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m - -tf hi " -til - i v ""' isft' ' ' EIGHT The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 19, 1979 r Raid staged on lone pot cache Three Morrow County Sher iff's Deputies conducted a raid on an lone home Wednesday, July 11 and confiscated 254 marijuana plants found grow ing in the backyard, mari juana pipes, roach-holders and an assortment of para phernalia associated with marijuana use. Armed with a search war rant, the deputies found plas tic containers filled with marijuana seeds, two books on raising pot and the marijuana plants, five inches to three feet growing in the yard. 4 Ski : I 1 . : . , , K ) - V - v V' 8 I . . . : , ' ! : r - . . ' " 'I i - l r I i , - . . j, s 1 r " r ; V fx ' I 1 1 i , i . f i !-" : ; ' x ! T , ' i I v ' r M : f vv: i ; . j : 1 I j x i , ; J i i -u' . I 1 -l' I - L i! ,4t I ' !fh- Contraband A marijuana raid at an lone house by Morrow County Sheriff's deputies netted 250 marijuana plants, assorted paraphernalia for smoking the drug and books on how to grow the controlled substance. Drug investigation work is continuing locally and the Sheriff's Department expects to make several other sorties. Commissioners enthusiastic about gasohol Port of Morrow Commis sioners Larry Lindsay, Lex ington and Beverly Kyd of Boardman are enthusiastic about use of gasohol to stem the nation's energy shortage after returning from the Western Regional Conference on Gasohol held at the Oregon Technical Institute in Klam ath Falls. Mrs. Kyd told the Port of Morrow Commission Thurs day that a prediction was made at the conference that the country would run out of gasoline supplies by the year 2,024 and 500 applications have been submitted for develop ment of new distilleries. There are currently three distilleries producing ethanol alcohol, the closest to Eastern Oregon at Bellingham, Wash. In this country, gasohol contains 10 percent ethanol alcohol and 90 percent gaso line while in Brazil, there is 20 percent ethanol. By 1985, Brazil plans to be burning 80 percent alcohol. According to Lindsay, engines presently using reg- 1 f Retiring farmers may still sell lands to foreign investors By Sean Griffin Eagle Newspapers SALEM Retiring farmers may con tinue to sell their croplands to foreign nationals and investors, and grass seed growers may burn more of their acreage after harvest as a result of the 1979 legislative session. And farmers may also continue to spray pesticides along year-round streams, another victory for agricultural interests who managed to hold on to or expand past gains. House Bill 2513, as proposed by Senator Walt Brown, DLake Oswego and Clayton Klein, D-Central Point, sought to prohibit acquisition of Oregon farmlands by non-resident aliens and foreign-owned corporations. Opponents of the measure successfully substituted amendments destroying the intent of the proposal, but even a weakened version died in the Senate Trade and Economic Development Committee. Oregon's grass seed industry suc cessfully won a 70,000-acre increase in the statuatory field-burning limit, des pite City of Eugene threats to enforce the federally-recognized 50,000-acre limita tion through a court injunction. The state Environmental Quality Commission last week denied the city's demand to impose the lower limit, apparently setting the stage for court action. House Bill 3000, introduced at the request of the Oregon Environmental Council and the Northwest Forest Workers Association, sought to establish buffer strips along year-round streams where neither pesticides nor herbicides could be sprayed. The measure, automatically tabled in the House Agriculture and Natural Resource Committee when it failed to act on the measure within the 60-day limit, was opposed by both the forestry and agriculture industries, as well as by stage agencies regulating them. Assist ant Department of Agriculture director Gene Kunkle estimated the loss of 60 percent of the Willamette Valley's agricultural productivity if the measure passed. Another bill tabled in committee was House Bill 3009, which would have authorized the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to recommend minimum stream flows, potentially curtailing the amount of water available for irrigation. ular gasoline supplies do not need mechanical changes at the 10 percent, alcohol level; once that level increases, the carburator jets have to be changed but do burn the fuel better and produce less pollu tion. "The U.S. is way behind other areas of world in use of ethanol," Kyd said, "but in the 1930's there was extensive research in this country on the distillation of alcohol. The oil companies lobbied to protect their.industry." B-29 bombers used 100 percent alcohol and also during World War II, the lack of gas in Switzerland resulted in strict use of ethanol entirely. Bo'th Lindsay and Kyd saw a tremendous potential of agri cultural products for manu facturing ethanol, noting that 100 bushels of grain would produce 200 gallons of ethanol. Lindsay raised the possibil ity of the Carty Coal Fired Plant providing steam to power a future gasohol plant in Morrow County. "AH we've done is deplete energy resources; the only way of producing energy is through use of agriculture." According to the commis sioner, alcohol is a clean-burning fuel, eliminates the need for additives, would increase mileage and is a renewable resource with crops being grown every year. Mrs. Kyd noted that the government pays farmers to keep 16 million acres out of production every year acre age' of corn, wheat and potatoes, sugar beets and cane which could be used to produce alcohol for gasohol. The Midwest has seen the greatest development of gas ohol and Mrs. Kyd said about 200 stations in Nebraska are currently pumping 10 percent alcohol or one gallon of alcohol per nine gallons of gasoline. MV DRV IS SOLE DRV Cherries U-Pick CHERRIES 30' PER LB. APRICOTS 20' PER LB. Bring Container! 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Doherty replied he was open to discussion on the issue with both Heppner and the city of Boardman but was unsure whether hiring of a new deputy district attorney would alleviate the situation. A draft agreement prepared by Kuhn awaits a signature by the County Court and after Tues day's meeting, it was decided that Kuhn and Doherty will hammer out an arrangement either specifying that the county would obtain half of the city's fine money for prosecur tion or all. County Sheriff Fetsch urged more cost controls for ex penditures made for transpor tation of prisoners outside the counties by his deputies and formation of a central dis patching system to ensure knowledge of when persons charged were released on bail from other county holding facilities at Hermiston and Pendleton. Fetsch said some times the Hermiston Safety Center is filled to capacity and one of his deputies expected to travel from Heppner to Her miston and then to Pendleton to transfer the left-over pris oners. 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