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Lions plan
HHS track
Co-op takes exception
to franchise provisions
Working representatives of
the Columbia Basin Electric
Cooperative took exception
Monday to 15 provisions of a
franchise ordinance proposed
by the City of Heppner.
In a prepared statement,
Randall Peterson, director of
the Coop, said that the pro
posed franchise restraints
"...can only increase our costs
and work load."
Basically, the Coop repre
sentatives argue that the lan
guage of the franchise is more
workable for metropolitan
conditions. Specifically, the
Coop has suggested that the
franchise is not exclusive,
could lead to problems in such
areas as tree trimming, use of
bridges and public places,
unnecessary restriction of
construction including restric
tion for emergency repairs.
The Coop also submitted
that the franchise wording
could possibly open the way
for the Heppner City Council
to even "charge for labor on
services provided or for ser
. vice drops on. the member's
side of the meter." Another
item at issue is a section on
School slates
4 one-act plays
The one-act plays scheduled
for presentation Jan. 29 in the
Mayor
attends
inaugural
Heppner Mayor Jerry Swee
ney and sons Brian and Greg
travelled to Washington, D.C.,
this week to attend the
inauguration of President
Elect Jimmy Carter.
Mayor Sweeney received
the honor of an invitation
about two weeks ago and was
able to make reservations for
the flight, accommodations
and room reservations on
short notice.
The trio is scheduled to
return Sunday, Jan. 23.
Hearings
set for
planners
Three public hearings are
set for the Morrow County
Planning Commission meet
ing, Jan. 24 at Riverside High
School in Boardman.
Public hearings will be held
on the following matters:
.An application from O.W.
Cutsforth for a zone change
from farm to recreation
residential. The property pro
posed is a 2.2 acre lot.
.Proposed revisions and
amendments to the Morrow
County Subdivision Ordi
nance. .Proposed amendment to
Morrow County Zoning Or
dinance, the purpose of which
is to establish standards for
the design, construction, and
maintenance of mobile home
parks.
books of account and reports
which the Coop said "...con
tains broad regulator impli
cation which might not be
acceptable to the Board of
Directors, the members, or
the REA."
Mayor Jerry Sweeney re
sponded that the franchise
requirement on books of ac
count and reports was stan
dard operating procedure re
quired of "Maw Bell" and
other franchise operators such
as TV franchises. Sweeney
said that any reports called
for under this section would be
obtained at no expense to the
Coop.
Annexation
The City Council continued
legal steps to annex 31.92
acres of land adjacent to
Heppner High School, in
cluding portions of county
road extending from the High
School to Fuller Canyon Road.
The parcel, if annexed, would
bring all existing school facili
ties inside the City Limits. The
annexation proposal is now
moving to the public hearing
stage. Details are included in
a legal publication elsewhere
high school cafetorium otter a
variety of appeals for Heppner
audiences.
SUNDAY COSTS FIVE PE
SOS is light comedy with
Marie Yocom, Lynn Gochnau
er, Tami Prock, Joan Ployhar,
and Scott Groshens playing
young Spanish people in a
lover's quarrel with a happy
ending.
THE MONKEY'S PAW is
more suspenseful, as an old
couple, played by Judy Led
better and Bob Miller, have a
chance at making three wish
es on a magic monkey's paw
given them by a retired Sgt.
Major from India, Charlie
Rawlins. The paw brings
tragedy to their son, Ty Lucas,
and a man from his company,
Phil Johnson, and some suspense-filled
moments at the
end for both characters and
audiences.
THE OPEN WINDOW, a
sparkly short comedy, stars
Wendy Myers as a highly
imaginative young girl and
Scott Groshens as a young
man with nervous disorders.
Also in the cast are Tami
Prock, Joan Ployhar, and Carl
Christman.
Most dramatic on the bill is
NOT ENOUGH ROPE, a play
about a lonely girl living in a
boarding house, Judy Farley,
who tries to hang herself to get
the attention of a new male
tenant, Charlie Rawlins, too
absorbed in himself and his
drums and cymbals to get
involved. Another boarder,
80-year-old Mrs. Pierce, is
played by Tina Miller.
Sets for all, four plays are
being constructed by David
Steagall and Chris Wright.
Mrs. Rawlins is the instructor
of the drama workshop class
and director of the plays.
The plays will be evaluated
by a panel of judges and
awards will be given for the
best play, actor, actress, and
supporting roles.
The admission will be $1.50
for adults and 75 cents for
students.
If the Heppner Lions Club
has their way, Heppner thin
clads won't be touring a 363
yard track anymore. The
Lions Club, headed up by Jim
Wishart, is proposing to con
struct a 400 meter track at the
present site at Heppner High
School.
Wishart heads up a com
in this issue.
In other action, the City
Council adopted a measure to
spend $6,405 of a land con
servation and development
commission grant for com
prehensive planning in Irri
gon, Lexington, and Heppner.
The city and the county are
jointly involved in project
funding. By this action, the
city gave $6,405 of their funds
for county work in such areas
as payment of consulting ser
vices and other planning
program costs borne by the
county.
