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Weatherford, New Film
On Fall Wheat Program
County's Agriculture Income Sei cat $10,202,363
Marlon Weatherford of Ar
lington will be guest speak1
on behalf of the Oregon Agrl
Business Council and show the
new motion Picture film on Ore
Kon agriculture at the annunl
full meeting of the Morrow
County Wheat Growers assocla
linn Wednesday. October 23.
The meeting will be In St
Putrick's parish hall with the
business meet luff Martina at 9
a.m., according to Bob Met
mann. president.
Weatherford will speak at the
luncheon at noon, and the
wheat growers Invite all lletin
ner-Morrow county Chamber of
Commerce members and county
businessmen as guests at no
chnree.
The color film, 30-mlnutcs In
length, "Yours Is the Earth,"
will be shown at the luncheon,
which is expected to conclude
at 1:30 p.m. Chet Huntley, one
of the nations most highly re
spected news commentators,
narrates the saga of Oregon's
second largest industry agri
culture. The film took 10 months to
produce and pictures the drama
of modern agriculturists com
bining their skills with the
Crazy Days Due
Here Next Week;
Kids' Parade Set
Crazy Days is scheduled In
Heppner on Friday and Satur
day, October 25 and 26 with
merchants offering extra special
"ridiculous" bargains for the
event.
Many of the merchants will
dress up for their costume day
on Fr dav. according to Mrs.
Marl Gardner, chairman of the
merchants committee, and a
Kids' Parade is planned for the
Saturday morning, probably
at 11 a.m.
The youngsters will be Invit
ed to dress in costume appropri
ate for the Hallowe'en season
and prizes will be offered to
several with the best costumes.
Jerry Adamson, manager of J. C.
Penney Co., is acting as chair
man of the Kids Parade.
Children through the fifth
grade age in school are invited
to participate and are requested
to begin planning their cos
tumes now. Children in neigh
boring communities are welcome
to take part.
Next week's paper will give
more details on Crazy Days ana
will contain advertising of the
special bargains to be ottered
Merchants are advised to get
their advertising In early be
cause of the big paper expect'
ed by the G-T staff.
MARION WEATHERFORD
state's natural resources to pro
vide a multi-million dollar
base for Oregon's expanding
economy.
Morrow county's Wheat Grow
ers association will be host for
the state Wheat League conven
tion in Portland on December 9,
10 and 11, and plans to fulfill
this responsibility will be made
during the meeting Wednesday.
Committee reports, discussion
of matters of interest to the
wheat growers, and election of
officers are other matters on
the day's program.
Ladles of St. Patrick's Altar
Society will prepare and serve
the luncheon. Kietmann urges
all wheat growers to attend the
meeting, and invites all busi
nessmen to attend the luncheon
as guests of the association.
85th Year
Number 34
HEPFNER
GAZETTE-TIME
Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, October 17, 1968
10 Cents
Collins Running
For Mayor; Others
Seek City Posts
Bargains Galore
Promised at Sale
Bargain hunters from age "6
to 60" will be pleased with the
wide array of bargains from
which to choose at the bi-annual
HeDDner Civic League Rum
mage Sale, scheduled for Friday
and Saturday, October na-Zb.
Sale will be held in the for
mer Tryco building on Main
street and will begin at 8 a.m.
both days, with doors open un
til 6 p.m., Mrs. Art Galbraith
and Mrs. Bruce Griffith, co
chairmen of the event, an
nounce. A baked foods sale is also
planned for Friday morning
while the rummage sale is in
progress.
Persons having items that
they wish to donate for the sale
are asked to contact Mrs. Mar
ilyn Kellogg, 676-5505, Mrs.
Sharon Biddle, 676-9247, or Mrs.
Carol Baker, 989-8447 for pick
up. The sale is sponsored twice
each year by the Civic League
organization, with proceeds de
rived from the sales used to pur
chase needed supplies for the
kindergarten classes and to as
sist with teacher's salary.
Kindergarten instructor this
year is Mrs. Don Turner.
Lost Youth Shoots
Buck; Ward Again
At Right Place
Stories of lost hunters are
getting to be commonplace
here, but this one has a new
twist.
