FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 2, 1997
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Governor's budget leaves
Fair cupboard bare
The Morrow County Fair may
face a funding crisis. According
to a March 16 article in "The
Oregonian" by Richard Cockle,
the budget proposed by Governor
John Kitzhaber does not include
funding for county fairs.
Cockle's article stated that
"Leslie Carlson, a spokesperson
for Kitzhaber, said that money is
needed for schools, prisons,
higher education, community
colleges and pre-kindergarten
programs."
According to "The Oregonian"
article, "Oregon has provided fair
revenue to counties, initially
from horse racing and later from
Oregon lottery video poker
proceeds. Last year, Oregon's 36
counties received about $40,000
each from the state lottery to put
on fairs."
So far this year Morrow
County has received $26,556.97
from video poker receipts,
according to Morrow County
accountant Lisanne Currin.
Cumn said that another payment
of around $8,000 is expected this
year.
"The Oregonian" said that last
year Lincoln County got $32,000
to put on its fair; Lane County,
$36,000; and Lake County,
$39,000.
A group, Friends of the Fair,
now produces the Multnomah
County Fair after county
commissioners withdrew about
$300,000 in funding in 1995,
said Cockle. Attendance at the
Multnomah County Fair has
fallen from 125,000 in the late
1980s to 15,000, last year.
According to the story, "The
Lincoln County Fair Board is
exploring the idea of combining
fair-week activities with a year-
round exposition center, said Jim
Kennison, fair manager. Clatsop
County has taken that approach
and Linn and Deschutes counties
plan to try it, he said."
A proposal is under
consideration in Morrow County
to construct a large building at
the fairgrounds which would
house a variety of activities.
"House Bill 2384, sponsored by
Rep. Lonnie Roberts, D-Portland,
would require each county to
establish and maintain a county
fair fund. But it earmarks no state
money," continued the article.
Charles “Swede” Carl
son
Obituaries
Dail A. Turner
Funeral service for Dail A.
Turner was held Saturday, March
29, at the United Methodist
Church in Heppner. Concluding
services and burial followed at the
Heppner Masonic Cemetery.
Mr. Turner, 63, of Heppner, died
Tuesday, March 25, 1997, at his
home.
He was bom March 4,1934, at
Halfway, to Basil and Anna
Dooley Turner. He grew up at
Canyon City, where he attended
school.
On September 2, 1957, he mar
ried Marie Schultz at Canyon
Creek. They moved to Heppner
in 1965.
Mr. Turner was in logging for
most of his life and was recently
a heavy equipment operator for
Miller & Sons in Heppner.
He was a member of Heppner
BPOE 358.
Survivors include his wife,
Mane, of Heppner; daughters,
Marilyn Eldred of Hermiston, and
Muriel Tullius of Powell Butte;
son, Delbert of Boardman;
mother, Anna Turner of Prairie
City; brother, Biffley of Redmond;
sisters, LaRue Pryse and Nadia
Schultz, both of Prairie City; 11
grandchildren and five great
grandchildren. He was preceded
in death by daughter, Delvina
Shuman, in 1986, and his father,
Basil Turner, in 1996.
Memorial contributions may be
made to Pioneer Memorial Home
Health, P.O. Box 9, Heppner, OR
97836.
Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner
was in charge of arrangements.
Ruth E. Bergstrom
Graveside service for Ruth E.
Bergstrom was held Thursday,
March 27, at the Heppner Ma
sonic Cemetery.
Mrs. Bergstrom, 89, of Hepp
ner, died Tuesday, March 25,1997,
at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in
Heppner.
She was bom January 13,1908,
at Sunbury, Pennsylvania, the
daughter of Joseph and Maude
Page Babcock. She was raised
and attended school at Waverly,
New York, and then at Heppner.
She married John O. Bergstrom
on November 28, 1926, at Hepp
ner. The couple farmed his sister
Helma Anderson’s farm until
1932, when they purchased the
Allstott Homestead west of Hepp
ner, which Mrs. Bergstrom still
owned at the time of her death.
She was a member of the Valby
Lutheran Church and the
Rebekah’s Degree of Honor and
the grange. For more than 40
years, she was the superintendent
of the Morrow County Fair and
also had been employed at Mur
ray Drugs in Heppner for many
years. Until ill health forced her
to retire, she was also active with
the Heppner Senior Meal Site.
Survivors include a daughter,
Carolyn of Pendleton; a son,
Gerald of Heppner; and sisters,
Nellie Jones of Heppner and
Eunice Osmine Plank of Salem.
She was preceded in death by her
husband in 1972 and a daughter,
Marilyn, in 1994.
Memorial contributions can be
made to the donor’s charity of
choice.
Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner
was in charge of arrangements.
Bakers to celebrate 50th
Memorial service for Charles
A. “Swede” Carlson will be 2 p.m.
Friday, April 4, at the lone United
Church of Christ. Private commit
tal service will be at High View
Cemetery near lone.
Mr. Carlson, 82, of lone, was
bom and died on the family ranch
located outside lone near Valby
Church. He died Saturday, March
Elma G. Scott
29,1997.
for Elma G. Scott
He was bom March 1,1915, to Rose Eleanor- Messner was The held funeral
Monday,
31, at
Charles Emil and Mary Ethel
Memorial services for Rose the First Christian March
Church
in
Harrison Carlson.
Eleanor Messner, 85, Gresham, Heppner. Concluding service and
He grew up in the lone area formerly of Heppner, will be held
followed at the Heppner
and attended local schools, gradu Thursday, April 3, at 10 a.m. at burial
Masonic
Cemetery.
ating from lone High School. He the Gateway Little Chapel of the Mrs. Scott,
94, of Heppner, died
Chimes,
1515
N.E.
