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The Library University of Oregon Eugene, Or 97403 Fred Toombs, manager of the Columbia Basin Electric Co-op, Heppner, and Harry Kennison of Kinzua, Heppner, announced in a news confer ence today with the Bonneville Power Administration that an agreement has been reached between the B.P.A. and the Co-op to finance a four-month feasibility study that could lead to the design and con struction of the first of many woodburning electric power plants in the Northwest. A contract was signed today in Heppner between Schu chart and Associates of Seat tle, an engineering consulting firm and the Columbia Basin Electric Co-op, authorizing that firm to conduct a $45,000 VOL. 97, Morrow County Voters f say W to levies i Pioneer activities A flurry of activities are scheduled for the Memorial Day weekend locally with graduation ceremonies, pio neer picnics and other activi ties. Heppner High School will hold its graduation ceremony Saturday, May 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the high school. lone High School has scheduled its commencement program on Jim Wishart appointed to school hoard; teachers resign posts Jim Wishart, Heppner, assistant manager of the Bank of astern Oregon, was ap pointed Monday to the Morrow County School Board replac ing Dr. Wallace Wolff, who announced his resignation from thejboard last month. Wishart joins the six other school district directors. The School Board, meeting at Riverside High School in Boardman, accepted the res ignations of three teachers, Jim Ackley, band teacher, Heppner High School, who said his reason was personal and will remain in the local area, Syreece McClain, sev enth and eighth grade science teacher, Heppner and Shane Fritz, a language teacher at Riverside High School. New teachers hired by the board include Mary Fleck, Mildred Baker and Diane Mathern, A.C. Houghton, ttioy to explore woocuftiiFiiiiig electric study to determine whether a plant should be built at the Kinzua Corporation lumber mill in Heppner. The B.P.A. , Columbia Basin Co-op, the National Electric Power Research Institute and the Kinzua Corporation will each contribute part of the study costs. "The feasibility study will determine the adequacy of the fuel supply, where to put the plant, how large to make it, what kind of boiler and mixture of fuel to use, what kind of pollution control equip ment will be needed to meet environmental standards, how much the electricity will cost, who will buy it, and what effect it will have on the NO. 21 and Pioneer Memorial A light turnout of voters rejected the proposed Morrow County tax levy and separate tax levy for operation of Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Tuesday's county-wide budget elections. The county budget levy request of $494,410 in addition al monies to balance the budget outside the six percent Constitutional limitation fail ed with 476 "nb" votes and 254 "yes" votes. The PMH levy vote, re questing voter approval of a $598,587 tax levy outside the six percent limitation failed in a simple majority vote with 546 "no" votes and 287 "yes" votes. County Judge D.O. Nelson said the county would resub Picnic to head flurry of for Memorial Day Friday, May 25 at the school, beginning at 8 p.m. Riverside High School, Boardman, planned their graduation exercises at 8 p.m. Thursday night, May 24. On Sunday, the 26th Annual Memorial Picnic will be held at the County Fair Pavilion, beginning at 10 a.m., dinner at noon. Sponsored this year by the Peck family, the picnic is Nancy Wellborn, lone Pri mary; Judy Maas and Linda Shaw, Heppner Primary. The board approved a district policy on treating drug and alcohol abuse the same, approved the use of a portion of Riverside High School by Krumbien Engineering for drainage, and approved a grant application to the North west Foundation for funds to hire a resident artist and pre-school teacher. The security of the district's school buses became an issue before the board following the vandalism to four at lone High School last Thursday night. Supt. Matt Doherty reported that there have been several incidents of theft and vandal ism including the theft of fire extinguishers, flares and an electric ignition at Irrigon. Board members debated whether to send the buses community," Toombs said. The feasibility study will consider both cogeneration the dual use of a steam source, one of which is the generation of electricity and the genera tion of electricity itself. The congeneration alternative would extract steam from the turbine at a pressure suitable for use in the mill. This would conserve the heat that other wise would be lost in a cooling tower when only electricity was generated. Officials said the possibility of using forest slash and municipal refuse will be considered along with the study of mill residue. Robert M. Harris, vice president of Schuchart and Associates, Seattle, said other OjilC, il 11 JET 11 Morrow HEPPNER, OREGON Hospital levy requests soundly