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LIBRARY U or 0 EUGENE . ORE 07403 fete 85th Year Number 25 THE 10 Cents EPPNER mm GAZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, August 22, 1968 Morse Pledges Support on Projects Leaders Confer On Dam Plan, Kelly Prairie ' -v ".' ..v. . r At .rr' if i "DONT REMEMBER ME. DO YOU?" says Frank Turner (right) to Senator Wayne Morse here Monday as County Judge Paul Jones enjoys U19 conversation and Wright Mallery, supervisor. Umatilla National Forest watches. Frank, sometimes known as "Mr. Heppner." was teasing the senator, who has the reputation for a remarkable memory, after having met him 12 or 15 years ago. The senator remembered Turner but couldn t recall his name. (G-T Photo) No 'Divine' Instruction' 'From Heaven' - Senator Decries 'Military Lifeline'; Hits 'Fund Impoundment' Practice "Our nation cannot set up a military lifeline around the world and survive." So said Senator Wayne Morse in a talk before some 00 mem bers and guests of the Heppner Morrow county Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon meet ing here Monday. Pressed to attend the meeting of the Democratic Dlatform com mittee prior to the national con vention, he nevertheless kept his appointment here and delayed his flight to wasnmgton, u. u, by a day. In his flowing articulate man ner, Senator Morse covered lo cal proposed projects with some thing of a progress report, talk ed of domestic issues, and spur red by questions, touched on political and international mat ters. His comment on the 'military lifeline' came as a result of a question. "I opposed from the begin ning the Dulles policy, based on a military lifeline policy," he said. Continuing, the senior senator declared, "We can't militarily contain China without going to war with China, and we would be in that war 20 years. Nuclear Course Denounced "If we dropped nuclear bombs on Peking today, we would be dying by the thousands on the west coast within 10 to 30 days," he said, in denouncing those who take the "tough" attitude of attacking such nations with nuclear bombs. Prevailing winds would bring the fallout over the west coast here. "We have to get it out of our heads that we have some divine instruction from heaven to fight wherever communism rears its ugly head." As to the coming convention, Senator Morse said that there is no doubt that Eugene Mc Carthy has more popular sup port of the people not dele gates than Humphrey. "I shall support whoever the party brings out," he said. The senior senator said that he doesn't believe McGovern nac a chance. He charged that the purpose of the Paris peace talks, con trary to administration public ity, was not to stop the Viet nam war but to work out pro cedural conduct with Vietnam while multi-lateral negotiations took place. Asked about his attitude on gun control, the senator was ve hement, pointing out that he voted against gun control three times. "I will vote against the Dodd bill and against the Tydings bill," he declared. Currently his mail is running 5 to 1 in favor 01 federal con trol, but added, "I'm not going to vote for control just for po litical reasons." The senator could give little encouragement on a farm bill. "I think what's left of it may pass," he said, adding that amendments will make it a "watered down" version of the original. In discussing the Willow Creek project here, he said, "We battled a long time to get the authorization bill through in 1965," and added that the im portant thing is to "get that tirst spadeful of dirt turned ov er." Once construction of a proj' ect such as this is started, it is always completed, Morse as serted. 'Al Ullman and the whole Oregon delegation deserve equal credit" for work done to date on the project in Washington, the senator said. Delegation United "On the Oregon delegation there are no Republicans and no Democrats when it comes to problems in the district," he de clared. When some problem comes up, the Oregon delega- Jim Barneft Files Sheriff Petitions Jim Barnett, currently mayor of lone, will be a candidate for sheriff in the November gen eral election, running as an in dependent. This was assured last week when he turned in petitions, bearing some 300 names to Mrs. Sadie Parrish, Morrow county clerk. He needed the names of cnly 105 registered voters to be eligible for filing as an inde pendent candidate. 