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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1973)
ItBRAtT u or EUGENE , ORE 67403 Property Tax Rolloff Assistanco Now Available Recognizing the help that may be needed when applying for property tax relief, Sheriff John Mollahan haa arranged to have a representative at the four population areas of the county. The hours and the places are listed in an ad in this copy of the Gazette-Times. Taxpayers applying for Prop erty Tax Relief should bring income Information, social security No. and property tax statement. Those eligible for relief are those on a limited income and-or low income. Age has no bearing on those of limited or low income. Those over 82 receive a bigger break, how ever. Those people living in Hcppner may go to the County Court house. COth Yccr! 15 cento' THE a TIME, 60th Annual IOOF District Convention Near HepDner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, March 1, 1973 Number 2 ClO0(i3 Outstanding Scholars Named by Elks lew Morrow County voters gave their approval to the Road Tax Levy in an enthusiastic way on Tuesday. The unofficial count according to County Clerk Sadie Parrish was 418 voting yes and 60 voting no. Heppner Consolidated pre cinct voted 154 yes and 27 no. lone voted 73 yes and 12 no. Lexington voted 88 yes and 7 no. County Gets Dump Offer The Department of Environ mental Quality has made a $19,750 grant offer to Morrow County for regional solid waste planning. Thin nlnnninif - 4 -1 . npT. " !, I " V" Irrigon 45 yes and 7 no. assist local governments in developing and adopting action plans to implement the De partment's goals of recycling 25 percent of what we now throw away by 1975 and 90 percent by 1982. As he issued the grant offer, DEQ Director Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain said he's looking forward to some fine planning efforts in the area and that DEQ stands ready to assist local people in any way. The DEQ has a total of $1,129,630 available for the development of a statewide waste management plan. llY I . 1 v 1 Film Boardman 58 yes and 7 no. Regional Tourney Next Week The following teams have qualified to play in the Regional Basketball Tournament to be held in Pendleton March 8,9,10. McEwen, Umatilla, Heppner and probably Condon, Culver, Dufur, lone and Helix. Big Sky league teams will have a seeding tournament this weekend to determine which order they enter the fouma rt irl n't A rrlwa ment- Dufur and Helix will meet IV I ail I Mill Ve Boardman Saturday to deter- Butch Taylor Kathleen McElligott The movie, "Red Sun", scheduled to be shown last Sunday was not shown because the film was not received until Monday. The Jaycees have made sure that this will not happen on March 11 when "Little Big Man" is to be shown. mine the Number 1 and 2 positions. Culver and lone will meet Friday at Moro. Bill Jepsen Mary Abranis Official Cake Recipe Given The 1973 official Oregon Wheat Growers League cake recipe is printed this week on Page 3 in the Columbia Basin Electric ad. It is a Mahogany Chiffon cake with a French cream frosting. Hospital Patients admitted to Pioneer Memorial Hospital this week were Ann Potter, Condon; Fred Wolkcnhauer, lone; John Led better, Heppner; Robert Weitz, Pasco and Rosemarie Buschke, Heppner. Mary Bailey and Lena Kelly, both of Heppner were dismissed. Grain Market ( FOB Lexington does not include warehouse chgs) Courtesy MCGG 2.49'ibu. 2.29' 2 bu. 2.48'ibu. White wheat Aug. delivery Red wheat Aug. delivery 2.2!)' -i Barley 72.00 WEATHER By DON GILLIAM Hi Low bu. ton Prec Wed. 48 25 Thurs. 48 25 Fri. 56 28 Sat. 60 35 Sun. 60 48 Mon. 60 46 .03 Tues. 55 35 .02 Conard Bellenbrock Dies at Home Conard Bellenbrock, age 77, a lifetime resident of the com munity, died at his home on Feb. 25. He was born Nov. 30, 1895 in the Eight Mile area near Heppner, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bellenbrock. He worked for three genera tions on the Terry Thompson Ranch, covering a period of 50 years. His wife preceded him in death in 1953. He is survived by one son, Don Bellenbrock of Heppner, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Services were held Wednes day, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. at the First Christian Church in Heppner with Rev. Gus Ni kander officiating. Vault interment followed at Heppner Masonic Cemetery with Sweeney Mortuary in care of arrangements. Pallbearers were Roy Quackenbush, Merritt Gray, Bob Engle, Steve Thompson, Bob Gienger and Terry Thomp son. Carl and Carlita Marquardt sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "How Great Thou Art" accompanied at the organ by Betty Marquardt. Donations may be made to the Heart Fund in care of First National Bank of Oregon. JOYCE BERGSTROM, Mor row County assessor, has pass ed a certified appraisers exam both urban and rural option to qualify to appraise for the state of Oregon. Ron Palmer went to Portland Monday where he expects to have eye Surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital. Rodeo Winners Several local folks went to Portland last week for the Western Indoor Rodeo at the Exposition Center. Sid Britt won the bareback riding. Becky