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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
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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,
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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