EIGHT The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 28. I!I7!
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Youth Conservation Corps out
working the national forest
The federal Youth Conser
vation Corps program is in its
sixth year at Tuppcr Guard
Station and the local director,
Clair Klotk, has arranged a
number of projects with the
cooperation of the Heppner
Ranger District. Klock, a
professional resource man
agement educator for the
Multnomah Education Service
District, Salem, said the YCC
program is contracted by the
service district through the
Ranger District and is cur
rently threatened by a na
tionwide cutback. It was not
one of those agencies listed
President Carter's annual
budget message to Congress.
Youth aged 15-18 will be
working on a number of
projects benefitting forest
users of Umatilla National
Forest. Corps members were
installing wooden barriers to
vehicular traffic Thursday at
Bull Prairie and another
group assigned to picking up
litter. Later in the summer,
they will be building a new
foot bridge at the recreational
area, constructing another
fishing dock, picking up litter
on the North Fork of the Dale
Ranger District, undertaking
campground maintenance on
the Ukiali Ranger District,
pre-commercial thinning of
lodgepole pine, fencing off
springs and doing right of way
clearing tor range fences.
"The Heppner Ranger Dist
rict has been really helpful to
give us a diversity of pro
jects." Klock said.
To enter the program, youth
from across the state submit
applications to the Governor's
Commission On Youth. What
County levy passes
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Heppner, voters cast 348 yes votes and
234 no's; in Lexington, there were 72 yes
votes and 48 no's; lone polls received 134
yes votes and 51 no's; the Irrigon voting
tally was 50 yes votes and 104 no's.
Boardman voters cast 74 yes and 130 no
votes.
The fiscal year for operation of the
hospital and Boardman clinic ends
Sunday, July 1 and hospital board
members have expressed concern that if
the hospital vote failed to come up with
the needed majority in the second levy
election, it might have no funds to
operate.
However, County Judge D O. Nelson
said recently if either of the budgets
failed, the court could ask permission of
the County Assessor to resubmit the levy
to a third vote.
The hospital levy request has never '
been defeated in a second levy election in
the same year and has only been included
on a seperate ballot measure since 1978.
Youth Conservation workers were hard at work installing barrier posts Thursday at the Bull
Prairie Recreation area, one of several projects planned for the Heppner Ranger District this
summer. Using the saw were Valerie Slining, John Day and Tonya Thomas, Stanfield.
ever their income or social
status, names are chosen at
random for the Corp's 30 hour
work week and ten hours of
environmental awareness.
"It has a profound effect
upon young people, Klock
said, and to see the worth of
their work is rewarding."
There are 28 youth and 8
staff members in this year's
program. Crew leaders in
clude Ken Olson, Steve Brown.
Annie Johnston, Sandy Hayze
lett, Sue Souders, a project
coordinator, Rick Wittwer and
the camp's cook, Martha
Newman.
Because of the random
lottery in which the youth are
selected, there are people
from all over the state,
Rainier, Medford, Ashland
and Hermiston. Andy Gor
man, Heppner, is the only
local youth and according to
Klock, few Eastern Oregon
natives apply.
The object of the environ
mental awareness program,
Klock said, is to teach the
youth why certain practices
are done to protect the land's
resources and the director
personally sees the program
as management education.
After the work week ends,
the program's participants
are taken on weekend field
trips. This summer, the YCC
will travel to the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge,
Steen's Mountain and Alvord
Desert to learn about envi
ronmental resource pro
grams. Other weekend trips
are scheduled with backpack
ing in the Strawberry Moun
tains, a trip to the Elkhorns to
see the gold country and
possibly a ghost town in the
Dale District and a raft trip on
the Deschutes River.
The students are not
charged for the side trips but
says Klock, "We demand a
high standard of work as well
as total production and
safety."
There are also such projects
as improving the fisheries on
Wilson Creek by planting
aspens and willows, complet
ing three years of picnic
ground developments on Pen
land Lake through slash-piling
of trees destroyed by the
mountain pine beel.
With no television at Tupper
and the long distance separat
ing the guard station from
Heppner, the casual observer
might feel the YCC members
would be bored. Not in the
least, says Klock, who has
arranged speakers during the
weeknights from the Forest
Service.
The director thanked sev
eral people in the community
for going out of their way to
accomodate the 13 boys and 11
girls, specifically Rachel Har
nett for opening up the
Pioneer Museum after hours
and the Heppner Pool Man
ager Dianne Holland for
providing use of the pool for a
swim test.
The youngsters receive $2.90
per hour and-are charged $2
for lodging at Tupper.
Klock said some who have
gone through the program
have joined the Forest Ser
vice's seasonal force one of
the advantages he sees for
continuing YCC.
147 West Willow
Aerial spraying of almost
1.1 million acres of private
rangeland in Central Oregon
to combat the worst plague of
grasshoppers in memory will
begin early next week, accord
ing to Oregon Department of
Agriculture officials.
