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Krebs receives 30 years for lone bank robbery
The Morrow County District
Attorney's office at the Morrow
County Courthouse in Heppner
reports handling the following busi
ness during the past week
An arraignment date of August IS
was set for Allen Jeffrey Hadley. 26
Irrigon on a charge of Theft It
Ivy
N adine
l.undgren.
22.
Heppner. was pronounced guilty of
Assault IV at an August 12 trial by
} algo
She was fined *150 and
»••n't need to .10 days tn jail sus
pended to one year probation w ith no
furth'-r violation* of the Isw
Projects completed
for soh(x>l opening
D .A . s Report
John Krebs. 35. State Penitenti
a ry. Salem
was sentenced on
August »b e fo r e the Honorable Judge
Hict aril A iu rs on . 1 m u lt ( urt
Judge. Pro Tern Krebs had entered
a plea of guilty on June Jit r<H> to
Robbery I and Possession of a
Firearm by Inmate of u Penal
Institution On the charge of Pos
session of a Firearm by Inmate of a
Penal Inslitution. he was sentenced
to to years in the Oregon Slate
Correctional Institution with a man
datory minimum of five years On
the charge of Robbery I. he was
sentenced to 20 years in the Oregon
Stale Correctional Institution with a
mandatory minimum of 10 years
The nidge also ruled that the »en
fem es were to tie served consecu
liv e ly rath er than con cu rren tly
which means that Krebs will serve
mandatory 15years before he will In
eligible for parole on his 30 year
sentence
l*arh at the hi#h school
M ainten ance c re w s and c o n
tracted help are completing various
projects at the district schools this
sum m er, including con stru ction,
irrigation and painting protects,
reports D istrict Superintendent
Visitors to this y ear's Morrow County F air and Rodeo may w ant to park
Doyle McCaslin All is expected to
ht the lots at Heppner High School and ride the free courtesy bus to the
be rea d y fo r school opening
fairgrounds Parking inside the fair grounds will tie leserved (or the
September 3
handicapped for em ergency vehicles, and for those working directly
At Heppner High School air locks
wiih the fair and rodeo Parking outside the fairgrounds is very limited
or vestibule entries are being instal
The courtesy bus is free and w ill run every hour 10 a m 8 10 p m from
led as an energy saver About half of
the HHS [larking lot The bus will make three downtown stops at Water
the grounds, including the football
and Gale (by DeSpains '.a t Gale and Main i by McDonald Chevrolet), and
practice field and the front lawns
on Court Street in front of the Courthouse
are now living automatically irri
The downtown and high school parking is necessary this year because
gated A new ' walkin' freezer will
increased com m ercial and open class exhibits are expected and the
be attached to the kitchen The high
concurrent running of the fair and rodeo all generate more traffic
gymnasium walls and most of the
Remember the courtesy bus is free and ample parking is available at the
trim will have new paint
high school
At Heppner Klementary school
new paint will he visible in class
rooms and on most of the outside
trim and all of the gymnasium walla.
Mel aslin continues New roofing on
the holler room and shop building
will not be visible but represents
Past Morrow County Amateur
parade
*2.777
Calf Roping winners have been
1950 W () George. 11*51 Archie
A( lone the underground irrigation
invited to ride in this year s F air and
M orcktoon 19M- Don O reen u o
system was completed as the first
Rodeo parade, .Saturday, Aug G
ID53 F loy d
J on es,
1954 Hob
m aintenance crew p ro je ct
A
A saddle has been awarded the
G atn m ell. 1955 H ow ard B ryan t,
walk in " cooler in the kitchen has
winner of this competition since 1950
1956 R R
F u lle lo n , 1957 Don
had a complete interior face lift
when Heppner Lumber Company
Kvans, 1958 Neil Reamer. 1959
New carpet will soon he installed in
ikmateil the first one to encourage
Rml Murray. I960 Ron ( urrin,
three classrooms, and the high
young cowboys to train to rupe
1'|*. I C harles Daly
196! Jim
school shower and locker room will
Even in IMO. cowboys had to own
Farley, 1963 Rill Healy, 1964 Max
have new tile In the bus yard is a
their own horse and tie a resident of
H eib erg . 1965 C o rn e ll G reen .
