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EIGHT-The Heppner Gaiette-Times, Heppner, Oregon. Thursday, August 14. WO Ullman's visit takes him to com Second District Congress man Al Ullman was in Heppner this past Saturday, - where he helped dedicate the new hospital addition and then .attended a potluck on the . courthouse lawn. Ullman visited with resi dents of the hospital nursing home, and talked with people at the hospital open house. v The hospital dedicated over -$500,000 in improvements Sat urday, and Ullman cut the ribbon honoring the event. From the hospital Ullman : traveled down to the county courthouse where he ate a potluck supper with support- . era and the public. .' Speaking on the lawn behind the courthouse, Ullman told ' the crowd of about 40 that he was glad to be in Heppner. "I feel good coming here in a good crop year. You all have smiles on your faces, and it would be hard to make you mad." ' Ullman is campaigning for the second district congress ional spot against Salem newspaper publisher Denny Smith. Democrat Ullman and Re publican Smith face off for election in November. In talking to the gathered crowd, Ullman said that he feels the federal government has become too big, and is spending too much money. "I think we should move back to decentralization and move things back from Wash ' ington. We have let our government become too bur eaucratic" he said. - Concerning taxes and gov ernment spending, Ullman said he thinks spending should , N'iV tj u S .a 3 : , J f,M x : -" .JL. Second district congressman Al Ullman cuts the ribbon at the dedication of the new Pioneer Memorial Hospital addition Saturday afternoon. Ullman was in town as part of a campaign swing th -ough eastern Oregon. Al Ullman and Mrs. W. C.Rosewall admire plaque commemorating Mrs. Rosewall's gift of furnishings for the hospital's intensive care room in memory of her deceased husband. be cut back slowly from the present 23 percent of the gross national product to 20 percent. "Until we can get a handle on inflation and get interest rates down we must hold back on a tax reduction, however," Ullman Stated. He said with committments already made for social security, worker benefits and other payments, only one fourth of the federal budget can be looked at for cuts. "We found 18 billion and it was tough going." Ullman then answered sev eral questions from the crowd. When asked if the Willow Creek dam would be built, he said. "We are on the road, wo are going to get it built." He responded to a question about taxes by saying that he has abandoned his earlier proposal for a value added tax. "I've ditched the VAT, but it may be the only way to collect taxes," he said. "It may come anyway." After eating supper at the courthouse Ullman visited with local people and then went on to Orville Cutsforth's home where he stayed the night. What do you know about courthouse building? No. 2 Lead CHARGE IT kwfmtl 17, 19M. '(DLLS Regular 7 EACH 1 US?- By Justine Weatherford When visitors to Heppner ask about the courthouse building, can you come up with facts about that imposing structure? Here is some helpful information. The building is built of native basalt stone which was quarr ied up Balm Fork near the t)smin Ranch. The trim stones are Elgin sandstone from Union County. The building was authorized by a resolution introduced and passed at a regular session of the county court on Jan. 11, 1902, when A. G. Bartholomew was judge and E. C. Ashbaugh and J. L. Howard were commissioned. R. T. Hynd was secretary and George Conger was chairman of the construction committee. The building site was select ed by Feb. 20, 1902, and Edgar Lazerus, a Portland architect and contractor was awarded the project contract. Frank DuPrat contracted for the masonry work which began in May with Laurence and Louis Monterastelli, well-known stone masons, cutting and trimming the stone for the entire building. These broth ers came from Italy and were the masons for several large buildings in Pendleton and Baker before coming to Hepp ner. (They also worked on the building where Murray's Drug Store and Cole's Shop are today.) The courthouse was comp leted in March, 1903, just three months before the great, disastrous Willow Creek Flood which took the lives of one-fourth of Heppner's pop ulation. The building is built on the site occupied by the earlier all-wood courthouse which was built after Heppner was named seat of the new county which was carved from Uma tilla County in 1885. The total construction cost of the build ing was $54,990.10. The tower clock and $2,500 toward the cost of construct ion were presented to the county by the citizens of Heppner. The large Seth Thomas clock originally had a weight-type motion but has Bince been converted to elect ricity. In an article written by Judge John F. Kilkenny the story is repeated about the clock's behavior a) the time of the flood on Sunday, June 14, 77 years ago. "The big clock chimed out 24 times -and stopped short." Kilkenny sug gests this may be folklore, though many thought it to be the truth. At the time the courthouse was completed there was a one-story jail attached to the back of the building. This section has rather recently become part of the tax department. Many remodel ings have taken place inside the building, but its exterior remains much as it was in 1902. Heppner's Frances Parker Mitchell tells that her father, the late Frank S. Parker, was employed as a young man in the construction of the court house. Frances has informat ion about his experiences and facts about the building filed carefuly away with family mementoes. She says that when she gets a chance to sort through these things she may be able to tell something about the two stone statues of Grecian or Roman goddesses that decorate the center front of the building. If any reader is able to recount who the stone repro ductions represent, the Mor row County Museum would like to add that information to its file about the courthouse from which the above facts were gleaned. Heppner News Guests at the Sykcs' home over the weekend were Dav id's sister and family, Ardeen and John Clay and sons, Jim, Alan and John. The Clays toured Heppner, the museum and fair grounds and enjoyed a swim in the Heppner pool and a picnic at the courthouse. Sunday, the Clays and the Sykes took a picnic lunch to Bull Prairie Lake and the kids had fun fishing and swimming in the lake. Weekend before last, David, April, Christopher and And rew Sykes traveled to Port land to visit David's other sister and family, Vickie and Charlie Lewis and baby Max. 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