The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday Oct. 26, 1978 THREE
Ullman gives report during Heppner stop
Police
Report j
Making a whirlwind sweep
through his Second Congres
sional District following a
marathon closing week of
lawmaking in the U.S. House
of Representatives, Rep. Al
Ullman took time for an
appearence at a no-host din
ner in Heppner last
Wednesday.
Noting that lawmakers
worked round-the-clock to
complete legislation prior to
last week's Congressional ad
journment, Ullman
commented that "Congress
isn't really fun like it used to
be."
The chairman of the power
ful Ways and Means
Committee stated that the
recently completed session
"was a good Congress for
Oregon." He pointed out that
nearly every Oregon water
project included in the Public
Works Bill vetoed by Presi
dent Carter was kept alive.
"Oregon's water bills were
good, solid proposals," he
commented, "they were not
pork barrel projects."
Ullman also expressed plea
sure over the Congressional
tax relief package, which he
stated was "not as compre
hensive as the one we worked
with with President Ken
nedy. ..but it's a good bill."
President Carter's previous
ly poor relations with
Congress are on the upswing.
Ullman reported, especially in
light of the Camp David
summit agreement, which the
Eastern Oregon Congressman
characterized as "something
real that he put together
right it was not just propa
ganda." Congress, he said,
has "had to put him right on
some things, but we're now at
the point where we can work
together. ..Carter is a well
meaning man and we're
getting squared away better
with him."
However, Ullman said, "I'm
still concerned about some of
the people he has around him
at the While House. ..But I
think we'll see a better
working relationship with the
President next session."
While noting that the Willow
Creek dam appears likely to at
last become a reality, Ullman
said he was aware of, and
concerned over, sweeping
Army Corps of Engineers'
flood plain designations for
lone, and possibly for Heppner
and Lexington as well. Ullman
indicated that he was uncerta
in, at this early point, about
what he could do towards
easing the growth-crippling
flood plain designations. He
said he and his office would
continue to monitor the situa
tion and do what they could to
help.
Ullman said he has not
abandoned hope for removing
the U.S. Navy from the
Boardman Bombing Range,
where thousands of acres of
potential cropland are cur
rently being used for sporadic
target practice. But at this
juncture, he noted, "I can't be
too optimistic. He added that
(Washington Gov.) Dixy (Lee
Kay) has not been too co
operative towards pulling the
bombing range back in Wash
ington, where it belongs."
The dinner featuring Ull
man. attended by aboul 50
Morrow County residents, was
held Wednesday nighl in the
West of Willow.
A car owned by a laborer '
working at the Carty coal
fired power plant near
Boardman was broken into by
thieves on Sunday, the Mor
row County Sheriff's office
reported.
Stolen from the car were a 7
mm rifle with scope, a .22
caliber automatic rifle, and a
Fuzzbuster radar detector
unit, worth a total estimated
value of more than $800.
Deputies said a prying
device was used to open a
wing window to unlock the
car, owned by Daniel Huffman
of Clarkston, Wash. The car
was parked at a PGE mobile
labor housing camp south of
Boardman, where Huffman
was staying. '
Debra Petit, 21, of Lexing
ton, was treated at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital for minor
injuries received last week
when the car she was driving
smashed into a rock wall
along Hwy. 74 near the
junction of lower Rhea Creek
Road near lone, Sheriff's
deputies reported.
The accident occurred after
the Petit woman lost control of
her vehicle, alter one of the
front tires blew out, according
to a report on the accident.
Heppner city police are
investigating an incident of
malicious mischief, in which
vandals broke out the rear
window of a vehicle owned by
Douglas Carey of Skyline
Apartments in Heppner.
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Barge link a boon to area wheat growers
Pacific
Northwest wheat growers
escaped the worst of the most
serious rail transportation
problems in history only
because of the Columbia River
barge system, says a trans
portation expert.
, Cecil Brennan, Portland, of
Grain Transportation Consult
ants, told the fall workshop of
the Oregon Wheat Growers
League the barge lines re
sponded very well in the
crunch.
"The Northwest is fortunate
in that big river. Without it,
we'd have seen some real
problems" in moving grain to
export points. More than 85
percent of Northwest wheat is
exported.
Brennan said farmers must
speak up more about rail
transportation problems. "We
must make ourselves more
vocal, more visible," he said.
Growers should seek a
stand-by grain export subsidy
to meet competition from the
European Economic Com
munity and other exporters,
said Rich Pennell of North
Pacific Grain Growers, a
regional cooperative, and
Dick Baum, Portland,
president of Western Wheat
Associates, a farmer-financed
marketing organization.
Pennell praised the trade
development act now moving
toward passage in Congress.
"It's a real forward step," and
includes a victory for wheat
growers who for 15 years have
battled a rule that requires
exported grain to be shipped
in U.S. vessels.
Growers must keep an eye
on international trade negotia
tions, Pennell said. "You're in
the big leagues."
Each country in Asia where
Western Wheat Associates
works presents different prob
lems, Baum said. He said
growers must face the facts
that the world has a plentiful
supply of wheat and that Asia
has produced more rice this
year than its people can eat.
"We're in a sensitive posi
tion. This will be the' most
difficult year in a long time,"
Baum said. He predicted
continued firm prices for
wheat, partly because of the
U.S. farm program which cut
production and established a
reserve that is shielded from
the market place.
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Some politicians didn't like the questions Chuck
Bennett asked, but Chuck Bennett thought the
people should know. We don't have to worry
about Chuck Bennett as a state representative
listening to us or giving us answers.
H e's the one who asked the questions first.