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Poppy Days will be held in
Heppner today and tomorrow
and American Legion Auxiliary
unit No. 87 will again offer the
red crepe paper poppies to the
public. This year the poppies
were made by veterans at White
City Domiciliary. Two of Hepp
ner's veterans. Myles Mclntyre
and Jim Cowin, make their
home there. They would appre
ciate hearing from their
friends. Zip code for White City
is 9751)1.
Mrs. C.J.D. Bauman and Mrs.
Jim Driscoll are co-chairman-ing
the Poppy Sale this year.
The veterans are paid for
each poppy they make. The
Auxiliaries furnish the mater
ials. The proceeds from the sale
of the poppies is reserved for
Child Welfare, primarily to be
used to help veterans' children
and or all children.
The Poppy Window at Gard
ners was arranged by Mrs.
Bauman and Mrs. Frank
Hamlin.
"Wear a poppy proudly".
Steagalls Place
Well at
Haines Rodeo
The Bob Steagall family of
Lexington attended the Haines,
Ore. Rodeo last weekend and
fared pretty well in the competi
tion there.
David won 1st go-around in
the barrel race and placed 2nd
average in pole bending. Jana
won the barrel racing buckle
and 1st go-around in poles.
Beverly won the senior pole-. .
bending buckle and placed in
go-around of senior barrels.
Bob won 4th go-around of calf
roping and Bob and Beverly
won 1st place and buckles in
team roDine.
Bill Gover of RichlandjQrwJ
vwho is well known in Morrow
County, won the calf-roping
buckle.
Lighting
Program
Completed
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pleted conversion of all the old
incandescent street light units
in Heppner and replaced them
with new mercury vapor units.
Fortynine units were replaced
with higher intensity mercury
vapro street lights. In addition,
ten units were added in "dark"
Columbia Basin has com-
areas of town.
Hello from 4500 Feet Up!
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Marsha Lovgren. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Lovgren
a '68 graduate of Heppner High Schoo,a '69 graduate of Weaver
Airline School of Kansas City. Mo., lives and works in the
Washington. D.C. area; has taken up skydiving as a weekend
hShe is shown doing a spread eagle freefall at 4500 feet at Ridgely.
Maryland, where she is a member of the Pelican Skydivers Club.
She is making her 57th jump as a fellow jumper took her picture
just after she exited the Cessna 180 aircraft.
At 4500 feet, she has a 15 second delay (freefall) before opening
her parachute at 2500 feet. She falls at 125 miles per hour. She
started with military equipment, but now uses sport equipment.
Her equipment consists of a jump suit. French boots, heavy gloves,
crash helmet. Para-commander Mark 1 parachute P.C.. which she
packs herself and wears on her back and a reserve chute she wears
on her chest, altimeter and a stop watch.
The highest jump she has made is 8000 foot cross-country. She
took up skydiving in March 1972 and says "I'd rather jump than
land with the plane."
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Heppner, Oregon
Columbia
Highest Power Cost
The 1972 calendar year report
Just received from BPA shows
that Columbia Basin Electric is
paying BPA the highest aver
age cost of power purchased of
the 40 Cooperatives which
purchase power from BPA.
Columbia Basin paid an
average cost of 3.56 mills per
kwh as compared to the
average cost BPA charged all
customers of 2.38 mills, and as
compared to 3.12 mills (aver
age) for the 40 Electric Coops.
Manager David Harrison re
ported that in spite of paying 50
percent more than the BPA
average, Columbia Basin might
face a greater than average
Roger Palmer Named 1973 Conservation
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Mel Mover with the plaque and
Man of the Year.
Melvin Moyer the 1972 Oregon
as well as Morrow County
Conservation Man of the Year
announced at the Conservation
luncheon Monday the name of
the new Conservation Man of
the Year. Roger Palmer of the
Cllli tunc v-uuimj is "-
Conservation Man of the Year,
He began his long range
conservation program on 1660
acres jq years ago and has it
neary completed,
He ma(je njs first Diversion
ditch jn mA. He now has a total
0f 30,630 feet of diversion
ditches, a scientific arrange
ment of
ditches
that prevents
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Basin Pays
wholesale power rate increase
in 1974 from BPA.
