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BESSIE U 0 F ORE N E V S P A PER LIB FUG F r: F OR - 97403 The Heppner Weather By City of Heppner .A T VOL.W1 NO. Local churches to hmv United Church of Christ lone United Church of Christ will hold ii Thanksgiving lvc service Wednesday, Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m. at the church, "to give praise and tlwuiksgi vmg in the midst nf (he holiday hustle." said the Rev. Cathy Marker An offering will he taken and donated to the Hunger Action Fund Special music will lie featured at the service. Christmas IS FRI. & SAT. Heppner merchants will be holding their Christmas Opening Sale this Friday and Saturday, with the theme to he "An Old Fashioned Christmas", In addition to sale items and reduced prices, rutii C!aub w ii! he on hand downtown Anita Palmer named 1982 Co. Fair & Rodeo queen i. L l r v -r? ' L 'i - . . ... .1 Anita Palmer has been named Wtiz County Fair & Kodeo Queen announced Rodeo Board President Bob Montgomery Monday, Nov. 23. Anita, a senior at lone High School, has been riding horses all of her life and was a pennant bearer for four years. Anita was also princess on the 1981 court. In addition to her court activities, Anita has Morrow County's 48 THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2fi. IDX1 "All m e invited to come and worship - to romemher what the Thanksgiving holiday is all uhnut.." concluded the Rev. Barker. All Saints An evening praver service will he held at All Saints Episcopal Church in Heppner on Wednesday. Nov lr at 7:30 p in Opening at the Post Office Saturday, Nov. 28 at 1 p.m. Also starting Friday, downtown merchant will stay open until 7 p.m. every weeknight up to Christmas for your shopping convenience. See inside this issue for the many sale items offered by Heppner merchants. Morrow been involved in 4-H, the Girls Athletic Association, National Honor Society, tole painting projects and girls sports. Anita is the daughter of Lee and Mary Ann Palmer of lone. Princesses for the new court were to be selected Tuesday night, Nov. 24 and will be announced in next weeks Gazette-Times. Home - Owned 10 hold Thanksgiving services "TIiik nerv ice Mill he n service of Thanksgiving In-, God's bountiful gifts to each of us tins past vcar " said the Rev Edwin Watts Hope Lutheran Hope Lutheran Church in Heppner will hold a Thanks giving eve service on Wed., Nov. 25, 7:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend. SALE Morrow . i ,-..1 . ' ' 1 '" j' W Weekly Newspaper PAGES 20 CENTS Irrigon Comm. By FRANCES ROSE WILSON The annual Thanksgiving church service, for the com munity of Irrigon will be held at the Baptist church at 7 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. Nov. 26. Churches of the community will come together for this Christmas tree permits available It is again that time of year when families go to the woods to cut their Christmas trees. Permits must be purchased to cut trees in the National Forest. In order to preserve the scenic and resource values of the National Forest, we must ask each permittee to cooperate with us by comply ing with the following: (l)Cut tree as least 50 feet from roadways, (2) Clean up any trimmings or limbs from roadways, (3) Leave stumps no higher than 10 inches, (4) Cut off any green limbs left on stump (can be used for greens), (5) Do not "long butt"over 6 feet. Maximum size of tree to be cut is 14 feet, (6) Do not cut in timber sale areas which have been plant ed with new trees. Permits may be purchased at the Heppner Ranger District -open regular hours Monday through Friday and Saturdays on December 12 and 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Permits are good for the entire district. No commercial cutting areas are available, said a Umatilla National Forest news release. Loeal eowboys qualify for National Finals Rodeo Seven Oregonians, two from Morrow County, have quali fied for the December 5 - 13 National Finals Rodeo to be held in Oklahoma City. The NFR playoff totals $613,000, including PRCA and Women's HEPPNER, OREGON crviee- special community event. Emphasis will be on lay people of the churches with several lay persons as speak ers. Each church is asked to piovide a musical number. Morrow Co. awarded $1,554 from OACD This is the first time project funds have been made avail able to SWCD's through the Division of Soil and Water Conservation. State Depart ment of Agriculture. The Division until this year was an independent state organiza tion known as the State Soil and Water Conservation