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Location of a solid waste
disposal site is apparently
headed for a solution following
Monday night's meeting of the
Morrow County Solid Waste
Study.
Without protest, the advi
sory committee approved a
site about a mile north of
Heppner, known as the Turner
Site, although there will be a
problem in getting roads to the
location. Ironically, this was
the choice of the committee
when it first began wrestling
with the waste disposal prob
lem last February.
Dale Turner, co-owner of
the property, agreed to lease
15 acres of the land to the city
for a period of 10 years at a
cost to the city of $75 a month.
John McDonald, consultant
from Clark & Groff, engi
neers, said that 10 acres
should be sufficient for county
New wheat
A new soft white wheat
variety is now available
through the Morrow County
Extension office.
Harold Kerr, extension
agent, announced the new
wheat variety "McDermid"
will be allocated to wheat
producing counties based on
previous production of soft
white wheat.
McDermid was . developed
by Dr. Warren Kronstad,
plant breeder at Oregon
State University. It has better
winter hardiness than the
Hyslop variety and seems to
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The second annual Harvest
Festival was held here Satur
day, sponsored by the Board
man Lions Club.
Delbert Ball was chairman.
Festivities started with a
dinner Friday night at Dodge
City Inn, attended by various
dignitaries, including queen
contestants, judges, the press
and committee members,
bringing the total to 42. Mrs.
Joe Tatone, assisted by Mrs.
Gene Trumbull, was in charge
of the four contestants.
The girls were judged in
formal gowns, then in bathing
suits, with music furnished by
"The Chameleons," music
group from The Dalles. Do
lores Hilling was chosen
queen, and princesses were
Debbie Hug, Beverly Hinkiey
of Boardman and Gerri Eve
rett of Irrigon.
Also attending were last
year's king and queen, Gene
and Jeannie Miller. Miller
crowned this year's king,
Merle Carlson.
The girls were presented
gifts from the D & S
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Lions Club President Bill Nelson presents Delores
Hilling. Boardman, rotes after she was crowned
Queen of the annual Boardman Harvest Festival in
Boardman Satardav.
disposal site
quick
needs, even allowing for
growth, for a 10-vear period.
Since rejection of the Black
horse Canyon Road site near
Lexington a couple of months
ago, 23 other sites have been
examined. In all cases except
the Turner Site, McDonald
said, owners of the land were
opposed, the soil was too
shallow, or they were to close
to the Morrow County Airport.
Site R, the Turner Site, was
the only one examined that
met soil depth requirements
or that could be acquired
without condemnation pro
ceedings, being brought a
gainst the owners.
County Judge Paul Jones
told the committee the county
has seldom resorted to con
demnation to acquire land for
public use.
The Department of Environ
mental Quality (DEQ) plans
variety offered farmers
be more drouth resistant. The
new variety resembles Hyslop
and is planted and fertilized
like Hyslop.
According to Kerr, the
wheat will be allocated to
growers who agree to offer 50
per cent of their production for
sale. It must be planted on
land which has been in double
summer fallowed or was
planted to club wheat or
barley the last time is was in
crop.
McDermid will cost $10.80
per bushel and will be treated
and bagged in 60-pound sacks.
Festival held
Construction Company of
Yakima, the queen receiving a
dozen red roses. Miss Hug was
chosen Miss Congeniality by
the other contestants.
Judges were Gloria Chil
dress of Umatill, Bernadine
Millering of La Grande, Herb
Jarvis of Tri-Cities, and Chuck
Stone of Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Bill Nelson, Lions Club
president, crowned the queen
at the ceremonies Saturday at
11 a.m. in Nelson Square.
From 8-11 a.m. Saturday a
pancake breakfast was served
at the Greenfield Grange hall.
In charge were Oscar Shoe
make, I.M. Docken and Ball.
In the afternoon games and
boat races were held at the
Marina. Refreshment stands
were busy. Some of the money
made at the games was to be
used to buy uniforms for the
Babe Ruth baseball league. In
charge of the games were
Docken, Shoemake and Bill
Starke.
The day concluded with a
dance at the grange hall, with '
music by the"Chameleons."
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to close the Heppner and
Lexington disposal sites. Mc
Donald told the group that
DEQ had already inspected
and tentatively approved the
Turner Site.
There was some discussion
over the method of financing
the new disposal operation.
McDonald said the $75 month
ly rental amounts to about
cents per family per month for
rental of property only. There
was some objection to a
suggestion that county reve
nue sharing funds be used "in
the beginning" to finance the
operation until other means of
funding could be worked out.
