TWO The Gazette-Times. Ileppner, Ore., Thursday, June 16, 1977
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There are a few people in Heppner who have given me free
suggestions about the conduct of my life. There is nothing
wrong with the advice, if the advice and the intent of the
advice are the same.
Reminds me of some advice I got when I was about 13. I
was mowing a small lawn on the weekend for a wealthy
woman. Her financial status, and nothing else, was the envy
of the community.
"Tommy, there are three things you need to do to get ahead
in life. First, if you want to get something done, always go to
the top man on the totem pole. Second, toot your own horn
because nobody else is going to toot it for you. Third, you
don't smile enough. Smile and play the fool, and everybody
will love you but always stay one step ahead of them."
She asked me to remember the advice, which I have.
Fortunately, she didn't ask me what I thought of it. Few of us
do when we give advice.
The first item about going to the top man sounded
reasonable. The second item seemed to have merit but the
third item left me cold at 13 and still does.
The woman who handed out the advice followed it herself.
She went to the top man, she tooted her own horn when
necessary and she smiled a lot and played the fool.
The trouble was that nobody loved her and regardless of
how much she played the fool, everybody knew she was
smart as a fox and always one step ahead of them.
Even when she started to slip physically and mentally, you
could bring up the subject of money or business and watch
her mind shift gears. Money and business were the only
things her mind could hang its hat on as she progressed in
years.
Finally, she even slipped to the paranoia that someone was
after her money. She was jumping jets from one city to
another, claiming that the FBI was after her money, the last
time I saw her.
To the best of my knowledge, she was placed in a rest home
and I have no doubt that the government did get her money,
after it passed through the hands of some distant relatives.
To blow a hole in her second suggestion about tooting your
own horn, let me toot somebody else's. Toots this week go to
Don Penney, city utility foreman, for all the personal hours
he has spent repairing run-down equipment, fixtures and
systems at the Heppner swimming pool.
Toots also go to Nathan Walsingham, John Kenny, Bill
Campbell, Don McFvven, Cary Tole, and Kevin Curnutt, who
helped Bill Dial clean the pool.
A late toot also goes this week to Rev. Mark Johnson who
took an unpopular stand in recent arguments against capital
punishment. While I don't agree with all his reasons, I too
have my reservations about state administered death.
A final toot to the parents of the swim team who are thus
far conducting a successful fund drive to keep the Heppner
Pool open. Citizens in Baker County have had to take similar
steps to keep the hot springs pool open in Haines.
The leg work being done by swimming team parents has
been successful only because of good community response
thus far. In addition to donations, pool use is still the key to a
successful season.
This week in 1967, the Times carried a front page story
concerning the "possibility that Morrow County will have a
sizeable fish impondment constructed in 1968 with legal size
fish ready for the catching in 1969."
Several locations were still being considered as members
of the Game Commission, Forest Service officials and the
Morrow County Court toured the sites.
Water recreation was big in that issue, which also featured
a picture of Heppner youngsters enjoying the opening of the
municipal pool.
"This will be the last summer of operation for the old pool,
which will make way for an improved pool as a result of the
recent city bond election."
Ten years earlier, the Times ran a headline that
unfortunately is out of the question for the current year:
Excellent Grain Crop Foreseen in County; Storage Problem
Nil.
"Prospects for a bumper grain crop in the county appear
continually brighter as harvest time nears, but nearly all
ranchers are holding their breath in hopes that no more
unusual weather, which has plagued the county all winter
and spring, will diminish the high yield possibilities."
It seems that any optimistic statement in which the
weather is involved has to, have some kind of qualifiers
tacked on.
But with the financial outlook appearing bright, the Times
also reported the approval of plans for Heppner's second
bank the Bank of Eastern Oregon scheduled to open in
mid-September of 1957.
This week in 1947, the Times reported some convincing
voting results that left little doubt as to the preference of
District I voters on the 1947-48 budget the tally was 37-1.
Gazette-Times, June 17, 1937:, Coulee Crickets Attack
Forest.
"An outbreak of Coulee crickets, which has already
cleaned all vegetation from about two sections of national
forest land in the neighborhood of Opal Guard station,
threatens to become a serious menace to grazing on the
national forest land and, if the spread of these crickets goes
unchecked, to the wheat growers of the county."
By the way, in those days the Times was going for 5 cents
an issue or $5 for three years.
A decade earlier, the Times ran an ad for the Star
Theater's latest feature, Hands Across the Border.
"Fred Thompson with his famous horse, Silver King. Five
solid reels of action melodrama, roaring laughter and
thundering thrills."
