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SIX The Heppner GateUe-Times. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 4. 1982 ustangs trounce By GLENN SMITH Last Friday, Oct. 29, the Heppner Mustang football team traveled to Stanfield X match themselves in four quarters of action against the winless Tigers. The Mustangs did it again as they thoroughly trounced the Tigers, 33-6. In the first quarter the 5 from All Saints attend E.O. Diocesan Convention Delegates from parishes all over Eastern Oregon attended the 12th Annual Diocesan Convention of the Diocese of Eastern Oregon, October 29 to October 31, at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Pendleton. One priest and five delegates represented All Saints Episcopal Church of Heppner at the convention. The Rev. John Docker gave the keynote address, following the theme "Visions in Minis try - The Next Step." Docker is the coordinator for the development of Mutual Minis try for the National Church in New York. Barry Menuez, field officer for the national church's Council for the De velopment of Ministry, preached at the Sunday morn lone Topic Club meets lone Topic Club met October 27 at the home of Mrs. Charles Carlson with Loree Hubbard as co-hostess for a short business meeting led by Kath erine Lindstrom. There was a discussion on whether the lone Library should donate some used en cyclopedias to the "Books for Zimbabwe" project of the lone United Church of Christ. Members decided to leave the decision to the library board. Loree Hubbard showed pic tures she took on her trip to the Worlds' Fair last May. The trip covered five states, star ting in Washington D.C. with a tour of the city and of Mount Vernon. Other states were West Virginia. Kentucky, Degree of Honor hosts state lodge director By JUSTINE HEATHERFORD On Tuesday evening Oct. 26, Heppner Degree of Honor Lodge members entertained Bea Clausen of Bend, state director of the lodge, and a group of invited local guests at a special guest night and program in their lodge rooms. After the lodge meeting, which was presided over by Mary Bryant, president, an Extension activities underway for homemakers By BIRDINE TULLIS Morrow Co. Extension Service More women and some men find Extension Study Groups are a way to gain informal education, as well as meet new people and become invol ved in community projects. All study groups in Morrow County are reporting a gain in membership as the 1982-83 program gets underway. Three popular topics for the groups this fall have been Kitchen Organization, News in Health and Drunken Driving. The Drunken Driving lesson is an Oregon Extension Home maker Project statewide and has proven a timely topic as many other groups and agen cies are concerned with the WE WILL BE CLOSED K0V. 9, 10, & 11. Miller & Sons Welding Mustangs started out scoring in a game that Head Coach Les Payne commented "was a pretty solid team effort." The Mustangs kept up the scoring with touchdowns a safety and a kickoff return score. By halftime. the score was 27-0 and it looked like the Mustangs would have their second shut out of the season. But the Tigers rallied to run ing eucharist. The "Visions in Ministry" theme called the convention delegates to respond to ser vice, worship, evangelism, education and pastoral con cerns in their local church and community. Several resolutions were passed: 1. Peace resolution -The convention voted to sup port the National Episcopal Church regarding peace and nuclear disarmament. In this action they joined eleven other major denominations in Ore gon; 2. Increase parish re sponsibility in funding for seminaries; and 3. Voted to enter into a covenant relation ship for ministry development with the National Episcopal Church. Tennessee and North Caro lina. Besides the Worlds' Fair, she told of a tour of a tobacco farm, race tracks for harness racing and thoroughbred racing. She reported a stop at Lincoln's birth place, a tour of a couple of caverns : the Luray caverns in Virginia and the Rock City and Ruby Falls in Tennessee. While in Nashville they attended a Grand Old Opry Saturday matinee. They stayed in Gatlinburg, Tennessee and drove back and forth to the Fair, a distance of over 60 miles. After the fair, they took the Great Smokey Mt. Drive. The trip ended with a couple of days stay at Williamsburg, Virginia. They then flew back to Portland. unusual and amusing pro gram of "Show and Tell," which featured a collection of ladies' antique garments and old-fashioned lady's fashion pictures from an ancient catalog, was presented by guest Delia McCurdy, assisted by lodge member Ida Farra. Clausen talked about state lodge activities and reported on a national lodge seminar she had recently attended. Mrs. Clausen was a house guest of Ida Farra. traffic accidents and deaths resulting from those who drink and drive. Four study groups are cur rently organized in Morrow County.They are in lone, Pine City, Rhea Creek and north Morrow Co. An additional group may be organized in Heppner soon for those inte rested. Study groups may meet at any time convenient to mem bers. Topics for lessons or study are presented by agents or resource persons with members of the groups taking the information to their club. Any homemaker in the area interested in more informa tion may call Birdine Tullis at 676-9642 at the Morrow Co. Extension office in Heppner. Tigers, 33-6 the kickoff back in the third quarter on the first play to score their only