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The Official Newspaper of the
City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
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Wedding
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Mr. and Mrs. Rigo Contreras
Lovena Elizabeth Marlatt of Heppner and Rigo Contreras
of Stanfield were married June 11 at the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints in Boardman, Oregon.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Marlatt
of Heppner. The groom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ramon
Contreras of Coalcoman, Mexico.
All four of the bride's sisters and her two brothers took part
in the ceremony. Melody was maid of honor, Rosanna was a
bridesmaid, Starla was a junior bridesmaid and Alisha was
flower girl. Wesley Jr. and Douglas were ushers.
Best man was Gordon Hoffnagle of Stanfield. Art Moreno
of Echo was an usher. His son Nicki was ringbearer. Robin
Ball of Heppner was also a bridesmaid.
Bishop Larry Smythe officiated at the double ring
ceremony. Phyllis Peterson of Hermiston was orgaaist.-
Starting the ceremony before the wedding party came in,
Wendy Toombs and Don Christensen sang a duet, "Love's
Grown Deep," accompanied by Nadine Toombs.
As soon as the bride walked down the aisle, she faced the
groom and sang "Looking Through the Eyes of Love." Then
Don Christensen sang "Truly." Trina Palmer, cousin of the
bride, played the pianb.
Judy Paine, friend of the couple, and Joanne Kain, aunt of
the bride, served the cake. Karen Palmer and Cheryl
Ployhar, cousins of the bride, served the punch. Also serving
was Marilyn Perkins, a friend of the couple.
Cartlena Rathbun attended the guest book. Melinda
Hawkins was at the gift table. Both were classmates of the
bride.
The couple is living in Stanfield. The bride is attending
Blue Mountain Community College and the groom is a
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Anniversaries
Seehafers celebrate 61st
wedding anniversary
The last weekend of August au
six of the Seehafer girls came
home to help their parents Pansy
end Bill Seehafer, of Boardman,
celebrate their sixty-first wed
ding anniversary. Margaret
Smith came from Baker, Oregon,
Eulenna Vaughn lives at Board
man, Gladys Holderman came
from Philomath, Jane Tye from
Enterprise, Billie Ballweg from
Fort Worth, Texas and Mildred
Tavares from Sacramento, CaliT,
Three sons-in-law were there:
George Holderman, Ronald Tye
and Charles Vaughn.
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Grandchildren attending were
Jo Ann Hayes from Portland.
Rosemarie Jones, Loretta Tye
and Roberta Tye from Hermiston
and Cheryl Coe from Elgin.
Great-grandchildren in atten
dance were Melissa and Carmen
Coe. Rebecca
Tye and Michael
Jones.
Jane Tye rode in the Heppner
Rodeo parade as she was a
princess in 1950, so most of the
family went to Heppner to see
this and to visit with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Seehafer have
twnety-one grandchildren and 19
great-grandchildren.
September IS, 198J
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LETTERS editor,
Basic facts about
To the editor:
The Supply System or
W.P.P.S.S. situation has been
Retting a lot of media attention
lately everywhere from the
state's smallest weeklies to
national news shows like
CBS's "60 Minutes." Yet no
matter what size the audience,
it's important that people
have access to some basic
facts about the supply system
facts that are often over
looked in the rush to cover
breaking news.
We find that most people in
this state view W.P.P.S.S. as
somebody other than them
selves. But the fact is that the
Supply System was formed in
1957 to build power plants for
Washington's public utilities
utilities that could not
individually build central gen
erating projects. The supply
system is the construction,
financing and operating arm
of 19 separate public utilities
and four municipalities.
It's first project was a 17.5
-megawatt hydroelectric faci
lity near Mt. Rainier. Since
1964. this Packwood Lake
Hydroelectric Project, has
generated more than three
billion kilowatt hours of elec
tricity. Two years later, the
supply system completed the
860 megawatt Hanford Gene
rating Project which uses
by-product steam from the
federally owned and operated
N Reactor on the Hanford Site.
This project has produced
more than 53-billion kilowatt
hours of electricity and an
nually meets about five per
cent of the Northwest's elec
trical power needs. Like our
nuclear projects, both were
financed by bond sales and
these are being paid back with
revenues from the sale of the
projects' electricity.
So you see. the supply sys
tem had been producing
power and repaying its con
struction costs for eight
years before a spade of dirt
was dug at any of its nuclear
projects. And regardless of
what happens to these later
projects, the supply system
will still exist to run these
highly successful operating
plants.
The next supply system
project to start producing
power is the 1.150 megawatt
Plant 2 near Richland, Wash.
It is only months away from
commercial operation in the
spring of 1984.
Even though Plant 2 will
soon be providing electricity
to the regional grid, few un
derstand how and who brought
it into being. For the answer,
we have to go back 15 years to
a group called the Joint Power
Planning Council ( an organi
zation of 108 Pacific North
west electric utilities), and to
the Bonneville Power Admini
stration (which markets
power from the Northwest's
federal hydro-electric dam
system).. Together, the
j p p c. and B P. A. drew up a
10-year Hydro Thermal Power
Program. This plan called for
about 20 new power plants
including what were to
Alter Society
Sale' for Oct. 8
St. Patrick's Catholic
Church Altar Society has set
Saturday. Oct. 8 as the date
for a "hall sale." This will be a
hall sale instead of a yard sale
weather, said a society
spokesperson .
