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TWELVE The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore., Thursday, April 21, 1977 Morrow school board seeks A new school for Irrigon? That's what the future seems to dictate and the Morrow County School Board is now seeking a 20 to 30 acre parcel Million planned Alpha Theta Chapter of Heppner's Epsilon Sigma Alpha International, Heppner, had a committee meeting to put finishing touches on their Million Dollar Bike Ride. The Million Dollar Bike Ride is put on all over the country by E.S.A. chapters to raise money for St. Jude's Children's Cancer Hospital. So Survival The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) Survival Course will be con ducted in Heppner on Tues day, April 26, 7:30 p.m., in the Heppner High School Cafe torium. The Wilderness Sur vival 4-H Club of Heppner will be hosting the program. Two OMSI experts in sur vival will be on hand for the survival course. Admission will be $1.00 and is open to people of all ages. If enough interest is shown at this time, a two session course and a two day field trip will be planned for the month of May, a spokesman for the 4-H Club said. OMSI Survival is the name of the course. It was started in the face of situations en countered by many who faced emergency situations on ski Heppner Umatilla (continued from page 10) ed his only run when he walked in the first inning. Allstott, Worden and Stook ey had but two hits between them, but combined for six runs, each crossing the plate twice. Peck stood Umatilla batters up for five of the seven innings. The Viks pounded three hits in the first and four in the third inning, but their rallies ended there. HEPPNER 800 300 X 11 7 2 Umatilla 103 000 0 4 8 2 Heppner: Peck to Holland. Kenny 2-3, Holland 1-4, Peck 1-4, Allstott 1-3, Worden 0-2, Stookey 1-3, Groshens 0-0, Thomas 1-3, Sweek 0-2, Yocom 0-1, McEwen 1-2. Stolen bases: Kenny, Allstott, Sweek one each. RBIs: Thomas four, Allstott, Stookey, McEwen two each. Lebush j fit - 3eV. - ; - in the Irrigon area for pur chase. "Rather than quietly look ing for property (as the board did when seeking land in the dollar ride on Rhea Creek far, E.S.A. has donated $1,000,000 to the hospital and now hopes to raise a second million in the next couple of years. Much of the research being done on cancer in children is being conducted at St. Jude's, which is the largest childhood research hospital in the world. Since opening in 1962, St. course set slopes, hunting or fishing trips, backpacking, mountain climbing and other recrea tional pursuits. Forty-nine persons died in Oregon last year in outdoor emergency situations where survival methods were critic al. Primary purpose of the OMSI Survival is to train individuals in proven survival methods and techniques. The course will cover the physio logical and psychological as pects of survival such as the acceptance and control of fear to forestall panic, signaling for rescue, weather consider ations, food, treatment of injuries, and other teachable skills aimed at staying alive in an outdoor emergency. OMSI Survival program is offered under the auspices of the Oregon Division of Emer gency Services and in co operation with the Civil Pre paredness Education program of the Oregon Department of Education. Coming to Heppner for the course instruction will be Duncan Eader, principal sur vival instructor for OMSI. Eader has been with OMSI for more than two years. He has instructed in Alaska with the Oregon National Guard in cold weather survival, mountain eering and inland river nego tiation. He is a graduate of the U.S. Navy cold weather survival school and has taught survival courses throughout Oregon. Another well known surviv al expert may accompany Eader. Cal Burt, a member of the OMSI arctic expedition and author of several wil derness survival publications is one of the possible team members for the Heppner course. Burt has been in the survival business for about 20 years. MR. FINE it Junior tops & pants Variety of styles & colors Vs off Ar Blouses - drastically reduced All long dresses -10 off All kinds of miscellaneous sale items Shoppe - .Iatp& - .nCb fc.Wi, AH-MfS, Boardman area) the school board has decided to make its search public," explained Supt. Matt Doherty. The Boardman-Irrigon advisory Jude's has treated more than three thousand children from 31 states and eight foreign countries. Once a child is ac cepted, there is no charge to the patient. The hospital has already made great progress in the treatment of lymphocytic leu kemia, Hodgkins' Disease and Ewings' Sarcoma. Now under investigation are Wilms' tumor-Rhabdomyosarcoma, and Osteogenic Sarcoma. Also under research are acute myelocytic leukemia, and neuroblastoma. Committee chairwomen for Alpha Theta 's Bike Ride are: Ellen Kennedy, general chair woman; Bettie Doherty, route chairwoman; Sally Wil son, promotion; LaRae Kin dle, registration; and Rose mary Parks, treasurer. The ride will start at Ruggs and go down Rhea Creek to lone. The tentative date for the ride is June 4 with regis tration from 8:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. People wishing to have their bikes hauled out to Ruggs should have them in the parking lot behind Wayne's Diesel and Auto Repair by 8 a.m. the morning of the ride. There will be prizes for various accomplishments. Further details will be an nounced in the near future. Legal clinic for Heppner Legal Aid will be having a clinic in Heppner once a month on the first Wednesday of each month from 1 : 30 p.m . to 4 p.m. at the Heppner Neighborhood Center, 178 Wil low Street. The first clinic will be held on May 4, 1977. Legal Aid provides legal service for non-criminal mat ters to low income residents at Morrow and Umatilla Coun ties at no charge. Bookworms visit I Members of the Bookworms of Heppner were guests of the lone Topic Club at the home of Helen Proudfoot with Lor raine Ladd assisting on March 30. Guests for the day were Ruby Becket, Helen Currin, Marian Brosnan, Ella Smith, Frances Mitchell, and Madge Thomson. PANTS Regular $11.95- $13.95 value Heppner 676-5561 jfe-.i. .fl-, Ji. planning committee announc ed the search at school board's meeting Monday at A.C. Houghton Elementary School, Irrigon. J- I ' GRACE McELLIGOTT r CAROL McELLIGOTT lone taps two state delegates Two lone girls have been named delegates to Girls' State. The delegates named to attend are Carol McElligott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don McElligott, and Grace McEl ligott. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.J. McElligott. Alternate for the two dele gates is Jeannie Piening, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Zinter of lone. 1 1 1 in 1 1 1 I Randall's j gone batty! ! I Moonlight Sale April 28 'Timex i 20 watches i 2 Wylers V2 i i i Just 27.50 ! 25 off i i jOneida Stainless Independence, Cherie, Chateau, Mozart, Modem Antique, z Capistrano mm j Community Stainless ! -Paul Revere, Cherbourg, ! zVenetia, Louisiana, Cornation, ! ! Frostfire j The lights are on at I Peterson's ! Jewelers j Main St. Heppner rlBIBIHiaiBIBIBII The increase in basic school funding being proposed by the state legislature will not bene fit Morrow County, said Doh erty. "The plan is designed to help districts who have a low valuation per student." Les Schwab holds grand opening More than a dozen Les Schwab employees and of ficials converged in Heppner last week for a three day grand opening of the Heppner Les Schwab Tire Center. Nine Les Schwab officials attended the Thursday through Saturday opening. Mrs. Ethel Lepachet won a 19 inch color, Magnavox television in a drawing. Other winners were Brian Higgason, Union, two new passenger or commercial tires; and John M. Collins, Heppner, two gal lons of anti-freeze. Visiting Robb Rush, man Judge issues Judge Jack Olsen, Circuit Court of Oregon, 6th Judicial District, Pendleton, this week ruled to adopt the reasoning of the Morrow County District Attorney in a demurrer action by defense attorneys in the case of The State versus Leslie Dawn Baird, 23, of Umatilla. The fiaird woman has been charged with a two-count indictment of manslaughter and criminal mistreatment in connection with the death of her 2-year-old son, Lloyd Kahn Baird, last Dec. 2 in Irrigon. The indictment was returned March 2 by a Morrow County Grand Jury. Attorneys Ed Stores of ton and Dennis Hachler of Pendleton challenged the legal sufficiencv of the case as IBM III Price $55.00 - i I on 40 piece! & 20 piece j sets i i i i i i i i 676-9200 IIBT "We have a $170,000 pro perty valuation behind each student in our district," Doh erty explained. Many other school districts have $50,000 in valuation per student. Increased basic school sup- ager, and Kevin Rountree, sales and service man, were nine Les Schwab officials. They were Jerry Harper, Prineville, general manager of Les Schwab operations; Bill Storms, Prineville, credit manager; Dan Roberts, Prineville, manager of re tread facility; Phil Wick, Walla Walla, zone manager; Jerry Taylor, Hermiston manager; Gary Baird, Pen dleton manager; Dal Holmes, LaGrande manager; Dick Durrell, Milton-Freewater manager; and Brad De Young, Fossil manager. new case rule presented by District Attorney Dennis Doherty of Morrow County. The court directed that the demurrer interposed by the defendant be disallowed. Pending other legal action, the case remains on the court docket for Monday, May 16, in Pendleton. The defendant has entered no plea and has been free on her own recognizance since she was arraigned in Heppner last month. Heppner visit Mr. and Mrs. William (Bill) Buckendorf, Meridian, Ida., former Heppner residents, were visiting friends here this week. immp 25? I Butter-up Popcorn B Popper I - t Reg. 20.95 1 Theragran-M 130's Reg. 7.49 Now $5.99 Mylanta Tablets 100's Reg. 2.40 Now $1.99 Triaminicin Tabs 24's Reg. 1.48 Now 99 Maalox-Plus 12 oz. Reg. 2.05 Now $1.49 property port will try to provide 34 to 40 per cent of the state average cost of $1545 to educate each student. Morrow County exceeds that amount and must pay the excess to the state. "This is an equaliza tion measure," said Doherty, "as it is meant to be. It just won't do us any good, is all." The Morrow school district superintendent emphasized County school board (continued from page 1) tion of the new water system and development of hook up fees and a long-term payment schedule, City Fire Chief Larry Phil Iips was reported to have passed his Class B certified inspectors test. The accomp lishment now makes him eligible as a city inspector. NOTICE The Turner Landfill Site is open to Public dumping from 1-5 pm Sat. & Sun. afternoon. Arrangements may be made to dump during the week at the following rates $5.00 minimum charge $5.00 1 pickup load $10.00 1 truck load Contact Ervin 676-9906 to make arrange ments during Country Festival Corning Ware & All Club Cookware Assorted Giftware Murray's Drugs Main St. Heppner 676-9158 there was no danger of the district losing money from the measure. It won't be receiving any additional funds either. The school calendar for the 1977-78 school year was ap proved by the board. Teach ers will start work Aug. 29 with classes to begin Sept. 6. Spring vacation will be March 20-24. Last day of classes will be June 2 and the last day for teachers will be June 6. New president Kathy Strutz, a Juvenile Counseling major from Her mistdj, has been elected stu dent body president of Blue Mountain Community College for the 1977-78 school year. The first woman elected to the president's position, she will succeed Scott Madison of Echo. Anderson or call the week. off all pieces Aluminum 25 off off
