Sheep Growers Pick Henry Krebs
The Oregon Sheep Grower
Ao-iAtion named new slate
(( ((. ikI vice presidents fot
lowing chant!! In the by-law
made nt the groups convention
In rortland, December 7. The
HsMM'intion also elected a new
president, Walter Shumway,
.McMinnville who succeed IliW
old Williams of Bonanza.
The second vice presidents
were elected to represent areas
of the Mate, Among them Is
Hcnrv Krebs, Cecil, who will
represent the north west part of
the Mate.
The conferees, numbering ov
er 130, passed resolutions aim
ed at solving some of the prob
lems of the sheep Industry. The
group resolved to ask t'SDA to
take Meps to allow Imports of
various breeds of sheep for ex
perimental puriMMc in upgrad
Inn existing breed in this coun
try. In other action, the grower:
Opposed increases In itnitlni;
fees on government lands, which
In wme case reached a much
a 4iNi Increase.
Akcd for an equalisation In
sheep values for tax purpose
between pastern and western
Oregon. Opimsed new t'SDA pro
jH.sal for optional cuttabillty of
lamb citn-iisM-s.
Culled for more research on
the use of repellants for pred
atory animals.
Asked that meetings with
hunters, wildlife supervisor
and livestock operators be held
locally to gain more undersland
ing on hunter land owner problems.
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PLOWINC'S DONE Fimiliar siaht the oast five years on high
ways and by-ways of Oregon was huge plow used to Bury
phone cable for Pacific Northwest BelL PNB is completing liva
year service improvement program that involved burying more
than 1.100 miles of cable in the vicinity ol 90 communities
throughout the state.
Phone Company
Lays Cable Here
Pacific Northwest Bell is com
Dletine a five-year program to
provide improved phone service
for over 18,000 customers in rur
al areas throughout the state.
About 89 of the customers af
fected are In the Heppner area,
according to PNB Manager Dale
Slusher.
The program provides four-
party suburban service at no
added cost to customeers on
eight-party rural lines. The
work also eliminates multi
party rings and for some cus
tomers erases mileage charges
from their monthly bill.
When the statewide program
is completed this year, PNB will
have provided the improved
service for 18,888 customers in
and around 90 communities.
In doing the work, PNB plac
ed more lhan 1,400 miles of
new cable. Some 80 percent ol
the cable was buried along the
highways and by-ways of Ore
gon's suburban and rural area.
In the Heppner area about
132,500 feet of cable were used
at a cost of $52,000.
Support Your Church
Throughout the Year
Attack Takes Life
Of LeRoy Thomas
Memorial services were held
in Salem on Wednesday, Decem
ber 18, for LeRoy Thomas, 57,
brother nf Mrs. Dallas Craber.
I who (lied unexpectedly of a
heart attack. Military burial
services were in Willamette
National cemetery in Portland.
Thomas was a retired lieuten
ant colonel in the U. S. Air
Force, and was currently em
ployed with the State Depart
ment in Salem. He had been a
frequent visitor here in the Cra
ber home.
Surviving him are his widow,
and two children.
SOUTH MORROW COUNTY
MINISTERIAL ASSOC.
All Saints' Episcopal
Assembly of God
Church of the Nazarene
Hope and Valby Lutheran
Churches
lone United Church of Christ
United Methodist Church
Seventh -day Adventist
Heppner and Lexington
Christian Churches
Mrs. Dolly Allstott from
Gresham visited from Sunday
through Wednesday of the past
week with her son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Allstott, and family. She also
visited for a time with her sis
ter, Mrs. Albert Schunk, in
Boardman prior to traveling to
Mayville, where she will spend
the Christmas holidays with her
son-in-la. and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Butler and family.
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DRAWN BT GREG DAVIDSON. 8th GRADE
New Bulletins
On Sewing Tips
Available Now
By gail l. Mccarty
end B1RDINE TULUS
The popular OSU bulletin.
