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: BESSIE WET2ELL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB EUGFNE OR 7403 The Heppner H," Low Tues.,8ept. 8, 4g Wed., Sept 10 g2 M Tburt.,tept.ll M . S5 Prl..8ept.l2 72 55 Sat.. Sept. 13 n ' 4g Sun., Sept. 14 7 41 Mon.,Sept.l5 7g 44 ! """"S5(j pa, "W "flHB A 11 lw Weather Field day to honor 1 980 Conservation Men f 0 " . W m k '' r " vf !' - ' tl- "... ' Robert (I) end Rogtr CompbeS. County Constrvetbn Mtn of rbt Year A fwld diiy honoring 19H0 Murniw rmmly Connervatiiwi Men rf iIm- vur Roger and Ilolx-rt CamplH'Il will be held Tw'sdiiy. Sifit. 23, at the Cuniplx'll farm Houth of Lex ington. The event is sponsored by the Oregon Wlieat Growers I'iifiM' and the public is invited to attend. Q The event will start at 4 p.m. 7iurhfftied hiimburpers and li(iiid refri'shnientg will lie wrved. The Cainirfn-lls won tle Boardman plant tour scheduled Sat. An open house for the general public to tour the Boardman coal -fired electrical generat ing plant will he held this Saturday, Sept. 20, from 9 am. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Both an inside and outside tour of the plant will be offered, and visitors, will be able to see the coal handling and coiil grinding facilities as well as the turbine generator control room area. The outside lour will be by bus and will take about one half hour. Inside visitors will walk in a roped off area, and the tour there will last 15 to 21) minutes. "People should leave about an h(xir to see the whole plant," says Dave Eagon it Portland General Electric, which is a partner with Idaho Power and Pacific Northwest Generating Company. "The plant will be in operation," says Eagon, "and there will definitely be something there for the people to see." He said there would also Ire refreshments served. sThe Boardman plant is locat ed on Poverty Ridge, approx imately 13 miles southwest of' Boardman in Morrow County. The plant can produce 530.000 kilowatts of electricity by burning 315 tons of coal per hour. The coal is shipped by train to the plant from the Belle Ayr and Eagle Bui to mines located near Gillette, Wyoming. The generating plant em ploys about 140 people, and Morrow VOL. B. NO. 32 award for excellence in con servation practices, says or gnnitte and County Exter,&ion Agent Harold Kerr. The CampMIs practiced diich things as contour farm ing, deep furrow drills, early seeding and diversion and debris basin construction. The Campbells farm a total of 4,578 acres, with 3,575 in cropland and 1,003 in range land They planted 1.817 acrts of wheat in 19H0 To reach the farm , go south up Clark Canyon from Lexing ton aboul 4.5 miles. Turn on Boardman coal-fired plant cost $525 million to build. Portland General Electric originally intended to con struct two nuclear plants on the site, however, because of restrictions at the state and federal level, the company decided to construct a coal fired plant at the Boardman site. First phase of construction got under way in February 1970. Foundation work and underground piping began in early 1977. Erection of struc tural steel for the turbine generator building and boiler began in Oct. 1977. The plant generated its first electricity July 12, 1980, and was placed in commercial operation August 3, 1980. Before the fuel in the boiler County's Home - THURSDAY. SEPTKMBER 18, M the paved Social Ridge Rd. jtnA drive for another 2.5 miles. The farm house is the only one on the left side of the road. In gaining the county award as conservationist, the Camp bells will now be eligible for the state conservation award, the winner of which will be announced at the annual Wheat League meeting the first of December. Prior to the field day event at 4 p.m. next Tuesday, the Campbells will meet for lunch is ignited, two huge fans, each the size of a large truck are activated. The coal, which has been pulverized to the consist ency of talc, is blown into the combustion chamber of the boiler where it burns at temperatures reaching 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The boiler walls contain three miles of steel tubing in which water is circulated and heated to form high pressure steam. This super-heated, (up to 1,000 degrees F.) steam flows from the boiler to the turbine. At a pressure of 2,520 pounds per square inch, the steam drives the high pressure turbine generator. "The spent steam is then re-directed through two low- Owned Weekly Newspaper with the conservation judging , team, made, up of last year's, state-wide