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Page 2 Heppner, Ore., Gazette-Times, Thursday, Nov. 14, 1974 Inter-Agency - ERNEST V. JOINER Our proof reader is or. bread and rater these days Last week Ola Rubles' name appeared in our news columns as "Old Rugeles " We're sorry about thai typo in the wedding s-.-ry w here the Couple, ms'ead of exchanging wedding vows, were repor'ed as exchanging "wedding cows " And the "hat ni;ned w ith spring flowers" should never have turned out "he hat trimmed with sprtng flowers." What we meant to say was that another lady was still under the doctor's care no' s-iU under the dix-tor's car. The way things are c .is'.c aru?d here I dread the day Gardner's puts on a shirt sale, and I have to proofread the ad. The people of Heppner ae being very kind about these typographical gremlins that have been causing pam and amusement since movabie type wa mvesred 1 recall that a British clergyman almost suffered banishment as a "man who lost the faith" when his hi. ' Lives of the Saints." appeared as "Lies of the Saints " Atvu- same time a Punch of primers were tried "and iieaviH fined fr negtec'mg to correct a version of the Bible Ha- read. "Thou shah commit adulter)-." In a pli conduced by the GazetteTimes last year, reiden's f Heppner voted 5 to 1 for removal of parking me-ers from cry streets Later, the common council unanimously wed to retain them, which may indicate how well "he council is observing the wishes and desires of its eons' -'uen:s Now that Ernie Ceresa has been elected to the council the matter of parking meters is expected to surface aeam. bu' in a different way. Ceresa proposes that each omcil meemg isn't opened wi:h prayer, but with his motion " abolish 'he racers! Ceresa maintains thai parking meters are gambling devices that they are automatic machines :,a be a dollar to your nickel that you can't get back before 'i red flag pps up and our friendly policeman is writing yur icke'. The ci'y. he says, should not be in the gambling busi?iess because gambling is illegal in Oregon But the city r n-' nh iiperaing and maintaining gambling devices, it is f..n-K.g residervs ? patronize them! Even in Las Vegas, he savs. gambling is tk compulsory; gambling in Heppner is. Well-fed Americans have been in hiding since ITI nfv .red set era! weeks age that "one-third of the dog and cat f-d s id w cs' siums is being ea-er. by human beings " Ever s-nce 'his s-ry fanned across the country a man caught hjy ! a s:rS: s'eak was considered by do-gooders to be an oi":vn" -lie s'a'e wht- lived off the fat of the land while his it human beings were reduced to eating dog and cat food. V-e'l. people who ea' as they should can surface now, lift up e r heads and reduce in removal of their guilt The story a a ii-a I" a!! smarted when Michael Jacobson. who works )" t a consumer group, "did a Washington Star-News reporter aii u a h be had wnrer. in which he rated dog food above it"- d -:s us nuTi'Kcal value. Somewhere in the interview . Jachs-w "guessed" tha- a 'hard of dog food in ghettos was eae- by humans. Today he doesn't remember making such a a e'ret.-. and fcas no idea where he sot such a figure if he hi4ki3r s'a emw. I have a n: ion tha' when James Stipe gets out of jail for S!iin Terry Thompson's ctw last week he's going to do s ore "f.;::k;r. ahou w nether "honesty is the best policy""' and que?- whether "corJessioc is good for the soil'" or even !,a- "- nrfc shall set you free." Persuaded by his father to e!! 'i "nrfc about snootirg the cow for wiuds the owner had been compensated and ever. w-. the district attorney piearg for a reductiori of the trine to a misdemeanor because it as a first off er.se and because the owner would not press charges, young Stipe was ordered to pay an additional SSC6 as a fine, spend five cays in jaU and lose his hunting rights for three years. Just thick, if the boy had bed the chances are 50 to 1 that be would have never been convicted: and. if be bad been cornered, the chances are that the fine would not have amounted to the $305 be is stuck nth for being candid with the court. Aad if he had just bed he probably wmilcst be at jail ether. Virtue is. indeed, it's own re ard T:s better, no doubt, to Le like heE than to lang aish in tail Las- week we published a vo'e-l"nqi.'e" from a WJt 8B''!t"btie mstrucit ir.anual advising that a car engine car. be rut: or kerwser. alcohol or eves bad whiskey in cases 4f emergency X-.nr comes Jean Chaobra. a Frenchman wh ;a? inter.