new J.ixx) gallon diesel tank
Morrow County 12 months or longer
1966 Bob S te a g a ll,
1967 Hob
At Sain Hoardman Klementary
to enter competition The amateur
Fet.xch, 1966 Tom Marlin. 1969
the last unfinished classroom w ill tie
calf roping event has always been
J erry
D ou gh erty,
1970 M ark
completed with carpeting and cab
competitive said a rodevi spokes
Murray. 1971 Monte Kvans, 1972—
inel installation
In addition the
person
Matt Murray, 1971 Mike Partlow.
shower and dressing rooms will
The IVH5 Amateur Calf Roping
1974 K y le R obinson, 1975 Ken
sport new floor surfacing and half
champion will win the 35th saddle
Belcher, 1976 Jerry Gentry, 1977
walls to contain water in the shower
donate»! for this event by Kinzua
Dick Hoffman. 1978 Tun Daly,
area, improving safety in that area
Corp (form erly Heppner Lumber
1979 B lair P h ilip p i. 1980 J oed y
At Riverside High School the large
Co i
M a rla tt, 1981 C liff D ou gh erty,
vestibule area and library are gel
Watch for the following amateur
1982 Jack M c G u ire , 1983 M ik e
ting new. lighter blue carpeting, and
c a lf roping cham pions in the
Currin and 1984 Pat Schwarz
most of the main halls and ceilings
Saturday m orn in g M ain Street
are being painted The underground
irrig a tio n system at R iv e rs id e
received the finishing touches this
summer Yet to come is a back up
G H Pierson, President of the
boiler for the healing system
Oregon has t>een named Manager of
Bank of Kastern Oregon, reports
A ( ’ Houghton Klementary School
that branch Mrs Anderson m oved
that
James
Wishart.
who
served
as
has new carpet in the hand room, a
to the Arlington area at the age of
Manager of the Arlington Branch of
new J.Oiio gallon diesel tank in the
five
She attended the Arlington
the Bank of Kastern Oregon has
bus yard, and a new doorway fire
sc fu ails and graduated from high
been named Senior la>an O fficer and
escape in the day care center Yet to
school there She joined the Bank in
is firing transferred to the bank's
come is a replacement for one of the
1973 and in 1978 was named A sms
main
office
in
Heppner
burners in the heating system
tant Cashier In I9HJ she w as elected
Wishart
began
his
banking
career
Columbia Junior High School has
Assistant V ice President and named
in 1950 with the First National Bank
a redesigned band room, an ex
Assistant Manager of the Arlington
of Oregon in Hood R iver and served
ponded reading room and a rede
Branch Mrs A Person is active in
in a number of different branches
signed special education room to
community and banking affairs
(or them
He joined the Bank of
house a computer lab
She p resen tly s e rv e s as the
Kastern Oregon in Heppner in 1975
Other projects for the fall include
C om m ission er o f the P ort of
where
he
worked
until
I960
when
he
installing several ceiling fans to
Arlington and is a member of the
was
transferred
to
the
Arlington
improve the efficiency of the heating
C n iled
M ethodist
Church
in
Branch as manager
systems and the overhaul of num
A rlin gton w h ere she r e g u la r ly
Wishart and his w J r Cam. have
erous steam traps for the same
serves as organist and pianist She
four children and six Mandrhildren
purpose, concludes the superin
is a memtier and past group pre
The Wishart’s will be m oving to
tendent
anient of the Am erican Aasocialion
Heppner as soon as housing can tie
of Bank Women serving Gilliam.
obtained
Union, Morrow and t inatilla coun
Pierson reports further that Mrs
lies in Kuslern Oregon
Mrs
Shirley Anderson, form erly A sms
Anderson has thrive children and
said Toombs C H K C crews were
tant Manager in the Arlington
three grandchildren
then able to cut the top off of the
Branch of the Bank of Kastern
damaged pole, put new insulators up
and return service to the Heppner
area Some customers in the lonto
and Sand Hollow areas had power
restored as soon as 45 minutes after
men) with Cmatilla County to lodge
The Jailing of Morrow County
the original outage because service
prisoners at *45 per day
That jail
prisoners
may
become
lesa
of
a
was switched through a different
has had no room for Morrow County
problem
for
county
law
enforcement
substation
Customers within the
prisoners since April, 1985 llenligs
agencies according to Morrow Coun
city of Heppner, however, were
County has agreed to lodge pnso
ty Sheriff Roy Drago Benton County
without electricity from II 51 a m
ners for *38 per day
Jail in Kennewick. Washington, has
until 2 10 p m
Some people wiK) should have gone
agreed to accept Morrow ( ounty
to Jail in the past haven’t, according
prisoners
to Drago. heca'jsc oi the difficulty in
The Benton county facility can
housing them
"N ow they will be
house 109 prisoners "Sheriff Rupp,
going to Jail "
Benton County, has welcomed us
and anticipates no spare problem s."
