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IM3 Chamber hears 4-H program off page one Storm spotters needed for flood warning system the acting staff chairman of the <lr<*gon Stale l niversity Extension Office in Morrow County arranged a 4 II program on Tuesday noon Oct I. lor tin- lleppner Morrow County (.’handier of Commerce Tullis introduced the six youthful speakers by telling of Ihe 4 II Ti-en Club >ha> was lormed in 1984 to include a large group of members from Ihe seventh through the 12th grades of the south Morrow Schools K«-vin Hughes *erv«-d as th«- mastei of ceremom«*» giving a brief ov er view of Ihe groups r«-v«-nl activities and inlroducing Ihe olher speakers Henp Pearson told of activities at Ihe county fair and al the Stale Fair in Salem Noella K ill spoke of the groups efforts in cleaning up and landscap mg the mini park area across from the lleppner Bowl She also re ported on the exciting l anadian trip that she and olh«-rs enjoyed Shannon M cLaughlin gave a report on the counselor training and on the work that was done as counselors and leaders at Ihe Morrow County 4 II Camp at Cutsforth Dark this summer J«*nnifer K ill reviewed Ihe Pori land W aterways Exchange trip which indud«*d a stop atlhe Mull nomah County Fair and she told of the groups learning experience* at the 1*13 Oregon Slate University Ì * • A. 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Hv Justine W ralhriliw d Hirdine T ullis who is tem porarily J>. / S« hiK il Katie, Joe a n d Jake Bacon This last weckrnds sudden wel weather and Monday and Tu«-sda> cold temperature* ban area rt-si d*-nls suddenly talking atiout the »rather The rain provided Mime much needed mondure and »an falling gently enough that no re|x>rts of damage from washing or flooding have been received On other occasions however, rainful is less tienevolenl amt mud slides and flash floods can cause serious damage Paul Duval, station manager of the Pendleton National Weather Service station was in lleppner Monday to begin arranging for "storm spotters' along creeks and other drainage areas A system in operation several years ago mvol veil storm spotters along Shota- Minton Willow, and Itliea m-eks IW N ilim l W m U mi s . i \ i.. h ave fu n in the snow M an do y rain gauges w ith sell-contained ra dio communication to the computer system at the Sheriff s Office were installed along Willow Creek by the Corps of Engineers The lomputer assimilates rainfall and stream height data from the gauges and reports the condition in five cate New insurance agent in lle p p n e r i n curm olly drafting letters to send to former .storm spotters and asks that when they receive the letter they return the self addressed envelope to the weather station in Pendleton Others who are interested in becoming storm spotters may eon tact the Morrow County Sheriff's office for additional Information Storm spotters must have a tele p h o n e and provide a g o o d descrip lion of their location To ho a storm spotter Duval explains, a person must la- w tiling to watch a rain gauge and call the weather station's toll free numla-r if un unusual amount of rainfall is noted Also, if the weather service has information of a storm in the area, a storm s(aitter must be willing to la- wakened by the weath er service's phone call and to chi-ck the rain gauge or the creek level at that time We may need them only once in a lifetime, but when we need them, we really need them ." he said With the construction of Willow ( reek Dam. a system of river and Bob Ployhar Bob Ployhar. 31, lleppner. is the new Farmers Insurance Agent here Ployhar was born in lleppner and grew up her«* II«- and his wife, (Tteryl. have two sons Jerid 7 and Darrin. 