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TEN The Gazette-Times. Heppner. Ore., Thursday, May 12, 1977 Grand jury indicts Olds I i f ' f V - " ' 'i vJ - ; ' '"'''ii. - r I J R Y'"V -rf 1 "-i The Crusher goes to work smashing car bodies and metal items at the old city dump. The 50,000 pound unit can develop HO tons of crushing pressure. The cleanup of the old city dump involved about 10 days of work, not counting earlier work by volunteers. Heppner now uses the county landfill. Also shown is a 950 articulating caterpillar wheel loader with crisp grapplers. 'The Crusher' cleans up in Heppner at city request "The Crusher" is in town! The Crusher is soft spoken Stuart Abrams of Beaverton, Ore., and for the better part of the past week, he and his crew have been cleaning up the old city dump in smashing style. Central to the operation is a 50,000 pound hydraulic crush er capable of 140 tons of crushing pressure. Overall, the work of crushing old auto bodies, stoves, and other ap pliances and metal at the old city dump will involve 10 days of work for The Crusher's crew. The move to clean up the old dump was a voluntary move by the city. City trash is now going to the open county landfill west of Heppner. The permit on the present city dump runs out in September and the Department of En vironmental Quality has put the city on notice that the permit won't be renewed. In addition to work at the old city dump, Abrams and his crew have picked up about two dozen car bodies from the local area. Abrams said the work of his two crews is built on service and repeat requests for en vironmental cleanup. "We try to base all our work on good service. We try to work as a team wherever we are called for land site environmental improvements," Abrams said. The hydraulic crusher used in the Stuart Enterprises operation is a car crusher. Abrams has two at work right now and employs eight people. One crusher is at work in Heppner, the other is at Cald well, Ida. "We need a minimum of 200 tons of scrap to make a job economically feasible. The material is shipped to a metal shredder in Portland where it is prepared and sold on the Saturday, AT H eppner Elks i rEATUKINu BOOTLEGGiH FROM PENDLETON DINNER SERVED Join in fine dining and fun at the Heppner tlks. domestic and export market. Most of the metal goes over seas, to Japan in particular, Abrams noted. Abrams said business has been somewhat slow and prices for scrap have been going down, as well as fluc tuating daily, since he started into the business more than two years ago. Part of his crew is com prised of Larry Jones, cat loader, Richard Jackson, in charge of trucks, and Douglas Jensen in charge of the crusher now in Heppner. The ground moving group is com prised of Ralph Higgins, Bob Johnson and Greg Kerr. Another loader operator is John Kiecher. All of the men are from the Beaverton-New-burg area. Prior to entering business as "The Crusher," Abrams worked in a steel yard. He grew up in Portland. Despite the slowdown in business, Abrams has continued to build his equipment inventory to get the job done. Two crushers, three trucks and plans for another, and a 950 articulating caterpillar wheel loader with crisp grapplers. With the equipment, they are able to crush 150 to 200 cars a day. Much work outside of cleanup, such as that going on in Heppner, is done in auto junkyards. Abrams and his crews now work throughout Oregon, Washington and Ida ho and are in the process of developing some business in California. "I would like to get set up on a regular basis to service the Heppner area on schedule," Abrams said. He has been talking with city officials about returning at a future date to remove metal trash such as worn out washers, dryers, refrigerators, stoves, water heaters, car bodies, or May 14 THE AT 6:30 p.m. parts of cars, worn out farm equipment, etc. Under discussion is an arrangement whereby Hep pner residents can take metal items to a central location, with notice to the city, and expect The Crusher for their swift removal. "Our objective is to become the most efficient crushing business," Abrams said. His image is enhanced by truck CBEC investment above average The Oregon Rural Electric Co-op Associations Annual Tax Committee report for the calendar year of 1976 has been reviewed. The total investment of the Columbia Basin Electric Co op of Heppner had reached $8,182,678 as of Dec. 31. The investment per consumer member (on the average) has now reached $2,169.32 com pared to the average of the ORECA systems of $2,075.88, officials said. The rate charged per kwh is 1.26 cents per kwh for Colum bia Basin members compared to 1.32 cents for the average. Only 3 of the 13 other co-ops had a lower rate of charge per kwh for 1976. The local co-op paid the least cost per kwh to BPA of any of the 14 co-ops in 1976. Good capacitance, good load balance, and good load factor are keys in keeping the costs of purchased power down. Etinzua Sale continues 2 more reers O S-green 2x4 special farm grade stud. Mixed specie 92" long $50 per unit (240 pieces) Heppner Mill Sold by unit only Sale ends .lay 20. The Morrow County Grand Jury in session Monday in dicted Michael Olds, 34, on charges of first degree kid napping and unauthorized use of a vehicle in connection with the abduction of Mary Lindsay of lone. County planners study permits, zone requests The Morrow County Plan ning Commission will meet Monday, May 23, in Heppner, to consider permits and zone changes involving property in Boardman, Lexington and Irrigon. The session is sched uled for the Morrow County Courthouse at 7:30 p.m. Two applications from Orlin Kloepper of Pendleton will be considered. Kloepper has ap plied for a zone change from farm residential to commer