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Fire iiri Heroner r, r j- If a r " f v c r c r. k city block destroyed See pages 4 & 5 Temporary post office A temporary post office will be let up in building next to Heppner City Hall, tayi Postmaster Ken Nalrni. First class will have priority and Nairns asked that postal customer! not all come at once for their mail. VOL. 161 NO. IS THURSDAY. MAY 5. 19(13 Local students to attend summer program at U of O mm Kummrn tmmam jmrwmm "-j r"r T '7 JXV i . "mm mmmm mmm www-' nm w. Murk Fifthburn (L), Shannon McLaughlin, Ryan Duncan. ChriHiopher Hra 1 v - , -5 Deenna Carey (L), JJ. Shaw and Sandi Turner Ten Isxal students have hern chosen to attend a sum mer enrichment program for talfTlted and gifted students at the University of Oregon, an nounced Linda Shaw, spokes person for the local Talented and Gifted Program. In order to qualify for the program. students must demonstrate two or more of the following: achievement at least two grades higher than present level, measured intel ligence above average, un usual creative or productive thinking ability, a special talent, proven leadership abil ity, or exceptional ability in the visual or performing arts. Shaw explained. Students finishing grades six through nine were eligible to apply. BMCC to offer agricultural,- , TT , . i Mcfcwen named Hepp UUIIIJJUIUI VYU1 A special computer work shop geared toward using the microcomputer in agricul ture will be offered by Blue Mountain Community College in Heppner. according to Nan cv Brownfield, south Morrow County area coordinator for the college. The two-session class will be held on succeed ing Saturdays. May 14 and 21. 1 It 1 "" 4 ' Juek Ewtbtg (L) and 'tt77.$nnft?xTrs rrm rzm r -in f I nX3L The program will last two weeks, with three sessions being held. Sf'ven students from Hep ptier Elementary will attend. The sixth graders are: Deanna Carey, daughter of Doug and Sharon Carey; J.J. Shaw, son of John and Linda Shaw: and Sandi Turner, daughter of Ken and Jean Ann Turner. Seventh graders who were chosen are: Ityan Dun can, son of Bob and Suzanne Duncan : Mark Fishburn, sn of Earl and Peggy Fishburn; Shannon Mclaughlin, daugh ter of Bob and Bette McLaugh lin: and Ron Sporseen, son of John and Rita Sporseen. Two students from Heppner High School will attend: Jack Est berg, son of Steve and Dorothy Estberg; and Loran IVOlItJJJ Participants will meet from 9 a m to 3p.m. at Heppner High School. Persons interested in find ing out how to use the compu ter for making agriculture management decisions are asked to call Brownfield at 676 so w and pre-register. Cost of the workshop is $15. The Heppmsr Vnl AJk 21 Morrow County's 10 PAGES .1 ,,4 Hon Sporseen and i I 5 Loran Hayes 1 i :3 sr;i at.- ', - 1 mtr-m s 1 1 it rr- - J KTX" J! Haves, son of James and Barbara Hayes. lone eighth grader Chris topher Rea will also be at tending the program. He is the son of Keith and Judy Rea. Heppner students Mark Fishburn, Ron Sporseen and Kathleen Brazell were chosen for the program last year. They chose classes form areas such as linguistics, foreign languages, story and poetry writing, chemistry, architec tural design, calculus, an thropology, politics, building hot air balloons, computer programming, lasers, dance and geology. 'The progra m is designed to allow students to explore areas of both past and possible future interest." Shaw said. .; i f swim team coach Scott McEwen of Heppner has been selected as this season's Heppner swim team coach. The 21-year-old worked as a lifeguard at the Heppner pool for two years and was pool manager for one summer. CD Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper 25 School Board reverses decision restores lone teaching positions The Morrow County School Board reversed itself Monday night, and voted to rest.cre two leaching positions cut earlier from lone schools. The cuts had caused strong protests from the lone community dur ing the past month, Because voters turned down a county school budget March 28. the budget committee cut $111,509 from the budget. In cluded in the cuts were two teaching positions in lone, one from the high school and one from the grade school. The budget committee cited re duced enrollment in the two schools as the reason. lone reacted strongly to the staff reductions, and turned out in force at an April 19 meeting of the board to protest. A special meeting was held Monday night to discuss the ' nits and the budget with ther lone community. Using an overhead projec tor, community representa tive Marvin Padberg ex plained to the board the con cerns of lone and