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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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-!
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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
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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.!