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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. 07403 Christmas Comes Early 86th Year Price 10 Cents THE tCT. iW JflwurtmiAii (SAZETTETEME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, December 1 1, 1969 Number 42 s ! c3 HHS fo Meet Condon, DeSales On Weekend By JOHN HARRIS Two worthy opponents are on the HHS hoop schedule this weekend. Friday night the Mus tangs travel to Condon for tilt with the Blue Devils and Saturday night the Mustangs host the DeSales Irish from Walla Walla. Coach Bob Clough says, "I don't know much about Condon except that they beat Enterprise and they run a lot." Returning for the Devils should be four members of last year's varsity team: Marvin Lane, Jack Car- nine, Jay LaRue, and Steve Pe terson. Of the returners, all started at least once against the Mustangs last year. Clough says he knows little about DeSales, but expects that the loss of Jim Volz will hurt their cause. Returning members of. the Irish ball club should include two starters from last year, Chris' Waggoner and Ed Nelson. Also back this year should be four other underclass men. The Mustangs go into their encounters with a 1-1 record. The Horsemen bowed to Grant Union Friday night in an over time loss and came back Satur day night to whip Enterprise. Both were non-league encounters. Kelly Prairie Study Underway Winter Wonderland VA , J i Y V W: A; rl.2r ' fv-'- Vrrv- UNDER THE COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE on Main SU Hepp ner stands the lucky winners of the Saturday drawing:. Deb bio Yocom, bike, Allen Burkenbine, transistor radio. Jack Mel land, transistor radio and Kimee Haguewood. bike. County Court Hears Problems on Ski Area The Morrow County Court made it would have to be ad heard a ski delegation at their regular first Wednesday after noon session on Dec. 3. Because of the increased costs of insurance and a lack of suf ficient interest by enough pers ons in the county or area who ski, the officers and directors of the Arbuckle Ski Corp. said they were doubtful that they could continue operating the ski facil ities. Representatives from the For est service, from whom a use permit has been obtained, stat ed that the area is required to have a safety inspection very soon by a certified engineer in order to retain the special use permit. The forestry people felt that it would be unlikely that any group other than a public benefitted group, affording com plete public access, would be given a special use permit It is doubtful that a 4-H sponsor ed group would be given such a permit as it is not considered a public benefit. It was pointed out by Mrs. Garry Tullis and Judge Jones that for want of approximately $1000 the youth of Morrow County were being denied a . wholesome activity indigenous to the area. Some could travel the necessary miles to ski else where, many could not. The Forest Service personnel stated that recreation require ments have been increased and before a special use permit could be re-issued if this one is not continued, a feasibility study would have to be made. After such a feasibility study is vertised nation-wide. . Possibly no .use. permits would .be issued if this one goes. The group agreed that the rope tow is a drawback; snow pack is not dependable; new ski areas are being constructed nearby; Sunday skiing has fall en off; no funds available for repairs. Tow will soon have to be replaced in the amount of $1400; in a year or two the en gine will need to be replaced. To Keep Ski Area Operating Orville Cutsforth, one of the most enthusiastic skiing promo ters started the ball rolling by offering to contribute $50 and planned to ask local organiza tions and individuals for con tributions, with a goal of $700. Insurance will be the first thing to be paid which amounts to something over $400. It was suggested that if Boardman and Irrigon area should develop as anticipated, a recreation area in this end of the county would be valuable. County Agent Gail McCarty said both Gilliam and Wheeler coun ties are Interested again this year. it was decided to worn up a questionnaire to be placed in the Gazette-Times to take a community survey. The County Court agreed to keep the road open this winter if the slope is in use. County Roadmaster agreed to have a mechanic check the tow motor the next time they were up