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Janice llealy, lleppner, is winner of the Grand
Champion Horsemanship Trophy at the annual 4-H
Horse show, Aug. 12, at the Morrow County
Fairgrounds.
Top horsemen
are selected
Approximately 50 4-H'ers
took part in the 1973 Morrow
County Horse Show that was
held Sunday. Dick Meuret,
Madras, and Riley Freeman,
Pendleton were the official
judges for the days events.
The first event was show
manship with the following
placing: Small Fry Show
manship Champion, Laurel
Morgan, Irrigon; Junior
Showmanship Champion Nan
cy Miller, Lexington; Reserve
Champion Junior Showman
Maureen Healy, Heppner;
Intermediate Showmanship
Champion Mary Ann Proctor,
Irrigon; Reserve Champion
Intermediate Showmanship
Janice Healy; Senior Cham
pion Showmanship Mary
Healy, Heppner; Reserve
Champion Senior Showman
ship Marci Linnell, Board
man. Top showman for the show
was Janice Healy, Heppner,'
with Marci Linnell placing
All-around reserve Champion
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March Linell, Boardman, winner of the reserve
championship in the showmanship class of the 4-H
Horse Show. The show was held Sunday, Aug. 12, at the
Morrow County Fairgrounds.
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A cowboy has got to know how to rest. George and Bob '
Steagall show how its done during the lunch break at
the 4-H Horse Show Sunday at the fairgrounds. Asleep
in the foreground is Bill Healy.
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Showman.
Horsemanship was held in
the afternoon with the follow
ing placing: Colt Horseman
ship Champion Donna Pal
mer, lone; Reserve Champion
Colt Horsemanship Mary Ann
Proctor, Irrigon; Small Fry
Horsemanship Champion Su
san Johnson, Echo; Brett
Sherer Reserve Champion
Small Fry Horseman, lone;
Junior Horsemanship Cham
pion Maureen Healy, Hepp
ner; Reserve Champion Jun
ior Horseman Dana Creamer,
Irrigon; Intermediate Horse
manship Champion Sally
Sumner, Heppner; Interme
diate Reserve Champion
Horseman Janice Healy,,
Heppner. Krynn Robinson,
Heppner had. the Champion
colt for the show.
Grand Champion Horse
manship Trophy went to
Janice Healy and Sally Sum
ner was Reserve Champion
for All-around Horsemanship.
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Saturday, Aug. 18, is Work
Day at the Morrow County
Fairgrounds.
With the County Fair Board
ending a year of decision
making and the County Fair
Committee leading the work
crews- all sorts of activity will
take place.
Livestock pens will be set up
and made ready. The show
arena will be cleaned, the
snack shack brightened, the
style revue stage readied, and
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$1-million for port? City
Rupert Kennedy, Port of
Morrow coordinator, told the
commission at its meeting last
week that he was optimistic
that it will receive an esti
mated $1 million dollars in
grants and loans to develop its
food processing park.
Kennedy said that repre
sentatives of the Rural Area
Development branch of the
Farmers Home Administra
tion met with the Port last
week and reviewed the applications-.
"I'm very optimistic about
our chances," Kennedy told
the commissioners. "We have
three industries with firm
letters of intent to build on the
park site."
Sen. Packvvood
here Aug. 23
Sen. Robert Packwood will
spend Thursday, Aug. 23, is
Heppner, according to Anne
Doherty, in charge of the
senator's local itinerary.
A no-host luncheon will be
held for the senator at noon
Thursday at the Wagon Wheel
Restaurant.
At 2 p.m. he will visit the
new veneer plant, and at 2:15
he will speak to workers at the
Kinzua Corporation mill, to
which persons interested in
Parade, rodeo
to be videotaped
Again this year through the
courtesy of Columbia Televi
sion, Inc., of Kennewick, Wn.,
the parade and rodeo will be
videotaped and televised later
on in the week on Heppner
TV's Cable Channel 3.
