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FOUR The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppr.er, Oregon, Thursday, August 16, 1979
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Volunteer
aide plan
continues
The L.A.P.P. Volunteer
Aide program at Heppner
Elementary School will con
tinue this school year.
Persons interested in help
ing young people are asked to
call the grade school office,
676-9128, or Linda Shaw,
676-5283.
Most people who volunteer
spend one or two hours a week
in a variety of activities. The
activities range from working
directly with children to
assisting the teacher with
preparation of instructional
materials, filing and record
keeping.
The student benefits greatly
from the help of volunteers in
the classroom. Another bene
fit is to the aide, for most who
participate find a great deal of
personal satisfaction in help
ing students learn.
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Heppner serviceman, Greek-born bride
visiting family, friends in Oregon
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After dinner,
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Marilyn Bergstrom, left, and her mother, Ruth
Bergstrom, helped prepare the Senior Citizens dinner at the
Heppner Elks Club last Wednesday. When this picture was
taken, they were preparing for the inevitable follow-up
chore washing the dishes. Ruth Bergstrom has been the
acting cook for the Senior Citizen dinners recently. They are
served each Tuesday and Wednesday, starting at 4:30 p.m.
Extension agent describes tour of South
as 'interesting, educational experience9
Morrow County Extension
Agent Harold Kerr described
his 12-day Dow Chemical Tour
through Texas, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Mississippi as
an enjoyable, educational ex
perience to Heppner Chamber
of Commerce members Mon
day. Presenting a color slide
narration of his trip with other
extension agents from
throughout the country, Har
old, one of two agents from
Oregon, told about this travels
from cotton and catfish farms
to viewing the New Orleans
Superdome and Mississippi
plantations.
Kerr said cotton is being
replaced by soybeans as the
most frequently seen crop,
reporting that at one stop
over, the cotton produced per
acre was down.
His narration revealed some
of the variations between
Oregon and down south agri
culture where catfish raising
is big and the New Orleans
Port exceeds West Cost grain
shipments, providing 44 per
cent of the nation's export. He
said the standard of living is
lower in the south compared to
the Northwest and felt the
catfish farmers had some of
the more profitable enter
prises. A new device to eradicate
weeds, the "wick bar", Kerr
said, has grown so popular
that nylon rope was in short
supply with farmers buying it
up to use with the new fad.
In his slides were scenes of
cotton picking machines, cot
ton plants, balls, sugar cane,
the lush green rice fields and
rice elevators of Stuttgart,
Arkansas, the fertile Missis
sippi delta country which took
the extension agents' tour bus
three days to pass through, a
couple of Southern beauties, a
Texas rose plant farm at
Tyler, strip-mining of coal in
agricultural fields with re
placement of topsoil after the
coal was removed, a motel in
Yazoo City, Mississippi, the
Hilton Inn in Louisiana all
providing a flovor of Southern
crops.
While traveling the free
ways of Mississippi, Kerr
noted that barges were used to
construct them over the sea
level deltas, indicating that
their costs probably exceeded
costs of Northwest interstates.
The agents toured cattle and
chicken farms in Texas, saw
the extent of agri-industry on
parade and learned in Missis
sippi that the Howe Lumber
Company's vast holdings had
been sold to 300 farmers
(Kerr related the history of
the family's slave holding and
share-cropping system),
toured an embryo transplant
program, saw the McKellar
Red Robin Brahmin ranch
where brahmins go for a
minimum of $10,000 apiece
and saw the long street of
mansions being restored in
Helena, Arkansas.
To Kerr, the Mississippi
NEW ARRIVALS AT
HOSPITAL
A daughter, Mindy
Michelle, 8 lbs. 1 oz, was born
August 8 at Pioneer Memorial
Hospital to Mr. and Mrs.
Lyndale Quails of Heppner.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Reed of Condon.
She joins a brother, John,
2V2.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Daggett,
Heppner, are the parents of a
daughter, Heidi Lynn, 6 lbs.,
8V4 oz., born August 10 at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital.
Grandparents are Clinton
and Patsy Daggett of Joseph,
Betty Reed of Pendleton and
Leon and Dorene Reed of
Heppner.
The great grandparents are
Hurburt Reed of Shattuck,
Oklahoma, Mrs. Eulah Mal
son of Elk City, Oklahoma and
Mrs. Dorothy Haskell of
Florence.
A daughter, Amanda Marie,
6 lbs., ll'fc ozs. was born July
27 to Mr. and Mrs. Steven Ball
of Heppner at Pioneer Me
morial Hospital.
Her grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Johnnie Jackson of
Heppner and Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Ball of Lexington and
great grandparents are Mrs.
Hazen Jackson, The Dalles,
Sis Webb, Fossil, Woody
Webb, Lakeview and Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Woodward of Her-miston.
