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VOL. 101 NO. 48 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1983
Fri. fire takes Heppner home
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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-
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Thurs.. Nov. 10 60 41 .01
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Sun.. Nov. 13 52 42 . Trace
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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
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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
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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.
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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