Outstanding Teenagers
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Two Heppner High School
students, Greg Davidson and
Kristi Haguewood, have been
selected as Outstanding Teen
agers of America for 1974.
Principal Jim Bier received
word of the awards last week
from the Outstanding Teen
agers Of America office in
Washington, DC.
The two Heppner honor
students will now be in
competition statewide with
other selected high school
students for the Outstanding
Teenager of the Year award
which this year will be
presented by Oregon Gover
nor Tom McCall.
The 51 state winners will
then vie for 10 regional
scholarship awards of $500
and the regional winners will
be in competition for two
national awards of $1000
scholarships.
The Outstanding Teenagers
of America selections are
nominated by their high
school principals from indi
vidual schools across the
country for excellence in
academic achievement and
community service.
All honored students have
their biographies recorded in
an annual volume entitled
"Outstanding Teenagers of
America."
Kristi is the daughter of Ron
and Lynn Haguewood, and is a
life-long resident of Heppner.
She holds office for many of
Heppner High's activities in
cluding president of Pep Club,
treasurer of Future Farmers
of America, vice-president of
Future Homemakers of A-
Roundup of school age
children under way
The County School Super
intendent's Office will spend
the next 30 to 45 days trying to
locate and list all children in
Morrow County ages 6 through
21 not enrolled in school and
who have not graduated.
Supt. Hon Daniels an
nounced the project at the
county school board meeting
in Boardman Monday night,
as requited by law through
House Bill 24-44.
Purpose of the project is to
identify the needs of children
of school age who are not
attending school and map
plans to meet the needs. Ernie
Teal, county curriculum co
ordinator, will be conducting
the survey. Daniels said civic
organizations throughout the
county will be contacted to
assist in the search.
People who know of any
school age child not attending
school and not graduated are
asked to contact their school
principal or the county school
superintendent's office.
Annual meeting
Keeping farm prices high
theme of NFO speaker
"The cost of farm produce
will be twice as high as they
are at present and if it were
not for the efforts of the
National Farm Organization
farm prices wouldn't be where
they are today; we must
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National Farmers Organization Chairman Don
McElligott. left, and Erhard Pfingsten shown at the
NFO's annual meeting.
high
merica, secretary of National
Honor Society and student
body secretary. She also
participates in girls basket
ball and volleyball and is
accompanist for the school
chorus. Outside of school she
is an active 4-H member and is
currently involved with 4-H
leadership.
Greg is the son of Bob and
Mildred Davidson of Lexing
'""""Four teachers have indi
cated that they will retire at
the end of the current school
year: Jessie Faye Morris, 4th
grade teacher at Heppner
Elementary School; Madge
Thomson, librarian at Hepp
ner High School; Eleanor
Serpent, 6th grade teacher at
AC. Houghton; and Joyce
Smith, special education
teacher and librarian at A.C.
Houghton.
Five other teachers have
notified the board that they do
not wisn to have their con
tracts renewed for the next
year: Mary Langston, lan
guage arts teacher at lone;
Neil Poulsen, math teacher at
Heppner High School; Clint
Agee, 6th grade teacher at
Heppner Elementary School;
Dorothy Agee, girls' physical
education teacher at Hepp
ner; and lone Martin, 3rd
grade teacher at lone.
The board reviewed recom
mendations made by the
attendance area advisory
understand what we have to
do to keep prices where they
are," Erhard Pfingsten,
former vice-president of NFO,
told 250 members and guests
here Thursday night.
The farm organization
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honors
ton and is also a life-long
resident of Morrow County.
Greg is currently involved in
journalism at the high school,
being editor of both the school
paper and yearbook. Presi
dent is one of Greg's current
titles as he heads the National
Honor Society, Thespian Club
and senior class. He has been
recipient of many awards
including his selection last
Heppner High School's Outstanding Teenagers of
America nominees, Kristi Haguewood and Greg
Davidson.
committees regarding the
hiring of teachers. It is the
board's policy to review the
recommendations in Febru
ary and take final action on
contract renewals at the
March board meeting.
The public school budget
hearing is scheduled for
Monday, March 4, at 7:30
p.m., at the district office in
Lexington. The board voted to
hold the March school board
meeting at the same time.
The school budget election is
dated for Tuesday, March 26.
The board set voting hours
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Currently, 38 children are
enrolled in the 4th grade class
at A.C. Houghton school. This
is eight over the number the
state permits and 13 over the
number of children recom
mended by the state.
The board voted to employ
an aide to assist the 4th grade
teacher while the board is
looking for an additional
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leader spoke at the annual
dinner of the NtO at fct.
Patrick's Hall.
Pfingsten recited the work
ings of NFO, how it started,
and the methods of collective
bargaining and "holding ac
tions" used by farmers a
gainst meat packers.
In 1964, he said, farmers
were selling hogs in Sioux City
for $12 a hundred pounds.
Through collective bargaining
the farm price rose to $22.75 in
a few years.
"Farmers," he said, "are
creatures of habit." Many of
them had sold to the same
packer for years, so the
packer realized he had no
competition, with the same
farmers selling to the same
packer and the packer selling
to the same chain stores year
after year. He said some
packers operated at a profit as
high as 65 per cent-after labor
costs and all overhead.
By collective bargaining
and NFO education of the
farmer, the price paid the
year to be listed in "Who's
Who Among Outstanding
American High School Stu
dents." Outside of school Greg
holds a part-time job at
Hager's Dairy.
This is not the first time
Greg and Kristi have received
awards together; both were
winners in the Elks Leader
ship contest held last December.
