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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. OreRon.
Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (503
676-9228.
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Jerome F. Sheldon, Publisher
Steven A. Powell, News & Sports Editor
Foil the Burglars!
As school vacations begin and many
families prepare for summer travel away
from home for extended periods of time,
Heppner Police Chief Dean Gilman offers a
number of tips to help prevent home
burglaries. The month of June is officially
being observed by the International Associa
tion of Chiefs of Police as Burglary Prevention
Month.
"Even though your house will be empty, it
should appear as though it is 'lived in' ", Chief
Gilman suggests. He recommended that one
or more lights should be connected to an
automatic lamp timer which turns them on at
dusk and off at bedtime, thus creating the
impression that someone is inside.
Chief Gilman offered the Police Chief's
Association listof precautions as sound advice
for anyone planning to be away from their
homes for any period of time:
1. Close and lock all doors, including porch,
basement and garage. Use pin-tumbler
' cylinder locks on outside entrances and safety
latches on the windows.
2. Connect a lamp to a Time-All automatic
timer to turn lights in the home on and off each
evening. Since sound is a deterrent, connect
radio or TV to a timer.r-.
3., Protect all doors and. windows with an
inexpensive, portable burglary alarm which
sounds whenever someone attempts to break
in.
4. Light up your porch and yard with outdoor
lights to increase the likelihood that an
attempted burglary would be seen. These
lights can also be timer-controlled, if desired.
5. Be sure all screens are fastened from the
inside.
6. Never leave valuables lying around, keep
them in safety deposit box.
7. Notify your police department when you'll
be leaving and how long you expect to be
away.
8. Cancel all deliveries to your home. Also,
be sure to discontinue the newspaper or
arrange to have it sent to your vacation
address.
9. Have a neighbor, or your post office, hold
all mail until your return.
10. Arrange with a friend to mow the lawn
and sweep your sidewalk once a week. Also
ask him if he'll pick up any circulars or
handbills that may be left on your porch.
11. Leave your shades and blinds as you
normally do, closed blinds keep the sun out,
but also make an effective screen for the
burglar.
12. Never advertise your departure with an
item in the local paper. Give the story about
your vacation to the newspapers after you've
returned.
The house check service offered by the local
police department has been very successful
over the past ten years, according to Chief
Gilman, who stated that no house has been
burglarized while on the house check list.
This service is offered to city residents free
of charge. For more information contact the
Heppner Police Department.
Why Mexican beans jump
Mexican jumping beans are
3ctually seeds that "jump"
because Ihey have wriggling
caterpillars inside them. The
caterpillars get inside after a
small moth lays eggs on the
leaves of the plant that bears
the seeds. Each egg hatches
into a caterpillar that chews
its way inside one of the seeds.
Eventually the caterpillar
turns into a moth and crawls
out.
Said in jest, old phrases truly meaningful
Sometimes, just to irritate people a little bit I like to take
time-worn phrases and play dun.b with them, like taking what is
meant strictly in jest literally ("Boy, are you dumb!" "Nope, I
can talk just as well as you can.") So imagine my delight when I
ran across some facts and figures behind some of those
time-worn (and possibly worn out) phrases we hear so much.
For example, exactly how slow is molasses in January? Well,
on January 15, 1910. a storage tank in Boston containing two
million gallons of molasses ruptured and killed 21 persons. Now,
we know it gets cold in the northeast in January and we know
molasses is a slow substance; but. those 21 people were not crept
up on by the gooey stuff. An eight foot wave of it picked up a
railroad car and sent it through the side of a building; one man
tried to outrun it and was overtaken. The fastest sprinters can
go about 25 mph, and this fellow (who reporteldy did survive)
surely wasn't going that fast-the molasses probably was.
Now. have you ever wondered how much a hill of beans is .
worth? Well, lets assume a hill
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Reading program aides thanked
Editor:
I wish to take this opportun
ity to publicly thank the
individuals who were volun
teers at Heppner Elementary
School during the' 1979-BO
school year. These people
unselfishly gave their time,
their effort, and their concern
to provide children with extra
individual attention. They
performed such varied jobs as
listening to individuals and
small groups read, helping
children practice letter nam
Workers
Editor:
A strike is a very hard thing
for a community to go
through. It hurts everybody,
the workers, the manage
ment, the local merchants and
society itself. I've had a lot of
people tell me that "we ought
to seriously think this strike
over and that the way the
economy is. we should be glad
to have a job." It's true, we all
feel fortunate to have a job
and to be working all winter
when a lot of other lumber
companies went down. You
can bet. though, that it was
just as beneficial for them
(Kinzua) as it was for us.
Even if they had a bad year
they've come off of some
really good years. After all,
the lumber industry as a
whole has done just as good or
better than the oil industry.
And we all know how fat
they've gotten!
