Page 3, THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Heppner, OR, Thursday, April 8. 1978
Mayor of Manman
Horse sense
By
ERNEST V. JOINER
On Jan. 30, 1976, 10 Congressmen representing 124
members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives
met in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, and signed a parody
of the Declaration of Independence. This parody is "A
Declaration of Interdependence," and it calls for
renunciation of American sovereignty and the establishment
of a United Nations World Government.
The entire Declaration of Interdependence Is too long to
be quoted In full in thin column. Some of its highlights: it
creates a world-wide system of economics, currency and
government under a world government which will regulate
all human activity. The declaration opens with this
statement: "Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth
a new nation; now we must Join with others to bring forth a
new world order."
Its statement of purpose: "To establish a new world
order of compassion, peace, Justice and security, it is
essential that mankind free itself from the limitations of
national prejudice, and acknowledge that the forces that
unite are incomparably deeper than those that divide it that
all people are part of one global community, dependent on
one body of resources, bound together by the ties of a
common humanity and associated in a common adventure on
the planet Earth."
The Declaration of Interdependence goes on to accuse
the rich of exploiting the poor. It condemns the private
owners of big business In America for oppressing the poor. A
formal call has been made for adopting the declaration on
July 4. 1976, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence. The One World movement, which has been
around for 40 years, surfaced recently with this declaration
and it was quickly and without fanfare voted out of the House
Rules Committee on March 9 and rushed to the floor for a
vote 2 days later. The entire operation took less than a week !
This movement is also known as Atlantic Union. Speaker
Carl Albert, a One World advocate, has called the Atlantic
Union Resolution (HJR 606) to the floor for a vote during the
week of March 29.
Every president since Dwlght Elsenhower has supported
the One World government concept Incorporated in the
Atlantic Union movement. As far back as Feb. 17, 1947, One
World advocate Prof. Milton Mayer, of the Universitv of
Chicago in a speech at Syracuse, NY said: "We must haul
down the American flag ... haul it down, stamp on it and spit
on It." The United World Federalists are for it. The World
Association of Parliamentarians for World Government.
London, is for it. Also the World Federalists of Canada, The
United Nations, The World Constitution and Parliament
Association, based In Denver; the City of Minneapolis, which
on March 5. 1968 declared the local constituency "citizens of
the world;" The villages of Richfield, Ohio, took similar
action on Sept. 4. 1970, as did San Pedro, CA.; The
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North
America. AFL-CIO; The Ford Foundation through its "think
tank" at Santa Barbara In 1965; The California Republican
Party in 1948; James P. Warburg, a leader in the United
World Federalists, who was quoted in the American Jewish
Committee's magazine, "Commentary," on Feb. 17. 1950, as
telling the U.S. Senate: "We shall have world government,
whether or not we like it. The only question is whether world
government will be achieved by conquest or consent."
Another group, Congress of World Unity, a One World
organization, will hold its annual congress in Philadelphia for
' the Bicentennial celebration on July 4, 1976. The CWU even .
talked Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp into appropriating
$77,000 of Bicentennial Commission of Pennsylvania funds to
bring the congress there, and another $166,000 to send 2
priests all over the world extending personal Invitations to
delegates to the congress. Some of the plans for the One
World congress have been made by Dr. Linus C. Pauling,
whom the CWU sent to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, to begin
planning the agenda for the 1976 congress to be held,
coincidentally, of course. In Philadelphia in July, 1976! Dr.
Pauling is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a biochemist at the
University of California, Berkeley.
It will be Interesting to see whether our Congress will
actually destroy the American fbrm of government In the
debates this week. But with at least 124 of them already
committed to the Declaration of Interdependence a giant
step forward on the way to global government-the changes
appear better than even that the U.S. Congress will opt for
global government. Happy Bicentennial.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Board of Directors of
the Morrow County Historical
Society held their quarterly
meeting at the W.W. Weather
ford home. March 29. 1 p.m.
. Materials for markers for
unmarked outlying graves
have been ordered. Anyone
knowing any information
about any early graves is
asked to contact Barton Clark.
Heppner or Bryce Keene.
lone, as little is known about
some of the grave locations.
Winner of the decal design
contest was Craig Hams, lone.
The decal contest was sub
mitted to the elementary
schools of the county and
many good designs were
received. The design has been
sent to a printer and it is hoped
to have the decals for sale by
Memorial Day.
Oscar Peterson was a guest
at the meeting and presented
his idea for marking (he site of
the FairvWw School Pinlrui in
his neighborhood and where
he attended school. As most of
these old rural school build
ings are no longer standing it
is hoped others will In some
way mark the school sites of
other school districts.