recommen ded actions by the board. He said the board should restore the teachers in order to maintain the quality of education in lone, and to keep strong support of the schools lone has shown in the past. Polish family should arrive in Heppner soon Word has been received that the Lutheran sponsored Andrez Dobosyznsky family from Poland is expected to arrive in Heppner soon, pos sibly by May 11. The family is being spon sored by the congregations of Hope and Valby Lutheran churches, and pastor John Maas is urgently looking for anyone in the area who can speak Polish. Anyone with information is asked to con tact him at 676-9940 or 676 5nt9, or Jane Rawlins, 676-94:$5. Local resident donates use of helicopter By MARY ANN CKRUM.O The Morrow County Sher iff's Department has just re- ner Ist year he was employed as head lifeguard at Kahneeta. A 1979 graduate of Heppner High School, McEwen will receive a liberal arts degree from Oregon State University in June. f ro r HEPPNER. OREGON "We don't feel we're dying out now." said Padberg. "It's just that we have a drop for a couple of years. It will be low next year, and then it will start to build up." "We may haue been a smug farm community down here in the past and shut out the Lexington people that wanted to come down here. We are going to try and correct this in the future. We are going to go out and soft-sell slaying in school in lone." he added. "We shouldn't be cutting here because we aren't con vinced the other schools are screwed down tight, and we don't feel it's our turn to cut into flesh." Don Bristow told the board. A motion to restore both teaching positions to the schools was raised first; how ever, no boardmember would , second it, so the motion died. Next a motion to restore just the high school position was made. The motion was passed by the board, however, this was unsatisfactory to lone representatives. "If you make that decision to keep one staff member you will not get many votes for the budget from this community," Padberg told the board. "I have to answer to class rooms that are fuller. It seems Maas learned from the New York office of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and also from Con gressman Bob Smith's office that the family left Poland April 27 and will leave West Germany May 10. They are expected to arrive that same day in New York and could reach the West Coast by May 11. A Heppr.er apartment has been set up and furnished by the congregations and is ready for the family to move into upon their arrival. ceived the use of a three person helicopter for search and rescue, surveillance and any emergency that arises, at a minimum cost to the county, announced Roy Drago, Mor row County sheriff. The minimum cost will be approximately four or five dollars per hour for fuel, he explained. A Morrow County resident who asked to remain anony mous offered the helicopter as a private donation after the need arose during an April 24 incident involving the search for a sheriff's deputy. "The chopper will be a tremendous asset to the coun ty for all sorts of things, like looking for a lost hunter." said Drago. Weather by the City to me we are compromising and you can compromise some." said boardmember Bob Byrd. "Unless I miss my estimate this town is waiting for a decision so we know how to vote on the budget," said Bristow. (The district will put the school budget up for a second vote on May 17). "Maybe we won't be strong enough to put it down, but we won't vote in favor," he added. A motion was then made to restore the teacher to the grade school also and the board voted in favor, three to two. The lone community was concerned that loss of the teacher at the high school not only would lower the quality of education, but would leave an all male staff there, with no one to council girl students. Likewise elimination of the sixth jjrade teacher in the grade school would leave an all-female staff there. Other concerns voiced by the lone community included: budget cuts were not spread evenly across the dis trict. board should coordinate staff cuts with the advisory board in the future. Co-op applies The Columbia Basin Elec tric Co-op Board of Directors signed documents to apply for two loans last Thursday, one from the Rural Electrifi cation Administration and the other from the National Rural Utility Cooperative Finance Corp., even though the funds won't be made available for some time. Co-op Manager Fred Toombs said the money. $1,248,000 from R.E.A. and $563,000 from the second lend ing agency, will be used for needed replacements within the system and general con