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SIX The lleppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August Hi, 1!N Monday Morning Quarterback By Jim Hackett Those attending the 1979 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo the next two weeks will witness a number of sports activities locally from the women's nail driving contest to the bucking broncs in the Fairgrounds arena. It's a time when amateurs can enter what activities they want to by simply stepping forward. This Saturday and Sunday, is the horseshoe pitching contest, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Men, women and children are allowed to enter with women pitching at 30 feet. The women's nail driving contest is at 3 p.m. Sunday. Congratulations are in order to Shawn LaRue who placed ninth Sunday in the National Junior Olympics racewalking competition at Lincoln, Nebraska. The first place regional champion, Chris Hole of Kennewick, was first in the competition. The event never made it on live television Sunday but I felt the broadcasting of some of the other Junior Olympics events was superb. It demonstrated that the nation should have athletic strength for the 1980 and 1984 Olympics against strong international competition. Also strongly deserving of recognition are the Heppner Swim Team nnynbers who placed in the finals of the Pendleton District Swim Meet. After swimming in the three day meet, the swimmers turned out Monday night to swim over. 28 miles or 1,533.6 laps of the pool. The longest swimmers, Kelli Bergstrom, Heidi Samples and Sarah Forrar are commended for their strength to swim on that rainy night. The football season is catching up with us. Practice starts statewide August 20 with Heppner and lone playing their first games September 7 at home. The football season is catching up with us. Practice starts statewide August 20 with Heppner and lone playing their first games September 7 at home. The Heppner Mustangs coached by John Sporseen are the defending conference champions and according to John, .he team , . should have a return of its front line. Something to enter for the 55 and over set is the Golden Age Olympics set for September 13-15 in Lebanon, Oregon. Competition will include a variety of events such as track and field and bicycling for the physically active and cards and table events for the less active. Any person over the age of 55 is invited to come and participate. The first 3(10 people who sign up will receive a special T-shirt. For more information or to register, contact the Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce at 1-258-7164. The archery season opened this weekend statewide. I haven't seen any game shot with the bow yet but according to one hunter, he had the opportunity of shooting an elk. Hunters using the bow are not allowed to use firearms this year a new innovation which is causing experimentation by the state's gamesmen. Two local players in regional play ' J " 4 . " ' ' - -! :V - LaRue ninth in walking final Shawn LaKue of lone placed ninth out of 21 competitors in the National AAU Junior Olympics race-walking com petition Sunday at Lincoln, Nebraska as. one of two regional champions. The . regional champion, Chris Hole, Kennewick, Wash ington, whom Shawn roomed with at tHe" University -oi Nebraska won the event in 7:09 minutes compared to Shawn's best time ever of 8: 11 minutes. Mrs. Linda LaRue said weather conditions were good for the race with Midwest humidity lowering and a rainfall cooling off the area before the racewalking. There was only one race for the competitors of the national title and 18-year-old Chris Hole received two warnings before he completed the four laps around the oval course. Mrs. LaRue said three, warn ings disqualifies 'th racew, walkers. This waS Hole's last year of competition in Junior Olympics. Shawn, a 16-year-old and Oregon State AAU Champion, has two more years of competition left. Between strokes Andrea Ball. Heppner, competed in the butterfly competition in Saturday's Pendleton District Swim Meet along with her other team members. She finished 8th in the 200 I.M. in :i:(.8:t. (Jerry Samples Photo) Steagall places high in national rodeo Heppner