TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, Oct. 19, 1978
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The $10.2 billion water project compromise bill
passed by Congress last week remains unsigned on
President Jimmy Carter's desk-at this writing-but
political observers feel sure that he will sign it
within the near future.
After Carter's veto of the bill. Congress went back
and cut substantially more than the President
requested including all that he requested and the
Willow Creek Dam project survived the cut.
When President Carter signs the bill, $500,000 will
be appropriated for the Willow Creek project. The
Corps of Engineers in Walla Walla told us this week the
money would be used for partial land acquisition,
relocation of a county road and design and construction
of a bridge crossing Willow Creek.
With construction of the Willow Creek Dam,
Heppner's flood plain which without the dam
promises to make future commercial and residential
construction in Heppner difficulty, if not impossible
would be virtually eliminated. At least that's what the
Corps and Flood Insurance Administration officials
have said in meetings held here during the past year.
Now some different news, but in the same vein,
follows on the heels of the Willow Creek project news
and it won't make any friends for the Corps of
Engineers.
A Corps study on the flood plains for lone,
Lexington and Heppner is about completed and,
although figures aren't available for Heppner and
Lexington yet, the Corps has come back with an
outlandish flood plain for lone covering more area
than the existing flood plain map. Indications are that
increases in the Heppner and Lexington flood plains
can be expected.
No one in this area puts much truck in the Corps
figures that exist now regarding a 100-year flood,
figuring the Corps is over-estimating the potential
rainfall that would make it to the channel of a creek.
While the Willow Creek Dam will probably still
eliminate Heppner's flood plain if constructed,
increased and unreasonable flood plains for lone and
Lexington will only serve to hamper those towns and
all of Southern Morrow County. We hope the East
Central Oregon Association of Counties can challenge
the Corps figures.
Everyone knows the Corps of Engineers can't
stand the sight of water flowing unstopped down a
creek bed, but now it appears that if there isn't enough
water already there to build a dam, they will create the
water.
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 O. 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, IP O. Bos 3621), Portland, Ore. 97208, phone
233-4471.
"uSRep. Al Ullman,of the Second District, House Office
Building, Washington, D.C. 20515. Member of Ways and
Means Committee. Salem office, 530 Center St. N.E., Rm.
330, (P.O. Box 247) Salem, Ore., 97308, 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.
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Class offerings may hamper
students going on...
Editor:
Everyone recognizes that these are difficult times for the
Morrow County School District. THe north end of the county
has severe growth problems "which we have acknowledged
and voted to rectify with as much haste as possible.
The south end of the county has problems also which need
to be acknowledged. Charges have been made that Heppner
High School has "extra" curriculum. This is not only untrue,
but actually the reverse has transpired.
When my daughter went to Oregon State University 10
years ago she had to take a course requiring a background in
calculus concurrently with her first course in calculus.
Students that find themselves in this situation have a great
deal of catching up to da. This is true of all students in fields
such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary
medicine, chemical engineering and other related science
courses. Some of them make it and some don't in this
catching up process. You are merely one more statistic if you
fail to make it for lack of background in certain areas.
My nephew goes to Newberg Union High School, which is
not a large school by Willamette Valley standards, nor a
large town. Yet his school, and many others in teh state have
curriculm as follows: Freshman, Algebra I; Sophomore,
Algebra II and Geometry concurrently; Junior, Trigonom
etry; and Senior, Calculus. Our children wishing to enter
specialized fields face the prospect of going to a school such
as Oregon State and competing with these students for places
in limited classes picked on the basis of grade points
achieved in the preliminary courses. Our students are
supposed to achieve a highly superior grade point while
playing catch up in courses that they have not had but their
competition has had. And the competition is getting more
severe all the time because other schools elsewhere have
seen the need more clearly than we have to remain
competitive.
The high school at Heppner has excellent facilities for shop
classes, but one of my neighbors was told that her son could
not take Shop 4, which I presume is Construction. Why? In
our farming area, and in these days of high construction
costs, the shop program would be serving our students
admirably if we elaborated our construction program, not
telescoped it. The Agriculture program also should have
much emphasis placed upon upgrading it to meet our needs.
