TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, Nov. 2, 1978
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Bennett is the man
When local voters go to the polls next Tuesday a bevy
of ballot measures and a host of candidates await the
elector's pencil.
One race stands out in importance to voters of
Morrow County between Chuck Bennett, Democrat
from Gates and Bill Bellamy, Republican from
Culver for District 55 State Representative.
The Gazette-Times feels that Chuck Bennett would
make a fine, concerned and knowledgeable State
Representative for District 55.
A newspaperman by profession, Bennett has spent
the last several years in Salem covering the Oregon
legislature for a daily newspaper in the capitol city.
From that vantage point he has gained a working
knowledge of Oregon government, its finer points and
all its ills.
Since beginning his campaign to unseat Rep. Jack
Sumner in the primary election last May, Bennett has
devoted countless hours to District 55. He has become
knowledgeable of the problems Eastern Oregon
communities experience and has already set out to
help community leaders solve their problems with the
least amount of state intervention.
On the side of small business and agriculture,
Bennett proposes to move deregulation of state
agencies that oversee and administer to these sectors
of our economy. Bennett has saud he will seek
appointments to the House committees on taxation and
agriculture, two areas of primary concern for Eastern
Oregon.
Currently employed by a research-polling firm,
Bennett has stated that his job flexibility will enable
him to be "on call" for his constituents throughout the
year enabling him to respond to needs as they arise.
Bennett's campaign has centered around several
major issues that affect District 55 voters, including:
state water policy and its inequities for agriculture;
the tax situation, for which he has solid proposals;
small business and farm regulation; and rural health
care. He has carried on a personal, door-to-door
campaign visiting every town and city in the district,
knocking on doors and conversing with the people of
District 55 one-on-one.
As the GOP candidate for District 55 State
Representative, Bill Bellamy has focused on
background in his campaign. A life-long resident of
Eastern Oregon, Bellamy now teaches vocational
agrictulture in the Culver school system.
Bellamy places much emphasis on the fact that he
has lived most of his life in the district and he feels that
fact would give him an advantage in representing the
district.
Bellamy is against increased state support of schools
while Bennett feels that increases basic school support
is needed to offset the cost of state mandated reg
ulations applied to local school districts, thus relieving
the property tax burden.
The two candidates also split their views on rural
health care. Bellamy believes it is a local problem and
should be solved locally while Bennett contends that
state help can be obtained through a program utilizing
the U of O Medical School without increasing state
involvement in local control.
Philosophically, either candidate would be a good
legislator for District 55, but knowledge of the
workings of state government and the legislature is of
utmost importance if an individual is to be effective in
the role. There must be a sophistication and under
standing of the system and its compromising factors in
effective legislators. The Gazette-Times believes
Chuck Bennett better meets these qualifications than
his opposition.
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 0. 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, (P.O. Bos 3621), Portland, Ore. 97208, phone
233-4471.
' U.S. Rep. 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.
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Half-time homecoming activities took a South Of The Boarder with the marching band
resplendent new uniforms and dancing girls in chorus line
Fossil man gives advice to Oregon voters
Editor:
Well, we are again drawing close to Tuesday, November
7th. This is the one day of the year we can exercise our
"American Right" to all and get out and vote. If you do not
vote on this day you have no right to stop me during my days
work, or during my leisure time, and complain about the way
our government is being run. Unless you go to the polls on
Tuesday, November 7th, and vote, you should not complain.
Let's all turn out and exercise our right to register our
vote it is important!
I would like to mention that I am concerned over both
ballot measure No. 6 and No. 11. I am not satisfied with
either one. but if I must make a choice, which I will, it will
have to be ballot measure No. 6. If we vote ballot measure
No. 1 1 you can bet our income taxes are going to be increased
before it is over to pick up the expenses of this measure. We
must cut back on property tax but we must also realize that
we are going to have to eliminate some government services
also. I believe in the old adage, "You cannot have your cake
and eat it too." If you want all the state services and state
spending in Oregon it must be paid for now. Oregon state
cannot operate on a deficit like our federal government is
doing. Give some serious thought to both ballot measures No.
6 and No. 11, you are going to be living with your choice for
quite some time.
I believe, from my knowledge of working with Vic Atiyeh
personally in the past, that if you elect him as your next
Governor that he can take ballot measure No. 6 through the
legislature where he has great respect and influence from all
the legislators because of his 18 years service in the State
Legislature. I also believe that he can, because of his vast
knowledge of taxation and such matters, make this measure
more useful and workable to what the voters really want and
need.
Vic Atiyeh realizes that state spending must be curtailed
soon and he will work with the people to see that a reduction
in government spending is accomplished. Vic is a capable,
hard-working person that has experience, intelligence and
respect of the people that have worked with him. No matter
which ballot measure passes, Vic Atiyeh is the best qualified
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to handle the results.
I also hope that Mark Hatfield is returned to his office for
another term. He is too important to the State of Oregon for
you not to vote for his return. We need his seniority and
expertise in Washington, D.C. He is a man who votes as he
believes is best for us in the long run, not for short range and
special interest people.
