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BESSIE WETZEIL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB EUGENE OR ' 97 4 03 VOL. 101 NO. 41 Tlll'RSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1883 Open house Colin Andenon with por.nl Cherry Webber, at an open v . : 'V - f ' j...- y r i - ' t ' ir ' ' ' Artist's conception of Area presented to Co By MARY ANNCFRl l.l.O An artist's conception of the Willow Creek Recreation Area was presented to Morrow County Court last Wednesday by the Heppner Economic Development Corporation. As spokesperson for the Development Corporation, Jim Hayes pointed out the plans for an overnight camp ing area, restrooms. picnic shelter and 8 ball field pro posed for the area behind the Willow Creek Dam. Hayes told the court that there may be enough room to make a hard Co. Wheut Growers fall meeting to be held Fri. A Morrow County Wheat Growers Fall Meeting and banquet will be held this Fri day. Oct. 14. at the Heppner Elks Lodge. A noon luncheon will le served, sponsored by the Wheat League, for mem lers participating in after noon meetings, which will be gin at 1 p.m. A social hour will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., fol lowed by a banquet at 7 p.m. Moonlight Sale planned Plans are underway for a Moonlight Madness Sale which will be held Thursday, Oct. 27, form 7 to p.m. in Heppner. Several activities are in the planning stages and more details will be announ ced in next week's Gazette Times. School board The October meeting of the Morrow County School Board will be held Monday. Oct. 17, at the district office in Lexing ton. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. The board will review seve held at grade Charlie ond Morcia veil with houe ot Heppner Elementary ball field, not just an area for Softball as was earlier dis cussed. "We're looking at kind of a community project on the thing , getting everyone that would use it to help out ," said Haves. "Ballplayers and, of course, the schools are very enthusiastic about this." As part of the community proj;ct, it was proposed that blade work and some rock be donated by the county. County Court promised to support the corporation and appointed Jim Hayes. Ralph Limanen, Don Johnson, Kent Goodvear. Charles Hutchin Guest speaker will be Ivan Packard, administrator of the Oregon Wheat Commission. His topic of discussion will be, "How Your Two Cents Works in the Areas of Research, Marketing and Public Rela tions " Door prizes will be given during afternoon meetings and also during the banquet. Any group, club, organiza tion or individual who would like to set up a booth at the sale is welcome to do so. Those interested are asked to con tact Marlene Peterson, 676-9200; or Bertha Sager, at 676-5561. to review policies at Oct. meeting ral district policies, including district hiring procedure, conflict of interest, staffing and public contracting, said a spokesperson from the district office. The board will also consider Tine Heppmer mh Morrow County's TEN PAGES school hit lundercarn teacher. Mi knt Tuesday evening. Willow Creek Rec. Court son and Bob Abrams to form a South Morrow County Park Committee. As the South Morrow County Park Committee, the group plans to seek volunteer aid and funds for the recreation area through community support. In other business. Morrow County Sheriff Roy Drago gave his monthly report to the court : the county polygraph was used five times. the Sheriff's Department used a helicopter donated by a private citizen in a surveil ti t? r 1 asks to return surveys Consumer surveys for Co lumbia Basin Electric Coop erative, Inc. are being re turned, but more would be appreciated. Fred Toombs, co-op manager, stated that as of last week, about 10 percent of the surveys mailed to all consumers have been returned. Blue Mt. Fiddlers' to perform Saturday The Lexington Grange will sponsor a turkey dinner and Blue Mt. Fiddlers' Concert at the grange hall on Saturday, Oct. 15. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m., followed by the concert at 7:30 p.m. "The concert is good inex pensive entertainment for the recommendations in the area of maintenance and transpor tation for the coming year. In other business, board members will consider actions which may be rf""'' i Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper 25- Richland, Two Richland. Wash, men were indicted by a Morrow County grand jury last Thurs day in connection with break ins at several cabins in the Penland Lake area last month. MorroCounty District At torney Richard McNerney re ported that Tony Lee Wyatt May. 22. of Richland. Wash., is being charged with First Degree Burglary for allegedly breaking into the Earl Papi nrau. Bill Cox. Howard Bry ant and Nancy Holden cabins between September 1 and 3; for breaking into the Ed Gouty. Art Lindstrom, Glen Ward and Ed Dick cabins on September 6: and for breaking into the Holden. Cox and Pa pineau cabins again on Sep tember 7 A grand jury handed down three indictments on May. one for each incident. Also indicted was