The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, .Thursday, March 19, 1981-FIVE
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Wasn't our pre-sprlng great? Really spring arrives next
Sunday, March 22, and how we hope It will measure up to last
week. Many of the public schools of the state are having their
spring vacations this week, but Morrow County schools will
coordinate their vacation with college vacations from
Friday, Mar. 20, until Monday, March 30. We will have to
wail to see which vacation schedule the weatherman favors -maybe
the sun will shine both weeks!
Haven't the lovely pink apricot blossoms around town been
spirit lifting? America's beloved and prolific poet, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, expressed his feeling about the glory
of springtime thus: "If Spring came but once in a century,
instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an
earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation
there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous
change."
As I read over some of my sentences and then Longfellow's
thoughts--what a contrast, fie was a master of language
while most of us are such amateurs; we repeatedly use such
simple word arrangements. Stuart Flexner, author of "I
Hear America Talking" stales that 50 simple words account
for about 60 percent of our speech and writing. "Between 1500
and 2000 words make up about 99 percent of everything we
say or write, and most of these frequently used words are
monosyllables, none having more than four letters."
According to the language expert, the most frequently used
word is "I"; the second most common word is "you"
followed by "the" and "a". The other 18 words that make the
"top twenty" linguistic chart ( in alphabetical order) are:
and, be, for, get, have, he, in, is, it, of, on, she, that, to, was,
will.
So even If you keep trying to build your vocabulary, you'll
still lean on those hard-working words for the bulk of your
communication--if you expect the rest of our world to
understand you.
Perhaps you are all as pleased with the Blue Mountain
Community College Spring Calendar as I am. What a fine
variety of classes to choose from -and what a good group of
teachers. Many of the classes being offered here begin the
last days of March or in early April, and they will meet
weekly. In spite of the need to spend many hours on my yard
and garden, I am eager to enroll in two classes. One of them
begins on April 7 and will run 10 weeks; the other will meet
three hours weekly for 4 weeks beginning May 7 and will
include two field trips. So especially during the 4 weeks when
I am attending two classes, I am expecting to stay at home
and to be well occupied.
Every few weeks I spend some time in the newspaper
office going through file copies of old issues and selecting
items for the "Sifting Through The Times" feature. I really
enjoy this effort-reviewing local history of fifty, twenty-five
and five years ago is great fun for me.
Sometimes I have trouble remembering what happened a
few hours or days ago - yet I find that some of the items,
especially stories about happenings of five years ago, seem
very clear to me. Of course. I have only lived in this county 15
years, but I see many references to older citizens and to
present duy families in the older papers.
Just five years ago this spring, many of us were caught up
in preparations for the U.S. Bicentennial. Our community
now has several good things which resulted from that
celebration Hager Park was dedicated then as a gift from
the Hager Family to Heppner. Winn Crist and the city crew
and others, too, worked at getting the park in shape. Barbara
and O W. Cutsforth and others moved the little, one-room
I)emK-rat Gulch Schoolhouse into the Library-Museum
Park. High School students, my husbund, Bill, Albert Connor
and others worked at the restoration of this delightful,
historic building which is now part of the county museum.
Although Jean Gillian's article in the March "Ruralite"
whs good and correctly acknowledged Rachel Harnett's fine
work there, it left much about the museum unsaid. One
omission was mention of the little schoolhouse which
everyone should Ik sure to visit. When Francis Nickerson
(who has lived away from Heppner for many years) was
visiting here recently, I heard him say that he was about to
visit the museum for the first time because he wished to find
some background material for a novel he is writing. This
reminded me again that many people living here have not
taken the time to really visit the museum and the little
schoolhouse. Maybe more parents will take their children
through these interesting and educational places during the
coming spring vacation.
Kvery mid March since I have written this column, I have
included a few Irish jokes. This week they are a wee bit
lute -and in writing Irish jokes are not nearly as much as fun
as a real son of Eire, like St. Patrick's Father John O'Brien
who makes frequent trips to the Emerald Isle, would make
them if he told them in his super brogue.
