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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1968)
1 1 u or o EUGENE . Annual Columbia Basin Electric A substantial increase In power loud resultliiK from "tre mendous'' irrigation develop ments In the county was siren cd bv Harlev Young, manager. u the highlight o( the year when he wave his annual rv port to the some 2MI persons present at the annual meeting of Columbia Basin Kleetrlc Co. ep, Inc.. last Thursday In t.ie lair pavilion here. Youritt said that the coops total connected horsepower for Irrigation as of thin date 1m 4.151, ii n Increase of almost 1900 horsepower over the previous venr when the total stood al 214. In 11)04. the horsepower for Irrigation accounts was figured lit 1164. , , Total kilowatt hours used In Irrigation sales has cone from 1. 207.000 KWll In 1903 to 2.87.V 777 In 1967. Young reported, and revenue from this source has climbed during the same period from $21,116 annually to $39,942. Number of irricatlon ac counts (active and idle! now stands at 227 as compared with Irif". In 1964. Richmond Speak Young's report was one of the highlights of the meeting which presented H. R. tRuss) Rich mond, administrator of Bonne- List of Prizes Climbing For Christmas Opening Prizes worth more than $500, including a portable color tele vision set, are already offered by Heppner merchants for Christmas Opening this year, and more prizes are expected to be added through the coming week, Mrs. LeRoy Gardner, merchants chairman, states. Christmas Opening will bo held here on Friday and Satur day, November 29 and 30. San .a Claus will arrive at 2 p.m. Saturday, November 30, and there will be treats for all the children who come to see him. At 4:30 p.m. on the same day Saturday merchants will draw for winners of prizes of fered bv their individual store. The prizes will average about S10 in value, and as of Tues day, 13 merchants had an nounced their prizes. The color television set will not be given away until Sat urday, December 7, at a draw ing at the main downtown cor ner at 3:30 p.m. Frizes Announced Merchants who have announc ed thpir store nrizes to date are as follows: Elma's Apparel, $10 gift certificate; Gardner's Mens Wear, Pendleton woolen sport shirt; MiLadies, sweater; Vans Creative Crafts, Christmas ar rangement; Cal's Richfield, five gallons of gasoline; Central Market. 12 lb. turkey; Gontys, transistor tape recorder; Jacks Motel and Service Station, five gallons of gasoline; Pettyjohn's Farm and Builders Supply, one gal. Spred Satin paint and one quart Spred Latex enamel; Gazette-Times, $10 cash; Petersons Jewelers, anti-tarnish silver dish; J. C. Penney Co., $12 ny lon blanket; and Murrays Rex all Drug, $10 gift certificate. The Christmas Window Guess ing Contest, held during the past seven years, will not be held this year. To compete for both the in dividual store prizes and for the color television set, a person need only go to the store, be ginning Friday, November 9, and sign a slip for the draw ing. Chance on AH Prizes He may enter the contest at any or all of the stores. If he registers at all participating stores, he will have a chance on the prizes at all of them. A person may register only once in each store. When he registers for the individual store prizes, he also is automatically E. Markham Baker Dies in Arizona E. Markham Baker, 65, well known lone rancher, died un expectedly in Mesa, Ariz., Mon day evening, November 18, fol lowing an apparent heart at tack. He was attending a social gathering with his wife when he was stricken, then failed to respond to medication when taken to the hospital there. Mr. and Mrs. Baker had been m Arizona only a short time, where they have been going for the past several winters to en joy the warmer climate. They were residing at the Holiday Village mobile court in Mesa. The body is to arrive at Burns Mortuary in Hermiston Thurs day morning (today). A mem orial service is planned for Fri day, November 22, at 1:30 p.m. in the lone United Church of Christ. Interment will be in the Hermiston cemetery that after noon, with graveside services at 4:00 p.m. The body will lay in state at Burns Mortuary until 3-3fl n m Fritiav. Immediate survivors include his wife, Marjorie; one daugh ter, Mrs. Don (Mardene) Larsen, Wenatchee. Wn.: two sons, Ron ald of Hermiston, and Dvvayne of Sunnyside, Calif., and seven granddaughters. Also, two bro thers, Kedrick