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U 0 F o r. E N E'A'S PAPER LIS EUGENE OR 9 7 4 0 3 1 Moonlight Madness Sale tonight !l r Just about the time the moon rides high into the sky the evening of Thursday, Oct. 27 Heppner merchants will be unlocking their doors for two hours of Moonlight Madness. Nearly all of the downtown Heppner retail merchants have prepared for the special two-hour sale from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight (Thursday). Most stores will close at 5 p.m. in preparation for the sale. Bargains abound and shoppers can get an idea of the super sale items from advertisers in this issue of the Gazette-Times. In addition to regular businesses, Heppner Soroptimists will be selling apples and oranges by the bag at Peterson's Jewelers. The Gazette-Times is conducting a "special" for the evening's Moonlight Madness also. Hot spiced cider and donuts will be available at a prominent location downtown. The cup of cider and donut will cost .25 or whatever contribution patrons wish to make as all proceeds will go to the Heppner High School Band Uniform Fund Drive. Among the stores participating will be Peterson's Jewelers, The Shoe Box, Judy's Fabric, Coast to Coast, The Lebush Shoppe, R&W Drive In, Coles House of Fashion and Posy Patch, Kroll's Department Store, Murray's Drug, Case Furniture, and Gardner's Men's Wear. McLeod prompted to state office "I think I'll miss the sunshine, bright skies and clean air the most," com mented ASCA County Execu tive Director Dave McLeod, recently promoted to the state office in Portland after work ing with Morrow County farmers for 21 years. McLeod was hired by the Morrow County ASCS Board and began work as a field man on Oct. 16, 1956. He was advanced to his present direc tor post two years later. "I hate to leave", McLeod said. "But it's the only thing left to do; I'm at a standstill here." He explained that he has waited until his four children were out of school and the right opening came along. Raised on a farm near Grass Valley in Sherman County, McLeod said he has always felt at home with farmers and rural communi ties. McLeod's background included four years in the Navy after high school in Mora and one year at the University of Oregon, where he met his wife, Mary. He farmed in the Rhea Creek area, had a welding business in lone and worked for Federal Crop Insurance be forestarting ASCS (then ASC) field work in 1956. As county executive direc tor for the past 19 years, McLeod's responsibility has been to administer federal agricultural programs at the county level, working under the fanner elected ASC com mittee. McLeod said that most of the things going on now, as far as agricultural programs, were in effect when he took his administrative position, but in the interim, action on the federal level caused his work load and number of people working under him to fluctu ate tremendously. For exam ple in 1963 the marketing quota was voted down in Congress, dramatically de creasing the ASCS workload. With the passing of the Agricultural Act of 1977, there will be a need for more employees to administrate the legislation. ASCS works closely with county fanners on such things Child care center waits for sanitarian The Heppner Child Develop ment Center, ready to reopen at its temporary facilities in the 4-H Annex at the fair grounds, must wait for an imspection by a state sanita rian before receiving neces sary certification to begin operation. Dawn Stuchell, chairman of the Center's Board of Direc tors, said the sanitarian in Pendleton indicated that a required piece of paperwork had not arrived from Port land, holding up his inspec tion. "Some mothers with tem porary child care arrange ments are understandably getting impatient," Mrs. Stu chell commented. She said the Center had hoped to open this week and hold an open house on Friday night. The sanita rian inspection is the only requirement not yet met for certification. Mrs. Stuchell said she still hoped the Center would be able to open this week. As of press time, the center was still awaiting further word from the sanitarian. Hi) nmu: it: Leaving post Dave McLeod, the ASCS man farmers have known here for some time will be leaving soon for a post in the state offices. A farewell get-together has been set for Saturday, Nov. 5 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Elks Lodge. All friends are invited. as disaster yield and defi ciency payments, the Agricul tural Conservation Program, commodity and facility loans and flood insurance. McLeod will start on the state payroll as Agricultural Program Specialist on Nov. 6, though he said he would be in and out of the Morrow County office for awhile after that. His responsibility will be to all 36 counties in the state, working specifically on