TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppher. Oregon. Thursday, April 6, 1978
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Budgeting and taxes
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Morrow County voters have been good to taxing districts
so far this year, passing an increased roal levy, a $4.8 million
school building bond and now the special levy for schools
here.
What remains for voters are at least two more important
issues. Both the city and the county are currently working on
budgets and it is almost certain that both will have to go
beyond the six per cent limitation, that is, they will have to
ask voter approval of a portion of their budgets.
The city held its' first budget meeting last Thursday with
another scheduled for tonight. The county will hold its first
budget meeting on May 11. Indications are that committees
working on both budgets will strive to pare the budgets to
bare minimums and yet, both governments will probably
need more money than tax bases allow.
Taxing districts such as the city and the county re
ceive most of their money from an established tax base and
each year they can tax up to an additional six per cent of that
base amount without going to the people. When the taxing
district needs more than the additional six per cent to
operate, it must ask the people to approve any amount above
and beyond the six per cent increase.
While this is an over-simplificaton of the process, it
explains the basic procedure.
Inflation alone takes most of, or more than, the six per
cent increase allows so before really starting the
budget-making process the city and county are behind.
And there are some problems besides inflation that are
affecting the budget-making process in the city and the
county not the least of which is an inadequate tax base.
We feel both the city and county should go outside the six
per cent limitation this year because it's needed to just
maintain the status quo. Moreover, both the city and county
need to bring their employees' wages into line with the
private sector in order to hire and keep competent people.
In step with a reasonable budget proposal, we feel that
both governments should ask the people for a new tax base in
the November general election.
With the proper explanation and education of the people
concerning the budget-making process, we feel the facts
stand by their own, making it realistic to go beyond the six
per cent limitation and ask for a new tax base in the same
year.
Residents of Morrow County will have confidence in their
elected officials if those elected officials display confidence
themselves with positive action.
Where to write
Federal
Following is a list of Oregon and Eastern Oregon public
officials for the information of readers who want to
communicate with them:
U.S. Sen. Mark 0. Hatfield, Russell Senate Office Bldg.,
Washington, D.C. 20510. Member of Appropriations
Committee, Interior Committee, Rules Committee and
Indian Policy Review Commission. Portland office , Pioneer
Courthouse, Rm. 107, 520 SW Morrison, Portland, Ore. 97204,
phone 221-3386.
U.S. Sen Bob Packwood, Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.,
Washington, D.C, 20510. Member of Finance Committee and
Commerce Committee. Portland office, 1002 NE Halladay,
Rm. 700, (P.O. Bos 3621), Portland, Ore. 97208, phone
233-4471.
U.S. Rep. Al Ullman, of the Second District, House Office
Building, Washington, D.C. 20515. Member of Ways and
Means Committee. Salem office, 150 N. Church, Rm. 219
(P.O. Box 247), Salem, Ore. 97310, phone 399-5724.
State
Gov. Robert Straub, State Capitol, Salem, Ore. 97310,
phone 378-3100.
State Sen. Ken Jernstedt (Morrow, Gilliam and other
counties), 311 Pine St., Hood River, 386-1393.
State Rep. Jack Sumner (Morrow, Gilliam and other
counties), Route 1, Heppner, 676-5364.
Picture Credit
Kids will be kids. Day-old twins Bobby and Billy Anhorn
investigated their brand-new spring world with much
gamboling and energy last week. Bobby exchanges sniffs
with his new pal Fat Cat while Billy checks out the toolshed in
this scrapbook-bound baby picture. The pigmy twin goats,
born at home on Monday, March 28, live with parents Wimpy
and Betsy and Grandma Irene Anhorn in Heppner.
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Saturday afternoon activities in
Boardman to benefit X-Ray Fund
An afternoon of entertain
ment this Saturday, April 8, at
Riverside High School will
include a noon meal, prize
drawing, auction, and bingo,
with all proceeds earmarked
for the X-Ray Fund to buy
needed equipment for the
Boardman Clinic.
The meal, to be served from
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.,
includes barbeque beef or
fried chicken, potato salad,
rolls and beverages, at a cost
of $2.50 for adults, $1.75 for
children 12 and under, or $10
per family.
Early diners will be able to
participate in a bingo game,
set up by the Boardman
Eagles, before the auction .
starts at 1:30 p.m. The game
will continue throughout the
day.
A large variety of items and
services have been donated to
the auction by businesses and
individuals throughout Mor
row County with donations
still being received. '
Items to be sold to the
highest bidder on Saturday
include a Polaroid One-Step
camera, a used 30-inch elec
tric range, five yards of
concrete, two tons of straw, a
chain saw, two loads of gravel,
oil change-lube jobs for auto
mobiles, two chicken dinners
for two, a large decorator doll,
a haircut for man or woman,
two sets of printed stationery,
jewelry, a hand-made comfor
ter, a decorated cake, two
pizza dinners for two, gift
certificates from several
stores, a hand knit sweater,
and much more.
