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86th Year
Number 32
WEATHER
Weekly Crop Report
1. Short
2.
b. Fall seeding underway
Most areas need rain for
adequate moisture. Weed
ing in summer fallow gen
eral throughout county.
e. Fall potato harvest progressing.
Br DON GILLIAM
111 Low Prec.
Wednesday 72 45
Thursduy 74 50
Friday 69 40
Saturday 76 44
Sunday 77 4'J
Monday 76 51 .03
Tuesday 70 51
Total prec. for Sept. was .88;
normal .76.
THE dSte MEPFBIEH
GAZEYTE-TME
Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, October 2, 1969
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ONLY A SMALL PORTION of the big collection of mounted Ore
gon Wildlife can be seen through the eyes of a camera. But
these are representative of the 75 life-size mounts recently
placed in the new addition of the Morrow County Museum by
Mrs. Amanda Duvall. High on a perch may be seen a radiant
ly plumed peacock, boasting a 9 ft. 6 in. spread, surrounded
bv life-like mounted trophies of cougar, bear, coyote, fox, fcaag
er. Bay and Canadian lynx, raccoons, bobcat and kittens, mink.
beaver, eagles, owls, and yes, even the prickly porcupine. Tne
museum is open each Saturday from 10 a-m. to 5 p.m. and on
Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m. (G-T Photo)
Kelly Prairie Lake
Gets Big Setback
The outlook for construction
for Kelly Prairie Impoundment,
a proposed 500-acre lake, locat
ed In the Heppner District of
Eastern Oregon, toon a aouDt
ful turn this week following
completion of the first phase of
core drilling at the proposed
Game in Pilot Rock Flood
One for Books Not Football
By PAT KILKENNY
A flash flood during a foot
ball game? This was the story
Monday, septemDer zv, at ruoi
Rock.
Despite the excitement and
interruption, the Rocket Jayvees
were the victors by a score of
18-6 over the Baby Mustangs.
The game in fact, had many
out-of -the-normal occurren c e s.
The first and probably the most
precarious was not only a hard
down pour but water so abun
dant that it rose over the banks
of the Birch Creek water that
a cow floated down, water that
a group of Mustang gridders sat
above on banks to watch it flow
down. Water with the lights at
the football stadium blacked
out.
As Jayvee Coach Dale Conk
lin put it, "It was the most mis
erable weather that I have ever
experienced as a coach, it was
just like walking out a door
and having someone pour a
continuous stream of water on
your head!"
The bad weather had a poor
effect on the game, causing both
squads to fumble and make oth
er mistakes.
The Mustangs' only score
rame when defensive back Dal
las Harsin recovered a fumbled
ball and carried it in for a
score. The PAT was converted
on a pass from Allan McCabe
to Dale Hedman.
This was the onlv time that
the Mustangs were able to hit
coacn ionium
navdirt but
rnmmpnted that his team look
ed 100 better on offense than is available, the Corps men have
round
Federal Cutback
Hurts Reservoir
Recreation Plans
Plans for additional develop
ments at recreational areas
along the John Day Reservoir,
from John Day to McNary Dams,
are "on the boards", but is not
known when they can be com
pleted, speakers told the Hepp-ner-Morrow
countv Chamber of
Commerce on Monday.
Soeakiner for the U. S. Corps
of Engineers were heads of the
reservoir planning section, B. C.
Christensen of Walla Walla,
Bud Ossey of Portland and Dave
Larson, project engineer of ine
Dalles.
The main problem which
confronts moving haead with
further plans Is the lack of
funds," Christensen pointed out.
A cutback of 75 of Feder
ally funded construction work is
causing delays and postpone
ment, he said. Very rigid criteria
have been set to qualify lor
needed funds, and recreation is
not included as one of them.
Much has been started in de
veloping parks along the Ore
gon side of the Columbia along
Lake Umatilla, and on the John
Day River "arm". Christensen
pointed out on maps several
park areas which now supply
good recreation, and will be fur
ther developed.
Ossey showed colored slides of
facilities at Sight "A" at the
mouth of the John Day River
and all that is offered there in
boat landing docks, park facil
ities, developed beaches, skiing
and swimming.
