TWO The Gazette-Times. Heppner, Ore., Thursday, June 2, 1977
Sifting through
the
VAX
TIMES
I've heard a couple of people saying this week that they
didn't appreciate reading the incorrect grammar that
happened to slip off the end of my pen in last week's column.
They seem to think that young people at an impressionable
age might pick up some bad habits from reading that kind of
phraseology in the newspaper.
And I can certainly understand their concern on this point.
Personally, I feel the contrast provided by reading my
mismatched locutions next to the hopefully legitimate
language employed throughout the rest of the paper, only
tends to emphasize the importance of getting your p's and q's
in the right order.
But my intention here, from the beginning, has not been to
let clumsy semantemes cloud the message. My aim has been
to draw some of the interesting items from the past that
might trip a dusty memory switch and open the gate for a few
good recollections that might wander in.
For the young people, a mirror held to the past can often be
as instructive as a window opened to the future.
That is my intention, nothing more, nothing less.
If it means writing this column with my good friend Noah
Webster looking over my shoulder, then so be it. I'll give it
my best shot, but you still might have to begrudge me a little
blooper now and then. I can recall too many occasions over at
the schoolhouse when I was dunking pigtails and throwing
spitwads when I should have been tending to my lessons.
But those are days gone by, just like...
This week in 1967 when the Times reported that, "If a
person received a nickel a word for all the old stories and
reminiscences at the Pioneer Memorial Picnic, he'd
probably be a millionaire. The pavilion was well filled and all
had a wonderful time renewing acquaintances and swapping
tales." Same goes for this year.
Some words to live by that haven't faded like the paper
they were printed on are found in this week's paper for 1957.
Francis B. Nickerson, addressing the Heppner graduates,
stressed the need for, "learning to accept oneself,
recognizing personal characteristics, meeting failure as well
as success and adjusting to adult life."
Shades of the present were found in the Times for this week
in 1947. An editorial by then editor and publisher, O.G.
Crawford, states, "Inquiries for houses and apartments are
still far greater than the supply and new people find it next to
impossible to find a place to live. How long this condition will
prevail cannot be foreseen." Any predictions?
This week in 1937, the Times carried an ad for Waikiki
Wedding, then playing at Heppner's Star Theater.
"Featuring Bing Crosby singing 'Sweet Leilani' (among
other songs) and Martha Raye clowning."
Heppner's Chautauqua heads the news for the week in 1927.
"To be held in the big tent just off Main and Center Street, the
show includes 'The Family Upstairs,' a nation-wide play hit
full of clean, wholesome, real American comedy."
Z- It wasn't exactly a fun and games week in 1917 when the
Times printed the news that 621 Morrow County men signed
up for duty with Uncle Sam on War Census Day. "Officials
have expressed the opinion that the anti-draft propaganda
which had been given wide circulation during the past week,
had utterly failed."
One final note from the Wonder What Happened
department. On May 13, 1915, the Times carried the following
item : "A live, up-to-date library is an asset to any town. Such
a library has Heppner within the gates. Are you a
member?. ..Anyone can be a library member. The dues are
small and within reach of every man, woman and child in
Heppner... One dollar per year or ten cents every month
entitles you to one book a week. ..There are now 840 volumes
in the library with a new consignment on the way.. .We want
your membership, you want our books. Join the library
now."
Bikes for charity event
set to roll on June 4
A goal of 200 riders has been
set by Alpha Theta chapter of
E.S.A. International for their
upcoming "Million Dollar
Bike Ride."
The bike ride, to be held
June 4, will start at Ruggs at 9
a.m. and proceed 20 miles
down Rhea Creek to end up at
the park in lone. This will be
the first such ride given by
Alpha Theta since the pro
gram began in 1972 as a
benefit for St. Jude's Child
ren's Research Hospital.
Local volunteer riders from
all ages are presently can
vassing the community to find
sponsors for the planned
20-mile ride.
1 According to Ellen Ken
nedy, local Bike Ride chair
man, more riders and spon
sors are needed. Sponsor
sheets are available at the
local schools, both in Heppner
and lone, and at the R 4 W
Drive-In .
This year's ride will add to
the $1 million dollars already
collected by E.S.A. in the last
four years to supplement the
costs of operating St. Jude's
Children's Research Hospital.
