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1 1 BRAKY u or 0 EUGENE, ORE. 07403 Grain Seals Halted Dave McLeod of the Agricul ture Stabilization & Conserva tion office said thin week that t n the Commodity Credit Corpora ' tion would not reseal for the 1973-74 storage period. Storage will be paid through May 31. There is a grain sealed in the county from the 19(18 crop and , some from all the crops since, He said he would estimate a total storage of 1' million to 2 million bushels. Using 3000 bushel bunkers, it would require something over 800 railroad cars to move the grain out. This certainly calls for an orderly marketing of grain. 09th Yccr 15 cents THE TO ETTE Elks Will Present 76th Annual on 24th EPFMEI2 TIME Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursdoy, Februory 15, 1973 Number 52 Ileppner Elks Lodge No. 358 has completed plans for the 76th Annual. The event will be on Saturday, Feb. 24th here. Registration will open at 11 a.m. at the showroom of the former Ford Garage. From 1 to 4 will be the Ladies' tea and card party at St. Patrick's Parish Hall. An initiation will be Included In the Annual program that afternoon. A beef dinner Is being prepared by Willows Grange from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Evening will be topped off by big dance. Trade Norene is HHS Homemaker American Locion, to Host Gertrude Parker Hurt Gertrude Parker slipped, and fell at the hospital in Heppner last week and broke her hip. She was taken to Pendleton to the hospital the end of last week and her hip was set Monday morning. She was doing satisfactorily after it was set and seems to be coming along all right. Mrs. Trotter Honored Maralee Trotter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rod Murray of Heppner, was elected to mem bership in Phi Kappa Phi at its fall initiation and honors acco lade. Phi Kappa Phi is an honor society to recognize superior scholarship in all fields of study. To become a member one must maintain an accumulative grade point average of 3.50 and be in the top ten percent of the Senior class. Mrs. Trotter was initiated as a Senior I in Pharmacy at Oregon State University. She and her husband and daughter are living in Springfield where her husband is employed as a Chemical Engineer. r 1 L If 7;. of Tomorrow Tracie L. Norene has been named Heppner High School's 1973 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow. Chosen on the basis of scores in a written knowledge and attitude exami nation administered to high school seniors here and ' throughout the country last Dec. 5, she will receive a specially designed award from General Mills, sponsor of the f annual Betty Crocker Search for American Homemakers of Tomorrow. In addition, she remains eligible for state and national honors. District Hooting TRACIE NORENE 1 Roy Lindstrom Elected VP Roy W. Lindstrom was elect ed vice president of the Morrow County Planning Commission at the meeting . Feb. B. Harold Rash of Boardman was named a member of the commission by rthe County Court. He takes Arthur Allen's place who de clined reappointment. The Planning Commission approved application of Basil Rogers for a change in zoning from Farms to Farm-Residen-. tial. He lives east of Boardman on Olson Rd. There will be a public hearing on the sub-division ordinance for the county. Dates and places will be set later. State Fire School Deputy State Fire Marshal Stan Phillips will be at Lexing ton Fire Station at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20 to conduct a State fire School. All firemen of lone, Lexington and Heppner and interested persons are invited to attend the special fire school. Cars Collide Here Sunday Cars driven by David Cox and David Schwarzin collided Sun day afternoon on Main Street here. Police reported both cars had over $200 damage. Fortun ately, no one was injured. Both drivers were cited for failure to drive on the right side of the street. Red Cross An American Red Cross field representative from Spokane will meet with Morrow County chapter officers and chairmen on Feb. 21. The no-host luncheon meeting will be held at the Forest Forum Set For Feb. 27 If you are interested in the management of the Umatilla National Forest and wish to become involved, Forest Super visor H.B.Rudolph encourages you to attend one of the public forums to be held in the near future. A public forum will be held on Feb. 27, in the Heppner, Oregon Elementary School AI1 Purpose Room. Both public forums will begin at 7:30 p.m. The other one is to be today, Feb. 15 at the Dayton, Wash. Grade School. One of the Forest Service objectives is to involve the public in Forest policy and program formulation. These forums are scheduled to give everyone an opportunity to voice their opinions and ideas concerning land mangement activities on the Umatilla Na tional