Heppner gazette-times., April 28, 1983, Page THREE, Image 3

Around About
By Justine Weatlicrford
How quickly April has flown by. Those who are still
needing to Ret writing done for the forthcoming Morrow
County Hook only have two more days after today to meet the
deadline. My time-consuming efforts to get a summary of the
history of the city of Heppncr down on paper has covered 100
years by the first of this week-and I am determined to get
that Inst ten years completed before Sunday, May 1.
It hasn't been a dull assignment the hours I've spent at
the museum and going through many old issues of the
Gazelle-Times have brought back lots of enjoyable memo
ries of my nearly twenty years here; and, because I enjoy
things historic, I have found it pleasing to read and re-reaa
about the years before I began to get acquainted with this
community.
Ijist Wednesday at the Senior Citizen meal, program
chairman Anna Mae Steagall, presented a dandy musical
program featuring veteran pianist Merle Boyce, a resident of
the nursing home; another veteran Jim Mayes, Sr. with his
fiddle and forever-young Ron McDonald who played his
guitar and Bang. Everyone enjoyed the music mainly old,
familiar numbers. Anna Mae remarked that during the "Big
Band Era" which included "Swing and Sway with Danny
Kay" and others, Heppncr had its own big band. Do you
remember it?
How I loved good dance bands. I was such a nut about
dancing during my late teens and early twenties that I hated
to miss a summertime Saturday night out at the Jantzen
Beach Ballroom. In fact, I even broke up my early friendship
with Bill Weatherford because I knew that after our
sophomore year at O S U. he was going to be In Eastern
Oregon all summer. Then I managed to find Portland
boyfriends who would take me to Jantzen dances.
During those years folks around here who liked to dance
found great dance music every Saturday night in the
different grange halls and lodges. The top music-making
group was christened "Shove and Push With Quacken
bush" by Jimmy Farley. I talked with the maestro Roy
Quackenbush and learned some about the musicians who
played with him.
At the piano, Genia Huston was first, then Oma Cox, then
Mary Bryant. The Leader, Roy Q . really twanged the banjo.
The skillful drummers were Franklin Ely, lone, and then
Buddy Blakely , a young fellow whose dad was with a bank in
Heppner. Al Bunch, Lexington, played the guitar, and Jim
Hayes senior's older brother, Anderson Hayes, brightened
the ensemble with his fiddle playing. Roy said "We played
almost every Saturday night in Hardman, Heppner, lone,
Monument, or Ine flock in lots of grange halls and lodges.
Once we even played for a Fair and Rodeo dance when the
band that had been arranged for in advance didn't show up."
Wow- just think, if I hadn't ditched W.W.W., maybe I could
have gotten up here on a summer Saturday instead of to
Jantzen Beach but I didn't even see Heppner until into the
10's.
Wasn't it nice to see three "Yards-of-the-Month" pictured
f . last week's paper? lone's Garden Club was first with this
contest; Heppner came along last year; now it is so good to
have a garden club at Lexington working to inspire civic
beautlfication there, Last week when I stopped at the home of
Rachel Harnett, who is helping me with my historic writing, I
glanced above her Center Street location to the yellow
apartment house now owned by Jane Rawlins. I doubt if a
multiple dwelling is eligible for a garden award, but the
flowers around that apartment are so brilliant, so tremen
dous just now that the place surely deserves an honorable
mention. Go look!
Although garden awards have been for landscaping, for
flowers and shrubs someone should be calling attention to
several super vegetable gardens. If you will drive or walk to
the upper end of Church Street you will see the efforts of the
Tom Wellborns. They had an outstanding garden last year,
and now it is looking like they will be way ahead of almost
everybody this year. My neighbors, Ruby and Harold
Beckett, are pretty hard to beat as gardeners. Through the
years they have raised such a wonderful variety of foodstuffs
in the sizable space beside their south Court St. home. Now
that Harold is retired, he is working on that land during all
hours of the day.
We think Oregon is, at last, into spring weather, and It
seems like a good time to mention hats. Around this part of
the world cowboy country many males look quite
attractive in their felt or straw hats. However, although
fashion writers keep saying "Hats are back" very few
appear here on female heads.
Ilene Kilkenny Laughlin surely takes the top prize locally
for her glorious collection of chapeaux. Some weeks ago,
after I had so admired her lovely green-netted St. Patrick's
Day creation, I chatted with her. "Oh. that hat was brought
nn-k from the Mad Halter's Shop at Disneyland by the Elks'
Terry Smith as a wonderful gift" she said. On Easter Sunday,
Ilene wore an all-white number which she told me was a gift
from granddaughter Alecia Tarnasky. What nice gifts!
