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TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday April 19, 1979 The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES Fair & Rodeo '79 underway Saturday jr :. 3y The 1979 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo really gets underway this Saturday with the coronatipn of Queen Debora Palmer and presenta tion of her court. Princesses Jennifer Wenholz and Lori Edwards, and the running of the Second Annual Heppner Spring Lumberjack Show. For those of you who missed the Lumberjack Show last year, you'll want to be at the Morrow County Fairgrounds at 1 p.m. this Saturday, April 21, to see both local contestants and world champions ply their skills at axe throwing, power saw cutting, choker racing and more. A snack shack will be operating and a special traveling display in a 60-foot van depicting- the "Great American Forests", which features a slide show and puppet show will be at the Fairgrounds. In addition to the two major events, a stew and pie feed will be held in the Pavilion at 6 p.m. and old time fiddlers will play for the coronation and present a show and dance following. Plan to set aside the yard work this Saturday and attend the full day of activity at the Fairgrounds. " ,4 Mtairy-,tit A i Morrow County Sheriff's Dep . " uty Jim Macomber looks over i a letter dispatcher Beverly I J Launer just finished typing. """ The letter sent to Trailblazer Maurice Lucas is reprinted below. Related story on page one. Area's representation in Congress questioned Sheriff i . 0. ,ch. Sh riH K. ivpr U 9- WPP"".. ,676 9l0 Heppner residents should be concerned about their Congressional representation especially that of Rep. Al Ullman. For the past several decades and especially the last couple years a major effort has been underway locally and by Senator Mark Hatfield to obtain funding for construction of the Willow Creek Dam. The reason for the effort is Heppner's flood plain and what it does to the town in terms of development and growth. Sen. Hatfield was successful in getting $500,000 appropriated last year to begin the project, even though President Carter had not included Willow Creek Dam in his water projects list. That was quite an accomplishment and helped ensure continued funding. Now Ullman has announced that he will not include the Willow Creek Dam in funding requests for the coming year. The Second District Congressman cited "local concern" over the proposed dam and "the need for a revised cost-benefit ratio" as reasons for not seeking funding. We searched for a local official that had talked to Ullman in recent months and couldn't find one; evidently Ullman gleaned his infor mation about "local concern" from newspapers carrying articles about the March 28 advisory vote on the WC Dam held by the city. The vote came out in favor of constructing the dam. In regards to the need for a new cost-benefit study, millions of dol lars have already been spent on studies a practice common to bureaucrats and a practice that runs up the cost of projects while waiting for the studies. The federal government and our Congressional delegations need to revise their procedures in that respect. Each year the process drags on, costs rise for the project and the cost-benefit ratio changes before their present cost-benefit study is completed. Heppner and Southern Morrow County need the Willow Creek Dam, a fact evidenced by a statement Chuck Steele, Federal Insurance Administration Region X Director made recently. Steele said he isn't an advocate of building dams quite the reverse actually but in Hep pner's case he saw no other way for the town to survive economically with the natural 100-year flood plain. Rep. Ullman 's address appears on this page and we encourage all residents concerned about the future economic stability of Heppner to write or send a telegram to Mr. Ullman expressing their disappoint ment with his stand and urging him to push for funding of the dam. We hope Rep. Ullman listens and trust that Oregon's Second District has not lost its representa tion as often happens when a congressman becomes a national figure such as Rep. Ullman has as chairman of House, Ways and Means. Mr Maurice LailblaZers c Multnomah M Portland, laylng t noDartment f Dm0ney Sanead. a -pro-Tern " president;- stanu - ely n- : SneWr9o. 19 I,- Busmen our on Mrli - during Mounts. - a yOU , .pro-Te" president and tlg need TuSoried W fcoffer; f( and despera . 