EIGHT The Heppner Gatette-Timet, Heppner. Oregon. Thursday, January It, 1984
lone girls lose to Honkers 30-51
Elks Hoop Shoot to take place Sat. lone J.V. team defeated
; 1 ''1 ' ?' ,
l- " , '
P tr' ,1
V Yt ' t
- v x ) ' w"
; " 0 V. . - '
, t i ' ' V ..5.- "
v
' '
.
. . if
tone player wrestles for bail
By ASHLEY CONKLIN
The lone girls' basketball
team lost to the Arlington
Honkers 51 to 30 on Saturday,
Jan. 7. lone is now 2- for the
season and 0-2 in the Big Sky
Conference.
Arlington ran a fast break to
perfection in the opening
stanza, taking a 20 S lead.
Cara Bittinger and Becky
Burdick scored 18 of Arling
ton's points.
Deena Hams scored six
second period points for lone
but the Honkers out-scored the
st runes
1
3
70
J
10
11
T
30
51
Ion
rllngtnn
lone
ecUllgott
uollll
''rlot
McCatw
Total
FT.
1
0
0
0
0
k
6
15
?
0
0
J
1
?
s
0
w
5
0
1
3
fc
6
10
2
Arlington
Sural
Iroy
Bitting er
Jona
Golna
Jrmlna
Total
FGx
18
O
18
?
9
10
67
rm
s
0
1
o
1
9
FT
7
a
a
i
2
4
25
o
f
1
3
?
?1
Computer system to be offered to farmers
One of these days. Oregon
farmers will be able to put
AGMAN. instead of PAC-MAN,
on their microcomputers.
That's the name - short for
Agricultural Management
researchers with Oregon State
University's Agricultural Ex
periment Station have given to a
statewide, computer-based in
formation network they are de
veloping and already are testing
in cooperation with OSU's Exten
sion Service in Marion, Jackson
and Umatilla counties.
AGMAN is not a game. Oregon
is lagging behind some other
states in using one of the most
powerful new farming tools of the
century, the computer, in the
view of OSU researchers.
AGMAN and other farm man
agement services under develop
ment may help the state catch up
or perhaps even surge into the
lead, they think.
The computer push crisscros
ses traditional campus bounda
ries, involving researchers and
Extension Service specialists in
most departments of OSU's Col
lege of Agricultural Sciences,
county Extension agents, and
personnel from other units like
the atmospheric sciences depart
ment and the campus Computer
Center.
Leading the development of
AGMAN is Brian Croft, an ento
mologist who moved to OSU in
1982 from Michigan State Uni
versity, where he was national
director of a federally funded
project developing computer
models for appie crop manage
ment. Croft brought his federal
funds with him, using them as
seed money to attract additional
public and private funding for the
AGMAN project.
The idea behind AGMAN is
"networking," gathering infor
mation from many sources, like
farmers in Oregon and other
states, scientists and Extension
personnel at OSU and other un
Cardinals 11 - 10 to increase
their lead to 31 13 at halftime.
Again Arlington out-scored
lone 11 to 10. This time it was
in the third quarter and the
Honkers led 42 - 23.
Arlington went on to win 51
to 30.
From the field lone made 12
of 32 shots for 38 percent,
compared to 21 of 62, 34
percent for Arlington. At the
free throw line lone was six of
15 connecting on 40 percent,
while Arlington was 36 percent
on nine of 25 shots.
TCTML punts
4
0
0
4.
2
t
12
2
10
Pf
5
D
1
3
5
2
2
21
ET
3
0
0
0
0
1
2
3
9
TO
J
0
0
1
0
1
10
1
16
1
0
3
3
3
5
10
0
25
3
0
0
0
0
2
2
e
7
TOTM.
17
)
D
2
5
W
0
20
3
6
5
51
Agriculture and the US. Weather
Service, and making all that data
available to whomever wants it.
Eventually, through computer
terminals at Extension Offices in
Oregon's 36 counties, and through
home- and business-based micro
computers, farmers and people
in agriculture-related businesses
would be able to "tie into"
AGMAN and Lake out informa
tion ranging from market prices
for beef, wheat and other com
modities to the current life stages
of crop pests in various parts of
the state.
The "brain" or central infor
mation storage unit for AGMAN
is a Digital Equipment Corpora
tion PDP 11-44 minicomputer
housed on the OSU campus.
