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25, 197
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. 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.
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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-
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More state funding1
School superintendent visits
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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
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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,
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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
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