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Come again. Senator
always glad to see you!
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Grassr'- 's tontact with the
voters is bwod for any politician,
whether President Jimmy Carter or
Senator Bob Packwood.
So it was gratifying to see
Senator Packwood in Heppner last
Thursday and the large crowd out to
meet him, his wife, son and staff
assistants at the West of Willow
Restaurant.
The Senator admitted it had
been a number of years since he had
been to Heppner. Whether or not he
was laying the groundwork for his
1980 re-election campaign, there was
no less warmth in the welcome.
In the same vein, the commun
ity was disappointed at Rep. Al
Ullman's inability to make his
scheduled Eastern Oregon tour
because of a fall in his home that
resulted in a leg injury. We wish him
a speedy recovery and express the
hope that he will come here for
certain in the not-distant future.
Prfcsidnt Carter has been criti
cized for taking his "road show" out
of Washington to call on selected
voters in Pennsylvania or West
Virginia. His latest foray was to
Baltimore, where he traveled with
his aides and the press aboard an
Amtrak train. It would have been as
easy, and perhaps less energy
consumptive, to have used television
to reach the people. However,
personal contact between officials
and their constituents is good on
both sides. Sure, television may
carry the face and the voice of the
President or the Senator but a
personal handshake is much more
satisfying for the citizen than to
watch an electronic image.
Senator Packwood ought to
come here more often and not just
before a pending re-election campaign.
Civic responsibility
Citizens who voluntarily serve
on civic boards and commissions are
those who deserve medals if any
were to be given out.
Their responsibilities are de
fined by law and once accepted,
should be fulfilled at least to the
minimum extent by attendance at
regular meetings, in the opinion of
those who. take an active part in
civic affairs. When a quorum is
lacking, meetings must be cancelled
to the inconvenience of the public
that a particular body serves.
A case in point was this week's
meeting of the Heppner Planning &
Zoning Commission, where only
three of the seven members showed
up.
The agenda included considera-
Editor's
Notebook
tion for a number of conditional use
permits for the installation of mobile
homes. One person who had a scheduled
request before the commission had
brought his attorney here from
Pendleton, presumably at some
expense to himself.
The chairman, Terry Hager,
announced a rescheduled meeting
for Aug. 27 and offered his apologies
to the public in attendance:
He announced he would be
writing a letter to the City Council as
well as to the individual members of
the commission. .The intent of his
message seems to be clear .-Either
serve or resign and give some
other interested person the opportu
nity of taking on a civic chore.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Congressmen and senators receive so
much mail that they often use "gang pens"
to sign their outgoing correspondence.
These are banks of pens arranged so that
with a single flourish several letters may
be signed at once. In spite of their volume
of mail as many as 5,000 letters a week in
the case of Oregon's Sen. Bob Packwood
the legislators try to maintain the personal
touch in their replies to constituents.
When Packwood was in Heppner last
week, one of his aides, assistant press
secretary Bob Witeck, said Packwood has
never had to use the gang pens. Instead, he
has a secretary who has developed a very
good facsimile of the Packwood signature.
She signs many of his letters and adds a
personal comment, when appropriate.
Witeck said the aides who go through the
incoming mail know whose letters should
be sent directly to the Senator's desk.
The CIA is coming in out of the cold. In
a letter addressed to the "foreign editor"
of the Gazette-Times, a number of
publications of the Central Intelligence
Agency are being advertised as available
to the public. They may be purchased from
the National Technical Information Ser
vice of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
One monthly publication, available at
$36 a year, is a directory of chiefs of state
and cabinet members of foreign govern
ments for more than 150 countries,
including some not yet fully independent
and others not even officially recognized
by the United States.
Other publications deal with economic
information about Communist and non
Communist nations, of value to businesses
in the export or import market. Plainly,
the CIA is not made up solely of spies and
assassins but includes deskbound analysts
who may know more about the nations
they study than those who engage in
clandestine feats of derring-do.
New industries?
The idea of bringing industry or
manufacturing to rural communities has
been investigated recently by Gene
Summers, a rural sociologist at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. His
conclusions are interesting and pertinent.
"Things begin to' change with new
industry but not always as expected.
Summers found that counties with new
industry were able to raise more revenue.
These same communities, however, found
government expenditures rapidly rising to
cope with costs associated with new
industry. These include police, medical
facilities, schools, fire protection, streets,
roads and expansion of government itself.
