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TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore., Thursday, July 14, 1977
EDITORIAL LETTERS
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Much is happening in Morrow County that directly
and indirectly involves and affects the people living
here... and the people living here are getting involved.
With more and more frequency, the area that lies
within Morrow County's boundaries is being referred
to in "Cinderella" terms; projections of great growth
both agriculturally and industrially; prognostica
tions of increased population and the need for
We are pleased to see a group getting started
that instead of burying their head in the sand plans
to build a platform with megaphones so they can get a
better view of what is happening, then voice their
opinion to the county court, the Port of Morrow and
the business and industry that locates here.
The Morrow County Economic Development
Association deserves the support of those who have
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additional services provided by city and county
governments.
These forecasts are true.
Morrow County is growing because it has a lot of
potential for growth and most importantly, a good
foundation for growth.
There are some that are loath to growth of any
kind ; there are some that are uninterested, uncaring ;
and there are some who know it's coming and want it
to be orderly and in the best interests of the county
and the people living here both present and future.
One such group sank their roots just this week and
they are looking for people that wish to join them.
The Morrow County Economic Development
Association is the offspring of a petition drive to
establish a road from southern Morrow County to
Portland General Electric's coal-fired generating
plant on the Boeing Agri-Industrial Park lands south
of Boardman.
The group will take the proposed Carty Road as
their first project and have determined that to be
responsible they should complete an economic
analysis of the road what it will mean in dollars and
cents to Morrow County.
To do this, the group is seeking membership, with
tax-deductible dues. ..and the membership is struc
tured in such a way as to allow participation of
individuals and business alike each having one vote
in matters, regardless of the amount of dues
subscribed.
We feel this is positive action taken at a very
appropriate time. . .
Generally in smaller communities, when growth
hangs over a way of life established over many years,
there is a feeling that arises that says 'we don't want
change here. ..we're happy the way we are.'
When that isolationist attitude comes forth in a
county such as Morrow the results can be disastrous.
There is no one to watchdog the growth. ..to help steer
it in the proper direction. ..it is virtually committing
suicide.
the same goals
betterment.
in mind self-preservation and
BOARDMAN
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LEXINGTON I
I HEPPNER
TO MORROW
AND
TOO TOMORROW
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Obituaries
Can you make notes in a permenently bound note book? If
you find it easy subtract five points. If you falter, give
yourself five points because you have become a true member
our our modern loose leaf society.
Sometimes I find it difficult to write at all because I know
that most everything which is being written is nothing but a
distraction from the real issues of life. Much that is written
occupies our minds with little result.
The same holds true of our business and our spare time;
until it can seem that life is a constant march of trivia
between birth and death.
For those who realize the situation (it used to be called the
rat race) there is the danger of claiming that what we do is
more important than it really is. In my book this is the true
Red Neck of our society. The second danger is admitting that
what we do is of little importance and finding ourselves
caught in a life marked by growing resentment. The third
danger is dropping or copping out.
I can't offer any individual solution for the situation but I
have found that accepting the fact that what we do is of little
importance, and doing it anyway, is a step in the right
direction. It is, after all, the judgement of time which sorts
what is important from what is trivia.
If what we put in a loose leaf notebook is worth keeping
somebody else will take the trouble to bind it for us.
Mary Melissa Bailey
Irma (Phillips) Renoe
Irma (Phillips) Renoe, 86,
born at Moser in 1891, died
July 3 in Longcreek while
visiting relatives.
Mrs. Renoe had lived in the
Hermiston-Irrigon area for
the past 20 years. She was
married Feb. 3, 1917 in
Burt
Tucker ,
Pendleton
Burt H. Tucker, 86, Pendle
ton, a one-time Heppner
resident, died July 6 in
Pendleton. He was born at
Monroe, Wash, and had been a
resident of Pendleton for the
past two years.
