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The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore.. Thursday. Feb. 10, 1977 THREE Becket Equipment Co. covers J Sr. i i i urm J " T ' - Or; The Shively-Becket blacksmith shop before 1930. Left to right Clarence Scrivner, Frank Shively and Harold Becket. The wool rings hanging on the wall were used to hold wool sacks open when they were being filled. Navy range Rupert Kennedy, commis sion chairman for the Port of Morrow, suggested to Hep- SWCD plans meeting The annual meeting of the Umatilla County Soil and Water Conservation District ; (SWCD) will be held Feb. 28, ' 1977, beginning with a potluck supper at 6-30 p.m., with a short meeting to follow. It will be held this year in the basement of St. Mary's Cath olic Church, 800 S.E. Court Avenue, Pendleton, Mrs. Jeanne Gilbert, of the Uma tilla SWCD, said. Ben Mouchett, Soil Conser vation Service, The Dalles, will explain and show slides on the 208 Water Quality Plan ning Program. This program involves everyone. Also, Dale Boner, district conservation ist, will show slides of his trip he and his family took to England and Scotland this past summer. All farmers, advertisers in the newsletter and anyone interested in agriculture, and anyone who works with the District are invited to attend. City hires officer , Jack Campbell is taking up duty this month as night patrolman for the City of Heppner, according to Dean Gilman, chief of police. Campbell returns to Oregon from Kansas where he was employed with a city police department. He is a former Morrow County deputy sher iff. He was based with the sheriff's office in the northern part of Morrow County about three years ago. Gilman said Campbell brings both previous law en forcement experience and a military background to the job of night patrolman. ,s Campbell is among a num ber of other newcomers to Heppner who are seeking living accommodations in a highly compacted housing and apartment market. Tired of wasting wood in inefficient stoves & fireplaces? The Earth Stove burns Vs the fuel of many stoveSiM ore heatmi draft mam told promotes ellicient end complete combust lit solid fuel vmv plants. Super neiteo lit prevent! "cooling" of tire unlike manual "tote" drafts do. Ever) laree chunks burn slowly and completetv-eliminates frequent ash removal Wood gases not wasted seamoeryorattj introduce oxygen above primary tire lone to bum volatile: eases such as methanol, pyroliineoos acid, etc. Converts to open fire instantly "Jit dj1 Qtiwt fcakuai o WwtttWili 'holding up - Kennedy pner Chamber of Commerce Monday that citizens im mediately seek action from Congressional delegates to move the Navy from its 50,000 acre bombing range in Mor row County. "The Navy is holding it up," Kennedy said. He said action was needed before water to develop the bombing range for irrigation was lost to .prior use. Kennedy said that efforts to have the Navy relocate were started as early as 1969. That the Navy should move has been the intent of Congress, Kennedy added. Unless the Navy moves The legal beat Girly magazines taken from shop A person or persons un known broke into Jerry's Barber Shop in Heppner late Sunday night or early Monday morning and removed all the copies of Playboy and Stag magazines from the business, Heppner police said. Access to the barber shop was gained by breaking a window with a two by four, police said. The Morrow County Sher iff's Department has arrested two lone residents in con nection with an investigation into worthless checks in cir culation in Morrow and Uma tilla counties. Norman Jones, Jr., and Debra Jones, both of lone, were arrested and charged respectively with theft in the second degree by deception and negotiating a bad check. Bail for each was set at $1,005. Norman Jones, Jr., was being held in Pendleton Tuesday. Debra Jones has been re leased, authorities said. Trial ends A jury in Pendleton Thurs day, Feb. 3, found Viola Jay Jackson, 42, of Gervais, Ore., innocent of arson following nearly three hours of deliber ation. She had been charged in connection with the mid-September, -1976, blaze that de soon, Kennedy forecast that Pacific Gas and Electric will develop Pebble Springs. He said there must be an inten tion to move before any power plant work could proceed. Kennedy also reported that persons seeking terms on the Port of Morrow commission must file with the county clerk by Mar. 15. The regular meeting of the Port of Morrow is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m., Feb. 10, in the Port Office at Boardman. The agenda includes an operational budget change, a matter of the select bond counsel and signing of an agreement with the Union Pacific. stroyed her property known as the Old Swanson Home in lone. Keith Alexander, 19, of Aurora, Ore., pleaded guilty to second degree arson last year. His testimony as a state witness was suppressed by the court following earlier sup pression of both written and oral statements made to State Police by the defendant, Den nis Doherty, district attorney, said. The court cited Oregon law which says that testimony of an accomplice cannot be had without corroboration by other evidence that tends to connect the defendant with commission of the offense in question. Alexander was sentenced in December to three years of formal probation, $750 fine, and restitution to the lone fire department and Albert Akers, a land owner next to the burned house. 