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uiiunr u or WQCNC, ORE. 07403 GRAIN PRICES (Courtesy of Morrow County Grain Growers) (FAB. Lexington, does not La clad warehouse cbgt.) Soft White Wheat U8 Bard Bed Winter Wheat .... 1-49 Barter - . 35JS0 Services for E. Harvey Miller Held Here E. Harvey Miller, 77, eastern Oregon wheat rancher, former legislator and civic leader, died early Thursday In Corvallis af ter an extended Illness. Funeral services were held In Corvallis, with graveside servic es Sunday In Heppner. Father Daniel Thompson of All Saints' Episcopal Church conducted the services. Casket bearers were Mark Miller, Scott Barratt, Kenneth Turner, Ken Moland, Ron Pinckney and Scott Pinckney. Interment was in the Heppner Masonic Cemetery. A 1917 graduate of Oregon State University In engineering Mr. Miller was a charter mem ber of Sigma Phi Epsilon fra ternity. Prior to his college days, he was an officer in the Army Engineers with service in France. Born in Nebraska, he came to Oregon at the age of six and attended grade and high school in Salem. In 1912, he engaged in wheat farming near Heppner with his father and brothers and continued his interest in that operation until his death. A 45 year member of the BPOE, he was a past exalted ruler of the Heppner lodge. He served in the 1941 legislature as a representative for four east ern Oregon counties. He was chairman of the first committee which organized, the Agricultural Adjustment and Conservation programs in Mor row County, was on the first State wheat committee, and was later appointed Oregon Director of the Field Service . Branch, USDA, Production and. Market ing Administration.' After this he served for a number of years as chairman of the State. Agu culture Stabilization and Con servation, committee. Mr. Miller made his home in Portland from 1946 to 1970 when he mov ed to Corvallis to be "closer to OSU sports." Besides his widow. Cyrene, he leaves two sons, Edwin Jr. of Heppner and James of Pendle ton; two stepsons, William F. Barratt Of Spokane and James G. Barratt of Corvallis. He is sur vived by four sisters arid two brothers, who include Cora Clark, Bertha Wagner and Clara Miller, all of Salem; Florence Timasheski, Inglewood, Calif.; Karl Miller, Woodburn; and Merle Miller, Portland. Two dau ghters, Marion and Colleen, pre ceded him in death, both with in the past three years. In ' lieu of flowers, the fam ily has requested donations to local heart fund chapters. 87th Year Price 10 Cents IKJL the mww GAZETTE' Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, July 23, 1970 SPPNEK TIME Number 22 m brandies Contracts were approved at Monday nights meeting of Mor row County School District Rl directors to fill the final two positions for the 1970-71 school year. Dennis Falettl to teach band and chorus at Riverside High School has taught at Taft and at Payette, Idaho. He got his BA from the College of Ida ho and this past year his MA from the U of I. Mrs. Suzanne Dagley will have the vocal mu sic at Heppner Elementary. She got her BA from Trinity Univer sity at San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Dagley will be attending BMCC. Bus runs were completed with the hiring of Darrel Vinson for the Sand Hollow-Lexington-Heppner run; Raymond Porter, Jr., for the Pine City bus run; Rita Sumner for the Eight Mile tors; Ron Daniels as budget of run and Hilda Yocom for the Lunsford Canyon run. Due to harvest and vacations, the meeting was delayed in starting until 9:15 until a quor um assembled. Extended Contract The board approved a week extended contract for Vic Mar chek to develop diagnostic tests and evaluating tests in relation to the 7th-8th grade math pro gram that was developed at Riv erside School last year. Housekeeping A number of routine begin-ning-of-the year assignments were made. Mahoney and Ab rams was designated as school district attorneys; Witherell, Witherell & Morrison as audi- ficer for 1971-72; DuAnn Mc Carty as sole signer of school district checks; Bank of Eastern Oregon and Heppner Branch First National Bank as school district depositories for 1970-71; authorized the addition of Den nis Brandon's name as person nel to order surplus property. Fuel Tank Develops Leak The 12,000 gallon fuel tank at the Heppner Elementary School has developed a leak. The tank was installed about 22 years ago. The maintenance men have dug below the connections and it isn't leaking from there. It is hoped that if the leak is found on the side, the repairs can be made