Page 2, THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Heppner. OR, Thursday, Dec.18. 1975
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l.kyor of Hardmon
ByEXMECEXESA
Recently I listened to Dean NafTiiger tell of the Heppner
High School s Basketball team at Chamber Of Commerce.
While he made no predictions on the outcome of the team in
league play, he praised all of the members of the team. He
also stressed the Mustangs were playing some tough teams
at the start of the season and this would enable the boys to get
into some real competition. The first game the Mustangs
traveled to John Day and were defeated. The following night
they met the Enterprise Savages and went on to win in double
overtime by a score of 78-76.
Last Friday and Saturday the Mustangs hosted the
Christmas Tourney. In their game Friday night they lost to
the Condon Blue Devils, a team supposedly without a chance
of finishing among the top contenders in the league. Saturday
night they played for the consolation spot against Wallowa,
and they lost that game, finishing in fourth place.
Watching the Mustangs lose a game does not bother me,
but the manner in which they lost to Wallowa upsets me.
Wallowa committed 10 fouls against the Mustangs while the
Mustangs committed 37 fouls against Wallowa. This may or
may not include the three technicals called against the
Mustangs. t
If the Mustangs have a well balanced team they should be
free of technicals, not three in one game. If I had been the
coach during the game I would have asked each boy who
committed a technical to head for the dressing room, take a
shower and leave his suit on the floor, and not report back for
practice the following week. There are quite a few boys on
the varsity who have the desire to play and they will abide by
the rules, so why let some team members play who refuse to
abide by the same regulations?
The students are always asking people to attend their home
games and cheer the boys on to victory. After Saturday
night's game the Mustangs should feel honored if they get a
small crowd to attend their games.
Whatever happend to sportsmanship? Has the time come
when it is more important to win a game regardless of the
manner in which (t is won or does sportsmanship still exist?
Any player who mouths off at the referee deserves to be
called for a technical foul. I have played the sport and I know
it is exasperating to be called for a foul when you are almost
certain you didn't commit one, yet mouthing off at the
referee is not the solution.
Sitting on the side lines trying to trip an opponent going in
for a layup is inexcusable. Yet this happened Saturday night.
I would rather have seen the Mustangs lose by a score of
99-35, as Condon did to Grant Union in the finals than to lose a
close game on technical fouls.
It is not the last technical that loses the game, it's the first
technical committed that Joses the game.
Maybe the Mustangs should adopt a new slogan, "shape up
or don't suit up."
20 Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jonei
have returned from a trip to
Texas and New Mexico where
they visited the Carlsbad
Caverns.
The annual Masonic and
Eastern Star turkey dinner
was held Saturday evening. In
charge of the dining room was
Mrs. Fred Parrish and Mrs.
George Rugg and Mrs. C.J.D.
Bauman. The retiring worthy
matron of the Ruth Chapter
No. 33 order of the Eastern
Star, Juanita Carniichael wel
comed the members.
The Rev. Willis Geyer spoke
on the youth and his work with
youth before the Soroptimist
Gub luncheon at O'Donnells.
Richard Boyce
receives
Degree
"Whilo I Hov Your Attention May I
Mention My Presidential Intorosts?"
Among the 965 degree can
didates honored during the
University of Oregon's recent
fall term commencement ex
ercises was Richard Ray
Boyce, Heppner, B.S. in Ac
counting, The ceremonies held Dec. 13
in the ballroom of the Univer
sity of Oregon's Erb Memorial
Union, featured guest re
marks by Dr. Thomas Govan,
University professor of history.
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Livestock Growers meet
ASCS E election results
Gleanings
I place this under my "Now
I have heard everything" .
headings . . .
For the first time, some
individuals who had no taxes
withheld from their wages will
be able to get money back by
filing a Federal income tax
return, according to the Inter
nal Revenue Service.
The money will be paid as
an earned income credit for
workers earning up to $8,000 a
year and maintaining a
household with a dependent
child. The credit is 10 per cent
of a worker's earnings up to
a maximum of $400 and
decreases as income rises
above $4,000. This is a provi
sion of the Tax Reduction Act
of 1975 enacted by Congress.