The BPA report shows they
sold 1.9 billion kwhs more
outside the Northwest (Cali
fornia in 1972 than the previous
year. Industries served by BPA
purchased 690 million kwhs
more in 1972 than 1971 while
BPA sold 2.5 billion kwhs more
to private owned utilities in 1972
than 1971. Electric Cooperatives
purchased 400 million more
from BPA in 1972 than 1971.
The report shows that Indus
tries served by BPA continue to
enjoy low cost power from BPA
paying just in excess of 2 mills
per kwh.
Roger Palmer, 1873 Conservation
soil from washing on steep
hillsides. One-fourth of his
cropland is strip farmed. He
practices contour farming on all
cropland.
His range management pro
gram includes deferred graz
ing, (letting the grass get a good
start before grazing it), rotation
of deferred grazing and proper
grazing use.
Because of his systematic
conservation operations in re
source management and con
servation farming, he was
picked by the committee as the
1973 Morrow County Conserva
tion Man of the Year.
The annual Conservation man
of the year field day was
sponsored by the Oregon Wheat
Growers League and the John
Deere Co. The group toured the
Shobe Canyon Land Treatment
project which was a cooperative
program of 14 landowners,
ASCS and SCS.
The last four floods in Hepp
ner came down the slopes at the
head of Shobe Canyon. The
project is expected to slow the
water and prevent any further
'flooding from that area. There's
a total of 4,286 acres in
watershed. 29 miles of diver-
acres of crassed waterway and
m crttica, area
Mental neann
Open House
The hours of the Open House
for the new Mental Health office
have been set from 3:30 to 6:30
p.m. on May 31. These hours
were chosen to accommodate
teachers and students who are
out of shcool at 3:30. They are
especially invited to come by
for a glass of cool punch or hot
coffee and cookies.
It is hoped that these hours
will be convenient for the mill
workers. They are cordially
invited to come by in their work
clothes to see the new facility
and have a coffee break.
By staying open until 6:30 u is
hoped that the store people who
close at 6 p.m will take time to
come by after work if they
weren't able to come by during
their afternoon coffee break.
David Mitchum and his wife
Karen Mitchum are most
anxious to meet as many people
of the area as possible at the
Open House. The Heppner
Soroptimist Club is assisting in
the arrangements for the Open
House.
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20th Annual
Memorial Day
Picnic is May 28
The 20th Annual Morrow
County Pioneer Memorial Pic
nic will be held Monday. May 28
at the Fair Pavilion in Heppner.
Heppner Soroptimist Club
will be in charge of registration
starting at 10:30 a.m.
Rhea Creek Grange Com:
mittee of Women's Activity
group will take care of the food.
Mrs. Wallace Wolff and Mr.
LaVerne VanMarter Jr. will
decorate the tables and hall.
Meat, rolls and butter, coffee,
milk, punch and ice cream will
be furnished with the rest of the
meal being potluck. Paper
plates, cups and untetisils will
also be furnished.
Plan to visit the Museum
while you are in town.
Man of the Year
Dalp Roner RC & D
cTZy
Paul Pettyjohn - modi, vu
nitrihntnr. HeDDner Inland
Chemical, Oregon Wheat
Growers League and Heppner
Morrow County Chamber of
Commerce, the representative ,
from the John Deere Co.
presented Melvin Moyer with a
"wheat growers plaque". Mor
row County CowBelles prepared
and served the luncheon.
Ken Turner, chairman of the
SCS committee presented gifts
of appreciation to Dale Boner
who has been transferred to RC
& D in Pendleton and to Al
Osmin who has left the SCS to go
back into farming. They both
received praise for the hours
beyond the call of duty spent on
the Shobe project, as did all
members of the SCS.
Dick McElligoit, Morrow
County Wheat Growers presi
dent, acted as emcee, Bill
Jaeger, president of the Oregon
Wheat Growers League spoke
briefly.
Afternoon Tour
In the afternoon the iour took
members to the Moyer ranch on
the Black Horse Canyon Rd.
The Moyer ranch has been in'
the family name since 1893.
Mel, a progressive farmer was
one of the early users of the new
fall herbicides for weed control
and new releases of grain
varieties. "
Conservation Practices
His conservation practices
include: 59 acres cropland
seeded to grass, 38,235 feet of
diversion ditches which he
constructed himself, 6 silt
dams, 3 acres of grassed
waterways, 16 acres of critical
area plantings, 380 acres stub
ble mulch, 875 acres of contour
farming, 368 acres with proper
grazing use and 875 acres of
conservation cropping system.
