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M orrow C o u n t y '» H o m e -O w n e d Weekly N e w s p a p e r
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unes she is aware of in the state that
have tested for asbestos so far The
board asked McCaslin to check with
Eastern Oregon districts to see if
testing is being done in this area
before any action is taken by the
board
heard that the district has 14
applications so far for the principal's
yob at lone, which will be vacated
with the appointment of present
principal Chuck Starr to assistant
superintendent of the district
Approved the following coaching
and other positions
Heppner Junior High
Football Head Coach. Dave Gun
derson. Assistant Coach. Al Heck
Volleyball
Head Coach, Jean
Strange. Assistant Coach. l.ea Cal
vert
Hasketball
Boys
Head Coach.
Dave Gunderson. Avsistant Coach.
Tim Hirkby
Hasketball Girls
Head Coach.
Jean Strange Assistant Coach Sar
ah Carlson
Track Head Coach. Phyllis Ray
ne. Assistant Coach. Doug Sheirbon
Cheerleaders Dance Team
Sar
ah Carlson and la*a Calvert
Academically Talented Coordin
ator
Linda Shaw
lone High School
Assistant Football Coach. I>el l a
Rue. Head Volleyball Coach, Joce
lyn Jones Head Basketball Coach
1 Hoys), Del I-aKue. Head Hasketball
Coach tG irlsi Jocelyn Jones. Head
Track Coach. Del l.aHue Athletic
Ihrcctor. Del l.aRuc Music (l*ep
Hand1 Geneva Mathews. Cheerlead
er Advisor. Bonnie Hall. Annual
Advisor Marlene Davison
lone Junior High Football Coach
Mark Jones. Volleyball Coach. Bar
hara C ollin. B l l k t t k l l l 1
i Boys'. Mark Jones
lone Elementary
Head Teacher
Hetty Rietmann
General
Academically Talented
Coordinator Marlene Dav ison
Riverside
Football
Asst Terry Starr, Vol
leyball. Head Thresa Ruud. Asst
Donna Barton
Basketball Hoys
Varsity Larry French. Jr Varsity
Mike Wetherell. Frosh Krvan I'ratt
Girls
Varsity Dirk Dirkson Jr
Varsity Donna Harton
Track and
Field
Head lairry French. Asst
Ik>nna Harton Haseball Head Ke
van Pratt. Asst Dirk Dirksen Ten
ms
Head Maureen M cElligolt
Golf Head Mike Wetherell
Cheer
leader Advisor Sharon Harrick
Annual Advisor Randy Gundlach
Talented and Gifted Advisor Hob
Deeler
Athletic Director
lairry
French
Heppner High
Football
Head Coach Tim Hirk
by. Asst Coach Jars Payne
Hasketball
(H oys) Head Coach
Brent Eggers
Hasketball iG irls) Head Coach
Alike Royer. J V Coach le s Payne
Track Head Coach Dale Conklin
I" I • ' IÜ III id I o H h M kl R q
er
Golf Head Coach Duane Neiffer
Dance Team
Pat Ctausen
lone principal hired for A ssi. Supt. slot
meeting Monday night He replaces
John Edmundson who resigned in
May to take a yob teaching math at
Heppner Elementary
Starr is well qualified for the job.
Superintendent Iloyle McCaslin told
the school board, and "w e feel
fortunate he has decided to apply for
ibis
McCaslin said that the board was
polled by telephone last month fol
lowing Edmundson s resignation,
and that every board m ember gave
a positive response to hiring Starr as
assistant superintendent
Starr came to the district in 1972 as
a math teacher at Heppner High
School He spent four years in that
job before moving to lone
A graduate of Lewis and Clark
College in 1963. Starr has also taught
math. P E . Health and coached al
West Linn, and was a professor of
education for three years at Pacific
University He received a masters
degree in education administration
from the University of Oregon
"1 have found all of the people in
Morrow County to be friendly and
supportive, and interested in quality
education for their kids." said Starr
about working in the district
He has two sons. Terry. 23. who is
a teacher at Sam Hoardman. and
!\o longer welcome M l malilla Co.
