TV The Heppner GazcHc-Times. Ileppner. Oregon. Thursday, January 17, 1980
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The Official Newspaper of the
City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
The Heppner
GAZETTE-TIMES
Morrow Cont j's Hont-Owied Weekly Newspaper
U.S.P.S 240-420
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Steven A. Powell. News Editor
Winter's Test
"I like the four seasons," a businessman
commented last week as the wind stirred up a
small blizzard and Main Street was heaped
with snow..
Adverse weather such as the Pacific
Northwest has experienced in the past few
days tests the resiliency of the human spirit.
Most people cope, adding more clothing as
required and turning up home heating
devices. Because of delayed deliveries by
suppliers, the local stores may be low on
inventories so shoppers buy what is available
and rely, otherwise, on what they have in
their cupboards at home.
What a cold spell does emphasize is that
there is no place like home if it is warm.
A warm house is a good refuge in any
storm. Let the winds blow, let the snow fall, a
good roof overhead and well insulated
windows and doors do as much as anything
for family comfort when it is frigid out of
doors.
The winter storms that blocked even the
best maintained highways last week under
scored, too, the dependency of modern
society on the private auto for transportation.
People traveling between eastern Oregon and
Portland found themselves stranded in the
Columbia Gorge, where the snow piled up as
much as five feet, according to reports. Not
only were people delayed in their journeys,
but motor-truck deliveries of merchandise.
The only transportation that did move, and
that with difficulty, was the railroad.
Amtrak reported its Pioneer passenger
train ran as much as six hours behind
schedule and had standing-room only
accommodations as it made emergency stops
to pick up people whose cars had stalled.
Another casualty of the weather was the
regular delivery of morning newspapers
from Portland. The newspapers normally are
sent by trucks of the Oregon Film Service to
distribution centers like Pendleton, where
contract mail drivers pick up the bundles and
take them on to Heppner and other small
towns. The storm disrupted the schedules, of
course, causing Wednesday's and Thursday's
papers to be distributed on Saturday, and
Friday's and Saturday's papers on Monday
morning.
Donald Sterling, editor of the Oregon
Journal, said, in a telephone call placed to
him, that the newspaper had sent its
reporters by Amtrak to report on the storm
from The Dalles. He would have to consult
with his circulation manager to determine
why the train wasn't used for newspaper
, distribution.
The chinook wind and rain last weekend
brought a quick end to winter's severity, at
least for now. Winter may not be over but at
least it manifests itself in a variety of ways.
The occasional harshness of climate makes
one realize that if winter is here, spring can't
be far behind.
JUSTICE COURT
The Morrow County Justice
Court in Heppner has been
closed most of the last two
weeks because Charlotte Gray
was sick but it has been open
this week.
Cases that were handled for
the week ending Jan. 14 are:
Danny Lee Wilson. Main St..
P.O. Box 401 in Heppner no
' brake lights $12 suspended
fine.
David Troy Williams, 1823
N, 12th Ave. in Pasco
speeding $29 fine.
Kohert Steven Powell. Hep
pner no liability insurance
dismissed, unable to locate
defendant.
Sifting through the TIMESf
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Fifty years ago the Heppner
I. ions Club was looking into
the possibility and cost of
putting street signs up within
the city and putting business
address numbers on the
stores. Prior to this time, only
a few residents knew the
names of the streets and it was
kept secret from the general
public.
Two more marriages took
place in Morrow County in
1929 than in 1928 but two more
divorces also took place, eight
compared to six the year
before.
Heppner's basketball team
was preparing for its first
game of the season as
Boardman was coming to
town. Heppner had four regu
lars returning in Henry Rob
ertson, Rodney Thompson.
Harold Gentry and Nolan
Turner. Heppner was in the
Upper Columbia Conference
consisting of lone. Lexington.
Boardman. Arlington, Condon
and Fossil.
Denny Smith
hits Ullman
for pay hike
Denny Smith, candidate for
the United States House of
Representatives in the second
district of Oregon, has criti
cized Rep. Al Ullman for
voting himself a pay raise in
the last session of Congress.
Smith, in a campaign stop
last week in LaGrande, said
that Ullman's vote for a 5.5
percent pay hike is an affront
to the people in Oregon's
second district.
"For Ullman to vote himself
a pay raise which will bring
his salary in 1980 to $60,662,
while we in Oregon attempt to
cope with a 13 percent
inflation rate is a disgrace,"
said Smith.
In an earlier speech before
the Ontario Lions Club, Smith
called for an amendment to
limit the number of terms that
representatives or senators
may serve.
