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Candidates
file by Feb.
Tuesday . Feb 1 1 . has been
scheduled as the deadline for
candidates wishing to file for
the nM-n positions on the
Morrow County School Hoard
mid on the three attendance
area advisory committees
ttiihin the district.
Two school hoard positions
will lie up for election mid six
advisory committee positions
The oM'n positions on the
school board are Zone 3, lone,
now held by Don MeElligolt.
and Zone 4. Lexington, held by
Irv Ranch MeElligolt, who
has served on the county
board two terms and has been
involved with school boards
for 20 years, has expressed his
desire not to run again
Kuuch. who has served 12
years, has nol decided to dale
whether he will run again or
nol
The school board term Is for
four years. To be eligible a
candidate must be a register
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CATTLE ON THE BANK? Residents crossing Willow
Creek on May Street lake a "second take" these days
when they see cattle browsing on lop of the First
National Bank Building. Bui It's an optical illusion. The
cattle are grazing on a hill a quarter Qf a mile west of
the bank.
.'A
ed voter in the zone he is filing
lr and must file a petition
containing at least 25 signa
tures ot registered voters
residing In said district. The
petition must be died with the
County School District office
in Lexington or wiih the
comity clerk by Feb. II
The term of office on an
advisory committee is three
years The candidate must be
a registered voter in the
school al tendance area in
which he is running and file a
petition containing the signa
tures of al least 10 registered
voters in that area There are
three attendance advisory
committees in the school
district : Boardmanlrrigon
lone, and Heppner Lexington.
Three positions are up for
election on the Roardmnn
Irrigon Advisory Committee.
Those positions are now filled
hy Kenneth Broadbenl, Bar
bara Hug and Francine
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MARSHA LOVGREN. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
Uvgron. is shown in a free fall sky dive al Ridgely. Md. The
photo is included in the Andy Keech book. "Skies Call." the
first book on sky diving over the U. S. Marsha, who lives in
Vienna. Va,. and is a federal government employee, does sky
diving as a hobby. She is shown here in a dive, photographed
bv Keech who mounted a camera on his helmet and jumped
wiih Marsha for this picture. Marsha is a 18 Heppner High
School graduate and visited her parents here during the
bolidavs,
must
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Kan Mrs Hug and Mrs.
F.vans were appointed earlier
in Die school year to fill
mimIioiis on the committee
which were vacated. By law
Ihoy must run in the next
election for the remainder of ;
the term in order to serve.
Mi s Hug has said she w ill run
again Mrs Kvans is un
divided Broadlionl has stated
he will probably run again. He '
has served four and a half
years
Duly one position is coming
up on the lone Advisory Com
mittee and this position is
currently held by Mike Pal
mer Palmer, w ho has been on
the committee for two years,
is undecided about running.
Two positions are up for
re-election on the Hoppner
Lexinglon Advisory com
mittee Virginia Grieb. who
has served four years, has
expressed the desire to run
again Iton Hagucwood is un
divided, He has served two
years. '
The purpose of the school
al tendance advisory com
mittee is to make recom
mendations on matters of
concern to the schools in their
attendance area to the school
hoard. They meet once a
month
The responsibilities of the
school board tire considerably
more. School board members
act on all business and
financial matters concerning
the school district at monthly
school board meetings,
Panter
out of
hospital
David Panter, a City of
Heppner police patrolman
who was hospitalized Jan. 1 at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
for a kidney contusion, is now
convalescing at his home.
His health is such that he is
unable to continue his duties
as a city patrolman, according
lo Chief of Police Dean
Gilman.
Panter, his wife and three
children, came to Heppner
last August from Hermiston.
He became a city patrolman
on Aug. 13.
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$605 or
120 days
in jail
A fine of SratS or 120 days in
i.nl was meted out lo a
22-x ear-old Heppner youth in
Hist ice court Tuesday.
.I.inies Wayne Avers
,iiieared before Justice of the
Peace diaries O'Connor lo
i pic w guilty lo the charge of
dining while under the in
lliicnce of intoxicating liquor
lie had Ix-en arrested Friday
inglil by Heppner City Police
alter n chase through town. He
was charged with DWII, and
also wiih attempting lo elude
the police Caught at North
Cale and Main Street, he was
taken lo Hermiston City Jail.
Avers pled not guilly to the
charge of attempting to elude
miico. No trial date has been
set lor his appearance on this
charge
Judge O'Connor imposed
the $ii.'i fine for the guilty
plea, in lieu of which Avers
would spend 120 days in the
county jail. Avers agreed to
pay the court $50 each payday,
or Sinn per month. O'Connor
also placed Avers on proba
tion with the provision that if
such probation terms are nol
met Avers will be jailed with
an additional 30 days added to
his sentence.
