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By Elane Blanchet
Turning a new crop of
seventh and eighth graders
into journalists every nine
weeks would challenge the
expertise and patience of
any veteran newspaperman,
but Linda Murray is beginning
her second year of accom
plishing that task at Heppner
Junior High School.
Pony Express, the junior
high newspaper, was born last
fall when Mrs. Murray, an
English teacher, with no
background or training in
journalism, decided to offer a
publications elective. She
studied several books on the
mechanics and techniques of
newswriting and has passed
her newly acquired knowledge
on to a different, enthusiastic
class each term since.
After learning the funda
mentals of the 'who, what,
where, when, hows', young
reporters are 'turned loose' on
the school, covering beats, set
ting up interview appoint
ments and researching stories
in the library. All have special
Pony Express passes.
Day care gets
4-H Annex use
At the Oct. 10 meeting of the
Morrow County fair Board,
the board voted unanimously,
with many reservations still
unresolved, to allow the Hepp
ner Child Development Center
the use of the 4-H Annex '
building at the fairgrounds for
six months and no longer.
Members of the day care
center's Board of Directors
Dawn Stuchell, Monica Swan
son and Kathy Hazen present
ed the case for the immediate
need for a building until
permanent lodging could be
found for the center, which
was forced to close on Oct. 1.
They requested, use of the
annex until Fair time next fall
to allow them enough time.
Objections expressed by the
Fair Board included the fear
Rummage: One man's junk is
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While Mrs. Murray acts in
an advisory capacity, she
encourages the student jour
nalists to take complete re
sponsibility for the Pony
Express. Gross errors may
be corrected but misspellings
are left in on the theory that
seeing a misspelled word
published in a story serves as
a strong incentive to avoid
that embarrassment again.
The product of student
enthusiasm and enterprise,
the Pony Express is surpris
ingly polished for a junior high
school level paper, especially
considering the lack of con
tinuity and experience in the
young staff. It covers both the
elementary and junior high
grades, school sports, student
council, special activities, the
library anything of interest
to its readership. By lined
feature stories range in topics
from fashions to teacher
personalities to the inner
workings of the school office.
A favorite experience for
many students is their first
exposure to the typewriter.'
Mrs. Murray mentioned in
passing that if anyone in the
that the center wouldn't try to
find another building once
they were settled in and also
that the Annex would be
impossible to heat.
Floyd Jones pointed out that
the 4-H building was erected
for the use of the public and he
felt it wouldn't be right to give
it away for the use of a few.
The day care advocates
assured the Fair Board that
they would be flexible enough
to accomodate regular usage
of the Annex by others by
folding up cribs .and equip
ment for scheduled meetings
or closing for a day when
necessary.
The women also promised
the board that they would not
request an extension when the
alloted time expired.
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community had an extra
typewriter to donate to a good
cause, the gift would be
gratefully accepted.
The seventh period publica
tion class tries to produce a
Pony Express every three
weeks, but since it takes
awhile to break in a new staff,
First publication marks National
Newspaper Week, October 9-15
the first of the year will come
out at the end of this week a
very appropriate recognition
of National Newspaper Week.
Mrs. Murray said that while
each student does a little of
every thing involved in the
production of a newspaper, he
or she tends to specialize as
abilities and preferences are
acknowledged. One journalist
may be better at writing
stories while another prefers
to work on illustrations for the
paper and still another enjoys
typing most.
Marion Abrams, a Heppner
resident, spoke to the board of
the need for day care facilities
in Heppner and asked that the
request for a temporary
building be granted.
The Fair Board and the
Development Center Board
will meet with the County
Court on Wednesday, Oct. 19
to sign a contract for six
months use of the 4-H building
and outlining details such as
rent, utilities, damage liabili
ties and other particulars.
On Tuesday, the day care
group was arranging to have
the building certified before
the court meeting on Oct. 19 so
the center could move into the
Annex as soon as possible
after the contract is signed.
another's treasure...
VI Lanham (1) and Marlene
Peterson helped
move this mountain of rum
mage from storage to the Fair
Pavilion at the fairgrounds
where the annual Soroptimist
Rummage Sale is slated for
Friday, Oct. 14 from 8 a.m. to
8p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 15,
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Grab
Bag time starts at noon
Saturday.
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Rick Klaus was chosen
editor for this term because
the other students said "he is a
better speller than Mrs. Mur
ray." The rest of the staff, now
hard at work on the second
paper of the year, includes
Mary Arbogast, Marti Baker,
Jennifer Johnson, Denise Ken-
nedy, Patricia Morley, Irene
Pennington, Melvin Rachor,
Stephanie Sams, Melanie
Seitz, Teresa Skow, Jody
Terpening and Elizabeth Zita.
The popular publication
class is limited to 15 students
per term and there are always
a surplus of eager would-be
journalists clamoring to get
in. For this reason, a student
may only work on the paper
for one term a year.
"I wish we could take it every
semester," one staff member
commented wistfully.
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Moonlight Madness coming
Moonlight Madness is again
coming to town as Heppner
Merchants plan for a super
fall sale on regular merchan
dise Thursday, Oct. 27.
Meeting last Friday, the
Merchants Committee, an
Ag trials in progress
Several new experimental
agriculture trials are now
underway in Morrow County
in addition to the long time
variety trials that have been
tested in experimental sta
tions, according to Harold
Kerr of the Extension Office.
Trials involving a new
no-tillage method of seeding
are located on the Pat
Cutsforth and Bob Jepsen
ranches under the direction of
Floyd Bolton. Kerr said the
new method of spacing five
inches of tillage between 15
inches of untitled soil is
probably "Quite a few ytars
away from general accep
tance by growers".
