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Activity in the Morrow
County Schools will resume
Wednesday, Aug. 29, with all
teachers attending a district
wide inservice program at
Riverside Junior-Senior High
School.
Topics to be covered are the
new graduation requirements,
proposed revisions in the
minimum state standards,
implementation of the new
social studies textbook adop
tion, proper use of the EIS
science series kits and a look
at 1973 legislation affecting
educators.
On Thursday, Aug. 30,
teachers will attend local
building orientation sessions,
and Friday, Aug. 31, will be a
teacher workday in prepara
tion for the opening of school.
The first day of school for all
Morrow County pupils will be
Tuesday, Sept. 4. The day will
be used for students registra
tion, class assignments, and
the issuance of textbooks. All
schools will operate until 1:30
p.m., with all students being
dismissed at that time.
School buses will operate on
the same routes and time
schedules as they did at the
close of last year, and all
cafeterias will be in operation.
Heppner High School, lone
Junior-Senior High School and
Riverside Junior -Senior High
School will have personnel on
duty Aug. 27, 28 and 29. All
students should confirm their
pre-registration schedule and
pay student body fees on one
of these three days.
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activity
Aug. 29
lone Elementary, A.C.
Houghton Elementary and
Heppner Elementary will
register new students on
Friday, Aug.31. All other
students will register the first
regular day of school, Sept. 4.
Student body fees should be
paid at the time of registra
tion. Standard fees for stu
dents grades 1-6 at lone and
A.C. Houghton Elementary
. and Heppner grades 1-8 are
$1.50 room fee and $1 for
student insurance. Heppner
also has a $2 towel fee charge
for students grades 7-8.
For grades 7-8 at Riverside
Junior High and lone Junior
High the charges are: $6
student body, $1 insurance and
$2 towel fee. For grades 9-12 at
lone, Riverside and Heppner
the charges are: $6 student
body, $8 textbook rental, $3
insurance and $2 towel fee.
In addition to the above
listed fees there are other
optional charges depending on
classes selected and whether
or not the student desires to
purchase a school annual.
School lunch tickets will also
be available at the time of
registration. The charge re
mains the same as last year at
25 cents per meal.
All school principals will be
returning to the district. They
are Mick Tolat, principal at
A.C. Houghton Elementary;
Dan Daltoso, principal at
Riverside Junior-Senior High
School; Jim Bier, Heppner
High School; Don Cole, prin
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Looking north, the city of Heppner is shown cradled in a
valley between high rolling hills in this aerial photograph ,
Taken last month. 10 x 10-inch copies of several aerial views
of the town may be purchased at the Gazette-Times office.
Also available are enlargements of the city, 40 x 32 inches,
suitable for framing.
cipal at Heppner Elementary;
and John Edmundson, princi
pal at lone High and Elemen
tary schools.
The teaching staif will have
six new members. New to the
district are as follows: Hepp
ner Elementary, Virginia
Liebertz, special education;
Eddie Sherman, math and
coaching; Cathy Terney,
language arts; Heppner High,
James Ackley, instrumental
music; lone High, Marvin
Peterson, industrial arts;
Riverside Junior-Senior High,
Fay Bunker, Spanish and
social studies.
Anticipated enrollments are
as follows: A.C. Houghton
(Grades 1-6), 170; Riverside
Junior-Senior High School
(Grades 7-12), 175; Heppner
Elementary (Grades 1-8). 375:
Heppner High (Grades 9-12),
188; lone Elementary (Grades
1-6), 94; lone Junior -Senior
High (Grades 7-12), 99.
Parents are again reminded
that first grade students must
present birth certificates at
the time of registration. Also
first and ninth grade students
must present a health exami
nation form signed by the
examing physician.
PREMIUM BOOKS
ARE AVAILABLE
Fair premium books are
available at the Morrow
County Extension Office,
Gilliam and Bisbee Building,
Heppner, or by calling the
Fair Board Secretary, Mrs.
Glenn Smith at 676-9143.
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Wheat and stubbie burned approxiamately 300 acres cn
the Frank Anderson Ranch, at Anderson Camp. The
fire started about 8 a.m. Friday, Aug. 3. The fire is
thought to have started from a faulty exhaust of a
pick-up truck driving in the area. According to Bill
Weatherford. "The wheat destroyed was as good a
crop as I have seen anywhere in the county."