Time of the replay of this
event will be announced next
week in the Heppner Gazette
Times as well as on Cable
Channel 3.
Dick Pew, manager of
Kennewick's Columbia TV,
along with his local origina
tion director, Lane Pratt, will
be on hand to assist Heppner
TV in videotaping this event.
Willow Creek records are available
A record of the public
meeting on the Willow Creek
Lake project held at Heppner
on June 21 has been published
by the Corps of Engineers,
Walla Walla District. A copy
has been furnished the Hepp
ner library.
Copies may be purchased
for $2 each from the Corps.
Rodeo
Starting at 1 : 15 p.m. Satur
day, Aug. 25, the RCA
approved Rodeo events will
feature 35 outstanding rodeo
champions as well as special
attractions for local per
formers. This year's rodeo stock is
being furnished by Double R.
Rodeo Co., Paulina.
On Saturday at 8 p.m. there
is the special evening show of
rodeo events. The final 1973
Heppner Rodeo program
begins at l:3o p.m. Sunday.
The complete collection of
prizes and cash, mounting to
more than $2125. will be
awarded by the time the
Sunday afternoon show is
much other work done to
shape up the buildings and
improve the appearance of the
grounds.
Many exhibitors will Le rush
ing to get their entries in place
on Monday and Tuesday.
Judging schedules for a few
things begin Monday after
noon, such as 4 II knitting and
crochet and style revue.
Judging will really build up on
Wednesday and Thursday
(check schedules given in this
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The FHA funds would be
used to provide roads, rail
lines, water and fire protec
tion, to construct a waste
disposal project to handle the
industrial effluent, and to
irrigated land.
Kennedy also' reported the
Oregon Highway Department
has been studying proposed
port growth figures and is
considering building a port
interchange east of Boardman
on U.S 80 N. to handle
industrial traffic.
In other business the port
ratified another lease of 125
acreas of agricultural land to
Desert Magic, to bring the
total of land leased to that
corporation in the industrial
the timber business are
invited. ,t. . . y .,
At 3 p.m. he will meet with
farmers and ranchers at the ;
Morrow County Grain Grow
ers in order to . become
acquainted with area farmers
and ranchers and their prob
lems. To wind up his visit,
Packwood will speak briefly
at the Fair Auction, 8 p.m., at
the Morrow County Fair
grounds. Heppner TV Inc. thanked
Columbia, the rodeo board
and the Rodeo Cowboy's
Association for allowing this
program to be taped and
replayed later on in the week.
-Heppner TV will run last
year's Centennial Parade pic
tures on Cable Channel 3,
Thursday, Aug. 16, 7 to 7:30
p.m., and on Saturday, Aug.
18, at the same time.
In case of a change in
schedule, tune to Cable Chan
nel 3 for information. Those
unable to attend this year's
rodeo and parade can see this
event on the local cable
channel.
Checks should be made pay
able to the Treasurer of the
United States. Requests for
the publication should be
addressed to the District
Engineer, Walla Walla Dis
trict, Corps of Engineers,
Bldg. 602, City-County Air
port. Walla Walla, Wn. 99362.
events shape op
cleared away.
The Morrow County
amateur calf roping, pony
races, GRA girls' barrel
racing. cowgirl races,
Wranglers amateur cow rid
ing, bull riding, novice bronc
riding, and the Morrow
County team roping are
events that will hold high local
interest.
The purses going to winners
range from 7 at $250 down to
$20 awards plus many special
articles and gift certificates.
The entrance fees range
from the $25 for entering calf
roping to the $10 required to
enter the quarter -mile open
year's Fair Premium List
booklet , which was not mailed
out hut is waiting to be picked
up in stores, post offices, and
at the Gazette-Times office.)
