BESSIE WETZELL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB E3GENE OR 07403 ' i ' .V.- ..' I f f i F. F. A. award The annual future Farmers of America banquet was held Tuesday evening at the Heppner High School cafetorium with honors going to Bill Van Schoiack. Star Chapter Farmer and Ken Grieb. Star Green hand. FFA students receiving awards were: Clay West, Farm Mechanics Plaque; David Steagall, Home Improvement Plaque; Bill Van Schoiack. Beef Production Award; Dan Van Schoiack. Swine Production Award; Ron Currin Sheep Production Award. Chapter awards were presented to Julie Gneb, Suzanne Cutsforth and Karen Winter for Outstanding First Year Students. Kimee Haguewood received the Scholarship Medals, sponsored by the National FFA Foundation were presented to Bill Van Schoiack. Star Chapter Farmer; Ken .79). THE Vol. I V. V . - A 1 S t i . f i iXV - 1 ? ' V T 93, No. 3 ' J""""" V F 4 f m : Accepting the new equipment for Pioneer Hospital and Morrow County are from the left, Dr. Richard Carpenter, Ilene Wyman, hospital administrator and Morrow County Judge Paul Jones. New laboratory equipment presented to Pioneer Memorial Hospital by the Tri-County Health Service to improve the health conditions of the three counties. Pictured above from the left the new equipment includes a refractometer. flame photometer and a fibrometer. The approximate cost of the new equipment is $16,500. banquet Grieb. Star Green Hand; Bill Van Schoiack. Uvestock Production; Clay West. Farm Mechanics; Bruce oung. Placement in Ag Production; David Steagall. Farm and Home Improvements; Karen Winter, Placement Agriculture Processing; Bill Van Schoiack, Beef Production; Dan Van Schoiack. Swine Production; Ron Currin. Sheep Production; Krynn Robinson. Horse Production. Guest speaker for the event was Tom Watson. Hermiston. He related to the students how his vocational agriculture training has helped him with his present position and through the past years. Watson remarked "Young people will benefit from FA projects and students should participate in FFA. especially judging competition." When a student is judging an animal or wheat he discovers he must make an instant (Continued on Page 21 ii . . I i i 1 I 7 ' FFA students from th left. Clay West, Ag Mechanics; Dan Van Schoiack. Swine Production; Krynn Robinson. Horse Production. Ron Currtn. Sheep Production and Bill Van Schoiack, Beef Production. Morrow County's Newspaper Heppner, OR, Thursday, Mar. 4, 1976 ft. 1 Justice "Court -may handle city At the regular meeting of the Heppner Common Council ' Monday night, the council voted to dissolve ita municipal ' court and turn all its cases over to justice court for prosecution. The only cases to be handled by the City's Municipal Court will be infractions of either the City Charter I or the City's ordinances. I Starting July 1, with the approval of the Morrow County Court, all citations issued by the city police will be referred to i Justice court, with the county keeping all the monies '- collected in fines. ' Although this will cost the City of Heppner approximately $5-6,000 per year, in traffic citation money, the justice court I. is presently handling all of the city's major cases with the city receiving a portion of the fines. In the past the city police have asked the cooperation of the ; district attorney on many cases and the city has never : received a bill from the county for its services. District Attorney Dennis Doherty, who was present at the . meeting, told the council, he had no conversation with the county court on this matter and it would be up to the county budget committee to update its budget for the justice of the peace and secretarial salaries as this will increase the . workload of the justice court. The present cost to the county for taking prisoners to the I Umatilla County Jail is $15 per day. Some prisoners are ' taken to Wasco County where the cost is $7.50 per day. 1 A petition was filed with the county clerk to place the dog ' control problem before the voters, April 20. After some discussion regarding the existing dog problem in the City of Heppner, it was decided it was time the city and county "stopped passing the buck" and the voters approve the ; measure, the county and the city should start working ": together. . The City council approved three building permits Monday night. Two of the permits are in the Lott-Rasmussen ' Addition, one is for a $20,000 residence with Warren Plochareky as the builder, the other is for a two story home with an estimated cost of $23,000, builder John Rayl. A duplex approved by the city planning commission was also approved by the council. The estimated cost of the duplex is $40,000 and the builders are Howard Cleveland and Milo Prindle. In other business to come before the council: 100th anniversary Chamber hears history of Dale Slusher. manager of Pacific Northwest Bell. Pen dleton, showed slides at the Chamber of Commerce Mon day depicting the advance ment of the telephone and the Bell system during the past century. It was on March 10. 1876 that Alexander Graham Bell spill ed some acid on his clothes and said to his assistant. "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." These are the first recorded words ever spoken over the telephone. The Portland exchange op ened in 1878 with 32 subscrib ers, the third exchange on the Loan rate Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butx recently announ ced the 1976 target and loan prices for wheat and feed grains, according to David McLeod. local A CSC director. Provisions of the Agricul ture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 require that target prices for the 1976 crop be adjusted upward from 1975 levela to reflect Increased production cost during 1975. The 197S loan levels are also being adjusted upward from the minimum levels set by the legislation; thes increases reflect approximately the same percentage Increases as made in the target prices. "The target prices and loan rates provide a guaranteed support base while adhering to the principle of reliance on the marketplace for farm In come," Secretary Buti said. "Farm Income and farm pro duction have reached all time reords under our present market oriented agricultural oollcv." he a tkled. " The 1976 loan rates are, wheat $1 50 per bu. ; corn $1 25 per bu j barley $102 per bu j oats $60 per bu ; rye $100 