I also hope that ballot measure No. 4 fails because we do
not need the possibility of forming additional public utility
districts for distribution of power by the simple procedure
that is being suggested. It will only raise rates to our present
consumer systems.
Sincerely,
H.C. "Herb" Wright
Fossil
IHS program is lauded
Editor:
In the September 28 issue of the Gazette-Times you
printed a letter by a writer who claimed there was no drug
problem in the lone schools and he stated his reasons why he
believed this was so. I feel this writer should be the receiver
of many credits, for everything he wrote is true.
I am a former student of lone High School and I enjoyed
the pleasant atmosphere that Morrow County provides. I
realize I gained a large sense of pride while I attended lone
high and I must admit that this sense of pride still reigns over
me today. I probably would not have this sense of pride if it
were not for the strong bond of friendship among the students
and staff at lone High School. The community must not be
neglected because they, too, deserve credit for the
everlasting support they provide.
Hopefully, the students in lone will realize how lucky
they are to attend high school in such a happy and friendly
community. It may be small but it is nice.
I must say that I am proud to be a former student at lone
High School and I do hope that my younger brother, Craig, is
allowed the chance to graduate from lone high.
Good luck to lone High School, always.
Cathy Gutierrez
Gresham, Oregon
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A miss may be as good as a mile, but several Boardman
area residents were still upset when a Navy pilot dropped a
practice bomb within 300 yards of their home during this
week 10 years ago.
The bomb landed about five miles north of its intended
target at the Boardman Bombing Range. The mishap
created an eight by six-foot crater a short distance from the
Amos Shoemake home.
The off-target bombing incident came during a rash of
complaints over the low-flying Navy planes by local
homeowners and private pilots.
Flat tires and roofing nails were in the news this week in
Heppner 25 years ago.
During the peak of a special "hunters' choice" deer
season, unknown culprits spread thousands of roofing nails
along heavily traveled roads through Morrow County's Blue
Mountains. The nails were found near a cattleguard on the
road leading to Bull Prairie, along Parkers Mill Road, and
along other kev hunting routes.
Area service stations were kept busy repairing flat tires
for at least 65 hunters. One Heppner gas station attendant
reported that he repaired more than 35 flats in one day. One
of these tires was pocked with six nails.
During that same week in 1953, burglars picked the lock
to the front door of Humphreys Drug Store in Heppner,
before making off with more than $1,500 in cash and
merchandise.
Thirty years ago this week, voters in Morrow County
gave an 87 vote margin to Harry Truman over Republican
contender Thomas Dewey in the 1948 Presidential election.
Nearly every other county in Oregon cast in favor of Dewey.
The father and son team of Jerry and Eddie Brosnan
earned Livestockmen of the Year honors for Morrow County
during this week 15 years ago.
The Brosnan's 3,000icre Little Butter Creek cow and calf
operation was cited for its efficiency, plus its utilization of
good soil and water conservation practices. The Brosnan
family controlled the ranch since the late 1860s, when
Jeremiah Brosnan homesteaded the little valley upon his
arrival here from Ireland.
Fifty years ago this week, Morrow County voters
followed a national trend by casting in favor of Herbert
Hoover in the 1928 Presidential eletion. However, in Morrow
County, Hoover's victory was more resounding, with local
voters electing him by a two-to-one margin over contender Al
Smith.
W. G. McCarty also received a two-to-one margin at the
polls to defeat M.L. Case in Heppner's 1928 race for the
mayor's office.
Sixty years ago this week, Morrow County pioneer
Edward D. Rood died in his Portland home of diabetes
complications.
A native of Norway, Rood emigrated to the United States
and served with the Union Army during Gen. Sherman's
bloody Civil War march through the Carolinas to Georgia.
Rood was wounded during the battle for Chancellorsville.
After the war, he settled in the Eightmile section of Morrow
County, farming there for many years. His first wife and
daughter were killed during the 1903 Heppner flood.
Jones endorses Bennett
for District 55 Rep.
To Morrow County Voters:
Our County is indeed fortunate this election year to have
two extremely capable young men as candidates for the State
Legislature from our District.
The Democratic Party has as splendid a young man in
the person of Chuck Bennett who was nominated for State
Representative from our district.
Chuck is exceptionally well qualified to fill the position
being vacated by Jack Sumner. He is a newspaperman who
has had extensive experience in covering the State
Legislature. No better way could have been found to give him
a working knowledge of our area.
Even more important is his firm belief in local control
through locally elected people. With his knowledge Bennett
could give stature to any committee in the legislature.
Chuck has been a firm advocate for release of the
Bombing Range and for a fair and equitable share of the
Columbia River waters to Morrow County. He has shown a
deep interest in rural health for this far-flung rural area and
believes that a closer working agreement with the University
of Oregon Medical School will be of value to our sparsely
populated areas of East-Central Oregon.
His personal, door-to-door campaigning and his genuine
interest in people make him an ideal candidate for State
Representative. Through his years of experience as a
newspaperman working in Salem, Chuck has become very
knowledgable of taxes and tax matters, and this will put him
in good stead as a State Representative
I hope you will give Chuck Bennett your utmost
consideration as your State Legislator.
Sincerely,
Paul W. Jones
Morrow County Democratic
Central Committee Chairr.ian
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