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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thuwdar. Dwwilxi 14, 1967 s!gl HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES THE Heppner. Oregon 97838 Phone 676-9228 MORROW COONTTS NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 18S7. Consolidated February 15. 1912. NATIONAL NiWSPAPER VS-AIlOCIATlON iryrhjjiiMigMi'iii.i EDITOR AND PUBUSHEB ASSOCIATE PUBUSHEB Chaff ond Chatter Wes Sherman WESLEY A. SHERMAN HELEN E. SHERMAN ARNOLD RAYMOND Shop Foreman I'rlnter GAIL BURKENBINE Society Circulation m i r. . . mi ea V - n nl. ",... 1A faria PlirillurtPil Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, r 1 t-1 ...... 3 aeconu viu.ia jviaiicr. Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. until noon Saturday. REGGIE PASCAL Linotype Operator RANDY STILLMAN Apprentice JIM SHERMAN Pressman 'Outdoor Museums' An increasing amount of controversy Is developing over the possibility of establishing more and more National Parks and wilderness areas. A 1.2 million acre North Cascades Wil derness Park has been approved by the U. S. Senate Interior Committee. Another has been talked for the Cascade Range In Oregon from Crater Lake to the Columbia River Gorge. There is a great deal of controversy over establishing of ad ditional parks in the redwoods in California. And, of course, the sand dunes area of Oregon was In the limelight as a National Park site for a long time. We don't know its pres ent status. Wendell B. Barnes, executive vice-president of Western Wood Products Association, is quoted as saying, "Under the basic law which created it, the National Park Service Is charged with establishment of outdoor museums, where the public may look but not touch." "Never before has so much been done for so few, he said, pointing out that studies show that no more than two percent of all the people who seek outdoor recreation ever get more than half a mile off a road. He adds this significant statement: "Provisions of the bill provide only the Illusions of recreation." There is considerable in what he says. Our population enjoys its National Parks, as it should, but whether many more vast nreas should be tied up and their productivity halted, just to be set aside for looking at, is something to be considered very thoroughly and without such pressure as that from the Sierra Club! The multiple use concept of the U. S. Forest Service has proved to be an excellent plan for forested areas under fed eral ownership. This permits selective logging so that the forests produce and contribute to the economy. But the cut ting is so controlled that the areas are not despoiled. Game is protected, but may be hunted in season. Recreation is pro vided for all the public to enjoy. But when National Parks or wilderness areas are set up, public use is limited. We once toured the Willamette Nation al forest with a U. S. Forest Service ranger. He pointed out how very few truly enjoy a wilderness area, and this is some thing to emphasize. Only those with a higher than average income who are in very good health and who have plenty of time can afford or are able to penetrate these areas. It ties in with what Barnes says that only about two per cent of the people ever get more than a half mile off a road. Most every genuine American citizen loves our natural resources, and the great majority of people would not have them ruined. AH know that conservation must be followed to protect these resources for prosperity. But the resources must also be used, and in doing so, must be managed wisely. We have seen great tracts of beautiful virgin timber in protected stands getting overripe and conky. Stately and no ble to look at, these trees were rotting in the heart. What some of the idealists seem to believe is that this timber will stand forever and should be untouched. But it rots and de cays. That is nature's way. If it isn't used, it is wasted. Timber that is cut is replaced by vigorous reproduction under planned practices of today. The movement towards establishment of many new nat ional parks is striking fear to residents of many areas where economy Is dependent on timber. Barnes continues that in the proposed North Cascades park, only 167,000 acres of the 1.2 million total acres would be authorized for recreational developments. "Regulations governing wilderness ban construction of roads, ski facilities, and campgrounds, and even prohibit the construction of toilet facilities." More than six billion board feet of commercial timber, needed to provide homes for the growing population of the nation, will be locked up under provisions of the bill. A recent television presentation on the redwoods contro versy pictured a vast, bleak wasteland in a cutover area to show destruction caused by