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BESSIE WETZELL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB EUGENE OR 9740 3 nigh Wed., Mar. 30 53 Thurs., Low Precip. 26 35 .02 38 .05 30 Apr. 3 Mon., Apr. 4 Tues., Apr. 5 68 37 75 38 Sports 8, 9, 10 L Mar. 31 46 73 38 ETTE-TO Fri., Apr. 1 54 Sat., Apr. 2 57 Sun., Precipitation for March 1.85 hundredths of an inch. Normal for March 1.28 hundredths. Total for March 1976, 1.35 hundredths. VOL. 94, NO. 14 Dave Moon named Irrigon-Echo administrator Echo and Irrigon have their first joint city administrator. Dave Moon, current plann ing director for Morrow Coun ty, was selected last Thursday from a field of 30 applicants. He was hired by an unani mous vote of the two city councils. Accidents injure two in Morrow County Two persons were injured in separate accidents in the Lexington vicinity Saturday night. Seriously injured Saturday r -" -j- -t - - r Don Ball, lone, accepts gavel from Darrell Padberg, lone. Ball was installed as exalted ruler of the Heppner Elks' Lodge No 358 in ceremonies Saturday night, April 2. Ball replaces Forrest Burkenbine, Heppner, who continues to serve as a trustee. Padberg, a past exalted ruler, led the public installation of officers ceremony. Elks' Lodge A new slate of officers were installed Saturday night, April 2, at the Heppner Elks' Lodge No. 358. The installation ceremony saw Don Ball of lone take the gavel as exalted ruler of the lodge for the coming year. Other new officers are Jerry Anderson, esteemed leading knight, Hank Pointer, esteem ed loyal knight, Ed Gunder- BOARDMAN-The women of the Tillicum Club will be sponsoring an Easter egg hunt this Saturday, April 9 at the city park. Four age groups infant to 3, 4-5, first-second grade and third-fourth grade will search out 720 eggs starting at 9:30 a.m. Riverside High School students will be on hand to help with the hunt. Coal plant boosts employment Morrow County experienced a marked increase in em ployment levels during the month of February, with a jump of 380. The February level of employment brought the unemployment rate to 4.8 per cent, lowest in the state, according to the Department of Human Resources Employ ment Division. The February unemploy ment rate of 4.8 per cent is down from 6.3 per cent in January and down 7.5 per cent compared with February of 1975. The Employment Division said the Morrow County em ployment increase was tied to 12 Moon will serve as city administrator on an alternat ing basis between the two communities, one of which is located in Western Umatilla County and the other in Northeast Morrow County. He'll spend three days in Echo and two in Irrigon and then night was Nellie Sanborn, 55, of 350 So. Dunne, Stanfield. According to investigating officers, the Stanfield woman was walking on Highway 74 installs new son, Jr., esteemed lecturing knight, Glen Ward, secretary, Ed Dick, treasurer, Jim Nelson, tiler, Dave Barnett, esquire, Don Isom, chaplain, Jim Lankford, inner guard, and Ken Turner, organist. Trustees are Gene Hall, Don Cole and past exalted rulers Everett Kiethly, Claude Gra ham and Forrest Burkenbine. Forrest Burkenbine, im- a moderate gain in food pro cessing and a major increase in construction activities at the PGE coal-fired plant near Boardman. 1 ' i Erwin, Swanson elected The Heppner Branch of the American Association of Uni versity Women elected two officers for the coming year at its April 2 meeting. Inez Erwin, Heppner, was elected vice-president and Monica Swanson, lone, was re-elected branch treasurer. Two officers whose terms carry on for the next year are PAGES reverse the schedule the following week. The position is being funded through a $10,000 grant from the federal Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) and $2500 from each community. "This is only a trial posi tion," Vernon Stewart, Irri six miles northwest of Hep pner when she was struck by a pickup driven by Louie Eng of Lexington. Unconfirmed reports indi cated that the woman and her husband may have been col lecting bottles from the road way. As of Monday, the Morrow County Sheriff's De partment had not completed interviews with all persons at the scene. The Sanborn woman was reported in stable condition at St. Anthony's Hospital in Pen dleton Wednesday morning. She sustained cuts and abra sions as well as a fractured knee and fractured arm. In a second accident Satur day, Jerry Rollins, 39, of lone, was injured when his pickup overturned between Lexing ton and lone. He was taken to Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner, admitted for obser vation and released the fol lowing day. slate for 1977 mediate past exalted ruler of the Heppner lodge, was pre sented with a special plaque in recognition of his service. A standing