"Sewing with Knits" is now
available at our county exten
sion office. Materials covered In
the bulletin include general in
formation on pattern selection
for knits, types of knits, sew
ing suggestions, drafting your
own sweater patterns, making
a cotton tee shirt, a pullover
sweater and application of ex
posed zipper In knits.
This same bulletin will be
used In the Sew with Knits
workshop planned for this area,
but sufficient copies have been
received to make them availa
ble to any home.
Another available OSU bulle
tin that could be useful to home
sewers In this year of leather
nd leather lock materials is
"Sewing with Soft Leathers".
Rural residents are reminded
that this is the time to order
trees for windbreak plantings.
The Oregon State Forestry De
partment Nursery stocks are
getting low, with many species
unavailable now. The curregnt
inventory lists Scotch pine,
l-odgepole pine. Sierra Redwood
Chinese arbovltae. Block locust
Russian olive, Chinese elm, and
Caragana. all of which have
been used In Morrow county.
Order forms and the latest
inventory of conifers and broad
leafed trees adapted to local
conditions can be picked up at
the county extension office. Al
o available is a new bulletin
Plant Your Trees Right," PNW
33. which might aid In estab
lishintz vour windbreak.
Farmers Tax Guide Available
The 19G9 Federal Farmers
Tax Guide is now available at
the county extension office. This
helnful booklet elves tax tips
and shows examples of federal
tax forms and how to nil tliem
out.
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. December 2S. 1961
Christmas Seals
Reminder Issued
More than 18.000 follow-up re
minders were mailed recently
to residents of Eastern Oregon
region of the Oregon Tubercu
losis and Health Association, ac
cording to Anthony F. Haber
lach. program director, La
Grande.
The reminders were sent to
those persons who have not as
yet sent their Christmas Seal
contributions.
The true spirit of Christmas
may be seen in visible form in
the use of Christmas Seals on
all Christmas cards and pack
aees." said Mrs. Marcel Jones
Heppner, representative director
for the Morrow county council
of the association.
Both Mrs. Jones and Haber
lach pointed out that the con
tributions are "desperately
needed to carry on the import
ant work of the association.
Contributions may be mailed
to "Christmas Seals." P. O. Box
847, La Grande, Oregon 97850
HOSPITAL NEWS
Patients admitted to Pioneer
Memorial hospital during the
past week, and still receiving
medical care, are the loilowing:
Goldie Winters, Heppner; Myrtle
Marshall, Lexington; Jessie
Jewell, Fossil; Vernon Leathers,
Lexington; Dofna Martin, Fos
sil, and William Springer, Pilot
Rock.
Dismissed, after receiving
medical care, were Patrick
Sweeney, Heppner; Norah Ras
mus, Heppner, transferred to
Pendleton; Dean Wimer, Kin
zua, and Hannah Anderson,
Heppner.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L.
Mitchell of Kinzua are parents
of their first child, a son, bom
Thursday, December 19. He has
been named Terry Lee, and at
birth weighed 7 lb., 8 oz.
ROCKHOUND
CORNER
The Gazette -Times
Wes Helen Arnold
Reggie Gail Dale Kelly
By ELEANOR GONTY
At the annual Christmas din
ner of the Morrow County Gem
and Mineral club, 23 members
and guests were introduced. It
was held Saturday evening, De
cember 14, in the dining room
of the Harris Drive-in.
Announcement was made of
new officers for 1969, which in
clude Walt Edger, president;
Pete McMurtry, vice president;
Mrs. Ed Gonty, secretary-treasurer.
President Edger thanked
the officers of the past year for
their work and named Ed Gon
ty as program chairman, Paul
Miller as Held trip cnairman,
and Mrs. Gonty as news editor.
Suggestion was made that Mrs.
George Miller be named as Fed
eration delegate.
Guests of the evening were
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brown, Tom
Gonty, Mrs. Alice McCabe, Mrs.
Ramona Thompson, Mr. ana
Mrs. Dale Turner and Mrs. Clara
Brown. Also present were two
pebble pups, the two daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Miller.
