TWO The Gazette-Times, lleppner. Ore., Thursday, May 19, 1977
ditorial
Graduation ceremonies approach
THE
GAZETTE-TIMES
e
a weekly ( 1 s)
look at things by Terry Hager
To explain the heading for this column,
we look to the words spoken only this week
by a crony of that locally prominent
individual, C.W. Farnsworth, to wit:
There is a pleasure in being mad,
Which none but madmen know.
John Dryden
And this column shall be devoted to bits
of "madness" that we see happening about
us in Morrow County. ..items about people,
places, events. ..those things, we will
support, endorse, chide and decry.
Some important issues are facing the
people of Morrow County. ..an upcoming
school levy vote and a strained city budget
that threatens the use of library and
swimming pool facilities.
On the school levy vote, we endorse and
support the amount being put to voters
next Tuesday and urge a "yes" vote. The
cost per $1,000 is among the lowest in
neighboring counties and districts and
with the quality of education and
programs offered Morrow County stu
dents, we feel the budget committee has
done its homework, now it's time for the
voters to do theirs.
Turning to proposed cuts in library and
swimming pool operations, we are for
making an appeal to the community at
large for help.
The city budget strained and twice
defeated can offer no more help than
what it is this year. The county is doing
what it can, and now, the people for
themselves should do what they can.
Facilities for youth and adult entertain
ment are lacking enough in smaller
communities without curtailing what is
already there.
We propose a fund-raising drive on
behalf of the pool and library. A
substantial bit of cash could be raised by
selling season swimming pool tickets and
library cards door-to-door. The library
cards could be nominally priced and to use
the library, an individual would be
required to purchase a card. Swimming
pool tickets should be sold at the rate set
by the city administration.
From there, other fund-raising events
should be arranged and those funds split
50-50 between the pool and the library.
These are stop-gap measures to be sure
and during the next year, efforts should be
made to establish a library district. ..with a
mobile or small library in North Morrow
County taken into consideration.
We're new in the greater Morrow County
community, but we plan to be here for
some time because the area and the people
suit us just fine.
We pledge to make the Gazette-Times
your newspaper, reflecting the life and
times of you, your families and your
community.
BOARDMAN
Pi m
iexingtonS 1
Heppner
Baccalaureate service for
the 1977 graduating class of
Heppner High School will be
held on Wednesday evening,
May 25, 7:30 p.m. at the First
Christian Church, 293 N. Gale,
Heppner.
The Worship Service will
consist of singing, special
music and a message to the
graduating seniors, given by
one of the local ministers.
A special invitation is ex
tended to the 1977 graduates
and their parents and to the
faculty and the administration
of Heppner High School.
Because this is an important
aspect of "graduation week,"
the South Morrow County
Ministerial Association wishes
to extend an invitation to the
Heppner community to par
ticipate in the worship ser
vice. "It's a new beginning," is
the class motto of the 46
Heppner High School seniors
who will participate in the
Heppner
Planning
Commission
The Heppner Planning
Commission has scheduled a
public hearing Tuesday, May
24, at City Hall to consider a
conditional use permit to
place a mobile home on
property at 595 South Court
Street, L.E. Dick, Jr., com
mission chairman, said.
The session will get under
way at 8 p.m., with special
notice to property owners
within 500 feet of 595 South
Court Street.
TO MORROW
To the Class of '77
TOO TOMORROW
By Tom Franks i
"I grant that today's seniors may be more worldly wise,
but beyond that I will not go." Anon and for good reason.
Shortly before I graduated from high school, I was cut
loose from a certain amount of parental control. It wasn't
something that was planned it just happened.
It all started when I borrowed the car for a date and didn't
return until 4 a.m. the next day.
On arriving home, the lights were on and my parents were
up which is an understatement of the first order. There
followed a long "quiz" concerning my activities and repeated
questions about who I was with (I wouldn't tell) and "What
kind of girl w ould keep a boy out until four in the morning?"
