PACE TWO, THE GAZETTE TIMES, Heypoer, OR. Thm-aday, Aogvtrt 19. 1978
At Elk's dance
.limd lawyer to entertain
! n
"They make beautiful mu
sic together . . . dancin'
music" said Mrs. Charlotte
Doherty.
She was talking about the
group of Bonnie, Bill and Dan
that will entertain at the Elk's
Lodge next weekend on Satur
day and Sunday.
It is a unique band in that
Bonnie and Dan were raised in
Heppner. It is unique because
Bonnie and Bill are married.
And, it is even more unique
that Bill Van Atta is blind.
Next week when they play,
Bill will play lead guitar and
sing. His wife Bonnie will be at
the piano and Dan McBride
will be on the drums.
Bonnie, the former Bonnie
Doherty, has lived in Heppner
much of her life, graduating
from Heppner High School.
Bonnie received her high
school education at Heppner,
graduating in 1968. She spent
one year at Oregon College of
Education at Monmouth and
two years at Blue Mountain
Community College. She lacks
nine credit hours of being a
policewoman. She met Bill at
the Eastern Oregon State
College.
Bill adds uniqueness in
more ways than one. For
instance, he was the first blind
person ever to graduate from
the University of Oregon law
school. He has taken his State
Bar examination and is await
ing the outcome of that test.
Bill, his wife Bonnie and son
Jason, are moving to Ontario
next week. He won't know the
results of his bar exam until
Sept. 10. If he passes, he will
go into law. If not, he'll go into
a legal aid program till he can
re-take the exam.
Bill is an outspoken critic of
some of the state's laws.
"I don't like many of the
laws that we have. Many of
them are antiquated, many of
them are useless and many of
them are far too useful ... I
like to help people and I like
effect change; and I think law
is as good a place to do it as
any."
He is an idealistic person,
graduating this spring. Bill,
24, who lives with his 26-year-old
wife Bonnie and Jason,
and 7-year-old guide dog
Wiley, said that when he was a
child in Milton-Freewater, he
wanted to be a veterinarian.
"I learned when I was about
12 or 13 that I was going blind
and that I would someday
probably only see light," he
said.
Bill is afflicted with retinitis
pigmentosa, a gradual dete
rioration of the retina. He sees
only colors and shapes.
In high school, he said,
"Everyone always told me
that I had a big mouth, that I
talked too much. They said,
'Hey, you'd make a good law
yer.' And I started looking into
it."
He attended EOSC, where
he met Bonnie, graduating in
1973. The U of 0 accepted his
law school application al
though it had no way to
proctor the entrance exam for
a blind person.
Through the efforts of Van
Atta's counselor, a taped
entrance exam was developed
for use by future blind
applicants.
Bill and his wife both have
sang professionally and play
ed in dance bands. He began
learning the guitar when he
was 12 years old and began
playing professionally when
he was 17.
Bill Van Atta looks at his
blindness through perceptive
eyes. He doesn't want to be
known for his blindness. He
wants to be known as Bill Van
Atta, attorney at law.
Next week when Bill starts
to play and sing, most people
who don't know him probably
won't even know that he can't
see them.
He likes it that way.
Just plain Bill Van Atta,
good musician, attorney at
law.
THE
HEPFBIEO
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GAZETTE-TIME
FHitnrinl & Viewpoint
Something to look up to
Is it any wonder that the youth of today sometimes act like "little kids" when the
Vice-President of the United States leads a convention delegation, chanting "We
want a phone, we want a phone?"
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Belated names
EDITOR:
Late in June there was a request from Claire Cox for a
listing of the out-of-town people who attended this year's
Pioneer Picnic. We rather belatedly offer these names and
places from the register which was put out by the picnic
chairpersons Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lindstrom, lone.
George E. Miller, Ruby Miller, The Dalles; Letha Harr,
Pendleton; Earl Padberg, LaGrande; Margaret Rutledge
Sheridan, Hermiston; Mrs. Conrad Johnson, Malin; Dave
Barnett, Condon; Conrad Johnson, Malin; Tom and Dolly
Fraters, Grass Valley; Leslie E. and Emerald Roundy,
Kennewick, WA; Hilda Justus Peterson, Pendleton; Alva
Mason, Jerry Mason, Portland; Ray McDuffee, Seal Rock;
Paul McDuffee, Mary McDuffee Hawk, Medford; Rho
Bleakman, Canyon City; Beth Hynd, Pendleton; Harold Hill,
Coos Bay; Duck Lee, Portland; Elizabeth Slatter Lynn,
Portland; Mrs. Glen Boyer (Helena), Portland;
Thelma and William Smelhurst, Pendleton; Mr. and Mrs.