Forest. These Public forums will not have a formal agenda. Instead, it is the purpose of these forums to provide a free exchange of information concerning land mangement activities and pro grams. To get the meetings underway, Supervisor Rudolph may begin discussion with some topics of local concern. Last spring the Umatilla -National Forest held its first public forum in Pendleton. It is hoped that these meetings can become a regular occurrence, although public interest will determine whether any other meetings will be schdeuled. J-Mar Duplexes to Rise Soon The City of Heppner issued permits last week to J-Mar Construction Co. of Echo for two duplexes to be built on two lots they purchased from Randy Lott in the Lott-Rasmussen Addition. Cost is $30,000 each. Randy Lott secured the permits for them as agent. Owners of the firm are James R. Marion and Ben Trottier, both of Echo. Construction is to start as soon as possible. Grain Market Ski This Weekend If there's no chinook, there will be skiing this Saturday and Sunday at Arbuckle. Mary Schwarz Passes Mary Louise Schwarz died at Pioneer Memorial Hospital Feb. 12, 1973. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Hope Lutheran Church with the Rev. Mark Johnson officiating. Carl and Betty Marquardt sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "In The Garden" accompanied by Lucia Cutsforth. Bearers were Don Greenup, Mike Monahan, Eddie Gunder son Jr., Don Bennett, Don Evans and John Gochnauer. Honorary bearers were Dr. L.D.Tibbies, Herman Green, Howard Bryant, Harold Becket, Vic Groshens and Joe DePaolo. Concluding services were held at the Heppner Masonic Cemetery. Sweeney Mortuary was in charge of arrangements. Mary Louise Schwarz" was born Jan. 20, 1907, in Heppner, the daughter of Vawter Craw ford and Cora Spencer Craw ford, long time owners of the Gazette-Times. She worked at Humphrey's Drug store before she was married. She and Leonard Schwarz were married in Hepp ner on Nov. 29, 1928. She worked with him in the operations of Court St. Market until she became ill. She shared his enthusiasm for fishing, the year around. They enjoyed " fishing through the ice during the winter. They also liked to hunt together. She was a member of the Neighbors of Woodcraft. She is survived by her husband, Leonard; a son, Len Ray of Heppner; a brother, Arthur Crawford of San Jose; four sisters, Virginia Turner of Eugene, Janet Jones of Elma, Wa., Margaret Hayes of Joseph and Coramae Ferguson of Heppner and three grand children, Ronnie, Pat and Ted. Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Heppner ICgion Post 87 and the Auxiliary will host a District 6 meeting on Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. The meeting will start with a potluck dinner at the Legion Hall. The meat will be furn ished. All veterans and their wives are invited to attend. Jaunita Murchison of Pendleton will present Leadership training to the unit. District 6 Commander Hammer and Unit president ; Daley from Hermiston will also ' attend. Hospital Patients receiving medical care at Pioneer Memorial Hospital are Buelah Mankin, Heppner; Joanne Judd, Fossil; Otilla Hunt, Heppner; Stella Devin, Heppner; Walter Flem ing, Fossil ; and Clara DeSpain, . Stanfield. Dismissed were Dave Mason- ' heimer, Heppner; Roy Tiller, Lone Rock; and Ron Cornwall, Heppner. WEATHER J3y DON GILLIAM High Low Free. Thurs. 38 20 Fri. 35 23 Sat. 41 26 Sun. 46 29 Mon. 38 26 Tues. 34 28 (4'V snow) Total Prec. Jan. .74 Normal Jan. 1.25 Total Jan. '72 1.29 .45 .01 District 6 is in first place in Department but still lacks 29 to reach membership goal. The Heppner Unit is short 10 members of goal. Any Vietnam veteran is eligible to join the American Legion and wives, daughters and granddaughters may then join the Auxiliary. Anyone who would like to join the Heppner unit is asked to call Mrs. Frank Hamlin, secretary. Members attention, this meeting will replace the Feb. 19 meeting so please plan to attend. School District Agenda The Morrow County School District R-l board meeting will be held Feb. 19 at 7:30 at Riverside High School. Under new business the board will consider: bids on Valby Gooseberry contract run, hire bus driver to replace Jim Bloodsworth, approve contract for replacement for Don Hendrix, consider request to co-sponsor Sunday Ski bus, Consider approving outdoor education program for Heppner Elementary, Consider field trip request from lone and Heppner High and consider contract renewals for certificated em ployees. (Executive session) Reports will be heard on World of Work Day. Announcements to be made: Budget Hearing on March 12, 7:30 p.m., District Office and next regular board meeting, March 12, District Office. Paul Hlsler Elected Pendleton Production Credit Association, agriculture lender, has completed its annual meet ings with a successful