FOUR The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday March 22, 1979
City clean-up drive plans to
include creek channel
William Jepsen engaged
to Iowa Miss
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So here we are actually into spring. The hard winter
officially ended yesterday. Presidents Lincoln and
Washington, St. Valentine and St. Patrick have been
appropriately remembered, the great eclipse and its special
excitement is past and Easter Sunday is a little over three
weeks away.
Neat and efficient householders and civic-minded
business people everywhere are cleaning their premises at
this time of the year. A recent Oregonian article points out
that today's homemaker assisted by her great electric aids
keeps her home so constantly vacuumed and sparkling clean
that a big, back-breaking, annual effort is completely passe'.
Nobody rips up carpets and beats them over the clothesline
anymore!
Last Saturday Ida Farra and I took a little trip to quaint,
historic Weston where we visited with our friends Lesley and
Charles Patching in their interesting home. We learned we
had somehow crossed paths with their sons John and Will
who had chosen to come back to Heppner to visit as a
spring-vacation treat.
Our tour of Weston took us into the old grocery and
market where there is a fine, old, reed carpet beater hanging
and where we saw the beautiful, decorated, nickel-plated,
arched meat-hanging rack which is so unique and rather
famous. The old fountain which once was a central feature of
the town is still there but has been moved from the center of
the main intersection.
We peeked through the round-topped windows of the
historic, brick Saling House which the garden clubs of Blue
Mountain District 10 have been campaigning to restore.
Lesley told us about her grandmother's recollections of
attending a New Year's party at that home when it was in its
prime. Her grandparents owned the drugstore and
newspaper in Weston years ago.
The old home the Patchings have purchased was only
owned and occupied by one family through the years a
couple who moved there as newlyweds and spent their entire
lives there. Patchings bought it from the very elderly widow
after she had to go into a nursing home. In these days of
constant mobility, it is rather unusual to hear of a couple
living in the same home for more than 60 or 70 years.
A few days after the article on spring cleaning appeared
in the morning Oregonian, there was another interesting
treatment of the matter of household cleaning uder the
heading "Clean's Keen, but No Flu Screen." It points out that
trying to keep one's home "germ-free" will not prevent
family members from getting colds or flu "Which are
caused by viruses. Cleanliness is no guarantee against
catching a virus."
The article does recommend sanatizing dishes but tells a
super-clean inquirer that her custom of changing all bed
linen and towels each day and using disinfectant spray each
morning and night will not keep her family from getting
colds. "Actually, not much aside from keeping your
resistance high and getting a flu shot if your doctor
recommends one can help you avoid colds and flu" the writer
concludes.
A sure sign that spring is upon us is the return of our
natives from their winter visits in the southern climes.
Among the many who got away for awhile but are back home
again are Irene Swanson and Barbara and Orville Cutsforth.
Barbara has passed along a clipping from a Seattle paper
which tells that son Gene Heliker is not only a busy
professional musician, but has taken time to be a crime
fighter and hero, too. The news bit reads:
"Well, some jerko grabbed Marsha Milroy's purse at
Joe's Bar and Grill Thursday night, but Joe's is not a place to
be snatching purses. Boss Max Russell dashed up the stairs,
commandeered a passing police car, and a few moments
later the cops collared the suspect. What else was needed?
"Well, a witness for one thing and it developed that a
witness to this foul deed had departed. At which point, the
entire Susanville Stage Band, then playing at Joe's, stormed
out of the place. Guitarist Gene Heliker spotted a car pulling
out of a lot some blocks away, gave chase, and returned with
the purse-snatching witness a small and very surprised
woman.
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Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hibma,
Harris, Iowa, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Nancy, to William R. Jepsen,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Jepsen, Heppner.
Miss Hibma, a 1975 grad
uate of Harris Lake Park High
School, is a senior in Agricul
tural Education at Iowa State
University.
Jepsen, a 1973 graduate of
Heppner High School, took his
pre-veterinary training at
Washington State University
and is currently a junior in the
College of Veterinary Medi
cine at Iowa State University.
The couple plans to be
married in November in
Harris, Iowa.
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William Jepsen..
....will marry in
.Nancy Himba
November
Parents group slates
drug abuse speaker
Members of the Chamber of
Commerce Committee on City
Beautification and Improve
ment, along with 12 other
concerned citizens, met Mon
day, March 20 at the Parish
Hall of All Saints' Episcopal
Church to make further plans
for the Heppner Spring Clean
up Campaign.
It was brought out that the
school principals have been
contacted and look forward to
supporting the community
efforts. Several present noted
that play areas and sports
fields needed special attention
this year.
The fire department has
agreed to be in charge of
burning brush on city property
as well as on private property
where they are requested to do
so.
An attempt is being made to
have the State Highway De
partment assist in the effort
by sweeping the main streets
in town. The Soroptimists
have taken the responsibility
of contacting each business
establishment to encourage
them to take on the job of
cleaning the sidewalks and
curbs along the main streets
and to continue to clean near
their own establishments once
each week.
The Lion's Club has offered
to clean the creek bed through
town, a tough but very
important job.
The committee has been
promised a fleet of seven
trucks to gather up limbs,
brush and public trash. The
chipper from Columbia Basin
Co-op will be available for use.
All one has to do is to call the
secretary, Karen Palmer, at
Columbia Basin and tell where
there are limbs needing to be
removed. Do plan to call
before Friday, March 30, so
that plans can be made to
cover all needs.
