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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1982)
f X Around About By Justine Weathcrford Two coming very busy and Interesting weekends should please local residents and visitors In Heppner. This last weekend In November will be brighUmed by the gs!a Community Christmas Lighting Ceremony early' Friday evening, Nov. 28. The program will feature community singing and the sharln" of refreshments. Many people are Involved In making the plans and carrying out this very pleasing, first, Christmas holiday event. Then on Saturday, Nov. 27, Heppner merchants will have their official Christmas Opening with window displays and great gift shopping inducements. Christmas month's first weekend will feature the well-established Art i factory on Saturday, Dec. 4. Many craft and gift producing groups will be displaying and selling their products. The Heppner Garden Hub's annual Greens Workshop will be open, where members will give advice and assistance to people wishing to prepare their own decorations from freshly cut greenery. There will be holly and miscellaneous decorative Hems for sale to be used along with the greenery. Morrow County artists will be displaying and selling their creations there, too. Everyone will want to spend some time that Saturday at the fairgrounds. Saturday, Dec. 4, and Sunday, Dec. 5, will be most exciting days at the Heppner Bowl where professional bowling champion Ernie Schlegel will make four appearances. This colorful "almost forty," bowling celebrity, who holds five Eastern Regional Championships and two national Profes sional Bowlers Association championships, should draw a large crowd of out -of town and local admirers. Those who want to get close to Schlegcl might need to come to the alley before his appearances at 1 and 8 p.m. on Saturday and at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. Many of you know that the U.S. Council of Bishops of the Catholic Church has spoken out for a nuclear freeze. After attending Saturday evening Mass, I had an unusual chance to talk with Bishop Thomas Connoly who has come from Baker to honor St. Patrick's Church here. The Bishop said "We consider nuclear war a moral issue, not a political issue." I mentioned that I had seen good coverage of the council on P B S. television. Bishop Connoly said "We were thankful for the excellent coverage the media gave us." I am thankful for this great group of church leaders who spoke out so positively on this issue which is so important to all of us. Sunday evening, the basement of the United Methodist Church was completely filled with families and friends who enjoyed a pre-Thanksgiving Day potluck Harvest Festival. It was a fun evening with much camaraderie. Some high spots were the guitar and vocal numbers by local troubadour Ron McDonald, magic acts and Joke telling by several children and the winning of the prize McCabe-donated turkey by Shirley Connor. I feel sure that I am not the only one who thought that business promotion and activity in a community would originate with the Chamber of Commerce. Others, too, were surprised to see the Heppner Merchants Committee become a separate entity, and now to see that the real action seems to be coming from that committee and a new organization, the Heppner Economic Development Committee. There is always plenty of room in America for differences of opinions for which we all are very thankful. The "spinning off" of sub-groups can be looked on as a happy, healthy movement in the right direction. Enthusiastic smaller groups can often expedite changes that a larger group doesn't seem to manage. No matter what name a working group assumes the name is not nearly as important as the work the group accomplishes. Usually during the week of Thanksgiving, I review traditional reasons for feeling thankful and dwell on the oft-repeated history of this big harvest festsival in America. This year, along with these usual feelings, I have been thinking some different thoughts about people who are coming and who have come to our beloved country since the first pilgrims reached its New England shore. In the November issue of "Guldeposts," a small magazine I enjoy and admire, Glenn Kittler has put down some timely and appealing thoughts about Thanksgiving and pilgrims. As he writes of his Puerto Rican neighbors in New York City, he says: "I heard one boy saying 'Today our teacher told us what Americans eat for Thanksgiving dinner!' His voice took on a rather bitter, singsong ring as he chanted, 'Turkey and dressing and gravy and sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie and...' His litany went on and on. "The tone of the boy's voice made me wonder. Wouldn't some Americans prefer to have rice and beans and stewed chicken for their Thanksgiving dinner? Wouldn't some be eating their Thanksgiving dinner with chopsticks? Wouldn't some prefer veal parmigiana, a tangy salad and pasta, or boiled pork shoulder and sauerkraut? "America is known as the world's melting pot. For that reason let us never forget the real meaning of our Thanksgiving holiday gratitude to God for His guidance and protection equally bestowed on all pilgrims to this new land. The pilgrims are still arriving. Let us be thankful for every one of them." Tha first Bank of the United Congress in 1791. Donato your Door & Elk HIdos for tho Votorans Rehabilitation Contor States was chartered by HUNTERS Save Your Heppner Hotel entered into Register of Historic Places The Parks and Recreation Division of the Oregon De partment of Transportation has anounced that the Hep pner Hotel has been officially entered Into the National Re gister of Historic Places. The hotel, owned by Arnie and Ftita Hedman of Heppner, was nominated to the register at the recommendation of the State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation. Word Exclusion mailed Approximately 22,000 Ex clusion Orders, nine in Mor row County, have been sent to parents of school and day care facility attendees in Oregon who are not in compliance with Oregon's Immunization Law, stated the Oregon State Health Division. This Is less than half the number of orders sent out during the previous school year, the division said. The Exclusion Orders were issued on Wednesday, Nov. 17 by each County Health De partment, and will be effec tive December 1 unless par ents show proof prior to that time that the child has met the Immunization requirements, the division said. Morrow County Health Nurse Pat Wright said of the nine orders sent: two of the students had moved out of the school district. Two Exclusion Orders were sent to Heppner Elementary students and the remaining seven were sent to students enrolled at Riverside High School at Boardman. Wright said the Exclusion Orders are usually sent to students who transfer to Ore gon from states which don't have the strict immunization laws that Oregon