The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore.. Thursday, April 7, 1977 THREE
'Small' agencies join
for big power voice
The Small Preference
Agencies Group organization
which was formed last fall,
has grown to a membership of
66 publicly owned systems,
Dave Harrison, manager of
the Columbia Basin Electric
Co-op, reports.
The small agencies, gener
ally classed as those under 25
MW average load, became
concerned last fall about the
regional discussions on form
ing a regional power supply
entity.
In the past, the small public
systems: small cooperatives,
small municipals, small PUDs
and small mutuals, had not
generally participated in or
had not been active in re
visions and major discussion
involving regional power sup
ply. Many of the small utilities
were concerned about a voice
in regional discussions.
As a result, a new or
ganization came into being
with the SPA or Small Pre
ference Agencies Group.
Dave Harrison, manager of
Columbia Basin Electric Co
op, Heppner, was the or
ganizer and became the Secretary-Treasurer
of the or
ganization. The President
Delpha Jones
Lexington club taps
new slate of officers
Lexington TOPS Club, Ore
gon Chapter 484, met on
Monday for the regular meet
: ing and installing of newly
elected officers, by the instal
ling officer, Charlene Papi
neau. Installed for 1977 were
Leader, Barbara Paullus; Co
leader, Mary Roberts; Sec
retary, Jennifer Breden;
Treasurer, Debbie Pettie;
' weight recorder, Florence
Green, Lois Woods also.
Awards for Queen of the
Month went to Charlene Papi
neau and Queen of the Quar
ter, Jennifer Breden. This
group meets every Monday at
2 p.m. at the Lexington School.
They welcome new members
- and especially any former
TOPS members desiring to
reunite with the group.
Mrs. Joe Balfe has been
visiting these past few days
with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Palmer, and at
tended the Ropp-Majeske
wedding held Saturday. She
left on Tuesday for her home
in Alaska.
Alice Majeske (Mrs. Gene)
spent a couple of days as a
patient in Pioneer Memorial
Hospital, returning home
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mar
quardt and family recently
enjoyed a trip to California
'and way points, visiting Dis
neyland and historical spots.
Aaron Klinger was a recent
caller at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pete
Klinger.
Charma Marquardt, who is
attending school in Portland,
and Norita Marquardt, who is
employed for the police de
partment in Portland, were
cuf tor
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elected was Larry Burbank,
city Superintendent of the City
of Heyburn, Ida. Ed Schlen
der, manager of Elmhurst
Mutual Power and Light
Company, was named the
representative to serve on the
"negotiating team" repre
senting the public agencies in
regional discussions.
David Hittle, Hittle and
Brown, Kennewick Wash., has
served as consultant for the
group.
The SPA was instrumental
in the development of a "pool"
concept to meld resource use
among the public agencies.
The final "rate concept" of
the regional plan now being
considered for legislation con
cerns: an A cost level, a B cost
level, and a C cost level, for
future wholesale rate cost
structure is greatly influenced
by the SPA policy position and
input to the regional dis
cussions. Under the plan being
considered for legislation, the
preference power A pool in
cludes hydro plus partici
pation in the WPPSS plants 1,
2, and 3. The "B" power cost
would include thermal and
hydro and the "C" power cost
is related to new thermal only.
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recent visitors with their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill B.
Marquardt.
Alma Vinson was released
Monday from Pioneer Mem
orial Hospital, where she had
been a patient for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Rauch
returned home on Tuesday
from Ohio, where they took
delivery on two school buses
for the district, driving them
home.
Dates to Remember:
Traveling Food Sale, Satur
day, sponsored by Holly
Rebekah Lodge.
Holly Rebekah Lodge,
Thursday, April 7 and 21.
3 Links Club, April 14, Ruth
Robinson home.
Visitation Night, Willows
Grange, April 16.
Lexington Grange brings
desserts, potluck dinner.
TOPS, Mondays, 2 p.m.,
Lexington School.
Lexington Grange, April 18,
5 p.m.
Pat Wright, lecturer of
Lexington Grange 726, is an
nouncing plans for the April
meeting as follows. Slides and
a talk on the Wildflowers of
the Blue Mountains; their uses
and dangers, by Jerry Strick
ler, plant ecologist employed
by the U.S. Forest Service in
LaGrande. The meeting will
start promptly at 5 p.m. and
will last an hour, with a thirty
minute question period. There
will be special music and a
potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m., to
which all are cordially invited.
Mrs. Wright invites the public
to take advantage of this
program, enjoy the fellowship
with the Grange members,
and join in the dinner.
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Four candidates, three of
them from the Pendleton
area, will be. vying for the
lone position up for election on
the Blue Mountain Commun
ity College Board of Education
April 19.
The three Pendleton area
Irrigon
airman on
duty post
Airman David A. Conboy,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie L.
