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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1967)
1. 1 BRA R Y ' u or o EUGEIIE, 0RB 07403 City Budget To Hold Tax Near 66-67 lleppner's city budget for I!i7 l.H, published for the first time In this paper on page 8 kihI 7 of Mt'ilon 2. shows that tax levy f"r the coming year will he only nightly greater than for 17 68. despite the fact Unit total requirement aro list ed n considerably greater. Total taxes to ho levied for city purMwN U fixed at $28,212 n compared with $27,454 for l!HUi (17. Thin In an increase of only $758. Total requirements, however, are figured at $23-1.490. which In $15,311 more than the $189,179 In the m l!7 budget. Tending to give the Inflated picture on requirement are a number of sinking fundN that also show in the budget an resource and therefore offset the name amount In requirements. For Instance, an $8000 fund from the county school district, turned oxer to the custody of the city for future Improvement of Morgan Street extension, Is carried In the budget both an a "requirement" and as a "re source, " Another such fund U the $8,850 In the clly'n swim ming pool reserve fund, which bt transferred Into a general ! lurid resource. Several other re nerve funds are similarly treat, rd, so that while expenditure tend to loom bigger, resources ere up corrcKpomiincly, and the next result to tho taxpayer la about the same as last year. Reaounres Up Total resources In the budget are shown a S207.215 as com. ttnnwl In tlr.')'')'v In Hin ! 07 budget, an increase this year of Hl.tifH). One Item not tilth erto Included In the general fund resourv Is Jl'.HK) from the new state cigarette tax. A 10 Increase In wage for city employees la Included In the budget, and there U provis Ion for additional help In the police budget. The amount for pcrxonal services In the police department In set at $19,100 as compared with SU.lD'iO last year. One Item that showed last year's budget but which la not included thin year la $11,000 for Improvement In the water sys tem. This was for the new main around the west aide of town, which recently was completed. So the amount for Improvements In the coming budget has been reduced to $3500. However, operating materials and supplies huve been increas ed to $5.(M0 from $3,430. Most Itcma In the budget arc about the same as those for UMHi C7. Final work on the budget was done at a meeting Friday night when the estimates were ap proved by the budget commit tee of which Lynn Pearson is chairman. The budget Is within the 6 limitation, and so there will be no vote on the estimates. Pub lic hearing Is scheduled for Monday, June 26, at 7:30 p.m. In the city hall at which time anyone may appear to speak either for or against the budg et or any portion of It. City to Ask Plans On Pool Project (See picture on page 4) Hcppner's city council moved ahead on plans for rebuilding the municipal pool Monday night, lust five days after vot ers approved $110,000 In bonds to finance the project. It was decided to ask Clark and Gruff, engineers, to go ahead with preparation of plans and specifications for the pool and the new bath house. Attorney Bob Abrnms suggest ed that the firm bo contacted to meet with tho councllmon In order that details of the con struction might be considered Jointly. Thoy will decide on ar rangement and equipping of the bath house as well us olher de tails. Bonds will not be sold tint il the city has a more definite Idea of construction costs, which may be more accurately determ ined after plan9 and specifica tions are completed. Call for bids on the project will follow after the specifica tions are prepared. It was decided that the city may seek bids, when the time comes on alternate plans for the reconstruction of the pool, one being a gunlte and plaster treat ment, and the otlier being to construct a 4-Inch concrete liner Inside the present pool. Employment Service Office Opened Here A local branch of the Oregon State Employment Service, de signed to match up workers and employers with needed summer jobs Is now open in Heppner, ac cording to Mrs. Paul Arbogast who operated the service last year and will have charge of It again this year. The local office will be a part of the Pendleton Oregon State Employment Service office. Mrs. Arbogast urges those who want workers or who need Jobs to call 676-5336 or come to her home at 235 W. Willow in Hep pner. There Is an Immediate need for boys to pull rye and work In hay and wheat harvest. 84th Year THE m GAZETTE-TIM Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, June 8, ,.)..;, , . I r- ..