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I I D P A R Y U OF 0 EU3EUE, ORE. 07403 88th Year Price 10 Cents WEATHER By DON GILLIAM GRAIN PRICES (F.O.B. Lexington. do not ta dud warenouM cngt.) ( Court ey of Morrow County Grata C rowan) mm HEPPNEK Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday tr. GAZETTPE TIME White wheat ... Bod wheat lise'i uwt 4W0 Bartey Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, March 11, 1971 Number 3 HI Low Prec. 48 31 .07 45 26 .06 42 24 43 22 .07 53 38 45 24 45 29 .02 THF fiflrs. Guiidersoii Resigns Fr8in Sdml Board; Keplicemesiii Sought NFO Tells of Community Life Saver Monday's Chamber of Com mcrce luncheon at the Wagon Wheel had a farm-flavored pro gram. Present for the occasion was Pat Cutsforth, Jack Sum ner and Don Peterson of the Morrow County National Farm ers Organization. An illustrated program was presented by Mr. Sumner who said that if local businessmen are not interested In farm prob lems they would be put out of business. This would happen, he explained, because their custom ers the farmers would be put out of business. The '70 grain crop of some 3,460,000 bushels of wheat brought in $6 million dollars. Full parity, Mr. Sumner said, would have meant 12 million dollars instead. A healthy agriculture would mean a $10 million industry for this county. And this woud be without additional taxes nor added investments. He said it meant a guarantee for a healthy local business climate. This would cost only a little time and moral support. But it would require coopera tion. He pointed out that this $10 million would double the In come for everyone in the coun ty. It was described as a "Sleep tog Giant Agriculture". But agriculture has had no pay raise in the last 15 years. Yet civic leaders and many others have failed to recognize what has been happening. Agriculture is America's larg est industry, he reminded " his listeners. The effect is profound on rural towns and communi ties. His graphic slides showed that the farm dollar generates $7 for each farm dollar spent. It showed the huge need for better prices for farm commod ities. Number of farms is fast be ing reduced. Ten farm families support one rural business. As the farm families have moved away, businesses have disap peared in proportion in rural towns. He told of long range plans for national farm shopping cen ters covering some 40 acres each and costing $3,000,000 each. They would provide everything needed by farmers and would replace many rural towns over wide areas of the country. He said the entire community suffers when the farmers suf fer financially. The farmers and ranchers create brand new wealth whereas merely manu facture a profit. Farm parity percentage which had been at 100 in 1952 had dropped to a low 74' in 1968. He had a very graphic ex planation of the fact that there are actually no true surpluses as such, merely abnormal in terpretations of "inventory". Some totals sound huge but as in the milk supply, there may be millions of pounds but it is Btlll only a two day supply. Normal grain use was shown to be actually only a 4 month supply. He pointed out that we have been a meat deficient country, Importing 1.5 billion pounds last year, up 13. Cattle im ports were a mililon head in 1968 from Canada and Mexico, Had the cattle been raised here in the USA, they would have consumed the gram sur plus. Trouble is in the marketing methods, according to Mr. Sum ner. Manufacturers set their prices above costs, plus markups for all others, allowing for prof it Chain stores, it was shown, are a major economic force and actually set artificial prices. There is a need to-counteract these forces and farmers need to bargain together to price their production like other bus inesses. This is the nationwide goal of the NFO. They treat surplus es as a normal inventory. Farmers need to market where there is demand. Actually, on ly a small percentage of the production has set the market price. Prime objective of the NFO Is Protection comes through con to develop an economic power tracts. in a business-like way. They need to bargain togeth u nas oorne out tuts needier and sell together. to Bargain lor commodity prices oetore the crops leave the I arm. Citrus growers have done this under the Capper-Volstead Act and, he added, it works. To be an economic power, it was pointed out, the farmers need to organize. They need to be nationwide and include all commodities. The organized strength must find expression. Notice of Pending Power Shortage Columbia Basin Electric Co op, Inc. would like to notify Its customers In the areas listed below that there will be a pow outage Sunday morning, er Mr. Sumner said the NFO is not against farm organizations as they are a valuable tool in farm politics. 