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Kinzua Corporation of Heppner brought the Emmanuel Hospital Life Flight helicopter to the area
last week for demonstration purposes before taking the unit to the town of Kinzua. The
Heppner-based firm has made arrangements for this unit and a second emergency helicopter
service from LaGrande to be on call for emergency medical transportation residents of the .
isolated town in the Blue Mountains.
Board of Education seeks names
for North End schools
The Morrow County Board
of Education is trying to solve
an identity crisis in the
county's north end.
A new junior high school in
Irrigon and a new elementary
school in Boardman are to be
built during the coming year,
but as of yet, the two proposed
schools have no names.
To rectify the situation, the
school board is inviting county
residents to submit names for
the two new buildings. Sug
gestions for names should be
received at the district office
in Lexington prior to the
board's Feb. 19 meeting, when
a screening session on the
name proposals is scheduled.
During a school board
meeting in Lexington Monday
night, school district architect
Bob Smith went over final
plans for the two new build
ings. The structures will be
put to bid on Jan. 8, with a bid
opening date set for Jan. 30.
Smith reported that two
other school construction pro
jectsa multipurpose room at
A.C. Houghton Elementary in
Irrigon and a new shop
building at Riverside High in
Boardman are proceeding
on schedule. Foundation work
and plumbing is being com
pleted at the Riverside facili
ty, while slab work and
cement floor pouring at the
Irrigon school is nearing ,
completion.
In order to meet new state
building code guidelines, the
m. b a mm aa a n i i
board voted to spend an
additional $4,500 at the Irrigon
school in order to install a
second layer of sheet rock on
the multipurpose room's ceil
ing. The board also voted to
spend an additional $350 to
apply stripes marking volley
ball and badminton courts on
Charlotte Gray is appointed
Justice of the Peace by Gov.
Gov. Robert Straub last
week appointed Charlotte
Gray the Heppner district's
Justice of the Peace.
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the multipurpose room floor.
After a lenghty discussion
on which students qualify to
use school bus service, the
board tabled action on adopt
ing a new bus transportation
policy.
In another development, it
was announced that the school
Mrs. Gray-had been serving
as the pro-tern justice of the
peace, following the retire
ment earlier this year of Dee
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board has reached an impasse
in negotiations for a new
contract with school district
teachers. A meeting was set
for Jan. 4 between teachers'
representatives, board per
sonnel and a mediator. Money
is reportedly the key issue in
the impasse.
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Gribble.
No stranger to courtroom
procedures, Mrs. Gray served
as clerk of The Dalles Munici
pal Court for five years four
of which were spent as deputy
municipal judge. Her associa
tion with municipal court
affairs in The Dalles ended in
1976, when she moved to
Heppner.
The new justice of the peace
is the mother of two sons.
Kevin, 17, and Terry. 14. Her
husband, David, is a log
scaler.
With her experience in court
work at The Dalles, her
applying for the justice court
position in Heppner seemed a
logical move. "It's the line of
work I like to do," she said,
"and it's exactly the kind of
thing I was doing in The
Dalles.
Since assuming her justice
court role, Mrs. Gray changed
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HEPPNER. OREGON
Port of Morrow eyed a site
for log b
A Washington-based log
trading firm is negotiating
with the Port of Morrow in an
effort to locate a barge loading
operation at the Boardman
port facility.
Harbor Timber Inc. of
Carlsborg, Wash., hopes to
ship some 15 million board
feet of raw timber per year
from the Blue and Wallowa
mountains of Oregon down the
Columbia River to Astoria,
where the logs would be
loaded onto Orient-bound
ocean-going vessels.
Robert Patton, Harbor Tim
ber's president, appeared be
fore port commissioners
meeting in Boardman Satur
day to outline proposals for
locating the log barging facili
ty at the Port of Morrow.
Patton said his firm was
recently incorporated to serve
as a contractural partner with
Kaiser Aluminum, in order to
provide Kaiser with timber
-i'viady for- shipment at deep- ,
sea ports.
Kaiser, he said, "wants to
fill out the back haul of its
ocean freight business with
wood." Patton explained that
Kaiser, an importer of large
amounts of raw materials
from the Orient for aluminum
and cement fabrication, would
like to see its ships return
across the Pacific with easily
marketable timber.
"We've been buying timber
in the Blues and Wallowas,
and have anticipated getting
the logs into the river," Patton
told the port commissioners.
Timber already purchased by
Harbor was scheduled to
begin moving to ocean ports
by train from a siding at
Plymouth, Wash, on Monday.
However, Patton indicated
NEWS BRIEFS
Heppner businesses
open 'til 9 p.m. tonight
Some Heppner businesses will stay open all day
and until 9 p.m. tonight for holiday shoppers, Randall
Peterson, merchants' committee chairman announced
this week.
Those businesses staying open are: Gardner's
Men's Wear, The Lebush Shoppe, Kroll's Department
Store, Peterson's 'Jewelers, Murray's Drug (also open
Sunday from 12-4), Coast-to-Coast, The Shoe Box,
Cole's House of Fashion and Posy Patch, and Case
Furniture.
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for next week's issue
The Gazette-Times will have early deadlines for
next week's issue because of the Monday holiday.
All news and advertising must be in the G-T office by
12-noon Saturday.
Krueger dismissed from
city foreman position
The City of Heppner is again looking for a new
foreman for its street and maintenance crew following
the dismissal of Randy Krueger from that position this
week.