Funded on a three-way
basis, the project will en
compass most Columbia
Basin counties, and possibly
might stretch to some other
areas of central Oregon as
well. Expenses for the mass
ive spraying to kill the
'hoppers will be borne equally
by the property owners, the
State Department of Agri
culture and the U.S. Depart
ment of agriculture. Oregon's
committment will be some
$470,000.
The air attack on the
grasshoppers plaguing Mor
row County began Tuesday
with the spraying of Malathion
by old DC-4's, according to
Ken Goeden of the State
Department of Agriculture.
Goeden said the four DC-4's
doing the spraying separated
in pairs flying 150 feet from
the ground and started at the
south end of the county and
was working north towards
Heppner. The planes were
expected to be in the Heppner
area Wednesday and complete
the county spraying by Fri
day. Hundreds of bed sheets
donated by such facilities as
the Pendleton State Hospital
have been scattered in a three
county area to mark the
boundaries of the areas to be
served.
The planes flew in an
east-west pattern and could be
seen from the Sand Hollow Rd.
and Gleason's Buttp.
There have been several
reports of grasshoppers grow
ing so numerous that the hills
were black.
Mrs. Bob McLaughlin, a
resident 25 miles southeast of
Heppner on the Heppner-Pilot
Rock highway, displayed pic
tures of grasshoppers cover
ing an old tire and said they
were climbing up fence posts.
"The perfect conditions for
grasshopper survival this
spring have created a situa
tion which could have serious
economic and environmental
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The Heppner
consequences to Oregon's
range and agricultural acre
ages east of the Cascades,
unless we are quick and
effective at controlling the
plague of grasshoppers," said
Agriculture Director Leonard
Kunzman.
Spraying through aerial ap
plications of Malathion a
general use insecticide is
scheduled to begin either
Tuesday (June 26) or the day
after.
In most cases, four-engine
aircraft such as the DC-6 will
be used. Each of those large
aircraft is capable of treating
25,000 acres a day.
In instances where terrain
and other conditions affecting
flying require different aerial
techniques, a smaller type of
aircraft will be used.
The spray projects as cur
rently envisioned will affect
the following counties and
acreages amounts: Morrow
County, 285,800 acres; Uma
tilla County, 150.000 acres;
Wheeler County, 164,000
acres; Grant County, 150,000
acres; Gilliam County, 120,000
acres and Wasco County,
75,000 acres.
The Imnaha area currently
has 150,000 acres severely
infested with the grasshoppers
and a spray program may
take place there. Sections of
Juveniles sought in
cabin thefts
Two local juveniles are
being sought in Washington
State by the Morrow County
Sheriff's Department in con
nection with break-ins at
mountain cabins.
On June 14, Charlene Papi
neau reported her cabin at
Ditch Creek was burglarized
with tape players, jack, blan
kets and household utensils
stolen. A second break-in theft
was reported at a cabin on the
Blake ranch on the north fork
of Willow Creek. The cabin is
owned by Robert C. Burbank,
Milwaukee, Ore.
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Heppner
Crook and Jefferson counties
are being watched closely as
well. '
Kunzman said that special
efforts are being made to
advise all commercial bee
keepers in all the spray areas
to remove their colonies
before spraying takes place.
He added that if pilots and
official observers of the spray
operations see any beehives
on the ground, spraying in that
zone will not take place -until
the colonies are moved. Bee
keepers having questions re
garding this program are
encouraged to contact their
local ASCS or county agent's
office or the State Department
of Agriculture.
Big game hunting
rules available
Printed regulations for 1979
deer, elk and silver grey
squirrel hunting have been
mailed to license agents all
over the state by the Fish and
Wildlife Department and
should be available at most
outlets. So should the applica
tion cards needed for all
controlled hunts.
shells, rifle scope, binoculars,
fishing pole and reel, sabre
saw and four bottles of liquor.
Unconnected with those
cases was a report on June 22
that the night lights had been
shot out at the Pacific Gas
Transmission Substation in
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Applications of the chemical
are at what is officially
termed as "ultra-low vol
ume", which amounts to eight
ounces of compound per acre.
The treatment with Mala
thion is the safest and most
effective measure available at
present to control grasshop
pers. When one calculates that
8 grasshoppers per square
yard can consume as much as
an adult steer on an acre by
acre basis and when you
realize that in some areas
grasshoppers exceed 200 per
square yard, we have a
situation which warrants aer
ial application of a safe
insecticide," Kunzman said.
This year three separate
publications have been com
bined into one. The Controlled
Hunt Regulations (printed last
year in newspaper format),
General Big Game Regula
tions (in booklet form last
year) and Management Unit
maps with unit boundary
descriptions, have all been
printed this year in a single
8-page newspaper format.
In appearance the regula
tions look like last year's
controlled hunt regulations
flyer. The decision to consol
idate everything in one news
print publication was made
for several reasons.
This format allows the
regulations to be printed and
distributed quickly, just like
your newspaper. Last year the
controlled hunt regulations
were available soon after they
were set by the Fish and
Wildlife Commission. But the
general season regulations,
set at the same time, were not
distributed to license agents
until well into July because of
the more time consuming
printing process dictated by
the booklet form. The unit
maps were, in the past,
reprinted every few years as
needed.
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