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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1976)
PACE TEN, THE GAZETTE-TIMES. Heppner. OR. TWsdir, Awct 19, 1976 i 1 ! I I 1 Painter enhances Heppner windows Dill Honors, Manacor At Dob's QIC Tiro, In Hormlston, Is Having a Solo Vhllo Dob Is Away On Vacation. Soil Everything Whllo Dob Is Gonol I I "After 30 years, something should have developed," Tom Simonton, Pendleton mail carrier and window painter said. Simonton was in Heppner Tuesday and Wednesday, painting window fronts for the Morrow County fair and rodeo. He started the extra trade about 30 years ago in Pendleton. He was painting store banners for the old Penny Wise Drugs and a man came up and asked him to paint a picture on the window for the Round-Up. "A guy across the street saw it and asked me to paint his window and it just grew," Simonton said. For many years, another man painted the windows in Heppner but for the last three years, after the old timers disappeared, Simonton has been painting. He credits his Heppner painting to Susan Jepsen, a school mate in Pendleton years ago. She talked him into working here. "I just do the ones that are lined up, but it gets bigger every year," he said. He said the ideas "just come to him" when he paints. His paintings are mostly cartoons, adding a rodeo and business together to bring out the cartoon. At Turner, Van Marter and Bryant, the cartoon shows La Verne Van Marter in his wheel chair, roping a steer. At Peterson's Jewelry, it shows a bashful cowboy giving a cowgirl a ring with a crackerjacks box held behind his back. The windows take about 20-30 minutes for him to complete. Take a look. I i i i & L .. ---x ft 'Mini ;i I ; , 'v ' - JQuM J l-t-yM'" . Mm' (fa . fk ... ' i s . -- .. . ' kn -I .,.l.....r i , n nmwT-iin mm" it irnmiT n-i.rniM ,n. i i it iiiiiiiii-lii T 8 Tom Simonton turns Laverne Van Marter into steer roping ironside. 'A'A'.WAV.VA' (G-T photo) p CBE reports planned outage Columbia Basin Elec tric reported on the planned outage on Au gust 18 at Fossil. The outage was nece ssary to accomplish se veral maintenance pro jects at or near the CBEC Fossil substation east of Fossil. At the substation, some "shot" insulators were replaced on the pole structure at the substation and also some "shot" insulators were replaced at the northeast edge of Fossil. At the "East Fossil" substation some oil was added to the trans formers and some in strument gauges were repaired during the planned service outage. Hospital Sen. Jernstedt visits Heppner Patients at Pioneer Memo rial Hospital this week are Elsie Mollahan, Heppner, and Eva Bradford, Salem. Patients dismissed this past week include : Loy Keene, lone; Frank D. Robinson and Viola Ruhl, both Lexington; Carol Turner. Fossil; and David Piper, Heppner. Mistrial called A circuit court trial : last week was termed a mis-trial when a Iday juror fainted in the heat of the court room. The trial. Western Empire vs. Viscisol Chemical and Agri Chem. was rex! to Dec. 7. Reportedly, We stern Farms is suing the other two firms because of potato crop damage due to loo much che mical and improper application. Sen. Ken Jernstedt of the 28th district, was a guest Monday at the Heppner-Morrow Coun ty Chamber of Com merce. Jernstedt met in a brief meeting with citi zens following the cha mber meeting. Prob lems concerning wei ghts and measures, roads and human re sources related prob lems. Jernstedt answered his questions briefly in the short, informal meeting. REALTY, INC. 1041 S.I. !22W AVENUE PORTLAND, OREGON 2Jl BOH SECOLO Bl,yinS or Selling For all your real estate C$k) needs call: Hoy Lindstrom 254-0421 Res. 658-5453 Farm and stock ranch specialist r I novo A Good rllufC I I MML h fr.-IH?0S Xl IL-l Ip steel Belted " ' IIIIIIIIT"-5 Jl fr70x14 (os pusses 1 I Git 70x15 Z V .$&i,r I l A ... .U..M.W i -v ii a Buoranta !' . II- I I 1215 N 1st Hormtston 567-3141 v , : i
