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Hardwick
Logging
honor
Conservation meeting
slated for Irrigon
The annual meeting of the
Morrow Soil and Water Con
servation District will be Feb.
22, according to Rudy Berg
strom, chairman of the board
of directors.
The meeting will be held at
A.C. Houghton Elementary
School in Irrigon at 7:30 p.m.
Non-tillage and reduced til
lage presentations will be
" given by Don Rydrych, OSU
Weed Research Agronomist,
on dryland wheat production;
and Vance Pumphrey, Crop
Production Specialist, on po
tato production.
A special slide projector
showing of "Limits" will be
included in the program.
At the Feb. 22 meeting, the
District will honor Tommy
and Roy Martin of Lexington.
The father-son team have
been named Conservation
Men of the Year for Morrow
County in 1976. Conservation
efforts against water and wind
erosion on their 3,100 acre
ranch north of Lexington re
sulted in the dual selection as
Morrow County Conservation
ists of 1976.
Martin
heads board
Fred Martin of lone was
elected president of the Pio
neer Memorial Hospital Board
at a regular meeting of the
board Tuesday, Feb. 15. He
replaces outgoing president
Hazel Mahoney, Heppner, who
continues to serve on the
board.
The election saw Nona
Grace of Heppner returned to
the office of vice president.
Hubert Wilson of Heppner was
re-elected secretary.
Page alert
for doctors
An electronic page system
has been put into use through
Pioneer Memorial Hospital to
keep Heppner residents in
closer contact with doctors.
Doctors Richard A. Car
penter and Joseph R. Gifford
now carry electronic beeper
devices which can be acti
vated by a transmitter at the
hospital.
When individuals with an
immediate medical problem
are unable to locate the
doctors through normal chan
nels, they may phone the
hospital. The hospital in turn
will locate and advise the
physician of the situation in
progress.
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Don Hardwick, a contract
logger for Kinzua Corp., re
ceives a plaque from Milo
Prindle, logging manager for
Kinzua Corp. Hardwick was
honored at the Heppner-Mor-row
County Chamber of Com
merce Monday as the second
runnerup logging operator of
the year in Oregon.
He was cited for conser-
The annual report of the
Morrow Soil and Water Con.
servation District will be pre
sented. Accomplishments dur
ing the year include com
pletion of more than 32 miles
of diversion ditches, 87 debris
basins, 6 acres of sod water
way and 62 acres of diversion
ditch seeding on the Heppner
Water Control Project.
Other accomplishments
during the year include de
velopment of seven farm
Dental clinic gains
conditional use permit
The Heppner City Planning
Commission Tuesday night
granted a conditional use
permit to Dr. Lee Hazen of
Portland for construction of a
dental clinic in a residential
zone of Valley View Estates.
The location is near the
present Heppner Medical Clin
ic. Action on the use permit for
Dr. Hazen opens the way for
completion of a new dental
clinic building. Hazen expects
to start his dental practice in
Heppner about May 1.
The Commission denied a
conditional use permit for a
mobile home to be located at
355 West Church Street. The
request was denied on the
basis that an extension from
the--body of the mobile home
would reach beyond a re
New tire store
manager takes over
After six and a half years
with Les Schwab Tire Center,
Robb Rush has been named
Robb Rush
manager of the Heppner store.
Les Schwab recently pur
chased the store from Dexter
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Prindle
vation techinques used in his
work, including logging, re
creational, grazing, and game
practice methods. Also pres
ent to honor Hardwick were
his wife Rose, Ernie Labart,
unit forester for the State
Forestry Department at Fos
sil, and Ray Jones, forest
practice officer. Fossil.
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plans involving 96,054 acres,
development of 9,135 feet of
terraces, 84,723 feet of diver
sions, 18 silt dams and ponds,
4,147 feet of irrigation main
line, 14 acres of sod waterway,
22 acres of critical area
seeding, 4 spring develop
ments, 1,448 feet of drain tile,
26 acres of grass seeding, 4,015
acres of brush control, 122
acres of tree thinning and 32
acres of land leveling.
quired setback from the
property lines.
The planning commission
referred the request to the
City Council for clarification
of the city procedure in
granting a variance. The City
Council will consider the
question Mar. 7.
The application was made
by Luther D. Ipock, who is
driving daily from the Kinzua
community to work at the
Kinzua Corporation Mill in
Heppner.
In other business, the Com
mission heard a report from
Don Rums, who gave final
tabulations on a recent survey
and proposed land use map.
