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Senator Packwood featured at LETTERS from our readers
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August 9 luncheon here
Sen. Bob Packwood-R, Ore- Goldschmidt. Mayor ot Port- tended an invitation to cham-
TeoDle want to be reckoned with,' writer says
gon's Junior Senator, will be
in Heppner Thursday, August
9 to speak to a luncheon group
at the West of Willow Restau
rant. The no-host luncheon begins
at noon at the restaurant and
should last for an hour and a
half.
Packwood is expected to
seek re-t!ction to a 6 year
term in 1980. Opposition had
been expected from Neil
Ullman here
next Friday
Oregon Representative Al
Ullman will be in Heppner
Friday, August 10 for a no-host
luncheon at 12-noon at the
West of Willow Restaurant.
The public is invited to
attend the informal session
with Rep. Ullman, who will
field questions from the aud
ience. In recent months Ull
man has joined Senator Mark
Hatfield in pushing for app
ropriation of funds for the
Willow Creek Dam.
land, who has been recom
mended by Carter as Secre
tary of Transportation.
Heppner Chamber Presi
dent Ernie McCabe has ex-
ber of commerce members to
attend the program and meet
with Sen. Packwood. The
general public is welcome to
attend.
Governor Atiy eh at
Emigrant Springs Aug. 12
Five counties in Eastern
Oregon will host the Honor
able Vic Atiyeh at a picnic
Sunday, August 12.
Governor Atiyeh will speak
to the group following a noon
potluck at Emigrant Springs
State Park.
Dr. Robert Voy. new chair
man of the Oregon Republican
Party, will also be present to
get acquainted and share
some of his plans for the
party's future. State Repre
sentative,Jack Duff of Adams,
Bill Bellamy of Culver and
Bob Brogoitti of La Grande,
will be available to discuss the
past legislative session with
constituents.
Host counties include Uma
tilla. Union, Morrow, Baker
and Wallowa with Mrs. B.C.
Olsen (Grace) of Pendleton
acting as general chairman.
All Republicans and friends
are invited to take advantage
of I he opportunity to visit with
elected officials.
Persons attending should
bring food for the potluck and
table service for their family.
Ice cream, beverages and
watermelons will be furnish
ed. Signs will be posted at the
park entrance, directing pic
nickers to the reserved area.
Editor:
Doors remain open. Administrator
resigns. Court reluctant to ask board for
resignations.
Through the Pioneer Memorial
Hospital budget election, the people of
Morrow County have shown they want to
be heard and reckoned with.
The doors of the hospital still remain
open and will remain open as long as
there is a penny in the county coffers.
The assessor will allow another extension
if there is a no vote.
The administration had tendered his
resignation and it has been accepted by
the hospital board.
The County Court has been asked for
over a year to do something about
appointments and changes so that an
active board, one interested in the
thoughts of the public, one that would
communicate with the people, and work
toward one goal, save Pioneer Memorial
Hospital.
Sheep growers co-op
sale of 238 lambs
held with the medical association, the
group's recommendations would have
pared thousands of dollars from the
budget. Only a few of their recommenda
tions were used. The budget still remains
over $500,000.
As to the short-long term planning
costing the taxpayer $500 a month. The
short term has been forgotten and now
the long term is in effect. The first
committee meeting has been held but it
will be a long time before decisions are
made. The OAH plan looks almost as far
as questions go, identical to the
Northwest Medical Foundation.
Doctor guarantees still remain in the
budget, lawyer fees and physician
recruitment. All items that should be and
are a concern to the public.
We have come through several
budget revisions now and elections.
As far as the budget goes, there are
few changes, mostly juggling of figures.
As to the administration, the public has
called for a change for over a year.
As to the county court, they are the
people, we the people elect to carry out
our wishes. They are elected officials.
They have known the problems of
Pioneer Memorial Hospital and of the
ones still existing. They are the ones that
appoint our hospital board.
You the voters in last year's budget
election were promised give us a
budget and we'll clean it up. The budget
passed, the clean up never came.
The no vote has accomplished quite a
few things I feel. It is still far from
complete. We must look ahead before we
vote again on August 9 and say to
ourselves, do we quit now and have to do
over again what we have failed to
accomplish this year.
Let's get it done this year.
We need Pioneer Memorial Hospital
in the community as a place to be proud
of. Our tax dollars spent wisely and a
budget that is sound and not full of holes.
We can vote again and again and we
have come so far but need to go just that
little bit farther. Let's do it now, not next
year.
Merle Cantin
Heppner
County Assessor
notes Aug. 1 filing
August 1 is the deadline for
county property-owners to
turn in their homeowners and
rent relief applications to be
eligible for county reductions
in their property taxes.
Applications filed after that
date, says County Assessor
Greg Sweek will be processed
by the State Department of
Revenue and reimbursement
statements mailed after the
county tax statements. He
urged taxpayers missing the
August 1 deadline to submit
their applications.
