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County medical services
ride on Tuesday levy vote
Facilities in Boardman and Heppner
Voters go to the polls
Tuesday to decide on a
reduced hospital tax levy of
$549,077, $45,000 lower than the
original levy submitted and
defeated May 22.
The. figure asked is outside
the six percent limitation and
projected by the county hos
pital board as the minimum
necessary to maintain satis
factory patient, emergency,
physician, nursing home care
services at Pioneer Memorial
Hospital in Heppner and
support the North Morrow
County Clinic in Boardman as
well as the county ambulance
service.
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Parts of farm machinery were used as rebar in the concrete walls of the old county jail at the
Morrow County Courthouse when a firm drilled through to establish a door to the rest of the
building as witnessed by County Judge D.O. Nelson. Nelson said it took a Kennewick firm ten
hours to drill through the wall with a pneumatic saw. The work is being done to ready the old jail
for use as the assessor's office.
Advisory committee boundaries set for
most school district attendance areas
Boundaries for representa
tion on Morrow County School
District advisory committee
were approved Monday night
by the school board in all
areas except Boardman and
Irrigon.
A dispute arose over the
boundary description of the
Boardman area. Board mem
ber, Ken Broadbent, Board
man, felt the boundaries
should include the Ordinance
area because it was an
attendance area for elemen
tary school children.
School District Superintend
ent Matt Doherty said the area
was not intended to be an
attendance area and express
ed hope that the area wouldn't
be divided into attendance
areas for the north county
elementary schools.
Broadbent felt more public
input was needed on the issue
from the Boardman-Irrigon
area and made a motion to
table board action. His motion
resulted in a 3-3 tie and board
member Irvin Rauch, Lexing
ton, followed it up with
another motion resulting in a
tabling action.
The advisory boundaries
are used to establish equal
representation on advisory
committees elected by district
voters in the Heppner, lone
and Boardman-Irrigon areas.
Following the May 22 defeat
of the budget, hospital board
members agreed to trim the
budget by $45,000, reducing
the planning and development
requirement by $25,000 and
reducing the amount antici
pated to balance the budget in
physician income ($20,000
more is expected in weekend
physician service.) They ask
ed the Morrow County Court to
resubmit the reduced tax levy
to the voters. ,
Since the budget failure a
month ago, a . committee has
been formed to support the
upcoming hospital levy vote,
merchants asked to display
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Keeping them
During the discussion of the
boundaries, Doherty was ask
ed if this would affect the
voting districts of the board of
directors; Doherty said their
boundaries were based on old
school district boundaries.
Approved in the board
action were the Hardman
Ruggs area, all area contain
ed in the original Hardman
School District and all area
from the original Heppner
School District lying north of
the Condon-Heppner Highway
and west of the Rhea Creek
Road and that portion of the
original Heppner District
lying south of the Heppner
Condon Highway and west of
the Upper Rhea Creek road
beginning at the Haguewood
ranch; the North Lexington
Pine City area, (Heppner
Advisory Committee) all area
from the original Lexington
District lying north of the
Base Line and all area
contained in the original Pine
City School District lying
within Morrow County; Lex
ington area, the original
Lexington School District
(Heppner Advisory Commit
tee) and the north Lexington
Pine City area and the
Lexington area will be con
sidered one area for the lone
Advisory Committee; Hep
pner area, all area contained
posters in favor of Pioneer
Memorial Hospital and fact
sheets circulated throughout
the community entitled "Hos
pital Budget Fact Sheet."
Hospital board members
appeared at Monday's Hep
pner Chamber of Commerce
meeting at the West of Willow
to urge voters to support
Tuesday's levy request Chair
man Fred Martin recom
mended passage of the bud
get, remarking that "It was
well put together." Ed Dick, a
board member, noted that the
hospital was a business ven
ture and required financial
support to operate.
Cont. on page 10
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in the original Heppner School
District; lone area, all area
contained in the original lone
School District; Cecil area, all
area contained in the Cecil
District, if no candidate avail
able, the position will be
elected from the lone attend
ance area.
The board recommended
continuing the special activity
bus between Heppner and
Lexington for students en
gaged in extracurricular
activities after the regular
school hours despite a com
plaint received from a patron
that the policy was unfair to
the other areas of the district.
Doherty said the policy was
first established in 1964 when
the Lexington Elementary
School closed and the loss to
the community from the lack
of a school in its own
boundaries was eased by the
concession of the activity bus.
The superintendent felt
people did not understand the
situation in which the decision
was made.
Rauch added, "This is their
Amtrak, they better use it,"
referring to student use of the
bus.
However, board members
expressed the need to re
assess their decision in light of
future gasoline hikes.
