TWO The Heppner Gaiette-Timet. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May IS, ltM
Cominty judge ay tax will increase 35c per $10
00
Judge Don McElHgott
talked to the Chamber of
Commerce Monday about the
county budget up for election
May 20.
He said the county is asking
for a 35 cent cost per $1,000
Increase, just like the school
district.
McEHigott said Pioneer
Memorial Hospital is included
in the budget, along with the
North Morrow County Medical
Clinic.
That is controversial be
cause the people in the north
end do not come to the hospital
in Heppner because other
hospitals are closer, the judge
said.
"It is a county hospital so I
think it should be in the
budget, so if you want to
Ullman encourages
lending rate cut
Oregon Congressman Al
Ullman has urged the Federal
Reserve Board to move im
mediately to lower its lending
rates to banks specifically for
the purpose of extending
credit to local customers who
are farmers and small busi
nesses. In a letter to Federal
Reserve Board Chairman
Paul Volker, Ullman said
these borrowers face particu
larly acute problems in Ore
gon because of the state's
heavy dependence on forest
products and the health of the
Traffic deaths drop
Estimated miles traveled,
the mileage death rate, and
the number of people killed in
traffic all show decreases for
the first quarter of 1980.
The 146 reported Oregon
traffic deaths for the period
were nearly 14 percent below
the first three months of 1979.
The mileage death rate the
number of people killed in
each 100 million miles tra
veledwas 3.02 compared
with 3.27 for the comparable
period a year ago.
Travel miles, based on
highway use of gas and other
Band
concert
Tuesday
Heppner band director
Bruce Martin has announced
that' the junior high band
concert will be May 20 at 7:30
p.m. at the junior high
auditorium.
The fifth grade, sixth grade
and junior high bands will
perform. An assortment of
music from Barry Manilow to
the Bee Gees will be presen
ted. On one song, "Salsa Rock,"
the junior high drum section
will be featured.
The program will last about
45 minutes.
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Readings will be given by
the Rev. John Maas of the
Valby Lutheran Church and
Father Patrick, O'Brien of the
lone Catholic Church.
Senior students will usher at
the service and all the seniors
will wear their caps and
gowns.
Baccalaureate for Riverside
High School will be this
Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Irrigon
Assembly of God with the Rev.
Al Gordiniear the .featured
speaker.
The Rev. Dave Piper of the
Boardman Baptist Church will
give the invocation and the
Rev. Steve White of the
Boardman Community
Church will give the benedic
tion. The Rev. Roy Plant of the
Boardman Assembly of God
will present the Bible.
Carol Wallace, of the RHS
music staff, will sing a solo
accompanied by Kathy Kenton.
blame someone blame me,"
McEHigott said.
He said there has been
dissension in the courthouse
about the county pay scales
not being equal for equal jobs.
A committee was formed to
look into building a salary
scale.
It was too high so Commis
sioner Dorothy Krebs worked
on an alternate plan for two
weeks.
Instead of $21,729 for an
elected official, Krebs 's plan
,is to have them receive
$19,618. an increase of 25
percent from $15,595. With
Krebs' plan, employees will be
awarded with raises for longe
vity with the county rather
than merit.
"It is easier to measure
Homebuilding industry.
"Specifically. I urge that the
discount rate for banks serv
ing the seasonal credit needs
of local farmers and small
businesses be lowered imme
diately to 10 percent," Ullman
wrote.
The discount rate is the rate
al which banks borrow from
the Federal Reserve System.
It is currently 13 percent. The .
lower the discount rate, the
lower the rate of interest the
bank can charge its custom
ers. fuels, dropped from an esti
mated 4.4 billion miles in the
first quarter of 1979 to 4.1
billion miles this year.
Although the first quarter
figures look good from both a
safety and energy conserva
tion standpoint, the Motor
Vehicles Division has noted
that in April 55 traffic deaths
were reported 10 more than
in April a year ago.
Contract
negotiations
settled
Contract negotiations be
tween the college and the Blue
Mountain Community College
Faculty Association have
reached a satisfactory conclu
sion, with the Faculty Asso
ciation voting recently to '
approve the tentative agree
ment reached earlier by the
faculty and college negotia
tors. The agreement covers a
three-year period, beginning
July 1, 1980, and expiring June
30. 1983.
The agreement provides for
a three percent increase on
the base salary at Level II
(M.A. degree) and the college
will also pay the six percent
PERS (retirement) for the
employee. The base salary at
Level II for 1980-81 will be
$14,755, an increase of $430
' over the current year.
Cost to the college for the
three percent increase, the
PERS pick-up, and regular
experience increments will be
$152,921. which amounts to an
overall increase of 10.7 per
cent. Senior buses
take 1,342 trips
Buses operated by the East
Central Oregon Association of
Counties on behalf of senior
citizens made 1,342 trips
during the first quarter of
1980. according to a report
issued by the Public Transit
Division, Oregon Department
of Transportation. The buses
traveled a total of 4,170 miles.
The report from Salem
covered all transit systems,
from urban area operations,
to small city and rural
systems, and special trans- -portation
services. The latter
category includes the senior
citizens' buses.
time rather than merit,"
Krebs said. "Who do we (the
county) have to judge merit?
