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1 cei Labo student sends letter home front Japan , , ?i .' , t , By BIKD1NK TULLIS ,.,, ( Program Assistant . . Morrow Co. Extension Service Ken Curtis of Heppner and Rachel Peck of Lexington are : currently in japan, living with , host families. The two Morrow county 4 H ers are tfiere as part of the Oregon 4-H ; and Japan Labo Lex exchange which Is an annual aummer event, - - . ' , u , ;The following letter arrived this week from Ken: ! Hello everyone y ; ' '" I'm haying a terrific time. I've been very busy, very busy. f I've been to an Qbstflqle, course park and a huge shopping '.. store In Tokoyo 'name Sogo- I was amazed at how organised everything was the minute we landed at Tokoyo airportThere was a man from Labo there to help us go through Immigration and customs. Then he and his friends packed our luggage on the bus and he took . us to the hotel where we had a wonderful American dinner; hamburgers and potato chips, but the next morning we had an Interesting breakfast;' raW fish, raw eggs, rice (which everyone ate a lot of) and Juice. Then we had another short ,' orientation and at 1) a m everyone with a blue tag on their suitcases were picked up by their host families. The others had to travel to get to where they were staying. Well I'm pretty busy so - , Sayonara, Ken If one baseball it totted horizontally while at the tame in stant a second baseball is dropped vertically from the tame height, both of them will reach the around simultaneously. v mrmmmm mrmrmmm ww v w mmrmm9 WW 'rmm9 'rmmmw mTmmW mmwmt c w ' y ' p- mw rryw rr a1 iff f e i"r' ""The Heppnef GaetteTifries: He"ppner, Oregon', Thursday, August 1J, 1S82-FIVE w w I . - " ;i l V '-' 1 R Tomorrow' Memories at Yetterday' Price YOUR nflr $1.00 DEPOSIT CHOICE HTO balance OF PACKAGE: XeW ON DELIVERY 1-8x10 2-57 4-3xS 10 WALLETS 2-810 2-57 10 WALLETS 2-810 1-5x7 4-3x5 5 WALLETS 3- 5x7 4- 3x5 15 WALLETS . Lwr - EXPERIENCED PHOTOGRAPHERS Minimum or No Line 11 x 14 Only $5.95; extra! ! Groups - $1.00 per extra person ' 7 Aiiattn Colour MU0I0 Satiaattlon Guarantttd or Drpoait Refunded Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday Aug. 13, 14,15, 16 Hours: 12-6 p.m. Sunday: 12-5 p.m. GEQDC elects president IRS of f ice of f era help The Greater Eastern Ore gon Development Corporation has announced the election of Steven Stillmak as its first president following action taken at a meeting of the board of directors on July 12. Mr. Stillmak Is the recently elected President of the Uma tilla County based First Amer ican Banking Company. Joining Mr. Stillmak as of ficers are Foster Odom, Ar lington area businessman, as vice-president; and Joe Burns, long time Hermiston businessman and president of the Hermiston Development Corporation, as secretary treasurer, said a GE0DC spokesperson. The first act of Mr. Stillmak, as president of GEODC, was to sign documents applying for registration of the GEODC as a Certified Development Company through the Small Business Administration. This certification will enable the GEODC, a private non-profit corporation, to make avail able long-term fixed asset financing for land, buildings, and equipment to businesses throughout the five counties of Morrow, Gilliam, Grant, Um atilla and Wheeler, the spokes person said. The GEODC was formed in June by representatives from both the public and private sectors that have an interest in the development and expan sion of small business. The remaining members of the first board of directors that will serve until a general meeting of the expanded membership is held this fall include: Mike Craig, Fossil businessman; Larry Dalrymple, city administrat or of Boardman; Bill Betray, manager of Home Telephone Company in Gilliam County; Bill Deist, city administrator of John Day; Bill Martin, manager of the John Day Branch of the U.S. National Bank of Oregon; Wayne Sen wandt, manager of the port of Morrow; Ted Walters, busi ness manager of the Confeder ated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation: Dale Courtney, businessman and mayor of Milton-Freewater; Dave Crumpton, city manager of Pendleton; Mehrten Hom er, rancher and president of the Wheeler County Energy Corporation; Dennis Rey nolds, manager of Hudspeth Sawmill, John Day; and James Wishart, vice president and manager of the Arlington Branch of the Bank of Eastern Oregon. The Greater Eastern Ore gon Development Corporation is the culmination of a number of months of work of local banks, savings and loan insti tutions, cities, counties, port districts, local development corporations, The Confederat ed Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Cham bers of Commerce businesses and private citizens. The goal was to create an additional vehicle for public-private sec tor financing for small busi ness, the spokesperson ex plained. GEODC's prinary purpose is to be a Certified Develop ment Company under Section 503 of the Small Business Investment Act, and thereby, to promote and assist the growth and development of business in the five counties it serves. Small business ac counts for over 50 percent of the private sector employ ment in the country. More important, small