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Christian Churches' Bible School Records Large Attendance The Vacation Bible school ITocrnm of the Heppner-Lrxlng i. ,11 riirUllMii church wan me sen ted Friday evening. June 27, at the Heppner church, with a larjje number or parents ana friends in attendance. The preschxI group, led by their teacher Sharon Harrison, presented their memory work and soncs. Norlta Marquardt, who led the singing, was also In charge of the first Erade. Sec ond grade teacher was Clarice Baker, and the combined third ind fourth grades were taught by Judy Jones and Florence No lan. Fifth and sixth grades were taught by Betty and Rena Mar quardt. Each class, led by the teacher, gave the memory work and religious poems learned during the school session, and all Joined In singing songs learned in Bible school. Each student was presented with a Bible school certificate. Average attendance for the week was 72. "This is the largest Vacation Bible school I have helped with since coming to the Christian church." said Mrs. Opal Cook, director. During the week the children made articles during craft per iod, and many of the articles wore on dLsnlav in the Fellow shin hall where a coffee hour was enjoyed after the program. Among the articles displayed were many fine handmade leather articles constructed in the leather craft class conducted by Betty and Rena Marquardt. Ann Knolls to Study At English University Miss Ann Knoll, daughter of Mrs. W. W. Weatherford, is trav eling in Ireland this summer for 10 davs. She will be moving to Kngland for the summer session at Wimbledon, a suburb of Lon don, after completing the spring semester at a university in Avig non, France, where she lived with a French family. She is studying in Europe through Ore gon State University. In England she will live with an English family and will commute daily to London by train. Next fall Miss Knoll will be a senior at OSU, in the School of Humanities and Social Sci ences. She is majoring in anthro pology. Mr. and Mrs. George Steagall tind family traveled to Portland last Monday, where they plan ned to spend a few days visit ing friends and their daughter, Mrs. John Ratcliff in Beaverton. Later in the week they planned a trip to Spokane where they will visit friends living at New man Lake. EOC Lists Variety Of Short Sessions Workshops varying from one to two weeks In length will he effered during Summer Session of Eastern Oregon College in La Crande. Fees for any two week work shop are SIG.50. Students regis ter the first day of class at the leglstrar's office. Following are the workshops and special courses available during the remainder of the summer: Monday, July 7 The Malad lusted Child. 8:00 a.m.. Ad 213. H. Anderson: Seminar: Intro to MnHonr KHxnrp. 9 '(Ml a.m.. S 211, Holton; Applied Mental Hy. giene, K:3U a.m., Ad 211, wint ers; Workshop: individualized Instruction, 10:00 a.m., L 305, W. Wells: School Health Pro gram, 11:00 a.m., c luz. men nrrlsnn- VVnrkshnn: Imnrovemcnt of Instruction, 10:30 a.m., L 306, Shore; Workshop: High School Drama. 1:00 p.m., Ad 207, Hiatt; Math & Res Materials: PE, 2:00 p.m., C 115, Odegaard. Saturday. Ju v 12 Workshop: Laboratory in Communication Disorders, Meadowood Speech Camp, Murray. Mnnrtav Jnlv 21 Practicum. 9:30 a.m.', L 30(5. Henry; Semin ar; Mam et Mai in itaaiauon Detection, 9:00 a.m., S 214, Hol ton: Workshop: Elementary Mu sic, 10:00 a.m., Ack 205; Bar bour; Seminar: Transformation al Grammar. Nature of the Eng lish Language, 11:30 a.m., Ad 212, Klamme; Physical Educa tion in Grades, 10:30 a.m., C 102, Richardson. Monday, August 4 Research: Community Action, 9:00 a.m., L 305, Briggs. Monday, August 18 Work shop: Band Jamboree, 9:00 a.m., Ad 105, Lanyon; Seminar: A Typical Child, Meadowoodl Speech Camp. Murray; Commu nity Structure & Organization, 10:00 a.m., L 305, Briggs: Work shop: Color Photography, 11:00 a.m.. S 210, Hermens. Mondav. August 25 Work shop: Hearing Impaired Child ren in the Classroom, Meadow ood Speech Camp, Murray. For further information re garding Summer Session con tact Mr. Osterloh at the college lone Girl Records All A's at OCE FT J? f I 1 WATCHING HIMSELF tell about his pigeons Is this youngster, one of 12 students participating . ti,a ...mmor school Title I oroiect at Heppntt Elementary school. Extensive use of television tapes is part of the project (G-T Photo), Title I Project Helps Youngsters rionipfl Matthpup3 nf Tnnp is one of 46 students who earned straight-A grades during spring term at uregon college oi cuu cation. Doniece will be a junior at OCE npxt vpar. She is the dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. Stan Kemp drove to Walla Walla last bunaay to visit her mother, Mrs. Edna Harshman, who is recuperating in a hospital there toiiowing re cent surgery. BICYCLE RIDERS IN THE CITY OF HEPPNER MUST STAY OFF THE SIDEWALKS. GLENN KOLKHORST Chief of Police Visual literacy. That's the term Al Martin uses to describe what he teaches to youngsters during a four week session for "educationally deprived" children which con cludes today here. Martin, principal at Heppner Elementary school, is the coord inator