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L I 8FARY U OF O E V 4 C !.T , C T: !! . I 0 710 3 Welcome to the 'Fastest Show In the West 86th Year Number 26 School bells to ring August 29, and staffs are complete. See page 8. THE T JHUiiWWJH GAZETTE-TIME. Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, August 21, 1969 Fair and Rodeo Court spent Sunday relax ing. See page 3, Section 2. Price 10 Cents Exciting Action On Tap During Rodeo Weekend showing by Fallout, probably It's called the "Fastest Show in the West." It's the 1969 Morrow county Rodeo, and it's this week-end. And with more than 130 en tries as of Wednesday noon, it's sure to provide some of the best action ever seen here. Included in the field is for mer world's champion bull rid er Bob Wegner of Puyallup, Wash.: 19G8 all-around cowboy Hatfield Due A potluck picnic will be held Friday for the visit of Sen. Mark O. Hatfield to Heppner, accord ing to Mrs. Pauline Winter, county Republican chairman. The picnic, set for the fair grounds picnic area will begin at noon. Utensils and cups will be furnished. Mrs. Winter said. The senator is slated to stay here until about 2 p.m. Larry Smith of Sublimity; top bull rider Marvin Bothum of Aurora and Northwest Rodeo As sociation president Norman Gor ee. Wegner was Rodeo Cowboy's Association champion bull rider in 1964', and finished in the top five in the world for several years. He became an NRA cow boy in 1968. Smith won the all-around ti tle here last year, and in the process was first In bull riding. "Entries are filling up a lot faster than they did last year," said Charley Daly, rodeo chair man Tuesday. More than 200 cowboys are ex the best bull on the rodeo cir cuit. It has only been ridden pected by the time entries close tonight at 8 p.m. Two popular events, bull rid ing and Wranglers cow riding, have already been filled, ac cording to rodeo secretary Joyce Ritch. Bull riding filled up in 45 minutes after the books opened Monday afternoon, she said. The cow riding event was fill ed about 10 Tuesday morning. Entry fees are required of all who plan to enter races, except pony races, according to race director Don Evans. Entry fees for all races are $10, except the Morrow county Derby, which has a $25 entry fee, and the Morrow county reg istered quarterhorse race, with an entry fee of $20. Stock for the three shows, supplied by Howard Johnson, Condon, began arriving Tuesday. Ron Currin will also be back to defend his title as Morrow county all-around cowboy after winning it in 1968. Two handmade saddles will be offered at the rodeo, one to the all-around cowboy and one to the Morrow county amateur cclf roping winner. The all around saddle is offered by Mor row County Grain Growers and Padberg Machinery Co., while the roping saddle is supplied by Kinzua Corporation. Rodeo perfomances at 1:15 Saturday afternoon. 8 that eve ning and again at 1:30 Sunday afternoon will highlight the week-end. Queen Sheila Lucianl and her court, Princesses Patti Heaiy, Lena: Janet Palmatcer. lone; Sherri O'Brien, Heppner; and Rhonda Bellinger, Boardman, will reign over two rodeo danc es during the week-end. Friday night's dance will fea ture the Picadilly Line of Pen dleton, while the Saturday night affair will feature the music of the Western Gentlemen, Con don. Both dances are $1.50 per per son, and will run from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Setting the theme for the week-end will be the Grand Pa rade, set for Saturday morning in downtown Heppner at 10 a.m. For those who want to forget cooking, a barbecue beef din ner is offered after the Satur day afternoon show at the Epis copal church, at the corner of Gale and Church streets. Din ner is served from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday morning, the Wrang lers riding club offers a cowboy breakfast at the city park, be cinning at 7 a.m. Prices for , the shows are $2 for adults and $1 for children during the afternoon shows, and SI for adults and aOc for stu dents Saturday night. Sale.. Horse Show Conclude Fair Frank Turner to Head Saturday Rodeo Parade Fourteen past queens of the Morrow county Fair and Rodeo will be featured during this year's Grand Parade, according to the chairman of the event, Randall Peterson. Longtime Heppner business man Frank Turner will