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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1967)
1 1 BRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. 07403 Payment Rush Hits At Tax Deadline Tax deputies of Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman Tuesday were caught in the rush of collecting Morrow county's property taxes as the November 15 rebate deadline was at hand. Report from the tax collection office was that they had been very busy throughout the day with "customers" coming to the office and at the same time had a stack of mailed payments coming In that they had been unable to process fully. They did not have time to tally the payments received to date, but said that it appeared to me "better than ever before. Generally, more than 807o of the tax roll is collected by the rebate deadline. Nothing of the so-called "tax payer revolt" that was started by some in Willamette Valley counties was apparent here, the deputies reported. They said that some taxpayers Joked about it as they came In to pay their tax bills. . . None of the large payments from utilities had been proces sed by the office as of Tuesday, although three of the largest Pacific Gas Transmission Co., Union Pacific and Pacific North west Bell announced in news releases that they expected to pay by the deadline date Wed nesdav. , , ... Pacific Gas Transmission will pay $64,817.88 in Morrow coun ty, and Is apparently the larg est taxpayer here. The compa ny will pay a total of $811,7o2. 07 to nine eastern Oregon coun ties, according to Herbert A. Danielson, operations manager, Spokane. Deschutes receives the Neighborhood Center Starts Active Work Program of the Neighborhood Centers set up by the Comrnu nity Action Program was dis cussed by Bob Stangier, Blue Mountain Economic Develop ment coordinator, when he met with the advisory board of me Heppner Neighborhood Center at its meeting last Thursday evening. "It is hoped to get as many people involved in the program in as many ways as possible, he stressed. There is a catalog that has been made up pf me Umatilla county agencies for re ferral for services, and it is ex pected that Morrow county will also have one available. Ten board members were present to hear staff reports on what had been done in the three weeks which the center has been open. There were 110 con tacts or calls made; five per sons have been enrolled in bas ic education classes held by BMCC at the high school four nights each week; 14 have ex pressed desire for the classes for the spring GED; three calls have urged Manpower Develop ment training, and three asked for on-the-1ob training. One el derly woman has been using one of three sewing machines to sew each week for charity, and five women have desired evening sewing classes. The center will help with the Abundant Food program distri bution as asked by the county court. It was reported that Glendoris Fernandez of Blue Mt. Economic Development Council and Pat Brindle attended the Golden Age club to enlist their aid in the survey of the elder ly it was reported that the cen ter will have an employment counselor and placement officer one-half day once each week after the first of the year. He will generate jobs, give apti tude tests and job placements for this area. Assistance will al so be available later in hand ling Social Security problems. Discussion included various needs felt in the- community, such as a marriage enrichment program, establishing an alco holics anonymous program, dis tribution of donated clothing and furniture, baby sitting for those attending basic education classes, and desire to satisfy various other community needs. Serving as staff members are Mrs. Ted (Eloise) Smith and Mrs. Patricia Brindle. On the I board are Lorna Borman, Alice Luttrell, Barbara Jessmer, Sno da Blake, Eva Griffith, Shirley Loyd, Bob Bristow, Hubert Wil son, Mrs. Jerry Doherty, Millie Evans, VI Lanham, Wes Sher man and Rev. Don Pederson. Board meetings will be tne third Monday evenings of each month at 7:30 p.m. Next meet ing will be December 18, with those interested in the center invited to come and bring their ideas, City Accepts Bid On Police Car At a short special meeting of the Heppner city council Tues day afternoon the bid ol rui leton Chevrolet Co. on a new police car was accepted at a price of $1410 with tradein. The bids were received at the regular November meeting and were turned over to the streets and properties committee at that time for review and recom mendation. Fulleton Chevrolet was low bidder at $1410 on a new Chevrolet highest sum from the company at $105,062.99. The new PGT compressor sta tion, now close to completion near lone, will not be on the assessment roll until the next fiscal year. Union Pacific's payment Wed nesday will be $19,190 in Mor row county. D. D. Glanzman, Union Pacific general tax agent in Portland, said the railroad will pay a total of $1,385,733 In taxes on its operating and non operating property In Oregon. Morrow county is among 19 Oregon counties to receive tax checks from Union Pacific. Pacific Northwest Bell's prop erty tax payment in Morrow county this year amounts to $20,026.72, according to Dale Slusher, local manager. The firm's total property tax bill in Oregon is $7,447,000. It pays these property taxes in 34 of the state's 36 counties. Many other large taxpayers undoubtedly made their pay ments in full by Wednesday to take