' Four miles inland on the
"arm" is Sight "C", an excel
lent camping and recreation ar
ea, which is reached only by
boat. This can now accommo
date 30 to 40 units of "tent"
campers with excellent swim-i
ming and beach use. No open
fires are allowed, and adequate
garbage taciiities create a Drob
lem. More moorage space, as
well as road facilities are In
the planning stage.
Additional units are planned
tor wniow Park on Willow
Creek, up 3-mile Canyon, but
heavy silt fill-in and limited
clearance under bridges are the
current problems.
Ossey touched briefly on
Boardman, where wave action is
undermining ramps and there is
stronger need for breakwater.
Well developed marinas at Uma
tilla below McNary have made
it one or the best used areas.
Plans are ahead for enlarging
Hat Rock marina, now under
private operation. The park at
Irrigon is awaiting further de
velopment. Very little in added facilities
will be available in these rec
reation areas until more money
dam site, according to announce
ment Tuesday.
George Kcrnan, chief engineer
for the Game Commission, and
Stan Thorn, U. S. orest Service
engineer, disclosed in a progress
report that core drilling at the
dam site showed a deep layer
of rubble and otner porous ma
terials to depths of more than
70 feet below , the ground sur
face. Kernan said that of three test
holes sunk, , one continued
through rubble at 70 feet, one
hit a layer of clay at 33 feet,
and the third hit ledge of sand
stone at 18 feet.
The entire dam site location
showed extremely unstable and
porous material on which to
construct an impoundment.
Northwest Testing Company,
contractor, has now moved its
equipment to alternate dam
sites upstream from the origin
al location, according to Kernan.
Core drilling will continue at
these sites, with the results ex
pected in about two weeks.
PP&K fo Draw
Boys Age 8-13
Here Next Week
in their last ball game.
He had praise for Dallas Har
sin who did a good job both
ways, Beryl Stillman wno cua a
commendable job running the
hall, also for Dave Eckman for
his offensive performance.
The Baby Mustangs' next
gridiron contest will be with
Condon at Condon, Monday,
October 6, at 4 p.m.
"Recreation is the 3rd high
est major industry in Oregon,
and by 2000 it will be number
1," Ossey pointed out. With the
shortage of law enforcement of
ficers, they find patrolling and
vandalism are major problems.
They hope to encourage better
control, and improve shallow
ground areas for safety.
Clinics, usually held the week
preceding Punt. Pass and Kick
competition for boys 8 through
13. have been cancelled, due to
conflicts with the opening of
hunting season Saturday, it is
announced by Everett Keithley,
chairman.
Regular date of the PP&K con
test will remain on Saturday,
October 11. Boys of the lone,
Heppner and nearby areas are
invited to meet at the Heppner
rodeo grounds -at "10:00 a.m. to
compete. , Coseiies- will . try . to
work during -the coming week
with boys who are interested.
Co-sponsoring the contest
again this year will be the lone
Lions club, under tne chairman
ship of Gene Rietmann.
Advance registration will not
be required this year, Keithley
stated, since registration forms
have been late in reaching the
sponsors. Boys may register up
to and on tne aay or competit
ion, he said.
Bovs now seven years of age
who will be eight before next
January, are eligible. Those who
will be 14 beiore January are
not eligible, according to the
rules.
Many local awards are offer
ed the winners, with advance
ment to regional and national
contests, and the big prizes.
I Mustangs to Meet
Rockets on Friday
By PAT KILKENNY
Greater Oregon Conference
league play will open for the
Heppner Mustangs when they
meet the Pilot Rock Rockets Fri
day night, on the Heppner turf.
The Mustangs are 2-1 for the
season, they defeated Elgin and
London, then a loss to the en
terprise Savages.
Coach Hiemstra has made lit
tle comment about the upcom
ing clash with the Rockets, but
he is optimistic about procuring
a victory.
Pilot Rock has dropped two
preseason games, one to Grant
Union by a nominal margin and
one to Joseph in a tight game.
Although the Rockets lost to
Grant Union, they aren't alone.
Last weekend Grant Union
walloped Enterprise 56-6.
The Rockets will probably be
led by junior quarterback Bill
Quaempts. One thing for sure
is that it will be a good ball
game, as it is the first league
game ror both squads.