Farmers
advised
on fuel
"The essential thing a
farmer must do to help assure
"himself adequate fuel for
agricultural production is tell
his distributor how huch he
needs," according to David
McLeod, executive director of
the Morrow County Agricul
tural Stabilization and Con
servation Service.
"Unless a local distributor
or dealer knows what his farm
customers require, that dis
tributor cannot take the
necessary steps to get enough
fuel for them."
Informing the distributor
becomes even more important
if a farmer intends to increase
his acreage considerably, or if
he wants to expand dairy,
poultry, or other farm opera
tions. Local dealers will need
this information to request
additional fuel from their
suppliers.
McLeod said, "Agricultural
producers who are all to
receive priority allocations,
will be required to certify to
an ongoing fuel conservation
program on their operations."
farmer increased, as did the
volume to the packers. Prior
to this time, he said, the prices
paid to the farmers had not
varied more than 1.5 per cent
over a 25-year period.
As for assistance given
wheat farmers, Pfingsten said
that prior to NFO's emer
gence there were four large
companies setting the price of
grain, with the Department of
Agriculture paying less than
support price.
From the end of World War
II until 1962, he said, farming
decreased in the U.S. to a
point where 3.5 million farm
ers had quit. When farming
became more profitable, new
people came into the farm
operation, bringing new ideas.
They were not content to trade
with the same people year
after year as their predeces
sors had done. Through their
efforts, and with the help of
NFO, better farm prices were
obtained.
Today, he pointed out, there
is a more competitive spirit
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Outstanding FFA members honored . . .
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NONA SOWELL NEW
CC DIRECTOR
Mrs. Nona Sowell has been
elected a director of the
Heppner-Morrow County of
Commerce. She is office
manager of Kinzua Corpora
tion's Heppner plant.
Mrs. Sowell has been secre
tary of the chamber for
several years.
among farmers and buyers.
Wheat prices are up because
of the Russian wheat sale, yet
for 40 years grain prices have
been lower than the support
price, he said, "and some feed
prices are the same as they
were eight years ago."
"If you don't hold the prices
up they will surely go down,
and there will be no one to
blame but yourselves,"
Pfingsten warned. "You don't
have any friends. If you think
you have friends look at what
happened during the recent
beef crisis and the boycott of
stores across the U.S."
Placing emphasis on the
need for a strong farm or
ganization with a strong
collective bargaining pro
gram, he reminded farmers
that they have "what every
man, woman and child must
have-food," and that the
farmer has the power avai
lable to raise or lower farm
prices in the future.
The speaker w as introduced
by Don McElligott.
Senate votes to
double wheat tax
State Sen. Mike Thorne
introduced a bill in the state
senate last week to raise the
Oregon wheat tax from a
half-cent to one cent per
bushel. The proposal passed
the senate 28-1.
The vote evidently came as
a surprise to Rep. Jack
Sumner, who recalled that the
Oregon Wheat Growers
League last December urged
the tax be increased, but said
the organization had agreed to
introduce the tax increase
proposal at the 1975 legislative
session.
Sumner, who was unavail
able for comment yesterday,
is reported to oppose the
manner in which the bill was
called up and passed. Mrs.
Jack Sumner told the Gazette
Times Tuesday afternoon that
her husband felt action should
not have been taken without
first ascertaining whether or
not farmers agreed to the
measure being acted upon in
the current rather than the
1975 session.
Twenty Morrow County
wheat farmers met in lone
Tuesday morning to discuss
whether to approve immedi
ate enactment of the tax
increase or delay it in order to
take a referendum among
farmers.
After some explanatory re
marks by Stan Timmermann,
Pendleton, chairman of the
Some of the local FFA members honored with awards at the
organization's annual banquet Tuesday night were, left to
right, Kelwayne Haguewood. Teresa Hughes, Judy Bennett
and Bill Van Schoiack.
Rounding out awarded FFA members were, left to right.
Clay West, Kyle Robinson, Kristi Haguewood and Mike
Bergstrom. Hal Whitaker, FFA advisor presented the
awards at Heppner High School Cafetorium.
OWGL federal agricultural
programs committee, a poll of
the farmers showed 11 in iavor
of the bill as it passed the
senate and six favored a
referendum.
The bill is slated to go before
the house sub-committee, and
action may be taken by the
house today or Friday, when
the session ends. Should the
house approve the senate bill
the act will take effect within
90 days, or in time for the 1974
wheat crop.
Morrow County did not
recommend an increase in the
OWGL budget last fall be
cause there was some division
among farmers. The budget
for the fiscal year 1974-75
would be almost double the
current budget, with special
projects increasing from
$170,471 to $364,000.
Largest increase in the
special projects would be for
Port of Morrow
sells 8 acres
The Port of Morrow has
completed sale of nearly eight
acres of its food processing
park land to John Prag &
Associates.
Prag, a Wallowa County
seed potato grower, is con
structing a potato storage
facility on the newly acquired
land.
supplemental research, from
$8,5000 to $65,000. Most of the
money needed is for research
and development. Farmers at
the lone meeting felt they are
going to pay for additional
research and are willing to do
so.
The wheat tax, if finally
approved, will yield $390,000
this crop year. Proposed
education activities include
daily market information to
growers, fighting a proposed
freight rate increase, a news
letter, and expanded research
into new food products and
wheat usage.
Registration
deadline is
tomorrow
The deadline to register to
be able to vote in the March
26 school budget election is
Friday, Feb. 22.
Anyone wishing to vote in
the March election, who is not
registered, must do so 30 days
in advance of the election.
Registration takes place in
the county clerk's office at the
courthouse. Hours are 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Those wishing to
make other arrangements to
register are asked to contact
County Clerk Sadie Parrish.