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SPRAY NEWS On Thursday Misty Eve Bowler was one year old and her parents, Jim and Ellen, entertained the following at their home in the evening in observance of that date: Misty's grandparents, Hubert and Goldie Asher and Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Cress, the Johnny Ashers and son Frank, Robert and Anita Cody, Beverly Asher and son Todd, Bonnie Mortimer and son Dean, Fossil, Buell and Suzy Gon zales and son Buell, Wilbur and Judy Alford and Jason and Brandyn Swiggert; Larry and Marcie Brisbots of Board man. Refreshments of birth day cake, punch and coffee were served. Mrs. Don Troxell is at home again and recovering rapidly following her recent surgery at a Prineville hospital. Mrs. Tom Troxell ibrought June home on Thursday. The Ed Enyarts were busi ness visitors in Pendleton, Condon, John Day and Hepp ner throughout the week. Ed is finishing new kitchen cabinets at their home which will complete the Enyarts exten sive remodeling. Mrs. Ray Britt spent last weekend at Hermiston visiting her parents, the John Hopp ers. Edna and John have been at the home of their son and family, Bob and Neva, in that city since Edna's recent illness and hospitalization. Marie states she found her mother's condition somewhat improved and tentative plans are being made for the Hoppers return to their home in Heppner. The Spray Grange held its monthly card party and pot luck supper on Tuesday even ing at the local hall. Jodi Brisbois, Rita Thomp son and Helen Troxell have spent Friday in Spray with the school's drill team, complet ing red and white pom poms and instructing the girls in practice. Members of the team in clude Yvonne Walden, Tam my and Linda Richardson, Tammy Pine, Lisa and Dean na McGuire, Deena Thomp- r 1 llrrmlston SI ore 1CJAYHES) i Ibusihess , iilACHCIES K2S.M.I. nc. ndlrton, OR.I7S444I Richard Wellman I Tr.rfr Owner-Manager J2rt:sSS Jerry Haines OKttiwtwx'V1"' fa-Owner Mats what you get when you purchase your printing needs from the Gazette - Times printing office. You save, not only in cash but in time. Money you can get more of but time is a fixed asset. Call 676-9228 and tell us your requirements. We will be glad to help you plan and complete your printing needs. Save by shopping in your own town. By son Donna Baldwin, Marsha Troxell, Michel Hamilton and Carolyn Kendall. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Quigley, Ashland, are announcing the birth of their second child. Heidi weighed 9 lb., 13 oz and Joins a sister Heather. Grand parents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sanders, Ukiah, CA. Great grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sanders and Ruth Adams, all of Spray. And now, speaking weather wise, there are a few robins, a few budding things and, to date, at least one tick out and about, and that blood-thirsty individual with the tenacity of a vampire. Long before the days of TV, weather casters, the late John Asher, one of the great old timers and one I enjoy remembering, termed similar spring-like interludes in mid winter, "weather-breeders." He didn't often miss. Today we leave the elemental predi ctions to KOIN's Dr. John and get caught with our snow treads down. Changing world. Ray and Geraldine Gates left early Sunday for Rich land, WA, where Ray's broth er. Billy, is a patient at Kadlec Hospital and underwent sur gery on Friday. The Spray Eagles traveled to Long Creek Jan. 10 to meet the Mountaineers in basket ball action that saw the Eagles losing three games. Although the Eagle JVs played a good game, Long Creek took it over and ran for the finish, leaving the Eagles in their dust with a score of 53 36. High point, man for the Mountaineers was Russ Hes- lee with 15, followed by Morris and Robert Taylor with 8 points each. Spray's Bobby Fisher pum ped in points to be the Eagles high pointer, with John Grif fith making 8. The Spray girls team played poorly, losing to. Long Creek 37-U. Spray's Diane Petersen made all eleven points. Just as the two games precceding it. the varsity game ended tragically for the Eagles. The Mountaineers woo that contest 72-42, despite the hard fought game by Spray. MARY WILLIAMS Long Creek's Terry Johns 24 points, followed by Ron Be enette's 9 were the high points of the game. High pointers for Spray were Mike Adams with 13 and Jim Gardainer with 10 points. The Crane Mustangs ven tured to Spray to meet the Eagles Jan. 9 which resulted in a split for the Eagles. The Mustang JVs grabbed an early lead in the game and held on to defeat the Eagles . 43-26. High point player for Crane was M. McLean with 10 followed by G. Selly with 8. Spray's high point men were Dan Gardanier and Steve Hyde with 8 points each, followed by John Griffith with 6. The Eagles varsity squad, ready and waiting for their game, expanded a 12-5 lead they had captured In the first quarter and went on to win that contest with a score of 57-33. High pointers in the varsity game were Ty Hendricks, 12 and John Witzer, 8 for the Crane team. Frank Asher 24 and Jim Gardanier with 12 for the Spray team. The Spray Eagles met the Monument Savages Jan. 16 in games that ended in two defeats for Spray. The JV game saw both teams battling for the lead. At half-time, however, the score board showed that Spray was on the top with a score of 15-9. The game was a hard struggle for Spray and its op position, right to the end. The Savages pulled the game off by only one point, winning the game 35-34. High pointers for Spray were Jimmy Adams and Dan Gardanier, both with 9. High point player for Monument was Hughes with 13 points. Spray's varsity squad fared no better, losing their game 94-59. What hindered Spray was the fact that by the end of the fourth quarter, only 4 players were