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The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 24, 1979 THREE
Rodeo time approaches
for junior buckaroos
' Contestants from four West
ern states, Oregon, Washing
ton, Idaho and California will
be competing for cash prizes
in the Morrow County Junior
Rodeo, June 1-3 at the
Fairgrounds.
Two shows are scheduled,
Friday at 7:30 p.m. and again
on Saturday and Sunday at 1
p.m. The events are divided
into two categories, Senior
(15-18 year olds) and Juniors
(9-14). Cost of admission is
$2.50 for adults and $1 for
students. Refreshments will
be sold by the Lion's Club.
Senior boys will be com
peting in saddle bronc and
bareback riding, bulldogging,
calf-roping and bull riding.
Senior girls will be cow-riding,
breakaway roping, pole bend
ing, barrel racing, goat-tying
No week for area bus6s
Buses were giving the
Morrow County School Dist
rict a go-around this week
Bishop sets
annual visit
for All Saints9
Episcopal Church
The Rt. Rev. William Spof
ford, Bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of Eastern Oregon,
will make his annual visitation
to All Saints' Episcopal
Church in Heppner, on the
weekend of May 27.
He will be the house guest
Saturday night in the home of
Robert and Suzanne Jepsen.
The parish will gather for a
breakfast in honor of the
bishop, Sunday morning, May
27 beginning at 8:30 a.m. The
men of the parish will be the
hosts.
Please make reservations
for the breakfast by calling
Fr. Miller, 676-5128 or Ned
Clark, 676-5828. At 10:30 a.m.
the bishop along with the
rector, Fr. Kenneth D. Miller,
will officiate at the confirma
tion of Miss Michele Saling,
Miss Kathleen Clark and Miss
Kimberly Ann Miller.
Members of the community
and other Christian denomi
nations are welcome to visit
during the morning.
Following the morning wor
ship, the Bishop will meet with
the parish vestry, its govern
ing board.
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and team roping with one
header and the other, a heeler.
Junior boys' events include
breakaway, calf riding and
calf -tying. The girls will be
barrel racing, pole bending,
calf -riding and team roping.
An estimated 150 contest
ants are expected to attend,
according to Mrs. Robert
Mahoney, secretary of the
Morrow County Junior Rodeo
Association with silver belt
buckles as the top prize and
cash prizes awarded to the top
six in each event. A $15 entry
fee is charged with $5 for the
stock used and $10 in prize
money.
The event will be kicked off
with a colorful ceremony of
horsemanship, rodeo hats and
Heppner Fair Court on hand.
The rodeo is approved by the
with vandalism to four at lone
High School and a mechanical
breakdown of a Heppner Jr.
High bus in Troutdale, Ore
gon. lone High School Principal
Chuck Starr reported Monday
that all four buses vandalized
last week were back in service
this week, thanks to the efforts
of Bus Supervisor Jerry Dag
gett and the help of Akers
Motor Service.
Sometime Thursday night,
vandals smashed side and
door windows of the vehicles,
a front windshield was broken
and a rear door of another
damaged. The hoods of the
buses were opened up and
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Western States Junior Rodeo
Association and one of a series
of rodeos attracting young
rodeo stars. Joe Nichols,
Echo, will be the announcer.
On Saturday night, team
roping will be held with adults
participating and a dance will
follow. The Jim Ackley band
will perform.
Association directors
include Chairman Bob Stea
gall, Vice-Chairman , Bob
Montgomery, and secretary
Sheree Mahoney.
Montgomery will serve as
director of roping shutes, Dick
Sherer as grounds director,
Bob Mahoney as bucking chute
director, Jerry Doherty,
awards director, Kite Healy,
director of track events and
Don Stroeber, director of
track events.
engines pounded and air
cleaners torn off.
The dollar amount of the
damage was fixed at $2,000
and according to Starr, that
comes directly out of the
taxpayers' pocketbooks.
The Sheriff's Department is
following up leads into the
incident.
Mechanical difficulties on
Monday afternoon presented
problems to a return bus trip
for Heppner seventh graders
to the Oregon Museum of
Science and Industry in Port
land. The bus experienced the
mechanical breakdown in
Troutdale on the Columbia
Gorge.
