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VOL. 101 NO. 38 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER s. 1883
Over 100
Member of the Valby congregation reminnce during Labor Day reunion in the church't tocial hall.
By Jl'STINE
WEATHERFORD
More than 100 persons who
aretart of the family of this
county's rural Valby Lutheran
Church gathered there on
Saturday afternoon, Sept. 3.
for visiting and enjoying an
evening dinner and program.
Many returned to the church
from western Oregon and
from towns outsidse of the
county. They were joined by
pleased families from lone,
Lexington and Heppner and
surrounding areas. Reminis
cing about the historic, mainly
Norwegian congregation, and
Fillies prepare for new season
By DANAREH)
As fall rolls around, so rolls
the ball. Volleyball practice at
Heppner High started August
22 with much excitement and
enthusiasm.
New Head Coach, assisted
by Karen Howe, is Barbara
Stefani from lone. She is
preparing the girls for their
first game, September 13.
They will be playing Arlington
A.S.C.S. office taking application for
1984 conservation work
Applciations are now being
taken for conservation work to
be done In the 1984 fiscal year.
Anyone interested in applying
for federal cost-share funds to
perform conservation practi
ces should contact the local
A.S.C.S. office in Heppner.
Each year funds are alloca
ted to individual counties
through the A.S.C.S. office for
farmers to perform needed
conservation practices. Some
of the programs available in
Morrow County are: grass
, seeding, terraces, reduced til
lage, no-till, erosion control
structures, forest tree stand
improvement, tree thinning
and others. It is very impor
tant that applications are filed
before the actual conservation
measures are performed. The
level of payment varies by
practices, but in each case the
farmer pays part of the cost
and the government pays
part The practices must be
done according to predeter
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exchanging news about the
growing families was enjoyed
by all
Special guests were the Rev.
Kenneth floh'nson and his
wife. Sandra, who served
Valby about 20 years ago. The
Rev. Robinson preached the
well-attended sermon on Sun
day, after whic h more visiting
took place Mrs. Elva (Troed
son) Tews from Seattle,
Wash., the oldest member of
the congregation present, re
called her memories of the
church in years past. Many
messages and letters were
received from folks who could
not attend. These were read
at Arlington. The J.V. game
will start at 5 p m., followed
by a varsity game and then a
"C" team game.
"The 'C team is working
hard. They should win half of
their games. Who knows,
maybe they'll come out on
top," says Coach Howe.
"The J.V. team is working
very hard and improving im
mensely. We cliungfd part of
the league so I'm not positive
mined specifications or no
cost share will be allowed, the
Morrow Co. A.S.C.S. office
re ports.
For more information, con
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School district to conduct
student screening
The Morrow County School
District will be screening all
kindergarten, first, fourth and
seventh graders in the areas
of speech, language and hear
ing. Other students involved in
the screening are transfers
from other districts and par
ent or teacher referrals.
The screening will be con
ducted at the following
schools :
lone schools - Wednesday,
September 7, morning;
Heppner High School - Wed
nesday, September 7, after
noon; Heppner Elementary School
- Thursday, September 8 and
Friday, September 9;
A.C. Houghton Elementary
School - Monday, September
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and shared.
The Valby congregation is
looking forward to celebrating
its centennial in 1986, and
there will be much planning
done before that time. In 1975
there was a large gathering
there, celebrating the
church's 75th birthday.
Rikka Tews, Martha Peter
son and Betty Carlson formed
the committee which promo
ted last weekend's reunion.
Jane Rawlins took the respon
sibility of decorating the
church with masses of colorful
dahlias grown by her son,
Tom.
of how we'll stand but we
should come out on top," says
Howe.
"The varsity team is doing
pretty good but being new at
Heppner, I don't know how
we'll compare against other
teams until the games," says
Coach Stefani.
With approximately 35 girls,
the season ahead looks great.
Come support your athletes.
tact the A.SC.S. office in
Heppner in the Gilliam and
Bisbee Building, Monday
through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5
p m.. telephone 676-9152.
