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The Heppner Gazette-Times M orrow C ounty \ .>1 l(M No. 15 '• H om e-O w ned W eekly N ew sp a p er llt‘|)|>iHT, Oregon 25l U tdnrM lat. \p ril H>. I W io Pages Weather by the City of Heppner County levy cut $48,083 From left Rachel Harnett, past curator, Alice Trmdle, marketir \ coordinator for the Tourism Division; Alma Green, president of the Museum Board and Johanne Wood museum curator. Morrow Co. Museum receives j»rant The Morrow County Museum was chosen hy ihe Oregon Historical Society lo receive a $499.80 gram in-aid administered through Ihe Tourism Division of the Oregon Economic Development I\-part ment. There arc no restrictions on how the museum may spend (he money, hut the grant must he used for the museum and not added into the county's general fund Six museums m the eastern Oregon region received fondine Morrow County Museum W ill. a Museum, and Kam \X ha Churn- Museum in John l)av rcveivc the maximum amount The Tourism l)iv ision became in solved in the museum grant pro gram, savs Alice fnndlc. regional marketing i.»•ordinalor hoc,ause thè history of e■astern ( )rcjton is> (»art of its attract ion tor touro lx As marketing coordinutor -.I h ■ vortex Hl promote tfle arca ami r \ |sects to assist commutinies witti pM d»s jjou \ for tourism and cs (•nomèe do, \ « il M Heppner teen hound for r C hina China Hy Ashley Conklin Wayne Wilgcrs track career is growing hy leaps and hounds and now the Heppner junior has leaped all the way to China last scavin Wilgers cleared a Heppner High School sophomore . lass record of b '2 1.-" and tied lor he eighth best Class "A " high jump nark That jump earned Wilgers an in »nation from International Sports Exchange to travel with them in Asia from July 5-14 Die cost of the trip is $1.795 “ Stephanie Payne (also from Hepp nerl went on the trip last year and raised nearly SIVKI through the community," Wilgers said Payne now competes at Willamette Cmver sity in Salem. International Sports Exchange is a California non prolit corporation whkh provides athletes from the United States to compete with athletes troni toreivn , >Hintries uwt in turn allows them lo learn the Iifesty les and cultures of the land they visit The teams from the United States wìi II come from Class “ A" and It high schools throughout ( >rcgon and Washington Three coaches from Oregon and one from Washington will lead the teams Wilgers is excited and ready to depart for the trip “ I was surprised to tv given the chance to go.' Wilgers s,nd Hits will he a great experience tor me because it will really help me to oh tain athletic scholarships next year hy getting my name out to the dit ferenl colleges " “ The good thing about a tnp like this is that1 thev don't nec essarilv pick the all urne neon athlete•*," a aid sich Da r ( ’onk1lr,-t coking tor good. Wayne Wilgers Cuts from the Morrow Counts Special Irsy total $48,083, says Budget Officer loRavnc Bowman Ihe resulting $2,4f»9,(M() levy will c’o to the voters May 2(1 Ihe tax rate tor the levs will he approximately $3 “'4 [vr SI txitot assessed proper ty value Ihe hospital levy and the I ifeguard serial levy have alreadv been approved with lax rates of 4lt cents and tour cents respectively. the total tax rate tor the combined levies is S4 2h per SI.000 valuation I ollowmg the March special levy defeat, the- Counts Court and budget committee considered ways to reduce the budget. Bowman con tinucd The budget committee recommended cutting the levy, rather than reducing the budget Each department in the general fund was asked to cut whatever they could ' and maintain serv ices which people indicated they wanted main tamed. Judge Don McKlligott said It was difficult because very lew capital outlay items were included in the original budget, so the cuts had to come from materials and services, he explained Ihe following cuts were approv ed hv the County Court $'9.255 from the Road Fund. Capital outlay was reduced by 57.200 tor the purchase of a pic kup. SI .(UK) tor purchase of a radio, and $3.000 for purchase of air condi tioners lor three- blades Ihe halancc ol the cuts were in the area of materials and services $10.001) from weed spraying. $2.000 from , lire insurance, and $10.000 from * diesel purchases since the cost of petroleum products has gone down recently $8.545 from the North Morrow Ambulance levy $l,b04 from the North Morrow Medical Clinic $9»K from the Fair and Rodeo Fund $1.841 from the city road districts, an automatic reduction because the total is figured on a perc entage of the levy for the county road fund $48.08' Irom the general fund $20.000 from the Sheriffs IX-purt ment tail fund This large cut was possible. Bowman explains because the county has not had lo use all of the money allotted tor housing prisoners in other county jails so far this year And. Judge McFlligotl added that it will he cheaper to house the county's pnviners in Benton County than previous arrangements permitted Also from the (icnctal Fund, the Weed District was cut $1,000. the Soil and Water Conservation District $1.500; the Extension Service $1.000, the Watennaster $100. the Lexington Blow Control $25 (a 50*3 cut», the Veterans Administration $100, and the County Counsel $2.401 Cuts in all other departments of the gcncrul fund ranged from $100 to $2.400 Bowman said Justice Court was retained at the sanr level as present, the Judge said, because several delegations to the court had requested that the court be maintained, and after study, the court determines! that eliminating tustice court would result in "no great savings to the county.” A proposal which the court con sidered ojvjx'sitc retaining the present services involved maintaining a justice ol the (»cave in mirth Morrow Planning Commission learns Corps must approve site By Avon Melhy It will take approval by the Corps ot Engineers before a double wide mobile home can be placed on West Sperry street lots attorney Bill Kuhn told the city planning commission Monday night Mr and Mrs Jay Coil asked about the possibility ol placing the struc ture in two lots they own next to the Max Harris home The area is /on ed industrial, but it is ulvo in the Hood plain kuhn said the elevation would have to be determined by a surveyor and it was possible the Corps would dec ide it could be plac