So far, 1,102 property-owners
or renters have filed
applications compared to the
estimated 1,800.
Bloods worth
baby shower this
Saturday
Wilma Marlatt and Pat
Wright would like to invite all
the friends of Kasey Bloods
worth, son of Jim and Carlita
Bloodsworth to a shower in his
honor.
It will be on Saturday,
August 4 from 2-4 p.m. on the
Courthouse lawn.
Son born to
Richard Keene
family
Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Keene are the parents of a son,
Christopher Ryan, 8 lbs.,
15 oz., 22 inches long, born
July 18.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Bryce Keene and Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Zinter of lone.
Great grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Moore of
Hermiston.
Richard and Lauretta live in
Pendleton.
Correction
In a story on approval of
Heppner's new urban growth
boundaries, the abbreviation,
EOAC, was inadvertently des
cribed as Eastern Oregon
Association of Cities.
That is not its title. It is the
Eastern Oregon Association of
Counties.
The measure provides up to
30 percent property tax reduc
tions. If taxes are paid on
time, property-owners can
realize a 3 percent savings on
their taxes.
Rally squad
at camp
Five members of the Hep
pner High School varsity rally
squad chanted and cheered
their way through the All-Star
Cheerleading Camp held rec
ently on the Linfield College
campus in McMinnville.
Janice Sherman, Bonnie
Nix, Geri Grieb, Deann Con
nors and Jana Steagall were
among 84 high school and
junior high cheerleaders at
tending the Linfield camp,
held July 16-20.
Linfield joined 55 colleges
nationwide as host to an ASCC
event.
OBITUARIES
By John Nordheim
Extension Agent
Three local producers sold
238 lambs for 60 cents a pound
through the Lamb Telo-Auc-tion
during the last two weeks.
The Terry Thompson fam
ily, Mitch and Tag Ashbeck,
and Howard and Jo Pettyjohn
sold their lambs through this
marketing cooperative this
year. Thompson had 190 head,
Ashbecks, 35, and Pettyjohn's
had 13. Total weight was 25110
pounds.
The Lamb Tel'o-Auction,
part of the Pacific Northwest
Livestock Producers coopera
tive based in Parma, Idaho,
gathers together lambs from
local producers to make up a
load. The producers possibly
have a better bargaining
position as buyers from Cali
fornia or nationwide can bid
on a truck load of lambs.
The lambs were graded by
John P. Nordheim, Morrow
County Extension Agent, July
16-18. The numbers of fat and
feeder lambs were phoned to
the Parma headquarters
where they were combined
with lambs from La Grande
and Baker to make up a full
semi-load.
On Thursday, July 19, buy
ers from across the U.S.
linked together on a "party
line". They bid on the truck
load of lambs, sight unseen, as
if they were right there in the
William Zachary Keyes
William Zachary Keyes, a
descendcnt of Oregon pio
neers, died July 23, 1979 in a
Portland area hospital.
The son of Judge Henry D.
Keyes and Grace Apple
Keyes, "Bill" was born May
16, 1912 on his family's ranch
in Twickenham, Oregon. He
attended Wheeler County
schools and Oregon State
University. After his educa
tion at OSU, Bill Keyes
returned to Wheeler County
where he was a rancher for a
number of years. He was the
third generation of Keyes to
ranch in Wheeler County and a
fourth generation Oregonian,
his great-grandfather being
the early Oregon circuit-rider,
the Reverend Robert Booth.
Lucile Anna Young
Lucile Anna Young, 67,
Portland, died Jan. 5, 1979 at
Providence Hospital there.
She was born July 1, 1911 in
Heppner, the daughter of
Robert and Anna Durner
Hart.
On August 25, 1934, she was
married to Lawrence F.
Young.
Cremation burial was at
Services were held Thurs
day, July 26 at the Chapel of
Wilhelm Funeral Home, Port
land, Oregon. Vault entomb
ment was at Riverview Abbey
Mausoleum, Portland.
Mr. Keyes was a member of
the Milwaukie B.P.O.E. 2032
and the International Broth
erhood of Electrical Workers,
local 48.
He is survived by his wife,
Alma Jane Keyes of Portland,
two sisters, Mrs. Judith Kenny
of Lake Oswego, and Mrs.
Viola VanHorn of The Dalles,
11 nephews and nieces.
Contributions may be made
in his memory to the Fossil
United Methodist Church
Memorial Fund, Fossil, Oregon.
Heppner Masonic Cemetery
on Monday, July 30, with
Riverview Abbey Funeral
Home and Crematorium in
charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Young is survived by
her husband, Lawrence F.
Young, 6045 S.E. Boise St..
Portland: a son, Lawrence F.
Young, Jr., of Bakersfield.
Calif., and two grandchildren
ring in front of them. The
highest bidder buys the lambs.
