In retrospect.
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1 Editor's note Since this is the last
1WM issue of (he Gazette-Times. II
seemed appropriate to look back at
some of the year * front page
stories
Following ta a month by
month glance at the year IM4. the
year in retrospect i
January
Irene Anhorn, lieppner. and Louis
Carlson, lone, were named Morrow
< ounty s First Citizens of I M 3 at the
annual Chamber of Com m erce ban
quet January 3
A benefit spaghetti dinner and
basketball gam e earned $1,200 to
offset medical costs for an lone
woman who had undergone a series
of surgeries
Mail route driver Dorothy Stefani
barely escaped from her 1 wheel
drive pickup when a four foot wall of
water cam e rushing across the road
in Kightm ile Canyon
Police Chief Dean Gilman was
honored with a retirement dinner,
for his 29 years of service to the city
of lieppner
February
The first baby of 1984, Kenneth
Hryan Allen was born at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital February 7
Dr Harold Huber announced that
he would retire March I after
practicing dentistry in lieppner for
M years
M arch
A Calcutta pool tournament in
lieppner raised $l,5ou for a Lexing
ton woman who had twen receiving
medical treatment at St
Mary
Medical Center m Walla Walla after
being injured in a Decem ber I I
accident
Albert J "John" Dchsner III
!*•< arne the new administrator of
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
A drilling crew struck water at 848
feel at the well site adjacent to the
new lieppner city reservoir just off
the new section of Willow Creek
Hoad
Cindy Schmidt became the owner
of the Country Hose, form ally Cole's
House of Fashion and Posy Patch
lieppner Auto Parts moved from
its old location to the newly remode
led rrram ery building
Jim Swanson, lone, was named
Morrow County Conservation Man
of the Year
Sylvia latdd was crowned 1984
Hodeo (Juern at March 23 cerem o
mes
Dexter Miles, Fuller Canyon
rancher, expanded his family busi
nes-. to include a rahhitry of five
barns and neurly .’><«> rabbits
The newly formed lone Commu
nity and Agri Business Organization
Is g.in a community clean up project
by tearing down and burning debris
from Mam Street buildings
April
Several parents visited a lieppner
c ity council meeting to request that
i fence he built ulong the Hager
Park section of Willow Creek
The Morrow Co S h eriffs Dept
and area pastors combined efforts to
form a chaplaincy program. Mint
iters whose qualifications are more
appropriate than those of law en
forcemenl officers in some sorts of
situations such us fam ily disputes or
trauma causing accidents agreed to
accompany police officers on those
type of calls
Joseph DeVito. Ph D became the
new director of the Morrow County
Mental Health Services
Dotpha Junes Lexington, was
named Morrow County Extension
Woman of the Year
Cliff and Cindy Green became the
new owner managers of the Hepp
nert oast to Coast Store following a
new owners training seminar "
I he Greens maintained ow nership
of the lieppner Garbage Service
with Jefl Maben becoming the new
operator of the gartiage truck
Prospective irrigators along Wil
low Creek and the Arm y Corps of
engineers agreed to postpone a
decision until after the IMS irnga
tion season before making a decision
about the possible purchase of
<tonsl water behind Willow Creek
Dam
A loosely kntot organization of
about 17 farm ers and ranchers in
Morrow and Gilliam counties ac
i ompllshed the initial spraying of
t 368 acres of rangeland in a projec
t'd five year herbicide program
ittempting to control the spread of
hffu.se knapweed in the upper Hock
Creek drainage area
The proposed Morrow county
school tax base increase was defea
ted by a margin of over SO votes in
the May 13 p r i n i t y election
lieppner Higti School seniors vo
ted to honor the top eight students of
their class In lieu of a traditional
vaiedictunan and salutatonan com
mencement cerem onies
Goat tiers to meet
j an. 9
The next meeting of the W rangler
Goat Tiers will be January #. 6 p m
at the Morrow County Fairgrounds
Trisha Mahoney is scheduled to
show team roping films at the annex
building
"H ung your goat tying string.”
