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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Tbundor. January . IMS Mollahan Given Oath as Sheriff; Deputies Named (Continued from page 1) lit Ft. Leavenworth. Kansas, for three veiirs anil four num'hs. Former Deputy Sherilf Iean Oilman has returned to police work with the city. Chief Glen Kolkhurst announeed. (iilman will serve with Bert t'orbln and ( hief Kolkhorst In comprising the 3-nmn city force. Commissioner Walter ll.ivos Who was reelected to his county position In November wus nut present Monday to take his oath of offiie but was expeeted to be sworn Jn on Wednesday when he was to come to county tou-t meeting. Sheriff .Mollahan said that Mrs. Kivira Irby will continue as tax deputy and Mrs, Lillian Sweek will also continue in the tax office. Ran in an will rontlnuc as county veterans' affairs service! fr(fr nnrl U'ill H, rf.fr let pi.r fnr ' selective service. Before belnn named deputy, hetsrn was employed hy i-ks trom Farm Chemicals, lone. Church is Scene Of Buck Wedding By MART LEE MARLOW BOAHDMAN Miss Cathy Bay Dunn of Umatilla became the bride of Lonnle L. Buck of Uma tilla In a 2 p.m. candlelight cer emony at the Boanlman Com munity church, Saturday, De cember 2H. The bride is the dauKhter of Ray Dunn of Umatilla, and Eve lyti Dunn of Benit, and the (.room Is the win of C. IteKlnald Buck of I'ortland, and Mona Jean Sandahe of Lake Osweuo. The double ring service was performed by the Kvv. (Jeor-re Neeley, church pastor. 'Die church was decorated Willi Co i! and white cladioli. The bride Is a 1!M8 graduate of Umatilla HH:h school and at tended Pacific University at Forest Grove this year. The eroom Ls a limy graduate ol Umatilla Hiuh school nnd is at tendlnu racific University. After a trip to Portland the couple will live at Lake Oswoco. i If - Mayor Collins Takes City Helm (Continued from page 1) county deputy sheriff, has ac cepied employment as a city of fleer to succeed John Mollahan, who was elected sheriff. Councilman Robison submitted a letter announcing his resign.! tion from the city planning com mission due to the fact that he is now serving on the council. The resignation was accepted, nnd Mayor Collins said that the planning vacancy will be filled at a later date. Chosen to council committees, with the first named as chair men, are the following: CITY SERVICES (Library, swimming pool, parks, street! lights) Sweeney, McLeod, Rob ison. FIRE DEPARTMENT Mc Leod, Allstott, Robison. FINANCE (Fees, licenses, budgets, personnel) Spauld ing, Joe Balfe, Sweeney. STREETS, PROPERTIES AND ORDINANCES McLeod, All stott, Balfe. POLICE PROTECTIONS Balfe, Sweeney, Spaulding. SANITATION AND HEALTH Balfe, McLeod, Robison. WATER DEPARTMENT Spaulding, Robison, Allstott. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Riggs are the parents of a daughter. Susan Jeannette, born January 4 at the Good Shepherd hospi tal In Hermlston. She weighed 7 H) 4'a oz. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John L. Riggs of Aloha, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Ilamar of Juneau, Alaska. Great-grandparents are Mrs. Maude ilamar of Toledo, ami Mrs. Hazel Clifford of Portland. ACN-3 KELLY Phone Company Names Mrs. Kelly Seal Returns Lag; Responses Urged Christmas Seal contributions are lagging in the Eastern Reg ion of the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health Association, accord ing to Anthony Haberlach, pro gram director. All who received Christmas seals are reminded that the OTHA is still in need of contri butions and it is not too late to mail the donations. Checks may be made to "Christmas Seals" and may be sent to P. O. Box 847, La Grande 97850 or in the return envelopes which were sent from the OTHA office when seals were distrib uted through the mails. As of December 30, 1968, the total received stood at $18,322. 27, which is $5,080 short of tho hoped-for income of $23,402. All of the Christmas Seal funds raised In the six counties of the Eastern Oregon region remains in the region. Mr. and Mrs. Maurv Amsden and son Butch of San Jose, Calif., visited last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wick lander. Amsden is associ-U.' dean of San Francisco state col lege. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Blaeu and daughter Diane were call ed to Tooele, Utah, last week for the funeral of Mrs. Black's father, M. I. Oveson, who died January 1 of a heart attack. