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Sidewalk bargains fun await shoppers Friday
Shoppers hunting fbr those mid-summer bargains
will find them Friday aMhe annual Sidewalk Sale in
Heppner.
Local merchants will fiave items on sale outside
their stores and booths set up by civic organizations in
the city-wide shopping spree.
Heppner Lions will be selling pop, cotton candy and
popcorn, the VFW and Auxiliary "will be selling ice
cream bars, Senior Citizens Center, crafts, rockhounds
will have a booth, Morrow County Cowbelles will be
selling their cookbooks, Degree of Honor will have a
lunch booth and EMT's, baked foods.
Jim Ackley will be providing music all day long
and emcee a planned gong show at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
After they perform and are judged by a select panel
chosen by Ackley, the first, second and third place
winners will receive the top prizes of an 8 track stereo
player-recorder valued at $40, a $10 gift certificate arid
a $5 gift certificate respectively. All other participants
in the show will receive grab bags of merchandise
donated by participating merchants.
The street between Case Furniture and the Wagon
Wheel Cafe will be blocked off and a platform errected
for the gong show performers.
Persons may enter the gong show by filling out an
entry form at participating stores up to the 11 a.m. and
2 p.m. shows. The merchants jug band will be
performing.
See today's advertisements for news about the
variety of sales offered at Heppner Merchants. Shop
Heppner this summer.
County Court
gives nod to
Heppner plan
Amendments to the city of
Heppner's Urban Growth
boundaries were approved by
the Morrow County Court
Wednesday, July 18 and a joint
management agreement sign
ed by County Judge D.O.
Nelson and Commissioner
Warren McCoy.
Presented by Marie Hall,
planner for the Eastern Ore
gon Association of Cities, who
told the court that the new
boundaries had been unani
mously approved by the
County Planning Commission.
Meeting county approval, the
boundaries must now be
approved by the State Land
Conservation and Develop
ment Commission, which has
recently come under fire in
Eastern Oregon for rejections
of growth boundaries submit
ted by Pilot Rock and Echo.
. According to EOAC's popu
lation projections, the Hep
pner area is expected to have
2,760 people by the year 2,000.
During the public hearing,
there were no residents pre
sent outside planning and
court officials. The Hoskins
family has informed Ms. Hall
that they no longer have
objections to inclusion of their
property within the urban
growth boundaries.
In other business. County,
Judge Nelson said two new
bridges, the Willow Creek and
Gooseberry bridges will be
constructed by the state this
fall to ease flood problems in
the lone area. Rip-rap or rock
boulders will be added to a
portion of the Willow Creek
banks as a further aid to flood
control as well as channel
work. '
Roger Long, federal aid
engineer for the Regional
office in La Grande, has
informed the court of the
bridge approval after Judge
Nelson's February appeal to
Governor Victor Atiyeh de
claring Morrow County a
disaster area.
The existing steel girders of
the Willow Creek Bridge will
be replaced with a pre-stres-sed
concrete slab span and a
sidewalk and bike path built
on the left shoulder.
The Gooseberry Bridge will
also be constructed of con
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IO OF gives life-pac
to PMHfor patients
A life-pac unit for Saving
heart attack victims was
demonstrated at last week's
Hospital Board meetings by
Karmon Bjella, Director of
Nursing.
Powered by electricity or
rechargeable nickel cadmium
batteries, the 27 lbs. unit
contains a defribillator and
cardiac monitor. It can be
carried to the scene of an
emergency and activated on
its own powerjyat as pointed
out by Bjella, it can only be
operated by a physician, a
trained R.N. or EMT 3.
The unit has a miniature TV
screen and a recording heart
beat graph plus readout.
The hospital recently had it
transported by Forest Service
helicopter to the Bull Prairie
Campground where a John
Day man was stricken with a
heart attack.
It provides Pioneer Memor
ial Hospital with three heart
monitors and was funded from
a donation by the Odd Fellows
and a grant from the Emer
gency Medical Services.
Heppner
rations
water
The city of Heppner has set
hours for water users because
of distribution problems.
Residents are advised to '
please water their gardens
and lawns from 6 a.m. to noon
and from 6 p.m. to midnight
only until further notice.
The notice is being made by
Water Supt. Earl Papineau.
