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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1971)
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. January 2). 1371 inrDifliiiaini(6jWiffo'S . Annual Financial Report Of January 1, 1970 Bank Balance of Jan. 1," 1970 Cross income from Coopcrators $ 215.65 Donation from annual add. . 166.00 State of Oregon subsidy 60.00 F. N. Bank Interest (time saving) .' 50.69 Total balance and Income Disbursements for 1970 Sect. State audit - 5.00 Oregon Assoc. Consv. dues 65.00 National Assoc. Consv. dues 8250 National Assoc. for Stewardship Material 28.00 Liability Insurance 46.00 Treasurer Bond - 10.00 Survey : Flags - 90.74 National Assoc. for Envelopes 62.05 Postage 18.00 Annual add . 169.32 Lexington. Grange rent 15.00 Refreshments for Annual Meeting 7.25 Refreshments for 5th grade tour ....... 11.16 Trophies and Awards 61.63 RC&D Contribution 10.00 Total, disbursement Bank balance and on hand Oh times savings acct Value of equipment Total cash and equipment $1,913.55 Accounts receivable $31.00 Leas account credit - 100 Rentals Gopher Getter Terracer. .... $6.25, Land Leveling at Is By H. C. GRABENHORST Project Coordinator During 1970 the Columbia Blue Mountain Resource Conser vatiorV & Development Sponsors (the 'six Soil & Water Conserva tion Districts, the three county courts, and the three port com missions of Gilliam, Morrow and Umatilla Counties) completed a broad-based program. This tri county, open-end program will serve as a guide to leaerai ag encies developing the Columbia Blue Mountain RC&D Project. In relitv. this program is local people in action utilizing and developing such natural and hu man resources as land, water, air,; and people In a conserving and effective manner. Each day we see resource con servation and development In action. Someone may ask how can' we irrigate this land? Is there an ample water supply? Will we need to construct a res ervoir? In answering these ques tions three resources will be Ut ilized and tied together: avail able land, available water, and available people. A project can then evolve which will assure resource conservation and devel Wh THIS PICTURE SHOWS Bob Jepsen thinking about all the wheat he will bare to haul to town this fall. Anticipated good yield is the result of outstanding management and January rains. Bob was selected as Morrow County Conservation Man of the Tear. (SCS Photo) .: .. S" 384.93 492.34 49234 87757 681.65 681.65 Jan. 1, 1971 $ 195.62 $1,000.00 $ 717.93 $30.00 $12.00 Stakes, .... $27.40, Flags .... $85.50 Respectfully, EDMOND GONTY, Treasurer RC&D? opment not resource exploita tion and ravishment. The Sponsors have taken leadership in developing who, what, and how assistance can be secured from federal agen cies on various projects such as Shobe Canyon Flooding, lone Flooding, and Nuclear Park Des ignation. Other projects of a similar nature are also being considered. Many times an RC&D chal lenge arises when assistance is not available even though there are county, state, and national long-range benefits to be der ived. In these instances the RC&D sponsors notify the legis lators of the situation so that ideration can be given to the merits of the challenge. This consideration might involve en acting a new law, changing an existing law, or an incentive re imbursement to bring about the needed action. Only when a re source challenge is brought to light can it be analyzed and met with deference and forti tude. In the final analysis if a job is to be done, the local people must be the "quarterback" and keep the game moving. THIS PICTURE SHOWS a circular Irrigation system used on sandy soils for a crop of potatoes. This circle is electrically rotated. Sprinkler heads are equally spaced along line. (SCS Photo). Nuclear Power -- How Safe Is It? By C. W. RUDDELL Nuclear powered generators operate in much the same way coal or gas fired generators. The main difference is the fuel used to create the steam which drives the turbines. In a nu clear plant, the heat comes from the fission of the nuclear fuel in a reactor. The reactor consists of a core assembly of fuel rods (contain ing uranium dioxide pellets) in terspersed with control rods and surrounded by a moderator ma terial. This assembly is all con tained in a steel reactor vessel, 40 feet high and 16 feet in di ameter, and weighing more than a million pounds. Fissioning starts when the control rods are withdrawn from the core and stops when they are reinserted. The question is often asked, "Is nuclear generation of elec tricity safe? And is there a dan ger of a nuclear explosion?" Simply stated, the answer is that fuel in a nuclear plant cannot explode because it is diluted, only 2-4 fissionable, and arranged in small quanti ties safely separated from each other. It