Or was it five?
I explained that I had met this girl at the church retreat
and we had gone to dinner, a movie and to the amusement
park on the other side of Denver.
Then I informed my parents that the girl and her father
had just returned from picking peaches on the western slope
and that she had, "Invited me in for peaches and cream." At
this, my mother exploded with the comment, "You never eat
peaches and cream at home!!!" My dad couldn't keep a
straight face and gracefully retired.
I was grounded (without wheels) for two weeks.
I still protest my innocence with as much success as that
accorded to Richard Nixon. I am thankful that my parents
stuck to the facts and never got around to my intentions!
Nixon has the advantage of sticking to his intentions and
never getting around to the facts. Such is the difference
between politics and parents.
Graduation time
This story is thrown in because it is graduation time again.
For many seniors, it is a time when "freedom" appears
within reach at last, along with the prospect of "doing what I
want to do."
Those of us w ho have "graduated" know better. We can tell
you of a time when we felt the need for "freedom" and we can
look back and see how free we were, without knowing the
freedom we enjoyed.
On the part of some parents, there will be some very real
tears shed at graduation. If you see your parents cry, and are
lucky enough to have parents that do, don't think that you
understand, because you don't.
Those seniors who do not plan to go on to college have
gotten their last formal report card. Your parents are just
beginning to get theirs and it is written in the flesh and blood
of your existence.
You can understand some of the pride and love invested in
you, but you cannot share now in the memories which your
graduation disturbs and you cannot share in the revival of
those hopes which died or were set aside because of you.
However great your heart may be, you cannot share in the
secret that your parents would not trade one of those
lingering hopes or one of those almost forgotten dreams for
you just where you are and just like you are.
There is no way that I can express a personal thought for
every parent with a graduate. There is one thing that all of us
old, untrustworthy people (over 25 or 30 or 40) might share
with you in common:
We wish
We wish for you freedom equal to your dreams of
freedom .
The way each of us may express this hope and the way we
go about supporting this hope may not make sense even to us.
If we caution and prohibit, we do so because we see a lack of
freedom ahead for you. If we say, "Go to it," we do so with
the knowledge that you chance a loss of freedom even with
our blessings.
If you haven't guessed by now, let me tell you a hard fact.
You are as free at this point in time and in history as most of
this world ever dreamed of being. If you don't realize this,
you have yet to learn that freedom is a condition inside of
you. Freedom does not exist "out there" in front of your eyes
and there is not one person or parent who can grant or take
away the freedom that really counts the possession of a free
spirit.
school's 1977 commencement
exercises to be held Thursday,
May 26, at 7:30 p.m., in the
high school gymnasium.
The commencement ad
dress "Will be delivered by
Charles Starr, lone High
School principal. Nola Bin
schus will give the valedictory
address and Sharon McCarl
will give the salutatory ad
dress. Heppner principal Jim Bier
will make the presentation of
awards and Irvin Rauch of the
County School Board will pre
sent the diplomas.
Class officers for the 1977
graduates include Deborah
Holland, president; Sally Ma
theny, vice-president; Nola
Binschus, secretary-treasurer;
and Chris Rauch, ser-geant-at-arms.
Riverside
Baccalaureate services for
the 1977 graduating class of
Riverside High School will be
held Sunday, May 22, 7 p.m . at
the Boardman Community
Church. The Invocation will be
delivered by Rev. Jerry Ur
back of the Boardman Com
munity Church. The Bacca
laureate sermon will be given
by Rev. Robert Schmoll of the
Assembly of God Church in
Irrigon. Rev. Carl Riley of the
Columbia Youth Fellowship
will deliver the Benediction
and a presentation of Bibles
will be included by the com
bined churches of Boardman
and Irrigon.
Riverside 1977 graduates,
their parents, and the faculty
and administration are invited
to attend.