There will be prizes given to
the first five people collecting,
the most money. Also, for the
oldest and youngest riders,
and the largest family group.
A portable TV set will be given
to the first person turning in at
least $150. Due to the great
response of local merchants,
the prize list may be extended.
To be eligible for a prize,
money must be turned in to
either Sally Wilson or Rose
mary Parks by June 15.
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Land use, energy bills
escape committee
As the session gets nearer
its end, the pressures increase
and the activity in committees
and on the floor becomes more
frantic. One day recently we
had 39 measures on the
calendar for third reading and
final passage. Last week we
had marathon committee
meetings the first few days
and two sessions on each of the
last two days. There had been
talk of one night session and a
Saturday session also, but
fortunately, these were aban
doned. Senate Bill 570, the major
piece of land-use legislation
for this session, was passed
out of the Environment and
Energy Committee on which I
serve with a "do pass"
recommendation. It amends
Oregon laws with regard to
land-use planning and regu
lations. Although the changes made
by this bill are numerous, a
couple of significant ones
should be noted.
In the past, government has
been able to make changes in
land-use designations without
notifying landowners. Under
SB 570, landowners who would
be affected by a land-use de
cision would have to be noti
fied by first class mail and the
procedure would be funded by
the Land Conservation and
Development Commission
(LCDC). This is a definite
protection for property own
ers and is long overdue.
A second significant change
relates to LCDC's ability to
take over land-use activities.
Currently the agency can
move in and take over plan
ning if it feels the local
governments are not doing the
job. Any land-use disputes
between a local jurisdiction
and the LCDC would be settled
by the courts under SB 570.
This bill will probably hit
the Senate floor very soon
now.
The proposed Domestic
Rural Power Authority
(DRPA a top priority pet of
Governor Straub's), set up in
SB 320, is having a real rough
time, although the Governor
thinks it is finally on its way.
The general idea is to share
Bonneville power between
private and public utility
organizations at preferential
rates.
As passed out of the En
vironment and Energy Com
mittee, DRPA contains two
triggering mechanisms. First,
the measure would become
effective only if Congress fails
to work out a regional power
generation and utility rate
equity program. Second, the
bill provides that if the courts
rule that DRPA must have a
three-member commission in
stead of one appointed official,
the Governor would name two
additional people to run the
Authority until the next elec
tion. Along with these amend
ments, the bill also contains a
"sunset" clause and would be
erased from the statutes in
1981.
The Governor's biggest
problem with DRPA is the fact
that the bill now goes to Ways
and Means for approval be
fore coming to the floor. The
Co-chairman and one member
of Ways and Means cast two of
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GAZETTE-TIMES
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.
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
Jim Summers, Editor
Eileen Saling, Office Manager
Justine Weatherford, Local News
Georgia Seal, Composing
Janene Searle, Composing
the three votes against DRPA
in Environment and Energy.
For more than two years,
construction of two more
nuclear plants at Pebble
Springs, Ore., has been halted
by suits brought by en
vironmentalists, court decis
ions, and delays in the state's
Energy Siting Council hear
ings and decisions.
I believe that we must have
additional new sources of
energy and that it is ridiculous
to lose tax advantages and the
economic impact of these
billion-dollar investments to
Washington, just across the
river from the proposed Ore
gon sites.
So I was particularly
pleased this week to become
one of the principal sponsors
of a measure which is sup
ported by the Governor and
which would give the state, not
administrative rule by the
Siting Council, the power to
set siting and operation stan
dards for nuclear power and
other energy plants. This bill
would significantly speed up
decisions on whether to grant
licenses or not, and would
reduce the chances of time
consuming lawsuits.
We need the Pebble Springs
plants on line. Let's get on
with it!
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i By Tom Franks i
The "Big Three" in life, most may agree, are faith, hope
and love.
More than 20 years ago, I started asking people the
question, "What is faith?" During this time, I have found
hardly a person who cannot tell what hope is and what it is
they hope for. Likewise, people seem to know when they love
and what they love.
Regardless of any other workings, hope and love are
- generally identified with feelings. This is not to say that love
and hope involve feelings alone.
People can tell you when they were in love, if they are in
love, when they have hope or when their hopes were dashed.
