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The 1973 Oregon legislature
passed a bill granting state
basic hool support monies to
those districts wishing to
include kindergartens in their
school systems.
This year only those school
districts with kindergartens
already established in the
school system could receive
state support. Beginning with
the 1974-75 school year, any
school board may vote to
include kindergartens in their
operating budget.
The subject of whether or
not to include kindergartens in
the Morrow County school
budget will be brought before
the Morvow County School
Board in a few days. Cur
rently, private kindergartens
are operating in Heppner and
Irrigon. In the past lone has
had a private kindergarten
also.
The largest and possibly
oldest, of these, is the Heppner
Community Kindergarten. It
was organized in 1949 by
Jaycettes. which later became '
the Heppner Civic League,
then a service club in the
community. Inez Meador was
the first teacher. As the years
passed the other projects of
the league were dropped and
the league existed solely for
the kindergarten. Its mem
bership consisted of mothers
of kindergarten children will
ing to work hard to earn
money to keep the kindergar
ten going.
The Civic League Kinder
garten had many ups and
downs. In 1971 The constitu
tion was changed, dissolving
the Civic League and naming
the group the Heppner Com
munity Kindergarten. Forty
five children now attend. The
kindergarten is housed in the
Heppner Elementary School.
Monthly tuition and semi
annual rummage sales fund
the kindergarten. Since 1971 it
has received some state 4-C
assistance and undergoes an
nual inspection by the state to
be accredited for that money.
Since 1972 several hundred
dollars have been spent in new
teaching aids and equipment
to update and upgrade the
kindergarten. Teacher Dee
Jones takes part in state
workshops for kindergarten
teachers each year.
"Why are kindergartens
important?" queries Mrs.
Howcome down the street,
"When I can teach my Johnny
colors and shapes, how to
print his first and last name,
his telephone number, the
days of the week and names of
the months, the names of the
alphabet and phonetics, how
to write numbers, music
appreciation and rhythms and
art, how to distinguish the
right from the left hand, the
parts of the body and the left
to right approach in reading
and writing at home?"
Mrs. Howabout up the street
states that she can provide
opportunities for her child to
express himself creatively.
Pay faxes, apply for
refund after Jan. 1
Homeowners must pay their
property taxes to county tax
collectors within the time
limits set by law in order to
avoid interest on late pay
ments, says Charles H. Mack,
director of the Oregon De
partment of Revenue.
Under the new homeowners'
and renters' property tax
refund program, homeowners
appy directly to the Depart
ment of Revenue, after Jan. 1,
1974. for a refund on property
taxes due Nov. 15, 1973.
"Refunds are based on the
amount of the taxpayers'
household incomes and prop
erty taxes, not on when the tax
liability is paid," Mack added.
Property tax refund claim
forms will be part of the
income tax packet which will
be mailed to all Oregon
residences about the first of
January.
In an attempt to simplify
property tax relief proce
dures, the 1973 legislature
provided for all eligible home
owners and renters to receive
property tax refunds only
from the Department of Rev
enue. This is a change from the
1971 homeowners' property
tax relief program which
provided for homeowners to
apply for a tax credit which
was subtracted from the total
property tax payment due.
"Most homeowners failed to
take advantage of this pro
gram, so the 1973 legislature
attempted to simplify it be
replacing the tax credit sys
tem with a direct refund,"
Mack said.
Under the new program the
county assesses and collects
property taxes completely
separate from the property
tax refund program. Mack
concluded.
learn perserverance, develop
sense of pride and experience
the Joy and satisfaction of
doing things for himself.
These are all goals of the
Heppner Kindergarten. These
goals can be taught by the
parent at home. The problem
is that many parents cannot or
will not take the time to do
these kinds of activities with
their children.
Mrs. Howcome and Mrs.
Howabout have overlooked
one experience that kinder
garten can provide which the
home cannot. This experience
is called socialization. Put
simply, it means learning to
get along in a group. Pat
Edmundson and Linda Riley,
first grade teachers at Hepp
ner Elementary, say children
who have attended kinder
garten are about a month
ahead in their social develop
ment when they have come in
to their classes. This means
the simple but important
things such as listening to the
teacher, learning to share in a
group and taking turns. If the
first grade teacher does not
have to teach her pupils
classroom habits she is free to
begin teaching the skills of
reading, writing and arithme
tic a month sooner.
The Heppner-Lexington
school advisory committee
met Nov. 12. Although there
was not an official quorum to
take a vote, those present
favored placing the kinder
garten in the Morrow County
school budget.
School has
hard time
staying open!
Bad weather, parent-teacher
conferences, a broken city
water pipe, and Veterans Day
combined to give the lone
school children an extended
vacation.
School was held last Monday
but dismissed early when fall
ing snow created hazardous
road conditions. School was t
cancelled Tuesday. Grades 1-6
had scheduled parent-teacher
conferences for Wednesday
and there were no classes for
those grades. Grades 7-12 had
their regular schedule.
