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BESSIE 'ETZEIL U OF ORE ' K EWSPAPER-L1B' EUG'FNE OR 97403 GAZE rne Heppner i m a U UJEL' Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper J llMlh Who will be the first baby of the decode ? Check page 3 for list of prizes! Weather I VOL. 97 0. 52 20 cents 8 PACKS HEPPNER. OREGON THURSDAY. I)E( KMHFR 27. 17! .m9wwirrt-9 r - f n By Don Gilliam is hie- i;:: in i;i c( i:',..n., jo Tim- .yj in-. n.'i Ji l i i- :;n J j Sal :;'i :'T j:: Sun-1 2 :' - - UHLJI nr...... 'Ill i . J h ill' I ID I "--' " :vr' "Tt I jtaur . . - .. -, ". L"""f V'y . maws V ' 4 J& J" S , T i' . v to the J & B Farming checks bounce . .The coal will ho transported by convevor helt from the storage site coal-lired plant in the l;u kunimul. Kiti.inci.il hiickors of .loo l!.ii icii of.lB Farmint! have "loft him on! to dry." Porl Mutineer Ruddy Toadvin said, so Iho Porl of Morrow may be out $105,000 R.irtloi' Ic ri H H acros of port l.itiil lor i.ini'iiii! f)cl. II. , The lease was lor $44,000 a voar lie wrote a check for $27,000 when ho signed the lease. Toadvin said Ihe check was returned hv the hank . Har'li't' u.i- s'lpnosed 'o pay !- ", n lv l in t yw,n The other !7H ooo charge is 'or ht - I'i r'iT i' os he aoreed I nu when lie signed Ihe leas.' "II iv realK a "blow to him and his wile." Toadvin said. " hanker hacked out on him To;id,n said ho does nol know where Hurtled is and il will be up to the port commissioners lo decide lo seek prosecution or lo sue for he cost n Ihe loan Ihe porl tk out to cover HurtloH's bad checks In Ihe lasl porl mooting, the commissioners agreed lo have Toadvin borrow $100,001) to cover the had chocks Ha riled bad written hoping he would soon make good on the chocks Thev Intel' found out about his bankers hacking nut .1KB Farming never got started on Ihe land bul it did lake up Ihe land for three moulds thai someone else could have been pavint! on it. The port is now receiving bids on ihe properl v to lease il out . Miracle Potato. I.iokv O Kancb and PBS Farms show ed, interest in Ihe land the last time bids were taken Toadvin said the porl should have retiuired a bond for .I&B Farming hut thai bonds are usiiallv onlv used for construc tion work and nol for land leases ' ' m mm a ' ' -r ' r "ft ! , J i-' rill C fV,L, -i Mtiir - .... ..',. ,v I These m ade school children had a lot of fun at the Christmas concert lasl al Hrppnor FlomciitaiA . McMinn s win Yule contest Coal arriving at Carty coal-fired plant Jan. 10 The first trainload of coal for the Curly coal-fired plant near Boardman will arrive .Ian. 10 officials said last week. .MAX Coal Co. media relations representative Don Warfield said the coal will be transported 1.200 miles from Giletle. Wyo. AMAX is the third largest producer of coal in the United Stales. The AMAX Belle Ayr Mine. 18 miles southeast of Gillette, is the largest produc ing coal mine in the U.S. The coal will leave the mine on trams consisting of 105 cars, each car carrying ap proximate 100 tons of coal. Warfield said the coal is so, clean it is not treated at all but it is crushed lo two inches in diameter before transporting. After Jan. 10 coal will arrive by Irainloads at Carty every two-and-one-half days. The coal will be stored at the plant until Ihe turbines are started June 1. By then, approximate ly fi.000 tons of coal will have been stored on the site. Tests will then be run for a few months before the electricity produced by the plant will be sold commercially. When the coal arrives, the train will pass through a tunnel of infrared heaters to unthaw the coal. A micro processor computer will then position the train curs onto a rolary coupling which turns Ihe entire train cur 170 degrees on axis to dump the coal into a hopper. "If everything goes perfect ly, we can dump the whole Irain in two-and -one-half to three hours." Shift Supervisor torn Meyers said. The coal travels by convey or belt lo different stations where the coal is treated to remove all the dust. Any coal pieces larger than two inches in diameter are broken down. The coal then travels along the conveyor belt into a pulverizer where it is smashed into a fine powder, about like "talcum powder" Meyers said. II is dried al 550 degrees and fed into Ihe 3.000 degree furnace. II is burned to produce heat which will boil water that is in pipes within Ihe boiler furnace walls. The healed water produces steam which is conducted to a turbine generator The turbine spins the generator which produces the electricity. The elcetrieitv is for use in the Wilamotlo Valley. When Iho coal is horning in Ihe boiler. 