touchdown of the game. This, in Coach Payne's mind, was a "trick play that stunned us. But after that, the defense held good." The Mustangs only scored once more in the third quarter to make the score at the end of the game 33- 6. Payne was happy about the results and commented "We had success Wheatland Pomona By DEI.PH A JONES ' Wheatland Pomona Grange District met at the Mikkalo Grange Hall on Saturday. Oct. 30, 10:30 a.m.. with the Master Rolland John son in the chair. A distinguished guest, Mor ton Wolverton. Eastern Ore gon state deputy was intro duced, escorted to the mas ter's station, and welcomed. An honored guest, Dorris Reid. the District No. six C.W.A. chairman was also escorted to the master's sta tion and introduced. The master then recognized the masters of the subordinate granges that were present: Annabelle Yeagger of Mik kalo. Vernon Root from Ru fus; and Delpha Jones, Lex ington. The officers gave good re ports, the master stating that he and Mrs. Johnson. Pomona lecturer and past CWA chair man had visited Centerville Grange in Washington for the dedication of the new grange hall. They have attended the conference and contests held in the last three months. Other officers report much work being done on the halls and some are ready to initiate new members. Vernon Root, agriculture chairman gave a very interes ting report and a fun compari son of 1927 and now. In 1927, there were 148.000 bushels of grain at 27 bu. to the acre; in 1978 - four million bu. at 32 bu. average; in 1981 - seven and one half million bu. with an average 56 bu.; in 1920 horses and mules numbered 9,000 now 400; in 1920 milk cows numbered 1.200 with none to count now; in 1920 - 17,000 sheep were counted and now there are 650; in 1920 there were 27,000 chickens and now there are 150.000. These fig ures are from Sherman Coun ty statistics in 1982. Also in the report, grangers heard that Morrow County wheat production was a bit lower than last year on the dry land acreage, but the wheat is off to a good start this fall, even with the cheat grass problem. Potatoes had a large sale but less yield due to weather conditions. Corn yield was down and beans were about average. Gilliam Coun ty wheat production was down last year from the previous year, and is also off to a good start this fall. Sherman Coun ty is about the same as last year, but in Wheeler County the cattle raising is having a bit of trouble, due to price instead of a feed problem. All over the nation, smaller farmers are being bought out fir) irr7ci rp CNsi: Ju Ju LuliLJ jjBfail Boysen ij i Interior Dreem Flat Latex j; ij JSBisossofivi! V Thru Hoy. 30 ! j j jEEM LATEX FLAT j Lexington Lumber rushing, passing the ball nad on our .specialty teams. Ev eryone got to play in the game. This Friday. Nov. 5. Hep pner hosts the Riverside Pi rates in what promises to be an exciting game. Coach Payne is optimistic about the event and says, "It's going to be a tough ballgame, but if we hang in there and give her 100 percent, we can do it." by the bigger farm organiza tions, so it seems the farmer is having a bit of trouble. Many farmers in the middle states are in such a bind that they are filing bankruptcy. Delta Johnson, the lecturer of Pomona and past C.W.A. chairman for district No. Five, told the group that Na tional Grange will meet in Eugene in 1985, and it is going to take a good bit of work on the part of each and every grange and granger in the state to help make this a success. The grangers will be hearing soon of projects need ed to help. She told some about the photography, art and other contests sponsored by the grange. Also, a new contest, . honoring a granger for out standing work in the com munity. A lovely dinner was enjoyed at noon, with a cakewalk and program following. The pro gram consisted of musical numbers, skits and readings. A reading was given by Ada line McDonald, "The Newly wed"; a skit "Office of the Insurance Agent" was done by Mr. and Mrs. Root; Morton Wolverton gave a reading en titled "Midnight Gallop," a poem about a girl and the flour sack was read by Wilma Mar tin, a skit "Obliging" was done by Cecil and Delpha Jones, three violin solos were performed by Frances Smouse; a Thanksgiving reading was given by Mildred Wright, and a song "Count Your Blessings" was sung. There was one resolution concerning the special ses sions of the legislature to be shortened. After much discus sion, and an amendment to the resolution, it was voted on and passed. This states that each special session oi the legisla ture be limited to five days only. The resolution committee appointed consists of Kenneth Smouse, Anabelle Yeagger and Mildred Wright. Resolu tion No. two, a thank you to Mikkalo Grange for the dinner and hospitality, was also passed. All were urged to go to the polls and vote on Tuesday. There was much discussion on measures No. 3 and 6. The proposed Mini Service aisles at service stations (Ballot Measure 4) was quite thoroughly discussed with the men for and the women giving a bit of static. It was a fun discussion. All however, were urged to go to the polls and vote as they earnestly believe right. Flossie Marick of lone gave the Pomona C.W.A. report. Delta Johnson told that in Heppner The Heppner FFA Chapter won the Blue Mountain Dis trict Soil Judging Contest held in Heppner on Oct. 27, an nounced Roger Records, Hop pner instructor. Winning individual honors from Heppner were Michael Bergstrom, second place; Ag teacher nominated for