Baker, Deer Park, Wn., and Everett Baker, Seattle, Wn.; and three sisters Gertrude Baker, Everett, Wn., Juanita Jen fen, Vancouver. Wn.. and Aileen VanBuren, Walla Walla, Wn. 07403 ille Tower Administration, a" principal speaker. He used slid" Illustrations to tell of the Northwest Southwest power in terlie. Richmond also discussed the fast accelerating power needs, the tremendous growth of load, requirements for the fu ture and the possibility of ther mal nuclear plants for develop inent of power. Wavne Leathers of Monu ment, the Inimitable master of ceremonies, brought humorous breaks to the heavy business end of the meeting with his great store of anecdotes and lokes that kept the crowd laughing. , Waller Jaeger of Condon, president, explained how the cooperative voluntarily contrib utes to the counties In which it oerates In lieu of taxes un der on agreement made at the time the exchange was made with Pacific Power Company. The cooperative contributes an amount to the counties equival ent to what the private utility would have paid, he said. Buildinq Need Told The president also told of the need experienced for a new building to provide room for the staff to work. He said that the building, now under construe registered for the drawing on the color television set. In order to be eligible for the individual prizes he must reg ister during the days of Friday end Saturday, November 29 and 30. and this registration closes a 4 p.m. Saturday. If he does not register for the individual store prizes and wishes a chance on the televis ion set, he may register dur- (Continued on page 8) BARTON CLARK, president of Morrow County Grain Grow ers, will have an important role at the annual iviuijrij meeting at the fair pavilion Monday night. Grain Growers' Annual Meeting Slated Monday a v. VanWinkle of Spokane, vice president of the Spokane Bank for Cooperatives, will be the principal speaker at the an nual meeting of Morrow County Grain Growers, Inc., at the fair pavilion here Monday night. The meeting will start with dinner at 6:30 p.m., prepared and served by the Willows Grange. Champion 4-H beef will be a part of the menu and door prizes to be given through the evening will also consist ol champion beef. The talk by VanWinkle will be one of the program high lights of the meeting. He is; brother of Jack VanWinkle and ol Mrs. Herman Green of Hepp- ner- Business session of the meet ing will be conducted by Pres ident Barton Clark and Harlan McCurdy, Jr., manager.- Clark was recently elected president by the directors to fill the va cancy left when Walter Jacobs moved from the county. Several directors will be elect ed and other business will be transacted at the meeting. Sara Miller, Heppner Hign school senior who won the lo cal conservation speech contest, will give her talk at the meet ing, and Wayne Daggett, assist ant manager of North Pacific Grain Growers, is also sched uled for an appearance. Financial report of the coop erative will be presented and general discussion of association policies and future will be held. Cemetery District To Elect Directors lone-Lexington Cemetery Dis trict will elect two directors at an election on Monday, Decem ber 2. Voting will be held at the lone City hall between the hours of 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. Candidates on the ballot for a three-year director term will be Carl Troedson, and for a two year term, Roy A. Lindstrom. ORE If ii:L tion In lleppner. will mean sav ings because of the fact th.it equipment and personnel tan ho centrally located. The structure, financed under a loan from the I! lira I Electrification Adminis tration. Is cxiecied to be com pleted In April. Attorney Herman Winter w;is called upon to give an explan ation of the treatment of cap ital credits as applied to income taxes. Secretary Jack Hvnd read last year's minutes and gave proif of mailing notice of meeting to the memliers of the cooperative, as provided bv the by laws. Director! Chosen Four directors were chosen, two of whom were reelected ami two elected for the first time. Paul Jaeger was elected as Con don city director and will re place Ernest Lear on the board. Klovd Anderson was elected in Zone I. North Gilliam county, and will replace Virgil West. Reelected were Walter Wright of llardman for the South Mor tow county position, Zone 6, winning over Archie Bechdolt, and Walter Jaeger for the South Gilliam county position, Zone 2, winning over Jack Rieser. Hold over directors are John R. (Dick) Kiebs. vice president, of Cecil; Froggy Weather Chilly and foggy weather set tled in this week, with the hlgn est temperature recorded at 47 degrees last Thursday. Low was 31 degrees Sunday morning early. Another .54 inch of rain came during the week to bring the month's total to 2.17 inches, well exceeding the normal of 1.44 inches, according to Don Gilliam, official observer. HI Low Prec. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday 47 45 29 33 35 31 33 35 .08 .09 40 42 40 42 f Tuesday roperty Cardinals Roar To S lone' High school's 8-mar) football team roared through Crane, 73 to 7, on lone Mem orial Field Saturday, and the Cardinals will play Huntington in the state B-8 semifinals at lone Saturday, the game stall ing at 1:30 p.m. The Huntington contest is one of two remaining games thai the Cardinals must win to bring to reality the dream of a state championship. But they know that the Saturday game will be the toughest of the year, and they will have to be at their best to top the team which, like themselves, has an undefeated record. Just four teams are left in the state title picture lone. Huntington, Arlington and Mo hawk. The latter two will com pete Saturday at Mohawk in the other game of the semi-final round. , , Coach Gordon Meyers' Cards hold an early season victory ov er Arlington, but if the Honk ers should win and the lone team should emerge over Hunt ington, it would bring a "neigh borhood" final game to lone on the ensuing week for the state championship. Crane Didn't Quit As the score shows, lone had little trouble with Crane, al though the visitors "played pretty good" as coach Meyers put it, and they didn't give up. As with other opponents, the Cardinals hit them with a bolt of lightning early in the game and had them reeling from the start. On the first play from scrimmage, Eddie Sherman took the ball and ran tv yaras to score for lone with two fine blocks by Frank Halvorsen and Earl Pettyjohn paving his way. In all, lone tallied 11 touch downs and seven extra points in the game. Sherman scored six touchdowns, of which two were on passes, and ran ore Fiddler Contest Entries Expected from 3 States Entries in the Morrow county Jaycees' second annual Old Time Fiddlers contest are expected to come from three states Oregon, Washington and Idaho accord ing to information from Al Os min and John Privett of the Jaycees. Sixty entry forms have been sent out to prominent fiddlers throughout the northwest for the contest which will be in Heppner on Friday and Saturday, Novem ber 29 and 30. The event will be held under joint sponsorship of the Eastern Oregon Olc Time Fiddlers As sociation and the Jaycees. Posters have been designed and drawn by school students in a contest to publicize the event, and Kathleen Bartlett has been judged first place winner. Her Meeting HARLET YOUNG, manager of Columbia Basin Electric Co op., told of the great gains la power from irrigation at the annual meeting of the coop erative here la.t Thursday. (G-T Photo). 85th Year the djssy GAZETTE-TIME I Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, November Tan Collections Reach emi-finals PAT. Halvorscri " scored two touchdowns, ran Iwo points, pitched one TD strike to Sher man, and passed to Scott Wil son for a PAT. Quarterback Bob Ball scored twice, ran one point, passed to Sherman for a touchdown and connected with Pettyjohn in the end zone for an extra point. Keith Nelson ran one touch down; Pettyjohn scored two ex- (Continued on page 8) Churches to Unite Thanksgiving Eve For Special Service Plans for the community Thanksgiving service were made at the November meet ing of the South Morrow coun ty Ministerial Association, sponsors for the annual pro gram. People of all faiths are in vited to attend the united serv ice on Thanksgiving eve, Wed nesday, November 27, at the Heppner Church of the Naza rene, scheduled for 8:00 p.m. Guest speaker will be the Rev. Rudolph Mensch, pastor of Hope and Valby Lutheran churches. It is planned to have music provided by combined choirs of the Methodist church and lone United Church of Christ. This is the third successive year for the evening service, a change from the previous tra dition of worship on Thanks giving morning. Services were well attended at the First Christian church in Heppner last year. All people in the surrounding areas are urged to attend and join