TWO The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner. Oregon, Thursday. November 22. Hi7!t
- The Official Newspaper of the
City of Heppner and the
' County of Morrow
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GAZETTE-TIMES
Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper
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at Heppner. Oregon under the Act of March ;i. 1H79 Secund class poslage paid at
Heppner, Oregon
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Jerorm ,-lrion. Publisher Jane H. ShHriun. Associate Publisher
Kileen Salin. tHfice Manager Sieve A Powell. News Kditor
I'heryle Greenup, Advertising. Chloe Pearson. Composition
Composition Betty Green, Office. Composition
Stray Dogs
Man's best friend in a place like Heppner
can often become a public enemy and the
police can do little about it.
The situation is one of at least 30 years'
standing, according to Police Chief Dean
Gilman. Referring to the power of any local
municipality to pass laws for public health
and safety, he said these do little good in
controlling stray dogs unless there is a place
to impound the animals. The state code,
which supersedes city ordinances, demands
that dog pounds meet certain sanitary
standards and have a person in attendance to
feed and water the animals, to vaccinate
them and dispose of the unwanted animals in'
a humane way. To build an accommodation
for animal control in Heppner would add to
the local tax burden, although Chief Gilman
had no specific figure to quote.
In an informal interview recently, the
police chief used the term "30 years" in a
loose sense, the state law regarding animal
control may have been passed that many
years ago. Before that time, animals caught
as strays might simply have been put into an
enclosure without proper care, and their
disposal would have been unregulated except
by whatever local standards prevailed.
To be truthful, a great many dogs, some
of them apparently strays, do roam
Heppner's streets. If they belong to anyone,
they are not on a leash.
If such dogs are to be picked up, the
police chief feels, there should be a place to
put them. Of course neither Heppner nor any
other city in Morrow County has a pound.
The solution might lie in a cooperative
effort by the county's five incorporated
cities Heppner, Lexington, lone, Boardman
and Irrigon in establishing a pound at a
central location and hiring an animal control
officer to attack the problem.
Together, the five cities might be able to
afford a proper facility that would represent
true friendship between man and beast.
The Money Market
Uncle Sam is trying to make some
windfall profits of sorts by marketing its
collection of silver cartwheels minted at
Carson City, Nev. from 1878 through 1893.
There is a demand for these historic silver
dollars. Too bad there isn't the same demand
for the current $1 coin that seems as rare as
those dollars minted in the great silver
mining era of the 19th Century.
Recently, from a casual inquiry of a
teller at a Heppner bank, the fact was
established that the bank is stocked with the
Susan B. Anthony dollar but there is little
call for it. Merchants don't request a supply
of the dollar coins, for cash register drawers
don't have a slot for them. For customers
generally, paper money seems more conven
ient to carry.
The Susan B. Anthony dollar is so little in
circulation, that the Treasury Department
recently announced an advertising campaign
to "sell" the public on its use. The coins last
several years longer than paper money,
hence the replacement costs would be less in
the long run.
As for the Carson City dollars, their silver
content alone makes them more valuable
than they ever were as a conventional
medium of exchange. They weigh 412.5 grains
apiece and contain 90 percent silver.
Although the market price for silver
fluctuates daily, when silver sells for $12 per
troy ounce, the silver content of the coin is
worth about $9.27.
The current $1 coin may not be popular
because of its smaller size it could be
confused with the quarter and it is
composed of lesser metals than silver.
Besides, how could it be flashed in a money
clip like a wad of bills?
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Fifty years ago Heppner
School Superintondant James
M. Burgess announced his
resignation so he could he
come the new assistant state
superintendant for schools. He
, was known statewide for his
accomplishments.
The Baldy Strang's Sun Set
Artists were coming to Hepp
ner for a concert. They were a
vocalist and instrumentalist
group
The Heppner to Spray road
was half completed but a lot
more money was going to he
spent. The road was finished
from Heppner to Rhea Creek,
a total of lfi miles. To grade
and surface the rest of the
road, it was going to cost
almost $400,000. Almost
$....5,000 had already been
spent.
Lexington was having a big
carnival and dance at the
school. The Heppner Black
Cats performed.
Turkeys were on sale for 32
cents a pound for toms and 30
cents a pound for hens.
Dr. A ll. Johnston, after
being a doctor for six years in
Heppner. announced he was
leaving to open a practice in
San Diego. Before opening his
practice there, he planned to
go to Minnesota to attend a
school to keep up to date on the
modern practices.
A contracting company
from Walla Walla had the low
bid to begin drilling a well for
the city of Heppner. Their
price was $10 a foot for the
first 300 feet and a dollar a foot
more for each additional foot.