If it is safe to say that most people experience love and
hope as a feeling, why do so few feel faith?
Some people can talk for hours about being in love and
about their hopes. Yet, many of these same people draw a
blank, or lay the groundwork for a college term paper, when
you ask about faith.
Here is 20 years' worth in a paragraph. You can be in love,
you can have hope, but you must exercise faith. All three of
these are human functions. Love, hope and faith can be
identified by the absence, if not the presence, of emotions
which are more common to each of us than is our level of
intelligence or our respective physical abilities and talents.
Faith is not a human function particular to people of a
religious nature who live somewhere outside the ball park of
everyday existence.
The most I will say about faith, as an emotion, is that it
feels better than hope, but is not as strong as love. Love must
be active for the exercise of faith. Love makes faith work.
Hope is the target for the operation of faith.
This example is more than simple, but serves, nonetheless.
Let us take a man who really loves to fish and goes fishing on
a weekend with the hope of a good catch. Now we borrow one
of the best paragraphs ever written on faith. "Now faith is
the substance: of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen." To make it fit our simple example, it would read like
this: Now faith is fish in the creel (the thing hoped for), the
evidence of things not seen (the operation of love exercising
faith to substitute fish for hope).
On the negative side, the opposite of faith is not doubt.
Doubt is an opposition to faith, but not its opposite. It is the
lack of love and our inability to understand that brings doubt.
(Check your own experience.)
The lack of faith and its opposite is guilt!
What does the empty-handed fisherman say? If he doesn't
lie, he says, "I didn't do very well today." Even if he says the
fish were not biting, we often hear the tone of personal
responsibility. Sounds like guilt to me. Some psychologists
call it projection. A student of religion might call it
self-justification. But behind it all lies guilt and behind that a
lack of the exercise of faith.
Even if we cannot identify faith within ourselves at first, it
would be my observation, after 20 years of asking, that we
can assume a level of faith equal to the level of our love. Your
level of guilt can indicate your failure to use your love to
exercise your faith to make your hope a reality.
Faith, then, as a human function is both an exercise that we
feel and a result that we see.
It is love, then, that prompts us, belief that puts us in
position and faith that gives substance to our hope. Faith in
this sense is not something to be placed in someone else, but
something to be exercised in relation to our own hope.
We would think it was pretty silly. Our fishing friend, if he
has faith in fish, isn't likely to catch any.
You can love another person and trust another person, but
you cannot faith another person or hope another person. You
can, like the old timers say, "Pin your hopes on another
person." In the same way, you can pin your faith on another
person, but it remains your hope and your faith and to be
honest, it doesn't work very well if it works at all.
Good fishing.
Game biologist
moves to LaGrande
Jack Melland, who has been
here ten years as a game
biologist with the Oregon State
Department of Fish and Wild
life, will begin work in the La
Grande office on July 1.
Melland has assisted Glenn
Ward here. Jack will now be
the regional habitat biologist
for the Northeast Region of
Oregon.
His wife, Ann, an artist, will
also be missed here. Her
paintings have been displayed
frequently.
Who is Pulling the Plug?
It gets hot in the summer. And when it gets
hot, kids get restless. And when kids get
restless, things tend to happen.
At best, they get bored. At worst, they seek
unproductive outlets.
A glance at the Police news on page three
shows where some of their outlets can lead - to
senseless destruction, brought on by a feeling
that they have nothing better to do.
This is not to say that the presence of a city
swimming pool is the answer to junvenile crime.
The issue is far too complex to be resolved by
such simplicity.
But providing a source for summer recreation
is certainly a step in the right direction.
The young people in this town want a place to
swim - whether in a competitive team
framework or just for a respite from the sum
mer sun.
We need to give them that place.
The operation of the pool was a major topic of
discussion at the last city council meeting. Not a
single citizen of Heppner was there to con
tribute and opinion.
The city council does not lurk in dark places,
plotting to conduct city business while your
back is turned. The door to the meeting was
open. No one entered.
You still have another chance. The council will
meet Monday, June 6, in city hall to again
discuss budget matters.
The opportunity is there - don't blow it again.
JMS
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to help staff the library is asked to contact
the library-676-9964 or Mary Pat Lande-676-9752
as soon as possible.
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