*ai<J Ucago
County Judge Don
M cKlllgott Deputy Sheriff Vcrlin Watch for Sidewalk Sal«*
Denton and Shenfl l i n g o toured the
the Potato Processing Plant
facility last week
The
has
Hoardman Assistant F ire chief
everything for prisoners and there
Morrow ( ounty F air and Rodeo
Milt Reynolds reported no injuries
will be no doubling In the cells,
goers won't want to miss the many
were suffered
according to Drago Benton county
bargains which merchants will offer
A total of 27 fire fighters were
also has a detention place for
from 9 a m
6 p m Friday. August
involved A foam extinguishing unit
women
16 in downtown Heppner
was sent by the P (J K Coal Fired
Morrow county averages eight
Watch for the ads in the
Plant but it was not needed
prisoners a day and has had at many
Gazette Times to know just where
The fire began at 5 30 p m .
as 17 a day tn the last year
you want to go first
then ride the
Sunday, and was extinguished at
Prisoners have been lodged as far
courtesy bus downtown from the fair
7 50 p tn
No work stoppage
away as St Helens In Columbia
grounds, drive, walk, or run down
resulted
< "iinty
town, but don't miss the Sidewalk
Morrow county has had an agree
Ride free bus to fairgrounds
From lei' Judge ttxt McEHigot, G e n e Orwick. Tom knesoo, Corol New Le«jh Johnson Commissioner Ir* Bauch,
RUger Bixhw, and Tom Robertson
Blue Mountain Asphalt Company
will be asked to broom and sweep
their paving job at Lexington Air
port as a result of a meeting held at
the a irp o rt M onday ufternoon
attended by Morrow County Judge
Don M cKlllgott. County Kngineer
Dave Krumhein. Federal Aviation
A ssociation re p re s e n ta tiv e C arol
N ew ; Oregon Aeronautics Division
re p re s e n ta tiv e s Tom R ob ertson ,
Roger Ritchey and Joe Holden.
Airport com m ittee member C K
P e c k . Field Director for Senator
Mark Hatfield. Thomas Imeson
L eigh Johnson, a d m in is tra tiv e
assistant to C ongressm an Bob
Smith, and several area pilots
“ The c o u n ty ,"
said
Judge
M cKlllgott "considers the runway
unsatisfactory because the pave
men! is raveling with pieces of
gravel coming loose from the sur
face
Area pilots have been con
cerned that the loose gravel will fly
up and dam age airplane propel
lors " An independent testing firm.
Northern Kngineers and Testing,
was called in to review the surface,
he says Their report to the county
indicated that the condition of the
runway was probably the result of
the wrong formula used in mixing
the macadam pavement
The
e n g in e e r's reco m m en d atio n , he
said, was for two layers of a
different type of asphalt or a 2"
layer of paving over the existing
surface
M cKlllgott said that the
county preferred the later alterna
live because it would prove more
satisfactory and cheaper in the lung
run
Funding for the Lexington airport
runway is from a Koo.ooo grant
provided by aviation fuel taxes
allotted back to airports
Senator
H a tfie ld 's
W ashington
o ffic e
announced that the airport had
received the grant on July 23 1984
At the M on day, August 12
m eetin g h o w e v er, F A A R ep re
sentative Carol New emphasized
that the F A A recommended that the
county g ive the surface a chance to
settle down properly " She advised
the county to call the contractor
back to "broom and com pact" the
surface properly
A macadam pavement i layers of
compacted small stones bound to
gether with asphalt i requires com
pasting with a rubber tire roller and
sweeping once a week for a couple of
months and once a month after that
for the first year, at least
I t ’ s n ecessa ry to g iv e
the
macadam a chance to age and see
how it works, she continued, similar
surfaces have been proved accept
able on airports in Montana where
extrem e hot and cold weather
temperature changes are sim ilar to
this area
Those surfaces are not
sealed An asphalt overlay at this
point could cause "slippage and
bleeding which would still not be
satisfactory, she claimed
Originally, she said, the problem
which the county is experiencing
with the runway was probably
caused by using the w rong grade of
asphalt in the m ixtu re which
resulted in a sticky surface At that
time, the county was adv ised to let it
sit and cure Now. it is cured, so we
are changing from problem to pro
blem what the runway needs now is
brooming and rolling
"R ollin g and compacting may
help the surface tem porarily." Guy
Van Arsdale of Van Arsdale Con
struct ion, argued,
but after the
runway is opened, airplane traffic
will make it worse
New insisted that the asphalt will
toughen up inside It's soft now. and
needs to harden and cure It's not
thick, it will settle down."
