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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1980)
The llcitiir r (iiicltc-Tinios, llrppner. Oregon, Thursday, January 21, 1JW0 THREP; i School bond fund gains by $39,000, Doherty tells board if' i , 7 Cf , -.v. j? if V'. V . V H. J, V- ' I (ii 4 " V;i 1 iir V"Vi4j 1- ( An excited Tracy Ami Mohr, 18, of Oregon City ( left), was crowned 1!S0 Oregon Dairy Princess in Portland Monday and contratiilated by outgoing princess Mary Ann Blackburn, 19, of Vale. Miss Mohr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Mohr, is a student at Clackamas Community College. Changes made in Port's waste-water plans Michner and Associates have made some changes in Port of Morrow Manager Buddy Toadvin's plans for the wastewater treatment system to be installed on port land. At the request of Gourmet Foods and Oregon Potato, Michner and Associates is reviewing plans for the sys tem . The two firms threatened a law suit three months ago against the Port of Morrow if a review was not made. Michner and Associates has changed the piping from 10 inches to 12 inches and recommended the use of butterfly valves in the hydro lie part of the piping that will be operated all year- Ditches currently are being dug for the piping. The review is expected to be completed soon and work on the project is expected to begin by Feb. 15. The reviewing firm is still working on the sedimentation basin part of the project. They are going to inspect the laying of the pipe. Toadvin is going to give a site inspection for Gourmet Foods because its $833,400 bond has not been approved yet. In other news, the port nominated Dallas Dusenber ry. port manager at Hood River, and Steve Lindstrom, former port manager at the Port of Umatilla, to the Governor's Advisory Council on Maritime Affairs. The port officially signed a lease for 813 acres of port land with Miracle Potato. It re places the defunct lease with J&B Farming. The port is buying used irrigation equipment from Miracle Potato for $38,626.90. It has a one-year warranty. The port did not sign its lease with Harbor Timber Co. because it is having the Army Corps of Engineers approve the transaction. The 52.76 acres must have certain condit ions in the lease because part of the land has been designated public. OBIWMIB Opal Padberg Burton Opal Padberg Burton died in a Portland hospital on Jan. 15 at the age of 82. , She was a granddaughter of Morrow County pioneer fami lies, Henry and Martha Riggs Padberg and Albert and Sarah Perkins Wood. Opal's father, James E. Hams Funeral services for James E. Hams. 87. took place Jan. 21 at ' the First Christian Church in Heppner. Mr. Hams died in Heppner Jan. 17. Concluding services and : vault interment were at the Heppner Masonic Cemetery. Sweeney Mortuary was in charge of the arrangements. Hams, a retired wheat rancher, was born in Hard man in 1892 and lived in the area all his life. His wife, LaVelle, died in 1975. Survivors are his sons, ,Donald of Heppner, LaVerne of lone and Vester of Hermis '" ton. There are 10 grandchil dren and 14 great-grandchildren. Carl Marquardt sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "In the Garden." with Betty Marquardt at the organ. Casket bearers were Dallas McDaniel. James Lovgren, Dallas Craber. Robert Ste vens. Don McElligott and Dick McElligott. Edward Lee, was the Pad berg's eldest son. He was born three miles from lone, on Sept. 1, 1870, and grew up on the Rhea Creek farm that, niore than a century later, is still in the family. Opal's mother, Lana Ann Wood, was five when her parents moved to lone in 1884. Opal Padberg was born near lone on Dec. 2, 1897, and spent her girlhood in the lone home on 2nd Street that her parents bought around 1906. This home is also still in the family. She was a member of the Baptist Church, a member ship that began with the lone Baptist Church. In later years, she lived in surrounding towns before moving from Arlington to Portland in 1937. Here, in 1941, she and Chester W. Burton were married. He died Dec. 16, 1964. Opal's survivors include five stepchildren, Marshburn Burton of Livermore, Calif., John Burton of Gig Harbor, Wash., Chester Burton, Noelle Statter and Sandra Mathiesen, all of Portland; a daughter, Guyla Cason Misetich; a son, Robert E. Cason; a sister, Pearl P. Kruse, all of Port land, a brother Darrell E. Padberg, of lone; 22 grand children, two great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral services were held Jan. 19 at Zeller Chapel of the Roses, with private interment at Riverview Cemetery in Portland. School superintendant Matt Doherty announced at the school board meeting Monday Elks collect about 170 hides About 170 hides have been collected in barrels in various locations in the cities of Heppner. lone and Lexington, according to Glen Ward, organizer for the Elks hide collection. "I would like to thank everyone who donated the hides from their animals." Ward said. Ward said the Elks have an agreement with a tannery company that the tannery will receive half of the leather from the hides and the Veterans Hospital in Port land will get the rest of the processed leather. Ten cow, 40 elk and 120 deer hides were collected this year, Ward said. He said about 200 have been collected in past years and that number has been steady. "We have collected about 6.000 hides since we started the program about 20 years ago," Ward said. "We had 1.100 the first year." Venereal disease cases increase Morrow County reported seven cases of gonorrhea for 1979. which is up two from the five-year average of five per year. According to statistics of the Oregon State Health Division. Morrow County reported no cases of influenza, dropping its five-year average to 28 a year for that communicable disease. One case of early syphillis was reported, the first in the five-year period. No cases of hepatitis were reported but the five-year average is 2.6 a year. There has been only one case of tuberculosis in the last, five years, none in 1979, and only one case of rubella in the five-year period, none last year. Some other Oregon counties comparable in size to Morrow County have some interesting statistics to compare to. Wallowa County, with 700 more in population, reported six gonorrhea cases raising its five-year average to 3.4 a year. Lake County, with 500 more people, had two cases of gonorrhea reported so its five-year average dropped to 6.2 a year. Harney County, with 1.250 more in population, had no cases of gonorrhea reported dropping its average to 5.4 a year and Grant County, with 1,300 more in population, reported no cases of the disease dropping its percen tage to only one a