with a magnetic patch that would hold until next Roy G. Putnam Dies Of Heart Attack Friends in the area were shocked to hear Tuesday of the sudden passing of Roy G. Put nam of Cornelius from a heart attack. Mr. Putnam had his own spray plane and had been com ing into Morrow County for a bout 15 years. Services will be July 23 (to day) at 9:30 a.m. at St. Matth ews Lutheran Church on Can von Rd. at Beaverton. Among those going down are Mr. and Mrs. Al Fetsch lormeny of Heppner now of Pendleton. All Stors Put On Good Show at -Hood River Delbert Wins Jaycee Radio Delbert Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Turner of Hepp ner was the winner of the ra dio given in a raffle Saturday here by the Morrow County Jaycees. The Willow Creek Little League All Stars played good ball against The Dalles Western in their first game at tne uis trict 5 Western half Tournament at Hood River last Thursday. Coach Lindsay Kincaid said, "1 was proud of the boys." . Joe Rietmann . pitched and Kim Gueterriez was catcher. The game ended 12 to 4 for The Dal les Western. Quite a number of parents went up for the game. The boys showed a let down when they met Friday afternoon with Hood River and lost 13, to 1. Clavton Wilson started the game to pitch 2 innings with Kim Gueterriez catching. Kim switched to pitcher for the bal ance of the game with David McLachlan catching. The game for the champion ship was between Jefferson County and The Dalles Western. The winner of that game goes to Hermiston this Friday at 5 p.m. to play for the District 5 championship with Hermiston who won the District 5 Eastern Half tournament. lone Laundromat Damaged, Robbed Elbie Akers reported to police Monday that coin boxes at his laundromat at lone had been damaged. Two of the boxes sus tained about $100 damage and about $88.00 or $10.00 had been taken. State police and the Sher iff's office investigated. The juveniles believed to have been involved in the robbery are reported to have left the area and returned to Portland. EDWARD W. GROSHENS Ed Groshens With Bank Former Heppner resident Ed ward W. Groshens has joined First National Bank of Oregon's South Sixth Street branch in Klamath Falls as general loan officer, Manager Virgil E. Teach has announced. Mr. Groshens, who moved to Klamath Falls from a similar assignment at Prineville, joined First National in 1963 as a com mercial teller at his hometown branch in Heppner. In 1964 he was named assistant operations officer at the Klamath Falls branch, and in 1967 he was as signed to the head office ex amining and auditing depart ment. He assumed a post as installment loan officer at Prineville in 1968, and in De cember of last year was pro moted to general loan officer. While headquartered at Prine ville Mr. Groshens was active in the Central Oregon Chapter of the American Institute of Banking, the Crook County Jr. Chamber of Commerce and the Central Oregon Chapter of Toastmasters International. DO - IT - YOURSELF project is the circle here at Lindstrom Broth ers ranch north of lone. Last winter the ole editor entered a big building on the ranch, was greeted with all kinds of noises whizzes, whirs, buzzes and other kinds of sounds coming from a host of different machines. Roy and Art graciously quieted things down awhile and talked about their project one of many- They had a big pipe in which holes were being drilled, among other things. This was to become the main section of the irrigation circle shown above in a field of beans on the Lindstrom place. It was quite a difficult project and presented the boys at the ranch with a real challenge. Success of the ex periment is in the doing as is easily seen in the above picture by Matt Warren. Except for higher derations a good deal of Morrow County wheat land is now being harvested or about to be. D. O. Nelson reported recently the potato harvest will be underway very shortly. At this season of the year. Morrow County Is where the action is! Boys Alert Officials Of Hot Wire Danger Two alert boys were instru mental in averting possible danger to life and property ear ly this week. Jim Ployhar and Mike Prock noticed that a high voltage wire had pulled out of the clamp on a pole near the pump house by the Fair Grounds Monday. They sent an SOS to Colum bia Basin and the City Hall. Then they stood by to warn traf fic until the Chief of Police ar rived who took over directing traffic until the lineman came to make the repairs. The wire had dropped down to where pickups and trucks could have come in contact