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p. r.ss I e v;nT2Ei-t U OF OHE r:Ev:srAP2R LI : . J E !'.' 0 K 0 7 4 3 i f ti I Wl II VOL. 100 Cub Scouts to conduct food drive in Heppner Saturday v . V-1 J i ; J ; j ; ' J7 if; S l I i : 1 V?; ferv I 1 : ; 1 4 'J, tert I I ' K' Heppner Neighborhood Center Coordinator Pat BrindJe (left) holds flier explaining a Cub Scout Food drive that will take place this Saturday in Heppner The filer! will be distribu ted to Heppner homes on Thursday. Cub Scouts Ryan Pence (right) and T.R. Riehl show some cans of food they have already Deputy D.A. seeks county counsel position By MARV ANN OERl'LLO Harold McLean, deputy dis trict attorney, came before Morrow County Court Wed nesday, Dec. 1 to discuss the possibility of hiring him as county counsel. The court had previously learned that McLean had recently received a request from Richard McNerney to resign as soon as McNerney fills his position as district attorney, January 1. According to Commissioner Dorothy Krebs, the position of county counsel would be se Annual meetings, Farm City Banquet to be held Friday By JUSTINE WEATHER FORI! An annual meeting of the Morrow County Livestock Growers will take place Fri-. day, Dec. 10, in the upstairs rooms of the Heppner Elks Lodge. At noon the CowBelles will gather at a no-host lun cheon in the Elks diningroom. They will hear guest speaker, Polly Owen, a representative of the National Livestock and Meat Board, and will install new county officers during this annual meeting. Carleen West is the outgoing president, and Sue Evans will be instal led as the new top officer. State CowBelles President Bernice MeGee of Riley will be a special guest. The livestock growers will be addressed by Max Simp son, state representative, con cerning, legislative issues at 1 p.m. At 1:15, Jack Craig, IMC regional sales manager will speak on "Ralgro and Compu dose." Dave Dukarat, Elanco sales representative will speak on "Uses of Rumeosin NO. 4 THURSDAY. DECEMBER t. 1982 parate from the district at torney's office, dropping one of the D A. 's office's responsi bilities. As of Monday, Dec. 6, the court had not made a decision. In other business Morrow County Court received resig nations to 13 county, city and state posts from Commission er Krebs. County Court continued with the following business: discussed a proposal to transfer county records onto computer software. According in cattle operations" at 2 p.m. A coffee break, courtesy of the Bank of Eastern Oregon, is scheduled between 2:45 and 3 p.m. At 4 p.m., Wayne Evans, president of the county cattle men, will preside at the an nual business meeting and election. At 5:30 p.m. an atti tude adjustment hour will be provided by the Northwest PCA. Pendleton PCA and the Federal Land Bank. The Farm-City Banquet, a beef lite broil and pork roast buffet dinner will be served In the Elks dining room at 7 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $7. Wayne Evans will serve as M.C. during the evening. Three speakers have been scheduled: Sam Dement, president of the Oregon Cat tlemen's Association; Polly Owen of the National Live stosck and Meat Board; and Don Ostensoe, executive vice president of the Oregon Cat tlemen's Association. Special entertainment will be by John Doherty. Tli Heppiisir Morrow County's 16 PAGES received. Trish Sweeney (center) and Helen Riehl are chairpersons for the project. Scouts will go door to door between 10 a.m. and 12 noon eekinR donations of canned food for the Neighborhood Center's Christmas basket project. to Judge Don McElligott, Morrow County is one of five out of 36 counties in the state who are not on a computer system. received a resignation from Cornet Green, Heppner, of the County Planning Com mission, effective December 31. The court stated that any interested business person would be welcome to apply for Green's position, approved that a second court clerk position opening be advertised. (See classifieds). Morrow County's Livestock Grower of the Year and the county's Conservation Man of the Year will be honored. There will also be awards to 4 H and FFA livestock win ners. The Heppner-Morrow Chamber of Commerce will give recognition to several citizens who have made out Local students named in national publication Three students from Mor row County have been inclu ded in the fifth annual edition of "The National Dean's List." said a spokesperson, the largest recognition publi cation honoring college stu dents. The list is published by Educational Communications, Inc. of Lake Forest, 111. Local students featured in this year's edition are Dale W. Holland II and Paula J. Pal mer, both of Heppner, and William P. Sharkey III, of i i ii mm b r r i i i v . vt. Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper 25' Columbia Basin raises rates At a Columbia Basin Elec tric Co-op Board meeting last Friday, directors agreed to raise consumer rates Decem ber 31. effective with the December billing, announced Fred Toombs, co-op manager. The rate increase i to cover the co-op's involvement in Washington Public Power Supply System's nuclear plants 4 and 5. The co-op, one of 88 interest holding utilities, has a .00391 percent share in the now abandoned plants. Of the total $7 billion debt, Columbia Basin Electric is to pay $27 million, which includes prin cipal, interest and plant ter mination costs, Toombs said. The plants were terminated last January after millions of dollars in costs overruns. Toombs said the board agreed to the a. 5 cent per kilowatt increase after re ceiving a great deal of pres sure from the Rural Electrifi cation Administration, head quaratered in Washington, DC. , Columbia Basin Electric . has joined 16 other utilities in a suit claiming they are not responsible for the debt be Annual lighting contest to Get your Christmas decora tions up. The annual Heppner lighting contest will be held soon and cash prizes will be awarded. There will be three catego ries of lighting: best indoor Agriculture An Agriculture Day will be held at lone schools next Wednesday, Dec. 15, and many topics for discussion are planned. Students will be placed into groups according to grades and then will be placed into groups for discussion sessions. Consultants for the special standing community butions during 1982. contri Special door prizes will also be awarded. After the evening's program concludes, alwul 9 p.m., danc ing will take place upstairs to the music of "Firelight." The public is invited to the dinner and dance. Boardman. All three are stu dents at Eastern Oregon State College at LaGrande. Students are selected for recognition by their deans or by appearing on their school's Dean's List. There are 77,000 students included in the cur rent edition are from 2,000 colleges and universities na tionwide and represent one half of one percent of the more than 8,000,000 college students in the country. HEPPNER, OREGON cause the plants were not completed and no energy will be obtained from them. Although the suit is presently in progress, no ruling has yet been handed down and bond payments are to begin being made January 25. The reason the decision was made to raise rates soon, Toombs said, was to avoid a much larger increase later on in case the judge does not reach a decision until after January. Funds from the forthcoming increase, the manager said, will be held in local interest bearing accounts until the co-op is ordered by law to City of Heppner may have to pay 3,000 for water project The Heppner city council heard Monday night why the city may have to pay $3,000 in engineering fees on a water entirely by a bone sale. . City Engineer Scott Huff told the council his firm had and best outdoor lighted dis play, and best unlighted dis play. First prize in both indoor and outdoor displays will re ceive $30, second, $20 and Day planned day will be Ray French, beef and hay; Henry Krebs, sheep; Larry Lindsay, corporate farms, irrigation, wheat and other topics; Louis Carlson, wheat; Eric Anderson, grass; and Dick Graham, forest re lated topics. Fifty-three topics and or 1.5 participate in Heppner Fifteen Heppner Elemen tary School students raised a total of $357 in an Easter Seal Book-A-Thon. The event is held each year to raise money for the Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults of Oregon. Children obtained sponsors and then read as many books as possible in a three-week period. The following students par ticipated in the Book-A-thon: second grader Amy Poorman ; third graders Niki Krueger, Kim Johnston and Nina Tuc ker; fourth graders Josh Krueger, Candy Harris, Tricia Coe, Michelle Cameron and Kerry Bruch; fifth graders Kevin Tin ker, Jodee Ashbeck and Kelly McLaughlin; sixth graders Nancy Taylor and Jennifer Tanner; and seventh grader Kathleen Brazell. All of the participating stu dents received certificates. Those who raised $30 or more received a cap from the society. Tricia Coe, who raised the most money ($143 50), recei ved a BtMik-A-Thon T-shirt, a quilted mountain vest and a trophy for earning over $100, as well as a certificate and cap. Weather by the City of make payments to WPPSS. If the co-op is not required to pay the supply system, the funds will be returned to consumers either in the form of reduced rates or in cash. Toombs stressed that the revenue will not be used for any other purpose. In October, an Oregon judge ruled that 