20 percent of the nsh produced . fulls to the bottom of the furnace. It is1 called "bottom ash." Movers said bottom ash material can bemused for road construction. The other HO percent of the ash is a very fine dust called "fly ash." The fly ash is exhausted from the boiler but more than 99 percent of it is screened out from being expelled into the air by a precipilaier. a pollution con trol device. The collected fly ash is 30 percent lighter and stronger when used in forming concrete so it is popular in bridge construction The $55(1 million plant has millions of dollars worth of anti-pollution equipment. With the use of Ihe precipilaier. low sulphate coal and high mois ture coal ' 30 percept ) Ihe only plume thai will be noticeable above Iho tall smoke stack will he a white one from water va,por -J...VW,. . - '. "!) percent of Ihe lime you could come here and nol know the plant is even running." Movers said Movers said pollution will be noticeable when Ihe plant first starts up because oil is used to start it instead of coal. He said Ihe Western coal from gillette is lower in sulphur content for less pollution. It has less than one-half of one percent. lie said Eastern coal causes more pollution with its three percent sulphur conlonl bul it does have more enervg per pound of coal The Carlv plant will burn 350 Ions of coal an hour when il is operation at ils maximum or 7.200 Ions a dav The electricity from the coal ; fired plant will cost four cents an hour Oil power costs five cents an hour and nuclear flectricitv from the Trojan plant cnsls 1 .9 cents an hour. Hydro electric power costs less than one cent per killo wait hour Meyers said the plant was to he operated for only about six months of the year during the Northwest's peak load from December to May but now. because of the need for electrical power, ther plant will be operated nine to 11 months of the year. Meyers said PGE recently sold the Carlv coal yard up. to the plant, lo the First National Rank of Oregon. PGE is leasing il back Meyers said I'GK made the move for lax purposes and not because of anv financial problems Manv houses in Heppner were festooned with strings of colored lights for Ihe Christ mas season. Consequently, judges for an outdoor lighting contest sponsored bv Ihe Hcppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce hud a h.yd choice us (boy cruised the streets of Ihe town Sunday night Bill McMinn's house at fifiO W Sporry St. was picked for the first prize, a cash award of $30 "Thai's reullv nice." was ihe reaction of the judging com mid ee as it sal in Orville Culsforth's car viewing an arrangement of lights in Ihe McMinns' fronl-vard hushes and along Ihe eaves of the house When McMinn was called whh the news that he was Ihe winner, he commented. "I reullv appreciate it." McMinn is the power house superin tendent ul Iho Kinzua Corp. mill He and his family moved lo Heppner two years ago from Kinzua. He said il was a lamilv project lo arange die decora.! ions. ... Second and third place aw ards of $20 and $1(1 wont tii SeUi Forquor. 215 S Court SI . and Donald Kenison. 455 Linden Way. Similar awards won- pre senled to three churched. Hope Lutheran Church, for a lighted window scene of the alivitv. first : United Moth oilisl Church, second, and Si. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, third , The judging committee in eluded, besides Culsforlh. Delpha Jones and Annclla Klinger of Lexington, and Jerome Sheldon of the Hop- t"MT G,i,.e!!e Times 'I he Pi:!''!!;1 v as coo! dinaled by CiiKini'ii) The group was a'To'iip.-imcd by Krnest Mr l 'alio. ( 'li. a nihi l' of ( 'oininerce (ti i - iileoi . (id .lo1, i as a tour ! i ! ; h.-iv:' been c "io munil v m s lo i omam ruing to Me he Columbia ( ooperalive. cor i f r ' I ? : f v, iio v, i: aiaiio. annus at ( Cube, and h I'.a' ill Mnrlllr lne in nddii inn In Iho announced awards. ;i number of houses w ere pa -d m- ' 'honorable nieiil ion lor Ihe i foi l put inio light in; arrangements. I lew mi or ! in- house : g,d no' hern epteted in the con' est 'iai v Molls lira Ward Pai Haii'en a lie honorable men Ala n Nr-fad. Glenn eh l.aimhlih. Hallie i'l ( a1 Sherman lone industrial arts teacher receives state award r fx" : "A w x 1 hi mini"1 1 '""t Marv Peterson Bv Una no Pa vne Marvin (Marv) . Peterson. 32 Industrial Arts teacher al lone High School, was chosen Industrial Ails Educator of the Your by the Oregon Industrial Arts Association, according to John Schaffer. OIAA President. Peterson, who has spent his entire leaching career at lone, graduated from Eastern Washington University in Che ney in l)73. He majored in Industrial Technology. Peter son has relumed to Eastern Washington University each summer working toward his Master's Degree He pre viously attended Central Washington University at El lensherg. Peterson, a native of Wash ington, attended Lincoln High School in Taeoma. where his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Peterson, still reside. After completing high school. Peterson joined the Navv and received boot camp training with basic electrical apprenticeship in San Diego. He received training in elec tronics in San Francisco and served two tours of duty as a Hadarmae 2c in Vietnam. there ho was a gun fire support aboard a destroyer escorl Peterson remarked. "I enioved the navv. afler 1 was discharged " Peterson, who enjoys the rural living in a small town and Ihe small school life, lives with his wile Cathi. of 11 years, on the E Markam Baker' Place, six-and-one-half miles south of lone Hceentlv. Peterson pur chased 20 acres of land east of Morgan, on Highway 74. and has just completed sinking a well The properly will hold Peterson's