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Page 2, THE GAZETTE TIMES, Heppner. OR. Thursday. Oct. 9. 1975 Mayor of Hardmsn 1 1 1 TOM By ERNIE An estimated 270,000 persons went deer hunting in the State of Oregon over the past weekend. From indications all the hunters came to the Heppner area, as reports started flowing into the office. Monday. Most of the reports were unfavorable and most of the callers complained of the lack of respect for their property. The most common complaint was most hunters were trespassing on private property. The property had been posted with "No Hunting" or "No Trespassing", yet the hunters failed to abide by the law. In many instances after they trespassed on the property the hunters opened gates allowing cattle and horses to wander from the area. While most of the complaints blamed the Portland hunters, a few blamed the people living in the area. One person complained that he had placed signs prohibiting hunting on his property and his neighbor refused to heed the signs. When the property owner asked his neighbor to leave he remarked "I thought the signs were for the Portland hunters, not for vour friends." Some hunters refused to leave posted property claiming they did not see the necessary sign prohibiting hunting One hunter who was trespassing asked the owner why he was on his own property, wasn't there a sign that said "No Trespassing"? If the hunter couldn't trespass, what right did the owner have in trespassing on his own property? I have no gripe with the sportman hunter w ho respects the rights and property of others, and I fully realize a few hunters who disobey the rules do not make up the majority of hunters, vet these few spoil the sport for all deer hunters. Over the past vears Ihave been criticized for not being a deer hunting enthusiast, yet I enjoy shooting deer. I never worry about trespassing, leaving gates open or quarreling with propertv owners over the right to be on his property. Yes. I enjoy shooting deer, but not with a rifle. I use a high powered camera. The following news item was clipped from another paper and delivered to this office Morrow Vote Puzzling. It seems ironic that during a lengthy meeting on the grow th problems in this area, especially the squeeze being put on schools at Hermiston. Umatilla. Irrigon and Stanfield that the results from the Morrow County school bond elections were announced. .As the front page story notes, the bond issue, passed by only five votes. Five votes! That's all that separated the school district from building new classrooms or suffering through another vear of extremely overcrowded conditions. It makes us wonder that with all the growth potential facing the Morrow County School District, why the citizens are so reluctant to prepare for their problems now A five-vote margin is indicative that either the people don't understand the problem or else they are w illing to live with it at the expense of their children's education. A local business man died and left the following request, his pallbearers be six bankers. They have carried me all these years, and they may as well carry me the rest of the wav." losses by lansy ragwort estimated at 510 million Economic losses caused by the weed tansy ragwort are now esttmaied at as high as $10 million annually in Oregon. A survey, described as Ihe first definitive examination of tansv ragwort caused losses, was conducted this summer by Ihe Oregon Department of Agncullure under a federal grant authorized by the Northwest Regional Commission. The results of the survey were announced recently Project leader Dennis Isaacson said past estimates placed economic losses at about $1 million annually and took into consideration only livestock losses due to tansy ragwort poisoning. He said. "Past efforis at eslimatmg losses are not adequate for planning a control program. Often estimates were onlv guesses or "armchair estimates ' Commonly accepted procedures for gathering data were sometimes not followed. Perhaps the most imporiant reason, however, is that the tansv ragwort problem has some inherent complexities which complicate estimation of losses and infestation " Isaac-son's report stales. "Losses by the poisoning of livestock and by Ihe reduction of forage available appear lo be the most imporiant direct losses." Trie estimate of losses includes these two factors plus bentgrass seed lusses and the costs of current control efforts (Tansy ragwort seeds cannot be separated from bentgrass seed, rendering Ihe seed v irtually worthless The report indicates that greater losses probably occur in cattle than currently believed because of the way in which the toxic alkaloids of tansy ragwort affect an animal. The alkaloids destroy portions of the liver in proportion to the amount of tansy ragwort consumed by the animal This often causes only partial loss of liver function which may not produce any clearly visible symptoms in an otherwise hcalihv animal This condition does, however, reduce the animal's ability to fight off other diseases Consequently, assumptions are made thai the ammalsdeaih was caused by the second disease wiien in actuality Ihe animal may have recovered