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FOl'R The Heppner Gazette-Times. Meppner. Oregon. Thursday, April 17, 1980
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Right now, Heppner, is as flower-pretty as Echo was
about three weeks ago, when I went through the historic Fort
Henrietta town on the way to and from Pendleton. The
blossoming trees, the masses of forsythia and the blooming
daffodils along the banks of the Umatilla were so exciting.
Now they are here, in all their glory! Lena Kelly is worrying
about there being too much sunshine and warmth. She says
her yard is already very dry. We hope this isn't going to be a
winter-summer, two-season year.
On an early evening trip to Fossil last Thursday, I viewed
masses of blooming wild flowers near Ruggs. many sheared
sheep browsing with their lambs, a good crop of calves
mingling with the cows grazing on the hillsides, and the
interesting llamas in the pastures at the Harold Wright
Ranch.
The five llamas are rare livestock in Morrow County.
The South American animals used to be available for about
$300 a pair, now they have a value of nearly 10 times that,
each. Gentle, camel-family creatures, llamas stand about 4
feet high and weigh about 450 pounds when full grown. They
chew one strand of hay at a time, hence are very dainty
eaters. The five llamas can be fed for a little less than the
cost of feeding one horse, Kenneth Wright told me.
It is unknown just why these animals have become so
valuable. There is a market for them among zoos, animal
parks and people who like exotic pets.
Last Friday afternoon the census taker came to my
home. She was well identified by a large name badge and a
clearly marked, official briefcase. However, the name of my
enumerator, Barbara Pike, became familiar to me long
before I met its owner. Barbara was the Kinzua
correspondent for the Heppner Gazette-Times before Kinzua
ceased to be a community, and the Pike family moved close
to the mill at Heppner where Barbara's husband and son
were transferred.
As one member of the south Morrow census crew,
working under their fine crew leader, Linda Jones, of
Lexington. Barbara efficiently and pleasantly discharged
her responsibility. She explained that my home was a "long
form" home, as is every other house in rural and small-town
areas : although, in metropolitan communities only every 6th
household has long form excitement. I had filled in the short
form which I had received in the mail, but it was put aside as
more detailed information was required on the long form.
Just as we came close to the final questions all about my
finances and living arrangements, fortunately, Lela
Breidenbach. who is temporarily sharing my home, came in
from high school. She supplied answers to questions about
her finances and her living arrangements. Barbara and I
laughlingly considered how Lela's life might change before
she becomes 28 and is counted again in 1990.
Have you been out to the roller rink at the Morrow
County Fairgrounds: A quick look-in on i riday evening
showed me that is where there is lots of action. Folks of all
ages are rolling along there every weekend.
It is good to report that old friends and neighbors. Mary
Nikander and Rachel Harnett, are out and about again. Mary
siill has an immobilized right arm, but ventures forth with
friends. Rachel's injury has healed, and she is back at work
supervising the museum. She is expecting many school
groups to come on annual field trips soon. In the last five or
six weeks of each school year, quite a few out-of-town school
busloads come to get visual history lessons. The children and
teachers always are interested in the museum's collections.
Also, they are fascinated that the little Democrat Gulch
Schoolhouse was actually used and that it housed all eight
grades. They marvel at the quaint outside lavatory.
Just a year ago. Inez Erwin and I were so excitedly
packing for our European jaunt. How lucky we were with all
our arrangements especially our super stay in London with
our former Heppner student Marsha Lovgren (now Mrs. Bill
Shannon of Florida.) Last week I received word from the
Kleinsorge cousins I visited in Bielefeld, West Germany, that
they will come to Heppner next year when they make their
first visit to the Pacific Northwest.
I could not correspond with these relatives without the
kind and competent help of Irene Samples. She generously
translates the letters I receive. Then when I get at writing my
replies she writes in a between-the-lines translation of my
English which the Kleinsorges say is a tremendous help to
them. My cousin Erich Kleinsorge's frau is also named
Irene and by the time she gets to Heppner, Irene Samples
will feel as if they are old friends because of her help with our
correspondence for several years now. The visiting
Kleinsorges will probably be so delighted to find a real
German-speaking friend here.
Is your calendar marked up with these coming events?
On Saturday, April 26, the Garden Clubs of District No. 10 will
meet at Echo. Saturday, May 3, much is planned, such as, the
big Methodist Church Yard Sale, the Morrow County
Historical Society bus trip to Walla Walla, an art display and
sale by county artists. The following Saturday, May 11, the
Heppner High School National Honor Society will be
sponsoring a March-of-Dimes Mothers' Day Superwalk
between Heppner and Lexington, and the Frankenstein
Follies will be staged at the high school on Thursday and
Friday, May 1 and 2.
