TWO The Gaiette-Tlmes, Heppner. Ore., Thursday. Feb. 3, 1977
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By Tom Franks
An article from lone last week brought to my attention that square dance graduates had to
pass their test by dancing in oversized boots. After this test, they danced barefoot on a
mattress!
It is hard to imagine adults getting recognition for something that I used to whale my kids
for.
Almost as lively was the viewing stand taken by Jerry Sweeney and sons of Heppner. They
watched the inaugural parade "while hanging from a statue in front of the Federal Building."
Hang in there, Jerry.
Weather or not
What will become of the weather seems to be anyone's guess these days. The changes in
pattern and type of weather in many portions of the world are resulting in both loss of crops and
loss of water supplies. In addition, the weather changes place new stress on energy sources.
Reading about the situation has on several occasions brought up a mental picture of people
running over the landscape collecting scrap lumber and dead wood for fire and hauling water
by the bucket. Not exactly my idea of the good 'ol days.
Here I sit worried about getting my index finger stuck between the space bar and the
typewriter keys. I can't think of anything to do about the water shortage. After we cut down on
washing cars, taking a bath, watering lawns, etc., we have reached the limit.
Most of the people I know have long ago ceased drinking eight glasses of water per day unless
it is diluted or polluted with something else.
Harold Kerr, county agent, just returned from the wheat growers' meeting in Hawaii. He told
the Heppner chamber that it looked like it hadn't rained in Hawaii in years.
Myron Huston at the Hotel Heppner maintains an interest in Alaska from earlier days.
Myron says the willows are in bloom near Fairbanks.
. Up in Alaska, after the spring thaw, they say the divorce rate shows a marked increase. The
statistical fact is fondly referred to as "The Spring Breakup." Suppose the weather will change
that, too.
A better idea
I never documented this story, but heard that Henry Ford said it. It seems a reporter printed
a story saying that Ford included mothers' milk in his diet on a regular basis. The reporter
later met Ford on the street and inquired about his reaction to the article. Ford is said to have
replied, "I don't care what you say about me as long as you spell my name right. It is F 0 R D."
In order to get all the names right, we would suggest that articles submitted to the
Gazette-Times be typewritten, printed or very very carefully written if they must be submitted
in longhand.
Deadlines fixed
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turning in club, social, and church events do so at the earliest possible time.
Any reports covering general events occurring from Tuesday through Thursday night should
be in the Gazette-Times office on Friday. Events from Friday night through Sunday night
should be turned in by Monday noon.
This schedule will allow us to handle more current news on Mondays and Tuesdays instead of
spending Tuesdays handling news that is perhaps three to seven days old. We have no objection
to working a 40-hour week and more if it isn't jammed between Monday morning and Tuesday
night.
Assistance in this matter will help us produce a better paper.
Lincoln's Birthday
Monday, Feb. 7, will be observed as a holiday for Lincoln's Birthday, which in fact was Feb.
12, 1809. This year, Feb. 12 falls on a Saturday, and one could hardly make a three day weekend
out of that. If the Monday nearest Feb. 12 had been selected, it would make two three day
weekends running, since George Washington had the audacity to be born on Feb. 22. If
Lincoln's birthday was observed on Feb. 14, it would also mean a three day weekend at the tail
I end of the pay period followed by a pay day and three working days, then another three day
holiday. As you can see, such an arrangement might blow the entire month.
As it falls this month, paychecks are three days ahead of each three day holiday. If there was
ss much forethought in the remainder of government planning, we would indeed be blessed. '
Jernstedt asks
school finance
State Sen. Ken Jernstedt
this week asked Morrow
County residents to supply
him with personal opinions on
the question of school finance.
"A number of proposals
have now been formulated and
publicized and will soon be
voted on in committee and on
the floor of both chambers,"
Jernstedt said.
Since the issue of school
finances is one of the most
important facing the present
legislature, Jernstedt has ask
ed Morrow County residents to
answer the ten questions in the
accompanying questionnaire
and clip and return the entire
questionnaire to his office in
Salem. k
FFA'ers apply for degree
Four members of the Hep
pner F.F.A. Chapter have
completed and sent in ap
plications for the State Farm
er degree. The State Farmer
is the highest degree in which
the State Association can
award.
