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Good Luck at District HHS Fillies! Heppner vs Sherman Co. Thurs.. Feb. 23 Pendleton Armory 7:30 p.m. PFSSI!! WETZELL U OF ORE N E V." SPARER L I 3 EUGENE C R 07403 TEie VOL. 102 NO. 8 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1WW Longtime Heppner dentist to retire Mar, 1; Pendleton Dr. to open practice Dr. Harold Huber, who has practiced dentistry in Hep pner for 34 years, will retire March 1. Dr. Tom Alexander of Hoardman, who has been practicing in Heppner since last May, will lake over Dr. Huber 's practice. In addition, Pendleton dentist Dr. Ritchie Hibbert w ill be expanding his practice to Heppner one day a week . Raised in College Place. Wash., Dr. Huber attended Walla Walla College before enrolling at the University of Oregon Dental School in Port land He graduated from den ial school in 1946 at the age of 22 After serving two years in the Army, he practiced in Richland, Wash, before com ing to Heppner. In his retirement, Dr. Huber says he will rest, farm and travel with his wife, Delta. Dr. Alexander began prac ticing in Heppner last May. he also has a practice in Board man, which he opened in July 1981 His office in the First Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper slated All Saints Episcopal Church will sponsor an annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on Tuesday, Mar. 6. from 5 to 7:30 pm, at the parish hall on West Church St. in Heppner. The menu includes ham, hotcakes, fruit and beverage all you can eat. The cost for HHS F.F.A. win in skills Over 100 Future Farmers of Aim-tic f j oin area high schools competed in the Blue Mountain District Leadership Skills Contest held at Blue Mountain Community College Feb, 15. Winners of the creed speaking section of the contest were: Dorothy Hays. Hep pner, first; Trina Hellberg, Riverside, second; and Stacy Day, Hermiston, third. Taking first place in public speaking was Kelly Ly brand from Hermiston. Steve Fetsch, Pendleton, was second, and Andrea Ball of Heppner placed third. Darren Coppock, Pendleton, took first place in extempo raneous speaking. Doug Case, Mac Hi, placed second in that lone American Legion Aux. sponsors contest Students in Peter Longway Vitue's ninth grade language arts class at lone High School recently took part in an Ame ricanism Essay Contest and the winners have been selec ted. The contest was spon sored by the lone American legion Auxiliary. The 500 word essays were to feature "The Things That Make America Great." Dr. Tom Alexander (left) will take over Dr. Harold Hubert denial proctice in Heppner upon Dr. Huber's retirement AAorch t. Interstate Bank building in Heppner is open each Tuesday and Thursday. Dr. Hibbert will begin prac ticing in Heppner on Monday, Mar. $. His office, which is also located in the bank buil ding, will be open on Mondays from am. to 5 p.m. Patients may use Dr. Huber's phone number to reach him in Hep adults will be $2.75, children $1.50 or an entire family can eat for $3. Ned and Cathy Clark are co-chairmen of this year's event. The public is cordially invited to attend, says Betty Brown, publicity chairman for the event. students contest of event with Alex Lindsay Heppner in third place. Pendleton High School's Advanced Parliamentary Procedure team took first place honors. Hermiston's team came in second with Riverside taking third. In the Greenhand Parlia mentary Procedure competi tion, Hermiston high school's team came in first, followed by Riverside, second, and Pendleton, third. Other HHS students who participated in the contest were: Kevin Hughes, Travis Harrison, Tammy Hays, Kim Wright, Windi Mitchell and John Ferrell. Dorothy Hays was to com pete in a regional competition on February 22 at La Grande. Mike Kietmann took first place, Chris Ilea won second and Ashley Conklin took third. They all will receive cash awards, said Jean Jepsen of the auxiliary. The judges, Charles Starr, HIS principal, and Betty Rietmann, elementary school teacher based their selection on the choice of subject mat ter, and correct language usage Morrow County's 8 PAGES pner. Dr. ilibbert, 31, is originally from La Grande. He attended Eastern Oregon State College at LaGrande before transfer ring to the University of Ore gon Dental School, where he graduated in 1982. He began his general dentistry practice in Pendleton that same year. He and his wife, Debbie, 2 real estate companies now serving south Morrow Co. Boyd Harris South Morrow County is now being served by two