The Heppner
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Gazette-Times
Morrow C ounty * H om e-O w ned W eekly N ew spaper
Vol 104 No 16
Heppner, Oregon 25*
Wt-dncsdav. Api il 23. 1986
Weather
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Poison Hemlock sprayed on Willow Creek
Volunteer crew gets equipment ready for spraying
The extremely dangerous poison
hemlock has been sprayed along the
hanks of Willow Creek w ithin the ci
ty limits of Heppner The combined
effort between the city and Jim Van
Winkle. Morrow County weed
manager was aimed at eradicating
the noxious weed because it is fatal
both to people and livestock
All parts ot the plant are
poisonous It grows like a wild car
rot ranges from 4 to 10 feet tall the
stem is generally stout, erect,
hollow, ridged and with purple
streaks or blotches and the flowers
are small white and look like
umbrellas
Poison Hemlock has been found
lone trackster to hurl javelin in Canton
An lone High School trackster
received word last Friday that she
has been chosen to accompany a
group of high school athletes to a
track meet in Canton. China Chosen
by the International Sports Ex
change. a non profit California cor
poration. athletes from class "A "
and "B " schools throughout Oregon
and Washington will travel in Asia
from July 5-12.
The letter informing Deena Hams
and her track coach. Del 1-uRuc of
her selection to the team of athletes
"must have been lost in the mail."
she said, because "it was postmark
ed two weeks before we got it and
the second letter confirming that we
had returned information to the
sports exchange came the same day
as the first letter "
Deena Hams, a junior at lone
High School, was selected on the
basis of a I 34'5" throw of the
javelin at the state track meet last
sear The toss earned her a third
place for the state She is already
throwing 131' this season which she
savs is good because last year, it took
her the entire season to work to
The biggest difference between
Heppner and Portland is that at
home. "You don't ride horses down
the middle of Main Street," said
Came Mumford of the Centennial
School District in Portland
She was one of the eighth graders
from Lynch Terrace Middle School
who exchanged places with eighth
graders from Heppner last week In
its sixth year, the program has pro
sen itself, but for the youths involv
ed. the week provided new
experiences
Nineteen Heppner youths spent
the week with host families at Lynch
Terrace Middle School where 220
eighth graders attend regularly
Their week included tours and lec
tures on the Columbia River (Jorge,
the Banfield Transitway project.
Boeing. Reynolds Metals Co., the
Clackamas Town Center. Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry,
the W ashington Park Zoo. old town
Portland. Yamhill Market. Pioneer
Square. Terminal 6 containerized
cargo loading. Terminal 4 loading
and unloading grain, and a ship
repair yard
Twenty five eighth graders from
Lynch Terrace spent the week with
host families in Heppner During the
week they attended classes at Hepp
ner Elementary school and tours by
the Wheat league, the CowHelles.
of the (¡host Town of Hardman, of
Willow Creek Dam. of Kinzua
sawmill, of Morrow County
Museum, and of the PGF coal fired
plant
Dave Ofcott, a teacher from
Lynch Terrace who has participated
in the program every year says that
the experience is always unique
because of the different composition
of the group he brings with him
"It's difficult to think that in a week
the students can develop such strong
feelings about a community and its
people.” he said The different en
vironment provides the opportunity
for the kids to blossom, some
become more overt here, and all
become complete individuals tor him
where before he was able to see them
only as students in the classroom
The exchange generated excite
ment at least among the Lynch Ter
race students as they shared sonic of
their experiences last Fridas Words
tumbling out on top of one another.
"You'd get killed if you walked
down the middle of the street at
home,” Carrie Mumford declared,
but here that's the way we walk
home after school
Here 17 students is a "big class"
and there is only one teacher per
class where at Terrace there are
four, they said "It's hard to imagine
a whole |unior high on one floor, in
seven room »," asserted John
Siw inski
They were surprised that students
here arc excused from school at 10
a m for a track meet " No way, do
you get out ot school that early at
Deena Hams
' ß K 1
not only along Willow Creek but in
pastures, roadsides altalta fields, idle
land and esen in home yards
Jim VanWinkle along with cits
foreman Dave Winters sprayed the
w ed on portions of W illow Creek
la 1 week
Mayor Cara Costa praised the
operation as a joint effort between
the two partics "We didn't have the
morses in the budget to hire the
sprasing dorse and Jim VanWinkle
donated his time and provided the
equipment." slated Costa
It cost the city $48 to buy the
chemicals. 241) and Hansel, used on
the weed VanWinkle and W inters
armed with backpack sprayers
sprayed 50 gallons in three and one
halt hours
"City residents also have taken an
interest in eliminating the weed and
hase called me to inquire what kind
of chemicals to spray." VanWinkle
said
Scott Madison, member of the
weed advisory board and a director
of Morrow Soil and W ater district,
also praised the project saying. "Jim
is available to the public to help alen
tify and make recommendations on
weed problems, ami earlier this year
Jim worked with the city of Irrigon
to spray thistles
VanW inkle suggested that the ci
ty of Heppner could also develop
their own weed program " fo r a
v*ry small amount of money, the ci
ty could invest in a back pack
^aver and chemicals." he said
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On fuiHliiiK
Schools asking input
(Questionnaires on scfn»>l financ
ing are inserted in this week s
Gazette Times as part ot a massive
effort to find out what Oregonians
think about the state's school finance
