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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1973)
L I BR AltY 0 Of 0 EUGENE, ORE. 97403 Early winners in Fair coEiipei'.tion Fair booths were completed Monday evening, and the judges announced these plac ings on Tuesday. Youth organization booths: 1st, 4-H Livestock; 2nd, lrri gon 4-H; 3rd, Heppner High Junior Class. A special blue ribbon was awarded the display entered by the 1973 Rodeo Court. Social organizations were led by the lone Garden Club which took the booth sweep stakes purple ribbon and 1st rating in this class. The Neighborhood Center rated 2nd and the Heppner Garden Club placed 3rd. The American Legion Aux iliary was 1st in community service organizations and the Morrow County CowBelles placed 2nd. The Seventh-Day Adventist Church booth won a red ribbon. Paul Miller's rock display took the 1st place in the hobby booth class. Paul Miller's Rock Shop was rated 1st among the commer cial booths. The World Book Encyclopedia display was 2nd and the Soroptimist's Holiday Coffee Shop, 3rd. HORSEMANSHIP No blue ribbon and no trophy went to participants in the senior horsemanship con test this year. County Agent ) 1 ll I l' ' "' I", . i Tom Roberts. Heppner FFA, leads his steer to the bm after unloading him Sunday at the fairgrounds. Mike Howell says that each of the 10 entered was awarded a red ribbon: Barbara Palmer, lone; Marci Linnell, Board man; Denise Henkle, Board man; Vicky Sullivan, Irrigon; Cassie Chapel, lone; Lisa Collins. Heppnerr " Karen Richards, Irrigon; Mary Healy, Heppner; Sherri Kemp, Heppner; Mary Ann Greenup, Heppner. Junior horsemanship champion is Maureen Healy, Heppner, and reserve champ ion is Dana Creamer, Irrigon. Twelve entered this competi tion. The champion rating in intermediate horsemanship was won by Sally Sumner, Heppner, and Janice Healy, Pine City, won reserve champion. Fourteen compet ed. Colt horsemanship is Donna Palmer, lone, and the reserve champion is Mary Ann Proct or, Irrigon, who competed in a group of eight. Susan Johnson, Echo, took the championship in the class of four who entered small fry horsemanship. SHOWMANSHIP Mary Healy, Heppner, was declared champion senior showman and Marci Linnell, Boardman, reserve champ- . (Continued on page 4) THE fP A ap mmim mmmmmw V ol Ml, No. 27 Advice sought on how to Fred Klaboe. state highway engineer and administrator of the Highway Division, asked local government officials in Gilliam, Umatilla, Morrow, Wheeler and Grant Counties on Aug. 16 for assistance in selecting highway projects to receive financing as part of a $150 million bond program authorized during the last legislative session. In a meeting held at the courthouse in Heppner, Klaboe said that the Highway Division was anxious to re ceive local help in determin ing the best use of the $10,455,000 allocated to the state's 12th adminstrative dis Ambulance Robert Lowe of Heppner attended the meeting of The Volunteer Ambulance Associ ation of Oregon at Vale, Aug. 11. Despite the declaration that Eastern Oregon is now con sidered a drouth area, 30 delegates came to the regular quarterly meeting of the Rawlins and tris' snakes a ire of f to Co r n -el l U By JUSTINE WEATHERFORD They're off to Ithaca, N.Y., to attend Cornell University all 13 of them. Morrow County's farm-reared John Rawlins, 23, and his 12 deadly poisonous snakes started East Tuesday. "I expect to achieve a Ph.D. in Aut-Ecology (environmen tal ecology and physiology) in two and one-half years. As a teaching assistant I have been given the responsibility ol guiding, counseling and grad ing 100 of the school's 85C biology majors. I will deliver a lab orientation lecture each Friday. Dr. Harvey Pough is my major professor," Raw lins explained. In June, John and his younger brother, Charles sons of Mr. and Mrs. William Rawlins of Eightmile, drove to Ithaca where John located lodging for the coming year, looked about the Cornell campus and checked in with the Ithaca Community Dram- "I noticed how nice our Rodeo Queen and Court looked in the Gazette-Times, so i am sending this picture which I believe was taken at Pendleton, Sept. 14. 191 1. Maybe some of the old timers will remrmber these girls." So writes Edna Hutchens in submitting this picture of "Cow Girls in the Bully West"" and to call attention to "how times change." TPTTTrTP,iriIIxfIR(')roper,Y assessment up The Department of Revenue County spurt, utility val mmmmumam .' , . : r IniwoacM am 1 in i frvrm 1 v cr Heppner. Ore., August 23. 