-ed ar Bi'erra! corr.burioE engae tha" runs oc ca-er and akr? He Las interred a small black bci that "cracks' ma'er miecules into their components, hydrogen and 'Sgen. The engase runs so inixure of water to a'tCM. which imld make fue! cos less than haif the cost of gasr'iine a- the present t2re and akoboi can be made from abrn-s- any I?vsr:g organisrs. "hii the oS companies fsdge? arid scen'!S-s scoff, 'e'jevisiar. crews from France. Italy and H r,av(d hate already filrd M. Cbambris starting his engssie a film Lkeiy u be sacmn m rbe Unred States at 'his " use. Cnambrsr. says his ergir rans or. pure aicoboL but r Jves wniskey just as well, and really tburiders into Me oc irandy . Ati ' r .ces" oDsen arce t Tharksg-rgjg is by ta-ailies if the Episcopal Church who hate deoded to prepare he anniial feas? a" the panst hall and arrite aB the i-'-eH- pexp'e m iiwn. Tut ierratHE iadudes persocs wbo canr ' be mr hJned ones due trk. great distance, energy canm. r t?ir reasteis. and woo woad otherwise spend a loeiy and dreary Tharisgrrisg Day. I think this is a ear?-anning gesture, eonung a' a tune when woridwt.de e dri'cs make us w ;r-3er if there's anything left te be Thas.kfai lr. 'e'L fc one thing, we can be thankfa- we have sjet: farri3 tk. ai'eady s'rapped fsrsnciaSy froas having ', pw f.d or tne tables of a hatf-buridred urrateful a-ins. rill hate the will to share what's left with tbesr hme'ty neighbors a Tr.arA.'i-mg tune. Vi? many xewspapers bate tbeir own resident fce'idwrr r.g analyst, but the GaxetteTuses does. In recent years fcancwntrng ana!.vsrs have become valuabie in tbefjeid t4 querRCied djcuments. ard the terimocy of handwriting expers is accepted it the courts. Jiacy barJts. insurance ctr.panes. deparment stores and industrial azjfce empty ing thousands of people retain handwntmg eacperti to enfy signarures en contracts and examine a! handwrnten d.icumcnts. Appljca'ions for en-pkment are often relayed to the analyst and a report on an applicant's baadwntirig secured before employing him is a sensitive position The fsrs? short column on handwriting appears a today's tGaie',e-Times, based oo sampies of two persoos' handwntLng recently received at the newspaper. Readers are invited to send samples of their handwTjtjng to Margaret McNatr. care of the Gauste-Times. Because of lack of space only a few selected ones will be analyzed. From those sciscted. only one or two words will be chpped for publishing to pro-eel trie identify of the writer. (Cwiujiae frww P. 1) center will provide games and activities. Volunteers are needed to carry out these activities. She also requested that organizations planning any fod drives to fill the center's Christmas baskets, to notify her so she can make plans for the baskets which go In the needy at Christmas. She expressed fear that the baskets might not be too full this year because of the high Ctst tf food. A new day care center is being planned for the City of Boardman. It w ill be housed in tlie 4-H building there. On Nov. 21. the Juvenile Advisory Council will hold an open meeting at the Court House. Edward James, from the Mental Health Division on the Umatilla Indian Reserva tion, will talk about alco holism His presentation will begin at 8 p.m. Yasser Arafat, Diplomat The ma7 pouch T ATONE. BLACK. PECK Wl IN B0RDMN Seventy-three per cent of ihe t uters of Boardman turn ed no to fill three vacancies on the coy council. Nov. 5. Elec'ed to office were Joe Ta'une. former mayor, 72 v.'es; incumbent Ron Black. W vu'es;; and Jerry Peck. 96 i!es. Peck will be the only new member on the council. Jm Starke, the fourth Candida' e. received 46 votes. EDITOR: I am currently working w ith what one would call a "hard cre" drug user and would like to make some comments on various areas of the recent article. " Rap Session on Drugs." Ttie ques'ion of whether or not marijuana leads to the use of hard drugs is a perinem and important question. It desert ed a more informative answer than "Most alcoholics s ar'ed wi- drinking milk." Not ail heroin addicts started iieir drug dependence with marijuana Some used their paren's die' pills uppers i and sleeping pills i downers), some sniffed glue, and s'ifl o'hers stared with the opiates !.ke cocaine, codeine, or eten heroin Ttiere is no ies' u give to decide if one person w ill use drugs wiiiie ano:her one won't Ba' drug dependency is directly rela ed how well a person deals with stress and various problems Of the addicts 1 hat e ta'ked lo. most admit they canim' handle s ress They are afraid of responsibili'v . failure, pressure from parents and friends, criticism, rejection, and eten love. They are copping out. While using drues. you "feel" the way you wan: You don't have to worry if you're Flunking out of school or if you're behind on your Daymen's The world becumes very unreaiis'tc. There are no Msrea s and no pressures You don't have to deal with your feelings or thttughts or fears Tine inability to handle