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Vol. 91, No. 5 jfjf Heppner, Ore., Thursday, March 21, 1974 jtjt
Decision deadline is April 22
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A Beef-O-Rama is
recipes, prizes
A Beef-O-Rama, to help the
harassed housewife "beef up"
her food budget, is coming to
Heppner.
Morrow County's CowBulles
are sponsoring an afternoon of
cooking demonstrations and
prizes, Wednesday, March 27,
at the Heppner Elks Lodge,
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Linda Baker, Oregon Beef
Council home economist, will
demonstrate how to get mul
tiple meals from such beef
cuts as round steak, first cut
blade chuck roast, porter
house steak and arm pot roast.
A discussion of cost per
serving and recipes to give
away are all part of the
afternoon show. Kathy Jamie
son, Gilliam County Extension
home economist, will demon
strate quick and economical
dishes in a microwave oven.
The big door prize to be
given away is a $50 smokeless
Timber industry
Panel to explore
community impact
What effect will the expan
sion of the Kinzua Corporation
mill at Heppner have on the
community?
How will the environment be
affected by the growth of the
forest industry and the in
creased demand on the re
sources of the forest?
A special program, "Tim
ber, Impact on Your Com
munity," is being presented to
the public, Monday, March 25.
A panel of experts in the forest
industry will discuss these
topics. The meeting is sched
uled to begin at 7:30 p.m. in
the Heppner High School
Cafetorium.
Harold Kerr, Morrow Coun
ty Agricultural Extension A
gent, will act as moderator for
the panel. Panel members are
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Linda Baker, home economist for the Oregon Beef Council,
will present a Beef-O-Rama at the Elks Lodge, Wednesday,
March 27. Mrs. Baker holds bachelors and masters of science
degrees in home economics from Oregon State University.
The pant six years she taught at Milwaukie High School,
outside Portland.
electric broiler. Other door
prizes include dinner for two
at Beecher's Restaurant in
lone, a large beef roast, beef
steaks, a beef certificate to
purchase beef at any store and
more than 20 smaller prizes.
There will be free coffee and
cookies.
One of Mrs. Baker's recipes,
tp be prepared at the show, is
stir-fry beef and vegetables,
prepared in a wok and costing
about 80 cents per serving.
This all-in-one meal contains
such tempting ingredients as
beef, celery, onion, bean
sprouts and water chestnuts.
Beer braised beef, costing 65
cents per serving, and wreath
rollups which cost 60 cents per
serving, will also be prepared.
All dishes prepared will be
given away as door prizes.
Virginia Grieb, president of
the local CowBelles group,
says everyone is welcomed to
Allen Nistad of the Kinzua
Corporation; Dennis Martin,
timber management assistant
with the Heppner District of
the U.S. Forest Service; and
two extension forestry spe
cialists from Oregon State
University, Dr. Bryan Cleary,
specialist in reforestation, and
Dr. Larry Strieby, forest
economist.
Nistad promises an impor
tant public announcement at
the Monday evening meeting.
In addition he will discuss the
expansion at the Heppner mill
and its effects on the com
munity in such areas as
housing. He will also discuss
practices to increase produc
tion without endangering the
forest.
Martin will examine the
this free show. If anyone is
wondering which door to go
through at the Elks to get into
the Beef-O-Rama, she says to
look for a big poster of an
appealing beef cow and "fol
low her tail on in."
Birdine Tullis, chairman of
the cooking show, says that
the CowBelles will have a
table set up with such items as
CowBelle place mats, beef
tea, beef jerky mix and
CowBelle cookbooks on sale.
Working with Mrs. Tullis to
bring the Beef-O-Rama to
Heppner are Mildred Eubanks
and Jean Bennett, in charge of
door prizes; Judy Currin and
Gail Hughes, in charge of the
coffee hour; DuAnne McCarty
and Claudia Hughes, buyer's
table; Claudia Hughes, ad
vertising; and hostesses
Sherrie Mahoney, Virginia
Grieb and Shirley Belcher.
effects of the mill's expansion
on the Forest Service. The
topic of the economics, of new
forestry practices will be
handled by the two OSU
extension specialists.