Then Ilene told a really cute way she got several "special
occasion" hats in years past. "During the more than 20 years
that Bob IvOwe and I worked together at the hospital, she
shopped for hats for me several times when he took patients
to Portland in the ambulance. Bob went to a shop I liked: he
actually tried on a group of hats, and then he chose for me. I
really was very pleased with his choices." So versatile
Bob I)we. has been a lady's hat buyer!
Now Ilene says that her hats have overflowed her closets
and are taking up much of her apartment's guest bedroom.
She has always enjoyed buying and wearing nice hats, and
"so did my mother Lottie." Last fall the hat Ilene wore to the
Notre Dame-Oregon football game, when her brother Judge
J F. Kilkenny took his entire family as guests, really took
some attention off the game's action.
From my own very young years when I've always had
much difficulty with my ears, my hat-minded mother
insisted I "get something on my head." My scanty collection
of lesser hats will never rate with Dene's hats. Now that I
claim five granddaughters it is so delightful to see several
of them wearing hats "for special occasions." Maybe some of
them will stay hat-minded.
Nursery Plant Sale
Open Saturdays Only
8a.m. to 6p.m.
Located 9 miles north of lone on Ella
Road, next door to Earth Carpet Office
CALL Jari
LU.C.C." BBQ & Auction - a tradition
The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 28. 198.1 TURK K
Fair News
Correction
Twenty years have gone Into
the making of (he traditional
auction and barbecue spon
sored by the lone United
Church of Christ each June,
SI nee its Inception twenty
years ago. the annual event
has provided major funding
for the lone U.C.C, and a
source of fun and enjoyment
for all ages In the Morrow
County area served by the
lone U.C.C. said Delia Hel
deman. a church spokesper
son. Don Wink, the auctioneer,
has offered his services to the
church for the twenty-year
history of the event and will be
back this year.
Over twenty years ago,
Oary Tullis. Fred Nelson and
Milt Morgan travelled to
Powell Butte to witness their
version of an auction and
came home bursting with
ideas. Heideman said. The
congregation then took sever
al more years to build up the
courage to try it. But In 13,
Bob and Suzanne Jepsen
chaired the first l.U.C.C. Auc
tion and Barbecue. "With the
aid of Jack Lloyd, a local
school teacher at the time and
an active member of the con
gregation, and a lot of sage
advice from the members of
the Heppner Episcopal con
gregation, the auction and
barbecue finally became a
reality." Heideman explains.
"That first year was hectic:
without experience the mem
bers jumped Into a full fledged
money making event, which
would end up netting them a
little over $1,900, That figure
has grown considerably over
the years, with the participa
tion and attendance figures,"
she said.
The Deaconesses have pro
vided and hosted the dinner
every year. The menu has
grown and changed a little
over the years, but the basics
are still the same. In 1963.
dinner cost only $1.75. she
continued. "Today's charge of
$5 for the meal is still more
than fair for the fare as the
saying goes, and it has re
mained unchanged for the
past three years,
That early group of workers
proceeded through the method
of trial and error, and it is
inspirng to no's that many of
those early participants are
still actively involved in the
auction and the dinner to this
day, The Deaconesses, includ
ing Geneva Palmer. Helen
Crawford. Mary Ann Palmer
and others wree here then and
are still putting in many hours
of hard labor to make the
event a success, Heideman
said,
"For two decades, we have
been building our tradition of
serving the community and
the surrounding area and we
hope that you and your family
will come and join us again
this year. June 4, starting at 10
a.m. with the opening of the
Country Store," she says.
The Morrow County Fair
Board will be meeting jointly
with the Morrow County Fair
Committee and all other
guests on Tuesday. May 3. at
(he fairgrounds dorrn build
ing, at 7 p.m. The fair board
usually meets on the second
Monday of every month, but,
due to a meeting with the
Oregon Fairs Association
Board of Directors, on Thurs
day. May 12. there may not be
enough time to take care of
regular fairgrounds business.
If you wish to attend the May
12 meeting, it is scheduled for
8 pm., at the 4-H Annex
Building.
The Oregon Fairs Associa
tion Board of Directors will be
meeting with the Morrow
County Fair Board on Thurs
day. May 12 at 6:30 p.m. for a
potluck dinner and will meet
with the fair board following
the dinner at 8 p.m. The
Oregon Fairs Association rep
resent county fairs from all
over the state of Oregon.
In ther April 21 story enti
tled "OSU college of Ag Sci
ences alumni invited to BBQ,"
Chuck Nelson of Lexington
whs not listed as subdistrict
representative for Morrow
County.
Ye Olde Head Sh ed
Hair Styles for Men, Women & Children
'r 'enna Anytime
fi -W 2nd & B Street
fV'k&r:,. io
lone
Electrolysis &
Thermolysis
Permanent
Hair Removal
Anna Schwarzin,
Certified
Electrologist
676-9248
Open Tues. - Wed.
Or by appt.
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