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Farmers in Politics
It has taken the herbicide issue to develop
in farmers a sense of political power with the
same kind of tool that labor unions or
environmentalists often utilize.
Wheat farmers, in particular, have
organized the "Agricultural Political Action
League" to attack a question that has become
vital in Oregon. The matter that has brought
them together is the possible ban, through an
initiative on the November ballot, that would
seriously restrict the use of chemical
pesticides.
The issue has been brought home to
Morrow County by a letter issued to local
members of the Oregon Wheat Growers
League.
"What would you do," it asks, "if it were
illegal to use 2,4-D or other phenoxy weed
killers on your crops? If you were like we are,
it would reduce your yield by at least 20
percent or so besides raising your total
costs of farming."
Statewide, the campaign is being carried
on by the newly organized political action
group. The farmers want to be ready, should
sponsors of the petition succeed in their
required goal of 60,000 signatures by July 3 to
place the anti-herbicide question on the
ballot. The farmers would then mount a
political education campaign to counteract
whatever claims might be cited.
The Agricultural Political Action League
is "just like any other political action
committee," says its president, Earl Pryor of
Condon. "The teachers have them, the truck
drivers have them, along with all other
politically active organizations. APAL works
for agriculture."
Unmentioned in Mr. Pryor's list were the
environmental groups who seem to be behind
the move to ban the farmer's working
tools 2,4-D and other phenoxy chemicals.
The farmers deserve public support so
they may win this fight, in order to grow and
harvest their crops economically and so, feed
the nation.
"He who borrow sells his freedom.'
Council to canvass ballots
There will be a special city
council meeting for Heppner
tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. at City
Hall for the purpose of
For the Open Primary
A year ago in Oregon a House Committee went through
the motions of hearing testimony about the possibilities of an
open primary, one in which every registered voter could
vote.
Oregon politicians are good about listening, but based on
what they heard nothing much happened.
Independents still must wait for the Republicans and the
Democrats to select their choices for office so that all of us
can vote.
In those hearings of a year ago the Republicans, who have
about 35 percent of the registered voters, were in favor of an
open primary.
The Democrats, who have more than 53 percent of voter
registration, were against an open primary,
x Obviously, the influence of the majority ruled and no move
toward an open primary took place.
Does it really make a difference that all of us have a hand
in selecting our candidates to run for office. We think so.
During our last primary election only 43 percent of the
registered voters turned out to pick the candidates for the
general election. That means that a solid minority was
responsible for sorting out the men and women who are
presently holding office. If there is a crisis of confidence in
our government, there's a clear possibility that part of it can
be attributed to the fact that minority candidates are offered
for a majority vote, which makes little sense in a democratic
republic.
Let's move to open up the primaries in Oregon to the
independent voter.
TV editorial, KATU
Channel 2, Portland
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
'Sale may doom HelVs Half Acre
Editor:
Well, is this the end of the
Hell's Half-Acre? I'm told that
'Time to
Editor:
This past winter Morrow
County experienced several
storms that brought a beauti
ful, complete change to the
landscape. The snow covered
all the blight (litter) that we
humans drop whenever and
wherever we have no longer
use for the object. The new
fallen snow makes a beautiful
scene that almost everyone
admires and enjoys.
But. low, when it disap
pears, the blight on the
landscape reappears, reveal
ing all the garbage that people
have discarded refuse from
the house, from last summer's
gardens, from an overhaul job
on a car. or from the candy
wrappers, bottles, cans or
school papers discarded on the
streets by thoughtless indivi
duals. The wind helps re-distribute
much of the refuse, to
the disgust of those who try to
keep their property tidy.
Spring comes, making a
neat cover of short green
grass or plants. These plants
come despite the covering of
debris. After the growth
'Two new judges deserve public support
Editor:
I write to ask you to pay
particular attention in the
primary election campagin to
the candidacies of two mem
bers of the Oregon Court of
Appeals. It has a fine group of
judges who work well toge
ther, and I hope that situation
can continue.
The Court of Appeals is. in
my opinion at least, the most
important of the state's
courts: it is where almost all
appeals from the lower courts
are finally decided. And it is
widely known nationally: it
entertains a constant parade
of requests for information
from other states on how it
operates. It is the model for
new intermediate appeal
court systems in several
states.
