Around About
By Justine Weatlierford
So we have almost come through January in this unusually
mild winter, and it has felt so good to have had sunshine on
many of our gradually lengthening days. Some retired and
unemployed persons, who have found that it is most difficult
in these times to afford to both heat and eat, have been
financially aided by our mild weather. When one reads of
Rasollne prices really dropping elsewhere to less than one
dollar per gallon; one can't understand why the proclaimed
"glut" of oil doesn't lower the cost of heating oil. We all feel
distress over the Washington Public Power Supply System
fiasco, but can all sincerely offer thanks for the mild winter
(so far) and the longer, lighter days.
Because I don't need to go into the courthouse very often, I
am not feeling very well acquainted with many of the recent
new county employees and the new office arrangements
already in place.
I am especially pleased by the fact that Karen Wheelhouse,
now of Ilermiston, who was one of my first neighbors in
Morrow County, has won the state "Make It Yourself With
Wool Contest." Now Karen is to go to Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma for the national contest. I remember Karen as
such a pretty little girl, but I must now realize she has
already completed some college work and is planning to go to
a modeling school in Phoenix, Arizona. How time races by.
You know that nearly 100 years have raced by since this
newspaper began serving the Heppner community. I have
talked with Frances Parker Mitchell about some of, her
mother's family members (Crawfords) who were with the
paper in its early years and owned and operated it for many
years. Frances is writing to Art Crawford senior and Art
junior in California to try to get some historic information
about the newspaper. Rather recently in a magazine, which I
can't locate now, I learned that our paper has a twin. I read
an article about America's rural family newspaper "Grit"
which is also celebrating its centennial in 19B3.
It may seem premature to many, but January is a good
time to be thinking and planning ahead for next August's
Morrow County Fair. Last week a group of eager members of
the lone and Heppner Garden clubs were called together by
the Heppner Club President, Theta Lowe, to do some paper
work leading to a few revisions in the fair schedule
pertaining to the open class flower division.
There is less than one week before the February 1 deadline
for paying for advance copies of the Morrow County History
Rook. I have sent along some tentative paragraphs to my
stepchildren for their possible approval or improvement. I
surely I hope I get mailings back from them soon.
After you have taken care of your county historical writing,
be making plana to treat yourself to the very nice sit down
dinner (not a buffet) that the Chamber of Commerce is
arranging the night of February 14. After that we will all
need to be Irish, think Irish, plan Irish and get set to enjoy the
great day of Marach 17. 1 know hat Pendleton's KUMA radio
station is again making big plans to come here, and they have
started again to really promote Heppner as the Irish capital
of Oregon that day.
It has always pleased me to recognize how unusually
cosmopolitan, how wide-worldly this little town actually is.
Heppner was founded by and named after a German-Jewish
Immigrant. Among the early settlers here were American
Indians, then vigorous Irish and careful Swedes and
Germans. Through the years there have been clusters of
English. Chinese, Scotch, French and other folks from many
other ethnic groups including now our Laotian Thongdys and
soon, we hope, the Polish Doboszynski family.
I know that early athletic teams from Heppner High School
were heralded as the "Fighting Irish." and although
"Mustangs" is a good tag, I still would prefer that our teams
carried the same athletic label that Notre Dame has made so
famous.
Just for fun, in thinking about coming special days, I've
done some checking. In February, our shortest month, the
big days confuse me. Of course the 14th honors Saint
Valentine, which doesn't make it rate holiday status, but I
have long thought that because our state was bom that day, it
should be a state holiday in honor of Oregon, the Valentine
State, born 124 years ago on February 14, 1859. 1 still wish to
remember Abraham Lincoln on February 12 and George
Washington on February 22 and am not yet really ready to
accept Presidents' Day which comes February 21 this year.
Sometime back I learned that Heppner's patron saint,
Patrick, died on March 17 over 1.500 years ago, in about 461
A D. The date of his death has been observed in America
since colonial days, and is now again being fittingly observed
in Heppner thanks to Jimmy Farley and the St. Patrick's
Church's Altar Society.