Cont. on page 3
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HEPPNER, OREGON
Beverly Kyd appointed to Port
Commission; budget within limit
Portland sludge disposal in Morrow County discussed
Beverly Kyd, wife of the late
Charles Kyd, was elected
Thursday to fill her husband's
unexpired term on the Port of
Morrow.
Mrs. Kyd won unanimous
election as port commissioner
with the four other commis
sioners voting in favor, Gene
Allen, Louis Carlson, Leroy
Gardner and Larry Lindsay.
Port President Leroy Gardner
said at the start of the election
that he had been advised that
the board could hold an open
election. Appointing Glen
Ward, Heppner, as the elec
tion judge, each member's
vote was voiced publicly.
Also applying for the posi
tion were Gary Hager of
Hager Construction and Mark
Docken. A potential applicant,
Dan Kreamer, decided not to
submit a letter of application.
Commissioner Lindsay said,
"Mrs. Kyd had the most
qualifications for the position"
and had traveled throughout
the world.
Following the swearing-in
ceremony, Mrs. Kyd turned to
the audience and said she
preceded her husband's inter
est in Port activities serving
as secretary and manager at
one time. She then assumed
her seat on the board.
Her term expires at the next
regular election, according to
Port Manager Buddy Toadvin.
The five member board
approved the 1979-80 fiscal
year budget and tax levy of
$40,226 on property within the
Port boundaries, within the 6
percent limitation, after hear
ing the recommendation of the
port budget committee made
on April 27. The General Fund
budget approved is $205,591
and includes funds for per
sonal services, materials and
services, capital outlay, con
tingency, transfer to other
funds.
Also approved were a
$103,987 port facilities fund,
$270,605 water and sewer
utility system fund, $1,021,000
industrial bond reserve fund,
$157,000 F.H.A. bond reserve
fund, $2,177,500 PGE bond
reserve fund and an $18
million pollution control bond
fund.
State Fish and Wildlife
Agent Glen Ward expressed
concern to the Port about fish
reared in the neck of a
proposed road which the Port
hopes to build as an extension
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Manager Toadvin said the
' Port is still negotiating with
Union Pacific Railroad for
right-of-way property and ex
pects to use rip-rap to reduce
wave action. The road exten-
sion is being proposed to allow
for future docking facilities on
the river. At present, the port
has no docking facilities.
Ward also inquired whether
there would be fishing access
to the future road.
"If we build any docks, we
will have to provide parking,"
Toadvin responded.
Toadvin reported later in
the meeting that the chief
engineer of the Union Pacific
has rejected for the second
time right-of-way property
needed for the road but noted
that the railroad would have to
negotiate eventually with the
port because of a future
change in its tracking.
Concerning Portland's
proposed barging of sludge up
the Columbia River to dis
posal sites in the Boardman
area, the board went on record
in support of a motion by Louis
Carlson, "in the event that the
Bombing Range
The U.S. Navy has come
under attack by two Morrow
County agencies upset by its
continued use of the bombing
range.
Port of Morrow Commis
sioners approved a resolution
to the Pacific Northwest
Waterways Association meet
ing next week in the Tri-Cities,
calling for a return of the
"underutilized bombing
range" to private ownership
"through an equitable and
public distributive process in
order to place in production
nearly 50,000 acres of prime
farmland."
At the May 17 meeting of the
East Central Association of
Counties, members of Gil
liam. Morrow and Umatilla
counties discussed alterna
tives to use of the bombing
range by the Navy such as
irrigated farming and grazing
on the range. Gilliam County
Judge Leo Barnett asked for a
motion to authorize staff
assistance in exploring pos
sible alternatives to the bomb
ing range and another official
moved to accept the staff's
Budget needed to keep
services for residents
Maintenance
Should the $49,410 county
tax levy request fail a second
time in its voter test Tuesday,
there is still a question
whether the Morrow County
Court would resubmit the levy
for a third vote.
County Judge D.O. Nelson
told Heppner Chamber of
Commerce members Monday
"There is time for one more
vote on either the county or
hospital levy" if the June 26
levies failed and permission
would have to be obtained
from the assessor's office. But
he added, "I'm not sure we
could have another vote."
Judge Nelson was sure
about one fact, "If the levy
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Portland Sludge project mat
erializes the Port of Morrow
should be made the docking
site."
The commission was quick
to point out that it was not
deciding the pro's or con's of
whether the county should
allow the sludge to be shaped
here.
That decision will be made
by the Morrow County Court.
Toadvin said the proposed
sludge systems was one of the
best he's seen but he express
ed doubts about the long-term
effects on the amount disposed
of, quoting a figure of 30,000
gallons a day. "If Portland
brings it up here, they will
have to pay for it."