111 t-VllllUOlUli 11U IU1U UJL U1CI- . - . , 40 marketing areas, the various March 14 from 1201 am' to 6:00 levels and zones, sections and i a m supervising methods to estab- Rhea Creek and Hardman ar lish bargaining coordination, ea. Eight Mile Creek area; Eight ine rvu structure is nowiM,u mnvnn roA- rw-n nA formed in 48 states, and he I . .,,,,;, , . uuwii iiiaunr viuviv aica, iujie said, the Swing is to Contracts, 5 i ' - X U : J BONNIE CULP was one of the first to buy a B.A.C. ("buck a cup ) button from Mrs. Art Lindstrom, chairman of the annual Easter Seal drive. The buttons cost one dollar from participat ing restaurants in the area and Is good for free coffee all day March 19. , The money will go to the local Easter Seal Society to help crippled Oregon children and adults. The res taurants are The Wagon Wheel in Heppner and Thel's in lone. Jack Van Winkle Plans New Store Jack Van Winkle has rented the former Van Variety build ing on Main Street here next door to the Heppner Elks Tem ple. He has been doing consid erable remodeling on the build ing. Mr. Van Winkle with his wife operates Van Winkle's Motel in Heppner. He operated the Chev ron station here for 20 years before selling it to John Pnvett, He plans to establish an in dependent, home-owned junior department store. Lines handled will be dry goods, children's clothing and mens work cloth ing. No date has been set yet for the opening as much work has to be done to get the build ing ready. . . , Local LDS Church Group Build Meeting House Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day area; Lexington area; Ridge area along Baseline Road. During the outage, Boni;rville Power Administration crews will install a transformer of a greater capacity at the lone Substation. This outage . is necessary so that improvements can be com pleted that are designed to bet ter serve Columbia Basin's customers. 'Typically Western' Fair-Rodeo Theme Theme for the Morrow Coun ty Fair and Rodeo Parade for 1971 is to be "Typically West ern". The theme ' name was sub. mitted by Bonnie Buschke. She has won two tickets daily for both days of the rodeo to be held here in August. This is an. Annual contest to select a theme for the Fair and Rodeo Parade. Selection of best theme is made by the Sorop timist Club here. Jack Hynd, Jr. Honored r I u J SHOWN HERE are (from left). Board President Walter Jaeger. jack nyna. Jr and Director Kenneth Smouse. (Photo and story from Rurallte). On Jan. 21, a plaque was pre- continually, as his signature History of Morrow To Be Printed At Monday's Heppner-Morrow Saints in the Heppner area are, County Chamber of Commerce Reward Money Divided 3-way Mike Gray and Kit George were hunting together when they found Dr. McMurdo last fall. They shared the $2000 re ward money. They gave $1200 to Pioneer Memorial Hospital, $500 to All Saints' Episcopal Church and $300 to the group of Search and Rescue boys who came up from the Portland ar ea. I building a new meeting house, rhey have been holding their church services for several years here at the American Legion hall on Chase Street. The new building now being built is across the road from the Willow Creek Country Club, is of building block and frame construction. It will have two stories and will be used for church- facilities until a new church edifice will be built here in the future. It is being built through cooperation of the church members who are providing labor for the project. Bob Pierce Unchanged The condition of Bob Pierce who was injured in a truck ac cident several weeks ago is still unchanged. He Is in very ser ious condition at the Good Shepherd Hospital in Hermis ton, according to word from the hospital yesterday morning. luncheon a decision Is expected to be reached on