with it as they drove down the highway. MORROW PICNIC TO BE AUG. 2 Carl Troedson has reported that the annual Morrow County Picnic is to be held Aug. 2 in Laurelhurst Park in Portland. RC.fir D Asks Gov. . For Nuclear Site Okay, This Area A meeting at Boardman Frl day, heard Jtwv Zajac state that the radiation one gets irom na ture is about 200 times greater than the radiation one would get from being near a nuclear reactor. Mr. Zajac is an engineer with the Nuc Corp., an international nuclear consulting firm. He told about what goes into a nuclear power plant, how it works and what the radiation standards are. He was sent to the Friday meeting by the Pacific Power & Light Co., who is reported look ing at Umatilla County for a nuclear power plant site. It was stated at this meeting that the radiation given off by the luminous dial of a watch gives off twice the radiation in a year as does a nuclear power plant. On Friday the group called for a meeting with the Gover nor's nuclear siting committee soon in order to select a site for locating the nuclear plants. Larry Wilkinson, the governor's nuclear coordinator, has already previously said the Mid-Columbia area is the best area in the state for nuclear power de velopment. Mr. Zajjac told how opposit ion in Western Oregon has placed the nuclear power pro gram there in jeopardy. The op position exists even though the nuclear power reactors have an outstandingly high safety rec ord, one of the best in all in dustry. "Opposition is certain to come with nuclear siting", said Staf ford Hansell. The state legisla tor stated that information must be made available to all in or der to head off the coming op position. Cost of a nuclear reactor is about $30 million. In Morrow and Umatilla Counties, it has Dummy Gets Treatment 65TJ spring when the tank can be left empty. II the repairs cam be made a new tank will be installed. School policies were discussed and adopted or left for discus sion bv administrators before adoption. Clarified: that the maternity leave of absence policy apply to certificated employees and classified employees. The directors recognize the right of the properly elected teacher representatives to con fer, consult and discuss econom ic matters with the board. New policies were adopted on salary advances, dismissal hear ing for classified employees, dis trict philosophy on promotion and retention and procedure for handling vandalism on school property, not connected with school or school related activities. Requests for salary advances are discouraged. The superin tendent may approve an ad vance in an extreme emergency. A school employee who has been demoted or dismissed shall be entitled to a hearing before the school board if a written request is filed with the board within 15 days of the dismissal or demotion. All investigations by juven ile authorities or law enforce ment agencies related to inci dents that are not associated with the school shall be con ducted at some place other than the school. Trespasers to be Prosecuted The - board - instructed Supt. Daniels to press charges with the district attorney in regard to trespassing at the lone pool in after-hours swimming. ' I To accommodate those young I nonnla. vulin. jiro wnrkinPln the! harvest, the pool will be open half an hour longer for two nights a week. In evaluating the financial standing of the district at the end of the fiscal year, Supt. Ron Daniels noted many categories were spent very close to j the budgeted figure. The budget was under expend ed by $55,034.69. This will be wined out if the forthcoming de cision allows the Boeing proper ty to be assessed as Farm De ferral property, ine scnooi ais trict will be required to return to Boeiner the difference In tax es collected as Industrial land and Farm land on a Deferral basis. $14,000 was picked up In the teachers' salaries when a teacn er was not found available and $12,600 from the contingency fund that didn't have to be us erl. . - . .