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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. March IS. 1970 GAZETTE-TIMES LETTERS TO EDITOR Heppner. Oregon 97836 Phone 676-9228 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPEB The llepr.m-r Gazette established March 30. 1883. The Heppner Times cMal.lished November 18, 1S97. Consolidated rebruary 13. UU2. MEMBERS OF NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSN. AND OREGON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSN. CHARLIE & DOROTHY HEARD. Editors & Publisher ARNOLD RAYMOND. REGGIE PASCAL Plant Foreman Linotype Operator ALICE VANCE New Circulation Subscription Rates: $5.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Mailed Single topics 15 Certs In Advance.; Minimum Billing 50 cents. PubllsheJ Fw-rv Tli "i ''ay nd Entered at the Post Ollice at Heppner. Oregon. !'., r.d Class Matter. Off -e Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.. Monday through Friday; 9 a m in II noon Saturday. Heeded . . . Badly! Elsewhere In this week's issue of the Gazette-Times there J - an article on establishing a new tax base for school dis tricts. It seems a provision for establishing new tax bases is long overdue. Some districts don't have a tax base and ether district! have tax bases that were established 40 and 50 years ago- Oregon In 1916 voted a protective 6 limitation. Taxing bodies such as school districts, cities, counties, are required to have a vote of the people to exceed the 6 of their tax base. But because the tax base is not realistic, most taxing un its are not able to operate within this 6 limitation and must vote every year. The City of Pilot Rock stayed within their 6 limitation last year as did Heppner. Counties are struggling. When the State took over the Welfare program, counties were allowed to add the amount of the 6 and then subtract the amount of their 1967 Welfare. This base was to be used for three years without benefit of the 6 annual increase. A new realistic base for school districts would bring sta bility to school districts. The new tax base would be com puted from a tax base that would approximate the total cur rent operating budget. It is interesting to note that if last year's Morrow County School budget could have been used as a base, there would be no need to vote on this year's school budget. The 1970-71 school budget would have been within the 6 limitation. This reflects trustworthy and efficient use of the school district's money. Be informed of this initiative to establish the new tax base for schools. You'll vote on it this fall. Ye Editors: On Sunday I had chicken and dumplings Just like my mother used to make. This was down at "Grandma's Table", Just out of Beaverton on Hall Blvd. and Denny Road. First there was chicken soup brought on In a tiny cast iron kettle from which you did the ladling; next salad, good dress ir.gs; next a tureen of chicken and freshly made dumplings all swimming in chicken gray; all served ffimily style. There is also broiled salmon and broiled tenderloin steak. Hazel West cot t and I went down after attending our separ ate churches, hers is Disciples of Christ and mine. Trinity Episcopal. I had heard of this once from Opal Ayers McLaughlin of Bea verton. who said how interest ing iti is and how good the food. Opal is a former Heppner and Hardman resident. The decor in the lobby is most interesting; full of antiques. There was the most beautiful inlaid organ (old fashioned one), I have ever seen. There were old tashioned floor lamps with wide fringes which l.ioked like the ones Mrs. W. P. Maho ney used to paint and give to each of us. On display were old tin washboards; slop jars; spin ning wheel; coffee grinder; old fashioned upholstered furniture in bright blue and so on. It is a place worth seeing. I thought this might interest you. Sincerely, Josephine Mahoney Baker Tel. 226-4911 Portland 97201 party landed in at the Carty ranch unfed and starved after being sunk down in sand piu a few times. No matter when, Mr. and Mr. Carty gathered up eggs and what have you and in no time a bounteous repast w on the table for the hungry pil grims (or something. Memories. Wonderful. Old friends. Josephine Mahoney Baker Portland 97201 PS. Spring must be here. Out at Market today I purchased huge loaf of hot homemade Sourdough Bread (which I fru gaily divided with a few neigh rxrs who knew I had it). Hope I haven't eaten too much. Good. My Dad. W. A. Richardson used to make sourdough pone bread and cook It over the campfire Also I bought a red Primrose and planted it down where I can see