real estate companies. Heritage Land Company, owned by Keith and Sharon Lewis, is based in Pendleton, but the couple has lived in Heppner for the pust 13 months. Boyd Harris, who works for Mt. Valley Land Co. of Boardman, lives in Condon. Sharon, who grew up in Heppner, has been a realtor B.P.A. offers irrigation rates The Bonneville Power Ad ministraion has offered to cut irrigation rates in half in March and April in order to help economically distressed farmers. "The Northwest's agricul tural industy has been hit hard by the economic recession and high costs for everything they need to grow crops," B.P.A. Administrator Peter Johnson said. "They asked Bonneville for assistance, and we have responded with an offer that should provide significant relief." Johnson stressed that the program will provide low-cost non-firm (surplus) power to irrigators. It will not, there fore, affect the rates paid by other classes of customers. Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper 25 Dr. Ritchie Hibbert have five children. An open house to honor Dr. Huber upon his retirement, and to meet Drs. Alexander and Hibbert and their fami lies, will be held Tuesday, Mar. 6, at the Heppner Elks Lodge, downstairs. The public is invited to stop by between 5 and 7:30 p.m. A It m- WW tSMitl I ' . Keith and Sharon for five years. Keith retired from the Oregon State Police as head of investigations of district four last January and the couple started their own real estate company. The Lewises handle listings for Heppner, Lexington, lone and outlying areas at their home-office in Heppner. Other listings are handled at the Pendleton office. Their Hep pner phone number is 676-5233. to cut Mar. "As for the irrigators, mis ' program is not going to solve the problem of low farm commodity prices." Johnson said. "But it should help irri gators reduce their expenses and hopefully encourage lar ger irrigation loads. This re sult would both stimulate the region's economy and reduce B.P.A.'s existing surplus." Here's how the program works: B.P.A. will sell whole sale power for 1.3 cents per kilowatt-hour to cooperatives and publicly owned utilities in March and April for their irrigation loads. Power sold for the rest of the spring and summer will be priced at the usual rate more than double the nonfirm rate. On Friday, Feb. 10, B.P.A. HEPPNER. OREGON Lions to program On Wednesday, Mar. 7 and Thursday, Mar. 8, the Hep pner Lions Club will sponsor a child identification registry program from 5 to 8 p.m. at Heppner Elementary School. The program, which will be held in the school's multipur pose room, is designed to collect information about 4 arraigned on burglary charges Four men were arraigned in Morrow County District Court last Friday on charges stemming from recent bur glaries at three Heppner busi nesses. Between Sunday, Feb. 12 and Monday, Feb. 13, the Jleppner Elks Lodge, Heppner Bowl and Vern's 76 station were burglarized. Edward Roy McNabb, 26, of Stanfield, was arraigned on two counts of alleged first . tegree Burglary of the Elks - Lodge and at Heppner Bowl. Randy Dean McNabb, 21, of St. Helens was arraigned on i; 1 U-.r I I ' Lewis Harris has been a realtor for three years. He began work ing for Mt. Valley Land Co. and later worked for Royal Land Co. in Condon. When Royal Land went out of busi ness, he began working for Mt. Valley Land Co. again. Harris will be handling lis tings for the Heppner, Lexing ton and lone areas at his Condon office. His phone number is 384-5114. .umber is 384-5114. & April mailed contracts to publicly owned utilities and coopera- tivps that Ho not ppnprtp their tives that do not generate their own power. These utilities serve about one-third of the region's irrigation demand. The rest is served by investor owned utilities or public gene rating utilities. About 20,000 individual irrigators are eligi ble for the sale. "The success of this pro gram will determine the fu ture of such offers," Johnson said. "We hope irrigators re spond enthusiastically so we can offer similar sales in the future." For more information, irri gators should contact their local utilities or B.P.A. area and district offices, Johnson said. Weather by the City of Heppner sponsor child LD. registry Mar. 7 & 8 children which can be used if a child becomes missing, says Lonny Watne of the Heppner Lions Club. Local law enforcement agencies will also take part in the program. The child's vital statistics information will be collected as well as his fingerprints. the same