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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1980)
Amy C, Sperry, who taught school in lone for 23 years, from 1919 to 1942, died Monday, Feb. 4. in the Tri-State Convalescent Home in Clarkston, Wash. She was 83. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the lone Cemetery with the Rev. John Maas officiating. Mrs. Sperry taught in Asot tin.. from 1943 to 1944 and in Amy C. Sperry Newberg, Ore., from 1944 to 1958. when she retired. Her husband. Elisha Sperry died in July of 1950. Surviving are two daughters, Eileen Padberg of Lexington and Charlotte Ausman of Lewis ton. Idaho: six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Arrangements are being made by Merchant Funeral Home of Clarkston. Zephyl A. Zephyl A. Harrison, 79, died Sunday at Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Harrison was born Aug. 11, 1900, at Berlin, Ore. He was a cattle rancher for many years at Monument, and had been a resident of the Hermiston Echo area since 1959. He was a member of Eagle Creek Grange, Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star. Survivors include his step daughter Gertrude Roberts, of Harrison Portland, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral will be 2 . p.m. The funeral was Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church in Monument, with vault interment at Monument Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Heart Fund or the Cancer Fund. Burns Mortuary, Hermis ton, is in charge of arrangements. Blue Mt. College budget OK'd After reviewing expected income sources and proposed expenditures, the Blue Moun tain Community College Bud get committee formally adop ted the college budget for 1980 81 at the Jan. 30 meeting. The budget will require an 8.5 percent increase in the tax levy to generate $2.3 million of the $4.5 million total budget. The tax levy increase is pegged at $184,594. To arrive at a tax increase less than 10 percent as requested by the budget committee, BMCC adminstra tors pared budget requests by $176,315 in the areas of travel, new equipment and personnel. The college tax levy will go before the voters March 25. BMCC has no tax base and must go to the voters each year for levy approval. 9 convicted in fraud over jobless pay Tin- lli-ppiii-r (ii.i M Timi s. Heppner. Oregon, Thursday. February 7, 1 980 THREE Farmers to benefit from loan price hike During the fourth quarter of 1979 (October to December) the State of Oregon. Employ ment Division, obtained con victions against nine defen dants who committed fraud by drawing Unemployment In surance benefits while work ing. There are now 45 fraud cases pending in various counties throughout the State, the Employment Division re ports. Full restitution of monies was ordered in all nine cases with the largest overpayment being $2,346. One claimant was fined $505 while another claimant was sentenced to ten days in jail. All defendents were given probationary per iods of from two to five years. Seven claimants were con victed of a Class C felony while two were convicted of a Class A misdemeanor. In addition to the nine court cases, during (he fourth quar ter of 1979. 343 Unemployment Insurance claimants were issued Administrative penal ties for committing wilful misrepresentation in connec tion with their claims. A total of 3.633 calendar weeks of future benefits were denied these 343 claimants. They were also ordered to repay $122,126 in Unemployment In surance benefits they had fraudulently obtained. During the fourth quarter, 1979. the Employment Divi sion collected $205,364.56 in overpayments previously de tected. This figure represents both fraudulent and non fraudulent overpayment col lections, the Employment Di vision reports. Livestock grazing fee goes up, effective March 1 Woman announces she's candidate for U.S. Senate Brenda Jose, vice chairman of the Oregon State Republi can Party, has announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate. In addition to her post as vice chairman of the Oregon GOP. Jose also is on the executive committee of the state party and the Clackamas County GOP committee. Jose is married to Stephen R. Jose, an architect. They reside in Clackamas with their 10-year-old son Tim. Jose, who was born in Ogden, Utah, Feb. 2, 1947, attended Taft and Bethany Colleges, she works as a substitute teacher specializing in early childhood education. Previously, she held posi tions with United Airlines, First National Bank of Oregon and now heads her own public relations and advertising firm. The 1980 fee for grazing livestock on most Bureau of Land Management property will be $2.36 per animal unit month (AUM). The new rate is effective March 1. Last year's fee was $1 .89 per AUM . An AUM is the equivalent of one cow. one horse, or five sheep grazing for one month. Grazing fees are based on a formula contained in the Public Rangelands Improve ment Act (PRIA) of 1978. Under the formula, this year's fee would have been $2.54, but PRIA limits the increase or decrease in the fee to 25 percent of the previous year's AWOL soldiers turn selves in Lloyd A. Tarpening, for merly of Heppner, and Mi chael L. Glydewill turned themselves into officer Doug las Rathbun in Heppner as they were AWOL from the U.S. Army. They were trans ported to the Umatilla County Jail, according to the Morrow County Sheriff's Office. In other sheriff's news, Dennis William Fitzwater, 830 W. Quince in Hermiston, reported an Evinrude Starfire 50 horsepower outboard motor worth $500 missing from his former residence in Irrigon. A warrant was released for Roberto Castro of Milton Freewater for the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana. Rainer H. Burg of Kenne wick. Wash, was in a one-car accident on Tower