Heppner Students
Conduct
Annual Bird Count
(Continued from page 1)
suggest an Increase In the ac
tivities of man himself'.
In this winter's count the
game birds show the highest
population count ever estimated
in this area. These Included the
California Quail, Chukkars and
Rlngneck Pheasant The number
of Mourning Doves was higher
than ever before and there was
a marked Increase in the Star
lines, House Sparrows and Ore
gon Juncos. This, too, would In
dicate an Increase in human ac
tivlty.
"However," Mr. Horn warned,
"these population trends should
not In anyway be consider
ed as valid scientific evidence
to be of any scientific slgnlfl
cance. The Bird Count must be
conducted for a longer period
of time and the county would
have to be organized with pro
fessional people doing the field
work."
People who are Interested In
what was observed may call
Mr. Horn and request a data
sheet or go to the high school
to read the Audubon Field
notes.
Mr. Horn lives his enthusiasm
for his chosen field. His phil
osophy Is to encourage friends
as well as students to have a
"Love affair with Nature".
Bird Counters
Following the close of the
bird counting the group gather
ed at the Orval Matheny home
for a hot chill feed arranged by
Mrs. Matheny and Mrs. Horn.
Those going on the day's
jaunt were Orval Matheny, Bill
Rawlins, Mr. Horn, John Raw
lins, Bobby Worden, Mrs. Horn.
Rob Abrams, Allen Peck, Lin
da Clough, Barbara Allstott, Dov
ie Alderman, Barney Marshall,
Sandy Matheny, Mark Pointer, !
Ted Bellamy. Jeanie Daly, Rick
Drake, Beryl Stillman, Charlie
Anderson.
Patty Luciani, Charlie Pointer,
Kathleen Ayres, Liz Abrams,
Jim Cutsforth, Steve Mauss,
Fran Mauss, Kelly Wolff, Kerry
Coppock, Mike Sweek, Steve
Hedman, Butch Taylor, Greg
Green.
Jim VanWinkle, Jill Ruggs,
Mark Lovgren, Bill Jepsen, Mike
Hedman, Matt Murray, John
Harris, Steve Pettyjohn, Carl
King and Alene Boyajian.
On Target?
First National
Goes Computer
A Rude Awakening
A big crash and bang awak
ened the Robert Mansfield's
New Year's morning about 6:15.
They rushed to the front win
dow to see a blue car backing
out of their yard which turned
south to go through town.
The driver apparently skidded
on black ice, went through the
picket fence and carrying a sec
tion of fence hit the corner post
of the house. Left behind were
two headlight rims and chips of
blue paint. -
City police have checked like
ly prospects and with Body
and Fender places to match the
headlights with the rims.
Riverside Menu
Boardman News
Holiday visitors at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Chub Warren
included Mrs. Warren's son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Skoubo, David and Jannell
of Corvallis, her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Russell
DeMauro, Barbara and Billie Jo
of The Dalles, Warren's son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Clark, Carolyn, Marilyn,
Ronnie and Dan; his nephew,
Elmer Warren and son Dale, all
of Portland: Mrs. Warren's
grandson, Mr. and Mrs. Dick
sifnnhn. Shannon, and Mr. and
Mrs. Lvnn Ranney of Pendleton
Mrs. B. E. Getchell of Hermis-
ton. and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Skoubo and Bob.
Defensive Driving
Defensive driving classes will
be- held Jan 12, 14, 19 & 21 at
7:30 p.m. at the Riverside High
Sr-hnnl. Refreshments will be
urved. . 1
Mrs. Mel Allyn,:- Boardman
Home Extension Unit! chairman,
announces that since the regu
lar unit meetinsr date would
conflict with the driving tram
ing date, there will be no meet
in f thp unit in January.
Anvone interested in taking
should contact
mk Ailvn in Boardman, or Mrs
Richard Ryan in Irrigon, before
Jan. 16. . .
Th Women's Activity Com
mittee of Greenfield Grange will
meet Jan. 13 at the grange nan,
with luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Mrs.
Donald Baker will be hostess.
Cafeteria menus for Riverside
Junior-Senior High School for
tne weeK ot Jan. 11-15 are as
follows:
Monday Spaghetti, hot bis
cuits, tossed salad and pudding.
Tuesday Vegetable beef
stew, corn bread, cheese slices
and ice cream.
