TWO The Heppner Gatette-Times. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 18, 1982
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The Official Newipoper of (he
City ot Heppner and rhe
County of Morrow
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U.S.P.S. 240-420
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Oregon under the Act of March 3. 1879. Second-class
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Obituaries
Funeral services were held
Oscar E. PeterSOn Saturday. February 13, at
Valby Lutheran Church, with
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IONE Oscar E. Peterson,
a lifetime resident of the lone
area, died Tuesday, February
9, 1982 at Pioneer Memorial
Hospital in Heppner.
He was born April 23, 1893 to
John Edward and Louise
Johnson Peterson on the
family homestead near lone.
He attended Reed College in
Portland.
On September 2, 1924, he
was married to Esther Eng
strom at Portland.
Mr. Peterson was a member
of the Rhea Creek Grange for
50 years ; a 44-year member of
the lone Masonic Lodge; a
member of the Oregon Wheat
League; a founder of the
Jordan Elevator; charter
member of the lone Lions
Club; member of the Heppner
Morrow County Chamber of
Commerce; a charter mem
ber of the Willow Creek
Country Club; an lone school
board member and chairman
for many years; a collabora
tor with Giles French on the
book "Homesteads and Heri
tages"; and Sunday school
superintendent of Valby Lu
theran Church for 32 years.
The church was founded by his
father and neighbors near his
farm in 1886.
Mr. Peterson was promin
ent in political, religious and
farming circles in the North
west as well as in Morrow
County.
He served on the state
Agriculture Commission for
eight years and on the
advisory commission for Bon
neville Power Administration
for several years. He was
elected judge of Morrow
County Court (commission) in
1958 and served until 1966.
Farming a ranch south of
lone, which was homesteaded
by his father, John, in the
1890s, he was instrumental in
bringing electric power to the
area.
Along with neighbors, he
organized Columbia Basin
Electric Co-op under the
Rural Electrification Act. He
served on its board of direct
ors for eight years.
Mr. Peterson also worked
for many years in the Pacific
Northwest Waterways Asso
ciation promoting navigation
on the Columbia River.
He was attending a national
meeting of the waterways
association in Minneapolis in
November when he suffered a
heart attack. He had been
hospitalized most of the time
since.
Mr. Peterson worked for
regional cooperation in gov
ernment, helping to organize
the Mid-Columbia Association
of Counties in the early 1960s.
He organized the Port of
Morrow and served as a
commissioner on its board for
several years.
He was also a champion of
the Willow Creek Dam, mak
ing several trips to Washing
ton D.C. to promote the
Heppner
ing. Rikka Tews was organist.
Casket bearers were Kerry
Peterson, Paul Peterson and
Joel Peterson, Richard Lind
ner, Jon Kvistad and Rod
Kvistad. Honorary bearer was
Andy Kvistad. Concluding
services and vault interment
were at Valby Cemetery.
Sweeney Mortuary was in
charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his wife,
Esther, of Heppner; a daugh
ter, Eunice Kvistad, Beaver
ton; two sons, Donald and
Gerald, both of lone; a sister,
Lutheran deaconess Sister
Emma Peterson, of Minnea
polis, Minn.; seven grand
children and two great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions
may be made to the Valby
Lutheran Church memorial
fund, or the Oregon Heart
Fund, directly or through the
Bank of Eastern Oregon.
The Rev. Walter
B. Crowell
IONE Word has been
received here of the death of
former lone resident, the Rev.
Walter B. Crowell. Mr. Crow
ell, 81, or Woodburn, Ore.,
died Dec. 27, 1981.
He was born January 6,
1900, at McClure, Ohio.
Memorial services were
held January 4, 1982 at
Hubbard Community Church,
Hubbard, Oregon, with the
Rev. Burton AJvis officiating.
Private entombment was at
Belle Passe Memorial Mauso
leum, Woodburn.
The Rev. Crowell was a
former minister of the lone
United Church of Christ. Upon
leaving lone, he and his wife
retired to Woodburn Estates
in Woodburn.
His wife, Helen, preceded
him in death in 1978.
