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Public access
to reservoir
questioned
In recent weeks, the question of whether or nol Hie public
should be allowed access to Carty Reservoir at the
Boardman coal-fired generating plant has been in the news.
The Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce has
gone on record as supporting public access "at such a time
and in such a manner as the recreational uses become
compatible with the primary industrial uses of the
reservoir."
Department of Fish and Wildlife people have indicated
an interest and are currently looking at recreational
alternatives.
Portland General Electric, owner and operator of the
coal-fired plant, has said it is willing to pursue the idea of
public access and Boeing Agri-Industrial, the company that
has right to the land on which the reservoir sits, hasn't said
much yet.
One of the most attractive recreational uses of the
reservoir is the possibility of waterfowl hunting, as visitors to
the site in recent weeks can attest. It is estimated that 50,000
ducks at a time are using the partially-filled reservoir.
But, there are also some problems with allowing public
access to the reservoir.
First, it must be remembered that Carty Reservoir was
constructed by PGE and Boeing. The reservoir was built
primarilly to provide coolant water for the coal-fired plant
with excess storage for irrigation of Boeing land that is
leased from the State Department of Veterans Affairs.
People will be working in the areas surrounding the
reservoir, both on agricultural lands and around PGE's
facility. With that in mind, hunting becomes less attractive.
Another problem is actual access to the reservoir. To the
east is the Navy Bombing Range over which no roads can be
constructed. Tower Road coming in from I80-N cuts off on
the north side of the coal-fired plant, meaning that another
road would have to wind around the plant and to the
reservoir.
Still another question should public access be allowed
to an energy producing complex, especially a potential site
for a nuclear plant.
Morrow County is fortunate to have major industry like
PGE and Boeing. We can already see the benefit tax rolls
receive and employment provided helps the entire economic
sector of the county.
Nothing should be allowed public access included if
the prime industrial uses of the area will be compromised.
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Letters From Readers
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All for one, and one for all. ..like the Three Musketeers
these canines stand guard over the cab of the
Heppner-Pendleton Freight Lines truck while parked in
Heppner.
Roger's the man
Editor,
In a few more weeks the Republicans of the State of
Oregon are going to the polls to select Bob Straub's opponent
in the general election in November.
Three men have announced for the contest, and a long,
hard, penetrating look should be taken at each of them before
a choice is made.
Tom McCall has already served two terms. His time in
office saw the birth of the LCDC with its dictatorial power,
even though it lends lip seryice to local control. There was 4.
also an increase in the number of bureaucrats living off our
tax dollars a situation which has not been bettered under
Governor Straub. I don't know whether or not Mr. McCall is
now drawing a pension, but I do know that he is eligible to do 1
so. and I feel that we'd be better off paying the pension than
to have him again in the Governor's chair.
I like Victor Atiyeh as a senator. He has done a good job
there, but I don't feel that he's forceful enough to be an
effective governor. Besides, he has already had one chance
against Straub, and I see no reason to believe that he could do
any better a second time. He should withdraw from the race,
but he has already said that he won't do so. Therefore, he'll
probably take votes away from Roger Martin. One can only
hope that he'll take more from McCall.
Mr. Martin has been on the campaign trail since last
year. He was the first to declare that he was going to run, and
he has been a very active candidate. I met him last time he
was in Heppner and was impressed. He looks a man in the
eye when he answers a question, and he doesn't beat about
the bush as some politicians do. (We have one in Congress
now who can talk half a newspaper column and never say
anything!) Further, Roger Martin shakes hands like he
means it.
I'm awfully tired of all the "help" I'm getting from a lot
of people in government that I never had a hand in electing,
and Roger Martin has already promised to begin weeding
them out by putting government on a "diet". He deserves
your vote. Try him. I think you'll like him!
Sincerely,
Clifford A. Williams
Lexington
Lum berjack show
termed a success
Editor,
Spring smiles blossomed on the faces of the more than
800 spectators as they joined in the festivities of Saturday's
Lumberjack Show.
This day in fun could not have met with such success
without the diligent work of many people. Those that come to
mind are the Fair Committee group, working as one; Kinzua -Corporation,
for their large responsibility; the time
keepters; the secretaries; the Bluebirds, for ther
presentation of the flag; Ken Grieb, for his trumpet solo; and
Dr. Tibbies and the Heppner Chapter of EMTs for thier
medical services.