Krueger, who has held the position for the last nine
months was dismissed by City Administrator Marshall
Lovgren after Krueger reportedly took the city pickup
to Lexington, running it off the road near the Hughes
ranch early Saturday morning. Lovgren told
councilmen at a special meeting Monday evening that
' Krueger had been warned about taking the city pickup
out-ot-town tor personal ino
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arging facility
that he hopes rail transporta
tion would be only a tempor
ary solution to moving Har
bor's timber downstream, due
to high rail costs and the
relative ease with which
barged timber could be loaded
onto ocean ships.
"We're looking at a couple
of sites (for a timber dock),"
Patton said. "And the Port of
Morrow is a good site, no
question about it."
Patton added that Kaiser
Corp. "has budgeted a consid
erable amount of money for
buying timber from the area,"
and anticipated that when his
operation moves into full
swing, 40-50 barge loads of
logs would leave Boardman
for Astoria each year.
The logs would be shipped
downstream in 25-ton bundles
on barges operated by Knap
ton Towboat. Knapton repre
sentative Robert Johansen
told port commissioners that
in . addition, .to barging for
Harbor Timber, "we'd like to
be able to draw some more
business in the area. ..to be
able to haul on the back trips
and keep our machinery
busy."
Patton's tentative proposal
calls for moving a 100-ton
floating crape to the Board
man port facility, where it
would be anchored and used
for loading Harbor Timber
logs. The crane, owned by
Brusco Booming of Longview,
Wash., could also be used for
loading or offloading any
other freight for companies
interested in using Boardman
as a river port facility,
according to Brusco officer
Henry Brusco.
Harbor Timber would also
require leasing a 10-acre site
on numerous ocvnsions
at the port, where logs could
be sorted and prepared for
shipping. Patton said that
five persons would need to be
employed to operate the
fatility.
Although the Port of Mor
row boasts a large section of
river frontage property, with
deep water at bank's edge, no
barging facility has made use
of the Boardman site. Port
commissioners indicated they
were excited at the possibility
of opening the door to river
transportation, but would
ideally prefer constructing a
permanent dock at the site,
rather than using a floating
boom.
Patton indicated that his
firm may be willing to
negotiate with the port in
constructing a permanent
dock at some point in the
future, "but first we have to
see if this thing is going to get
off the ground." Building a
permanent dock facility, he
noted,, would cost at least
$200,000. Patton said his firm
would also consider, entering
an arrangement in which the
Port of Morrow would build a
dock and charge user fees to
Harbor Timber.
At any rate, Patton said,
"We're ready to move. We
could be ready for the first
barge as early as March l,and
could start hauling logs here
by the first of January."
Port commissioners voted
unanimously to authorize new
Port Manager E.S. "Buddy"
Toadvin to work with Harbor
Timber in hammering out a
Growth 'just starting9 new
Port Manager says
The central role of the Port
of Morrow is to "create more
jobs and enhance the econom
ic well-being of Morrow
County." according to new
Port Manager E.S. "Buddy"
Toadvin.
E.S. "Buddy" Toadvin
Toadvin succeeded outgoing
Port Manager Rupert Ken
nedy earlier this month, after
Kennedy was dismissed by the
port commission over "differ
'ences in opinion."
A civil engineer, Toadvin
comes to Morrow County from
Portland, where he has lived
the past three and one-half
years, employed by the Storch
Corporation. The soft-spoken
Louisiana native is no
stranger to Port of Morrow
operations, having served as
the Port's engineer for the
p,is! two years, mainly con
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formal proposal. If such a
proposal is drafted prior to the
next regular port commission
meeting on Jan. 11, the port
commissioners indicated that
they would be willing to call a
special meeting to act on the
matter. .
In other action Saturday,
the port commission voted
unanimously to issue $4.5
million worth of bonds for
funding anti-pollution equip
ment and facilities for Pacific
Northwest Generating Com
pany's operation at the Carty
coal-fired power plant.
The complicated bonding
process leaves the Port of
Morrow with no financial
liability in the event of a
default. Morgan Guaranty and
Trust in New York is trustee
for the bond sale.
Similar anti-pollution bond
sales were previously held for
the other two principals in the
Carty plant in the amount of
$34 million for Portland Gen
eral Electric, and $4.5 million
for Idaho Power. The bond
sales allow federal and state
tax exemptions on anti
pollution gear at the power
plant, while giving the Port of
Morrow $26,100 per year in
management fees.
Boardman realtor Gene
Allen of Mountain Valley Land
Co. was sworn in as a new
member of the commission
during Saturday's meeting.
Allen takes the place of
former commissioner Frank
Anderson, who resigned last
month.
cerned with developing the
facility's water system.
He is a 1958 graduate of
Louisiana Polytechnic Univer
sity, with more than 10 years
experience in engineering
municipal and other govern
mental projects, including
water systems, waste facili
ties, highways, bridges, sub
divisions, airports and recrea
tion projects.
Toadvin stressed that he
plans to work closely in
cooperation with city, county
and port commission officials
in future development at the
Port of Morrow. Among items
that he and port commission
ers will be focusing on in
coming months will be plans
to develop an airport on port
property east of the current
food processing facilities, im
proving access roads to the
port, and attracting new
businesses.
Although the Port of Mor
row may be an agency of
government, "We're still in a
highly competitive business,"
competing with ports from
Hood River to the Tri-Cities in
Jhe race to locate new
industry, Toadvin said. '
Growth in northern Morrow
County "is just start
ingwe're just scratching the
surface," commented the new
port manager. "But I'm a
firm believer in controlled
growth," he added. "We
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