Mike MeCarty, 17, of Hood
River who was reported lost
while hunting in the mount
ains southeast of Heppner
Monday, wasn't found until
about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. He
was unhurt and undaunted
after his night alone in the
wilds. The unusual part Is
that he took the time to shoot
and kill a four-point buck
Tuesday morning before he
was "found."
Again Glen Ward, state
agent, was in the right place
at the right time. He picked
up the youth after he had
walked out just after noon
Tuesday. Ward was on Coal
Mine Hill at the time. Ward
had also picked up Joe Green
after the Pendleton man was
reported missing on opening
week-end.
A search party was getting
organized under the direction
of local officers when the
youth appeared. He had been
hunting with his brother,
Steven, and other companions
from Hood River when he be
came lost.
Ward said that he figured
the youth had traveled some
25 miles after his disappear
ance Monday until he was
"found."
He didn't know just where
the buck was that he had
shot, but after getting some
counsel on directions from
Ward, he left with his friends
to retrieve it.
William C. (Bill! Collins,
former mayor of Heppner and
veteran of 16 years on the city
council as councilman and
mayor, has filed his petition as
a candidate for mayor.
The petition was circulated by-
friends last week after Mayor
W. C. (Clarence! Rosewall an
nounced that he would not seek
reelection. Rosewall. too. is a
veteran of long service In city
administration and has served
as mayor since the death of Al
Lamb a number of years ago.
As of Tuesday, petitions had
been filed at the city hall for
three seeking council positions,
including those of Jerry bwee
ney and David McLeod, both
seeking reelection, and Dick
Robison, in his first venture in
to city politics.
Petitions also were filed on
behalf of Mrs. Elaine George,
recorder, seeking reelection, and
for Mrs. Ernest (Mary Jean) Mc
Cabe, seeking reelection as
treasurer.
Deadline for filing of petitions
in order to be on the city bal
lot on Tuesday. November 5,
was Wednesday, October 16,
Collins, currently a council
man, served as mayor for four
years from 1955 to 1959. He had
served for eight years on the
council prior to that time. He
returned to the council when he
was elected in 1964 and is now
completing a four-year term in
that position.
McLeod completes his first
four-year term this year, and
Sweeney is completing a two
year term.
The three seeking election to
the council will all be on the
ballot for four-year terms.
Mrs. George and Mrs. McCabe
are both running for their third
terms, each completing the sec
ond two-year term this year.
The mayor position, under terms
of the city charter, is also for
a two-year term.
Holdover councilman whose
terms do not expire this year
include veteran Carl Spaulding,
Joe Balfe and Harlan McCurdy,
both of whom are in their first
terms.
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The Rains Came
A total of .60 of rain came
to Heppner this week, most of
it Friday, but it let up in time
for the Burns-Heppner football
game in the evening. Official
report of Don Gilliam, weather
observer, shows the week's max
imum temperature to be 63 de
grees and the minimum 33. Re
port for the week is as follows:
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Hi Low Prec.
63 33
59 43 .02
61 41 .46
60 43 .11
58 38 .01
56 33
56 41
Speech Contest
Support Urged
Mustangs to Meet
Eagles Here Friday
LEAGUE STANDINGS
W L
Madras 2 0
Wahtonka 2 0
Grant Union 2 1
Enterprise 2 1
Sherman County 1 1
Burns 1 2
Heppner 0 2
Pilot Rock 0 3
WEEKEND SCORES Burns,
14, Heppner, 0; Enterprise, 33,
Pilot Rock, 0; Grant Union, 19,
Sherman County, 6; Wahtonka,
7, Madras, 7 (tie).
By PAT KILKENNY
Heppner High's Mustangs will
be looking for their first league
victory in four starts here Fri
day night when they play
Wahtonka in a football game
at the Morrow county Rodeo
Grounds.
The Eagles share top spot in
the Greater Oregon League with
the Madras White Buffaloes.
Wahtonka and Madras battled
to a 7-7 tie Friday.