Winners of the prize draw
ing will be announced during
the auction. Prizes to be given
away are a half of beef, cut
and wrapped, donated by
Kroll's Department Store; a
television video pinball game
donated by Cal-Am- Fuhrman
Co. ; and four hams donated by
Hill Meat Co.
Tickets for the prizes are
available for $2 from mem
bers of the Lions Club in
Boardman and Irrigon, the
Greenfield Grange, the Board
man Eagles, Mrs. Joe Bart
lett, D.O. Nelson and the
Gazette-Times.
Contributions received dur
ing the last week have raised
the X-Ray Fund to over $3,600
towards the $14,000 still nee
ded to buy Boardman Clinic's
X-Ray equipment.
Lumberjack Show to award
top county contestant April 15
A trophy for the top Morrow
County contestant will be
awarded at the First Annual
Heppner Spring Lumberjack
Show, scheduled at 1 p.m. on
Saturday, April 15, Gary
Grieb, chairman of the Fair
Committee sponsored event,
announced this week. He
urges all local persons want
ing to enter one of the eight
contests in the show to get
their entry forms to Monte
Stookey by deadline day
tomorrow, Friday, April 7.
More than 30 contestants,
including world champions,
have entered the Heppner
contest so far, Grieb said. It is
the first North West Logging
Association sanctioned lum
berjack competition sche
duled this spring and has
attracted competitors from all
over the Northwest.
After the afternoon show at
the fairgrounds, a concert of.
fiddle music will be provided
by members of the Blue
Mountain Fiddlers Associa
tion. The music will begin at 7
p.m., followed by a dance to
the old-time fiddlers begin
ning at 9 p.m.
Admission to the evening's
entertainment will be $2, with
senior citizens admitted for $1.
Heppner City Council
adopts draft plan map
The City of Heppner ad
vanced another notch towards
gaining a new Comprehensive
Plan when the City Council
Monday adopted a draft plan
map outlining the proposed
Urban Growth Boundary and
Expansion Boundary.
The map. still a draft and
subject to revision, includes
several changes recommen
ded by the Planning Commis
sion after a review session last
month. ECOAC Planner Marie
Hall said the map will give
county planners something a
little more concrete to work
with in the Comprehensive
Plan revision process.
Included among the changes
from the map mailed to
Heppner residents earlier in
the year are five additions to
the Urban Growth Boundary,
which provides room for
future expansion outside the
present city limits.
Added to the UGB are: 57.2
acres located behind Pioneer
Memorial Hospital and curv
ing east along the Hinton
Creek canyon; 21 acres par
tially platted and located near
the northwest entrance to
town;
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The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner
and the County of Morrow
Published every Thursday and entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, under the Act
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G.M. Reed, Publisher Dolores Reed, Co-publisher Terry M. Hager, Managing Editor
Jim Summers, News Editor Eileen Saling, Officer Manager " Elane Blanchet, Reporter
Gayle Rush, Composing Chloe Pearson, Composing Justine Weatherford, Local Columnist
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five acres southeast of town
near the confluence of Willow
Creek and Balm Fork; a small
.07 acre parcel adjacent to the
above parcel; and an area
near the high school running
due west from the water tank
to Fuller Canyon Road.
The adoption of the draft
map was a required step in the
planning process before an
April 17 meeting in which city
representatives will meet with
county planners to review the
drafts. Information from the 8
p.m. meeting in the court
house will be forwarded to the
County Planning Commission
before eventually reaching the
County Court for action.
The draft plan will again be
subject to review by both the
Heppner Planning Commis
sion and City Council, probab
ly in June.
Wranglers potluck,
games, 1 p.m
noon;
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Thursday
FFA Slave Auction, 7:30 p.m.
HHS Cafetorium
Heppner Budget Committee, 8
1 p.m., City Hall
Friday '
Chamber Merchants' Com-
mittee, noon, Wagon Wheel
Meet Vic Atiyeh dinner, 7:15
p.m. W. of W., Heppner
Saturday
Vic Atiyeh, 7:15 a.m., Beech- 1
er's, lone
X-Ray Fund dinner and auc-
tion, 11:30 a.m., Riverside
High School
Vic Atiyeh, noon, Nomad .
Restaurant, Boardman i
Sunday
Both a special $1,250,000 bond issue for BMCC's third
building and the college's operating levy were passed by a
more than 2 to 1 margin in Umatilla and Morrow Counties
this week in 1968. The Gazette-Times reported that, as in the
past. Morrow County had given the college a much more
substantial 'yes' margin than it had received district-wide.
Drought conditions ten years ago were causing concern
to the City of Heppner about it's water supply. City Supt. Vic
Groshens told the city council that, combined with 15 new
wells in town which reduced the ground water supply
available, the drought "may hurt us." He added, "We may
have to make a choice between furnishing water to horse
pastures and residences."