business generates 60 to 70 percent of all new private sector jobs. As a Certified Development Com pany (CDC). GEODC will be . stimulating the growth and expansion of small businesses by providing fixed asset finan acing, for up to 25 year terms, for land, buildings and equip ment, whether new construc tion, renovation or expansion. By providing this service, GEODC will enable the local area to create jobs, increase their local tax base, expand business opportunities, and improve the economic condi tions of these five counties, the spokesperson said. Lexington news: Delpha Jones 989-8139 were callers Monday night at the Joe Yocom home. Katie Smith of Los Angeles, Calif, spent several days visit ing her father and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Buchan an. Kathleen Riley and son Trevor, daughter of Mrs. Chas Buchanan and mother of Mrs. Buchanan and Sarah Simon son of Gresham also visited the Buchanans. Mrs. Simon son remained for a few days to visit. She will be taken home by her daughter and husband. Lexington Grange is making plans for a Blue Mountain Fiddlers concert at the Lex- PROTECT AGMJST .USE OUR LIQUID OR DUST MALATHION TO TREAT YOUR STORED GRAIN TT i i -" ' 1 -nm. in iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiliilWli-WM " -' j Chemical Division 4227289 i: ington Grange hall on Oct. 16. The evening will begin at 7:30 p.m. with music and visiting and refreshments. A lovely wedding shower was held at the Rebekah Lodge Hall on Monday night honoring Marie Yocom, bride elect of Leland Jones. The rooms were decorated with summer flower bouquets. The serving table was centered with a beautifully decorated cake featuring a floral ar rangement resembling the bridesmaids' bouquets. As sisting the bride elect was Lyn Dee Devin and Amber and Crystal Rinehart. Serving were Beverly Gunderson and Marion Rinehart, aunts of the bride. Hostesses were Eileen Padberg, Maureen Howard, Millie Yocom and Martha Mankers. Mr. and Mrs. Forest Rine hart and children of Ukian Navy seaman completes training Navy Seaman Recruit Cur tis A. Briggs, son of Donald L. Briggs, Heppner, has com pleted recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Navy Recruit Training Command, San Diego. Calif., it was an nounced in a news release from the Navy. During the eight-week train ing cycle, trainees studied general military subjects de signed to prepare them for further academic and on-the-job training in one of the Navy's 85 basic occupational fields. Included in their studies were seasmanship, close or der drill. Naval history and first aid. Personnel who com plete this course of instruction are eligible for three hours of college credit in physical ed ucation and hygiene, the news release concluded. for tax problems attend five-day convention Oregonians who meef de lay or red tape In solving their federal tax problems can get help from the Internal Revenue Service Problem Re-, solution Program (PRP) office, according to T. Blair Evans, IKS District Director for Oregon. Evans explained that the PRP office helps taxpayers who have already had unsuc cessful contacts with the IRS. PRP has the authority to cut through the red tape and handle problems promptly, he said. An important aspect of PRP is the personal attention each taxpayer receives. The taxpayer deals with only one office and is kept informed of the progress of their case. Taxpayers expecting to con front a computer or a faceless bureaucrat are surprised at the personal touch, according to Evans. The most common problems brought to the PRP office are complaints about missing re funds, mixed up Social Secur ity numbers, incorrect billings by IRS, or unanswered cor respondence. Last year the r i WhatVYour )inion? ' Op u. i 1 1 -I i i Oregon office handled over 2,000 taxpayer problems, about one-tenth of one percent of the over 2.1 million tax returns filed.. . , , Besides solving taxpayer problems, PRP tries to pre vent them by discovering flaws in the system. Evans stressed that PRP is not a substitute for normal IRS channels. PRP usually takes comlaints only after there has been at least one unsuccessful contact with the IRS. ' While PRP offices do every thing they can to help taxpay ers, there are some things they cannot do. Appeals of a decision made in tax examina tions and complaints about hiring practices are examples of areas beyond PRP autho rity: Taxpayers can reach the PRP office by either writing to their IRS District Office at Post Office Box 3341, Port land, Oregon, 97208, or by calling the IRS assistance number listed in the telephone book. SOS, the traditional call for help from a ship in distress, does not actually stand for anything. It was chosen be cause it could easily be sent as a wireless message. Clista Venard and Mary Goheen, both of Heppner, re . cently returned from a Feder- , ation Convention of the Sorop-' , timist International of - the j Americas, held July 11-15 at the Century Plaza Hotel at ''.Los', Angeles, Calif.. Mrs. Venard attended as a voting , deleuate. A highlight of the convention was the installation of Marilyn Hofstetter of Whittler, Calif., as federation president. 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