Survivors include a daugh
ter Erlene Crowell Cares, 2817
Washington, Parsons, Kansas,
67357; a sister, in Vancouver,
Washington; and several
grandchildren.
Memorial contributions
may be made to Hubbard
Community Church, Second
and Eighth Streets, Hubbard,
Oregon 97032.
Five Day Stop
Smoking
Program slated
A special Five-Day Plan to
Stop Smoking will be pesented
in Heppner starting Sunday,
February 21 through Thurs
day, February 25. at the
Heppner Junior High School at
7:30 p.m.
The plan consists of regular
evening group therapy ses
sions, films and a daily
personal control program for
home or work. Lectures,
printed materials and medical
facts will combine to help
participants break the habit,
said a church spokesperson.
The plan was developed in
1959 by a doctor-minister team
of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church and has been success
ful over the years in major
cities around the world. It is
presented locally by the mem
bers of the Adventist Church
with the help of medical and
other professional personnel.
There will be a small fee
requested from each partici
pant to cover the cost of
materials, films and other
immediate expenses, said the
spokesperson.
Thank God and
Morrow County
To the editor:
Thank God our county had
pride enough to have a
Neighborhood Center
If you could trade the
sympathy for the pain that
people really have when they
need the services of our
Neighborhood Center there
would be no cuts or even a
thought of any more cuts. Our
county needs their programs.
Look around, your mother,
father, son. daughter, aunt,
uncle, someone in your family
or very close friend at one
time or another has needed
help that Welfare couldn't or
wouldn't.
They have gotten programs
in our county that our tax
dollars have paid for for
years. They have helped the
handicapped to be trained to
take care of themselves
otherwise they would of lived
off us or drained the families
of all savings with nothing left
to educate the other children
of the same family.
The bread winner in the
family is out of work-which we
saw a lot of with Kinzua's cut
back the last two years-they
can give a helping hand in a
retraining job. where to go
look for what you need, help
with tax papers free to the low
income, help with heat and or
heat bills.
Helping our senior citizens
so they don't set around and
lock themselves away from
the world, some will not eat
right, some cannot afford to
eat right. Out county takes
care of our senior citizens
through meals on wheels and
helping them get to the free
meals or the meals get to
them. If we live long enough
we will be senior citizens too
and this just might be our
highlight of the day-it doesn't
cost that much but it does take
quite a bit of time. So many
enjoy donating time as they're
not just sitting idle also.
I'm proud to live in Morrow
County as they do take care
and they do care, lots of
counties don't care. It's easier
not to find the funds and forget
it but so far we care for our
own.
I've seen families helped
with clothes to keep children
in school, children that would
of been crippled if not for
corrective shoes, encourage
ment to families with a
handicapped member to edu
cate and train them to live and
take care of themselves. I've
seen a youth without a mother
and an elderly father, get an
education. What a proud day
that was for Morrow County
and that youth.
We don't produce Welfare
recipients. Morrow County
produces self-supporting citi
zens. I've seen times people from
other counties turn to our
Neighborhood Center for help
to find out where to go for the
help they are seeking.
They have helped train our
youth in actually finding
work-job applications (when
did you last fill one out? It's
quite an experience in itself,)
withholding forms and
resumes.
Of course, all the Christmas
baskets that are made up and
delivered.
There are so many things
they help with and I know I've
forgotten many but I know as I
was a Welfare recipient that
our Neighborhood Center
picked up by the boot straps,
gave me the helping hand I
needed for an education and
job without crushing my
pride, when my job was
defunded a few years ago I
went on to another job. bought
and paid for and remodeled a
house with the help of my five
children. Four of these child
ren finished school, two even
college and one is in the fifth
grade. With God's help and the
education I received from our
Neighborhood Center she'll
have an education too.
Thank you dear God and
Morrow County for our Neigh
borhood Center. Please don't
defund any more of these
programs.
Sincerely.
,Torw. McKobertfl
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Boxing anyone? Is it real? We the people
To the editor:
The controversy over the
Neighborhood Center reminds
me of round two of a boxing
match.
