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stmtm CAzrrrz Tcxzs. rhmaar. October l itn Mrs. Rucker Honored af Irrigon if ' i. I I i ;--' !l . :i r---v.- By rPJUfCES HOSE WILSON IRRIGON Mrs. Itol Rucker was honored on her 80th birth-! dy. Sept 26, at the home of her daughter and soninlaw, Mr. and Mm, Don Adams. lUt ' entire family of 5 sons and 2, daughters were present with) their families. Mit of her: grandchildren also attended thej festive occasion. A number o! her friend from the HerrnUton Golden Age Club were prewnt. as well as friends from the community. At the end of the day there were 100 names In her guest book. It was a beau tiful fall day and the Adam home and well kept lawn was well suited to the occasion. Nrs. Bucket has lived in Irri-j gon for 37 years. She and hei j late husband. Elmer Rucker. I t-ame from Wallowa County and lived in Oregon most of their ' lives. j Her family ..some of whom' traveled a d-tance to be pres- i ent. irxlude, Mr. and Mrs. Les-; lie nutkt-r f St Anthony. Ida-,' ho, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rucker. of Arlington. Mr. and Mrs. Jack: Rucker. of Pcx-ai-llf. Idaho. Mr. srd Mrs. Nick Lopez and Mr. and Mrs. Bud Rucker. both of Kellogg, Idaho, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rucker and Mr. and Mrs. Don Adams of In-iqon. Joan Adams and her sister Violet Lopez made and decorat ed the beautiful birthday cake, that was served with coffee and fruit punch, to guests. Moos Hunt in Alaska Al Panlow of Irricon and Frank Pelo of The Dalles re turned Sunday from a 2 week huntin gtrip in Alaska, where they were successful in killing a moose. The men flew from Se attle to Anchorage, Alaska, and from there they were flown to Moose Creek. Their hunting was done in this area. They travel ed down the stream on rubber rafts, camping in a different ar ea each night. They reported the ground to be very marshy, mak ing hip boots a necessity. Also the "bear" grass was 8 feet tall, 'Cee anA Meet' and they had to be on the alert n eeT for bear. I The Teachers Mrs. Mary Adams visited her!Moafj0y Niaflt brother and sister-in-law. Mr. ' "'a'" Prof Writes Prize Winner The Heppner Gazette, forerun ner of the Cazette Times, is one of 13 Inland Pacific Northwest newspapers of 1&601S95 which A graduate of Franklin High School In Portland. Ore, Hines holds a bachelor's degree from Lewis and Clark College and provided material far a prize-jr makler'a from Reed College, both 3 THE BUG on the stain is 9ood lot sitting, too," rr Vtrrid All tort Lisa Burkenbine and Sally Motherly. r, UK--::.----- Fl r- i i i winning doctoral dissertation by Donald M. Hines, assistant pro fessor of English at Washing ton State University. Hines' work is entitled "Dust Deviln in the Great Desert, A Study of the Imprests of the Fron tier in Traditional Anecdotes of Humor and Exaggeration, In Folk Beliefs, and in Traditional Speech Gleaned from Some Old- time Weekly Newspapers from the Inland Empire of the Pacific Northwest" It won third place In the 1970 Chicago Folklore Prize competition. The prize is administered by the Department of Germanic Languages and Lit erature of the University of Chi cago. Some of the newspapers used by Hines still exist Some which were weeklies then now are dailies. The WSU faculty member spent two years working on the ; six-volume 2,312 page dissert a j tion for his Ph.D degree at In j diana University. A folklore ' study of forntier life in the In- I land Pacific Northwest, contents i range from home remedies to salty stories. The dissertation Illustrates the state of mind of the ordinary frontier people, and the "agon lzing adjustment in Portland. He furrneily was a hich school teacher in Vancou ver. Wash., and has taught at Yakima Valley College. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Brown ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Erlckson of Portland were visiting old time friends in Heppner this week. Mr. and Mrs Brown recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married Sept. 21, 1920 in Condon. Later they op erated the Rhea ranch for Bob Thompson on Rhea Creek. This trip to Heppner was a birthday trip. Mr. Brown was 91 years old in September. He is quite hard of hearing and walks with a limp due to a bro ken hip a few years ago. He recalls with much pleasure his years in this area and his Eng lish born wife feels the same way. He is a true blue Amer ican and thinks Americans should live within their income as Individuals as well as a government WATER LOGGED! Turn irtM&etT t.NV CM PSOORO WAft bomh Th WifrSiS'PP er. LOU TO K?urHE6VlLl( MO. JOHN V. MADE TV ?2 MILS TKJ IN 9 MCA, 42 MINUTES I BEHIND THE FROKT Ever nance that tv hind TOtobintj OF A PA&ftiT'S TRACES HB AHEAD Of THE FRONT PWtIKKiri I M ORE THAX EVZ1Z OOO US. SAVINGS COUPS ABE MNMFWWM( eevniJSA BfiU Cf-BCTive. W FW VW TO HELP YCVK suwHE vcHa.p.w YOU country economy. and Mrs. I. W. Rash in Wenatch ee, last week. Also visiting there was another sister and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ents minger and their daughter Mrs. Robert Bchren of Maquoketa, Iowa, who returned home with Mrs. Adams to Irrigon on Thura day to spend a lew days here. Visitors at the Dave Graybeal home last week, were their dau ghter and granddaughter, Daph ne Hardin and Virginia Bobln son, of Mt. View, Calif. Mr. and A CORKER of tb boys' dressing room with football uniforms ready to pack. This shot shows tbo beautiful new torginol aoor and wall and tea new benches. There will be a place for pri vate conferences and record storage. More Changes The bell system has been ex tended to both the girls and boys dressing rooms. New heat lights have been installed in the girls shower room. Future plans call for a restoration Job on the girls' PE instructor's of fices. New Paint Five classrooms were re- painted this summer as well as all the hallways and general (Continued from page 1) Formerly the steps were swept nightly, now vacuumed only twice a week. The thunder of feet has been cut to only a whisper. Case Fur niture laid the carpet t Other Changes The dressing rooms have un dergone a face lifting that Is hard to believe. They are now Poffice a delight to clean and some thing to be proud of that has Mrs. Graybeal and their guests cut vandalism to zero. toured McNary Dam during their stay. Mr. and Mrs. Don E, Heard of Huntsville, Ala., arrived Monday j evening to spend a week here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Heard. Dean Naffziger, boys PE in structor, drew up the plans for the long-range plans. There are now rooms for the home team as well as the visiting team to dress. The dressing room ad jacent to the shower has tor- ginol on the floor and halfway up the wall in shades of brown and white. The old cement had Mrs. Walter Edqer who suf fcred a heart attack recently is t0 due out and repoured to nome irom the hospital and Pvo-" a correct slope ior making satisfactory recovery. drainage. Formerly there was , ...... I "ne vouei ana one sinK. Tne m. ana Mrs. waiter w riant I tnWft ha h.n naritirnH off ncr momer, airs, uienn rarrens two urinals added, the sink and ana ner orouier. Mr. and Mrs. a drinking fountain installed. uarrei rarrens ana Clenn of Benches are smooth finishArt Monument had a late summer boards bracketed to the walL trip into tanaaa. They went New lights and ventilating sys through Glacier on "Going to tern installed. Lett's Elwtrie did tne s.un highway, to Calgary, the wiring. w odnu. uere mey roue tne a r,Hr (TnnHrila Thl n in 1 n T .,i,V.nf . ... and Jasper. They went on a sno- vMr hmr o,i ...in u i- Ti i iu e ""UT' applied as the next stage in . .wui- miii. tiicii luuil-u uatB I (hp Inner. ranrro nlsnc Ihrnncrh U'achlnirtnn " 6 ' Later tne wngnis went up to Vi.u uMnrinur in . wv.u. iu lit. i mnm nnrt chnu laroa fn, L. ciutor Tl anA fre Harm V I . "-""L ter suDerLsion. Next vear's It had been 15 years since tncy had been painted. Mr. Martin said "We scrounge a lot, use our own personnel when possible and really get a 101 ior our money. The improve menis mis year have been een eral maintenance and UDerad ing for all who are using these facilities. We never cut corners when it comes to safety". what's next? "Well rd like to see some work done on the w indows. They can't be opened, mey can t be closed and they can i re secured . Mrs. Annabelle Allison and her daughter, Janet Allison were here last weekend to visit her father, Frank Turner. They drove out to the Kenneth Turn ers for the agricultural view. Ken planted potatoes and beans this year. He says his potatoes ran 27 ton per acre and his beans are better than last year. en. They traveled the Olympic Peninsula and chartered a fish ing boat out of West port. There were seven fish brought In. Mrs. Wright had caught 3 of them and Mr. Wright 1. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Alderman and Mr. and Mrs. Ron Held are in Portland for the funeral of Mr. Thornton Dunn of Portland. plans call for a paint job In there and a torginol floor. There's a new First Aid room which also provides storage for supplies. The other dressing room has been remodeled. The floor which is slick when feet are wet will be replaced next year with torginoL When you tell the advertiser that you saw it in The Gazette- Times, you help to make a bet ter paper for your community. make in their new environment Hines said. He wrote that he "garnered and studied the humor, hoaxes and exaggerations, the faith, be liefs and cures, the folkspeech to determine the means by which the harsh world the set tiers sought to tame and live in was made tolerable to them. The area covered by the news papers, Hines pointed out W'as isolated for vears from the re mainder of the northwest, and took a long time to get estab lished. Because of its isolation, he wrote, "the local paper was thrown fully on the resources of the community it served: In times of sickness and death the weeklies commiserated, offered remedies by the score, or dis cussed the signs of death and dvine at length; to entertain the readers, the weeklies printed humor or tall tales or 'lies' clip ped from other Pacific Northwest or Eastern newspapers, or bet ter, narratives which the editor heard from his cronies. The three volumes contain an ecdotes, one includes proverbial lore such as sayings, riddles and customs, and two contain cures. ; Since the area had few if any. doctors, cures and : remedies as- sumed major importance at that time. , I "1 blanch to think of them,"i , Hines said. "One of the worst-1 sounding was that of muriatic! acid and quicklime for diphther-1 ia throat" ("Muriatic" is the old name of hydrochloric acid.) I In another instance, the Wal- j ia w ana union reiaieu uiai a sportsman bitten by a rattle- j snake poured gunpowder on the, wound and lighted a match to! it in the custom of the time.. He suffered no pain or inconven ience from the bite. The effect of the treatment on his hand is another matter. The burning gunpowder sometimes took some skin with it Settlers told grim and pain ful jokes to let off steam, ac cording to Hines. Many stories j poked fun at various social! groups and keyed around the; discomfiture of individuals. Hines currently is doing a fol low-up study. He received a graduate school research grant this past summer for a project entitled "A Folklore Study of Frontier Culture Extant Among Descendants of Frontier Settlers of Whitman County and the Pal- ouse Country." TYPEWRITER RIBBONS for all makes of machines. 98c; typ ing paper, 500 sheets, S1.95; add Ing machine tape. 25c roll; car hnnizprl anil nnn.rarhnnl7prt they had to saies books; and other office supplies at The Gazette-Times, SCHOOL CALENDAR OF EVENTS 1. Heppner High-FFA Potluck Banquet :00 p.m. Riverside Independent College Visitation at Hermiston High Seniors Only Riverside Jr. High Football at Stanfield 2:00 p.m. lone Girls' Volleyball at Pilot Rock 7:30 p.m. Jr. High Football Heppner at lone 2:00 p.m. 2. lone High School Football at Culver 2:00 p.m. Riverside High School Football at Echo 7:30 p.m. Riverside Senior Pictures and Football Pictures Heppner High Football Sherman at Heppner 8:00 p.m. Riverside Girls' Volleyball Echo at Riverside 4:00 p.m. Heppner High College Panel School Administrators Meeting Pendleton 6:15 p.m. Heppner High Girls' Volleyball Stanfield at HenDner 3:00 p.m. Riverside NROTC Jr.-Sr. Boys 8:30 a.m. 7. Girls' Volleyball Riverside at lone 1:00 pm. Heppner High Girls' Volleyball, at Umatilla 2:00 p.m. a Heppner High School Football Maupln at Heppner 8:00 p m. Heppner Jr. High Football at Stanfield 2:00 p.m. lone Bonfire lone PTA 8:00 p.m. lone Jr. High Football Condon at lone 2:30 pjn. 9. 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