left to battle the Savages, many of the team members having fouled out or had played their five quarters. On Jan. 17 the Mt. Vernon Bears traveled to Spray. They played a varsity game that was tough for Mt. Vernon, who had only five players. But they showed their skill and played a good game. Spray came out on top with a 72-63 win. Mt. Vernon's high scorer was John Harper with 48 points, followed by Jeff Har per with 7. High pointer for Spray was Dan Gardanier with 14. fol lowed by John Griffith with 13. The Spray girls played a good game with the Mt. Vernon girls, but forfeited the game so they could finish with all five girls. Ploy Therapy By Terry D. Hlml, ACSW Another mode of treatment frequently used at the Morrow County Mental Health Clinic is play therapy. As one might Imagine, play therapy is used in treating children and sometimes families who have small children. The youngest child that I've used play therapy with was a seven month old baby and it is generally used with children to about age fourteen, depending how verbal the child may be. With adolescents, a combination of both play therapy and traditional talk therapy may be used. Play therapy is Just that: the therapist plays games with the child patient. A child expresses his anxieties, fears, hostilities and frustrations through his play, so that the therapist can learn what is bothering a particular child. Also, once the therapist finds out what is bothering the child, the clinician can guide the play to assist the child in expressing himself. If the child can express his feelings through his toys and-or dolls, they become less threatening to him. The therapist becomes the model parent for the child, and the child transfers the feeling he has for his parents onto the therapist. The therapist then has to assist the child in expressing these feelings and must also give appropriate comments to the child in order to assist him in feeling better about himself. Probably the best way to try to understand this is by my giving an example of a case I had in another state.The child was a nine-year-old boy whose parents were divorced who was living with his mother and two younger sisters. In the first session I explained the two rules of play therapy session: (1) you can do anything you want, but you cannot destroy any property, including the toys, and (2) you cannot do physical harm to yourself or the therapist. With that the boy, Randy (not his real name), immediately went for the suction-cup dart game and proceeded to shot it at me. He was told if he did that again he would not be allowed to play with the guns. Randy shot another one at me, hence, I immediately took the gun away from him. Randy then picked up the metal darts which he pretended to throw at me. I again set the limit, he could not even pretend to throw these darts at me. Randy abided by the limit and used the dart board. The rest of the hour was spent with Randy throwing the darts. The next session I obtained a punching bag which Randy would punch until he was literally exhausted and fell panting to the floor, where he'd rest a minute and go at it again. The next three sessions Randy spent only half the hour punching the bag, during the second half he wanted to play something together. Up until this time Randy's hostility prevented him from having a two-way relationship. At this point, I also started allowing him to hit my hands, during which he would occasionally lose control and start hitting me all over, at which time I would physically restrain him. Part of the anxiety and fear that children have in expressing their hostility is that they will literally destroy the person at whom the hositlity is directed: hence they bottle their feelings up inside. The therapist has to not only verbalize to the child that the child cannot destroy him, but must also illustrate it in his actions. Frequently a child will use his doll to express his feelings through, and if confronted about these feelings being their own, they'll respond, "Oh, me, that's the doll saying that!" Or if the feelings they are expressing become too scary for them, they might say "remember we're Just pretending!" This is a way they can reassure themselves it isn't really happening, hence there's nothing to fear. In each session with Randy his hostility decreased, and he started spending more and more of the hour interacting with me. As he gained better control of his feelings he started feeling better about himself, which also made it easier for him to control his feelings. In my final session with Randy he came up to me and placed his hands on each side of my cheeks and gently squeezed. He then asked, "Are you sad?" I reassured Randy that I was, that our relationship meant something to me too. With that he went smiling and skipping out of the room. Some of the problems that had been resolved for Randy, and which are also very common with other children, were: ( 1 ) learning that he didn't cause the divorce of his parents; (2) the expression of the anger he felt and toward his father, since Randy felt rejected; ( 3 ) learning that his anger would not destroy the therapist ; (4) learning appropriate ways to express anger and the fact it is necessary to express anger rather than bottle it up; (5) learning that his mother would not leave him like his father had; (6) learning that his mother would not destroy him, as he felt she had done to his father. Randy had gone from feeling the world was dangerously overwhelming and that he was worthless, so that he had totally withdrawn, to feeling very good about himself and viewing the world as a friendly, secure environment with which he wanted to interact. In the next week's article we'll discuss more aspects of children and play therapy. Change In phone service After