T W O Th* H r ^ i n r r i . a i r t l r Tune». H rp p n rr O rrg u a . W r d n r td a t Marth i. I«M
B ’gosh n Begorrah
Court hears evidence regarding Justice Court
It’s almost St. Patrick’s Da
Plan* arr coming together (or the
March 15-17 St P atrick '» Day O l e
bration
Koaella L in d s «) has been
choaen to reign as queen of the
festivities
Also representing the
Doherty fam ily. Sue Doherty will
grand marshall the Saturday after
none parade
William Kill is still accepting
appiicahona for the sheep shearing
contest and says that unlesa he has a
few more entries, the contest may
have to be canceled for this year
Kntrles for the sheep dog trials are
continuing to come in with about 20
entries received so far Cash prizes
will be offered in both events
Parade chairman Bob Kahl says
that it's still not loo late, he will be
arccpVng m in e s until March 10
Ribbons and small cash prizes will
be awarded in some categories
Floats. Irish fam ily groups cars,
bands Irish characters, clowns, and
c o m ic s , p o litic a l, courts and
querns. and civic organisations are
all welcom e to enter, he says
A bed race, a new event this year
already has applicants ready to roll
down Main Street warm ing up the
crowd before the parade
Skating, music and dancing, an
art show a slide show, cake and food
sales, a continental breakfast. Has
qur lamb barbecue, radio broad
cast, and many more events prom
tse to fill the Irish holiday that you
don't have to be Irish to enjoy
Tom Smonton "points the town green" in preparation
of Si
Patrick s Day
Judge returns from D.C.
Morrow County Judge Don McEl-
llgott is espected to return to Mor
row County F'riday, March 7 from a
week long National Association of
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system were discontinued, it would
take at least a year before an order
from the Chief Justice or the state
legislature would make il possible
for him to hold court at Irrigon.
assuming they decided to g ive such
an order The county would still be
responsible for providing a court
room and an office for a court
secretary. but would not receive any
revenues from district court
See
related story in the F'ebruary 12.
1986 (iarette Tim es )
Bill Kuhn expressed his concern
for abolition of justice court because
it would "severely handicap the
police ugencies to rely on judges who
reside in Hermiston and Pendleton
Without Justice Court.
he said,
"the county would see an increase
in both the S h eriffs and the District
Attorney's budgets as they would
have to increase travel time and
expense to go to Pendleton and
Hermiston for services they are now
receiving from the Justice Court "
Because access to a judge would
be harder to obtain." he said. "1
would expect situations to arise
when a crim inal defendant who
should be detained is left on the
streets
I would expect charges
would be dropped against crim inal
defendants in certain situations be
cause of unavailability of a judge '*
The court pointed out that at this
time, they are only collecting data
concerning justice court The entire
budget, not Just justice court is
under scrutiny. Judge Don McEIli
gott said, and if (he budget should be
defeated in the March 25 election,
many other aspects of the budget
will be considered for reduction or
omission
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Out-of-town water users protest
proposed rate increase
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Continuing in their investigation of
Juafice Court in Morrow County, the
County Court received letters from
Bill Kuhn and Judge Ralph Currin at
a Wednesday. F'eb 19 session
During budget workshops the coun
ty budget com mittee directed the
court to conduct a study of the
justice court system to determine if
it provided a duplication of services
and if the elimination of the justice
court would save county taxpayers
money
Judge Currin told the court that he
did not w ish to exprrss an opinion on
the abolition of justice court, but did
want the court to consider that his
actions were limited by state laws
Me currently serves as District
Court Judgr at the county seat one
day each week as directed by
statute The law currently does not
allow him to hold court at irngon. so
if the Morrow Counlv Justice Court
(Pitt Iron)
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Counties annual legislative confer
once at Washington D C where he
has been as an official delegate from
the state of Oregon
The conference. sa> s County Com
missmner Jerry Perk is concerned
with all legislative matters which
effect county governments including
the espected decrease of revenue
sharing and the attempt at balanc
ing the federal budget through im
plementation of the Gramm Kud
man a d
Counties from across the nation,
says Peck, have donated *60.000 for
lobby ing efforts to return some 'tar
geted revenue sharing" funds to
distressed areas
.Nome counties
may still receive almost no money
Not only revenue sharing, but
other types of funding as forest
receipts may he effected resulting in
fewer dollars trickling tiack to local
law enforcement and health ser
vices Some of these services are
mandated, he continues, and the
original effect of revenue sharing
was to offset the cost of the mandat
ed services to local taxpayers
Although national deficit spending
needs to be stabilized, a balance
between national defense and hu
man services has to be arrived at
because the county simply could not
afford to maintain the present level
of services if all the money had to be
raised from local taxes, he conclud
ed
By AVON MFII.BV
Out of town water users packed
