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HEPPNER
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Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, February
Mustang 5 Seeks
Tourney Clincher
In Sherman Game
WESTERN DIVISION
V Li
Wahtonka 5 1
Heppner 3 2
Pilot Rock 3 3
Madras J j
Sherman 1 5
EASTERN DIVISION
W L
Grant Union J
Vale 6 1
Burns
Nyssa c
Enterprise 0 6
Br MARK POINTER
Heppner High's Mustangs can
clinch a spot at the District 7-A-2
tourney at La Grande with
a victory over the Sherman
County Huskies. This game will
be played on Heppncr's homo
court Saturday night, March 1.
The Mustangs will be looking
for revenge against the Hus
kios as the western division cel
lar dwellers upset the Mustangs
two week-ends ago.
This will be the last home
appearance for seven seniors on
the Mustang squad. Jon O'Don
ncll, Gary Kemp. Calvin Ash
beck, Mel Ashbeck, Jerry Healy,
Mike Smith, and Larry Petty,
john, all have supported the
Mustang cagers through the
season.
The Huskies have scoring
punch with Dick Richelderfer,
Jeff Paulson, and Eugene Tsu
bota providing the Moro team
with plenty of support.
A loss to Sherman County
could drop Heppner out of the
district tournament. If Pilot Rock
defeats Wahtonka this week and
then downed Heppner in a play
off game, that would end it for
the Mustangs.
However, if Heppner wins ov
er Sherman and Wahtonka los
es one of its remaining games,
the Mustangs would be tied for
first spot in the western divis
ion. If Wahtonka loses both its
remaining games, while Hepp
ner wins, the Mustangs would
be uncontested champions.
And there are other possi
ble combinations. But one thing
is certain, a victory over Sher
man Saturday night will put
- , the Heppner lads in the tour--'
nament on March 7 and 8 for
sure. . , .
At this time, Wahtonka and
Heppner appear to loom as en
trants from the west in the
tournament while Grant Union
and Vale have the call from the
eastern division of the Greater
Oregon League. Winner of the
district tournament will go to
state at Coos Bay.
lone Lions Slate
Jr. High Tourney
Four basketball teams will
participate in a junior high tour
nament at lone Saturday, spon
sored by the lone Lions club.
Competing will be the junior
high teams from lone, Arling
ton, Riverside and Hermiston.
This is the first time that
such a tournament has b een
held, and it is hoped that it
can be made an annual event
to give the junior high players
a chance for competition.
First game is scheduled at
10 a.m., pitting lone against
Arlington. Second game will be
at 11 a.m., matching Hermiston
with Riverside, and consolation
game will be at 2 p.m. with the
championship contest conclud
ing the day at 3 p.m.
Lunch will be served at noon
for both players and spectators.
The public is invited and sup
port is requested to encourage
the young players in this invi
tational tournament. Admission
is nominal, $1.50 for adults and
high school students for all
games, or 50c for a single game.
For junior high children, the
full day's admission is 75c or
25c per single game.
There will also be a nominal
charge for lunch, which will be
in the lone cafetorium. The
tournament will be played in
the lone High School gym.
$33,000 in Relief
Here Seen in Bill
State Representative Irvin
Mann, Stanfield, said today that
Morrow county would receive
$33,000 in direct property tax re
lief over a two year period un
der a program approved by the
House last Thursday.
Mann voted for the measure
which would shift welfare costs
from the counties to the state,
so that property tax dollars
would no longer be used to fi
nance welfare.
The proposal, Mann said, will
also remove the unpalatable
situation whereby counties are
black-jacked into paying for
programs they cannot control.
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IF ONE PUTS THE QUESTION. "Will the real goat please stand up?" there might be some con
iuZn fa this picture, for all are standing, and any of them could be the qoa Han n bal. the one
with the long ears and lour legs, will proudly admit he's a goat Jerry Hollomon (leit). presi.
dent ci thV HeOTnerjWwea. could have been the goat if his chapter didn't get two new mem.
r. dS mSn, Us around Friday (but they did). The two Condon g
Cooney and Dewey Kennedy, are also In the running to be goats, if they should have Hannl
bal Friday night The Condon boys brought Hannibal to Heppner In the dark of night ta WM
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Carnival Proceeds
To Buy Uniforms
For School Band
Plans for Heppncr's Annual
Band Carnival, which is sched
uled for the Morrow County
Fairgrounds, Saturday, April 19,
are moving ahead nicely, the
sponsoring committee reports.
