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L I AtY u or o f. 7 1 3 3 86th Year Price 10 Cents GRAIN PRICES (Courtesy of Morrow County Grain Crowors) (F.O.B. Lexington, does not in dude warehouse chgs.) Soft white wheat SMI Barley 40.25 SCHOOLS TO CLOSE Christmas Vacation: School's out Dec 19 at regular dismissal tim and starts Jan. 5 NEXT YEAR! THIS jHHBPjfBIEiI2 ETTE-TEME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, December 18, 1969 Number 43 At. ratftr lite Thrills Due Friday and Saturday Heppner to Host Christmas Tourney imd Umvi ioosifs Speech Cwmtim $mmm By JOHN HARRIS For the first time, the annu al Christsmas Tournament will be held in Heppner. Friday night Sherman and Wahtonka will face off at 7 p.m. The sec ond game, pitting Heppner against Condon, will commence about 8:45. The Heppner Mustangs will be out to protect their 100 per cent win record: they have emerged champions of every tnristmas tournament. Their win streak this year in eludes a Dec. 13 victory over the Condon Blue Devils at Condon last weekend. Mustang Coach Bob Clough says of Condon "They run good and we have been the only team to beat them." The Condon cause in cludes starters Grant Weather ford, Steve Peterson, Marvin Lane, Jay LaRue and Keith Mor gan. Clough says they have an impressive running attack. Aiding the Sherman team will probably be veterans Guy Weed man, Jeff Paulson and Eugene Tsubota. They come to the tour ney with a record of one win and three losses. Wahtonka returnees include Butch Smith, Bob Tenold and Barry Odegaard. All have been scoring well in early season games. The Eagles enter the competition this weekend with a recent victory over White Salmon, Wn., under their belts. Smith led both in scoring and in rebounds. . Saturday's competition will match Friday's winners at 8:45 Port of Morrow Talks Nuclear Site Representatives from the Port of Morrow have presented their site availability study for a nu clear power plant to several groups. They were invited to the Governor's committee meeting on coordinating Nuclear Sites, Attending this meeting were Ru pert Kennedy, Garland Swanson and Larry Lindsay. They saw plans of Portland General Electric for their Tro jan Power Plant below St. Hel ens. Recently a group went to Rich land, Wn., to meet with Mr. Ra mey with the Atomic Energy Commission. Presenting the study were Dewey West, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Swanson. Just last week representatives were in Portland for a meeting of the western states on nu clear power. The Friday night losers play at 7 p.m. Season ticket holders are re minded that their tickets admit them to the games and those! who have reserved seat tickets may also use these tickets un der their season tickets. Sanfa Coming! Santa Claus will make anoth er preview visit here in Hepp ner on Saturday, Dec. 20. He is anxious to meet all the child ren in downtown Heppner and will have a lot of fresh candies to give away. 3 Buffalo at Home At Albert Wrights lnree buffalo are now at home on the Albert Wright ranch after an exciting ride irom Missoula, Mont, this fall. The cow from the Bison range GEARED FOR THE CHRISTMAS TOURNAMENT Dec. 19-20, Front is expected to calve late spring row; Tohn McCabe. Steve Kemo. Pat Kilkenny, LaVerne Van or eany summer, ane was some- Marter. Matt Murray. Lee Huson. Back row: Coach Bob Clougn. wnai upsei wnn tne nae to Morrow County and refused to leave the truck. Finally Mr, Wright drove the truck out in to the pasture where he intend ed them to be and sometime later she left the truck of her own accord. For several davs sne nw m the brush. The others, a two year old bull and a young bull calf he bought at an auction at Mis soula. Buffalo . will live until thev are a to 4U years old and grow to full growth of 1400 to 1500 pounds until 10 years of aee, From 4 to 6 years of age is said to be prime eating. Buffalo can be ordered from the elite restaurants of the lar ger cities. It is said to be dark er than beef, tastes similar to elk without a wild taste. Bruce Marquardt. Keith Curnutt John HalL Bill Schlichting, Kev. in Dick, David Gunderson. Rob Abraxas, manager. i. . i4 New Forester Here Richard Curtis Is new to the Heppner Ranger District. He comes from Prairie City on the Malheur National Forest to ac cept the district engineer posit ion here. He has also been on the Burns Ranger District of the Malheur where he received his permanent appointment in 1962. He spent four years in the U. S. Air Force. He is married and they have two sons, Steven 4, and Ken