Burns is under contract for
land use planning for the
communities of Heppner, Lex
ington, lone and Irrigon.
Miles.
Rush, 30, is currently work
ing at the tire store and plans
to add one more man to the
operation. Rush said he knows
he will like the Heppner area
and plans to move his family
here as soon as possible.
Along with his wife Gayle,
Rush has two daughters. Lea,
age 12, and Tracy, 10.
Rush has been employed at
the Walla Walla Les Schwab
store for more than two years,
following stints for the tire
company in Prineville and
Boise, Ida.
Rush said another man will
probably be working by the
first of March at the Heppner
store on Main Street.
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VOL. 94, NO. 7
Health Systems Agency
plans rare meeting in Heppner
The 30-member board of the
Eastern Oregon Health Sys
tems Agency (EOHSA) will
meet in Heppner at the Elks'
Club Friday. It will be a rare
meeting for Heppner and one
of only six regular meetings
scheduled by the Agency each
year, Richard Ewell of the
Tri-County Health Services
said.
Heading the list of partici
pants attending the session
will be Gov. Robert W. Straub
or his special representative. :
State
holiday
Monday
The observance of George
Washington's Birthday will
find federal, state, county and
city offices and schools closed
in Morrow County Monday,
Feb. 21.
The state recognized holi
day will not affect most
business concerns and banks.
Washington's Birthday is
expected to mark the com
pletion of the move of the
Neighborhood Youth Center in
Heppner from the Gilliam-
Bisbee Building to the old
Howell Market near Heppner
City Hall.
After Monday, most center
activities, including the
Thursday , evening G.E.D.
class, will be conducted at the
new location.
George Washington, first
president of the United States,
was born Feb. 22, 1732.
Top priority farm
meetings scheduled
Four important meetings
concerning Morrow County
farmers and ranchers have
been scheduled in coming
weeks. The first meeting is a
workshop on beef animal
health slated Feb. 17, 7:30
p.m. at Heppner High School.
Another special meeting has
been scheduled Feb. 23 at 1:30
p.m. at the Fairgrounds. This
will be a Pesticide Training
Program conducted by Harold
Kerr, Morrow County agri
cultural agent. No signup is
required.
On Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. in the
conference room of the Mor
row Soil and Water Con
servation District office in
Heppner, a meeting of con
cern to all Morrow County
Board
session
The regular monthly meet
ing of the Morrow County
School District Board will be
held at Heppner Elementary
School on Monday, Feb. 21, at
7:30 p.m.
The Board will consider
several items related to staf
fing, including renewal of
teaching contracts, hiring of
an office secretary at the
District Office and staff resignations.
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HEPPNER, OREGON
Jerry Routson of Hood River
is current president of the
Agency. Richard H. Grant of
Redmond is executive direct
or. In addition to other busi
ness, the Agency members
are scheduled to tour facilities
at Pioneer Memorial Hospital.
The members will gather at
the Elks' Club at 10 a.m.
Friday and break for a noon
luncheon at the West of Willow
restaurant, where Mayor Jer
ry Sweeney is slated to wel
Petition entered protesting
wheat commission assessment
A petition protesting an
increase in the wheat assess
ment for use by the Oregon
Wheat Commission has been
submitted by some Morrow
County wheat growers. The
signers are objecting to a rule
Miller installed during
wheat league session
Nine Morrow County resi
dents were in attendance
Tuesday, Feb. 8, as directors
of the Oregon Wheat Growers
League convened in The
Dalles for their first meeting
of 1977.
Tad Miller of Lexington has
been formally installed as new
president of the Oregon Wheat
Growers League. He follows in
the footsteps of his father,
farmers and ranchers will
take place.
This session will center
around county development
programs and plans under
Section 208 of the Federal
Water Pollution Act of 1972.
Attention is now being focused
on non-point sources of pollu
tion such as agricultural,
range, and forest lands, con
struction sites and roads.
The Feb. 28 session will
center on Morrow County
water quality.
A fourth meeting is sched
uled Mar. 22. This will be a
class on futures and hedging
conducted by Oregon State
University and Harold Kerr.
This session requires a signup,
as 20 people must show an
interest before the session can
take place.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1977
come the visitors to the city.
Following the luncheon, the
Agency will take up an after
noon business session at the
Elks' Club beginning at 1:30
p.m. Some business of the
Agency will continue into
Saturday morning.
Together with statewide
Health Coordinating Councils
and Development Agencies,
the Eastern Oregon Health
Systems Agency has broad
authority over the allocation
and development of health
change which will increase the
wheat assessment from the
present one-half cent to one
cent per bushel.
