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Awards Galore Made
At State Garden
Club Meeting
By EYA HAKXXXT
IONE Tti Oregon SUU Ftd
r ration of Garden Clubt, Ine,
19C1 State convention was held
June 21-23 at the Sheraton Mo
tor Inn. Portland.
Award
Awards were presented to
many clubs In Oregon, and
among those in Blue Mountain
District No. 10 were: AP.CO ot
Richiield Award for Conserva
tion of Civic Beauty. $30.00 and
Certificate of Achievement went
to the Dirt Dabblers of Pendle
ton for their airport beautifica
tkm project They also received
HO.00 and a Certificate from the
Sears Environmental Improve
ment Award for the above pro
ject Capital District No. 17 was
the State winner of this award.
and will be entered in the Na
tional Award, for their project
of saving Deep-Wood, a histor
ical site in the heart of Salem.
They received a plaque and
$200.00.
The lone Garden Club receiv
ed first place in the Club His
tory Book Contest in Class I for
clubs under 25 members, which
was prepared by Mrs. Harold
Huber.
The lone Garden Club receiv
ed 2nd place in the Yearbook
Contest in Class I. and was
prepared by Mrs. Fredrick Mar
tin and Mrs. Van Hubbard.
Laurie Chally of Heppner, re
wived 3rd place in the Smokey
Bear Coloring Contest for 12 to
14 year olds using water colors.
Susan Lynn Simmons of En
terprwe received Honorable
Mention in the 6 to 8 year olds
class using crayons.
Mrs. Ernest Heliker of the
lone Garden Club received a
Bone China cup and saucer for
the cleverest bag in the Litter
bug decorating contest j
Blue Mountain District No. 10
received an Award of Achieve
ment for 10Oi club contribu
tions to the State Life Fund for
scholarships.
Mrs. Fredrick Martin, State
Chairman, presented the Horti
culture Award for the Eastern
part of the State to Mrs. Ralph
E. Porter from the Pendleton
Garden Club for her first place
es-say on 'Daffodils". Klamath
District No. 12 walked away
with the remaining awards.
Judges were Rev. Edwin Cut
ting of Heppner, and Bill Raw
lins of lone.
The Oregon Conservation Award
of $50.00 went to Mrs. Hans
Breck of Oaklodge Garden Club
of Milwaukie for a Nature Trail
at the Clackamas Fairgrounds.
Speakers
A special speaker and the
Oregon Horticultural Award re
cipient was Harold Greer, 26
years old, from Eugene receiv
ed $100.00 for hybridizing Rho
dodendron, of which he has ov
er 400 varieties of hybrid and
dwarf. Other special speakers
a TV program titled "Gardening
for run"; Jerry Neuman of the
J. G. Ferguson Publishing Co.
discussed the Teacher's Guides,
"People and Their Environ
ment"; Mrs. Marian Stites and
Lt. James E. Harvey, discussed
"Lady Beware , which consist
ed of self -protection from as
sailants in the metropolitan ar
eas. Mrs. Robert Hannoa of St.
Louis spoke on the new Sears
Environmental Irr.prov e m en t
Program.
A rras9ase& ta
Mrs. Merritt England of Mer
ced. Calif, was guest arranger,
ho specialized in artistic wea
thered wood. Miss Alma Rohr
man of the Blue Mountain Dis
trict designed and prepared an
arrangement entitled "Beach
Party".
Mrs. Fredrick Martin, in the
Si,. Duan- Reforestation
A small group of friends and
relatives attended the ceremo
ny. A reception and buffet sup
per followed at the home of Mr.
m Mrs. Don Larson.
Mrs. Ronald Baker made the
beautiful 5-tiered wedding cake
and granddaughters of the
Bride took care of the guest
book.
The couple left on a short
trip and will spend the sum
mer at Hat Rock, returning this
fall to Arizona.
Those from lone attending
were Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crabtree
(Cecal, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hal-
vorsen and Mr. and Mrs. Mar
ion Palmer.