- - 3 ! i ' .' - "' ; ... I .. .. . J :" 'CC i : . ' 4Sii' Us ALLEN N 1ST AD, who has been serving as ottic manager for Klniua Corporation, will become general manager ol the com pany on July 1. succeeding A. B. Coleman, who has resigned. A. B. Coleman Resigns As Kinzua Corp. Manager A. B. Coleman has resigned as general manager of Kinzua Cor poration and Allen R. N 1st ad has been appointed to that po sition, effective July 1, E. W. Stuchell of Everett, Wash., pres ident of the corporation, an. nounces. Coleman retires from a long and active career of service to the lumber Industry. He began In the early 1920's as a plant superintendent at BUes-Coleman Lumber Company at Omak, Annual TV Meet Due on Tuesday Annual meeting of Heppner TV, Inc., will be Tuesday, June 13, at 8 p.m. In the Elks Temp le In the room on the second floor. Carl Spauldlng, manager, announces. One board vacancy will be filled, the annual financial re port will be given, and any oth er business to be considered will be presented. All members of the cable sys tem are Invited to attend. Pancake Supper Set To Aid Scout Troop Hoy Scout Troop 661, will sponsor a pancake cupper on Sunday, June IS, at St. Patrick's parish hall. Proceeds will be used to assist scouts in expenses for their summer camp program. The public Is Invited to come between the hours of 4:00 and 8:00 p.m., with tickets on sale now from scouts or at the door. Tickets. will bo $1 for adults; 75c, high school age; 50c, child ren, and $3.75 for the family. Council Approves Changes in Designated Speed Recommendations of the state speed control board on desig nated speeds within the Hepp ner city limits were approved Monday night at the June meet ing of the city council. Going south from tho north city limits, the board recom mended a speed of 40 miles per hour after which it would drop to 30 near Pettyjohn's Farm and Builders Supply. The 30 mile speed would continue through the business section of town. A 20-mile speed would apply on ly at crosswalks. This recomme n d e d speed through town Is 10 miles per hour more than the present des ignated speed. Coming Into town from the south, the designated speed would be 45 miles per hour on the Condon highway to a point nearly in line with the swim ming pool. Here it would drop to 25 miles per hour to the May and Main intersection. It was brought out that the control board is Increasing speeds through many smaller towns. But not all of the coun cllmen concurred that it was a good idea. Three voted for the recommendatl o n, one voted against and one abstained. Wash. Much of his service has been with Kinzua Corporation at Kinzua and Heppner. He and Mrs. Coleman will take resi dence at the Portland Center next month. Nlstad has been office man ager of Kinzua Corporation. He Joined the firm in 1947. Nlstad Is chairman of the Eastern Oregon Timber Owners Committee, a director of Asso ciated Oregon industries and vice-chairman of its forestry committee. He serves on the staff advisory council of Tim ber Operators Council. The new general manager will continue to reside in Kinzua and will maintain his office there. Impoundments Talk On Chamber Agenda Discussion of proposed fish impoudments and recreation In South Morrow county is on the program for the coming Monday luncheon meeting of the Heppncr-Morrow cou n t y Chamber of Commerce, Mrs. Avon Mclby, program chairman, announces. Guests will Include Will Brown, regional supervisor of the State Game Commission, from La Grande; A. V. Myers, who is In charge of lands for the commission; and George Kernnn, engineer for the com mission. The latter two are of Portland. Glen Ward, state game agent here, will bo present and act as their host. Rep, Irvin Mann may be present if his schedule will permit. Ward said that the session will be informal with discus sion on progress made towards establishing the Impoundments and looking at the possibilities. In notifying the board of the approval, however, the council will seek an explanation of why the 30 mile speed should apply through the business district when a 25 mile speed would apply coming into town from the south. Procedure Changed The council continued work to change the procedure of apply ing variances in the zoning or dinances, and it adopted a mo tion to change the procedure. It was aimed at giving the coun cil more control so that it could approve variances felt to be In the best interests of the city. In some instances since the ordinance went into effect, building permits could not be granted under terms of the or dinance because the regulations were not met. In these cases, however, the council felt the contemplated alterations or con struction were in the best inter ests of the city and that the ordinance should be changed to make them possible. Permits Changed Two alteration permits were granted, one to Charles Olson, manager of Bucknum's Tavern, for cleaning, installing new panels and painting, $300; and F HEPPNER 1967 Hospital