The Heppner Gatette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 2, 1981-8EVEN
At last April has arrived. This fourth month is named for
"Aprilis" a Latin word meaning "to open." April was the
second month In the Roman calendar until Julius Caesar
changed It to the fourth month in the Julian calendar In 46
B.C.
Some of us fret because income taxes are due In the middle
of the month, but we should not let our fretting spoil this
lovely time when grass is greening and leaves are bursting
forth on bushes and trees. Small animals that sleep through
the winter are usually out of their burrows now, birds begin
flying northward and early butterflies and bees may venture
out to gather nectar from the first flowers.
April is a planting time. It is time for spring sports
outdoor sports. It holds many special days, such as,
yesterday's April Fool's Day, Arbor Day and usually Easter
and many other Christian religious celebrations. Namely,
Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Good Friday and also the Jewish
festival of Pesah (Passover) come in April. The Chinese
. celebrate the Pure and Bright Festival early in the month,
and people In England and Canada celebrate St. George's
Day.
Several folks tell me that they are planning to climb up to
the white cross on Heppner's East Hill this month. Others
have told me about their fun climbing there before I made
my first trip up.
By now, you may have guessed, I love to travel. This last
week I've had such fun circling the world vicariously. A note
from Ellis Thomson, mailed from The Bronx, told me that he
thought I might enjoy reading the travelog about his recent
world-circling. i'At last, Justine, I've lived up to the title of
your story about me several years ago saying I am a world
traveler.
At the top of his page one, Ellis has the title 'Around the
world in sixty-two days,' and his introductory paragraph
states that he made the trip "in less time than did Phineas
Fogg in Jules Verne's masterpiece, but it was hardly a
record." He explains that he had been thinking of visiting
India and then decided to give himself a 70th birthday gift of
the circle trip "on a Pan American offering, using a standby
schedule with 12 blank coupons to be filled in as you go on
your way." He was warned that he might be "making a big
mistake with no reservations, which I still stoutly maintain
are strictly for American Indians."
Ellis left LaGuiirdia Field on Nov, 25 "after voting for the
Republican ticket" to do his first visiting with family
members in and around Florida. Then he hopped to Texas for
more visiting and flew on to California from where he bused
to Portland, Oregon, for family and friend visiting, after
which he Greyhounded back to the San Francisco area for
more visiting. Then he flew off to Honolulu, then to Tokyo,
Hong Kong, Kowloon and Singapore. From there he traveled
by land and sea to Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur, to Penang
Island and to Bangkok, Thailand. On each segment of his
journey he met interesting folks and had some delightful and
some less pleasing travel adventures.
The pages telling of his progress from San Francisco to
Bangkok were especially exhilarating to me as I had made
the very stop he made -- and a few others, too, such as, the
Philippines, Guam, Okinawa, Taiwan and Vietnam on my
big Orientul trip the year before I was asked to change my
name to Weatherford and to come to Morrow County.
From beautiful Bangkok, where I have great friends who
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The Hedmans will leave for their Hawaiian vacation on
April 21).
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would have enjoyed meeting Ellis, he flew to India for
exciting looks about in New Delhi, Agra (the site of the Taj
Mahal), Calcutta and Madras. He took an Indian Ocean boat
trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and after a good look about
there went back to Madras, on west to Bombay and then back
north to New Delhi from where he flew to Frankfurt, West
Germany. From Frankfurt he took a side trip to Paris which
he wouldn't miss seeing and which he has so enjoyed many
times before. (I believe Ellis has been in Europe at least 14
times now.) About traveling to Paris, he writes "my
second-class coach was a palace on wheels after those awful
Indian trains."
In Paris, Ellis again spent happy hours at the Louvre
Museum and again enjoyed the "little changing" Follies
Bergere. (In 1979, Inez Erwin and I had our look at the
Louvre cut short when an alarm sounded and gendarmes
rushed everyone out of the building - we never heard what
fabulous, priceless art treasure was endangered. We spent
one of our big nights in Paris at The Follies Bergere.)
