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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1969)
1 1 8RARY U OF 0 EUGENE. 0 a 97403 Price 10 Cents 86th Year SANTA AND PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES! Christmas Opening Invites Everyone All the color, fun and brightness of Christmas Opening will come to Heppner this week-end with Santa Claus to be on hand and 17 store door prizes to be given away Saturday afternoon, according to the Heppner merchants. The genial old gentleman from the North will arrive at the downtown corner Saturday at 2 p.m. to greet the kiddies and give them treats. As usual, he will come in on the bright red fire truck befitting his bright red suit and white whiskers. Each of 17 stores and businesses will have good prizes to give away in drawings at 4:30 p.m. Satur day, and each person coming to town is invited to register once only at each place. Registration may be Friday or until 4 p.m. Saturday. Other Prizes Dec. G The person need not be pres ent to win, but the winner's name will be posted on the win dow of the store after 4:30. No window guessing is involved this year. When a person signs a slip, he also becomes eligible for the drawing for the bikes and tran sistor radios that will be given away a week later, Saturday, December 6, at 4 p.m. at the downtown corner. In this in stance, the winner must be pres ' ent to win. All the registration slips from the participating stores, accum ulated from November 29 will be dumped a week later into one large container for the De cember 6 drawing. Anyone who does not register for the store door prizes on Friday and Sat urday of this week may enter his name once in each partici pating store throughout next week and until noon Saturday, December 6. In any event, a person may C J. D. BAUMAN C. J. D. Bauman Receives 50-Year Masonic Emblem Sixty members and visitors dived on hotcakes and sausages prior to the annual Past Mas ters' Night at Heppner Lodge No. 69, AF & AM on Nov. 18. More than 20 past masters were honored, including several from other lodges. The feature of the evening was the presentation of a Grand Lodge 50-year emblem to C. J. D. Bauman by Paul Sorenson, Pen dleton, Grand Master of Ward ens in Oregon. A short biogra phy of Mr. Bauman was pre pared and read by Herman Win ter. It included interesting and hilarious sketches of the ex sheriff and long time Mason. He told of Mr. Bauman's experienc es as a marine, sheriff, sailor and athlete. Besides Mr. Sorenson, other visitors introduced were Harry Myers, Condon, District Deputy, Grand Lodge committee mem ber: John Temple, Portland, chairman Grand Lodge Building Committee who is also editor or the Freemason and Worshipful Master of Research Lodge No. 198; Harold M. Rush, Pendletor Resolutions Committee; Herman Winter. HeDDner. Appeal and Grievances committee; Walter Jaeger, Condon, Dispensations and Charters committee. Royal Arch grand officers in troduced were Herman Winter, grand orator; Howard Bryant, erand sentinel and Harold BecK et, district deputy of the grand high priest Year emblems were presented to Archie D. McMurdo, 45 years; E. E. Gilliam and John Forbes, 40 years; J. J. Hayes, 25 years and Kenneth Peck and Claude Graham 20 years. Those present honored Lester r y ) 1 r 'AM, :' " 7 ' Wick with a special honorarium. register only once in each store. Stores Listed List of stores to give prizes Saturday afternoon is a long and interesting one. It is as fol lows: Heppner Auto Parts, Case Fur niture Co.. Knox's Variety, J. C. Penney's, Western Auto, Gonty's, Cal's Richfield, Central Market, Elma's Apparel, Gardner's Men's Wear, Gazette-Times, Mibaaies, Gray's Repair Shop, Jack's Chev ron. Murrays, Peterson's Jewel ers, Pettyjohn's Farm and Build ing Supply. As this is written the week prior, there may be other valuable prizes given by the time the contest starts, ii you need a turkey, gifts and other nice things, please come on in to Heppner and have a good time with us. Supt. Ron Daniels Tells of Dist. Plans At Monday's Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Frank Tur ner was given birthday greet ings by those present. He an nounced that "he wasn't the oldest fellet-Jn town." -v " Group thanked Orville Cuts forth who is to give Heppner a large Christmas tree. President Jerry Sweeney . in troduced Ron Daniels, County School Superintendent. Mr. Dan iels is a member of the 7-mem- ber board on the State Athletic Activities Assn. He said the present 7-A2 dis trict comprises Heppner, Burns, Grant Union, Madras, Nyssa, Vale, Sherman County, Pilot Rock and Wahtonka. The 1970-1971 program calls for a 6-A classification to in clude Heppner, Arlington, Cas cade Locks, Condon, Culver, Du fur, Sherman County, Wasco County and Wheeler County. Supt. Daniels said he wanted to avoid having Heppner com pete with the smaller schools and had proposed a Region 3 District 6A. This would include Heppner, Sherman County, Con don, Umatilla, Pilot Rock and Wasco County. He has proposed regional tournaments for the A schools. In this plan there would be 4 regions, each area to do its own districting. There would be a 1st and 2nd place in each district to go to State. He suggested the regions could subdivide. Small schools could compete with small schools, large schools against large schools. The regions would be based on geography and transporta tion. Lights Needed on Bicycles at Night With the shorter evenings, bi cycle riders need to be remind ed of the necessity of light equipment on their bikes. Sev eral complaints have come in to the city office and Chief of Police Glen A. Kolkhorst urges kids riding their bikes at night to equip them with lights. A white light in front visible not less than 300 feet and red re flector or light in the rear vis ible not less than 200 feet. This meets the city ordinance and the State Bicycle code. Another word of caution to bicycle riders. Riders are ob ligated to operate their bicy cles under the same vehicle laws for the state in regard to observ ing stop signs and signals. GRAIN PRICES (Courtesy of Morrow County Grain Growers) F.O.B. Lexinaton Soft White Wheat tarley SL40 40.10 THE $M bit fiT4' J' - t ,.1 t i iB I T" 'T - - .' " SHOWN HERE- IS A picture on by Ed Clark, descenaant oi xne County's First Observed On The first Thanksgiving obser vance in Morrow County was very likely in 1874 on the Os- Clark cattle ranch. This car Dlace is now the Alvin Wagen blast ranch and is on Willow Creek at the mouth of Clark's Canyon below Lexington. The ranch was a land grant from General Grant. Ed Clark explained that Chief Jim had told Oscar Clark about this very spot in 1847. General Grant had promised him a land grant con sisting of land from the Blue Mountains to the Columbia Riv er, bounded on either side by Willow Creek and the Umatilla River. This was to be a reward for his service to his country during the Indian Wars. Before Grant became President, the land laws were changed, and in 1874 Oscar Clark received a land grant signed by President U. S. Grant which he took at the mouth of Clark's Canyon on Willow Creek. President Grant also gave Chief Jim, Big-Mouth Joe, Wild Bill and several oth ers, land at Umatilla for their homes. The rest moved to the Reservation near Pendleton. Ed Clark remembers as a small lad some of the Indians who lived at Umatilla. For two years the family liv ed in a dug out before they had time to" get logs out of the mountains, 12 miles distant. They hewed them into square logs and built a regular U. S. fort -block house on top of the dug-out as he didn't think the Indian Wars were over. From there he made several I cattle drives of 1,000 head to Sacramento, the nearest cattle market. The two boys, Dad and Uncle Sam, 12 and 14 years of age, are rounding up the cat tle from the summer range. They saw they had company and rode in ahead of the cat tle. The Indians are Chief Jim, Big-Mouth Joe, Wrild Bill and their squaws and children on their way from the Blue Moun tains to their- homes at Umatil la. This is probably the first real Thanksgiving on Willow Creek. The Indians had brought deer skins, sacks of dried camas, couse, wild onion, garlic, huck- a hid painted family of Morrow County. pioiicci vi y. Thanksgiving Willow Creek innick, and roots and leaves for seasoning. Jims squaw nas a pair of baby mocassins made of