The program is being spon
sored by the Morrow County
Home Extension Advisory
Committee. The topic had
originally been planned for the
individual Home Extension
Study Groups. The advisory
committee decided to bring in
individuals well versed in the
forest industry for a special
meeting instead, because
many questions are arising
with the expansion of the
Heppner mill.
The committee planning the
program encourages the pub
lic.to attend and ask questions.
thorny issue for
"One of the reasons we
called this meeting tonight is
to determine the last day that
the City of Heppner could
delay construction of the
proposed water improve
ments, and still get all the
improvements completed by
July 1, 1975," Steve Anderson,
city engineer, told a special
meeting of the Heppner Com
mon Council Monday night.
One of the reasons for the
July 1, 1975 deadline is that the
State of Oregon will not allow
the City of Heppner to issue
any more building permits
unless the city has the water
system completely improved
by the July date, Anderson
said.
The last date for the city to
make a decision is April 22,
1974, one month from now.
This will be the date for the
city to make a decision as to
whether to go "on her own"
and try to get some financial
backing from another agency,1
or whether to wait and try to
get a commitment from the
Corps of Engineers.
"Naturally, our first alter
nate is to try and get the Corps
to give verbal approval that it
will participate, and then go
ahead with the design," An
derson said. "The other alter
nate is to ask the Economic
Development Agency to grant
us funds to complete the
work."
Mayor Jerry Sweeney in
formed the council that plans
for the entire project are on
the desk of the chief engineer,
and as soon as he approves
them the Public Utilities
Commission of the Senate will
convene and have to take oral
testimony of citizens. A meet
ing of this committee will be
for the sole purpose of the
re-authorization of the Willow
Creek Project only.
"Sen. Mark Hatfield sug
gests that the City of Heppner
have representation at this
meeting. Instead of us helping
Hatfield and Ullman, the
situation has been turned
around. The city has to go to
bat for them," said Sweeney.
Sweeney said the report
should be discussed within the
next two weeks. Anderson
plans to attend the meeting in
Water system
bids rather,
uh, shocking
Bids for Ione's proposed
water system were opened
Monday night at the lone City
Council meeting.
Five bids were opened and
all were found to be over the
proposed budget tentatively
asked by the council. The
council had hoped to spend
approximately $30,000, but the
bids ranged from $38,000 to
$66,000.
lone Mayor Bob Drake said
, the bids were being analyzed
byCity Engineer Steve Ander
son in hope that a suitable
proposal could be set up and
present to the council at its
next meeting.
Washington, D.C., as soon as
the city is notified of the time
of the meeting.
Anderson discussed the
possibility of acquiring EDA
funds for the Heppner water
system, and said there is a
reasonable chance that EDA
funds might be available
should the Corps fail to take
any action on the project.
Anderson went into a
lengthy discussion of the
proposed two-phase project
concerning the related work
he plans to do this summer.
They include work on Well 3,
purchasing the Thorpe Well,
construction of a 250,000
gallon reservoir, and the
relocation and enlargement of
the Willow Creek transmission
line.
The proposed plans would
include a 250,000-gallon reser
voir, giving the city some
temporary benefits, allowing
further development in the
Lott Subdivision, and giving
the city a larger fire-fighting
capacity at the high school. It
would give the city all of the
benefits of the cross ties, thus
improving the present system,
and all of the advantages of
the present distribution sys
tem. "This would not be the
perfect system by any
means," said Anderson, but it
would be something that we
could tie into at a later date.
We would be able to meet the
city's needs for the next 20
years.
"If we went with this
two-phase construction and
within a month nothing has
happened, we could complete
the projects with the monies
we presently have. Should the
Corps come in we would then
be able to complete the entire
project. One of the bottlenecks
facing the City of Heppner is
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the transmission line, and
eventually the two miles will
have to be replaced."