Morrow County Grain Grow
ers hosted the pop break in the
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BCBUtl fiCatiOll
Project
The Heppner Soroptimist
Club has adopted a long-range
beaulification program for the
highway entrances to the town.
Working under the guidelines of
the Highway supervisors office
at Pendleton, the first project is
the construction of a planter at
the sign on Highway 74 north of
town. Vic Groshens is building
the planter from natural red
Columbia River basalt. This
year the flowers will be red and
white petunias. Later ever-i
greens and spring bulbs will be
added for more year round
color.
In subsequent plantings, the
Soroptimist Club plans to
border the highway right-of-way
with trees and bushes that
grow naturally such as the
yellow and copper roses, wild
roses, junipers, Oregon grape.
Until the plants are well
established, daily watering by
the club niembeis will be
required. Plans call for this
chore In he done on a rotation
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Hew Motel Ovners Gel Trailer
Court Permit
The Counly Planning Com
mission meeting Monday even
ing granted a zone change and
conditional use permit to Gene
Halsey to construct an addition
to the motel and add a. trailer
court on the Jack Van Winkle
property. The zone change was
for 22 acres to be changed from
farm to commercial.
In granting the changes the
commission was well aware of
the need in Heppner for
additional motel space and the
Murray's Drug
It's business as usual at
Murray's Rexall Drug as the
store is in the first phase of a
remodeling, modernizing and
redecorating project.
It is a long range project,
explained Rod Murray, owner,
and will take all summer for
completion. The pharmacy de
partment is in process of getting
Cutsforth & Co. Raise Solarium Balance
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Orville Cutsforth. When
the
money in the Hospital Solarium
account was short $12,000 of the
bid price for construction,
Orville made his way with Bob
Lowe and called on a few
people. They picked up $11,000
in six hours and the balance in a
short time after that. The legal
document that carried the
names of the donors was a place
mat from the Wagon Wheel. Of
tht amount donated the two
received $9625. in cash and
check and the rest in pledges.
Contributions varied from
$3000. to $50. Contributing were
Archie Munkers, Amanda
Duval, Fred Mankin and Bunch,
Mountain Rosds
Oiling Schedule
Forest roads within the
Heppner Ranger District will be
dust oiled between May 23 and
May 30, 1973. The Western
Route Road Number S-518 from
Highway 207 west to Wetmore
will be dust oiled on May 23 thru
May 26. On May 29 the Bull
Prairie Road Number S-642
from Highway 207 west to the
junction of the Western Route
Road Number S-518 will be dust
oiled. Coal Mine Road Number
S-422 will be oiled on May 30
from the end of the County
paving south past Custforth
Park to the top of Coal Mine Hill,
also on May 30 the RiUer Road
Number S-541 will be oiled from
S-518 at Thompson Corral east
to the junction of Elkhorn Road
Number S-543 then east on the
EMVhnrn Rnart annroximatelv 2
miles.
The public is advised to avoid
driving on these roads for a few
Gazette-Times Offers Free 8 x
Color Portrait
How would you like to have a
magnificent, linen-finish, 8 x 10
color portrait of your children,
or yourself, or you and your
husband, or your entire family,
without a penny of cost? That's
possible under a special offer
now being made by the Heppner
Gazette-Times.
All you need to do is agree to
subscribe to the Gazette-Times
for a year, at our regular low
subscription rates, $5.00 a year.
If you are already a subscriber,
all you need to do is agree to
extend your present subscrip
tion for a year.
Send no money. Just fill out
the coupon in today's Gazette
Times. The pictures will be taken by
a professional photographer
right here at the Gazette-Times
Heppner. You will be notified in
advance by mail or phone of the
day of the sitting.
Pictures will be taken in
approximately three-four
weeks. There will be one free
portrait per family. Should you
desire extra portraits or other
pictures, in addition to the free 8
x 10. color portrait, a price
schedule will be posted showing
the exact cost There is abso
lutely no obligation whatsoever
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need of a trailer court. With the
contemplated building at Kin
zua due to begin this week, the
need for living quarters is
intensified.
The Planning Commission
also granted a conditional use
permit for the construction of a
sub-station on Paterson Ferry
Rd by Umatilla Electric Coop.
It will serve the large farming
operations there. Construction
is expected to start immediate
ly. Remodeling
ready to move up into the front
part of the store.
Eventually the checkout
counter will be located near the
front door.
