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'Financially strong Columbia Basin's cheerful report Secretary-Treasurer Paul Tews told Columbia Basin members and guests of the strong financial condition of Columbia Basin Electric Co op at the annual meeting, Nov. 1. at the fairgrounds. There were 242 members and guests present to hear Paul Tews say that the operating margins and non operating margins of the local Last rites for Boardman youths Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Community Church. Boardman, for Dale Scott Hngel. 15; and for Vernon Leroy Hamilton, 13. yesterday in Ellensberg, Wa. The bodies of the two teenagers were discovered Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock by a younger brother of one of (he victims in a shed on die Hiigel properly at 'Boardman. Both boys were found on an old davenport. Plastic bags and an aerosol can were found between them. Aulhorilies speculate the boys had spray ed some of the contents of the spray can into the plastic bags and inhaled it in an effort to get "high" before going on a "(rick or treat" Halloween junket . The boys, bolh of Boardman, had .left their homes Thursday night on the Halloween "trick or treat." Are you "nuts"? 'Everybody lias By TERRY D. HIRNI Director, Morrow County Mental Health Services The Morrow County Mental Health Clinic originated ap proximately two years ago after a federal grant was received with state and county matching funds. As the title implies, the clinic was estab lished to work with individuals in Morrow County who are having mental or emotional problems. The next question a person may ask is, what is a mental : or emotional problem? Any time a person is having difficulty handling certain feelings as a result of a particular incident and (or) incidents which result in f I " if! Elmer Palmer, right, presents Walter Wright a token of appreciation for serving on the Columbia Basin Board of Direc tors for the past 26 years. position' business were the largest ever as allocated to patronage credits tor the calendar year 1973. The president. Wall Jaeger, said thai they had put a ra'e revision into effect in May of 1974 which was to revise rales primarily and u t-t ail had the effect of a 5 per cent increase. lev. s said the co-op now plans in absoi b (he large $8(U.KKi-$9(i.n(io met ease in an- "When ilie Hiigel boy failed to return by midnight, the mother. Mrs, Erna Hiigel. assumed her son was spending ihe nigh! with the Hamilton you'h and Ins father, who live m a trailer home. The youths had frequently spent the nigh! a' each other's home, Friday morning Ihe Hiigel family dug showed up. Since the clog usually stayed with ihe boys. Mrs. Hiigel became worried and asked her young er smi to go look for the two boys. The deadly spray can had a warning on the label: "If inhaled in a concentrated form, contents may prove fatal." ! Parents of Ihe victims are Mrs. Erna Hiigel of Boardman and Eugene Hiigel of The Dalles; and J.T. Hamilton of Boardman and Mrs. Virginia Hamilton of Ellensberg. affecting his behavior in a negative fashion, the indi vidual is having a mental or emotional problem. The de gree of the emotional problem can range from yelling at the dog because of a bad day at the office to breaking contact with the. world and starting a fantasy world within the person's own mind. Yes, everybody has mental or emotional problems of some degree, hence every body at some time or another could benefit from the ser vices offered at the mental health clinic if a person desires to work on a problem or problems he has. Each individual learns to handle his problems in his own unique fashion so that he can nual power costs from BPA in January 1975 and not pass it on to the members. He advised thai the board had approved payment of Ihe paironage credits due the members for the years 1961, 1962 and 1963. Director Walter Wright was presented a gift at the meeting in honor of his retirement. Wright has been replaced on ihe board by Kenneth Wright, who wnn over Barton Clark in ihe election. Ml ice Manager Norm Rick eri explained a new change in "hilling" for some "rural area" members beyond the city limits by more than i- mile. The election of directors showed three incumbents win ning: Paul Jaeger (incum bent i over Frank Bauman at Condon; Floyd Anderson (in cumbent I over Ken Walters, and Waller Jaeger (incum bent over Morris Wilson. Manager Dave Harrison made a "colored" slide pre sentation to the members and showed some areas of recent construction projects as well as slides of the "board at work" and activities of some of ihe employees. Entertainment was pro vided by 43 members of the Heppner High School Chorus and musicans led by Jim Ackley. The Morrow County Cham ber of Commerce will observe Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and will not hold its regular luncheon meeting on that day. mental or continue to feel good about himself; in other words, try to have a constantly high self esteem. It is extremely im portant that a person's self esteem remain high in order for him to function. People usually have built-in mech anisms to keep their self esteem at a high level even when in actuality the person THE GAZETTE - Vol. 91, No. 38 Water improvement City accepts a $198,000 bid The City of Heppner, after receiving nine bids for Phase 1 of the proposed water main installation and related work, opened the bids at 2 p.m. Monday afternoon and at the regular meeting of the com mon