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LIBRARY u or EUGENE, ORE 07403 Nuclear Plan? in Morrow County Predicted 'Ten Years Away' (Also Kce pane 4, wction 2) A thermal nuclear power plant, with Its warm effluent water being uwd tor Irrigation, Id "ul leant 10 yearn awuy for Morruw county," In the words of H. H. Miller. Jr., or Vitro tor poratlon of America, who was imp ui we principal speaker at a three hour meeting of county leaders and Interested visitor lust Thursday to consider the r.uclear plant possibilities here. But enthusiasm wo high thnt at least one such plant will eventually be located In the northern part of the county, and It was proposed that a similar plant be located In Umatilla county, each costing a minimum of $225 million. The meeting was culled at the suggestion of Don McKinnla. de velopment specialist, Agriculture l Development Division, Slate Ueparlmeiu 0f Agriculture. Attending were members of the county court, Morruw Port Commission, Suil Conservation Service, and other local leader. The visitors Included Miller and 1. Leon Toller of the Vitro Cor poratlon; Marvin N. Shearer of the OSU Extension Service; Carl i. Remix! of the State Engin eer's office, Salem; Kdwin A. Ross, Soil Conservation Service engineer. Bend; Quentin Bow. man, field representative of the State Water Kesources Board; I. u pert Kennedy, executive sec retary of the Mid-Columbia 1'lnnnlng Council, The Da Ilea; and McKinnls. Another Willamette Valley 'This could become literally another Willamette Valley, but under Irrigation." Miller told the group In the meeting at the1 courthouse, and later added This area has a potential to develop much more man me TrI Clties area." lie told of a nllot demons! ra turn underway at Eugene where the use of warm water In Irri gation la being tried wilh six farms Involved. The water Is sues from a Weyerhaeuser plant In the area. The Eugene Water and Electric Board, as (sponsor, Is taking the lead In this ef fort, and the Vitro Corporation has been engaged to prepare preliminary design and feasibil ity study for the multiple use of this water. Different types of application of the water are being used on the protect. Each of the farm ers Involved operates his farm In a normal manner, and the protect la programmed for a minimum of three years. There Is no cost to the farmer, since the protect is supported bv pri vate Industry, and application will be made to the federal gov ernment for assistance later. In developing this proirct. full util ization of water Is the matter under consideration. Miller auggeMed that those In teresti'd In using warm water from nuclear plants for Irriga tion "go down and see for your self so you can understand what we are trying to do. Irrtqabl Acreage Larqe The speaker said that a lit tle over one million acres Is available for irrigation on the southside of the Columbia In this area. One nuclear Plant could be located near Boardman and another could be in Uma tilla county. Each could irrigate approximately 150,000 acres. "What do you do on off sea sons? Develop the reservoirs In to recreational protects. Develop the grounds and homes around them." he said. Water could come from two river pools the Umatilla and McNary reservoirs on the Col umbia. "We have ten years to plan ur destiny In the Pacific North west. Can we plan our water? Can we utilize It? One year has ulreadv gone by. We have nine years left." He pointed out how Colorado, where he formerly lived, now has no water. This can happen here If we don't plan to use our water," he declared. In planning for such projects here, the area needs to design for a total program, Including the two power reactors, agricul ture, fisheries, industry, recrea tion, manufacturing and houj Inf. he said. Discussing the use of cooling towers for the reactors where the water Is not considered for Irrigation, Miller said that In the early duvs, particularly in England, fogging was a prob lem, but he felt that later cool Ine tower will not experience such a problem. Coastal Grafyard' Vlsloaed However, he said that with the rise of these towers, extend ing some 400 feet high, the whole coastal area would even tually look like a giant grave yard. Another problem from the cooling towers would be the growth of fungus that would thrive under certain heating conditions. Miller pointed out that water from the plants, rather than re sorting to the cooler towers, can be used In agriculture and can be used to develop the state of Oregon. Shearer said that "there prob. ably are a