TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 25, 2000
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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
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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.
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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
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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. Inc
Huddleston Paper
Pendleton Bottling - Pepsi
Cascade Athletic
Huddleston Paper
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Cenex Harvest States Feed
Frances Freel
Peterson's Jeweler’s
Central Market
Inland Empire Bank
Port of Morrow
Charlie and Marcia Anderson
Jack and Gwen Healy
Port of Morrow
Clorella Wallace
Jannie Allen
Portland Rose Garden
Coke
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Portland Youth Philharmonic
Columbia Basin Electric
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Power City Polaris
Cottage Flowers
Jim & Donna Roy
Riddell 4 Mark Elmhlade
Country Animal Hospital
John Gochnauer
Rill Ranch
Country Shears
Joyce Hughes
Roger 4 Rita Britt
Craig Holland
Judy 4 Sandy Photography
Safeway
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ken Grieh
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Darrel Wilson
kimmel Athletic
Shelco Electric
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Toys for kids. Gary Stover
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Tygres Heart Shakespeare Co
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Wild Horse Gaming Resort
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