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t I SRARY u or o EUGENE, ORE. 07403 Price 10 Cents 87th Year WEATHER By DON GILLIAM Wwk of April 22 23 GRAIN PRICES (Courtesy o( Morrow County Grala Growers) (r.O.B. Lexington, doM not In clude warthouM cbg.) There was no market for wheat or barley yesterday ac cording to report from Morrow County Grain Growers. n era School Board Election May 4 Petitions for school board members have been filed for Don McElligott Zone 3 lone and Irvin Rauch, Zone 4, Lexington. Their names will appear with out opposition on the ballot on May 4. Their terms will expire in 1975 and both are succeeding themselves. Several new names have been placed by petition on the Ad visory board election. They are Fritz Cutsforth, Heppner-Lexing-ton replacing Elden Padberg, Jim West, lone, replacing Louis Carlson, Katherine Lindstrom lone, ;eplacing Bob Rietmann and John Brandt, Irrigon, replac ing Lee LeBlanc. Carroll Don ovan of Boardman and Herman Winter of Heppner-Lexington are both filing to succeed themselves.' All terms expire In 1973. Del Piper of Lexington will serve until 1972. Former Local Man Dies in Colorado , Word has been received in Portland by Miles Potter, a for mer Heppner boy, that Lamont (Pete) Slocum, who was born in Heppner and lived there for years, died in Nevada recently. Funeral services were in Pen dleton Wednesday. - . The Slocums were on their when death occur red. They spent the summers in the Green Horn mountains near the Miles Potters and went th fnr thi winters. They own a lot In Prairie City where they park their trailer wnen uiey come north and take a car into the Green Horns. Mrs. Slocum (Marjorie) has a sister living in the John Day country, Mr. Slocum, 72, is survived by his wife, also two sisters, Eliz abeth Van Schoiack of Mon mouth and Happy Kem of Port land. Going np for 'the funeral be ciHoc flnsp relatives were Mr. and Mrs. Miles Potter, Mr. and lurrc rif-nrcrp Stroun. Mr. and Mrs. Gale Poyser of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Konmot oi si. nei ens. Three Grangers Take Degree Rhea Creek Grange put on the Pomona Degree for Mr. and Mrs. Willard French of Willows Grange and Marion Hayden of Rhea Creek Grange at Pomona Grange held Saturday at Rhea Creek Grange Hall. The afternoon program includ ed entertainment by the Kitchen Band of lone, a reading by Mrs. Nate Thorpe and memorial ser vice for 10 Grange members who died last year. Harold Kerr, the county agent showed slides on establishing wind breaks. It is recommended shrubs be plant ed where the wind hits first They deflect the wind upwards. Next tow should be deciduous trees and a third row, evergreen for maximum protection. Mr. and Mrs. Claude McElrath and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Perkins, all of Milton -Freewater were guests. Mr. McElrath is Uma tilla County Pomona master and Mr. Perkins is Dist No. 6 Jun ior Grange chairman. Next Po mona Grange meeting will be on July 11 starting with a 6:30 pot luck supper at Greenfield Grange Hall, Boardman. Columbia Basin Refunds $12,000 This week Columbia Basin Electric Coopertive, Inc., Is In the process of refunding over $12,000 in Capital Credits. This is to active consumers who pro vided patronage in the years 1955 thru 1960, according to an announcement by Harley Young, manager. THE I MM $4 , - ON THE TOP RAIL: right to left: yjn "w V Diana Pierson, Mary rat mctmgow -"' - - " AU were members of the 8th grade tour held last Saturday in Morrow County. 66 Entries At Cow Cutting Event uirrVi nnint hnrsp at the 11th annual Cow Cutting show held here last weekend was Elna Prom, owned by wasnington Quarter Horse Ranch, Moses Lake-arid ridden by Shirley Bartlett. Elna Prom tied for third and fourth in the first go oi tne nines and was second in the" second-go of the open class to pile up total points oi Second in the open class ave Pat Rradv. owned by Floyd Jones of Heppner and rid den by Morris tyncn oi oeiii, Wash. Pat Brady won the first go and was fourth in the sec ond go and had total points of 144. Complete list of winners in the six classes with two go rounds and the one go youth class follows. OPEN: First go: Pat Brady, first; Poco Flame 9, owned and ridden by Oren Emerson, Selah, h- Klna