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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. 07403 86th Year Number 30 WEATHER By DON GILLIAM For wwk of Sept 12-16 Mustangs win, Cards lose in football open ers. See page 4. THE i HI Low Pree. Wednesday 84 55 Thursday 90 58 Friday 90 57 Saturday 75 54 Sunday 67 36 Monday 73 35 Tuesday 77 47 tr. IMES Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, September 18, 1969 Price 10 Cents OSAA Says Board Must Make Decision Monday on Redistrict Plan A final decision regarding Heppner High school's athletic classification for the 1970-71 school year will have to be made when the Board of Direct ors of Morrow county School Dis trict R-l meets Monday night. The change resulted from a decision by the Board of Con trol of the Oregon School Activ ities Association .(OSAA) at its meeting last Thursday. - Last week, R-l superintendent Ron Daniels, also a member of the OSAA board, told the Gazette-Times the decision could be made as late as July 1, 1970 to affect the classification that fall. "We know that a large num ber of schools are contemplat ing petitioning the OSAA (for a change in classification) so we are moving the deadline up," Daniels said Tuesday. The new deadline is now the first week-end in November, ac cording to Daniels. That means a final decision by the R-l board must be made at its meeting Monday night. The meeting is set for the district office in Lexington at 8 p.m. Daniels said the OSAA board decided at its Thursday meeting to get all the applications in early to avoid stringing out de cisions along the year. "We can't wait all year for them to decide." Danels said. The new plan will allow conftr ences to be set up in time for schedules to be arranged for the fall of 1970. he noted. When the R-l board decides whether to drop down to the A classification next year or to pe tition to remain AA, its wishes will be made known to the OSAA's districting committee. Should the board decide to drop down to A, no further ac tion would be required, since Heppner has already Deen plac ed in the class because of its If. however, the R-l directors wish Heppner to remain aa, their petition would go to the districting committee, then on to the Board of Control. "The board makes the final de cision," Daniels said. Tha p.1 hnarrt will consider several things at its meeting Monday, Daniels said. "Traveltime as mucn as ex- Salc Rumors Said False Kinzua Buys Timber Kinzua Corporation's Heppner plant was the successful high bidder on a 10 million board feet timber sale, the company's general manager said Tuesday. At the same time, Allen Nis tad said the firms buying of the timber would serve to dis spell rumors that the plant is being sold to Georgia Pacific Corporation. He said talk of a sale "is an outrageous lie," adding Georgia Pacific officials "are not look ing at our plant." The timber was bought from Port Blakely Timber Company of Seattle, Nistad said. It represents 9,600,000, board feet of virgin Ponderosa pine, he said, and 400,000 feet of fir and larch. One-half the timber is located in the Fox area, with the other half located in the Bear Creek area in Grant county. The Oris Crisp Logging Com pany will move into the area immediately, as the timber is to be harvested by March 15, 1970, Nistad said. - - Kinzua contracts with Crisp for its logging operations. "The timber will be processed at the Heppner plant," Nistad said. He did not indicate if the new timber purchase would mean workers at the Heppner plant would go back to a full production schedule. The plant has been on a four-day work week since July 14, due to poor market conditions. la tn he considered." Dan iels said. "We have asked the high school staff to compute the mileage and time differences of the two proposals." The superintendent said he didn't expect the differences would be great. Heppner High school is now budgeted about $1500 annually tor travel, and the new league proposal miRht change that by $300 at the most, Daniels noted. Most long overnight trips have now been eliminated in 7 A-2 league play, Daniels noted. The Monday decision will be just for the 1970-71 year, the administrator stressed. "We might want to stay AA for another year and see how we do," he said. But the board could reverse its . decision the next year, he said. After that, however, Daniels said a permanent decision should be made. "We aren't going to jump back tnrih pnrh vcar." he said. Daniels said the OSAA has received a formal petition from Hcrmlston to move up to AAA sports, and that petition has been granted., Th Riiiirir.i.4 had been Dlaced In the AA league Heppner now plays in. itinn from Mac-Hi of Milton-Freewater has not been received, Daniels said. But that petition is expected when the OSAA board meets in noyemurr. That would leave Burns, Mad Wnhtnnka. Grant Union. Nyssa and Vale in district 7 AA next year, uanieis saiu. In other action at last week s meeting, the 'board decided to change the dates of the 1971 AAA and AA4 state basketball tournaments lo conform with spring vacation of colleges. A poll of district superintend ents showed jhem in favor of the change bf a 6-to l margin, Daniels reported. HI-IS Football Goach Supports Redisricting