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ntGOU NE175 Frances Rost wyson The family of Mr. & Mrs. Elbert Eppenbach gathered to honor them on their 44th wedding anniversary, Jan. 11. They were married in 1932 In Gering NE, They returned for visit on a summer vacation trip several years ago. How ever, they have raised their family of 8 children In Irrigon, having lived here 25 years or more. Mr. Eppenbach is a member of the Irrigon City Council and his son heads the planning commission. Their daughters, Mrs. Gene (Judy) Cunningham and Mrs. Gary Baird brought the beau tifully decorated cakes for the occasion. Another daughter Mrs. John (Elnorah) Marlow was unable to attend as she was still in the Umatilla Hospital after the birth of . their daughter Angela Ruth, Born Jan. 10. This was the 14th grandchild for the Eppen bachs. Those who were there in cluded Mr. and Mrs. Donald Eppenbach and son, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Eppenbach, Mark and Lisa; Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Eppenbach and fami ly, Hermiston; Mr. and Mrs. Gene Cunningham and family, Richland, WA; John Marlow and children; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Matlack and daugh ters, Hermiston; Mr. and Mrs. Gry Baird, Pendleton and John Eppenbach who lives with his parents in Irrigon. There will be a "Community Sing" sponsored by the local churches, Thursday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m. It will be in the school auditorium. The Good News Singers will be on the pro gram. Everyone is invited to attend. A group of 18 young people, accompanied by Pastor Bob Schmoll, spent a day in the 10 over Invoice Few models left plus set up delivery MADISON PACIFIC Mobile Homes of Hermiston Hermiston McNary HiWay Attention lone, Lexington and Eight Mile area farmers r; r. I Aft snow Saturday at Cutsforth Park above Heppner. While the snow was icy and not in the best condition for sledding, they reported a good time was had by all. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Johnson plan to spend the week visiting both of their families at Jerome, ID. During their absence a nephew, his wife and 3 month-old baby, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Sturgeon, Hermis ton, will stay with the John son's four teenage children at their home on 8th Street. Mr. Johnson was working with the crew who recently completed improvements on McNary Dam, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fro berg were called to Tacoma to attend the funeral of Mrs. Froberg's brother-in-law. They also visited relatives In Custer and Bellingham. Mr. and Mrs. Al Partlow drove to Vancouver, WA Friday evening, where they met their daughter, Sheryl, who is a student at Seattle Pacific College. Saturday night, they attend ed the Seattle Pacific vs Portland State basketball game. Following the game, Sherry and other members of the Seattle Pacific Rally Squad spent the night at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Gene Berg and Ron, with a party celebrating Sherry's birthday. Dan and Sharron Bell went to The Dalles Monday for business. Mr. and Mrs. Don Hardwick went to Portland Wednesday on business. Factory Direct 567-2360 Si PHIL BOWMAN Phil Bowman is the new manager of the Jordan Elevator Company. He replaces Paul Pettyjohn, who has been with the company for the past 33 years. Jordan Elevator has grain storage facilities for 400,000 bushels and is equipped with a 70 foot truck scale. Market Informa tion is available by calling 422-7148. Jordan Elevator Company onumcnt A bingo game was held at the Grange Hall Friday night with a large crowd attending. Refreshments were served. The Monument Grazing As sociation met Monday night at the Tom Campbell home. All but two members were pre sent. Dick Corbett of the BLM was a guest. Some of the members are still out several head of cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Teen Miller returned home Monday after spending the weekend at Eugene and Salem, Mr. Miller had been in Eugene for sever al weeks for medical atten tion. We are all happy to have Teen home again. Mrs. Harold Reynolds re turned home Sunday evening from Portland. Harold had major surgery Thursday ev ening at the Good Samaritan Hospital. Mrs. Stella McCarty accompanied Mrs. Reynolds to Heppner. Bill Elder, Ontario, took his brother Joe Elder home for medical attention. Mr. and Mrs. Larry GrassI and daughter moved to Prine ville last week. Mrs. Allen Hatley took Mrs. Johnnie Gienger to John Day Friday for medical attention. Mrs. Marvin Nichols and Mrs. Freda Tubbs went to John Day Thursday. JORDAN ELEVATOR HAS NEW MANAGER Phil Bowman is the new manager of the Jordan Eleva tor Company. He replaces Paul Pettyjohn who has been manager for the past 33 years. Bowman previously worked for the Condon Grain Grow ers, Condon, and was highly recommended for the new position. He was born in Cottonwood, ID where he attended elementary and high school. Following graduation from high school he attended Lewis-Clark State Business University, Spokane, WA, in business administration ac counting. He and his wife Chris are presently residing in lone. They have a daughter, Karen who is one year old. V. Mountain Logging started hauling logs on the Cotton wood road Wednesday. They are logging in the Squaw Creek area. Stan Powells are also hauling logs from Cotton wood. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Fitze spent Wednesday and Thurs day in Redmond and Bend. They visited Mrs. Fitze's sis ter Mrs. Mike Miksche at the Bend Hospital. I- Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fenton, Prineville were visitors in Monument Friday. Mr. Fen ton is the State Deputy of the Grange for the eastern region. Larry and Gary Warner spent the weekend with their aunt Mrs. Gayle Engle. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Howell and children spent Sunday at the Engle home. Bob Corley spent the week end in Pendleton. Bill Smith returned home Monday after spending sever al days in the John Day Hospital after surgery. Obituaries JOHN ORVILLE WATSON John Orville Watson died Monday, January 26 at Brooks Army Hospital at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX. John was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Watson (nee Lisa Cutsforth) Dec. 5, 1975, at Fort Polk, LA. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Watson. Grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Orville Cutsforth, John Watson. Covington, TN and Dorothy Mangiaiardi, Memphis, TN. Great-grandmother. Minerva Denslinger, The Dalles. OR. Graveside services will be held Friday afternoon. Swe eney Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. FLOSSIE COATES BALL Funeral services were held for Flossie Coates Bell at the Boardman Community Chur ch. Mrs. Ball died Tuesday, January 13 from a heart attack. Mrs. Ball was born Febru ary 14, 1900 in Colby. KS. She came to Oregon with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barlow in 1901. settling in the Gooseberry area. Flossie Coats Ball and Roy Ball were married at Board man in 1969. She worked for the Pacific Telephone Company for many years, beginning her service in Heppner. In 1927, she moved to Boardman. She was employed by the U.S. Post Office Department as a sub stitute postal clerk in 1945. In January 1954. Mrs. Ball be came Postmaster. She retired from this position January l9. She was a member of the Boardman Community Chur ch, the garden club and the Greenfield Grange. Surviving are the widower. Roy Ball, Boardman; daugh ter, Mrs Echo Mallory; Seattle. WA; two great grand children and one great-grandchild. Burial was held at the Riverview Cemetery. January 16. New shipment of 1976 Datsun pickups, cars and sportscars. Check KTIX coupon books for service specials. See Dan Hayes, mgr. or Larry Brown. Used cars & Trucks 1974 DatSUn 610 Wagon stick. air e4. 1973 Charger spui Mitkm. u. nie. a-t 1973 Datsun Kouutkk 1972 Chev. Blazer 4x4 kite. sua. r.s. 1972 Dodge flatbed truck, .p 1972 Chev. Van 4 ton, c.rpt, 10?1 94ft 7 cherry red Hack Interior. IT I 111-A .tfck.McfLw. Marbro Datson raves THE PRESLE Y HARRIS FAMILIES By Justine Weatherfor4 The story of the Presley-Harris families is a look backward at the present Fred Hoskins Jr. ranch, north of Heppner, which Joins the south fence of the Willow Creek Country Club. The land was originally homesteaded by Mr. and Mrs. James Ferguson. The parcel was later owned by the Oscar Minor's, the Benge's, the Frank Parker's, and lastly by the Hoskins.' Mellie Harris, granddaughter of the Fergusons, lives in Heppner, along the Heppner-Lexington highway. Her husband, Andrew Thomas Harris, died at the age of 90 in 1974. Mrs. Harris was Mellie Presley before her marriage. Her mother, Julia Ferguson, was born on the present Hoskins property in the house Mellie's grandfather, James Ferguson built. Julia Ferguson married Dave Presley, the son of a Butter Creek homesteader. Thus Mellie is related to two pioneer families and is closely identified with a third family, the George Vinsons. Butter Creek pioneers. Her paternal grandparents, the Ransom Presleys, homesteaded on Butter Creek where the Bill Healy ranch is presently situated. Her grandmother, Caroline Presley, came from England. After the death of her first husband. Ransom Presley, she married George Vinson, another Butter Creek rancher. Mellie's father, Dave, who had inherited his parent's ranch, sold it and bought land near Lena where the Eb Hughes are now. Mellie's mother, Julia, died when Mellie and her brother Elmer were young, and they went to live with their grandmother and step-grandfather on the George Vinson homestead, which is still the Vinson place. Elmer Presley was one of three Morrow County boys killed during World War I. He served with the U S. Navy. Tom Harris came with his parents from Minnesota, to live in Pendleton after his father's retirement. The antiques in the present Harris home are from his parents the old things from the Presley family were lost in the floods. The torn Harrises have two living children, a daughter, Julia, now Mrs. Harold Hill, Coos Bay and a son, Darrell, who lives on the Harris ranch on upper Rhea Creek. Julia's three children, sons Dale and Clayton and daughter Creagh, (Mrs. Jim Williams), all live in Coos Bay. Dale teaches school at Empire and Clayton works for Standard Recapping. Creagh's husband is employed by the Bonneville Power Co. Darrell Harris is a custodian at Heppner Elementary School. His wife, the former Creth Craber, helps run the Wright's Country Store, Ruggs. They