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THANKSGIVING -v BESSIE WETZELL U OF ORE NEWS PAPER LIP U G F N E OF. '71 C 3 VOL. 101 NO. 47 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1983 Christmas at Home ' to kickoffthis week I 1 i" "i "ft T Oewt worked eorlier this wek Oiriltmoi tr. "Christmas at Home" will kkkoff this Friday br many local merchants will bfnin giving "Krai Money Coupons" to choppers, and a Christmas Tr! Lighting (Vremony will b hld that vpning, ()n Saturday, the jolly couple from the North Pole will be making their annual visit. The Heal Money Coupons, . -- Local basketball players to play benefit games Friday Four teams of Heppner City League Basketball players will take each other on in two tx-nefit games this Friday night. The event will be held at the Heppner High School gym and will begin at 7 p.m. Cost to attend will be a donation at the door for Doug and Darwin Ansolegui of Hep pner. The brothers occupied a house at 375 W. Linden Way that was almost totally des troyed in a November II fire. The fundraising event is being coordinated by Sharron Harrison of Lexington and Helen Kiohl. Heppner. A team headed up by Don ftt and Jeff Orr will meet Gar Aviation, and John Kil kenny's team will meet Greg Johnston's Each game will last about one hour. If IIS cheerleaders Missy Turner, Lana and Dana Heid, Shelley Stroeber and Tammy Hays, along with students Stephanie Payne and Pam Orr will root for one team each game, and "retired" cheer leaders Joyce Hughes, Barb Watkins, Janice Huddleston, Kelly Boyer and Patti Allstott will cheer on the other teams. The Heppner High band Is scheduled to play, and Hon McDonald will be the announ cer. Riehl said. Many local merchants have donated door prizes which will be given away at halftime. Some of the prizes Include an electric knife, T-shirts, chic ken dinners, a case of oranges, a lug wrench, hats, a tea kettle, 20 lbs. of laundry de tergent, plus cash awards and more. By giving a donation at the door, everyone will be eligible for the door prize drawings. Also during halftime, H11S choir sludent Wanda Itiley 31 "'J " "' '.i'Ji J; ... " decoroiions lo pul up hanging worth 50 cents each, will be given to shopper with each five dollar purchase at parti cipating stores. Shoppers can accumulate the coupons and use them at other participa ting businesses. Carolers will gather around the city Christmas tree, which was donated by Stan Powell Logging of Dayville. at 4 p.m. for the lighting ceremony. plans to sing, and the Heppner High Dance Team may be on hand to perform, said Riehl. Homemade pie along with coffee and soft drinks will be sold at the concession stand during the event. Hospital board releases info regarding The Pioneer Memorial Hos pital Board has released the following information con cerning the resignation of hospital administrator A.K. Lucky" Felt: The Pioneer Memorial Hos pital Board has asked for, and has received, the resignation of Mr. A.K, "Lucky" Felt as Novmber J.S.C. meeting shows record attendance A November 2 meeting of the Morrow County Juvenile Services Commission saw a record number of 20 people in attendance, reports Pam Min ster, bookkeeper and secre tary of the comission. Deborah Mcintosh, school psychologist for the Morrow County School District, was guest speaker at the meeting. She explained the various facets of her job, and offered suggestions as to how the commission could better serve the youth of the county, Min ster said. Morrow Co. Judge Don McElligott, Carolyn Holt of the County Juvenile Depart ment, and Bill Shierbon of the Children's Services Division discussed new state laws and how they will affect juveniles. Tfbe Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper 8 PAGES ' photo by Mary Ann Cru!k ond decoraiod lh citi Heppner City Police Chief Dean Oilman will flip the switch to light the tree. The Heppner Soroptimist Club will give out free hot cider. Every one is invited to attend this event, which is becoming a tradition. Choirs from St. Pat rick's Catholic and United Methodist churches are to Anyone wanting to donate cash or household items to the Ansoteguis may drop them off at R & W Drive-In in Heppner, or call Harrison at 989-8496 for pickup. 