Theft
charges
filed
Three men were arrested
Thursday and Friday and
charged with burglary in the
second degree.
Sheriff's deputies arrested
Steven Noel Potter, 22; Ron
ald Ray Harper, 23; and
James Benjamin Eaton, 23;
all of Condon, and charged
with theft at Morrow County
Grain Growers on Sept. 1,
1974.
Potter is also charged with
theft in the second degree and
negotiating a bad check.
IHVIN MANN TO
SPEAK MONDAY
Irvin Mann, former director
of the State Department of
Agriculture, will speak to the
Heppner-Morrow County
Chamber of Commerce Mon
day at its noon luncheon.
Mann will speak on the
"Strength and Weakness of
the Oregon Department of
Agriculture."
A series of budget meetings
and negotiations meetings
have been scheduled by the
Morrow County School Board
to prepare the 1975-76 school
budget.
The first budget message
was presented on Jan. 21 at
the district office. A second
budget committee meeting is
scheduled for Tuesday, Jan.
28, 7:30 p.m., at Riverside
High School. On Thursday,
Jan. 30, a special board
meeting has been called to
review economic proposals in
regard to salary by the five
administrators in the district.
This meeting, to be held at the
district office, will be followed
by a negotiation meeting
scheduled with representa
tives of the certificated staff.
A final budget committee
meeting is planned for Feb. 4,
beginning at 7:30 p.m. at
Heppner High School.
In his report to Monday
evening's school board meet
ing. Supt. Matt Doherty re
ported lo the board some of
the items of interest lo
education which will be com-
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Vol 91. No 49
Cases heard in justice court
The following cases were
tried Jan. 16 in justice court by
Judge Charles O'Connor:
' Gregory Robert Hull, Port
land, charged with criminal
ie of drugs, was sentenced lo
pay a fine of $205 or spend 40
days in jail. He was released
to secure bail.
Nathan Ray Hammons.
Heppner, was fined $105 for
illegal possession of drugs.
Gomez sentenced
for manslaughter
Avelino P. Gomez pled
guilty to manslaughter in
circuit court at Pendleton
Monday and sentenced to
seven years in prison, con
ditionally suspended.
Gomez w as indicted by the
Morrow County Grand Jury
recently for the Nov. 17 fatal
stabbing of Vicente Ortiz in a
Boardman trailer court. The
charge was reduced to man
slaughter when a polygraph
examination indicated that
premeditation was not the
issue in the slaying and that
the matter was mostly a case
of self-defense.
Judge Henry Kaye's sen
tence was suspended on con
dition that Gomer serve six
months in the county jail at
Pendleton, with credit for
time already served; the
balance of the six months will
Appeal lost
by Penland
The Department of Revenue
last week denied the Lake
Penland Corporation a reduc
tion in the true cash value of
its property as of Jan. 1, 1974.
The land was appraised by
the county at $71,560. The
corporation had requested a
reduction to $28,000, and had
taken an appeal to the
Department of Revenue.
The property in question
contains 45 individual parcels,
of which 42 have lake fron
tages. Witness for the county
presented evidence of five
comparable sales. The sales to
the State Game Commission
indicated a lakefroni value of
$12.93 per foot with a depth of
approximately 248 feet. This
parcel contains 11.80 acres
with 1.160 front feet on the
lake, showing an indicated
I
ing before this session of
legislature out of the Interim
Committee on Education. A
redistribution formula for
county school funding will be
an issue to watch carefully,
Doherty told board members.
It could hurt Morrow County.
Other items mentioned were
curriculum development, dis
crimination in schools, early
childhood education, censor
ship as it pertains to school
libraries, the metric system,
post -secondary education,
special education and the
school lunch program.
Doherty said that two of the
buses on main runs between
Lexington and Heppner and
Lexington and lone are run
ning "1 passengers each when
each bus has a 66-passenger
capacity. If the number grows
the situation will have to be
changed. However, Doherty
said a solution was not
economically feasible at this
lime.
Joyce Bergstrom was
awarded the ('larks Canyon
bus run at 44 75 cents per mile.
The run had been contracted
to Ijtf Hamilton, but was
GAZETTE-TIMES
Heppner. Ore. Jan. 23. 1975
less than one ounce.
Aaron Klinger was arraign
ed on two counts of theft in the
second degree. O'Connor sus
pended sentence until the
.school term is completed.,
during which lime Klinger, a
student, was placed on proba
tion. Martin Kay Poller. Lexing
ton, was fined $25 for con
tempt of court stemming from
he suspended at such time as
the U. S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service takes
custody of Gomez for the sole'
purpose of deporting him to
Mexico: Gomez must not
return to the I'nited States
following deportation except
by legal authority and means;
and Gomez is to reimburse
Morrow County for such sums
as have Ix-en expended in the
investigation, preparation and
prosecution of the case.