Anis Eu gene Walker, 38, also of Rich land. He is charged with First Degree Burglary for allegedly breaking into the cabins with May on September 6 and 7. Two indictments were handed down on Walker.' McNerney said property stolen from the cabins was valued at about $4,000. lance of possible marijuana crops in Morrow County. used the helicopter to rescue two lost hunters reported two new 911 emergency telephones have been installed in the sheriff's office for dispatchers to alle viate the problem of callers being put on hold or receiving a busy signal. Drago continued his busi ness and introduced Mark Calbick as new deputy sheriff for the county from Montana. Calbick Is now living in lone and began his duty October 1. consumers The information requested on the survey will be most valauble to the board of direc tors and it is requested that anyone who has not sent the survey in, to please take a few moments to do so and mail it to the Heppner office or leave it at either the Heppner or Condon office, Toombs said. whole county to en joy," said a grange spokesperson. Cost for the dinner for adults will be $2.50; $1.50 for child ren There will be a charge of $1.50 per person for the con cert. Everyone is invited to at tend. order to meet the require ments of some of the new legislation, including the sales tax proposal from the special session, the spokesperson concluded. HEPPNER. OREGON Wash, men Oregon State Police Senior Trooper Carl Martin of Hep ner and O S P. Detective Bob Miller of Hermiston led the case's investigation. Martin said that because of the simi larities of the break-ins they believed that the same person or party was responsible. After talking with several people in the lake area they were able to get the names of people who had been in the area, he said. Martin and Miller contacted the Richland Police Department, who helped to locate Walker, who No school Friday for Morrow County students Morrow County students will not be attending school this Friday due to a teachers' Education Improvement Day. School offices, however, will remain open. Most bird October 15 will be a banner d;y for Oregon's upland bird and waterfowl hunters. That is the day when the majority of bird seasons will open, inclu ding ducks, geese, pheasant, valley quail, chukar and Hungarian partridge. Seasons were set by the Fish and Wildlife Commission fol lowing a public hearing in Portland on August 26. Although bird populations are still well below the peaks seen several years ago, some improvement in production and population levels have been seen for many species this year, the department notes. One major change was a shift in the opening day of the season for chukars and Hun garian partridge. Instead of opening concurrent with the deer season on October 1 as it has in past years, the season will open on October 15 at the same time as waterfowl and pheasant seasons. Chukar and Hun levels have improved in many areas this year, but populations are still down after heavy winter losses and poor nesting production the last two years. The season for partridge will run from October 15 through Pecedmber 31 with a daily bag limit of six and a possession of 12. The season for cock pheasant will also open on October 15 statewide and will close November 27 in Eastern Oregon and Novem ber 13 west of the Cascades. The daily bag limit is two per dav statewide with a posses sion limit of eight in Eastern Oregon and six in western Oregon. The Valley quail season will run from October 15 through Decerning 31 in Kasterngon and through November 13 in western Oregon. The bag limit is 10 per day with 20 in possession. Last year the limit was five per day. 10 in posses sion. The mountain quail season will run from October 15 through December 31 in Eas tern Oregon with a daily bag limit of two and a possession limit of two Several changes were made in the seasons for forest grouse. In Eastern Oregon the dates will be September 1 Weather by the City of indicted for cabin burglaries was then arrested. Martin said Walker and May were disposing of the stolen property at a yard sale in the Tri Cities (Pasco. Kennewick and Richland, Wash.), but by the time the officers arrived, the items had been moved into a house and a vehicle. They obtained a search warrant and recovered many of the items. More property was recovered from a second hand store, and from people who had purchased the stolen goods from the yard Teachers will be taking part in meetings and conferences across the state and in Pen dleton, said a district spokes person. seasons to through September 25, similar to last year, but the daily bag limit will be three ruffed grouse and three blue grouse. The possession limit will be six of each. In the past these birds were lumped together and the three bird daily bag limit included both species. A two-day sage grouse sea son was set for September 17 and 18 in seven Eastern Ore gon areas. Hunting will be restricted to 685 permit hold ers and applications for sage grouse hunting were accepted earlier this summer up until