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Death takes Morrow County patriarch HHS grad to lead EOSC student body
Orville W. Cutsforth
By DEI PIIA JONES
Graveside services for Orville W
Cutsforth were held Sunday. July 21,
2 p m at the Masonic Cemetery in
Heppner with the Kev Stuart Dick
officiating and Ron McDonald as
soloist
Ritualistic services were
performed by the Heppner BPOE
No 358
Cutsforth, 83, died Thursday. July
18. 1985 at his home in Heppner,
following an extended illness
He was born May 22. 1902. at
Gervais, Ore , to Thomas and Lillian
■ i Troupe i Cutsforth
Most of hts
childhood was spent in Lexington
except for a 10 year period spent in
Canada Cpon his return to Morrow
County he purchased the Schriever
home near la-xington where he lived
until his retirement in 1965 He then
moved to the home he built near
Heppner on Fairway Drive
Cutsforth was active in com
munity and civic affairs, and was
most helpful in many projects, by
donating both money and materials
He donated many hours of labor and
machinery helping with various pro
jects in the community such as Fair
Building la-xingtnn Grange Hall.
Morrow County airport. Penland
1-ake, the Solarium at the Pioneer
Memorial Hospital and Cutsforth
Park
He donated this land and
spent many hours helping build this
for not only the local people but
Morrow County visitors
He was
also instrumental in helping build
the opportunity Center at Kt*dmond
for the handicapped
After he was 40 years of age he
learned to fly and owned his own
plane which brought him and his
family hours of pleasure as they flew
to many interesting places
Three of his great interests were
hunting and fishing and preserving
our mountains and water shed
cutsforth received die Outstanding
tree farmer of the year award in
1981 He purchased and transport«^
wild turkeys from Pennsylvania to
Morrow County and from that intro
duction. the Oregon Dept of Fish
and Wildlife has continued
He had several projects he was
concerned about at the time of his
death including the head water of
Willow Creek, and the pr«*servation
of that area known as Hells Half
Acre He was a Charter member of
la-xington Grange, member of Na
tional Farmer's Union, the Heppner
F a rm e r's Union, the Heppner
Museum Board Heppner Morrow
County Chamber of Commerce, was
a 45 year member of BPOE No 358.
served on the Agricultural Stable
ration and Conservation Service
board, and served on the Morro »
County Fair Hoard for several
years
S urvivors include hts w ife
Barbara home in Heppner, three
sons Orville Junior
"F ritz" of
Heppner. Krnneth of Hermiston.
and Patrick of Lexington, stepson
Eugene H eliker of F ulleton.
California, five daughters Dorothy
Hawkins of Echo. Vesta Handy of
Portland. Faye Uhter of Kennewick.
B arbara
Lisa
Hudson
of
G a ith e rs b u ry , Md
and Donna
Dougherty of The Dalles.. 27 grand
children and 11 great grandchildren
and a sister Dora Brasilia.
Lakeview
Honorary casket bearers were
Tom Cutsforth, Mark Cutsforth.
Jerry Cutsforth. Kraig Cutsforth
Jeff Cutsforth. Chris Zita. John
Kilkenny. Jim ('utsforth, Curtis
Cutsforth, Kick Zita. Andy Gorman.
Mike Gorman. Russell Kilkenny
and Pat Kilkenny
A son Gene Cutsforth died in 1971
and a daughter Sharon Stookey 1961
Memorial contributions may be
made to the Pioneer Memorial
Hospital aquarium fund. P O
Box 9. Heppner 97836
Sweeney Mortuary. Heppner. was
in charge of arrangements
Cindi Bergstrom, a 1982 graduate
of Heppner High School, w ill serve
the coming school year as president
of the Eastern Oregon State Cm ver
sity student body
Her slate of
officers includes Steve H art.
Gresham • vice-president for the
Senate. Sandra Ward. Heppner
fin a n c ia l vice p re s id e n t. and
R ichard McConnell, Heppner
vice president for committees
The senior business economics
major is the daughter of Donna
Bergstrom and Elwayne Bergstrom,
both of Heppner She has one sister.
Kelli, a 1985 graduate of It It S
The president's biggest goal for
next year is better communication
between the students and admini
stration and to begin things on which
w ill work for successive years "In
the past things have been started
and then they don t keep going. ' she
says Better use of the spare in the
student center is a secondary goal
Bergstrom received 43 percent of
the student vote Her next clox«»st
of five competitors received 25
percent
Her past experience in
student government includes one
year as a student representative,
secretary treasurer of the ski club,
and historian for Phi Beta lam bda,
an organization of future business
leaders
Skeletonweed sighted
in Morrow County
Skeletonweed. as ominous as the
name sounds, has been discos ered in
Mevfow County reports 'Vee«k
Supervisor Jim Van Winkle
He
located 40 plants last Friday along
the right-of-way of Interstate 84
eight miles east of Boardman He
clipped the plants and sealed them
in a plastic sack to dispose of them,
but w ill probably use an herbicide,
tordon 22K, on the area also
laist Friday's discovery of the
plant in Morrow County follows the
discovered in the early I96iis has
spread and now dominates several
million acres of rangeland
An
intensive chemical control program
has been conducted In California for
over 10 years, yet the weed persists
and continues to sprrad "
Although usually found on range
land. once the weed gains a foothold
and spreads to farmland, it can
reduce wheat yields by as much as
70 perc«*nt
Van Winkle urges landowners to
watch for the noxious weed, mark
the sites where it is spotted and
report to the Weed Supervisor.