His next stop was London, and after visiting thereabouts,
he made the big hop to the J F K. Terminal and got home to
his East Bath St. apartment. Because I, too have seen
Frankfurt, Paris and London, I really enjoyed his
descriptions of these great places as he viewed them last
winter. He reached Frankfurt when there was snow on the
ground, and weather was nippy, "but I found the perfect
hotel just across from the station. For $21 on my charge card
I got a lovely steam-heated room, a lovely clean bed with a
down comforter, an Oriental rug on the floor and an
enormous basin with boiling water 24 hours a day. It was too
cold to be out, so I spent hours with my trusty radio enjoying
the Armed Forces broadcasts. I heard the voices of Reagan
and Bush being inaugurated. The hostages from Iran had
returned that day, and they were only a few miles from me."
Ellis mentioned Heppner several times throughout his
pages, for instance, while he was visiting in the Portland
area and went to see Kay Bisbee in a new retirement home at
Milwaukee - "an unexpected dividend was getting to see Eva
from my days at Heppner High School."
Because I wanted to know Eva's family name, I telephoned
some of Ellis's relatives and friends. First, Madge Thomson
said she and Jim were puzzled too; then I called Elaine
George who didn't think she remembered an "Eva" from
those years but who said "Call La Verne Van Marter, he has a
marvelous memory of people and names." So I called
LaVerne, who was in grade school here about 50 years ago.
He told me "Eva has to be Eva Hiatt whose married names
are Baldwin and Miller."
Ellis Thomson's travelog really inspires me. I am thinking
right now that if I can save the cash, maybe I shall plan to
give myself a 70th birthday gift something like his and take
another really big trip. I am not saying I will circle the
planet', but I would surely like to go back to Asia and then
extend south to Australia and New Zealand. A picture
postcard mailed by Clifford and Frances Williams from
Rotorua. New Zealand, reached me last Wednesday. Both the
Williams taught for many years. Now they are seeing
faraway places as I hope many more retired folk will be able
to do. The Williams' cards says "Everything is beautifully
green and grows to an enormous size. About eight other
passengers on this tour are from the U.S. - two from
California and two from Dundee. Oregon." However, the
picture side of the card shows a bubbling mud pool -not
something beautifully green.
When Frances and Cliff are back in their comfortable
home in Hermiston. we will surely look forward to having
them come over to south Morrow to share their knowledge
and pictures of New Zealand.
Last weekend I gave my lawn its first mowing of 1981. This
week Monday all the pupils, teachers and working staff
people returned to school after their Spring Vacation. Now
they are all so refreshed and so ready to perform diligently
until schools close for the summer. Happy day.
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and establishes definite time
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"We also are setting up a
reporting system to give us
information on various types
of appeals and how they are
handled. In this way. we can
develop a uniform approach in
dealing with adverse
decisions."
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Thursday, March 9
10:00 a.m.
EOSC sets Festival of fine arts
April 6-11
A British pair performing
scenes from Shakespeare.
Oregon poet William Stafford
reading from recent work, a
one-man show of paintings by
Union artist Don Gray and an
all-night costume ball head
line the list of events during
the Eastern Oregon State
College Festival of Fine Arts
Monday, April 6. through
Saturday, April 11.
The week is a major
college-community event and
all programs and activities
are open to the public, said
coordinator Dr. John Cobb,
associate dean of the School of
" Arts and Sciences.
The first event of the week
will be the Woody Allen movie.
"Sleeper." Classroom Build
ing Auditorium. 7:30 p.m. on
Monday. There is no admis
sion charge but seating is
limited.
Tuesday offers a double
header of art and poetry. At 7
p.m. William Stafford, consid
ered by many Oregon's fore
most nationally known poet,
will read from his own work at
Ars Poetica. Hoke Center.
Rooms 201. 202. The event
features a prelude and post
lude by Portland lutenist
Terral Stone. There is no
admission charge.
Stafford's many recogni
tions include the National
Book Award for Poetry, a
Guggenheim Award and selec
tion as poetry consultant to the
Library of Congress. He's
. authored 10 volumes, the most
recent being "Places Where
There Aren't Any People."
and is in demand nationally
and internationally.
Immediately after the Staf
ford reading, about 8 p.m.. the
audience can move down the
Hoke stairs to the EOSC
Nightingale Gallery and the
opening of a one-man show of
paintings by Union artist Don
Gray. Gray is known for his
sensitive oil and watercolor
paintings of people, places and
animals of eastern Oregon.
His paintings command as
much as $4,500 each.
