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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1980)
BESSIE WET2 ELL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB' EUGENE OR ft 7 4 0 3 VOL. 9ft, NO. Growers E - . - - l L - - - !t i-;!-..LiJT , f V " rs ' j " ' ry'lM'i'ww' m hiil.h mmm mini n 1 J i ' 1 p Hill- ,11 m ' ' - j? Bob Peterson (R) presents award to Gordon ft I O 4 -t"in V l J.. Ik . (L-R) Tom Smith, Mike VanSchoiack Kurt Ilellberg, Trina Ilellberg and Cathy Lindsay I ' "V'' - hmmi V in J Jason Palmer (L) and Irrigon man Bob Byrd of Irrigon was appointed to the Morrow County School Board Monday night, filling the vacancy left with the resignation of John Matthews. Byrd, 38, is an insurance agent and has lived in Irrigon the past 15 years. He was a teacher in the district for seven years. Byrd and his wife, Barbara, have four boys, ages 12, 10, 9 and 7. In other business, the board: voted unanimously to extend Superintendent Matt AiSlc, 11 11 Ihr Morrow County's Home-Owned 45 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18. 19K0 and friends attend - f J I Larry Palmer 1 r io-i..i..M.i. .Kit fc 1 ' named to School Board Doherty's contract for another year. voted unanimously to appoint Turner, VanMarter and Bryant Insurance of Heppner, and Schreth Insur Rodeo dance Sat., not Dec. 21 The Morrow County Rodeo Committee will sponsor a dance Saturday, Dec. 27 at the fairgrounds pavilion. The dance will start at 9 The Heppner 18 PAGES and Helen O'Brien Wes Kvarsten ance of Hermiston as the district's insurance agent of record. The two agencies will work jointly as agent of record . Dec.27 p.m. and will teature music by Pumphouse. The date for the dance was erroneously listed as Sunday, Dee. 21 in last week's issue of the G.-T. -3, - T f ' ' i liMlh Weekly Newspaper 20 CENTS Farm City Livestock Growers, friends and supporters turned out last Friday night at the Morrow County Fair pavilion for the annual Farm City banquet. Livestock growers of the year, Helen and Gordon O'Brien, were honored with a trophy presented by master of ceremonies, Charlie Daly, and guests heard a speech by Wes Kvarsten, director of the Land Conservation and Develop ment Commission. Diners enjoyed a roast beef dinner during which they were entertained with songs by Ella Mae Green. Following dinner, several awards were presented, in cluding the steer of merit award which went to J a son Palmer, first place, and Larry Palmer, second place. Overall steer awards went to Trina Helberg, Mike Van Schoiack, Tom Smith, Kurt Hellberg and Cathy Lindsay. Winners were given cash awards up to $100 from the Morrow County Grain Grow ers. Peterson's Jewelers pre sented a diamond to the winner of a door prize held at the dinner. James Wishart was pre sented a community service Irrigon Audit report reviewed by Frances Rose Wilson The annual audit report for the City of Irrigon covering the fiscal year ending June 30. 1980. was reviewed at the Dec. meeting of the Irrigon City Council. The report, prepared by the Hermiston firm of Faunt, Lewis and Bare, shows the city basically to be in good financial condition. Adjust ments were necessary in several areas because of over budgeting in anticipated rev enues which failed to ma terialize. Caryle Mayrand of Hermis ton was appointed to the position of city recorder. She replaces Barbara Draxton who has served in that position for the past year. Draxton submitted her resignation in the Nov. meeting, effective Dec. 15. to join her husband, Gary, who is employed in a nuclear plant at Sweeney, Texas, about 100 miles south of Houston. Mayrand began her orien tation sessions last week under Draxton and assumes full duties immediately. She is the mother of two children, 11 year-old Shayne, and Angela, eight years. Her husband. Robert, is employed as a salesman dealing in chemi cals and light fixtures. The office of Councilman Dennis Reisch was declared vacant by reason of prolonged absence and Marie Johnson was appointed to fill the vacancy. Her term will run through Dec. 31, 1982. She is an employee of West Extension Irrigation Dist. as secretary and lymkkeeper. In other business, the coun cil: Reversed a previous decis ion to sell the old 20,000-gallon reservoir for scrap. The reversal came about with HEPPNER. OREGON Banquet Joe,BIiller award by the Livestock Grow f ers, and Joe Miller was presented with an award for the establishment of an es-, sential business. concern that the reservoir could be needed and the scrap price would be only a small percent of its value. - Discussed the need for a charter revision. The council agreed to seek advice from the League of Oregon Cities. - Granted an easement across the old railroad prop erty west of 1st Street to Joel Stahl. by resolution. It was needed, he said, for access to an area to be developed as a church-church school com plex, by the Seventy-day Advent ist Church. - Granted a property divi sion to Albert Phillips, invol ving properly west of Division St. at California Ave. at the intersection of Greenwood St. - Changed the logo on future city stationery. The old sta tionery which carried a leap ing fish with the motto. "Come where the big ones are," has been in use for 20 years. New stationery will carry a logo developed a couple of years ago in a community town hall meeting workshop. The circular-designed em blem depicts a sunrise, circle irrigation sprinkler, green fields and livestock. An ex ample of the colorful design appliqued by former Record er. Mary Wilson, is displayed in the entrance hall