4 Ployhar has taken over the agency from Jim lluy«-s and will be op«-n five days a week, y a m noon and 1-5 p m . T- x QSp* . - * . ,-w— t WINTER COLD! uith gories Category one reports that no problem is indicated along the streams. t>ul when category five is noted, evaculation pnxixlures la- come ne« essary because of flooding The system, however, can prov id«- only a TO minute warning of flash flooding in most areas and the wealher service hopes thal by set ting up a network of storm spotters the warning can tie given longer in advance The system called Alert. us«-s a computer program test«-d in Califor ma and is prim arily in use where homes are built at the confluence of streams Traditionally.says Duval, people w ill build homes in areas convi-nienl to water but many limes lh«-s<- are the worsl plac«** to la- if flash flooding occurs Phi- weather service has written the computer program which w ill allow them to betl«-r fill Iheir func lion of warning residents when a storm is imminenl With the Al«-rl system and storm spotters the wea ther service also w ill have a heller idea of local weather patterns As things are now. Duval says, it is sometimes the next day aft«-r a flash flood la-fore the weather service knows about it Also in planning stages are a backup warning system should tele phone service fail during a storm Amateur radio communications are usisl in some areas hut may not la- a feasible solution in Morrow County ta-cause of the variations in «-leva lion la x a l lislen«-rs who can hear weather service broadcasts from Spout Springs at 16.’ 4nth are askisl to notify the weather because d ihe broadcast can la- heard lucally. it will prov id«- another option lor emer gency weather warnings When the wea I her service re c e iv es an alert either from a storm -.(»liter a rain gauge or the compu ler system the person on duly w ill be able to disseminate the warning to ihe sheriff's office and Irom there it can ta- spread to hospitals, schools, and by a siren warning system can alert th«- entire area Travis Harrison explain«-«! the leadership camp session up at la-hinan Springs and lold ol the groups Lain- Tahoe Trip Kim Wrighl told of the expa-ri mental exchange trip lo Alaska which nine persons made in an eight pa-rson van with their neces sary luggage Kevin Hughes projected a MirpriM- -.bowing of colored slidi-s which included glimpses ol all who partic ipated in the various summer activities which the sp«-akers had just reviewed As th«- speakers had n*>i s«-«-n this collect ion of pictures, each was encourage<i to speak out about his memories ol ihe events pictured When the teenagers conciuch-d their program. Tullis explained that the coming w irk (H i 7 121 is National 4 II W«-ek and that this program was a sort ol preview planned lor ihe Chamlx-r meeting al which I hi- exl«-nsion office s«-tT«‘ turii-s Melinda West and Claudia Hugh«‘s were special gui-sts Students particip a te in With The Catalytic! * Wood Saving ( !I p u m SEE OUR DEMONSTRATION MODEL 6 7 6 b 5 0 0 ^ 7 ^ ¿ £ ¿ S»jr^ FARMERS ! G e t Y o u r Seed T re a tin g M a te ria l N o w ! For Smut in Wheat & Barley Terracoot LT2 Vitavax 25DB Granox N M (Maneb HCB) Dust Vitavax 200 (Flowable) v Now At For Wireworm in Wheat & Barley Lindane 75W |PETTYJO HN O IL A N D iC H E M IC A L CO M PANIES Itv J u s tin e W e a lh e rftv rd Stale of Oregon employee T«-en Mansell who is in Meppner until Nov I serving as the temporary operator of ihe Division of Motor Vehicles office in lleppner is scht- dull'd to conduct a drivers training class (or persons over 50 years of age al the lleppner Neigborh<Mxi C«*nter at Saturday , tk-t 26 Hansell is giving this American Assentation of Kelired Persons class as an AAKP volunteer, however, the AAKP which furnishes the materials • film etc lor Ihe class has set f*-e H om ecom ing PUBLIC NOTICE Have Gotten Better Available D rive rs tra in in g class offered of $7 lor the H a m ■ p m workshop Persons who take this "55 A live" class w ill find thal they may become eligible for a III percent discount on their auto insuram-e, she says "Older drivers n**ed to lx- aware of the physical changes they are or soon will tx-experiencing They need lo review their driv mg habits They must become aware of new driving rul«-s and r«-gulaiions " For further information call the DMY office. 