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L I DEARY U OF 0 eRgenbS. ORE y ray FoiirT IVI 9 7 403 : ' tow iu CONGRESSMAN AL ULLMAN listens Intently to the Hepp ner .flood problems at bis Thursday stop here. Cong. Al Ullman Tours Flood Area Congressman Al Ullman flew into the airport at Lexington Thursday morning from Walla Walla. With Judge Paul Jones, Col. Connell of the Corps of Engineers and Mayor Bill Col lins he toured the downtown flood plain. He indicated con cern for what had happened and asked questions as to what was being done to correct the problem so it wouldn't happen again. Col. Connell showed him graphs of the Corps' plans for Shobe channel work. He was interested in seeing the site of the proposed Willow Creek dam. Judge Jones drove up 2Vi miles, the approximate distance the water will back up behind the dam. He stressed time and again the necessity of writing letters to the President Oregon's congressmen and Gov ernor McCall urging that $400, 000 be placed in next year's budget that is being planned NOW. r-Thta $400,000 will be required for the final plans for the con struetion of the dam, the core drills, . etc. He said get this $300,000 in this budget spent for preliminary planning. ,He next was taken up to the head of Shobe Canyon. He was pleased to see the work that was being done up the Canyon and said "the people of this county have always done for themselves". He was most im pressed that the people in town were contributing financially to wards the construction of the diversion ditches. He said it was due to the urgency of need for the Conservation work, that the 80-20 was granted. "This is good". Coffee Hour A coffee hour followed at the Wagon Wheel with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rosewall as hosts. He said that 'Congress would prepare legislation to prevent such crippling strikes as the; long shoreman's strike that I would '. "furnish machinery to force settlement". He said they would hope to have it through by Christmas time. They would also push -for emergency legis lation to end the strike soon. -. Besides Col. Connell Congressman- Ullman was accompanied by . Howard Hogan who is in charge of the . Willow Creek pro ject planning for the Corps of Engineers. The Walla Walla District of the Corps of Engineers extends as far east as Jackson Hole "Wyo. Last year they spent $110 million in construction. GRAIN PRICES F.O.B. Lexington, does not In clude warehouse chgs.) (Courtesy of Morrow County Grain Growers) ' White $L4iy2 Red $1,4512 Barley $37.50 88th Year 3 -elfidlfcSi HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, August 19, 1971 Number 26 4-H 'Horse Show WSnGners Listed The 4-H Horse Show was an exciting group of events last Sunday at the Morrow County arena here. All Around Showmanship grand champion was Jan Schlichting and the reserve champion was Joan Healy. In Champion Horsemanship, g-rand chamipon was Mary Healy and reserve champion, Joan Healy. Horse Judging Top three judges, ind.: Mary Lynne Healy, Marianne Petty john, Susan Healy. Teams: 1st, Pine City Club; 2nd, Heppner Two Trackers; 3rd, Boardman Saddle Pals; 4th, lone Trail Riders. Judging contest was provided by Umatilla County 4-H mem bers: Julie Rugg, Athena; Sheri Whittaker and Suzanne Dick, Pilot Rock; Jeanne Daly, Heppner. Members judged classes on conformation, horsemanship and showmanship. Judge Comments Marilyn (Mrs. Sheldon) Lieu alien of Athena was chief judge. She paid a real compliment to the riders, saying she's never been in a county before where all the kids were such skilled riders. Showmanship Colts, on halter or lounge line under 2 yrs.: Mary Ann Proctor, blue; Cassy Chappel, red. Small Fry: Maureen Healy, champion; Dana Creamer, re serve champion; blue ribbons to Wendy Meyers, Mary Daly; red to Roseanne Marlatt, Kim Britt. Junior Showmanship Grand champion was Krynn Robinson; Cindy Dougherty, re serve champion; blue to Sally Matheny, Theresa Proctor, Sally Sumner, Janice Healy, Debra Palmer, Ronnie Currin. Red to Erin Evans, Scott Acock. Jack Donovan, Pam Haugen, Tammie Toll, David Steagall. Intermediate Showmanship Dawn Peterson, grand cham pion; Mary Ann Proctor, reserve champion. Blue ribbons to Denise Henk- le, Cassy Chapel, Molly Pierce. Mary Healy, Bobbie Acock, Lisa Collins. Red ribbons to Peggy ninKiey, Susan Piening. White to Robin Lowe, Rita PhllliDs. Neta Phillips, Loretta Piening, Marianne Greenup. Senior Showmanship jan bchiichting was erand champion; Joan Healy, reserve champion. Blue ribbons to Pattl Proctor. Debby Peck, Sharon Witherrite, Dovie Alderman, Marianne Pet' tyjohn. Red to Sherl Kemp, Mary Abrams, Kerry Coppock 1 1 JAN SCHLICHTING, All around Showmanship ' Grand Champ ion. V tft , If -; 'ft,' .,,.' ' - ; J if " . ' JOAN HEALY. All around Show manship Reserve Champion. Ag Tour, Dinner Much Enjoyed Horse Show Entries Open August 25 The Horse Show office wiU op en Wednesday, Aug. 25 from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. to take en tries for the Horse Show spon sored by the Wranglers. Entries will close at 8 p.m. The office is in the Dorm building at the Fair Grounds. The Horse Show opens at 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 27, with hal- . - 1 . it-r l leasts anu penurmance classes in the afternoon. ; All Morrow County horses are welcome and encouraged to en ter the Horse Show which is part of the Morrow County Fair. Anyone wishing to enter a Mor row County Horse will find the necessary information on ' page 10-17 in the yellow premium book. Happy Birthday Phil Higgins . . . who will celebrate his 90th birthday this Saturday. Monday was the day for the Heppner-Morrow County's Ag Tour and dinner in the North End. Cars left Heppner at 3:30 mak ing their first stop at the Gary Grieb ranch. Here they saw tall safflower being raised for oil. This tract had produced 80 bushel wheat last year. Mr. Grieb said he put on 7 inches of water, fertilized and put on weed control; later, he added another 7 inches for a total of 14 on the 80 acres. Safflower requires a total of 25 inches in cluding natural moisture. There are some 600 acres of safflower being grown in Morrow County this year. Morrow County Grain Growers are handling and con tracting the crop. Mr. Grieb has 60 acres in new fawn fescue which is being pas tured. He has Apex alfalfa which is producing well. He has irrigated; wheat which runs 44 to 85 bushels per acre. Mr. Grieb says he has all the diversification he can stand. He has a unique irrigating system with wheel rolls. He has dry beans on 300 ac res this year. The county has about 1200 acres in this crop.. Down toward the Columbia in the Paterson Ferry area, the group stopped at the new "Des ert Magic Ranch", a brand new land development now con structing circles, doing land leveling. They are planting a cover crop of oats to hold the soil in the heavy blow area. It will be in potatoes next year. mey irrigate Irom a sump near the river, from wells, too, at a depth of about 130 feet. Their lead pipe from the river is a yard in diameter. The Kartchners plan 3000 acres of potatoes, 2000 acres of alfalfa and 700 acres of pasture. Cost of a circle is about $20,000 not including construction or the well drilling. They have some 17 circles and expect about 42 circles when all complete on the 5800 acre spread. Larry Mills, manager of Mor row County Grain Growers, showed the visitors the Pater son Ferry elevator and ware house of the Grain growers which handles about three fourths of the wheat produced in Morrow County. The mam moth facilities on the Colum bia will load a barge of 70 or 80 thousand bushel capacity in an 8 hour shift. Next stop was at Eastern Oregon Farms owned by West ern Empire, Inc. They have City Meet Talks Finance A special meeting was held Thursday evening at Heppner City Hall. The meeting was call ed at the request of Mr. Baxter, agent of the Farmers Hame Ad ministration. The FHA has been requested to provide a grant or matcning money to be used for moving utilities such as sewer and water pipes in Shobe Creek This work must be done before channel improvements can Dro ceed. The FHA may provide $7500 or 50 of the cost of the work whichever is lesser. Total cost is estimated at $15,000, Mr. Baxter was hopeful the tunas would be available short He displayed and discussed about 27 different phases of the paper work forms that would need completion such as an au dit report, the City charter, cod ies of contracts and declarations, He said he understood the Fish & Wildlife people had decided work on Shobe Creek would not adversely affect fish life. A final answer from FHA should be due in two weeks or less unless funds might be fro zen by the Bureau of the Budg er. The City Council decided to proceed and authorized Mavor Collins to sign documents for tne grant. A discussion ensued on a dos sible bond issue package. This would cover cost of the four City bridges over Main Street, Chase Street, the Hager bridge ana tne Lovers Lane footbridee. This would cost $65,000 but there is an alternated price of $ou,u)0 if log beams were used instead of steel. Swimming pool repairs would cost $16,000 according to the en gineers estimates. City costs for repairs done by the City Crew on boiler room, pump repairs lone Pool to Close The swimming season is drawing to the close of a suc cessful summer at the lone Swimming Pool. The official closing date will be Sunday, Aug. 22. Attendance has been tremen dous this year. There are still a few more days of swimming if you