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Shoot-out
be held in
I,ocnl young people are in
vited In compete in a "shoot
out" February 12 at the Hep
pner High School gym but
they'll take aVn with basket
balls as they join in the Fourth
Annual Jack Kamsay Bas
ketball Shoot Out, an Easter
Seals benefit.
Dave Gunderson of Hep
pner, chairman of the event,
says that the popular contest
is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 12
noon. Knlry forms are to be
available at Pepsi displays in
local grocery stores, plus dis
play posters around town and
at school. Pepsi Cola and ,
NIKK, Inc. are sponsoring the
event for students 18 and
under.
Oregonians with physical
disabilities will !e the real
winners in the statewide com
petition. Shoot out partici
pants will each secure spon
sors who will make pledges.
' for Easter Seals to
Heppner Feb. 12
M. M. where thev will he
The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 27, 198 THREE
Co. officials request VISA cards
based on the number of bas
kets sunk, to the Easter Seal
Society for Crippled Children
and Adults of Oregon. Contri
butions are tax-deductible,
said a society spokesperson.
Ioeal contest officials say
that each player will have
three minutes to shoot bas
kets. Both girls and boys are
eligible to compete, and bas
kets may be shot from any
where on the court as balls are
continuously fed to contes
tants. The local hoopsters are also
going for an exciting prize
package: the seven top re
gional contestants in the state,
determjned by the amount of
pledges. each turns in, will I
visit Portland on Friday.
March 18, to be guests at a
Trail Blazer practice, have
lunch with Blazer Coach Jack
Ramsay, and attend that
evening's Trail Blazer game.
where they will be introduced
at half-time. Grand prize win
ner will receive a scholarship
for one week at Perry's Bas
ketball Clinic in 1983.
Top fund raisers in each city
will be invited to appear on
their region's Easter Seal
Telethon broadcast March 26 -27.
Each Shoot-out participant
who turns in $35 or more will
be awarded special NIKE
prizes from Painters Caps to
windbreakers and auto
graphed basketballs.
Key committee members
for the Heppner event also
include Brent Eggers and Bob
Ployhar.
Health Dept.
Friday. Jan. 28 - free blood
pressure clinic and immuni
zations. Ixington Health De
partment office, 8 a m, to 12
noon and 1 to 4 p.m.
Bv MARY ANN (KRULLO
Requests for two new Visa
accounts were made to Mor
row County Court at their
Wednesday meeting, Jan. 19,
by Barbara Bloodsworth,
Morrow County clerk and
Margo Sherer. county trea
surer, f
According to Sherer, both
she and Bloodsworth have had
to borrow charge cards from
other departments while on
county business. They then
have had to divide the expen
ses from the monthly state
ment. She felt that the one
time fee of $10 for opening
each new account was worth
the book work that would be
saved.
Bloodsworth pointed out td
the court that all the male
elected officials in the court
house have Visa accounts. She
and Sherer are the only two
elected female officials and
they do not have the accounts.
"Ten dollars is nothing. I'd
be willing to pay that out of my
own pocket. It's worth that
much to me," stated Sherer.
The court agreed to consider
it.
In other business, the court
received a letter from the
dispatchers of the county
sheriff's department expres
sing a concern for their safety.
According to the letter, dis
patchers are often left alone in
the sheriff's office with a
prisoner who is being held
there. The dispatchers are not
authorized to carry firearms.
The dispatchers also ex
pressed concern over the se
curity of both a door leading
outside and the door to the
prisoner's holding room.
In June a man and his wife
damaged both doors in the
sheriff's office while the man
was in custody. Both doors are
still in need of some repair,
claimed the dispatchers.
The court discussed security
measures that could be taken
and then recessed to look at
the two doors in question.
Wbon the commissioners re
convened they agreed to defer
any decision until the matter
could be discussed with county
Sheriff Larry Fetsch.
In other business the court
also:
promoted Claudine War
ren. Heppner, to chief deputy
clerk from her position as
deputy clerk.
promoted LoRayne
Bowman. Heppner, from the
position of county judge's sec
retary to administrative as
sistant. appointed Bowman as
county budget officer.
approved a contract with
Morrow County Abstract &
Title Co. to microfilm county
records'.
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