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i HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. June 12. 1969 rr"5tF5- THE rr fX&i HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner. Oregon S7836 Phone 676-8228 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER T'.e Hi pi in r Gazette established March 30. 1883. The Heppner Tin ts tMubliMied November 18. JKJ7. consouaatea rt-Druary 13, l'"2. MEMBER Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman NIWIPAPIR puiuihiii aIiociation PER M$oclatlon Founded 1885 VYCSLEY A I HERMAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER KELrN E. SHERMAN ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Al.:. LI) RAYMOND REGGIE PASCAL Si. on l ineman Linotype Operator Printer DALE COOPER GAIL EUHKENBINE Pressman Society Circulation Subscription Rates: $3.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Mailed Single Copies 15 Cents in Advance.: Minimum Billine 50 cents, Pubiisnca Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second (.lass Matter. Office Hours: 8 a.m. until noon Saturday. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. OTHER EDITORS SAY It's Beginning to Soak In (FROM TRICITY HERALD, KENNEWICK) The Seattle Times has editorially highlighted a problem we have been discussing for some time. And that Is the trouble which assuredly will arise as soon as power companies start trying to find locations for nuclear power plants west of the Cascades. The Times made no bones about the Impact on Puget Sound of the news that two utilities planned to build a nuclear-power plant near Anacortes. The Times described the news as having "the shocK of a sonic boom." It pointed out that the site chosen is adjacent to the famed Hope Island salmon-fishing grounds; that the water used to cool the nuclear plant will warm the adjacent sea water; that no one knows for sure what this change will do to marine life. And, most Importantly, It stressed that Puget Sound resi dents aren't going to allow any nuclear-plant construction until those answers are kown. That will take years. But can we wait? The experts say we can't. The "happy air" was sucked out of BPA's sails this spring when It learned that the firm backup power it had hoped to get from new dams, and new generators at exist ing damp, won't be there. Uncle Sam tightened his purse strings. Right around the neck of such projects at Lower Granite Dam on the Snake. BPA has proudly been displaying to the public a docu ment showing joint public-private power planning on con struction of needed nuclear plants. When we've told BPA it has been heading for trouble, that there were too many unanswered questions about the all-Important effect on the environment of those power plants, Jt turned a deaf ear. When we urged that BPA play It safe and set to work a second team to ensure that if the first plan runs into troub le a backup one is ready, it appeared to consider the proposal worthless. Officials of the Federal Water Pollution Control Commis sion are showing pretty pictures illustrating that 300-foot-tall cooling towers aren't ugly; that their plumes don't create fog and icing. The trouble is if anyone looks closely they'll see the plumes are over desolate hills and pretty fir trees. Not over Longview, Eugene, Seattle, or the other built-up areas where they are being proposed in the Pacific Northwest. Almost like a parrot, BPA has been repeating and repeat ing that the new nuclear plants must be located near where the demand for electricity is. That way you avoid the costs of building transmission lines, and of maintaining those trans mission lines. But while the utilities want their plants to be near the people, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the people don't want to be near the plants. BPA should learn its lesson from Puget Sound, and from what the Seattle Times has told it. The main point seems to be that we don't know the ef fect on warm-water effluent on the environment be It released in the air or In rivers and streams. To determine these ef fects takes time. But the Pacific Northwest doesn't have the time before Its lights start flickering and its expansion is crippled by a shortage of power for new industry. We've been saying for at least two years that until those findings are made, here in Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon we have sites where construction of nuclear-power plants could start tomorrow. The warm water could be used for Irrigation. The steam from the cooling towers placed, say, In the 640-square-mile Hanford reservation would blot out no one's view of the sun. How much longer before BPA realizes that time is running out, and