Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 15, 1990 - FIVE
Judy Jepsen wins horse show grand champion
Judy Jepsen, Morrow County Fair
and Rodeo Queen, won the overall
grand champion horse showmanship
and the champion senior showman
ship at the Morrow County 4-H
Horse Show held Sunday, August 5,
at the fairgrounds in Heppner.
Other results of the show are as
follows: cham pion beginning
showmanship-Tara Miller; cham
pion junior showmanship-Jossie
Evans; champion intermediate
showmanship-Kimberly Burke;
champion junior western equitation-
Tiffanie Munkers; champion in
termediate western equitation-Kelsie
Evans; champion senior western
equitation-Tricia Coe; champion colt
western equitation-Kimberly Burke;
champion beginning and junior
English equitation-Jossie Evans;
champion intermediate English
equitation-Kim Burke; champion
senior English equitation-Judy
Jepsen; champion junior hunt seat
over fences-Jossie Evans; champion
intermediate and senior hunt seat
over fences-Rondi Robinson; cham
pion junior trail horse-Jossie Evans;
champion intermediate trail horse-
Kimberly Burke; champion senior
Hector Samuel Esquivel-a son
Hector Samuel was bom to Elias and
Noemy Esquivel of Irrigon on July
23. 1990 at Good Shepherd Hospital
in Hermiston. The baby weighed 9
lbs. 10 ozs.
Kayla Daniell Barnett and Kellie
Lynn Barnett-twin daughters Kayla
Daniell and Kellie Lynn was bom to
Sandra L. Crossan of Boardman on
July 25, 1990 at Good Shepherd
Hospital in Hermiston. Kayla weigh
ed 5 lbs. 6 ozs and Kellie weighed
5 lbs. 7 ozs.
Patrick Forrest Daniels-a son
Patrick Forrest was bom to James
and Michele Daniels of Boardman
on July 26, 1990 at Good Shepherd
Hospital in Hermiston. The baby
weighed 8 lbs. 14 1h ozs.
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Jossie Evans participates in horse show
trail horse-Tricia Coe; champion
senior advanced equitation-Dana
Flanagan; intermediate advanced
equitation-R ondi
Robinson;
champion junior bareback equitation
rider-Jossie Evans; champion in
termediate bareback equitation rider-
Kimberly Burke; champion senior
bareback equitation rider-Judy
Jepsen; beginner all-around-Kara
David and Nancy Hall
graduate from Penn State
Two former Heppner residents,
David and Nancy Hall are graduates
of the Pennsylvania State Universi
ty. David is the son of Gene and
Harriet Hall of Heppner.
Nancy received her bachelor of
science degree at the conclusion of
spring semester. Her major in
agricultural business management
follows extensive work experience in
accounting and management of
agricultural operations while living
in Oregon. She has been employed
by Penn State for the past four years
in various accounting and clerical
positions. Nancy is currently
employed by the PSU College of
Agriculture and hopes to be advanc
ed to a supervisory position.
David will be receiving his doc
toral degree in agricultural education
during graduation ceremonies to be
held on August 11. His graduate
research was entitled “ Factors
Related to the Participation of Penn
sylvania Agricultural Education
Teachers in Professional Develop
ment Activities.” Upon receiving his
Ph.D., David will be elevated from
his current instructor position to that
of an assistant professor. Hall has
been a full-time faculty member of
the Department of Agricultural and
Extension Education since August of
1986.
The Halls have two daughters at
tending State College Area High
School, Jodi, a senior, and Linda, a
sophomore. Jodi is spending the
summer as a scholar in The Penn-
sylvania Governor’s School for
Agricultural Sciences held at Penn
State. This unique program is for
juniors and seniors in high school
having shown superior academic
achievement and a high degree of in
terest in agricultural sciences. The
highly competitive school admits 64
scholars to the annual program.
Jodi’s 3.97 GPA, combined with her
involvement in agriculture aided her
is securing one of the positions.
Commencement ceremonies for
Governor’s School were held at
Penn State on August 4. She is cur
rently president of both the Center
County Teen Council 4-H Club and
the State College Little Lions FFA
Chapter. Jodi has placed in the state
finals for FFA public speaking each
of the last three years.
