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TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner. Ore., Thursday, March 10, 1977
Council tables dental clinic appa
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The Heppner City Council in
session Monday night took
steps to return the power of
granting variances to the city
planning commission, tabled
until Thursday at 7 p.m. final
approval on a building permit
for a new dental clinic and
reported, from a previous
executive session, the ac
ceptance of a resignation from
the city utility foreman.
The two and one-half hour
session included a lengthy
review of complete alternate
plans for a new dental clinic.
The Council approved all
aspects of the plan except a
general plan for parking
spaces.
A special session of the
Council is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Thursday to look at specific
plans for the design of parking
as it relates to adjacent
parking at the medical clinic.
Following the Council ses
sion, at 7:30 p.m ., a meeting of
the city budget committee is
scheduled to review all as
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By Tom
. A number of people have asked me "How do you like
; Heppner by now?" At one time in my life I would have
' spelled out all the bitter shortcomings I could think of, and I
was capable of thinking of quite a few. I stopped doing that
when I discovered that the shortcomings were mostly mine. I
reasoned rightly that there just couldn't be that many rotten
towns in the United States.
After this revelation, I found my mind still digging for a
response suitable to the person who brought the question:
! If a city official or chamber member would question me I
would slap on a smile and manage to say the town was
GREAT. The Tony Tiger response.
If some sweet young thing asked me, I would talk about far
flung vacation spots of wine and roses since it was apparent
that her body was in town but her heart wasn't.
When the question came from someone deeply involved in
the community, who admitted to being born in town, I quickly
commented on all the wonderful history! "So rich in
history," I'd say.
I still say the same things. While I gave up my basic dislike
for life I didn't exactly fall in love with geography.
Behind all this I find that people who ask such a question
often mean something else. Some of the real questions are:
How do you like the town structure? How do you like the
people? How do you like me? Are you going to stay? What is
it like where you came from? How does this compare with
where you came from ? Will you take part in the community ?
Will you observe the rules of the community? Do you see
something here that I don't see? Would you rather be
somewhere else? I would like to tell you how I feel? Let me
tell you my opinion? What are you doing? How are you
today?
You can see the problem I have with this question "How do
you like Heppner by now?"
About all I can really say is that I like it. My judgements
are reserved for the ways that every small town operates.
For example:
It upsets me to become known as the car I drive. It gives
me great satisfaction to avoid, for as long as possible,
becoming known as my car.
"Who is Mr. Smith?" I ask. I think Mr. Smith looks like an
interesting character. "Oh, you know, he drives the blue Craf
Zeppelin pickup," they explain. I cringe.
I often wonder why we don't include the make of car in
every obituary as a positive means of identification.
In one community where I was not getting cooperation
from a legal source I threatened to park my car in front of
her house and walk home at night.
I changed cars in another town so many times that the
people who talked to me started to stutter.
You can see the possibilities.
In the restaurant you become known as "Cheeseburger D"
and just when you think you have made a hit with one of the
local bartenders you find out that you are fondly known as
"Bourbon and Coke."
"Who is she," I ask. "Her folks live out on Pumpkin Road,"
someone replies. "Just what I wanted to know," I say to
myself. "Why do you ask," they say. "Always did want to
know who lived out on Pumpkin Road," I say out loud.
Next week I will try to get serious.
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GAZETTE-TIMES
Wil C. Phinney,
Advertising Manager
Tom Franks,
Editor
pects of the bullet for the
coming year.
Mayor Jerry Sweeney re
ported on an executive session
of the Council. Sweeney said
the session resulted in the
tendering and acceptance of
the resignation of Ralph Mar
latt, city utility foreman. Also
coming from the executive
session was an offer of a six
per cent salary increase for
city employees. Sweeney said
the employees asked for 10 per
cent and are being offered six
per cent.
Following the announce
ment of results from the
executive session, a source at
city hall said that the city has
also received the resignation
of Harold Coulter, effective on
or about Mar. 15. Coulter has
worked as an attendant on city
utilities including the city
sewage system.
The City of Heppner this
week advertised for a new city
crew foreman at a salary of
$12,000 plus fringe benefits
MORROW
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Published every Thursday and entered as a
second-class matter at the post office at Heppner,
Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Second-class
postage paid at Heppner, Oregon.
Tne official newspaper of the City
of Heppner and the County of
Morrow.
with resume due by Mar. 15.
Almost 20 persons attended
the Council session to com
ment on resolutions, ordi
nances and requests put
before the Council.
