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
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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.
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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
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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
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John Matthews
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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.
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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.
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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