Don't ever think there isn't lots of activity around
here especially as the school vear draws to a close.
Program prepares youngsters
to become
Parents of pre-school aged
children in south Morrow
County will have the opportu
nity this spring and summer to
learn how they can help their
children become more ready
to begin school.
Three teachers have been
working on a program, funded
by a grant from the Northwest
Foundation, designed to pro
vide suggestions and mater
ials for use at home with
children age two to five. Pat
Edmundson (first grade in
Heppnerl. Betty Rietmann
ready for school
(first grade in lone), and
Linda Shaw (reading spe
cialist in Heppner) began
work last fall planning a
program for parents to use at
home to help children in the
areas necessary for suivess in
a school setting.
The Northwest Foundation,
a program which provides
grant money for projects
designed to improve education
in rural schools, provided a
$1,400 grant which is admi
nistered by Eastern Oregon
State College.
The first activity will be an
Heppner
pianist
receives
music
grant
Heppner pianist. Jojean Ste
vens auditioned at Blue Moun
tain Community College in
Pendleton April 12 for consi
deration as piano accompanist
in the college vocal music
department.
At the conclusion of the
tryouts. she was named as one
of the two official accompa
nists by the department.
, Besides the two grants for
pianists, the department of
fers 12 grants for vocal
soloists.
She was accompanied to the
audition by her mother, Mrs.
Robert Stevens of Hardman,
her piano teacher, Ola Mae
Groshens of Heppner, and
Kitty Coon, the vocal music
teacher in the Heppner
schools. She has been the
pianist for the music depart
ment for four years at
Heppner High School.
Being chosen as accom
panist means that Stevens
will earn a one-half tuition
grant at the school and will
also be given further musical
education there. She is plan
ning to take business courses.
She understands that the
school will allow her as an
official accompanist to take
some musical work out in the
community when not needed
at the college.
Groshens announced that
she will present her pupil in a
public recital in Heppner at 2
p.m. May 18. The place for the
recital will be announced
later.
Heppner
counselor meets
with parents
Heppner High School coun
selor Michelle Portmann will
meet with eighth grade stu
dents and their parents April
22 at 7 p.m. in the high school
cafeteria to discuss pre-regis-tration
for students entering
high school.
Of special concern to these
students, Portmann said, is
the new graduation require
ments passed by the legisla
ture this year that will be in
effect for the 1984 graduates.
Heppner Degree of Honor
Lodge group at confab
Four members of Heppner 's
Kate J. Young Lodge No. 29 of
the Degree of Honor Protec
tive Association attended the
Oregon State Convention.
April 11 and 12 at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel in Port
land. They were Ida Farra, past
state president; Shirley Con
nor, State Usher; Bernice
Nash and Delsie Reid.,
Members from the 20 lodges
in Oregon elected Shirley
Connor to serve as state
vice-president. During the
installation ceremony for the
new state officers, she was
escorted by her mother Ber
nice Nash. The official HeDD-
address by Margo Mack,
Early Childhood Specialist at
EOSC, on "Parenting in
Today's World." It will be
April 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Heppner Elementary Multi
purpose Room. All parents of
pre-schoolers in the Heppner,
Lexington and lone areas are
encouraged to attend.
Sessions in May and June
will be held in both Heppner
and lone to give parents ideas
and materials designed to help
them in working with their
children to develop readiness
skills.
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lone Garden Club sale April 24
The annual spring plant sale
of the lone Garden Club will
be April 24 at the lone Legion
Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Club members sponsor this
sale each year to raise funds
Prison term
given for
bad checks
Norman Dale Jones. Jr. has
received a two-year prison
sentence in the Morrow
County Circuit Court, accord
ing to District Attorney Den
nis Doherty.
Doherty said Jones was
prosecuted in 1977 for a series
of bad-check transactions. He
served some lime in the
county jail and then was
released on probation. In
Aimust nf 197R he absconded
from his probation. Doherty
said. He was not located until
February of 1980. when he was
arrested in Florida.
Jones was returned to
Morrow County by Sheriff
Larry Fetsch to face proba
tion violation charges. Before
sentencing Jones to prison.