Said Carlson: "The Port of
Morrow should be the legal
entity to receive the sludge.
We should be the receiver,
either provide or be the
docking site."
Gene Allen said it is
assumed that the sludge would
go on the ground when it could
be marketed by private enter
prises. In reply, Toadvin said
he has seen it marketed in
recommendation for a feasi
bility study of the bombing
range. Both passed.
The resolution approved by
the Port of Morrow Commis
sioners further states that:
"use of the bombing range is
energy inefficient and waste
ful, alternative sites and
Greg Sweek expected to be named
assessor to fill Harshman9s term
The Morrow County Court
has not made it official yet but
is expected to appoint Ap
praiser Greg Sweek as the
new county assessor by July 1
to replace Everett Harshman
who is resigning for health
reasons.
Tom McElligott is expected
to be named Chief Appraiser,
according to county court
officials.
In its regular weekly meet
ing Wednesday, the county
court approved a motion
accepting Harshman 's res
ignation. Court Judge D.O.
Nelson told the outgoing
and operations money asked
fails, we will have to go back
to $347,160 to run the county."
The $347,160 is the amount of
tax base allowable within the 6
percent limitation for the
county's general fund. $494,410
or the levy amount requested
is outside the six percent
limitation and needed for
several reasons to balance a
total budget of $2,266,758.
The additional tax monies
are needed, Nelson said, to
provide $100,000 in additional
funds for road repairs, $35,996
to offset a cutback in federal
CETA funds, $47,000 to replace
a reduction in federal in-lieu of
taxes; $24,000 added to make
up a phase-out of anti-reces
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Milwaukee and it would be "a
terribly risky venture for
private industry."
Mrs. Kyd was concerned
about "raw waste being
barged up the Columbia
River."
Toadvin said digested
sludge was about 3 to 5 percent
solid and the rest water,
doesn't have much odor and
looks like burned out oil from
a crankcase.
"Over a period of years if
you apply the sludge, you are
going to contaminate the
groundwater 5, 10, 50 years,
nobody can tell us how long,"
Toadvin said, urging the
county to stipulate that if
contamination occured, that it
would pay for the problems.
Gene Allen was elected
secretary of the port replacing
the late Charles Kyd. And
Allen asked the Port to donate
$75 towards the Charles Kyd
Memorial Scholarship fund.
Mrs. Kyd said the fund is now
over $3,000 and seen as
self-perpuating.
A bonding agreement was
Port of Morrow, ECO AC
look to alternative uses
methods are just as instruct
ive and far less costly and
energy consumptive;" energy
generating facility siting is
unduly and unnecessarily con
strained by continued use of
the bombing range; the type
of energy generating facility
official, "I wish you the best."
Harshman served four
years in the position and was
first elected in a write-in
campaign during the June,
1974 primary election. Harsh
man received 61 write-in votes
on the Democratic Party
ballot and 80 write-ins on the
INSIDE: See page 7
County officials anstter some
questions on Pioneer Memorial.
sion funds and $64,260 to
absorb the 7V4 percent salary
increase for county workers.
A $35,000 increase in the
District Attorney's budget is
necessary, Nelson said, be
cause the D.A. has a great
many demands on his time
including opinions and consul
tations with the county's
boards and his work with
Morrow's growing law
enforcement agencies. Nelson
said this has added to his
criminal prosecution work
and "there has been a great
push in the county to eliminate
(he drug problem."
Nelson feels the expected
Cont. on poge 9
20 cents
concluded between the Port
and Gourmet Foods for is
suance of $1.5 million in
industrial development bonds
to expand the processor's
refrigeration and packaging
systems. Under the agree
ment, Gourmet Foods will pay
the Port a $1,750 fee starting
the first year of the bonding
arrangement and that rate
will decline as the bonds are
paid off. The company will
receive the capital it needs at
a lower rate of interest by
working with the port than
securing a bank loan.
The company would be able
to exercise a purchase option
at the end of the payment
period.
In other business, the Port
commission approved a cus
tom farming agreement for its
effluent land with Miracle
Foods, heard of problems with
the effluent system and the
need for more irrigation
equipment, heard from Mike
Sweeney, attorney for the
Arnold Braat easement re-
Cont. on page 3
locating in the area is unnec
essarily limited by continued
existence of the range and the
efficient and orderly develop
ment of irrigated agriculture
in the area is prevented by
continued existence of the
bombing range.
Republican ballot.
The appointemtn of Sweek is
expected to take place June
27.
In other appointments, Tom
Daulton, Irrigon, was ap
pointed to the County Vector
Control Board replacing Max
well Jones Sr., Irrigon.
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