To earn this award, an
F.F.A. member must meet
certain requirements and
qualifications.
From the Heppner Chapter,
Bruce Young, Ken Grieb,
Krynn Robinson, and Jack
Yocom are competing for this
degree. The State Farmer
recipients are selected by the
F.F.A. State Officers, through
an application, record books,
and an interview.
Officers will be interviewing
these four candidates on Feb.
Training
session
attended
Mrs. Elbert Eppenbach,
Mrs. Dick Price and Mr.
Donald Eppenbach, along
with Pastor and Mrs. Carl
Wright of the Community
Baptist Church of Irrigon,
attended a church leaders'
training event, Sunday after
noon and evening, Jan. 30, at
the First Baptist Church of
Milton-Freewater.
Conducted by five leaders
from the Portland area, this
training session was attended
by representatives of all the
American Baptist Churches of
Umatilla and Morrow counties.
3 and 4. The members re
ceiving this degree will be
awarded at the Oregon F.F.A.
State Convention, held Mar. 20
through 24 at Pendleton.
Other coming events that
Heppner F.F.A. members will
be involved in are:
Feb. 12.. .District Leadership
Contest (Public Speaking &
Parly Pro)
Feb. 20... District Proficiency
Award Selection
Mar. 1... Heppner F.F.A. Ban
quet (Tues. night)
Mar. 14. ..District Books Judg
ing Mar. 20 to 24.. .State F.F.A.
Convention Pendleton
Apr. 13...Shoji Skills Contest
Mac Hi (Wednesday)
Electric use grows
Columbia Basin Electric
reported the members' KWH
use for 1976 was up 8.5 per cent
over the previous year. The
sales were 114,892,037 KWHs.
The average cost paid per
KWH was 1.25 cents.
Irrigation sales represented
the largest source of class of
revenue with $377,722. The
total sales to the members
was $1,437,136 for the five
county service area.
The Cooperative plant in
vestment reached 8.18 million
as of Dec. 31, 197C.
The Coop serves 3,427 mem
ber accounts over 1,338 miles
of line.
The cost of power was the
largest expense item at
$426,818.00.
The local utility conducted a
strong maintenance program
in 1976; and as a result, the
distribution maintenance ex
pense went from $73,665 in
1975 to $108,350 in 1976.
Handicapped data asked
From Feb. 1 to Mar. 1, the
Morrow County School Dis
trict, in cooperation with the
Oregon State Department of
Education and other public
agencies, will be collecting
data related to physically,
emotionally, learning dis
abled, and mentally handi
capped children through age
21.
The handicapped child cen
sus is required under Public
Law 94-142 and federal sup
port will be based on this
Storm door theft
To the Editor: v t
I am convinced that the meanest man in Oregon lives
somewhere in the Heppner area. This is why I am writing to
you. I have a 93 year old mother-in-law living in Heppner and
she has lived there since she was one year old. She is doing
the best she can to live out her life in her own home without
becoming too dependent on anyone.
She is Mrs. Letha Archer, the daughter of a past pioneer,
Mifflin J. Devin.
On one of the recently very cold nights, this meanest
person came on to her front porch and removed the weather
screen door. (She cannot hear very well.) She had this door
put on to keep as much warm air as possible inside. Don't you
think this is stooping pretty low to rob an old woman of such
an item?
Yours Truly,
Mrs. Austin I. Smith
Who owns canal ?
Dear Editor:
1907 (Wilson vs. Shaw) and 1972 (U.S. vs. Roach) Supreme
Court rulings confirmed U.S. Panama Canal (PC)
ownership today we're informed we do not why?
More than 70 per cent of ships transiting the PC
originate-terminate voyages in the U.S., according to Hon. D.
Flood (D-Pa.) today we're informed we don't need it why?
Art. 4, Sect. 3, Clause 2 of U.S. Constitution states: "The
Congress (U.S. House & Senate) shall have power to dispose
of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the
territory or other property belonging to the United States..."
Are we to believe that the PC is not U.S. property so a
two-thirds Senate vote can surrender the PC to Panama?