The seven Big Days Fair and
Rodeo Program is also avail
able. "The Morrow County Fair is
held primarily for the purpose
of encouraging more profit
able agriculture and home
making in the county. In
distributing the premium
Heppner, Ore.. Thursday Augukl. 16,
park up to approximately
2.000 acres. The corporation
converts the raw grazing land
into highly productive farm
land.
Commission Chairman Gar
Swanson said the lease carries
a withdrawal clause in the
event there is a demand for
industrial development. He
said no more agricultural land
as available for development
in the port's industrial and
food processing park.
In further business the
commission approved a $7,900
pipe installation to serve
Morrow Produce. Kennedy
said the project fits into the
port's ultimate plan for utility
service and gives Morrow
City water relocation
work federally funded!
The cost of relocation of the
Heppner water line and water
storage tank, necessitated by
construction of the Willow
Creek Dam. will be borne by
the federal government, Sen.
Mark Hatfield told the Ga
times Friday.
In a letter to Hatfield, Col.
Nelson Conover, district em
gineer for the Corps of
Fined $1005, dwi
James Leon Curtis, 34, Sod
House Ranch, Princeton, Ore,
was arrested Aug. 7 for
driving while under the in
fluence of liquor, and driving
with a suspended drivers
license.
He was placed in the county
jail with bail set at $1,160.
Last Thursday. Curtis
pleaded not guilty to driving
with a suspended license,
saying, "I didn't know my
license had been suspended."
Justice of the Peace Charles
Judging team winner
Heppner High School's Fu
ture Farmers of America
Judging Team placed second
at the Umatilla County Fair,
Hermiston.
There were eight other
judging teams in the judging
competition.
The teams were asked to
judge market hogs, sheep,
breeding ewes, market steers
and hereford cows.
race and the same to- enter
novice bronc riding. Most
events call for a $20 entrance
fee. Rodeo entries for Morrow
County events will open at 10
a.m. and close at 5 p.m. on
Thursday. Aug. 23. All RCA
events will be open at 10 a.m.
and close at 5 p.m. on Friday,
Aug. 24.
The Rodeo Committee
membership is: chairman
Don Evans; secretary. Tad
Miller; director of barns. Bob
Van Schoiack; director of
races, Joe Yocom ; director of
queen and court. Pat O'Brien;
director of publicity, Jimmy
Rodgers : director of trophies
and concessions, Mitch Ash-
money that it available, the
committee has emphasiied
the products of most Impor
tance. In order to encourage
more exhibits, no entry fees
are charged.
"In seeking to Improve the
County Fair, there are again
some changes in the premium
list. We have added classes
and lots where our ever
expanding exhibits have
called for them. The sweep
jstakes for wheat and hay and
Produce ample water and
pressure. The new 8-inch
water line is 1,600 feet in
length.
The Boardman City Council
was told at its meeting last
week that the city is in danger
of running out of water and'
must take immediate steps to
curb abuse by homeowners.
The city has already been
faced with a critical sewage
treatment plant problem.' ,
Engineer Stan Wallulis of
Pendleton said Boardman
must have the highest per
capita water use figure any
where in Eastern Oregon.
"There are homes in Board
man that are using as much as
Engineers, Walla Walla, said:
"Costs for relocating the
water supply system to the
same standards and with
capacity equal to the present
system will be borne by the
federal government."
Col. ConoVer told Hatfield
the relocation work will be
initiated as an early phase of
the Willow Creek project
O'Connor, suspended
on this charge
action
until
further investigation.
Curtis.then pleaded guilty to
driving while under the in
fluence of intoxicating liquor,
and was sentenced to pay a
fine of $1,005; or spend 200
days in the county jail at
in the county jail at pendleton.
Curtis has had his license
suspended on two previous
occasions, in 1969 and again in
Mav. 1973.
Team membejrs include
Judy and Sandy Bennett,
Kristi and Kelwayne Hague
wood, Mary Ann Greenup,
Kyle Robinson, Bill Van
Schoiack and Rhonda Sargent.
