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The Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner. Oregon, Thursday, January 1, 198-FIVE Mustangs at home against Wahtonka Cards begin league play The Heppner Mustangs, 3-2, will take on Wahtonka in a non-league game tomorrow night at the high school gym after a 10-day break for - Christmas vacation. In their last game Dec. 21, the team lost to Columbia High School from White Sal mon, Wash. 59-55. v The game against Wahtonka will be the last non-league match-up of the season as the Mustangs play their league opener Jan. 11 against Stan field at home followed by a i game against Riverside against the tough Pirates Jan. 12 in Boardman. After five games, Heppner has outscored its opponents 287-231 for an average of 57.4-46.2 per game. The Mus tangs have more rebounds, 215 to 135, and more assists, 48-23, but also more turnovers, 73 to 66, a category Coach Dale Holland does not want to lead 'in. . Coach Holland said he is very pleased with the free throw shooting by his team as the players have connected on 65-of-96 for 68 percent as a team. Opponents have made 21-of-54 for 41 percent. Field goal shooting is almost equal as Heppner has made 1 1 1 -of -307 for 36 percent and the five opponents have hit on 105-of-309 for 34 percent. Jim Parker is the leading scorer on the team averaging 14- points a game. Dale Holland is second with eight points a game and Doug Holland averages 6.4. John Bier has a 4.8 and Jim Launer a 4.5 average. Curt Day scores at a 7.8 points per game clip and John Murray is at 3.8. Dorian Forrar is at 3.5, Todd Sherer is 3.3, Rick Cole 2.2. Larry Palmer 2.0 and Tony Currin 1.7. Parker has scored 70 points, almost twice as many as the second-highest scorer Hol land, who has tallied 40. The top two scorers show that not all they do is shoot the basketball as both players lead the team in assists with 13 each. Doug Holland has 11. Parker also leads the team in turnovers with 13. Murray has 10, and Day, Bier and Cole have eight each. Dale Holland and Parker are also the leading reboun ders with 43 and 40 respective ly. Holland averages 8.6 boards a game and Parker eight. Day has 31 rebounds for an average of 6.2 a game. Forrar leads the team in free throw shooting making eight of eight for 100 percent. Palmer has made two-of-two. Day leads the starters making nine-of-11 and Parker has made 14-of-20 for 70 percenl. Launer leads the varsity in shooting percentage making 58 percent of his shots from the field. He has made seven-of-12 shots. Doug Hol land leads the starters making 41 percent of his shots,. 13-of-32. Day has connected on 40 percent, 15-of-37. Dale Holland and John Bier have made 38 percent, 17-of-45 and 12-of-32. Parker has been successful on 37 percent of his shots making 28-of-76. ' - w r s ft uiJ. After five games, the Inne Cnrdin;ils are 2-3. one win was ;i forfeit over Mt, Vernon. Dennis Stefani loads the team in scoring with 54 points in the four games that have been played for an average of 13.5 a game. Mark Patton is second with 4(1 points for a 6.75 average. Shawn LaRue has 18 for a 4.5 average. Jim McCabe has 17 points for a 4.25 average and Jerry Rietmann and Les Thn'mpson have tallied 14 points each for 3.5 averages. Ralph Morter has scored five points this season and Paul Snow and-filen Krebs have scored two each. Patton is the leading re bounder with 5fi for an average of 14 a game. LaRue and McCabe have 23 each, Rietmann 19. Peterson 10, Thompson seven. Stefani six. Snow and Krebs three each and Morter two. Stefani is the assists leader with 11. The team has been out scored so far this season 193-224 and has shot 30 percent from the field and 50 percent from the foul line. The next game for the Cards is tomorrow night in lone when they play Umatilla at 8 p m. The girls varsity game proceeds it starting at 6 and the .IV team has a game at 4: 3d! "Umatilla has good size, with a few players 6-3." Coach Del LaRue said. "They play zone which has given us a little trouble this year but we have been working hard in prac tice." lone had four workouts during Christmas break. The Cardinals have their league opener Saturday night in an away contest with Tasecade Locks. Coach La Rue said that team is compar able in size to Ione's and the Cardinals "should win." He, .said lone split with Cascade Locks last year when they lost there in overtime but beat them easily on Ione's floor. City League resumes play City basketball league ac tion will resume this Sunday after a two week break for a holiday vacation. In the opening game at 5 p.m.. Steve Powell's team (1-1) will play Les chwab (0.2). At 6 p.m.. Jim