TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore., Thursday, June 9, 1977
THE
GAZETTE-TIMES
a weekly ( 's)
. look at things
by Terry Hager
It was gratifying, albeit a little surprising, to see a
jam-packed city council chamber Monday night as
citizens responded to a cut in swim pool services.
The pool proponents left no doubt in anyone's mind
that they wanted an operating pool this year... and
they're willing to raise the necessary funds to do it.
The city went half-way, lowering the amount needed to
guarantee operation of the pool, $3,600 versus $8,600, by
July 1.
Both groups need to sit down now as they are
doing and hammer out an agreement as to who is
responsible for what funds, when and who will
administer those funds. There should be no confusion
on this matter so there will be no hard feelings later.
Secondly, the pool proponents should have the
confidence in their city administration to turn the
funds over with recommendations to the city and let
the proper agency run the pool.
A personal thanks this week goes to the staff of
Pioneer Memorial Hospital from this column. Last
week Tuesday to be exact an obnoxious cold
overcame the "power of the mind" and put this writer
in the hospital with pneumonia for a few days.
From the nurses' aides to the bearded wonder, Doc
Gifford, the care was exellent and earned our utmost
confidence and praise. Thank you, all.
BOAR )MA ft
'i f.xin(;ton 1
TO MORROW
TOO TOMORROW
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By Tom Franks i
The solution to the coyote-sheep problem may be
forthcoming from Australia. According to a recent news item
a lady in that country has patented a chastity belt for dogs.
Perhaps it could be designed for those fortuitous coyotes.
Really True
"Truth is stranger than fiction." Don't remember who said
it, but a recent Oregon court case, in a county adjoining
Morrow, proves it again. Here is the story third hand:
It all started one morning when the lady of the house
challenged her husband at breakfast to get busy and fix their
travel trailer. "If you can't do it, get a repairman," she
insisted. Her husband promised, to fix the trailer.
That afternoon, she arrived home from work and, on
walking to the house, saw two legs projecting from
underneath the trailer. Overjoyed at her husband's efforts,
she reached down, in passing, and gave him an approving
tweek below the belt.
On entering the kitchen, she was greeted by you guessed
it her husband. "Who's under the trailer!" she exclaimed.
"The repairman," her husband replied.
Our slightly upset lady explained to her husband what she
had done and insisted that he accompany her while she
apologized.
When the two got outside, they got no response from the
repairman. On looking under the trailer, they saw that the
repairman was unconscious. Seems he was so startled with
her attention that he raised up and bumped his head on the
trailer frame!
An ambulance was called and the attendants rushed the
concussed repairman to the local hospital. The husband and
wife went, too.
As the attendants unloaded the unconscious victim, the
husband told them how the accident happened. The
attendants reportedly doubled up with laughter and dropped
the repairman. His leg was subsequently broken in the fall.
The repairman went to court. We don't know how much if
anything he was awarded, but we understand the court
proceedings were marked by constant recesses to allow jury
members and spectators to regain their composure.
Don't Pretend
The advent of warmer days is causing clothing to be shed.
Used to be that a lack of clothing was considered immoral
and women wasted enough material in dressing to cover
three others who were poor.
A great number of American bodies anymore, mine
included, are hardly suitable to stir prurient interest. What
was once a trim body is now skirted with an inner tube and
the dimples in my face run a far second to the dimples over
my kidneys.
Up at the Heppner Clinic, I frantically took off my shoes
and jacket to get under 200 pounds and I don't even have a
major fight coming up.
I am getting to a moment of truth. One of the old-time
cattlemen from the midwest once told me that you can tell a
true cattleman when you "see the reflection of his boots in his
belt buckle." Trouble is, I don't have any cattle, but it seems
a lot of us can afford to pretend.
Letters to the Editor
Where's the park?
Editor:
When Hager Park was donated and dedicated to the City of
Heppner last July 4, 1 was very pleased to be able to live so
close to what I hoped would be a new green spot in town.
Recently I visited Heppner with a caravan composing the
Linfield College Band. When giving directions to get to my
house, I included the fact that I live across the street from the
" park thinking the land would at least be planted with grass
by that time. Everyone from Linfield who came to my home
asked where the park was, leaving me to point out a mass of
weeds that becomes more overgrown each day.
