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rjiiiinjrqi' m if p 0-0 nriiyr"yff-iEw gr' pf BESS I E WET2ELL U 0 F., ORE liE'A'S PAPER LIS EUQEHE OR 97403 Camp Fire kids honor dads Ulur Bird Giselle Sehoonover, 6, a member of Mrs. Tucker's Blue Bird group, enjoys Camp Fire sponsored "Special Dud's Night" with her dad, Roger, last Thursday evening at St. Patrick's parish hall in Heppner. Blue Birds, Camp Fire Girls and Blue Jays honored their (In (Is with a special dinner and entertainment. Loans available on 1980 small grains till March 31, 1981 Morrow County farmers niiiv obtain loans on their I HBO wheal, oats and barley until March 111. according to Judy Buschke. County executive director of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conserva tion Service. Corn, sorghum, cotton and soybean loans are available until May .'II "Many farmers use our commodity loan program to obtain interim operating cap ital or hold their grain for future delivery." Mrs. Buschke said. As of February 20. l!Mil. local farmers had obtained federal price support loans totaling $!i.45!,2!l8 1IH on I, Wl, (121.24 bushels of their Three organizations join in effort to attract therapist "Kin.ua Corporation. Tri ('(iiinlv Home Health and the Pioneer Memorial have joined forces in a eo-cqual effort to attract a registered physical therapist to Heppner to oper ate an independent practice from an office situated outside of the hospital," said PMH Administrator A.K. Felt in a recent letter to the Gazette Times. A story in the Gazette-Times last Thursday was in error stating that the physical therapy services would be provided through the hospital. Felt added thai the thera pist's services "would be utilized by all three (PMH, Kinzua Corp.. and Tri-Counlv GAZE' Mor row County's Home-Owned VOL.99, NO. 9 THURSDAY. Y V ' limn grain crops. The loan rates per bushel are: wheat-$3.15, oats-$1.31, barlev-$2.01. and corn-$2.43. Ordinary loans have a nine month maturity date at 11 percent interest. Wheat and barley may go immediately into the farmer owned grain reserve. 'This program offers farmers three year loans and storage pay ments in advance for isolating grain from the market until prices rise." II is designed to provide a reasonable degree of stability in prices and supplies in times of exception ally strong or wheat demand Home Health) on a fee-lor-services basis and would also be available to the general public." "The 'go ahead' from the Stale Health Planning and Development Agency is to pennil the hospital to use the therapists services, when ordered by their attending physician and to, in turn, bill the patient. "The certificate of need requirement (from the State Health Planning and Develop ment Agency) was waivered because the amount of money is small enough to not signifi cantly impact the hospital's total costs or charges." Felt concluded. The Heppner i FEBRUARY 2. 1981 .12 PACES f'f A1 v. -1 Hi -4 . ft ' : i ' ' 7 ' i-c , 1 "1 and during times of unusually good or poor harvest. Cur rently, the reserve contains .over 824.259 bushels of Mor row County Grain. The agency has offered commodity loans to farmers for 48 years. In most cases producers satisfy their loan obligations by repaying the money before the loan matures or by forfeiting the crop to the Commodity Credit Corporation if prices at loan maturity are below the loan rate. For additional details on commodity loans, contact the local ASCS office. Cards defend '80 district tide Friday By MK HKI.I KI.AKI K The Cards will play Dufur at 4 p.m. on Friday. February 27. in the opening boys' game of the district tournament at Umatilla. The Cards hope to defend their district title of last year and return to Baker for the slate tournament next week. Other district action will put Arlington against Condon at 9 p.m. on Friday. In girls' action Dufur will play Echo at 2 p.m. and Condon will play Helix in the opening game of the night session at 7 p.m. . JImIc Weekly Newspaper 26 CENTS HEPPNER. OREGON Candidates file for county spots Six candidates filed for three at-Iarge Port of Morrow board of directors' positions for an upcoming-March 31 county-wide election, by Gazette-Time presstime Tues day evening. Morrow County Clerk Barbara Bloodsworth has announced. Vying for the three spots are Patricia Flug. Louis Carlson. M. Jack Strege, George Phil lips. Paul W. Jones, and Merlin Cantin. Up for three Morrow County School Board four-year at Iarge positions included in the March 31 election are: Paul Sumner. Gerald Hascall. Pat ricia Wright and F E. Glenn. Classified employees, school board fail to agree on contract Despite a 5'i hour negotiat ing session, Morrow County School classified employees and the district board of directors failed tocome to a contract agreement last Tues day night. - - . Negotiating teams from the classified employees and the school board worked from 6:30 p.m. until midnight, using a Wheat League meeting to discuss road plan, public invited A meeting of the Morrow County Wheat League has been scheduled for Monday. March 2. from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the St. Patrick's parish hall in Heppner. Judy Buschke will be present to speak on the federal reserve. Other featured speakers include Eric Anderson and IF YE exchange students meet in orientation Past and present represen tatives of the international 4-H Youth Exchange (IFYE) met in lone last weekend for an orientation and information meeting. Marie Rietmann of Condon and Alison Hansell of Athena will be traveling to a foreign country under the IFYE program this year, and the two spent two days at the home of Jim and Monica Swanson of lone learning from past representatives what to do and what to expect during their visits. The Extension-service-related IFYE program sends young people to 35 foreign countries where they stay with host families and learn the culture and work environ ment. Marie and Alison do not know what country they will :be visiting yet. but