Conboy of Rt. 2, Irrigon, Ore.,
has been assigned to Robins
AFB, Ga., for training and
duty in the U.S. Air Force
communications field.
The airman, who recently
completed basic training at
Lackland AFB, Texas., stud
ied the Air Force mission,
organization and customs and
received special instruction in
human relations.
Airman Conboy is a 1976
graduate of Lakes High School
in Tacoma, Wash.
Local
utility saves
energy
The concern among em
ployees and board members of
Columbia Basin Electric
Co-op about the drought and
BPA request for 10 per cent
conservation has apparently
brought about reductions in
use, Dave Harrison, manager,
reports.
The eleven board members
reduced use in March 1977 (as
compared to March 1976) by
23.9 per cent.
The 22 employees of the
local utility were able to re
duce consumption by 18.7 per
cent for the March energy
billing as compared to that a
year ago.
While this comparison is not
weather-adjusted, the signifi
cance is clear in the cuts in
effect by the board and em
ployees. The region is being asked to
curtail use by 10 per cent so
that reservoirs will be main
tained to help toward the
future needs of next fall.
Kratzer will
speak Easter
Sunday here
Dr. Raymond Kratzer, Dis
trict Superintendent of the
Northwest District Church of
the Nazarene, will be the
special speaker for the morn
ing worship service this Eas
ter morning at 11 a.m. at the
Heppner Church of the Naza
rene. "It is a privilege to have Dr.
and Mrs. Kratzer with us for
this special Easter season. We
invite all to worship with us as
we recall Christ's suffering,
death, resurrection, and as
cension at this Easter time,"
Gordon Blackburn, pastor of
the Heppner Nazarene
Church, said.
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Board, budget vote April 19
candidates are challenging
incumbent Harmon Springer,
Hermiston.
Names of challengers on the
ballot are Bill Grable, Richard
L. Schulberg and Barbara Ann
Browning Wright. .
Also on the ballot April 19
will be the college's operating
budget for the 1977-78 school
year. The budget to be voted
on is $3,318,707, an increase of
7.77 per cent over the current
figure of $3,079,381.
A graduate of Oregon State
University, Grable lives in the
Gibbon area, where he farm
and raises goats. In addition to
Oregon State, he has attended
BMCC and Eastern Oregon
State College. He is 32 years
old.
Schulberg, 27, has a mas
ter's degree from Yale and is
currently Pendleton's Assist
) Kinzua
, Barbara Pike
Snowmobile fans
enjoy winter sport
The wonderful weather of
the last couple days had me
convinced it is spring; how
ever, after talking to the
snowmobile fans around town,
I'm not so sure. A large group
went to the Notch Sunday to
enjoy the winter sport. Among
those present were Vic and
Marty Wallis, Cissi and Clark,
Nina Castles and Tara, Chuck
and Melba Mitchell, Cindi and
Windi, and the Mitchells'
house guests, Bill and Kerry
McConnell, Richland, Wash.,
and Melba's father, Robert
Reid, of Hermiston.
Lauri Hire, Deena Reid, Pat
McMinn, Sandra Williamson
and Dinah Jackson went to
Condon Saturday, where they
joined a group of Condon and
Arlington women for a bus trip
to Portland, where they toured
Old Town. The tour, sponsored
by the Home Extension Clubs,
included a trip to the theater
at Reed College, where the
ladies were treated to a live
performance of "The Child
ren's Hour."
Lorraine and Floyd Wilson,
Umatilla, arrived Saturday to
spend the weekend with the
Steve Conlee family.
Frank and Patti Burres and
children Jackie, Richard, Pat
ti and Shayne went to Bend to
visit Patti's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Powers, and to keep
medical appointments.
Steve and Roberta Conlee
went to The Dalles Tuesday to
take care of some business
and have medical care.
Verlin and Lavina Conner
went to Bend Saturday for
medical attention for Lavina.
Cindy Bowman spent her
spring vacation in Prineville
with her sister and brother-in-law,
Dave and Sara Riney.
They were joined Friday by
Ron and Ginger Bowman. Ron
and Ginger returned home to
Fossil Sunday after returning
tVe have your farm f
supply needs. . . I
2, 4-D Butyl Ester 6E
$9.90 gal.
Buctril $30.50 gal.
Bronate $34.50 a gal
Pettyjohn
Oil Co.
ant Planner. A Fullbright
Fellow, he is a graduate of
Pendleton High School and is
working on a Ph. D. from
Columbia University, New
BO ARDM AN Union Pacific Railroad announced
that signal crews will start Monday, April 11, installing
automatic signals and gates at the Paterson Ferry Road
crossing near Boardman. Work is expected to be done
by May 1.
Proposed
Voters will be asked to
approve an increase of 7.77
per cent in the Blue Mountain
Community College operating
budget when they go to the
polls April 19.