advantage of the three per cent rebate, but their announce ments had not been received by presstime. Combined Service For Thanksgiving Set Wednesday Eve A community united Thanksgiving church service will be held for people of all faiths on Thanksgiving eve, Wednesday, November 22, at the Heppner Christian church, according to Rev. Melvln Dix on, of the South Morrow County Ministerial associa tion. Churches of the assort tion will share in presenting the service, which will begin at 8 p.m. Guest speaker will be the Rev. Dirk Rinehart, of All Saints' Episcopal church. It is planned to have music provid ed by combined choirs of the Methodist and Christ i a n churches. An evening service was well attended at the Episcopal church last year, changing from the previous tradition of worshipping together on Thanksgiving morning. All people in the surround ing areas are urged to attend and join together in the . thanks-giving. Old-Time Fiddlers to Play .... - - In Two-Night Contests Old-time fiddlers from Ore gon, Washington, California and Idaho are expected to perform in Heppner on the nights of Fri day and Saturday, November 24 and 25, under the sponsorship of the Morrow county Jaycees in conjunction with the Eastern Oregon Old Time Fiddlers' as sociation. The event will be in the junior high school gymnas ium. Included among the perform ers will be a former Oregon champion and at least one who has placed high in national competition, according to the Jaycees. Linnie Baum of Twin Falls, Idaho, has sent in her registra tion. She was fifth in the nat ional championships in a recent contest. Coming with her will be her father, who also is a competitor. 'i, Rusty Modrell, of Terrebonne, a past Oregon champion, plans to be present. He is current East ern Oregon champion. Some 60 other applications have been sent to outstanding fiddlers in the four states and a good number of them are ex pected to be here. Among them are Harold Allen, Dorena, who recently won first place in a Bakersfield, Calif., contest and took a $1000 purse there. Another is Loyd Wanzer of Caldwell, Idaho, currently the national champion. Two from nearer home are ivan Mrraniels of Long Creek, who expects to enter the 7 county competition, and Ralph Elliot, Kinzua, wno nas won nat ional honors. But the competition isn't on iu fnr thp exDerienced ones. There is also a bracket for be ginners, called tne "lntermea iate contest." All fiddlers will find an appropriate spot in the competition. The Friday night event will U.S. in Vietnam Checks Communism 'Cancer "Vietnam is like an insur ance policy to Southeast Asia. We are in the process of killing a very malignant cancer growth. If we do pull out, if we show weakness, communism will spread like a cancer." So said Mike Benge, who has spent five years working with the Montagnards and the South Vietnamese in the central high lands of Vietnam. He made the statements Tuesday while here on emergency leave. He came home to attend fun eral services for his step-brother, Ralph Benge, who was kill ed in an auto accident recent ly. The lone man, son of Mr. and Mrs. Terrel Benge, said, "Cam bodia will come over to us very quickly as soon as it can. 84th Year THE GAZl Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, November X JOHN DAY LOCK AND DAM. under construction by the Walla J Walla district: U. S. Army Corps ol Engineers, near Bufus . on tte Columbia River, is shown with both cofferdams in place on the Washington shore (upper left). Pool level on the spillway will be raised behind the cofferdams., comp eUng the dam which is scheduled to begin power generation in the spring start at 7:30 with the first con test being that for intermedi ates. The second event will fol low, and this 7-county contest is open to competitors from Wheeler, Morrow, Grant, Baker, Union, Malheur and Umatilla counties. On Saturday night, with the event starting at 7 p.rn-. will be the regional contest, followed by the classic old timers con test , , Jaycees point out that the fiddlers furnish lively enter tainment. The fiddling Is inter spersed with other types of mu sic, skits and jokes. It is hoped to have the president of the Eastern Oregon association as master of ceremonies, and he is known for keeping the program rolling at a fast pace. Intermediate winner will re ceive a trophy and $25 cash; second place, $15 and trophy; (Continued on page 8) Paper to be Out Wednesday P.M. Because of the Thanksgiv ing holiday next Thursday and the Christmas Opening event on November 24 and 25, the Gazette-Times staff ex pects to have next week's pa per in post office boxes in Heppner late next Wednesday afternoon. Papers going to rural areas and other towns will be in the mails also Wednesday af ternon but will not reach sub scribers until Friday because of the holiday. All advertisers are request ed to have copy ready early for next week's paper, and all wishing news items in the paper are also urged to turn them in as early as possible. However, if the U. S. leaves Vietnam, he is of the opinion that Malaysia and Thailand will be lost to communism in "no time at all." "The Philippines would go over. Indonesia would go back over," he declared. "How could we protect the Philippines? We would have to go in there and fight the same kind of war as in Vietnam." Benge declared that India Is "very susceptible" to China now. "India couldn't withstand communism," he said. "What would we do