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What will 15,000 pounds of dynamite do to a hillside?
Reduce it to rubble, that's what.
Peter Kewit construction company set off a large blast late
construction site just outside of
The blast was set to go off at 3:30
off it produced quite a show.
A sloping area across Balm
twenty-foot holes. The holes were
area was cleared, and double checked for stray bystanders, who
Spectators were perched on the
ready. On a given signal from the
Rock and dirt lifted up in the air
flat area had been transformed into
standing in the center.
The blast went off as planned, workers said, and the broken ground
removed. A rock crusher will be moved up to the site and begin making
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but was delayed for several hours.
Fork, up on the hillside, was drilled earlier with over 1.000
packed with dynamite and another brand of explosives. The
hillside across from the blast site,
powder man the charges were
and a loud boom was heard. When
a broken mass of dirt and rocks,
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Friday afternoon at the dam
When it was finally touched
may have wandered in.
some with cameras at the
set off.
the dust cleared the former
with one large 15-foot ridge
can now be scooped up and
rock for road construction
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Weekly Newspaper
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$525,000
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requested
By MARY ANN C ERUI LO
A request for an election on
Tuesday. September 15, was
certified by Barbara Bloods
worth. Morrow County Clerk,
last Wednesday. Commission
er Dorothy Krebs reported.
The one-year road levy
election will ask voters to
approve a total of $525,000 for
road improvements.
- $375,000 is to be used to
match funds from the state for
the completion of Bombing
Range Road.
$150,000 will be for asphalt
and supplies to continue the
present level of road mainten
ance. '
County Court moved to
support the road levy during a
court session July 22.
In other business. Morrow
County Court received a letter
of resignation from Mrs. Jean
Jepsen of the Juvenile Council
because of increased respons
ibilities at home. The court
accepted Jepsen 's resignation
which was effective immed
iately. .
District short
$92,000
Morrow County School Sup
erintendent Matt Doherty said
last week that the school
district will be short "about
$92,000 in basic school sup
port this year.
The district had been trying
to anticipate how much school
support it could count on from
the state this year, but until
the state legislature adjourn
ed two weeks ago school
administrators really did not
know how much the state
would pare the program down.
"We'll be short about $92,000
more than we anticipated in
this year's budget," Doherty
told the Gazette-Times, "But
I'm relieved it's not the
$280,000 we at one time
thought it (the shortfall)
might be."
"It's at least something we
can depend on now," he said.
Men burned, wheat,
An lone man, Kenneth
James Smouse, and his son,
Kenneth, are "doing well,"
according to a Pioneer Mem
orial Hospital spokesperson,
after sustaining burns in a
wheat fire that broke out
round 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
Fires have taken their toll
as both soaring temperatures
and harvesting have contin
ued the past week in Morrow
County.
According to a neighbor of
the Smouses', Vera Rietmann,
she and her husband, Wayne,
lost 100 acres of wheat in the
fire that burned two members
of the Smouse family, destroy
ed the Smouses' tractor,
Verduzco denied retrial
A motion for a new trial for
Jose Mario Mendoza Ver
duzco, convicted of murder by
a Morrow County jury July 15,
has been denied by Judge
JV.W. Wells.
Verduzco was found guilty
of the April 25 slaying of
Antonio Delgadillo Guzman
near the H-Bar-W tavern in
Boardman.
According to defense attor
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Rice takeg i8t in saddle bronc event
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Lee Rice in competition at the National High School Rodeo.
Heppner was officially put
on the map during the
National High School Rodeo
Association competition held
July 27 through Aug. 2 at
Douglas, Wyoming.
Lee Rice of H(ppner won
first place in bareback com
petition. Rice who has been
riding for around 11 years, is
burned 300 acres of wheat and
stubble and destroyed a com
bine on the Ralph and Montie
Crum ranches and broke out
windows of a tractor belong
ing to Smouse.
Another man injured in the
fire, Barney Rea, was treated
at Pioneer Memorial Hospital
and released. A pickup belong
ing to Keith Rea was also
caught in the fire and dam
aged. According to the Riet
manns, the fire came within
400 feet of their home and
within 200 feet of their grain
elevator, Mrs. Rietmann said
that their home and elevator
could have been destroyed if it
ney F.fc). Glenn, reasons for
the motion for a new trial
included allegations that the
jury that convicted Verduzco
did not truly represent the
county's population and did
not include members of ethnic
groups as it should.
Verduzco is rn-ing held in the
Umatilla County Jail until a
presentencing investigation is
completed.
Weather
BY THE CITY OF HEPPNER
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the first Oregon cowboy ever
to take a first place in the
NHSR. The Oregon team
ended up 8th in the nation.
Rice. 17, the son of Dick and
Carol Rice, scored 70 in his
first go-round, 70 in his second
go-round, and 75 in the short
go to take the prize. He won
two plaques (one for each
combine destroyed in
had not been for Mel and John Rietmann said onlookers their live to fight it. We really
Boyer who battled the blaze estimated the blaze shot about do appreciate their help," said
from an airplane. The Boyers 30 feet in the '" Mrs. Rietmann. "It was lucky
operate Gar Aviation Service " was an extremely dan- tha, more Aidn-t get
out of Lexington. gerous fire. People risked hurt
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When Tom Simonton comes
area business windows, fair
isn't far behind. Simonton,
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go-round), a pair of boots, a
hat, a saddle, and a buckle for
his efforts.
Jeff Bailey, also from Hep
pner, won his first go-round
for fifth in the nation.
Also competing from Hep
pner were Cliff Dougherty and
Tony Currin in calf roping;
Earl Hammond in bareback;
to town to paint scenes have P"eviewed tne Morrow County
and rodeo time Fair and Rodeo for many years' hails frora
whose colorful Pendleton.
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and Tara Mahoney in poles
and breakaway.
. A Stanfield cowboy. Wade
Burtch, competing for the
Heppner team, won first go in
the saddle bronc for third in
the nation. Chris Dahl, Red
mond, ended up fifth in the
nation in the saddle bronc
event.
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