Heppner High school football Pilot Rock, 50. All those teams Fall Flower Show Slated lone Garden Club will spons or a public showing of some of the area's finest fall flowers in its 17th Annual Fall Flower Show, on Sunday, September 21, at the lone school cafetorium. The club will celebrate its "20th Anniversary", also select ed as its theme for the show. The public is invited to place entries in the show, with divis ions planned for both children and adults. Hours for the show, which will Include a silver tea, will be from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Entries will be received from 7-9 p.m. Sat urday, and from 8-10:30 a.m. Sunday. The cafetorium will be closed during judging from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be 18 classes and many sub-classes in horticulture division; a bloom cycle showing at least three stages of bloom from bud to full bloom stage, with foliage; junior gardeners from 4 to 7 years and from 8 to 12 years; a section of decor ative arrangements using anni versaries, from one to 75, as a theme; a capsule table arrange ment, and a theme arrangement depicting the show theme. Special exhibits will include dahlias of Bill Rawlins, chrysan themums of Delta Huber, also the club's 20 years of scrap books and yearbooks. Further information may be secured from Mrs. Tom Huston, general chairman, or Mrs. Omar Rietmann. coach Ed Hiemstra told the Heppner-Morrow County Cham ber of Commerce Monday that HHS "has no business being in the A-2" classification. Hipmstra was sneakine to the group at its regular luncheon meeting. "It is my opinion, and that of the coaching staff, that we drop down as the , state suggests," Hiemstra said. But Tuesday, Mustang athlet ic director Bob Clough said the coaches had not met and have not made a decision on a rec ommendation to the directors of School District R-l. "The coaches will agree on a recommendation," Clouch said. "But we don't know what that decision will be." The coaching staff, along with Principal Jim Bier, has been asked by R-l Superintendent Ron Daniels to give a recom mendation when the board meets Monday night. Bier said Monday he would go along with what the coaches agree on. "There's a lot of things to consider," Clough said. He said funding, travel time and distanc es would all be considered when the coaches agree on a recom mendation. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting, Hiemstra called the proposed football schedule ideal. He said Heppner has less boys out for football than most B schools, whom the Mustangs would play next year. Elgin, whom the HHS team played last week-end, has 44 out for the team, Hiemstra said. Heppner's tournout at the first of the season was 46, although it has dropped to 41 now. Other sample turnouts listed Condon, 50; Sherman, 60, and would be in the same league as Heppner under tne new class ification. Presently, in district 7 A-2, Burns has 100 players out for the team, Madras has 90 and Wahtonka has 85. When asked about the HHS basketball's teams' record in the past five years, Hiemstra said the district basketball teams have'tjAM weak. , 'We go to " etate and ' set a new record every year," the coach said. 'But we're not proud of that record." The Mustangs hold the record for the most, number of consec utive losses at the state tour nament. "There is a lot of feeling that the same team that went to state last year in A-2 could have won the state B title," Hiemstra said. 1 X J r j i v 1 1 fVN C C CI SOROP"AS" ' 4 WITH HIS GROUP'S NAME right at the top. Jerry Sweeney. Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Com merce president, points out a new sign telling ot Heppner's service clubs. Actually, the group respon sible for getting the sign erected was the bottom club on the list, the Soroptimist Club of Heppner. The sign, located Just north of the city limits on High way 207, was erected by the Oregon State Highway Department. A similar sign will be put up on High way 207 south of the city. It is to be built by shop classes at Heppner High school, under a Project of the HHS student body. (G-T Photo). For Nuclear Plant Port Commission Asks Support mnorPRRlnnal dele-1 velopment Commission and the ""s""'' . .. i. j i ' Drai Aran dpvp orjmeni coaru. ni nn has hppn enlisted 10 iieiu , uia. . - l 1 : . bring a nuclear power reaciui to Morrow county "We are selling the dual ben efits". Kennedy said- Dewey jviorrow i.ou.uy. , . . ."r;" f the Port, es" Rupert Kennedy, mana ger , . ater from a reactor the Port of Morrow, to d Port , timated water worn iocmnors at a meeting laSl . wuun. iiim,";- - 9 : V. U 111.1. - i - " , , week in Boardman that letters have been sent to senators mar't Hatfield and Bob Packwood, and to Rep. Al Ullman. The Port of Morrow already has a site for a reactor and plans to use the water which cools the reactor to irrigate thousands of acres of land in northern Morrow county. Kennedy has been invited to explain the benefits of using coolant water for irrigation at a day long conference on nu clear power plant sitings in Cor vallis October 26. The meeting was called by the State Rede- Gazette- I imes Awarded lue Ribbon' Designation The Heppner Gazette-Times has been designated a "Nation al