that way. The Jaycees were said not to (Continued on page 10) - Merchants Christmas Winners are Named The Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce merch ants committee had a big draw ing Saturday afternoon and gave away some fine prizes, This annual drawing Is one of a number of "promotions by the Heppner merchants to show their appreciation, for the folks who trade with them. Jerry Adamson, chairman of the Merchants Committee, as sisted by Ed Gonty, said a good crowd gathered for the drawing on Main Street. The two bicyc les were won by Kimee Hague wood and Debbie Yocom. Win ners of the transistor radios were Allen Burkenbine and Jack Melland. It was necessary to be present to qualify as a winner. Names drawn but not present were Celia Matteson, Bud Batty, Erma Keithley, Ray Jones, Jan et Lindstrom, Charlie Anderson, Gordon Meyers, Marsha Ball, Ed da Mae Lovgren. Songs from many nations will be heard at the annual musical presentation by the elementary school Dec. 16! from 7:30 until 8:30 p.m. at the elementary school auditorium. The choral music directed by Olla Mae Groshens will feature International Christmas by Grades 1 and 2 singing High Up in the Heavens (Mexico) Away In a Manger (Germany), and Rudolph the Rde-Nosed Reindeer (United States). The Happy Christmas by grades 3 and 4 singing Now It's Christmas Time (Sweden), A Silv'ry Star (Germany), Soft ly Dawns the Fair Christmas Morning (Bavaria), Merry Are the Bolls (United States), I'm A Little Christmas Tree (United States), Silent Night (Austria). Grade 7 narrators. United States Heppner, Oregon. Lyrics grades 4 "It's Christmas Time". Grades 5-6-7. Winter Wonder land (US), Go Tell It on the Mountain (negro spiritual), Ov er the River and Through the Woods (US), Te Three Kines (France), What Child Is This (England), We Three Kings of Orient Are (US). Bands The bands will be directed by Arnie Hedman. The 5th grade band will play Jingle Bells, Oh Susanna, Air from Rigoletto and Little Brown Jug. The 6th grade band will play Caissons Go Rolling Along, Cap itola Waltz, Beginners Tango and Silent Night Seventh and 8th grade Inter mediate ber.d.,irltlay Winter Wonderland, Los City Overture and Spanish Eyes. Glen Ward of the State Game Commission here reports that core samples from the Kelly Prairie dam site show that it would be necessary to grout In material to prevent leaks at the abutments. There's just not enough water to waste in that area. Size of the dam will be de termined when water studies of the U. S. Forest Service are com pleted after the spring runoff. Mr. Ward explained that this will probably be an earth filled dam. Minimum size would be about 200 acres and the maxi mum size would be 400 acres. Of course, this information will be determined on completion of the studies of the proposed project. This development is a coop erative effort of the State Game Commission and the U. S. Forest Service. Among the features will be camp sites. Mr. Ward said there had been very fine local cooperation with this proposal. Council Approves New Ownership The Monday night meeting of the Heppner City Council ap proved Bucknum's Tavern chan ging from Dorothy Rugg and Dean Teel to Dean Teel and Helena Teel. The Council discussed sand ing the High School streets. Street leading to the hill Is a city street, the road up the hill Is school property rather than dedicated street, the road down the hill is a county road. Mayor Collins recommended the Council meet with the school board and county court to work out a definite understanding as to who could take care of each area because of various insur ance restrictions. SHERRI LYNN O'BRIEN Rodeo, 1970 Queen of the Morrow County Sherri Lynn O'Brien Chosen Rodeo Queen Morrow County Welfare Shows Slow Increase Sherri Lynn O'Brien received an early Christmas present last Wednesday when her mother called her to tell her she had been voted Queen of the Mor row County Rodeo. Sherri Lynn, a princess last year and was selected queen by. a secret vote of the Morrow County Rodeo board. Two loves of her life are horse back riding and cheer leading. She began riding when she was 5 years old on Comanche. She Rodeo Board meets First meeting of the new dir ectors of the MC Rodeo Associ ation was held to name the queen and discuss with commu nity representatives the method of choosing princesses from Lex ington, lone, Boradman