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CowBelles plan pizza party
and organizational meeting
What the Morrow County
,'CowBelles will be and do as an
" organization will be the main
topic of discussion at an
organizational pizza party and
meeting Wednesday, April 12,
CowBelle President Mary
Martin announced this week.
The pizza party and meeting
will be held at the West of
Willow Restaurant beginning
at 7 p.m.
"We, as CowBelles, and
more importantly as women
concerned and involved in
agriculture have a responsibi
lity to ourselves and the
industry but how do we fill
this role?" questioned Mrs.
Martin.
Propoed Heppner bu
outside 6 limitation
Members of the Heppner
Budget Committee met last
Thursday at City Hall for an
initial look at the city's
proposed budgot which now
stands at $41,059 outside the
six per cent limitation.
In his budget message to the
committee, City Budget Offi
cer Marshall Lovgren said the
requirements were raised this
year mainly by the inclusion
of two more employes to the
city payroll one each in the
Water and Street Depart
mentsas well as increases in
the cost of materials, supplies,
insurance and payroll taxes.
Lovgren said the proposed
document also included bud
geting for the Library Depart
ment which was trimmed
from the current year's bud
get. After a two-hour review of
the 30-page document, the
committee agreed to recon
vene Thursday (tonight) to
begin discussing items which
could be cut before presenting
the budget to the voters.
Tonight's meeting is sche
duled for 7:30 p.m. in City
Hall.
The total requirements for
the budget come to $195,405
-which is staked against
$120,155 in anticipated re
ceipts, leaving $75,250 in taxe3
CowBelle President
practice with the paddle
Wednesday, April 12. The
The newly elected CowBelle
president goes on to explain
how beef promotions, educa
tional programs for the public,
beef certificate sales and
cookbooks have become a
tradition with the CowBelles.
"These are all worthwhile
and necessary projects but
some of us wonder if we
couldn't better spend our
energies here, educating our
selves first," she commented.
The Extension Service pro
vides many programs for
marketing, hedging futures,
management and operations,
but, for the most part these
programs are attended by the
men of the cattle industry.
required to balance the bud
get. Added to that figure is
$9,783 estimated as taxes not
to be received. The result is
$43,974 in tax within the six per
cent limitation and $41,059 in
tax outside the limitation.
Major additions to the
budget package proposed are
the two city employe posi
tions, both salaried at $11,428.
The positions are needed to
help augment the current
skeleton city work crew which
has fallen far behind in
Plant pleads guilty
robbery charge
Kenneth L. Plant, 17, Board
man, who was arrested in a
Hermiston service station
Jan. 15 after holding the
station owner hostage, Thurs
day pled guilty to a charge of
robbery in the third degree.
Plant entered the guilty plea
to the negotiated charge at a
change of plea hearing before
Circuit Court Judge Jack
Olsen in the Morrow County
Courthouse, Heppner. Plant
was initially charged with
first degree robbery, first
degree kidnapping, recklessly
Mary Martin (talking with her
before the organization's pizza party and meeting scheduled for
affair will be at the West of Willow Restaurant beginning at 7 p.m.
Mrs. Martin said these
programs are also available
and would be educational for
the women of the cattle
industry. In addition, she
proposes bringing a class on
farm bookkeeping and econo
mics to local CowBelles, if the
membership indicates a wil
lingness to participate.
CowBelles will also have the
opportunity to discuss and
vote on a name change
proposed by the national
organization. In the future, the
organization will be known as
National Cattlewomen.
Mrs. Martin said other
items of business will include
discussion about the upcoming
required city maintenance
work.
Also included is a $7,319
allotment for materials, ser
vices and outlay for the City
Library as well as a 10 per
cent salary increase for city
employes.
The Fire Department is the
only city department indica
ting a decrease in budget
requirements, dropping from
a current year's allotment of
$9,075 to a proposed budget of
$5,574.
endangering and driving un
der the influence after the
gun-wielding youth held offi
cers at bay and removed cash
from the station register.