"Population growth often accom
panies a new plant. New people move and
fewer people move in and fewer leave the
community. From the public sector
prospective, people cost money and more
people cost more money."
"To local business, new industry and
more people mean more purchases of
goods and services if sales don't go to
regional or national suppliers and if
payrolls don't leave the community to be
spent in nearby shopping centers."
"There is some myth mixed with
realities concerning rural industrial dev
elopment," Summers concluded. "Com
munities should consider alternative
sources or revenue before deciding
industrial growth is the only answer."
Vale's geothermal resource can be
considered very advantageous to some
kinds of commercial development. Just
what and how is up for debate. Certainly
one practical use has been found by
developers of the Oregon Trail Mushroom
facility that is now awaiting completion of
its financing program before beginning
construction.
The addition of new commercial
developments related to agriculture, and
using the potential of our geothermal
resource are a definite possibility for the
Vale area.
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ballots in poll
Voters lined up to cast their votes in the special Hospital
. levy election Thursday in the old Heppner City Library.
Heppner and Ruggs precincts produced the heaviest turnout
in the county and the number of yes votes, 528, exceeded the
countywide total of no votes, 459. It was the third and last
hospital levy election of the summer and ensured continued
operation of Pioneer Memorial Hospital and" the North
Morrow Clinic.
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Legislative Report from the State Capital
EXCLUSIVE to Oregon's Weekly Newspa
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Salem
Scene
By Jock Zimmerman
By Jack Zimmerman
Now that the dust has settled
following adjournment of the 60th
Legislative Assembly in Salem, it
appears lawmakers established at least
one record and came within a whisker of
matching several olhcr all-time marks.
Biggest recent legislative news,
however, involves Gov. Victor Atiyeh's
veto of 19 bills one short of the 2(i-vcto
record established by then-Gov. Bob
Straub following the 1977 session.
The large number of vetoes two
years ago produced a rash of bumper
stickers in the Capital City proclaiming:
"I've been Straubed!" So far none have
appeared in response to the Atiyeh
vetoes.
The single new record appears to be
the total number of bills enacted by both
houses. That stands at 903, compared
with 899 last session. Altogether, the 60th
Assembly enacted or approved a grand
total of 964 measures, including bills,
resolutions and memorials 14 shy of the
978 total in 1977.
Lawmakers came within minutes of
matching the 178-day length-of-session
record set in 1973, adjourning at 11:25
p.m. on this session's 177th day. Total
measures introduced this session stands
at 2435, considerable fewer than the
record of 2812 proposed in 1977 and a
figure less than the total for any session
since 1971.
Although no serious flap has deve
loped following announcement of the
Atiyeh vetoes, there is always the
possibility the Legislature will attempt to
overturn them when the Assembly again
meets in special or regular session.
A quick analysis of the vetoed bills
indicates 10 were disapproved by Atiyeh
for technical reasons while the remain
ing vetoes likely were invoked largely on
the basis of philosophy.
Gov. Atiyeh also let an additional six
bills become law without affixing his
signature to them. This is a gubernator
ial prerogative indicating he didn't
completely favor the bills but his
displeasure was not great enough to
actually kill them.
The six are Senate Bill 13, relating to
political activities of OLCC licensees; SB
252, relating to bedding regulations;
House Bill 2479, defining danger or threat
to public welfare; HB 2529, relating to
smoking bans; HB 2540, relating to
property tax relief, and HB 3144, relating
to Crabtree Valley property.
Vetoed for what appeared to be
technical reasons were SB 58, relating to
collective bargaining; SB 274, relating to
piloting aircraft under the influence of
intoxicating liquor; SB 562, relating to
burden of proof in suits to enforce public
meeting law; SB 689, relating to
classifying Parole Board members as
police officers; SB 906, relating to
controlled substances ; HB 2137, relating
to confidentiality of records; HB 2377,
relating to OLCC food sale requirement ;
HB 2520, relating to registration of
electrologists; HB 2759, relating to juror
challenges in death penalty cases, and
HB 2772, relating to judges' instructions
to jurors.
In his veto messages, Gov. Atiyeh
indicated the foregoing were disap
proved because of technical flaws,
redundancies or conflicts with existing
statutes or constitutional provisions.
