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UIXARY u or o EUGENE, OF.E. 9 7 1 0 . Hea viesf One-Day Snowfall in Forty Years Blankets Heppner After reeling under the heav lest unowfull fur 24-hour per tod in 40 years, Heppner real dent were regaining normalcy eanv tnis week, digging out ov er the week -end mid shoving the mow aside. Starting after 7 p.m. Friday, the snow sained momentum during the night and ended with 104 inches on the ground Sat urdav. according to Don Gilliam, official weather observer. This was the heaviest snow fall for a 24-hour period since January 22, 1929, when 114 Inches fell. That snow la Im mortalized In the amazing pan oramic photograph taken by the late 8. U. (Bert) Slgshee, prints of which are located in various places around town, and one framed print of which hangs In The Gazette Times office. However, the 1929 snow was not the record for a 21 hour per iod. The greatest for any such period recorded was on Decern bcr 10. 1919, when 12 inches fell, Gilliam reports. Figures are taken Irom the recent ciimatoi on leal survey complied for Ileppner by Gilbert Sternes, stale climatologist. On February 12, 19'JJ. there was a snowfall of 11 inches. Old timers will recall other snows which they will vow were greater, hut the total didn't all come within a 24-hour period. The most snow on the ground at any one time within modern history was 23 Inches on Feb ruary 3, 1916. Gilliam states. 191 516 Totals (US Inch Total snowfall in the winter of 191516 was recorded at 65.23 Inches, and total for the mem orable winter of 1949-50 was 46.4 inches. Back in 1922 23 the total for the winter was 41.75 inches. This winter has already made a strong start on snow but has a long way to go to rank with i tanee telephone service was out the record years. To date, the season has brought 25.9 Inches of snow, Gilliam reports. Saturday's snowfall was truly wet. with the moisture content measured at .95 Inch for the 104 Inches, the observer said During the day Saturday, weather cleared and tempera ture climbed to 41 degrees, cre ating somewhat of a carnival atmosphere around town as kids went sledding, built snowmen and Igloos, and engaged In snowball fights. Most popular sports for adults were those of enlovlng the scen ery, clearing walks and drive ways, and trying to free autos to get from place to place. Phone Service Out Others had problems with the snow that were not fun. Dale Slusher, manager of Pacific Northwest Bell for this district, said that lieppner's long dis- from 9:13 a.m. until win a.m. Saturday after weight of the heavy wet snow broke several lines, snapped crossarms and even brought down some tele phone poles. The citv was isolated from communication by phone from the rest or tne world for that period. Slusher said that the company la required to arrange for emergency service in such an eventuality but regular serv ice was restored by telephone crews before this could be done. lone also had an Interruption but for a shorter period. This was for 14 minutes. The outage did not alloc! local calls, PomDinv crews continued working all day Saturday and Sunday to repair damage. Power Men Work. Too Columbia Basin Electric Co-op also had line troubles from the (Continued on pace 8) 85th Year the m Number 47 HEPPNER TTT TTr GAZETTE-TIME 3 Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, January 16, 1969 Price 10 Cents Port Negotiating State Land Exchange Some eight years of negotia tions are expected to be culmin ated soon when the Port of Mor row and the State Land Board complete a trade of some 2250 acres of land in the north end of the county. Gar Swanson. sec retary of the commission, said Tuesday. Completion of the transaction which will add 2250 acres to the block of land that the com mission has between the Colum bia River and Interstate High way I-80N, was expected to be Tuesday afternoon at a meeting in Boardman with State Land Board officials. However, they were unable to make the trip, and final negotiations will be made by Attorney E. Wayne Cordes, representing the com mission, and the Land Board, Valued at $97,000 Swanson said that the tran saction may be completed by the first of next week. Value of the block of land that the Port of Morrow will receive in the exchange is placed at $97,000. In trade, the state will receive a block of about 2250 acres of desert land lying east of the Bomb Range Road and some distance south of Highway 80N. The Port will pay a difference of approximately $11,000. When the newly acquired lands are deeded to the Port, it will have some 3650 acres for industry and development ex tending from the riverfront to the Interstate highway. A sec tion of land also owned by the Port of Morrow lies south of the highway. Members of the commission expressed elation that the trade Is about to be completed, since they have been negotiating with the state