12;
Sam Boardman Elementary
School - Tuesday, September
13;
A C. Houghton Elementary
School - Wednesday, Septem
ber 14, morning;
Columbia Junior High
School - Wednesday, Septem
ber 14, afternoon;
Sam Boardman Elementary
school - Thursday, September
15, morning; and
Riverside High School -Thursday,
September 15,
afternoon.
If anyone has questions con
cerning the screening, please
call Carol Faith-Peterson at
the Morrow County School
District Office, 989-8202.
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Episcopal Church reports
weekend burglary
A paschal candle and brass
. candle rings were reported
stolen from All Saints
Episcopal Church in Heppner
over the weekend.
According to Heppner city
police, the burglary occurred
Lodges plan
picnic
A pot luck dinner is planned
for all Odd Fellows and Rebe
kahs of Lexington. lone and
Heppner and their families, '
and for the Heppner Degree of
Honor Lodge members. The
event is scheduled for Sunday,
Sept 18 at Heppner City Park
beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Everyone is asked to bring
their own table service, chair
and beverages.
If the weather is stormy, the
dinner will be held at the Odd
Fellow Hall.
. . Members are jnvitfdJc"
bring a friend, said a spokesperson.
More chautauqua performances to be given next week
Two Oregon Chautauqua '83
programs are to be held in
three performances at Hep-"
pner and lone next week.
Masks of the World will be
presented on Tuesday, Sept. 13
at lone School at 10:30 a.m.
and again on Tuesday at 1:30
p.m. at Heppner Junior High
School. The Fool: Social Critic
and Healer, will be given on
Thursday, Sept. 15 at lone
School at 7:30 p.m.
Taking part in the Chautau
qua again this year will be the
popular Theatre Mask en
semble of Portland, which has
created a new program cen
tering on the use of masks in
various world cultures. A
combination of slides, lecture
and performance will be used
in this program.
Jerry Mouawad, director of
the ensemble, Carol Uselman
Masks used in the chautauqua presentation 'Maski of the World.'
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early Saturday morning.
The items are valued
at
approximately $200.
The Heppner City Police
Department is investigating
the crime.
Mustangs to meet Riverside in season opener
By MELISSA PRIVETT
"Football is just a class
room on a field," commented
Heppner High School's new
football Coach Craig Kitching,
"and the coaches are the
teachers."
Coach Kitching came to
Heppner from previously
coaching at Powers High
School on the Oregon coast for
two years and for one year at
Portland where he was also a
counselor at a juvenile boys'
school. '
One of Heppner's many
and Mark Opshinsky will
demonstrate the ritualistic
use of masks in the religious
ceremonies of Africa's Mende
Secret Society - then turn their
attention to ancient Greece,
where Greek comedy and its
masks served to purge society
of its psychological and social
problems. Next, the group will
journey to the northwest coast
of America and introduce the
traditions of the Kwakiutl In
dians, whose mask dances
depicted live manifestations
of the Kwakiutl ancestors.
And finally, the ensemble will
explore the story of the
European circus clown, the
Indonesian mask dance, and
modern European mask
theatre.
Moving Space, a Portland
company, will acquaint au-
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by the City of
Nominations still open for
Columbia Basin directors
The nominating committee
of Columbia Basin Electric
Cooperative, Inc. met August
31 and placed into nomination,
four names to be placed on the
ballot for the upcoming elec
tion in November.
The bylaws provide that at
least two nominees be placed
on the ballot for each director
position open. This year's
strong points, the coach feels,
is that the players are willing
to pay the price to be success
ful. He also feels that they
have the Heppner tradition
behind them, that they are
hard workers, and have good
work habits and attitudes.
"I don't like to dwell on
negative things. If we have
weak points, it's that we're
thin in numbers. We don't
have as many out as I would
like." commented Kitching.
"We don't have a lot of depth,
so we can't afford injury."
The season looks positive for
the Heppner team. Kitching is
Character portrays one of the 'fool' in another chautauqua
performance, 'The Fool: Social Critic and Healer.'
diences with the fool - that
cheeky fellow employed for
centuries by kings and play
wrights to point out our human
foibles. For this performance,
clowns, jesters and fools from
around the world will be intro
duced to us as members of a
traveling medicine show.