Internal Revenue Service
Good .News for everyone . . .
Oregon's winter wheat crop
for 1975 turned out to be a new
record high, 52.2 million
bushels, 9 per cent larger than
last year. Harvested acreage
at 1.110.000 yielded 47 bushels
per acre, the largest per acre
average of record. Spring
wheat production was placed
at 4 2 million bushels, 20 per
cent below last year's large
crop. Winter and spring wheat
production totaled 56,370.000
bushels, 6 per cent more than
last year's combined crops.
This year's total acreage was
5.000 more than 1974s; but the
crop size increase was due to
more and heavier heads.
Nationally, all wheat produc
tion totaled 2.1 billion bushels,
19 per cent more than 1974 and
25 per cent larger than 1973.
R. A. MAXWELL
A public opinion poll comes
- op with what is no surprise to
me . . .
There has been increasing
activity in Oregon in recent
years to reinstate the death
penalty for certain types of
crime. The Oregon Opinion
Index asked a statewide
sample: "Would you favor or
oppose the death penalty for
persons convicted of mur
der?" Sixty-seven per cent
favored the death penalty for
murder, 27 per cent opposed
it, and 6 per cent had no
opinion.
Flower power to control
smog . . .
Miners used to carry a
canary down into the mine
with them to test the air. When
the canary died, they knew the
air was bad. Now the Japan
ese are using morning glory
flowers to detect photochemi
cal smog. The flowers are
placed in areas where auto
traffic is heavy and the rate at
which the flower turns black
and withers indicates the
degree of pollution in the air.
A little
our week
chuckle to lighten
A a treat for Charles I of
England, Quaes Henrietta
Maria had him Mrved a pie
containing a live dwarf.
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"Hello'r
OTlTllOllSEliyS
With the completion of the
Gourmet Foods Plant, Board
man and Sim Tag's irrigation
farming operation, the tax roll
will be up at least $20,000 next
year.
The result of these Increases
has meant a reduction in the
tax rate in almost all the areas
of Morrow County.
This year the tan rate fell
between $4 and $5 per $1,000
assessed valuation in all the
areas of Morrow County
except Heppner, where the
city improvement offset the
effect of the increased valua
tion.
Assessed valuation in Mor
row County 10 years ago was
about $23,000, at the time the
county was assessing at about
25 cents of the true value.
Last year the tax assess
ment figure was $126 million
and this year is about $193
million.
As the tax rates fell this
year, increased valuation of
property because of inflation
counteracted the decrease and
the total tax bill stayed about
the same.
by the legislators, however, the act was amended with a 25
per cent consumer representation. If we have to submit to a
consumer representation, we will be regulated. It will be our
duty to get the information to every cattle producer in the
State of Oregon and the United States, for this will be our last
chance to get national help.
He spoke briefly on cattlemen and their involvement in
BLM lands, and said he believed they should establish a new
input plan of their own.
In the matter of corporate farming, Hawkins said, "This
amendment will require a change in the state constitution
and if this happens it cannot be changed back without
another amendment to the constitution. He cautioned the
members to get as much information on the subject as
possible and to keep well informed of any changes." Hawkins
contends that he would favor any necessary changes to be
made by the legislators rather than an amendment to the
constitution. The amendment strikes at free enterprise and
we should be aware of this change in our constitution.
"At a recent convention in Olympia, WA, cattlemen were
recently attacked by a woman who opposed the farmers
feeding grain to their cattle, said Ray French, second
vice-president of the Oregon Cattleman's Association, "as
she believed the grain should be exported to foreign countries
to feed the starving people and that cattlemen are engaged
in a production that could be done without." "There is a
difference between cattle grain and grain used to feed the
hungry," replied French, "but obviously this woman did not
know a difference existed." This type of person talks to a lot
of people and most are easily convinced. This type of person
is responsible for the rumblings about price ceilings and
boycotts.
Last year the American National Cattleman's Association
was able to halt some of these rumblings, through the news
media. We have been able to head off criticisms of using too
much beef and have been able to get our story over to the
public.