unique home lo be the old Union Pacific Station which was in lone. The depot was built in the late 1H9()'s and according to Peter son. "It deserved to he saved and prosepved I'm glad I got it and I'm going to preserve il " Peterson pluns to rebuild the old depot maintaining the original appearance on the exterior while adding two lofts inside According lo Peterson. "H will have a ruslic look, which I rcallv like II will bo about 1900 square feel and mav some dav servo as a museum for mv hobhv of collecting which I reallv like to do "I like to collect and restore things of the past!" Peterson said "If it is worth throwing awuv it is worlh collecting. Some people may call my collection iunk Rut to me. it's probably a valuable antique worthy of restoring as nearlv us possible lo it's original crindition Peterson added "When I applied for Iho job. I thought I was applving lo lone. Wash There is an lone. Wash you know II. too. is a small community It's near Yakima. Rut I came to lone because of its rural setting I like going into the local grocery store or Iho tuvern and running into the parents of mv students." said Peterson, "it makes the students a name certainly not a number, and gives me an opportunity to work with a personality rather than just a kid in a lame class " "I did mv teacher training in a large junior high of 13 or 14 hundred kids." Peterson continued "1 was so nervous a' the end of Iho dav. I fell like throwing kids around II isn't like thai hero al lone I'm mv own boss in Ihe shop The students and 1 respect each other's feelings Wo gel along fine His students seem to concur. Tim Kev a junior at lone w ho lakes welding and serves Peterson as a teacher's aide sa'id "Mr Peterson is reallv a grout teacher Yon can talk lo him personally, you can learn from his groat skills in so manv areas, welding, wood wruking. (eramies. elec tronics, electricity, he seems so talented, and ho is just a t'reut guv " "Peterson is known for his eltoi vesi enec and his total acceptance bv lacullv. stu dents and Iho entire commu nity at large." adds Chuck Shirr lone's principal and Peterson's supervisor for Ihe last lour years "While I feel the award does provide some recognition for an Outstanding job well done. 1 don't believe enough credit can be given Mr. Peterson for the good he does for the community, the students and his fellow lacullv members " Siarr said "1 wish I could profit from Mary's great talent I'd love to lake classes . in overv subject in which Marv has an expertise. He is so talented but you can't forget to mention Krnios ville " Starr concluded Krniesville is as much a philosophy as an actual geographical location hut il doi's exist on 20 acres east of Morgan Erniesvillo. so named afler Peterson's middle name of Ernest, is a repository for an old tractor a resurrected jeep of World War II fume, a booklet of matches tilled "Frniesville". a pump house, an archaic combine, a place for a cold one on a hot afternoon along with unhur ried conversation generally.. juO a pleasant change of pace in Ibis "hurry up" world of (ll'f'C hostages politics and procure Hospital looks to HEW for expansion find tog Pioneer Memorial Hospital should find out sometime afler New Year's it" the .Health. Education and Welfare fed eral agency will supply a granl to help fund repairs for an emergency room at Ihe hospital "IIKW is still working on il and I hev are being very cooperative but wo are sliil negotiating." Administrator A K Fell s.-id hell san! Coggl film bosnital in Wash man Al is representing the ington DC. in trlMl. . II. . Ill'll- ..!.! I lie III' I ,11 KS 1 1 I - V HUM Mir hospital board to open up bids and I'.onuic Construction Inc. ol Portland was the low bidder will) ' I'f.L'.o Hi "The bills came in higher than what 1 1 LAV wanted to hind ' I' i H said Bridge inspectors needed In Counlv Court last week. Don Rail Innde a road-report and he rocom mended that tw o persons beappointed lo attend Ihe stale bridge inspection school in Salem in February. is important that we train our own crew lo inspect bridges." Judge Don McElli L'oti said McElligolt said Ihe county could becut off from receiving lederal and state funds for bridges if all bridges 20 feet )n length or longer are not f inspected bv Sept 1 The court also heard Roger l.ange of Ihe slate highway deparlment He said bids will bo '! on- Fob 2K for the construction a nd repair of Ihe Light Mile Bridge and the Wilson Road project Those (AO projects will be assisted In money Irmn the stale and lederal levels The Willow Creek Bridge in lone wil be lot out lor bids in April or late Mai eh Funds for that project have net been finaliod. Donna Berfslrom was ap pointed In replace ifoh hrams on the Mental Health Sen ices board and Helen I'roiiilf.aol was appointed to represent .bulge MeElligott on Ihe Blue Mountain Economic Development Council L.lmcr I, add requested a one ehanga' in lone No one showed up In testify so the change w as appi oved. It was chain ed Irmn qualified farm lo I arm allow iug the I .adds to hav e a liv e acre farm ins! cad ol the :'o aire farm that was i in ed prior to the change i'. -.' V I -' ?:-. p. L' .