ever since the Boeing Industrial site was established. The commission has been neg otiating with several large firms in the hope ol attracting indus try to the north end, and the land exchange, bringing the sol id block lor development, is ex pected to put the Port of Mor row in a much better position to attract them. Ullman Gun Act Sponsors Repeal Congressman Al Ullman is sponsoring legislation to repeal the restrictions placed on am munition sales and purchases by the Firearms Control Act of 1968. Ullman called the ammu nition record -keeping provisions "unwise and burdensome." Ullman introduced a bill Fri day, January 3, which asks the 91st Congress to delete refer ences to ammunition from the new gun control law, which went Into effect December 16. He said the controversial reg ulations requiring detailed rec ords of all ammunition sales have become "a burden and a hardship on legitimate dealers and purchasers of ammunition throughout the Western and Southern states." COMING BASKETBALL Friday, January 17 Pilot Rock at Heppner; Riverside at lone. Saturday, January 18 Burns at Heppner; lone at Weston. Pacific Lutheran , Band to Play Here The 70-piece band of Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, will play a concert in Heppner on Sunday evening, January 26, at 8 p.m. in the Heppner junior high auditorium. Appearance of the touring band here is sponsored by Hope and Valby Lutheran churches. Admission will be $1 for adults and 50c for students. Luther Leagues of the two local church es will sell tickets in advance. They also may be purchased at the door. Some time ago the two local churches sponsored a concert of the choir of the university, and the singers had an excellent re sponse here. Further announcement on their forthcoming appearance will be made next week. Dr. Jones to Join Hermiston Center Dr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Jones and family are making plans to move to their new residence in Hermiston during the coming week. Dr. Jones is terminating his services at the Heppner Clinic and will begin practice at Hermiston Medical Center, with Doctors Milton Johnson and Wendell Ford, on Monday, Jan uary 20. Dr. Jones has served the Heppner area the past two years. New home address for Dr. and Mrs. Jones will be Route 1, Box 296-B, in Hermiston, and Mrs. Jones will continue to keep rec ords of their Heppner patients at their home office. Injured in Fall Dr A. D. McMurdo remains hospitalized in St. Anthony hos pital in Pendleton, where he was taken last Wednesday for treat ment of four broken ribs which he received in a fall while walk ing on icy pavement downtown. Mrs. McMurdo reports that he is showing satisfactory improve ment, and is in room 427. PRINCESS RHONDA JEAN BELLINGER Rhonda Bellinger Is New Princess For Rodeo Court For the first time in several years, the community ot irn gon will be represented by a princess on the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo court. Miss Rhonda Jean Bellinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward N. Bellinger of Irrigon, has been selected lor the court by the Boardman Tillicum club, and will succeed Kathy Hinton, princess in the 1968 court. The blond, attractive miss was born in Pendleton and will reach her 17th birthday on Ap ril 2. She attended the A. C. Houghton elementary school, and is now in her junior yeai at Riverside High school. She participates in activities of the school's Girls' Athletic Associa tion and is a member of the Pep Club. Rhonda has develop ed her talents as an artist, and following high school gradua tion, hopes to continue her studies in college. Hours outside of school for Princess Rhonda are given to her favorite sport, riding. She has ridden for pleasure since a small child, and owns here own horse, "Major", half Arabian and half quarterhorse, which she will use for court appear ances. She helps her parents on their ranch, located between Ir rigon and Boardman, where they grow melons and raise cat tle. Both of Rhonda's parents are graduates of Hermiston High school and have lived in the area all of their lives except for a short time when they lived south of Hood River. The grand parents still reside in Hermis ton. Only other member of Rhonda's family is an older sis ter, Mrs. Graham (Deanna) Der byshire, a sophomore at East ern Oregon College in La Grande. Other princesses chosen for the 1969 court of Queen Sheila Luciani are Princess Patti Healy of the Lena community, and Princess Joyce Howton, sponsor ed by the Willows Grange of lone. Mustangs to Open League Hoop Year Against Rockets (See Page Four) Opening their league season, the HHS Mustangs meet the Pilot Rock Rockets Friday nlgnt in a Greater Oregon league basketball game in the Mus tang gym. The Mustangs bring an 8-2 record into the game, while the Rockets have not fared so well. Saturday night the Mustangs