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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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