Hospital
Notes
Hospital admissions at Pio
neer Memorial Hospital are
Kay Quails, Heppner, dis
missed, Dallas Scrivner,
Heppner, dismissed, Bryce
Powell, Heppner, dismissed,
Kathy Daggett, Heppner, dis
missed, Freida Majeska,
Heppner, dismissed, Donald
Gilliam, Heppner, dismissed,
William Walter, lone, James
Hams, Heppner, Rebecca
Stillman, Heppner, dismissed.
delta country was the best
looking farm land lie's seen.
While there, the group saw the
Delta Branch Research Sta
tion of the United States
Department of Agriculture,
employing 105 researchers
outside technicians. The re
searchers have developed a
number of innovations in farm
machinery.
In the South, round-baling is
done exclusively and in one of
his slides, Kerr said a loader is
used to haul the round bales
from the pasture.
During the tour of a catfish
processing plant, Kerr noted
that a mechanical skinner had
revolutionized the industry.
Fresh and frozen catfish are
processed from ponds used to
grow them. Catfish is a
popular food in the South and
Midwest and according to
Kerr, he sampled it three
times on the trip.
Printer
returns to
Heppner
Ron Jordan has returned as
printer for the Gazette-Times
and welcomes your business.
A native of Treasure Valley,
Idaho near Nampa and a
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Ron Jordan
graduate of Bryant High
School in Bryant, Arkansas,
Jordan served 7 years in the
U.S. Air Force, learning the
printing business and litho
graphy. He and his wife, Ida, have
two children, Ronnie and
Yolanda. He enjoys hunting
and fishing and motorcycle
riding.
The Gazette-Times does job
printing such as printing
envelopes, business cards,
letterheading and programs.
"If you need it, we'll try to
get it," Ron says.
He met another county
extension agent who had
retired and gone to work as a
camera man filming the
Dallas Cowboys football team.
The agent had also partici
pated in a Dow Tour.
Kerr was impressed by the
large Holstein dairies in
Texas.
The group made 44 stops
during the 12 day period and
from viewing Kerr's slide
show, the extension agents
will have a great deal to
remember.
Next week's chamber pro
gram will feature a program
on skydiving.
Tall, slender Sgt. Charles
"Doug" Gonty, U.S. Air Force
Security Police, and his petite
wife, Anastasia, are presently
visiting his parents, the E.E.
Gontys and other family
members and friends in Ore
gon and Washington.
In Heppner, they are stay
ing, in the Gale Street home
that has housed three genera
tions of his family.
Their arrival in Seattle was
8 hours later than they
planned because World Wide
Airways went on strike. Luck
ily, they were able to get on a
Lufthansa flight which
brought them in on the day
that his family was waiting to
meet them, August 7. After
visiting briefly in Seattle the
foursome journeyed in the
parents' motorhome to Cor
vallis before coming to Hepp
ner. This is Sgt. Gonty's first
visit home since 1976 and he
says he notke'. several
changes around town, espec
ially on Main Street. Doug was
graduated from Heppner High
School in 1974 and enlisted in
the Air Force in August of that
year. He has been stationed at
Grand Forks, North Dakota,
at Iraxos Airbase in Greece
and now is serving at the
Allied Forces Central Euro
pean Headquarters at Bruns
sun, Netherlands, where his
parents and brother Tom
visited last fall.
Doug met Anastasia in
Athens where they married on
January 21, 1978. She has
spent most of her life in
Greece with her mother Elef
theria and her stepfather who
is also in the U.S. Air Force.
However the family did come
to the U.S. when Anastasia
was 14 years old and stayed in
New Mexico for two years
before returning to Greece.
Asked how she liked Hep
pner, she said fine, explaining
that though she has spent most
Senior Citizen News
By Justine Weatherford
Seniors arc 'ery busy enjoy
ing and helping with the
county fair.
They are participating in
many ways, including being
judges.
Anyone over 55 who has not
picked up his or her Senior
Citizen Fair Pass should pick
it up at the Heppner Neigh
borhood Center.
On Tuesday, August 21, a
group from this county will be
bussing up to Meacham to
attend the Area Agency on
Aging meeting at the Rollin
Reynolds home. If you want to
go along on the senior bus be
sure that you register soon.
Dinner menus for Heppner
and lone for next week are:
Tuesday, Aug. 21 at Heppner,
liver and onions, scalloped
potatoes, Harvard beets,
molded vegetable salad, corn
bread with honey and heaven
ly hash pudding with topping.
At lone and Heppner on
Wednesday, August 22, tomato
juice, hamburger tater tot
casserole, molded carrot
pineapple Salad, green bean
medley, oatmeal muffins with
jelly, peach cobbler with
topping.
New students in lone to
register Wednesday
Students who are new to
lone schools should register at
the High School Office on
Wednesday, August 22 from 9
a.m. until 3 p.m.
Please bring immunization
records and goldenrod physi
cals. Junior and Senior High
School students should reg
ister on Thursday, August 23.