haven't got your fill. Bond Practice! (Continued on page 10) Arnie Hedman, band instruct or, has announced that Band Practice for the big parade will start at 7 p.m. next Monday at the grade schooL This Is for all in the Junior High and High School. would amount to $2000. Guard rail cost is $1200. Re paving parking strip at pool $2000 on South Main Street. Moving utilities In Shobe Creek $16,000. With the FHA grant, total to be raised for the project would be $94,000. A special meeting at City Hall on tnday evening this week will be held to decide this is sue. Building Permits Council granted three build ing permits. A new structure a duplex with 5 rooms each, two stor ies at 240 Gilmore granted to Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dick. Build ing will be 22 x 43 on an 80 x 100 lot with ample parking. A new structure at the rear of 540 S. Chase Street, a porch canopy and storage shed for a mobile home was granted Glen is Snyder. Francis Doherty was granted permit for new structure, a met al storage building at 505 Gale, First Call For Football Coach Ed Hiemstra has an nounced that the first meeting of the 1971 Mustangs will be held Aug. 23 at 6:30 a.m. Due to the hot weather, the coach ing staff decided to hold the practice sessions during the 'cooler" part of the day. Plans are to have daily doubles, with the second practice of the day to be held at 6:30 p.m. Every student Interested in playing for the Heppner Mus tangs is urged to be at the first meeting. The first game of the year is with the always tough Grant Union Prospectors, Sept. 11, five days after the opening of the 1971-72 school year. The game is scheduled ior the John Day field. Heppner has successfully dry-gulched the Prospectors the past two seasons and are look ing to make it three in a row. The Grant Union team would consider their season a success if they dump the Mustangs. me Mustang coaching staff nticipates having between 45 nd 50 players turn out. Of these, 17 are returning letter men. There will be a veteran at every position and the team hopes to improve on last year's record. Barring unforeseen injur ies, etc., the Mustangs hope to make it to the state finals and bring back a championship. Judy Bennett, Susie Healy, Christina Lindstrom. Horsemanship Colt Classes Jan Schlichting was grand champion and Marianne Petty john, reserve champion. Blue ribbons to Dawn Peter son, Patty Proctor. Red to Mari anne Greenup, Patty Daly, Jeanne Piening, Cassy Chapel. White to Mary Abrams, Kim Britt, Roseanna Marlatt. Horsemanship Small Fry Grand champion was Dana Creamer and reserve champion, Maureen Healy. Blue ribbons to Mary Daly. Red to Wendy Meyers, Roseanna Marlatt, Kim Britt. Junior Horsemanship Grand champion Janice Healy and Nola Steers, reserve cham pion. Blue ribbons to Pam Haugen, Tammi Toll, i Jeanne Piening. Red to Kathleen Evans, Erin Ev ans, bally Matheny, Scott A cock, Jack Donovan, Krynn Rob inson, iheresa Proctor, Teresa Peck, Sally Sumner, Debra Palm er, Ronnie Currin, David Stea gall, Cindy Dougherty. White to Janice hpauldmg. Intermediate Horsemanship Grand champion was Marv Healy and Denise Henkle was reserve champion. Blue ribbons to Bobbi Acock Loretta Piening, Dawn Peterson Red to Peggy Hinkley, Marv- Anne Proctor, Rita Phillips. Mol ly Pierce, Lisa Collins, Marianne Greenup. White to Robin Lowe, cassy uiapei, Neta Phillips, Su san Piening, Debbie Cox. Senior Horsemanship Grand champion was Joan Healy and Susie Healy was re serve champion. Blue ribbons to Sherry Kemp, Mary Abrams, Jan Schlichting, Debbie Peck, , Judy Bennett, Marianne Pettyjohn. Red to Patti Proctor, Kerry Coppock, anaron witnerrite, Dovie Alder man. (Dana Creamer had her ton sillectomy postponed about four hours Sunday as she was in the championship runoff). The Sunday show was des cribed as very successful and highly enjoyed. Queen Crowned At Big Event Queen Michelle Miller was crowned at the annual corona tion ceremonies Saturday night at the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo arena. Placing the crown was 1970 Queen Sherri O Brien, Master of Ceremonies for the occasion was Charley Daly, In charge of arrangements for the annual coronation were Mr. and Mrs. Elwayne Bergstrom. Mike Matthews provided the sound equipment. The Royal Court of the Mor row County Fair and Rodeo made a spectacular entrance by galloping around the arena, ac companied by the pennant bearers. Attending Queen Michelle this year are Princesses Dovie Alder man, Jan Schlichting, Jeanne Daly and Jeri Snow. Chaperone is Mrs. Donna Peterson. Pennant bearers are Patty Da ly, Sherry Kemp, Judy Bennett and Michelle Evans .