The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore.. Thursday. Feb. 10, 1977 THREE
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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?
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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
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'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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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,
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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
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Come in and see It burning and cooking at
the best salad bar in the west.
(Salad bar open six days a week.)
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