Rainbow Girls to Assembly
Mrs. Lewis Halvorsen. Mother
Advisor and members of Rain
bow Assembly No. 89, Cathy-
Cannon, Worthy Advisor, Dee-
absence of Mrs. Charles Dallas. I Ann Barrett Christina Linda
Director, was one of the 13'trom. Cindy Martin, Cindy Eks
members throughout the state, trom and Tanya Tucker left
ho gave garden therapy dem
onstrations at the afternoon
workshops. "Bread Dough Birds",
a project suitable for children,
the mentally retarded, and trie
Wednesday to attend Grand As
serobly. They stayed Wednesday
in Portland and attended the in
stallation ceremonies of the
Grand Chapter OES in which
aeea was tne contnoution irom Virginia Wilkinson was install
Blue Mountain District Na 10; ed as Worthy Grand Matron ami
As Past Director of Blue ML j Katherine Lindstrom as Grand
Adah. On Thursday they went
to Corvallis to attend Grand As
sembly. Tanya Tucker finished
her year as Grand Religion and
ior outstanding work was hon-
At Snow Basin
A giant reforestation project
Is underway in the Snow Basin
area of Wheeler County where
a forest fire In 1968 destroyed
5.000 acres of valuable timber
and grazing land. The Kinzua
Corporation Is planting 43.0OO
trees on 143 acres of their land
located in the Snow Basin area.
The project is rather unique
in that unlike, other projects
of this nature, which are done
by air, the planting is being
done by hand and mostly by
women. The state is doing the
work for Kinzua under contract
which gives their seasonal em
ployees an opportunity to work,
as most of them are only em
ployed during the summer
months.
In addition to five men who,
are working on the project thei
state decided to hire three!
women in an experiment to see
Peggy Rogers Passes
Margaret Ann Rogers passed
on Friday morning after a long
illness in Portland. Memorial
services were held Sunday at 1
p.m. at Bateman Funeral Chap
el, Gresham.
Mrs. Roger was born in Pen
dleton Dec. 22, 1926. the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mm. Thomas
Young.
She is survived by her hus
band, Frank Rogers of Gresham;
three sons, Gary, Frank, Jr., and
Dan Rogers all of Portland; two
grandchildren; her mother, Mrs.
Annie Young of Milton-Freewa-
ter; two brothers, Samuel Young
of Portland and Charlie Heard
of Heppner; a number of nieces
and nephews.
Morrow County Keeps
BC Coupons Coming
Ida Lee Engelman is very
if they were capable of thei haDDv these davs with the
work. The three women have I good word from the State Wide
proved their capability above; chairman of KOA Betty Crock -
and oeyond the expectations of I er coupons. She wrote that Mor
District Mr. Martin participated
in a panel discussion The Dir
ector in Rural Communities" on
the District Director and Club
Presidents Workshop.
Election
Newly elected State Officers
are: President Mrs. T. R. Fet
tis, Portland; First vice-presi
dent, Mrs. Raymond Elmstrom.
Portland; second vice-president
Mrs. Y. B. Anderson. Bend; re
cording secretary. Mrs. Carl H.
K.-auspe, Portland; Correspond
ing Secretary". Mrs. Boyd Schell,
Portland; Treasurer, Mrs. A. H.
Goeckner, Milwaukie; State
Chairman of Horticulture (East
and also elected an alternate on
the State Nominating Commit
tee. Mrs. F. T. Martin. lone.
Special guests were: Mrs. Max
well W. Steel, President of the
National Council of State Gar
den Clubs, Inc., of Huntington,
Pa.; Mrs. J.W. Scheel. 4th vice
president of National Council.
Corvallis, Oregon; and Mrs.
Kenneth Barrett, Pacific Region
al Director, Centralia, Wash.
Delegates
District Delegates from Blue
Mt. District were: Mrs. Fredrick
Martin, State Horticulture (East)
Chairman; Mrs. Van Hubbard,
lone Garden Club President
Rev. and Mrs. Edwin Cutting of
tne lone Garden Club; Mrs. J
Newman and Mrs. D. Hayes of
rreewater Garden Club: Mrs. T.
B. Hyder and Miss Alma Rohr
man of the Pendleton Garden
Club; and Miss Barbara An
drews, and Mrs. John Ramos of
the Echo Garden Club.
Some of the special entertain
ment consisted of The Night
Crawlers" a blind music group;
a magician act by The
Jame's"; 'Trip Down Memory
Lane", a fashion show from the
18o0 to today; Four Hawaiian
the supervisor of the planting
operation. Henry Dahill of Monument
Karen Massey and Judy Pot
ter of Fossil and Judy Warm
ing of Camp 5 are very' enthus
iastic about their job. After the
first few davs of sore muscles
and sore hands the women are! enough
taking their job in stride, and : 9 and
row county coupons total to
date is 62,900 plus a. bonus of
50.000 for gettig the coupons
in on time which brings the
grand total up to 112,900. The
deadline for bringing in coup
ons is December 31, 1971.