While I can't tell you,
everything on the negotiations
we are not asking for free gas
and clothes to work in 'ike a lot
of the public thinks. Where
they would get such ideas. I
don't know. Do you? I do know
that if we sign that contract
we will give up everything our
union has worked for in the
last 40 years. Furthermore, I
was told that a person should
never pass judgement on an
issue until you've looked it
over and studied both the
union and the management
side. And tor you few merch
ants who've already made a
few unfavorable comments on
our union. I think you'd better
learn which side of the bread
the butter's on!
Reader likes
column by
Weatherford
Editor:
Please find $10 check en
closed for another year. As an
ex-Oregonian who has been
out of Heppner since 1933, I
thoroughly enjoy your paper,
especially Justine Weather
ford's column.
However, my mind harks
back to another columnist, the
late and great Josephine
Mahoney who wrote a daily
column for the East Oregon
ian covering all the "dirt"
along Heppner's Main Street
and the side streets, too. Truly
a female Walter Winchell in
every sense of the word.
In my estimation, there has
never been anyone to come
along and duplicate her jour
nalistic prose. Ask the old
timers. William J. "Ole" Mitchell,
61 Forest Grove Drive,
Daly City, Calif. 94015
of soybeans 50 feet high with a
es and sounds, working on
drills for mastering sight
words and math facts, and
making copies of practice
pages. There is no way to
adequately repay these volun
teers for the good they did for
local students this past year.
L A PP, volunteers and the
hours they spent at school
were: Ruth Bergstrom (46),
Mary Bonner (315). Beth
Bryant (38). Jerry Doherty
(51). Peggy Fishburn (34),
Eleanor Gontv (121). Linda
back Kinzua strike action
ft
"Tha grMtatt lesson in Ufa it
to know that ovon food aro
right sometimes." i,
Winston Churchill
I'm proud of our union for
sticking together the way they
did at our meeting-lOS strike
votes out of 107 people. That
Sifting through
1930
Fifty years ago Laurel
Beach, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Karl Beach of Lexington, was
studying music and dramatic
art at the Bush Conservatory
in Chicago. He appeared in a
musical that came to Heppner
and he sang a solo and in a
duet.
C.L. Sweek was re-elected to
the post of president of the
Heppner Lions Club. Sweek
refused to accept the nomina
tion but the members over
whelmingly demanded that he
retain the presidency.
Heppner was becoming a
rail shipping point for a
carload or more of pine
lumber a day. The Eagle
Creek Lumber Co. purchased
the Harrison Fisher mill from
Al Henriksen. The old build
ings were replaced with new
ones and a new boiler and
tractor were purchased to
make it a modern mill. From
20 to 30 men were needed to
operate the mill.
Pacific Power and Light
sponsored an old-fashioned art
of cooking school and 70
women attended.
The Methodist Church had a
10 day bible school and 50
children completed the
course. . x
Ione's baseball team scored
14 runs on 13 hits to beat
Heppner, who had nine runs
on 10 hits. Sprouls led Heppner
with three hits and Swanson
led lone with four hits.
Arieta r arrens of lone was
named Morrow County Rodeo
Queen for 1930.
Earl Gordon was taking a
trip to Atlantic City, New
Jersey, to participate in the
National Elks Convention.
A mass of roots grew into
the city water main causing a
split in the line. Many water
customers were inconven
ienced for a few days.
1955
Twenty five years ago the
diameter at the base of 200 feet (that's a respectable hill, I
think). That makes a volume of 2,467,250 cubic feet or 165,248
bushels. The closing price for a bushel of soybeans on the New
York Commodity Exchange on November 14, 1978 was $6.70 per
bushel-that means the hill is worth $1,107,164. That should make
the bean growers happy as clams.
And, .just how happy is a clam? Good question. It all depends
on one's definition of happiness. If we can take the usual human
standards of long life and true love a measures of happiness
(and who knows how a clam feels about anything?), the clam
should be a happy creature. The rings on a clamshell are like the
rings on a tree; clams have been found that are up to 150 years
old. and the little things remain sexually active throughout their
lives. In fact, they may never die of old age. What's their secret?
Perhaps clams live longer because they don't have the stress
of having to keep up with the Joneses. These days, that may be
rougher than you think; Reginald Jones, head of the General
Electric Corporation, took home a salary of $687,000 In 1977.
Hnger (ID. Lauri Hire (84).
Debbie Johnston (70), Kay
Patterson (66), Fay Pierce
(10). and Faye Ruhl (244).
