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1 1 IRARY u or o IUQENE, ORE. 07403 Cards to Battle Crane Saturday lone High's 8 man football team, undefeated through the season, will battle the Crane team In a playoff game for the district 3 B H championship Sat urday at 1:30 p.m. on the lone Memorial field. Winner will go Into the state 8-man semifinals against Hunt ington, district 4 B 8 champions, the following week. Conch Gordon Meyers said Wednesday that his team Is ready for the state competition, with the exception of Jim Swan son, who is out for the season with an injury, all boys are in top shape. He expects to start on offense the follow nc: hart Pettyjohn right end: Scott Wilson, left end; Rick Bamett, left guard; Ron Christouherson. right cuard; Clint Krebs, center; Bob Ball, Quarterback; Frank Halvorsen and Eddie Sherman, halfbacks. Slated to start on defense are John Krebs. defensive euurd; Keith Nelson, defensive end; and Nick Marick, defensive cuard. Reserves scheduled to see action include Herb Kkstrom, linebacker and halfback; Ron Palmateer and Richard Ilamlett. who play several positions; Rickie Boyce, center; and Peter McLlligott, end. Coach Meyers said that he has been very proud of the work of his linemen who have had a minimum of publicity through the season. "They have done a whale of a job," he said. "Our team couldn't go unless they opened the holes." The Cardinals, in going through their eight game sched ule without a loss, averaged 44.6 points per contest, while holding opponents to 14 points on the average. Coach Meyers said that he has been unable to scout Crane and knows little about the team, which has a total record of six wins and two losses for the year. In winning the sub-district title, the Crane squad topped Mt. Vernon and Mitchell, the on ly other league teams in its sub-district. Should lone win Saturday af ternoon, the Cardinals will play Huntington, also on the lone field, on Saturday, November 23, in the state semi-final game. Huntington won the district 4-B 8 title. Coach Meyers seouieci them as they downed North Powder, 91-6. Meanwhile in the other brack et of the state 8-man title pic ture, Arlington next weeK win nlav the winner of the Mohawk- Prospect game. The latter two square off this week. Thus, one nf the three teams lone, Crane, or Huntington will eventually advance to the finals against one of the three from the oth er bracket Arlington. Mohawk or Prospect Admission to the gnmo here Saturday U $1 for adults and 25c for studenU with activity ca rds. Following the came, the lone high Junior class will hold a spaghetti feed in the lone school cafetorium, serving until 5:30 p.m. Official Count Finds Few Errors; Thornton Carries Morrow Seniors at lone Top Honor Roll Harold Beggs, principal of the lone High school, has released the list of honor roll students for the first nine weeks. Two students, both Juniors, were placed on the "A" honor roll. These were Joy Beggs and Kristin Nelson. Seven seniors achieved the "B" honor roll, including Bon nie Alters, Charity Beggs, Bonn! Morgan, Earl Pettyjohn, Eddie Sherman, Jodi Snow and Teresa Stefani. Juniors on the same honor roll were Ron Christopherson and Linda Pettyjohn. From the sophomore class, honor students were Carley Bergstrom, Jane Krebs, Chris McCabe, Marianne Pettyjohn and Jeri Snow. Honor roll students in the freshman class were Cathy Can non, cnerel uarison, jvauiy Crum, Clint Krebs and Mary McElligott State Study Group IED Plan Group Studies Mental Health Needs in County Dr. Wallace Wolff was elect ed chairman and Mrs. Grace Drake secretary of a Morrow county committee which will co ordinate planning for mental health services In the area serv ed bv the Eastern Oregon State Hospital and Training Center. Judge Paul Jones presided at a meeting Monday evening In the courthouse when discussion covered mental health needs of the county, Including counsel ing for school children, parents, families; prevention and treat ment for alcoholism, and mar ital counseling. Dr. Wolff explained services of the Umatilla-Morrow mental health clinic which has opened recently with offices in Pendle ton and a psychiatrist available each Wednesday. Positions for a psychologist and social ment al health worker are not yet filled. Matching funds from the state and cooperating counties are being used for the clinic. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Chally and Dr. Wolff will be represen tatives at a 13-county regional conference in Pendleton Novem ber 15-16. Dr. Kenneth Gaver and Dr. E. I. Silk will be among! a number of resource people i who, with attending delegates, will explore ways in which ser vices of Eastern Oregon State Hospital and training center may be used to meet needs of rural areas. Official count of votes in Mor row county from last weck'i general election has revealed a few errors made in the unoffic ial tabulation on election night The only significant change In the county totals Is that in the race for state attorney gen eral. A combination of two er rors reduced the true total for Robert Y. Thornton. Democrat Incumbent, by tiO votes, and the addition of these votes was enough to swing Morrow coun ty to him. The correct totHls are W7 for Thornton and 934 for his Republican opponent. Lee Johnson. This, however, will have no effect on the contest statewide with Johnson the winner. In the official count taken by Mrs. Sadie I'arrish, county clerk, and Iter staff, the totul In Mor low county In the tightly-con-tested U. S. Senator race remain the same hh tin- tinolticlal tab ulation, !MJ5 fur Wayne Morse, Democratic Incumbent, and 1UKI fur Robert I'nckwiMid, Republi can, the apparent narrow win ner statewide. Sen. Morse has Indicated that he may call fr a Matewlde re count at a later date. The official totals also show Waltt-r Make, cundltlate for su perintendent of public instruc tion, picking; up live votes in the county, his figure going to 726 In Morrow county Instead of the 721 tabulated on election nlcht. Dale Parnell. incumbent, still won the county handily with 1063 votes, which the of ficial count shows to be un changed. Three other errors on candi dates' totals were found but all were for off in- without oppo sition. Kenneth Jernsti-dt, Re publican, received 1478 for state senator (lSlh district) Instead of 1173; Irvln Mann, Republi can, reelected state representa tive 1615 In Morrow county in stead of 1614; and Justice Arno Denccke, reelected to position 6 on the Supreme Court bench, re ceived 1433 in Morrow instead of 1438. Three errors were found In the unofficial totals on the measures, but none of them had anv bearing on the results, either here or statewide. The Veterans Loan bill (No. 1) re ceived only 202 no votes, in stead of the 402 reported elec tion night. Its yes vote here was WW. The ocean boundaries meas ure tNo. 3 received 4lJ fewer no voles than those recorded election night, dropping to 44 Instead of 455. Thus the final count on thu measure was 13o7 yes to 406 no. On measure No. C. the Beach Bill, four more no votes were recorded, bringing the total t.i 4 yes and 1299 no. Instead of the previously reported 12i! no A number of the errors made were those in counting the tal lies (groups of five votesl In tabulating the results. One ap parently was an error In ad dition, and another apparently was a mistake made in taking a precinct report over the tele phone. Wrltein votes were also tab ulated In the official returns, but they were scattered. For president. Eugene McCarthy re ceived two, and Ronald Reagan, John Lindsay, Nelson Rockefel ler and Katherine May each on-. Robert Duncan polled one for U. S. senator, and W. W. Wealh erford received two for st.iie senatur. W. C Rosewall re.eiv ed one for state senator. Don Gilliam received 13 write in votes for Justice of the peace tdlstrlct 6). Hurry O'Donm-ll re ceived three, and a number of others received one each. For Justice of the peace tclis trict 5, Boardman, lrrlgoni, Zearl Gillespie received nine votes. And surprising as It may seem, Pat Paulsen didn't receive a single vote for president In Morrow county! 85th Year Number 38 THE w irm GAZEH WMT HEPPNEK E-TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, November 14, 1968 Price 10 Cents November Rains Exceed Average Rainfall through the first 13 days of November has already exceeded the average for the usual full month of November with 1.63 inches recorded, Don Gilliam, weather observer, states. Normal for November is 1.44 inches. Good rains were recorded each day from last Thursday through Monday, with Veterans Day making the highest total, .49 inch. Last Wednesday was one of the chilliest days of the fall with a maximum temperature of 39 degrees and minimum of 25. Complete weather report for the week is as roJlows I'. .... ' j "r::-7- I . f, f "j - v I i f i : ' r- ' j I i :V Hi n 1i T'Mir mrft-awMiMi iirtiiiiimiiMi am liiintiHiiMtMifiiiMiiiMrfiri'-Tr ' ' ' OWNER OF a brand new 30.06 hunting rifl U Bill Greenup, shown above (left), following presentation by Jerry. Holloman, president of the Morrow County Jaycees. Bill. Heppner High junior and son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Greenup, was winner of the Jaycees' Big Buck Contest, after checking in a 4 -point, 188 lb. locket dressed buck. He was to put the gun to good test the past week-end while doing some elk hunting. (G-T Photo). TO GIVE COLOR TV SET Merchants Plan Christmas Event Heppner merchants laid plans for Christmas Opening at their luncheon meeting Nov. 1 and confirmed support of the Mor row County Jaycees for their Fiddlers' contest. The two events will be on the same week-end, November 29 and 30. It was decided that the Christ mas Window Guessing Contest, conducted here for the past sev en