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Shirley Landauer
M orrow County School
District business manager Shirley
Landauer, moved here in July to
fill the position that was vacant
for several months following the
resignation of Chuck Rhoades.
“ It’s going to take me awhile
to get acclimated to this wide
spread district,” Landauer said.
“ Closing the past fiscal year and
starting a new one is a busy time
of the year,” she said, “ but the
school district office has an ex
ceptionally fine staff. Though
they have been loaded with extra
work in the absence of a business
manager, they have kept up by
prioritizing and doing extra
work,” she added.
The Landauers sold their home
in Madras where she has served
Jack and Jill tourney Aug. 7
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VOL 111
NO. 30
6 Pages Wednesday, August 5, 1992
Morrow County Heppner, Oregon
Princess Angie enjoys meeting people
Meeting people and working
with animals are all part of the
busy lifestyle of Morrow Coun
ty Fair and Oregon Trail Pro
Rodeo Princess Angie Partlow of
Boardman.
Angie, the daughter of Jim and
Pam Partlow, will be a senior at
Riverside High School this year.
She is active in the student coun
cil as president of the senior class,
and has been editor of the high
school newspaper the last two
years. Her role as vice president
of the Riverside FFA chapter
may lead to a trip to the National
FFA convention in Kansas City
this year. Angie has already won
a horse proficiency award in
FFA.
It’s a family affair when it
comes to working with the cattle
on Buttercreek or taking them to
summer pasture. It’s all in a day’s
work, she says, whether it’s
gathering cattle or working them
through a chute. Her family also
includes brother Rick, 15.
Angie is also experienced at
showing cattle, something she has
done since the fourth grade. At
fair this year she will not only be
handing out ribbons but will be
in the thick of the competition for
top awards with her Angus steer.
Princess Angie has been riding
since she was old enough to hang
on and has shown horses at Her-
miston. Her dependable mount
for this year’s court life is a
10-year-old sorrel quarterhorse
gelding, called Bud. He’s proven
his ability as a cowhorse as well
as for noisy parades and fast mov
ing grand entries, she says.
Fair time means that Angie will
also be celebrating her 17th bir
thday that week. With family
members in both ends of the
county, she’s sure to have lots of
good wishes while blowing out
the candles on her birthday cake.
Along with the many weekend
trips for court appearances. Angie
has spent the summer working at
Photo by Joyce Hughes
Princess Angie Partlow tests the water at Dodge City Inn’s
swimming pool, where she finds time to work during her busy
summer.
the Dodge City Inn, putting away
says, to visit the residents at
Pioneer M emorial Nursing
money for college expenses.
Home. “ They are special people
Tentatively, Angie has plans to
and they thanked us for taking the
attend Blue Mountain Communi
time to visit,” she added.
ty College in Pendleton for a
Being on the court this summer
business degree. But she has her
has given court members a
sights set on becoming a com
modity broker in the stock ex
chance to meet lots of people,
Angie says. “ It’s a great way to
change, “ something I’ve always
promote Morrow County.” She
wanted to do,” she says.
added that the court is looking
Playing the piano, reading and
working with animals are some
forward to hosting other courts at
the Saturday noon luncheon as
of the things Angie enjoys. But
well as heading up Saturday's big
this summer, she says, has been
parade.
the highlight of her young life. It
was especially rewarding, she
comodate the additional services
they provide. The new office will
also provide more confidentiali
ty, she said.
Tentative plans are to move the
public health office into Pioneer
Memorial Clinic after it has been
remodeled. Kevin Erich, Pioneer
Memorial Hospital administrator,
said that they hope to have the
clinic
com pleted
by
Thanksgiving.
Alarm at PMH turns out false
The Heppner Fire Department
responded to a false alarm at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital at
11:09 a.m. Tuesday Aug. 4.
scores and special events. There
is a $4 per couple charge for
members and $5 per person for
non-members.
Light snacks will be served by
the committee Elvyn and Pat
Bell, Dave and Corol Mitchell
and Pat and Wayland Hyatt.
G roup form ed to raise funds for pool
A newly formed group ‘People
for the Pool’ has been formed to
raise funds and help build a
swimming pool in Heppner. The
group is not connected with the
city, school or park districts and
is working on non-profit
organization status for tax-
deductible donations.
A yearly pledge of $20 and an
offer of heavy equipment excava
tion of a pool site have already
been made, according to
organizer George Naims.
Immediate plans include dona
tion jars in local businesses and
lapel buttons which will sell for
$1.50 each.
A baked food and cotton can
dy sale is planned before the fair
and rodeo parade in Heppner
August 22. The group will also
have a float entered in the parade.
Volunteers will also be operating
the fair admission gates during
the week.
A pool Calcutta with a white
elephant auction and dinner is set
for October 11.
Future year-round plans are
underway for a bowling Calcut
ta, bottle drives, a walk-a-thon
and a bike-a-thon. Plans also in
clude selling bricks which will be
laser-printed with donor’s names
and set at the pool site.
Help is needed for the county
fair activities. Interested persons
may contact Naims at 676-9252.
For further information on the
pool Calcutta and auction dinner
call Theo Greenup, 676-9795.
For pledges and contributions
contact Kay Proctor 676-9422.