give up in Viet nam and go into India to fight the same thing in a mess there?" Benee. who is associated with the Agency of International De p&w- ryP mm TTE-TME Truck Crash Kills Five Head Cattle But Driver Escapes Harlan Gentry, 33, Heppner, suffered only bruises and a bump on the head but five of some 40 cattle in the truck and trailer he was driving were killed last Wednesday night in an accident near Cas cade Locks on Interstate 80 N. . The rig struck posts divid ing the eastbound and west bound lanes of the freeway, knocked out 24 of them, spun around and tipped, ending in the eastbound lane. Gentry, driving for Let 'er Buck Motor Service, Hermis ton, was headed west. His wife said that he was unsure what caused the accident, per haps hitting a slick spot on the highway. In addition to the five cattle killed, four were crippled, and the others were roaming along the high way until they were rounded up later. The accident occurred about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, and Gentry was taken to a hospi tal at The Dalles for treat ment. Mrs. Gentry left here to be with him and brought him home Thursday. He was con fined at home for several days on advice of his doctor. Loss is believed to be cov ered by insurance. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM Official weather report for the week of November 8-14 is as follows: Hi Low Prec. Wednesday 47 32 .18 Thursday 55 41 .04' Friday 64 48 .02 Saturday 51 45 .20 Sunday 49 41 .01 Monday 46 43 Tuesday 54 42 .07 velopment with his work cen tered at Ban Me Thout in Dar lac Province, said that he is sure the United States is mak ing progress in Vietnam. "We are going into guerilla warfare areas where no one has been since 1953," he said. "We're rooting them out, blowing up their tunnel complexes and air lifting large numbers of troops. We're blocking them off so they can't retreat "But this isn't a war we're going to win in a year," he add ed. The North Vietnamese are making the tactical error of starting to run in large units, he said, when guerilla warfare was their best tactic. South Vietnamese, often crit icized for not "doing their 16, 1967 of 1968. Oregon fish ladder Portion of thS picture, with ... . Ns; nivX Vv.--.':. v VX V V--- !TX to the spillway ana roiremuum. " , r z' ' be the largest dam on the Columbian completed. BPA Official Says Load Doubles Every 10 Yeats trluon the resDonsibillty for ,"l.TiypL lUaUB Ui Ull- uuiii.k - Administration have been doub ling, Harold Cantrell, manager of Bonneville Power Administra tion at Walla Walla, told mem bers of the lone Lions club in a talk Monday night at the Ma sonic hall in lone. "It is estimated that the load will double in the next 10 years so we will have to do as much in the next 10 years as we have in the last 30," he dedlared. When the system of dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers are completed and there is no more room for power generation on the rivers, it will be neces sary to turn to thermal plants, most of them nuclear, the speaker said. This development Is expected to start by the mid-1970's, he pointed out. From the year 1974 until 1986, Cantrell envisions the need for a million killowatt plant ev ery year. "We have to get as large as a million kilowatts to gain econ omy of scale," he said. "Several utilities must join to absorb the output of one of these plants." Even though cost of genera tion of power through the ther mal plants is higher than the hydro-electric . powers, after dams are once constructed, Can trell predicted that it will be possible to retain the low cost power base now being enjoyed. A 20-year program of Bonne ville Power Administration en visions a total expenditure of $13.7 billion, of which $8.7 bil lion would come from non-federal funds and $5.0 billion would be in federal funds. The speaker outlined the dams on the rivers now in operation or under construction. He re viewed the start of BPA, dat ing back to the construction of Bonnevillle dam, when it was share" in the war involving them, are being placed in a pacification role, Benge said, and he believes this a highly important contribution to the effort. Benge helps in hla area to organize Rural Development cadres of generally 59-man teams. They are given general training in security and setting up patrols. They go into a hamlet, secure the hamlet, work on edges "that are ours by day time and the Vietcong's by night." The cadre provides enough security so that it takes a large force to take the hamlet- , Then this unit builds fences around the hamlet. It takes a census, asking such questions as, "How many people are in Number 38rl. HEPPNEI2 10 Cents is partially shown In the lower the 16-unit powerhouse extending ..Hi.nnmMA nraleet will marketing power from the dam This now has been expanded to cover all dams on the Colum bia river. Revenues go to pay back the federal investment Today the Bonneville Power Administration supplies about 50 of the region's power and has 80 of its distribution, Can trell said. The BPA itself has no responsibility for genera tion. Some 15 dams are now under construction, including three in Canada, and eight of them are federal power projects. Cantrell showed colored slides to show various substations, distribution points and power projects. He discussed the North west intertie to the southwest and said that it is designed to balance the load between the regions with . surplus