"We have far too many
people in government who
spend most of their time
trying to get re-elected," said
Smith. "By limiting the num
ber of terms, we can get rid of
the professional politicians
and start to regain control of
government spending."
Smith would limit represen
tatives to four two-year terms,
senators to two six-year
terms, and the presidency to
one six-year term.
"Having presidents able to
serve only one six-year term
would enable them to be more
of a statesman," Smith stated.
Funeral services took place
for Civil War veteran J R.
Bailey.
Heppner High School stu
dents purchased a projector
for the showing of educational
films. A small admission price
was going to he charged to
defray the cost of the rental of
the films.
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Twenty five years ago
Oliver Devin. a senior boy at
Heppner High School, came in
third place in the Morrow
County Livestock Growers
meat identification contest.
He was one of several boys in
the homemaking class, where
he learned about different cuts
of meat. Mrs. Roy Orwick won
first prize and Mrs. G.
Hermann placed second.
The Star Theater in Hepp
ner was closed for two days
for the installation of a new
larger screen that was 21 feet
wide, seven feet wider than
the older one. The theater
could now show Cinemascope
and wide screen motion pic
tures so the managers chould
show a wider variety of films.
The Morrow County Grain
Growers new dock, three
miles west of Irrigon. was in
operation, the first barge load
of wheat was loaded and it was
going to be transfered to an
ocean liner in Portland and
then shipped to Japan.
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Five years ago Dr. Joe
Gifford visited Heppner from
his practice in Pendleton. He
said he may set up a practice
here if the community will
provide the clinical facilities
forayear. Another doctor. Dr.
Richard Carpenter, also of
Ullman says windfall
tax measure Vital5
Oregon Congressman Al
Ullman said the Windfall
Profits Tax bill now in the
final stages of action in
Congress should increase dra
matically incentives to deve-
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
What's the ONE issue
you would discuss ?
Editor:
This letter is to mention that
I have filed for candidacy with
the Secretary of State of
Oregon to run for U. S. Con
gress as a representative of
Congressional District 4.
I am a Republican.
This would be a good time
for you to write to me, ask
quet 'ions, and define for me
the ONE key issue you would
like to discuss.
Here is an excerpt from
Harvard Magazine:
In an originally self-suffi-
Electric power
from Willow dam
Editor:
Army Corps of Engineers
plans for Willow Creek Dam
look just right, with one
exception. No electric power
production is featured. With
energy in short supply today,
none should be wasted.
Admittedly the quantity of
discharged water will be
small. But Allis Chalmers
Corporation now has genera
tors available which obtain
electricity from any amount of
water flow. These "tube" type
turbines are available in sizes
anywhere from 50 to 5,000
kilowatts. I'm sure other
manufacturers can supply
similar units. It's also feasible
to install these mini-generators
at most dams which
presently have no power
output.
Anthony J. Golden
Instructor
Oregon Polytechnic Institute
812 S.W. 10th Ave.
Portland, OR 97205
cient rural agricultural socie
ty, population pressures on the
land begin to increase and the
farm sizes to decrease throu
gh subdivision of land by
succeeding generations, until
the farms reach non-economic
proportions. Then, under bad
weather conditions, some of
the smaller farmers go bank
rupt and their lands fall into
the hands of money lenders
and the larger landholders. In
this way there is an accumu
lation of landholdings in the
hands of some, while more
and more of the smaller
farmers become landless la
borers who rely on wage labor
r for their subsistence. With
large numbers of landless
laborers, the landlords are
able to hold wages down to
subsistence level or below.
This forces the laborers to
move from rural areas to seek
better opportunities in the
cities. The cities however,
unlike the cities of Europe
during the start of the indu
strial revolution, are not
sources of massive industrial
employment. Hence there ev
olves in these cities a complex
dual society in which the small
proportion of citizens who are
engaged in the modern sector,
and who receive reasonable
wages and other benefits of
modernization, coexist with
large numbers of people who
live in a hand-to-mouth exist
ence based on odd jobs carried
out in an informal sector. In
the same cities, wage rates in
the organized and informal
sectors can differ by as much
as a factor of ten.
Rutledge Jay
717 S. Pacific Hwy. 99
Talent, Oregon 97540
lop alternative energy sources
at the state, local and indivi
dual levels.
In a speech to the Salem
Chamber of Commerce last
week. Ullman said prompt
action on the legislation is
vital.
Ullman said the tax will
recapture approximately 227
billion dollars in oil producer
profils over the next decade.
The hulk of the revenue will be
used to provide assistance to
low income people hit hard by
rising fuel bills.