Prom and Little H, owned and ridden by Art Vance, Heppner, tied lor tnira ana fourth. Second go: Miss Penny, owned and ridden by Bob Hart sell, Selah, first; Elna Prom, sec ond; Missile Joe, owned and rid den by Frank Bates, Boise, third and Pat Brady, fourth, s-imn -NOVICE: First Go: Kim's Shorty, owned by the Billingsley Ranch, Ephrata, Wn., and ridden by Chuck BlacK, nrst; inay, ra.moH and ridden bv Dude Parke. Nampa. second; Paul Tivio, owned and ridden by W. O. George, Walla Walla, third nnd Knridav. owned and ridden by Jean Barbouletos, Klamath Falls, fourth. Second go: cinay, first: Sundav. second and Paul Tivio and Kim's Shorty tied for third and fourth. $500 NOVICE: First go: Tico Chex, owned and ridden by Flovd Jones, first; Brewer's Whisper, owned by Adrian Stut fipld. Kirkland. Wn.. and ridden hv Shirlov Bartlett and Del Rio Boo, owned and ridden by Don Roberts, Klamath Falls, tied for second and third; and tied tor fourth place, Miss Frosty Star, owned and ridden rry uean jju more, Madras and Peppy"s Po go, owned and ridden by Chuck Peterson, Boise. Second go: Glowing Isle, owned and ridden by John Tangeman, Yakima, first; Del Rio Boo, second; Brew er's Whisper and Peppy's Fogo, tied for third and fourth. $300 NOVICE: First go: Tag's Cutter, owned and ridden by Mark Tower, Tacoma, first; Ida ho Lady, owned and ridden by Barney Brown, Yakima, second; Mr. Charge Bar, owned by Hen ry Cook, Redmond, and ridden by Bill Hays, third, tied for fourth, Sonny's Missy, owned by Clyde Caldwell, Kent, Wash., and ridden' by Bill Hays and Signet Bar, owned by Cal Shoe maker, Yakima and ridden by Curtis Tarwater. Second go: Miss Crosscut, own ed and ridden by Norm Bryant, Pleasant Hill, Ore., first; Pride McCue, Too, owned and ridden by Dale Goode, Klamath Falls, second; Sonny's Missy and Sig net Bar tied for third and fourth. GAZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, 7 H : I . ti .. ...41 Judy Bennett. Lynette Smith, . . . TTl T.vnn Hill. Listed iifin tohinrP- First Ctrl! Mv Tontime, owned and ridden by Kay Simmelink, Madras, nrst; Paddy, owned and ridden by Dick Osborn, Vancouver, second; King's Pistol Ten, owned and ridden by Ival Sullivan, Irrigon and Dud's Chubby uuo, ownea and ridden by G. W. Burns, Olympia; tied for - third and fourth. Second go: Tag's Cutter, first- Knnnv Field, owned and ridden by W. O. George, second; My Tontime, tnird ano raouy, fourth. S2B NOVICE: First Go: Dud's Chubby Bud, first; Sandy's Fol ly, owned and ridden by Jim Snais Rplah. lied for second nad third with Lynn Bar, owned and ridden by LeKoy Micnaens, Olympia. School Rogue, own ed and ridden by Les Kamm, Pendleton, was fourth. Second go: Sandy's Folly, first; uuos Chubby Bud, second; School Rnune. third and Datsue Mount, owned and ridden by Bob Threl- fall, Port Coquitlan, B. C, rourtn. In the youth class, which was an added event and had one go round, Saturday, Dan, ridden by Ellen Crowson, Monroe, Ore., was tied for first with Elna Prom, ridden by Jan Bartlett. Miss Frosty Star, ridden by Marc Ditmore and was third and Kreeco, ridden by Sandy Wain wright, Redmond, fourth. There were 59 horses entered in the show and the contestants paid a total of about $2500 to enter. Some of the contestants that were expected could not be here. Rey Jay's Pete, owned by S. J. Agnew, Tenino, Wash., cur rently standing second in the open top ten was not here be cause the Agnews are in the east with their race horse, Ter lago, who is running in the Ken tucky Derby. W. E. Carter's horse, Castenea also was missing since Dr. Car ter, who is track veterinarian at Portland Meadows, had to re main in Portland following the fire at the track. Dr. Jim Norene was unable to participate with Socko Bob be cause of illness. The $300 novice class was the largest class with 13 horses en tered. There were 11 horses in the open class. Batter Up! The first big double header of the Willow Creek Little League is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at the rodeo grounds. Coaches are Lindsay Kincaid of the Indians; Tom Beam, the Dodgers; Marion Green, the Braves; Joe Yocom, the Giants. Clyde Aiistott is coach of the Farm Team. Their first practice is next Monday night, we un derstand. President of the Association is