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1 1 IRART u or I U 1 c N r , ore. 97403 fUI HOOp Champions Number 3 O m If 4a te GAZETTE-TIMES om or Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, March 13, 1969 Price 10 Cents 86th Year THE tfm r; f f ji JON ODONNELL. senior captain of the Heppner Mustangs, accepts district champion trophy at La Grande Saturday night from Jo DeMarsh of Mora district chairman. DeMarsh is superintendent-principal ef Sherman County High School. (HHS Photo). Mustangs Draw No. I Sutherlin (Also See Page 4 and Page 1, Sec. 2) Carrying the banner of the Greater Oregon League and District 7 A-2, Hepprier High's Mustangs will leave Sunday for the State A-2 Basketball Tour nament at Coos Bay, playing there for the second straight year and for the third time in five years. The tournament, in the Marshfield High gym, runs from Monday, March 17, through Wednesday, March 19. The Mustangs, who won the district champion ship in close, hard-fought victories over Vale's Vi kings, 49 to 47, and Wahtonka's Eagles, 51 to 50, will face Sutherlin, last year's state champions and dis trict 6 standard bearers this year, in a first round game at 3:30 Monday. This will follow the opening eame at 2 P.m. which pits Myr tle Point, generally ranked No. 2 in the state behind Sutherlin, against Dayton. Myrtle Point represents district 4 while Day ton is district 2 champion. In the evening at 7:30 Cres well, district 5, meets Newport, district 3, and at 9:15, Vernonia, district 1, faces Gladstone, dis trict 8. Players will leave Heppner at 8 a.m. Sunday, together wnn members of the pep club and pep band, coaches and mana gers. The school will send two buses, and Principal dick car penter said that about 50 in the pep band ana pep ciud are ex pected to make the trip. The school ordered 60 adult reserved seat tickets for support ors who plan to drive down, and Principal Carpenter said Tues day that only a few were left. Those planning to go who have not obtained tickets should con tact him. Cost for a season tick et is $7 for adults and $3.50 for students. This year the team will stay at the Pony Village Motor Lodge, and the pep club and pep band will be housed in the Bayshore Motel. Broadcasts Scheduled For those fans who cannot at tend, Heppner's tournament games will be broadcast through the Heppner TV, Inc., cable sys tem, coming over Channel 3, with audio only. The Heppner games will also be broadcast over Radio Station KUMA, Pen dleton. The first will be at 3:30 Monday. If the team wins, the second game will be at 7:30 Tuesday night. If it loses, it will play probably at 2 p.m. lues- day afternoon. The players and students traveling by bus will have lunch in Salem and the contingent will arrive in plenty of time for the Mustangs to work out in the big Marshfield High gym between 7 and 8 p.m. Sunday night. Sutherlin isn't a big team but probably ranges a bit taller than the Mustangs. The five starters are 6-4', 6-2, 6-2, 6-0, and 5-10. Among the big scorers for the team are Dave Chandler, Mike Vermeer and J. D. Leaf gren, the latter one of the small er men on the squad. Boys in Good Shape Coach Bob Clough said that all his boys are in good phys ical condition for the tourna (Continued on page 8) Farm Bureau Slates Meeting Interest in the Morrow County Farm Bureau was reactivated at a meeting Monday evening at the home of Herman Blettell, acting chairman. Plans were made for an im portant meeting for members and other interested persons on Friday, March 21, at 8:00 p.m. in the office of Morrow County Grain Growers in Lexington. Special guests for the meet ing will be Cliff Wright, direct or of organization for Oregon Farm Bureau, and Waldron Johnson. 2nd vice-president of Oregon Farm Bureau, botn ol Salem. They will discuss meas ures which are currently before the Oregon legislature, inciua ine sales tax, property tax re lief, farm labor laws, lnneri- tance and estate problems, lrri- eation and wells, income tax reforms, and others of general interest. Thev will seek to gain er information from farmers in this area to use in lobbying on the measures, in the best inter est of the farm organization. All interested persons are invit ed to attend. Kids Stage Sales, Services to Raise Money for Tourney High school students are planning to offer sales and services to the public to help raise money to defray their expenses of going to Coos Bay. Here is the lineup: PEP BAND Boxed candy sale, Wednes day afternoon and evening and Thursday afternoon and evening. Car wash Saturday after noon at Cal's Richfield. Window washing Saturday in the business district. The band will also collect bottles Thursday to be sold. PEP CLUB Bake sale Thursday at 2 p.m.. Central Market. Car wash Saturday morning at Cal's Richfield. Port Completes 4,000 Acre Block Spring Vacation Set for Schools Just in case anyone doesn't know it, next week March 17 21 is spring vacation time in Morrow county schools, and both teachers and students will get a respite from the long winter's work. Many from Heppner will head Coos Bay way for the state tour nament now that the Mustangs have won a place. Others will have other plans for the time. School will resume in the coun ty on Monday, March 24'. Final work or completing a 4.0uOacre block of land in the Port of Morrow waterfront in