Twenty-nine seniors of the
Riverside High School Class of
1977 will receive their dip
lomas during commencement
exercises Friday, May 27, in
the high school gymnasium.
The program will begin at 8
p.m., and Morrow County
School Board Chairman John
Matthews will present the
diplomas.
School principal Dante Dal-
toso will present awards and
also introduce the four honor
'speakers from the class. The
speakers are, in order, Linda
Sullivan, Cecil Rock, Valarie
Sullivan and John Danies.
The class motto of the 1977
Riverside graduates is, "The
past is our preparation, but
the future is our lives."
The class motto of the 1977
lone graduates is, "What lies
behind us and what lies before
us are small matters com
pared to what lies within us."
lone
lone High School will grad
uate nine seniors Saturday,
May 28, during commence
ment exercises at the high
school gymnasium. The pro
gram will begin at 8 p.m.
County School Supt. Matt
Doherty will deliver the com
mencement address. The
valedictory address will be
given by Joan Doherty and
Debora Palmer will give the
salutatory address.
Harold Snider will present
the diplomas and presentation
of the class and awards will be
made by Charles Starr, the
school principal.
Hospital
notes
iM
During the week ended
Tuesday, May 17, ten persons
were admitted or dismissed
from Pioneer Memorial Hos
pital in Heppner.
Dismissed during the week
were Jerry Phillips, Heppner;
Suzanne Vinson, Lexington;
Carolyn Cole, Heppner.
Still hospitalized Tuesday
were Newton Myers, Lexing
ton; Randall Richman, Her
miston; Elva Ruhl, Lexing
ton', Earl Morgan, lone;
Myrtle Smith, Heppner; Mar
ie Rinehart, Condon; Terry
Rogers, Arlington.
Letters to the Editor
As Christians
Editor:
I hesitate to write this letter, simply because I have never
done such a thing before. However, since I read Mark
Johnson's letter to the Editor last week, May 5, I haven't
been able to get it out of my mind. Perhaps expressing my
own thoughts will help me and I think they will be in
agreement with the "silent majority."
1 believe, as Mark Johnson does, that we are all God's
children and that He indeed does love all of us, righteous as
well as unrighteous. I also believe that although God is a
loving Father, long in patience and slow to anger, He is also a
Just God and has righteous wrath. Many times the Bible tells
us how God struck down wrongdoers, whole cities at a time
and others one at a time as in the case of Ananias and
Sapphira (Acts 5: Verse 4) who didn't commit murder, but
only lied to God. And what about Lot's wife (Gen. 19:26) and
many others?
Who gives us the right to pronounce death upon another one
of God's children? I believe God does. He not only gives us
the right, but He tells us to do so. The entire 35th chapter of
Numbers deals with laws concerning murderers. Verse 31
states, "Whenever anyone is judged guilty of murder, he
must die no ransom may be accepted for him." (Living
Bible). But, you say, that was Old Testament, and so it was,
but God gave us the Ten Commandments in the Old
Testament; are they also outdated?
While we as Christians have a New Commandment to love
one another (John 13:34), I do not think it means we should
let murderers go free. In so doing, we certainly are not
showing love for the law abiding citizens who must live in
fear. And in so doing, we surely encourage more crime.
Murders and other crimes are constantly increasing and I
fear for my children and for my children's children unless we
do something to curb it now.
One more point. ..We do not "kill people in order to show
that killing people is wrong" as Mark Johnson stated. We put
murderers to death to keep them from killing again. If
Michael Olds had been put to death the first time he
murdered, no doubt both the young 23-year-old man from
Walla Walla and our own Mary Lindsay would be alive today.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Harold (Irene) Holtz
Anv writers ?
Editor:
I wish that anyone who knows me would write to me.
I spent my childhood in lone. I went through the "Heppner
Flood."
My father's name was Archer Rice. He is gone, of course. I
am now 80 years old.
My name, and the names of all of the school kids, can be
found (maybe someday) buried in the ground at what was
then the school in lone.