Wayne Harsin; vice president is Pat Wonser; directors are Clyde Aiistott, Louie Carlson. La Verne Van Marter, Jr., and Glen Ward. Batter up! April 30, 1970 T fa Mw Imi Chamber Members Hear Famous Baseball Pitcher At Monday's Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Jerry Swee iced Cliff Chambers of Boise, a one-time baseball great who is a member or tne iian of Fame. He jwas a pitcher for some years for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He pitched a no-hit game In 1951 against the Bos ton Braves. ! Mr. Chambers is now area marketing manager for Credit Bureaus, Inc. and spoke on base ball and also the credit busi ness. V , Mr. Chambers praised the quality of life in small towns which do not have the pressures of the big cities with their huge populations. "' He spoke about the great im portance of baseball and other forms of ahtletics to both child ren and adults. He told of TV coverage as being a fine thing pvpii thoueh eiving only a part of the overall picture. He told of the Jitetime lessons taught "by experience on base ball diamonds and the import ant values from athletics tnai reflect on af nation. He stated that lfwal athletic nroerams pre pares people for the agonies of life, the experiences oi Dom sue failure as in eames V. V, OO uu - Mr. Chambers spoke on people such as Buck Bailey of WSU who had influenced him, both in a personal way ana in oast ball. Speaking about credit, Mr. Chambers told of the growth of credit bureaus across our nation. The credit bureaus are a finan cial system of credit reporting and it is now becoming more and more computerized. Big firms in cities can now control their credit losses to 1 percent of gross business. His firm runs both a credit reporting and bill collecting service. "Merchants," he ex r.iainpd. "are losine millions in 'skips'." This refers to folks who Craig Cutting Named Oregon Scholar Craig Cutting, Heppner High School was among the 1500 stu dents that have been announc ed as 1970 Oregon Scholars by the State Scholarship Commis sion. The students earning this honor are selected from all high schools in Oregon on the basis of their outstanding academic achievement, it was explained by Sidney Schlesinger, chair man of the commission. Average grade point of those named as Oregon Scholars this year is 3J82. Each recipient will be present ed with an Oregon Scholar cer tificate "by the commission. In addition, Governor McCall and School Superintendent Parnell will send letters of tribute to the Oregon Scholars of each high school. Encouraging Injured In Car Penny has a "tingling in her foot" is the good news that Carl Marquardt brought back from Portland Tuesday night where he had gone to see Penny and Billie June Marquardt, who were injured in a one car acci dent on the last curve going in to Lexington from Heppner last Thursday evening. They are the duaghters of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Marquardt. Penny has been paralyzed from the waist down and with little feeling in her arms. She can now move her arms and fingers on one hand. She has head traction that holds her head straight, no pillow and is moved very gently. It is believ ed she has a broken neck and at first was given a 10 chance of walking. She was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital on April 24. 3PPNEI2 move from one part of the coun try to the other. Vina PraclH.tnt Cnne Pierce, in charge of the meeting, reported that the Linda cooper i-una was way over the top. uriginai in to raise about $400 and nearly $700 has been rais ed by local individuals, groups and merchants. Fund will en able her to obtain transporta tion to the School oi instruction in Vermont prior to leaving for Germany. Several stores have provided new outfits and shoes for her trip, iiivnt rnilins introduced Dean ....J Hilliard and Bill Scruggs of the U. S. Army Corps or engineers. Thou nm msklne a feasabillty study of Shobe Canyon with a view to finding our now urai to control the Ilooa poienuai there. Dan Sweeney Heads HHS Student Body elected president of the Heppner High School Associaieu oiuucm !.. TTriau'c plnrtion. Elected ai laoi a 1 1 "J to serve with Dan were Charlie Pointer, vice president; Aiene . nvA L otn. Boyajlan, secretary anu i iirrac