lone area hardiest hit
by flood water
Cont. from nnnn 1 .
The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday February 8, 1979 THREE
torn culverts were abundant
throughout the county. Mor
row County officials called on
the public to observe a 10 ton
weight limit on county roads,
and urged all motorists to stay
off the roads completely
unless travel is absolutely
necessary. A complete inven
tory of damaged roads and
bridges was not immediately
available.
County officials, including
Judge D.O. Nelson, County
Agent Harold Kerr, ASCS
Agent Judy Buschke and
Roadmaster Doc Sherer, were
touring high water areas
Wednesday, preparing dam
age estimates for federal and
state emergency relief agen
cies. The officials had not
completed damage estimates,
and indicated they would not
likely do so until at least
Friday. One reason for the
delay was that flooding prob
lems may not be over, with a
60 per cent chance of rain and
more warm weather predicted
for Thursday. A heavy snow
pack remains in the highland
drainage areas for Willow,
Cont. from page 1
Hinton and Rhea creeks, and a
substantial amount of snow is
still on the ground in shaded
canyons and fields in the lower
elevations.
ASCS Agent Buschke said
that emergency funds will be
available for farmers suf
fering certain damages from
the high water, through a
federal cost-share program,
with the government paying
up to 80 per cent of the
damages. The amount of
funding available to Morrow
County, however, remains
unknown. The cost-share pro
gram could include funds for
replacing such items as wash
ed out fences, ruined irriga
tion dams, dikes and diver
sions and silted ponds.
Most flooded farm land
apparently escaped perma
nent damage, according to
preliminary reports. There
were few reports of livestock
being lost in the flooding.
In Heppner, high water
Tuesday forced the closing of
the Morgan Street Bridge.
Floodwaters rose high enough
to reach the bottoms of
several other spans across
Willow Creek, and spilled out
of the banks of the stream to
flood a quarter -mile section of
Riverside Drive. Water was
seen flowing beneath several
mobile homes along Riverside
Drive, but there were no
reports of serious damage.
Floodwaters hampered ef
forts by city workmen to
repair a main water line into
the city, which left the city's
drinking water supply dis
colored and unsafe to drink.
The break occured in the
vicinity of the Dick Wilkinson
ranch upstream from Hep
pner on Willow Creek, but its
exact location had not been
determined by Wednesday
afternoon. Until the line is
repaired, Heppner residents
are urged to continue boiling
their drinking water.
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
was obtaining drinking water
by filling milk cans from the
Morrow County Creamery
from Kinzua Corporation's
water system.
The sudden thaw also trig
gered a number of mud and
rock slides throughout the
county, including one in Hep
pner Wednesday that smashed
through a garage at the Etta
Parker home on Center Street,
partially covering a car.
Road travel to and from
the Heppner area was slowed
by high water at countless
locations during the peak of
flooding. Hwy. 74 between
lone and Arlington was closed
to traffic above Cecil due to
high water Wednesday, and
the Heppner-Condon Highway
was closed due to a reported
bridge washout at the bottom
of Rock Creek Canyon.
Heppner schools maintained
normal schedules, although a
number of students from
outlying areas were unable to
make bus connections due to
high water.
The sudden warm spell may
have caused headaches and
property losses to many, but it
did have a positive effect on
Kinzua Corporation's Heppner
mill. A layoff of 28 workers
due to frozen, unmillable
timber was called off earlier
than expected.
Bids high for two new Teachers reject board
Morrow County Schools pact j,y 2-1 margin
Bids for the new Irrigon
junior high schooll and for a
new elementary . school at
Boardman came in higher
than the Morrow County
school board's budgeted al
lowances, it was learned last
week.
R.A. Chambers and As
sociates of Eugene was low
bidder on the junior high
building project, submitting a
proposal for $2,066,000 well
above the board's budgeted
allowance of $1,736,850., For
the elmentary school budget,
a low Did ot ,u8J,iuu was
submitted by Timber Co. of
Hermiston. The budgeted al
lowance for that structure was
$1,772,750.
The school board will meet
at Riverside High School at
7:30 p.m. on Feb. ltb review
the bids and go over plans for
the school with the board's
architect, keeping an eye
towards possibilities for trim
ming costs. "We will have to
scale down somewhere," said
Superintendent Matt Doherty.
OBITUARIES
Donalda Knighten Daisy Robinson
Mrs. Donalda H. Knighten,
78, a former Lexington teach
er, of Moro, Ore., died Jan. 28
at the home of her daughter
while visiting in Seattle.
Funeral services were held
Friday, February 2, at the
Gateway Chapel of the Chimes
in Portland followed by inter
ment in Willamette National
Cemetery. The family has
suggested any remembrances
to the Wily W. Knighten
memorial scholarship fund in
care of the First National
Bank at Moro.
