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The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 20, 1980-NINE School board candidates speak out Some candidates decide not to respond to questionaire In an effort to Inform the voting public on the candi dates they will be voting on in the election next Tuesday, the Heppner Gazette-Times has submitted a mieslionaire to all of the school board and school board advisory hopefuls. The articles on this "Elec tion Page" were written from information obtained from the candidates who returned the questionaire. The following candidates lid not respond. Sharon Hill -a candidate for the school hoard at-large position. Paul """ ' II;11"" iff IrP I 1 Sumner CBEC employee f, ram Mimner. Kt z mox z:iv7 in Heppner, is running against Monte Stookey for the Zone VII school board position from the Heppner area Sumner, 33, has lived in Morrow County for five years and has a wife and two children. He is a s'aff assis 'ant at the Columbia Basin ' lee'ne Cooperative. Sumner has been a member of the Heppner Advisory M.Jack Strege M Jack Strege, Ht. 1 No. 3 Kastreuaard Ksl. in Board man, has lived in Morrow County for 18 months and is interested in becoming a member of the advisory board to the school Iniard from the Boardman area He is chairman of the board for (he Boardman Commer cial Club, president of the Columbia Little league, presi dent vf the Boardman Lions George George Koffler, 130 Fast Quaid in Heppner, is running against Judy Buschke for the Heppner Advisory Board Posi tion No. 1. Koffler, 28, is a member of the Lions Club, Klks Scholar ship Committee and the Hepp ner City Budget Committee. His goals are to have quality education for all children and George Koffler J(r- III :'t J I i k Sty L I Shane Fritz a candidate ' for the school board advisory committee for Boardman Po sition No. 2. Gail Hughes a candidate for the Heppner Position No. 5 on the advisory board. Judy Bushke-a candidate for Heppner Position No. 1 on the advisory Board. Paul Tews a candidate for the advisory board for lone Position No. 1. Kd Patton a candidate for the advisory board from lone Psition No. 5. Sumner Committee and the budget committee. His major goal if elected is to "provide the best possible education for our children. In a socu-'v that is becoming more and more technology oriented, the importance of a quality education increases." he said. Besides his high school diploma. Sumner also has an educational background of I'j years of college. Advisory Board Club, a board of directors member of the North Morrow Medical Clinic and a member of the Morrow County School Board Budget Committee. He is an administrative supervi sor. "I have a goal to work with the school board, advisory board and school administra tors and teachers to provide the best education opportunity for all Morrow County chil dren." Slrege said Koffler to have greater accountability for how tax dollars are spent. Koffler has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathema tics from Oregon College of Education and has 30 hours of graduate work in Mathema tics. He is a loan officer at the Bank of Fastern Oregon in Heppner. He has a wife, Debbie, and two children, Hick, 4'j, and Brian, l's. He has lived in Morrow County for five years. "I'm running for this posi tion because I will have children in our school system in the near future," Koffler said. "I care about the direction our school system is taking and would like to have a voice in making the deci sions that affect our schools. My recent involvement with (he schools would provide me with some insight that the other board members might not have. I believe we can offer a quality education for our children without an over burdening tax and I would work toward that end." Zone II John Matthews unopposed John F. Matthews, Ht. 2 Box 92 in Irrigon, is running for re-election for the Irrigon Zone II position on the Morrow V John Matthews Zone VII f 1 Stookey opposes budget Monte Stookey is a candi date for the 7A school board position from Heppner. Stookey. P.O. Box 6fi, is 41 years-old and has been active in the Heppner Little league program for seven years. He is also a member of the Heppner Klks Club and an Kmergency Medical Techni cian (K M T.) at the hospital. If elected. Stookey said he will tx an active hoard members with an emphasis on "Active." Stookey is a high school graduate and has taken two years of business manage ment courses at a community college. He works in the log yard and as a plywood production manager for ":n 7tia Corp. He has I'ved in Monow County for six years. His family of eight includes his wil Sharon, and sons Mike. 18. Ken. If!, Andy. 15, and another Mike, 7. His daughters are Marcie, 12. and Kim, 7. Stookey said he is not sold on the new school budget that has Canditates Levella Levella Conboy, 330 N K. 9th in Irrigon, is a candidate for the Advisory Board from the Irrigon area. Conboy, 45. is a homemaker and teaches an adult tole painting course for Blue Mountain Community College. She has been active in high school education, 4-H and Little League. She has a married son, another son in the Air Force, and two daughters, one who is a junior in high school. SI. aron Harrison Sharon Harrison. Clarks Canyon Road in Lexington, is a candidate for (he Ix'xington position on the school advisory board. She has served on the advisory board for three