years, will be discontinued. Instead, each merchant partici pating will hold a drawing In his store for a prize that he gives on Saturday, November 30. In addition, a second drawing will be held at the end of the following week for a single grand prize. It was tentatively decided that this will be a portable color television set. Santa Claus will be present as usual, streets will be decor ated and there will be treats for children. Merchants will be contacted for cash donations towards tro phies for the Fiddlers contest and for underwriting cost of the television set. Merchants tentatively agreed that promotions for next year will include January Clearance, Washington's Birthday Sale, Moonlight Sale (combined with Crazy Days) in April or May, Sidewalk Bazaar In July, Moon light Sale in September, and Christmas Opening in Novem ber. Mrs. LeRoy Gardner, chair man of the merchants commit tee, was in charge of the meeting. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Hi Low Prec. 39 25 42 32 .13 57 35 .40 59 37 .23 52 34 .10 62 47 .49 48 40 47 35 Adopts A state plan for organization of intermediate education dis tricts was adopted recently by a study commission appointed by the Oregon Board of Education. The recommendation specifies 15 area service units to replace the present organization in Ore gon's 36 counties. Under the plan, Morrow County School District will Join the Umatilla IED to form the Blue Mount ain IED. The IED Commission was set up by the 1967 Legislature.- The final proposals came after ex tensive hearings in all areas of the state. Adoption of a new IED struc ture by the State Board will be made by next September, fol lowing the 1969 legislative ses sion. The Board may modify the plan if it wishes. The Commission is required by law to designate an admin istrative office in each area. In some cases service centers are also recommended. Difference of opinion about certain areas were apparent dur ing the Commission's discussion, but unanimous approval was given to the final plan. Grain Growers Set Annual Meeting Annual meeting of Morrow County Grain Growers, Inc., will be at the Morrow county Fair pavilion on Monday, November 25, with dinner starting at 6:30 p.m., Harlan McCurdy, Jr., man ager, announces. The dinner will be prepared and served by Willows Grange with champion 4-H steer being part of the menu. Door prizes, consisting of packages of prize steer beef, will be given. Details of the program at the meeting will be announced next week. Chamber of Commerce Hears Suggestion For Youth Work Program in Summer Proposal that the Chamber of Commerce and the community consider the possibility of a summer youth work program was presented to the Chamber at its Nov. 4 meeting by the Rev. Dirk Rinehart, chairman of the youth activities committee. The idea was offered after he had presented a concluding re port of the last summer's recre ational program here. The rec reational program, which was set up by this committee, was sponsored jointly by the Cham ber, the City of Heppner, Mor row county and the school sys tern. However, attendance fell be low that expected. It started with about 25 and dropped to about 12 regulars attending at the end, Rinehart said. He suggested that the work program might be aimed at city beautification or similar needed projects with the - idea of pro viding part time work for youth here, giving them an opportu nity to earn some money, pro viding summer activity, and doing needed work. The pro gram might be coordinated with city employees, he suggested. Financing might be on the ba sis of contributions to the pro.1 said. The Rev. Rinehart tenta lively set the figure of $1000 as a possible goal. Pointing; out that he meant his proposal to be merely tor consideration, he asKed lor re action of Chamber members and received favorable response. President Wes Sherman suggest ed that he hold a meeting of his committee to form more def inite proposals and perhaps meet with city officials and others on the matter. The summer recreational pro gram, he said, was capably handled by Martha Doherty, Stuart Dick and Ray Nichols as instructors. It was pointed out that some did not take part be cause of a $2 fee charged. Lo cationat the high school gym may have cut attendance. The program also had some "compe tition" from the swimming pool. Miss Doherty wrote a report on suggestions that the commit tee chairman read. County Judge Paul Jones, while noting that the attend ance dropped to a low figure to wards the end of the recreation al program, told the Chamber, "It may be just coincidence but I had fewer young people through juvenile court during ect with help by interested the summer than I have had been in office." At the meeting, Judge Jones also reported on progress at Penland and Kelly Prairies. Some discussion ensued on a possible conflict of private ver sus public interests at