the price support and conserva tion programs. He will assist in interpreting federal guidelines and weed out those that don't apply to The Center will be required to vacate the Annex building on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 2-3, and Monday, Nov. 7, due to prior building commit , ments, which adds to compli cations. Mrs. Stuchell said she is concerned about the delayed opening because the terms of the contract signed with the Fair Board specified Oct. 24 as Lowe is double Figuring that a bunch of Portlanders would have a hard time playing football in Hawaii, Lyle Lowe broke a four-way tie to become the first double winner in the Gazette-Times football con test. Lowe, Kevin Rountree, An na Mae Steagall and Robb Rush each predicted six out of ten winners but Lowe was the only one to correctly tab the outcome of the tiebreaker AGRICULTURAL STA B I LI ZA I AMD CONSERVATION SERuX COUNTY OFFICE OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT Cf AGR:WLll,?j ! 'f it Oregon farmers. McLeod said he also expects to do some - troubleshooting in different part of the state. McLeod mentioned the fact that he and his wife Mary have four grandchildren in the Portland area as one attrac tion of moving there. "I'll miss the people here more than the job," McLeod remarked. "I once thought that this was as close to an office job as I could stand, but it's not as bad being behind a desk as I used to think." The ASC committee has not yet announced McLeod's suc cessor in Morrow County. the beginning date of the Center's six month occupancy period. In preparation for the open house planned after opening at the Annex, Mrs. Stuchell requests that mothers and other volunteers call her at 676-5297 to arrange a work party to paint Center parti tions and other equipment. first winner game. Rountree, missing the tiebreaker score by 16 points, earned a second place finish. Lowe's $10 check and Roun tree's $5 check are waiting to be picked up at the Gazette Times office. A new contest appears in this issue with a bu n f squeakers slated from all across the country. Readers are urged to get their entries in before in 5 p.m. Friday. THE GA VOL. 95 NO. 43 Muild request to city council A Gresham construction company, whose application for a conditional use permit to build an apartment complex in Heppner was denied earlier in the month by the Planning Commission, will appeal the decision at the next City Council meeting. Kenneth Hardy of Cason and Hardy Construction Co., in itiated the appeal procedure with a letter submitted lo the City Recorder this week. Hardy is seeking to build three eight-unit apartment build ings in the area adjacent to Aiken and Elder streets near the Columbia Basin Co-op office. Hardy's first appearance before the Planning Commis sion drew objections from several residents in the firea and a flat refusal from the Commission. Residents com plained of the added traffic the apartments would bring lo the neighborhood and Commis sion members questioned the application specifications and set-back standards presented. After being turned down by the Commission. Hardy told the Gazette-Times he did not plan to appeal the decision but he has since reconsidered. His letter to the City Recorder indicated that encouragement and support received since the denial had persuaded him to make the appeal. "Heppner is a good market, let's face it," Hardy said. "But I don't want to get into a hassle with residents of the area there are plenty of other sites in other commun ities." Cason and Hardy recently finished building a similar 19-unit complex in Boardman and the Heppner plans call lor 24 completely furnished one bedroom units in the $200 per month range. "I'm not out of tune with Heppner. I can't see any real problem since probably 90 percent of the people that would live there would have Kinzua honors Frank Robinson Guest of honor Frank H. Robinson was presented with a gold watch by Harry Kennison at a Kinzua Corp. retirement dinner on Friday, Oct. 21 at West of Willow in Heppner. Robinson has worked over 28 years as a planerman in Morrow County, in charge of setting up and taking care of lumber finishing equipment. He was employed by Heppner Lumber Co., which later became Kinzua Corp., in 1949. He had worked in Klickitat. Wash., as a planerman before coming to Morrow County. Family members present at Robinson's retirement dinner Morrow County's award winning ZETTE-TIME HEPPNER, OREGON er appeals Housing already left for work before any school children would be out on the street." Hardy said. "I don't think the apartments would have that much of an impact on the area." After several citizens ex pressed concern that the Library funding still a question A petition drive which the Heppner Library Board plan ned lo begin last