Page J, THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Heppner, OR, Thursday, Jan. 1, 1976
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Mayor of Hanmen
By ERNIE CERESA .
Now that the season to be jolly has passed, I can get back to
the news items at hand.
In recent months articles have appeared in this newspaper
regarding juveniles and their drinking problems. The
articles have apparently fallen on deaf ears as some high
school students think it is big stuff to drink and then drive.
Only one thing remains and that is to name the culprit in the
newspaper if they appear before the Justice Court judge.
Recently a student was arrested and charged with driving
while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. The
arresting officer was asked by the student, if the name had to
be given to the paper as the student did not want the name to
appear. One of the reasons given the officer was that the
student is involved in sports and did not want to be banned
from the team.
If the student is embarrassed about a name appearing in
the paper for driving while under the influence, why wasn't
this taken into consideration before the arrest was made?
One thing more, "Please don't ask the police officers to ask
this newspaper to withhold information. If you happen to be
arrested and appear in juvenile court, you are protected by
law, however, if you appear in justice court, it becomes an
open record."
To the students if your name appears in the paper for
driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or not
remember, the arrest stands and will follow as a part of your
driving record for many years.
On every employment application there is a space
provided for arrests other than minor traffic violations, also
if convicted. To all high school seniors, keep this in mind. The
next time you decide to do some drinking.
It might be well to reprint the slogan of the Gazette-Times
as a reminder, "If you don't want it published, don't let it
happen."
While most of the residents of Heppner were enjoying
Christmas Eve with their friends and family some vandals
were having a good time, destroying property. Les Paustain
reported to Heppner Police that persons unknown had stolen
62 of his outdoor lights. Lois Winchester also reported the
theft of many of her outside decorative figures. The plywood
figures were later found badly damaged in Willow Creek.
Both matters have been turned over to the Heppner Police
for investigation. I hope they find the culrpits.
While on the subject of law and order, the Heppner Police
Department has responded to 637 complaints as of Dec. 29. Of
this number 66 were major crimes, including burglary, theft,
criminal assault, forgery, etc.
The 637 complaints do not include any of the traffic
citations issued by the City Police with the exception of
major traffic violations, in which the operator had to appear
in Justice Court. Minor traffic violations paid at City Hall are
not included in the total.
Each of the 66 major crimes investigated by the police
required many hours of filing detailed reports to be
submitted to the courts by the officers, so the next time
anyone thinks the Heppner City Police haven't spent a busy
year take another look at these figures.
Gleanings
"Winds at selected coastal
and Columbia Gorge sites are
sufficiently strong and persi
stent to make wind power
developments feasible for the
future, says Oregon State
University."
I have a couple of other
prime sites which should be
investigated. The wind is not
only hot for heating but is
extremely constant.
You and I both used to laugh
at the thought of controlling
the weather. The very best we
considered was "it sure would
be nice." A license has been
issued to North American
Weather Consultants to modi
fy the weather. They are
trying to increase the snow
pack and water supply level
behind Pelton Dam, for more
electricity.
For those who frown at the
price of milk consider ... it
costs $9.93 per CWT to
produce. The dairyman gets
$10.55 a CWT, which leaves .62
cents per CWT. Anyone want
to become a dairyman?
Under the heading "so what
else is new" or "what else did
you expect" . . .
R.A.Maxwell
Crime is reported up again.
Oh well, no matter we will get
slicker lawyers and bigger
loopholes. In the end we can
stand around and wring our
hands in dismay, all the while
doing nothing to really correct
the trend.
USD A report shows beef
producers are refilling feed
lots at a rapid rate. The
number of cattle on feed in the
seven reporting states is up 25
per cent from last year . . .
Oops the next paper across my
desk says total meat produc
tion is down despite filling of
the feed lots. Oh well.
Oregon State University has
held the line on energy savings
since the 1973 crunch despite
increases in students, equip
ment and buildings. The uni
versity reduced it's usage by
18 per cent in 1973 over 1972.
Maybe the rest of us have
managed likewise but I'll bet
not very many. I'm going
home and check the lights,
how about you?
Rings and jewels are not
gifts, but apologies for gifts.
The only true gift is a portion
of thyself.