The entire store will be
involved in the modernizing and
redecorating project. This
writer believes this will mean
the best looking drug store in
Eastern Oregon.
C.C. Carmichael, Harold Cohn,
Edna Munkers. Lester and Dee
Cox, Harold Wright, Bechdolt
Bros.
Frank Anderson, Gar Swan
son, Bob Lowe, D.O. Nelson,
Wavel Wilkinson, Dick
Wilkinson, Virginia Wilkinson,
Shirley Rugg, Jill Rugg, Edna
Turner and Norman Nelson.
If anyone else wants to
contribute, money is needed for
two davenports and exercise
machines." Orville extolling the
virtues of the area, "It just
couldn't happen anywhere but
in Morrow County". The rest
of us say it couldn't happen
without an Orville Cutsforth.
days after the dust oil is spread
to allow the oil to penetrate into
the road surface. If you do
travel on the fresh oil, drive
slowly to prevent the oil from
splashing up on your vehicle as
the oil is difficult to wash off..
Spray Rodeo
This Weekend
' The 26th annual Spray Rodeo
will be held Saturday and
Sunday.
It is an NRA show and the
contestants will vie for $800 in
added prize money this year.
Contestants are semi-professional
and come from the
Northwest and Northern Cali
fornia. There will be a Queen's
Dance on Friday night and the
Rodeo Dance on Saturday night.
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to order additional portraits or
pictures.
Clip the coupon and mail to
the G-T today or bring to our
office' al 147 W. Willow.
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Construction Starts -
Kinzoa Corp. fo Duild
$3'2 million Plyuood
Plant in lloppnor
Plans for completion of the
plywood plant at Heppner
were announced by Kinzua
Corp. this week. The present
veneer building will be enlarged
by 122,000 sq. feet to provide for
the machinery and space need
ed to produce sheathing ply
wood. Estimated cost of the
addition is 3'a million dollars.
One hundred and twenty addi-
tional employees wil berequir-
mirolant was
deWS SoMdT
Glon Ward
1973 Father of
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Glen Ward, Morrow County's Father of the Year. .
You could never believe the Troop 661 from the Heppner
Glen Ward portfolio prepared Morrow County Chamber of
by Scout Master Del Piper and Commerce,
friends to submit in the County Substantiating all of the
CowBelles "Father of the claims are newspaper clippings
year" contest which in turn has and pictures,
been submitted in the State His Youth act.vit.es .nclude
ontest the Little League program, Boy
The material is backed by Scouts, Hunter Safety courses,
poster paper of the earth colors, working on BPOE Schdarsh.ps
browns oranges, greens from Tupper Outdoor School, Earth
the land that belongs to Glen Day, pCo"servahtnTerU
Ward. It details his family life, Bull Prame Youth entertain
youth organizations and activ.- ment mcluded mov.es for the
ties, community organizations, k.ds when the theater burned
leadership ability, church activ- and roller skat.ng or, the
! F ' weekends at the Fair Pavilion
ing his interest in wilderness chosen career as a Game
areas, the Minam in particular, Bl'8lst- .
from Senator Mark Hatfield, The CowBelles Ih mk they
.u ciio tm t. have another State Winner this
from the Elks, from he flg when submit.
American. Legion, from the n ym winner
Masons, from the boys of Scout
Swim Pool Open June 10
It will be FREE SWIMMING
on the opening aay 01 me
Heppner Swimming Pool on
June 10. The pool is closed on
Mondays' and regular swim
ming will begin June 12. Marsha
Young is pool manager this
year with Judy Gentry as her
assistant. Bobbette Jones is her
other life guard. Marie Van
Marter is basket girl.
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her gold medal for her No. 1 rated sola at the Hermistoa Solo
Contest, Shannon Kelly holds the John Phillip Sous award and Jim
Marquardt the mot improved nusk-Ua certificate. ,
assured lor the employees.
Cooperation of the City, County
and state authorities has result
ed in a satisfactory program
being initiated to insure that the
housing needs will be met.
Estimated stat up of the new
facility is March 1, 1974.
Michael Oreskovic of Omak is
the engineer on the job. His
assistant is Ray Grace of
Clackamas. They started laying
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SENIOR CITIZEN DINNERS
will be held at the Elk's Lodge
hall beginning on May 30
instead of the Grade School.
This is the same day and time
as formerly; 4:40 p.m. on
Wednesdays. This schedule will
be for the summer months.
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