Psge 2, THE GAZETTE-TIMES. H-ppner. OR. Thursday. Sept. 30, UTS
Durham
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gun control, ballot 9
w,m P, n risks." noting that Oregon probably
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months a year. "We need to
talk about conflicting priori
ties. This 'enjoy now, pay
later' roller coaster has got to
stop."
He maintained an idea
about regional jail systems.
He said he would like to see
small penal facilities in the
communities without security
Kinzua Corp.
awards safety
One Kinzua Corporation and
three Eastern Oregon Logging
Company safety teams have
completed seven months with
out a recordable accident
on-the-job. These four teams
have qualified at the end of
this period for $30 cash to each
team member. A total of
$2,210 in cash was presented to
these teams.
Over the past accident free
seven months, safety teams
have been presented a grand
total of $4,815 in cash from the
Kinzua Corporation safety
incentive program.
In addition to cash, at the
end of month seven, each
team member was given a
chance to win a 19 inch table
model color television or a
stereo-console.
J This safety -incentive pro
gram continues for thirteen
months.
opposed
risks."
Gun Control: Durham is
opposed to gun control be
cause he said he feels it would
be expensive and would be in
effective in deterring crime.
He favors severe penalties for
criminals who use guns in the
commission of crimes.
"Too many laws and not
enough order," Durham said,
Winning teams and their
prize winners at the end of the
seventh month were: Kinzua
"A" team, Power House-Bull
Gang, stereo won by Don
Cory; Eastern Oregon "C"
team, Skid and Load, TV won
by Harvey Conklin; "D"
team. Truck Shop and Me
chanics, stereo won by Shawn
Humphrey; "E" team, Log
Haul-Creek Cleaners-Road
Graders, TV won by Charlie
Brown.
Jernstedt
sets talk
The public is invited
to meet with Ken Jern
stedt, the Republican
candidate for state sen
ator, on Sunday, Octo
ber 3 from 6-8 p.m. at all
Saints Episcopal Parish
Hall.
THP fSW
GAZETTE-TIME
Editorial & Viewpoint
M. M.M.A I
Last week's editorial, concerning Portland Hunters seems to have riled a few residents of the
area.
Although that is the purpose of many editorials, it was not the destined purpose of last week's.
In no way does the Heppner Gazette-Times blame every Portland hunter for every crime
committed against property owners and-or the environment.
In fact, it was brought to our attention by more than one person, including Vic Groshen. Oregon
State Police game enforcement officer, that local hunters can be blamed for up to 80 per cent of
the wrong doings around the area.
Invariably, there are bad hunters from Portland. But, the paper failed to mention that there are
also bad hunters from Heppner. No doubt.
Our main purpose for the editorial was not to run Portland hunters out of the area; we realize
that many businesses rely on outsiders for financial support during deer and elk season.
We do ask that all hunters, no matter from what part of the state, will respect the property and
rights of others around them while they hunt.
Hunters from the outside don't need an invitation to come to this area to hunt. And at the same
time, they should not heed to an editorial telling them not to come any more than if a person told
them not to come, face to face.
Oregon is for Oregonians. Keep it that way. Forever.
To the editor:
On the subject of humanitarian us of helicopter for
mercy missions:
I wonder If Mrs. Van Schoick Is aware of this incident:
The doctor was obliged to stand by to receive
dangerously ill person who was coming in lo Pioneer
The fririal tpprr of the
City f Hrppnr and the County
of Morrw.
(iM.ltffd. I'ublUhf
Wil (. I'himwy, I :!
to
has between 400-500,000 hand
guns. Reflecting costs, he said
that registration would pro
vide "$40 million worth of
paper work." It would only
create a black market and
another profitable venture."
"Even if registration did
help, the money should go for
much more higher priorities."
Longevity of Government
Programs: Durham believes
expiration dates should be
placed on all state legislation
and state programs. "A new
activity, a new agency, a new
program, should be enacted
for a limited time, to be
extended only when results
prove the soundness of the ob
jective and the means chos
en. Ballot Number Nine: Dur
ham came out directly op
posed to the nuclear regula
tory act, saying it is "designed
to stop nuclear development."
It is not a safeguards act,
Durham said. He said the act
called for two-thirds majority
from the legislature to ap
prove nuclear projects which
"result in an absolute ban."
The only thing you can get a
two-thirds majority on is ad
journment," he said.
Durham told a small audi
ence Monday that people in
Eastern Oregon were better
informed on every issue than
people in the valley. There is a
common thread, he said,
because you have to be.
Durham went on to Board
man Tuesday and back to
Portland Tuesday afternoon.
Invitations not needed
Humanitarian use
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HEPPNER
Memorial Hospital from a town in another county.
I wonder if it is known whose helicopter was used to fly to
Fendleton to pick up and trantpnrt an ancslhctiologist and
the necessary units of blood for the patient's well being.
Admittedly I am interested personally but I do know this
for fact. I wonder if others do. I Just wondered.
Geraldine Sumner
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local citizens at town
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lone man
escapes
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injury
Thomas George Gates. 19,
lone, escaped serious injury
Sunday following a one car
rollover on Buttercreek High
way. According to Oregon State
Police reports, the one car
accident occurred about 9
p.m. Sunday evening. Police
said Gates was driving a
Toyota land cruiser west on
highway 320. the Echo cut off
road. The vehicle was enter
ing the intersection onto
Buttercreek when it ran the
stop sign and ran into a ditch.
The vehicle rolled over
twice and came to rest on a
fence. Police said Gates
suffered a bump on his head.
He was cited for careless
driving.