The next scheduled meeting
of the Heppner City County
Council will be held Tuesday,
Feb. 8.
Irrigon
council
sworn in
City Recorder Barbara
Byrd administered the oath of
office to the newly elected
councilmen at the Tuesday
night Council meeting. They
were Rod Collins, Don Ep
penbach, Don Jorgonsen and
re-elected Vernon Stewart.
Dianne Brownlee was sworn
in as Municipal Judge. She
and Rod Collins will serve 2
year terms and the others 4
year terms.
Vernon Stewart was elected
by the council to serve as
Mayor to succeed outgoing
Mayor Chester Wilson, who
resigned. Bill Cooley was
elected Mayor pro-tern and
Barbara Byrd was reappoint
ed to serve another year as
recorder.
Engineer Val Toronto was
present to answer questions on
the report on the first 2 parts
of a proposed sewer facility
plan. A public hearing on the
plan will be held before
adoption of the plan by the
council.
Audit copies were presented
to new council members for
review before discussion and
adoption in the next session of
the council.
Outgoing council members
Elva Sanders, Elbert Eppen
bach and Chester Wilson were
also present.
Dinner
slated
Better late than
never.
The Fair and Rodeo
Appreciation Dinner,
originally set for Nov.
20, 1976, has been post
poned. It has been
rescheduled for Jan. 29
at the Elks' Club in
Heppner.
The social hour will
begin at 6 p.m. with
dinner to follow around
7 p.m. The Elks', ac
cording to Liz Curtis,
Sec.-Treas. of the fair
association, has promis
ed live music after
dinner.
Reservations are
available by calling 676-9454.
mittee with Dave Harrison,
John Edmundson and Larry
Mills. The foursome has in
vestigated the site and
brought recommendations.
The field needs to be ex
tended 27 or 28 yards to gain
the 400 meter or 440 yard
track, according to the com
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Staff changes listed by
Two staff changes were
announced this week on the
Heppner Gazette-Times. The
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Board, parents agree;
lone hires teacher
It was one point for the
parents' side as the Morrow
County School board granted
their request that lone hire a
third grade teacher.
Second and third grade
classes have been combined
since the first of September
with the transfer of third
grade teacher, Johnna Shimp,
to A.C. Houghton Elementary
in Irrigon.
The combined class has
been taught by second grade
teacher Veva Skow with the
help of teachers' aide Barbara
Peters who splits her time
between first and second
grades. Parents contend that
Skow is doing a wonderful job
as far as she is able. But it's
too much.
A third grade teacher had
been budgeted last year but
Shimp's leaving had left the
teaching position vacant. As a
result the position was never
filled.
School board members rul
ed to retain the aide as well as
hire a teacher for the re
mainder of the year. "We
don't anticipate the teacher
being a greater expense than
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Record high is 70 on Jan. 1,
1918. Recorded low that year
was -7. It was 60 degrees in
January last year.
mittee's investigation. It also
found that the probable ans
wer was to extend the north
west end of the track about
10-12 yards or even further,
depending upon rock prob
lems at the southeast end of
the track.
A discussion with HHS
Principal Jim Bier suggested
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changes include the employ
ment of Tom Franks, 40, of
Baker, Ore., as editor, and the
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was budgeted for," noted lone
Principal Chuck Starr. Be
cause the money saved by
maintaining an aide for this
first part of the year, hiring a
teacher and retaining an aide
would work out to the same
total cost budgeted.
Parents had approached the
school board with this recom
mendation at the December
meeting. The board had asked
for time to study the situa
tion. Skow testified that
teaching a large room of
students in the same grade
was a much better situation
over a large group of two
separate grades.
Faced with that fact the .
school board is forming a
committee to consider offer
ing a position for a rural
representative. The next elec
tion is April 19, 1977 and one
board position will be open.
As it stands now the board is
made up of three Heppner
representatives and one from
each additional school. The
deadline for submission of
board member applications is
March 15.
Request of the Heppner
Nazarene Church for the use
of a bus was turned down.
Offering released time, nonde
nominational classes to Hepp
ner students the bus was to
have been used in transport
ing them to and from the
church.
Decline of the request re
sulted from the board's reali
zation that other church
groups would be entitled to
the same consideration.
Camilla Samples, Heppner
grade school laundress, peti
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that the track be turned
slightly to the southeast, into
the hill to avoid adding much
fill on the northeast end and
avoid the access road near the
gymnasium.
The proposal would take
about five feet off a slope at
Thursday, January 20, 1977
appointment of Wil C. Phin
ney, of Heppner, as adver
tising manager.
Phinney, who has been
editor for the past seven
months, will continue to report
sports news for the Gazette
Times. Dorothy Zita, who has
worked in both advertising
and news capacities, will
leave the paper in February to
study for a real estate license.
She will continue to live in
Heppner.