years, is a Sunday School Robin L. Robin L. Cooper, 808 Mt. Hood Ave. in Boardman, is a candidate for the school advi sory committee from Board man and Irrigon. In only ' years in Morrow County, the 3(1 year-old house wife has been active as chairman of the Boardman City Library Committee, a volunteer aide at the AC. Houghton Grade School and a member of the Morrow County School Board Trans portation Committee. County School Board. He is a maintenance em ployee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The 42-year-old has a wife, Shirley, a son, Randall Matthews, and a daughter, Cynthia MaLone, He has lived in Morrow County for 12 years. Matthews has spent eight years on the Morrow County School Board as director and two years as assistant direc tor. "My goal as a board member is to have equal educational opportunities for all students in Morrow Coun ty." Matthews said. been approved by the school board this year. He also does not agree with the tax base (hat has been approved by the board that if passed would allow the budget to increase 18 5 percent a year which is "unreasonable and makes it too easy on them (the school board)," Stookey said. Conboy Conboy has lived in Morrow County for four years and lived in Umatilla County for 20 years. "If elected to this position, I would seek to have the best possible education available for our leaders and citizens of tomorrow," she said. "This is my first experience as a board member. I was named to the board to fill a vacancy and I know I have much to learn." Conboy is the incumbent and is running unopposed. teacher and is secretary for the Willow Creek Country Club, Harrison, 30, has lived in Morrow County all of her life. She is a graduate of Heppner High School, is a homemaker "d has four children. Cooper She is a high school gradu ate and has attended Blue Mountain Community College and Northwestern College of Business in Portland. Cooper has a husband Ro bert, a son Ryan, 7, and a daughter Lisa, 6. "Our school system will meet our needs if we are willing to work for it," Cooper said. "I have learned a great deal from working as an aide at A.C. Houghton and want to continue my involvement in school related matters." ri P wJbk , A.. - - j, " Monte Stookey Greene challenges incumbent Robert L. Greene Jr., P.O. Box 118 in Heppner, is competing against Jean Ben nett, the incumbent, for the Morrow County School Board Zone V position from the Heppner rural area. Greene, 29, Is a member of the Morrow County Search and Rescue team, a member of the Elks Lodge, and a Heppner Little League Base-' ball coach Attorney challenges F.E. "Ed" Glenn is a challenger, along with Sharon Hill, for the at-Iarge school board position currently held by incumbent Pauline Winter. Glenn, 703 Mt. Adams S.W. in Boardman. is a 39-year-old lawyer. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1969 obtaining his Bachelor of Science Degree and he re ceived his doctorate from the same school in 1971. He has lived in Morrow County for 3'a years and has a wife. Frances, and two chil dren : Harold, 9, and Laurel, 6. Glenn served on the school board in LaGrande when it made its decisions on a $9 million construction project, hired a new school superinten dant. and he was a spokesman for the board in its first collective bargaining ses sions. He was also a LaGrande Planning Commission mem ber and has been on the State Citizens Advisory group to the Land Conservation and De velopment Council. Glenn has also organized the Boardman Commercial Club, the Board man Community Club and the Riverside Booster Club. If elected, one of the first things Glenn would push for is a "long range, cost effective maintenance and replacement plan for the entire district physical plant," he said. "With all of the major construction that has been done in the county, it is going Robert Robert Byrd, Box 432 in Irrigon, is the only candidate for the Advisory Board for Irrigon Position No. 5. Byrd, 37, is in the insurance business and has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Eastern Oregon State College. He has a wife, Barbara, and four sons. He has lived in Morrow County 14 years. Byrd is a former teacher and he has been on the 1 i t - Mi,,,, LL Robert Greene USD A to buy suspended grain shipments Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland recently an nounced that the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture will buy wheat and corn suspended from shipment to the Soviet Union. He has lived in Morrow County for eight years and has a wife, Susan, and two children: Ron, 10, and Dava, 9. Greene graduated from high school in Okanogan, Wash, and went to school for two years at Wenatchee Valley College. He was employed at Kinzua until its recent closure and has now embarked on a new business career as a financial broker. He also has an import and export busi ness. "Heppner is my home," Greene said. "I now have the time and I want to do my part in helping with the growth of our area." As to Greene's goals if elected to a school board position, he said, "With the competitiveness for our chil dren of today, I would not only do my best to maintain the standards we now have, but also to improve the educa tional capabilities of our school systems throughout the community. There is always room for improvement." At Glenn incumbent F.E. Glenn to be expensive down the line to replace equipment if it is