The gallery exhibit will
display pieces gathered from
many different private collec
tions in eastern Oregon. Gray,
a 1970 graduate of EOSC. had
work recently selected for
inclusion in the prestigious
Charlie Russell Auction in
Montana. Recent work will be ,
part of an exhibit opening
April 23 in the Foster White
Gallery in Seattle. The open
ing includes a public reception
with refreshments for Gray
and Stafford. There is no
admission charge.
There are three events
scheduled for Wednesday.
Free foreign language films
will begin in the EOSC
Administration Building
Theatre at 1 p.m. with the
Spanish film "Subida Al
Cielo," about the bus ride
adventures of a loval son.
additional person.
in formal clothing.
thru 5:00 p.m.
The fare turns German at
2:15 p m. "I'm Labrinth der
Priele" explores the small
water ways in marshes near
the North Sea. "Die Post
karte" is an adaptation from a
story by Heinrich Boll about
the power of the state over the
lives of individuals in time of
war in the late 1930's,
The final film in the series
will be the French "Le
Plaisir." based on Guy de
Maupassant stories and nar
rated by Peter Ustinov, begin
ning at 3:15 p.m.
That same day at 3 p.m..
there will be a student recital
featuring different EOSC mus
ic students performing on a
' variety of instruments. It's
free and scheduled for Admin
istration Building Room 105.
That evening at 8 p.m.. the
Grande Ronde Symphony
takes its place in the Adminis
tration Building Theatre to
perform selections by Grieg.
Bartok and Mendelssohn. Gail
Swart is the featured piano
soloist. Admission is $1.50 and
$2.50 or by season ticket.
There'll be more music on
Thursday when Portland lute
nist Terral Stone performs at 8
p.m. in the Administration
Building Theatre. Admission
is $1 and $2.
On Firday night at 8 p.m.
comes Shakespeare in "Flash
es of Lightning" by acting
team Deirdre Barber and
Arthur Kincaid. Oxford, Eng
land. Beginning and ending
with a wooing scene, the
British professionals trans
form themselves from Rich
ard III and Lady Anne to
Hamlet and Ophelia, Orlando
and Rosalind, Macbeth and
his lady, to conclude as
Petruchio and Kate, in a
series of lightning-swift cos
tume and character changes.
The curtain goes up on the
performance at 8 p.m.. EOSC
Administration Building
Theatre. Tickets will be $2.50
and $3.50.
The final event of the annual
.arts .festival, will, be the
increasingly popular Beaux
Arts Costume Ball and Buffet
Saturday beginning at 9 p.m.
According to coordinator John
Cobb it's an all night event of
live music, dancing, eating
and general frivolity.
Costumes are not required
but Cobb said, they would
"definitely add to the enjoy
ment." Costume rental will be
available this year from the
EOSC drama wardrobe. Per
sons interested in making
rental arrangements can call
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KIDS'
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Fashions for little girls are
prettier than ever and little boys
are looking as debonair as their
Dads in designer separates. It's
a whole new era of fashion
conscious children.
Local air ambulance
proposed
. At 1:3 p.m. on Thursday,
April 9, a meeting will be held
in St, Anthony Hospital's
auditorium to discuss a pro
posed helicopter air ambul
ance service.
The proposed service should
provide reduced primary re
sponse times for emergency
medical incidents in remote
KRISTI
FISHBURN
Kristi is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Earl Fishburn.
Although only a freshman Kristi has started out her career at
HHS with a great start. She is involved in GAB, Spanish Club,
Pep Band and the Methodist Youth Group:" Kristi enjoys
swimming and horseback riding in her spare time, and
maintains a 3.83 grade point average.
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classroom, or at the theatre for a
matinee, is less than practical at
playtime.
Jeans are hotter than ever
for dressing down. Children of
all ages are imitating their
parents whether their jeans '
are denim or corduroy, chances
are good that there's a designer
label on the rear pocket.
Teamed with spiffy sneakers
(yes, sneakers are a fashion
must, too) and a football jersey
or designer T-shirt, kids are
storming the playground in
style.
When you set out to buy play
clothes for your brood, there are
some things to remember. Style
is important (they won't let you
get away with something that's
not in the fore of fashion), hut
even more important is quality
construction: overalls. should
have reinforced knees, and
teams should be double
faced .
Pick clothing that's easy
care duds that are going to.the
playground or baseball field
should not be dry-clean-only.
All active sportswear should be
machine-washable, and stain
resistant fabrics are a plus.
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