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LIBRARY U OF 0 07403 McrchcnU Will Meet Friday Randall Peterson has announ ced that the Heppner-Morrow County Merchants committee will hold a meeting for lunch Friday noon at the Wagon Wheel. Appy C Chosen Chanp Jim Farley's gelding, Appy C, was recently named "Champ ion Performance Horse" of the Oregon Trail Appaloosa Club for 1972 at a Pendleton meeting. Trainer was Royce Fulleton and Cliff Adair was the rider. Appy C is a great grandson of the famous Man o' War. 09th Year THE 15 cents I'lfO"""" -- "'i,v -Jp"HtTv"Vf Tri GAZETTE EDEPPMED TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, February 1, 1973 Number 50 Elmer Ladds Expand Holdings itic Dcngo is Alivo Morrow Gets $9500 The Oregon State Highway Commission today announced distribution of $6,315,415.47 in highway-user tax funds to the 36 counties of the state. The allocation is based on the statutory 20 per cent for the period October 1 to December 31, 1972. The funds come from the following sources: motor vehicle registration and oper ators' license fees, gasoling tax, use fuel tax, motor carrier fees, and fines and penalties collec ted for violations of the size and weight statutes where com plaints are made by the Highway Division weigh masters. The allocation to each county is based on the number of vehicles registered in it. Morrow has 4422 vehicles and received $9565.86. Columbia Basin ToBuyN- Power The Board of Directors of Columbia Basin Electric ap proved execution of long term agreements on the W.P.P.S.S. No. 1 and No. 3 Nuclear Projects at a Board Meeting held January 10th. The R.E.C. agreed to pur chase power for a period of 35 years from the two projects. The local utility will also be required to participate in each of Washington Public ; Power Supply System projects to pay toward operating costs even after the end of the 35 year term. The Columbia Basin Board has also agreed to participate in the Boardman Project. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ladd have added considerably to their original purchase near lone. They first bought the Louis Halvorsen place, then added land purchased from John Mollahan, and have more recently bought the Herbert Ekstrom, Sr. ranch, including the Ekstrom herd of 130 head of registered Polled Herefords and the herd sires. This recent purchase brings the Ladd'i acreage to 3500. Mrs. Ladd says they are calving 98 cows this year, but expect to double that number by this time next year. Both couples will make their homes in lone, where the Ladds are installed in the historic Woolery house, and the Ek stroms will soon occupy the Ray Heimbigner home. Morrow Junior Rodeo June 9&J0 Darrell Dooney. Also helping with the rodeo plans are Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jepsen. Next meeting of the group is Feb. 21 at the Columbia Basin Electric Co-op building. Anyone interested is cordially invited to attend. The Morrow County Jr. Rodeo Assn. recently dated their annual rodeo here June 9 & 10. Officers elected: Bob Van Schoiack, president; Don Robinson, vice president; Bernice Struckmeier, secre tary. Directors: Bill Gentry, Everett Struckmeier and MC6G Contracting for 73 Wheat Morrow County Grain Grow ers are contracting new crop wheat for July-August delivery. Prices vary from day to day but have been $2.50 to $2.51 a bushel, according to announce ment this week by manager Larry Mills. Old crop wheat has been quiet due to congestion in port areas. MCGG has grain en route to Russia and Japan. There is a demand for wheat and it is in short supply. There has been no export subsidy on wheat since last August. Dale Boner to RC & D Position Bob Rietmann to Chairman Budget Meetings Bob Rietmann was elected chairman of the budget com mittee at the first Budget committee meeting for Morrow County School District R-l last Tuesday at the District office in Lexington. Pauline Winter was elected secretary. ? Mr. Daniels, budget officer, presented the budget message which is printed in its entirety in another part of this weeks Gazette-Times. Noteworthy passages have been set in bold face type. Mr. Daniels also discussed the Governor's pro prosed school finance program that is before the legislature now. In discussing the program, he reviewed distribution and source of revenue formulas and discussed the districts formula for obtaining per student opera ting cost figures for next year. He noted later that the program is not stabilized and may be changed by the legisla ture. After it is finalized, he will be glad to speak before various groups. Mr. Daniels reviewed the resources section of the