Franks, who comes to the
Gazette-Times with nearly 15
years of communications ex
perience, is a native of
Hutchinson, Kan. He served
five years as associate editor
of The High Plains Journal,
Dodge City, Kan., a regional
farm and ranch journal serv
ing Kansas, Colorado, Nebras
ka, Oklahoma, and Texas. For
eight years, he worked on
various publications, news
papers, television and radio
stations in Florida, Kansas,
Colorado, New Mexico and
tioned the board to extend her
contract beyond her 65th
birthday next year. Board
policy for classified employees
is that they must retire on
reaching age 65. Board action
was postponed though Mrs.
Samples will be notified that
the job will be offered to her
again next year provided she
maintains good health and her
commendable work.
Riverside Principal Dan
Daltoso recommended the
board hire Margaret Glenn to
replace the position vac-ted
by Margaret Rockwood's res
ignation last month. Glenn has
been teaching the dramaart
class since Rockwood's absen
ce. It was decided that Glenn
would be hired pending certi
fication by the county.
Shots
today
Today is the day for
shots.
The Morrow County
Health Department has
school immunization
clinics planned for to
day (Thursday), Jan.
20, at two Heppner lo
cations. The clinics are slated
for the Heppner grade
school from 9:30 a.m. to
noon and at the Heppner
Day Care Center, start
ing at 2 p.m.
All pre-school child
ren In the area needing
immunizations are wel
come to attend.
the southeast end of the track,
moving it to the northeast end.
A layer of three inches of
gravel is proposed with about
two inches of granite hauled in
on top.
The committee forecasted
about one day of bulldozer
work on the southeast end and
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Boardman council
discusses LID$
for new water line
The first reading of the
Boardman Local Improve
ment District (LID) ordinance
was made at city council
Tuesday night.
The lengthy 10-page ordi
nance contained stipulations
and guidelines which will
guide Boardman through the
LID proposed for Boardman's
southside. Monies obtained
from the LID would be used
to install an 18-inch water
line.
Amendments to the ordi
nance were recommended by
Mayor Jerry Peck and Coun
cilman Gene Trumbull. Auth
ority to embark on the project
could only be stopped by
two-thirds of the property
owners involved was changed
to 51 per cent of the property
involved. Several other tech
nicalities of the ordinance
were also recommended for
change.
City council sewer rate
committee members are pres
ently working on a new rate
for residential and commercial
establishments. Currently, 35
per cent of the sewer is in "
residential use which pays 69
per cent of the cost. Commer
cial use has reached 65 per
cent of the use and pays 31
per cent.
Boardman lists 24 busi
nesses and 200 homes hooked
up to its sewer line. Of the 24
businesses, 15 are below the
minimum use standard of
6,000 gallons. Nine commer
cial users rank among the
main customers of the city's
sewer system. Council mem
bers as a whole have proposed
to sit down with the com
mittee for a workshop to work
out the rate differences. "I
hope that this time we contin
ue with it and not drop it like
we did last year," said Coun
cilman Joe Tatone.
Portland General Electric's
bachelor quarters complex
has had its sewer rates re
defined by the city. Each unit
will be billed as a residence of
about four days on the north
west end.
The committee is still in
vestigating different possibili
ties, but at the Lions' meeting
Tuesday, Wishart said the
proposal would not cost much
money. He said volunteer
labor and equipment had been
solicited and gained.
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In Baker, Franks was em
ployed as advertising man
ager for the Maxi-Mart Shop
ping Center. He graduated
from the University of Denver
in 1958 with a BA in Speech.
Franks spent two years as
an executive trainee and
operations director with Good-.
will Industries of America.
Franks said hard news and
features will be expanded in
the Gazette-Times in keeping
with the newspaper's place as
the official newspaper of the
City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow.
the city. The new rate is
referred to as a special rate by
the city. It does not apply to
the staff and kitchen facilities
which have additional bath
rooms. The city's Land Conserva
tion and Development Com
mission (LCDC) compliance
report has been completed. It
will be submitted to LCDC
asking for compliance with its
goals. This report is believed
to be the first ever submitted
containing goal number 14
of the LCDC plan.
That goal states the desig
nation of urban growth boun
daries. "At least we're the
only one that's doing it
without a state grant," com
mented Councilman Dewey
West.
Boardman goals include
open space for a fish and
wildlife habitat, scenic views,
air, water and land resource
qualification, bicycle and pe
destrian transportation and
mass transit
New water rates for the
Hillview Estates and Colum
bia Terrace were set up by
the council. A minimum
charge of $4 for the first 6,000
gallons and 25 cents for each
additional thousand gallons
will be charged the individual
developers. Presently, the
city is purchasing the water
from I.M. (Doc) Docken's
mobile home development
water line. The city is charged
20 cents per thousand gallons.
This rate is less than the rest
of the city and will be imposed
until the regular water sys
tem reaches full development.
Final payment on the city's
fire truck was made last
night. The Boardman council
also approved spending $500
from the contingency fund to
purchase a small storage
shed. Since the arrival of the
new Emergency Medical
Technician's county-owned
ambulance at city hall, stor
age space has become tight.