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L I 8RARY U or O EUGENE, 0 H E 0 7 10 3 85th Year Number 35 THE HE PPNEI2 Bargains, Kids Parade Set Here This Weekend Crazy Days are hero agnin Heppner merchants will be Hosts to their third annual evont Friday and Saturday when they offer extra special bargain buvs lor the public and tie It In with the upcoming Halloween season Merchants will dress up in costume Friday, and on Satur day It will be the kids' turn. They will participate in a on rnde through downtown Hepp ner, starting at 11 a.m., and will be dressed in costumes ap propriate for the occasion. Jerry Adamson, chairman of the Kids' Parade, Invites all children through the fifth grade to take part. Any visiting child ren and nil those from neigh boring communities are wel come to take part. Kids are ask ed to assemble near the Meth odist church, at the corner of Church and Gale, at 10:30 a m. Saturday. The Heppner school band, directed by Arnie Jled mnn, will be on hand to fur nish music. Six cash prizes will be given to children judged to have the best costumes. Bovs and girls win each Eft a 5.) f rst ir ze, $3 second prize, and $2 third prize. There will be a treat for all those who take part. Merchants will compete for two prizes In their Friday dress up. First place winner will re eclve $5 and second place win ner will get $.1. A check of the advertisements In this paper will show that merchants have many fine bar Cains to offer the shopping uub' lie, and prices are greatly re dticed for the two-day event. Mores will be open for the r regular hours and will not be open in the evenings. The public is invited to read the ads and take advantage of the buys offered. This will be a great opportunity to begin geiiing inristmas guts at un usually low prices. Livestock Growers Slate Meeting; Big Banquet Set outstanding speakers are scheduled for the 1968 annual meeting of the Morrow County Livestock Growers association and the ensuing Farm-City ban nuet here Wednesday, October M. Waller Leth, director of the State Department of Agriculture will be the principal speaker at the banquet, which will be at 7 p.m. in the Heppner High school cafctorium with Larry Lindsay, past president of the Livestock Growers, as master of ceremonies. Prominent persons who will be at the growers annual meet ing, which starts at 10 a.m. In the Heppner Elks Temple with Ned Clark, president, in charge, include Dr. Al Ralston, animal science department, Oregon Mate University; Dr. Jim Old field, animal science depart ment head, OSU; and Tom Da vidson, superintendent, Umatilla branch, experiment station, iiermisTon. Committee meetings open the annual meeting at 10 a.m., to be loiiowed by a no-host lunch at noon. Committee reports will be given at 1 p.m., followed by a live animal evaluation, using colored slides, by Dr. Ralston, at 2 p.m. Dr. Oldfield will dis cuss preconditioning weaner calves in his talk at 2:30. Bank of Eastern Oregon will be host at a coffee break at 3 p.m., and Davidson will tell of re search projects conducted at the experiment station in his ap pearance at 3:30. Denny Jones, president of the Oregon Cattlemen's association, will report on activities of the state association at 4 p.m., and a short business meeting will follow at 4:30. Heppner Branch, First Nation al Bank, will be host at a so cial hour at 5:30 p.m. The public is invited to the banquet at 7 p.m. which is sponsored jointly by the live stock growers, the Heppner Morrow county Chamber of Commerce and the Heppner Soil and Water Conservation District. Presentation of the 1968 Live stock Man of the Year will be made and Peterson Bros, will be honored as the 1968 Censer vation Men of the Year. An award will be made to the pre mier Hereford exhibitor from the Morrow County Fair. The Chamber of Commerce will award certificates of recog nition to some in the commu nity who have contributed to de velopment and progress, and other awards will be made. Director Leth's theme in his talk at the banquet will be the status of agriculture In Oregon and the need for long-range planning to better use water and land resources. A large crowd is expected for the banquet which will be pre pared and served by the Lex ington Grange. Charge will be $2.50 per plate, and tickets are now on sale at the First Nat ional Bank, Bank of Eastern Oregon, Turner Van Marter and Bryant, the County Extension office, and at The Gazette-Times. Banquet Speaker 6 r)7l GAZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, October 24, 1968 10 Cents eoerafi Election 12 Days A USFS Negotiates With Cutsforth For Kelly Prairie "T"mw.X7. WALTER LETH Director, State Department of Agriculture Peterson Jewelers Gives $100 Diamond As Banquet Prize Some lucky person will leave the Farm-City banquet next Wednesday night with a diamond worthi 40 times the price of his dinner ticket. Randall Peterson, owner of Peterson's Jewelers, is again giving a $100 diamond as a door prize at the banquet, as he has for the two years. i,ach person at the banauet will be given a small enve lope. In all but one will be a rhinestone, but in the one envelope will be a $100 dia mond. This added attraction has been a