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ip;3 i p V: H T 2 F. L L , ... . . ..I t ' o a o 7 ' w - VOL. 101 NO. IS Local residents tour -iri ft" i r 1 . tv-.".,: r Cff u - : Kinzua Ganaral Monogt Harry Kenniton (far left) talks with By MARY ANN CERUI.LO On Friday. April IS. Kinzua Corporation held a tour of their new $1.5 million chip facility to approximately 12 interested area resident. The group was split into two Westmoreland pleads Thomas Winston Westmore land III of Umatilla pleaded guilty to charges of murder and first degree robbery Mon day after being indicted on four charges stemming from the December 17. 1982 shooting death of Irrigon resi dent Michael Brown and rob bery of Brown's Truck Stop, Irrigon. Brown was working at the truck stop where the incident occurred. County planner voices concern By MARY ANN CERULI.O On Wednesday. April 13, Morrow County ' Planner Deene Sceger voiced his con cern with Morrow County Court over the current build ing inspection personal ser vices contract with inspector Don Dale of Arlington. According to Seeger, checks that are being written for HHS students broadcast TV programs Heppner High School Film and Television students are broadcasting a weekly pro gram over a new station (KHHS). channel three, for Board hears building repair estimate Damage caused when a pickup rolled through a wall at Heppner High School April 8 will cost $1,100 to $1,500 to repair, the Morrow County School Board was told Monday night. The wall and a window were damaged when a truck be longing to Danny Fortenbef ry, a high school student, slipped out of gear and rolled THURSDAY, APRIL 21, VO' I ... iiiO.'i. ?' parts by guides Frank Pear Bon, chip plant superinten dent, and LaVern Van Marter, safety and personnel director. According to Pearson, con struction on the chip facility began in October 1982 and was completed In December with the first logs being pro- Two other charges against Westmoreland. aggravated murder and first degree theft, were dropped, reported Mor row County District Attorney. Richard McNerney. Judge Richard Courson sen tenced the 20-year-old Monday to life imprisonment with a mandatory minimum of 10 years for the murder charge. McNerney said. He also re ceived a 15-vear sentence for building inspection fees are currently being written di rectly to Dale. Seeger sug gested that if the contract is continued for the 1983-84 fiscal year, it should be rewritten. The county currently re ceives 30 percent of the in spector's fee. The building inspection service is a private service which works out of the Planning Department. i I over channel 3 viewers within the Heppner city limits. The programs will give information about what is going on at the high school, including news of the week. down a hill into the building. In other business, the board: voted to deny a grievance from Heppner teacher Lisa Nelson, who was not hired back for next year by the district. She Is contesting the non renewal and has carri.-d her grievance through wo steps. A hearing was held in executive session. Tflae Heppiisir Morrow County's 8 PAGES 1983 new Kinzua facility ill.'!- . AfA' ..-r .'vil 1 "'7 i i - Wolt Nix while lour of new facility is conducted. cessed through the plant on December 20. The plant was in full production on January 8, he said. The facility is currently running four hours a day and handling approximately 50,000 feet of logs in that time, guilty the charge of first degree robbery and a five-year sen tence for using a firearm during the commission of a felony. Both of the later sen tences are to run concurrently with the sentence for the murder charge. He was transported to the Oregon State Correctional In stitution Monday by a Morrow County sheriff's deputy. In other business. Seeger announced the city of Irrigon 's donation of an acre lot for a senior citizen's center. The land has been valued at $32,260 and is located one block west of the Morrow County Annex on the Old Columbia River Ilwy. in Irrigon. said Seeger. The site will provide a center for activities for seniors in Irrigon and Boardman. interviews with staff mem bers and students, studies in the classrooms and some school events and club activi ties. Viewing times will be on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. until school is out. Programs will run from 15 minutes to an hour in length and will be planned, written, filmed and produced by the Film and Television class, team-taught by Marion Abrains. librarian and media specialist, and Jane Rawlins, language arts teacher. Mem bers of the class include: Greg Orr. Gary Riley. Cord Adams, Tom Hamman. Dennis War ren. John Martin and Danny Fortenberry. CD Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper 25' i- I ) T I , ... r. continued Pearson. The m'H makes the majority of their chips from white fir, Douglas fir and pine. The chips are separated into units and trucked to Boardman and then barged down the Columbia River to Longview Fibre. Court meeting canceled Morrow County Court will not meet in Irrigon on Wed nesday. April 27 as previously planned, announced a court house spokesperson. The next meeting of the court will be on May 4 at the courthouse in Heppner at 9 a.m. Daylight Savings Time begins this Sunday Daylight Savings Time be gins Sunday, April 24. Re member to move your clocks forward one hour. Lexington City Council meets The Lexington City Council discussed a proposed contract with the county for fire pro tection at the Lexington Air port during a council meeting April 12, reported Linda Jones. Lexington city recor der. No action was taken, she said. The council also presented Bill Sheirbon and Bill Smith plaques for time served on the council. Both of the men's terms expired and they chose not to run for re-election. In other business the coun cil: signed a contract to in stall satellite television with Steve's Electronics of Fossil so that Lexington residents will receive Home Box Office and ESPN, an all-sports sta tion within 30-60 days, Jones said. set a budget committee meeting for May 9 at city hall at R p.m. Sirs' 'j-"" f UiNTQJ HEPPNER. OREGON flone tum OUt ' Tim Morrow County School bonrd found it necessary to Ihold its meeting in a gymnasi um Monday night, in order to accommodate the large crowd which turned out to protest budget cuts proposed for lone schools. Over 100 Fone residents came to the district offices in l-exington. causing part of the meeting to be held in the Ix'xington gym instead of the board room. During more than an hour of testimony the board heard complaints that recently pro posed cuts in the school budget are unfair to lone, and that the toard should look elsewhere to pave money. On March 28. county voters turned down a school budget fi6 to 826. The budget com mittee came back April 5 to recommend cutting the bud get by $111,509. before sending it back to voters May 17. .Fishing season opens Ma jor local streams open to trout angling on opening day. April 23. will include Willow, Rhea and Butter creeks, and all streams draining into the John Day River system such as Rock Creek, Middle Fork. Juniper, Butte, Potomus and Ditch Creeks will open May 21, said Glen Ward of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wild life. The later opening date is to protect young steelehead in those streams, which serve as rearing areas, until the fish mature and move down stream to the ocean! "Any rainbow trout over 20 inches in a stream considered a steelhead stream is consi dered an adult steelhead and is illegal to keep and should be released immediately." Ward said. The following waters will be stocked with legal rainbows prior to opening day: Willow Creek 1.500; Cutsforth Pond 1.500; Wineland Lake 3.000; and Rowe Creek Reservoir 3.000. Bull Prairie Lake is free of ice and angling has been fair Heppner man elected director to Ore. Polled Hereford Assoc. 1 The Oregon Polled Hereford Association elec- Cottage Grove, Vice-president Denny Morrell. ted new officers and directors at its recent Drain, and Director Don Robinson of Heppner.' annual meeting in Salem. no1 pictured are Secretary Joyce Hoyt of Pictured are (from left): Director Howard Cottage Grove, Ore., and newly-elected Director Delano, Oregon City, President Bill Hoyt, larry Gill, Culver, Ore. Weather by the City of Residents of lone objected to the cuts saving most of the savings will come from their schools through elimination of staff. "Why was lone selected to take the hulk of cuts in the budget?" asked lone busi nessmaohn Bristow. Under the proposed cuts, lone High School would lose one full time and one parttime classified employee (non teacher), and one full time health and physical education teacher. The grade school would lose one sixth grade teacher, and the fifth and sixth grades would be combined. These cuts in staff would save the district $63,426. the administration said later. Also included in the pro posed cuts would be a part time and a full time classified employee at Heppner which would result in a savings of to good, he reported. Penland Lake is inaccessible by vehi cle because of snow. The ice is starting to break up and with in another 10 days the lake should be free of ice. Anglers are reminded that Moonlight Madness to hit Heppner next Thurs. Moonlight Madness will hit Heppner next Thursday eve ning as merchants reopen their doors from 7 to 9 p.m. for bargains and sales galore. Several organizations will be selling goodies, and a movie for the kids is also scheduled. Local Cub Scouts, who have been selling peperoni sticks door to door in Heppner. Lex ington and lone, will be selling any remaining sticks during the Moonlight Sale in front of Turner. Van Marter and Bry ant Insurance. The V.F.W. Auxiliary will be selling pies and other baked goods in front of the post office, and the Heppner Lions Club will sponsor a movie for ! :v;. "-! High Iavh Precip. Tues.. April 5 " 55 32 Wed.. April 6 53 39 Thurs.. April 7 5a 31 Fri.. April 8 56 36 Sat.. April 9 48 . 