Fulleton won 5th place in barrel racing. Paul Hisler, Jr. entered the bull riding but drew a very poor bull. Lt. Lanham Serves At LBJ Rites Lt. Michael C. Lanham, son of Conley J. Lanham, of Heppner, Oregon, was among approxi mately 4,000 members of the Armed Forces selected for the military portion of state funeral ceremonies honoring . former President Lyndon Baines Johnson in Texas in January. These rites were directed by Fifth United States Army in behalf of the President of the United States. Ltc Lanham serves as Battal ion Commander at Fort Hood, Texas. His wife, Rosalie, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.L.Gezatt, of Portland. The four 1973 Elks Scholar ship winners announced Tues day morning have two things in common. They are all interest ed in registering to vote on their 18th birthday except Butch Taylor who has already regis tered and was prepared to vote "yes" on the Road Serial levy that day. They are all members of the Honor Society and are usually on the honor rool. Three of them admit they have to study to get those grades and for one "it comes naturally". Kathleen McElligott Kathleen McElligott first place winner for the girls, will graduate this June from lone High School. She will join two other members of her family this fall at the University of Portland. Mary will be a sophomore and Peter will be a junior. She will enter the School of Nursing. Her decision to follow nursing stems from family influence as her mother, Mrs. Don McElli gott and her aunt, Mrs. Dick McElligott are both nurses. She likes children and has not yet decided whether to specialize in pediatrics or mental health. She suits her action to her words as she has served four years as Junior Leader for the Merry Mixers 4-H Cooking Club. She has many interests as is evident by her 4-H projects. Her nine years of 4-H have included projects in sewing, cooking and livestock. She plays baritone saxophone in the band. Has dabbled in the plays as an actor and prompter. In the busy McElligott house hold, she is at home in the kitchen where she gives an able helping hand. About her scholarship, "I just didn't have any idea I'd win because I knew a lot of good students would apply." Kathleen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don McElligott. G-T Want Adi Pay Big ATTENTION MASONS Official visitation of the Grand Master of Masons of Oregon on Monday, March 5th. Potluck Dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. All Masons and wives invited. By order of the Worshipful Master. Butch Taylor Butch Taylor first place winner for the boys will graduate this June from Heppner High School. His singular interest in Field Biol ogy was stimulated by Kirk Horn when he taught in Heppner High School, partic ular his study of birds. While Mr. Horn was here Butch participated in the December Audubon bird count. After Mr. Horn left, Butch has organized and chairmaned the count each year a remarkable feat for a high school student. Butch does things well in his specialized fields. Since the arrival of Dennis Toney on the faculty, he has discovered Photography. Last year and again this year he is serving as Junior Leader of the 4-H Photography Club. He also serves as a teachers aide in Biology. His plan is to attend EOC for two years and then transfer to Oregon State, always with Biology emphasis. He has worked summers for the Forest Service. This is to his liking as it puts him in the out of doors and gives him a chance to further his favorite studies. With luck and if funds are appropriated, he hopes to work with Kirk Horn this summer on the Mt. Hood Forest. Mr. Horn is serving as field biologist. Speaking of the scholarship, he said he knew the competition would be keen and he didn't think he'd have a chance. Butch is the son of Mrs. Clifford Wood of Heppner and Avery Taylor of Hermiston. Mary Abrams Mary Abrams was the second place winner for girls. Her chosen field for after high school endeavors is drama and counselling. Dennis McKay former director of drama at ; Heppner High School and coun sellor provided her with the , challenge in these two fields. She likes kids and feels that a counsellor must be a special kind of teacher who really wants to help the students and have the energy to do it. She has had the lead in innumerable plays since she has been at Heppner High School. She likes kids and has taught Sunday School, served as counsellor at church camp and likes working with the students as teaching assistant in the Biology class. She has served as student director of the band. She plans to attend BMCC for two years and then transfer to the University of Arizona which has a good school in counselling. During the interview, Butch Taylor noted "There's lots of birds down there too". With an eye to her time in sunny Arizona, she plans to go out for golf this spring. Mary is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Abrams. Merchants Will Meet Friday Chairman Randall Peterson has announced that the monthly Merchants meeting is planned for Friday noon at the Wagon Wheel. The Merchants will discuss plans for coming promotional events in Heppner. Susie & Becky in Who's Who . Susie French and