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VOL 101 NO. IS THURSDAY, APRIL 14. 19X3 406 turn A total of 4'Mi runners and walkers ranging in age from three years lo over 50 crossed the finish line in lleppner'g second annual Rolling Hills Hun last Sunday, with many local people scoring winning limes. This year's run registered im more participants than last year's, making the Rol ling Hills Run the second largest in Eastern Oregon, said run chairman Liz Curtis. The largest is the River Run , held in Pendleton. The Rolling Hills Run fea tured 3 1 and 6 2 mile courses, which began at Heppner Elementary School, looped up and bark along the Heppner Pilot Hock Highway and fin ished at Heppner City I'ark. Receiving plaques for their efforts were Chris Hclphen slein. Heppner. for being the oungest participant, Bernice Nash, also of Heppner, for V being the oldest. Dean Erhnrd. Heppner. for taking a 33 55 first place finish in the 6 2 mile men's" 20 29 age cafe gory and Nancy Jepsen of Hermiston for winning the 6.2 mile race in the women's 20-29 age category in 44 23 Other winners in the 6 2 mile race were: Female age group up to seven years: first place -Cordine Zumwalt of Echo. Male age group ages eight to 10: first place Eric Connor of Heppner. Female age group ages eight to 10: first - Sombat Zumwalt. Echo. Male age group 11-13: first Dan Struthers. Lexington, second - Jeremy Pinock, The Dalles, third place Reid Phillips of Hermiston. Male age group 14-19: first -Holland Poll. Hermiston. second - Pat Struthers. Lex ington, third - Pat Hayworth, Hermiston. Female age group 1419: first - Tiffany Pratt, CulU-il. Wash., second - Jodi Padberg of Lexington, third - Tammi Prettyman. Spokane, Wash. Men's age group 20 29: second place Timothy Ix-gue of Hermiston, third place -Iirry Palmer of Heppner. Women's age group 20 29: second place Cindy Pretty man of Spokane, Wash., third -Susan McNerney of Irrigon. Men's age group 30-39: first place Al Heck, lone, second place Ieonard Lake of Prairie City, third place -Terry Russell, Hermiston. Women's age group 30 39: first - Diane Wierselke of Milwaukie. second - Yvonne Winstanley of Pendleton, third - Barb McMurphy. Pendleton. Men's age group 40 49: first - Mick McClendon. Pendleton, second - Lawrence Wolfgram, Pilot Rock, third Bill Miller of Pendleton. Women's age group 40-49: first Elaine Peterson of John Day, second Liz Curtis, Heppner, third - Bonnie Campbell of Heppner. Men's age group 50 and over: first place - Tom Munck of Athena, second Bob Abrams of Heppner. Women's age group 50 and over: first place - Carolyn Ilendrick. Pendleton, second Marian Abrams of Heppner, cout. p. 2 out for 2nd y-jyaMMKS,,! tmmmmn "yr " . iii ' ji , "-- F-l ' J ! ? ';, N i V v i V p v. v -.. v. Miohele Beck, lone Marty Cheney, Heppner y ' i s ' ; I ft . " j, ' V j . f .-; w- ' ) ' " ss j - till I I'l- - - ,. I Budget election set May 1 7 School Dist. Budget Comm. makes cuts In action taken at a special meeting of the Morrow County School District Budget Com mitteenn April 5. the commit tee agreed to reductions in the proKsed school budget and tax levy in the amount of $111, ww. the district has an nounced. The district levy request had leen turned down bv voters in the March budget election The committee approved cuts in the budget request in the amount of $57,425. In addition, the committee accepted a plan for staff re duction presented by Super intendent Matt Doherty which would provide additional bud get reduction in the amount of $.r4.0H4. Among items reduced by the budget committee were em ployee benefits $23,975, pur chased services $12,317. sup plies $5. (MX), and transporta tion equipment replacement $16.13:1. In presenting his plan for staff reductions, Doherty said that staff resignations com bined with smaller school en rollment in some schools pro vided an opportunity to bal ance staff among the district's schools without hiring re placements in some cases. Tne i. JL1 " Li Morrow County's Home-Owned 8 PAGES annual Rolling Hills t i J J- .'-, ' - v- . t r . : Scott Wilson, Board man Runners head for finiwh at City I'ark Special aides will be elimina ted because those students requiring these services will no longer Ik in the district. Reductions proposed in clude both classified and cer tificated positions at Heppner and lone schools where enroll- School Board holds special meeting The Morrow County School Hoard met in special session on Tuesday. April 5. at the District Office in Lexington, and canvassed the vote of the recent election for board members, advisory commit tee members and the district budget, reported a board spokesperson. The voters turned down the district's proposed tax for support of the school budget by a 40 vote margin. The date of May 17 was set as a date for the second budget election. 