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Thurc.. December H. 1968 T GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner. Oregon 97838 Phono bo-o MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner (WMWja LuM Times cstaoiisnea fiuvcinuct oi t.t. 1912. MEMBERS OF NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSN. AND OREGON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSN. CHARLIE & DOROTHY HEARD. Editors & PublUbm LETTERS WIHE EDITOR REGGIE PASCAL Linotype Operator DALE COOPER Pressman ARNOLD RAYMOND. Plant Foreman ALICE VANCE News Circulation ful.cip.ion Rate.: WT. f nnloa 13 CenlS in AQvance.i minimum Ee Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner. Oregon. as Second Class waiter. Office Hours: 8 am to 6 p.m.. Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. until noon Saturday. Hot Water Irrigation Seen Frank Bartel, Agricuture Editor of the Oregonlan. Sunday had a page article telling of experiments in irrigating crops with hot water. One rancher told me It was kind of approp riate to do this as most of the Industry was in hot water al ready! (We are glad our rancher friends have managed to keep a sense of humor in such rough times). Mr Bartel stated that he wondered if Orcgonians were trembling on the brink, afraid to plunge into a "brave new world of agricultural prosperity because they fear the un known of nuclear power?" He wondered If people would stop worrying about contamination from nuclear power plants. He quotes Don McKinnls of the State Ag Dept., "It is po tentially the biggest thing to happen in Oregon agriculture In a long time." . ..... "It's an agricultural revolution," declared Herman Miller. What is proposed is using hot water from nuclear power generating cooling systems to irrigate thousands of acres of fertile but semi-arid and largely unproductive lands. This fact is quite well known and has been widely publicized In Morrow County. In the experiment hot water has been piped from tne Weyerhaeuser Co. paper mill 2V4 miles, ranging in temper ature from 95 to more than 115 degrees to sprinkle corn, beans, peaches, pears, apples, nuts and strawberries. It Is a three year project started by Eugene Water and Electric Board, managed by Vitro Corp. of America, designed to show that bumper crops can be grown from hot water sprinkled land. Ag Department specialist Don McKinnis says it can. He adds that the hot water can cool plants in hot weather, pro tect them from frost in cold weather and maintain them at optimum growing temperature. He said this may prove a boon to dry land wheat produc ing areas of Eastern Oregon. , He added "One crop operators have been driven to the wall by the depressed grain market and international price cutting. They cannot survive unless they diversify grow high-value crops with immediate demand." He believes about 400,000 acres in Morrow and Umatilla Counties could be brought under "nuclear water" Irrigation In the next dozen or so years if enough plants are built. The article stated that adverse public opinion can be and already had been an obstacle in the way of nuclear power development. Dr. Wang who heads OSU's radiation center observed, "People who don't want nuclear power generating plants in their areas won't get them." Mr. Bartel reported that Morrow County people have no such reservations. "Morrow County people want a nuclear pow er plant and more importantly they want the 1600 second feet of water from each plant to irrigate 80,000 acres. In fact, the county seat, Boardman, has plans for an expanded city,' possibly heated by nuclear warm water." (We think Mr. Kennedy was misquoted. If Morrow Coun ty's county seat has been moved, we were not aware of it. If they do move it, we certainly hope they leave that hand some building and the dock!) Mr. Puustinen, an orchardist, is involved in the experi ment near Springfield, found the warm water irrigation pro tected buds from frost. Another farmer, growing corn, reported an ouistanding crop. While this seems a long way in the future, it sounds very promising. Obviously many problems would need to be overcome. One thing that gives us a headache at the present time is the Bureau of Reclamations desire to limit irrigating with water from dams such as John Day to 160 acres per person (320 acres for a husband and wife). This is a most unrealistic and outdated ruling. We understand a hearing will be held next month In Washington, D. C. on this matter. This little newspaper would hope the