Oregon Hunters Set
For Season Opening
Oregon big game hunters will be heading for all
parts of the state to take part in the general buck
deer season set to open Saturday, Ocober 4. The mass
invasion will probably see the bulk of the state's 300,
000 deer hunters taking to the forests and rangelanda
at dawn on that day. -
The outlook looks good in the higher areas here,
according to Glen Ward, district game agent, and
fire clangers have been lessened with recent rains.
The buck season will extend through October 22
in eastern Oregon and through October 26 in west
ern Oregon. Nimrods with unit permits will be eli
gible to hunt deer of either sex within the unit for
which the permits are issued from October 18
through the remainder of the season.
National Honor Awarded
Former Extension Agent
Paper to Emphasize
National 4-H Week
Morrow county 4-H clubs will
be recognized in next week's Is
sue of the Gazette-Times, in ob
servance of National 4-H Week,
October 5-11.
Mrs. Birdine Tullis and Gail
McCarty, extension directors of
4-H clubs, and tne county 4-H
council, are promoting annual
recognition of the importance of
4-H education.
Special articles and advertise
ments will appear next week to
give support and promote enthu
siasm. All inose in tne county
who wish to participate are ask
ed to contact the county lead
ers, or the Gazette-1 imes otiice.
Date Corrected
Correct date of the first series
card party of Holly Re&eKan
Lodge is Saturday, October 4',
and not October 1, as appears
in announcement on page a oi
this paper.
N. C. Anderson. Polk county
extension agent, is one of two
Oregon county agents to receive
Distinguished Service Awards
from the National Association
of County Agricultural Agents.
The award was announced
Tuesday (September 23) in At
lantic City during the associa
tion's national meeting. The
other county agent to be so hon
ored was Ray Petersen, Klam
ath county.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson went
east for the convention and to
receive the award.
Anderson's career with the
Oregon State University Cooper
ative Extension Service began
in 1946 when he was named
Morrow county agent. He start
ed his extension career in North
Dakota in 1942.
In Morrow county for 19 years,
Anderson developed educational
programs in weed control, range
land seeding, weed control and
soil conservation.
As secretary of the Morrow
County Livestock association, he
helped organize and complete a
Brucellosis test program that re
sulted in the county being one
of the first range counties in
the United States to achieve
modified-free Brucellosis status.
As a result of this program.
over 90 per cent of all heifer
calves were vaccinated at wean
ing time.
He also developed demonstra
tion seedines of grazing alfal
fas on rangeland which result
ed in several thousand acres of
land being seeded to grass and
alfalfa both in Morrow county
and the surrounding area.
He did the first research on
knapweed, a serious range weed
endangering thousands of acres
of grazing land and Initiated an
aerial control program. He also
developed a weed control pro
gram in cooperation with coun
ty and state highway officials
and railroad owners.
The Heppner Soil Conserva
tion District, of which he was
secretary for 19 years, was nam
ed the outstanding district in
Oregon three times and was not
ed for having more contour and
field strip cropping than all
counties combined.
In 1965, Anderson was grant
ed a leave without pay from
OSU to undertake a mission to
Niger, Africa, where he helped
organize an Extension Service
there as well as directing a
Young Farmers Training Cen
ter. In Niger, he worked in de
veloping a training program for
undergraduates of Kolo Agricul-
. NELS C. ANDERSON
tural College who would be ex
tension agents. The program
utilized Peace Corps volunteers
to direct practical training in
the field.
At the Young Farmes Center,
he was charged with the pro
gram to training 60 to 70 young
men in modern agricultural
techniques.
Anderson returned to the OSU
Extension Service In 1967 and
was assigned to Linn county. In
1968. he was transferred to
Wheeler county to help complete
that county's long range plan
ning conference and in Septem
ber, 1968, was assigned to Polk
county.
As a Polk county extension
agent. Anderson is responsible
for developing educational pro
grams In cereal and forage
crops, farm forestry and weed
control in the county. He also
has area responsibility for beef
cattle programs.
Collision Claims
Life of Navy Man
Ronald Willa Steagall, U. S.
Navy, 25 years of age, who was
stationed at the Boardman
Bombing Range Detachment,
was killed Friday evening in an
auto accident at the intersec
tion of Wilson and Kincaid
roads, one-half mile south of
Boardman.