"We need a strong organization to help the people see our
side of the picture. Not everyone will agree with us on the
stands we take, but our voice will be heard," said French.
"For the first 10 months of the year, cow slaughter totaled 1
more than nine million head 56 per cent more than in the
same period last year, 1974. Cow slaughter during October
totaled 1.3 million head, 57 per cent increase from the same I
month in 1974. As a result of the record large cow slaughter
this year, it appears that the nation's cow herd on Jan. 1, 1976
will be about 4 per cent less than a year earlier, which is good
news to the cattle producers in Oregon and the nation, due to '
the fact there has been an over -supply of beef cattle during '
the past 18 months, thus, lowering the cattle prices in most '
cases, below the cost of production," stated the Executive i
Vice-President of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association,
Donald Ostensoe.
Ostensoe also stated that industry economists indicated
that the cow slaughter in 1976 will have to continue larger
than in past years if the cow herd and the total cattle ,
numbers are to be brought back into balance with population, !
beef demand and today's higher cost levels.
The cattle executive projected that cow slaughter during
the months of November and December would total two '
million. Thus, showing 11 million headcow slaughter for 1975.
Total cows slaughtered in 1974 were Just a little more than
five million head. Ostensoe stated that it now appears that
the nation's cow herd on Jan. 1 will total approximately 54
million head down two million head from one year earlier.
Ostensoe also informed the Morrow County cattlemen that
approximately 10 per cent of Oregon's cattle ranchers went
out of business during 1975, primarily because they couldn't
afford to slay in business any longer with the depressed
prices they were receiving for their cattle.
In Oregon last year beef consumption averaged 1 17 pounds
per person, 9 pounds over the national consumption,
70 per cent of the budget for the Department of Agriculture
goes toward welfare and food stamps. $6 billion is going
toward food stamps that started on i temporary basis, In
1946, with 40 per cent of the money going to people who don't
wl it. Some of this money is going to college kids during the
summer months when they should be out getting a Job.
We should be aware of the situation of the Department of
Agriculture. Although they should be of some help to us, we
are only receiving 30 per cent of their attention, financially.
"This is not the time to slip backwards, but the time to be
active and regroup, in order to rebuild our membership,
concluded Ostensoe, "For the Oregon Cattlemen's
Association is You."
A short business meeting followed with nominations for the
Board of Directors. Those nominated and elected by the
membership by a unanimous decision were Tom Currin, Bob
Mahoney, Bob Van Schoiack and Paul Hisler Jr.
(This is one of the only meetings held In Morrow County In
which four State Officers were present. Those present were
Bert Hawkins, President. Oregon Stat Cattleman's
Association, Ray French, 2rtB vice president of OCA, Henry
Krebs, President of the Oregon Sheep Growers Association
and Dorothy Krebs, President of the Oregon Sheep Growers
Auxiliary.) -
Results of the Dec. I election
of ASC County Committeemen
for 1976 were announced by
David McLeod, executive dir
ector of the Morrow County
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service (ASCS)
office.
Named to committee posts
in the mail balloting were:
Kenneth E. Nelson, Lexington
community farmer, commit
tee member for three years;
Tommy Martin, Lexington
community farmer, first al
ternate committee member
for one year ; Robert A . Jones,
Heppner community farmer,
second alternate committee
member for one year.
McLeod said farmer com
mittees are in charge of local
administration of national
farm programs. At least one
committee member and two
alternates are elected each
year. The farmer receiving
the largest number of votes is
elected to a three year term ;
second largest, a two year
term, if the position is vacant ;
third largest, a one year term
if the position is vacant; and
fourth and fifth largest, one
year terms as alternates.
McLeod said last year more
than 345 farmers, about 70 per
cent of all farmers in the '
county, participated in one or
more of the programs admini-
BMCC FACILITIES
READY
stered by the ASC Committee.
The 1976 Morrow County
ASC Committee is composed
of the following farmers:
Thomas E. Currin. chairman,
with two more years; Delmer
A. Hug, member, with one
more year; Kenneth E. Nel
son, vice-chairman, with three
years.
Elmer E. Padberg, Lexing
ton area farmer completes
three years of service on the
committee and will relinquish
his position to Kenneth Nelson
. on Jan. 1, .1976..
