Page 2, THE GAZETTE-TIMES. Heppner, OR, Thursday. Sept. 33, 1975
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By ERNIE CERESA
Recently I read some staggering figures regarding
teenagers and alcohol. In the past to years the number of
juveniles arrested for driving while under the influence of
intoxicating liquor has nearly tripled.
In a recent roundup of unruly college students at an east
shore resort, only a handful of the 100 students arrested were
using marijuana, the remainder were charged with
drunkeness. The current trend in drugs used by students is
shifting back to alcohol. It seems that youngsters today are
using alcohol to get high, whereas, years ago they drank to be
smart and to prove they were grown up.
In the late 1969s reports were a large number of young
people were dropping alcohol in favor of marijuana. In the
1970s marijuana is running a distant second to alcohol among
drug users on campuses. By the same token, when drugs
came on the scene, alcohol became "square." The horrors of
heroin and other drug addictions and the rapid spread of
marijuana use by children overshadowed the alcohol
problem for a while, but only in terms of the emotions
aroused in parents and other adults. Yet, even at the height of
the drug epidemic, alcohol remained the greatest drug
phenomenon in terms of users, actually growing larger all
' the time. Now alcohol is emerging once more as the number
one drug problem of young people, as it has always been with
adults almost putting even hard drug addiction in the
shade.
There are no statistics on the number of juveniles who
drink alcohol nor of the problems they are faced with. There
are no known figures on the number of teenage alcoholics,
however, estimates are staggering. An extreme example of
what may be found is presented in a small group of problem
drinkers ages 13-18. Many had come to the hospital from
training schools for delinquent children. All had become
alcoholics even before adolescence, some having had their
first drink before the age of five. In almost all of the cases the
parents were known alcoholics.
Dr. Chafed points out some lessons for young people
namely: if you drink, drink for pleasure, not to show off. Let
alcohol be a part of your enjoyment . of food, people and other
good things: don't drink alone and hastily, or out of anger
against your parents or the rest of the world. Don't admire
quantity consumption, it is not a contest worth winning.
Only 400.000 families are taking advantage of the newest
federal assistance program, but 27 million families could
qualify for it. Secretary Carla Hills has announced that HUD
will provide rent subsidies for any family whose income is
less than 80 per cent of the median income of other families in
the area. Apparently the government's latest poverty
standard is your next door neighbor. If you live in
Washington. D C. and make under $14,840. you qualify for
rent subsidies.
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Pioneer Profiles
The Voting Rights Act of 1974 was a lulu. I'nder it the
county of Elko. NB had been ordered to print its ballots in two
languages. English and Shoshone-Paiute, which is spoken by
the indians on the Duck Valley reservation. Only one
problem Shoshone-Paiute is not a written language. Says
tribal chief Robert Robey: 'They the federal bureaucrats
have 2ot to be some kind of idiots to require that."
The federal food stamp program is reeling under the
heaviest barrage of criticism since its inception more than a
decade ago. Secret ary of the Treasury William E Simon, in a
recent speech, called the program "a well known haven for
chiselers and rip off artists.
" Carl B. Williams, a top official of the Department of
Health. Education and Welfare, also said recently: 'In
effect, the Government is giving away billions of dollars with
virtually no control."
What began as a well-intentioned program in 1962 at a cost
ot less than SI million a year has mushroomed into a gigantic
giveaway. This year $6 6 billion in stamps will be distributed
to nearly 20 million Americans under a system which is
tailing to make sure that the money goes to citizens who
really need it.
Obviously, reform is long overdue, -and the Agriculture
Committees of Congress have promised investigations and
relorm. One logical starting point, the Chamber of
Commerce of the I'nlted States contends, is elimination of
food stamps for strikers.
The Chamber has been carrying on a fight for years
against use of taxpayers' funds to help finance strikes.
A step in the right direction was taken by Caspar W.
Weinberger in one of his last acts as HE W secretary w hen he
proposed a new regulation barring federal welfare aid to
sinkers in slates where strikers are not eligible for
unemployment benefits The Chamber urged HEW to adopt
the proposed rule.
