The Gazt'tte-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday April 26, 1979 THREE
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'You Can't Take It With You'
performances at HHS May 3-4
Don't miss the three-act
comedy "You Can't Take It
With You" to be presented by
the Heppner High Drama
group at 8 p.m. in the
cafetorium May 3 and 4.
Since its first appearance on
Broadway in the 30's this play
has been an audience pleaser.
With its fireworks (Joe Molla
han and Greg Sweeney) and
its music and ballet dancing
(Perry Cooper and Patti
Toombs) and its philosophical
Hospital funding required
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With a new doctor on the
PMH staff, attracting new
patients and additional reve
nues for the hospital, the
additional physician would
likely generate at least double
the money it would cost
taxpayers to bring him or her
to Heppner. If the additional
doctor arrives fairly soon,
Byrnes said he was optimistic
that some of the tax money
sought in the proposed budget
could be carried over. "We
ought to be in a heckuva lot
better shape next year," he
said.
The proposed budget is an
"attempt to create an environ
ment for economic viability,"
said Byrnes. "The long range
return to the taxpayer will be
good. ..If you don't go for
ward, you're regressing. And
you can only go back so far."
The largest single item on
the budget is $621,252 for
employee salaries and bene
fits. Capital improvements
and replacement of worn or
outdated equipment would
require nearly $80,000.
The budget based on an
'occupancy rate of 28 per cent,
which should increase mark
edly with the addition of
another doctor anticipates
that daily service charges
during the coming year will
HHS entering
Freshmen
registration set
for Apr. 26
Registration and orientation
for prospective Heppner High
School freshmen and their
parents will be held Thursday,
April 26 at 7 p.m. in the high
school cafeteria.
All eighth graders intending
to enroll at Heppner High next
school year are urged to
attend, with their parents.
Portland General Electric's Carty coal-fired power plant nears the half-way point in completion,
The plant, which is expected to fire-up in July 1980, is being constructed at a cost of more than
$500-million. The 654-foot stack dwarfs the main generating building-320 feet tall and massive
coal handling machinery in the lower right portion of photo.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff
(Bob Miller) and worried,
ulcernagged businessman
(Bill Kenny), this play has
something to please all ages
and tastes.
The lovers (Susan Johnson
and Lionel Wood), the middle
aged mother who is also a
playwright and painter
(Marie Yocom), two Russians
who escaped the Re,yplutionT
(Jeff Fortenberry and Alice
Abrams), an inebriated act
bring in nearly $206,000, and
ancillary service charges will
generate $251,195 in income.
The nursing home facility is
expected to bring in more than
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ress (Lea Rush), an irate IRA
man (Scott McEwen) and
G-men (Richard Schmidt and
Jim Ackley) all add to the
excitement and fun. Even the
servants (Lisa Nix and Brian
Thompson) are important en
tertainment in this play.
Helping backstage for some
special effects are Polly
Fortenberry, Lynn Dee and
Dawna Devia, Elizabeth Zita,
Patti Devine. Tina Miller, and
Heather Winter. The director
is Mrs. Rawlins.
$282,000.
Further information on the
proposed hospital budget will
be published during the weeks
prior to the May 22 vote.
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Construction of the new
Carty coal-fired power plant
near Boardman is now 48 per
cent complete, and proceeding
on schedule towards its tenta
tive fire-up date of July 1. 1980.
To the casual observer, it's
hard to believe that "2 per cent
of the plant remains incom
plete. The plant's (ri4-foot
chimney towers above the
north Morrow plains, im
posing even from a distance of
20 miles. The main generating
building, a massive structure
standing 320 feet tall, looks
nearly complete, from the
outside, anyway.
Persons attending a meet
ing of the East Central Oregon
Association of Counties last
week were given a tour of the
Carty site, and a progress
report on its development by
Portland General Electric
representative Bus Clough.
Not quite half done, the
complex currently accounts
for nearly half of Morrow
County's taxable value. The
most recent estimates show
the power plant to be worth
some $200 million compared
with $450 million set for the
worth of the countv as a whole.
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When the facility is com
pleted, it is expected to be
valued at more than $r00
million, and generate more
than $2 million per cent in
local property taxes.
Clough told the ECOAC
members taking part in the
tour that the plant will provide
permanent jobs for about 150
workers, after construction is
final. PGE. as operator of the
plant, hopes to hire at least
hall of that number from the
local area. Clough said.
To exemplify how rapidly
the structure is nearing com
pletion. Clough said PGE
plans to begin stockpiling coal
this fall. Permanent coal
handlers will begin to be hired
at that point.
Coal will be brought to the
Carty site by rail from the
Gillette, Wyo.. area. A newly
completed 15-mile rail spur
will bring the power source to
a 210 acre coal handling area
at Carty from the Union
Pacific mainline along the
Columbia. The low sulphur,
relatively clean-burning coal
will be purchased under the
terms of a 20-year contract
with the AM AX Corp., one of
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operators.
A coal handling site of more
than 200 acres may at first
blush seem excessive, but not
when you consider how much
coal will be burned at Carty.
Plans call for a 78-car train to
unload 8.0(H) tons of coal every
2' j days at Carty. But that
amount is only sufficient to
power the plant's 500,000
kilowatt generator for two
days.
The plant will use some 300
tons of coal per hour, which
will in the same length of time
produce about 21 tons of ash.
About 20 per cent of the ash
will fall to the bottom of the
furnace, with the remaining 80
per cent rising with hot
exhaust gases up the chimney.
Electrostatic precipitating
gear to be installed at the
plant is expected to remove
more than 99 per cent of the
ash from the flue gas.
Most of the ash will be used
to fill in countours in the
dryland surrounding the
plant, and will be buried with
topsoil for use in agriculture
probably as grazing land.
Flue emmissions will be
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