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Daltoso and children Joe, Danette, Helen and Danny spent the holidays in Butte, Mont., at the home of Mrs. Daltoso's mother, Mrs. Hel en Busch. Holiday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ober meier Included their son-in-law ind daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bill I Thorpe and children Connie and Billie of Deer Island, and their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Obermeier of St. Helens. Mrs. Zoe Billings is still In Good Shepherd hospital in Her miston after a two week's bout with flu and pneumonia. She entered the hospital Christmas Eve. School reopened after the hol idays at Riverside Junior-Senior High school Monday morning. I There were only eight absen tees which is about normal. Flu ' Vlilc ctr.lf.Lr mnl,r ...mi-i. Unm, n the community over the past two weeks, hut it seems to have been mostly adults that have it Among recent victims were Mrs. Chub Warren, Mrs. Glen Carpen ter, Roy Ball, Mrs. Leo Root, Zearl Gillespie, Mrs. Les Moen and Mrs. Frank Marlow. Acnes L. Krl'v has been nam ed Pacific Northwest Bell's chief operator In charge of operator services for 21 communities in Hie northeastern part of Oregon. She replaces Louise Bl'jlei who has been transferred to a position In the traffic personne: group ut the companvs fori land headou.irlers office, ac cording to P.'.'U manager Dale She her. Mrs. KeLv comes to Pendleton from Newport She was chief op erator tlK're for two years. Prior o that she served as evtviing chief operator at Albany f'r six years, anil us operator and pervising operator at Eugene from 1H52 to l'MiJ. Headquartered in Pendleton. Mrs. Kelly supervises the work of some 70 PNB women who pro vide long distance, Directorv Assistance and intercept operat or services for the following communities: Heppner, Pendleton, Hermis ton, Milton-Freewater, Athena, Weston, Stateline, lone, Lexing ton, Echo, Stanficld Umatilla, John Day, Arlington, Helix, Boanlman, Ukiah, Pilot Rock, Long Creek, Monument, Mt. Vernon, Prairie City, Bates and Davville. Mrs. Kelly is co-partner In a telephone family. Her husband, Charles, is a PNB transmission man. He will be transfering to Pendleton from Newport before the end of December. There are two children, Patricia Ann, 1G, and Gregory Charles, 14. 1,'IFYE to Korea Slated for Visit Here Next Month Br BIRDINE TULLIS County Extanitoa Aide Orrin Potampa, IFVE to Kor ea, will I in Morrow county on February 6, 7, and 8. While Or rin Is In thp county he will be available to all school, 4 11 groups, and other organizations 1 that would like to have him for programs. Ornn in (he son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Potampa. 121X3 S. E. Merrill Drive. nn land, lie has one slater, a former IFVE. I lie was raisi'd on 80-aere farm I e-ir Portland. In high school his Interest was In science, and he has ettended Oregon Slate University for three years. Anv group Interested In hear '"I? Orrin should contact the County Extension office Immeil 'ately so that a speaking sched ule ran be made for his time .n the county. IFVE students are usually much In demand by groups while they are here, so an early call will insure his being available. Men in Service Return to Duty Br DEL HA JONES LEXINGTON Mike Burcham, on of Mr. and Mm. Ralph Bur chum, has returned to San Di ego, after spending Home time with his parents. Mike In sta tioned with the US Navy aboard the USS Rogers. Mike Palmer, on of Mr. and Mm. Kenneth Palmer, left Do. cember 30 for duty In Germany, after MM-ndinK 30 dayi at the home of his parents. He was called home bv the death of his brother. Joe palmer. In a car accident. Linda Van Winkle returned to Host Families Needed for Future IFYE Student Application forms are now nvailable In the County Exten sion office for farm families who rre interested in hosting foreign exchange students while they are In the United States. IFYE students are outstanding young people from various for cign countries who are In the United States for a period of six months, and remain with each host family for two or three weeks. During this time they at temt to gather all information possible about our way of life, in order to Improve relations be tween countries. In exchange our young people have the op portunity to do the same in some foreign country. Anv farm family irr Morrow county may apply to host either a young man or woman. Appli cations should be filed with the County Extension office prior to March 1. Mr. and Mrs. John Hanna and Bill Hanna traveled to Indepen dence on December 26 to attend the funeral of the men's aunt, Mrs. May Dickenson, who was 88 years of age. Services were held on Thursday, and the trav elers returned home Saturday. The Dale Holland family re turned home the Saturday fol lowing Christmas from a holi day visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Witcher, who live at Junction City, and Mr. nnd Mrs. Tom Holland at their home in Crow. The couple also had the opportunity to visit with Mrs. Holland's younger brother, Eric, who was home for the holidays from Corvallis, where he is a student at Ore gon State. Returning home, they also stopped in Salem to visit the Kenneth Witcher family. Farra Memorial Stands at $260 Donations to the John W. (Bill) Farra Memorial Fund have brought the total to $260, it was reported at the Monday meeting of the Heppner city council. Contributions to date are: