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3 big days of rodeo this weekend 280 cowboys enter open Th e H eppner Tues Aug 7 Wed Aug 8 Thurs . Aug 4 F r i , Aug 10 Sat Aug II Sun , Aug 12 Mon Aug 13 Gazette-Times M o r r o w C o u n t y 's H o m e - O w n e d W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r NOI 102 NO JJ T in BSD 13. A l (.IS T I«. II H i'|)|)n rr, O n v n n Queen Sylvia is a girl on the go Queen Sylvia Ladd This year's Morrow County Fair & Rodeo Queen Sylvia 1-add is most definitely a g irl on the go laving on her fam ily's wheat and cattle ranch outside of lone. Queen Sylvia keeps a busy schedule for herself with school, hobbies, work and. of course, the many court activities required during her reign in 1484 The youngest of three children Sylvia graduated from Blu*- Moun tain Community College last June at the age of 18 with an associate of arts in liberal arts She plans to enter either Oregon State University or a Washington College, majoring in technical journalism with emphasis in animal science 2.) rodeo i: r u .i » High 91 95 90 100 94 76 80 M oryorw (jr d b Jim Hayes (left) of the Morrow County Rodeo Board occepis the Morrow County Amateur CoK Roping Soddle from Horry Kenmson, general manager of Kin/ua Corp Kinzua Corporation with its contri button of the Morrow County Ama leur Calf Roping Saddle for 34 consecutive years is the largest single sponsor of the Morrow County Rodeo We donate the saddle yearly for the people of Morrow County." said Harry Kenmson. gen eral manager for Kinzua Corpora tion since 1975 The first saddles were purchased from various saddle makers such as Joe Snyder. Kenneth Green, Ben Tarrell. and the laiyd Brothers Jack and Tom Kinzua began purchasing the saddle from Ham leys in 1959 the first Hamley s saddle cost $360 and had a roper style horn with a fancy stamp pattern, a trophy prize saddle horn, quilted seat and en graving which read Amateur Calf Roping champion. Heppner Rodeo, presented hy Heppner Bine Mills Fstimates of the saddle's current worth are $1,500, said a spokesper son for the rodeo Fach saddle is unique Severe Brothers Saddlery is Rodeo Schedule Friday, Angus 17 1 3 30 p m Pay Morrow County entries at the Contestant gate 4 p m Slack for Morrow County Team Ropers. Steer Wrestling and < »pen Calf Roping 7 30 p m Morrow County Show Ip m la m Rodeo Dance at the fairgrounds Music by "Backseat Driver " Saturday, August IS 710 a m T O P S Breakfast at Heppner City Park 9 30 a m Judging begins of parade entries 10 a m • Rodeo parade, downtown Heppner 130 p.m NRA IRA. WRA Open Rodeo Pit Barbecue Beef Dinner at All Saints’ Fpiscopal Church in 5-7 p m Heppner Rodeo Dance at the fairgrounds, music by "Backseat 9 p m l a m D river" Sunday. August I* 710 a m Wranglers' Cowboy Breakfast at the fairgrounds I IS p m. Suicide Race I 30pm NRA WRA IRA Open Rodeo 4 9 Free Id liv the ( its of H eppnor Vs the (air winds down people are gearing up for rodeo Morrow Coun ty s annual event gets underway Friday with an evening performan c which begins a full weekend of activities The Morrow County Rodeo on Friday w ill begin at 7 30 p m Follow ing the rodeo, a dance w ill be held in the pav illion at the fairgrounds beginning at 9 p m The "Backseat D river' will provide mu sic at both Friday 's and Saturday's dances For early parade fans, this year a cowboy breakfast w ill be served at tile Heppner City Park from 7 to 10 a m . Saturday, August 18 At 10 a m the Main Street Parade will iiegin making its way through town Those who plan to participate in the parude need to meet at the grain elevator on Riverside St at 9 a m At I 30 p m , the W H A I R A N R A rodeo begins From 5 to 7 p m pit hartiecued tx-ef dinners w ill bo served at All Saints Fpiscopal Church The din n*-r which has been held for over 20 years, w ill include pit barbecued b*ef baked potatoes, beans, french bread, salads, desserts and drinks Tickrts are »5 30 lor adults. »4 M) for s n io r citizens and 83 50 for children 1 ' and under I t s p m "Backseat D rive r" w ill * tu.;k at the pavilion for another night of dancing On Sunday morning the aroma of bam. eggs, hashbrowns. pancakes and hot coffee w ill fill the air at the Kelly Morgan, son of Virgil and Debbie Morgan of lone, is reody for the Ret Show at the County Fair. fairgrounds as the Wranglers Cow hoy Breakfast is served from 7 to 10 a m Cost w ill tie $:i for adults and t l 50 for children 12 and under At 1 15 the final performance of the Morrow County Rodeo w ill get underway with a suicide race The Kinzua donates saddle for 34' consecutive year by la * SI 59 61 SS S3 43 45 & Sun. As Fair activities end. Rodeo begins A g irl of many hobbies, Sylvia says she likes best to write penning short stories and poems in her spare time and also serving two years as the co editor of the BMCC news paper Her other interests include draw ing showing horses from her cous in s ranch and play ing the tenor and baritone sax a phone as well as the clarinet She played with the jazz concert and community band» while attend ing BMCC Sylvia also works on the ranch, helping her parents m a n a g e the horses and animals on the 3.MW acres, where polled Hereford», horses grain and alfalfa hay are raised The daughter of Elm er and lair raine Ladd. Sylvia is a long lime participant in the Fair A Hodeo Court she became a pennant bearer in 1474 at age 12. with Queen llebbie Palmer She continued as pennant bearer for two years, when she was named the first traveling Jr llodeo Flag carrier By 1983 she was old enough to tie a princess, and she served on the court of Queen Lottie laiughlin My lather Flm er. mother lair raine and older brother Richard la senior at O S U > all have a great part in my life as a county represen tative." says Sylvia of her many years with the court "They ve supported me for six years now What's the ties! part of being on the court ’ " I enjoy going out and meeting people I can't count the number of people I ve met over the years I'm proud of my county and I'm proud to get out and say I'm a representative of Morrow County.' she savs F*vo%' Sat. the current supplier of the trophy saddle Kinzua Corporation's donation of the saddle is the larges single effort in sponsorship for the Morrow i oun ty Hodeo emphasized Mickey Madis on of the Rodeo Hoard The following amateur calf ropers have received the Morrow County Saddle 1950 W <» George. 