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Heppner, Ore., Gazette-Times, Thurs., Jan. 24, 1974
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Hardman buffs will view with mixed emotions the news
that an indoor men's facility has been added to the Hardman
Opry House. Now that the historic place has been touched by
the Hand of Ecology, it will no longer be necessary for
gentlemen in distress to scatter into the sagebrush on dark
and stormy nights. The new fangled contraptions will be
ready to receive guests at the Jan. 26 dance. I presume that
attendants will be on duty to instruct patrons in the proper
approach and use of the gadgets, now located in a room
behind the bandstand and affectionately dubbed the Mayor's
Conference Room. Music will be furnished by the Hardman
Honchos, a musical conglomerate of international repute
fresh from a triumphant concert tour of the capital cities of
Europe. The Mayor's Conference Room was furnished bv
Dean's 2nd Hand Store and Dean has spurned any
compensation for his artistic decor. It'll be worth the $1.50
door fee just to get a look at it.
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.' A note from dear old Charley Heard indicates he is
,,. having a hard time out there in the cold world. He was the
sensation of the Rose Parade at Pasadena when his pickup
, . caught fire and won the judges' prize for the most impromptu
and original parade entry. He and Dorothy bunked in with the
Bill Weatherfords at San Diego (where he found that the
extra gas he bought in Pendleton was 20 per cent water) and
visited Ensenada where gas went for about 68 cents a gallon.
He noted that El Centre hai 55.000 acres of lettuce but it cost 5
.... cents a head more there than it was advertised at Heppner's
Central Market. He's about ready to sell his trailer and head
., ." back to Morrow County. Well, it could be worse. He might
have made the mistake, as 1 did. of driving over to Portland
for a weekend !
Orville Cutsforth. Morrow County's most unforgettable
character, has had a long-standing "hate affair" with
Heppner's parking meters, hereinafter referred to as the
city's milking machines. First, he dutifully paid his parking
' ' fines after he had accumulated a sizeable bundle of them.
Later he decided he just wouldn't patronize the milking
machines at all. Conscience overcame him on that, however.
Last u eek he was observed slipping a coin into a Main Street
meter, unaware that for the past two weeks the city council
I""' has suspended the pay-to-park ordinance for the duration of
; nasty weather! If Orville had read his Gazette-Times he
f would have known he was feeding a dead meter, and that Big
t Brother wasn't even watching him.
My nomination for the maddest man in town is Ron
Palmer, always the genial host at the Wagon Wheel, until
I something gets his dander up Last week he dug up a section
of sidewalk in front of his restaurant in search of a leak in the
4 water line. He didn't find the leak, but he made some
i interesting discoveries; (l) that the water his friend Harry
ODonnell uses in his title office flows through Ron's water
'. meter: and (2) that Ron has been paying for Harry's water
for the past five years; and 3 that Harry has also been
paying the city So a month for water that Ron also paid for!
? Which is why Ron is totting up a bill to present to the city to
recapture the money Harry paid the city instead of him. He
E figures the city owes him S5 a month for 60 months, and he
plans to submit a bill for about $300 to the city at the next
council meeting. Our secret agents inform us that if Bill
Collins will dig up his meter he'll find that he's been paying
the water bill tor City Attorney Bob Abrams' law office next
door, which would be embarrassing to the city if it develops
that Bob has also been paying the city for the water, too!
Our government nurtured ecology nuts will be pained to
learn that they 're 360 years behind the times in howling about
pollution. You see, there was a pollution problem, devasta
ting in its environmental impact, in Jamestown Colony in
1812. Here's how the Governor of Jamestown handled the
problem in a public decree: "There shall be no man or
woman dare to wash any unclean linen, wash clothes or
throw out the water or suds of foul clothes in the open streets
within the fort or within forty feet of the same. . .nor shall
anyone aforesaid within less than a quarter of a mile from
the fort dare to do the necessities of nature, since by these
unmanly, slothful and loathsome immodesties, the whole fort
may be choked and poisoned. . .and this they shall take notice
of and avoid upon pain of whipping "
Sermon for today is from 1 Corinthians 11: 14, 15. "Doth
not even nature itself teach you. that if a man have long hair,
it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long lair, it is a
glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering." The
Lord said that If your "hair-raising" son reminds you that
wearing a beard denotes wisdom and self-esteem, invite him
to have a good look at the next goat he meets. I said that.