lot of problems tin connection wtih using nuclear plant water for irrigation), but many of them are imaginary." The demonstration project at Eugene will show that If these problems are real, we will be able to see them," he added. "A problem that tend to kill us on Irrigation protects la the continuing pumping cost," Shearer continued. "If this la shared, as would be the case with a nuclear plant. It would put us In a much more favor able position." Totter emphasized the multl use of water. "No longer can we afford to (Continued on page 8) Construction Slated On $2,210,000 PGT Unit at lone Taclfic Cns Transmission Company is scheduled to start work March 15 on the second turbine-driven unit at lone Compressor Station, Central Ar ea Superintendent C. W. tChet) Bond told The Gazette-Times this week. Enlargement of the pipeline pumping station is estimated to cost $2,210,000, Bond said. Construction of the second compressor unit at lone (PGT Station 10) Is part of Pacific Gas Transmission's $23 million construction package this year, all in compressor horsepower, Bond said. PGT will require no new main line pipe. Nine new compressor units in northern Idaho, eastern Wash ington and eastern Oregon in cluding the lone unit and oth ers in Sherman, Deschutes and Klamath Counties will increase PGT's delivery of gas at the California border from the pres ent 700 million to 815 million cubic feet a day by the end of 1969. Jet Power Slated The prime mover for the new compressor unit at lone will be an aircraft-type jet, adapted for land use. Ingersoll-Rand Company, the principal contractor, will provide the centrifugal compressor and a 12,500-norsepower ueneiai Electric jet to spin it. The first unit at lone Station also has a centrifugal compressor, but the turbine used to drive, it is of the larger industrial type, and delivers 9,100 horsepower. Natural gas from the pipeline will fuel the let turbine. Like the original unit built in 1967, the new compressor unit will be started, stopped and reg ulated by pushbutton from Pa cific Gas Transmission Compa ny's Operating Headquarters in Spokane. The station will re main unattended. A PGT crew based at Wallula, Wash., will continue to maintain it. Pipe Contract Awarded PGT has awarded a contract to the CEME Corporation ot La Mirada, Calif., to prepare the yard piping needed to connect the new compressor to me ex isting unit and to the pipeline. Richard L. Fetter, of PGT's Engineering and Construction Department in San Francisco, will be Resident Engineer at lone Station during construction. A recently-added item to con struction plans at lone, accord ing to Area Superintendent Bond, is a gas aftercooler. Com- Moisture Declines Complete weather report by Don Gilliam, official observer, for the week of February 26 March 4 is as follows: Hi Low Prec. Wednesday 40 22 Thursday 43 26 Friday 44' 30 Saturday 45 33 Sunday 48 31 Monday 43 33 .09 Tuesday 48 31 February precipitation total: .75 inch. Normal: 1.16 inches. Month .41 inch below normal. pressing, or boosting the pres sure of the gas. warms it. The coloer will be Installed at lone Station to reduce the tempera ture of the gas following com pression. This will help the ef ficiency of compressor units downstream from lone. Includ ing the new Station 10 being built near Kent, Sherman Coun ty, and the existing Station 11 near Madras. 'Operation Eggdrop' Set to Simulate Moon Soft Landings "Operation Eggdrop" will be undertaken bv members of the Heppner eighth grade sci ence classes at the Lexington airport on Friday, March 14, at 1 p.m., Mrs. Dick (Inez) Meador, teacher, states. The activity Is to simulate soft landings of space cap sules on other planets and the moon. Each member of the class will package a fresh egg in a container no larger than a woman's shoe box and use materials in his payload to keep the egg from breaking when dropped from Jack Sum ner's airplane, she states. The pupils may use any type of material, but cannot use parachutes since this would not be feasible on the moon due to lack of atmos phere. "We would accept entries from the Chamber of Com merce, from parents, or from other interested groups," Mrs. Meador said. However, the entries must comply with in structions, and they must be submitted, with detailed logs explaining the method of packaging, before noon on Friday, March 14'. Spectators are welcome, and the results will be compiled. "This could be a smashing success," Mrs. Meador declares. 