week with the creation of a library service district as an end goal --has been held up. The formation of a boundary commission through the ; )'!iiioniriK of the County Election highlights annual CBEC meeting Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative, Inc. will hold its annual meeting November 3, at the Morrow County Fair Pavilion in Heppner. Registration for the 3rd annual event will begin at 11:30 a.m. followed by dinner at 12:15 p.m. served by the Lexington Grange ladies. A business session is sche duled at 1:15 p.m. and will include election of five board members, report of officers and manger, and presentation of awards. Entertainment will be by the Heppner High School music group under the direc tion of Jim Acklev. Spring ahead... fall back Daylight Savings Time ends Saturday night. Turn your timepieces back one hour. included his wile. Ruth: son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robinson; daugh ter Donna Papineau: grand daughter Carol Nash; and brother-in-law Kenneth Moorehead of Goldcndale, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are 'the parents of two and grandparents of seven This week Itnhi.iaon started his retirement by filling in at the mill because it was shorthanded. In the future Robinson plans to do a lot more tishing and hunting. The Robinsons also will do some short distance traveling in their camper.- THURSDAY, OCTOBER a access bridge to the area could not handle the stress of added traffic, Hardy said the bridge would be a City Council problem, not his. "It's simply not worth my time or effort to try and buck the citizens if they don't want Court, had been decided upon by the board as the most direct route to create a library district for the purpose of obtaining permanent funding for the library. Bill Kuhn, Heppner attorney Continued on Page 2 Election of board members include one from each of the Continued on Page 2 Weather By Don Gilliam High Low Wed . Oct. 19 64 42 Thu..()ct. 20 60 36 Fri.. Oct. 21 64 38 Sat , Oct . 22 67 37 Sun . Oct. 23 66 48 Mon .Oct. 23 66 48 Mon..Oct.24 78 40 Tue.Oct.25 56 46 Precipitation: Tuesday, .12 himdrcths of an inch. f ' I Retires i Id 1 7 i i ft t , newspaper... 27, 1977 12 PAGES the apartments," Hardy said. But he added that he would be receptive to an alternate access route to the site if one was available. "The price of land and the cost of trucking in the mater ials make it impossible for me News Wheat League banquet The annual Wheat Growers League county meeting and banquet is slated for Tuesday, Nov. 1, at the Heppner Elk's Lodge. At the committee meetings scheduled to start at 1 p.m., county resolutions will be formed on questions of con cern to wheat growers which came out of a workshop recently held in Pendleton. A social hour from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. will be sponsored by Grain Growers set dinner for Nov. 7 Featured at the annual Morrow County Grain Grow ers dinner, scheduled for Monday, Nov. 7 at 6:30 p.m., will be a roast beef dinner cooked from show beef pur chased at this year's county fair 4-H and FFA auction. Dr. Warren Kronstad, pro fessor of agronomy at Oregon School planners will meet tonight The Morrow County School District Long Range Planning Committee will hold its first meeting of the year on Thursday, October 27, at the District Office in Lexington at 7:30 p.m. The Committee will review changes in student population in the county and will consider projected growth of students of school age. s Frank Robinson ifar right) shows off the handsome gold watch he received on his retirement from Kinzua Corporation. The watch was presented by Harry Kennison. 15c to consider buying more land for an access," Hardy said. "But if the access was provided, I would sure try it." The public hearing on the appeal has been scheduled for Monday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall. briefs Morrow County Grain Grow ers of Lexington and Union Collier of lone. Alan Pinkerton of Helix, immediate past president of the Oregon Wheat Growers League, will be the main speaker at the 7 p.m. banquet. Pinkerton was part of a trade group that visited Rus-, sia this summer and he will illustrate his experiences in that country with a slide presentation. State University, will be the featured speaker at the din ner. His planned topic is "Food and the World Popula tion." A business meeting follow ing the dinner will include election of directors and reports form the officers. The Committee is expected to consider current building capability in terms of hand ling increased enrollment. In other business the Com mittee is expected to consider financial conditions related to school construction, the re sponsibility of local planning committees and the organiza tion of the District Committee. V
