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All-around honors during last weekend's Morrow County Junior Rodeo were shared by
Cindy Dougherty, left and Jana Steagall, right. Presenting breast collar to the all-around
winners is Rodeo Princess Kathleen Van Schoiack. Cindy was rodeo queen, and Jana a
rodeo princess.
Sports eligibility policy to
be debated before Morrow
County School Board
By Terry M. Hager
Managing Editor
Morrow County students
transferring from one school
to another within the district
are faced with the possibility .
that participation in athletics
may be restricted for up to one
year.
The board will take action
on an attendance policy at
their regular meeting Mon
day, June 19 at the district
office in Lexington. The action
follows a decision by the board
last month to reconsider the
attendance policy established
in April of this year.
In addition, the board will
hold a brief work session on
the attendance policy during a
special meeting next Tuesday,
June 13 at 12-noon. The
meeting will be held at the
district office in Lexington
and is scheduled primarily for
reviewing bids on the dis
trict's building bonds which
are to be received in Portland
that morning. (Please see
separate story in box below.)
At the April 17 meeting of
the board, an attendance
policy was adopted that stated
briefly, "Students shall attend
school in the attendance area
where their parents reside...
Students may be assigned to a
school other than the one
Policy decision
Persons interested in mak
ing public comment on the
attendance policy issue are
encouraged to make their
thoughts known at the regu
lar' meeting of the Morrow
County - school board on
Monday, June 19, at 8 p.m. in
the district office at Lexing-
ton. i
Superintendent Matt Do
i herty said the special meet-
ing scheduled for next Tues
I day, June 13 at noon in the
district office building, is
primarily for the purpose of
I reviewing bids for the dis
trict's building bonds. Do
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where their parents or guar
dians reside upon written
application for a variance in
attendance assignment.. .Stu
dents whose parents change
residence between attendance
areas during the school year
may complete the year at the
school where they have been
attending."
The policy then extends
itself to athletic eligibility in
regards to students transfer
ring within the district. The
policy states, "A student who
has received approval of a
variance in attendance assign
ment may not begin participa
tion in the athletic program of
the new school until one year
after the date of transfer
between schools, if the student
has participated in the inter
scholastic athletic program of
the previous school."
Superintendent Matt Do
herty said the policy was
adopted by the board in April
to help clarify attendance
policy throughout the district.
"We allow change for aca
demic reasons and there are
several criterion which we use
to make the determination on
whether or not to allow the
change," said Doherty, add
ing, "Athletics is not a valid
reason for wanting to change
schools."
due June 19
herty will be in Portland that i
. day and will call the bids in to
the District Office shortly,'
after 12-noon at which time
the school board must take :
action and report back to,'
Doherty in Portland.
"Most of the board mem-
bers will be here on their
lunch hour and we wouldn't
want to see district patrons :
making a trip to Lexington :
for the purpose of comment-;
ing on the attendance policy,
and then not have time to':
hear them out," said Doher-
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"The Superintendent said,
"We have had people that
want to transfer for athletic
reasons, but give us academic
reasons for making the
change. ..it's not difficult to
show the reasons why transfer
should be allowed academical
ly." Several days after the board
had adopted the new atten
dance policy, the board re
ceived a letter from Meg
Murray of lone requesting a
variance in attendance for her
son, John, a graduating eighth
grader at lone this past year.
In the letter, Mrs. Murray also
asked the board to reconsider
their athletic eligibility policy.
Mrs. Murray made the
request for attendance vari
ance for academic reasons
which appeared to have ample
justification but, her son also
excels in athletics and under
the newly-adopted policy he
would be prohibited from
participating in freshman le
vel athletics at Heppner High
School.
In her letter Mrs. Murray
pointed out what she thought
to be a "wide disparity of
opportunity between the two
schools (lone and Heppner
high schools) for broadening
one's scholastic scope."
Mrs. Murray states in her
letter, "Some items such as no
Vocational Ag or Home Ec
offerings at lone are readily
apparent, but even an exami
nation of the schedules does
not tell the whole story. Items
such as no drama instruction,
no art instruction, no school
newspaper to teach practical
journalism, and very little
interest in band on the high
school level (only one girl
participates) do not come to
mind readily when one just
examines the schedules."
