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I T W O -T h * H t f f m t t U n t i l » - T i n * « . H r p p n r r _______ _ O rrg a a . T h u rx d a y . J u ly 12 . 19*4 Sheriff’s Report Th» Officia! N'»w»pap»r of th* O ty of Hrppnrr and Ih» County of Morrow lb « N t f f M f GAZETTE-TIM ES Cwwalp • H a a a O a a t t W m I I v Ncscytp«« USPS 240 430 Published »very Thurxday and entered as sreond class matter at the Poat Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March J. 1879 Second Class postage paid at Heppner. Oregon Office at 147 West Willow Street Telephone <5031 678 9228 Address communications to the Heppner Gazette Times. P O Bo* 337, Heppner, Oregon 9783« *10 in Morrow, Umatilla, Wheeler A Gilliam counties 112 elsewhere David anil April Sykes, Publishers G-T to change format Next week’s issue of the Gazette-Times will have a “new look” about it. Our pages will be smaller and our columns wider. The change is being made to conform to efforts of papers across the state, and the country, to standardize page sizes and column widths. In newspapers ads are bought, and news is measured, with a measurement called a column inch. In other words, one column inch is a measurement of one column wide by one inch deep Two column inches is either one column wide by two inches deep, or two columns wide by one inch deep. Because newspapers across the country have a variety of over 400 different column widths, comparisons among papers were very diffi cult to make. The National Newspaper Association and the Oregon Newspapers Publishers Association, both of which the Gazette is a member, have been urging for standardization for some years. Starting July 18 our page size will drop from 15 inches to 13 inches wide, and we will change our format from eight columns to six columns. The page length will remain the same. In addition to standardization we feel the new narrower page will be easier to handle and the new, wider columns, easier to read. David Sykes Publisher Letters u> the Editor Cave inhabited by area Indians^ Co (hr editor No historical significance I received yeslerday a letter from the Highway Depart ment containing a copy of a letter to them from our histor ical society signed by them wytng that our Indian cave was of no historical signifi cance This cave has the most smoke blackened ceilings I have ever seen showing a history of many campfires We are systematically de stroying and losing every sign and petroglyph of Indian oc cupation m this county The Historical Society is only con cerned with the last too years and only the whiles When the whites have been here only 100 years and the Indians 1200 years and of those 1200 years the county got progressively better and every one of the whites too years we have pro j[ressively destroyed it through erosion and denuding our forests and killing off our game The Indian kept every treaty they made and we broke every treaty we made Col Gilliam has the only monument at Wells Springs of Indian wars and he was killed by accident and carelessness Many old families here have mixed Indian blood in their ancestry and have proof of it Yet there is no historical significance in any historical artifact here Has any one heard of Win nemucca or read her diary’ Mel Boyer at the Lexington airport has it It will open your eyes She was the daughter of Chief Winnemuc ca of the Piute tribe in mirth em Nevada She and her mother and father were made prisoners of Idaho Chief Buf falo Horn who with his 500 warriors came to Oregon to wipe out the towns of Heppner. Pendleton and Umatilla and would quite easily have done so if it hadn't been for the 14 year old girl Wmnemucca She escaped from Buffalo Horn at about the town of John Day and rode for three days hare back to the Dalles to notify Gen Howard of Buffalo Horn, of his intentions Gen Howard s wife kept Winne mucca in bed for two weeks until the great sores on her legs had healed lien How ard and his troops caught Buffalo Horn's forces and defeated them at Battle Mountain, thereby saving all of the people in Heppner Pendleton, and Umatilla And there is no Indian hist orical significance in Morrow County' Of course it's history that Gen Howard against his will was forced to deliver Chief Wmnemucca and his Piute tribe to Yakima in the dead of winter in the March of Tears when all of the babies ( ’ i. and old folks perished and the Indian agent up there forced the Piutes to give their clothes and blankets for food There the most of them died The girl then 15, rode from Yakima to Port Klamath to tell O n Howard of her tribe's fate This was still in winter and they could have stayed in the cave in question as it's the only shelter from the river to the mountains We are trying to preserve some of the petroglyphs on rocks in the county and due to the family of the Stillmans a good display of artifacts is displayed in the museum here In Heppner Yes the Indian people were a great people and should be remembered as such O W Cutsforth The Morrow County Sher iff s Department at the Mor row County Courthouse in Hrppnrr handled the following business during the past week On July 2. the Boardman Kirr liepartment responded to a grass fire at Wilson Trailer court On July 3, the Boardman Kire Department responded to the Marina area in Boardman to a grass fire The extent of the damage was unknown Also on July 3, the Heppner Police Department received a report of a theft at Cal's laiunge and Cale during the early morning hours Approx imatelv *2.500 in cash and checks were reported missing Heppner Police Department handled the investigation Kaymond Mills. 