There art number of
things and places In (he county
of historical value (hat
should be marked and pro
tected. To do these things will
require the help of many
persons and of course, money.
Plans are underway for fund
raising day in late summer.
Persons willing to help should
contact Pelpha Jones, Lexington.
Council
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approved by the council with
the stipulation the building
Inspector check the property
for any lot line problems.
A request by Warren Plo
charsky to have Heppner TV
Inc. Install 160 feet of free
television cable to his home
was refused. Presently a
Irunk line passes in front of
the Plocharsky residence;
however. Heppner TV Inc.,
has notified Plocharsky they
will not tape a trunk line. To
serve the Plocharsky resi
dence with television cable
from the nearest point would
take an estimated 160 feet of
cable with the cost of the
Installation to be borne by the
property owner.
Mayor Sweeney appointed
Allen Nistad and Howard
Bryant to the budget commit
tee, as inert wert no objec
tions from the council.
Ed Dick commented on the
air in the water lines and
stated the air had caused
considerable damage to his
home. According to reports
the air In the water lines was
caused by Well 3 pumping at
740 gallons per minute. Pre
sently this has been reduced
and water from Well I Is now
coming Into the system In
hopes of resolving the prob
lem. HHK DHII I.
..A fire drill U planned
Sunday April II al I p.m.
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"Now That We Know WHO You Are...
What Are The Chances Of Finding Out
WHAT You Are?"
The mail pouch
EDITOR:
As a former Heppnerite, I am sending a couple of clippings
from the Salem Statesman relative to George Corwin,
Superintendent of Schools in Heppner in the middle Forties.
It will be of interest to the many friends of the Corwins in
Morrow County. As the clippings indicate, George has done
an outstanding job and those for whom he worked and the
many who participated with him are most appreciative.
It was my privilege at two different times, 1936-37 and
1948 51 to work and live In Heppner and we have many fond
memories of Morrow County and its fine citizens. In face,
many people who have worked in the valley, remember
Heppner that way and in a sense work for "The Heppner
Chamber of Commerce as boosters."
HENRY E.TETZ
(former supt. in Heppner and
Morrow County)
( ORW IN ITT PRE-RETIREMENT
TRAINING TO SALEM'S USE
George Corwin received a special recognition Monday
night for practicing what he has been preaching in Salem the
past six years that community service can be fun and
rewarding in the retirement years.
When George and Juliet Corwin decided to move to Salem
in 1970, upon his retirement as school superintendent in the
WinstonDillard area, the city should have welcomed them
with a brass band. We didn't know what prizes we were
getting.
A year before his retirement, George had been so
concerned about what he would do with his life after he had to
give up his responsibility as school superintendent, he took a
six-week course in pre-retirement training at University of
Oregon.
The upshot was a decision to come to Salem and to get
involved in the community.
Juliet had been a member of the Douglas County Library
Board. She had toured the state, under a federal grant, as a
library board trustee coordinator. She had served on
American Library Association committees. She transferred
her expertise to the Salem Friends of the Library as the start
of her varied community activities here.
The Corwins were not strangers to the mid-Valley. He was
school superintendent at Monmouth-Independence from 1947
to 1951. at the time of that area's school consolidation.
But he had been too busy in his 41 year career in education
to become Involved in community service.
His leadership of the successful Salem mass transit levy
drive earlier this month is only the most recent of his many
efforts on behalf of the city.
A former president of Salem Area Seniors, he is constantly
prodding his fellow retirees to get Involved. "The waste of
manpower is shameful," he says. "I go out on the golf course
and meet people who are sick and tired of golf. They don't
know what to do with their lives."
George Corwin knows, and he has Instituted mini-courses
in pre retirement training at the YMCA as a means of telling
others. He will continue to espouse this cause.
He became the first recipient of the Willard C. Marshall
award Monday night, honoring the Citizen Volunteer of the
Year. The occasion drew over 200 members of city boards
and commissions to the Council Chamber for special
reception. It was a warm and friendly occasion where people
who have worked together for years in community service
had an opportunity to spend an hour In Informal fellowship.
The tUtighler of former Mvtr Marshall. Mrs. Martha
Sorensen. not only honored her father by instituting the
award, she has helped establish a worthwhile annual event.
(The Oregon Statesman, March 24, 1976)
EDITOR:
I have about decided I've seen il all, when a "Pel Rock" Is
taken from a flower bed.
The rock is about two thirds the size of a football and a bit
large for a ima'll boy to throw very far.
