TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore., Thursday, July 21, 1977
EDITORIAL LETTERS 1
Sifting through the TIME
COMMENT
A tip of the sun visor and a chlorine-soaked entry
card to the leisure event of your choice is awarded
this week to all the Heppner swim team parents and
just plain interested persons who had a hand in
pulling off Sunday's Heppner Invitational.
COMMENT
A great deal of effort is involved in making sure
150 kids get off the starting block at the correct time
and eventually get connected with the appropriate
trophy. It's easy to see truth in the adage that old
meet directors never die, they just get disqualified
for life.
Fortunately, there were no casualties this year
and another successful Heppner Invitational has
come and gone.
Our plea for help this week is somewhat
dampened by the continuing tale of the overexposed
coyote of late, but without the correspondence from
the Kelpie compatriot, our letters-to-the-editor
mailbag would have once again been empty. It
seems it has been collecting little more than dust in
past weeks and that concerns us.
We are interested in hearing from our readers
and know there are issues on your mind that would
benefit from an open exchange of opinions and
views.
Now that Kelpie is back home and has probably
taken the phone off the hook for a little peace and
quiet, we can get back to business as usual. This
land is your land, the song says, and this newspaper
is your newspaper. Feel free to use it.
Letters to the Editor
Editor:
Being a defender of Kelpie the coyote, I didn't want to
interfere in any way for his freedom from an unjust prison
sentence where he had absolutely no rights or say in his
defense. This manuveur will go down in history as one of our
sickest days. It has proven the low-grade of personnel that
control and operate the Oregon State Police and the Dept. of
Fish and Wildlife as well as the Oregon Legislature. When I
see how they handled the Kelpie case, it makes me sick with
fright, not only for myself but for every living thing on this
earth.
My personal opinion is, I have far more respect and love
for the lonely coyote, than I'll ever have for the sheepman,
for his only one thought is money, greed and sorry
management. I know, for I have worked for sheep outfits all
my life from time to time. I started working for one of the
biggest sheep outfits in South Dakota, but we had no coyote
problem there, but we certainly had the coyote. This
operation was a success, because it was managed. During
the dust bowl, I was forced to come to Oregon and of course, I
got a job with one of the biggest sheep outfits in Eastern
Oregon. It was there that I learned real quick how
mismanagement works. On one sheep drive alone, we lost in
the neighborhood of 300 sheep and there wasn't a coyote
within ten miles. The reason for this disaster, was stupid
management. They were pushed over a 200 foot bank at the
Ochco Dam. If they survived this tumble, their next obstacle
was to keep from drowning. Last but not least, they had to
survive on green cockleberries. How this operation survived,
I'll never know, but before it went bankrupt it was sold.
When anybody has friends like Rep. Denny Jones, a
Republican from Ontario, Dick Magruder from Columbia
County, the State Police, the Fish and Wildlife Commission,
as well as the Legislature, you certainly don't need any
enemies.
I feel in all fairness to Kelpie who was so unjustly
penalized, that Mr. Magruder and Jones and the rest of the
crew that was in on the kill, be locked up in the same pen
where Kelpie had to spend the last year and then from there
move them to the Portland City Zoo for safe keeping for the
rest of thier lives, for their way of thinking, they're too
dangerous for civilization as well as themselves. Their hate
acid is eating them up.
In closing, I certainly want to "Thank" men like Rep. Drew
Davis and Wally Priestly and the others that were concerned
in righting a pitiful wrong that made Kelpie's freedom
possible and above all the Moore family for their
determination in standing up of what was right. They can
now live with a clean and clear conscience.
Otto H. Jorgensen Jr.
P.O. Box 443
Scappoose, Oregon 97056
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Bernard Doherty
Bernard Doherty, 68, died
July 18, at his home in
Heppner.
He was born Feb. 2, 1909 in
Heppner and was a lifetime
resident of Black Horse Can
yon. He was married to Mary
Jane Casteel in Heppner on
Nov. 18, 1939.
Mr. Doherty was a member
of St. Patrick's Church and
served on the Morrow County
Fair Board for many years.
He was the son of James and
Catherine Doherty, Morrow
County pioneers.
Survivors include the wid
ow, Mary Jane (Jerry), Hep
pner; sons Dennis D., Hep-
John H. Cox
John Henry Cox, 60, late of
Pilot Rock and formerly of
Monument, died in the Walla
Walla Vererans Hospital July
13.
