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Letters Argue For And Against Recall To the Editor: We would like to enlighten Mr. Alonzo Henderson on some of the points contained in his letter published In your April 4, 1963 issue. On the charge of failure to reflect the will of the majority of the voters in the zone he rep resents, 167 voters of the lone precinct signed the Fred T. Mart in recall petitions of their own free will. Perhaps they are bet ter qualified to evaluate how they are being represented than you are, Mr. Henderson. On the charge of failure to reflect the will of the majority of voters in Morrow county, over 400 voters from Irrigon, Heppner, Lexington, Boardman, Cecil, and Hardman also signed the pe titions. We doubt if the petitions were presented to every register ed voter in the county. If they had been presented, the total might have been much higher. We doubt if any circulator held a gun on anyone to obtain their signature therefore, we think that one answer covers both charges. Voters from every sec tion of the county concur In the truth of the charges. On the charge of failure to maintain adequate physical standards at the lone schools, we would like to know if Fred Martin and the rest of the board are complying with all of the state fire marshal's recommen dations on lone Grade school. We know that two fire escapes have been removed from the building in recent years that there are no visible replace ments for. About the heated pool you re ferred to, Mr. Henderson: You say that this is doing real well for a community that votes no, Etc. That pool is not there by the efforts of Morrow county schools or the combined taxpayers of this county. Unless you donated to its construction, it did not cost vou one cent. It was built by the citizens of lone School District No. 35 in 1953-54 before reorganization at their own ex pense. $20,000.00 or more of the cost was defrayed by the pat rons of lone schools through the lone Memorial Improvement as sociation who also built and do nated the first turf athletic field in Morrow county, the lone Mem orial Field. Furthermore, lone School District No. 35 at that time constructed over 23 of the present lone High school, includ ing the gym, cafetorium, band facilities, kitchen, shop and woodworking classroom, draft ing classroom, and heating plant, and this construction was paid for by the citizens of lone School District 35. The new of fice, five classrooms, and library are all that was built under the recent $130,000.00 serial levy, and that only represents about 13 of the cost of the complete plant. The aluminum plaque bearing the names of Supt. Robert Van Houte, Fred Martin, and the other directors might lead the uninformed to believe that their regime Is responsible for the complete plant, but we of this community know who built it and who paid for it. Before you infer that lone vot ers are obstructionists, compare their building record with other localities who had the same op portunity to build needed space and refused to do so until re organization forced the rest of the county to share in the cost. By the same token, check the records; when the lone school district administered Its own business, there was never much question of the passage of op erating budgets because the vot ers believed them to be reason able, containing no deception of any kind, and adequate to the best educational needs of the community. The lone High school shop classroom was fully equipped by lone district 35 with lathe, drill press, arc welder acetylene welder, exhaust system for en gines, and many tools and wood working equipment. Under the present regime, this shop is used for two woodworking classes a day; one for seventh and eighth graders and one for high school junior and seniors. Under the direction of our local board, there was no question that shop classes would be conducted and they were. Supt. Van Houte's of fice in its unsigned letter re lating to the savings to be ef fected by closing the less than 10-year old lone high school, published a list of courses offer ed by Heppner High school which were not offered by lone High school, among them shop classes. We believe that Supt. Robert Van Houte and Director Martin and the rest of the board are directly responsible for this. The money was in the budget for the instructor, the shop was there and equipped, and no mat ter what their alibi Is, they did not produce the teacher or the course. In Mr. Sherman's "Whip ped Cream" editorial next to your letter in the April 4th G-T, there are several paragraphs re lating to the shop program in the new Heppner High school. In one, Mr. Sherman states, "Di rectors declare, however, that the board has no intention of scut tling the shop program and re alize the value and importance of this part of the educational system." Evidently, this is a vi tal program. Would you say, Mr. Henderson, that Director Martin has served his commu n 1 1 y school well in this instance? Per haps classes In shop are more necessary in one location than another. On the charge of sanctioning duplication of transportat i o n routes, we believe that the only qualification needed to observe the validity of this charge is good enough vision to recognize large passenger vehicles painted Highway Yellow, labeled Mor row County schools, meeting, passing, going opposite direc tions on our county roads. If you want to do something worthwhile for our schools, work for the legal return of control and administration to the dis tricts that existed before the county unit system and the Mor row countv administrative dis trict. We feel that that would be a direct improvement over the mess that now exists. Look elsewhere in the issue of Mr, Sherman's paper your letter ap peared in, and read the delin quent tax list. We do not be lieve in denvinc education its just due and needed revenue, Page f Thurs., April 11. 