L I tJAIT u or o EUGENE. ORE. 97403 Ms r TWO MEN IN A HOLE!! lioiMR reinforcement steel for tlie footings on tlic new Chase St. bridge. The initial con. struction of tin? two bridges over Shot on Main St. and Chase St. pot underway last week. Jack Sumner In State Race Jack Sumner, 3G year old Eight Mile area farmer said this week he will file by deadline time for the office of State Representative in the Sfith Legislative District on the democratic ticket. Thi area is comprised of Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman, mid Jeffer son Counties, and parts of Wasco, Clackamas, Marion and Linn Counties. Jack has served for six years on the Morrow County school board and was chair man of that body for the last Proudfoots Buy One of the larger well knowr wheat ranches and twosmall er ranees in Morrow County, near lone, of some2n00acres has been sold for $305,500.00. Sellers were Franklin Lind strom & Sons, Inc. of lone, Mrs. E. Helina of Seattle, and Mrs. A. Crutcher of Palm Springs Calif. The buyers are Mr. and Mrs. John Proudfoot, owners of the well known "Proud niere Angus Cattle 4 Wheat Ranch" of lone. All parties were represent ed by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Westhusin. He is sales mana ger of Suburban Homes Co., Portland. The Lindstroms plan to con tinue operation of their 1500 acre ranch both irrigated and dry farming on the original homestead. Thev will also continue a well known firm, Lindstrom Bros. Ironworks, a manufacturer ofhitchesand many needed parts. They lone Seniors Honored by Elks PRINCIPAL DENNIS BRANDON presents the Elk's Student of the Month awards to Ann McElligott and Rick Barnett, both of lone High School. Two lone seniors were nam ed as January Elk Students of the Month. They are Ann McElligott and Rick Barnett. Their hobbies as listed show a wide range of in terests. They both like the outdoors, they like individual sports, they like to do the things that Morrow Countyof fers. They both like to ski. Ann likes to read, sew and cook. She likes hiking and most outdoor sports. Rick likes hunting, fishing and camping. Inside hobbies in clude leather craft work and writing poetry. He likes to dance. They have both attended all 12 years of school at lone. Rick is student body presi two years. He is active in the Oddfellows Lodge, having been a member of the Grand Lodge of Oregon as well as Noble Grand of the Willows Lodge last year. He is an active member of the National Farmers Organization. Jack, an Eastern Oregon native, comes from a family of native Oregonians. He and his wife--the former Rita Cox-- are parents of five children: John 17, Charlie 1G, Sally 12, Jeffrey 7 and Jaci 2. Lindstrom Spread built their own center pivot sprinkler system, a large scale project. Red Cross Dinner Tonight ot 6:30 Friends and workers of the American Red Cross and their families are cordially invited to the potluck dinner and meeting this evening (Thursday) at 6:30 at the American Legion Hall. Meat, coffee and punch will be fur nished. All of those families who were helped following the flood are specially invited. Joe Pope of the Umatilla County Red Cross will be the guest speaker. There will be reports on Military Aid to Families, First Aid courses and Disaster. Plans will lie made for the Blood Mobile visit here on April 4. dent and served on the student council other years. He was a Boys State delegate, presi dent of the 4-H Ski Club and sang with the mixed chorus for two years. He has let tered in all tne major sports, football, basketball, baseball and track. Ann likes to do thing too. She is president of the Natio nal Honor Society, vice presi dent of the Student Body, and editor of the school paper and student council represen tative for GAA. In county wide activities, she has serv ed as secretary of the Mor row County Empire Builders and secretary of the Morrow County Youth Council. 89th Year THE GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner, Oregon County Offices Filing Deadline Next Tuesday Candidate hopefuls have un til next Tuesday to file for county and precinct offices. Filing may be done up until Mar. 14 at 5 p.m. at the Morrow County clerk's of fice. Three 18 year olds have filed for precinct com mittee positions, Kirk Robin son, Tom Cutsforth and Eliz abeth A bra ms. Filing to date for precinct committee men and women are: Republican ticket: SW Heppner Avon Melby; NW Heppner, Laurel and LaVerne Van Marter; NE Heppner, Bob Abrams, Kirk Robinson, Lexington, Lucille and Kenneth Peck and Tom Cutsforth; lone, Oscar Peterson, Ralph Crum and Lou Crum; Boardman, I.M. Docken and Emma Docken. Democrat ticket: SW Hep pner Harold and Edna Peck; NW Heppner, Betty Brownand Alvin Bunch; SE Heppner, Elizabeth Abrams, Lyle A. Peck; SE Heppner, Wilma and Wesley Marlatt. Other pe titions are out and are ex pected in before the dead line. Candidates who have filed for county offices are: County :lerk, Sadie Parrish, incum bent and Alice Vance; Sher iff, John Mollahan incumbent and Carl