an August 15 deadline. Appli cations were taken before the seasons were set in order to allow the drawing to be held immediately after setting of the season so permits could be mailed to successful appli cants in time for the hunt. Those who are successful in the sage grouse drawing should receive a permit in the mail within the next week or so. the department said. A spring season for turkey gobblers was also set. A new area in southwest Oregon was established because of an ex panding population of Rio Grande turkeys. Some 875 tags are authorized in six areas. A drawing for those permits will take place early next year and seasons will be held in April, 1984. Seasons for mourning doves and band-tailed pigeons were set earlier in the year, but the dales are September 1 through 30 with a daily bag limit of 15 doves wilh 30 in possession, and a bag and possession limit of five for pigeons. The statewide waterfowl season will open October 15 and extend in most areas through January 15. The duck bag limit will be seven per day. 14 in possession. In Columbia Basin coun ties of Eastern Oregon, the season will extend an addi tional week, through January 22 The season for coots and snipe will run concurrent with Ihediick season, from October 15 through January 15, withy a daily bag and possession limit of 25 coots, and a daily bag limit of eight snipe, 16 in possession. The goose season will begin October 15 statewide, and run Tues., Oct. 4 68 35 Wed.. Oct. 5 68 33 Thurs., Oct. 6 68 32 Fri.. Oct. 7 68 32 Sat.. Oct. 8 60 48 .63 Sun.. Oct. 9 62 46 .01 Mon.. Oct. 10 63 37 Heppner sale and those who had been given some of the items. Mar tin said later the Richland Police Department recovered more of the missing property along the Columbia River. The value of the property re covered was about $2,500 the district attorney said. Martin said when the house was being searched, they also recovered about $6,000 in property that had been stolen in eight burglaries from cabins in the Tolegate area. Walker is being held at the Senator to attend Tues. Chamber meeting Senator Eugene Timms is scheduled to attend the Hep-pner-Morrow Chamber of Commerce meeting next Tuesday. Oct. 18. at the Hep open this through January 15 in most of Eastern Oregon, through Jan uary 1 in western Oregon, Baker and Malheur counties, and through January 22 in Columbia Basin counties. The bag limit will be two per day with two in possession in western Oregon. Malheur and Baker counties, and three per day with six in possession in most of the rest of Eastern Oregon. In Klamath and Lake counties the bag limit is one per day and two in possession through October 28. then goes up to three per day, six in possession for the remainder of the season. Staff proposals to close the western Oregon goose season on December 18 and to expand the steel shot zone on the lower Columbia River for the 1984-85 season were not adopted by the commission. A crow season was set to run from September 1 through December 31 with a bag limit of 12. Falconers will have an op New electrical shop open in Heppner - t V.J t i Tom Welborn checks stock in Tom Welborn of Heppner is opening a new electrical shop at his residence at 360 W. Church St. A licensed, bonded and in sured electrician, Welborn will be repairing all makes and models of appliances at his shop, as well as residen High Low Prscip Union County Jail in La Grande and a warrant has been issued for May's arrest. McNerney said. McNerney said the case was handled with "Excellent po lice work." Martin attributed the inves tigation's success to informa tion gleaned from individuals and the Richland Police De partment, and then "putting the pieces together." The Mor row County Sheriff's Depart ment also aided in the investi gation he said. pner Elks Lodge at 12 noon. He will discuss the Legisla ture and answer questions, said a chamber spokesperson. Saturday portunity again this year to hunt upland game, waterfowl, crows and doves under sea sons set by the commission. A public hunting program for waterfowl and upland birds on newly opened lands in north central Oregon was ap proved by the commission. A portion of the Columbia River refuge was opened this year in conjunction with agreements to allow public hunting on nearly 100.000 acres of Boeing land, and expanded hunting opportunities on Umatilla and Cold Springs national wildlife refuges. Part of the area will be open to limited numbers of hunters on a daily permit basis several days a week; part will be open seven days a week with no permit require ment or limit on number of hunters. Since the agreement which permits this program was only completed recently, not all details of the program are set. Further information on this will be made available later as it is developed .J. - ,rt his electrical shop. tial, commercial and indus trial wiring. He will also ser vice irrigation equipment including pumps and pivots. Shop hours are 8 a m. to 5 p m. Monday through Satur day. He will also take emer gency calls, he said. His phone number is 676-5252. ' V