Prisoners to go to St. Helens
Fair Premium
Books included
in this week 's
newspaper
reserves the right for Umatilla
County to refuse Morrow County
prisoners when the facility is full or
near c a p a c ity with th eir own
prisoners
Until the situation rr
solves itself, "U m atilla County will
not accept prisoners "
This effected Morrow County last
week when the first notice was
received that prisoners had to be
moved Escapees from the Oregon
State Penitentiary, John W Krebs
and Richard Glenn McCawley were
transferred to the nearest available
Tacility. the Clackamas County Jail
"A ls o ." says Sheriff Drago. "tw o
burglars were released when tne
situation arose Now two felons who
should be in jail are out walking the
streets "
With Umatilla County Jail closed
to M orrow
County prison ers,
Columbia County Jail at St Helens
is the nearest available facility
Although the Oregon State Police
prov ide a prisoner transport co op at
no cost to the counties, it only
operates Wednesdays
Prisoners
needing to tie transported on other
days of the week will have to be
transported by a Morrow County
Deputy at a cost of approximately
$250 to Morrow County
Which
includes the deputy’s wages, mile
age and transportation costs, and an
additional off-duty officer which
would have to be called in and paid
overtim e to cover the duties of the
deputy in transit The results, says
Drago. is that "only the most violent
and professional criminal types will
be lodged "
Morrow County has paid out
nearly $11.000 during April and May
for housing prisoners at facilities
outside the county
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Heppner, Oregon
School Board denies student transfer request
The M orrow Counly School Hoard
sportation com mittee chairman Jim
denied a request Monday, that an
Hier to go out and buy a used pickup
lone grade school student he allowed
for under $5.000
No bids were
to attend eighth grade in Heppner
received on the pickup
nest year
learned that the district may have
Tom Martin, whose daughter.
to have asbestos testing done in the
Jennifer, attends lone schools, asked
schools, which could coat up to
the hoard to allow his daughter to
$ 12.000
The board is fearful of
transfer to Heppner so that all of his
lawsuits against the district which
three children would attend school in
could arise from exposure to abrs
the same town
Martin has two
tos
d aughters p resen tly atten d in g
A best os is used for insulation and
Heppner High, and he cited difficul
other purposes and can cause harm
ties in attending school functions as
to the respiratory systrm
Tests
the reason for the requested trans
were completed at one time on the
fer
district buildings, however, samples
The Martins who live on 4 M
from the tests were thrown out
Ranch north of Ia'xmgton, said they
because at the time the district did
sometimes have to choose between
not want to pay for storing the tested
attending functions at one of the two
materials
schools, and if all their children were
School district attorney Ann Spi
attending school in the same town
cer told the board there have been
they could alleviate the problem
more and more assbestos lawsuits in
School Superintendent Doyle Me
the pust 20 years, but mostly at
Caslin earlier refused the Martins
shipyards where the material was
request, so it was brought to the
used extensively
school board for consideration
"W e are liable for a test os expo
"lo n e schools are maintained by
sure even if we didn't know it was
the district taxpayers, at some
dangerous, but if we test and sto p it
inconvenience to them, for students
now we will stop future exposure."
as specified in your policies," Me
Spicer said
She said form er stu
Caslin wrote in a statement to the
dents, teachers and staff would be
board
"Dim inishing that student
the ones to initiate lawsuits, since
body by just one student is a
they would be the ones who would
significant event of public observa
have been exposed
tion and concern at lone and, to
If asbestos is found in the schools
various degrees, district wide, pro
at harmful levels, the district has
perly so. I think
two options. Superintendent M cl’as
"One more student at Heppner
lin said
"seal it. or take it out "
Junior High School will not over
Spicer said the Coos Hay and
crowd any classes, sections present
Oregon City schools are the only
ly are scheduled to have 23-24
students per section Hut one more
student there will not particularly
benefit that school." he wrote
"lo n e will probably have IS-16
students in that grade next year
Therefore, on classroom balance as
noted in your policy, die student
should stay at lon e."
All but one member of the school
board present at Monday's meeting
agreed with McCaslin
"W e 'r e maintaining a school down
there with not many students, and
we shouldn't be transferring them
away from th ere," said boardmem
ber !
Dwayne Carroll of Irrigon
" I f you could get all the kids from
here iL exin gton > to go to lone, it
sounds cruel and cold, but it would
be a solution to the p roblem ,"
commented boardmember Joe Ste
vens of Hoardman
Only boardmember Pat Wright
voted In favor of the transfer
"If
you've had kids spilt up in two
different schools it does make it very
d ifficu lt," she said "But if you close
this door tightly, they will never
C h o c k Starr
send them down there ifrom Lexing
ton) even for grade school
Chuck Starr, principal of lone
According to district policy on
Schools for the past nine years, has
attendance and transfers, grade
been named new assistant superin
school students living in the Old
tendent tor the Morrow County
lirxington Pine City School district
School District
can be assigned to either lone or
Starr. 44. was appointed to the job
Heppner schools to "p rovid e some
by the district board of directors at a
classroom balance ”
(Students in
these areas may choose to attend
high school, at either Heppner or
lo n e )
The policy also states that any
transfer of a student would be made
in the "best interests of the student
educationally or socially to m ove to
Morrow Counly Sheriff Roy Drago
a school outside his normal atten
recently received a letter from
dance area "
Umatilla County Sheriff J H Carey
In other business, the board
informing him that because of near
heard from a Umatilla Education
capacity conditions at the Umatilla
Service District representative, who
County jail. Morrow County prison
told the board that lone High
ers can "n o longer be accepted "
School's Entrepreneurship Program
Although Morrow County has a
headed by shop teacher Marvin
contract until July I with Umatilla
Peterson and business teacher Anna
County for prisoner housing at a cost
Morford is receiving state wide re
of $45 per day. that contract still
cognition for excellence
Peterson
has been speaking to various groups
about the program , which has ltu
dents set up an actual business,
produce goods and then sell the
finished product
Bill Taylor said that the program
will soon be nominated for a "P r o
mixing Practices A w a rd " through
the Oregon Department of Educa
tion Taylor said there may be grant
money available to the Kntrepre
neurship program if the award is
made
heard that the superintendent will
Included in this week s newspaper
be on vacation from June 22 until
is a copy of the 1985 Morrow County
after July 4
Fair Prem ium Hook
The book:
awarded the following bids for
contains a schedule of fair and rodeo
goods and services I new boiler at
events and a complete list of the
Riverside High to < M< of Portland
classifications for entering in 4 H.
