TWO - Heppnef Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 14.1997
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Spray Rodeo plans for 50 th year
begins at Service Creek and ends
The Spray Rodeo will celebrate
in downtown Spray. All the
.its 50th year May 24-25 with the runners will be in on time for the
largest event of the year for the parade which begins at 11 a.m.
town o f 160 residents.
At 1 p.m. the rodeo begins with
This year all the past rodeo rodeo stock furnished by Craig
queens are invited to attend and "Bo" Pinz P9 Rodeos from
will be in the Saturday parade Parma, Idaho.
and grand entry.
Maijorie
Saturday evening another big
(Vaughn) Kane, the first queen dance will be held and once
who now lives in Little Field, again the Buckeroo Breakfast
Arizona, plans to attend.
begins at midnight and ends at 11
Grand marshal for this year's a.m. on Sunday.
rodeo is Frank Robison who is
Sunday morning a cowboy
the only member left on the church service will be held in the
board who helped start the rodeo. grandstand at 9 a.m. The final
He has helped every year since.
performance of the rodeo begins
This year’s celebration begins at 1 p.m.
at the Spray school gym the
The weekend action includes a
evening of May 23 with a dance one-fourth mile kids pony race,
beginning at 9 p.m. with music one-fourth mile ladies race, one-
by "Old Spice" from Redmond. half mile men's race, and 3/4
At midnight the Buckeroo mile relay race. Probably one of
Breakfast begins in the school the most exciting events of the
cafeteria. The breakfast is put on rodeo is the Wild Horse Race at
by the Wheeler County 4-H the end of each performance.
Leaders Association and runs
Scott Allen from Klamath Falls,
until 11 a.m.
a radio announcer, will make his
At 8 a.m. on May 24 the first appearance at Spray as
Eastern Oregon Half-Marathon
announcer.
Obituaries
Howard E. Crowell
Howard E. Crowell, 77, of lone,
died May 9,1997, at St. Anthony
Hospital in Pendleton.
Recitation of the Rosary was at
St. William’s Church in lone on
Sunday, May 11, 1997. Funeral
Mass was Monday, May 12 at St.
Patrick’s Church in Heppner, with
interment at Highview Cemetery
in lone.
Mr. Crowell was bom on Oc
tober 6,1919, to A.C. and LaUna
Crowell. He married June Steagall
on November 12, 1951. He lived
in Heppner and lone his entire
married life.
Mr. Crowell belonged to the
V olunteer Fire Dept, and St.
William’s Catholic Church. He
worked for the railroad on a sec
tion crew. He was also a muni
tion handler at the Umatilla Army
Depot during World War II. He
worked on various farms, deliv
ered milk, was an oil delivery man
and spent his last 15 years of work
as custodian o f lone Schools. He
retired in 1981. Since retirement,
he enjoyed his family, helping his
neighbors, hunting, fishing and
caring for his church yard.
Mr. Crowell is survived by his
wife, June; son, Gene Crowell and
his wife, Kristy, of lone; daugh
ters, Karen Kandle and her hus
band, Rick, of Vernal, Utah, and
Sharon Rietmann and her hus
band, Brian, of lone; five grand
sons, four granddaughters, and
two great-grandsons; a sister, Kay
Davis, of Tacoma, Washington;
and brother, Bob Crowell and his
wife, Toni, of Omak, Washing
ton. He was preceded in death by
his parents and three sisters.
Donations may be made to Pio
neer Memorial Hospital, P.O.
Box 9, Heppner, OR 97836, or St.
Anthony Hospital, 1601 S.E.
C ourt A ve., Pendleton, OR
97801.
Sweeney Mortuary, Heppner,
was in charge of arrangements.
Theta B. Stratton Lowe
Theta B. Stratton Lowe, 86,
longtime Heppner resident,
Veradale, WA, died April 28,
1997 in Veradale. Disposition
was by cremation. Memorial
service will be Sunday, June 1,
at 1 p.m. at All Saints Episcopal
Church in Heppner.
Mrs. Lowe was bom on Nov. 8,
1910, at Portland to Emery and
Ruth Burnside. Her family lived
in the John Day and Monument
area. She lived 50 years in
Heppner before moving to
Veradale to live with her
daughter.
Mrs. Lowe enjoyed quilting,
and gardening and often entered
her canned goods in the Morrow
County F&ir. She taught 4-H
sewing and worked as an aid at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital for
many years. She belonged to the
Degree of Honor Lodge and the
Heppner Garden Club and was an
active member of All Saints
Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Lowe was preceded in
death by her husband, Robert,
three sisters, Rita Stussi, Long
Creek, Salley Herburger, Mt.
Vernon, and Tot Stratton, Unity.
She is survived by her daughter,
Ida Sue Scott, Vemdale; son,
John Jay Stratton, Monroe, WI,
11 grandchildren, five great
grandchildren and one great,
great-grandchild.
