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. .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
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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
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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
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Molls lira
Ward Pai
Haii'en a
lie honorable men
Ala n Nr-fad. Glenn
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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
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