it. I did it between show ers. Ho hum. Perhaps A Small Kelly Lake A story on the front page of the Gazette-Times tells about the rubble and clay underlay that make a high dam at Kelly Prairie unsatisfactory. This Is most disappointing as the 500 acre lake would have added much to the enjoyment of local fishermen and campers, to say nothing of tourists who would discover it. However, from comment about town perhaps a smaller lake would be a practical solution. A low dam with a spe cial treatment for the dam and bottom of the proposed lake might be sufficient to hold water, which would at least part ly save the project. Only bright spot as far as recreation goes Is the fact that the Penland Prairie lake development will start soon. If the Kelly project on a smaller scale seems practical, only a flood of letters to the Oregon State Game Commission at Salem will get the ball rolling again. Gasoline from Wheat . . . How much nicer our environment would be if motorists were able to "get the lead out" of their gasoline. And if the Oregon wheat growers can muster enough support to substi tute grain alcohol for lead additives in gasoline, the pollution caused from exhaust fumes can be lessened considerably. Governor Tom McCall, speaking at an Agri-Business Coun cil meeting, reported that 650 tons of pollutants are emitted from automobiles and trucks every day in the Portland area alone. In the U. S., scientists say that 80 per cent of the lead pollution comes from car exhausts. The wheat growers' plan sounds rather simple. Wheat, which Is now in heavy surplus and is bringing farmers low prices, can be processed to produce alcohol. This alcohol would then replace the lead now used in gasoline. USDA funds, now being used to support rock-bottom wheat prices, would be diverted to research to get the program into action. This would eliminate vast surpluses of wheat and, at the same time, hike wheat prices up to a realistic figure. Marion T. Weatherford, Arlington farmer who grows wheat on a 7,000 acre spread, says the plan is definitely workable. "At least one plant in the Midwest is currently processing grain into alcohol, and it has been done in various other coun tries for years," he points out. He mentioas, also, that a similar plan was used during World War II to produce synthetic rubber. Weatherford mentions that the plan is not without problems. "First, we don't produce-enough wheat in America to fulfill the requirement of the gasoline industry," he says. To Jump this hurdle, other grains could aLso be used, addition al wheat could be planted, and imported wheat could be used. Secondly, grain alcohol is drinkable before it's mixed with gasoline. Close supervision would have to be provided at the processing level so the mixture would end up in the gas tank, rather than a hip flask. And thirdly, it would cost more to use grain alcohol than it costs for lead. One estimate is that the re-tooling of the auto industry for a non-lead high octane gasoline would add about 22 cents per gallon. Because of a growing concern for cleaning up the environ ment, Weatherford doesn't think the added cost would pose a big problem. The other two drawbacks, too, he feels are surmountable. Oregon's 7.500 wheat farmers, plagued with poor prices for more years than they care to remember, are in hopes that the plan can be worked out. John Welbes, executive vice pres ident of the Oregon Wheat League, observes. "Twenty years ago, the national average for a bushel of wheat was $2.40 while last year's price was $1.20." The plan makes a lot of sense for Oregonians since it would help clean up the air while pumping new dollars into the state's economy. Oregon wheat growers hope President Nixon likes the plan, as well, since many growers feel he is the only person in the country with enough influence to make it work. (Agri-Business Council of Oregon). Dear Editors: I am quite honored and thrill ed to receive a letter from Gov ernor Tom McCall. I wrote him recently praising him for his de cision and action regarding the protection of Nehalem Bay and our estuarine waters. In appre ciation of my letter he gracious ly answered me and enclosed a copy of the "Executive Order Protecting Oregon's Coast." It is well past time to preserve what lew things are left of the mount ains and coastline in our be loved and beautiful state. Very truly yours, Josephine Mahoney Baker Portland 97201 Small boy watching toe dancers at a ballet: "Why don't they Just get taller girls?" Larry Mollahan Moves to Portland Mr. and Mrs. Larry Mollahan, Brent, Patsy, John and Mary of Portland visited