T(VIhe Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July lit. 1!7I
The Heppner
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Letters From Readers
Heppner merchants
promote fun, festivities,
uaring Sidewalk Sale
Heppner merchants have
outdone themselves with the
Heppner Gong Show and
Sidewalk Sale coming Friday,
July 27.
A full day of activity is
planned; drastically reduced
prices on regular merchan
dise plus hourly specials
announced publ'cally; con
cession stands along the
street ; music provided by Jim
Ackley and his Disco Machine
and two full hours of Gong
Show.
This type of sales promotion
is good for the community as
well as the merchants spon
soring the sale. It's always a
good idea to "buy at home"
because the dollars spent here
turn over several times before
leaving the community, pay
ing salaries and wages, taxes
and generating more spend
able income.
Now comes the opportunity
for everyone to join in some
real fun and share in shopping
bargains too.
Activities start at 10 a.m.
that Friday and continue
through regular business
hours. A stage and chairs will
be set up on Willow Creek
between the Wagon Wheel and
Case Furniture and from 11 to
12 and 2 to 3 p.m. a real, live
Gong Show will be emceed by
Jim Ackley.
Persons wishing to enter the
Gong Show can sign up at any
merchant and grand prizes
will be awarded to first,
second and third place finish
ers. All other contestants will
receive a "grab bag" prize.
One of the day's highlights
will be performances by the
Heppner Merchants Band, a
group of wags playing wash
tubs, kazoos, pots and pans
and other notable instru
ments. Plan now to be a participant
in the Gong Show talent not a
pre-requisite and at any rate
don't miss the Merchants
Band.
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Harvest is underway in Morrow County's wheat fields. A harvester was seen Saturday evening
near Highway 207 between Heppner and Boardman, cutting the wheat and leaving a row of wheat
stubble.
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'Hospital is best insurance policy
Navy planes need use of bombing range
Editor:
My family settled at Lexington in
1888 and broke some of the first bunch
grass sod around here. Now, we dry land
summer fallow and produce such crops
as 600 gpm well will grow on 400 acres of
original homestead land. If we do not
have a "family farm" there is no such
thing.
I note that at a recent meeting of the
Port of Morrow Commissioner Kyd
proposed that the U.S. Navy bombing
range be abandoned and the land be
divided into family farms. With costs of
establishing irrigated units as they are
today I am prompted to answer your
approved motion.
The enclosed article by Virgil Rupp
explains that there are no good options
for alternate crops. Yet, you people and
others (Inland Waterways Association)
wish to crowd out the U.S. Navy range
and make it available to people to grow
crops which have presently low net
returns. Ten years of partial irrigation
tell us this is folly. Wheat is cheap,
potatoes are cheap, dry beans and alfalfa
are cheap. Tom Davidson knows what he
is talking about when he says further
production drives down prices.
The U.S. Naval Air Groups from
Whidbey Island need suitable training
terrain. They are the experts in the art of
national defense and such land is
apparently to their liking. They are not in
the real estate and land development
business but in the service of this nation
for our mutual protection. Enclosed is a
photo of an A-6 Intruder, the basic naval
carrier all purpose aircraft. They need
suitable terrain to train over. They fly
very low, through all types of weather.
Leave the Navy Bombing Range as
such until world food-shortages demands
its development. The land will always
remain there. The water is close. Interest
is high. Food now is abundant. Develop
only when crops can be grown for a
profit.
C.K.Peck
Hospital vote may
affect your lives
Editor:
It was late at night, the roads were
very slick and covered with snow and the
thermometer registered zero when a
member of our family had to have
hospitalization and doctor's care.
It was great to know that this could
be provided a few miles by ambulance to
Heppner, instead of a long trip to a
neighboring town. This has happened to
us, and it could happen to you!
So voters, please give careful
thought to how you cast your vote on the
hospital budget. Think how your vote
may effect the lives of your loved ones,
friends and neighbors.
We feel a great need to keep our
hospital, don't you?
Cecil and Delpha Jones
Lexington
Editor:
I think we all feel we need the
hospital but are unsatisfied with some of
the phases, personal and such and are
fighting this way instead of the right way
to get what they want.
I think we first need the money and
then some public meetings to air the rest
of it.
Some feel thatwith no money they
can change the administration, some of
the board and the things they aren't
pleased with, forcing them out and then
start again.
The. hospital can't wait for funds
while this all takes place. Get the money,
save the hospital, then hold meetings to
air out the things they aren't pleased
with.
Our job isn't finished when we vote in
the money and then forget about it.
Follow up, straighten out is as much each
one's obligation as the money itself. Let's
all do our part instead of sitting back and
criticizing and expect the other guy to do
it for us.
We all need what the hospital
offers protection for each of us and our
loved ones.
OIIPA
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Public Officials
UiS. Sen.
Mark O. Hatfield
RusM'll Senate Office Blritf . Washington.
DC 2(1510 Member nl Appropriations
Committee. Interior Committee. Hull's Com
mil Ice. ;inl Indian Policy Kcvieu Commis
sion Portland ollicc. Pioneer Courthouse .
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HT-'iM. phone 2Lt :l:W(i
U.S.
Bob
Sen.
Packwood
State Sen.
Ken Jernstedt
'Morrow. Gilliam and other counties).
Stale Capitol. Hm SUIT. Salem. Ore. 97310,
phone :)7H KtC(l.
State Sen.
Robert Smith
i Wheeler. (Irani and other counties),
Stale Capitol. Km. S323. Salem. Ore. 97310.
phone :i?K-K17.
Dirksen Senate Ollicc Bldg . Washington.