In other league action, Enter
prise rolled easily over cellar
dwelling Pilot Rock, 33 to 0, and
urant union sailed through
snerman, 19-6.
To date, the Heppner High
team has lost league games to
Enterprise and Burns and has
deadlocked with Sherman in a
scoreless tie. They opened the
season witn a non-league vic
tory over Condon, 26 to 0.
Only two home games remain
for the Mustangs, including the
Wahtonka contest They play
Grant Union here on Friday,
November 1.
Two other league games wall
be played away from home.
They will meet Puot Kock on
the Rockets gridiron on Friday
night, October 25, at 8 o'clock
and will play an afternoon
game at Madras on Friday, No
vember 8, starting at 1:30.
Annual district speech contest,
sponsored by the Heppner Soil
and Water Conservation District,
will be Thursday evening, Oc
tober 24, in the Heppner High
school multipurpose room. It
will start at 7:30 p.m.
High school students are pre
paring talks, based on this
year's assigned theme, "Forest
Management in an Oregon Con
servation District". Interest
among the students is reported
to be good, with several plan
ning to participate, with the as
sistance of school speech in
structors.
Trophies will be given for
first, second and third place
winners, with the first place
winner eligible to continue in
the area contest. Heppner was
represented at the area contest
in Hermiston last year by Ter
esa Harshman, who won first
place there and advanced to the
semi-finals. The local school has
had many outstanding speakers,
which continued on into state
competition.
"It is our earnest desire,
stated Albert Wright, this year's
chairman, "that parents, friends
ana teachers will turn out in
large numbers to support the
students in this contest, and
give them the backing which
iney aeserve. mere is no
charge, and attendance of a
large audience gives the stu
dents added incentive for a good
penormance.
TROPHY WINNERS in the Punt Pass and Kick competition here Saturday are pictured with men
oi lone Lions hud ana Heppner Auto iaie, inc.. sponsors of the local contest. Front row (lrom
left) are Steve Kessler. third, Richard Walker, second, and William Smith, first, all 10-year-olds;
Sam Myers, second, and Jeff Cutsforth. first, both 9-year-olds; Mark Mecham, special tro
phy winner; Jim Kenny, second, and Delbert Turner, first both 8-year-olds; and Clint Carlson,
pedal trophy winner. Middle row (from left) Doug Gunderson, first 13-year-olds; Joe Kenny,
third. Mark Cutsforth, second, and John Myers, first all 12-year-olds; John Kilkenny, third, Kev
in Hagnewood. second, and Jerry Gentry, firs , all 11 -year-olds. Amonq those assisting at the
competition were (back row, from left) Lindsay Kincaid, Lions chairman; Everett Keithley,
Heppner Auto, contest chairman; Herb Ekstrom, Jr., Lions president; and Ray Boyce, Lions
(G-T Photo).
secretary. Many more Lions and other helped at the event
Six Boys Win, Advance
In PP&K Contest
Rep. Mann tc Speak
At Chamber Monday
Rep. Irvin Mann of Stanfield
will be guest speaker at the
meeting of Heppner-Morrow
county cnamber or Commerce
Monday at the Wagon Wheel
Cafe at noon. He plans to dis
cuss the forthcoming session of
the legislature and some of the
matters that are expected to
come before it.
On Monday, October 28, Bruce
Cowan, executive vice-president
of Inland Empire Waterways
association, will be the speak
er. Non-members who would
like to hear either of these
speakers are invited on a no
host basis at $1.25 per plate.
Six Morrow county boys Sat
urday earned the right to ro to
The Dalles Sunday to take part
in the district -runt,-Pass and
Kick competition when they won
in the six different age brack
ets of the local contest held at
the rodeo grounds.
The local winners are Delbert
Turner, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Don Turner; Jeff Cutsforth, 9,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Cuts
forth; William Smith, 10, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith;
Jerry Gentry, 11, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Gentry; John Myers,
12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerrv
Myers; and Doug Gunderson, 13,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Gunderson.
In the competition the boys
punt, pass and placekick for
distance and accuracy. The dis
tance that the ball lands from
white line is deducted from
the length of their pass or kick.
