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-j -j "ilj pivm-hhh '-. ' ,u" - - -4" " 1 "" " 1 " " """" ' '"" n' I" f i j , ii I - r--n-ii -i-n j 4 ill ill i -" - i I'll"" i' i r-'i " "" " I' I" I" ' "II ' ' ii. ' EIGHT The Heppner GaieUeTimes. Heppner, Oregon. Thursday. April 18, 1983 lone 1st graders celebrate Nat'l Library Book Week ai:H Wi t $'&P'4i W 3 tone's first grade class with The first grade class at lone Elementary School celebrated B.E.A.R. week in honor of National library Book Week., announced Betty Rietmann, first grade teacher. BEAR, stands for Be Eager About Reading. Each child brought a Teddy Bear to visit school for the week. Children also brought books and records about bears, she said BMCC slates Mushrooms - where to hunt them and how to identify them - will be taught during a special Saturday class on May 7 offered by Blue Mountain Community College, announ ced a spokesperson. The Mushroom Field Trip-S Seminar will start at 8 a.m. with an information session slated for the Charburger Restaurant at the Mission interchange. Following this briefing on what to pick and where to find it. participants will leave on the field trip expedition which will take them to several locations in the Meacham and Kamela areas. Reps of 5 counties for A.A.A. met April 20 By JUSTINE WEATHERFORD On Wednesday. April 20, representatives of the staff of the Area Agency on Aging and of senior mealsites in five contingent counties attended Maker Bakers work on 1st yr. projects By BENJI PEARSON The Maker Bakers met on April 21 at Chloe Pearson's house. They worked on their first year sewing project. Two Call f 11 fheir teddy bears during BEAR. The week was spent reading hooks and singing songs about bears The students wrote stories about why they liked their teddy bears and about what hears like to do. The class made a list of 43 reasons why bears make the best friends. Tops on the list were: "They never ask ques tions." "They always listen when you talk." "They never hog the covers at night." and "Thev love vou " mushroom hunting class May 7 At 1 p.m. participants will meet at the Emigrant Springs State Park Community Build ing for lunch, mushroom identification, discussion and a question and answer period. The cost of the seminar is $5 per family. Each family is $400 mil. Secretarv of Agriculture John R Block recently an nounced he will re-allocate $400 million in lending author ity to the Farmers Home Administration's operating loan program to satisfy an immediate need farmers have for such loans. the Heppner Senior Citizen meal in the fairgrounds Pa vilion Building During the morning these persons had met at an area gathering in the meeting room of Hep pner's Columbia Basin Elec- girls are making blouses and one is making a skirt. They are almost finished. Our next sewing meeting will be on April 28. CiM)fltiB !Fit YapuEir fflonnri or Stop IfSclSOIlelfjls rsitss First graders and their teddy bears visited the kin dergarten where each student read a hook about bears to a kindergarten friend. To culminate the week's activities, the class had a "teddv bear picnic." Games were plaved and refreshments were served. Rietmann said she felt everyone had an enjoyable time while improving their language arts skills. asked to bring its own lunch, beverages and digging trowel. According to the mushroom class organizers, the class is especially for beginning mushroom hunters. Partici pants must provide their own transportation. re-allocated for "This interchange will come from programs with a less urgent and imediate need." Block said "Without a doubt, farmers who are preparing to plant this year's crops will have the most pressing needs throughout the next several weeks." trie Co-op. At the luncheon. Rollin Revnolds. Pendleton, was introduced by Heppner's Pre sident Bill Collins who said Revnolds wanted to make an announcement. Reynolds, the director of the five-county Area Agency on Aging, stated "an organizing committee for the development of a Senior Citizen Center at Heppner has been formed. You folks here have certainly outgrown this location at the fairgrounds. You will surely have your own center here sometime in the future." by For an Estimate on Your Next 6Plant-a-tree' program sponsored by Forest Service An opportunity for people to make donations to finance planting trees on the national forests was announced re cently by Secretary of Agri culture. John R. Block. Library turns into a book jacket factory The lone Elementary School Library has been a book jacket factory for the past three weeks, said a school spokesperson. Each student has a bright new book on display in the Library for National Library Book Week, April 17-23. The story in the book is the same, but the cov , er is so inviting, that the students are already saying. "I want to read