riOIIT The Heppner Gaiette-Tlntet.
Lexington news
Delpha Jones 989-8189
C.W.A. of the Lexington
Grange met on Tuesday at the
grange hall, the ladies provi
ded lunch for a crew of men
who were doing repair work at
the hall.
The business of the coming
year was discussed, including
various contests the group
would take part in. Sewing,
needlework, bread, cookies
and stuffed toys are among
the C.W.A. projects and the
lecturer has many contests in
that department also, such as
photography, painting and
others. There are contests for
most anyone wishing to take
advantage of the opportunity
to enter. There are prizes at
subordinate, Pomona, state
and national levels. The group
decided to try throughout the
year to have some money
making projects so that each
of the suggested programs
will be recognized.
The new chairman is Josie
Peck. Reports must be into the
Pomona chairman before the
Pomona meeting at Green
field Grange on January 25. If
the subordinate granges get
their reports into the Pomona
chairman early it helps her
to get the state report in on
time and all will get recogni
tion for their efforts. After the
meeting at Greenfield Grange
Hall, the next meeting will be
at Marie SteagaU's home. The
door prize was won by Delpha
Jones.
The Three Links Club of
Holly Rebekah Lodge met on
Thursday at the home of Leila
Palmer. The meeting was
conducted by Chairman Leila
Palmer and consisted mostly
of plans for the state presi
dent's visit to Holly on Satur
day, March 5, which will also
be the District 20 meeting.
Quilt blocks made by Flor
ence McMillan were presen
ted to the ladies who plan to
make quilts with them for a
money making project.
Lovely refreshments were
served by the hostess to An-
W.I.C. clinic to be held
Jan. 25 in Heppner
By NEOLA MACKEY
A monthly W.I.C. (Wo
men's, Infant's and Children's
supplemental feeding pro
gram) clinic will be held
Tuesday, Jan. 25, 9 a.m., at
the Heppner Neighborhood
Center. Applications are
available and when openings
occur, eligible clients will be
contacted to participate in the
program.
Those who feel they meet
the guidelines for fuel assis
tance under the Low Income
Energy Assistance Program
are asked to call the Center to
make an appointment. For
example: a household with
one person who has a monthly
income of $488 or less is
eligible. An appointment must
be made and an application
completed before an order
may be processed.
Adult and Family Services
counselor Janet Phillips will
be available at the center on
Wednesday, Jan. 26, from 9
a.m. to 12 noon, to help those
needing food stamps, aid for
dependent children or who
have questions concerning
other adult and Family Ser
vices programs.
Ladies who attend the
Thursday craft -social time at
the center are busy making
valentine mobiles and getting
materials ready for volunteer
seamstresses who are already
preparing for next Christmas
by making quilts and lap
robes.
The center is in desperate
need of bedding for emergen
cies. All donations will be
greatly appreciated.
The center will be closed
February 7 and 21 in observ
ance of Lincoln's and Wash
ington's birthdays.
The next free blood pressure
clinic will be held Wednesday,
Feb. 2, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., '
at the center.
The next surplus cheese
Heppner. Oregon, Thursday, January 20, 1983
netta Padberg, Kathy Telle
chea, Luella Taylor, Joyce
Buchanan, Catie Padberg,
Eula Bloodsworth, Dorothy
Burcham, Josie Peck and
Delpha Jones. A door prize
was won by Luella Taylor and
it was announced that the next
meeting will be held at Annet
ta Padberg's home.
A kitchen shower for Gail
Papineau was held recently at
the Lexington Rebekah Hall.
There was a good crowd in
attendance and she received
many fine and useful gifts.
The Papineaus are awaiting
the delivery of their new trail
er home at their lot in lone.
They recently lost all their
belongings in a fire and their
home was destroyed.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Nel
son spent several days this
week in Spokane, Wash, where
they attended the Northwest
Ag Show.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Peck and
granddaughter were The
Dalles visitors on Thursday
last week.