The Vanishing American is not the Indian. It is the
American farmer. The American farm population in 1971
was almost exactly what it was in 1776. . . Ask your liberal
friend: "How come the Columbia Encyclopedia identifies
Francisco Franco as a 'Spanish general and dictator' and
Joseph Stalin as a 'Russian statesman and Communist
leader'?" . . . Marriage sure isn't what it used to be. For
example, it used to be required . . . Statistics there we go
again i indicate that there are more illiterates alive today
than at any other period in recorded history, which makes us
wonder how good a job our schools are doing. . . More
statistics: there are fewer drug addicts in this country today
than there were in the 1890s. . .
COW POKES
By Ace Reid
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and tribune Synditolt
'Tm afraid it's not going to be an easy year!"
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
I understand a new law is effective with the new teacher
contracts concerning tenure.
The effect of the new law seems to say that when a schmil
teacher is offered a three-year contract if becomes an
endless guarantee of employment. I have been led to believe
that after that has happened, only a morals charge, or
similar circumstance, could end the employment.
No other group of employees I know of have such a job
guarantee. Performance of one's duties is the job security
most people have.
It seems to me the public should be informed prior to the
signing of life-time contracts with anyone. This information
should be published so that objections might be heard and
decisions made based on information available before
contracts are entered into that would literally be impossible
to end.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of care.
DAVID McLEOI),
Heppner.
(ED. NOTE-Teacherson permanent status can be dismissed
for inefficiency, moral offenses, insubordination, neglect of
duty, physical and mental incapacity, convicting of a felony
or crime involving moral turpitude. However, the machinery
set up by law to decide such cases is complicated and
requires, in some cases, years to get a decision. Ron Daniels,
Morrow County superintendent, says a Beaverton case has
been through the appeals boards and into court for two years
already witnoui a nnat decision on the dismissal ol a teacher.
There is no doubt but that school boards must possess not
only a good case against a teacher, but determination and
patience to cope with the cumbersome machinery set up to
act upon requests for dismissal. Daniels suggests that the
time to complain about a teacher is when the offense occurs,
not at rehiring time.)
EDITOR:
Enclosed you will find our check for $6 for another year's
subscription to the Gazette-Times, our only way of knowing
what is going on in Morrow County.
We are strangers to many of Morrow County people, as it
has been 44 years since we left Lexington.
LAWRENCE E. REANEY,
Vancouver, Wn.
EDITOR:
I want to report through your paper that I'm missing some
cattle since the fall gathering. I thought there would be a
chance they might show up with someone's cattle.
Missing are one three-year-old dry cow with nobby horns;
a big steer, light yellow with a lot of white; and two calves, all
Herefords branded PC on the left hip.
I had a lot of company by trespassers all summer and fall.
Someone took all the lumber in the haymow and stole one
50-gallon barrel of diesel oil. At the house, a nice medicine
cabinet and radio are missing. I know where they went
because I saw them in a parked car. They were "too little" to
cause a stink over, and the law wouldn't have done anything
about it anyway.
I'm just reporting some things missing and stolen from my
place.
PERCY CECIL,
Heppner.
EDITOR:
Citizen groups throughout the country have mounted a
campaign to ask Congress to repeal auto emission control
legislation. Some of these people are motor dealers
interested in their problems and those of their customers.
Others are farm organizations responsible for food
production. All of them put the general welfare of all the
people above pressures from anti-pollulionists to stymie
their efforts.
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At a recent House committee hearing on automobile
emission controls, General Motors President Edward Cole
testified that removal of controls would save about 2.7 billion
gallons of gasoline a year.
Twenty-eight car dealers in central New York have banded
together to ask for public support in their plea to end
emission controls. The dealers, all members of the Syracuse
Automobile Dealers' Association, are taking the case to the
public, seeking support for a congressional bill which would
temporarily suspend auto emission standards until the end of
the current energy crisis.
In an advertisement in the Dec. 9 SYRACUSE
HERALD-AMERICAN, they ask for public support for the
bill. A blank petition form is offered for supporters to fill in
and send to congressmen, senators, or the Syracuse
Automobil Dealers' Association.
The dealers are joined in their petition to remove emission
controls by other area agencies such as the Service Station
Operators of Central New York, the Syracuse Auto Club, the
New York Farm Bureau and the F;astern Milk Producers'
Cooperative.