New gold wool blazers for the
band have arrived. The blazers
are part of the complete new
uniforms this carnival's pro
ceeds will finance. Other parts
of the uniform, probably trous
ers, skirts, turtleneck sweaters
and maybe berets, will be pre
dominantly blue. It is hoped the
complete uniforms will be here
before the district basketball
tournament in La Grande.
Many people are becoming in
volved in the carnival project.
School students and adults are
promising help. Bandmaster Ar
nie Hadman has delegated sev
eral big jobs. Mrs. Hedman will
lead the group of mothers who
will prepare and serve dinner
that evening. Mrs. Bud Marsh
all, Mrs. Bill Johnson, and Mrs.
Cecil McDaniel are busy gath-
orinor lictc nf nnrpnts who will
operate various booths for that
night.
A dance committee is at work
setting up the dance which will
start at 10:00 on carnival night.
Spray Kickoff Dance
Opens Rodeo Season;
May 24-25 Dates Set
The Kick -Off Dance for the
21st annual Spray Rodeo, held
in the Spray gymnasium on Sat
urday, February 15, drew a
crowd of 200.
During intermission, Spray
Rodeo Association President
Don Griffith introduced the ro
deo court and presented them
with their tickets. Music for the
dance was provided by "The
Outlaws" of Mitchell and the
Spray junior class served a mid
night supper.
Members of the Spray Rodeo
Court are Phyllis Linn of John
rimi. Bsirhara fnssitt. Snrav:
Vohda Hettinga, Dayville; Becky
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Fulieton, Heppner; ana ikuuk
Tippet, Monument.
Following a regularly sched
uled meeting on Friday nignt
and a special executive meeting
on Saturday morning, the Spray
Rodeo Association has changed
the dates of the rodeo, original
ly scheduled for May 17 and 18,
in Mau 24 and 25. Stock for the
TOueO Will uc lumiaiicu uy
Gibbs of Yelm, Wash., and Bob
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The Spray Rodeo Association
will next sponsor a Smoker and
Dance on Saturday, April 5.
Basketball Proqram
Billed for Chamber
With basketball fever having
reached a high pitch as tour
nament time Is coming, Coach
Bob Clough and some of the
Heppner Mustangs will be on
the program at the Chamber of
Commerce meeting Monday.
Ed Miley, managere of Farm
Chemicals of Oregon, was orig
inally scheduled to speak Mon
day, but he asked that his ap
pearance be postponed until la
ter in the spring, Mrs. Avon
Melby, program chairman, said.
27, 1969
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Harassed Hollomon Hosts
Hannibal, Hustles Help
Out of the dark of night last
Wednesday, a unique visitor
arrived in Heppner. He may
not have been distinguished
but he was aromatic, and al
though his arrival was unex
pected, he felt perfectly at
home and was willing to make
a stay of it.
.The visitor was Hannibal, a
handsome goat that figures in
a Jaycee membership drive.
Two of the Condon Jaycees,
President Bob Cooney and
Dewey Kennedy, brought Han
nibal over unannounced to the
Morrow county chapter, in
session Wednesday night.
The terms and conditions
concerning Hannibal, who was
originally from Gooding, Ida
ho, stipulate that a club must
keep him until it gets new
members equivalent to each
1000 population of the town
it serves.
Condon achieved its goal
and hastily packed Hannibal's
bags to move him elsewhere
Heppner, no less.
Another clause in Hanni
bal's conditions is that the
president must keep him at
his home until the member
ship conditions are met.
Fortunately for Jerry Hollo
mon, president of the Morrow
county chapter, the local group
had just accepted two new
members when the Condon
pair came in with the be
whiskered visitor. This met
the population standard. Pres
ident Hollomon had hustled
his henchmen as if he might
have had a premonition about
Hannibal.
As to the matter of being
hosts for the goat, Mrs. Hollo
mon had a voice in this. It
wasn't Hannibal's taste in
cosmetics that she took excep
tion to, but she knew there
was an ordinance against
keeping a goat in the city,
without the neighbors' per
mission. If there hadn't been,
'Yesteryears' Set
As Parade Theme
"Yesteryears of Morrow" will
be the theme of the 1969 Mor
row county rodeo parade, Kan
dall Peterson, parade chairman,
announced this week.
The theme was chosen from
contest entries submitted last
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Soroptimist club of Heppner act-
J n i.,A,mr T"Vi n nMrininrr on.
members of the
ed as judges. The winning en
try was submitted by Mrs. Gar
ry (Birdine) Tullis of lone.
Twenty-four suggestions were
submitted for the theme in the
contest conducted, Peterson said.
For her winning entry, Mrs. Tul
lis will receive two free tickets
to each afternoon performance
of the rodeo.