timbermen. But this is a distort ed picture under the controlled cutting methods of today. Proper management can keep forest lands even more beauti ful and pleasing to the public than those untended. Any who doubt this might go to the Black Rock area of the Willam ette Valley Lumber Company and view the sustained yield project there. Don Moffatt, editor of the Mill City Enterprise, in a re cent column sounds alarm at the project of a Cascade Nation al Tark. He is in the heart of the proposed area in Santiam country. "It is a cause that may spell success or failure for many people who depend for the most part on the timber raised in this area," he says. Moffatt quotes Sen. Mark Hatfield as saying, -'If you lock up too much sustained yield timber, it could be the death knell of small operators." There is no doubt about it. We need to have some "outdoor museums" if for nothing more than to give us a feeling of grandeur and to preserve some scenic wonders, untouched. But some good sense needs to go with it. We have to have Industry to live and to build for future generations. We do them no service by tieing up huge tracts as hallowed territory with the timber left to de cay. It's just too high a price to pay for the benefit or the few who exult in the illusion that they, on one of their pack trips, are troddlng territory hitherto untouched by man. Hudsons in Hawaii Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hudson (Laura Lee Sumner) are now in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he is employed by the Bank of Ha waii and she is working for Lib erty House, a large department store, according to Mrs. Hud son's sister, Mrs. Jim Lovgren unTnnoi TV! r nnH Mrs Hilri- Ui lit i',"" - " " ' son attended the University of Injured in Seattle Mrs. Vida Heliker, lone, re ceived word Friday evening that her daughter, Harriet Bolman, had been involved in a multi car accident on the Seattle free way when returning home from work that day. She was treated for knee lacerations and facial bruises at Providence hospital in Seattle, then later released. Her car. however, was com AMi-iwn Tiirc THINGS we will miss In the future is that of having Lou Bisbee drop in to tell us he is bacK irom spenu ir.iT iha uintnr with his dau ghter. Katherine, at Waldport. It was always an occasion iur a good visit with this congenial and frinndlv man whose life was so Interwoven with the his torv of HeDDner. We could hardly realize that v.a mi. Rfi at thp time of his death Saturday, December 9. He seemed to possess tne vigor ana spirit of a man much younger. 1 ri inn nnrt nnrl nnrcel of the famous Gilliam and Bisbee Hardware Co. and as one long time Heppnerite put it Tuesday, "He was the one who stepped uo oulcklv to wait on you when you went in the store. His daughter has recalled some sidelights of his life: He spanned the time of hav ing a spanking fine trotting lanrn mrwlncr 4 to 6 miles Per hr,i- tn a Rnir-lf nt fid miles per hour; to a Jet at 600 miles p hour, and all 01 wnicn ne en joyed. sou wnnHnn sidewalks and dirt streets become cement and asphalt Ulc 1ns.nl cfhnnUncr was SUd- rioniu tnrmlnnterl when the pro fessor (Reid), knowing that he was usually in where the ac tion was, gave him the choice rAtroallna tha flATTie of the Ul ii.'i.ui"'h " culprit who put asafetida on the nnt.hell ed stove tone 01 me Hamilton boys) or leaving 8th grade band. That lively chorus, singing under direction of Ola Mae Gro shens, was something, too. We particularly admire the young sters who have the fortitude to get up and sing solo parts in front of their classmates and a crowd of adults. For boys, es pecially, that takes an excep tional kind of fortitude, but they did it well. IN THE GRADE school program Monaay, me youn;sici so close to the audience that ,tA nfmirrl nlmncr folt tllPV WCT6 participating. It seemed both eerie ana saiisiyins nui vu children in tne crowa, me even- 1 nAVAPmanriA Hnlncf rPKPrVOa 1 1 IK (rciiUiiimiivK vv.i..M . . , for parents because of limited room. . There were no youngsters ..minrl In thp hAlCOnV 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 aiuuiiu an ..... for two reasons: 1. There isnt onu haicnnu in tne mumuur pose room. 2. There weren't any kids in the audience. TO THE EDITOR... t nrl u.nrlrArl in KHWI10 before going to nawaii. incy pinny ucuiuumicu. n. uui. hope to enroll at a university j cident ahead of her caused a in Hawaii to complete ineir pneup oi cars, in wnm many a -------- . - work on college degrees later, persons were seriously injured. I with the Local Budget Law. He went up to the "China riimrters" in HeDDner and watched them smoke opium. The two conifers which he planted at the old Bisbee place . Too heal oroui until thev now tower above the roof. Gilliam and Bisbee, of which hp was n nnrt