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The Hoppiier (lazctte-Times, Heppner. Oregon, Thursday. December 13. 1979-THREK Second coal-fired generating plant near Boardman eyed by P.G.E. The Carty site near Board man may have a second coal fired plant, according to Portland General Electric President Bob Short. Pave Fagon. PGE public information specialist, said in an effort to meet the continu ing demand for power, the PGE board of directors is going to meet soon to decide if another coal-fired plant is needed. If it is. Short said, the best location for it in the Pacific Northwest is next to the present Boardman plant at the Carlv site. As to the size plant, that has determined. "There really some discussion Eagon said. "I of another yet to be has been on that." would not anticipate a decision for six months at least." PGE has a shortage of power because of high power demand, low hydroelectric water levels and the shutdown of the Trojan nuclear plant. The shortage is expected to ,r relieved when the plant opens in the Board man area in August but the power thai the coal-fired plant puts out will not meet the demand lor power bv l!Wf. Another coal-fired plant will prohablv be needed because of the problems associated with building nuclear plants. Short said coal-based electricity is more expensive than nuclear energy. The coal-fired plant now being built at Carty is sche duled to be completed in June with the cost being about $500 Eastern Oregon may hold its own in redistricting, Jernstedt says v Eastern Oregon, for the first time in a century, could hold its own in legislative redis tricting in 1981. The rosy outlook for eastern Oregon, says Assistant Senate Minority Ledder Ken Jern stedt. Hood River, is the result of population gains in central Oregon and population shifts in the Portland metropolitan area. Jernstedt 's District 28 in cludes Morrow County. Jernstedt says that Ore gon's reapportionment expert, State Treasurer Clay Myers, projects that the City of Portland will lose three legis lative seats and that eastern Oregon will see little change. Myers has been involved in reapportionment studies for more than 30 years. Jernstedt said. and. as Secretary of State in 1971. Myers drew the present district lines. Because of more rapid population growth in western Oregon, the last redistrict plan cost eastern Oregon one Senate seat and two House seats. All of them went to the metropolitan area. , It has been the same in each reapportionment for more than 100 years with rural areas losing and urban areas gaining, Jernstedt said. The Supreme Court's one man, one vote edict helped shift representation away from rural areas. In addition to the loss of eastern Oregon seats eight years ago. several other seats, including Jernstedt's district, were stretched west of the Cascades into counties such as Clackamas. Marion and Linn. One of the Senate districts. Jernstedt's Number 28. is little more than one-fourth the size of the entire state(26 percent ). The only way eastern Ore gon could be shortchanged. Jernstedt said, is if the "liberal element" dominates the legislature as in recent sessiois. and devises a scheme to dilute as much as possible the legislative voice of rural Oregonians. The only way this could be done. Jernstedt said, is to create districts that look like fingers, stretching from west to east. Editor's Notebook Owners of the Kinzua Mill met last night with union leaders at the mill to discuss the possibility of closing down the plywood plant at the mill for an indefinite period of time. "There is every possibility that could happen and we will have to work out a tentative schedule because market con ditions are just rotten," said Harry Kennison. general man ager at the mill. That part of the mill is operating now but the union members must be notified in advance if part of the mill is going to be closed. If the mill, or any part of it, is closed down for any period of time it will definitely hurt the other businesses in Hepp ner. But the townspeople must Justice Court Violations from the office of Charlotte Gray. Morrow County justice of the peace, for the week ending Dec. 10 are: Ralph Tony Marlatt. Rt. 1 Box 3047 in Heppner no vehicle license $fi fine. Bonnie Diane Palmateer. P.O. Box 227 in Heppner careless driving $22 fine. Keilh R. Papineau. Box 541 in Lexington inadequate log binders-$12 fine. Mark Whitman Wright, Wa ter SI. in Lexington speeding $14 fine. John Harold Belknap, P.O. Box 1107 in Heppner driving while license suspended dis missed. Frederic Glenn Roy. 540 S. Main in Heppner defective vehicle equipment $19 fine. John Gregory Piening. Box 312 in lone defective equip-ment-$( fine. Philip Eugene Thompson. Rt. 1 Box 73-A in Boardman speeding-$19 fine." realize Kinzua is a private corporation that is in business to make money just as other firms are. When the market is so bad Kinzua cannot make a profit, it has to change or else "go