They say that faced with gas rationing prospects, and
higher gasoline prices and taxes, removal of emission seems
the only logical way both'to avoid these possibilities and at
the same time partially stem the fuel shortage at the
consumer level.
Dealers point out, however, that once the government has
given permission to rescind the controls, it will be up to the
car manufacturers to determine how many of the controls
can lie removed safely without harming the ears.
A Missouri Congressman became the second national
legislator to call for suspension of emission control devices
on automobiles as Rep. Jerry Litton, Chillicolhe Democrat,
introduced a bill which would permit their removal.
Litton joined Rep. William Sluckey of Georgia in seeking
removal of the devices during the current energy emer
gency. Litton s bill would suspend the controls until 1981.
while Sluckey 's would provide for reinstallation at the end of
the crisis as determined by the President. Litton also
announced he was planning to introduce legislation designed
ultimately to improve gasoline supplies by discouraging auto
makers from manufacturing cars which produce poor gas
mileage.
The legislation proposed by Sluckey would suspend motor
vehicle emission standards until the end of the current
emergency, and permit the removal of existing control
devices.
Removal or modification of emission controls, according to
central New York dealers, would increase mileage on most
cars and could be done with relative ease.
According to Jim Barr, owner of Barr-Llewellyn Buick,
Syracuse. "Any experienced mechanic could learn how to
perform the operation in an hour or two." A check of several
area auio dealers revealed the job would cost an average of
$14.
William Clark, president of the Syracuse dealers
organization, said mileage had dropped some 15 to 18 per
cent in his cars since 1970. And a test conducted by a
Syracuse Herald Journal staff reporter revealed 20 to 35 per
cent more mileage when emission controls were removed.
Use of oil is much more widespread than heating homes
and powering cars and boats and driving the trucks of
commerce. It provides electricity to light cities and helps
keep the crime rate down; it provides power to drive the
wheels of industry; and oil is the base raw material with
which a score of industries survives. The plastics industry,
petrochemical and other industries cannot exist without the
raw material-oil.
How can we buy time to muster our internal sources of
energy? How can we keep our people warm? fed and
clothed? employed'.' The answer is obvious. We simply must
not waste the oil we now have available to us. How can we
stop the giant share of that waste? Get Congress to pass a
repealer to the automotive emissions control laws on a
year-to-year temporary basis. This will give us time to
readjust our national economy. We can stop wasting in a
number of ways, but most particularly by eliminating
emission controls on farm tractors and the more than 30
million cars now on our roads, thereby gaining a 20 to 30 per
cent increase in miles per gallon.
If enough Americans speak quickly and forcefully, even
our greatest deliberative body, Congress, may move in a few
weeks and let us make this saving, legally, for our own
benefit and the common good. If ever there was a worthy
common cause, this is it.
Dare join me and write your Congressman, your Senators,
your stale governors and legislators; write to newspapers
and periodicals; enlist the help of your friends; and tell them
all you want emission control laws negated for the duration of
the energy crisis.
I want none of your money-just your prayers and work
toward this common goal. My efforts will be fianced
personally with some of the money our government lets me
keep after taxes. This won't cost you but a'dollar or two tor
stamps and paper. It will lake a little time and in some cases
a lot of guts. But this is a war we can win quickly if we get off
our seals and onto our feet.
lie WITT C. LeFEVRE.
Beaver Falls, N Y. 13305
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Mayor of Hardman
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
They ain't nowhere like the country store, Mister Editor, to
olt the Inside facts on the past, present and future,
Saturday night, fer instant, Ed Doolitlle brung up this
matter of barns. He said lie has noted that houses if; bigger
than barns these days, and tluil is a sure sign the wife is the
boss of the house.
Ed said he had saw in one of his farm journals where burns
as we know em is going the way of the buffalo. The are being
replaced by metal buildings that look fer the world like them
shopping center stores, so he figgers when we run out of
somepun to eat and wc have to plow up all the parking lots to
raise food, we can use the stores fer storage.
Clem Webster broke in to say he would make a motion that
the fellers invite Dr. Abraham Wolfson to our Saturday nijtht
sessions. Clem had saw by the papers where Dr. Wolfson is 92
years old, and he has decided he has talked enuff. He said
talking was wasting energy, so he limits hisself to talking
three davs a week. Clem was fer inviting him on one of his
talking days so he could explain how he stays quiet four days.
Jest imagine, went on Clem, what four no-talking days
could do fer saving energy in the country in general, and in
Congress in perlicular.