However, a larger computer will
be needed for the system when
Oregon farmers are given direct
access to it. according to Croft.
Getting AGMAN "Fully im
plemented" so any farmer with
access to a microcomputer can
use the system may take five
years or more, said Croft, who
works on the technical side of
AGMAN with computer specia
list Keven Currans in OSU's
entomology deparatment. But
the service first will be available
through county Extension offices
and the initial steps for that
service have already been taken,
he said.
The Extension Service is ope
rating a pilot computer program
in Jackson, Umatilla and Marion
counties. It involves using micro
computers and telephone lines to
send and receive messages
"electronic mail," in computer
jargon. AGMAN is part of the
three-county pilot program, too.
"Through AGMAN, we have
access to the latest market in
formation, and we plan to use
AGMAN in working with fruit
growers, livestock people and
other clients," said Ron Mobley,
chairman of the Jackson County
Extension office in Medford.
Several farmers f n the Medford
photo by Woyn Homi
Hams and Kim McCabe led
the Cards in scoring with 12
and six points respectively. 1
lone pulled down 25 rebounds.
Hams grabbed 10 and McCabe
got five.
Bittinger and Burdick led
the Honkers with 20 and 17
points respectively.
lone will play at home on
Friday. Jan. 13. and Saturday,
Jan. 14. Those games will be
against the Cascade Locks
Pirates and the Echo Cougars.
Both contest start at 6 p.m.
YOUR HEALTH
The American Dental Hy
gienists' Association recom
mends you inspect your
mouth for any of the fol
lowing signs of gum disease:
Bleeding gums when
brushing teeth
Red, swollen and ten
der gums
Loose or separating per
manent teeth
Change in the way den
tures and partial fit
Bad breath
Change in the way teeth
fit together when biting
Gum disease can be pre
vented. Brushing and floss
ing thoroughly at least once
a day. eating well-balanced
meals and limiting snacks,
visiting your dental hygien
ist and dentist on a regular
basis, and checking for any
signs of gum disease are im
portant in preventing gum
disease.
area already have expressed in- in precise irrigation, be added, that will give people in agricul
terest in purchasing a micro- AGMAN isn't the only elec- ture access to current market
computer that will be "compati- tronically oriented innovation information from 8 a.m. until 11
ble" with the Extension office's headed toward Oregon farmers, p.m.," said Carl O'Connor, an
microcomputer and they'll be i January, the OSU Extension OSU agricultural economist,
able to communicate With it via Service Dians to hepin onerafino Mori clntM Hisuminat mar.
telephone. Mobley added
"What I d like to see AGMAN
do first is help our farmers with
irrigation." said Gary Prothero,
an agent in the Umatilla County
Extension office at Hermiston,
another participant in the pilot
computer program.
AGMAN shows great potential
for quickly processing weather OPBS'sfour television stations in print media,
data for the semiarid region and the form of writing on the tele- The Extension Service plans to
calculating potential moisture vision screens normally not seen begin the Line 21 market news
loss for the day. Farmers could by viewers. service in January, said O'Con-
then feed that information into The decoding devices, which nor. In 1984, the computer and
their own microcomputers, cost $250 to $300, allow viewers to AGMAN pilot program will ex
along with information about expand the line so it is visible and pand to "Eight to 10" county
their own crops' conditions, and covers the middle of the screen. Extension offices, he said,
find out when and how much to "We're looking at some new
irrigate, said Prothero. mass technology here via com-
As the cost of pumping irriga- puter AGMAN is where we'll
tion water rises, so does interest Ret the market information
FREE CUTLERY
Thru January 1984
Big Engine or Small, Mobil Dolvac Oil handles them all, because the
new Del vac is the king of the Oils. You can pay a lot more for some Oils,
but you can't buy a better quality Oil than Delvoc because Dolvac
does it all. Rated A.P.I. service CC CO and SF.
You probably will only need to carry one Oil for all your engines. You can
reduce your inventory
Introductory Offer with Purchase
of One 55 Gallon Drum of Oil:
One Six Piece Set of
Carvel Hall Cutlery Fftgg
' one set per customer
PETTYJCIKJ CIL
lone, Oregon 422-7254
The Heppner and lone com
petition for the 12th annual
Elks Hoop Shoot, the national
free throw shooting contest for
vmmgsters age eight through
W. will be held at Hcppncr and
lone on Saturday. Jan. 14 from
:.in to 11:30 a.m.. announced
Jim Swanson of lone, local
contest coordinator, 1
This is Swanson 's ninth year
to help with the annual hoop
shoot. One of the reasons he
enjovs working with the
participants is because he was
once one himself. As a seventh
grader. Swanson was a winner
in the hoop shoot contest and
went to finish fourth in the
state competition at Oregon
State University in Corvallis.