corrrpant-at-arms. uorhora Aiistott was elected assistant treasurer and Jill Rugg as business manager ai inu yn mary balloting. Treasurer next year will be the current assist ant, Gwen Drake who automat ically succeeds Debbie Warren, the present treasurer. Tryouts were held for varsity rally squad members with Julie Ayres, Susie French, Kathy Sweeney and Debbie McLeod chosen from a group of seven. Joe Daley Awarded Announcer Contract Contracts were awarded to W. H. Wergen of Enterprise to sup ply the sound hystem and to Joe Daley of Pendleton to announce for the 1970 rodeo at the rodeo committee meeting last Wed nesday. uorniri tfnrr. Cnuntv Exten sion Agent, was appointed to the committee to represent tnu raw r-m, rvmntv rh amber of Com merce as director of parking and tickets. Norman Goree, Presi dent of the Northwest Rodeo As sociation was a guest at the meeting. Contracts for stock and clowns will be considered at the May meeting. The committee will meet jointly with the Blue Mountain College rodeo commit tee on May 6 to make final plans for the college rodeo to be held here on May 23 and 24. Date of the kickoff dance has been set for June 27 and Aug ust 22 and 23 will find a big ger and better show than ever before. News From Wreck Near Billie June was taken down April 25. She had surgery on her right leg for multiple frac tures. She has a pin In her leg. She is badly bruised. Their mother, Mrs. Bill Mar quardt is staying in Portland to be near the girls. On Tuesday two carloads from Heppner went down and back. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Marquardt, Carlita and Lo lita; Mr. and Mrs. Truman Mes senger and Mrs. Norma Mar quardt, the girls' grandparents; Rick, Charma, Doug and Phil Marquardt Jim Schaffitz, Steve Hedman and Mary Kay Hughes. Bruce Marquardt also made the trip. Charma stayed down for a week. Scene of Accident First on the scene of the ac cident was Kim Lindsay driving a chip truck for Lumber Trans port about 9:30 that night. He Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Number 10 Moonlight Sole Provides Leisure Shopping Time Twn preat blu hour of shop. ..in una lust that on Frdtay night for the Moonlight Sale In Heppner. Friends shopped, stroll ed and browsed through store after store. People were gay as thpv visited with friends as they went from place to place. J. C. Penney reports they Iook in jusi miirh in the two hours they were open Friday nltht as they had all day. utner mercnums nn renortlnir equally good re sponse to the Friday night shop-PnR- . . The next big events ior snop ninir in HeDDner are Mothers Day and Graduation. Invitational At Boardman By JOHN HARRIS Mnrrnw CountV Hich schools held their second annual Invi tational Track Meet at Kiversioe ninh'e trak. in Boardman, last Saturday, April 25. Participating were eight A-2 schools ana ten B schools from tne eastern Ore gon area. Ione's uoug ceggs three firsts and a second place tnr Vila afternoon's efforts. He placed first in the 100-yard lianiii . ' the long jump. He garnered a second place rinisn ior ni ci .t -MMnniontt helned the w n . t mt tnrf a he gathered in - ' three fourths and a fifth place. He placed fourtn in tne w i inner Inmn. and the vain - o . ' high Jump. He placed fifth in the 100-yard uasn. Heppners etions seemeu i ;i oo nn v two men svuieu. John McCabe, a recruit from the baseball team, placed rourtn in tho tavplin with a toss of 151'7" and Kevin Dick, junior two-mil- er, placed third Witn tne Dest effort of his career. Dick ran his two-mile in 10:19.2. Heppner was without craig Munkers and Rory Stillman; both were 111. In team placings Madras top ped the A-2 scoring with a 135 point effort while Heppner garn ered only 10 points. McEwen col lected 107 points for a first place in the B scoring. lone had 55 nnints and Riverside had 6. On Saturday, May 2, Heppner's thinclads will participate in meet at Dayton, wn. Masons Plan Scholarship Banquet ivrnv s at R-.30 D.m. the Hepp T rwlcm Nn fi9 AF & AM Will hnct thi annual Scholarship r,nnmirt honoring the senior boys and male faculty. Dinner will be prepared by the mem bers of OES No. 32 and served hv thd Rainbow Girls Ruth As sembly No. 50. The winner of the $100 Scholarship win De an nounced. The Honorable John