per bu. f EMES 15C ell Telephone Co. west coast. In 1888 the first telephones were installed in Heppner. There was one switchboard and 30 lines. During the flood of 1903 all of the lines were washed away as well as the office. Today there are 2.400 phones serving the Heppner area. Relating the early history of the telephone with the use of original slides the following information was presented to the Chamber members: -The first long distance transmitter was developed in 1886. -The first talking picture. Flu closes Heppner Schools Schools in Heppner were closed last Thursday and Friday because of the flu and other illnesses. The number of students absent because of the flu increased at both the elemen tary and high school until officials decided to close the school. Hardest hit with the flu was the Heppner Elementary School which reported 138 students and I teachers absent Wednesday; however, the hi gh school reported only 1 teacher and 29 students ab sent. Although schools reopened Monday students and teachers continued to be absent from the schools. Monday afternoon school officials reported 7 teachers and 90 students ab sent from the elementary school and 5 teachers and 80 students absent from the high school. Tuesday the situation at the Heppner Schools had not Im proved. While some of the stu dents returned to school others were absent as the high school reported J teachers and BO students absent. Heppner Elementary School reported teachers and 73 students absent, an increase ever the previous day. cases -Numerous complaints have been received on a residence located at 140 S. Chase St. The broken windows in the home will be boarded to prevent trespassing and an attempt to notify the owner, Mel Moyer, Unity, will be pursued. In p-evious attempts the city has been unable to locate Moyer. The State Fire Marshall will be contacted regarding condemnation procedures. -Members of the Eastern Central Oregon Association of Counties (ECOAC) were present at the meeting. They included Ron Hall executive director of ECOAC, Wayne Schwandt, manpower planner, planning activities relating to labor force characteristics, labor market characteristics, public service employment and manpower training; Jim Stephenson, community development activities including comprehensive planning, water and sewer planning (not engineering ), housing assistance planning and other physical development activities; Mark Huston, economic planner who provides assistance to cities and counties in economic development planning both local and regional; identifying potential economic development projects, completing applications for funding such projects. Mary Davis, aging planner, who plans for senior citizens in the area of nutrition, information and referral, health and other activities; Dave Babcock. municipal administration consultant who provides assistance to cities in administrative areas of budgeting, finance, including revenue sharing, charter and ordinance revision, personnel toning and office administration; Dana Anderson, criminal justice coordinator, planning in areas of law enforcement, courts, prosecution, corrections and juvenile justice. He also provides legal counsel in municipal law and ordinance codification and legal review; Rob Beltramo, LCDC coordinator, assistance to Umatilla and Morrow Counties cities in relations with the LCDC. , Mark Stieger. planner for the cities of LaGrande and Union will speak to members of the planning commission. March 24. Chairman Randall Peterson will then make his recommendations to the city council. Mayor Jerry Sweeney told the council if the four cities in Morrow County. Heppner, lone. Lexington and Irrigon could use the planner to complete their comprehensive plan it would benefit all of the communities. 'The Jazz Singer." starring Al Jolson. was released in 1928. with the 6ell system providing the electrical equi pment to record the sound. The transistor was anoth er invention of the Bell laboratories in 1947. Besides the numerous uses of the transistor they are presently used by the Bell system for a new computerized switch board referred to as the ESS. In 1962 the first telestar was launched and in 1969 w hen astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin made their historic w alk on the moon they were congratulated for their Portland General Electric to construct housing Under a lease agreement with Portland General Elec tric company, singles quart ers housing complex will be built and managed by Trans World Housing company, Vancouver, WA, to help meet the initial reouirements of persons working on the utili ty's Boardman Coal Plant. The housing complex will be on 20 acres of land, located one half mile southwest of the City of Boardman. Estimated cost for the project is $2 million. Initially the complex will include 20 buildings each containing five apartment units, parking pads for SO campers or recreational vehi cles, recreation facilities, a dining hall and an office. This portion is lo be completed by the end of May. The project has been designed for expan sion to 40 buildings totalling too apartment units. All of the individual apart achievements by President Nixon, via telephone. The touch-tone phone was introduced in 1964 and plans are underw ay to replace many of the existing phones with the new touch type phone. -In the future the video phone will serve the populace, however, special cable is required before the video phone can be placed in operation. Meanwhile scien tists are working with the laser beam. Laser beams will probably be used to transmit telephone conversations in the future. ments will be furnished, air conditioned, carpeted and contain their own shower and bathroom facilities. A separ ate washroom shower building is to be constructed for persons using the camper parking places. As part of its solar research program, PCE intends to meet part of this building's water heating needs through the use of solar collectors. Recreation facilities plan ned for the housing con.ptex include a baseball diamond, a tennis court, a volleyball court and a recreation building with game tables and a television lounge. The entire complex will be landscaped with trees and shrubs. Trans World plans to pre fabricate the housing unit before shipping them to the site. Contractors from the North Central Oregon area wilt do the site preparation work.