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VOL. I. NO. I
ItlCIIAKI) II UJKIU.ACH. Editor
Desert Magic enters housing picture
Desert Manic, according to
its president. Howard Kartch
ner. plans to enter the housing
picture at Boardman as a
means of insuring accom
modations for farm workers
on 40,000 acres of irrigated
farmland which will be in
production this year.
Desert Hills is the name of
the corporation Kartchner has
set up to handle the housing
complex that will occupy 40
acres on the south edge of
Boardman. It will contain a
shopping center, three 50-unit
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mobile home parks, a l.io-unit
mobile home estate which will
be sold, a 60-unit apartment
house and 60 acres to be
subdivided into about 130
single family dwelling lots
Irelimmary cost estimates
for the project is $3,136,000.
Construction may start in
February, pending the ap
proval of the DEQ and the
ability of the Fort of Morrow
and City of Boardman to
furnish adequate sewage dis
posal Addition of a S33.0OO
aerator at the sewer plant.
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ENERGY CKISIS? These two I'nion Pacific diesel
engines pulled into (leppner about 10 p.m. .Monday
night and went out of service, with the engines running.
At three p.m. Tuesday the engines were still running,
and hadn't been shut off during the almost lX-hour idle
period, an observer reported.
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plus the ability of the port and
city to arrange for $152,000 to
revamp the plant, will deter
mine whether immediate con
struction begins.
Kartchner says Desert
Magic's entrance into the
housing business is to take
care of the influx of workers
needed for the corporation's
giant potato and farming
operation He predicts that
several thousand workers will
come to northern Morrow
County as a result of his
corporation's operation, plus
that of Gourmet Foods potato
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processing plant and the l'(!K
power plants scheduled for
Boardman and Pebble
pnngs. regardless of wheth
er the latter are nuclear or
fossil fuelded. The City of
Boardman has been unable to
provide mass housing facili
ties for a thousand workers
expected in the area within the
next two years
As an indication of the
economic impact of the new
workers, it is estimated that
they will have an annual
income of $8,000 to $9.oon a
Irrigon
2nd well
The first council meeting of
the year was held in the city
service building, which has
been equipped for use as a
council meeting room with
heat and facilities. Future
meetings will be held in the
same location, which is at the
entrance of Ordnance Road on
Highway 730. and known as
the old Standard Station
Chester Wilson was re
elected as mayor for his l-'th
term by a majority vole of the
council Vernon Stewart wa
elected mayor pro-tern. Mrs
Ted (Mary 1 Wilson was re
appointed as city recorder for
the year by acclamation, with
the entire council present.
A letter from the Portland
District Corps of Engineers
stated that the city's request
for a site for sewage treat
ment plan! was being given
consideration along with other
governmental unit requests.
Mayor Wilson reported that
a call to the office of State
Engineer Chris Wheeler has
cleared some misunderstand
ing regarding rejection by his
office of a permit tor a second
well. A sufficient amount of
water is available from the
present well, under the puriip
ing conditions now in use, to
meet the needs of expected
normal growth lor a number
of years, if backed by an
adequate storage supply ',
Wheeler was also optimis
tic, although no guarantee was
given that a second well might
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Frank Kogan, project en
gineer for Portland General
Electric Company's giant
power plants at the McCarty
site at Boardman and at
Pebble Springs, told lleppner
business men last week that
Morrow County's towns will
bo counted upon to furnish
facilities, such as housing, for
an estimated 1.800 workers at
the PGE project. Boardman
ias found difficulty in pro
viding sewer, water and
lousing for the expected
outlook encouraging
be sunk near the same
location and in the same
water-bearing strata as a
stand-by unit only in the event
of pumping failure in the
existing well.
The city's engineer's re
commendation will be sought
to determine if the need will
outweigh the cost of a standby
source and equipment.
An ordinance covering
water line improvements and
assessment costs was read
and referred to the February
Meeting for passage.
McCrae
enters
politics
Wallace McCrae, the only
president Blue Mountain
Community College ever had,
will relire June 30, 107-).
He announced the end of a
-lo year career in education in
a meeting recently of college
faculty, stall, and student
leaders, plus representatives
of the news media. He was
accompanied by Bob Zerba.
Athena, chairman of the
college ixjard of education.
A Republican, McCrae said
he will file for the Slate
Representative posilion to be
vacated this year by Stafford
Hansell. also a republican,
from llerniision.
McCrae was named presi
dent of Blue Mountain Com
munity College in l2 when
the college was organized. At
the time, he was superinten
dent of schools in Pendleton, a
post he had held since 1949.
