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L I D R A 3 Y U OF 0 I EUGENE, ORE. 97403 86th Year Price 10 Cents WEATHER Max MIn. Prec. Wednesday 56 44 .12 Thursday 56 38 Friday 56 35 Saturday 61 45 Sunday 58 38 Monday 60 45 Tuesday 65 35 GRAIN PRICES (Courtesy of Morrow County Grain Growers) F.O.B. Lexington Soft White Wheat ....... $137 Barley $38.70 THE GAZETTE-TIMS Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, November 13, 1969 Number 38 v- 7 Charles Daly Elected Chairman Of Rodeo Board Charles Daly was elected chairman by the new directors of the Morrow County Rodeo Board at their meeting Novem ber 5. Jerry Dougherty was elec ted vice chairman and director of concessions. Other director assignments are: Don Greenup, Queen and Court; Rod Murray, livestock; Bob Bergstrom, barns; Tom Currin, publicity; Don Evans, grounds; Bill Healy, races; Archie Munkers, dances and Joyce Riteh, secretary. It was voted to ask the Grange Masters to attend the December meeting to help in the reorganization of choosing the Queen and court. November 29 was set tenta tively for the dinner given by the rodeo board in appreciation of those who helped to make the 1969 rodeo a success. Each chairman is asked to contact his own helpers. Discussion of plans to make the 1970 show even better closed the evening. ( , l.lJ , Columbia Basin Electric Co-op To Meet Nov. 14 The annual meeting of the Columbia Basin Electric Co op Inc. will be hold tomorrow, Fri day, November 14 at Fossil. Program for the annual meet ing will include reports by all the Cooperative's officers, staff members, an address by Dr. Bruce W. Cone, agricultural economist, staff member of Ba-telle-Northwest, a Richland, Wn scientific research and engineer ing firm. Registration will start at 11 a.m. with lunch at 12:30 and the regular meeting to start at 1 :15 p.m. KAREN RICHARDS outstanding 4-H club member from North Morrow county who had the Champion Montadale ewe at the State Fair. (See story page 2) Heppner High Honor Roll Announced Those listed on the Heppner High school honor roll for the first nine weeks are as follows Seniors John Harris, 3.66 Sheila Healy, 3.57; Mary K, Hughes, 3.50; Susan Jepsen, 3.57 Pat Kilkenny, 3.60; Rick Mar quardt, 4.00; Sandra Matheny, 3.83; Sandra Matthews, 3.33 BLM Sells Land In Eastern Oregon Two parcels of public land lo cated seven miles southwest of Hermiston in western Umatilla county were sold Nov. 4 at pub lie auction held by the Bureau of Land Management in Port land. Both parcels received ac tive, competitive bidding which resulted in sale prices greater than double the appraised pne es. Hansell Brthers, Inc. of Her miston bid $17,100 for a 160 acre parcel. Their bid was $8,600 over appraised price. Ernest A. Betz, also of Hermis ton, bid $53,600 for a 320-acre parcel. His bid was $34,200 over the appraised price. In an earlier offering, Richard J. Walker of Santa Barbara, Calif., bid the appraised price of $1,250 for a 40-acre parcel locat ed nine miles southwest of lone in Morrow County. This parcel is one of 29 orginally offered for sale on Oct. 4. Four parcels re main unsold and will continue to be reoffered at oral auction each Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at BLM's Oregon State office, 729 N. E. Oregon Street, Portland, Oregon. Sue Melby, 4.00; Robert Peck, 3.83; Greg Sweek, 3.71. Juniors Denise Bloodsworth, 3.33; Valerie Boyer, 4.00; Becky Doherty, 3.57; Gwen Drake, 3.50; Susan French, 3.83; John Hall, 3.66; Bruce Marquardt, 3.83; Dee Ann Pettyjohn, 3.50; Terry Petty- john, 3.50; Ron Sherman, 3.66; Karla Weatherford, 3.33. Sophomores Barbara AH stott, 3.50; Jeanne Daly, 3.33; Patty Luciani, 3.33; Dianne Mills, 3.33; Craig Munkers, 3.50 Charles Pointer, 3.50; Jill Rugg, 3.66; Kelley Wolff, 3.33; Shelley Wolff, 3.50. Freshmen Kathleen Bartlett, 3.50; Mary Abrams, 3.33; Bill Jepsen, 3.83; Luanne Kelly, 3.50, and Tami Meador, 3.50. BMCC To Hold Open House Nov. 16 The chairman of the board of directors, Blue Mountain Com munity College, invites all resi dents of Morrow and Umatilla counties to visit the college Sunday, (November 16) during its open house and dedication ceremony. Brent