Oregon has contr i b u t e d
coupons to purchase
will begin working
for any Women Lib readers, j on the 10th machine. The ma
ored with the Grand Cross of) they are being paid the same
t-oiors.
Tanya was also one of 22
girls who were presented with
an educational scholarship giv
en by the Rainbow Assembly.
Cindy Ekstrom was appointed
Grand Executive committee
member for the 1971-72 term.
The group returned home on
Sunday.
Guests at the Archie Padbera
home bver the weekend were
salary as their men co-workers.
The Kinzua Corp., is investing
almost $5500 in this reforesta
tion project on 143 acres of its
land. If the project turns out as
successfuUy as the company
hopes it will, it will have made
quite an investment in the fu
ture. Kinzua Log
chines are at Immanuel Hos
pital in Portland. Some of the
larger counties have enough
coupons to be credited with
their machine and now they
are working to get coupons to
help the smaller counties.
Friends of Mrs. Grarie Ware
will be interested to know she
Mrs. Padberg's daughter and has moved from Morton, Wn.,
husband, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon! to a nursing home in Centralia.
Ross of Canby. Mrs. Ross was For those wishing to write, her
here to attend her ten year address is Royal Care Convales
class reunion. They returned cen t Center, 1303 Alexandra,
home Sunday evening. Centralia. Wn. 9S531.
Recent visitors to the Vida
Heliker and Don Heliker homes
in lone were Mrs. Heliker's 93
year old aunt, Mrs. Stella Cam
eron and her daughter, Miss
Eula Cameron of Jamestown,
Calif. They are now visiting oth
er friends and relatives in Port
land, Salem and McMinnville
and will return to California
July 1.
Lexington Services
For Ellwynne Peck
Funeral services for Edgar
Ellwynne Peck, formerly of Lex
ington, were held at the Lexing
ton Christian Church June 26,
1971. He passed away June 20
in Anchorage, Alaska, The serv
ice was conducted by Rev. Don
Johnson. Graveside services were
conducted by the Elks Lodge
and American Legion.
Mr. Peck was born Aug. 4,
1921 in Heppner. He attended
the Lexington schools. Pacific
U. and Oregon State University.
During WW II he served in the
U. Si Army Air Corps. He owned
Peck's Grocery Store in Lexing
ton, had an Insurance business
and was the Postmaster in Lex
ington before moving to Alaska.
He served on the Lexington
School Board and the Lexington
lone Cemetery District Board. He
was a member of the BPOE,
American Legion and IOOF.
At the time of his death, he
was employed by the Coastal
Drilling Co. in Anchorage.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Emma P. Peck, Pendleton;
two sons, Keith Peck, Portland,
and George Peck, Pendleton; two
daughters, Dixie Peck, San
Francisco and Joyce Wojak, Los
Angeles; two grandchildren and
a brother, Kenneth Peck, Lexington.
PNG Luncheon
The Past Noble Grands of
Sans Soucl Rebekah Lodge No.
33 were invited to a luncheon
as guests of Ualtee P.N. Grands
of Ualtee R. L. Na 224 of Stan
field June 26 In City Park In
Echo. The weather cooperated to
make It a perfect outing. The
P.N. Grand Group of Pendleton
were also in attendance. The
tables were loaded with luscious
foods provided by hostess club
from fried chicken to strawberry
pie, cakes, salads and whole
menu of luncneon aunes.
Games were played with prizes
won by Letha Archer and Adelle
LaTrace winning guest prizes.
Those attending from Sans
Soucl were Mary Bailey, Jo Hus
ton, Adelle LaTrace, Letha Ar
cher, Mabel Chaffee and Altha
Kirk.
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' Gardens of EnrhantmAnt". a
were Tom Halvorsen. who has j garden for the blind near Sandy,
a project of. Districts 13 and 14,
which won the National Award
Therapy Project; Wild Flower
Slides; Ecology Slides, plus ex
hibits of projects, crafts, books.
door prizes, good food and fun
for everyone.
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United Methodist Church at 3
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