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Bessie vetzell U 0 F 0 K The Heppner Weather by Don Gilliam Hi Low Pre i na 0 6 GRADUATION Counselor to speak in Heppner Heppner High School counselor Michelle Port mann has been chosen by the school's senior to present the commencement address at the high school graduation tonight (May 22) at 7.30 in the gymnasium. A musical selection by the Jim Ackley Band will add another highlight to the graduation. The Heppner High School band, under the direction of Bruce Martin, will play the processional at the beginning of the ceremony and the recessional at the end. Ceri Grieb will present the invocation and Jo Lynn Daly the benediction. Valedictorian Alice Abrams and salutatorian Dale Holland II will both speak. Principal Jim Bier will present the awards and scholarships and Athletic Director John Sporseen will present the Jim Barrett Award to the outstanding senior scholar-athlete. School Superintendant Matt Doherty will present the class and school board member Irv Rauch will hand out diplomas to the 54 graduates. ' Port mann hinted that her speech will include a towjh of humor and seriousness about the graduates. Special guests at the graduation will be former teachers of the class George Koffler and Dennis Toney. Tli graduates wl!l war blue robe. The class model is "Dawn of a New Decade" and the class flower is the rose. The class colors are blue and gold. Honda Quigley and Brett Sherer are the grand marshalls and Bonnie Nix and John Bier the candlelighters. Ushers will include Tony Currin. Greg Groshens. Jim Launer, Joe Mollahan. Ray Miller and Ken Stookev. Legislator to visit State Representative Bill Bellamy will be the commencement speaker for the lone High School graduation ceremony Saturday. May 24 at 8 p.m. in the gymnasium. Ione's band will begin the program with the processional march. It is the first time the high school band will have participated in the graduation ceremony because it has never been big enough. Glen Krebs will give the invocation and valedictorian Larry Snider and salutatorian Terry Starr will each give a short talk. Bellamy will then jive his address. lone Principal Chuck Starr will present the awards and scholarships to the honored students and he will then present the class for their diplomas. School Board member Harold Snider will present the diplomas to the senior graduates. Kathy Gutierrez will present the benediction and the lone band will end the program with the recessional. There will be 20 seniors graduating. 59 graduating from Riverside Fifty-nine seniors at Riverside High School will participate in the commencement ceremony Friday, May 23 at 8 p.m. The Rev. David Piper will present the invocation and the Rev. Al Gordiniear the benediction. Four honor students in the graduating class will speak at the graduation. They are Joe Daltoso, Stacy Coleman, Kris Baker and Lori Witt. The Riverside High School band, under the direction of senior student-director Tracy Johnson, will perform the processional and the recessional music. Principal Dan Daltoso will present school awards an1 scholarships to honored students. Kenneth Broadbent. chairman of the county school board, will present the diplomas. He will be assisted by Matt Doherty, county school superintendent. Morrow VOL. M NO. 21 Bellamy lone County's THURSDAY. MAY 22. 19X0 NT -IjILj EC McEIligott, The present Morrow County Court remains intact after the May 20 Primary Election as Donald C.J. McEIligott, War ren McCoy and Dorothy Krebs all won their races. Alice Vance beat Mary Martin for County Treasurer in the only other contested race. Don McEIligott McEIligott received the Democratic nomination for County Judge with 564 votes compared to Darnel Cream er's 306 and John Mollahan's 260. His best support was in lone, with 94 votes: Lexington, with 71; and Heppner. with 255. Creamer had 16 in lone, 13 in Lexington and 49 in Heppner. Mollahan had 23 in lone, 29 in Lexington and 141 in Heppner. Creamer won with 104 votes in Boardman compared (o 68 for McEIligott and 26 for Molla han. Creamer also won in Dorothy Krebs Irrigion with 124 votes with 69 for McEIligott and 40 for Mollahan. McEIligott won in Hardman with seven votes with one for Mollahan and one for Creamer. For 2nd time r ' . ..