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Page 2 j- .MT i inurannv. nanrcn zi. Heppner, vre., uuiwr- ii U 4w msm M 4 t Horse sense ESVESTV.JOINTJt a I TVt's a k of speculation around the county '"what to do" with the 56.&-cre bombing ranee the Navy may quit. Just about everybody has expressed an oomioo on the disposition of the land, including congressmen and the giwaina. strikes roe that the firs people to consult an the futireof Has land m NortbeasJ Morrow County is the Boeing Corporation. Boemg has a -year lease or. exactly 9S.C5.1S acres adjacent to the SC.WP acres the Navy uses as a bombing ranee That lease specifies that should ary land adjacent te Boeing's leased land become available. Boesng has the option to lease any and all such lands at same price it pays for fee land e leases at the present time, which is P cents an acre. I; doesn't make any difference whether the ownership of the land reverts to the state or to the Bureau of Land aSanaeement. Boemg s option to leas it must be honored Therefore, what happens s the bombing ranee land is up to Boemg. JCaybe somebody had better go ask em. Back m TXS who? the bottom fell out of the aircraft industrr. Boemg tried to break its lease on all is land in Marrow County. The state .refused to iet Boeing out of thai lease. The szate reminded Boemg that the lease k valid and ironclad. 5 e lszl likely that Oregon, new that it sniffs some profit ns wrat was once desert wasteland car. break the same lease it ruled valid and ironclad back m 13 Jack L. McF adder., VK-president and assistant genera! manager of Boemg Afri-todsstrial Company at Boardman, Toid the Gaiette-Tnnes last week that a proposal to make farms for Vietnam veterans out of the Navy bombmg range wouid probaary be considered favorably by his firm. "But if that land s going to be opened up for Development by corporate farming and ranching interests. Boeing wants to do iC he said. MeFaddes ouoted Harold Kerr, agricultural county eiceTSior agent, as estimating the improvement of She bombmg range land at JSMP per acre. Let us assume. MeFaddes said, that veterans were abk- to finance purchase of -arre family farms or. bombmg range land. Where would be ge? the SSIiS it would cost to develop it into a productive family farm" Just putimg it the necessary roads through f acre tracts would cost betweer. STSO.W and $1 million, and who would L:ke to pay for that? Obviously, the land m question will have to be developed by corporate mterests Few individuals have that kind of money, and few of them would want to invest that much in a farm gamble Boemg is. and always has been, a good citaec of Morrow County It spends every dollar it can with Morrow County merchants It is one of the best customers Morrow County Grain Growers has. 1 has done a remarkable job of turning worthless land into productive land. It ss a big taxpayer. Last year Boemg paid 135 .ft in taxes to Morrow County on that leased land and its improvements, and wiB pay about SE5.(X- for 2ST3 taxes That's about 2 per cent of the toial county tax bite. Not s bad record for a firm that took desert land 10 years ago. invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and a lot of agrtculura genius in k. and made i: productive to the point wnere just about everybody wants a share of the pe. Where were they when it was worthless, and when the county was getting peanuts off it m taxes' Unless Boemg voluntarily surrenders its huge invest ment (which wouldn't be good business for ii the only way Oregoc is going to get Boemg off that land is fay instituting condemnatwr. proceedings. 1: that is done, somebody ss going to have to pay Boeing for all its improvements, plus damages. w I suggest the Chamber of Commerce invite MeFadaen to speak at one of us doge meetings oc the subject of Boeings" positKK oc the future of its fe. . holdings in the county. He could correct some misunderstandings that are becoming accepted as fact-one of whk is that the repartmeiit of Veterans Affairs pays the taxes oc the land Boemg leases It doesn't. Ser.. Mart Hatfield a going it Thailand. India, Egypt and Turkey u see bow mucr of our money those people wil agree it accept m aid programs. A k of people wish he'd stay here and mate good or. fcs promises to g funding for Willow Creek Dam. The Corps of Engineers has awarded a Richland. We, contractor miEiaE to improve picnic "scmiies akirf the Columns River A lot of people wish the Corps would buiic Willow Greet lam and let tne hot dog and potato saiad people wait a while longer. Ilus 2S red Vwwei is hiue. Viuiet is a streaker m Abasia We wm recaE the cays wnet goi"iSt swalkiwmg. panty rains, jamming tsw pmoe booths and pusmz beds across the continent representee trie tugnest ideals of trie American college system weicume tne Streaking Movement as a return te noraairy . Streatmg . far those wtk have bees out of touch wim tne warid. is a cultural- relevant form of commumcatna that involves snuckmg one's clotting and darting s:a-t naked through heavy concentrations of people, tne ocjec: being u stun, dismay, anger and confuse masses of peope without bemx apprerjenoed. Tins, of course, is what Americar. colleges have beei leaching ttteer students for years