stress and 'he above mentioned h: ea s" is not a symptom of drug add'C-p. I- is "lie cause Drug use. abuse, or dependency ; hichet er term you like 1 is a result a .j, problems. You cannot cure drue addic-i' bt drying an add.f ou- You mus' cure tne underlying problems For this reason. I am against treating jut eniles and aduli users m '.he same manner. Although, in a sense, we already do Placing people ir. jail or prison to "iearts a less." has no; proven effective, nor will it ever prote effective. All we are doing is drying them out for a re'.a 'iety sn" pernd of "jme. Our penal system is no equjpjied ? deal wrn the drug offender. We see them over and over again, usually rh:r. wr. years, returning to the saie jaits and prisons . TJiis is mf because 'ney hate no- "learned 'heir lesson." Mary of 'hem know -hey are incapable, sociaiiy U'vaccep ab'iepe-.'piebu' tnev dor'- know bow to deal with the causes Many reum or. purpose They know they need heip and 'hey .wan' e. And few 'owns or cries hate anything similar ' a really effec".te drug rer-abilita'ton prrgram to wticii 'lie car. tare. OW per,ai sjs-em today, especially the rie ir. which I am irt o'vei. is 'ermed rerAbslraie It is no' reb?ira-:ve lo he drug user People who are addic'ed to drues are usually very capable people, both pt.ysica!)y and merral'y They dono need hore ec classes or vocatmrat ' retabiira'iofi. They need tw: selling They need help in irtders'andmg why (hey are afraid, wha1 they are afraid of. and hw deal wi'ti their fears. Their fears are cr.ppiing 'e-f . Few drug addics are rea:r j -onered people They are afrad of realfy beta use they cannw deal rh it. Prison does no netp the drug addict become more productive It's jus? a perwd if time in wheh they are "clean " The girls I work wrt are ir a y pe of limbo, jus; waring untd they get otr I fate seer girls beg to be placed into a drag refcabibta'K pr-ram arid be turned oowo by our perad system because "if tne ge's in'o i'. they 12 all want o "' This xabili'y of our pera! syrem to answer a call fee help in a product rve raemer ts "he fau3 of a" -trers and tax payers. I. persora!!y, wouid rather see a judge sentence a drug addict to five years of ctHraelhng 'ran five years is tne ra'e penitentary. 1'icarcera-Min of drug addicts, wr.hou counselliRg. is an jneffec-neirietbod of dealLng with the problem of addict ion. I am of the firm conviction that your peopie of this genera-Kin are not given respceisibili'y. Besponsibiuty is neither a right nor a prrviiege It ts a fact of Me It ts srrbing each person mus? have if be is to be prodjctne wffem our society. Of the girl I work with, very few of thern were even given the crarice to prove they could be respfsibie. I is a known fact that wtien a child or teerager 8 g?vem any amount of responsibility or freedom, they will 'est r This testmg k an important facet ir. acceptir.g ones tfn Lirsits and capabslries. Bir all too oftes. I hear "Just because I was lateor mgnt out of three, my mother net er iet re ou" af'er dark." or similar phrases Children should be g'en resporsib uVy early so they lears how to deal wrJi it. If a, wties they leave bon-, and test is. they often go over -board because they dc t kriow tiieir own limns And since they can't find any limits within 'iierri&ehes. I see them hi the ra'e penjteB'arj . I fa no say tha' parents do not raise their children right. Who is to say wtat is right or wrong? But I do say that parents fcave a tendency to try to keep their children from making the san-rf mistakes they did. And as a result, the children often make worse mistakes. From kioking at "my" guis. I would say that the worst mistake a parent could make m tins day and age a te not ge their child responsibility and aliow bun to test ius ot. stresgtris and weaknesses before be hi's the bg wide unprotectne world and bkms it. To the rudests wt say our parents never listen, I say do something the girls I work with never had the guts to do. Make 'hem lisien to your problems If you feel the generation cap is too wide, find a third party. Don't talk it over with your inends Ttiey are in the same boat you are and they're probably hat ing trie same hassles. Friends are great to cry or., bu1 they are not unbiased and they can't help you work ou- 'tie big problems 1 wish 'ha; each and every one of you who read this could mee' 'lie girls I work with. But just meeting them would not be enough. Addicts are very closed and suspicious people, a d i! !akes a long time to establish trust and find out the tunes 1 have tried to impart to you in this letter. Since few of y-u hat e tha' kind of time to spare. I suggest you ready two r"ks which are very informative and well worth the time and effort. "Go Ask