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Severance tax
worth $20,494
The Department of Revenue
has made the final payment to
counties of the Eastern Ore
gon Severance Tax Fund,
Morrow County received
$20,494.32.
The Eastern Oregon Sever
ance Tax is a 5 per cent tax on
timber harvested in Eastern
Oregon and paid to the
Department of Revenue in lieu
of ad valorem taxation. This is
then distributed to the coun
ties to use in the budgets.
The reserve surplus fund
was any amount collected by
the Department of Revenue
over a base figure that was set
in 1964. As the base was a fixed
figure, and timber harvests
grew, the reserve surplus
distributed to the counties on
the basis of one-third of its
total each year, was soon
greater than the base distri
bution. To remedy this situation,
the 1971 Legislature voted to
phaseout the reserve surplus
fund over a three-year period.
The final payments totaling
$580,760.70 have now been
distributed to the counties by
the Department of Revenue.
MOVING FROM HEPPNER
Rev. and Mrs. Don Burwell,
who have served the Assem
bly of God Church for three
years, have moved to Albany
with their Children, Cindy 4,
Tony, 2, and Alecia, 1.
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cSty water problem
A water quality control
board was formed Monday
night by the City of Hcppner
Common Council to meet and
discuss plans for a long-range
water plan to solve problems
facing the city.
The seven-man board will
allow concerned citizens to
meet with engineers and
report back to the council.
The board consists of L.E.
Dick. Clinton McQuarrie, Le
roy Gardner, Gene Pierce,
Dick Sargent, Herman -Winter
and Glen Ward.
' Letters have been sent to the
group informing them of their
appointment by the city. It
will be up to the new board to
plan its first meeting and elect
officers.
.ccording to Bert Corbin,
public works superintendent,
the recent water shortage has
improved.
Etisvrom
Richard A. Ekstrom is the
new Seattle district manager
for the Social Security Admin
istraion. Ekstrom. 35, assumed his
duties last week.
He graduated from lone
High School in 1955 and is
married to the former Sue
Coleman, daughter of Mrs.
Ida Coleman of lone. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Mike Benge
A national League of Family '
was attended in Washington,
DC, by seven Oregon fami
lies, accompianied by Mike
Benge of Heppner, former
Communist prisoner of war in
Vietnam. Although a civilian,
working for the government
for AID. area development
adviser. Mike Benge spent
five years as a POW.
Benge agreed to accompany
the seven families, as a
. concerned individual only, in
his crusade for a solution to
the question, "What has
happened to the servicemen
listed as Missing in Action who
have not been returned to
their homes?"
"This was part of the
agreement and terms of the
truce which have not been
fulfilled by the Communists,"
he said.
Benge's ambition since his
release as a prisoner has been
to try to find the truth of why
there are over 1,200 service
men still listed as MIAs
(missing in action) who are
not accounted for. There are
discrepancies between the
United States and the North
Vietnamese governments as
to the whereabouts of these
men.
Some of the captured men
have been used for propo
ganda purposes, according to
taped recordings and letters
sent by the men, yet their
existence as well as their
whereabouts remains un
known. Some South Vietnamese
prisoners have told officials of
their stay in prisons with the
Americans and say they are
stili alive. Vet, at present
there whereabouts remains
un -known.
Along with the MIAs, there
Kindergarten
Information
meeting set
Don Cole, grade school
principal, has scheduled a
general information meeting
for all parents of prospective
kindergarten children.
The meeting will be held
Tuesday. Aug. 21, 1 p.m., at
the grade school auditorium.
Cole will answer questions
concerning kindergarten at
this time. Also, anyone wish
ing to apply for financial aid
may do so at this meeting or in
a private interview with Cole.
Parents may register their
children in kindergarten with
Mrs Wahl at the grade school
office any week day.
Kindergarten starts" Sept. 4.
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In other business, newcom
ers as well as residents of
llcppncr may soon be faced
with the possibility of a fine if
they fail to comply with the
State of Oregon plumbing
code.
Clyde Alstott stated, "If a
trailer is pulled off a lot and
another one pulled on, the new
resident should appear before
the city council and apply for a
permit." .
In many cases a trailer is
moved from one lot to
another with no permit being
issued.