had it not been for Ihe damage caused by tansy ragwort alkaloids A check of slaughterhouses and rendering plants revealed a high number of slaughtered cattle with livers damaged in the manner caused by lansy ragwort. Isaacson said. Some loss areas, because of Ihe lack of any sort of daia with which to aliempt estimation, were simply not considered in Ihe report Losses in Ihe production of hay are among probably Ihe most important examples of those not considered in Ihe survey. Losses in Ihu area could be considerable." He said there was an - armchair estimate'' made on hay losses in 1?TJ that placed the value of hay losl liecause of tnnsv ragwort contamination al nearly isno.ono. lisses in Ihe value of honey from lansy ragwort blossoms also were not considered in the survey Isaacson said lany ragwort honey is frequently off color and off taste thereby rendering it less valuable. The follow ing table indicates estimates of maximum losses annuallv in Iheslale based upon data gathered in Ihe survey. Loss Area Poisoning, catlle Poisoning, horses Forage Control cost Bent grass seeds MS' I CERESA 1 Estimate S.U38.I0O I45.0HO 5.400.000 I.4I5.6H3 215.719 $I0.7jO,524 Total teC0iTII0llSEi The Childrens Service Divi sion of the Morrow County Juvenile Dept held a peace officers meeting last week The reporting of child abuse and neglect was discussed Also discussed was the up-to-date legislation that effects their department Carolyn Dav is conferred w ith the three law enforcement agencies the proper procedure lo follow in handling runawaysaifd how lo keep Ihe costs down. Carolyn Davis also reported that there were three juvenile runaways picked up last week in the north end of Ihe county Two girls. 15. were placed in temporary homes until their parenls arrived from Boise. II) to lake them home. The other runaway was placed in a shelter home until hT case lile could be chec ked Building Permits: Joe L. Wood. Irrigon. mobile home, approved. Sabre Farms. Homestead Rd. mo bile home, approved. John Wcnholtz. addition lo mobile McNary due for more construction A bill to authorize construction of Ihe second power bouse (or MrNarv Dam was introduced today by Sen Mark ll.itlield. Sen Bob Pack wood and senators from Washington. Malm and Montana The lo x ear S U ft million project would more than double the hvdro-clccinc generating capacity of McSary Dam and complete ihe optimum development of the dam site (or power ou'pu' "The importance of this project is readily apparent from ihe grim power supply outlook for Ihe northwest." Sen Hal field s.nd in Washington "We are expecting electrical riicrgv deficits in the l'os lhat could make our experience in 1'iTtlookverv mild "Low stream flows in 1973. due loa small snow pat k aiwl abnormally light spring rains, resulted in power cutbacks to major industrial users in the northwest and stimulated electricity conservation efforis in Oregon Almut '( per cent of the region's power supply is hvriro-elet trie with the remainder nuclear-coal and oil fired generation. McNarv s additional one million kilowatlsof rapacity to lie installed in the second power house would be used to provide peak iwer lor Ihe region during high demand period of the (!av . Hatfield (minted out that the hydro system in general i mo nig more to a peaking role as new thermal plants come in line. iK-cause of Ihe abilities to store Ihe energy of falling water behind dams for use whenever it is needed Thermo plants on the other hand are more efficient when run w ithout interruption. "Major new hydro development for the Pacific Northwest is Jus! about at an end." he said "The best hvdro eleilric dam site are already developed or in the process of being optimized ax is the case al McNary " Sen. Hal field i a niemter of the Stale Appropriations Committee and i Ihe ranking Republican memlier of Ihe subcommittee which would fund Ihe project under this legislation Revenues from Ihe sale of Mi Nary power would pa ba k Ihe federal government over a 50 year period at si ier cent interest. Sen Pack wood said in Washington today thai he prefer lo maximize our hydro electric power output through in reased utilization of existing dam rather than through cnmtru- lion of new ones, such a in Hell Canyon. "I am therefore very strongly supportive of ihe second power house proeel." he said w-X jt -X" s -e. m aa s i tvi,. v,w.w.v. m v. .v.v.w.w. wv.v.w.v.-. ..'. home, denied The Morrow County Plan ning Commission approved an 18 acre mobile home park two miles southwest of Boardman. I M Doc-ken filed an appli cation for conditional use permit (or the project and it was approved Mr Dncken said now he will honk onto the Cily of Board man sewer system, and the area will now be used for W x 14 modular units with wheels w hich w ill house j bachelors in each unit There will be a restaurant to teed 230. a maid s room and administra tiveoffne and recreation area and parking They will have 24 hour security The county will not have to provide this sen ice A Planning Commission mcmlier raised Ihe question of whether this shouldn't be considered a labor camp Ixxken is lo file a new application for labor camp portion of Ihe project 0 Bicentennial