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
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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.
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Maps of Morrow,
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25
each
$1
County Maps
$275 each
Sherman and
Umatilla Counties
Make tracks to
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676-9614
Meat Dept.
676-92SI