District Attorney Dennis
Doherty said he agreed to
enter plea negotiation after
conferring with the defense
attorney and a psychiatrist
who studied Plant and review
ing video tapes and written
tests used by the psychiatrist
in his evaluation.
"I remain unconvinced that
the defendant suffers from a
hands, too) directs a "practice
Belles were getting in a little
...i,..i.h fr
beef promotion at Fred Mey
er's in Portland April 28-29
and the state council meeting
and workshop in Corvallis
May 12-13.
Members are reminded to
bring their dues ($2-year
County, $10-year National) to
this meeting as several re
quests for financial assistance
have been received by the
Morrow County group.
The pizza party and meeting
is open to CowBelles and
non-members interested in
becoming a part of the
organization.
Lovgren said nothing is
budgeted for street paving in
the coming year and also
pointed out that nothing is
budgeted for water line im
provements for the antici
pated apartment complex on
Elder Street. The building
permit for the complex is still
pending. City Council has
assured the builder the im
provements will be made if
the permit is approved.
to
mental disease or defect
which would exclude criminal
responsibility," Doherty said.
"I was and am, however,
persuaded that Kenneth Lo
gan Plant labors under an
emotional or personality dis
order." The negotiated charge is a
Class C felony carrying a
maximum penalty of five
years and, or a fine of $2,500. A
pre-sentence investigation
will be conducted by Correc
tions Division officials before
sentencing is scheduled.
appropriations highlight
Senator Mark Hatfield told
the Senate Appropriations
Committee this Tuesday, that
the sorry state of Federal
water resource planning is
frustrating the attempts of his
constituents to work within the
system to provide for needed
future water developments.
Hatfield is a senior member
of that Committee and the top
Republican on its Public
Works Subcommittee which
funds Federal water porjects.
The committee began hear
ings this week on next year's
budget for the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, the Bu
reau of Reclamation and the
Water Resources Council.
On the subject of specific
Oregon projects for Fiscal
Year 1979, Hatfield said he
will make the proposed Willow
Creek Dam and Reservoir his
centerpiece.
"It is a paramount example
Morrow Schools pass budget,
BMCC budget defeated
Although only three of five county voting precincts
reported a favorable total, the Morrow County School
District budget passed the test on the first round by a
comfortable 150 vote margin. Strong support was seen in the
two north Morrow precincts and lone voters supported the
13.4 per cent budget hike over the current year by a lesser
margin. The budget was narrowly turned back in the
Heppner precinct and soundly rejected in Lexington.
Five advisory committee positions were also on the
ballot, with all but one showing uncontested races. In the lone
contested race, Stephen Peck totaled 279 votes to 197 for Judy
Currin to win the seat as the Lexington schools advisory
member. Also gaining seats were Frank Pearson (Heppner),
Mary Martin (lone), Francine Evans (Boardman-Irrigon)
and Earl Trudeau (Boardman-Irrigon).
Kenneth Broadbent received 422 votes to retain his
School Board seat which was challenged by Larry Leichleiter
(218) votes).
In separate balloting, the Blue Mountain Community
College was narrowly defeated on a disti ict-wide basis,
although the budget was successful in Morrow County. The
district total was 3,190 yes votes to 3,227 votes. The Morrow
County was 524 yes and 466 no.
Board of Directors' incumbent Bob Rietmann was
successful in turning biick the challenge of Beryle Brizendine
both in county balloting and district-wide.
FFA Slave
to be held
Thursday (today), April 6, is the time for Morrow County
residents to place their bids for securing one of 50 Future
Farmers of America who will be put on the aution block at
7:30 p.m. in the Heppner High School cafetorium.
Gary Grieb, honorary FFA member, will serve as
auctioneer for the annual FFA Slave Auction, which is this
year's only fund-raiser for the local chapter's numerous
activities.
Each 'slave' will be required to put in a good eight-hours
of labor for his buyer. Arrangements of time and type of work
will be arranged between buyer and slave. '
Refreshments will be available at tonight's event.