Golden Age to Meet
Regular monthly meetings of
the Heppner Golden Age club
will resume Tuesday evening,
March 4, at the Episcopal par
ish hall. A potluck dinner will
be served at 7:00 p.m., followed
by a short business session and
variety of entertainment. Vis
itors are welcome to attend.
Price 10 Cents
she undoubtedly would have
prevailed on Mayor Bill Col
lins to summon the council in
special session and pass one.
So Hannibal was sent out
to pasture in Hager's field in
the southeast part of town and
Bob Hager kept an eye on him.
At last report the Morrow
Jaycees were plotting to hast
ily haul Hannibal to some
other unsuspecting club. The
chapter which has him when
the competition ends, has to
transport him all the way
back to Gooding, and nobody
wants to be the Well, like
Hannibal.
JERRY HEALY
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Two Win Elks Awards
Sue Ellen Greenup and Jerry
Healy, Heppner High school
seniors, were recipients of the
annual Elks' youth leadership
awards at the afternoon session
of the 72nd anniversary celebra
tion of Heppner Elks Lodge No.
358, on Saturday, February 22.
Making the presentation was
R R. (Whitey) Schroth, Hermis
ton, state president of the Ore
gon Elks Association, assisted
by Darrell Padberg, exalted rul
er of the Heppner Lodge. The
recipients will receive $100 U.S.
Savings Bonds in recognition of
the honor. ,
Sue Ellen is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Don Greenup, and
has been an active leader
through high school years. This
year she holds the office of vice
president of both the Girls' Pep
club and the Future Business
Leaders of America. She is
chairman of sports in the Girls
Athletic Association, has been
chosen Girl of the Month for the
qualities of honesty and sports
manship, and has been a leader
in Girls' League and Future
Homemakers of America. She is
a third year member of the Nat
ional Honor Societey.
In recognition of her active
years and leadership in 4-H
work, Sue Ellen was chosen one
of two county delegates to State
4-H Club Conference in Salem
earlier this month. Her 4-H live
stock projects and judging at
county and state fairs have won
her many awards.
She gained recognition last
summer as a princess on the
Increasing cost are reflected
in I he proposed iyti'J-70 budget
for Morrow county school district
1(1 which ha been prepared by
the budget committee and U
published for the first time In
thin paper on pages 2 and 3 of
section two.
Total budget requirements In
the general fund are shown nt
S1,385,!W2 as compared with
$1,266,220 In the 19i8-69 budg
..i T.,inl Hint wnuld bo reauired
to be raised from taxes for the
upcoming budget Is jush,wj.
hs compured with $1,041,118 for
the current school year, nil in
crease of $152.5J2.
Public hearing on me ouugei
is scheduled for Monday night,
March 17, at 7:30 p.m. In the
SBA Officials
Available for
Two Portland officials of the
Small Business Administration,
Robert A. Gaynor and Del Put-
man, outlined how the bBA can
help community development in
.I..! , f ra nt the HeDD-
ner-Morrow county Chamber ol
Commerce Monday.
Gaynor described how the
SBA can help a local develop
ment corporation with loans as
much as 90 for communities
the size of Heppner to finance
new business ventures or indus
try, or for use in expanding pres
ent industry.
A minimum of 25 stockhold
ers in the company or corpora
tion is required. The corporation
can take the money to build a
facility, such as in an industrial
park. It may lease this to small
business, giving it an option to
buy; it can build a plant and
sell it on contract; or it can
loan money to a business to
build its own building.
The SBA guarantee can be up
to 90 of a bank loan. Gaynor
outlined several loan arrange
ments that may be worked out
with local banks, one of the
vnt:t nnmmnn heinp a first and
second mortgage plan with the
bank participating with perhaps
25 of the needed financing and
the SBA 75.
Cn,ontv.fivn nnrrent of the
stockholders must be from the
local area, and they must put up
:al area, ana tw.o.
a "reasonaDie equity,
a town the size ol Heppner is
firprt t 10. Thus, a develop-
ment corporation could raise
$10,000 and get financing for a
venture of $100,000, the SBA
loan being at the rate of 5V3
interest with a maximum pay
off period of 30 years.
Gaynor outlined the history
of the SBA from its start in
SUE ELLEN GREENUP
Morrow County Fair and Rodeo
court. ,
Following graduation, Sue El
len plans to enter nurses train
ing at Emanuel hospital in Port
land, and later continue in a
specialized field.
Jerry, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Healy, has displayed lead
ership in a wide variety of ac
tivities while attending Hepp
ner High school.
