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By Jmiine Weatherford
After I wrote a column at the ending of January, I
embarked on a travel experience that took me a great
distance from Hcppner and exposed me to part of the world
1 had long hoped to nee. Ai I write this 1 have not yet gathered
my February collection of mall and pcrlodicaU and gotten
around to checking out home folks.
My big trip began with the familiar first step of driving
over to Arlington and then down the Columbia and south to
Corvallis with Martha Klng'a good company. After leaving
Martha with her sister, Barbara, and visiting with my cousin
and some old friends in Corvallis for two nlghU and days, I
drove on south to Medford where I spent three nights and
days enjoying my second son and his family before flying off
toward Australia, New Zealand and French Polynesia.
My daughter-in-law, Bette, took me out to the Medford
Airport on Feb. 1 where after checking through my baggage,
I noted former Heppncr High School biology teacher Kirk
Horn was standing in the waiting area. We had a short visit.
He is working as a U.S. Forest Service biologist and does
considerable traveling. When I told him where I was headed
he declared, "Justine, you will Just love New Zealand." He
had really enjoyed his time there. He asked about Heppner
generally and wanted an update on my stepdaughter Karla.
In the airports at San Francisco and Los Angeles I met the
21 persons with whom I would travel for the next three weeks
including a married couple from Vale, Ore., and 19 fine folks
from various locations in Idaho. Most of my traveling was
with a King-first with friend Martha and then I was paired
with attractive Julianne King from Harnett, Idaho.
From L.A. we flew on Qantas for R.5 hours to a very early
morning re-fueling stop at Papeete, Tahiti. Then we
confinued another eight hours and 3,799 miles farther
southwesterly to Sydney, Australia, where after the still
loaded plane was carefully fumigated by Australian Dept. of
Agriculture officials, we got off and went through the entry
process and then very quickly boarded another Qantas flight
of over three hours and 1,341 more miles to Auckland, New
Zealand. I was told that our indirect trip to Auckland cost a
great deal less (about $700 per person) than flying directly
there from L.A.
So my round trip from home and back covered zpprcxi
mately 24,700 miles, including those miles described above
plus around 1,250 miles by bus and private cars in New
Zealand, about 2,500 miles by bus, private car, sightseeing
boat and air in Australia, and then maybe a total of 400 miles
on a cruise ship and truck-bus and by air in the Society
Inlands (French Polynesia). I've Just checked out the
circumference of the earth at the equator and find I traveled
Just about 200 miles less than that 24,901 .55 miles, No wonder
I was sort of weary when I reached home last Saturday night.
It was difficult for me to keep track of time as we moved
along. Heppner is in ZD-7, which means seven time zones
west of Greenwich, near London, England. We moved west
through ZD 8, -9, -10, -U and half of -12, where we crossed the
International Dateline midway between Tahiti and Australia
and moved into ZD 412, then 11, and 10 which includes
Sydney and much of eastern Australia. New Zealand is in the
4 12 Zone Description. My 1964 had no February 2, as that
day was completely lost. However when I flew homeward I
seem to have had two February 22nds. Really confusing.
Right now I want to take a few lines to say how helpful it
would be, especially to travelers and business people, if the
U.S. would Join most of the rest of the world in using metric
measurements and giving temperature in Celsius or
centigrade. Everyplace I've been distances are not given in
miles. One amusing exception I found where an old form of
measuring is used was on the bathroom scales in the homes
in which I stayed. How strange to have the scale needle stop
near 11 or 12 and to be told that was an accurate measure of
one's weight because it meant 11 or 12 stones (a stone equals
14 pounds). So many of us realized we had been sitting too
much and eating too well.
The tour I chose was rather unusual, and I feel it was
outstanding because it did not Just include Jumping from one
city to another and sightseeing at a few well known places in
each country, but was arranged around stays on farms and
ranches on New Zealand's North Island and in Australia's
most populous state, New South Wales. Mrs. King and I spent
four nights and days as guests on two ranches in N.Z. and I
spent two nights with another companion on one Australian
property and one night each on two other large properties
with three different visiting American women.
We were told that In N.Z. the crop farms and orchards are
called farms, and the sheep, cattle and deer are cared for on
ranches. In Australia the rural folks along the eastern
coastal areas are on farms or ranches, those further inland
on larger places are on properties (a new term to me), and
only in the far west and north are the really huge, outback
places, called stations.
We found that staying in homes was the most delightful
part of our trip. We ate dinner, lunch and breakfast with
families, were taken around their property, chatted with
them about the differences in our lives and homes. We had
plenty of time for the rush to buy souvenirs, but did not spend
nearly as much time in shops as many travelers do
nowadays.
During the coming three weeks of March, I plan to write
articles about euch nation in which I visited and share with
you some of what I learned and enjoyed seeing in New
Zealand, Australia and French Polynesia. As I traveled I
made pages of notes in a small notebook which most
unfortunately I managed to lose on our very last island visit.
As we took the circulat tour around Bora Bora In a rather
crude truck-bus, just after we got off the "sealed" road onto a
graveled section, we came upon an unusual electric power
plant. The fuel used is the husks of coconuts and hte Islanders
haul trucks nad pickup loads of these husks there and store
them in high wire enclosures until they are burned to make
power for that island. I decided to take a picture from the
open, traveling truck to show Fred Toombs and his crews
how economically electricity can be produced on a tropical
island. As I juggled with my camera I had my notebook and
pencil on my lap from which it slid. So off we Jogged without
my three week's worth of notes. The beautiful brown-skinned
truck-bus driver "Mimi" said she would try to pick it up on
the next trip. A few miles further Mimi's truck refused to
proceed. Ten of us were transported to our over-the-mountains
destination on the following truck and most of the
gorup sat in the sun with Mimi until a relief truck picked
them up.
Much later that day when I next saw Mimi she said, "So
sorry Madame, but I couldn't find your notebook." Because
of this mishap I may not include in my articles some of the
interesting bits I had scribbled into that lost-forever
notebook. I sure hope the pictures of the coconut-fueled
power plant come out well.
Lions Club presents flags to
Heppner first graders
The Heppner Gazette-Timet, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 1, 1984 THREE
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Heppner Lions Club members Bob Kahl (right) and John Edmundson presented American flags
to first graders at Heppner Elementary School last Tuesday in an effort to promote patriotism.
The students also received a pamphlet explaining the history of the flag and information
concerning its display.
to meet
Unit Nine (Morrow and
Umatilla counties) of the Ore
gon Retired Educators Asso
ciation will meet Saturday,
Mar. 3, at the Assembly of God
Church at Hurlburt St. in
Hermiston.
A business meeting will be
gin at 11 a.m. followed by
lunch at 12 noon and a pro
gram at 1 p.m. The nomina
ting committee will give its
report, said a spokesperson.
Louise Harmon is program
chairman. A musical and slide
program, "Climbing the Mat
terhorn" will be presented by
Dory and George Fleshman
from LaGrande.
The hostess committee is
made up of Lloyd and Gladys
Howton, Henry and Dorothy
Kopacz and Lawrence and
Edna Gray.
All retired educators and
their spouses are invited to
attend, the spokesperson said.
THANK YOU!
B2B8SS3B3S333SSC!
Thank you to everyone who
attended, played, bid and
made donations at the
Calcutta Pool Tournament
last Saturday to help
Debbie Sharp.
Special thanks to Blackhorse
Tavern, Bucknum's, Wagon
Wheel, V&G Tavern and
the Henoner Elks for all
their help. j
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