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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1970)
Two IHS Students Attend 4-H Congress (ED. NOTE: Sandl Carlson Morrow County delegate to Ore gon 4-H Congress has written the following account of her ex peilence to share with the oth cr 4-H members of the county In the hopes that it will encour age them to apply to attend In the future, Oregon 4-H Conferen cts held each year in Salem dur lng February. It Is an honor to be selected to attend and rep resent the county at this event). The Oregon 4-H Club Congress was attended by Sandi Carlson, Morrow County and Brock Lin nell, Gilliam County, on Feb. 8 10, both students at lone High School. The Congress stressed the im portance of gaining a greater Insight into the state govern ment. A complete tour of the State Capital and Supreme Court buildings with an explan ation of the works enabled the delegates to grasp a fuller meaning. February 10 the delegates were invited to tour Willamette University. The tour ended at the Law building where Clay Myers conducted a lecture about the youth of today. This enabled the teenagers to look at the life which we gain through freedom. Clay Myers was also willing to conduct a question and an answer period. Questions such as "how do you feel about using wheat alcohol instead of lead in gasoline? Two dele gates from Astoria were quite emphatic about the closing of public beaches. Myers attempt ed to answer all their questions and add light to the situation. The closing luncheon held a special meaning to all. Not on ly did they announce the dele gates to National Club Congress but Governor Tom McCall gave a closing speech commending 4-H to the highest degree. Mr.. McCall stressed the point that through 4-H the youth are trained to become leaders of America. Governor McCall noted the fact that the leaders of 4-H were concerned to see to It that the club members were well in formed as to the workings of the government. Not only is the 4-H Congress a learning situation but it al lows the youth to meet others like themselves from through out Oregon. They are allowed to "meet new friends and keep the old". Burton Hutton, who first I 1 1 ' I " - k3 SUE MELBY and Sandy Matthew are learning to measure and saw. Wayne Schwarzin is working on hU desk in a shop ses sion in the Heppner High School FFA program. FFA Members Work. . . And Play HEPPNER The FFA Motto: "Learning to do . . . Doing to learn . . Earning to live . . . Living to serve," is brought to mind dur ing FFA Week each year close to Washington's birthday but practiced the whole year. A tour of the shop's facilities caught the two girls taking FFA measuring and sawing for the two tool boxes they are mak ing. " 'v. One boy was working on an other wood project. He was mak ing a drawer and pigeon hole section of a desk to mount on the wall of his bedroom. Anoth er boy was working on a ,set of shelves to go at the . head of his bed. , Another project was a metal stand with a shelf underneath that the boy expected to put to good use when he was working on a motor. Another boy . was nearing completion of a pair of gates made from pipe which would be covered with wire. Another project was a ramp which a boy had made on which brainstormed the Congress 13 years ago was there to welcome all of the delegates. Lois Red man and Cal Monroe were on hand throughout the convention adding to atmosphere. to drive a car so he could work underneath it. These are projects that will be put to use as soon as com pleted. The shop is in the ele mentary school complex. Stu dents are bussed down from the high school with considerable loss of time for the students and teacher The FFA officers will give the program at the Chamber of Commerce next Monday. Their banquet is Tuesday. Rifle and Pistol Club To Elect Officers Morrow County Rifle and Pis tol Club will meet March 4 at 8 p.'m. at the Courthouse in the Jury room. They will hold elec tion of officers. All members are urged to attend and any others interested are welcome. Rev. Dan Thompson visited in Heppner the first of the week. Ho was here from Missoula, Mont., as a candidate to fill the pastoral duties at All Saints Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Adamson and family were supper guests Friday evening of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heard. GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, February 26, 1970 Sec. 2 Charter FFA Members Recall Early Days Quite a number of the char ter members of the Heppner FFA are still in the area. They are Fred Hoskins, Homer Hughes, Jimmie Johnston, Riley Munkers who was the first pres ident. Dick Wilkinson, Arthur Vance and Wilbur Worden. Other charter members were Billy Barratt, Bill Browning, Marvin Casebeer, Gerald Cason, Emery Coxen, Earl Crisman, Andy Davidson, Leland Ed mondson, Donald Fell, Francis Healy, Rufus Hill, Hubert Hud son, Emmett Kenny, Omer Mc Caleb, James Moyer, Andy Shoun, Lester Taylor, Howard Patton, Lawrence Wehmyer, Floyd Williams, Wilbur Worden and Clayton Wright. R.E. Grimes was the first advisor. In a follow up of those mem bers who are still living in the area most of them are still in agriculture. Riley Munkers Riley Munkers has stayed with agriculture most of the way and feels that Fl'K prob ably developed his i.wrest in this area. Following high school he ranched with his folks be low lone. He did his stretch In the service in the early 1940's. Then he worked with Kerr Gif ford at Arlington until 1952 when he came up to go to work for Morrow County Grain Grow-1 ers wnere ne is assistant man ager. Homer Hughes Homer Hughes has been In agriculture most of his life and the last 20 years ranching 5 miles north of Lexington. Dur ing the war he spent some time around the shipyards at San Francisco and later worked at the Morrow County Grain Grow ers. In FFA he remembers visiting the local dairies. The big one was the Whiteman Dairy just beyond the mill where Claude and Happy Graham now live. John Whiteman, Happy's fath er, lives with them there. Mr. Hughes was a member of the Dairy Judging team and went to Oregon State for a couple of contests. He recalls an amusing