Under this proposed two
stage construction the city will
have to rely more on the
Thorpe Well than previously
anticipated. The importance
of this plan is that it will give
the city the amount of water it
currently requires.
One of the problems is the
cost factor of the 250,000
gallon reservoir. The esti
mated cost of the reservoir is
$95,700 under this proposal. If
the Corps come in it would
cost about $20,000 for a larger
reservoir.
With this stage construction
the city will be about $70,000
short.
Following Anderson's dis
cussion on the proposed stages
of the water project, members
of the utilities commission
were asked for opinions on the
project.
Planning commission
$385,000 housing
project approved
The city planning commis
sion unanimously approved
Kinzua Corporation's housing
project Tuesday night that
clears the way for construc
tion of 22 single family
dwellings and six multi-family
units on 2.12 acres above
Pioneer Memorial Hospital at
a cost of $385,000.
Allen Nistad, Kinzua Cor
poration official, told the
commission he would per
sonally develop the multi
family area, Evergreen Ter
race, as well as a home there
for himself.
Richard Unruh, architect, of
Moreland, Unruh & Smith,
Eugene, Ore., told the com
mission the development will
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council
One member, Gene Pierce,
said he thought the city had
sold the citizens a "bill of
goods" because the city had
sold the people $450,000 bond
issue and now it's asking for
the government to step in and
help with the improvements.
Both Anderson and Mayor
Sweeney were accused of not
telling the truth and leading
the people "down the prim
rose path."
Sweeney retorted, "We have
told the people the truth; it
was the Corps that did not tell
the truth."
Harley Young accused the
city of selling the bond issue to
the people for the benefit of
Kinzua Corporation and its
employees. He also asked why
Kinzua Corporation did not
place $300,000 to $400,000 "on
the table" and allow the city to
repay it over a period of 10
years.
be fully landscaped with
native trees and shrubs,
plenty of open space, with
houses facing in an oblique
position to afford more pri
vacy for neighboring resi
dences. About 57 per cent of
the acreage will be land
scaped, he said.
The commission heard from
several of the 50 persons in the
audience, who raised objec
tions because of a fear of
inadequate drainage from the
project, increased traffic
hazards in and around the
hospital, the inadequacy of
Gilmore Street to carry pro
jected traffic and the improb
ability of furnishing water to
the new development.
The Heppner Lions Club was organized Friday night at the
Wagon Wheel Restaurant. Officers elected are shown here,
left to right: Dick Sargent, vice-president; Bill Lande,
treasurer; Don Heliker, a member of the lone Lions Club
which sponsored the Heppner club; Cliff Green, president;
and Dave Harrison, secretary. The next meeting of the
Heppner Lions Club is March 27, 6:30 a.m., at the Wagon
Wheel. Men interested in becoming charter members of the
newly organized club are invited to the breakfast meeting.
"Whether Kinzua is in this
town or not, the people of
Heppner had a sick water
system on their hands, and it
was either pass the bond issue
or let the city die on the vine.
The city water system had to
be improved." Sweeney
replied.
In other action, the council
heard Bob Lowe, maintenance
superintendent for Pioneer
Hospital, ask Anderson how
the city plans to maintain the
proper pressure to the hospital
if the present county reservoir
is tied into to feed the
proposed subdivision. At pres
ent there is a six-inch line
from the reservoir to the
hospital serving the sprinklers
system at the hospital. Lowe's
main concern was fire protec
tion for the hospital.
Anderson answered Lowe's
query with the following
proposal :
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The questions concerning
these matters were answered
by Nistad, Unruh, Engineer
Don Staebler and Commission
Chairman Randal Peterson,
who reminded critics of the
project that such matters
were not within the province
of the commission to solve,
and that the only purpose for
the meeting was to approve or
disapprove a variance for
multi-family units.
The objections, Peterson
said, would have to be worked
out between the engineers for
the city and Kinzua.
Nistad said Kinzua has
already made $8 million in
new investments in the Hepp-
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