may interest you to learn that President Nixon's res idence at San Clemente, Calif ornia, is safely located within 4,500 yards of a nuclear gen erating plant. What about radiation hazard? Radiation has always been pres ent in our universe it is in the food we eat, water we drink and the ground we walk on Living at sea level, we each re ceive a minimum of 100-125 millirems of background radi ation a year. Living in Denver Colorado, we'd receive about 200 millirems. A person living near a nu clear plant may receive 1 ad ditional millirem per year, less than what he would receive during a single jet flight be tween Seattle and New York. Nuclear plants have been de signed to avert any accident or combination of accidents whicn man could Imagine. The nu- Nuclear Plant Sites By RUPERT KENNEDY Port of Morrow Nuclear power plant siting us ing the coolant water for irriga tion of arid lands and other multiple uses such as recrea tion, fish and wildlife, ground water re-charge, city water, in dustrial water, fallow land re charge, controlled agricultural heating and city heating is now being considered as a requisite to nuclear power plant location. It is apparent that it is only a matter of time that many nu clear plants will be used to help transport coolant water from streams to the land. Morrow County's great Board man plain, consisting of 350,000 acres of rich, low, level, early crop lands is considered by many to be ideal for the cool ant water irrigation concepts. It could come sooner than you think, and it is worth mil lions to Morrow County. Morrow County could become Oregon's greatest agricultural producer by the year 2000 be cause it has the land and the water. J5f jE2Rt&$&v j 3X Sf clear power industry has prog ressed beyond all other indus tries in providing for the safe ty of its employees, for the pub lic. Among the many built-in safeguards of a nuclear plant are: The Zircomian alloy cladding of the fuel; the control rods which give complete control of the rate of fissioning ac tion at all times; the stain less steel lined, carbon steel reactor vessel; the reactor housing built to withstand fire, flood and earthquake; the sensitive monitoring sys tems and automatic safety de vices which can shutdown the reactor in seconds. There are so many back-up systems to provide for the safety of re actors that they are referred to as being redundant. Population is growing. Per capita demand for electricity is growing. When these factors are multiplied together, the an swer calls for1 a tremendous in crease in electric power produc tion. Bv 1980. our demand for electricity will .be nearly doub le the need in 1970. Since opportunities to develop additional hydro-electric gener ating facilities are limited this increasing demand will have to be met by use of thermal-powered generators. Due to the scarcity of fossil fuels in our region, this means that nuclear plants will become a necessity unless we are willing to suffer brown-outs or even black-outs in the next decade. Here are some advantages in the use of nuclear fuel for ther mal plants: SWCD Annual Meeting Set For February 2 ALAN H. ROBINSON It has been announced that the Heppner Soil and Water Conservation District's annual meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 2 at the Lexington Grange Hall. Featured speaker will be Alan H. Robinson, associate profes sor of the School of Engineer ing at Oregfin State Univprsitv. Dr. Robinson received his bach elor of science degree in 1956 from Swarthmore College; his master of science degree was from Stanford University and his Ph.D was from Stanford in 1965, both latter degrees in Nu clear Engineering. His fields of specialization are in Nuclear Engineering; re actor physics neutron transport theory; neutrol radiology and reactor mathematics. Dr. Robin son's talk will be very approp riate for Morrow County, it was reported, as nuclear power is of great potential interest in this part of Eastern Oregon. turn wrgn-r?'T !.." .i . ' J - i tm ma Tmi in Nuclear Fuel Is Smokeless, clean and odorless. Unlike fossil fuels, nuclear fuel does not put combustion products such as sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide in the air. Nuclear Fuel is Convenient Unlike coal and oil, it does not require a great storage space. Thus, nuclear plants can be designed to be visual ly pleasing. Nuclear Fuel is Economical. Nuclear Fuel Has The Least Impact On Our Enviroment Through Nuclear Generating Plants. Electricity can be pro vided to meet our expanding needs at continued low-cost. 3 , v 9 j J " . ..... . IL. I tjf"",EE;iv .' swum-."!" ..