HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. March IS. 1970
GAZETTE-TIMES
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Heppner. Oregon 97836
Phone 676-9228
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPEB
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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
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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.