Thursday, a full day of
classes was held for all
grades.
Friday, all classes were
cancelled due to a broken
water pipe in the city main.
There was a holiday Monday
of this week.
School will be dismissed at
1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov.
21, and there will be no school
Nov. 22-23 due to the Thanks
giving holiday.
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to be falten Dec. 1
Those free 1x10 color portraits for new and renewal sub
scribers during last summer's circulation drive will be made
on Dec. 1, the Los Angeles based company announced last
week.
The free portraits were promised long ago, but the
photographer was unable to return to Heppner as scheduled.
All readers who are entitled to the free portraits are asked
to be at the Gaiette-Times office on Dec. 1, only, between 10
a.m. and 4 p.m., to have the photos taken. The entire family
should come, and be dressed in colorful clothing.
The company also announced that anyone who has failed to
see their proofs, particularly the people at lone, will have
another chance to see them on Dec. 1.
The offer of a free SxtO color portrait will also be honored
from now until Dec. 1 for any person who takes out a new
subscription to the Gazette-Times or renewt an existing
subscription for one year.
CD updates
Lexington system
Heppner Utah School Fillies, who olared second In
district tourney volleyball play, are: front row from
the left. Jean t'hristnian, C'yde Allstott, Susan llealy.
Donna Bellamy and Kristi Hague wood; back row,
from the left. Millie Yorom. Tami Toll, Robin Riddle,
Kittty Bellamy and roach Dorothy Agee.
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Columbia Basin crews have
completed conversion of the
primary voltage system in
Lexington.
The system has been updat
ed from an old 2400 volt
system to 7200 volts. Much of
the old system dated back 40
years or more.
The new higher voltage
primary will eliminate much
voltage drop and allow for less
voltage fluctuation.
New transformers were in
stalled and many new poles
installed. Much new secon
dary was run and many
service drops into homes were -run.
There will be some bare
secondary wires replaced yet -by
triplex secondary to im
prove appearance along the
main street. The use of triplex
(three wires wrapped to
gether) has helped eliminate
many crossarms and has
added to the neatness of
Columbia Basin facilities in
Lexington. The higher voltage
will eliminate some line loss
on the Columbia Basin sys
tem, and moves toward more
standardization of voltage.
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Overguard paid an official visit to
Willow Lodge 66 and Lexington, lone Lodge 168,
recently. Overguard is Grand Alastor of the Odd
Fellows Lodges of Oregon.
MAYOR DEWEY WEST
CHAMBER SPEAKER
Dewey West, Mayor of
Boardman, will be guest
speaker at the Chamber of
Commerce noon meeting,
Nov. 19.
He will present a series of
slides taken over the past 13
years showing Boardman 's
relocation and growth over
this period.
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The lone Junior High foot
ball players, their fathers and
guests, were entertained at
party. Nov. 9. The evening
started with hamburgers at
Beecher's Cafe. Mrs. Bill
Rietmann and Mrs. Jerry
Martin assisted with the
GWEN DK.AKE ON
WINNING TEAM
Gwen Drake daughter of
Mrs. Grace E. Drake, is a
, member of Eastern Oregon
State College women's B
volleyball team.
This team participated in
the Eastern Area Volleyball
Tournament at Cheney. Wn.,
Nov. 2-3 and placed second in
the B division. The team
record for season is 12-1. The
only loss has been to Washing
ton State University.
Other teams participating in
the tournament were Eastern
Washington State College.
Central Washington State Col
lege. University of Montana
and Whil worth.
NEW TV CABLE
INSTALLED
The lone TV co-op an
nounced that 1.000 feet of new
TV cable has been installed in
lone.
Mrs. Larry Fetsch, secre
tary, said future plans call for
all existing cable to be
replaced. The project just
completed is the first phase.
The work in laying the new
cable was done mostly by
volunteer labor. Those work
ing were Tom While, Bill
Rietmann. Mark Rietmann.
David Tucker. Eldon Tucker.
Howard Crowell and Bill
Nichols.
serving.
Jerry Martin, coach of the
team, showed movies of
professional football and golf
to the group.
Five 8th grade boys com
pleted the season, Ricky Gil
bert, Clint Carlson, Brian
Rietmann, Leland White and
Dennis Thompson.
Other team members are
John Lindstrom. Wade West,
Bud Kincaid. Scott Sherer,
Danny McEIIigott. Leon Nix,
Dennis Stefani. Robin LaRue,
John Piening, Bruce Millman,
Jerry Rietmann, Glen Krebs.
Todd Sherer. Alan Roberts,
John Kincaid, and Leslie
Thompson. Managers are
Stuart Keene and Jeff Edmundson.
John Edmundson, principal
of lone Schools, reported that
the Morrow County School
Board will be discussing the
establishment of district oper
ated kindergartens in 1974-75
at its next regular meeting on
Monday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m. in
the district office in Lexing
ton, lone parents of pre-school
youngsters are encouraged to
attend this meeting and to
express their views on kinder
garten programs.
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