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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.
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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
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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.
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