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Around About!
liy Justine Wealherford
So another election hat come and gone, and life must
continue even for those whose favorite candidates didn't win
and whose favorite measures went down to defeat. A really
good trend may have begunthe voters' response to this
off-year, non-presidential election was better In most
localities than it has been.
Because I have not tried to ascertain the number of
registered voters In Morrow County, I cannot state what
percent voted. I Just happen to have the results of the
November 2 voting and of the May 18 voting in that primary
election before me. Last May the most votes were cast for the
Morrow County tax base measure, a total of 1827. Last week
the most votea, 2547, appear to have been cast on Ballot
Measure 6, which proposed to end the state's land use
planning powers but to retain local planning. From the
published totals of votes cast, It appears that 718 more
citizens in this county market ballots last week U on marked
them in May. Very good!
Aj I further atudy the May and November voting, I note
that 738 Republican votes were cast for the two persons
running for the commissioner position in May while 745 were
cast for the single Democratic candidate who then won last
week In a close contest by 1277 votes to 1265 for his opponent.
The only totals published on state ballot measures were for
Measure 3, the one limiting real property tax to one and
one-half percent of 1979 true cash value, which went down
locally by 1708 to 861 votes, and Measure 6 voting which was
much closer with 1385 favoring it and 1162 opposed.
The Sunday "Oregonian" and KATU, Channel 2, really put
forth great tributes to former governor Tom McCall on
Sunday, Nov. 7. It is rather unusual to see a living public
figure so" lauded and so completely eulogized. It is a pretty
sure thing that McCall is succumbing to cancer; he positively
states "I can't be with you much longer." His career and life
before and after his public service has been most
interesting ! found that I have most often been in agreement
with his viewpoints. When his final moment ends I am
wondering what more the media will find to say about him
after last Sunday's massive tributes.
It was good to note that the Morrow County Grain Growers
had a good year last year. This is satisfying to the members
of the co-op and to all of us in this county. We are waiting to
ae how the year shaped-up for the Columbia Basin Electric
Co-op. What happens there more directly affects each of our
households. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth
when the increased electric bills arrived this month.
Somehow many of us find it hard to widen tand why our
sincere efforts to conserve ganoline and electric power just
have seemed to result in causing us to pay more for the
gasoline and electric power we need to use. It sort of looks
like, in those cases, that conservation just doesn't pay for
most individuals.
From politics to weather. When I watch the TV weather
news from Portland, I keep feeling thankful that this part of
the state hat more sunshine and less rain and fog. One
usually feels more uke bounding out of the covers in the
morning when there is brightness outside the window than
when the night teems to cling in the sky and a rather
gloomy-type day portends. Last Monday morning, the first
snowflakea of the season, that I have noted, gan falling
Inside Heppner't city limits.
November's big dayt are today, whicn many oi HI still call
Armistic Day but which may be more accurately labeled
Armed Forces Day, and then two weeks from now when the
annual, historic, harvest festival of Thanksgiving arrives.
Little children undoubtedly feel that the time between1
Haboween and Christmas it mighty long. H'wever, this
grandmother feels like each year that time lapse rushes by
imore swiftly and has surely somehow been shortened.
Another big day this month, it isnt much fun to mention, it
November 15, that necessary tax-payment date. It tort of
Slowi one's beginning plans for Christmas giving.
Perhaps la the election excitement you did not note three
firsts taking place in the U.S.A. last week. The day after the
election the stock market set a new high, then the national
trade deficit and national umemployment also reached new
higha. It is interesting to read and hear experts disagreeing
about our economic future aying the depression is over
and everything is improving, or tying that the worst may still
be ahead of us.
Preparations for winter, which officially arrives on
December 21, should be well along by now. When I was
thinking about stuffing rags around my water meter, I had a
chance to chat', briefly with Cornett Green nbout my plan,
and Cornett said "Use wadded up newspaper. It is the best
insulator. I always use newspaper." So now I have found
another use for old newspapers and I hope mine and other
paper-protected meters will stay unfrozen.
As we look about on the cooler days this fall it seems that
smoke is billowing-up from wood fires in most homes. The
wood stove business has really boomed with the upsurge in
heating oil, gas and electricity prices. I have been a bit
envious of my friends who have hauled firewood to their
homes by the truckloads and who keep it burning pretty
constantly in their fuel -efficient stoves and fireplaces.
Because my fireplace is not at all efficient and I have no
wood stove and am not fixed for hauling wood, I have not
burned much of my small accumulation of wood very
regularly,
Last Sunday morning, just before my departure for church
time, some dear friends surprised me with a most exciting
pre-Christmas gift. They brought a pickup load of great
fireplace-sized wood and stacked it on my back porch. So that
afternoon and evening I had a crackling fireplace fire and
enjoyed it rather selfishly all by myself as I lazily watched
some Sunday TV. Like most folks who live alone, I often find
Sunday evenings a little more lonesome than other evenings.
Having a bright, warming fire, especially on e contributed by
generous, thoughtful friends, really took away most of that
lonesome feeling.
I hope others are agreeing that some open-channel TV is
very good this year. I suppose we all have favorite stations. I
have two favorites which I watch most frequently, with rare
exceptions. I am rather addicted to the Public Broadcasting
Service and to ABC's KATU. However, along with other
friends and family members, I feel compelled to view CBS a
little while for "Sunday Morning" and insist on watching "60
Minutes" on Sunday evenings. If snowflakes continue to fall,
more of us will find TV viewing is becoming a bigger part of
our lives than we ever expected it to become.
As winter closes in it is good to visualize countless families
being warmed by wood and enjoying many evenings of good
TV together.
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Happy Birthday Greg Sweek!
'"(Are "you really that old?)
Free energy audits offered
When winter's chill hits your
pocketbook, it's time to
wcatherize: Free home en
ergy audits and financial in
centives are available to all
Oregon households, regard
less of how the home is heated,
according to the Oregon De
partment of Energy
(O.D.O.E)
"The 1982-83 heating season
is here and the cost of all types
of home heating fuel electri
city, natural gas, fuel oil and
wood is likely to increase,"
said Deanna Mueller-Crispin,
manager of O.D.O.E.'s Oil
Heat Wcatherization Pro
gram. "The best way to re
duce fuel bills is to make sure
your home uses energy effi
ciently, and that means insu
lation, storm windows, caulk
ing and weatherstripping and
heating system efficiency,"
Mueller -Crispin said.
Oregon's newest wcather
ization incentive program of
fers free home energy audits
to all homeowners who heat
with oil or propane, Those
homeowners are eligible for a
stale-sponsored 6.5 percent
wcatherization loan for mea
sures recommended in the
audit. The loan can cover the
cost of a new. high-efficiency
oil burner, the Oregon De
partment of Energy said.
The oil heat program, ap
proved by the 1981 Legisla
ture, has completed more than
4.800 home energy audits since
early this year. More than 500
households have used the state
low-interest financing for
wcatherization measuresthe
department reported.
Similar audits and incen
tives are available to custo
mers of Oegon natural gas and
electric utility companies,
including Peoples Utility Dis
tricts (PUDs). Customers
should contact their space
heating utility for more infor
mation. Households that heat
with wood can request a free
home energy audit from the
electric utility, the depart
ment said. Those wood-heated
households then are eliegible
for the state-sponsored 6.5
percent weatherization loan.
Households that heat with
fuel oil or propane should
contact their dealer or call
f toll free) 1-800-452-8660 for
more information. For more
information on Oregon's resi
dential energy conservation
programs. O.D.O.E.'s state
side toll free number is 1-800
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