TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 26,2006
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
Museum Musings
__ Obituaries
Don C.
Beckstead
By Cliff Green
H eppner
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Sheriff's Report
The Morrow County
Sheriff's Office reports han
dling the following business:
July 10: M CSO
re ceiv ed a rep o rt from
Deschutes County that Edd
D w ight R eese, 48, was
arrested on an Irrigon Justice
Court warrant for Failure to
A p p ear/D riv in g
w hile
Suspended. He was lodged
at Deschutes County Jail.
MCSO received a
report through Poison
C ontrol from a caller in
Irrigon that the c a lle r ’s
husband had ingested ant
and roach poison.
Boardman PD cited
Dawn Rene Gutierrez, 35,
for F ailure to Y ield to
Pedestrian.
Boardman PD cited
Jose Luis Munoz, Jr., 27, for
Failure to Obey a Traffic
Control Device.
B oardm an
PD
receiv ed a rep o rt o f an
unw anted su b ject at a
residence. A deputy was
enroute to ask the subject to
leave.
Jo sh u a
Jam es
Browne, 21, was arrested on
an Irrigon Justice C ourt
w arrant for F ailu re to
A p p ear/D riv in g
w hile
Suspended. He was lodged
at Umatilla County Jail.
July 11: M CSO
received a report from a
caller in Heppner that dogs
w ere rubbishing through
trash cans.
M CSO received a
rep o rt from a c a lle r in
Boardm an that a subject
steals things from the caller
and has threatened her life.
The subject used to be a
worker and a patient at the
caller’s ranch.
M CSO received a
rep o rt from a c a lle r in
Boardm an that he found
marijuana plants growing in
the fields.
M CSO received a
rep o rt from a c a lle r in
Boardman that a vehicle is
abandoned in front of her
grandm other’s drive way
and is almost blocking it. The
vehicle was moved by the
owner.
M CSO received a
report from Tualatin PD that
Pablo Organiz Mendoza, 44,
was arrested on an Irrigon
Justice Court w arrant for
Failure to Pay Fine/Driving
while Suspended. He was
lodged at W ashington
County Jail with no local
charges.
M CSO received a
report that a vendor stopped
by the neighbor’s residence
on Saturday and the caller’s
w ife w ent over to the
residence and advised the
vendor that the persons were
not home. The neighbor’s
dog broke his rope and bit
the caller’s wife. The caller
wanted deputy contact.
M CSO received a
report from M edford PD
that Savanah Rane Jackson,
21, was arre sted on an
Irrigon Ju stic e C ourt
w arrant for F ailu re to
A p p ear/D riv in g
w hile
Suspended. She was lodged
at Jackson County Jail with
other warrants.
B oardm an
PD
a rre sted S teven Lynn
Weaver, 19, on an Irrigon
Justice Court warrant for
Driving while Suspended.
He was lodged at Umatilla
County Jail.
Boardman PD cited
Rigoberto Cuevas Alcantar,
33, for No Insurance.
Boardman PD cited
Fernando Alcala Sanchez,
36, for F ailu re to O bey
Traffic Control Device and
Driving Uninsured.
Boardman PD arrested
Diana Hernandez, 38, on
an Irrigon Justice Court
warrant for Failure to Pay
Fine/Criminal Trespass II.
She was lodged at Umatilla
County Jail.
July 18: M CSO
received a report from a
c aller in H erm iston that
someone was bothering his
sister near the Space Age
gasoline station. The call was
transferred to the Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office.
M CSO received a
report from a c a lle r in
B oardm an that saddles,
bridles and horse tack was
stolen from their horse trailer
during the weekend or the
previous night.
M CSO
arrested
Ronald Zachary Whalen, 20,
on a Morrow County Circuit
C ourt w arrant for Grand
Jury Indictment/Unlawful
Delivery of Marijuana to a
Minor, Frequenting a Place
w here
C o n tro lle d
Substances are Used and
Endangering the Welfare of
a Minor. Whalen was lodged
at the Umatilla County Jail.
M CSO
arrested
A aron L ueck, 21, on a
M orrow C ounty C ircu it
Court w arrant for Grand
Jury Indictm ent/Unlawful
Delivery of Marijuana to a
M inor x5. Frequenting a
Place w here C o n tro lle d
Substances are Used and
Endangering the Welfare of
a Minor. Lueck was lodged
at the Umatilla County Jail.
MCSO deputy cited
a female subject in Irrigon
for Dog at Large.