At the administration level
there is apparent concern that
transfers from one high school
to another may start occur
ring for purely athletic rea
sons. Conf. on pog 3
VOL. 96 NO. 23
Council names city administrator, hires
engineer
Marshall Lovgren was
named city administrator,
and a Portland engineering
firm was hired to produce a
plan to end the city's sewer
woes during Monday night's
meeting of Heppner City
Council.
Lovgren 's duties will in
clude acting as the city's
purchasing agent, budget di
rector and business manager
in his new role as administra
tor. He has served as city
recorder for the past four
years.
Before approving by a
unanimous vote the ordinance
appointing Lovgren, the coun
cil amended a section that
would have given the admini
strator power to make per
sonnel changes among city
employes. Under the amended
ordinance that was approved,
any city personnel shifts must
first be approved by the
council.
eppner
June 17
Water fights on the street
of Heppner last week her
alded the start of vacation
for school age youngsters
and the unofficial beginning
of summer, but it'll be more
than a week before the city
swimming pool is available
for a cool summertime dip.
City employes are current
ly working on getting the pool
and facilities in shape for a
tentative Saturday, June 17,
lone pool hours set for
summer swim season
The lone swimming pool
will open Tuesday, June 13,
.with regular hours set from 2
to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays
through Sundays, for the
remainder of the season.
On a daily use basis, fees
will be 75 cents for adults; 50
cents for students from grade
7-12; 25 cents for grades 1-6,
and no charge for preschoolers.
Thieves steal 5,000 in
Riverside High break-in
Nearly $5,000 worth of shop
tools and equipment was
stolen from Riverside High
School in Boardman during
the weekend, school board
officials and police said.
Thieves broke into the
school by breaking out a
window in the new addition.
Once inside the addition, they
broke out the glass in a
hallway door to enter the main
section of the building.
School officials said that the
thieves then broke through a
sliding door to enter the high
school office, where they
obtained a set of master keys.
Armed with the keys, the
thieves then entered and
ransacked a custodial room,
taking about $200 worth of
equipment and supplies.
Morrow County's
HEPPNER, OREGON
to plan sewer plant repairs
In addition to his new title,
Lovgren will receive a $1,500
per year salary increase. His
switch to the administrator's
post will take effect on July 1.
The salary boost that accom
panied Lovgren's appoint
ment was provided for in the
recently approved city excess
levy.
Barrett and Associates of
Portland, a consulting engi
neering firm, was retained to
help plot what course Heppner
will take to bring its sewer
system up to standards. A
number of consulting firms
were interviewed , by the
council's sewer committee
before Barrett was recom
mended for acceptance.
Heppner has applied for
federal matching funds to pay
for sewer plant improve
ments, and currently stands 92
in line on an Environmental
Protection Agency priority list
to receive the funding. Mayor
pool prepares for
opening
opening.' The pool is being
drained and cleaned, racing
stripes painted and the
dressing and shower building
cleaned and floors painted.
Deborah Byrnes will be
pool manager this summer,
with Dianne Holland acting
as senior lifeguard and Scott
McEwen as junior lifeguard.
Basket attendant will . be
Carolyn Plocharsky.
The City of Heppner has
Season tickets will sell for
$25 for families; $12 for
adults; $7 for grades 7-12; and
$5 for grades 1-6.
Swim lessons will be held in
two-week sessions, with the
first session scheduled to
begin June 20.
Advanced beginners classes
will run from 10-11 a.m., and
After entering the shop
area, the thieves gathered up
more than $4,800 worth of
power tools, welding equip
ment and other supplies.
Damage to the building was
set at $1,000 a conservative
figure, according to school
board officials.
Insurance will not cover the
loss, since the school board
has a $25,000 deductible poli
cy. School officials said they
may have difficulty replacing
the shop gear in time for the
coming school year.
Burglars entered the Lex
ington apartment of Dale
Munkers last week, making
off with a Polaroid camera,
$80 in currency, and an
undetermined amount of
Award - Winning Weekly Newspaper
THURSDAY,
Jerry Sweeney told the council
that the city's 92nd position on
the list may mean that it will
take about two year's to
receive the funding.
When and if Heppner be
comes eligible for the match
ing funds, the federal govern
ment will pay for 75 per cent of
the program, with the city
picking up the remaining 25
per cent probably by floating
a bond issue.
Although there has been
discussion about the possibi
lity of scrapping the city's
existing sewer plant and
building a new one, Barrett's
work will focus on planning a
major rennovation program
for the existing system.
The current sewer plant
lacks, among other things,
adequate digestor mecha
nisms and chlorine retention
facilities.
