FOUR The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 7, 1979
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With Justine Ueatherford )
After two month's leave of absence, I hope to continue to
share observations, impressions and thoughts, along with
bits of news with you through this weekly column. For almost
six weeks I was in England and on the European continent. I
am now pleased to be home.
So much has happened here during my traveling. It is
sad to learn of several deaths and joyous to learn of several
births. My friend, news editor Rick Steelhammer, has gone,
and I find a new friend, news editor Jim Hackett who knows
my older son at Port Orchard. I am hearing of changes
taking place, of budgeting problems, of elections and
appointments.
Being a lover of warm weather, I am relieved to have
real summer here. Inez Erwin and I were together the first
four weeks of traveling. I left her in southern Germany on
May 15 to go north alone on the efficient German Rail
System. As we parted, we agreed that our experiences
together had been nearly perfect the only imperfection
being the cold, damp weather. Europeans were fearing that
winter might last all summer.
London and the surrounding area, true to character, was
continually foggy and cold. I was soaked the afternoon that
we visited the great, historic Tower of London and its
storehouse of crown jewels.
Our Thursday-through-Sunday tour of Holland took us
through mushy snow and lots of rain and mud. In late
afternoon, we took our tourist-boat canal ride and it rained so
hard we could not see much through the glass top and sides of
, the boat. However the rain kindly ceased while we visited the
heavenly tulip gardens and the superbly landscaped park.
We paid money down on a tour to Switzerland, but that
tour was called off because of impossible visibility snow
and heavy rain and fog in the Swiss Alps. We then changed
our plans and were able to join a bus tour to Paris, a
fantastically significant city.
Last Sunday's Oregonian had a front page picture of
German children frolicking in a fountain in Frankfurt in 90
degree heat which told me that, at last, Germany is getting
long-awaited warmth. The farmers and gardeners I talked
with in western Europe were all saying this last winter was
exceptionally hard and long-lasting.
My first experience with mammoth international
airports came the year before I moved to Morrow County
when I visited Japan and S.E. Asia and was almost
overwhelmed by the vast size of the Tokyo Airport. Now I
have been in and out of Heathrow and Frankfurt
International Airports and found them so huge, so busy and
so time consuming.
Some of you will hear me talking of my travels for years
to come. Since I am back viewing my own TV, I've seen
several of the great buildings and monuments I gazed at with
awe so recently. Because I have always loved literature and
history, I felt somewhat acquainted with much that I saw, but
I had not really anticipated the thrill of being actually
present, of actually touching the great cathedrals, the
gigantic monuments, the historic grounds.
To me travel positively strengthens one's cultural
appreciation. It surely awakens one's feelings about the
natures of other nationalities and their backgrounds and
their values. In London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin and
Frankfurt I actually talked with persons from all parts of the
earth. There are so many Arabs, Pakastani and East Indians
working everywhere in England. Yen-laden Japanese are
traveling everywhere. In Germany many "outlanders" have
come from Italy and Spain to work in the industries. All the
great cities are most cosmopolitan with banks and
restaurants for each national group very visible.
The timing of this trip was most fortunate. Marsha
Lovgren, who made our stay in London most extraordinary,
has resigned from her position at the American Embassy and
left London on June 1. Her hospitality and guidance helped us
immeasureably. Shirley Erwin Clark, husband Dick and sons
David and Scott provided our home base at Cooke Barracks
in Goppingen near Stuttgart. Shirley helped us look around
and be included in U.S. Army sponsored tours. I visited
briefly with former Corvallis neighbors, Col. and Mrs. Neil
Saling, Jr., and their children at Heidelberg. He is a
grandnephew of the late Phebe Bartholomew of Butter Creek
and a descendant of the pioneer residents of Weston's Saling
House.
From most-exciting Heidelberg, I continued north on the
efficient trains via Bonn, Koln and Hamm along lovely river
valleys, through blossoming orchards and sprouting
vineyards on terraced hillsides. Between cities were a series
of neat homes and manicured gardens clustered around
spired churches composing loveable German villages.
My final two weeks included my journey to Berlin and
look around East Germany and East Berlin which was an
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Review:
School concert
judged success
By Jim Hackett
The upper grades spring
concert Thursday night at the
Heppner Elementary School
demonstrated the fine musical
talents of fifth, sixth, seventh
and eighth graders and hope
for the musical future of the
entire school system.
Most appealing, depending
on your personal preference,
were the choral selections
with their physical themes.
Most of the youngsters acted
out play type sequences; the
best in this writer's opinion
was the Jr. High Chorus's
"The Shooting of Dan Mc-
Grew" and of course, the most
outstanding, the sixth grade's
rendition of "Long Tall
Texan."
Words cannot describe the
charm of the sixth grade girls
singing their part in falsetto as
the boys sang masculine
harmony. The costuming, the
boys attired in cowboy garb
and the girls in bonnets added
to the entire effect. The choir's
"Candy Man" theme was
excellently performed.
The fifth grade choir's
selection of "Blue Tail Fly"
was well orchestrated by
Choral Director Kitty Moo-
berry.
Interspersed between the
choral selections were band
numbers reflecting the range
and depth of Heppner's young
musicians. The fifth grade
band played such traditional
numbers as "Camptown
Races," "Safari," "Krazy
Klock", the sixth graders
tackled the "Festival March
"Songs of the Sage" and
"Grandfather's Clock"; the
Junior High Stage Band,
which has limited practice
time, performed well with the
selections of "Joshua", "Mex
ican Jumping Bean" and
"Boogaloo Man", while the Jr
High Band played "Yellow
Bird", "Boogie on By" and
"Country and Western Jam
boree."
Jim Ackley, elementary and
jr. high band director and
Kitty Mooberry are to be
congratulated on Thursday's
program as well as the young
people performing. Ackley
received recognition from the
youngsters with awarding of
the plaque and the band
director thanked people in the
community for its support of
the program.
The audience attending the
performance survived the
heat of a warm spring evening
to give Ackley a standing
ovation.
Farewell picnic for
the Steve Tollef sons
The congregation of Hep
pner's United Methodist
Church is planning a farewell,
potluck, picnic on Thursday
evening, June 14. Since they
are saying goodbye to Rev.
Steve Tollef son, his wife Vicki
and their sons, Greg, Ben and
Ted.
The picnic is scheduled to
begin at 6:30 p.m. and will be
held in the park behind the
Morrow County Courthouse. If
bad weather occurs, the
festivities will be moved into
the basement of the Methodist
Church.
The committee has worked
out plans for the farewell
including selecting co-chairpersons,
Alma Green and Ann
Spicer.
has been assigned to pastor
the church by Bishop Tuell of
the Oregon-Idaho Conference.
The Tollefson family's last
Sunday here will be June 24.
They are moving to Ashland,'
Oregon, where Rev. Tollefson
Rhea Grange to host student
Rhea Creek Grange will
be host to Reidun Martinsen,
I.F.Y.E. student from Nor
way, at its regular meeting on
June 8.
She will show slides and tell
about her native country,
dressed in an authentic Nor
wegian costume. Everyone is
welcome that wishes to attend
this program.
There will be no potluck
supper before the meeting. It
will start at 8 p.m. and
refreshments served.
Ladies of the grange will
mend for Pioneer Memorial
Hospital on Monday, June 11
at the home of Emma Drake.
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