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1,300 registered voters showed
up at the polls in the
Boardman and Irrigon area.
She estimated that less than
37 percent of the county's
voters cast ballots. That was
the percentage of voters who
turned out in the last school
district electin.
By law, the County Court
v and PMH Hospital Board may
resubmit their separate ballot
issues within 30 days of
Tuesday's election or by June
22.
Charles Morris purchases
Lexington Chevron station
Lexington Chevron has a
change of ownership and will
be operated by Charles
"Buck" Morris, who said he
plans to make it a family
business.
Morris has just purchased
the station and intends to use
three of his four sons, aged 18,
21 and 24, to handle the work
load.
A former mechanical engi
neer in Alaska, Morris was
raised in Condon and the John
Day country in the 1930's, then
moved to Bend where he
attended high school. His
construction work has in
cluded work on the Alaskan
Pipeline.
Morris considers the stat
tion's location at the busy
intersection of Highway 207
with the Lexington-Heppner
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Voters say 'no'
Heppner was the last voting
precinct to turn in results to
the County Clerk because of
several other issues on the
local ballot. Three directors
were elected to four-year
terms on the Heppner Water
Control District Board ; Arch
ie Ball, Al Osmin and Gene
Pierce. Donald Bennett and
Monte Evans were elected to
four-year terms as directors
of the Heppner Rural Fire
Maintenance District and the
requested tax levy of $14,860
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highway as an asset and
added "it's the only one in
town."
He will be open six days a
week from six a.m. to six p.m.
to provide you with gas and
eventually hopes to add other
service features to the loca
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ation to fund the Heppner
Cemetery Maintenance Dist
rict budget passed the voter
test with 235-yes and 137-no.
Community
Art Show is
well received
On Tuesday, May 16, the
Second Annual Community
Art Show was held at Heppner
Elementary School.
A reception was held in the
multi-purpose room of the
grade school with a large
attendance viewing the works
of art on display.
Awards were presented for
first place showings, Jenny
Johnston (chalk drawing),
Judy Paine, oil, Bonnie Nix,
sculpture; second place to
Cammela Samples, oil, Jeff
Bailey, clay pot and Kelly
Crewse, collage; third place,
Marilyn Parker, watercolor,
Jeann Adams, chalk drawing
and Cindi Bergstrom, clay
pot. Honorable mention went
to Lou Ann Way, oil, Craig
purchase award given to Jeff
Bailey.
Gift certificates were pre
sented to Diane Miller, wood
block print, Annette Wilgers,
print, Andy Samples, Batik
and Coleman Devine, stone
ware clay sculpture.
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Pre-sentence inquiry
ordered in drug case
A pre-sentence investigation
has been ordered for Noel Gay
Harshman Jr., Heppner by
Circuit Court Judge Jack
Olsen following Harshman's
guilty plea to four indictments
issued by the secret Morrow
County Grand Jury investi
gating drug abuse.
Harshman pleaded guilty
May 15 in Circuit Court to four
separate indictments and ten
counts of drug abuse. If given
the maximum sentence, he
could receive a sentence of up
to 60 years, 20 years each for
the first two indictments and
10 each for the remaining
charges.
District Attorney Dennis
Doherty dropped seven other
indictments against the de
fendant, also related to a drug
raid at Harshman's apart
ment January 6 in Heppner.
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tion is expected to take three
of four weeks, Olsen said.
In other drug -related cases, j
Delbert Turner, 18, Heppner
and Rick Rea, 19, Heppner
and Richard Hamlett were
arraigned on May 15 further
indictments by the grand jury.
Rea and Turner entered pleas
of not guilty for two indict
ments Monday and their
attorneys, Winters and
Sweeney filed challenges to
evidence on other indictments
lodged against them.
Judge Olsen declined to set
bail and freed the defendants
on their own recognizance.
Hamlett is charged with
delivery of a controlled sub
stance for consideration and
four charges of delivery of a
controlled substance to a
minor.
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