and Lena areas. Rod Murray is the newly elected member of the board. Orville Matheny represented the Wranglers, Rev. Don John son, the Chamber of Commerce. Guests were Bryce Keene from Willows Grange and Cecil Jones from Lexington Grange. Tentative plans were made for a spring College Rodeo. Chairman Charlie Daly attend ed the Northwest Rodeo Ass'n. meeting in The Dalles Dec. 6-7. While other counties are over whelmed with the increase in numbers receiving public assist ance, Morrow county has not had a sharp increase according to a chart presented by Lowell Chally to the Morrow County Public Welfare Commission Dec 4. The chart gave comparison figures of Sept. 1968 with 1969 for the three counties, Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler, of which he is Tri-County Welfare ad ministrator. Morrow County Old age assistance 22-24. (The first figure denotes the number of people in 1968 and the 2nd one the number in 1969). Aid to blind 0-1. Aid to dependent children, 57-67. General assist ance 8-1. Foster Care 2-2. Nurs ing Home and Hospital assist ance, 414. Aid to disabled 5-5 Total persons 98-114 which shows an Increase of 15 per cent. Gilliam County Old age assistance 5-8. Aid to blind 0-0. Aid to dependent children 11-16. General assist ance 0-1. Foster care 0-0. Nurs ing Home and Hospital assist- Chamber Nominates Five New Directors At Monday's Chamber of Com merce luncheon, Clarence Rcse wall, chairman of the nominat ing committee announced nom inations for new directors: Judge Paul Jones, Ron Daniels, Elma Harshman, Gene Pierce, Dr. Wal lace Wolff and Larry Mills. Nominations will again be announced next week and the election will be held on Dec 22 A number of organizations have agreed to support the plan to store war material gas at the Ordnance Depot The Heppner Morrow County Chamber of Commerce voted to support the plan and will write a letter to that effect Ed Gonty (who might not have expected an early Christ mas present) won the pot Judge Jones told of a recent meeting at the Courthouse In regard to problems faced by the Arbuckle Mountain Ski Area. Herman Winter explained that the ski run had financial prob lems resulting from the cost of the liability insurance. One firm had informed the associa tion that the insurance premium would be $1,000. However, he said the Forest Service has low ered the liability limits to 510 20 thousand dollars so the insur ance premium is about $400 for 20 percent of the former limits. He said fixed costs of the ski operation were about $600 a year. It appeared that if the ski area were not used, the use per mit would probably be lost New regulations of the Forest Serv ice, it was pointed out would make it extremely difficult to obtain another permit in the future. Judge Jones said it had been Courthouse that the cost of the ski run is very modest compar ed with the cost of supporting a child at a correctional insti tution. Orville Cutsforth volunteered a donation to support the ski run. He said he would go out after donations and hoped to ob tain enough to pay the insur ance premium. ' Others spoke up and said per haps there was a need to oper ate the ski run on Sunday as well as Saturday. Mr. Dick said he understood that quite a number of outside skiers like the local slopes be cause they are uncrowded. The Arbuckle Ski Run has a good safety record. The ski run is get ting considerable national publicity. Mr. Cutsforth said he believed if it could be supported for a mentioned in the meeting at the year or two, perhaps a private group could be formed that would develop the ski run and build a lodge which is badly needed. At the recent Courthouse meet ing, the group discussed the pos sibility of having the County support the ski run. (However, we understand it was decided this was not a County function) The Arbuckle Mountain ski run is to open for business in early January. Elaine George announced that Elma Harshman is chairman of the annual Christmas lighting contest By Monday evening Orville Cutsforth had pledges for $300 toward support for the Arbuckle Ski run. By Tuesday morning Mr. Cutsforth had pledges to total $410 and expected to have more from some individuals and or ganizations, i ance 9-12. Aid to disabled 2-2. Total 27-39. Wheeler County Old age assistance 15-16. Aid to blind 0-0. Aid to dependent children 12-65. General assist ance 6-0. Foster care 0-1. Nurs ing Home and Hospital assist ance 10-14'. Aid to disabled 2-2. Total persons 45-98. In total per sons the increase was over 100 in Wheeler county. Mr. Chally said the increase in Aid to Dependent children was the result of unemployment, break up of families, large fam ilies and illegitimate births. Abundant Foods The number of persons receiv ing abundant foods in Morrow County Jumped from 100 in Sept. 1968 to 142 in Sept. 19G9. 