It was argued that tax
payers in the north end of the
county would be getting
nothing from investment of
their funds in the disposal
operation near Heppner.
Judge Jones pointed out that
The grower also must agree
to enter his field in the
certification program and
must be sold as grain and not
marketed as commerical
seed.
The new variety has been
tested in nursery trials the
past few years as 130-5 and has
proven to be a consistent high
yielder. This year's plots at
the Frank Anderson farm
showed McDermid yielding
22.5 bushel as compared to
20.8 for Hyslop or Gaines.
Nugaines yielded 22.3 bushel
in the same trials.
The hall was decorated in a
harvest theme by Mrs. Earl
Trudeau and Mrs. Bill Starke.
Earl Trudeau was chairman
of the dance.
A large crowd witnessed the
Harvest Festival parade held
at noon Saturday.
Earl Trudeau, assisted by
Joe Bartlett, was in charge of
the line-up. Heading the pa
rade was the color guard by
the Cub Scout Pack 667. Fol
lowing was the parade mar
shal, Delmer Hug, and the
queen and princesses. There
were 11 floats furnished by
Umatilla Army Depot, Tilli
cum Club, Willow Run Golf
Gub, Boardman Community
Church, Morrow Produce
Company, Shell Chemical,
A.C. Houghton Kindergarten,
Dodge City Inn, West Exten
sion Irrigation District, Im
perial Electric and King of
Spuds-Merle Carlson.
Riding groups and the
following queens and courts,
Morrow County Rodeo, Uma
tilla Sage Riders, Pee Wee
Rodeo, Arlington Rodeo, and
the 4-H riding groups from
both Irrigon and Boardman.
The U.S. Navy had two trucks
in the parade, their fire truck
and a tanker. At the finish
were the Boardman fire truck
and the Rural Fire District
truck.
The parade started on the
south side ot the treeway,
coming across the over pass
down Main Street to Front
Street, N.W., then around the
ock-4owaFirst--Street---ta
Boardman Avenue, then back
to Main Street, going down to
the railroad overpass, turning
on Columbia Avenue.
Planning commission
lists Monday agenda
The Morrow County Plan
'ning Commission will meet
Monday, Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., in
the courtroom of the county
court house.
The agenda will include
presentation of plans by
Columbia Basin Electric Co-op
for new Ione-Olex transmis
sion line to replace the present
one; discuss km of a reason
able penalty for failure to
obtain building permits; im
pact of various laws passed by
the last state legislature; and
a review of the status of Blake
& Penland recreational devel
opments. Mrs. Dorris L. Graves.
Boardman and Irrigon'do not
have the waste problem Hepp
ner and Lexington have,
because both those towns have
three years to go on a contract
with Hermiston to process
their waste.
McDonald noted that "every
person generates waste and
should be required to pay" his
share of its disposal.
Judge Jones said he foresaw
a county-wide solid waste
ordinance, with public hear
ings, on the question of
financing the disposal oper
ation. McDonald will proceed with
submission of the Turner Site
plan to the DEQ while plans
for financing it will be
explored.
But the disposal site, agree
able to all parties concerned,
has been approved by the
advisory committee.
Growers interested in re
ceiving an allocation of foun
dation seed should contact the
extension office.
THE
. Vol 90. No. 30
Record ulieaf crop predicted for
"When Secretary of Agricul
ture Earl Butz announced the
1974 Wheat Allotment Aug. 16,
he cleared the way for Oregon
farmers to produce the state's
greatest wheat crop in his
tory," said Oregon Agricul
ture Director Irvin Mann, Jr.
Mann said, "It is not
unreasonable to predict a
yield for the state next year of
50 million bushels".
That is 15 million bushels
more than is anticipated this
year.
Several factors lend them
selves to this forecast. First
and most important is that for
the first time in a number of
years the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, under terms of
the new Wheat Allotment
Program, will permit farmers'
Schools move to
cut power usage
Morrow County School Dis
trict Supt. Ron Daniels has
announced guidelines for the
conservation of energy by all
school district employees.
A five-point program to
reduce consumption of power
includes the following pro
cedures :
All classroom lights will be
turned off when not in use, and
hall lights and outside lights
will not be used wherever
possible.
Use of gymnasiums for
general purposes will be.
limited fo one night per week
except in emergencies. Total
gym lighting will be used only
whe it is necessary for a par
ticular activity in progress or
particular activity in pro
gress, such as PE classes- or ,
evening activities.