budget. Total budget resources were $1,673,610. The Bond Debt fund in the amount of $58,740. was approv ed. Also approved were the Capital Projects fund in the Mike Benge and his dog and a Vietnamese friend. Mrs. amount of $2,000, the Housing Benge is positive that Mike's dog had to bo killed before Fund $8800, the School Lunch mi" reuiu V-"J""'; I I S-L ', t- f V First Annual Morrow SVCD Meet Set The Morrow Soil and Water Conservation District, con solidated from former Heppner and Boardman SWCD's will hold Its 1st Annual meeting at the Boardman Greenfield Grange, Tuesday evening on Feb. 8. Dr. Jim Vomlcll. Extension Soli Science Specialist for OSU, will highlight the evening with a talk about Wind Er oslon Management, and Morrow County's resource chall enge and opportunity. Dr. Vomlcll received his degree at the University of Cal ifornia at Davis and then held a Soils Specialist position there for several years. He came to OSU In 1967. A potluck dinner starting at 6:30 p.m. will precede the program. The public Is welcome and an Invitation is ex tended by Ken Turner, District chairman. Plan now to at tend, SEE SPECIAL RESOURCE EDITION TABLOID SECTION THIS ISSUE Riverside Students Plan Memorial Project Riverside High School stu dents have voted to name their football field the Don Hendrix Memorial Football Field. In addition they are working with the Boardman Lions Club to purchase a lighted football score board In Mr. Hendrix' memory. A plaque will be placed on the score board giving the name of the field. Ron Daniels is chairman of the project for the Lions Club. The scoreboard will cost approxim ately $2000. Anyone wishing to contribute to the Don Hendrix Memorial fund may send checks to Ron Daniels Box 201 Boardman or to Riverside School. A list will be kept and contributors will be kept in formed of the progress of the fund. Don Hendrix, football coach, was recently killed while hunting. Alvin Wagenblast Has Heart Attack Alvin Wagenblast suffered a heart attack Saturday. He was first taken to Pioneer Memorial Hospital and then transferred to Pendleton Community. He is in a serious condition. Mrs. - Wagenblast is staying in Pend leton with him. Jim Schaffitz Jim Schaffitz writes home that he has received the last of his Christmas packages. He is stationed at Schwienfurt, Germany. He is taking short jaunts around Germany. He visited the site of the last summer Olympics and went sledding on the Olympics course. He also ate at the top of the needle", similar to the one in Seattle. He has just completed a psychology course and has taken quite a number of them since he has been in the Army. These are taken through the University of Maryland. He has received A's and B's. Roy Partlow USS ENTERPRISE-Navy Seaman Roy J. Partlow Jr., son of Mrs. Edith Partlow of Boardman, Ore., is in the Western Pacific aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. Recently, the Big "E" made her first visit in four years to Hong Kong, where her crew spent seven days relaxing, shopping and enjoying the many exotic sites of this Crown Colony. Juvenile Director to Full Time Carolyn Davis, Morrow County Youth Director was informed the first of the month that her position had been made full time by the County Com missioners. , She returned last week from a two-day Juvenile Council at Otter Crest. Meeting were Juvenile directors and Juvenile Judges. They reviewed the proposed Juvenile Code. Dale Boner has been promo ted to the position of Project Coordinator for Columbia Blue Mountain Resource, Conservat ion and Development project, commonly known as RC & D. This area covers the five counties of Umatilla, Morrow; Gilliam, Wheeler and Grant. He will work with project sponsors (county courts, port commissions, conservation dis tricts) in carrying out a program of land conservation, development and utilization. Like the Soil and Water Conservation service the RC & D is also under the Department of Agriculture. The Boners moved here in July 1969 from Maupin. Dale has been the recipient of several honors given in his chosen field. He is quiet and very knowledge abel. It was largely through his efforts that conservation efforts on Shobe became a reality. He starts on his new job March 5th. He graduated from Joseph High School and Oregon State. He is married to the former Corliss Winters. They have two children, Brian a freshman and Traci a 6th grader. They are both golf enthusiasts and have aided the golf prog ram in Heppner. Dale is vice president of the Willow Creek Golf Club. They both like to bowl. Chamber to Sec Film Harlod Kerr will show the film "It Takes Hands to Harvest" at the Feb. 5 meeting of the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce. GOOD FOOD COMING! lone PTA Traveling Food Sale will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 10. Members please bring food at 1:30 to school cafeteria. Sgt Wallace in Nicaragua BALBOA, C.Z.