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VOL. 102 NO. X THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, lM
Murray's celebrate Heppner
store's 25th year
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Hod and Meg Murray
Rod and Men Murray are
celebrating their Heppner
More' 25th anniversary this
month. The couple bought
Humphrey' Drug Store from
jfia Humphreys on January
1. 1959 About 15 years ago the
Mtirravs purchased the Red
and White Store from Hoy and
Melba Quackenbush and
Phil's Pharmacy from Jim
Movers to expand their store.
When the store first opened,
the Murravs employed about
four people and Rod ran the
Sudden thaw
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A number of road closures
were announced In Morrow
("ountv Court last Wednesday
as a result of road washouts
from the sudden thaw of over
a week ago.
Judge Don McElligott listed
the following roads as closed
from washouts: Dixon-Smith,
lower Eightmile. John Berg
strom. Strawberry, Gabbert
Road and Bergwin Crossing.
Traffic has been limited to
one way only on Gooseberry,
Dal7ell. Brenner Canyon. Ful
ler Canyon and Baseline
roads. All county rouds are to
have an eight ton load limit.
According to McKlligott, the
debris on the roads was to be
cleaned up by Friday, Jan. 6,
but the damage from the
washouts may not be repaired
for another week.
In other business, the court
conducted the following:
held an executive session
under litigation.
School board to consider
at Jan. meeting
A regular meeting of the
Morrow County School Board
is scheduled for Monday. Jan.
16. 7:30 pm at Sam Board
man Elementary School in
Boardman.
The Board is expected to
consider a plan to bid school
buses, and changes In the
district plan to invest surplus
funds, said a school district
spokesperson.
The Board is expected to
consider policies for school
closure and the evaluation of
teachers, which have been
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pharmacy, as he does now.
The store carried Rift ware
then, as well as a variety of
other merchandise, but now
offers more home wares,
more tovs and has a complete
Hallmark store. Al present,
the Murravs employ about 22
people, including pari time
help One employee. Ruth
Rergstrom. has worked at the
store for 39 years, starting
with Miss Humphreys and
continuing when the Murrays
took over.
causes road
accepted a resignation
from Ed Dick of Heppner from
the Pioneer Memorial Hospi
tal Board
held an executive session
under personnel.
(Executive sessions are
Gentry replaces Lovgren
at Western Heritage
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Weslen Heritage Federal
Savings & Loan Association
has promoted Jackie Gentry
discussed at previous meet
ings. The board will also start
preliminary plans for next
Telephone survey to be
conducted in local area
The Heppner Economic
Development Corporation will
Ih' making a telephone survey
of south Morrow County resi
dents to determine if the area
needs additional medical ser
Morrow County's Home-Owned
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The business expanded in
1961 when the couple opened a
store in Condon, and about six
vears ago Ihev added an Ar
lington store, which closed
last vear.
Through the years, the
Murravs have remodeled
their Heppner store in'stages.
added the liquor store and
continued to add expanded
lines of merchandise to better
serve the people of south
Morrow County.
closures
held to discuss personnel and
other sensitive matters and
are closed to the public. Mem
bers of the press can attend
these sessions but are not
allowed to report on the pro
ceedings.) In branch inuiuiger of the
Heppner office.
Gentry joined Western Heri
tage in May. 1983. She is a 1980
graduate of Heppner High
School and later attended Blue
Mountain Community College,
graduating with a certificate
in general business.
She is a member of the Blue
Mountain Association of Pro
fessional Mortgage Women.
Gentry replaces Christy
lovgren. who has accepled
employment at Morrow Coun
tv Grain Growers.
policies
year's school calendar.
All meetings are open to the
public.
vices. The calls will be made
between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Everyone's cooperation will
be greatly appreciated, said a
corporation spokesperson.
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The Heppner Economic
Development Corporation will
hold its annual meeting on
Wednesday. Jan. 18 at the
Heppner Elks Lodge. The
evening will begin with a
no-host cocktail hour at 6:30
n m . followed bv dinner and a
Hermiston Disposal, Inc. will
collect garbage in lone
lone Mayor Linda La Rue i
read a petition to council
members at a meeting Tues
day night. Jan. 3. that asked .
the lone City Council to recon
sider entering into a franchise ;
agreement with Sanitary Dis- ;
posal Inc. of Hermiston for
garbage collection. The peti- A
lion, which was signed by
about 90 lone residents, also '
asked that the Issue be placed .
on a ballot before the voters if 2
necessary, said, Diana Starry
city recorder. ' tl
However. Starr said, the
Physician's
Heppner
Ken Dyball
A 35-year-old physician's
assistant has joined the staff
at Dr. Clare Koznek's office
and at Pioneer Memorial Hos
pital in Heppner. Ken Dyball
comes to Heppner from Dufur.
The 1983 University of Wash
ington graduate, who com
pleted his internship at a
naval hospital at Widbey
Island. Wash., began working
in Heppner on December 19.
Dr. Koznek says he pro
posed a physician's assistant
for this area as a long-term
solution for the hospital, as
well as physicians currently in
practice here, for coverage in
a physician's absence. "It is
absolutely essential that there
be some form of coverage to
relieve the physicians," the
doctor said.
Dyball. who is licensed with
the state of Oregon, also works
under Koznek's license to
History book delivery
nears completion
By DKI.PHA JONES
Most of the Morrow County
History Books have been de
livered. Anyone who has paid
for a book but has not yet
KEPPNER, OREGON
meeting at 7:30 p.m.
: All members and interested
.persons are invited to attend
and please R.S.V.P. at P.O.
Box 103. Heppner. Ore. 97836.
