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Published »very Thurxday and entered as
sreond class matter at the Poat Office at Heppner,
Oregon under the Act of March J. 1879
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Times. P O Bo* 337, Heppner, Oregon 9783«
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 "
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