HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. January 2). 1371
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. 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
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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SHOWS District Conserratioolst
Heppner and lone 5 th grades. This
by the Heppner SSWCD. '
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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
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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 '
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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)