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HEPPNEB GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. August 5. 1971 SUN DANCE. SHIRHIEN FAFAN, Princess Jon and Sugar Foot (Photo by G-T). Four Horses and a Princess Because the north end had no riding candidates to try out for the Morrow County air ana Rodeo Court, the Tillicum Club of Boardman asked Jan Schlich ting to represent their area on the Court. This she does with lots of enthusiasm. Parades are her favorites. With her brown eyes wide open, she likes to ob serve how others ride and look on their horses and the kinds of horses they are riding. Her interest in horses doesn't stop with just riding. She is very loyal and appreciative of the early horse training she got in i H. Enough so, that she is eag erly looking forward to being aj 4-H leader. ! Starts with 4-H i She was about 11 years old when she joined her first 4-H ance. Lathered all over from Horse Club at Pleasant Hill, ; nea(j to foot then rinsed every near Eugene. It was a point oi necessity that her mother be came leader of the Horse Club. day for three days before a show Is her secret of success. Clean Jan had been riding with her t tack is another must for show, neighbor friends on their Shet- She is a member of the Two lands. They were putting on ! Trackers led by Floyd Jones and flank straps to make them buck, j ot tne Veterinary Club led by She says, "we didn't get hurt0r. Norene. even when we were DucKea on becau.se it was such a short dis tance to the ground." Anyway when her folks found out about it, they put a stop to it and she started 4-Hing. From this first club she be came indoctrinated with the 4-H rule of cleanliness for her horse. This is the same rule she applies to getting Sugar Foot ready for a Court perform- Penny Marquardt Undergoes Surgery LEXINGTON Penny Mar quardt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill B. Marquardt, who was injured in a car accident last year hun again entered Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland where she will undergo surgery on Tuesday of this week. Mrs. Marquardt and daughter Char ma motored to Portland on Monday to be with Penny. Mrs. Marquardt and Norita, and Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Messenger were also Portland visitors last week. Mr. Messenger remained for a week while Mrs. Messenger re turned last week, he returned on Saturday. Penny's father and olher family members visited her on Sunday. Proud Parent Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Messen ger are the proud parents of a daughter born at a poruana nos pital July 14. The young miss weighed 6 lb. and 1 oz., and has been named Jonl JanelL Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Chris Zindler or Kap eli, Mont., and the paternal gradparents are Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Messenger, Sr., of Lexing ton. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Messenger and children of Portland were Lexington callers, on Saturday. A daughter Kathy who has been visiting here returned home with them, i Mr. and Mrs. Carl Marquardt and children visited at the Car roll Messenger home one day last week. Earl Soward who has been a patient In Pendleton has return ed to his home. He recently un derwent surgery in Pendleton. Matt Hughes is in Virginia where ho is participating in military reserve training. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hughes. Rsunioaj Beckon Mrs. Lola Breeding is spend ing some time in Portland vis iting friends and relatives. She attended a Breeding reunion at Grant Park In Portland, and the Spray reunion at a park there on Sunday. Her grandchildren Oscar and Lola Smith motored down with her. Mrs. Mervin Leonard enter tained with a luncheon and bridge party one day last week honoring Mrs. Dean Hunt on Following graduation from Heppner High School last spring, she will enter BMCC this fall. She will take Sugar Foot with her. Sugar Foot was her first horse. She broke her to ride, taught her the 4-H riding pat tern and other arts of horseman ship. At BMCC, she hopes to take English Equitation under Lou Levy. Eventually she would like to show horses profession ally and become an equitation instructor. She says she would like to help children, "learn learn, learn". She won Grand Champion Showman last year at the Fair. 4 in Her String She likes everything about her horses even to cleaning out the stalls. Besides Sugar Foot, part Arabian and Quarterhorse that Irak-,-"-"--' " I M I , . cm rv i i i , i fjj f V ' '-:-:M f ZEBU. .. - 4? .