initia tion Incident. The first initia tion was held in Pendleton but the next year the charter mem bers conducted their own Initia tion here Jn what is now the grade school gym. During the initiation Dean Gilman crawled out the back window and jump ed into the creek. He told them if they wanted to initiate him they'd have to come in and get him. Howard Patton went in and brought him out! Mr. Hughes says he doesn't know just what Howard Patton is doing in California but his house is filled with trophys he received for skin diving! Wilbur Worden Wilbur Worden didn't feel that any particular part of his FFA training stood out as the one thing that channeled him into agriculture He went into agriculture and became, so we were told, one of the outstand ing Polled Hereford breeders in the county. , Hay fever forced him to leave the ranching to someone else and he is employed as mech anic at the Ford Garage. Art Vance Art Vance remembers well learning livestock judging. While dairying wasn't a big tiling in the area there were Floyd Jones Hurt In Horse Mishap Floyd Jones had the misfort une to lose part of his thumb in an accident at his home on Hinton Creek. Jones was load ing a horse into the trailer when the horse suddenly jerked back, tangling his hand in the lead rope. The strong pressure pulled the end of his thumb off at the first joint and injured tendons in his hand and arm. His son, Greg, who was with him, brought him immediately to Pioneer Memorial Hospital where he has been confined for several days and is reported to be healing satisfactorily. many small dairies. The instruc tor was a dairyman. Learning to test milk was one of the things they learned to do. Art says he became an expert chick en judge. Art raises horses and enter ing cow cutting contests Is his hobby. He is lineman for Col umbla Basin. Dick Wilkinson Dick Wilkinson feels that the public speaking and parliamen tary contests have aided him in meeting people and commu nicating with them. As far as judging he says he was a win ner in potato judging. The FFA was active and they built the original fence around the tennis court. His first proj ect was building a feeder with a roof over it. He took his steer to the Union Stock Show and Safeway Stores bought it. He remembers seeing his first horserace at Union and recalls the horror of seeing a horse dis embowel itself on an Inside rail. He is on the home ranch up Willow Creekk. remembers his dad, Frank Wilkinson and Ralph Thompson, farther up the creek bought a two-door 1926 Buick. The Thompsons started into town and picked up kids as they came Into town for one of the early busses. Fred Hoskins ' Fred says he can remember tools were kinda scarce that first year. They had 4 hammers, 1 saw, 1 square and two car penters pencils. They did quite a bit of Judging that spring. Randall Grimes, was just new out of college and took a great interest in taking the boys out to various ranches. One time when they were going up to Os- borns on Balm Fork to judge hogs, Mr. Grimes high-centered his car, knocked out the bot tom of his car. Mr. Hoskins says he probably used a whole month's salary to make those repairs. Mr. Grimes has since left teaching and owns a ranch at Harrisburg. , ( Mr. Hoskins ranches on the first ranch below town. TD & Health Elects Jones President Mrs. C. C. Jones of Lexington was elected president of Morrow County TB and Health fighting Respiratory Diseases at a Feb. 2 meeting. Mrs. Marcel Jones was elected vice president; Mrs. Herman Green, secretary and Mrs. Howard Bryant, treasurer. Others present were Mary Holtz, Hilda Yocom, Lowell Chal ly, Edna Chally, Tony Haber lach, Dr. Tibbies and Rose Mar ie Buschke, In other business the group voted to buy two lungs for each of the five schools. The models show a cross section of a heal thy lung and one damaged from Emphysema due to smoking. In order to encourage teach ers to attend a half-day In-Service Smoking Seminar, the TB and Health Assn. will pay $35 toward expenses. A $200 schol arship is available to adults as well as about to be graduated seniors who are interested in a Health Career. They also will make a loan grant to those in terested in following a Health Career. Subscription of Today's Health is sent to the school libraries, the City Library and the doctors offices and hospital. The tines for TB testing and the admin istration of them is paid for by the Assn. It Is expected 350 will be given the Tines test for TB this May. The Assn. will pay for any needed follow-up x-rays. One new TB case was discov ered in the county this past year. This is under the supervision of the Morrow County Health Dept. as well as the few arrested TB eases in the county. Fans Invited To Dinner at SHS The freshman class of Sher man High School cordially In vite you ALL to attend our Spaghetti Feed. It will be held Saturday, Feb. 28, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m., in the cafeteria prior to the game between the Hepp ner Mustangs and the Sherman Huskies. Salad, French bread and bev erages will be served with the spaghetti. Prices are $1.25 for adults, $1.00 for students and $.75 for children under 12. Mr. and Mrs. Milo Frindla had company over the weekend for the Elks Annual. They were Mr. and Mrs. Herb Ekstrom of Bend, and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Nistad of Klnzua. The Prlndles expected to attend the Oregon Logging Conference this week at Eugene. J Lien U O (DQ) Don't forget, now is the time to trade for that new tractor or combine and take advantage of the free offer of 2,000 gallons of gas or diesel fuel. (7 on r l Ml m I TIRES? Oh boy have we got tires! Be sure and take advantage of this fantastic tire sale on all sizes of those high quality Co-op Tires. -- -i GEO Don't forget to come in and register for our drawing. 300 GALLONS REGULAR GAS 1-C52 HOMELITE CHAIN SAW Drawing to be Held Saturday, Feb. 28 I i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm This Week' s Sperial l-New IHC Model 70 54 Moldboard Plow Was $1607.00 This Week Only $1350.00. 2 1-New IHC S44D Tractor with Farmhand Loader Was $8360.00 This Week Only $750000 (Liu i YOUR FRIENDLY LOCAL COOPERATIVE
