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Weather Damage to Roads May Hi? $25,000
Sunday Thaw,
85th Year
Number 46
Runoff Brings
HEPPNER
Flood Threats
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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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.
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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