Goaty s Snoe Store. Oregat Heaaqiiarters. "Sneakers for Streamers " Streakmg by coLege stuarats mates more sense tnan carryTEg placards for Cesar Chaves and lyrng oowx a front of Army trucks. And it s z wonoerful way tc leE the beys from tne girls, vtxt we La vert beet able tc dt for a decaae But bow come pnoiograpners never get ac-coming pictures of streakers at wore AE of them are rear view pictures. If I bad assigned a pootacrapher to cover a parade and he cam back with a picture of it tLsappearmg m the (Lstance I d fire him. Newsweek rat a picture of a oaser streamers last week, taken from the rear, of course t kmtec more Lxe s patter of Parker House rolls Fraemner w&er t kii m eoliege had a EA. it was only a collage degree? Ah, Spring' ' GAZETTE-TIMES III in km IX- i ii turn m. .lza Tt riimin iKimi-i Tn mi T imm lawnat v IHM I I 0" Cl Ml 'i "tt MWI - II I I I J; suwsatiTio ares g rrL''.' mmm. at p - n t ii Think!" Story of early-day The mail pouch logging reviewed A good look at logging practices m the north Oregac Coast Range is giver, by Sam ChurchiU m hs book about his parents, "Big Sam " Lucy Peterson, an Astoria native but long-time resident of Morrow County, reviewed "Big Sam" at a jomt meeting of the Bookworms and the Topic Club oc March 12 at the Weatherford borne. Delia McCurdy, an original member of the Topic Club, was a special guest. Mrs Peterson brought additional pictures of the Astoria area which she circulated and she added several persona recollections which enhanced her review. The book s author g7ves details about life near Astoria during the years that his father. Big Sam. worked as a logger and tne family lived in nearby caisps. Young Sam attended the University of Oregon for three years before he. too, became a logger. He is now farm editor of the Yakima Morning Herald and has had articles printed in Readers Digest and other magazines. "Long before you could conjugate a verb you knew how to roll a choker so as to swing a long free of an obstruction. You could read the whistle signals before you could read and write You were proud of your father Y'ou lived a part of his life each day. And you yearned for the day when you. too. would lace on a pair of calk shoes and leave your own special imprint alongside the footsteps of your father in the woods." The story of the author s mother. Caroline Snow Churchill, and her marriage to Big Sam and her adjustment to life in a lugging camp, which differed so much from her Boston background, is interesting. Loggers in the early ! were rated as hot-tempered, rough talking, and capable of blowing a month's pay or. whiskey and women oc a Saturday night ."" The book includes an eight-page picture sectioc that grves a look at the er.vironment that Caroline and Sam knew in the early years of their marriage The edition from which Mrs. Peterson reviewed was printed by Baiiantine Books. Inc., 373. S1J5. The book had beer published earlier by Doubieday t. Co., Inc. Margaret Morgan is Topic Club president and Inez Erwm is Bo.worm president. Tne Bookworms will meet at Mrs Erwm's home oc March 26. The dubs will meet together again on Wed. afternoon. April 3. at the home of Katnryt) Lmristrom in lone TkttaiCW-Ti Water There s a 54iorsepower motor being used as a booster pump used tc pump water to the area. He suggested a larger booster pump to satisfy the hour -by -hour demand of the hospital, to replenish the water suppiy to the hospital as it is used Anderson agreed with Low that the cry eouid not go in and tap the existing sut-inch ane ieadrng from the reservoir and use the water for domestic purposes. "We hope that when we get througn up there, if the development goes through, we can put m a large enough pump to satisfy the hour by hour domestic needs of the homes, so we wouldn't be cutting down on the fire capacity to the hospital The pressure is to be maintained a: aE times." be said The storage capacity is already tnere A boaster pump is needed ic maintain the capacity of the reservoir At the present time tne hospital dues cot have the necessary fire protect, Proposed plans call for take over of the county reservoir to utilae water now used by the crjurthouse . and use the wer at the courthouse to water the courthouse lawn The present reservoir would then be sup plied with water from a larger booster pump. AH water for the hospital iE come directjy from the reservoir, and eeo- from Page I tuaily the hospital will be tied into aD the city's reservoirs. Bids are to be submitted to contractors for the proposed wort or. Weil No. 3 Bios will be opened and read at the April 15 council meeting with the work to start May l Completion of the work is expecied to be July l The wort involves replacement of exssting pump and motor, instaliatioc of a pump control valve, and miscellaneous piping and valves. The council meets again April 1 By that time it is expecied lo learn from the Corps o? Engineer whether ii will commit itself to pay its part of the relocation of transmission lines and reser voirs If do such commitment is received by that date, the council will probably "go it alone" and begin renovauoo of its water system with bond money already voted for that purpose The council referred a variance