R.W. Emerson
C.I.A. and the Clergy
The Central Intelligence Agency has used United States
missionaries In intelligence gathering W"
told Sen. Mark Hatfield it will not halt it In acknowledging
his pTst activity, both the CIA and the White House have
refused Hatfield's request to bar such practices. The Oregon
Senator will introduce legislation Monday to ban It. Hatfield
ki he seeks the same prohibition on CIA-missionary
contacts that now is in effect for U.S. Peace Corps volunteers
and Fulbright scholars. Hatfield said such past practices
have brought charges against innocent missionaries, ana
have violated the separation of church and state.
When we allow the CIA or any other government agency
to use our missionaries while in the mission field in foreign
countries or at home to perform political and intelligence
operations, we pervert the church's mission and bring
discredit upon the foreign policies and credibility of the
United States." Hatfield charged.
This practice tarnishes the image of the United States in
foreign countries, prostitutes the v J
First Amendment separation of church and state, Hatfield
"In this country, the church to not an arm of the state and
the state is not the tool of the church."
In letters to Hatfield, both CIA Director William Colby and
White House Counsel Philip Buchen acknowledge using
missionaries, and both refused to stop It. Hatfield had asked
for executive action to stop the practice, negating the need
for legislation. ,
In many countries of the world representatives of the
clergy, foreign and local, play significant role and can be of
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SPIRIT OF 76
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
At last and finally, after years of reading the
Gazette-Times, an editorial has appeared that is worthy of
some attention, ("From the Corner," Dec. 18, 1975.)
I fought a vivid, wordy battle against the importance of
sports during my journalism years at Heppner High School.
Sports in the Heppner community have always been
over-emphasized. The athletic department has over-ridden
other departments in the school to such an extent that
valuable, worthwhile programs and activities have been
muffled, gagged, cut-off and ruined. Many students other
than soolled "athletes"- are having their interests and
talents thwarted because of a lack of courage in those who
bring change if they would only put their efforts to work. Too
bad some things never change. (How about an Athletic
Director for Principal? Or better yet. Superintendent?)
Unfortunately, nothing written will bring necessary .
changes. What is needed is a sturdy school board to
straighten out this mess, and a large group of
parents-particularly those of non-athletes-who will not be
still or quiet another day and let this unbalance continue to
grow worse year after year.
GREG DAVIDSON,
Portland.
Learning
Disabilities
By James Angermeyr.MA
The words "learning disabilities" are being used more and
more in educational and psychological circles. They are also
being used more frequently by parents who view them with a
combination of mystery and dread. They are used
synonymously with brain-injured, neurologically impaired,
pseudo-retarded, brain damaged, cerebral palsied, percep
tually handicapped, interjacent and exogenous. Children
with learning disabilities are viewed as. everything from
exceptional children and special children to slow learners
and under achievers.
Estimations of its occurence in the population range from a
conservative 3 per cent to a staggering 45 per cent of all age
groups. Even assuming a 10 per cent figure as a maximum,
Heppner with about 1500 people, could have up to 150 people
who suffer from some of its many variations.
Among those who have or are assumed to have had
learning disabilities are some famous and infamous people,
including Napoleon, Thomas Edison, and the daughter of one
of our more recent Presidents, who remained virtually a
non-reader until the age of 23, when special tutorial help was
finally obtained for her.
The concept of learning disabilities as a recognizable and
treatable condition was only formulated around the time of
World War II. For many'years, its existence was supported
by a handful of imaginative neurologists, psychologists, and
special educators. Today, learning disabilities are treated as
a real and important cause of much of the underachievement
in public schools. Classes and seminars are taught m most
colleges as a requirement for teacher certification, and
research into its causes and treatment is supported by many
public and private organizations, including the National
Association of Children with Learning Disabilities (NACLD).
Children with learning disabilities are, of course, not like
other, "normal" children; nor are they really quite like each
other. Happy, confident, curious, and relatively mature once
a week (or day or hour); gloomy, irritable, out -of -touch, and
babyish the next.
In schools, they are often found in special education
classes, if they are fortunate enough to be in a school system
that has such classes; or in the lowest reading groups if they
are not so fortunate. They are often seen as hyperactive and
as behavioral problems. Their peers view them as "stupid."
"wierd." "dumb." or retarded. At home they suffer from the
frustrations of their parents and the teasing of their not so
unfortunated brothers and sisters.