I have outlived everybody, I think, and I have information
about lone that someone might like to have.
Gerald R. Rice
91 Clayton Ave.
San Jose, CA 95110
Buttons 'n Bows
4-H'ers meet
The Buttons and Bows 4-H
Sewing Club met at Mrs.
Oswalt's house on May 3, 1977.
All members were present.
The meeting was used to work
on our project. We are work
ing on our oven mitts.
We had an Easter Egg Hunt
on April 8, 1977, at Mrs.
Oswalt's house, and the Silks
and Satins were invited. Our
next meeting is May 31, 1977.
Reporter, Karan Taylor
Elks Calendar
A
Thursday, May 19
Dinner, 6:30 p.m.
Seafood Plate
Regular Lodge, 8 p.m.
Fisherman's Night
Stag Night
Saturday, May 21
Dinner, 6:30 p.m.
Live Music
Ritualistic Contest
at Condon
Friday, May 20
Happy Hour, 5-7
Ritualistic Contest
at Condon
Tuesday, May 24
Senior Citizens, 4:30 p.m.
0
!
Wednesday, May 25
Senior Citizens
4:30 p.m.
0
Elks & out-of-town guests only
n r n c ha tt r
THE
HEPPNER
GAZETTE-TIMES
Punished 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.
The official newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow.
G.M. Reed, Publisher
Dolores Reed, Co-publisher
Terry M. Hager, Business Manager
Tom Franks. Kditor
Eileen Saling, Office Manager
Justine Weatherford, Local News
Georgia Seal, Composing
Janene Searle, Composing
Sharlene Arends, Composing
Budget support
Editor:
On May 24th, the Morrow County School District Budget
will again be presented to the voters of the County for
approval.
The tax proposal has been reduced by $127,917.00 as a
result of cuts in the proposed budget and of savings in the
current budget.
It now appears that the actual tax rate per thousand dollars
of true cash value required for next year's school budget will
be less than the current year by at least 10 cents per
thousand.
The budget adjustments have been made after much con
sideration by Local Advisory Committees and by the District
Board and Budget Committee.
We feel that we have tried to comply with, the wishes of the
taxpayers by significantly reducing the budget and the tax
levy.
In doing so, efforts have been made to reduce the budget
without actually reducing the programs that are offered for
children of the district.
Any appreciable further cut would almost certainly
require a reduction in the service that directly effect
children.
The future of our children's education is now in the hands of
the voter. Approval of the budget will result in a continuous
high level of service for our children.
As members of the Advisory Committee, School Board and
Budget Committee, representing Ione-Lexington-Heppner
attendance area, we urge you to VOTE YES on the Morrow
County School Budget on May 24th.
Don Bennett
Jean Bennett
Jerry Dougherty
Virginia Grieb
Ron Hague wood
Betty Marquardt
Jerry Myers
Lorene Griffith
Harold Holtz
Sandra Murray
Irvin Rauch
Betty Rood
Dick Sargent
Pauline Winter
Jim Wishart
Dr. Wallace Wolff
Dean Wright
Gene Rietmann
Harold Snider
Pat Wright
For Graduation...
.DULUVA
CARAVELLE
The
affordable
high
fashion
watch
4 V v 3A
IfESn mm p
i : 5
tit a-'r
'3
If these watches caught your eye, you'll
want to see our complete Bulova Caravelle
fashion collection. We think they're the season's
most exciting gift choice. Spirited in style . . . dependable
in performance ... . and practical in price. From $15.95.
. Curved cuff brdctitt wthh in bttck itn iiowmt fiit dial $31 ft
. 1? Ilwtl '.lime with M of criamrJ.cnt 0.11 JJt M
C. FaiOiM'i liwutt, (he nomtn lictd .tctn. ,th h,te dntmei dm Hi
I. Buutilul 1 7 iti biKdlet witch mth mnn, oranit didl. tU.M
3
Main St.
Heppner
676-9200