attend ance at both Enterprise and Pendleton. The terms of two directors expired at these meetings. Elections were held and Clifford Johnson was elect ed to represent Wallowa County and Paul Hisler was elected to represent Morrow County. Ken Jackson, manager, gave the financial report at both meetings and it was shown that a good agricultural year was enjoyed throughout the Asso ciations territory of Umatilla, Morrow, Wallowa and Union Counties. School Budget Tax Up Only 3.23 Percent Judge Jones Talks On Id am J I cattle are hauled this route-on I1UCJU LCVV White Wheat ..New Crop Red Wheat ..New Crop Barley Wagon Wheel. Lions Honor Members 2.39'i bu. 2.17Vi! bu. 2.33ii bu. 2.17Vubu. 72.00 ton J I J ti-T Photo i lone Lions President Ray Boyce presented Paul Pettyjohn and Don lleliker with service awards at Monday's Lions Charter Night. Soroptimists List Priorities The Soroptimist Club of Heppner has agreed on the following priorities that they would recommend to the County Budget committee for the use of Revenue Sharing money. The group feels that buildings should be maintained and their first recommendation was for the necessary electrical rewir ing of the County Court House for greater safety and efficien cy. The second recommendation is to provide additional bed space at the Nursing Home. The third is a jail facility perferably in cooperation with the City of Heppner to provide space for men, women and juveniles. Their fourth recommendation was to provide the other half-salary for the Juvenile Director if it can't be provided elsewhere in the county budget, to make it a full-time position. . The County Court recently inspected the main roads of Morrow County for winter damage and estimated the cost of repairs. These roads included Road No. 504 at Gene Cutsforths to Road No 966 at Clarks Canyon. Judge Jones told the Heppner Morror County Cham ber of Commerce Monday that the estimate for repairs would be approximately $121,668. This would include machine rental 15 percent, rock 34 percent, asphalt 37 percent and labor 14 percent. In explaining the proposed serial road levy, he said it had been voted continously since 1948 and this 5 year levy shows little increase. The road money to be raised in the proposed levy was set at $145,000 annually, he said. It was first anticipated the serial road levy would be set at $175,000 but when Revenue Sharing became a reality, it was proposed to take $30,000 from Revenue Sharing and reduce the road levy to $145,000. "So revenue sharing is in directly a tax off-set," he said. Of the $145,000., $10,750 will be returned to the cities each year as their share of the monies which is raised by the city tax payers. This is based on a formula as provided by state law. The first year $145,000. Serial Road Levy will cost 1.58 cents , The five year $145,000 Serial Road Levy will cost 1.58 cents per 1000 TCV for the first year. As the County's evaluation increases the rate will go down. This is just 1 cent more than the previous serial road levy which was $1.57 per 1000. Judge Jones said that Boeing had told him they would build a road at their expense from their new feed lot installation and join Hwy 74 on Willow Creek. The route will take into consid eration, the easiest grade and soil conditions. The county will be obligated for the construc tion of the entrance to the Willow Creek Rd. This will provide a market road to bring cattle and feed grains from the south end of the county to the new feed lot. In talking with the County Court the State Maintenance Engineer asked about priorities for state highway improvement within the county. Judge Jones said most ranchers he had talked with seemed to favor improving the highway from Lexington to Butter Creek as County ASCS Office Closed Feb.19 Because Washington's Birth day will be observed as an official federal holiday on Monday, Feb. 19, the Agricul tural Stabilization and Conser vation Service ASCS county office will not be open for program sign-up or other farm program business on that day. Pointing out that this is the only holiday which occurs during the Feb. 5 - March 16 sign-up period for the 1973 feed grain and wheat program, David McLeod, County Execu tive Director said producers might want to circle that calendar date to remind them selves NOT to come in on that date Grange Visitation Monday is Grange Visitation night at the Lexington Grange. The Lexington Grange will provide the main course dish for the potluck dinner to start at 6:30 p.m. Willows Grange will provide the dessert and Green field Grange will arrange the program. PREMIUM BOOK . TO BE UPDATED Morrow County Fair Pre mium book is in the process of being revamped and updated. Anyone with suggestions for a change is asked to call the The line-by-line review of the proposed 1973-74 school budget was completed at the third session held