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Jill makes debut
School district looks for cuts
Morrow County School Sup
erintendent Matt Doherty will
meet with district adminis
trators, look for areas to cut
back in the proposed 19BI -82
school budget, and report
back to the district budget
committee at its next meeting,
the committee ruled Monday
night.
Meeting for the second time
to discuss next year's pro
posed budget, the committee
apparently took the recom
mendation of the superinten
dent. Doherty at the com-
mittee's last meeting on Jan. 5
recommended the $6,499,421
budget be cut back from its
Board to consider bus
delivery, grievance
The regular January meet
ing of the Morrow County
School Board will be held at
lone High School on Monday,
January 19, at 7:30 p.m.
In regular business "the
board will consider problems
created by the slow delivery of
school buses after bids have
been awarded, and the author
ization of the use of district
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Morrow County's Home-Owned
VOL. n, NO. 3 THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1881 8 PAGES
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Mr. and Mrs. Don Barber and Jill Leann
Jill Leann Barber finally arrived in Heppner last Sunday,
and not a moment too noon. Pioneer Memorial Hospital had
been waiting almost two weeks for her appearance.
Jill made her debut as the hospital's first baby of 1981 at 2
p.m. on January 11, weighing 7 lbs., 13' oz.
Jill's mom and dad are Judy and Don Barber of Heppner.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Don Bennett, Heppner, and
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Barber, I'kiah.
As the first baby of the year, Jill and her parents will
receive numerous gifts from area businesses.
Arriving the next morning, Monday, Jan. 12, at 7:42 a.m.,
was Pioneer Memorial's second baby of '81, Brooke Marie
Sweeney, born to Pat and Trisha Sweeney, also of Heppner.
Brooke weighed 7 lbs.,6'-..07..
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs Everett Keithley and
Jerry Sweeney, all of Heppner. Maternal great-grandmother
is Ida Grable of lone.
Brooke joins Cameron, Casey and Nicole at home.
proposed 17.8 percent increase
over last year, to a more
modest 13 percent,
The budget commit! e is
shooting a! 13 percent," Do
herty said later. "They want
us (the administration) to get
it as low as we can without
hurting the district."
He said main areas the
administration will be looking
to for cuts are in salaries,
employee benefits, purchased
services and capital outlay.
He said one recommenda
tion the committee made was
to possibly spread out some of
the proposed capital expendi-
funds to secure the services of
an arbitrator to arbitrate a
grievance with the Morrow
County Education Associa
tion." In other business, the board
will hold an executive session
to consider items related to
the negotiations with its class
ified employees.
The Heppner
J
tures for next year or over
several years.
In addition to the scheduled
Jan. 26 meeting in Heppner,
the committee may meet ome
more on Feb. 2. "There is a
need to identify which esential
items we will need to put on a
B ballot," Doherty said.
"Actually this budget will be
a smaller budget than in the
last three years if we are able
to accomplish what the board
wants to do,"he added.
Local man
injured in
outo accident
by Eileen Suling
Chris Riddle, Heppner, is a
palient in Good Samaritan
Hospital, Portland, as a result
of injuries he received in an
accident near Heppner last
Thursday.
Kiddle is in traction because
of cracked verterbrae and will
probably be hospitalized for
another week or ten days.
He had been transferred to
Good Samaritan from Pioneer
Memorial Hospital in Hepp-
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Teachers
aiming discrimination in
insurance benefit coverage to
married teaching couples in
the school district, the Morrow
County Education Association
has filed a grievance with the
county school board, and
apparently the matter will go
to arbitration.
County traffic deaths
drop from 8 to 1
Only one person died as a
result of a traffic accident last
year in Morrow County, com
pared to eight deaths recorded
in 1979, according to the
Oregon Motor Vehicles Divi
sion. Oregon's tentative 1980 traf
fic death toll has been set at
644. nearly a five percent drop
from 1979. The 1980 count of
victims includes . 89 pedest
rians and 79 motorcyclists -the
highest yearly toll of
motorcycle fatalities ever re
corded in Oregon.
At least 298 victims died as
drivers and 159 as passengers
in motor vehicles, according
to statistics compiled by the
Motor Vehicles Division from
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Sheriffs Deputy Dick Knack and Jake
The Morrow County Sheriff's Dept. got two deputies for the
price of one when they hired Deputy Richard Knack.
No. the extra deputy is not Knack's wife, Claudia, although
she plays an important role -- it's "Jake the Bear."
He's not actually a bear, but he is a bear of a dog.
Jake is a 5's-year-old, 100-pound German Shepherd attack
dog. Knack picked Jake from the litter, raised him, trained
him, along with Viet Nam veteran dog trainers, and
obviously considers him a member of the family.
Jake is trained to Dick's control. Jake, as demonstrated to
an awestruck reporter, will even attack Claudia on
command, with the pointing of Dick's finger. (Needless to
say, Claudia requested a leash on Jake before the
demonstration.) Dick says that if another person
commanded Jake to attack Dick, that person would find
himself under Jake's attack instead.
Immediately after Jake is commanded to stop attack, he
beco nes the most affectionate, obedient dog one could wish
for. One minute he was growling and snapping at Claudia,
and the next minute he walked up to her and licked her hand.
