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increase
"Drugs are on the increase
in Morrow County," according
to Carolyn Davis, Morrow
County Juvenile Director, who
spoke to the Heppner-Morrow
Chamber of Commerce Mon
day. "Morrow County has a very
serious 'minor in possession'
problem", she pointed out.
"And lowering the drinking
age would aggravate this
problem further." '
"So far this year we have
had 90 juvenile cases and last
year for the entire year we
had only 86." she added. Many
Juveniles
arrested,
gas theft
Two juveniles. 14 and 17
vears of age, were cited by
Heppner City Police at 1:30
a.m. Monday morning for
stealing gas from a parked car
near Chase St.
The youths had in their
possession six five-gallon con
tainers which they informed
officers they had also stolen.
According to reports, the
two youths planned to run
away from home and needed
the gas for their trip. They
planned to fill the tank of their
car. then fill all the containers
with gas from various parked
cars, and drive to Washington.
Parker
The March of Dimes National Foundation is the
recipient of a $20,000 grant from the Trannie B. Parker
estate.
The Morrow County chapter, under the chairman
ship of Donna Bergstrom. received $7,500 of the grant,
the percentage due the county in which the grant was
made The local board members will meet in the near
future to decide allocation of the funds.
Board members include Mrs. Bergstrom; Pat
Gentrv. Count v treasurer: Carolyn Cole, Mother s
March county chairman: Cindy Green, coin collectors
and school cards chairman; and Sheree Mahoney.
mailer chairman Area Mother's March chairmen are
Dim MiEwen. appears to be wearing a witch's hat.
Actually, he is engaged In painting a Heppner
merchant's window for Halloween. Winner of the
Halloween "art contest" receives a small gift.
Director:
use on
of these cases included runa
ways, MIPs, and a variety of
arrests."
The director suggested that
educating the community,
parents and children is a good
way to prevent more crime.
Morrow County has an
added asset in educating the
community.
"The Morrow County Juve
nile Advisory Committee,
made up of students and
community members, meet
twice a month to discuss
problems in the community,"
said Miss Davis.
This year the Advisory
Committee conducted the
Drug Awareness Session' in
October and the Responsible
Adulthood Conference, held
last week. Both these educa
tion programs were held in
Heppner and in Boardman.
The Drug Awareness session
was aimed at introducing
drugs to parents. The Respon
sible Adulthood Conference
allowed high school juniors
and seniors, with parental
permission, to attend discus
sion sessions on topics con
cerning adulthood.
The director discussed her
job as juvenile director and
probation officer and counse
lor. "This department is not
only a court for hearing cases
but is also a counseling
center," pointed out Carolyn
Davis. "I feel students need a
sounding board just to express
their feelings. In Morrow
County I tackle a lot of family
problems."
esate gives $20,000
here
"In addition the Morrow
County Juvenile Department
is fortunate in having agencies
such as the police, sheriff,
schools, attorneys, and com
munity organizations cooper
ating in these programs," she
said.
Concluding her talk. Miss
Davis said there is a real need
for foster homes in Morrow
County. These include emer
gency, short term and long
term homes.
Football
banquet
Nov. 14
Heppner High School's foot
ball team will be honored at a
banquet, Wednesday, Nov. 14,
7 p.m., in the high school
cafetorium, according to Dean
Naffziger. athletic director.
Football awards will be
presented.
The banquet is open to the
public for a $2 per person
charge. Advanced tickets
must be purchased by Friday.
Nov. 9. in order for prepara
tions to be made. Tickets will
be on sale at Peterson's
Jewelers. Bank of Eastern
Oregon. First National Bank
and the high school.
Leice Martin. Heppner; Jan White. lone; and Mary
Lou Daltoso. Boardman and. Irrigon.
This year's Mother's March is slated for the third
week in January. Mrs. Mahoney's committee is
preparing mailers for this year's campaign.
Mrs. Bergstrom and Carolyn Cole, Heppner,
represented Morrow County at a two-day regional
northwest convention of the March of Dimes at the
Olympic Hotel. Seattle.