86th Year Number 2 THE w . tfliP1 HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIM USFS Takes Option Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, March 6, 1969 Price 10 Cents Mustang Cagers Prepare for District Tournament Vale to Offer Opening Test At 7:30 Friday 3 y i. -1 n r rm . It's i- i i m ill ftfisaiip)' 'I ' dEADING FOR THE DISTRICT basketball tournament for tho fifth straight year are the Heppner High Mustangs. On this year's varsity are (trom leit) uouas narsm, manu9w, i Mike Smith, Melvin Ashbeck, Lee Huson, LaVerne VanMarter, Gary Kemp, Calvin Ashbeck, Pat Kilkenny, Jon O'Donnell, John McCabe, Larry rettyjonn, c,oacn boo oiougn, una present for the picture) Pat Sweeney. (Also See Page 4) Final Standings GREATER OREGON LEAGUE Western Division Wah tonka 7 Heppner 6 Pilot Rock 4 Sherman 2 Madras 1 lone Faces Monument Tonight at John Day (See Pictures, Page 6) McCall Reappoints Sweeney to Board Governor Tom McCall has re appointed Jerry Sweeney, Hepp ner mortician, as a member of the State Board of Funeral Dir ectors and Embalmers, the Gov ernor's office reported last Wed nesday. Sweeney, 45, began a second two-year term starting March 1. He is currently president of the board. Sweeney, president of the Heppner-Morrow county Cham ber of Commerce this year and a Heppner city councilman, has been a licensed embalmer and funeral director for more than 18 years. "It is a pleasure for me to reappoint vou as a member of the State Board of Funeral Dir ectors and Embalmers," the gov ernor said. "I hope you will be able to continue your fine work as a member of this board." Belgian Tour Director Enjoys Turn-about Visit Monument High's basketball team will furnish first round opposition for lone High's Card inals in the 7-B district basket ball tournament starting today (Thursday) at John Day. The Monument-lone game will be the third contest of the first round and will be played at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Monument finished third in the southern sub-district but boasts a team of tall players 6-3, 6-2, 6-1, and 5-10 and de feated second-place Long Creek in a non-counter over the week end by 16 points. Long Creek had previously won two league games over Monument. Thus, Coach Gene Dockter feels that the Cardinals will have a tough contest on their hands in their opener. At 2 p.m. today (Thursday) Long Creek will be matched against Stanfield, third team from the north, and at 3:30, Me Ewen, No. 1 in the north, will face Dayville, holding fourth spot from the south. The 9 p.m. It was turn-about when Max Paternotte of Ghent, Belgium, arrived for a visit in Morrow county. As a guide for European tours and the man who accompanied 29 on a People-to-People tour through seven countries, includ ing Russia, last summer, he en joys showing people sights they have never seen before. But now as a guest of those he escorted last summer he was seeing country that he had never seen before, and it was his turn to be impressed. The 29, who included Mr. and Mrs. Dick Krebs and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wilkinson of Morrow coun ty, arranged the visit to this country, together with two oth er groups, and he was a guest of honor at a "reunion" dinner of last summer's tourists at Walla Walla on February 26. He arrived at Spokane on Feb ruary 24 after touring New York City, Indiana, Alabama, Kansas, Florida and Georgia. Guest of Krebses Since the reunion dinner he was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Krebs at Cecil and obviously was having a wonderful time seeing a type of country that he has never visited before. He was particularly struck with the Krebs' sheep operation and the wide open spaces. Paternotte, who speaks per fect English even though he was born and lived all his life in Belgium, declares that the people here must be among the friendliest on earth. Accompanied by Krebs, he dropped into The Gazette-Times (Continued on page 8) Power Outage Expected Sunday Power users in the Heppner area, as well as those through out Morrow and adjoining coun ties are advised to expect inter mittent and interrupted service between the hours of 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Sunday, March 9. Harley Young, manager of Columbia Basin Electric Cooper ative, has issued notice that service may be interrupted dur ing the four hour period be cause of construction work at the Sandhollow substation. Pow er users should plan according ly. The early Sunday time was chosen to do the necessary work with a minimum of inconven ience to power users. Cooperation and understand ing