Ore., Gazette-Times, Thursday, Nov. 28, 1974
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Mayor of : Hard man
Horse sense
By
ERNEST V. JOINER
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I seems te be this column's regular duty to abate rumors
sha something dire is always about to happen at Kinzua
Corpora 'ior. No. the Kinzaa Corporation isr.'! going to curtail
production; it is working around the clock to increase
product ton. and a third shift ss planned at the trail No. the
cor-pora'son is no? bankrupt. No. Kinzua isn't besr.g sold to
Lousiara-Pacifie. or to aryborfy else Yes. Howard Carrels,
plant manager, is leaving the company as of the first of the
year. No. its togging operations arent stopping. The big
concern of the company is to seek out and obtain even more
timber rands... Allen Nsstad, bead of the corporation, told the
Gazene-Times Monday that hss home xn Heppner. now under
cortsTucitor.. will be ready for occuparvcy about March 1. at
which time he will move with his family to Heppner. A3 these
thirds are hardly ir. keeping with the actions of a company
that ts broke and abandoning ship. Meanwhile, it would
lessen our load here if the people responsible for
'irresponsible rumor would just knock it off. at least for the
hoiniay sear
Oregon State Police Officer Vic Groshens ts a good
law-mar.. We all depend upon him and his fellow officers for
our safe-y and even our lives. Not long ago two Henniston
men. William G. Wafchi and Jeffry L. Karnowski, were
arres'ed and charged with -recklessly endangering another
person ir. an incident in which the two men threatened and
a"emp-ed to disarm Groshens in the performance of his
diry. Walchi faced an additional charge of resis-ir.g arrest.
Plea bargaining be ween the district attorney and the men's
a-'fimey resulted in dropping the charge of resisting arrest,
then both pled guilty to endangering the life of another
person, i.e.. Groshens. In justice court they were fined $305
each and given So-day suspended sentences on this Class A
misdemeanor which carries a maximum fine of $1,000 and
or year in jail. Offering violence to a police officer was
wor-h only tyr5 each and suspended sen'ences. They're
lucky If ins'ead of offering violence to Groshens they had
offered violence to a cow they could have been fined $803 each
a"d sentenced to 5 days ir jail"
Yasir Arafa. chairm;
f the Palestine Liberation
Organization of in'eraa'ional murderers and criminals, was
honored a few days ago when he addressed the Un-L'nited
Na'ions. He told the cheering delegates that he brought with
htm a gun and an olive branch If he didn't get what he
waived, the western world would get the gun. But if we
capru'.a'ed to Arab demands, we earned the oi:ve branch.
That's the same "peace" proposal extended the world by
Adolph Hrier. Gher.gis Khan and other barbarians of the
pas?. What he demanded is the deam of Israei and that the
United Stages assist him m destroying that nation. How low
she Unred Nations, dedicated to international peace, has
sur.k wher. it will lend a platform to a swashbuckling bully to
nrually declare war against the western world by .Arab
nations. Here he was on the UN d;as. a loaded revolver
jammed into his belt, offering blackmail to the world and
being cheered by the mongrel and motley representatives of
80 mongrel and motley countries. What person other than
Yasir Arafat would be perroifed to address the UN without
firs' been disarmed? To compound the villiany. the
US. assembled the most costly guard protection ever given
jary individual in this nation's history to insure the safety 0f
this arrogant terrorist. The US., just by sitting and listening
10 Arafa?, dignified his presence there when our delegation
should have walked out and refused to participate m the
debacle, as did the Israeli delegates. Thus have we honored
dishonor and dignified the blackmail offered by Arab
sypponers of the PLO.
It was this same cabal of so-called na'ions that on Sept.
30 voted 98 to 23 to kick the South African delegation out of the
United Nations. Tell me. How does it feel, as an American, to
have our relations with South Africa determined by Togo.
Maldtve. Uganda. Burundi, Mauritius. Tofaabo. Guyana.
