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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. ThurvtaT. Jun . -rirZz HEPPNEH GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner. Oregon S7B38 Phon Bu-axio MOHROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPEB The Hcpner Gazelle established March 30. 1883. The Heppner Times wlablUhed f-ovembcr 18. 1897. Consolidated February 15. 1912 MEMBERS OF NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSN. AND OREGON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSN. CHARLIE DOROTHY HEARD. Editors & Publisher ARNOLD RAYMOND. RECG1E PASCAL Plant Foreman Linotype Operator ALICE VANCE News Circulation Subscription Rates: fcOO Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Mailed Single pics 15 Cents In Advance,; Minimum Billing 50 cents. Publish J Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, a SiK-ond Class Matter. u-.uve Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 pa, Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. il noon Saturday. Kids are Costly But . . . In this day of planned parenthood or not planned parent hood, It Is well to know the cost of raising a child to the KC Alberta Johnson, Oregon State Extension family finance specialist says the answer gets involved with such factors as I hose: In what part of the country is the child raised? Is he raised in a city, the country or on a farm? How many child ren are in the family? What are the parents' standards of what is necessary in life and what is desirable? It seems to cost more to raise a child in the Western part of the United States. It would have cost $20,190 to raise the average child born In 1951 living in a family of parents and no more than five children in a rural, non-farm region. This is over $5000 more than for a child in the same situa tion living In the north Central region of the United States. These figures were computed with the prices that were current in each year of his life beginning in 1951 and with the family on a low-cost but adequate food budget. If the cost of raising the child had been the same every year as they were in 19(39, the cost would have been $25,000 in the West. The total cost per year to raise the child gen erally rises as the child grows. When figured in 1969 dollars, costs in his 18th year are as much as 30 to 45 percent higher than in his first year. t . Parents of children just graduating from high school this year can well testify to the factualness of this last sentence! While costs differed according to locality, in general it costs families from 15 to 17 percent per child of the family income to raise a child based on the figures for the two years near the mid-point of the 18-year span. After high school and during college, the casts rise sharp ly Here again there are many factors depending on which college Is chosen and the students' standards on what he thinks is necessary. Visits to the orthodontists, opthalmologist, music lessons, dancing lessons and accidents can end the costs skyscraping. The costs may stagger those of the Depression Years but are so readily acceptable to this generation of the affluent vofirs! Of course, kids are so wonderful that their costs have to be overlooked! Congratulations to Pat .itv. rt Tnf Vttkpnnv. A student bodv Dres- ident of Heppner High School, he has shown himself to be an exceptional leader. We have seen evidence where he not only led but got behind and pushed. He formulated many student activities and showed tremendous talent as an organ izer. His wholesome interests and attitudes added to the over all stability and pride of the student body. His teachers and administrators say he is very coopera tive. He Is poised and business like in conducting his meet ings. He involved the students to accomplish many good things. The most outstanding specific is the Peace Corps School. Their goal of $1000 has been almost raised by a wide variety of ways and means. To date they are just about $100 short. There are a few more sources where more money may come in. The Juniors planned to contribute anything left in their treasury after all the Prom bills are paid. The Sophomore class planned a Pop Bottle drive with the proceeds to go to the Peace Corps School. Pat received the $100 Savings Bond as winner of the Elks Leadership Award this year. He was presented with the Boy of the Year plaque at the Awards Assembly last week. He hopes to go to the University of Oregon and take up law. LETTERS" EDITOR urn j. ii mtrw ff Dear Editors: In the name of mercy, pity, peace and love. I ask why the billions and billions of our tax dollars are wasted on worthless, repeat research, moon travel, de fense duplications and billions go to pay young able bodied people on welfare not to work? "While our neglected veterans die in filth from lack of care." These deplorable, disgraceful, conditions could be remedied you know by putting the free loading young able bodied wel fare spongers to work for a change In these hospitals. I'm sure every one is aware of the fact that it does not take a col- ly) les. My wife (Clara Ledbetter) and I were married In Heppner In June, 1950, and have kept n touch with your commun. and our friends through the G T. I retired from the Air Force in September. 