O.W. Cutsforth. who recent
ly underwent major surgery
at The Dalles General Hospi
tal, is reported to be doing
fine and is able to begin
therapy treatment. Mrs. Cuts
forth is visiting with her
mother and sister there while
her husband is recuperating.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Bur
cham of Condon have been
recent visitors at the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Burcham.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peck
entertained with a card party
at their home on Saturday.
There were five tables of
guests present and all report
an enjoyable time. Lovely
snacks were served during the
evening and at the close,
sandwiches and other goodies
were also served.
shipment will be distributed in ,
Heppner for south Morrow
County residents on Monday,
Jan. 31, beginning at 9:30
p.m., at the center. Cheese
will be given out in the north
end of the county on Thursday,
Jan. 27. Volunteer groups
have been asked to handle the
cheese distribution this year.
Degree of Honor Lodge and
V.F.W. members have volun
teered to help with this
project.
Womens9 Aglow
to meet Tues.
Women's Aglow Fellowship
will meet Tuesday, Jan. 25,
7:15 p.m., at All Saints
Episcopal Parish Hall in Hep
pner. Guest speaker for the eve
ning will be Sammy Griffin of
Irrigon. She is the mother of
six boys, and a grandmother.
All women are welcome to
attend this time of fellowship,
said a spokesperson.
Refreshments will be served
following the meeting.
Babysitting is available by
calling 676-5828.
4-H Clubs
still forming
By BIRDINE TULLIS
Program Assistant
Morrow Co. Extension Service
A number of much reques
ted 4-H clubs are just ready to
start accepting members, so it
is not too late to jojn4H;
New cliibs "in" the beginning
stages in Heppner are an
Outdoors-Survival Club and
an Archery Club. Another is a
Photography and Woodwork
ing Club.
For information on the three
clubs, or others that are just
starting or who will still ac
cept new members, call
676-9642.
The Siberians' review surprises Bookworms
By JUSTINE
VVEATIIERFORD
Truth is sometimes stranger
than fiction. The Bookworms
were astonished by the truth
about the vast polar regions of
Siberia when Ruby Becket
reviewed Farley Mowat's
book "The Siberians" for
them at Inez Erwin's home on
January 11. Today that vast
area of the world holds
modern concrete cities, a fine
university, many superior
medical facilities (close to 90
percent of the doctors are
women), large industrial
plants and tremendous ani
mal, timber and mineral re
sources. (Siberia is one and
one-half times the size of
continental U.S.I.
For over 30 years Farley
Mowat. an outstanding Cana
dian author, has written of
land. seas, and people of the
far north with humor, under
standing and compassion. His
more than 25 books have been
published in over 20 languages
in more than 40 countries.
Mowat tells of his incredible
journeys into little-known re
gions of Siberia where rein
deer herders, poets, dissi
dents. Arctic engineers, in
dustrialists and vigorous
women welcomed him and his
wife. Claire, who accompa
nied him on his first visit,
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fierce love for their isolated
new booming, territory." Two
years later he went alone and
was shown even more of the
far reaches of the area.
He writes 'it is obvious that
I could not have assembled the
information in this book, or
indeed made the journeys at
all, without a great deal of
cooperation from organiza
tions and individuals in the
Soviet Union."
Mowat summarizes his feel
ings about what he saw and
felt among the friendly na
tives he quickly came to love.
"Siber, the Sleeping Land, the
void of Darkness, is no more.
Where, so recently, the Siber
ian tiger, the wild reindeer,
Baikal seals. Yukagir, Chuk
chee. Yakut and all forms of
life, obeyed the implacable
but impartial rule of that
omnipresent force we refer to
vaguely as Nature, now there
is a now ruler and a new law.
One of the last remaining
primeval regions of the earth
is being rapidly reshaped.
Nature, who was the mother,
has be relegated to the role of
stepchild."
