The Gazette-Times, Heppner. Ore., Thursday, May 12. 1977 FIVE
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Community effort
Track project near finish
The Heppner High School
Track Project, sponsored by
the Heppner Lions' Club, is
rearing the finishing stages,
with curb expected to be
added shortly. The project to
date has involved more than
five months, more than 1,000
loads of fill and countless
hours of volunteer labor.
Five months ago, John Ed
mundson and Dave Harrison
approached the Lions' Club
about resurfacing the track
and enlarging it to 400 meters.
Dimensions involved looked
easy. The track was 330 yards
and needed to be expanded to
400 meters or 437.5 yards as
converted. On the southeast
end, the track only needed to
be extended eighteen yards.
On the northwest end, it only
needed to be lengthened ten
yards, and needed to go into
the rock hillside on the south
by about five yards. Sounded
easy?
A preliminary contact was
made to see if Dick Wilkinson,
long time school interested
person, could help by fur
nishing a dozer and his huge
road construction type Euclid
scraper. Wilkinson looked at
the rock hillside and the huge
bluff on the northwest side of
the track and to cut back the
hill on the south side was going
to really take some equipment
and rock moved. Doc Sherer,
a sports enthusiast from lone,
volunteered help. The County
furnished a shovel and Doc
operated it three days to move
rock to the far ends of the
track. Wilkinson was busy
leveling the fill and pushing
rock down the hill to the
shovel. Without "Doc" and
"Dick," the project was a
no-go.
Three trucks hauled about
500 loads from the big shovel.
Dick Wilkinson dozed approxi
mately 300 yards of dirt off the
hill down to the east end of the
track.
Jim Wishart and Larry
Mills were named to help
co-chair the project.
Jim Phegley was called
upon to help. He found tough
going on the southeast end of
the track, trying to doze out
"that hill." The Lions had
come to hate the rock hill. One
huge rock stuck out into the
track and wouldn't budge.
Phegley couldn't budge a lot of
the rock and blasters from
Columbia Basin Electric
came in to shoot the rock.
Then Pat Patterson came into
preliminary grade the track
and he brought in a dozer to
move much of the rock on
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"that hill." He moved about
150 yards of materials to fill
out the track on the northeast
corner of the track.
Along came Tom Wilson to
give a couple hours of loader
work and about 20 truck loads
of fill to the northeast end of
the track.
All this time, Elmer Sams
and Bill Gentry were "shoot
ing levels" to try to keep
ahead of the dozers and truck
loads of fill. Norm Patterson
came in with his road grader
to level the track again.
Along came Dick Wilkinson
again. He brought in his
Euclid scraper. Bert Corbin
brought his dozer to push the
Euclid. There were 150 loads
at approximately 10 yards to
the load hauled off the top of
the hill onto each end of the
track. Don McEwen brought
in his dozer to help level the
fill, Norm Patterson was on
the spot to level the fill and
rock again.
Back came Don McEwen to
run Bert Corbin's loader to
help load out 30 loads of dirt
fill needed on each end of the
track and dump it over the
bluffs.
A Columbia Basin Electric
crew came back again to shoot
a rock spot off the southwest
end of the track. Jim Phegley
came back to beautify the
hillside by leveling it where
Dick Wilkinson had scraped it
and then filled in the straight-of-way
starting area by push
ing in 100 yards of rock and
fill.
Now it was time for some
surfacing material. A base of
reject sand was to be added.
Plan to attend
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There were 50 loads hauled in,
mostly from a pit owned by
John Preg, located north of
Lexington 20 miles. It was a
long haul.
Norm Patterson was back
again to level the material
with his grader. Now twenty
five rock pickers were called
in early on a Sunday morning
to help clear rocks off the
track surface.
Randy Lott came along to
run his loader to provide
another 20 truck loads of dirt
fill for each end of the track.
Bill Gentry and Elmer Sams
had been back again a couple
more times to shoot levels.
A homemade drag was
rigged up. Neil Parks, John
Gochnauer, Dave Harrison,
Bill Gentry, Elmer Sams, Jim
Wishart, and John Edmund
son made hundreds of trips
around the track to level and
pack it. '
The night before the first
home track meet, Jim Wishart
was out helping line the lanes.
Harrison and Edmundson
were there dragging the track
and running a packer.
Lion President Don Cole
feels the project has a value of
$35,000 to $40,000 when com
pleted. The project is not com
pleted. A curb is to be installed
and decomposed granite must
be hauled in for final surface.
Grass must be planted. There
is work to do for the com
munity; fortunately, the Hep
pner Lions are there to do it or
help coordinate great com
munity effort to see it is done.
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Heppner thinclads take
top honors in 8-way meet
Mustang thinclads are on
their way to taking top honors
in Columbia Basin Conference
district competition this Fri
day and Saturday, predicts
Coach Dale Conklin.
Conklin made the comment
after his Mustangs took first
place as a team in an
eight-way meet in Pendleton
last week, with individuals
breaking school records and
bettering their own "season's
best" marks.
"We had one super track
meet," said Conklin, "and it
kind of upset Pendleton, Pasco
and Kennewick when we beat
their JV squads."
Heppner racked up 128 'i
points, followed by Pendleton
at 123'2. Pasco finished third
at 79, with Kennewick right
behind at 78. From there,
placings went to Weston-Mc
Ewen, Riverside of Board
man, Oregon Trail and Pilot
Rock.