popular event at the Fam-City banquet for the past two years, and undoubtedly will create considerable inter est again this year. Peterson donates the diamond as a community service gesture. U. S. Forest Service is nego tiating with Orville Cutsforth for the 650.31 acres of Kcllv Prairie as a site for a reservoir and recreational area. Countv Judge Paul Jones said Monday. Members of the county court and Cutsforth met with Wright iwanery, supervisor of the Uma- ilia National Forest: W. S. Sam) Miller, ranger in eharpp of the Heppner district; and Sam Nagel, staff member from the supervisors office, in the courthouse last Thursday to dis cuss the matter. Appraisal of the Dronertv Is lreadv underway, and it is un- erstood that if the amiraisal bears out the sale Driee. the deal will be consummated. It is expected that the sale may be completed by April, 19(19. Judge Jones said that a con tract is being let by the State Game Commission for core drill ing to determine feasibility of a dam at the site. Cutsforth purchased the prop erty when it appeared sometime ago that expected development of Kelly Prairie as a 1oint coun-ty-state-fedcral project had fail ed when the Bureau of Outdoor Kocreation said that matching funds could not be provided through the bureau. Since then, the Forest Service has indicated additional inter est In developing the project, perhaps in the early 1970's. Purchase of the property must be approved by the county court, the Oegon State Resources Board, and the National Forest Reservation Commission, Mal lery said. , The aPDraisal is exnpctert tn De compietea early in Novem ber. The Forest Service has also tentatively agreed to develop the recreational farilitv at Ppn. land Prairie, which "site has been promoted Drivatelv hv Cutsforth, some lake frontage to ue reservea ror private cabins but other portions set asidp fnr public use. Since Forest Service land hnr. ders the Penland Prairie site, the USFS is interested in the rec reational development. The luoge said that it s evnpptoH the federal agency will grade rue roaas, install running wa ter and toilets, and construct camp sites. Land clearing has startprt at remand Prairie and all 25 pri vate lots available have been ta ken, Cutsforth said. I 1 ' ' r Q iC0LORAC0 state UMvnan text KLuarcajiSr 4 t Jt i. l mm ! -f ! i THIS mobile unit from Colorado State University ha3 Just completed more than a week here test ing Heppner High and Elementary students fo: cpesch and hearing, one of two cities In the state chosen for the survey. Principal Al Mar in cf Heppner Elementary stands by the door. (G-T Photo). ? i fcrJ II " ii' 3 a i'vy i ' fl m Remember! Time 'Falls Back' Sunday As the saying goes, un der daylight savings, time "springs forward" in the spring and "falls back" in the autumn. Well, Sunday is the time for it to "fall back." Under state law, time reverts to standard on the last Sunday in Octo ber. The official time to set clocks back one hour is at 2 a.m., but most residents won't stay up to make the change then. They will set watches and clocks back before going to bed. Enjoy that extra hour of sleep! Mann Bill to Propose Mu I tip u rpose Districts Rep. Irvin Mann will propose a bill in the next session of the State legislature to provide for multipurpose water control dis tricts with the aim of develop ing water resources, he said Monday in a talk before the Heppner-Morrow countv Cham ber of Commerce. He said that the Bureau of Reclamation has advised that all future developments in which it participates must be multipurpose recreation, fish and wildlife, boating, domestic and Industrial water, as well as erosion control, water quality control and irrigation. we have been told that un less we are able to create gov ernmental entities in our state that can contract and deal with the Bureau in all these areas. new starts will be slow in com ing to Oregon," he said. In states where such districts can be created, with all the pow ers and all the flexibilities that city government have, develop ment has ranged ahead of Ore gon, he added. Among them are Utah, Colorado and some of the Midwest states. Might Help- Willow Creek "Hopefully in 1969 we will eet legislation to allow us to cre ate such districts, if we want to, in Oregon. Such a district would be useful for implement ing the Willow Creek project." However, he pointed out the long time that it takes to de velop federally financed proj ects. "Private companies with un limited capital are coming and are undoubtedly studying the bonanza that could result from establishing water rights in the Columbia and developing the productive lands of Northern Idaho, Umatilla, Sherman and t-tiinam counties," he declared. "It would be better if our own people did this. The will and aesire is here, but what is lack ing is capital." Rep. Mann, who is running unopposea ior a tnira time on tne general election ballot, said he feels there is "no good rea (Continued on page 8) Sen. Morse Due For Dedication Senator Wayne Morse will be the principal speaker at the dedication of Riverside Junior Senior High school at Boardman Sunday, October 27, at 3:00 p.m., Ron Daniels, superintend ent of Morrow county schools, announces. Howard