in Irrigon last Tuesday. The total budget resources is $1,673,610 which is an increase of 4.37 percent or $70,077. Total required to balance the budget is $1,349,682. Tax levy increase over last year is $42,295. or an increase of 3.23 percent. This is an increase of 44 cents per $1000. TCV. Evaluation in the county in creased $2 million last year which is reflected in the tax levy for next year. Also reflected in the smaller levy is the larger than expected cash carry over of $70,000. Smoothness and dispatch of the budget committee meetings was noted by Don McElligott when he said "Looks like the administrators and the ad visory committees did some good screening and cuts on that level before the budget got to the committee". Mr. Daniels said that $24,000. in equipment requests were dropped by administrators and advisory committees. For sev eral years the president has sought to reduce impacted aide funds but congress has restored them. This year the anticipated revenue from this source was dropped to $6000. from $12,000. If the district loses any of the funding, they wont be hurt quite so much but Mr. Daniels said "I suspect we'll lose it all." These funds were designed to assist districts where federal workers' children in large numbers attend school. In Morrow County this includes Forest Service and Ordnance Depot workers. Budget hearing will be March 12 at 7:30 followed by the regular board meeting at 8 p.m. at the district office in Lexing ton. Any line items can be adjusted up to 10 percent as long as the amount of the levy is not affected. Cutsforth' s Off for Africa By JUSTINE WEATHERFORD Morrows most intrepid trav eling duo, Mr. and Mrs. O.W.Cutsforth, who did the Colorado River last year, are soon off one of these days to do east Africa. Former State Treasurer and Mrs. Robert Straub are departing a little ahead of the Cutsforths and there is talk of Bob Straub and O.W. having a challenge race to the top of the 19,270 ft. dear Ernest favorite moun- Kilimanjaro, Hemingway's tain. Right now Orville is having such fun getting acquainted with their brand-new butter yellow, gold-upholstered auto mobile with automatic head lights, automatic temperature control and other super features that he isn't able to talk too much about the projected trip. Details will come later. Property Tax Relief Assistance their way to Hermiston sales, rather then the highway to the Heppner Jet. In the past, some of the oiling has been done the width of the road at the time, gradually these are being widened 18 to 20 feet. All new oiled roads will be built 22 feet wide. The Judge reviewed the agreement with the Forest Service on construction of the road from Blake properties to Arbuckle. The road will remain a county road but will be improved to handle the logging. Extension office or Mrs. This will eliminate a duplicate Charles (Beverly) Doherty, road being built through the Chairman at lone, area. It will eliminate much use of Caldwell grade. He noted the increased use of the Wilson Road out of Board man It had tripled this past three years. Two new steel bridges will be built over the West End Irrigation ditch to replace two wooden bridges. Morrow County has oiled 147.5 miles of roads in the past 5 years for a total of 377 miles of hard surfaced roads. The county has 733 miles of improv ed gravel roads and 100 miles of unimproved dirt roads mostly in the mountains and short stretches of market roads. In listing the resource of the proposed road budget. Judge Jones noted that the timber receipts from the Forest Ser vice for next year is $86,000. This is the largest amount at anv time since he has been Sheriff John Mollahan an nounced this week a schedule of dates when representative from the Sheriff's Department would be in the various towns of the county to answer questions pertaining to the new Property Tax relief. Persons seeking help should Mustangs Edge Condon, v Dumped by Umatilla have with them information on their income, .social security number and property tax statement. Hours at each town are the same, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Boardman City Hall Feb. 14 and 28; Irrigon A.C.Houghton School Feb. 16, March 2; Lexington School Feb. 21; lone City Hall Feb. 23. Alvin Wagenblast Friends and relatives of Alvin Wagenblast were deeply griev ed to hear of his death on Sunday at Community Hospital farther behind t0 the 24 point in renujeiuii wnere lie was jQgS taken 15 days ago following a ' 1. " . . . serious heart attack. Alvin a TlTlwnZZt well known Morrow County 'he fie d an(? a J6 Percent rancher, was born Dec. 20, 1918 f,rom the ;nanty s e in Th nallPs thPson of Mr. and Mustangs, 40 percent from the By GREG GREEN Heppner came back from a first quarter slump to defeat the Condon Blue Devils 66-63 Friday night, but fell to the point of no return against the