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'f & ' 'ii.' 'r p pi V 9 W it -'"y jp 0 r-w r r trr f f ft V " fc t" " f f f f VP ' i t ft. BESS I E WETELL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB EUGENE OR 97403 FIME jRLlD 11 11 1L r - aster Week brship the church of your choice The celebration of the resur rection of Christ on Easter Sunday is one of the most important and sacred holy days in all Christian churches. Local churches invite every one to join their congregations in worship at Holy Week and Easter services. Details of Easter Week services and activities, in south Morrow County chur ches are listed below. Assembly of God Christian Life Center An Easter worship service will be held at Christian Life Center on Easter Sunday at 11 a.m. At 7 p.m. a special missionary service will be conducted by Richard Nichol son of Albany who plans to be engaged in missionary work in Argentina in the near future. Christian The first Christian Church in Heppner plans to hold worship services on Easter Sunday at 11 a.m. and at 7:30 p.m. with the choir singing Easter selections. Bible school at 9:45 will precede the morning service. Episcopalian A Maundy Thursday service will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. at All Saints Episcopal Church celebrating the institu tion of the Eucharist by Christ at the last Supper. On Good Friday, March 24, a short service of prayer and meditation will be held at 12 noon. At 7:30 p.m. on Friday the Liturgy will be read and Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament distribu ted. An Easter egg hunt will be held for the youngsters oh Holy Saturday at 5:30 p.m., followed by a potluck supper. At 7:15 p.m. Easter vigil service will begin, including administration of holy bap tism, reading of the prophe cies and lighting of the Paschal candle. Holy Communion will be offered at 7:45 a.m. on Easter Sunday and the 10:30 a.m. worship service the festive Eucharist will be celebrated. Hope Lutheran "The Prisoner", a true- HUD program provides low-income rent subsidy Housing and Urban Devel opment (HUD) has ear marked $162,720 for a new rental subsidy program in Umatilla, Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler counties. The money is available for partial subsidation of 100 existing housing units, includ ing 20 units in Morrow, 20 in Gilliam, 20 in Wheeler and 40 in Umatilla County. The program is being oper ated Jointly through the Eastern Oregon Regional Housing Authority and the Umatilla County Housing Authority. The program is designed to allow low income people more freedom in choosing housing at story film that illustrates what Christ's sacrifice means to humanity, will be shown at a special Maundy Thursday ser vice at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Hope Lutheran Church in Heppner. There will also be a meditative service of Com munion. The service of worship and celebration of Easter Sunday at 11 a.m. will include special choir and instrumental music and a children's sermon. An Easter egg hunt will be held after the service. Valby Lutheran At Good Friday services at Valby Lutheran Church in lone at 7:30 p.m., the film "The Prisoner" will be shown, followed by a meditative service of Communion, Tene brae service and the Service of Shadows in which light is gradually extinguised to sym bolize Christ's death. Easter service on Sunday at 8 a.m. will include special vocal and instrumental music and a children's sermon. An Easter breakfast and egg hunt is planned at 9 a.m. Methodist The United Methodists will hold a special traditional Jewish Passover meal today, Maundy Thursday, at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the Last . Supper. Good Friday services at 8 p.m. will include an interpre tive drama, "Meditation on the Cross". The choir will perform a special number and a solo by Rick Drake is planned. At Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. on Easter, the theme will be the Easter Bunny. The 11 a.m. worship service will include a special Easter anthem by the choir, a puppet show for the children's mes sage and an Easter sermon. Church of Christ Easter worship service will be held at the Lexington Church of Christ at 11 a.m. on Sunday, with Carl Marquardt delivering the Easter mes sage. Church of the Nazarene A special Easter sermon will be given at the 11 a.m. by paying a determined por tion of the rent directly to the landlord. Application for receiving rent subsidy may be made by those earning 80 per cent or less of the median income for the county and who are paying over 25 per cent of their incomes for housing. Eighty per cent of median income for a family of four is $11,650 in each of the counties. The program allows families to pay from 15 to no more than 25 per cent of their income toward housing rental with HUD paying the difference between such payments and the HUD fair market rental for the area. worship service at the Church of the Nazarene on Sunday. The service will be preceded by Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and an Easter party and egg hunt for the children at 10:30 a.m. Roman Catholic Continuing Holy Week ob servance by St. Patrick's ' Catholic Church in Heppner, a Holy Thursday Mass will be celebrated today at 7:30 p.m. On Good Friday, the Liturgy will be read at 3 p.m. followed by veneration of the cross and distribution of Holy Commu nion. Easter Vigil begins on Holy Saturday and a Vigil Mass will be offered at 6:30 p.m. followed by a reading of the Liturgy. Easter Mass will be offered , at St. William 's in lone at 8 : 45 a.m. and at St. Patrick's at 11 a.m. Confessions will be heard in Heppner after services on Thursday and Friday and at 11 a.m. -noon and 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Holy Saturday. In lone, confessions will be heard before Mass on Easter. Seventh-Day Adventist ..Easter service at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Saturday, March 24, at 11 a.m. will include a sermon on the meaning of Christ's death. A Vespers will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday on the topic "The Glory of the Resurrection". There will be sharing of personal testimo nies about the meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ to individual believers. United Church of Christ The congregation of the lone United Church of Christ will celebrate Maunday Thursday tonight with a candle-light potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m., followed by a procession to the sanctuary for Holy Commu nion and the Office of Tene brae. A breakfast on Easter Sunday at 8:30 a.m. will be followed by a family worship service at 10 a.m., one hour earlier than usual. Church school classes will not be held on Easter. Thirty per cent of those accepted for the program must be earning 50 per cent or less of the median income. Sixteen units are designated for the elderly in Umatilla County, eight units each in Morrow, Gilliamand Wheeler counties. An outreach program will begin soon with Diane Jorgen sen acting as Housing Coordi nator for the program. Her office is located with the Umatilla County Housing Au thority, 155 B Street, Hermis ton, phone 567-3241. Persons interested in the program should direct ques tions to Mrs. Jorgenson. VOL. 96 NO. 12 Ciimtty representation on BMCG Board dhaEeiised. When Morrow County voters cast their ballots on April 4, they will be deciding an issue equally as important as the 7.2 per cent increase in tax levy needed to support the opera tion of Blue Mountain Com munity College. They will also be voting to retain their sole representative on the seven member BMCC Board of Directors. That's the message BMCC President Ron Daniels left at Monday's Heppner-Morrow Chamber of Commerce meet ing as he explained both the tax levy requirements of the college and the director elec tion for three of the seven Board positions. "Morrow County shoulders about 25 per cent of the district's (Morrow and Uma tilla Counties) operating costs," Daniels said. "It's essential that Morrow County be represented on the Board." Presently, Morrow County is only represented by Bob Rietmann, lone, who has , served on the Board for the past 2'2 years. Because of the college's policy of at-large representation, his position is being challenged by Pendleton candidate Beryle Brizendine. Daniels said that with the large disparity in populations between Umatilla and Morrow Counties (Umatilla has some 50,000 residents to Morrow's 5,000), the one man, one vote concept simply won't wash. "There's just not enough people in this county to support one member on a seven-member board if you go by a one-to-one basis," Dan iels said. "You're outnum bered 10 to one." With the possibility looming of Morrow County being shut out of the BMCC decision making process, Daniels urged all voters to carefully study the candidates and to show up at the polls. Concerning the tax levy, Daniels said the 7.2 per cent increase asked by the college is the smallest percentage levy increase in the past five years. Daniels said he expects that, with the increase in the counties' true cash value, the college levy per $1,000 for taxpayers will be slightly less for 1978 than it is for 1977. The district's share repre sents about half of the college's 1978-79 total operat ing budget of $3,649,432, up 9.9 per cent from the current year. The balance of funds to operate the college comes from state and federal sources and tuition and fees. About 32.2 per cent comes from the state, 10.1 per cent from tuition and fees, and 4.9 per cent from federal and other sources. If approved by the voters, the new operating levy would be about $1.78 per $1,000 true cash value, assessed on the counties' 1977 valuation. This would be an increase of 12 cents per $1,000 true cash value over, the 1977 tax levy. The present bond redemp tion levy is estimated to be 22 cents per $1,000 valuation, so the total levy for BMCC would be $2.00 per $1,000 true cash value. Thus, the owner of a $40,000 home would pay $80 to support BMCC. Daniels said he fully expects 1 the $2.00 figure to be lower THURSDAY, MARCH 23J978 when the final true cash value of Umatilla and Morrow counties is known. A "conser vative" eight per cent in crease in the counties' true cash value would result in a total levy of $1.85 per $1,000, a Hatfield's office assures OOU A letter of assurance received by the Morrow Coun ty Court from Sen. Mark Hatfield's office this week has reaffirmed the position that if the Willow Creek Dam is built to Corp of Engineers' specifi cations, it would completely eliminate the Willow Creek and Balm Fork flood plain restrictions presently threa tening all future construction or development in downtown Heppner. The elimination of the 100-year flood plain was the one 'Stipulation attached to statements of support recently sent by the County Court, the Heppner City Council and the Heppner-Morrow Chamber of Commerce to Sen. Hatfield regarding his attempt to Easter Bunny to host Saturday egg hunt The Easter Bunny will soon be hopping through Heppner, leaving a trail of goodies behind for all youngsters, pre-school through fourth grade, to discover during the annual Easter Egg hunt this Saturday. The search for the candy eggs will begin at 10 a.m. in three different locations throughout the city. Pre-schoolers will gather at the City Park near the library; children in grades one and two will meet at the park behind the County Courthouse; and third and fourth graders will have their egg hunt at the lower field of the Junior High School. The pre-schoolers will be treated to a personal visit by the Easter Bunny himself at City Park. For many years the Easter Egg hunt has been sponsored by the local Elks lodge