Registration fees for 1979-80
as follows. The required
fc 'or student body cards for
gra tes 9-12 and grades 7-8 is
$6.00, towel fee (physical
education and sports), $2.00
and insurance is optional, $6
f..r grades 9-12 and $4 for
p .ules 7-8. The annual is $6
and elementary insurance,
$2.50.
School lunches are 30 cents
per day and $53.10 per year.
lone couple grandparents of
baby born in Montana
A son, Troy Ryan, was born
July 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Ron
Brinkman of Great Falls,
Montana.
Mrs. Brinkman is the for
mer Jane Krebs of lone.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Clari Brinkman of Chi
nook, Montana and Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Krebs, lone.
Gpeat grandparents are Annie
Krebs of Arlington and Gladys
Bone of Phoenix, Oregon.
Troy joins an older brother,
Treve, at home.
Visiting here
Miss Gwen Drake is here
visiting friends and relatives
for a few days.
She came from Australia,
where she has been teaching
for several years.
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Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Gonty
of her life in large cities she
likes the feeling of security
and family closeness here. Is
Heppner like she expected it to
be from the descriptions her
husband had given to her?
"Yes, it is exactly like he said
it would be. I like it here."
Anastasia, who is regularly
employed in the Base Ex
change toy store at Brunssun,
has been given a month's
leave from her job to travel
with her husband.
The youthful Gontys say
that there seems to be more
publicity about possible hos
tilities carried in American
magazines and other news
media than in the European
news outlets. They indicate
that Americans seem to have
their minds focused more on
dire possibilities than the
Europeans who have been
accustomed to various con
flicts and to warring through
the years.
As to their future plans, they
say that after one and one half
more years in Europe they are
considering coming back to
Oregon where Doug wants to
go to a university. They think
they may live in Corvallis
where he would major in
either physical or occupa
tional therapy at Oregon
State. Anastasia will then seek
employment in Corvallis.
After visiting with friends
and family here they will be
flying back to Europe via
Continental Airlines on August
27.
Garden Club discusses County Fair
participation; backs calendar project
The Heppner Garden Club
met in the home of Jane and
Bill Rawlins on Monday eve
ning, Aug. 13.
President Eva Griffith pre
sided as members discussed
their participation in this
year's County Fair and agreed
to support the Alpha Theta
community calendar. 1979-80
club yearbooks were distri
buted by the yearbook com
mittee, Eva Griffith, Jane
Rawlins and Theta Lowe.
Jane Rawlins presented the
evening's program "How a
Federation Garden Show is
Organized." On Sunday, Sep
tember 23, the Heppner club
will assist the lone Garden
Club with a garden show at the
lone High School in honor of
the lone Club's Thirtieth
Anniversary.
Mrs. Rawlins outlined the
twelve committees needed
and enlisted members to serve
with lone members on these
Fair book
changes
noted
Amendments to listed
events in the Morrow County
Fair Premium Book have
been announced by Delpha
Jones, chairman of the Fair
Committee.
In the listing on Page 5 for
adult showmanship, sheep will
be shown instead of livestock.
There also will be a rooster -crowing
contest.
committees. She will be first
assistant to the show's general
chairman Helen Martin of
lone.
To be especially honored at
the show will be Ione's only
charter member, Edith Nicho
son. The Anniversary Garden
Show is to be an open show
with entries from every age
person and from anywhere in
the county invited. Everyone
is encouraged to plan on
coming to learn more about
gardening and to enjoy the
sociability with members of
the two sponsoring clubs.
The Heppner club's Septem
ber meeting will be on the
second Monday evening at the
Neighborhood Center with
Eleanor Gonty as hostess.
That evening's program will
concentrate on preparing ex
hibits and arrangements for a
flower show.
Angus showmanship
winners name
Rob Thomas, Baker and Jill
Smith, Beavercreek, were
named showmanship winners
of Oregon and will represent
their home-state in the nation
al event in Indianapolis,
Indiana. The contest and
heifer show were highlights of
the Oregon Junior Angus Field
Day hosted by Thomas Angus,
Baker.
Topping the heifer show
judged by Larry Cotton,
Fowlerville, Michigan, was an
entry of Janna Nelson, Sal
mon, Idaho. Her winner was
Nelson Miss Kaye 8020.
Rob Thomas entered the
champion bred and owned and
reserve grand champion
heifer, Thomas Primrose 48.
The Oregon Junior Angus
Association held their annual
meeting and election of of
ficers and directors. Serving
for the coming year will be:
Ken Grieb, president, Lexing
ton; Cathy Wiser, vice presi
dent and reporter, Monroe;
Geri Grieb, secretary-treasurer,
Lexington; and direct
ors, Rob Thomas; Tracy
Beck, Alicel;. Jill Smith; Joan
Heater, Sublimity.
A final attraction of the day
was the crowning of the new
Oregon Angus queen. This
year's honor went to Cathy
Wiser of Monroe.
Morrow Co.
Health Dept.
to close
Morrow County Health De
partment will be closed from
August 17 until September 4
for vacation. All regularly
scheduled clinics are canceled
during that time, according to
an announcement.
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