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Published every Thursday and entered as
second-class matter at the Post Office at Heppner,
Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Second-class
postage paid at Heppner, Oregon.
Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (503)
676-9228.
Address communications to the Heppner Gazette
Times. P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836.
$3.00 in Morrow, Umatilla, Wheeler & Gilliam
counties;
$10.00 elsewhere.
David and April Hilton Sykes, Publishers
SHERIFF'S
REPORT
The Sheriff's Dept. at the
Morrow County Courthouse in
Heppner handled the following
calls during the past week:
On July 5, Margie Worden
reported a grass fire at 435
Alder Street in Heppner. Local
citizens were reported to have
the Fire under control before
the fire dept. arrived.
Also on July 5, a one-vehicle
accident was reported by a
passing motorist in the east
bound lane of Interstate 84,
milepost 175. Two women and
one child were involved in the
accident. The Oregon State
Police responded to the call.
In another July 5 incident,
four deaths were reported as a
result of a trailer fire at the
Locust Trailer Court in Irri
gon. The Irrigon Fire Dept., '
the Oregon State Police, a
Morrow County Sheriffs dep
uty and Dr. L.D. Tibbies,
Morrow County medical ex
aminer, responded.
On July 4, Mrs. George
Griffith reported a truck on
fire on the highway at
Morgan. A Morrow County
Sheriff's deputy responded.
Also on July 4, Carl Sheldon,
Condon, reported a grass fire
on North Potter Street, Con
don. The Condon Police Dept.
responded.
In another July 4 incident,
Greg Jones reported a grass
fire just below the tennis court
at Heppner Junior High
School. The fire had been
extinguished by Jones when
the Heppner Fire Dept. arrive-On
July 3, Ed Hanson,
Doardman, reported a theft
from his property at West
Glen. A Morrow County Sher
iff's deputy responded.
Only July 1, Eldon E. Owen,
lone, was arrested by a
Morrow County Sheriff's dep
uty for alleged Assualt IV. The
subject was lodged at the
Hermiston Safety Center.
On June 30, Charles A.
Vandetta, Heppner, was ar
rested by the Heppner Police
Dept. for alleged Assault IV.
The subject posted bail and
wag released.
Also on June 30, Sabre
Farms reported a fire out of
control on Poleling Road at
Lindsay Canyon. The Morrow
County Grain Growers and the
Umatilla Army Depot re
sponded to the call.
On June 29, a Morrow
t County Sheriff's deputy recov
ered a stolen vehicle on
Interstate 84 and Highway 730
junction. The vehicle had been
reported stolen out of Port
land. Also on June 29, Harold
Peck reported that the
museum at the Morrow
County Fairgrounds had been
broken into. A Sheriff's deputy
responded to the call.
In another June 29 incident,
a two-vehicle accident was
reported on Boardman Ave
nue in Boardman. The Board
man City Police responded. A
Baordman ambulance also
responded and transported the
injured to Hermiston.
PUBLIC
MEETINGS
Wed., July 8 - Morrow
County Court. Courthouse,
Heppner, 10 a.m.
Thurs., July 9 - Lexington
Fire Dept., City Hall, Lexing
ton. 7 : 30 p.m . ; Port of Morrow
Commission, Port Office, Nel
son Square, Boardman, 1 p.m.
Mon., July 13 - Heppner Fire
J'Dept., Fire Hall, Heppner,
"'Yiab p.m.; Heppner Planning
Commission, City Hall, Hep
pner, 7:30 p:m.
Wed., July 15 - Morrow
County Court, Courthouse,
Heppner, 10 a.m.; Pioneer
Memorial Hospital Board,
Hospital, Heppner, 9:30 a.m.
Mon., July 20 - Heppner Fire
Dept., Fire Hall, Heppner,
7:30 p.m.; lone Planning
Commission, City Hall, lone,
7:30 p.m.; Morrow County
School Board, District Office,
Lexington, 8 p.m.
Wed., July 22 - Heppner
Public Library Board, Lib
rary, Heppner, 8 p.m.; Mor
row County Court, County
Building, Irrigon, 10 a.m.
Mon., July 27 - Heppner Fire
Dept. Fire Hall, Heppner, 7:30
p.m.; Morrow County Plan
ning Commission, County
Building, Irrigon, 7:30 p.m.
Wed., July 29 - Morrow
County Court, Courthouse,
Heppner, 10 a.m.