Vetoed for what appears to be more
philosophical reasons were SB11, re
lating to the Board of Auctioneers; SB 19,
relating to warehousing of wine; SB11,
relating to care, placement and super
vision of children committed to Child
ren's Services Division; SB 201, relating
to Wage & Hour Commission; SB 458,
relating to protection of employees
against discrimination; SB 890, relating
to moratoria on construction and land
development; SB 930, relating to'
regulation of auto dealers; HB 2487,
relating to changes in the public
employees' retirement law, and HB 2967,
relating to billboard removal and
compensation.
The Governor's veto messages on
these bills referred to necessity of certain
regulatory activity, maintaining a free
competitive atmosphere in the market
place, maintaining balance between
judicial, legislative and executive
branches of government, maintenance of
local control and mandating fiscal
actions on local government.
At the conclusion of the bill-signing
process, Atiyeh complained the Gover
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1929
Fifty years ago, Robert Hart, who
had been with the Sam Turner threshing
crew during the summer was injured
when struck on the forehead by the heavy
fork that carries back the straw from the
stationary machine. The moorings of the
derrick came loose suddenly, releasing
the implement which descended upon the
lad.
He suffered a deep gash to the head.
The accident occured at the Harry
Turner place in Sand Hollow.
C.W. Smith, county agent, left
Tuesday night on a two week vacation
with W.O. Bayless, accompanying a
shipment of 8 carloads of lambs made by
C.W. McNamer and R.A. Thompson on a
consignment to eastern buyers.
Heppner 's new boxing commission
functioned for the first time with a fight
on Saturday. In the main event, Browny
Buskirk of Pendleton defeated John
Gideon of Centralia, Wash. The two
preliminaries were highlighted by
knockouts with Kid Johnson of Los
Angeles hitting the solar plexis of Spud
Murphy, Salem and Kid Weston taking a
knockout from Merle Cummings of
Heppner.
In the regular food ads, the MacMarr
Stores located in the Heppner Hotel
advertised a box of tomatoes for 89 cents,
bananas for 39 cents for 3 lbs., 45 cents
for fancy bulk peanut butter, two lbs. and
two dozen ears of corn for 43 cents.
The new Majestic Radio was
advertised by' the LaToureell Auto
Company. For the cheaper model,
buyers could purchase a model for
$149.50; the more expensive model was
$179.50.
And Ferguson Chevrolet Co. of
Heppner, owned by E.R. Lundell, lone,
was advertising the new six cylinder
Chevrolet for $595, noting that the new
car would pick up better than 20 miles to
the gallon.
"The Grip of the Yukon" starring
Neil Hamilton, Francis X Bushman and
June Marlow was showing at the Star
Theater.
1954
Twenty-five years ago, the Gazette
reported that a thunderstorm which hit
Heppner and this section of Morrow
County early Sunday brought an assort
ment of rain, hail and lightning which
caused only a small amount of damage to
crops but put a temporary stop to most
harvesting operations.
The final princess dance' was
announced in honor of Princess Christine
Swagart, who was sponsored by the Lena
community.
Rev. Lester' Boulden, pastor of the
Heppner Methodist Church was named
Tuesday night as" president of the
Morrow County chapter of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at a
meeting of chapter officers and mem
bers. The Heppner Elks Lodge offered to
donate half of the necessary funds for
lighting the rodeo field.
Football practice was slated to begin
August 24. The opening season game was
scheduled against Pilot Rock.
The lone swimming pool was given a
Class A rating.
1974
National Weather Service personnel
completed installation of flash flood
alarm systems on Shobe Canyon and
Balm Fork. Only two of these were
located in the Columbia Basin and both
were in Heppner, according to Dave
Bauman, National Weather Service,
River Forecast Center.
"After a sustained absence of 22
years, I can notice a lot of changes in
Morrow County," Matthew Doherty,
Morrow County's new school supt. told
the Heppner Chamber of Commerce.
Doherty told chamber members he
never dreamed agriculture would link
northern and southern parts of the county
together and his biggest surprise came
when he saw a load of logs coming down
Butter Creek.
Jerry Eyestone, government coordi
nator for the Willow Creek Dam Project
was scheduled as the next speaker at the
chamber.
Don Bristow of Bristow's Market,
lone, reported a burglary at the market
in lone sometime Saturday night, August
3.
Final preparations were made for
the upcoming fair.