In more than 11 years of his
administration, the college
has grown from an initial
enrollment of 2.'il vocational
students to more than 3.000
students in the liberal arts,
applied sciences, and evening
programs. The full-lime
equivalent (FTEi enrollment
last year was 1.128 An FTE is
one student carrying 15 credit
hours of study fur three terms.
Zerba announced that the
college board will meet soon to
set plans in motion for
selecting a replacement. He
said college faculty, staff and
students will be involved in the
selection process.
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Boardman
number of workers until
Desert Magic entered the
housing picture. So far, llepp
ner has no prospect of
furnishing needed facilities
for expected workers al
Boardman projects, for those
at the proposed power plants,
for workers at the expanding
Kituua Corporation complex
,r for construction workers on
Willow Creek Dam. However,
the planning commission is
now studying a proposal hy
Kiiuuu Corporaiion to build 2(1
single-unit dwellings and u
Police Chief Perry Pummel
was appointed to a County
committee to evaluate County
jail facilities under newly
adopted legislation. Pummel
also brought to the councils
attention the need for a jury
panel within the city.
The need for adoption of a
building code, which would
require permits for any type
building, was discussed. The
location of mobile homes
should also require a permit.
This will be discussed with the
city attorney and will boon the
agenda for February
The Hev. Dunne Trillin, who
is pastor of Christian Center in
Yuba City. Ca., will minister
at the Assembly of God in
Irrigon, Tuesday llirough Fri
day and Sunday at 11 a.m. and
7 p. 111 services. He will leach
concerning the ministry of the
Holy Spirit to the individual
believer and to the church.
Morning meetings will be
held Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday at Hi a.m. at the
Irrigon Assembly of God,
located on Kill St.
Pastor Kobert Sclinioll ex
tends a welcome to all.
The CA. Millers have re
turned home after spending a
month over the holidays
visiting at the home of her son,
CPU Robert llolden, and
family in Guam. They visited
many historical places winch
were occupied by the Japa
nese during the second World
War.
Miller made a three-day
cruise on a ship on the
Philippine Sea. On their way
home they spent several days
in Honolulu. They made a
cruise to Pearl Harbor and
toured the Island of Oahu.
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large apartment building on
properly above Pioneer Me
moriiil Hospital.
Thus Kituua may he placed
in the same role Desert Magic
has assumed al Hnanlnian, of
entering the housing picture in
order to guarantee accom
modations for its personnel.
Action hy city planners tin
the Kinua proposal is ex
necled in a few iluvs
Allen Nislad of Kinua said
yesterday that his firm hopes
to start development of the Hi
acres nliove Hie hospital next
The Boardman Beacon
announces a New Look
to ni:. o suisntiiiFits
With litis issue the Hoard
man Beacon will appear
regularly in the Gazelle
Tunes The Deacon section will
continue to carry news and
advertising nl imeresi In
Hnanlnian residents, with Hie
added advantage of having
more couiiiy wule news of
interest. The change is
prompted hy Hie necessity to
conserve newsprint, now 111
short supply, and also to
enable the edilur to more
adequately cover Hie fast
breaking news m Ihe Hoard
man area, and tokeepahreasi
of Hie rapidly changing
growth picture for nuiiisiry 111
the area.
Beacon subscribers will
receive this newspaper on a
weekly basis, every Thtirsdas .
for the remainder of their
subscription lime.
Hoardman advertisers will
be glad lo know that in
addition to the Hcacon cir
culation, their advertisements
will go into ..nun additional
homes, (!." per cenl nl which
are in .Morrow County
The Hcacon will alsn be able
for the first lime In do your
commercial pruning -letter
heads, envelopes, statements,
business forms and all other
types of commercial printing
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week, peuiliil iiinival of
local and leilenil tigi'iicies.
Nislad alsn ciiiilirmed Km
zua's purchase of I7IIII;iitcso(
l.inil hclou I he null on Willow
Creek known as Die Michos
place The I, mil was pur
chased Dec 111 finin the First
Naiional I!, ink of Oregon,
I'oril.ind. al a cosi o( $j:.ii,ihhi.
The corporaiion hopes 10
exchange the land for parcels
ndjaceni to the mill There are
no plans loi plain expansion or
lioiising 011 this properly, he
saiil
that we have Huts far been
unable lo provide mi a local
basis
Headers may submit news
ileitis and advertisements by
calling 4111 jo'il, and I tirtte
that Mm do so in order that we
can publish a better account of
life and times in the lastesl
growing fit in Oregon.
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