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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1979)
FOUR The Heppner Gaiette-Ttmes, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 8, 1979 , With .Justine Weather ford ) J By now, surely every clock is back on standard time, including the large one atop the Morrow County Courthouse. However, the county is seemingly being economical for the clock's three faces remain unlighted. Carrie Becket celebrated her 95th birthday at her apartment last week with her family members and friends. Several days before the birthday she fell and cracked her pelvis but she wouldn't go back to the hospital until after the party. Two who have been hospitalized away from home are Eula Bloodsworth of Lexington, who has been in Walla Walla, and Iva Booker from Heppner, who is in the hospital in Richland, Wa. for hip surgery. Several of Nora Hogue's longtime friends were distressed because they were Unaware of her hospitalization until after they learned of her death. Emma Drake, said that Nora was her first friend in Morrow County very many years ago. Anita Ullman was a guest of Amanda Duvall last week. Last weekend, from Friday afternoon into Sunday morning, I had an unusual experience. I attended an Oregon-Idaho Methodist Women's conference at Menucha, the spectacular estate-retreat high above the Columbia River between Corbett and the Crown Point Vista House. The first owner of the 97.38 wooded acres was a transplanted Englishman, Capt. John Painter, who fled a leprosy panic in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) with his native wife, Kakolahe, and arrived by boat in 1873 to homestead there. Unfortunately, his wife and their three daughters succumbed to the disease they had tried to avoid and are buried on the grounds. Noted Portland merchant and later governor of Oregon (1930-34), Julius Meier, purchased the property in 1914 from survivor Samuel Painter. Meier gave it the Hebrew name Menucha, the "waters of refreshment" (Psalm 23:21), and developed it into a lovely, showplace estate. The large main residence, built in 1927, affords massive, beautiful accomodations. It features the use of native, Oregon woods. The surrounding grounds are masterfully landscaped and include tennis courts, pool, greenhouses, gardens and an orchard, and many magnificent vistas as well as several other residences and service buildings. The estate was purchased from Governor Meier's son, Jack, by the First Presbyterian Church of Portland which operates it as a year-around conference center. It is a very popular place and must be reserved by groups long in advance. It easily accomodates up to 130 persons and its staff provides delicious meals. Others from Morrow have stayed there, and I am pleased that I was included in the gathering there last weekend. My only disappointment was that the high wind, constant rain and the continuous group activities kept me from getting about more on the 97 incredibly beautiful acres. Did you happen to look around Heppner's First National Bank on Halloween Day? Not only were the desks and counters well decorated, each employee was colorfully costumed. It looked like these adults were making their daily routine as special as the children make that day and evening. Next weekend will offer a three-day break to many as Nov. 12 will see the official observance of Armistice Day or Veterans Day. This holiday commemorates the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. On each Nov. 11, special services are held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and local parades and ceremonies are held throughout the U.S. A law adopted in 1938 made the day a federal holiday, and in 1954 Congress changed the name to Veterans Day to honor all United States veterans. Senior Citizens News Among the pretty and useful articles the Thursday craft ladies are working at making ready for the annual Artifac tory sale are some unusual doorstops. These are built on historic bricks which were made at the old Heppner brick works. Rachel Harnett, the county museum curator, had collected and saved the old bricks and transferred them to the Neighborhood Center ladies. Other things being made ready to sell are colorful wall hangings, knitted snowmen and Christmas tree orna ments. This is a final reminder of the once-a-month visit of the Social Security representative to Heppner. He will be at the Neighborhood Center from 10 a.m. until noon, tomorrow, Nov. 9. Several programs are being planned for the pleasure of the senior citizens before a dinner hour soon. The Williams will be showing the slides that they brought home from the South Pacific. Menus for the senior meals during the next week include at Heppner, Tuesday, Nov. 13. juice, home-made vegeta ble soup and crackers, meat sandwiches, stuffed celery and carrots and cheese sticks, chocolate