The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 3, 1983 THREE
Around About
By Justine Weatlierford
After hearing about and viewing TV pictures of the
damaging storm in California all week long, it was surprising
and most pleasing to have such a beautiful Sunday hr a
super Sunday for January 30 from the mornlng'i bright
sunshine Into the clear night's brilliant moonlight.
How glad I am to have us move Into a shorter
month January always seems extra long, to me, even
though six other months have Just as many days. Maybe It
seems so long because Its only special day Is Its first day, ana
New Year's (Day sort of blends in with the Christmas
holidays.
Last week I enjoyed writing Weatherford articles for the
county history book, and also, I had the fun of doing a little
typing and writing for some friends. Because I am very
inefficient about keeping a good home filing system, I often
have a terrible time locating various newspaper clippings
and items I have tucked away. Last Sunday afternoon I had
determined I would really exert some strong self-discipline
and get lots of papers stuffed willy-nilly In boxes and drawers
Into better order. So I refused" several Invitations to attend
worthwhile community events to stay at home and work.
However, I made a fatal mistake. I flipped on my TV Just to
see how the Redskins and the Dolphins might be doing and I
found them doing such an exciting Job in the Super Bowl that
I sat almost glued to the TV from Just after 3 p.m. until that
fabulous game ended at nearly 8:30 p.m. As I watched alone
and quite spellbound, I thought several times how my late
husband Dill would have enjoyed that thrilling football game.
So now I must try again for that self-discipline I so easily
postponed.
Perhaps you noticed that Dick Schaap, the well known
sports writer and TV personality, chose to write about a
Philomath. Oregon girl, Tami Malda, as one of the athletes
he has met, Interviewed and sincerely admired. Tami
attracted considerable media attention last year when she
was the starting quarterback on Philomath High's freshman
team. Schaap praises her and describes her behavior during
his Interview with her In his article In the "Parade" section
of the January 30, "Sunday Oregonian."
Although I didn't attend last weekend's Heppner High
basketball games I have now read about them and have
heard personal reports of the boys breathtaking one-point
win last Friday over Umatilla and then of their heartbreak
ing one-point loss to Wahtonka on Saturday night. Such
excitement in the high school gymnasium such tremendous
displays of athletic talents. One friend also described an
exciting Heppner girls' basketball game, telling me how hard
the girls played and how hard the referee worked, too. The
official she especially enjoyed watching was Heppner's
popular troubadour, Ron McDonald.
Quite a few readers of the "Reader's Digest" and viewers
of TV's "60 Minutes" have been concerned during January
by the article and the TV segment which featured the matter
of "Where Your Church Offerings Co." Both the written and
TV production seemed to stress that the National Council of
Churches of Christ, to which many of our denominations
belong "has been Increasingly contributing to political
causes that are Inappropriate." They claimed that the
church money is sent to places in Asia and in Central
America and Cuba where it could be actually funding and
supporting Communist governments or movements.
Last Sunday, the Rev. Mike Sheridan of the Heppner
United Methodist Church addressed this matter In his
sermon, and he made available reprints of the N.C.C.C.'s
written response to the criticisms which had been leveled
about its distribution of church funds. This document is
reassuring to some of us who were disturbed by our recent
reading and viewing, because it states positively "the
N.C.C.C. does not fund or otherwise support Communist
governments or movements anywhere In today's complex
world." Instead, the N.C.C.C. works "through churches In
more than 90 countries under many forms of government to
meet human needs, to strengthen the community of faith,
and to seek change in the underlying causes of need and
injustice."
The organizational statement stresses that the millions of
dollars contributed by members of Christian Churches in the
N.C.C.C. are used as Christ commanded "to feed the hungry,
to clothe the naked, to visit the sick and Imprisoned, and to
set at liberty those who are oppressed." I, for one, was
satisfied and relieved to study this response and rebuttal to
the disturbing, recent news stories.
Last Sunday afternoon, Morrow County Historical Society
members and friends enjoyed a potluck dinner and slide
showing of several of their recent group tours out at the
county fairgrounds. They also considered some Ideas for
future group tours.
Church affairs were surely significant news in our
community last weekend. At the official dedication of the
newest church building, the Christian Life Center, a very
larege crowd of well-wishers, both clergy and lay persons,
many coming from distant communities, gathered to enjoy
the ceremonies. I hear that everything was great, the
program was most satisfying and the musical numbers were
inspiring. Most of the multitude went up to the high school for
refreshments after the conclusion of the dedicatory program.