34. Ie>xing ton, was arrested later by (Tatskame Police Department on a warrant for Theft 1 stemming from the incident Mills was lodged at Columbia County Jail, then later ar raigned and transferred to the Umatilla County Jail In a third July 3 incident the Boardman Kire Department responded to a grass fire on Boardman Avenue near Hab dock apartments In a fourth July 3 incident, a Boardman Ambulance re sponded to a Boardman resi dence and transported a sub ject to Good Shepherd Hospit al in Hermiston on July 6. the Boardman Kire Department responded to a mobil home fire on the south end of Paul Smith Koad A Boardman Ambulance also re sponded and transported a fire fighter with an injury to North Morrow Medical Clinic Also on July 6. both Board man ambulances responded to a motor vehicle accident eight miles west of Boardman lafeguard I II was also called out Oregon State Police handled the accident On July 7. Boardman Kire Units responded to a grass fire at the corner of Kinkade and Blalock in Boardman Also on July 7, the Heppner Kire Department responded to a grass fire one mile south of Kmzua Mill On July 8. a Boardman Ambulance responded to a cal! at the Dodge City Inn A female with unknown injuries was transported to Good Shep herd Hospital It was Cox. of Pendleton, who introduced the matter in the stale legislature known as Morrow County House Bill No 4 Representative Morrow was popular with the legists tors, and as no other name for the proposed new county was offered, they put his name on the bill and then on the new county Morrow County was officially bom on Kebruary 16. 1885 4 4 ' Kriday, July 13 free blood pressure clinic and immunize lions Morrow County Health Department, school district office. Ia*xington. B a m to noon and 1 to 4 p m Monday. July 16 through Thursday. July 19 Office closed for vacation Kriday . July 21) free blood pressure clinic and immunize tions. Morrow County Health Department, school district office, la-xington H a m to noon and I to 4 p m Tuesday. July 24 immun ■ rations. Irrigon County off ices. I to 4 p m Kriday. July 27 free blood pressure clinic and immunize lions Morrow County Health Department school district office, la-xington. B a m to noon and I to 4 p m Public Meetings Monday. July It. Morrow County School Board N p m A l Houghton. Irrigon Hep pner Kite Department. 7 :gi p m . Hcppnci Tuesday. July 17 Heppner Morrow Co Chamber of Com merer, noon Heppner Klks I-odgr. |on,. J'lanmng Com mission. 7 30 p m , city hall. Morrow Co Museum Com mis »ton. 7 3n p m . museum Wednesday. July 18 Mor row Co Court 9 a m . Court house Heppner Monday July 23 Heppner Kire Dept .7 Ml p m .fire hall Tuesday, July 24 Pioneer M em orial Hospital Board 9 30 a m . hospital, Heppner H eppner M orrow County Chamber of Commerce, noon Heppner Klks Club Wednesday July 25 Mor row County Court. 9 a m north Morrow annex Irrigon Hepner Public Library Hoard 8 p m . Heppner Library Monday. July 30 Morrow County Planning Commission. 7 30 p m . north Morrow An nex. Irrigon lone News Visitors at the home of laiura Holtz in lone over the past weekend were her niece. Heidi and her husband Krme Katon. their daughter Wilma and her husband. Ted Gran dall. all from Lignite. North Dakota Review» county’s quic k birth To the editor Because from now until Kebruary 1«, 1985, readers will be reading and hearing about the Centennial of Morrow County, It seems that a preliminary, short review of the county's quick birth and a little about its infancy is ap propnate By the beginning of 1885. when the population of young Umatilla County began to see tremendous growth with many people settling in Us south western area, these set tiers began to ask for a chan *e They felt that going to Pen illeton was too time and ener gy consuming for every legal need they had Umatilla County had been separated from Wasco County in 1862. and the county seat was strongly established in Pen delton Jackson Morrow, a merchant from the Heppner area and L B Cox. a Prndle ton lawyer were the county s representatives in the Oregon State House of Represent a lives At T tin tfh Justice Court Report Health Dept. Those same legislators re sponded to a need of folks in eastern Wasco County by es tahlishing Gilliam County on Kebruary 25. of the same year In each of these new counties vigorous struggles took place over the designation of a town as the permanent county seat Heppner and Arlington were named as temporary seats by the legislature County resi dents were given the right to vote for their county seats la-xington. settled earlier than Heppner. fought hard but lost the permanent designation in its struggle against larger and more rapidly growing Hep pner in the 18H6 election Alkali, or Arlington, lost to Condon in Gilliam County af ter three elections in 188« 1888 and finally in 1890 As M arion Weatherford states in his hook Arlington Child of the Colum bia." "These county seat battles left scars for two generations, and there are still people living in the areas who remember remember, and don't like it " Justine