ovation was given to Glen Ward in recog nition of his 20 years in the post of secretary. Reception set for Williams There will be a program and reception honoring Clifford Williams, who will retire at the end of the current school year. Williams taught in Echo Schools for three years, in Heppner a total of nine years, and in lone for the past six years. The reception will be held in the lone School Cafeteria, beginning at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 14, following a short Cardinal Club meeting. All parents, students and friends are invited to attend. Linda Johnson, Heppner, president, and Karen Beck, lone, secretary. Several business matters were discussed by the mem bers. An important committee report based on a thorough study of south-Morrow con sumers and grocery buying was given by committee chairman Anne Doherty. THURSDAY, gon mayor, reminded Moon last Thursday. Should CETA funds run out, the communi ties would have to abandon the position. Moon will not have the power to hire and fire the city employees he will be supervising. Firemen Forrest Burkenbine, chief, and Gordon Blackburn, display Heppner's new mini-pumper fire truck. The $21,000 unit was purchased jointly by the city and the Rural t ire Protection District. Similar units are gaining in popularity across the country, based on their economy and speed of operation. Boardman sewer project $1.4 million The city of Boardman will receive a $1,415,440 grant from the Environmental Pro tection Agency (EPA) for sewer improvements. Senator Mark Hatfield and Congressman Al Ullman said in a joint statement that the City budget defeated by seven vote margin By Tom Franks By a margin of seven votes, electors in Heppner defeated a proposed city budget increase of $46,445 outside the six per cent limitation. The vote tally was 136 to 129. Several city councilmen indicated they might not seek to put the measure to a second vote. The alternative is a cut into personnel and services. The general consensus is that cuts will begin with the police department and extend across the entire range of city ser vices. The election returns will be canvassed tonight, Thursday, April 7, at 7 p.m . Following the canvass, the budget commit tee will meet at 7:30 p.m. to Egg hunt The annual Elks' Eas ter Egg Hunt will be held Saturday, April 9. 10 a.m., for pre-schoolers and school children in grades one through four, Don Ball, exalted ruler, announced. The hunts will take place in three locations. The pre-school hunt will be at City Park near the library. The hunt for grades one and two will be at the County Court house. Grades three and four will have their hunt at the Junior High lower field. APRIL 7, 1977 Echo and Irrigon were mainly interested in hiring a city administrator to help seek out and process grants. Because of rapid growth in their areas, the communities also felt pressured to seek assistance in their urban r i w. .. ,. grant will help pay for the construction of an interceptor and non-discharge treatment lagoon facility. The grant will help pay for the final con struction stage, as well as reimburse the city for earlier planning and design work. consider what action will be taken. Heppner has voted no on tax increases consistently during the past two years. The council, along with the budget committee, sought an increase in the levy of about 75 cents per $1,000 over last year. The budget included a six per cent salary increase for city employees. If a decision is made to trim the budget further, it is ex pected that cuts will come from all services, including police, recreation, street maintenance, library, etc., with little or no change in services essential to health, basic administration and fire protection. Saturday it HEPPNER. planning efforts. "The only real problem I see working for the two communities is geographic," Moon said. "A set schedule may not fit the bill but it is something to get used to and adjust." His Echo office will be at the city hall. In Irrigon i ' 1 Hv i Ki r t - "Adequate sewers are nec essary for any economic growth at Boardman as well as improving the basic quality of life," the two men said in their statement. "This project will create construction jobs as it is being built while providing a capital improve ment after it is completed." The program to obtain a sewer grant has been on going since September 1973. Actual application to EPA was made March 9, 1976. Boardman residents cur rently use a three million gallon lagoon which was de signed for a maximum of 500 people. A one million gallon aeration lagoon was added in 1974. Boardman's current population is in excess of 1000. The grant will be for the purchase and building of a lagoon and irrigation-to-land system. Treated sewer water will be contracted