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L I I It A ft Y u or 0 EUGEN, ORE. 0743 Weather Damage to Roads May Hi? $25,000 Sunday Thaw, 85th Year Number 46 Runoff Brings HEPPNER Flood Threats I m r..iw i, MAYOR W. C. (BILL) COLLINS (seated) officially became Hepp. ner mayor Monaay ntgnt when He took the oath of office, succeeding retiring mayor W. C. RosewalL Standing by the new mayor are (left) Dick Robison, who took a councilman position following his election in November and Clyde AUstott tngnij wno succeeds Marian Mccuray, Jr., who resigned, on uie council. (G-T Pbcto) Mayor Collins Takes Helm Of City Government Here W. C. (Bill) Collins took the onth of office as mayor of Hcpp ner at the regular January council meeting Monday night and presided at the session, his first in the mayoralty since his ' v- y vr f 1 PRINCESS JOYCE HOWTON Joyce Howfon Named Princess By lone Grange Miss Joyce Howton, daughter of Llovd Howton of lone, was announced this week as the sec ond princess to be chosen for the 1969 Morrow county Fair and Rodeo court. Princess Joyce was selected by Willows Grange of lone at its December 21 meeting, to be its representative on the court. She will join Queen Sheila Lu ciani, of the Lexington Grange, and Princess Patti Healy, of the Lena Community. Others are yet to be chosen by the Heppner Wranglers and Boardman Tila cum club. The new princess has recent lv transferred to the lone High school from Hermiston, and will complete her senior year this spring. She had attended ele mentary grades in lone before the family moved to Hermiston and is now returned with her father and younger sister, Jack ie, to make their home on their grain and cattle ranch south of lone. Joyce has developed excellent riding ability during her 17 ac tive years, riding since she was five years of age. She has been a member of the Sour and Burr 4-H Horse club in Hermiston for five years and participated in competitive events at the 4-H Horse Shows and Umatilla Coun ty Fairs. Her interests also in clude swimming, cooking and water skiing, and has been a member of Ray Heimbigner's McNary Yacht club ski troop. Princess Joyce was active in school events at Hermiston High school and in the Girls' Athletic Association. She had the honor of being selected Miss Poise for the fall term by the Girls League. Joyce is the second rodeo princess to be chosen from the Howton family. Her older sis-1 ter, Janet, now Mrs. Bob Brin dle of Pendleton, was a prin cess in the 1954 court of Queen Grace Miller of Boardman. Besides her father and young er sister, Jackie, a freshman at lone High school, she has an other older sister, Mrs. Keith (Judy) Rea of lone, and two brothers, Jim of Moscow, Idaho, and John, of La Grande. For her summer appearances with the court, her mount will be a registered sorrel quarter horse named "Little Rat". election in November. Collins, who has had many year's exper ience in city administration, has served on the council for sev eral years in his most recent tenure. He is owner of Heppner Cleaners. At the same time, P. W. Ma honey of the city attorneys, Ma honey and Abrams, administer ed the oath to new councilman Dick Robison and four more re elected city officers, Councilman David McLeod and Jerry Swee ney, City Recorder Elaine George, and Treasurer May Jean McCabe. Oath had been admin istered to Clyde Allstott, anoth er new councilman, at the De cember meeting. He replaces Harlan McCurdy, Jr., who re signed. In one of Its first actions of the new year, the council unan imously elected Jerry Sweeney as chairman. In this capacity, he presides at council sessions during the mayors absence or otherwise fulfills duties of the mayor when the latter is gone. Mayor Collins announced the formation of a new committee to work with the Chamber of Commerce and other groups for development. Called the "city development and coordination committee," it has as its chair man Carl Spaulding with Swee ney and Allstott as members. Appointments made by the mayor with the confirmation of the council were as follows: Glen H. Kolkhorst, chief of po lice; Dr. W. H. Wolff, city health otticer; Mahoney and Abrams city attorneys; Vic Groshens city superintendent; Forrest Bur kenbine, fire chief; and Elaine George, utilities clerk. Mrs George serves as recorder and municipal .judge by election and as utilities clerk by appoint ment. Chief Kolkhorst announced that Dean Gilman, former chief of police and most recently (Continued on page 