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Page I. THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Heppner. OR, Thursday. Nov 25, 197 ,v . . m i a tl aa, ma IamfaT mmmcmm . heina- approved for grant ''ncw th. re.id.nt. Informed of what need, to be don. and now' AdvUing them what It my coat - they can remain objective about budgeta. . Three new developmenta are currently underway. .Hillview U conducting 60 ap.rtm.nt. and eight house.! StreeU are now being built with a capacity of 40 """.'Columbia Pacific i. now laying .ewer and i water pipe. An eatimated 700 acre. wlU be Involved In that development in the next few years. . The Hansen Project, located east acheduled to begin atreet con.truction within the next hW SaTdtth West and Peck. "There were .lot oflong meeting, and hard work Involved with the., developer. Working with the development people te a .hared concern between th. two men. WUhing eta. " up . popular misconception Peck empha.Ue., Boardnun South (A Columbia Pacific project) la all within th. present city limit.. It ia not a aeparat. community. W. may have a freeway between ua but wer. th. aam. Boardman." "Hard core" industry ia the one thing this area ahould ahy away from. aay. the pre" mayor. "1 hav, reservationa about it, but the Oregon cod. ia pr.tty strong. I don't think there, that much to worry about We have a nice agricultural growth here. W. can work with that kind. It would be difficult for ua to grow too rapidly." ... Thia last etatement seems to capauU. th. two West and Peck platforms. Progreaeive aima but yet with the chief concern being the impact present change. wiU hav. on the people living in Boardman and the. who hav. yet to arrive. n New mayor eyes growth, city problems By LA VON STARR Upcoming 1977 will be the first time in 14 yeara that th. same mayor will not be serving the people of Boardman. . "I just decided it was time to let loose and give somebody else th. opportunity." summed up outgoing mayor Dewey West. "I still do want to serve," assures West, "but mainly on the council for the next four years at least." . An alderman at heart, the seasoned crty officul wul be trading sides of the desk with Councilman Gerald Peck, the new incoming mayor. Peck has served on th. council for the past two year, and on th. Morrow County School Board for the seven years preceding. I lie Boardman." affirms Peck. "I have four boy. and I brought them back here to raise them. I grew up here. 1 want to keep it a nice town." Defeating two fellow councilmen. Gene Trumbel and Bill Nelson. Peck, administration goals do not sound so far removed from the aim. of hia predecessor except for one point perhaps. "I plan to attend a majority of the planning commission meetings," aoberly pinpoints the mayor elect. "Lately ther. has been a lack of communication between the Planning Commission and th. council." In th. past. th. planning commission and th. aty council met in joint session but th. last few year. hav. seen them meeting separately. West, who haa not attended a planning commission meeting in "quit, soma time," recalls th. reason for the split session. "It was so each body could separately carry out itajunctk n. I was more interested in the legislative and." Th. rapid growth of th. Boardman area ia a rate Peck will not even hazard to guess at. saying, "ther. hav. been so many estimations as to th. siae Boardman is going to be someday. Our residenta have heard for so long about how large we are going to grow. I think w. 11 just tak. growth as it comes." In West's case, growth waa not always the main concern. In the infancy of hia 14 yeai-old office, th. opposite may hav. been a more likely situation. That was when the town was located "in that lake down there" grins West, gesturing over hia ehoulder toward the back-up water of th. John Day Dam. "I think one of the highlights of my career sa mayor waa the moving of the town out from down there. It was a wonderful opportunity to re-establish ourselves. People her. were excited about th. opportunity to start life anew. Of course ther. were some who werent so pleased and they moved elsewhere into other towns. But for those who stayed, it's been quite an experience." Sine that move, with the steady increase in development and population, the council has had ever increasing responsibilities in providing facilities for its town. Both West and Peck agree that a more adequate system of police protection needed. Presently th. people of Boardman are periodically patroled by a aingle county sheriffs deputy who live, in th. area. Peck readily admits, "th. county sheriff, department ia terribly understaffed." Mapping a possible solution, Peck states, "Rather than jumping in and buying a patrol car. hiring a city . Immtdk- 1 want to keep it a nice town. Boardman Mayor Gerald Peck police force and creating torn, kind of court system, what w. need right now ia a full-tim. deputy. A .heriff or deputy on a full tiro, basis ia something that will b. coming very soon." "It is a small town," admiU Peck. "But It waa much smaller two year, ago and peopl. wer. used to being safer then too. The police-type problem, we have had In the last two year, are as many aa those of th. last 20 year, combined." Expanding of the sewer and water facilitiea is presently underway. A Ranney-typ. well with a casing that goes down 60 feet and measures 18 feet across was installed this past aummer. It aenda "finger." 