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Mayor Jerry Sweeney with Ernest and Hilda Schlein,
(G'T Photo)
Henry Heppner 's great
nephew visits town
Seventy -one year after his great-uncle's
death, Ernest Schlein has teen Heppner.
Schlein, great -nephew of Henry Heppner,
founder of this city, and his wife Hilda, visited
Heppner last week.
Schloln's grandfather was a brother of
Henry, who died on Feb. IS, 1905. Schlein and
his wifa livt In New York City and it was the
first time he had visited the town named after
his relative.
Accompanying Schlein and his wife was a
letter from New York City Mayor Abraham
Beame, extending personal greetings to
Mayor Jerry Sweeney and the citiiens of
Heppner.
Schleins grandfather, E. Heppner, was
listed In Henry lleppner's obituary In the
Heppner Gazette Issue of Feb. 23, IWS. E.
Heppner, then of Pleschen, Germany, waa
among six sisters and two brother that
survived Henry.
The Schlein' were Intrigued by Heppner,
Its people, and places. They visited the
Heppner Museum Wednesday with Sweeney
and looked over many pioneer antiques, some
with tha name "Heppner" on them still.
Schlein had no picture In his mind of what
Heppner would look like, he Mid, but he
envisioned a "little larger city."
His wife said they knew Heppner must be a
nice place because the "tail ten miles of
road" from Lexington "wt-rs beautiful."
The Schlein flew to Seattle from New
York and rented a car. They drove to
Portland and then to Bend before visiting
Heppner. They left Thursday and drove back
to Portland and Seattle and visited friends In
Port Angeles.
Schlein wa defensive of New York City,
calling it "the greatest city in the world,
despite its faults."
He was quick to say that the state "broke"
New York City last year and that it wa "not
the fault of the city" but the fault of
Washington.
"During the depression," Schlein said,
"New York was the only place for
Immigrants to come and find Job. It wa
great city and the people grew with the city."
Henry Heppner, too, first came to New
York from his home In Prussia, where he wa
born In M3I.
Schlein, atway with something grand to
say about New York City, ald the city wa
"on the way up." He said that In New York
City, "we have everything ... the finest
science, the finest music, the finest museums,
the finest writer . . ."
"The city will not go down," he ald, "W
will com up fast and soon."
For two New Yorker, bearing Jewish
accent and happy smile It was a reunion
last week. Not with family, but with the past.
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Princess Kimee Haguewood with Gideon...er...Gidget.
(G'T Photo)
Harvest sets the pace
but Kimee works em in
During harvest, court appearances and parades are a
sideline. But, despite an active schedule, Kimee Haguewood,
Morrow County fair and rodeo princess, manages to work
them in.
For at least three weeks, during the heart of harvest, she is
busy keeping worker happy as camp cook.
The 17-year-old Heppner graduate starts the day early and
is relieved to finish it even late. Her typical day starts at 6
a.m. She rises to feed her horse and do regular chores around
the house.
Then the cooking starts. The Haguewoods, who live on a
ranch near Heppner on Rhea Creek Road, have two ranches.
One where they live and another, where harvest is. In full
swing, near Olex.
The day's meal is prepared here and packed, gravy and all,
into a car and taken the 33 miles to the family's other ranch
and awaiting hunger pains.
By 12:30 the ranch crew is gathered around the table,
eating lunch. Later, Kimee and her mother clean the
bunkhouse, line up dinner and then come home to that work.
Finally, by about 9 p.m. the work is done, leaving little time
during the day for Kimee to have fun.
"We go to bed and it starts all over the next day," Kimee
says. Thank goodness harvest is only three weeks long.
While she worries about harvest, she doesn't need to worry
about her horsemanship.
An avid rider, Kimee was in 4-11 horse for three years and
Is still, after 15 years, a member of the Wranglers.
Besides horses, she has had a hog project for nine years
and still enters her swine in the fair. Before, a steer also
accompanied the hog to the fair, but with the court this year,
the steer has taken a year off.
411 Itself has kept her busy, grabbing her for two year In
sewing, one year in cooking and three more in tole painting.
Kimee and Way Bar Rocky, her registered quarter horse,
get along fine even though the horse, called Rocky,
sometimes gets a little skirmish around harvest time.
Kimee is practicing the big horse for Jumping and barrets
but says she won't compete.
The Haguewood home, where Kimee lives with Mr. and
Mrs. Ron Haguewood, her parent and a brother, Kevin,
senior thi year, 1 abounding with animals.
Ducks, peacocks, home, sheep, plenty of cats and dog
greet the motorist as he drives Into the ranch driveway.
One of the littler Inhabitants, a kitten named Gidgct, has
become close friend of Kimee. She found the coal black
feline abandoned by Its mother, Just a few day agp.
Through eye dropper feeding and beef baby food, the kitten
has turned f.om its original name of Gideon to Gidget and
has grown into Kimee's heart.
But the kitten won't bewith her this fall. Kimee will attend
Pacific University in the fall and that is another hang up.
The opening day at the Forest Grove school is August 29,
the same day as the county fair. School, Kimee says, will
have to wait.
Kimee will Join a sister Kristi and a brother Kelwayne at
Pacific University.
Harvest is never put off but you can bet Kimee will be at
the area's court activities, one way or another.
Accident leaves
youth in hospital
A weird car accident left a
Heppner teenager in good
condition Tuesday, with a
reported broken pelvi.
Teresa Louise Peck, 17, was
listed In good condition Tues
day at Pioneer Memorial
Hoapital, reportt'y In trac
tion for the Injury.
The accident occurred over
the weekend, five miles south
of Heppner on the Shone
Canyon Road. According to
police reports, a car driven by
Randy I-ee Thurmond. 19,
pulled onto a side road and
began to back up.
He backed too far and
backed over an embankment
causing the accident. Details
of the accident were not
available.
In other activity this week,
Herbert H. Vinkenberg. M,
Nebraska, was arrested for
driving while Intoxicated.
Mollahon
resigns
Morrow County Sheriff
John Mt!U)4it (ulmiiUetl him
reixn4tinn to Judge Paul
Jones Ute Tuewlay afternoon.
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