TWO The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September 20, 1979
ii. . The Official Newspaper of the
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County of Morrow
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GAZETTE-TIMES
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Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Second-class postage
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Eileen Saling, Office Manager steve A Powell News Editor
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County's advantage
The National Science Foundation, through the
Oregon Forum, will sponsor a workshop in Heppner
this Saturday titled "Elk Management in Timber
Country." Speakers representing the U.S. Forest
Service. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and
other groups concerned with the state's natural
resources will speak about what are often controver
sial management decisions.
Timber production is a major source of
employment and revenue for Oregonians. When
logging operations are undertaken the forest resources
including recreational opportunities, are altered. The
wildlife habitat is one area that is particularly
affected.
During the workshop in Heppner, speakers will
discuss the interrelationships between elk and timber
resource management. The program is intended by the
Oregon Forum to be balanced, with objective
commentary on all sides of the issue. The workshop, to
be held from noon until 5 p.m. at Heppner High School,
is open to the public. It will be an opportunity for
additional views to be included in whatever summary
is prepared.
Heppner has an advantage in being chosen for the
eastern Oregon location for the workshop. (A similar
workshop is being held west of the Cascades.) Because
there is no college here, the conclusions are less lkely
to be slanted by an academic-environmentalist
viewpoint, according to a state official.
From that angle, mark one up for Morrow County.
A dumping ground ?
Should Morrow County be the dumping ground for
Portland's sludge?
The question could be moot, for the waste from
treatment plants may be utilized in Portland rather
than being barged up the Columbia River to a site in
this county. However, concern has been expressed that
a dumping ground would become just that and be lost
to future agricultural uses.
The residue, it is feared, could contain metal
particles and other elements that would not be good for
crop development.
County officials recently said they had "forty or fifty
questions" for the City of Portland before they would
entertain the idea of receiving the sludge.
The dumping site would be on Boeing leased lands in
north Morrow County.
Recently, the County Court was informed that
Portland never intended the Boeing lands to be a
"disposal" site. Instead, they wanted beneficial future
results, such as soil improvement.
Dale Nunamaker, in charge of the project for
Portland, said the city is constructing additional
digesters so that the resulting sludge will be low in
solid content and have some organic content.
Proposals for its use will be sought from private
industry.
If used as land fill, whether in Morrow County or
elsewhere, future uses could include recreation as well
as farming.
Consider the Santa Clara area in California where
San Francisco once dumped its solid waste (garbage).
The site became a big recreational complex including
golf courses, playgrounds and a Mariott "theme park"
amusement center.
With safeguards, the idea could be a positive one for
this area.
Editor's
Notebook
So now we know. That is, we
know how to spell "gasohol,"
from an advertisement in New
Yorker magazine.
(The advertisement is of
cocktail glasses bearing a
"gasohol" label, and they're
available at Neiman-Marcus,
the Dallas department store.)
The Gazette-Times repor
ter at the Heppner-Morrow
County Chamber of Com
merce luncheon last week
spelled it gasahol (with an "a"
for the secomi syllable) as he
heard it, in reporting on a talk
on the need for gasohol
production, and indeed, we
must admit, no one here at the
Gazette-Times knew the dif
ference. New technologies create
new words and without read
ing technical journals or even
the New Yorker, it's some
times hard to keep up with
them.
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Sifting through the TIMESf
1929
Fifty Years ago heavy
smoke clouds drifted over
eastern Oregon and caused
alarm to the people of Morrow
County. In less than one hour
the day was turned to a
yellowish twilight and the sun
was completely shut out from
view.
High winds carried the
smoke from the immense fires
which were raging in the
forest areas bordering the
lower Columbia River.
The flames were out of
control in Stevenson, Wash,
and Estacada, Ore. and pro-
Salem Scene
Legislative Report from the State Capital
EXCLUSIVE to Oregon's Weekly Newspa
pers from Associated Oregon Industries.
By Jack Zimmerman
The bicameral Oregon
Legislature meets biennially.
Bicameral means two
chambers Senate and House
of Representatives. Biennial
means once in two years.
That leads us to believe
state senators and representa
tives get together in Salem for
a spell once every other year
and the rest of the time they're
free to do their own thing.
Right?
Wrong!