80 to 100 feet out underneath th. Columbia River. Since th. passage of the sewage bond issue, the final deaign to Marshall Levgrea as sisted in the Turkey Drawing Tuesday after Boon. Winners ef the turkeys are Harriet Evans, Florence Neia., Edna Swam. Hrppuer, and Julie Nelson and Maggie Baker. Lexing- "S More state funding1 School superintendent visits v "I - t ? a .4" Hughes returns to courtroom First Notional names officer Robert Hughes will be back in the courtroom, Dec. 14. The 20-year-old Heppner man was picked up in Rose burg this week on a probation violation charge. He was brought back to Heppner and sentenced to 110 day. in jail. He to serving that time at Wasco County jail right now. Hughes, who demanded another judge, will go to court on the 14th for a pair of trials. In the morning, hell appear before Judge Ernie Jorgenson of Irrigon for second degree theft. He allegedly stole a wheel chair from Pioneer Memorial Hospital. In the afternoon, hell appear again before Jor genson for failure to appear after posting bail. Hughes also requested a jury trial. New operations officer at First National Bank of Ore gon'. Heppner branch is Kinzua adds shift Kinzua Corporation ha. ad ded a night shift operation to its planer operation at Hep pner. Eighteen employees are involved. Six employees trans ferred from Kinzua, OR, and twelve employee, were added from the local labor market. planing mill operations and operation of the Condon, Kin zua Southern Railroad Co. at Kinzua have been dis continued. Employee, affect ed by the closure took other job. at Kinzua or transferred to the Heppner operation. The added employment at Heppner takes up some of the slack caused by a reduction of shift, in the plywood operation earlier this year. Stephen A. Van Buren. most recently assigned to an Al bany office as assistant oper ations officer, announced Manager Ll Lowe. He replaces Lola Landrum who has taken a leave of ab sence. Van Buren joined the bank in 1975 assigned to the man agement development pro gram. He has been head quartered at the bank. Waverly office a. assistant operation, officer .ince May. A graduate of Columbia River High School. Vancou ver. WA, he later attended Washington State University where he received a bachelor of art. degree In economics. State School Superinten dent. Verne A. Duncan met with Morrow and Umatilla County educator. Tuesday to discuss the present state of Oregon schools. In a talk ranging from budgeting to achool closure as well aa responding to individual ques tions put to him by local administrators and teachers. Duncan is on a campaign to get in touch with the schools. Said Duncan. "Oregon en joys a national reputation for some of the thing, we have done in our schools. Now we are gaining notoriety 9.000 children will be out of school in December. It doesn't do much good to hav. fin. schools if they can't afford to atay open." Locally Duncan waa referring to the closing of the La Grde and Eagle Point schools. An alleviation of the prob lem would certainly be gained by more state funding. Dun can cites, "Ther. ar. only three atates providing a lesser percentage of state support for local school operating coats than Oregon. 40 per cent state school support should be possible by 1977." Th. pres ent rate is 33 and Vi per cent. I "I do believe that those of ua who want 40 per cent can have a aignificant impact if we atay together, push hard and get th. people of the atate with ua." Duncan vows that he will not be pushing any new programs in education to the 1977 legislature, except for achool finance. "The message am trying to convey." underlines Duncan, "ia that aa long aa I am state auperinten dent is this: education haa had enough of leadership that aimply gives schools more to do and not enough resources to do the job." Duncan cites a result of many of the school closures to the development of private schools in Oregon. "I don't want to imply that I am opposed to private schools." clears Duncan, Tm worried however that if the trend continuea what doea that leave for public achools. The public school system needs a melting pot of the rich and the poor and the interfaith." Aa far as the historically high standard of Oregon achools goes, the lat.at achievement scores seem to continue that tradition. Dun can rank. Oregon aa way above the national average. PGE approved (Continued from Page 1) from any airport, public or private, a. to be of no aignificant consequence. A summary of the facts by the aeronautical study tate that: the structures will be conspicuously lighted to allow visual sighting during flight both day and night; flight altitudes can be raised to accommodate the structures and still perform the military mission; the building superstruc ture will not be constructed until Oct. of 1977. allowing ample time for altitude adjuslmenta and-or route realignments If necessary. The study further concluded that the proposed structures would have no greater adverse effect on operationa of the Air Force than on operationa of the Navy. Thi. determination become, final on Dec. 22, barring any objection.. An interested party would hav. to file a petition by Dec. 12 for review. The determination expirea on June 22, 197. Give Thanks Thanksgiving. A time to thank the eood Lord for the things He has given us. A time to " tt& "d ",ends-And ,hank ,he Lord ,or ,h0$e ,hAn8d thatk Him for you. The most humble of men can't really admit that the number one person In their life Isn't himself. Take care of him. This week, as you travel to see your friends and relatives, be careful, so that you can live to see ten or twenty or thirty or more Thanksgivings again. This Thanksgiving, don't ust feed that face and bounce away from the cranberry sauce to the football games. Take even a minute. And think. Sit back and relax. Ponder your situation. It's not as bad as we make it out to be sometimes. lAJ.n Do what the holiday Implies. Give thanks. Thank you. wep THE aam -"maasssa SSF'IU iB . HOT-NEB GAZETTE-TIMES Tke "VUl nr. el tk C My I Heeswer and Ike Cy el JHef' G M. fined, r.kttakee IMnrea Heed. C. .nUfcke war. r . r.r rWtsW4 every TWsdey aad emeced a. a kcmUUm mailer at Ik ffV. al He, Orega. ike set al March I. IJ. re4 U. awitage U al Mf , Oref.. P.O. lists dates The May MI' pMlai Service advanced Ms Ird ClrWtraas mailing deadline for domelic parcels and Irtter snail I. Dee. 1 aad It. la astirlnalio. el rirepttoaally alga mail velMine. (Ming the Impact al greatly Increased mall velames generated by 0,0 IS slate I'nlled Par cel gertkf strtke to the ...I Bnd smim. and Ma resldaal effect " a arts al Ike ce-nlry. the I'm!. I Hervke aatd M la tMNsetled I. ask le pllc I Ut las. I- tlrppner Pels.ier linker! M tlae. la slreng ly wglng Ue title I. Vs-mU Utr M" rve. and tke tetters and greeting cards by !e. 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