struction. However, the co-op will not receive the funds until the co-op's liability in two abandoned Washington Public Power Supply System nuclear plants is determined. In a related matter, the hoard heard from co-op at torney Herman Winters, Hep pner, and Toombs said a suit that the co-op is involved in, which claims that Columbia Basin and 88 other northwest utilities are not liable for the WPPSS debt, was discussed at length. In other news, Toombs re ported that the board: tentatively agreed to sign a contract with the Bonneville Power Administration to purchase nonfirm energy for the co-op's irrigation custo mers. Toombs explained that the regulations to be eligible for the power are very stiff. The co-op should know if it qualifies by May 16, he said, however the board anticipates little if anv benefit from the program. agreed to meet a request from the Oregon Department of Energv for Commercial High Low Prrcip Tues.. April 26 57 35 .14 Wed.. April 27 64 41 Trace Thurs.. April 28 60 43 .25 Fri.. April 29 64 39 Trace Sat.. April 30 70 48 .08 Sun., May 1 64 43 Trace Mon.. Mav 2 n 40 Total precip. for April was 1.29. Normal is 1.90. . of Heppner no aggressive attempt was made to sell the budget prior to submission to the public. cuts were made without the board knowing why voters turned down original budget. Bristow told the board that , the staff reductions had been interpreted by the community as the first step in closing the lone schools. He recommended that the board adopt a policy making it mandatory for a community to okay any "drastic" changes in their schools. The board agreed and said it would adopt a policy drafted by the lone representatives for use county-wide, following approval by the district's lawyers. The policy read: "The school board will not act to drastically modify any attendance area or close any school operated by the district without consent of the pa tress of the community served by the district attendance area. Consent to be determined through public hearings and Absentee ballots Absentee ballots are now available from the Morrow County clerk's office at the courthouse in Heppner for the May 17 election, announced County Clerk Barbara Bloods-worth. for $1.8 million in loans Conservation Audits. The C.B.E.C. staff has developed an audit program and it was approved by the board Thurs day. The program will be sub mitted to the Oregon Depart ment of Energy, and when an Kennedy big winner in FFA Shop Skills Contest Q HHS junior Sid Kennedy with the arc welder he won for taking first place in the master mechanic contest at an FFA Shop Skills Contest held last Thursday at Milton-Free-water. Heppner High School junior Sid Kennedy was a big winner in an FFA Shop Skills Contest held last Thursday at Milton Freewater. He took first place in the master mechanic con test and received an arc wel der for his efforts. As a group. Heppner placed second behind Pendleton, with Milton-Freewater taking third. Other HHS students who placed were: Craig Miles -first in advanced electricity, bv petition with majority of the registered voters within the district attendance area signifying agreement with the proposal." School Superintendent Matt Doherty said money to pay the reinstated teachers would be taken from the district's con tingency ending fund balance. "What this means is we're transferring the problem to another year. If the budget passes we will be in a bor rowing mode by next August. It's kind of robbing Peter, to pay Paul." he stated. "There are some things that can't be measured in dollars and cents." Bristow told the board. He pointed to the high percentage of students in lone that are able to compete in sports and other school activi ties. "In the big schools you have the five percent at the top who are the stars, you have the five percent at the bottom who are the trouble makers, and you have the big gray mass in between." available The ballots may be either picked up at the courthouse or requested by letter from: Morrow County Clerk, P.O. Box 338. Heppner. Oregon 97836. audit program is available from B.P.A. the co-op will adapt its program to B.P.A.'s guidelines or will instead use the B P.A. program, which should be available in several months. Toombs said. Steve Currin - first in begin ning wood working, John Fer rell second in beginning oxy-acetylene welding, John Mover - third in Oxy-acetylene cutting, Mike Bergstrom -second in beginning electri city. Rod Cole - fourth in advanced oxy-acetylene wel ding and Marty Britt - fifth in advanced arc welding. Others participating from Heppner were Damon Wilson, Mark Way and Greg Orr.
