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Sorry to report that it is most unlikely that Heppner will
be represented in the lovely, old Nunan House at Ashland.
The unusual copper, zinc and cast iron bathtub that the
Gontys own is too large for the. small room there and the
owners of the amazing reconstruction wrote that they just
can't fit it in.
Visiting Grandson Scott and I watched the North-South
Shrine football game on television last Saturday evening. It
seemed to stay pretty well balanced, although the speedy
beginning by the south team was overcome in the quite
long-lasting 14-14 tie that was finally broken by my choice,
the north, with its near game's end field goal.
This year the East-West Shrine Game at Baker is
drawing more than its usual response from county residents
because of the three Morrow participants Bryan Marlin,
Heppner, Kevin McCabe, lone, and Deeno Leighton,
Boardman. I am also especially interested because Marion
Weatherford, Condon, who is remembered as an opponent
here, is also playing on the east team. When I visited with
him at his Olex ranch home recently, he said that after the
Baker contest, he will be ready to seriously think about
preparing to enter Oregon State University next month.
As I typed "Olex" I was reminded that I have been
intending to share a long article written by Oregon historian
Ralph Friedman which I clipped from the Medford Mail
Tribune. It carries a picture of the Crum Mill as seen from
Oregon Highway 19 and tells about the development of Olex
and about the Jeremiah Crum family. Ione's Ralph Crum is
Jeremiah's grandson.
Did you know that the town name was really Alex, but
some Washington, D.C. official misread the pioneer petition
and dubbed it Olex before its post office opened in 1874? That
post office predated the establishment of Gilliam County by
11 years. The town of Olex, which had over 100 residents in
1915, was established seven year before Arlington and 11
years before Condon.
Jeremiah Crum built the first flour mill in the area
between 1883 and 1885 and began operating it tha ' fall using
power from the water of Rock Creek. For some years, it was
the only mill between Pendleton and The Dalles and farmers
came as far as 50 miles to have wheat ground and to leave
Crum a third of their wheat as payment for his services."
If you drive to Olex now you will see the Crum Mill
building still standing to the west of the highway. You will
have to search a little to find the Olex School which is off to
the east . It was built in 1887 and is still in use. Its graduates
have their choice of going to Condon or to Arlington to high
school.
Have you been noticing recent changes around
Lexington? I've been slow about admiring the great
improvements at the county school headquarters building.
The repainting and landscaping is so attractive. You must
know that Bill Rawlins has done so much there, caring for the
grounds and building and planting and nurturing the bright
petunia borders.
It seems that "downtown" Lexington is beginning to
bloom anew. The old Lonnie Henderson Garage Building
looks much younger again. The store and post office could be
getting an addition. In fact, the whole community seems to be
growing and brightening.
Out north of town, behind Cutsforth Corners, the
50-year-old Grange Hall is being painted, mostly by its
present Master Barbara Cutsforth.
However, Grange Master Barbara rested from her
painting last week Wednesday and made a look-around trip
to Hell's Half Acre with that premier guide, her husband
Orville. Three neophytes to whom they showed the terrain of
the Willow Creek watershed were Morrow County Planner
Deane Seeger, me and my grandson. How exciting we found
the old caves and mine sites and the mountain springs and
Orville's well-told tales of early activities in the vicinity.
When I heard Orville issue an open invitation to anyone
who wanted to go along, I expected to find quite a crowd at
the courthouse by 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning when he
agreed to pick up Planner Seeger. How glad I am that there
was room for me and Scott to tag along. That expedition was
one of the high spots of our summer.
I am so convinced that O.W. Cutsforth is right in his
concern about the preservation of the Willow Creek
watershed.
Now that Pendleton's Tom Simonton has painted our
merchants' windows with his pictureque cowboy humor, we
really know it is fair time. As you admire his cleverness, note
how he incorporated those two neon signs in Bucknum's
Tavern windows into the cartoons there.
Mrs. Neil Beamer (Shirley) has blossomed as a talented
local artist. Some of her cowboy drawings are displayed in
Gardner's window.
Everybody come and enjoy the fair. Everybody plan to
see the rodeo!
The hospital election j. certainly showed community
solidarity.
Irrigon and lone residents proved that the ayes have
positive patterns of feeling and voting.
Now, hopefully, with the budget assured, the committee,
board, court, institutional staff and all others closely
involved with the operation of the hospital and nursing home
will move ahead in harmony.
Low interest loans
offered to farmers
Ken Durrell, local county
supervisor for the Farmers
Home Administration, remin
ded area farmers today of the
low interest loans the agency
has available.
Established farmer opera
tors may be eligible to
purchase land with no down
payment and as low as 3 per
cent interest rate for the loan.
Operating loans may be avail
able at as little as 5 per cent
interest.
Eligibility for these low
interest loans depends upon
the applicants assets and
ability to repay the loan. The
primary purpose of this pro
gram is to assist new farmers
and other with limited re
sources for their farming
operations.' v
More information about the
program is available at the
FmHA office at 1229 SE Third,
in Pendleton.