Let us not forget the Blue Mountain Fiddlers
Association who brought the day to a close with meaning and
memories until next year. ,
With Grateful Thanks,
Delpha Jones, Fair Committee Chairman
'Labor ref rim' bill will hurt Oregonians
Waldron Johnson, president of
the Oregon Farm Bureau
Federation, released a state
ment from Salem this week
reacting to an analysis by a
nationally-known economist
on what effect the passage of
the "Labor Reform" bill
would have on the economy of
Oregon.
Dr. Pierre Rinfret, a promi
nent economist in New York
City and president of his own
economic consulting firm, has
released a report on his
analysis of the economic
effects of H.R. 8410 and S.
2467, should this legislation be
enacted by the Congress. The
study was sponsored by a
number of business organiza
tions, but Dr. Rinfret has
stressed the fact that none of
the sponsoring organizations
had in any way influenced the
findings of his study.
His analysis of Oregon
indicates the legislation would
lead to a higher degree of
unionization in the state,
particularly in the area of
small businesses of fewer than
250 employees that are pre
dominent in the service, whole
sale, retail, finance, insurance
and real estate businesses.
According to Rinfret, there
would be a 31 per cent rise in
wage costs in this sector.
Some 66 per cent of the
nation's workforce fall in this
category.
THEGAZETTE -TIME
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
of March 3, 1879. Second-class postage paid at Heppner, Oregon.
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
Ron Jordan, Printer
"For each 10 per cent
increase in union members in
the state, total wage and
salary costs would rise by $150
million a year," Rinfret said.
At the present time, some
26.5 per cent of the non-agricultural
workforce in Oregon
is unionized. This compares
with a national average of 24
per cent.
"Our reaction to this analy
sis," said Johnson, "is that
passage of this so-called
Labor Reform Bill would be
disasterous for Oregon, of
which agriculture is an impor
tant part. The Rinfret analysis
makes it clear that this bill
would produce inflation by
legislation. For each 10 per
cent increase in union mem
bership, the consumer price
index would increase by at
least five index points, which
means a three per cent
increase in the rate of
inflation. With inflation alrea
dy hovering at seven per cent,
this legislation could lead us
back to double-digit infla
tion." Johnson points out that one
of the major problems in the
current farm income situation
is the rate of inflation and the
resulting increases in the
costs of goods and services
farmers have to buy to
produce their crops.
"This economic analysis,"
said Johnson, "makes it
abundantly clear that the
people of Oregon will be
harmed greatly by the pas
sage of this legislation; and
that consumers should join the
farmers in expressing their
strong opposition to Senators
Hatfield and Pack wood."
OBITUARY.
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A major milestone in the development of the
Mid-Columbia area was reached this week ten years ago
when the John Day Dam on the Columbia River was closed
and Lake Umatilla, 76 miles long, was formed.
The Gazette-Times described the event: "With the
closure of the dam Tuesday (April 16, 1968) morning, water
fed from a number of dams upriver brought the level of the
new lake up at the rate of one foot per hour.. .the former
Arlington and Boardman townsites were expected to be
inundated by Friday when Lake Umatilla reached its
minimum pool elevation of 257 feet at the dam.
"...All traces of the former Riverside school at
Boardman near the river was gone after it was razed by
salvage contractors last week..." '
Classes were meeting in the new Riverside High' School
by that time though the school was only partially completed,
and the Morrow County School Board met Ihere fdr the first
time that same week the new lake was forming JSince the
heating system was not yet installed the 'board
members and the students relied on small electric heaters
to keep warm.
Mrs. Lewis (Dot) Halvorsen of lone was named one of
eight women in the state to be recognized as an Oregon Merit
Mother this week in 1968. Mrs. Halvorsen, mother of four and
foster mother of two, was nominated as Oregon Mother of the
Year by the lone Masonic Lodge.
This week ten years ago the Times reported that Mr. and
Mrs. Cliff Harris, then owners of the Harris Drive-in, had
purchased the building and property of Tum-a-Lum Lumber
Co. with plans to develop the site with office spaces, an
upholstery shop, a barber shop and additional parking for the
restaurant.