7 to 25 in Gilliam County and 35 to 98 in Wheeler County. Families eligible are those on welfare as well as low-income families or families who need help temporarily as those who have just moved Into the area and not yet received a paycheck. The Increase may be due to increased variety of foods and Improved quality of foods. A truck goes to the north end of the county each month to serve those families in the Irrigon- Boardman area. Illegally killed game is also distributed through the Abun dant Food program. The indi gent fund has been nearly ex hausted in paying out the cut ting and wrapping of the game. In discussing an anticipated request of a 16-year-old, unmar ried pregnant girl, living with her parents for ADC grant, the commission earlier asked the administator to deny the re- (Continued on Page 10) James E. Lynch Funeral Wednesday James Erwin Lynch, 42 years of age, died Dec. 6, 1969, at the Veterans Administration Hospi tal in Walla Walla. He was born August 9, 1927 in Yakima, Wn., the son of the late Charles E. Lynch and Georgia Fields. He was a veteran of World War II, having served with the U. S. Army. He had been en gaged in construction work most of his life. Mr. Lynch is survived by his mother, Georgia, of Heppner, and two brothers, Bill of Hepp ner and Fred of Lewiston, Ida ho, his wife Beth, one daughter, Shirley, two sons, Jlmmie and Robert and one granddaughter. Funeral services were held Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 2:00 at the Christian Church with Rev. Don W. Johnson officiating. Vault interment followed at Heppner Masonic Cemetery with Sweeney Mortuary in care of ar rangements. ; has ridden in every MC Rodeo parade since, except when she was in the 7th grade she sat that one out and watched. One year was enough and she was back in the parade the next year. Life is a bowl of cherries for this 5'2" college gal with brown eyes and brown hair. She Is tak ing a liberal arts course at BMCG She was yell leader at Heppner High and is this year at BMCC. She plans to join the Rodeo Club at the College. She hopes to train her horse for bar rel racing. She was in 4-H horse club for 7 years and 2 years in Empire Builders. After Comanche, she has had Blitz, Princess Bum and this year will be riding a reg istered quarter horse "Hired Monkey" with an everyday name of Monkey. Her dad keeps him in trim by using him at the Jack Glavey ranch. Sherri Lynn is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Pat O'Brien. Her mother isn't so interested in the horses but she goes with Sherri Lynn and as Sherri says, "She worries about me and keeps me clean". Phone Santa All the little kids who want to talk to Santa can call him at the North Pole by dialing 676-9163, 676-9164 and 676-9165. If Santa is too busy answering these three phones he'll have one of his helpers talk. He'll be at home Dec. 16 from 7 to p.m. so call him then. Ron ald Jones of the Heppner Jay cees will help put the calls through. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM For Week of Dec. 3-9 Hi Low Prec. Wednesday 28 21 Thursday 47 24 .03 Friday 32 19 Saturday 30 24 .14 Sunday 30 25 Monday 36 26 .16 Tuesday 44 30 1.6" snow 1.8" snow HEPPNER CHRISMS LIGHTING CONTEST Now's the Season To Be Jolly! So Let's Deck Heppner Out in Holly! And Bright Lights, Sugar and Spice, And All Things Nice! All Residences Eligible No Registration Six (6) prizes will be given JUDGED ON: Christmas Theme. Originality. Orer-aU Effect TWO CATEGORIES: 1. Outdoor Decorations 2. Window and Interior Decorations which can bo seen from the street ,Two First Prizes $30X0 each Two Second Prizes $20.00 each Two Third Priies $10 JO each 1 Recognition to Merchant herring best Christmas Display Judging itarts at 4 P.M. Sunday. Dec 21 out-of-town Judges. , Winning display must be kept lighted each night through Christmas Week. Judging based on Christmas Spirit. Originality. Orer-all Effect.