Two injured in one
car accident
Noel Gay Harshman, 20, and Debby L. Harshman, 19, are
both hospitalized with serious injuries following a one-vehicle
accident on Highway 207 one mile north of Hardman Monday
morning.
Noel is "making satisfactory progress" in St. Mary's
Community Hospital in Walla Walla, Wa., where he was
transported after the accident, according to his nurse in the
intensive care unit. He suffered a broken jaw and facial
bones, a damaged eye nerve, a deep cut on his back and
numerous lacerations. His father, Gay Harshman said on
Wednesday, "His mental condition is alert. He was very
lucky."
Debby is a patient at Pioneer Memorial Hospital with a
broken pelvis and lacerations.
of the failure of the planning
process," he said.
Congress authorized the
project in 1965, but pre-con-struction
planning required a
modification not in the physi
cal design of the project, but in
the allocation of the reservoir
storage space among the
project functions of flood
control, irrigation, municipal
and industrial water, recrea
tion and water quality en
hancement downstream.
Congress passed the modi
fied authorization and let the
project go forward in 1974, but
President Ford vetoed it
because he said it no longer
conformed to Administration
criteria for water projects.
Hatfield said this week the
idea of a flood control dam in
the Willow Creek canyon is
just as valid today as it was
after the 1903 disaster that
killed 247 people.
Auction
tonight
Hatfield pointed out to the
senate Committee that Hepp
ner's business and industrial
district and about 80 per cent
of its residences are in the
100-year flood plain, and that
how, economically, Heppner
will be in a straightjacket
without a flood control project
because of the severe restric
tions placed on development
in the flood plain by the
Federal Insurance Admini
stration and Oregon land use
laws.
Hatfield said he asked the
Appropriations Subcommittee
for a construction start and
language in the appropriation
bill specifying that funds will
be spent according to the 1974
project description.
Before centering on the
Willow Creek Dam and other
specific projects in Oregon
Hatfield told the appropria
tions committee, "Lately, I
Morrow County
School Levy
Heppner
Boardman
Irrigon
lone
Lexington
Morrow County School
Kenneth Broadbent
Larry Leichleiter
BMCC Levy
(Total Vote)
Morrow County
BMCC Board Member
Bob Rietmann
Beryle Brizendine
Break-in
A weekend break-in at Murray's Drug netted a selective
thief about $4u0 in prescription drugs.
Some 3,800 pills, mostly barbituates and tranquillizers,
were taken from the drug counter while other valuables in
the store were left untouched. Mark Murray estimated the
stolen drugs to have a street value of about $4,000.
The break-in occurred sometime between midnight and 8
a.m. Sunday. Entry was gained by breaking a side window
and using a crow bar to pry off a window covering.
Investigation of the incident is continuing.
Loan officer joins
Bank of E.O.
Brad Christensen, formerly
of Roseburg, has joined the
loan department staff at the
Bank of Eastern Oregon in
Heppner, Bank President
Gene Pierce announced this
week.
Pierce said Christensen will
begin as a loan officer, after
spending six years with the
Douglas National Bank loan
department in Roseburg.
Christensen is a graduate of
Oregon State University with
a B.S. in Business and
Finance.
An out-of-doors and sports
enthusiast, Christensen is 22
years old and single.
have seen the unraveling of
the Federal program reach
new lows. ..the usual tactics of
budgetary stretch-outs and
the no-new-start dictum."
Hatfield also announced his
intention to propose legisla
tion later this month to
"regularize the water plan
ning process, expedite it,
eliminate the present incon
gruities, and orient it toward
objectives that will be more
readily understandable and
widely supportable."
Some of the other projects
stressed by Hatfield to the
committee were anadromous
fishery restoration in the
Deschutes, John Day, Uma
tilla and Grand Ronde rivers;
and the Columbia River Es
tuary Special Study which will
determine what kinds of
development can be accomo
dated in the huge and complex
estuary of the Columbia river
and how it can be accomodated.
YES
584
178
152
112
109
33
Board
NO
443
188
34
40
96
85
422
218
YES NO
524
466
4,556
1,837
nets drugs
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