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THE TODSS Vol. 90, No. 45 Heppner, Ore., Thursday, Dec. 27, 1973 15c Boardman may annex 40 Cecil Cooley, representing Desert Magic, lnc.( asked the city council at its meeting Tuesday night for annexation into the city ot 40 acres of sugebrush land on the south ern edge of Boardman at Main Street and Wilson Road. He said the initial use of the site would be for mobile home housing. Cooley stated he plans to take the annexation petition to the planning commission Jan. 8. Then he hopes the commis sion will have it before the city council Jan. 22 with a recom mendation for annexation. Cooley said Desert Magic is Irrigon Plan ?o By FRANCES ROSE WILSON The laying of water lines on Idaho Avenue and 4th Street was completed this week. The 1,000-foot extension is the first step of a loop which Back to DST on Jan. 6 The nation will go back on Daylight Savings Time begin ning Jan. 6 to conserve energy during the current crisis. Waterfowl hunters taking advantage of the last weeks of the season are reminded that the time change will affect legal shooting hours. The shooting hours for waterfowl Jan. 6 through 20 staying with the city's master comprehensive plan for de velopment and that a shopping center is being planned in the area near the site. He would like to get construction under way by Feb. 1, 1974. In other action the council accepted Councilman W.E. Nelson's idea for the estab lishment of a three-member review board for construction of buildings. His proposal is aimed at multi-family housing units and commercial build ings. The board would give the city some protection from what Nelson termed "a mi grant labor camp situation." solve will encircle and serve Ted and Mary Wilson's proposed Mobil Home Court and ad jacent properties, The project, which has taken about a year from it's first proposal, was delayed for will open one hour later and close one hour later than listed in the 1973 upland game and waterfowl regulations booklet published by the Game Com mission. The time change will have an additional effect on Sauvie Island waterfowl hunters. The shooting has been stopped at 4 p.m. daily on the east and i ) ft. New Chamber of Commerce President Jim Bier received a gift from Santa; and, to JUndaD. Peterson's amuse ment, a kiss, too. LITTLEST AN'GEL-Serenadlng Heppner with Christ mai carols for the past nights were these youngsters, front row from the left, Tami Corham and Todd Gorham; second row from the left, Bonnie Arrington, Linda Rogers, Vickie Smith and Becky Smith; third row from the left, Greg Groshens and Lottie Laughlin. Mayor Dewey West Jr. appointed Jack McFadden, Gene Trumbull and Bill Shar key to membership on the review board. Mayor Dewey West Jr. and Councilman W.E. Nelson sug gested to the city council that the addition of sturgeon in the sewer lagoon along the Co lumbia River would help dispose of the city's sewage waste. They made this sug gestion following their recent trip to Puerto Rico to the National League of Cities convention and Congress of Mayors. The council is seri ously considering an effort to problem water some time while an engineer ing study was made of Irrigon 's current supply and storage of water. The exten sion was allowed since the city is in the process of planning for additional storage to meet west side units. Beginning on Jan. 6 through the end of the season, shooting will stop at S p.m. So that no one will be upset by the change, hunters are reminded that shooting hours will remain unchanged in rela tion to sunset and sunrise, but the times will be different on the watches. Jim Bier is new CC president Jim Bier, principal of Hepp ner High School, was elected president of the Heppner Morrow County Chamber of Commerce at the organi zation's regular meeting Monday. Harold Kerr was elected 1st vice-president and Larry Mills, 2nd vice-president. The new board of directors include Wallace Wolff, Jim Rogers, Jim Bier, Larry Mills and Dave Harrison. Outgoing board members are L.E. Dick, Dorothy Heard, Bob Abrams, Dick Sargent, Ray Boyce, Elaine George; and Bier, Mills and Kerr. Entertainment was pro vided by Santa Claus (Avon Melby ), who passed out candy canes and then led the group in singing Christmas carols. Piano accompaniment was by Juanita Carmichael. At the next meeting of the chamber, Herman Winter will act as master of cere monies for installation of the new officers. acres plant some sturgeon in the lagoon. Boardman has a problem now because it needs more expansion of the sewer lagoon, and the U.S. Corps of Engineers will not permit ah expansion of the three-acre lagoon site or make available other land for another lagoon. The present lagoon was de signed for a population of 500 and Boardman's population is nearing that point. It was said Tuesday night at the council meeting that a bunch of sturgeon feeding off the bottom of the lagoon might bring temporary emergency relief in the crisis. state back-up requirements. New services are being re quested almost every month and it is imperative that adequate storage facilities be acquired to meet normal growth, according to Mayor Chester Wilson. A proposed housing devel opment has been stymied for a year because water service is not available to it. Additional storage would not only assure a supply for normal growth of the city, but could accommo date the initial S3 housing units and the 60-unit apart ment building which has been proposed. The developer has assured the council that his backers would be willing to advance a part of the cost of storage and pumping facilities. A bond issue election has been proposed to finance a 200,000 gallon storage reser voir. This is expected to be brought before the people of the Irrigon Community soon Wind power studied Oregon State University's "wind, power" research goes