One happy note for the victims of learning disabilities and
their parents Is that, as more research into the condition is
performed, the one fact that stands out clearly is that it is
treatable! Children no longer suffer their way through
schools and subjects thai are out of their reach. Books and
magazines are no longer "off limits" to them because they
can't read, and they need no longer suffer from the contempt
and frustrations of their parents, teachers and classmates.
In fuiare articles, we will examine more closely the causes
and treatment of learning disabilities, and how they can be
recognized early.
EDITOR:
This letter is to the Heppner Mustangs and the fans. I
recently read a story in the Gazette-Times about the
Mustangs and what poor sportsmanship they've shown.
I refereed the Heppner-Sherman game last Friday and I
got a different attitude from the Heppner team, which was
the best sportsmanship I've seen this year! I feel the boys
should be congratulated for their sportsmanship, because it
was a hard game to lose and they took it very good.
Maybe if more people would praise the team for good
sportsmanship instead of knocking them for a bad game,
their sportsmanship would always be good. So In closing I d
like to say congratulations on your sportsmanship last
Friday and I hope you keep it up. This is the kind of
sportsmanship our association likes to see!
DENNIS COOK.
Pilot Rock, OR.
.The eame between the Sherman Huskies and the Heppner
MriSn was a fine game and both teams displayed
SnJSlUhi the entire P-
was not the game I had reference "gSS
M.mtanas for poor sportsmanship. I hope the Mustangs
cIS to dispS this type of sportsmanship in their future
games. EDITOR).
EDITOR:
At no time is the phrase "many hands make light work"
truer than in the preparation for the Christmas Cotillion s
benefit for the American Cancer Society. This event surely
would not be possible without the wonderful support and the
many contributions of time and materials. Ia the past six
years over $52,000 have been donated, and we anticipate
there will be a large sum to contribute again this year, which
is our goal.
Thank you for the publicity which you so generously gave.
The Cotillion Committee appreciates your support.
BARBARA SEGERSTROM.
EDITOR:
Thirty thousand acres. Just a nice family farm, very
efficient and productive. But twenty thousand acres owned
by over fifty individuals who have pooled their resources by
forming two corporations in order to develop and farm the
land a very inefficient and wasteful operation, one that must
be eliminated from the State of Oregon. But there is a simple
solution, just pass a law outlawing corporations and let the
one with thirty thousand acres buy out the two nas y
corporations. The result is then a fifty thousand acre family
farm, again very efficient and productive. Such la the
reasoning in the proposed anti-corporation amendment to the
Oregon Constitution.
Under the proposed law to save the family farms the Sniea
of Araby with his oil billions could purchase any amount of
farmland he so desired as could any other person or persons
less than five in number. Any corporation In the country
could set up and finance some of their personnel in a separate
small corporation and buy all the land producing some
certain commodity, thereby, gaining control of all of a crop.
This would be allowed under this amendment. But two or
three families with total of six or more members would be
prohibited from Incorporating to even own and opeYat i a
farm of any size, even one hundred acres. And they call this
"save the family farm." The writing of this proposed
legislation would have been a credit to a group of eighth
grade students.
ARNOLD BRAAT,
Boardman.
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DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
amrday mghl. Ed D"1 "hd , n Ed down
aitSGS. .hi, is a tim. fer families to
bee Snd to review the year lZ
recalled that back In the summer Ed s girl was reporting
Se she h d took in this concert in the park and at free
art show, and that it was to bad that culture couldn t gil out In
fhe SSSry K Juat seems that folks look for the bad side right
nowToffset the good reason fer the holiday, was Zeke.
"fw inatant went on Zeke. the papers alius carry items on
thehoida tri dealhs. and
em with other times. We are supposed to think foika don gU
killed in wrecks except on holidays, And ther '"
note on ever story, like the young feller that fell off his
Sorcycle North Carolina and lay aside the road cause
Sddrtap. This might of happened any me ot year
but it was turned into a Christmas story cause it showed we
don't care about one another. .
