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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1977)
U OF OR - . N E S P A p R LIB EUGENE OR 9 7 403 Sargents buy Gilliam -Bigsb ee ; plan spring move The Gilliam-Bisbee Building at Main and May Streets has been purchased by Dick Sar gent of Coast-to-Coast Store in Heppner, it was learned this week. Sargent said Coast-to-Coast will move from its present location this spring. The building was purchased from Eastland Company of Portland for an undisclosed amount. Sargent said offices on the r INSIDE Fire baffle 3 Around About-6 Jr. Hi pro gram s-7 Boardman-12 Elk's plan 81st annual The Elks' Lodge, BPOE No. 358, of Heppner, will hold their 81st Annual Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Elks' Lodge in Heppner. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. with lodge activities be ginning at 2 p.m., officials said. Ritual will be conducted by the Condon Elks' officers. A champagne tea, card and bingo party for the ladies will begin at 1:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at the Lodge from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Dancing will follow the dinner from 9 p.m. until 1:30 upstairs. Entertainers for the Annual will be the Marty Davis Show, Medford. Officials of the Lodge said the 81st Annual promises to be the biggest Annual in the history of the Heppner Lodge. Dental clinic hearing slated A public hearing to consider a conditional use permit application for construction of a dental clinic in Valley View Estates has been scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m. in the Heppner City Hall. The hearing will be held before the Heppner Planning Commission. The conditional use permit calls for a struc ture to be used as a dental clinic on Lot No. 2 of Block No. 2 of Valley View Estates. The location is near the present Heppner Medical Clinic. The structure is planned to accommodate the practice of Dr. O. Lee Hazen, 35, of Portland. Hazen, based on construc tion progress, now expects to start his dental practice in Heppner around May 1. Hazen and his family were in Heppner this week and were introduced at the Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday. second floor of the building will be retained as is for present occupants. Offices on the second floor are the Tri County Health Services, Soil Conservation Service, Agri cultural Stabilization and Con servation Service, Morrow County Extension Office, and others. In other Heppner business activity this week, Miles Tires was sold to Les Schwab of Walla Walla. According to Dexter Miles, the change in operation will bring at least one new family into Heppner. Wayne Wilson of Wayne's Diesel reports buying out his business partner. Wilson said he plans to install game tables in the store front and cater to persons under 18 years of age. An announcement is expect ed shortly on the sale of one of the oldest businesses in the community, the Becket Equip ment Company of Heppner. Mrs. Virginia Whitaker of the Lebush Shoppe has com pleted summer market buying in Portland. Also back from a Portland buying trip is Caro lyn Cole of Cole's House of Fashion. Still other Heppner business people are at market this week. Lincoln closures Federal, State, Coun ty, City offices and schools in Morrow Coun ty will close Monday, Feb. 7, in observance of Lincoln's Birthday. Generally unaffected by the holiday will be most business concerns end banks. In Heppner, the down town Merchants' As sociation members will remain open for busi ness as usual, according to Randall Peterson. A similar situation will be encountered Feb. 21 when schools and other government agencies close in ob servance of Washing ton's Birthday. Dr. and Mrs. Lee Hazen plan to built near the medical clinic. v, fJJ . , - ,. - , Xlil V .at, j I fi 1. Although the country has received little moisture from above, it doesn't mean winter's chill hasn't invaded. Johnson Creek, about 25 miles southeast of Heppner, has a thick ice crust cover. . ' 'tv- ' ' ". : .. '. -i-. Thistles, branches and grasses are covered with icy frost throughout the day in the area. Forecasts are for possibly a little moisture to be followed by more dry weather. (Gazette-Times photo) Morrow County health officials urge pre-school measles shots Morrow County Health Of ficer, Dr. L.D. Tibbies, is recommending that all sus ceptible children those who have not had natural measles or measles vaccine, should be immunized as a preventive measure. There has been several small measle out breaks in Oregon the past few weeks and Vancouver, Wash., is experiencing a large scale epidemic. Approximately 97 per cent f start practice in Heppner March i i NO.JSf of Morrow County's grade school age children have been immunized. The age groups Tibbies is concerned about are the pre-schoolers and some of the high school age students who have not been immunized or had the disease. Measles vaccine is rarely indicated for adults as nearly all are immune by the age of 20. Infants as young as 6 months old can be vaccinated if there is danger of exposure, but in i 1. The dental clinic will be ' (Gazette-Times photo) 10$ 5 I .Tt!1 ' If 1 I iky j such cases, they would need to be revaccinated at an older age. Measles is often a severe disease, frequently compli cated by middle ear infection and broncho-pneumonia. Death from respiratory and neurological causes is associ ated with measles in one of every 1,000 reported cases. Tibbies said he would en courage residents seeking im Influenza According to the latest Ore gon Communicable Disease Summary, Morrow County had 10 reported cases of influenza reported during the first two weeks of January. The Oregon State Health Division said the Morrow County cases were all re ported in the second week of lone schedules hearing on sewer treatment system A public hearing on a proposed sewer collection sys tem and treatment facilities Former mayor honored Former Mayor Chester Wil son was honored with a re tirement party Sunday at the School Cafetorium." About 90 people gathered to express their appreciation for his 14 years of service as mayor and four years more as a councilman. Mayor Vernon Stewart pre sented a plaque and a letter of li THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1977 Drought county wheat crop Drought conditions contin ued to threaten crops and water supplies in Oregon this week. The situation