Linda also excels scholastically,
currently having a 4.0 high school
GPA. and has already started gather
ing a substantial list of academic,
agricultural and athletic honors. She
held starting varsity positions as a
basketball point guard and softball
pitcher. Freshman varsity players
are a rarity in the 2000 student State
College Area High School. Linda
spent the early summer at an invita
tional basketball all star camp where
she was named to the camp all star
team. She then participated in a 4-H
exchange to Wisconsin and is cur
rently visiting relatives in Oregon.
lone Insights
-Guests at the home of Roy and
Katherine Lindstrom this past week
were Vemer and Margaret Troedson
of Pendleton and their daughter,
Shirlee McGreer of Bister, Oxford,
England. Vemer and Shirlee had just
returned from a trip to southern
Sweden where they visited relatives.
Upon their return, Shirlee was
scheduled to have foot surgery in
Pendleton. Shirlee is a child study
committee coordinator for three
schools in England.
-:-Jim and Monica Swanson and
family. Gene and Kristi Crowell and
family and Irene Swanson enjoyed
a few days at the coast last week.
They stayed in Rockaway where
they enjoyed wonderful cool
weather.
-:-Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lindstrom
spent several days in Portland and
Tacoma last week. On Saturday,
they visited his sister, Louise
Mortensen on her birthday at Park
View Nursing Home in Portland.
They then traveled to Tacoma where
they visited their son, Steve, in
Olympia and daughter. Christina,
and granddaughter, Libby in
Tacoma.
-:-The lone Fire Department
responded to a fire call near the
McNab elevator last Wednesday.
The fire was contained in the morn
ing but flared up again in the after
noon. The damage was minimal.
-¡-Summer is drawing to a close,
meaning that the lone Swimming
Pool will soon be closed for the
season. August 19 is the last day of
public swimming scheduled this
season.
-¡-Marilyn Childers and Laurie
Barrow traveled to Salem last week
to pick up Laurie's daughters. Mol
ly and Sarah. The girls came from
Roseburg with Roger and Barb
Childers where they had spent the
past week and a half. The lone con
tingent met the Roseburg contingent
at the Enchanted Forest near Salem
where they all enjoyed the park’s
attractions.
-:-Pat Pettyjohn spent last week in
Births
By Anne Morter
McMinnville where she helped her
daughter, Marianne Sharp, get her
kids through a busy week. Pat’s
grandson, James, was competing at
the Yamhill County Fair, where he
won five trophies. He was the Jr.
Reserve Champion in equitation,
junior champion in western pleasure,
first place in the junior pole bending
and barrel racing and overall high
point. Pat’s granddaughter, Melissa,
was chosen from the McMinnville
School of Ballet to attend a Soviet
Classical Ballet Seminar that same
week. The seminar was given by a
Russian ballerina, Natalia Zolotova.
-¡-Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crabtree had
several guests last week. On Friday,
they entertained Jim McCabe of
Renton, Wa., Carolyn Hull of Nam
pa, ID., and Megan Elizabeth
McCabe of Pendleton. On Saturday,
Kevin and Deanne McCabe stopped
by for a short visit.
-¡-Ashley and Cathy McCabe
hosted a small family gathering last
Saturday in honor of Deanne
M cCabe o f Peoria, A rizona.
Deanne, Ashley’s stepmother, was
in Pendleton visiting her son and
grandchildren and she traveled to
lone for the day. Attending the
gathering were Kevin and Megan
McCabe of Pendleton, Jim McCabe
of Renton and Ruth McCabe.
-¡-Kevin Eldridge of Long Island,
New York, has been visiting the
McCabes for the past several weeks.
He is a cousin to Ashley.
-¡-Perry and Kathy Morter took a
post-harvest vacation and spent
several days touring the Oregon and
Washington coast last week
-¡-Neal and Arvilla Bond hosted a
family reunion at their home August
4. Twenty-nine people including
their three children and four of their
grandchildren attended Guests at
tended from Portland. Gresham.
Kennewick, Pasco, Hood River and
Odell.
-¡-The lone swimming pool will be
open one extra week but the hours
will be changed. For the week of
August 21-26 the pool will be open
from 1-4 p.m. only.
Chamber Chatter
By Claudia Hughes. Chamber Manager
M iller; junior all-round-Jossie
Evans; intermediate all-around-Kim
Burke; senior all-around-Judy
Jepsen; champion beginning record
book-Kara Miller; champion junior
record book-Jossie Evans; champion
intermediate record book-Kelsie
Evans; champion senior record
book-Tricia Coe; high point
individual-Judy Jepsen.
Heppner Police
Report
The Heppner Police Department
reports handling the following
business during the past week:
August 6: 9:30 a.m.-Civil Matter;
10:13 a.m.-Found Property; 1:11
p.m .-assist M orrow County
Sheriffs department; 6:50 p.m.-
assist Fire department.