Roger G Ritchey of (he Oregon
Aeronautics Division reported that
"since 1969 a surface like this at the
Prospect Airport has been working
fine
Tom Robertson also of the
Aeronautics Division pointed out
that the division is responsible for
maintenance of 37 airports and the
new surface at Lexington "looks
better than others" he has seen
C K Peck o f the Lexington Airport
Committee responded that when
comparing the new surface to those
at Hermiston and the older Lexing
ton runways, he doesn't "like this
one at all "
New responded that the county
should not have accepted the hitu
minous surface bid if they knew
what it was. and there is so much
hard feeling against it here
M cKlllgott argued that the F AA
had recommended the macadam
p avin g to the county
New
responded that the F A A had
recom m en d ed if based on the
county's available funds and the
engineer's request for something
hrtter than hot m u which wouldn't
crack
Robertson pointed out that einulsi
fied asphalt is more flexible than hot
asphalt which sets up too hard
New qualified, other options were
available to the county
"We (the
FAA i would like to get you a
s a tis fa c to ry su rfa ce " she said
again pointing out that brooming
and c o m p actin g could not be
avoided
"What if we do broom and com
pact," McKlllgott asked, "and next
summer we re still not happy with
It? fa n we get a letter from you or
your boss stating that you will come
back and take care of the problem ’
Our problem is that what you say
today nobody will bark up tumor
row "
"W e 're not going to disappear
Kverybody in that office (K A A i
know what's happening here
Our
intent is not to pull out Our intent is
to give you everything you wanted in
one p ro ject," New asserted There's
always going to be some rock Other
airports seem to be willing to put up
with some loose rock, but that
doesn't seem to be the case here
L e igh Jonnson. a d m in is tra tiv e
assistant to Bob Smith summarized
that the county had two options. I)
calling the contractor back to broom
and compact the auiface to speri
fication. or 2) to overlay another
layer of macadam over the surface
" I f the overlay will make them
'M orrow County» happy, then this
may be the way to go
New advised Johnson that the
county's option was to bring the
contractor back to compact the
surface to the engineer s specifi
cations
If this doesn t result a
satisfactory surface then the option
is to use a sand seal or overlay
" I f the county brings the conlrac
tor back and maintains the surface
for one year and it goes to pieces,
and your office 'the F A A ) is not
back here to make the job right. Bob
Smith's office will be right behind
them (th e c o u n t y )," Johnson
threatened
"The most the F A A can do is
amend the original grant by 10
percent," New qualified
"That
amount is controlled by legislation
however, we have gone back five
years aftrr the macadam was laid
and overlaid the su rface," she
assured Johnson and the county
The runway should be usable. New
concluded, as soon as the contractor
has finished bringing it up to specifi
cations, and the runway is painted
and marked It will be necessary to
post signs which alert pilots to the
loose rock so that they will take off
easier and not at full throttle
City budget passes
212 yea 114 no
A 33% lurnout of Heppner
voters passed the proposed
city budget levy by a vote
of 212 "yes1' to 114 "no"
in the Tuesday, Aug. 14
special levy election
Calf ropers to ride in parade
Wishart returns to Heppner
Weather blamed for outage
Lightening from a recent storm
apparently cracked an fem lator on
the main power line conktpg into
Heppner. and when moistunNram*
air last Saturday morning cam e in
contact with the insulator, it caused
leakage which started a power pole
on fir e , says C olum bia Basin
K le c tric C o o p M an a ger Kred
Toombs
C B K C crews and the Heppner
Ktre Dept were able to gel the fire
out quickly because a customer saw
the fire and reported It immediately.
Sunday fire causes minimal damage
at Boardman potato processing plant
C A I Group Inc suffered an
estimated *75.000 too.ooo damage
from a fire on August II, 1985
B oardm an
K ire
D epartm ent
responded with three fire units
Irrigon Kire Department with two
units and Cm atilia F ire Department
with one unit also responded as
backups reports the Morrow County
■Sheriff's O ffice
The fire was confined to a hydra
ulic fluid control unit on the roof of
Benton Co. to take prisoners