Circuit Court Judge Jack
Olsen found that he had
violated his probation by
leaving the state without
permission, failing to make
required restitution payments
for victims and failing to pay
his fine.
ner delegate, Ida Farra,
served as an assistant usher
during this ceremony which
was the culmination of the
convention.
The four from Heppner put
on a tableau "America the
Best of All."
Two top national lodge
officers: National President
Mary Reddick and National
Secretary Wilma Williams,
both from St. Paul, Minnesota,
greeted the convention and led
the delegates in a special
school of instruction. State
officers and leaders from
lodges presented their annual
reports.
State Director Bea Clausen
of Bend, who has been a
frequent Heppner visitor, was
chairman for the convention.
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Arnir lleriimut ro.ulmts a song at
for projects and to
share
excess garden plants
with
neighliors.
There will not he bedding
plants. There will be an
abundance of old fashioned
flowers such as day lilies,
chrysanthemums, phlox,
coral bells. Esther Heed
daisies and others.
There also will he flowering
shrubs, herbs, berries, peren
nials, annuals, succulent and
sedums. ground covers and
house plants.
The country store will
present other items and home
made pie and coffee will be
served all dav.
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The Hev. Michael Sheridan blows his trumpet while the Kev.
Cathy Marker strums her guitar at the Faster concert.
DMVoffice
to be closed
on May 21
Gene Murty. manager of the
Heppner field office of the
Oregon Motor Vehicles Divi
sion, said the office will be
closed May 21, when the
license examiner goes to
Fossil; May 2ti, for a legal
holiday, and June 18, when the
examiner will be in Condon.
The examiner also will be in
Salem between June 2 and
June 6. An adjustment of
office hours will be an
nounced. Murty also said the new
edition of the state law book
containing, in particular, re
visions of the state Motor
Vehicles Code, is being re
ceived from the printer. The
public, police, courts and
others may order copies from
Salem, he said.
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Orders for special plants
may be made by contacting
Delta Huhcr, Helen Martin or
any garden club member.
The lone Garden Club met
at the home nf Edith Nichoson
April 9 to prepare plants for
the plant sale. Her 8Hth
birthday was celebrated.
Plans were made for atten
dance at the Blue Mountain
District meeting at Echo April
2.
Officers for 1!H0-81 were
elected as follows: president.
Delta lluber; vice-president.
Pat Pettyjohn; secretary.
Joyce Hiu-hanan and trea
surer. Helen Martin.
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Easter Concert
Ky Justine Weutherford
The conclusion of the lttBO
Easter season observance in
south Morrow County, which
officially began with the
courtroom drama "The Trlul
of Jesus of Nazareth" on Good
Friday, was the music con
cert presented at the Heppner
United Methodist Church the
evening of April 12.
Choir director Arnie Iled
mnn said he was pleased to
direct the more than 30
"outstanding vocalists of lone,
Lexington and Heppner who
had been practicing together
for six weeks in preparation
for this appearance."
The Second Annual Easier
Concert, a cooperative effort
of south Morrow churches,
was arranged in three seg
ments. The Rev. John Muus
greeted the audience and
served as the reader who
introduced each segment.
The first third of the
program followed a reading
from "Pieta." It included the
selections by the ensemble
"God So Uved the World."
"Lamb of God" and "Christ
Arose." Soloist KicV Drake
sang "Because He Lived" as
its concluding number.
The second segment of the
concert, introduced by a
reading from "Free Among
the Dead." included the choir
numbers "Christ is Risen."
"Send Out Thy Light" and
"The Lord's Prayer." Its final
numlMT "Go Up to the
Mountain" was a duet by the
Rev. Cathy Barker and the
Rev. Mike Sheridun. Barker
played her guitar and sang
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while Sheridan performed on
the trumpet.
The final third of the concert
was Introduced with a reading
from "In Due Season." It
Included the entire company
performing "You Light Up My
Life." "The Holy City" and
"Hallelujah Chorus."
Along with enthusiastic ap
plause after each number, the
capacity audience gave the
performers a standing ovation
after their final number.
Director Hedman lauded the
"long hours of hard work" by
the accompanists, Carley
Drake at the organ ond Judy
Maas at the piano. Hetty
Marquardt, pianist, accom
panied soloist Hick Drake.
After the concert, people
gathered in the downstairs
uncial rooms for refreshments
and fellowship. The refresh
ment table was centered with
a flower-decorated sheetcuke
and presented by the perfor
mers which proclaimed in
blue frosting. "Thanks, Arnle.
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