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L I IF ART u or 0 EUGENE, ORE. 97403 Price 10 Cents WEATHER By DON GILLIAM GRAIN PRICES (f.O.I. Ltxlngtou, dot not la dud wombeuM cha.) (CourUty of Morrow County Grain Glow 911) Soft white btat lVt f Hard rd winter what .... h&Vt v BcnrUf .... '475, Hi Low 30 33 33 56 44 37 31 Prec. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday 51 M m 65 (9 62 46 recorded EHEPPNEH GAZETTE-TIME Highest temp. in January was Jan. 1, 1918 at 70 degrees. Total preclp. .82 for January. Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, February 4, 1971 Number 50 87th Year AARON KLINGER Free Throw Winner Is Aaron Klinger Aaron Klinger of Lexington who is an 8th grade student at lone won the annual Elk spon sored Free Throw contest He made 95 baskets out of 50 tries. He will go to Corvallis this weekend to compete during the halftime of the Oregon-Oregon State basketball game. Aaron is the 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Klinger, His coach Jerry Martin says he is a natural young athlete and went out for football and base ball but didn't go out for basket' ball. There were about 55 entering the contest from the boys of the 7th and 8th grades at Heppner and lone. Jerry. Martin handled the play-off at lone and Clint Agee at Heppner. Kim Gutierrez, also of lone was second with 33 baskets out of 50 and Wayne Padberg of Heppner was 3rd with 32 out of 50. Bergsfroms Win Annual Award A feature of the annual meet ing of the Heppner Soil & Wa ter Conservation District meet ing Tuesday at Lexington Grange was the Outstanding Co operators Award plaque pre sented to Rudy and Bill Bergs trom by the Goodyear Tire Com pany. Election Bryce Keene told of nominees for the board. Gary Grieb was elected a supervisor. Jerry George of the Columbia Blue Mtn. RC & D program ex plained the present status. He said government support will be reflected in amount of local support shown for such pro grams as the lone and Shobe Canyon flood projects. An interesting movie furnish ed by Columbia Basin Electric showed various aspects of nu clear power plants. Ed Gonty made the annual Treasurer's Report. Dick MeElligott reported on 1970 accomplishments and plans for 1971. Chairman Ken Turner was master of ceremonies for the annual event. He introduced Dr. Alan Robinson, main speaker. Dr. Robinson is an instructor at Oregon State University with wide experience in nuclear work. He explained that the North west is about out of dam sites. The need for power is great and is growing at an accelerated pace. Starting about 1975 we will need one nuclear power plant a year for some 11 years just to keep even with the demand for power. He explained the different types of thermal power plants such as nuclear, coal and oil fired plants. Nuclear power plants are much the cleanest. In regard to radiation he said there are a number of outside groups of intervenors who try at all costs to prevent construc tion of nuclear power plants. State and Federal regulations have been set for high stand ards of allowable radiation safety- factors. AH reaetersrn the U.S.A. are operating within the limits set by the authorities. Dr. Robinson displayed a Gei ger counter which shows how much radiation exists in a cer tain area. He had a lamp man tle in a paper sack that made ihe Geiger counter click. He says there is some radiation in Jwdge Jones Tells m Dotfeir-Govi tmm Judge Paul Jones explained the advantages of forming an inter governmental unit In Mor row County or a single county Council of Government at the February meeting of the Hepp ner City Council. This would u nite the county and towns to handle mutual problems. Attor ney Bob Abrams noted the pri mary Importance and consider ation for the disposal of solid wastes in the county. "The five-county Council of Government is considered dead Judge Jones said "when no budget was made by the dead line." Well No. 5 - The Council approved the rec ommendation of the Water Com mittee, Jerry Hollomon chair man, to have a Video Scanner take pictures Inside of Well No. 5. These pictures are flashed on a screen at the time. Also a set of these pictures would be giv en to the Council. These would help the outfit cleaning out the well in knowing the problem that confronts them. Two names are being considered. Both par ties will be asked to be present at the time the pictures are flashed on the screen. The Gale Street contracts for curbing are still under nego tiations. This work is to be done at $2.00 a foot. The River side Walkway again came up for consideration. This would be from Morgan St. up to the Wil low Creek bridge. The city is considering doing the blading, moving dirt and bringing in gravel in the Interests of safe ty for students walking that ar ea to and from school. A notice in this week's Gazette-Times gives those wishing to remon strate a chance to be heard. Council approved the purchase of a pump to be mounted be tween the tank and cab of the present tank truck. Control of the water would be in the cab. The tank, a 700 gallon tank has been in use many years. The pump would pump 150 gallons a minute at 40 pounds pressure from a 2" nozzle. Council also approved the pur chase