'Following the board meet ing, the district's budget committee met to consider actions to reduce the budget request (See related story.) eppeir tr pi Weekly Newspaper 25' Mick Tolar, Irrigon ri"-4 : I '. T ... . . ; ri V ii ments have dropped over the past year. They include two teaching positions, one full time aide and one half-time aide at lone and one full-time and one half-time aide in Heppner schools. Doherlv said that reductions Local youth injured in motorcycle week Sun. Marty Britt. a senior at Heppner High School, was listed in stable condition as of Tuesday, reported a nursing supervisor at St. Anthony Hospital. Pendleton. Britt, 18. reportedly wrecked the motorcycle he was riding on his family's Spaghetti feed to benefit C.F. A spaghetti feed to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Founda tion will be held this Sunday, April 17. beginning at 3 p.m., at the Heppner Elks Lodge. The Walt Disney movie "Odd Rail" will be shown at 6 p.m. Cost for the dinner and movie will be $3 per person or $10 per family. ' HEPPNER. OREGON Run i 6. n - ii - Qm i - Richard McNerney, Irrigon , y t''Tyg JiA-i.K.I ,r,7''vC-.-i in. - 1, - r a. L' . j up Hi i i are being made carefully in order to continue to provide the same quality in the educa tional program. The district school board has set the date of the next (induct election for May 17. Pine City ranch Sunday and was taken to St. Anthony, where he had surgery that same day for internal injuries, the supervisor said. "He is out of intensive care," she said, but will "probably be in the hospital) IuriUlltll'' Heppner woman returns home Rachel Dick of Heppner is home now after spending five months in Portland receiving medical care. Refore returning, she and her husband. Ed, attended an 89th birthday party at Otis Junction for her mother, Mrs. Edna Forsythe. ; ' I' ; , .k ' V Weather by the City of Plane crashes in NW former lone woman A former lone woman was the only person to survive a plane crash that occurred last Thursday when the plane she was riding in smashed into a hill in northwestern Alaska. Mary Pat McElligott Col lins. 27, was flying north from her home in Nome, Alaska to Ambler, with a pilot, a "musher" and his 11 dogs when the twin-engine plane crashed at about 4 p.m., re ported the woman's brother. Tom McElligott. of Heppner. Three of the dogs also sur vived the crash. McElligott said a Russian satellite picked up the plane's emergency locator transmit ter signal but the report was dismissed since no planes were overdue or reported as missing. After the satellite picked up the signal a second time, it was too late and stormy to send out a search and rescue group. A search did however begin , at first light Friday morning and Mrs. Collins was admitted to Providence Hospital at Anchorage by 2 p.m. Recreation facilities at dam discussed at court meeting By MARY ANN CERl'I.LO Officers representing the Heppner Economic Develop ment Corporation discussed the possibility of utilizing the Willow Creek Dan to Hep pner's benefit last Wednesday with Morrow County Court. "Now that we have this little dam of ours, whether we want it or not. .," said Jim Hayes, president of the corporation. He listed a boat dock, camp grounds and further develop ment to the ball park as possible projects which would benefit Heppner. According to the corpora tion, the Corps of Engineers have set a six-month time limit for the development corporation to take action be fore the state Fish and Game Department takes over the area. Should the state Fish and Game Dept. take over, the county and the city of Heppner will lose any control over what sort of development will be done, they said. "We're mostly concerned with the time crunch," said Rob Abrams, vice-president of the economic development corp "We need some interest from the county to perhaps CowBelles to The Morrow County Cow Relies will sponsor a "Money Seminar" on Wednesday, April 20. at the Heppner Elks Lodge, announced Marlene Currin. publicity chairman for the Morrow County Cow Belles. The seminar will begin at 7 p.m. with a no-host social time and hors d'oeuvres. Beginning at 7:30 o m.. a program will feataure two speakers from the First Interstate Bank: Don Younger, trust officer, Administrative Headquarters, Trust