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The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday April 12, 1979 ELEVEN OBTUAR Y' i JD I -- - - fBH tekTl-' " rv i Awt: " - y vrt t "" m, ?xm0 f J) y &mki Violet Agnes Nichols Violet Agnes Nichols, 76, of Lexington, died Tuesday, April 3, in Hermiston. She was born April 14, 1902, in Boise, Idaho, the daughter of Richard and Annie Steven son Schoonover, and had been a resident of Lexington since 1932. Funeral services were Fri day. April fi. at 2 p.m. at the Lexington Church of Christ with the Rev. Edwin Sikes officiating. Carl and Betty Marquardt sang sacred select ions. Concluding services and vault interment were at the Lexington cemetery. Sweeney Mortuary, Heppner, was in charge of arrangements. Active pallbearers were Area artists invited to show in Pendleton Arts Festival, May 11-13 Earl Miller, Morris McCarl, John Edwards, Charles Buchanan, Joe Yocom and Tom Springer. Honorary bear ers were Frank Robinson Sr., Dick Turell, Maynard Seafelt, Harry Green, Frank Robinson Jr. and Del Piper. Mrs. Nichols is survived by a daughter, Frances Beck, of Hermiston; three sons, Wayne, Ray and Earl Papi neau, all of Lexington; four sisters, Alma Warner, Los Angeles, Calif. ; Mable Totter dale, Kennewick, Wash.; Alice Forman and Betsy Dodge, both of Leavenworth, Wash.; 16 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. DISCO DISCO DISCO HEPPNER FAIRGROUNDS FRIDAY, APRIL 13 9-1 a.m. $3 Per Person With The KUJ Disco Machine Turning the tables lone City Park will be a more enjoyable place in which to spend time this summer, thanks to the efforts of lone High's shop class. As part of a shop project, the lone youths built five sturdy picnic tables for the park, with the city footing the bill for materials. Unloading the completed tables this week were, at top from left, Bruce Millman, Leslie Thompson and Scott Balfe, and at bottom from left, Mark Patton, Richard Ladd and Gregg Rietmann. Not shown was shop class participant Kim Pettyjohn. The IHS students are members of Marv Peterson's shop class. Artists from Northeastern Oregon and Southeastern Washington are invited to exhibit paintings at the Sixth Annual Pendleton Arts Festi val, scheduled May 11, 12, 13, at the Pendleton Armory. The festival, co-sponsored by the Pendleton Arts Council, The American Association of University Women and the City Recreation Department, is an effort to encourage people to paint, to stimulate the public's interest in paint ings, to offer a place for artists to display their work, and to provide an opportunity for artists to view the work of other painters. Cash prizes will be awarded again this year. Awards will be determined by the show judge, Christy Wycoff, in structor in art at Portland State University. In 1978, more than 2800 people attended the festival. Application for entry blanks may be made by writing to the Pendleton Arts Council, P.O. Box 573, Pendleton, Oregon 97801. Applications may also be picked-up at the Umatilla County Library and the Cham ber of Commerce Office in Pendleton. Wheat League lauds AAM, but protests farm strike violence The American Agriculture Movement deserves a major share of the credit for the increased public awareness of farm problems, the Oregon Wheat Growers League an nounced this week. But the league doesn't condone the violence used by a small number of AAM sup porters, nor does it agree that the government should guar antee parity prices for farm products. "Such a guarantee would inevitably result in either a restrictive, mandatory gov ernment program of produc tion cutbacks or an accumula tion of large government owned stocks of grain or both," said rancher Tom McCoy, Wasco, chairman of the wheat league's national farm programs committee. "We share with the AAM the belief that farmers should receive parity prices for their products. We question, how ever, whether a government guarantee of parity prices is the best long-run solution to the problems faced by farm ers," McCoy said. The federal guarantee wouldn't work without a mandatory acreage set-aside or substantial wheat export subsidies, McCoy said. The wheat league said government should be more active in strengthening wheat prices, "but government money is better spent in providing farmers the means to stabilize and increase market prices. "The target price should be raised so that farmers can participate in the voluntary farm program," McCoy said. "Without an increase in the target price, few farmers in Oregon can afford to partici pate in this important pro gram." Open the grain reserve program to the 1978 and 1979 crops, he said. "The reserve program has been an import ant tool by which farmers can stabilize wheat prices. By storing wheat when crops are abundant and releasing wheat to the market when demand is strong, farmers benefit both themselves and consumers. "Equally important, in creased wheat exports would raise farm prices and provide the U.S. with badly needed foreign exchange," McCoy said in urging more govern ment export promotion. "Also, the government should immediately institute an export subsidy program to prevent the European Econ omic Community and foreign government sales organiza tions from unfairly indercut ting U.S. prices." McCoy said a U.S. export subsidy program, even if little used, would be a powerful inducement to other nations to join with the U.S. in a world wheat producers' agreement. "With the breakdown of the International Wheat Agree ment talks, such a producers' agreement is of the highest priority to ensure a fair and stable world market." McCoy said the U.S. wheat farmer wants the opportunity to earn parity prices through the market. He said that approach is not only cheaper to the government but more' realistic. "The AAM has focused national attention on the severity of the current crisis. It is up to the government to meet this crisis with adequate funding of the current market oriented programs," McCoy said. "Otherwise, far more costly government action will be needed in the future." State senator introduces bill to ban changes on Nuclear Siting panel State Senator Jan Wyers introduced a bill this week which prohibits changes in the membership of the Energy Facility Siting Council until a final decision has been made on the $3.5 billion Pebble Springs Nuclear Power Plants. The bill says no changes shall be made in the membership "...until the council approves or rejects the site certificate applica tions for the Pebble Springs nuclear power plants." The decision on Pebble Springs is imminent. The hearings are completed and the Public Utility Commission Hearings Judge's proposed order is expected by early May. Wyers said, "Four -members have served since 1971. The two members who expres sed doubts about nuclear power are the ones Atiyeh is seeking to remove. If Gover nor Atiyeh removes these two to comply with the spirit of the law which limits terms to eight years, then he will be compelled to remove the other two eight-year members. Then only three of the seven members of the Council would be experienced. Four positive votes are required to site a plant. This would cause a crisis in public confidence. 'The Senate is in a bind. We have a constitutional responsi bility to act promptly on confirmations. 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