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School district board of directors slate meeting The Morrow County School District Hoard of Directors will hold their regular Septem ber Hoard meeting at 8 p.m., Monday, Sept 21 at Heppner High School. The hoard is expected to North Morrow 4-H leaders elect officers, plan events By FRANCES ROSE WILSON North Morrow County 4-H leaders met at the home of Vern and Francine Evans on Sept. 10. Plans were made for 4-H F amily Night and dinner to be held Oct. 15 at 6.30 p.m. Each Fair grain Grain division winners at the Oregon State Fair were announced recently, and win ning from Morrow County were : Art Crawford, lone, in the PACTION RETURNS g . MEMBER 15, 1981 1 i 1 1 7 Sm etf u P p K' S p J2 h ONE YEAR ROAD LEVY 7 lW U 41 18 3a PASSED ysy SHALL THE VOTERS AUTHORIZE MORROW COUNTY lift I TO LEVY $525,000 FOR ONE YEAR FOR REPAIR AND fJ i - ui , - A E 4f MAINTENANCE OF COUNTY ROADS? " I OO 3 3W"j Office opens; new boxes more space n for their new boxes Queen Nancy Miller, prin cesses Anita Palmer and Kathy Hansen, along with the pennant bearers and families traveled to Boardm'an. After the festival the girls went on to Pendleton where they partici pated in the dress up Parade consider setting the budget calendar for the year, review the district's financial report, and adopt a policy on school lunches. The board will also consider a plan for distributing a family will be asked to bring a salad or dessert. Ham, pota toes, rolls and fruit punch wil be provided by 4-H leaders. An election of officers was held with Lois Richards elect ed president, Barbara Mathis vice president, Francine Evans secretary and Jan Evans treasurer. Lull II J winners announced Commercial Grain division for his exhibition of Soft Red Winter wheat ; Norman and Chuck Nelson, Lexington, in the Sheaves The new Heppner Post Office opened for business Monday, Sept. 14. The new location is adjacent to the old post office building on Main Street. Morrow Co. Court adopts urges Ore. Legislature to Court Reform package By MARY ANN CERt'LLO Morrow County Court last Wednesday adopted a resolu tion concerning Governor Vic Atiyeh's recent veto of two court reform bills. The first bill (HB2696) would have established a more centralized court system and given the chief justice greater administrative authority over lower costs. The companion bill (HB2733) would have provided for a gradual phase in of state financing of circuit and dis Saturday evening. This Friday will be the last public appeurance of the 1981 court, says Mary Anne, when they will be in the Western Ho Parade of the Pendleton Round-up. questionnaire to the district's patrons for school public input. In other business the board will review bids received for three older school buses which have been advertized for sale. Extension Agent John Nord heim of Heppner announced a trailride for 4-H horsemanship members and their families to be held Sept. 26. The group will meet at Cutsforth Park at 10 a.m. and will ride until 4 p.m. Everyone is asked to bring a sack lunch. division for Any Other Barley, and Harold Peck, Heppner, also in the Sheaves division, for Any Other Grain. The new building house 1.014 new boxes, 281 more than the previous office. It is also 1.000 sq. ft. larger. The new boxes are key operated while most of the old boxes were secured bv a trict courts through increas ing court fees. According to the newly adopted resolution. Morrow County Court does not feel that the veto of the bills by the governor is in the best interest of Morrow County. The court strongly urged the Oregon Legislature to reopen the Court Reform package. The resolution further stated that Morrow County Court is in fulj support of House Bills 26 and 2733 or another comparable Court Reform package. Sat. electrical outage caused by BPA malfunction The Saturday night. Sept. 12, electrical outage was caused when Bonneville Pow er Administration had a malfunction in a relay, said Columbia Basin Electric Co op Manager, Fred Toombs. The malfunction occurred on a 230 KV line that feeds from a McNary substation to Arlington, and caused all of Fair & Rodeo Court application forms available; trials in Oct. Any girl who would like to try out for the 1982 Morrow County Fair & Rodeo Court can pick up application forms at their high school, says Court Chaperone Mary Ann Palmer. Trials will be held in Playground equipment to be purchased as memorial The lone Schools plan to purchase a piece of play ground equipment as a mem orial to Eddi Skow. Eddi was always interested in improving the physical as well as mental skills of students. Teaching physical education was one of her joys combination lock. Two keys per box are available for one dollar each. More keys will be available UDon reauest at later date, said a spokesper son from the post office. resolution; reopen Other County Court business went as follows: Moved to put the County Clerk's Burroughs Computer on a maintenance contract: - Reviewed and approved the Juvenile Services expense statement. - Approved to borrow and transfer funds within the budget until tax collection time period; - Decided on the purchase of a new Adams Ripper from Inland Machinery of Pendle ton for $19,777, to be used by the Public Works Dept. Morrow County." except those areas serviced by Pacific Power and Light, to be without power for about 45 minutes, said Toombs. The outage occurred at about 11 p.m. and lasted until about 11:45 p.m. Toombs said what caused the relay to trip is unknown, but an investigation is under way. October so applications should be completed as soon ' as possible. If forms are gone at the schools, girls can get applica tions by contacting Mary Anne at 422-7485. and she was instrumental in upgrading the play area of the lone School, said a school spokesperson. Students, parents and friends may send donations to the lone School, P.O. Box 167, lone. Checks should be made out to the Eddi Skow Mem orial Fund. Planning commission discusses helo landing pad By MARY ANN CERU.I.O The Heppner Planning Com mission came to order Mon day. Sept. 14 to discuss a conditional use permit for the construction of a landing pad for an ambulance helicopter to be used by Pioneer Memorial Hospital. According to Lucky Felt, hospital administrator, the proposed landing pad would be located at an unused portion of Thompson Street. The Planning Commission decided that no action would be taken by the board until a formal application for a condi tional use permit is received from Pioneer Memorial Hosp ital. Business continued over the subject of three recreation vehicles at the comer of Quaid and Linden Way, which are reportedly violating city ordi nance by unlawful sewage drainage on top of the ground. Heppner City Council had previously ordered the trail ers to be moved in 48 hours. Bill Taggert of Salem, speaking on behalf of the trailer owners, explained to the board that the Heppner RV Construction bids on Willow Creek dam to be opened October 15 Bids for construction of the Willow Creek Dam in Heppner will be opened on October 15, according to Don Johnson, resident engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers 'The bids will b mailed out Volleyball to begin at HHS Community volleyball will begin Monday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m. at the Heppner High School gym. All intemted men and women are invited to participate. Old linotype machine V'-L-.- -h: ,v r Linotype loaded for An old machine which for many years was used by the Gazette-Times to get the news into type, has been retired to the museum at the county fair grouonds. Called a linotype machine, and purchased by the Gazette-Times in 1914, the 4,000 lb. machine was moved last Thursday by Harold "Shorty" Peck, G-T Publisher David Sykes,. and a forklift from Pettyjohn's to a spot at Shorty's Museum, where it will remain on display. The machine was part of an old style of hot Park was presently filled to capacity and they had no where else to go. He requested that they be granted more time to relocate. Taggert and the other trail er owners are currently work ing on the construction of the Willow Creek Dam. Bill Kuhn, city attorney, suggested that the trailers contain their sewage and in turn perhaps the city would postpone the order to relocate to ten days. In other business, the Plan ning Commission held a public hearing where a conditional use permit was considered for Randy Lott to allow a two family dwelling on the Ras-mussen-Lott Additon. The board presented the application for the permit which Randy Lott had filed. According to the board, there were some inadequacies in the filling out of the application and in the following of building codes. The board stated that they have yet to receive an application for a permit that has been correctly filled out. According to a complaint made by Linda Dames, who currently lives next door to the today and we expect to open them on October 15," he told the Gazette Monday. Johnson estimated that the contract for construction of the actual dam will be awarded, around November Fire ignites The Heppner Fire Depart ment was called to dutv at about 7 a.m. Monday, Sept. 14 when a fire started around the motor of the chip blower at Kinzua Corp. in Heppner. The fire resulted when some dust surrounding the blower motor ignited as the blower trip to museum lead printing, a process which the Gazette and nearly all newspapers have since abandoned for the more modern offset, or photographic style of printing. The linotype was used to impress individual letters into hot lead, which made up the lines, or slugs, which were then stacked up to form the familiar news columns. Vaughter Crawford, who also owned the Heppner Times, and consolidated the two when he purchased the Heppner Gazette in 1911, brought the machine to Heppner by rail car in 1914. building site, the duplex under construction sits less than ten feet from the property line which is in violation of the building code. It was later determined that the landowner. Randy Lott, had been uninformed of changes made a year ago in the building ordinance when he filed for a building permit at Heppner City Hall. According to Lott, his copy of the ordinance is five years old and is what the duplex was built by. Upon further discussion, the Planning Commission, moved and seconded that the condi tional use permit be granted to Randy Lott with the stipula tion that, he file for a variance to allow the duplex to sit closer to the property line than ten feet; that he follow all building codes according to the updat ed ordinance; and that a retaining wall or something comparable be built to pre vent erosion. Complaints against the vari ance may be filed at city hall within 15 days, said a spokes person for the commission. The Heppner Planning Com mission will meet again Wed nesday, October 14. 15. Road, bridge and water line work accompanying the dam construction has been in progress for several months now. at Kinzua was turned on, reported Bob Lankford. assistant sales manager for Kinzua. "This sort of thing happens quite often." said Lankford. "We had the fire about out by the time the fire depart ment got here." he added. retires ittmit mum