swimmers make finals Two Heppner players, Greg Connors and Greg Orr, both 13, will be playing for the Hermiston Babe Ruth Team in the regional Babe Ruth Team at Hermiston beginning Wed nesday. Mrs. Connors reported that both players were members of the Morrow County Babe Ruth team. Greg has been practic ing at pitching and in the outfield and Greg Orr . is expected to play at second base. The double consolation tour ney is expected to last through Sunday. The Heppner A and B Swim Teams climaxed their sum mer season of swim meets Saturday and Sunday with strong individual showings in the Pendleton District Meet. A dual meet is scheduled Thurs. day with Hermiston and Pendleton. Heppner placed 9 in the A meet and 7 in the B division. The best 10 swimmers in the! district swam in the finals Sunday afternoon after con clusion of the B Meet. In the A meet, the medley relay team of Kelli Berg strom, Andrea Ball, Heidi Samples and Ellen Arbogast placed fifth in a time of 2:59.95 and the freestyle relay team of Kelli, Andrea, Heidi and Ellen placed sixth in the 2:36.35. Showing the strong swim ming style which has charac terized her competition this summer, Kelli Bergstrom earned two second place medals in the 50 meter breast-stroke, 44.27 and in the 50 meter butterfly, 37.01 and a fourth place ribbon in the 100 meter freestyle. Meidi Samples received a bronze medal for placing third iri the 50 meter backstroke in 43.87; Cam George picked up a .fifth and 9th place finishes in the 50 meter breaststroke, 46.68 and 50 meter butterfly, 48.29; Cindi Bergstrom was 6th in the 100 meter breast stroke; Craig Angell placed 8th in the 50 meter freestyle in 56.64, and in the 50 meter backstroke, 1:14.39; Lottie Laughlin was 8th in the 100 meter freestyle, 1:20.49, 10th in the 100 meter breaststroke in 1.41.11 and 9th in the 100 meter butterfly, 1:57.70; Duane Ball was 6th in the 50 meter backstroke in 51.31, and Andrea Ball was 8th in the 200 I.M. in 3:43.83. Tammi Fifield placed fifth in the B Meet among girls 8-11 in the 50 meter backstroke, in 1:27.67; Babbette Angell was 7th in the 50 meter breast- stroke, 1:10.67 and in the 50 meter backstroke, 1:12.53; Treasa Fifield was 7th in the 50 memter backstroke in 1:97.70; Mickey Hutchinson picked up an A time certifi cate in the 50 m.eter breast stroke in J: 11.60 and Shelly Biddle placed second in the 50 meter breaststroke in 54.77 and picked up two A time certificates in the 50 meter freestyle, 40.43 and in the 50 meter butterfly, 48.32. Ken Fifield was 14th in the 50 meter freestyle in 1:51.86 and in the 50 meter breast stroke in 2 : 30.58. La Grande won the A meet and Milton-Freewater the B meet. Heppner was 7th in the B meet and 9th in the A division. Jana Steagall of Lexington placed tenth in the nation in breakaway at the High School National Rodeo in Fargo, North Dakota as the Oregon All-Around Champion. Maureen Healy, placed 29th in barrels and 23rd in goat tying while Mary Daly rec eived a no-time in the goat tying event, according to Maureen who returned Tues day night with her family to their Butter Creek Ranch. The local rodeo competitors ran into heavy downpour and tornadoes while back in Fargo' but there was a record turnout Horseshoe tourney slated Saturday To enter the Morrow County Fair's Amateur Horseshoe Tourney, players must sign up at the pits in the Fairgrounds park by 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Players will be divided into three separate divisions, men's class, 16 and over, Junior class, under 16, and women. Tourney officials hope that the event will be concluded on Saturday but if not, play will continue Sunday at 12:30 p.m. There will be four separate pits and four players playing at all times in a single-elimination bracket. Horseshoes will be available. However, players may bring their own shoes if they prefer. There is no Cntry fee charged. For further informa tion, contact Jim Hackett at 676-9228. of rodeo fans watching the action. Sam Willis of Redmond was a runner-up in the boys' all-around competition. Maureen and Jana planned to compete in the Hermiston Rodeo Friday, and Maureen set her sights on the Bemton City Rodeo set for Sunday. Winners in ladies play At