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I THEtfgi' fe? HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, February 11, 1971 Section ? Irrigon Plans Open House BOWLING 1:: V" it i V () f f By FRANCES ROSE WILSON IRRIGON There will bo open house at "the" Community Bap tist Church Feb. 11. from 2 to 4 p.m. to honor Dave Graybeal on Ills 9)th birthday. All friends and relatives nre welcome. ROBIN SEVESINSEN. formerly of Heppner, on Dudes' Dream, lit plac winner in Horsemanship at tbt All American Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus. Ohio. Boardman Council Hears Future Plans By MART LEE MARLOW BOARDMAN Deputy State Fire Marshal, Richard R. Small of Pendleton, met last week with the Board of Directors of the Boardman Rural Fire Dis trict and the city council to dis cuss a Joint working agreement with the city. Members of the board include Carroll Donovan, Charles Acock, Delmer Hug, Wil lard Baker and Arnold Hoffman. Mayor Dewey W. West, Jr., ap pointed Fire Marshal Zearl Gil lespie and Fire Chief Larry Phil lips as a committee to work with Hug and Baker to formu late proposals for the agreement. A discussion was held on the equipment needed to meet the requirements of the Oregon In surance Rating Bureau to qual ify for insurance rate reduction. In other action those at the meeting heard .Walter Karnopp " and son Dennis of the' Eastern j Oregon Telephone Company of Pilot Rock tell of a new tower and equipment being installed at Boardman for a mobile tele phone service. It will be com pleted in the near future. Mayor West welcomed Morrow County Judge - Paul Jones of Heppner, and County Commis sioner Walter Hayes of Board man to discuss local adminis trative government and a new proposal to form a new admin istrative district based on coun ty boundaries. Mayor West appointed the fol lowing department heads: Wa ter, Ronald Black; park, Wally Hendrix; police, Vernon Russell: fire, Zearl Gillespie; sanitation, joe Tatone; streets, Cecil Hicks. The council voted to adopt the state schedule of holidays, and the city hall will be closed on those days. The Urban Renewal Agency approved sale of lots 5 and 6 in block 6, west Boardman, to W. E. Nelson. The Boardman Planning Com mission met and granted ap proval of the plans of Nelson to construct an apartment com plex in lots 1 and 2, block 2, north Boardman. It will consist of two four-plex, two three-plex, and four duplex. The four-plex will be two story, the rest sing le. There will also be two swim ming pools. cr state Homemakers of Tomor-1 Ladies Aid Meets row will receive $1.1500 grants. Mrs. Rollin Bishop was host State judging centers on scores ess for the Ladies Aid Society of school winners in the Dec. of the Boardman Community 1 test, with personal observation Church at her home Wednesday and Interviews during the tour afternoon of last week. Mrs. Leo added factors In national selec- "oi was ln cnarge w uie ue tlons. Second-ranking winners in votional hour, taking as her top each state receive $500 educa- c Hearts. tlonal grants. The school of ev ery winner receives a set of En cyclopedia Britannica from En cyclopedia Biittanica, Inc The Betty Crocker search for the American Homemaker of To- The ladies spent the afternoon working on bandages to be sent to Margery Benedict, missionary in Africa. There were four tables of pi nochle In play at the card par morrow is the only national x?. he, Tues.day of last week at scholarship program, exclusively the Greenfield Grange hall. i i a. i iir t . a fnr hioh, oi-ia B. sponsoreu oy uie women s al- , b tli.lt,, PnmmiHna , rrronrvn gun by General Mills in the ly'1' .Y ' ' I 6s- 1954-55 school, year to empha- 'u ?lewas "Tfs' as" size the importance of home- ' . . VV V, min. ... a na,oor it win ,iti. High prize went to Mrs. Ber the 1971 grants, have awarded "ard,.Do,1anind .was shins rtnrlna it 17 uewey west, jr. ana raye An tory. - This years enrollment of dcrsn Reived .the traveling pi- 650,000 senior girls brings total I fi participation since the start of the program to almost seven Sunday School Outing and three-quarter million. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Struck- Attend Pro Basketball Game nieier and Mr. and Mrs. Del- Five members of the Riverside bert Ball took 25 members of Raiders, the 7th and 8th erade the high school class of the basketball team, together with Boardman Community Church their coach. Vic Marchek. went Sunday School on an outing to to Portland last week to attend Lehman Springs Sunday. Pastor the game between the New York Neil King held Sunday School Knickerbockers and the Portland tor l"e group at 8 a.m. that mor Trailblazers. The bovs. whose ning so they could make the team Is undefeated so far this tnP season, made all the arrange- Mr- ant Mrs. Leonard Bedord ments for the trip and paid all a"d son Billee went to La expenses for it as a treat for Grande over the weekend to vis- their coach. The erouo included 11 at the home ol Mr. and Mrs. Tim Rice, Mark Mesteth of Irri- Tom Pace, and at the home of gon and Mike Nelson. Don Rus- meir son and daughter-in-law, sell and Jerry Zielinskl of Mr. and Mrs. Chipper Bedord. Boardman. Comings and Goings Twenty Bedord month old Shilo Ann returned home with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allen the.m visit,thls we have returned home from a two week's trip to: Hawaii. While Stanley and Steven Getz of Milton-Freewater spent the Homemaker Award Winner Lynel Braat, Riverside High School senior, has been selected as -'the 1971 Betty Crocker Home maker of Tomorrow. She was chosen for her performance in a . written knowledge and atti tude examination administered to senior girls Dec. 1 1970. She will receive a specially designed award from General Mills, spon sor of the annual education pro gram, in addition, sne is now eligible for state and national honors, including one of 102 college scholarships totaling $110,000. P' national first place wint ner the 1971 Betty Crocker AU American Homemaker of Tomor row will receive a $5,000 edu cational grant. She will be cho sen this spring from 51 Home makers of Tomorrow represent ing each state and the District of Columbia at the close of an expense paid educational tour of Washington, D. C and Colon ial Williamsburg, Va. Each of the state winners will be ac companied on this tour by a school advisor. Second, third and fourth place national winners will be awarded $4,000. $3,000 and $2,000 scholarships. The oth- there' they toured the islands of weekend visiting here at the nume oi ineir granaparenis, ivir. and Mrs. Harold . Rash, while their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Getz, went to Olympia, Wash. Oahu, Kauai, Maul and Hawaii, and went on a ' Pearl Harbor cruise. Mrs. Don Earlywine and son Kevin left for their home in Portland last week after visiting livestock news several aays ai uie nome OI The North Lexineton Live. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Er- stock Club met at the home of neSl UDermeler. Knthv Rartlotf nn Poh R Proa. Weekend Visitors at the home ident Suzanne rntefnrth nalloH or Mr. ana Mrs. ian Mcouaw thP manner tr mvW were ineir son-in-iaw ana aau- pavid Steagall and Jack Yo- s. 7i' F com were welcomed as new Of Gaston, and Mrs. McQuaw'S memhprs. TaT,a Kteairflll will ho r. An.fn U.n.. nHJ i-1 H r Jl I sicxaiuci aiiu iHouier, ivir. ana our new associate member. ivirs. jay rrosi or miisooro. a baUo sal will ho hold Sat. Mrs. Roy MarlOW Of Umatilla nrHav Voh .13 ar Dp1' Marlrol .,!!tJ O. J.. . -v visiicu ounuay aiiemooii a i. uieMn Lexington. nome or ner sisier-m-iaw, Mrs. Twn mmW ahnnt hon oro Frank MarlOW. chnwn arA rafrachmiinfE nun Ernest uDermeier was called SPrveH hv Mrs Rartiott anrt iu funs DKaa, vvasn., lasi Kathy. wee .to auena we mryrai oi Julie Griebi reporter ma uiuiiici-iii-iaw, jctuies iviar- snan, (i, wno aiea eo. 1 or MEETING POSTPONED a neair auacK. tv,o r,,t T,,ii Advisory Council meeting was planned for Feb. 15. It has been Mrs. Neil King was hostess postponed to March 15 at the for open house at her home Sun- Morrow County Courthouse, ac day aiternoon in honor of the cording to Grace Drake. birthday of herhusband,- Pastor To be present for theneeting Neil King.. She was assisted in serving by Mrs. Bob Lowe. There were 31 present. in March will be Ted Condon director' of the Umatilla Boys' Ranch. HERM1STON LIVESTOCK AUCTION. INC. Sale every Saturday 12:30 p.m. sharp Carson Vehrs Emmett Roerers 567-5139 567-6644 . Bill Bowden 