nnmned the first gasoline here, and there is yet a faded old sign on ine oia reu barn above town advertising it. Nmv thpre is a service station on many corners of town. He stayed witn tne nrm as it weathered fire, flood and the depression to help serve this community. He served on tne council un tn hpln make this town "a good place to live." Horror of the aftermath of the Heppner flood was a vivid mem ory to him, but he spoke of it rarely. He helped bury a goodly num ber of residents "up on the hill," as he put it, and gladly served. His friends were legion, and he enjoyed them. Ho Unpw thp nrieinal citizen Henry Heppner and most of the pioneers since. With his passing, the trout at Bull Prairie may now rest a lit tle easier. ONE THING particularly enjoy able about the grade school Christmas program Monday night was that there wasn't a single discernible clari net squawk emanating from the performance of any of the three bands. Usually when one goes to hear these beginners, he girds himself for tne snnn sups that these instruments make in the hands of their learners. But the youngsters played except ionally well. It is easy to un- jln4an xrhv nlrprtnr Hpdman UCIOUI11U " ' - says he is proud of the 7th and IF ALL THE jokes made and rlraurn nfl bird tauuuiia u . - - i.ku iiiam VinortAi tntrpther WaillilllK . i. r"-. 2 in one big pile, they'd still npt be wortn a cnucKie. rruuu j there are few such worthwhile nursuits ever to be so totally twitted. , it This is emphasizea D.y me an nouncement that Kirk Horns it uinh t olrl bloloev ncjiici iiih'i - - - j r class has been authorized by the Audubon Society to. partic ipate in a national bird count I during the Christmas holidays It Is rarp that the SoCietV Will accept high school students to participate In the work, and this speaks highly for the work being done in biology classes here. Its importance may be a lit tle difficult to grasp, but did you ever stop to think how vi tal bird life is to humanity? We well know its value In rec reation, of course, for many per sons hunt birds of various kinds. They are also important in air pollution control, in muusuiui use, and In control of insects. Tha unriri urnnlH he virtually overrun with insects without birds. j , . . Horn is interested in having the community become involv ed in this project and invites anyone interested to come aiong on'ri tnirp nnrt A 15 mile diam eter area north of Hardman will be used for the count. So dust off your field glasses and give Horn a call. A story eisewneie nitres mnro Hptails. If vnu're in clined to pooh-pooh bird watch ing, talK to Horn ior a iew min utes. You'll be impressed with what they are doing. IF YOU WENT 'to the basket ball game here Friday night, ,nn sst-or Hrant Union do some thing that only one other bas ketball team has Deen aDie to do defeat Heppner on its own floor in tne -new ninn suiiuui. Pilot Rock is the only other team that has been able to down Heppner here since the evm was opened in the winter of 1963. The Rockets, however, have done it three times on February 22, 1964, by a score of 51-42; on February 6, 1965, by a score of 54-51, and a few weeks later the same year, 49 46. These were in the Rich Mik el era for the Rockets. Salem Scene by Everett L Cutter Citizens Hold Reins On Property Taxes Last year Oregonians paid an average of $299 per person in state and local taxes. This figure is well under com parable taxes paid by residents of Washington, California, Nev ada and Hawaii, and is about equal to those of other Western states. Still, even without the adoption of any major new rev enue sources, such as a sales tax, Oregon has seen its taxes grow dramatically in recent years. Most of the growth in our cost of government, both in amounts and in obvious concern, has been in the property tax. With last month's property tax bills still fresh in the memory, it is timely to review where the money goes and how every citi zen is guaranteed a voice in its collection and spending. Our state's property tax is strictly a local tax. It Is levied on real property holdings and, in the case of business holdings, on personal property. It is ad ministered primarily by county assessors. It provides revenue 1 1 ag ri t i ps. school dis- lJl " " 1 tricts, fire districts, police sew ers, parks, iioraries, sireeis, lights and countless other local services. Local taxing districts are es tablished, and their procedures are set, by state laws. These laws also guarantee local tax payers ample opportunity to participate. Here is how: Oregon law generally specifies that the governing body of a taxing district be elected by vo ters in the district, for one ex ample. Citizens can help to con- TfOl lOCai KUVdlllirerjil wj Riure . w . . . electing economy-minded ad- local revenue and budget elec