wes Sherman, Chamber president said. Those non-members wishing to attend must make reservat ions by Friday at 6 p.m. by calling Sherman at the Gazette- Times. The meal will cost $1.50 per plate. Since only a limited number can be ac commodated, those wishing to hear the senator are urged to make reservations immediate ly. Chamber members do not need to make reservations. Announcement was made last week of the forthcoming ap pearance of Oregon's senior sen ator, contingent on the possibil ity that a change of plans may be necessary because of the im pending Democratic National Conveniion in Chicago. However, as of Tuesday no information had been received cancelling the visit, and so the senator is still expected. It is expected that he will visit various persons prior to luncheon Monday and at the noon meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be speaker. For about an hour after the lunch eon he will visit with the coun ty court and others about proj ects planned in the area. 'There have been more pre- registrations than ever," he said. There is a 40 increase In comm unity booths; there will be more home economics demonstrations: and more livestock is expected. it isn t just farmers that ex hibit now," McCarty said, point ing out how the fair has expand ed to include arts and crafts, Children's Corner, Collector's Corner, more interest for home- makers, and features of interest for young and old in all walks of life. New this year is the sponsor ship of the canning contest by tne Ball company with fruit jar prizes offered. Back again after a year's absence is the Thursday evening dinner being sponsored for the public by the Rhea Creek Grange. The 4-H Snack Shack will op erate throughout the duration of the fair, offering food and re freshment for all. Many annual popular features are back the Style Revue, the Pet Show, the Pig Scramble, Livestock Auction, Cake Baking Contest and others. After the fair concludes on Friday, August 23, the events of the rodeo will swing into action, starting with a dance Friday night at 9:30 p. m. with music by the Henchmen. The Big Street Parade will take place in downtown Heppner at 10 a. m. Saturday, August 24, and the first rodeo performance will be at 1:15 the same day. Evening show will follow at 8 p. m. Sat urday, and the Saturday night dance will start at 10 p. m. with music bv the Shamrock Trio of The Dalles and featuring Joe Mc-Connel. Wranglers Cowboy breakfast will start the day right Sunday, beginning at 7 a. m., ana tne finals of the Rodeo will conclude the weekend Sunday afternoon at 1:30. 'Happening '68' Style Revue Theme There's going to be a hap pening at the Morrow County fair this year its the Style Re vue with the theme "Happen ing '68". Wednesday evening, August 21, at 8:00, the Style Revue stage in the Little League field will be filled with many lovely girls showing the articles they have made this year in 4-H. The nar rator for the show is Jean Stockard. Decorations for the stage are being done by the Empire Builders 4-H club. Part of the entertainment pro vided will feature Queen Ber tiiece Matthews and her court, consisting of Sue Ellen Green up, Sheila Luciani, Marcia Jones and Kathy Hinton. With all the beautiful fash ions and entertainment, too, the Style Revue is an event at fair that shouldn't be missed. Ahf Raindrops! The week brought .34 inch of rain with .08 falling Saturday evening and .26 Tuesday, Don Gilliam, weather observer, re ports. Temperature Tuesday was the coolest for some time, drop ping to a maximum of 71. Com plete report for the week is as follows: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Hi 86 98 91 92 91 86 71 Low 50 52 60 66 60 57 56 Prec. .08 26 4-H Demonstrations Tuesday, Thursday An event especially attractive to young 4-H members or pros pective members at the Morrow County Fair each year is tne 4-H demonstration contest. In this contest, 4-H members stand up before an audience and show and tell the "how and why" of a skill related to their 4-H project. Home economic members might explain how to make a cake, the use of honey in meals, how to press clothes, the making of flower arrange ments, or many other topics. Agricultural members might demonstrate how to build a pig feeder, how to fit a lamb for show, how to saddle a horse, how to feed a steer, or other re lated subjects. Any demonstration, regard less of topic, provides the 4-H demonstrator the experience of sharing his knowledge with others by preparing his talk, using visual aides, and answer ing questions from the audience. The agricultural demonstra tions begin at 3:30 p.m. Tues day, August 20, on the west end of the show barn. The home economic demon strations begin at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, August 22, in the fair annex. The public is invited. Oiling to Close Bull Prairie Week Bull Prairie Recreation Area and Forest Road S-542 from State Highway 207 to Bull Prairie will be closed to all use from 8:00 a.m. on Monday, Aug ust 19, 1968, through 5.00 p.m., Friday, August 23, Wright T. Mallery, forest supervisor, an nounces. This closure will facil itate road oiling operations de signed to improve road surfaces in the campground and access road.
