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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1983)
Bf S S I E U OF ORE - f O P t' p EUGENE OR WETZ Ell L ! 5 974 0 3 VOL. 101 NO. 48 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1983 Fri. fire takes Heppner home I -r Tfi 1 O'-"" p ", ; Ai J The Heppner Fire Department was called to thii home at 375 Linden Way in Heppner at 10:10 Friday night. The fire was already blazing by the time firemen arrived. The occupants, Doug and Darwin Ansotegui. were reportedly out of town when the fire started. The cause of the fire, which almost totally destroyed the house, is reportedly under investigation, Channel 8 News to broadcast Heppner segments next week Segments featuring Hep pwr will begin being aired on KGW Channel 8 News at 5 p.m. next Monday. Nov. 21. announced field producer Malt Shelley. A three member team from KGW in Portland arrived in Heppner in Sep tember to conduct a project Scouts to conduct food drive Monday A food drive will be held next Monday, Nov. 21, in Heppner, Lexington and lone from 6 to 7 p.m . The commun ity service project is being sponsored by the Cub Scouts of Pack 661. The items donated will be used for distribution 'Real Money Coupons' to be featured during Xmas opening "Real Money Coupons" will be given to Christmas shop pers in Heppner next Friday, Saturday and Monday, Nov, 25. 26 and 28. The coupons, worth 50 cents each, will be given to shoppers with each five dollar purchase at participating stores. Shoppjjrs can accumulate the coupons, and then use them as money off on other buys around town. "They'll be just like real money," said Roe Gardner of Gardner's Men's Wear in ex plaining the promotion. "People will get one of these coupons for every five dollars they spend, and take them showing what rural life in Oregon is like in the 1980s. The crew returned in October to cover Heppner High School's homecoming activities. The five segments, which will be broadcast Monday through Friday next week, are to feature: an introduction to during the holidays to needy in the area by the Heppner Neighborhood Center. Toys, infant clothes and toiletries are also needed. People wanting to donate who don't live in town may take items to the Neighbor down the street and use them as money at other particpa ting businesses." Other Christmas activities Briggs resigns as Co. Public Works director Morrow County Public Works Director Don Briggs will resign his position effec tive November 30 to take a job with Hood River County. Briggs has been with the county since February 9, 1980, and says he took the new job to be closer to his family in TTli lHIppfiir Morrow County's 8 PAGES . vs. A Heppner. the best qualities of Heppner. possible drawbacks of Heppner, the sense of identity people find in Hep pner and homecoming. On Sunday. Nov. 27. a 30 minute expansion of the series is to be shown at 8:30 a.m. hood Center or to any Cub Scout's home. Those people who do live in town but who won't be home Monday evening may leave their dona tion on their front porch for pickup. will include a Santa Claus making a visit to downtown Heppner between 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday. Portland where he is original ly from. Briggs, who has submitted a verbal resignation to the coun ty court and will submit a formal resignation later, says he will start his new Job on December 5. Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper 25- Construction of cogeneration plant underway Construction began Tues day. November 15 on a 10 Megawatt Biomass Conver sion Facility (cogeneration plant) located at the site of a sawmill owned by Kinzua Corporation near Heppner. Harry Kennison, general manager, and Jim O'DonneH, president of Kinzua Corpora tion, made the announcement of the project recently. The project will burn wood waste developed by a sawmill, plan ing mill and whole-log chip ping plant owned by Kinzua Style show,5 wine tasting party . ii'u'c.j The latest fall and winter fashions in clothing and foot wear, bridal gowns and jewel ry will be in the spotlight this Saturday at a style show and wine tasting party sponsored by the Heppner Soroptimists. The style showwilf begin at 2 p.m. at the Heppner Elks Lodge, upstairs. Fashions from the LeBush Shoppe. Gardner's Men's Wear, the Shoe Box, Peter son's Jewelers and Cole's House of Fashion, all of Hep pner. and from the Bridal Loft in Hermiston, will be modeled. A drawing for a gemstone, donated by Peterson's Jewel ers, will be held during the afternoon. The wine tasting party will follow the style show, and hors d'oeuvres will also be served. Advance tickets are avail able for $8 at Coast to Coast in Heppner. Cost at the door will be $8.50. . On Monday. Nov. 21, ticket holders will be offered dis counts on special purchases at Gardner's. Cole's. The LeBush Shoppe, Case Furni- School board, City of consiaer tax proposal The City of lone and the Morrow County School Dis trict will hold a joint hearing on a proposed sales tax mea sure. The hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. on November 21 in the lone High School library. This hearing will be held Proudfoot leaves board By MARY ANN CERULLO Morrow County Court con vened Wednesday, Nov. 9, and conducted the following busi ness : accepted the resignation of Helen Proudfoot, lone, to the Morrow County Mental Health Administrative Board. She is moving out of the county. received notification from a social security field Local couples attending co-op meeting in Minn. Three local couples are rep resenting Morrow County Grain Growers at a Harvest Sates Cooperative annual meeting this week in Minnea polis. Minn. Harvest States is a