Among those attending was
Dave Harrison, manager of
Columbia Basin Electric Co
op. Harrison told the Council
that terms of the new fran
chise between the electric
cooperative and the city had
been worked out to the satis
faction of all parties.
Specific wording in the pro
posed franchise has been
under discussion since the
first part of the year. The
previous franchise agreement
expired in late February.
A planning commission sug
gestion to make Thompson a
two-way street was aired
again in connection with dis
cussion on the new dental
clinic.
Ilene Wyman, hospital ad
ministrator, said that such
action would be "A very big
hardship at the present time."
Letters
Restrictions asked
We need restriction on the state fish and wildlife! When the
public argues with them about a certain area's safety
because of roadways, smallness, homes or other reasons,
they state there will be no hunting, they just want a game
refuge. After they have control, they manage to come up with
special permits for every other year or so. The general public
has the right to decide what is a reasonably safe area. Here is
a suggested law that would keep them out of areas that are
' unsuited for safety reasons. " - , ., ,;u
' Land, the state fish and wildlife control, must be one mile'
wide or within 50 ft. as long as the length is one mile or more,
and homes, barns, other buildings 300 ft. or more from
proposed line. Also a ban should be put on hunting within
1,000 ft. of populated areas (city limits, that is) and
roadways. Clearance must be well posted.
Between the Federal Fish and "Wildlife, the State Game
Commission and our Planning Commissions, why do we need
a state fish and wildlife? We don't; they should be absorbed
by game commissions, which should not be part of police
department.
O.K. people, get the lead out of your pants put it in your
hands and write your Senators and Reps. NOW! Not just once
or one: make carbon copies. It saves time.
Lea Thompson
Umatilla, Ore.
Wheathearts plan to
publish cookbook
Morrow County Wheat
hearts meeting Monday night
at the Monica (Jim) Swanson
home in lone decided to pub
lish a cookbook with the as
sistance of the Oregon Wheat
Commission. The new cook
book Will be compiled from
favorite recipes of people
from Morrow County, accord
ing to Mary Martin.
The Wheathearts issued a
request today for wheat prod
uct recipes from any and all
Morrow County cooks. The
recipes should involve the use
of wheat or wheat products.
Recipes should be submitted
to Birdine Tullis at the Ex
tension Office in Heppner, or
Mary Martin at Lexington.
The recipes must be sub
mitted by Monday, Mar. 21, so
that the book may be prepared
by Apr. 4 when the Wheat
hearts will hold a Bake-a-rama
at the Heppner Elks'
Club. A time for the evening
G.M. Reed, Publisher
Dolores Reed, Co-publisher
She said that parking space at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
was at a minimum now and
noted that, in addition to being
narrow, the street must also
serve as an ambulance en
. trance.
She estimated that of the 43
existing parking spaces, 32
are utilized by employees,
staff, and aides.
She went on to say that
making Thompson a two-way
street would eliminate about
11 parking spaces. "When the
clinic came in, we lost parking
against the bank," she said.
She told the Council that
Kinzua had promised to build
a parking lot at one time. She
added that even if such a
parking lot were completed,
the hospital is without funds to
build steps necessary to ac
commodate parking lot users.
She also said that future
building plans at the hospital
could further compound the
parking problem.
The hospital flatly opposes
making Thompson a two-way
Bake-a-rama will be announc
ed later.
At the Bake-a-rama, there
will be demonstrations, nu
trition and economic informa
tion along with the gift of free
cookbooks and other activi
ties. Children
return
28 items
A campaign to recover
school district playground
equipment, which took place
during the last two weeks of
February at Heppner Ele
mentary School, resulted in 28
items being returned to use.
Mrs. Lucile Peck's third
grade recovered 12 items such
as jump ropes, footballs,
basketballs and baseballs.
Because their efforts made
them the winning room, these
third-graders won 30 minutes
to use as they chose.
"They are having lots of fun
deciding just what to do with
this unscheduled time," the
school principal said. All
rooms that located and
brought back five or more
pieces of equipment got to
keep an extra playground
item for their own room's use.
Principal Don Cole esti
mates that the returned items
are worth an average of $4
each, and thus the children's
efforts brought back about
$112 worth of usable school
district equipment.
Micvi, blic concluded.
Dean Oilman, police chief,
suggested that the city get a
traffic engineer to investigate
the problem. He said that
traffic moving the wrong way
on the one-way street is
coming from the clinic.
The Council gave tacit
agreement to the suggestion
and will contact an engineer
concerning the traffic prob
lems on the hill.