ladies play at Willow Creek Country Club, August 7, Muriel Palmer and Sharon Harrison emerged as winners. Pat Edmundson shot low gross and Judy Stevens turned in the "most honest score." Hostess for the day was Muriel Palmer. ft Swimmers travel mile for pledges rv as-? J. - X r To raise money for the Heppner Swim Team next summer, area swimmers par ticipated in a Swim-a-thon Monday night at the Keppner pool, swimming a total of 28.4 miles or 1,533.6 laps. With each mile equaling 54 laps, swimmers churned through a great distance of water to earn pledge money. Going the most laps over two and a half miles were 12 year old Kelli Bergstrom, 162 laps, 11 year old Heidi Samples, 140 laps, and 12 year old Sarah Forrar, 140. Thieves nab 360 lbs. of meat Don and Jean Bennett of Hinton Creek, reported 360 lbs. of meat valued at $450 was stolen from a freezer at their ranch. They reported the theft August 9 to the . Morrow County Sheriff's Department. There was also a report of slashed tires at the Boardman Coal Fired Plant August 11, according to Oregon State Police. Mickey Hutchinson, 8, swam 20; Tami Fifield, 9, went 14, Teresa Fifield, 9, traveled 22; Craig Angell, 8 swam 26; Rob Hutchinson, 10, 42; Kenny Fifield, 7, 20 laps; Duane Ball, 9, 64; Beth Forrar, 10, 82; Babbette Angell, 10, 70 laps; Cindi Bergstrom, 15, 126 laps; Cam George, 12, 110 laps; Terry Gray, 14, 108 laps; Ellen Arbogast, 12, 136 laps; Shelly Biddle, 11, 130 laps and Lottie Laughlin, 15, 120 laps. I s f f-ii f ' J ' , i f ; 'it w' k I' . . ' , F i f,) St . I 1 JXljfLlyJ Football fever Three Morrow County players will be among the players in the Ail-Star Fast-West Shrine football game August 18 at the Baker High School stadium. They are Bryan IWarlin of Heppner, No. 2!l, Kevin McCabe of lone, No. 22 and Deeno I.eighton, Riverside High School, "S. Also pictured are Kevin Kaseberg, Sherman County, 28. Marion Weatherford, Condon, 25, and Ron Schmidt, Wahtonka, 7fi. ell provides low cost service A year ago Pacific North west Bell started introducing a lower cost telephone service to residence customers in some of the communities it serves in Oregon. Now, 12 months later, Op tional Measured Service (OMS) seems almost to be unknown to Oregon telephone users. OMS is available for the asking as a money saver in locations where telephone cen tral office equipment permits. But a survey by PNB shows that less than 50 per cent of its customers in those locations know about OMS. By actual count only 2,178 of 267,301 PNB customers who could avail themselves of the services in Oregon are using it. That computes out to a might small .815 per cent. "In Hermiston," says PNB Manager Linda Buckner, "Op tional Measured Service has been available since January 1, 1979. And our records show that of the 4,782 residential customers who could make use of it, only 1.0 per cent, or 50 customers are doing so." What is Optional Measured Service? . It is one party line service priced $1 .50 below the monthly rate. It allows $3.00 worth of outgoing local calls charged at a rate of 10 cents for the first five minutes or fraction there of.. For each minute of conver sation over the initial five minutes, there is a charge of 2 cents. Why is the response so low to a lower cost service? "That's hard to understand" said Buckner, "because a survey taken before the ser vice was offered indicated about 5 per cent of eligible residence customers would subscribe." Peachet-U-Pick 20' lb. Red Haven-canning peathes Bring containers Thomas Orchards 934-2230 Annual Morrow County Of 3? Flay Events nnday9 Aug. 13 Organized by Wranglers Riding Club Halter, English ft Western Jackpot Barrel Racing & Pole Bending $1 per event No Premiums Two events will be timed and run according to standard regulations.! Ages 13 and under-14 and over , ; 1 ; Jack Pot Potato Race Jackpot Calf Tying $1 Entry Fee No Premiums 3 man teams Ages 8 & under and 9-13 $6 Per Team Bareback Equitation Back to Back Bareback 13 & under 14 & Over AH ages Events well coincide with bores show following halter class. Check your premium book ANK.OF jr m m -m m v - .. mm m JEastern Oregon HKPPER-IOE ARLINGTON MEMBER. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