'The response that I received from the public on the petitions was overwhelming," he said. The candidate will be oppos ed by Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman, incumbent and sheriff here for many years, Republican; and by John Mollahan, present Heppner police officer, who won the Democratic nomination in the primary election. Sheriff Bauman was unopposed on the Republican ticket. Hon holds a meeting and one is chosen to "run interference" with whatever agency is involv ed. The rest back him up, but the spokesman speaks for the entire delegation. - This year the delegation ask ed for $225,000 which the Army Corps of Engineers requested for the Willow Creek project. "Most years we would have gotten some of it," the senator said. "This year no one got any. There were no new starts this year. Last year there were nine new starts in the nation, and Oregon got three of them." Senator Morse said that Ore gon Is third in the nation on money spent on public works projects on a per capita basis. To Try Next Year "We re lying in wait for the first supplemental (budget) by March or the last of February and will recommend that Wil low Creek be included that will be our next crack at it," the senator said, and again added, I cannot stress too much the lob that Al Ullman has been doing on this." As to the Kelly Prairie proj ect, he said, "On my sworn oath, I nave read every word 01 the (Continued on page 4) Heppner Property Reappraisal Set Reappraisal of all assessable real property within the City of Heppner will begin Monday, August 26, Bill Johnson, ap praiser, announces. This work is part of the continuing ap praisal maintenance of whicn each assessor in the state is re quired to perform, Johnson said. Under ORS 308.234, each par cel of real property shall be appraised at least once every six years. Morrow county has been div ided into six appraisal main tenance districts, of which the City of Heppner is in district No. 2. The reappraisal is esti mated to take three to four months to complete, with the new values appearing on the 1968-70 assessment roll. Johnson will make the aD- praisals and field inspections. At a meeting with county of ficials, businessmen, represen tatives of the State Came Com mission, and of the Forest Serv ice. Senator Wayne Morse Mon day afternoon pledged to do everything in his power in Washington, D. C to expedite proposed local protects that mlfiht benefit the economy here, The 14 hour meeting was held in the county courtroom of the courthouse with Judge Paul Jones as chairman. Several emphnsized to him the need to bring to culmina tion some of the projects now, after the county has experienc ed several bad crop years with resultant damage to the busi ness economy. It was pointed out that many projects that require federal aid are under consideration or plan ned but none has been com pleted. Among them are the W;ilow Creek project, the KeUy Piairie fish impoundment, the Columbia Southside project, a proposed thermal nuclear plant, and others. Seeks Interpretation As to the Kelly Prairie proj ect, stymied bv a conflict of law that prevents one federal agency from obligating another, the senator Issued this state ment: - - "As soon as I get ' back to Washington, D. C, I will ask Secretary Udall of the Interior Department to come before the Oregon delegation with the head of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and discuss the in terpretation of the law. Then I will talk to the Forest Service people to be absolutely certain that this is their final judg ment. I will stress that they owe it to the delegation and you people to be absolutely cer tain. Then I will ask if there is any other basis on which they can assist financially." in his chamber talk at noon. Senator Morse said that he felt that the federal agencies' inter pretation of the law seemed cor rect, but emphasized the point that he would make sure when he returned east. At stake is the possible an propriation of some $180,000 in Golden Eagle funds (Bureau of Outdoor Recreation) that would match money from the State Game Commission for the pro! ect. The game commission at one time placed top priority on the Kelly prairie site lor de velopment until the ruling on the law came that seemed to eliminate the possibility of get ting the matching money. Wright Mallery, supervisor of the Umatilla National Forest, said that the Forest Service now has plans for development of the project on its own, but ex pected that it could not be com pleted until about 1974. It is expected that the lake would take two years to fill. Plans Revised The senator said that he un derstood that revised plans call fcr a dam 80 feet high and a lake with some 200 to 250 sur face acres, instead of the orig inal plan for a 100 ft. dam and 480 surface acres. The senator reiterated what (Continued on page 4) r v t-r" ; :: y"" J 111 I .