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Now we are well into the shortest month of the year, and
the days are stretching out longer. Besides being Heart
Month and Black History Month, and a few other reasons for
publicity, February is the State of Oregon's birthday month.
Valentine's Day seems to rate the spotlight, and it almost
obliterates the historic fact that this state was born on Feb.
14, 1859, as the 33rd state in these United States. Our Beaver
State has an interesting pre-birth history, beginning in 1579
when England's Sir Francis Drake may have touched its
coast. We know that British sea captain James Cook
discovered and named Cape Foulweather, north of Yaquina
Bay in 1778.
Robert Gray and other Americans landed on the Oregon
coast in 1788. Britian's George Vancouver explored and
mapped the coast in 1792, the year that Robert Gray
discovered the great river which he named after his ship, the
Columbia.
Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, with help
from Sacajewa and others, reached the mouth of the
Columbia by land in 1805, giving the U.S. a strong claim to the
region stretching from Alaska to California and eastward to
the Rockies. In 1811 John Jacob Astor founded Astoria. A
treaty between the U.S. and Spain fixed the present southern
border of Oregon in 1819.
In 1843 seders and traders met at Champoeg and
organized a provisional government. Then in 1846 a treaty
between England and the U.S. established the 49th parallel as
the chief boundary between them. Oregon became a U.S.
territory in 1848. Oregon City was the territorial capital until
1850 when the government was moved to Salem. The state's
present boundaries were completely established in 1853,
when Congress created the Washington Territory. So next
Saturday don't forget to say "happy birthday" to our
122-year-old state.
Just now the Oregon State Beavers are basking in
basketball glory as they not only lead their conference but
also rank tops nationally. Many here follow every game. I
recall that during my years in Corvallis, I rarely missed a
home game at Gill CoUiseum. What excitement!
Did you get to visit with the young sheepshearers who were
here recently? I thick there were twelve young men working
here and then moving over toward Madras. I chanced to visit
with three of them; two said this was their second work-trip
to Oregon. The more talkative chap said he came from the
southern part of North Island, and that Wellington, the
capital of their self-governing dominion, was rather near his
home.
The day after I enjoyed chattering with the traveling
sheepshearers, Clifford and Frances Williams, now of
Hermiston, were in Heppner. They told me they would soon
fly to New Zealand. It seems that the far south Pacific is
Clifford's favorite part of the world. Just a few years ago
they made their exciting trip to tiny Norfolk Island about
which Clifford had written a study during his college days.
They spent a little time in Australia during that trip, and now
they want to take a good look around New Zealand.
Several months ago I was interested in a news report that
folks in Arizona were bailing tumble weed and selling it as
industrial fuel. Some entrepreneurs were even compacting
that favorite weed of the winds into stove or fireplace fuel
similar to pressed fireplace logs.
Now I see that a Texan is cultivating thistles (carduus
marianus). For four years now he has run his thistle crops
through a combine and has "sacked around 2,000 pounds of
thistle seeds per acre. The seeds are shipped to an organic
pharmaceuticals company in Cologne, West Germany, which
uses a part of the husk in a drug called Legalon 70. The drug
is used in Europe to treat cirrhosis of the liver, but in the U.S.
it is still unavailable because (like DMSO) it has not been
subjected to teste which satisfy the Food and Drug
Administration.
Although we are only in the second month of 1981, publicity
is being turned out about the 1984 Summer Olympics, slated
for Los Angeles. It seems that eight big corporations have
already put up a total of 75 million to become official
sponsors, and plans are to enlist 50 large official sponsors in
all, which will undoubtedly lead to a renewed outcry against
"commercialization" of the games.
Some newswriters have dubbed the 1984 games the
"Hamburger Olympics" because McDonald's will build a $4
million, 11,000-seat swimming and diving stadium on the
University of Southern California campus for the games.
After the games, McDonald's name will stay on the facility,
but USC will get possession of it and will allow it to be used by
residents of the predominantly minority-populated neighbor
hoods surrounding the campus. So "Big Mac" will gain
untold publicity, and the taxpayers will not be out anything
but their spectator tickets and the price of millions of "Big
Macs".
With several oil-right leasing companies talking to
landowners in parts of the county-we wonder if explorational
drillings will come soon?
Last week when I visited the county courthouse to make
my second one-third payment on this year's property taxes, I
took a few minutes to look around. The new tax-collection
quarters look great; I had not been aware of the judge's new
private office, and I made my first visit to the nicely
remodeled basement offices. All the recent improvements
seem excellent.