taking with it the chance of the Pacific Northwest to develop its Industrial and economic potential? Pioneer Ponderings By W. S. CAVERHILL Why Not a Visit to a Hot Spring Resort? There are a number of Hot Spring resorts In Eastern Oregon that deserve better patronage than they are getting. Our fam lly came to that conclusion after a week's stay at Ritler. If you are looking for complete relax ation, medicinal baths, day long access to a splendid swimming pool and courteous service, I know of no better olace to go. The hot baths will take the creak out of your stiffened joints. You won't need sleeping pills. The voice of the river will lull you into dreamless slumber, night after night. We will be going back again. 1 Sen. Ken Jernstedt On Labor Committee Senator Kenneth Jernstedt, uooa Kiver, has Deen appointed to serve on the five-man interim committee to study labor man agement relations in Oregon. The announcement was made Friday through a joint state ment by Senate President E. D. (Debbs) Potts and House Speak er Robert F. Smith. The committee, created in the closing days of the 1969 session, will study existing Oregon laws relating to labor management relations and the need for changes in such laws or new legislation in this area. "The committee will be vital ly concerned about two areas . . . workmen's compensation and the rights and duties of employ ers and employes involved in ly bor controversies," Jernstedt said. WHEN more than 20 years ago we bounced on Bill on our knee to the chant, in rathe fi.l.setto tones, of that little dit tv. 'I rot. trot to Boston." we had no conceivable idea that the ciuy would come when we, in deed, would trot to Boston to his wedding. Eut so it is. Young Bill, vale t'lctorian of the H'-ppner High lass of 1961 and graduate of the University ol Oregon in 19bS, will be married to Miss Carolyn Harold, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Ken Harold of Mand?villc Jamaica, at the h: ;jnc Pari; Street Congregational church in Boston on June 29. the day at ter she graduates from Gordon College, Wenham, Mass., and the dav aft'.-r he concludes his first year at Gordon Divinity School. Park Street church Is one of the tourist attractions on Bos ton s "Freedom Trail" and is a very short distance from the home of Paul Revere, who made the famous ride prior to the Revolutionary War. It was at the Park Street church that "America" was publicly sung for the first time. OUR RIDE to Boston, by car rather than by horse, will not be anywhere near the historic event that Revere contributed, but it is probably as thrilling to us. Wrhen Bill and Carolyn decid ed they would be married in Boston, and circumstances made it possible for the ceremony to be in the famous church, moth er and dad at first considered it out of the question to go east for the ceremony. Eut by planning for six months, we are about to make it a reality and will leave early Saturday morning with the front of the Pontiac pointing towards the rising sun. You can count on them to have business coins as usual, and everyone will eet the same serv ice on news, advertising and Job vrork. One little thing will help them a great deal, though. Get news matter and advertising to them early, will you please? WE'RE DRIVING east, rather than going bv air, because we feel this will trive us an op portunity to see more of the counirv. We've always had a earning to visit the New Eng land states and this trip will give us the chance. (Mv dad was l:orn in Maine). We expect also to take a 3 day trip to Wash ington, D. C. All in all. we'll be gone just over three weeks. MAKING THIS possible is the fact that we have a fine ex perienced staff and have been fortunate in recruiting two otn ers who will take our places, Kit Anderson will arrive this week to handle news and ad vertising while we are gone and will continue in this capacity through the summer after we return on Julv 6. Kit, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Anderson, will be a sophomore at OSU next year and is news editor for the OSU daily news paper. The Barometer. He has gained other experience working for the daily Albany Democrat Herald and for a radio station We look forward to having him with us. Mrs. Ed (Rachel) Dick, with whom we have worked ever since we have been here in co operation with her high school journalism classes and publica tion of the Hehisch, is coming to take the front office desk. She is giving up some of her vacation time to do this, and we really appreciate it for we know her competence very well. In July she will go to Texas for a course in pnoto-iournaiism through a grant she has won. Arnold Raymond, our shop foreman, who has been here 11 