power going south when available. The northwest has heavy use in winter because of electric heat and the southwest has heavy use In summer because of air conditioning, he said. The speaker was introduced by Judge Oscar Peterson, and Cantrell responded by pointing out that Peterson is a member of the BPA regional advisory committee and has been an ef fective voice , for the region as a whole on this committee. President Dave Baker presid ed at the Lions meeting. It was announced that the recent broom sale brougnt an exceueni " ' " ; iu ..tn onrf response irom u.c the club extended a neany thank you for this cooperation. "The response was more than generous," Gene Rietmann said. Possibility of undertaking several new projects was dis cussed, including one to provide light at the "Y" leading into lone from the highway on the west side to make it easier for traffic to spot the entrance to the town at night. Benge Says the hamlet? Where's your hus band? How much rice do you raise?" It forms a hamlet com mittee and seeks to hold an election to develop a leadership in the community. It asks, "What do you people feel you need a school, road improvement, bridge, meeting hall?" Benge works In a civilian ca pacity with these RD units and makes inspections. He works in cooperation with the military. Some areas have done very well under this type of organ ization, he said. The Vietcong often makes out-and-out at tacks on the RD units. . Montagnards Primitive For five years, Benge has been living with the Montagnards, (Continued on page 8) v,nrisimub Opening Set Next Week Heppner'i annual Christmas Opening event will be staged Friday and Saturday, November 2i and 23. eomlnii closely on the heels of Thanksgiving. Bill liust. chairman of the Merch ants Committee, announces. Most of the Chirstrmis fanfare will come on the Saturday. At that time Santa Claus will make his appearance, schedul ed to arrive In downtown Hepp ner about 2 p.m. Merchants Meeting Set Noon Friday Heppner merchants are urg ed bv Bill liust, chairman of the Merchants Committee of the lloppner-Morow county Chamber of Commerce, to at tend a luncheon meeting of the committee at noon in the Wagon Wheel Cafe on Friday, November 17. Plnnn fnr Christmas Open ing, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, November 24 and 25, will be completed at the meeting. A representative from every business In town should be present. Hust said. It is not necessary to be a member of the Chamber of Commerce to participate. It Is expected to have the Christmas tree ud and decorat ed and colored strings of lights festooning the streets. From 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the Christmas window guessing contest will be held again with perhaps 20 or 25 Heppner mer chants offering fine prizes for the winners. In most cases, contestants will guess retail value of gift merchandise in the store win dows, and the one who comes the closest at each store will win that store's prize. Some firms, however, will have other types of contests to be announ ced next week. All kids are invited to come and meet Santa, who will make his advent again on a lire uuck. He will have candy treats for all the youngsters who come to see him. Merchants will have gift mer chandise out on display ready for the holiday season, and there will be a good many bar gain buys at the opening. Next week's paper will carry full da tails. Ullman to Talk At Condon Today Rep. AI Ullman of Oregon's second congressional district will be the featured speaker at the annual meting of Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative at Memorial Hall, Condon, today (Thursday). His talk Is sched uled to begin at 1:45 p.m. af ter a business meeting of the cooperative atl p.m. Registration t the annual meeting will start at 11 a.m., and a film will be shown prior to luncheon, which will be at 12:15 with ladies of the Order of Eastern Star, Condon, prepar ing and serving the meal. Four directors will be elected at the business meeting and door prizes will be awarded, most of them being electrical appliances. 45 Flags Placed In Legion Project Forty-five American flags were placed on streets of Hepp ner and Lexington for Veterans Day as the Heppner American Legion post started its new flag service. Under the arrangement, the Legion furnishes and displays flags in the downtown areas ot tha twn towns for eacn sua . nt S1S the first year and $10 per year thereafter. In Heppner the flags a disnlaved from special stands attached to parking me ters by permission given by the city council. Any who may wish to have flags displayed who have not already been contacted may get in touch with Riley Munkera or Clayton Sweek. Flags will be displayed on Thanksgiving, New Years, Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Memor ial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day. Veterans Day and other appropriate occasions. Ceglia Injured As Rig Turns Over John Ceglia, owner of Ceglia's Auto Wreckers, walked about five miles Sunday night before he was picked up and brought to Pioneer Memorial hospital for treatment after his four-wheel drive pickup turned over near Black Mountain, about 30 miles south of Heppner. Ceglia had been hunting ana was alone at the time of the acci dent. Ten stitches were required to close a facial cut, and he re mained in the hospital until Tuesday. He suffered bruises and mild shock also in the accident