True, the two-chamber
Legislature does convene on
the second Monday of odd
numbered years to enact laws,
approve a budget and provide
for wards of the state. But the
meetings aren't brief.
Throughout the 1970's they
have lasted an average of
almost six months. And
throughout the same decade
there has been mounting
pressure to establish a full
time, continuous lawmaking
body.
Only a lingering traditional
attitude that part time citizen
lawmakers perform the func-
. tion more satisfactorily than
full time professional politi
cians has kept Oregonians
from embracing the continu
ous legislative concept.
But the part time keeps
getting fuller and profession
alism increases apace.
There's a certain sense of
inevitability about the situa
tion. State government grows
because its population in
creases and so do the concerns
of its people. Those concerns
prompted introduction of 2,435
legislative proposals while
lawmakers sat in regular
session for 178 days earlier
this year. A total of 964 were
sanctioned 903 of which are
new laws or amendments to
existing statutes.
Once approved by the Legis
lature, those laws provide the
various agencies of state
government with the power to
impose new regulations or
change existing rules. This
rule-making process occurs
during the interim the time
between adjournment of one
regular session and beginning
of the next.
But the process doesn't
entirely shift to state agen
cies. Legislators remain busy
during the interim. A special
session of the Legislature has
beencalled following each re
gular session- so far this
decade.
For many years only the
Governor could call a special
session. During the '70's the
people decided to give law
makers the power to convene
themselves to deal with spe
cial problems. The people also
have given senators the power
to rule on gubernatorial ap
pointments, i
The full Senate already has
met for this purpose once and
has scheduled five more
one-day sessions between now
and the winter of 1980.
Then there is the Emer
gency Board. Enlarged to 17
members during the regular
session this year, the E-Board
meets monthly in Salem for
two-day periods to appropri
ate money to fund emergency
situations.
And there are administra
tive responsibilities during the
interim. There's the Capitol
Planning Commission invol
ving four lawmakers. Legis
lative Administration Com
mittee involves 11 more.
Legislative Committee on
Data Processing has seven
members and Legislative
Counsel Committee another
13. Executive Appointments
Committee has nine mem
bers. There are other standing
committees Trade & Econo
mic Development, 13 mem
bers; Energy Policy Review
Committee, six members;
Revenue, 15 members; Judi
ciary, 15 members; Sunset
Review, 13 members, and
Reapportionment, 13 mem
bers. The House has nine special
interim committees, each
with seven members Aging
& Minority Affairs, Agricul
ture & Natural Resources,
Education, Environment &
Energy, Housing & Urban
Development, Human Re
sources, Intergovernmental
Affairs, Labor and Transpor
tation. The Senate has three special
task forces that will study
specific issues for 90 days and
others will be appointed later
in the interim. The first three
are Energy Conservaton,
seven members, Intergovern
mental Coordination, six
members, and Regulation of
Common Carriers, five mem
bers. the Willamette Valley Rail
Study Committee. Four serve
on the Western States Legis
lative Forestry Task Force.
Two on the State Employes
Benefit Board, two more on
the Governor's Commission
on Aging and four on the
Education Commission of the
States.
All consume a lawmaker's
time during the interim. And
most serve on more than one
of these panels. This interim
so far only one senator and six
representatives have one such
assignment each. Thirty-one
representatives and nine sen
ators have two. Sixteen repre
sentatives and a dozen sena
tors have three. Five repre
sentatives and three senators
have four. One representa
tive and two senators have
five. One each from the House
and Senate have six such
responsibilities and two sena
tors have a total of seven
commitments.
And there's another function
that takes time and effort of
most lawmakers during the
interim. That's campaigning
for re-election. All 60 mem
bers of the House must
campaign if they want another
two-year term and half the
30-member Senate must stand
for another four-year term.
And more often than not,
several Senate holdovers will
make a run at some other
office.
If the foregoing isn't suffi
cient to support the premise
lawmaking is steadily becom
ing a full time proposition,
consider this development.
Each biennium Oregon law
makers officially list what
they consider to be their
occupation. Traditionally
these have ranged from attor
ney, farmer and housewife to
publisher, union official, gro
cer or whatever.
During the 1977-79 biennium
two members of the House of
Representatives reported
their occupation as legislator.
And this biennium the ranks
have swollen significantly.