be Grand Marshal of the event, set for 10 a.m. Saturday. It will be the first event of the long Rodeo week-end. The parade will form at the corner of Main and Baltimore streets, with floats and other un its beginning at Main and Church streets.' Almost $500 in prize money will be offered entrants in the parade, and early entries are about the same as last year, Peterson said. Floats already entered include Soroptimist club, Jaycees, Uma tilla Ordnance Depot, Hermiston Chamber of Commerce and Pen dleton Main Street Cowboys. Others are expected by parade time, according to the chairman. No advance entry is needed. Heppner and lone High bands are also expected for the event. Riding clubs already signed are the Heppner Wranglers and the Umatilla Sageriders. Nine contingents of royalty will ride in the parade, Peter son said. Besides Queen Sheila Luciani and her Morrow county Fair and Rodeo court, other courts will be the Umatilla Sageriders, Happy Canyon, Pendleton Round-Up, John Day, Wheeler county, Ar lington Saddle club, Umatilla Fair, and Appaloosa club. A $50 sweepstakes award will be offered the best float of the parade, Peterson said. Morrow County Jaycees, winners of that prize last year, will be out for the top award again this year. First place prizes of $25 are offered in business, adult riding club and juvenile divisions. Best out-of-county float and best band will receive $15. Oth er prizes are offered in numer ous adult categories, according to the chairman. Bicycles, tricycles, go-carts and many other categories are offered youngsters who enter the parade. Juveniles are urged to enter the event in any way possible, Peterson said. Theme of the parade is "Yes teryears of Morrow", and ent rants are urged to carry out the theme. Past queens riding in the pa rade include the second queen Mrs. Eva (Padberg) Griffith, 1923; Mrs. Dimple (Crabtree) Munkers, 1934; Mrs. Genevieve (Hanna) Corbin, 1936; Mrs. Mer lvn (Kirk) Robinson, 1947; Mrs. Shirley (Wilkinson) Rugg, 1949; Mrs. Sharon (Cutsforth) Gor man, 1959; Mrs. Marlene (Fetsch) Longgood, 1962; Mrs. Sandra (Eubanks) Rodriguez, 1963; Mrs. Jo Anne (Moe) Hud son, 1961; Erna Lynn Winchest er, 1966; Verina French, 1967, and Berniece Matthews, 1968. Announcers for the event will be E. H. (Tad) Miller, Jr., for mer rodeo board chairman, and Joe Daly, Pendleton, rodeo announcer. The annual 4-H auction sale tonight and the Morrow county open norse snow triday will conclude the1 1969 Morrow coun ty fair. A much larger number of en tries this year than in previous years was reported Wednesday by Mrs. Lenna Smith, fair sec retary. The auction sale will be pre- coded tonight by the crowd- pleasing 4-H Pig Scramble. That is set to start at 7:30, and an awards program will be in cluded. In Judging Wednesday, Robert Richards, Irrigon, showed the grand champion market hog. His bother David had the re serve champion hog. In three . classes of dairy, champions were also named. Sue Greenup, Heppner, showed the champion Jersey cow, while Patti Healy, Heppner, had the champion Holstein and Mary Ann Greenup had the champion Guernsey. Reserve champion Holstein was shown by Rick Drake, Hepp ner, and reservee champion Guernsey was owned by Sue Greenup. The medium-weight steer ot Joan Hoaly, Heppner, was judg ed grand champion market steer, weighing 1,010 pounds. Pete Me- Elligott, lone, showed an Angus steer weighing 1,000 pounds for reserve grand champion. .1 &A ! . uv I Si' A 1 vv I P v.- M. I? f A if"' ; .' ,. i.-. . , - V ' '' t -XynTfm BIG BAD BENNY and little Cindy got together at the Morrow County Fair this week, but Cindy wasn t too happy about the proposition. After promises of candy and other enticements, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gochnauer oi Heppner promised to smile, and Benny . . . well, he just didn't care. Benny belongs to Sandy Bennett a Heppner 4-H club member ex hibiting at the fair. (G-T Photo). Plane Crash Claims Two Bergstrom Girl Named As 4-H Style Revue Grand Champion Two Washington men were killed late Tuesday night when their Navy aircraft crashed on the U. S. Navy Bombing range south of Boardman. The two were identified as (he pilot, Richard Wall, and the bombadier, Barry K. Cochran. Both are of Oak Harbor, Wash. According to Navy officials at Whidbey Island Naval Air Sta