TWO The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday April 19, 1979
The Heppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
Fair & Rodeo '79
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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.
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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
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chairman of House, Ways and
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the TIMES
Two Lexington men were cited for their
outstanding football achievements at Oregon
State College 50 years ago this week.
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."
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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