HEALTH
j)EPT.
Fri., July 10 - Free Blood
Pressure Clinic, Immuniza
tions, Lexington Health Dept.
Office, 8 a.m. to 12 noon, 1 to 4
p.m.
Mon., July 13 - Closed,
vacation.
Tues., July 14 - Free Blood
Pressure Clinic, Immuniza
tions, Irrigon County Offices, 1
to 4 p.m.
Wed., July 15 - Free Blood
Pressure Clinic, Bank of
Eastern Oregon Kitchen, lone,
3 to 4 p.m.
Fri., July 17 - Free Blood
Pressure Clinic, Immuniza
tions, Lexington Health Dept.
Office, 8 a.m. to 12 noon, 1 to 4
p.m
Mon., July 20 - Closed,
vacation.
Tues., July 21 - Free Blood
Pressure Clinic, Heppner
Neighborhood Center, 2:30 to
4:30 p.m.
Fri., July 24 - Free Blood
Pressure Clinic, Immuniza
tions, Lexington Health Dept.
Office, 8 a.m. to 12 noon, 1 to 4
p.m.
Mon., July 27 - Closed,
vacation.
Tues., July 28 - Free Blood
Pressure Clinic, Immuniza
tions, Irrigon County Offices, 1
to 4 p.m.
Fri., July 31 - Closed,
vacation.
JUSTICE
COURT
Justice Court at the Morrow
County Courthouse in Heppner
handled the following cases
during the past week.
Dianna Lee Becket, Route 1,
Heppner, - exceeding maxi
mum speed (70 miles per hour
in a 55.mph zone) - $29 fine;
Julie Anice Wattenberger,
Evergreen Terrace Apart
ments no. 23, Heppner, ex
ceeding maximum speed (65
miles per hour in a 55 mph
zone) - $24 bail forfeited.
Road report
The Morrow County Public
Works Dept. released the
following work report for the
week ending July 4:
July I, 181
Roads bladed this past week
were: Freezeout, Fuller Can
yon, Joe Kenny and Hisler to
Johnson Grade.
Oil rock was spread on a
section of Baseline.
Pot holes were patched with
not mix on Juniper Road,
Meadowbrook Road, Paul
Brown Road, Sandhollow
Road, B. Doherty-Baseline
Road, Myers, and Cutsforth
Baseline Road.
The shop worked on truck
number 16, 17, 19, and 20.
Blade number 27 and 30.
Heppner School
reunion planned
The fourth Heppner School
reunion, (all classes .included)
willbe held Sunday, August 9,
1981, at Heppner High School.
Registration will begin at
10:30 at 10:30 a.m. and will
continue throughout the day
until 5 p.m.
Family picnic lunchtime
will be from 12 noon until 1
p.m., with a short program at
2 p.m.
For further information,
call Carlita Bloodsworth, 989
8476. Garden Club to
picnic July 13
The members of the Hep
pner Garden Club will meet at
6:30 p.m. on Monday, July 13,
for a no-host picnic at the
home of Bob and Babe Harris.
President Julia Hill will con
duct a regular monthly meet
ing after dinner.
The Yard-of-the-Month com
mittee must decide on the July
winner as the award will be
moved from Elwyn and Patti
Bell's yard soon. Plans for the
club's participation in the
Morrow County Fair need to
be discussed and some deci
sions reached.
The Harris home is at 360
South Chase Street. All family
members and house guests
are invited to attend the
picnic.
Heppner News
David, April, Christopher
and Andrew Sykes traveled to
Washington over the Fourth of)
July weekend. In Yakima they
stopped to visit and have
dinner with April's aunt and
uncle, Elaine and Elmer
Becker. They spent the re
mainder of the weekend
visiting another of April's
aunts, Camille Elliott, who
along with her friends, Betty
Dicks and Dave Davis, has a
home on Puget Sound in Port
Orchard.
At a Fourth of July picnic
the Sykes were able to visit
cousins, Donna and Paul
Keiter, their children, Mike,
Kelly and Deb, and grandson,
Sol; cousins, Jean and Don
Duncan, and their children,
Camille, Charlie and John;
and Shelley Swanson, the
daughter of another cousin.
They also enjoyed riding the
ferries across the Sound and
sightseeing in Port Orchard
and Seattle. Christopher and
David even took a ride to the
top of the Space Needle.