He is currently serving as stu
dent body president, and is a
member of the varsity basket
ball team. He is a four-year
letterman in baseball and in his
sophomore year, was chosen all
league first baseman. He has
represented his class on the stu
dent council, served as fresh
man class president, is a mem
ber of the National Honor Soc
iety, a leader in the H-Club
Athletic organization, and active
in dramatics.
A highlight of last year for
Jerry was his selection as a dele
gate to Boys' State Convention in
Corvallis. . ,
Jerry plans to continue his ed
ucation at Eastern Oregon Col
lege, majoring in business ad
ministration. ,
Contestants from Heppner and
lone High schools were judged
by a committee in the education
field. Thev are chosen on the
merits of leadership, citizenship,
appreciation, perseverence, re
sourcefulness, sense of humor,
integrity, sportsmanship, gener
al character and reputation.
Neatness and arrangement of a
brochure prepared for the award
is also considered in the judging.
school district office In Lexing
ton. All Interested person are
urged to attend to present their
view on the budget. In the
meantime, the M-Mool admin!
trutoin and member of the
budget committee will welcome
any questions, and Supt. Hon
Daniel will make apearnnccs
before organizations, on invita
tion, to explain the budget.
Increases in the budget are
particularly reflected In 11 sec
tion. Instructional salaries nre list
ed at $U.lt9 more for the up
coming year despite the fact
that the teacher negotiation
committee's original request of
a So 100 starting base and 5
increments was settled at $6100
Tell of Aid
Development
1953. In its first 15 years, ap
proximately 100.000 loans have
been made, totaling about Si
billion. Local development loans,
with this program starting in
195S. total about 2,000.
Putman, who was born in
lone and once worked for Bert
Mason there, told of what some
other communities have done
through local development
loans.
Parma, Idaho, witnout a doc
tor, built a medical clinic and
thus acquired a doctor.
llillsboro's development cor
poration has provided 1200 jobs
through its program. Only one
industry is financed by the SBA.
McMinnville recently dedicat
ed nine new plants in one day.
A new steel mill there Is fi
nanced through the SBA pro
gram. Sweet Home, hurt by loss of
laborers with completion of the
Foster and Green Peter dams,
formed a development company,
put up a tannery with 100 per
sons putting in $100 each. The
h.,nr ma,!,, a first morteage
loan and the SBA a second
mortgage loan to provide the
$90,000 additional needed. A
second project was the erection
of a millwork plant to make
cooling tower stock. The com
pany thus provided ou ,ous
within five months after it was
formed.
Coos Bay's development com
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was instrumental in siami.
I seafood processing piant.
nnmnH:ilp. Tdaho. developed a
hardwood mill plant.
in iwnrmw rniintv. noiato pro
cessing, pellet plants, and rec
reation aeveiopmenis are tum
ble for consideration, as possi
ble examples of what might be
done, Putman said.
The talks were received wun
ir.fr.mft nnri manv ouestions
"avked regarding communi
ty development program. Gene
Pierce, secona vice-pitsiui-m,
presided in the absence of Jerry
Sweeney, president.
Jepsen in Chicago
To Promote Wheat
Bob Jepsen of lone, past pres
ident of the Oregon Wheat
League, flew to Chicago Mon
rtirinate in two nat
ional meetings for the promo
tion of wneat. ,
Named as representative of
the Wheat League, Jepsen met
with the Wheat and Wheat
Foods Foundation to pian pro
motion for more use of wheat,
and on Wednesday attended a
meeting with the Wheat Flour
Institute to work on a sandwich
promotion program.
Tho Fnunrlatinn combines
growers, millers and bakers in
a joint etrort. unoer discussion
was a proposal for legislation
that would permit the group to
tax itself for promotional pur
poses. A proposed tax on the
industries would bring in more
than $1 million for the purpose,
Jepsen said before leaving Mon
day.
At the Wednesday meeting,
Jepsen was one of a 6-man na
tional wheat committee work
ing with the Wheat Flour In
stitute to lay plans for promo
tion of Sandwich Month in Aug
ust and the Day of Bread Fes
tival, a new promotion, in Oc
tober. Kincaid Injured
In Auto Accident
Ralph Kincaid, 34, lone, was
injured in a one-vehicle acci
dent sometime prior to 4 a.m.
Monday, February 24. His car
struck a bridge abutment on the
highway between Lexington and
Heppner near the Jim Bloods
worth place.
He was brought to Pioneer
Memorial hospital for treatment
and inuries were reported by his
doctor as being those of a mild
concussion and facial lacerat
ions. Kincaid was expected to
be confined to the hospital un
til Friday.