vears. will be in charge of the operation and production while we are gone. Gail Burkenbine, who fills so many duties regu larly circulation, society and personals, office duties, filing, business details, and others will continue to fill this place (and more) while we are gone. Reggie Pascal, the fellow who sets all the type, will keep his machine going as usual, and Dale Cooper, our apprentice, will give a big hand on the pro duction end. WITH A crew like this, we doubt if anyone knows we are gone. ONE INTERESTING thing about marriages is how couples got acouainted in the first place. Most every married couple lias an interesting story to tell about their first acquaintanceship. Helen Stevens and Wes bher- man got serious about each oth er after he backed his car into hers and smashed a fender of her 1936 Ford in the Nyssa High school parking lot. They drove to Ontario together to arrange for repairs and have been to Tether ever since. The story of Bill and Carolyn is a bit unique, too. When he arrived at Gordon Divinity School in the fall, he obtained a Job in the school's coffee shop A young blonde girl came in and ordered an English muffin. He heated It for her, but may have overdone it a bit. She came bacn with the mild complaint that he burned the muffin, and that is where it started. It was natural that Carolyn would order an English muffin for she grew up in British schools in Jamaica where her parents teach in a college. After the wedding, the couple will come west and spend the summer in Oregon, then return to Massachusetts in the rail. Only three of our family are able for one reason or anoth er to make the trip the co publishers and daughter Cathy Jo. who will be a bridesmaid. At this juncture, it still seems like a dream to us who nevei thought we'd ever get to drive to the East Coast. After the wedding, it will be home again, t home again, iiggedy, jig, jig" via a northern route and Yellowstone Park. Evonne Severinsen To Appear on TV On Joan Rivers Show Mrs. Doc (Evonne) Severin sen will appear on NBC tele vision on Wednesday, June 18, on the "Joan Rivers, That Show", she writes in a note from their home In Branch ville, New Jersey. "Just a quick note to tell you that all those western shirts I used to make have finally paid off," she writes. "The Singer Co. has hired me and I've done a half-hour on the 'Joan Rivers, That Show' as a guest and it will be seen Wednesday, the 18th of June. It's NBC and seen at 9:30 a.m. here and 1:30 p.m. in Los An geles. "I do hope you get the show In your area, as I'd love to have all my friends and en emies (ha!) watch. It may be the only way I'll get to visit Heppner for a time! "I'm dying to get home to see everyone!! Best wishes to the entire community. Evonne Severinsen." Mrs. Severinsen, the former Evonne Evans, was reared in Heppner, the daughter of the late Harold Evans and Mrs. Evans. Her mother, Ora Evans, now lives in Portland. WE CAN't get completely away from the typewriter, though, and will take a portable with the hope oi keeping the con tinuity of this column by writ ing of some of our experiences on the trip. CowBelles Busy With June Beef Promotions "Tenderness ... is Beef for Fathers Dav" is the theme cho sen for the annual June beef promotion now underway throughout the county under the direction of the Morrow county CowBelles. CowBelles will present their annual beef certificate to the parents of the first baby born at Pioneer Memorial nospnai nearest Father's Day. June 15 Mrs. John Venard, chairman of the project, has announced that the amount of the beef certifi cate will correspond to the wpipht of the babv. CowBelles are also busy this month making preparations for their annual Father of the Year Barbecue, under the direction of Mrs. Jerrv Brosnan. chairman. The barbecue is planned for Sat urday. June 21, when Morrow county's Father of the Year, Dick McElligott, along with his family will be honored at the county fairgrounds School Bells MEETING CALENDAR TO THE EDITOR Davidson Gets Degree Robert H. Davidson, a 1960 giaduate of Heppner High school, will receive his Master's Degree from Portland State Uni versity at commencement exor cises to be held at Memorial Coliseum June 15. at 3:00 p.m. He received his Bachelor's De gree in secondary education fiom Eastern Oregon College in 1964'. and has been teaching and coaching at Clackamas High school, Milwaukie, for the past three years. Rodeo Help Thanked Dear Wes: In behalf of all of us at Blue Mountain Community College I wish to express our appreciation for the cooperation we received in staging the Northwest Reg ional Finals of the National In tercollegiate Rodeo Association. Without the support of