Page 1, THE GAZETTE TIMES, Heppner, OR., Thursday. July 10, 1975
Horse sense J
By
KRNKSTV.JOINKR
There are many who speak out against the sacred cow of
education. If any of the militants in the teaching business
wish to toss tennis balls down their commodes or threaten
their lives, here are a few:
"(If the nation's teachers joined into one group) it would
be the largest labor organization in the world larger than
the teamsters, larger than the American Medical
Association, United Auto Workers, and I believe, the most
influential organization in the nation." David Seldon,
president, American Federation of Teachers
"I suggest to you that education is the only system I know
of which blames its product for its failure, rather than
blaming the system. I suggest to you that every enrolee in a
remedial manpower training program represents a failure of
our public education system." Lowell A. Burkett. executive
director, American Vocational Assn.
"The problem of locking incompetent teachers into the
schools by so-called permanent tenure laws must be
resolved." Dr. Calvin Grieder, professor of School
Administration, University of Colorado.
Teaching today requires far too many people. It ought
to be possible to do the job with far fewer. Teaching is where
agriculture was around 1750, when it took 20 men on the farm
to feed one non-farmer on the town. We have to make the
teacher more productive." Peter Drucker, "The Age of
Discontinuity"
"If grade school and high school costs continue to
increase in the 1970s as they have in the past, the yearly cost
per student by 1983 will be approximately $10.000 or 30 per
cent of the nation's gross national product (compared to the
present S or 7 per cent J" Fred C. Manasse, educational
engineer
"If the Ford Motor Company were managed like our
schools ... a car would cost $100.000." Ibid
"I am not going to keep asking the public for more money
for schools, because right now we are not drawing the
distinction between schooling and education. As school
operators, we do nothing to dispel a favorite public myth that
the more schooling you have the better educated you are.
Actually, we can offer less schooling and better education if
we apply ourselves to it." Dr. Harold Spears, chairman.
UNESCO Internationa Committee on School Curriculum.
"In 1946. (5 billion dollars was spent for education in the
United States. Today, that figure is $35 billion, and people are
beginning to ask "What are we getting in return. "Dr. Leon
Lessinger. former Associate US. Commissioner for
Elementary and Secondary Education
"Without faculty stimulus, financial contributions and
other forms of assistance, the student revolt could never
really have gotten off the ground . . ."Robert Nesbitt.
professor of sociology. University of California ... .. .
"The worst enemies of American higher education are
professors, or a rnioonre W professors within k Si.
Hayakawa. former president. San Francisco State College
Dunr.g Monday nights city council meeting. Mayor
Sweeney appointed Larry Mills to the council, following the
resignation of Lerice Martin. Prior to the approval of Mills
by the council. Warren Plocharsky asked Mayor Sweeney if
any other applicants had been received for the position.
Mayor Sweeney replied, "I have talked to various people
regarding the council position and no one seems to want the
job." It seems as though people are not clamoring for the
position." Mills made mention to a councilman that be might
be interested in the position. He was appointed to fill the
vacancy Monday night.
Usually the Fourth of July is a peaceful day in Heppner.f
Most of the residents leave the area and go to the mountains
for a few days of rest and relaxation. First the dry received a
flood alert Friday, at 1.55 p ro. from the Portland Weather.
Sen ice July 5. at 310 p m. all power went off. when the
grounding bank at Boardman failed. Power was restored at
7 16 p m.
Sunday. July (. the power was off again from 4 IS a m.
until 5:33 a m At 11:10 a m.. 10 poles were hit by lightning
and once again residents were without power. Power was
finally restored at 4 27 p m.
In the meantime vandals threw some beer bottles into the
city swimming pool and the pool had to be closed to remove
the broken glass During the three-day holiday the county
sweltered in beat upwards of 100 degrees. Tavern owners
closed their taverns when the beer started to get warm,
creating chaos for the uxiulgers
While the power outage was in progress Saturday night,
one lone man was seen barbecuing two hot dogs on a willow
stick ui the gutter by the Northwestern Motel
The largest class to graduate from Heppner High School
was holding its 10th annual reunion Saturday night at the
Elks Lodge No electricity to prepare the dinner for the 90
guests Jim Rogers managed to cook the meal on the gas
range Suddenly as be was preparing to serve the meal the
lights came on Rogers heaved a sigh of relief for a few
moments, however, the air conditioner at the Elks had
stopped working Oh. Happy holiday!
