Around About
lly Justine Weatlwrford
Last Friday afternoon I had to walk along Main Street to
make sure that hunting tea son wai really opening on
Saturday, Oct. 2. Until this year I Just watched through my
South Court Street window aa the big parade of recreational
vehicles passed by. This year the banner and mioMJA-oMhe-strcet
sign brtween First Interstate BAnk and Les Schwab's
are doing the Job of pointing the hordes of hunters directly
ahead toward the new Willow Creek Road.
Premier traveler Mary Goheen returned last Wednesday
from her second grand tour of China. She saw many new,
exciting things and was pleased to revisit some of the places
she enjoyed last year. On Friday, Mary was packed and
traveling again off to attend a Soroptimist- meeting at
Grangeville, Idaho.
Among others traveling a bit closer to home last week were
Carolyn Cole, Vern Batty, Linda Sheridan and Rhonda
Quigley from Cole's House of Fashion and Posey Patch in
Jleppner. This foursome made a Sunday trip to Portland to
the wholesalers' Christmas showing of flowers and related
gift items. Vern told me that traditional Christmas
dominant, but that there were wreaths made of rather
different materials.
Everyone should be excited about the plans for another
refugee family coming to this community. America has
always been enriched by the blending of persons from
, different cultures. I've been very proud that most of the
citizens of south Morrow County have welcomed the persons
from far places who have started new lives here. It is most
fitting and commendable that our church people have made
arrangements for these recent refugees from political
oppression.
This area was once a "New Ireland." City Father Henry
Heppner was a Jew from Germany. Families from Sweden
and other European countries successfully transplanted
themselves jnearby. Back in time, Heppner had a small
cluster of Chinese persons. That group furnished houseboys,
laborers and laundry services. Many recall Eddie Chinn, who
operated a restaurant here,, who is buried here, and who still
has family members operating a cafe in Hermiston.
In more recent years, several fine families of the
Lexington area brought babies from Korea with the help
from Oregon's famous Holt Babylift. These babies were
loved, went through our public schools and are now adults.
They proved how well very young children from the distant
Orient could be assimilated into Morrow county's culture.
Three years ago the Thongdy Family from Laos came here
to rebuild their lives. They had been forced off the land they
owned along the Mekong River into a large refugee campin
neighboring Thailand. They had never used electricity, had
not even heard the English language, had always eaten rice
three times each day and had never had any urban
xperiences.
Here Mr. Thongdy was given work almost immediately
which he has performed faithfully. Both the father and
mother are struggling to learn American ways and to
understand and use language very different from the
Chinese-based languages of most of Asia. Their four
children, now ranging in age from a six-year-old first-grader
to an 18 year-old high school junior, are trying hard to fit into
this community. The younger children, especially the
.youngest who was less than four when they, arrived, have
found learning a new language much easier than have the
parents and the older children.
Refugee families can bring almost nothing with them
except their own cultural background. They need much help
during their resettlement. The families of All Saints'
Episcopal Church anbd others have been very generous and
helpful to the Thongdys. It is so pleasing to see that after just
three years here they are buying a home and are raising food
on their own land again.
Because their Laotian life was tremendously different
from American life they are grateful that they came to
Heppner and fate did not have them being resettled in a city.
I have visited a few of their friends from the refugee camp
who now share a group home in Portland, and who are not
progressing nearly as well.
They all use their native language almost entirely. The
adults have not had the kind, helpful teaching that is offered
to the Thongdys, and although the children are making
progress In the Portland schools, outside school hours, their
lives are much closer to their old lives, and they are hearing
their native language almost entirely.
Soon. Heppner will welcome the Cerveny family from
Czechoslovakia . How interesting and exciting, and how much
easier resettling a family from Europe will be. The
father is a graduate of a technical school and has worked as
an electrician, the mother is a decorator. They know western
cultural ways ; they are eaters of bread and have cooked food
similar to ours. Happily their children are now only four and
six years old. These parents, both in their early thirties will
have the great experience of learning along with their
children as they progress through school here.
We all need to remember this family will arrive with only
the very few things they can carry without any household
equipment or supplies. They will need a great deal of help in
establishing a practical and satisfactory new home here.
Maybe you have seen the listings of "Items needed for a
Refugee Family" which are available In Heppner at
Murray's Drug Store, S 4 J Market, Sears and at the
Heppner Auto Parts and In lone at the bank and at Bristows'
Market. Vou should get one of these lists and decide what you
can share. The Rev. John Maas, of Hope and Valby Lutheran
Churches, is kindly sharing information about the, family.
Several capable committees from these churches are
working on arrangements for their arrival.
Informative material aboaut the family's background
states that the parents names, Jeri and Jani, probably have
the beginning sound close to that of our "Y" and not like our
"J" sound. This makes me feel rather close to them already,
as my German relatives still call me Yustina instead of the
Anglicised Justine, even though they write the name as I do.