27 T Sun.. April 10 51 27 .02 Mon.. April 11 51 27 Heppner tO BFOtet CUt JL $14,613. "We're going beyond what other schools do." said lone farmer Marvin Padberg. "This one hundred thousand dollars is just a token cut. lone passed the school budget f 128-81) and it just isn't right it's bad management. People in the areas that vote down their budgets should be the ones to take the cuts." Delia Heideman. who has students in the grade school said the large cuts from lone schools are not good. "It's going to hurt (the quality of education)" she said. The teachers were dropped, administration officials said, because the enrollment at lone has recently decreased. There are now approximately 3fl students in the high school and about 90 in the grade school, according to the dis trict administration. The class sizes are small but Sat. lakes and ponds are open year around in this area. Cutsforth Pond was stocked Tuesday, Wineland Lake on Wednesday and Rowe Creek Reservoir will be stocked this Friday, Ward said. kids inside the old post office building beginning at 7 p.m., said George Koffier. club president. The movie will last about one hour he added. The United Christian Youth Fellowship will be selling ele phant ears on Main St. Pro ceeds will benefit the Heifer Project, a self-help program to help people throughout the world raise cows, according to the Rev. Mike Sheridan, pas tor of the United Methodist Church in Heppner. Anyone wanting to set up a booth during the Moonlight Sale may contact Andrea Mortimore at Gardner's Men's Wear. 676-9218. thev will be increasing," pointed out Heideman. She said many people feared if the teachers were dropped, when the enrollment did increase the teachers would not be replaced again. Betty Rietmann. who has taught at lone for 15 years and graduated three sons who now go to college said an earlier superintendent and board made a commitment to lone, and "this school board is not supporting us anymore." Others said if the board persisted in making the cuts in lone it would cause hard feel ings between lone and the rest of the district. 'There were hard feelings back in the sixties, and there are still hard feelings. I won der if a few bucks are worth all this hassel." said retired businessman Charlie O'Con nor. "It's not good if you take all the cuts in one school, which has traditionally supported the budget." said lone farmer and county Judge Don McEl ligott. "lone is a good quality school. But this is not the issue. We have good quality schools all over the district," said Superintendent Matt Doherty when given time to respond. "My commitment to lone school is the same as any other school in this district, but we have to be responsive to this cost thing. If we don't respond to cost we do jeopar dize your school." Doherty said the cost of educating students at lone is the highest in the district. He said 14 percent of the school budget now goes to lone, which has 8.8 percent of the enrollment. Doherty gave figures to show that it cost $4,800 per student per year in lone, and $2,900 per student per year at Sam Boardman Elementary School. He said the district average is $3,600 per student per year. The average student teacher ratio at lone is 11.5 to one. and at Sam Boardman it is 18.4 to one. lone residents responded saying that before the recent population growth of the Boardman area, the costs of educating a student there were also high. The possibility of lone High School being closed was also brought up. "We are trying to be air. We don't want to close down lone schools. We're not against lone or the lone com munity." said board chairman Jean Bennett. "The board has supported lone schools over the years," said board member Pauline Winter. "We are not at this point ready to close lone." "We're talking about the future of the city of lone," said Bristow. "When you strike at the budget of lone schools, you strike at the heart of the city." After hearing all the public comments and responding, the board said it would hold a special meeting on Monday, May 2 at lone, to discuss the issues further. The meeting will start at 8 p.m.
