HEPPNER GAZETTE -TIMES. Thursday. Pecembw ti. 1W THE iey - WEPTHESt, GAZETTE-TIMES CHt6( wAiott Heppner, Orjon S7W6 Pbone 676-922 MOREOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER n,e lU-ppner Cazette established March 30 1SS3. The Hepsnr nmei wublubed .November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15. 11)12. MEMBFHS OF NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSN. AND OREGON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSN. CHARLIE & DOROTHY HEARD. Editors & Publisher ARNOLD RAYMOND. REGGIE PASCAL plant I on man Linotype Operator ..... xn-FY MATT WARREN New Apprentice o d-..-. mv... rv. in rvrta Mailed Smele every one big thank you. We CopieVlSCenU 50 cents. Publi .he J . appreciate Ml you've done .. i t' . i - . . l. . r. r44i . Uannnor f)r0nn i U. e unnln like 10 Aou t-Very 1 nuriay ana cmerru 11 uwr - -. as Second Class Matter. Office Hours: 8 am. to 6 Dm. Monday throueh Friday; 9 a.m. until noon Saturday. A Verr Mtrry Chrlatmas All We want to wish you all a Vers- Merry Christmas, a safe and" happy holiday. We think a treat dt-al of all our ubscnb ers and the business people wi.o support this little newspa per wi'h all their ad and Job printing. Without you the Ga ,.ti. TimM uyiiiIiI ru.t ho able ... ...... - - - - - - m evist. So we owe each and CHRISTMAS A Sense of Worth What are you worth? That question nearly always brings an answer in terms of dollars and cent. We balance our assets against our debt. What's left over (if anything) is our worth. It is unfortunate we think In uch terms. We are horribly discontinuing our real value. Our worth is to be found In those things on which a price can not be placed. Our sense of beauty, our Instinct of right and wrong, our ability to reason and respond to life around us. our abil ity to love and to be loved, these things which make us man, what price do we place on them? If we continue in the dollars and cents vein, then to be sure life has merely a dollar value and this season becomes an opportunity to increase ray assets. Therefore, it will be a Merry Xmas only if 1 have a good time with the bulk of the packages under the tree. It cannot be otherwise because I am looking at life purely on a money scheme. In the pro cess life, people, (even I) become things to be bought and sold for the enjoyment of the moment. I become value-less, bankrupt. Life is more than this! The value of life is to be measured In terms of relation ships to others. This means that our worth can only be teen in relationship to the ultimate authority. This ultimate au thority is the creator and sustainer of the universe. God. So then, what is our worth? We are worth His life! Not silver, nor gold, but God's life. We are of ultimate value, priceless. That's what this season is all about. God entered upon the stage of history in human clothfrs In order that we might receive the gift of life! If the maneer is thrown aside, God's entrance ignored, this season will be an exercise in futility. We will strive for a Merry Xmas that will be as fleeting as steam on a dry summer day. The tree, the gifts, the friends may cheer us, but to lasting measure, for our measure will be of things gained, rather than a life given. Man's worth, man's life is not the total of things alone, but a living relationship to God in Christ Jesus! Thus, re place the living God in the center of the season's activities and you will have a satisfying fruitful life along with a Mer ry Christmas. The gifts around the tree will warm the heart as they remind us of God's love for us in the gift of life throuRh His son. That's what the display In the window down town is try ing to say. Set the scene right Put the living Lord in your heart. You will not have a Merry Xmas, but a Merry Christ mas. The festivities of the season and the years ahead will be blessed with the benediction of the living God, because your values are right! (Ed. Note: The above was composed and submitted by members of the Cashmere Ministerial association. Its mean ing, eloquent yet simple, requires little Introduction, but of fers a great deal to think about) Stamp Saying Did you know that saving stamps (ordinarily discarded on envelopes) can be turned to cash to provide food for hung ry children in other lands? Stamps to save are: a. Commemorative, or memorial stamps b. Special Delivery stamps c. Air Mail stamps d. Foreign stamps e. Any stamps 6c and over f. Special 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5c stamps g. Common 1. 2, 3, 4. 5 and 6c stamps IMPORTANT NOTE Leave stamp glued to the paper. Cut or tear comer from envelope, leaving a narrow rim of paper around stamp. BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO CUT, TEAR. OR INJURE STAMPS. Cannot be used if even one perforation point Is missing. P. S. This Is a good use of all those Christmas card stamps you receive. Take your stamps to the Morrow County Extension office or to the next Home Extension meeting. Jan. 18 Deadline for 4-H Scholarship Application Several sizeable scholarships are again available for high school graduating seniors In 4-H both state-wide and here In the county. For example: Standard Oil Company's is $400, Sperry-Hutchlnson's $300, Oregon Wheat Commission $300, and Union Pacific $400. Each eligible member will re ceive a letter explaining the details. Applications are due January 18, 1971. Some years there are few applications. Each will need at least the following items: 1. National Report Form 2. Project records with pictures 3. 