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TWO The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon. Thursday, November 29, I97!F O'sgon Nawtpopa, Publithtrt Allocation The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the ' County of Morrow The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper U.S.P.S. 240-420 Published every Thursday and entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Heppner. Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Second-class postage paid at Heppner. Oregon. Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone. 503l 676-9228. Address communications to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P 0 Box 337, Heppner, Oregon. 9?n:!t Sa no now. Umatilla, Wheeler & Gilliam counties; $10 00 elsewhere. Senior Citizen Rate. $5 00 Jerome K. Sheldon. Publiiher Jane H. Sheldon. Associate Publisher Eileen Saling. Uffice Steve A. Powell, News Editor Cheryle Greenup. Advertising. Chloe Pearson, Composition Composition Betty Green, Office, Composition Stable Economy Morrow County has a distinction of sorts in the Oregon Business Barometer, a publication of the U.S. Bancorporation in Portland. Whatever it means, Morrow is the only one among the state's 36 counties to have a current zero population growth. The statistics are noted on an outline map of the state. Oregon's overall growth is pegged at 2 percent. The gains vary, county by county, and Gilliam County is noted as having a population loss of 4.8 percent. The map shows a zero for Morrow, with neither loss nor gain. (The "source" of the data is not provided.) Whatever the local significance, Morrow County does seem stable economically. Certainly in the north end there has been business growth with construction work rela ted to the Boardman coal-fired generating plant and the greater use of irrigation in farming. The County Planner's office confirms that the county's gains in numbers of people have been in the north end. The current population is listed at 6,400, based on a 1978 study by the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission. The 1977 population was 5,550, so there was a definite gain in that period. The Portland bank publication forecasts a good year for agriculture, with a strong export demand for domestic livestock and crop products keeping farm prices an average of 12 percent above 1978 levels. While farm production costs keep rising, Oregon's net farm income is expected to be higher than last year's. This is sure to be reflected in Morrow County. The Heppner area has certainly been stable without a great amount of construction nor population influx. The city has no outlying shopping malls, instead a well-established Main Street and well-stocked retail establish ments. New people may not be coming in, at least not in great numbers, but the area is holding its own. Main Street Christmas Once again Christmas has come to Main Street in Heppner, with a beautiful, tall white fir placed in a permanent hole in the pavement in front of Case Furniture and the hotel. Attractive lighted decorations adorn the lamp posts, and Santa Claus himself arrived last Friday in a Model T flivver and handed out bags of candy and toy balloons to the children. He was a jolly Santa Claus, eminently suited to the role he performed for the youngsters who came with their parents to see him. If Santa Claus is a myth, he certainly seemed to be real to many believing eyes. "Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as well not believe in fairies" so declared an editorial in the New York Sun more than 80 years ago in reply to an inquiry from Virginia O'Hanlon asking, "Is there a Santa Claus?" So those not affected by "the skepticism of a skeptical age," and all of us, for that matter, may take particular joy in the season as exemplified here by the street decorations and the many attractive window displays arranged by Heppner's retail business community. As usual, it has taken many hands to accomplish the details. Mayor Jerry Sweeney said the city has provided the hole which supports the tree. The hole is about eight inches or so in diameter, and covered with a steel cap throughout most of the year. There is no need to drill a new one. Kinzua Corporation helped provide the tree through one of its logging contractors, John Britt. The tree was felled in the Opal Butte area, 30 to 35 miles from Heppner, according to Richard Graham, a timber cruiser for Kinzua. The Sifting through the TI The ninth annual convention of the Rebekah Lodge was held at the Masonic Hall in lone. Sister Mary Swanson was the presiding officer. The Heppner Lodge had the most members present with 136, followed by lone with 119, Lexington 59, Hardman 48 and Morgan nine. Wm. R. Poulson, high school principal, took over temporar ily as the school superinten dent in place of Superinten dant Burgess, who resigned. A number of educators were visiting Heppner to apply for the position but the school board chose to delay making a decision because Paulson was doing a good job and they wanted to pick the best man. The annual Lodge of Sorrow of the Benevolent Order of Elks was commemorated by 5J the Heppner Lodge at the local lodge. More than $2 million in additional revenue was expec ted to be collected by the State , of Oregon in 1930 as a result of the one cent per gallon increase in the state tax on gasoline and distillate sales. The total was expected to be $7,052,054. The tax on gas was going to be raised to four cents a gallon. The