"He's not a vicious dog, "says Dick, "He's only trained to
attack on command." Jake is also fond of candy and
demonstrated a trick in which a piece of car 'y placed on his
nose somehow ended up in his mouth.
"Everything he knows, I showed him one time and he took
it from there, "said Knack proudly.
Knack says that he expects to retire Jake in about three
years and is looking for a female to breed with him. Jake's
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file grievance with county school
In a Nov. 24 grievance letter
to the board, several couples
working as teachers wrote
they "are being discriminated
against on the basis of marital
status."
The couples say that be-
cause "full family or couple
benefits were, for a period of
police and driver reports of
accidents.
Traffic accidents during
week ends and holiday periods
resulted in 294 deaths.
Three crashes, two in April,
one in Tillamook County and
one in Klamath County, and
another one in July in Colum
bia County, each claimed four
lives as the'Vorst of the
year."
Ash fallout was noted as a
possible factor in four traffic
deaths recorded in Mult
nomah. Washington, and Col
umbia counties.
Figures are subject to
revision as delayed reports
are received or if people listed
as injured die within 30 days of
the accident
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time, received by both
spouses, then the benefit
reduced for one spouse or the
other, we believe a unilateral
change was made in the
contract, inconsistent with the
agreement between the dist
rict and the teachers. We ask
that the district reinstate the
coverage each employee is
entitled to according to the
agreement, regardles of mari
tal status."
The school district has not
Everett Harshman assigned
court-appointed lawyer
Floyd Everett Harshman,
Lexington, was assigned a
court-appointed attorney in
circuit court in Heppner,
Monday, Jan. 5, however, no
court date has been set for
numerous theft and burglary
charges pending against him.
Harshman is charged with
one burglary and two thefts in
connection with the theft of
dynamite from a Highway
Division storage shed near
Heppner Feb. 19, 1980.
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Jake prepares to attack
father was registered, although he and his mother, who was
also owned by Knack, were not.
Knack says that Jake is primarily used for officer safety,
in riot control, in apprehension of felony suspects, and
occasionally in hot pursuits, but not, stressed Knack, for
misdemeanor charges.
Jake had been used as a back-up officer when Knack was
stationed at Diamond Lake with the Douglas County Sheriff's
Dept. before moving to Boise, Idaho, where Knack spent the
last year-and-a-half in police work. Knack had been stationed
at the Douglas County Sheriff's Dept. office in Reedsport
prior io transfer to Diamond Lake.
The Knacks moved to the area on Christmas day and are
living up Rhea Creek where they are also raising Arabian
horses. "I liked it better in Oregon," concluded Knack, "and
had the opportunity to return."
Flood control meeting Jon 21
There will be a joint meeting
of the city and county flood
control district Wed. Jan. 21,
at city hall in Heppner. The
purpose of the meeting is to
review a proposal to relocate
the flash flood receiver unit
from the hospital to the
courthouse.
The move will enable the
warning unit to be under 24
hour coverage, as is the 911
emergency service.
A proposal will also be
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agreed to provide full family
coverage for both spouses
working for the district, and in
a subsequent letter Dec. IS
from the Morrow County
Education Association which
represents the teachers in
contract negotiations, the
MCEA asked that the griev
ance be submitted to arbitra
tion.
At issue is whether or not
both couples who work for tne
district should be allowed full
family coverage (as teachers
Harshman also faces two
burglary and one theft charge
in relation to the theft of drugs
from Murray Drug store in
Heppner Dec. 26, 1979.
In addition Harshmann is
charged with four counts of
theft in connection with the
disappearance of guns from
parked vehicles last year in
Heppner, and with keeping or
using a controlled substance
(marjuana).
In a more recent charge,
Harshman is accused of
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made to relocate the Balm
Fork sensor to Hinton Creek
when the Willow Creek Dam is
constructed.
The meeting will begin at 7
p.m.
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board
say is called for in the
contract) or whether the
district will provide full fam
ily for one spouse and single
family for the other spouse (as
is done now).
No date for the arbitration
procedure has been set, but
talks are moving forward in
locating an arbitrator.
The teachers are in the
second year of a three-year
contract with the school dist
rict. attempting an escape from the
Wasco County jail, where he is
being held.
Harshman and another in
mate allegedly used a spoon
Jan. 2 to dig out around bolts
holding cell bars in place.
There will be at least four
trials held in Morrow County
on all of the charges, said
District Attorney Ann Spicer
although no dates have been
set for the trials, Spicer said
they would begin "shortly."
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City planners
discuss flood
ordinance
The Heppner City Planning
Commission Monday re
viewed and discussed a pro
posed "model flood damage
prevention ordinance" which
may be incorporated into city
law at a later date.
The purpose of the ordin
ance is to insure Heppner's
continued eligibility for emer
gency and regular phases of
the national flood insurance
program.
Without the ordinance, Hep
pner city officials have been
warned that property owners
might not be able to continue
receiving the insurance cover
age. The model ordinance was
prepared by the flood plain
management division of the
federal insurance administra
tion in Washington, D C.
The ordinance covers con
struction and building specif-
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