pudding with top ping. Wenesday, Nov. 14 at lone and Heppner. the special Thanksgiving dinner, which will include, roast turkey with dressing, mashed potatoes with giblet gravy, glazed sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, celery and carrot sticks, green beans, ambrosia salad, hot bread and jelly, and pumpkin pie. l v I S A 4-H Archers organize club i liL-i. y A 4-H archery club is being formed for students interested in learning more about ar chery. Club members must provide their own bow and other equipment. "I think this is going to be the first archery club in the county so the facilities are flrtine to be pretty basic," according to John Nordheim of the extension office. Nordheim said 4-H mem bers must be in the fourth through 12th grades. The club is tentatively planning on meeting at the fairgrounds. More information may be obtained by contacting the extension office at 676-9642. Left to right, wedding party includes Margaret Nixon, Alice Abrams, and the bride, Elizabeth Anne Abrams; the bridegroom, Gordon Anthony Rick III; Richard Lennox and Michael Stasko. Elizabeth Abrams weds Gordon Rick in Syliva and Carl McDaniel pictured with their daughter Carolyn, in a 1944 photo. Heppner couple celebrates fifty years together On Nov. 9, 1929, less than two weeks after the great stock market crash of fifty years ago, Sylvia Smith and Carl McDaniel were married in the Methodist-Episcopal parsonage in Heppner by the Rev. Glen P. White. They came to Heppner in a car owned and driven by Carey Hastings who with his wife Alice (now in Texas) and Carl's sister Elsie (now Lea thers and living in Hermiston) served as their witnesses. Rev White performed the simple ceremony. Sylvia says they had no wedding pictures made. Sylvia was then 18 and Carl was 28. She was in her last year as a student at Monu ment High School, which she completed in the spring of 1930. Carl was employed by the U.S. Forest Service. They were bolh members of pioneer families. Sylvia's ancestors came west with the Van Winkle wagontrain and first settled at Weston. Her grandfather. George Strather, was killed by Indians in the Battle Mountain uprising. Three McDaniel brothers came first to Idaho and then on to Hardman where they built a sawmill at Burton Valley. Carl's father was Ed McDaniel. Carl was educated at the Burton Valley School and has always been a "mountain man" working for the U.S. Forest Service and later for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. Since his official retirement in 1965, Carl has continued to work for stockmen and ranchers. Sylvia has been the Morrow County treasurer since May, 1955, when she was appointed by the County Court and Judge Garnett Barratt. Before that appointment she was working as tax collector in the office of County Sheriff C.J.D. Bau man. The McDaniels have two daughters, Carolyn, who lives in Maryland and who is the mother of their three grand children, and Georgena, who lives in Salem. A celebration of the golden anniversary will be Nov. 17 from 2 until 4 p.m. in the social rooms of the Heppner United Methodist Church. The festi vity is being arranged by James and Sally Smith of Pendleton, Sylvia's brother and sister-in-law, by a group of McDaniel relatives and by Heppner friends all of whom cordially invite everyone to come share the happy occasion. Christmas Gift Wrapping 210 N. Chase Beautiful Gift Wrapping Reasonable Prices Handmade Bows with unique Gift Tags Shop opens Nov.l9th 9:00 a.m.-3:00 Shop DEPARTMENT STORE and stay warm !!! New Women's and Junior's tops have just arrived ! Stop in and see Susan, Debbie and Jean ! Heppner 676-946CK i yWm Elizabeth Anne Abrams and Gordon Anthony Rick III were married in Heppner in Sep tember at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Abrams. The ceremony took place at noon against a background of trees and fall flowers. The couple was married by Judge D.O. Nelson. The bride's attendants were Mar garet Nixon of Portland and Alice Abrams, sister of the bride. The best man for Rick was Richard Lennox of Cleve land, Ohio and the groomsman was Michael Stasko of Port land. The bride made her dress in unbleached muslin, Gibson Girl style, with a cut-work bodice. The groom and his attendants wore gray morning suits and top hots. The bride's attendants wore rust-colored BMCC presents jazz concert dresses with ivory sateen trim. Out-of-town guests included Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rick from Houston, Texas, the groom's parents; Mrs. Rose Keeper of Houston, his grand mother; Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Abrams from Federal Way, Wa., the bride's grand parents; Henry Morrow of Palo Alto, Calif.; Quenby Morrow of Los Angeles; and Mr. and Mrs. David Lewinton of Portland. A buffet dinner was held after the wedding. 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