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The Gazette-Times carried a reprint of a story from Oregon State's alumni magazine for this month in 1929, which listed Lexington's Harvey "Pap Hayseed" McAllister and Dallas Ward among Oregon State's all-time great football players. "Pap Hayseed", who was center for the Beavers, graduated in the class of 1897. Ward graduated in 1927. Lyle Matteson of Heppner was nursing a set of cracked ribs suffered when he was kicked by a horse he was attempting to harness. During the same week in 1929, Heppner's new city water reservoir was filled to the brim for the first time. The new tank held 310,000 gallons, requiring a full 24 hours to fill. "To a common layman," the Gazette-Times reported, "it has the appearance of being a very fine and substantial piece of work." Thirty years ago this week, Morrow County voters approved by a 374-92 margin the school budget for the coming year. During the same week, a county-owned bulldozer broke ground at the construction site for the new Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Members of the Morrow County chapter of the Flying Farmers hosted a delegation from the Oregon Flying Farmers at Lexington airport during this week in 1949. About 75 farmer aviators and their families attended the event. Meanwhile, Gene Kelly, Lana Turner and Keenan Wynn were among the stars appearing in "The Three Musketeers" at Heppner's Star Theater. Twenty-five years ago this week, District Attorney Bradley Fancher was named Morrow County chairman of the re-election campaign for Oregon Governor Paul Patterson. During the same week, Heppner City Council named patrolman George Reid the city's new police chief. Reid, who had served as the night duty officer for the city, took the place of former chief Roscoe Kelley, who was then seeking the office of Umatilla County commissioner. Ten years ago this week, Father Dirk Rinehart, rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church, announced that he planned to leave Heppner to assume duties as associate rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Pendleton. Fr. Rinehart had served three years at the Heppner church. During the same week in 1969, a blinding dust storm along Butter Creek on the Heppner-Hermiston highway resulted in a five-vehicle pileup involving several Morrow County residents. Among those involved in the crash were Bill Johnson and Phil Doherty of Heppner and Sandy Matheny of Heppner, who, along with Diane Cutsforth, Janet McCurdy and Delbert McLachlan, were returning from a church meeting in Pendleton. No one was seriously injured in the crash. House debate on death penalty becomes an emotional issue Execution by lethal injection gets House Ok By Kathleen Glanville SALEM Oregon legislators with strong feelings against the death penalty faced a tough choice when they were asked to replace the gas chamber with a so-called humane alternative lethal injection. "I don't care if someone ingenuous soul comes up with a way of beating a condemned man to death with a feather," said Rep. Jim Chrest, D-Portland. "My vote is going to be against the death penalty, period. "I don't care how you do it. They're still dead and death is forever," he said. But after almost an hour of debate last week and a warning from the bill's sponsor that a vote against the measure would be a vote for the gas chamber, the House voted 40-14 to pass House Bill 2502. The measure amends the ballot measure which reinstated the death penalty last November, by requiring execution by an intravenous injection of a lethal quantity of fast-acting barbiturate. Gov. Vic Atiyeh has said he would sign the bill if it passes the Senate. "The subject of execution may be for some of us the most distasteful policy we will set this session," said Norm Smith, R-Tigard. "Nonetheless, the death penalty is a fact of life... and we must determine whether to be as human as possible to the condemned person and whether to save the enormous cost of construction of a gas chamber." Three states have approved execution by lethal injection and three other states are considering it. Eighteen states execute by electrocution, 10 by cyanide gas, six by hanging and 12 have no death penalty. Rep. Joyce Cohen, D-Lake Oswego, urged her fellow representatives to vote no on the measure, calling it another step in "becoming desensitized." OIXPA Oregon Nwipoper The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES Morrow County's Award-Winning Weekly Newspaper U.S.P.S. 240-420 Published every Thursday and eDtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Second-class postage paid at Heppner, Oregon . SUBSCRIPTION RATE $8.00 In Morrow, Unatilla, Wheeler & Gilliam