EIGHT The Heppner Gaiette-Tlines, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday. May 29, 1980
Bidding expensive at 'famous9 auction
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By Sieven A. Powell
Items at last week's "Fa
mous People Auction" were
selling at inflationary prices
as a Laverne and Shirley tee
shirt sold for $25.
But the money was only play
money that was earned by
Heppner Grade School sixth
graders in Brenda Weygandt 's
class.
The project began last
September when students in
the class sent letters to
famous people requesting
them to send articles to the
class for the auction.
'The hardest part was
getting the addresses for the
people." Weygandt said. "We
looked in Teen magazines for
some. We did not get a good
response from the television
networks."
As an incentive to read
books outside of class, Wey- .
gandt paid the students "play
money" for turning in book
reports. The play money was
put into a savings account
book.
Weygandt said most of the
book reports were paid from
$2 to $3 with the most for one
report being $5. Dana Reid
ended the year with the most
play money with S67.B0. Shelly
Biddle was second with $54.60.
"All of the reading was done
outside of class on their own,"
Weygandt said. "They had to
answer questions about the
book and they were paid
money for how good a job they
did on their reports. Some
students did not catch on to
what was going on until it was
too late which was agood
lesson too."
The bidding at last Thurs
day's auction was fierce as the
students could only bid what
Harold Kerr auctions another famous item.
44,000 affected by mills
Although 44.000 persons still
remain affected by curtail
ments or closures at 362
lumber mills in the 12 Western
states, conditions improved
slightly during the week ended
May 17. the Western Wood
Products Association has re
ported. Still, lumber
production, orders and ship
ments remain far below
normal. .
'.Surveys indicated 50.000
people were being
affected-either laid off or
working adjusted schedules
at 427 of the West's 820 lumber
mills.
The WWPA said that 108
mills employing 8.000 people
remained closed. Another 254
were on curtailed schedules.
TheWay 17 report showed 151
mills closed and 276 on
adjusted schedules.
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and add to come in and get aqminted.
wns in their play money
account so they had to budget
it carefully. Many students
had some play money left
over.
Bidders became very clever
near the end of the auction. As
an example. Ron Sporseen 1
kept bidding $12.60 on the
items so the other bidders
would yell out $12.61 or more,
to Sporseen 's frustration.
Auctioneer Harold Kerr
gave some advice that a
bidder should not let the other
bidders know how much he
has.
The bidders also learned a
lesson in listening carefully as
a Portland Trailblazers stick
er was bid up fast and finally
sold for $6 because some of the
students thought a John Ritter
photo was the item being
auctioned. Jack Estberg paid
for the over-priced sticker.
Biddle got the Laverne and
Shirley tee shirt for $25 along
with the John Ritter picture
for $16.45. a note from John
Travolta for $10 and a
Commadores booklet for $3.15.
Reid bought a Valerie Rcr-
tinelli picture for $15. n hook
about the Commodores for
$15.50. a necklace from the
Commadores for $21 and a
Dehbv Boone picture for
$15.50.
Missy Turner was another
hitih bidder as she received a
Rohby Benson scraphook for
$1275. a picture of the
Commadores for $18. a picture
of the I.os Angeles Lakers for
$i:i and a John Travolta
picture for $13.
A surprisingly popular item
at the auction wns a color
photo of Mel Blance, famous
cartoonist vocalist. Travis
Harrison bought one for
$12 65. Wendy Toombs spent
$17. and Jack Estberg $13.
The least expensive item
sold was a letter from the
White House. It was auctioned
to Heidi Samples for $1.30. A
letter from laverne and
Shirley went to Harrison for
$1.50 and an autographed
picture of Bob Hope went to
Toombs for $2.60.
Even by bidding with piny
money, some of the students
got a bargain at the auction.
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brought an owl with him. In this photo, Lana Schmidt pets the friendly critter while Mike Gorman
catches another glance.
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