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VOL. 101 NO. 41 Tlll'RSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1883
Open house
Colin Andenon with por.nl
Cherry Webber, at an open
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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
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Morrow County's
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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