Swanson will oversee the
lone competition, while Dale
Holland will be in charge of
the event In Heppner.
Almost three million
youngsters from throughout
the country entered last year's
competition for boys and girls
in age categories 8-9: 10-11;
and 12-13. Each contestant has
25 shots at the hoop. The boy
and girl in each age group
with the best scores advance
through four tiers of competi
tion to qualify for the national
No. of acres enrolled in P.LK.
program to be limited
The number of acres of
wheat a farmer can enroll in
the U.S. Department of Agri
culture's 1984 payment -in-kind
program will be limited so
that no farmer will receive
more than $50,000 in benefits,
a U.S.D.A. official has an
nounced. Everett Rank, administra
tor of U.S.D.A.'s Agricultural
Stabilization and Conserva
tion Service, said payment
limitation is a ceiling imposed
by law on the total amount of
payments a farmer can re
ceive for participation in
U-S D.A.'s production stabili
zation programs.
Generally, a farmer can
receive no more than $50,000 a
year. However, price support
loans, special disaster assis
tance and-or cost-shariang for
approved, enduring conserva
tion practices are not subject
to this limitation. Rank saia.
"Because the 1984 wheat
a new farm market information ket news through their state
service in cooperation with the agriculture department but Ore
Oregon Public Broadcasting Sys- gon law assigns the job to the
tem. Its operation is closely tied OSU Extension Service, O'Con
in with the AGMAN system. nor noted. For years, OSU has
The service will allow persons transmitted marketing inform a -who
buy a special decoding de- tion to the public with a noon
vice to receive up-to-the-minute radio show and weekly written
farm market information of summaries sent to electronic and
of Oils!
finals at Market Square Arena
in Indianapolis,
Local winners will compete
against other contestants in
the district event at Hermis
ton in February.
Winners advance through
four tiers of competition:
local, district, state and re
gional semi-finals until only
lfi boys and 36 girls remain.
From this final group, one
bov and one girl emerge as
national champions In each of
the three age categories. The
winners receive trophies, and
their names are inscribed on a
special plaque in the Naismith
Memorial Basketball Hall of
Fame in Springfield, Mass.
The Elks Hoop Shoot is the
country's largest free throw
shooting contest for young
sters. It is also the largest and
most visible of the many youth
activities sponsored by the
Elks and has served to high
light the Elks' national com
mitment to youth.
The program began as a
local Elks activity for young
hovs in Corvallis in 1946. With
in 12 years, support for the
event had grown enough for
the Elks Oregon State Asso
loan rate was reduced from
the statutory $3.55 per bushel
to $3.30 per bushel to maintain
our domestic and export
markets, a portion of the
deficiency payment rate may
not be subject to the $50,000
payment limitation," said
Rank.
"The amount of deficiency
payment not subject to the
$50,000 limit will be the
amount that the deficiency
payment rates exceeds the
difference between the old
$3.55 loan rate and the $4 45
target price. This will ensure
that the total returns to parti
cipating farmers will be the
same as if the adjustment in
the loan level had not been
made," he said.
"We do not believe the
payment limitatici statute
applies to P.LK. commodities
and we did not apply the
limitation to last year's P.LK.
program," said Rank. "This
view has now been challenged
FREE
FREEi
NL.
ilU
f llfj
O f
ciation to take it to the state
level, And in 1972, the "Elks
Hoop Shoot" was expanded to
include contestants from 19
states. By 1974, girls were
added to the competition, and
the program has continued to
grow ever since,
The competition to become
a champion is rugged but
rewarding. At each level, con
testants take a total of 25 free
throws. National finalists
have averaged around 90 per
cent accuracy In recent yeras.
Families of finalists on the
state, regional and national
levels attend the competition
as guests of the Elks, and are
encouraged to play an active
part throughout the contest.
One girl from I-aGrande has
gone to the national finals two
times, winning all the marbles
one year and she came in
second the next year. It is
possible for anyone to win,
Swanson said.