We have the facilities. Why are we not using them to the
utmost capacity?
In the case of the very small schools, the vastly superior
student is not the student that has the most problems with a
limited curriculum. It is the average student who is not
routinely exposed to curriculum which might stimulate his
interest, and who is overlooked for special advanced help,
who suffers the most.
With the facilities that the south end of the county
possesses I find it appalling that any one of our students
should have to go without what should be available to all.
Meg Murray
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Carl McDaniels of Heppner was faced with an unusual
and compelling problem during this week 30 years ago: How
to disengage his hand from a wounded coyote's mouth.
While checking a trap line he had set on the Sam Turner
property along Sand Hollow, McDaniel came upon the
animal, snagged by the leg in one of the traps. McDaniel
didn't realize that he had used more chain than usual in
setting the trap, so when he approached the quarry to make
the kill, the animal lunged at him. The trapper's thumb
happened to be the body part nearest the coyote, so the
animal seized it in its mouth and clamped down with a
vise-like grip.
"His knife was in his trousers pocket on the right side,"
the Gazette-Times reported. "To get the knife out of his
pocket and complete the job of killing the animal before he
fainted from excruciating pain was uppermost in McDaniels'
mind, for he knew well if he keeled over, the brute would be
at his throat with those vicious teeth. But he finally
extricated the knife and did some throat slashing in
self-defense."
After a brief battle, McDaniels prevailed, although the
Gazette-Times reported that "he is nursing a mighty sore
thumb."
Fifty years ago this week, Ferguson Chevrolet in
Heppner was selling used, two-year-old 1926 Ford coupes for
$200 to $235, including 25 gallons of gas free with every
purchase. During the same week in 1928, Heppner Stone's
Modern Food Store was selling bacon and ham at 33 cents per
pound, coffee for 49 cents a pound, and five-pound tins of jam
for 79 cents.
All Heppner businesses shut down for the afternoon 45
years ago this week, when the "Fighting Irish" of Heppner
hosted Arlington's football team to determine first place in
eastern Oregon high school football standings.
Both Heppner and Arlington were undefeated and untied
when they met on the gridiron in Heppner on that October
afternoon, after five games of league play. But Heppner
prevailed in the 1933 showdown, tromping Arlington 44-7.
The Gazette-Times cited the hometown squad's Floyd
Jones for "beautiful broken field running," quarterback Cleo
Hiatt for his "pivoting and twisting," and Lewis Gilliam for
his "line plunges."
Floyd Jones, Heppner's left halfback, ran for four of the
seven touchdowns tallied by the "Irish," logging an amazing
average of more than 30 yards per carry.
Fifteen years ago this week, Art Dyck held the grand
opening of Fiesta Lanes, Heppner's first and only bowling
alley.
Morrow County lawmen 10 years ago were puzzling over
how a 300-pound office safe happened to turn up atong the
roadside at the junction of Sand Hollow Road and the Hinton
Creek highway. The back of the safe had been cut open with a
torch. The cracked safe was found in an upright position just
off the roadway. Checks with state police throughout the area
failed to turn up any reports of a missing safe.
One year ago this week, the Morrow County Fair Board
and the Heppner Child Development Center signed a pact
allowing the Center to use the 4-H Annex at the fairgrounds
as a day care facility.
Karmon Bjella began his first week of service as Pioneer
Memorial Hospital's director of nursing during the same
week in 1977. The Minnesota native had recently recieved a
B.S. degree from Montana State University in nursing before
moving to Heppner with his wife and daughter.
Picture Credit
Ruth Fletcher of Ukiah displays a sampling of
hand-woven gift items during the Extension Service
sponsored "Christmas Potpourri" held last week at the
Morrow County Fairgrounds. The 4-H Annex at the
fairgrounds was jammed with Christmas handicraft idea
seekers during the event. Mrs. Fletcher, sister of Morrow
County Clerk Sadie Parrish, uses cattail reeds and pine
needles in her weaving.
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