$39,147 2 three point hitch range
I F F A , and Open class items
Save
mower to Ear West Equipment-
the premium hook so that the
$5.291.3 two snapper riding mowers
information will be handy when
to Buffham s Ranch » Home. Irri-
needed for entering items in the fair
gon $6,766, 4 roofing work at Hepp
Anyone who needs extra copies of
ner elementary to M & R insulation-
the premium book may pick them up
$2.777. S automatic controls to Benz
at the Gazette-Times office or the
Air for $3.800 . 6 painting bid to
Morrow County Extension office in
Callahan Const . Pilot Rock $9.340.
Heppner. the Enterprise office ini
7 office machine maintenance to
Hoardman or the Morrow County
Jaynes Business Machines. Pendle
Annex Building in Irrigon
ton $9.340. and S sewing machine
service to A ’s .Sewing .Shoppe. The
Dalles. $3.770
The board also authorized tran
High
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Dennis. 20. who is a junior at
Eastern Oregon State College His
wife Diana has been city recorder
for lone for the past seven years
Starr and his fam ily will be
moving to Heppner soon The house
he rents in lone is owned by the
school district and may be used by
the next principal of lone sctxxils
Starr s salary in the new position
will tie $39,959, up from the $37.959 he
would have received as a principal
next year
A search for a new principal al
lone has already begun, with about
14 applications having already tx-en
received, the school board learned
Polls open from 8a.m. -8p.m. June 25
Absentee ballots still av ailable
Precincts will be combined for the
June 25 special election and (Killing
places open from M am to i p m .
will tie the same as for last month's
special election Combined Hoard
man I and 2 will vote at Greenfield
Grange Hall lone No 4 will mark
their ballots al I i m
City Hal]
Combined Irrigon 5 and 6 will voice
their opinions at the North Morrow
Annex. l-exinglon 7 will vote at the
lrxin glon Sch<x>l o ffic e and Com
bined Hardman Heppner 3. H. 9. It),
and It will mark ballots at the
Heppner NeighborhixKf Center
Morrow County Clerk Barbara
Bloods worth reminds all registered
voters who will he unable to go to the
polls next Tuesday that absentee
hallo!«
« 1.0 ,, si|nMe at the
Clerk s office up until the day prior
to the election
To obtain an
absentee ballot, slop by the Clerk s
Office al the Morrow County Court
house and fill out and application or
mail a signed letter to the Clerk's
Office requesting an absentee ballot
These ballots will be mailed out
Also, if the Clerk's Office 676 9061, Is
notified special arrangements may
be made for persons unable to go to
the polls because of a tem porary or
permanent handicap
"E xercise your right to v o te ."