together in a service of thanks-giving. poster is to be on display at Central Market. Second is Lynda Baker, whose poster will be at Murrays Recall Drug; third is Greg Davidson, whose poster is to be at Gardner's Men's Wear; and honorable mention goes to Sharon Witherrite, whose poster will be at Van's Creative Crafts, and to Tami Meador, whose pos ter will be at Jack's Chevron Station. These are students in seventh and eighth grade classes of Miss Terry Lincecum, art teacher. Three Programs Planned There will be three performan ces in the contest this year. First program will start at 7 p.m., Fri day November 29, with partici pants in an intermediate con test and in a seven-county con- (Continued on page 8) Points Up .5.Juck Hvnd. also of Cecil, who is secretary-treasurer; Kenncin J. Smouse and Raymond Lull dell, both of lone; Dick Wilkin son. Elmer Palmer and Randall Peterson, all of lleppner; and W. 11. Stelwer, Sr., fossil. Prizes were given to a num ber of those attending, some going to those who had come the longest distance, others to those who were the oldest mem bers present, and some as just cioor prizes. Four 100-watt light bulbs were given to each mem ber present. Registration started at II a.m.. followed by a motion picture. Lunch was served at 12:) bv the Hliea Creek Grange, and tilt meeting started at 1:15. Year Was Busiest In his report. Young said that the last year's operation was one ol the busiest ones since the cooperative was organized In ISMS. No serious service prob lems were encountered, a con d'tion that was aided by favor able weather conditions. To meet the growing load, principally caused bv Irrigation Columbia Basin will relocate a transformer from Its Jordan sub station near lone to the Sand hollow area, he said. This will provide nearly seven times the cfffP ft USE OF MODERN equipment In teaching was featured in dis , X" . ri.nin pta meetina last Wednesday bwZ?J& (left) and Mrs Jessie Faye Morris (third from left), teachers, j sho - Mrs. Wilbur Warden and Arnold Kerymona, rift paces the reading material i.nc in ruit iwnrpcnw Hnnnpr Elementary teacher, demon strates an opaque projector to Allstott at the Heppner Elementary n "' day. The equipment projects images of two and three dimension al objects. Exhibits Featured at PTA Interesting demonstrations by the elementary school faculty of modern equipment used in the classrooms at Heppner Elemen ary school were observed by par ents who attended the Teachers Bazaar and PTA meeting last Wednesday evening at the grade school. Faculty members set up their demonstrations in the multipur pose room, enabling parents to see some of the more up-to-date methods used in teaching. A science exhibit included several types of microscopes; musical instruments and auto harps were available for par ents to play; educational games were displayed, and a pottery making demonstration, using the kick wheel, was given by Miss Terry Lincecum, art in structor. Other equipment on display included an overhead projector, a controlled reader, and other types of projectors us ed in the classrooms. Preceding the Teachers Ba zaar, a business meeting was conducted in the junior high gymnasium under the direction of Arnold Raymond, PTA pres ident. At this time cash prizes were awarded to winners of the Growth of ci.pacity that the co-op present ly has there. When the cooperative was first established In 194SI the I tal substation capacity was 1.000 KVA, he said. This hac grown to 20.000 KVA at the present. "In addition. In the Sandhol low area, we have designed our lines and facilities to double the voltage on the distribution sys t m that serves this area." Young said. "This will Increase the capacity of these lines by three to five times. We are not even certain this will meet re nuirements longer than the next five years." Hard Decisions Faced Continuing on irrigation. Young said. "Your board of dir ectors and mvself have faced some real hard decisions regard ing irrigation loads, such us these that have occurred in this i-rea." He pointed out that the wa ter resources board "looks at some of these deep wells Willi a considerable amount of skep. tic-ism," adding "if the rancher makes the investment of drill Inp the well and Installing the Irrigation system, then the co operative is obliged to provide 21, 1968 "1 v prewaenu - :" to a students reading rate. Mrs. Stanley Cox and Mrs. Clydu recent membership drive con- test, which