neth 2. Mrs. Curtis is a teacher and is filling in at Heppner High School in the Home Ec department while Betty Brown is absent having undergone surgery. They are living at Lex ington. Kenneth D. Methvin, former district engineer has been trans ferred to Sweet Home on the Willamette National Forest. Deadline Near For Wool Producers Wool producers were remind ed today by David McLeod, Of fice Manager of the Morrow County Agricultural Stabiliza tion Service that the 1969 mar keting year under the wool pro gram ends December 31. Pay ments for the current market ing year 1969 are based only on marketings completed dur ing the year. Marketings com pleted after Dec. 31, 1969, will be in the 1970 marketing year and not eligible for payments until early 1971. Mr. McLeod urged producers to be sure all 1969 sales details are completed by the end of the year, including passing ti tle to the buyer, delivery of the wool to the buyer either actual ly or through documents trans ferring control to the buyer, and having available all information necessary to determine the buy er's total purchase price. Requests for 1969 marketing year payments under the Nat ional Wool Act may be filed with the Morrow County ASCS Office at any time. Incentive payments under the wool pro gram are based on the average national price for marketings during the year. Payments for the 1969 mar keting year are expected to be gin in April, 1970. Beggs, Kilkenny Named Elks Leadership Winners Two seniors, Pat Kilkenny and Joy Beggs, won this year's Elks Leadership Awards, accord ing to announcement by Gene Orwick at last week's Elks meeting. Their selection is made on a basis of leadership in the community, school and church activities. Each one, Pat, a senior at Heppner, and Joy senior at lone, will receive $75. They were judged on brochures which had been submitted. These will now be sent to N. E District competition with 10 oth er Elks lodge winners in Jan uary. The winners of each of the five districts will be enter ed in state competition. Chamber Hears World Music WEATHER By DON GILLIAM For week of Dec. 10-16 Hi Low Prec. 36 20 .09 55 25 55 44 60 41 59 36 .04 48 29 35 25 .02 Elks Officers To Condon Officers from Heppner's Elks lodge went to Condon Sunday to put on their initiatory work. Nine members were initiated. Grand Exalted Ruler Frank Hise of Corvallis was present. Going over from here were Gene Orwick, Marshall Lovgren, Calvin Sherman, Claude Graham who filled in for Dave McLeod who was sick. Bill Siewert, Joe Balfe and Ralph Kincaid. Wives attending were Mrs. Orwick, Mrs. Lovgren, Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Siewert, Mrs. Mahoney, Mrs. Kincaid. Also attending were to map the country reached on Mr. and Mrs. Daxrel Padberg. I this interesting loop trip. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday L2" snow Snow Loop Available Folks with snowmobiles now have a loop trip well marked in the South Jones Prairie area. It is easily reached from Ar buckle Ski area. The U. S. Forest Service will soon have a brochure available Mis. Groshens' 23 fourth grad ers provided songs from around the world at the Monday Cham ber of Commerce luncheon. Nar rators for this interlude of in ternational flavored Christmas music were Edward Schwarzin and Tracy Wilson. The children were rewarded with Christmas stockings of goodies provided by the Chamber and Knox's Var iety. Jack Sumner introduced Ted Epley, a packer and outfitter from the wilds of North Central Idaho. Nominations were called and rresiaent jerry Sweeney an nounced that the installation would be Dec. 29. Orville Cutsforth reported he had collected $440 for the ski area and he expected the to tal to be about $500 sortly. Clarence Rosewall won the pot. Pat is the son of Bob Kil kenny and Vesta Kilkenny of Heppner and Joy is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Beggs of lone. Post Office To Be Open Saturday & Sunday Postmaster Jim Driscoll has announced that the Postoffice will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. On Sunday, Dec. 21, mail will be received and placed in the boxes by noon. There will be no window serv ice Sunday. The service is by permission of the . Postal Field Service Officer. Applications Due For Speech Therapy Morrow County School Dis trict is now taking applications for persons interested in taking a Speech Therapy training course in Pendleton beginning Jan. 12 which will last for 42 days, 6 hours a day. There will be some remuneration for at tendance. Two trainees would be employed by the