Horn, Butter Creek, board chairman, said the college will be open from 2 to 5 p.m. The new building will be ded icated in a brief ceremony in the college union at 2:30, after which refreshments will be served. The Challenger Inn, student residence hall located adjacent to the campus, will also be open Refreshments will be served at the Inn also. The new building to be dedi cated houses the library, various student facilities, theater, art and agriculture wing, and fac ulty and administrative offices, Jack Bedford Dies At Seaside Home Jack Bedford 65, Seaside, passed on Sunday at his new home. He had retired in June from a half century with the First National Bank of Oregon. Mr. Bedford was manager of the Heppner branch of First National for 14 years before a promotion took him to Portland He was very active in civic af fairs in Morrow County. He is survived by his .wife, Kuin; two sons, am or near Los Angeles and Larry of San Francisco; his mother, Beatrice Bedford. Funeral services will be Fri day at 2 p.m. at Colonial Mor tuary, 14th and Sandy, Port land. Burial will be in the Veterans' Cemetery. Flags Will Fly During Weekend fltoofa Opens Mew 7 A f leal? I? n VO fW .4; 0 0 i THE SCHWA RZ' are Justifiably proud of their new meat processing plant Here Len Ray stands in the white-white cool room to show off elk carcasses already brought into the new installation. (G-T Photo) E!F0 Sets Up Bargaining Structure Morrow County NFO officers set up a super bargaining struc ture at the meeting Thursday. Don Peterson was named Bar gaining Supervisor and named Dave Baker his assistant They in turn appointed ..tour ..area will each appaoint members of foremen to head 4 districts in I their districts to the bargaining the county: Louis Carlson. S. structure. And enough members of lone; Ralph Crum, ..N. lone: I will be appointed for a ratio of Jack Barak, Lexington and 1 1 to each S members.. Melvln Mover of Heppner. They to Oregon Farm Bureau Announces Workmen's Compensation Dividend The Oregon Farm Bureau fed eration's workmen's compensa tion pure group announced this week the largest farm dividend for its members in the state for the period January 1, 1968, through June 30, 1968, the first six months of the program. OFBF executive secretary Da vid Nelson reports a dividend of $164,645 from the State Accident Insurance Fund, which is being distributed to individual mem bers of the OFBF workmen's compensation group. This divi dend represents a 43 per cent return. Farm Bureau is distribut ing this dividend based on loss experience. Many members of the group are receiving up to 60 per cent of earned premium. Farmers and ranchers in Ore gon who have a minimum of $1500 payroll have been requir ed by law to carry workmen's compensation on their employ ees since Jan. 1, 1968. "The Ore gon Farm Bureau group was formed on this date and has of fered its members the same cov erage at substantially lower j rates than the Oregon rates set by the National Rating Bureau. In addition it is able to pay both individual and group divi dends to its members," Nelson explained. The National Rating Bureau establishes rates for each state. Rates initially started for gen eral farming in Oregon at $10.64 per $100 wages paid. These rates were adjusted July 1, 1969, to $11.93 per $100 of payrol'. By comparison. Farm Bureau rates have been $9.14 and $10.74 respectively per $100. Nelson continued, "Bringing agriculture under the workmen's compensation requirements in creased the labor cost of farm ers and ranchers in Oregon ap proximately 10 per cent initially, but we feel the Farm Bureau group, through its lower prem ium rates and dividend program, will reduce the cost of work men's compensation to farmers and ranchers by up to 70 per cent He concluded, "Social benefit (Continued on page 8) ! Herman Winter spoke briefly at Monday's Chamber of Com merce luncheon. He said there was another Vietnam morator ium to be November 13-14-15. He explained that many support the Government and asked those present who would like Ameri can flags to be flown here sign a petition to that effect This was signed by nearly all present. Jerry Sweeney, Chamber pres