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I TW(V Thr Heppner Gaiette-Times, Heppnei, Oregon. Thursday, May 29, 1980 it : Th Official j City of Hppner and th I-PjA. ' ' County of Morrow , The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES Morrow Cooitj'j loar-Gwiti' Weeklj Njwspistr U.S.P.S. 240-420 Published every Thursday and entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Second-class postage paid at Heppner. Oregon. Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (503) 676-9228. Address communications to the Heppner Gaiette Time P.O. Box 337. Heppner. Oregon 97836. $8.0 Morrow, Umatilla. Wheeler & Gilliam counties; $10.00 elsewhere. Jerome F. Sheldon, Publisher Steven A. Powell, News & Sports Editor Out of the Ashes ; In the wake of disaster, entrepreneurs often . find needs to be filled. So it has been with Mt. St. Helens, the "killer t volcano." A rubber-stamp manufacturer has issued a : series of novelty stamps that people may use on their letters. A typical message reads: I "This letter survived Mt. St. Helens, (Your Town), Washington," or "This is official Mt. ; St. Helens ash. It fell in my front yard." j And speaking of ash, northeastern Oregon v has received a dusting of volcanic ash i following the most recent eruption last Sunday. Areas closer to the mountain, in particular the Columbia Gorge and Portland itself, '. received a shower that cut visibility and left a heavy coating over everything. Many people ; took to wearing surgical masks or gas . masks,for the volcanic matter in the air can : cause serious respiratory problems. : The volcanic fallout is a novelty that won't go away. In Yakima, we have been told, some people waited for it to melt-like snow. The post office complained that samples of ash sent through the mails would leak out and jam the sorting machinery. Even in Heppner, where the fallout has been . minimal, an entrepreneur has seen the unique marketability of volcanic ash. Reportedly, he has been selling one-ounce souvenir packets at $1 apiece. Of course the greater market would be for the protective devices for the eyes and nasal passages-especially if Mt. St. Helens keeps on : blowing. LETTER TO THE EDITOR 'Heppner is our home9 Editor: .' During the past two weeks I have been astonished to be asked by friends and custom ers "when are you moving? "-"is your house for sale? "-and "is your business for sale?" We cannot imagine how this misinformation has come about, but Heppner is our home, we are not moving and our business is not for sale. When economic conditions are as they are right now it is much better if we can main tain an optimistic and positive attitude rather than one of negativism. I would like to close with a quotation from an article by Hank Crawford entitled "Small-Business Owners in Oregon" in the Oregonian, dated May 14. 1980. These Thank you for a wonderful birthday party to all my friends who arranged it, the Elks for the use of their hall and to everyone else. I was overwhelmed!!!!!!!!!! Orville Cutsforth F1ZZA West of Willow Made by Jim Large Combination $6.75 j Large Ham & Pineapple 16.25 Large Beef & Onion $6.25 Wednesday & Saturday Kvenings Only Food Is Our Only Specialty Bring the Family Our Beverages Are Coffee. Tea, Nwtpapr of th words say it all. After a White House confer ence on Small Business: "Oregon small-business own ers are uniting with the purpose and resolve neces sary to make their views known on the critical econom ic issues that now face them and their customers. "Consumers in Oregon should take heart for it is because of this growing small business awareness that buy ers of goods and services will continue to have a wide choice of quality products at a reasonble price. "SUPPORT YOUR HOMETOWN SMALL BUSINESS NEIGHBORS. IT IS JUST PLAIN GOOD BUSINESS." Dianna M. Fifield "Dianna 's This & That" Heppner, Ore. Seafood Buffet 4, 95" Fridays, 6:00-8:30 New York Special A QtZ Saturdays Crab( Louie 13.75 Shrimp Louie $3.75 Friday. Lunch & Dinner Milk and Sou Lrinks. f : Salem Changes due in Legislature SC6ne BY JACK ZIMMERMAN Makeup of the Oregon Legislature is of great interest to those close to the scene in Salem. And speculation about the composition of that body of 90 lawmakers begins to grow following each primary elec tion. Results of balloting on May 20 this year are no exception. The 1981 Legislature will be different than the group of solons which convened in 1979. The potential difference is interesting to contemplate. One possibility emerges. That is the November election might produce the smallest percentage of turnover in some time. As a result of resignations, incumbents fail ing to file for re-election and primary defeats, there are certain to be 15 new faces in the 1981 Legislature. Two will be members of the Senate and 13 House freshmen will be seated. What makes those figures significant is the fact legisla tive ' membership usually changes by 25 percent or more each biennium. Fifteen new comers would be only a 16 percent change and produce a lawmaking body much more experienced than usual. Another factor ripe for speculation involves the ques tion of partisan power speci fically whether Democrats or Republicans will have num bers sufficient to hold posi tions of leadership. Two condi tions, however, combine