ministrators and by knowing tions. It is unfortunate that vig thpm at the "home town" level. This law prescribes budgetary procedures for most local gov ernment units in the state. It provides that local districts must establish a budget com mittee, consisting of the govern ing body and an equal number of district voters appointed by that body. The committee's function is to review the budg et submitted by the budget of ficer or other responsible party, to hold hearings and to place a NunimAnriAtinTi before the gov erning body. Hearings are open to all citizens, ana many per sons sitting on budget commit tees volunteered their services. The Local Budget Law re quires at least two meetings to consider a proposed budget, in cluding the proposed tax levy. Public notice must be given, and the law states that any person may discuss proposed programs i.ith thp hnrlffpt committee when the budget is presented. In most cases, a summary ui a budget committee's adopted budget must be published in lo cal newspapers at least twice before consideration by the dis tricts governing body. Again, any person legally "may appear for or against anv item in the budget document" a local cit izens fourth chance to nave nis say on local tax matters. it thp nrnnncprl tax leW eX- ceed the six per cent Constitu tional limitation, as onen nap pens, the budget must be ap- nwivsH hv a mnioritv of the voters. Such an election repre sents the fifth opportunity to voice an opinion concerning lo cal taxes. Unhappily, many Oregonians do not take advantage of their rights, if we are to take as evi rlpnra thp email turnouts of eli gible voters who cast ballots in Garbage, Cows, TV To the Editor: I was sitting here thinking about some of the things writ ten In your paper. One that came to mind was the city council getting after this Rentleman for throwing garbage in Willow Creek. Now I don't go along with this. How ever, we have a city councilman who throws his grass and lawn clippings In Willow Creek and has done this ever since I have lived here. Of course, maybe his trash is a little more high class ed. It is like one cow being more unsanitary than twelve cows. Mr. Spauldlng said my cow bothered more by his bedroom window. You know many times I have had nights like that, mlinn a not Ufnillit Walk AfiOKS the floor it would sound like an elephant warning on un cans. But I drink scotch. I don't know what wine will do. Another thing is, I received In- nm atinn f rrtrri a fnrninr H lrPPt or on our TV Cable. That it cost $5000 to send out cards, bill ing us for the $4 we owe each mnnth This sppms II littlp OUt of line. Say we have 400 mem bers on the TV Cable. This times the 12 months would be 4800 cards. This in turn would be a littlp nvpr Si ner card. I would cat thta la KnmpwhAt hfPh. 1 work for Kinzua and I am going to try ana promote a aeai wim them. Do you know that one loe. 16 ft. long and 24 in. di ameter, will scale 400 board feet. Fifty postcards per board ft. would be 20,000 post cards. At $1 per card Kinzua Is in the wrong business. But I don't think nup liimhpr salesmen could sell his cards quite so high. And how long will the good lp nf Ifpnnnpr nav that Iriiir of a price for these post cards. Maybe we can t stop it at once hut plpptlnn timp is rnminp un. And at election time the big councilman's garbage stinks just as bad as the little man's. So, Mr. Editor, I was just mus- i 1 ,Ul.l.i- .. 1 . . .1... ing anu a-uuimiiiK uuuui uic little whistling crane that came to Heppner. I wonder if he has a permit to stay. Better see Spaulding. Since Mr. Spaulding made me get rid of my cow and chickens I am just one jump ahead of a cornbread fit. Shore need some help. Can't handle this job all by myself. Respectfully yours, Johnnie Hill Senate only 12 are regular Dem ocrats. It only takes 16 Senators to approve of a referral. We obviously didn't have the vote to prevent a referral. In both the regular and special session we were joined by Republicans and coalition Democrats to defeat the Sales Tax Referral. 2. The Senate, with the help 4 .noninp Domocrat. ap proved of a resolution which would have submitted the Sales Tax to the people along with an alternate income tax propos al This proposal was turned down by the House Republicans. - j ..II.. un 3. More lunnamenmuy, nu one. least of all the legislature has the power to prevent mc people from voting on the Sales onu nthpr mpnsure they choose to vote on. including pro or antl Viet nam . resolutions. This right was established by the people of Oregon when, in 1902, they established their right to initiate measures for votes at the biennial general elections. This right Is contained in Ar ticle IV, Section One, of the Oregon Constitution. The obligation of legislators Is to exercise their best Judg ment and