host the Burns Union Hilanders. The Rockets should prove to be tough for the Mustang cagers with Vic Racicot and Larry Mat thews providing good scoring punch. Jim McMahon, Larry Brannon and Bill Quaempts round out a fte41-tolmncea start ing five. Pilot Rock has been tough so far this season but have not been able to put togetner as many wins as was expected of them at the start. Heppner, now tied for eighth in the Oregon A-2 poll, has lost to Grant Union and lone. The Horsemen have also won a game against each of these teams. Both of the losses were to good teams by narrow margins, and it is the general consensus that the Mustangs played well against lone but were lax against Grant Union. The local hoopsters will be looking for the second win when they encounter Burns. They de feated the Hilanders earlier this year at Burns, 59-48. Saturday s contest will be a non-league game, as Burns is in the eastern half of the league. r;;'i 'hi Hi 1 nv- ted SNOW-COVERED trees enhance the venerable Morrow county courthouse. (G-T Photo). Wildlife Film Set For Public Showing Here Next Week "Eastern Oregon Wildlife" is subject of a 90-minute color film which will be shown Wed nesday evening, January 22, at 7:30 p.m., at the Morrow county fair pavilion. Members of the Two Trackers 4-H club will sponsor the film, and invite per sons of all ages to attend. Ad mission for an entire family will be $3.00, or adults, $1.50, stu dents, 75c, and children under six, free. The film will show a wide variety of wildlife in Eastern Oregon which is not often seen by the casual traveler. The wild life, photographed by Wilcox Bros, of Vale, are shown in their natural habitat in the Malheur Bird Refuge, at Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge and in the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area. Var ieties jf wildlife will include deer, elk, antelope, mountain sheep, sand hill cranes, trump eter swans, coyotes, and other.-;. The pur lit is urged to attend r r- L - '. y 1 ' K . 1 ' re '. S u f ( A FOUR BOYS built an Igloo. They are (below) David Schwarzin and Dwain Wolfe, and (standing) Jack Unrein and Robert Wolfe. Crown of the igloo was yet to be completed when the photo was taken at the Rev. Robert Wolfe residence. (G-T Photo). rnr- i V 1 ff b3 "f:." '' k-i 'X 1 t " .. -i - - BLANKETS of snow covered autos at the Heppner Auto Sales lot, (G-T Photo). Mothers March Slated Monday Night in County - Mothers throughout Morrow county will be out doing their share to wage the war on crip pling polio and birth defects as they join forces Monday night, January 20, for the annual Mothers March on behalf of the March of Dimes. Mothers will start their march at 5 p.m., and will call door-to-door in Heppner, Lexington, lone, Irrigon and Boardman to collect donations which will be turned over to the National Foundation to be used In the fight against birth defects. Director for the Morrow coun ty chapter of the March of Dimes is Mrs. Len Ray Schwarz, whose efforts have produced a well organized county campaign in this year's annual fund rais ing drive. Assisting Mrs. Schwarz are Mrs. Elwayne Bergstrom and Mrs. Bob Bergstrom, co-directors; Mrs. Bruce Griffith, chairman of the Heppner Mothers March; Mrs. Matt Hughes, publicity chairman; Mrs. Eddie Gunder son. Morrow county treasurer for the March of Dimes; and Sandy Matheny, Heppner High school student, chairman of TAP, pro gram for teenagers. Chairman for the lone Moth ers March will be Mrs. Ralph Kincaid, and Lexington chair man is Mrs. Ed Baker. In Irri gon and Boardman, members of the Catholic Altar Society will join forces to canvas these ar eas for contributions. Goals of the 1969 campaign are to inform the general pub lic of the necessity of proper medical checkups during preg nancy and to aid those child ren already born who are suf fering from birth defects. To do this effectively a goal of $900 for January March of Dimes ac tivities throughout Morrow county is being sought. In the past, contributions from the March of Dimes have help ed to conquer polio and in the future substantial contributions to the National Foundation will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of children born with birth defects. In announcing the TAP San dy says, "January is March of Dimes month, so be sure to bring your change to the Burns game Saturday night, as the cheer leaders have agreed to 'pass the blanket,' during half time activities of the game. Please come and donate to this very important cause." Gienger in Vietnam Army Private First Class Wil fred L. Gienger. 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie J. Gienger, Monument, was assigned to the 22nd Artillery near An Khe, Vietnam. November 23 as a mechanic, the Army Home Town News Center reports. r ' J--- :.m W ' i JIM LOVGREN home nestles snugly behind snow -laden trees and shrubbery, (G-T Photo).