The front page of the June 14, 1917, Times reported, "The
present high price of sheep has made these animals a safe
and convenient medium of exchange, as shown by a deal
made last week where 100 head of sheep were exchanged for
a late model eight-cylinder Oldsmobile."
Open letter to farmers
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Letters to the Editor
6 Why give away dedicated street?'
Editor:
I am on duty at the police phone during many evenings and
most nights. I have had many persons call in for instructions
on how to get to the high school.
They can see the building up on the west hill, but have
trouble finding the street to approach it. Now I have learned
that the City Council is giving away the 60-foot strip that is
dedicated and needed to bring Morgan Street to the state
highway. This is a terrible mistake.
School busses and people coming from out of town to games
and school events need quick, direct access to the high
school. When I am asked for directions, I would like to be able
'Compassion for both....'
Editor:
Your continuing battle of
letters people vs. coyotes
could be humorous if there
wasn't the hint of tragedy
involved.
It has been proven beyond a
doubt that coyotes can survive
without man, but it has yet to
be proven that people can
survive without coyotes as
part of a naturally balanced
environment. Why not have
compassion for both or are we
too shallow in our feeling for
all other forms of life?
We have put such great
emphasis on buying power
that money seems to have
become God to society today.
We do know for certain that
this feeling can produce no
thing but evil.
Sincerely,
V.I. Johnson
Seattle, Wash.
to say turn off the highway where you see the sign "To High
School" (two large, new signs that should be erected on
either side of the new Morgan Street extension) and drive
directly up Morgan Street to the school (crossing the new
bridge for which funds are already dedicated).
Presently I am directing persons to turn at the Union Oil
station and this leads to much confusion, as they don't make
the next two turns correctly and are delayed and confused. I
know that presently heavy trucks and buses are forbidden to
drive across the old Morgan Street bridge however, I
understand that it will be replaced soon and that the
dedicated street, along the lines where the TV poles are
already standing, should surely be paved and used.
When the business property beside it was purchased, the
buyers knew what they were getting. It would be nice if
anyone could talk the City Council out of 60 feet of additional
property.
Surely a good many other citizens must feel like I do. They
must resent the council giving away our dedicated and
needed street property.
Sincerely,
Winn Crist
Dear Friends:
An increasing number of national headlines tell of financial
problems being faced by the American grain farmer. Those
headlines really aren't new news to those who try to make a
living producing grain. But, they do indicate a growing public
awareness that current prices are at a disaster level for the
individual producers. Yet, the general public cannot and will
not do anything to assure financial health for grain farmers.
So, you ask, what can be done? As I see it, we only have
three choices. We can continue to let the five major inter
national grain companies and speculators set prices as they
are doing at present. Integral to this method is the
companies' reliance upon U.S.D.A statistical projections,
resulting in a speculator's market with ever increasing
pressure for lower prices and placing the producer in a
defensive position about what to plant.
Our second option is to plead with the federal government
for increased loan levels, elaborate storage and reserve
programs in effect, a kind of high class welfare program
which maddens the average taxpayer and is a delight to
assorted bureaucrats.
The final choice is for producers to ' organize for
bargaining. This assumes that the farmer, like every other
business-person, has a right to price his product. That price
has to include a cost of production plus a reasonable profit.
Adequate prices allow for good management and planning.
Such prices naturally are good for the economy beyond our
gate. Cost of production plus a reasonable profit is the one
guarantee of individual freedom for a farmer. What freedom
is there when each of us individually asks the buyers what
their price is today? Only with adequate prices can
producers themselves manage so-called carryovers or
reserves, which are called inventories in any other business.
The National Farmers' Organization, through years of
trial and error, mistakes and organized opposition, has
designed a plan and program for collective bargaining,
which is functioning. Even skeptical "experts" agree that
30-40 per cent of the production, when organized and
factually presented in this plan, will control price.
Then, you ask, why aren't farmers flocking to join the
National Farmers' Organization? My assessment of the local
situation is as follows:
Original members lost their enthusiasm when we were
encountering our most difficult problems.
When grain prices skyrocketed, lots of people assumed
that farmers were to be on easy street forever and
consequently didn't need to be organized.
In conclusion, ask yourself these questions: Does high or
low price glut the market? Are you tired of simplistic and
threadbare "supply and demand" explanations? Are you
hoping that a natural disaster elsewhere will put money in
your pocket? Have you seen a concise analysis of the
so-called 1,100,000,000 bushel wheat carryover? Are you
curious about what solid NFO members have learned and
altered over the years? Did you know that the international
carryover of cereal grains per capita is the lowest in modern
history? Are you finally ready to examine what can be done?
Sincerely, .
Ray Jergeson
Columbia Area Grain Director
National Farmers
Organization
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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
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