I hope you feel as proud as I do that our area is able to help
rebuild the lives of these freedom -seeking families from Asia
and Europe. Let's all make them as happy as possible here,
so far away from their home folks whom they may never see
again. Let's all be kindly, helpful new home folks to them all.
Happy 40th
Cliff Green
1983 Feed Grain Program announced
Secretary of Agriculture
John R, Block recently an
nounced a 10 percent acreage
reduction and a 10 percent
paid land diversion for the
1983 feed grain program.
Block also announced an ad
ditional $60 million allocated
to the fiscal 1983 farm storage
facility loan program beyond
the $40 million originally allo
cated, reported the Morrow
Co. Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service
office.
Block said current law re
quires for him to announce
only a 10 percent acreage
reduction and a five percent
paid land diversion program
for feed grains. But, with such
large supplies, he said an
additional five percent paid
diversion would help bring
supply more in balance with
demand. "We must do every
thing possible to reduce car
ryover supplies and increase
commodity prices," Block
said.
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HUNGRY-MAN MEAT PIES 0, 99c
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Block also said the per
bushel target prices for 1983- -crop
feed grains will be: corn,
$2.72; barley, $2.f(); and oats,
$1.60, Regular Commodity
Credit Corporation price sup
port loan rates, per bushel,
will be: corn, $2 .65: sorghum,
$2.52: barley $2.16; oats. $1.36;
and rye. $2.25.
The signup for the 1983 feed
grain program is October 1
through March 31, 1983. Pro
ducers may request 50 percent
of their projected 1983 defi
ciency payments and 50 per
cent of their 1983 diversion
payments when they sign up.
USDA estimates per-bushel
deficiency payment rates will
be: corn. 21 cents; sorghum.
20 cents; and barley, 15 cents.
Advance deficiency payments
to eligible farmers will be half
these rates. Advance deficien
cy payments are not authori
zed for oats.
Land diversion payments
have been established at $1.50
per bushel for corn and sorg
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for oats. The land diversion
payment is based on the per
bushel payment rate times the
farm yield times the acres
diverted.
Farmers who request ad
vance diversion payments at
the time they sign up for the
1983 program will receive a
payment equal to half the
established payment. rates.
A producer who accepts an
advance payment, but who
later does not comply with
program provisions, must re
fund the amount of the ad
vance payment with interest,
charged will be the reate in
effect for community loans on
the dale of the advance pay
ment plus five percentage
points.
To be elilgible for these
benefits as well as for price
support loans, a producer
must agree to limit corn,
sorghum, oats and barley
acreage planted for harvest to
not more than 80 percent of the
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SALTINE CRACKERS 160z 59c
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BEEF TAMALES 79c
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QUAKER OATS 02 $1.79
NABISCO -
CHIPS AHOY COOKIES , $1.79
DOWNY
FABRIC SOFTENER M02 $2.59
TIDE 84 OZ.
POWDERED DETERGENT $3.59
DISHWASHER
CASCADE DETERGENT , $2.49
INSTANT COFFEE . oz $4.69
GENERAL FOODS ASSTD. FLAVORS, 8-10-OZ. -
INTERNATIONAL COFFEES $1.99
BLUE BONNET
MARGARINE, lb 59c
KRAFT a
VELYEETA SPREAD, lb $1.99
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farm's feed grain base.
As under the 1982 program,
. two bases will be established:
one for corn and sorghum, the
other for barley and oats.
Producers also must devote
to conservation uses an acre
age equal to both the acreage
reduction and land diversion
requirements.
land designated for conser
vation use must have been
devoted to row crops or small
grains in two of the last three
years except for a summer
fallow farm, for which the
cropping requirement is for
only one of the previous two
years. Mechanical harvesting
is not authorized and grazing
will not be permitted during
the six principal growing
months on the acreage taken
from production. Block said.
The 1983 feed grain base will
remain the same as the 1982
feed grain bases with adjust
ment for crop rotation. Nei
ther cross compliance nor
offsetting compliance will ap
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ply to to the 1983 feed grain
program.
Block said USDA is delaying
decisions on the 1983 feed
grain reserve program until
the domestic and world supply
and demand situation is studied.
Thank
Our sincere thanks to each and everyone of you who have,
because of your friendship and goodwill, caused our past nine
years as owners and operators of Lexington Machine Works
a success. We are thankful and appreciate you all.
Sincerely,
Bill & Elly Smith
Welcome New Owners,
Al & Jean Brazell
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COnAGE CHEESE ,.o, 79c
The additional $60 million
for the farm storage facility
loan program is necessary
because record corn, wheat
and soybean crops have crea
ted widespread tightness in
storage availability, he
concluded.
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