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GAZETTE-TIMES
Marrow duty's tmt-Qntti Weeklj Newspaper
U.S.P.S. 240-420
Published every Thursday and entered as second-class '
matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the
Act of March 3, 1879. Second-class postage paid at
Heppner, Oregon.
Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (503)
676-9228.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
'Class of 463
I where are you?'
Editor:
I graduated with the Class of
1963 from Heppner High
School. My class has never
gotten together for a class
reunion and I have thought
that your newspaper might be
a good place to begin search
ing out some of the members
of my class.
I have read about class
reunions in Heppner around
Rodeo time, when some of us
come back for a visit anyway.
I know that several of the
parents of my class still reside
in Heppner and surrounding
area. Could you possibly run
some kind of "Class of '63
Where Are You?" story?
I would like to hear from as
many of the class members as
possible, as I recall there were
32 of us. I'm not sure of the
rodeo dates, but they used to
be around the last of August.
My address is: Marlene
Fetsch Zemke, 814 S.W. Davis,
College Place, WA. 99324.
Telephone (503 ) 525-0266.
Any help you can give our
class would be appreciated.
" Thank you.
Sincerely,
(Mrs.- Marlene Fetsch Zemke
County economy
to be analyzed
At the request of the Morrow
County Resource Committee,
the County Court has asked
Oregon State University to
analyze the structure of the
county economy. The purpose
of this economic study is to
document the contribution of
land, water, and recreational
resources to local economic
activity; identify opportun
ities for further economic
diversification in Morrow
Coutny; and evaluate the
impacts of external changes
(such as national housing
starts) or policies (such as
water rights regulations) on
the county's economy. To be
reliable, such a study requires
local data. Consequently, the
University will be sending a
survey team to Morrow
County to conduct interviews
with members of the business
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and agricultural community.
The survey team will be con
ducting interviews during the
last two weeks in July.
Only some of the businesses
in Morrow County will be
asked to furnish information.
Your business may be rand
omly selected to be interview
ed for the economic analysis.
The information you choose to
give will be used to construct
an "input-output" model of
the Morrow County economy.
If your firm is one of those
selected for interviewing, you
will be notified by mail within
a week. Shortly thereafter, a
member of the OSU survey
staff will be contacting you to
schedule an appointment for
an interview. During the
interview, the staff member
will be asking you for estimat
es of your 1979 sales and
purchases, to and from var
ious kinds fo businesses and
households, inside and outside
fo Moitow County.
If you have any questions
concerning this study, please
feel free to contact me. Judge
Don McElligott (Morrow
County Court), Harold Kerr
(county extension agent), or
any of the following members
of the Morrow County Re
source Committee: Shirley
Rugg, Dick McElligott, Ray
mond French, Allen Hughes,
Ray Alsup, Warren H. McCoy,
Allen Nistad, Leroy Gardner,
Mike Sweeney, Matt Doherty,
Dr. L.D. Tibbies, Jim Thomp
son, Ed Tarnasky, Don Peter
son, Tom Martin, Frank
Lamb, Henry Krebs, Joanne
McCauley, "Bus" Clough, Ben
Siminoe, Bob Adelman, Glen
Ward, Fred Tombs, Judy
Buschke, or "Lucky" Felt.
Sincerely yours,
Frederick W. Obermiller
Associate Professor
Extension Resource
Economist
Thanks for
your support
Editor:
I want to thank the many
readers of the Heppner
Gazette-Times for their help
in my campaign for Attorney
General.
The attorney general cam
paign will be a hard fought
race this year with many
Jewelers A--.
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July 10. 1MQ
issues and opinions presented
to Oregon citizens. Let me
re-emphasize a few of the
ideas that I plan to bring to the
attorney general's office.
1. The attorney general
should vigorously support lo
cal law enforcement efforts. I
have supported tougher pen
alties for violent crime, and
helped pass legislation on
behalf of crime victims. I am
the only attorney general
condidate endorsed by the
Oregon Council of Police
Associations-a group repre
senting over 2,000 law en
forcement officers throughout
Oregon.