Steagall's car collided with
one driven by Mrs. John Phil
lips of Boardman. Mrs. Phillips
and two of her four daughters,
who were In the car with her,
were seriously injured and re
main hospitalized.
sailors remains
And how does the season
shape up? Good, says the Game
Commission. Deer are available
in good numbers with popula
tions up in some areas, on a
par in others, and down in still
ot hers.
In the north Coast Range buck
hunters will find the going a
bit tougher than past years, the
result of higher than normal
winter mortality. Buck hunting
will also be difficult on the
west slopes of the Cascades
south through the McKenzie
country. Best buck hunting In
1 the northwest will undoubtedly
be in the southern portions from
the Polk unit south through the
Siuslaw and Smith River drain
ages. Hunters will do well to look
over the many spur ridges ex
tending out into agricultural
lands as well as the brushy
foothill country. Blacktails like
to live around these brushy
ridges where they have ready
access to fields and : meadows
below.
Good populations of "black -tails
are reported all through
southwestern Oregon. In most
areas populations show an up
swine except portions of the
Cascade slopes. Some top buck
hunting is expected In the Six
es, Rogue, Evans Creek, Cheteo,
and Aoolegate units. Blacktails
are down in the Keno country,
but populations are on a par
in most other units of the area.
In the southwest region hunt
ers will do well to check out
the brushy bottom lands and
spur ridges. Some cagey old
bucks will be found in the dense
brush patches adjacent to agri
cultural lands.
The Klamath country of cent-
ral Oregon is expected only fair
as the hard winter cut into mule
deer herds auite severely. The
interstate herds were also hit
bv the hard winter. Farther
north, buck hunters are expect
ed to find good hunting through
the Grizzly, Maury, and Ochoco
areas. The Deschutes and Paul
ina units will be fair to good
and the Metollus only fair.
Blacktail herds on the north
and east slopes of Mt. Hood
were hard hit by the winter,
but mule deer herds in wasco
and Sherman units came
through in fine shape.
Buck hunters all through
northeastern Oregon are expect-
ed to enjoy excellent success.
Mule deer herds in this coun
try are in excellent shape and
in some areas snow increases.
The Sled Springs. Chesnlmnus,
Imnaha. and Snake River units
should all be good. Heating, Ba
ker, and Catherine Creek units
should also produce high yields
of deer.
Hunters will find excellent
populations of mules in the
Ukiah, Heppner, Wheeler, North-
side, Murderers Creeic, ana look-
The voun?
were rorwardea Monaay oy out Mountain areas. The Min-
Sweeney Mortuary to Gilmer,!
Texas, for service and interment.
(Continued on page 8)
It's an old iron handle, that's what it is.
Anybody who ever heated up a flat-iron and used the hand
le to lift it would recognize it immediately.
But to most of today's youngsters, many of whom hare only
seen modern steam irons, it was unidentifiable.
Mrs. Inez Meador, seventh and eighth grade teacher at Hepp
ner Elementary school, asked her students in the two classes to
examine the object and guess about its use.
She got some good answers.
"A car door handle," one student said.
"I think it is a nail puller." another surmised.
Some of the 31 students asked correctly identified it, but
most had other ideas.
One not-so-young person, Heppner Elementary principal Al
Martin, even took a guess at the use of the handle.
His answer: "A tool for the hand used to throw hay bales
onto a wagon."
Herewith are some of the other responses:
"A door handle and latch."
"It is a handle that you lift something."
"It is a leveL It is used for leveling wood or ivory."
"It looks like a handle to a shop or bam."
It looks like a handle to a butter churn. Or it might be used
The 'Thing' Stymies Students
for a handle to get up on a tractor. Or it might be a starter for
something."
"It looks liks a protractor that you measure things with or
else a handle and you could clip something to it."
"It is iron and it can be used to open a door.
-It is a handle off a gander used to smooth wood."
"It is some kind of clamp which is used to hold a small
chain together."
"A carpenter's tool."
"I think ifg a door handle."
"It looks like a protractor because its shape is rounded."
"It looks like an old door handle."
"Maybe a handle to a barn door and the little knob is to
unlock the door."
"I think it is a compass used on boats."
"An old leather punch."
"It is a protractor."
"I think it is a suitcase handle."
"I think it is an old-fashioned door handle.
"It is the top of an old iron."
"You could use it for a door handle."
At least one person was sure: "iron handle off an iron used
in the olden days."
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