Department, Port land, and Harley Sager, com mercial loan officer at the Heppner Branch. Sager has Tues.. April 5 Wed.. April 6 Thurs.. April Fri.. April 8 Sat.. April 9 Sun.. April 10 Mon.. April 11 Heppner McElligott said when res cuers located the crash site, they found his sister walking around the wreckage. Follow ing the crash, he said, she had crawled under the cowling fplane's engine cover) with the three remaining dogs, some sleeping bags and some Bike-A-Thon to be held this Saturday A St. Jude Children's Re search Hospital "Wheels for Life Bike-A-Thon" will be held this Saturday. April 16. The 22-mile course will begin at Ruggs and will end in lone at the American Legion Hall. All bikers are to meet at Ruggs at R:30a.m. and have their spon sor sheets with them, said Chairman Margaret Nichols of Lexington. The bike-a-thon will start Kinzua to conduct tour "kinzua is 'Inviting 'airMe-"- rested persons to take a tour of the corporation's new chip facility this Friday. April 15. announced LaVerne Van extend this time limit set by the Corps." The Heppner Economic Development Corporation requested a statement of inte rest for recreational purposes from the county to extend the Corps' six-month time limit. County Court unanimously passed a motion to send their statement of interest to the Corps of Engineers. In other business. Judge Don McElligott proposed to the members of the Heppner Economic Development Corp. that all the city mayors and economic development cor porations in Morrow County meet together and discuss what business they want to attract to the county. "We need to all pull together instead of each of the corpora tions going their own way," said McElligott. "What's bothered me is that the Port of Morrow is going one direction, the city of Boardman goes another and then there's the cities down here going still another." The Heppner corp. expres sed their interest in meeting with the other corporations. No date was set. sponsor Money Seminar been involved in agricultural credit since 1966 . He has been associated with all phases of agri-business in Hermiston for nine years. Currin reports. "The CowBelles wish to make women aware of their credit opportunities today. We feel that many women would Scouts to sell pepperoni sticks Local Club Scouts will begin selling 18-inch pepperoni sticks door to door in Heppner on Tuesday, April 19, reported a Scout spokesperson. Pur chase price will be one dollar each. The Scouts will continue door to door sales for one low Precip. 32 39 31 36 7 27 27 27 T .02 Alaska; survives "liquid heat." Mrs. Collins is still in the hospital recovering from broken bones in her feet, internal and external bruises and a concussion. McElligott said. She is the daughter of Dick and Loa McElligott of lone. at 9 a m. and will end with refreshments in lone. Nichols said. Local merchants sponsoring prizes for those who collect the most money from their spon sors are: Murray Rexall Drug - $10 gift certificate. Coast to Coast - an inflatable raft. Bill and Margaret Nichols - a transistor radio and Morrow County Grain Growers - a travel alarm clock. Marter. Those wanting to take the tour should meet at Kin zua's office at 9 a.m. sharp. Van Marter said. Business continued with Morrow County Court doing the following: held a public hearing concerning a state grant ap plication for constructing an access road for the Interstate 84 interchange in Boardman. The court approved the plans for the $600,000 project and agreed on the sun of $36,000 to match funds with the state grant. received a recommenda tion from the democratic cen tral committee to appoint Roy Drago of Boardman as Mor row County Sheriff. Larry Fetsch of Heppner formally resigned from the position last week because of health problems. Roy Drago is cur rently acting as sheriff until an appointment is made. The Court took no action. held a public meeting to finalize a land exchange be tween the county and Bob Harris of Heppner. received a resignation from Jim Launer from the Morrow Co. Search and Res cue Posse Launer will be moving to La Grande. not know how to maintain their present business if something would happen to their spouse. Today's finan cial awareness is a subject that everyone should pay close attention to: we all need to plan for our future," Currin said. week, and if all the sticks aren't sold in that time the remaining sticks will be sold at a booth in front of Turner, Van Marter and Bryant In surance office in Heppner during the Moonlight Sale on April 28. High 55 63 5B 56 48 51 53 i
