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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
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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.
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Heppner tradition
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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
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
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