2. Existing attorney general
functions which assist local
prosecutors must be strength
ened. The attorney general
has a special role to coordin
ate efforts against the infil
tration of organized crime and
to guard against official
corruption. The integrity of
our government depends upon
this watchdog role.
3. The attorney general
advises state agencies and
must insist that they observe
principles of openness and
fairness to fellow citizens. I
have pioneered legislation to
curb bureaucratic abuses.
This legislation deserves vig
orous enforcement by the
attorney general. In this way
Oregon citizens will be assur
ed every protection dealing
with state agencies.
The Oregon attorney gen
eral has an immense respons
ibility to maintain our justice
system. In seeking that office,
I pledge integrity, a record of
effective problem solving in
our State Legislature, and a
dedicated approach to main
taining the individual rights of
Oregon citizens.
Thank you again for your
support.
Dave Frohnmayer
State Representative and
Republican Nominee
Oregon Attorney General
2875 Bakpr Blvd.
Eugene, Oregon 97401
'Goodbye.
and thanks9
Editor:
It is always hard to say
good-bye so thankfully this
was a quick one.
I did not have much time to
tell everyone that I am leaving
because a new job opened up
rather quickly. There are a lot
of people in the county I would
like to say "Thanks" to but
unfortunately did not have
time.
I had to be in LaGrande to
begin the sports editor of the
Observer Monday.
I am sorry to have to leave
Heppner but feel I must do
what I have to to get the best
jobs available. Heppner was a
good starting point in my
career but being the ambitious
type that I am, I always strive
for a better job.
I want to thank all of the
news sources I have had for
stories the past 10'i months.
Most of the time they were
very cooperative. I have never
been treated so well by so
many different people but
then maybe it was my job that
made people act so friendly
toward me.
My wife. Renita, and I,
along with my daughter,
Angela, who was born Vk
months ago in Heppner, will
especially miss the Dexter
Bern
UcDonald
LaVerne Webb
and Corrine Miles family and
the Mike and Cindy Doherty
family. Thanks for being there
when we needed you most.
With good friends like them,
and the memories of our
daughter's birth, Heppner will
always have a special place in
our hearts.
I hope you all have enjoyed
my articles and hope they
have enlightened you to do
some thinking. That is my
goal as a journalist. To
encourage discussion and de
bate. I really regret that I
cannot stick around to con
tinue my battle with the
county budget. Salaries are
very close to all of our pocket
books and I honestly do not
think it is not right for the
county elected officials to
receive such a drastic raise. I
do not say that just to be
controversial, but to open
some eyes. It is the job of the
newspaper to be a watchdog to
government, even at the local
level, and I have tried to do
that.
The Heppner Gazette-Times
has been criticized, most
underservingly, for not cover
ing the county adequately. It
all takes communication be
tween the readers, news
sources and the paper. People
have to communicate to the
paper before it can communi
cate to the rest of the readers.
The paper is also criticized for
changing owners and news
editors so often. The secret to
that is having the community
grow and developing some
entertainment and other
businesses to make the paper
profitable. Newspaper people
like to make money just like
everyone else and readers
have to subscribe to the paper
and advertise in it before it
will make money. If a paper is
profitable, it can afford to
keep a news editor and the
owners will stay.
I have worked hard to try
and make the Gazette-Times a
good paper. I hope you all
appreciated it. I know I sure
did.
Thanks again.
Steven A. Powell
LaGrande, Oregon
Editor accepts
LaGrande post
April Syke
April Sykes will take over as
editor this week of the
Gazette-Times. She replaces
Steve Powell who resigned
last week to take a position as
sports editor with a La
Grande, Oregon, newspaper.
In addition ot editing the
news brought and sent to the
Gazette-Times office, Sykes
will also write stories and take
photographs.
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Saturdays
Starting
July 12
through
Harvest
Sifting
the TIMES
1930
Fifty years ago Miss Llllie
Allinger departed for New
York to join a tour party to
Europe. She planned to attend
the historic play "Passion
Play" performed every 10
years by the people of
Oberammergau, Germany.