This year's buyer was Swift
of Chino. California, who had
I he high bid of 60 cents per lb.
Producers were notified that
shipment would be on the
following Wednesday, July 25.
Producers gathered their
lambs at Thompson's corrals
on Willow Creek for shipment
to the feedlot in Arroyo
Grande, California.
A one-time fee for joining
the cooperative costs $5. A per
head charge of $1.50 is
normally taken to pay 40 cents
for the grader, 25 cents per
head for the assembly point
and scales, and 85 cents per
head goes back to the co
operative. This year's market
ing cost was about 80 cents per
head. A 4 percent shrink is
charged for lambs arriving at
the scales the morning of the
shipment. Lambs that arrive
the night before and are
dry-lotted (without feed or
water) until the next morning
are not charged a shrink.
Morrow County
unemployment
up during June
More people went to work in
Morrow County in June, yet
the unemployment percentage
increased also.
Roland Stewart, labor econ
omist in Pendleton for the
State Employment Division,
reported Tuesday that June's
rate of joblessness was 4.9
percent compared to 4.7
percent in May and 4.0 percent
a year ago in June.
The total employment in the
county during June was 5,790,
up from the previous month,
Stewart said. The total avail
able labor force was 6,090.
Stewart said the figures
went up because students and
teachers were available for
summer jobs.
Sifting through the Times
and Ernsdorff cited figures to show that
the hospital had operated in the black
during most of the years since it opened.
The investment in the building and
equipment was donated in 1953 by Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Duvall.
Five years ago, a full Senate
sub-committee on Public Works ap
proved construction of the Willow Creek
Dam last Thursday, according to Sen.
Mark Hatfield's office. The measure will
now go to the Senate floor where Senator
Country Club scene of
Scramble golf tourney
Willow Creek Country Club
was the scene of the Partner's
Scramble Tournament on
Thursday, July 26.
Eighteen women partici
pated. Winning low gross with a
score of 73 were Pat Edmund
son and Linda Shaw. The prize
for low net went to Fran Cook
and Dorris Graves.
The team of Sharon Harri
son and Lois Hunt had 2nd low
gross. Muriel Palmer and
Bev Wilson won second low
net.
Girl born to
JimDohertys
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Doherty
of Wilsonville are the parents
of a daughter, Sara Jean, 8
lbs., 2 oz., born July 22.
She joins a sister, Jennifer
at home.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Ernie McCabe and Mrs.
Marge Pettit and great grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs.
E.W. Bristow of lone. Mrs. Ida
Grable of lone is the child's
great, great grandmother.
Team KP was won by
Sharon Harrison and Lois
Hunt. Individual prizes were
awarded to Lois Hunt for KP
and Linda Shaw for long drive.
The next partner's tourna
ment for women will be
August 16. Tee-off time has
been changed to 8 a.m. The
sign-up sheet is posted in the
clubhouse.
Hatfield expects passage by unanimous
consent of the full Senate as a roll call
vote will not be needed.
During the engineering and design
duties, the Corps of Engineers had to
modify the project, changing the
dimensions of the dam. Once the
dimensions were changed, reauthoriza
tion of the project became necessary.
At the time, City Engineer Steve
Anderson and Orville Cutsforth appeared
in Washington, D.C. to testify in favor.
Hospital levy vote
Continued from page 3
However, should the vote
fail a third time, the county
assessor could be asked to
place the levy on the ballot a
fourth time at the request of
the County Court. Preparation
of tax statements is late this
.year and according to Asses
sor Greg Sweek, a fourth vote
could be held.
The second levy lost by only
five votes after a hefty turnout
of voters. County officials
urged voters to cast a ballot
Thursday, August 9 at the
Heppner Chamber of Commerce.
People unable to vote at the
polls August 9 or who will be
out of town may contact
County Clerk Sadie Parrish
for absentee ballots. By last
Friday, 8 residents had al
ready cast absentees.
Polls are located at Hep
pner, Old Library Bldg. at
Heppner City Hall, Lexington,
Lexington City Hall, lone,
lone City Hall, Boardman,
Greenfield Grange and Irri
gon, Morrow County Office
Building. Hardman voters will
have to vote in Heppner.
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- 4-H Horse Show
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- Opening Ceremonies
- Jana Jae ShOW (2 Evening Shows)
4-H Style Revue
- Horse Pulling Contest
- Snaffle Bit Futurity Finals
Jana Jae Show (2 Evening shows)
-Junior Rodeo
- General Store & Glenn Barber (2 snows)
- Kiddie's Day at Carnival - reduced rides
- Old Timer's Showmanship
Homemaker's Day
- Sr. Citizens' Day
Master Showmanship
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-Old Time Fiddlers
- Firemen's Demonstration
- DAVIS Amusement Co. Carnival
- Individual Exhibits - Commercial Displays
Local Talent - Food Concessions