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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1974)
Colorful citizen Funeral services were held Tuesday at a p.m. at the First Christian Church for Frank W. Turner, 88, one of the county's most prominent citizens. Mr. Turner died Nov. 16 at Pioneer Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He was born Nov. 22, 1885 in Sand Hollow, the first of seven sons and one daughter of Robert Willis Turner and Mary May Shephard, pioneer farmers in that area. Frank attended Heppner schools and Northwestern Business Col lege in Portland, returning permanently to Morrow Coun ty in 1907. He married Lilian Cochran, Dec. 15, 1909. After a brief, farming venture which was terminated by the disasterous cyclone of June 1916, they moved into Heppner where Mr. Turner lived until his death. Three children were born to the couple, Robert V. Turner, Walnut Creek, Ca., Jeanette Huddleston, Valdez, Alaska, and Anabel Allison, Portland, all of whom survive. Mr. Turner pursued the general insurance and real Frank Turner dies estate business as his princi pal venture until 1970. He was founder of the Turner, Van Marter k Bryant Agency. During his late 60s and 70s many friends and strangers remarked about his close physical resemblance to for mer U.S. President Harry S.: Truman. During his youth, Frank was considered to be a superior sheep shearer. He operated a contract sheep shearing crew for many years. He also operated several wheat farm ing ventures from time to time, but depended primarily on his insurance and real estate business. During the decades between 1940 and 1960 he brought two additional members into the firm, La Verne VanMarter Jr. and Howard Bryant, to achieve a well-balanced and successful business. Mis. Lilian C. Turner died " March 1, 1947. Frank Turner and Mrs. Grace Cleveland, Heppner, were married Penland appeal hearing today An appeal by Lake Penland Corporation on the appraised value of its property will be held today at 9:30 a.m. at the courthouse. The hearing officers will be from the state department of revenue. The cases for Mor row County will be presented by Charlie Patching, apprai ser for the county assessor's office. The Morrow County asses sor last year appraised the property at $71,560 as lake front recreational property. This figures out to $12.50 per lake front foot, according to iwVV fir I Htn 'J ,,V-,-V . . "' . i-.Vrv' ft, c . y : A ' . ' ' ' Kef 7 W I FRANK W. March 27, 1950. Mrs. Grace Turner died on Nov. 25, 1962. Mr. Turner was active in civic and fraternal affairs. He was an associate founder of the Morrow County Chamber of Commerce and an Exalted Ruler of the Elks, B.P.O.E., 158. He was an early member of the Lion's Club. From time to time he occupied nearly every official position in these and other organizations. He was a sports enthusiast, a land, energy and wildlife conservationist, and a "de fendable manager" of these types of activities. His early activities with the manage ment and promotion of the Heppner Rodeo were widely known. He maintained a keen in terest in the welfare of his fellowmen, either by deed or donation, both of which were considerable during his long , and active life. Burial was in Heppner's Masonic Cemetery. Memorial services at Heppner's First Joyce Bergstrom, assessor; which was the cost of the bare land before the lake was built, she said in defending the reasonableness of the ap praisal. The corporation ap pealed to the county board of equalization to lower the value to $29,800 on grounds the property is an incomplete subdivision. County Judge Paul Jones and Harry O'Donnell, two of the three-member board, dis qualified themselves as owners of property in the corporation, and the appeal was taken directly to the state about a year ago. TURNER at 38 Christian Church were con ducted by Rev. Gus Nikander. Ritualistic procedures were conducted by his fellow Elks. Sacred selections, "The Old Rugged Cross" and "No Night There." were sung by Carl and Betty Marquardt, with Kathryn Hoskins as organist. Casket bearers were Ran dall Peterson, Herman Win ter, Harry O'Donnell, LeRoy Gardner, Gene Pierce and Dr. L.D. Tibbies. .Honorary bear ers were Alva Jones, Earl Gilliam, Oscar Peterson, La Verne VanMarter Sr., Ray Ferguson and Emile Gro shens. Survivors are: a sister, Anita May LaDusire. Eugene; a brother, J.W. Turner, Baker; his son and two daughters; eight grandchild ren and fourteen great grandchildren. Also well known here are his fwo nephews, Donald" E. Turner, " Eugene, and Kenneth Turner, Sand Hollow, and a niece,' Jean Runnion, Pendleton. Defends self, is convicted Herschel Jack Cunklin was found guilly of driving while under the influence of liquor in justice court Thursday even ing. Conklin was fined $305 and had his drivers license sus pended for 30 days, with the stipulation that he has the right to apply to the State of Oregon for a temporary license, allowing him to drive to and from work. Conklin was arrested by Heppner City Police. He asked for a jury trial and the right to defend himself, which was granted. The panel of six jurors deliberated 15 minutes before rendering a guilty verdict. . Lahekln Fire, 3-year-old mare belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beamer. Heppner, recently won first place in the Oregon Cow Cutting Horse Associations Futurity held at the C.F. Laughlin Arena, Yamhill, Ore. The