charges. Bruce Carr, 21, of Pendleton, and Henry M. Carr, 28, of Hermis ton were arraigned on three counts of alleged first degree Burglary of the Elks Lodge, Heppner Bowl and Vern's 76. About $500 was taken from the Elks Lodge's safe. An American flag was also taken from the lodge. At Heppner bowl, an undetermined Farmers to By STEVE CAMPBELL Extension Agent Morrow Co. Chuck Nelson of Lexington, Oregon Wheat Growers League transportation chair man, has been working with the Oregon Motor Vehicles Division on an informational letter that will be sent to all present holders of Oregon farm license plates. The letter will outline the new F-plate legislation passed in 1983. The state is asking all farmers to recertify that they are farmers presently Stock dog demonstrations added to Mar. 17 activities A"? ! - - , j . VvrfT' ? - .' - , . - ' " - jv . " ' . - . Cliff Sleelman at a stock dog Cliff Steelman of Walla Walla, Wash, will be conduc ting stock dog demonstrations on Saturday, Mar. 17, in con junction with Heppner's St. Patrick's Day celebration. Two demonstrations are sche duled at the Morrow County Fairgrounds near the grand stands. The first will begin at 3 p.m., followed by another at 4 p.m. Steelman, who breeds and trains primarily Boarder Col lies, has six dogs of his own. Bob, the dog he will use for the demonstrations with sheep, is blind. High Low Precip. Tues., Feb. 14 48 35 .04 Wed., Feb. 15 . 53 33 .25 Thurs., Feb. 16 40 30 .10 Fri., Feb. 17 45 29 Sat., Feb. 18 50 24 Sun., Feb. 19 46 36 .08 Sun., Feb. 20 53 33 .21 This material,, along with other information to assist parents in putting together a proper missing child I.D. kit, will be placed in a packet form for parents. Parents will be instructed to keep the infor mation where it is readily available for use by them and law enforcement agencies if a amount of money was taken from video machines, as well as about $20 from the cash register. At Vern's 76, $142 in cash, plus checks and credit cards were taken. The four were arrested last week by Oregon State Police. Ron Hosek of the O.S.P. said the tw o McNabbs, Henry Carr and Kevin Holloway, 19, of receive letter engaged in a farming opera tion. The letters will be sent at the end of February and the deadline for recertification will be March 31. The recertification process will be handled through the HHS students to take part in FFA broadcast A 10 to 15 minute broadcast will be shown on channel 3 in Heppner to commemorate National Future Farmers of America Week, announced Roger Records, F.F.A. in structor at Heppner High School. The segment will be demonstration held in Pendleton On Sunday, Mr. 18, Steel man will conduct a stock dog clinic beginning at 8 a.m. at the fairgrounds. Topics to be cov ered at the clinic will include the health and care of new pups, outruns, gather and fetch, driving, penning and shedding. The clinic should conclude between 4 and 5 p.m. Persons wishing to bring a dog for participation in the clinic on Sunday should re quest a reservation by Wed nesday, Feb. 29. It is suggested that those who plan to take part bring a lunch, a tape recorder and II child becomes missing. Watne estimates the process will take 10 to 20 minutes per child, and the club hopes to be able to process two or three children at a time. For more information, contact, Toni Watne, 676-5049. Stanfield, have also been charged with allegedly bur glarizing Oregon Trail Mini Storage in Hermiston. In addi tion, the McNabbs have been charged with allegedly bur glarizing the Stanfield Car Wash and the Stanfield Moose Lodge, Hosek said. At Friday's arraignment bail was set for the McNabbs and the Carrs at $20,000 each. about F-plates Salem office of the Oregon Motor Vehicles Division. A phone number will be given in the letter so that additional information may be obtained. aired at 3:30 p.m. on Thrus day, Feb. 23 and again at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24. Dorothy Hays will give the F.F.A. Creed and other members w ill discuss past and future chapter activities. SJttTi.! . - . - . - 'v ; . - - -'" in 1980. paper for notes. The clinic is free but space is United to 12 dogs per ses sion. Morning and afternoon sessions will be scheduled if needed. Reservations may be made on a first come, first served basis by contacting Hutch's Printing Co., P.O. Box 676, Heppner, Oregon 97836, or phone 676-9001. Those who register are asked to include their name, address, tele phone number and the breed of dog that will be used in the clinic.