reminds a spokesperson for the
Wranglers
<
President Lincoln s succea
lo c
Andrew
Johnson,
never went to school He
had not learned to write
and could barefy read
when hit w ife undertook
teaching him these skitli
June
A ribbon culling cerem ony o f
ficially opened the new interchange
between Interstate 84 and the Port
of Morrow
A buffalo owned by the Harold and
Ken Wnght ranch at Ruggs Jet
wanderrd away and was shot in the
Little Rutter Creek area
lieppner attorney Herman Winter
died suddenly at hu home
Mike Currin. son of Ron and Judy
Currtn. lieppner won first place in
the steer wrestling event at the
College National Finals Rodeo at
Bozeman Montana
The Rev Susan West w as installed
as the new pastor of the Heppner
L’niled Methodist Church
July
The H eppner G a ze tte T im e s
changed from an eight column to the
new standard six column size
A $5oo,tax) aviation fuel tax grant
was awarded for improvements at
the la-xinton Airport
The city of Is lin g to n became the
first of the county's towns to slate
celebrations for the coming loo-year
Morrow Countv celebration
The Gazette Tim es became the
66th member of the HW-vear club at
the Oregon Newspaper Publisher
Association meeting
Crews began working on Hepp
ner's Main Street at the site of the
new post office building
Ceremonies at the l,exington t en
tennial Celebration officially opened
Friendship Park on Is lin g to n 's
Mam Street
August
Morrow County Court announced
to senior citizens lhat Ihe county
would donate tax lot No 2603 for the
future senior services center
Morrow County employees built
the float which look the Grand
Sweepstakes at the fair and rodeo
parade
Pal Schwarz won the amateur calf
roping trophy saddle donated by
Kinzua Corp at the Morrow County
Hodeo
Tony Currin received the All
Around Cowboy award at the Mor
row Co Rodeo
September
Michael I lean Dupont. Jr caught
a 20‘ « inch $ i. pound trout while
fishing off (he hanks of Willow Creek
Lake
A new telephone system was
connected at the Morrow County
Courthouse in Heppner which placed
all county offices, including those at
la-xington and Irngon, on different
extensions of the same telephone
line
Jim Yam Winkle of Heppner was
appointed to the new position of
Morrow County Weed Supervisor
laiuis Carlson, lone, president of
the Port of Morrow and Wayne
Schwandt, Boar dm an Manager of
the Port joined Oregon Governor Vic
Atiyeh on a trade mission to the Far
Enl
A portion of the Morrow County
Grain Growers grain elevator auger
building was destroyed by fire
October
The Rev Rick Kvenson was instal
led as the new pastor of the Hope
Valby Lutheran Church
Roving "J o d y ." Foss of Clark
Fork. Idaho passed through Hepp
ner
As a roving reporter for the
Sandpoint Dally Bee
She was
traveling with her two mules to
smaller towns in route to the coast
interviewing the "biggest character
in town
Soroptimtsls donated a tree for the
mini park which county 4 H ers had
been working on during the summer
The park was dedicated during the
Saturday, Oct
13 Heppner ctly
celebration for the county's centen
nial
November
A new accounting firm Barnett
Dennis, and Moro opened an office
in Heppner
Bridget! Greenup was named
queen of the IMS fair and rodeo
court
Her princesses were also
named Bobhrftr Angel I Stacey Ken
nedy, Sheila Sieler. and Cindy Lou
Davis This is the first court with
four princesses for several years
In the November 6 general elec
lion. Cara Costa defeated Warren
Plocharsk) and Justine Weather
ford for the Heppner m ayoral post
bun
In a close race. Jerry Peck
unseated incumbent Warren McCoy
in the County Commissioner's race
Morrow County Grain Growers
announced plans to build a tZ 'K .r' J
grain elevator in Heppner to replace
the one which had burned in late
September
Chuck Starr and Betty Carlson,
loth of lone, returned from a mee
ting in WashingtonD C of the Natio
rial Task F orce for Agriculture in the
( iassroom
Geophysical Service. Inc set up a
held office in Heppner as a base for
their seimic exploration in the area
Heppner Post O ffice moved back
into a permanent building on Mam
Street
The Oregon Stale Legislature
Em ergency Board approved trans
fer to the Port of Morrow of control
for 2.700 acres of land and the
airstrip belonging to Boeing
The
Port began petitioning for control in
IM2
CBF.C Board of Directors signed a
•'w heelingagreem ent" with the Kin
zua Cogeneration Company in order
10 supply a path over the C B M
system from the Kinzua generator to
the BonneviU Pow er Assoc
December
Son Vinh became the new owner
operator of the Chevron station in
Heppner
Joan Records became the new
owner of Rainbow Balloons
Morrow County Court refused a
request from the city of Heppner to
enforce a 1931 dog licensing ordi
ance
The Port of Morrow hosted a
meeting to discuss the need for a
proposed road connecting Hoard
man and southern Morrow County
by a more direct route
Kinzua Corp received an outitan
ding business award from Oregon
Governor Atiyeh
S o r o p t im is t s a n n o u n c e c o n te st w in n e r s
JANUARY 1,1985
Time to wish all Our
friends and customers
a wonderful New Year
along with our thanks 1
Pictured are the winners in the Soroptimist sponsored
Christmas coloring contest
Front row from left
Jennifer Cox. Jerid Ploy ha r,
Justin Adelman. Mark Moeller, and P a lly Anderson
Back row from left Jason Hanna. Sarah Britt, Becky
DeVito, and Joey Hoffman
l im b e r s a le s total $ 4 7,037
A total volume of 4.630 thousand
IxNird feet 1M BF of tim ber from
lands managed by the Umatilla
National f oresl so ld fur $4/ u lT So to
three bidders in Novem ber, accor
ding to a report recently from offices
of the Forest Supervisor in Pendle
Ion
The sales were Swale laKlgfpole.