Contributions, for those who
wish, may be made to All Saints
Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 246,
Heppner, OR 97836.
M en 's breakfast
planned for Sunday
A community men's breakfast,
sponsored by the Christian Life
Center, the First Christian
Church and the Church of the
Nazarene in Heppner, will be
held on Sunday, May 18,
beginning at 8 a.m. at the
Christian Life Center.
All men and their sons are
invited to attend.
The Morrow County Unified
Recreation District (MCURD) has
entered into a contract with the
newly formed Morrow County
Arts Council.
The Arts Council is in the
process of facilitating several
projects funded by MCURD -- a
performance of "A Fine and
Pleasant Misery" by Tim Behrens
in Boardman which also included
transportation to the performance
from Heppner, Lexington and
lone; a performance by Morrow
County Community Theater
(coming
soon);
four
performances by the Willow
Creek Youth Symphony, county
wide; two performances by the
South Morrow County Choir,
county wide; tumbling by Cindy
Sumner, 12 and eight-week
sessions; dance lessons by Cheri
Westphal, two 12-week sessions;
Friday instrumental instruction by
Ralph Werner throughout the
school year and open to the
general public.
In the upcoming year MCURD,
like all special districts, will have
to make some hard funding
decisions to compensate for the
estimated $80,000 loss to the
district created by Measure 47.
MCURD asks that people submit
their comments to MCURD, P.O.
Box 765, Heppner, OR 97836 or
contact the board member in your
area. Board members are Cyde
Marie Estes, Heppner and south
rural area; Jim Swanson, lone,
Lexington and rural area; Terry
Tallman, Boardman; Dan Huxoll,
rural Boardman and lrrigon; and
Randy Tovey, lrrigon.
MCURD was formed in 1995
under the Oregon Revised
Statutes as a park and recreation
district. The voters approved a
three-year serial levy of $450,000
dollars to fund the operation of
the district.
The primary purpose of
MCURD was to provide funding,
outside of the school district, for
all co-curricular activities that
were in jeopardy under the
Letters to the Editor
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on all letters for use by the G-T office. The G-T reserves the right to edit.
Lundquist supports Measure 50
To the Editor:
Coming up next week is a
statewide vote on Ballot Measure
50, the legislatively referred
measure to implement real
property tax reform. I would like
to take this opportunity to give
you a brief outline of the benefits
of this measure (and) encourage
your support on May 20.
The most important point I
could make is that Measure 50
guarantees
Oregonians
the
property tax relief they asked for
in November 1996. The original
measure, Measure 47, was filled
with loopholes and confusing
language that would have forced
the courts to decide whether or
not Oregonians ever saw a shred
of real property tax relief.
The original measure was
poorly written; it had unintended
consequences that jeopardized
property tax relief for Oregon
home owners and put critical
local services at risk. Measure
50 guarantees Oregonians lower
property taxes and limits future
The Ione-Lexington Cemetery
gates will be open Saturday
through Monday, May 24-26 and
Thursday through Sunday, May
30-June 1 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
No glass containers will be
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Speaker of the House
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allowed, but containers
available.
Flowers will be removed after
10 days and plastic flowers and
decorations will be removed at
the discretion of the Sexton after
June 8.
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increases to three percent. At the
same time, it protects school
funding, saves rural hospitals,
libraries, police, and fire
services.
I support Measure 50, because it
cleans up all the legal
uncertainties of the original
measure and guarantees real
property tax relief. It is easier to
understand, less expensive to
administer and simpler to
implement than the original
measure.
I support Measure 50 because
I stand behind the will of
Oregonians who voted for
property tax relief and because I
know that only Measure 50 will
protect rural hospitals, school
funding and local police and fire
fighters. Only Measure 50 will
guarantee lower property taxes.
I would like to encourage your
yes vote on Measure 50 on May
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constraints of Measure 5.
MCURD entered into an
intergovernmental agreement with
the school district for the funding
of those activities. The agreement
is designed to provide the school
district with $390,000 annually,
for three years, to facilitate all co-
curricular activities. Any money
received by the school for "pay to
play" or gate receipts is refunded
to MCURD. The school district
operates within a budget, billing
MCURD only for the actual
expenditures to run the programs.
To meet the requirements of the
law, MCURD must also provide
community activities. "The board
of directors has been committed
to providing cultural events and
instruction to each of the
communities," said a board news
release. They have presented the
following cultural entertainment:
mariachi
players
and
advertisement for Cinco de Mayo,
Boardman; two performances of
the Blue Mountain Concert Choir,
Blue Jazz and Jazz Ensemble,
Heppner and Boardman; two
performances and instructional
classes from the classical guitarist
Carl Oakes, Heppner and lrrigon;
a bus excursion to the Imperial
Tombs of China Exhibit in
Portland,
county
wide
participation; a performance by
"Do Jump” a dance troupe for
lone's
Fourth
of
July;
performances by Toni Madrigal,
Blue Velvet, Quetzacoatl and Dan
Bums and advertisement for the
lrrigon Watermelon Festival; a
performance by Nicht-Yow-Way
an Indian cultural dance troupe
for the Morrow County Fair and
Rodeo.
