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BESSIE V. ET2ELL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB E U GENS C K TfiE Vol. 92, No. 23 Heppner, OR., July 24, 1975 15c Fun Night added attraction GAZETTE-TIMES V. -' ; V . (A ' ,; I' -in mi mil A , .. -aJ MR. AMI MH Sumner reports on legislation Male Rep Jack Sumner discussed legislative pro grams of interest lo Mornm County at a meeting of the Clumber of Commerce Mon day Sumner said he had kept in close contacl with Judge Paul Junes on wn issues ol k !Mrif!;T,re t the- "in' liioililu.il ion ol ttir circuit courts and the piohlem ol dealing wnh the salaries of district attorneys Smaller counties, he said, had wanted lo "group togeth er" and have only one district attorney tor two or more counties At the beginning. Sherman, Gilliam and Mor row counties was considered lor combining under one district attorney, probably to be based in Heppner The plan was scuttled because Sher man and (iilli.im counties were not interested m such a plan Legislation was introduced al the last session to regulate the salaries of district attor ney, with reference lo the nount of monev thev could -1 ' y ft K -J M-j , .' w strm"aH z - - ;j -m , -t.m 4Aj f-ti jrr r-. DAWN PETERSON qualifying for Ihe National S. J U'K SI .MNF.lt le paid by the slate while remaining in private practice ol law The legislation was scuttled because it would have put smaller counties in a financial bind Sumner is a member of the House Ways and Means Com mittee, and was chairman of a siifi ormilillee in tin' last session which dealt with judu i.il and budget problems. Another legislative proposal lirnii hi before Ins committee would have given voters the right lo change their political hiity alliliations during a primary election At first . Sumner said it was intended In apply only lo voters who registered as indcendfnls. who are excluded under pre sent law from participating in Republican and iH'inocralic primary elections The legis lation did not p.iss because of the dangers of undermining the two pari) political pri mary system and would be of benefit only lo indeendcnt volets i Continued on Page 5 New Plans to upgrade the Mor row County Fair, Aug. 19-22. were made last Monday night at a joint meeting of the Fair Committee and the Fair Board. A new covered show ring with cement floor will be constructed for this year'i event. Materials for the ring will be donated by Kinzua Corporation. Morrow County Grain Growers and Umatilla Redi Mix. A nurses station will operate around the clock at this year's fair. Two registered nurses. Helen Aycock and Pat Wright Board names Don Portland man is lone principal The Morrow County School Board approved the hiring of Don Fluke of Portland as the new lone School principal at Ihe regular board meeting in lone Monday evening The selection committee told the board that Fluke came highly recommended and had a wide experience in Ihe field of education. He received his bachelor and master degrees in educa tion from Washington Stale I'niversily in Pullman. He did further study there and at Stanford I'niversily and ( lairnionl College. Fluke has laught in several school dis tricts. From 1954 lo 1957 he was principal and sixth grade teacher at Helix. More recent ly he has been the superinten dent al Glide and then al South Kinzua buys Kuiua Corporation was high bidder on a timber stand in Wheeler County recently. Kmua bought an estimated lo.7tKi.ooo Ixiard feel of timber and 1580 acres of material for $i2.22 fio. which was the appraised price. Bid prices per thousand board feel were: Ponderosa pine. $10 54. Douglas fir and other species. $2 High School Rodeo at Burni. features planned for the ( the new county health nurse), will be on duty 24 hours a day to assist any sick or injured. Other changes Include the following: The lone and Heppner Garden Clubs will have plan ter boxes of flowers located over the fairgrounds. A night watchman will be employed to look after fair property during the first four nights of the event. For the first time separate judges will be appointed for children's essay and poetry entries, A blackboard will be Fluke I'mpqua schools in Southern Oregon. In 1969 he left active leaching to join the Oregon Slate University Office of Planning Institutional Re search for a year and a half. Following that service he left leaching to go into farming and Ihe operation of a manufacturing business. Dur ing the 1973-74 school year he and his family lived in Mexico. Fluke and his wile have four children. Fluke replaces John Ed mundson who earlier accepted the possitlnn of