Round one was a mismatch
and the senior citizens came
out the loser. The mealsite
was underhandedly removed
from the Neighborhood Center
to the fairgrounds. Anyone
wishing to ride the bus from
lone or Lexington to the
mealsite can ride free. Those
that choose not to go to the
mealsite and have other
things to do are charged 75
cents. Some would call this,
discrimination.
Round two: "We will find
someone to supply the human
needs of those that need it if
humanly possible." One word
stands out in that quote,
NEED.
This round involves the
Neighborhood Center. During
the last budget, the writing on
the wall began to show that
something was in the wind as
to the services the Neighbor
hood Center was giving to the
county of Morrow.
Someone wasn't happy that
the seniors were content with
their meal center downtown.
The seniors were content and
also were, I am sure, happy
being able to participate in the
other things offered by the
Neighborhood Center: handy
helper (repair work), wea
therization, clothing (washed
and repaired before distribu
tion), food program (all walks
of life), gleaning program
(products canned or frozen for
future use), glasses, shoes,
crutches for all in need,
aid to burned out families,
wood deliveries, blood pres
sure (county nurse), use of
government agencies, Christ
mas baskets, Thursday social
(getting together to talk over
problems where someone is
concerned). These are only
some of the many things done
at the Neighborhood Center by
Pat Brindle and her faithful
and hard working volunteer
crew.
Ten thousand dollars, re
venue sharing funds, not a big
price to ask for all that the
people of Morrow County
receive from it.
There are no duplications of
services such as the job title
for senior services that cost
the tax payers $7,000 last year
and will receive $7,887 if the
budget is passed this year.
This job was handled by the
Neighborhood Center.
If we look around our
county, we find at Lexington,
the remains of the offices that
cost the taxpayers many
dollars, having them moved
here, set up by county
employees only to be con
demned disassembled and
moved to Lexington. Wasted
funds.
On the other hand, the
Neighborhood Center, mostly
volunteer operated, a place
where everyone in the county,
north or south, can come in
need of help, just to pass the
time of day, companionship or
friendship, its existence being
threatened by the same coun
ty court that can spend
thousands, reaping nothing in
return.
Again the county court has
moved to not only do harm to
the senior citizens but to all
who live in Morrow County,
young and old, those not so
fortunate as they themselves
who probably will never have
to use the services of the
Neighborhood Center.
What will round three
bring? After all. most boxing
matches are three or more
rounds.
Thank you,
Merl Cantin
Heppner
news
David Sykes attended an
Oregon Newspaper Publishers
Association conference in Eu
gene last Friday. He and
April, Christopher, Andrew
and Allison spent the weekend
visiting Ardeen and John Clay
and sons, Jim, Alan and J.C.,
in Monmouth and Vickie and
Charlie Lewis and son, Max,
in Portland.
To the editor:
If Oregon is short of money,
why did Governor Atiyeh
introduce Senate Bill 974,
asking a $1,285,351 raise for
judges of Supreme Court,
Court of Appeals, Oregon Tax
Court, circuit courts and
district courts?
If, this is a genuine emer
gency, why does SB 983 say it
is "...for purposes of ORS
chapter 197...," meaning SB
100 and LCDC? The first
complete section of SB 983
says: "Section 1. Based on
study of relevant data, includ
ing but not limited to employ
ment sales of goods and
services, financial activity in
the private sector and govern
mental revenues, the legisla
tive assembly finds and de
clares for purposes of ORS
chapter 197 that an economic
emergency exists throughout
Oregon, and that the economic
emergency is a matter of
state-wide concern."
LCDC director Jim Ross
made the statement while
testifying for SB 983, that this
bill would allow creation of
five new positions. These
would "...provide a tool in
balancing statewide planning
goals." He called this bill a
"subtle tool" to be used in
forcing counties to meet LCDC
goals and guidelines, saying
their economies would soon
improve once they accept
LCDC plans, showing Oregon
is an economic hostage.
The format of this emergen
cy fits the game-plan of the
faked 1973 gasoline shortage.
Now the gimmick is a short
age of money. The same
planners are the 1.000 Friends
of Oregon, who created
L.C.D.C.
