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Page 3, THE GAZETTE-TIMES. Heppner. OR. Thursday. Feb. 26. 1976 Public Notice Obituaries Diccnfconiil Foroo The Morrow County School District, located at Box 368, l.elnglon. Oregon, today announced Hi policy for free and reduced price meals and free milk for children unable to pay the full price of meals end milk served under the National School Lunch, and Special Milk Programs. Local school officials have adopted the following family lie Income criteria for determining eligibility: Family Size I 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 Each additional family member Children from families whose Income Is at or below the levels shown are eligible for free or reduced price meals or free milk. In addition, families not meeting these criteria but with other unuiual expenses due to unusually high medical expenses, shrlter costs In excess of 38 per cent of Income, special education expenses due to the mental or physical condition of a child, and disaster or casualty loses are urged to apply. Application forms are being tent to all homes In a letter to parents. Also, copies are available at the Principal's office In each school. The Information provided on the application Is confidential and will be used only for the purpose of determining eligibility. Applications may be submitted at any time during the year. In certain cases foster children are also eligible for these benefits. If a family has foster children living with them and wishes to apply for surh meals and milk for them, it should contact the school. Under the provisions of the policy, building Principals will review applications and determine eligibility. If a parent is dissatisfied with the ruling of the official, he may wish to discuss the decision with the determining official on an Informal basis. If be wishes to make a formal appeal, he may make a request either oraiiy or in writing to Matt Doherty. Box 368, Lexington, Oregon; phone ttt-8in, for a hearing to appeal the decision. The policy contains an outline of the hearing procedure. If a family member becomes unemployed or if family sire changes, the family should contact the school to file a new application. Such changes may make the children of the family eligible for reduced price meals, or for additional benefits surh as free meals and milk of the family Income fails at or below the levels shown above. In the operation of child feeding programs, no child will be discriminated against because of race, sex, color, or national origin. Fach school and the office of the Superintendent has a copy of the complete polc nirn mv reviewed by any interested party. Published Feb. 2. IS7t lias . w 1968 CheV 'i ton. 4 speed with canopy mirrows. heavy duty bumpers $1595.00 1972 CheV Van fully carpeted. 4 speed. excellent condition $2495.00 1974 DatSUfl 'iton pickup. 4 speed. one owner new tires. 8.000 miles, $2895.00 1972 Chev Blazer 4 x 4. 1 mileage $3995.00 1966 CheV 't tn pickup, 4 speed, radio $995.00 1966 International Suburban carry all. 4 x 4. passenger $1295.00 1960 International 'iton pickup. 4 speed $395.00 Many more cars & pickups to choose fromFinancing available. See Dan .Larry and I.) le riK- huJvi , MORROW COUNTY, .SCHOOL .DISTRICT .NO. J ,u- (H-yimiih- JuK I.Hjfi. J detailed jiiJ lunur.ed M-. j juvuntin hai. jiiJ 1 iv -J if jii. and Hun fllcvt on this .p ol ll.tf Mgi d.vumciit Morrow County School ii i - ' - - . l(;.ivirii(w A,JI A... j . a am. . The DlStHCt Office 11 " ii in r " Income levels Income levels for free meals for reduced and free milk 3,230 4.240 5,250 6,260 7,190 I, 110 8,950 9,790 10,550 II, 310 12.000 12,810 750 price meals 5,040 6,620 8,200 9,770 11.210 12,650 13,970 15,280 16,460 17.640 18,820 20,000 1,180 i?i.oimio Pilarbro Datson 276 0330 NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING i not cmwi-r.! with ttif jhn.unimt! Kim uvd dunr the buJI t Kl Mill mi ju j.'inpjnin? suliwnl nu be iitxpevkJ u obtained District Directors,,! EDWARD Local bonk official retires Edward M. Kenny, admini strative assistant for the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Spokane, has announ ced plans for retirement effective Feb. 29, 1976. Kenny's announcement ends an agricultural credit career that has spanned 30 years in the Northwest Pro duction Credit System. A native of Heppner, Ore gon, he was reared on a grain and sheep ranch near that eastern Oregon community. Kenny Joined Pendleton Pro duction Credit Association (PCA) in 1946 after 5 years EHL1IG0N NEIVS Frances Rest Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hum announce the engagement of their daughter, Debbie Gro chowski to David Franke, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Franke, all of Irrigon. Hie wedding will be at the Assembly of Cod. March 6, 3 p m. All friends are invited. Both graduated from River side High School. Debbie in 1975 and David in 1970. A bridal shower was given for Debbie Crochowski Mon day evening. It was held at the Lions Clubhouse. Several games were played and she received many lovely gifts. There were 45 ladies present from the community. 