- Some resources were higher than budgeted. Forest rentals were budgeted at $7,000 and in come was $20,313.77. Some re sources are so variable from year to year they can't be budg eted to the dollar. Bv competitive buying, mak ing more equipment and regu lar maintenance men doing much of the additional summer maintenance expenses have been curtailed. Bids Standard Oil was low bidder for the gasoline bulk delivery with .2262 per gallon at lone and Heppner, .2222 at Irrigon and .2232 at Boardman, and on the diesel fuel oil at .152 per gallon. Padberg Machinery was low bidder to provide the anti freeze at 1.25 per gallon. Western Fuel who has provid ed the PS300 Fuel Oil for the last two years with excellent service was low bidder again ' I 'r:j hi) ; . L h A SWIMMER sweeps his finger through ResusiAnnie's mouth to remove any foreign matter. . - ? r . BLOWING INTO the victim's mouth is Steve McLaughlin. Watch ing his technique are 1 to r: Susan Gray, Nancy Miller. Ron Ward, and Marsha Young. Local Swimmers Practice Lifesaving Techniques Mouth-to-Mouth artificial res-irate of about 20 per minute. been proposed that irrigation be the answer for coolant waters. Rep. Irvin Mann said Eastern1 this year with 4.23 per bbl. de Oreeon development depends on , livered to the schools. Last the friendly atmosphere of the residents of the area to the nu clear plants, an essential goal. Benefits of the plants include tax revenues and the big pay rolls, about 50 people being em ployed for each reactor. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM For week of July 15-21 Hi Low Prec. Wednesday 94 58 Thursday 93 62 Friday 88 50 Saturday 95 53 Sunday 95 60 Monday 93 59 Tuesday 80 55 year's bid was 3.99. Kuhn's '76 at Boardman, lone Chevron and Lee's Texaco at Ir rigon received the bus Service and Supply bids.- Contract bus runs, driver price per mile, distance: Hoskins Rhea Creek, Bryce Keene, .31, 33 miles; Ione-Morgan-CeciL Art Stefini, .2375, 88 miles; Peter-son-McElligott, Bob Peterson, 28, 28 miles; Huber-Campbell-Davis, Lois Hunt J30, 44.6 miles. The board authorized Supt. Ron Daniels to procure FFA pickups for Heppner High and Boardman High on a no charge basis. Mr. Daniels was to check with area dealers. The next regular meeting will be Aug. 17 at 8 p.m. at the District office. piration was an all-day practice last week at the Heppner bwlm miner pool, when ResuslAnnie was made available to all mem bera of the swimming classes. Each swimmer went through the steps. The mouth was wiped out quickly to remove any foreign matter. A folded towel placed under the shoulder blades to tilt the head back. The chin should be pointed upward. The jaw pulled or pushed into a jutting- out position. These maneuvers should relieve obstruction of the airway by moving the base of the tongue away from the back of the throat. Next each young practicer op ened his mouth wide and plac ed it tightly over ResusiAnnie's mouth. At the same time each pinched her nostrils shut with his right hand. Then they blew. After blowing, each listened for the return rush of air that in dicate air exchange. For an adult, the rescuer should blow vigorously at the rate of about 12 breaths per minute. For a child, take rela tively shallow breaths appropri ate for the child's size at the Help! Help! Help! Four-H parents are asked to return forms indicating time they can give to helping in the Snack Shack during fair as soon as possible. Snack Shack chair man. Maxine Linnell, needs in formation so she can proceed with plans for operation. The 4-H Snack Shack is the only money making project sponsored by the Leaders Coun cil Proceeds from the Snack Shack help pay for camp, and all other expenses of the Coun ciL Time spent in the Snack Shack is a donation to youth development! Can you spare an hour or two? The American Red Cross First Aid book which is the manual used at the classes says, "If you are not getting air exchange, re check the head and jaw posit ion. If you still do not get air exchange quickly turn the vic tim on his side and administer several sharp blows between the shoulder blades in the hope of dislodging foreign matter. Again sweep your fingers through the victims mouth to remove foreign matter." Defendant Acquitted In Marijuana Case Wade Dennis Raasch of Pasco was acquitted in the marijuana case that was tried Tuesday here in Heppner. There were five young people involved in the circuit court case and the second trial State vs. Daniel Vic tor Reed will be held Monday. No Dance This Weekend There will be no dance this weekend at the Fair Pavilion be cause the Court will be at Jos eph. The next Princess dance will be August 1 for Princess Michelle Miller. Page 12 will play. The Country Gentlemen play ed for the Princess Vivian Phil lips dance Saturday night. There was a big crowd in attendance. THANKS The Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce sincerely thanks the Jaycees, Dick Will ard and Cal Sherman for help ing blow up the balloons and release them last Friday and Saturday during the annual Sidewalk Bazaar here.