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House-Senate committee OK's
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'Oregon Congressman Al
Ullm'an reported Tuesday that
a House-Senate Conference
Committee has approved an
appropriation of $3.2 million to
continue construction work at
Willow Creek Dam in Hep
pner. "I am pleased about this
action," Ullman said. It is an
important step towards resol
ving one of the longest water
resource controversies in
Eastern Oregon."
Funds for the project were
included in a Senate bill
appropriating funds for
Energy and Water Develop
ment in fiscal year 1980 at the
request of Oregon Sen. Mark
Hatfield. Members of the
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Construction of the Willow Creek Dam moved closer to
reality Tuesday with the announcement from Con. Al Ullman
that the $3.2 million proposed for appropriations had been
approved by the House-Senate conference committee. If the
Willow Creek Dam is built, it may look like the superimposed
structure the Corps of Engineers has pencilled in over an
actual photograph taken from the west hill of Heppner. The
Corps has given the County Court several pictures' of various
angles of the proposed earth-filled dam.
House agreed to the Senate
proposal on Willow Creek
Tuesday at Ulllman's request.
The conference committee
action clears the way for final
Congressional action on the
bill.
"Sen. Hatfield's work on the
appropriations committee
was critical to the success of
this effort," Ullman said.
"I'm glad we were able to
join forces to achieve this
important decision."
The $3.2 million appropria
tion would supplement the
$500,000 appropriated last
year to begin land acquisition
and construction at the site.
The primary purpose of the
dam is control of flooding
which has destroyed property
and resulted in extensive loss
of life in Heppner since the
turn of the century.
Community advisory panel for PMH
formed with enthusiastic membership
Members of the newly
formed community advisory
committee on future planning
for Pioneer Memorial Hospi
tal will meet Monday, July 30
at 7:30 p.m. at Columbia Basin
Co-op in their first session
with Hospital Board Members
Gladys Hobbs and Dan
Sweeney serving as co-chairmen.
Appointed to the committee
by the Hospital Board were
David Hanna, Jim Bier, Jewel
Hager, Kathy Peck, Evelyn
Black, Sammy J. Griffin,
Linda LaRue, Larry Mills,
Don Peterson, James J. King,
all from Morrow County, Rep.
Bill Bellamy, Gilliam County,
Judge Leo Barnett, Arlington,
Judge A.F. Lecke and Father
Hopp of Condon. All those
listed have agreed to serve on
the planning committee which
will be one of three. The
remaining two are medical
staff planning and hospital
staff planning.
At last week's hospital
board meeting, Ron Ellingson,
planning consultant from the
Oregon Association of Hospi
tals, noted the high degree of
acceptance from those asked
to serve.
The Hospital Board amend
ed its mission statement to
add emergency medical ser
vices as recommended by
Hospital Administrator Bob
Byrnes. The overall mission
statement calls for an overall
care of providing health care
services.
Before the 7:30 p.m. meet
ing, Ellingson met with mem
bers of the hospital staff and
outlined steps that body will
take during the planning
process. The administrator is
serving as chairman of the
group and one of the group's
first projects will be compiling
answers to a ten page ques
tionnaire. Board Member Ed Dick will
serve as chairman of the
medical staff planning com-1
mittee which presently con
sists of two doctprs, two
dentists and a pharmacist.
The ' board accepted a
motion by Dick to grant
permission to the Hospital
Auxiliary to use one of the
county's new ambulances for
display purposes at the county
fair. Several board members
expressed the hope that the
two new ambulances would
arrive in the county before the
August 9 medical levy election
in order to show voters both
in north and south ends of the
county. They are not expected
from a Georgia manufactur
ing plant until August 13th.
The Director of Nursing,
Karmon Bjella was asked
whether the delivery date
could be speeded up. The
official said two phone calls
had already been made to the
factory.
Dick recommended that the
board allow a sale of surplus
sale of obsolete items in the
hospital's storage by the
auxiliary. The board gave
tentative authorizing stipu
lating that a complete inven
tory be made of the items to be
sold.
Negotiations are still under
way with nonlicensed em
ployees of the hospital and a
settlement is not expected
until after the August 9 levy
vote.
