TWO-The IJeppncr Gaiette-Tlmes, Heppner, Oregon. Thursday,
June 12. 1980
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U.S.P.S. 240-420
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Steven A. Powell, News & Sports Editor
Two Endangered Activities
Heppner voters will be going to their polling
place June 24 again to give, or withhold,
approval of the proposed budget for the 1980-81
year. The question will be whether to levy
$74,050 outside of the 6 per cent limitation. If
the question should fail, what items would be
deleted?
Both the swimming pool and the public
library have been mentioned. It would be a
shame to cut out either activity, for they
provide recreation that should always be
available. In some respects, Heppner is
unusual in having an Olympic-sized pool as it
does-for many communities much larger do
not have such a facility either outdoors or
under cover. As an outdoor pool, it is subject to
seasonal use. But in the summer it can be used
intensively, not only for recreational swimm
ing but for water-safety instruction. Surely the
taxpayers can accept the $10,563 burden that
has been outlined for swimming pool expenses
in the coming year.
- The pool has been reopened for the portion
that remains of the current fiscal year, but
there is danger if the budget should fail of the
pool's closure after July 1, the start of a new
" fiscal year.
The public library is a year-around activity,
well accommodated in a handsome building
that it shares with the museum. The building
was the gift to Morrow County of Harry and
Amanda Duvall.
A smaller budget than that for the
swimming pool-only $7,755-has been listed for
the library. Under the current schedule it is
open only 12 hours a week. Nevertheless it is
patronized, and offers a good selection of
fiction and nonfiction books, mainly for
pleasure reading. A devoted staff, partly paid,
mostly volunteer, attempts to keep up with
new acquisitions, using the current best-seller
lists for popular choices. These are important,
for many readers like to be conversant about
new books but may not care to make the
personal investment that book purchases
require. The library may make such books
available, if it has the funds in its budget to do
so .
The library does not levy fines against its
patrons who return books that are "overdue,"
that is, that are kept beyond the two-week
period for which they are borrowed.
Apparently this is because the fine money
would go into the city's general fund and not be
reserved for library activities. The Heppner
City Council should revise this policy so that
such revenues, small though they might be,
could be added to the book acquisition fund.
For the sake of both the library and the
swimming pool, the city budget should be
passed June 24.
Utility reform petition
drive starts in Salem
"The dawn of the solar age
jn Oregon is now." announced ,
Dave Teague in Salem. He is
organizer for the Oregonians
for Utility Reform (OUR)
initiative campaign, which
would put the state into the
solar and renewable energy
business.
Called the m Renewable
Energy Development and
Conservation Act. the initia
tive seeks to utilize state
bonding authority set aside 48
years ago for energy produc
tion and wholesale power
development
The initiative calls for a
three-member non-partisan
Oregon Energy Development
Commission (OEDC) as re
quired by Oregon Constitution
Article XI-D.
OEDC would issue and sell
bonds to fund renewable
energy projects. it would
develop a wholesale power
supply for consumer -owned
utilities, and it would fund
projects to enhance fish and
wildlife.
Not a statewide utility.
OEDC would be prohibited
retail sales.
Salem
Scene
. A fa in II in r slogan of Salem
equal rights proponents de
clares: "A Woman's Place is
in the House and Senate."
And without referring to it
directly, this column immed
iately following last month's
primary election-speculated
on the growing number of
women serving as members of
the Oregon Legislature.
It indicated a strong likeli
hood the total number of
women to win seats in House
and Senate next November
could exceed the record 14
who served in 1979 and could
expand to 24 if all female
candidates are successful next
.'all.
It also pointed out that if two
dozen are elected, that num
ber would equal the total of all
first-year lawmakers of both
sexes last session.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Budget reflects boosts
for elective officials
Editor:
An elective officer knows
what to expect, money-and
benefit-wise, when he runs for
office.
In 1977-78 the judge made
$14,729. In '78-79 he received
an SI .100 raise, and in '79-80 an
$1,194.01 raise was received,
bringing his wage to $17,028.
In three years an increase
$2,299.
The '80-81 budget asks for a
$7,972 raise, or a 46 percent
increase in the judge's pay in
one year-more than three
time the total of the last three
years.
A commissioner in "78-79
received $7,514. and in '79-80
was raised to $9,172.
Being election year, more
time was spent by the com
missioners in the courthouse. ,
In prior years they had to be at
the court once a week, 6r for a
total of 40 days a year. The
rest was unaccountable time
spent elsewhere or, as one
comments, "reading garbage
mail." The commissioners
asked only a $1,045 raise for
each in the budget.
Reflected in the budget are
20 percent to 46 percent wage
increases for elective office
holders.
On the other hand, the office
workers whose salaries have
been neglected over the past
years, received a pittance.