- I y f . r . J Of: 'V.rV Lexington girl wins spelling bee Spelling-contest Winner who took first place in each of three divisions at Sam Board man Elementary School last Thursday will advance to the State Spelling Contest at the Oregon State Fair in Salem this year. One of them is a repeat winner Renee Struthers of 'Lexington who was first in Division II (grades 7 to 9 Last year she was first in the elementary division of the contest. John Edmundson and Susan Black were the spelling con test coordinators. They an Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper 'HEPPNER. OREGON No Republicans sought no mination as judge. McCoy won the four-year County Commissioner term with 438 votes, as Jim Brooks gathered 305 and Gene Allen got 14fi. Brooks won in Boardman with 99 votes with Allen receiving45 and McCov 28. County budget voted Morrow County Budget was voted down Tuesday in the Primary Election along with the Animal Control District but the Morrow County School Budget passed along with the four city levies. The county budget was voted down 1.013 to 1.184. Boardman opposed it 190 to 231, Hardman 8 to 13. Irrigon 136 to 253, Lexington 109 to 113 County Ronald Reagan. Bob Pack wood and Denny Smith won in Morrow County on the Repub lican ballot and Jimmy Car ter, Jack Sumner and AI Ullman won for the Demo crats in the races at the national level in Tuesday's Primary Election. Reagan received 737 votes for United States President in the county with George Bush second with 206. John Ander- State winners Winners in Morrow County for state level positions were John Powell, Jason Boe, Harl Haas and Donnell Smith for the Democrats and Norma Paulus, Clay Myers, Dave Frohnmayer. Ken Jern stedt and Billy Bellamy for the Republicans. Powell ran unopposed for Secretary of State and he received 841 Morrow County votes Boe outpaced Jewel Lansing for the State Treasurer posi tion 538 to 472. In the Attorney General race, Harl Haas had 371 votes. H P. (Joe) Smith 327, John B. Leahy 189 and Henry R. Richmond 90. Smith was unopposed in the Primary for the State Senator, nounced the winners as fol lows: Division I ( Elementary to Grade 6): 1. Terri Meyers. Boardman: 2. Trina Palmer, Heppner; Chris McLaughlin. Heppner; 4. Mike Rietmann, lone. Division II (Grades 7 to ( 1. Renee Struthers. Lexington; 2 Robin Haws, Irrigon; 3. (tie) Ann McLaughlin. Hepp ner and Denny Starr. lone. Division III (grades 10 to 12): 1. Todd Harrision, Iexington; 2. Teena Lind strom, lone; 3. Chris Cheney, lone: 4. Lerry Wilson. Irrigon. IA PACES 0N McCoy, Krebs retain , McCoy won big in Irrigon ' though with 102 votes with Brooks getting 22 and Allen 11. Brooks edged McCoy in Lex ington with 43 votes to 37 with Allen getting 16. McCoy won in lone with 82 votes as Brooks had 31 and Allen 14. McCoy got 'six voles in Hardman and Allen four with Brooks zero. and Heppner 391 to 468. lone favored the county budget 179 to 106. The Animal Control District failed 774 to 1.412. Boardman voted it down 195 to 231. Hardman 6 to 14. lone 117 to 163. Irrigon 119 to 272. Lexing ton 55 to 164 and Heppner 282 to 468. County school budget won 1.326 to 1.000. It "received favors Carter, Reagan son third with 87 and Phillip Crane fourth with two. Packwood received 599 votes for United States Sena tor with Brenda Jose second with 128. Willard Severn third with 97, Rosalie Huss fourth with 85 and Kenneth Brown fifth with 77. Smith got 724 votes for the 2nd District Representative position in the U.S. Congress. His opponent in the Primary, named 28th District ,od he received 793 vojes. For the Republicans. Paulus had 750 county votes to Harvey R. Forester's 191 for Secretary of State. For State Treasurer, Myers beat George Wingard 553 to 3i3 in Morrow County. In the close Attorney Gen eral race, Frohnmayer re ceived 268 votes. Robert J. Wright 213. William Jnlley 179 and John Smets 105. Jernstedt was unopposed in the Primary for State Senator of the 28th District and he received 837 votes. Bellamy was also unop posed for the 55th District seat in the State House of Repre sentatives and he received 874 votes. Youth day proclaimed , 'hereas there are many concerned individuals and organizations in the city of Heppner who have given unselfishly of their time and efforts developing programs and projects to help the young people of our community; and Whereas attention is focused on the well being of the rights of the child universally through the proclamation of the United Nations designating 1980 as International Year of the Child; and Whereas Soroptimist International of Heppner, a member of the world's largest classified service club for executive, business and professional women, desires to salute all such individuals and organizations in our community which have recognized and met the needs of our youth; Therefore, I, Jerry Sweeney, Mayor of the City of Heppner, do hereby proclaim May 25-31, 1980 "YOUTH AWARENESS WEEK." 20 CENTS REUILTr ! McCoy came out on top in Heppner with 183 votes with Brooks getting 110 and Allen 56. Incumbent Dorothy Krebs beat Merlin Cantin 643 to 306 for the two-year County Com missioner term. Krebs wqn at every precinct getting more votes in Board- negative votes from Heppner but won by a large margin in Boardman to carry it through. The Boardman precinct re ported 306 yes and 131 no votes, Hardman favored