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Sifting through the TIMESj
Students returning to the Heppner upper Elementary
School this week in 1967 were in for a saturated surprise as a
weekend rainstorm and a clogged roof drain combined to
leave two of the classrooms under a few inches of water.
"Damage was heavy in the room of Mrs. Justine
Letters to the Editor
Compliments rather than criticism
Editor,
" The Heppner Gazette-Times
should be complimented rath
er than criticized for its
plethora coverage of the
Morrow County Fair and
Rodeo.
For a small weekly news
paper to add the full edition
dedicated to the Fair and
Rodeo was commendable and
most interesting to those who
are interested in such sub
jects. After all, the Gazette
has many faithful readers who
could care less about such
annual events; and to try to
serve the general public they
must publish news and events
of all kinds.
To the Heppner Gazette, I
say, keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Clara Morgan
I Whose highlight?
i, Editor,
t This is a letter in response to the "Local Sound Off-er of
the Year" and her letter to the editor in last week's paper. I
'wouldn't be writing this letter if my name hadn't been
included in last week's bit of bias, but I feel I must respond in
behalf of all the musicians that took part in the parade and
our growing county-wide music program as a whole.
However, I will have the courtesy not to mention names in a
negative manner.
There is a "highlight" ih every parade for each
.1 spectator. One person's highlight need not be the same as
another person's highlight. A newspaper reporter is a person
like all of us, and his "highlight" is to be interpreted as freely
as yours or mine. His choice in this year's parade was
obviously the band. If his choice had been the streetcleaner
i that follows the parade it would have made no difference to
me. Our part of the parade was presentable, the people
enjoyed it and that's what really counts. It's obvious that the
!; "Sounder" thought the Court should have been everyone's
v "highlight." Perhaps there was something lacking in their
' performance as she indicates there is in our band program.
Kelpie revisited
Editor,
LETTERS
As far as attending the Pendleton parade in full dress :
well, we don't have "full dress." We have blue jeans to go
with out-dated, worn-out jackets and bent-up hats. We're
trying desperately to raise the thousands of dollars needed to
outfit our group so we can attend more events such as the
. Pendleton parade. In her letter last week, the "Sounder"
made it seem as if it was because of me that we don't take a
band to Pendleton. Most of the people know that it had been
many years before I came here that Heppner had its last
representative band in the parade. I guess it had been many
years since we had a band in our own parade. At least we've
accomplished something.
One thing that I don't like to do is to sound or be biased.
There's too much of that going on without my adding to it. I
think the whole parade was good. One group did not out-shine
any other group. I have no bias toward the Queen and Court
because of one person's anguish. I think they did a great job.
I have no bias toward the person to whom this letter is
directed. She has a personal interest in this year's court and
her sincerety is appreciated.
Let's pat each other on the back for each person's
contributions to all events in our county and not be
prejudiced toward each other's "highlights." As someone
said in a letter to the editor last week: "Kindness is an
investment having no limit in dividends." Let's all follow
those wise words.
Have a Nice Day,
Jim Ackley
I thought the handling of the "Kelpie" the pet coyote
case, of Spray, Oregon, by the State Legislators and their
cronies, like the State Police, the B.L.M., Forest Service and
the Fish and Wildlife Commission and I'm sure there are
several more of these bureaucratic miscarriages, running
helter, skelter over every living thing in the State, was pretty
"sickening."
Now reading the Oregonian, I find there is one that is
equally as pitiful. I don't know who is responsible of these
bureaucractic morons or moroffs operations, for it is hard to
tell, because they all sleep in the same bed, and it's not a king
size nor a queen size. I don't think it's even a regular size, but
they manage. What I am referring to is the Mother Bear that
was killed and her cubs scattered to the four winds. Whoever
is responsible for this killing, should be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law, and receive the brass pot and the "Turkey
Award" for wholesale stupidity, to send two ding-bats and a
pack of bear-killing dogs to track a bear that a little poodle
could have done, then to tranqualize the mother and while
she is completely helpless, to turn these killer dogs on her to
tear her to shreds. That must of been a pretty sickening
demonstration in the eyes of her two cubs.