4! -... J '"-'"" 1 I "" y - J Jt Felt's resignation administrator of Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Mr. Felt's resignation is retroactive to November 4. After serious and painful consideration of Mr. Felt's status with the hospital, the lxard reached the difficult conclusion that it could no Several new commission members were welcomed at the meeting. Eunice McElli gott, Connie Sills, Carolyn Ming and Cindy Doherty have recently been appointed lo serve on the commission. Three students from River side High, Mark Stevens, Tif fany Mark and Michelle Coo ley also attended as student advisors. A new director was selected for the "Student Tutor and Assistants Program" in Boardman and Irrigon. Bruce Russel of Boardman will fill this position. He holds a Ba chelor of Science degree and a current teaching certificate. He is currently doing substi tute teaching in Boardman, Minster said. sppnieir I ii 25 V4 I t . , l Vi Wilgers of Peterson's Jeweler show Reol Money Coupons lo be used during Christmas at Home. lead the carolers. On Saturday, from 1 to 3 p m.. Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus will make their long awaited visit at Les Schwab ; ,Tire Center and give out candy canes. A photographer will be available to take photos of children with the Clauses. Interim administrator named at PeM.H. A Portland man. E. Byron Smith, has been named inte rim administrator at Pioneer Memorial Hospital following the resignation of A.K. "Lucky" Felt November 4 (see related story). Smith, 62. is employed by Brim & Associates, a Portland company which specializes in the management of small and medium-sized hospitals. Smith, who is on a 30-day contract with the hospital to longer communicate properly with its administrator, and that it would be in the best interest of the hospital that the resignation be requested. The board has voted to provide Mr. Felt with two months' salary as severance for his resignation. This action was taken in light of the fact that the board's decision gave Mr. Felt no opportunity to prepare for an orderly transi tion to alternate employment, and also in light of the fact that Mr. Felt's resignation necessitates his vacating the house which was provided to him as part of his compensa tion by Morrow County. "The board's action was made especially difficult in light of Mr. Felt's exemplary service to the Pioneer Memo rial Hospital. During the four years that Lucky served as administrator of the hospital, he was the catalyst for many of the positive steps that have been taken at the P.M.H. In the final analysis, the board felt that the lines of communi cation had deteriorated to the point that it needed to request Mr. Felt's resignation in spite of, rather than because of, the qualities that he brought to his post," said a board spokesperson. HEPPNER, OREGON 4 'V 'N. I Charles Hutchinson will again sponsor a Merchant's window decorating contest. I The displays will be judged by 1 tunior high students later in the . season.. The , first prize winner will receive $100 in" printing, while the second place winner will receive a $50 gift certificate. provide administration ser vices, last worked at Good Samaritan Hospital in Port-1 land as a vice-president in charge of corporate affairs. He had been with Good Sa maritan for 30 years. Smith also served as interim manager at the Quincy. Wash, hospital for seven weeks. "I'll be here for 30 days, and then the board will decide where they are going to go from there," Smith said. Community Service Day to be held in lone lone High School students and faculty members will be busy working around town on Wednesday. Dec. 7 during their annual Community Ser vice Day. The students and teachers will be decorating the community Christmas tree, splitting and stacking wood for senior citizens, New, First Interstate Bank employee promoted Dave Hampton First Intersate Bank has promoted Dave Hampton to senior banking officer at the Heppner branch. He succeeds Weather by the City of School board votes against sending tax measure to voters The Morrow County School Board voted Monday night against putting a proposed sales tax measure before the voters on a March or May, 1984 ballot. The proposal includes a sales tax measure and a spending limitation measure (both separate measures). Both must be passed before either one may take effect. Another measure included in the package is a tax rate freeze. A majority of the taxing districts in Oregon must vote in favor of putting the propo sal to the voters before, it can be placed on the ballot. Locally, the city of Heppner has already voted not to send the measure to voters, and the County Court, city of lone and town of Lexington, will vote on the issue later. The school board was split on the issue Monday, voting three to three. A tie vote automatically defeated the motion. Board Chairman Jerry" McElligott emphasized that the vote did not mean either E. Byron Smith weatherizing seniors' homes and cleaning up city streets and lots. There is no charge for their services, and anyone with projects that need to be done, or