That which exists must become more of itself or less. Does
giveaway of the PC represent a $7-billion plus investment,
addition of 7,000 plus sea miles to the New York-California
voyage, loss of the West's last strategic waterway,
strengthening Soviet power, and weakening U.S. defenses
increase U.S. potential? I think not!
John O'Malley (Copley News Service) says look through
the USSR's eyes. Soviets declared in Lenin's time their
long-range plan to possess the world's strategic waterways.
Does Communist control of the PC sound beneficial to the
U.S.? I think not!
Bismark stated: "A nation that surrenders territory
voluntarily is a nation in decay." Let us demand immediate
cessation of the surrender of our strategic territory to the
Panama-Cuba-Moscow axis.
Sincerely,
Derrell C. Briden
5650 S.E. 85th Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97266
Jack Sumner
Sumner introduces funding
bill for county fair increase
The Legislature is now in
the fourth calendar week of its
59th Session. When the third
week concluded last Friday,
thirteen bills already had gone
through committee hearings
and had been voted on by the
full House.
More than 350 other House
Bills already have been re
ferred to legislative commit
tees for public hearings and
recommendations. The ses
sion is off to an active start.
The House Aging Commit
tee has voted out HB 2049. The
bill would require the De
partment of Human Resourc
es to provide an annual
summary of programs and
services available for the
senior citizen.
The measure includes the
requirement for a continuous
information program by Hu
man Resources which would
aid Oregonians of 60 years of
age or older in determining
eligibility, status, and local
contacts for further informa
tion. The measure is now in
Ways and Means Committee
for consideration of the cost of
putting the measure into
effect.
I am introducing a bill to
require the agencies that
make up the state government
to submit Zero-Base budgets
effective next biennium. This
is a concept where each
agency must examine all
programs and justify their
existence each budget period.
It goes a step further than the
"Sunset Law" which requires
this same close examination
each six years or so and if not
justifiable, the whole program
is eliminated.
Under Zero-Base budgets,
the programs will get close
examination each two years
with prospects of program
changes at this time.
The full Ways and Means
Committee has given me quite
a boost this session to demon
strate the feasibility of using
this concept by allowing a few
Zero-Base budgets this ses
sion. The Ways and Means Sub
Committee of which I am
chairman will be doing a
modified Zero-Base budget for
the Department of Trans
portation including the Office
of the Director, Highway Di
vision and Motor Vehicle Di
vision. I welcome this challenge!
I have introduced a bill to
increase the income to county
fairs by 25 per cent. This
revenue comes from the horse
and dog racing revenue
authorized by state statutes.
Last session the formula for
sharing this revenue was re
adjusted downward based on
increased racing revenue. The
increase did not materialize,
therefore, the county fairs
fund was short changed. My
bill will help this situation.
On the subject of fairs, the
State Fair has come under fire
for several years. In an at
tempt to bail them out, a bill
has been introduced to change
the fiscal management which
we hope will keep the State
Fair out of the red.
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GAZETTE-TIMES
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Oregon, under the act of March 3, IH7!. Second-class
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postage
Wil ('. I'hinney,
Advertising Manager
Tom Franks.
K'ditor
The official newspaper of the City
of Heppner and the County of
Morrow.
(J.M. Reed, Publisher
Dolores Reed, Co-publisher
Pastor 's corner
Love is the reason for creation, the order of
creation and the end of creation. All of
creation, the universe and everything in it,
including ourselves, exists because of the
overflowing of God's love. God did not create
us because He was lonely. Our infinite and
loving Creator is never lonely. We are
products of the super-abundance of His love.
Love is not only the reason for creation, it is
the order of creation. Jesus states this in the
great commandments, "You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul and with all your mind.. ..and....
You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
The order of love is to love God with your
whole being, making this the highest priority
in your life ; to love your neighbor as yourself,
having the same concern for others as you do
for yourself and to love yourself, being at
peace with yourself. This order applies to our
lives and ultimately to all creation.
Likewise, love is the end of creation, the
goal toward which history and all of creation
is moving ; when all people and all of creation
exist eternally in a relationship of love with
God and with each other.