of the North Morrow Annex Bldg. which also houses city offices. Court meetings rescheduled The Morrow County Court meetings on Dec. 24 in Irrigon and Dec. 31 in Heppner have been cancelled because of the holidays. Instead, the Court will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 30 at io a.m. at the Morrow County Courthouse in Heppner. Weather lUnzua to gtart gecond ghift Kinzua Corp. will start a second shift Jan. 5 at its sawmill near Heppner, Gen eral Manager Harry Kennison announced Tuesday. Speaking to the weekly Chamber of Commerce lunch eon, Kennison said because of. increased demand for some of the wood manufacturers pro ducts, the company will run a swing shift starting at 3:30 p.m. He said the second shift will mean 15 to 20 more jobs at the plant. Growers meet, elect board The Morrow County live stock Growers Association elected four new members to its board of directors at the grower's annual business meeting last Friday, Dec. 12, in Heppner. Ron Ciirrin elected Fair Board chairman Morrow County Fair Board elected a new Fair Board chairman for 1981, on Dec. 8. Fair Board member Ron Currin, will begin his term of office as chairman the first of January. Other Fair Board members are: Pete Richards, Virginia Grieb, Charley Daly, Harold Peck and Dorothy Estberg. Merchants will not be open Thursday eves. Heppner merchants will not be open for business this Thursday night as previously announced. Because of school programs Thursday evenings, the merchants have decided not to extend their hours. However, if you have last minute shopping to complete, many of the merchants will be open Sunday afternoon, Dec. 21, after church until 5 p.m. Hospital solarium, not basement needs new air purifier A statement in a story in last week's G-T entitled "Doll raffle to benefit Pioneer nursing home residents" was in error. The statement, which read "at present there is no" ventilation in the hospital basement where the nursing home is located" should have read "at present there is no ventilation in the solarium." The hospital basement is ventilated. Donations to fund an air purifier to ventilate the sol arium are still coming in, according to A K. "Lucky" Felt, hospital administrator. "The unit has been ordered," said Felt, "but there's still money left to raise." An air purifier will enable both smokers and non smokers to use the solarium, said Felt. Cost for the purifier has been estimated between $325 and $350. One-hundred-fifty High l-w Tues;;Dec. 30 10 Wed., Dec. 10 51 ig Thu.,Dec. 11 62 37 Fri.Dec. 12 51 35 Sat.,Dec. 13. 47 27 Sun., Dec. 14 57 31 Mon., Dec. 15 70 ' 44 70 degrees was not a record. It got up to 75 degrees in Dec,. 1939. Kennison painted an opti mistic picture of the operat ions at Kinzua, saying that in these times of higher interest rates and a slump in the home building market, Kinzua has managed to stay healthy and in production. He pointed to Kinzua 's diversification and move into the commercial building mar ket supply as the main reason. "The new computer mill has put Kinzua into a new market and a very positive position," Elected to three year terms were: Ned Clark, Merlin Hughes, Ray French, and Dwight Bailey, all of Heppner. In other business at the meeting the growers heard from Treasurer Tom Currin CowBelles gather for annual meeting - s. t y- i - - . . , r rK New CowBelle President Betty Carlson is presented to members at the annual meeting held at the Wagon Wheel restaurant in Heppner Friday, Dec. 12. After luncheon, members learned of the status of the CowBelle-sponsored beef certificate promotion, and heard committee reports and announcements of 1981 committees. Present at the annual meeting was Norma French, recently elected 2nd vice president of the Oregon CowBelles. Out -going CowBelle President Ruth Nutting is presented with a "grandma's brag book," a gift from the CowBelle membership. dollars toward the purifier were raised by the hospital auxiliary who sold food and craft items at the "Artifac tory" craft fair in Heppner Dec. 6. Additional money to fund the purifier is now being raised in an auxiliary-sponsored doll raffle. Raffle tickets for the nurse doll are available for 25 cents each from auxiliary members. The G-T ivill be a day early Christmas week; deadline Sat., Dec. 20 The Gazette-Times will be out a day early next week, so that readers can get their papers before Christmas Day. The paper office will be open this Saturday, Dec. 20, but will be closed Christmas Day and the day after News and advertising deadlines for the Dec. 24 issue of the G-T will be 5 p.m.. Saturday. Dec. 20. Preclp. T said Kennison in referring to the new small log mill now under construction and ex pected to be finished at the Kinzua site in April. "Right now things look good for us, but if interest rates stay high, it's bound to affect the commercial market also," he added. He said hopefully the new administration of Ronald Reagan in the White House will do something to bring inflation under control. members who said the number of cattle weighed at the growers' weighing facility was down from 3.200 head in 197S, to just 750 in 1979. The growers had raised the weighing fee to 30 cents per head. r. i , ... l -t drawing will be held at the Bank of Eastern Oregon in Heppner on Dec. 19. Ticket buyers need not be present at the drawing to win, say auxiliary members. The doll, whose uniform and satin evening dress were made by Erma Keithley, Heppner, is on display at Gardner's Men's Wear. To purchase tickets, 676-5389 or 676-5019. call i ft It ft ! Si