We would need a personnel
officer."
Orville Cuts forth family
plants 1 7,000 trees
Last fall and early this
spring the Orville W. Cuts
forth family hand-planted
17.000 trees on cutover forest
land at Rasmus Meadows on
Ditch Creek.
The young trees are mainly
; Douglas firs along with se
veral hundred ponderosa
pines.
O.W. Cutsforth went to the
Wind River forest nursery on
the Klickatat River tn Wash
ington to purchase the trees,
which will not mature for 80
years. Orville, now 78, has
contributed to Morrow County
the forested part on upper
Willow Creek bearing the
family name, a plaque in the
Library-Museum building in
dicates he gave toward the
completion of that memorial
building; and he has also been
instrumental In major past
improvements at the Pioneer
Even with the increases',
Krebs said 12 county em
ployees will make less then $6
an hour, five under $7, six
more under $8, four under $9,
Memorial Hospital, such as
the solarium wing.
Barbara Cutsforth planted
3.100 trees by herself on the
land that the Cutsforths had
logged recently in an effort to
get ahead of the westward
spreading mountain pine
beetle infestation. Orville
Cutsforth states that this
infestation is moving west at a
rate of about 15 miles each
year.
In addition to their tree
planting efforts, the family
paid more than $5,000 for
aeriel seeding of a mixture of
five kinds of grass on more
than 800 acres of cutover land.
When Cutsforth checked the
result of the fan- seeding
recently, he found that "the
grasses are now developing
into a beautiful stand."
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five less than $10, elected
officials will get less than $11
an hour, the assistant district
attorney will receive less than
$12 an hour, the Public Works
Director less than $13 and the
County Judge less than $14 an
hour.
McEHigott said the county
has lost a third 4of its
employees since he has been
Blue Mountain summer term
enrollments continuing
, Registration for summer
term at Blue Mountain Com
munity College in Pendleton,
will continue through noon on
Friday, June 20.
About 25 different courses
will be offered ranging from
"Introduction to Data Pro
cessing" to "Beginning Gui
tar." Courses start the week of
June 23 and run for a six-week
term through Aug. 1.
Academic, transfer courses
will be offered in the areas of
business, physical education,
nursing, electronics, art, ma
thematics, and social scien
ces. Summer school schedules
are available through the
Admissions Office at BMCC. A
summer schedule of classes
The Northwest Ford Dealers have financing
available, to qualified buyers, for cars and
trucks. The source is Ford Credit.
What's more your Ford Dealer has
some of the best values that have come
down the pike in a long while. Especially
when you compare them to the price of im
ports. But equally as important is the re
markably good gas mileage you get with the
FORD GAS SAVERS.
So if your bank or credit union is giving
you a cold stare when you mention car financ
ing, come see your Northwest Ford Dealer.
He can help you get financing. He has the
cars and the values.
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judge (for seven months) and
a major reason for many of
them leaving was salaries.
McEHigott said the road
budget is up more than
$OO,0O0 with major increases
in gas, diesel, asphalt, equip
ment (including a new gra
der) and funding for six more
employees.
He said the 1.050 miles of
will be moiled to every postal
patron in Umatilla and Mor
row counties early in June.
Named to Committee
Bob Hawk, dean of occupa
tional education at Blue Moun
tain Community College, has
been appointed to a two-year
term on the Oregon Occupa
tional Information Coordinat
ing Committee by Gov. Vie
Atiyeh.
The committee coordinates
activities among the Employ
ment Division, the Depart
ment of Education and the
Vocational Rehabilitation Div
ision. The committee's aim is
to develop information con
cerning the needs of the lalxr
market and to relay these
needs to education institu
tions. DEALERS
county road (1)57 paved) newH
to have gutters cleared so
water will drain off the roads
so they won't wash out.
About (15 miles of road will
be resurfaced. Roads are also
supposed to be resealed every
Aeronautics
The first of several hearings
in Oregon before a Civil
Aeronautics Hoard appeal
panel to review essential air
service will be held in Pendle
ton May 27. starting at 2::W
'p.m.. at the City Hall, M S.E.
Dorion St.
Dinner, dance set
for 8th graders
Parents of students in the
eighth grade class at Heppner
Jr. High are organizing a
dinner and dance for tomor
row to celebrate the students'
graduation to high school.
Dinner will be at li::t p.m.
at the West of Willow. Jim
Rogers is planning a meal of
chicken strips, French fries,
salad bar. roll, choice of
beverage and ice cream.
ill mi.1.1 nil I
six years and 0 has been 10 to
tr years for some of them,
McKlligott said,
The Judge estimated that It
will cost about $20 million
during the next (Ive years to
fix the county road system.
hearings set
Testimony will be taken
from Pendleton officials, who
have joined with the state in
an appeal to an original
determination by the CAB
under the Airline Deregula
tion Act of 1D7H on routes in
Oregon,
A dance to records will
follow at the Klks 'Club in
Heppner.
About 45 eighth graders are
expected for the gathering
almm with about six other
students that would have been
in the class except that they
have moved away.
The dinner, dance and group
picture will cost each student
$.1.
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