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Morrow Babe Rllth team Skyline Basin Ski area gets OK Four-wheeler club
ends season in third place
Morrow County's Babe Ruth
baseball team ended regular
season play last vveejv on a
sour note, losing 7-G to
Hennision Auto Parts.
The local team ended the
season in third place, with an
11-5 record, one game behind
league champion Inland Em
pire. Turn A-Lum of Hennis
ion was second in league
standings.
During the fare.well game of
the l'.iTrt season. Morrow
County was ahead ti-4 going
into the sixth inning. Auto
Parts came back to tie the
contest on runs during its final
trip to the plate in the seventh.
Morow County gave up six
errors, two of which were
cosily-including a passed
ball with bases loaded. Pour of
the Auto Parts team's seven
runs were unearned.
The Morrow County squad
matched Auto Parts' perfor
mance at the plate, slapping
out seven hits, including
two slams by John Bier that
struck the outfield fence, just
shy of home runs. Rier was 2
for :i, with 2 runs batted in.
Rick Cole was starting
pitcher for Morrow County,
with Dale Holland stepping to
the mound in relief in later
innings.
Had Morrow-County won the
contest, they would have
attained a three-way tie for
tirst place.
All things considered, the
1978 Morrow County season
was "nothing to feel bad
lone glid
he recalled. "He got within
."out tour feet of me before I
tamed away." Hang gliders
1-ke lo look for hawks and
eagles, Peterson explained,
saice both th1 birds and their
human counterparts seek the
same air currents for cruis
ing. Peterson remembers Hy
ing from his most frequented
site at McNab during the .
opening days of deer season.
' Hunters had pulled off the
road all over the place to
watch." The Ionian admits to
appreciating an audience, but
noted "I'm glad it wasn't bird
season."
Since he was the first in the
area to take up hang gliding,
many curious local residents
tiiok time to watch him
perform over his most fre
quent haunt, the Dick Sherer
ranch near, McNab. "Nobody
gave me a bad time, or told
me I was crazy," he said.
"They were just interested.
They wanted to know what it
felt like."
"My folks were a little leery
of this at first," he admitted,
"but they're really behind me
and my hang gliding now."
Peterson carries his folded
ji,A n glider on a rack above
his four-wheel drive rig. When
he reaches the top of a hill, he
s-.sembles the synthetic cloth
and aircraft metal framed
kite, a process that takes less
the five minules. Then he dons
a harness rig to fasten himself
about," said manager Jim
Swanson. "The first year in
the legue, we were 3-13, then
the next year 8-8. This year
we were 11-5. We've shown
that we're contenders."
Despite the loss of live
players including Cole and
Bier from the Morrow Coun
ty roster next year, Swanson
predicted returning veteran
starters and incoming Little
League talent will give the
local team another shot at the
league pennant. "Next year,
we'll be hot," he said.
Swanson was named' to
manage the league's first
team Hermiston League Na
tional All btar squad, which
will include lour Morrow
County standouts--Bier, Hol
land, Cole and John Murray.
Practice was set to begin this
week, with tournament action
slated to begin in Lewiston,.
Idaho on July 8.
The main district tourna
ment will take place July 12-16
in Pendleton, with winners to
vie in a state tournament in
Med ford.
Heppner-Ukiah forest
road to be paved
An 18-mile link of gravel
road through the Umatilla
National Forest between
Heppner and Ukiah is sche
duled to be improved ana
paved by the middle of
August.
Work is already underway
on a $370,206 Forest Service
contract let last Fall in
cooperation with Kinzua Cor
poration and Morrow County
for work on the 18.3 mile
section of Western Route No.
53. according to Herb Ru
dolph, Umatilla National For
est Supervisor.
The road work project will
extend from the end of Willow
Creek County Road about one
mile north of Cutsforth Park,
over Coalmine Hill, to the end
er soars
to the kite, puts on a hockey
helmet, makes a last preflight
check, waits for the wind, and
makes a running jump into
space.
"I know it sounds funny," he
said, "but I'm afraid of
heights. If I stand on top of a
building or something, I think
I'm going to fall, But when
I've got my kite, I'm not
of the existing pavement on
the Western Route about eight
miles west of U.S. 395. L.V.
Anderson of Oakridge was
awarded the construction con
tract. John Bothwell, contracting
officer's representative for
the project, cautioned that at
times, entire sections of the
road will be closed to through
travel. Detours will be provi
ded where practical.
Correction
Maureen Healy's name was
inadvertantly omitted from a
list of Heppner High Rodeo
Club members who competed
during the state championship
rodeo in Redmond.
Cont.from page 3
afraid at all. ..it gives me a
secure feeling."
"Most anybody can hang
glide," he said. "...It's only as
dangerous as the flyer wants
to make it."
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Drs. Richard A. Carpenter and Joseph H.v
Diehl regret to announce the closing of their
practice at the Heppner Medical Clinic, effective
AugusT 1, 1978.
Patients may arrange for transfer of their
medical records to another physician by contacting
the clinic at North Thompson Rd, P.O. Box 1 109,
Heppner, Oregon 97836, telephone 676-9148.
Eastern Oregon skiers will
soon have another option on
where to go for weekend ski
trips.
The devlopment firm of
Skyline Basin Associates was
recently awarded a special
use permit authorizing the
construction of Skyline Basin
Ski Area in the Umatilla
National Forest, about 22
miles south of Dayton, Wash.,
near Touchet Corral.
The signing of the permit
culminated more than 10
years of environmental stu
dies, planning, financial ar
rangements and negotiations
for construction of the ski
area. It is anticipated that
construction of , the access
road and clearing of the ski
slopes will begin in two
weeks.
Facilities to be constructed
will include a day lodge, a
triple chair lift, 4,310 feet long
with a vertical lift of 1,135 feet,
and a surface tow.
There will be about 74 acres
of ski runs.K with skill levels
ranging from expert to ad
vanced beginner, plus slopes
for beginners.
forming in county
Persons interested in the
formation of a four-wheel
drive club in Morrow County
are urged to contact Bill or
Linda Hutchinson at 676-9001.
Swimming lessons hours posted
The second session of swim
lessons at the Heppner muni
cipal swimming pool will get
underway on July 11.
Beginners' lessons will be
held from 10 to 11 a.m., with
both advanced beginner and
intermediate classes to run
from 9 to 10 a.m.
A mother and tot swim hour
will be held from 11 a.m. to
noon .
. Hutchinson said a group of
peopie in the area are interes
ted in forming the 4x4 club for
the betterment of off-road
recreation with regard to
four-wheel drives and public
and private property.
The club will conduct some
public service work and will
plan some weekend trips and
campouts for members.
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