The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Wednesday, November 23, 1977 FIVE
Rhea Creek women mend for hospital
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with Justine Weatherford J
Maybe it seemed to you that I had not written a column
last week. However, I have several witnesses who know I
wrote one because they read it at the library on Saturday
afternoon Nov. 12, just before I slipped it, along with a timely
story, through the slot in the door of the Gazette-Times.
What happened to my efforts after they reached the
office floor nobody seems to know. The best guess is that the
zealous cleaning person must have wadded up the three
typed sheets, which I had folded lengthwise, and chucked
them in the trash so that has happened to writers before.
Maybe that is where some of you think my column belongs
anyway.
Anyhow, I had several things to share I thought
interesting a few of which I shall attempt to recall.
Everyone everywhere was distressed when Bing Crosby
died in Spain recently. One Heppner family, the Lee
Ansloteguis, felt the loss of Bing most acutely. Lee was
employed by Bing as a horse trainer several years back, the
Ansotegue children played with Bing's younger offspring,
and the two families were friends. My informant said that the
Green Feed Store operators often speak of the Crosbys,
always very favorably.
Quite a few weeks ago the chief of the National Weather
Service for Pendleton and vicinity who has his office at the
Pendleton Airport came to the library and museum to leave
some weather information and to look around. He was really
excited about the terrific pictures and articles concerning the
great 1903 flood that are displayed in the museum's picture
room.
He said that although he had seen quite a few Heppner
flood pictures, he had never seen such a great collection. He
promised to urge other Pendletonians to come visit the
"really remarkable" museum here.
I believe that most of the pictures the meteorologist
admired were taken the day after the flood by Bert Sigsbee,
historic Heppner photographer, and father of Elaine George
who served the City of Heppner so well so long.
Another thing I mentioned in the lost column was my
re-reading of Ayn Rand's short, provocative novel ANTHEM,
written in 1937. If you are in doubt about the need for a
national energy program, I urge you to read this classic story
of a post-energy crises. See what great heroes the
re-inventors of the candle became.
Along with other brave souls two who made the icy,
slippery drive through the Columbia Gorge twice last
Saturday were Ernie Ertz and D.D. McLachlan. They left
Heppner about 5 a.m. in the White Angel, expecting to reach
the Emanuel Hospital by 9. When they got there just after
10:30, D.D. said, "I sure wouldn't have made this trip today
except to come for Bill."
Ernie did a masterful 10 hours of driving and the three
persons in the ambulance beat me back here by about two
hours. I did make two brief stops but all who got home
safely on Saturday found that driving 10 miles an hour over
many sections really slows one down.
I spent 10 hours each day last week in the Portland
hospital beside Bill. He enjoyed seeing visitors from
here Rev. Duane Geyer came several times, C. McQuarrie,
H. O'Donnell, Dr. and Helen Schaffitz and Herman Winter
came calling. Many cards cheered him, along with a
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beautiful plant from the Heppner Garden Club.
We had planned that he would stay in the Rehabilitation
Section of the hospital this week, but Bill got very determined
to come back to Heppner so he is now back in "his own"
corner of the quiet, friendly, homelike hospital here.
Sunday evening the medical technologist Betty McEwen
told me she had good news to report. The two deserted, wild
and frightened puppies had been caught and gentled and
adopted by Heppner families.
On Saturday morning as I drove from my brother's
northeast Portland home down Knott Street toward the
hospital, our Chrysler got rammed into by a low-slung
Datsun sports car. The youthful driver chewed me out for
driving so slowly. He couldn't get his faster-moving car
stopped and slipped right into our bumper.
We both got out and looked at the damage done, only a
nick on the Chrysler, but a smashed headlight and badly
crumpled fender on the blue Datsun. Guess he learned why I
was driving so slowly! That was good practice for my trip
home up the Columbia which took from 10:45 until 4:30.
How thankful we are to be safely home!
Garden Club
The Heppner Garden Club
held its regular meeting
Nov. 14 with a pot-luck supper
at the Bob Lowe's home.
District President Dorothy
Heard and her husband,
Charlie, of Milton-Freewater
were special guests.
Eva Griffith was also a
first-timer at the Garden Club
meeting. The club dealt with
routine business matters such
as planning for the workshop
to prepare articles for sale at
the Artifactory and paying
travel for delegates to the
District Convention in Octo
ber. Mrs. Heard passed out
material from the National
Garden Federation regarding
Matthews welcome first
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Matthews, lone, wish to announce the
arrival of their first grandchild.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Thornton, Salem, on Nov.
18, the young Thornton, named Mike Matthew, weighed 6
pounds 11 ounces at birth.
projects and contests that
could be Very interesting as
well as profitable and could
keep the members working
closely together. Plans and
discussions on this matter.
After the meeting adjourned
New Coley arrives
Jeremiah Steven, the son of
proud parents Mr. and Mrs.
Steven Leroy Coley, Monu
ment, was born on Wednes
day, Nov. 9, at 2:18 a.m. He
weighed in at 6 pounds 6
ounces.
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Among Rhea Creek Grange women who periodiacally
operate sewing machines and wield needles to mend boxes of
robes, sheets and other articles for Pioneer Memorial
Hospital are Anne Bergstrom, front, and Muriel Palmer.
meets
members enjoyed some of the
Heard's slides from their trip
to The British Isles this
summer and were told of some
highlights such as kissing
the Blarney Stone.
Wesley and Jason Dexter, and
J.W. and Heather Coley.
Grandparents are Marietta
Schultz, Prairie City; Homer
Coley, Shawnee, Oklahoma;
and Mrs. Vi Kern, Prairie
City.
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The members of Beta Gam
ma chapter of Epsilon Sigma
Alpha sorority held their Nov.
14 business meeting in the
home of Pam Mabe.
A newly formed group, it is
just beginning community
activities. A craft table at the
Artifactory and an evergreen
swap for the nursing home will
be among first projects.
A social meetingis planned
at the home of Debbie Koffler
on Monday, Nov. 28. Members
are asked to bring their baby
pictures.
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By Justine Weatherford
For many years the ladies from the Rhea Creek Grange
have done a wonderful service for Heppner's Pioneer
Memorial Hospital. They have spent hundreds of hours
patching and mending worn and torn hospital linens.
On Wednesday, Nov. 9, just as they have done several
times each year, the ladies brought their electric sewing
machines, needles and thimbles along with sack lunches to
Emma Drake's Baltimore Street home to spend much of day
working over the piles of blankets, sheets, towels,
bedspreads, etc. that the hospital crew had put aside for
mending.
The Rhea Creek ladies are presently working under the
chairmanship of Judy Stevens (Mrs. Bob) of Hardman who
leads the granges's Committee of Women's Activities. They
don't ask more ladies to join them on the days that they fill
the Drake home with their machines they are "old"
experienced menders.
Mrs. Drake says that some years back when there was
an active Heppner Extension group, those ladies bought
bright terrycloth and made bibs for the bed patients. That
group disbanded and there is now a really great need for a
supply of new bibs at the hospital.
This Thanksgiving week those of us who presently have
or who have had family and friends hospitalized here are so
thankful for the Pionner Memorial hospital and for all who
work there. It would be so much less satisfying to the patients
and to their families to have them many miles away where
friends could not just drop in to visit.
A special community thank-you goes out to the women of
the Rhea Creek Grange whose skilled hands are so helpful to
the hospital.
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