Mr. Tucker was a veteran of
World War I and a life
member of Veterans of For
eign Wars, Post 2455, Mont
esano, Wash.
Graveside services were
held Saturday, July 9, at the
I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Monroe,
Wash., with Burns Mortuary
in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Tucker is survived by a
daughter, Mrs. Harold (Ev
elyn) Coulter, Heppner; a
sister, Bessie Pearsall, Mon
roe, Wash.; five grandchild
ren and six great-grand-children.
Heppner. Mrs. Renoe was a
member of the First Church of
Christ Scientist.
She is survived by her
widower Charles at 610 New
port, Hermiston; sons Doug
las of Stanfield, Phillip of
Portland, George of Sacram
ento, Cal.; daughters Alice
Smith of Heppner, Lucille
Schaffer of Portland, Jennette
Powers of Lostine, Helen
McClintock of Longcreek; 25
grandchildren and 32 great
grandchildren; brother O.M.
Phillips of Alama, Wash., and
sister Arvilla Dowley of Cov
alo, Cal.
Funeral services were
Thrusday, July 7, in John Day
at the Driskill Memorial
Chapel.
Mary Melissa Bailey, 89,
died at her home in Heppner,
July 6.
She was born Feb. 5, 1888 at
Waushara County, Wise, the
daughter of James and Sarah
Borst Sherlock.
Mrs. Bailey was a Past
Noble Grand of San Souci
Rebekah Lodge, Heppner, an
active member of the United
Methodist Church, Heppner,
and an avid gardener.
Funeral services were Sat
urday, July 9, at 2 p.m. at the
United Methodist Church,
Heppner, with the Rev. G.E.
Nikander officiating. The con
gregation sang sacred selec
tions accompanied by Carley
Drake, organist.
Casket bearers, all grand
sons, were Richard Bailey,
Ralph Bowers, Glen Bailey,
David Bailey, Kim Parsons
and Donald Hughes. Honorary
bearers, also grandsons, were
William Bailey, Kenneth Bail
ey, Larry Parsons and Roy
Hughes.
Concluding services and
interment were at Heppner
Masonic Cemetery with Swe
eney Mortuary in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Bailey was preceded in
death by her husband, Nelson,
in 1966.
She is survived by six sons;
Arlo, Scappoose; Harold,
Onalaska, Wash.; Nelson,
West Linn; Francis, Tigard;
Earl, Lower Lake, Cal.; and
Albert, Redmond; five
daughters; Margaret Stout,
Olympia, Wash.; Elizabeth
Johnson, PrineviNe; Ethel
Bowers, Gleneden Beach ;
Dora Parsons, Tigard; and
Maude Hughes, Heppner;
three sisters; Mabel Holver
son and Viola Husbands, both
Portland; Fern Hodges,
Grants Pass; twenty-nine
grandchildren ; sixty-three
great and great-great-grandchildren,
and numerous nieces
and nephews.
Contributions may be made
to the United Methodist
Church Memorial Fund in her
memory.
THE
IIEPFNEH
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
Laura Craig, Composing
Patti Saling, Composing
"Smashing," is the caption of the a front page picture in
this week's 1967 edition of the Times. The picture shows the
sledge hammer swinging form of then Mayor W.C.
Rosewall who delivered the first blow in the Jaycees cat
smash as part of the Sidewalk Bazaar activities.
"Being a former Ford-Mercury dealer here, it took a bit of
courage for the mayor to administer the blow to the old
Mercury which was donated by Ceglia's Wrecking Yard."
The Jaycees took in $39 at 10 cents a poke and lost of people
welcomed the chance to release a few of those pent up
aggressions. No comment was available from the old Merc.
In other news of a decade ago, the Times reported that
many heads were turned askew as satellite searchers
scanned thy sky seeking a sighting. The subject of the
celestial sleuthing was none other than Echo I.
Sliding back another 10 years, this week's 1957 edition of
the Times featured another sky sighting of a less familiar
nature.