- Other Royalty Other- royalty snd notables were introduced: Patti Healy, 1971 Queen of the world-famous Pendleton Round-Up, and a for mer princess of the 1969 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo.' Harold Erwln of Heppner who Is Grand Marshal ot- the . Westward '- Ho Parade Sept. 17 was introduced. Jeri Krebs, a 1970 princess of the Morrow County - Fait and Rodeo is a 1971 Round-Up prin cess. Morrow County Day this year at the Pendleton Round-Up will be on Thursday, Sept. 16, Corsages were presented the Court. And a corsage and gift were presented to Donna Peter son, the chaperone. Mrs. Peter son presented the lovely horse shoe-shape corsages, assisted by inerri OBrien. The Queen and Princesses each made a brief talk on their impressions of a busy year in their royal offices. The Tetons, a 4-member band appearing at the Wagon Wheel, provided musical numbers. Lively and colorful dancing numbers were presented by the (Continued on page 10). By TOM CURRIN Publicity Director New features and facilities have been added to the 1971 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo at Heppner this year to add to the enjoyment and comfort of the thousands expected at the 47th annual event, Floyd Jones, fair board chairman announces. The fair will begin on Mon day, Aug. 23 and will continue through Friday, Aug. 27. The Morrow County open horse show will conclude the event on Fri day. The rodeo will be held Saturday, Aug. 28, and Sunday, Aug. 29, with afternoon perform ances both days and an evening show Saturday. For the first time in many years the Rodeo will be an RCA approved event with many top name cowboys expected. Most prominent of the new fa cilities is the all-steel grand stand completed in 1968 at the rodeo grounds at a cost of ap proximately $36,000. Painting, new rest room facilities and other improvements have been made to make the Morrow Coun ty Fair and Rodeo grounds one of the leading facilities in East ern Oregon. An unusually good harvest season and new features at the fair are expected to make it one of the best in the long his tory of the event, according to Mrs. Lenna Smith, secretary. Popular features such as the Style Revue, the pig Scramble for youngsters, the 4-H and FFA Livestock Auction, Pet Show, and Cake Baking Contest are on the program again. The 4-H Style Revue will be Wednesday nignt, and the Pig Scramble, Livestock Auction and Pet Show are billed for Thursday. Food, fun events and a com plete display of community booths are also included. The Rodeo offers $1875 in pur ses and some $1000 in trophies and prizes to the cowboys who take part in competitive events. Novice Bronc Riding, a pop ular event in the 1971 show, will again be held along with the regular RCA approved events, , Saturday's show starts at 1:15 p.m., following the Grand Ro deo parade in downtown Hepp ner, 'which begins at 10:00 a.m. Evening show with special- e vents for rodeo fans will be at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, and final- events will be Sunday afternoon, starting at 1:30. Rodeo dances will be held Friday and Saturday nights with The Western Gentlemen of Con don playing both nights. Dances start at 10:00 p.m. Wranglers Cowboy Breakfast will be Sunday morning, start ing at 7:00 a.m. at the City Park in Heppner. Approximately $475 in prizes are offered at the street parade, which is sponsored by the Cham ber of Commerce. Floats, riding groups, childrens entries, Royal (Continued on page 10) East-West Shrine Game in Pendleton " ' ' 4 , ' T: i ' V- . i.'.i.' I'wit.' riprik I 17 1 5 w, 1 - -- i- J The 19th annual Shriners Hospital Oregon East-West All Star Football game will be play ed in the Pendleton Round-Up Stadium on Aug. 21. The Shrlneorama Pageant will hegin at 7;15 p.m., and the Kick-off time will bt at 8:15 p.m. The players have been select ed and will be housed at East ern Oregon . College, at La Grande. The East team will practice on the colleee field. The West team will work out on the La Grande High School field. This year John Hall of Heppner, Grant Weatherford of Condon, have been selected to plav for the East team. East couch is Bill Bedem Junction City High School, a.- sistod by Richard Washburn, of Pine Eagle High, Halfway. West coach is Andy Klemm. Coquille High School, assisted by Ron Miller, of Knappa Hirh School. This game supports the Shrin ers Hospital for Crippled Chald ron, Portland Unit, and recog nizes the fine athletes from ho A and AA schools. Make arrangements now tcr attend the Shriners Football game Saturday. SHRINE ALL-STARS John Hall of Heppner and Grant Weather- lora 01 Condon will e action this Saturday In the East-West Shrine Came in Pendleton. Game time In at 8:15. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM III Low Wednesday 101 60 Thursday 101 63 Friday 92 58 Saturday 82 51 Sunday 85 47 Monday 83 53 Tuesday 84 49 Pr
