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He knows if you ve been bad or g o o d - jo s h Lankford, six, (I) and Tony
Lankford, two, enjoy a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Claus Saturday during the Artifactory in Hepp
ner. Both the Lankford boys convinced Mr. and Mrs. Santa that they have been good and
old them what they wanted for Christmas. Josh and Tony are the sons of Susan and Steve
Lankford of Lexington.
Soroptimist offers scholarship awards
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VOL. 111
NO. 49
8 Pages Wednesday. December 9, 1992
Morrow County Heppner, Oregon
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Mustangs bring home the gold
Vale goes down in defeat to dominate Heppner team
Two different awards are be
ing offered by Soroptimist Inter
national of Heppner. The Youth
Citizenship Award (YCA) is of
fered to high school seniors in
Heppner, Lexington and lone. A
first place award of $150 and se
cond place of $100 are given each
year to students who show
citizenship and merit in service,
dependability, leadership and
demonstrate a clear sense of
purpose.
The $150 Training Awards
Program (TAP) award is offered
to mature women who must enter
or return to the job market. Can
didates should be heads of
households
com pleting
undergraduate programs or enter
ing vocational or technical train
ing programs.
Criteria for this award in
cludes: Maturity in adapting to
new situations, motivation,
responsibility and financial need.
The applicant should also be
the head of her household with
financial responsibility for her
dependents and who requires edu
cational training for entry or re
entry to the job market, which
will ultimately enable her to move
to a higher grade job level. The
applicant should be entering
vocational or technical training or
completing an undergraduate
degree.
The local winners of both the
TAP and YCA awards are eligi
ble to participate in regional
competitions.
Applications for the YCA
awards are available from Hepp
ner High School Counselor Gwyn
Franklin and lone High School
Counselor Del LaRue. To receive
a TAP award application or for
information on either award,
please contact Molly Rill,
676-5455 evenings or 676-9642
days. The deadline date on both
awards is December 18.
Nazarenes plan Christmas program
The Church of the Nazarene,
located at 335 N. Gilmore, will
hold their Christmas program on
Sunday. Dec. 20 at 10:30 a.m.
The program titled “ Christmas
Comes to Lone Star Gultch’’,
will feature a play and Christmas
songs as well as some special
music by the children and teens.
Everyone is invited to come
and celebrate Jesus’ birth.
Contest winners
announced
This week’s lucky winners of
the Christmas Punch Contest are
Cheryl Ployhar, who won a gift
certificate from Gardner’s Men’s
Wear; Alan Anderson. Arlington
who won a gift certificate from
the Shoe Box; Tim Hedman.
Coast to Coast; Judy Wright, Les
Schwab; and Jane Richards, Lex
ington, from Central Market.
Each won a $25 gift certificate.
Everyone who enters the con
test is eligible for the grand prize
of $550 in gift certificates. You
may enter at these participating
businesses: Green Feed and Seed,
Central Market, Les Schwab,
Coast to Coast, Pettyjohn’s
Builders Supply, the Shoe Box,
Murray’s Drug. Country Rose,
Gardner’s Men’s Wear, Peter
son’s Jewelers and Morrow
County Grain Growers.
Diabetic support
group to meet
A diabetic support group
meeting has been planned for
Thursday, Dec. 17 at 2 p.m. at
Don Haugen’s home, 535 S.
Court. Heppner. For more infor
mation
contact
Haugen.
676-5352.
Fire hall burned in preparation for a new one
Photo by Joyce Hughes
Mustangs celebrate after claiming state football crown in Corvallis Saturday. More pictures
and story page 3.
Championship game to be broadcast
The Class 2A state champion
ship football game played in Cor
vallis on Dec. 5 pitting Heppner
againà Vale will be broadcast
througlh Heppner TV.
The game will be aired Sunday,
Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. on Channel 3,
the USA Network.
Judie Laughlin of Heppner TV
says that the audio won’t be
perfect and viewers may want to
adjust their sets.
Dessert to honor football team
A dessert to honor the Hepp
ner High School football team,
the state 2 A champions, has been
scheduled for Friday, Dec. 11 at
6:30 p.m. at the high school.
A tape of the championship
football game, played Dec. 5 at
Corvallis will be shown. The
community is invited to attend.
Work begins
on PMH clinic
Workers have begun construc
tion of footings at Pioneer
Memorial Clinic in Heppner in
preparation for an addition to the
clinic.
A ccording
to
Pioneer
Memorial Hospital adminstrator
Kevin Erich, concrete was
scheduled to be poured on
Wednesday, Dec. 10 if weather
allows.
Chuck and Lisa Nelson receive
Farmers of the Year award
M orrow County farm ers
Chuck and Lisa Nelson, Lex
ington, were named the Oregon
Wheat Growers League conser
vation farmers of the year
recently.
The Nelsons were chosen by a
committee of last year's county
winners, who toured the state
looking at the farms of each of
this years county winners.
The Nelsons farm 3,100 acres,
most of it wheat/fallow rotation,
with 90 percent in winter wheat
and 10 percent in winter barley.
The Nelsons have installed
more than 10 miles of terraces to
control runoff. Nelson was a pilot
cooperator for the “ cheat stop”
inversion program developed by
Oregon State University to con
trol cheatgrass.
The farm is designed for max
imum efficiency as well as con
servation. The Nelson 10-year
field average is 50 bushels per
acre, compared to the county
average of 35 bushels.
Nelson designed a cultiweeder
/fertilizer machine that lets him
accomplish in three passes what
used to require six. “ This uses
less labor, less fuel and causes
less destruction of stubble,” said
Earl Hardie, Condon. 1992 state
conservation winner and master
o f ceremonies for the awards
program.
Nelson also designed an in-cab
light system that indicates any
plugged drills on his seeder.
He was one of the first to use
100-foot wide terraces that can be
farmed over easily.
Chuck Nelson is the third
generation on the farm, which
was started by his grandfather in
1913. No moldboard plows have
been used on the farm since 1918.
His father. Norman Nelson, and
uncle. Alfred Nelson Jr., were
Morrow County conservation
winners in 1956. Alfred Nelson
J r.’s son. Kenneth Nelson, won
the county conservation award in
1985.
Besides the Nelsons, other win
ner were: North Valley. Grauer
Brothers, Sheridan; Umatilla
County. Henry Lorenzen and
Scott Montgomery, Pendleton;
Union County, Cherry Crest
Farms, operated by Ron and
Terry Puckett; and Malheur
County, Rex and Patty Maag,
Vale.
Old church building and fire department meeting room goes up in smoke Saturday.
The burning of the former
Assembly of God Church on
Willow Street in Heppner went
“ great", according to Heppner
Fire Chief Forrie Burkenbine.
The portion of the building ad
joining the fire engine bays was
burned Saturday morning, Dec.
5, in preparation for construction
of a new metal fire hall.
Burkenbine said that there were
“ no problems” during the bum.
The building came down in
around an hour, said Burkenbine.
but they allowed the fire to con
tinue around 18 hours to make
sure all of the wood had been
burned out. The Heppner Fire
Dept, was assisted by the lone
Fire Dept.
The fire department has settl
ed on the specifications for’the
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new one-level fire hall, which
will include a total of four bays,
an office, a meeting room,
restrooms and showers, but the
bids have not been let.
Burkenbine said that they hope
to build early this spring.
Cement rubble from the bum
was transported to Heppner High
School to be used as fill for a new
sports field planned there.
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