mare held here by Mrs. Mary Beamer, was trained and ridden in the Futurity by Bob Mote, Tigard. School board results Kindergarten busing problem unresolved The Morrow County School Board spread its business over ; three hours at Monday night's meeting at Riverside School in Boardman. i The noon busing of kinder garten children in the Board man area was brought to the floor again. Don McElligott, . who opposed the plan at the October meeting, revived the issue. After an hour of debate the situation remained un solved and was tabled for lack of seconds to a majority of the motions proposed. In October the board ap proved a motion allowing a school bus and driver to transport Boardman kinder garten students from Irrigon, to a central drop off point in Boardman at the close of the morning kindergarten ses sion. The parent group in Boardman was to collect the THE GAZ Vol. 91, No. 40 Two doctors to survey are The situation for the Doc- tors' Search Committee look-! ed more hopeful this past; week as members of the board of directors began calling some of the doctors listed on j recruiter Helen Chenoweth's list of those interested iri the Heppner situation. j Number one doctor on the list, Gary Harper, now study ing in Little Rock, Ark., said Hager asks $50,000 damages from The City of Heppner has been served with a notice of claim for $50,000, the Gazette-Times learned Monday. The potential claim, filed by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hager, seek $30,000 in general damages and $20,000 in special damages arising from the city's demo lition of the burned out building on Main Street last HHS students support search The Heppner High School student body, to raise money for the Doctors' Search Com mittee, will accept donations for a clock-radio to be given away at the Mustangs' first basketball game of the season. The Mustangs' first game is against John Day, with the JVs playing at 6:30 p.m., followed by the varsity game at 8 o'clock. The winner will be announc ed at half time activities. ZD I J 1 fee from the parents each month and make payment to the school board one month in advance. The board's trans portation committee set a fee of 25 cents per mile per day. The plan has been in operation for one month with 11 children riding the bus. McElligott's first objection was that the transportation committee could not set a charge. His policy motion that the board not give blanket authorization to committees to expend funds and that all recommendations concerning the expenditure of funds must be reviewed by the board passed. Argument then centered around two points : one, should the noon busing of children to Boardman become an item on next year's budget; and two, if a bus were made available in that most doctors in the family practice residency program there are not completing their residency. The committee had earlier expressed dissapoint ment over the recruiter's list of interested doctors because there were no men indicating interest who were in their last year of residency. Harper is interested in looking over the Heppner, June. The city found the remaining walls of the build ing to be a potential hazard and ordered the three owners, James Hager, Everett Harsh man and the Bank of Eastern Oregon, to abate the hazard. Hager objected to the cost of demolition assigned to him by the city, and it took a ruling by Circuit Judge Henry Kaye to Sill Riefmann a $35 winner! Bill Rietmann, lone, won $35 last week by identifying Sam Miller, head of the U.S. Forest Service office, Heppner, as the Mystery Person. Rietmann's identification of Sam Miller won him $20, and his correctly stating the num ber of clues (8) won him the jackpot of $15. Things were a bit tougher for contestants last week when nearly 200 persons identified the Mystery Person. The second week's contest saw people naming just about Murder suspect arraigned here Avelino Padilla Gomez, 38, a Boardman migrant worker charged with the fatal stabb ing of Vicente Sayatte Ortiz in Boardman Sunday, was ar raigned in Justice of the Peace Charles O'Connor's court Tuesday on charges of murder in the first degree. , Gomez, who speaks no English, declined through in terpreters to make any state ment until a court -appointed defense attorney had been made. Ortiz died at McKenzie Trailer Park early Sunday as , a result of a stab wound in the 1 left side of his chest. Gomez was arrested by Oregon State .Police about 7 a.m. Sunday. . Thanksgiving Eve services The South Morrow County Ministerial Association has again arranged a community Thanksgiving Eve Service. Everyone is invited to this observance at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 27, at the United Methodist Church. Rev. David BlackaUer of All Saints Episcopal Church will deliver the sermon. He will be assisted by Rev. Bill Arthur of I one's United Church of Christ, by Rev. Forest Godia f The Church of The Naiareae and by Rev. Edwin Cutting of the beat church. the Boardman area with parents paying the cost, should other areas of the county be given the same opportunity? Further ques tions came up as to who decided what children could ride that bus. Did the parent group, as the collection agen cy, have the say? Board members Pauline Winter and John Matthews, Deputy Clerk Gail Burkenbine and Superintendent Matt Doherty reported on the Oregon School Boards As sociation meeting in Portland, which they