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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
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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.
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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.
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Morrow County's
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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.
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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.
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HEPPNER. OREGON
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' 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.
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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
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$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.