Weatherford HHS classes of ‘64-‘66 slate reunion Heppner High School class es of 1984 through 1966 have scheduled a reunion at the Heppner Klks Didge Satur day. July 14 beginning at 8 p m All friends, relatives and teachers are invited to join classmates in renewing old acquaintances said a spokes person for the reunion Morrow County Justice Court at the Morrow County Courthouse in Heppner hand led thr following rases during the past week Bruce Allen Way, Heppner Improper I ’assing *15 fine I ’eter l-ennon Heppner Dis obeyed Stop Sign Kine waiv ed Ted R Rappe. Irrigon Insufficient Number of Coast Guard Approved Lifesaving Devices. *26 fine Kyle II Steineke. Harbor Oregon Disobey ed Stop Sign *29 bail forfeited Roger Dale Britt Heppner Disobeyed Stop Sign *24 fine Jeffrey Keith Key. lone fix pired Vehicle License *9 fine Christopher K Rietmann. lone Minor in Possession by Consumption *57 fine Merle Duane Barrow lone Kurmshing Alcoholic Bever ages to Minors. »382 fine Hole-inone Wayne Kuhn of Hermiston aced the 142 yard ninth hole with an eight iron at Wilson s Willow Run golf course- in Boardman July 3. 1984 This is Kuhn's third hole in one in 24 years of golfing Sifting Hospital Notes Obituaries The following patients were admitted and released from Pioneer Memorial Hospital during the past week James Swanson, lone, ad milled Julv 2. discharged July 4 Klorence Green. Heppner. admitted July 4 discharged Katherine *’k a y ’’ W alton Katherine Kay" Walton. 68. of I>ong Creek died Satur day. July 7. 1984 at Si Mary's Community Hospital. Walla Walla, Washington She was born in Portland July 22. 1915 She attended Range Grade School and grad uated from St Joseph Acad rm y. Pendleton She also attended Marylhurst College in Portland Octotier 10. 19:1«. she was married to J K Bud Walton in Pendleton She was a member of St Katherine Mission Long Creek, and the Catholic Daughters of America July 8 laiuise Parley. Heppner.ad milted July 5. discharged July 8 . Jerry McKinnon. Heppner admitted July 5. discharged July 6, and Kred Hoskins. Heppner. admitted July 6, discharged July 8 Colleen Greenup Heppner. was admitted to the hospital July 5 and was still receiving care at press time Monday 2 area residents receive degrees from WOSC Two area students received degrees from Western Oregon Stale College at commence ment exercises on the camp us Saturday . June 9 Carol Ann Donovan of Boardman HA in Kducation. and Karen Ann Beck.of lone an MS in Kducation A " d id tio lo g u t" n one w h o c o lle c ts p ic tu re p o itc a rd v B USIN ESS D IR E C T O R Y A U C T IO N E E R S ( / IT T IC S throu gh th e Survivors include her hus band J K Bud" Walton of long Creek two sons. Paul D and J Tim . both of Long Creek a daughter Nancy K Carey of Pendleton and 12 grandchildren She was preceded in death by one son James ( Walton Recitation of the rosary was Monday . 7 p m at the Burns Mortuary Chapel in Pendle ion Kunoral Mass was al 10 a m Tuesday July 10 at the Walton Ranch in long Creek with interment following at Walton Cemetery Contributions for those who wish may be made to St Katherine Mission Building Kund. in care of Tim and Pallie Walton. North Star Route, long Creek Oregon Burns Mortuary. Pendleton was in charge of arrange ments H O W A R D SALM O N AUCTIONEER 4 8 1 -6 5 8 6 I N I "If#* tin a l l l y / h ' m o f a u c t i o n » , c o n v e r t — la Y ea n Ago Thursday. July 11. 1974 Voters were preparing to go to the polls to vole a second time on the hospital budget The new levy reflected an increase of *24 msi over pre vious years la-nna Smith announced her retirement as secretary trea surer of the Morrow County Kair and Roden after 14 years of service 25 A ears Ago Thursday . July 9. 1953 'The largest building per mil to tie issued this year in Heppner for the construction of a *55.(Mi parish hall for St Patrick's Catholic Church was approved Monday night by the city council Thr county's 1953 harvest was underway and promising to be one of the best in years Barley was running one to one and one half tons per acre and wheat at 30 bu per acre in the north la-xmglon area A new four wheel drive jeep pickup was under construction and was expected to lie in use by the Heppner fire depart ment soon for fighting grass and field fires 50 A e a rs Ago Thursday. July 12, 1934 Granges of the la-na la-x inglon. lone and Rhea Creek communities were sponsoring candidates for Rodeo queen who were to tie introduced at a Nominating Dance on Satur day night As for the previous year, the candidate receiving the most votes in the popular voting would be the rodeo queen with the other candid ates as attendants "W K Pruyn. watermastrr. received u letter this week from Dr Krederick D Strick er. stale health officer, in regard to use of chlorine in water Dr Strieker said. "You can assure the water users that there is no danger to animal or plant life due to use of chlorine in water in the ordinary doses used It has been used in the fish hatcher les without any danger to fish life which is probably the most sensitive form of life we have in the water Chlorinated water is used by millions of people throughout the country and up to the present time no harmful effects have been produced " A U TO PARTS HEPPNER AUTO PARTS iîÏÏflL IRATO* 234 N. 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