One senator and seven repre
sentatives list legislator as
their occupations.
perty losses were great.
Sportsmen had to alter their
deer hunting plans. Because of
the heavy forest fires, the
hunting season was post
poned. Oregon was exper
iencing a long period of
drought that year.
The ladies auxiliary of the
Episcopal church in Heppner
had a dinner from 11 a.m. to 7
p.m. The cost was 60 cents.
Judge Alger Fee sentenced
Lorren Olin to two years in the
penitentiary as he was convic
ted of forgery.
The town of Heppner was
readying itself for the upcom
ing rodeo. The price of
admission was one dollar for
adults and 50 cents for
children. Parades, dances,
rides for the kiddies and an
Irrigon band concert were
scheduled to highlight the
event.
Leo C. Conney, of Board
man, on Friday the 13th, lost
his balance and fell head first
off of a silo 32-feet high and he
miraculously lived. He suf
fered broken ribs and a
dislocated shoulder.
1954
Twenty-five years ago the
Gazette-Times ran a ballot in
the newspaper concerning
whether or not a city park
should be constructed. The
results of the survey showed
that 72 townspeople were in
favor of a park and only 11
voted against it.
Mrs. Clyde Crawford was
attacked by an unknown
assailant in her lone home.
Mrs. Crawford suffered two
large bruises and was appar
ently hit on the head with a
two-by-four. Her husband was
away in the service.
About 40 to 50 chickens were
running loose in Heppner's
south end of town. The
residents in the area were
complaining that the chickens
were ripping apart their
gardens. The city council
ruled to have the city marshall
eliminate them by "any
means he saw fit or deemed
necessary," since no one knew
who owned the fowls.
1974
Five years ago the big news
in town was the search for a
doctor. A doctor's search
committee was formed and
the committee hired Mrs.
Helen Chenoweth of Orofino,
Idaho to lead the town's
efforts in recruiting a doctor.
The goal of the committee was
to raise $3,000 to encourage a
doctor to come to Heppner.
Morrow County Assessor
Joyce Bergstrom was elected
secretary-treasurer of the
Oregon State Assessors at
their annual convention in
Gold Beach.
Wheat farmers in Morrow
County harvested a near
record crop in 1974.
Editor:
While on a recent trip to
Norway to visit relatives and
see the place where my father
and his father were born and
raised, we experienced a
meeting that proved to be
unusual.
First, I should identify
myself. Most of the oldtimers
of the Ione-Heppner area
knew Mat Halvorsen, my
father, who farmed near lone
and for some time had a store
in lone. At one time he had the
hotel and livery stable there.
He was born near Lesja,
Norway, and migrated to
Morrow County in December
of 1887.
In August we, Mrs. Halvor
sen (Margaret), Mrs. Wm.
(Carole) Rosenbalm of Ann
Arbor, Mich., and myself,
while on a boat to Copenha
gen, met a Mr. Richard
Johnson. After inquiring
where he was from, the
conversation went something
like this:
Halvorsen : ' 'Whereabouts
in the States are you from?"
Johnson: "California."
H.: "What part of Califor
nia:" J.: "Los Angeles."
H.: "We live in Medford,
Oregon." J.: "I've never been
in Medford but have been in
Pendleton, Oregon."
H.: "My wife was born and
raised in Pendleton." J.:
"We've been in Heppner. Do
you know Paul Jones?"
H.: "Oh, yes, everyone!
knows Paul ! " J. : "Paul's wife
(Gladys, now deceased) was
my father's sister." , (
H.: "I went to school wit-H
one of Gladys's brothers in
Pendleton (Henry)". J.:
"That was my father."
I then introduced my wife
(Margaret) and daughter
(Carole) to Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson.
Needless to say, this meet
ing on the far side of the earth
was quite unusual.
I am enclosing a picture of
part of lone taken around 1900
that shows Mat Halvorsen 's
store. It was taken from a
large picture of lone.
Lewis Halvorsen, my
younger brother, has lived in
lone for years. He and I have
seven first cousins in Norway.
They were born by the family
name Sangrud but have since
changed it to Sangro. Both
names have been applied, as
is the custom, to the name of
the farm. The farm is now
operated by Ivar Sangro, of
the family's fifth generation.
Henry H. Halvorsen,
754 Marshall Avenue,
Medford, Ore.
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