Put the money where the
raises belong and you
wouldn't have the claimed
"turnover in the courthouse
employees."
As long as the County Court
has been discussed as to
wages, how about duties?
They appoint the hospital
board, a board that has been
nonresponsive to either them
or to the public. The court put
the hospital budget in with the
county budget this year but
because of defeat together,
one hears "throw it out
(hospital budget) and we have
a chance."
Tactics-Divert the voters'
attention from the main sub
ject, then the county budget
will pass.
They hired a $25,000 a year
man. a bridge engineer, to run
their parks, build and main
tain roads, and for miscellan
eous jobs around the county.
They bought and are setting
up an office at the fairgrounds
(which, by the way at this
writing, no permits have been
issued for same) which when
completed will have cost the
taxpayers a substantial
amount of money.
The roads must be fixed,
everyone using them will
Woman's place is in Legislature
BY JACK ZIMMERMAN
Subsequently, the subject of
distaff legislators led to the
office of Senate Historian
Cecil Edwards and a complete
list of all women who have
served and are serving in the
State Legislature.
Among other things, the list
provides dramatic evidence
voters must be getting the
equal rights message.
That previous column
reported the increase of fe
male lawmakers during the
decade of the Seventies-escalating
steadily from seven in
1971 to twice that number in
1979. Edwards' list shows
women serving in virtually
every session of the Legisla
ture since 1915.
But the most startling fact
produced by his list, deals
with the numbers who have
served and are serving.
"The folIlM which man re
gret most In hit lit arc thoaa
which ha didn't commit whan
ha had tha opportunity."
Hatan Rowland
agree. The five-year plan,
suggested by the Road Com
mittee (approximately 80 per
cent of the committee mem
bers live on paved roads),
would, for example, include so
many roads a year. Example:
Sand Hollow repaired in
19RO-81: must it wait until
1985-86 before it gets repaired1
again, and what if your road
isn't due to be worked on for
five years?
The County Court has given
away responsibility, paying
others to do their work, but
feel they are worth more!
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
is one example. The people in
the area need the hospital,
more so with gas and the
economy the way it is. Exact
figures on the cost of the last
survey for the hospital are not
available at this time, for it is
an incomplete survey. Due to
passing the buck, Pioneer
Memorial Hospital is financi
ally no better off than it was
several years ago. Until the
County Court removes its ear
muffs and listens to the
taxpayers and the public, its
future is rather dismal.
The County Court can put a
special ballot on dog control or
a dog pound but not for one to
find out what the public and
taxpayer wants done as to an
elective hospital board, hos
pital clinic districts or,
mostly, whether the county or
a nonprofit organization
should run the hospital.
The first study cost $3,500
(complete in all ways) and the
one still in progress, with
consultant fees, mailing list,
postage, etc.. surely after nine
months or so. has cost the
taxpayer somewhere between
four and five figures, and with
no answers to the public as to
what was accomplished. The
survey goes on.
Only you and I, the public
and the taxpayer, can stop the
people involved by voting
on the budget involved.
How many of you reading
this letter, with fixed income,
retired, senior citizen and low
income, had someone walk up
to you this year and say, "I'm
going to give you a 20 percent
to 46 percent raise"?
Thank you.
Merlin Cantin
Vets get $311
Single veterans going to
school full time under the GI
Bill receive $311 per month in
Veterans Administration
training benefits. Those with
dependents get more.
Only fifty-five women have
served as Oregon lawmakers.
And of that total nearly half
served terms as recent as the
beginning of the last decade.
Altogether, 23 have won legis
lative seats during elections
starting in 1970.
The possibility that as many
as two dozen could become
lawmakers this year appears
even more significant and
dispels any notion of tokenism
that may have hounded lady
lawmakers in the past.
Although their tenure dates
back six and-a-half decades,
as a group Oregon's female
members of the Legislature
appear a hardy lot. All but 12
on Edwards' list are still
living-although the Senate
antiquary points out his
inability to determine the
present whereabouts of anoth
er half-dozen.
"Perhaps." he said , "some
of your readers might, know
something about those partic
ular ladies and help bring our
records up to date." i
Those six include Kathryn
Clarke, who served in the
Senate in 1915 from Roseburg ;
Mrs. William S. Kinney, who
served in both House and
Senate during the early Twen
ties: Daisy B. Bevans, a
House member from Mil
waukie in 1973: Mrs. Stella A.
Cutlip. a member of the House
from North Bend in 1943; Mrs.
John Karnopp. appointed to
the Senate from Portland in
1943. and Mrs. Anna M'. (Don
C.) Ellis, a three-term House
member from Garibaldi in the
middle Forties.