The well was to be drilled on
land obtained from Frank
Wilkinson.
Gordons, a store in Hepp
ner, was having a dollar days
sale to open the holiday
season. Shaving sets, baby
books, brooms, compacts and
records all were only $1.
The Star Theatre in Hepp
ner had the movie attractions
('harming Sinners." "They
Had to See Paris." "The Lady
lies" and "Frozen Justice"
Toming nevl week was "Sim
ha." the most talked about
presentation of A'rican jungle
life ever made.
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Twenty-five years ago Mrs.
James Lindsay was elected
master of the Willows (.range.
The Wilson's Men's Wear
store had the popular Samso
nite luggage for sale as
Christmas gifts.
Farley Motor Company in
Heppner advertised the 1955
Buick. Even back then when
gas was less than 30 cents a
gallon, the more miles per
'Thank You ,
Heppner for
hospitality'
Dear Faculty. Student Body,
and Boosters:
The Lost River Booster Club
would like to take this
opportunity to thank you for
your hospitality and friendly
courtesy extended to our
football team and rooters
during last Saturday's game
with your excellent football
team. It is this type of attitude
which creates the good feeling
which should be obtained in
high scool athletics. The
refreshments were delicious
and appreciated by all the
Lost River rooters who atten
ded the game from our school.
Good luck to your football
team in its endeavor to obtain
the Oregon State Football
Championship.
Yours truly,
Bill Beasly, President
Lost River Booster Club
gallon sales pitch was a
popular sales tool. The new
buick averaged 4.8 miles more
per gallon than the Buicks six
years before with the same
sie engine
Heppner High School had a
section in the paper for news
and in it. Barbara Prock wrote
that the "H" on the hill was
going to be made into concrete
with the construction planned
for 'ov. !!. The sophomores
class had a successful dance
called the "Twirp Twirl."
Case Furniture Co. was
showing off its new aluminum
Zeni t h f reezer-refrigerator.
The paper for the week was
only four pages long so the
workers could take some time
off for Thanksgiving.
PIT I
Five years ago the problem
of busing kindergarten chil
dren in the Boardman area
was a major problem confron
ted by the school board. Don
McElligott opposed the school
board plan to charge the
parents of the 11 students 25
cents per mile per day to take
the children from Irrigon to
Boardman.
Two doctors were coming to
Heppner to see if they would
be interested in setting up a
practice. Gary Harper, from
Little Rock, Ark., and Dr.
John Green, from Albuquer
que, N.M. were planning to
come to town.
Bill Rietmann won $35 from
the Gazette-Times for guess
ing the mystery person, Sam
Miller.
Lahekin Fire, a three-year-old
mare belonging to Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Beamer of Hepp
ner, won first place in the
Oregon Cow Cutting Horse
Association's Futurity. Bob
Mote was its rider.
Aveliono Padilla Gomez, a
Boardman migrant workers,
was charged with first degree
LETTERS... FROM OUR READERS
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Editor:
I hereby resign as Foreign
Policy Chairman of the Plat
form and Resolutions Com
mittee for the state Democra
tic Party of Oregon. I accep
ted the job with the hope that I
could add some degree of
rational thinking in matters of
America's security and inter
ests I know now that this is
presently impossible as' the
Platform Committee has al
ready met in my absence to
write the first draft of the Hifio
platform which caters almost
exclusively to Marxist inter
ests in this country and
abroad I will not lend my
name to this treason.
I have watched in awe as
elements in both of our major
political parties have worked
to strip America of her ability
for a reasonable defense,
attacked our socio-economic
structure via power shut
downs and alleged consumer-ism-eonservaton
groups, ta
ken our rights to property in
the name of Land Use
Planning, have almost broken
the American Family with pro
dope, abortion, and liberal
school policies, have given
American interests to Marxist
dictators in Central and South
Americas. Africa. Asia, the
Mideast and the Carribean.
Now our leadership stands
sniveling and apparently par
alyzed as armed Marxists
march in the Carolinas.
slaughter and kidnap Ameri
cans around the world, hold
our diplomats hostage in Iran
and slowly starve the gentle
people of Cambodia into
oblivion.
I have given up hope that the
forces running our govern
ments and legislatures were
somehow working in Ameri
ca's interests and going the
extra mile in hopes of world
peace. I can come to no other
concision except that pro
Marxist elements have slowly
infiltrated our governmental
agencies and legislatures and
that until the working class
and Christian people can
become interested enough to
take back their government,
they would be prudent to store
plenty of non perishable food
and arm thenselves to survive
the chaos that will surely
follow.