attended. Dues for the district to belong to the association were raised from $500 annually to $1200 annual ly. The board feels they must belong because of the legisla tive program carried out by the association. John Mat thews stressed that the local TE - Heppner, Ore., Nov. 21, 1974 area. The committee plans to fly him and his wife to Heppner later in the winter. Harper lived for six years in Stanfield and expressed a desire to return to Oregon to set up a practice, possibly in July of 1975. Dr. John Green, now in residency in Albuquerque, N.M., and his wife will also be flown to Heppner later in the pave the way for the rubble to be removed. Herman Winter, attorney for the Hagers, said the notice of claim does not mean that a suit will be filed against the city. He said that under Oregon statutes anyone in stituting a suit against a municipality must give six months' notice by filing a everybody in town! Among those who received votes as the Mystery Person were Jerry Sweeney, Bill Weather ford, Paul Hanson, Dennis Martin, Dr. Wallace H. Wolff, Laurice Martin, Chuck Starr, Lowell Gribble, Forrest Bur kenbine, Mel Boyer, Cornett Green, Ralph Marlatt, Bill Lande and a dozen others. In response to many re quests the Gazette-Times will publish the list of clues following each week's contest. Last week's clues to the Four illegal aliens were held as material witnesses: Ruben, Gutierrez Arroyo, 23; Esta milado Murillo Rodriguez, 30; Andres Serrda Sollurio, 33; and Francisco Navarro Garcia, 20. Police say the stabbing apparently followed an alter cation in a trailer occupied by Ortiz and two other men. Umatilla Deputy Sheriff Jesse Villareal and Bob Corti nas of the Morrow County Juvenile Department, acted as interpreters at Tuesday's arraignment. Gomez is being held without bail in Umatilla County Jail pending appointment of de fense counsel. board should review the issues to be brought up before representatives attend the state meeting. ; Doherty reported on Oregon's-new conflict of interest law and how it will affect local boards. It appeared, he re ported, that the financial report did not apply to the local board. . Doherty reported that House Bill 2444, which re-' quires that all school districts in Oregon provide education for all handicapped children including the trainable men tally retarded, is being met in various ways' in Eastern Oregon. He asked for board authorization to apply for Title I money for a trained aide to tutor these children. He re ported that there are two children in the district this year and there will be a third TIME winter. Green is married and has one child. He comes highly recommended from both Judge Leckie in Fossil and Doctor Buhl in The Dalles. Green served his preceptor ship in Fossil last summer and is familiar with the Heppner; area. Thursday of this week, Mark and Sandy Murray are recruiting at the University of claim. He declined to say whether a suit will follow Hager's claim, but indicated the notification to the city would be a legal requirement for any subsequent suit should Hager decide to file it. In the notice of claim Hager charged the city had damaged the concrete floor that covered most of the property, which is identity of Sam Miller were: 1. Chaucer wrote a tale (' The Miller's Tale"); 2."Play it again" (a phrase made fam ous by movie actor Humphrey Bogart, "Play it again, Sam"); 3. Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (which is DDT) ; 4. Look out ! (refers to a lookout rangers use to detect fires); 5. Aimlualt (an ana gram for Umatilla, the name of the forest Sam Miller works in); 6. When they yell Geron-! IL$5y Til .leAV Vine eat McElligott, Iaae, picks a winner la the Who's Who mystery Contest. The Mate cbtaea by Vincent Friday was that ef EU1 Rloiaui, im W Imm. child next year. Special ed ucation is provided in Heppner but at no other, point in the county. The children concern ed live in outlying areas of the county. The board approved the authorization. Faculty members, ,Dean Naffziger, Heppner, Mike Wetherell, Riverside, and Marvin Peterson, lone, pre sented a Morrow County work experience implementation plan to the board. An exten sive written report was pre sented to the board outlining the objectives and design of a county-wide work experience program for students admini stered by an advisory com mittee composed of faculty, students and community people. The program would provide students with an opportunity to acquire basic (Continued on page 2) 15c Oregon Medical School. Wed nesday evening they attended a social hour especially for them at the Oregon Medical Association building in Port land. The purpose of the get-together was to give the Oregon Medical Association and interested physicians the opportunity to learn more about the Heppner situation. city the basis of the $50,000 he seeks in general and special damages. Bob Abrams, city attorney, was out of town when the notice was received by the city, and there is no im mediate indication as to how the city will respond to the claim. imo he's the chief (smoke jumpers bail out of aircraft; Geronimo is the traditional yell of parachutists as they bail out); 7. Some are so involved looking for clues they can't see it (or, you can't see the "forest" for the "trees"); 8. Timber for farm and home (in the Pettyjohn ad). So, in the eight clues were the Mystery Person's name and occupation. Better luck this week for $27.50.!