Christiansen oflr rigon; County commissioner, Walter Hayes, incumbent; Treasurer, Sylvia Mc Dan iels, incumbent; three Port commissioners whose term expire are John Krebs, Dewey West and Oscar Peterson. William Nelson of Boardman is the only one to have filed to date. Many Aspects To Consider In Change to Wilderness Area R.G. "Gib" Walker, Busi ness Agent of the Lumber Production & Industrial Workers Union, reported a joint meeting of labor and lumber management people concerning proposed un developed areas. According to Walker, Ed Cliff - Chief of the U.S. For est Service - requested all Forest Service Regions to delineate 5,000 acre and over undeveloped areas for pos sible study and inclusion in the wilderness system. Hear ings will be held on the 34 parcels of land selected with in the Wallowa Whitman & Umatilla National Forests within the next few months. The hearings will be held in various towns surrounding the two forests. The purpose of the hearings is to deter mine public opinion as to the proper use of the undeveloped areas. Walker further stated that if all proposed areas were to be withdrawn from multiple use management the industry would lose 729 jobs. In ad dition to the jobs lost the annual economic impact in Northeastern Oregon would be $10,891,439 and tax shift to remaining taxpayers would amount to $3,215,520 per year according to Walker. NOTICE! An ad in the G-T last week was headed: Men Needed To Train as Livestock Buyers. Anyone who answered this ad, please contact the editor of the Gazette-Times this week. WEATHER By DON GILLIAM Hi Lo Prec. Wednesday 45 30 .09 Thursday 53 30 .21 Friday 43 31 .02 Saturday 47 33 .04 Sunday 70 35 Monday 60 .33 .02 Tuesday 51 25 ,m 97836, Thursday, March 9, 1972 Glen Ward Gives Facts on Undeveloped Areas at Chamber Meeting Monday Glen Ward presented pre and con Information on the proposal of designating twe areas in the Heppner Dis trict of the Umatilla Natioral Forest as Wilderness areas at the Chamber ofCommerce meeting Monday. The issue which may be come highly controversial was handled factually and without bias by Heppner's game bioligist. He said he didn t know whether the area would qualify as a Wilder ness area or not. The public hearing on the matter will be held at BMCC ON April 1 at 1:30. Test! mony maybe submitted orally or written. Glen showed maps and charts . The two proposed areas are in the vicinity of Texas Butte and Kelly Prai rie, said to be the last two undeveloped areas in the Hep pner Ranger District. Kelly Prairie area has 9500 acrea of Federal Lands and 500 privately owned. The Kelly Timber Sale Is sched uled to be logged in 1976. This is the area on the head- Wranglers Date Horse Event The Wranglers had a fine potluck dinner and meeting Sunday night at the Fair grounds Annex. The thirteenth annual Wranglers Spring Meet fea turing cow cutting will be held at the Fairgrounds April 15 - 16. Floyd Jones is chair man of the event. Art Vance is in charge of grounds barns; Howard Bryant, Cor nett Green and Ralph Beamer are in charge of cattle; cat tle are furnished by Dr. H.S. superintendent and secretary-treasurer with as stance from Alice Vance and Lorena Jones. Last year the big event had some 66 horses entered from Oregon, Washington and Idaho. At the meetingSunday even ing it was voted to write Congressman and ask that Public Law 91540 -the Horse Protection Law be changed to its former reading. The present law was described as working a hardship on people who show horses. The law would affect play days and related activites. The form er law concerned only Ten nessee Walking horses. President Dick Schlichting said Del Piper had requested the club's support of a pro posal for designating Forest Service areas south of here as wilderness. A rancher at the meeting stated he was against the proposal as it would pre vent grazing, logging and other multipurpose uses. A discussion was held about the need for a new horse show Alice and Art Vance who have been filling these offices said they were unable to give the required time. A work day is to be held Apr. 9 at the Wrangler's grounds. Jack Healy, Bob Steagall and Dick Schlichting will check the grounds to see what needs to be done. A committee of Marlyn Ro binson, Jack Wright and Jer ry Dougherty is investigating whether to have an overnight trail ride or a day ride. It was announced that Shir ley Fugg is in charge of an annual Appaloosa trail ride. Dates for Play Days: Apr. 23, 30, May 7, 20. Next Wranglers meeting is Apr. 4. In charge of the Sunday potluck were these couples: Jack Healy, Bill Collins, Jer ry Dougherty, and Orval Mat he ny. -mm waters of Wilson Creek and Potamus Creek to its con fluence with Brush Creek. Glen said there was no steel head fishing but rainbow are planted in these streams. Wild turkeys are in this area also. Commercially there's 85.5 million board feet of lumber and two cattle allot ments. At one time a reservoir was proposed for Kelly Prai rie but core tests proved the land of such a