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f page 2. THE GAZETTE-TIMES. Heppner. OR. Thursday. June 1. 17S Letter to the Editor Uayor of Hardmon DEAR MISTER EDITOR: The fellers got to talking about wimmen and witches at the country store Saturday night, and fer the safety of all concerned I better make it clear right off the bat that the wimmen we live with ain't the witches under discussion and, like they say, any similarities living or dead is purely incidental. Clem Webster reported on a piece he had saw where colleges acrost the country have took to perviding places where students can write on walls. They hang butcher paper out and tell the students to work out and tell the students to work off their hates and loves by drawing pictures and writing words to their heart's content, and a heap of the young people are taking advantage of what they call "therapudic release of tensions, frustrations and hangups." Clem said it looked to him like a cheap scapegoat plan, and he was full of faver of it. He reminded the fellers that a year or so ago a group of young folks at a church in town was give a old car and they done practical the same thing with it. They charged a dollar a lick fer folks to come by and smash the car with a sludge hammer, and they got a lot of takers. Clem recalled that a salesman that comes by the store said he bought three licks, one fer his old lady, one fer his boss and one fer a football team he had bet on, and that he shore got his $3 worth. It was Bug Hookum that wondered what the college students will do this summer when they're out of school, and on second thought Bug said he didn't want to think what they might do. As tight as summer jobs are all over, he said, a heap of young folks are having plenty of time to sit around and build up frustrations and tensions. Bug said he hopes they don't work theirselves up to the state the major league baseball team did that hired a witch to change its fortunes. He couldn't recall whuther she was to git rid of a hex on that team or cast a losing spell on the rest of the league, but Bug said it was another way to pass your troubles on to somebody else. The fellers were general agreed that if the team with the witch riding their bats start winning, the idee is shore to spread to politicians and wives. The bunch at the store got some hexes laid on em at home a few weeks back when they discussed their idee of what the Scriptures say in the wimmen s place in the world, so they don't figger their old ladies need no help from practicing witches. Verily they said unto one another, it don't make no never mind what the Good Book said, wimmen are going to have the last and loudest word on everthing. The fellers didn't so much see the light as they felt the heat on that matter. Speaking of wimmen. Mister Editor, I see where this speech specialist in New York says they are talking slower than they use to. He didn't say why, but we can rest assured it ain't because they're running out of somepun to say. You reckon they've slowed down to try thinking while they talk? Yours truly, MAYOR ROY. Nazarene Church history The Wesleyan Revival that saved eight eenthentury England from revolution reaffirmed the testimony and experience of the Early Church that God is able to forgive man's sins and cleanse his heart from all unrighteousness. A revival of this preaching and doctrine in the United States toward the close of the nineteenth century led to the formation of independent congregations that banded together in October, 1908, as the Church of the Nazarene. So universal was this movement that even then all parts of the United States were represented in 228 congregations, comprising 10.4M members.at the same time, similar movings of this revival were leading to the formation of churches in Canada and the British Isles which would soon becone a part of this growing church. A warmhearted church and a victorious Christian life, founded on faith in the Word of God, have attracted many to the fellowship of the church during the succeeding years. Heartfelt religion resulted in fervent lay witnessing and a missionary concern. The Church of the Nazarene has grown until now there are 566,904 members in 6,602 congrega tions. Most of these churches (4.727) are In the 50 states. One thousand eight hundred seventy-five are distributed throughout Canada, the British Isles, continental Europe, Australia, and more than 50 other world areas. In My' rpd?y changing world. God's grace and the need of the human heart are changeless. The Church of the Nazarene offers to people today the same warmhearted church and victorious' Christian faith that have made it attractive throughout Its history. The uncertainties of this atomic age, the failure of a high standard of living to satisfy basic human needs, and the Inability of education of science alone to solve the problem of sin and morality affirm the relevance of the church's message and the urgency of Its God given mission. fador G.E.BUckbura llrppnf ( karri W ta NaiareM THE MARYLAND TROPHY Water rates 'ridiculous The City of Heppner will vote on a new levy Monday, $32,138 outside the six per cent limitation. Among the items recommended to raise is the water rates for the city. The city's water rates, as they are now, are termed "ridiculous" by more than one budget committee member. This paper would have to agree. For the first 1000 gallons of water, city patrons pay out $3.50. After that, it's $.50 for the next 2000 gallons and just $.15 for each additional gallon up to 13,000 gallons after that. After those 13,000 gallons, the increase per 1000 gallons is only $.10. Using these figures, calculations say this:the first 1000 gallons will cost the patron $3.50. And, the next 79,000 gallons will cost just $9.20. After the first 1000 gallons, the average for the next 79,000 gallons would only be just $.12 per 1000 gallons! In many cities across the state, residents wouldn't wrinkle their nose at paying upwards and more than $25-$30 a month. In Heppner, even with a hearty garden, chances are slim that running water at all hours of the day, a person would ever end up paying for more than $15 or $10 a month. This levy calls for bare necessities and we urge you to vote "yes" Monday. W.C.P. Levy's compared The proposed levy vote Monday calls for $32,198 over the six per cent limitation. Last year there was no levy outside the six per cent limitation. The chart below represents this year's budget and last year's budget comparison. As you can see, revenue sharing monies, general government, fire department and garbage collection monies were all higher last year