either pass or defeat legislative proposals. The right of the people, with respect to legislative action, is to either it thpep nrnnnsals to be come law or to refer them, so that the people may either ap prove or disapprove of the leg islative anion. Thp rpmilnr npmnprflts In the Cnnota livoH tin tA thpll nhllca- tions. We deprived the people or notning, save possioiy me onnnvonnp rtt n hfttpP hAttlp. fit a special election, over an un needed, expensive, and regres sive sales tax! Sincerely, Vern Cook, State Senator Pioneer Ponderings Br W. S. CAVERHILL I America's Heart in the Vietnam Wart Not as much aa It should be. Perhaps that attitude is itlmu lated by the premise that we can have "guns ana nuuer at the same time. We are too com placent about the matter. The spirit of sacrifice is dead or dor mant. We are more concerned about higher wages, lower tax es and personal security than we are about the tragic situa tion of our boys in the Vietnam Jungles. True, we are providing them with all the protection and equipment our technology can provide, but that does not give Fife back to the thousands who are still in the morass of com bat Until we are touched per sonally by the loss of a son or brother, we stand aside. Tomorrow, two or three draft ees may be called from our com munity. Do we turn out en masse to see them go? No. They just slip away unnoticed while we study ways to beat the stock market to get more pay. Tomorrow, someone from our town may return from the con flict broken in body and spirit. rtr. un ctnn fnmvarr! tn wplnnme lyu wc " 1 v K .v.. - and encourage him? No. We are up to our necks tn me "Dutier side of our existence. We count thim In anil pniint thpm out bv computer, while not allowing ourselves to be disturbed in our wav of life. We do not deserve the sacri fice our draftees are making. Our heart is not in the war. llntulror mnnn ft Hifnrmrur. Hili 1T i.r. I IIIU vb w r liam, Umatilla. Wheeler counties on sale at tne uazerte-limes. 4m On Sales Tax December 11, 1967 To the Editor: During both the regular and special sessions of the Oregon Legislature, proposals to submit a eg loo tov mpncurp in thp npn. pie at special elections were de feated, rney snouid nave Deen rlpftatprt Alnn with 1fi other senators I helped defeat both proposals by my "No" vote. I make no apologies. I'm proud of my voie. Thprp havp hppn Haims hnw. ever, that somehow the regular ueinocrais in me oenaie nave aeprivea tne people or a ngnt ful opportunity to vote for or against tne sales rax. mis is pure hog wash! For three reas ons: 1. Out of 30 members of the 13 a COMMUNITY If BILLBOARD K a Wal iivnavpr mav exercise further control over the dispo eitinn nf his nmnprtv tax dol lar bv familiarizing himself ilanee". instead of "revolt", can not characterize property tax ; discussions this year there are means other than initiative pe titions to maintain controls on local taxing and spending. Coming Events HEPPNER HIGH BASKETBALL Heppner vs. Condon, at Con don Friday, Dec. 15 Heppner vs. Enterprise, here, Sat., Dec. 16 Heppner vs. DeSales at Wal la Walla, Fri., Dec. 22 CHRISTMAS PARTY Past Noble Grands Club Clara Gertson home Mon., Dec. 18, 8 p.m. 'CALL SANTA NIGHT' Monday, Dec. 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Youngsters call 676-9163, to tnllf tn Santa Sponsored by Jaycees COMEDY BASKETBALL Fabulous Magicians vs. Fac ulty Men Thurs., Dec. 21, 8 p.m. Heppner High Gym Benefit for H-Club SOROPTIMIST FOOD SALE Saturday, Dec. 16, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Central Market Varieties of baked foods for the Christmas holidays SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. a Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner i Give someone an Accutron time piece. It has the same basic move ment as the timing devices aboard the Explorer, Telstar, TIROS, Syn com, and Pegasus satellites. And the Gemini spacecraft Vibrations of a tiny tuning fork divide each sec ond Into 360 equal parts. And keep the Accutron timepiece right to within a month... an average of two seconds a day.t No watch on earth is guaranteed more precise. The old-tahktfitd btlincf wtml prlnclplt it used In all wttcheii not M Accutron iMvimtnt TM Accutron tuning fork mtkts BouUM lint luarwUt of Mcuraqr mi (ivin. ACCtrntON "425" Waterproof, weep second hand, applied roman numerali. Rust alligator itrap. S1M.0O ACCUntSN SPACEVIEW "H" Clear view diet arrangement, waterproof, lumlnom htnoe tnd doti.AdJu(tabfe band. $190.00 Vfllen one, erowfi end cryrtel ere lnte tW win odlwl tlnwheeplns to thl tolerance, W iwoeowy.OuororrWo l for on full y f. Y; r- Hi m r. r. Si 5 ! m R I 4 m n er 5 m IS m "Something from the Jeweler's. Is always something speddL" I Store Hoars: 9 AM. to 6 Pit 177 MAIN ST. HEPPNEB Ph. 676-9200 BANKAMERICARD w
