The Heppner Oazette-Timet, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 22, 1980 THREE
Eruption exciting but delays highway travel
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By Steven A. Powell
Being a spectator to an
historical event like the re
sults of the eruption of Mt. St,
Helens last Sunday was excit
ingbut it had its drawbacks.
My family went to Puyallup,
Wash, last Thursday to wit
ness my younger brother's
wedding.
When we were ready to
leave at noon Sunday, we
heard that Mt, St. Helens had
erupted. We turned on the
television and watched many
specials on the volcano, News
men said that the Interstate
from Ellensburg east to Spo
kane was closed and the road
south from Ellensburg to
Yakima was also closed
because of ash that had been
blown by wind east of the
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The Toutle River along Inlerxtale
molten ash from Mt, St. Itrlrn.
Orville Cutsforth, area rancher,
to be toasted at Elks Club dinner
Orville Cutsforth. widely
known in Morrow County as a
rancher, will ! honored at a
"roiist and toast" program
sponsored by the Iexington
Grange on Saturday, May 24,
f the Hcppner Elks Club. A
jfllluck dinner will be served
starting at 6-30 p tn.
In recent years. Cutsforth
has devoted much of his time
to the founding and develop
ment of recreational areas
near his mountain cabin, in
the upper Willow Creek area.
lone church gets
ready for sale
Plans are currently being
completed for the 17th annual
lone United Church of Christ
Auction and Barbecue sche
duled for June 7 at the Willows
Grange Hall on Main Street in
lone.
The barbecue will consist of
"All You Can Eat" barbecue
beef and special sauce, assor
ted salads, baked beans,
garlic bread, punch and cof
fee. Cost is $5 for adults, $2.50
for children six to 12 and pre
schoolers eat free. About 500
persons are expected.
A Country Store will open at
10 a m . At the store will be a
Kiddy Korner with a fish pond,
a snack shack, arts and crafts
and homemade foods. Used
merchandise will be sold and
there will be a Grandma's
Corner for Christmas in June
gifts.
Antiques will be sold at a
silent auction in the hall.
There will be a general
auction outside the hall for
items that have been donated
for the sale. That auction will
begin at 10:45.
The auction will shut down
for lunch at 12:30 and will
start up again at 1:15 p.m.
until it is completed.
A swimming pool has been
donated by a former Morrow
mountain as lar as Butte,
Mont.
So I knew I could not come
home to Heppner that way.
The news also said that
Interstate 5 was closed around
Chehalis because ash, mud
and lava pouring Into the
Toutle River had caused it to
rise and ftood in some areas
and there was also a fear that
the bridge on 1-5 across the
river would be washed out.
So we sat and waited.
At 3 p.m., I S opened up
after being closed for three
hours and building up miles of
traffic. We decided to wait
until the traffic flow was less
congested.
We left at 6 p.m. and traffic
was thin and everything was
going smoothly for l'i hours,
until about 20 miles past
Chehalis. Washington State
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and at 1-ake Penland. He also
has been concerned with the
permanent care facility at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
Cutsforth, now 7R years old.
was lrn in Gervais. Ore., in
1102. and was brought by his
family to Morrow County in
iwi. In 1910 the family moved
to Canada to farm but
returned here 10 years later.
Cutsforth has been ranching
on his own since 1930. He is a
charter member of the Lex
County resident who now lives
in Federal Way. Wash.
For the entertainment of
visitors, activities will interest
people of all age groups. The
Kiddie Korner will offer
games as well as merchandise
for sale, including toys, puz
zles, sporting equipment,
hooks and stuffed animals, all
at a fraction of their original
cost, according to Jean Jep
sen. publicity chairman.
Antiques will be on display
prior to a silent auction. The
items will include old trunks,
dressers, library desk (com
plete with ink well), wooden
flour bins, kerosene tamps,
irons and picture frames, as
well as other articles of
interest.
The Country Store wil fea
ture handmade articles, such
as embroidered pillowcases
and dishtowels, infant wear,
aprons and many arts and
crafts goods.