Sheriff plans Arizona charter
plane trip to bring back man
'Hie llcijiu i (itieUe-Tiriu's, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 16, 1979 FIXh
ack of quorum stalls
Morrow County Sheriff
Larry Fetsch planned to leave
this week for Nogales, Arizona
to transport a prisioner back
to Heppner for criminal non
support. Fetsch was hoping to go by
charter aircraft and save the
expense of having another
deputy along with him on a
commercial aircraft. Ac
cording to Federal Aviation
Administration rules, when
transporting prisoners aboard
commercial aircraft, two offi
cers arc required to be
present. In the case of charter
planes, Fetsch may deputize
the pilot.
The man Fetsch will bo
bringing back was apprehen
ded by the U.S. Border Patrol
when he attempted to cross
over to Mexico.
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Irrigon news
Francis Rose Wilson 922-3352
Mary Stephens and Elva
Sanders were injured in a car
accident Aug. 6 as their car
entered the highway near the
Last Chance Melon Stand in
Irrigon
They were hit by a potato
truck that spun their car
around and were hit again by
a car from oncoming traffic.
The car was totally de
molished. Mrs. Stephens was takf n to
St. Mary's Hospital in Walla
Walla, with multiple cuts and
bruises and a broken nose. She
returned home Wednesday to
recuperate and will be on
crutches for some time.
Mrs. Sanders was taken to
the Umatilla Hospital where it
was found she had a craced
knee cap as well as cuts and
bruises. She will be on
crutches too for possibly six
weeks.
The Rev. Stephen Johnson,
his wife Mercy and son,
Nathan, moved to Irrigon two
weeks ago to be the interim
pastor of the Community
Baptist Church.
He fills the pulpit from
which Pastor Carl Wright
resigned for retirement.
The Rev. Johnson attended
Fuller Seminary in Pasadena,
Ca. and pastored a church in
the Portland suburbs for two
years. His wife Mercy came to
America from India five
years ago. Her father was a
minister there.
The Johnsons said they
found the people of Irrigon to
be warm and friendly and they
have appreciated the recep
tion they have received.
Legislative Peport from the State Capita!
EXCLUSIVE to Oregon's Weekly Newspa
pers trom Associated Oregon Industries.
Salem
Scene
By Jack Zimmerman
Cont. from page 2
nor really needs more than the
constitutionally provided 20 days follow
ing adjournment of a legislative session
in which to examine passed bills for his
approval or disapproval.
Considering lasl-minule legislative
activity produced nearly 600 bills for his
consideration after adjournment, the
suggestion is likely to receive some
sympathy. That likelihood is enhanced
when one considers the 20-day period was
established in 1915 when the legislature
enacted only 315 measures during a
41-day session.
, In other words, then-Gov. James
Withycombe had a period of time equal to
half the entire legislative session to
examine bills passed. Present-day Gov
ernors wind up with a fraction of a
modern session's time on a comparison
basis and many, many more bills to
flyspeck.
Ojseffi Aug.
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Come in end sign up
for all Lecgues.
Women's League, Tuesday & Thursday
Night Thursday horning
Men's League, Won. & Wed. Higbt
Mixed Doubles, Friday & Sunday Evenings
Snack Bar Will Be Open Plus Games
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676-9208
Fetsch's expenses for mak
ing the trip will be reimbursed
by the state.
The Sheriff said this has not
been the longest trip he has
made. At one time, he
traveled to Tucumcari, New
Mexico to bring back a
prisoners.
When transporting, prison
ers, the county officers hand
cuff themselves to the prison
ers. In another announcement,
Fetsch said Robert L. Cannon
of Athena, Oregon, has been
hired as a new deputy in the
department, lie has had
experience as a corrections
officer for the Umatilla
County Sheriff's Department.
He is married and has one
child.
Cannon was expected to
start Tuesday.
During his period as a
deputy, Cannon will attend the
road deputy school at the
Oregon Police Academy in
Monmouth. He has already
completed correction train
ing at the school.
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g commission
People attending Monday
night's Heppner City Plan
ning Commission found they
were not able to transact
business for lack of a quorum.
Four of the seven member
board were absent. Attending
were Commission Chairman
Terry Hager, Ed Tarnasky
and Bob Lankford. Absent,
according to Hager were Dave
Hanna, Lenna Sinith, Mike
Gray and John Shaw. Hager
said no reason was given for
their absence.
The planning commission's
monthly meeting will be
rescheduled for August 27 in
order to transact business
which had to be postponed
Monday night.
Monday's agenda was full of
items awaiting planning com
mission action.
Several were proposed con
ditional use permits for place
ment of trailers and a land
partition. A roomful of people,
including two attorneys atten
ded the session and were
unhappy with the postpone
ment, according to the plan
ning commission chairman.
Chairman Hager plans to
write a letter to the Heppner
City Council regarding the
lack of a quorum.
Wayne Harris in hospital
The R & W Drive-In has
been missed very much while
it was closed during Wayne
Harris's surgery and hospi
talization. It was re-opened last Tues
day, Aug. 14. It is temporarily
operating as the R & R
Drive-In with Rita and
Rhonda who will be running it
during Wayne's convale
scence and recovery.
Rita reports that Wayne is
doing fine resting here at
home after the operation on
his leg.
Blow
your
horn
Jim Ackley said "anybody
who wants to blow his horn" in
a band being organized for the
Morrow County Fair and
Rodeo should meet for rehear
sals in the high school band
room next Tuesday and Wed
nesday, Aug. 21 and 22, at 8
p.m.
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