Heppner to Spray road was still in the news as the Lions were trying to get the city of Bend interested in helping with the road. The Heppner men said if the road is improved to Spray then it would increase travel to Bend. 1954 Twenty-five years ago work ers were putting up six 85-foot poles to put the rodeo field lights on. The Chamber of Commerce raised the money for the lights by selling bonds and the light fixtures and wiring was planned to be added as soon as the poles were erected. A big truck on the Pendle-ton-Heppner truck line left the road between Lexington and Butter Creek causing consi derable damage to the freight, which was scattered over a wide area. Bob Smith, a Boardman service station attendant, was slugged and then robbed after two men tied him up. They robbed about $76 from his till. The Lions Club was sponsor ing a Christmas Home Decor ating Contest with three valuable prizes to be given out to winners. Originality, beauty and harmony with the Christmas theme were the basis for picking the winners. 1!I7I Five years ago the Heppner Neighborhood Center was ask ing for help because the rising food costs were making it almost impossible to make the senior citizen's meals. The slate paid the center 60 cents a meal but the meals were costing about $1 to make, so the center was asking for food donations. The City Council met to decide on the parking in Heppner on whether it would be safe to have parallel parking. Dorothy Krebs of lone gave a presentation to the Chamber of Commerce about the sheep raising practices on the large Krebs Bros, ranch. The town was getting ready for a visit from Santa Claus who was going to give out candv at the city hall. 1 Legislative Report from the Stale Capital EXCLUSIVE to Oregon's Weekly Newspa pers from Associated Oregon Industries. Salem Scene MS T. anrl nlannincr involves industrv By Jack Zimmerman Economics has been defined as the management of scarce resources. That definition is particu larly appropriate when discus sing land-use planning in Oregon. Management of land within its borders likely will be a key to this state's economic future. Under these circumstances, it is obvious business and industry have significant in terests in the process cur rently evolving statewide. Generally regarded as the most comprehensive in the nation, Oregon's land-use planning process is being closely monitored by all segments of the private sec tor. And this watchdog func tion becomes more significant each day as local govern ments struggle to meet a July 1, 1980 deadline for submission of individual plans designed to complete in jigsaw-puzzle fa shion statewide regulations for future land development and use. Stretching back into the Sixties, Oregon's efforts to regulate use of its lands got off the ground with passage by the legislature of Senate Bill 10 in 1969. That law called for local governments to prepare comprehensive plans for de velopment within their boun daries. But the statute provi ded neither penalties nor incentives for compliance. Relative ineffectiveness of SB 10 led in 1973 to passage of SB 100, the current State Land Use Planning Act. SB 100 created the Land Conserva tion & Development Commis sion and the Department of Land Conservation and Devel opment. Initial task of the commis sion and its agency was to establish goals for land use planning a framework with the force of law on which all local governments would con struct their comprehensive plans. After 86 public meet ings throughout the state, the first 14 goals were adopted in January 1975. The Willamette Greenway goal and four coastal goals were in place the following year. It then became the obliga tion of the state's 36 counties and 241 cities to draft land-use plans that complied with specifics of the statewide goals. Each subsequent ses sion of the Legislature ' in Salem has provided funds for both the work of LCDC, its department and assistance to local governments for comple tion of their planning proces ses. Next July's deadline evol ved as a policy position as funding and assistance were made available to local gov ernments. Associated Oregon Indus tries and other organizations participated with the legisla ture during formulation of both SB 10 and SB 100. That same participation continued throughout the goal adoption process and these business organizations early recog nized the necessity to monitor not only the local planning processes but the adoption of those plans at the state level as well. Four industry associations LETTERS TO THE EDITOR About those trucks Editor: I was really surprised when I saw the truck pictures on the page (Gazette-Times, 15). They were the Dempsey trucks. They hauled all the rock to build most of the roads in Morrow County. They had camps in about every section of the county. When Lynn and I were married we were on Heppner Hill. There are many people left up there who remember the trucks and some even rode in them. After front Nov. we were through, we took a contract from The Dalles to Biggs on the new highway in 1931. We had five Mack trucks and two Chevrolet trucks on that job. Our camp was by the Deschutes where the new bridge is now. That was our last job as Mr. Dempsey passed away and Lynn went to other work. Mrs. Blanche Groshens Dempsey 4727 S.E. Lincoln Street Portland. OR 97215 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. tree was delivered atop a loaded, snow-covered logging truck. Crews from Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative, Inc., erected