Foods to be sold include
breads, sweet rolls, jams
(gooselM'rry) and jellies, pick
les, pies and cakes.
"We also plan to have small
sacks of homeground flour
this year." said Mrs. Jepsen.
"The opportunity of a real
bargain always exists at the
auction."
Patrol closed 15 again about
two minutes before we got
there. The river was rising
fuht and trees were smashing
into the bridge and again they
feared the bridge was going to
After waiting i hours to
see if they would open it up
again, a voice on the patrol
man's intercom system said
the river was within two feet
of the bridge "and it looks like
it will go any minute," He said
to start rerouting the traffic.
We went back to Chehalis
hoping the bridge would not
wash out so it would be open
Monday morning. If it did
wash out, we would have to go
four hours out of our way to
the Washington coast to get
past the Toutle River. The
state patrolman said the
bridge going over the river on
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steaming because of the
ington Grange, and a member
described him as "always a
bundle of energy, who di
rected his energy toward
making Morrow County a
better place in which to live."
He is now retired from most
committee work "unless it is a
case of 'a committee of ONE'
to get accomplished what has
to be done," Grange members
say.
The public is invited lo the
"roast and toast" dinner.
Jury finds
Boardman
man guilty
Convicted in a jury trial in
Circuit Court last Friday.
John Akers, now of Board
man, facs sentencing on a
charge of theft by receiving,
according to Ann Spicer,
deputy district attorney for
Morrow County.
She said the jury deliber
ated for four hours before
returning a guilty verdict. She
said the defendant had con
cealed and disposed of an RCA
radio belonging to KIRO-TV in
Seattle. "He received it from
'distant relatives' under such
circumstances that he would
have known it was stolen," she
said. Akers was released on
his own recognizance pending
the determination of a sen
tence. Spicer prosecuted the case.
Herman Winter was the attor
ney for the defense.
Senior Citizen
Council to meet
The Morrow County Senior
Citizen Advisory Council will
meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday,
May 27, in the board room of
the Columbia Basin Electric
Cooperative.
the coast could be washed out
too. however.
We stayed at a motel and the
clerk, taking advantage of the
many who were stranded,
must have raised his rates
because it was $28 for one
small room for the night.
The next morning, I called
the state police and asked if 1-5
was open. It was.
Upon arriving at the bridge
site, we saw snow plows
scraping the overflowing mud
and ash off the bridge.
I quickly got out of the car to
snap a few shots of the
steaming river when a slate
patrolman told me to move
along.
While crossing the bridge,
we saw where the river had
overflowed along the banks
destroying all the trees in the
way. A railroad bridge down
stream from the 1-5 bridge
was burnt and hanging just
OBITUARY
Lee Guild burial
set in Heppner
Committal services for Le
Grand Lee) Guild, who died
in Snohomish, Wash., will be
held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in
the Heppner Masonic Ceme
tery. Mr. Guild, who was 73. had
resided in Snohomish for 42
years, having gone there from
Heppner. He retired in 1968
after serving for 33 years in
the Soil Conservation Service
of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. Burial will take
place beside the graves of his
wife's parents, Clare and
Blanche Patterson.
He was born May 13, 1907.
Lyman, Wyoming. He gradu
ated from the University of
Wyoming in 1935 with a
bachelor of arts degree in
agronomy. He later did gradu
ate work at Washington State
University in Pullman. "
Mr. Guild was a member of
St. John's Episcopal Church in
Snohomish. Snohomish Lions
" Club and the Port Orchard
Grange.
Survivors include his wife,
the former Mary Patterson:
son. Robert Guild of Snoho
mish: daughter. Mrs. James
i Mary Led Tucker of Ever
ett. Wash.: brother. Loren
Guild of Wheatland, Wyo.:
sisters. Katie Walker. Lyman,
Wyo.; Mrs. Paul (La Rue)
Slette of Barstow, Calif., and
Olive Barber of Los Angeles,
and numerous nieces and
nephews.