anyone knowing of someone who could use some help, is asked to contact Charles Starr at lone High School, 422-7131. Harley Sager, who was pro moted to manager. Hampton has been with First Interstate Bank for six years. He entered the bank's management training pro gram after graduation from George Fox College in 1977. In 1977 he was promoted to operations officer at the Wil sonville branch and in 1979 transferred to the Madras branch. He worked at . the Madras branch until 1983 when he was assigned to the Burns branch. He and his wife, Phyllis, and children Michael, five, and twins Jennifer and Janell, age three will be living in Heppner. ivl High Low Prec Tues.. Nov. 15 57 48 .11 Wed., Nov. 16 59 41 .03 Thurs.. Nov. 17 56 40 Fri., Nov. 18 52 35 .01 Sat., Nov. 19 51 37 Trace Sun., Nov. 20 50 36 .08 Mon.. Nov. 21 41 28 .04 Hcppncr an endorsement or denuncia tion of the sales tax by the school board. "We feel the citizens of this state should have a chance to vote on this, and we should not take their place." he said. In other action, the board voted to include $33,500 in the 1984-85 budget for purchase of computers in the district. It is proposed that the dis trict purchase 17 computers next year, nine starter units and eight full units. (Starter units are comprised of key board, central processing unit, video monitor and one disk drive. Full units have an additional disk drive, and a printer.) Under the proposed pur chase. A.C. Houghton, Sam Boardman and Heppner Ele mentary would receive two starter units each. lone Ele mentary. Columbia Junior High and Heppner Junior High would get one starter unit each. Riverside High would have two. and, Heppner, High, one full unit. In addition, all schools All Saints' to sponsor Thanksgiving dinner All Saints' Episcopal Church in Heppner will again sponsor a Thanksgiving Day dinner on Thursday, Nov. 24, in the parish hall. The dinner, which is open to the public, will be served at 1:30 p.m. "This is for any person or family that would like to share Show-To-Go plans grand opening next weekend I . r mini 11 -i --'-t - '""Sfl iTm Phyllis Bonnie By JUSTINE WEATHERFORD The Heppner Show-To-Go showroom and rental and sales office will open in the Main and Center Street corner of the Heppner laundromat building on December 1, its owners Pyllis Miller and Bon nie Christopherson announce. These ladies are returned residents who came back to Heppner this summer from Grand Junction, Colorado. Bonnie and Phyllis and Milt Miller are remembered by many from the years they lived on Little Butter Creek in the home now occupied by Allen and Gail Hughes. Bonnie attended Heppner High and her husband Ron Christopher son lone High School. This mother and daughter knew how popular movie ren . tals were in Colorado and Miller (I) and except the high schools would purchase one full unit each for use in the front offices. The purchases are part of a long-rajjge plan under which the district will buy 66 com puters over the next five years, at an estimated cost of $120,000. In other action, the board: accepted the resignation of Tom Busey. a sixth grade teacher at Sam Boardman Elementary, effective De cember 31. The board voted to hire Teresa Proctor, Board man, to fill Busey's position for the remainder of the year. voted to hire Bruce Rus sell as assistant basketball coach at Columbia Jr. High. Russell has been a substitute teacher in the district. agreed to begin accepting applications for the superin tendent's position. Closing date for applications will be January 25, 1984. The starting date for the new superinten dent will be July 21. Present , .Superintendent,, JtatL Doher ty, will remain on the job until that time. a very special day with others, and is unable, for various reasons, to be with loved ones," said the Rev. Ed Watts, vicar of the church. There will be a Eucharist on Thursday at 12 noon for those who would like to attend, he added. i j It Christopherjon of Show-To-Go. because this county has no movie theater they deter mined to install an agency here which will rent or sell movie-projecting equipment that is easily attached to home television sets to provide a wide selection of the best of current films from tape pack ages. They arranged to move their business into the space occupied by Bob Harris's Far Western Real Estate office as soon as he discontinues using it. In the mean time they have been renting their Show-To-Go equipment out of their home on Cowins Street. Phyllis and Bonnie cordially invite everyone to come to the grand opening and Open House of Show-To Go next Friday and Saturday, Decem ber 2 and 3, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day.
