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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 25, 2000 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow H eppner GAZETTE-TIMES U S P S 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon Office at 147 W Willow Street Telephone (541)676-9228 Fax (541)676-9211 E-mail: gt@heppner net or gt@rapidserve net Web site www heppner net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions: $22 in Morrow County, $16 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older); $29 else where David Sykes...............................................................................................................Publisher April Hilton-Sykes Editor On the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppner.ntt • Start or Change a Subscription • Place a Classified Ad • Submit a News Story • View Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes • Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations • Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more! Engagement Anderson - Roth LaRee Anderson and Timothy Roth Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Anderson of Lexington announce the wedding of their daughter, LaRee Anderson, to Timothy Roth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Roth of Lebanon. LaRee and Tim are both students at Western Baptist College, anticipating graduation in December of 2000 with bachelor of science degrees. A December 9, 2000, wedding is planned at Fairvtew Mennomte Church in Albany. The newlyweds plan to reside in the Albany area.. ___,____________ Festival to be held DA's Report on Halloween Morrow County District Attorney David C. Allen reports handling the following business: -David Elmer Zehner plead guilty to harassment and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, suspended, 18 months probation and ordered to have no offensive physical contact with the victim, pay fines, fees and assessments o f $684 and complete the domestic violence package. Wesley Raymond Appling was found guilty o f a probation violation/burglary and sentenced to 45 days in custody with probation extended for one year with credit for 45 days served. Births Nolan Joe Nansel-a son Nolan Joe was bom to Tom and Robin Nansel of Forsyth, MT. on Oct. 1, 2000. The baby weighed 6 lbs. 9.4 oz and was 19” long. Hejoms siblings Derek, Kaitlm and Peyton at home. Grandpar ents are Joanne Nansel of Forsyth, MT., Jan Bothum of Pendleton, and Jim Bothum of Prineville; great-grandparents are Mary and the late Ralph Beamer, Heppner. Dakota Dawn Durfey-a daughter Dakota Dawn was bom to Misty and David Durfey of Boardman on Oct. 3, 2000 at Good Shepherd Community Hos pital in Hermiston. The baby weighed 8 lbs. 8 oz. Alexandra Varela Lepe-a daughter Alexandra Varela was bom to Ana Munoz and Abel Ruiz of Boardman on Oct. 6, 2000 at Good Shepherd Community Hos pital in Hermiston. The baby weighed 7 lbs. 15 oz. Madison “Maddie” Paige Sherer-a daughter M adison Paige was bom to Allison and Todd Sherer of Canby on Oct. 11, 2000. She weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. She joins sisters Whitney, 11, and Kendra, 7, at home. Grand parents are Jim and Sheryl Shurts of Richland, WA., and Dick and Margo Sherer of lone. Great- grandparents are Harold Jacobs of Moscow, ID., and Martha Bartalamy of Odessa, ID. The South Morrow County Ministerial Association and CAPECO are planning a fall festival on Tuesday, October 31, from 4-9 p.m. at the St. Patrick's Senior Center in Heppner. The evening will feature a benefit dinner and family carnival activities. The menu includes homemade burritos and chicken fajitas, including dessert and prizes, for $6 for adults, $3 for children in first through sixth grades and $20 for a family. Children kindergarten age and younger will be admitted free. Tickets for activity booths for children and adults are 10 cents each. Those purchasing activity tickets may win prizes and candy. Proceeds will benefit the Ministerial Association, with the "greater portion" to be used to assist local people with motor fuel, heating oil, electricity, shelter, food and clothes or other approved needs. Additional assistance is provided to stranded travelers for motor fuel, food and shelter. Obituaries Ralph Beamer Ralph Beamer, 93, of Heppner, died Thursday, October 19,2000, at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton. Graveside service was held Tuesday, October 24,2000 at the Heppner Masonic Cemetery. One of 11 children, he was bom April 24, 1907, at Hillsville, Vir ginia, to Troy and Fannie Jones Beamer. He was raised in Virginia and attended a country school near Hillsville. In 1927, he moved to Heppner