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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
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Murk Fifthburn (L), Shannon McLaughlin,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper
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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.
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"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
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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.