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"Wild horses cah't keep the
newest star of the Oregon
Dairy Farmers' promotional-
campaign from drinking his
milk," said a spokesperson
from the Oregon Dairy Pro
ducts Commission of Heppner
cowboy Lee Rice. The 1981
Nutional High School Rodeo
Association's bareback
champion, Rice was chosen to
represent the conmiitiuii in
their fall milk campaign.
Radio, television, news
paper and outdoor advertise
ments featuring Rice official
ly opened the fall campaign
last Friday.
A 1982 graduate of Heppner
High School, Rice won his first
saddle for bareback pony rid
ing at a Pee Wee Rodeo in
Medford. He is presently at
tending Walla Walla Commun
ity College at Walla Walla,
Wash, on a rodeo scholarship.
While he could only ride the
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Fish arid Wildlife Dept. reports
20 of hunters successful
in Heppner Unit
Hunting conditions were
excellent and out of 206 hun
ters checked in the Heppner
unit last weekend, 54 were
successful in bagging legal
animals for a 20 percent suc
cess rate during the opening of
deer season, reported Glen
Ward of the Oregon Depart
ment of Fish and Wildlife,
Heppner. In the Fossil unit,
170 hunters were checked with
27 deer bagged, showing a 16
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cowboy featured in
milk campaign
. man vitamin
Natural
rodeo circuit during the sum
mer months because of school,
the cowboy says keeping in
shape is a year-round activity.
"During the school year I
keep in shape pushing weights
and drinking milk. I really
don't like the taste of pop, and
it can't give me the nutritional
value that milk can," says
Lee, who also admits to being
a great fan of Oregon cheddar
cheese and vanilla ice cream.
The TV commercial, which
features Rice demonstrating
his bareback riding skills was
shot at the St. Paul Rodeo
facility in St. Paul, said Ray
Kozak, executive secretary of
the Oregon Dairy Products
Commission. "Like all of the
Oregon Dairy Farmers' TV
commercials, it was produced
entirely using Oregon talent,"
The spots will run on all four
Portland TV stations and sta
tions in Medford, Eugene and
Bend.
percent success rate, he said.
Yearling bucks (spikes and
forked horns), made up 81
percent of the total number of
animals bagged, while only 19
percent of bigger bucks (two
and one)half years old and
over) were taken, Ward
reported.
No major problems were
encountered, he said, and the
majority of hunters were obs-
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A new jingle was produced
especially for the promotion
and it is used in both the radio
and TV commercials. The new
jingle takes the "Beautiful
Babv" theme and sets it off to
a country and western sound
Outdoor and print ads will
appear around the state
throughout the campaign's
run.
The new campaign is H
continuation of the popular
series which began a year ago
featuring outstanding Oregon
ians. Other commercials have
featured Governor Vic Atiyeh,
Trailblazer Billy Ray Bates,
University of Oregon track
star Eryn Forbes and world
class marathon runner Alber
to Salazar. The campaign is
produced under the guidance
of Kozak by the Portland
advertising and public rela
tions firm of Marx, Knoll and
Mangels, Inc.
serving deer. Only five cita
tions were issued for illegal
animals or hunting methods.
Ward said the number of
hunters was down 20 percent
from last year and most left
by Monday at noon. The Fish
and Wildlife Department is
anticipating light hunting
pressure during the remain
der of the season, he concluded.
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Weekly Newspaper
25
HEPPNER,
Local merchants clear shelves of
All merchants in Heppner,
Lexington and lone have pul
led the bottles of Extra
Strength Tylenol capsules
from their shelves after sev
eral people in the Chicago, 111.
area died after taking the
capsules which had been laced
with cyanide.
S & J Market in Heppner
and Del's Market in Lexington
said they had not been re
Misunderstanding
A misunderstanding be
tween the city of Heppner and
Farmers Home Administra
tion may end up costing the
city between six and eight
thousand dollars, city council
was told Monday night.
At question is engineering
fees owed on work to locate a
new water well for the city.
The city believes the money
should come from a recent
bond issue for upgrading and
repairing the city's water
system, in conjunction with
construction of the Willow
Creek Dam.
Farmers Home Administra
tion, a federal agency which
bought the bonds and oversees
the water project, says the
engineering fees are not part
of the bond issue and that the
city will have to pay the
money out of the general
budget.
"I can't believe that could
happen," councilman Butch
Laughlin said when told of the
misunderstanding. Laughlin
and other councilmembers in
dicated that the city believed
all engineering fees would be
covered by the water project
bonds.
Scott Huff, an engineeer
with Barrett-Harris, who did
the engineering work, and to
whom the money is owed, said
Farmers Home allowed a total
$60,800 in engineering fees for
the water project. He
Annual Moonlight Sale
to be held October 28
The annual Heppner Mer
chants' Moonlight Sale will be
held Thursday, Oct. 28, from 7
to 9 p.m.
Auto wreck prompts cleanup of highway
Dennis Papineau of Lexing
ton had a close call last
Wednesday when he swerved
to avoid a collision with a
tractor trailer and wrecked
his 1958 Chevrolet Fleetside
Apache pickup, rendering
him unconscious.
The accident occurred about
8.15 a m. on Highway 74 about
one mile north of Lexington.
Papineau, a 17 year-old
senior at lone High School,
said "I was going to school
just past Palmers' driveway
when I met a semi who was on
the wrong side of the road. I
swerved to avoid a head-on
and lost control and ended up
next to the railroad tracks on
the opposite side of the road."
He was taken by ambulance
to Pioneer Memorial Hospital
in Heppner where he was
treated for a concussion,
whiplash, cuts and bruises and
was released the next day.