Farmer Dave Hall, vocational agri culture instructor and FFA advisor at Wallowa High Grange meets the needlework contest there had been five winners in dis trict No. Six and that there was a national winner from Oregon in the sewing contest. The master read replies from Hatfield. Wyden, Wea ver, and Smith concerning the recent resolutions sent to them. They all expressed their thanks for the interest shown by the granges and urged all to write them about the differ ent measures and problems of the people as that is the only way they can know the people's wants. Morton Wolverton spoke to the group on membership. We must advertise our grange and what it stands for by telling friends and neighbors, and printing in the papers, our Annual Cross-country tourney held at W.C.C.C. The annual Willow Creek Country Club cross-country tournament was held October 25. the weatherman was most cooperative, providing bright sunshine, very little breeze, warm weather, and ideal playing conditions, said a spokesperson. The cross-country tourna ment provides many hazards, with several of the fairways crossing each other and four of the nine holes crossing Willow Creek. The golfers were accurate with their drives and no one was hit with a golf ball, but some are not talking as to the number of golf balls they donated to the creek, the spokesperson added. John Edmundson emerged jjjlLeujJ uuULIl-3 LlloJ c.:c2j uuuzj qlji.'J tTC-lOa CALL US YOUR LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR FOR CHEM HOE 135 lone Plant 422-7289 FFA takes Steve Currin, fourth place; and Bridgett Greenup, tenth. Other participants from Hep pner were Jennifer Hughes, Sid Kennedy, Cam George, Damon Wilson, David Green, Sieve Miller, Rick Riehl and Neil Frederick. The Heppner team received a $50 prize sponsored by the School has been nominated to receive the FFA's Honorary American Farmer Degree. meetings and accomplish ments as well as fun things in the grange, he said. Dorris Reid told the group that it is not too soon to be thinking about the needlework contest andf the other contests offered by the grange. She has received good reports from the sulordinates in her dis trict. Roll call was as follows: Willows none; Lexington -four; Greenf ield none ; Rufus -eight: Mikkalo - 10; Spray none; Rhea Creek - two; and Columbia three. The next Pomona meeting will be at the Greenfield Grange and the speaker will be Bill Yeager of Condon, a member of the U.S. Wheat Association. as the 1982 low gross cham pion. Gary Watkins was close behind and earned second low gross. Low net honors were token by Stan Sporseen and George Waterland, both tying for this honor. Stan, a freshman at Heppner High, looks like a real prospect for the Heppner Mustang golf team. Specialty honors were won , as follows: longest drive on No. four fairway - Gary Wat kins; closest to the pin on No. two hole - Gerald Pierson; closest to the pin. second shot on No. eight hole - Gerald Pierson ; least number of putts for the tournament - Charlie Starks; and most improved player on round two over round one - Travis Hyatt. km. 1st in soil Morrow Soil and Water Con servation District. The money will be used to send the team to the state Boils contest at Mdrs on Novemh-r 4, , . Nearly KM) FFA mnembers participated in the contest, Records said. Teams from t'mHpine, Milton Freewater, Pendleton, Hermiston, Board- Degree Hull is the son of Gene and Harriet Hall of Heppner. Hall wus nominated for the degree by the Oregon FFA Association and the nomina tion was approved by the National FFA board of direc tors which recently met in Alexandria, Virginia. The Honorary American Farmer Degree is the highest honor ary degree presented by the FFA. This year 78 teachers of vocational agriculture were nominated to receive the de gree during the Nutional FFA Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, November 11 13. Hall has been a vocational agriculture teacher at Wal lowa for eight years. During that time he hus had one Retired Educators to meet The Umatilla-Morrow Retired Educators of Unit IX will meet Saturday, Nov. 6 at White Eagle Grange Hall in Pilot Rock for a luncheon Announcing the Expansion of Chevrolet's 'BUY INUW & FLY' Beginning on Oct. 25 ALL New 1982 & 83 Chevrolets will be Included. Special Interest Rate on ALL New 81 & 82 Models All other requirements of the program still Bon McDonald f XI&3 ' i LTIorrovy County Grain Grotrcrs. Uxlngfon 9894221 judging man, Condon and Heppner completed In soil and crop Judging. Heppner placed third In the crops contest behind Pendle ton and Umapine. Pendleton FFA was second In soils and Milton-Frwwater placed third. student who earned the Amer ican Farmer Degree, 23 stu dents who received the State Farmer Degree, one student who earned state proficiency and two students that have served as state FFA officers. Hall is one of two vocational agriculture teachers from Oregon to be nominated for the Honorary American Farmer Degree this year. He plans to attend the National FFA Convention in Kansas City. Missouri, on November 11 13 where he will be presen ted the degree pending final approval of the nomination by the student FFA delegates who must vote on all honorary presentations of the National FFA Organization meeting. A business meeting will begin at 11 a.m. A program for the afternoon will be "Charleston Historic Houses and Gardens" by Julia and Curtis Lund of Hermiston. 10.9 O.A.C A.P.R. applicable 676-9921 i 33W ' H ' ' .... t