By any measure, food stamps are another form of financial
aid to strikers at taxpayers' expense Surveys show that
during an auto workers' strike several years ago more than
40 per cent of the strikers in the state of Michigan were
receiving food stamps
Dispensing food stamps and welfare to strikers, the
Chamber maintains, undermines the collective bargaining
process by upsetting the natural balance of power between
management and labor unions.
Thus, strikes are prolonged, often at the expense of
consumers
Strikes are willful union actions, and unions should pay
strike benefits, not the taxpayers
Consumers pay twice when public funds are used to
subsidize strikers once w hen their taxes pay the cost of food
stamps or direct welfare and once again when they purchase
goods that reflect the cost of higher wage settlements
So many abuses exist in the food stamp program that it is
rapidly becoming a national scandal. Congress must act
quickly-before the program gets completely out of control
and new schemes are dev ised to exploit its weakness
The Federal Trade Commission has advised more than
1 mm leading manufacturers they must furnish the
government detailed statistics on business activities
afletiing competition The new questionnaire is called a
Corporate Patterns Report.
But even before the information is on its way to Washington
it nppears thai it w ill he of questionable value, according to
no less an authority than the FTC's top statistical expert until
a few months ago.
Dr. William Levin, an FTC employee of 22 yean who
retired recently as chief of the agency's Division of Financial
Statistics, branded the information to be gathered as
"fundamentally and irrevocably flawed."
The basic problem, he explains, is that the FTC is
collecting information about shipments, rather than sales,
and he says the data would be misleading if used to prosecute
antitrust cases.
"Value of shipments data, by definition. Includes multiple
counting of shipments." Dr. Levin says. Thus, he adds, the
data would not accurately reflect a company's share of a
market for $ particular producta factor in many antitrust
rases.
the FTC nonetheless is going ahead with Its quest for the
Information.
The question is raised whether we need i trulh in-slali!irs
law. Pvrhsps the statisticians can give us an answer.
"I pledge allegiance to the
flag . . . and to the Republic for
which it stands . . . "Salute to
(he flag
"I am
American
patriot."
a WO per cent
I am a super
William Woolcoll
it
"America - Love it or Leave
" Popular slogan
II we are all conscious of our
ethnic, or racial, or philoso
phical differences, how can we
agree on what makes "a good
American"? The question has
recurrently haunted-and
bloodied America: during
the War for Independence,
when the population was
bitterly divided between Tory
loyalists and revolutionaries,
during the Civil War. still our
most wrenching experience as
a nation; during the Cold War
and its byproduct, the Viet
nam War. Trials for treason
and criticism of "un Ameri
can" activities have spotted
our history from the first
People have long owed multi
ple loyalties lo family, com
munity, religion. country.
Such allegiances enrich our
culture, vet keeping all of
them in harmony is some
times impossible What hap
pens when loy allies collide?
What are the requirements of
the loyal citizen"' Just how
much civ il disobedience can a
Miciely tolerate I)o we like
America because we were
born here . . or because we
like what il stands for Who is
the real patriot ? Stephen l)e
calur is credited with the
maximum. "Our country,
right or wrong'" Carl Schuri
changed it to: "Our country,
right or wrong' When right, to
be kept right, when wrong, to
be put right''
Nathan Hale and Benedict
Arnold Hale, a young school
eacher commissioned in the
Connecticut militia, is captur
ed in New York City and
hanged without trial as a spy.
His last words. "I only regret
that I have but one life to lose
for my country " Arnold, a
revolutionary hero, turns trai
tor after a 1780 court martial
on charges of using military
forces for his own purposes
When his plot to surrender
West Point is exposed and
foiled, he joins the British
forces and in 17(1 sails for
England, where he is scorned
The rise of Sen Joseph
McCarthy in the I9&0 mani
fests the anti Communist hys
teria that engulfs the V S
from I'M to I9S4 II affects the
press, arhotls. courts, chur
ches and Congress-and. of
course, thousands of Individuals-stimulating
the con
viction that it Is safer to
conform than disagree with
the majority.