ruling is changed to enable vast areas to be irrigated which would mean a high state of economic development for our county. How likely it Is that Morrow County may obtain a nu clear power plant or a cluster of plants remains to be seen. The high cost of transmission lines is a factor. How ever the livewirc Port of Morrow people may Just obtain enough industries In their Industrial Park to justify a nu clear power plant. ... . As a professional stlckin-the mud country editor, I wouldn't give a hang if we never had a nuclear power plant. If would please me greatly you know to stay right here and let the rest of the world go by. However, my view has changed, simply for the sake of the kids and future genera tions. They need opportunity and jobs, and without more industry Morrow County will continue to spend huge sums educating young people and lose them because of a lack of Job opportunities. Killing the Golden Goose We have been a little surprised at the opposition to the storage of gas at the Umatilla Army Depot. We do not ar gue about the fact that it is a dangerous gas. However, very likely everything stored there is dangerous to a greater or lesser degree. None of us civilians can correctly predict the degree of danger. Experienced people are handling the ma terial all the way. We feel certain it will be stored with the greatest care. The economic value of the Ordnance Depot to us in Mor row and Umatilla Counties is considerable. The function of the depot Is storage and warehousing and distribution of mili tary material. If citizens and politicians ride this thing hard enough, very likely we could lose the depot. Point your fing er at a map of the United States and you will probably come up With plently of locations that would very much like to have the depot and Its employment. Juvenile Directors Meet in Salem Dear Editors: Art Crawford's book on Mor row County Is about to be fin ished and ready to roll accord- ling to a telephone call from him Friday night irom san Jose, Calif. He was sending Hol iday Greetings and asking some questions about my Dad, W. A. Richardson, so as to tie up the loose ends and be sure of his copy. Sounded very good and very complete. It is something which will be anticipated and time is long overdue tor sucn a treatise. Art said he planned to cover Donaldson Canyon, named after my grandfather, Samuel C. Don aldson, earlv pioneer in what was then Umatilla County and later divided to give us Mor row County. Art says this Is well known. There are the original maps in the countv courthouses bearing all of this out. It can be check ed In the early records in the County Clerk's office, later in the maps of the Morrow Coun ty Abstract Company. Art's father. Vawter Crawford, was at one time County Clerk of Morrow County with will Smith as his deputy. Later Mr. Crawford owned the Gazette- Times so had ample access to the facts of the county. Art, from a voune lad dabbled in the printers ink pot and from here went to San Francisco where he was well known in his field of writing. It Is said the hiehwav maps show the creek or canvon going through Heppner as Shobe Can yon but it Is really Donaldson's Canyon and the maps showing this were on record and every one knew this long before a highway was ever heard of or anything else except a barely Grace Drake. MC Juvenile dir ector accompanied Jim Epley and Al Bosehee, juvenile direct crs from Umatilla and Union counties to Salem for a meeting of juvenile directors. This was a policy making meeting in re gard to state subsidy allocated by the last legislature to Juv enile Departments. Four years ago the legislature passed the Family Court with no financing Included. The last legislature allocated funds on a formula basis. Counties are to submit plans for an enriched program over and above the cur rent program to qualify for the funds. Based on the risk popu lation 4 years to 18 years, the counties provide 30 and the state 70. Morrow County does not qualify. u,i u.iiithcr drpend- 1 ing. in Morrow County, even In the city of Heppner. Very truly yours, Josephine Mahoney Baker 2545 S. W. Terwilliger, Apt. 525 Portland, Oregon 97201 Christmas All About Mrs. Amanda Duvall has her Nativity scenes up on the hill below her home facing South Tnnrt Sf. This Is the fifteenth year for them. It has become a tradit ional Christmas display. The life size figures were all made hv Fmi nnd Lois Winchester. Lois drew them free hand from small pictures on Christmas cards. Thev were then