FOUR The Heppner Gaiette-Ttmes, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 8, 1979
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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.
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4-H Archers organize club
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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.
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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. On the
following Sunday morning, the
wedding party, relatives and
out-of-town visitors were
guests at a champagne brunch
given by the parents of the
groom .
Gordon and Elizabeth Rick
now reside in Portland where
he is a computer specialist for
Tektronix.
Jazz musicians Boden and
Zanetto will perform a concert
of Hot Jazz and Ragtime Nov.
13 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. in
the College Union in Pioneer
Hall at Blue Mountain Com
munity College
The concert is free and the
public is invited to attend .
Guitarist Steve Boden plays
the roots guitar style made
famous in the early recordings
of Bing Crosby.
Winly Aznetto'shot piano will
recreate the early favorites of
Fats Waller. Al Jolson and
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