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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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