The sale will be held from 9
Dick & Maxine -
Happy 25th
Anniversary
Love,
Robin and Richard
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WJPJS.S.
become W.N P. -1, -2. and -3.
It's important to understand
that the supply system did ncn
forecast power needs nor did it
"sell" the need for nuclear
plants. It was asked by 104
public utilities, four private
utilities and BP.A. to con
struct W.N.P. -1. -2 and -3. The
utilities contracted with the
supply system, and the supply
system used these contracts to
obtain funds through the sale
of bonds. These bonds were
attractive to investors since
they were backed by B P. A.
through net-billing agree
ments. However, that was not the
case with two later projects
W.N.P -4. and 5. These twin
units to W.N.P.-l and -3 were
backed only by agreements
with 88 participating utilities.
The contracts with these
Project 4-5 participants to
share in the annual costs of the
projects including debt ser
vice on the bonds whether
or not the projectgs were ever
completed or operational.
So that's how the five nu
clear projects got started
with agreements that asked
the supply system to build
them. Now. a decade later,
what has happened?
First, the demand for elec
tric power is far less than the
1970s forecasters ever ima
gined. The recession has
greatly influenced the need for
power in our region. That is
one reason that Projects 4 and
5 were not included in the
Regional Power Plan of 1983.
even though they were a vital
part of earlier plans.
Secondly, the projects
themselves suffered from
schedule delays, inexperien
ced management, cost over
runs and labor problems until
mid-1980. There were a host of
reasons for these problems
changing government regula
tions, soaring interest rates
and the burden of managing
five nuclear construction
projects with three different
designs at once.
Thirdly, the Washington
State Supreme Court this
summer invalidated the con
tracts for W.N P. -4-5 leading
to default on S2.25 billion
already spent on these two
plants, and our inability to
raise further funds through
conventional financing to fin
ish Project 3. (Plant 2 is being
funded to completion directly
by B P A.)
Oddly enough, by the time
the decisions were made to
terminate Projects 4 and 5 and
slow Projects 1 and 3
management and productivity
were no longer major issues.
It's true that you read a lot
of bad news these days about
the "W.P P.S.S. problem" and
you may read more bad news,
but we should submit that
there have been very few
exposes or critical stories
about how the actual con
struction program has been
going for nearly three years.
Sincerely,
Gary R. Peterson
Director. Information
Services
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a.m. to 4 p.m.
Anyone with donations of
useable clothing, furniture,
appliances or other items may
drop them off at Chris Adel
man's home. 676-5196. or call
Janet Greenup. 676-5822 to
leave items at the hall.
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To the editor:
The Oregon Forest Products
Transportation Associatin be
lieves that all Oregoninns
should have an opportunity to
vote on the proposed two cent
gas tax increase. On March 31,
19R3. state and federal fuel
taxes totalled 12 cents a gal
lon. April 1. the federal five
cent fuel tax was added mak
ing the total 17 cents. If the
state two cent gas tax goes
into effect. It will be 58 percent
increase in one year.
Like automobile owners,
truckers also face tax In
creases. The passage of the
two cent tax and the compan
ion weight-mile taxes alone
will raise by 26 percent the
taxes paid by the average
trucker with a truck weighing
80.000 pounds.
O F.P.T A. members re
cognize the need for good
roads ; good roads are good for
us. Especially the non-inter-states
the majority of Orego
nians use most often. This is
why O.F.P.T.A offered the
legislature a workable and
affordable alternative that
would have raised $21 million
annually for Oregon's non
interstate roads, streets and
highways, and would have
only taxed cars $10 and trucks
$25.
The State Department of
Transportation claims that it
needs the two cent gas tax
revenue for matching federal
dollars. Indeed, this money
will be used as they say. but
money can be found else
where. Although the state's
maintenance budget is tight,
matching money can be found
in it. according to D O.T.'s
testimony, during the hear
ings. Also, if the registration fee
increase passes this spring,
which OFP.T.A. hopes it
does, the money will be used
for Oregon's bridge system.
This then will free up addi
tional money.
Truck taxes imposed on
Oregon forest products trucks
will double between 1981 and
1984 and by 1985 will be at
least $5,769. coming at the
worst time of financial crisis
in more than two decades.
O E P.T.A 's recent survey
shows that nearly 1.000 Ore
gon forest products truckers
expect to go out of business by
1985 - creating economic prob
lems for many other Oregon
ians. As a result. O.F.P.T.A.
members are circulating a
referendum petition that will
place the gas tax on the
November. 1984, General
Election Ballot where it
should be. We need, however,
41.680 signatures by October
14. 1983. If you are interested
in helping please call Bob
McKellar or Jim Wiles at
(503) 3M-5168.
