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' ' -- -. ' , - TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner. Ore.. Thursday, July 28. 1977 i i I r t PGE lets contracts Portland General Electric has issued nearly $100 million in construction contracts for its new, 500 kilowatt coal-fired plant southwest of Boardman. Ad Starner, manager of generation construction, told The Hermiston Herald last Thursday that the bulk of these contracts about $70 million worth have gone toward the development of the power block and cooling reservoir. The power block is a term used to describe the area where the boiler, turbine and ancillary equipment will be located. About another $13 million in field contracts have been issued for the coal handling facilities. Starner said work on the 1,400 acre cooling reservoir was "on schedule and in some aspects ahead" and that it would be able to accommodate water around November or December of this year. He said it was "likely" that filling operations would start at that time. The reservoir is basically complete with the exception of some concrete work on the spillway and some finishing touches on the 88-foot high west dam, the divider dike and the saddle dam. Boeing Agri-Industrial Company is completing work on an 18 mile long, 60-inch pipeline that will bring water from Willow Creek, at its confluence with the Columbia River, to the reservoir. Boeing is paying the cost of this project. In return, it will receive the rights to about 11,000 acre feet of water from the reservoir for irrigation purposes. A second area of major emphasis at the coal plant is the coal handling yard. Starner estimated that 81 persons were preparing the area to receive about 20,000 tons of coal per week by January 1979. The coal will be transported from the AMAX Coal Co. at Gillette, Who. Present plans call for two, 100 car trains each week. Each car will carry 100 tons of coal. Starner pointed out the "main" coal area will contain about 1,880,000 tons of "compacted" coal. The compacting is necessary to cut off the air supply and reduce the hazard of spontaneous combustion. A "live" coal yard of about 180,000 tons will be used to feed coal through an enclosed conveyor system to the plant's Foster-Wheeler boiler. The boiler' was designed to serve Idaho Power's Pioneer Plant. When that project was cancelled, Idaho Power used the boiler as its share in the Boardman coal plant. Starner said work had started on the coal loop tracks and that this part of the project would be competed about a year before the plant's projected start-up date of June 1980. This will give PGE time to fill the main and live coal handling areas. Letters to the Editor Editor: I would like to comment on the letter written by Otto Jorgensen, Scappoose, that was printed July 21. In my opinion, he is guilty of making some very hate-filled and nasty comments about some very fine people. In the letter he states "hate-acid is eating them up". Now, does he consider himself to be above this punishment?1 His own hatred is forcing him to inflict his viewpoint on others. Will hate-acid not also consume him? Best he rid himself of his own hatred and narrowness before he attemps to counsel others. Ever since Cain killed Abel, the sheepman has had to put up with prejudice. It is nothing new. Mr. Jorgenson's preference for companionship with coyotes is agreeable to us. We will survive. Dorthy Krebs past president Oregon Sheep Growers Auxiliary Hospital conducts training In an effort to upgrade in-service training procedur es, staff members of Pioneer Memorial Hospital last week participated in fire fighting and patient evacuation ses sions at the hospital. Fourty-six members of the nursing, kitchen, office and housekeeping staffs joined in the instruction sessions which included the viewing of a film dealing with the evacuation of a hospital in a fire situation. Staff members learned var ious carrying methods for evacuating patients and re ceived instructions on the order of evacuation. After the film, the staff moved to the hospital parking sessions lot where maintenance en gineer Ernie Ertz demonstra ted the proper use of a fire extinguisher and instructed the staff on how to handle different types of fires. Hospital officals intend to update the floor plan of the hospital to identify the loca tions of the fire extinguishers and also plan to schedule more training sessions in the future. Staff members will be participating in another CPR instruction session this week under the direction of Linda Connor. Hospital Administra tor Robert Byrnes said he would like to see everyone on the hospital staff qualified to admisister CPR. IRRIGON'p BOARDMAN I EX1NGTON 1 MKPPNFR 9 TO M0RR0VJ AND TOO TOMORROW i By Tom Franks Obituaries Laurance R. Vincent Laurence Robert Vincent, 15, Portland, died July 21 in a motor vehicle accident North west of lone. Verda Grabill Verda Frances Grabill pas sed away June 23, at St. Elizabeth Nursing Home in Baker. She was born Novem ber 23, 1904 at Rohnerville, Cal. She had one daughter who preceeded her in death. Sur vivors are her husband, Gene Grabill, and three grandchild ren. Memorial Services were held June 29 at the Grays-West and Company Pioneer Chapel. Interment was at Baker. Attending the services from this area were Mr. and Mrs. Everett Keithley of Heppner, Mrs. Ida, Grabill, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ellis, and Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Bristow, all of lone. He was born April 27, 1962, in Portland. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Vincent; two brothers, An drew M. Vincent, III and Stuart Vincent, all of Port land. Cremation services were conducted at Walla Walla with Sweeney Mortuary in charge of arrangements. My first experience with gambling came with my first job. Not that I hadn't gambled before on pool games. After every football practice I could be found in the local pool hall with the mortician's son. We didn't fool around with Eight Ball. That was the slop table where the amateurs played while snooker was the game for real skill. The game cost me a little money because "Digger" (that was the nickname for the mortican's son) was skilled at putting them away, so to speak. Pool cost me little but it cost my dad more. To have the Methodist minister's son in the pool hall every night caused a certain amount of talk. It got to the point that the local Rotary Club presented my dad with a tin pool table with two wind up players. He in turn presented the table to me. For the most part that was all that was ever said about my reflection on the public concept of how a preacher's kid should deport himself. My image never matched that of the Babtist minister's son who won his reputation in the classroom one day when he decked another student for talking back to the teacher. Those days are gone along with the days when a minor could play pool as long as they didn't drink. Back to the gambling. It was a card game in the local hotel where I was introduced to the game of poker. I lost five dollars and I never forgot it. Worse yet, I couldn't keep a straight face and when I had a good hand my delight was so apparent that the pot was all but nonexistant. Since that game of humiliation my card playing has been limited to conversational bridge. While gambling is not my idea of fun, it does have a certain relation to life. Still, for my money, it is not a game one should play at a table. Under Control "Do you have the swimming team under control?" someone said. "If I had anything under control things wouldn't be going right." I replied. There is one game of poker that I did win and it taught me a lesson about intent concentration. A local shark in Texas was taking money from recruits at a rapid pace. I went into the game to break him and succeeded. The moral I believe is that a person with a cause is dangerous even if he is unskilled. The person who only plays at it is the eternal easy mark. THE wjopdz" IIEPPNFI7 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 Sifting through the TIMESg EDITORIAL letters) COMMENT ' Things were looking up in this week's 1967 edition of the Times. Featured was "Operation Smokestack," in which the old stack at the Heppner Elementary School was replaced. "The old stack was paper-thin in places and part had already toppled off. Bill Weatherford engineered the job, cutting off the old stack. ..and adding a 52-foot section. A crane with a 70-foot boom, owned by the Heppner Lumber Co., was called upon for the hoisting. It was quite a feat, too, in moving the crane from the mill to the scene and back with the boom in a horizontal position." Also noted in the school spruce-up operation was the installation of steel nets for the school's tennis courts, replacing the "frayed and worn nets that yielded to time". Principal at the time, Al Martin, is pictured on the courts extending and invitation to the public to come and try thier tennis skill. , This week in 1957 the Times reported "a fire which started fron an unknown cause in or around a shop building completely destroyed eight farm buildings and either damaged or destroyed much equipment on the William H. Padberg ranch in Clark's Canyon south of Lexington". The blaze was the second serious fire in recent weeks for the area. In an earlier fire nearly $25,000 worth of baled hay was destroyed at the Harold Wright ranch near Ruggs. Of a lighter note on the farm scene that week were reports of "exceptionally heavy wheat yields as harvesting gets into full swing". "A heavy yield of certified Omar and Burt wheat is being harvested on the Bergevin ranch south of lone. The fields of Fair buttons ready Omar stand more than waist high and are averaging 60 bushels per acre." There was no messing around in the photojournalism department this week in 1947. Just below a picture of Ione's Ronald Baker beaming beside his prize steer is a picture of "Shorty" hanging in two halves from meat hooks as an inspector stamps "prime" on the carcass. So long "Shorty". In the same week, a farewell party was held in Hardman to , honor management and employees of Reed's mill who were leaving to reside in the Spokane vicinity. The mill was to be , dismantled and headed in the same direction for further use. This week in 1937 the Times reported plans tor a new eating establishment in Heppner. "Mark Merril, who for several years has operated the lunch counter in the O'Donnell pastime, has announced the lease of quarters in the new Dick building where he expects to have a modern and up-to-date restaruant in operation by Rodeo time." In other food news, prices from the Safeway store included three pounds of Airway coffee for four bits, fifty pounds of flour for $1.79 and a case of mike for $3.45 or 45 cents for six . tins. This week's 1927 tip from Arthur Brisbane: "Miss Constance Talmadge, excellent moving picture actress, requesting a divorce, says of her husband; 'He is the nicest man, but I am out of love.' 'Out of love' is modern term, typical of our day. Strict logic might confirm the view that if you marry when 'in love' you should unmarry when 'out of love'. There are other considerations, however, that still influence many." Center. Separate passes are avail able for pre-schoolers, 4-H, FFA and senior citizens. Morrow County Fair buttons providing entrance to the entire week of fair activities are now on sale for $1. Without the buttons, entrance price is $1 per day. Buttons are available from illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllt the Heppner cheerleaders, GAZETTE-TIMES E lone cheerleaders and River side cheerleaders. Senior cit- CLASSIFIEDS 676-9228 izen passes are available through the Neighborhood nlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllin; r i i Morrow County Picnic Laurelhurst Park-Portland 12 Noon Sunday, Aug. 7 'Come.. .renew aquaintances with old friends & classmates Prizes Free Coffee & Punch fffmif oi.ni i vi. v. Heppner 676-5184 TIRES? WE'VE GOT THE TIRE YOU NEED AND THE PRICE IS RIGHT. ..FROM COMPACTS TO LOG TRUCKS WE PUT THE RUBBER 0NTHER0AD! GOOD STOCK ON HAND EXAMPLE HR78xl5 npeee$ STEEL $ K (P) 82 Mooting, d aim a i s if Balance RADIAL . . :v & F.E.T. 40,000 MILE GUARANTEE NO TRADE-INS NEEDED HERE t iMi b d i -Jfc. Mi mt AvBHfll fPf 4 III! M 1 Hilling ' : ' ; 1 4 ' JB, mint- ' tut. ... i ii. miimi LnwMM.-M H I Tf T.,W 0110 ? July 30 at the Foircjroutitis Pavilion from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. 1 Depot II Rodeo Court Queen Mary Anne Proctor and Princesses Teresa Proctor Krynn Robinson Deborah Palmer 3 Princess Deborah Palmer Donna Palmer tte0,Vte AU9USt 1977 Morrow Coun,y Fcir crt J. A. J. A -1 Vi t f w tv
