Heppner family attends
centennial reunion
Tbe family of Heppner 'r late
WW. (Bill) Weatherford
Bill's widow, Justine, his son
Bill and wife Teresa and their
children Billy and Bonnie
from Imperial Bench. Calif.,
and his daughter Karla and
her huahand Rick Weaver and
Iheir daughter Ahiah from
Porl Orchard. Wash., spent all
of Saturday, May 23. along
with some 2(H other Weather
ford relatives at thr Marion T.
Weatherford and Barbara W.
Athearn Hunch on Shutler
Flat south of Arlington . There
the centennial of the plant inn
of the first wheal crop in
north -central Oregon by Wil
liam Washington Weatherford
was being commemorated
with a family reunion.
After the crowd had gather
ed and enjoyed getting ac
quainted over hrunch. they
climbed into three large
school buses for a more than
40-mile tour of the family
ranches nearby. Each bus
carried a family historian,
and these gentlemen. Marion
Weatherford and his nephews
Fielding Weatherford and
David C'hilds. told the passen
gers the background of what
they were seeing. The viewers
were delighted to see the
homes, ranch buildings and
grain elevators and to learn
how the ownership of these
had !een passed along and to
see old und new ranching
equipment which was explain
ed to them. The contrast
between the ancient wagons
used to haul sacked wheal
behind Ifi-mule teams and the
new planting and harvesting
equipment was striking Old
water reserviors and new
wellheads and huge circle and
gun-type sprinkling systems
were pointed out
City relatives were especial
ly thrilled by the three deer,
and the Chinese pheasants,
partridges and other birds
seen along the way. The
diversification of crops being
produced was especially inter
esting. Much fine looking
wheat and barley, u large
planting of peas which will go
into split pea soup, a field of
corn, fields of lawn grass sod.
a multi-crop area where
wheat, field turnips and cattle
thrive and. of course, cattle
and horses were viewed.
When the bus lour ended
around 12:30 p.m. the multi
tude was seated at about 25
tables in one of the ranch's
large equipment and storage
buildings and was served a
barlK'cued beef dinner. Prin
cipal host Marion welcomed
everyone and introduced his
aunts. Helen (Mrs. Roscoe
Donne from Chehalis. Wash.,
and Lillian (Mrs Fred Weath
erford) from The Dalles, his
sisters. Barbara W. Athearn.
Acme. Wash and Kdythe W.
Newell. Prineville. and his
cousin J K. Weatherford. a
senior attorney from Albany,
who presented brief reminis
cences. Marion said how
pleased he was to have so
many relatives and to have
them meeting with one
another, He touched on a few
highlights of the family's
history and of members'
contributions to the slates in
which they have lived.
All during the day everyone
enjoyed walking through the
spacious exhibit which con
tained family portraits, geneo
logical charts, a very lovely
old quilt, great pictures which
were painted by family art
ists, many outstanding photo
graphs and a large collection
of family members' publica
tions. As the gathering was break
ing up, Marion presented each
person who attended a packet
containing several older fam
ily writings, his own just-completed
"History of the Weath
erford Family in Gilliam
County from 1881-19B1" and a
geneological chart of the
descendants of Alfred Harri
son Weatherford whose six
orphaned children came west
in the 1860's. The present
Gilliam and Morrow County
Weatherfords are grandchild
ren and great-grandchildren
of W W W,. Ihe second son of
Alfred Harrison W, who walk
ed barefooted to Orei'nn when
he was l years old. and was
later followed bv his four
brothers and their sister
whose offspring arc now
widelv scattered
Tarnished copper can be
claaned with half a
lemon dipped into a table
spoon of salt and vinegar.
Marine Pfc.
honored
Marine Pfc. Bonnie S
Lamb, daughter of Wendv A
Kleltler of Fossil, has been
awarded a Meritorious Mast
while serving with Ihe Head
quarlers and Service Bat
talion. 3rd Force Service
Support Group, on Okinawa,
A Meritorious Mast is of
ficial recognition from a
Marine's commanding officer
for superior individual perfor
mance. II is issued in Ihe form
of a bulletin published
throughout Ihe command, and
a copy is entered in the
Marine's permanent service
records.
lone Topic Club meets
The Heppner Ciatette-Timr. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 4, I981-8EYEN
Riverside High School
students awarded aid
lone Topic Club members
met Wednesday. Mav 2f. al
Ihe home of Margaret Trned
son. in Pendleton for a noon
luncheon Helen Proudfoot
assisted Mrs, Troedsnn in
enlerl .'lining Ihe ladies Guests
for Ihe dav were Ruby Ann
Rhode of Kcnnewick. Wash.,
and Mile Van Ness.
The Very Rich Rook" hv
Jaqueline Thompson was re
viewed by Helen Proudfoot.
This is Ihe slorv of America's
super millionaires and their
monev - where thev got it and
how thev spend it It is limited
to those wilh fifty million
dollars or more The average
person hits never heard of
most of them because thev do
not like to he in Ihe public eve
Most of them have inherited
iheir wealth and, although
most of us think il would be
wonderful lo be wealihv.
wealth creates problems. The
second and third generation
verv rarely have been trained
to handle large sums of money
because their fathers have
been loo busy making money
lo train Iheir children
The suicide rale for the
extremely wealthy is verv
high and also the number of
bankruptcies. Stealing of val
uables and kidnapping of
children is n continual pro
blem Some few h.ive used
Iheir wealth lo the Ix-netil of
society or sneeeded In busi
jnf.s However, manv of them
are recluse or eccentrics
Slorv hour will be held al the
lone Public l.ihrarv from .lulv
10 through .lulv .11 on each
Fridav at 3:!." p m The Topic
Club and the AAl'W will
cooperate in this program
The Topic Cluh will sponsor
the Governor's Reading pro
gram this summer To receive
a certificate each child must
read 10 books between Mav 15
and September 15. make a list
of books read and have il
signed hv a parent or gaurd-ian
The following Riverside
High School students were
awarded Ihe following schol
arships and awards at gradua
tion. Saturday. Mav 23.
Stale of Oregon Scholars -M-rrv
Wilson. Scott Daniels.
I'niversily of Portland -Honors
at Entrance - Msa
Millelsforf.
Carl Troedson Awards - $750
each - Beth Hellberg. Janice
Beyers. Heidi Conboy. Jim
Peck. Peggy Sicard. Jyl
Hobbs. Msa Mitlelsdorf.
National Honor Society
Scholarship - Jim Peck.
Morrow Countv Education
Association - $500cash award -.
Jvl Hobbs
Tillicum Cluh Scholarship
$:ton cash award - Jim Peck
Charles Kyd Scholarship
fm rsh a word lwi
Russell. Scott Daniels.
Morrow County Chapter -Oregon
School Employees
Association - $200 cash award -David
Piper.
Blue Mountain Full Tuition
Scholarship - Pat Cimmiyolti.
Sandy Frickson.
Elks Most Valuable Student
Scholarship - 2nd place $150
cash award - Heidi Conboy.
Athletic Scholarships Uni- ,
versitv of Oregon - Football -M-rry
Wilson.
Blue Mountain Community
College - Basketball - Tennis -Scott
Daniels.
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HEPPNER,0REG0N MORROW COUNTY
DIVISIONS
JUHIORS 9-14
SENIORS 15-10
HI 11
Morrow County 1981 Junior Rodeo
Queen
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