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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.