1963 GAZETTE-TIMES HEPPNER OREGON still operating in outdated school plants and they, too, need some funds for building purposes. It would seem that we must re member that all the problems in the county are not centered in one zone. The Board of Directors, working as a team, is responsible for solving all the problems, not just the ones in their zone. The last charge, that of dupli cation of bus routes in the coun ty, would seem to be in direct conflict with the charge of fail ure to represent the will or the people. Any duplication of bus routes has come about as a re sult of requests from the people and was approved by the entire board not just Fred Martin. First the charges against Di rector Martin accuse him of not representing the will of the rt,,thh Il.l'IS6 'manager of the company's Aero II 1C Will KJl LUC UCUlJiC. 11V U Untn Til tirir-r . cused of making poor decisions ..Wp havpn.t niannP(1 on Board- All me cnarges nsieu aKainsi.man at an. Paper Interview Talks Boeing Plans (Editor's Note: The follow ing story was sent to the Gazette-Times through the courtesy of the Capital Journ al, Salem, after Chuck Grell, one of their reporters, had gone to Seattle and interview ed the Boeing company on plans for the Boardman site). By CHARLES GRELL SEATTLE The huge Boeing Company is schooled in patience by its many contacts witn tne touchy United States govern ment, to which it looks more and more for business. So when somebody brings up the subject of the Boardman Space-Age Industrial Park, Boe ing officials shudder slightly and speak in generalities. Like Robert Jewett, a vice president and assistant general Director Martin could be mad against any of the school direc tors. This brines to mind the question, Why Director Martin?? It mieht also raise the question, Why did Irrigon have more sign ers on the recall petition than any other area in Morrow coun ty? The answer to this would appear obvious. Director Martin voted to place Riverside High school in the Boardman area, but then so did five other direc tors. It would appear to this writer that Director Martin is being made a scapegoat for all the dis satisfied people in the district regardless of the cause of their dissatisfaction. Reeardl ess of whether or not one agree3 with That quotation, we hasten to! admit, was pulled out ot con text but the company has been going about its affairs, making do with what it has in order to compete with other aero-space firms in pulhne In business, What Jewett didn't say, but probably meant, was that hed very much like to have the Boardman site. The Corps of Engineers an nounced this week that it ap proved plans for development of 11 miles of riverfront. Four miles was set aside for recreational use. The other seven were reserved for lndusrtial purposes (Boe ing's). And Gov. Mark Hatfield said that the Corps is studying all the decisions made by Di-Boeing's plans for the riverfront rector Martin, one must respsct ine company nas Deen wau him for making an impartial de- ing in the wings for two years cision based on what he feels ;wnne tne state oi uregon diock- is best for education in Morrow county. If we make Director Mar tin a scapegoat for all our ois satisfactions, it will certainly make the other dlrecnrs won der if the hard work and time ed up 100,000 acres of Morrow County land for the industrial park. The land now is in one parcel. The state, as it wanted, can promise access to the Columbia they are putting in is really ! River, a transport route neces 1 but on the other hand we do not propose to sign a check for Supt. Van Houte, Director Mar tin and the rest of the board to fill in. We resent being asked to vote on bond issues that do not hnllrl lhf huilrlinrs that thpv nrp supposed to. Whether this was inadvertant or not, it was de ception. If we continue to fur-U nish education the increases Supt. Van Houte and Director Martin and the rest of the board present every year for our con sideration, that delinquent tax list could in time fill a full issue of the Gazette-Times. In conclusion, Mr. Henderson, we realize that you obviously feel that Director Martin repre sents your views. We do not know who he represents; we are certain he does not represent us. Sincerely, Ray Boyce, lone Lloyd Morgan, lone Dick McElligott, lone Gene Rietmann, lone Alfred Nelson, Jr., Lexington George G. Griffith, Cecil worthwhile. At the present time, Director Martin is serving on tae legis lative committee for the Or.sgon School Boards Association and is recognized as a leading layman in education in the state of Ore- eon. ttn conclusion I ask the voters of Morrow county to weign heav ily their decision before voting. To blame one man for every thing you are dissatisfied with would certainly be an injustice. I feel we should get behind our School Board and support them when they make impartial de cisions instead of crying because they wouldn't try to gain favors for our zone. Respectfully, Margaret Thorpe Boardman, Oregon To the Editor: I am writing this letter re garding the recall petition on Director, Fred Martin. First, I would l&c to discuss the reasons behind the recall petition and comment briefly on each. The charge that he does not represent the will of the people and that he does not represent his own zone could be interp reted several ways. It seems to me that a director could not possibly represent all the people in a zone. Certainly the wishes of the people would, in many cases, be divided. In this respect the director could represent part of the people, but not all of the people. Also this district is now an administrative unit and a school director should make de cisions that are educationally sound for the entire district. In my opinion, Fred Martin has been doing this very satisfac torily. The charge that Director Mar tin failed to provide adequate school facilities in his zone would seem very trivial in view of the new high school plant, gym and cafeteria. I'm sure that Director Martin would like to see a new elementary school built in lone and would be glad to do so if someone would explai'i where the money could be ob Earl Ayres Attends Dealership Course Earl Ayres, owner of Heppner Auto Sales, Inc., Heppner, re cently completed a course in dealership management