Wednesday Chiliburgers,
lruit salad, vegetable sticks and
cake.
Thursday Hot dogs, but
tered corn, potato chips and
cookies.
Friday Fish sticks with tar
tar sauce, buttered potatoes, but
tered green beans and sweet
rolls.
Milk is served with all meals.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Waid,
Ritchie, Anne and Susan of Her
mlston spent New Year's Day
with Kenneth's aunt. Mrs.
Amanda Duvall.
Mr. end Mrs. Norman (Butch)
Williams, students at EOC were
over to spend part of the holi
days with his folks, Mr. and
Mrs. Cliff Williams at lone.
Butch, senior in Political Science
had a GPA of 4.00 for fall term
and Mrs. Williams a sophomore
had 3.25.
LONEROCK NEWS
LONEROCK Of interest to
all in this area was me wed
ding of Mrs. Leila Bennett to
Roy Anderson of Walla Walla
on Dec. 2.
Mrs. Bennett lived in Lone
rock until she moved to Wash
ington In 1937 and Mr. Ander
son is a native of Walla Walla
where he operated a garage un
til he retired.
This community extends their
congratulations to the happy
couple.
Mrs. Dora Blue Is still a pa
tient at the Heppner hospital
but is expected to go home for
New Years.
Emmett Davis who has been
a patient at the St. Mary's Hos
pital for the past ten days was
released Dec. 30 and brought
home by Homer Davis. Members
of the Davis family stayed with
him while he in Walla Walla,
but the first night he was home
he started hemorrhaging and
was rushed to the Heppner Hos
pital by the Condon ambulance
where he was given blood trans
fusions and now seems to be
improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Morgan and
family from Salem spent their
Christmas dinner and party at
their cabin on Brown Creek.
They were joined here by
their daughter and family, the
Pat Smiths from La Grande,
Carroll Davis and Rick McDan
iels.
As if it wasn't tough enough
to be robbed of $175 while on
vacation, Jimmy Rogers has oth
er troubles. He is now confined
home with the mumps.
Georgena McDaniel was up
from Salem to spend the holi
days here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl McDaniel. Carl
went down and got her and took
her back.
BILL JOHNSONS HEBE
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnson
came to Heppner to get his
mother, Mrs. Effie Johnson to
take her to The Dalles to spend
the holidays with them. The
Johnsons brought her back on
Saturday.
Earlier in the winter, Mrs.
Johnson spent 11 Vz weeks in
Southern California with rela
tives and friends.
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A high speed communications
system that "tells" bank custo
mers their deposit totals almost
Instantaneously and virtually
without error was Installed In
the Heppner branch of First
National Bank of Oregon Dec.
31.
The system, labeled "online-
savings" by the bank, Is the
first of Its kind In the North-
west and connects tellers with
a computerized voice at the
bank's electornic data process
lnsr center in Portland.
When a customer visits the
branch to make a deposit,
withdrawal or to verify the
amount in his savings account
the teller will dial the comput
er through a special touch-tone
telephone which utilizes a pre
punched "dialer" card that In
dicates which branch Is calling
and what type of Information Is
wanted.
The computer which has a 48
word vocabulary, will then re
spond giving the teller the new
balance In seconds. The "conver
sation" will go something like
this:
"Deposit . . . account number
one two three four five six sev
en . . . amount nine five point
seven six . . . reply."
The teller then dials for veri
fication:
"Post balance . . . four zero
seven point three one , . . .
thank you." I
Thus, an account containing
$311.75 Into which $95.76 is de
posited is balanced almost in
stantly.
Although it will no longer be
necessary for the customer to
have a passbook, he may re
tain the passbook if he so de
sires and the bank's tellers will
continue to post it as in the
past. Customers will nave a
folder in which to retain the
plastic card used by tellers
when dialing the computer as
well as a slip on which to per
sonally keep their savings records.
Conversion date for the
branch is Dec. 31.
In addition to recording and
storing all savings account
transactions, which had been
done manually in the past, the
system automatically computes
interest and adds it to individ
ual accounts. At the end of each
quarter the computer will print
a customer statement for mail
ing and at year-end will auto
matically produce a summary
including the amount of inter
est to be reported to the inter
nal revene service when filing
income tax returns,
Harley Sager, manager of the
Heppner branch.'said motivation
for instituting the system Is a
desire to speed service to cur
tomers and provide them better
records of their savings account.
