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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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".