where he worked on ranches for five years. He then took over a relative’s delivery business in Heppner, then expanded the ser vice to include the delivery of milk, ice and fueloil. On August 30, 1934, he mar ried Mary Gammell at Heppner. The couple began their farming operation by purchasing a wheat ranch near Heppner. In 1950, they sold that place and purchased a ranch on Balm Fork, expanding that operation to also include a ranch at Ukiah. During his long ranching career, Mr. Beamer developed a deep appreciation of the agile ranch horse, leading him to raising and showing horses. He was inducted into the Northwest Cutting Horse Asso ciation Hall of Fame. Mr. Beamer was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, Wran glers, Northwest Cutting Horse A ssociation and the Oregon Cattleman’s Association. Survivors include his wife, Mary, of Heppner; daughter, Janice Bothum of Pendleton; brother, Fred Beamer, and sister, Ola Higgins, both of Galax, Vir ginia; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A son, Neal, died in 1995; sisters, Alma and Mable, and brothers, Boyd, Wil son, Marshall, Willard, Edsel and Ballard, also preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the Willow Creek Valley Assisted Living Facility, P.O. Box 244, Heppner, Oregon 97836; or Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home, P.O. Box 9, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Sweeney M ortuary of Heppner was in charge of ar rangements. Ola Mae Groshens Ola Mae Groshens, 84, of San Diego, California, formerly of Heppner, died Saturday, October in San Diego. Mrs. Groshens was bom September 3, 1916. She retired from teaching in Heppner many years ago and was residing with her son and daughter-in-law in San Diego. Survivors include her son, Grant Carter and his wife Darlene, and two grandsons, Sean and Brett Carter. Memorial contributions may be made to any hospice of choice. Balboa Cremation Services were in charge of the arrangements. Everett Laurence Crump O# Everett Laurence Crump, 84, a resident of Parkdale, died at a care home in The Dalles, on Monday, Oct. 9, 2000. A gathering of family and friends was held at Parkdale Grange on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2000. Interment of cremains was at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. Mr. Crump was the second of six children bom to Henry S. and Della F. Cramp on March 30, 1916, in Heppner. He married Emma Helen Breshears on December 25, 1941. During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps. He served in the South Pacific, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Purple Heart as well as other medals. After the war he returned to Heppner, working in several auto shops before settling with his wife in The Dalles to work for Sunset Motors. Later the couple moved to Seal Rock where he logged timber and then to Corvallis where the couple raised their family. They moved to Alsea where they resided until retiring in Parkdale in 1983. Mr. Cramp was active in the Lions Club, Grange, AARP and as past commander of the Parkdale VFW. He is survived by his wife, Helen of Parkdale; son, Steven of Parkdale; daughters and their spouses, Judith and Tom Shoemaker of Prescott, Arizona, Jeanne Yapur of Grand Rapids, Colorado, and Cnstine and Alan Mahan of Portland; sisters Edna Peck of Heppner, Annie Minnick of Salem and Elsie Langis of Walla Walla, Washington; brother Herbert Cramp of Tillamook; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A granddaughter, Molly Michele Patterson, and a brother Henry preceded him in death. Memorials may be made to the Parkdale Grange in Parkdale. Private cremation arrangements were provided by Spencer, Libby, and Powell Funeral Home. By Merlyn Robinson_________________ You may have read of the "bovine bonanza" in New York, where some 500 life-sized fiberglass cow creations were auctioned, thus netting over a million dollars for chantable causes. Nothing could be more worthy of a charitable contribution than cattle ranchers who would gladly supply the real McCoy to be stuffed and mounted as a maintenance-free specimen. At those prices ranchers could throw in a bronzed cowbell and a rhinestone collar. It would also conform to environmentalists' efforts to nd the West of for-real cows that leave cow patties along public land trails trod by a few Nike-shod hikers. Animal rightists might protest that said cows do not have a voice in the matter and that their constitutional rights would be violated. Rancher Harley Hard Time could claim that said stuffed cows died of natural causes such as starvation after fire consumed all the forage on some of our well-managed public lands. Or it could be