council that night ap proved and awarded the contract to Ray Kinney, Ontario, Ore,, who submited a low bid of $198,456.48. The contract was divided into two parts, one for installation of the water main and the other for well work. The nine bids ranged from the low bid of $198,456.48 to a high of $328,757.52. Kinney was also 6 per cent lower than the second bidder, whose bid was $211,000, and approximately $15,000 higher than the engineer's estimate. Although an error was found in the Kinney bid, amounting to $900, Kinney was awarded the contract as he was still the low bidder. Completion date of the work contract is for June, 1975. Grain growers hear Dr. Briggs Agriculture failures in Africa outlined More than 200 persons attended Ihe annual meeting of the Morrow County Grain Grower's Monday night at the fairgrounds. - Dr. Rodney Briggs, presi ded of Eastern Oregon Slate College, LaGrande. was guest speaker. His topic was "Sur- ' vival and Food to Feed the Population," In 1969 Dr. Briggs and his wife moved to Nigeria, when Nigeria was at war with Biafra. as a technical advisor of American agriculture for the National Research Insti tute (o see if Ihe people could sustain themselves on Ameri can agriculture during this food shortage. Little danger of depression here As in oilier parts of the country, inflation has become the number one problem in Morrow County. Local residents are watch ing apprehensively as their cost of living keeps rising and it becomes harder and harder to make bolh ends meet. That the nation is suffering from a slump in business activity, some call it a recession, is generally ac knowledged by most econo mists. The larger question is whether it is headed for a depression, which is a much more serious situation. Not since the 1930s has there been a real depression in the United Slates. Most of the present population has no conception of what it was like. They were not around at the time. No more than one out of every three people now living emotional problems' may think very little of himself. An example of this is a person who drinks heavily or flips out on drugs, which is a means to obtain an artificial high so that a person can continue to feel good about himself. With this artificial (psuedo) self-esteem the per son is then able to deny that he has a problem, hence he feels Local election Steve Anderson, city engin eer, reported to the council that he had 60 sets of plans for the Phase 2 work project and that on the closing day Monday, he was out of them. "Having distributed 60 sets of plans to various contractors throughout the state, and then receiving nine bids, gives the city a good cross-section of the contractors bids," he said. Anderson told the council that plans for Phase 3 are about half completed and he hopes to have them ready for bid by the first of the year. Phase 3 calls for the con struction of a 250,000 gallon reservoir and the installation of necessary booster pumps and automatic controls.. Hopefully, if Phase 3 is let by Jan. 1, both projects may be completed by the same time the following year, or relatively close. One may be completed by June, and the other in either July or August. Anderson said the con tractor for the work on Well 3 "I had thought that in going to Africa with the warm weather and the rains that farmers could produce two to three crops per year of various grains; however, I was wrong in my assump tion." said Dr. Briggs. There is only 20 minules difference between Ihe longest and the shortest day of the year in Africa, and although most grains need a long growing period, (hey attain maximum production in a shorter daylight period. "One thinks of Africa as receiving heavy rainfalls, but Ihe rain is sporadic, and the soils lack Ihe necessary min erals for a giKid yield, a in Morrow County knows about il first hand. The others were born later or were too young then to remember. As noted recently by U.S. News and World Report, it was a time when the national product plunged nearly 33 per cent in four years. Slock market prices also collapsed, falling 89 per cent in three years. Masses of people lost their jobs. However, a recurrence of these and other drastic hap penings is considered most unlikely. For the 1930 depression to repeat itself today, the un employment rate in Morrow County would have to zoom to more than four times its present rate. At that time it reached 25 per cent. Families were poverty stricken. Able-bodied men he does not need professional help. Since the term "mental health" has in the past had. bad connotations, the present' day society is also having difficulty accepting the idea. Frequently, individuals say, "I'm not nuts, I don't need a shrink!" As was mentioned previously, everybody has Heppner, Ore., Nov. 7, 1974 had experienced trouble with the pump and the motor after they were installed. A factory representative was called to the site and a minor correction made; however, the pump was not producing the amount of water that was required and the pump was pulled from the well and one of the bowls found defective. Anderson said this was not the fault of the contractor, but of the company that manufactured the pump. The pump has been returned to the company for corrective measures. As soon as it is repaired and returned it will be installed to the engineer's specifications. "This may take six weeks by the factory, and I feel the contractor should not be held responsible and should be granted a time extension by the