Penland. Non-certified School Employees Organize Morrow county chapter for non-certified employees of Mor ow County School District R-l was organized November 6, un der the direction of John Brown, executive director of Oregon School Employees association. Pumose and functions of the as sociation were explained to the group by Director Brown. Officers were elected as ioi Deadline Friday On Tax Rebates Friday, November 15, is the deadline for receiving rebates on property tax payments, Mrs. Elvira Irby, Morrow county tax deputy, reminds the public. On ly those payments made by that time will receive the dis counts provided by law. Payments were reported com ing in at midweek at a rather brisk pace. The deputies saia that the payments seemed to be at about an average rate. The big day is expected to be Fri day since most of the larger companies and utilities custom arily pay on the deadline day for the rebates. Despite the continued discus sion statewide on high property taxes, complaints have been few and no more than usual, the deputies said. Three Men Hurt In Collision Her Drivers of two vehicles and a passenger in one of them wore hurt late Saturday afternoon In a plckup-auto crash at the junction of Riverside Avenue with the state highway to Lex ington, near the Heppner city limits. Given treatment at Pioneer Memorial hospital were Lloyd Mover, 51, of Heppner; Ken Gates, 22, of Lexington; and Louie Eng. 23, also of Lexing ton. Injuries consisted of cuts, lacerations and bruises and none of the three were hospit alized for long. Gates was driving a pickup truck, headed north. He passed a car driven by J. Val Toronto of Pendleton, also Roing north lust ahead of him, and attempt ed to pass the car driven by Moyer, who, too, was going north at the head of the line. However, Mover had started to make a left turn to Riverside, and the pickup hit his car from the rear, according to the report. The Toronto car was not in volved in the accident. Both ve hicles involved in the collision, however, were extensively dam aged, one estimated at $1300 and the other at $1000. The accident happened juvt after 5 p.m. No citations were issued, Police Chief Glen Kolk horst said. Game Commission Releases Pheasants Jack Melland, game warden with the Oregon State Game Commission, announces that 384 cock pheasants were releas ed early in the month in the Willow creek area, both above and below town, along Khea lows: Donald Adams, Irrigon, creek, Hinton creek, Butter creek Honor Students Listed for Term Twenty-three Heppner High school students were placed on the honor roll for the term end ing the first nine weeks of school. . , Nine senior students achieved the honor roll, led by Sara Mill er with a perfect 4.00 grade point average. Following close ly were Terry Peck with 383; Larry Pettyjohn, 3.66; Patti Healy, 3.60; Teresa Harshman, 3.50: Shervl Britt, 3:50; Nancy Campbell, 3.33; Jill Chitty, 3.33; and Sue Greenup, d.dd. Ten members of the junior class achieved the honor roll, led by six students with a GPA of 3.50. They are Linda Cooper, Mary Kay Hughes, Jeannine Hunt, Sue Jepsen, Rick Mar quardt, and Robert Peck. Den nis Knee, Sandy Matheny, Sue Melby and Jody Rugg all a chieved a 3.33. Two sophomores, Valerie Boy er and Susan French, each with a GPA of 3.33, were placed on the nine week's honor roll, and two freshmen class students, Shelley Wolff and Gary Fred ericksbn, were placed on tho honor roll. Each had a GPA of 3.33. Dresident: Robert Harwood Boardman, vice president; Glad ys Van Winkle, Lexington, sec retary; Opal Cook, Heppner, treasurer. All non -certified personnel are eligible for membership. Those wishing further information or membership forms may contact any of the officers. Next meeting of the chapter will be held at the county school office in Lexington on Monday, groups and organizations, he for the four summers I have December 2, at 7:30 p.m. and in the Sanford Canyon ar eas. An additional number of pheasants were to be released earlier this week in the same general areas, he stated. He also added that pheasant hunting has been generally poor since the hunting season began October 19, but it is ex pected that good hunting will prevail with the number of birds released. Pheasant season ends November 24. Waterways Executive Talks of Nuclear Plant Possibility Possibility of thermal nuclear power plants locating in East ern Oregon was discussed by Bruce Cowan, executive vice president of Inland Empire Wa terways association when he spoke before the Heppner-Mor-row county Chamber of Com merce at a luncheon meeting Monday, October 28. "There is no question in my mind that the first one will be placed closer to the coast be cause of the cost of transmis sion of its power," he said. However, he said there would be much less problem of river pollution if effluent water from such a plant were put on the lands and allowed to return