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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1984)
BESS I E WETZELL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB EUGENE OR 07403 TBns Meppmeir 1 r (JrTp 1 VOL. 102 NO. X THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, lM Murray's celebrate Heppner store's 25th year I TM vl'-f " I Ir. H t , -I "s er . . j..,,,,,. tyy '- ?, . Hod and Meg Murray Rod and Men Murray are celebrating their Heppner More' 25th anniversary this month. The couple bought Humphrey' Drug Store from jfia Humphreys on January 1. 1959 About 15 years ago the Mtirravs purchased the Red and White Store from Hoy and Melba Quackenbush and Phil's Pharmacy from Jim Movers to expand their store. When the store first opened, the Murravs employed about four people and Rod ran the Sudden thaw v MARY ANN CEKl'l.l.O A number of road closures were announced In Morrow ("ountv Court last Wednesday as a result of road washouts from the sudden thaw of over a week ago. Judge Don McElligott listed the following roads as closed from washouts: Dixon-Smith, lower Eightmile. John Berg strom. Strawberry, Gabbert Road and Bergwin Crossing. Traffic has been limited to one way only on Gooseberry, Dal7ell. Brenner Canyon. Ful ler Canyon and Baseline roads. All county rouds are to have an eight ton load limit. According to McKlligott, the debris on the roads was to be cleaned up by Friday, Jan. 6, but the damage from the washouts may not be repaired for another week. In other business, the court conducted the following: held an executive session under litigation. School board to consider at Jan. meeting A regular meeting of the Morrow County School Board is scheduled for Monday. Jan. 16. 7:30 pm at Sam Board man Elementary School in Boardman. The Board is expected to consider a plan to bid school buses, and changes In the district plan to invest surplus funds, said a school district spokesperson. The Board is expected to consider policies for school closure and the evaluation of teachers, which have been Illl IHIH, - :.lg(l.naMHIIHJIIIlPII'"' " "y.HMUW.UM.".- . ir - "- '' y ; pharmacy, as he does now. The store carried Rift ware then, as well as a variety of other merchandise, but now offers more home wares, more tovs and has a complete Hallmark store. Al present, the Murravs employ about 22 people, including pari time help One employee. Ruth Rergstrom. has worked at the store for 39 years, starting with Miss Humphreys and continuing when the Murrays took over. causes road accepted a resignation from Ed Dick of Heppner from the Pioneer Memorial Hospi tal Board held an executive session under personnel. (Executive sessions are Gentry replaces Lovgren at Western Heritage ; j"1 r -m ifr -r I' Jackie Gentry Weslen Heritage Federal Savings & Loan Association has promoted Jackie Gentry discussed at previous meet ings. The board will also start preliminary plans for next Telephone survey to be conducted in local area The Heppner Economic Development Corporation will Ih' making a telephone survey of south Morrow County resi dents to determine if the area needs additional medical ser Morrow County's Home-Owned 8 PAGES i 5 ; . Li! ' . fin tori - if The business expanded in 1961 when the couple opened a store in Condon, and about six vears ago Ihev added an Ar lington store, which closed last vear. Through the years, the Murravs have remodeled their Heppner store in'stages. added the liquor store and continued to add expanded lines of merchandise to better serve the people of south Morrow County. closures held to discuss personnel and other sensitive matters and are closed to the public. Mem bers of the press can attend these sessions but are not allowed to report on the pro ceedings.) In branch inuiuiger of the Heppner office. Gentry joined Western Heri tage in May. 1983. She is a 1980 graduate of Heppner High School and later attended Blue Mountain Community College, graduating with a certificate in general business. She is a member of the Blue Mountain Association of Pro fessional Mortgage Women. Gentry replaces Christy lovgren. who has accepled employment at Morrow Coun tv Grain Growers. policies year's school calendar. All meetings are open to the public. vices. The calls will be made between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Everyone's cooperation will be greatly appreciated, said a corporation spokesperson. Cj ii Ji iVJi Weekly Newspaper 25 Economic Dev. Corp. to i i i nom annuui;mccuug The Heppner Economic Development Corporation will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday. Jan. 18 at the Heppner Elks Lodge. The evening will begin with a no-host cocktail hour at 6:30 n m . followed bv dinner and a Hermiston Disposal, Inc. will collect garbage in lone lone Mayor Linda La Rue i read a petition to council members at a meeting Tues day night. Jan. 3. that asked . the lone City Council to recon sider entering into a franchise ; agreement with Sanitary Dis- ; posal Inc. of Hermiston for garbage collection. The peti- A lion, which was signed by about 90 lone residents, also ' asked that the Issue be placed . on a ballot before the voters if 2 necessary, said, Diana Starry city recorder. ' tl However. Starr said, the Physician's Heppner Ken Dyball A 35-year-old physician's assistant has joined the staff at Dr. Clare Koznek's office and at Pioneer Memorial Hos pital in Heppner. Ken Dyball comes to Heppner from Dufur. The 1983 University of Wash ington graduate, who com pleted his internship at a naval hospital at Widbey Island. Wash., began working in Heppner on December 19. Dr. Koznek says he pro posed a physician's assistant for this area as a long-term solution for the hospital, as well as physicians currently in practice here, for coverage in a physician's absence. "It is absolutely essential that there be some form of coverage to relieve the physicians," the doctor said. Dyball. who is licensed with the state of Oregon, also works under Koznek's license to History book delivery nears completion By DKI.PHA JONES Most of the Morrow County History Books have been de livered. Anyone who has paid for a book but