dustrial park was done Tuesday when members of the Port Com mission took deed to the of fice of Mrs. Sadie Punish, coun ty clerk, for filing. This was the deed to lands acquired on trade through the Slate Land Board after years of necotiation and makes the 4,000 acres intact. Here to file the deed were Dewey West, presi dent of the commission; Gar Swanson. treasurer; Larry Lind say, a commissioner; and Ru pert Kennedy of The Dalles, co ordinator for the commission. As now completed, the park land starts immediately east of Boardman and runs 4'i miles east along the Columbia River with 16.000 feet on the naviga tion channel. The Union Pacific Railroad mainline and U. S. Freeway 80 North .and Highway 730 traverse the property which provides excellent transportation facility. The Bonneville Power Administration grid also runs through the site and two rail road companies have added their property to the park. Land Virtually Level The industrial land is virtual ly level and the elevations are compatible to the Columbia Riv er. The soil is a combination of sand and gravel with a light loam cover which is easily work ed and provides good founda tions, President West said. The site provides a corridor between the 50,000 acre Navy practice bombing range and the Columbia River which may be used in the future to carry nu clear coolant waters, Columbia River water, railroads and other facilities as irrigation develops in the area. The. Port tf I0rrow was formed and funded in 1960-61 and several of its members elected to the original board. The present board is composed of West, Boardman, president; Oscar Peterson, lone, vice-president; Swanson, lone, treasurer; John R. Krebs, Cecil, secretary; and Lindsay of Lexington. Ken nedy is agent and coordinator. Interestingly, the commission acquired land and was twice re moved from the Columbia wa terfront in the last eight years. This was caused by the John Day Dam prolect and the for mation of the Umatilla Wildlife refuge. Efforts of the commission to this time, however, are re warded by the Port of Morrow owning one of the largest port waterfront industrial parks in the northwest. Land was acquired from pri vate and public owners, and portions were sold to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser vice, then re-purchased along with public lands owned by the U. S. Bureau of Land Manage ment. 3t Section Traded Through the recent acquisit ion of 3'i sections of BLM land with the cooperation of Hie State Land Rourd. Governor Tom M d'all's office in Salem, the BLM's Portland office and the Corps of Engineers at Walla (Continued on page 8) 3 Months Study Of Labor Force Scheduled Here County Judge Paul Jones and Eldon Cone, employment serv ice director of the Oregon De partment of Employment, today Jointly announced a forthcom ing three month study of the labor force and economy of Mor row county. The study will begin in late March and will require two to three months of field work In the county. Field work will be under the direction of Clifford Ingham, supervisor of the Smaller Communities Services Program for the Department of Employment. The field staff will be headquartered in the old li brary space adjacent to the City Hall and will consist of three persons from the Salem head quarters of the department, sup plemented by four persons who will be hired locally on a tern porary basis. The study will cover such things ae present manpower use and future manpower needs as estimated on the basis of pres ently operating industry in the county; the availability of man power, both for presently oper ating industry and possible fu ture additions; availability and cost of such utilities as water, power, and sewage; tax revenue and expenditures; land usage and availability of industrial sites. A report of the findings of the study will be made avail able to county authorities and to any non-profit industrial de velopment organizations who may be interested in bringing new industry into the county. However, according to Cone, the chief value of the study and the report of the findings will H7: I : 1 v : ; j , ; 1 ..... - 't. " . . .. f r,- ,' 1 ; i MRS. LTLE (NEVA) MATTESON. for years one of the top sales. ladies for J. C Penney Company, will observe her ZMn annl Tersary a an associate in the Heppner Penney store this week end. (C-T Photo). In Nation's Top 10 for 10 Years Saturday Event to Fete Neva For 25 Years Service toPublic It will be open house at Pen- nevs in Heppner Saturday when friends and the public are in vited to visit the store to hon or Mrs. Lvle (Neva) Matteson, who has completed 25 years as an associate in the store. Coffee and cookies will be served to all who come to ex tend felicitations. New Hours Slated For Ski Course (Continued on page 8) Letter Requests Willow Creek Aid County Judge Paul Jones told the Chamber of Commerce Monday that Congressman Al Ullman has written him urging that he plan to come to Wash ington, D. C, in late May to appear at appropriations com mittee meetings in the interests of the Willow Creek dam project. More Moisture Week's weather brought .52 more incnes oi moisiure uui sunshine and hints of spring took over by the end of the week. Complete report from Don Gilliam, official observer, is as follows: 1 trss -Cj p New hours have been estab lished for the Sunday operation of