Chad. Albania and other nonentities' These same delegates
can and will determine our policy in other matters, some
domestic, in the years ahead If you can even recognize five
of 'he above-mentioned nations, all of whom have an equal
we at the UN. you are far above the average person m
awareness of geography and politics. How does it feel to have
nations you never heard of shaping the policies the United
S'a-es must pursue' Think on it. and on this Thanksgiving
Day be grateful that things aren't as bad as they're going to
be For example, next year the UN cabal may vote to ship all
American wheat to South Africa at our own expense, as we
have just done for Russia. If this happens, your next
Thanksgiving bird if any could be stuffed with sawdust.
One thing I can chortle about during this period of
zooming sugar prices is that I don't like the stuff, and never
did While I seldom eat sugar. I am sympathetic to the
industry because I have a nephew who is a taiigunner on a
C&H sugar truck and he needs the job. There's something
wrong w'ih our economy w hen if takes six pounds of money to
buy five pounds of sugar. Another thing. I see where the price
of soft drinks has doubled because they contain this
expensive sugar. Right next to them on the grocer's shelf are
packs of dietetic soft drinks that have doubled in price
because they have no sugar at all ! Then you see where a can
of fruit packed in heavy syrup, which means a lot of sugar,
cos's much more than it did last year, but a can of dietetic
canned fruit, which has no sugar at all. is about 20 cents a can
higher.
0 Every time 1 mention the high cost of beef I'm told that it
costs a lot more for the rancher to feed the animals this year
than last. That I can understand and accept. But when I
asked she grocer how come a can of cove oysters costs twice
as much now as it did a year ago. and lie tells me it's because
it cos's more to feed the oysters this year, it's going too far!
Morrow County teachers and the school board are
holding discussions on salary agreements for next year,
which involves higher pay and extended fringe and
retirement benefits for teachers. Since whatever agreement
is reached in these negotiations will affect all the people who
fool the bill for any additional costs. I believe both sides
should be able to communicate freely with the taxpayers.
However. I am informed that neither side is to issue a public
statement on these negotiations without the express consent
of she other. Under such a policy it is doubtful that Morrow
Counry citizens, other than those involved in the negotiations,
will ever learn the entire truth about what is going on. I think
this policy augurs ill for a free Cow of information.
Traditionally, the school board has been free to state its case
without teacher approval, and teachers have been free to
publicly stale their case without having it rubber-stamped by
the board. In that manner both air their cases and the public
forms an opinion. Under the present procedure of not
informing the public except where both sides agree to do so
is. 1 believe, not in the interests of the public and hinders the
flow of information which the people need to know and
understand their institutions. Interfering with the flow of
information lo the people can only result in increased lack of
appreciation for both teachers and administration.
ml i kJ 1 J? f m (
KjfjM );;
"TV criminal statutes in
the SO states, in all ca'egones
of offenses, are far from
ur form and far from equally
arrved A recent survey of
iitcs sr. New Ere land, who
were presented with a list of
hypothetical cases. revikd
an amazingly wide disparity
in the sentences they would
had ou for the same offenses
Everywhere, plea bar
gaining, the latitude allowed
janes, the skill of attorneys
ar-'d the idkisyncracws of
judges, as well as differing
laws, insure that the pur.ish
mert given one defendant in
i court or in one stare may
he e-'nrety different from 'hat
even another defendant in
aHber court or another stare,
eve though both are charged
wh ?e same offense." CoJ
at; -'.;' Dor Oakley in the East
ir- Nov . Ifi. 1974
"If danger to American in-i'.-'U'sitr.s
ever reach us. it
-usr spring up amor.gsi us. It
caw come from abroad. If
devrufwe be our to, we
must eurseh-e be is au'hor
and finisher "
Abraham Lincoln
"Arways do right . This will
t-a'-fy sortie people and
a-"'ri?.,i re rest."
Mark J a-sn
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
Your "Horse Sense" thoughts on the Congressmen wno
qu'e'ly raised "hetr annual income is both timely ar.-d
tiMHiah -provoking wner. trie facs are known. These put ;-:
servants are SA-ne'imes arv-hmg but public servants, ar.d
Mr jur;p in salary is one example This $C to S3 4f
ra;se ceratniv seems to be a good example of hr.ing T-e-r
nn ncke's while feecinc the taxpayers' packets
it enc'turaeing so know thai at least rwo Kepreseritat:;
from loaa are crfica! of 'he attempt .
