THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Heppner, OR, Thursday, Jan. 6, 1977, Page 5
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If specific areas of history, concerning
Morrow County, ever escape you, then try the
County Courthouse for answers.
Just off the clerk's office, in a huge
vault-like room, are hundreds of dockets,
thousands of pages of history dating back to
pre-Morrow County days.
Back when Morrow and Umatilla County
were one in the same, records were kept,
many in longhand and with the flair of a pen
and quill. Irrigation rights to execution
dockets line the four walls in the vault with
history of the county that many have for
gotten. Do you remember who ran for president in
1928? Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis won
the general election, but their names didn't
appear in the primary election dockets from
May 18, 1928.
. .Remember who you cast your vote for? If
you were a Republican, you had the choice of
Frank Q. Lowden, Alfred E. Smith, Charles
McNary, S.E. Notson and Dawes. Lowden
took it with 40 votes.
Democrat? Then you had the choice of
James E. Reed, Alfred Smith again, Thomas
J. Walsh and Alonzo F. Workman. Alas,
Alonzo only got four votes while Smith took it
with 81, Walsh had 72 and Reed, 41.
In the end, the general election from 48
years ago said Herbert Hoover had taken this
county with 1,093 votes. Smith and Robinson
from the Democrats' party were second with
543. The Socialist Principle's party, headed
by Norman Thomas and James Maurer had
23 votes; the Socialist Labor party with Verne
L. Reynolds and Jeremiah D. Crowley had 14
votes and Independent's William Z. Foster
and Benjamin Gitlow had 12.
In 1928, a popular lady, Lucy Rodgers,
received the most votes of anyone or any
candidate, including Hoover. She had 1,332
votes.
Precincts were a little different in those
days. A special election on June 28, 1927, had a
list of 13 different voting places.
Here's how they voted on a repeal of Negro,
Chinaman, and Mulatto Suffrage Section of
the Constitution:
Alpine: six yes, two no; Boardman: 33 yes,,
nine no; Cecil: IS yes, 10 no; Eight Mile: 16
yes, 10 no; Gooseberry: 13 yes, nine no;
Ilardman: 12 yes, 17 no; lone: 44 yes, 17 no;
Irrigon: 19 yes, 17 no; Lexington: 26 yes, 23
no; Lena: nine yes, nine no; North Heppner:
72 yes, 16 no; Pine City: three yes, four no;
South Heppner: 21 yes, 15 no.
Despite Pine City and Ilardman voting
against the repeal, it was voted for in Morrow
County, 289-148.
Since 1886 when Morrow became a county,
and even before, the records are still avail
able. Some of the books are dusty now and
have the look of weathered and worn covers,
but the records, whether they be in longhand
with a pen and quill, in pencil with smudges,
or typed with a new electric typewriter...
the answers are there, tucked into the vault at
the courthouse.
a forestry building that was disassembled at Pendleton and relocated in Irrigon.
The group is hoping to keep the cost of the completed structure under (100,000.
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Buget
meeting
slated
The Morrow County School
District Budget Committee
will hold its first work session
on the 1977-78 budget on Jan.
10, at 7:30 p.m., in the district
office.
The first draft of the district
budget has been in the process
of development for the past
three months, with staff
members and local advisory
board involved in most of the
, work.
The first draft will be pre
sented to the budget com
. mittee as the basis upon which
the final budget will be de
veloped and voted on Apr. 19.
The budget committee will
hold work sessions on Jan. 12,
26, Feb. 2 and 9.
The committee is expected
to complete all work prior to
Feb. 19.
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Columbia View FeUowship
is a new concept in the
traditional expression of
church.
"I like the conotation that
the word fellowship denotes,"
said the Rev. Carl Riley,
founder of the new Irrigon
fellowship which began last
June. "For one thing it's
informal."
Rather than organizing into
a rigid body with an appointed
head, the members follow a
set of by-laws they wrote
themselves this spring. In
cluded in the bylaws is this:
"There shall be no effort on
man's part to dictate or
manipulate the leadings of the
Holy Spirit."
"This includes all affairs of
the church," Riley said. "Our
effort is not to interfere with
what God intends for us."
An offering box at the back
of the fellowship, which is
currently housed at the A.C.
Houghton School cafetorium,
.is used for collections. They
are never actively solicited
during or after the service.
Though many churches feel
their congregations would fail
to contribute, this new fellow
ship of some 75 members
averages a donation of $1,2000
averages a donation of $1,200
a month.
Bureaucracy has not been
allowed to enter into the
fellowship unit. Membership
requirements c o n s i s t of
nothing more than the belief
in the basic Christian teach
ing. Intentions of continuing
the belief in Jesus Christ as
savior and participating in the
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Non-denominational in ap
proach, the fellowship pastor
explained, "I have been affili
ated with two different de
nominations in my life. I just
got fed up with the church as
an organization." The Rev.
Riley left his ministry for 14
years to enter education. He
returned to his religious life
three and one-half years ago.
Beginning with a congrega
tion of 46 for the first service,
the fellowship has continued
to grow. Initially, the Rev.
Riley and his wife Nathy and
two children, Steve and Rhon
da, both students at Warren
College, Portland, came to
Irrigon from their Pendleton
church once a month to
conduct bible study sessions.
In March 1975 the bible study
group decided it was ready to
form its own church. Riley
was asked to be pastor.
"I think this is a testimony
that it's really the kind of
church people are looking
for," said Riley. Services
consist of a great amount of
non-clergy participation, in
cluding the changing off of
song leaders and the involve
ment in a sharing time. For
members who wish to explore
their faith further, a 6:30 p.m.
Sunday evening decipleship is
offered.
Aside from 9:45 a.m. Sun
day school, adult and children
classes and the 11 a.m.
morning worship service, a
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Wednesday evening fellow
ship is also offered. It entails
open discussions ranging from
religion to politics.
With a feeling of solidarity,
the congregation felt a perma
nent building was needed.
Not long after its initial
search effort began, the Ore
gon State Forestry building in
Pendleton came up for sale.
Working six days a week for
four weeks, the crew of
sometimes 14 men and women
disassembled the two story,
40-by-90 foot building and
transported it to Irrigon. It
now rests on one of two sites
being offered as land dona
tions for the fellowship build
ing. With donated labor, the
congregation expects to build
its church in stages using the
disassembled forestry build
ing as a base. Hopefully the
entire cost of the structure
will not exceed $100,000 dol
lars and will be paid for only
when the money is collected.
No mortgages will be taken
out. Presently the fellowship
has secured $20,000 in its six
months of existence for which
no donation drive was made.
"It's a miracle church," said
Riley. "We don't plan. Events
just occur out of faith." A new
member of the fellowship is a
man who owns and operates
his own excavating business.
Another member is a plumb
er. "When the time comes
that we need an electrician I
know one will come along,"
said the pastor.
"Man's problem is that he
tries to devise things his way
instead of accepting God's
way."