According to city foremen
Randy Krueger, the Oregon
not yet established pool
hours or season ticket and
admission prices.
Meanwhile, on the swim
team, swimmers from five to
18 years of age will be doing
out-of-pool exercises to get in
shape before they start the
real thing, hopefully on June
17.
No coach for the team has
yet been hired.
beginners from 11 a.m. to
noon.
Fees for the lessons will be
$2 per person for each session.
Registration will be held at the
first session.
Joan McElligott, who has
several years of experience
at the job, will again be the
pool manager and swim
class instructor.
coins, sheriff's deputies said.
According to a report on the
burglary, the culprits may
have entered the apartment
through a kitchen window.
A Washington man and a
Umatilla woman escaped in
jury last week, when their
cars collided on Hwy. 730
about two miles east of
Irrigon, according to the
Morrow County Sheriff's of
fice. Deputies said an auto opera
ted by James Long of Rich
land, Wash., slammed into the
rear of a vehicle driven by
Lori Jo Nielson of Umatilla.
Long was cited for following
too close, and was scheduled
to appear in justice court in
Irrigon next week.
JUNE 8, 1978
Department of Environmental
Quality recommends chlorine
treated sewage be retained at
least 30 minutes before it is
discharged. Under the exist
ing sewer plant's capacity, he
said, the retention time "is
more like 30 seconds."
City officials speculate that
if all plans proceed without
incident, it would still proba
bly take at least three years
before the major rennovation
program could begin.
The council met in executive
session to approve a $1,500
annual pay increase for
Krueger, after the city fore
man reportedly announced
that he had received a job
offer in the Portland area.
Krueger, city foreman since
mid-April, is a state certified
treatment plant operator. At
the time of his hiring, he was
the fourth foreman to be
employed by the city within an
eight month period. Krueger's
term at the helm of city work
crews has proceeded without
incident.
In a separate employe
related development, city at
torney Bill Kuhn reported that
a lawyer for former city
workman Jim Dile has pro
posed a $2,000 out-of-court
Nordheim named
Morrow 4-H
extension agent
John P. Nordheim, 25, a
Washington State University
graduate, has joined the
Morrow County Extension
staff, where he will direct 4-H
youth programs and serve in
livestock and range pro
grams. An avid 4-Her as a youth,
Nordheim participated in
more than a dozen club
projects, ranging from wheat
to tropical fish. While a
student at Waitsburg High
School in the Walla Walla
area, Nordheim received the
state farmer degree from
FFA, and the Washington
state entomology winner in
1968. His parents were both
4-H leaders.
The new extension agent
will devote about 60 per cent of
his time to overseeing the
county 4-H program, with the
remaining time to be spent on
range management and live
stock production educational
programs.
Nordheim will receive his
master's degree in animal
science in August. He is a
member of the American
Society of Animal Scientists,
the American Horse Shows
Assn., and the American
Angus Assn. .
He has been involved with
Portland pilot forgets
to put down gear
A Portland pilot escaped
injury last week, when his
private plane belly landed at
the county airport at Lexing
ton. An airport official said the
20c
settlement for overtime pay
ment Dile claims the city owes
him. Dile has previously
threatened to sue the city for
about $5,000 in overtime
payment he claims is owed
him by the city.
Dile had been working for
the city under the federally
funded Comprehensive Em
ployment Training Act
(CETA) program.
Complicating the matter is
the fact that Dile's work
record was filed on CETA
timesheets, rather than city
work forms.
The council voted unani
mously not to agree to the
$2,000 settlement.
In other action Monday
night, the council
Approved a zoning change
from industrial to central
commercial for a parcel
owned by Pettyjohn Farm and
Builders Supply Inc., off
Windham Way.
Discussed the possibility
of reducing fees for mobile
home building inspections and
city plan reviews.
Discussed drafting a for
mal city policy on city water
hookups to homes in outlying
sections of town.
John Nordheim
commercial beef operations,
in farming and range manage
ment, and has worked as a
farrier, machine parts sales
man and mechanic in Wash
ington. Nordheim 's immediate
tasks will include organizing
the annual 4-H camp set to
start June 29, and a July 7
horse show.
The new extension agent
fills a vacancy created several
months ago with the resigna
tion of former agent Mike
Howell.
pilot, who was not identified,
had forgotten to put down his
landing gear.
The plane was disassembled
and trucked back to Portland.
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