defeated mit the county budget levy as soon as possible, noting that last year's levy request re ceived a tie vote and had to be resubmitted, resulting in a 2-1 margin of approval. He attri buted Tuesday's defeat of the separate county budget issue to higher property taxes. As expected by county officials, opposition to the county budget issue was heavy-in- the Irrigon and Boardman areas. In Board man, 75 voters cast no votes against 49 in favor of the levy. Irrigon rejected the county budget 75-38. lone surprised Nelson and other poll watch ers by voting 89-44 against the levy request but surprisingly, voters there cast a majority of votes in favor of the PMH levy expected to draw upwards of 200 people from the local area and annual visitors to Hep pner. The planning committee will furnish ham and potatoes and those attending, salads and desserts. Harold "Shorty" Peck will display his collection of an tique farm machinery and a special Memorial Day Service home with the drivers, secur ity fencing or other means of protecting district property. In other business, the board considered adoption of school visitation guidelines. At pres ent, no policy exists for district-wide regulation of visitors to the schools other than the principals. City to start ticketing cars The city of Heppner will start ticketing cars parked on downtown streets if they are parked longer than two hours, Winn Crist, the city's parking control officer said Monday. Crist said motorists have had a grace period since the wood-burning industries are investigating the possibility of converting their by-products to electrical energy and a study recently completed in North Bend. Kennison told the Gazette Times that the idea of generating electrical power from wood by-products was first proposed four years ago but the need for additional sources wasn't as great. And Toombs added that the B.P.A. has informed Colum bia basin Co-op of "insuffic ient energy" by 1983, causing a stronger interest in develop ing alternative sources of energy. According to a recent wood products magazine art icle, 15 percent of Vermont's The Heppner County's request. Lexington voters cast 50 no to 33 yes votes while Heppner was the only voting precinct in the county to cast a majority of "yes" votes for the county levy, 190-187. There was a larger vote margin against the PMH levy request. Boardman voters rejected the PMH levy by 107-19; Irrigon polled 99-14 against; Heppner voters cast a majority of ballots against,. 237-141; Lexington voted a gainst the budget request 45-38; and lone approved the levy request 75-58. Voter turnout was extreme ly light, according to County Clerk Sadie Parrish, who reported that only about 300 of Continued on page 3 is planned by the American Legion. Peck says the event could draw visitors from as far as Georgia and offers a chance to socialize and generally have a good time. Monday will be marked by several business closures. The Gazette-Times will open until noon. remain School is out for students June 1 but the board will continue holding its monthly meetings, with the next sched uled at Lexington. The last day for teachers is June 5 and graduations are scheduled at Riverside High School, May 24, lone High School, May 25 and Heppner High School, May 26. first of the year but since people are getting lax in leaving their cars in the same parking place, the city will step up enforcement. The ticketing starts today and fines are $2 if paid within 24 hours electrical energy supply comes from the burning of waste products from the lumber industry. The Co-op manager noted that the power produced at the Heppner site would cost sub stantially more than the power supplied by Bonneville to the Co-op. "That probably means that some sort of arrangement will be worked out which will allow the owners to market the power to a purchaser under a contract containing a pullback clause that will allow them to have it for their own power requirements in case of a shortage." B.P.A. Administrator Munro said "this is a relative Award-Winning Weekly Newspaper THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1979 Glen w eppner's 6Mr. Elk9 Glen Ward, secretary of the Heppner Elks Lodge 358, and his wife, Joyce, received a token of his 22 years of service in the post from his fellow Elks and friends Saturday night a check for $1,080 to attend the National Elks Convention. The occasion was a dinner Saturday night honoring Glen for his assistance and service to 22 Exalted Rulers. Dr. Wallace Wolff, a Past Exalted Ruler and retired physician, made the presenta tion and emceed the "Roast of Glen Ward" before an audi ence of 250. Ward and his wife received a number of awards during the evening including a letter from a former P.O.W., Mike Benge, who while serving with the Peace Corps in Vietnam was captured by the Viet Cong and spent five years in a Prisoner of War Camp. Benge is now an employee of the State Dept. in Washington, D.C. Dr. Wolff presented him with a boar's skull in remem