567-5032 Sale Yard 567-3149 LEATHER LUMPER'S Leather Lumper's meeting was called to order by the president David McLaughlin. The minutes were read by, secretary Rit Mc Roberts. Then Mrs. McRoberts told the group about the costs of leather and the best kind of dye. She said to start the 4-H project we were going to make for the fair. Meeting adjourned. Kathy, Marshall, reporter Drug Program planned A series of Educational TV program on drugs, 'The turned on Crisis" is being held at A. C. Houghton School. Teenagers and parents are Invited to come at 7:00 p.m. on Monday and Wed nesday evenings, Feb. 8-17. Pvt. Smith at Fort Knox Pvt. Michael Vem Smith has completed his basic training at Ft. Lewis, and is now stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., where he is a financial clerk. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith of Irrigon, a graduate of River side High School and the Uni versity of Oregon, Eugene. Ada Montague, of Toppenlsh, Wash., Is visiting her sister, Josephine Buchanan and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Havecost here this week. Esther Barnett of lone was a visitor at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hav ecost, for several days last week. Mrs. Barnett was returning home from Juneau, Alaska, af ter visiting her son Joel Barnett. In VA Hospital Steve Smith Is at the Veter ans Hospital In Walla Walla, after suffering severe burns In fighting fire at his trailer home, west of Irrigon. It Is expected that he will have to be there for some time as he will need skin cruftlng. Insect 4-H Club Elects The Insect Explorers, 4 II En tomology Club met Feb. 6, with their leader, Mrs. Chester Wil son. Officers elected were: pres., Robert Richards; vice pres., Ed ie Brasel; sec, Cyndy Hinkley; new reporter, Millie Brasel; sgt. at arms, Jack Brasel. The new project books were given out, and project require ments were read and discussed. It was announced that Dr. Bernard Thurlow, veterinarian of Ilermlston, would like to have i lie club find ticks and turn them Into him for study since ticks and other sucking insects spread disease. Insects should be bottled In a preservative, sucn as rubbing alcohol, and labeled as to: 1. Type of animal found on; 2. If the animal is healthy report any unusual symptoms; 3. Owner of animal, address; 4. Location of tick on animal; 5. Name and address of col lector. Mrs. Vera Cooley was honored on her birtnday bunoay eve ning, at the Assembly of God Church. Refreshments , were served by Mable Rand at the close of the meeting. Lloyd Berger is recuperating at home, after a heart attack, and spending several days at the Umatilla Hospital. Unowakei Team " Skreamers 75 Pick ups No-names Monkeys W 43 38 31 16 L 21 28 33 48 High Ind. Game David Mc- Lewi, 166; High Ind. Series David McLeod, 422; High Team Game 75 Pick-ups, 413; High Team Series Skreamers, 1235. Thursday Night Ladies The FFA provides an oppor tunity for youth in agriculture to learn, to do, to earn, and to serve. Team W Ruggles 3 Toyota 2 Elma's 2 Murray's 2 Columbia Basin 2 Kinzua 1 High Ind. Game J. Bellen brock, 191; High Ind. Series Ann Griffith, 528; High Team Game Toyota, 933; High Team Series Ruggles, 2569. Sunday Night Mixed Doubles L 7 8 9 12 Team W Hanna-Hcath 17 Schwarzin-Dick 16 Kincaid-Barnett 15 Padberg-Pettyjohn 12 Gilman-Griffith- Keithley 8 Munkers-Mills 6 High Ind. Game D. Barnett, 219, G. Keithley, 174; High Ind. Series D. Barnett, 566, P. Kin caid, 444; High Team Game Klncaid, Barnett, 837; High Team Series Klncald-Barnett, 2432. 16 18 More than 450,000 students of vocational agriculture are mem bers of FFA. ELECTRIC HEAT i gives a whole new world of comfort to the entire family SiWfcfc! - ill CLEAN. No toot or oily filmi to dirty your home. Electric heat cuts cleaning chores up to 50Vil SAFE. No dangerous flames or fumes. Electrlo heat is flameless; just as safe as a light bulb. i J i ' TROUBLE FREE. Install electric heat and forget about it. Nothing to oil or maintain. COMFORT. Select the "just right" temperature for every room. No "cold spots" or drafts. Get the facia about low-cost Electric Heat. o obligation! 8L i ioiuiiibia Basin El ecfft'c Co-op 'Serving Morrow, Wheeler and Gilliam Counties' Telephone 676-9146