"Two Heppner men Wednesday noon got a brief but good
look at a fast moving object that Air Force officials call UFO,
Unidentified Flying Object, but what the men graphically
describe as a flying hat.
"The two, Morgan Medlock and Buddy Taylor, told the
Gazette-Times last night by phone from their Forest Service
post at Bull Prairie guard station, that they sighted the object
while piling brush near Crawford Spring. They estimated the
object to be about half the size of a forest service power
wagon truck and said it was traveling at terrific speed.
"Medlock said the best description of the object was that it
was round, shaped like a hat and was brown in color. As it
disappeared from view, after about 10 seconds, they
described its sound as a sort of Plup, similar to the sound of a
small bullet shot into the water."
Reported this week in 1947.. ."This newspaper has
challenged other counties in the state to come forth with an
active county official as old or older than Morrow County's
treasurer. The challenge will be more difficult to meet as of
today for Leon W. Briggs has added another milestone in his
trek toward the century mark. Today is his 88th birthday and
he is planning his campaign for another term as treasurer."
This week's 1937 edition includes a Jim Rogers look alike
peddling Chevrolet motor cars of the Ferguson Motor
Company. Also, a warning from the local judge who said,
"Truckers of wheat, forget that extra trip!"
"That's the admonition of Judge Bert Johnson, who calls
attention to the added destruction of highways and
endangering lives of others on the road by truck drivers who
have a tendency to step on the gas in order to make an extra
haul a day."
Arthur Brisbane had flying on his mind this week in 1927,
writing, "At this moment of flying enthusiasm, one word of
caution is necessary and expert flyers remind you of it. Don't
go up just to know how it feels unless you know the pilot and
the machine.
"There are unsafe machines, plenty of them, including
many bought second hand from the United States
government. There are unskillful pilots and others skillful
but reckless.
"Barring dangerously bad weather, bad pilots and unsafe
machines, flying is now safe. But be careful!"
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
In November, 1976, the people of Oregon by a margin of
659,327 to 273,738 defeated Ballot Measure 7, clearly
indicating they did not want a tax check-off scheme to direct
additional tax dollars to political campaigns.
The Legislature apparently wasn't listening.
The House by a margin of 35 to 22 and the Senate by a
margin of 20 to 9 have passed HB3233, another scheme to give
tax check-off money to politicians.
If it becomes effective, HB3233 will give the political
parties about $800,000 in tax money each biennium with no
restrictions other than a prohibition on use of the money in
the primaries or to pay campaign deficits. We will be using
tax money to fund a permanent professional political
bureaucracy.
This is precisely the kind of political arrogance our
initative and referendum laws were designed to prevent. .
Only 30,823 valid signatures are needed to stop this law until
the people have a chance to vote on it.
I hope everyone who reads this letter and who has been
searching for a direct way to express his or her indignation at
the 1977 Oregon Legislature will mail me a commitment to
collect at least 20 signatures to refer HB3233 and a stamped,
self-addressed envelope. I will return a petition form for a
true people's campaign to stop tax payments to professioanl
politicians.
Warren C. Deras
3042 S.W. Hampshire Street
Portland, Oregon 97201
Vacation Bible school
at Nazarene Church
A Vacation Bible School will
be scheduled on a series of five
mornings, July 15, 22, 29, Aug.
5 and 12, at the Heppner
Church of the Nazarene.
Sessions will be held for
children ages 5 years through
14 years.
This year's theme is "The
Family of God."
As with last year's school,
the children will be having
Bible stories, crafts, music,
refreshments, and fun. All the
children of the community are
welcome to attend.
There is no charge to attend
these special Friday morning
sessions. The time will be
from 9:45 a.m. to 11 a.m.
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Donna Palmer
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Stokers
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Rodeo Court
Queen
Mary Anne Proctor
and Princesses
Teresa Proctor
Krynne Robinsin
Deborah Palmer
Donna Palmer
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