your book next, the spokesperson said. The students in grades two through six checked out a book from the "oldies but goodies" section, and they took the book home to read. While reading the book they were trying to decide what kind of a new jacket they could make to change the face of the book so that everyone would want to check that book out to read. Persons interested in attending the mushroom seminar must pre-register with the college by Tuesday. Mav 3. For more information, call the college at 276-1260. ext 290. FinHA Loans Block is using the secretary of nericu'ture's interchange authority to deal with the urgent need. That authority allows funds to be transferred between ISDA programs in cases of extraordinary emer gency. "It is clear that the urgency to provide operating credit to farmers constitutes such an emergency." Block said. He said the interchange in cludes $75 million from FmHA water and sewer grants. $100 million from the FmHA farm ownership program, and $225 million from FmHA water and sewer loan funds. The interchange became necessary after 17 states ex hausted their allocations of FmHA operating loans. Block said FmHA offices in these states continued to accept loan applications while the admi nistration reviewed the op tions available to assure that farmers would receive fund ing for their production expenses. IPffnMnimgi In response to numerous public requests, Block said, the U.S. Department of Agri culture's Forest Service has established the plant-a-tree program to give individuals For the past three Mondays, the elementary library has carried a low humming sound into the halls, as the busy students cut out pictures, measured and cut colored paper to fit the book, mea sured and made lines to print the title and author, arranged and rearranged the pictures to have the perfect new cover for their book. The book jackets were then fitted with a Mylar ..cover for protection. The result is 84 new books for the lone Elementary School Lihrary. the spookesperson concluded. Twelve from Heppner attend Degree of Honor dist. meeting By JUSTINE WEATHERFORD Last Saturday twelve women from Heppner atten ded a district meeting of the Degree of Honor Protective Association at John Day along with large delegations of members from John Day. Pendleton and Baker. The meetings began at 10:30 a m on Saturday and con tinued throughout the day and evening Everyone enjoyed the feafures of the program put on by members of the various lodges and the noon luncheon at Canyon City. The evening banquet and program was attended by 76 persons. Four men attended the meet ings and two men served as ushers. Bylaws discussed by Museum Co mm. By JUSTINE WEATHERFORD Members of the Morrow County Museum Commission and others have been meeting recently, concerning several pertinent matters. Alma Green, the commis sion secretary, reports that the commission members feel there is a need for a carefully drawn set of bylaws for them to follow, and also there is a need for clarification of the ownership and future care of the Democrat Gulch School house which was moved into the Main Street City Park by Orville Cutsforth during the U.S. Bicentennial vear. Sev (Q)ir The Heppner GAZETTE-TIME 147 W. Willow 676-9228 and groups an opportunity to help improve the nut ion's forests. Contributions may be made by groups and Individuals in their own names or in honor of others For a minimum $10 dona tion, contributors will receive a certificate acknowledging their gifts. Individual trees will not be marked to recog nize contributors but probably will be planted on the national forest nearest the honoree'i home. Based on current needs, the Forest Service will select the species and sites to be planted. The number of plantings that will result from an individual donation will vary due to differences in costs in various parts of the country. Donations to the plant-a-tree program will be accepted at all Forest Service offices. The donations are tax deductible. Those who drove from Hep pner were Mary Bryant. Shir ley Connor. Nina Denton. Ida Farra. Eleanor Gonty. Adelle LaTrace. Bernice Nash. Catie PadtxTg and Mildred Pad berg Babe Harris and Betty Tanner, who were spending the weekend along the John Dav River at the Harris min ing claim joined those ten to participate r th them in the Saturday affairs. Heppner members all took part in parts of the program with Shirley Connor, Ida Farra and Betty Tanner as suming special responsibili ties The John Day lodge treasures a secretary's book dating from 1B9. EUanor Gonty reports. Several groups of school-age people provided entertainment for the affair, fair eral members of the Museum Commission including a coun Iv Historical Society member. Barbara Blwtdsworth. and Heppner's Mayor Clifford Green, talked about such mat ters on March 31. On April 