First, we will meet a badin,
a figure from sixteenth-century
French theatre, who was
a precursor of Shakespeare's
wise fools. From the badin we
will learn about the wise fools
and about the religious origins
of drama.
Next, a shaman will appear
to describe her role in primi
tive society as performer,
sage and healer. And in the
'High LowPreclp.
Tues., Aug. 30 35 55 :
Wed., Aug. 31 58 .06
"Thurs., Sept. 1 73 48 .01
Fri.. Sept. 2 76 48
'Sat., Sept. 3 79 54
'Sun., Sept. 4 74 41
Mon., Sept. 5 73 44
Total preciptation for August was .78 inches
Normal is .50 inches.
Heppner
nominating committee could
not locate enough members to
accommodate this procedure.
The committee has reques
ted a reminder to all members
that if somone wishes to be
nominated and have a name
placed upon the ballot, they
may do so by obtaining 50
signatures of members and
looking for a playoff spot
adding, "There is no reason
why the team can't make it.
They have just as good a
chance as anybody else."
Practice (which has consis
ted of daily doubles), has been
going on for the last two
weeks, taking place at 6:30
a.m. and 6:30 p.m. It will only
be once a day for the rest of
the season now that school has
started.
Their practices consist of
stretching exercises, calis
thenics to warm the players
up, 30 minutes of different
course of the show we will
become acquainted with the
fool in Greek comedy; in
Roman society, where half
wits were sometimes kept as
domestic pets; in eleventh
century society, whose feast of
fools allowed participants - for
that day only - to speak their
minds without fear of retribu
tion; and in the modern-day
circus. Robin Lane, Barbara
Berstein, Izetta Smith and
Robin Chilstrom are the fea
tured fools.
Local co-sponsors for Ore
gon Chautauqua '83 include:
the Heppner - lone Branch of
A A.U.W., Abrams, Kuhn and
Spicer, attorneys and Lexing
ton Machine Works.
submit the name of the nom
inee to the committee during
the month of September.
The committee members
are: Condon rural zone No. 2
Jack Reser, Rural zone No. 5 -Dorris
Graves, Condon city
zone No. 6 - Len Haldorson,
Heppner city zone No. 8 -Everett
Keithley.
phases of kicking, defensive
phases (to drill the players on
defenses), water breaks, of
fensive phases, and ending
with varying conditioning
exercises.
Each part of practice drills
or teaches the team a specific
technique on either offense or
defense, makes the players
more flexible and agile so that
they are less likely to be
injured, and the drills them
selves are designed to simu
late what will happen in a
game.. ... ...... ; ,. ,
In a team, coach Kitching
looks for, "First, kids that are
willing to learn new things,
have enthusiasm, and the de
sire to improve on what skills
that they already have. They
also need to have the willing
ness to pay the price of being a
good football player."
Does the Heppner team
have that? "Yes, definitely.
The last two weeks they have
worked hard. They have a lot
of work behind them, and a lot
ahead of them. I'm quite
proud of their attitude."
stated Kitching.
Excitement is filling Kitch
ing as game day nears. "I
wish the game was now so that
we could get down to it."
The Mustangs' first game is
against Riverside at 7:30 p.m.
on the opponent's field in
Boardman this Friday. "Ri
verside has a good quarter
back, Tyler Trumbull." Kitch
ing stated. "We must shut
down his passing and remem
ber our assignments on of
fense. ""Riverside was the defen
ding league champion and was
eight and one last year. Their
coach will have them ready."
There apparently is a battle
for spots on the starting line
up, but Kitching assured that
everyone who has been prac
ticing the last two weeks will
play, but his decision hasnt
been made yet.
When asked who will be
their toughest opponent this
year, Kitching replied, "Ri
verside, because we are not
looking ahead. We are going to
take one game at a time and
not overlook anything. There
are no weak teams in the
league."
How does the Heppner team
compare with others? "It's
hard to say," Kitching replied.
"The league is balanced. We
will be able to tell later. We
have quality people, we just
need them to stay healthy."
About Friday's game,
Kitching would like to see
them win, but also would like
to see them work hard, play to
the best of their ability, give a
good effort, and be sportsmen
in every sense of the word. "If
those things happen, the wins
will take care of themselves."
the coach concluded.