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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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;
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Daniels Urges Public
To Attend Hearing
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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."