IIEPPNER (ORE.) GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday, January 25. 1973
Horrid! Health Director
Specks at lone Church
By CASSANDRA CHAPEL
Dave Mitchum, director of
the Morrow County Health
Clinic, was the guest speaker at
the lone United Church of
Christ. He and his wife have
recently moved to Heppner and
have started a Mental Health
inic in the old Dr. McMurdo'
office. He explained what they
hope to do and answered
questions.
Annual Business Meeting
Sunday, Jan. 28 after church
there will be a potluck meal.
Following the meal there will be
the Annual Business Meeting.
During the meeting there will
be election of officers and other
decisions concerning the year's
program will be made. All
interested members and friends
are urged to attend.
JAIL... for behavioral modification
Soroptlmlsts Have Sheriff Escort Through Jell
Pomona Grange
Pomona Grange will be held
at the Grange Hall Saturday,
Jan. 27 beginning at 10:30 a.m..
Dinner will be served at noon
followed by a program at 1:30.
At 6:30 there will be a potluck
supper and at 8:00 there will be
a card party with $1 00 donation.
Birthday
Miss Lori Fetch had her sixth
birthday on Jan. 18. She had a
small party. Present were:
Mrs. Norma Kilpack, Jackie
and Gay, Mrs. Delsie Chapel
and Cassandra. Sharon Crowell,
her brother Duane and also her
mother, Mrs. Larry Fetch.
The Women's Fellowship will
meet Jan. 25 at 10:00 for their
sewing day and business meet
ing. Bring a salad for the
potluck luncheon and join them
as they make bags and other
items for the State Hospital at
Pendleton.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert lmel
went to Portland Jan. 19, to visit
their son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. James lmel.
While they were there they
attended the boat show at the
coliseum. Their grandson,
Danny caught the largest fish
from the pond at the boat show.
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Bunch Grass Rebekah Lodge
met Jan. 18. The meeting
consisted of plans for the
installation and discussion of
the State President's visit which
will be in March. Refreshments
were served.
WAC Mm-ting
There was a WAC meeting
Jan. 19 which was an all day
meeting. The meeting was held
at the home of Mary Lindsay.
Potluck dinner was served at
noon and the business meeting
followed. There were fifteen
members and one guest pres
ent, Mrs. Myrtle lmel. Delsie
Chapel won the door prize.
Extension Club
The lone Extension CTub met
Wednesday at the Grange Hall.
The topic of discussion was the
ABC Of Health Insurance led by
Mrs. Gordon Meyers. Refresh
ments of coffee and Danish
pastry were served by the
hostess, Mrs. Van Hubbard.
Willows Grange
Ione's W illows Grange No. 672
met Jan. 21. There was a
potluck dinner at 12:30. Dave
Mitchum, director of the Mor
row County Health Clinic, was
the guest speaker. Other guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Bud Big
gerstaff , of Cold Spring Grange
No. 801. He invited Willows
Grange to an old fashioned
basket social and dance Feb. 22.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Scheelar
and son, Mark, of Salem visited
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crabtree Jan.
19. They all went to Walla Walla
Friday night to watch the
Scheelar's son, Jim, play
basketball. He is attending the
Spokane Falls Community
College. They won the game and
Saturday night the group went
to Kennewick where Jim played
the Columbia Basin College.
They returned Sunday. Mr.
Scheelar is a brother of Mrs.
Crabtree.
Some company should hurry
up and design plastic song
sheets-for people who sing in
the shower.
PLEASE PHONE IN YOUR
NEWS
Just because a fellow doesn't
take baths regularly doesn't
mean he's a hippie. He could be
a father with four teenagers and
one bathroom.
"Vikes. look at this". Soroptimist members inspect the oversfzed
lever that slides one or both doors shut on the steel cells. Sheriff
Mollahan seems to be getting a big charge from the reaction of
Gladys Jones, Justine Weatherford, Marlene Gray, Lenna Smith
and Birdine Tullis.
Sheriff John Mollahan gave
an informative talk to the
Heppner Soroptimist Club
Thursday on the purpose of jail
for behavioral modification. He
said that individuals can be
come high on criminal behavior
as they can on drugs. Jail brings
them down. In avoiding being
caught, they have a total
disregard for their own safety
as well as the apprehender.
There is a constant search for
new methods for treating the
criminal. In the next few years,
there will be an 83 percent
turn-over in the institutions. In
a year only 15 percent will stay
for more than a year. Those in
for murder represent only a
small population in the peni
tentiary. Morrow County Jail
The present facilities were
built in 1902 when the Court
House was built. Steel bunks
two on each wall provided
bedspace for four in each of the
small cells. The bunks have
been removed and a single bed
is in each one now. Two cell
blocks are made of steel.