to the river by natural means. It is contended that the large quantity of warm water issuing from such plants would heat and pollute the river if it were returned directly to it. Support ers in the eastern part of Ore gon and Washington have urg ed studies to determine if such effluent water could not be di verted for irrigation. In this connection, Cowan pointed out that the recent IEWA convention unanimously passed a resolution proposed by Oscar Peterson of lone, an IEWA director, calling for stepping up studies of such nuclear plants and irrigation for Morrow coun ty. The speaker said industrial cooling waters have been put into the Columbia for years, principally from pulp mills. "They have done a pretty good job of eliminating much of the pollution problem. There is the possibility that irrigation could be the answer for them," he said. Cooling towers have been pro posed for water issuing from the proposed nuclear plants, which would supplement the genera tion of power from the hydro electric projects when needs of the Northwest exceed the capac ity of dams to produce it. Cowan said that smog or fog from such towers would be emit ted at the rate of 60 tons per day for a 1,000,000 KW plant. "In dry air this would not be much of a problem because it would go straight up," he said, but he pointed out that in the moist and saturated air west of the mountains it would be a real problem. Cowan said that there is a need to get production agencies such as aluminum and mag nesium plants to locate near the thermal nuclear power plant. "I think they would find that we have less of the sociological problems than they find in Port land and Seattle," he said. The speaker discussed briefly the role of Inland Empire Wa terways, stating that the "fath er" of the organization was probably Sen. McNary, and that it is appropriate that McNary dam is named for him. "Herb West was also a giant in development," he said. IEWA has been called "The Dam Builders," Cowan stated, but added this is somewhat of a misconception. He told of the organization's role in navigation and other development. At the present time the Col umbia River offers slack water navigation to the Tri-Cities and beyond, he said. "In a few years we can call Lewiston, Idaho, a seaport, but that doesn't solve all the prob lems." He discussed the fish prob lem and said that IEWA is look ing towards enhancing the fish population and not destroying it. "W7e can 'farm' for fish better than letting it be done natur ally," he said. "By fish farm ing we can put more small fish at the mouth of the Columbia River and expect more back." He added, however, that the fact must be faced that 1400 miles less of spawning grounds are available. IEWA will seek to get all people and all inter ests working together on such probems, he said. As to the proposed diversion of Columbia River water to the Southwest, Cowan said that the water seems to be saved for the present by the 10-year mor atorium approved by Congress. However this is under attack in other areas. The speaker told of a recent article in the Los Angeles Times stating that the northwest merely "has won so far" and pointing out the needs that are felt to be great in the Imperial Valley where a prob lem with salt in the water is being experienced. "Our answer has to be plan ning," Cowan said. The IEWA vice president com mended Peterson for the excel lent work that he has done and is doing through the associa tion. Film, Navy Officers Billed for Chamber A motion picture film, "Paper Hangers," is scheduled for show ing at the luncheon meeting of the Heppner-Morrow county Chamber of Commerce Monday, November 18, and a group of naval officers will speak at the meeting on Monday, November 25, President Wes Sherman an nounces. The film, obtained by Gene Pierce, president of the Bank of Eastern Oregon, concerns thf passing of bad checks and fraudulent check schemes. At the November 25 meeting, Admiral Herman Trum, Com mander Warwick, Commander Patterson and Lt. Com. Rogers will appear to discuss the Navy bombing range. The range hau been in the news lately after practice bombs were inadvert ently dropped near home in th;; Boardman area and private avi ators have complained about the low-flying naval jet aircraft. Dog Owners Warned Of Poison Meat Bait Owners of dogs in the area are advised that poison meat station baits are now bein placed on the range in Morrow county for the control of coy otes, for the protection of live stock and game, according t announcement by Ralph J. Bur cham, District Field Assista.il with the Bureau of Sports Fish eries and Wildlife Division of Wildlife Services. These stations are marked bv a sign on red top posts. Are signs are also posted at strateg ic points. For additional information for the area south of Willow Creek and west of the highway to Rnardman. contact Burcham at Lexington, or phone 989-8190.
