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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1972)
Piano Recital Due Dec 10 The piano Pupils of Mn. I) K Hudson will present a variety of neasonul music at their sixteenth unniml Winter program Dec. 10, 2:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hull. Performances will be given by: Dee llcdman, Susan Cray, Arlene Gray, Sandra Pulmer, Puulu Pulmer, Deunn Connor, Kill Kenny, Rhonda Sargent, Anns Schwurzin, Cindy Dougherty, Sundi Hudson. Cindi Hudson, Juckl Hudson, Ronnie Arritigton. Melody Marlutt, Hosanna Murlutt. Krynn Robin son, Suzanne Cutsforth, Dclori Pulmer, Donna Pulmer. Vocal numbers by Rick Wad holm and Jack D. Unrein. The Public is cordially Invited to attend. Irrigon Man Takes Reserve Duty It v frunccH rose wilson SP 4 Leon Dule Wilson has been relieved from active duty in the U.S.Army and has been transferred to the U.S.Army Reserve. He was formerly stationed at Ft. Sill, Okla. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wilson, Irrigon. He will report to the Veterans Hospital in Walla Walla, for his reserve duty. Lexington Tops Party Set The weight losing TOPS of Lexington are having a Christ mas tree ornament contest. Each member hai contributed several tree ornumenta-and for the next several meeting! at the Ixington City Ruilding those who lose poundage will get to select ornaments to put on their family trees. A Christmas party featuring low-calorie salads and a gift exchange will be held on Monday, December 18 at the Weatherford parsonage. This day-time club is happy to have Mrs. R. B. Cogburn as a new member and Mrs. Eva Griffith as a return member. County High Schools To Be Represented In Governor's Campaign Against VD Methodists Welcome New Bishop Tucll at Seattle at which he and two other western area bishops were elected. Rev. Paul La Rue, the Pendlet6n minister presided at the welcome service. The full choir of the Pendleton church along with several Instrument alists presented musical treats and lead the congregational singing. Alma Green traveled to Pendleton with the group to attend a CAP Board meeting at the Umatilla County Courthouse during the welcoming ceremonies. Mr, and Mrs. W.F.Coy ac companied the Rev. and Mrs. James Rosentrater of Hermis ton, to Portland, where they visit their daughter, Clara Fay, over the Thanksgiv ing holiday. Miss Coy is employed in J.C. Penny's Credit office in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. John Henner and Jack, of The Dalles, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Stephens. Beverly Foster of Pendleton was a recent visitor of Sherry Partlow, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Al Partlow. Missionary Speaker Anita Klemin of Salem was the speaker at the Womans Missionary Council Rally held at the Hermiston Assembly of God Church on Friday. Mrs. Eight members of the llepp ner United Methodist Church were In Pendleton to meet with and to welcome Bishop and Mrs. Jack Tuell who made their initial visit to this area last week. Rev. and Mrs. Edwin Cutting hud met with Bishop and Mrs. Tuell and other area clergy men at Hermiston for luncheon. Dinner at the Pendleton church was attended by church offici als from Milton-Freewater, Weston, Pendleton, Hermiston, Echo and Heppner. A speaker from each congregation told of the state of that church. Mrs. Bill Weatherford reported for Heppner. After dinner Herman Green, Pearl Wright, Sylvia McDaniel, Ida Farra and Craig Cutting joined the church members who welcomed the bishop in a worship service upstairs in the sanctuary. Rev. Cutting read the evening's scripture. The bishop reported on the Western Jurisdictional Conference held Klemin, who is the State president of the W.M.C.S, spoke of her recent trip to Arizona, where she visited the Indian villages and churches. Many handwork items were on dis play, showing what can be done in the way of gifts for "adopted missionaries". Mrs. Klemin also showed how to make attractive Christmas decora tions. A food and gift shower was recieved and distributed to pastors of home mission churches of the area. Women attended the meeting from Pendleton, Pilot Rock, Weston, Milton-Freewater, Heppner, Irrigon, Umatilla and Hermiston. A salad luncheon was served by the local W.M.C.S. THURSDAY MTE LADIES Team Standings Won Lost Kinzua Corp. 30 18 Murrays 28 20 Ruggles Ins. 25 23 Toyota 25 23 Columbia Basin 22 26 Elma's Flower Shop 14 34 High Ind. Game, Faye Ruhl 209; High Ind. Series, June Bellenbrock-508; High Team Game, Elma's Flower Shop 917; High Team Series, Elma's Flower Shop-2523. THE RIPPING KNITTERS The Ripping Knitters met at Janette Piper's home. Eleven members were pre sent. We gave the flag salute and discussed a food sale we will have at Del's Market Dec. 