As the years pass I find Irish jokes harder to locate-and
these may not win prizes:
Teacher: "Pat, this composition of yours about a pig is
exactly the same as your friend Mike's."
Pat: "Of course, It's about the same pig."
Two Irish cattle ranchers met for the first time. After a
"Howdy, podner," the first one asked, "What's the name of
your spread?"
"It's the JFK Double Shamrock Bar-J Happy Hill Rocking
K Ranch" the second Hibernian replied,
"How many head of cattle do you have?" asked the first
man.
"Very few," replied the second Irishman, "Most of them
don't survive the branding."
"I'm not wealthy," young Michael confessed to his true
love, "and I don't have a new car and a yacht like Danny
Doherty, but I love you with all my heart."
"I love you, too" replied blushing Bridget, "but tell me
more about Danny Doherty."
Mrs. O'Brien, excitedly on the phone: "Come quickly! Our
house is on fire!"
Chief Burkenbine: "How do we get there?"
Mrs. O'Brien: "Don't you have your red truck any more?"
Movies postponed
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DeRina Reed (left) and Michele Sating help
" Barbara" Bloodsworth with a purchase at a
bake tale last Friday. $227 was raised for
the Ackley Teen Oub
Bookworms review book
on stockmarket crash
By J l STINK
WFATHKKFORD
At the first twice-monthly
meeting of the Bookworms on
March 10, in the Weatherford
home, Pauline Hughes presen
ted a review of the national
best -seller by Cordon Thomas
and Max Morgan-Witts which
gives the social history of the
Wall Street crash of 1929. This
book, "The Day the Bubble
Burst" was released in its
hardback form in 1979 on the
fiftieth anniversary of the Oct.
29 crash that some persons
say was more disturbing
world-wide than a big war.
The paperback edition which
Mrs. Hughes used, came out in
19K0.
Well-established authors
Thomas and Morgan-Witts
have done a tremendous
amount of research in pulling
together their account of the
facts leading to the crash, of
the crash itself and of the after
effects of this disaster. The
books large lists of sources, its
bibliography and its close to
20-page index are very valu
able. The bookcover states that
"The authors recreate the
mad, chaotic, tragic years
before, during and after the
crash. A time when thousands
of investors, large and small,
followed the bullish money
barons, pouring theirs dimes
and dollars into Wall Street
with intoxicating abandon."
Reviewer Hughes rightly
judged that her listeners
would be especially interested
in the vibrant personalities
involved, such as Joseph P.
Kennedy, Jesse Livermore,
Richard Whitney, Charles
Stewart Mott, Henry Ford.
John Pierpont Morgan and
Amades Peter Giannini, to
name a few.
She personally was particul
arly interested in California's
Giannini. who in 1904 at the
age of 34 had quit the produce
business in order to found the
first "people's bank" in
America. Giannini's rise from
a peddler of grapefruit in San
Francisco where he was
disparingly called the "Dago
Banker" during the early
years of his small Bank of
Italy, changed enormously as
he rose to a position of
international respect during
the development of his huge
Bank of America. His fasci
nating story is just one of the
many exciting peisonality
stories within this fact-filled,
modern historic book.
Mary Goheen was a special
guest at the meeting. The
Bookworms next meeting will
be at Lorena Jonesiome on
Tuesday. March 24. when
Ruby Becket will present the
dav's review.
Soroptimists informed on
school budget
On March 12 guests at
Soroptomist Club's meeting
were Matthew Doherty, Sup
intendent of Morrow County
School District and Pauline
Winter, District School Board
Member. Mr. Doherty outlin
ed the importance in under
standing the "A" Ballot and
"B" Ballot when voting in the
school election March 31.
Winter distributed copies of
the School District Budget and
explained in detail the reques
ted increases, computation of
tax on proposed requests and
comparative tax rates for the
school districts in Umatilla
and Morrow Counties.