financing the publication of the History of Morrow County. The manuscript has been compiled over several years by writer and editor Giles French of Moro. He has had valuable assistance from Oscar Peterson, Herman Winter, Gene Pierce and a host of folks through the county. Binsfords & Mort, well-known Portland book publishers, will probably do the printing of this valuable book. Many folks have already subscribed to back the book which is rich in pioneer lore and pictures of Oregon's finest county, Bob DeSpain Up Again Bob DeSpain became ill Fri day with chest pains and spent a few days at Pioneer Memorial Hospital for tests and treat ment. Tests didn't show signs of trouble apparently and he came home Tuesday, expected to re turn to work yesterday. sented Jack Hynd, Jr. by Dir ector Kenneth Smouse, for the many years Jack has served on the board of directors of Col umbia Basin Electric Coopera tive, Inc. Mr. Hynd was elected to the board in 1950 and was appoint ed secretary of the board in 1954' after having spent some months as acting secretary. Fellow board members in dis cussing Jack were quick to state that he had the very unique ability to participate as a board member in any busi ness at hand and at the same time get all the pertinent in formation down in the minutes without having- to delay the meeting or have the board go back over the discussion for him. in ail cases ne was a very steady thinker who did not rush into anything, but would give a matter a lot of deep thought and then help to come up with a decision. Jack definitely was not a man who would agree just for the sake of agreement. He would often participate in very Mealed discussions over a par ticular matter, but as soon as a majority decision was arrived at he would go along with it, Although for many years there was no reimbursement or com pensation of any kind. Jack rarely missed a regular board meeting or any special meeting, even though it often required driving to Portland or other neighboring cities at his own expense. A bit of quick figuring indi cates that Jack drove over 20, 000 miles and spent over 1,500 hours away from his family and work for the good of the cooperative, plus the unaccount able hours he spent trying to decide the- proper course of ac tion of a particular problem. Jack served on many com mittees during the past twenty years such as the one that zoned the co-op area for the election of directors and also on the building committee that we should thank for our new quar ters in Heppner. The co-op is going to miss Jack at any further gatherings but will be reminded of him will appear so many times on papers he has signed for the co-op over the many years he has served as its secretary. The plaque that was present ed to Jack on the twenty-first of January is a symbol showing appreciation and the means of the people of a three county area saying "Thank9, Jack for a good job, well done." Li-1 - CHAMPION BOWLER. Ted Toll. winner of All Events in Hepp ners first Bowling Association Tournament. Heppner Bowling Association Has First Tournament Regional Basketball Tournament The Dalles March 1 1-12-13 SATURDAY kmt .- 'D ' . ...... I I'xrs to$lC f CovOOrO ilZT ; CfcCADl LGZKi, i Cuiv flip lfX - r P,tor tor ?3Q wt i uit$rcj . i - , . , - ' ' 1 - - 4 30? dAce Hob 1 kt ptAce TfintfLficC Pi-Mi r&A CuAlHf By HANK DICK Thursday at 2:00 p.m. the Broncs will face the Pirates of Riverside at The Dalles Tourna ment If the Horsemen win this game and the next one with Condon or Cascade Locks, Hepp ner will go to State. The final game is Just for placement in first or second. Riverside beat Heppner on the last meeting so it should a pretty good game. Cas- be cade Locks is favored In the second Thursday game. McEw en is favored over Culver while Pilot Rock and Weston should be close either way. Trophies and checks were pre sented Saturday evening for the first Heppner Bowling Assn. Tournament. Prize money total ed $439. Presentations were made by Jim Rogers, president of the newly formed association. Hubert Wilson is vice president and Riley Munkers, secretary. Team Event The Morrow County Co-op had the winning team with 2891 points to win $75 prize money. Members of the team are Dean Hunt. Archie Munkers, John Ledbetter, Al Bunch and Art Watkins. Kinzua was 2nd, 2879, $30. Bank of Eastern Oregon, 3rd place with 2845 and $25. Elks were 4th with 2841 and $20. Doubles First, R. G. Watkins Dave Eckman, 1197, $49; second, Al Bunch Paul Brown, 1186, $25 third, Hubert Wilson Ralph Richards. 