Stream fishermen were glum this week in 1958 as
rain usually a welcome prospect continued to fall in large
amounts, and clouded the prospects of good angling on the
opening day of fishing season that Saturday. Today's anglers
would be delighted, in spite of rain, if the season were
scheduled to open this weekend instead of towards the end of
May.
A lost plane which ahd been the object of an extensive
search in the area southwest of Heppner for two days was
found twenty years ago today near John Day. The pilot,
Bruce Davis from Fresno, Calif., was suffering from shock
after making his way through wet snow to a farmhouse
carrying his injured wife.
Three lone High School students, Mardine Baker, Ann
Belle Coleman, and Karen Lundell were chosento take part in
a May Music Festival at Pacific University in Forest Grove
this week in 1958.
Appearing in the editorial column of the Gazette-Times
this week in 1938, was an article which has proved prophetic:
"Pump-priming is a process that was common in the days of
the well and the cistern. It consisted of pouring water into the
top of a dry pump and then working vigorously at the handle
until the pump began to operate in the normal way. It was an
artificial expediant put into temporary use, and it never
succeeded unless the pump itself had been kept in good
working order.
"Economic pump-priming in our time is the attempt to
spend our way back to prosperity by the lavish use of
borrowed funds. It goes beyond the necessary relief of
unemployment, and aims to revive business by a
widespread distribution of purchasing power which will
create a demand for goods. It assumes that if a renewed flow
of the production and distribution of goods can be created,
the natural operation of supply and demand will sustain and
continue the process, and durable recovery will get under
way. ;
"Economic pump-priming can never be more than a
temporary process. It cannot succeed in restoring prosperity'
unless the business mechanism is in good working order...
"The real issue of recovery that is now before the
American people is that of exerting every effort to make sure
that measures of temporary relief through federal spending;
be united with measures of permanent relief through the
encouragement of private enterprise... f
"Another period of large-scale pump-priming not!
accompanied by the full restoration of business confidence
would almost invariable impair the value of the dollar. We
cannot continue indefinitely to pile up the public debt without
decreasing the purchasing power of the dollars which'
compose that debt. No nation has ever successfully pursued
such a course, though many have hied it..."
Underscoring the decline of the dollar in the last 40 years, 1
is an advertisement that appeared in that same issue:.'
"Bargains at Penney's.men's blue cambray work shirts,;
25c; women's house dresses, 25c; men's dress hats, $1;
women's slacks, 79c, sheets, 2 for $1; women's rayon slips,!
35c; men's work pants 75c; men's oxfords, $1.88; men's sox.i
5c. I
And in the food department, these specials from!
Safeway's in 1938: eggs, large ranch, 2 doz. 29c; hams, 29c a ?
lb.; peanut butter, V2 lb, 25c; sugar, 151b, 87c; shortening, 8
lb., 98c; and coffee, 3 lb., 44c.
Maude Craber
Maude Craber, 89, Heppner,
died Sunday, April 16, in
Heppner.
A lifetime resident of the
area, she was born Sept. 23,
1888, in Hardman, the daugh
ter of Daniel and Anna Allen
Rice, early Hardman pio
neers. Mrs. Craber was a member
of the First Christian Church
in Heppner.
Funeral services were Wed
nesday, April 19, at 2 p.m. at
the First Christian Church,
Heppner, with the Rev. Edwin
Sikes officiating. Carl and
Betty Marquardt sang
"Amazing Grace" and "Good
Night and Good Morning",
with Mrs. Marquardt at the
organ. Concluding services
and interment were at the
Heppner Masonic Cemetery
with Sweeney Mortuary in
charge of arrangements.
Casket bearers were Robert
Stevens, Elmer Palmer, Dar-
old Hams, Kenneth Batty,
Marcel Jones and D.O. Nel
son. Mrs. Craber is survived by
three sons; Harold Craber,"
The Dalles; Dallas Craber and
Gordon Craber, both of Hepp
ner; and a daughter, Creth
Harris, Heppner; five grand
children and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded iii
death by her husband, J.E.
(Ed) Craber in 1958.
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