I'm proud of my home and neighborhood and am
wondering if the city cares enough to do something about an
eyesore that not only is offensive to those living near Hager
"Park," but to those who pass by it.
Shannon Kelly
Sifting through the TIMES J
It gouged a deep and indelible mark into this town's history
on a Sunday afternoon 74 years ago.
The Heppner Gazette (not yet the Times) was there to
report the tragedy, but by its own admission, "Words cannot
express the horror, the awful destruction," of June 14, 1903,
the day of the Heppner flood.
Under a banner headline of Days of Sorrow in Heppner, the
account begins....
"Without a second's warning, a leaping foaming wall of
water, 40 feet in height, struck Heppner at about 5 o'clock
Sunday afternoon, sweeping everything before it and leaving
only death and destruction in its wake.
"Nothing in the history of the Western country can
compare with the awful disaster, and it can only be realized
by eyewitnesses."
As is the case with many eccentricities of nature, it struck
quickly, without warning leaving the victims stunned and
confused.
"In the middle of the afternoon dark clouds commenced to
appear in the south and a short time before the flood a heavy
rainfall commenced with an electrical storm.
"The rainfall was not heavy enough here to cause any
alarm....
"Owing to the roar of thunder and the noise caused by the
heavy rainfall, the roar of the awful torrent was not heard,
and a great many people knew nothing of it until their houses
commenced to move.
"There was a wild rush for the hills amid scenes that are
indescribable.
Although much of the town was leveled, the destruction
went far deeper than the houses and businesses that lay in
crumpled heaps. Families were torn apart, loved ones were
lost some never to be found again.
One thing that was not crushed was the spirit of the
survivors.
"While the waters were receding, the survivors were
organizing and search was immediately commenced for the
missing. When the searchers were forced to quit by darkness,
many bodies were recovered. At the first approach of
daylight, the entire town was out. Nobody slept.
"The town is now well organized for the dispatch of the
immense amount of work."
Welcome
response
Editor:
You recently published a
letter that I had written to you
and I have received some re
sponses from others in my age
bracket.
I left lone 64 years ago and I
had thought when I wrote you
that there might not be a
living soul that ever heard of
me. But there was.
Believe it or not, but I got a
phone call from a man right
here in San Jose who had
survived the Heppner flood.
I even received a letter from
a girl who was my "heart
throb" in lone when I didn't
know much about life or love.
But I liked her. She saw my
letter and wrote to me. She
lives in Heppner now and is a
five-time great-grandmother,
she says. What a thrill it was
to hear from her. She is 80
years old now.
I do not feel at liberty to
divulge the names of those
who wrote to me, but I love
them for writing and I hope
that others will write.
Those of you who are 80 or
over will remember me. My
family is gone. I am the only
one left.
I am writing to all who
wrote to me and between us,
we have information that
should go down in Morrow
County history.
The letter which you pub
lished previously brought re
plies from people I thought
were long gone.
I think that this is bringing
together a lot of us "oldsters"
who have been lost. And I am
very thankful that you printed
my letter.
I hadn't realized before how
far-reaching your paper was.
Gerald A. Rice
91 Clayton Ave.
San Jose, CA 95110
Hospital
notes
Activity at the Pioneer
Memorial Hospital from May
24 through June 6 included:
Dismissed Geatta Cox, Carl
McDaniel, Larry Mills, Linda
Connor, James Nelson, Terry
Hager, Irene Padberg, Vernon
Gilman, all of Heppner; Linda
Wright and Van Hubbard,
lone; Bill Van Winkle, Lex
ington, Judy Hampton, Kin
zua, and Stephen Shaw, Spray.
Still hospitalized are: Brian
Ertz, Lawrence Brady, Stacey
Kennedy, of Heppner; Marie
Rinehart and Terrisa Ed
wards of Condon.
THE W y'1.
HEPPNER
GAZETTE-TIMES
Published every Thursday and entered as a second-class matter at the
Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Second-class postage paid at Heppner, Oregon.
The official newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow.
G.M. Reed, Publisher
Dolores Reed, Co-publisher
Terry M. Hager, Business Manager
Jim Summers, Editor
Eileen Saling, Office Manager
Justine Weatherford, Local News
Georgia Seal, Composing
Janene Searle, composing
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