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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
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tort Lisa Burkenbine and Sally Motherly.
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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
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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
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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. Professional Inservice Day No Students
5.
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