has not yet KEPPNER, OREGON meeting at 7:30 p.m. : All members and interested .persons are invited to attend and please R.S.V.P. at P.O. Box 103. Heppner. Ore. 97836. !said a corporation spokes- person. petition was not considered legal because it did not con form to requirements set forth in the city charter. No repre sentative of the petition was present at the meeting, she said. Starr reported that at a public hearing held Monday night. Jan. 9. the council did pass an ordinance to enter into a franchise agreement with the Hermiston company, to ak effec! t! day. Sanitary Disposal began service in the assistant employed in practice medicine. The physi cian's assistant will be work ing with patients in Koznek's office as well as in the hospital and emergency room. He has attended six military medical schools as well as the U of W and has 17 years of experience in the medical corps, he says. He will be performing diag nostic and therapeutic proce dures, can order and interpret x-rays, can perform minor suturing, can evaluate and treat minor fractures and can act in emergencies and handle emergencies in an emergency room setting. He can also issue prescriptions and can act independently if Koznek is gone. Dyball's services are still available at Koznek's of fice and at the hospital when the doctor is not available; although Koznek will be avail able by phone for consultation. Koznek explained that since major surgery cannot be per formed at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner, the ad dition of a physician's assis tant will allow him to assist an operating surgeon at Good Shepherd Hospital in Hermis ton with his office's cases and not leave his patients in Hep pner without available medi cal services while he is gone. Dyball explained that the physician's assistant program has been in existance for over 1R years to aid in medical coverage in rural areas with limited physicians' coverage. All 50 states employ P.A 's he received it is asked to call either Delpha Jones or Ruth McCabe. We sincerely hope that we have not left anyone out during the delivery. Weather by the City of Mail route driver narrowly .11 . escapes wan oi water An lone mail route driver and her husband barely es caped from the pickup they were in when a four to five ft. wall of water came rushing across the road in the Eight mile area last Tuesday. Jan. 3. Dorothv Stefani and her hus- lone area on Friday. Jan. 6. and will collect garbage there each Friday. In other business during the January 3 meeting, the coun cil: agreed to an April 1 extension for John Marick to remove a house on A Street. agreed to purchase a small kerosene heater for the city's pump house for use in case of a power failure during extreme cold weather." - said. Dvball and his wife. Karen, and their children Jeremy. 13: Scott. 12: and Janell. three, are living in Heppner. "I'm very pleased to be here. I feel very much at home here." the P.A. said. O.W. Cutsforth donates gun collection to county museum f . 4- ' m m , ' - t I . 1 - ' v ' - . . r . . -' . "" Orville Cutsforth shows the gun collection he donated to the Morrow Co. Museum. He is holding 1843 Colt 45 pistols, the pride of the donation. O.W. Cutsforth of Heppner has recently made a large contribution to the Morrow Co. Museum in Heppner by offi cially donating his gun collec tion, which has been on dis play there for many years. The collection includes 13 guns in all: a Savage 22 high-powered rifle, a Savage High l ow Precip. Tups.. Jan. 3 60 53 .01 Wed . Jan. 4 67 39 Thurs.. Jan. 5 fi 39 Fri., Jan. 6 56 26 Sal.. Jan. 7 58 28 .09 Sun.. Jan. 8 48 28 Trace Mon.. Jan. 9 35 29 Heppner band. Art. were delivering the mail that morning in their four-wheel drive pickup when the gusher came through. Mrs. Stefani said as soon as the water reached the pick up the vehicle stalled and they hurriedly jumped out and climbed in the back. By that time, she said, runoff began pouring in from other nearby canvons and the wall of water was rising to eight or nine feet. Her husband saw the Mor row County Road Department crew working just down the road and yelled to them for help. Norris Dooney and Bruce Bergstrom brought the grader they were using to the pickup and the Stefanies crawled onto it and escaped, she said. Dooney steadied the vehicle with the grader while Berg strom crawled into it to re trieve mail that was on the seat, but was unable to get the items on the floor because the pickup kept sliding. Mrs. Ste fani said. Steve Peck and Bill Mackey who live in the Eight- Meeting to plan Rolling Hills Run scheduled A meeting to plan Heppner's annual Rolling Hills Run will be held Wednesday. Jan. 18. 7:30 p.m.. in the Heppner Junior High home ec room. 1. I 250-3000. two Savage 303 Bri tish rifles, a Savage 30-30, three muzzleloaders. an 1870 handmade German gun with lfi gauge shotgun barrel and a 24 mm rifle barrel, a 45-70 caliber rifle that Cutsforth made in the early 1970s, a Savage 300. and highlighting came to the with Peck's Peck recovered the pickup the next day when the water level had gone down. Mrs. Stefani said the vehicle, which was a total loss, was found upside down, the windows were broken out and the cab was crushed and filled with mud. "Art might have been able to get out of the water, but I really don't think I could have." Mrs. Stefani said. lone Post Master Margaret Lindlev said she searched the area for several hours and was able to find no remnants of the missing mail. She sug gests that if people feel some of their correspondence could have been lost in the accident it would be wise to remail. "We feel real fortunate that the Stefanies escaped with their lives , the fact that they saved mot of mail is remarkable." the postmaster said. announced Liz Curtis a spokesperson for the event. Anyone interested in work ing on the run is invited to attend, she said. V 1 i. recently the two the collection, two 1843 Colt 45 pistols. Each gun in the collection is engraved with the 00 Bar brand. Cutsforth said the value of the collection has been asses sed at $8,500 by a firearms expert. mile area also scene to help tractor. .A "r 1 ' 1 M (5