district on a part time oasis beginning Sept. 1970. The district hopes to employ one in the north end of the county and one in the south end. Application blanks may be secured from Mick Tolar, prin cipal at Irrigon, Harold Beggs, principal at lone or the School District office at Lexington. Ap plication deadline is Dec. 24. Athletic Redistricting OK'd Supt. Ron Daniels announced the final approval of the District No. 5 and No. 6 Athletic Redist ricting at the school board meet ing Dec. 15 for football, basket ball, baseball, boys' track and cross country. No. 5 Heppner, Pilot Rock, Sherman Wasco County, Umatilla, Con don, Stanfield and McEwen. No. 6 Riverside, Weston, Wheeler County, Culver, Dufur, lone, Cascade Locks Echo, Umapine, Helix and Arlington. Michael Donahue Dies in Pendleton Funeral of Michael Donahue, 72, who died Dec. 8 in Pendle ton, was held at St. Mary's. Cuurch, Pendleton, on Dec. 11, plying should call Mick Tolar, ib. Tne ev. james u connor, i irrigon, Harold Beggs at lone or Morrow County school board members approved training two Morrow County women as speech therapist aides at their meeting Monday evening at Ir rigon Elementary School. Har old Beggs explained the prob lem and proposed a solution. In a survey over the county It has been determined there are 150 students who would benefit from speecM therapy. In a de gree of severity of the problem the students have been classi fied in groups 1-2-3 with the l's being the most handicapped. There are about 50 in each group. Using the facilities of the Umatilla County IED their speech therapist would test, di agnose and write the program for correction. The speech ther apist aides would then follow his directions for the drill to wards correction. It was felt that an aide in the north end of the county and one in the south end of the county could bring 100 into the program from groups 1 and 2 and probably be able to help those in the group 3 which has lesser problems. The Umatilla County IED has received a grant of $13,000 to implement a training program for speech therapist aides. The course comprises 42 days with 6 hours a day beginning Jan. 12, 1970. Ten stipends of $387 plus mileage are to be given. It was thought possibly Morrow County would be the recipient of one of them. This could be split between the two selected to take the training. Employ ment in the district on a part time basis would begin next fall. Persons interested in ap- Two Elected To Museum Board Carl Troedson and Herman Green were elected to serve on the Morrow County Museum board al the annual meeting. Mrs. Amanda Duvall Is chair man, Mrs. Ralph Thompson, secretary and Mr. Green, treas urer. Others on the board are Mrs. Ted Smith and Herbert Hynd. Also attending the annu al meeting were Mrs. Rachel Harnett and Mrs. Hynd. The new addition to the mu seum has been completed nad houses the collection of birds and animals found in this ar ea which were a gift of Mrs. DuvalL The museum is supported by Morrow County and is open all day on Saturday and Sunday afternoon during the winter months. The museum mav be 11 help you. Hot Spot rate . . . ! opened for out-of-town friends 4 times for the price of 3 if j by calling Mrs. Harnett or Mrs. Its 15 words. .., DuvalL 'Happiness Is' 1970 Parade Theme "Happiness Is" will be the theme for the 1970 rodeo parade This is the entry that was sel ected from the 21 themes sub mitted to the selection commit tee earlier this fall. Mrs. Randy Lott will receive four free tickets to the rodeo per formances for sending the win ning slogan. There will be two tickets to the Saturday afternoon show and two tickets to the Sun day afternoon show given to Mrs. Lott. . Other entries that received consideration were "Sage, Sand and Sun" and "Sun and Soli tude". "Happiness Is" provides a broad area for float decorations and costumes. celebrant of the Requiem Mass officiated. Mr. Donahue is survived by his widow, Catherine McNamee, whom he married in Pendleton on Jan. 4, 1926, two sons, Peter Joseph and Michael James, both of Portland and three daughters, Mrs. Bernard (Mary Ellen) Do herty, Pendleton, Mrs. Gerald (Catherine Rose) Bergstrom, Heppner, and Mrs. Jack (Jean Ann) Correa, Echo. One sister, Mrs. Michael (El len) Mollahan of Portland and 10 grandchildren also survive. One daughter, Anna Margaret, preceded him in death. Mr. Donahue was born in County Leitrum, Ireland and had lived in Pendleton for 45 years. He was a member of St. Mary's Church in Pendleton. Recitation of the Rosary was at Burns Mortuary Chapel on Dec. 10 and