Lankford's team (2-0) will play Mike. Smith's team (2-0) in a battle of the unbeatens. LaVerne Van Marter (2-0) will tangle Rick Johnston's squad (1-1) in the 7 p.m. contest. Two teams looking for their first wins will battle in the final 8 p.m. game. Don Barber's team will play Roger Britt's. Both teams are 0-2. .Jim Parker (34 in white) will lead the Mustangs into Wahtonka tom n ! ,r 1, t in llnnnnai. I) .. I . I .1 , 1. .. , ... . . f "M'i'""' m ii-iiuiiiK me team in scoring, assislSjjtw novers, ana is one ol the leaders m rebounding free throw shoothig-iid field goal shooting. Fillies play Hermiston The Heppner Fillies girls basketball team will take on' the Hermiston Bulldogs Satur day in Hermiston at 6 p.m. The Buldogs beat Heppner 64-50 in the Fillies last game before Christmas break. Heppner will play at home against Stanfield Jan. 11 at 6 p.m. before the varsity boys game. JBowling Koffee Klip League Local students on honor roll Kathleen Van" Schoiack re ceived a perfect 4.0 grade point average at Blue Moun tian Community College dur ing fall term to lead the Morrow County tudents at tending that school. Other Heppner students on the honor roll are Kenneth Bailey and Maureen Healy. Vicki Daniels from Board man, Stuart Keene from lone and William Haupt and Rhonda Riley from Irrigon also scored grades of 3.5 or better and therefore made the ' honor roll. Nine students from Heppner are on the dean's list for scoring a 3.0 to 3.5 grade point. ' They are Cynthia Kerr, Allen Kindle, Laurie McCabe, Jacelyn Mollahan, Sam Myers, Wendy Myers, Mark Rogers. Daniel Van Schoiack and William Van Schoiack. Also on the dean's list are Phil Marquardt and Marie Yocum of Lexington; Arietta Aldrich and Brian Rietmann of lone; and Theresa Proctor and Donald Richards of Irri gon. Twenty-eight Blue Mountain Community College students received a perfect 4.0 grade point average during fall term. Students must be full-time, carrying at least 12 credit hours to be considered for the lists. In addition to the straight-A students, another 73 received grade point averages between 3.5 and 4.0. Students earning grades of 3.0 to 3.5 numbered 145. There were 246 students honored. lone news Eva Hamlett of lone has agreed to reinstate her lone' News column called "Hear and There" into the Heppner Gazette-Times. Mrs. Hamlett has been a correspondent to the newspa per before and she is looking forward to hearing from the people in the community about lone News. She requests that anyone in the community with newsworthy items call her at 422-7557. The Pytts team is in first place in the Koffee Kup Keglers League with a 44'l 15' record. In second place is the Three L's team with a 38-22 mark and the Hi Ho's team is third at 34-26. The Gutter Dusters team is fourth at 31-29 and the Weary Wives team is 30-30. The Threo Holers team is 21-39 and the Dregs have the same record. The Newcomers team is last at 20'2-39'i. , LaRae Kindle bowled the high game of the week at 208 and Bettie Doherty had the ; high individual series with'too. i,The Pytts rolled both the high team game with a 587 and the high team series with .1,612 pins knocked down. Kindle made the 8-10 split, Rita Britt was successful on the 3-10 combination and Linda Schlutz made the 5-10. The Three L's team is first in total pins with 23,536 and the Pytts team is second 23,528. In the third position is the Weary Wives team at 23.424 and in fourth place is the Gutter Dusters at 23,056. The Hi Ho's 'team is fifth at 22,879 and the Three Holers team is sixth at 22.807. The Newcomers squad is 22.731 and the Dregs team is eighth at 22.604. Vho : Every one who has a reservation. Heed by January 7. What: Vegetarian buffet supper with International flavor Where: Seventh-day Adventist recreation room, 560 W. Minor, Heppner When: January 13, 1980, at 6:30 p.m. Why: Appreciation for community response to World Service Appeal. How to get reservations : Cell 676-949 1 ; 676-9449; or 6765225 All foods donated by members; no charge to guests. This ad contributed at q public service fcy DANK OF IjJEastern Oregon "Your Hom-Owned, Independent Barm ARLINGTON, HEPPNER AND IONE MEMBER FCOERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Mr. and Mrs. Gary Clark of Heppner had a baby boy Dec. 22 at Pioneer Memorial Hospi tal. They named him Jarrod Ashley and he weighed six pounds and 13-and-one-half ounces. He has two brothers at Home, Joshua and Jeremy. Refugee home at Condon air base By Jean Gilliam Condon correspondent The first two couples who will have moved into the old Condon air base this month will be taking a crash course in Portland in learning the language and culture of the