porous nature that water would not hold so the reservoir was not feas ible. Texas Butte area is larger and had fewer roads. There's 11,300 acres of Federal lands and 300 privately owned lands for a total of 11,600 acres. This area, Glen said, is pop ular with deer and elk and grouse. Water from here drains into Rhea Creek which is stocked. There is a planning unit study being made for the best way to log this area. He gave the economics of the potential logging. Timber types within the area are City Local Council Raises Dump Rates At the meeting Mon. night, Heppner City Council voted to adopt an extended policy for the City Dump. This is to clarify present rules for the dump which require cutting up old refrigerators and large objects to make them more easily disposed of. Charges shall be made to commercial companies and non-residents of $3 a pickup load and $5 a truck load; combustible material must be seperated from non-combustible. Cost of a city employee managing the dump must be added whim other than his regular working day. City Attorney Bob Abrams advised Council agreements of the City Planning Com mission were binding on Council. He recommended a stringent subdivision ordin ance which had been proposed at one time. He suggested Council and Commission hold a joint meeting in order to clarify an understanding on what is needed. He feels the present plat and ordinances are not specific enough as to standards for streets, sizes of lots, utilities, etc. Questions had arisen in connection wU'i the Planning for Lott's 2nd Addition here Princess Cassy Presented at Spray Dance More than 100 attended the Spray Rodeo dance Saturday night at Spray. The four princesses were introduced. Cass.y Chapel of lone is one of them. She wore her pow der blue levis and a dark navy blue blouse with a red and pink pin at the throat. Each princess was given 500 tickets to sell on the roping saddle. The Princess selling the most tickets will be named Queen. HEPPNER Douulas nr. PonderosaPme, Lodge Pole Pine and Western Larch. Ills chart showed the potential that would probably come to the Kinzua Mill at Kinzua and Heppner. Pri vately owned acres totaled 519,590 acres and Federally owned totaled 224,000, a total of 743,590 acres. The areas in the undevel oped areas of Texas Butte and Kelly Prairie total 21, 600 acres or about 3 percent of the total potential. The potential acres of 743, 580 multiplied by the average production of 155 board feet per acre yields a total po tential 115,256,450 board feet. Glen said " There's no rea son to make the areas to tally Wilderness." Logging could be done if done right." The Forest Service is looking for direction." The unmain tained roads could be grassed over to provide grazing for wild life as well aslivestock. In a true wilderness area no mechanized equipment would be allowed, no vehicles, no snowmobiles, no chain saws, no water developments, no which was tabled by Coun cil. Council approved a request for a liquor license for Wil liam R. Scott and Kathleen May Lynch at 176 Main St. former Cal's Cafe and Lounge. Council allowed vacation oi Cannon St. on request of Ho ward Bryant and Roy Quack enbush. Merchants committee had been invited by a high scho ol student committee to have trees in planters in front of businesses down town. It had been suggested the trees would be placed in tubs con structed of oil d-uns. The Mayor said he would invite the students to make a fur ther explanation of their eco logical plans yesterday. This is part of plans to improve the enviroment by the High School students. City Attorney reported on talking to IRS about a pos sible raise for City employ ees. He was seeking guide lines. If they don't exceed 5.5 per cent there are no restrictions. If over that up to 7 per cent there must be a binding contract before Apr. 1st. There is a need for the Ma yor and County Judge to ne gotiate for a new landfill gar bage dump. Council wishes them to deal with lone, Lex ington and the County Court and possible site owners and report their findings back to Council for action. Representing the Council on the Heppner Centennial Com mittee will be Mayor Collins and Robert Jones. Vic reported bids will be let May 25 on curbs & paving for Gale St. A resolution was passed for the swimming pool committee be given authority to pro ceed on details for rehabili tation of the pool. Prices on various work and materials and services and finding a contractor to over-see the work will be taken care of as soon as possible. No funds can be expended until the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation grant is received. Counc'l has been studying recently need for increased sewer and water hookup charges as City loses money on a number of these. Or dinance No. 381 raising sewer hook up from $50 to $135 was passed to second read ing as was water hook up or dinance increased to $150. Meeting adjourned about 11:30 p.m. Price 10 Cents Number 3 fences so there could be no cattle grazing." Glen presented a chart showing 