of a chlorinator for the Sewer plant. The old one does n't measure the amounts accur ately. The old one made of sil ver will be kept for a stand by. The new ones are made of plastic. There's $750 in the budget for a chlorinator. For the problem of updating the sewage plant, council a greed to ask Val Toronto, area engineer, to come talk with the Council. . . Meeting adjourned at 10:05. School Budget Gets Last Minute Survey Rocket Blast Off February 9 is the date for the next General budget meeting of the Morrow County School Dis trict Rl. The meeting will be held at 7:30 at the A. C. Hough ton Elementary School at Irri gon. Budget Message On Friday Supt. Ron Daniels gave the budget message to the School board and the budget committee and interested pers ons. The resources were reviewed. The 1971-72 budget docu ment contains a description and the amount of all available re sources from' areas other than the local property tax. This sec tion has increased by $13,911. The increases are a result of increased cash carryover, an in crease in prior years taxes and reimbursement for a proposed special education program. Mr. Daniels also said "I an ticipate a later increase in Bas ic School Support Funds. Leg islators have indicated a strong desire to increase the BSSF by 40 to 50 million dollars over the biennium from existing reve nues. If this occurs it would mean an additional 30 to 40 thousand dollars in receipts to this school district. There has al so been considerable talk about some minor tax changes that could result in other new funds." Clem Janzing Killed Jan. 29 Friends here were shocked to learn of the sudden death of Clem Janzing in an accident at his home in Athena last Friday afternoon. Mr. Janzing worked as a high ly skilled mechanic for Oris Crisp Logging Co. During the week he stayed in an apart ment adjoining the Gazette Times. Friday after lunch he came in the newspaper office to say he had a long weekend and was going home to Athena and would fix his car. Appar ently during the repair job the car fell on him. Funeral services were held there at Sacred Heart Catholic Church yesterday morning. He is survived by his wife; three stepsons, a step daughter, two sisters and a brother. Spray Defeats Monument JV's On Jan. 26 the Spray Eagles flew over the Monument JV team by a score of 67-26 on Spray's home court. Playing for the Eagles were Denis Dennis shot 14 points. Mike Russell and Dean Asher both had 10 points, and Kim Dempsey added on 6 points to the Eagles' total points. For Monument, McKensie and Peterson both had 6 points, Jim Neel and Mike Murphy both had four. Forrest and Thomas bricks, in the earth and even had 2 and Mills along with in our bodies even though we may not be anywhere near a nuclear plant or anything like that. He said those near plants show no significant difference. He said that if radiation af fected our genetics, then we're the result of natural radiation. The audience was much larg er than last year's meeting. Campbell added on one point each. The Eagles main support for winning was out rebounding the Savages and fast breaking. The score by quarters are as follows: 1 2 3 4" Monument 6 13 19 2626 Spray 12 33 45 67 7 "Oregon already ranks last out of the 11 western states In the percentage of state support in relation to total operating costs. New Mexico is high with a 62.7 percent and the average for all 50 states is 40.8 percent. Oregon's figure is 22.19 percent and in danger of going down lower. With this heavy reliance on local property tax it is small wonder that school budgets are being voted down. Budget Requirements The total budget require ments for the 1970-71 budget amounted to: $1,460,774, and the total budget requirements for the proposed budget for 1971 72 is $1,520,444. This increase is $59,670 or 4.08 percent Taxes to be Levied The amount of taxes levied for the 1970-71 year was $1, 199,870 and the amount of tax es to be levied for the proposed 1971-72 budget is $1,250,629 which is an increase of $50,759, or 4.23 percent. Salaries Salary increases were granted on the basis of approximately 5 percent. This years cost on salaries was $763,571. In the proposed budget for 1971-72 the cost is $779,576 which includes $3000 intent-to-advance for a number of teachers. Because of staff re ductions and staff changes, the budget increase will only be $16,373 or 2.1 percent. The $6,900 base should keep Morrow County within $50 to $100 of the state average, Requests The budget document does not contain all the budget re quests that were presented. The original budget requests were reduced by the school adminis trators with the remaining it ems being submitted to advisory committees where additional cuts were made. Through this process over $30,000 worth of equipment, remodeling or main tenance items were eliminated. Many items that were eliminat ed were critical maintenance items. A prime example of this is the need for the new furnace at the lone Elementary. This, item was eliminated because it was felt the cost of these items could jeopardize the rest of the perational budget. There have been several breakdowns in the furnace this winter and it has now been learned that the places being