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TWKI.VK The Ileppner Gazette-Times, lleppner, Oregon. Thursday, January 24, 1!S0 Burglars hit Office Tavern in lone and Boardman beauty salon Orville Cutsforth, Rt 2 Box 2082 in Hcppner, reported to the Morrow County Sheriff's Office this week that the two .30 caliber Luger pistols he reported stolen recently were returned. He found them in his pickup truck on the seat. Whoever returned the guns did not ask for the reward Cutsforth was offering. Other cases reported by the sheriff include: the Office Tavern in lone had $30 taken when someone broke open the back door and entered the building. The owner of the tavern is Montie Lee Crum. Akers Trailer Court in lone. Billie June Akers, P.O. Box 2f5 in lone, reported the money missing to the sheriff's office. There was $150 in the box that the money was taken from. Sandra Maxwell, Rt, 2 Box 5-12 in Irrigon, reported that Ronald Curtis Maxwell's 1974 Honda Z 50 was stolen from their shed. The gold motorcy cle was valued at $100. Rob Leichleiter. Sandpiper Apis. No. 4 in Boardman. reported the theft of $150 in cash ;ind $70 in checks from the One Step Hair Stylos on Columbia Avenue in Board man. Leichleiter, the owner. said the front door was kicked in. Among the stolen checks was one for $40 with the payee line lefl blank. Morrow County receives $64,629 The State Highway Division has distributed $16,892,385.99 in highway user fees to the 36 counties of the state during the period July 1 to Dec. 31, 1979. H. Scott Coulter, state high way engineer, said recently. Morrow County with 8,628 registered vehicles, received $64,629.79. Multnomah County, with 437,242 registered vehicles. $3,276,614.07. The allocation is based on the statutory 20 percent, with the appropriation being made on a monthly basis. The funds come from the following sources: motor vehi cle registration and operator's license fees, gasoline tax, use fuel tax, motor carrier fees, and fines and penalties collec- and weight statutes from citations issued by Highway Division weighmasjlers. The allocation to each county is based on (he number of vehicles registered in it during the year. This year's allocation is approximately $2 million less than for the same period a year ago when the counties recived $18,701,235.88. The decrease is attributed primarily to the gas Forestry agent staff for two A new agent, who will conduct a forestry education program in Grant and Morrow Counties, has joined the Ore gon State University Exten sion Service. Maurice Mitchell will be respo sible for educational programs related to the pro duction and management of timber products and the management of timber and received the most money with ted for violations of the size shortage. Enviromental Impact statement released It is estimated the Heppner Unit of the Umatilla National Forest will supply nine million more board feet of wood. 133 more wood fiber jobs. $513 million to the county but 140 fewer elk. Those statistics are part of the Final Environmental Im pact Statement for the Hepp ner Planning Unit. Land Management Plan, that has been researched by the USDA Forest Service. The Forest Service has prepared a 486 page book with maps of the land in the Heppner Unit and recommen ded a plan on how the land should be used so it will benefit the county the most. Five management alterna tives were prepared and Alternative E was selected as the best for the Heppner Unit. Alternative E emphasizes a high level of timber produc tion. It also placed an empha sis on domestic livestock grazing, semi remote recrea tional areas and less than half of the unit will be planned for optimum wildlife habitat to support a high level of elk. Of the 271,155 acres in the Heppner Unit, 78.000 acres will allow timber harvesting and domestic grazing only if the elk habitat can be opti mized. About 24,000 acres of that land will have road restrictions. The other 168,000 acres will emphasize timber production and domestic grazing and roads will remain open as long as there is no resource damage. Alternative E was selected over the other alternatives. Alternative A emphasized wood fiber production, domes tic grazing and maintaining wildlife levels. Alternative B blends the amenity of land management and commodity products with a major emphasis on recrea tion in the forests, wood fiber production, domestic grazing and the least important aspect of that plan, to supply an elk habitat. Alternative C placed its emphasis on timber harvest and domestic grazing and Alternative D planned for the development of recreation, with timber production second in importance and elk habitat third. Some of the projected envi ronmental impacts for the Heppner Unit with the imple mentation of Alternative E include: An increase of today's 33 million board feet of wood to 42 million. Wood fiber jobs up from 490 to 623. Money returned to the county up from $1,881 million to $2,394 million. And a drop in elk from 4,440 to 4.300. The impact statement was studied by the public, an interdisciplinary team, state and local government agen cies. The major issues of consi deration were outdoor recrea tion opportunities, wood fiber yield, forage for domestic livestock grazing, habitat di versity for wildlife, water quantity and quality, soil productivity. Rocky Mountain Elk and road use. Ren Seminoe of the Ranger District office in Heppner said Alternative E will be imple mented Feb. 9. He said the impact state ment is a guideline for the allocation of the Heppner Unit land to emphasize different land uses for the forest resources. He said the Forest Service land will be used to supply the "greatest good for the great est number of people." Seminoe said the impact statement will help them to manage the resources avail able. "It took several years of planning (to decide on a management alternataive. re search and to prepare the impact statement)." Seminoe said. on Extension counties rangeland resources, accord ing to H A. Wadsworth. OSU Extension director. In addition. Mitchell will work with private timber owners and public agencies, said Harold Kerr. Morrow County Extension staff chair man. His work is intended to help people make sound tim ber management decisions on public and private lands. Mitchell will be located in the Grant County Extension office in Canyon City. He can be contacted by calling the Morrow County Extension office. 676-9642. Since 1974, Mitchell has been an instructor and forest land manager at Mississippi State University in Starkville. He managed the university's 8.200 acres of forest land and taught courses in forestry. Prior to that, he was a forester with the Arizona State Land Department in Phoenix. He obtained and distributed tree seedlings to land owners, and provided assistance to small woodland owners and resource conservation dis tricts. Mitchell attended Northern Arizona University, where he received a bachelor's degree in forestry in 1970. He received his master's degree in forest ry from the same school in 1972. The new agent is a member of the Society of- American Foresters and the American Forestry Association. He began working in the Grant-Morrow County exten sion offices on Dec. 31. David Dee Schwarzin. P.O. Box 381 in Heppner, reported that he ran into and killed a cow on Highway 74 while he was driving his 1969 Mercury Montego. The cow was owned by Charles J. Daly of Butter Creek. John Raymond Cook, Rt. fi Box 6714 in Caldwell, Idaho, reported some tools stolen. He reported that he was in an accident and the tools in the back of his truck were thrown out. When he returned to get them, they were gone. Roscoe Wesley Moore Jr., 306 Columbia Court in Board man, violated a court order by contacting his wife. Cassie. He was lodged in the Hermiston Safety Center for violating the restraining order, Naomi Sarrah Hum repor ted that Deborah Franke's 1970 Chevy Nova worth $1,000 wsa taken from the Hum residence. In other sheriff's news Virgil Cook, a security guard for PGE, reported a burglary of two guns. Lisa Collins reported the loss of a diamond ring but it was later found. Randy Zimmerman, Mari lyn Collette and James Judd were cited for having an open container in a car. Vickie Pate of Irrigon repor ted a stolen Yamaha 80 that was later recovered. Northwestern Livestock Comm. Co. 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