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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
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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?
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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.
Thet enjoyed dinner at a
Chinese restaurant, a trip to
the zoo, the museum and a
movie, "The Empire Strikes
Back."
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