Morrow County is one ASC
community beginning in 1976
; and the county ASC commit
tee represents all Morrow
County farmers in Federal
farm program administra
tion. The ASCS office In the
Gilliam Bisbee Building, Hep
pner, is open 9-12 and 15
Monday through Friday, ex
cept holidays.
NEW POSTAL RATES
START DEC. 28
New postal rates go into
affect Dec. 28, at 12:01 a m.
according to Heppner Post
master Hubert Wilson. The
new rates for letters will be 13
cents for the first ounce and 1 1
cents for each additional
ounce. "All other rates will be
raised accordingly at the
same time," said Wilson.
Two handball courts in the
new McCrae Activity Center
are now completed and avail
able for public use. Persons
wishing to use the facilities
are advised to telephone their
reservations between 10 a.m.
and noon the day before use is
desired. The number is 276
1260, ext. 304 weekdays.
The courts will be open from
6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays
through Thursdays, 6:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Fridays, and 9 a m.
to noon Saturdays. Equipment
and towels are not available at
the college for public use.
Persons may use the courts
for handball, squash or racket
ball.
Repair work on the swim
ming pool is continuing on
schedule, with completion still
expected this month. The pool
should be open for public and
college use early in January.
POTAMl'S II TIMBER
SALE
LOR ETTA TYLER
ARRESTED
Loretta June Tyler, 31,
Irrigon was arrested by Ore
gon State Police and charged
with attempted murder in
connection with the shooting
of her husband last week.
According to reports Mrs.
Tyler allegedly shot her hus
band, William Curtis Tyler,
56, twice with a .22 caliber
pistol following a quarrel.
The incident Is alleged to
have occured at the Irrigon
Trailer Court. Tyler is listed in
stable condition at the Good
Shepherd Hospital, Hermls
ton. Mrs. Tyler appeared In
Justice court for her arraign
ment last Thursday.
II B. Rudolph, Forest Su
pervisor, announced that the
Potamus II timber sale was
sold Dec. 9 to Harris Pine
Mills, high bidder, for
$266,009.00. The sale was
appraised at $243,358.00 for an
estimated 10,500,003 board
feet and an unestimated
volume of older dead mateiial
appraised and sold at $1 per
thousand board feet.
The sale area is on the
Ukiah district in Morrow
County. The route to the sale
area from Ukiah is west on
Road No. 53 to Road &413,
then south to S 538, then west
to sale area.
Final bid prices per thou
sand board feet were: Pon
derosa pine, $27.09; Douglas
fir and western larch, $18.50;
white fir and other species
$3 63.
Thirty-one bids were made
by the three bidders present.
STORES OPEN TIL
t P.M.
For the last minute shop
pers the following merchants
will open Monday, Tuesday,
Dec. 23 24 until 9 p.m. to help
you with your Christmas
Shopping: Peterson's Jewel
ers, Gardner's Mens Wear,
Cole's House of Fashion, The
Posy Patch, Murray Drug,
Coast to Coast Store, Case
Furniture, Gonty's, Lebush
Shoppe and Sears.
The City of Heppner Is going
along with the Christmas
spirit also and there will be
fiee parking all day Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
The fellers was talking about their wants during the
sessions at the country store Saturday night, and it was Ed
Doolittle that led off with the claim that what our towns and
counties want is fer Uncle Sam to keep on playing Santa
Claus. Ed declared that ever time he picked up a paper he
saw where more boards had passed reserlutions and more
delegations had gone to Washington to beg fer more Federal
revenue sharing. From the way they all are crying, Ed
allowed, there ain't no way they can make It without bigger
shares of that share-the Federal-debt money.
The plan of sending some of the money we send to
Washington back to us. after the toll is took out, of course,
started two year ago and is supposed to end next year. But Ed
said all the local Guvernments has used their money to start
so many "vital programs" til they can't quit. Sort of like
gitting hooked on booze, allowed Ed, where you feel like you
got to have a shot first thing mornings to keep from worrying
how bad it would be if you didn t have one. How the cities and
counties managed to survive all them years without their
shot of Federal revenue is a wonder. Ed said.
