TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 12, 1978
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Kinzua Corp.
commitment
reaffirmed
Heppner played host last Wednesday to a group of
130-plus lumbermen from throughout the Pacific
Northwest who were here for an industry tour of
Kinzua Corporation's new computerized sawmill.
It was something to see wood products industry
leaders from major lumber producing areas in
Washington, Idaho, and Oregon gathering in Heppner
to view the worlds first computerized pine sawmill.
Held in awe by the tiny photo-electric cells and
beams of light that send saws and chippers moving in
to action depending on the log's size, the president of
one large corporation summed up the new mill and
what it means best, when he commented, "I had no
idea the state of the art (pine sawmill production) was
this advanced."
Most important to us, however, is the fact that
Kinzua Corporation's investment of $4.5 million in a
new sawmill, stacker-sorter and dry kilns, shows a
continued committment of the company's ownership to
a solid future of wood products manufacturing in
Morrow County.
A continued committment started in 1953 when a
group of Pacific Northwest lumbermen bought the
operation. In the two decades that followed the
owners Ed and Harry Stuchell, Max and David E.
Wyman, Sr., and Harry O'Donnell built Kinzua
Corporation to what it is today. ..a leader in the
industry.
The second and third generations of those families
make weekly trips to Heppner from their homes in the
Puget Sound area carrying on a committment made to
this community and the company's employees years
ago. The ownership of Kinzua Corporation deserves a
round of kudos for their innovative leadership and
dedication to preserving the lumber industry in
Morrow County.
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Chalking up his first day of work as Heppner's new
parking control officer, Winn Crist marks tires in order to
enforce recently imposed two-hour parking regualtions in
downtown Heppner. Several forgetful shoppers found yellow
tickets on their windshields during Crist's opening day on the
job. His chalking stick is a converted golf club. Fore!
Reader 'disgusted9 with Measure 5 ad campaign
Editor:
I am really disgusted with a billboard I see around
Oregon which reads, "Don't let amateurs replace dentists."
My brother has served the dentists of this state faithfully for
16 years as a dental technician, and now these high and
mighty dentists slap him and many other qualified dental
technicians in the face by calling them "amateurs" and
"dental mechanics." How is that for gratitude?
Perhaps the word "amateur" was chosen because the
technician is not paid nearly as much as a dentist. For
example, my brother and other dental technicians are paid
$125 for a full upper and lower set of dentures. The dentist is
turn charges the patient $500, $600, and $700 and up for these
same dentures. I guess that's the professional mark up!
Now let's see who is really the amateur when it comes to
making dentures. When a dentist graduates from The
University of Oregon Dental School after four years, he has
had to complete only nine dentures. This could have been
done on as few as five or six patients! When he takes his state
dental board examination, he does not have any pratical test
on dentures at all!
Measure No. 5, which the dentists are so opposed to,
requires that a denturist must have a maximum of six years
experience, plus six months schooling until 1982 (two years
schooling after 1982) plus pass a rigid test by the State Board
of Health on all phases of denture construction. During that
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six years experience as a dental technician they will literally
make thousands of dentures. Now I ask, who is really the
"amateur"? Perhaps the real reason the dentists are so
opposed to measure No. 5 is because 95 per cent of the
dentists in Oregon could not comply with these standards.
"Replace Dentists?" They most certainly will be
replaced, in making dentures anyway. Oh yes, you will still
have the freedom to choose between a dentist and a denturist
all right. But who is going to want to continue to be ripped off
by the "professionals" who get their dentures made by the
"amateurs" in the first place?
Sincerely,
Jeanne Cates
Youthful 'fun9 blasted
Editor:
I would like to ask the parents of the surrounding
communities if they know what their kids do for fun on a
Friday or Saturday night.
I can tell you what someone did for kicks, and it was not
very pleasing to me or my parents. About two weeks ago,
someone decided to take one of our old junk field cars for a
test spin through one of our fields. (It's located on
Strawberry Road on Juniper Canyon, just so the culprits will
know the location.)
Now this car is nothing but a piece of junk and can hardly
pull itself. But these people, whoever they may be, somehow
got it to run well enough to make all kinds of pretty designs
through our summer fallow. For some reason, they didn't
stop there, but somehow they just had to do it right in our
sandblows. I would like to say to you fine people, if you do it
again, please squirrel around in some other spot.
Unfortunately ,they weren't done yet. For when they left,
they put the car in gear and off over the hill it went. But it was
unable to make it up the other side of the canyon, so it didn't
go too far. About the one good thing to come out of this was
they didn't find our tractor and turn it free.
