Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1979)
TEN The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday February 8, 1979 jt icdoo waiters laiice toil tJliFoiigJlioiiit eommity t r p' I 'J , - ... r7 , , ... - "''i3js.-w- : - v - I - V- ;-n,!RiV,i'. . . ... - t .- . . ... ' ..... . .:. ft V r 1 r i - i I r Flood waters inundated homes, businesses and schools as these photos evidence. Clockwise, top left, lonians survey the town' main street with dike of hay bales in foreground. Water laps at the front door of lone High School as it did in other lone buildings. Ladd farms, north of lone was completley separated from the highway by a river of water. Heppner's Morgan Street Bridge, already a shaky structure, had water pushing against strained beams. Heppner City Hall was literally the city's 'water office' as Wynn Crist bails water. I I (' ' " . ,L .... . " ' . ! 'I1 : l - t See story page 1 Pictures by Rick Steelhammer if n J:1 i4f v. 1 4i i i ' , J . j . V A . J - - J s ; , I - . s "? idte ..... ' . . - . . ' ' , 0- . ' , . N.. I ; ' . - ' V ' v I ..... - niiini in ft fnifii".,., -1 ' . ' - ...". ',, ' - "Of!, - i . . I . ..... . ...nBrt. --in n nnn i r