9th. The money will be given to Robin Petrick. Janette Piper furnished cookies and Anita Davidson furnished the punch. Frances Peck News Reporter Dad - Need ideas? For Mom -Presto 15" fry pan - 31.95. For Sis-Sunbeam hairdryer -15.94 Pettyjohn's Pastor and Mrs. Wesley Cronk and 23 young people from the Irrigon Assembly of God Church attended the Heppner Assembly of God Church, where the "Good News Singers", presented gospel music at the youth rally, Thursday night. On Friday night the group traveled to Pendleton to attend a revival meeting at the Assembly of God, there. They traveled to both meetings in the Sunday School bus. mm mi To Please Him Christmas from Gardner's Genuine HYER BOOTS TEM-TEX SHIRTS Resistol Bailey Stetson HATS Bailey Western Suits and manv others "-fr ....... ... H; 'T7 4 T.V Star Joins Bookworm Club "As The World Turns' per sonality Nancy Hughes told other members of the TV drama cast that she was planning to join a book club that meets twice monthly. Mrs. Lucy Peterson reported the an nouncement to members of the Heppner Bookworms, and Mrs. Harold Erwin wrote to Nancy Hughes (Helen Wagner) at CBS in New York City extending an honorary membership in the club. Mrs. Erwin received a hand written note from Helen Wagner which she shared with the Bookworms at their second November meeting at her home. Dear Mrs. Erwin: Your letter about honorary membership in your book club is an amusing compliment which I should be delighted to accept. So far as it's having merit, I don't see that it can have much more than that at this distance and with my schedule... but perhaps just this friendliness is merit enough. Thank you. The Bookworms are sending Nancy Hughes a . Christmas Greeting from her new club, and will enclose the story from the Heppner Gazette-Times, several bookreviews from the paper, and their meeting schedule for the year along with the Christmas card. GARDNER'S SSS THE STORE OF PERSONAL SERVICE Kcxsxsxtxvcsssxsx WSCS Meets, Plans At its meeting last night the Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service completed plans for its month's activities. The group will cooperate in Christmas charity giving and remembrances. The society officers for the coming year will be installed along with other church officials at the morning worship service on Dec. 10th. Doris Cutting and Justine Weatherford talked over the events of the society's annual Oregon-Idaho conference which they attended in Portland this fall. They played a tape recording of parts of the lectures given by the principal speaker at the conference, Thressa Hoover. Hostesses for the evening were Sylvia McDaniel and Elsie Leathers who arranged a Christmasy refreshment table. At a party, there are two kinds of people: those who want to go home early, and those who want to stay late. Trouble is, they're usually married to each other. Teenagers and parents from a five-county area will gather in Pendleton December 9 to launch a campaign against venereal disease among Oregon youth. The students from area high schools and junior high schools have been invited to the conference by the District No. 12 Committee of the Governor's Commission on Youth. "Gonorrhea has reached epidemic proportions in Ore gon," Governor McCall stated, "and public attention must be brought to bear on this health problem." More than 10,000 cases of venereal disease were reported in Oregon last year with conservative estimates indicat ing five additional unreported cases for each one reported. More than two-thirds of the reported cases of venereal disease occurred among per sons less than age 25 years. The IS - 19 year old group accounts for the most rapidly rising rate while the 19 25 year old group accounts for the greatest num ber of cases. Students attending the con ference will be given expert information by a panel of state health division officials and local physicians and health department staff. Each "school team" will be asked to develop a plan of action to implement in " their own community bringing information and awareness to their friends. Attendance at the conference is by invitation only, with each school in the five-county area sending representatives. The world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church reports that in spite of the financial problems of many church organizations Advent ist s have Ut n able to steadily increase the amount of their world budget each year. The Church makes large expendi tures in disaster relief and other community-directed services, but less then seven percent of the wor ld budget comes from outside the church. Prescott Beals Returns To Heppner Nazarene inuln Gene and Kay Trumbull will be off to Acapulco in the near future, The trip to Mexico was an all-expense award to Gene for sales achievement. He Is manager of Heppner Inland Chemical Co. The trip will be for five days. Tram Of The Week The team of Dave Hanna and Bill Wilson won all three games recently in a pool tournament as Bucknum's defeated George & Ruby's 10 games to five. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Grasser had some local people in their home for Thanksgiving dinner. They were Lucille Michael, who is new to our community, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hunt. G-T WANT ADS PAY Bucknum's Tavern POOL TOURNAMENT Friday Night 7 p.m. "Bucknum's" vs "The Alibi" Bucknum's Tavern Dave Hanna Don Munkers Ladd Dick , Harold Gray Larry Heath Bill Wilson Cap Gentry Dale Farley Paul Dewdney Dave Watson Ken Evans Here Comes WORLD SERVICE APPEAL Seventh-day Adventists are now launching their 69th World Service Appeal, announces pastor Michael Brownfield. Members of the Heppner church will join in distributing copies of a special issue of These Times magazine, which reports on the humanitarian aspects of their worldwide program, and at the same time give people an opportunity to contribute to the work. In harmony with its philosophy of viewing man as a spiritual, physical, and social being, and ministering to his needs in all three areas, the members will encourage Bible study by offer ing a free Bible study guide, also. "This will not be an effort to get people to join the Adventist Church," the pastor emphasiz ed, "but we want to help the people of Heppner realize that the Bible offers real answers to the problems which we face in this critical age." The 2.1 million-member de nomination operates the largest foreign mission program of any Protestant chuch, as well as the largest worldwide Protestant school system. They help edu cate more than 388,000 students in 4,425 schools. Some of these are in areas where no public schools are available. Funds from this year's cam paign will not only help main tain the regular services pro vided by the church's hospitals, schools, camps for the under priveleged children, and simi lar projects, but they will help purchase relief supplies for large-scale disasters. Flood relief, both in foreign countries and the U.S. have required heavy expenditures this year. "A portion of the funds are kept on the local level to be used in community welfare ser vices, said Brownneia, and last summer three young people from the Heppner-Condon area benefited from a regional camp for the under privileged held in northern Idaho." Everyone is welcome and cordially invited to hear the Rev. Prescott Beals who will speak at the Church of the Nazarene on Dec. 8,9,10. Friday and Saturday nights he will speak at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Rev. Prescott L. Beals has been a missionary for the Church of the Nazarene for 43 years. He has jusi completed an eleven months' round-the-world missionary tour during which he visited thirteen countries, holding services in each: Eng land, Germany, Switzerland, the Holy Land, India, New Zealand, Australia, ' New Guinea, the Philippines, Tai wan, Japan. Korea, and finally Hawaii, U.S.A. His 16 mm movie color films taken in these countries will be featured. For some months he will be giving his entire time telling about his tour and showing his pictures. Mr. and Mrs. Beals served for 34 years in India, in evangelistic and educational work, part of the time as field superinten dent. Following this they served in Trinidad and Guyana, where Mr. Beals was superintendent in both of these fields. After Mrs. Beals death he spent four years as superintendent in British Honduras, Central America. After retiring because of age limits, he served as assistant minister in his home church, First Church of the Nazarene, Walla Walla, Wash ington, for three years. And now for the last six years he has been in full time evangelism. Mr. Beals is the author of two books, "India's Open Door" and "India Reborn". He was the first resident missionary pro fessor at the Nazarene Theo logical Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He was honored as the alumnus of the year in 1963 by his Alma Mater, Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho. He knew the late Mr. Gandhi. He also knows other ' leaders, including the Honorable George Price, the present premier of British Honduras. IN COME AND SEE SANTA ON THE STREET AND IN THE STORES SAT., DEC.9 and SAT., DEC.16 HEPPNER ELECTRICITY PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART DURING CHRISTMAS. Enjoy the Colored Lights and Decorations Which We Were Happy To Help Install Again As A Public Service from your Electric Co-op As You Shop For Christmas We Suggest HOI 5B FOR ALL THE FAMILY. SEE YOUR LOCAL APPLIANCE DEALERS (DooiiudGdSod 8)BDSDD0 ELECTRIC CO-OP "SERVING MORROW, WHEELER AND GILLIAM COUNTIES"
