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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.