cial on property at Irrigon. A second application for a conditional use permit, on the same property, seeks approv al of a drinking establishment in the proposed commercial zone. Robert Duncan of Lexington cabs white pin stripped over red. The custom pin striping is done by Daniel Donace of Portland. And you guessed it, "The Crusher," the big central piece of equipment, is made in Texas. Heppner doesn't take a second place as the crisp grapplers on the 950 sheel loader were the development of a Heppner resident . Losses in getting the power from BPA to the consumer member were low again in 1976 at 18 per cent less than the average of other systems in the state. "Electric" margins as a percentage of revenue were nearly the highest at 13.62 per cent compared to 13.65 per cent at neighboring Wasco Electric Co-op. Columbia Basin did not show much gain in new ser vices added in 1976. Only Columbia Power Co-op added less new services for the year. Try a classified They're Great 676-9228 For more information, call 676-9183, ext. 37 Olds is scheduled to be arraigned in Umatilla County Circuit Court Thursday, May 12. He is accused of the murder of a College Place, Wash., cab driver in Umatilla County. In other action, the grand seeks a zone change from qualified farm to farm on ap proximately 10 acres. Earl Trudeau of Boardman Sheriff's Possee helps bike-a-thon The Morrow County Sher iff's Search and Rescue Posse has agreed to help with the E.S.A. Million Dollar Bike Ride to be held June 4. The Sheriff's Posse will act as patrol to help persons who cannot complete the entire 20 miles' ride from Ruggs to lone. The posse will also warn motorists of approaching cyclists, helping to make the ride a safe one. The bike-a-thon will begin at 9 a.m. at Ruggs. Alpha Theta officers, spon sors of the event, said they are glad to have the support of the posse in undertaking their first bike ride to benefit St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Alpha Theta of Heppner also announced that their sister chapter at lone will act as co-sponsors of the bike ride. R & W Drive-In will be giving a coupon, good for one free drink, to each participant .... ft? HIS SCHWABH V J9 ', sh 1 mo-' i vCliU vtw jit ; Get You Where C?8 I 3 i You'reGing WITH W-O PLUS I $J "cAQ a! TRADE TRADE F.E.T. WAb " I 700x15 $3262 37 3" idlii 750x16 4723 $53M $3M I Les Schwab QAI f EQiES Guaranteed fjioro nib eooo sy. $39.33 ! J Gri Retread More f.lilc 4800 4 year 40OUU I 1 I Til l 700x15 - r A Llorc MIc 3600 3,.., $29.73 I j 252 c? " I eachT J Free ft STORE HOURS 750x16 1 Planting f MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. I 258 "T f SATURDAY-ALL DAY 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 87 FET EACH n-" - ,, . I Willi Ilk rrtr.id.bl. I -V Robb Rush- Manager g j c, m ., cn.n,. I Kevin Rountree, Sales ISmmHfnM'tMiuamsisMmi'mm r" Heppner 676-9431 jury returned an indictment of rape in the first degree against Sam Consiglio, 25, of St. Clair Shores, Mich., in connection with an alleged rape along the freeway in Morrow County near Patter son Ferry Road. seeks a conditional use permit to establish multi-family resi dences in what is now a farm zone. in the ride. There will also be prizes given to the oldest cyclist, youngest cyclist, larg est family group and the person turning in the most money by June 15. All persons turning in their sponsor sheets and money by June 15 will be eligible for a prize. The winner will be determined on June 16 by lot. St Jude's is a research hospital for catastrophic childhood diseases. While it is most noted for its achieve ments in the field of leukemia, there is also research being done on the influenza virus. Lisa Wasson visits parents Lisa Wasson, who is at tending Columbia Basin Col lege at Pasco, was in Heppner Monday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Cuts-forth. Consiglio is charged with the rape of a 29-year-old Arlington woman who was hitchhiking from Pendleton to Arlington on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 24. The grand jury also re Lexington council meets The Lexington City Council has scheduled a meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 17. According to Lois M. Allyn, recorder, the purpose of the meeting is to work on the budget for 1977-1978. lone council Wednesday A special meeting of the lone City Council has been called for Wednesday, May 25, 8 p.m., to consider passage of an ordinance which would provide for the abatement of building nuisances, Elizabeth Ernst, recorder, reports. The public session will be held at City Hall in lone. Keene IHS president Stuart Keene has been elected president of the student body at lone High School for the coming year. He heads a slate of officers including Brian Rietmann, vice president; ; Jan Peterson, secretary; and Michelle McElligott, assistant secretary. ' Cheerleaders elected this week are Natalie Tews, Carole McElligott, Kim Cofenas and Darci Rea. Elks Calendar Thursday, May 12 Lodge, 8 p.m. Initiation Ladies' Night Mother's Day Observance Dinner, 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 13 Happy Hour, 5-7 p.m. Saturday, May 14 Dinner, 6:30 p.m. Live Music Elks & out-of-town B.P.O.E. 358 -3 turned an indictment of thefi in the first degree againsl Larry Gross of Boardman. Gross is charged in connection with an alleged theft of casil from a Boardman service station. News Briefs Tuesday, May 17 Senior Citizens, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18 Senior Citizens, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 19 Regular Lodge, 8 p.m. Fisherman's Night Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Men Only guests only Heppner, Oregon! M. M. 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