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2 HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. Morf 8. 1969 THE W ;fv HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner, Oregon 9783S Phone 676-9228 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30. 1883. The Heppner Times establlsnea JMovemoer 18, ivv. consonaaica reoruary id, 1912. MEMBER mm v 'O1' NIWSMPI PUBLIIHIII ASSOCIATION Association Founded 1885 WESLEY A. SHERMAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER HELEN E. SHERMAN ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER ARNOLD RAYMOND REGGIE PASCAL Shop Foreman Linotype Operator Printer DALE COOPER GAIL EURKENBINE Pressman Society Circulation Subscription Rates: $5.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Mailed Single Copies 15 Cents In Advance.; Minimum Billing 50 cents, mbitsnea Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. Office Hours: 8 a.m. until noon Saturday. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. Put- Rubbish on the Run Beauty is only skin deep, according to the old saying. Sometimes clean up around the house during the year Is only skin deep, too. Out where the family does most of its liv ing, everything Is neat and orderly as can be. But how about the attic or storage closet, the basement, workroom or garage corner? "These are apt to be forgotten spots," says Fire Chief Forrest Burkenbine, "and they can be the trouble spots, where destructive, dangerous fire starts." The chief urges that residents "put rubbish on the run" in all these areas. Mayor W. C. (Bill) Collins has proclaimed May 12-17 us Heppner Clean-up week, and the public is urged to Join in the campaign in order to help make the city tidy, neat and safe. All are urged to clean their homes and property, and the Jaycees will make a general pickup of trash left at curbsldes during the evening of Friday, May 16. The public Is urged to clean out any stacks of newspa pers and magazines, discarded clothing, mattresses, old fur niture, lamp shades, draperies all the clutter that collects around any home. Councilman Jerry Sweeney brought up another pertinent point at the city council meeting Monday night, too. Grass is growing profusely on vacant lots, in alleys, along fences and In other spots. Soon this grass will become a fire haz ard. During cleanup week is a good time to mow this grass. Non-resident owners who get the message may hire some one here to do the job for them on their lots. Year after year, some local lots with absentee owners present the same unsightly hazard. Cooperation of the own ers would be greatly appreciated. If some owners don't change their habits of taking care of their property, the city will move towards an ordinance to see that they do. The grass can be easily cut now, preventing the hazard, but it Is a more difficult job when it is dead and dry. "A good, thorough clean-up job now and repeated at regular Intervals is one of the smartest things we can do to keep our homes and families safe from fire and our city neat and attractive," Chief Burkenbine says. High school students will help with the city wide clean up one day next week, and Herman Green of the Heppner Sanitary Service is helping the Jaycees. Since these groups are stepping forward to volunteer their time and labor for the clean-up, the least the rest of us can do Is to take care of our own places. Mrs. Luke Bibby, Lifetime Resident, Dies Here May 2 Mrs. Reita D. Bibby, C6, who was born in Lonerock but lived in the Heppner area all but the first two years of her life, died Friday, May 2, here. Funeral services were Mon day, May 5, at 1 p.m. In the Heppner Christian church with 'he Rev. O. D. Harris officiating. Vault Interment followed at the Heppner Masonic Cemetery. She was born February 22 1003. at Lonerock. daughter of Clarence Neel and Sophrona Brown Neel, pioneer residents. The family moved to Heppner when she was two years of age, and she remained here since that time. Reita Neel graduated from Heppner High school and at tended Oregon State College. In 1929, she was queen of the Mor row County Fair and Rodeo. She was an outstanding horse woman and loved the outdoors. un June u. 19.H, sne was married to Luke Bibby in Hepp ner and they operated a ranch on Balm Fork. Mrs. Bibby was a member of the Heppner Christian church. Surviving are the husband, Luke