city hall at Monday night 's Meppner
City council meeting
Howard
Pettyjohn said they wanted the facts
on the proposed increase in water
rates for them He said when he put
in city water 25 years ago he hired
the necessary work paid for the
pipe, turned it over to the city, and
still pays his own maintenance
Commercial rate of 110 75 mini
mum is charged all 24 outside city
hookups He indicated that differen
re was bringing extra income to the
city, and wanted to know why out of
town users were being accused of
not paying their share
Several others in the group joined
him in stating they did not get to vote
on city action, such as increasing
their water rates, adding some of
them owned property in the city on
which they had to pay taxes
Bonded indebtedness of the city on
upgrading water lines is not retired
from city water bills, but by taxes
paid along with the approved budget
each year Amount of payment this
year is *71.737, Marshall Lovgrcn
said
A small amount of money collec
ted on water bills is put into a
reserve fund to be used toward
indebtedness payment, in case of
emergency only Mayor Cara Costa
asked a com mittee to study and
update a two year old record of how
Housing project
(Questions concerning the remodel
uig of the lleppner Hotel have come
up during the past week, said Meg
Murray, local chairperson for the
project
P re applications are now
necessary to determine prospective
use of the facility before the Elderly
Housing F'inance Program can ap
prove a *600.000 loan needed to
complete the project
Pre applications can be delivered
sealed to Heppner City Hall if
desired and they can be filed while
still sealed and will be later given
over to the I'm atilla County Housing
Authority which will oversee the
operation of the completed project
Applications will be considered in
the order received If. at first, an
applicant finds it inconvenient to
move into the facility, his name will
stay on the waiting list for three
notifications before it is removed
The facility will contain 21 one
bedroom units, two studio apart
ments. two guest rooms, a lounge,
a community room, and a lobby
area There will be laundry far ill
ties on each floor
F'ach unit will
have a kitchen There will also be an
elevator, which is required by law
Parking will be in the rear of the
building
P re applications are available at
Heppner City Hall. Case F'urmture
Store, and Murray Drugs in lleppn
er
heart surgery
Morrow County Commissioner Irv
Rauch is reported to he out of
intensive care and doing very well
following coronary bypass surgery
last F'riday at St Vincent's hospital
in Portland
Rauch had gone into the hospital
Thursday for a procedure expected
to clear blockage from three arter
les Two arteries were cleared, but
during the procedure, a blood clot
formed and the third artery collap
sed necessitating the bypass sur
gery, said a spokesperson for the
county court
He is expected to be released from
the hospital this F'riday and to spend
about three weeks at home recuper
ating before returning to his regular
activities
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Where the customer
is the company
Guests for the day were member.»,
of Bookworms of Heppner including
Justine Weatherford. Sylvia Me
D an iels. H elen C urrin, Pau lin e
Hughes. Marian Brosnan. F'lorence
G reen . M adge Thom son, and
Kathry n Hoskins Other guests were
Irene Swanson and Kathy Morter
School Lunch
M enu
Heppner High School
Monday. March 10 - franks -n-
Iinked beans, salad, cinnamon rolls,
and milk
Tuesday . March II • potatoes and
gravy, rolls, salad, fruit, and milk
Wednesday, March 12 burritos,
hot vegetable, fruit, cookie, and
milk
T h u rsd ay. M arch 13 • cooks
choice
F'riday, March 14
soup and
sandwich and milk
Request absentee ballots
Absentee ballots are now avail
able at the Morrow County Clerk's
office for the March 25 special
election Anyone who is registered
to vote may request an absentee
ballot if he has reason to believe that
he will be unable for any reason to
vote at the election
The application for an absentee
ballot may be made no more than 66
days before the election except in
the case of physically handicapped
persons whose application is good
for absentee ballots in every election
during the year which the applies
lion was made
An application must be in writing
and signed by the applicant
The
signature, says Morrow County
Clerk Barbara Bloodsworth is need
ed to com pare with the signature on
the voter registration card Absen
tee ballot requests must be received
by the Clerk's office not later than 8
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Bob (Tapp, instructor in the
drama department at Blue Mount
ain Community College, was guest
speaker at the lone Topic Club on
Wednesday . F'eb 26 at the home of
Monica Sw anson
He spoke about "H ow Tea Ire
Happnes" giving a comprehensive
story of the production of a play The
Community Theatre is supported by
HMCC in the amount of *2.700 which
is about the amount needed to put on
one play each year The remainder
of the financing comes from ticket
sales He thanked area residents for
their support by attendance The
community enters into play pro
duction by furnishing actors and
through
the "working" board of
community persons As a usual
thing each board member has some
specific responsibility for produc
tion such as lights, costumes, dir
ecting. props, sets, etc The produc
tion of a play requires six weeks of
rehearsals and about 12.600 man
hours of work
J e n y McFTIigolt also was present
and discussed the School Budget and
encouraged everyone to vote on
March 25
Robert D. Rolen. O.D.