here last week end with Mr. and Mrs. John Mol lahan. The Mollahans recently moved to Portland from San Carlos, Calif., where he is deputy in the Multnomah County Sher iff's Department. Clair Cox Here Clair H. Cox of Corvallis spent the weekend here with his folks, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cox and other relatives. March 7, 1970 My word: A letter from Ruth Payne in Pendleton and after all of these long years. She says she is still working but as soon as the weather gets warmers she will again work in her flower garden. Ruth also said she does enjoy my merary etiorts in Ye Gazette Times made her think of the good old days' when "we romped Main street", she writ ing the daily facts for the Walla Walla Union Bulletin and I "cov ering the Waterfront" for Ye East Oregonian. She added that she hasn't ad justed to the "lonely house" since her husband, Jesse's death. And I did not even know it. I have no excuse except that I lived away for so long and did not see the "home town" paper until lately and then "duty called" ad I began a barrage of seeing and hearing from people and telling it like it is and as a result of this Ruth wrote. I'm glad. Jesse used to be at Camp Heppner. She also sees Cecelia Robison, Nee Cecelia Carty, formerly from the Tub Springs . area in the Sand Country in Morrow Coun ty. This has to be one of the charming daughters of Jim Car ty (bless him). Many the time my folks, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Richardson, and Dear Mr. and Mrs. Heard: One thing I will remember forever is the friendliness of the people In Heppner. I felt as tho I had come home and everyone was glad to see me. Don espec ially noticed it when some pleas ant man driving by in a car waved at us. Everybody you people at the Gazette, the lady who cooked our wonderful steak dinner at the hotel and makes the best apple pie we ever ate. the VanWinkles at the motel. Please give Heppner our love! I hope we can come back again I i It 1 - ' -riJiiiuaaJ THE MALE QUARTET and Girls' Trio Ire Northw.it Christian Colleo;. will par. tfcipat." Tooth Roll, b.ld at th. Tlrst Christian Churchy p-mTsaturdar. March 11. All Interested person art InrHed to Lrtof Gi Son,. Folk Song.. Anthem, and lZTrt part on Sunday. March 22. in th. 9:00 a-m. wor.hip " Christ tan Church and th 11:00 ajn. worship senrice of th. Church of Christ Laxing Thar. wiU lb. a potludc dinner Sunday noon at the Heppner Church house, to air. aTl an oppoXnity to Ti.it with th. member, of th. musical groups. There wOl bV onTof the faculty member, of th. college accompanying th. singers. , Officials Invited To Meeting CHUCK WAGON We were awakened before dawn on St. Patrick's Day by int? 1-1113 Ui .Willi: iiiumt-m - -...i r ,-,-, f Couldn't go back to sleep so for by Mayor Edd e O. Knopprf some reason the birds' songs had , i-enuieio.i . started me doing some imagin City officials of Heppner and other cities in Morrow and Uma tilla Counties have been Invited ing. Vni. knnw what a erand thine just for the joy of being there Kp to round ud three and feeling I have sort of be- or four bands, lots of high step- longed ever since that night ln,plng pre,ty girls (they're all pretty in Morrow County , ladies 1900 when I was picked up in somebody's arms and carried aboard the train for Puyallup where my father must have bought the Puyallup Commerce. I am writing Brant Ducey who did all the research and got his master's degree on the life of my father, John W. Redington and if it is all right with him I will photograph some of the most colorful pages from his thesis about my father and send them to you. I wrote my two sisters in California from your post office there so they would be surprised when they received a Heppner postmark They both went to school there around 1900, the same time Mr. Yeager was in school. I also must have been in the peer group of Mr. Anderson Hayes whom we met at the hotel We are , glad we subscribed for the Gazette; enjoyed the first issue which we received soon alter getting home. Of course, being human, we enjoy ed the article you wrote about our visit and about my father who really lived right in the middle of Heppner life of the eighties. Please thank all the people of Heppner for making us feel so welcome. Dan & Betty Stewart (Elizabeth Meacham Redington) Potent letter on "GB" by Mrs. Lois Winchester should go on AP or UP. Amen! ERS March 16 To the Editor: I, too, agree with Dr. McMur- do, that Judge John Kilkenny ill be a good speaker for the Heppner High School Graduation exercises. However, he gave the credit to the wrong party. The