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EIGHT The Heppner GaieUeTimes. Heppner, Oregon. Thursday. April 18, 1983
lone 1st graders celebrate
Nat'l Library Book Week
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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