General speaking, broke In Clem Webster, what they're
worrying about surviving is the next election. Practical all
the Guvernments has used their Federal gifts to hold down
their local taxes. If they got to start paying their own way
agin, they're going to have to put the bee on their own
taxpayers, and they all know that higher taxes make voters
onery, and cutting back on "vital programs" ain't going to
make em any easier to get along with either. Clem said he
didn't have no trouble at all seeing how them delegations was
going to Washington in a panic in the public interest.'
Zeke Grubb said he fiRgers what truckers want this year is
as fast as they can go. Zeke had this report where truckers
are complaining about the 55 mile speed limit. They say
they're losing money and tearing up their equipment that
was made to go faster. They got to go hard down hill to gil up
hill, and the whole trip will work out about a 55 average, Zeke
reported. The fellers general felt that trucks ought to hold to
the same speed as cars. Bug Hook urn allowed they git wider
and heavier ever year, and he couldn't see the logic In letting
em git faster. Having all them buses running without the
slightest regard fer speed limits to make up time between
stops is bad enuff, was Bug's words.
The Social Security Administration is wanting to git in on
that magic money that local Guvernments are begging for.
Ed had this clipping where Social Security went in the red fer
the first time this year, making handing out more than they
took in unanimous amongst Federal services. The folks in
charge of the only retirement a lot of folks got said the
system will go broke in 10 year. A spokesman said they take
in $70 billion now, and they average paying out five per cent
more than that.
Yours truly.
MAYOR ROY.
Freedom from fear
By W. Duaa Geyer, Pastor
Webster's Dictionary gives this definition of fear: "Fear is
a feeling of anxiety and agitation caused by the presence or
nearness of danger or pain." We are living in an age where
fear surges from continent to continent. It is evident at every
turn of the road of life that more and more people are
becoming frustrated with fear. Newspapers, magazines, TV,
and radio newscasts feed the fear of the people with the
happenings of the day.
In the midst of all this confuskxtv God speaks to man
through his word. In Isaiah 41:11 it says, "Fear though not
for I am with Thee, be not dismayed; for I am they God: I
will strengthen thee; I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness."
God is telling us not to fear, and we ask why? God says,
"Because I am your God!" Then He gives us four reasons for
not fearing, First "For I am with thee." Second, "I will
strengthen thee." Third, "I will help thee." And fourth, "I
will uphold thee." We do not have to be bound up in fear as
long as He is our God.
God never intended for man to be motivated by or
entangled In fear, but to be completely free from fear. In II
Timony 1:7 it says, "For God hath not given us the spirit of
fear; but of power, and of love, and of sound mind."
Do we realize what this Scripture means to us today? Fear
does not come from God; but power, love and a sound mind
does.
The writer of the Twenty-Third Psalm In verse four said,
"Year though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me."
He did not fear because he knew that God was with him.
As we begin to discover the freedom He gives from fear, we
begin to discover the meaning, and purpose of life in Him. We
no longer look to our circumstances, but look unto Him, who
is the very source of our strength. The fear that once
controlled us no longer can hold us because we are His, and
He "Upholds us with the right hand of His righteousness."
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
For some" reason I missed the notification of the
get together of Heppner graduates in the Gazette Times
earlier this year when Jim Barrett was present. But, did see
me write up anerwaras.
I will look forward to the next one in I960. As that time
approaches and whoever the chairman might be, if they are
in need of a speaker I would be most happy to volunteer.
Since leaving Heppner In 1939 a great deal of my time has
been In research in the field of common factors of longevity,
aging, affect of additives on tissue growth, built in time
clocks on ce cycles, capillary fragility-end basically the
thousands of factors Involved In cell health. This might be
physical, physiological, psychological or philosophical. This
has been a second avocation of mine, of sharing some of these
Ideas with professional and lay audiences across the country
since '54.
If they might be interested we might get together and work
up a program that would fit In with their theme for the year
1980. '
Keep up the good work you arc doing In the publishing field.
With warmest personal regards,
IRLC. CLARY, D.M.D.
Lake Oswego, OR.
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