county winners. Morrow County's winner last year, Don Bennett, will be on that team. After lunch the Campbells and the judges will travel to the farm for a tour of the acreage. The farm is owned by two trusts handled through U.S. National Bank. The trusts are in the family names of Leach. Dopplmaier and Miller. Mrs. Virginia Miller and family of pressure turbines. As the steam leaves the low pressure turbine, it moves into condensers where cool water from nearby Carty reservoir condenses the exhaust steam back into water. This water is then recycled back to tlie boiler and the heating process is repeated. Sheriffs Report The Morrow County Sher iff's Dept. reported the follow ing calls last week : Sept. 5, at 1:31 a.m., a one vehicle accident occ tired on I 84 in the east bound lane, 7.1 miles west of the Boardman rest stop. A camper fell off a pickup. Sept. 9, James Bragaw Jr. reported the theft of a CB radio. '"TZJ 14 PAGES 20 CENTS Portland are the living heirs. In 1887 Roger and Robert's ? jrandfa'her, William - Campbell, homes! eaded the land where Roger lives. The original homestead and the surrounding acres have been farmed by the Campbell family ever since. Roy Campbell, their father, started farming in 1917. Roger and his wife. Iris, moved on the farm in 1950; his brother Robert joined them in 1964. Roger and Iris have two married daughters, Nancy and Debra, and a son, David. Candidate's Fair slated October 1 The Candidates Fair, spon sored by the local branch of the American Association of University Women will be held October 1 at 7 p.m. More information will be available in next week's Gazette-Times. Fairgoers impressed Shorty Peck The Oregon State Fair has asked Harold Peck. Heppner, that his display of grasses be left at the fair as a permanent display. An Agriculture-Horticulturist at the fair told Peck the display, which won first prize, "had an incredible amount of people interested in all the different sheaves." Linday Jones wrote Peck and said,"We plan to make this a permanent display, and will use the round modules to display them with next year." Peck won a blue ribbon for his grass (34 different variet ies) display, a red ribbon for his bearded barley, and a blue . for another bearded barley display. 3 f ; ; HEPPNER, Third times charai; budget pae by 156 In what was described as a light turnout, Morrow County voters passed a $1,073,224 county budget levy Tuesday by a margin of 156 votes. The final tally was 654 in favor of the budget, and 498 opposed. This was the third try at passage of a county budget; voters had turned one down May 20 and June 24 of this year. Broken down into precincts, all areas of the county except Irrigon voted in favor of the levy. In unofficial returns Irrigon voters said no by a margin of 91 to 81 yes. Heppner-Hardman voting was very close, but the budget passed there by a margin of 250 yes to 236 no. Voters in lone gave the budget the biggest passage margin. 134 yes to 64 no. Boardman also voted yes in a big way, 117 to 50 votes no. Group to discuss cultural A representative of the Oregon Committee for the . Humanities will be in Heppner on Monday, September 22, to discuss how local community organizations can obtain grant funds for cultural and educat ional programs which they wish to present to the public. The meeting will be held at the Columbia Basin Electric Co-op. meeting room at 7:30 p.m. Since its inception in 1971, the humanities group has provided funding for lectures, filmaking, television and radio programs, conferences, slide-tape productions, exhib its, film-lecture series, and Council gives by f ranees rose wilson When the Irrigon City Coun cil met on Sept. 9, an ordinance was passed giving the police dept. authority in the park on( the Columbia Industrial Improvements for the C. Locke Sr. Light Industrial and Commercial Park now have been completed, it was announ ced recently by C. Joseph Locke, chairman and pres ident of Boardman Develop ment Company, which devel oped the 41.35 .acres of improved lots, one acre in size and greater. The city's centralized loca tion along the Columbia and distance from Portland was one of the factors influencing Portland General Electric and other utilities to build a Retiring PGE board chairman speaks at Boardman reception Fred Warren, retiring chair man of the board at Portland General Electric, was the main speaker at a reception and dinner held Monday night in Boardman to celebrate the opening, of the coal-fired generating pTant there. The dinner was hosted