"Please come to lone or
Heppner January 14 from 9:30
to 11:30 a.m. and watch our
voung people compete."
Swanson said. For more in
formation, contact Swanson or
Holland.
by the General Account Office
and some members of Con
gress. "We continue to believe we
are correct, but the issue must
be put to rest so that we can
get on with implementation of
the 19B4 P.LK. program for
wheat. Therefore, we have
decided, as a matter of ad
ministrative policy, that a
farmer will not be allowed to
receive a combination of
P.LK. compensation and cash
payments for participating in
production stabilization pro
grams that exceed $50,000,
using the 1964 county wheat
loan rate to determine the
value of the P. I K."
Rank said a proposal to
make the necessary changes
in the P. I K. program regula
tions will be published soon in
the Federal Register and that
final action on the changes
would be completed before the
sign-up period for the 1984
program ends on February 24.
-r
A mole can dig a tunnel
300 feet long in one night.
7)
Hides most colors in one coat
Washable, colorfast flat finish
Easy water clean-up
112)
REG
Plus.. .Great Savings on
Spred Lo-Lustre
424 Lynden Way, Heppner
by Helix 35
By ASHLEY COIMKMN
lone 'a boys J.V. basketball
team fell to 5-4 after a 45 to 35
loss to the Helix Grizzlies on
Friday. Jan, 6,
Both teams scored very few
points in the opening period as
Helix took an 8 6 lead. Chuck
Rover scored six for the Griz
zlies, In the second stanza lone
again scored six but Helix
tossed 10 in to take an inter
mission lead of 18 to 12.
Boyer, Eric Flerchinger,
Chris Rosecrans and Jed Ry
drych each netted four points
in the third quarter as the
Grizzlies Increased their lead
to 36-22.
The fourth quarter saw the
Cardinals out-score Helix 13-9
but it wasn't enough as the
Grizzlies won 45 - 35, Chris
Rea through in eight lone
points in the quarter.
BMCC election dates set
March 27, 1984 was chosen
by the Blue Mountain Com
munity College budget com
mittee as the date for the
college's tax levy and director
elections.
The budget committee met
in joint session with the col
lege board of directors De
cember 13 for an organiza
tional session. Election date
i options were reviewed at the
meeting and budget commit
tee officer elections were held.
Oregon state law sets the
director election on the March
ballot, statewide. The budget
committee decided to add the
college's general operating
levy election to that same
ballot to save taxpayers the
cost of an additional election,
said a college spokesperson.
Blue Mountain Community
College operates without a tax
base and so goes to the voters
for approval of its tax levy
each year. Under Oregon law,
the college must put the ques
tion of a tax base to the voters
every two years.
The board and budget com
mittee decided to choose the
May 15 date for the next tax
base election. The state gives
the option of the May, 1984
date or one in November,
Board seats currently held
by Ken Dauble and Joe Green
will be on the March ballot. A
candidate will also be elected
For walls or woodwork
Scrubbable lo-lustre finish
Easy water clean-up
GALLON
REG. $9.99
SALE ENDS
'oil
t4
r
- 45
At the free throw line lone
made 5 of II shots for 46
percent. Helix was 5 of 14,
connecting on 36 percent of
their shots.
Rea led all scorers with 18
ponts while Flerchinger and
Boyer had 12 and 10 points
respectively for the Grizzlies.
On Saturday, Jan. 14, lone
will play at home against the
Echo Cougars starting at 4:30
p.m.
STATISTICS
I 2 3 4 T
lone 6 10 13 35
Hell H 10 in 45
FC.M FTM FT A TP PF
lone IS S II 35 14
Hell 20 S 14 45 1.1
lone: Rea IN. Rielmann ,
Pointer 4. Taylor 4.
Ilellx: Florrhinger 12. C.
Hover 10. Glbbs 6, Docket R.
ItoNrrrant 4. Hydrvch 4, G.
Bover 3.
to complete the one year
remaining on Tim Prait'i
term. George Anderson of
Hermiston was appointed by
the hoard to serve in that
position until a director can be
elected
Persons interested in run
ning for the BMCC board
should contact College Presi
dent Ron Daniels' office for
more information. The filing
deadline is February 16.
31
ONE
FREE CAP
with the
Purchase off Each
03.00
JAN. 21, 1984
t
676-9157
ll'W RedWIng
1 1 "1 Shoes or
Boots
1S1 ITT"
Tint Extra I
I