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FO C R -T W Hrppnrr G t l K I * - T l M . H rppnr. O rrgM . Thursday. N .v rm b rr X IMI O ff the front page One of the lucky ones Grain Growers to build $320,000 grain elevator in Heppner The Morrow County Grain Grow ers expect to ita rt construction soon on a new 1330.000 grain elevator in Heppner. replacing the one which was destroy«] by a fire Oct 2. it was announced Monday The new elevator would have two 75,000 bushel storage tanks, a 10.000 bushel leg. and would be located on W v a n M t street near the Shell bulk oil plant at the Heppner city limits Grain Growers General Manager l-arry Mills says the new site will tie better for unloading grain because trucks will have less trouble getting in and out. and the new larger lift will allow the elevator to unload grain (aster Mills announced the new construe lion project during the Grain Grow ers annual meeting Monday night in Heppner He said the coup is in the process o( taking bids on the new elevator now. and that It is expected to be completed by July of IMS in time (or narvest The co-op will be leasing the property (rom the railroad, and Milts said a decision hasn't been reached on what to do with the property at the site ol the old elevator on landen Way. however, he speculated it. along with tti. equipment, would be sold The old elevator, which was most ly destroyed by a (ire Oct 2. had a grain capacity ol Jon non b u s h e ls however, there were problems with trucks pulling on and o(( the adja cent highway, and the old li(t equip men! did not unload grain at a very (ast rate, causing delays. Mills said Also at the annual meeting plans were announced to remodel the Gram Growers elevator at lone The remodeling would cost 1230. ooo Mills said, and would include putting in new unloading equipment to speed up o((1oading there "With these bigger trucks they re using, we haven't been able to keep F F A earns money, awards The Heppner Future Farmers o( America Chapter held it's annual slave sale on Thursday. Oct 25 Auctioneer Kenny Grieb and assist ants Chris Kaueh. Jim Clymore and John Knapp, sold 30 slaves The slave sale groused over 11.400 Funds earned (rom the slave sale are used to help send delegates to the National FFA Convention in Kansas City and for other FFA activities up,” said Mills They bring it in (astrr than we can unload it Mills said the contract (or that project has already been let to llaskin Co of Spokane which is expected to start work on December I. and be done in time (or the I9H5 harvest It was also announced at the meeting that the coop would be opening a parts house in Wasco in conjunction with the Sherman Coop Gram Growers The parts store would handle International Harvester Calkins Steiger and other parts It will lie located in a portion o( a new hardware and (arm supply store being constructed by the Sher man Co co-op on the Condon W asco highway near downtown Wasco Jake Grossmiller w ill lx- manager o( the new parts outlet. Mills said In other business co-op members elected Gary Grieb John la-dbetter. Mark Miller and I.vle Peck to thro«- year terms as board ol directors The hoard o( directors elected Gene Majeske president. G ary Grieb vice pr«-sid«-nt. Charles Ander son secretary and Larry Mills trea surer o( the board .And the co-op membership voted a by law amendment limiting mdivid uals to serving on the board (or (our consecutive thr«-e year terms A financial report revealed that the coop's gross income, and gross profit, were up over last year however, tie« ause of mcreax«-d oper a'ing expenses and cost of sal«-* net earnings was down 162 99] over I9R3 The gram department showed an increase of about SI4 0U0 in net savings the fertilizer department was down slightly and the (arm supply department show«-d a loss of over Pit txsi attributed to the de pressed market conditions (or the sale of new and used (arm equip ment Sheriff’s office warns of possible phone scam The Morrow County Sheriff's lie pur (merit has issued a warning to area residents about a possible phone scam in which pa-oplc are (ricked into giving the caller their credit card numlier A sheriff's department spokes woman said the scam has been reported earlier mother areas ol the Northw«-st. and a (ew reports have come in during the past (ew days from the lexingfon area She said the caller's intent appears to tie to get people to divulg«- their credit card number to him Although there is no evidence yet that the caller intends to fraudulent ly use the number.the spokeswoman said no one shout«) give their cr«*dlt card numlier out because it could be usi-d illegitimately The spokeswoman said the caller typically tells the p«-rson that he has won one of six prizes which mcludc such things as maj«ir appliances, a boat nr a lavish vacation trip In some cases, she said, the caller says the person must buy an order of vitamins in order to tie eligible for the prize and he then asks for the person s cr«-dil card number to charge the vitamins to In other rases, the caller first asks lor the prrxon s cr«-«lit card expira Don date and says it matrhes the prize numbers He then asks for the first few card number* and says they also match, then tells the person the more numbers they can match the more pru«-s they will win The sheriff's spok«-swoman said most people have refuse«! to give lh«-ir numbers, but she said in cases elsewhere where people have given their numbers they have not receiv ed anything She concluded that persons with information which might aid the sheriff's office s investigation of the allege«! team should report their • by « ailing 676 MSI Tom Ru-hl of Heppner was "fairly excited" when he droppe«! this four point tiull at first light on opening day of elk season He says that although he has hogged cow elk before, this is the first bull he s taken in 20 years of hunting in the Heppner area A Marrou' County Centennial Feature Blackhorse Canyon home built in 1895 Heppner Future Farmers o( Am erica chapter placed second in the Crops Contest and third in the Blue1 Mountain District Soils Contest held in Condon, Oregon on Wednesday October 24 Individuals placing in the Crops Contest were Travis