Invites Public To Open House Sunday Observing lu 17th anniver sary, Pioneer Memorial hospital invites the public to Its open house from 12:30 to 4:30 Sun day, Will O'Harra, administra tor, states. The hospital was dedicated on June 11, 1950, with funds for the construction coming from the Hill Burton Act and popular subscription. Its original equip ment, valued at $90,000, was purchased from popular sub scription. O'Harra said that the open Free Swim Slated Saturday to Open Season at Pool Heppner Municipal Swimming Pool will open Saturday, June 10, with free swims from 1 to 4 p.m., Mrs. Elaine Ceorge, city recorder, states The regular summer schedule will begin Sunday, June 11. An advertise ment elsewhere In this paper sets forth pertinent details. Stuart Dick will be the life guard. He is a student at East ern Oregon College and is qual ified In senior lifesaving. He will attend National Red Cross Aquatic School from June 12 to June 23, after which swimming classes will be announced for the Heppner pool. , Stuart will be assisted by Peggy Snyder and Kay Daggett Peggy also has a senior Ulesav Ing certificate. Miss Daggett has a Junior Ufesavir certificate and will take her senior training this summer. Miss Snyder will be in charge of the pool while Dick Is in school, and cooper ation of all parents and swim mers Is requested so that she will have no difficulty In keep ing the pool operating smooth ly. Rules and regulations at the pool are to promote safety and to make it possible for every one to enjoy swimming. Some of the more important require ments are: Smaller children and non swimmers must be accompanied by someone responsible for their safety. Running and rough-housing are dangerous and prohibited. No litter, gum, bottles, etc., are allowed in the pool area. All deep water swimmers must pass the safety test. Innertubes are dangerous and prohibited. The lifeguard is in charge and will be on the tower or patrol ling the pool. The lifeguard has the right to refuse the use of the pool to anyone not obeying the rules. Gun Club to Hold Spring Shoot Sunday Morrow County Gun Club will sponsor its 13th annual spring shoot on Sunday, June 11, at the club grounds near Heppner. The shoot will start at 10:00 a.m., with prizes awarded win ners. Members are urged to come and visitors are welcome. another to Bruce Bothwell to In stall new doors and windows in a house on August street, $400. A permit was granted to Her man Stroeber at a special coun cil meeting on May 16 for an addition to his driveway at a cost of $338. Permits for keeping animals within the city limits were granted to a number of appli cants. These brought up a dis cussion on animals within the city limit and whether such ap plications should be brought to the attention of the council. A former procedure, it was ex plained, was to register horses, poultry and rabbits at the city hall. If there was no complaint by neighbors, the permit re mained in effect. If, however, an animal was not registered, and complaints ensued, the owner was subject to a fine. Re cently, such applications have been brought to the attention of the council in order that the councilmen be made aware of the animals or poultry and would therefore be prepared for any complaints. Corbin Hired It was announced that Bert Corbin has been hired as a pa trolman to serve with John Mol- Number 15 10 Cents house is planned to extend ap preciation to the public for the many fine acts and for the co operation received through the years. He stressed the import ance of the contributions, dona tions of equipment and service from various individuals, organ izations and businesses to the hospital. Tours of the building and Its facilities will be conducted by nurses and members of the staff. Located on land donated by Garnet Barratt, former county Judge, the hospital has 49 beds of which about 20 are in the nursing home. The original ca pacity of 29 beds was increas ed by an addition in 1955. Largely self-supporting, the hospital, with its large staff. requires about $250,000 per year to operate. Only a small part of mis comes irom taxes. The ave rage has been less than $10,000 per year, but $23,000 is In the 1967-68 county budget for the hospital. Payroll runs approxi mately $156,000 per year. During the seventeen years of ! . i i f.i , lis upeittuuii, uie fiospuai n,u saved numerous lives, has re lieved suffering to an immeas urable degree, and has provided immediate treatment lor pat ients who otherwise would have had to be transported to distant points. Early In the week the hospi tal admitted its 17,945th patient Pictures and more details on the hospital are on page six of mis section. "We appreciate the spirit all our people and organizations have shown towards us, and the cooperation they have given. We'd