August 7: 1:04 a m.-Motorist
Assist; 1:44 a.m .-report of a
Suspicious Person; 7:37 p.m.-assist
Morrow County Sheriffs depart
ment; 8:57 p.m.-report of Missing
Person.
August 8: 7:34 p.m.-citation
issued for No Operator’s License;
11:28 p.m.-assist Gilliam County
Sheriff’s department; 4 p.m -
Motorist Assist.
August 9: 1:43 a.m.-request of
ficer for Security Check.
August 10: 9:02 a.m.-assist Mor
row County Sheriffs department;
9:51 a.m.-report of Unattended
Death; 7:02 p.m.-Motorist Assist;
11:05 p m.-assit Morrow County
Sheriffs department.
August, 11: j2 : 49 p in.-Welfare
Check. .
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August 12: 9:03 p.m .-D og
Complaint.
Brosnan enlists
James Delbert Brosnan. son of Ed
die and Lorraine Brosnan of Hepp
ner recently enlisted in the Air
F o rce’s Delayed Enlistm ent
Program.
Jim. a 1989 graduate of Heppner
High School, is scheduled to attend
Air Force Basic Training at
Lackland Air Force Base, San An
tonio, Texas on Oct. 11.
According to Sgt. Hilliard, the
local air force recruiter, Jim will
earn credits toward an associate
degree in applied sciences through
the community college of the Air
Force upon completion of basic
training and technical training
school.
"Welcome to Heppner” signs
have at long last become a reality
thanks to the donations and efforts
of many in our community. They’re
up just in time to greet Fair and
Rodeo visitors. It’s great to see the
com pletion o f this longtim e
Chamber goal.
Central Market will be open for
business Friday. We’re thankful they
rebuilt. It’s been a big job for Court
Street and Miller’s Mini Mart to
carry the load, and they’re ap
preciated. Drop by while you’re in
town for the sidewalk sale.
Join chamber members Thursday
for lunch at the Morrow County
Fair. I hear another delegation pro
mises to draw much attention when
they come through the gate that day
“ in the saddle.”
Rem em ber, Cham ber meets
Wednesday, August 22, at noon at
the Senior Center to hear Senator
Hatfield; therefore, there will be no
Tuesday chamber.
Feeling left out because you’re not
a part of Cycle Oregon III? Call Bet
ty Matthes to sign up to help the
Morrow County Tourism Commit
tee serve gatoradc at the fairgrounds.
You’ll be among the first to offer
them a Heppner welcome.
Enjoy “ Blue Jeans & Country
Scenes” this week and then it’s back
to Cycle Oregon plans. See you at
the fair.
Thought for the week: Most
smiles are started by another smile.
BMCC is quiet
With the completion of summer
term, August will be pretty quiet at
Blue Mountain Community College.
Several special service departments
will be closed all or part of that
month.
Within the Basic Skills Depart
ment. the Adult Basic Education
(GED, ESL, Adult High School
Diploma) program will be closed Ju
ly 30 through September 14.
Developmental Education will be
closed July 30 through September
24.
The library will be closed August
13 through September 3. From
September 4 through the 25. hours
will be 8 to noon, and 1 to 5 p.m.
R egular hours will resume
September 26.
Chappells celebrate 55th anniversary
Roby and Ethel Chappell
Roby and Ethel Chappell
celebrated 55 years of marriage in
a reception held Monday, Aug. 13,
at Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home.
Friends, relatives and nursing home
residents helped them celebrate with
cake and punch.
Roby and Ethel met in West
Virginia where they were neighbors
and were married on Aug. 13, 1935,
at Woodlawn. West Virginia. Roby
ranched in the Condon area and
worked for the State Highway Div.
Roby 73, and Ethel 77, came to
Condon in 1941 and moved to Hepp
ner in 1950. The couple moved to
Spray in 1953 and then back to
Heppner in 1980. In 1981 they mov
ed to lone.
Many attend Eskeison reunion
Many familiar names from Mor
row and Umatilla Counties, attend
ed the Eskeison reunion held recent
ly at Cutsforth Park, including Van
Winkle, Palmer, Wilcox, Green,
Harrison, Pettyjohn, Carlson and
Graves. From other areas such as
Portland. Salem, Bend, Gresham
and Redmond. OR.; Tulelake and
Sacram ento, C A .; Spokane,
Auburn, Deer Harbor. Seattle and
Burbank, W a.; Elk City and
Potlatch, Idaho came the families of
Van Winkle, Hill. Cook, Richard
son, Ely, Kennedy, Frey, Wilcox,
Rasmussen, Shearer. Pettyjohn. Van
Schoiack, Rohr, Littiepage. Brosten,
Buswell and Holm.
