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BESSIE WETZELL U Of ORE NEWSPAPER LI 3 EUGENE OR 97403 --r-.T.TTT ttTi TTTrrm Ti.rr - -. - vi-nnn O n rrmi: 1 ju u.uu. u.ixi.'ii.. . u u.st. ihu. . u.. . yu..ii.y..L! .ys' s;ga i& s nnnnpgifn nw Stores 'open from 7 -9 p.m. tonight for special sale See Section B, pages 2-3 Remember to turn your clocks ahead one hour before going to bed Saturday night as Day light Savings Time starts Sunday, April 29. Fair Court! Area state highways scheduled for improvements this summer Two local sections of frost damaged state highway were included among 10 resur facing projects authorized last week by the Oregon Transpor tation Commission. The local highway segments scheduled for resurfacing during the upcoming con struction season are the Hep-pner-Condon highway, bet ween Lone Rock junction and Rock Creek, and the Heppner Hermiston highway, from south of Lexington . to, the Bombing Range Road cutoff. The latter repaving project Ruggs to lone Hike -A-1 non tests peddle power Saturday Registration will get under way at 9 a.m. Saturday at Ruggs for the annual Ruggs to vtfone Bike-A-Thon to raise money for St. Jude's Child ren's Research Hospital. For the past several weeks, area schoolchildren have been soliciting pledges from the community, in order to make their pedal-power worthwhile for St. Jude's. During the past two years, youthful bike riders and their sponsors in the lone and Heppner areas have contrib uted nearly $3,000 to aid in.the research of catastrophic childhood diseases. The 22-mile long route along lower Rhea Creek will be patrolled by members of, the Morrow County Search and Rescue Posse. The fundraiser is sponsored by the lone and Heppner chapters of the Epsilon Sigma Alpha internat ional sorority. The sorority hopes to raise $1 million for St. Jude's, through similar pro jects across the nation this year. "n rat'; K-i-.i.i. y,e-,i-f J- r yip ... v vt, Morrow County's .1979. Fair and Rodeo Court ..and. Penant Bearers were honored at Queen's Coronation activities following the Lumberjack Show Saturday. Seated are Princess Lori Edwards, Queen Debora Palmer and Princess Jennifer Wenholz. Standing are Penant Bearers Anita Palmer, Tammi Holtz, Sylvia Ladd and Melanie Seitz. For the remainder of spring and summer these gals are ambassadors of good will for Morrow County. would start at the end of the widened, improved section of highway between Lexington and Heppner, and proceed more than 12 miles north of Lexington to the Bombing Range Road intersection. The cost of resurfacing this winter ravaged highway segment was set at $2 million. Cost for the six-mile re paving project between Rock Creek and Lone Rock on the Heppner-Condon highway was estimated at $156,000. The Heppner-Hermiston segment was the second-most Should Saturday prove to be a rainy day, plans call for Wheat Growers set annual spring meet The Morrow County Wheat Growers League will hold its annual spring meeting this Friday, April 27, at St. Patrick's Parish Hall in Hep pner, starting at 8 p.m. Oregon Wheat Commission President- Frank Tubbs will speak on a proposed merger of Western Wheat Associates and Great Plains Wheat, according to Joe McElligott, president of the Morrow Wheat Growers. Also on the program will be Sen. Ken Jernstedt and Rep. Bill Bellamy, who will report on items of local concern being considered in Salem. Morrow County's Conserva tion Man of the Year will be Morrow HEPPNER. OREGON costly project authorized by the OTC, exceeded only by a $2.2 million, 9.9 mile repaving job on the Pendleton-John Day highway near Beech Creek Summit. As most county motorists are aware, the Heppner Hermiston highway was vir tually impassible for several days in February, when months of hard freezing ended suddenly in a spring-like thaw, accompanied by warm rain. Total cost for the 10 re paving projects was estimated holding the marathon ride on May 5. bike announced, and Brok Tucker will give a brief report on gasahol in Oregon. Refresh ments will be served. DMV office closed The Division of Motor Veh icles Office in Heppner will be closed on April 30, May 1 and 2. ' . The Heppner EWE-TIME County's THURSDAY. at $10 million, involving some 90 miles of highway. Most of the projects are located in Central and Eastern Oregon. Prom people j. :mm uw'M'ir . .! 1 - I .j -.'"V - w I I I 1 $ i ipl HI.LljuliilullOpwillliiniilinlnilWnffllH i . ?f 'giitllwW'lP'w-'it' i.ttw, i j arj i Award-Winning Weekly Newspaper APRIL 26. 1979 PRIL 26. 1979 TWO SECTI0NS-16 Roads, increased valuation expected to offset tax rate A $100,000 supplement for required to continue the three probably should have asked the proposed budget. The county road repair, inflation in the cost of supplies and materials, and the creation of a new deputy district attor ney's position contribute to an increased general budget re quest by Morrow County government for the coming fiscal year. The proposed county bud get, to go before voters on May 22. would require $419,190 to be raised through property taxes outside the six per cent limitation. Not counting Pio neer Memorial Hospital's bud get request, which will appear on a separate ballot, the county budget will require a total of $9fil.3!50 to be raised through property taxes. The request is up $280,259 from last year's total county budget requirement. But due to the county's sharp rise in total taxable value, now set at wr0- million, the millage rate for the proposed budget will actually drop to $2.14 per $1,000 of property from the current rate of $2.20. Of course, steep increases in the valuations of residential and business property will offset in many cases the decrease in the millage rate, meaning that many tax bills may be higher. Morrow County's winter ravaged road system accounts for the biggest slice of the budget request. In addition to the $195,000 in tax dollars m0- ffiKiiiitili'tlBihr ..