General information may be ob
tained from Joyce Breeding
676-5024.
The next meeting will be at the
Heppner Bowling Alley, Thurs
day, August 13 at 10 a.m.
Anyone interested is encouraged
to attend.
Summer recreation program ends
Health Department moves office
The Morrow County Health
Department office hs been mov
ed
from
its
previous
location at the Pettyjohn Building
to 471 North Main Street in
Heppner. The new office is
located at the former law offices
of Herman Winter and Val
Doherty, near the Neighborhood
Center.
Office manager Betty Mar
quardt said that the public health
office needed more space to ac-
The Willow Creek Country
Club golfers will hold a Jack and
Jill mini-tournament on Friday
August 7 at 6 p.m.
The activity will involve male
and female couples playing in a
modified nine-hole chapman type
of play.
Prizes will be awarded for low
as that school district’s business
manager for five years. Her hus
band Phillip is retired after also
working for the Madras school
district.
Landauer grew up in the Grants
Pass area and graduated from
high school in Bend. She attend
ed the University of Oregon.
The Landauers have been liv
ing in their motorhome in Hepp
ner. However, Landauer said
they are looking forward to mov
ing into a home that they purchas
ed on Aiken Street. With most of
their belongings still in storage,
it’s going to take awhile to get
settled in and accustomed to more
space, she said.
“ Heppner is a nice town, with
friendly people and a variety of
landscape throughout the county.
There are lovely yards here with
lots of shade and we enjoy grow
ing things,” she said.
Other hobbies that interest Lan
dauer are playing the guitar, cake
decorating and working with
stained glass. She said that they
both enjoy the outdoors and the
quiet life of a small town.
According to the Morrow
County Sheriff s Department a
lunch-time outdoor barbecue at
the hospital set off the alarm
Grace Drake, director of the
local summer recreation pro
g ram . said that an average of 45
children attended the month-long
program. Activities included field
trips to the PGE Coal Fire Plant,
Taggares Farms, Boise Cascade
Tree Farm, the Navy Bombing
Range, Finley Buttes and Bull
Prairie Recreation Area. The pro
gram included spinning and
weaving and other art projects
and classes with Dr. Jerry
Withycomb of Morrow County
Mental Health. Lunch was also
provided. The program was
designed to help fill the void in
summer activities created w ith the
closing of the Heppner sw imm
ing pool.
Drake said that 75 different
children were enrolled and 35
volunteers were required to con
duct the classes, which ran from
9 a.m. to I or 2 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
Children were not charged to
enroll in the program. Funding
was provided through a grant,
and donations from the Elks
Club, the United Methodist
W om en, M orrow County
Creative Arts and Crafts and
Harshm an pleads guilty to drug charges
Noel Harshman, Jr., 35, Hepp
ner, was placed on three years'
formal probation and ordered to
serve 90 custody units by Circuit
Judge Pro-Tern Richard Courson
Man dies o f natural causes
A Lexington man, Allen M.
Clark, was discovered dead at his
home at 7:23 p.m. on August 2.
Clark is believed to have died of
HMS yearbooks
signing party set
The 1991-92 Heppner Middle
School yearbooks will be
distributed and a signing party
will be held on Thursday, August
13 from 1 to 2 p.m. on the lawn
in front of the Middle School
building.
People who did not pre-order
a book may purchase one for $8,
at that time while supply lasts.
For more information contact the
school office or Sally Walker.
Photo by Joyce Hughes
Volunteer Merilee McDowell helps Ross VanEtta (center) and
Kiel Naims with their wool. Making wool was one of the first
projects.
elementary teachers. The Mor application process. “ We have a
row County School District pro model,” said Drake, we know
vided buses and drivers at $35 an that it can be done. If the demand
is there, there w ill be people will
hour.
A meeting has been planned for ing to volunteer.” Drake said that
August 10 at the United if there is a program next year,
Methodist Church to evaluate the she hopes there will be more
program. Drake said that the sharing of responsibilities. She
group will discuss whether to said that she has received many
have the program next summer, positive comments concerning the
and if so. they w ill begin the grant program.
natural causes, according to
deputy district attorney Val
Doherty.
Doherty said that Clark, 58.
probably died the evening of
Aug. 1. He had a history of heart
trouble and other medical pro
blems and had only one lung, she
said.
on July 28. Harshman pled guil
ty to conspiracy to manufacture
methamphetamine.
According to Morrow County
District Attorney Jeff Wallace,
Harshman was also fined $1,000;
ordered to reimburse the state
$240 for the cost of his court-
appointed attorney; and ordered
to undergo a standard range of
drug-related probation condi
tions. These include drug evalua
tion and treatment, random
urinalysis, submitting to a
polygraph exam ination and
search of his person, residence
and vehicle.
Harshman was indicted by a
Morrow County Grand Jury in
January after a search of a
residence which he had previous
ly occupied in Lexington reveal
ed the remnants of an illegal
methamphetamine lab, said
Wallace.
Harshman was arrested on
January 25 at Rockaway, on the
Oregon Coast. At the time of his
arrest, the vehicle which he had
been driving was searched and
precursor chemicals used in the
manufacture of methampheta
mine were found on board, said
Wallace.
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