'Heading for ONE. LIVE Mm IMWM iaturday, Feb. in a If Beecher is the Road Runners from Arlington if at - are back with us again. The group will feature the lovely Caroline as ! vocalist. IE Dancing Saturday Special? from Uyy Always a Sunday AY By Justine Weatherford Harold Becket says that Thomson's, Peterson's, and Gonty's stores were here when he started in business, but. 'We shod horses for stockmen and farmers and for sheepmen.' they were each operated by an older generation. He believes his business life has been the longest here, with Lois Reid Winchester's beauty-care business close in age. Lois began working in 1926, she pleasantly admits. Harold was graduated by Heppner High School in 1925. EPA gains Benlate approval Approval has been given by the Environmental Protection Agency for the use in Morrow and seven other Eastern Ore gon counties of Benlate (Beno myl) for control of Cerco sporella foot rot, a fungus that affects wheat. State Director of Agricul ture Leonard Kunzman was informed by mailgram of the granting of the department's request for the exemption to use the chemical. The exemption, granted un der Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, specifies the counties where the chemical may be used. They are: Baker, , Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman. Umatilla, Union, Wallowa and Wasco. The exemption expires Apr. 30, 1977. It is estimated that some 200,000 acres of winter wheat may be affected by the dis ease. Without control mea sures, the yields could be greatly reduced. Lindstrom on PLU honor Christina Lindstrom of lone has been named to the honor roll at Pacific Lutheran Uni versity at Tacoma. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Lindstrom, lone. A senior in communication arts. Miss Lindstrom was among students who attained a 3.5 grade point average or above to gain the honor roll. Beecher OREGON MUSIC liSf happy to announce ( from 9-2 Dinner steak $3.75 6-9 i special, featuring 1 He had been working with his stepfather, Frank Shively, during his school years, and that summer he joined as a partner in Shively's old-fash-1 pack - string horses (g ioned blacksmith shop. Har old's mother was Daisy. Most people were still using horses then. Much of the work on ranches and in the woods was still done with horses. "We shod horses for stockmen Ruby and Harold Becket. H eppner B.P.O.E.I No. 358 Y Y and farmers and pack-string horses for sheepmen. We also did lots of wagon repair and plowshare work," Becket said. "We often made whole wheels from scratch (all the wood and iron parts except the hubs). With lots of wheels, all we had to do was to shrink the iron tires for better fit tingbecause if the tire wasn't tight, the wheel might break. Do you know what a felloe is? Well, a felloe is part of the wagon wheel. Hind wheels have seven felloes with two spokes to the felloe, and front wheels have six felloes to f J I i j is i FeMolVlW Celebration it Registration begins 10 a.m. Lodge activities 2 p.m. 'Ritual' by Condon Officers Dinner at lodge 6 - 8 p.m., Dancing to follow 9-1 :30a.m. Special Entertainment Set 12 spokes." Harold Rents the Herald shop In 1935, Harold moved into a shop of his own. He rented the small building that was behind the Rosewall Ford Garage where the Heppner Herald used to be published under Editor Pattison. 'Do you know He married the former Ruby Thornburg. She helped with the business for many years, working in the shop and keeping the books. Needing a larger shop and wanting to own their own building, they bought a nearby lot and put up a sheet-metal building. During WW II, they sold that lot to the Elks' Club and it is now used as the club parking lot. After World War II began, the Beckets went to Alliance, Neb., where he worked at the Alliance Air Base one sum mer. Then they moved to Portland for several war 'We also did lots of wagon repair and plow years while Harold worked at the Willamette Iron and Steel Shipyard. They kept their home and shop here and the Millard Nolan family took care of them "as the Nolan war effort." New building and home fire Right after the war, the Beckets returned, and soon their large home was de stroyed by fire. About then, Harold built the present Beck- ti mT-rn ' Saturday tea and card llCI CJ fill 1 party foi ladies-1 : et Equipment Co. building on N. Linden Way. He also rebuilt a smaller home on the same property where the old house had stood. The Beckets continued to operate the machinery repair blacksmithing and welding business in the "new" con- crete buildine until this year, smBsm i I .' what a felloe is?' although Harold "retired" in 1970. He recalls repairing over 2,000 plowshares in one year. He was the only local black smith for many years and was the last blacksmith in Morrow County. After retiring, he cut down his work hours. He says he still has a few small, un finished jobs. He did several truckbed jobs and a big tank ; job this last year. Becket served on the school board for six years and was president of the P.T.A. He has been a member of the Hep pner Lodge A.F. & A.M. for 32 , share work.' years and also of Ruth Chap ter No. 32 O.E.S. He belongs to other Masonic bodies and has held many offices in these orders all the local offices and some state offices. He was secretary of the Blue Lodge here for nearly 20 years. Becket was founding vice president of the Morrow County Historical Society and (Continued on page 5) or tne 30p.m. Come in and see It burning and cooking at the best salad bar in the west. (Salad bar open six days a week.) 4lh & E!a Plbt fleck