4-H Story 4. Head and shoulder photograph preferably 3" x 5" Christmas Trips Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Richards went to Seattle Sunday to visit their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Barker. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Chaplrt left Wednesday for Camas where they will visit until af ter the New Year with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Slyter. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Siewert will spend the holidays in Seattle visiting their daughters. Bar bara. Jean and Paula. Rev. and Mrs. Rudy Mensch f njoyed an early Christmas with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Weitz. in Mil ton Freeu a ter. They spent Mon day with them and then Mon day evening had their exchange of gifts. They returned home Tueeday. Christmas Day they will be home and Sunday after they will go to Seattle to visit un til after New Years with their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mensch. We would like to add that we are continually impressed with the good people of Morrow County. As a little example of this, we've never before lived In an area where so many folks will stop and let us cross the street Such kindness and cour tesy are impressive In this great age of hurry and scurry -Thank you and God Bless you everyone. Dorothy & Charlie Arnold Reggie Ann Susan Matt Valerie. i: . . V.V-7 A .'I 1 Cent Pierce who had hoped for some time to win the pot at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon"! was finally a winner. He on Monday was presented a genuine, miniature fur-lined Chamber of Commerce! From Rupert. Idaho comes aa Associated Press item about an ad in the Minidoka County News offering a cow for sale for a price between $100 and $200. But. the ad said, that was just the cow's basic list price. It said the animal s two-tone exterior would cost an addition al $59: with the dispensing de vice (four spigots at $10) com ing to $40. Other extras listed in the ad were: extra stomach, $40; prod uct storage compartment $60; genuine cowhide upholstery, $45; automatic fly swatter, $35; and dual horns, $20. Total value of the cow was listed at $370 $450.. The ad was placed in the small Southern Idaho weekly by a rancher who declined to iden tify himself. FIVE GENERATIONS from left: Mrs. Juanlta Mrflock IgnowikL the gremdrnotoer She was bora In Heppner and attended schools In Lexington and The Dalles. Now living in The Dalle.. Ml chael Ignowiki holding his 6 month old son Mark. Both father and son were bom In The u; Michael attended schools la Th. Dalles, and is now living in Forest Grove, where he Pacific University. Mrs, Lola Munkers Wright the great-great grandmother. Mrs. Wright was bom to Scio. Oregon and moved to Morrow County, with her parents. Mr. arul Mr Wm. RUey " . r- .. . . t-j fru,u: wnhM Mntinrir. thm areat grand- Munkers. in laKi at tne age or a. v""" ; ---------- - mother. Mrs. Matlock was bora In Monument and went to school In Heppner. Wheat Growers Slate Meeting The National Association of Wheat Growers will hold their annual meeting In Portland Jan 5-9, at the Sheraton Hotel, announced Harold Kerr, County Extension Agent Highlights of the week's pro gram include an address by Rep. Al L'llman on Farm Organiza tion 4 Government Policy, at 10:30 Jan. 7. The same day following a tatu hv Governor McCaU. a panel discussion on IGA modrr ated bv Dick Baum will be held January 8, a new film on the wheat industry win oe snown and Kirby Brumfield will pre sent his popular program "Un derstanding Youth". In the afternoon topics In elude: "Wheat Export Outlook" Tntrineered Foods: A New Im age for Wheat Products"; and "Farm Programs and policy Speakers are all from Washing ton, D. C. The annual banquet will be Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. More complete details on the program are available at the County Extension Office 676- 9642. Pioneer Ponderings Some folks who laugh out loud at the family album look in a mirror and never crack a smile. The world changes so fast you couldn't be wrong all the time if you tried. Tourist: T got up at dawn to see the sun rise." Native: "You couldn't have picked a better time." Friend of ours shaved off his beard because it made him look too young! Someday a magazine editor is going to become famous by publishing stories as interesting as the ads. By W. S. CAVERHHX A CONVENIENT WORD Occasionally, a word comes into our vocabulary that Is giv en unusual emplogment "ecol ogy" is such a word. It is the rol'atinn nf thinps to People. If an individual stagnates, is frus