1968. entered Eastern! Washington State College at Cheney, and will gradate witn . n a in n.iuinoKa Administra tion next week. (Incidentally. I have a CPA of 3.39 lor my col lege work and attribute much credit to the fine education and atmosphere of Heppner High as well as the touch competit ion I faced from the likes of Ray French and Mary Lou Kei- arinratlnn to be able to clean hospitals, bathe patients and pack bed pans. Besides the humane good tnts couio. uo iu help our sick and wounaea dos., the poor old overburdened tax n.,,H mlpht pet a little fl- nont-iiii relief If the welfare rolls were cut back on the ones who could help themselves by going to work. The old "Saw" claims that Jack will be a dull boy If he never plays. But the truth Ls, he will be a sick boy if he nev er works! Idleness generates both physical and psychological illness. We should be grateful if there's something we must do everyday, since only in ac tion can we build for health and sanity. No one really enjoys idleness that isn't earned! For free it soon degenerates into a consum ing, deadly boredom. But when for it with diligence and devotion it keeps its pow er to stimulate and reiresn us. Too often we are victims of fnnr nnd deDression until we find some sort of work to do. Then in work we are released from the suffering of aimless ness. To awaken each day without purpose in mind, that is the ooHv! And so we should give thanks, not complain, if the job ahead oi us is one which demands strength of hnHv. natience and self control. Then when earned leisure hours come, we know a satisfaction, which is denied the full time idler. Never! Never! let us wish for nothing to do! Most Sincerely, Mrs. Lois Winchester Pioneer Ponderings "Something I'd like to ask the State Department: With all these goodwill trips, how come we don't have any? CHUCK WAGON Elwayno Bergstrom and Bob Laughlin are dismantling , the old Heppner railroad depot in their spare time. The Bergstroms plan to build a cabin with the lumber on a lot up at the Blake Ranch tract. The Laughlins plan to save their lumber until they buy a lot up In the montains. A meeting with District Attor ney Herman Winter is to be held to discuss curfew policies for this area. This will occur at 3 p.m. today (Thursday) at the Morrow County Courthouse. In vited, according to Mrs. Grace Drake, Juvenile Department Dir ector, are Sheriff John Molla han, Deputy Sheriff Larry Fetsch, Judge Taul Jones, Jus tice of Peace Lowell Gribble, and they are expected to participate In the discussion and policy making. The graduate's first big shock is the discovery that jobs are handed out by old fogies like his Dad! Congratulations to Mrs. Ra chel Harnett for a most immac ulate, shiny bright museum we've ever seen, according to Mary Van Blokland, ourselves and numerous others. Morrow County can well be proud of this fine museum. Items of clothing and other articles will be accepted on be half of the Navajo Indians re lief until August at Lois' Beauty Shops In lone and Heppner. There la quits a morement a- foot in the area to try and keep the J. C Penney store open here. We understand there are several petitions In local stores and a number of people are writing the district manager at Portland. His address is Mr. J. R. Pollock, District Manager, J. C. Penney Co., Ins., District Office, Suite 125 1500 N. E. Irving St., Port land, Oregon 97232. Randall Peterson's Jewelers Is having a store front lifting. The store and a small adjacent for mer Turner, Van Marter and Bryant office are being combin ed to make a roomier store for the convenience of the custom ers. Ernie Garrison and a help er have been installing a new door, new display front win rtnws There is still much inter ior work to be done. Mr. Peter son has been doing a great deal of work himself. (Much engin eering help come from some of us sidewalk architects.) Fiesta Bowl dry Team Won Lost Heppner Lbr. Co. 47 17 Bristow's Market 42 11 Fiesta Bowl 37 H 26 M Heppner Nor-Gas 35 29 Parrish Garage 204 43Vi Masons 10 54 High Ind. Game Ron Gray, Don Ball. 193; High Ind. Series Ron Gray, 553: High Team Game Bristow's Market, 1009; High Team Series Bristow's Market. 2959. Emery Gentry of Weston, son of Mrs. Walter Rood, was here last Friday for a visit. My personal thanks to the staff of the Gazette-Times for the help and consideration you have extended to my students and me during the past year are gratefully expressed. To Reggie, the linotype operator who catch es so many of our mistakes, and to Arnold, who has to put up with inexperience, crash produc tion, and different style and make-up from the Gazette, we particularly owe thanks. I also want to apologize to the seniors, and their parents, whose interviews the HEHISCH did not manage to publish this spring. When the staff decided to try to print an interview of each of the nearly 50 seniors, it was an ambitious undertaking because of space limitations. In seven printed issues, dii students were written up and the juniors decided to publish a final mim eographed edition to catch the final group. But the same gremlins who make miserable the life of all printing establishments came out in force to torment the HE HISCH staff during the final week of school we goofed, and missed several