Umatilla Vikings 79-55 on the Mustang court Saturday. Umatilla Outscores Umatilla jumped on the Mustangs in the first quarter racing to a 20-12 lead at the end of the period. Heppner offense never recovered from then on as the Mustangs siowiy tea Mrs. B.I. Wagenblast and pass ed away Feb. 11, 1973 at 54 years of age. He was united in marriage Feb. 15, 1940 to Lee McLeod at her home in Moro, He was a cadet in the US Air Force the years 1943-1945. They moved to Lexington Feb. 15, 1949 pur chasing the place known to County Judge. Of this amount 25 many as the Reaney place on percent goes to the schools and willow Creek where they have 75 percent to roads. The 1972-73 road resources included $5000. cash balance, sales and service, camping fees, savings account, land sales and oiling for a total of $152,414. The total road budget was $276,000. which left $124,000. made their home. They recently moved into a lovely double mobile home at the site of the old Reaney house. Recently the family purchas ed the Ray Dolven ranch known as the Ben Swaggert place. Their son, Steve and family field and only 39 percent from the line. John Boyer dumped in 29 points for the losing cause and Allen McCabe had 9. Mike Bergstrom led Heppner in rebounding with 9. Dave Eck man brought down 8 and Lloyd Wilson 7 rebounds. Six foot ..seven inch David John led the' Vikings with 21 points. Friday Night The start of Friday's game looked bad for Heppner. Condon quickly jumped to a 7-0 lead and were ahead 11-2 with 2 minutes remaining in the first quarter. But the Mustangs corrected their mistakes and came back to within one point at the end of the first period. Halftime found Condon still ahead by one. During the second half the Mustangs dis played good ball playing and kept a few points ahead most of the time. The Blue Devils attempted a rally in the last few seconds but didn't succeed. The winning team outshot the losers from the field 45 percent to 31 percent. Condon did better from the bonus line hitting 51 percent to the Mustangs 43 percent. Mike Bergstrom grabbed 13 rebounds and put in 18 points, one basket made as he fell flat on his back, to lead Heppner. Boyer got 17 and McCabe 16. Lloyd Wilson brought down H rebounds. Kevin Morgan led Condon with 26 tallies and Dave Eaton 12. The Mustangs are now in fourth place in the league with a 5-4 record. Condon remains in third with 5-3, Umatilla second Continued Pg. 2 Banquet Honors4-H Leaders to be raised in taxes to balance 'lives on the Swaggert Ranch. the budget. Chamber Favors Serial Levy The Chamber voted to go on record as favoring the five-year serial Road Levy. The Rev. David Blackaller was introduced as a new member of the Chamber of Commerce.- Ron Daniels won the pot. Gene Pierce announced Continued Pg. 2 SKI PROGRAM AT CH AMBER Tom Wolff, Mrs. Elwayne Bergstrom and other enthusias tic skiiers will present the program on the "Possibilities at Arbuckle" at the Heppner Morrow County Chamber of Commerce Monday. Alvin was a member of the Lexington Grange and Morrow County Pomona Grange and he was past master of both, serving several terms. He put in many hours of earnest work. He was also a member of the Heppner Elks No. 358 and the Heppner Methodist Church. He leaves to mourn his passing his wife, Lee and two sons, Steve of Lexington and John who is attending law school at Salem; a grandson and granddaughter and one brother. Services were held Feb. 14 at the . Spencer-Li bby Funeral Chapel in The Dalles with interment in Grass Valley in the family plot. Morrow County 4-H Leaders and-or husband and wife will be honored with a banquet at the lone High School cafetorium, February 15, 6:30 p.m. The annual event, recognizing the contribution of volunteer leaders to the development of youth through out Morrow County is sponsored by Colum bia Basin Electric. The 4-H Empire Builders Club plan, prepare and serve the appre ciation banquet, and are in charge of the evening's pro gjuin. Guest speaker will be Andy Landforce, Extension Specia list, OSU. "Andy has a really great program for this event. I personally encourage all leaders to attend. andwiU guarantee they will be glad they did", said Birdine Tullis, Mor row Extension Aide. "He has some special magic for under standing youth-adult relation ships today". This year the Empire Build ers have included some "friends of 4-H (individuals or business who have contributed to the support of 4-H in the county). While not every one who has assisted the 4-H program can be invited every year, the club feels some should be invited each year to recog nize their efforts along with those of leaders. Birdine added, "Our 4-H leaders are very special people ! They do so much, so faithfully, and with no concern for recognition of their efforts. We really hope every leader will be present for this annual "thank you" event".