Morrow County Grain
Grower Manager J.E. Swan
son of lone and Henry Smouse,
president, announced that
wheat farmers could contract
with the company.
As part of the Fourth of July
celebration, which 2,000 per
sons attended, the new arte
sian well was capped and
dedicated.
About 300 persons attended
the lone Pomona meeting
where the grangers discussed
beginning a fund for the school
band.
The combines began rolling
in the Lexington area at the
Chas. Marquardt place. He
was harvesting turkey wheat
and was getting IS to 18
bushels of wheat per acre.
Heppner City Council order
ed water meters and approved
the spending of $125 of city
money to help to pay for the
clean up after the Fourth of
July celebration.
Miss Alma Wehmeyer, 16,
was chosen Miss Heppner
from a field of eight contest
ants in the local division of the
International Pageant of Pul
chritude, sponsored by the
Heppner Lions Club at the
Star Theatre. She was to go on
to compete for Miss Oregon in
Portland the next week with a
chance to go to the nationals in
Gaiveston, Texas. Miss Delia
Ulrich was second and Miss
Ella Fell third. The girls made
three appearances in front of
the judges and the audience
one in an evening gown, one in
afternoon ensemble and one in
a bathing suit.
1955
Twenty five years ago the
kickoff dance for the county
fair and rodeo royal court took
place with Ken Knott and his
orchestra providing the enter
tainment. The Queen was
Carol Ann Wiglesworth, with
princesses Betty Olmstead of
Boardman, Sharon Hill of
Heppner, Marilyn Munkers of
Lexington and Carolyn Crab
tree of lone.
Forty farmers registered
for the spraying of 70,000 acres
of land in an effort to kill off
the grasshopper problem in
southeastern Morrow County.
Total cost for the program
was 55 to 60 cents per acre
with the farmer, feoVral
government and the state and
county paying one
third of the cost
ing for the okay from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture on
the spraying program set up
by the Morrow County Live
stock Growers.
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Cowboy Capital of Oregon
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An outside wrestling and
boxing show at the fair
grounds was going to be seen
at night under the new field
lights. Advanced ticket sales
showed that the Chamber of
Commerce was going to make
a profit on the program with
the money going Into the
fairgrounds lighting fund. A
heavyweight boxing match
and tag team wrestling were
the highlights of the program.
Heppner reached a record
high 100 degrees as swarms of
people flocked to the Heppner
and lone swimming pools.
1975
Five years ago a bicenten
nial event in Morrow County
included the Oregon Wagon
Train stop at Cecil. A beef
barbecue was prepared by the
Krebs Brothers and the
County Cowbelles served the
meal.
Geri Grieb, Todd Harrison
and Mark Sargent spoke to the
Chamber of Commerce about
their trip to the 4-H summer
camp at Cutsforth Park.
About 50 youngsters attended.
Ola Mae and Emile Grosh
ens celebrated their 60th
wedding anniversary.
The 1965 graduating class of
Heppner, the largest ever with
57 students, had their 10 year
reunion.
Of the 17 boys and two girls
selected as all stars from the
Willow Creek baseball league,
14 were going to be selected to
represent Morrow County in
playoff games with the rest
alternatives. The two girls
were Kellie Hammond and
LuAnn Way.
lone church
plans Sunday
eve services
The Reverend Cathy Barker
has announced that the United
Church of Christ in Ionw will
be scheduling Sunday evening
services during the month of
July.
The 7 p.m. services at the
church will be addition to the
10 a.m. Sunday services.
"The evening services will
be very informal and guitar
music will be featured," said
The Reverend Barker.
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Saturday & Sunday,
July 12 & 13
Grand Entry 1:15 each day
Parade - July 12, 10 a.m.
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Ullman's staff slates meetings
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resident, of the area. , k Appointment, can be made
"These meetings .re sched- callln ,o11"'
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