The combined total of the punt,
pass and kick is then computed
as their score.
Winners scores were as fol
lows: Turner, lOO'i: Cutsforth,
147; Smith, 172; Gentry, 202;
Myers, 214; and Gunderson.
175 y2.
At The Dalles Sunday the boys
will compete with other local
winners in their quest for reg
ional and national prizes.
Other winners and their scores
were as follows:
Eight-year-olds: Jim Kenny,
second, 90 ; Kenneth Pearson,
third, 89'2. Nine-year-olds: Sam
Myers, second, 141; and Jerry
Cutsforth, third, 127. Ten-year-
olds: Richard Walker, second,
153; and Steve Kessler, 147.
Eleven-vear-olds: Kevin Hague-
wood, second, 198; and John
Kilkenny, third. 192. Twelve
year-olds: Mark Cutsforth, sec
ond, 162 ana joe Kenny,
third, 152.
Two boys, through error, com
peted in a lower age bracket
than they should have and had
to be disqualified because they
would not have been eligible to
continue as winners in the dis
trict contest. They were Clint
Carlson, who made a score of
107 in the 8-year-old division
but should have been in the
9-year-old group because his
birthday comes prior to January
5, 1969, and Mark Mecham, who
made a score of 149 In the
9-year-old group but should
have competed with lU-year-
olds for the same reason.
(Continued on page 8)
Banquet Tickets
Placed on Sale
Tickets for the annual Live-stoek-Farm-City
banquet, sched
uled for Wednesday evening,
October 30. in the high school
cafetorium, are now on sale at
$2.50 per plate. They are avail
able at the Bank of Eastern Ore
gon, Heppner Branch First Nat
ional Bank, Turner, Van Mar
ter and Bryant Real Estate, and
at the County Extension office.
Walter Leth, director, State
Department of Agriculture, will
be principal speaker at the
banquet, which will come at the
end of the day following the
annual meeting of the Morrow
County Livestock Growers association.
Randall Peterson announces
that he will again give a $100
diamond away to a lucky tick
et holder at the banquet as an
added attraction. Lexington
Grange will serve the banquet,
which will start at 7 p.m. Fur
ther announcement will be in
next week's paper.
Wheat Leads
With Total
Of $3,316,000
Total agricultural Income for
Morrow county for the year 1968
is estimated at $10,202,303, ac
cording to Gall MoCarty, Mor
row county extension agent, and
Robert Ganger, county statistic
ian specialist for Oregon State
University and the United States
Department of Agriculture.
The Income Is a decrease of
more than $507,000 below the es
timated Income of 1967, which
was reported at $10,709,765.
Leading In value of product
sold fur 1968 is wheat with
$3,316,000. However, the value of
the lytiH wheat crop is only 75
of the 1967 crop, which was val
ued at $4,435,000. Federal Crop
Insurance payments, estimated
at $185,000, helped fill the
breach of a bad crop year.
Beef cattle sales were esti
mated to be up slightly in total
from the 1967 figure of $2,407,
OOO. This increase Is mainly In
higher prices received for cull
cattle sold, MeCarty said.
Breakdown of the total income
is as follows:
CROPS Wheat. $3,316,000:
wheat certificates and feed grain
diversion, $2,000,000; barley,
$115,000; other grains and seed
crops, $17,000; Conservation Re
serve Program, $58,363; Com
modity Reseal Storage pay
ments, $45,000; hay crops, $290.-
000; vegtables, melons and tree
fruits, $202,000; farm forest
products, $40,000; Federal Crop
Insurance, $185,000. Total, all
crops: $6,898,363.
LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
Beef cattle, $2,678,000; sheep
and lambs, 576,000; wool, 5tn,
000; Wool Incentive, $28,000;
hogs, $5,000; dairy (milk and ice
cream), $199,000; poultry, $38,
000; miscellaneous animal prod
ucts, $12,000. Total, livestock
and poultry: $3,304,000.
Not included in the above are
1968 Agriculture Conservation
Program cost sharing payments.