Dennis' mother, Charlene
OREGON
quested to remove the cap-
' sules. but had done so any
way: Central market in Hep
pner and Bristow's Market in
font; said they had removed
. their supply after being noti
fied by Associated Grocers of
' Yakima. Wash.; and Court
Street Market received word
from United Grocers of Port-
land to remove their stock of
! the capsules.
j said engineering work on lo
cation of a new well for the
city is not covered in that
- amount.
The new well was originally
, considered on Hinton Creek
f near the fairgrounds. Subse
quent study and witching done
by the city has moved the
prospective site up to a spot
near the city's new water
. tank.
Huff said he would review
' his files, and report back to
. the city later in an effort to
clear up the problem.
rThere's definitely a mis-,
understanding somewhere,"
he said.
In other business, the
council :
heard from representa
tives of Columbia Basin Elec
tric, who told the council the
co-op is now in the process of
replacing the city's mercury
vapor street lights with more
efficient high pressure sodium
lights.
Paul Sumner of Columbia
Basin told the council if it
wishes to re-connect some of
the 60 street lights earlier
turned off by the city, it should
do so during the replacement
process. "We are taking the
old fixtures down now," said
Sumner. He said it would be
cheaper for the city to hook up
lights now than to wait until
later.
The new lights, as well as a
Any groups wishing to set up
booths on Main Street during
the sale may contact Marj
Gardner at Gardner's Men's
Wear in Heppner.
Papineau' 1958 Chevy Fleetside
Wednesday on Highway 74
Papineau, requested that the
State Highway Department
remove brush and plant
growth which had grown to the
edge of the road, decreasing
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Francis Stack, pharmacist
at Murray Rexall Drug in
Heppner, said they had not
received a request to remove
may cost
lower electric rate from the
co-op will cost the city less
money to operate the street
lights, Sumner said. He sug
gested the city might want to
turn back on some street
lights.
Police Chief Dean Gilman
said he has heard complaints
about the cut back in lighting.
voted to ask for a change
in the city charter in the
November election. The char
ter change would eliminate
Economic
formed in
A new group, dedicated to
the economic development of
the Heppner area, was recen
tly formed and has held sev
eral meetings.
Called the Heppner
Economic Development
Committee, the group's ob
jectives will be in part, to
attract industry and manu
facturing to Heppner; pro
mote tourism; promote new
and different businesses; con
serve local dollars and gather
data to encourage local devel
opment. The goals and outline of the
new committee were presen
ted to the Heppner-Morrow
Chamber of Commerce Tues
day, and the Chamber -moved
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State-wide Inservice Day to
Although students in the
Morrow County School Dis
trict, along with all other
Oregon students, will not be
attending classes this Friday,
their teachers will, ,
A state-wide Inservice Day
is being held Friday and most
Apache after his accident bst
visibility.
The State Highway crew
worked last Friday to meet
the request. They removed the
material several yards away
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of Heppnei at press time
Tylenol capsules
the capsules from their shel
ves, but had taken off the
extra-strength type.
Stack said he contacted the
University of Oregon Poison
Control and Drug Information
Center and was told that the
three control numbers in
question were MC2880,
1910MP and 180MA. Stack said
the control numbers are loca
city of Heppner
the need for the council to read
aloud new ordinances at coun
cil meetings before adoption.
Mayor Cliff Green said the
requirement takes too much
time and is not needed.
heard from the city's
engineer on the new water
system, who said wet spots in
the new cement water tank
have been discovered. He said
13 or 14 spots have been
detected, and that it would not
be a major job to seal them up.
Development Coram .
Heppner
to accept these goals and
make the committee part of
the Chamber.
The economic development
committee grew out of meet
ings by Heppner merchants
and businessmen seeing a
need to promote growth in the
area.
The group has held several
meetings and will meet again
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 8 a.m., at
the R & W Drive-In, where Joe
Burns of the Hermiston Eco
nomic Development commit
tee will be the guest speaker.
The merchants group has
also decided to form a sales
and promotions committee
whose purpose will be to ar
of the district's teachers will
be attending conferences and
meetings at Blue Mountain
Community College in Pen
dleton, said John Edmundson,
assistant to District Superin
tendent Matt Doherty. Other
teachers will be attending ses
State Highway workers cleaned brush
near the accident site last Friday to
from the road.
Vern Willis, State Highway
foreman for Morrow County,
said the road is included in the
six-year plan to repair the
ted on the bottle's labels under
the drug's expiration date.
Although no reports of the
tainted capsules have yet been
reported in Oregon, bottles
bearing the control numbers
in question were reportedly
discovered in Eugene and
Eagle Point, and were sent to
Seattle, Wash, for analysis.
learned that the city's
insurance company will not
pay for damage sustained by
homes on cemetery hill after a
April 19 water main break
during construction of the
city's new system.
let die a motion for the
city to donate $25 toward a
campaign by Oregon cities,
aimed at defeating ballot
measure 3. Measure 3 is the
property tax limit voters will
see on the ballot in November.
range and carry out sales and
promotions in the local com
munity. The committee will be ba
sically the same as the present
Merchants Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, but
will be an attempt to clarify its
purpose.
The merchants committee
has invited business and non
business people to the meet
ings, and has indicated that
any interested member of the
community is invited to
attend.
Heading up the merchant's
committee is Ron McDonald,
owner of Ron McDonald Chev
rolet in Heppner.
be held Fri.
sions pertaining to their parti
cular teaching assignments in
various parts of the state, he
reported.
All school offices in the
district, however, will re
main open Friday, Edmund
son said.
away from the rood
increase visibility
state's highways. He said,
although the road is presently
being surveyed, he does not
know when the actual work
will begin.
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