Blue Ribbon Newspaper" for 1969-1970 by the National Edi torial Foundation, an arm of the National Newspaper Association, according to word received this week. In announcing the designa tion, Foundation President George Wortley of Fayeteville, N. Y., noted that the Gazette Times was one of the first news papers to submit itself for this evaluation. Twenty-five criteria, measuring the newspaper's ser vice to its community against a national standard, were em ployed in the judging. On the basis of entries receiv ed, the Foundation set a mini mum of 155 points for designa tion as a National Blue Ribbon newspaper. The Gazette-Times received a total of 170 of the possible 208 points for evalua tion in news coverage, editor ials, columns, feature stories, community service and advertis ing coverage. The Foundation, established in 1956, is dedicated to the im provement of Journalism and Journalism Education. 1 AA AVi nnrnp" ff 1 .1 Tl f 1 The letter was sent September 10, and although there have been no replies, " all three con gressmen are on record as favor ing a nuclear power plant in orna Thov IVprS told that the only cost to the government to develop a dual purpose re actor here would be to trans mit power. The commissioners feel mucn of the power produced in such a reactor could De consumcu iu- n h farmlntr and indllstrV generated by the irrigation. The Port stresses tne iuea mai uy using the coolant water to ir rigate crops there will be no need for costly cooling towers to evaporate the water, or of putting hot water back into the river. The idea of a nuclear plant in Morrow county was backed up last Wednesday by the pub lisher of the Tri-Clty, Wash., Herald. , Glenn C. Lee told the Hermis ton Kiwanis club the area fhould push now for the loca tion of nuclear power plants in Eastern Oregon and in Wash ington. Lee, who Is secretary of the Tri-City Nuclear Industrial Council, said, "I think we should stimulate things, stir around ideas, push for development and see what happens." t He said the Boeing Space Park west of Boardman would be ideal for a cluster of nuclear plants. a thfl orpat future in Eastern Oregon lies in electrical power generated from nuclear reactors, Irrigated farming, food processing, cold storage and hog and cattle raising. An idea that has been ex pressed many times before, that of using nuclear coolant water for irrigation, was reiterated by Lee. -' - -The private utilities could get a lot of mileage, and earn o 1a. nt nnhlie relations if they would spend some money on an engineering study on how to build a plant or a cluster r.r r,i ant a in Fa stern Oregon for nuclear generation and use the water for irrigated iarminK, ni ter it cools reactors," he said. 'This would tend to onset al leged excessive transmission costs." Tha RAnrrttnan area has Ideal attributes for a. plant, the pub lisher said. It has isolation, safety, no earthquake exper ience, lots or coonng waiei, nv- land to be irrigated. "I think it makes sense and ,,rrhf tn ho invpstiffated and pursued under light of chang ing conditions," he noted. Rep. Al Ullman said last week the U. S. Navy was undertak ing a study of possible replace ment sites for its bombing range at Boardman. If the move were made, it would presumab ly free the land mere ior iarm- ing. -' ' ' Lee said local groups should ir fAtYothor tn rni-;ri the idea of the nuclear plant at Board- man. - "Wa chonlH enncentrate our efforts in strong local organlza hrains and mon- enthusiasm and 'effort push our ideas," he said. THE QUESTION: Should Heppner High school re main as an A-2 school or should it be reclassified as a B school as suggested by the Oregon School Activities Association? M bn 011 the Street mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I )- Tfie competition is better in A-2 v MV ' n v t " . - f ' '. V.V" in --1 .1. a ii i . .mi it'" a) I -. i -v! U- i J - y v"i It J S s --, i m j-Jm ' mmmmm"' '""""""""""""(Zljj ( v V Jim- , . 'Xs i 1 - i f U2 Billy Wolff. Heppner Hih senior." "I think if we would play in the B league we would have a better chance to win the championship. We would be playing more at our own level of competition." Mrs. Jim Driseoll, Heppner housewife. I think this is a decision the administrators and directors should make. Thev should decide how to spend their money." she said, noting travel expenses would be less In B competition. Clarence Bauman, Heppner resident. "I do think we should remain A-2. Competition is the life of the game, and competit ion Is better in A-2 leagues than in B leagues." Bauman's son was active in Heppner High sports. Jerry Holloman. Heppner bar ber. "Competition-wise, we should stay A-2. Expenses so far as travel is concerned would be cut by being in a B league, but the teams would lose prestige and publicity in the B classification." Marj Gardner, Heppner busi nesswoman. "I think we should stay A-2. We should not go backwards. We should Ro for ward if at all possible." Mrs. Gardner's son played athletics at Heppner High. ... . html i. David Matheny, Oregon State University student and 1906 graduate of HHS. "We should May in the A-2 classification." Why? "Because the competition is better in the A-2 leagues than in the B leagues." He played HHS sports.