William B. Graham
lone United Church of Christ
lone, Oregon
count.
The data to be collected will
include the coded name of the
child, grade level, age, birth
date, county of residence,
school district, handicapping
condition and level of service
provided.
The data will be confidential
and available only to state and
federal agencies for reporting
and planning. For informa
tion, call John Edmundson at
the Morrow County School
District office, 989-8123.
SCHOOLS - HMNCINS QUESTIONNAIRE
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1. Th. .t.t. curr.tly Py. 29-5 of .chool oper.tingco.t. fro. tn..n.r.1
fund. h.t would you f.vor, 2.5 5M h.r.
,. Property f,e. .coount for .bout , of .choc! fin.neln, Jhoulahool. ,
b. supported fro., incon. t.e. Sal" Property " y
other i;
3. School di.trict. sy no- hold 6-8 budg.t .Lotion, per year. How Hny
would you f.vor. 6-8 unliited nuieber "1m of 2 .
4. If .chool budget 1. def.at.d repeatedly, would you f.vor. .
(.) u.lnq th. previou. y..r'. l.vy, with vot.r .pprov.l of any edditlon.1.
(b) unTthrpT.viou. yr'. lvy Pl" "too.tlc 6 lncrea.e ,
ic! when M., r. out. clo.in, th. .chool. until . bud,.t could be
passed
5. Should th. .chool finance burden be by, The- with childr.n in
.chool Everyone Bv.ryon. .xc.pt ..nior citi.en. .
6. Should b..ic .ductlon (including r.ading.writing. arithtic, Jci.n.,
hi.tory. llt.r.tur., c.r..r eduction , voc.tion.l training) be fully
financed b, th. .t.t., .nd th. cost of Physiol !.. J1
ctivitie. Ouch .. .thistles, music, draM. etc.) b. funded locally?
Yes No .
7. Which do you believe he. .ore to do with J" '
property t.es Di.s.ti.f.ction with th. job school. r. doinc. In
educating .tudent.
8. Do you feel thr. is enough local control of schools? Yes No .
9. Are you .atisflsd with discipline in your .chool di.trict? Y.. o
10. How do you rat. your loc.l school district to th. job it is doing
educating young people? excellent Good Fair Poor .
Please Complete
1. Age. Under 25 25-40 40-60 Over 60
2. Work. Salaried Self-employed .
3. Residence. Hoeecwner Renter
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Please return tot Sen. Ken Jernstedt
S317 state Capitol Building
Salca, Oregon 97310
NOTICE
Vern's Union 76 Station
now has unleaded gas.
Lex. -Heppner Hwy.
676-5 J 84
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Woman's
Waterproof
Boots
Hollomon's SHOE BOX
Main St.-676-5241
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Quality & quanity
guaranteed.
Personally supervised
by J. R.
I guarantee it.'
(Steaks & seafood as
always every night at
West of Willow)
West of Willow Orders To Go
xk Chicken
8 piece small bucket
16 big bucket
$2.50
$4.25
$8.25
Mini-shrimp
Fish & chips
Prawns
Scallops
Sandwiches to go
Call 676-5149
HINTON
Barbeque beef on French bread, with
fries
RHEA
Pastrami and Swiss cheese on
toastec". rye bread, with French fries
and hot mustard
BALM FORK
Moist turkey on white bread, with
fries
$3.00
$3.00
$4.00
$4.00
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CAhmnnr r a, m
Lean ground beef on a sesame bun,
with French fries
JUNIPER
Corned beef on rye bread, with
French fries
WEST OF WILLOW
Tender roast beef slices in a soft
French roll to dip in Jim's sauce, with
fries
SH0BE
Ham slices on old-fashioned white or
rye bread, with hot mustard and fries
BUTTER CREEK $2.25
Ham, pastrami and Swiss cheese on
French bread, with hot mustard and
fries
"12" Pizza to go"'
COLUMBIA $3.00
Tender steak strips on French bread,
with fries
Call 676-5551
Cheese
Pepperoni
$3.00
$4.00
Sausage
Black olive
Mushroom
Combination
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$4.00
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