I see this manuveur equally as sickening as the "Kelpie"
case and as far as I'm concerned the Oregon Legislators are
guilty of this murder. If not, let me see them prosecute the
ones that are guilty.
OttoH. Jorgensen, Jr.
P.O. Box 443
Scappoose, Oregon 97056
Weatherford on the upper level of the building and in the
room of Mrs. Inez Erwin, on the main floor below Mrs.
Weatherford 's room.
"A considerable quantity of books and teaching
materials together with paper and classroom displays were
ruined or heavily damaged."
The Times reported that the students milled around
outside for a while, with no place to go. They didn't know
whether to laugh or cry, like the fellow who watched his
mother-in-law drive his new Cadillac over the cliff.
In some cases, circumstances of the past lose their focus
with the passage of time in others, the significance grows as
more fodder is gained for hindsight. The following viewpoint
appeared on the Times pages in 1967 and is every bit as
appropriate today as the day it was written.
Time to 'Close Up Rural America?
With problems of America's cities becoming No. 1 of all
our domestic troubles, it is incongruous that an
ever-increasing number of our people are being drawn to
these population centers, only to be entrapped there. At the
same time, the small towns, where there are so many
advantages in living, threaten to become "ghost towns."
Mayor W. C. Rosewall brought in an article from Rural
Electric Newsletter that puts the point over very well, and we
pass it on to you:
"Next time you're in town, take a look up and down main
street. Chances are there's another empty store. It's
happening every day in hundreds of small towns across
America.
"It's been happening that way for years. Every since we
began discovering how fewer and fewer people could grow
more and more food. That started an exodus that has
resulted in 70 per cent of our people living on one per cent of
our land. And it's getting worse. Each year another 500,000 to
600,000 people leave rural areas to settle in the city.
"You don't have to look beyond the front page of your
newspaper to realize that this wholesale movement of people
from rural areas to urban areas isn't solving much. But some
people still seem to think incredibly that this migration is
the only answer. Take a look at a few quotes that have popped
up recently:
" '....What the small town may have contributed in the
past is one side of the coin ; the other side is urbanism and the
greatest opportunity in the history of man for him to reach
his full potential. Where the small town kept him prisoner,
urbanism gives him freedom of choice choice of education,
choice of profession, choice of marriage. If the small town is
passing, we can't bemoan it.'
" 'Current trends seem to indicate that the appropriate
role for most of the very small towns is to pass slowly our of
existence.'
" '(Some of our poverty problems can be solved) if we
deliberately set about to create several thousand ghost towns
in the state.'
"These words aren't coming from crackpots. They're
coming from respected leaders economists and sociolo
gists. They represent an idea that has gained acceptance to a
point that it actually was expressed in a preliminary report
of an advisory commission to a federal agency. It might be
time, said this preliminary report, to let rural America
'decline and die.' Other government experts have toyed with
the recommendation that the government subsidize the
movement of rural people to the cities-where-supposedly
it would be easier to meet the needs.
"Fortunately, the 'decline and die' idea is no longer
expressed in that particular report. Enough people took
exception to it at the right time. These people recognized that
the solution to the trouble in the cities lies in the opposite
direction-finding a way to revitalize rural America and
keep the people there.
"What we need to do now is to stop talking about letting
rural America 'decline and die.' Instead, we need to sart
talking about building around its advantages. We need to quit
asking if we should stop the wholesale dumping of rural
people into the cities and start trying to find out how we can
stop it.
"It must be pretty hard to explain to a displaced farmer
in Watts or Detroit that he now has "the greatest opportunity
in the history of man... How much easier to help him find
that opportunity in the land of his roots.
"It's not time to close up rural America. It's time to
unlock its potential."
To this we add our heartiest editorial "Amen!" But we
verily believe that people who cherish their rural living are
going to have to work to preserve it. They are going to have to
support one another, and each citizen must do his part m
civic and community activities to help sustain the way of life
that rural residents so enjoy.
Big Job?
Call lot aS0ttt
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676-9228
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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.
CM. Reed. Publisher
Dolores Reed, Co-publisher
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