1902 HEPPNER TR. Howard has a well selected stock of general merchandise and groceries. M, Lichlenthal has a gen eral shoe store and carries a l.irge slock of footwear. Hart & Blake, the grocers, make a specialty of extra choice groceries The Palm is a very popular place The Crawford Bros., proprietors, are well known Heppner hoyi. They have the best reputation (or putting up the best plate of oysters in the citv c'.md In the I ash. . between the Ii-hiu of QjQQ.&jMis K. ncU1 ?JtLt , m the puffw t liflJinj- i pubk lirariMg on tint John Matthews I ( luii nun ul Morrow llounitl January KENNY with Union Pacific Railroad. At the PCA he advanced to assistant manager, and be came a credit analyst for the FICB of Spokane in 1951. Kenny served in various credit capacities at the Spo kane Bank, including Senior Credit Examiner, Regional Supervisor, and administra tive assistant. In those posi tions he traveled extensively throughout Washington, Ore gon, Idaho and Montana sup ervising PCA lending activi ties. Kenny is a member of the Elks Lodge and the Knights of Columbus. Seventy-five women attend ed the Womens Missionary Council luncheon, Tuesday, Feb. 16 at the Irrigon Assemb ly of God. Mrs. Linda Benin tendi, missionary to Taiwan was guest speaker. Ladies came from Milton Freewater, Pendleton. Stanfield. Hermis lon and Umatilla. The annual meeting of the Jordan Elevator Co. will be held Thursday (tonight) at the Masonic Hall, lone. Following dinner at 6:30 p m. the regular meeting and election of offi cers will be held. Guest speaker will be Gary McKin ney. area superintendent of Pacific Gas Transmission Co. Heppner Hotel. Daniel Gar rison, proprietor. This is a ery popular hotel and is well furnished. George Swaggart is the general agent for the cele brated "clutch wrench", manufactured by Dent and Co. T. Hatten of this city is the inventor. II K. Warren carries a fine slink of groceries and hard ware. Heppner 's Warehouse is one of the largest warehouses of Morrow County. Henry Hepp ner is the manager, assisted bv Phil Conn. ,IXal ua. .71 .,2? Wiul. - M.xlitud Aanul IjM two oai M.i..i vlunpcv lnveinuit Hod) I Lexington (til) I and , ... .. .T . A IIWfHdJI OI. u k!6. it 2, 1 97S MICHAEL J. DUNHAM Michael J. Dunham, 12, died Feb. 23, 1976 at Pioneer Mem orial Hospital, Heppner. Michael was born Feb. 18, 1964 at Oregon City, OR, and was in the sixth grade at Heppner Elementary School. . Recitation of the Rosary was Tuesday, Feb. 24. 7:30 p.m. at St. Patrick's Church. Funeral Mass was Wed nesday, Feb. 25, at 1 p.m. with the Rev. John O'Brien officia ting. Sacred selections were sung by William Kenny, accom panied by Rikka Tews at the organ. Casket bearers were Rich ard Dunham, Larry Snook. John Dunham, Jerry Simpson. Gene Doherty and Michael Kindle. Concluding services and interment were at Heppner Masonic Cemetery with Swe eney Mortuary in charge of arrangements. Michael is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dunham, two brothers, Brian and Steven, and a sister, Roberta, all of Heppner. W. II. BILLY INSTONE WH. (Billy) Instone, a former Morrow County ran cher, died Feb. IS in Lake Oswego. Mr. Instone was born Dec. 16. 1887 in England and came to Heppner 67 years ago. He worked for Johnny Brosnan and Dillard French for a few years, then filed for a home stead on Butter Creek which . he sold a few years ago. He was a rancher in Morrow County until 1945. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and was a 32nd Degree Mason. He was a veteran of World War I. He is survived by his widow, Etna. Wilsonville; a daughter, Constance, (Mrs. Virgil Hat field). Chehalis: two grand children and three great grandchildren. LYDIA C. SCIIARF Lydia C. Scharf, Rt 3. Box 54A. McMinnville, died Tues day. Feb. 3. in a Salem nursing home. She was 84. A native of Kansas, Mrs. Scharf was raised in Salem. She taught school for several years at Ankeny Hill, between Salem and Albany, before moving to the Middle Grove area northeast of Salem. From 1938 to 1958 she was a correspondent for the Oregon Statesman. She moved to McMinnville in 12 following the death of her husband, William. She was a charter member of Middle Grove Evangelical Church, and member of Mar ion County Extension Service. Amity Club and Farmers Union. Survivors include son Har ry. Salem: daughter Kather ine Thompson. McMinnville: one brother, one sister, six grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. IU CITY OK IIF.ITNF.R Conser t Avers Drug Co. is one of the leading drug firms of the city. J Chris Rorcher at the Farmers and Wool Growers Exchange is a man who knows how to treat customers. He keeps liquors that are guaran teed to be 20 y ears old. These old liquors are fine for medi cinal purposes. Noble t Co harness and saddle manufacturers are well known throughout the northwest, SP. Garrigues is a large implement and feed store Mr. Garrigues handles wagons, buggies and all sorts of vehi cles. Dan P. Doherty. proprietor of the I X L store. This is the place many people go for fine cigars, candies, nut fruits and son drinks. Mr. Doherty has neat place and his stock is fresh and attractive. COLI ritCTltC Netet Bewtadiwf Indu'trUl - Cnmmercisl Fsrm and Home Pemllrton 271 7761 SELLING THE CONSUMER i think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree." Ogden Nash. "We talk about the Ameri can Dream ... but what is that dream in most cases, but the dream of material things?" Eugene O'Neill. "There's a every minute. Barnum. sucker born ' Phineas T. What America makes. Am erica must market. For this reason, the search for new wavs of packaging, promoting and selling products has assumed a decisive place in the American economic sys tem. A huge marketing indus try has grown up to make people aware of and to want a tremendous number of things. Even before the turn of the century the Sears. Roebuck Catalogue had be come a window on a more sophisticated world for hun dreds of thousands of rural families. Later, the mobiliza tion of patriotic sentiment in World War I gave impetus to systematic use of the mass media for advertising and public relations. Today adver tising invades all areas of our lives: we are sold not only on what to buy. but also on what charities to support, where to go. and whom to vote for. To what degree do advertising, merchandising and public re lationsall native vocations DETERMINE OUR TASTE AND INFLUENCE OUR GOALS? Do they condition us to accept half truths and over simplifications, or do they help to create an increasingly critical and aware public? Is advertising a strong educa tional force or do we tend to ignore it? Even the arts and culture have to "sell"; how does this affect our sense of values? French-born Pierre Loril lard sets up a tobacco manu factory, the first in the U.S.. in New York City in 1760. His trademark is an Indian puff ing on a clay pipe and leaning on a barrel labeled "best Virginia." This begins the American tradition of putting a wooden indian in front of tobacco shops. Other trade marks become famous as companies compete for mass markets and thus for quick recognition. Political advertising. Can didates lay out large sums for TV "blitz" campaigns: some times achieve quick popular appeal. The cost of expensive TV lime vastly increases the cost of campaigning. In 1969 Congress establishes a corporation and system for public broadcasting to present educational and cultural pro grams without the need for commercial support. the THE BKCKKTFAM1LY By Justine Weatherford The first of the Becket family to come to Oregon was Cornelius R. Becket. He left his family in Cass County. MO while he visited Oregon, which had been described so gloriously by former neighbors, with a view to relocating here. He traveled with a wagon train to Polk County in 1877, but in 1878 returned to Eastern Oregon's drier and more open terrain and chose the town of Weston. Umatilla County, foi the site of his family's future home. CR. Becket was one of a family of artisans who worked as coopers and carpenters for many generations, so he began building a new house for his family in Weston. He sent for his wife Sarilda Ann and she and their daughter Martha and her husband Stacey Roberts. They came to San Francisco by train, then to Portland