year for the five-year period. All of those counties repor ted more cases of influenza than Morrow County. Statis tics for the other communica ble diseases were similar. Tickets on sale for "Camelot" Tickets are currently on sale for the musical "Came lot" presented by the Blue Mountain Community College music department. All seats are $2.50 and can be purchased by writing: BMCC Music Department, P.O. Box 100. Pendleton. Oregon 97801. Tickets will be mailed upon receipt of pay ment. "Camelot" will be presen ted in the BMCC Pioneer Theatre Jan. 24 through 26 and Jan. 31. Feb. 1 and 2. A special matinee will be presented Sunday. Jan. 27. The college musical is in addition to the three plays presented by the College-Community Theatre group. CCT season tickets will not be honored. BMCC Golden Age cards will admit seniors 65 years of age and older to the production for free. night in lone that there may be some extra money accumula ted from interest earned' on the bond issue passed last year. Doherty said the amount could be as high as $39,000. The board members decided to keep 30 percent of whatever is accumulated and use the rest for capital outlay expen ditures. Doherty said he is going to ask the county principals to prioritize their projects that were planned in next year's budgets to see which ones can be done this year with the extra interest money. That way. next year's budget can be reduced before it goes before the voters and Land trade... (Continued from page 1) is recreation on our land. Deer hunting, hike riders come up from Portland. Arrowheads have been dug up. II does have public value." Mrs. Krebs said if the land is traded, the 165 acres along the - Deschutes will be used for an off-river campground for boaters. Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus will decide if the lands will be traded. He is reviewing statements from the interested parties. Mrs. Krebs said she does not know how long the review will take. the work can still be done, he said. Attorney Bob Abrams said the conditions of the bond issue require that the money be spent on buildings, grounds or equipment at any of the schools. Doherty said $1,040,000 is in the school budget now with $400,000 of that interest. He said he has put a freeze on what is spent to be only what has been budgeted so there should be the extra $39,000. As for the new budget, Doherty said he has asked the schools principals to go through their requests to try and cut down. "I don't want to have to buy the cheapest (equipment, sup plies, etc.) but we don't have to buy the Cadillac of the line either," Doherty said. Doherty said at the end of January, half of the school year will be over and already one section of the transporta tion budget will be operating in the red. He said it could be as much as $3,000 in the red by the end of the year. He said the entire transpor tation budget should be able to offset the problem. The reason it is so far underbudgeted. he said, is because three bus drivers have been doing so much driving that they now are almost full-time. Because they are working so many hours, money has to be paid into the state retirement system for them and that was not planned in the budget. The school board members discussed the possibility of making insurance available for students. A student at Heppner High School had her piccolo stolen and her parents were trying to see if the school board would approve money to pay for it. A new tape deck and turntable were stolen from the band room at the same time. The board decided the school could not be liable for the loss but some type of insurance to cover that kind of loss should be made available by the school district. The school board decided to reject all bids for the contract ing of buses in the north end of Morrow County. The board look no action on the request of John Van (Continued on page HI) Boardman orders special census They are going to take-a head count in Boardman this month because city officials there don't believe the census estimates announced recently by the Portland State Univer sity Center for Population Research. A spokesman at Portland Slate said Boardman's popu- lalion was placed at 1.210 as of July 1. 1978. and 1,290 by estimate' as of last July 1. Boardman officials believe they have more people than that in the town, because of the growth in irrigated farm ing the area and the construc tion of Portland General Electric's coal-fired genera ling plant. The amount of state-shared revenues allocated to the city would depend on whatever the official census figure is. So the count is scheduled to start Jan. 28. according to City Clerk Shirley Zielinski. The census will be supervised by Bill Barber, who is in charge )f census and surveys for Portland State. Boardman ivill supply the enumerators. vho will go from door to door. It is estimated the census vvill take five days. Zielinski said. Morrow County's population has been estimated at 7.400. Other incorporated communi ties have these estimates: Heppner 1.740 as of July 1, 1979 (tip from 1.700 the year before): Lexington. 290 (up from 200): lone. 370 (no change), and Irrigon. 490 (no change). Boardman's special census will he accepted as official by the state. Portland State University has conducted about 40 cen suses in the last five or six years. Currently a census is underway in Tualatin. Ed Schafer. director of the university's population re search activities, said the population for many of Oregon's smaller towns has been exaggerated for almost a decade. He said the recent estimates resulted from downward revi sions in the number of people living in each household. This was done, he said, to reflect that Oregon i a ns are having fewer children, young people move away from home at an earlier age. and divorces are on the rise, causing many persons to live alone. "The estimates, on the whole, are probably better this year than they were last year." he said. "There are probably some cities that are too low with regard to the average house hold size, and there are . probably some that are too high, but that's what esti mates are all about." p ' "7 Cucumber 5 I . Armour 8 Combination jfte P OAc I .... ' ' Pink Grapefruit 3o 8 Bo oqnaSa am plfe ' I 12 oz. pkg. J I V : ,., Radishes or I fei&l&l Sausage Green Omens mmmm : 2bu. -mm Oregon Chief J - f Of 35 J Bscf Wisnsrs p I I 'I " : - -- I I NaBev's Jif Crunchv or Creamy 1 n in 18 oz. I Nattey's Real Mayonnaise at. Western Family Jif Crunchv or Creamy Peanut Butter TUna orwtrpk TOc i yiitTzrr. t; : ma .rv..'v(urwR' .i bVi oz. Duncan Hines Brownie Mix 1 Orviffe Redenbacher Popcorn 1 69 30 oz. 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