Years ago a steel safe was installed in the treasurer's
office at the court bouse The safe weighs approximately two
ton and cannot be easily mov ed. There is no wood flooring
under the safe to hold the eight. The floor had been removed
and the safe rests on solid rock and concrete. About 30 year
ago. the combination to the safe had been removed. Last
Thursday employees decided to move the two ton safe to
another location In preparation of the move, the doors were
slammed shut. The puts fell and the safe could not be opened.
Monday afternoon workers finally succeeded in opening the
safe with the help of a sledge hammer and torch. The right
door of the safe has a bole about U inches square in it.
however. I have been assured that when it repaired I wont
be able to see the marks made by the hammer and torch In
the meant Lne I hope no one closes the door. EC.
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EDITOR:
Would you please help us by printing the following in the
next edition of your paper?
Mrs J I) Logan
Walla Walla
Mrs. John Logan and her daughter Laura Logan of Walla
Walla. Wa w ish to thank all those w ho stopped and helped at
the scene of our accident. 3 miles south of Irngon. ()r . close
to midnight on Sunday. June 29 Your assistance in saving
our 4-year-old Shaw alia Morgan horse will long be
remembered We are very sorry we can't thank vou
individually, but in the confusion we failed 'to gel names and "
addresses Hopefully you will read this Again, our thi.nk--, f i
You were great! ' '
Oregon students study
in New Zealand
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(regon Slate University's
"irsi students in an exchange
.wogram with Lincoln College.
New Zealand have found
iomething familiar-exams
The five auncultural stu
ients who left Corvallis for
Chnsichurch in January end
?d their first semester June
.11 They plan to return to
(Jiegon and OSU studies
. during .the ChnsUius holi-
' "It sims add that the
' winirr is jusf selling m here
.ii I folks a! home are getting
mil their cutol," said Juli
Plain. Portland, a junior in
il science at OSU and the
orh woman student in (he
v iMhr.jj g roup
"Lincoln College is quite
cold in the w niter We've been
having hard frosts for aloul
three weeks "
She spent the May school
htJiday on a field trip to the
!! coast uf New Zealand s
Nuth Mand and alo loured
part of the North Nland
"1 am constantly ama;ed at
the tremendous variety that I
Imd here." she said in a letter
to James I Mdiield. head of the
OSU Department of Animal
St ie nee who coordinated the
exchange program
"I only wish (hat I had more
time toexplore-a year hardly
seems long enough."
Miss Plath has been work
ing on a soil project near
Oamaru. south of Lincoln
College and near the east
coast of the South Island.
"The soil, very stony and
shallow, is under irrigation
through a government pro
gram U has cost the govern
ment and farmers $5 million
each." she said
"There t much controvery
whether II is sensible to try to
improve these mils instead of
putting the time and money
into better soils The argu
ment seems to be between the
social scientists who favor
bolstering a poor area vs the
soil scientists and agrono
mists who favor the greater
return from better areas "
The other OSU students are
Jeffrey 8 Johnson Crants
Pass, a junior in agricultural
economics. Dale Killings
worth. Fossil, a .junior in
agricultural engineering. Cli
nton Krebs. lone, a Junior in
agricultural economics, and
Marvin Pangbom, Bay City, a
sophomore in agricultural
education
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Mayor of Hardman
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Ed Doolittle come to the meeting at the country store
Saturday night with this report where the FBI says crime li
higher among folks out of work than with them that has Job,
and that crime in the country la running even with crime in
the city. Ed said that bit of detective work is about as
surprising as President Wilson's discovery that "as more
and more people are put out of work, unemployment
results."
You can believe liars figger. but flggers don't lie, Ed
allowed, but you can take a set of Guvernment findings and
go any way you want to with em . Fer instant, Ed said the FBI
report didn't say nothing at all about the Senate's report that
the FBI and the CIA probable are pulling off more crimes
against the people than the people are against theirselvrt.
not to mention the CIA's habit of planning killings and
overthrows in other countries. Ed said he took the FBI report
to deal with civilian crime, not that of the Guvernment i top
Internal and external police outfits.