Mrs Knighten was born in
Hood River, Oregon, August 2,
1900. She was educated at
Eastern Oregon College, East
ern Washington State Univer
sity and Monmouth Normal
School. She was active in
Education in Eastern Oregon
and taught at schools in
Mitchell, Moro, Rufus, Grass
Valley, Sherman County
Rural Schools, Antelope, and
retired in 1966 from schools in
Lexington. Her late husband,
Wily W. Knighten died in 1964.
She was a life member of
Oregon Education Associa
tion; National Retired Teach
ers Association ; Retired Edu
cators Association and Delta
Kappa Gamma Society.
She was a Past Department
Chaplain for the American
Legion Auxiliary; Past Unit
President and Past District
President, American Legion
Auxiliary; Past Worthy High
Priestest, White Shrine of
Jerusalem, The Dalles, Ore
gon; Past Worthy Matron.
Order of Eastern Star. She
was also Past District Presi
dent of the Oregon Federation
of Women's Clubs. She held
memberships in the General
Federation of Women's Clubs,
Oregon Federation of Wom
en's Clubs, Scottish American
Heritage, Inc., Columbia
River Maritime Museum,
Astoria; American Clan Gre
gor Society and Maryhill
Museum Association.
Surviving are a daughter,
Mrs. Jean K. Miller, Seattle; a
son, Wily. W. Knighten, Mus
tang, Oklahoma; three grand
children; brothers, John M.
MacGregor, La Jolla, Calif.,
Alistar MacGregor, Bellvue,
Wash., sisters Ruth J. Mac
Gregor, Portland, and Helen
B. Lee, San Francisco, Calif.
Daisy McMurray Robinson,
97, of Albany, died Jan. 26, at
the Mennonite Home there.
She was a long-time resident
of lone, where her husband,
Ray, operated a machine
shop. They left lone in the
early 1940's.
Mrs. Robinson was pre
ceded in death by her hus
band, Ray, and a son, Glenn
Robinson. A niece, Miriam
Hale Leavengood, Albany,
also preceded her in death in
1977. '
Morrow County teachers voted Friday by a near
two-to-one margin against accepting a proposed new
contract, from the Morrow County School District.
Meetings have been held in days following the vote
between school board and teachers' negotiators in an effort
to hammer out differences between the two sides. Both
parties expressed hope for a speedy settlement, so that a new
contract can be ratified well in advance of the April 3 budget
election.
Doherty elected leader of
state curriculum panel
Morrow County Schools Superintendent Matt Doherty
was installed as president-elect of the Oregon Association for
Supervision, in Curriculum Development during a meeting
last weekend in Lincoln City.
Doherty had served as a regional director of the
statewide organization for the past three years. The
organization, made up of teachers, administrators,
professors and specialists from throughout Oregon, is
concerned with improving instruction through curriculum.
The organization is self-supported financially, through
membership fees.
In coming months, the Oregon Association for
Supervision in Curriculum Development will sponsor an
Eastern Oregon conference in April, then hold a workshop in
central Oregon.
Curriculum development has long had appeal to
Doherty, who served as Morrow County's assistant
superintendent in charge of curriculum prior to his
appointment as District Superintendent.
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Corps says three dam concept not viable
In response to an article in
Thursday's Heppner Gazette
Times concerning altern
atives for Willow Creek Dam,
Colonel C.J. Allaire, Walla
Walla District Engineer, said
that statements of Fred Swen
son, leader of a Value Engi
neering (VE) team currently
studying the project, were his
personal opinions and do not
reflect a position of the Corps
of Engineers.
VE teams are charged with
the responsibility to challenge
all facts, assumptions and
proposed designs of author
ized projects in an effort to
reduce costs while still retain
ing a project's authorized
purpose.
Allaire said that the VE
study, which is not yet
finalized.appears to favor
modification to the embank
ment and related features of
the Willow Creek Dam design.
The alternative of three small
dams mentioned by Swenson
was only one of many altern
atives reviewed in the VE
process.
The Colonel also expressed
concern over a personal
opinion expressed by Swenson
questioning the validity of the
hydrology information which
to the current flood plain
delineation of Heppner. The
hydrologic data was develop
ed from a detailed analysis
using the most widely ac
cepted procedures, according
to the Corps official.
The proposal outlined by
Swenson would call for a new
authorization by Congress, a
process that has taken
decades in the case of the
Willow Creek project. A Corps
official told the Gazette-Times
there was no way possible to
fund construction of the three
dam-channel concept through
existing Willow Creek Project
authorization.
Births
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Mr. and Mrs. John Ralph
Sanchez, lone, are the parents
of their first child, a girl,
Sarah Lee, 6 lbs., 12 oz.. She
was born Jan. 31, at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Isidore Sanchez, lone,
and Mrs. Mary Sauve,
Yakima, Wash..
Mr. and Mrs. James Clar
ence Benson, Heppner, are the
parents of a daughter, Jessica
Erin, 6 lbs., 13 oz., born Jan.
31, at Pioneer Memorial
Hospital. She is their first
child.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Benson, Hines,
and Mrs. Laura Roy, Prine-ville.
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