the Arbuckle Mountain ski course for the balance of the month of March, it is announc ed. The course will be open from 12:30 or 1 p.m. until 3:30 or 4:00 p.m. Skiers have not been arriving until after noon or later. Fourteen inches of new snow was reported by last week-end, and there is an abundant sup ply of snow on the mountain. Operators ask the public to drive carefully on the road to the mountain because the plow ed lane is narrow and snow is banked high on the sides. Mrs. Matteson, who was born at Long Creek, is ranked as one of the best salespersons for the J. C. Penney firm throughout the United States. For 10 consecu tive years she was among the top 10 in sales among associ ates across the nation. She might still be in the top 10, if the company still follow ed the practice of naming the select list. The practice was dis continued when the firm started its credit system a number of years ago. In both 1967 and 1964 Mrs. Matteson led the J. C. Penney zone in the small stores cate gory for sales in the Dress Car nival, an annual event. The zone includes Oregon, Washington, Califoria and parts of Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and New Mex ico. It is a rare occasion when she doesn't lead sales in the district on a monthly basis. Under Nine Managers During her 25 years in the Heppner store, Mrs. Matteson has served under nine different managers. In order they have been Blaine J. Elliot, now re. tired in The Dalles, 1 years; Jeff Carter, now in Ontario, four years; Richard Brunner, now in business in Seattle, 1V4 years; (Continued on page 8) 6 - Cr-J Daniels Urges Public To Attend Hearing Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Hi Low Prec. 50 35 .14 41 32 .33 40 31 .05 40 27 38 24 39 20 44 22 PRIZED DONATION to the museum here is this fine antique arand piano, the aift of Mrs. Tuan- ita (Kietmann) Meiena, formerly ot lone ana now of Ontario. Mrs. Rachel Harnett curator of the museum, stands beside the piano which was shipped around the Horn in 1852. (G-T Photo) Piano That Made Trip Around Horn Given to Museum An ornate square grand piano with mother of pearl keys is a cherished new addition to the museum here, having been do nated by Mrs. Juanita (Riet mann) Meiena, formerly of lone and now of Ontario where she lives with her husband, W. E. Meiena. The piano, a Swedish make, was shipped via Cape Horn from New York to Portland in 1852 by Joseph Sedlac (pronounced Sedlock), who had a music store near the Meier store on First street in Portland. He sold and rented musical instruments and taught piano and violin. Sedlac died in Vienna of a heart attack. He had taken his oldest daughter there to furth er her education. Sedlac was a Gibson), now Mrs. Meiena brother-in-law of Lewis Dozlar Gibson who acquired the piano and hauled it to Eugene by team and wagon. His home was on land now covered by the Fern Ridge reservoir. Mrs. E. May (Gibson) Hartog, the youngest daughter, had the piano in her home in Portland, and in 1926 gave it to her niece, Mrs. Werner Rietmann (Juanita Supt. Ron Daniels of Morrow County Schools has issued an appeal for residents of the coun ty to attend the school district budget hearing on Monday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the district office at Lexington. "The reason I feel a special plea is necessary this year is that I consider our budget vote on April 7 to be a very critical election, he said. A yes vote is important tu us for several reasons. First is the fact that our teachers' salary schedule is $350 below the average starting salary for teachers in Oregon. Our teachers agreed to accept this low salary schedule be cause they recognized the budg et problems we might face. If the voters reject the proposed budget on April 7, it will add to the low morale that now ex ists in our schools. "Perhaps 'low morale' is not the proper description, but our teachers are concerned about the school district future," he continued. "We required three elections last year before a budget was finally approved. This, coupled with our low sal ary schedule, will not only make it difficult to retain the teachers we now have, but it will be very difficult to hire suitable relacements for the teachers that do leave." Daniels said that a budget de feat on April 7 would make the situation much worse. "I am not asking voters to blindly accept the budget as it now stands, but I am request ing that they become acquaint ed with our proposed budget, and if they feel changes should be made, to appear at our budg et hearing and request these changes." At the budget hearing Mon day night the board and budg et committee can change any item up to 10 percent so loflg as it does not increase the amount to be raised by taxes. ' 'This means that it is possi ble to reduce the budget at the hearine. and I am certain that some budget reductions will be made at the hearing," the su perintendent said. "I would like to urge all in terested parties to attend the budget hearing and voice any dissatisfaction you might have at that time." Daniels added. "If you do not approve of the budg et as it now stands, please make your wishes known at the hearing and not by a 'no' vote at the election on April 7. A successful budget election on the first vote is of paramount importance for the good of ed ucation in Morrow county."