The new budget figure for
news
768-2861
Cindy to Kinzua.
Thirteen guests were pres
ent at the Steve Conlee home
Thursday afternoon when Ro
berta Conlee gave a Tupper
ware party. The ladies enjoy
ed games, refreshments and
inspecting the items shown by
Mabel Palmer, Condon.
Sunday, Dr. and Mrs. John
Radermacher and sons, Pen
dleton, arrived at the Jiggs
Bowman home to visit for
several days. Thursday, the
Radermachers left to go to the
coast to continue their vaca
tion. Steve and Roberta Conlee
and son Scott went to Heppner
Wednesday. While Steve took
care of some business, Rober
ta and Scott went to the
Heppner Nursing Home to
visit with Steve's aunt, Lydia
Conlee.
Among those attending the
Church Camp at Appleton,
Wash., were Reverend and
Mrs. Bill Mai, Ray and Carrie
Jones, Cheri Bourne, Lbri
Day, Mark Watts and Norran
Watts.
Dave and Sara Riney,
Prineville, were in Kinzua for
the weekend, visiting her
parents, Jiggs and Rita Bow
man. Sunday, they all went to
The Dalles to meet the Bow
mans' son and family, Joe and
Robin Bowman and Erika.
The younger Bowmans re
turned to Portland, leaving
Erika with her grandparents
for a week long visit.
A card from Louie Lorengel
says he is busy, but enjoying
himself at Libby, Mont. He is
instructing the new crew and
owners of the Condon, Kinzua
and Southern engine in the
proper care and maintenance
of a train. Louie went to Libby
early last week to help the St.
Regis Company put the engine
into service. He expects to
return home sometime this
week.
Ph. 422-72541
York. .
Springer has served on the
college board since 1370, was
chairman of the board last
year, and is manager of Radio
budget $3.3 million
the 1977-78 school year is
$3,318,707, up from the current
budget figure of $3,079,381.
The tax load is spread over the
two-county district of Morrow
and Umatilla counties.
If approved by the voters,
the new operating levy would
be about $1.79 per $1,000 true
cash value, an increase of 26
cents over this year's. The
bond redemption levy is esti
mated to be 23 cents per
thousand dollars of evalua
tion, a decrease of two cents.
Total amount to be collected
by taxes is $1,858,367. The
balance of funds to operate the
college comes from state and
federal sources and from stu
dent tuition and fees. About
31.2 per cent comes from the
state, 10.2 per cent from
tuition and fees, 50 per cent
from district taxes, and the
balance from federal and
other sources.
The total evaluation of the
college two-county district is
not yet known, and President
Ron Daniels said he fully ex
pects the $1.79 and 23-cent
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our purpose . . .
is to continue to provide you, our consumer
owners, with first-rate electric service at the
lowest possible cost. We set our rate at the
lowest levels that will ensure a financially sound
operation and continued!, reliable power supply
for the community We don't profit from these
increased costs, and we're not happy about
having to raise the price you pay for electricity.
We're doing our best to hold down costs. Your
wise use of this valuable servant, electricity, will
help us continue to serve you better.
Keeping your electric rates at the lowest
possible cost.
Columbia Basin
Electric Co-op
Serving 3,010 square miles in five counties.
Saving the area hundreds of
cooperative.
Station KOHU in Hermiston.
He has been active in com
munity affairs, and is now
president of Hermiston Ro
tary club.
Ms. Wright, a 26-year-old
graduate of Pendleton High
School, studied Communica
tions at Linfield College for
three years and attended Blue
Mountain Community College
for two years.
figures to be lower when the
final true cash value of Uma
tilla and Morrow counties is
known.
Projected income from the
state and students is reduced
in the new budget because of a
drop in enrollment. Tuition
will go up $5 per term next
year in an effort to have stu
dents pay a greater share of
their education.
Deleted from the budget this
year for the first time are all
athletic talent grants.
Visit
Sean and Sherrie Harnett,
from Issaquah, Wash., were in
Heppner last week with their
grandmother, Rachel Har
nett. They had a later school
spring vacation in the state
north of here.
Mrs. Harnett says her oldest
grandchild, Dawn, will come
for a longer visit during next
summer. The three children's
parents are the Melvin Har
ness .
past 1 0 years .
electric rates
increase less
than cost-of-
living . . .
While you pay more for elec
triciry today, chances are you
are also using more than you
did five or ten years ago. In fact,
the price you pay for electricity
has actually lagged behind
sharply rising prices for most
other consumer goods and serv
ices during the past decade. Be
tween June, 1964, and June,
1 974, the consumer price index
increased by 58.3 . while the
retail price index for electricity
increased by nearly 10 less,
or only 4N.6.
thousands a year through a
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