assistant to the , principal in Ihe Morrow Coun ty District School Office. In other business Monday evening the board elected John Matthews as chairman ol the school board, moving him up from the position of vice-chairman. Pauline Win Harvest opens, yields good Wheal harvest is getting off to a good start, with yields heller than anticipated, according to Larry Mills, manager. Morrow County Grain Growers. "The harvest is in full swing in the north Lexington and Boardtnan areas. The lone area is just gelling started." he said Harvest should be well under w ay in the remain der of the county within a few weeks. A survey of winter wheat growers found conditions w ere improved from last month, and the crop is now placed at 50 million bushels. S per cent above last year for the state. More and heavier wheat heads were found in field samples scattered throughout the growing area. Spring wheat is placed at 3 3 million bushels, 37 per cent below last year, with the County represented in national rodeo finals Dawn Peterson, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Bob Peterson, lone, will compete in the National High School Rodeo finals in Gallup, N.M., Aug. 2-10. She hat been competing in three events pole bending, goat tying and barrel racing. This spring she rated high in rodeos at Arlington, Rufus, Madras and Burns. At Burns she competed in both the local and state high school finals. She won second place in the barrels, thus qualifying for the national contest. She also won second place In the senior girls barrel races at Condon, July 4. Dawn's horse, Natalie Risk, registered erected at the entrance to the main exhibit building which will list each day's activities. -The Fair Board will not furnish hay for animals this year: exhibitors must furnish their own feed; but bedding straw will be furnished. Senior citizens (those over 62 years of age) will be given special passes to the fair. Members of the rodeo court will be present at the weekly senior citizens dinners at Heppner. Irrigon and lone to . give out tickets and explain the fair program. This year all exhibitors must pick up a special ter was elected vice-chairman. Dr. Wallace H. Wolff. Ihe outgoing chairman, was noi eligible for re-election, having served two years in succession in that position. The board voted lo develop a trailer home sile on the school properly south of Heppner High School. The possibility of developing such a site came up for discussion earlier in Ihe year when Heppner High School was experiencing van dalism around the school grounds. Il was felt by Ihe board that having someone living on "the school property could serve as a deterrent to further vandalism. In ils motion Ihe Ixiard slated lhal the sile could only he rented In sc hool personnel The theorv behind Ihe "teach- national wheat forecast at 2 2 billion bushels. 22 per cent above the previous record crop of 1974. The Oregon barley crop w ill be smaller this year as acreage is down one-tenth. Production is expected to total ft. I million bushels. It) per cent below that of last year. Nationwide, the barley crop is placed at 395 million bushels, an increase of 2S per cent over last year. ( OWIK IIATIIWV AV (.KTS B DKGKFK Connie Louise Hathaway, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Hathaway, was among the 338 Spring Quarter graduates from Seattle Pacific College. Seattle. Connie graduated with a BA degree in history. quarterhorse, will also make the trip to Gallup. Dawn's mother and Mary Healy, Heppner, who barely missed qualifying for the nationals, will accompany her. An estimated 900 to 1.200 high school contestants will participate in the national event. Each state's entrants will carry their state flag and wear special costume vests to identify them. The Oregon group will carry the Oregon flag and wear special vests of navy blue with the Oregon stale emblem emblazoned on them. All w ill take part In the Grand Entry They are expected to return lo Morrow County on Aug. 13. exhibitor's pass at the main office. This pass must be shown for entrance to all events. 