The top two graduating seniors were selected by
Heppner High School this week in 1958. Joann Brosnan,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Brosnan of Butter Creek, was
chosen valedictorian for her class, while Tom Currin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Currin of the Lena community, was
named to give the salutatorian speech that year.
Complaints of inadequacy laid at the door of the U.S.
Postal Service is no new thing, as can be seen by this editorial
printed in the Times 20 years ago:
"What is probably one of the worst recent examples of a
department of government trying to get bigger than the
people whom it is supposed to serve and who are it's boss,
supposedly, came to light Tuesday when the post office
department made an offer to Congress that if the 5 cent first
class postage bill is passed, the department will build several
new post offices around the country. As a threat, it said if
only a 4 per cent rate were approved, only half that many
new buildings could be constructed.
"The number of post offices or their age has never had
any connection with the amount of the postal departments
operating deficit.. .nor would it make any difference
regardless of whether any rate increase was approved...
Neither does such money come out of the post office's budget.
The attempt to win approval of new post office construction
money by the department was strictly a left-handed political
trick one that could well be called 'dirty pool'.
"...If that is the way the department operates, Congress
would be completely justified in refusing any rate increase
until some definite proof is shown that sincere effort is being
made to bring the post office operation as a whole up to
modern standards of efficiency, or at least bring the service
back up to what it was. ..even ten years ago."
Today it is doubtful if anyone would complain too loud if
the Post Office was trying to get a five cent first class postage
rate approved for 1958 standards of efficiency.
Heppner was com templating a new major facility for the
city this week 30 years ago: "Mayor Conley Lanham and
members of the city council are confronted with a task in
providing a sewage disposal system that is causing the
figurative town brow to wrinkle.. .Estimated cost of the
project is $227,000 plus, of which amount the city can account
for approximately $50,000 on hand. A bond issue will be
necessary to cover the balance. ..It was stated at the meeting
Monday evening that the city has no alternative either set
about to build the system or have the state do it at local
expense."
Perhaps some reader would care to respond to this
classified printed in the Times this week in 1938: "80 acres
level wheat land to trade for good car. Inquire E.C. Miller,
155 S. 19th. Salem, Ore."
This advertisement for a movie showing at the Star
Theatre this week in 1928 was bound to have created at least a
little curiosity. "The Sensational Sex Exposure Film 'Is
Your Daughter Safe?' Humanity pause for a moment The
lesson of a lifetime! The most delicately handled, yet
daring picture on the screen. An Educational Shock ! Fathers
Mothers, Can You Honestly Answer the Question?
Astounding! Sensational! No children under 16 admitted.
Ladies only in the afternoon at 2:30. Men only at night at 8:00.
Admission 40 cents." A person can't help but wonder how this
film compares with today's GP rated movies much less those
rated R or X.
Patriotism was at a high pitch here in 1918 as the Times
reports in an article about the formation of a local Home
Guard: "Heppner is preparing for home defense. In the
words of the Morrow County chairman of the council of
defense of the Morrow County chairman of the council of
defense (S.E. Van Vactor), 'all those IWW, pro-Germans and
traitors in our midst had better begin to hunt their hole
cards'. A large crowd of representative citizens gathered at
the council chambers Tuesday evening...practically every
man in the building signed a statement of his desire to
become a member of a permanent home guard
organization." A day later 75 raw recruits were awkwardly
drilled by those men with military experience, including
M.L. Case, T.E. Chidsey, Dr. H.T. Allison and Loy M.
Turner.
OBITUARIES
Delvin O. Matteson
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Delvin O. ' Matteson, 66,
Heppner, died Thursday,
March 30, in Pendleton.
A lifetime resident of the
area, he was born Sept. 20,
1911, the son of Eugene and
Sarah McFerrin Matteson. A
retired log scaler and woods
man and an ardent fisherman,
he was a member of American
Legion Post No. 87, Heppner,
and the " Pendleton Eagles
Lodge.
Funeral services were Sat
urday, April 1, at 2 p.m. at the
Heppner Christian Church
with the Rev. Steve Tollefson
officiating. Carl and Betty
Marquardt sang "Goodnight
and Good Morning" and "God
Will Take Care of You".
Casket bearers were David
Hanna, Verne Evans, Robert
Steagall, Larry Gentry, Jack
Ployhar and Matt Hughes!
Concluding services and vault
interment were at Heppner
Masonic Cemetery with Sweer
ney Mortuary in charge ofj
arrangements. j
Mr. Matteson is survived by
a brother, Lyle Mattesonj
Heppner; four nieces, Dorothy
Scott and Kathleen, both of
Heppner; Juanita Smith, Peni
dleton and Wanda Parks,'
Colfax, Wash.; two nephews,
Bob Bennett, Portland, and
Don Bennett, Pensacola, Fla.;
and a sister-in-law, Celia
Matteson, Heppner.
Contributions may be made
to Pioneer Memorial Hospital.
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