Teacher's aides who came
for an hour each day to help
with the reading program, and
who earned credit for their
work in the grade school,
included : Cindy Bowman,
Sherry Combs, Lynn Dee
Devin. Greg Groshens (1st
semester). Jay Patterson (1st
semester). Debbie Paustian,
and Jeff Skillicorn (2nd
should say something right
there. Some of the members
voted to strike for the first
time in 20 years of their
the TIME
Wagon Wheel Lounge had a
Father's Day special dinner
for $2. On the menu was
rice-chicken soup, shrimp or
crab coctail, ham steak with
honey, prime rib, chicken and
dumplings, roast turkey and
celery dressing, cranberry
sauce. New York steak,
mushroom sauce, chicken,
french fries, toast, roast leg of
pork with dressing, apple
sauce, creamed peas, french
bread, mashed potatoes, toss
ed salad and pudding.
Judy Howton of lone was
elected girls president for the
14th annual Oregon 4-H sum
mer school.
The Rev. Earl So ward
resigned from his position at
the Heppner Christian Church
after four years fo service.
Joe Bowden of Heppner
reported that he expected to
build the most modern trailer
court in eastern Oregon on the
Balm Fork road just outside
the city limits.
Heppner Gazette-Times editor-publisher
Robert Penland
was named president of the
Oregon Newspaper Publishers
Association.
New Lutheran minister, the
Rev. Merlin Zier, was install
ed at the Hope Lutheran
Church.
1875
Five years ago county
school superintendant Matt
Doherty explained that a
Cooperative Work Experience
plan would be implemented at
the three high schools in
Morrow County. It combined
classroom learning with on
the job training.
Ken Broadbent was sworn in
to take the place of the
resigning Jerry Peck on the
County School Board.
Rodeo Queen Mickey Hos
kins was scheduled to be
crowned at the coronation not
only by the previous year's
queen, Sherry Kemp, but also
the queen 29 years earlier in
1946. her mother Darlene
Biddle Hoskins.
s$4
semester).
Again. I extend my thanks
and the appreciation of the
students and staff of Heppner
Elementary School to these
wonderful people.
Sincerely,
' Linda A. Shaw
Reading Specialist:
Volunteer Coordinator
Box 365
Heppner. Ore. 978.16
membership! Over the last 30
to 40 years we've never had as
much trouble as this. I think
that says something for the
present management, don't
you? Usually it is just a little
matter of give and take. For
some reason, I think the
management has decided to
just see how strong our union
is and I don't think any of us
can afford to let the union
down. We've all got to stick to
gether and just tough this
strike out. Even though none
of us wants to strike very
badly, if we're forced into it
we will.
If we go hungry, as a fellow
man put it to me the other day,
I have this to say: "I'd rather
go hungry than sign the
contract the way it is now."
A Kinzua employee,
Debbie Sharp
Rt .2, Box 2234
Heppner. Ore 97836
Rent control
bill sought
for ballot
The Oregon State Tenants'
Association has announced it
is starting its final drive to put
a rent stabilization bill on the
November ballot.
"There has been no set
pattern, no rhyme or reason to
rent increases in recent
years" declared Jack Schoon
over of Saiem when he filed
the original petition with the
Secretary of State.
The drive to gather the
54.669 signatures necessary to
qualify has been underway for
several months, and at
present, more than 3.500
petitions are being circulated.
As these are still out and only
a handful having been re
turned, the circulators at this
time are not certain of how
many signatures they have
obtained. It is the goal that an
additional 1.5(H) petitions will
be actively circulated by other
interested parties in the next
week or so.
The measure will bring
stabilization to rent raises for
mobile homes, apartment
houses and other residential
rental properties. It would
limit raises to only once a
year, and then landlords
would lie required to show
proof by documentary evi
dence of any operating costs
that have risen to justify an
increase.
Interested persons wanting
to circulate petitions may
write
Salem 97303 or call 585-7121.
Petitions should be returned
by June 15.
And where does Mr. Jones keep his money? Probably not in a
silk purse. If he did keep it in a silk purse, it probably wouldn't
be made of a sow's ear. Or, can you? Dr. Arthur Little did in
1921. He boiled 1,000 sows ear until
he had a gelatinous substance which he spun into thread and
made into two purses with feel of finest silk. This effort to prove
that nothing is impossible led to the development of synthetic
fabrics.
Incidentally. Dr. Little founded a research firm that in 1977
produced a lend balloon that did fly. Made out of extremely thin
lend foil, one of the three that were built tore during inflation
and one, while being reeled In after its successful flight, broke
away and flew out over the Atlantic, never to be seen again.
Finally, how fast is greased lightning? Well, a standard, tacky
bolt of lightning averages 335,000 m iles per hour. We can assume
that greased lightning would be somewhat faster.
Lee Ha user,
Dayton, Wash, Chronicle
Almost 30,000 students
win Oregon diplomas
Anestimiiled2!l.920students class was 32,757 in 1971. The
were to graduate from Oregon number dropped the next
public high schools this seven years, falling to 29.998 in
spring. State School Supt. 1978 But it increased to 30.228
Verne A. Duncan announced. in 1979.
The largest graduating
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