have two sons, Bob and John. Bob is in the U.S. Air Force at Homestead AFB, FL. He married Betty Angell, a registered nurse who formerly worked at Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Their son, Bradley Steven Harris, is now 18 months old. John Harris is employed at the Don Anderson ranch, near Arlington. He married Sherri Harrod, Vale. Mellie and Tom Harris lost a daughter, June, as a child and son, Renn, in a logging accident. Renn's daughter, Sheryl (Mrs. Donald Hevener), lives in McMinnville, where her husband owns and operates a service station. Renn's son, Renne Harris, is an ordained Episcopal minister in Portland. Mrs. Eileen Saling is Sheryl and the Rev. Harris's mother, and Mrs. Lena Kelly, also of Heppner is their maternal grandmother. Mellie Harris was employed by Pioneer Memorial Hospital for many years and continued to work there until past 80. She is now retired and has time for reading, gardening, and her many other interests. She has personal involvement with much of the area's history. LEXINGTON NEWS By Delpha Jones Mr. and Mrs. Norman Nelson and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Jones returned Sunday from a two-week trip to Phoenix. AZ. The Nelsons visited with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Beach, former Lexington residents and with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hosbald, former residents of Heppner. The Jones's visited Mr. and Mrs. John Hemery of Cochise, AZ. The Hemerys celebrated their 20th anniver sary of their arrival to the United States to Lexington from Scotland. The Jones's also visited Irene Graham, Phoenix, AZ. The travelers returned to Lexington via the California route, where they enjoyed many interesting si ghts. Mrs. Charles McConnell. Enterprise, is visiting with her new grandson, Samuel Sean and his family. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Sumner. Pendleton 276-0330 Page 3, THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Heppner. OR. Thursday. Jan. 29, 1976 Bicentennial Forum Micheal Kane, San Fran cisco. CA is visiting Mr. and Mrs. William J. Van Winkle. Mr. Kane is employed in Pasco. Florence McMillan returned home Friday from Pendleton where she has been visiting at the home of George E. Irwin. Carlita Marquardt is at tending beauty college in Portland. Venice Hendrickson is visit ing friends and her sister in Klamath Falls this week. in f) THE ENJOYING THE FRUITS OF LABOR "Oh, why don't you work like other men do. How the hell can I work when there's no work to do? Halleluijah I'm. a bum." Harry. McClintock. "A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things." Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746. "They talk of the dignity leisure." Herman Melville. Many Americans in the future are likely to be working less and less, and retiring earlier and earlier. Already, large numbers work on a four-day week and enjoy a month or so of vacation. What do we do with all that leisure time? The question would have bewildered our ancestors; well into the 20th century, many of them worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week, in mills, mines and factories. Leisure was rare and highly prized; and until recently, most Americans thought it the prerogative of the very wealthy-or the very decadent. With more and more leisure, do we value it less? Do we live to work, or do we work to live? In the mid-19th century a British traveler wrote of Americans: "The money-making faculty is alone cultivated ... All is confined to trade, finance, law and small, local provincial information." Are we indeed lost when we suspend our money-making faculty our work? We have Hollywood and Broadway, the record and book businesses, mass spectator entertainments ranging from rock concerts to professional sports; leisure has become an industry itself! But do we really know how to relax? Great wealth has encouraged great art in other cultures. What is the quality of our cultural life? Will the arts flourish with greater leisure? Will politics and voluntary service? What is leisure for? Connecticut enacts "Blue Laws" in the 17th century to punish Sabbath offenders. One such law reads: "No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting." Public education creates a large audience for the arts, encouraging the growth of native schools of writing, painting and music. The period 1830 to 1860 sees a literary renaissance: Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Greenleaf Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthor ne, Oliver Wendall Holmes and James Russell Lowell are all producing at this time. In 1973 Americans spend $52.3 billion on recreation and that sum doesn't even include travel items, $2.9 billion for admissions to spectator events, $5 billion for magazines, newspapers and sheet music, $2.2 billion on amusement parks. 2 - 4D SALE ii $10.95 Per gal. In 55', n NEW STOCK II 6 lb. Butyl Ester Let us have your orders now before the price Increase. i Pettyjohn Oil Co. lone, Oregon 422-7254 orvico will be in Heppner every Thursday, starting Februarys, in motor home at Cat's Arco. Hours 10 a.m. 5 p.m., later appts. taken. More information contact Hermiston Office, 567-8498 If ICO M E TAX FEOilE 102S North First St. Hermiston of work Bosh. The dignity is in n L1
