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Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper
VOL. 99 NO. 38
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981
8 PAGES
20 CENTS
HEPPNER. OREGON
CITY OF HEPPNER Hjgh ,
Mon.. Sept. 7 93 51
Tues., Sept. 8 95 51
Wed.. Sept. 9 87 50
Thur.. Sept. 10 80 ' 48
Fri., Sept. 11 85 51
Sat., Sept. 12 87 51
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County Fair and Rodeo Court
take 1st at Harvest Festival
The 1UBI Morrow County
Fair & fiodeo Court tme
awuy with first prize last
Saturday at the Bonrdman
Harvest Festival, reports
Court Chupernne Mary Anne
Palmer.
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
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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
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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
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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.
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