than they are this year. Revenue sharing is one of the major plugs in the city's levy proposal. Because of the reduced federal funds, the city must go to its citizens for more money to run the city. According to one budget committee member, revenue sharing will probably be a thing of the past next year. It has been cut in half this year. Usually, federal funds are spent by cities for capital purchases. However, as they will do again this year, the cities revenue sharing funds will be dispersed throughout the budget for items that include regular street repair, police expenses, etc. A $2000 sum has been set aside toward a new police car for the only capital purchase. The tax base this year is $39,137. If the levy vote goes down Monday, the city will have to cut back even further and use the $39,137 to finish the fiscal year. Last year's total operational budget was $531,031. This year it is a lower $400,510. HEPPNER BUDGET, BY DEPARTMENT 1974-75 $59,526 70,465 25,425 10,500 47,120 28,690 1,679 9250 3717 I 35,704 ' 292,076 1975-76 General Government $59,010 Water & Utility Department 73,427 Sewer Department 29,500 Fire Department 8,343 Police Department 50,558 , Street Department 55,951 Garbage collection & Disposal 1,666 aty Swimming Pool 9,830 Gty library 4,235 Revenue Sharing 16,925 Total Operational Budget 309,446 (No added general fund) A bad bill S. 3091. otherwise known as the National Forest Management Act or, more simply, "the Humphrey I. -js amended-is a bad bill. The timber Indus try originally supporting it. now must fight its enactment into binding national law. Specific proposals of special concern include a provision requiring guidelines that would restrict forest management, activities within our national forests, a tatutory requirement for "non-declining yield" and repeal of the "prudent operator" road provision. In each proposal, the principles and direction of the U.S. Forest Service will significantly change, the Industry will be adversely affected in its ability to provide reasonably priced wood and paper products and, as always, the public will suffer. For Instance, if the Forest Service follows through with the general program goals recommended by the Secretary of Agriculture and presented to Congress In President Ford's Renewable Resource Program statement, wilderness and recreation within our national forests will increase while commercial forest lands will be withdrawn from harvestability. Actually, the program calls for an increase all around-in wilderness, in recreation and In timber. Or seems to. The language of the program, however, makes a mockery of any commitment to Increase-or even maintain-the present production level of our national forest timber resource. For one thing, while wood product requirements are projected as doubling by 2020, timber production is expected to decrease. In fact, a cut in both product demand and supply is planned. The plan, implemented through proposals in S. 3091, includes creating a short supply of timber (achieved by Increasing the cost of timber production to the point that it Is no longer economically feasible to extract It from our national forests), and by creating a decreased demand for wood products (achieved when wood products are priced "out of reach" by a majority of the American people). In other words, the forest management bill presently under consideration is fully capable of using our national forests to dictate rather than supply our people's need for wood products! The fact that this manipulation of the dynamics of supply and demand has serious, even chaotic, economic and social dimensions seems to be ignored. I suggest that it is a breach of trust and a gross misdirection of national priorities. Furthermore, the legitimacy of such manipulation has yet to be squarely confronted, let alone publicly considered. All of us, especially those of us who live and earn a living In a state like Oregon, where half the land is held by the federal government and half the tin.ber harvests are taken from federal forests, should be especially interested in legislation that vitally effects us. We have a right to economic as well as esthetic nourishment ; yet only a strong verbal defense of our rights can prevent decisions made in Washington and molded by varied national interests from reducing our economic and social welfare to priority No. six on a national scale of 10. We deserve better. In the long run. it is the American public who must decide whether or not it is wasteful and unwise underuse of our national forests to protect over mature trees from harvest while several billion board feet of them die each year, lost to disease, insects and fires, partially because our national policy for forest management calls for "non-declining evenflow." It is also the American public who must decide whether the manipulation of supply and demand "serves us better or not at all. Under strict administrative and judicial Interpretation, the requirement that timber supplies be increased "in an environmentally sound manner to the point where benefits are commensurate with costs" could and probably would block federal timber growth and harvest throughout the country. No one objects to protecting the environment. What this proposal docs, though, is demand of timber harvesters a cost benefit ratio not applied to other multiple uses and, more significantly, it clouds the possibility of real cost analysis of any of the multiple uses of our national forests. According to both the U.S. Forest Service and industry research, that phrase alone would reduce the output of timber from federally held commercial forests by 50-60 per cent. For instance, costs designed to achieve multiple-use objectives li e., high-quality roads for access to recreation, costly esthetic practices, water yields, wildlife management and many other requirements with no direct relationship to timber sales, would all be included in the cost of timber production, as it already is. But, In addition, harvestability would be determined for national forest timber by the ability to provide these other multiple-use objectives. For this and other reasons, responsible legislation, however imperative, remains a goal. When truly responsible legislation evolves, it will not exclude the right of the American people to reasonably priced wood and paper' products. Nor will it make providing reasonably priced wood and paper products impossible for the timber industry. ARNOLD EWING Eugene, OR. GAZETTE-TIMES TtowrfcteJ Csty tf THE OAZCTTCTIMCS WlMCKy at Biyiw m4 l CMLIUttl BrattCrM,Kaar OrfM. wm4m A m( af tSarrfi I, in. tauft ft M M 4 Esj?fwf
