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The Heppner
Photo by Joyce Hughes
Heppner Mustangs accept bracket board and first place trophy as winners of the District 7
Tournament in Pendleton.
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VOL 110 NO.
8
Wednesday, February 27, 1991
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Heppner
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The Heppner Mustangs and Fillies
both advanced to the Regional Tour­
nament Friday and Saturday, March
1 and 2 held at the Quinn Coliseum
in LaGrande.
The Fillies open the tournament at
1:30 p.m. Friday against the Imbler
Panthers. The game, pitting the se­
cond place teams from Districts 7
and 8 is a loser-out contest. If the
Fillies win, they will play the loser
of the Weston-McEwen and Vale
matchup for a trip to the state tour­
nament. That game will be played
Saturday at 7 p.m.
The Mustangs, the first place team
from District 7, will meet the first
place team from District 8, the Vale
Vikings Friday at 8:30 p.m. for a
trip to the State Tournament in
Pendleton the first week of March.
The loser will play the winner of
Enterprise and Umatilla Saturday
night for the other ticket to State.
The game will start at 8:30 p.m.
All games will be played at the
Quinn Coliseum on the campus of
Eastern Oregon State College.
Ticket prices are $4 for adults and
$3 for students.
Jason Britt
named MVP
Ed Hiemstra honored for prestigious sports career
daughter is involved in.
The Hiemstras have two grown
children, Patricia Frick who teaches
elementary school in Richland; and
Theresa Griggs, who is the head of
payroll at Westinghouse at Hanford.
They also have five grandchildren,
who all seem to be following in the
footsteps o f their athletic
grandfather.
Patricia’s children are Becky, who
captained the U. of Seattle basket­
ball team and is now computer
engineer for Boeing in Seattle. WA.;
Wendy, a senior in TV communica­
tions at Eastern Washington; and
Scott, who was 7-foot highjumper at
Central Washington and is now a
Cargo C -141 pilot flying from the
D.S. to the Middle East.
Wendy’s children are Trisha, who
was a starter on her basketball team
at Hanford High and Columbia Basin
College. Now living in Walla Walla
her husband is a medic in Riyahd,
Saudi Arabia; and Nicole, who is a
sophomore at Hanford. She was a
starter on a soccer team which won
a state title. This year she is a starter
on a district championship basketball
team.
Bottom left: Former pro ball player Ed Hiemstra at Polo
Grounds in New York City in 1942. Above-Ed displays trophys
he won while coaching in Idaho.
When angry parents ask longtime
youth sports coach Ed Hiemstra
where in the heck he learned to
coach, they are probably not
prepared for the answer.
Hiemstra played pro ball for the
New York Giants early in his long
sports career and he is being honored
for that and other achievements by
the Idaho Hall of Fame. Hiemstra
will be inducted into the Hall of
Fame in a ceremony at the 29th an­
nual Idaho Sports Banquet at the
Coeur d'Alene Resort on March 16.
The Hiemstras get an expense paid
trip to Coeur d ’Alene for the
festivities.
To be inducted along with
Hiemstra are Ed Troxel, Ken­
newick. WA.; John G. Smith and
Tim Hayhurst, both of Idaho; and J.
Neil “ Skip” Stahley, Beaverton.
Born in Columbus, Montana to
Taeke and Francis Hiemstra from
F riesland, The N etherlands.
Hiemstra moved to Nampa, Idaho
with his parents and three brothers
and three sisters in 1929. After com­
pleting high school, where he com­
peted in football and track, Ed
enrolled in college at Sterling. Kan­
sas At Sterling Ed lettered and earn
ed 15 varsity awards in four sports-
football. basketball, baseball and
track. In football. Ed established a
still standing record of playing in
every minute of every football game
in all four years of varsity competi­
tion. He played center, line backer
and punter.
His success at football earned him
a place on a Kansas all-star football
team, which, in turn, nabbed him a
contract with the New York Giants
in 1942.
There was no draft in
those days, said Ed. After playing
for his all star team in the Sunflower
Bowl seven pro teams wanted him
to sign with them. Ed says that he
talked to his all-star coach who
recommended that he go with the
Giants He signed with them in
1942.
Ed played offensive guard
and linebacker for the Giants. Ed
said that football was a little different
in those days, in that players played
both offensive and defensive and if
a player was taken out he was not put
back in until the next quarter.
Players were just about as big.
though. Hiemstra was 225 pounds in
his college football career and 235
in the pros.
Ed says during his time with the
pros in New York he and his wife
Marylee, “ walked all over New
York.” He says that she was in pret­
ty good shape herself, having walk­
ed to the top of the Statue of Liberty
eight months’ pregnant with their
first child, leaving some visiting
friends huffing and puffing behind
them. She made it to the top, but the
friends didn’t.