Leonard Glazer, arch tech, will conduct a dedication ceremony, and Irvin Rauch. a director of the Mororw county scnools, will introduce Sen Morse. Daniels will introduce Other guests. Among; guests invited to be present are Dr. Dale Parnell. state superintendent of public en, U. S. Army Corps of Engin eers; Ivan Luman. consultant school standards and facilities; Charles Haggerty, director, Ore gon Small Schools program; and Chet Haskins, Northwest Region al Education Laboratory. Open house and tour of the $1,500,000 building will follow the program, and refreshments will be served by the Riverside faculty. The public is invited. MOLLY PIERCE of Heppner Elementary school (left) prepares for speech tests to be given by Sue Blachut, therapist, from Detroit, Mich. At right, Raymond O'Harra raises his hand to signify to Ann Speicher, therapist, from Detroit, that he hears the sound from machine in hearing test. (G-T Photo). Survey Unit Checks Speech and Hearing A mobile laboratory from Colorado State University has lust completed testing of the speech and hearing ot J84 Hepp ner school children in collecting data for a national survey. Heppner was one of two cit ies in Oregon chosen for the survey, the other being Oregon City. Choice ot the town was made at random, but the team of three accompanying the mo bile unit here said that they found the Heppner school staffs and community exceptionally coopertaive ana inenaiy. Thirty-two children in each of the 12 grade levels first through senior in high school were checked in the survey, which is supported by the U. S. Office of location. Advance man for the profes sional team was Gary Magnu son, graduate of Brigham. Young university, oi salt LaKe uitv. Those with the laboratory who conducted the testing were Loy al Jacobs, graduate of Kansas Fiddlers Contest Set in November Javcees will again sponsor the Old Time Fiddlers contest here with the Eastern Oregon Fid dlers as co-sponsor, Al Osmin told the Heppner merchants at a luncheon meeting Friday. The contest will be on November 29 and 30, same dates as Christ mas Opening in Heppner. It is planned to have three performances by the fiddlers with the first Friday night, No vember 29, followed by after noon and evening programs Sat urday, he said. Merchants agreed to help sponsor trophies for winners. University, of Hoxie, Kans.; Sue Blachut, graduate of Michigan State, of Detroit, Mich.; and Ann Speicher, graduate of Western Michigan, also of De troit. The tests took approximately 20 minutes per child and about 50 were tested each day. At the grade school, six girls acted as "runners" in assisting with the unit, Barbara McCarl, Sherry Kemp, Bobbette Jones, Tami Meador, Mary Abrams and Mar ie VanMarter. The survey has . three main purposes: to estimate the prev alence of speech and hearing problems among school child ren; to furnish school adminis trators with information on which to base their needs for professional service programs for speech and hearing handi capped children; and to provide to the Office of Education data Finding of Safe Poses Mystery For Officers Here Maybe a girl lost it from a charm bracelet ... or maybe it came off a watch fob. But chances are that it didn't. You see, it weighs perhaps 300 pounds, and it is a large safe 28 inches by 18 inches, and 23 Inches deep." ' John Hanna discovered it Tuesday morning at the Sand hollow junction with the Hin ton Creek highway while he was enroute to Heppner. The back had been cut op en with a torch, leaving a hole 16" wide. It was sitting rightside up beside the high way in the center of the area that the kids call the "turn around". There was nothing In it, and nothing about it that would aid in identification, Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman said. Hanna told City Officer Bert Corbin about it, and he, in turn, told Sheriff Bauman. The sheriff contacted state po lice and others to determine if theft of a safe l.ad been reported. No such misdeed was uncovered. The safe was hauled to the county shops for storage. By nightfall it was still a mystery. Better check your charm bracelets, girls. wsiy Campaigns Climaxing Hectic Year (Facsimile sample ballot printed on pages 2 and 3, section 2, this paper). Climax to an election year that has ranged from the un usual to the bizarre and tragic particularly on the national level will come just 12 days from now when voters go to the polls and cast ballots In the general election. In Morrow county the turnout is expected to be large because of the Interest in the national and state races, the one local rontest that for sheriff and the seven state measures on the ballot. 9 Polling Places Listed for Voting Nine polling places are es tablished for the general elec tion on November S in Mor row county, Mrs. Sadie Par rish, county clerk, announces. They are the same as those for the primary election, and they are as follows: Northwest Heppner pre cinct Assembly of God church, corner of Gale and Willow streets. Northeast' Heppner precinct Old City Library, next to city hall. Southwest Heppner precinct County Courthouse. Hardman Hardman Com munity Hall. Lexington Lexington City HalL lone lone City HalL Boardman Greenfl eld Grange Hall. Irrigon Old Irrigon School. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Inservice Session Set; High Schools To Close Tuesday High school teachers of Mor row county will participate In a 51-county in-service session at Condon High school on Tues day, October 29, sponsored by the Oregon small schools pro gram. Consequently there will be no school at Heppner High, lone High and Riverside High on that day. Other schools participating in the one-day session will be those of Condon, Arlington Wheeler, Spray, Mitchell, Mon umpnt. I.one' Creek. Culver. Mt. on which to evaluate requests vmnn nrt nnwlllp This will ior iurias 10 support, luiure re search and professional train eeships in speech and hearing. Five other such teams are testing other school children simultaneously in other regions of the United States. When the program is completed in June, 1969, approximately 40,000 children will have been screen ed in 48 states. The mobile laboratory unit is the key to the testing program. The unit was built at a cost of $45,000. It has three sound- treated rooms for speech and Heppner Hosts Meet Heppner High will host a dis trict cross-country track meet on Saturday, October 26, on the Willow Creek golf course. Nine teams are expected to partici pate, starting at 1:30 p.m. Spec tators are invited to view the meet. hearing. Equipment includes high fidelity tape recorders, au diometer and audiometric cali bration equipment. The unit which came here had started the survey in Spo kane. After the testing here, it left for Oregon City, and then will continue to work through four other states, making two stops in Nevada, 10 in Califor nia, and one each in Arizona and Colorado. The three with the unit are all former teachers and now pro fessional speech and hearing therapists. Miss Blachut and Miss Speich er said that results of the sur vey here would be sent to the local schools for checking. be the sixth in a series of eight regional conferences to be held in the state this fall. The Oregon Small Schools Program Is a federally funded project for the improvement of the quality of instruction In high schools of approximately 200 or fewer students. Nearly 8C schools throughout the state par ticipate in the program on a voluntary basis. The theme of the conference will be "Identifying ways to ripfll with th ppnnnmif flnft n. cial consequences of automa- 1c contender, Marv Root, Repub Tuesday, November 5, is the date of the election and polls will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. There are nine polling places in Morrow county and these are listed elsewhere. At this election, voters will re ceive one ballot on which are listed all the general election candidates for national state and county offices; the seven measures: and a non-partisan list of candidates which include the office of superintendent of public instruction, supreme court and circuit court positions, and locally, the justice of peace and port commissioner positions. Those who live within the citv limits of Heppner and lone will also receive city ballots, which may also be true in oth er towns of the county. Campaigning Intensifies As time for election draws near, campaigning of the can didates and those for and against measures is intensify ing. On the national level, three presidential tickets are listed on the Oregon ballot: Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund Mus- kie, Democratic candidates for president and vice president; Richard M. Nixon and Spiro Ag new, Republican candidates; and George C. Wallace and S. Marvin Griffin, Independent candidates. Griffin is listed as Wallace's running mate in Ore gon because the ballots were certified in this state before General Curtis LeMay was cho sen as vice presidential candi date for the independent ticket. When a person votes for his choice for president and vice president, he also votes for the presidential electors for them. For U. S. Senator are tne long time Incumbent from Oregon, Wayne Morse, and his young Republican challenger, Robert Packwood of Portland, who has been waging a lively campaign. For representative In Con gress, first district, veteran Al Ullman, Democrat, also is con tested by a young and energet- tion" and will feature a film, America on the Ldge or Abun dance." Nice Week Residents and visitors enjoy ed a nice fall week in Heppner with maximum temperature hitting 64 degrees Tuesday and nights dropping just to the freezing: point twice during the week. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Hi Low Prec. 56 32 58 32 54 36 .13 57 37 56 43 .46 60 33 64' 45 lican. of Madras. Going to the state level, Clay Myers, Republican incumbent, is opposed by George Van Hoomis sen, presently Multnomah coun ty district attorney, who is the Democratic candidate. State Treasurere Robert Straub, Demo crat, has Ancel S. Page of Port land as his opponent. The Re Dublican has done little cam paigning, and Straub is conced ed a considerable lead for re election. For state attorney general, Republican Lee Johnson Is mak ing a strong bid to unseat Rob ert Thornton, Democrat, who has held the position for many years. (Continued on page 8)