If them Congressmen would use four days to think about
what they're going to say the other three, we could have a
economical lawmaking outfit like we used to have when we
cut off their pay whuther they were thru or not.
f artliermore, declared Clem, Dr. Wolfson's plan ought to
be welcome al the White House. That is one place where
silence is golden these days, was Clem's words, and it looks
like the folks there was observing the no-talking days when
the tape machines was running.
Incidental, Mister Kditur, Josh Clodhopper made one of his
rare comments al the session Saturday night. He come out
strong in favor of President Nixon taking up fishing. He said
is looks like tax and talk experts is going into ever angle of his
life, but they is a American tradition of long standing that you
don't disturb a man's privacy when he is fishing or praying
If the President prays out loud the investigators will want to
hear both ends of the tape conversation, Josh said, so the only
thing left is fishing and four days of silence.
General speaking, the fellers was agreed with Bug
Hookum, that give a report on a decision by a judge in
Brooklyn, N.Y. Bug had saw by the paper where the federal
judge ruled that prisoners git to read the same newspapers
everbodv else in the county read. The case come up after
officialsof the jail said letting the convicts read the pujieis
would upset em. Hug said let em read about the outside and
they'll be glad they're inside.
Yours truly,
MAYOR ROY.
Ladies
expose
reformer
BY
LESTER KIVSOI.VIV;
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Several national clergy reputations were made during the
1950s and 60s by Roman Catholic and Episcopal priests who
engaged in civil disobedience to protest against racial
segregation laws
Now, some of these clergy have been elevated to rank of
bishop - and are embarrassingly confronted with earnest
requests that they civilly disobey the sexual .segregation, jn
canon (church law by ordaining females to the priesthood.
One of the best known of these clergymen is the ullraliberal
social activist Paul Moore Shortly after his election as
Bishop of the large and wealthy Episcopal Diocese of New
York Moore made the cover of Newsweek magaine.
An incredible puff job by this magazine's way. way mil
religion department portrayed the tall and attractive prelate
as somewhat of a combination of Savonarola and Sir
Galahad.
Less than a year after this effusive promotion, however,
"St. Paul of Morningside Heights" appeared to haw come a
cropper.
For the same Paul Moore who had advocated disobedience
where his country's laws of racial segregation were
concerned, balked when called upon to disobey his church's
sexual segregation laws.
Five Episcopal lady deacons pleaded with him to civilly
disobey the very nearly repealed canon law which hunts
ordination to the priesthood to males. Bishop Moore, in
something of a weird stunt, allowed them to vest and kneel-in
for an entire ordination service, but refused to ordain them
with the laying on of hands
His embarrassment was apparent when he relused lo
discuss with reporters what will happen if any of the live
ladies proceeds to engage in priestly acts such as celebrating
Holy Communion or administering penance.
For Moore has more than willingly used the press when
demonstrating in front of the While House or in Saigon But
now, this same gentleman of the cloth, whom the young
ladies turned so quickly from hero to heavy, explained
weakly:
"I cannot perform tins rile until the Episcopal Chinch
changes it stand against women priests "
Obviously Bishop Moore was, and is, physically able to do
so. And since there are al present two lady priesls in the
Episcopal (Anglican) Diocese of Hong Kong, it is doubtlill
indeed that the Bishop of New Y ork would be brought to
ecclesiastical trial.
Perhaps Moore, the hot prophet . is now compromising in
order lo avoid the possibility of outraging Anglo Catholic
("High Church" l Episcopalians, who strongly oppose female
ordinalion For Anglo Catholics represent a signilicaiit
segment of Moore's diocese.
In utilizing what might be called ecclesiastical statecralt in
order to head off a possible High Church mini -schism. Moore
is apparently learning that it is much less complicated to be
an outspoken priest than lo rule a diocese.
Like one prominent member of his diecesan Hock named
John Lindsay, Bishop Mix ire is learning that "Little Old New
York" can be one hell of a place to govern.
This realization may be even more pronounced if the five
lady deacons show up fur the next of Moore's ordination
services accompanied by that dignilied, retiring and
unobtrusive proponent of womens' rights, the Honorable
Bella ("The Hat" Abzug. Gingresspersoii lioin Manhattan
The early English wire lruck by the notion that elves .hot
at cattle with little bows and arrows, and that these arrow
heads could be worn to ward off lightning'
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