for a unique program in Oregon education, called Title I. So named because it receives its funds from an act with the same name, it is a program to help youngsters with problems during the regular school year Rock Hounds Banned From Warm Springs Until Tours Developed Rock hounding on the Warm Sprngs Indian Reservation will be discontinued until guided geological tours of the areas formations can be developed, ht Trihal Council of the Confederated Tribes. In a request asking tne pud lic to comply with the Tribe's t Waheneka. chairman of the Tribal Council, said that in the summer lire season when reservation foliage i hicrhlv flammable. brush fires threaten grazing .lands, as well as the Tribes umDer noia ings. . . "Requests for rock nounaing directions at Kah-nee-ta Vaca tion Resort will be referred to the rock hounding areas at Prineville," Waheneka said. The city of Prineville has staKea mining claims in wnicn root hounds may work to encourage tnii-ists in Ontral Oreeon to make the area their headquart ers. get more individualized instruc tion with special methods. Communication is the key word of those special methods, according to Martin. Children in volved in the program learn to communicate through audio video television tapes, critiquing themselves after they tell of a field trip they took the week be fore. There are 12 children in the program at Heppner, which by gan June 9. The entire program will move to Irrigon next Mon day, where 11 youngsers are in rolled. The voungsters. according to Martin, are recommended by their teachers as students who would benefit from the special help. While reading is the main area stressed, there are several important areas, according to Martin. Thpv are all in the realm of communication. The youngsters are encouraged tr iico on pvnpncivp PnlnrniH color camera, for example, and to take photographs that show people in action, vjn a receni trip to the Jack Sumner ranch, a fifth erade vouth took a series of pictures, and develop ed a story in pictures from them. Of course, there are the con ventional books, but even these are adapted to a reading pacer IT'S OPEN MOW! NEXT TO HARRIS DRIVE-IN IN THE OLD RICHFIELD SERVICE STATION CPs! I FEATURING Two Stalls Vacuum High-Pressure Washers for Motor Cleaning DRIVE IN TODAY FOR A WASH THAT LEAVES YOU A SPARKLING CLEAN CAR! New Bank Debits Higher Than in '68 Rank riphito fnr thp Ppndlptnn area including Gilliam, Grant, Morrow, Umatilla and Wheeler rnnntipc InprpnQpH In Mflv 1 QfiQ compared to May, 1968, the Uni versity of Oreson Bureau of Bus iness and Economic Research has reported. Debits for May, 1969, totaled $57,829,727. For April, 1969, the total was $59,030,276, and for May, 1968, the total was $53, 037,587. Oregon with 346 banks report ing had a percentage increase of 1.0 in May 1969, compared with April, 1969, and a 20.1 per centage increase in May, 1969, compared with May, 1968. Total bank debits for May, 1969, come to $4,565,928,287. For April, 1969, the total was $4, 519,617,605, and for May, 1968, the total was $3,803,012,414. to help the child keep a steady pace. There are also siuay sheets, which the students use as they would normally. The activities in class are "those activities not normally done in a traditional classroom," Martin says. Field trips have been taken to the Pendleton airport, to the Sumner ranch and to the fossil beds at Fossil. After each trip, the children tell about the visit, but rather than sitting down and writing, use the television camera. Martin also stresses drawings, and the youngsters draw pic tures after their experiences on a field trip. The morning sessions are rath er informal, thus atldng to the general feeling that this is a situation where the children can be more relaxed. Other teachers in the program, which gets all its funds from the federal government, are Mrs. LaVerne Partlow and Mrs. Zoe Billings, both of Boardman. They will continue when the program moves to Irrigon. HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. July 3. 1969 5 Elks Give $15,000 to Meadowood Meadowood Springs Speech Camp, Pendleton, has been ael. -vU'J Irikfiiluiv of a ma jor project of the 54 Elks Lodg es that comprise the Oregon State Elks Association. Announcement of a gift of $15,000 to the camp was made June 30 in the office of Gover nor Tom MoCall. President of the State Elks Association. Bob Clark of Bend, presented the check to Ernest Crist ler of Ore- gon Institute of Rehabilitation and Research. Inc., sponsor of Meadowood Springs Speech Camp. The money will be used as partial scholarship support for Mr. and Mrs. Mel Slat and daughter Leslie, of Santa Bar bara. Calif., visited at the L. E. Rnhl hnmp in Lexington last week enroute to Seattle. Slate, a mucin nf Mrs. L. E. Ruhl. was born in Heppner and start ed to school in Lexington, dui had not been here for 32 years. Rnn Daniels, sunerintendent of Morrow county schools, will be in Las Vegas, JNev., irom Juiy 812 for the meeting oi tne nat ional Federation of school ac tivities associations. He is a member of the board of direct ors of the Oregon School Activi ties Association. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Nash are enjoying a two week vaca tion trip to Forman, N. D., where they are visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Nogowski and her brother and sisters and their families. Mr. and Mrs. Jon Blake of Renton, Wn are spending a few days this week visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jones. The couple recently visited in Grants Pass with some of his relatives and plan to trav el to Hood River on Friday to see her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Jones and family. Traveling to Eugene over the past week end to participate in the Jay we sponsored Junior Champ track meet were three lone boys, Eddie Sherman, Frank Halvorsen and Doug Beggs, ac companied by Tom Beam of Heppner. representing the Mor row County Jaycee chapter. Sherman qualified in the 100 yard dash, Beggs placed second in the Intermediate division in the 100-yard dash, and Halvor sen placed second in the senior division in the high jump. Mrs. Francis Curry of Spring field, Mo., is visiting with her cousin, Mrs. Amanda Duvall. They spent the week end at Cra-t-i Lake and were dinner guests Tuesday with Mrs. Duvall's sis ter. Mrs. Lula White, near Pilot Rock. Traveling to Astoria over the past week-end to attend a state Jaycee president's college work shop were Mr. and Mrs. John Privett and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wilson. Privett serves as presi dent of the Morrow county chap ter of Jaycees and Wilson serves ar the clubs' 1st vice president. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Privett and Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Brown are vacationing this week at East Lake in Central Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hasvold of Phoenix, Ariz., are planning a three day visit at the Norman Neion home over the July 4 week-end. The couple formerly lived in Heppner where he was employed with the Empire Ma chinery company before their move to Arizona. They would enjoy seeng all their old friends and neighbors while visiting in the area. Traveling to Eugene re cently to attend the gradu ation of Laura Lee Sumner Hud son from the University of Ore gon were her brother, Jack Sum ner, her sister, Mrs. Jeanne Lov gren, and another brother, Jay Sumner of Santa Monica, Calif. Others traveling to the gradu ation exercise were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sumner and Mrs. Anna Sumner, all of Prineville. youngslerst from over 40 com munities In Oregon. Al llii last It'iiUUIive M'vilxi) both Governor McCall and the gislture endorsed the OIRK and Meadowood Springs. The speech camp was begun by Crist ler about live years ago atid for Its first few vears was dependent upon volunteer help and small gifts. The Heppner Elementary PTA and the lone PTA organizations had pro prams in which Crlstler showed slides of the camp and told of the need for support. The Hepp ner PTA provided several schol arships for local children who attended the camp. Recently Meadowood was adopted as a project by Elks Clubs in Northeastern Oregon. It was through their instigation that the State Elks Association became Interested in the proj ect. The Elks organization for many years has aided the blind and also children in need of eve glasses as one of its spe cial projects. The speech camp is aimed at those children who have diffi culty, in hearing and speech. The use of natural surroundings of Meadowood Springs, located outside Pendleton In the Blue Mountains, aid these children to communcate on a different lev el than their home environment. Eastern Oregon College lists two workshops this summer which will use the facilities of Meadowood. for teachers who are interested in speech and hearing difficulties. Visiting here from Wichita Falls. Texas, while on vacation are Mr. and Mrs. James McNabb and family, who are staying at the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Borman, and visiting her father, Ben Cox. Enroute to Heppner the family visited for a time in Stockton, Calif., with his par ents. The McNabb family lives at Shepard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls. Mrs. McNabb is the former Rachel Cox. Recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Pieper, Lex heir daughters. Mrs. Lavelle Nelson and Mrs. Earl Hall, and little Jodi Hall, all of Portland. The visitors ar rived Saturday, June 21. Mrs. Neson returned to Portland June 23. Mr. Hall and son Larry came for Mrs. Hall and Jodi on June 28. Mrs. Malda Britt accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Britt and two boys to Hermiston recently where they enjoyed a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Britt and family, brother of the late Dew ey Britt. While visiting in Her miston, the group also stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Al bert Schunk, brother of Maida Britt. Summertime . . . Means Vacation Time AND THAT MEANS TRAVEL BEFORE YOU LEAVE BE SURE YOUR CAR IS READY TO ROLL WITH A VACATION TUNE-UP FROM CAL'S RICHFIELD With Each Lube Job A Free Car Wash At Harris' Car Wash Cal's Richfield HEPPNER Main St p5f Al UAVS FIRST QUALITY Like It! 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