has. All of the seven students either need Just a booster immunization or a copy of ' their immunization record to show that they meet the im-. munization requirements, she said. Oregon's Immunization Law requires that parents provide their child's school or day care facility with an ac curate, up to date record of the child's immunization status. This information must be placed on a "Certificate of Immunization Status" form, available at schools, day care facilities, or County Health Departments. Children who have no record on file, or whose record does not indicate that the appropriate vaccina tions have been received, or that the child is medically or religiously exempt from re ceiving the vaccine, are sub ject to exclusion, the division said. Children who were in com pliance last year may not be in compliance this year if, for example, they have transfer red to a new school and their immunization record is not on file at the new school, or have not received an immunization that became due during the past year. Parents who do receive an Exclusion Order should read the order very carefully to Santa's Christmas Gift Guide o Children's Clothes Xmas Pajamas for Kids Children's sizes 7;14 Infants & Toddlers Also o Ideas for that Blouses & Sweaters Ladies & Juniors of the recent action taken in Washington, D.C.was receiv ed by State Historic Preserva tion Officer David G. Talbot, the division reported. The National Register is maintained by the National park Service. U.S. Depart ment of the Interior, under authority of the National His toric Preservation Act of 1966, the division said. Orders make certain what informa tion is required, and to whom the information is to be pro vided. Parents who need further Information, or who feel that an error has been made In the review of their child's record should contact Wright at the Morrow County Health De partment, Lexington, 989-8256. Crop Report The Oregon Crop and Live stock Reporting Service has released the following report: A national and state agri cultural survey will kick off in late in November to determine how many acres farmers planted to winter wheat and the latest facts on livestock and poultry numbers. Locally, this survey will be conducted by the Statistical Reporting Service (SRS) of the U.S. Department of Agri culture. This agency, headed in Oregon by Paul M. Wil liamson, is responsible for collecting, processing and publishing current National and State agricultural infor mation. The results of the survey, which will contain estimates of winter wheat acreages, will be published December 22 by SRS. Estimates of hog num bers and the early 1983 pig crop also will be published on December 22 and the count of chickens and cattle will be ready to go in late January 1983. These estimates will pro vide producers and others in agriculture with the necessary background information to make decisions affecting pro duction and marketing opera tions. A sample of 515 Oregon farmers and ranchers will be visited between November 20 and December 3 and asked to supply information about their winter wheat plantings nad livestock numbers. While par ticipation is voluntary, coop eration is vital to the develop ment of reliable indications. All information collected will be combined to produce state and national summaries. Thirty-one interviewers throughout the state will be collecting this information by personal interviews for all counties in Oregon with special attention being given to the major wheat areas. For additional information or the results of the survey, contact: Paul M. Williamson, phone (503) 221-2131. special woman auction Special The Register is the official list of the nation's cultural resources worthy of preserva tion. The list contains dis tricts, sites, archaeological sites, buildings, structures and objects of national, state and local significance. Under Oregon's historic property tax law (ORS 358. 475). an owner of a National Register property who is wil ling to maintain the property's historic values may apply for special assessment status, in which the true cash value of the property is frozen for a period of 15 years. The law is intended as an incentive for the rehabilitation and appro priate maintenance of historic buildings, the division said. A brief explanation of the National Register nomination process and the benefits available to National Register property owners is available : upon request from the divi- ' sion's office. What) Your Opinion? . if 4 s K Question: "Will you be spending Thanksgsiving with your family?" "Well. I guess so," said Allen Burkenbine, Heppner, "my wife's family." Ejections Div. verifies investigation request Ray Phelps, director of the Oregon State Elections Divi sion, has verified that the Oregon Taxpayers, sponsors of Ballot Measure 3,have re quested an investigation of voting results on the measure in eight Oregon counties, in cluding Morrow. Phelps said that final election returns should be in the Secretary of State's office soon, but until they are all received, he can't determine whether an investi gation is warranted. Morrow County Clerk Bar bara Bloodsworth has ques tioned the Oregon Taxpayers' report of voting results in Morrow County on the mea sure. The organization states that 21 percent of the people in the county did not vote on Measure 3. Bloodsworth re ports that 68 percent of the registered voters in the county voted, 98.5 percent of whom voted on Measure 3. 5 if1' I Friday & Saturday Christmas The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 25, 1982 FIVE Local areas receive liquor revenue The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has reported that liquor revenue distributed during the 1981-82 fiscal year amounted to $72,275,794, an increase of 3.12 percent over the 1980 - 81 fiscal year. Hep pner received $12,307, lone received $2,941. Boardman, $11,052. Irrigon. $7,104 and Lexington. $2,533. Morrow County received $17,646, re ported Geneive Cook, in formation officer. The cities' and counties' share is in pro portion to population, she said. This does not include funds received from City Revenue Sharing or Mental Health Al coholism and Drug Services Account. The State General Fund received $39,421,711: the in corporated cities. $12,475,505; the counties $6,237,752; and the City Revenue Sharing Account. $8,732,853. The Mental Health Alcoholism and Drug Services Account re ceived 50 percent of the gross taxes collected on beer and wine, amounting to $5,407,973, Cook reported. Liquor sales for the fiscal year exceeded all previous years. amounting to $154,933,485. This was an in crease of 0.1 percent over the 1980-81 fiscal year. Scientists divide wasps into two groups - social and soli tary wasps. Social wasps, such as hornets and yellow jackets, live a community life, while each family of solitary wasps lives by itself. 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