8) lone Hoop Team Tips Heppner Five COMING BASKETBALL Friday, January 10 McEwen of Athena at lone High. Saturday, January 1 1 Enter prise High at Heppner lone High at Stanfield With Frank Halvorsen scoring 24 and Jim Swanson, now off the injured list, hitting 22, the lone High Cardinals edged the Heppner Mustangs in a basket ball game at lone Tuesday night, 68 to 66. The Mustangs fell behind in the first quarter, 21 to 12, but overtook lone by halftime, 37 to 34. However, the Cardinals came back in the third to reclaim the lead, 53 to 50. Heppner had a 27 to 23 mar gin in field goals but the Card inals tallied 22 free throws on 33 attempts. Heppner had 20 chances on the line and made 12. The Mustangs led in rebound ing, 4b to 39, but Halvorsen led all rebounders with 15. Leading scorers for Heppner were Cal Ashbeck, John Mc Cabe and Larry Pettyjohn, all with 15. Ione's victory evens this sea sons home and Home series at one game each for the two teams. Heppner won the De cember 10 game by the score of 65 to 49. In the preliminary, Ione's Jay vees defeated Heppner's fresh men, 48 to 43. Scoring, varsity game: HEPPNER 66 C. Ashbeck 15, McCabe 15, O'Donnell 11, Kemp 10. Pettyjohn 15. IONE 68 Ball 6, Sherman 9, Halvorsen 24, Swanson 22, Nel son 2, Wilson 5. THE GAZ1 TV? HP ID TRS IV Jl Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, January 9, 1969 Price 10 Cents City fo Improve Street Lighting, Plans for Future Various parts of Heppner will be brighter at night as a result oi action taken by the city coun cil at its meeting Monday night. It was voted to Improve street lighting in 11 different locations, either replacing present incan descent lights with mercury va por units or Installing new lights. At the same time, the city ser ices committee was requested to work out a long range plan or improvement of street light ing throughout the city. Councilman David McLeod re. ported foi the committte in rec ommending the 11 improvements which will be made at nominal cost to the city. He explained that the present incandescent lights cost $1.90 per month and 175 watt mercury vapor lamp will cost $3.00 per month if it is not necessary to erect a pole. An additional charge of 50c per month is made if it is necessary to install a pole for the light. It was figured that the 11 im provements will cost the city $360 per year, well within the figure of $500 budgeted for the urpose. Some of the changes will be made near the grade school, one at tne entrance oi the fair and rodeo grounds, others on Willow street and others in various lo cations in the city. The original recommendation for some of the lights came from Police Officer Bert Corbin who pointed out the need for the ad ditional illumination. The long range program will consiaer replacement ana un provement of the lighting system over a 10-year period. While much of the council meeting was devoted to organ izing for the new year, the city dads passed an ordinance which provides that struct u r e s for which building permits are is sued must be completed within a year after the permit is is sued. If it is not completed by that time, an owner may apply for an extension. A package malt beverage li cense was approved for Dorothy M. Eugg for Bucknum's Tavern, which it is reported that she is purchasing. Mrs. Rugg is form erly of Arlington. City Superintendent said that he had received no bids from contractors for drilling the pro posed city well to supplement the city water supply. The coun cil authorized him to re-advertise for bids. jj . im... i monauji tL. m. . mMMMmtjuuMwuwiiMw 'mi m nrr-'fc nnrnnT-i-'" - - COUNTY OFFICIALS, elected or reelected in November, took their oath of office from County Judge Paul Jones (right) Monday in the courthouse. From left are Sheriff John Mollalian. Treasurer Sylvia McDanieL and County Clerk Sadie Farrish. Oath was to be administered to Commissioner Walter Hayes, reelected In November, on Wednesday. (G-T Photo). Mollah As M an Takes orrow Oath eriff John F. Mollahan became Mor row county's sheriff Monday morning when he took the oath of office just before 9 a.m. in the chambers of County Judge Paul Jones. The new shrlt:, former Hepp ner city police officer, took the oath with Sadie Parrish, county clerk, and Sylvia McDaniel, county treasurer, both of whom were reelected to their positions in the general election in No vember. Mollahan was elected for his first term at the same election. Larry Fetsch, who was born in Heppner and has lived here