Bibby of Heppner; a sis ter. Kathryn Webb of Walla Walla, Wash.; a brother, Steph en Thompson of Pendleton; and several nieces and nephews in this area. A sister, Mrs. Roberta Espy, preceded her in death. Sweeney Mortuary was In charge of arrangements. Ladies of the Assembly of Cod church traveled to Pendleton last Friday where they attended a Women's Missionary Council Rally, held at the First Assem bly of God church. Those mak ing the trip included Mrs. Rob ert Wolfe, Mrs. Faye Zumwalt, Mrs. Loa Taylor and Mrs. Lola Breeding. Mother of Ida Farra Dies in Sunnyside Mrs. Ida Farra received news last Thursday of the death of her mother. Mrs. Eva W'lest, 75, it Sunnyside, Wn., who died May i, in a Sunnyside hospi tal. Funeral services were held there on Monday, May 5, at 2 p.m., at Ball Memorial Chapel with burial following at Sunny side Memorial Park. Rev. Arthur J. Valerio, pastor of the Grace Lutheran church of Zillah offic iated at the service. Mrs. Wiest was born January 13, 1894 in Wishek. N. D. In 1912 she was married to Henry H W iest and the couple came to Sunnyside In 1939, where they were engaged for a few years In farming. She is survived by her husband. Henry; six daugh ters, including Mrs. Farra of Heppner; seven sons; 45 grand children; 21 great grandchild ren; five brothers and six sisters. Granddaughter Born Dr. and Mrs. L. D. Tibbies are announcing the arrival of a new granddaughter, born to their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lance Tibbies, in Amherst, N. J., on Tuesitav. ADril 29. She has been named Jill Erinn and weighed 6 lb., 8 oz. Little Jill has a three-vear-old brother, Thad. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sand- quist of Salem, and great-grand mother is Mrs. I. M. Turnage of Maysville, Mo. Lewis J. Padberg, Son of Pioneers, Taken by Death Lewis Jonathon Padberg, 89, youngest and last of a pioneer familv. d ed Saturday, way j, at Hermiston in a nursing home where he had resided In recent years. He was son of Henry Pad berg and Martha Rlggs Padberg, Dloneer Morrow county home steaders, and was born June 18, 1879 at Petteysville, near lone. Funeral services were Tues day, May 6, at 2:30 p.m. In the Lexington Christian church with the Rev. O. D. Harris officiating. Interment was in the Lexing ton cemetery. Sweeney Mortuary was in charge of arrangements. A lifelong resident, Padberg was a retired wheat rancher. He was married to Rebecca Maude Wood and she preceded him in death in 1939. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Ruby Miller of Cecil, and Mrs. Emerald Roundy of Ken newick. Wash.; a son, Earl Pad berg of La Grande; seven grand children; and 14 great grandchildren. Daughter and Son Visit Don Turners Mrs. Douglas (Glnny Lou) Burpee and 7-months-old son, Donald Laurence, arrived by plane from Beaufort, S. C, la:it Thursday evening at the Pen ('leton airport, and were greeted by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Turner. They will visit relatives here during the coming month, while Lt. Burpee is on special train ing mission with his marine fivinp prouD in Arizona. They will return to Beaufort for four months, when he will receive a promotion and reassignment to an overseas base. COMMUNITY BILLBOARD Stroebers Have Girl Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Stroe- ber became parents of their sec ond daughter on Thursday, May 1. in the Hermiston hospital She weighed 8 lb., 5 oz., is named Cynthia Ann, and joins a 22-month-old sister, Shelley Dawn. Paternal grandmother is Mrs. Rose Marie Stroeber of Heppner; maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cecil of Spray, and great-grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Caldera of Coos Bay. YOUR SENATOR REPORTS . . . Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman IT WON'T BE LONG until the 6Cth anniversary of the Great Heppner Flood rolls around June 14 and it is surprising how many persons, still here, remember it. Some look too young to have been around at the time. Visiting with Ralph Saylor the oiner day, we iound that ne re membered the flood, living at Butter Creek where he still re sides. They had some flooding tnere, too, irom the same general storm. This was the first time we had met Saylor and he did n't look the more than 66 years that he would have to be to go through the flood era. We told him this, but he said that he was a pretty well- developed young lad at the time. (We won't reveal his btrthdate). OSCAR PETERSON brought In excerpts from the Congress ional Record of recent date to show that even though approp riation for the Willow Creek pro ject still hasn't materialized in Congress, it Is very much alive through the work of our Oregon delegation. Senator Mark Hat field, In a recent speech support ing Senator Randolph of West Virginia in opposing budget cuts In natural resources programs, brought the Great Heppner Flood to the floor of the Senate again. ". . . We have another flood control project In Oregon that is somewhat unique, and it has not yet had a planning start, Sen. Hatfield said. "Willow Creek Reservoir In Heppner was authorized in 19t5 after more than a half century of on-and- off again studies. In 190366 years ago a flood took 247 lives in Heppner In what was then the worst natural disaster of its kind in the history of the United States. Sixty-six years later, we still plead lor a planning start on this reservoir project." BUT DESPITE the local urging and the worK oi Oregon s del egation, the hope isn't very high for any substantial pre-planning appropriation this year for the Willow Creek project. The Vietnam war is taking too much of the available funds. A friend Uld us the other day that someone has figured that the U. S. could ship every South Vietnamese citizen to any place in the world that he would care to go for a new start, give him $5000, and the cost would still be less than our nation's ex pense in conducting the war for a few days. We haven't stopped to attempt to figure this for ourselves, but probably it isn't too far off. In colonial days of our infant country, one of our leaders said, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." Now maybe our slogan should be, "Billions for destruction, but not one cent for construction." CONGRATULATIONS to Dick McElligott on his selection as Morrow county Father of the Year. What fine things are said aDout him in the letters of nom ination! We're embarrassed to say that we don't even have a pic ture of this man to go with the story on the honor that he has earned. We didn't get the infor mation in time to get a picture this week and don't have one of him in the files. But as we think of It, this isn't unusual in the case of the Fathers of the Year. As we think of others in the past few years Bill Kawlins, Dr. Ed Sehafntz, Bob Abrams, Gene Pierce, and others it was the same. Perhaps the real fathers have one thing in common. They really don't seek the limelight but devote their time to their families, their homes, their churches, and work in commun ity and public affairs without seeking personal aggrand I z e ment. Shows Improvement Condition of Mrs. Earl (May) Gilliam continues to show slow improvement following her hos pitalization two weeks ago in St. Anthony hospital in Pendle ton. Following a visit with her last Friday, her husband reports that she is In good spirits but will remain in the hospital for an indefinite time. Mrs, Gilliam underwent major surgery there in December of last year. She is in room number 7 for those who To some 24,000 youths in our state, life will alwavs be a childhood. For them life is a process that is delayed, post poned and In many cases stop ped altogether. These are our mentally retarded. And, to another 28,000 young Oregonians life is filled with tension, strain and emotional disturbances that makes them socially unacceptable and some times socially dangerous. For they are the young who need mental health assistance. Over the years the biggest en emy to these people has been the lack of understanding of the problem, the lack of knowledge with which to combat the prob lem and the willingness to do anything. Up until recent years, Oregons approach to the men tally retarded and mentally 111 was to construct large institu tions to house these social mis fits, thus sweeping the unsight ly problem away from the eyes ot the state and its people. For tunately we have moved away from this, to a course of action that placed the treatment of these citizens out into commu nity programs. Committee Studies Retardation One of the first giant steps toward a more modern program to help rather than house these restricted youngsters, came twelve years ago when the Forty-ninth Legislative Assem