The Council then moved to
grant a building permit to
Robb Rush for construction of
a two story home in the
housing addition on the hill
near Heppner High School.
Rush is the new manager of
Les Schwab Tire Center, in
Heppner.
Dick Sargent requested and
was granted a freight loading
zone change along the west
side of the new Coast-to-Coast
Store location in the Gilliam
Bisbee Building. The Council
also approved painting park
ing space stripes along the
same section of curb.
Planners
Monday
The Morrow County Plan
ning Commission is scheduled
to meet Monday, Mar. 14, 7:30
p.m. in the Morrow County
Courthouse in Heppner to con
sider five applications ranging
from a permit for a church in
Boardman to a setback for a
farm building near Lexington.
Wayne Hodson of Boardman
has made application for a
zone change from Qualified
Farm to Farm. The request
involves 20 acres about one
mile east of Boardman on
Wilson Road.
Roy D. Plant of Boardman
has made application for a
conditional use permit for
construction of a church in a
Farm Residential Zone. The
property in question is 2.41
acres on Olson and Wilson
Road near Boardman.
L.W. Vail and Company has
applied for a conditional use
permit to operate a rock
crusher and asphalt plant in a
Farm Zone at the west end of
CBEC taxes
to increase
The counties served by the
Columbia Basin Electric Co
op will be receiving an
increasing amount of taxes in
1977. The Co-op will pay
Morrow County $30,856.00,
Gilliam County $18,008.00,
Wheeler County $5,697.00,
Umatilla County $918.00 and
Sherman County $266.00. In
addition to the excise and
property tax payments to the
counties, the local utility pays
nearly $10,000.00 in annual city
franchise taxes to the cities of
Heppner, lone, Lexington,
Condon, and Fossil.
The Columbia Basin Elec- .
trie Co-op serves an area of
3,010 square miles and pro
vides electric service to 3,427
member accounts.
Creative Arts
meeting set
The next meeting of the
Morrow County Creative Arts
Group will be Thursday, Mar.
17, at the West of Willow
restaurant.
All persons interested in
arts and crafts are welcome to
attend. The group will be
making plans for county fair
exhibits and an oil painting
class to follow up on the
recently completed sketching
class.
In other action, the Council
vacated Thorn Street from
Highway 74 to Riverside. The
city has never used the street
which for all purposes exists
only on the city map. There is
no street there now. The re
quest to vacate was made by
Howard Pettyjohn.
The Council also approved
an ordinance which would
square up Morgan Street with
Highway 74. The request,
made by Larry F. Prock and
Cornett Green, reduces the
width of the street for 100 feet
from a 60-foot width to a
40-foot width.
The city also approved a
request by Pacific Northwest'
Bell to place underground
cable along Main Street from
Center to Baltimore to
Church.
February bills amounting to
$13,722.62 were approved for
payment. The figure includes
$10,081.50, the city share of a
new mini-pumper fire truck to
be jointly owned by Heppner
and the rural fire protection
district. A supplemental bud- i
get hearing was held Monday .
night where the special fund
ing was approved. A fund has
existed for equipment pur
chase, but the city elected to
set
meeting
Kunze Road adjacent to the
Boeing tract. The property
consists of about 39 acres
owned by Arnold Hoffman.
Umatilla Ready-Mix, Inc.,
has applied' for a conditional ,
use permit to operate a con
crete batch plant in an
Industrial Zone. The property
in question is owned by
Morrow County and is ad
jacent to Interstate 80N. The
location is southeast of the
Port of Morrow.
Gary Grieb of Lexington has
applied for a variance to
setbacks in a Qualified Farm
Zone. The request involves
construction of a farm build
ing closer than the required
60-foot setback from a county
road.
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borrow the money on short
term, thereby saving about
$125.00 between interest on the
short term loan and loss of
maturity on the long-term fire
equipment account.
Other action saw the Council
approve purchase of chlorine
from Pennwalt Corporation at
.255 cents per pound, F.O.B.
Heppner.
The city is expected to call
for oral bids on the old
Chevrolet fire truck and a jeep
truck which has been used by
the fire department for a
number of years.
The City also granted per
mission to the State to install
advance warning signs at
railroad crossings in Heppner
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Package orders to go
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at no cost to the city. The State
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the signs in the next 24
months. According to discus
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quest is based on legislation
enacted in 1973.
The Council moved to re
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Gale Street from Water Street
to Center Street. The city has
made similar requests before.
The section in question was
paved in 1972 but never
completed, it was reported.
The city submitted the re
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allowed to the Oregon Trans
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in city street repair under
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