into its third year this January with the energy crisis adding importance to research find ings. The studies were launched in December 1971 to deter mine whether ocean winds might be used as a cheap and clean source of supplemental electric power. Coast and off-shore sites continue to show promise for the future, studies indicate, because of their exposure to strong and steady winds that sweep in off the ocean. But the Columbia River Gorge has become a prime possibility1 also, according to Dr. E. Wendell Hewson, chairman of the university's Department of Atmospheric Sciences. A third-year grant of $46,800 has been received to continue research in both the gorge and on the coast. Sponsors are the Central Lincoln, Tillamook, Clatskanie and Northern Wasco Peoples Utility Districts. poboiHy Denver , Roger Doherty, Lane Coun cil of Governments (L-COG) coordinator of programs for the aged and former Heppner resident, has accepted the position of executive director of the Commission on Aging in Denver, Colo. 'Doherty, who has been at L-COG for the past one-and-one-half years, will leave next week. sIn resigning, Doherty noted that there have been strong advances made in services to the elderly in Lane County over the past year. He congratulated members of the L-COG-Lane County Citizens Advisory Committee on Aging for their work. He said that this area was one of the first to develop a comprehensive plan for services to the elderly. He also indicated that several programs in that plan already Corporate officials from this area A former Condon man, Dan F. LaRue, has been elected to the board of directors of Landsystems, Inc., Portland based landscape and irriga tion contractors, Stanley C. Lintner, president, reports. LaRue is a 1966 graduate of Condon High School. He at tended the University of Oregon for one year, where he was a member of the fresh man baseball team. He grad uated from the University of Idaho in 1970, with a degree in , physical chemistry, and was a , ir.ember - of- Sigma Alpha -Epsilon fraternity and played varsity baseball. LaRue is a 1973 graduate of Lewis and Clark Law School and is now associated with Frank Ierulli mail u TW . o ft Ml, Pfn nhd accepts position have been inaugurated, citing the meals for the elderly program as a major example. Doherty, in his new role, will be responsible for the opera tion of the 15-member Denver Commission on Aging which is an independent public body that advises the mayor and council about all matters concercing the aged. Doner ty's appointment as executive director was made by Denver Mayor William B. McNichols. Doherty is a native of Heppner. He attended Hepp ner High School and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon in 1965. Prior to returning to Eugene in 1971 as director of the Senior Opportunities and Ser vices, he was with the National Council on Aging in New York and Washington, DC, for three years. and Gary Bullock, attorneys-at-law. Their office is in the Standard Plaza Building, Portland. LaRue is legal counsel for the corporation. He is the sone of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd LaRue, Condon. Elected to the board also was Everett L. Holbrook, C.L.U., Eugene. Re-elected to the board were S.C. Lintner, J.L. Lintner and Douglas A. Anderson, all of Beaverton. The same directors serve on the board of Pacific Land scape Contractors, Ltd., a Sister corporation. v- Anderson is a 1965 graduate of Heppner High School, and is a principal and treasurer in the corporation. He is married to the former Karla Luciani, gts&n dlSiHiHffiiife City crackdown on speeders The Heppner City Police Department has been busy cracking down on speedsters within city limits the past few weeks. The crackdown was started In an effort to slow motorists down during the holidays and to prevent accidents. Arrested for speeding Dec. 19 was Monte Gene Sipp, 28, Baker, doing 55 In 35 mile per hour zone. Bail has been set at $27. Walter Eugene Drake, 51, Elgin, was cited for speeding along Highway 74, Dec. 20. Bail was set at $27. Alvin Bruce Clement, 30, Heppner, was arrested Dec. 23, speeding, 65 miles per hour in 35 mile per hour zone; bail set at $53. Also arrested Dec. 23 was David Ralph Noble, 19, Lex ington, speeding, 65 miles per daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Luciani, Butter Creek. Anderson recently an nounced the single largest sub-contract in the firm's two and one-half year history. Landsystems, Inc. has been Student dies in crash Christian J. Hunt, 23, 4055 SE Madison, Portland, Ore., was fatally injured in a one-car accident Saturday morning when his vehicle crashed into a 10-inch metal sign post at the Boardman exist on Highway 1-80. Hunt, a student at Moscow, Idaho, was on his way home for the holidays, when he hour in a 35 mile per hour zone; bail set at $53. Roger Lee Paullus, 20, Heppner, was cited by City police at Center and Main Streets for operating a vehicle with unnecessary vehicle noise (exhaust). Paullus is to appear Jan. 9 in Municipal Court. Bail was set at $17. FIREMEN' BALL . 'A SUCCESS' More than 100 persons turned out for the first annual Firemen's Ball at Boardman Saturday night, and Jerry Donovan, president of the Boardman Volunteer Fire men's Assn., said the affair was successful enough to make it an annual affair. The ball was held at the Grange Hall, with music furnished by the Howard band. awarded a $325,000 landscape and irrigation sub-contract under Jelco, Inc., a Salt Lake City, Utah, firm, general contractor on the Durham Wastewater Treatment Plant, Durham, Ore. apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his car and hit the post. Hunt was taken, to Good Shepherd Hospital, , Hertni ston, where he was pro nounced dead on arrival. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Burns Funeral Home, Hermiston. i l
