Fair and Rodeo Princess
Tricia Coe a scholar, too
The Heppner
Photo by Joyce Hughes
azette
VOL 108 NO. 32
Wednesday, August 8, 1990
Princess Tricia Coe takes time out of her busy court activities
to work with her sheep in preparation for fair.
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Heppner 25‘
By Merlyn Robinson
6 Pages
Kinzua sponsors calf roping saddle
Morrow County Fair and Rodeo
Princess Tricia Coe is the 17-year-
old daughter of Tim and Jan Coe,
Heppner. Family members include
her younger sister, Char and her
brother. Scott. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Colonel Thompson and
Mr. and Mrs. Don Coe, both of
Milton-Freewater, and Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Winters, Zillah, Wash.
A Heppner High school senior,
Princess Tricia is planning an
elementary school teaching career.
She has become familiar with giving
classroom instruction as an elemen
tary school teacher's aide.
Scholastic grades are important,
she says. And she has earned
membership in the National Honor
Society. In addition to receiving the
“I Dare You” award, she has serv
ed as student body secretary. She
was involved in "Pipeline Training”
for the prevention of student
chemical abuse.
Schooling is only part of her
lifestyle as she has been an active
4-H member for eight years. Last
summer she was an exchange stu
dent. one of several local students
who participated in an Alaskan
experience.
Along with all different types of
livestock projects, she has received
county 4-H medals for leadership
and citizenship. Her tole painting
was recognized when she won the
1989 Oregon State Fair tole painting
championship.
Besides her court duties, Princess
Tricia will be showing her sheep at
this year’s fair. She is currently
president of “Ewes R Us,” a 4-H
sheep club.
Tricia's horse, “Grandstand
Play,” is a registered quarter horse
with Appaloosa bloodlines. This ver
satile court mount also helps her to
compete in riding club events as well
as in horse shows. Accustomed to
receiving her share of blue ribbons,
Tricia is preparing for both the 4-H
and Morrow County Open Horse
events.
Not afraid of hard work, her sum
merjob with the Oregon Youth Con
servation Corps, finds her wielding
a shovel or rake as handily as her
male counterparts. Under the super
vision of the Morrow County Soil
and Water District, these workers
are building local hiking trails and
doing clean-up of areas within Hepp
ner’s city limits.
“It’s hard work, but a good pro
gram. Summer jobs for teenagers are
not plentiful in this area,” Tricia
says.
The Fair and Rodeo Court’s many
appearances this summer have been
fun and rewarding, Tricia says.
However, their schedule is hectic at
times. For instance, two July 4th
parade appearances at Ione and
Boardman were scheduled only an
hour apart. Therefore the court
entourage left Ione in a hurry, not
taking time to unsaddle their horses
before loading them in traitors. They
arrived at Boardman to find parade
officials holding up that parade and
anxiously awaiting the court’s
arrival.
“It’s great to be present at all our
county events as well as traveling to
other places. And we have been
treated royally. The promotion of
our Fair and Rodeo is a big respon
sibility, but it’s also alot of fun. And
I’m looking forward to the best-ever
Fair and Rodeo this year,” Tricia
says.
Second generation of Murrays
take over
Queen Judy Jepsen, Princess Tricia Coe, Kinzua manager Frank Pearson, Princesses Dana
Flanagan and Stacie Henry
Everyone is invited out to the
fairgrounds to watch your favorite
cowboy at the Morrow County
Rodeo Friday, August 17, at 7 p.m.
Exciting events include senior bar
rels, junior barrels, peewee barrels,
steer wrestling, calf roping, mutton
busting, open calf roping, team rop
ing and Kinzua calf roping where
local contestants will compete for the
prestigious Kinzua saddle.
Slack time is 4 p.m. First go for
open calf roping team roping, steer
wrestling and Kinzua calf roping will
Gas station owner unhappy
about card-lock ruling
Heppner service station owner Cal
Sherman is not happy with a recent
grand jury ruling concerning card
lock self-service gasoline pumps.
A Morrow County grand jury
found the operators of three gasoline
card-locks not to be in violation of
the ban on self-service gas. The
grand jury returned its finding Mon
day. July 30, after two days of tak
ing evidence on the issue.
“The law is the law and it's not
being upheld,” said Sherman, who
has operated a service station in
Heppner for the past 23 years. “It’s
frustrating when you know the law’s
being broken and you can’t do
anything about it.”
Sherman, who now operates the
BP station on Main Street, maintains
that operators of the card-locks are
allowing non commercial customers
to use the self-service pumps, “if
they (card-lock businesses) would
have stayed with commercial ac
counts, there would be no problem.”