ident, introduced guests includ ing Bob Stangier and Bob Flem ing, Office of Economic Oppor tunity executives. Mr. Fleming who lives in Port land, travels in a wide area for training purposes. He says the Office of Economic Opportunity carries out a Congressional act of 1964 aimed at helping the poor by increasing their ability to work through education and training and to help them to live in decency and dignity. Mr. Fleming stated it was an oppor tunity for residents of an area to participate and help develop tnese programs which would ul timately be a relief to taxpayers. He said there were many in stances of failure. However, there were fine examples of success in the Headstart, Upward-Bound and Vista programs. Pete McMurtry won the pot. Santa Claus Coming To Heppner Soon The Merchants Committee of the Heppner - Morrow county Chamber of Commerce met last Friday to discuss Christmas Opening plans. Santa Claus will hitch up his reindeer for a preview visit here in Heppner on Saturday, Novem ber 29. He'll also come on over each Saturday until Christmas to greet young and old and will give away some tasty candy. Stores will have drawings for some very nice free gifts on November 29. Names of winners of these free gifts will be posted at 4:30 p.m. in the stores. Then there will be a grand drawing for some real big prizes which will be on Main Street by the Hotel at 4 p.m. on Satur day, December 6. I ' . V -A V , Tn M'S - r - . , , X. I V X . ifjiiWiiiiirliii. How It Works This Is how it works. If an order comes in at the national headquarters at Corning, Iowa for 100 thousand bushels soft white at 8 protein, each mem ber through this bargaining structure may be contacted in a matter of 4 hours to locate the grain or other farm commodities. The Morrow County NFO es timates 50 of the wheat pro duction in Morrow County is represented in its membership. Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. has been set for the next meeting at lone Legion Hall. Speakers: Delmar Goude, National grain coordi nator for this area; Vance Combs, marketing area chief and Len Pool, zone man. DAVE HALL of Heppner, new OSU Frosh Class Prexy. Dave Hall Chosen As OSU Rook Prexy Dave Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs Gene Hall of Heppner has won the office of president of the 3500 member freshman class at Oregon State. He won by a mar gin of 232 votes in Friday's election. About 25 percent of the Frosh cast ballots in the election Final tally showed Dave 656 votes over his opponent, Tim Grush. Serving with Dave will be Ron Wilkinson, vice presi dent; DeAnne Butterfield, se cretary; Dave Krives, treasurer and Mike Hall, sergeant-at-arms. As new class president, Dave has been installed as a voting lone Band Presents Winter Concert lone High school "Winter Pops Concert" will be presented Nov ember 25 at 8 p.m. It will feature the high school concert band, the junior high band and the choralettes, a 14-girl singing group. December 18 has bejn set for the date of the annual Christmas program featuring the lone grade school in a play and mus- j ical numbers. j member of ASOSU Senate. He was an outstanding boy at Heppner High and friends pre dict he will continue to bring honor to Heppner. He is major ing in the School of Agriculture. He is also a member of the committee in charge of Home coming activities Nov. 14-15. Wheat Growers Hear New Plans The thorny and unpredictable trail of the wheat growers could become a rosy path IF a few possibilities could become rea lities. At yesterdays big Wheat Growers' meeting, Frank Adams told of suggestions to replace tetraethyl lead in gasoline with a 10 blend of ethyl alcohol made from wheat. This would require a production of 3.2 bil lion bu. of cereal grains a year which Is nearly three times that produced last year. SEE complete story next week. Monday Death Takes Rose Collins Funeral services were held Wednesday, November 12 at the Hardman Community hall at 11:00 a.m. for Rose E. Collins, 76, who died Monday at Pioneer Memorial hospital. Mrs. Collins was born in Cres well on September 29, 1893 and was the daughter of Albert A Steers and Priscilla J. Medlock. She was married October 9, 1912 in Heppner to Foster T. Collins, Mr. Collins preceded her in death in September of this year. Surviving are one brother, Rob ert D. Steers of Klamath Falls and nieces and nephews in this area. Mrs. Collins had been a resident of this community for over 60 years. She was a mem ber of Sans Souci Rebekah Lodge for many years and was ! 