The rock Is sort of egg shaped, while with gray marking.
I'm sure It bothered no one not even barking al night.
This is all very silly I'm sure, but whenever a "Pel Rock"
strays off it 's past being funny . The "Pet Rock" business is
Joke to me but the pretty rock Is gone; with help. And I hope
whoever took It grta enjoyment from It.
MARTHA VAN SCHOtACK
EDITOR:
In all my years on earth (70 plus) I've never been so
flabber gasted, so non plussed, so overwhelmed, under-and-sidewise-whelmed
as when I started to read your April 1. 1976
edition.
During those 70 plus years I've narrowly missed seeing the
Grand Canyon. I went from California to Buffalo, NY and
escaped the Niagara Falls. I visited New York City without
seeing the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building (even
from a distance) and I think I may say without fear of
successful contradiction that your paper was a dandy idea!
Please no more than one time in 10 years! I'm not sure I'd
survive another.
HARLAN D. BURBANK
The Trivia Press. Oakland. CA.
EDITOR:
' On a recent trip south through Nevada, we spent the night
in the Church Hill Fork, south of Reno. Upon arising in the
morning we looked over the desert valley toward Yerington,
a distance of about 20 miles and on this bright day the valley
was filled with fog, with a tall chimney sticking through the
fog
We drove down Into the fog and proceeded at about 10 miles
per hour with the lights on, for about 18 miles. We wondered
what was causing the fog when we came to a small lake with
a generating plant. The fog was apparently the result of the
cooling of the plant.
If this is often true of these plants. I am wondering what the
effect will be on our airport and the necessary spraying of our
crops.
O W. CUTS FORTH
Budget
(Continued from Page I)
Our total levy will be $1,545,259. Based on this year's true
cash value, that would require a levy of $1.79 on the general
fund. This would be an increase from the $1 64 for $1 .000 TCV
over the current year. If you owned a home valued at $3,000.
you would have paid taxes of $45 64 for this year. The cost for
next year would increase by $4 48, so the total taxes to be
collected on a $3,000 home for next year would be $50.12.
In addition to the figures I have listed for the general fund,
we have a bond debt levy that will be approximately 30 cents
for $1,000 TCV.
Now, the figures I have quoted art based on the TCV of tht
district remaining the same for next year. We have every
reason to believe that there will be at least a 10 per cent
Increase in district true cash value, and quite possibly as
much as a 20 per cent Increase. Using the tower figure of tht
10 per cent Increase In true cash value, our levy then for next
year would be exactly the tame for the general fund levy and
would be leu on the bond debt fund.
On that basis I think it Is safe to say that BMCC't levy for
$1,000 TCV will actually be less for next year. This, of course,
could vary depending on Individual reappraisals. However, it
Is believed that without reappraisal of existing property, thai
new business. Industry and agriculture developments will
account for almost a 10 per cent Increase.
Our current levy 1 $1 63 per $1,000 TCV and the ballot
figure for next year will be listed at $1 U-m $ cent per $l.0w
Increase. However, this year's ballot contained tht figure of
$1 86 per $1,000. and tht actual levy ended up being $1 63. So.
you can set wt art conservative in our estimates and try to
make sure wt carry a larger figurt on tht ballot than will
actually bt needed.
The budget that wt art presenting to tht public has been
reached only aRer many hours of deliberations, and after we
had reduced everything that wt felt could bt reduced without
substantially affecting tht kind of programs and services
that art currently being provided by Blue Mountain
Community College.
If this budget is rejected by tht voters at the election of
April 20. very frankly. I do not know where wt would begin to
makt additional budget reductions.
I can say that if we were to makt reductions of any
amounts. It would havt to comt from tht tlimination of
programs and personnel.
An Interstlng sidelight regarding our budget Is that wt
would havt to makt a las levy reduction of $43,000 to reduct
tht levy by S cents rr $1,000 of true cash value.
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
As we go deeper in this year of America's 200th birthday,
the past, present and future are building up speed fer a
three-way wreck that will crackle acrost the face of the land
like summer lightning. Everwhere you turn. Mister Editor,
you see new ways to sell and tell what this country was. is and
will be.
The present and future is in the hands of folks running for
office. Them that's in and want to stay in are telling how good
it is and how much better it's going to be. And them that's out
and wants in are talking about how terrible it is and how
great it's going to be. If it weren't fer the column writers, we
might git the idee that all we got to do is vote for somebody
and our troubles are over. But the more I hear from
politicians the more I agree with whoever said a good
newspaper is to politics what a barking dog is to a chicken
thief. The papers at least let us know that if we're going to
pick these roses that's running fer office we got to watch out
fer thorns. Claiming to remake the world in their image is the
nature of politicians, and thorns is the nature of rose bushes.