students. Without the help of our dependable sen iors, and in the last hectic two weeks of school, publication of a regular printed edition and a small mimeographed paper were minor miracles in themselves. The same students who worked on them were also publishing 'Thoughts," the little magazine for Creative Writing and Advanc ed Composition classes, and working on the yearbook. Furthermore, devoting so much space to the senior inter views seriously cramped us and we occasionally left out stories that were probably more import ant, in order to print interviews. Publishing a printed edition is sort of a crash job due to the tight schedule of the Gazette Times, and the editors are of ten forced by time limitations to use a story because it fits a cer tain space rather than for a more journalistic reason. The HEHISCH staff and I apologize for not having fully covered the senior class. I think we missed Tom Cleveland, Su san Melby, Gary Munkers, Bill Wolff, Vicki Steagall, and Jody Rugg. To all of you best wish es in your future plans. Rachel Dick, Publications Advisor Heppner High School Dear Mr. and Mrs. Heard: Twenty-five years ago I grad uated from Heppner High School, and not long afterwards enter ed the United States Army. I lived in Heppner for only a short period, but have many friends there and many fond memor- Plcase renew our subscription. Sincerely, John L. Pickens By W. S. CAVEHHILL If there is a generation gap in our society, at no place is it wider than in the matter of finance. Some comic features in the daily press bring that sit uation clearly into focus. On one side are the bedeviled parents struggling to meet the aemanas of their offspring, on the other a group of bewildered young sters who have never faced the problem of self support. Would it v,o nrivisahia to Dut them in possession of a vote on fiscal matters? II tne ngnt to vuie i given to 18 or 19 year olds and thev use it. it will increase the political power of areas close to the universities to me retire ment of outlying towns and countries. We have more than enough of that now. CHARITY BE CCS Parent's Announce Mr. and Mrs. Harold Becgs of t .nnnunm the engagement tunc - of their daughter. Chanty, to Mr. Rick Marquardt of Lexing ton. Miss Beggs is a graduate of lone High School and her fi ance is a graduate of Heppner High School. Both young people plan to attend Washington State University tms iaii. jo date has been set. Crisman-Hill Wedding June 20 M. Sara Adklns has received . . ..... ..n,tsnn. Ronald 'W1 tna n" , Ann Hill tter of Mr. and Mm. VWBU the Martin Luther Church In Portland at 2:00 p.m. and the newly-weds will be at home In Mawaukle after the wedding trip. , M Great Grandmother ... .. t inrrv Holliday of' Portland announce the ..rfv. at oi mcir in" v" , u j k on May 20. He elghed 5 lb. Grandparents . ...it xir and Mrs. Mrs. tan nau - . f Portland. Mrs. Paul wiiav" v. - . AG. Pleper 18 the chlld ' K grandmotner. Invitation Extended to Berniece Matthews Wedding Th marrlnee of Bcrnlw Matthews, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace imiwi Mattnews of lone, to Patrick Thornton, son of Mrs. Lena Thornton of The Dalles, will be solemnized at a 2:00 P.m. ceremnoy on Sunday, June 14 in uniiea inurcn oi Christ church In lone. The couple takes this oppor tunity to cordially invite their friends and relatives to attend hA roremonv and the reception which will follow in Church So cial Room. Attend Graduations Mr. and Mrs. Milo Prindle - in rimik Wn.. last week for the graduation of their granddaugntcr. oneiue uuum. She plans to attend Washington State this fall. After returning from Omak, Mrs. Prindle Joined her brother. ir.nnn Ufa A Ann fnr a flight to VClllUU v. v. . - " Little Rock, Ark. They attended the high school graduation of his son, uary wauuen. Miss Wyman Graduates Sheridan Wyman, daughter of Mrs. Ilcne Wyman of Heppner 1966, was graduated Saturday from tmanuei nuii- -. Nursing in Portland at the 56th annual commencement exercises "here. She attended Marylhurst College for a year prior to enter ing the Emanuel Hospital School of Nursing. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Horn of Baker spent Memorial Day with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Beam. Both fam ilies then drove to Walla Walla to join other relatives. COMMUNITY BILLBOARD Invitation Issued Friends are cordially invited to the wedding of Bonnie Kae Akers to Rodney Donald Linnell on June 13 at 4 p.m. at the Unit ed Church of Christ in lone. There will be a- reception fol lowing in the church social room. DANCE Music By JOE SIMMONS (West Tuners) WAGON WHEEL LOUNGE Friday-Saturday, June 5-6 HIGH SCHOOL RODEO June 6 and 7, Hermlston Umatilla County Fairgrounds IONE COMMUNITY CHURCH AUCTION June 6, 10:00 a.rrf. Barbecue dinner, 12:30 HEPPNER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1920 Fifty Year reunion June 14, Wagon Wheel Cafe BLUE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT June 7, 2:00 p.m. lone Lions Club vs. Jaycees Meadowood Benefit Baseball game June 14, 5:00 SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGG LES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 876-8625 If no answer call Ray Boyce, 676-5384 Heppner if I Advertising created for tie public good