Cleanup Chairman Father
Ken Miller has been assisted
by Mark Lovgren of CBEC in
dividing the city into seven
Hear and Their
March 29 has been set as the
date for the next meeting of
the Concerned Parents organ
ization, according to Paul
Sumner, chairman.
A representative from the
alcohol and drug program of
the State Mental Health Divi
sion has been scheduled to
speak at the 7:30 p.m.
meeting, to be held in Heppner
Elementary's multipurpose
room.
Sumner said his organiza
tion is attempting to re
schedule discipline authority
Dr. Jim Monasmith for the
April meeting of Concerned
Parents.
Around About
Cont. from last column
"Victim Marsha, in admiration of her saviors said:
'Whatta band, whatta bar, whatta evening.'" (well, whatta
story and whatta hero Heppner's Heliker has become.)
Are you observing the window washing and lawn mowing
that is taking place these days? Betty Mills and Howard
Cleveland were two early mowers I noted. I shudder to think
what I face in the way of lawn care this year. My good
friends, pup Tip and his doggy playmates, are hard to
control. They are in the helpful, digging mood
now however, they have been digging in the worst spots,
like in the middle of the front and back lawn.
We all must catch spring fix-up, paint-up, clean-up fever
and not let the Chamber of Commerce Beautification and
Improvement Committee down. I see that Bob Lowe is being
a great, good-example again. He was scooping up excess
gravel off the streets in front of the Courthouse last week.
Last spring he led the small, spring-cleaning effort
waged by the Heppner Garden Club. This year the larger,
better-organized campaign being chaired by Father Ken
Miller should, with much citizen cooperation, bring about a
great improvement in our city soon.
Civic pride used to be, and should still be, a real
motivation. Let's make Heppner a beautiful example of a
city whose residents appreciate its charm and advantages
and show their love by working to keep it looking its best.
Spring is here at last from
all the signs, the hills are
getting green, plants and
shrubs are beginning to bud,
farmers are busy working,
and the social activities are
beginning to hum, with
thoughts of the long hard
winter in the past.
Tuesday evening, March 13,
the members of the American
Legion and Auxiliary cele
brated the 60th Anniversary of
the American Legion with a
potluck dinner and program.
Retired
Educators
to meet
Community participation
will be the theme of a March
24 meeting of the Morrow and
Umatilla County Retired Edu
cators organization.
The meeting will start at 11
a.m. in the Catholic Parish
Hall in Hermiston. Alma
Bloom, coordinator of the
Hermiston Neighborhood Cen
ter will be the speaker. A
dancing class will entertain.
The Hermiston branch of
the organization is in charge
of the meeting.
Special weekend showing
Paintings &
Woodcarvings
By
Sam Nichols
Saturday & Sunday-March 24 & 25
Mr. Nichols will be showing his paintings and carvings between
2 and 8 p.m. each day. Stop in anytime and view this
selection of beautiful paintings done in Eastern Oregon settings
by Mr. Sam Nichols
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Jerry McElligoIt and Beverly
Doherty were presiding of
ficers. Mel Boyer was present
ed a Past Commander's pin
for his service in Hood River.
John Jepson was presented an
Award of Merit for member
ship, a 25 year membership
pin, and an American Legion
belt buckle, .a gift from
Charlie and Beverly Doherty
for his work in the American
Legion. Rick Doherty gave a
talk on attending Boy's State
(John Lindstrom was the
other delegate and he was
unable to attend ) and Michelle
McElligott gave her report on
Girl's State. Janet McElligott
was to show her slides on the
United Nations trip she took
last July but was ill. They will
be shown at a later date. Janet
was also a delegate to Girls'
State.
Wednesday, the lone Gar
den Club met at the UCC
followed by a large turn out at
the Senior Citizens dinner.
Joe, Frank, and Lewis
Halvorsen and Leo Crabtree
drove to Troutdale Wednesday
evening to attend the Masonic
Lodge. The Master Mason
Degree was put on by the Al
Kader Shrine Club Degree
Team from Portland.
Rebekah Lodge met at the
home of Anna Ball on Thurs
day, March 15. Thirteen
sections which are being
recommended to civic and
fraternal organizations for
cleanup responsibility and
checking. Next week, March
25 through April 1, is the big,
final push of the campaign.
A number of persons have
taken on the responsibility of
talking with their neighbors
and encouraging block-party
cleanup days. Bob Lowe is
planning to bring together a
number of youngsters to work
on the road from the Elemen
tary School east to the city
limits along Hinton Creek
Road. Father Miller plans to
personally see to the cleaning
of the foot bridge area from
Main Street near the library to
the Junior High School prop
erty. Marshall Lovgren, city ad
ministrator, noted there is a
litter control ordinance re
garding uncovered trash
being hauled through town to
Cont. on page 10
A column by
Eva Hamlett
members were present. The
next meeting will be at the
home of Mildred Wright at
Hardman.
Spring vacation for the
schools started Friday after
noon. Quite a number of young
people are seen around town,
coming home from college
during the vacation.
Ken and Bernice Thompson
and grandaughter, MacKenzie
Fletcher of Portland are
visiting at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Mable Ring.
Adon and I attended the
Irish Stew feed at St. Patrick's
Church in Heppner Saturday
evening. It was very good and
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