The Heppner
Gazette-Times
M orrow C ounty
\ .>1 l(M No. 15
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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