D.J. Conway, Tigard; Harold Case, Idlwyld Park; Bus Neel
and Gerrry Neel, Bend; Howard Gillian, Puyallup, WA;
Huldah Tucker Mortimore, Eugene; Irene Tucker Atherton,
Ontario; Al Bergstrom. Portland; Fay and Gene Ferguson,
Hermiston; Mike Burkenbine, Wilkesboro, NC; Edwin S.
Tucker, Salem; Audrey tBeymer) and Vern Hanna, Dufur;
Pam Rutheford, Dufur; Archie, Adrian and Velva Bechdolt,
Pendleton; Harriet Gemmell, Salem; Jean Gemmell
Crawford, Eugene; Mary and LeGrand Guild, Snohomish,
WA; Mary Lee Tucker, Everett, WA; Ethel and Neal
Knighten, Kennewick. WA.;
Mary and Elmer Hunt, The Dalles; Garnet and Peggy
Barratt, Mesa, AZ; George and Ruth Rugg, Ephrata. WA;
Ebb and Pauline Hughes, Ukiah; Dick Wightman. McKenzie
Bridge; Anita (Hughes) Lutcher and Lawrence Lutcher,
Milton-Freewater; Herman and Velma Parker. Pasco, WA;
Mabel V. Denney, Portland; Etta Ayers Robison. Walla
Walla; Tom and Susan Ferguson, Ontario; Erma And Elma
Scott, Kennewick; Vauter Parker, Hood River; John Parker,
Portland; Leora Heyden, Stanfield; Marjorie Parker Hill,
Portland, Dorothy and V. Knowles, Hermiston; Ruth
McCaleb, Portland. Barbara (McCaleb) Coon and Stephenle,
Corvallis; Mary McCaleb, Portland; Tom and Claudean
Green, Prineville;
Mildred (Green) and Lester Lundblad, Cresham; Vallis
Washburn, Hermiston; Lorna Mae Chalfant, Indianapolis,
Ind ; Mary Samuel, Portland; Dena and Morman Swanaon.
Portland. Sandra Kronberg. Tortland;
JeanneTCorliss and Harlan Lundcll, Boise ID; Olive B.
Hughes, iUwrburg. OR; Ellen B. Hughes Marshall, Salem;
Gerald and Violet Swaggart. Pendleton; Bill Hughes,
Rowburg; Helen Karlson, Portland, Margaret Green,
Portland; Mrs. Harold Buchanan, Hermiston; Cert and Karl
Beauchamp, Hermiston; Vernon and Sue Ward, Portland;
Jerry, Holly and Craig Swanson. Kennewick, WA and Wesley
and Jo Woodward, Wallowa, OR.
A total of 2t- persons signed the registration sheets at the
picnic. We have not listed those from lone, Lexington,
Heppner and nearby.
The
THE SILENT MAJORITY SPEAKS Ol'T ...OS THK KI
By Jack Lenhardt
"There is hereby established the Environmental
Protection Agency." Arbitrarily adopted by President
Nixon, these words established a destructive new
government bureaucracy called the Environmental Protec
tion Agency. There was no approval by Congress. There was
no approval by industry. There was no approval by the
taxpayers.
Published as Title 3 of the President's reorganization. Plan
Number 3 was filed October 5. 1970 and published as
Document 70-13374 in the Federal register. These words
above were included in the plan and initiated the massive
new bureaucracy that now costs all American consumers
needless waste of dollars each and every day.
The EPA first required pollution control devices on
automobiles. Then they required different pollution control
devises. Then they required shoulder harness, interlocked
ignition, uninterlocked ignition, buzzers, lights, recoil
bumpers and other devises that cost you over $6.10 per new
nutomohile. Not onlv that, the recoil bumpers cost so much
more to repair or replace than did the old bumpers that your
insurance rates are now higher, thanks to EPA. Remember
that the padded dashes and steering wheels that save
"bumps" were invented before EPA.