in Morrow County was mixed, with wheat, other grains and hay yields threatened on one hand. On the other hand, irrigated lands, potato acreage and civic water supplies appear generally sound for the com ing summer. Harold Kerr, Morrow Coun ty Extension agent, Tuesday night completed a report on drought damage in Morrow County. The report indicates that as much as 40 per cent of the Morrow County dryland wheat crop will be lost if' moisture conditions do not return to normal by the end of this month. Kerr said that a full harvest of planted acres depends on the return of normal moisture patterns by Mar. 1 and the continuation of normal rain fall through to harvest. To escape significant crop loss, wheat growers must also have moderate temperatures . in June. A loss of any less than 40 per cent would also mean considerable programs of re seeding, Kerr said. munizations to contact their family physician or the Coun ty Health Department. Immunizations will be avail able at the following loca tions: County Health Department at Lexington Every Friday 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (closed at noon). A.C. Houghton School at Irrigon Feb. 8 at 9:30 a.m. AT cases reported here January. On a state-wide basis, there were 800 influenza cases reported and 1,140 cases for the first two weeks of January. The 1,140 influenza cases for the first two weeks compare with a 1,775 case average for the first two weeks of January in the previous four years. for the city of lone has been scheduled for Mar. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers appreciation to Wilson and to retiring council members El bert Eppenbach and Elva Sanders. Each served two four year terms. Also recognized and given a plaque was former city Marshal Perry Pummel, who served the city without pay for 19 years. He received expenses only to operate his car. WEFFNER .THTTTXT ii iilvii. 12 PAGES threatens Last year there were 221,500 acres seeded to wheat with a production of 7,175,000 bush els. This year the acreage is already down, with perhaps 10,000 acres now seeded to barley instead of wheat, Kerr said. A loss of 40 per cent would roughly mean a production of 15 bushels per acre compared with a 22 or 23 bushel average on dryland. Wells and municipal water supplies are not threatened at the present time. Irrigated wheat acreage is not included in the 40 per cent loss estimate. Potato crops are not a matter of concern at the present time, but creek bot tom hay land which depends on spring runoff could easily be off 50 per cent without more snow, Kerr said. Drought effects can already be seen on an estimated 15,000 acres of barley and about 4,000 to 5,000 acres of hay. The al falfa growers who are affected are those who depend on spring runoff for irrigation. Through Jan. 1, the Soil Conservation Service reported record low snowfall in much of (Tuesday). Riverside School at Board man Feb. 8 at 11:00 a.m. (Tuesday). lone Grade School at lone Feb. 9 at 9:30 a.m. (Wed nesday). Heppner Grade School at Heppner Feb. 17 at 9:30 a.m. (Thursday). Vaccine should not be given to children allergic to eggs, neomycin or ill with a fever. Neighboring Wheeler, Gil liam and Grant counties had no reported influenza cases and like Morrow County had no other reports of communi cable disease. Nearby Uma-. tilla County reported 56 in fluenza cases through Jan. 15 and three cases of venereal disease. of City Hall. The hearing will include the presentation of alternative proposals for providing sani tary sewer service and treat ment facilities for lone, city officials said. Topics to be considered will be potential environmental impacts, monetary costs, feasibility, resource and ener gy use, and reliability. The public hearing will allow expression of the views of all persons concerned with the project. Detailed informa tion on the project is open to public inspection at the lone City Hall. the west including Oregon. Little change has been report ed since Jan. 1. A new report on what little snow pack there is will be issued in the next few days. Looking at poor moisture conditions, Morrow County farmers are reportedly hold ing off on farm related pur chases which are not im mediately necessary. Larry Mills, general man ager, Morrow County Grain Growers, Lexington, noted that rainfall in the area has measured only 1.6 hundredths inches from Sept. 1. "This is normally our heavy rainfall period," Mills said. He went on to report that late seeded wheat is not up or has sprouted in some sections of the county. "Some of the irrigated wheat in the north end doesn't look good," he added. Mills said the cycle of freeze and dry weather has put stress on irrigated wheat. "Further south in the Eight mile area wheat still looks reasonably good, but moisture is critical," Mills said. "I would say that an average crop is a long shot," he concluded. Mayor Jerry Sweeney re ported the water supply of the City of Heppner in good condition. Supply from under ground sources is stable and Heppner apparently faces no critical water problem for human consumption. There may be regulated watering this summer, Sweeney noted. Likewise, most farm wells in Morrow County are not dependent on winter snow pack for recharging. As a result, the supply of water for human and livestock con sumption may be stable in Morrow County in comparison to other areas of the west. Forage for livestock, how ever, is continuing to worsen as drought conditions con tinue. The report on the effects of drought in Morrow County will be channeled through T.H. Sidor at the Extension Office in Corvallis for immediate submission to Gov. Bob Straub. Straub reportedly had no plans as cf Feb. 1 to tour eastern Oregon farming areas "where farmers are worried, but whose crops are not yet to the point of suffering," ac cording to an Associated Press story. Both Kerr and Mills were in agreement that the crops in Morrow County are suffering and will experience heavy damage unless normal rain fall begins soon and continues through June. WEATHER Wed., Jan. 26 35 26; Thurs., Jan. 27 39 19 Fri.,Jan.28 . 30 17 Sat., Jan. 29 ' 29 22 , Sun., Jan. 30 26 22 Mon.,Jan.31 35 21, Tues.,Feb. 1 34 26. .02 precipitation Total precipitation for Jan- uary was .36 hundredths against a norm of 1.29 inches. The total in January 1976 was 1.83. This January is the second dryest on record. The first was in 1914 when the. monthly total was .31 hundredths.