most of his life, was named as a deDUtv sheriff, and retiring sheriff C. J. D. Bauman will al so continue as a deputy. Fetsch will spend much of his time on dutv in the nortn end oi trie county, and probably will event ually live there, Slierin Mona- han said. Fetsch served in the aviation section of the army and was (Continued on page 8) Sweeney Installed Chamber President At Monday Meeting R-1 Board Rejects Teacher Proposals Teacher consultation commit tee and Morrow county scnooi board members met on Janu ary b at Lexington to discuss the proposals presented by the teacher consultation committee. The board members indicated that they could not accept the teacher consultation commit tees proposals. Following con siderable discussion on alterna tive proposals, the board sched uled a special school board meeting for 8:00 p.m. on Janu ary 13, at Lexington. The main purpose of the meeting will be to prepare a counter proposal to submit to the teacher consultation com mittee. Teachers had submitted five proposals on salaries and bene fits, one of which was to in crease base salary in the dis trict to $6400 from $6000 for a teacher with a bachelor degree and no experience. While another chapter In the continuing story of wlntery wealher started to unfold hero Tuesday with more snow, coun ty official were trying to make repairs to county roads damag ed by the wwk ond thawing. Calls came In from most sec tions of the county. County Judge Paul Jones reported Mon day, and road crews were rush ed to make repairs as soon as possible. He said that total damage could run as high as $25,000. Much of the damage first re ported was that to roads west of lone and west of Lexington but many others were hard hit. A number of roads were closed at the first of the week. lone residents Sunday were threatened with another flood from runoff down Rietmann can yon, but unlike some previous years when It came at night. they had the chance to fight it In the daytime. They built bar ricades of straw bales and other materials to keep it from run ning through stores and other buildings, but Main Street was running full of water for a time. The water was kept from the buildings and no deposits of mud were left as had been the case in iuti and other years. While much of the moisture from accumulated snow went into the soil, the rising of tem perature from near zero weather to some 50 degrees Sunday brought considerable runoff. Water was deep over the high way in one of the dips near Jor dan, just south of lone. Some motorists braved It at its worst and went through but some turned back. Ice jammed Willow Creek be hind the Jerry Rood home on Riverside Sunday morning and backed water for a considerable distance. Rood called Vic Grosh ens, city superintendent, and the men worked two hours to break the jam and prevent flooding. Judge Jones said that thaw ing, accompanying the runoff, caused break-up on many coun ty roads and made them sort and mushy. Some of the roads which were closed Monday included the Sweeney, recently elect-1 Gabbcrt Road, Holtz Road and The McNnb-Olex road was limited to one-way traffic in spots with some culverts out and shoulders damaged. Baseline road was hit by the runoff, and the Markham Baker road was damaged badly. The Sandhollovv road was limited to one way traffic in places and flares and signs were installed to warn of hazards. Ely Canyon road was also hard hit. The judge said that it may be necessary to halt logging trucks' going over some of the county roads until better weath er comes. One of the problems encount ered was that of hauling gravel over the soft roads. "It tears up existing roads to put our loaded trucks on them," the judge said. The plan was to load light in hauling but this makes repairs more costly, he said. L : ' ' ' 1 . 1 ' ' - n ;f&;:5 .ri ;n-..A r ' - V ' ,.J. t i TlmM itiiI iitowiiiii' urn rrr irminanri J -" """" - n.,n ... n DESPITE BAD WEATHER, the new headquarter i building of Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative is taking shape as a prominent addition to Hcpner. Trie structure is tentatively scneauiea lor completion by April with Eastern Oregon Construction Co. as contractors. Bad weather may cause some delay. Not visible in the photo is the deep mud that recent snow and thawing have caused. (G-T Photo). Columbia Basin Building Takes Shape Looming prominently over the north end of Main street from its location on the hill above the street is the new headquarters building of