buckskin for the new baby, Uncle Elmer Clark. Aunt Laura, still shy of the Indians, is standing by her dad. She had learned to knit the wool clipped from the sheep, washed and carded and spun in to yarn. They had brought six sheep from Corvallis from whose wool they knitted caps, gloves, coats and socks. She made Chief Jim a blue sweater which he proudly wore until it was worn out. Chief Jim raised his arms to the sun, peeping through the rain clouds, in thanksgiving to the Great Spirit, for the gifts his white friends had given them such as a quarter of beef (hang ing in the trees), all the corn potatoes and squash they could load on their horses. They re mained "heap good friends" for the rest of their lives. The sun "peeped through the rain clouds and smiled 'AH is well'." Between his mother and sis ter Laura is Uncle Ed Clark, first white child born in Mor row County. In the background are Aunt Emily and an Indian lad in a stick horse race from the outhouse to the hitching post. Uncle Davy is holding his hat in the air and timing the race, also judging the Indian on a bucking horse (the first Round Up in the county). It was the only game the child ren knew. Dogs are shown ex changing friendly greetings. On top of the hill are two rock markers placed there be fore memory of the oldest In dians. Thev know not why or wnen possibly by prehistoric people many thousands of years ago. In the 1860 s there was a well traveled road from Umatilla Landing through Stansbury Flat on Willow Creek to Grant County, made by gold rush seekers to Canyon City. Oscar saw the need for ob taining supplies. He knew Hen ry Heppner who had a small Butter Creek on the Old Oregon Trail. Travel on this trail had fallen oil so Oscar per suaded Mr. Heppner to move the freight road from Umatilla to Canyon City. With a team and wagon Oscar moved him and this was the first store in Morrow County which became the town of Heppner. Oscar was elected one of the first county commissioners in 1868 for Umatilla County. Pen dleton had grown and Umatil la Landing's population had dwindled. Salem had voted to make Pendleton the county seat. Umatilla was unwilling to re linquish the County records and said they would fight. Oscar not wishing bloodshed bided his time until winter. One snowy night when it was 20 be low zero and snow was two ieei deep he went down Stagecoach Gulch with Sheriff O. F. Thomp son and the other commission er in a sleigh. They did this in spcrecv. drivine to the unguard ed office about midnight. They loaded the records and leit without a sound except for a dog barking. They drove up Butter Creek to the O. F. Thomp son ranch, staying the night. After a hearty breakfast they went on to Pendleton. No blood had been shed, no shots fired. Tiriner of a 120 mile ride each month for meetings, Oscar took the younger children and mov ed to Dayton, Wash, where he passed away in 1894 and was buried there. The gun on the picture was issued to Oscar Clark in 1849 by General Grant and Captain Nesbitt. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM For Nov. 12-25 Hi Low Prec. Wednesday 61 40 Thursday 60 35 Friday 61 35 Saturday 51 36 Sunday 44 32 .01 Monday 46 30 Tuesday 54 30 Wednesday 61 40 Thursday 64 42 Friday 52 37 Saturday 50 25 Sunday 58 26 Monday 47 25 Tuesday 54 25 TIME Morrow County Receives $1,395,919.68 in Taxes Sheriff Mollahan reported that 80.3484' of the tax levy has b-en paid to his office, $1,395. 919.G8. This compares with 1963 when 79 had been collected by deadline of Nov. 15 amount ing to $1,318,458. Total levy for 1909-70 is $1,737,332.91. t anrwt tnxnavers are Pacific Gas Transmission at $111,180.42; the Union Pacific Railroad, $71,- 6G4.79; Department of Veterans Affairs (Boeing lease) $Jb,Diy,-iq- Rnoinir Comnanv $18,032.66; Pacific Northwest Bell $26,079.76; Morrow County Grain Growers $29,887.09 Kinzua Corp. $42,993. 