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Jokestrrs at Kinzua Corporation posted this notice on a
utilitv pole near the plant Friday to greet the influx of
hunters and. possibly, to dampen their enthusiasm for the
hunt! It sent the staff on a hunt of its own through the
new -.paper files for the piece of verse w hich appears below. It
was written by Harry W. Fletcher and published in the
Caette-Times'for Oct. 2, 19. It could have Inspired the
author of the sign posted near the Kinzua plant.
Equalization
Oh where is mv wandering husband today .
Well he's out in the hills and far. far away.
He's out with his rifle a-hunting the deer
With chums and a Jeep-load of whiskey and beer.
And who shall assert that he hasn't the right.
So that's whv mv husband is absent tonight.
Each vear he looks forward to having his spree,
without anv qualms or thoughts about me.
He leaves me alone to look after the place
And greet his return with a loving embrace.
Of course I'll be here, where else would I go.
But what I've been doing he never will know.
He thinks 1 11 be knitting or darning his socks
A'l.i!" he goes cavorting -ammt w Ihe rocks, i
The coast is all clear and I sit here alone,
The timing is ripe for a spree of our own.
Come over, my lover, come in the back door.
There's meat on the griddle and liquor galore.
While he's hunting deer, his dear's on the loose.
What's good for the gander is good for the goose.
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Kirdine Tullis. Extension assistant. welcomes Klrstia
Howell. 1. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hoell. lo
the Newcomer Night at the High School Cafrtorium
Ust Tuedav. The balloon and the cookie belong U
KrMia. bvl MitiKM had U bold her hf-kmgings bile
the took a drink of punch.
$1.6
would coEE3lo9o college
The Blue Mountain Com
munity College campui will be
completed within two years if
voters of Morrow and Uma
tilla Counties approve plans
proposed by the board of
education last night.
The board voted unani
mously to ask voters on Nov. 6
to authorize a $1,600,000 bond
issue to construct a physical
education and music facility.
If approved by voters, con
struction could be completed
by the opening of the 1975-76
school year.
Amount of the levy was
reduced by more that $300,000
when the board ordered re
duction of the building from
55,000 to 47,000 square feet.
The approved plan to cut the
size of the main floor and
relocated certain physical
education programs to the
basement.
Board Member Bob Ab
rams, Heppner, suggested the
reduction in size of the
facility, and all other mem
bers agreed. He said he felt
the district needed the com
plete facility that would allow
a full program of health,
recreation and physical edu
cation for residents of Morrow
and Umatilla Counties.
Kenneth Dauble, board
member from Weston, pro
posed a levy of $1,600,000 and
an early vote. With building
costs rising by an average of 1
per cent per month, the
election should be held at the
earliest possible time, he said.
The full board agreed on both
Jbe daieof the election and the
amount of the levy.
Although cost of the facility
is pegged at $1,684,985, state
funds will make up the
difference between the levy
and building costs. President
Wallace McCrae pointed out.
bond
The full facility provides for
a gymnasium, swimming
pool, wrestling and weight
lifting facility, handball, lock
ers, storage and a 3000 square
foot music room. The gym,
although reduced in size, still
allows for two intramural
basketball courts or eight
badminton courts or three
volleyball courts.
McCrae said the facility,
although considerable smaller
than originally proposed, still
retains all the essential ele
ments of a physical education-health-music
program and
would be adequate for both
students and other residents of
Morrow and Umatilla Coun
ties. "The swimming pool," he
said, "is not Olympic size but
is adequate for our purposes
and for recreational and
health needs of our two-county
area. It will be the only
covered pool in the district
that will be available to all
residents of our two counties,"
he added.
Men rood plan
wins approval
At a meeting of the City
Planning Commission last
Wednesday evening action
was taken to approve another
route, alternate B, as the new
relocation road leading- from
the Willow Creek Dam into the
City of Heppner.
The original plan submitted
by the Corps of Engineers,
plan A, met with opposition
from some local residents
because it necessitated re
moval of homes in the area,
and the proposed road itself
had a grade of 8 per cent.
Plan B, although longer, will
have only 1 per cent grade.