like the opportunity of saying Thank You' when you come to our open house Sun day," O'Harra said. County History Near $3000 Point Campaign for funds for the preparation and publication of a Morrow county history is near the $3000 mark, according to Oscar Peterson, chairman of the committee in charge. He said Monday that the com mittee now has approximately $3000 in cash and pledges. It is expected that $7500 will be needed to do the job. The $3000 includes $1000 which is in the county budget for 1967-68, and this is yet to be finally approv ed. Peterson said that with this amount in hand, work may start on the preparation of the book. Giles French of Moro will do the compiling and editing of information for the book. Plans will be organized soon to conduct a personal contact campaign to raise the addition al funds for the project, Peter son said. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM Official weather report for the week of May 31 to June 6 is as follows: Hi Low Prec. Wednesday 65 35 Thursday 77 48 .02 Friday 74 47 Saturday 75 43 Sunday 72 41 Monday 77 42 Tuesday 79 47 lahan on the city police force. No police chief has been hired to replace Chief Dean Gilman whose resignation takes effect June 15. Officer Mollahan was appronched on the matter, but he said he prefers to stay in his present position. Resolution Passed Resolution was passed author izing the city recorder to place $S000 from the school district on deposit in time certificates with the interest to be added to the certificates, instead of going to the general fund. The $8000 is earmarked for Morgan Street extension improvements which was hoped to be undertaken un der a cooperative project with the city and state. To the pres ent, however, the state has not approved undertaking the proj ect. House Removal Asked Copies of letters to property owners urging removal of houses deemed to be hazards were read. One was addressed to Leo Flower of Monument In regard to a house in lot 2, block seven, and the other was ad dressed to Mervin Leonard of Lexington in regard to a house at 335 Linden Way. The board pointed out that Directors Ponder Bids on Riverside Bids were afternoon at received Tuesday the county school office in Lexington on the con struction of the new Riverside High school in Boardman, but because of the complicated na ture of the bidding, it was ex pected to be several days be fore the contractors will be named. - Basic bids were submitted by The Timber Company of Herm iston at $842396 and by Law son Construction Co. of Portland at $848,700. In addition, howev er, bids were submitted by some 25 to 30 sub-contractors. Specifications were drawn with some 150 alternates provid ed, and the school board now must sift through all these bids on alternates to determine whether there Is sufficient funds to include all of them and to make awards. "We are making every effort to come up with a completed building, and we want the best completed building we can get" Supt. David Potter said Wednes day morning. It appeared that the bids on the completed Job will come EVERETT BROCK Washington Man Named as Manager Everett Brock, formerly of Touchet Wash- has been chos en as manager of the machinery division of Morrow County Grain Growers, Inc., Harlan McCurdy, general manager for MCGG, an nounces. Brock will head the division that was formerly Lexington Implement Co., which was pur chased last week by the coop erative. The new manager spent the past - several years as salesman for LHW Equipment Co. of Tou chet. The company specialized in heavy equipment and farm machinery. Previously he farmed in the Touchet area. He is married, and his wife's name is Colleen. They have nine children, of whom five are at home. The family will move to the area as soon as suitable housing is found. Of the Brocks' children, one son and one daughter are in college, a daughter is teaching in the Seattle area, another dau ghter is a housewife in Seattle, and a son is in the Air Force. Those living at home are Sheri, junior in high school; Cindy, third grade; John, second grade; and Mary, 4-years-old. Brock started his duties last week. He said that he is happy to come to Morrow county, and invites all to drop in and get acquainted. The machinery div ision of the Morrow County Grain Growers will continue to be operated from the Lexington Implement Co. location, and Brock's office will be there. Announcement of the Grain Growers is on page 3, section z. : - - T ' I- , '. mrnT i ii 88bW in City Limits the houses were in bad states of disrepair and were consider ed as possible locations of rat infestations. The letters were written by William B. Culham, sanitarian. After the council had check ed plans for the new Richfield service station at the corner of Main and Center, thev aDDrov