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EIGHT The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 19, 1979
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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.
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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-
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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.
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City and county officials
talk law enforcement
City and county officials
met Tuesday at the Court
house in Heppner to discuss
proposed changes in intergov
ernmental law-enforcement
agreements between the cities
and Morrow County.
Represented were the cities
of Boardman, Irrigon, Hep
pner, Morrow County Sheriff
Larry Fetsch, District Attor
ney Dennis Doherty and
County Court officials, Judge
D.O. Nelson and Commission
er Warren McCoy.
Bill Kuhn, city attorney for
Heppner, noted that the city's
intergovernmental agreement
expired June 30 and that D.A.
Doherty had informed the
municipality that he was no
longer able to provide prose
cution services to Heppner.
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. In reply, Doherty recalled
that two years of studies had
been undertaken to determine
the feasibility of locating a
holding facility within' county
borders but the costs were
found prohibitive.
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