What the report means, Ed said, is that even in this modern
day Idle hands still Is the Devil's workshop People that can't
find nothing better to do will wind up doing somepun they got
no business, was Ed's words. As fer the country -city crime
rales, all that means is that there Is no more difference in
rural-urban crime than there is In the way folks talk, dress,
the houses they live in. the food they eat and the TV they
watch The more the country is different, the more it's alike,
Ed said The boy in the big city slum and the one that gits into
town off the ranch one night a week is watching the same
evening news. Ed said, and unless they're gilting a heap of
help at home, their minds is being shaped by the same things
Il Ami take not JO a hour social sychologist to figger out why
they wind up smoking the same dope and robbing the same
stores
Zeke Grubb had another report w here the U S Department
of Agriculture says it costs as much to live on Ihe farm as it
does in tow n This w ent over w ith the same kind of shock that
Ed's FBI findings did Zeke said living expenses fer a farm
family averaged $10,786 In 1973. a whopping Jump from the
$3.3tt it cost in 1955 The USDA didn't have income figgers
for 1955. Zeke said, but he said he would guru that the
pattern priity much holds true that wherever you live today
you're finding that you have a kit of year left over at the end
of your money
General speaking. Mister Editor, folks that move from the
city to the country are expecting the best of both worlds.
They got Ihe idee of living cheap, but Still having their
garbage picked up Iwict a week They're looking for a steak
at balloney prices, and you don't find them barglns these
davs I see where a U S Mint Inspector said our money was
meeting all the "physical requirement." but he meant the
money, not fer Ihe folks that spend it
Yours truly.
MAYOR ROY
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Demon-driving
for church
attendance
Bt I.F.STFR KIYSOLIING
An est imaied Jw people traveled to Ion July ) to see the fireworks display. The
annual event is sponsored fcy the lone American Legion
Even as Hollywood began cashing in on second runs of
"The Exorcist." news dispatches from Great Britain
indicate thai demon-driving has provided a rather
sensational ecclesiastical box office in at least one parish of
the Church of England
Just east of London in Ihe Essex tow n of Hainault. the Rev.
Trevor Deanng. 41. announced to a capacity congregation of
nu that he would "conduct mock up lor the
pnfMographers "
"The photographers'" were part of a large press corps, on
hand to cover a widely announced sacerdotal spectacular: a
21 year old allegedly former prostitute named "Denise" no
last name listed i w as scheduled to have the devils driven out
of her by Vicar Deanng
The Rev. Mr Deanng was about to commence this
anti-demon dry run. when "Denise" leapt up. emitted
piercing screech, collapsed convincingly full length upon the
floor and began writhing, while at Ihe same time screaming
that "Jesus is dead"'
As if on cue. the Vicar roared a response:
"Jesus is alive, you mocking spirit! Gel out of her now. in
the name of The Lord!"
Immediately the screeching "Denise" hushed and ceased
twitching, whereat the Vicar announced. "I have Just cast
out the spirit of mockery."
"Praise the Lord '"chanted the congregation as "Denise"
was taken aw ay from the church and to a neighboring hostel,
by private car.
The Rev. Mr. Deanng had informed his audience that
during the previous week he had relieved "Denise" of three
additional demons. But reporters learned that II months
prev iously, this same "Denise" had been devil divested by
Deanng at a similar "deliverance service," but that she had
resumed her veneral occupation.
Deanng's bishop, the Rt. Rev. John Tnllo, had originally
issued a ban on such services in his Diocese of Chelmsford.
But in the glare of TV lights and reporters notebooks. Bishop
Tnllo apparently relented-provided. he insisted, that the
Rev. Mr Deanng have a physician in attendance. For in the
north of England, near the Yorkshire city of Leeds, exorcism
had resulted in disaster.
Another vicar, the Rev. Peter Vincent, led five other adults
in conducting a sis hour exorcism of what they identified as
more than twenty different devils (such as Incest and
bestiabthtyl which they believed to have Inhabited Michael
Taylor
Within minutes of the conclusion of their effort, at dawn,
the exorcised Taylor went borne and promptly murdered his
wife. Taylor told the court that he believed her possessed by
Satan, as an explanation of why he had gouged out her eyea
and lorn out her tongue. (He went on to strangle the pet
poodle as well, in his apparent belief in dog devils I
Exorcist Vincent's buhop. the Rt. Rev. Eric Treacy of the
Diocese of Wakefield, absolved this vicar of all blame fur the
lethal results of the exorcism -because, Mid the Bishop,
Vincent and his friends were "sincerely motivated "
But Taylor defense council. Harry Ognal), told the court
that the Rev. Mr. Vincent and his friends were "truly
responsible" for Mn. Taylor't death and should be with
Taylor In the mental hospital where he is presently
Incarcerated
Among other disclosures regarding his weird rita, War
Vincent told the court that during the exorcism at his church :
"The windows were opened to that demons expelled from
Tsytot could leave if they wished ."