D C 20510 Member of Finance Committee
and Commerce Committee Portland office.
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Portland. Ore 972HH. phone 2:1:1-4471 .
U.S. Rep. Al Ullman,
Of The Second District
House Office Bldg.. Washington. DC
2051"). Member of Ways and Means Commit
tee Salem office. 5.10 Center St.. Km 3.10 iP.O.
Box 247 1. Salem. Ore. 97308. phone 399-5724
Gov. Vic Atiyeh
State Capitol. Salem. Ore 97310. phone
378-3IOO.
State Rep.
Bill Bellamy
'Morrow. Gilliam and other counties).
State Capitol. Km. H364. Salem. Ore. 97310.
phone :17K-H853.
State Rep.
Max Simpson
i Wheeler. Grant and other counties),
State Capitol. Rm. H481. Salem. Ore. 97310.
phone .178-8789.
Persons wanting information on bills,
hearings, and other doings of the
Oregon Legislature may call,
toll-free, 1-800-452-0290
Most people wouldn't be without
insurance and we're letting one of the
best insurance policies lapse when we
vote no on the hospital. Think about it and
vote yes, then iron out the problems.
Mrs. Wilma McTimpeny
Heppner
Turn in your
PMH ballots
Please turn in your ballots for the
Gazette-Times Pioneer Hospital Poll by
July 20.
We are reprinting last week's ballot
if you threw your paper away or sent it
out with the garbage.
No names will be used when we look
at the results so don't be afraid of making
a decision. We hope to have as many
responses as possible to give a broader
picture of our reader's impressions about
the upcoming third hospital levy.
From the responses we have already
received, we know that the people
responding feel the hospital issue is
important. So mail in your ballot at Box
337, Heppner or drop it in personally at
the office.
We will be printing the results of our
poll in the July 26th edition. Note that the
levy election date has been changed from
Thursday, August 2 to August 9.
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TIMES
Fifty years ago, September 6 and 7
were set aside as the dates for the North
Morrow County Fair to be held again this
year at Irrigon. A meeting of the fair
board was held at the home of Mrs. W.C.
Isom at Irrigon.
The first fire in the forest reported so
far this season broke out on Lovelet
Creek, not far from Tupper Ranger
Station as a result of the electrical storm
out that way on Saturday evening.
Gilliam and 3isbee this week
delivered new combines to John Padberg
and Bert Bowker, Heppner flat farmers,
who will be in the midst of their wheat
harvest immediately.
Chief of Police Devin, accompanied
by District Attorney Notson and Judge
Benge, departed early on Tuesday
morning in the chief's car, destination,
Missoula, Montana.
There is a freak animal on the Hal
Ely family ranch near Morgan attracting
a great deal of attention. It is one of a
litter of several kittens. The fore part of
its body is like a cat but the rear part
resembles that of a rabbit; those who
have seen it say it looks like a
"cat-rabbit."
Orville Cutsforth of Lexington was
the first farmer of that section to get
grain off this season's crop into the
warehouse at Jordon siding. On his place'
he has his nephew, Don Pointer, working
for him.
Twenty five years ago, the rural
school board announced that Jack Flugg
of Reedsport had accepted the position of
county school superintendent, replacing
Leslie Grant who resigned last month to
enter the' insurance business at Arling
ton. Petitions bearing the names of over
400 residents of Morrow County, many of
them from the Heppner area, were
received by the county court Wednesday,
asking the county to investigate means of
keeping the Paterson ferry operation.
The request has been made because of
numerous attempts by concerns inter
ested in the new Umatilla bridge to buy
the ferry and take it out of operating
when the bridge is completed.
Last year, the ferry carried over
140,000 cars.
Morrow County growers will join
other growers in the nation on July 23 on
voting on the continuation of the
marketing quota at a national referen
dum. If the growers approve the plan,
price supports will continue for another
year at approximately the same basis at
present.
The McCormack Construction Com
pany of Pendleton was awarded the
contract for construction of a new wing
on Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Their bid
was the lowest for $100,792.
Heppner residents were warned
today that the current hot weather has
raised the fire danger greatly and that
according to the city ordinance, no
burning is allowed during the fire season.
The wheat was beginning to roll to
the elevators this week as the hot
weather brought more and more fields to
the harvest.
Five years ago, Dr. Wallace Wolff
was elected to serve a second year as
chairman of the Morrow County School
Board. John Matthews was re-elected
vice-president.
Ebb Hughes, one of the prime
movers in the Heppner rodeo over the
years, stands before the Morrow County
Fair grandstand.
Life depends on open hospital doors
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Editor:
How many people realize what life in
Heppner is like without a hospital?
As a lifetime resident of the area
know all too well.
On one occasion we rushed
critically ill 4-year old" (in convulsions
and delirious) from our home 40 miles
the other side of Heppner to Pendleton.
Fortunately, after 5 days in a Pendleton
hospital he recovered completely. I had
no friends or relatives in the area and
had to stay at a motel while not at the
hospital with our child.
Friends of ours had to rush their
onoy io renaieion to be placed in
oxygen tent. This was in the dead
an
of
winter. There was no gas shortage
then just no hospital.
Those who are voting "No" on the
hospital ballot in order to change the
administration may find that they have
thrown out the baby with the bathwater.
I believe the county knows now what
the people want and need, and that these
changes will be effected, hopefully soon.
But if too many persons vote againsUhe
hospital, period, real tragedy could
result.
I urge everyone to please vote "Yes"
on the hospital ballot. The life you save
could be your own.
Sincerely,
(Name withheld by request)
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