by the boat "Jennie Elder" and on to Weston in 1878. Weston was incorporated that year and Cornelius was one of the first councilmen. Weston was booming and he was busy building new homes several still exist. The Becket s son, John William Becket, who had stayed on the farm in Cass County, now yielded to Oregon fever. He, then 26 years old, and his wife Catherine loaded their possessiona and two young daughters, Norma and Mary' into a wagon pulled by eight mules and joined a train captained by Thomas Carle, a pioneer of lone. They arrived at Weston in the fall of 1880. (Miss Mary Becket, going on 97, is a patient at Pioneer Memorial Hospital's nursing home.) The Becket father and son continued to build together until the father was killed in a fall from a house they were building in 1881. The family stayed in Weston until 1883 when J.W. Becket moved them to this area and took up a homestead 5 miles from Lexington toward Willow Forks (Pettysville). They soon sold this place to Mr. Ferguson and returned to Weston where they had a terrible session with typhoid during the winter of 1884-85. In 1886 they returned to the newly formed Morrow County and bought land called the Chenowith quarter in the Eight Mile vicinity which is the nucleus of the present Becket ranch. At that time it was heavy with bunch grass and suited to stock raising. J.W. Becket became a wheat farmer and broke up the sod with a team and a "footburner" (a walking plow. ) Farms were small and there was a family on nearly every quarter section. As equipment developed farms became larger and the Becket Ranch grew considerably. Among their neighbors, most with several children were the Vaughans. Reeds, Haines, Munkers, Robisons, Youngs. Hustons. Barlows and Andersons. The Beckets had children Norma, Mary, Henry. Ralph, Walter. Emma. John and Charlie. Norma married Theodore Anderson, a Swedish immigrant, and they raised their family across the field from her parent's place. They are all dead now. J.W. Becket was a county commissioner in 1896 and ran for sheriff in 1900 but was defeated by Heppner's E L. Matlock. He built the Liberty School about 1890. The building was located southeast of the ranch house, but was moved in the 1903s to its present location, a short distance south of the Becket home. Martha Becket Roberts and husband Stacey lived in the canyon near the Eight Mile area. They had two sons, both of whom died of TB early in the century. Hugh was married and left a daughter, also now deceased. Martha died in 1901 and Stacey married Addie Allen whose family lived on what is called the Greener place near Parker's Mill. In 1907. the "old folks" J.W. and Catherine retired to a home in Portland and their sons farmed the family place. One of the first telephone lines ran from Lexington to the Becket ranch through the barbed wire fence. It was operated by the Leach store in Lexington. J.W. "Bill" Becket operated threshing machines all over this part of the county, sometimes in partnership, sometimes alone. Until the last two or three years of his life he visited the ranch from his Portland home to supervise the threshing operation. In his old age he had several strokes and difficulty in speaking. When a word got away from him he would often substitute the word "wheat", the one word that never failed him. Besides Miss Mary Becket. the only other survivor of the original eight children is John, now 82, a retired Brig. General of the U.S. Marine Corps and who resides in La Jolla, CA. Today's Beckets in Morrow County are Walter's son Laurence, his wife Florence, their son Ron and wife Diane and a daughter Molly who works as a secretary in Heppner. They live on the Eightmile Ranch which Ron now farms. Laurence's mother Carrie Becket is presently in the hospital nursing home. Charlie Beckett's widow Gladys lives on Gale St.. and Ralph's son, Harold Becket and his wife Ruby live on S. Court St., Heppner. Harold (the source of this information), now retired, has been a blacksmith and welding shop proprietor nearly all his life. He says that tne family name always had only one final "t". but a few of the relatives got tired of explaining the spelling and let their names have two "t's." M glee Tan S oruicG will be in Heppner every Thursday, starting February 5, in motor home at Cal's Arco. Hours 10 a.m. 5 p.m., later appts. taken. More information contact Hermiston Office, 567-8498 INCOME TAX rariE 1025 North First St. Hermiston ( Dale