Ed’s career with the pros was cut
short however, war broke out and he
joined the Army Air Force in 1943.
While in the service he directed a
physical education program for the
Air Force and coached the troop car­
rier football team in 1945. While he
never was injured playing in college
or for the pros, he was in the ser­
vice playing football for entertain­
ment for the servicemen. As a result
of a back injury at the U of Colorado
at Boulder, Ed ended up in the
hospital for a month.
In 1947 Ed started his coaching
career at Nampa High School when
he was football and track coach. The
next year he moved to Kellogg,
where he was athletic director and
coached football, basketball and
track. During his tenure at Kellogg
he started his “ fabulous" career
coaching basketball. Over 16 years
he had a record of 265 wins and 112
losses (for 70 percent), and won five
district titles, three regional titles and
three state titles-in 1955, 56 and 59
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From Kellogg Ed and Marylee
moved to West Linn where he serv­
ed as head basketball coach until
1965. He had resigned to take a posi­
tion at Tongue Point at a government
sponsored boys’ center. Unfor­
tunately, or fortunately for Heppner,
after Ed resigned from West Linn,
the government cut off funding for
the program. Ed. in the process of
finishing his master-s, decided on an
alternative plan-selling insurance.
He never became an insurance
salesman. Dick Carpenter, then
Heppner High School principal, in­
tervened and talked Ed into coming
to Heppner Ed says that the first
time he and Marylee came it looked
pretty desolate. They didn’t meet a
single car from the freeeway turnoff
to Heppner. and besides that, there
was grass growing in the road. They
later found out that the grass was
wheat. Ed was sure that Heppner
wasn’t for him, but after an hour he
signed the contract and they have liv­
ed here ever since. “ We like a small
town." said Ed. "There’s no crime
and the climate is great.”
Now Ed and Marylee spend their
summers in North Idaho, where he
is often asked to attend high school
reunions, playing golf (with four
holes in one) and “ chasing gran-
dkids. " In mid-March Ed will begin
coaching an AAU baskethall team of
girls 18 and under that his grand-
Jason Britt, a 5 ’9 ” junior was
named the District Tournament’s
most valuable Player by KUMA.
Britt had 28 points in the two games.
He also had seven assists and six
steals. One of the keys to the
Mustang victory over the Vikings
was Britt's dogged shadowing of the
Vikings Rusty Green, who suffered
through 5-13 shooting and scored
only 12 points.
Tree give-away
set March 1
West winds Nursery, in conjunc­
tion with Morrow Soil and Water
Conservation District will be giving
away free trees beginning this Fri­
day. March 1.
The trees, six to eight foot moun­
tain ash trees, may be picked up at
Westwinds in Hermiston. For more
inform ation
call
M SW CD,
676-5452.
Morrow DA will not file
complaint against Devin
Morrow County District Attorney
Jeff Wallace said that he has chosen
not to file a complaint against Glen
Devin, owner of Devin Oil. Devin
was placed under citizen’s arrest on
Feb. 15 by Victor Klinger, owner of
Vic’s Lexington Chevron. Devin
was immediately released on his own
recognizance by Judge Ralph Cur-
rin. According to Wallace if a
district attorney does not endorse
prosecution, under Oregon law a
judge does not have the authority to
file a complaint.
Klinger, who had been involved in
a lengthy dispute with Devin Oil. the
Morrow County Grain Growers and
other card lock operators, maintains
that card locks are illegal and the
operations are violating the law. In
card lock stations, business
customers use a key or card to pump
gas at a lesser rate than is charged
at regular service stations. A
Multnomah County Circuit Court
Judge's ruling in a civil card lock
case is in the Oregon Court of
Appeals.
Devin had been subpoenaed to ap­
pear in court on Feb. 15 in conjunc­
tion with two bad check charges fil­
ed against Klinger. The checks had
been written several days apart to
Devin Oil, the distributor from
whom Klinger gets his gasoline.
Prior to Feb. 15. the date that
Klinger had been scheduled to ap­
pear on the bad check charges,
Klinger filed two motions-one to
disqualify the Morrow County DA
and another to postpone his bad
check trial until the pending court of
appeals civil case is settled.
Currin denied the motion to dis­
qualify the DA on grounds that he
had no authority to do so, since the
district attorney represents the state.
C urrin initially allow ed the
postponement but later reconsidered
his decision on the grounds that the
bad check charges were not related
to the civil case pending.
Guest to speak at Garden Club
The regular meeting of the Hepp­
ner Garden Club on March 4 at the
St Patrick’s Senior Center will start
with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m.
Special guest will be Virginia
Sinclair of Milton-Freewater who
will provide the program. She will
discuss the growing and new
discoveries on the use of rapeseed as
well as the kiwi fruit vine.
Kal Healy will discuss the “ flower
of the month” . Hostesses will be
Marianne Kahl and Mary Goheen.
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