under." It is much better for Heppner if Kinzua closes part of the mill temporarily than to have the mill operate in . the red for awhile and then have to decide to close down for good. With the people of Heppner working together as they have so many times in the past, the town can overcome this minor crisis if it indeed comes and continue to prosper finan cially in the future. Kennison said he will get in touch with the Gazette-Times if anything certain will occur because of last night's meeting. But Jernstedt said there is little danger this will happen. "If the legislature did adopt such a far-fetched contriv ance. Gov. Atiyeh would veto the plan." Jernstedt said. While eastern Oregon is expected to experience little change in the redistricting program, the City of Portland will lose with gains going to Washington. Clackamas and east Multnomah counties. Bellamy tells rural area problems (Continued from page 1) "Some people (on the west side of the state) do not like agriculture taking water from the Columbia (River) because it takes water from the dams so they do not have as much power. They forget that they may save some money on their electrical bills but they won't be able to, eat. "When the demand for power increases, we will hear from the environmentalist even less." Bellamy said. "When the price gets high enough, we will have an abundance of power." Bellamy warned the live stock growers that they are going to be challenged on the use of the agriculture chemi cals 2-4-D and 2-4-5-T. "Make sure you know who you are electing to office and where they stand on the use of chemicals." he said. "Make sure they keep an open mind on pesticides. "There are two groups of people on this issue. One group has a legitimate concern about what the chemicals might be doing to some people. The other group is concerned only that the che mical has destroyed some marijuana plants on federal land. "It is good to be challenged. It might be on the ballot and if it is, it will be up to the forestry and agriculture peo ple to educate the public but just getting it on the ballot makes me nervous but I still think we can beat it." (Guicle to Good DiningJ)! i I Local Area Dining The Wagon Wheel 215 PsMain He EE ner 676 5025 Every 1st & 3rd Tuesday 6Chinesef&od Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday The Hungries? R & W Drive-In C hoose Irom our anytime menu- Fast MV.cks. Full liHMls. S.Moin Heppner 676-5023 Beecher's Every 20th 1 7 -Bone Free Salad Bar .v'Jt Furu Wednesday Any steak in the house $7: Hwv. 74 lone izx-yoya 142 N.Main 676-9181 The Heppner Elks Club Lunches served Tues.-Fri 11:30-2:00 Dinners Friday And Saturday Jean's "Prime Rib" 6:00 to 9:00 million 1' w til pit1 out more than rnn meirnwnlls of power When Carlv was approved ;i site lor the coal tired plant bv the state. Hie Knercv Kacili'v Sit inn Council ap proved thai two more could he limit next to it. The three plants can be huilt to pu-l out up to 2 ."iiK megawatts. The two other plants can be built next to the one under construc tion now so they can share some of the coal-handling facilities. A second plant at the Carty site would cost about $750 million because of inflation and added anti-pollution equipment. In addition to building another coal-fired plant. PGE may move its Harborton natural gas or oil generating plant to the Carty area. The six year-old plant in the Port land area has been criticized for its noise and air pollution. PGE has committed itself to moving the plant by March of 1981 but the Boardman site is only one of the areas it has in mind. The plant, if moved, would only be used during energy shortages because its cost is five to seven cents per killowatt hour of pwer while PGE customers are used to paying three cents per killo watt hour. PGE is doing what it can to ki'op alive the proposed nil Hoar plant ,t pebble Spriniis. 1" miles west of the Carlv Heppner picks option for reservoir (Continued from page 1) system designed in a bond issue can be voted on in March In olher council action at the special meetinu. Dick Hiuelow and I.arrv Bowman were named to the city planninu commission. John Shaw is replacing Terry I Inner, who resigned, as the chairman and Bowman is the new secretary. The council also declared an emeruency so it will not have to send out for bids on a new police car An August bid bv Fullelon Chevrolet has not been fulfilled by that company and a new car is needed Two 1(170 models can be purchased from area dealers for about $!i.5Mhul the council onlv wants to spend $4. Kim. The citv can take upto $4.mn out of an emergency contin gency fund The city is looking into buving a stale car but the stale does not take trade ins Marshall I,ovgren. city admi nistrator, and Dean Oilman, chief of police, will keep looking for another car coal hrrd plant PGE and Pacific Power and Light have invested Won million in that nuclear lacuny. 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