676 5165 p a ra d e Friday See sports story page 6 Insurance seminar set Stoves •vlUsw/f.*- l.onnn- K ill (mind a way to push" little brother Iceland and get away with it while enjoying some of Ihe new playground e<|uipment at Meppner City ark Th*- boys are the sons of (Veil and Molly Kill N«-w «-«juipmenl purchas«-«) by the lleppner Soroptimist includes chairs, brackets and t<xl<ll«-r and regular swings The city of lleppner donated the actual work in putting the swings up The Soroptinusts began Ihe on going project to improve Ihe city park as one wav of returning to th«- community money which was e.irn«-d from various dui) fundraisers Additional funds have lx-en s«-l aside and Ihe Soroptimist S«-rv ice Committee is in Ihe prix-«-ss of trying to interest olher organizations in helping to improve Ihe park A spokesperson for the Soroptinusts savs that although Ihe city has Ihe final approv al of what gix-s into the park they are open to suggi-stion.s from the community Members of the Service Committee are Cindy Henderson chairm an, Molly K ill, I ’at Hiatt, and Maril«-e McIXiwell School spirit B laze K in g ★ Hums In the suing Drinox 34HC 422 7311 Statement of Ownership Management and Circulation 1A Title of Publication The lleppner Gazette-Times IB Publication No 24o42u 2 Date of Filing Sept 30. 1985 3 Frixjuency of Issue Weekly 3A No of issues published annually - 52 .IK Annual Subscription Price SI3* t i l . $6 4 Complete Mailing Address of known office of publication 147 W illow P ’ o Hox 337. Meppner Morrow, Or«-gon »7836 5 Complete Mailing Address of the headijuarters of g«-neral business offices of the publisher mot printer' 147 Willow P O Box .337 Meppner Morrow ( keg on 97836 6 Full nam«-s and complete mailing address of publisher «xlilor and managing editor David F Sykes, April K Sykes 310 Green SI lleppner OK 978.16 Editor Sandy Holtz P O Box 264. lone OK 97841 Managing Editor David K Sykes P O Box 337. Meppner OK 97816 7 Owner full name complete mailing addr«*ss David F and April E Sykes 360 Gr«-en SI Meppner OK 97816 8 Known Bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders owning or holding I percent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities Jane and Jerome Sheldon 525 K Koy Apt 203. Seattle WA 98102 10 Extent and Nature of Circulation Average No Actual No Copies each issue copies of single during preceding issue published 12 months n*-ar«-st to filing date A Total No Copies I9U0 185(1 B Paid and or ri-questi-d circulation 1 1 Sales through dealers and car 375 166 riers, slr«*et vendors and counter sales 2 Mail subscription 1094 1040 C Total paid ana or re«juest«*d cir cuiation 1469 1406 D Fr«x-distribution by mail, carrier or other means samples, compli mentary and other fr«*e copies 170 182 F Total Distribution 1639 1588 F Copies not distributed 1 Office use. left over, unaccoun ted . spoiled after printing 203 249 2 Kelurn from News Agenls 58 13 G Total 1901) 185(1 II l«-ertify that the slatein«-nts made by me above are correct and complete tsiDavidF Sykes Publisher. Owner Published Octolx-r 9 1983 Swanson Insurance Agency in lone will lx- hosting the third annual Multi Peril Crop Insurance informa lion seminar on Wixlnesday . Octo!x-r 23 in lone owners Jim and Monica Swanson have announced Th«- seminar w ill lx- held Irom 7 lo 9 p m at the Willows Grange hall in lone and is open to everyone lr«-e of charg«- Keatured sp«-ak«-r w ill lx- Paul Gelinek branch manager of Crop Mail Management out of Spokane, who w ill address the program and changes for 1986 The program will lx-ol inler«*sl to all farmers wh«-lh«-r they have Crop Mail Management or not , " says Jim Swanson Pie and coffe«- will lx- served at the m«-eting and those who wish more Information may call Swanson In surance Agency NEW BODY SHOP W atch For This Sign 4 M iles O u t H in to n C reek Way. *\\NT0N CRjEEk BODY SHOP 6 7 6 -9 1 5 1 ★ B ody F ra m e ★ A u to Glass ★ P a in tin g Ht. 2 Hox 2384 Hill Brannon. Manager 076-91)1