bly appointed an interim com mittee to study mental retarda tion and emotional disturbance. It was from this committee that we started such programs as: . . . the support of the edu cational programs at Fairview Hospital and Training Center which provides recreational therapy, physical rehabilitation, habit training, and many other services necessary for these youngsters to achieve the full est development of their phys ical and personal assets. ... A mandatory public school program for educable mentally retarded pupils. In connection, ample scholarships were provided to assist in the recruitment and preparation of teachers for this program. With the state's new approach off and running, in 1962 we be gan participation in outpatient clinics, treatment centers and halfway houses that were al ready established to help men tally retarded and emotionally disturbed children. This has been considered beneficial and has been expanded to reach 99 of our population. Car Program Developed Then again in 1905, the Leg islative Assembly created a care program through our welfare department. Unlike the approach taken in 1962 this program is strictly for our young. This bi ennium, the price tag for the program will be $2.2 million, in cluding $80 thousand in federal funds. Its goals are to purcn ase direct service from already available child care agencies and foster homes throughout the state for the care and treat ment of emotionally disturbed children. It is expected that nearly 300 youths a month from throughout the state will be in this program. Pleased with the success or this program funds were provid ed in 1967 to start a pilot study at the Edgefield Lodge, in Port land. This program, ottered to BY KEN JERNSTEDT. STATE SENATOR 18th District Including Morrow county part of the state, is innovative and research oriented, with its goals being to locate, analyze, and diagnose all dimensions of the child's actions, under any given situation. This has prov ed successful in finding the problem and getting the child into the right program for max imum help. Because the program is only six months old, this Legislature has decided only to expand the present program, rather than spread its locations throughout the state. Training Planned Also being considered by this year's Legislature is a bill that would set up a program for the trainable retarded. Its purpose is to train them in self care, so cial skills and simple jobs and vocational skills. If passed, this would open up new opportuni ties to the twenty mentally re tarded youths in my senatorial district. Although the emphasis has been to get away from institu tional care, the Legislature has not turned its back on the hund reds who are presently residing there. We have appropriated $153,000 to be used to create new specialized activities dur ing the day for the children in the Mental Hospitals. This ac tivity includes schooling, thera peutic functions, and involve ment in social roles. This activ ity allows doctors to treat the young with approaches that are geared to adolescents. Oregon has done much to aid its mentally ill youths, howev er, our job is far from being done. We realize that our efforts will never be enough to make these people have a normal life. But, we can hope that our pro grams give them an opportun ity to have a life that is more than just an existence. Graveside Services Held at Hiqhview For Howard Nottage IONE Graveside services were held at Highview Ceme tery at 4:00 p.m., Monday, May 5, for Howard J. Nottager. Serv ices were conducted by Rev. Ru dolph Mensch of the Lutheran Church and vault interment was by Sweeney Mortuary. Honorary casket bearers were Paul Tews, Roy W. Lindstrom, Fredrick Martin, Harold Holtz, Charles Doherty and Gerald Bergstrom. He passed away in a Portland hospital Friday, May 2. Mr. Nottage is survived by his wife, Linea T. (Troedson) and his stepmother, Mrs. Ella Nottage, both of Portland. Serv ices were held m Portland, Monday at 10:00 a.m. at Cald well's Colonial Mortuary. Mr. Nottage came to Oregon with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Nottage, when he was six years old and finally settled at Newberg. He was a graduate of George Fox College, Willam ette University, and had a year of graduate work at the Univer sity of Washington. He had taught mathematics at Grant High school since 1927 until a