The sO.ik or so
some are maKir.2
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swak'itfi er.&aemer.t$ a:ao o.esr. t i
service imaee
Wlitie 'he vtfer turn-out record of some citizens is low r
seems our Seiui'ors and Representatives would at least se a
bet'er example to follow There is absolutely no excuse for
ttie voting records of some Congressmen on mary smpo-j':-bills
Peniaps 50 per cent would be a cor.serva'sve figure -;
remove from office should their vo'er a"endance records wt
be c.a-'Eed m a hurry Some have definitely passed the p.-;i
rf w return as useful public servants
Ti tru'lifulness about these servants of the pe.pie -was
clearly bnur.t out over 15 years ago ' I9-5fi ir. a Signet b'k
called "Washir.g'on LowdowTi." by Lars' on D. Farrar. a
correspo-ident on Capitol Kill forabou' 13 years a the time of
pub'uca'ior.. This book certainly lifts the lid off the nation's
Capi'o! for all to see. Mr. Farrar's lively report exp-.i the
fraudulent misuses of taxpayers money, It also g-ves a
survey of the background of the big-wgs and the de'ails of
huaiied-up b'g deals that made miHion-dolIar fvrt ur.es fur a
few powerful officials.
If American ci'izens were as well inforrr.ed in poiries as
tliev are in the spors field, then a large num. her of our
Setia-ors and Representatives would have to shape up or ship
A I'r'le known fact w orth knowing and not forgot 'en by ail
is viur informat ive statement that if a Cor.gressmen spends
as much as three terms in office and is subsequently
defeated, he can s-;H retire a' a handsome salary for the rest
of his hfe.
Thank you for the enlightening thoughts in your column on
self -raised salaries for Congressmen
CARL M . M ARQUARDT.
Lexington.
EDITOR:
The following w as addressed to Ms Harne't and
Weatherford of the museum and library i
I want so thank you for the very pleasant welcome you gave
myself and my family during our short visit io your library
and museum. I had a very satisfying time looking through
the museum and the information you have gathered about
;he Heppner family . and especially your town founder. Henry
Heppner.
Although, the Navy and the requirements of graduate
school have not allowed me to continue my geneological
research at this time. I do intend to pursue my family
genealogy along Heppner lines as soon as possible I will
forward to you anything I find that may relate to Henry
Heppner.
I received a copy of your town newspaper and have sent
copies of Sine articles back home to the family in Ohio Please
thank the editor of your newspaper for me.
Again, thank you very much. I hope you will continue the
interest in your founder. We members of the Heppner family
are delighted to have a city named after one of us I hope
Heppner. Oregon will always be as nice as it w as '.he day we
visited. Thank you.
JOHN E FITZHL'GH II
Suisan. Ca.
EDITOR
j, rpc-,..v .-, j..ur ara-ie and ed."or;al pertaining to the
i-res' ai c i-vic. -f Mr. Sr.pe for shooting Steve
p . -;)-..- v ie..Vr. ir. ..re view of a recent past conviction in
v s-a-e. ' :t tr-e t'eehr of the Morrow County Livestock
Gr;ers 4s.; : a 'r.t th person received a light
-r. Twt r.s-r. satchered a cc teksigaf to George
F.'-iw-!'. 'i!!r. i '-:.''- Trey -re arres'ed in March.
fr-. a--d ser-'e'.ced to four years m the state
c'.r-ec-'-'tii! sr..--' the MalMeur County Court.