was under the dir ection of Mrs. Lowell Chally and Mrs. Loren Lucore. Winners were Philip Raymond and Laurie Chally, who tied for first place, and Patti Saling, third place. Students in Mrs. Bechdolt's room will be treated to an ice cream feed as their award for selling the most memberships. Member ship in the Elementary PTA now includes 123 members. By-laws were submitted for aoriroval and were voted on by the members, following minor revisions and changes. A budg et report by Mrs. Anna Schwar zin was also submitted and vot ed on by those present. nroiect of the PTA un it this year will be to supply vr.inntpprs to assist with daily nlaveround supervision at the schools from 11:30 to 12:4o daily, thus giving teachers more tree time auring ineir ium.ii hc ir,fl Those interested may con tact Principal Alan Martin or Arnold Raymond. Refreshments of cookies, punch and coffee were provided and served throughout the even ing by eightn graoe room mum ers. Irrigation electrical service as he needs It. The only problem we have faced Is that we have lust not been able to keep up with the growth as we would have liked to." The manager said that the co operative luui had to defer sorw ol the construction that it houed to accomplish during the past summer. Applications are on hand for service to recreational areas I'utsforth Park and An son Wright Memorial Park above llardman. In addition, other developments will require service, such as Earl Blake's de velopment on the north fork of Willow Creek and Orville Cuts forth' prolect at Penland Prairie. Young said. Treasurer's report of the co operative showed electrical rev enue for the year of $702,509 and total expenses of $rG7.59, having an operating margin of $135,000, which will be assign ed as putronage capital. This is a decrease of $2,939 from the previous fiscal year. Included In the total expens es were $06,725 in interest and $11,892 paid in taxes. A total of $216,620 was paid on the principal of the long term debt notes. Number 39 HEPFNEI! Price 10 Cents 3484 79 of Roll Is Received By Deadline Morrow county property tax pjivcrs had their 1908-69 tax hills 79 paid by the November 15 rebate deadline, Mrs. Elvira Irby, tax deputy in the office of Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman, said Tuesday. Percentag e w i s e this was i-lightly behind last year when 82 of the roll was collected by the deadline. But in cash received, it is ahead of last in the county is higher. When the deputies had pro cessed payments sent by mail, postmarked November 15 or earlier, together with those re ceived in the courthouse by the deadline, the total figure came to $1,348,458.58. Job of process ing the mail through November 15 was completed by Tuesday. Last year at the same time, a total of $1,171,000 was collected. Morrow county's largest tax payer now is Pacific Gas Trans mission Company, whose check for $105,421.19 was received in time to receive the rebate. Second largest taxpaying util ity here is Union Pacific Rail way Company which paid $00,731.49. The Oregon Veterans Admin istration paid $33,429.61 for state lands leased to The Boeing Company, and the company paid taxes of $16,657.53 for its im provements on the leased lands. Pacific Northwest Bell was an other big utility taxpayer with $24,101.47. Morrow County Grain Growers, Inc., a cooperative, paid $22,249.04' in taxes. Some private corporations al so ranked high in the lis, ex ceeding some of the utilities, but these figures were not re leased. Mrs. Irby said that the indi vidual with the highest tax bill in the county was one who paid $13,313.47. His name was not divulged. Total to be collected on the 1968-69 roll was $1,698,327, and after the November 10 aeaaum only 21 remained to be col lected. Quite a number of tax payers elect to pay quarterly, and first quarter payments are Included in the total collected from those who paid by the deadline. Some others paid nail or three-quarters by the dead line. Ministerial Group Announces Officers At the November meeting of the South Morrow County Min isterial Association, the Rev. Melvin Dixon was reelected to the office of president for an other year. The Rev. F. W. Luedde of lone will serve as vice-president, and the Rev. Dirk Rinehart will be secretary-treasurer. Plans for the annual Thanks giving community service were discussed and set for Wednes day, November 27, at 8:00 p.m. at the Heppner Church of the Nazarene.
