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Early winners in
Fair coEiipei'.tion
Fair booths were completed
Monday evening, and the
judges announced these plac
ings on Tuesday.
Youth organization booths:
1st, 4-H Livestock; 2nd, lrri
gon 4-H; 3rd, Heppner High
Junior Class. A special blue
ribbon was awarded the
display entered by the 1973
Rodeo Court.
Social organizations were
led by the lone Garden Club
which took the booth sweep
stakes purple ribbon and 1st
rating in this class. The
Neighborhood Center rated
2nd and the Heppner Garden
Club placed 3rd.
The American Legion Aux
iliary was 1st in community
service organizations and the
Morrow County CowBelles
placed 2nd. The Seventh-Day
Adventist Church booth won a
red ribbon.
Paul Miller's rock display
took the 1st place in the hobby
booth class.
Paul Miller's Rock Shop was
rated 1st among the commer
cial booths. The World Book
Encyclopedia display was 2nd
and the Soroptimist's Holiday
Coffee Shop, 3rd.
HORSEMANSHIP
No blue ribbon and no
trophy went to participants in
the senior horsemanship con
test this year. County Agent
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Tom Roberts. Heppner FFA, leads his steer to the bm after
unloading him Sunday at the fairgrounds.
Mike Howell says that each of
the 10 entered was awarded a
red ribbon: Barbara Palmer,
lone; Marci Linnell, Board
man; Denise Henkle, Board
man; Vicky Sullivan, Irrigon;
Cassie Chapel, lone; Lisa
Collins. Heppnerr " Karen
Richards, Irrigon; Mary
Healy, Heppner; Sherri
Kemp, Heppner; Mary Ann
Greenup, Heppner.
Junior horsemanship
champion is Maureen Healy,
Heppner, and reserve champ
ion is Dana Creamer, Irrigon.
Twelve entered this competi
tion. The champion rating in
intermediate horsemanship
was won by Sally Sumner,
Heppner, and Janice Healy,
Pine City, won reserve
champion. Fourteen compet
ed. Colt horsemanship is Donna
Palmer, lone, and the reserve
champion is Mary Ann Proct
or, Irrigon, who competed in a
group of eight.
Susan Johnson, Echo, took
the championship in the class
of four who entered small fry
horsemanship.
SHOWMANSHIP
Mary Healy, Heppner, was
declared champion senior
showman and Marci Linnell,
Boardman, reserve champ-
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Advice sought on how to
Fred Klaboe. state highway
engineer and administrator of
the Highway Division, asked
local government officials in
Gilliam, Umatilla, Morrow,
Wheeler and Grant Counties
on Aug. 16 for assistance in
selecting highway projects to
receive financing as part of a
$150 million bond program
authorized during the last
legislative session.
In a meeting held at the
courthouse in Heppner,
Klaboe said that the Highway
Division was anxious to re
ceive local help in determin
ing the best use of the
$10,455,000 allocated to the
state's 12th adminstrative dis
Ambulance
Robert Lowe of Heppner
attended the meeting of The
Volunteer Ambulance Associ
ation of Oregon at Vale, Aug.
11.
Despite the declaration that
Eastern Oregon is now con
sidered a drouth area, 30
delegates came to the regular
quarterly meeting of the
Rawlins and tris' snakes
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By
JUSTINE WEATHERFORD
They're off to Ithaca, N.Y.,
to attend Cornell University
all 13 of them. Morrow
County's farm-reared John
Rawlins, 23, and his 12 deadly
poisonous snakes started East
Tuesday.
"I expect to achieve a Ph.D.
in Aut-Ecology (environmen
tal ecology and physiology) in
two and one-half years. As a
teaching assistant I have been
given the responsibility ol
guiding, counseling and grad
ing 100 of the school's 85C
biology majors. I will deliver a
lab orientation lecture each
Friday. Dr. Harvey Pough is
my major professor," Raw
lins explained.
In June, John and his
younger brother, Charles
sons of Mr. and Mrs. William
Rawlins of Eightmile, drove to
Ithaca where John located
lodging for the coming year,
looked about the Cornell
campus and checked in with
the Ithaca Community Dram-
"I noticed how nice our Rodeo Queen and Court looked in the
Gazette-Times, so i am sending this picture which I believe
was taken at Pendleton, Sept. 14. 191 1. Maybe some of the old
timers will remrmber these girls." So writes Edna Hutchens
in submitting this picture of "Cow Girls in the Bully West""
and to call attention to "how times change."