62. Largest individual ranch tax- payer pungieu up jii,-' More Skiers Needed sunns nlans for this area are in the initiial stages. A group met Friday evening to discuss the organization of the 4-II Ski ing Club and heard Dick Mc Elligott talk on the benefits de rived from skiing ana xne cosi of this sport. More young people between nf 9 to 18 are needed. Anyone Interested in skiing this winter may call Bonnie tuiy hi Heppner 676-5539 and in the lone-Lexington area, vick. m Elligott at 422-7228. Arhufkle Mountain is men tioned in the current issue of Sunset magazine. fv jT. '' C " . fix LEE HUSON Lee Huson Gets Highest Honor By PAT KILKENNY t oo wnson. standout Mustang end, has gained the highest hon or ever received by a neppnei grid star. T oo was named to The Ore fill-state first team and tn the Orecon Journal all-state second team. This was the first time in the history of Heppner High School that a player has received such recognition. T oo wns a unanimous choice for all-conference end, repeating the 1968 selection. i.op. the son or Mr. anu ivus. Jay Huson, is a senior. Ho came iTonnnor in the eichth grade, from Irrigon, where his father and mother still own lanci. it i difficult to describe the many hours of hard work that Lee has put Into ms "iavorue sport. Ever since his freshman vear. when ne siarreu m ic district championsnip iooioau game at Vale, Coach Ed Hiem- stra has predicted tnis wouiu be the outcome of Lee's efforts. In high school Lee has receiv ed many other honors besides those affiliated with football. In his junior year he served as ser-geant-at-rams of the Associated student Bodv. He was also cho sen as Boys' State delegate, and Boy of the Month for citizen ship. In addition to his four letters in football, he has received one in track, and he has turned out for basketball all four of his high school years. Head varsity Coach Ed Hiem stra commented that he was de lighted with Lee's selection to the all-state teams and said Lee truly deserved the honor. Although Lee's favorite sport Is football, keep your eye on him this year in basketball; he will probably be one of the top boys on this year's varsity hoop uad. rif.vj.il other larce ranch tax payers paid from $8,213 to $13,- 489. J. PHIL CAMPBELL J. Phil Campbell Scheduled Speaker At League Meet Word has been received from J. Phil Campbell, Undersecretary of Agriculture that he has ac cepted the invitation of the Ore gon Wheat Growers League to be the luncheon speaker on Tuesday, Dec. 2 during their an nual convention Dec. 1, 2 and 3 at the Sheraton Hotel in Port land. Oregon wheat growers and guests will hear the highest rnnlrlnp USDA official Coming to Oregon this year and possi bly the Pacific isortnwesi. jwr. rnmnheil Is formerly the state commissioner of Agriculture in Georgia. It has been reported that Sec retary Hardin would possiDiy have his farm program reaay by Dec. 1. If this should be the case our wheat growers would get first hand information on the new program according to Tom Vaughn, president of the League. A subject people are all talk ing about is air pollution. Dr. Clair Patterson of the California Institute of Technology at Pasa dena, Calif, will be the Monday luncheon speaker on this sub ject, Dec. 1. Dr. Patterson is one of the leading authorities on air pollution and will discuss the possibility of extracting alcohol from wheat for use as an addi tive to motor fuel In addition to air pollution. President Vaughan urges all wheat producers and other inter ested people to attend all or part of the state meeting. The League has received special rates at the Sheraton and any one writing for reservations should state they are attending the League meeting to receive these rates. Bonneville Man Speaker at Chamber Harold Cantrell, area mana ger of the Walla Walla district of Bonneville Power will speak and show a film at the Mon day noon meeting of the Hepp-ner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce at the Wagon Wheel In Heppner. The film, "Inertia" will show the use of Bonneville power in the California market. Ruby Fulleton Elected Director Ruby Fulleton has been elect ed Northeast director for the Oregon Barrel Racing Associa tion. She Is a sophomore at Blue Mountain College and the elec tion was held at the State As sociation convention held in Albany. Heppner on TV Scenes about Heppner and an interview at the hospital here will be featured in a TV pro gram Friday night at 6:30 p.m. on Channel 5, station KOAP. !