At St. Patrick's Catholic Church the congregation bid
farewell to their temporary priest, the Rev. David Hazen, at
an after-church coffee. This Tuesday Monsignor Raymond
Beard will come back to serve the Heppner and lone
churches. He will be officially welcomed by the two
congregations next Sunday.
274 N. MAIN; HEPPNER 676-9021
Coping with farm stress-
RyDK.TKHKY
TKMPLKMAN
Program Director
Morrow Co. Mental Health
Service
Most people )n Morrow
County are familiar with the
stresses of farming. As spring
nlowinB approaches many
Corps makes final plans
local farmers are already get
ting Itchy feet about getting
back Into the fields. They are
already thinking about
equipment that needs over
hauled or replaced, wondering
what the market will be like
this year, trying to figure out
what P.I.K. (Payment in Kind
Program) is all about, get
ting the books in order for
taxes, learning about new va
rieties of grain, thinking about
the effects of recent weather
on their crops, and maybe
wondering whether to take out
the next loan now or wait until
interest rates decline further.
There are literally dozens of
from p. 1
provide for stock watering and
irrigation requirements. If
construction progress allows,
remaining Willow Creek flows
will continue to be stored until
the lake reaches an elevation
of 2.047 feet, which will be the
normal pool level.
As the lake fills, Corps
personnel will be monitoring
the various instrumentation
installed into the dam and
noting how the structure re
acts to initial filling. Some
minor seepage of water
through the dam may be
observed during and after
initial filling. This is normal
and may bo expected to occur
to some degree in all concrete
dams. Dugger explained.
A drilling operation Is cur
rently underway at the dam.
The purpose of the drilling is
to provide holes for foundation
drainage and post construc
tion measurements and test
ing. Some holes are drilled to
the point where the dam inter
faces with the foundation rock
so that this area can be
pressure tested to determine
how well the dam has made
contact with thp foundation
rock. This drilling and testing
operation is scheduled for
completion this spring.
Should the tests indicate
that contact at the interface
needs to be improved, grout
ing material will need to be
placed into this area to reduce
seepage. Should this be re
quired, the lake will be
brought down to the minimum
level of 2.000 feet. When grout
ing is completed, the lake will
be refilled to 2.047 feet as soon
as flows into the lake will
permit, he said.
things to worry about, de
pending upon a farmer's na
ture. For the worriers, 'the
stresses of farming can be
come unbearable pressures,
leading to health problems,
sleepless nights, irritability
and tension.
I once asked a farmer how
he could put up with the
various pressures of farming,
and he quoted to me the
Serenity Prayer; "God grant
me the serenity to accept the
things I cannot change, the
courage to change the things I
can. and the wisdom to know
the difference." It struck me
that for farmers in general,
the biggest part of coping with
stress is knowing the differ
ence between what one can
change and what one cannot
change. Equipment break
downs are a good example. In
a recent survey in "Successful
Farming" magazine, farm
ers ranked machinery break
downs as one of the most
stressful events in their lives.
A good portion of this stress
may be due to the farmer
believing he should be able to
prevent all or most break
downs before they occur,
when in fact many break
downs are probably beyond
his control.
Farmers are not the only
ones thinking about the stres
ses going back into the fields
this spring. Farm wives may
already be thinking aboaut the
little time they will see their
husbands at home, the Inter
ruption of their routines when
they are needed for help on the
farm, the uncertainty about
when to expect a husband
home for dinner, or trying to
make conversation with a
man who may be too tired to
say anything when he does get
home. Here again the farm
wife may plan for these events
or she may worry about them.
For her too. knowing what she
can control and what she
cannot as the spring work
begins will make a big differ
ence in how she copes with
stress.
Like all rewarding occupa
tions, farming involves a cer
tain amount of stress which
makes it challenging. Suc
cessful farmers and their
families have learned how to
cope with the stresses without
being overwhelmed by them.
They know that, as the Seren
ity Prayer says, there are
some things one can work to
change and do something
about and there are other
things, like the weather or
equipment breakdowns, which
just have to be accepted as
part of their everyday lives.
For more information about
farm stress and its effects
locally, local farmers, ran
chers and, their families are
invited to attend a Farm
Stress Workshop, sponsored
by Morrow County Wheat
Grower's League on Monday,
February 7, from 7 to 10 p.m.,
at the Heppner High School
Cafetorium.
Market J :
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