-U.S.Air Force Staff Sergeant John F. Wallace, son of Mrs. Iva C. Padberg of Lexington, Ore., helped airlift critically needed supplies into Nicaragua after the capital city of Managua was devastated by an earthquake just before Christmas. Sergeant Wallace was flight engineer on a C-130 Hercules transport used to fly emergency supplies and equipment from Howard AFB, C.Z., to the stricken city. The sergeant is serving on temporary duty at Howard with a detachment of the Tactical Air Command's 317th Tactical Airlift Wing from Pope AFB, NC. Sergeant Wallace, a 1961 graduate of Heppner, (Ore.) High School, has served 26 months in Vietnam. His father, Herman F. Wal lace, resides in Pomerov, Wash. G-T Want Ads Pay Big Corliss has been leader of a 4-H Knitting Club, prisident of Band Parents and president of the Women's Bowling Ass'n. Corliss is library aide at Heppner High School. Wheat Production Mkt. Seminar YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS THIS ONE ! ! , says Harold Kerr, Morrow County Exten sion Agent. The latest informa tion on weed control, new varieties, wheat marketing outlook, seed treatment and new farm legislation will be dis cussed by a blue ribbon panel of Extension specialists from Oregon State University. The seminar will be held at the Willows Grange in lone, Feb. 9, starting at 9:30 a.m. Program chairman is Dr. Norm Goetze, Extension Agronomist. Norm will also discuss soil moisture conserva tion techniques and manage ment decision for 1973. Other speakers include Ronald Burr, Weed Specialist; Ernest Kirsch, County Agent; Paul Koepsell, Plant Patholo gist; Steve Marks, Ag Econo mist ;Gene Nelson, Farm Management Specialist; and Don Rydrych, Weed Resear cher from Pendleton Experi ment Station. A delicious lunch will be served by the Grange ladies for $1.75. The program will con clude at 4:00 p.m. Plan to attend! Curtain Raises Tonight at 8 Great entertainment is in store for all those who attend the , Heppner Community Drama Club's "Evening of One Act Plays," Feb. 1 and 3 on the Heppner High stage. A roaring comedy and two dramas will fill the evening with entertainment that all should enjoy. "Balcony Scene," one of the more serious plays, is set in the back of a church. The small cast represents the funeral attend ers, all hypocritical in nature. The funeral is for Robert Templin, (Jim Cutsforth,) who has returned for his own funeral, along with his friend, (Greg Davidson.) The ending of the play should cause all those in the audience to think about their own values. Others in the cast are Luanne Kelly, Randy Morris, Shannon Kelly, Jeff Marshall, Lynda Baker and Cheryle Turner. The play is being directed by Mrs. Lynda Slusher. "The Boor" is the comical fund $63,000 and Public Law 89-10 of $21,000. Reap Halt Hurts Morrow County - Dave McLeod spoke to the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday on "The effect agricultural decisions made in Washington have on us here." Cut off as of the last of December were the Water Bank and the REAP program. The water Bank didn't affect us as it was on a trial basis in a limited number of states. REAP was the 2nd name for a conservation program and stands for Rural Environmental Assistance Program. Intended at first for land owners to apply conservation programs to prevent water erosion and wind erosion. This was done on a 50 50 basis. t When it was renamed, the program sought to involve non-farm people. Ecology entered the picture and animal wastes were one of the primary concerns along with sodded water ways, weed control, diversion ditches, sediment ! retention dams (to keep sed iment from entering streams) and legume planting for soil conservation. In 1973 Congress allowed 225 million to this program and the president 140 million. In 1970, 85 farmers in Morrow Count participated in the pro gram with $35,000 paid out by the government. In 1971, 58 farmers partici pated in the program and $52,000 was paid out. This is the year the Shobe Canyon was improved at a cost of $27,000 and cost shared by the people with $5,000. The 1972 year is not comple ted. Dave McLeod explained that if the farmers were The good news that Mike Benge was alive came over the telephone to his sister, Joan Hughes last Saturday morning about 11:30 o'clock. She im mediately drove up to her folks, Mr. and Mrs. Terrel Benge to " tell them the good news: They