to quell speculation over the majority question. They are the ability of incumbents to achieve re-election and the significant number of GOP lawmakers who chose not to become candidates to succeed themselves. , For those reasons, most observers believe Democrats will again control both House and Senate. From a mathema tical standpoint. Republicans can't possibly overturn long standing Senate rule by Demo crats. And although Republi cns made inroads in the Democrat House majority in 1979. only 19 GOP incumbents will be on the ballot in November and it takes 31 to rule the 60-member House of Representatives. That puts a lot of pressure on GOPs running for the first U "They talk of professional women. Personally I havo novor mot an amstour." Sir Winston Churchill REA loan okayed for Boardman phone firm The federal Rural Electrifi cation Administration has ap proved a $9.5 million loan to Telephone Utilities of Eastern Oregon. Inc., Congressman Al Ullman has announced. The money will be used to upgrade telephone service in Board man and other towns. The loan, made at 2 percent interest, will be used to construct facilities to connect 1.193 additional subscribers and construct 778 miles of new line. In addition, the firm will be upgrading service not only in Crews removing forest windfalls VA 1 1 H.B. Rudolph. Forest Super visor of the Umatilla National Forest, announced that main tenance crews are busy re moving windfalls and slides that happened during the winter on Forest Service roads. National Forest users are cautioned to drive carefully and watch out for fallen trees and large rock on the roads. time in districts that for the most part have more regis tered Democrat voters than Republicans. But there is another possibi lity that evolved during pri mary balloting this yenr. largely overlooked so far by political pundits is the likeli hood the 1981 Legislature will include a record number of women. Women first attained seats in the Oregon Legislature in 1915. shortly after voters approved Abigail Scott Duni way's initiative providing women's suffrage. And we have had distaff members in either the House or Senate every session since. The Senate in 1979 was the first all-male Upper Chamber in some time. But 14 women served in the House last session. Their numbers grew steadily throughout the Seven ties. The 1971 session boasted only seven women. The total was 10 in '73. eased upward to 11 in '75 and hit an even dozen in '77. There is every reason to believe voters will seat more women this coming election than they did in the 1979 Legislature. Three incum bents and one newcomer are virtually assured membership because they are currently unopposed.' Opposition could surface between now and Aug. 26 in the form of independent candi dates or if partisan write-in campaigns develop. Both eventualities appear unlikely however, and successful cam paigns against the individuals involved seem even more remote. Of the 14 women who served in the 1979 House of Represen tatives, two failed to seek re-election and one incumbent was defeated during the May 20 primary. Of the 11 incum bents seeking re-election, eight face opponents in No vember. Altogether. 22 women are seeking House seats and two are going after seats in the Senate. One Senate candidate already eliminated a veteran male incumbent during the primary and only six women will be up against male incumbents in November. 5P Boardman but Lakeview, Long Creek. Mitchell. Pau lina. Pilot Rock and Ukiah. y Roundup Grounds lJ North Grandstand 0 Pendleton v Friday, May 30 4 Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1 1:30 p.m. Blue Mountain Community College Rodeo Club The Current No. 1 Team in the Region! Adults- $3.00 Students-82.0Q vomlior Incumbency is no guarantee of re-election A total of eight incumbent lawmakers lost positions In the legislature in the I97H general election and two were women. Three races next November have women opptaing each other, so women are virtually certain to win those contests. Add the four now unopposed and you get seven positions almost cinched. Six incum bent women face male oppo nents in November. If two are defeated by men as were a couple of women incumbents two years ago. that would produce a total of 1 1 women in the House. And only three of the , remaining candidates would have to win to produce the same number that served in '79.' The likelihood more than Sifting through i!i:in Fifty years ago the Heppner Library Association member ship drive was underway and $151) had been collected. Dr. D C. Poling, director at radio station KOAC. spoke at an American legion program on Memorial Day. The legion firing squad honored dead soldiers at the Heppner Ceme tery with a gun salute. Camp Fire Girls decorated the graves. Heppner businesses were closed in observance of the day. A farmer's field day and picnic sponsored by the Wil lows Grange was planned at the Hvnd Brothers ranch. Captain Charles W. Smith's winning team of the crow and magpie shooting contest was guest at a dinner provided by the losing team headed by C I. Sweek The dinner was prepared by the women's auxiliary at the Episcopal Church. James Howell of Boardman was one of 489 students who were scheduled to receive diplomas from Oregon State College. Dr. L.E. Griffin Of Reed College in Portland spoke at lone's high school graduation. Seven students graduated that year. Thirty seniors graduated from Heppner High Hepper baseball team, which had not won a game all season, had a bright spot in its season by beating the first place team from Arlington in the final game of the year 7-5. 