it 17 to 6. lone voted 210 to 87 in favor. Irrigon reported 230 yes and 185 no. Lexington favored it slightly 120 to 112 and Heppner voted it down 343 to 478. The Citv of Boardman Leonard Roth, had 150. For the Democrats, Carter won in Morrow County with 621 votes with Edward Ken nedy second with 260 and Edmund G. Brown third with 128. The position for the U.S. Senate was close with Sum ner's 297 votes edging Ted Kulongoski with 281. Charles Porter had 202. John Sweeney 162 and Gene Arvidson 65. Ullman was in an unexpec tedly close contest with Steve Anderson for the 2nd District position in the U.S. House of Five measures pass Five of the six State Ballot Measures on the May 20 Primary ballot passed easily in Morrow County. The other measure, number 2, had an unlikely tie with 1.170 yes and no votes. Measure 2 is for a constitu tional law to authorize allow ing off-premises liquor service by food serving licensees, and licenses for additional passen ger common carriers. Measure 1 passed in the county 1.468 to 659. It will guarantee that gasoline, vehi cle taxes will be used for highways only, not policing, except recreational vehicle 69 43 64 46' 60 67 72 79 40 39 38 45 79 46 man. Ill to 61: Hardman, nine to thre; lone, 119 to 30; Irrigon. 78 to 44; Lexington 61 to 42: and Heppner 265 to 126. No Democrats sought nomi nation to either position as Commissioner. In the race for County Treasurer. Alice Vance beat Mary June Martin 684 to 366 down passed its tax base measure with 171 in favor and 94 against. The City of Heppner passed its Water Bond Measure 442 to 231. City of Irrigon voters ap proved its requested tax base measure by a 101 to 38 vote. City of lone voters approved its new tax base by a 113 to 30 margin. Representatives race. The incumbent beat his challenger 626 to 482 in Morrow County. Statewide According to the Oregon Journal in Portland, Carter won 199.000 votes, in the unofficial returns; California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, 33,000, and Sen. Ted Kennedy, 110.000, in the Democratic race. In the Republican voting. Congressman John Anderson garnered 30,000 votes, George Bush, 100,000, and Reagan, 165.000. taxes will also be used for parks and recreation areas. Meaure 3 passed 1,161 to 906 in Morrow County. It will allow the State of Oregon to sell bonds for a loan fund for small scale local energy projects. Measure 4 passed 1,826 to 358. It will change the home and farm loan eligibility requirements for all veterans so it will be the same. Measure 5 won 1,927 to 224. With its approval statewide, the tax reduction program adopted in the State in 1979 will be continued in 1980. The 6th Measure was fa vored 1,632 to 433 in the county. It will change the meaning of "multi-family housing" in a State bonding program to include unit ownership or purchase, as well as rental or lease, by low-income elderly. Tues., May 13 Wed.. May 14 Thurs..May 15 Fri..Mayl6 Sat., May 17 Sun., May 18 Mon.,May 19 Incumbent judges favored On the non-partisan ballot, the winners in Morrow County in the Primary Election Tues day were Ed Peterson, John C. Warden, Edward H. War ren, and judges that ran unopposed Arno H. Denecke, Jacob Tanzer and J R. (Bob) Campbell. Peterson received 876 votes, Shirley Field 557 and Lyle R. Wolff 438 for Judge of the Supreme Court, Position 3. Warden had 1,003 county votes as he beat George Van 22 seats for the Republican nomination in the November general election. Martin won in Boardman, 96 to 63. and Hardman, six to four, but Vance edged her in lone, 73 to 70, and won handily in Irrigon, 76 to 39, and Heppner, 225 to 113. All of the other county races Warren McCoy were unopposed in the Pri mary. For the Republicans, Pau line Winter received 684 votes for County Clerk while Bar bara Bloods worth gathered 936 for the Democrats. Those two will challenge each other in November. Greg Sweek is the only candidate for County Assessor and he received 862 votes. Larry Fetsch was the only candidate for sheriff on the primary ballot and he re ceived 760 votes. Bud Englert and Doug Rath bun did receive some write-in support but those results were not avail able at press time. Margo Sherer will challenge Alice Vance in the General Election as she will represent the Democratic Party. She received 787 votes in the Primary. David Krumbein is the only candidate for County Sur veyor and he received 695 votes. ' Alice Vance Hoomisson with 840 for Judge of the Court of Appeals, Position 2. Warren received 1,365 votes beating Aaron Brown Jr., who had 419, for Judge of the Court of Appeals, Position 6. Denecke had 1,545 votes for Judge of the Supreme Court, Position 6; Tanzer had 1,554 votes for Judge of the Su preme Court, Position 7; and Campbell had 1,587 votes for Judge of the Court of Appeals, Position 1. " V J i ) 3r