MCSO, Irrigon FD
received a report of a fire in
Cliff Green (left) and Larry Mills (right) admire the rare 1915 Case 20-40 CrossMotor tractor
houses inside the Ag Museum in Heppner. The tractor was recently donated by the Ladd Henderson
family of Hood River. It was used on their family farm in North Lexington and later in the Rock
Creek area. It ran on distillate (kerosene) and was used as a stationary threshing machine during
harvest. The CrossMotor was one of the first tractors to be produced after steam-powered tractors.
Photo by Kay Proctor.
Are you confused by
the terms Morrow County
Museum, Farm Foundation,
Heritage Museum, and Ag or
Farm museum? Sometimes
those of us involved with the
museums get confused also.
Let me explain these entities.
The
H eritage
M useum is the o rig in al
museum next to the library.
H ere we sh o w case the
artifacts and tools that were
part of the everyday life of
our ancestors. We also have
an extensive library of family
h isto rie s for g en ealo g y
study.
The Ag or Farm
museum is the old MCGG
grain elevator and flat house
located on Riverside Street.
Here we display old cars,
tractors, threshers, buggies,
wagons and a multitude of
farm implements from the
past. It is on this building that
the mural society has placed
the largest mural by one
artist west of the Mississippi.
Both
o f these
m useum s are ow ned by
M orrow
C ounty
and
to g e th e r m ake up the
Morrow County Museum.
The county maintains the
infrastructure and provides
som e
m onies
for
infrastructure operation.
The
Farm
Foundation is a non-profit
501 (c )3 corporation with
dues paying members and a
governing board. The Farm
Foundation contracts with
Morrow County to operate
the museums and collects
funds towards this end from
member dues, donations and
grants. All staffing and work
in the m useum s is by
volunteers; no salaries are
paid.
T hose p re sen tly
serv in g on the Farm
Foundation board are Larry
Mills, Bob Harrison, Butch
Laughlin, Cliff Green, Betty
Carlson, Bob Jepsen, Jim
Hayes, Merle Cowett and
B arbara
B lo o d sw o rth .
Because we are nonprofit,
we are always looking for
help— volunteers, donations
of cash and donations of
display items. We encourage
you to become involved. If
you would like to help in any
way, please contact any of
the board members or Kay
P ro cto r, our m useum
director at 676-5524.
The
h eritag e
museum is open Tuesday
through Friday, 1-5 p.m. and
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Farm Museum
is open Friday from 1 -5 p.m.
and Saturday 11 a.m. to 3
p.m.
We invite you to stop
by and see the new additions
and displays. Bring your out
of town guests. You won't
be disappointed.
Don C. Beckstead,
62, of Boardman, died July
20,2006, at Good Shepherd
M edical
C en ter
in
Hermiston.
A celebration of life
service was held July 24 in
B oardm an, w ith b u rial
fo llo w in g at R iverview
Cemetery.
Beckstead was bom
Oct. 23,1943, in Ogden, UT,
to Clifford and Lorene Ure
Beckstead. He was raised in
N yssa, g ra d u a tin g from
Nyssa High School.
Beckstead farmed in
Nyssa until 1978 when he
moved to Boardm an. He
married Bonnie Lowtrip on
Nov. 28, 1975, in Eugene.
He worked for Sabre Farms
in B oardm an and then
Western Farms in Umatilla
before going to work for the
Port o f M orrow in 1992
where he has worked since.
He enjoyed farming,
water skiing and was an avid
sports fan, especially for the
Seattle Seahawks.
Survivors include his
w ife; d a u g h ters, K ellye
Finch of Boardman, Dorie
Hughes of Stanfield, Brenda
Connell of Boardman and
M arcie
R obinson
of
C h arlesto n , S.C .; sons,
Michael Connell of Sandy,
Utah and Gabriel Hatch of
O n tario ; b ro th er, D ale
Beckstead of Boardman; 13
grandchildren and two great-
grandsons. He was preceded
in death by his parents and a
grandson.
M e m o r i a l
contributions may be made
to the Hillburton Foundation
through Burns Mortuary of
Hermiston, P.O. Box 289,
H erm isto n , OR 97838,
w hich is in ch arg e o f
arrangements
Took a wrong turn
- A badger took a wrong turn the other day and ended up in downtown
Heppner. The critter was photographed on a Sunday afternoon behind the Murray drug store.
Irrigon; a transformer blew
and started a fire. Houses
and sheds were threatened.
MCSO, Boardman
ambulance received a report
from a c a lle r on 1-84
westbound by Boardman of
a vehicle w ith som eone
slumped over.
M CSO
deputy
arrested Martin Raymond
Sm ith, 46, on a M orrow
C o u n ty C irc u it C ourt
w arran t for F ailu re to
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