Monday, Jan. 26, Heppner residents with one and two-party telephone ser vice will no longer hear the operator ask for their num bers when they dial long dist ance calls. Special equipment will be gin registering the originating number automatically, as well as the number called, for billing purposes. The service, Automatic Number Identifi cation (A.M. does not mean operators have been replaced. says Dale Slu&her, Pacific Northwest Bell manager. "Operators are still on duty around the clock, ready to help out in emergencies," he said, "or to handle collect calls, calls billed to third number, and person-to person calls." AM service, already In use In many other Oregon com munities, will progressively become universal throughout PNB's phone system, Slusher says. slaughter beef Monday & Wednesday Hogs Friday Follelt Meat Co. Hermiston 567-4651 H't accept farm kills Exclusive ground-hugging Flax - The really big ones, with capacity to take ad vantage of the extra big-acreage pull-power of today"s modern high horsepower 4-wheel drive tractors. There are no other plows like them with exclusive two-piece main frame, hinged in the center. Bottoms lollow contours to plow uniform depths In rolling fields, eliminate "gouging" or "bridging" as with comparable size rigid frame plows. Center land flotation wheels gauge n Page Kinzurj A bake sale will be held at the Kinzua store from 9 a.m. until they sell out Saturday, Jan. 31. The sale will be sponsored by the second year 4-H club of Kinzua, so come on dow you can enjoy some home made goodies without going to the trouble of making them yourself. The Friendship Club held their monthly meeting Wed nesday at the Kinzua school. Winning high was Patsy McMinn and Betty Benson took second high. Pinochles were won by Sharron Bell and Laurie Hire. Other members present were Shirley Orr, Margie Ball, Dinah Jackson and Hazel Jackson. Joining the club members for refresh ments and entertainment aft er they finished playing cards was Charlie Bee. Lance and Hollie Van Meter and two-week-old son, Clay ton, Nyssa arrived Saturday for a visit with Lance's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Pike. They returned home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Yeigh went to Madras Saturday to visit former Kinzua residents, Mrs. Maxine Lemley and children Kenny and Sandra. Raymond Yeigh was in Kinzua this weekend to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Yeigh. Ray is pre sently employed at Kinzua Corp. plywood plant, Heppner. Making warm You call we come - Gasolines Reg. - Ethyl - Unleaded Accessories Truck & passenger tires, batteries, fan belts:, antifreeze, spark plugs, oil & air filters f.lOBIl Serving you is our future International' 80 O Frama EJIo!iJi30rd PIouus St ui for drills. Eaty n (? sorrow rain fqvjq?Ghl Your Friendly Local Cecperettve Lexington 7, THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Heppner, OR, Thursday, Jan. 29, 1976 Hows ., r Barbara Bob and Vera Dyer went to The Dalles Saturday to do some shopping. Arlet and Bonnie Campbell, Andrea and Roger Mortimore went to Dufer Saturday to attend the basketball game. Before returning home they went shopping in The Dalles. Bernard and Carol Dyer and their sons went to The Dalles Saturday to do some shopping and to take the youngest boy to the doctor. Mrs. Bob Dyer went to Heppner Monday for dental attention. A large group of Kinzua residents attended the Dufer game Saturday night to enjoy the victory earned by the Falcons varsity squad and our brand new girls team. The JVs loss by one point did not lessen the pride we all feel for our teams. Waneta and Doyal Hubbell and Robbie were among the Wheeler rooters. After the game they were joined by Charleen for an overnight stay at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Winans, The Dalles. They also had a short visit with their other daughter, Judy before returning home Sunday. Mrs. Iris Morley and Mrs. Jeannie Morley went to Pen dleton Monday for medical attention. friends is our business. Distillates Furnace oil, Stove oil, Diesel otor Oils Automotive & Diesel also Mobil's newest oil, Mobil I Let the country boys from Mobiland serve you in Morrow, Umatilla and most of Gilliam Counties. Paul Pettyjohn Co. cull 422-7254 lone, Oregon giants plowing depth, serve as pivot point to permit short turns. Big 9, 10. 11 and 12-furrow 18-ln. sizes, auto matic reset beams. Extra high 33-in. vertical clearance. Full castering front and rear furrow wheels. Dial-type hitch narrows plow width for safe, convenient transport. financa plant available. epyYynnn Pike Enjoying the Crescent Lake snowmobile racing this week end were Raymond and Deana Reid. Chuck and Melba Mit chell. Bill McConnell. Marcia Freeman. Lynn Morley and Beverly Cress. Guests at the home of Marty and Vic Wallis this weekend . were Marty's brother and sister-in-law Jay and Retta Baker, Bonners Ferry. ID. The Bakers left Sunday to visit other relatives at Hood River and Bengin, WA. Betty Benson, daughter-in-law Jill and grandson Jared were in The Dalles Saturday to do some shopping. Dave and Sara Riney. Prineville arrived Friday ev ening to spend the weekend with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jiggs Bowman. While here they attended the Whe-ler-Culver basketball game. Frank and Patty Burres and children Jackie, Richard and Shayne went to Prineville Friday night after the basket ball game to spend the weekend at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Powers. The Burres had to leave the ball game early when young Shayne fell and had to be taken to Condon for stitches. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Williams and children went to Redmond on Saturday to visit James McClain. The Williams re turned home Sunday evening. n