Two of its members are
new: they face full campaigns
and statewide elections for the
first time within weeks of the
time they first went into
'Changes in
Editor:
As you are aware, the past
legislative session established
an Oregon Controlled Sub
stance Committee charged
with the duty of classifying or '
reclassifying controlled sub
stances. That committee has sent out
a proposed change in sche
dules which I have gone on
record as officially opposing
and requested a public hear
ing. With every speaking en
gagement I have. I am
bringing it to the attention of
the public that the committee
intends to reclassify what I
consider some of the most
dangerous drugs in our area
and effectively destroy drug-
'Carter's program relies on
Editor:
President Carter's so-called
Anti-Inflation Program should
be correctly called Carter's
Inflation Program Number
Two.
His first program called for
a 7 percent wage and price
guideline. It did not work. It
resulted in a double digit
inflation.
His new program calls for
an 84 percent lid. When
wages are increased, this
amount is passed from the
farmer, to the oil company, to
the transportation system and
on to the processor and then to
the Forest Service is schedul
ing a sale of the entire Willow
Creek Watershed in 1980 and a
clean up 9
becomes four inches high it is
time to get the mower out to
keep that lovely, neat, green
cover on the landscape. Of
course, the debris must be
stashed into the garbage can
before mowing. A routine
pickup (daily or twice a week)
around one's property,
whether owned or rented,
would make the task shorter.
Keeping the weeds mowed
during the spring months
eliminates those tall, un
sightly, seeded growth that
tells everyone, "I don't care
what my property and town
look like." Sometimes the job .
takes more than a mower:
perhaps clippers will be re
quired. But the feeling of making a
tidy spot in one's community
brings a feeling of satisfac
tion. The fleeting glimpse of
the passers-by is theirs for
that moment. What do your
premises say?
Helen Martin,
Chairman.
Civic Beautification
Committee,
lone Garden Club
office. As you know, those
elections will be settled in the
primaries: most judges do not
run on the general election
hallol.
The two are the newest
members of the Court of
Appeals. .John Warden and
Edward Warren. Warden
filled the vacancy created by
the elevation of Jake Tanzer to
the Supreme Court. Warren
fills the vacancy created by
the recent death of Jason Lee.
I have known Warden, in
particular, well for nearly 20
years and have followed his
judicial career closely and
with interest. We have served
on a couple of public bodies
together. I know that he is
respected by attorneys, wit
nesses, litigants and jurors
who have appeared in his
court . I know that he is held in
the highest regard by those
state judges who were circuit
judges at the same time he
held office. I know that both
drug law irresponsible9
law enforcement.
Presently. Schedule I sub
stances are class A felonies if
they are furnished (maximum
of 20 years) and class B
felonies if they are possessed
(maximum of 10 years).
Schedule I includes LSD.
mescaline, peyote, heroin and
psylocybin. Marijuana is a
Schedule I substance, how
ever, the penalties are differ
ent, depending upon amounts,
money, etc.
The proposed changes in
clude lowering all of the above
drugs to Schedule III, lower
ing cocaine from Schedule II
to Schedule III, and lowering
marijuana from Schedule I to
Schedule IV.
Penalties for possession of
a multitude of other channels.
We can expect another wild
jump in inflation.
His method of balancing the
budget relies on inflation to
bring in additional taxes,
along with 10c a gallon gas tax
and his expensive Windfall
Profits Tax. These taxes are
highly inflationary and should
be correctly labeled additional
taxes.
The simple way to control
inflation is to stop the printing
press. He has asked that the
national debt be again in
creased. Each time the debt is
increased, the existing money
salvage sale in '81, with some
nine miles of roads. I wonder
if the people of Morrow County
will stand for this destruction?
This watershed of about
4,000 acres consists of the
north slopes of the four
mountains, namely Big and
Little Baldy, Kelly Mountain
and Arbuckle, almost all with
a dense growth of second
grade timber. The Willow
Creek Valley is one of the best
watered valleys in eastern
Oregon with the four perma
nent free flowing streams in
Morrow County. Its wells are
comparatively shallow which
will be in danger if the
headwaters are logged off.
Snow twenty feet deep lies on
the north slope of these
mountains until June and
July. Where does our water
come from anyhow?
There are many attractions
in this area. Hundreds of acres
Sifting through
the TIMES
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Fifty years ago M L. Case
was planning on building a
modern mortuary across from
the Church of Christ in
intellectually and personally
he fits will into the group now
on the Court of Appeals. I
know his appointment helps
fill a geographic gap which
has existed on the court. I
think he deserves your en
dorsement. Judge Warren, the newest
member of the court. I do not
know equally well. But I have
checked carefully on his
rjjord as well as that of his
opponent. Suffice it to say that
if ynu do so I think you will, as
I have already done, decide
that he is clearly the superior
candidate. He has specialized
in appellate law and came to
the court directly from private
practice. I think the court
meds judges who come from
the practice of law as well as
those who have moved up to it
from a lower court.