Read in Boardman. His 1973 Volkswa gen ran off the icy road near the coal -fired plant. It was traveling about 40 miles an hour. Burg received minor injuries but the car rolled and received major damage. John Edward McLaughlin of Michigan was cited with possession of more than one ounce of marijuana. He was stopped by Deputy Oakes of the Morrow County Sheriff's Office with Officer Paul Brooks of the Boardman Police Dept. as the witness. He was originally stopped because his license tabs on the car he was driving are expired. The officers noticed marijuana paraphenalia on the car seat and the smell of marijuana inside the car so with McLaughlin's permission they searched the vehicle and they found marijuana in the glove compartment. He will appear Feb. 19 in the justice court in Heppner. Ashly McCabe of The Dalles reported a 40 channel CB radio worth $80 stolen from his car while he was at the Heppner basketball game last Friday. A runaway juvenile was returned from his girlfriend's home in Irrigon to his foster family of Burton and Kathe rine Foote, Box 41 Rt. 2 Box 2888-6 in Hermiston. Suzanne Tacza was taken in an ambulance to the hospital in Hermiston after she over dosed on approximately 30 capsules of ampecillin, sheriff reports say. She lives at the Shirley Ruggs sheep ranch. Kenneth Allen Sinor, Box 118 Rt. 1 in Boardman, reported that his dog, a cocker spaniel named "Sandy", was killed by his neighbor. The dog was valued at $500. The dog was struck and then went into a coma and died of respiratory failure. No one was cited as Monday because a complaint had not been signed yet by Sinor. A two-car injury accident took place on the Kunze Road near Boardman last weekend. The 1967 Dodge Ramcharger driven by William Earl War- nock, Box 412 Kunze Road, and occupied by his wife Marilyn Warnock collided with a car driven by Marvin Lewis Vincent, 714 N.E. Park St. in Boardman. No one was cited. The cause of the wreck was icy road conditions and poor visibility. The cars were traveling at about approxi mately 20 mph. Susan Kay Poulson, P.O. Box 301 in Boardman, re ported that Anne Mae Wilson of the same address had 90 $2 bills taken from a ceramic box she had in the bedroom of the trailer house. the Red Lion Indian Hills presents SUNDAY BRUNCH with a difference kVb :,j if - 4 The difference begins with the surroundings: the beautiful Red Lion Dining Room. And this weekly event more than lives up to the atmosphere. Absolutely delightful. This extravaganza includes such mouth- watering delights as: Seasonal Fresh Fruits, Juices, Scrambled Eggs, Hash Browns, French Toast, Blue berry Muffins, Sausage, Canadian Bacon and other weekly special items. Truly Sunday Brunch with a difference. A delightful difference. 9:00AM to 2:00PM RED UOn moron inn at mDinn hills 304 S.E. Patawa Road Pendleton (503) 276-61 1 1 rate. The formula accounts for beef cattle prices, production costs, and forage costs. An exception to the $2.3fi rate is on BLM's O&C lands in western Oregon. Fees for those lands are set in conjunc tion with the Forest Service and this year will be $2.54 per Fifty percent of the fees collected within grazing dis tricts is used to finance range improvement practices. Another 37.5 percent is re turned to the U.S. Treasury, with the remaining 12.5 per cent being allotted to the courilies. Judy Buschke, county exe cutive director of the Morrow County Agricultural Stabiliza tion and Conservation Service office (ASCS). reported that 1979 national average loan rates were increased from $2.35 to $2.50 a bushel for wheat, from $2 to $2.10 a bushel for corn, and from $1.63 to $1.71 a bushel for barley. She pointed out that price support levels for other feed grains were increased com parable to corn for oats from $1.03 to $1.08 per bushel; for sorghum, from $3.39 to $3.57 per hundred-weight. New county loan prices for wheat and barley are $2.64 and $1.89 per bushel, respectively. The new rates are effective immediately. "The increased loan prices will not only give farmers additional interim financing, but will also automatically raise the release and call price for wheat and feed grains in the reserve," she said. For grain placed in the reserve before January 7. 1980. the new release levels are: wheat $3.50 per bushel; corn $2.63 per bushel: oats. $1.35 per bushel; barley, $2.14 per bushel; sorghum. $4.46 per hundredweight. The new call levels for grain entered into the reserve before Jan. 7 are: wheat. $4.38; corn. $2.94: oats. $1.51: barley. $2.39. $2.48; sorghum, $5.18. Morrow County farmers have placed over 303,252.44 bushels of their 1979 grain under price support loan. According to Mrs. Buschke, Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland also waived the first year interest costs for the next 512 million bushels of corn entering the national reserve for the first time and in creased reserve storage pay ments from 25 to 26'z cents a bushel for all reserve commo dilies except oats, which went from 19 to 20 cents a bushel. Grain under loan may be stored on farms or in com mercial warehouses. ITS H O You Heed a Mcp to Krow the Area We have Metsker's Maps of Morrow, j ill mm, unuJi) Heppner Maps 25 each $1 County Maps $275 each Sherman and Umatilla Counties Make tracks to The Heppner . ft r 7 Prke8 Effective Feb-?-8 9 Pier Fully Cooked I jg Arm Cut A " 69 ;V, Smoked and Boneless JpSf JL lb' X lb- C?r vS Swiss Miss Regular or Marshm allow Lum berjack V57 JL s0m$ )JL 24'- : : i ''&?x Krusteaz Golden PooU MW ' l:y;V:M RedandGoi Vtr icuuiuus tuples 7 lb. Bag ib. Snoboy Pink Grapefruit 5 for 100 JULPJL' C WM lipp!ii Green Cabbage T lb. Carrots 2lib.bag 3 Bisquick Baking Mix .-f &r .t V 1 29 oz Margarine in 79 Libby's Pumpkin 2 for $100 Ml 39 60 oz. t MARKET Grocery Dept. 676-9614 Meat Dept. 676-92SI