Chemical trials to evaluate
the effect of injecting liquid
and dry fertilizer below the
planted seed as well as trials
evaluating watering varia
tions at seeding time are being
conducted at the Pendleton
experimental station.
Fred Nelson's BaselineRoad
ranch is the site of trials
involving cheatgrass control
chemicals. Chemicals are be
ing tested at the pre-planting
stage, pre-emergence stage
and post emergence stage
with Don Rydrych in charge.
Car wash due Nov. 1
Bud Englert, owner of Black
Mt. Arctic Cat & Repair,
announced this week a Nov. 1
target date for the opening of
the Heppner Car Wash at the
north edge of town behind
Green Feed & Seed Store.
Englert said the high-pressure
wand-type car wash will
have two covered bays and an
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' arm of the , Chamber of
Commerce, set the date and
the time from 7 to 9 p.m. that
evening.
Most stores will close their
doors at 5 p.m. that day to
Kerr said future tests are
planned to evaluate the effect
of early spraying for rot leaf
and thistle in December
instead of March. A site for
the tests has not yet been
determined.
G-T announces
staff changes
Terry Hager, Managing Ed
itor of the Gazette-Times this
week announced two staff
changes at the Morrow County
newspaper.
Elane Blanchet,29, has been
hired to fill a new position with
the Gazette-Times and will
split her duties between ad
vertising sales and news
reporting.
Chloe Pearson, a Heppner
resident, has been hired to
replace Patti Saling in the
photocomposition depart
ment. Mrs. Pearson's hus
band, Frank, is employed by
Kinzua Corporation.
Ms. Blanchet comes to the
outside bay for larger trucks
and trailers.
In addition to the wash and
rinse cycles, a wax cycle will
be provided and instead of the
usual four minutes ot time,
five minutes of time will be
provided here.
Englert said the all-steel
building will be surrounded by
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prepare for the two-houf sale,
opening again at 7 p.m.
Shoppers are urged to check
the Oct. 27 issue of the
Gazette-Times for many spec
ial bargains from Heppner
Merchants.
The long time variety trials
are being continued at the
Frank Anderson ranch with
new areas seeded on the Tad
Miller ranch. Agronomist
Chuck Rhode is again in
charge of the trials.
Gazette-Times with past ex
perience as a writer for the
Burns Times-Herald. She
spent six years at Linn-Benton
Community College and Ore
gon State University before
entering the newspaper pro
fession. Ms. Blanchet has a daugh
ter, Jenny, age 11 months.
Hager said the addition of
Ms. Blanchet to the staff will
enable the Gazette-Times to
provide more coverage of
local news events and human
interest feature items as well
as meeting the increasing
advertising and promotion
needs of area merchants.
a paved area with a high
suction vacumn located on the
lot.
An added feature of the car
wash is individual gas-fired
water heaters for each bay.
"This gives patrons assurance
of hot water all the time and is
also an energy conservation
measure," said Englert.
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At Heppner Junior High School, this term's Pony
Express staff is wrapping up their first issue of
the year which is being published during
National Newspaper Week, Oct. 9-15. The
"junior" newspaper was thought of and is
advised by Mrs. Linda Murray. All of the work
on the paper is done by her students, with only
technical advice coming from the teacher.
newspaper...
Mma
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1977
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"News
Board to
The regular October meet
ing of the Morrow County
School Board will be held at
lone High School October 17
beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The Board will hear a
progress report from the lone
Boosters on the football field
lighting project at the high
school.
Also on the agenda will be
consideration of a request for
PGE awards
plant contract
Portland General Electric
company has awarded Com
bustion Engineering, Inc., a
contract to erect the boiler
and related structural steel
for the utility's Boardman
Coal Plant. Contract cost is
about $16.5 million.
Work under the contract is
to begin by mid-October and
will extend unul shortly before
Hunter
Roy L. Husk, 67, a Bay City,
Oregon, man was declared
dead on arrival at the Pioneer
Memorial Hospital on Tues
day, Oct. 11 after suffering a
massive heart attack at his
hunting camp a few miles
south of Hardman. He had
been hunting for the last two
Cooley
Upsets upset prognostica
tors in this week's Gazette
Times Football Contest with
two completed entry forms
picking six correct winners.
Craig Cooley beat out Dave
Harrison for first place by
selecting Heppner over Sher
man County in the tie-breaker.
Cooley picks up $10 for his
efforts and Harrison nailed
down $5 in second place.
Both men can pick up their
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Briefs
meet
an additional staff member at
Riverside Jr. High School, a
report on teacher turnover in
the school district and ap
pointment of a member to the
Budget Committee to fill the
position of Don Bennett,
Heppner, whose term has
expired. The Board will consi
der authorizing the Supt. to
ask for bids on three new
school buses.
the $500 million plant goes into
operation in 1980. The contract
is expected to require a peak
work force of 140 persons.
PGE began work on the
530,000 kilowatt coal-fired
power plant in February 1976.
The project, located about 13
miles southwest of Boardman,
is about 15 per cent complete.
dies
weeks, accompanied by two
sons and a daughter-in-law,
names unknown. Husk, born
April 8, 1910, was a retired
railroad man.
Burial arrangements will be
handled by Portland Memori
al Mortuary.
wins!
checks at the Gazette-Times
office.
A new contest appears on
page seven of this issue and
entrants will find the games
straying from the beaten path
of Pac-8 and major college
ball games.
Readers are urged to make
their picks and return the
entry form to the G-T office
before 5 p.m. Friday.
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