Hmong people. These are the Asian refu gees who will find a haven at Condon under auspices of the East Hill Four-Square Gospel Church and Ministries Unlimi ted. The refugees are to receive training at the base for new lives in America. The first church volunteers to move in were Bud and Margaret Buse, who said the Lord touched them and told them they were going to Condon. The East Hill Church had put money in escrow Oct. 5 to purchase the base and the church members were told about the plans to help the refugees during the church service the following Sunday. During the service, Buse said, he felt the call but it wasn't until the conclusion of the service that his wife turned to him and said, "We're going to Condon." "An hour before the service there would have been no way I could have made Margaret move to Condon." Buse said. They moved in to their new quarters at Condon on Dec. 8. the day after the church took charge )f the property. The Buses had made their home in Portland for a number of years, while he has worked in road construction. Eastern Oregon is not unfami liar to him as he has lived in Arlington, Baker and Red mond while working on roads in those areas. Except for short visits with her husband while he was away on con struction jobs, Mrs. Buse has never lived on the east side of the mountains. Although Buse was ten years from retirement age, he had no qualms about giving up his job to help the refugees. Mrs. Buse also had to give up her job at the McLean Clinic in Oregon City. Each gave one month's notice to their respec tive employers. The next month was spent in making preparations for their move to Condon, where he is responsible for repairing and maintenance for everything on the base and in the housing area and reactiviating the base to get it operational again to fit the needs of the training program. When friends and farnily learned the Buses were giving up everything to move to Condon, "they were con cerned about our future secur ity, but it was the least of our concerns, and they were all supportive of our move." Mrs. Buse said. "We have found and know that God will take care of all our needs." They are awaiting the arrival of John and Fran Topaum who will be moving to the refugee center Jan, 12. Topaum has been working with minority groups, such as Indians and Mexicans, train ing them and placing them in jobs. Like Buse, Topaum is taking early retirement. The Buses emphasized that the refugee training program is being done without using taxpayers' money. Any sup port for this program is coming from the church and people who have donated to the project. "In fact, this will bring money and taxes into the community," Buse said. The refugees coming to Condon are the Hmong people, (pronounced 'mong'). The Buses and other who will be working with the Hmongs are to take training this month. Although neither he nor his wife has worked with refu gees, Buse does not believe it will be too difficult as "I think the experience I had while working in India and Chine while, building the Burma Road will benefit me, as the Ka-Chins are counterparts of the Hmongs. They are both hill people who live the same life style." Hmongs interested in learn ing maintenance work will be taught by Buse and hopefully some can become licensed in their respective areas. The Caucasian women liv ing at the base will teach the Hmong women how to operate electric ranges and other electrical appliances. "We will have school in operation by spring, but we first have to get our feet wet and get acquainted and get accustomed to their customs so we can work with them;" Buse emphasized. "By the time the refugees arrive, we will have houses completely furnished for them, even the food." Buse said. Still needed, however, are large appliances in good working condition. Because of lack of people to repair appliances, they do need to be in working order. Those is also a need for more clothing. Because the Hmongs are small in statipv. small and medium sizes are needed in men and women's clothing, particularly winter clothing. There is also a need for children's clothing. Anyone who might have clothes, furniture, appliances or anything they wish to donate, is asked to call Don Nicholson, coordinator and administrator of the project, at East Hill Four-Square Gospel Church. Gresham. Ore.. 97030. phone number ((il-4444. Jan. 3, 1980 to Jan. 9, )980 Interest rote at 1 1.880 Our well established, very popular six month money market certificate continues to be a perfect place for the large saving investor. The require ments are $10,000 minimum and a 6 month time commitment. 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