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Lexington
ineqys
Delpha Jones
Lexington City Council met
for its regular meeting on
Tuesday evening. The main
topic was the public trend to
change from oil heat to wood
heal and various safety pro
jects. Ed Baker, the fire chief,
told the group that anyone
wishing may get a voluntary
chimney safety check from
the fire department.
It was also stated that those
people with the wood stoves
controlled by a thermostat,
must, at sometime within a
24-hour burning period, open
the door and burn high for at
least five minutes to control
the creosote deposit in the
chimney and stove.
Any questions on this may
be answered by calling Baker.
If one is planning to install a
wood-burning unit, a building
permit is now required.
Lexington Grange will meet
Monday. Jan. 21 at the hall.
This will start with the
pancake supper served by the
men. followed by the regular
business session. Slides shown
by Ken Smouse are the sche
duled program for the even
. ing. All members are urged to
attend the regular meeting.
Thank-you for small favors
By Bill Hall
The Power County Press
American Falls, Idaho
"Thank you for not smoking," says the sign, laying down
the law of the premises in the most cordial language it can
muster.
Or at least that was once the intent. The originator of
those signs wanted to soften the rude blow of the plain, old
blunt "No Smoking" signs and accomplish the same result.
Thus the clever ploy of thanking people for complying with a
house rule before they have actually decided to comply with
it. It's a bit like saying, "Thank you for the lunch you are
about to buy me."
The original intent was civil but there is now something
sanctimonious about the way those signs are used, something
haughty and superior, something insincere a command
disguised as a pleasantry.
Less offensive is another popular sign that pretends to
issue a command but is really trying to josh people out of
lighting up:
"No smoking. Anyone caught smoking on the premises
will be hung by the toenails and pummeled into
unconsciousness with an organic carrot."
"Thank you for not smoking" is really pretty cheeky. It
declares another person's bad habit to be so much more
wretched than your own that you dare put up a sign about it.
How superior the sign is can best by appreciated by felling
the sting of the same sort of thing directed at one of your bad
habits. (Oh, come now, surely you have one.) What if,
wherever you went, there were signs reading:
Thank you for not humming country music.
Thank you for not owning a cat.
Thank you for not being bald.
Thank you. for not wearing a tee shirt with a cute slogan on
it.
Thank you for not using the word cute.
Thank you for not being a sober Methodist.
Thank you for not being a liberal Republican.
Thank you for not looking like a druggist.
Thank you for not bringing your ugly mother.
Thank you for supressing the urge to disco.
Thank you for not standing still in your jogging shoes.
Thank you for not asking my astrological sign.
Thank you for not talking about health food.
Thank you for not making a pass at my wife.
Thank your wife for not passing out.
Thank you for not running off with a priest. (We'll have nun
of that.)
Thank you for not wiping your nose on my sleeve.
Thank you for not being from Spokane.
Thank you for not playing Stravinsky on your pocket comb.
Thank you for not raving about square dancing.
Thank your for not being the Ayatollah Smith.
Thank you for parking your snowmobile in the quicksand.
Thank you you for not coming in here without a sack over
your head.
Thank you for not having your hair teased.
Thank you for not having hair.
Thank you for not being a ghost of Guy Lombardo.
Thank you for not eating bullfrog tacos.
Thank you for not kissing the dog.
Thank you for not knowing the way to San Jose.
Thank you for not saying "Have a happy day!"
Thank you for not spilling the sheep dip.
Thank you for not being pathologically sincere.
Thank you for not asking how to spell Engelbert
Humperdinck.
Thank you for leaving your roller skates outsice the
teahouse.
Thank you for not doing fat jokes around Santa Claus.
Thankyou for not putting up any signs.
Thank you.
Older homeowners may
file for tax deferment
Pendleton, was also contem
plating a practice in Heppner
under the same conditions.
The crime rate in Morrow
County for 1974 was low
according to Sheriff John
Mollahan. Only 79 complaints
wre recorded for the entire
year.
About six inches of snow fell
on Morrow County and when,
after a warming trend came
and the snow melted, a wind
storm whipped through the
county. Wind speeds were
estimated at 75 miles per
hour.
Older Oregon homeowners
can file now to defer their
property tax payments. The
sign-up period for Oregon's
Senior Citizen's Property Tax
Deferral Program is Jan. 1 to
April 1.
To qualify, the owner must
be at least 62 years-old as of
March 1. 1980. have a recorded
title to the property or be
buying it under a recorded
sales contract, and live on the
property.
Persons participating in the
program may still be eligible
for the state's Tax Relief Plan
and the Homeowner and
Renter Refund Program
(HARRP).
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