67(P5452, so that the suspect plants
can be positively identified and
eradicated before the weed poses a
problem within the county
he also wrote on page 120 of the
county history
“ I have always tried to be a help to
my fam ily, neighbors and com
munity and helped with money,
labor and donations of property for
the use of the community and
county One of the first community
projects I did was to help dig a
basement for the Congregational
(hurch and parsonage in 1922 using
a team of mules From then on I
helped wherever needed helping
with the building of the Lexington
Grange Hall, the Is lin g to n Airport,
the Morrow County Fair buildings,
and donated 24 acres of land to
Morrow County for a park In 1972 I
helped build Penland I.ake, contri
buted to the Hospital Annex, and
moved the Democratic Gulch School
House into Heppner where it is
standing near the museum "
A long row of alert Cutsforth
grandsons >all but one of the fifteen >
stood at attention with the Rev
Stuart Dick beside Orville's casket
helping to guárante«- that Morrow
County can never forget the name
Cutsforth and a most noteworthy
member of that line. Orville W
Cutsforth
All interest«^ persons are invited
to attend an organizational meeting
Tuesday. July 30, 7 30 p m at the
Heppner Neighborhood Center At
the meeting, a chairperson w ill be
designated and work w ill begin on
Block Home program in the
Heppner area
A Block Home is
intended to serve as a safe refuge for
children who are frightened, in
jur«*d. lost, in danger, crime victims,
or in any emergency situation The
block Home is not intended to
provide babysitting or child care
service
Spokesperson for the group Joan
Records, says that it w ill probably
require several meetings to get a
Block Home program organized in
Heppner, but then should only re
quire four or so meetings a year to
keep it going
Anyone can apply tor status as a
block home, she explains, not just
people with children All full or part
time residents. 12 years or over, of
the Block Home shall sign a release
for a background investigation
liocal law enforcement agencies
review the application and may
reject the application on evidence of
criminal history, moral turpitude.
irr«*spnnsible behavior, or environ
mental hazard
The reviewing
agency may not release any infor
mation concerning the reason for
rejection to the Block Home pro
gram or to anyone except the
concerned person
For more information about the
program or if unahle to attend the
meeting, call I’ at Brindle at the
Heppner Neighborhood Center.
678 5873 or Joan Records, 676 5260
Block Home program organizes
She lists her major hobby as snow
skiing and spends as much time as
she can enjoying it, but has also
participated in the colleges intra
mural volleyball, basketball and
softball programs
An active student. she expects to
help this fall for the second year with
New Student Week” helping to
acquaint new students with the
Fair & Rodeo edition deadline nears
News articles for this year's
special fair and rodeo edition of the
newspaper must he submitti'd to the
Heppner Gazette Times office no
later than Thursday. Aug t Repre
sentatives of all fair and rodeo
events are invited to submit articles
The special edition w ill be in
eluded in the August 7 issue of the
newspaper
The Heppner merchants Commit
tee met last Friday, to finalize date
and time for the upcoming Sidewalk
Sale. Friday, Aug 16 from 9 a m -8
p m Fosters w ill be placid at the
fairgrounds to let fair and rodeo
goers know that they may ride a
shuttlebus downtown to take advan
(age of the sale and then to return to
the fairgrounds
Also on the day's agenda. Doug
Smith, president of the Chamber of
Commerce explained one of the
Chamber's projects, a "welcome
wagon hook" which will tentatively
list local merchants, provide a map
of Heppner. and some coupon items
for newcomers of the area
He
invited local merchants to partirt
pate in the proje«'!
A souvenir of Heppner w ill be
pr«-sented to Charles and Linda
Hutchinson recently of Lexington
The souvenir plaque contains photos
of Heppner, the St Patrick's Day
Parade, their print shop here, and
local merchants' business cards
A final item merchants discuss«d
was the increase in shoplifting which
they have experienced
Several
possibilities for handling the situ
ation were considerid including re
porting suspected incidences to the
Heppner Police Dept
Sidewalk Sale coming Aug. 16
Police chief warns
Shoplifting is theft
Remembering Onille Cutsforth
B» Jt STINE WEATHERFORD
A most devoted citizen of Morrow
County was buried Sunday after
noon, July 21. atop the h ill in
Heppner where a large group of his
family members and friends looked
up Willow Creek Valley, over the
dam and reservoir, toward the
forest and mountains O W Cutsforth
loves so much and remembered
their contacts with that unusual
man
Orville long ago built a récréa
tional cabin in those mountains
which he often shared with many
others He gave the county one of its
moat attractive forest parks there
Some of his happiest days were
spent there hunting with his wife
Barbara, other fam ily members and
friends Orville worked diligently
toward preserving the watershed at
the headwaters of Willow Creek He
was a p rim a ry developer and
builder of Penland I.ake
In the 1981 History of Morrow
County. Orville wrote that as a
young man I had and exaggerated
sense of responsibility
That sense
stayed with him all his lifetim e In
recalling some of his efforts and
personal contributions to this county
C in d i Bergstrom
campus and "get involved in the
school so they w ill stay "
Having just returm-d from a Phi
Bela lam bda leadership conference
at Houston. Texas, she hopes to earn
the right to compete at next year's
national conference at Washington.