There are no homes requiring
removal under this plan,
although it will pass directly
through the center of 10
building sites owned by Mr.
and Mrs. Elwayne Bergstrom,
and located just below Skyline
Drive.
Alternate plan B was ac
cepted with some modifica
tions, one of them being that
an access road be provided for
the residents presently living
on Skyline Drive.
Allowine Chase Street to
remain open is another pro
Trinidad visitor
praises 4-H work
Morrow County entertained
another foreign visitor recent
ly with the arrival of Albert
Ridley Ranjattan, 40, 4-H
Extension Officer from Trini
dad, B. W. I.
For a week he has been the
house guest of C. R. "Dick"
McElligott of lone. He is here
on behalf of the government of
Trinidad to receive training in
4-H work. He started his train
ing in Washington, D. C, in
September and will return to
Trinidad, Dec. 8.
Ranjattan told the Gazette
Times that Trinidad has 45 4-H
Clubs with 1500 members
bet'veen the ages of 9 and 19.
"What you have here is
fantastic," he said. "Imagine,
here youth is taught such
things as forestry, how to
make camps in the outdoors,
how to control fires and
survive with nature. Morrow
County 4 H is a vibrant and
functional one. Very good."
He was impressed, he said,
with the fact that half the
eligible youth of the county is
actively engaged in 4-H work.
He was equally impressed
with the wheat and grain
grow ing capacity of the area.
It was. he said, the first time
he had seen such grain
production, and he enjoyed
riding horses on the McElli
ossfjg
The music facility will
provide classroom space for
general choral and instru
mental instruction, plus prac
tice area.
Based upon present valua
tion of the two-county district
and a ( per cent interest rate,
cost of the bond issue to voters
would be about 25 cents per
$1000 true cash value, McCrae
said.
In other action, the board
approved final plans for a
$40,000 agriculture laboratory
to be constructed on the
campus this fall. To be paid
out of state funds, the building
will include a laboratory for
animal science and one for
farm machinery. It will be
located on the northwest
corner of the campus adjoin
ing the animal laboratory.
The board met again last
night to open bids for outdoor
track and field facilities,
including tennis courts, all to
be paid from state funds.
posal which will be submitted
to the Corps.
The final plan of the road
relocation rests with the Corps
of engineers, and at present
nfiviost figures are available
for plan B, which may be a
determining factor in the
choice of the two plans by the
Corps of Engineers.
The City Planning Com
mission also recommended
for approval a new 40-unit
subdivision with some minor
changes required. The pro
posed site is located in the
River Drive area. Builders of
the units are Bill Nelson,
contractor, and Al Nistad,
general manager, Kinzua
Corporation.
MAN HELD ON
DWI CHARGE
William Henry Padberg Jr.,
49, Heppner, was arrested for
driving while under the in
fluence of liquor, Oct. 8.
Bail was set at $305, and he
was released on his own
recognizance. He is scheduled
to appear in the Morrow
County Court on Oct. 16.
gott and Kirk & Robinson
ranches.
Last week Ranjattan gave a
slide lecture to students of
Heppner High School on 4-H
work and on his country in
general. He also spoke to
three groups at lone High
School. His English is precise
and correct, with no identifia
ble accent.
The visitor has a diploma in
agriculture from the Eastern
Caribbean Institute of Agri
culture and Forestry, Trini
dad; has engaged in Rural
Youth work under sponsorship
of the United Nations: and
earned a diploma in nutrition
from the University of the
West Indies. Jamaica.
He spoke glowingly of his
native Trinidad, which has
had its independence from
Great Britain for only 11
years. Trinidad is a minia
ture United Nations," he said.
We have all races working
together in my country, and
there is no friction. We all get
along well together." There
are large populations of Span
ish. American. English, Ger
man. African, Chinese, Indian
and French people, he said.
English is the official lan
guage, but French is a second
one Hindi ( Indian I is a third.
He is of Indian ancestry, as his
4,000 i'Gsidotivs
BOARDMAN The Board
man City Council last week
began working with the prob
lem of low and medium cost
housing need in the city due to
the increased population.