It is expected that Gomez,
along with the five material
witnesses being held in Uma
tilla County Jail, will be
deported soon. All are illegal
aliens.
Gomez had about $400 worth
of assets at the time of his
arrest. This is probably the
only reimbursement the coun
ty can expect to receive.
value of $1,271 per acre. Other
sales in the Blake Ranch
addition, a recreational sub
division less than 10 miles
from the Penland property,
show an average appraisal of
$1,622 per acre, well above the
appraised value of the Pen
land property.
In a recent letter to the
corporation the Department of
Revenue stated, "It is our
opinion that the best evidence
of the value of the property is
(he expert opinion and testi
mony of the county which
supports the value of the roll. I
therefore find the appeal must
be denied."
On Oct. 8, 1974, the State
Real Estate Board approved
the subdivision, as did the
Department of Environmental
Quality, provided disclosure
statements be prepared for all
prospective buyers.
broken when Hamilton moved
from the area.
Two aides were hired out of
Federal Title I funds for
special education in Heppner
and lone. Carol Moon was
hired for the Heppner position
and Kathy Peterson in lone.
The board approved a
contract for Ruby Shear to
finish out the school year as a
5th grade teacher at Heppner
Elementary. She replaces
Suzanne Sherman, who re
signed. Permanent contract status
was granted to three eligible
administrators. Bier, Tolar.
and Edmundson.
The board voted to have a
wooden storage shed placed
on the newly developed trailer
site on the old George proper
ty in Heppner. The construc
tion of such will exceed the
$2,000 budgeted by about $300.
The board's reason for adding
the building is that such a
building was customary for
such sites and they had agreed
to develop a standard mobile
homesite in the original
agreement. Board member
Irvin Rauch questioned recent
his failure to pay a fine
previously imposed.
Jerry Ray Johnson. Echo,
was fined $205 and sentenced
to four months in the county
jail.' suspended,--for - illegal
possession of game i venison .
He was also placed on strict
probation.
Sweeney heads
bicentennial
On Jan. 8 Mike Sweeney
accepted an appointment by
the Morrow County Court as
county bicentennial chair
man. He replaces Marlene
Peterson who resigned after
doing organizational work for
the Oregon Slate Bicentennial
Subcommittee.
Sweeney has requested that
committee members and
others interested meet at the
courthouse Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Because the bicentennial
committee is a county-wide
cllnri and its activities will
involve all parts of the county,
the new chairman is urging all
residents to meet with the
committee and offer sug
gestions "The national bicentennial
should not come and go
without this county really
taking positive action to
assure that specific goals and
projects are completed."
Sweeney said. Several pro
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$6,500 worth of expenditures
while only $3,000 had been
realized in income since July 1
into the teacherage fund. It
was pointed out that $2,000 of
this was for development of
the trailer site, which would
bring in added income. The
larger portion of the remain
ing amount was reroofing the
teacherage at lone and the
teacherage in Irrigon.
Several people were hired to
fill vacancies in classified
employee positions in the
north end of the county. Jack
Cayman was hired as a full
time bus driver and Perry
Pummel as a half-time driver
to replace Fred and Mary
Frederickson. who resigned.
Cheryl Hobbs was advanced to
the head cook's position va
cated by retiring Verdie Isom.
Janet Cooley was hired to the
assistant cook position. Vera
Cooley was hired to replace
Delores Pummel. Mrs. Pum
mel has not been able to fill
the position because of health
reasons. In Heppner. Joan
McDaniel was hired to fill the
vacancy left by Verna Brinda
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Jan, 21. James Harvey
Brannnn. Heppner. was cited
by police for driving while
under the influence of intoxi
cating liquor and for driving
with a b!ixid,alcohol content of
.15 or ov er He w as given time
to consult an attorney before
entering a plea to the charge.
jects have moved ahead
already, especially the forma
tion of the Morrow County
Historical Society. Other
projects and goals will fie
reviewed and discussed at this
Jan. 28 meeting.
Sweeney has lived in Hepp
ner more than 10 years. He
came here w ith his family . the
.Jerry Sweeney s. from Grants
Pass He completed high
school here in l6. gained his
II S degree from the Uni
versity of Oregon in 1970. and
in December. 1974 completed
requirements for the Juris
Doctor degree at Gonzaga
University's Law School.
Sweeney has been working
in Robert Abram's law office
as a legal clerk, and upon the
completion of his Oregon slate
bar examination intends to
practice with Abrams. He is a
member of St. Patrick's Holy
Name Society, of BPOE No.
358. and of the Morrow County
Chamber of Commerce.
SWEENEY