Sherman also says that he believes
that some members of the grand jury
have key cards to operate the self-
service pumps. “I think anyone (on
the jury) with a card has a conflict
of interest.” he said
The grand jury was selected at the
trial court administrative office in
Pendleton under the direction of the
court. Seven names were drawn at
random from among a group of peo
ple previously chosen for a jury
pool. Neither a grand jury panel nor
an individual grand juror may be
challenged, although a judge may
excuse a grand juror upon a juror’s
request. Th ecourt may discharge a
grand juror who is related to a per
son under investigation by the grand
jury.
“We gave (Morrow County
District Attorney) Wallace all he
needed long before the grand jury
met-pictures and all. He's just in
terested in the specialty people.”
Sherman says that allowing what
he says are non-commerciai
customers to pump gas at the card
locks has hurt his business. "We
pumped 800 to 1200 gallons a day
23 years ago and there were five sta
tions. Today we pump 300 to 500
gallons a day and there are only two
stations.”
“The stations in town will have to
shut down air and water and
restrooms down. If it keeps going the
way it is. we’ll probably lose our sta
tions to taxes and the co-ops will
pick them up for taxes. The only
thing I have to offer is service.”
Sherman said that he eventually
planned on selling the station for
retirement, but now says, "It looks
like now we’ll just have to walk
away.”
be held in the slack, with the finals
to be held during the Saturday and
Sunday performances of the PRC A
rodeo.
Entry deadline for participants was
August 5 and must be paid before
August 14. Entry money may be
mailed to Box 248, Heppner. No late
entries are permitted.
Cloudiness closes
swimming pool
Heppner city officials say that tur
bidity at the city swimming pool
made it necessary to drain the water
and close the pool “for safety
reasons.” The pool was closed
Saturday. Aug. 4 until Monday,
Aug. 6, because of cloudiness of the
pool water. The pool takes 24 hours
to heat after it has been filled.
Renee Devin at city hall said that
the city is trying to determine the
reason for cloudiness in the pool
The city is asking people to not
swim in the pool after swimming in
the reservoir without washing their
suits and aqua socks. “People need
to go in the pool with clean swimm
ing suits and take a shower,” said
Devin. The city is hoping to cut
down on the bacteria transferred
from the reservoir to the pool. “If
kids are going to wear aqua socks in
the pool please clean them and don’t
.„«ar thpm around town.”
A second generation of Murrays
began operation of Murray Drugs in
Heppner. Aug. 1.
Rod and Meg Murray, who have
had the Heppner pharmacy since
they bought it in 1959 from Leta
Humphreys, sold the store to their
son and daughter-in-law. John and
Ann Murray.
Both Ann and John are Morrow
County natives and graduated from
Heppner High School. Ann is the
daughter of Corrine and Larry Lind
say. Ann, 25. attended the Univer
sity of Portland and graduated from
Oregon State with a bachelor of
science degree in pharmacy in 1987.
John also graduated from OSU with
a B.S. in pharmacy in ‘87. Both Ann
and John completed their internship
at the store.
Ann said. “We re really excited
about it (purchasing the store.) We
enjoy working with the Berrettas-
they’re great.” (Drs. Ed and Jeanne
Berretta are Heppner's physicians.)
We’d like to keep in touch with peo
ple's ideas—what they’d like to see
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in the store.”
The younger Murrays say they
plan no changes in staffing, but do
want to take the opportunity to in
troduce Jenny Bingham as the new
pharmacist's assistant. She replaced
Joan Eckman, who moved to Unity.
In addition to being the new
owners of a business. Ann and John
have three children. Luke 4. Laurie
2, and Sean, one month.
Rod and Meg Murray were
orginally from the Willamette
Valley, but moved to Heppner from
the LaGrande area where Rod was
a representative for a pharmaceutical
company. Three of their children.
Mark. Maralee and Matt were born
in McMinnville, while the younger
two, John and Anne, were bom at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Hepp
ner. Rod and Meg worked for Leta
Humphreys for a year and a half
before buying the pharmacy from
her in 1959. Rod and Meg also
bought out Phil’s Pharmacy in Hepp
ner, which was owned by Jim
Meyers. Since their purchase of the
store they have tripled floor space
and have added many different lines
of products. They bought the Con
don pharmacy in 1963 and also
started a pharmacy in Arlington,
which is no longer in operation.
In thinking over her years
operating the pharmacy, Meg said
she especially wanted to recognize
Ruth Bergstrom, who worked for
both the Murrays and Leta Hum
phreys for a total of 40 years. “Cam
Wishart worked for us at three dif
ferent store locations,” added Meg.
Meg says that she and Rod plan to
spend more time at their ranch out
side of Ione, but Rod will continue
to work Saturdays and other times
as a relief pharmacist. Meg says she
will also work occasionally.
Besides John and Maralee, who
will fill in as a relief pharmacist,
their brother. Mark, is also a phar
macist. He and his wife have a phar
macy in Baker-Murray’s Hallmark
ind Prairie City-Prairie Drug, where
ihey reside. “They have been
another excellent resource,” com
mented Ann.
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