FOUR The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, Nov.2, 1978
with Justine Weatherford y
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So you survived Halloween and now realize we are into
November with Thanksgiving holidays just three weeks
ahead and Yule only seven weeks away. Wow!
Do you realize that although November is our eleventh
month its name comes from novem, the Latin word for nine?
In the Roman calender it was the ninth month. After the
Romans added July in honor of Julius Caesar and August
honoring Augustus Caesar, they offered to name the eleventh
month for Tiberius Caesar. He modestly refused, saying
"What will you do if you have thirteen emperors?" So the
eleventh month held with its name meaning nine.
In the U.S., Election Day falls on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November and we are now hearing and
reading plenty about candidates and measures from which
we have the privilege of choosing next Tuesday, Nov. 7.
Surely by now you have carefully studied your Oregon
Voters' Pamphlet. You have noted that the first 73 pages deal
with ballot measures and that from page 75 on information is
offered about partisan candidates. I found the page between
these sections, page 74, most interesting. Whether it is good
publicity or poor, I am not sure, but right there is a
paragraph about voters in Morrow County. It reads thus:
"In Morrow County on June 27, 1978, only 1,026 of 3,361
registered voters went to the polls to vote on a General Fund
budget levy outside the 6 per cent limitation. The levy was
defeated because the vote ended in a tie 513 Yes to 513 No.
ONE VOTE CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!"
Personally, I am generally proud of this county but feel
that having less than one-third of its registered voters cast
votes is shameful. I also hope more voters are registered
now.
By now I imagine most of you are aquainted with the two
charming and helpful young, female Gingers in the Heppner
Coast-to-Coast Store. I understand that the owners, the
Sargents, were so pleased with Ginger Keithley that they
looked for another Ginger and hired Ginger Bowman (which
could be a real loss to our county school system ) but makes a
double plus for that store.
I've just written about the fast approaching holidays.
Another imminent event needs a place in your minds and on
your calenders. On the first Saturday in December, the
Saturday after Thanksgiving, Dec. 2, the AAUW will hold its
annual Artifactory at St. Patrick's Hall. This event takes
lots of preliminary effort. You can really help with one
facet the used book sale. Kathy Hazen, chairman of that
department, has arranged for book collection boxes in each
of the four Heppner service stations where it is hoped you will
leave books that you are through reading. Jerry's Mobil, the
Cheveron, Cal's Arco and the Union stations have boxes for
books and are cooperating with AAUW in this phase of
preparation for the Artifactory.
Maybe you, too, are following the Heppner football team
as it progresses so successfully this fall. I happen to be most
interested in the coming and final game tommorrow night
when Heppner meets the Condon Blue Devils and a pretty
nifty yardage gainer named Marion Weatherford. I intend to
be in the stands and will have a split loyalty to contend with. I
am going to cheer for Heppner and for Marion Weatherford.
Since Thursday when Marian Brosnan and I began a
long-weekend of family visiting and of looking around
Washington State, I have done lots of sitting. I added about
1200 miles on the Chev's speedometer, saw mv first two
soccer games and ate too much. Marian and I drove from
Butter Creek to Cheney with several interesting stops like the
one at the wine-tasting room just north of Pasco that first
day. After a night with my daughter Ann Chenhall and family
near Cheney we headed west on Friday morning.
This was the first cross-Washington trip for both of us,
and we were very interested in the changing terrain from the
wheat country around Ritzville, through Moses Lake and
Ellensburg across Snoqualmie Pass and down into Tacoma's
south area where Marian spent two nights with her brother
Lester Good and family at Spanaway.
I went further west for two nights with my son Ross
Haberlach and his children and with Karla and Rick Weaver
at Port Orchard and Bremerton. On Saturday I watched my
grandaughter Anita and other third-grade girls and boys play
a soccer match and also saw her fifth-grade brother Scott
play soccer with an all-boy team. Anita plays various
positions, but Scott is a regular left halfback (I have lots to
learn about soccer which involves a tremendous number of
kids in the Sea tie area.)
On Sunday morning the clouds parted and I got a great
view of the magnificent Olympic Mountains so beautifully
whitened with new snow before I left Port Orchard to pick up
Marian.