Any one with information
about any of these women is
invited to write Edwards at
the State Capitol. Salem 97310,
or call him at -378-8800.
The comparatively large
number of women now serving
in Oregon's Legislature be
comes even more significant
as one scans Edwards' list and
discovers that seldom before
the last decade have more
than a half-dozen or less
served at the same time. Only
twelve have served in the
Senate in the last 65 years and
seven female Senators won
Sifting through
1930
Fifty years ago Morrow
County was having a free
chatauqua in Heppner with
musical-comedy plays, a
musical quartet, lectures and
a band concert all scheduled.
A July 4 celebration was
being planned for the celebra
tion and dedication of the new
artesian well that had been
drilled for the city. The
Irrigon 4-H band, sports
events and prizes, and a dance
with fireworks were to be part
of the festivities.
The 1929 property taxes
were being divided out within
the county and schools were
going to receive more than 44
percent. $178,436. and roads
were second with better than
19 percent, $77.24.
Girl Scout trooper June
Anderson sold more poppies
than any other girl locally for
the American Legion Auxili
ary as she handed out 165.
Fifteen Morrow County 4-H
Club members traveled to
Corvallis to participate in the
4-H club summer school along
with 700 other 4-Her's in
Oregon.
1855
Twenty five years ago a
grand jury was called to
investigate the fatal shooting
in Heppner of a Portland
attorney. The female defend
ant was being held in the
Wasco County Jail in the
Dalles.
Rosewell Motor Co.
announced that it was going to
sell Ford's new line of car, the
Mercury.
Al Bunch filed for a position
on the school board on the last
day to join the other candidat
es: Kay French, Harold
Wright, and Howard Clevel
and. More than 30 farmers at
tended the annual conserva
tion tour sponsored by the
that distinction following ser
vice in the House of Represen
tatives. The proliferation of women
In the legislature also is
refected by the fact three
women served as Senators at
the same time during the
mid-Seventies, an occur
rence previously unmatched,
according to Edward's list.
Only once before, in 1957. had
two women been Senate mem
bers simultaneously.
Former Portland Mayor
Dorthy McCuIlough Lee and
the late Grace Olivier Peck,
also from the Rose City,
appear to have had the longest
legislative careers-although
Lane County's incumbent
Rep. Nancie Fadeley Is work
ing on her second decade in
Salem.
As numbers of women have
increased in the Oregon
Legislature, so too have their
responsibilities. Five of lust
session's 14 women in the
House chaired legislative
committees. From a percent
age standpoint, that figure has
special significance.
The ascension of women in
the Legislature has been
accompanied by an equally
remarkable increase in fe
male office holders In the
state's top elected positions.
One is Labor Commissioner
Mary Wendy Roberts, former
representative and senator
from Portland. Another is
Secretary of State Norma
Pualus. who stands first in
succession to the governor and
previously served in the House
of Representatives.
Still another is former
Portland lawmaker Hetty
Roberts, who is serving as the
only female member of the
Oregon Court of Appeals
Such service certainly
stands as a tribute to the
' ability of Oregon's women to
carve their niche in state
politics.
And at the same time, their
recent rise to prominence in
the Legislature makes it
easier to understand why
Oregon ratified the Equal
Rights Amendment twice!
the TIME
Heppner Soil Conservation
District to learn about the best
conservation practices. They
visited ranches in the area
that practiced good conserva
tion techniques.
Sharon Cutsforth set a
Junior Olympics record in
Oregon when she broad jump
ed 7-3' 1.
Five persons filed for three
openings on the school board.
The group included Don Mc
Elligott. John Proudfoot, Mrs.
E. Markum Baker. Mrs
Wallace Matthews and Berl
Akers.
34 county boys and girls
went to the 4-H summer
school .
Paul Tews was named head
of the lone American Legion.
1975
Five years ago the Blue
Mountain Community College
budget faced the voters for the
second time. It was the first
time in 13 years the budget
had failed at the first voting.
The Morrow County Queen's
Coronation for Mickey Hosk
ins was being planned.
Three Morrow County girls
were preparing to travel to
Japan as part of a 4-H
exchange program. Alice
Abrams. Cathv Palmer and
Janette Piper were three of 36
youngsters going to Japan
while some Japanese students
came to Oregon and toured the
state.
More than 350 rodeo fans
gathered at the Heppner
fairgrounds to watch the
Morrow County Jr. Rodeo.
Dee Dee Karl of Bend was the
winner of the senior girls
all-around title at the fifth
annual event.
Clint McQuarrie sold the
Central Market Grocery Store
to former employees Forest
Burkenbine and Earnie Mc-Cabe.
Secondary enrollment decline
An estimated 1.420 students
were to graduate from private
high schools this year. That
number, too, has dropped
since it hit a high of I.77H In
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