Lower hot water temper
atures and room tempera
tures will be maintained, with-
chairman, reminds the public
that this is an open meeting.
Anyone may attend to observe
the proceeding, ask questions,
or informally present his plan
for development prior to a
formal hearing on an appli
cation. Other members of the
commission are : Mrs. Alma
Green, secretary, Heppner;
Roy W. Lindstrom, vice-chairman,
lone; Orville Cutsforth
Jr., Lexington; Ed Dick,
Heppner; Mrs. Virginia
Gneb, Lexington; Max Hell
berg, Hermiston; Ernest
Jorgensen, Irrigon; and Har
old Rash, Boardman.
oardmao tackles
sewera
B MARY I KE MARI.OW
A $5,000 contract to study
Boardman 'i sewerage prob
lems was approved by the
Boardman City Council at its
meeting Tuesday night of last
week.
The council hired Engineer
Stanley Wallulis of Pendleton,
who has served as unofficial
advisor for the project the
past two months.
Funds for the study will be
taken from the city's contin
gency and road fund accounts,
according to Councilman Joe
Tatone, who negotiated the
pact. The road fund will be
tapped because the city may
have to relocate one street to
accommodate expansion of
the sewage treatment plant.
Wallulis said the city should
explore the possibility of
relocating Marine Drive to
make available between 30
and 40 acres of Corps of Engin
eer land for the expanded
plant.
The engineer said Board
man has no "priority rating"
with the Oregon Department
of Environmental Quality
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to grow all the wheat they can
without being penalized. In
years past if a farmer
produced more than his allot
ment, he was penalized for it
by forced reductions in wheat
, plantings later. Secretary
Butz assured farmers last
week they would not be
penalized for expanded plant
ings next year.
Mann said, "Governor Tom
McCall asked Butz to do this in
1972."
With restrictions lifted and
encouraged more by this
year's record high payments
for wheat, Oregon farmers are
likely to increase their wheat
acreages considerably for
next year's market.
This year 1,010,000 acres are
being harvested in Oregon.
out sacrificing comfort.
Schools will request that a
power company represent
ative meet with the mainte
nance people to advise on
, other methods of reducing the
use of power.
Night football practice has
been eliminated. All JV and
freshman games will be
played during davtime (sub
ject to mutual agreement of
the schools involved).
A decision on the time to
play varsity football games
was to have been made at a
league meeting Wednesday
night.
CC hears
forester,
coach
Heppner's football coach,
Chuck Starr, and Ernie
Labart, unit forester, spoke at
the noon luncheon of the
Heppner Chamber of Com
merce meeting, at the Elks
Club, Monday.
Coach Starr reported on last
week's Heppner-Union game
which Heppner won 48-0. He
introduced his team and spoke
about this year's football
season.
Ernie Labart, unit forester
from Fossil, gave a slide
presentation on the 1971 Ore
gon Forest Practice Act,
which replaces the 1941 Ore
gon Conservation Act.
The new act went into effect
July 1, and consists of five
conservation practices : refor
estation, roads, harvesting,
chemicals and slash.
According to Labart. these
practices will protect the soil,
air, water, and wildlife resources.
ge
(DEQ) but that the DEQ is
aware of the seriousness of the
city's problem and has agreed
to do whatever it can to push
the program.
The engineer predicted the
city will be able to meet the
new federal regulations by
simply expanding its present
lagoon treatment system. He
explained that federal regula
tions state that no pollutants
will be allowed to enter
navigable waters by 1985, and
that almost everyone in
Eastern Oregon will have
gone to that system by the
deadline.
In addition to the $5,000
contract, Wallulis was also
hired at $100 a month to handle
day-to-day engineering prob
lems for Boardman. Under the
contract, he will be available
to the city council and
planning commission to ad
vise on developments and
general engineering.
Wallulis urged the city 'to
take steps to upgrade the
Boardman water supply or be
faced with rationing next
year. The engineer previously
said that some Boardman
residents use much more
Heppner, Ore., Sept. 13, 1973
Early predictions put the yield
at 38 million bushels, but
severe drouth conditions in
Eastern Oregon has caused
that figure to be revised down
to 35 million bushels. This
would put the state average
yield per acre at 35 bushels.
The extremely dry summer in
some Eastern Oregon wheat
producing areas has pulled the
average down dramatically.
Yields in some of those areas
are as little as 10 bushels per
acre while in the Willamette
Valley yields of as much as 100
bushels or more per acre have
been reported.