And so they came, over a hun
dred, from near and far to explore
again with tours to the coal mines.
Devils Half Acre’ the Rock Forma
tions, 400-year old Ponderosa pines,
the rock quarry, to fish in the pond
for both fish and tadpoles, to visit
with as many as possible and camp
at the Morrow County Cutsforth
Park.
Some did come a little early on
Wednesday and stay until the get-
together on Sat. July 21 and potluck
on Sunday to relive running the cat
tle th£re through the summer and
picking huckleberries in Dev ils Half
Acre.
There didn’t seem to be a genera
tion gap between the two-year olds
and over 80 as the reunion came to
a close Sunday afternoon with the
serving of a birthday cake in honor
of Eva Wilcox-Brosten of Potlatch.
Id., now the oldest living member of
the descendants of Joe and Mary
Phariss-Eskelson.
Joseph Eskeison, born Jan. 21,
1856, at Copenhagen, Denmark,
descended from Swedish and Prus
sian parents who immigrated to the
U.S.A., when Joseph was one year
old and settled near Salt Lake City.
Utah.
As a young man he ran a freight
line from Salt Lake City north to
Butte, Mont, a new mining town
without rail transportation. Mary
Ann Phariss, bom June 19, 1959 at
Petaluma, Ca., lived in Butte and
when Joe completed his trip north in
the spring of 1882 they were mar
ried. As the east-west railroad line
through Butte was to be completed
that fall (he decided if you couldn’t
compete-to join them), he and Mary
left in a covered wagon with their
teams and began working for the
railroad building road beds. Even
tually he worked on the branch lines
to Weston and when that was com
pleted moved to Heppner Junction to
work on the railroad bed to Heppner.
Two children were bom at Weston
and as Joe and Mary worked their
way up Willow Creek another child
was bom in 1887 near Lexington and
was to learn to walk in a box in the
covered wagon.
From 1884 through 1904 they had
nine children—Nellie Eskelson-
Palmer, Orvel Eskeison (Hammer),
Ethel Eskelson-Wilcox, Josephine
E skelson-F redrickson,
Earl
Eskeison (Crandle) Cleo Eskelson-
VanWinkle, Catherine Eskelson-
Daniels, James Eskeison and Rose
Eskclson-Sproul.
Joe filed on a ‘Homestead Claim’
with a spring in the Social Ridge
area, although he continued work on
the railbed until it reached Heppner.
then moved to the land. Over the
years he acquired more land and
built a new home in Clarks Canyon,
complete with carbide lights. They
later retired to Salem in the early
1920’s to live until their deaths in
1943 and 44.
Their descendants here in Morrow
Co. and away have sought careers
in farming, teaching, business, com
puters, PCAs. banking, architecture,
nursing, hairdressing, homemaking,
electrical engineering, recreation
and the Armed Forces, just to name
a few.
Town gets cleaned up
Engagements
The Morrow Soil & Water Conservation District crew has
been working around town getting ready for fair and rodeo and
Cycle Oregon III.
Nolan Murray wins B.C.
instrumentalist of year
George — Brown
Mr and Mrs. Christopher George of Heppner announce the engagement
of their daughter. Kimberly Ann to Scott Thomas Brown, the son of Dr
and Mrs. Allan Brown of Salem. A 1991 summer wedding is planned
Nolan Murray, son of Iona and
Sherman Murray of lone, has won
the British Columbia instrumentalist
of the year award for the second
time.
Murray, has just returned from a
three-week tour where he played for
the Calgary Stampede and Big
Valley at Craven.
He has played with Jess Lee. Gary
Fjellgaad. Patricia Conroy and Ian
Tyson. He has also toured the
Eastern Canadian provinces of Nova
Scotia. Newfoundland and New
Brunswick, playing with K.D Lang,
among others, and has appeared on
Nashville Now. He plans on going
overseas in October for a tour of
England and Holland. The rest of the
time. Sherman says his son is busy
working in recording sessions and
producing
Sherman modestly says that Nolan
was "basically self-taught ” although
he admits to being a musician and
vocalist himself and giving Nolan a
start. Nolan's sister is also a
musician.