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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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