stamped off on heavy plywood and Ernie sawed them out. ine oeuuuiui Daintlns was done by Lois. Mrs. Duvall does not enter the Christmas lighting contest held each vear. The lights are back on the Communitv Christmas tree. Houses all about town are coming up all Christmasy There's an all-bluo decoration a rustic stable scene and gor geous lights on evergreens as you go out on Hinton creeK road. The judging is this Sunday so there's still time to make all Heppner to look like Christ mas Land. Dear Editors: I Just wanted to write and let you know how much I en joy receiving the Gazette-Times. I was born in Heppner in 1946 but I haven't been home since March, 1965. I married a Flor idlan and have 2 fine girls, so I haven't been able to go back, but the Gazette-Times brings part of Heppner, Kinzua, and lone to me here, and I can read about my relatives and friends 3,000 miles away and feel as though I were In the same town with them! Thank you for sending me a "touch of home" and keeping me from being so homesick. Mrs. Kay Blackmon formerly Kay Duran 722 S. "J" St. Pensacola, Florida Dear Sir: Will you please run the en closed ad and bill us for it? We are former Morrow Coun ty residents and get the Gazette which is always like a letter from home. Yours truly, Hershal Townsend When you patronize Cazetta Tlmea advertisers, you help make better paper. Tell them you saw it In the Gazette-Times. OREGON WHEAT GROWERS LEAGUE STATE CONVENTION WHEAT USE AND RESEARCH COMM. Chairman, Malcolm Fargher Secretary, Jim Burr 1. The OWGL recognizes the serious problem facing Oregon and the Nation. This Ls air pollution which is created by the internal combustion engines using fuels containing tetra ethyl lead. Therefore, be it resolved that the OWGL encourage the Governor to pursue his recommendation and conduct a study on the use and markets for protein, starch and alcohol from wheat. 2. The OWGL favors a campaign to dispense with the use of tetra ethyl lead in gasoline, because of its polluting ef fects in the air and encourage all other farm organizations, allied businesses and urban organizations to implement leg islation. 3. The OWGL favors using the Inverse Subsidy funds to fi nance research on uses of wheat and these funds be controlled by the NAWG (National Ass'n. Wheat Growers). 4'. We recommend that the OWGL hire a person to work on air pollution problems and find people to testify at legislative hearings and we further recommend that the OWGL enter a budget item in the budget to cover the cost of this program. The committee feels that this should take precedence over several other budget items. 5. The OWGL does not favor further research on making synthetic meat out of wheat. The Glory of Work Bandleader Lawrence Welk, well known for his "cham pagne" music believes "... A human being grows and pros pers through the dignity of work. Rather than give a man money, simply because he exists ... let us educate him to the glory that can be found in work . . . and then bend every effort toward helping him find and hold a job." Mr. Welk also has a word to say on the effect of a guar anteed annual income on our children. He believes: "... A child raised in an atmosphere of defeat and apathy, and taught to expect that his every need will be taken care of whether he works or not, stands little chance of developing a strong character. His own natural eagerness to learn and to grow and to excel is cut off at the very beginning of his life, and he may never know the thrill of achievement on his own. A child who is encouraged early to earn extra pen nies by shining shoes or selling newspapers or doing house hold tasks, stands a much better chance of achieving his goals than a child who is taught to do nothing." These words of wisdom from a man of music and en tertainment come as a refreshing break in the daily litany of security without effort that we hear on every side. Dear GT: Do hope you deem the en closed weddings still news worthy. I am sorry for the de lay but could not be helped. We lived for many years in that great community. Still have many friends there. I am sure they would be interested to read of our sons' weddings. They both went to grade school and high school there. Mike, a graduate of 1965 and Tim 1967. We enjoy the "letter from home" each week when the G T arrives. Wish you all the luck and continued success. Thank you so much. Sincerely, Mrs. Dee Smith (Mrs. Ray E.) "I I 1 1 MR. AND MRS. JOHN SMITH married la La Grande. Couple Wed in LaGrande 4852 Kingston Way San Jose, Calif. 