He was born Aug. 15, 1916
in Monument.
Mr. Cox worked on ranches
in the area for many years and
was an overseas veteran of
World War II.
Graveside services were
held Saturday, July 16, at l
p.m. at the Monument Ceme
tary with the Rev. Thomas
Gonzallez of the Remrock
Church officiating. Sweeney
Mortuary was in charge of the
services.
Survivors include five bro
thers: Clyde, Hamilton; Rich
ard and Carl, Monument;
Fred, White City and Archie,
Kinzua; four sisters; Mable
Corley, Hamilton; Sophie Ay
er, Lydia Wilson and Wilma
Mabe, Heppner; numerous
nieces and nephews in the
area.
pner, Roger P., Denver,
Anthony J., Heppner; daugh
ters, Martha J., Heppner,
Maureen Ann, Eugene, Nancy
Pettyjohn, uuna Springs,
Ga., Rebecca Lu, Heppner;
brothers Francis, Heppner;
sisters Nora Turner, Helen
Dyer, both Heppner and Betty
Thorsen, Mountain View,
Cal.; two grandchildren and
numerous nieces and neph
ews. Recitation of the rosery will
be Thursday, July 21, at 7:30
p.m. at St. Patrick's Church.
Funeral Mass will be Fri
day, July 22, at 10 a.m. at St.
Patrick's with the Rev. Tim
othy Collins officiating. Con
cluding services and inter
ment will be at the Heppner
Masonic Cemetary with Swe
eney Mortuary in care of
arrangements.
Sacred selections will be
sung by William Kenny ac
companied by Rikka Tews.
Pall bearers will include Paul
(Shan) Applegate, Larry Mc
Laughlin, Tad Miller, Tom
Pointer, Jo McLaughlin and
Ken Turner.
Contributions may be made
in Mr. Doherty 's memory to
the Pioneer Memorial Hospit
al for its C.P.R. instructional
equipment.
Myron knows me. As I was having coffee Monday morning
he stopped by my table. "I knew you'd have rain for the
harvest, right?" Right Myron.
The waitress came along. "Did they go off and leave you
with the bill?" What else is there in life but being left with the
bill?
Little Tina in the next booth spills her milk. She didn't cry.
There is hope for that girl.
What is there in Heppner? That is not the question. The
question is What is there anywhere? True the big city has
more to keep one occupied. Occupied That is when an
invading army subjugates an entire people.
Fair Play
Children today seem to suffer from an overdeveloped sense
of fair play. Fair play, in days gone by, was the mutual
choice of boxing gloves. Today it seems it isn't fair unless the
other fellow has his arms tied behind his back too.
If you want to cause war at any level of society just try
treating everybody equally.
Most people want the little piece of territory they have
fallen into regardless of how it looks in the eyes of another. I
sometimes wonder if equality is a social virutue or is it really
the system of weights and measures we use to depict it with?
Equality would be a situation where everyone had $2
million. ($1 million won't even do for an illustration these
days. ) If we all started out with $2 million there would be the
biggest scramble for inequality the world has ever seen.
This land is a land of unequal opportunity. Because of that
everybody has a chance which the government can't really
give you.
There is no such thing as opportunity in equality.
Opportunity comes when things are in balance for one person
and generally out of balance for another. Think twice when
you hear the words equal opportunity. I can go along with the
concept of a fair start but I run a poor race behind God and
the federal government when it comes to equalizing
opportunity for myself let alone my neighbors. And you know
what an equalizer is. That is the man with the gun.
A birthday was celebrated in this week's 1967 edition of the
Times.
The Cecil Post Office, housed in the Cecil Store, marked its
100th year of continuous service to the community.
Complete with then and now pictures, the story traces the
history of the post office which, "Apparently had its
beginnings in a home in about the present location of the
Henry J. Krebs residence".
"Cecil was a stopping place on the old Oregon Trail and it
was quite an oasis for weary travelers."
Bob Lowe, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Lowe,
owned the store from 1913 to 1925, recalled west bound
settlers stopping to remove the wheels of their covered
wagons and placing them in Willow Creek to soak so they
wouldn't fall apart on the remainder of the journey. They
washed their clothes in the creek and camped out while the
wheels soaked.