Harrison-third. Noella Kill sixth. Kevin Hughes eighth and Andrea Ball ninth Noella Kill place«! ninth in the Soils Contest and Andrea Ball placed 10th Joe Taylor and Jason Palmer were not in contention (or individual honors but would have placed in the top 10 in (he crops contest said chapter advisor Roger Records Also participating in the eont«*sts were Sean Lawson, Bert Cason. Scott Dougherty. Paula Hralherly, Tray Hyatt. Kim Wright and Stacey Kennedy Riverside FFA won (he Soils Conl«*st with Pendleton placing s«*c ond and Heppner placing third llermiston won the Crops Contest. Heppner placed second and Pendle ton placed third Glen Ward of the Oregon D«-pt of Fish and Wildlife rrports that 475 hunters have come through the Heppner area with ataiut 10 percent success during the first elk season of those hunters who were success ful. about 70 percent bagged y«-ar ling bulls and fewer than 30 p»-rcent of the animals taken were branch antler bulls Ward said that hunter conduct had lieen good throughout the first elk season although p>mr hunting condi lions, and access problems from downed trees had b«-«-n caused by the high winds "Outlook for the second season is fair with an anticipated 10 percent success." continued Ward "F.lk are widely scattered so hunters will have to dig them out of the brush because right now they are wary of hunters " The small house on the Antony Doherty ranch in Blackhorse Canyon built in IK9.i by Barney and James G Doherty There were t very small tx-droomx down stair* and two unfinished r«Mims upstair* There were 13 children in one family of Dohertys so the unfinish«-d rooms w « t c us«*! exlensivelv In 1940 all the neighbors, including Orel Scott and Harry Duval. gather«-d to put siding on the house and paint it for the first time In the mid 4os one bedroom, was «-onvert«al to a bathroom, which "put them up in society," with wat«*r pipe«! in Buy elk tags before Nov. 10 The second Risky Mountain elk hunt period begins November 10 It is preceded by a November 9 tag sale cut off Sale of tags for the first Roosevelt elk season will also stop Novemh«-r 9 reports the Department of Fish and Wildlife Children reaching the legal age to hunt lug game animals and mem tiers of the Arm«*! Forces returning after tag sale deadline* will be pcrmitt«-d to purchase a tag for themselves at th«* Oregon Depart ment of Fish and Wildlife Portland and regional offices There is a possibility that the Morrow County Historical may be able to order more copies of the Morrow County History Book* pub lish«-d last year Delpha Jon«-s of the MCHS says that Taylor Publishing Company of Portland will issue a s«-cond printing of 2ti0copi«-s. but the historical society must have orders for these txaiks before Ih-cember 1 Jon«** says that anyone wishing a copy of the hook should send a re«|uest to Ruth McCabe lone or Ih-lpha Jones la-xington People who have already call<-d to request hook*, must make their request in writing. s«i that tlH-re is a w o r d of the order Kooks will cost 242 50. hut We don't need the money now. says Jones "If we don't get enough «irders to pay for printing 200 books, we won t b«- able to order any " Tickets are still on sale for the prinls of th«- Mary I xhj Carlson painting which is being raffled for the Morrow County Centennial Proc«-<-«i* from the ticket sales will I k - used by the historical society to tmy frarn«-* (or the print which is lieing raffle«! and for the one which has b«*en donuti-d to the Courthouse Money from the sale of the prints themselves will benefit the Board man City Library AAl \\ members to ‘get acquainted' at Nov. 1*5 meeting T Who * Who in AAl W will tie the topic of the Heppner-lone American Association of L'nivrrsity Women meeting Thursday evening Nov 15 "This will give members a chance to know each other belter, said Comm, to meet Fues. The new d«vck at Terminal 3, will be completed sometime in mid Nov ember, according to Bob Miller, acting manager of the Port of Morrow The 2900.000 project tiegan con struction in June It ha* been funded by a combination of bonding by the Waterfowl have start«-«! moving into the mirth entl of the county in flight from Canada which. Ward continues, should improve area wa terfowl hunting M C H S needs book orders New dock nears completion at Port of Morrow - Flk hunters have 10% success port an F.DA trdcral grant and private fun«!* from the Portland firm who will operate the terminal Port Van Inc has leas«*«! the termin al for 10 years They will use the facility as a distributionpoinl for the Inlanr! Fmpire Although it was origin ally thought the term inal would lie more to ship Inland Km pire products to other markets, there have b«-en inquiries made about imp««rts as well The termin al because of its distribution status, will handle a lot of empty containers saw Miller Miller went on to say that Port Van. Inc had experience in both refrigerat«*«! and general container handling Some Boardman firms may use the terminal to ship fresh or froten food* to market The Heppner City Planning Com mission will hold a regular m<-eting on Tuesday Nov 13 I9t«4at8pm at Heppner City Hall according to chairman l-arry Bowman The move from Monday to Tuesday this month due to Veteran's Day holiday B«ib Harris, a member of the Senior* Building Committee, will be present to discuss building projec lions City Council representative for Novemlw-r is Bob Ploy ha r AAl W m em bership chairperson April Hilt«>n Sykes Anyone who has thought about joining AAUW or is just curious about the group is warmly invited to attend "Some of us have been to coll«-ge. a lot of us haven t but everyone has an interesting story to tell about herself ." Hilton Sykes continued "And that's what we re focusing on at this m«-eting." How do«-s a homemaker, nurse, working mother, artist, law yer.cler gy person. or teacher cope, how did they get where they are today and what are they working towards, are snme of the things we’ll be talking about," she added The mt-eting will begin at 7 30 p m at the Sykes' home at 300 Green SI in Heppner For more informa lion or ride*, call l.aura Bro<lerick. 422 7524 or Hilton Sykes. 676 9939 Hostesses for the evening are Nancy McConnell and Joan Records