My son had carefully briefed me about which freeway
exit would be best to take to Spanaway and I took it but I
went in the wrong direction, going miles to the west instead of
turning east. After some good directions from a filling station
fellow I got back on 1-5 and made it to the Good home over
half-hour later than I planned.
Then Marian and I started south and I opted for a state
highway instead of 1-5 to Centralia. This was great fun, and
we saw some unusual sights like the quaint little towns of
Roy, Yelm, Tenino and Bucoda, but I made another wrong
turn when we were almost to Centralia and got us to the huge
coal-fired, steam-spewing, generator that I guess is
comparable to what we we are going to have at our Carty
Reservoir. Very interesting, but time and gasoline
consuming.
We finally backtracked and with the help of a yellow
fire-engine (another first) got onto 1-5 South. I had felt happy
about having an extra hour on Sunday, but managed to more
than blow it with my wrong turns.
Nevertheless, after a fine Sunday dinner at Woodland's
Oak Tree, and a thought of telephoning the Robert Klaus
family, we sped along to Portland and a stop at my brother's
home where I chatted and Marian telephoned her daughter
Joann and family. Then after only two more stops but no
more wrong turns-we got home right at 9 p.m. and Jerry
Brosnan was waiting to transfer the fine collection of goodies
that Marian had gathered from my wagon into his car, and
off they rolled toward Butter Creek.
Recalling the sudden freeze we had here before
Thanksgiving last year, I had determined to try to make this
cross-Washington jaunt while good weather still prevailed. It
was most successful and Marian is a fine and generous
traveling companion.
I had really planned on taking pup Tip with us but at the
last moment decided to accept Helen Currin's magnanimous
offer to keep him with her on the ranch. Maybe next
time whenever or wherever that may be I will try to take
Tip along, but I surely appreciated being free of worrying
about him for four days. I think he probably appreciated
being in a different environment and having a change of
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CEiudi ieniiof f has seen enough
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F or six years Chuck Bennett covered city, county
and state politics in the Salem area as a reporter
for a daily newspaper.
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. '
He's the one who asked the questions first.
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DEMOCRAT FOR
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REPRESENTATIVE
DISTRICT 55
Paid Advtsmt. Morrow County Neighbors For Chuck Bennett,
Dist. 55 Rep., Mike Sweeney, Chrmn.
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JSazarene Church to
present prayer movie
"The Power of Prayer," a
film featuring the thoughts of
several noted Christian
spokesmen on the subject, will
be shown Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. in
the Heppner Church of the
Nazarene.
The film will also examine
the role that Jewish history
and tradition plays in Christ
ran prayer practice. Pastor
James King invites the public
to attend the local screening of
the film
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That's why it's so important to vote NO on 5.
Ballot Measure 5 would allow so-called "den
turists" and their untrained assistants to perform
dental work inside a patient's mouth.
Without the supervision of a dentist. Without
adequate training to recognize oral cancer,
cysts and other gum diseases. Without even a
high school education.
And Measure 5 would specifically prevent
the State from raising these standards. Ever.
Ask your family doctor. Ask your family
dentist.
Don't give Oregon the worst dental health
standards in the U.S.
VOTENO05
NO ON 5 COMMITTEE
815 N.E. DAVIS
PORTLAND. OR 97232
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But it impedes all types of
energy development
"THE HIDDEN PURPOSE OF THIS MEASURE IS TO MAKE MORE COSTLY
THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW NUCLEAR PLANTS, HENCE STOPPING
THEM AND OTHER POWER-PRODUCING PROJECTS IN THEIR TRACKS."
(Oregonian, Oct. 9)
Promoters of Measure 9 concede that this is true. They also admit
that it would make financing more expensive and pump up the cost of power
plants of all types. (It would impede construction of solar,
geothermal, coal, wind any new power source.) It would also affect
telephone and natural gas construction.
Who would pay these added costs?
You, the consumer, of course.
A similar bill passed in 1 976 cost Missouri electric customers $866 million in added
construction costs! Measure 9 is a copy of the Missouri bill.
Why should you pay extra millions for another tricky anti-nuclear crusade?
Measure 9 hurts everybody's pocketbook.
MB
(Q)d
Defeat the anti-nuclear measure
NO ON 9 COMMITTEE
815 N.E. DAVIS
PORTLAND, OR 97232
F. F. (MONTE) MONTGOMERY, CHAIRMAN