have no idea when or where they will first get to meet with him. Mike, 37, is a civilian captive. He was captured five years ago this Friday while serving as a USAID assistant province representative in fuyen Doc Province. . The happy trio immediately called relatives and friends. Joan called her son, Terry, a student at Oregon State. While he wa attending the Oregon State-Oregon basketball game, he was paged and asked to call home immediately at which time he learned the good news. Mike was acquainted in the Montagnard area of Vietnam. He had spent six years there helping them improve their lot. He" was very fluent in their language. He was captured by the Viet Cong during the Tet offensive near Ban Me Thout in the Central Highlands. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon Tuesday 53 39 35 36 33 35 47 HI Low 38 .03 32 18 tr. snow 20 20 22 26 - .w'w i. Ji ui n mi"-" iu him iVr,J J ; A T 1 AP I Accident Takes Tom Flanagan ' Two bonkers and a Soroptimlstl Soroptimist Evelyn Sweelc demonstrates the mobile lounge chair that will allow patients to sit and write or read or just sit in greater com fort. The tray table acts as support to keep, "patients from lipping down in his chair. The Soroptimists and First National Bank have each bought one of the chairs and Bank of Eastern Oreaon has bought two of them. They cost SI 20. Harley Sager of First National is on the left and Gens Pierce of the Bank of Eastern Oregon en the right. Residents living in north part of Heppner were awak ened early Saturday morn ing by a loud crash of cars. Tom Flanagan enroute to Pendleton apparently lost control of his late model pickup near Morrow County Grain Growers' elevator. The pickup skidded into a car owned by Robert Shuman Jr. The impact sheared off the cab. Flanagan's body re mained in the badly smash ed cab. The struck car was forced Into a telephone pole which was splintered. The car was severely damaged. Sheriff John Mollahan who was called to the scene ab out 4 a.m. said "he was kill ed instantly." The fire truck was called to hose off the area which was covered with gasoline. Continued on Editorial page play in the series. The fights between the officer, (John Rawlins,) and the grieving widow, (Mary Abrams,) should really set the audience laughing in this classical comedy set in 19th Century Russia. Bob Jesperson is also in this cast. The play is being directed by Mrs. Jane Rawlins. The hypocritical side of people is examined in "Over tones," the other serious play in the set. The story is the conflict between what two women say and what they are actually thinking. The cast consists of Mary Abrams, Lynda Slusher, Patricia Hughes and Lynda Baker. The HHS sophomore class will be selling pie and coffee during intermission in the Home Ec. room. Curtain time will be 8:00 p.m. Thomas Anthony Flanagan was born Feb. 25, 1951 at Walla Walla, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Flanagan. He. graduated from Echo High School and attended BMCC for two years studying Police Science. He was a member of the Heppner Police Force until recently when he began work ing for the State Highway. He was a member of the Heppner Elks. He is survived by his mother, Dorothy Flanagan at Stanfield; three brothers, David of McKenzie Bridge, Mike at Meacham and Danny of Hepp ner; a sister, Priscilla Moses of Karlshrue, Germany. Funeral services were held Jan. 30 at the Echo Methodist Church with the Rev. James Sebastian of the First Baptist Church officiating. Interment was in the Echo City Cemetary. Bearers were Danny Cox, John McChord, Sam Haines, Dean Schiller, Harry Bowman and Dick Baker. Honorary bearers were Dan McBride, Tom Schiller and. Eddie Yoemah. Burns Mortuary was in charge of arrangements. STOLEN Sheriff Mollahan reported Tuesday that the first theft of calves had been reported. Two baby calves have been reported stolen from two separated areas. Ralph Beamer reported theft of a baby calf from Balm, Fork and another calf was report ed missing from High Mead ow Ranch at Cecil. Royce Fulleton reports loss of two quarter horse mares from Shobe Canvon, one a yearling and the other one a two year old. Hospital . . Patients receiving medical care at Pioneer Memorial Hospital are Oren Brace, Heppner; Merlin Cantin, Hepp ner; Charlie Becket, Heppner; Emma Clapper, Heppner and Lewis Ball, Heppner. Dismissed were Thomas McNeill, Fossil; Judith Howell, lone; Fred Harnden, Heppner; Larry Angell, Heppner; and Alvin Wagenblast, Lexington was transferred to Pendleton. r .-. -i i S HUMAN CAR SEVERELY DAMAGED .' f 1 kv. J5ii V SPLINTERED TELEPHONE POLE ) Picture by Cliff Wood CAB SHEARED OFF