-;; c.Avw,,,;.;u-j THIS PICTURE SHOWS Harold Kerr reading automatic recorder results of evaporation pan. Information collected is used for determining ir rigation frequency of potatoes shown in picture. Potatoes have be came important crop of Morrow County in last few years. (SCS Phto). Farmers Face Conservation Dilemma By C R. McELLIGOTT After many years of official encouragement for soil conser vation work in the Columbia Basin summer fallow area, we now find ourselves in the posit ion where those ot us who have seeded grass on our diverted acres for conservation purposes could, in some instances, be hurt by the new farm program. We feel that all the acreage that has been planted in grass on the diverted acres should be counted the same as sum mer fallow when determining Allotments. According to our present information this would if-" THIS PICTURE soils profile to tour sponsored Growth and Change Coming to County By KEN TURNER good cost benefit rating yh.iuM tgive It high priority and hrln,j By 1980 these water resource ; about completion in ,nis ,llH... projects will roosi . iinvijr o completed. 1. Willow Creek Dam The Willow Creek Dam with Its companion Bureau of Reclama tion assisted Irrigation district Is ready to go. Funding and construction might come quite soon with united support from Willow Creek irrigation district farmers. Increased production from summer water and recre ational and flood benefits will have a big impact economically. 2. Shobe canyon flood control The Willow Creek Dam pro ject by the Corps of Engineers could well Include channel im provement for Shobe Creek within the City of Heppner. Standard conservation practices up stream assisted by funds from the Rural Environmental Assistance Program and the Columbia- Blue Mt. RC&D could remove the flood threat to town property. 3. lone Flood Control Riet- mann Creek watershed runoff is the primary culprit here. The RC&D can- engineer and help fund the measures necessary to solve this problem. With one main group (the City of lone) and relatively few land owners involved, this project has favor able priority for swift comple tion. 4'. Rhea Creek Watershed Hopefully a feasibility report is due in 1971 and with good cost ratios, Rhea Creek farmers can move ahead to Impound early watershed runoff. Here again the relatively small size of the project plus Its anticipated be the case only to the extent of five percent of the total crop land. This interpretation is still open to revision and your Soil and Water Conservation Dis trict, The Morrow County ASC Committee, the Oregon Wheat Growers League, and,, I hope many individuals are , writing letters and pointing dut what the effects of this would be. Everyone : is talking about conservation, nowdays but It seems to mean different things In different places. While one part of the Department of Ag riculture is making cost sharing payments to encourage grass seeding to help control erosion, ...WO?'-;:-" V-lMan T ' W 1 ... I- -" SHOWS District Conserratioolst Heppner and lone 5 th grades. This by the Heppner SSWCD. ' R(je 5. Columbia Hirer Shell-Farmore Project Will likely be first Irrigation pump ing development. They plan V lease tracts to local farmers. Nuclear Coolant Water Pri vate utilities are showing keen Interest to site in the area, us ing man made lakes for cool ant, and participating in an ir rigation development. A siting may be made soon calling for completion of the entire inter related complex by 19S0. ThU will have a vast positive im pact on Morrow County. Boeing The Boeing Com pany has shown a sincere de sire to Iinance an irrigation tract on its leased lands and sub-lease parcels to resident farmers. QmnllAr nrivAto irrirratlon cits tricts will come if financing be comes available and feasibility is determined. , Bureau of Reclamation This agency will surely be Involved In the eventual complete devel- nnment of our irritable lands. 6. Deep Wells Underground ' water is limited in much of the Aviivtftr Kiit rynrra ripvo nnmpni IS . tUUlll UUl HI"' - - v rnrtnin c.nrni economic poten tial may lie with small wells in the south and central part of county. Irrigated pasture availability will multiply live stock numbers many times. Enthusiastic talk won't com- plete these things. Sound plan ning is essential, but really not enough hard work by enough people has been forthcoming. a. we find another regulation that will have the effect of plowing up some of these seedings that have been put in in the last few years. Worst of all, this would discourage the growth of the ' IMlgiaiU WJIIUI 10 Alt 4t-V.A " great .expansion. . , . We are still most hopeful ,that , this will be cleared up very soon and that our efforts to pro- ; mote grass seedings will not. be , discouraged. We feel that this, , Is an administrative interpreta tion that can be corrected witHJ out congressional action and that It will be resolved so that , no one will be hurt for trying to do a good job on his farm. explaining a is an annual (SCS Photo)