tion, Washington, the plane was on a routine training mission at the range when it crashed. Navy officials said mere were no witnesses to the accident. The accident occurred about 10:50 Tuesday night. "My Favorite Things" in gar ments, constructed by 4-H cloth ing and knitting girls, were modeled on the stage of the Heppner multipurpose room Tuesday evening and received congratulations of a large gath ering of parents and friends for work well done. Garments of the young creat ors, all members of 4-H clubs, had been done early Tuesday with necessary information on description and cost of the cos tume turned in by contestants to their leaders early in the month. Carley Bergstrom was an nounced as overall grand cham pion and senior style revue clothing champion at the close of the evening; with Vickie Hobbs as reserve champion. Junior style revue champion was Sharon McCarl, and inter mediate champion was Shauna Bergstrom. Reserve champions were Karen Crowell and Jan Ed wards. Knitting style revue cham pions were Kay Van Winkle, seniors; Anita Davidson, juniors, and Cindy Ekstrom, intermedi ate. Reserve champions in these divisions were Diane Cutsforth, Christina Lindstrom, and Carol Iloltz. Championships in clothing construction went to Vickie Hobbs, Carley Bergstrom, Jill Scott, Barbara McCarl, Anita Da vidson and Sherri Wilson. Re serves were Sandi Carlson, Kar en Crowell, Kathleen Bartlett, Kay Bergstrom and Sharon Mc Carl. In knitting construction, cham pions were Cindy Ekstrom, Kay Van Winkle, Jan Ekstrom, Anita Davidson and Kathleen Bart lett. Placing as reserves were Christina Lindstrom, Carol Iloltz and Sharon McCarl. Narration of the program was by Mrs. Bonnie Adamson, with Darrell James as pianist. Escorts were Phil Carlson, Herb Eks trom, Keith Nelson and Larry Pettyjohn. Participating as small living doll models were Marilyn, Glenda and Marie Jessmer. Theme song for the program. "My Favorite Things" was by Sara Miller accompanied by Mrs. W. S. Miller. Folk numbers added entertainment by Sue Chally, Steve Hedman, Billie June and Rick Marquardt. Honor guests were Queen Sheila Luciani and her court of princesses. Office Date Changed For Social Security John A. Pasek, field represen tative for Social Security Admin istration from the La Grande office, has announced a date change in his service to thi3 area. Effective in September, the contact station here will be op en the second Friday of each month instead of the second Thursday. The three-hour sched ule will be from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Next scheduled contact date will be Friday. September 12. at the Heppner Neighborhood Cen ter on Main Street. mmmmmmmmmmm At the Fair WMmmmmmmmmmmmmMmmmmmwmm mmmmmmmmmm THE QUESTION (Asked at the Morrow County Fair) : "What do you think will be the most exciting thing at this year's fair?" ' like those girls over there' "J 4r 1 Charley Waldrich, 14, Port land. "I'm looking forward to Kirk Robinson showing his steer in FFA. I'll also help show some animals in open class." This is Charley's first fair. He was on the Eighth Grade Farm Tour and is back visiting. r jL'-' it" "yn" - Joan Partlow, 8, Boardman. "I like it when they show the animals in the big ring. When I am a couple years older I think I'll be in 4-H." Joan will be a third grader this year at A. C. Houghton Grade school. :V J - J ifr" Hi,' f Louis Carlson, lone farmer. "I was in 4-H for 10 years, so that's easy. The 4-H Eeef Showman ship contest. It shows you what the individual has been doing with his time all year long. If he has spent it training his ani mal, you can always tell." r " - 3t i ? 7 .; i ' v'. 1 Gayl Phillips, 10, Boardman. 'The beef and lamb exhibits are what I like best." Gayl's sisters recently participated in the Horse Show and "won some prizes", according to their brother. f v " "t- Mrs. Gladys Hobbs, Irrigon. "You're talking to a 4-H mother, so of course I think the Style Revue is most exciting. I have a daughter, Vickie, modeling in the revue." Mrs. Hobbs teaches fourth grade at A. C. Houghton Grade school. ' ' fm- ' ' s it sJ ft Mike Hedman, Heppner, 17-year-old Heppner High school senior. "I like the girls over there washing that steer." Of course that was iust his favorite thing. "I've looked at some good pig and beef exhibits, too," he admitted.