welded only hold 2 or 3 weeks nd then must be re-welded. Coal smoke is entering the class rooms and there is danger of coal gas. Because this item has not been put in the budget, part of the cost would come out of I rr?vi I iff) f lJ ' . ' . $l A : Iff ' 'vWL-J I i- jSaaf ' rfiiimnmi '- - .Aiui-SR-Z . - - -1 - ;ato wj r ji Boardman Gets Boeing Offices Tuesday night Boeing had made arrangements to have their offices in Boardman in stead of Pendleton or Hermls ton. It is from these offices that WHERE IS IT? HHS Launches Rockets Daily Have you seen any strange objects in the air lately? They might well be one of the rock ets being shot off nearly every day by the Heppner High School students. Physics class students have calculated how high they fly, how much kir.otic energy is produced by their motion and other calculations. The projects are under the supervision of Stan Addison. The rockets' col ors are bright and gaudy. They have made them in single stage, two stage and even with three stages. The miniature rockets are one foot to 18-20 inches in height. A car battery powers the blast-off. Some of the calcula tions show that the rockets go as far as 3000 feet and travel 300 meters a second. The rockets usually show damage when they are recovered. The nose- cone of the first rocket fired has never been recovered. The or ange nosecone of the second rocket was found in a pasture down by the Country Club. Anytime anyone finds the rockets or nosecones, he is ask ed to call the high school. Mustangs Blast Rockets 80-66 By KEVIN DICK With a high shooting percent age of .585 from the field, the Heppner High Horsemen shot Pilot Rock out of the gym by the score of 66-80. The Mustangs only fouled twice in the second half. Bill Quaempts, Pilot Rock su per star, was held to a total of only 6 points. Robin Rochlk, by far the smallest man on the court dumped in 28 points to lead the Rocket scoring attack. Laverne Van Marter poured in 13 points in the first quarter to set the Mustangs in a tie at 21-21. From then on it was Hepp ner all the way by 3 at the half by 7 at the 3rd quarter and by 14 at the end. Heppner was up for this game. Kemp and Van Marter led the Horsemen scoring with 24 and 31 respectively. Watkins and Bellamy hit for 9 each while Roberts got 6. Roy Roberts was fouled and hurt as the buzzer rang. He had a Charlie horse Heppner 21 19 16 2480 Pilot Rock 21 16 12 1766 HEPPNER -5 1 PILOT ROCK 5 1 CONDON 4 2 McEWEN 4' 2 MAUPIN 2 4 SHERMAN 2 4 UMATILLA 2 4 STANFIELD 0 6 the plans will come for the de-' velopment of 60,000 acres of the Boeing Space Age Industrial Park. Denver Grigsby, project man ager, reported earlier that there would be 12 In the office,' Tues day night plans were to remod el the daylight basement of Dodge City to accommodate the offices. At first for 6 or 7 and later to 10 or 12. Work on. the remodeling started Wednesday morning. Lady Loses Life In Apartment Fire Chamber Hears Nuclear Engineer on Power Plant Players Needed for Volleyball Games Dan Petit who made 11 points, Steve Cossitt with 36 - pointsH emergencftirnr-with the-bat- ance in the budget for the fol lowing year. Thee ost of the over all in crease will be approximately 57c on $1000 true cash value. The rate of 57c may not hold true as it could be affected by an increase in farm deferral property or a decrease in prop erty tax relief provided by the state, - Harley Sager was elected chairman of the budget com mittee and Beverly Gunderson, secretary There will be two more budg et meetings: Feb. 9 at Irrigon and on Feb. 16 at Heppner High School for the final budget meet ing. For those who would like a little more physical activity dur ing these winter months and en joy playing volleyball, an invi tation is extended to Join Don Hall at the Seventh-day Advent istym0JL Thursday, J"eb4 at 7:30 p.m. Pastor Hall is an enthusiastic volleyball fan and would like other volleyball players meet ev ery Thursday for an enjoyable and active evening. Wheat Meeting Slated Feb. 10 The Wheat, Feed Grain, Rur al Environmental Assistance Program and Commodity Credit Corporation Loans will be dis cussed at a County Meeting on Feb. 10, starting at 10 a.m. at the Fair Pavilion, Heppner. . All producers and Interested persons are urged to attend. President Gene Pierce at Mon day's Chamber luncheon at the Wagon Wheel introduced W. J. Dowis of Richland, an engineer with Douglas Nuclear there. He told of nuclear power re actors and its safety factors. Mr. Dowis showed a graphic projection which indicated var ious proposals for creating nu clear electric power in Morrow County and using Columbia River water for coolant. Among the proposals was use of the Carry reservoir site at Six Mile Canyon and the Sand Hollow reservoir site. He showed various plans with or without the irri gation factor. There is also a concept using five gonds ana another using " seven ponds. Maximum proposal was for ai eventual group of 5 plants at various locations. Largest ponds in the project are located about half way between the Columbia Kiver and the Base Line Road. All the pumps would pump some ouu.uuu gallons of water a minute. This would require some 175 thousand horsepower. The river station would be