V. w-.;d '.kc ;s; -;- -'i-t "r.j ihe "Veg-m Cattierrjen's
Aswii-Hc a.-c M-CLGA piy a reward for informauon
Vad;ng n. ts.r arrest and convsctios of a person or persons
-fahr (-"fri n.err.t.rs' livestock The MCLC board of
directors rave v .-ed t pav a rew ari for the infonraton that
', tfe- arrest a? d cur. idr. i4 Mr. Stipe. The OCA board
ist d;rectr have acreed v, pay rewards as a result of the
(.;.'i ;f-ri ;n "t- Miirear and M'-rrcw Ctmty cases and n
. o-her case v fief tr corvic'ed persons haven't been
M'-"i:'-t'd yet
Ii. tne r-iist i; tw, atppotr.ting to Efvestwk interests
! ad ir, ar-es'5 &iid c" vt'i.i- of t:ve'k ing and
., -r si.t. r-i.-i. i-.aij - ui:y ; at "y a slap on the
av '-: i-a' ie w .'h o'ner segments of the
i-. ser-'ei-fe." fur cnmii.a! acs agamst
ike ut In r, from "tie ra.-Mng f lives'it-k
A"'.-ai'
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. -v . we d-
a-d teef -te'
;'i,'t"s should he v
em
eh to diiciKira2e
-,t tn'.pra:K tools of our
y: KK 'V. O l'NT UYEi?TiCK GROWERS
ASS'iCIATION.
EXDIE BROSNAN.
Presidetft.
ED NtiTE I agree ."."' point ts not s much that Mr.
pu;::';r'er.' was ' s" ere, but t,a tlMse who
t.i: enmev of -qu.! cravity too of en receive lighter
v i-,e-. t,ar, t'.ese meted u' io ca"ie thieves and cattle
k,:"'-
El'lTOR-
I air calling a"e;i'r, about your write up about the man
'vat smit a cr Aisr at;ytne that wdl sh,wt a cow or other
pru a-eK owiii-d ar-irsiaS sh'u!d be puiiistsed If they can't tell
a fr'i'-i a der tr elk ttiev shouldn't be hunting. There has
tar t' ma-iv cate and tKirses kiiM-d in our tieids to
'mk i' sttouid just tie patssed by. Also too many sH.-al!ed
utrers stum? a' a mwmg bush. If y ou can't see the object
As f-ir k til:! a cow or deer there is certainly no
-impartsor..bu! all are breaking the law. which we should be
aught so uuhoid raT.'-r than encourage to lie and cheat.
As fr Sam McM.lian's letter I dubt that more men were
killed in Heppner than most other towns. We just hear and
remember in a small town where we know most of the people.
A' for the ca.-e concerning the cow. it may have been a
S.fie rough. What would you do had it been your office or
press ruined, just par :;ni on the back and let it go at that I'll
be' a penny it would have been a different story and you
wouk! have did your cussing and howling plenty loud,
PS. maybe you w ill print this. I know some go to the w aste
basket and not printed if it don't suit you.
Also I hope the paper will improve with time.
MARTHA VAN SCHOIACK.
Heppner.
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"1 Have Been Authorized To Offer You
A Position As A National Tradition!"
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Well ! hope you ain't got a turkey shortage at your house.
The w av ihir.es has been running, we're short of whatever
we need at this time Now that we can buy as much gasoline
as we can afford, we re having to pay highway robbery
pnees fer antifreeze, if we can find it. It use to be (hat the
Guv em mem would buy up everything to keep the price up,
now it looks hke we're doing the same thing without
Guvemment assistance.
Tbev sav Thanksgiving is a truly American holiday, and I
reckon that's right. It's a time we think back to gating this
country started and how we are bu.lt on freedom of
individual choice. This is all good, and we all have got a heap
to be thankful for. But in the shape the economy is in right
now ain't eiactlv what we have in mind fer Thanksgiving
The fellers took up the general state of the country during
the session at the country store Saturday night, and being the
week afore Thanksgiving, they were looking fer silver linings
m the clouds Fer instant. Bill Weatherford said President
Ford's WIN plan reminds him of the blanket trick of cutting
off one end and sewing it on the other end to make the blanket
kmper But when vou got one party in the White House
dealing with the other party in Congress. Bill said, it's like
the feller that saddled his horse backwards. Folks poked fun
at him when he was in saddle looking north on a southbound
horse He got mad and said the saddle wasn't on wrong, and
anvhow how did thev know which way he wanted to go.
Ed Gontv said he had heard that the only way to put a stop
to 'his country's spending was to gag and hogtie Uncle Sam.