concluded Bloodsworth
It's sad
when 25 percent of the registered
votes make a decision which in
fluences everyone as happened the
last election
Morrow Coiunty voters will again
vote on the proposed Morrow County
budget Tuesday . June 25 This is the
third vote on the budget $61,687 has
been (sired from the levy since the
first vote, reducing the levy amount
to $2.393 856
Different at this election, the
Hospital board has requested that
the hospital levy be presented on a
separate ballot from the county
budget
Hoard mem bers felt that
they would get a I letter indication of
the amount of county support for
Pioneer Mamorial Hospital and thus
be able to make decisions about the
hospital which would I k * more in the
interest of the voters The hospital
operating levy remains the same. Ai
$419,704. as requested in the May 21
election
The county operating levy, for all
county operations, for next year has
tieen reduced 2 5 percent from the
$2.642.M3 (excluding the hospital
le v y ) which was requested in the
May 2) election
Cuts of parltim e
personnel, services, supplies, and
p ro je cts w e re m ade from the
general fund and the road depart
rtient
Voters within the city of Heppner
will vote on the same budget which
went down by 19 votes in the May 21
special election The levy amount is
$128.386 w hich is considerably more
than the operating budget financed
by lixal taxes or the current fiscal
year
The reasons (or the levy
increase are lack of available cash,
spiraling cost on insurance, mater
lals and supplies
Mayor Costa explains that the
budget levy is resubmitted because
the City Council and budget com
mittee consider it a fair budget with
no place to trim Should the budget
fail a second time. Costa anticipates
that the budget com mittee would
look at cuts in the area of city
personnel, and street, water, and
■ewer services " It is entirely up to
the budget com m ittee where any
cuts might be m ad e." Costa con
tinued Discussions have also s(x*cu
lated that cuts could reduce the
c ity ’s 24 hour police protection and
funds for hiring a dog control
person
Hospital, ( bounty submitting
separate operating lev ies
( "ity levy await«« balloting
Nursing home now meets certification standards
tin Friday, May 24. surveyors
from Oregon Health Division return
ed to Pioneer Memorial Hospital
Nursing Home to determine the
extent of compliance with those
standards and progress in attaining
the goals detailed in a Plan of
Correction submitted to the Health
Division on May 2
The Plan of
Correction was formulated to cor
reel deficiences at the facility which
the Health Division said "d id not
meet standards for participation in
payment for care under the Medi
caid program "
The resurvey found that all defi
ciencies had been properly dealt
with and that the appropriate cor
rective action had been taken or was
about to be takrn
The surveyors
commented specifically on the qual
ity of the staff's response and
particularly on their positive and
constructive attitudes Some of the
forms and programs that had tx-en
developed were copied by the sur
veyors to use as examples for other
fa c ilitie s , In terim A d m in istra tor
Bob Smith reported to the Hospital
Hoard
T o be fournd deficient, prim arily
in areas of documentation of care
and medication given, was surpris
ing and obviously embarrassing to
the Nursing Home staff since a
previous survey two years ago had
not noted any such problems. Smith
continues
However, the staff
response was to im mediately dev el
op a systematic set of solutions to
the deficiencies They accepted this
criticism of their previous prrfor
mance as a learning exix-rience and
an opportunity to im prove their
delivery and documentation of care
to. and for, the residents of the
Nursing Home
The consultative services of a
physical therapist, a speech Ihera
pis! and a medical social worker
have lx*en obtained from, or through
St Anthony Hospital In Pendleton
Other than those outside resources,
all the rest of the required corrective
measures have t>ern accomplished
by the existing staff of the hospital
and nursing home Smith says "This
has tx*en done at no small sacrifice
to the tim e that these people have
spent with their fam ilies and. in
Sandi Hanna s case to her health
Sandi Hanna, t.imla Dunaway. Eve
lyn Sw eek, Connie H am m ons.
Kathli-en laiwe and other stall mem
tiers have spent a great deni of time
and mental energy working, not
only to correct the problems idenli
fled by the State, tiut to make the
Pioneer M emorial Hospital Nursing
Home the best facility of its kind in
Oregon What they have done, and
the way they have done it. entitles
them to your pride and respect
I
have watched grou(>s of health care
professionals respond to challenges
for 20 years and none of them has
done it lietter than these people at
Pioneer M emorial Hospital
They
are a "class group I hope you are
as proud of them as I am
Donations will fund outdoor
recreation area at PMH
Boys needed
for day camp
Boys age 7 12 who are interested in
having fun. learning basic wixxl and
leather craft skills, and making new
friends are still needed to attend a
Day Camp sponsored by Cub Scout
Park 661 Boys do not have to be Cub
Scouts to attend the camp All that
is required is that they fill out a
registration form , include the $15
registration fee i which includes a
c a m p T shirt and all supplies), bring
a sack lunch each day. and be ready
for a fun filled week
For further information and regi
stration form s, con tact M artha
Munkers, 989 8532 before June 21
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Last s u m m e r n u rs in g h o m e residents enjoyed a picnic on th e
patio at the hospital
Pioneer Memorial Hospital Auxiliary has donated $500 and other pledges
have been received for a proposed outdoor recreation area in front of
Pioneer M em orial Hospital The patio area is currently used for outdixir
nursing home functions, but because the area is not fenced, patients m*ed
constant supervision while outside, said a hospital spokesperson
The
planned recreation area would allow patients m ore freedom to tie outdtxirs
with less supervision
Although some donations and pledges have already been received more
are needed to cover the $2.500 estimated cost Donations need not be cash,
materials and labor are also needed for the projec t which will tie financed
apart from the hospital's budget or tax funded operating levy
For more
information, call Linda Kenny at the hospital office. 676 9133