Oregon Forest Products
Transportation Association
Hal Evy
Chairman of the Board
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Justice Court
Morrow County Justice
Court at the Morrow County
Courthouse In Heppner han
dled the following Cusea dur
ing the past week:
Joe Burr St una, Heppner
Expired Vehicle License, $12
fine.
Douglas Kent McPherson,
Pendleton Possession of an
Open Container of Alcoholic
Liquor. $55 bail forfeited.
Betty Karen Griffin, Pen
dleton Open Container of
Alcoholic Liquor in a Motor
Vehicle. $55 bail forfeited.
Stephen Eugene McKenzie,
Irrigon - Exceeding the Max
imum Speed (70 mph in a
55 mph tone). $55 hail for
feited. Jerald Jay Jensen. Spring
field - Illegal U-Turn. $29 bail
forfeited.
Thomas Edward Jefferies,
Clarkston. Wash. Careless
Driving. $107 bail forfeited.
Richard James Gammell,
Stanfield - Exceeding the
Maximum Speed (G8 mph in a
55 mph zone). $28 fine.
Eugene Clyde Farley, Hep
pner No PUC Permit. $12
fine.
Philip John Marquardt.
Lexington - Exceeding the
Maximum Speed (74 mph in a
55 mph tone), $28 fine.
Catherine Mardelle Pointer,
Lexington Violation of the
Basic Rule (51 mph in a 35
mph rone), $28 fine.
John Richard Church, Jr..
Hermiston Violation of the
Basic Rule (40 mph in a 20
mph zone), $28 fine.
Brent Michael Shet er, lone -Violation
of the Basic Rule (40
mph in a 25 mph zone), $28
fine
Peggy Lynn Moore. Kenne
wick, Wash. - Exceeding the
Maximum Speed (74 mph in a
55 mph zone). $28 fine.
Gregory Floyd Jones, Hep
pner - Violation of the Basic
Rule (44 mph in a 25 mph
zone). $55 bail forfeited.
Brent Abel Williams,
Boardman Violation of the
Basic Rule (38 mph in a 25
mph zone). $55 bail forfeited
Dallas Albert Rea. Hermis
ton Exceeding the Maximum
Speed (74 mph in a 55 mph
zone). $28 fine.
Raymond Vaughn Curnutt.
Irrigon - Possession of an
Open Container of Alcoholic
Liqauor. $28 fine.
Brenda Joyce O'Brien.
Pendleton - Possession of an
Open Container of Alcoholic
Liquor. $28 fine.
Jenny Gail Hunt, Pendleton
- Possession of an Open Con
tainer of Alcoholic Liquor. $28
fine,
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D.A.'s Report
Morrow County District At
torney Richard McNerney
handled the following cases
during the past week:
. -Tommy R. Ayers, 27, of
Heppner pleaded guilty to
Felony Driving While Re
voked on September 9 in Mor
row County Circuit Court. He
was sentenced to one year in
nil - suspended, was placed on
probation for one year, must
pay a $200 fine plus a $50
assessment fee. After a suc
cessful probationary period
the charge will be lowered to a
misdemeanor.
Ivan E. Dieter, 61, of
Boardman, who was indicted
SeplemtxT 1. was arraigned
on September 9 on a charge of
alleged First Degree Sexual
Abuse. He is to enter a plea on
September 29.
- Danny Lopez, Jr.. 19. of
Arlington was arraigned Sep
tember 9 on charges of alleged
Criminally Negligent Homi
cide. Third Degree Assault
and Recklessly Endangering
He is scheduled to enter a plea
on September 29
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Petroleum Products Phone: 422-7254
Morrow County Grain Growers
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Gasoline 1-800-452-7396
Home Fuel Oils Lubricants 989-8221
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DENTISTRY
Thomas F. Alexander, D.D.S.,
General Dentistry Tues. and Thurs.
1st Interstate Bank Bldg.
676-5410 or 481-9462 (Coiieu)
Sheriffs Report
The Morrow County Sher
iff's Department at the Mor
row Co. Courthouse in Hep.
pnei' luiiullt'd Hip following
calls, cases and reports during
the past week:
On September fi, the sher
iff's department responded to
a motor vehicle accident in
volving two vehicles in Ix
ington. No one was seriously
injured, according to the
sheriff's office. Lola Ann
Taylor, 37. of Ixinglon, was
cited for alleged Driving
While SusM'ii(led, No Liability
Insurance and Disobeyed Stop
Sign.
On September 9. Allen K.
Tompkins, 20, of Irrigon, was
arrested on a Morrow County
warrant by Bnardman Police
for alleged Failure to Pay a
Fine
Also on September 9, Daniel
J Ball. 22. of Portland was
arrested on an Oregon Cor
rections Institute escape war
rant by the Condon Police
Department.
On Septemlter 12. Armin D.
Ward. 27. of Tenino. Wash,
was arrested by Boardman
police for alleged First Degree
Burglary He was lodged at
the rrnatilla City Jail
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