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Heppner. Ore., August 23. 1973
trict. The $12th administrative"
district includes Gilliam,
Umatilla, Morrow, Wheeler
and Grant Counties.
Klaboe advised local offi
cials that, "While the newly
created Transportation Com
mission must by law bear final
responsibility in the decision
making, the commission be
lieves local assistance assures
the best possible project
selection."
He also expressed hope that
expected cooperation between
all units of local government
will go a long way in
strengthening the role of the
regionally oriented ' admini
strative districts.
volunteers in
association. Thirteen volun
teer ambulance services were
represented at the meeting.
Delegates learned that
House Bill No. 2257 which
provides for licensing of
ambulances and certification
of ambulance personnel was
passed by the 1973 state
legislature and is awaiting the
ma Group as he plans to try
out for parts in its produc
tions. The 12 snakes are all
rattlers. John has had as
many as 30 snakes as pets at
one time. He collected them
from Mexico to Canada. One
has been with him five years.
Kirk Horn, former Heppner
High biology teacher, stimu
lated John's boyish interest in
reptiles; this led to a serious
study of herpetology.
In 1972 John was graduated
from Oregon State University
with highest honors and a B.S.
in zoology. His undergraduate
honors study was on "encour
aging fertility in rattlers." He
injected estrogen, but found it
didn't work with the snakes. In
John's collection there are
several couples of several
different sub-species. He has
had one baby snake bred in
captivity.
John does not "milk" his
snakes. For a while the U.S.
Army was paying $1,000 a litre
for rattlesnake venom, and is
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use highway
Local officials should have
no difficulty identifying
enough highway improvement
projects in the area to make
use of the $10.4 million local
share. Klaboe noted that the
Highway Division has a ready
back-log of $500 million in
critical needs identified on the
state highway system,
"The $150 million will make
only a small dent," Klaboe
said, "but it will be a welcome
shot-in-the-arm."
He noted that Oregon road
users are vell aware of a
number of critical deficiencies
in the state highway system
and have every right to expect
that this money will be used
meeting
governor's signature. This law
will require every ambulance
operating in Oregon to be
manned by at least one
emergency medical techni
cian. Oregon now has 2,000
trained EMTs.
The next meeting will be a
dinner meeting at Beaver
Creek on Nov. 17.
probably paying more now.
John does not handle his
snakes often. He examines
their mouths, especially every
three months, for "mouth
. rot." None of his rattlers has
had the disease, which is
easily contracted by the
rubber boa, one of this
county's rarest snakes.
Evidently, snakes are ideal
pets in several ways. They
don't demand much attention.
John had one go 15 months
without eating, but he usually
feeds his collection once a
month. They eat small mam
mals and birds-usually mice.
It is important to keep them at
an 80-90 degree temperature,
he said.
John served as vice-president
and president of the
student body at Heppner High
School. Before his graduation
in 1968 he was active in
journalism and dramatics.
This last year while he was
employed doing ranch work in
the county he took leading
roles in the Heppner Corn-
Top cowboys at
Heppner Rodeo
Oregon'! world champion
team roper is among those
cowboys planning to enter the
Morrow County Fair Rodeo,
Aug. 23-26, according to the
Rodeo Cowboys Association.
Leo Camarillo, Donald, is
among those indicating early
that they plan to compete at
the Heppner rodeo. The 27-year-old
cowboy is making a
strong defense of his world
championship, having won
more that $11,000 in that event
alone. His earnings in steer
wrestling and calf roping have
boosted his earnings to
$23,032, good for sixth place in
the world all around stand
ings. Jack Kelley of Deer Lodge,
Mont., who is 11th in the bull
riding with more than $8,000,
also plans to ride at Heppner.
Electricity shortage brings
Columbia Basin Electric
Manager David Harrison re
ports that B.P.A. has issued a
letter of urgent request for
energy conservation.
The Bonneville Power Ad
ministration stated that it had
hoped for a normal orderly
plan. Now it points out that
water shortages make it
necessary to move into a
conservation program at
once The need is due to a
15c
funds
wisely to improve driving
safety and efficiency.