All performances have been
open to the general public with no
admission charges.
Instruction provided by
MCURD included two-eight
week sessions of guitar lessons by
Carl Oakes and funding for ski
lessons and lift tickets for the
Morrow County Ski Program.
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Letfer home from Bosnia
(Editor’s note: The following letter from Bosnia was written by
Morrow County District Attorney Earl R. Woods, who is serving
in Bosnia with his National Guard unit.)
When 1 was a kid, I grew up
with the Cold War and the notion
that all communists were “bad.”
I never bothered to give much
thought to what was “bad” about
communism, but I embraced the
notion enthusiastically none the
less.
Well, here I am now in a former
Warsaw Pact communist country,
and I’ve finally figured it out.
Everything is “bad”-the roads, the
buildings, the vehicles, the air
craft, their weapons and every
other project they’ve ever done
requiring craftsmanship.
When I arrived in Hungary at
the Ta’zar Airfield, I noticed the
remains of a MIG 21 which had
crashed at the end of the airport
and which no one had bothered
to remove. There was also a long
row of MIG 21s lined upon the
tarmac next to the runway. When
I asked why the aircraft were still
there, I was told that the Russians
wanted to take them with them
when they left, but they wouldn’t
start. Hungarian mechanics have
been working on the aircraft since
the Soviets departed, but they
have not established enough con
fidence in the aircraft that they are
willing to fly them.
Now that I’ve left Hungary and
spend all my time in either Bosnia
or Croatia, I’ve come upon other
evidence supporting my theory.
Examples: I’ve noticed that when
Yugoslavian folks build a house,
they don’t put the windows in for
three years after construction.
Why? Because their houses settle
so much that the windows break
if you put them in before the set
tling occurs.
I’ve noticed that all former
communists close the bathroom
doors and leave a window open
in the bathroom after use. I
thought they were conserving
heat. Turns out I was wrong. They
don’t vent their plumbing and if
you close the window and open
the door, you end up burning a lot
of incense.
Did you know that all vehicles
built in the former Soviet block
countries come equipped with a
tool box?
Do you know why most citi
zens here keep their bathtub full
o f water with a bucket in it?
Right-they might want to flush
the toilet. You can’t count on the
municipal water system.
Another interesting feature of
life here is the electrical outlet.
The receptacles are in the floor
(all 220 volts) with cute little
“doors” over them which no one
bothers to close, so you’re either
tripping over the doors or the
cords, or stepping on them.
You’re not going to believe this
story but it’s true. We brought the
bomb dogs into a building here
in Slavonski Brod and one of
them found a plug and proceeded
to pee on it. This caused the lights
to go out in the south end of the
building, plus we now call the dog
“Crispy.” True story.
Another true story here is the
beer-for-lunch break. We are situ
ated in the middle of an ammuni
tion and tank factory on the edge
of the Sava River. There are little
snack shacks located around the
camp and the employees all come
out at lunch to cough down a
couple-three brews every day.
The ammunition plant blew up in
part in March and no one thought
much about it. I’m convinced
their diet had something to do
with it.
Interesting features of life be
hind the Iron Curtain... I could go
on for hours and I will when I get
home.
(s) LTC Earl Woods
Slavonski Brod, Croatia
4-Hers named to ambassador program
Jessica Krebs of lone and Kristi
Worden of Heppner will be
among more than 100 Oregon 4-
H members from throughout the
state who have been selected for
the 1997 4-H Ambassador
program.
Participation in the Ambassador
program is one of the highest
honors a 4-H member can eam,
according to Duane Johnson,
Oregon
State
University
Extension
4-H
youth
development specialist.
"To become an ambassador, 4-
H members must undergo a
rigorous
review
of their
accomplishments in 4-H and in
community
and
school
activities," Johnson said.
Ambassadors fill an important
function for the OSU Extension
4-H Youth Program, Johnson
said. They promote the OSU
Extension
4-H
programs
throughout the state and
participate in a variety of state,
county and local activities.
Included among those activities
are giving talks about 4-H to
community groups, setting up 4-
H displays in stores and shopping
centers, promoting 4-H activities
on radio and television talk
shows, and recruiting new 4-H
members.
In addition, the
ambassadors train 4-H leaders
and members, and provide
leadership for 4-H educational
programs at the county and state
level.
The new ambassadors will learn
more about their responsibilities
to help represent and promote the
4-H program at the 4-H
Ambassador Weekend, June 20-
22 at Linfield College in
McMinnville.
The weekend,
sponsored by the Oregon Farm
Credit System, will also include
classes on life skill development,
work force preparation and
citizenship, Johnson said.
Some of the ambassadors will
be interviewed and invited to
participate in the 1997 National
4-H Youth Congress in Memphis
later this year.