Senior class did the choosing and asking instead of the Hepp ner School Board. Mary Ann Peck clubs and organizations, lodges and other groups stepping right along, two by two's, three by three's and four by fours, some dancing, prancing horse clubs, all decked out in green. Perhaps a float or two, lots of smiles and laughter. What more could we want on the morning of St. Pat rick's Day and where more ap propriate than right here in Heppner? (Don't you think that would be a real Happening?! meeting of the League of Ore gon cities on Monday evening, March 30, at the Tapadera Res tuarant in Pendleton. The meeting is one of a ser ies of 20 regional metings of the I .en cue held throughout the state from late March to early June. Mayor Knopp will preside at the no-host dinner meeting, which Feller told me the real test of will power is to have the same ailment someone is des cribing and not mention it! Our thanks to Harold Kerr for helping out Saturday night. Af ter a very nice potluck dinner at i Lexington Grange, Harold showed a movie in color on Our Good Earth, a film narrated by Chet Huntley portraying Ore gon's diversified agriculture. AT THE LIBRARY Here is a book Tor Lenten reading: Tell No Man by Adela Rogers St. Johns. "Civilizations perish in thei heart. Not in the head. No, no, I planning commission members, no. In the Heart, tot lacK oi department heads and other of will begin at 6:30 p.m. An after noon workshop for informal dis cussion fo current operating problems will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Pendleton City Hall Council Chambers. League President Lester E. An derson, mayor of Eugene, will head the League delegation to the regional meeting program derson has advised Mayor Bill Collins of Heppner that the regional meting program will include a discussion of cur rent city programs and activi ties, development of the League legislative program for the 1971 legislature, and discussion of a proposed Oregon Municipal Pol icy. This will be the first com prehensive policy statement by the League on a wide variety of issues now confronting local government in Oregon. Mayors, city council members, love they perish. No government A saintly-looking old fellow was trying to catch his bus. Just as he appeared to be winning the race, the bus driver, with a fiendish smirk, pulled away from the curb and the wheels splashed a shower of muddy water over the old man. Softly, this kindly one mur- mered, "May his soul find peace." Still more softly he add ed, "And the sooner the better." If our car gets much older." the long-suffering motorist de- clared, "they'll start issuing it upper and lower plates." ficials in the cities of Adams, Athena, Boardman, Echo, Helix, Heppner, Hermiston, lone, Irri gon, Lexington, Milton-Freewa-ter, Pendleton, Pilot Rock, Stan field, Umatilla and Weston are FREE GAZETTE-TIMES 3 months added free to every new subscription in March and April. 15 months for the price of one year only $5.00. Come in soon. Voice on phone, "Weather bur eau? How about a shower tonight?" Forecaster: "You don't need to ask me. If you need one, take it." Resource Meet Comes March 26 Beats Stork REMEMBER THIS? REMINISCE! FIFTY TEARS AGO March 18. 1920 Marin Roid, local dealer for the Garford trucks, won second prize in the nationwide photo graph contest recently conduct ed by the Garford Motor Truck Co. The photograph submitted showed 2 local Garfords loaded with wool on their way to the warehouse. Fire destroyed the main sec ions of the lumber vard of the Boardman Lumber Company. The loss, including stock, ware houses, office, scales, etc.. will run to S20.000. A large number of the An cient Order of Hibernians and their invited guests observed St. Patrick's Day in a fitting man ner on Wednesday. The banquet in Odd Fellows hall at 6:00 was the big feature of the day, when nearly two hundred people par took of an excellent dinner. Mrs. Sammy Parton brought Mr. and Mrs. Richard DeVoe ov er from Fossil last Thursday morning to Pioneer Memorial Hospital. They arrived just 15 minutes before the arrival of Julie Ann, first daughter for the DeVoes. She weighed 8 lb., 12 oz. She has two brothers, Jerry 4, and Danny 2. Mrs. A. H. Marick of lone has been working in the store at Cecil since the arrival of her grandson to her son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Gone Lancaster. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bavless observed their 20th wedding an niversary last bundav bv invit- ng in a number of friends to partake of a bounteous lunch eon. Thursday evening, at the home of Mrs. Rebecca Penland in Heppner. her daughter Miss Stella and Dr. W. C. Dye-of Salt! Lake City, Utah, were quietly united in marriage by A. L. Cor-nett. Final citizenship papers were given to Catherine Doherty, Al fred H. Nelson, Julian Rauch, Alexander Brander, Adolphe Ma jeske. and James Mollahan by j Judge G. W. Phelps. Births listed for the week: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Letterman. a son; Mr. and Mrs. John Healy, a son: Mr. and Mrs. Adam Blahm, daughter. The Sponsors of the Columbia Blue Mountain Resource Conser vation and Development Project will meet March 26 at 10:00 a.m. in the Theater room of Blue Mountain Community College. This is their second meeting since being funded for investi gation and planning in January compassionate Dy me u. s. secretary of Agri culture. Sponsors Say Resource Conservation and De velopment (RC&D) projects help bring about better places for people to live, work, and play. They add RC&D projects create a base not only for new jobs and higher income but also for outdoor recreation and beauti fication of the countryside. Edwin Hoeft, co-chairman nf the local RC&D project states that important items on the agenda March 26 are Constitu tion and by laws and the aD- pointment of an Executive Board to represent the Board of Spon sors. Hoeft further notes that a number of Federal and State agencies have expressed a de sire to meet with the sponsors. Progress on a project work plan that is being prepared by seven appointed committees will be re viewed in the afternoon. Tenta tive plans are to complete the work plan by July 1 and pre- jsent it to project sponsors for j approval. ah meetings of the RC&D pro no college education, no Intel lectual plunderbund, no hierar chy of priests and ecclesiastics, no military might, no first-to- the-moon science supremacy, no up-the-down social class, no in- expected to attend itegration march, no business, I no labor union, no political par ty, no rich-rich, no poor-poor none of these can give you love. Only Christ. He destroys hate. You cannot have the brother hood of man without the fath erhood of God. That's love." Hank Gavin, the young man who stood in the pulpit and spokes these words had come a long way down a hard road. A rich, successful investment coun selor, married to an aristocratic socialite, his life seemed a mod el for the American dream. But during the Korean War, his complacency had been shaken; and after the suicide of his best friend, Colin, anguish and futil ity overtake him. In the middle of a party on a pleasure barge on Lake Mich igan, he has a spiritual exper ience which can only be com pared to Paul's on the road to Damascus. To the dismay of col leagues, friends, family and his beloved wife, he enters the min. istry and prepares to follow in Christ's steps. As he preaches nis passionate sermon, Hank knows that he is drawing near io ine eye or the hurricane. The story then surges to a culminat ing scene so powerful that it Doth stuns and moves the read er. This powerful novel is writ ten with all the immediacy and verge of a newspaper reporter's coverage, u is violent, shocking, compassionate, courageous, uuSa ana tender as contemp "i dry as tomorrow and as old as nme COMMUNITY BILLBOARD School Lunch Menus Presented Through Courtesy of Heppner Branch first"""1""1 national tO BANK or 0RTG0H mi Mrs. Mary Andreasen of Eu-! ject are open to the public As gene, a sister of Pete's, has been ! Hoeft savs, 'This is nnr ni-Ai.w i here for a visit with the Mc- j and it is up to us to make it 1 Murtrys. go". Heppner Elementary and HlOh Srhnnle Monday. March 23 Hot dogs, homemade buns, potato chips, Pickles. Jell-O-vegetable salad fruit cobbler, milk Tuesday, March 24 Pizza, lettuce salad, green beans, fruit graham crackers, milk Wednesday, March 25 Chili corn bread, honey, butter, cab bage salad, cake, fruit, milk. Thursday, March 2fi aa vegetables, bread, butter, cottage rice pudding, milk. Friday. March 27 - Tomato soup, toasted cheese sandwiches green salad, prune cake C3,' French cheese, MARCH 21 Annual Amateur and Dance 8:00 p.m. Spray school gym. Supper served Music by the Western Gentle men. MARCH 24' Red Cross Blood Drawing 2:00 to 6:00 Heppner Elks Club MARCH 21 Rhea Creek Grange benefit Pancake and Card Party Contributions to Charities Supper served 6:00 to 8:00 multi Supper MARCH 25 Peace Corps Benefit basket ball game and drawing Heppner High School, post poned from March 12 SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLE5 Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 If no answer call Ray Boyce. 676-5384 milk.