- If - I f"- - , I ! I -r " ' i C , . - - . i PUFTiraiiMirt -jm rtiirtliBWWiaJftMMfc i Ml Til jBaWnfriW i 'lintM THinaiLiwHn niim m naii Ex-World Champion In Top Field On of the classiest fields of renfrndvr in the history of the Morrow county Rodeo Is due for 'The Fastest Show in the West" here Saturday and Sunday, ac cording to E. 11. (Tadi Miller, Jr.. rodeo chairman. Bob Wegner, Puyallup Wash., rx-world champion bull rider for the KCA, is among the entries. He won the 1UC4 world's cham pionship and was among tho top five in national competit ion from 1958 to 16. Wegner also won bull riding at the Pen (ticton Round-Up a number of years ago. Ho turned to the Northwest Rotloo Association after 16 and currently is third In NRA bull riding. Gibb Gregg, Dayvllle, who has been leading In saddle bronc riding for the NRA this year and Is a past winner of saddle bronc riding in the Morrow Rodeo, Is expected to be competing. THIS IS THE SORT OF ACTION that will thrill crowds at the Morrow county Rodeo here Saturday and Sunday. Rider pic tured is Gibb Gregg, well known here as a Northwest Associa tion cowboy, who was caught in action at the Spray rodec earlier this year. Gregg, oi Dayville, Ore., was the 1966 NRA champion saddle bronc rider and Ail-Around Cowboy. Fait 'Booms' Tuesday; Youth Severely Burned lone Schools Set For Opening Day DETAILS ON HEPPNER HIGH SCHOOL OPENING ON PAGE 8 lone schools are ready for opening day on Tuesday, Sept ember 3, according to Harold Beggs, principal. There will be no pre-registration lor any grade, either elementary or high school. Fees will be as follows: In surance (grades one through eight), $1; insurance (grades nine through 12), $3; towel fee (grades 7 through- 10), $2; school annual (optional), grades 7 through 12, $3.50; student booy ticket (grades seven through 12),- $6; textbooks (grades nine through 12), $8. First grade pupils will need a birth certificate and health certificate and students starting the ninth grade will need health certificates, the principal said Morrow county's 1968 fair probably started "with a bang" Tuesday morning, an right, but it really " boomed later in the afternoon. But it wasn't funny to many. It wasn't funny to Kirk Robinson, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Robinson, who is in Pioneer Memorial hospital with first and second degree burns. It wasn't funny to those with livestock in the covered arena who were startled by a sudden explosion and rushed to evac uate the building. It wasn't funny to firemen 'who were called to the scene. It wasn't funny to officers who contemplated what might have happened. The report from Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman, who investigated, is that probably three boys, in cluding Robinson, pried open a door on a small room attached to the stock arena. In this room, they were en gaged in making "bombs" by using a mixture of sodium fli unde and sugar. Dr. L. D. Tibbies, who treated Robinson, said that the combination is quite explosive and described it as almost the same as the material that the truck was carrying which devastated Roseburg a number of years ago. The beys wrapped paper around the mixture and ap plied fuses with which to ig nite it. Apparently one of them at tempted to test a bomb while I young Robinson was present. He ignited it. It worked. It was powerful enough to move one of the walls of the structure six inches on its concrete found ation in one place. It caused a thunderous boom. It burned a large spot on the table where it had been placed. It caused a big flash that startled fair goers. Dr. Tibbies said tnat Kirk has second degree burns on the back of his right hand and lower back, where the explo sion took off the outer skin, and first degree burns to his face and shoulder. Sheriff Bauman said Tuesday evening that he had been un able to find two others believed involved and was reluctant to release the names of those sus pected until they could be questioned. He was unsure as of Tuesday evening what action would be taken. The sheriff said that the boys may have thought they were making smoke bombs to be used in pranks at the fair grounds. But others wondered how they learned of the form ula for the powerful mixture. Itucks of the Heppner lire department answered the late afternoon call to the scene. Chief Forrest Burkenbine call ed Chief of Police Glen Kolk horst when he realized the cause of the alarm, and Kolk- horst, in turn, called sheriff Bauman because the site is out of the city limits. WEEK-END EVENTS FRIDAY 9:00 A.M. MORROW COUNTY OPEN HORSE