brance of his job as State Fish and Wildlife Agent in the local area and Edward Dick, who has served the lodge as treasurer since 1962, gave him a box of plumbing supplies to complete his cabin at Lake Penland. "Glen is Mr. Elk of 358," Dick told the audience who gave him and his wife a standing ovation at the con clusion of the banquet. Dr. Wolff related how Glen and he had first joined the lodge in 1953. In 1958, Ward was elected Secretary and among other honors was named as the outstanding employee in 1972 and out standing father in 1973 given by the Cowbelles. Glen introduced his family, County GOP nomination up in air ly small plant and it would take about 70 of them to produce as much power as a nuclear plant." However while it takes 10 to 12 years to get a nuclear plant on line, it will take only three to five years to get this one going. That means if we get moving, plants like this can make a significant contribution toward meeting the 1,000 to 3,000 megawatt energy deficit forecast for any of the next 10 years in which poor water conditions occur. "We will have those deficits even if all 13 thermal plants nine nuclear and four coal now under construction or scheduled for the region are built on the current time TWO SECTIONS 16 PAGES ard honored j Y v Joyce, his wife, Ron and Sandra, his children, then quipped that most of his family was here tonight. State Elks officers and Past Exalted Rulers of 358 paid tribute to Glen's work with the lodge and his attendance at state conventions. Tony DiBiaso called him a "wonderful secretary at your lodge. He has done a wonder ful job for Heppner." Mayor Jerry Sweeney pre sented him with a key to the city of Heppner. power plant schedule. It is far more probable, however, that there will be further delays which will only service to make those deficits larger. That is all the more reason to get moving on all the cost effective and environmentally acceptable sources of electricity we can find," Munro added. Munro and Toombs explain ed that because an electric power plant will allow Kinzua to put to use a product that presently costs them money to dispose of in a landfill, there will be benefits to the utility, the company and the public. "Preliminary figures indi cate that the electricity from a generating plant at the Hep pner site should be cost Hi Lo Tues., May 15 75 50 Wed., May 16 71 50 Thur., May 17 73 42 Fri., May 18 72 48 Sat.. May 19 72 41 Sun., May 20 78 42 Mon.,May21 83 49 IM ' V 11 i t IT i Glen ward, (right) secretary of the Heppner Elks Lodge 358 for 22 years, was honored for his long-time service Saturday evening w ith the awarding of the key to the city of Heppner by Mayor Jerry Sweeney. Glen and his wife, Dorothy, received $1,080 from friends and Elks for a trip to the National Elks Convention. "If you want something done, ask a busy man. He has never complained." Sherri Mahoney read a letter from Mike Benge thank ing Glen for the inspiration behind his survival in a P.O.W. Camp and several of the former Elks officers praised Glen for his persever ence in collecting hides in the organization's charity drive. P.E.R. Jerry Daggett noted that "without him, I wouldn't have made it through my year Five more persons contact ed the Morrow County Repub lican Central Committee to apply for the vacant Commis sioner's seat on the County Court, bringing the total of announced candidates to 11. The five additional appli cants are Irrigon City Man ager Jack Baisdan, Arnold Braat, Boardman, Truman Messenger, Lexington, La Verne Van Marter, and Paul Taylor of Lexington. The first applicants included Dorothy effective and with the proper design will be environmental ly acceptable," Toombs said. "The cost of power from biomass plants varies greatly depending upon the cost of collecting and transporting fuel. And because the plant will be built next door to the fuel supply, transportation costs will be minimized. It should be able to produce power that is less than the cost of mill-residue burning plants where the fuel must be collected and transported to the plant site from mills at remote locations. Also present for the contract signing were Randall Peter son, vice president of the Columbia Co-op Board, 20 cents a V and Claude Graham added that he was very proud to have him as a friend, Mr. Elk of Heppner." LeRoy Gardner recalled Glen's finding of his boxer dog and said it meant a great deal to him and his wife. Cal Sherman added that Glen deserved a big 10-4. "He's the best." Elks and their guests enjoy ed a hearty potluck supper and danced following the banquet. inn - 1 '' I 1 'I i Krebs, June Lindstrom, Ralph Crum, Don Peterson, Dick Wilkinson and Merle Cantin. The Central Committee will decide Wednesday night who they recommend to the County Court for appointment. Steve Peck, Lexington, chairman of the committee, said if all the precinct committee people attend the session, the winning candidate will have to secure a majority of 18 votes and need a quorum of at least nine. 4 1 k 1 i