Becky Fulleton, second year students at BMCC, have been selected for the Who's Who there. The selections are based on scho lastic ability, leadership, citi senship and usefulness in the community. Susie's sister, Ver ina, was also in Who's Who when she attended BMCC. The coeds are both active in many phases of college life at BMCC and have a long list of accomplishments. ) Juvenile Hearing Today The hearing for the 14-year old boy charged with the fatal shooting of Riverside coach, Don Hendrix, will be held March 1 at the Morrow County courthouse. The juvenile is charged with the slaying on a hunting trip in January near the Columbia River. The boy has said the shooting was acci dental. Judge Harlow Lennon of the Multnomah Conty Circuit Court will hear the case. Morrow County Judge Paul Jones dis qualified himself. G-T Want Ads Pay Big Police Recover Highway Signs Shortly after 2:00 a.m. on Monday Feb. 26 Heppner City Officers and Oregon State Police Officers recovered numerous State highway signs from a residence at 675 Elder Street in Heppner. Arrested and charged with second degree theft were Robert Allen Hughes and Ronald Ray Cornwald. One juvenile subject was taken into custody and released to his parents by order of the juvenile court. The signs had been removed that evening from the Heppner Lexington area. Public Asked For Revenue Share Ideas Judge Paul Jones recently announced a meeting for 9 a.m. next Tuesday at the Court House. The public is invited to attend and bring any sugges tions they may have for revenue sharing. Besides the County Court, budget committee members and Advisory Committee members are invited to be present for the event. On the Advisory Committee are Shirley Zielinski, Pat Cutsforth and Harley Sager. Chamber Favors Corridor J for Interstate 82 At the Monday Chamber of Commerce meeting, the group endorsed Route J of the possible corridors of Interstate Route 82. This one crosses on the Uma tilla bridge and then joins 80N at , the east boundary line of the Umatilla Ordnance Depot. Continued Pg. 2 MCGG Presents Preview Larry Mills, manager of Morrow County Grain Growers, is extending a cordial invitation for everyone to come to Lexington on Saturday and enjoy free coffee and dough nuts. A 21 inch IHC new lawnmowef will be given as a " door prire. The Open House is the occasion for showing a full line of IHC equipment, Steiger tractors and' Carlkins rod weeders. Ranchers are invited to test drive an IHC Hydrostatic or a Steiger and get a free cap. Nothing to buy. Just come on down Saturday to MCGG and have some fun and visit your friends. Feed Before Mc Ewen Game The FHA chapter at McEwen High School is serving a Hamburger feed Friday before the McEwen-Heppner game. The 60th Annual Umatilla Morrow County Oddfellows district convention will be here on Saturday. President is John Blades; vice president. Bob Lowe; secretary, Randall Peterson; treasurer, Andrew Zessin. Ooenins will be at 1:30 D.m. and there will be an introduc- fellows are urged to attend the lion oi urana Loage uincers. u,s M,""S' Carty Power Equipment Ordered There is to be an election and installation of 1974 officers. A banquet is to start at 6:30 and a program and dance will start at 7:30 p.m. Following the no-host banquet and program the dance will feature live music . All Odd- The Portland General Elec tric Company has placed orders for a nuclear reactor and other related hardware with Babcock and Wilcox of Mt. Vernon, Indiana. The plant will be erected at Carty Reservoir site and is to be Eastern Oregon's first nuclear power plant. Coolant water will be used for irrigation. The same firm will provide three full nuclear reactor cores to operate the plant for the first six years at a cost of $20 million. Electric generators will be ordered at a later date. It is planned to have the plant producing electric power by July of 1980. Hearing on PGE's application to build the power plant is to be held about the middle of March by the Oregon Nuclear and Thermal Energy Council. Wool Prices Reach All Time High The Tri-County wool pool for Union, Baker and Wallowa Counties was sold by sealed bid last Thursday at a record price of $102,135 per hundred weight. The bid opening was held at Baker and the top bidder for nearly 17,500 fleeces was the "Top Company" of Boston. Henry Krebs of Krebs Bros, says he is very optimistic about the price of wool and he anticipates receiving as much or more than the Tri-County Wool Pool. He says their wool is now in Portland being cleaned and scoured. "It's a better wool clip. It's cleaner than usual. We didn't have the March winds last spring like we sometimes do to blow the dust". He thinks keeping the sheep in Montana during the fall also makes for cleaner wool. He explained that sheep on the stubble on the Palouse Hills of eastern Wash ington have a real dust problem in the fall. He says that it has been 40 years or longer since ''we've seen that kind of price for our wool". He explained the higher price was due to Japan who is buying a lot of raw wool. About 80 producers ship wool with the Tri-County wool pool. They represent all of the small farm flock producers. Large band producers sell