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85th Year
Number 35
THE HE
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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
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GAZETTE-TIME
Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, October 24, 1968
10 Cents
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12 Days A
USFS Negotiates
With Cutsforth
For Kelly Prairie
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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58 32
54 36 .13
57 37
56 43 .46
60 33
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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.
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