about 40,000 HP. He said it is prefer able to pump in stages. Distribution of water would be partly by canal and partly by pipe. The one plan that us es 5 ponds would irrigate 250 -acres of land. e ioia or the growing need of m ore -eloetrte power in the Northwest and the need for the industry to keep ahead of the aemand. Growth Is about 4 a year One of his graphic charts showed a complete fuel cycle from the uranium ore through fabrication and conversion to power. He said every possible precaution is taken. Some nine nuclear power plants have been operating in the U.S.A. since 1959 without any accidents. He explained that there is natural radiation in Nature. We are subjected to radiation from the ground, from food, from bricks. Flying at an altitude of about 15,000 feet 25 times a year would give one an annual dose of 150 millarems of radiation. This is not harmful. He said that scientists and engineers believe those who are against nuclear power plants are mainly opportunists. In 27 years no one at Han ford has suffered any ill effects and they are not radioactive Newer nuclear power plants will use techniques that will allow less heat loss and will be more efficient. Cooling the plants can be done by rivers, ponds, lakes, towers, bays or the ocean, Change in humidity on a 5, 000 acre reservoir would be minimal, he says. Rupert Kennedy, manager of the Port of Morrow, said the Oregon Nuclear Power Plant Sit ing Committee has hired Doug las Nuclear to present the con cept in Morrow County. He said meetings Feb. 17-18 will be in Hermiston and in Boardman. Some 90 days will be used in presenting the safe ty factors to the county. Mr. Kennedy said the present schedule appeared like this: planning and evaluating during 1971; perhaps a utility would choose a site by the middle of 1972. A reactor would perhaps be built and ready to cut into the coolant line by 1978. These fig ures may be a reality a bit sooner if the Hanford plant is Fire In an apartment house here Friday evening took the life of Dame Lyons Reed, 80. The stubborn fire was caused bv a leakv oil stove according to Fire Chief Forrle Burkenbine. He said the stove apparently had overflowed and then when she started the stove it burst into flame and a near explosion. Mrs. Reed alerted another res ident of one of the apartments, Fleet Greer, saying her apart ment was full of smoke and fire. Ho replied that they had better pet out of there. He tried to get Mrs. Reed to leave but she said she was tired and wanted to rest a moment. She stayed inside. . Mr. Greer had his hair and eyebrows singed. Mrs. Syril Gallaher had gone to the City Park with her child ren and looked up to see the puff of fire and what seemed to be an explosion from the house which is located on Church Street. Mrs. Ernie Win chester put in a call to the Fire Dept. which quickly responded. Wood in the building was ex tremely dry and the fire burn ed fiercely. Mr. and Mrs. Win chester sprinkled water on their house and a small cottage. A wind of any consequence would have very likely destroyed their home and the cottage, as well as the Columbia Basin Co-od building adjacent, perhaps Ford's Tire Service and possibly All Saints' Episcopal Church next door. Mrs. Reed was very frail and had a serious heart condition. Mrs. Reed's collection of first edition and other books has been considered quite valuable and were badly damaged. Au thorities have located some oj her Jewelry. The apartment buildine i;. owned by the Degree of Honor Protective Assn., a national fra- ternal insurance society. The building and contents were part ly covered by Insurance. The group has not yet announced their future plans. J he building was once ownrh by Lois Winchester's father. It was once a barn and was mov ed to the front of the lot and remodeled into an apartment house. actually closed down. The sanctions program has been presented to the lone Lions, to the lone and Heppner High Schools and will be pre sented in all the towns in the county. Literature will be mail ed all residents of the county and an effort is being made to secure 90 approval of the res idents of Morrow County. These finds would then be turned ov er to a utility that showed in terest in building the nuclear power plant in Morrow County. Projecting for the future, Mr. Kennedy said this will mean an opportunity for Jobs for Morrow County children so they can stay in Morrow County. lone PTA Next Wednesday The lone PTA meeting on Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. will have as guest speaker, Mr. and Mrs. James Kuykcndall and Mrs. Bud Neal of Pendleton. They will show a film, "A World of the Right Size" which is a story of the retarded and what the public can do to help. Mrs. Neal, in charge of the volunteer services at EOSH, will give information on the volunteer workers pro gram. The 7th and 8th grade moth ers will host the social hour with Mrs. Henry Krebs and Mrs. George Griffith, chairmen. Dayville Breaks Unlucky 13 Trend The Dayville basketbaU team finally reversed their 13 . year record of losses to Prairie City. When the buzzer sounded Friday- night, Dayville tasted a long awaited victory on their home court by a breath-baiting score of 72-71.