they hope .to receive notification from Washington DC within the next two months. Whatever country they visit, they will spend three to six months there and stay with as many as six different families. "I'm really excited." says Marie of her selection to the IFYF. prni! ram. "JVi hoping to Ho In a developing country " Stie saw )hi i-m-imiu'c pnr'n ',i Miiiuili.i' xh,. Jerry McElligott has refiled for the rone three (Irrigon) two-year school board position he presently holds, and Robert Byrd has refiled for the zone two three-year position he presently holds. Filing for Morrow County School board advisory com mittee positions are: Marilyn F;itnam - no. 5. Joan Doherty no. 4. Lovella Conboy ho. 6. ' M.J. Strege - no. 1. George Koffler - no.2. and Steve Peck -no. 7. Also included in the March 31 election will be A and B , ballots for the proposed Mor row County School budget. state mediator as a go between, but failed to come up with a workable contract agreement. The district and the clas sifieds have been working on a l contract for over year now. The two groups declared an impasse in negotiations at a meeting Feb. 4, and decided to go to a mediator at that time. Lion ttnggs wno will discuss the proposed Morrow County road levey. The public is invited to attend to add input on the issue, and discussion will be held as to how the proposed plan may be imple mented. Louis Carlson will also be on hand to present an update on Oregon Wheat League activities. heard about while erowine ud and looked forward to when she got older. Seventy-two people, two from Oregon, are going on the program nation-wide this Past IFYE members pass on tips to those who will be going on youth exchange this year. L R) Marie Rietmann. Condon, Debbie Nornheim, Heppner, 1978 exchange to Hungary; Alan Kolibaba, Weather by Don Gilliam School insurance arbitration decision not expected soon No decision is expected for at least a month following arbitration proceedings at the Morrow County School Dis trict offices last Friday morning- An arbitrator was called in after district officials and the county teacher's association failed to agree on the amount of insurance benefits accorded Elks Annual a successful! one The Heppner Elks No. 358. 84th Annual Celebration held last Saturday. February 21. was a successful! one for the club. "Everything was just great" commented Rick Smith, club manager. Though PMH recognized for cost Pioneer Memorial Hospital has been presented with the American Hospital Associa tion's (AHA) Certificate of Recognition, acknowledging its efforts to more effectively monitor costs and producti vity. . hospital . Administrator A.K. Felt has announced. Through participation in a management information pro Special supplement on Morrow County S.W.CJ). included in this G-T A special supplement announcing the ninth annual meeting of the Morrow County Soil and Water Conservation District will accompany the regular Gazette-Times Newspaper this week. The annual meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. at A.C. Houghton School in Irrigon will feature Greg Tilson, OSU Extension specialist, as speaker. Tilson will speak on North county water-related problems. vear. The orientation nroeram held at lone was the first time time a session has been held in Eastern Oregon, "In the past we used to send more." says Monica, herself . -iilwJWWs-, - - K' . I 4 High l-nw Tues.. Feb. 17 55 41 Wed.. Feb. 18 60 42 Thurs.. Feb. 19 62 39 Fri.. Feb. 20 48 34 Sat.. Feb. 21 59 35 Sun.. Feb. 22 54 33 Mon..Feb.23 54 35 married school teachers both working for the district. Teachers have claimed that married couples both working for the district have not been receiving full insurance bene fits. The school district has not agreed and both groups last month agreed to binding arbitration to settle the dispute. Smith reports the attendance was smaller than last year's annual, he stated that "prob ably over 350 people" were present. The annual included a lodge meeting for members and a ladies' tea during the after noon. Dinner was served from gram provided by Hospital Administrative Services (HAS), a division of AHA. Pioneer Memorial Hospital is able to compare costs and productivity both internally and with other facilities of comparable bed sizes. "Using the HAS program." Fell .said, "we are able to gauge our own effectiveness and keep costs down. It also an IFYE alum who visited Greece in 1973. "Rut funding has been tight the last couple of years and we have only been able to send two." She points nut that the ( Portland. 1980 exchange to West Germany; Alison Hansell, Athena: Laurie Kuhn. John Day, first alternate; Bill Maddy, 1973 exchange to Germany: and Monica Swanson, lone, 1973 exchange to Greece. Preclp. .27" .41" Friday, arbitrator Tom LeVac listened to both sides of the issue for around three hours and told district officials it would be about a month before he reached a decision. A decision in favor of the teachers would mean increas ed insurance benefits and a higher cost to the district. 6 to 8 p.m. with entertainment following with Bill Nicols. downstairs and a four-piece group named "Sailor" who performed upstairs. Molly Rill was the lucky winner of a trip for two to Reno. monitoring gives us a basis upon which future decisions can be made." Pioneer Memorial Hospital has been utilizing HAS pro grams for 3 years, and regularly uses the information in its cost -containment efforts. They currently utilize MOM TREND, designed to provide even more effective manage ment data. Camp Fire candy arrives Candy for the Camp Fire candy sale has arrived in Heppner and local Camp Fire Girls. Blue Birds and Blue Jays started door-to-door sales Tuesday, says leader Irene Plocharsky. The candy, which sells for $2 a box was scheduled to arrive last Friday, but had been delayed. program is funded entirely through private donations, and adds thai those who feel they want to contribute should contact Iheir local 4-H or slate 4-H organizations.