Forum The Sprawling City " Hog butcher for Ihe world, tool maker, stacker of wheal, player with railroads and Ihe nation's freight handler, stor ms . husky, brawling, city of ihe big shoulders " Carl Sandburg. "Chicago " In ihe America of the ymmg '. immigrants" dreams Ihe cities were paved with gold They oflered a new kind of frontier, where people build up rather than out Though Ihe Ameri can city could not fulfill Ihe rosiest expectations, its most squalid neighborhoods often seemed lo offer more hope than the luck breaking toil and stifling insularity of rural Europe-or. for thai mailer, of rural America And once we had lamed the land and made it productive, we began con gregating more and more in ciiicv until prosperity after World War II touched off the spectacular growth of sub tubs The result 7 out of 10 Americans now live in cilies or their sufniibs compared wiih 5 per cent 2ii year ago Are our biggest cities be coming places where only Ihe rich and poor live, while the middle class commutes from suhuthu W ill the sophistica tion and bright lights of Ihe cities continue lo lure people from all economic levels To a great extent, urban man ha lost touch with nature, yet he remains nostalgic about rural America Ioe Jefferson's old vision of an agrarian society have any meaning (or u today r doe modern urban living require a new mood, a new communal ethic Why do we live in cities, anyway- be cause we want to. or because we have to' Is urban Ameri can really all thai different from rural Amenra-in Ihi age of highspeed communi cation, interstate highway and nation wide chain stores Jane Addams and Ellen Gate Slarr established Hull House, one of the first settle ment house in America, in I MM. lo help whal Addani calls "the city's disinherited " Thus pioneering effort in Chicago influences many oth er ciIim The skyscraper Is born In America in the lasl quarter of the rh century Early ex ample are Ihe Equitable lafe and Western I'nion Building in New York, which make full use of Ihe elevator. In (hit ceiiiury. large suburban deve lopment like l,evittown grow up. akinew town suc h ax Columbia. Maryland. He ton. Virginia; Lake Havaxu City. Arizona, and I.yxander, New York, which attempt lo firing Ihe conveniences of urban life to rural wiling Pioneer Profiles Itv Justine Wealherford Two Indian War veterans jointly -fathered'" lone. Eli sha (I Spcrry one of 16 children of the Rev William and Cynthia Clark Sperry who crossed Ihe plains in 1851 when E G wa 12 year old. is heller known lo historians lhan Edward (luff However, both were active in Ihe lone area alioul 1870 E G Sperry moved to Wil low Creek from the family homestead below lone and purchased land originally set tled by Oorge Emerick The land wa later assigned to James Taylor, and later sold lo Mrs llamblel. a lady doc tor In I8R3 Sperry established a trading center on his property "The Sperry Addition of hmei When Ihe question of a name for Ihe new settlement was discussed, il was suggest ed that it le named for a liltle girl, lone Arthur, whose father worked for Sperry The City of lone was incorporated in lifw Sperry married Nancy El len Cochran in 1861. and they became parent of six child ren Sperry cat lie enterprise prospered as he and his on Reuben farmed 2.000 acres al lone E (5 . the early Irader served a tone's mayor and wa active in county affair for many years, Edward (luff, an Irish native, came lo the area in IKTii He hnmesteaded and tough! railroad land and raised rattle He gave iome 40 acre of hi farm for the cily plaiting and donated land for two churches (luff land formed Ihe eastern pari of Ihe town, from Ihe present Catho lic Church lo Willow Creek. The Sperry Addition extends west from thai church and soulh of Main STreel lo Ihe creek In IH85 Phoebe Sperry. a daughier of EC, married Robert Will, a Canadian, they homesleaded land north of Mam Street, and thu was plalled and wa Included in th towntle Roth (luff and Sperry re mained active In lone, (luff served a Justice of the Peace, tone boomed about 1900 as a resull of favorable publicity by J A. Woolery and other devoted cilizem. Many Sperry relative! still live in this area, bearing Ihii and many olher name, In cluding Brislow. Canon, Chap el, Cochran. Child. Hale, llarhman. Keithley. McCabe, Morgan, F'adberg, Parrish, Wealherford. Wood and Wright DEAR MISTER EDITOR: If you had lo boil down the dicusion al the country Hore Saturday nigh, loone topic, you'd have locall II cat kinning. Me Grubb kicked things off with report on how Tucson ?r zona worked oul (he problem, of buse. behind schedule, and the feller, took off from Ihere in all dTkeMid Ihe Tucson Tr.nsil System figgered out buse. we. running late because Ihey had lo .top and pick up lo manv ridc-rs So they worked oul run. fer Ihe buse. where hre wouldn-l be a. many people to pick up and hey gol roTSme. Course. allowedZeke. folk. ..ill U w.lHng fer Z Uwhere I. use lo run. but .low buse. .. i the problem no. peopl wanting to git from one place lo another, Zeke .aid n?foned that wa. a headache fer a d. Rerun, .tudy cTvmm.ss.on that probable would work on II .lx monlh and recommend thai Tucson build moving sidewalk, so