of the public will be apprec iated during the period, he said, giving the utility a chance to make the improvements to the system. game of the opening round will pit Weston, fourth place finisher in the north, against Prairie City, south champion. Injuries have beset the Card inals going into the tourna ment, but Coach Dockter was hoping that some of the kinks would be straightened out be fore the opening whistle. Bob Ball, sparkplug for the Cards, sprained his ankle in the Echo game Saturday night and has been spending time in the whirlpool bath this week. Eddie Sherman's leg was re-injured Friday night in the Umatilla game! He is wearing a brace on the limb, upon which he had an operation about a year ago. He is able to run but has no strength in the leg when he at tempts to move laterally, his coach said. Frank Halvorsen, hicrh scorer for the Cards, pull ed an Achilles tendon, and so he, too, is a little less than full strength. If lone wins in the first round it will play in the second round Saturday night. The Card caravan, complete with team, pep band, student spectators and supporters, were due to move out ot lone, soutn bound, at 9 a.m. Thursday for the Grant County town. Committee Backs Mann's Water Act The House of Representatives' planning and development com miltee Tuesday unanimously approved the Water Bank act, which is sponsored by Rep. Ir vin Mann of Stanfield. The act would provide for the establishment of irrigation dis tricts and permit use of the credit of the state in irrigation developments. There is a po tential of $360,000,000 in such credit at the present time, Rep. Mann said, and this can in crease as rapidly as true cash value of the state increases. In providing for use of state credit, the act is patterned af ter the state veterans' act. Rep. Mann said that he be lieves the act will be on the floor of the House and be voted on this week. Coach Rates Teams In District- Meet As 'About Tossup' Coach Bob Clough rates the four teams in the A-2 district tournament at La Grande Fri day and Saturday as "about a tossup," as he expressed it in a talk at Chamber of Com merce Monday. The coach with Larry Pettyjohn and Cal Ashbeck, two of the senior players, were guests at the meeting. Coach Ed Hiemstra has scouted Vale, he said, and found them "about our size, but fast and aggressive." The coach said that at the beginning of the season he was apprehensive about the year's prospects, since some top players were lost by grad uation. However, the team de feated John Day in the opener and the season progressed well, until the Mustangs hit a "flat spot" two weeks ago against Sherman and Wahton ka. "They learned a good les son," the coach said. After working at full scrimmage sessions throughout the ensu ing week they came back and defeated Pilot Rock. "They played as good a game against Pilot Rock as I've seen them play," the coach declared. Dick Carpenter, school prin cipal, introduced Coach Clough, saying, "The school is proud of their teams, going to the district tournament for the fifth straight year." Since two of the last four teams have gone to the state tournament, the coach is un der considerable pres sure, Carpenter remarked. "But he has made a tremen dous record. We're proud of Bob's record." When the pep band goes to the tournament, the members will be wearing new gold coats, obtained through Gard ner's Men's Wear at a figure near cost by courtesy of the owners, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Gardner. Cantrell to Talk Harold Cantrell of Walla Walla, Wash., area director for Bonneville Power Administra tion, will be the featured speak er at the regular meeting of the Heppner-Morrow County Cham ber of Commerce Monday in the Wagon Wheel Cafe. 1 Eastern Division Vale 7 Grant Union 6 Burns 5 Nyssa .. 2 Enterprise 0 TOURNAMENT SCHEDTJ L E: Friday night, March 7 Hepp ner vs. Vale, 7:30; Grant Union vs. Wahtonka, 9:lo. Saturday night, March 8 consolation game, 7:30; cham pionship game, 9:15. By MARK POINTER For the fifth consecutive year Heppner basketball fans will swarm into the Eastern Oregon College gym for the Greater League District tournament. Heppner High's Mustangs will attempt to win their second trip to the State A-2 tourney in as many years. They meet the Vale Vikings in the first game of the tournament Friday night, at 7:30. The hard-charging Vikings, first place winners in the East ern Division, will be led by Steve and Dennis Kenison. Steve, 5'11" post-man, was on the district tourney all-star first team as a junior