"It maintains better records
and makes operations smoother
and more efficient. We began
making pilot runs with the sys
tem last December and round
that chances for error are just
about nil. Should a teller make
a mistake which gets into the
computer," he said, "It will De
detected In the balancing oper
ations at the end of the day."
IRRIGON NEWS
Br FRANCES ROSE WILSON
IRRIGON The Rev. and Mrs.
John Kenney have announced
their resignation as pastors ot
the Irrigon Assembly of God
Church, effective after next Sun
day. Jan. 10. They ministered at
the vale Church on Dec. 27 and
were unanimously elected to
pastor this church. Rev. and Mrs,
Kenney, who are returned mis
sionaries from India, and also
Hawaii, have been pastors here
lor tne past 10 years. Rev. Ken
ney was Chaplain at the Uma
tilla Hospital and a frequent
visitor at the Good Shepherd
Hospital. He also drove school
bus, and will be greatly missed
In the community.
Korean Speaks ,
Rev. Chung from Seoul S.
Korea, spoke at the Assembly
of God Church, Sunday evening,
He visited the Umatilla Assemb
ly Sunday morning and spoke
there. He is a student at West
em Evangelical College in Port
land. He was a teacher and mln
lster in Korea and came to the
United States to further his ed
ucation.
In speaking of customs of his
native land, he told how fam
ilies would make a relish of
hot peppers and cabbage, to eat
with rice during the winter
months. A large family would
sometimes make 6 or 7 drums
of this and would eat it from
November to April. In Korea, he
said, people believe America to
be a land without sickness,
crime, old age, poverty, or such
troubles, but he has found that
basically men are alike wher
ever he has been.
He was in North Korea, un
der communist rule before the
war broke out there. After com
ing to the U. S. he talked with
many hippie type young people
in California and found that
they have a wrong idea about
communism. He said the first
thing the communists want to
do, is to close churches and
stamp out Christianity.
Students Home
Among BMCC students home
for the holidays were Jana Ev
erett, Rhonda Bellinger, Joyce
Jackson, Duane Lamb, Vern
Mesteth, Gene Gollyhorn, Tom
Stewart, Bruce Jones, David and
Richard Franke.
Gene Gollyhorn worked at ra
dio station KUMA during the
holidays. Dave and Richard
Franke trucked hay in the Con
don area.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Partlow and
Sheryl, visited at the home of I
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, January 7. 1971
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Berg In Van
couver. Wash., over New Years
Day. Other visitors who visited
there were Saow McCoy, Mr. and
Mrs. Jay Berry. Mr. and Mrs.
Russel McCoy, all are former
area residents.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Simmons
and Mike McCoy were holiday
guests of their parents Mr. and
Mrs. Warren McCoy and Debbie.
Mr. and Mrs. James Everett
and family visited at the home
of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs
Rex Stanford, in Athena, dur
ing the holidays. Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Brown and sons of Seattle
were guests at the Everett home
recently.
McRaes All Home
Mr. and Mrs. James McRae
were happy to have their entire
family home for Christmas. Bob
and Linda were here 4 days
from Corvallis where he is at
tending Oregon State. Bob made
the honor roll this semester. He
will graduate In June. Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Steagall of Juneau,
Alaska left to return to Alaska
Sunday. Another daughter and
son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Noble live near by.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Eppen-
bach had a family dinner with
most of their children at home
on New Years Day.
AT BOB MALLORYS
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Plcrsol
of Mllton-Freewater were over
to spend Christmas with their
daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Don Mallory, Shawn and
Shane. ' , '
Since .returning home Mr.
PJersol has been in St. Mary's
Hospital for treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. Mallory went to
Troy during the holidays to vis
it his folks, Mr. and Mrs. wm
ard Mallory.
Bill Scrirner and sons, Kerln
and Kennon of Spokane, Wash.
were here last Monday nna
Tuesday visiting with Mrs. Lew
Scrlvncr. ,!
. Kevin is In the Marine Corps
and will return soon to Camp
Pendleton for further assignment.
Forrie Burkenbine was In
Portland early this week. He
visited several clinics and had
exams on his back.
Mrs. Ruth Reid spent Uum
days in La Grande with her
son, Ronald Keid and nis iam-
lly last week. Ron came over
and got his mother and brought
her back on Sunday.
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