1955 Twenty five years ago Clyde Beard, principal at The Dalles High School, spoke at Board man's graduation on. "Can Termites Chew?" A dry kiln building al the The loan also will be used to construct new central office buildings at Mitchell, Long H PK lTh iCK Northwest Region Collegiate Finals p.m. Bring the Whole Family See the Rodeo Stars of the Future in Action !fi three will be victorious is strong. A total of nine women were victorious over male candidates two years ago while men prevailed nmiinsl female opponents. If the same odds develop this fall. Ifi women will be mem bers of the 19R1 Legislature. And if all female candidates this year win their November contests, the total number of women lawmakers would equal all freshmen of both sexes who served in 1979 two dozen. That's more than 26 percent of the entire Legisla ture. A number of the 14 women serving in the House in '79 managed to unite an effective caucus on several occasions. And as their numbers grow, only the most calloused chau vinists will ignore the poten tial of a new voting bloc capable of exerting profound influence in Salem. the TIME Heppner Pine Mills plant was being moved as part of a remodeling project, A new dentist. Bob Bliss, was starting a practice in Heppner. Free swimming lessons were to be given at the lone swimming pool More than 200 persons attended the second annual Memorial Day Friendship picnic at the Heppner fair grounds. About 70 persons signed the guest register as being from nut of the area. The Gazette-Times said it did not have some of its weeklv news items liecause the mail service was closed Memorial Day which caused some of the news to be late for deadlines. Five years ago the Morrow County Rodeo Court made its first appearance at the Pio neer Memorial Picnic. On it in 1975 were Princesses Donna Ken. Barbara Palmer. Mary Ann Proctor and June McLean with Queen Mickey Hoskins The county sold some of its equipment at an auction for the first time in 10 years. Michael Mills of Heppner received a $:tH scholarship from Oregon Stale Jerry Gentrv was presented the Jim Barrett trophy as the top athlete in the school Heppner City Council al lowed Orville Cutsforth to move a one-room schoolhouse onto the city park off Main Street Carolyn and Don Cole pur chased Klma's Apparel and Flower Shop. Dick Sergeant replace Clif ford Green as president of the Heppner Lions. Creek, Ukiah, and Paulina and an addition to the central office in Pilot Rock. - Billy Stevens, Stock Ron Chambers, Announcer and Enjoy the Fun ! V Against Social Security taxation. Ullman says Oregon Congressman Al Ullman hits told senior citi zens he is absolutely opposed o the taxation of Social Security benefits. "Basic Social Security will remain unchanged." he said. "You've worked all your lives for these benefits and the Congress has an obligation to maintain them. "I intend to see that you keep those benefits." Ullman said in a speech at the new Senior Center in Milwaukie. Referring to the recommen dation of a Social Security advisory commission, Ullman said. "As long as I'm chair man of the Ways and Means Committee, those benefits will not be taxed. "Where would an elderly widow on Social Security get the money to pay income ' taxes''" Ullman asked, citing a woman in Baker who told him she had $1'0 left over each month after paying for rent, utilities, medicine mid food Q Heppner Auto Ports 234 N.Mcnn jFoamers Carpet. Linoleum, ?2 I Wo teT) Ceramic Tile, Kitchen Cabinets, Rapco Lntulatioo CASE FURNITURE Carpet, Linoleum, GumrT Top Installed Beauty Ren matueiM-, Laurie and AiwiwriM, Sherwin Williunt I'aint TURNER "Pt VAN MARTER i BRYANT II'MOIWIWI HM on I) f.UDICAL CENTER PHARMACY 1100 Southern PcndVtoo 276-1531 SWEENEY MORTUARY Cemetery, Grave Markers 676-9600 Granite, Marble, Bronze Or 676-922 & Serving lone, leinyfon A Heppner p.o. Box 97 JAYNES BUSIKSS MACHOEES Chevron "Inllalion is the tnosl insi dious of taxes," he said. "II strikes hardest at the elderly and poor. "The first steps toward easing inflation Involves cut ting federal spending, but these reductions cannot be accomplished at the expense of the poor and the elderly," Ullman said. "Cutting benefits for. those least able to afford it is not the solution to our inflationary problems We just can't lei the wrii'lil of inflation, as well as the cure, fall on senior rilicns." Ullman told the seniors that lie opposed the in-cent tax on gasoline because American consumers already have suf fered loo much Another in cents on the already liu'.li cnsl of gasoline is not uninu to produce much additional conservation, hut it will be a particularly hard burden lor the senior citiens and oilier nil fixed income in tins vaM slate." be said Heppner 676-9123 M&RF100R COVERING 6?6 )4 19 Hepp'ip. "tt you Oniuxanct rue J I INSURANCE 0AIU H1IT4WT I'tM Service calls every Wednesday in Heppner, lone and l'xinglou ))2 1 Main Si, Pradbtoo Tttrphtm 114A , II N. Pirn. 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