ed a motion to send a letter asking why the original plan ror euros naa Deen cnangea ana stating that the city intends that the firm conform to the original plan. Under the plan presented Monday night, there would be no curbing and the sidewalks would merge with the street. Councilmen felt that curbings should be installed ex cept at places where driveways were to De proviaea. Supt. Vic Groshens discussed the matter of establishing par allel parking on Willow street. He said that all parking meters ana posts must De taKen irom the sidewalks and reset in the walks at new locations some two feet from the street. A pow er pole of Columbia Basin Elec tric, located In the street at one point, presents a problem, he said. Work on the job proceed ed Tuesday. very close to getting within the funds available, the superin tendent said, and that Is what the board is now trying to achieve without having any loose ends on the project to fin ish at a future date at further expense to the district. The school board received the bids in early afternoon Tuesday and worked until 9:30 p.m. on them before adjourning. They convened again Wednesday, and the prospect was that they would be at it for some time before all details were worked out School District Hires Teachers; Two to Leave Resignations of two teachers were received, six new teachers were hired, another was offered a contract, and non -certified staff members were hired at a special meeting of the Morrow county school board Monday night. Tom Hughes, Heppner ele mentary teacher and coach, re signed after teaching here for a number of years. He plans to take a position as teacher and coach at Monroe. Jack Cart, so cial studies teacher and coach at Heppner High, also resigned after teaching here one year. Teachers hired include the following: Miss Cecilia Delmore of beat tie for speech, drama and Eng lish at Heppner High school. She is a graduate of the Uni versity of Washington and this will be her first year of teach ing. Mrs. Anna Lee James, who has been teaching in Hawaii, for home economics and girls' phys ical education at lone. Her hus band, Dan-ell James, has been hired as band instructor at lone. Paul A. Herbst now teaching at Knappa, to teach social stud ies and coach basketball at Riv erside High. John Bonnier, completing his work at . University of Oregon this year, to teach English at lone. This will be his first year of teaching. David Stuart now teaching at Bonanza, to teach social studies and coach at Heppner Highr school, replacing Carr. He has taught six years, four of which have been at Bonanza. Mrs. Naomi Leishman, who taught last year at Reedsport after previously , teaching at lone, to return as a first grade teacher at lone. Contract was offered to Dean Naffzlger for teaching boys' physical education at Heppner elementary school. He is com pleting work at University of Oregon, lives in Eugene, and has never taught before. Miss Linda Shipps of Heppner was hired as secretary of the county school office at Lexing ton, and Mrs. Leonard Munkers was hired to be in charga of supplies at the county admin istration building. Schedule for hiring a super intendent to succeed David Pot ter, whose resignation becomes effective August 1, was set up. Applications will be received until June 16, and the board will hold a special meeting on June 22 to interview appli cants and select a superintend ent. Cloudburst Hits North of lone A cloudburst that hit in the area surrounding lone last Thursday brought rainfall rang ing from .65 inch to more than one inch in a short period of time. Gene Winters, county exten sion agent, said that it hit in places north, south and west of lone. At the Don Heliker place the road at one time was covered with 2H feet of water in one place. The Helikers reported .65 inch of rainfall in a 20-minute period. At McNab, the Willow Creek highway was blocked by rocks on the highway. Thunder and lightning accompa n 1 e d the storm. Heliker said damage was light, with very little erosion at his place. Mr. and Mrs. Al Martin, who were on their way to a gradu ation exercise at Wy"East, went through the peak of the down pour about 3 p.m. Martin said that he had never seen it rain so hard and visibility was lim ited to a short space during the height of the deluge. Harley Young, manager of Columbia Basin Electric Co-op, said that there were numerous individual power outages in the Lexington and lone rural areas but no serious damage occurred to the power system as a result of the brief storm. In Heppner, Central Market was out of serv ice for about 1H hours, he said. Lightning apparently hit a serv ice wire to the store. While the lone rural area was getting the downpour, only a brief shower hit Heppner, al though the thunder and light ning was noticed here.