Com mission. It is now officially a division within the Oregon department of agriculture. As a result of that merger, grant funds to SWCD's are expected to be available each year, according to Liles. A total of 25 applications for grants totalling over $3 million weresubmittedthisyear. The State Soil, and Water Conser vation Comission (the Divis ion's governing body) was in charge of screening and selecting grantees. Oregon Department ofulture Director Leonard Kunzman approved the commission's recommendations for final review by the State Board of Agriculture, bids for grants were unsuc cessful, but according to Liles, those projects not funded this Professional Rodeo Associa tion events. Qualifying from Morrow County are Butch Knowles, Heppner 15th in saddle bronc riding with $21,071 and Jody Tatone, Boardman. 12th in bull riding with $31,336. Tues., Nov. Wed., Nov. Thurs., Nov. FTi., Nov. Sat., Nov. . Sun., Nov. Mon., Nov. Irrigon man pleads guilty Allen Keitn Tompkins, Irri gon pled quiity to burglary in" the second degree on Friday, Nov. 20. A charge of theft in the second degree was dismis sed, reports District Attorney Ann Spicer. Tompkins will be sentenced in about six weeks said Spicer. Michael Palmer, 34, of Portland was found in con tempt of court on Friday, Nov. 20 at the Morrow County Courthouse in Heppner. Palmer was sentenced to 60 days in the Umatilla County Jail, said the D.A. time will be held by the Division for possible future funding. Liles urges districts to continue to submit worthy projects for grants to be given in the future. Nine soil and water conser vation districts (SWCD's) in Oregon including Morrow Co., will soon be sharing $36,000 in grant money. The grant recipients were announced Tuesday. November 17 at the Oregon Association of Conser vation Districts' (OACD) Ann ual Meeting held in The Dalles. According to Chuck Liles. Administrator, Division of Soil and Water Conserva tion, grant applications were also approved from West Multnomah. East Multnomah, Sherman County. Yamhill. Washington County, Klamath. Malheur County, and Polk SWCD's. OACD also received a grant for an educational project to help carry out the other SWCD programs. The smallest grant. $1,554 was awarded to Morrow SWCD for a no-till demonstra tion on a 10-acre field. The six-year project will examine both possible economic bene fits and reduction of soil erosion and water .quality improvement. "Most projects chosen were those considered by the State Soil and Water Conservation Commission to be high prior ity, helping to solve the most critical erosion problems," Liles said. High Low Precip 58 ,34 trace 55 33 0 55 39 trace 59 .17 52 48 02 53 40 .16 49 32 .10 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 O.W. Cutsforth awarded M.C. Tree Farm plaque Orville Cutsforth was pre sented an Outstanding Tree Farmer plaque at a Heppner Chamber of Commerce lunch eon last Tuesday. Nov. 16, Cutsforth and his wife Barbara were honored by the Portland Chamber of Com merce Monday, Oct 2fi The Cutsforths received the Morrow Co. Tree Farmer Award after planting 21.000 trees, beginning a grass seeding project and thinning 100 acres of trees in the Heppner area. The Outstanding Tree Farmer program is a national program resulting in the eventual selection of a nation- Irrigon's new police and safety officer sworn in By FRANCES ROSE WILSON Mike Cahill has been sworn in as Irrigon 's City Police and Public Safety officer. Cahill, 24, will be moving to Irrigon from Denver, Colorado this week to accept his duties, with his wife Candy and three G-T closed Because of the Thanks giving holiday, the Heppner Gazette-Times will be closed Thursday, Nov . 26 and Friday , Nov. 27 so that staff members a J1 LJ al Outstanding Tree Farmer from the states Outstanding Tree Farmer selections. The nationwide tree farm system is administered by the Amer ican Forest Institute with headquarters in Washington. DC and the Northwest Pine Association administers the program in Eastern Oregon. Roth of these bodies are supported by the Forest Pro ducts Industry through mem bership of the individual companies that desire to participate. said Charles Arment, spokesperson from the American Tree Farms Svstem year-old daughter, Christie. He will be working under Police Commissioner Bill Cooley. Cahill attended schools in Hermiston and graduated from Blue Mt. Community College in 1978, where he studied police science. Nov.26-27 may enjoy the holiday with their families. The Gazette-Times wishes everyone a very pleasant Thanksgiving
