4 Heppner Gazette Times, April 4, 1945
Mem&ei
Ture Peterson is recovering rap
idlv from an automobile accident of
home o f their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jack For
sythe the fore part of the week.
They went from here to Eugene
where they have a son living. Mr.
and Mrs. Cornett are seeking a
new location and are interested in.
seeing Oregon.
two weeks ago when he was rather
seriously injured. It is thought he
wU soon be able to be up and out
Ore Giofti hi ixi SP a p e n
ust a little.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Cornett of
Sheridan Wyo., were guests at the
Publishers wioqi at i oil
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EDITORIAL
Opposition Always Develops
No worthwhile enterprise, so far as we have
ever been able to learn, has been started and car
ried through to completion without opposition. It
is not within the realm of possibility for everybody
to think and act the same way and consequently,
no matter how essential, or how desirable, a pro
ject may be there is always someone or a group
of "someones" to take the opposite viewpoint.
Thus we find hre and there a voice crying out
in opposition to the Heppner flood dam and it is
the belief of supporters of the project that those
expressing disfavor are not fully cognizant of the
terms under which it will be built. At least it is
only fair, to give them the benefit of the doubt
and try to convince them of the advisability of
having this big development take place.
It is reasonable to expect that the dam will be
built, providing the City of Heppner, and perhaps
Morrow county to a limited extent, will accept the
terms of the government's proposal. Acceptance
of those terms will mean assuming a local expen
diture of from $33,000' to $40,000 for bridge re
placements; easements, etc. due to damsite and
storage area and widening and straightening of
of Willow creek channel through Heppner. It is
assumed that the city will accept this obligation
and the county, in view of benefits to residents
along the creek bellow Heppner, vill not be averse
to sharing some of the expense.
It must be made clear here that it is not pro
posed that' water users below the dam be called
upon to pay the cost of construction. It will be pri
marily a flood control dam. There will be no vio
lation of riparian rights. Water will be released in
sufficient amount to maintain a flow to the Colum
bia river so that irrigation may be maintained as
at present up to the middle of May or perhaps the
first of June. Thereafter the dam will operate as
a flood control measure and any water released
for the purpose of irrigation will be charged for at
a rate fixed for that purpose.
As to the dam itself, it will be of a type that
will withstand any conditions due to storms such as
have been seen here. There need be no worry that
it will wash out. It will be anchored in bedrock,
built of reinforced concrete, with a 75-foot base.
The government is not contemplating spending
a large sum of money to build a dam that will go
out with the first freshet. Even the earth dams
built in various parts of the country have to with
stand serious tests created by the vagaries of na
ture and certainly a dam to be built in a region
like this will be just as permanent and safe as
modern engineering can devise.
Another phase of this question to be consider
ed is the eventual settling up of this section of the
country. It is headed this way and we can't be
accused of dreaming if we predict that within the
next decade there will be truck gardens where al
falfa is grown today along Willow creek. People
are looking to the west of homes for a place
to live and the time is not far distant when more
and more of our ranches along the creeks will be
cut up into tracts. Those people will want and need
irrigation water. If after three or four years from
the time the dam is in operation it is feasible to
make an irrigation project along the valley and
the lower hills it may be converted to that purpose.
In the meantime it is tip to Heppner to give
proper assurance to the government that the town
will do its part, and it may be added that the
amount asked is small in comparison to the bene
fits to be derived in the preservation of human
life and property and the more equable distribu
tion of water to those who hold riparian rights.
Those of an older generation who witnessed
the terrible disaster of 1903 need no reminder
about the destructive force of a cloudburst flood.
Those of the present generation should not hesi
tate to go on record favoring construction of the
dam to provide against a repetition of that disaster.
Our Number One Enemy
To most of us the cessation of hostilities meant
the end of war and it did so far as one human
waging war on another is concerned. But while
men were lined up on opposing lines and hurling
every type of death-dealing missile science has
been able to develop at each other, a more sinis
ter enemy has-been wagging a war with almost
three times the number of fatalities suffered by
American forces during World War II.
Between Pearl Harbor and V-J day, 294,476
.-Americans were killed by the Germans and the
Japs on the various battle fronts. During that same
period, 607,193 were killed on the home front by
cancer. During 1945 the cancer death toll rose to
190,000. Nor are children immune from this dis
ease, for statistics show that cancer kills more
children between the ages of five and twenty than
infantile paralysis, diphtheria,, scarlet fever and
whooping cough combined.
It is high time to wake up and do something
about it! During April the American Cancer so
ciety is conducting a nation-wide drive to raise
funds with which to wage an all-out attack on this
Number One Enemy. The society has not only in
terested many of the world's most renowned scien
tists and research men to devote their full time
to cancer research, but it has also secured the co
opration of the National Research Council which
came to the aid of the government in the atomic
bomb research progrsfci. It is vital that this be
carried on, and 40 percent of the money raised in
the state will go to further the national research
work. The 60 percent of the money which remains
in the state will be used to carry on the state-wide
cancer eduational program inaugurated last year.
One of the most notable events of recent
months to claim praiseworthy mention in these
columns is the street cleaning job which has been
underway in Heppner the past ten days. It re
mained for a returned service man, a youth who
did not wish to sit around twiddling his thumbs
Continuea on Page Five
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Bus will leave Heppner at 7:30 a.
m. and returning leave The Dalles
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PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
HEPPNER
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Meets Every Monday Noon at the
Lucas Place
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PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nurse Assistant
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
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Modern Homes Built or Remodeled
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HEPPNER. OREGON
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Dr. C. C. Dunham
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Office up stairs I. O. O. F. Bld
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. Office and House Phone 2S72
JOS. J. NYS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
J. O. TURNER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
Heppner, Oregon
P. W. MAHONEY
Attorney at Law
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Willow Street Entrance
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the Council
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