D C She placed second in market
ing at statewide competition to
qualify her for this national confer
ence She spent some time "looking
around" on her way to and from this
year's conference and expects to d«>
the same next year in an attempt to
discover where she would like to
locate following graduation
Prior to entering EOSC. she had
summer job experience at home in
Heppner painting the grade school
and during the summer of 1982. she
and a fellow II H S graduate worked
at the larbush Shoppe in Heppner
and ran the shop with minimal
supervision, most of which was
received over the telephone
The
experience, she says helped her
decide to major in business
With six candidates vying for the
office of president, she said a
greater percentage of the students
voted than usual, so is hoping to keep
the momentum and involvement
going throughout the next year
It has been brought to the atten
tion of the Heppner Police Depart
ment that merchants have expert
enc«d a recent increase in incid
ences of shoplifting, says Police
Chief Doug Kathbun
Merchants
w ill start “ cracking down" and
report all cases to the Heppner
Police Department
"The person
involved w ill be charged w ith
Theft
Theft II. a Class A misdemeanor is
the charge for stealing an item
valued at $200 or less, he says
Penalities are a maximum of one
year in Jail and a fine of $2.548)
Flow«» and Seed
T h e ft I, .i C lass C felo ny
V jiu 'c p i -
Rosette
announcement of a Umatilla county
sighting of several plants July 16
Van Winkle w ill continue survey
ing the adjacent fields to determine
the size of the infestation in Morrow
County
A perennial, one parent
plant is capable of producing two
dozen offspring from its root struc
ture alone Roots may extend as far
as 15 feet and the problem arises
when on agricultural land a rod
wreder chops the root and drags it
along through a field Any section of
the root can produce a new plant. he
explains The plant also multiplies
by spreading seeds in a manner
sim ilar to a dandelion
In its early rosette stage, skeleton
weed resembles common dandelion,
but dies back as the flower stalks
develop The main flower stem is
one to four feet tall with spreading
side branches nearly the same
height The stem leaves are narrow
and generally linear, inconspicuous
from a distance The most marked
characteristic is downwardly bent
coarse hairs on the lower four to six
inches of the stem All flowers are
yellow, cut surfaces exude a thick
white latex sap The native Kura
sian weed generally inhabits well
drained soils but is adaptable to
various climates
A Department of Agriculture bul
letin warns "Once established, skel
etonweed can spread rapidly and
u i .,1 p. , ,i» o in spue of intensive
control programs
In Idaho an
infestation of less than 50acres when
is the
charge if the item stolen is over $200
in value Penalties are a five year
maximum jail sentence and a fine of
$ 100,000
Juveniles charged with the same
crime are remandtd to Juvenile
authorities. Chief Kuthbun con
tinues
Judge D«m McElligott reports that
penalties for Juveniles charged with
shoplifting have increased along
with other penalties which apply to
Juvenile crime " It's no longer just
50 cents restitution for pilfering a 50
cent item "
Little League moms
to play ball
Past and present little league
moms are invited to participate in a
"for fun" game July 26. 6 p m at the
little league field in Heppner They
will form two trams, the Giants ami
the Braves, but do not have to have a
child who is a member of either
team, just a desire to play hall
For more information, call Peggy
F ishhurn. 676 1246 Of 8(16611
Johnston. 676 5562
Heppner woman wins $10,000
Heppner resident Belle Lillie is
$ 10.000 richer thanks to a lucky spin
of the wheel Saturday . July 13 at the
Oregon Slate Lottery office in
Salem That same day, she reports,
there were five $25. (XX) winners, two
$1.000 winners, two $5.000 winners
and her win of $10,000
The lottery people "served us
coffee and hot dogs" and tried to
make everyone at ease," she says
Although she claims she was very
nervous, and had to grab onto the
master of ceremonies to k«*ep from
falling after her spin, before she
spun the wheel, she jokingly asked
for one favor, ' 'Please keep your foot
off the error button " Of course they
don't have one. she affirm s, but
everyone there laughed Born and
raised in Baker, the 13th of 16
children, she says that apparently 13
is not unlucky for her
She spent part of her winnings to
celebrate
The II year Heppner
resident has tended bar at Cal's
l/Hinge in Heppner off and on for six
years and said that "everyone was
waiting for me when I came back ”
I've taken a lot of teasing, but
everyone's twen great
She plans to spend the rest of her
winnings to pay some bills, buy a
few necessities and hopefully have
Belle Lillie
enough left to spend a few days at
the coast
H«*r winning $100 ticket which was
sent to Salem and drawn as one of
the ten lucky spinners from a pool of
167 was given to her by her husband
as an anniversary present She says
she has only bought four lottery
tickets herself and is really not a
gambler