The new owner Just hooks up
to the existing sewer and
water services and doesn't
worry about permits. In many
cases the service is laid atop
the ground or just deep enough
to avoid detection by city
officials. This type of hook-up
heeds SSA onkom Somk
Ekstrom Sr., lone.
Ekstrom is a graduate of
Eastern Oregon College in
two, and has worked for the
Social Security Administra
tion since that time. Most of
his experience has been in the
Seattle office, but he formerly
was district manager of the
Salem office. Before that, he
was in LaGrande. Wenatchee,
Hcppner, Ore., August 9, 1973
takes MIA case to White
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are 17 newsmen also missing,
Shean Flynn. Time photo
grapher, son of the late Errol
Flynn. is among the missing.
While in Washington, D.C.,
the small group met with
members of Henry Kissen
ger's staff. General Kingston,
and Dr. Shield, and Frank
Seibert, representatives of the
Department of Defense, as
well as other White House
officials.
Meetings have been held by
the National League of Fami
lies to determine a course of
action for the non-cooperation
of the two governments, and
also to appoint new officers in
order to acquire a full
accounting of the MIAs.
Sunday, July 29, the League
marched to the White House
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is against all plumbing codes
of the State of Oregon, and
could result in a fine of $100 or
50 days in Jail, or both.
However, this law is not
enforced by the city at this
time.
Authorization was granted
to have the existing parking
meters repaired. A two-year
contract will be made with the
Rockwell Company whereby
the city will send in five
meters per month for repairs.
The meters will be repaired
and returned to the city, and
upon their receipt, another
five meters will be shipped.
The cost of repairing the
existing 118 meters will be
about $10 per meter, depend
ing on the work required to put
them in satisfactory working
condition. $500 has been alloc
ated in the new fiscal budget
for the repairs.
Wn., Berkeley, Ca., then to the
regional office in Seattle.
Ekstrom will oversee ex
panded services after next
January when state welfare
programs for the aged, blind
and disabled are absorbed into
the new federal Supplemental
Security Income program.
Federalization of adult-welfare
programs into the Social
Security System was approv
and held a - silent " "prayer '
meeting", completely unan
nounced and contrary to White
House protocol. , The MIA
bracelets were then given to
Mike Benge, who approached
the steps to the White House
and asked if "any member of
the staff would accept them."
Contrary to policy, a mem
ber of Henry Kissenger's staff
met Benge and accepted the
bracelets, saying he would
distribute them among the
staff of the White House. He
also assured Benge they would
wear the bracelets until a
proper accounting of the MIAs
was made.
The president also issued an
appeal to North Vietnam and
other concerned countries
saying every humanitarian
Teenage chatter. Japanese style. This was the first
order of business for these Japaaese girls as they met
at a potluck dinner in their honor Friday at the 0r-t
House Park. The girls are staying with hosts in tfcc
area and had not keen each other since their arrival in
Heppner.
The council passed on the
following building permits,
Norman Lynn, tool shop and
hobby shop to be located at 490
S. Court St., and approved a
modular home on the Lott
subdivision.
Granted a variance to Ray
Tholberg, 575 S. Court. The
Hodman property at 315
Linden Way, also considered
for a variance, must first be
approved by City Attorney
Bob Abrams.
Liquor licenses approved by
the council included the fol
lowing: Elks Club, Cal'a
Lounge and Cafe, Hamlin's,
Bucknum's Tavern, and the
Court St. Market.
The third reading of Ordi
nance No. 386 as to the
removal and deposit of waste
on private property was read
for the third time and ap
proved by the council.
ed by Congress last fall.
He and Mrs. Ekstrom have
three daughters, Vickie, who
is spending the summer with
her aunt, Mrs. . Len Ray
Schwartz; Karen and (Cath
erine, who are visiting the
Ekstroms Sr. in lone while
their son and daughter-in-law
are getting settled into their
new work.
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House
effort should be made for the
accounting.
Benge plans to visit Laos
sometime in October to offer
his support to the families of
servicemen still missing in
action.
He plans to visit Vietnam
and do some research on
projects in which he person
ally participated as an area
development adviser.
Later, he plans to retire to
Baggio, a small community
located in the mountains of the
Philippines, and write a book.
He plans to relate the mis
takes of the United States,
Vietnam, and Southeast Asia
during the recent conflict, and
to discuss foreign policies now
in effect in under-developed
countries.