Mrs. Parker, a former Lexington resident w ho died
last year in Portland, was the widow of a former
Lexington businessman. Mrs. Parker continued her
close ties to Lexington and Morrow County even after
moving to Portland
The Morrow County Plan
ning Commission will meet at
8p.m., Tuesday, Nov. S, at the
court house In Heppner, ac
cording to George D. Smith,
planning director.
The meeting was set a day
later than scheduled because
of the annual meeting of
Morrow County Grain Grow
ers which is scheduled for
Nov. 5.
The following matters will
be considered:
1. Public hearing on appli
cation of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
G. Christiansen, Irrigon, for
zone change from "Farm" to
"Farm Residential." Because
of court decisions against spot
zoning, it has been proposed
that all of the NE'4 of Sec. 25,
T5N, R 26 E. outside of the
Irrigon city limits, be changed
to "Farm Residential." The
area is south of Hwy. 730 and
adjoins the Irrigon city limits
west and south of the city.
2. Public hearing on zone
change from "Industrial" to
"Farm" and a Conditional
Use Permit application on the
S'2 of sec. 22, T4N, R24E. The
Boeing Company proposes to
build 10 to 20 housing units,
which will be used by either
their own farm laborers or
their lessees, but not rented to
the general public. The con
struction will be south of the
Tower Road interchange on
THE
Lake Penland Corp.
Nnrr&ijiarities'
The promised "investiga
tion" of Judge Paul Jones,
connection with the Lake
Penland Corp. took a different
turn Friday with the arrival of
William M. Brown, Supervisor
of District Planning, Local
Government Relations Divi
sion, and Jack Jones of the
Oregon State Real Estate
Commission.
Meeting at the judge's
chamber at 9 a.m., Brown set
the tone of the gathering:
"This is a fact-finding
mission, nothing else."
Present were the two offi
cials representing Gov. Tom
McCall, Judge Jones, L.E.
Dick, president, and Harry
O'Donnell, current and past
presidents of Lake Penland
Corp. Present as observers
were County Assessor Joyce
Bergstrom and Ernie Ceresa,
representing the Gazette
Times. The informal discussion was
triggered by a KGW-TV,
Portland, newscast on Oct. 22,
prepared by reporters James
N. Compton and Jerry Schnei
der, that attempted to estab
lish that there had been
"wrong-doing" in the conduct
of the Lake Penland Corp. Tn
creating the recreational area
near Heppner known as Lake
Penland.
The broadcast prompted
Gov. McCall to ask that Judge
Jones withdraw as an ap
Hwy. 80. and immediately
south of the present buildings,
on approximately 20 acres of .
the half section.
3. Recommend new defini
tion of "public utilities" under
Sections 3.020 ( 7). 3.070 ( 9),
and 3.120 (7) of the Zoning
Ordinance, (continued from
last meeting.)
4. Discussion of SB 100 and
other new laws; reports on
land use meetings to explain
these laws, which were spon
sored by the Extension Ser
vice, (some items; perform
ance bonds, building inspect
ors, fees, definition of "same
profession.")
1 Recommend minimum
set-back from street right-of-way
in "Industrial" zone,
(none is required now.)
6. Should the planning
commission require that they
be notified of change of
ownership or leasing of land
on which a conditional use
permit has been issued?
7. Decide on a time limit for
development, or substantial
progress towards develop
ment, of land on which a
conditional use permit has
been issued.
8. Discussion of minimum
lot size in "Farm" zone, now
five acres. Since there is no
land zoned "Exclusive
Farm", the 20-acre limit in
that zoning designation has
not been applied.
Heppner,
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pointee of the newly created
Oregon Land Conservation
and Development Commission
to which he would have been
sworn in as a member last
Wednesday in Salem.
Judge Jones refused to
withdraw, and demanded that
an investigation of his "in
volvement" with Lake Pen
land Corporation be com
pleted. This is a resume of the
2' 2-hour meeting:
Judge Jones on his involve
ment with the corporation
"The question has been raised
by KGW-TV as to my involve
ment. I have had no active
involvement in Penland Lake
Corp., except as that of a
contributor to the corporation.
I have in my pocket the
cancelled checks that I gave to
Mr. Cutsforth, and that is the
sum total of my involvement."
