Page 10 - Special Edition • Morrow County Fair and Rodeo • Heppner Gazette-Times, W ednesday, July 29, 2009
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1949 court rides in to take up
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By David Sykes
With no local young women applying
for the Fair & Rodeo Court this year, the 1949
court is coming back together to pick up the
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slack
When 1949 Queen and local rancher
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Shirley Rugg heard there would he no court this
year, she called the fair and offered the sen ices
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f the court that reigned 60 years ago. “I like
Smoking and Curing available
Pictured (T.-R) are the 1949 Fair and Rodeo Court.
it," say Rugg about coming back as a group “It
Dorothy Wiglesworth Graham, Faye Cutsforth, Shir
ley Rugg, Betty Walker Edwards, and Ingrid Hernirn is our last hurrah,” she says with a smile
Now doing our own smoking & curing!
Recalling the time she spent on the
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eourt all those years ago Rugg said the five girls
are v a c u u m s e a le d .
were “pleased as punch to represent our county and our town " She said the girls were 16 to 18 years
old Among the rodeos and parades they attended were Round-up, and Elgin and Fossil rodeos
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“We provided our own transportation for ourselves and our horses,” she said. She remembers the
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girls going to a luncheon at the Catholic Parish Hall where they all introduced themselves.
The court got together five years ago and rode in the Morrow County parade and also in
M IKE A JU D Y J U L I O , Owners
the Pendleton Round-up parade
Rugg said the group had planned
to get together this year to ride
in the Morrow County parade,
but when it was discovered
there was no court this year, the
group agreed to step in and as
sume the honorary court duties
The youngest o f the group is 75
and Rugg herself is 80, but she
is still going strong and rides on
a regular basis working cattle
for a local ranch She said this
may be the last y ear the court
gets together
Rugg's four princesses,
Fay Cutsforth, Betty Walker
Edwards, Ingrid Mermen Craw
ford and Dorothy Wiglesworth
Graham, are coming from the
Tri-Cities, Pendleton, Weiser
and Sun City, AZ, respectively.
When on the court, all the girls
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were from the Heppner area
except Dorothy Graham, who
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