388 miles of useable roads maintained by the Forest Service and alxiut 1000 miles of jeep unmaintalned roads in the 194,000 acres By 1983. there will be 1000 miles of usable roads. Forest Service representa tives present thought the fi gures looked high. Glen is very conscious ol the harassment to the wild game by people who drive vehicles on the roads. The increase in hunters in the area since 1948 was staggering information to those present. The 1971 figures are not yet available. For 1970 Mule Deer season there were 10,250 hunters, 53,210 man days spent in the area, $29,81 cost per day and value to the state of Oregon was $1,586,190. Rocky Mt. Elk season there were 2800 hunters, spent 10,560 hunter days in the area; at a cost of 21.77 per day and value to the state of Oregon was $444,821. To tal value to the state of Ore gon in equipment etc totals $2,031,011. In 1970 deer harvested num bered 4100 and elk harvest ed was 470. In 1948 there were 1742 deer hunters with a harvest of 392 deer and 630 elk hun ters with a harvest of 91 elk. The last chart listed the wild life value on maintain ing undeveloped areas. 1. No human harassment. 2. Quality hunting. 3. Biological study areas. 4. Protection of uncommon species that leave when there's people activity. 5. Aesthetic values 6. Tranquilly. 7. Water quality. 8. Who knows values 100 years from now? President Ed Dick turned the proposal over to the Parks and Recreation committee to make a thorough study and make a recommendation to the Chamber. He said"Ifs not a simple problem and there's not a. simple solu tion." Herman Winter won the Pot. CENTENIAL COMMITTEE will meet March 17 at noon at the Wagon Wheel, Gene Pierce is chairman. Oscar Peterson said "we can be optimistic about the removal of the Bombing range ' in regard to the ob jections of the possible nuc lear plant near the Navy Bombing range. Judge Jones announced that Bob Packwood had called to say that Morrow County had been declared a Title I Coun ty which would entitle the county to qualify for more loans and grants under the Economic Development Act of 1965. JOHN debut JAY STEAGALL, the at the Sunday meeting per and the meeting. He week. - at !!. &ild Friday N hai ask.d Secretary of Dtfenst Melvln Laird to set aaldt special funds to move the Navy bombing rang away fromth !tiardman area in Morrow County, I II nun laid he asked the Navy more titan two ean a (jo lo study alternate sites fur the bombing range, and that the Navy lias now finish ed the study. "It was evident In the late 1950s when the Navy took over the Boardman range that the area a economic value would some day rise consid erably," L'llamn said. At that time, he explained, the Navy promised it would consider moving the range if the area did begin to show obvious economic potential. "The completlonof the John Cay dam las had a major impact on economic devel opment In the area," Lllman told Laird. He said the Boeing Co. plans a major agricultural project at Boardman; Port land General Electric Co. has filed for permission to construct a nuclear plant there and the Bureau of Re clamation is expected to com plete Its feasibility study of a major reclamation project in the area. "The Navy estimates it will require more tlian two years and cost about $8.5 million to move the facility," Ullman said. He said if the bombing range is not moved on schedule there is a possibility both the state of Oregon and the Atomic Energy Commission would have to turn down the request for a nuclear plant. WORLD OF WORK TREMENDOUS SUCCESS The World of Work Career exploration workshop for high school students, March 4, BMCC, was proclaimed an overwhelming success by re source persons, students and sponsoring extension study group women. "Something needed for years", "reward ing", "really learned alot" were typical reactions ex pressed. Approximately 44 5 students pre-registered for the ses sions. An untimely basket ball game for Pilot Rock students eliminated at tendance of some students from Pilot Rock, but 377 students were on hand, eager and enthusiastic for the day. Over 100 business and pro fessional people from the two county area donated a day to help students gain a real istic insight on 30 fields of interest that covered approx imately 185 specific vo cations or professions. Gene Pierce, Heppner, Pres. Bank of Eastern Oregon, gave the session on business manage ment; Bob Jepsen, lone, serv ed as resource person on ag riculture; and Charlie Walk er, Heppner, Instructed stu dents on apprenticeship pro grams. Extension study group wo men on hand to assist with the day were Evelyn Black, Mabel Allen, Boardman; Bar bara Witherrlte, Nellie Ma dison, Pine City; Ginger Keithley, Barb Jessmef, Monica Jones, Heppner; Judy Wright, Kathy Clark, Rhea Creek; Jean Nelson, Dorris Graves, lone. Also assist ing were Birdine Tullis and Don Stangel from the Mor- row County Extension Ser- vice. youngest Wrangler, made nis by sleeping through the sup- Congressman Al lllman was 2 weeks old Tuesday of this