trated, or has an inferior com plex, blame it on his ecology. If a writer or speaker is hazy on the subiects of social or eco nomic import he can always bunch them under a generality, 'Wnintrv"' If mountains annoy you, floods terrify and riots dis turb you. your "ecology is to blame. If you are a social mis fit it s not vnur fault It is your "ecology". We used to call It environment Believe it or not Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wright have a Hereford mw that had twin calves, one of them Charolais and the oth er an Angus. Mother and twins are doing very well. Thev started calving the first of December and have about 75 hahv ralves already. Their two- year olds will start calving late in December. LETTERS WIEE EDITOR 11 CHRISTMAS AT WOLFFS Bill Wolff arrived home from Conzaga the first of the week. He will vacation until Jaji. 1Z He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Wolff. Also coming to spend the holidays with the WoUfs is Mrs. Wolffs sister. Sister Mary Salvator from Fari bault. Minn. She Is the high school guidance director. To one and all: Here I thought I would spend an ordinary Christmas but friends! Aren't they wonderful? Here on a Friday eve came Anabel Allison and Mary White laden with cold, frankincense t myrrh. Well not really, but they did have a beautiful hand made candle arrangement and some keen pink slippers for cold nights. We had a nice evening and a good time was had by all. Then the next day came a package addressed to Josephine Mahoney and I got it o k. It is from those lovely nieces, the Bell Sisters (Laurel Harriet, Eileen, Beth and Nancy). Isn't that sweet? Naturally I'm dy ing to know what's inside but they would kill me no doubt if I should look in ahead of sched ule. So I wait. Me? I haven't got off a card. I keep thinking Til do it tomor row but I have to exercise and take two walks a day; cook (I'm living high on the hog these days) and not much else but the day Is done. Holiday Greetings Josephine Mahoney Baker Terwilllger Plaza.. Apt 525. Portland, Oregon 97201 To the Editors, Heppner Gazette-Times: Mv the surmises and joys of the Holiday Season. Fancy' Ea ting a card and note irom Claudien and Dick Wlghtman which says in part "Hope this isn't too much or a snoot iot you but we have kept tab of vou through the Gazette-Times. Dick and I have returned from he Ulands where we have liv ed in Honolulu for 5 years. Dick to the Gazette. Sounded just like the old E.O. column. We have 6 grandchildren and our young est, Janet, was married Aug. 1. Marvin is an architect and is a partner in a very good compa ny in San Francisco and trav els all over for his company. Jim and wife and daughter live in Greeley, Colo., and Peg gy lives in Concord and has 4 beautiful children. The years have really flown by. Do want you to know that all these years we have always thought and talked of you. The Wightmans are living in Annapolis, Calif. The Wightmans, the Alfalfa Lawn Dairy' in the good old days. I remember when I was a young thing Lula Campbell and I rode on the milk cans while John delivered milk from the horse drawn wagon and measured it all in a tin cup and no one got germs or nuttin'. And the milk can tops were mashed down until Uncle Bob would have to take a stick of stove wood to pry them out and jaw John for putting them in so tightly. John never told on us. The Wightman ranch was like a second home to me. And when the kids came home from college and how we all danced and for years Dick and I danced out the old yearj and in the new. ITm. j Sincerely, Josephine Mahoney Baker j Terwilliger Plaza, Apt 525, Portland 97301 TeL 226-5911 ext 361 j Ho! Ho! Ho! And Merry Christmas If 3 The Morrow County Jaycees g Wish You A A I Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year AND WISH TO EXPRESS THEIR APPRECIATION TO THE BUSINESSMEN AND THE COMMUNITY FOR THE FINE 5 COOPERATION AND SUPPORT GIVEN THEIR PROJECTS jgj IN THE PAST. COMMUNITY BILLBOARD DEC. 27 Princess Tryouts at grounds, 2:00 p.m. Fair- DEC. 28 Movie "Backtrack", p.m., HHS Auditorium Admission 1.00 adults, students Sponsored by Yearbook Class 7:00 75c DEC. 29 Heppner Basketball! Grant Union at Heppner DEC. 31 New Years Eve Party at Elks Club Crab Feed, 6:30 p.m., Dance 9:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Music by "Shadows" of Portland JAN. 6 in Twelfth Night Burning lone at Rietmann's Lot MERRY CHRISTMAS SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. a Box 247 PH. 676-9625 If no answer call Ray Boyce, 676-5384 Bespnac -"- " ' Sarah Miller U home for the holidays from the University of Oregon. She is at home with her ..:j -j w t Wo' nan-rls Mr and Mrs. W. S. Mill- nas rvii: vu nu j ..a.c- - i , j: . n... time or HpT TTA Vtf IS are spending part of our time er. Her major is speecn in our home here. ery srr.au inenW i.u u'" " m,mih- hut verv beautUUL.er. ai .wiuwuuu We have so enjoyed your loners Camp. Chrj ifi strips; MAST ANN GREENUP. 7th GRADE HEPPNER BRANCH fcL NATIONAL L JDAii Xi or osisoif Member Federal Xjv.X Lvursrxe Corporation