and Exalted Ruler Don Ball estimates this year approximately 250 pounds of eggs will be hidden for the youngsters. He said there are always some eggs held back for those hunters who might come up empty-handed. Rusty Drake concert to add to X-Ray Fund Rusty Drake, nationally known vocalist and recording star, will perform in a concert in the Riverside High School gym in Boardman on Thursday, March 30, at 8 p,m. All proceeds from the show are slated to go into the X-Ray Fund to purchase X-ray equipment needed to make the Boardman Ginic operational. Drake, who has played in every state as well as Europe and Japan, has seven gold records to his credit and expects his sales of recordings to top the 24 million mark this year. He has starred in his own CBS radio show, did a full season as the star of NBC-TV's "Swingin Country" and is currently warming up for another TV variety series. He makes his home in North Bend, Washington. Tickets to the Rusty Drake performance sell for $5 in advance and $7.50 at the door and are available from Mrs. Joe Bartlett, Boardman; Pat McDonough, Irrigon; JB's Record Shop, Hermiston; and Gardner's Mens Wear, Heppner. Bombing Range plays role in growth Conversion of the Navy Bombing Range to agricultural and energy use and "adequate quantities" of Columbia River irrigation waters are two essential requirements for the Mid-Columbia and Northwest Oregon regions if they are to HEPPNER, drop of three cents per $1,000 from the 1977 level, Daniels said. No new programs are in cluded in the proposed budget. However, small budget in creases have been included to BIUIH elimination secure funding for the multi use project originally author ized by Congress in 1965. Sen. Hatfield had asked for the support of local officials by the end of March in order to seek appropriation for the dam under this year's Public Works Appropriation Bill. Several public meetings held in the past three months in -Heppner centered around flood plain and Willow Creek Dam discussion with no clear consensus on the dam issue evident at the meetings. Both county and city officials decided last week that they would support Willow Creek Dam construction only if the flood plain encompassing downtown Heppner would be eliminated. News Briefs OREGON, 14 PAGES increase support of tne eve ning Division and other pro grams to reach part-time students and potential users of the college services. The only new instructional staff are two new nursing The letter received by the County Court from Sen. Hat field's field representative Steve Hickok quoted a section of the Corps of Engineers special report prepared in 1974 which said the dam would provide protection against thunderstorm floods in excess of a 500-year recurrence interval. The flood plain in Heppner is based on floods which would occur at 100-year intervals, and the letter states the dam reservoir would completely contain 100-year floods from Willow Creek and Balm Fork, thus eliminating the flood plain resulting from these streams. Also included in the letter from Hickok is a concise realize their economic growth potential, according to a study made recently be the Economic Development Commission. The Commission completed a 2Vi-day visit to the region during which time members visited industrial parks in the ports of Hood River, The Dalles, Morrow and Umatilla. An air tour of the area also included a look at the Carty coal plant now under construction. Troedson Scholarship forms are available Application forms for the Carl W. Troedson Scholarship program are now available in the Morrow County School District Office and in the offices of the county's three high schools. Students who have previously held Troedson scholar ships are eligible to apply for renewals of their grants. Students who are receiving Troedson grants during the current year have received a direct mailing of application forms. High school seniors should obtain their application forms from their school counselors. The deadline for completing and submitting applications is Friday, May 5. Full service A full service, in-plant printing department has been added to The Gazette-Times to better service the commercial printing needs of businesses and individuals in Morrow County, GazetJe-Times Managing Editor Terry M. Hager announced this week. Ron Jordan, formerly of the Treasure Valley area, has been hired to operate the department. Jordan has spent the last seven years with the Air Force in commercial printing. Jordan and his wife Ida, and children, Ron, age 7 and Yolanda, age 4, are making their home in lone. In recent years The Gazette-Times has offered a full line of commercial printing, however the ac tual printing was done in Hermiston. In addition to in-plant printing, The Gazette-Times offers graphic arts design and is a dealer for Moore Business Forms, Rediform and Standard Accounting Systems. Weather by Don Gilliam 20c instructors to bring the Asso ciate Degree Nursing Pro gram to its approved staff and the equivalent of a full-time instructor in the mechanical department to ease crowded classes. history of the proposed Willow Creek Dam project to date. Hickok said that while there is no guarantee that Sen. Hatfield will succeed in his attempt to get funding for the dam this year, he will do everything in his power to do so if local support is given. The letter concluded with the expectation that Sen. Hatfield would move to de authorize the dam project if appropriations were not ob tained this year in order to remove the threat to landown ers who would be displaced by the dam's construction. The complete text of the letter received from Sen. Hatfield's office is reprinted on page three of this issue of the Gazette-Times. printing here Hi Low Wed, Mar. 15 54 27 Thurs., Mar. 16 62 32 Fri.,Mar.l7 74 35 Sat., Mar. 18 71 -39 Sun., Mar. 19 69 44 Mon.,Mar. 20 70 40 Tues.,Mar.21 65 39