Henry Heppner was born in
lKi' in Prussia 'East Ger
many i of Hebrew parents. In
IR."5 he left Germany for New
York City w here he worked for
several years
He traveled to northern
California in 18.YT. then to
Cnrvallis and settled in The
Dalles. The census of im lists
Henry Heppner as a "pack
operator" in Wasco County
i which then, was all of
Eastern Oregon . He employ
ed Mexican latmr and up to I jo
mules for his pack trains lhal
carried supplies from The
Dalles and I'matilla landing
over the Cans on City route to
I he mines of Idaho II was
along these- routes he hail
several encounters with the
Cav use Indian raiders
In 1X71. Heppner quit his
pack train business and start
ed supplying sacks for flour
nulls in Ijtiranrle
July 4 1872. he traveled
through Willow Creek Valley
and camped where this city
now stands. He persuaded J I.
Morrow, who was in the
mercantile business in l-a-(iraiulc
to look over this site
for a possible mercantile
slore They became partners
and Morrow look charge of
building the slore with llepp
ner taking over the Inning of
goods and transporting them
here
The lale Harold A Colin, a
grand nephew of Henry llepp
ner explained the goods shipp
ed from various locations,
were addressed to Heppner
The new site gradually as
sumed that name. Another
account says Mr. Heppner or
Mr Slansliury suggesied the
old name ".Slansliury Flat" be
(hanged to Heppner The new
store was opened on Aug 10.
IK72. and Heppner was the
name that was adopted for the
community
Through the years. Mr
Heppner worked hard for this
community. He helped estab
lish its first school and his
firm contributed materials to
build the fort He also helped
care for the refugees during
the Indian scare of 1878
Blackman (his brother-in-law
i and Heppner contributed
IV) to begin the Gazette Times
ill IfUU The old safe used by
Heppner and Blackman is in
the County Museum
In IBM the railroad reached
Heppner and a large ware
house was built with Phil and
Jerry Cohn joining Heppner
and Blackman as clerks. Mr.
Heppner ow ned a large part of
the business section and
leased his buildings to other
merchants He never married,
was unpretentious dressing
and living simply.
Henry Heppner died Feb 18,
i'Mf,. the birthday of the
founding of Morrow County. .
He is buried in the Beth Israel
Cemetery. Portland
The County Planning Office
has issued zoning permits to:
Dan Duvall. Ordnance, mobile
home; Maude Craber. Hepp
ner. Mobile home: Kay Boyce.
Heppner. addition to cabin at
Blake Resort: W C. Hendnx.
Boardman. mobile home; Ar
thur Dnublcdee. Boardman.
dwelling. F. LeBonle. Irrigon.
mobile home: Andy Conforth.
InigiHi. dwelling
Pie Countv Planning Com
mission meets Monday. Sept
25 Years Ago
Miss Patricia Pierson and
Mr Emil Henry Itauch were
united in marriage Sept. 12. at
an eight p m ceremony .
Enrollment in the Heppner
school f"i the fust week was
412 Ol these INK w ere in grade
school and 115 in the high
sc hool
Mr and Mrs C (' Jones and
I. mill) allended the midget
auto races at Baker this week
Item-wed interest in avia
tion has been sparked by the
reactivation of the l-xtnglon
Airport Vernon Munkers was
the hrsl flight gas customer.
The incuiiaior at Pioneer
Hospital was put mlo use for
the first tune, when the four
(xiiimiI. five ounce son was
lorn Sunday morning to Mr
and Mrs Dale Jones of Camp
2 at the Courthouse at 8 p m.
The assessor's office sounds
busier again now that Johanne
Wood is back from her east
coast vacation Everett Har
shman says the school bond
increase in taxes doesn't have
to he figured until next year.