Years ago there was a cook
stove and inmates cooked their
own meals. This also provided
the heat.
Sheriff Mollahan said that in
40 to 50 percent of the felonies
committed alcohol is Involved.
Police work has changed. "We
don't have the fights we used to
have". Than people would get
drunk in the saloon and start a
fight. Everybody knew them.
People brought in now are total
strangers. He mentioned how
peoples' social drinking habits
are changed.
He would hope that a new
facility might come from part of
the Revenue Sharing funds. A
city-county facility could be
used by city and county and
preferably down town," the
sheriff said. The facility could
pay for itself as Umatila
charges $7.50 a day for pris
oners besides the transportation
costs back and forth as well as
taking the public safety officers
out of the county.
Sheriff Mollahon noted that
the 911 emergency number may
be put in the telephone system
next year. To make it work
someone has to be on duty. This
could be handled by a dis
patcher at the police station on
the hours no one is in the office.
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Heat hangs from the ceiling.
Now the heat units hang from
the ceiling but have been
reached and torn from the
ceiling. The plumbing is ex
posed and can and has been torn
out by inmates.
There have been two suc
cessful suicides and several
attempts. "One of the major
faults besides the physical
aspects of the jail" the sheriff
said "we don't have somebody
up here around the clock". If
someone is arrested at 2 o'clock
in the morning, he only has to be
held to appear in court and then
released." They are transport
ed to Umatilla County.
If it is a multiple arrest, this
means several trips as male,
female or juvenile are not
transported in the same car.
This could mean that all
members of the department are
enroute with the prisoners to
Umatilla County at the same
time. They have had them try to
jump from the car.
Under the new criminal code
intoxicated persons, incapable
of caring for themselves are not
under arrest but are held for
detoxification. They usually
aren't taken home because
there they might harm them
selves as well as others.
Morrow County has no place to
put them.
Sheriff Mollahan stands with keys in
hand as he talks to Soroptimist Gub
members. He assures them he has never
used the "Heat Box".
He suggested to members they
stop to see the new facility at
Arlington.
Tour the Jail
About 10 of the Soroptimist
members went up to tour the
jail. "The sweat box" brought
exclamtions. they agreed it
would certainly force behavior
modification as the inmate
could do nothing but stand up
straight. It is even doubtful if he
could scratch his nose.
The massive doors, the lever
closes both or only one door of
the steel cells with a clang that
made everyone glad they were
on the outside and not on the
inside.
Meeting changed
The board meeting will be
held Jan. 25 as usual but Tom
Sullivan with the Governors
Committee on Youth will speak
on Feb. 1 at noon at the Wagon
Wheel. The business meeting
will be held Feb. 8 at the
Neighborhood Center.
Exposed water pipes.
lone Basketball Scores
lone 57 - Union 47
lone 44 - Wheeler 36
lone 53 - Arlington 42
lone 43 - Umatilla 53
lone 29 - Stanfield 30
lone 49 - Condon 59
lone 41 - Dufur 71
lone 67 - Union 58
lone 67 - Umapine 38
lone 60 -Echo 51
lone 50 - Wheeler 37
lone 51 - Riverside 35
lone 53 - Dufur 61
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HELIX
JAN. 26
JV. 6:30
Varsity 8:00
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Jr. Hi Schedule
Jan. 25 at Umatilla 2:00
Feb. 1 vs Echo 2:00
Feb. 8 vs. Riverside 2:00
Feb. 16 vs. Heppner 2:00
Jerry Martin, coach
lone C Schedule
25 vs. Heppner 6:00
30 at Riverside 6:00
3 vs. Heppner 6:30
6 vs. Riverside 6:00
12 vs. Condon 6:00
Feb. 22 at Heppner 6:00
Gordon Meyers, coach
VARSITY
Feb. 2 at Weston
Feb. 3 vs. Umapine
Feb. 9 at Echo
Feb. 10 at Arlington
Feb. 16 vs. Riverside
Feb. 17 at Helix
Feb. 23 vs. Weston
March 8-9-10 Regional Tournament
March 15-16-17 State Tournament
Del LaRue, coach
IONE VARSITY, front row I to r: Paul Peterson.
Mark Rietmann, Kent Gutierrez, Joel Peterson
and Coach LaRue.
Back row I to r: Dick Snider, Mike Warren,
Phil Carlson, David Warren, Gregg Wilson,
Don McCarty.
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