- j. ,Milt, t aimi - One of these couples will be chosen king and queen of the HHS Senior Prom Saturday evening at the Heppner Elks Lodge. Dancing begins at 9 p.m. with live music by Ritz, and is preceeded by a banquet at 6:30 p.m. at the Catholic Parish Hall. Pictured are Richard Schmidt, Bryan Marlin, Bill Kenny. Jackie Mo1 ahan. Marie Yocom and Barb Devine. required to continue the three year road serial levy, the county court is seeking an additional $100,000 supple ment for road supplies, as phalt, repair work and fuel for road crew machinery. The proposed budget also calls for assigning two additional road crew workers to permanent duty in the county's north end. The $100,000 earmarked for supplemental road work "may just about keep us solvent" in terms of maintain ing passable roads, according to Judge D.O. Nelson. "We ooo Planning, staff, MD recruiting up PMH budget Funds to recruit, pay, and provide a staff and support services for an additional physician, plus funds for management consulting, plan ning and development are included in Pioneer Memorial Hospital's budget request for the coming year. On May 22, voters will be asked to approve the hospi tal's request for $598,587 in property tax money in order to balance the hospital's budget PAGES services, for $300,000," he said. Judge Nelson noted that this week's heavy rainfall "put us back to where we were two months ago" in keeping abreast of spring road repair work. Under the proposed budget, the sheriff's department would receive $184,235 up slightly from last year's rate of $171,527. District Attorney Dennis Doherty's office, which re ceived only $19,146 last year, would receive $54,146 under o during fiscal 1979-80. The budget would require an estimated $1.33 per thousand dollars assessed valuation from Morrow County property owners. The proposed oper ating budget would be $451,989 greater than the amount received through tax funds last year. According to PMH Admini strator Bob Byrnes, the hospi tal's budget committee met six times in lengthy sessions to hammer out the proposed document, which he said "reflects an attempt by the governing body to discharge services to the community in terms of doing what needs to be done to enable the hospital to... meet the minimum needs of the community." The budget proposes that $139,588 be allocated for physi cian services, including doctor recruitment funds, a proposed $50,000 salary for one physi cian, start up and support services, back-up medical personnel to cover for vaca Oregon Association of Hospitals planner to speak at Chamber Ron Ellingson, director of management systems of the Oregon Association of Hos pitals, will be featured guest speaker at the Heppner-Mor-row County Chamber of Com-' merce meeting at noon on Monday. April 30. Pioneer Memorial Hos pital's board of trustees last week voted to enter a contract with Ellingson and the Oregon Association of Hospitals to implement the hospital board's recently developed strategic planning process. During Monday's Chamber meeting. Ellingson will outline what that planning process will entail for Pioneer Memor ial. The stated objectives of the program include docu mentation of the hospital's mission, goals and needs; providing accurate and timely 20 cen,s inflation increase includes about $18,000 for a deputy district attorney, plus funds to hire another secretary and pur chase office equipment and supplies. The budget also calls for allocating $82,640 to the fair and rodeo; $13,600 for the county airport; $3,900 to the county's law library, and $4,800 to the county mental health program. The county court tentatively plans to hold a budget hearing on May 16. o o tioning doctors, malpractice insurance, and medical ser vices for the North Morrow Clinic at Boardman. A total of $50,000 was earmarked for management consulting and planning and development. The hospital board recently hired the Oregon Association of Hospi tal's director of management systems to develop a long range plan for Pioneer Mem orial. "A structured planning process will be implemented through the budget," Byrnes said. "We've got to let the community know how we're identifying goals and priori ties" and how they should be met. The hospital's "top priority is to bring in a new doctor, without a doubt," Byrnes said. The increased funding for physician services would "provide an incentive that needed to be built in" in ordr to attract and retain such an individual. Continued on poge 3 information to the hospital board and administration; organizing the planning pro cess to delineate areas of responsibility and authority; and to identify alternatives for facilities planning, short and long-term medical programs, assuring that programs can be supported by available re sources. In addition to providing developing sound business and management practices, the planning process offered by Ellingson will enable Pioneer Memorial to meet new govern ment requirements for deve loping a health planning process. This planning pro cess relies heavily on com munity and medical staff involvement, as well as partic ipation at all levels of the hospital organization. if '- Sr. 3v i: I ' 1