County; $10.00 elsewhere G-M, Reed, Publisher Terry M. Hager. General Manager Eileen Salmg, Office Manager Melissa Scott, Composition Justine Weatherford, local Columnist Oe'ores Peed, Co publisher Pli S'ee'hammer, News Editor Got" e Push. Composition Cmdi Doherty, Advertising Office Public Officials U.S. Sen. Mark O. Hatfield Hiim'II Semite (Mice BldtJ.. WashmKliin. "'' I Member nl Appropriations Ciimiinllee. Interior Committee. Rules Com miltee. and Indian Policy Hevieu Commis sion Porlland oil ice. Pioneer Courthouse. Km In:. :jii s W Morrison. Portland. Ore. II7JO-I, plume :!.Wi. U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood I lirksen Senate Ollice Bldjj.. Washington. DC 211:1 1 n. Member of Kinance Committee and Commerce Committee. Portland ollice, 1IIH2 K Hnllada. Km. Tiki iP () Box :)ti2H. Porlland. (Ire !I72"K. phone 2:t:S--H7. U.S. Rep. Al" Ullman, Of The Second District House (Htice Bldg . Washington. D C. 2iTl.- Member ol Ways and Means Commit tee Salem ollice. .Ytn Center St .. Km XW iP.O. Box 247i. Salem. Ore 7:ili8. phone :i99-5724. Gov. Vic Atiyeh State Capitol. Salem. Ore 97310. phone :17H-:1Iihi State Sen. Ken Jernstedt "Morrow, (iilliam and other counties). Slate Capilol. Km S:il7. Salem. Ore. 97310. phone 37H-KM5U. State Sen. Robert Smith i Wheeler. Grant and olher counties) Stale Capilol. Km. S323. Salem. Ore. 97310 phone :t7H-K17). State Rep. Bill Bellamy i.Morrow. Gilliam and other counties). Stale Capitol. Rm. H3M. Salem. Ore. 97310 phone .178-885:1 State Rep. Max Simpson i Wheeler. Grant and other counties), , Slate Capitol. Rm. H481. Salem. Ore. 97310, phone 378-8789. Persons wanting information on bill, hearings, and other doing of the Oregon Legislature may call, toll-free, 1-800-452-0290 Rep. Rick Bauman, D-Portland, agreed. "I hope we can stop pretending we can administer the death penalty in a human way. It is not possible." Rep. Tom Mason, D-Portland, said he refused to vote for anything to make the death penalty the slightest bit more attractive. "You can't kill with kindness," he said. Smith said he thought the death penalty would see little use in Oregon. No one is on death row in Oregon, but there are two people being tried in Mulnomah and Clackamas counties for murder under the death penalty. Supporters of the bill argued that they didn't want the state to pay for a new gas chamber, estimated at more than $300,000, when Oregonians might change their minds about the death penalty once again. Voters first repealed capital punish ment in 1914. It was brought back in 1920 only to be abolished again in 1964. Oregonians voted 2-1 to reinstate the death penalty last fall. Before the death penalty was repealed in 1964, Oregon had executed 58 people 40 by hanging and the rest by cyanide gas. Rep. Bill Rutherford, R-McMinnville, sponsored the lethal injection bill at the request of his secretary Wilma Hogle. He said he had his doubts about the measure because of his strong opposition to the death penalty, but he said anyone who had done study of comparative executions would agree lethal injection to be far more humane. He also said that changing the method of execution would not make Oregon judges more likely to sentence a convicted murderer to death. "A no vote is a vote for the gas chamber... a more onerous method of execution," he added. The last person to be executed in Oregon was Leroy McGahuey who died in the gas chamber on Aug. 30, 1962. Writer opposes Oregon handgun-vehicle hill Editor: All concerned Oregon gun owners need to take immediate action to stop the passage of Oregon House Bill 2423. This bill would make it illegal for any person to carry a pistol or revolver in any vehicle or conveyance without a concealed weapons permit. Passage of House Bill 2423 goes further to impose a mandatory $1,000. fine or a year in the County jail. House Bill 2423 would seriously infringe upon the right of law-abiding citizens to enjoy the shooting sports. Imagine, before a hunter or shooter could transport his weapon, a concealed weapons permit would be needed. Honest gun owners in other states have faced many problems when applying for permits. This is a first step in Oregon that will lead to the same problems faced in other states. There is no way around it either. If this bill passes, you must either get a permit or face the conse quencesa $1,000. fine or a year in jail! Immediate action is needed. Write your representative and Judiciary Committee and urge them to vote against H.B. 2423. It is only your effort that can stop H.B. 2423 from being made law. CarlM.Marquardt Lexington