1973 trict. The $12th administrative" district includes Gilliam, Umatilla, Morrow, Wheeler and Grant Counties. Klaboe advised local offi cials that, "While the newly created Transportation Com mission must by law bear final responsibility in the decision making, the commission be lieves local assistance assures the best possible project selection." He also expressed hope that expected cooperation between all units of local government will go a long way in strengthening the role of the regionally oriented ' admini strative districts. volunteers in association. Thirteen volun teer ambulance services were represented at the meeting. Delegates learned that House Bill No. 2257 which provides for licensing of ambulances and certification of ambulance personnel was passed by the 1973 state legislature and is awaiting the ma Group as he plans to try out for parts in its produc tions. The 12 snakes are all rattlers. John has had as many as 30 snakes as pets at one time. He collected them from Mexico to Canada. One has been with him five years. Kirk Horn, former Heppner High biology teacher, stimu lated John's boyish interest in reptiles; this led to a serious study of herpetology. In 1972 John was graduated from Oregon State University with highest honors and a B.S. in zoology. His undergraduate honors study was on "encour aging fertility in rattlers." He injected estrogen, but found it didn't work with the snakes. In John's collection there are several couples of several different sub-species. He has had one baby snake bred in captivity. John does not "milk" his snakes. For a while the U.S. Army was paying $1,000 a litre for rattlesnake venom, and is j I . t . "V ... use highway Local officials should have no difficulty identifying enough highway improvement projects in the area to make use of the $10.4 million local share. Klaboe noted that the Highway Division has a ready back-log of $500 million in critical needs identified on the state highway system, "The $150 million will make only a small dent," Klaboe said, "but it will be a welcome shot-in-the-arm." He noted that Oregon road users are vell aware of a number of critical deficiencies in the state highway system and have every right to expect that this money will be used meeting governor's signature. This law will require every ambulance operating in Oregon to be manned by at least one emergency medical techni cian. Oregon now has 2,000 trained EMTs. The next meeting will be a dinner meeting at Beaver Creek on Nov. 17. probably paying more now. John does not handle his snakes often. He examines their mouths, especially every three months, for "mouth . rot." None of his rattlers has had the disease, which is easily contracted by the rubber boa, one of this county's rarest snakes. Evidently, snakes are ideal pets in several ways. They don't demand much attention. John had one go 15 months without eating, but he usually feeds his collection once a month. They eat small mam mals and birds-usually mice. It is important to keep them at an 80-90 degree temperature, he said. John served as vice-president and president of the student body at Heppner High School. Before his graduation in 1968 he was active in journalism and dramatics. This last year while he was employed doing ranch work in the county he took leading roles in the Heppner Corn- Top cowboys at Heppner Rodeo Oregon'! world champion team roper is among those cowboys planning to enter the Morrow County Fair Rodeo, Aug. 23-26, according to the Rodeo Cowboys Association. Leo Camarillo, Donald, is among those indicating early that they plan to compete at the Heppner rodeo. The 27-year-old cowboy is making a strong defense of his world championship, having won more that $11,000 in that event alone. His earnings in steer wrestling and calf roping have boosted his earnings to $23,032, good for sixth place in the world all around stand ings. Jack Kelley of Deer Lodge, Mont., who is 11th in the bull riding with more than $8,000, also plans to ride at Heppner. Electricity shortage brings Columbia Basin Electric Manager David Harrison re ports that B.P.A. has issued a letter of urgent request for energy conservation. The Bonneville Power Ad ministration stated that it had hoped for a normal orderly plan. Now it points out that water shortages make it necessary to move into a conservation program at once The need is due to a 15c funds wisely to improve driving safety and efficiency. Klaboe also requested local governments to incorporate citizen participation tech niques in identifying their highway projects and priori ties. He expressed hope that local officials will be creative in providing for full partici pation by all citizens and interest groups. He pointed out that local , citizen advisory committees, well-publicized town