Appraisers Charles Patching
and Tom Stewart are still
working with north county
proiicrty , mainly mobile
homes
Treasurer McDaniel has
been attending the Slate
meeting of county treasurers
Tax Collector liby says she
has not attended some stale
conventions for her classifica
tion because most of the
emphasis is on helping larger
counties that have large,
complicated. computerized
sy steins
The Slicntf's Office was
very quiet last Thursday and
Friday as the civil deputy
Pauline Winter was attending
a meeting in Eugene
Juvenile Director Carolyn
Davis says her department,
the Children's Services Divi
sion, city police and Ihe
district attorney are planning
a joint meeting In discuss
setting itolicics und proce
dures and to rev iew up In-dale
legislative changes and their
el lei t on juveniles
55Years Ago
Hen Buschke who owns
farm land on the Cason
Canyon area, suffered a W.ouo
lovs by fire Tuesday after
noon Heppner High school opened
with a good enrollment with 84
students The primary grades
were well filled and running
over An extra teacher could
I used
Miss Minnie Furlong has
moved into town from their
Eight Mile farm home
Robert Not son and his sister
Miss Mary Notson. were
passengers Saturday for Sa
lem after spending the sum
mer with their parents. Mr.
and Mrs. S E. Notson. They
are enrolled at Williamette
University.
Ralph Jackson of Lexington,
sold a l.rrw sacks of Turkey
Red to a local buyer at $2 3Q'i
per bushel.
The County Juvenile Advi
sory Coiiimillee will meet at
llie courthouse. Thursday.
IN I 2. 7 Mi pm to gel
ai (piainicd with representa
tives of various government
agencies in the area and to set
goals lor the year.
Monday and Tuesday of last
week the county court was
louring county roads to check
work that is needed They will
lour every road before they
complete this survey Wed
nesday they inspected the
Pebble Springs site in Gilliam
County Thursday Judge Paul
W Jones was in Pendleton
attending an executive board
meeting of Ihe EaslCenlral
Orcgon Association of Coun
ties i
Health Nurse Pat Wright is
completing Ihe current mouth
rinse program at lone School
this week Her department
will soon begin preparations
tor mid year Immunizations In
Ihe schools.
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DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Ed Doolittle w as reviewing what he likes lo call the slate of
the human condition during Ihe session al Ihe country store
Saturday night, and he told Ihe fellers lhal he was wondering
how long we'd all have to live til we would look buck on these
davs as the good old days. He got a sharp rise out of Clem
Webster when he allow eel we was going to have to go downhill
fast to make what we got now a Improvement.
Hem was strong disagreed with Ed. which is usual in all
mutters. When Ed declared thul our money is gifting cheaper
and everlhing we buy with it is costing more. Clem come
right back with Ihe claim that the fad remains Ihiit practical
everbody still is living better than he ever has. Ed said
cverwhere you turn these days you find troubles, but Hem
w as of a mind that news reporting has jesl gof a heap better.
The two of em went on like lhal. Mister Editor, lil Zeke
Grubb broke in lo say he could si both of their views, and
lhal one was as wrong and as right as Ihe other. As fer him.
Zeke allowed, he alius had found that il look 98 per cent of all
he could rake and scrape fer taxes and living expenses, and
lhal he never had no regrets about throwing the rest aw ay on
high nnd fancy living, eke said life was a bargin on
anybody's income. He said he recalled that feller Tommy
Mam ilie that got married a dozen times. Manville said onct
thai he spent $2 million gilling rid of 12 w Immen, and he could
think of jest two of em lhal gifting rid of was a bargin at Iwict
Ihe price.
General speaking. Ihe fellers favored Zeke It was Bug
llnokum that said things can't be all bad when a plain dirt
tanner can trade pickups ever three year and gil more fancy
gadgets ever lime, and then buy a 1:13 pair of Sunday shoes
without paying fer em by the week Bug said it was some of
Ihe economic shortcuts right now that was bothering him
most Fer instunl. he had saw where inflation has look some
of Ihe kick out of booze, and practical all Ihe chicklc out of
chewing gum.
This piece Bug read said licker companies are cutting back
on Ihe proof in order lo reduce Ihe lax lhal is based on how
strong the stuff is. This thing could work out where if elbow
benders has to drink more lo enjoy it less, the headache
remedy business might fall off Bui Bug went on to report
lhal (oiks thai kick drinking and taking up chewing will find
thai Ihe gum is made of ruhtxr where II use lo be chickle
Chewing gum companies say they can't pay people to go in
the jungles and bung oul the chickle, so they use inaniuade
niblier.
