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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1979)
,..jg .j (Klf. Jj, ( m -a. -ijtf j a - r& t& f8 k;J- Preserves history Curator with museum for 19 years lin (iazelte-Times. Heppner. Oregon, Thursday, July 26, 1!79 TIIRKK Attendance at the Morrow County Historical Museum has dropped to 1,678 this year compared to 1978's 2,500 at this time last year, according to Museum Director Rachel Harnett. Mrs. Harnett attributed the decline in visitors to the fuel crisis. But more groups have toured the museum housed next to the Morrow County Library with about 367 touring compared to 250 the same time last year. The groups have largely consisted of schoolchildren taken through the historical exhibits by their teachers, though family re unions and guests on other business such as square dance associations, 4-H adults and Son born to lone couple Mr. and Mrs. Howard Eugene Crowell Jr., lone, are the parents of a son, Jory Matthew, 7 lbs., 15 oz., born July 12 at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Howard Crowell, lone and Mr. and Mrs. A. Rosen bush, Natches, Wash. Great grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Steagall, Lexing ton and LaUna Crowell, Hep pner. County court Cont. from page 1 crete but a proposed bike path has been declared unfeasible. Funds for construction of the two bridges are being provided by the State Depart ment of Transportation. At last week's Morrow County School Board meeting, lone High School Principal Chuck Starr reported an estimated $40,000 damage to the lone School system from the February 6 flood waters. The new bridge construction and channel work on Willow Creek this fall is expected to improve flood protection to Youth Conservation Corps members have made a stop overs this summer. The largest number to tour the facility were 78 school children from the Hermiston school system, Irrigon schools sent 58 and lone schools, turned out 20 children. The long-time museum, which has been a part of the community since 1960 with Rachel Harnett serving as director for 19 years, provides visitors with a view of antiques from photographs of the Heppner Flood furniture and dishes and wildlife to an 1863 Vicksburg newspaper announcing the surrender of the city to Union forces. The newspaper was taken off the press by Sgt. D.C. Ely, an infantry officer and passed through the Ely family to the late Fred Ely, lone, who donated it to the museum. Of all the exhibits, Mrs. Harnett says the newest is the Bicentennial quilt which was completed in 1976 by a group of women and it also is one of the more frequently noticed. It hangs in the latest addition of the spacious facility. Donations of historical items are always welcome, says Mrs. Harnett, but she says when they are duplica tions, she has to rejwt items offered.' "I'm a bit choosy," . she said. .One of Jhe more interesting .portions o the library is the . Heppner's .historical flood in the'early 1900's depicting the city before and after the waters of Willow Creek des troyed the town. Photograph ers of that period used a wide angle town which shows the young town and the 1903-con-structed courthouse standing on the hill above the creek. Thirty-two cases of arrow . heads were recently donated by Katherine Bisbee, who was born and raised here and now lives in Waldport. That in creases the museum's exhibit of a variety of anthropological exhibits. Visitors intrigued about wildlife found in Eastern Oregon will be interested in the Oregon wildlife room with stuffed animals staring life like and perched on natural trees and for the housewife, there is a display of Mason jars, dishes, rooms decorated in the fashionable scenes of Group slates plans for annual calendar sale At a kickoff potluck picnic, Alpha Theta's calendar chair person Bebe Munkers an nounced plans for Alpha Theta's Sixth annual com munity calendar sale. The sale will be conducted from July 16 through Aug. 16. The calendar's which list the birthdays and anniver saries of local residents also includes the meeting dates of local organizations. They will sell for $1 each plus 25 cents for each listing. All proceeds from the cal endar sales are used for Alpha Theta's philanthropic projects which includes worthwhile causes of local, state, national or international nature. Alpha Theta is the local branch of Epsilon Sigma Alpha International. First reunion planned for 1969 HHS class he city and local schools. The first reunion of the 1969 Heppner High School Class will be held Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29. Thirty-two of the 42 member class have said they will attend the events planned. The reunion begins with a dinner at the West of Willow Restau rant. Terry Peck will present a slide presentation at 7 p.m., followed at 9 p. m . with a dance at the Elks Club with Jim Ackley performing. A picnic is slated Sunday, beginning at 11 a.m. at the Morrow County Fairgrounds. ' a EACK ON ITEMS FROM ALL DEPARTMENTS MANY SPECIAL BAi!GAI?JS a WE AT Jf HEPPIIEITS' 7 G0IJSSHOV1 Vp fl SIDEUAUl mum .-, FANTASTIC SAVINGS OnSKOSTS DEPARTMENT STORE Heppner 676-9460 Boardman 481-5461 earlier times, itrms grand parents used in the everyday course ol their lives. At i In- museum's enlrVrtiwir is the teller's window nl the old lone I'osl Oitiee. Mrs. Harnett summed up description of the museum's collections. "We have a little bit of everything. These are things people have used." When visitors tour the museum from outside the local area of Heppner, Lex ington and lone, they sign their names in the guest book. A scan of the book indicates visits from Molalla, Sioux City, Iowa, Everett, Washing ton, Corvallis, Oregon and Palouse, Wash, during past week. The museum director steeped in the history of Morrow County with many of her own collections on display. One of her family's displays is of her grandfather, Dr. Louis Shipley, whose professional equipment lies in a glass case above Dr. McMurdo's. Rach el's grandfather, a German taw immigrant, homesteaded on lihea Creek in 1878. Heidi's watching over the exhibits during its opening diiys. on Monday and Wednes day, from Saturday and Sun day. Mrs. Harnett aids fami lies researching their past with marriage and death records which she had deve loped over the years. And she is helping surveyors in the Boardman area find out who surveyed the property lines in the north end of the county. the is Cont. on page 7 Soft touch Morrow County Museum cur-, ator Rachel Harnett sits at the keyboard of an old pump organ that makes up one of the many and varied displays at the Heppner facility. Mrs. Harnett has spent countless hours developing the edu cational museum and compil ing pioneer family histories. M ' - - . 1 . ? t-v m - ; - , r - ! i ?! 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