id on a foundation in the area rather han built up high from the grouml If the site is approved Coil may seek a non conforming use permit, or the commissioners may re /one that area A slate requested periodic review ol the city s zoning plan is underway now Brent l-akc. field represen tativc tor the Department of l-and Conservation and IJevelopment Commission, recently met with kuhn to explain the principal focus of the rev tew Concern primarily is with popula twin change; city need for low cost housing, particularly mobile home placement, urban growth boundary justification, and historic site preservation Population of Heppner in 1986 is '50 less than was projected for this time in 1979 when the original plan was made, kuhn said There is nothing in the immediate future Computerized typesetting installed at G-T Courthouse gets blasted Workmen stand in a cloud before dust clears They are sandblasting the county courthouse as part of a restora tion project. Ihe Heppner Gazette Times last week installed a new typesetting system that will greatly improve the quality of the newspaper and the commercial printing plant, owner publisher David Sykes has annouiic ed Ihe* new system will replace out dated equipment that was not pro ving fast enough for our needs." he said Called a modular composition, or M( S the new equipment is run oft two computers, ami will enable ( ia/ette typesetters to compose com plete printing jobs advertisements and other work directly on the com putcr screens Previously type was set separately and then pasted up" by hand The new equipment will save us time in composition, and give a bet ter looking product." said Svkes lypesetting on a newspaper has evolved front the days when each in dividual letter was placed separate ly onto a page, to hot type when linotypes were used to set lines tor slugs) of type that were melted down when the job was done, to modern dav "offset" printing where the en tire process is done using photographic m aterials Ihe ( ia/ette I imes switched to offset in the early I970'x when two typeset ting ma. bines were purchased ( hie machine was used to set the galley s ' or columns of type for the paper, and the other Iliac time was us ed to produce larger letters used in headlines, ads and job printing The type was produced on photographic paper, run through a chemical bath lor processing, dried, waxed amt then pul down on the page by hand " The MCS system is |ust an ex tension of the offset typesetting pro cess, by hooking the whole works up lo computers," said Sykes The screen of the computer shows you what vou have, ami more type styles or "faces" arc available at just the touch ot a button County two days a week and reduc ing the service in south Morrow County to one day a week on the assumption that a Violations Clerk at the Courthouse . ml District Court could handle the same business that the justice court now manages the court, said McElligort. felt that this proposal would retain almost the same services but that scheduling problems would nuke it "more trou ble than it was worth " The Judge also said that the building inspection department was discussed at length The county is currently contracting building in spection services and will begin in terv icwtrig applicants for building in spec lor within the next two weeks < hie oi me original limttypes used at the (ia/ette for many years was donated by the paper to Shorty's Museum at the Morrow County Fair grounds Visitors can sec the old machine and realize the huge leaps made by the printing industry just within the last 25 years The new typesetting equipment was prcceeded at the (ia/ette hy two additional printing presses, a paper cutter and stapler purchased last fall to up grade the printing operation "We are now in the position to of fer complete quality work from our printing department." Sykes said Marcy Bacon (left and Marie Struthers learn what the new equipment can do which would bring the population up the numbers projected Elans of the state highway department to com plete the Wt-qc-m Route to ladramle may bring more tourism, but there is no large impact projected from that "Out of everything that's in Ihe pot. completion of the road from lone to the coal fire plant would pro bably have the greatest effect," kuhn said This is not expected any time soon During a work session the plan tiers decided there was probably no need to change the urban growth boundary If any part of it is taken out of that zoning designation, it returns to agriculture designation "and becomes undevelopable," kuhn stated Placement of mobile homes is the biggest problem the planners will be working w ith Discussion of allow mg outright placement of the homes in Residential Zone ll was diacuaa ed and met with no strong objections Any changes proposed will he ex plained at a public meeting before binding action is taken Conservation may improve stream flov The efficient use of water is one way to increase the summertime supply of water in Oregon says the Oregon Water Resources Depart ment W ater prov ided through con servalion could improve minimum vtreamflows and at the same time provide for additional out-of stream uses However, current Oregon water law lacks incentives for con servalion because it requires water right holders to use water or lose the right to do mi in the future The department says its new look at conservation will Determine the extent to which water users are already conserv ing Suggest possible incentives to en courage more efficient use of water Indentify institutional constraints that may prevent water users from using water efficiently Compile technical information on water conservation -Coordinate planning with other agencies and individuals who deal with water management Provide technical advice This information along with recommendations on conservation incentives will be submitted in a report to the commission and legislature in December |q8/> The commission decided at a February meeting to seek legislative change to encourage the conserva lion of water The commission ask ed (kiv Vic Atiych to include water conservation incentives in his legislative program to the 1987 'cgislaturc The department and commission encourage Oregonians with ques tions and suggestions on conversa tion to call Jack Donahue in Salem al 378-3671. ext 283