hall meetings, and the availability of technical staff to aid citizens can be productive mechanisms for obtaining citizen input. The highway administra tor's visit to Heppner is another in a series that he will make to the 14 administrative districts during the months of August and September to discuss highway planning under the bond program. The members of the Carna tion Club of the Degree of Honor Society will have a food sale Friday, Aug. 24, 9 a.m., at their building on Main Street. munity Drama Club produc tions of Chekhov's "The Boor," Mary Stewart Chase's "Harvey" and Arthur Miller's "Crucible." Although other scholars from the county have attended East Coast colleges, John, as far as is known, is the first to go to Cornell's Graduate School. John and the 12 rattlesnakes will travel in his well-worn Ford. The snakes will be tneether in a flour sack. He has located a place to stay in Ithaca where the landlady will accept small pets, which is the classification John feels fits his poisonous snakes. He will have a month's Christmas break and will probably bring his snakes home for a Christmas dinner of Morrow Countv mice. Snakes are rising in interest with the current release of two movies with snake heroes, "Harry" and "Ssss." Several news media have carried features on snakes in recent issues. Last year, with 187 entries, prize money was $6,385. This year cowboys will add their entry fees--$20 in the riding and team roping events and $25 in the timed -to another : ; - . j V lV( C "'V ' .X.,.. mi V LEO CAMARILLO deficit in energy being pro duced in the region due to the low stream flows. Columbia Basin requests voluntary help from the members. Residential users are asked to cut back on uses of hot water if possible, use the range efficiently, and turn off appliances and lights when not in use. Commercial users are asked to eliminate or mini has finished certifying cen trally assessed property val ues totaling nearly $2.5 billion dollars to Oregon counties for use in setting their tax rates. County assessors are re sponsible for valuations of residential property, com mercial property, etc.; within their county. The Department of Revenue, however, assess es utility properties through out the state and advises counties of those values. This is done primarily to assure a uniform assessment of major properties statewide. The centrally assessed val ues are added to locally assessed values from which a tax rate is computed for each taxing district. This year's total of $2,475, 953,888 certified to the coun ties is up 9 per cent over last year's $2,270,866,132. Property value assessment in Morrow County is $15,592, 896, up 1 per cent from 1972; Gilliam, $13,742,394, up 1 per cent; Wheeler County, $1, 024,200, up 1 per cent; and Umatilla County, $64,411,548, up 6 per cent. , Columbia County registered the single largest jump from $52.3 million to almost $131 million-a 150 per cent in crease. Most of that increase comes from Portland General Electric Company's construc tion of its Trojan nuclear plant located there. Other, than the Columbia , fcvwaw i nun nil i f mmmrmj n. .; ' . i f ill JOHN RAWLINS $1,500 purse. Entries for the rodeo, which is being produced by the Double R Rodeo Co. of Prineville, Ore., will close at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24. JACK KELLEY curbs on use mize both internal and exter nal lighting. Businesses are asked to raise the tempera ture of air conditioning by 2 per cent F. and minimize the use of hot water. All members are asked to consider lowering the thermo-; stat 2 degrees in winter for ; lowering electric heating use.-: I.ikplv the critical water-' levels will result in the request being applicable through April of 1974. County spurt, utility value increases are uniformly scat tered around the state with only one county, Jefferson, registering a decrease; and that was a scant one per cent. For many years Pacific Northwest Bell and its prede cessor company, Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph, held the distinction of being the tax payer with the highest true cash value of utility property in the state. This year that position is occupied by Port land General Electric Com pany. Curbs off on use of city wafer Restrictions on the use of water within Heppner city limits have been lifted, ac cordingto Bert Corbin, Super intendent of public works. "Removal of air from exist ing mains has helped increase water pressure in various parts of the city," Corbin said, "and the weather has also been an important factor." The evenings have cooled down and residents are not watering their lawns and gardens as they were last month.