proven that 'good ol' hide' with no teeth just couldn't contribute to a rancher's cushy lifestyle anymore. But for those who persist with the business of putting meat on the table, no matter what, the American Humane Society has proposed a "Free Farmed" program to solve all problems. This program will certify farms that "treat their animals well." For a mere annual fee of $400, or the price of a bony moo-moo, farms meeting their criteria can affix the "Free Farmed” label on products. Rules for this program must have been developed by the Humane Society's so-called animal husbandry experts, whose brains are embedded in New York City sidewalks. One of their program specifications pertaining to beef cattle is that electric cattle prods could not be used. It states that "sticks and flags would be the preferred tools to move animals and they would have to be used gently." The term 'cowpoke' wasn't coined just to describe someone lazily’trailing cows. Only the bravest "cattle person" (to be politically correct) would stand waving a flag in a mad cow's face, when she's determined to eat you while ear tagging her calf. Of course if a 2000 pound bull decides a person is in his way, some ranchers are fleet enough on foot to qualify as toreadors. There are so many regulations on how ranchers can manage their property and upgrade riparian areas. While in the process of trying to accomplish those goals, the EPA has leveled hefty fines against some ranchers. Eating veggie burgers or relying on that randomly inspected foreign meat will perhaps lesson many stress factors for ranchers. Consequently there would be plenty of rural habitat where the "deer and the antelope can roam," because we all know that wildlife don’t "mess" in streams. Incidentally, Ted Turner's buffaloes wouldn't be caught dead wallowing in creeks. All this hype about animal pollution is a tiny splash in the creek compared to industrial pollution or raw sewage dumped into the Willamette River and elsewhere. However the focus is on the tiniest waterways that often dry up in the summer; therefore it becomes prudent to fund expensive research to teach fish how to fly. Speaking of fish, the federal fisheries managers planned to discard more than 1.2 million eggs from the Winthrop National Hatchery. State officials and tribal leaders protested, resulting in the fisheries agreeing to raise and release two million hatchery eggs rather than destroy half of them. Now tell me if the following statement makes sense: "Unmarked hatchery fish are one of the reasons wild salmonjjopulations have declined in recent decades," says an article. An0 it goes on to say that wild fish can unintentionally be caught by anglers if hatchery fish aren't marked. So-o-o, it seems that unless fish are marked even the biologists can't tell the difference when it comes to hatchery-raised fish obtained from wild salmon eggs. If a Rhode Island Red hen sits on turkey eggs and hatches them, her brood will still be turkeys, not chickens. If your ancestry is Chinese, you could hardly be considered a Native American even if you grew up on an Indian reservation. Also; if it weren't worn- out cowboy boots, sometimes it's difficult to tell the difference between an imposter and a cowboy. Under lengthy observations, you can determine a for-real cowboy because his complexion often changes with the seasons — such as spring grass green or fall forage brown. Donations welcome for Wight family Donations are welcomed for the John and Shelly Wight family of Heppner who lost their home and all their belongings in a fire. Donations may be sent to Klamath First Federal in Heppner of the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 1048, Pendleton, OR 97801. Donations of clothing, furniture or household items may be taken to Pettyjohn's Builders Supply in Heppner. WE PRIN T BUSINESS CARPS Heppner Gazette-Times 676-9228 First Christian plans speaker Frank Sherwin, a research biologist with a master's degree in zoology, is scheduled to speak on the issue of "Creationism vs. Evolution" at the First Christian Church in Heppner this Sunday, October 29, at 6 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend. The Heppner Booster Club would like to say Thank You to: Lee Ansotequi and Crew St Patricks Catholic Church Morrow County Grain Growers Al 4 Debbie Scott Gentry 4 Wolff Munker's Ranch Arden Olson George 4 Debbie koffler Mumay's Drug Babette Wall (ireen Feed Neff Bank of Eastern Oregon Greg's Custom Clubs Nella Britt Beecher's Heppner Garden Club Oregon Symphony Bi-Mart Heppner Hardware Pat 4 Tricia Sweeney Blazers Horn Rapids Golf Course Paul and Susan Hisler Campbell Motors. 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