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TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner. Ore.. Thursday, July 28. 1977
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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.
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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.
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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
Laura Craig, Composing
Patti Saling, Composing
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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."
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