1951 Archie Murchison. 1952 Don Greenup. 1953 Floyd Jones, 1954 Bob G am m ell, 1955 Howard Bryant. 1956 R R Fulleton. $957 Don Fvans, 1958 Neil Reamer. 1959 Rod Murrray, I960 Ron Currin. 1961 Charles Daly, 1962 Jim Farley. 1963 Bill llealy. 1964 Max Heiberg. 1965 Cornett Green. 1966 Bob Steagall, 1967 Bob Fetsch, 1968 Tom Martin, 1969 Jerry Dougherty. l97UMark Murray, 1971 Monte Fvans, 1972 Matt Murray, 1973 Mike Bartlow, 1974 Kyle Robinson. 1975 Ken Bel cher. 1976 Jerry Gentry. 1977 Dick Hoffman, 1978 Tim Daly, 1979 Blair Bhilippi 1980Joedy Marlatt, 1981 C liff Dougherty. 1982 Jack McGuire and 1983 Mike Currin With the progress of Kinzua Cor pnration has come the progress of Heppner and of the Morrow County Rodeo explained the spokesperson Kinzua was founded in 1927 by F I) Wetmoreof Warren. Bennsylvama He purchased 50.0UO acres of timber lands and built his only m ill at Kinzua. Oregon in 1928 Kinzua Bine Mills Company sold to its present owners in 1953 and was renamed Kinzua Corporation The logging operations became known as Fastcrn Oregon l/igging Company Heppner Bine Mills in Heppner which was built in 1939 and owned by Orville Smith. Bhil Mahoney and the K raft Cheese Company sold to Morris Hitchcock in 1956 and to Kinzua Corporation in 1959 Kinzua Corporation further acquired the Heppner 1 .umber Company in 1971 which had stud mills in Heppner and Spray In 1976. because it was no longer economically feasible to maintain the company town at Kinzua. it was decided to consolidate the com pany’i operations in Heppner where a completely computerize*! sawmill was built in 197H followed by the addition of a small log m ill in 1981 and a whole log chipper in 1982 The Corporation is currently building a co generation plant "We are in the process of utilizing all of the forest products and farming the forest of slash, cull. thin, and merchantable materials." concluded a spokesper son for Kinzua Corporation NRA WRA IRA Open Rodeo will continue at I 30 p m The Sunday rodeo performance marks the end of another week of Fair and Rodeo. Morrow County's biggest event 25 acres of wheat burned A fire at the Fritz Cutsforth ranch last Thursday afternoon. Aug 9. burned 25 acres of irrigated, stand mg wheat The fire reportedly la-gun from a combine and was almost smothered with fire exting uishers used by the harvest crew However, the fire flared up again Neighbors who saw the smoke and flames arrived at the site anil helped snuff out the blaze before It spread A spokesperson from the Cutsforth ranch said that the wheat was insured MCGG will donate mimeograph MCGG has a mimeograph ma chine that they w ill donate to any organization in the area than can use the machine It is a Rimisi Vickens model 865 If interested contact Christy or Dehbie at 989 8221 Heppner City Council hears Main St. courtship caiLses problems A mimture stud horse wanting to get together with a full size mare is causing problems between neigh hors on Main street in Heppner. the city council was told last week Irene Anhorn. who lives at 560 Main, said a neighbor has fenced in property across from her yard where the miniature horse is kept, and is running a horse there "The mare comes down in front of my house and belters," she told the council, and "w ell it's causing prob lems." She said her stud horse got out. “ and I ’ll tell you it was pretty ridiculous " Anhorn said she wanted the city to do something bec ause the horse is on city property "We've had a number of animal complaints, and it may be we are going to have to do some rethinking on animal permits within the city lim its.' Mayor C liff Green said “ You're talking ahout chickens, ducks, rabbits, etc that's one thing, but stud horses and mares are different ” In other business, the council granted a permit to Babe Harris 160 S Chase St to keep a banty \ rooster and two hens on her proper ty "I'm not planning on anymore," she said appointed Floyd Wilks pastor of the Heppner Nazarene Church, to serve on the council filling the vacancy left with the resignation of Ron Forrar earlier Wilks w ill have to run on the Nov ballot to retain the position voted to increase the charge for door lo-door magazine salesmen in the city from one dollar to 125. the same charged to other peddlers approved renewal liquor licenses to Heppner Flks Izidge Hucknum's Tavern and Heppner Howl gave its okay for the Flks cour lesy car to park in the police only, parking spot bet ween 4 p m and 2 30 a m The ra r is used to give people rides home Central Mkt. seLs big top sale Shop under the big top this Thurs day and Friday during Central Market's parking lot tent sale Central w ill be moving some of their produce out under a tent. which w ill be set up in the parking lot next to the store