Guests chose rock and wood
slabs brought by the members
as gifts of the club, while mem
bers exchanged gaily wrapped
packages, all pertaining to some
part of the rock family.
The January meeting will be
held in the McMurtry building.
Orville Cufsforfh
Sustains Injury
urvuie tutsforth suffered a
serious Injury in a rather freak
accident last Tuesday while
woiklntf alone at the proposed
fish Impoundment development
at Pen land Prairie.
He was cutting timber In
clearing land for the project. He
said that he had used a chain
saw to out down one tree, a limit
18 inches In diameter, but it did
not fall. It resisted his efforts
to push It over, and mi he let
It stand on the stump.
Cutsforth Bald that he moved
his cas can to a distance out
of reach of the tree's some GO
fiH-t height and was by the gas
can when the tree appannll
toppled over. It must have
thrown a limb that struck him
across the fau.
Cutsforth does not remember
what happened from the time
of the Impact. However, he man
aged to drive home In his nick.
up, and he was taken to the
hospital for treatment, remain
ing there a dav.
The right side of his face was
badly bruised and swollen and
he sustained a severe black eye.
By late last week he was re
covering well and said Friday
that he could move his jaw to
eat again.
Pierce Due Home
Following Discharge
SMc. 4 Greg Pierce, son f f
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Pierce, ex
pects to arrive home sometime
next week, following his dis
charge from the U. S. Army. IK'
has been stationed for the pit
Meveral months ut Ft. Brag -,
N. C.
Pierce is making the trlu
home bv car and will spend
time visiting friends and sight
seeing In Washington, O. C, and
Conn1lcut, and also has plans
to visit In Ft. I'nrson, Colo.,
where his brother, Mike, is sta
tioned while serving with the
U. S. Military Police.
Pierce expects to enroll for lh
winter term of studies al Blue
Mountain Community college In
Pendleton.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Cook en
Joyed a recent weekend visit
in Baker at the homes of their
sons-in-law and daughters. Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall Nelson and
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Van Roe-
kel.
Pastor and Mrs. Henry Prest
on enjoyed spending Christmas
at the home of their son and
daughter-in-law, Pastor and
Mrs. R. W. Helnrlch. and two
boys. Harlev and Kerry. In
Hermlston, where he Is pastor of
the Seventh-day Adventist
church.
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ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY
STORE HOURS
9 A.M. to 6 P.M.
GIRLS' PAJAMAS AND GOWNS .... 1.99
100 COTTON FLANNEL
ALL GIRLS' SKIRTS
(Orig. 5.00) now 2.99
GIRLS' PLUSH PILE JACKETS
Reduced (Orig. 16.00) now 12.88
GIRLS' PRINT NYLON JACKETS
Reduced (Orig. 8.00 & 10.00) now 6.88
LARGE SELECTION
GIRLS' DRESSES REDUCED 3.99
BOYS' FLANNEL PAJAMAS 1.99
BOYS' KNIT AND COTTON
SPORT SHIRTS Reduced 1.25
BOYS' FORTREL AND COTTON
TAPERED PANTS Reduced
(Orig. 4.98) 3.88
ENTIRE STOCK OF BOYS'
JACKETS REDUCED
MEN'S HOPSACK JEANS
Reduced (Orig. 4.98) 2 for ?.00
MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS
Short Sleeve
2.99
ALL WOMEN'S SKIRTS
Reduced (Orig. 5.00 & 6.00) now 3.99
WOMEN'S PLUSH PILE JACKETS
Reduced (Orig. 18.00-22.00) ..now 15.88
WOMEN'S KNIT TOPS 100
Textured Nylon (Orig 3.98) .. now 1.99
Large Group Women's
DRESSES REDUCED
2.88
WOMEN'S AGILON PANTY HOSE
ASSORTED COLORS
Reduced (Orig. 1.69 & 2.00) now .99
YARDAGE REMNANTS
REDUCED 30
ELECTRIC BLANKET SPECIAL
Twin Bed Single Control $9
Double Bed Single Control $10
Double Bed Double Control $14