AFS student to arrive next week
Kris Donaldson, an Ameri
can Field Service exchange
student from Australia, is
scheduled to arrive for a
year-long stay in Heppner
sometime next week.
imnon
Frzr.cis Rose
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Dike and
their three children, Ivan,
Coleen and Justin, have re
turned from a vacation trip to
Nebraska, the state they left
several years ago when they
came to Oregon. Mr. Dike is
employed by the railroad and
his wife Judy works for a
nursing home in Hermiston.
Benny and Maxine Reeves
have moved their gift shop
from the C & H Market to the
log cabin on the highway at 7th
St. They now stock fishing
BMCC board
control in budget decisions
, Decisions about cutting
funds for certain kinds of
community college classes
should be left to the local
boards was the feeling endor
sed by the Blue Mountain
Community College board of
education at Its June 11
meeting.
The board voted in favor of a .
resolution to be sent to area
legislators which stated, in
part, that the board members,
"go on record as opposing any
further dictation from the
State of Oregon as to what
can be funded and what
- cannot be funded in commun
ity college education."
The resolution came in
response to an Educational
Coordinating Commission's
"recommendation that state
funding be prohibited for adult
self-improvement courses at
community colleges. Adult
self-improvement classes are
offered by the Continuing
Education Division of BMCC
throughout the two-county
area and range from tole
painting to accounting.
"If cuts have to be made in
state funding, the board ex
pressed its feeling that the
legislators should decide the
amount of the cut and the local
board will decide where to
make such cuts," according to
college President Ron
Daniels.
Currently, self-improvement
courses as well as
college transfer and vocation
al program classes are par
tially funded by state monies.
The legislature limits the
amount of funding a college
can receive. If enrollment is
higher than the state ceiling,
the community college re
ceives no reimbursement for
those students.
"We are unanimously op
posed to the state entering into
any further mandates regard
ing what can be and what
cannot be funded within what
is normally considered to be a
legitimate function of a com
munity college," the resolu
tion continued. In the resolu tion,
the board conceded that
if state monies become
scarce, cuts will have to be
made, but the board reiterat
ed its stand that it prefers to
decide how the funds will be
expended.
Following an executive ses
sion, the board ratified an
agreement with support staff
employees which included a 10
percent raise in salary and
fringe benefits. The agree
ment had already been ap
proved by support staff mem
bers. A regular teaching contract
was extended to John Weddle,
instrumental music instruct
or. The contract had not been
renewed at the previous board
meeting because of a contem
plated change in the music
program.
Harmon Springer, board
member from Hermiston, was
presented with a plaque and
gavel in honor of his 11 years
of service on the BMCC board.
Springer complimented the
board for being a "harmon
ious" one. He lauded the
college for the "credibility" it
enjoys in the two-county area.
Sue will be staying with the
Donna Bergstrom family.
Another AFS exchange stu
dent, who will reside with the
Holland family in Heppner, is
scheduled to arrive next
month.
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supplies as well.
The Irrigon Assembly of
God will hold a potluck picnic
at the Columbia River Park
next Sunday, July 12. A
Softball game will follow.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Acock
spent the 4th of July weekend
in Condon, visiting relative:;.
The Melon Stand formerly
operated by the John Mat
thews family has now been
opened by Rachael Parsons,
who calls it the "Last
Chance."
calls for local
Board officers for next year
were elected. Tim Mabry,
Hermiston, was elected chair
man and will serve as the
board's representative to the
Oregon Community College
Association meetings. Joe
Green, Pendleton, will serve
as vice-chairman.
In other business, the
board:
accepted the resignations .
of Jim Burgess, Applied
Photography instructor, and
Charles Rochat, Foreign Lan
guage instructor.
granted an easement to
Pacific Power and Light for a
power line which runs south to
the college's "track area;
tabled a request from Al
Insko, science instructor, for a
one-year unpaid leave of
absence.
- adopted the board calendar
of meetings for next year. The
October meeting was set in
Irrigon and the March meet
ing will be held in Stanfield.
BMCC honors
announced
Thirty-seven Blue Mountain
Community College students
received a perfect 4.0 grade
point average during spring
term. A 4.0 is a straight 'A'
report.
A total of 263 students have
earned a place either on the
BMCC honor roll or dean's list
based on their high grades.
Students receiving a 3.5 or
better are placed on the
college honor roll and those
with a 3.0 to 3.5 earn a place on
the dean's list.