-li-MTlM III I II I HAPPINESS IS RIDING EAREBACK1 This time ifs Just a rope . . . no bridle, no baiter, no hackamore. (Photo by G-T). b n 7 v ' SVr 2 ( i OS ,7 i T -7 T n 7 'to dad swapped for an Angus Mrs. Bob Davidson, Mrs. Elden KtMr. . . VaUs,aoa roic. Padberg, Mrs. C. C. Carmichael, .n ... ', Art Wat- m T . f i ji i Ma" Kins, ivirs. junn uruuciier auu three year old filly that is I o rnrticiarnH half AroKiln Qnn the hostess and honoree. s nance her Dad's gelding Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robinson Eventually she hopes to raise spent several aays last weeK aij horses from this string, liiwaco, wasn., wnere iney en joyed deep sea fishing. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Irvin wer callers in Lexington Saturday and Sunday. They were en route to Hood River, from their home in She is the only one of the four Schlichtings who enjoys the horses so much. The others ride for fun occasionally. Besides her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dick i Schlichting, - there's Bill in the Baker, where they visited j NaVy, Peggy 16, and Mark 14. their daughter Vicky. Billy Irvin who is employed at the C. C. Jones ranch motored to Hood River with them for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Davidson and children were Portland and Rose burg visitors last week. They visited Mrs. Davidson's sis ter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Young, who recently moved to Roseburg from Calif ornia. Trouble with shabby shingles? L. E. DICK VOUit STANDAHD MAN Can solve your problem He's In Heppner, C76-9G33 StMdwtf OH Cempaf I California Visitors Highlight Summer for Lonhoms This has been a red letter summer for Mr. and Mrs. Con- ley Lanham. Last week their son Lt. Col. and Mrs. M. C. Lan ham, Michael, Mark, Jim, Cindy and Gayle of Fairfax, Wn., vis ited the Lanhams. They enjoyed numerous picnics together and tried to "keep cool." They had hoped that their daughter's vacation would coin cide with the Fairfax Lanhams' visit. It overlapped one day. Lt Col. Lanham went to Portland and met the plane bringing hi sister, Mrs. Sandra Gunnarson, Debby and Michelle up from San Diego. They had one day together then Mr. Lanham flew back to Washington. His family is visiting relatives in Portland. Ho will return for them later. Mrs. Gunnarson is enjoying visits with former school friends which have included Linda Dun-lap. Ads Sell for Harold Harold Becket came in to say he had six inquiries to his ad to sell a wheat box. He said his Want Ad in the Gazette- Times sold to the fifth inquiry! Probably, you, too, can sell or rent or buy. You can raise ex tra money through the want ads in the G-T. HERMISTON LIVESTOCK AUCTION. INC. Sale every Saturday 12:30 pan. sharp Carson Vehrs Emmett Rogers 567-6611 567-5139 Bill Bowden Sale Yard 567-5082 567-3149 She comes by her love of horses naturally. Her dad worked his way through college at the Kellogg Arabian Horse ranch, owned by the Cornflake king. The ranch was just off the campus of the California State Polytechnical School at Pomona and has since been donated to the college. He learned to know and like hors es. Her grandfather was a horse trader in Iowa. Another grand father took his R and R during World War I days by staying on the base and going down to the stables and riding the cav alry horses. Art and Horses At BMCC she will be study ing towards a degree in Art Ed ucation. She has used her art ability in many instances while she was in high school. She was teachers aide in Art, help ed with the Library bulletin boards and posters, art director in journalism and drew pictures for student publications. She was a member of GAA, Pep Club, Drill team and Girls League. She enjoyed narrating the style show at the Girls League Tea this spring. This princess rides every day, sometimes twice a day. She rides before school and after school. She rides with a bridle, with a halter or just a rope. She rides bareback. She rides! i r- m 1 AN AKMrnL of kittens. Princess Jan holds her Siamese family- The mother recently presented her with five lively kittens that are almost ready to go to new homes. irnoto ny i 1; , cy I i Jiff. u's sr.-. m THE NEWEST ADDITION to Princess Jan's horse family ls this Arabian Fallasea, (Pnoto ny G-T). Recovering from Surgery Mrs. Ted Smith is presently a patient at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland where she Is recovering from surgery last Wednesday, July 28. It's A Boy Mr. and Mrs. Chester White of Lexington announce the ar rival of a son on July 30 at Hermiston. He has been named Trov William, the William Is after his grandpa, William Nich ols of lone. He weighed lb. His other grandparents are Mrs. Nichols and Mrs. Ella Rowell of lone. Great grandparents are Archie Nichols of Lexington and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Senacol of Lexington. ELECTRICAL WIRING Industrial - Commercial - Residential Trouble Shooting - Appliance Service FREE ESTIMATES CALL 989-8543 ELECTRIC LIC. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Office-Shop at Former Grain Growers Office Lexington, Or. Box 333 Need Some Meat?? Don Stangel, Morrow Exten sion Agent, wants to remind ev eryone of the upcoming 4-H Auction. Help support the 4-H'ers of Morrow County by buying one of their prize winning ani mals for your locker. The auc tion will be held Thursday, Aug. 26 at 8:00 p.m. at the Fair grounds in Heppner. Buyers Guides are available at the County Extension Office, drop by and pick one up. IRRIGON NEWS 1 By FRANCES ROSE WILSON IRRIGON Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Murtlshaw are invit ed to attend an open house 50th wedding anniversary celebra tion, Sunday, Aug. 8 from 2 to 5 p.m. at their home. It ls being given by their son and daugh ter, and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Humbert of Folsom, Calif., and their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Red Murtishaw of Federal Way, Wash., who are expected to ar rive here duirng the week. Their grandsons, Ken and Jeff Hum bert, 13 and 11 years, have been visiting here the past 2 weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Murtishaw came to Irrigon in 1947. He worked at the Ordnance Depot until his retirement in 1968. They are members of the Adventist Church and are respected in the community. Eldy Daugherty of New Cas tle, Wyo., visited at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gale Shoemaker the past week. They are taking a week's vacation and will drive with her to her home in New Castle, Wyo. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Stephens were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Steph ens on July 25. It was a birthday dinner honoring Curtiss Steph ens, their son. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Rodgers of Spokane, Wash., visited her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wil son on Saturday. They drove on to Waitsburg, Wash., to visit her brother, Leonard Wilson and family. Ray Shade of Pendleton, spent the week here working on his house. Improvements on his property included installation of city water service. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Froberg spent the past week in Portland, where Mr. Froberg attended a clinic. Mr. and Mrs. Don Stocks, Don ald and Sherri of Tacoma, are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Don Leighton and family. The women are cousins. John Henner a former Irrigon resident visited friends here last week. His parents who live in Haines, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, the past weekend. Cora Ellis has received word of the marriage of her son Sp4 Richard R. Linnell to Carline Davis, in Anniston, Ala., where he is stationed with the Army. The date of the wedding vas July 21. His brother Bill Linnell of Irrigon, attended the wed ding,. The Rev. Norman Arneson of Bethany Bible College, Santa Cruz, Calif., concluded a week of meetings at the Assembly of God on Sunday, Aug. 1. Pastor Donald Boe, and the "Kids Choir" of Fruitland, Wash., were featured in the Sunday evening service. A buffet dinner was served to the choir after the meeting. The Rev. N. D. Davidson, Ore gon District Supt., of the As sembly of God Churches, will be at the Irrigon Church Sunday, Aug. 8, to welcome the new pastors, the Rev. and Mrs. Wes ley Cronk. The Columbia All Star Little League attended the Sub Dis trict 5 Tournament in The Dal les. Members of the local team were from Irrigon, Boardman, Umatilla, Stanfield and Echo, and included: Gail Phillips, Terry Crowder, David Ellis, Don Sutton, Frank Longhorn, John P. Snyder, Clinton Eastwood, Steve Bean, Jim Haines, Rick Hale, Tim Perrin. Manager was Bill 1 Griffin, Coach, Jim Jenkins, League president, pete Richards. Their first game was Thurs day. Columbia 4 vs. Deschutes 6. On Friday, David Ellis of Ir rigon pitched a no hitter game to Willow Creek, score Colum bia 17 to 0. On Saturday they lost to Hood River, 15-9. Terry Crowder hit a home run In this game. The team came in 6th place In the tournament but the boys were not discouraged. This was the first time the fellows from this area had gone to a Little League Tournament They stayed in foster homes and all had a great time. Mrs. McMurdo Coming Home Mrs. Ruth McMurdo who was recently transferred to the La Grande Hospital is expected home today. Her niece will bring her home. Miss Mildred Clowry has received word that Mrs. McMurdo is much improv. ed. MOORE Pocket Registers, Moore register forms, duplicate and triplicate, and register car bons, available at the Gazette- Trouble with engine sludge? L. E. DICK YOUR STANDARD MAN Can solve your problem He's In Heppner, 676-9633 Suidird OR CMf lay of California When you dial Long Distance direct, you get there quicker easier. Really. For area codes and dialing Instructions, check the Call Guide in the front of your directory. Pacific Northwest Belt 35 mm mm mm Heppner Auto Soles Inc. HEPPNER, OREGON
