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BESSIE WETZELL U OF ORE' NEWSPAPER LIB EUGENE OR 97403 vol.. m, no. i. This may r r ' J ' , . e ' 0 This may be the last Christmas season that area residents will be able to see this large illuminated wood Nativity that has become a tradition at the home of Mrs. Amanda Duvall. Mayors, councilmembers Councilmembers and may ors elected in November will be sworn in at lone. Heppner and Lexington council meet ings in the coming week. Four councilmembers and a new mnvor will be sworn in at ic Heppner City Council Sheriffs The Morrow County Sher iff's Dept. office at the courthouse in Heppner han dled the following cases dur ing the past week. On Dec. 20, a two-vehicle accident was reported west of Boitrdmtm. Unspecified injur ies occurred. The Boardman Police handled the call. On Dec. 21, at 3:01 a.m., a one-vehicle accident occurred one mil east of Irrigon on Highway 7:10. A Sheriff's deputy secured the scene until the Oregon State Police ar rived. A Umatilla ambulance and a tow truck were dis patched to the scene. North Morrow Clinic hires doctor Only without a doctor a short time, Uoardman-area residents now have a new physician staffing the North Morrow County Medical Clinic. Dr. Ruy. K. Lobb, 57, has signed a contract to work at the clinic, replacing Dr. James K. Anderson who left the clinic Dec. 15 after he and the North Morrow Medical Board could not arrive at a contract agreement. Dr. Lobb is a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine and has served as medical director for Reynolds Metal Co. in Troutdale. He also spent 23 years in private practice in Portland. The clinic is now in the process of hiring a nurse to assist Dr. Lobb at the clinic. Morrow County's Home-Owned THURSDAY, JANUARY 1. 19HI be last for meeting Monday night. Joyce Winter, Ron Forrar and Warren Plorharsky all won seats on the council in the November election. Jim Ackley will also be sworn in to the council. Although Ackley 's name was not on the ballot he did receive some write-in Report On Dec. 22, Lorraine Ladd, lone, reported the theft of her son's letterman's jacket. The jacket was described as red with cream -colored leather sleeves, and "Richard Ladd" inscribed on it. The jacket also had two football patches on the front. On Dec. 23, Portland Gen eral Electric, Boardman, re ported the theft of a 35 mm "Canon" camera and lens. On Dec. 24, a vehicle owned by Jack Ball, Lexington, received damage in the engine compartment due to a fire. The Heppner Fire Depart ment responded. .rf ' .-.-1 - i I .1 J- The Heppner 10 PACES Heppner tradition ' " Mrs. Duvall has put the hand citing difficulty in arranging to up. sworn in Mon., votes and has agreed to serve. Former Councilmember Clifford Green will be sworn in as Heppner's new mayor, replacing Jerry Sweeney. In lone, Linda La Rue will be sworn in as mayor Monday and Laurel Cannon, Cleo County ASC committee election results told Results of the December election of county ASC com mittee persons for 1981 were announced recently by Judy Buschke, executive director of the Morrow County Agricul tural Stabilization and Con servation Service office. Newly named to committee posts in the mail balloting were : Brok P. Tucker, Hepp ner area, irrigation and dry land grain farmer, regular member; Max Hellberg, Irr igon cattle and hay rancher, first alternate; and Montie Crum, lone wheat farmer, second alternate. The entire committee for 1981 consists of Albert Osmin, chairman; James Swanson, vice-chairman; Brok Tucker, First place only real champion Although most people would consider attaining 10th place in nation-wide competition quite an accomplishment, Jody Tatone of Boardman is not exactly pleased. "As far as I'm concerned," he says, "There's only one champion - only one wins first." ; Tatone, 28, recently return ed from the national rodeo finals in Oklahoma City Dec. 6 through 14, placing 10th nation-wide in bull riding and 13th in that particular rodeo. "The rodeo was disappoint ing to me," said Tatone, whose first priority is rodeo. Tatone said he entered into Weekly Newspaper 20 CENTS HEPPNER. OREGON - - . : .. t '.'"' - painted display up for sale, have the life-size figures set Tues. Childers and Dorothy Stefani will be sworn in as council members. Ed Baker will be sworn in as Lexington mayor on Tuesday, Jan. 6. and Gary Munkers and John Ripple will be sworn in as councilmembers. member, and alternates . Mrs. Buschke said farmer committees are in charge of local administration of nat ional farm programs. At least one committee member and two alternates are elected each year. The farmer re ceiving the largest number of votes is elected to a three-year term; second largest, a two year term if the position is vacant; third largest, a one year term if the position is vacant; and fourth and fifth largest, one-year terms as alternates. Mrs. Buschke said that last year about 90 percent of all farmers in the county partici pated in one or more of the programs administered by the ASC committee. the Oklahoma City competi tion in fourth place, but equipment problems hamper ed him. initially. "It was half over." said Tatone. "and I still didn't have any points. I had to change my strategy and ride more agres sively and consequently I fell off some bulls." Three other Oregonians competed in the finals and. said Tatone, "None of us did very well. But next year could be completely different." Still, one can't help but think, 10th "aint" half bad. Tatone has been riding for eight years, the last two professionally. No to no - Interim manager of the Port of Morrow. Wayne Schwandt, said Tuesday that there will be increasing pressure in the months and years ahead by some people to "put a lid" on growth in the State of Oregon. ; He said growth so far in Morrow County has not been detrimental, and that people should fight a no-growth : Vera Simonton selected lone Schools artist Vera Simonton, a Pendleton t artist, has been selected to ' participate in the artist-in-. residence program at lone Schools. The program, officially - titled the "Rural Artist Res idency" program, is jointly , funded by the Northwest Area Foundation, the Orepon Arts Foundation and individual ; school districts. It is designed to bring professional artists into the classroom to work with teach-".re-and students and om munity members. Simonton, who was hired to teach spinning and weaving, will begin the nine-week lone couple attends CENEX Conference Mr. and Mrs. Joe McElligott "Your Cooperative Involve ment" was the theme of a three-day "Young Couples Conference" recently atten ded by Mr. and Mrs. Joe McElligott of lone. The conference was held at the Inn of the Seventh Moun tain at Bend, and focused on cooperative principals, re sponsibilities of co-op board members, managers, and member development. The young couples partici pated in discussions relating to the co-ops financial needs, School advisory to meet Jan. 8 The Heppner-Iexington Ad visory Committee will meet Thursday. Jan. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Heppner Elementary School library. Major items will include Weather by Don Gilliam growth, says port manager attitude in the state. "There will be incredible growth." Schwandt told the noon luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce. Tuesday, "and there will be increasing pres sure to put a lid on it, primarily from the Willamette Valley. For that thinking to permeate the whole state and put the stops on all over is not program on Jan. 12. In addition to classroom instruction at the lone Schools, Simonton says that she will also teach an evening class open to members of the community. Simonton says that, as an added bonus, her husband, Tom, will accompany her and will do cartooning. Tom paints the windows of area business es each year at fair and rodeo time. The Simon tons, however are in need of housing their nine week stay. She asks that anyone in need of a house-sitter, or anyone knowing of a house or apartment to rent please contact her, 276-1262. the role of farm organizations, and shared ideas about their local co-ops. Harlan Rosvalt, vice pres ident of Construction and Engineering, St. Paul, was the guest speaker at the banquet. The conference was sponsored by CENEX, Oregon State Grange, and the Washington Oregon Farmers Union. CENEX is a regional supply cooperative supplying 1,400 cooperatives in thirteen states. committee preliminary consideration of certified personnel and a discussion on adoption pro cedures for classroom text books, led by John Edmund son, assistant to the superintendent. C : ' i a h if S L Vi I U I V 'iriil jiftlrtWtlWtfiitt 'ttf fitnw High l-nw Precip. Mon., Dec. 22 59 48 .01 Tues., Dec. 23 50 40 Wed., Dec. 24 52 40 .26 Thurs., Dec. 25 66 48 .11 Fri., Dec. 26 68 57 .03 Sat. Dec. 27 64 43 - .09 Sun., Dec. 28 55 33 Mon., Dec. 29 53 33 reasonable and we are going to have to be very vigilant about it." he said. Schwandt. 32, was hired on a six-month contract by the Port, to "see if the port wants me and I want it," he said in referring to the port board of Commissioners. He told the chamber there would be increased pressure on the timberlands in Morrow Toombs elected Heppner Chamber president Fred Toombs, general man ager of Columbia Basin Elec tric Co-op., has been elected 1981 president of the Heppner Chamber of Commerce. Toombs will replace Bill Kuhn, an attorney with the law office of Abrams & Kuhn, who served as 1980 president. Toombs was elected pres ident at the Dec. 23 meeting of the chamber. ' Other officers elected for 1981 include Bob Harris of Far Western Real Estate, first vice-president; John Maas, pastor of the Lutheran Church, second vice-president; and Ken Miller, mana ger of the First National Bank in Heppner, secretary-treasurer. Who will be Baby New Year? Who will be the first baby born at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in 1981? Whoever it is will receive a bundle of gifts from local merchants and businesses. Gift certificates, baby items and services will be given to the new parents and the new baby in 1981. Check inside this week's Gazette for more details on the first baby of the year. View of wheat fields, range lands A 40 mile stretch of aerial telephone wire, cable and poles which connected Pendle-' ton with Umatilla 74 years ago is coming down, restoring a view across the wheat fields and range lands west and northwest of Pendleton which hasn't existed since 1906, That year, Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph, which served Pendleton at the time, built a long distance "detour" to Umatilla to re lieve telephone traffic on a route which connected Pendleton to Portland through Walla Walla. The Walla Walla route traveled southwest to Umatilla and then west along OSU forest tax specialist to speak by Maurice Mitchell, Morrow Extension Service Dr. Charles Sutherland, tax specialist, Oregon State Un iversity Extension Service, will present a workshop on taxation pertaining to wood land property owners. Topics will include: "Property Tax es," "Inheritance Taxes," and "Harvesting taxes." The workshop will begin at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7, County, and on the water resources of the Columbia River in the years ahead, but that economic growth will be beneficial if watched and directed. "Heppner and Boardman will be in competition with thousands of other commun ities for economic growth," Schwandt said. f v v --,, Fred Toombs restored the Columbia River to Port land. Due to growth in calling between 1906 and 1940, the Pendleton-Umatilla line was beefed up with the addition of mtilti-wire telephone cable in 1942. According to Pacific North west Bell Manager Linda Buckner, a $1.2 million, high capacity buried cable, which has been placed in service along much of the same route, allows PNB to restore the original view. PNB will eventually remove nearly 40 miles of old tele phone cable, 351 miles of wire and 1200 poles. and last until 3 p m., with an hour break for lunch. Loca tion of this session will be the Columbia Basin Co-op. Con ference Room in Heppner. There is no charge for the session and public is invited to attend. Anyone wishing further in formation concerning this workshop can contact Maur ice Mitchell, Morrow County Extension agent, 676-9642. . t i t