11 Oregon utilities, involved in a similar suit, are not responsible for paying costs of the plants. Toombs said earlier that he hopes the Oregon judge's ruling will bolster the suit Columbia Ba sin is named in. In other news, the manager run up fees working on the city's new water system over and above the amount allowed for under a bond sale last year tn inav the.figooo projet-4 Consequently, the city may have to pick up the excess bill with money from the general be held soon third, $10. Best unlighted display will receive $20. Judging will be held Sunday, Dec. 19, so have your decora tions ready. at lone questions for discussion are on the program , and each student will be responsible for writing a summary of his or her individual research and dis cussion observation. Members of the community are invited to attend, said a school spokesperson. .EZZZ3E UMtumi J r lmJi , J L U fori it. liijiLuitniiint, ... I i .. . , . 1 1. r i ti jew"' - "l j i..-... i-uVtf V L-. fc- .J i.... f . - - . . s I !L 'Zt A. VI, JL. .J rsspw v C,.i' J 1 'v w?''" twilnWMHir j 1 w.'"-.- I III I S --mn J tzm 1 ! If) Wc;, ;u C3-IVVt H.J l it I 3 Z. I - i - ' i - ifc Nancy Taylor (left), Tricia Coe and Jodee Ashbeck are this year's winners in an Easter Seal Book-A-Thon at Heppner Elementary School. All three received certificates, and caps For participating in the Book-A-Thon this year the school library was given an Tues., Nov. 30 49 35 .01 Wed., Dec. 1 43 32 Thurs., Dec. 2 55 39 .03 Fri., Dec. 3 59 40 .02 Sat., Dec. 4 47 32 .02 Sun., Dec. 5 40 33 .36 Mon., Dec. 6 40 28 .07 Total precipitation for November was .24 inches. Total precipitation for November 1981. was 1.77 in. Normal is 1.49 in. Heppner to cover WPPSS reported that the board: approved a $5.4 million budget for 1983 which includes almost $1.9 million in whole sale purchased power and $1.25 million in WPPSS debt. The budget also includes a capital expenditure budget of approximately $122,000 and plant expenditures of $750,000 with the balance of the budget consisting of taxes, opera tions, maintenance and debt service costs. reviewed a proposed in surance policy for the upcom ing year which would include liability and property damage insurance. Also considered was catastrophy insurance fund. Huff said McGrew Inc., con tractor on the water project, had told engineers it could fin'; H the project, wh'ch Se cluded placement of new wa ter mains in the city, within 10 weeks. Huff said the project actually took over 17 weeks to complete, causing more en gineering time for inspection of the work, and more fees. -' The city still has about $148,000 left over from the water project bond sale, how ever, Farmers Home Admin istration, which bought the bonds and oversees the pro ject, will not allow any more to be spent on engineering fees. "I would like to be able to say that we (Barret-Harris) will split the difference with the city, but I can't," said Huff. He said he would have to talk to his boss at the engi neering firm before any deci sion is made. Huff said his firm did tell the city at the beginning no money 4 lAV -C-k-W MjMrriL for raising over $30. Tricia Coe also received a trophy, a quilted mountain vest and a Book-A-Thon T-shirt. autographed copy of Beverly Cleary's new book "Ralph S. Mouse." Miss Cleary is this High ( Low Preclp which would cover damages from ice storms and other natural conditions. The propo sal was rejected by the board because of the extreme cost of the coverage. agreed to replace the co-op's existing auditing Arm because of unsatisfactory ser vice. A new firm has not yet been named. approved board members Harold Rietmann and Bob Lankford to work with an irrigation committe that, has been formed in the area in an attempt to coordinate the ef forts of the irrigators with the co-op. from the general fund would have to be spent on the water project. "We want to continue to do business with Heppner, ard w irs'l f!Rt this to be 8 black eye." Huff told the council. In other business, the coun cil: accepted a state grant of $223 earmarked for expenses at the library. accepted the resignation of John Canaday, Heppner, from the Blue Mountain Eco nomic Development Commis sion. Canaday said he was leaving the area. The council appointed Zoe Watts, Hep pner, to fill the spot. voted to pay damage claims from homeowners in the cemetery hill area be cause of a water line break in April. The Corps, of Engineers has indicated to the city it will reimburse the money. The water line broke during con struction of the city's new water system. - &. non 'i.i'.UIlKim hup i iinnin.trnM, ww,mJ m9f " "S'Mi i i Jj!jiiHj!iK qmmtna vmmn.'Vm year's Oregon chairperson for the Easter Seal Society. J
