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Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon. Thursday. December 20. 197&-THIRTEEN
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Wheat growers say expanded trade will help economy
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Whc.it growers told US.
Department of ; Agriculture
Secretary Bob Bergland th;it
expanded trade and export
prnnrams for wheat will help
nil phases of the II. S., eco
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Congressmen introduce bills
to protect steelhead
Offic er Chuck Holt waits outside Heppner City Hall with his radar gun in the new city police
car. The car is a red. 1 979 Ford Fairmont purchased from Rohrman Motor Co. in Hermiston
for SI.SOO and the old police car.
Icy roads cause two accidents
Cases from the Morrow
County Sheriff's Office for the
week ending Dec. 17 are:
Ken Paul Champney, Rt. 2
Box 2511 Evergreen Apt. Sp.
No. 5 in Heppner, was
involved in a one-car, non-injury
accident Dec. 15 when he
was driving a 1968 Interna
tional 13 miles north of
Lexington on Highway 207
near the Sand Hollow Road.
The car went off the icy road
and rolled over. Damage has
been estimated at $1,500.
A Boardman juvenile was
cited with attempting to elude
an officer, driving without
license plates and driving
without a license. He was
caught driving a motorcycle
on Wilson Road.
Four Boardman juveniles
were cited with minors in
possession of alcohol. That
case has been referred to the
juvenile department.
Darcy Diane Rea, P.O. Box
413 in lone, was involved in
another non-injury, one-car
accident. She was driving a
1974 Mustang five miles south
east of lone near Eight-mile
Canyon when the car slid on
ice and went off the road.
Edwin Joseph Senkens, 5411
N.E. 26 Ave. in Portland, was
arrested in Boardman for
Births I
Mr. and Mrs. Noel Harsh
man had a baby boy Dec. 13 at
Pioneer Memorial Hospital in
Heppner.
They named the baby Elijah
Love and he weighed seven
pounds, 12 and one half
ounces.
The Harshmans reside in
Heppner.
driving while under the influ
ence of intoxicants and he is in
custody at the jail in Hermis
ton. Club meets
The Gooseberry Livestock
4-H Club had its second
meeting of the year Dec. 9.
The group met at the
Grange hall after the house
hold party for, Rita Sumner.
The club elected new officers.
This year, Larry Palmer
will be the president, Paula
Palmer the vice president.
Anne Van Schoiack the secre
tary and Kathy McConnell the
reporter.
The group will be selling
light bulbs with the money
raised from this going to the
family of Jeremy Maben to
help to pay the doctor bills.
. The next 4-H meeting will be
Jan. 6. 1980.
Oregon Congressman Les
AuCoin and nine other mem
bers of the Oregon and
Washington delegations in
Congress have introduced le-'
gislation to make the steel
head a federally protected
game fish.
t'lider the bill introduced by
AuCoin and Congressmen Al
Ullman. Jim Weaver and Bob
Duncan of Oregon and Don
Honker. Tom Foley. Mike
MeConnaek. Norm Dicks. Al
Swift and Joel Pritchard of
Washington, steelhead could
not he sold commercially.
AuCoin noted that the steel
head trout is already designa
ted as a game fish under
Oregon law, meaning that it
cannot be caugflt commer-'
cially in the state by non-Indian
fisherman. However,
recent court decisions have
allowed Washington and Co
lumbia River treaty tribes to
net steelhead commercially.
"Because of its beauty, its
elusiveness and its great
fighting ability, the steelhead
is unquestionably the most
prized catch of Northwest
sports fishermen," AuCoin
said.
"The bill would apportion
this limited resource more
equitably. At the same time, it
will help Northwest states
manage this resource more
effectively." Under the
steelhead hill, treaty tribes
could still catch steelhead. but
only for sport or subsistence
purposes, he bill also provides
for compensation to treaty
tribes for lost income as a
result of the decommercializa
tion of steelhead. a provision
considered necessary on con
stitutional grounds.
Commercial catches of
steelhead from the Columbia
River by treaty tribes in
Oregon and Washington to
taled 20.3(H) last year. AuCoin
said. This year's catch was
about 9.600.
"Last year was a good one
for steelhead in Oregon."
AuCoin said. "This year is not
as good. This bill would
distribute a declining resource
more fairly. But the fact is.
compared with 10 years ago.
the number of steelhead has
declined dramatically. Our
highest priority must be this:
to increase the number of
steelhead and salmon."
and president of the Oregon
Wheat Growers League, ap
peared before Secretary Berg
land at a national hearing on
the structure of agriculture.
Pryor slated that the wheat
growers feel that trade is the
basis of the U.S. free enter
prise system. He commented
that "trade can do more for
agriculture and our nation
than any farm program yet
devised."
Pryor noted that world
wheat stocks are being re
duced while grain imports by
developing nations are im
proving. He also noted that
undercapitalization and low
returns for farmers "combine
to reduce agricultural produc
tion." He did note, however,
that these two problems are
similar to all business.
Pryor called for several
remedies for business revitali
zation. "Tax reform will control
inflation along with enhancing
capital formation." he said.
"Government services take
up to 60 percent of our
economy and we must search
and scrutinize government
spending programs and. per
haps, call for a constitutional
convention to mandate econo
mic principles for our govern
ment ."
He said that trade can be
expanded through "review of
anti-trust laws and proce
dures" to enhance the role of
farmer-owned cooperatives.
He said present export agri
cultural trade is dominated by
multinational concerns and
that farmer-owned coopera
tives would be serving their
farmer-owners.
Other wheat growers ap
pearing at the hearing inclu
ded Don Thompson. Moro;
Tom McCoy. Wasco: and Stan
Timmermann. Pendleton.
ECOAC opens new branch
in Boardman to manage CETA
The East Central Oregon
Association of Counties has
opened a branch office in
Boardman to manage the
CP:TA program in Morrow
County and the Arlington
area.
The CETA program is
federally funded under the
Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act to put under
skilled persons to work.
The CETA coordinator for
Morrow County and the Ar
lington area is Barbara Cum
mings. Her office is located in
Room 15. Nelson Squre.
Boardman, 97818. The tele
phone number is 481-7162. The
office will be open Monday
through Friday.
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