W e don't want to do that. Ed allowed, but we had ought to try
and sober him up. cause he keeps spending money like a
drunk sailor Ed said it looks lo him like the questions in
economics stay the same in this country, but the answers
charge with ever Administration. Through it all, he said, the
federal buditet keeps growing. It twk us 1R5 years to reach a
budget of $ioo billion, nine more to double that and only four
more to add arK'-her $100 billion. Ed said, and he allowed that
he can't see how taxing more and borrowing more so we can
s-xTid more will help the situation
General speaking, allowed Zeke Grubb. they ain't much
wav to figger this wonderful country of ours. He had saw
where vou got to be in prttry good shape afore you start
fikirg exercises, and he said they may be what we need, to
Eft m shape to git in shape.
But we keep working on our problems. Zeke said He
reported where he had saw the new policy ai the University
f Deleware says students can't drink by then-selves, but
thev cart m bunches of 10 or more, which proves that
metv m this country still believes there is strength, or
s.mepun. in unity
Yours trulv,
MAYOR ROY.
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A church head
elected to
Congress
l-j liy LESTER
KIS(LVIN(.
Ever smce il Presbyterian minister -soldier John
W'.-'herspnoii sgiied the Declaration of Independence,
Co- cress has been comprised of some clergy members.
Bu' now qui'e probably for the first time in American
hf-'ory, the ranking officer of an entire denomination has
own elected to (he House of Representatives.
J oseph Fisher, who won election in Northern Virginia's
W' h D's'r.ct. is Moderator of the 450,000-member
Uneanan-l'niversalist Association, whose 12tX) branches
ex end across North America.
Moderator Fisher accomplished what many political
.herers described as the most stunning upset of the 1974
election He defeated the 11-term incumbent, Republican
Joel T. Broy lull, dean of the stale's congressional delegation.
Among a number of reasons for this upset is the fact that
Congressman Broy hill took a position fur more typical of
most ecclesias'ical leaders. He refused to discuss the issues
k public with his opponent present , just as he had refused lo
do so with his elexen previous opponents.
Such refusal to allow voters the inimitable opportunity of
comparing candidates during a face-to face discussion of the
issues is no longer permitted in the United Presbyterian
Church For five years ago. upon motion of a student
delegate ("commissioner" from the University of Oregon,
the Presbyterian General Assembly adopted a new
procedure. All candidates for the post of Moderator are
required to appear together on the platform to give brief
statements of their positions and to answer questions from
the floor.
After one hour of seeing how each candidate deals with
each question in turn, the General Assembly, having been
provided with a sometimes devastating scrutiny of the
candidates, can cast votes on the basis of being far better
informed than by either autobiographical brochures or word
of mou!h.
At least erne heavy Presbyterian favorite has been upset by
Hits careful examination an examination to which any
aspiring leader should willingly submit.)
Yet in the 3 million member Lutheran Church in America,
the incumbent presidenl. the Rev. Dr. Robert Marshall,
loftily refused an mv nation to discuss the issues prior to his
reelection las! summer.
He was invited to do so by the first man in history of the
denomination who has ever dared to campaign openly for the
presidency , the Rev. Wallace Fisher of Lancaster, Pa.
Paster Fisher faced an uphill fight-during which one of
his fellow pastors warned: "They'll crucify you!"
For Presidenl Marshall had completed one four year
term-with two immediate presidential predecessors whose
(enures amounted to 24 and 26 years respectively.
When candidate Fisher asked for an opportunity to address
the pre-convention Synod meetings across the country, he
received no invitations. (Candidate Dr. Marshall, as the
denomination s incumbent president, needed no such means
lo become known to the voters.)
Pas'er Fisher's supporters then requested the list of
convention delegates from denominational headquarters in
Manhattan. But they were informed by the denomination's
incumbent secretary, the Rev. George Harkens, that the
Executive Council (over which incumbent candidate
Marshall presides) had decided against providing any such
voters list to any group.
Yet (he fruit of this ecclesio-political high handedness was
at leasi a momentary embarrassment to incumbent
Marshall. For instead of the usual acclamation of election on
Ihe first ballot, the incumbent president failed to attract a
majority vote due to 168 votes for the rebellious Pastor
Fisher.
And while Marshall won eventually, the convention
ordered a study of open election procedures.