Klaboe also requested local
governments to incorporate
citizen participation tech
niques in identifying their
highway projects and priori
ties. He expressed hope that
local officials will be creative
in providing for full partici
pation by all citizens and
interest groups.
He pointed out that local ,
citizen advisory committees,
well-publicized town hall
meetings, and the availability
of technical staff to aid
citizens can be productive
mechanisms for obtaining
citizen input.
The highway administra
tor's visit to Heppner is
another in a series that he will
make to the 14 administrative
districts during the months of
August and September to
discuss highway planning
under the bond program.
The members of the Carna
tion Club of the Degree of
Honor Society will have a food
sale Friday, Aug. 24, 9 a.m., at
their building on Main Street.
munity Drama Club produc
tions of Chekhov's "The
Boor," Mary Stewart Chase's
"Harvey" and Arthur Miller's
"Crucible."
Although other scholars
from the county have attended
East Coast colleges, John, as
far as is known, is the first to
go to Cornell's Graduate
School.
John and the 12 rattlesnakes
will
travel in his well-worn
Ford.
The snakes will be
tneether in a flour sack. He
has located a place to stay in
Ithaca where the landlady will
accept small pets, which is the
classification John feels fits
his poisonous snakes.
He will have a month's
Christmas break and will
probably bring his snakes
home for a Christmas dinner
of Morrow Countv mice.
Snakes are rising in interest
with the current release of two
movies with snake heroes,
"Harry" and "Ssss." Several
news media have carried
features on snakes in recent
issues.
Last year, with 187 entries,
prize money was $6,385. This
year cowboys will add their
entry fees--$20 in the riding
and team roping events and
$25 in the timed -to another
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deficit in energy being pro
duced in the region due to the
low stream flows.
Columbia Basin requests
voluntary help from the
members.
Residential users are asked
to cut back on uses of hot
water if possible, use the
range efficiently, and turn off
appliances and lights when not
in use.
Commercial users are
asked to eliminate or mini
has finished certifying cen
trally assessed property val
ues totaling nearly $2.5 billion
dollars to Oregon counties for
use in setting their tax rates.
County assessors are re
sponsible for valuations of
residential property, com
mercial property, etc.; within
their county. The Department
of Revenue, however, assess
es utility properties through
out the state and advises
counties of those values. This
is done primarily to assure a
uniform assessment of major
properties statewide.
The centrally assessed val
ues are added to locally
assessed values from which a
tax rate is computed for each
taxing district.
This year's total of $2,475,
953,888 certified to the coun
ties is up 9 per cent over last
year's $2,270,866,132.
Property value assessment
in Morrow County is $15,592,
896, up 1 per cent from 1972;
Gilliam, $13,742,394, up 1 per
cent; Wheeler County, $1,
024,200, up 1 per cent; and
Umatilla County, $64,411,548,
up 6 per cent. ,
Columbia County registered
the single largest jump from
$52.3 million to almost $131
million-a 150 per cent in
crease. Most of that increase
comes from Portland General
Electric Company's construc
tion of its Trojan nuclear plant
located there.
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$1,500 purse.
Entries for the rodeo, which
is being produced by the
Double R Rodeo Co. of
Prineville, Ore., will close at 5
p.m. Friday, Aug. 24.
JACK KELLEY
curbs on use
mize both internal and exter
nal lighting. Businesses are
asked to raise the tempera
ture of air conditioning by 2
per cent F. and minimize the
use of hot water.
All members are asked to
consider lowering the thermo-;
stat 2 degrees in winter for ;
lowering electric heating use.-:
I.ikplv the critical water-'
levels will result in the request
being applicable through April
of 1974.
County spurt, utility value
increases are uniformly scat
tered around the state with
only one county, Jefferson,
registering a decrease; and
that was a scant one per cent.
For many years Pacific
Northwest Bell and its prede
cessor company, Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph, held the
distinction of being the tax
payer with the highest true
cash value of utility property
in the state. This year that
position is occupied by Port
land General Electric Com
pany.
Curbs off
on use of
city wafer
Restrictions on the use of
water within Heppner city
limits have been lifted, ac
cordingto Bert Corbin, Super
intendent of public works.
"Removal of air from exist
ing mains has helped increase
water pressure in various
parts of the city," Corbin said,
"and the weather has also
been an important factor."
The evenings have cooled
down and residents are not
watering their lawns and
gardens as they were last
month.