those who are knowledgeable in stag ing an event of this type, it would have been impossible for Blue Mountain Community Col lege to sponsor this event. The support of the people in your area In this and the total program of the college has pro vided a satisfying experience for all of us at the college as we attempt to develop a qual ity institution in northeastern Oregon. Sincerely vours, Wallace W. McCrae, President Blue Mountain Community College Monday, June 16 Chamber of Commerce, Wagon Wheel Dining Room, 12 noon School Board, Regular Meeting, Lexington District Office, 8 p.m. Ruth Assembly No. 50, Order of Rainbow for Girls, Masonic Hall, 7.00 p.m. , Morrow County Fair Board, Fair Dormitory, 7:30 p.m. Neighborhood Center, Advisory Board, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 17 A.F. & A.M. No. 69, 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 18 Carnation Club, 8:00 p.m. Willow Lodge, IOOF Hall, 8:00 p.m. Jaycees, 8:00 p.m. Thursday, June 19 Soroptimist Club, Program Meet ing, Wagon Wheel Dining Room, 12 noon. Jaycee Wives, Neighborhood Center, 8:00 p.m. Holly Rebekah Lodge, Lexing ton, 8:00 p.m. WAC of Rhea Creek Grange, 10:30 a.m. ; WAC of Lexington Grange Friday. June 20 Sans Souci Rebekah Lodge No. 33, IOOF Hall, 8:00 p.m. T.A.P. of Neighborhood Center, 1:00 p.m.. Conference Room lone Students Win Medals at Olympics Douglas Beggs, a student at lone Junior high, won three medals at the State Junior Olympic Track & Field meet in Portland on June 7. Doug won a gold medal for first place in the Ions iumo with a jump of 19'7". He won two silver med als by taking second in the 100 yard dash and second in the 220 yard dash. He ran the 100-yard dash in iu.3 seconds ana me 220 in 23.8. Jackie Howton, also from lone, placed second in the high jump. Her best jump of 410" bettered the previous state record oi t 9" A new state record of 411" was set by one of Jackie's com petitors. Mickie Hoskins placed seventh in the junior girls long jump with a jump of 141". Nazarene Minister Moves to La Grande Nazarene church minister, the Rev. and Mrs. Elmer Knee and family moved to their new home in La Grande last Saturday, where he will assume the po sitinn nf associate minister of the La Grande Nazarene church. The Knee family moved to Hennner in August of last year from their former home in North Dakota. He has served as pas tor of the Nazarene church in Heppner since that time. Three to Graduate t?pcpiviner bachelor of science degrees in education from Ore arm fnllee-e of Education June 13 will be Anita Jean Stockard, Heppner; Gladys Pierrot Ely, lone; and Julia Anne Odom Barnes, Arlington. fiT RON DANIELS Superintendent Morrow County Schools In the last two weeks there have been two news releases that will have a profound effect on the property tax situation in the Morrow County Jscnooi uis trlet for the tax vear 1969-70. The news releases to which I refer were the stories indicating that the 1969 legislature had ap propriated an additional 20 mil lion dollars, over the next bl ennlum. to the basic school sup port fund, and the news release that carried the story on tne farm tax use deferral program that showed a substantial re duction in the true cash value for the Morrow County School District for the 1969 tax year. The first story was good news for the patrons in the Morrow County School District as it meant an additional $23,000 in basic school support for the dis trict. The effect of the additional $23,000 was to reduce the dol- lar amount or the property tax levy for the school district gen eral fund from a total of $1,- 174.680 to a total of $1,151,680. This decrease in the property tax levy would have resulted In a reduction of 23c per $1,000 of true cash value. However, the second story re ferring to the decrease in true cash value in the Morrow Coun ty School District from a 1968 69 total of $97,319,003 to a re duced total for 1969-70 of $90, 290,685, a decrease of $7,028,318 will more than off-set the gain realized from the increase in the Basic School Support Fund. The decrease in the TCV will re sult in an increase of 91c per $1,000 for the General Fund Budget of the Morrow County School District. The additional $23,000 in Bas ic School Support would reduce our proposed property tax levy by 23c, leaving an increase ov er the 1968 levy of 22c per $1,000 of TCV. However, the $7,028,318 decrease in the TCV in the school district results in a 91c increase in the property tax levy in addition to the 22c property tax increase that would have oc curred as a result of the $20,547 property tax increase. The re suit of the tax levy increase and the farm use deferral pro gram will have the overall ef fect