It's fine people like this that make farmers afraid to
leave anything in the field anymore. That is why you see
more signs being posted and gates being locked, and after
this, you can bet our land will be too.
In closing, I would like to say I hope it wasn't somebody
that was old enough and had enough sense not to do that. And
remember, think twice before you try a stunt like that again.
For you may not be so lucky next time.
Chris Rauch
Lexington
Heppner was taking precautions to avoid a "Spanish"
influenza epidemic that was sweeping across Oregon and
much of the nation during this week 60 years ago.
The city council ordered all schools, churches, movie
theaters and pool halls to close in an effort to prevent the
disease from spreading.
A few suspected cases of the flu then a disease with a
high mortality rate had been discovered in the lone area,
with several persons in Heppner showing symptons of the
disease.
Fifty years ago this week, the local ' school board
presented a request to Heppner City Council that the city
require all public dances to close at midnight, in order to
curtail the activities of local "joy-riders."
Mayor Noble told the school board that such a law
"would not have the desired effect of putting Heppner's
young folks securely under their bed covers at an early
hour." The city, mayor Noble continued, "was not as much at
fault as the home for the averred late hours of the city's
younger set."
Thirty years ago this week, John Rivers, a Umatilla
hunter, was held in Morrow County jail in Heppner after
shooting fellow Umatilla resident John McNabb in the leg at
a deer camp at Government Springs.
Rivers was charged with pointing a firearm at another.
He had reportedly fired his rifle in the air at the deer camp,
and when his companions complained, fired the weapon
nearer the ground, injuring McNabb in the process.
Wilber Steagall of Heppner was listed in critical
condition during this week in 1948, after receiving internal
injuries when his horse fell on him.
the Heppner Mustangs stampeded the Blue Devils of
Condon during this week 30 years ago, and lone outclassed
Athena by a 20-6 margin.
Ten years ago this week, Heppner Mayor W.C. Rosewall
announced that he would not seek re-election, stating that he
believed he had served "long enough."
Also during this week in 1968, Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Krebs and Mr. and Mrs.
Markham Baker returned to Morrow County from a tour of
the Soviet Union.
The six Morrow County residents visited, among other
places, a 25,000 acre collective farm. Krebs remarked that
the soil and climate were excellant, and noted that if the
farms went into free enterprise, the Soviets could possibly
out-produce America.
On their return trip, Mr. and Mrs. Krebs stopped in New
York to visit former Arlington resident Doc Severinson, NBC
bandleader on the "Tonight" show. The Krebses were given
a tour of Greenwich Village and the Bowery, commenting,
"It was wild. ..you never saw such filth."
Five years ago this week, the lone home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Crum burned to the ground. The Crums heard what
sounded like an eplosion in the basement of the home shortly
before the blaze broke out.
They had time to pick up only a handful of possessions
before fleeing to safety. In 1959, the couple lost another home .
to fire. The old house stood a short distance from the home
that was lost in 1973.
School paint scheme
rapped
Editor:
Upon reading in the papers about construction bids on
the new district school buildings I felt compelled to write this
letter directed at the school board and the district
administration.
In the future wouldn't it be pratical as well as improve
the appearance of all our county school buildings if they were
all painted the same color? Paint could be bought in bulk
amounts at a savings I'm sure and they would be much easier
to identify.
Right now we have the following:
Administration Building at Lexington Pea soup green with
brown trim.
Heppner Jr. High brick with pink half windows and blue
trim.
Heppner Grade School brick with yellow walls and blue
trim.
Heppner High School stone with blue trim and a tan and
brown shop.
lone Grade School easter egg blue with white trim,
lone High School brick with blue trim next to a tan and
brown shop.
Irrigon Grade School a combination of gray, white, pink
and blue.
Riverside High School looks good-all brick.
Couldn't you decide on a nice non-exciting color like tan
and brown and stick to it? This along with some simple yard
maintenance which is sadly lacking at most of our schools
would make many of us taxpayers happier.
Pat Wright
Lexington
'Flawed9 Measure 6 is Ok
Editor:
In special session, the legislature was given the results of
a significant, major poll. 79 per cent of the 1,917 Oregonians
polled indicated they want government spending cut and 74
per cent do not trust the legislature to voluntarily cut
spending if Measure 6 fails. Measure 11 proves this poll was
absolutely correct.
Rather than cutting spending, Measure 11 would lock into
the constitution a permanent tax shift, guaranteeing greater,
not less, spending.
Today, when current levels of government spending and
taxing are a diaster, better a "flawed" Measure 6 than a
"fraud" Measure 11.
Ned Potter
Portland, Or 97214
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