1 1 overnight trailer spaces will Ik- available on the fairgrounds. Reservations should be made by calling Fair Secretary Liz Curtis. A Fun Nighl will be held Wednesday night at the fair. A chicken dinner catered by Kentucky Fried Chicken of Hermiston will be served by members of the Fair Board and Fair Committee: an antique auction will be held from 7 to 8 pm. by the erage" lund for Ihe Morrow County School District is to provide some housing for school employees when ade quate housing was difficult to lind in Ihe community. The Ixiard slated lhal whoever lived on the sile will not be asked to patrol ihe grounds, however Susan Black was hired as Ihe 5th and 6th grade teacher at A C. Houghton in Irrigon. Shane Fritz was hired to leach junior high social studies and high school Spanish al River side Michael Gorman was hired to the 7lh and 8lh grade science position at Heppner -Elementary Kllen Nussbaum uill leach language arts and serve as the dance learn advisor at Heppner High. Vera Skow was hired to the 2nd grade (misiIioii at lone. German student leaving Heppner 's first year-long lorcign student leaves today. July 14. on Ihe first leg of his journey home Jann Nissen has found attending classes at Heppner High "easier than in my own school." He says that his year as a member of Ihe Robert Jones ' household has been helplul in several ways. "It has helped me feel at home with the English lan guage. Il has also given me practice in adjusting to new surroundings, to new situa tions " Jann showed slides of his home community to the Heppner Soroptimists and to the lone Topic Club during his stay . The first slop on his way home w ill lie al San Francisco. Bicentennial Commission: a king and queen of the fair coronation is also expected to lake place under auspices of the Bicentennial Commission: and there will be a musical hour featuring the "Sweet Adelines" from Pendleton and oi her acts yet to be scheduled. The cost of the entire Fun Night, including the chicken dinner, is $2. The group recommended buying new display tables for the exhibit building. It also set Aug. 3 as Work Day. at which lime all citizens are invited to do their share in getting the Fuel bids w ere reviewed In Ihe case of bulk gas and fuel and diesel oil there was only one bid due to established allotments However, there were two bids for anti-freeze. The bid was awarded to Miles Tire Serv ice at S3 60 per gallon The Peterson-Carlson bus run was awarded to the lone bidder. luis Carlson, for -III cents per mile No bids were received for Ihe Adon Hamlctt run Court princess Saturday night is Barbara's night! Between attending beaut v school and serving as a princess on Ihe Morrow Coun ty Fair and Rodeo Court, tone's Barbara Palmer is hav ing a busy summer. Blonde Barbara graduated from lone High School in May and entered beauty school in The Dalles early in July, and has found herself traveling between school and court appearances ever since. Beauty school usually takes 15 months, but because of her court activities il will take her Ui to complete the course Rodeos and parades are not new lo Barbara. For the past two years she has been a pennant bearer for the court. Her "full of life" twin sisters are following in big sister's footsteps. Fifteen-year-old Donna and Debra are pennant bearers this year. A lot of support and encouragement comes from the youngest of s; : s. . j . , .4 - ' 4 r X,- PRINCESS BARBARA ryiJS' fiV V.', fair grounds readied for opening day. Members of the Morrow County Fair Board are Zearl Gillespie, chairman: Paul Hisler. Dr. Jim Norene. Floyd Jones. George Luciani. Liz Curtis, secretary -treasurer: and Hazel Bauman. general building superintendent. Fair Committee members include Delpha Jones, chair man; Mrs. Alvin McCabe. secretary: Leanne Rea. Alvin McCabe. Barbara Hug. Mary Lou Deltoso. Dick Sargent. Virginia Grieb. Hal Whitaker and Floyd Jones, advisor from the Fair Board. The board approved the use ol a bus by the Heppner Day Care Center to transport children to and from the center in Ihe swimming pool, provided Ihe center paid all costs, provided insurance and licensed bus driver and ob tained Ihe required license. Kenneth Broadbenl was ab sent trnm the meeting. The next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday. Aug. 18. al Heppner High School. the Palmer girls. 11-year-old Anita. Princess Barbara is the daughter of Lee and Marianne Palmer. They own a ranch outside of lone on which they raise wheat, hay. cattle and sheep Her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Palmer of lone and Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Nash of Heppner. are proud of Barbara's accomplishments. She enjoys all the usual hobbies sw imming and horse back riding. She is especially good at leathercraft. She also enjoys a hobby not practiced by many in her community. She does Indian bead work. Barbara has taught herself to do bead work and has been enjoying the craft for about three years. She says she uses some patterns but creates many of the designs herself. Lee Palmer will miss his daughter's help on the ranch (Continued on Page!) T.I PALMER - v