Alice." au'hor anonymous. Avon Books. !HT. and "We Mainline Dreams" by Dr. Judianne De?en-Gerber. Doubleday and Co., Inc.. 1973 KARLA WEATHERFORD "Cyryon't wmekry column" Rek Steber Cruti Ottoman Her prey skir held high, flaxen -haired, blue-eyed Jane Barnes Irtiely s-epjied from the row boa' to become the first wtii e w-cnan lo set foot in the Northwest. Miss Barnes began her career as a barmaid in a hotel in Pursiriou h. England But onela'e February evening in 1B13 ier curvaceous charms attracted the attentions of Donald McTat ish. new cr,ef facior for the Norhwes Fur Company . McTavish was overwbelmed by the buxom bkmd beau'y tia! be mvi'ed hier to be his mistress and accompany him aboard 'he Isaac Todd bound for a port half a world away. He allowed her so "shop at my expense of course, for r.a ever your heart desires." As Miss Barries bought every available dress and bonnet in sight McTavish lavishly forified the Isaac Todd wih "bottled porter, excellent cfieese arid prime tinned English beef " He included enough if the comlors of home to solace the lJ-month voy age in the fines; of s'yle. Tlie Isaac Todd crossed the bar of the Columbia on April 17. IE54. and dropped anchor near Ft. George t Astoria . The sigh' of such a maiden made quite an impression on the fur 'rappers a' the fort as she was the first white woman any of tiem had seen since leaving England months before. And as rrogh' be expected. McTavish fad his share of difficulties from the envious trappers who willingly gave up tbeir Chirwok lady friends for the dance to win his lady's favors. But McTavish $ gaod times soon came to an end when the company called him to Montreal. Tit hardships of the overland trip made it impossible for Miss Barnes to accompany htm. Ra'ber than leave his fair -haired beauty unescorted for the krg mon'hs ahead. McTavish selected a lucky young gen'lerr.an by the rame of Alexander Henry to protect his lady Henry had shown more than a passing interest in Miss Barnes and he wared no tune in accepting the generous offer. But this loo was destined to be a short affair. As McTavish ard Henry rowed a longboat to call oo Miss Barnes with their news, they capsized and drowned in the cold Columbia. Left a double-widow. Miss Barnes spent little time mourning She paraded about attired in gowns that displayed her figure to best advantage. And as might be expected she had a long line of suitors. One gen'lemao admirer by the name of Cassakas came calling He w as the son of Coocomly. the one-eyed chief of the Chinook trible. In return for her hand be promised, "I win send 106 sea otters to your relations; never ask you to draw w aer or dig for roofs and you will be mistress over my other four wives. Miss Barnes ruddy refused Cassakas saying, "I could never tolerate a Cat bead, half naked body and copper colored skin be -smeared with whale oi" Mas Barnes returned to England and one can only speculate as to what finally became of ber. But you can almost see ber sitting on the bar in Portsmouth telling stories from half a world aw ay. Maybe not the most virtuous she was rxS the first white woman to set foot m the Northwest. llayor of Hardnan DEAR MISTER EDITOR: I've heard about looking gi(t horses in the mouth, but it's seldom vou see a feller kick one in the teeth. It looks like that's what William Field is doing. He is a farmer near Shelbv. Michigan, and he got a $10,000 grant from the Guvernment fer damage lo his crops. Now he is spending half of the money to urge folks to git rid of the law that let him git it. Bill Weatherford brung up this matter during the session at the country store Saturday night. He said Field aint biting the hand that feeds him, he's frying to cut off the bole arm. Ed Gonty said he was glad to see somebody try to make a case agin all the giveaways, but he wasn't shore the place to start was on programs fer farmer and ranchers. Field said be wants to put a stop to giving money to everybody that asks fer it without looking into the reasons. Ed said Field was complaining cause some folk weren't waiting fer disasters, they was putting in fer grants if the weather report called fer a 50 per cent chanct of a cold snap that would hurt their crops. Ed said the way he read the papers, the feller was just trying to cut down on disaster grants without disasters. General speaking, BiU allowed, the federal Guvernment has kept a heap of small farmers and ranchers from going under in bad years, and he was strong in favor of most of the programs. Bill said he would admit that it gits out of line w hen a big farmer can plant 200 acres of gords knowing he's going to plow em under and collect his disaster grant cause they ain't no market fer gords But Bill was of a mind