last year. Steve's brother, Dennis, also a 511 post-man (Vale incorpor ates a double post offense), is sparkplug of the Viking tourney team. Dennis and Steve are considered by many as the backed by Ron Long, 5'9" junior, and Rod Jacobs, 5'8" junior, at the guard spots and Mark Free man, 511 senior at forward. Jacobs is the playmaker while Long and Freeman provide the (Continued on page 8) Kelly Prairie Work Start Set for 1970 The United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, has acquired an option to pur chase the 655-acre Kelly Prairie Tract from Mr. O. W. Cutsforth. The Kellv Prairie Tract Is locat ed within the Umatilla Nation al Forest approximately 25 miles southeast of Heppner. ac cording to a report from head quarters of the Umatilla Nat ional Forest in Pendleton. A pro posed lake and recreation de velopment Is planned for the site. This development Is another cooperative venture, whereby the Oregon State Game commis sion will construct and main tain the dam and stock the lake with fish, while the Forest Ser vice provides the land and will construct and maintain the rec reational development adjacent to the lake.- The plans call for the core drillinc bv the Oregon State Game Commission at the dam site and the survey work to De completed during the summer of 1969, with the construction start ing the summer oi iuu. it is estimated the size of the lake will be in excess of 200 acres. Land and Water Conservation funds will be used to purchase the tract. Finals Due Sunday On UN Contest Karla Weatherford, Heppner High school junior, will compete Sunday, March 9, at the district United Nations speecn contest in Pendleton at the IOOF hall, starting at 2 p.m., Jack Sum ner, contest cnairman, states. Miss Weatherford win De one of nine contestants from four counties competing ror a trip to the United Nations Assembly in New York during the coming summer. The event is sponsored by the Odd Fellows lodges. Also from Morrow county will be a contestant from Riverside High school. Five others come from Umatilla countv. and one each is entered from Union and Wallowa counties. Theme of this year's contest Is. "ThA United Nations. Past, Present, and Future." Three high school speech teachers from non-competing schools win oe judges. Sumner will preside as cnair man of the contest. A snectal Invitation Is extend ed to high school freshmen and sophomores so that they may plan for participation as juniors. Adults are urged to attend to support the students and the lodge in its effort to promote world peace by this means. CD Shelter Committee Adopts Emergency Plan After three hours discussion last Thursday nicht, Morrow county's community shelter ad visory committee oi civil ue- fense decided on plans for resi dents to follow in case of an enemy nuclear attacK io ine Northwest, i It is a modified version of the "peak-peak" plan, one of two oroDosed bv Civil Jjctense oi- fieials, who recognize that Mor row is a "deficit county" in the number of shelters it offers. In other words, it does not have adequate shelters to provide for its population. As pxolained bv ta waison, state community shelter officer, Bureau of Governmental Ke search. University of Oregon, the "peak-peak" plan figures the to tal noDulation at its peak, in cluding transients and tourists. Dams Offer Shelter In view of the fact that the county is short on shelters, much of its population would be required to travel to the John Day or McNary dams where space would be reserved for them. Others would seek shel ter in approved grain elevators, Heppner High school, Riverside High school and other shelters which have been checked and found to offer adequate protec tion. Headquarters staff of the CD organization would go to the courthouse basement. Another plan presented, the "school hours" plan, differs from the "peak-peak" plan in that space would be reserved for school children in shelters around the county. If an attack came during school hours, the children would be taken to these shelters. Under the "peak peak" plan the children would go home. As finally adopted by the committee, Morrow coun t y would follow the "peak-peak" plan throughout the county ex cept in Heppner where the school plan would apply only if an attack should occur during school hours. Maps showing proper shelters for those locat ed in the various parts of the county will be included in a biochure to be compiled and is sued soon, giving other infor mation regarding the shelter plan. The shelter plan here Is pre (Continued on page 8)