106th,
attended Benson Trade School for
Thursday,
March
27,1997, at Pio
Portland,
OR
97220.
Diesel Mechanics in Portland.
neer
memorial
Hospital.
Disposition
was
by
cremation.
After graduation, he lived and
Mrs. Messner died March 28, She was bom September 24,
worked at Arlington for Stone 1997,
at the home of her 1902, at Heppner, to George and
Machinery for several years.
daughter
in Gresham.
Nora Crawford Moore. She grew
Mr. Carlson and Claude
MrS.
Messner
bom and up in Heppner and attended
Brasher formed and ran their own raised in Valley was City
and Heppner schools. She lived in
livestock trucking company for a ’ graduated - from high school
I
v
Bakers, 1947
time before Mr. Carlson eventu there. Her maiden name was Heppner most of her life.
Clarence and Clarice Baker of Company from which he retired
ally moved back to lone, where Cannon. On June 6, 1933, she On November 7, 1920, she Heppner
celebrate their 50th in 1988.
married
William
Ralph
Scott,
at
he farmed with his father.
married Willard "Bill" Messner. Heppner. The couple lived in the wedding will anniversary
with a Clarice was a homemaker.
On November 1, 1941, he mar She was a Portland resident from
The couple have lived in
at the First Christian
ried Frances M. Stewart at Sil- 1939 to 1945. She then moved to Heppner area for most of their reception
Heppner
all their married life,
on Saturday, April 5
verton. The couple lived at lone Arizona and Minnesota, marriage and lived in the Tri-Cit- Church
where
they
are active in the First
from
1-3
p.m.
for a time before moving to the returning to Portland in 1963. les for several years. Mr. Scott They were married on February Christian Church. They had been
She moved to Heppner in 1973. died in 1975 and Mrs. Scott re 28, 1947 at the Methodist Church active in local school events,
ranch.
mained in the Tri-Cities until 1995, in Heppner. Both are from Rainbow Girls, Blue Birds, Cub
Mr. Carlson was active with She was a homemaker.
Mrs.
Messner
is
survived
by
the Oregon Cattleman’s Associa her husband, who recently when she returned to Heppner. pioneer Morrow county families. and Boy Scouts, 4-H, Little
tion, the Oregon Wheat League, moved to Hermiston from She was a member of the First Clarice was raised and attended League and the Masonic Lodge.
the Willows Grange and was a life Heppner; daughter, Darlene Christian Church in Heppner.
school in Heppner while The Bakers have six children,
Survivors
include
her
son,
Wil
member of Heppner Elks Lodge. Grady, Gresham; son, John T.
Clarence was raised and attended Jan Murrell of Lebanon, Steve
Survivors include a sister, Janet Messner, Denver, CO; sisters, liam R. Scott of Heppner; daugh school in lone. During World Baker of Pendleton, William
of Tillamook, Kenneth
Schoolcraft of Portland. His wife, Mary C. Smith and Margaret ters, Doris A. Davis of Pendleton War II Clarence was with the Baker
Baker
of
Ooltewah, Tennessee,
Aileen Nisbet of Wasco; nine Navy Seabees, serving in North
Frances, died in 1992.
Messner, both Portland; and two and
Lynda
Baker
of Hermiston and
grandchildren, 22 great-grandchil Africa and the Pacific. On his
Memorial contributions may be grandchildren.
Marti
Mossman
of Kalamazoo,
return
home
in
1946,
he
went
to
dren
and
nine
great-great-grand-
made to the lone Topic Club, P.O.
Contributions may be made to children. She was preceded in work as a mechanic for Rosewall Michigan; 15 grandchildren;
and
Box 8, lone, OR 97843; or to the Providence Hospital, in care of
three
great-grandchildren.
Motors
and
then
to
Farley
Motor
death
by
her
husband,
Ralph;
Morrow County EMTs, P.O. Box Providence medical Foundation,
4805 N.E. Glisan, Portland, OR daughter, Erma, in 1995; sister
206, lone, OR 97843.
Ethel Kmghten; and brothers, Guy,
Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner 97213.
Clarence
and Ralph.
is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be
made to St. Patrick’s Senior Cen
Dr. Donald Carlson,
a
ter Trust Fund, P.O. Box 266,
Heppner, OR 97836.
podiatric foot and ankle specialist,
Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner will be at the Pioneer Memorial Clinic
was in charge of arrangements.
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Funeral service for Thomas J.
Wells, 88, Vancouver, WA, will
be held Thursday, April 3, at 10
a.m. at the Memorial Gardens
Funeral Chapel with burial to
follow at Evergreen Memorial
Gardens.
Mr. Wells was bom April 27,
1908, at Portland. He died March
28, 1997, at Vancouver.
He served in the Pacific in the
Navy in World War II. He
worked in manufacturing and at
one time owned a restaurant in
Heppner. He was a member of
the Heppner Masonic Lodge #69
and the Order of the Eastern Star
Ruth Locust Chapter 32.
Mr. Wells was preceded in
death in 1983 by his first wife of
43 years, Neva Wells. Survivors
include his wife, Ann Wells;
granddaughters,
Pamela
Wunderlich, Heppner, and Judith
Paine, Harrison, ID; and a niece,
Betty Kenny, Pendleton.
Contributions may be made to
the Shnner's Hospital, 3101 S.W.
Sam Jackson Park Road,
Portland, OR 97201.
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