Robert W Chandler
Chairman and Editor
The Bend Bulletin
Bend. Oregon
Schedule III substances are
one year in the county jail (a
class A misdemeanor). Selling
a Schedule III substance
would be a class C felony
(maximum of 5 years.)
By lowering marijuana to
Schedule IV. possession of
large quantities of marijuana
would result in a maximum of
30 days in jail. Sales to persons
under 18 would result in a
maximum of one year in the
county jail.
I consider these changes to
be totally irresponsible and I
trust that we have your
support in this area.
Ulys J.Stapleton.
District Attorney,
Klamath County,
Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601
inflation9
supply becomes less valuable.
Our Congress and Senate
should stop this program in its
tracks.
Our country has never been
so short of leadership. This
applies to both the executive
and legislative branches of
our government. It is time we
had a lot of new faces in
Washington. Why send the
same ones back when they
have created our multitude of
problems.
Very trule yours,
A. A. Johnson
P.O. Box 546
Coos Bay, Oregon 97420
of fossils, a great earth fault
from an old earthquake and
primitive forests.
There are forces in Morrow
County, both private and
public, who would like to
harvest every last acre of
forest in the Heppner district
of about six or seven hundred
thousand acres, and out of this
immense acreagkjhere is not
one acre preserved by the
National Forest Service in its
primitive state for future
generations to enjoy.
If this area is sold it will
probably be bought by some
mill in Umatilla County and do
us no good.
Is it too much for us to ask
that this Hell's Half-Acre be
preserved for our grandchil
dren to enjoy? I'm also told
that all of the virgin forest will
be sold by 1985.
O.W. Cutsforth
Fairway Drive
Heppner, Oregon
Heppner at a cost of between
$8,000 and $10,000.
The Anti-Saloon League of
Oregon was planning to show
a movie in Heppner on the
effects of liquor on a person
who is driving. It was a film on
prohibition titled. "The Trans
gressor." The saloon, poverty,
riches, comedy, tragedy, pro
hibition, bootleggers, crooked
officials, traitors and true
American citizens combined
to tell the story of two young
men.
The Heppner Rod and Gun
Club scored 74 of a possible 75
points to win three of four
events in the Oregon trapshoot
contest. Claude Cox shot a
perfect 25. Charles H. La
tourell a 25 and Dr. A D.
Mc Murdo a 24.
Oratory contests were being
set in Morrow County for
grade school and high school
students. A total of 43 students
were scheduled to participate.
The thriller "Dangerous
Paradise" was playing at the
Star Theater in Heppner. It
was based on a woman-hating
man and a man-loving woman
alone on a South Sea Island
Nancy Carroll stared along
with Richard Arlen and War
ner Oland.
1955
Twenty-five years ago Jeff
Walker shot a seven -foot -long
cougar that weighed 135
pounds five miles out of
Heppner.
Senator Stewart Hardie of
Condon introduced a bill in the
legislature that would aid
Morrow County farmers in
controlling grasshoppers.
The Morrow County Farm
Bureau opposed the idea of
having property taxes on
utilities.
A baby "twister" hit Hepp
ner causing only minor dam
age except for a blackout for
3' hours.
Seven Heppner High School
students received straight
"l's" on their report cards to
top the honor roll. They were
Nancy Anderson, Tom Currin,
Lillian Elde, Dick Kononen,
Sally Palmer, Barbara Prock
and Patsy Wright. There were
21 students on the second
honor roll.
Senator Ken Jernstedt intro
duced a bill in the legislature
that would deter shoplifting. It
stated that a merchant who
has "reasonable belief" that a
person has shoplifted can
detain that person. Some
merchants were wary of
approaching.a suspected shop
lifter .
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Five years ago the City of
Heppner voters did not have to
vote on the city budget
because the budget committee
kept it within the six percent
limitation.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Martin
spoke at the Chamber of
Commerce about their trip to
the Holy Lands.
Country-western singer Pat
Roberts performed at Hepp
ner High School.
O Oregon Politics
Electrical Workers
Congressman Al Ullmnn,
who represents Oregon's 2nd
District covering eastern Ore
gon, Marlon County and parts
of Clackamas and Linn coun
ties, has received the endorse
ment of the Oregon State
Association of Electrical
Workers.
The association Is made up
of Oregon locals of the
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, AFL-C10.
The union has 7000 members
in Oregon.
"We most certainly wish
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