by PGE and was held at the OREGON Lexington voters said yes by a margin of 72 to 57 no. , A total of 1152 people voted throughout the county, and although no official percent age was available, County Clerk Barbara Bloodsworth said the turnout was "light". County commissioners had said that if the budget failed one more time they would be forced to stay within the six percent and cut approximat ely 25 percent from the general fund and 55 percent out of the road department. County Commissioner Dor othy Krebs, who probably worked hardest to get the budget passed, said Tuesday night that she was "very pleased." "I was really worried, I'm just very, very pleased," she said immediately after the vote count. "It would have been most distressing (if the budget had educational dramas. The committee's purpose is to provide opportunities for . the public to learn more about such subjects as history, literature, archaeology, ethics, political science, and art history. Recent projects ha ve includ ed slide programs about Crook County history, a lecture series entitled Eastern Oregon Chautauqua, a film about the Russian Old Believers of Wood burn, a film series on Oregon history, and a confer ence in La Grande on the ethical questions faced by land-use planners. Organizat ions developing projects have included libraries, museums police park River, An inter-governmental agreement was made between the city of Irrigon and the Morrow Co. Justice court to allow Morrow Co. to try the cases from Irrigon. It was decided to drop the park work half-billion dollar coal gener ating plant there. V Also planned is a proposed sawmill and chip dock to be built by Weyerhaeuser, a 30,000 head cattle feedlot to be built by Idaho industrialist, J.R. Simplot, and a $60 million agricultural energy plant planned by Sunriver Farms. Northwest Pipeline Com pany has plans for locating a coal gasification plant at Boardman which would utilize an 1100 mile coal slurry pipeline to supply the facility. Such a plant would cost $2.0 Nomad restaurant. Over 200 local and out of town VIPs and guests attended. Warren praised those who made construction of the generating plant possible, and said the project was an example of what should be done to uphold the standard of living, not only in this area, but all over the country. .4 .38 failed)," she said, "But Mor row County voters have al ways come through with good judgement." She added that the people of Morrow County will be pleased with the resulting road improvements because of the budget passage, and ' that county workers will now be able to get their promised pay raises. "It's been a long time coming," she said.' ' As a result of the budget passing, taxpayers in the county will be paying $3.08 per thousand of valuation (in addition to other levies al ready approved by voters The budget failed by 171 votes in the first election on May 20, and failed by 76 votes in the second election on June 24. ? In both previous elections voter turnout was heavier than the Sept. 16 election. grants and historical societies, wo men's groups, service clubs, theatre groups, arts organ izations, and colleges. In addition to providing funding for new projects, the humanities committee offers groups small grants to obtain films and speakers from projects which have taken place elsewhere in the state. Beginning this year, the committee will also offer funding for publications and special consultation grants to museums, historical societies, libraries and schools. All interested residents are invited to attend this inform ation meeting. authority old water tank from insurance and to have it pulled down and sold for scrap. It was also reported that policeman Robert Hoover is attending police school, but plans to return by Sept. 22. completed billion in 1980 dollars and the pipeline itself another $1.5 billion. According to Ed Hayes, Northwest's manager special projects, the plant would require 3,000 - 5,000 construction workers and 1,000 permanent employees. The time frame estimated for completion of the project is between 1987 and 1989. In view of the current as well as projected growth for the Boardman area, Locke has future plans for his company to build over 600 apartments or condominiums. "This function is to honor you and others in the area who have made it possible for PGE to bring Boardman to com pletion on schedule and within budget." PGE President Robert Short said earlier. Activities continued the next day, Tuesday, with a dedicat ion ceremony at the plant site.