burial in OIney Cemetery, Pendleton, on Dec. 11 Casket bearers were Martin Maine, Mike Houghton, John Lennon, James Lennon, Tom McEntire and Dave Rouse. Social Security Man Due in January lone Has New Barber Joe Able opened up a new barber shop in lone on Tues day of this week. To welcome him to lone, businessmen and Individuals in the area have ta ken his picture at work in his new shop and have placed an ad in this week's Gazette-Times. Mr. Able graduated from the Eugene Barber College in 1964. He worked in Eugene for sever al years and for the last 3 years he has had the barber shop at Blue River on the McKenzle. A native of Dayton, Wn., he says he feels very much at home this side of the mountains. Mrs. Able, with their daughter Bob bi Sue, 9 years old, will remain at Blue River until the semes John Pasek, field representa- Hith p 'Zru "i tet break. They will bring their aAv.M,iaf wi ava 111114 tviv and the Social Security ad ministration of La Grande was Success Story Ray Ayers sold his snow tires and his hardwood office desk with one issue of the Heppner Gazette-Times. Do you, too, have something you dont need that someone else could use? Then try a GAZETTE-TIMES want ad. Call 676-9228 and we- the Gazette-Times last week. He left the spring quarter calen dar with the 3rd Friday of each month circled to note these are the days he is in Heppner. Jan. 9 is his next visit. He will be at the Neighborhood Center from 10 a.m. until noon and 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. to as sist anyone with Social Security questions. Dean Hunt Elected Cemetery Director Dean Hunt was elected a 3 year director on the lone-Lexington Cemetery board at the Dec. 1 election. He received 15 votes of the 16 cast. mobile home to lone at that time. Mrs. Able has been serv ing as secretary of the school district. Mr. Able likes guns and has a collection of straight edge ra zors which he has on display at the barber shop. Mrs. Able is quite an expert seamstress. Passes Bar Exam James D. Monahan has pass, ed his bar exam and is now with the firm of Dow, Lohmes and Albertson in Washington, D. C. Following graduation from Georgetown University Law School he worked for one year for a Federal Judge in Washing ton, D. C. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Monahan, Hepp- t ner. i the County office at Lexington. Supt. Ron Daniels reported on his meeting with the IED and the Heppner TV relative to mak ing the educational TV chan nel available at Heppner High School. The Heppner TV is in stalling a high band cable for 21 channels as funds are avail able. It is presently installed to the bottom of the High School hill. They will have 4 channels available for the School District. The IED will make installations during Christmas vacation. If the picture works it may be put into use immediately. More installations may be required for viewing in additional rooms such as an extender and ampli fier and additional poles may be required. Unless the school district buys the cable, it may be three years before educational TV can be brought to the elementary school. Principal Harold Beggs report ed on the school bus accident involving a pickup driven by Dick McElllgott and a school bus driven by William Ling. Ve hicles received minor damage and no one was injured. , Supt. Daniels reported on the steam damage suffered at Riverside Home Ec room. The boards concern is what caused the pipe to break and what is to prevent it from happening again. If no one had discovered the water on the floor, and it had leaked all night, the dam age could have been very great. The warranty may cover the damage. . The final payment on the building has not yet been made. Mr. Daniels noted one area where the cement ; floor had been poured in two sec tions. This has left a rough seam and the tiles cracked. The seam has been smoothed some but further work is expected to be done on it. The lock on the music cab inet was apparently installed correctly but not in the right place so that students can gain entrance Into the cabinet. There are several other small items needing repair before fi nal acceptance. Working with the city and county the snow removal has been partly solved. Plans call for the city to clear the snow and sand up Morgan St., make a loop around the school and back down if th county will furnish the gravel. Supt. Daniels was to meet Tuesday evening with Judge Jones and on Wed nesday with the City Council to iron out details. The board passed a resolution to withdraw from the Umatilla (Continued on page 5)