SHOW 9:30 P.M. RODEO DANCE, Music by The Henchmen SATURDAY 10:00 A.M. GRAND STREET PARADE 1:15 P.M. RODEO PERFORMANCE 5:00 to 8:00 P.M. PIT-COOK-ED BEEF BARBE CUE, Episcopal Parish Hall 8:00 P.M. RODEO PERFORMANCE 10.00 P.M. RODEO DANCE, Music by The Shamrock Trio SUNDAY 7:00 to 11:00 A.M. COWBOY BREAKFAST, Fairgrounds 1:30 P.M. FINAL RODEO PERFORMANCE Big Parade Gains Entries; Erwin Chosen Marshal Additional entries to the Big Rodeo parade have brought the advance signup to normal or above, and Saturday morning's event will be as large or larger than last year's parade. That is the expectation of Randall Peterson, chairman of the parade for the sponsoring Heppner-Morrow county Cham ber of Commerce. Harold Erwin, veteran rodeo hand who for several years has been announcer at the parade, will be grand marshal this year, Peterson announced early this week. Among late entries confirmed for the parade, in addition to those previously announced, are the following: All-Star Shrine football game queen, the Hermiston Wranglers, Umatilla Sage Riders, Cub Scouts of Hermiston, Umatilla County Fair court, the court of the Fos sil Rodeo association, the lone cees and the Pilot Rock Jaycees. Peterson pointed out that more than $400 in cash prizes will be given to winners in the many categories previously announced. He urged all youngsters in the area to rig up some floats to compete in the many divisions offered for them. Young or old, however, there is a place for everyone in the parade and for most all kinds of entries march ing groups, mounted groups, glamour floats, humorous floats, comic entries, old cars, surreys, commercial entries, and others, Theme of the parade is "Med ley of Songs," and some of the more lavish floats, now in the process of preparation are fol lowing the theme. Al Fetsch will be announcer this year, Peterson said. The pa rade will form in the area around the library-museum and on side streets to the west. Peterson and his assistants will be on hand to direct entries to 4-H Trail Riders, Heppner Jay- their proper assembling spots, Marvin Bothum of Sublimity, second in bull riding in tho NRA, Is another of the top hands expected, and Russell Mc C'all of Redmond, who has been lending bareback riding in the NRA, is also scheduled to pit his skill against the field. Miss NRA Coming Pennv Lyons. Miss NRA, win be entered in barrel racing, com ing from her home at Antelope, and it is hoped that Patti Pet tyjohn, of lone, who won third in barrel racing among colleg iate women in the nation, will also be entered. As of Tuesday, Secretary John Venard had already compiled 70 entries in the rodeo, and the field is expected to swell to ap proximately 200 contenders by the entry deadline, 8 p.m. to night (Thursday). The bull riding event is al ready filled with 27 entries. Some six competitors had sign ed by Tuesday for the new nov ice bronc riding event This is scheduled for Saturday evening but if a large field enters, it will also be presented in af ternoon shows. Sid Brltt, who was last year's all-around cowboy, then from Spray, will be back to compete, having moved during the year to Lexington. Wayne Evans, Morrow county all-around in 1967, Is expected to try for the second leg on tho Orville Cutsforth trophy, which must be won three times In succession for permanent po ssession. Saddles Offered Winner of the rodeo's all around cowboy the open event will receive a custom made saddle as a gift from Morrow County Grain Growers and Pad berg Machinery, Inc. Winner of the Morrow county amateur calf roping will receive a similar beautiful saddle from Kinzua Corporation. Bob Fetsch won this event in 1967. Rodeo performances at 1:15 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday will highlight the action-filled week-end. One of the inviting features of the rodeo this year is the new all-steel grandstand which will put the crowd right where the action is and in comfort. Setting the theme for the week-end and bringing glamour and color will be the Grand Street Parade, which will be Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in downtown Heppner with tha Chamber of Commerce as spon sor and Randall Peterson as chairman. Dance Slated Dances will be Friday and Saturday nights, with Heppner's Henchmen playing for the first dance and The Shamrock Trfo of The Dalles, featuring Joe Mc Connel, playing Saturday night. Queen Berniece Matthews and her princesses, Kathy Hin ton of Boardman, Sheila Luciani of Lexington, Sue Ellen Green up of Lena and Marcia Jones of Heppner, will reign through out the week and will lead the (Continued on page 8)
