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Changes in school
system explained
"After a sustained absence
of 22 years I can notice a lot of
changes in Morrow County."
Mathew Doherty, Morrow
County's new school super
intendent, told the Chamber of
Commerce Monday.
"I never dreamed thai one
day agriculture would be
responsible for linking the
northern and southern parts of
the county, and one of the
biggest suprises came today
when I saw a truck load of logs
coming down Little Butter
Flood naming
devices installed
National Weather Service
personnel have completed
installation of flash flood
alarm systems on Shobe
Canyon and Balm Fork.
Only two of these systems
have been allocated to the
Columbia Basin, and both are
at Heppner, according to Dave
Bauman, National Weather
Service, River Forcast Center
at Portland, who assisted in
the installation that began last
Wednesday.
The sensing devices are
located about two and a half
miles outside the city limits on
both creeks that are prone to
flash floods. A flash flood at
either point will provide
Heppner residents with 15 or
20 minutes warning before the
waters hit the city.
The devices are located at
bridges. When water rises it
lifts a float which breaks &
circuit. A monitoring panel
located at Pioneer Memorial
Hospital is visually and audi
bly activated, and the flood
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Creek," he said.
Doherty announced the
opening day of school as Sept.
3, but w as unable to determine
what the enrollment would be
in the county. What he was
sure of is that the present
school budget is out of hand
due to constant price in
creases in supplies and
materials due to the inflation.
He announced some
changes in the school system,
such as the addition of the
early childhood program and
alarm siren is tripped to alert
the city. In case of power
failure, the units automati-
cally switch to battery power.
Should the sensing devices be
disturbed by vandals, or if a
cable is cut, the nature of the
malfunction can be deter
mined at the monitoring
station in the hospital.
Leonard Sabin, area exten
sion technician who installed
the units, said there will be a
formal testing of the system
within the next few days, but
that it is operational at this
moment.
The system required tele
phone lines, which were in
stalled by Pacific Northwest
Telephone Company, and
power lines erected by Co
lumbia Basin Electric Co-op.
The monthly phone and power
bills will be paid by the
Heppner Water Control Dis
trict. Cost and installation of
the equipment, estimated at
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a career program. He explain
ed the early childhood pro
gram by stating that before a
youngster is 9 or 10 years old
and has reached the 3rd grcde
he has accumulated 80 per
cent of this basic attitudes. He
said this factor has been over
looked in the past, and that
there are now statistics to
prove the point.
Doherty said there are
about 100 new career jobs
created every week and the
school system should keep up
with them because there is no
way students will know of the
job changes unless the schools
are able to teach the basics for
the new jobs, especially at the
high school and community
college levels.
He had this to say about the
new graduation require
ments: "In the past all a
student had to do was attend
school and earn credits for
graduation. The new law
requires that a student must
also have competency in some
skills. Once this is established
in the school system it will
move into the curriculum."
Students have dropped out
of high school in their junior
year, he said, and then been
denied jobs for not having
completed high school. Today,
however, the same student
can tell their future employers
that they have attained com
petency in various skills, and
their years of study will not
have been wasted as in
previous years.
All students now enrolled in
the 9th grade will come under
the new law for graduation
requirements, and the first
graduates will be the class of
1978.
Jerry Eyestone, govern
ment coordinator for the
Willow Creek Dam Project,
will be guest speaker at the
next Monday meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce.
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Re-appraisal
properly for
The Morrow County assessor's office will re-appraise the
City of Heppner for the 1975-76 tax year.
It is required by law (ORS 308234) that each parcel of real
property be appraised at least once every six years,
according to Assessor Joyce Bergstrom.
The county has been divided into six appraisal
maintenance districts. Heppner, District 2, will be appraised
now.
Citizens are asked to cooperate with appraisers, Charles
Patching and Dick Mitchell, as they ask questions and look at
property to determine its fair market value.
Mrs. Bergstrom, has requested that citizens contact the
Morrow County assessor's office with any questions
concerning appraisal methods.
Harold Colin
hospitalized
Harold A. Cohn, 80, pioneer
resident and livestock opera
tor, suffered a series of
strokes Friday morning and
was hospitalized at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital.
Cohn has been in a coma
since the attacks, and is not
receiving visitors. His son,
Phil, arrived here from his
home in Ellensburg, Wa.,
Friday afternoon to be with
his father and will remain
several days. His daughter,
Sally Cohn of Portland, was
here over the weekend.
Cohn's condition was not
improved at press time, and
no medical prognosis was
given by the attending phy
sician, Dr. Wallace Wolff.
Cohn is the last relative of
Henry Heppner living in
Heppner. Aside from having
been born in San Francisco,
Cohn has lived all his life in
Heppner. He has a living
brother, Henry Cohn of Las
Vegas, Nev., and a sister,
Mrs. E.A. Shank of West
Lynn, Ore. The brother suf
fered a stroke two years ago
and has been in a coma since
that time.
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By LIZ CURTIS
Five animals consider
Queen Sherry Kemp the best
friend they ever had.
Three horses and two dogs
are in constant competition
with each other for the
affections of this year's Queen
of the Morrow County Fair
and Rodeo.
When Sherry comes out of
the house with a carrot in her
hand, horses Taco and Glenco
race to the fence, more for her
attention than for the treat in
her hand. The other horse,
Spot, in another field acknow
ledges her presence. Taco and
Glenco nuzzel their friend as if
they know she is something
special in Morrow County this
summer.