regional co-op, to which M.C.G.G. sells some of its grain, explained a spokesper HEPPNER. OREGON Corporation. Additional fuel for the facility will come from slash as well as precommer cial thinnings from nearby private and public lands. The electricity produced by the plant, estimated at 71,500.000 kilowatt hours an nually, will be sold to Portland General Electric Company under a long-term Power Pur chase Agreement. The contractor for the project is General Electric Company, one of the major electrical manufacturers in the world. The project will be I i 4V I m, M mat "S 1 Laiv Carolyn Cole (left) of Cole's House of Fashion, shows Patti Bell of Heppner a dress she would like her to model at a style show and wine tasting party on Saturday. The Soroptimist sponsored event will be held at 2 p.m. at the Heppner Elks Lodge. ' ture. the Shoe Box, and Peter son's. Everyone over 21 is invited to attend. prior to a regular business meeting of the school board which is scheduled for the same evening (See related story). All government bodies are expected to hold public hear ings on the sales tax issue examiner that the positions of park attendant and landfill operators do not qualify as independent contractors and may need to be reclassified. No action was taken by the court. heard a report from the County Sheriff's Department on a drunk driving check held on October 28 in Heppner with the Oregon State Police and the Heppner City Police. son from M.C.G.G. The three local couples at tending the meeting are Gary and Virginia Grieb, Allen and Gail Hughes and Lyle and Virginia Peck. The couples are expected to return this weekend, the spokesperson said. Weather by the City of the first total wood-fired co generation plant built by G.E. to date. Kennison said. Financing for the project will come from two sources. Union Bank of Los Angeles, Calif, has been selected as the construction lender. Perma nent financing will be supplied by the State of Oregon Small Scale Enerty Loan Program. The State of Oregon will issue General Obligation Bonds to fund the project. The overall cost of the project will be in excess of $15,000,000. The project will be owned by limited partners t . ; . .'A Proceeds from the event will benefit the Soroptimist Club's community service projects and scholarship fund. lone to prior to voting on whether a sales tax should be referred to the people. Dramatic thriller '1984' Thurs. & Fri. at HHS .' I 7 f f wM ' rt " Jin; i'. . 'r- t v ! . r . v. "Comrades" Merry DeSpain (left), Ken Curt- day and Friday, Nov. 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. tis, Renee Struthers and Dan Fortenberry toast Tickets wiU be sold at the door for $3 for adults, to the overthrow of their director, Big Brother, in $2 for students and $1.50 for seniors and children the Heppner High School production of George under i2. parents should be warned that the Orwell's "1984." subject matter of the play may not be understood The thriller, directed by Larry Cerullo, will be by smau children, stated Cerullo. periormed at the high school cafetorium Thurs- High Low Preclp Tues.. Nov. 8 52 39 .10 Wed.. Nov. 9 55 40 .08 Thurs.. Nov. 10 60 41 .01 Fri., Nov. 11 58 38 Trace Sat.. Nov. 12 58 44 .19 Sun.. Nov. 13 52 42 . Trace Mon. Nov. 14 54 52 .07 Heppncr who purchase an interest in the project. The partnership that will own the cogeneration plant will be known as Kinzua Cogeneration Limited Part nership. O'DonneH, president of the general partnership, indicated that the investors in the project will be from all parts of the United States, with the majority of the inves tors possibly being residents of the State of Oregon. The project will also be one of the first wood-fired cogeneration plants in the nation financed by limited partners. Weather- First Interstate Bank manager to retire I Mary Eleanor Cilman Mary Eleanor Gilman, manager of First Interstate Bank in Heppner, will retire February 1. 1984. after many years of employment at the bank. She began work at First National Bank in Heppner on January IS, 1942 and then transferred to the head office in Portland in November of that year. She resigned in April 1944, married, and re turned to the Heppner branch on May 1, 1944. Mrs. Gilman started in the bookkeeping section of the bank, then became a teller, the manager's secretary, as sistant cashier (loan officer) and then bank manager on April 1. 1982. Although her retirement be comes effective February 1, her last working day at the ....... W, .aW, .yJs ly Securities Corporation of Bellevue, Wash, is acting as the underwriter for the project. Kennison. general manager of the project, stated that by having a cogeneration plant at the Kinzua millsite, Kinzua Corporation will be able to utilize all parts of the tree from the forest. In addition, air quality in the area will improve by utilizing slash in the cogeneration plant as op posed to now-prevalent open burning of slash in the woods. kbJl LgBHljailHHijL 4 Harley Sager bank will be December 9. Harley Sager. a commercial loan officer at the Heppner branch, has been named Gil man's successor. Sager has been with the bank for 18 years. He began his banking career as a com mercial teller at the Nyssa branch in 1956. During the next seven years, he worked his way up through several positions of increasing re sponsibility at the branch be fore being promoted to loan officer at the Heppner branch in 1963. In 1967, he was promoted to commercial loan officer at the Merrill branch and in 1969 was named manager of the Hep pner branch. Sager left the bank in 1973 and in 1982 rejoined First Interstate as commercial loan officer at the Heppner branch. to be held pholo by Mary Ann Crullo