Art Oakes
Vice Chairman
Josephine County
Democratic Party
P.O. Box 563
Grants Pass, Ore. 97526
This migratory bird swims
spring. The penguin swims. It
is the only bird that travels
that way, the National Geo
graphic Society reports.
Unlike other migratory
birds, the penguin does not
migrate by flying to new
destinations each - fall and
murder in the court of Charles
O'Conner, justice of te peace,
for the fatal stabbing of
Vicente Sayatte Ortiz. Gomez,
who speaks no English, was
going to have a court-appointed
attorney. Four illegal
aliens were being held as
material witnesses.
The Soroptimist "Turkey
Hop" was being planned for
Nov. 30. The music for the
dance was to be provided by
Jim Ackley. pianist and vocal
ist, and Matt Greenup, drum
mer. The duo featured soft
and medium pop selections.
The paper featured a section
for businesses to write their
own stories about their stores
as a news-ad story.
Heppner lost in the first
round of the state playoffs to
Pine-Eagle 19-7.
Four Heppner football play
ers were selected to the
league's all-star team. On the
offensive team were John
Kilkenny, Mike Mills, Jerry
Gentry and Wade Padberg
while Padberg and Kilkenny
were also chosen on the
defensive first team.
Taxes paid
for older citizens
The Oregon Department of
Revenue paid 18 counties $2.3
million on behalf of older
Oregonians who are deferring
their property taxes. Morrow
County was not one of the
counties.
Under the state's deferral
program, homeowners age 62
and over can defer their taxes.
The taxes, plus six percent
interest, are due when the
home is sold or earns more
than $1,800 a year in income.
The taxes can be repaid
sooner, however.
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'People uninformed of federal regionalism dangers'
Editor:
Here is an editorial that
appeared in the July issue of
the California Mining Journal
entitled 'Shootout With Re
gionalism :"
In a confrontation covering
several months the good guvs
and the bad guys have been
staging a face-out on region
alism, and while the ammuni
tion consisted of testimony
exchanged by contestants (ra
ther then bullets), the heal
was on and the aim deadly.
The motivating force for the
battle stemmed from a blue
ribbon committee of twelve
Illinois Senators and Repre
sentatives appointed as a
result of Illinois House Joint
Resolution No. 8. This com
mittee was charged with
conducting a comprehensive
investigation on "regiona
lism" and delivering a report
of their findings to the
legislature. The report has
now been delivered and it's
dynamite.
Ask the average citizen
what regionalism is and you'll
get either a blank stare or an
"I don't know." This does not
necessarilv denote ignorance
They have been very carefully
"un informed "
How can this be'' Simple In
1!)(;). then-President Kichard
Nixon quietly and without
fanfare, by means of a mere
executive order, divided the
United States into 10 regions
each comprised of two or
more states. Each region has
a "capitol" and is admini
stered by appointed inot elec
ted) officials who wield tre
mendous power through their
control of federal handouts
No citizen or state govern
ment had a vote or a voice in
the formation of these regions.
One lone man simply said,
"Let there by 10 regions," and
there they were all neatly
staffed and financed with
taxpayer funds and ready to
carry out all federal plans and
edicts. That, my friends, is
regionalism.
During the prolonged inves
tigation, the committee
learned that federal programs
using the regional approach to
administration, planning and
development, have prolifer
ated from only a few to some
2,000 sub-state organizations.
Testimony from irrefutable
sources revealed that the
We invite letters !
The Heppner Gazette-Times invites
letters for publication. They should concern
matters of general interest. They must be
non-libelous in nature and in good taste.
Preferably, letters should be typed, double
spaced, on one side of the sheet of paper only.
Letters of diverse viewpoints may be
published and their appearance in these
columns does not necessarily reflect the
opinions of this newspaper.
federal government "undoub
tedly" has been the "main
force" in the establishment of
these offices and agencies.
The committee concluded
there is substantial evidence
which indicates the federal
government, by promoting
regional planing agencies, is
encroaching upon the tradi
tional rights, powers and
duties of state-elected legisla
tors and all units of local
government.
Far from being accidental,
this encroachment has been
the result of deliberate federal
policy to enforce federal rules
and regulations on the states
in return for federal funds.
There really is no free lunch.
While the committee is by
no means averse to coopera
tion among diverse state
governments in activities
which enhance the goals of
these governments, it vehe
mently condemns regional
agencies headed by appointed
directors who are not ac
countable to elected legisla
tors or the public. '
Gene Logan
Box 313
Arlington, Ore.
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