the tree as they did the street decorations. This is community cooperation at its best, of which Heppner may be proud. With December approaching, let the spirit of Christmas reign! joined together late in 1978 to organize the Oregon Business Planning Council. In addition to AOI and its forestry arm, the Oregon Forest Industries Council, those associations are the Oregon Columbia Chapter, Associated General Contractors, Oregon Associa tion of REALTORS and Ore gon State Home Builders Association. Ech shared interests that could be significantly influ enced by local comprehensive plans developed by cities and counties. In most cases those interests were at least compa tible, if not identical. OBPC was conceived expressly to participate on a professional level in the LCDC's plan review and acknowledgment process. OBPC consists of two pro fessional planners and a forestry specialist who review all comprehensive plans as those plans are submitted to LCDC. It is OBPC's responsi bility to make certain those plans comply with specific terms of the statewide goals. It prepares comments and testifies before LCDC in order to make certain all plans adequately reflect the con cerns of business and indus try. To date, OBPC staff has reviewed 75 city plans and all or portions of plans for 25 counties. Its efforts are well received by LCDC and its staff and in a large majority of cases, LCDC has concurred with OBPC's recommenda tions. In order to remain a credible force in the plan review process. OBPC has famliarized itself with each local jurisdiction's unique cir cumstances. And this dili gency has paid off by identify ing major problems during its review procudure. So far the bulk of these have involved lack of forest land inventories, encroachment of rural residential uses on highly productive forest lands, inadequate attention to min eral and aggregate resources and treatment of industrial lands. These issues and others have been raised and challen ged successfully by OBPC. As of October this year, LCDC has acknowledged plans for only 46 cities and 4 counties. A total of 227 plans must be submitted for ac knowledgment by the LCDC deadline next July. According to OBPC, it appears the plan review process will extend through December of 1980. It bases this projection on the fact LCDC so far has rejected 70 percent of all plans submitted and it appears safe to assume that up to 50 plans won't be submitted before the July deadline. LCDC staff so far has been processing only 12 to 15 plans a month and at that rate will take at least 18 months to review the remain ing 227 plans. Meanwhile, the work of OBPC and LCDC stand as another example of the part nership efforts by Oregon's public and private sectors to make certain the state's land base serves all interests involved in producing a heal thy economic future. Editor's Notebook Oregon Democrats will cele brate in Portland Friday 25 years of being the majority political party in the state. The occasion will be the Wayne Morse Banquet and President Jimmy Carter had planned to fly out from Washington. DC. to be the speaker. Now." of course, the Presi dent is sticking close to the White House, or Camp David, as the Iranian crisis mounts. Who will speak at the Wayne Morse banquet, then"' A call to Beth Glascock, executive secretary of the Oregon Democratic Party in Salem, reveals that First lady Hosalyn Carter may be the speaker or perhaps Vice President Walter Mondale. "Nobody's talking about an alternative." Glascock said "Yes. we're in touch con !iintlv with the White House Vi have an impression that K.wahn or Mmulale miuhl come. All of these telephone c alls were on Tuesday, as the Heppner Gazette-Times pre pared to go to press. State senator to announce plans State Sen. John Powell. D-Halsey. said he will an nounce his 1980 political plans at a series of news confer ences on Dec. 3. Powell has been considering the races for state treasurer, secretary of state and the U.S. Senate. Powell. 31. was first elected to the Oregon State Senate in 1974. He was 26: the youngest member ever elected to the State Senate. Powell was re-elected to a four-year term in 1(17!! In liiTH Powell was named "One of five outstanding vnung men of Oregon" by the ( ti-ei'Dii ,la voces Winter survival seminar to be held Dec. 11 A seminar on winter survi val will be held Dec. 11 at the Western Forestry Center in Portland. Co-sponsored by the Center and the Boy Scouts of America, instruction will be given by Jack Samper, a member of the Mazamas and mountaineering advisor for the Explorer Scouts. Vital information for anyone involved in outdoor activities and recreation during the winter months will be provi ded, including choosing pro per clothing and equipment, building snow caves and other shelters, avoiding hypother mia, and other life-saving skills. 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Sa. 9-lp.m. Looted in the Medical Center 1100 Southgate Pendleton 276-1531 V . ; t-- - , in- i- -i ' SWEENEY MORTUARY Cemetery, Grave Markers 676-9600 Granite, Marble, Bronze or 676-9226 Serving lone, Lexington & Heppner p.o. Box 97 JAYNES IBUSINESS MACHHES Service calls every Wednesday in Heppner, lone and Lexington 332 S. Mam St, Pendleton Telephone 276-6441 811 N. Finn, HermMoo Telephone 567-2731 " Chevron GLENN DEVIN I C3 Chevron USA, Inc. s-' Commission Agent L 676-9633 , ilililtijtt Heppner Boardman Morrow County Abstract Trtta Com pen y Me Insurance & Escrow Service 'Cr.v?12 481 926! 4?