Colum bia Basin Electric Cooperative. Concrete and block shell of the building has been complet ed by Eastern Oregon Construc tion Co., contractors. Dan Mc Camber, owner of the company, is on the job and work is press ing forward despite the weath er but somewhat handicapped by it. , , The split level structure, which will house offices, crew quarters, garage and equipment storage of the power utility, is scheduled for completion in Ap ril. However, with the delays en countered by inclement weath er, it may not be finished by that date, Harley Young, co-op manager, said Monday. The building will have a to tal of 11,500 square feet and will centralize the operations of the cooperative with ample room for equipment storage and other phases of the operation. Contract was awarded at $213,500 and loan for financing the structure was obtained from the Rural Electrification Administration. Jerry ed president of the Heppner Morrow county Chamber of Commerce, was installed in the office at ceremonies Monday at the regular meeting of the or ganization. Herman Winter, president in 1967, was install ing officer. The new president presented a plaque to Wes Sherman, re tiling president, citing him for "outstanding leadership" of the Chamber during 1968. Norman Supple was installed as treasurer tor a second year and new directors were also In stalled. Two vice-presidents and the secretary were unable to be present because of conflicts. They are Paul Jones, fii3t vice president; Gene Pierce, second vice president; and Harlan Mc Curdy, secretary. Jones and Mc Curdy were reelected to their po sitions. The retiring president extend- ( & thanks to all the commit lees, officers and members for I heir cooperation and work dur ing the past year. Sweeney said that he and other officers will work on com mittee assignments and an nounce them at a later meet ing. He is owner of Sweeney's Mortuary, is chairman of the city council on which he has been serving since January, 1967, and is state president of the Funeral Directors and Em balmers Board. Rhea Creek Rainfall Totals 11.17 in '68 Mrs. George Snider, who keeps weather records at their place on Rhea Creek, reported Monday that total rainfall there for 1968 was 11.17 inch- 68. Of the total, 4.64 Inches came in the first six months and 6.53 came in the last six months. 1968 Precipitation Exceeds Normal at 14.21 Inches Total precipitation for 1968 was 14.21 inches in Heppner, nearly an inch above normal and almost six inches more than in 1967, figures compiled by Don Gilliam, official weather observer, show. Annual normal is 13.25 (for 50-year period) and last year's total was 8.64. The year just completed re corded the most rainfall since the 14.'15 inches of 1963, he said. The heaviest precipitation came late in the year after the rela tively mild winter of 1967-68. December's total was 2.23, which compares with the normal of 1.38 inches for the month. While the December precipita tion brought Joy to farmers, more moisture was added this week the first week in the new year. A total of .70 inch was re corded together with another snowfall of three inches Tuesday. But while the moisture brought smiles to farmers, the quick thaw of Saturday and Sunday was bringing problems to others, particularly from dam age to roads. Temperature, which a week ago was playing hide and seek with the zero mark on thermom eters, shot up as high as 59 on Monday. But the snow which had blanketed the ground for a number of days had melted away speedily Saturday and Sunday with temperature hitting 50 on Saturday and 55 on Sun day. This brought quick thaw prob lems. Since the mercury climbed fairly slowly for a couple of days following the low of eight below on Tuesday, December 31, the runoff was not as bad as a full scale chinook would have made it. Ranchers reported that much of the moisture went in to the soil, which brought jub ilation. But there was considerable difference from the high of 22 on Friday and the 50 of Satur day. By Sunday afternoon, the landscape was bare. However, this did not last long. Tuesday brought a fairly heavy snowfall that was whipped by fairly strong winds, but it remained warm with the high of 52 re corded on that day, complete report for the week by Don Gilliam is as follows: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday iriday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday fthree Inches snow) Hi Low Prec. 4 -8 .04 9 1 .06 20 6 22 9 .02 50 20 55 42 .15 59 41 m 52 22 .42