put off." "I also want an emphasis on basic educat ion of reading and writing skills," he continued. "People run into difficulties when they can't read. Our complex world is moving rapidly and we cannot teach technicalities to last a life time. A person needs to read well to learn new ideas." He said his third goal is to make the school board respon sive to the local people and to integrate the board personnel with the faculty to create an effective team. Glenn said he feels an obligation to society to enter community service activities and he enjoys contributing to the community. Byrd advisory board for two terms. He is also on the board of directors for the Columbia Little League and the River side Booster Club. "I would like to continue to provide quality education for a rapidly expanding area and to keep the channels of communication open between the public and the schools," he said. The Commodity Credit Cor portation (CCC) will offer to buy wheat. Purchases will continue until a quantity equal to that suspended from ship ment to the USSR has been y I j jr ... 4 r i ZoneV Bennett faces Greene in school board race Jean Bennett, 49, is being challenged by Robert L, . Greene for her position on the school board, Zone V from Heppner. She has served on the school board for the past four years. She has also been active on the fair committee, worked with the 4-H as a club leader, is a past-president of the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary and the Morrow County Cow Belles organizations. She also is a member of the Eastern Star, the Methodist Church and is the State Brand Inspector for Morrow County. She has lived in Heppner all of her life and graduated from Heppner High School. She has been married to her husband, Don. for 30 years and she works with him on their farm. The Bennetts have three daughters: Debby Johnston, who has two daughters of her own, Kimberly, S, and Jodi, 3; Judy Barber, who is employed at the Bank of Eastern Large Winter runs for re-election Pauline Winter, Rt. 2 Box 2489 in Heppner, is running for re-election for the Morrow County School Board at-large position. The 45-year-old has been on the school board for nine years and on the Heppner Library Board for eight years. She has a background of four years in college with a political science major. She is the Civil Deputy at the Morrow County Sher iff's Office. Winter has lived in Morrow County for 17' years and has a son who is a junior at Heppner High School and two daughters living in Portland. "I would like to see the board continue its policy of providing equal educational '82 model autos to be safer More than 135 people die everyday in the United States in an automobile accident according to a U.S. Depart ment of Transportation news release. It said auto accidents are the leading cause of epilepsy and paraplegia. They kill more children than any disease or other acciden tal cause including birth defects, drowning and fires. The statistics will poten tially get worse because more people are buying smaller cars in an effort to conserve fuel, it said. Auto injuries are worse than they could be because only 14 percent of all drivers in the U.S. wear seat belts. Automatic seat belts and air bags will be included in 1982 models and the transportation department said they will save 9,000 lives a year and thousands of injuries. Con gress and courts have upheld Brok Adams', transportation secretary, 1977 ruling that requires automobile manufac turers to include these safety devices. In 1982, large cars will be built with air bags or automa tic seat belts, thev will be removed from the market," Bergland said. "Our plan is to use the wheat bought by CCC for overseas food assistance pro grams. To this end it is essential Congress approve v '"V Jean Bennett Oregon; and Sandy Bennett, who works at the Soil and Conservation Service office. "If elected, I want to continue to improve the pre sent high level of education that is being offered in Morrow County schools at the present time," Bennett said. "Other goals are to provide educational opporunitites ac cording to the growth of the county and to use sound judgement in all decisions. Pauline Winter opportunities to all attendance areas of the district," she said. required in 1983 in compact cars and 1984 in subcompact cars. Field experiments indicate the two safety devices are reliable. Air bags have been included in some General Motors cars and automatic seat belts have been in some: Volkswagen Rabbits for the last two years. Five surveys made between 1977 and 1979 show that people favor more protection in cars by a ratio of two to one. The3 news release said people have., little choice over what type of safety equipment is in a car. Society bears an enormous expense when automobiles are involved in crashes so it should no longer be up to an individual if he wants safety or not, the release said. General Motors estimated that having either one of the automatic safety devices in a car will raise the prices only about $154. Savings made from drops in insurance prices that are scheduled to occur in cars that include the extra safety will more than make up for the cost of the safety equipment, the release concluded. legislation requested by the administration to establish a food security reserve so the quantities acquired can " be transferred to that special food reserve," Bergland said. fW" v J