request by Hubert C. Wusog lo the planning com mjssoG after tt w as learned that he plans to put a moDile home oc bis lot at 4(1 Riverside. According to measurements submitted to the council. Wilson's lot was one i'jot short of the 75 fee! Deeded for fcxs trailer. Sweriey appointed Ernest Y Joiner and Anne Dojerr to the City Planning Comius- SJJL EDITOR: Since your resurrection of the cute little Dot Charlie weekly we kavt wavered weekly between hate, admiration, frustration, empathy, pique and a few ether emotional facets. At first though: Mark Twain had come to town. Good old SamU get us all straightened out As earlier -than-you arrivals ibj two years from the Bay Area we affined with your early editorials anent the differences twixt there and here Why , do you know, we ha vent been hassled for change or 35 cents to make up the price of a fifth of muscatel for three years now Hell, we aust sees no Blacks or Orientals either Now that's culture shock, coming from Telegraph Hill to our isolated ISO in the mountains north of Spray where we re either mudded or snowed-in 45 months of the year. Then, you got a little crary, Ernie Y ou started taking off or, the environment and the environmentalists and welfare bums and as environmentalists (we think) and ex -welfare bums iJoanie once took about $580 from the staie of California during a period of unemployment after 15 or so years of gainful employment we took a bit of umbrage On occasion k However, you usually managed to balance ou! our differences with the beautifully high quality of your editorials when you got off of subjects which created remarks around here like "that bigoted sonovabitcfa" and, as that broad who once ran a fag -dyke bar m NY.. Spivey.once sang. "I brought culture to Buffalo in the Nineties." felt that vtu were bringing "culture to Heppner ns the 7& " We d read and remark (in our smug elitist manners, "I wonder bowmany people around here ever, know who Macauiay was... However, with your editorial of March T. all is forgiven ; well, almost all You can be as rotten as you want lo Lois Winchesier. It s not that we dislike animals We have passeJ of them. But we can't stand leaiots. or CPAs We w ant to shake your hand the next time ns town. U you're there, we will We got Jim Eason in common, amt we? MIKE WELLS, Spray. PS I m not signing for Joanie She is to follow with a !5-word letter or. the environment which she'll defy you to print verbatim. No I m not I'm afraid you'd have the guts to print it exactly as written and without editorial comment. And one Lois Winchester s enough Bui since I count among my idols both Altiert Schweitzer and Mark Twain, your columns leave me seethingiy schaophrenic, yet always, dammit, admirmg of their style 1 readily admit I prefer most deer tc most of the burners I ve come across, and have even been known to rescuea hapless fly mid-sw at When our bigotries coincide, your wisdom enthralls roe When they clash, I wonder bow you can sleep Meanwhile. The G-T has riser,, since your rescue, to the top of our reading pile Though we couldn 't care less which local jocks scorched whom, or what cookies the Kmzo Koffee Katct created, it s nice to have a maddening, literate gaily for ac editor of the only rag in town mayor ui nmuuiuu DEAR EDITOR: Two recent items In the pa pen has got me worried more man ever about the future of farming. One reported where peanuts is a real good source of cheap protein and that this country is pushing peanut butter u parts of the hungry world that ain't never beard of peanut. The other said American farmers raised a record peanut crop last year, and that the Guvernment is buying nearly a y fourth of it because the Department of Agriculture's support price is two tenths of a cent more than the market price. Mister Editor, this is bad news from ever angle. It's bad enuff that the farmer can't sell his peanuts at a prom, it's worse that the USDA is gitting the Guvernment in the peanut business in a big way, and it's downright terrible that we're trying to peddle peanuts to help out other countries. This combination is bound to mean trouble, and it don't take much memory to know who fer. If our peanut bargining toilers our pattern, we D probable be eating Russian peanut butter in a couple of years. One thing fer shore, if the folks in Russia take to peanut butter sandwiches, thev won't want fer bread, and we'll fix it so they can have all the peanut butter they want. Back in 1972. we sold wheat to U.e Reds fer $1.65 a bushel. Now we're running short, and we're thinking of buying some of our wheat back from the Russians at the current price of $5 a bushel And well probable buv back the 30 million bushels the Russians bought that is still in this country. That way. we save the shipping cost while the sellers turn a $100 million profit. With perdictions of bread going to $1 a loaf, it's natural that the price of peanut butter will have to go up fer the sake of fair trade or somepun. I! wouldn't look right to ha ve a peanut butter sandwich made out of a quarter 's worth of bread and only a nickel's worth of peanuts. And Guvernment learned a long time afore the gas shortage that the way to make shore prices keep going up is to keep