city." The council agreed with Anderson, and granted the contractor a six-week extension without penalty. In other business to come before the council, City Attor ney Robert Abrams reported different type of production was needed as they were trying to grow crops the way we do here in the United States. "There are 60 million people in Nigeria and 80 per cent of them are sustained on agri culture. They have 10 million acres of producing sorghum and not a single acre was being cultivated by mechani cal means, such as a gasoline tractor, but all of the land was cultivated by the people using short handled hoes," he re ported. In some areas, instead of growing only one crop on the soil, there were cases where 10-12 different varieties were stood on street corners peddl ing applies. Restaurants of fered "all-you-can-eat" meals for 65 cenls. Il was a time when personal income dropped 28 per cent in four years. By way of con trast, net income per family has risen 20 per cent in Morrow County in the past four years. Although living costs, are continuing to rise and interest rates are at an all-time high, the country is considered to be far from any such disaster as the 1930 depression. Safeguards, such as were not present then, exist now. Workers are protected by unemployment insurance, by minimum wage laws and by Social Security. Their savings bank accounts are insured by (he federal government and their home loans are stretched out over a longer period. mental or emotional lems, so with that in everybody is "nuts" prob mind to a certain degree. The degree is not necessarily the important factor in seeking professional assistance, the desire to work on the problem and or problems is the major factor. (Continued on page 7) results, page 3 TIMES he had received a reply from the Hagers concerning their property on Main Street., and they are not satisfied that all of the walls were torn down, and that damage to the floor area resulted in the demolition of the burned out structures. Anderson told the council, "The concrete in the area would not have been ac ceptable to any builder after the fire as it had suffered structua! damage and would have had to be torn down prior to any new construction." The Hagers have refused to pay their portion of the bill for the demolition of the building, which has since been paid for by the city. Should the Hagers refuse to pay the city the amount due, the city has the power to file a lien against the property and forclose on it. Three applications for building permits were re ceived by the council and approved: (1) is for the Morrow County School to place a trailer on property located at 395 E.Aiken St.; (2) growing on the same acre. In previous years, he said, Ihe land had been tilled then let stand for a period of up to 12 years before replanting the same soil. With the population explosion, this time was cut down until the same land was planted on a yearly basis to meet Ihe needs of the people. This method did not work. "The average age of the Nigerian men at the time I was there was 15.4 years of age. The old age limit for most of these people was 54." Protein and carbohydrates are both in short supply, but the same situation exists in many other countries, includ ing India. The world society is wondering "what can we do to help ihe situation?" They were given the answer 25 years ago when they were asked to get the cattle off the land and put the grazing land into productive use, Dr. Briggs said. "I don't believe we can isolate ourselves from the rest of the world, nor can we tell h i y , . v I f 11 jp L j.v li p 1; Dr. Rodney Briggs, president of Eastern Oregon State College, LaGrande, guest speaker at the annual banquet of the Morrow County Grain Growers Monday night. :;:::;fft:f:ft;::ii- 15c the Heppner Hotel plans to install a sprinkler system, in an effort to meet state fire requirements; (3) aproved a variance and also a building permit for Clyde Nutting, 880 S. Heppner and Spray Hwy., who plans to place a mobile home on a permanent founda tion. In other business, Chief of Police Dean Gilman reported that there was some confusion about his officers issuing parking violations during Veteran's Day, Oct. 28, as celebrated by federal and some state offices. Mayor Sweeney told the council that the city was following the Oregon Blue Book and observing holidays as suggested by it. However, in the future, no parking tickets would be issued when the city hall office is closed due to a holiday. There will be a special meeting of the Heppner com mon council tonight, 6 p.m., to canvass the election ballots. the rest of the world what they must do, as the problems resulting from them would be far too severe. If India and Africa continue to starve, it will not only affect us but also our children in the years to follow." Following the talk by Dr. Briggs, Steve Green of Green and Green, accounting firm, Pendleton, gave the financial report. Larry Mills gave the manager's report. Four of the directors pre sently serving on the board were up for re-election, and were named for another term, with the exception of Bryce Keene, who retired as a board member after serving 16 years. Re-elected were Wil liam Rill, Homer Hughes, Allen Hughes and Lee Palmer. Associate directors elected were Robert Harrison, John Ledbetter, Ned Clark and Larry Prock. Newly elected officers are Ron Haguewood, president; E.H. Miller, vice-president; Larry Lindsay, secretary; and Larry Mills treasurer. V. : a