Chamber of Commerce, $50; Or ville Cutsforth, $25; Soroptimist club, $25; L. E. Dick, $10; and Heppner Volunteer Firemen, $150. Other organizations have in dicated that they plan to give to the fund which will be used in memory of the assistant fiie chief who died suddenly in ear ly December after fighting a house fire here. It is expected that a suitable plaque will be installed. Drob- ably in the city hall, and the principal funds will be used for needed eauinment in the fire department. Any other organizations or in dividuals who wish to contrib ure to the fund are invited to contact Mayor Bill Collins or Mrs. Elaine George, city record er. Episcopals Slate Ontario Service For New Bishop BATTERY TROUBLE? SEE FORD TIRE SERVICE 1 FOR ALL YOUR Farm and Commercial BATTERY NEEDS We Have The All New HEAVY DUTY ARMOR PLATE Truck and Tractor Commercial Battery GROUP 1-H.D.A.P. (145 amp) $16.95 Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Weitzel and family traveled to Vancou ver, Wn., to spend Christmas with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jonn btrunk, at which time the couple assisted other family members in hosting a family re union and Christmas dinner for J members of her mother's family. The Weitzel family spent time visiting friends in Camas, Wn., prior to making the return trip home. Single copies of The Gazette Times are on sale at the G-T office, at the Hotel Heppner, at Murrays Rexall Drug and at Central Market. Perhaps the largest and most colorful religious event ever held in Ontario or Eastern Oregon, the Service of Consecration of the Very Rev. William B. Spof- ford, Jr., as the Episcopal church s new Bishop of Eastern Oregon, is scheduled for Satur day, January 25, at 10:30 a.m., in the gymnasium at Ontario High school. Spofford has been serving as Dean of St. Michael's Episcopal Cathedral in Boise since 1961. He was elected Bishop of East ern Oregon by the Episcopal House of Bishops during a meet ing at Augusta, Ga., October 22. He succeeds the Right Rev. Lane Barton who is retiring. The Most Rev. John E. Hincs of New York City, the Episco pal church's presiding bishop, will be in Ontario to serve as chief consecrator. The other two consecrating bishops will be the Right Rev. Lane Barton and the Right Rev. Norman Foote, who is Bishop of Idaho. Church officials say this will probably be the largest gather ing of Episcopal clergy and lay people ever held in Eastern Ore gon. There will be 10 to 15 oth er Episcopal Bishops in attend ance, plus most of the Idaho clergy and many guest clergy. The event will mark the first time in his official capacity that the Presiding Bishop of the en tire Episcopal Church has ever come to Eastern Oregon. Bish op Hines is the youngest man ever to assume the leadership of the nations three-and-one half million Episcopalians. Dean Spofford is the son of an Episcopal minister, the Rev, Dr. William Spofford, Sr., who has been serving for many years as editor of the church s nation al publication, "The Witness." An estimated 1,500 persons are expected to attend. Many of them will enjoy luncheon on the campus of Treasure Valley Community College after the Service of Consecration. San Francisco last week afte visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. win. J, van Winkle, over the holidays. Kenneth (Pete) Klincer Is patient In St. Anthony hospital In Pendleton. Gus Leathers Is a patient In Pioneer Memorial hospital In Heppner. Mrs. Kenneth (Myrtle) Mar shall has returned to her home after a stay In Pioneer Memor lal haspitut in Heppner. Guests over the holidays at me li. j. iJonertv home were their children. Roger of New lork, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Do hertv of Salem. Maureen, Nan cy. Tony and Martha of Eugene, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Klinger and son of Portland have been recent Lexington visitors Mr. and Mrs. Tom Martin and daughter left on Tuesday of the past week for Oakland, Calif., where they will make their home while Mr. Martin is at tending the Sierra Flying School. They have been living the last year and a half at the Roy Martin ranch where he has been employed. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Majeske have returned to their home af ter a stay over the holidays at the home of their daughter in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Yocom and Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards were Portland visitors on Sun day Earl Miller was in Portland on business a couple of days this last week, Sheila Larson and daughter. Kimberlee; Rick and Dale Whit ney and Charlene Jones of Portland: and Bill and Vickie Irvin of Hood River, returned to their homes Sunday after a couple of weeks visit at the C, C. Jones ranch Mr. and Mrs. Jim Martin and daughters have been recent callers at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Martin of Lexington and Mr. and Mrs. Clell Rea of lone on In law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 1'antelm Vrontakeis and Jeffrey. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stevens and Robin Schmeder. all of St Helena, were guests of the Wil Ham Schmeder family for the Chris t m a a holiday. Glenn Schmodeer is on vacation from Blue Mountain Community Col lege. He lives at home and drives to school with a group or students each day. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Berger met their daughter, Judy Berger ami Mrs. Bergen mother. Mrs. Callow In Portland. They trav eled together to Long Beach, wash, where they spent Christ mas with Berger's son and fam ily. Mr. and Mrs. Konuld Ber gcr, In their new home. Al Lamb's Mother Dies at Age 81 Mrs. Clara May Lamb, 81 mother of the late Al Lamb of Heppner, died In a Woodburn Nursing Home on December 27. according to Mrs. Bernicc Lamb, her daughter-in-law. Mrs. Clara Lamb had made her home in Salem most of her life but had lived recently in Woodburn. She Is remembered by many Heppner friends, since she had visited many times at the Lamb home here. Attending the funeral Frldnv In Salem were Mrs. Bernice Lamb and Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Lamb of Irrigon. Holiday Baskets Cheer 93 Persons Christmas baskets of food, or of combined foods and gift, were distributed lo 93 persons In Morrow county, according to Judge Paul Jones, chairman of the Morrow County Public Wel fare Commission. The baskets were made pos sible through the donations and cooperation of churches, lodges, clubs and civic organizations, as well as hy school children and private Individuals. Judge Jones has expressed ap preciation of the cum ml -.don and of the local Welfare Office to all those who participated In helping to make Christmas inoie meaningful and pleasant for others. Mrs. Jim Wishart former ro- Ident, Is showing steady gains In St. Anthony hospital, Pendle ton, following ma or surgery there last Friday. She is shar ing room 40t with Mrs. Earl Gilliam, and would appreciate messages from friends here. The family is now living In Prairie City, where Wishart is managing the First National Bank. Rev. and Mrs. Melvin Dixon and daughter, Marti, traveled to Pendleton last Thursday, where Marti boarded the plane to re turn to her studies at Seattle Pacific University. The Dixons also visited Mrs. Earl Gilliam and Mrs. Norah Rasmus, who are convalescing in St. Anthony hospital, and with Mrs. Jim Wishart, former Heppner resi dent, who was scheduled for ma jor surgery there on Friday. Wonderful, Warm Lightweight SKI JACKETS IRRIGON The Home Exten sion was to meet at 1 o'clock. Jan. 9 at the home of Mrs. Dean Acock. Mrs. Birdine Tullis, ex tension aide to the county agent, was to meet with the ladies. The subject to be discussed Is "Pack ages". Among the college studenU home for the holidays were Mike Smith, University of Ore gon at Eugene, also John Lath rop, U of O, at Eugene, Susan McCoy, George Kenney, Mr. and Mrs. Bob McRae from Oregon state university, covallis, Mr. and Mrs. Terry McCoy and Mr. and Mrs. Don Eppenbach from Eastern Oregon College of Edu cation, La Grande. Bob Buchan an was home from Oregon Tech nical Institute, Klamath Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Allen nf Salem, former Irrigon residents are on vacation to Hawaii. While they are away their dau ghters, Gail and Linda are vis iting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Graybeal here. Gail and Linda accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Graybeal to Walla Walla to visit the Graybeal's daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Shingledecker for Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Bentley and Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Steph ens were among the dinner guests on Christmas Day, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Stephens and family, Umatilla. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Warner traveled to Salem to spend the Christmas holiday with their NYLON SOME 100 WATERPROOF WITH HOODS FAMOUS PACIFIC TRAIL and SILTON LINES FROM $15 to $25 Gardner's Allen's Wear The Heppner Store of Personal Service Ph. 676-9218 AS LOW AS CORE EXCHANGE EW, BRILLIANT Most All Sizes In Stock FORD'S TIRE SERVICE COLOR 7 IN EVERY ROOM At the netv SALEM 745-785 Commercial S.E. Phone.- 503) 363-2451 RESTAURANT WITH 24-HOCR COFFEE SHOP Now Shell Heating Oil is specially climatized for Heppner and lone And it's available from Paul Pettyjohn Shell scientists have now cre ated over 10 different mixes of Shell Heating Oil to suit local conditions exactly. One of these is blended specially for this area. You can rely on it in any weather. We can now deliver your first tankful of Shell Heat ing Oil in the new blend made specially to suit this area's weather conditions. We shall be glad to take your order. PAUL PETTYJOHN CO. Heppner and lone " - j S6-H 6REEN STAMPS N. 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