that tax money is used in a heap worst ways than to help the farmer. Bug Hookum was agreed with Bill. Bug said he don't know nothing about foreign policy and he gits that mixed up, but he is y et to figger why some folks think it's the merciful thing to do w hen we cancel billions of dollars in debts India owes us cause India said ii was embarrassing to owe that kind of money. Ttien they use our money to build a atomic bomb. A feller like Spiro Agnew can settle the II7S.000 worth of improvements taxpayers made on his house for $1,100 and then sell the house a! a big profit. Bug went on, but if a dirt farmer giis a low -inierest Guvernment loan to try to keep the bank from taking his tractor he's violating some guideline. Pracical speaking, broke in Ed. the bigger you are the mure help you can git. Ed said he recalled in the Depression Presidetn Homer set up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and one of the first loans the RFC made was to the Bank of America Hoover said later than 90 per cent of the RFC loans went lo small businesses, but he didn't add that ihe big ou fits got 90 per cent of the money. was Zeke Grubb thai put the stopper in the jug. Mister Edi'nr. Zeke said if we think we got a giveaway Guvernment nw we ought to let Nelson Rockefeller run it a couple of weeks Yours trulv, MAYOR ROY. Protestant hyprocrisy in New York LESTER KIVSOLVING NEW YORK Long af'er he had become a millionaire several times over, comedian Bob Hope continued his en'eraming of U S troops in Vietnam, a contribution that had won him the deep gratitude of millions of Gls overseas during World War II N one during World War II ever suggested that Hope ei tier loved war or was an instrument of President Roosevelt's foreign or military policy. Bu' the long I'.S involvement in Vietnam was so ques'inrable tha; numbers of militant clergy critics concluded tha' Hope's annually spending Christmas trying to bring sTie cheer to lonely soldiers was almost a war crime. Hence, by the narrow margin of three votes, such clergy were able h oblige the Protestant Council erf New York to reverse i"s prev musly announced decision to aw ard Bob Hope !iie annual "Family of Man" award. H'lpe gid-ra'uredly responded to this monumental insult by remarking that he had already received a great many awards For sne reason or another, there was no such reversal w ner. 'his award w as announced as being made to Presidents Jutm Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, as well as Dr Henry Kissinger, none of whom were prominent as Vietnamese war pro'es'ers They were, or are. all prominent and powerful enough, however, to draw a good crd io the annual " Family of Man" dinner ) Tit 19T4 recipient of this award, by vote of the city's 1700 member churches and 2,000 affiliated business firms, is the Rev. William Toiberi Jr., President of the Republic of Liberia sifitt 1S71. and. since 1951. Vice President to the late Lsbenan s'rongroan William Tubman. Is 'here careful investigation of all recipients of this award fir "broad massive contributions to humanity ... all mankind as ore family under God"? "We fry to be careful." replied the council's top executive, Dr Dan Po'ter Has 'he council gone on record in opposition to racial segrega'km "By all means." replied the Rev. Dr. Potter. 'There have been repeated resolutions condemning racial segregation." Then w ha! does the Protestant Council of New York make of Aricle 5. Sections 12 and 13 of the Constitution of the Republic of Liberia, to wit: "Nu person shall be entitled to hold real estate in this Republic unless he be a citizen of same . . . None but Negroes, or persons of Negro descent shall be eligible to citizenship in this Republic." Af;er a brief but pregnant pause. Potter answered: "I didn't know about those provisions. But should a mother say to her child 1 can't love you because you smoke ?" Indeed not. One child of God who smokes, and is head of ano'her racially segregated African country, is Prime Mtnis'er Baltaiar Johannes Vorster of the Republic of South Africa. Bui since the segregation in South Africa is imposed by whites rather than by blacks (as in Liberia). Dr. Vorster is not at all likely to be honored as in President Tolbert' citation: "Leader of one of Africa's most progressive republics, continued commitment as a Baptist minister to the Christian religion in Africa. . . His faith and ideals have been translated into concrete ac'ion." p. rut GAZETTE-TIMES j MORROW COINTY-S NEWSPAPER. I 137. Heppaer. Ore. rrsx Subscription rate : $t per year in t Oregon, $7 elsewhere Ernest V. Joiner, Publisher Publishes every Thursday, and entered as a secood-daa I Sf? 1 "ZZ vpotr-0rt00' a irT Second-class postage paid at Heppnr,
