Page 2, THE GAZETTE TIMES, Heppner. OR. Thursday. Oct. 9. 1975
Mayor of Hardmsn
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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
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Estimate
S.U38.I0O
I45.0HO
5.400.000
I.4I5.6H3
215.719
$I0.7jO,524
Total
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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