The petition was circulated
in southern Morrow County
last week by former Heppner
E.H. Miller, who was presi
dent of the OWGL in 1936.
Morrow County committee
chairmen attending the ses
sion included Tommy Martin,
Jim Swanson, Harold Kerr,
Gene Majeske, Brok Tucker,
Ken Peck, Keith Rea, Ken
Nelson and Chuck Nelson.
New programs for the year
also captured the interest of
Morrow County Wheathearts
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Greg and Jerry Sweeney of Heppner pose for Brian
Sweeney before the Capitol in Washington, D.C., during
Inauguration Day 1977. Mayor Sweeney and his two sons join
a number of Morrow County residents who have received
invitations to Presidential inaugurations in years past. A
display of inauguration invitations is currently showing at
the Morrow County Museum in Heppner.
Inaugural invitations
placed on display
Even if you didn't receive a
personal invitation to recent
Presidential inaugurations,
you might enjoy seeing three
such invitations on display at
the Morrow County Museum
in Heppner.
Besides the 1977 Carter
Mondale invitation, there are
invitations to the inaugura
tions of John Fitzgerald Ken
nedy and of Lyndon Baines
Johnson.
A framed copy of John F.
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resources, including manpow
er, facilities and services.
The EOHSA serves the 18
counties of Eastern Oregon
with planning and develop
ment of health services.
Morrow County is represented
on the board by Warren H.
McCoy of Irrigon.
The Agency is involved in
setting goals for health care in
Eastern Oregon and setting
objectives for improving the
health of residents, available
health services and quality of
resident Gene Logan of Ar
lington. Signers of the petition not
only protest the planned in
crease, but claim that the
legislative assessment "was
levied contrary to our Consti-
who met Feb. 7 at the Martin
home in Lexington for re
organization. Lisa Nelson, Wheathearts
chairman, announced that a
meeting has been scheduled
for Mar. 7 at the Jim Swanson
home, lone. Purpose of the
meeting is to organize the
Wheathearts Demonstration
Program which will be con
ducted Mar. 28 at 7:30 p.m.
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Kennedy's inaugural address
hangs very near the revolving
frame displaying the three
invitations and the pictures of
President Carter and Vice
President Mondale.
These historic papers were
contributed by several Hep
pner residents and were ar
ranged for display last week
end. They are located to the
left of the opening into the new
addition, near the recently
acquired group of old telephones.
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health services. At the same
time, they work to restrain
costs related to the improve-,
ment of health services.
The Agency has power to
recommend approval or dis
approval of applications for
new health service or medical
facilities projects proposed
within the 18 counties. They
can also approve or disap
prove proposed projects with
in the health service area
under several Federal health
programs.
tutional right of taxation with
representation." The petition
further states : "We feel that a
referendum vote should be
submitted to all wheat grow
ers as it was by our sister
state, Washington. We submit
that a favorable vote will
substantially strengthen the
Oregon Wheat League by
member participation."
The 18 names appearing on
the petition during its first day
of circulation, Thursday, Feb.
10, included signers from both
Gilliam and Morrow County
farmers.
According to Gene Logan of
Arlington, a former Heppner
resident and NFO member,
the farmers signing the peti
tion are mostly members of
the Wheat League who are not
participating with NFO. A
number of those protesting the
increase do hold NFO mem
bership. Tuesday, Feb. 15, was the
deadline for submitting data,
opinions, or written evidence
or requesting a public hearing
in connection with the pro
posed amendment of the Ore
gon Wheat Commission rul
ing. The assessment was
changed by the 1975 legis
lature. Signatures of 10 or more
members are needed to call a
public hearing.
Funds from the wheat as
sessment are used to expand
markets for wheal grown in
Oregon and to promote and
expand the use of wheat pro
ducts. lone man
new NFO
president
Lloyd Morgan of lone is
newly elected president of the
Morrow County National
Farmers Organization
(NFO). Morgan was elected
Thursday, Feb. 10, to head a
new slate, of officers for 1977,
all from the lone area.
The election, held at Beech
er's Cafe in lone, saw Harold
Snyder named to serve as vice
president. Other new officers
for the calendar year are Paul
Tews, secretary, Lloyd Mc
Nary, treasurer, and Don
Peterson, district delegate for
Morrow County. Peterson is
state president of the NFO.
Morgan replaces Dave Bak
er, who served as Morrow
County NFO president during
1976.