8. commission memtiers met and elected officers: Herman Green, chairman: Alma Green, sec retary; and Delpha Jones, the newest member of the seven person commission, was cho sen treasurer Other commis sion members are Ida Farra. Irene Swanson, Kenneth Smouse and Orville Cutsforth. Johanne Wood, present cura Scbitwdccbs jBonsnimcBss 7Vv? Cow Vp" Corner By MARl.ENE CUKRIN Morrow Co. Cowltellr Publicity Chairman "Red Meat and Health" by Heather Smith Thomas Is an article that was printed In the January 19B3 "Nautilis" Magazine. It has been reprin ted by the National Live Stock and Meat Board of Chicago, III. It contains some very Interesting information and I hope you will find it beneficial. We're hearing a great deal these days about the benefits of a vegetarian diet. Ameri cans are on a "health binge." looking for ways to live longer, stav healthier and keep more physically fit. There's nothing wrong with that - we need to pay attention to our health. But the alarminR part of the new health-fitness trend is the wav many people are rushing after any health fad that comes along, some of which are downright unhealthy. Yet many people feel that if a food or a diet is "New" it'a better, and more than a few health fitness enthusiasts have ditched traditional types of meal planning in favor of exotic new diets. Part of the reason for this has been the growing concern over diet's role in health and disease, fostered by the hy pothesis originating in the I'M that animal fats in the diet (cholesterol, saturated fats) might contribute to heart disease and cancer. As a result, people have become cautious, switching from but ter to margarine and from lard to vegetable shortening. Manufacturers of vegetable oils, margarines, etc.. have taken advantage of the Amer ican consumer's cautiousness and have advertised their polyunsaturated fats and "no tor, and Rachel Harnett, long time curator, also have at tended most of the commis sion meetings. On April 13. the commission met with county legal council and deputy district attorney Mike Oths concerning the drawing up of bylaws for the commission. It was also sug gested that Oths meet with Heppner city attorney Bill Kuhn to work toward the clarification of the ownership responsibility and future care of the little, one-room school house Printing cholesterol" products as If they were "germ free" or marvelous health foods. We've been led to believe that cholesterol is hazardous to heallh even though it Is manufactured by our own bodies (found in every cell and essential for maintaining the structure of cell membranes) and we couldn't survive with out it. We've been led to believe that heart disease and cancer are diet -related and that most of us are digging ourselves early graves by eat ing too much meat and too many animal fats. Yet Americans are living longer today than ever before. Life expectancy has Increased more than 25 years since the turn of the century, and were healthier than our counter parts of yesteryear, The most dramatic Improvement In health and length of lifespan has come during the last several decades the very years that American total per capita red meat consumption was Increasing, People are living longer. Infant mortality has declined, and children have grown larger and stronger than those of pre vious generations. We're clo ser to our genetic potential for height than ever before in human history. Good nutri tion, which has included more red meat in the diet, has had a lot to do with this As for the cholesterol scare and the saturated fats issue, we seem to have embraced an unproven theory. Many stu dies over the last twenty years have seriously questioned and challenged the diet -disease theory, yet the general public doesn't seem to be aware of this. We still want to blame all our health problems on scape goats such as animal products in the diet. Some very major studies have contradicted the old diet theory. The American Council on Science and Health reported in that there was no firm evidence that reducing fat and cholesterol in the diet owuld lower the risk of heart disease. The American Can cer Society, after completing "The largest human biological study ever undertaken in life and death" concluded that rates of coronary disease or stroke were no higher in peo ple who used a high fat diet than in those who did not A commentary article in the "New York Times" was head lined "The Beginning of the end of the cholesterol scare what was never proven is now being disproven," The Na tional Academy of Sciences concluded in 19M) that there is no proven link between lower ing fat in the diet and a reduction in hardening of the arteries or hearat attacks and added that there is no reason for the average healthy American tor estrict con sumption of fat or cholesterol unless for weight control. Sob r