David Allstott and Sieve
McLaughlin both broke school
records at the meet. Allstott
went 42-5'l. in the triple jump
to erase the record set by
Bryan Marlin, 42-4, earlier
this year.
McLaughlin was clocked at
44.48 in the 330 intermediate
hurdles, shaving some time
off the Mustang record of 44.6
set by Bryce Powell earlier
this season.
Carl C'hristman bettered his
javelin toss with a 157-7 mark,
enough to finish second in the
event. Marty Smith hurled the
spear 152-3. a personal best for
him and a fourth place finish
in the meet.
Freshman Jim Parker pui -the
shot 41-5 1 2. the best mark
he's made so far this year and
grabbed a first for the team.
Sidelined by illness for most
of the season, Richard
Schmidt has been out for track
about three weeks and went
over the bar in the high jump
at an even six feet. The
sophomore also put in a mark
of 40-4 in the triple jump for a
fifth place.
David Piper logged his best
run in the 8i)0-meter with a
time of 2:08.67, equivalent of a
2:09 880.
Freshman Danny Nix
placed fourth in the 1600
meter event with a time of
4:57.3. In terms of a mile run.
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Nix would have been a couple
seconds under the five minute
mark.
Looking ahead
The Mustangs travel to
Condon Friday for the first
day of district, the meet
starting at 1 p.m. The second
day of competition takes place
.Saturday at Pendleton, be
ginning at noon.
Babe Ruth practice
begins May 13
Boys between the ages of
13-15 are urged to meet at the
Heppner Rodeo Grounds Sat
urday, May 14, at 3 p.m. for
the first Babe Ruth baseball
practice of the season.
Manager Jim Swanson said
about 18 youngsters have al
ready signed up, but any boy
who hasn't may do so at the
practice session.
"With the turnout we're
getting, it looks like we'll
School Board sets
new limitations on
sports activities
Action by the Morrow County School Board at its April
meeting resulted in approval of an athletic program policy
which sots guidelines and limitations for the interschool
sports programs at Heppner, lone and Riverside Junior and
Senior High Schools.
The guidelines for the sports program and the limitations
on season length and games in each sport were reviewed and
approved by local school staffs and local school advisory
committees, Superintendent Matt Doherty said.
The action of the Board will result in savings to the school
district in reduced costs for transportation, officials,
equipment and operation of gymnasium. Also indirect
savings will be realized by families through less transporting
of their students in private vehicles to and from practices.
Overall, the reduction amounts to approximately 10 per
cent fewer games and matches next year. League
commitments will continue to be met, but non-league
contests will be scheduled less frequently in most sports.
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Don Cole 676-9425
Jim Bier 676-5322
Jim Swanson 422-7162
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Competing in the district
meet will be Sherman, Wasco,
Condon, Riverside of Board
man, lone, Heppner, Pilot
Rock, Umatilla, Oregon Trail,
Weston-McEwen, Umapine
and Helix.
"We've seen some excellent
performances this past few
weeks and I really think we
have a shot at the thing," said
Conklin.
probably have two Babe Ruth
teams from the Heppner, lone
and Lexington areas next
year," said Swanson.
The Babe Ruth program is
in its second year in the area.
Coaches for this season's
team are Dennis Peck and
Kim Gutierrez.
For more information, boys
should call Swanson at 422
7162, Don Cole at 676-9425 or
Jim Bier at 676-5322.
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With a 2-2 record in Colum
bia Basin Conference play, the
Heppner Mustangs are look
ing for a win when they travel
to Wasco County today
(Thursday) for a single game.
Wasco is also 2-2 in conference
play.
Last Friday, Dave Allstott
shut out Riverside as the Mus
tangs rolled to a 12-0 victory.
Saturday at Adrian, the Hep
pner nine split the bill, losing
the first game 8-1 but bounced
back to take the nightcap 3-1.
Next Tuesday, the Mustangs
meet Condon here and Thurs
day, Sherman County travels
to Heppner for a double
header, all games beginning
at 4 p.m. '
A big second inning lifted
the Mustangs to a 10-0 lead
over Riverside and bolstered
the slick pitching of Allstott,
who allowed only two hits in
the five inning game.
"That's without a doubt the
best game Allstott has thrown
and one of the first good
games he's had this season,"
commented Coach Dale Hol
land. Carrying the big stick for
Heppner was Dale Holland,
going three-for-three with
singles in the first, third and
fourth innings. In the second,
Holland took a base on balls.
Jim Kenny was the first
Mustang on base with a walk,
backed up by Holland's single.
Allstott, batting cleanup, sac
rificed to send the runners
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home before the first inning
ended.
Stookey, Thomas and Yo
com loaded the bases in the
top of the second inning on
walks and Kenny rapped a
single to left-center driving in
a run and leaving the bases
again loaded.
Riverside pitcher Griffin
walked Holland next, adding a
tally to the Mustang book and
errors gave Peck and Allstott
a chance to get on base before
Worden slammed a double
deep along the left field line.
Heppner didn't score in the
third inning, but added one
run each in the fourth and
fifth.
Adrian split
In the first game at Adrian,
the Mustangs were limited to
just one run on four hits as
their opponents rallied for
eight runs off nine hits.
In the second game, Dennis
Peck held Adrian to four hits
and one run while a fifth
inning rally pushed the trail
ing Mustangs ahead for the 3-1
victory.
With one out in the fifth,
Thomas made first on an error
and back-to-back singles by
Kenny and Holland gave the
Mustangs a two-run fifth inn
ing. In the first game, Kenny
picked up a single and Holland
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