Zeke said he thought on Christmas day that we don t have
to look fer evidence that peace on earth and good will toward
mTa n't caught on yeL He said Christian, are fighting
Soslems in Lebanon and Christian, are fighting one another
in Ireland and there still are folks mean enough to beat and
rib a 104-year!d blind man and wife fer a few dollars. But
all that don't make Christmas any less. Zeke allowed. r
General speaking, the feller, was with Zeke that Christmas
is a time of promise.-and it can't hurt to look fer a cloud with
ItwasBug Hookum that reported where the post office Is
showing some good signs. He said the mail .till to moving at a
big loss, but Congress final has come around to the idee that
trying to make the mail pay its way was a bad dee. Bug had
saw where money fer the mails now will come from
Congress, and the Postal Service will have to make up a
budget and ask fer funds to operate just like other
Guvernment services.
Clem Webster cheered the fellers with word that somebody
in Washington had confessed that some Federal agencies
ain't needed, and had said we ought to phase out the
Consumer Products Safety Commission in just six years,
which is short fer phasing out anything in Guvernment.
With that. Mister Editor, the fellers broke up to go home
and see what Christmas leftovers they could git their old
ladies to warm over fer a late supper.
Yours truly,
MAYOR ROY.
Our just God
By Rev. Gordon E. Blackburn
Bud Robinson used to use this illustration to show how
much greater God is than the devil is. God can take a man
who is as crooked as the roundhouse, give him one touch, and
make him as straight as a gun barrel. But let the devil take a
straight man. and if the man will yield himself completely to
the devil's power, he can make him too crooked to sleep in the
roundhouse. The devU has the power to make a man crooked,
but It takes God to make a man straight."
In Psalms 11 we see the state of the righteous and the
wicked in contrast. Fear sees only the things that are near.
Faith takes in the larger distances.
The righteous are trustful. Their confidence is in God. not
in self. They are despised. The ungodly despise them and tell
them to flee. They are tried. Abraham was blessed as he
endured temptation.
Let's look at Job. He lost all his earthly possessions. All his
thousands of animals were destroyed and his sons and
daughters were killed. God blessed Job because Job stayed
true to God. His animals were replaced twofold and he lived
to have many more son. and daughters.
The righteous are loved. The Lord is always watching over
His own. He loves with an everlasting love. God' I love is
stronger than death. The world's .ins cannot quench God s
love for us.
The wicked are against God. The Lord sees their
wickedness. He sees our inner thoughts. There are no secret,
between man and God.
Now let', look at some Impossibilities: It 1. impossible for
pride and humility to live under the same skin.
It is impossible for you to be a teacher if you are unwilling
to be taught.
It Is impossible for you to be a leader if you are not willing
to led.
It is Impossible for you to be a commander if you are not
willing to obey. It is impossible for a man to climb Zion's hill
carrying a load of conceit. It is impossible for a man to be any
better on the outside than he 1. on the Inside. It to Impossible
for a man to walk straight if he live, a crooked life. It to
impossible for a man to succeed in life If he spends his .pare
time sitting on a goods box and talking about how the
government ought to be run. It is impossible for a man to be a
booster as long as he I. a boaster.
It is impossible for a man with a level head, a clean heart, a
big soul, a good experience, and a loving disposition to fail. It
to also impossible for a man to fail who ha. been cleaned up
and cleaned out and filled up and sent out.
The end I. fearful for the wicked. God', love for
righteousnea to not arbitrary. If perfect Justice is not
attained In this life, it will be In the next. This seem, to be the
ultimate motive for the psalmist', confidenceperfect
justice.
What better motive to serve God can we have than
this eternal life with our Lord In Heaven.
Packwood and
revenue sharing
"Recently, fear ha. been
expressed by state and local
official., municipal employ
ees, and participant. In gov
eminent program, such a.
senior citizen center, that
revenue sharing may die. This
to to advise you on the statu, of -revenue
sharing renewal, as I .
ae It," .aid Sen. Bob Pack
wood. Aa the ranking Republican"
on the Revenue Sharing Sub
committee of the Finance
Committee, which ha. juri.
dictlon over Revenue Sharing,
and as the Senate Manager of
the Administration Revenue
Sharing Renewal bill (S. 16S,
Sen. Packwood favor, early
renewal of this program.
A variety of factor, now
make It likely that revenue
sharing will be renewed ba
sically in Its present form, but
that It will not be renewed
until 1976.
As you know, re-enactment
of a major program such as
revenue sharing requires tha .
support of a majority In the ,
Senate and the House of'
Representative., and the sup-!
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