!said a corporation spokes-
person.
petition was not considered
legal because it did not con
form to requirements set forth
in the city charter. No repre
sentative of the petition was
present at the meeting, she
said.
Starr reported that at a
public hearing held Monday
night. Jan. 9. the council did
pass an ordinance to enter into
a franchise agreement with
the Hermiston company, to
ak effec! t! day. Sanitary
Disposal began service in the
assistant employed in
practice medicine. The physi
cian's assistant will be work
ing with patients in Koznek's
office as well as in the hospital
and emergency room. He has
attended six military medical
schools as well as the U of W
and has 17 years of experience
in the medical corps, he says.
He will be performing diag
nostic and therapeutic proce
dures, can order and interpret
x-rays, can perform minor
suturing, can evaluate and
treat minor fractures and can
act in emergencies and handle
emergencies in an emergency
room setting. He can also
issue prescriptions and can
act independently if Koznek is
gone. Dyball's services are
still available at Koznek's of
fice and at the hospital when
the doctor is not available;
although Koznek will be avail
able by phone for consultation.
Koznek explained that since
major surgery cannot be per
formed at Pioneer Memorial
Hospital in Heppner, the ad
dition of a physician's assis
tant will allow him to assist an
operating surgeon at Good
Shepherd Hospital in Hermis
ton with his office's cases and
not leave his patients in Hep
pner without available medi
cal services while he is gone.
Dyball explained that the
physician's assistant program
has been in existance for over
1R years to aid in medical
coverage in rural areas with
limited physicians' coverage.
All 50 states employ P.A 's he
received it is asked to call
either Delpha Jones or Ruth
McCabe. We sincerely hope
that we have not left anyone
out during the delivery.
Weather
by the City of
Mail route driver narrowly
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escapes wan oi water
An lone mail route driver
and her husband barely es
caped from the pickup they
were in when a four to five ft.
wall of water came rushing
across the road in the Eight
mile area last Tuesday. Jan. 3.
Dorothv Stefani and her hus-
lone area on Friday. Jan. 6.
and will collect garbage there
each Friday.
In other business during the
January 3 meeting, the coun
cil: agreed to an April 1
extension for John Marick to
remove a house on A Street.
agreed to purchase a
small kerosene heater for the
city's pump house for use in
case of a power failure during
extreme cold weather." -
said.
Dvball and his wife. Karen,
and their children Jeremy. 13:
Scott. 12: and Janell. three,
are living in Heppner.
"I'm very pleased to be
here. I feel very much at home
here." the P.A. said.
O.W. Cutsforth donates gun collection
to county museum
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Orville Cutsforth shows the gun collection he
donated to the Morrow Co. Museum. He is holding
1843 Colt 45 pistols, the pride of the donation.
O.W. Cutsforth of Heppner
has recently made a large
contribution to the Morrow Co.
Museum in Heppner by offi
cially donating his gun collec
tion, which has been on dis
play there for many years.
The collection includes 13
guns in all: a Savage 22
high-powered rifle, a Savage
High l ow Precip.
Tups.. Jan. 3 60 53 .01
Wed . Jan. 4 67 39
Thurs.. Jan. 5 fi 39
Fri., Jan. 6 56 26
Sal.. Jan. 7 58 28 .09
Sun.. Jan. 8 48 28 Trace
Mon.. Jan. 9 35 29
Heppner
band. Art. were delivering the
mail that morning in their
four-wheel drive pickup when
the gusher came through.
Mrs. Stefani said as soon as
the water reached the pick up
the vehicle stalled and they
hurriedly jumped out and
climbed in the back. By that
time, she said, runoff began
pouring in from other nearby
canvons and the wall of water
was rising to eight or nine feet.
Her husband saw the Mor
row County Road Department
crew working just down the
road and yelled to them for
help. Norris Dooney and
Bruce Bergstrom brought the
grader they were using to the
pickup and the Stefanies
crawled onto it and escaped,
she said.
Dooney steadied the vehicle
with the grader while Berg
strom crawled into it to re
trieve mail that was on the
seat, but was unable to get the
items on the floor because the
pickup kept sliding. Mrs. Ste
fani said. Steve Peck and Bill
Mackey who live in the Eight-
Meeting to plan Rolling
Hills Run scheduled
A meeting to plan Heppner's
annual Rolling Hills Run will
be held Wednesday. Jan. 18.
7:30 p.m.. in the Heppner
Junior High home ec room.
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250-3000. two Savage 303 Bri
tish rifles, a Savage 30-30,
three muzzleloaders. an 1870
handmade German gun with
lfi gauge shotgun barrel and a
24 mm rifle barrel, a 45-70
caliber rifle that Cutsforth
made in the early 1970s, a
Savage 300. and highlighting
came to the
with Peck's
Peck recovered the pickup
the next day when the water
level had gone down. Mrs.
Stefani said the vehicle, which
was a total loss, was found
upside down, the windows
were broken out and the cab
was crushed and filled with
mud.
"Art might have been able
to get out of the water, but I
really don't think I could
have." Mrs. Stefani said.
lone Post Master Margaret
Lindlev said she searched the
area for several hours and
was able to find no remnants
of the missing mail. She sug
gests that if people feel some
of their correspondence could
have been lost in the accident
it would be wise to remail.
"We feel real fortunate that
the Stefanies escaped with
their lives , the fact that they
saved mot of mail is
remarkable." the postmaster
said.
announced Liz Curtis
a
spokesperson for the event.
Anyone interested in work
ing on the run is invited to
attend, she said.
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the collection, two 1843 Colt 45
pistols.
Each gun in the collection is
engraved with the 00 Bar
brand.
Cutsforth said the value of
the collection has been asses
sed at $8,500 by a firearms
expert.
mile area also
scene to help
tractor.
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