few years ago when he took a leave of absence and toured Europe. He was a member of Phi Delta Kappa Honorary So ciety. During his illness the past two years he wrote a book "Palindrome" which received commentator's approval. Mr. and Mrs. Nottage have sDent manv vacations and holi days visiting relatives in the lone area, and Mrs. Nottage was raised here, being the sister of Carl W. and Verner Troedson. Mr. and Mrs. Verner Troedson went to Portland to attend the services. Mrs. Howard Nottage and Mrs. Kenneth Humphrey are spending a few days at the home of Carl W. Troedson be fore returning to Portland. Examiner Coming Drivers license examiner will be on duty in Heppner on Tues dav. Mav 20. at the county courthouse between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. MEETING CALENDAR Mondav. Mav 12 Chamber of Commerce, 12 Noon, Waeon Wheel Dining Room Volunteer Fire Department, 7:30 D.m. lone Lions Club, Ed's Tavern, 7 p.m. Tuesday. Mav 13 Degree of Honor, Episcopal Par sh Hall. 8 p.m. LDS Relief Society, Legion Hall, 9:45 a.m. Wednesday. May lone Garden Club Willow Lodge, IOOF Hall, 8 p.m. Jaycees, 8 p.m. Elementary PTA, Business Meet ing Spring Program, 8 p.m. Thursday, May 15 Jaycee Wives, Heppner Neigh borhood Center, 8 p.m. WAC, Rhea Creek Grange, 10:30 a.m. Holly Rebekah Lodge, Lexing ton, 8 p.m. WAC of Lexington Grange, 2:00 p.m. SoroDtimist Club, Program Meet ing, 12 Noon, Wagon Wheel Dining Room Friday. May 16 Sans Souci Rebekah Lodge, IOOF Hall, 8 p.m. T.A.P. of Hepepner Neighbor hood Center, Conference Room 1 p.m. CAR WASH Cal's Richfield Station Friday, May 9, from 4 p.m. Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. Senior Class benefit for grad uatlon expenses. EASTERN STAR MEETING Regular Meeting of Ruth Chapt. 32, OES Monday. May 12. 8 p.m. Meetings changed to 2nd Monday of each month ELEMENTARY PTA Special Music Program by Grade School Students Wednesday, May 14, 8 p.m Grade School Multipurpose Room IMPORTANT MEETING Special Weed Control and State Sales Tax Package meeting sponsored by Farm Bureau Friday, May 23, 1:30 p.m., Fair Pavilion Marion D. Thomas, State Ex tension Specialist, guest speaker. Public invited. HEPPNER EXTENSION UNIT Regular Meeting, Monday, May 12. 10:00 a.m. Food Sale, Fri., May 9, 9:30 a.m., Peterson Building SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-8625 Heppner Pioneer Ponderings by w. s. caverhill It May Be Just A Rumor It is being reported that the proponents of the sales tax nave filled a war chest with $300,000 to promote its passage. That sum will buy a lot of "bushwa." If such a fund exists and for that purpose, it would be inter esting to have a list of the con tributors. I doubt if it would contain many housewives, lab orers, small farmers, small bus inessmen, teachers, and college students. $300,000 will employ a lot of expert word twisters. They will need them to explain why they left the door wide open for a property tax increase in the near future. its n mm s U 1 MM u For The Graduate Curlee Suits Swank Men's Jewelry The Rhyming Philosopher PRIDE I WONDER HOW OFTEN A MAN REALIZES FOR WHAT HE'S ACCOMPLISHED OR PROJECTS BEGUN, THAT BETTER THAN WINNINGS OR TRIUMPHANT PRIZES IS WHEN MOTHER WHISPERS, "I'M PROUD OF YOU SON!" WE STRIVE TO PLEASE BOSSES, AVOID ALL DISSENSION FROM NEIGHBORS, OR BEAT A COMPETITOR'S GAME; BUT TALL IS THE MAN WHO HAS HEARD MOTHER MENTION. "I'M PROUD OF YOU SON." WORDS SWEETER THAN FAME. "HONOR THY MOTHER!" WE LEARNED IT IN CHILDHOOD, NOT JUST WORDS OR A GESTURE OR TWO, BUT HONOR BY CONDUCT IN CITY OR WILDWOOD, SO SHE CAN SAY. "DAUGHTER, I'M REAL PROUD OF YOU!" NO JOB OR PROFESSION CAN CLAIM TO BE HIGHER THAN BEING A MOTHER. WITH DAUGHTER OR SON WHOSE HONORED ACHIEVEMENTS FULFILL HER DESIRE FOR PRIDE IN HER CHILDREN. YES MOTHER, WELL DONE! SOMEDAY SHE WILL LEAVE US, WHO LOVED US SO DEARLY, BUT WHILE WE'RE STILL ABLE, BOTH SISTER AND BROTHER, ACKNOWLEDGE HER GOODNESS AND SING LOUD AND CLEARLY: 'THANKS, AND GOD BLESS YOU, WERE PROUD OF YOU, MOTHER!" HARRY W. FLETCHER Jockey and Allen-A Sox Arrow and Lancer Shirts h2I Fashion craft Ties Paris, Textan and Nuway Belts Jockey Samsonite Luggage P.S. We also have his needs in Swimwear, Sleepwear, Sport Shirts, Walking Shorts, Sport Coats and Jackets rvn uj Men's Wear Mar and LeRoy Gardner Heppner wish to correspond with her. aU children tinder 12 from any