6th generation of meat men to Family Enjoys Five Generations Of Meat Cutting Spic and span with new white paint the new addition designed by Len Ray Schwa rz at Court Street Market is now open for business. After the new meat law went into effect last July 1, farm killed animals and game animals could not be processed in the inspected meat cutting facilities. The new facility built to process only the farm killed animals and game animals has a capacity for 36 animals at one time. The meat rail extends beyond the double entry door out over the cement loading dock for easy hanging of the carcass. Then without being lifted from the meat rail it is weighed on a track scale and pushed on into the cooling room. Elk and deer are left here about a week and beef for a week to 10 days. The tempera ture is maintained at a steady 33 degrees. The room is well in sulated with 3" styrofoam Insu lated walls and ceiling. The carcass " is brought into the cutting room, also spic and span white where it is cut and wrapped in plastic coated but cher wrap and frozen. This room has a special stainless steel sink and a steel cutting table. The table made by Harold Becket, Is topped by an inch of durable white plastic. All the rooms have been built with Iloor drains tor easy clean up. This Is believed to be the only plant in tnis area. There is one at Weston and Grass Valley.- How Hunters Like It Len Ray says he thinks that hunters are taking better care of their game meat. Gone are the days when the carcass was thrown over the hood of the car to show off a big rack! The ani mal is now skinned out and cooled as quickly as possible. Len Ray says the most important thing is "Keep it clean." Hunters usually request steaks, roast and . burger. While Court Street Mar ket doesn't make jerky, polish sausage or salami, they will send in the meat special order to Pendleton. Meat Cutters from Away Back Leonard Schwarz, who with his wife, owns Court Street Market, comes from a long-line of meat cutters. He learned from his dad, Henry Schwarz right here in Heppner. Their market was about where Elma's Apparel Shop is . now. His Grandad was a meat cutter in Des Moines, Iowa, and his great granddad was a meat man In Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Schwarz built their market on their present corner in 1947. Mrs. Schwarz is the former Mary Crawford whose father at one time owned the Heppner paper. Len Ray has been helping in and around the market snice he ' was 7 years old. While he at tended OTI majoring in Busi ness Administration he has re turned to follow in his father's footsteps as a meat man. He is married to the former Ann Belle Coleman of lone, who is em ployed at the Bank of Eastern Oregon. They have two sons, Ronnie, 8 years and Pat who will be 4 years old December 1. Who knows, they may add a past Noble Grand Rev. Edwin Cutting officiated at the services with concluding services at the Hardman cem etery with Sweeney Mortuary in care of arrangements. Success Story The Irvin Rauches up at Lex ington sold three of their Gold Cocker puppies with the first insertion of their classified in the Heppner Gazette-Times. This week they hope to sell the other two. You too can sell, trade, rent or buy with these hot spot ads. Call 676-9228 for help with your want ad. Gazette-Times want ads pay. Phone 676-9228 for G-T want ad service. the Schwarz family. Virgil Pascal Dies in Yakima Virgil Pascal, a brother of Reggie Pascal who is linotype operator at the Gazette-Times, passed away Monday afternoon in a Yakima hospital. Virgil had been injured in an auto acci dent. Reggie left immediately Mon day for Yakima to be with the family. Funeral services will be held in Fruitland, Wash., on Satur day, November 15 at 10:00 a.m. with Ball and Dodd Funeral Home of Spokane in care of arrangements.