At the store they obtained salt, rolled oats, bacon, tea,
coffee, chewing tobacco, coal oil and other needs.
"It was surprising how many of these items sold for a
nickel," Lowe said.
This week in 1957, the previous week's account of a UFO
sighting drew further attention. It was the first sighting of the
year in the state and prompted then editor Robert Penland to
chronicle several other "Firsts" under the headline of "Keep
Your Eye on Morrow County".
"This year our county has come up with several "firsts"
that were mighty newsworthy and the year isn't over yet. We
fall heir to the first genuine tornado seen (and photographed)
in Oregon in many a year. We also had some hail that was
bigger than even our neighboring Umatilla county could brag
about...and there have been others where else but in our
county has Bonneville Power Administration ever lost 15
steel towers to a thunderstorm? Now, some of our citizens
sight an unidentified flying object which is the first such
machine seen this year in Oregon."
Interest was also stirred for those outside the county. The
Times received a request for more information of the
sighting from the Aerial Phenomena Research group of
Seattle. Accompanying the request was a policy statement of
the group which read, "There is now sufficient information
based on data compiled by eyewitness accounts that a high
percentage of aerial phenomena such as those popularly
described as Unidentified Flying Objects are intelligently
controlled craft whose ports of origin are outside earth's
atmosphere".
Aerial news continued its way back in time as the week's
1947 edition reported "A drive for locating the proposed
government supersonic laboratory at Boardman has been
launched".
A Boardman Supersonic Research Center Site Committee
was organized to promote the Boardman Bombing Range for
location of a proposed "$500,000 laboratory to test flight at
speeds faster than sound".
This week in 1937, the weather was keeping everyone in the
area occupied.
"Hail which accompanied an electrical storm destroyed
100 acres of the best grain on the Newt O'Hara farm on
Heppner flats. Tuesday's storm was the last of four
consecutive storms which started 30 new fires in the local fire
district while bringing heavy showers to keep the fires under
controll and also delay harvest."
Arthur Brisbane came through again this week in 1927.
"Human beings are like chidren," Arthur reveals. "A
father plays "bear" with his little child, and the child is
relieved when the bear stands up and becomes, once more,
"father".
"In England, the eclipse put out the sun, changing day to
night, and everybody knew that it was only makebelieve
night. Nobody feared "the devil was eating the sun".
Nevertheless, when the ecilpse passed and the sun came
shining our once more, the crowds cheered. They were glad
to have mother nature stop playing bear". Thanks Arthur.
school board
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of Connie Clough, Riverside
(Boardman) instructor, and
Ethel Duff, Riverside classifi
ed employee.
Approved the hiring of 16
new teachers. They are:
Heppner Elementary
School Phyllis Payne, second
grade; Andy Clark, fourth
grade; Courtney Kiser, fifth
grade; Louis Schmidt, fifth
grade; Syreece Hornbuckle,
seventh and eighth grade
science; and Jack Adkins,
special reading.
Heppner High School Les
Payne, social studies and
coaching; Ron Forrar, art;
Tom Day, language arts and
basketball coach.
lone Elementary School-
Clint Agee, sixth grade and
coaching and Tom Forsyth,
language arts.
Riverside junior high and
high school, Boardman Carol
Wallace, vocal music; Greg
Glasgow, art; Mike Carpen
ter, social studies and coach
ing and Diane Glasgow, junior
high language arts and coaching.
A.C.Houghton Elementary
School, Irrigon Diane Weis
gerber, fifth grade.
Town halt meeting.,.
'Less government wanted9
A group of 83 persons
attended last week's "Wages,
Welfare or What" town hall
meeting in Heppner and their
feelings on the subject came
through loud and clear. Less
government intervention !
More local control!
While the subject was contro
versial and opinions varied,
the general consensus was
that the private individual
should take the greatest share
of responsibility for his or her
own economic security in the
United States.
Nearly everyone in atten
dance at the four hour session
took the floor at least once
during the discussion period to
express their thoughts.
Many persons both at the
meeting and the next day
expressed the thought that
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materials used in the meeting,
especially the video tape
movie and questionnaire,
were slanted to indicate con
currence with increased wel
fare. A state-wide effort to obtain
citizen input on welfare, the
meeting here was hosted and
information tabulated by the
Association of American Uni
versity Women, Cathy Peck,
chairman.
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