to local farmers for irrigation purpo ses. "The new system is hoped to be under construction by July or August," said Jim Thompson, city manager. It will be capable of serving 4000 to 5000 people and will be located two and one-half miles east of Boardman next to the existing Bonneville Power substation. The non-discharge system is an attempt to meet the 1980 goals and guidelines of the EPA, according to Thompson. Those rules seek an abolition of discharge into navigable waters. The Department of Envi ronmental Quality (DEQ) will contribute about $300,000 to cover the local cost of the project. Boardman will now enter into negotiations with DEQ over $40,000 in addition al funds which the city had expected to be included with the grant. "It's all a matter of inter pretation of the EPA rules," explained Thompson. jc.;T.i, t n sr . m. s - w - iL - OREGON he'll work out of Morrow County's new building. Before beginning his new job. Moon will have to be unemployed for 15 days in order to comply with CETA requirements. Although the position is funded for $15,000, only $12,000 will go toward his salary. The remaining Lexington trio plan Angus show journey Three Lexington youngsters are scheduled to take part in the Western Regional Junior Angus Heifer Show set for May 1 in Reno, Nev. The three junior members of the Amer- New shop open house set Monday Heppner High School will be the scene of activity Monday eve ning, April 11. At 7:30 p.m., inter ested persons can meet in the cafetorium and hear Jim Ackley and Company play music. Following that, Morrow County Superintendent Matt Doherty will ex plain the upcoming school district budget. An open house of the new shop facilities at the high school, com plete with refresh ments, will wind up the evening. Kinzua eyes operation in Kinzua Corporation expects to resume normal operations in its Heppner plywood section in mid-May, following a layoff initiated last week, it was learned Tuesday. Unconfirmed reports last week indicated that some 50 persons were subject to layoff in the plywood operation. Wheat League slates Lexington workshop The Morrow County Wheat League will have their annual spring workshop beginning at 7 p.m. on May 4 in the Lexington Grange Hall, Tom my Martin, of Lexington, county Wheat League presi dent, said this week. Martin said the evening program will feature Don Rydrych, weed research agronomist, from the Pendle ton Experiment Station. Ry drych will speak on dryland non-tillage and reduced tillage wheat production. "This is the year we could really use some of these practices," Martin noted. "James Johnson, The Dal les, chairman of the Oregon WTieat League Safety, Con 15 c $3,000 will be used for expens es. Moon is a graduate of Hermiston High School and Eastern Oregon State Col lege. He received a bachelor of science degree in commun ity services. He has worked as the Morrow County planning director since 1974. ican Angus Association, Julie, Ken, and Geri Grieb, are among 77 boys and girls from eight states who have entered 102 Angus heifers in the show, reports Lloyd D. Miller, ex ecutive secretary of the Amer ican Angus Association. The show is the largest Western Regional ever held. It is well above last year's record entry of 84 animals from 59 young Angus breed ers. Show judge will be Herald Catlin from Yakima, Wash. Interest is particularly high in this year's show because the Western National Futurity has been designated the Na tional Angus Show of 1977. A large number of the junior members have also entered their heifers in the big national event, a once in a lifetime opportunity for many of them. The junior heifers must ar rive in Reno by noon, Satur day, April 30, and a special party for all exhibitors is planned. The show will be on Sunday, May 1, with the com bined Western National Futur ity and National Angus Show set for Monday and Tuesday, May 2 and 3. normal May A spokesman for Kinzua said this week that "a layoff was initiated last week in volving the graveyard shift in the plywood operation." The number involved was not dis closed. "Normal operation is ex pected to resume when log ging begins, approximately May 15," the spokesman said. servation and Health Commit tee, will bring us up to date on where we stand with the Occupational Safety and Health Act and what the Wheat League is doing to deal with OSHA. This presentation will include what the farmer has to look for in the future concerning this state bureau," Martin said. "Harold Kerr, Morrow County agricultural agent, will review the cost of wheat production for the county last year," Martin added. "Refreshments will be served after the meeting by the Morrow County Wheat hearts. We expect to have a good turnout, as it should be a very informative meeting," Martin said.