at the San Francisco Ford Marketing Institute, the western public re lations office of the Ford Motor Company announces. The institute at Burlingame, Calif., serves 11 western states as part of a nationwide Ford program to offer training in dealership management and selling, and to keep dealers and their personnel abreast of to day's rapidly-changing market. Since the Institute was estab lished in October, 1961, more than 3,000 dealers and dealer ship personnel have graduated from courses there. sarv to the shipment of large missiles. When the chief of the Army Corps of Engineers signs a memorandum of agreement between the state and the Corps, the state will be in the last lap of putting the industrial park together. There may be more trying times ahead, for the state will have to come up with some money to pay the Navy for re location of its bombing range, now a part of the Industrial park. The state, in piecing the park together, bought 50,000 acres comprising the old bombing range, gave up other land to the Navy, provided for flight cor ridors through the industrial park. Oregon still came out on the short end, and will owe the Navy an amount to be determined in negotiation. Gov. Mark Hatfield's admin istrative assistant, Warne Nunn, says the money probably can be loaned by the State Land Board and recovered from rental of the industrial park. There will be no appropriation, but the legislature will be asked for the law enabling the Land Board to loan. Hatfield said Boeing may start development of the site before negotiations with the Navy are completed. Boeing has been attracted to the site for several reasons: ' The 150 square miles offers plenty of buffer to contain the harshest noises from bellowing rocket engines, the possible rad iation from testing of nuclear engines, the toxic residues of burnt exotic fuels, the secrets of space-age research. It's fairly close to home less than 180 airline miles. "The Columbia River will be backed up behind John Day Dam in a few years, offering slack water for transporting bulky cargoes. Boeing chiefs haven't had to bother packaging the land be cause the state of Oregon is doing it for them. Boeing has been tied up in a remote corner of the United States while the aero-space in dustry roared into the Age of Space. The old Navy pilot, Bill Boeing, settled on Seattle to found his company in 1916. There It pros pered through two World Wars, a leader in aircraft development. Times have caught up with the company, which has strug gled successfully to compete with firms in more strategic lo cations. Only recently was the word "airplane" dropped from its original name, Boeing Air plane Co. Needing a field test site, Boe ing three years ago leased four square miles of land north of Everett from the Tulalip Indians. The land had been used as a central ammunition dump for military installation around Pu get Sound during World War II. Soon it was apparent that the site wasn't large enough. It be came jammed with areas set aside for hazardous testing of one kind or another. Brush grows quickly in the soggy ground, which borders the Sound. Colonies of beavers dam creeks and ditches. Worst of all, Tulalip is too small to carry out the ex periments and tests that could be done at Boardman. Either by coincidence or by the urging of one party or the other, Oregon's Boardman plan and Boeing's Interest in it de veloped. Jewett indicated Boeing will move demurely onto the test site. Surveyors and construct i o n crews first will make site prep arations. One of the first instal lations will be a test rocket engine stand perhaps a couple of them an engineer's study, ordered by the City of Boardman, reports. Then research teams, two to eight men on most will arrive for their diverse work as it is set up in the home offices. Their tasks generally will be complet ed within weeks, and they 11 re turn to Seattle. Some Morrow and Umatilla county men can expect to find jobs as maintenance men and might work in construction. Boe ig will maintain a security force, ment at Tulalip. It also has its own fire depart- What kinds of testing and research? Boeine rarely knows what's ahead, at least within a few short years. Manufacturing eventu ally? Jewett wouldn't discount the possibility. The most important program underway at Tulalip provides an insight into what's in store im mediately at Boardman. The Tulalip operation is or iented toward Dyna-Soar, the Air Force's grand scheme to orbit a winged capsule, manned by a pilot who would glide it back to earth. Dyna-Soar research probably will be carried to the end mostly at Tulalip. Installation include a $1.5-million environment a 1 chamber in which a full-size model of the glider will be placed for simulated re-entry and actions of the machine in space. But tests of the system which separates Dyna-Soar from its Ti tan III booster could come off at Boardman. The tests would be done on the ground. Len Bonifaci, a rangy engin eer who manages the Tulalip test site, is well-acquainted by the restrictions imposed on ex perimenting in his tiny domain. "We've been hampered in the past by not having the Board man site," he said. Still there have- been static firings of model rockets. Even a plant for batching and shap ing solid propellant ingredients was built. The big one that never went off at Tulalip, another engineer explained, was the silo test of a tethered Minuteman. A two- second blast of Its engine roisted it several hundred feet in the air. Its nylon tethers tumbled it immediately back to earth. There was feeling that the Minuteman test could have been done at Boardman, instead of in the Mojave Desert, had Boeing occupied the uregon land two years ago. For Your Protection Turner, Van Marter and Bryant Answers Your Insurance Questions QUESTION: I sometimes lend my car to my sister who is an adult and licensed to drive. A friend tells me that if she should have an accident I would be held responsible and that my liability Insur ance would not protect me. What about this? 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