Visit
slated
Heppner and lone High
Schools will host a visitation
by representatives from the
Oregon State System of High
er Education on Monday,
October II. at 9 45 a m.
Unique throughout the Unit
ed States is a visitation by
representatives of the Oregon
State System of Higher Edu
cation to every high school In
the state. The team Impresses
upon secondary students the
need tor nun lp of edu
cation or training beyond high
school.
The visitation suoolementa
the guidance program of the
high schools by giving stu
dents first hand information
alxmt course offerings, admis
sion requirements, housing,
cofits to attend, financial aids
and scholarships and other
Information pertinent to plan
ning for the college experi
ence. Parents are invited to at
tend the lsittum and are
urged to dicuM P"t high
M-hool plun wiih their sons
(in.l tliHiKhiera before and
afliT the fonfrrrme.
Society
s
Sam McMillan
to speak Sunday
Historian and author Sam
G. McMillan, who will speak
at the Morrow County His
torical Society annual meeting
Sunday, is recently retired
from the faculty of Mt. Hood
Community College where he
taught history. Before joining
Mt. Hood, he experienced
many years of high school
teaching.
Sam is a member of one of
Lexington's historic families
and his writings about that
community and about his clan
have been widely enjoyed in
this part of Oregon. His book
"The Bunchgrassers" pub
lished in 1974, was recom
mended by another ex-Lexington
boy, Robert C. Notson,
who recently retired from the
editorship of the Portland
Oregonian newspaper.
"Since I have not been up to
Morrow County for quite some
time, I shall look forward to
meeting with the members of
the Morrow County Historical
Society on Sunday, October
3," Sam wrote In accepting the
Invitation to speak at the
annual meeting this Sunday at
the Lexington Grange Hall.
This meeting will be pre
ceded by a potluck dinner at 1
p.m. Plans for further historic
events in the county will be
discussed. Four new directors
are to be elected. Among
BAACC classes begin
Blue Mountain Community
College adult general educa
tion classes will begin this
Thursday at 7 p.m. at the
Neighborhood Center in Hep
pner. The new instructor, Vicky
Tollefson. will be helping stu
Silent Majority
By Jack l.enhardt
Many Americans have noted the peculiar unanimous
opinion of the mass media. On the surface there is
diversity some newspapers endorse a RqxiUican can
didate, while others back a Democratbut on the really
basic issues there is almost total agreement. On racial
integration, U.S. policy in the Mideast, and gun control, for
example, the TV commentators and the major newspaper
editors seem to speak with one tongue. They seem to have
agreed beforehand what position they will take, and no
dissent is noted.
The reason for this unanimity is the hidden monopoly
control of the mass media. The enormous power of America's
mass media to control public opinion Is concentrated in the
hands of a very small number of people.
Consider, for example, the TV news broadcasting industry.
This is probably the single most influential mass medium.
Virtually all national and international TV news in the U.S.
is filmed, edited and broadcast by just three corporations:
American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (ABC), Columbia
Broadcasting System, Inc. (CBS), and National Broadcast
ing Company (NBC). The last Is not an Independent
corporation, but is subsidiary of Radio Corporation of
America (RCA).
The president and chief executive officer of ABC is
Leonard Goldenson. The general manager of ABC News Is
Martin Rubensteln, and under Mr. Rubenstem, as executive
producer of ABC's TV-news programs, Is Avram Westin.
The top man at CBS is Chairman of the Board William S.
Paley . The CBS News subsidiary Is run by Pmihicnt Richard
S. Salant.
Robert Sarnoff Is president, chief executive officer, and
chairman of the board of RCA. The prmktit and chief
operating officer of NBC itself Is Herbert S. Schloner. Under
Schlosser, as president of NBC News, Is lochard Wald.
The major broadcasting corporations empbry hundreds of
persons In executive positions, but the eight men named
above arc at the key control points. They arc the ones who
have the ultimate decision-making authority. They dictate
what 210 million Americans shall learn of what has happened
in the nation and In the world each day. All eight of
them Goldenson, Rubensteln, Westin, Iuy, Salant,
Samoff, Schlosser, and Wald -are of Jrwtsh descent.
After television, daily newspapers are the most Influential
mass medium In America. Sixty-two million of them are sold
each day.
The 2,00.000 copies ara divUM brtwmi some 1.700
different publications. One might guess that the number of
different newspapers would In Itself provkfe guarantee
against minority control of this Important medium. Unfor
tunately, such is not the case.
Today, more than half the daily newspnprr circulation In
America Is controlled directly. and much of tlie remainder
Indirectly, by this same minority group which makes up wily
2 9 per cent of the total population.
This extraordinary and dangerous situation has resulted In
the press In America becoming, for all practical rurpes, an
Instrument of minority policy, not rcfiectiiqt opinions of
Americans In genersl.
The Silent Majority, P.O. Hos 128. W(iiim, Oregon
97071. Sept. 21. 1976.
rates
unnrii in K (riven will be one
by those who are working at
Identifying unmarked graves
it J
Sam McMillan
and placing markers on them.
Dorothy Krebs will Join
McMillan on the program with
the showing of her slides
"Happy Birthday America."
Before and after the meet
ing and program, society
members will have the oppor
tunity to pay their annual :,
dues.
It is hoped that all members
will attend this meeting. Any
other persons interested In the
preservation of county history i
are invited to come join the .
group.
dents improve various aca- t
demlc skills or work toward
their GED certificate or adult
high school diploma.
Anyone needing further in
formation should go to the
class or contact Ms. Tollefson
at 676-9224.
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