He continues "In terms of
the new creed of technology,
and of the godhead of the
machine. I am, verily, a man
of little faith. I suspect that
those who talk so glibly of the
brilliant future dawning for
mankind do not possess either
the ability or the will to look
with honesty and clarity into
the other potential future
which may await us if we
continue our headlong course
a future which may be a
timeless sleep from which our
species will not again
awaken."
His final paragraphs state
"There are some comforting
signs among the Siberians
which suggest that technolog
ical men will not be permitted
to chart the human course
unchallenged. One of the mast
exciting and heartening things
I found in Siberia was the
growing tendency to reject, or
at least to question, the mech
anistic blueprint for the fu
ture of our species. And the
genesis for this rebellion (for
that is what it is) indubitably
lies with the native races
those once-forgotten Small
Peoples who. under Soviet
rules, have been permitted to
retain their deep and subtle
awareness of themselves as
natural men. Their roots have
not b4fn severed. They re
main a proud and integral
part of the continuum of life.
"It is not inconceivable that
these enduring peoples may
some day be the swing-eyes to
lead the rest of us (self
blinded by the glitter of our
own Creation) into a better
day.
"These, then, are the real
Siberians. Together with those
who share their sensibilities
and their understanding, they
are the men and women whom
I shall forever remember."
Some of Reviewer Becket '
listeners are eager to own the
Bantam Book, 19B1 edition, of
Mowat's remarkable writing.
It sells" for $3.50 (Murray's
Drug Store will order It). The
Library Journal says "Its
wealth of fresh detail will
make Siberia and the Siber
ians come alive. We highly
recommend it." The Christian
Science Monitor declares
"What Mowat found in his
travels will astonish Amer
ican readers."
Training-update session to be
held for 4-H leaders, judges
By Bill PINK Tl'M.IS
Program Assistant
Morrow Co. Extension Service
Early notice is given to all
4-H clothing leaders, those
who judge clothing exhihits at
county fairs and those inte
rested in becoming judges,
that a very special training
update session is planned for
February 24 at the Portage
Inn at The Dalles.
Extension staff from a
number of Eastern Oregon
counties and neighboring
Washington counties have
banded together to offer much
Degree of Honor plans
upcoming events
By JUSTINE
WEATHEBFORD
Mnry Bryant, president of
the Degree of Honor Lodge,
announces that Inspection will
be held on April 14 and that the
district convention will take
place on April 23, In John Day.
The next regular meeting of
the lodge will be held on
Tuesday, Jan, 25, with Jo
Huston serving as the hostess
for the 8 p.m. meeting at the
lodge hall in Heppner. Mem
bers are also reminded that
the Christian Womens Club
requested Information for
those Involved In 4-H clothing
programs. A varied and full
day Is planned for partici
pants Information offered
will include Judging philoso
phy, judging system, stan
dards of quality in clothing
construction. Interview judg
ing, resources to assist judges,
what's new in sewing today,
and the role and responsibil
ities of judges.
The program is not all work,
for a special fashion show will
fie presented by lcal clothing
stores of The Dalles during the
lunch hour, showing spring
will be having a salad supper
and program at the hall on
Tuesday, Feb. 1.
Mrs. Pen Clmtw. flf't di
rector of the lodge, along with
her sister-in-law and niece,
Jenny, attended the lnstalla-
tion of officers for the Kate J.
Young Lodge Number 29 held
In Heppner on January 11.
Mrs. Clausen, along with Ida
Fairs, were the Installing of
ficer. The three visitors, who
had come from Bend, were
overnight guests at the home
of Ida Farra.
and summer fashion trends.
Registration forms are
available from extension of
fices In Morrow, Gilliam,
Umatilla. Sherman, Wasco.
Wheeler. Hood River counties,
as well as Skamania county,
Washington. Extension staff
from the before mentioned
counties will present the pro
gram. Cost to attend Is S10 per
person and includes the lun
cheon and a resource noteliook
for each participant.
For more details, or a regis
tration form, call the exten
sion office.