To be so honored, a student
must be carrying at least 12
graded credit hours. They
may not have received an 'F
in any class. A pass grade
does not count in the 12 graded
hours necessary to be included
on the honor roll or dean's list.
In addition to the straight
'A' students, another 103 are
listed on the spring term honor
roll. Students on the dean's list
number 123.
Included on the BMCC honor
roll from Morrow County
are:
HONOR ROLL
Boardman Donovan, Car
ol, 4.00.
Heppner - Bailey, Kenneth,
4.00; Farley, Eugene. 4.00;
Gentry. Jackie; Kenny, Kath
leen, 4.00; Palmer, Larry, and
Van Schoiack, Daniel,
lone - Piening, Jeannie.
Irrigon -Doherty, Kathryn;
Evans, Francine; Evans, Jan
nette. DEAN'S LIST
Boardman - McCauley, Jef
fery; Pendergrass, Rick;
Stubblefield, Cheryl.
Heppner - Healy, Janice;
Healy, Maureen; Lott,
Michael.
Irrigon - Evans, Mari.
Lexington - McCarl, Melvin.
BIRTHS
Aubrey Dayne Curtis - A
daughter, Aubrey, was born to"
Vernon and Carol Curtis,
Irrigon, on June 25, 1981, at
Umatilla Hospital at Umatil
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Wheat growers to hire additional staff
In a move to expand the
programs of the Oregon
Wheat Growers League, Stan
Timmermann, Pendieton
farmer and president of the
state-wide wheat growers non
profit association, announced
that they would be hiring an
additional staff person.
Timmermann said that the
hiring of an additional staff
person had been discussed and
approved at the last two
statewide OWGL conventions
as well as county meetings In
each wheatgrowing county
organization In Oregon this
last year.
"We need to strengthen the
OWGL through membership
development and involve
ment," stated Timmermann.
"We farmers are sometimes
just too production oriented
and forget that how we sell our
product is just as Important
or more important than how
to grow wheat."
Timmermann stated that
thousands of dollars are spent
on research to produce newer
and better varieties of wheat
but "very little is spent on
informational systems to help
farmers sell their wheat after
it is produced."
The wheat growers present
ly hire two staff persons.
Wesley Grilley is the execu
tive president and Ivon Hale
Polly is secretary of the
grower's group. There are
approximately 9,000 wheat
farmers in Oregon.
"We are advertising
throughout Oregon to let
people know the job position is
open," stated Grilley. "Know
ledge of wheat production and
marketing is needed for the
position as well as public
relations ability. We hope that
we receive a number of
applicants for the position to
chose the best person."
Timmermann said that
some of the programs that he
Juvenile
Commission
to meet
The State Juvenile Services
Commission has scheduled a
meeting in Pendleton on July
9 to review the Morrow County
Comprehensive Juvenile Ser
vices Plan. The meeting will
convene at 9 a.m. at the
Pendleton City Council Cham
bers, 23 SE Dorian: public
testimony will be accepted at
10 a.m. from anyone wishing
to testify regarding the
county's plan.
The plan was developed by
Morrow County's local juven
ile services commission,
which was appointed by the
Board of County Commission
ers and the presiding juvenile
court judge.
The 1979 Legislature passed
the Community Juvenile Ser
vices Act, through which
monies are distributed to
counties on a child-population
' basis, for" the purposes of
developing and strengthening
community-based programs
for children and their fam
ilies. For more information
about the programs recom
mended for funding, contact:
Nancy Moore, Chairperson,
Morrow County Juvenile Ser
vices Commission, Heppner.
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hoped to see expanded Include
- protection of agricultural
pesticides for food production
Informational programs ; on
farmer marketing of wheat
and cereal grains, larger
participation of wheat farm
ers in volunteer activities, and
doing anything to keep the
price up on our wheat,"
exclaimed Timmermann.
The new position is expected
to be filled In September.
Applicants are asked to re
What's Your
Question: "Were you satisfied with the results of tin
Morrow County election last Tuesday?"
"Yes," said Maynard Seefelt, Lexington. "Except for the
road levy. The roads are terrible and need fixed. They can't
do it without the money."
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quest Job descriptions and
application information from
the OWGL office, P.O. liox
400, Pendleton, OR 97801.
"We have hundreds of
projects that need to In
explored and worked on to
improve the position of Ore
gon's whent farmers," Tim
mermann said. "The addition
of this new staff person will
help and we look for incrensml
participation from Oregon's
wheat growers."
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