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The lleppner Gazette-Time, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 6, 1983THREK Public meeting slated in Heppner to evaluate highway plans for Eastern Ore. Highway Division construe linn and ropnir project scheduled for nnrtheaslern Oregon In Ihe Preliminary Six-Yrnr Highway Improve ment Program will be discus sed nl a public meeting In lleppner on Wednesday, Oct. 12, announced the Oregon Department of Transporta tion. The meeting is set to begin fit 7:30 p.m. at the Morrow County Courthouse. It Is an effort by Depart ment of Transportation offi cials to find out what the public thinks about highway projects scheduled over the next six years for Eastern Oregon, as well asf or the rest of the state. A numlcr of projects for Improving traffic flow in this area have been included in the six-year program, according to Dob Hector, highway divi sion region engineer in La Grande. Hector says those projects call for repair and improvements on roads, bridges and bicycle paths in the highway division's eas ternmost region (Region Five), over which he has jurisdiction. Npgion Five covers all of Eastern Oregon and includes more square miles than eny of Ihe other four highway re gions, he said. The Heppner meeting is one of 18 different public meetings being held around the state during .September and Octo ber to explain the program and hear public comments. The meetings are part of a two-year update of the pro gram, covering work sche duled through 1989. The highway division plans six years ahead for major repair projects, as well as for new Improvement projects. This is done so the division can better coordinate use of limi ted funds and its available work force. According to highway divi sion officials, the six-year plan proposes few new construction projects. Top priority has been Riven to preserving the existing highway system. In all. some $900 million will be spent on rebuilding work and improvements over the next six years, according to the program document. Copies of the Preliminary Six-Year Highway Improve ment Plan are available from the Highway Division office at 211 Adams Avenue in LaGrande. The phone number is 9A3-3177. Morrow Co. to receive $18,126 f rom" B.L.M. Co. schools being visited by extension staff Oregon counties were to gain $2,511(1.305 this Wednesday as 1903 payment in lieu of luxes compensating them for revenues lost because of tax exempt federal lands such as ftureau of Land Management mid Forest Service lands with in their boundaries, announ ced Hill Keil of B L M. Mor row County's payment was to be $1R.12fi. The payments are based on acreage of federally managed lands within the counties, population, and income paid to the counties from other sour ces such as federal timber sales and mineral payments. In Oregon 2(1,971.237 federal acre are covered Interior Secretary James Watt said that the U.S. gov ernment will pay $95.9 million to 1 fn units of local govern ment nationwide. California receives the largest share, $10,127,144 President Reagan recently signed a bill amen ding the Payments in Ieiu of Taxes Act negating a Michi gan court decision which would have complicated the payment formula by requiring payments to be made to 17,000 local governments. Secretary Watt said, "These payments go to the principal providers of fire and police protection, search and rescue operations, road construction, and other services supplied by local governments that col lectively contain more than 455 million acres of federally owned lands that are not subject to state and local taxes. "The Reagan administra tion vigorously supported this program. We feel that it is only fitting that the U.S. gov ernment give some measure of financial assistance to these local governments to help ease the fiscal impact resul ting from the presence of tax-exempt federal lands within their boundaries." Robert Burford, B.L.M. national director, said, "How the local governments use the funds is entirely up to them. There are no conditions pre scribed by Washington. BLM's Oregon Washington Heppner Masonic Lodge donates to Heppner band O r -.;. t on '"J "' .'"iikj Heppner band instructor Don Christensen and Trina Palmer, an HHS sophomore, test the sound of a new Roland SH101 synthesizer, purchased by the Heppner Masonic Lodge No, 69 for the school band. Lodge member Lucky Felt said the lodge wanted to purchase the piece of equipment as part of the lodge's support of local schools. Local Soroptimists attend district meeting Several members of th Heppner Soroptimist Club at tended a district meeting in Ijcwiston, Idaho last weekend. Those making the trip were District Secretary Clista Venard, Heppner Club Presi dent Mary Goheen, Heppner Club Secretary Molly Kill and I'fina Smith. Plans for this month include an October 13 summary of reports from the district meeting and a slide show rpesented by Mary Goheen of Istanbul, Turkey, where she recently attended a Soropti mist Convention. On October 20. Avon Melby will give a program honoring United Nations Day. Now Is The Time To Spray FOR MORNING GLORY (Field Bindweed) Tordon22K Round-Up Banvel Sulv Amine 2-4D Amine 4lb. FOR SPOT TREATMENTS BY HAND Banvel SG, Granules Tordon2K, Pellets Available at 422-7254 PETTYJOHN OIL CO .4 Slate Director. William G. Ieavell. said. "We are pleased that Congress has made these funds available to help the counties." The annual payments are authorized by legislation ap proved in 1976 and are in addition to revenues the fede ral government regularly shares with state govern ments from sale of timber, minerals, and other materials and products derived from public lands and from oil and gas leases. In addition to B.L.M. and Forest Service-managed lands, the payments cover other federal lands, national parks, federal water resource development projects, na tional wildlife reserves and inactive or semi-active mili tary installations used for non industrial purposes. Since the first payments were made in 1977, local governments have received $fi05 .8 million through the program. By BIRDINE TULLI8 Morrow County Extension Service During the National 4-H Week. October 2 through 8. all elementary schools in Morrow County will be visited by Extension 4-H staff members Stephen Campbell and Birdine Tullis. 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