everything scarce. Actual. Mater Editor, we might do better dealing our peanuts to the Arabs The more oil they wont sell us, the more peanuts we sell em That's what we're doing on wheat and other grains I see by the papers where we're selling twict the grains now the Arabs than we were a year ago afore they shut off the oil spigot. Course. I reckon everbody in them Arab countries is gitting plenty of protein cause they got so much money they can import our beef that we can't afford to eat unless we mix it half and half with soybean mush If the USD A starts buying up our soybean crop there won't be nothing left to eat we can buy Farthermore. if it air.'t enuff fer us to teach the world how to deal in farm products, 1 see the US. Army is helping private landowners in Germany build golf courses. That'll show the Germans how to run short of everthing jest like we did fore we plowed up the golf cot-ses to plant wheat to sell the Russians Y ours truly, MAYOR ROY. JOANIE WELLS EDITOR: k your editorial column of Feb. U you state. "The Oregon Grape. Oregon's state flower, comes from California ." And then you say. "I am now ns deep trouble "" No. not deep trouble, you simply illustrated the saying. ' A little know ledge is a dangerous thing " Now I will do the same. Oregon Grape Manama aquifoiium is native from British Columbia to Northern California, so it did not "come from"" anywhere else, it a a native of Oregon And of Washington. British Columbia and Northern California HELEN M McClXLOUGH. Cottonwood. Ca. COW POKES By Ace Reid L i Nixon's Jesuit tumrtnnn r vv caput i 7. LESTER KIVSOLVING "Jake, now trie bargain on this place, buy it by tf section, then find somebody who wlE tale it by the pound!" ASKLNGTON - The Rev. John McLaughlin. S.J. - who is President Nixon's $25,0W-a -year Jesuit assistant - is no longer a speechwriter. according to the White House press office "He ss invoked in international humanitarian projects, sue as the Southeast Asian refugees," explained Press Secretary Ron Zeigler s staff assistant. Tom DeCair. This column has tried repeatedly to obtain an interview with Fattier McLaughlin, but his secretary has disclosed that he has been either on extended lecture tours in such distant places as California, or else has been encumbered with a heavy schedule of TV, radio and local lecturing DeCair was asked, therefore, if it is not true that while Father McLaughlin is no longer a Nixon speechwriter, he is quite definitely a Ntxon speechmaker. Replied DeCair: "Yes. like many others in government, Dr McLaughlin is a spokesman for this administration " This is to wallow in understatement For the likes of Father McLaughlin have not been seen since the oratorical heyday of ex Vice President Spiro Agnew . For example, there is Father McLaughlin's having engaged his Jesuit seminary classmate. Father Robert Dnnan, S.J .. in what might be described as "The Jesuit Battle of Pennsylvania Avenue." Father Dnnan (D -Mass is the first Catholic priest ever elected to Congress (although by no means the first clergy Congressman, for there have been 95 Protestants. On Jan 3D of this year, Cong Dnnan described the Nixon administration as "the most corrupt administration in the history of the republic." President Nixon had no need to respond to this charge, not when his Jesuit assistant promptly counterattacked - by comparing Cong Dnnan to the Sanhedrin. Fattier McLaughlin went on to charge Father Dnnan w ith rape of justice for not having disqualified himself from the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiries, considering a Dnnan impeachment bill. F ather Dnnan had already brushed off a less erotic GOP suggestion to this effect by replying coaly that no Congressman who introduces a consumer protection bill is expecied to disqualify himself from the voting. But the usually doughty and intrepid Massachusetts Congressman amaungly, and promptly, backed away from McLaughlin 's comparison of Drinan to the Sanhednn i which put Jesus Christ on trial . For he replied with an uricharactenstically limp rejoinder, "My intuition tells me lo decline all comment." This left the distinct impression that President Nixon has quite cleverly discovered that the way to neutralise one pesky Jesuit is to use another. Meanwhile Father McLaughlin, as Nixon speechmaker, has announced around the nation: - "I think Nixon will be viewed historically, ard in his own time, as a great moral leader." - "The churches have their o n histories of irregulanties. disorders and scandals " - -My feeling is that senior officials in the finite House are no better, no worse, no more sinful, or less sinful, no more sullied or unsullied morally, ethically, or spiritually than', people in all other occupations - ineludum the clergy,' This column has by no means been reluctant to expose eccksiasucal venality. Rut we know of no dtMiominational headquarters tor even pseudo-denominations) which have currently amassed so many criminal indictments charging the bugging of rivals and the burgUntiitjs of psychiatrists. On the other hand, there is the apparently apocryphal remark which has been attributed to the Ute Al Capooe, as he was boarding the boat for Alcairai; "Well nobody's perfect"
