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VOL. 9. . . .. - : :.. . f. What will 15,000 pounds of dynamite do to a hillside? Reduce it to rubble, that's what. Peter Kewit construction company set off a large blast late construction site just outside of The blast was set to go off at 3:30 off it produced quite a show. A sloping area across Balm twenty-foot holes. The holes were area was cleared, and double checked for stray bystanders, who Spectators were perched on the ready. On a given signal from the Rock and dirt lifted up in the air flat area had been transformed into standing in the center. The blast went off as planned, workers said, and the broken ground removed. A rock crusher will be moved up to the site and begin making work. . - ' A Morrow County's NO. 33 THURSDAY, Kaboom! . . .; l ....afc. . . : :.t;.-. ; Heppner. but was delayed for several hours. Fork, up on the hillside, was drilled earlier with over 1.000 packed with dynamite and another brand of explosives. The hillside across from the blast site, powder man the charges were and a loud boom was heard. When a broken mass of dirt and rocks, The Heppner Ys 11 Er 11 liMiJh, Home-Owned AUGUST 13, 18I PAGES 1 k. : . T ' WW . Friday afternoon at the dam When it was finally touched may have wandered in. some with cameras at the set off. the dust cleared the former with one large 15-foot ridge can now be scooped up and rock for road construction pgr Weekly Newspaper OATS $525,000 llilGCllOIl requested By MARY ANN C ERUI LO A request for an election on Tuesday. September 15, was certified by Barbara Bloods worth. Morrow County Clerk, last Wednesday. Commission er Dorothy Krebs reported. The one-year road levy election will ask voters to approve a total of $525,000 for road improvements. - $375,000 is to be used to match funds from the state for the completion of Bombing Range Road. $150,000 will be for asphalt and supplies to continue the present level of road mainten ance. ' County Court moved to support the road levy during a court session July 22. In other business. Morrow County Court received a letter of resignation from Mrs. Jean Jepsen of the Juvenile Council because of increased respons ibilities at home. The court accepted Jepsen 's resignation which was effective immed iately. . District short $92,000 Morrow County School Sup erintendent Matt Doherty said last week that the school district will be short "about $92,000 in basic school sup port this year. The district had been trying to anticipate how much school support it could count on from the state this year, but until the state legislature adjourn ed two weeks ago school administrators really did not know how much the state would pare the program down. "We'll be short about $92,000 more than we anticipated in this year's budget," Doherty told the Gazette-Times, "But I'm relieved it's not the $280,000 we at one time thought it (the shortfall) might be." "It's at least something we can depend on now," he said. Men burned, wheat, An lone man, Kenneth James Smouse, and his son, Kenneth, are "doing well," according to a Pioneer Mem orial Hospital spokesperson, after sustaining burns in a wheat fire that broke out round 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Fires have taken their toll as both soaring temperatures and harvesting have contin ued the past week in Morrow County. According to a neighbor of the Smouses', Vera Rietmann, she and her husband, Wayne, lost 100 acres of wheat in the fire that burned two members of the Smouse family, destroy ed the Smouses' tractor, Verduzco denied retrial A motion for a new trial for Jose Mario Mendoza Ver duzco, convicted of murder by a Morrow County jury July 15, has been denied by Judge JV.W. Wells. Verduzco was found guilty of the April 25 slaying of Antonio Delgadillo Guzman near the H-Bar-W tavern in Boardman. According to defense attor IIKIMAER. OHEf.OV Rice takeg i8t in saddle bronc event i at National High School Rodeo y1(-v -;--L .i.- 'v"r ft 21 Lee Rice in competition at the National High School Rodeo. Heppner was officially put on the map during the National High School Rodeo Association competition held July 27 through Aug. 2 at Douglas, Wyoming. Lee Rice of H(ppner won first place in bareback com petition. Rice who has been riding for around 11 years, is burned 300 acres of wheat and stubble and destroyed a com bine on the Ralph and Montie Crum ranches and broke out windows of a tractor belong ing to Smouse. Another man injured in the fire, Barney Rea, was treated at Pioneer Memorial Hospital and released. A pickup belong ing to Keith Rea was also caught in the fire and dam aged. According to the Riet manns, the fire came within 400 feet of their home and within 200 feet of their grain elevator, Mrs. Rietmann said that their home and elevator could have been destroyed if it ney F.fc). Glenn, reasons for the motion for a new trial included allegations that the jury that convicted Verduzco did not truly represent the county's population and did not include members of ethnic groups as it should. Verduzco is rn-ing held in the Umatilla County Jail until a presentencing investigation is completed. Weather BY THE CITY OF HEPPNER Tues., Aug 4 Wed., Aug. 5 Thurs. Aug. 6 Fri., Aug. 7 Sat,, ' Aug. 8 Sun.. Aug. 9 Mon., Aug. 10 the first Oregon cowboy ever to take a first place in the NHSR. The Oregon team ended up 8th in the nation. Rice. 17, the son of Dick and Carol Rice, scored 70 in his first go-round, 70 in his second go-round, and 75 in the short go to take the prize. He won two plaques (one for each combine destroyed in had not been for Mel and John Rietmann said onlookers their live to fight it. We really Boyer who battled the blaze estimated the blaze shot about do appreciate their help," said from an airplane. The Boyers 30 feet in the '" Mrs. Rietmann. "It was lucky operate Gar Aviation Service " was an extremely dan- tha, more Aidn-t get out of Lexington. gerous fire. People risked hurt It's Fair & Rodeo time again Mil When Tom Simonton comes area business windows, fair isn't far behind. Simonton, High Low 52 58 59 62 60 58 62 m 98 99 98 95 98 go-round), a pair of boots, a hat, a saddle, and a buckle for his efforts. Jeff Bailey, also from Hep pner, won his first go-round for fifth in the nation. Also competing from Hep pner were Cliff Dougherty and Tony Currin in calf roping; Earl Hammond in bareback; to town to paint scenes have P"eviewed tne Morrow County and rodeo time Fair and Rodeo for many years' hails frora whose colorful Pendleton. Precip - I photo by Fields Foto and Tara Mahoney in poles and breakaway. . A Stanfield cowboy. Wade Burtch, competing for the Heppner team, won first go in the saddle bronc for third in the nation. Chris Dahl, Red mond, ended up fifth in the nation in the saddle bronc event. fire