Across the lawn, Troubles
and another dog are putting on
a show with hopes their
mistress will play with them
instead. Troubles vigorously
shakes an old plastic con
tainer until Sherry leaves the
horses and plays a game of
fetch with the dog. Taco and
Glenco take their turn at
being jealous. They hang their
heads over the fence, anxious
for Sherry to return and give
them attention.
Sherry's fondness
and
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Cohn started in the livestock
business in Heppner about
1928, although he has spent
most of his life in the sheep,
wool and cattle business. His
father, Phil Cohn, a nephew of
Henry Heppner, operated a
wool warehouse for Heppner
at one time. He was also in the
automobile business here in
the late 1920s. His agency was
located in the burned out
building adjacent to the Bank
of Eastern Oregon.
Phil Cohn assisted in the
organization of the C & B
Livestock Company, Hermis
ton, and Harold Cohn was
active in its management. He
was also active, until two
years ago, in the Superior
Packing Company of Ellens
burg, Wa., which Phil is now
operating. This business is one
of three of its kind in the
Northwest, an integrated live
stock processing plant that
' slaughters and processes
meat for restaurants and
wholesale commercial ac
counts. Harold Cohn retired about a
year ago and has been living
at his home at 265 W.
Baltimore Street in Heppner.
understanding of animals
shows. She rides at least an
hour a day and often longer.
, The open fields of the Stan
Kemp wheat ranch, 13 miles
north of Lexington, provide
ample space for long rides.
Sherry says that Troubles
usually goes along and when
he gets tired he gets to ride on
the horse too.
Sherry is in her 10th year of
her 4-H project. She trained
her rodeo horse, Glenco, in
4-H. She is training Taco on
her own now. She is so
dedicated to the training of
Taco that she will continue
studies at Blue Mountain
College in Pendleton, so she
can take the horse with her
. and continue to train the horse
ever day.
Queen Sherry, a 1973 grad
uate of Heppner High School,
attended Oregon State Uni
versity in Corvallis for two
terms last year. She trans
ferred to BMCC this spring to
participate more fully in court
activities. After next year she
will return to OSU.
She is majoring in business
education and wants to teach
high school in a small com
munity. Several youngsters
remember her as their teach
er's aide in Mrs. Dick's room,
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Heppner, Ore., Thursday, Aug. 15, 1974
County schools
open Sept. 3
All schools in Morrow
County will be open for a full
day of school on Sept. 3.
All buses will run at regular
times. Any changes in bus
times will be announced to
students by drivers after the
first day's run.
Cafeterias will operate on
the first day of school. School
lunches have been increased
from 25 to 30 cents for all
students, effective on the first
day of school.
Pre-registration of students
at Riverside and Heppner
High School will be held from
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when in high school. Sherry
has also been a counselor at
4-H camp at Cutsforth Park in
past years.
The youngest of Stan and
Billie Kemp's three children,
she is their only daughter. Her
older brother, Gary, is 23 and
works for Bill Healy. Twenty-one-year-old
brother Steve
works for Max Barclay.
Sherry works at home for her
father during the' summer.
She drives wheat truck, runs
errands, cooks and keeps the
household running. If horses
and animals rate first as a
hobby, then she thinks cooking
might be second.
Sherry is not one to talk
about herself. She perfers to
talk about this year's court
and their experiences. She has
high priase for the princesses
on her court and for the people
of Morrow County. She feels
that Morrow County people
are showing increased inter
est in the activities of the court
this year. She reports that
every time she comes into
Heppner she is asked about
the court, and that makes her
very happy.
Neither does she talk about
her high school activities
much. She feels that is past
history and people wouldn't be
Aug. 26-28 at the school
offices. lone High School
office will also be open.
Students at lone are requested
to pick up registration mate
rial at the office prior to the
first day of school.
Kindergarten, 1st grade and
9th grade students should
have a health examination.
The Goldenrod form com
pleted by a doctor should be
presented at time of registra
tion. Parents are urged to see
that elementary students new
to the school district register
early at their respective
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Tom Simonton, Pendleton postal employee for the past 25
years, displays some of his art work in Heppner in
preparations for the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo.
Simonton began cartooning in grade school and has followed
the profession through the years. He has decorated the
windows in Pendleton prior to the Round-up in past years,
and was invited to Heppner for the first time this year.
too interested in reading about
what she did in high school.'
But she will admit to having
been editor of the 1973
Heppner High School year
book and the fact she grad
uated a member of the
National Honor Society. She
likes to point out that for her
first three years of schooling
she attended the Lexington
School.
Sherry looks to the future.
Her immediate aim is to
graduate from college. Then
she says she would like to
travel, especially to Hawaii.
And when she settles down she
wants ''i live on a ranch, or at
least out in the country.
Being Queen of the Morrow
County Fair and Rodeo marks
the climax to Queen Sherry's
career with the court. Last
year she was a princess. For
three years previous to 1973
she was a permanent pennant
bearer with the court.
Queen Sherry Kemp invites
everyone to come to the dance
Saturday night and have a
good time dancing to the
music of the Country Revue.
She issues a great big wel
come to this year's fair and
rodeo which begins Monday,
Aug. 19. and runs for an
action-packed week.
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schools.
Registration fees for stu
dents, grades 9-12 will be $16
this year, plus insurance of $3
and lab fees of $3 per lab.
Annual fees this year will be
$5.
Fees for Junior High grades
7 and 8 at Riverside and lone
will be $8 for student body fees
and $1 for student insurance.
Heppner 7 and 8th grade
fees are $2 tow el fee and a cost
of $1 for student insurance.
Elementary students in all
schools have a registration fee .
of $1.50 and insurance for
elementary students is $1.
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