Heppner District. 2,550 MBF which
brought a high bid of $25 260 from
Kinzua C orp o ra tion . H eppner.
Hams Sale. 1,830 M BF. purchased
by Jack Barem ore (.¿Grande for
$2,562.50
Both the Hams and
OSU
Hidaway Cull Sales arc located on
the North Fork John Day District
Umatilla s woodcutting permits
for use on the North Fork John Day
District may still tie purchased at
the Supervisor's Office in Pendleton,
and at North Fork John Day offices
in Dale and Ukiah
Woodcutting
permits with a November 30. IM4.
expiration date may be exlended to
April 30. 1M5. by obtaining the new
winter woodcutting maps at the
above locations concludes the super
visor's report
E x t e n s io n o ffe r s m o n e y
m a n a g e m e n t series
By HI It HI M T l l.l.IS
Morrow County F x l Service
A four part fam ily money man
agement letter series will be offered
lo people in Morrow ( ounly by Ihe
Oregon Stale University Extension
Service tieginmng in mid February
"Y ou r Money M atler$" is design
ed specifically for couples and par
ents between Ihe ages of 18 and 34 to
study at home
Prepared under the leadership of
Alice Mills M orrow . OSU Extension
family economics specialist, each
letter includes Sasic financial plan
ning and money management infor
malinn as well as exercises to help
the fam ily determine how its money
is spent, how to build a spending
j' Medical Topics
plan, and how to determine the
fam ily's net worth and how II
changes each year
Pre registration for the senes is
required
Those interested must
register by February I with the
Morrow Co Extension office Les
sons wilt be mailed to participants
every three weeks
Topics to be covered include finan
ctal planning, managing credit use.
protecting against financial risks,
and savings
More information about “ Your
Money M atter$" is available by
calling 676 9642 or stopping by the
Extension office at Heppner
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Howard. Jo, Larry,
Kerry, Buck, John,
Pat & Bev
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___________ liv Dr. Sam P o b a n z ^ j
Two questions com e up often in everyday practice'
"Exercise-’ " and
“ How do I screen for disease’ "
The tiest exercise program I ever saw was worked out by a physiologist in
Illinois, about 1950 You pick out a sport tor other activity > that you can do
year round, and w hich you are w tiling lo do all y our life o f course it w ill he
extra good if it's something you like to do Then, you do it 30 minutes to one
hour each day, 365days a year, to either a slight sweat, or tieginmog muscle
tiredness
And that is a good plan Personally. I like combining it with stuff I have to
do anyway biking to work, push lawnmower. and physical labor around the
place on days off
Screening (or disease includes lots of things. I ll list them here and tf you
want details. I II write m ore on them later the seven cancer signals
onesided vision, hearing or smell changes 'test by comparing sides',
mouth irritations next to broken or cavities teeth, slow recoveries from
infections, new weight loss or gain, limps and lumps, balance loss skin
texture change personality changes, difficulties with anything fam iliar
(and I don't mean the boss i . eating an unbalanced d ie t. unexplained fe v e r .
a new high blood pressure, generally, any unexplained "n e w " item And
you'll tw pleased to know there is a book 201 Medical Tests You Can Do At
Home, by Linde, publisher New American Library. Z5399
Why should we work at prevention’ Because the specialists are now
saying we should never lose anyone from high blood pressure, breast cancer,
skin cancer. TB. and some of the chronic disorders like arthritis, diabetes,
asthma, alcoholism, and the cigarette related diseases (I. personally,
would add the auto accident to that list i
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Ph 989 8221 • 1(800)452 7396
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