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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
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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.
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