Murchison will be the guest speaker. Sisters Lexington first saw the car in the ditch as he came around the blind corner. The tire marks on the highway are mute testimony to thP short distant he brought the giant truck to a stop. He says he stopped the truck about 25 to 30 feet from Penny who was lying in the middle of his traf fic lane. Billie June was in the ditch on his right and . the car on its wheels was on the left side in the ditch up against the bank. They were both conscious and crying. Very shortly a car came by who went back to call the ambulance while Kim got blankets and tried to make them as comfortbale as possi ble. This has been a sad week for as they have waited for encour- aging words about the girls' condition. III Low Prec. !W 40 on Si 58 40 54 30 .07 40 20 .( 50 20 .0 55 30 .03 mow School District Sets Tax Base Election The Directors of Morrow Coun ty School District R l, at a reg ular meeting held on April 2(. decided to present to the voters of Morrow County the question of establishing a new tax base for the school district. This decision waa based on the fact that the present tax base represents only 27.4 of the total levy and the fact that the tax base election must be hold In connection with the statewide primary on May 20, thereby holding the cost of the election to a minimal figure. In the next few weeKs I win attempt to provide the voter with background Information that should be helpful to them In determining how tney wisn to vote on this Important Issue, i am devotine this article to the question of what a tax base is and what we mean Dy xnn fi2. limitation. Future articles will deal with arguments for and against the tax base concept, as well as the procedures for up dating a tax base. Public meet ings on this issue are also plan ned for Heppner, lone, ana ir rigon. Original tax bases were creat ed In 1916 as a result of an in itiative petition that became Ar ticle XI, Section IT, of the Ore gon Constitution. This section provioea a sys tem fnr ostahlishine a tax base for all public taxing agencies. The tax base tor a taxing agen cy Is the amount of tax levy that can be levied without a vote of the people. This section also provides for up to a 6 in crease in the established tax base each year without a vote of the people. As an example, if n taxina affPncv established a tax base of $100,000 for the year 1967-68 they would be ab le to increase the levy to $106, 000 for the vear 1968-69 and to $112,360 for the 1969-70 budget year. Pprhaps at this point I should emphasize that the 6 Increase permitted annually applies on ly to the tax levy and not to v,n tntai hnfWt. This is an Im portant point because a 6 in crease in tne tax ievy erably less than a 6 lncreae in the total budget. When the Morrow ouru Schools consolidated in 1959 the law provided that the new dim: would have to be established on the existing tax base from the districts involved in the reorgan ization plus the 6 increase. Several districts had no t&'A oase at the time and others had in adequate tax bases. This meant that the tax base for the reor ganized district was set at $173, 118, while the actual tax levy was $618,404.79. With the initial tax base con stituting less than 28 of the total tax levy, it has been nec essary to vote eacli year on the largest portion of the levy. The philosophy behind a re alistic tax base is that it per mits the taxing agency to con tinue the same program from year to year without holding a tax election. Any new program that requir ed funds beyond the normal 6 increase would still have to re ceive voter approval. The School District tax ba e for the 1970-71 school year is $328,625, which constitutes less than 28 of the total levy of $1,199,8780, which is the amount nlrpadv annroved bv the voters for the 1970-71 school year. Tho directors of the School District are asking the voters to establish a new tax base or iqqR70. the amount that has al ready been set as the tax levy for the 1970-71 school year. Kon uanieis Emil Groshens Has Surgery Fmil Oroshens was rushed to St Anthonv Hospital in Pendl?- ton for major surgery Friday. It was reported on Tuesday mo i- ing that this is the nrst time Emil has ever been 111 and tnar his surgery was successful and he is doing well.