Personal. Mister Editor. I hope these days ain't
remembered as the tune you could chew your wore out lires
and patch your blow nuis with chewing gum. but il might lie a
good sign all around lo see strong dunk gilling weaker
Yours Irulv,
MAYOR HOY
TVUATA FIVE SF.MIN l(l S
S. ONE PltlFvr
By I FSTFIt KINSOIA INO
The Vi a ear -old priest tried to say bis prayers al Ihe altar
rail ol the seminary chapel
Bui Ins twenty five young toritieniers-all but three
member of Ihe sludeul body of Epworth Theological
College sin rounded him and rent the air with their shouting
at tn in accompanied wilh Ihe tx-ating of drums
one ol them smashed an egg over his head
Eat her. in the seminary dining hall, they had thrown water
on him as he tried lo eal lunch - which they finally made
iniHrsililc by throwing dirt mlo his food
The liev Arthur Lewis had come to Epworth to attend a
nit-cling of Ihe Rhodesia Christian Council, of which he is the
apoiiited representative of Ihe Anglican' Episcopal i
Dim i-M- ot Mashonaland
lespiie the Council's having been invited tn meet at
Epworth. the students greeled Father l.cwis wilh several
ins. such as "(iel Out of this Place you Iog" and "Go
Home anil Be Merry In Hell."
Forty members of the council including Methodist.
Lutherans. Presbyterians and I'niled Church ol Christ-wal-died
Father U'wis being worked over by this mob of black
students. But none of them intervened
Seminary Principal Michael Appleyard. a Methodist
clergy man. explained
'Tins is their way of expressing themselves "
Father lwi. a while priest who for 20 years served a
many as It black mission congregations simultaneously and
who has learned lour African languages, recalls that some of
the elderly Africans i blacks i present dared lo denounce this
jeering mob. saying "What kind of ministers of Ihe Gospel
are you going lo be-"
This question is apparently not very iniiorlaiit lo local
Methodist Bishop Abel Muorewa who. along wilh Epworth
College, is partially subsidized by I' S Methodists For none
ol the students who ganged up on Father Lewis has either
been disciplined -or even moved lo apologize to this veteran
missionary priest
Principal Appleyard did sent his regrets, along with a
check lor tj "for cleaning of your clothes."
Why was Father Lew is given such treatment? Sister Gw en
Marsh of Epworth. a Meihodisl Deaconess who deplored Ihe
action, explained "Father Lewis aggravates Africans, with
irresHinsible statements."
Sister Gwen could cile no examples of Lewis statements
which she alleges irresponsible Bui a survey of Father
U-vvis' writing as chairman of the interdenominational
Khodeslan Christian Group (and Rector of St. Bartholo
mew's in Rusape) revealed the following: '
"Though man does not live by bread alone, food is the most
vital material factor in Africa's silualion and Ihe key lo
survival. In this as in all else, the two majoj races of
Khmlesia are totally interdependent. While starvation
spreads al an alarming rate in Africa and other parts of the
world. Rhodesia in present conditions ran feed its mounting
black population and can help countries less fortunate than
Itself. Voles cannot be ealen; nor can Ihe promises of
communist countries which are unable to feed themselves."
"The Chinese communists are also having a population
explosion, there are Boo million of them. They want Africa
and are on their way in with an estimated 40,ooo of them In
Zambia 'just North of Rhodesia). Pan Africanism is clearly
Marxist inspired. In the obvious belief (hat they can
manipulate black dictators more easily than while
governments which allow more than one parly."
"The Rev. Canon Burgess Carr of Ihe All African Council
of Churches has said: 'In accepting the cross, God in Jesus
Christ sanctified violence into a redemptive Instrument. ' We
in Rhodesia have factual evidence of this fractured theology
In what Canon Carr's organization and Ihe World Council of
Churches have financed: Terrorist groups and Iheir
extensive record of hideous and brutal murders, maiming,
abductions, torture and rape, perpetrated by the uncalled
'freedom fighters' against the black people of Rhodesia- the
people they claim lo be helping "