Subsequent conversations
between the Salem officials
produced no other involve
ment in the corporation by
Jones.
Waste
accepted
A group of 16 citizens met
Tuesday evening at the Mor
row County court house to ap
prove the first draft of a final,
report on the solid waste issue.
The 30-page report, present
ed by John K. McDonald of
Clark & Goff , Engineers, drew
requests for changes by both
city and county officials
present .
The cost of paving the road
to the Turner site w as discuss
ed, as were methods of trans
porting waste and the question
of who should supervise the
disposal project, the city or
the county.
The Turner site is located
near Heppner. There are pro
posed sites for Boardman and
Irrigon to handle the increas
ed populat wn projected for the
next 10 vears. Boardman is
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Ore., Thursday November 1, 1973
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As to the beginning of the
Lake Penland project-Prior
to development of Lake Pen
land, representatives of the
State Fish & Game Commis
sion looked at every proposed
site in the Blue Mountain area
that lay in Morrow County,
with the thought that it (the
lake) should be owned and
operated by the Game Com
mission and the Forest Ser
vice. The Forest Service made
the initial plans for Kelly
Prairie, a mile or two north of
Penland, only to find the
ground unsatisfactory for a
dam. .
Around coffee tables in
Heppner local businessmen
decided that money for the
project could be raised within
the community.
Harry O'Donnell: "We
Parted out paying $250 di
rectly to Mr. (Orville) Cuts
forth with the understanding
that he was to do some
investigation, preliminary en
gineering work, and study the
(Continued on page 3 )
expected to grow from 504 to
1.000 or 3.000 in this period.
Heppner's population is ex
pected to double.
Mayor Jerry Sweeney said
Heppner would like to receive
the revenue from operation of
the waste site, but the city is
faced with a water bond issue
and cannot afford the added
expense.
Harold Kerr moved that the
county develop the site and
turn it over to a private fran
chise operator who would
work under supervision of the
city governments of Heppner,
Lexington and lone. His
motion was approved.
The group also accepted the
first draft of the final report,
with revisions to be made in
the final draft.
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Diane Holland, Junior High student, displays her talent
as she begins on her window painting project for
Halloween. The merchants agreed to let the students
paint their w indows as long as they used water based
paints.
Air Force veteran
floing to Thailand
Staff Sergeant John' Wal
lace, son of Mrs. Colleen
Padb'erg, Heppner, is enjoying
a leave of absence from the
Air Force before returning to
active duty in Thailand.
Wallace has spent the past
12 years in the Air Force,
enlisting soon after his grad
uation from Heppner High
School in 1961. He has visited
over 9(1 foreign countries and
was stationed in Panama and
Germany prior to his leave.
Next month Wallace will
leave for the Philippines for a
week's survival training, then
fly to Thailand, where he will
assume his duties as flight
engineer on one of the Air
Force's new gunships.
The crew of a gunship
consists of 14 men, all spe
cialists, consisting of two
pilots, table navigator, flight
engineer who operates a
blacked out cockpit standing
up behind the pilot, calling the
bank angle when the pilot has
his head in the gunsights;
three navigator sensor opera
tors and a fire control officer,
all located in an enclosed
Staff Sargeant John Wallace. 12-jear Air Korce
Hrraa from Heppner. reteited another medal
recently from bis C ommanding Officer hile stationed
in (.rrman.
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15 cents
room called the "booth."
The gunship flew its first
mission over the Ho Chi Minh
Trail. It picked up six trucks,
and in less than 15 minutes all
six trucks were left burning.
The gunship is a heavily
armed C-130 cargo plane,
armed with machine guns,
cannons and 105-MM howitzer
in the tail section.
According to Wallace, the
14-man team "gets so close
that it's almost as though they
were married to each other.
During the flight, before you
can ask a question, it's done.
At times they sound like a
bunch of clowns all talking on
three separate interphone sys
tems, all coordinating their
actions."
Sgt. Wallace has over 3,000
hours in the air aboard the
gunship. "It's the only place
where a pilot, usually a
Colonel, can join his team for
a beer in either the Officers
Club or the Non-Commis-sioned
Officers Club. Rank
makes very little difference in
the crew of a gunship."
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