Another dimension of Ore
gon's dollar shortage comes
from the nature of Oregon's
fiscal agent, which is Chemi
cal Bank of New York City.
Oregon has over a $3.4 billion
dollar bonded indebtedness,
with annual principal and
interest payments of over $250
million, near the amount of
. our so-called emergency. This
fact and the New York roots of
L.C.D.C. need a grand jury
investigation.
Proof that artificial short
ages have been created over
the last 10 years, can be found
op page 11 of a little known
publication now available
from Oregon State University,
Department of Agriculture
and Resource Economics,
Corvallis, OR 97331. Ask for
"Rockefeller Project, RF
71079, Final Report."
Why short-change our vet
erans and fire good employees
for such plans?
Sincerely,
Joe Spenner
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To the editor:
"Land planning will always
be flexible to adjustments
of-by local areas" and "Citi
zen input la a primary
requisite to all land planning,"
we were told in the early 1960s.
I attended many of these
early planning sessions in
Lincoln County, Oregon, as an
interested citizen and to
increase my knowledge as a
real estate broker. Supposed
ly, citizen input is still part of
the planning goals, as long as
Mr. Citizen does not stray
from the very narrow path
way as set forth by L.C.D.C.
Current county comprehen
sive plans are not citizen
activated; rather they are the
dictates of L.C.D.C.
I moved from the soggy clay
soils of Lincoln County to the
semi -arid soils of sunny Mor
row County hoping that less
population and less rainfall
would loosen their restrictive
mandates. Not so. Our Mor-'
row County Citizens Compre
hensive Plan was a liveable
'plan, with many donated
hours by local citizens.
The land plan of Morrow
County, now before L.C.D.C,
for approval review in Feb
ruary, is without question
mandated by L.C.D.C. with
out any regard given the
earlier county comprehensive
planning. We are solid block
zoned either "Exclusive Farm
Use" or "Exclusive Forest
Use" in all county areas lying
outside of municipal urban
growth boundaries, regard
less of the quality of the soils,
rimrock or alfalfa lands.
Practically none of the other
Oregon goals are, in actuality,
granted any consideration.
Minimum lots will be 160 acres
in EFU Zones. It is well
established that any future
growth must and will be held,
within municipal urban
growth boundaries only, as
dictated by' "Uncle Tom's
L.C.D.C." His "Visit but don't
stay" philosophy is being well
continued.
Oregon is home to me and
mine, consisting of six gener
ations bom in our beautiful
Oregon. It is hard to believe
that our borders are being
effectively sealed by this
appointed, dictatorial, unelec
ted body. It will remain so
until our silent majority votes
it out of existence, or its
directorship becomes an elec
tive position, more responsive
to we the people.
R.W.Harris
Box 694
Heppner. Oregon 97836
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To the editor:
PLEASE! let the record
Bhow that the Neighborhood
Center Is more than a "soclo
recreutional" center. It Is a
desporatoly needed aid centor
for needy people that provides
help that no other group In our
area has been able to provide
not any government agen
cy, not churches, not service
clubs.
As a pastor I've referred
very needy people (and not
Just seniors) to the center for
food and clothing. These
people arc both locals and
transients. There simply is no
other place In southern Mor
row County that stock-piles
emergency food and clothing
supplies. And both local Lu
theran churches, recognizing
this, have supported the work
of the center through dona
tions. Even if the center wns only
a "socio-reoreational" centor
(which it is not ), so what? Our
older citizens have paid their
dues all their lives. Can't we
provide a place where they
can meet, feel warmth and
friendship, feel wanted and
needed? I think thev deserve
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as much.
Something else bothers me
about the commissioners' at
titudes. Are the ninny people
served by the Neighborhood
Center lucking "cooperation
with the County Court" or is it
a personnel problem? If It's
staff that's not cooperating,
why punish Innocent people
who get help and pleasure
from the renter?
Some commissioners sound
suspiciously like they're clos
ing an entire program because
they enn't or won't deal with
one or two individuals. Too
bad. A few win, many suffer.
But then, that's what elected
officials are for, right?
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lone TV Co-op
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The lone T.V. Co-op will
hold its annual meeting Mon
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