folk, could (ravel while Ihey wail fer Ihe bus. Ed Dool.tlle Mid he didn"! see why changing he route, wouldn't work fer Ihe buse. after Ihe .ucce. the trains had iih ihis plan. When the railroad, decided 100 pound, of coal wa a heap easier lo move than a too pound woman with our hatboxes and Iwo big suitcases, Ihey figgered oul all kind of w ,v to haul more coal and less people. Try to travel by train in ihi country today and you'll see how good Ihe railroads go. i. worked oul, was Ed', words. Actual Clem Webster Mid, whal the buses ought to do 1. git . contract to haul mail. When the Postal Service organized like a corporation. Clem Mid, Ihey must of picked Penn Central Railroad fer a model. Since the more mat Ihey move the more money they lose, the post office probable would be happv to lie in with Ihe buses on a deal where Ihe leu .ervlce vou give Ihe better off you are. If the Poalal Service was lo close half their post office, and Jel deliver mail on short runs where Ihey ain't many people, they could cut that $2 billion loss expected .hi. year. True. Clem Mid. folks wouldn I gl their mail, but high costs is .he problem. Gilling Ihe mail delivered is another problem. And there was Ihe feller that heard Ihe telephone companies were going lo .tart charging for long distant information. Bug Hookum had saw where he had wrote to more lhan 900 phone companies and gol their directories so he could look up Ihe number of anybody he might want to talk to Now he's go. a room full of phone books, and all them book he ordered through Ihe mail meant more business and more loss fer the post office. Bug figgered the feller can come oul ahead by opening hi. own long distant information service and undercut Ihe phone company's rale.. Like I said. Mister Editor, sometime you skin the cat and sometime you git skinned Yours truly. MAYOR ROY By LESTER KINSOI.VINC. i W hen White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen announced that President Eord had accepted a speaking invitation from Ihe Rev J II Jackson. Chicago, one reporter asked Is thai Ihe Reverend Jesse Jackson'' Well, no II is a considerably less publicized tor publicity seeking i Chicago Baptist clergyman, the Iteverend Joseph Harrison Jackson Chicago olher Jackson does not have very much of Jesse's fame. Instead he has won 22 consecutive elections as president of the largest black organization in the I'niled Siaieslhe 6 5 million member National Baptist Convention A a strong and outspoken conservative. Dr. Jackson ha been the recipient of more lhan one death threat. He wa no more cowed by this lhan he wa by Newsweek magazine's la critique of hi denomination as: "The largest and wealthiest (black) organization in the world- also the most bourgeois There were no African style hairdos, or bnghlly colored Afro American daishikis in ight . . only women wearing pill box hats and men looking their middle class best in dark suits." Dr Jackson ha a long memory. He records in his Newsweek takedown seven years later, lasl month In SI Ijiuis. when he told 12 thousand delegates: Why shouldn'l women wear pill box hats? Whal is wrong with being dressed in dark suits and 'looking our middle class best"? We are American firs, clas citizens and we delight ! show H. Some of our women are graduates of the be, colleges and universities in America Why should any American newspaper reporter expect these women to turn against America and reach back to try to link up with Ihe primitive past-when many of our African brother, and sisters are no longer living in Ihe prnnii i vism which once surrounded Ihem" The following day. President Eord paid tribute "in Ihe very highest sense to Ihe untiring, unselfish work of Dr. Jackson"-whom he saluted as one of 28 of America's greatest black leaden. These included Martin Luther King Jr .. George Washington Carver, Roy Wilkeni, and Marion Anderson Notably Ihere wa no mention of Malcom X. Ellsha Muhammed or the Reverend Jesse Jackson Nor wa there any mention of Ihe Congressional Black Caucus which lr. Jackson has said "serves segregation more lhan rights." Instead. Eord saluled Massachusetts Senator Ed Brooke who does no. belong lo Ihe Congressional Black Caucus. President Eord descntied Ihe National Baptist Convention as representing "Ihe vast majority of black In Ihis country who support your families, educate your children, pay your laxe-and support your church. You are teaching America a great lesson: thai Ihe problem, of human right, are not so much burdens lo carry as they are avenues to achievement . . let u not look bark because we cannot change the old. Instead, lei ua look lo Ihe future and change the new for the belter. I. is in our hearts to forgive wrong II is In our hands lo reshape these wrong into right." awa)awa(HH.HWSOTtaw.iaMMMM THE GAZETTE-TIMES M ill HOW tlHNTV'H NEWSPAPER Box XV, Heppner, Ore 1731 Subscription ral': M per year In rgrm. 17 elsewhere Ernest V Joiner, Publisher Published every Thursday and entered n xecnndcla. mailer al the pott offlet al Heppner. Oregon, under the acl of March 1, Il7t. Serondela. postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. HIU SAUTES (IIICAUVS OTHER JACKSON f