on the Morrow County School District General Fund Budget of a $1.13 increase Der $1,000 TCV for our 1969-70 levy. This means that even thoueh our total tax levy increase was less than two percent of the ov erall tax levy increase, due to the loss of TCV, will be in ex cess of nine percent above that levied for the 1968-69 school year. The same typo of Increase will hold true for all taxing agencies In Morrow county. In other words if the other taxing agencies take the constitution ally approved 6 percent tax in ciease, their actual tax levy in crease will be well above the 6 percent figure. An example of how this works Is shown below: SCHOOL DISTRICT GENERAL FUND BUDGET Without With Farm Farm Deferral Deferral 1968 Taxes $1,131,133.00 1968 TCV 97,319.00 1968 Average Levy per $1,000 TCV 11.62 1969 Taxes 1,151,680.00 1,151,680.00 1969 TCV 97,319.003.00 90,290.633.00 1969 Average Levy per $1,000 TCV 11.84 12.75 1969 Property Tax Increase 20,547.00 20.547.00 1969 Increase per $1,000 TCV .22 1.13 The purpose of making this comparison is not to Judge the merits of the farm use deferral law, but rather to clarify why school property taxes will take a large Increase even though the school budget increase was quite small. COMMUNITY BILLBOARD PROPERTY TAX FAX If you have a question con cerning real or personal proper ty please state all the facts as briefly as possible and mail it to the Morrow County Assessor under the name "PROPERTY TAX FAX". QUESTION: Is a Jaycee organization eli gible for property tax exemption as a fraternal organization by reason ot tne recitation of its creed at each meeting and in duction of each member in the ritual required bv ORS 307.134? ANSWER: The answer is no. The Law Section of the State Tax Com mission pointed to a Court de cision made in 1967 and said it appears the organization is neither a charitable nor a fra ternal organization and conse quently the adoption of a rit ual and the recitation of a creed, etc. does not meet the intent of the statute. METHODIST CHURCH PICNIC Sunday, June 15, Courthouse Park Welcoming Rev. and Mrs. Ed win Cutting and son, Craig Picnic dinner, noon Church families and friends urged to attend ELKS ANNUAL PICNIC Sunday, June 15, Cutsforth Park Elks members and families Hot dogs, pop and ice cream furnished POMONA GRANGE Saturday, June 21, at Board- man Grange Hall Meeting at 10:30 a.m., dinner served at noon FATHER OF YEAR BARBECUE Saturday, June 21, Morrow County Fairgrounds Honoring Dick McElligott Sponsored by Morrow County cowueues ROYAL ARCH CONVOCATION Wednesday, June 25, Heppner Masonic Hall All members urged to attend SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner Dohertys to Receive Degrees at U of 0 Martha Doherty and Tony Do herty, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Doherty, will be among the 2.501 University of Oregon candidates to receive degrees at the University s spring commencement exercise, which will be held on Sunday, June 15. Martha will receive a decree in Physical Education and in Social Science, and Tony will receive a degree in Social Sci ence. The ceremonv will take place at 2:30 p.m., at Autzen Stadium in Eugene. The Rhyming Philosopher GARDENER I ONCE HAD A GARDEN WITH CABBAGE AND CORN, AND BEEFSTEAK TOMATOES I WATERED AT DAWN; I SEEDED AND WEEDED LIKE SOMEONE POSSESSED, BUT BUGS ATE THE CABBAGE AND WORMS GOT THE REST. SO THEN I RAISED ROSES. OR TRIED TO, AT LEAST, BUT THIS WASN'T EASY, MY TROUBLES INCREASED. CHRYSANTHEMUMS FATTENED A GOPHE'R S INSIDE, WHILE ALL MY PETUNIAS SHRIVELED AND DIED. I ONCE HAD A GARDEN, BIT THAT IS LONG PAST, THE WEEDS AND THE SAGEBRUSH TOOK OVER AT LAST, NOW BUGS AND THE SLUGS AND THE SNAIL AND HIS MATE HAVE LEFT ME TO CHEW SOMEONE ELSE'S ESTATE. SO NOW I BUY EV'RYTHING DOWN AT THE STORE. LESS STRAIN ON THE NERVES. DOESN'T COST ANY MORE. AN AD IN THE PAPER SOLD EV'RY LAST TOOL: I EXERCISE NOW PLAYING COW-PASTURE POOL. THE ONLY THING LEFT IS THE LAWN I NEGLECTED WHICH FAILED TO GIVE UP LIKE THE WAY I EXPECTED. INSTEAD OF REVERTING TO THISTLES AND CLOVER IT'S LOVELY AND GREEN SINCE MY WIFE TOOK IT OVER. HARRY W. FLETCHER FORMER DRUG ADDICT, JULIO DOMINGUEZ TO SPEAK s if '"' vi I J III I Julio Dominguez, former drug addict for ten years. was won to Christ at the Teen Challenge Center in New York City and is now studying for the Ministry at the Latin American Bible In stitute of California. You've Read David Wilkerson's Powerful "The Cross And The Switchblade" And Known of the Teen Challenge Center Now Hear in Person JULIO DOMINGUEZ of the Center MONDAY, JUNE 16 8 P.M. Heppner Elementary Multipurpose Room Music by The Singing Crusaders. The Evangelical Ambassadors Trio and The Singing Cs.