Dick reported that the
County Court's request to
have Thompson Street
vacated has been referred to
the city of Heppner's street
committee after objections
raised by Jewel Hager. The
court owns the property and is
making the proposal to allow
approval for an ambulance
port at the rear of the facility.
An environmental impact
statement for new expansion
at the hospital will be review
ed in the next ten days by the
Regional Office of Health,
Education and Welfare.
Byrnes recommended a
change in the architectural
plans to include a place for the
nursing home patients to
enjoy the sunshine and im
prove the aesthetics. The
structure proposed is a circu
lar concrete patio area with
funding from community don
ations. The board gave its support
in the form of a motion.
Chairman Fred Martin said
he has been in touch with a
physician from Lake Oswego,
interested in relocating .
In other actions, board
members accepted the resig
nation of Byrnes, effective
October 31, approved a motion
calling for an audit and
directed Martin to contact the
Oregon Association of Hospi
tals for possible candidates for
administrator.
Trimmed medical levy back for
voter approval Thursday, August 9
If you are writing a song
about the 1979-80 Pioneer
Memorial Hospital and North
Morrow County levy, you
might call it "Changes."
There have been so many
changes since it was first
proposed to the voters in the
May 22 levy request outside
the 6 percent limitation, that
voters could be confused when
the final figures are submitted
in the August 9 levy election.
Even the date of the week has
been changed.
While the first levy votes
were held on Tuesdays, the
County Court has decided it
will hold the third levy test
over a changed budget and
levy figures on a Thursday.
The August 9 levy request
placed before the voters or
$506,474 outside the 6 percent
limitation asks a rate of $1,125
per $1,000 in assessed valu
ation, $.20 cents per $1,000
cheaper than the original levy
request on May 22 which the
voters defeated by a hefty
margin and $.10 cents per
$1,000 lower than the $1.22 per
$1,000 asked on June 28 and
which almost received a
simple majority. Five votes
stopped it.
The original levy request
was for $598,587 to support a
budget total of $1,710,274 and a
levy rate of $1.32 per $1,000.
After the first defeat of the
levy request, Hospital Board
members asked the County
Court to trim $45,000 off the
levy, $20,000 in physician
revenue and $25,000 from
planning and development.
They also made a change in
the wording of the planning
and development budget,
leaving off the words medical
planning.
The second levy request was
$549,077 or $1.22 per $1,000 to
raise a lowered budget of
$1,685,274 in requirements and
resources of $1,186,152 and
$499,122 was set as the amount
needed to balance the budget
with $49,955 inserted in uncol
lectable taxes. That request
failed by five votes to gain a
simple majority and board
members went back to the
drawing board.
The latest levy request of
$506,474 and a rate of $1.25 per
$000 in assessed valuation
reflects lower requirements of
$1,633,835 and lower resour
ces, $1,173,450 and a lower
figure needed to balance or
$460,385. The uncollectable
taxes has been set at $46,089. It
marks a $43,603 decrease from
the June 28 levy request and
an $88,603 reduction from the
original levy.
A number of changes were
made by the hospital board
and county court. The levy
name was changed from
hospital to medical levy. A
number of line item expendi
tures and resources were
changed including: hospital
patient services was reduced
from $465,451 to $457,109,
physician clinic services were
dropped from $94,976 to
$56,232, thereby lowering the
bottom line figure of the
budget; on the income side,
$2,700 was budgeted for rental
of the administrators's houjse
balanced on the expenditure
side of the budget in salary to
the administrator and in
creasing total administrative
salaries to $58,774 from $56,
071; total lab and x-ray
budgeted items were increas
ed to $72,949 from the previous
$68,949; physician recruit
ment was reduced by $5,000
from $25,000 to $20,000; the full
time physician's salary drop
ped from $50,000 to $37,500,
and physician weekend relief
costs, malpractice insurance
and fringe benefits eliminated
or reduced, lowering total
physician services from $139,
588 to $88,449. Many items
were left intact including
funds for a physician at the
North Morrow Clinic and
north end medical services,
planning and contingency
funds.
A great many of the changes
were instituted after com
ments from a newly formed
professional association which
met with the Hospital Board
following the second levy
defeat.
Persons with' questions on
th budget and levy request
should contact Hospital and
County Court officials.
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