Memorials are asked for the
American Diabetes Associa
tion or St. John's Episcopal
Church.
Arrangements were, by
Purdy & Dawson Funeral
Home in Snohomish.
Kinzua outbid
in salvage
timber sale
Harris Pine Mills of Pendle
ton was the successful bidder
for almost 20 million board
feel of Ponderosa pine in a
salvage timber sale in the
Heppner Ranger District of
Umatilla National Forest last
week .
The Pendleton firm edged
out the Kinzua Corporation of
Heppner for the timber that
has been hit by the mountain
pine beetle.
A timber management offi
cer in the forest supervisor's
office in Pendleton said the
Harris bid was $97.25 per
thousand board feet for the
Ponderosa pine and other
species, largely lodgepole
pine. Kinua's bid was $97.
The Blue Mountain Forest
Products Co. of Pendleton
sumbittod the minimum ac
ceptable bid of $37.98.
The timber covers 36.000
acres. Sale conditions stipu
late that logging operations
must be completed by March
31. KH2.
, ..ilverlised sale also
invited bids on 200.000 board
feel of Douglas fir and other
species. All three firms sub
milted offers at the minimum
acceptable price of $22.54 per
thousand board feet.
ready to fall into the mucky
waters.
I was a little irritated to see
a two mile long backup of cars
traveling northbound across
the river. Snow plows were f
still scraping mud off that
road causing the backup. I did
not tell the slate patrol when I
called that morning which
direction I was traveling.
We traveled on and saw
more ash. mud. wood chips.'
and logs in the river and along
its banks where it had flooded
as the clogged river crept
toward Longview.
But that is all we saw of the
volcano. We drove by it three
times on the highway but
could not see Mt. St. Helens
because of the clouds. The
hassle might have been worth
it if we could have seen the
volcano and the massive
amounts of ash blowing from
it.
machine. Johnston had been visiting in his former hometown of Superior, Mont.
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No Oregon crops reported damaged by fallout
Oregon farmers have been
advised that ash fallout from
Mt. St, Helens has not
damaged crops in this state as
yet.
The volcano about 45 miles
northeast of Portland erupted
shortly after 8:30 a.m. on
Sunday.
Its ash fallout spread
mainly eastward, across east
ern Washington, northern
Idaho and into Montana and
Wyoming.
Traffic on silt-laden high
ways was impeded. Shipments
out of such centers as Spo
kane. Yakima and Walla
Walla were delayed, as the
highways were covered inches
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Ham Hocks
Kraft Miracle Whip 32 oz.
Salad 1 29
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Heinz 32 oz.
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Ketchup
S &W Pitted 5 oz.
Ripe Olives
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Blue Bell 2 pak. mrtr
Potato Chips Jyc
We have warm room
lockers for your
convenience.
Meat
Frank Johnston, director of
of volcanic ash from Mt. St.
He said the ash was so thick
sla ved overnight. Here, on
deep. Mine Heppner stores
had not received on Monday or
Tuesday, the grocery, dairy or
produce supplies that norm
mally would be dispatched
from Spokane.
A bulletin from the Oregon
Wheat Growers League in
Pendleton points out that ash
fallout would damage plants
by covering them, "and that is
the obvious damage of adding
anything to the top of the
plant."
"However," the bulletin
added, "volcanic ash is com
posed of glass-like crystals
and these small, sometimes
microscopic, particles inter
fere with the normal develop
Bumble Bee
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Dept.
676-9288
nurses at Pioneer Memorial Hospital, wat caught in the shower
Helens while traveling west through Ritiville, Wash., Sunday.
on the highway he had to Jake refuge at a farm house, where he
his arrival in Heppner, he scrapes the ash that still adhered to his
ment of the growing plants.
"No ash has fallen on
Oregon as of this morning
(Monday). Meteorological
data say that high level winds
will keep the material to the
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north of Oregon, and geolo
gists state that other major
eruptions have dumped the
largest amount of ash mater
ial in the first day of the
eruption."
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3 lbs.
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Briquet
Grocery Dept.
676-9614