Judy Bennett placed second
in individual scoring, with 254
out of a possible 300 points.
The FFA team plans to
attend the Morrow County
Fair and then they will travel
to Salem for the State Fair.
beck; director of livestock,
Rod Murray; director of
tickets and parking, Harold
Kerr.
Heppner Rodeos began in
1922 under the leadership of
L.V. Gentry, C.W. McNamer
and C.H. La tour ell. They were
held on what was known as
Gentry Field. Bleachers and a
race track were constructed
there. The first rodeos were
held during the last week in
September; they followed the
Pendleton Round-up. Now the
smaller, local rodeo are held
before the larger, regional,
"World Famous" Pendleton
Round up
grass are again being offered,
as well as sweepstakes for the
best flower arrangement and
best flower In the exhibit," the
board announced.
The Morrow County Fair
Board consists of Dr. Jim
Norene, chairman, Zearl
Gillespie, George Luciani,
Paul llisler, Floyd Jones,
Lenna Smith, secretary-treasurer,
and Mrs. Hazel Hauman,
general building superintend
ent. The County Fair Commit
water
600.000 gallons of water per-month-about
six times the
normal use anywhere else,"
he said, and "no residential lot
in Boardman should have to
use more than 100,000 gallons
per month."
The engineer reported that
'Boardman's only well is now
getting dangerously low and
has only 40 feet of water above
the underground water pick
up. "I didn't realize the
situation was so critical," he
said.
A report from Public Works
Supt. Larry Phillips indicated
the well pumped for 4.4 hours
during a 5.5 hour period one
afternoon last week, indica -ting
the city is drawing water
"since foundation work for the
dam will necessitate removal
of both the road and pipeline
from the dam construction
area."
Hatfield said the Corps of
Engineers estimates the cost
of water line relocation and
water storage tank relocation
at between $400,000 and
$450,000.
They wash
pay for uniforms
Heppner High School's JV
Cheerleaders held a car wash
Friday at Cal's Arco Station to
raise funds to pay for their
new uniforms.
The cheerleaders, Janice
Spaulding and Kelly Harrison,
with the help of their friends,
including some of, the Japa
nese visitors, washed about 30
cars.
The money earned will go
toward paying for ther basket
ball, freshman basketball and
;uur
Oops! Kelly Harrfeoa teems te be getting a "thia
wash" frin Janice Spaulding. Actually, they arc part
of the JV cheerleaders group that washed care Friday
U raise money for arw costumes.
tee members are Helen A
cock, chairman, Jean Ben
wit, Bev Duhrrty. Delpha
Jones, Francine Evans, Pete
Itichards. Ron Black, Mike
Howell, Merlin Cantin and Hal
W'hilaker.
Fair Week is a popular time
for visitors. Several members
of Congress and state officers
will appear. Many families
are expecting to fill their
homes with out-of-town rela
tives and friends.
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crisis
from the source about 80 per
cent of the time.
"That doesn't give the well
much time to replenish the
supply," Wallulis reported.
"And that is not good."
He said the city must
consider finding another
sorce of water and rriust study
how to reduce the current
consumption. He suggested
the city consider increasing
the water rates by as much as
200 per cent.
"Your water rate in Board
man is about 5 cents per 1,000
gallon," he said, as low as any
in the state. If you made it
more costly to waste water,
maybe there wouldn't be so
much abuse."
There was no indication as
to when relocation work will
begin, Walter Evans, Hat
field's administrative assist
ant, told the Gazette-times.
Evans confirmed that Hat
field will be at the Morrow
County Fair on Aug. 22 to meet
area residents and get their
views on current problems.
cars to
football uniforms. According
to one report, if the girls make
their own uniforms, the cost of
the material will run about $15
per uniform.
Although the girls did make
money Friday, it seems as
though they will have to plan
another fund-raising project
later this fall.
Lori Dunlap, the third
member of the cheerleader
team was unable to partici
pate in Friday's event.
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