Mayor Dewey West Jr.
announced that the new count
is 405 certified by the state.
The population is expected to
double or triple within the next
few years, if Portland General
Electric decides to build a
nuclear generating plant west
of the city on land managed by
the Boeing Company.
Boardman's overall popu
lation in the next few years is
expected to reach 4,000, or 10
times its present size. Not only
is the city faced with housing
problems, it is already having
to worry about doing some
thing about a water and
sewage system which will be
needed in the near future.
Jack McFadden of the city
planning commission asked
the council to reconsider
changing the zoning in a
portion of the Faler Addition
to allow construction of mod
ular homes or installation of
mobile home units. He said he
did not mean to turn the area
into a mobile home park, but
Welcome
Night
best yet
: The third annual commun
ity Welcome Night at Heppner
' High School on Oct. 2 featured
displays by community mer
chants. Newcomers were given
pens, key folders, and their
children balloons by Hepp
ner's bankers. Coast-To-Coast
Store passed out yardsticks,
the Gazette-Times gave each
new family an introductory
3-month's subscription. Hepp
ner merchants had set up
interesting displays.
Marth McGowan, Pilot
Rock artist, attracted atten
tion with her instant cartoon
pictures based on a few lines
drawn by viewers. Herman
Winters kept the talking and
introductions to a minimum.
Getting acquainted was the
evening's main event.
The evening was arranged
by the Soroptimist Club, the
Chamber of Commerce and
the South Morrow Ministerial
Association.
last name indicates.
The people do not seem to
resent the influx of American
capitaL Since oil is the No. 4
industry in Trinidad, Ameri
can oil companies have exten
sive concessions there. Agri
culture is also a big business.
Calypso music and the steel
band are "native" to Trim
dad, "and you will hear plenty
of both should you come to
Trinidad in February for
Carnival." he said.
One of the wonders of Trini
dad is its Pitch Lake, 100 acres
of pure, natural asphalt that
seeps up from the earth and
never runs dry. It is used to
surface roads there. "You can
take out a million barrels of
pitch, and by the next morning
the lake will be full again. We
export a lot of it, mainly to
Germany," he explained.
Ranjattan is married and
has five children. The family
lives in a small town near
Trinidad, Tacariqua. He
wants to get back before cold
weather hits.
"I can't stand that cold and
snow," he laughed.
Whereupon he w hipped out a
flash camera, took pictures of
the Gazette-Times editor and
staff, shook hands warmly and
trounced out of the office with
his
guide." B irdine Tullis or
was lookina toward the type of
development where units are
placed on permanent foun
dations that would not be
towed away in a few years.
The land he referred to is
along Columbia Court where
the lots adjoin the Union
Pacific Railroad yard and
would not normally be used
for residential construction.
The council agreed some
changes in the Faler Addition
are needed to promote sales of
lots in the area, but decided
rather than re-zone the tract
the city should curb and pave
it to make the lots more
attractive to potential buyers.
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State Senator Kenneth A. Jernstedt. Hood River, of the
sprawling 28th senatorial district, was a Heppner
visitor Monday and a luncheon guest of the Chamber of
Commerce. Sen. Jernstedt told the Gazette-Times that
the legislature opened a "can of worms" when it
enacted, over his opposition, the law to extend
collective bargaining privileges to teachers and other
public employees. It is now possible, he said, for
organized education to shut down the schools of the
state over wage and benefit disputes.
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the Extension Service.
Ranjattan gave his talk and
slide show at the Morrow
County Chamber of Com
merce meeting Monday. At
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The council also heard a
report on the city sewer and
water problems from Stanley
Wallulis. He said he is trying
to schedule a date to meet with
the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers to discuss using
federal land for the city's
sewage treatment project. He
said the city has applied to be
included in a proposed re
gional water district study.
The city has also applied for
a $7,500 grant to study the
city's housing needs. The city
applied for a similar grant last
year, but the application was
not made in time for funds to
be obtained.
RANJATTAN
the conclusion he said he had
been impressed by the friend
liness and hospitality of the
people of Heppner and of his
host family, tfic McEHigotts.