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Check ’em out NOW during the CENEX Spring Battery Sale.
be donated by Morrow County Grain
Growers, Heppner Lions Club, and
Kinrua Corporation. Council woman
Georgia Rathbun reported
P ro p e r ty ow n ers along Court
Street where a wooden sidewalk is in
use will be advised to keep It in
repair, council members decided
Marbin Lane said two boards were
missing in one section and were a
danger He said a lot of school kids
use the walk
Harry Nash was granted request
to get an animal permit to keep 13
cows and 25 chickens on his 13-acre
I at 495 W Water Street
Appointment of Avon Melby and
Chloe Pearson to the City Planning
commission was made by Mayor
Cara Costa
Permission to attend a water
management school in LaGrande
was given the city foreman Police
th ie f Doug Kathhun was instructed
to keep the recently purchased
second police car in the garage when
it was not on em ergency use, and to
explain to the rest of the force that if
they used their own cars to go on
police calls they would be responsi
ble under their own insurance
Closure of West Street to all
parking was ordered at Chief Rath-
bun's request
He said the street
was too narrow for traffic to flow if
cars were parked on either side of
the two block long street, and that
property owners on the street had
requested it.
Club hears how
theater happens
applications available
Commissioner has
Start this Spring
with CENEX Batteries.
much those inside the city were
paying into this, and com pare how
much those outside were contnbut
ing Action on setting any increase
will be held over to next month, she
said
Jerry Rood, one of the outside city
users said "W e want to pay our fair
share on the bonded indebtedness "
Tuesday morning Ixivgren said
the city's total bonded indebtedness
is currently *651,704 on bonds ap
proved for water system upgrading
The tax rate on this bonded indebt
wlneas for city residents, he said,
would be approxim ately *2 71 per
tl.ono of appraised value
John Skow , owner of the RV park
on Main Street, said he was being
charged for 14 spaces minimum
water rates, was paying *70 per
month even when almost none were
rented
He connected a rental he
ow ns in the same lot to the same line
so it would serve a beauty shop, and
said he was being billed twice for
that amount of water Councilmen
Doug I-ow e a nd Chuck Holt w ere
appointed to look into the matter
Charge for peddlers and door to
door salesmen was increased from
the present *100 per year to *150, and
lowered from *25 per day to *20 The
action was in response to a request
last month from Sue Walker. L e x
ington. who is putting in a steak and
sea food route in the area
Funds for a new fool bridge
between Main and Court Street will
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p m the day of the election
Bloodsworth says that the voting
booth is set up in the Clerk's office
and anyone who expects to be out of
town March 25 may come in and vote
or request an absentee ballot
Comet returns
to Oregon skies
Special hours are now in effect at
the Goldendale observatory through
March Regular visiting hours are
F'riday 7-* p m . Saturday 1-5 p m
and 7 9 p m
and Sunday 1-5 p m
F^xtended hours w hich Include
viewing H alley's comet when it is
visible arr Wednesday through $un
day from II p m until dawn the
following morning Halley » comet
now rises at 4 30 a m