He was traveling north at the
timo nf thp arrident and hit the
bridge railing on his left side of
the highway. His car was ex
tensively damaged.
anil 4'1. with a $050 per month
participation In the teachers'
health Insurance plan by the
district.
Accounting f"f the increased
cost in the nulury section are
the Increment a provided in
the salary Kchodulc, amounting
to $1-1,000; the salary Increase
(raising the base from SootiO to
Ju'iKKii, amounting to a total of
$10,000; addition of three tstaff
members, $20,0X1.
The budget lists requirements
for teacher salaries at $773.5itf,
ns compared with $?29.37U in
the current budget.
The Hection "other expenses
o Instruction" Is up $3,855 to
provide for teaching supplies for
t,,niri fitiMrw-t mutter areas.
This series was reduced 10
last year which eliminated some
materials that Instructors felt
were needed. The total for this
section is $22,515 as compared
with SIS.GfiO for 19ti8-69.
Transportation Up Soro
Transportation shows an In
creased cost of $3,995 because
of the addition of one halftlme
driver at A. C. Houghton school
and an Increase in the cost of
transportation insurance. Trans
portation is listed at $108,330
for l!M9-70 as compared with
$104,335 for 1968-69.
Operation of plant shows an
Increase of $9,475, going to $137,
965 from $128,190. The increase
is due to the addition of a part
time custodian at Riverside, sal
ary raises totaling $5,000, an In
crease in supplies of 10 or
$1,100, and an increase In heat,
water and electricity of about
$4,000.
Maintenance of plant shows
an increase of $2,903, going to
$28,665 from $25,762 to replace
a larger amount of equipment.
Fixed charges show one of
the greatest increases in the
budget. Retirement fund pay
ments are listed at $50,600. climb
ing $9,800 from the $-10,800 of
1968-69 due to the Increase in
total salaries and in the rate of
employer contributions. Social
security is up $3,328, reflecting
the higher rate of district con-
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year from 4.4 as required by
the federal government), sum
social security payments will
take $40,528 in district funds as
compared to $37,200 for 1968-69.
Employee insurance win no uu
by $11,315, from $4,500 to $15,
8i5, as a result of board action
granting partial district partici
pation in the employee health
Insurance t$b.tw per monui pam
by the district ol the total pay
ment of $13 per employee).
Outlay Items Added
Capital outlay items account
fnr tv.net- nf the rest nf the in
crease in the budget. Improve
ment to sites shows a climb of
$10,600, most of which Is ac
counted for by a $iu,uuo item
ihat woa nut in th hlldcret for
Improvement of the roads to
Heppner High. Ths figure Is ex
pected to be adjusted at the
budget hearing when exact costs
have been determined. The
amnttnt hunVptprt for imnrnvp.
ment to sites is $14,350 as com-
pared with $3,750 for 1968-69.
Funds for remodeling lone El
ementary and Heppner Junior
u,rrh Tiivpeiipu tn flphleve a
standard rating with the State
Board of Education, increase ine
This section for 1968-69 called
fnr evnenrlitnrps of 813.400. ana
$18,528 is listed for 1969-70.
Under new equipment tne
budget is up $6,045 due to ad
ditional requests for new equip-
mont nt nil Kphnnls. In the 1968-
69 budget this figure was $13,-
354, and it is listed at
for 1969-70.
Pearsons Purchase
Pharmacy in Idaho
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Pearson
have purchased a drug store in
Council, Idaho, and he expects
to begin operation of the store
March 15, they have announced.
The store is Council Rexall
Drugs, which is being purchased
from the estate of Streeter
Beall, the owner, who died in
December.
Pearson has been with Murray
Rexall Drug as a pharmacist for
the past four years. He came
here from Boise, where he was
a medical representative for the
Upjohn Company for 10 years.
Council is located 53 miles
north of Weiser, Idaho, and
Pearson states that it Is a town
similar to Heppner with the
same type of territory to serve.
The family has offered their
home here for sale.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Pearson
have been active in work of the
Methodist church here, in PTA,
and other community affairs.
More White Stuff
With .8 inch of snow record
ed Monday and .5 Tuesday, win
ter has not given up in Hepp
ner yet, and a light fall was
coming down Tuesday night. It
turned cooler, too, with mini
mums below freezing every
night, according to the weekly
report of Don Gilliam, weather
observer. Complete report is as
follows:
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Hi Low Prec.
38 30
34 26
31 29 .02
40 21
41 29 .02
41 21 .05
32 18 .05'
( .8 Inch snow; .5 inch snow).