The USDA Crop Reporting
Service says it would take
plantings of at least 1.2 million
acres to reach that 50 million
bushel yield in the state.
Furniture
re-upholstery
class offered
An evening class in furni
ture re-upholstery will be
offered locally through Blue
Mountain Community Col
lege's adult education and
community service.
Liz Curtis will instruct the
class which starts Thursday,
Sept. 20, at the Lexington
School building. The sessions
will be from 7 to 10 p.m. and
tuition is $15.
The course deals with tech
niques of upholstering a chair,
selection of Materials, spring
tying, stuffing and final cover.
problem
water than do persons In
almost every other city in the
state.
He said the city must now
consider finding anotner
source of water and Install
equipment to protect and
measure the flow from Board
man's present well. There is
only 40 feet of water over the
well's pump pick-up and that
if the level drops below the
pick-up it would burn out the
pump and stop the flow of
water into the city.
City hall urges residents to
conserve the water supply and
remember that it takes elec
tricity to pump water. Every
gallon of water not used now
will mean that much more
electricity for use this winter.
The Boardman City Council
voted at its meeting last week
to send a council represen
tative to each of the Port of
Morrow monthly meetings,
and to invite port members to
sit in on the council sessions.
The port is studying the
possibility of operating an
industrial sewage treatment
facility that may be able to be
Oregon farmers have planted
that number in the past.
Wheat was harvested off
slightly more that 1.2 million
acres in Oregon in 1953. The
yield that year was a little
more than 34 million bushels,
but this was long before the
development of new wheat
varieties which have in many
cases doubled production.
In 1953 farmers were en
couraged to plant beyond their
E-TOJES
NFO lays plans
for state meet
Plans for attending the state
convention of the National
Farmers Organization were
made at a Tuesday morning
breakfast by Morrow County
members of NFO.
The state convention will be
held at Ontario, Ore., Sept.
21-22. The district meeting will
be held at 7:30 p.m., Friday,
and the state meeting on
Saturday, Sept. 22.
Speakers -include DeVonne
Woodland, national vice-president
of NFO; a speaker from
California who will discuss
corporate trends in agricul
ture; Rep. Jack Sumner, who
will speak on legislative
matters as they affect agricul
ture ; a welcome address by
the mayor of Ontario; and
other speakers who will report
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Geer, Fossil, bold their twin daughters,
Stacie and Tracie, born at Pioneer Hospital, Sept. 3. Stacie
was born at 12:31 p.m. and Tracie at 1 :24 p.m. They weighed
4 pounds 4 ounces and 4 pounds S ounces, respectively.
Grandparents are Mrs. Opal Geer, Fostil, and Mrs. Edna
Moore, Monument. Great-grandparents are Mrs. Ellen
Moore, Monument, Mrs. Maggie Barber, Stan fie Id, and Mrs.
Editb Geer. Hermiston.
keyed into the city's system.
The port is working on a
number of projects that the
city should be aware of and
which may benefit the com
munity. In other action the council
received notification of Sabre
Farms and East Oregon
Farmings plans to pump
irrigation water from the
Columbia River Just outside
the Boardman city limits. The
council agreed to the project,
which is expected to spur
industrialization of the Port of
Morrow's food processing
park.
The council received word
from the federal Housing and
Urban Development (HUD)
department that it has shelved
Boardman's application from
the new communities project,
based on Boeing's withdrawal
from the program. HUD said
Boardman may re-apply at a
later time.
The council agreed to apply
for a surplus fire truck
through the Morrow County
Office of Emergency Pre
paredness (Civil Defense) at
Heppner.
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allotments, then they were
penalized for it. In 1954 they
were moved back to 888,000
acres. So, since that time,
farmers feared overplanting
for fear of being penalized.
"Now, with penalties re
moved, the price up, new
high-yield wheat varieties a
vailable, and with favorable
weather, a 50 million bushel
yield for the state is certainly"
a possibility," Mann said.
on current farm problems.
According to Herman Blet
tell, grain chairman of the
local unit, there will be
considerable time spent dis
cussing how the price tag put
on agricultural products
maintains equity of trading,
as long as a parity relation
ship is maintained.
In other action, the mem
bers voted unanimously in
favor of a resolution to ask
withdrawal of parking meters
from the streets of Heppner;
and,
Approved a resolution to
activate rain-making pro
grams on a state-wide basis.
The meeting was held at
Beecher's in lone. President
of the 55-member county unit
is Gene Logan.