PACE TEN, THE GAZETTE-TIMES. Heppner. OR. TWsdir, Awct 19, 1976
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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
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"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.
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Tom Simonton turns Laverne Van Marter into steer
roping ironside.
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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.
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