. - DDT was being restricted in the 1960s. The environmen-
rlGPPnQr talists had tried to prove that DDT was affecting wildlife
including the thinning of eggshells (which they have never
proved to this day). In 1972. the environmentalists convinced
EPA to ban all uses of DDT although the 1971 hearings
produced testimony such as from Dr. J L. Steinfeld, Surgeon
General of the U.S. Public Health Service that said, "It's
(DDT) use in the eradication and control of disease has
meant the difference between hunger, despair, and overty,
and good health, hope and the promise of a better life to
billions of people . . . DDT has been responsible for returning
to man the use of agriculturally rich lands, thereby making
possible improvements in nutrition . . ."
Now in 1978 EPA stands accused of "misusing data" to
support the ban decision. Dr. William Hazeltine, a California
scientist, testified before a Joint Inquiry by the Western
States Legislative Forestry Task Force and an Oregon
Interim committee. He said that the final DDT report sent to
Congress was In conflict with the original draft prepared for
the House Appropriation Committee by Dr. Leonard Axelrod,
a biochemist. In other words, the EPA deliberately twisted
Information lo maintain their ban on DDT.
However, because of their ban, 8.10.000 acres of our
northwest timber has been lost along with a million acres In
Pennsylvania. This doesn't bother the EPA though, as they
proceed to Interfere with other facets of our lives.
In the first two and one half years of Ita existence,
Congress appropriated $3 8 billion for the EPA. From this
you can estimate Its present annual cost to the taxpayers. We
cannot afford their cost of operation. Moreover we cannot
afford the cost they are enforcing upon the environment.
They serve no useful purpose that was not already being
arcomplinhed by other agencies. The Environmental
Protection Agency should be a Nil i shed.
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Bill Van Atta and Wiley, his guide dog.
State announces filing
procedures for judge
Secretary of State Clay
Myers announced last week
special filing procedures for
candidates to the office of
Circuit Court Judge, Sixth
Judicial District, Department
Two.
"The pending September 1,
1976, resignation of Judge
Henry Kaye from Morrow and
Umatilla counties presents a
peculiar 'no man's land'
situation in Oregon's election
laws. The constitution re
quires an election to fill this
vacancy, but our statutory
filing deadlines are set before
September 1. Final filing day
is August 24, 1976, for the
November 2. 1976, general
election. The state consti
tution, however, requires an
election if this office is
vacated more than 20 days
prior to the November general
election," Myers explained.
"I therefore have issued an
administrative ruling, setting
5 p m.. September 30. 1976 as
the filing deadline for candi
dates seeking Judge Kaye's
office Candidates may be
nominated either by petition
or by assembly of electors, in
the same manner as other
Independent candidate's.
"We face a practical ballot
printing problem in Morrow
and Umatilla counties as a
result of this state filing."
Myers said. "The clerks will
have to make advance ar
rangements for the possible
printed additions to the bal
lots.
erial will be accepted as
printed for this office because
the pamphlet deadline Is also
August 24. As we will be
printing the pamphlet on Sep
tember 30, we can make no
special arrangements for in
clusion of material.
"This unique procedure is
adopted exclusively for circuit
court judge, Sixth Judicial
District, Department Two, for
the November 1976 general
election," Myers concluded.
Former teacher
presents contract
"No Voters' Pamphlet mat-
Marguerite Glavey has been
very interested in the restored
Democrat Gulch School be
cause she taught in that
building when it was located in
the southwest corner of the
county and was a joint district
with Gilliam County.
Marguerite presented her
teaching contract for the year
of 1929 with District 27 and 22
of Gilliam and Morrow Coun
ties which she signed along
with the district board chair
man L B. Scrivner and the
district clerk H A. Stewart on
Sept. 16, 1929. This contract
has been framed by the
museum curator Mrs. Harnett
and now hangs above the
dictionary table In the school
room. At the time of the building's
re-dedication July 4, 1976,
Miss Glavey gave the guest
book that was signed by the
hundreds who viewed the
school.
Last week she made a third
gift to the school, a beautiful,
new all-weather American
flag which will be stored there
and will be flown on special
occasions.
The teaching contract shows
that Marguerite was one of the
school's better paid teachers.
She signed for $110 per month.
After many years at the
Heppner Elementary School,
Miss Glavey stopped teaching.
She lives with her brother
Jack on the family ranch on
upper Rhea Creek.
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