95130 Dear Charlie and Dorothy Heard As I enclose check for anoth er year's subscription to the old home town paper I want to ex tend to you my best wishes for a most ' successful operation. You have already convinced me that vou are doinz a splendid job toward that goal. Of course the late Wes. and Helen Sher man set a high mark for en deavor and excellence. I am sure you folks will do the same. My Christmas and New Year greetings to both of you and your fine staff of co workers. May your years ahead bring about the fulfillment of your every desire for success in your new environment. You will find Morrow Countv people just about the tops in friendliness and the good solid citizenry or HeDDner and the entire area from the Colulmbia River up toi and including the beautiful Blue Mountains, will be with you all the way. Sincerely Art Crawford Legion Families See Movies American Legion and Auxil iary families enjoyed a Christ mas supper of snacks and good ies Sunday evening at the Leg ion Hall. Santa Claus, so real his own kids didn't know him, had treats for the nearly 30 youngsters. Walt Disney car toons finished up the evening. Two weddings occurred earlier this fall which are of interest to Heppner Gazette-Times read ers. Timothy Jon Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Smith of Yak ima, formerly of Heppner was married Sept. 20 to Pamela Jean Shuey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Shuey of Gold Beach. The double ring ceremony was read by Father Strachota at "Our Lady of the Valley" Cath olic Church in La Grande. The bride given in marriage by her father wore a white ank le length gown of re-embroidered dotted organza, styled with a gathered skirt and empire bod ice, portrait neckline and short bell sleeves. Her chapel length veil of dotted organza was at tached to a baby doll caplet of seed pearls. She carried a nose gay of blue tinted carnations and miniature white rosebuds accented with powder blue rib bon streamers. Her only jewel ry was an heirloom locket be longing to her paternal grand mother. Miss Pat Ecklund was her honor attendant and brides maids were Miss Pat Jacobson and Miss Barbara Ecklund. Each wore powder blue street length dresses of dotted swiss styled with ribbon accented em pire bodice and short sleeves. They wore triangular head scarves of powder blue net edg ed with lace and carried nose gays of blue tinted carnations. Mac Hoskins of Heppner was best man. Ushers were Rod Brown of Springfield, brother- in-law of the bridegroom and Steve Baker, Heppner. Reception Follows The blue and white colors were carried out for the recep tion at the Methodist Church following the ceremony. Laura Hughes presided at the punch bowl and Angie Letz kept the gift and guest registers. For her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Shuey wore a dress of pale ivory with avocado and bone accessories and Mrs. Smith wore beiige or lon knit with orange accessor ies. They both had carnation corsages. For her going away costume as they left for a week in Can ada, the bride wore a brown and beige costume with patent leather accessories and a cor sage of white carnations. The bride is a 1967 graduate of Gold Beach High School and the bridegroom a 1967 graduate of Heppner High School. COMMUNITY BILLBOARD SENIOR CITIZENS Christmas Party Dec. 18, 2-4 p.m. No meetings Christmas Day or New Years Day Heppner Neighborhood Center CHRISTMAS TREE SALE By Heppner Chapter FFA Priced as marked. Flocking available Cristmas Lighting Contest Judging 4:00 Sunday, December 21 HEPPNER HIGH BASKETBALL CHRISTMAS TOURNEY Wathonka, Condon, Sherman, Heppner, at Heppner Dec. 19-20 SCHOOL VACATION Dec. 19 Jan. 5 Morrow County Gem and Mineral Club Xmas Dinner at Harris Drive-in, 6:30, Dec. 20 Meeting follows at Heppner Auto Parts SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 If no answer call Ray Boyce, 676-5384 Heppner DAMC To Live Music Friday Night 7 p.m. until ? "HEPPNERS 4" Steve Sather, Sandy Matheny Steve Hedman, Jim Schaffitz Country Western ELKS CLUB - HEPPER HEPPNER ASSEMBLY of RAINBOW GIRLS Annual HOLIDAY DANCE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23 IOOF HALL -9 'TIL 12:30 Music By "THE LOOKING GLASS" from Newberg "Rockin' Round The Christmas Tree" $1.50 Single $2.50 Couple THIS MESSAGE SPONSORED BT TOOT HOME-OWNED BANK AS A COMMUNTTT SEBVICE BANK OF Eastern Oregon HEPPNEBIONE ARLINGTON MEMBER, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