Just one complaint. Former Heppner Mayor Sweeney and I
happened to reach the doorway to the county court office at
the same moment, and Jerry called my attention to the fine
thermometer mounted there. It registered just over 72
degrees, which Jerry remarked was warmer than public
buildings were supposed to be.
In these days of rapidly escalating heating oil prices, when
many low income persons are pinched to both eat and heat,
and when many of us are keeping our homes cooler than we
like, it seems that our county headquarters might use a little
less hot air. However, could we all look forward to more heat
at reduced prices if oil is discovered right here?
Don't forget that right after you open your Valentines, you,
too, must visit the tax office. There certainly wasn't much
time between that first payment in December and this
second one due by Feb. 15, was there?
Robinson wins $1,700 at rodeo
Kyle Robinson, Heppner,
has won the calf roping event
at a recent rodeo held at EI
Paso, Texas.
Robinson netted around
$1,700 in competition.
Robinson is the son of
MerJyn and Don Robinson,
Heppner.
Another Heppner man, Clay
West, recently returned from
rodeo competition in Denver
and Fort Worth. West is the
son of Jim and Carlene West,
also of Heppner.
Dessert honors HHS leaders
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Federal Land Bank Assoc. of Pendleton
schedules annual meeting Feb. 19
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Kirbv Brum field of Portland
General fciecmc, autnor, tilm
producer and lecturer Is the
featured speaker at the annual
stockholders meeting of the
Federal Land Bank Assocla-
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Heppner High School students entertain
their audience with a jingle praising HHS club
Fr. Lounsbury to
be at All Saints
All Saints Episcopal, Hep
pner, will hold its regular
Morning Prayer service at
10:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 15.
Fr. David Lounsbury from
St. Michael s of Newberg will
be cejebrating Holy Eucharist
the evening of Feb 15 at 6 p.m.
All are welcome to attend.
advisors at a Leadership Dessert program
Monday night.
School advisory committee to meet
The Heppner-Ixington Ad
visory Committee meet
Thursday. February 12 at 7:30
p.m. in the Heppner High,
School Lihrarv.
Items to be covered on the
agenda are:
Recommendation of cer
tificated personnel:
Report on budget com
mittee action regarding the
I9H1-R2 school budget:
Information regarding ad
visory committee and district
board vacancies: and
Northwest Schools and
Colleges Accrediting report on
Heppner High School.
Irrigon Irrigation
awarded Mexico trip
By FRANCES ROSE WILSON
The family-owned-and-operated corporation of Irrigon
Irrigation was recognized for being the fastest growing,
business of the Gould Pump Co. and was awarded an
expense-paid trip to Mexico.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil "Babe" Rock and sons, Cecil, Rick and
Donald, are partners in the family-owned business which has
been incorporated.
, The family has the dealership for Wade Circles and the
Wade-rane Wheel Line, also affiliated with Goulds Pump Co.
The Rock family has worked hard to build up their
dealership and back their work with a five-year guarantee,
saying that if it doesn't work right they'll come back and fix
it. Young Cecil, who is soon to be married, does the
engineering and designing.
Their daughter, Tammy, a student at Whitworth College in
Spokane, went along with the family at her own expense.
They flew from Portland to Mazatlan in Mexico and from
there went on several tours, one of which took them 125 miles
Into the interior where they said they saw the "real" Mexico.
They visited several ancient Spanish missions dating back to
1565 and also went on a cruise.
tion of Pendleton, according to ,
Robin A. Fletcher, manager. ,
The meeting is set for
February 19, at 12 noon at the
Red Lion Motor Inn, Indian
Hills, Pendleton. A luncheon
will be served. 1
Activities Include a report f
on association progress during '
the past year, election of two
directors and a report from
the board of directors on
important actions taken since
last year's stockholders meet
ing. Directors of the Federal
Land Bank Association of
Pendleton are Royal Ray
mond, Helix, Frank Tubbs.
Adams. Don Hawkins, Pendle
ton. Bill Etter. Pilot Rock,
Richard Wilkinson and Edwin
"Tad" Miller. Heppner. and
Robert Peterson, lone.
The association makes long
term loans to farmers and
ranchers in Morrow and
Umatilla counties and has
services to field offices In
Hermiston and Heppner.
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