The fellers at the country store Saturday night got to
talking about all the President primaries and about how the
more our way of guvernment changes the more it stays the
same. Clem Webster said he was glad to see his Democrats
git the field of candidates cut down to where we got as many
voters than we have begging fer votes, and Clem said he
hoped the fellers left now can start talking issues. Republican
Ed Doolittle come back with equal time, and he allowed that
while the Democrats was whittling theirselfs away the
Republicans was clearing the decks of party difference to
steer the ship of state a true course through another four
vears.
It was Josh Clodhopper that put a stop to that talk. He said
Ed and Clem had been watching to many TV interviews, and
that their words reminded him of a report out of a two-day
conference on international problems held recent in the state
capital by young people. One delegate lamented to a reporter
that "it 's hard to change the world in a weekend, we need at
least two weeks." Josh said politicans Ed and Clem would
need al least a month of Saturday nights to git the country
straightened out.
As fer the past. Mister Editor, we got more history experts
right now than politicians. Every church, school, club. town,
county and family tree is being wrote up. and most of em is
being set to music. I saw where there'll be at least 10.000
pageants at all levels put on as part of the bicentennial, and I
would add that enough trees will be planted so you won't have
to worry about newsprint fer another generation.
. And after hearing what is and will be. it'll be a relief to be
reminded that everthing that ever was was wonderful, and
that ever ancestor was a dedicated American that give his
life to make this country great. History shore can accent the
positive.
Yours trulv.
MAYOR ROY.
Christian Religion Today
By Rev. Edwin Sikes
James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before our God
and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their
affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world."
We hear a lot about religion today and many religious
leaders are denouncing religion, insisting we have too much
religion and not enough Christianity. I am a firm believer in
religion, but it must be Bible based, Christ centered and
directed by the Holy Spirit.
Too many are rejecting religion and Christianity because
they are seeking something that will satisfy them and their
desires. However, man is the sinner and Christianity is God's
answer to this problem of sin. God is the one sinned against
and He is the one who dictates the terms of pardon. The
sinner has no alternative but to comply therewith if he is to
obtain forgiveness.
The Christian religion today is a:
RELIGION OF FAITH. Faith is defined as the "assurance
of things hoped for. a conviction of things not seen." Heb.
11:1. Faith is essential in everything we do. Note Heb. 11:6
"And without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing unto
him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is. and
that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him."
A strong faith in God and His Son Jesus will make religion
something special, it will no longer be a dull lifeless thing, but
exciting and vivacious.
The Christian religion for today is at:
RELIGION OF FREEDOM. Paul said In Gal. 5:1 "For
freedom did Christ set us fret." Christ brings real freedom to
all men. In Christ we have: freedom to worship the Father in
spirit and in truth: freedom from all the sins of tht past for
"if therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall bt fret
indeed." Jno. 8.36. (Only Christ can forgive sin); and
freedom from eternal death which is the end of a life in sin.
The Christian religion for today is also a:
RELIGION OF SERVICE. Far too many try to avoid
Christian service and then wonder why they do not get
anything out of their religion. Jesus said. "He that is greatest
among you shall bt your servant." Matt. 23:11.
When we stand before Jesus on that Great Judgement Day,
we shall bt Judged by the service wt render and we must
remember that He said: "Insomuch as ye did it unto one of
these my brethren, even tht least, ye did it unto me." Matt.
25 40.
Christianity is a religion of service. Even Jesus said that he
came "not to bt ministered unto, but to minister." Matt.
20 3 If your religion becomes dull and mediocre, enter into
unselfish service to Christ and you will find that your religion
will become alive and meaningful.
The Christian religion for today is also a:
RELIGION OF OBEDIENCE. Obedience is one thing that
God demands from his followers. He said in I Sam. 15:22
"Behold to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than
tht fat of rams." Even Jesus was obedient to God at all
limes, yes. "even unto death, yea. the death of the cross."
Phil. 2 1. In like manner, wt also must bt obedient to God if
we art to havt our sins forgiven and have tht hope of eternal
life. He requires that wt believe upon Him (Mark 16:16)
enough to repent (Acts 3: 19) of our tins, confess Hia name
before men (Matt. 10': 12). bt buried with Him In baptism for
the remission of our sin 1 Acts I M t4 then II vt for Him and
serve Him tht rest of our lift (Titus. 1: 12).
This is tht Christian religion for our modem day. You art
invited and challenged to try and live It.
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