Reed Ringer. Manager of
the Heppner Branch of West
ern Heritage Savings & Loan,
spoke on behalf of the Ameri
can Cancer Society. Mr.
Ringer is Chairman of the
Cancer Crusade this year for
Morrow County.
At the next meeting. March
19. club member Mary Goheen
will show slides on Japan,
including the World's Fair in
Osaka.
Soroptimist meetings are
held the first, second and third
Thursdays each month at noon
at the Wagon Wheel Cafe.
The Ackley Teen Outer tins
M)siiniiril its Sunday
community movies until April
5 because of spring vacation.
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FIFTY YEARS AGO
Lions stage party honoring
their charter; district gover
nor cites progress and compli
ments club. Eighty Lions and
ladies met at the IOOF hall to
celebrate the first birthday of
the Heppner Lions Oub.
Jack Ferris, district gover
nor from La Grande, officia
ted at the cutting of the
birthday cake at the dinner
dessert, and later in a short
address told of the phenomen
al growth of Lions Interna
tional in which the Oregon
district is setting the pace with
a .08 percent gain In member
ship this year. Forty-seven
clubs are now active in the
district with the goal of fifty
by June 1 a certainty. Ferris
expressed more than ordinary
affection for the Heppner club
as he was president of its
"daddy" club, LaGrande,
when the organization was
sponsored. Accomplishments
of the Heppner Lions gave him
a feeling of pride, he said, and
he has used the club as an
example in talks all over the
state.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
The complete list of fillings
for county offices shows:
clerk, Bruce Lindsay, Dem.,
Sadie Parrish, Rep. ; treasur
er, Sylvia McDaniel, Rep.;
sheriff, C.J.D. Bauman, Rep.;
county commissioner, Rossell
Miller, Boardman, Rep.; Cor
oner, Oliver Creswick, Rep.;
Jusice of the peace, J.O.
Hager.
Democratic committeemen
and committeewomen: Al
Lamb. Bruce Lindsay, Lloyd
Howton. C.N. Jones, Newt
O'Harra and Barbara Cutsforth.
Republican committeemen
and committeewomen:
Rachel Dick, Harold Becket,
Robert Penland, Olive B.
Hughes, Mildred Wright, Mar
garet Troedson,' Donald Hat
field, Lucille Peck, Dewey
West Jr, Myra Skoubo and
William R.D. Allen.
FIVE YEARS AGO
Four members of the log
ging industry were honored at
the Chamber of Commerce
last Monday. Those honored
were Don Hardwick, Operator
of the Year, employed by
Kinzua Corporation; John
Meadows, Matching Equip
ment to the Job, owner and
operator of John Meadows
Logging Co.; Denzil White,
Layout and Planning of Log
ging, employed by Eastern
Oregon Logging Co.; Guy Van
Arsdale, Road Construction,
employed by Eastern Oregon
Logging Co.
The Heppner High School
cafeteria was filled Friday
evening, March 12, with
friends and family of Leonard
Munkers as he was honored by
the Morrow County School
system for 22 years of service
as bus driver, custodian,
groundskeeper, diesel mec
hanic, carpenter and informal
counselor. Some of his family
came many miles to wish him
well in his new capacity as a -ranch
operator in the Lexing
ton area.
A.C. Houghton Elementary
School is observing the Bicen
tennial in a variety of ways
during the 1975-76 school year.
Since last September each
class has been responsible for
a program at the monthly
student body meeting. These
programs depict some era.
event or persons important in
our nation's history.
BMCC Continuing Educa
tion classes In south Morrow
County are filling rapidly,
gays Nancy Brownfield, area .
coordinator. There are sever
al classes with limited enrol
lment. Anyone who is Interested In
a class and lsnot pre-register-
ed should check with Nancy
Brownfield at 876-5039 to see if
there is space available.
Pre-registration will end
March 25. Registration can
still be done on the first class
night provided there is space
available. Most classes begin
the week of March 30.
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