their wool independently. The Tri-County pool received the second highest price in the nation last year for its wool. Price at that time was bout 54 cents. Krebs Bros, are about half through lambing. They have had lots of triplets and one old ewe had four nice little lambs. North End Gets New Pellet Plant Robert Lamb, vice president of Eastern Oregon Farming Co. has announced that construc tion is to be started right away on a pellet mill between Irrigon and Boardman near the Pater son Ferry Road. The new plant will provide employment for about 24 with about 80 employed during harvest season. The dehydration pelleting mill will process alfalfa a green corn into pelleted feed, mostly for export. Company plans to lease about six sections of land at present. They also grow potatoes near Hermiston and will plant about a thousand acres of spuds this year. Riverside's Top Students Clarence Bauman Receives Well Earned Recognition to his wife i Debbie McCoy Susan Ball his Bill Jepsen 1 Bill Jepsen the 2nd place winner for boys has varied interests which include FFA, football, excelling scholas tically, golf, rodeo and ham radio. He got his amateur license and his call letters WA7DWK when he was in the 5th grade. He got his advanced license which he now hoids in the 8th grade. This is also an area of interest shared with his dad. Bob Jepsen. His FFA projects have included steers and working on the wheat ranch. He likes to get his studying done at school so he has time fo- other things after school. Clarence shows Hazel. It was like pulling teeth to get Clarence Bauman to the Cham ber of Commerce meeting Monday but when he got there he was pleasantly surprised and pleased. He was presented with a certificate of Commendation certificate of Commendation He likes to work with animals and his uncle, Dr. Lieuallen, a veterinarian in Pendleton, may have had some influence in his decision to enter the field of veterinary. He plans to enter Washington State this fall in pre-vet. He likes the field of politics and plans to register as soon as he is 18 in July. He enjoys his speech class and may use it to his advantage if he decides to work politically starting on the precinct level. Bill is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jepsen. and Appreciation for his years of serving as Verterans Officer in Morrow County for the State of Oregon. He was appointed to the position when Oscar Peter son was County Judge but had served without appointment many years before that. Continued Pg. 2 Wranglers' Potluck Sunday Wranglers will have a potluck supper at 5:30 and meeting this Sunday at the Annex. All 4-H Club horse Club members and leaders are invited. Plans will be made for the Playdays that will begin April 1. Anyone interested in joining the Wranglers is also invited to the supper and meeting. Kitchen committee for the supper are Daisy Collins, Marion Abrams,-Alice Vance and Dorothy Heard. Debbie McCoy has been chosen valedictorian of the senior class of Riverside High School and Susan Ball has been chosen salutatorian. Debbie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren McCoy of Irrigon and Susan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Ball of Boardman. Debbie, who has a GPA of 3.83, has been very active during her high school years. She is a member of the National Honor Society, serving as its secretary her senior year. She has been in Meritt's Who's Who Among Outstanding High School Students for two years, an Outstanding Teenager of America her senior year, a member of the Pep Club and the G.A.A. all four years. She has been cheerleader for four years, played volleyball all four years and was on the track team her senior year. She is a member of the Future Business Leaders of America, and secretary-treasurer of the Student Action for Education. She was Homecoming Queen this year, and has been treasurer of the student body for two years and on the student council three years. She played band all four years, and was Morrow County Fair and Rodeo princess in 1972. s Debbie plans to attend Oregon State University, majoring in Elementary Education. Susan Ball, who has a GPA of 3.77, also has been active through her school years. She is a member of the National. Honor Society and served as its treasurer for two years. She has been in Meritt's Who's Who Among American High School Students for two years and in the Society of Outstanding American High School Students her senior year. She served on the National Council of Teachers of English her senior year, and was a finalist in the Elk's Youth Leadership contest. She has been a member of the Future Business Leaders of America for two years, on the paper staff her junior year on the annual staff three years. She was on the student council her senior year, was dance team captain her junior year, and G.A.A. president her senior year. She played volleyball all four years, and was on the track team her freshman year, and a member of the Pep Club her first three years. Susan plans to attend Blue Mountain Community College, majoring in secretarial science. Other honor students of the class of 1973 include Casey Kuhn, Bruce Russell, Darrel Pummel and David Richards.
