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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.