These estimates are based on
information available to the De
partment of Agriculture statis
ticians and the county extension
staff as of September 15, 1968,
MeCarty said.
Church to Serve
Altar societies of St. Patrick's
and St. William's Catholic
churches will sponsor their an
nual Turkey Dinnei with all
the trimmings on Sunday, Oc
tober 20, at the Catholic parish
hall in Heppner.
Dinner will be served from
12:30 until 6:00 p.m., and in
addition to the main turkey
course, will feature a variety of
homemade pies.
The public is cordially Invit
ed, and visiting hunters and
travelers in the area are invited
to come as they are. A nursery
will be provided to help care
for small children.
Daniels Discusses
Tax Limit Measure
(Additional details on page 5)
Ron Daniels, superintendent
of Morrow county schools, pre
sented an analysis of the pro
posed 1 property tax limi
tation measure at the regular
meeting of the Heppner-Morrow
county Chamber of Commerce
Monday.
He pointed out that loss of
revenue to taxing agencies
across the state has been esti
mated by the State Tax Commis
sion up to $150,000,000.
In Morrow county, the tax dol
lar loss would be in excess of
$200,000, and it could be more
depending upon the system used
to distribute the property taxes.
Under the proportional reduc
tion method where the highest
code area is reduced to come
within the 1 limit and other
code areas are reduced in pro
portion, the tax revenue loss
would be considerably greater.
estimated to be more than
$."00.000 to the Morrow county
school district alone.
Daniels pointed out details of
the measure's provisions, and
possible effects, if it is approv
ed by voters. He said that the
tax commission states that $2
of every $3 saved in property
taxes by taxpayers would bene
fit business and industry, and
the home owner and rancher
would benefit by $1.
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THIS IS THE way the pickup truck of Tom Griffith looked after it ran Into the real of a loaded
log truck near Heppner Lumber Co. about 11 pm. Friday night. Griffith was hospitalized but
escaped serious injury and was dismissed Sunday. (G-T Photo).
Pickup Crushed in Crash; Driver Crawls Out
When a pickup truck, driven
bv Tom Griffith of Heppner,
crashed into the end of a truck
load of logs near Heppner Lum
ber Company in the darkness
Friday night, the vehicle was
totally demolished. Its cab was
obliterated, and the pickup was
reduced to a smashed mess of
metal.
But Griffith, only occupant,
was dismissed irom rioneer
Memorial hospital Sunday, his
injuries being; relatively minor,
apparently being confined to
lacerations and bruises. Friends
marvel that he was not fatally
injured in the accident.
The accident happened about
11 p.m. Friday. The loaded log
truck, owned by Hubert Asher
of Spray and driven by Benja-
min Hamilton, also oi fapray,
had stopped in the northbound
lane to await passing or. on
coming traffic before making a
left turn to the sawmill, accord
ing to City Officer Bert Corbin,
who with Deputy Sheriff Dean
Gilman, investigated the acci
dent. Hamilton told them that
he had turn signals going to
indicate the turn.
Griffith told Corbin later that
he did not see the truck when
he came upon it from the rear,
also headed north. His pickup
hit the logs, one of which pierc
ed the windshield and cab. The
right front wheel of the pick
up was ripped off as it hit the
truck's trailer wheels under the
logs. The pickup apparently
rolled over when its right side
hit the left trailer wheels, and
the vehicle came to rest upside
down across the southbound
lane of traffic, with Griffith in
side. Passersby stopped to give aid. I
Some saw Griffith curled up in
the overturned pickup and be
lieved that the injuries had been
fatal, but in a few minutes he
crawled out with only the rela
tively minor injuries. The frame
of the windshield was still on
the log at the rear of the truck
when it later went to the saw
mill, Officer Corbin said.
The officer added that traffic
traveling the "new" stretch of
highway at speeds of 70 miles
per hour or more was difficult
to control in the darkness while
the accident was being cleared.
He expressed the belief that
consideration should be given
by the State to provide left turn
lanes on the highways at the
sawmill driveways.
Hamilton, driver of the log
truck, is Dostmaster at Spray
and drives for Asher from time
to time to help out.