1172. $20; fourth, Jer ry Rood Bruce Griffith, 1170, $12; fifth, Cliff Aldricn Mene Cantin, 1156, $10. Singles Ted Toll and John Ledbetter tied for first and second place in the singles to share the prize money, $45 for first place and $23 for second. Third Earl Perkins, $13. Fourth, Don Ball, $12.50. Fifth Bob Campbell, $10. Sixth Jerry Rood, $7.50 and 7th Glenn Perkins, $5. All Events First place in All Events went to Ted Toll, 1808. for $30. John Ledbetter was 2nd with 1800 and $15. Cliff Aldrich was third with 1799 to win $8, and (Continued on page 8) District R-l Board Meets Beverly Gunderson submitted her resignation from the Mor row County Board of Education at their meeting Tuesday night. The board regretfully accepted the resignation. Mrs. Gunderson snld later she was glad to hear two of the board members say "We should try to got another I woman to fill this vacancy". The vacancy will be filled at the May election for board members and is for a year to fill out Mrs. Guncierson's un expired term. Anyone interested in serving this year is asked to get a petition from Principal Jim Bier at Heppner High School. The other vacancy on the board is the position now held by Max Jones, Zone II, Irrlgon. Teachers Shuffled Rachel Dick who has yet an other year on her three-year contract has elected to teach First Grade next year as long as there is no vacancy in the Journalism Department. She is enthusiastically finishing out this year in the First Grade. Velva Bechdolt who has been teaching 3rd grade is retiring. Lucille Peck who has been teaching 2nd has requested a transfer to the 3rd grade. Mrs. Karen Dubuque who is reluc tant to drive from Heppner to lone has requested a transfer to Heppner. She will teach 2nd grade at Heppner Elementary. Celia Mitchell who has been teaching Art, English and Girls' P.E. at Riverside has resigned. The . board gave a contract to Catherine Jude to finish out her school year at a salary of $2,208.81. Advisory Committees Kenneth Broadbent wds ap pointed as a replacement to finish out this year on' the Boardman-Irrigon Advisory com mittee for Robert Slcard. Those whose 3-year terms are expir ing on the Hcppner-Lexington Advisory Committee are Jerry Sweeney, Harley Sager and Mary Ann Barclay. Terms expiring on tne lone Advisory Committee are those of Dorothy Krebs and Gene Kiet mann, both for three year terms. Bob Sicard whose term is be- ine filled for the rest of this year by Kenneth Broadbent will need a replacement elected for one year to the Boardman-Irrigon Advisory committee. Three year terms expiring are those of Shirley Zielinski and Wanda Witherspoon. Budget Approved The Morrow County Board or Education approved a budget figure of $1,520,472 for the 1971 72 budget at their meeting. This is $902,315 over the 6 percent limitation. The total increase in this year's budget over the pre vious years budget is $59,698. This is only an increase of 4.03 per cent. The Budget Election Will be held April 5 from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Budget election boards named by the board for the budget election April 5 and hoard members election on May 3 were: Heppner: Kay Robin son, chairman, Margaret Siew ert, Alberta Munkers with al ternates, Mary Ann Peck, Anna Mae Steagall and Laurel Van Marter. Ruggs: Harriet Hall, chairman, Mildred Wright, Mary Wright with alternates Beverly Wright and Muriel Palmer. Lex ington: Delpha Jones, cnairman, Hilda Yocom, Marie Steagall with Phyllis Piper, alternate. lone: Donna Bergstrom, chair man, Katherine Lindstrom, Margaret Akers with Nancy Ek strom alternate. Irrifiron: Mary E. Anderson. chairman, Hazel McRae, Karen Cooley with Frances McCoy, alternate. Boardman: Elvira Harwooci, chairman, Evelyn Black, Mary Marlow, with Shirley Zielinski, alternate. Old Business The report of the meeting i the lone Furnace committee in dicated they would recommend that the district continue to re pair the old furnace until sehw 1 U OUt. 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