system The insert also outlines how
the school finance system works
now The questionnaires are to be
filled out and returned to the ()regon
Department of Education
In addition to the questionnaire in
sens, town hall meetings have been
scheduled throughout the state (See
related story )
Results ot the questionnaires and
the "town hall" meetings will he
combined with the findings ot a
scientific poll conducted during
August in a report which will be
released in September, said Frank
IX’sl. chairman of the State Hoard of
Education
"Citizens have examined and re
jeeted about 15 proposed solutions
in the past and it is tutse to figure out
what we're doing wrong," con
tinued Dost "Most proposals hase
come from the 'leadership' and it
seems that no one has asked the peo
pie who pay the bills where thes
want to be led It is high time (hat
we stop and ask "
Various businesses have donated
or pros ided sers ices at reduced rates
to help keep the cost of "Seeking
Oregon's Solutions" down Hoi sc
Cascade donated 10 Ions ot
newsprint for the inserts, "D ie
Oregonian" printed the inserts at a
reduced rale. FTL Trucking is
delivering the inserts to newsjvapcrs
at no charge, and most daily pajsers
are chaiging reduced rales for the in
sen Weekly papers art i->t charg
mg for the inserts Hue die Power and
I ight will ik< the scientific poll ut no
charge
School finance
meeting
pi aimed
School finance will be the topic of
a public meeting scheduled for
Thursday. April 24. 1986 , 7 p m
at Riverside High School in Hoard
man Sponsored by the Hoardman
North Morrow County Chamber of
Commerce, this meeting will pro
side area residents with an oppor
tunity to air views on how public
schools are paid for "It's time lor
the people to speak out and let Salem
hear what we think." commented
Chamber President Art Kegler. who
will moderate the forum
The ideas generated will be col
levied and sent to the Stale Depart
ment ol Education Officials there
will compile reports from similar
meetings throughout the state this
month and provide the findings to
the Governor and the Legislature
"W e want to hear from as many
people as possible," Kegler said
"We all need to be involved In fin
ding a better way to support our
schools
County levy reduced by $99,690
where she finished the year before
Although she will compete only in
the lavelin at the meet in Canton, the
robust teen also hurls the discus and
The Morrow County Special Ievy
occasionally competes in the shot has been reduced 599.690 since
put
voters rejected the county proposal
She holds the current school in the March levy election The lev y
record of 97’ in discus competition cut reported in ¡he headline in last
"At first. I couldn't believe it. but week's Gazette Times, $48,083,
I think it's really great to be was the amount cut from the coun
chosen," she said Although "I've ty’» general fund
never had the urge to go to China.
The remainder of last's week's ar
I'm glad that I'm going Maybe I'll ticle concerning the proposed special
come back liking Chinese food "
levy was correct
In addidion to competing at the
May 20. voters will decide on a
Canton track meet. "They've pro $2.469.040 one-year special
mised lots of sightseeing," Hams operating levy Tax rate for the levy
says
will be $3.74 per $1.(XXI of assess
The cost of the trip is SI .700 plus, ed property value The hospital levy
which is a lot to raise before July, and the Lifeguard serial levy have
but "my friends have shown a lot of alrrady been approved with tax rates
enthusiasm for helping me with a of 48 cents and four cents respective
dinner and raffle Since no one from ly; the total tax rate for the combin
lone has gone yet. we hope it won't ed levies is $4 26 per $1.(810
be too hard." the sturdy trackster valuation
concluded
The following cuts were approv
ed by the County Court
$39,255 from the Road Fund.
Capital outlay was reduced by
$7.2(8) for the pure have ol a pic kup.
$1 ,(88) for purchase of a radio, and
$3.(88) for purchase ot air condi
lioncrs for three blades Die balance
of the cuts were in the area of
materials and services $10,(88)
from weed spraying. $2.(88) front
fire insurance, and $10,(88) from
diesel purchases since the cost of
petroleum products has gone down
recently
$8.54f from the North Morrow
Ambulance levy
$|.6IM from the North Morrow
Medical Clinic
$9tkt from the Fair and Rodeo
Fund
$1,841 from the city road
districts, an automatic reduction
because the total is figured on a
home." affirmed l^iurie Raihala for wrestling, track, soccer, and
Ryan Young chimed in that here the t<N8ball. John has been on the foot
track team was 10 people contrasted ball, wrestling, and baseball teams,
with 140 team members at Terrace and laiurie on the volleyball, basket
Kids here don’t have as much ball, and track teams
variety, they said At Terrace this
All four seemed in agreement that
year, Carrie has participated in people are nice in Heppner
downhill skiing. Rvan has gone out Everybody waves, they said At
home, if somebody you don't know
waves, you run the other way. Car
rie asserted
Cars are different here, I auric
pointed out In Portland, most are
compact cars, hut in Heppner
"everybody has rigs or trucks "
And. nobody even tries to lock them.
percentage ot the levy for the coun
ty road fund
$48,08) front the general fund
$20,(881 from the Sheriffs Depart
ment jail fund
Also from the General Fund, the
Weed District was cut $1.188). the
Soil and Water Conservation District
$1.5(8), the Extension Service
$ l .(88) the w ate muster $100 the
lexington Blow Control $2' la 58)9f
cut), the Veterans Administration
$118). and the County Counsel
$2.401
Daylight lime
begins April 27
Daylight Savings I line starts Sun
day. April 27 Remember to set
clocks FOK\$ AKDone hour before
going to sleep Saturday night
Remember the phrase "Spring for
ward Fall hack." and be on time
Eighth graders trade schools for a week
they just leave the keys in the igm
tion If you did that at home, there
would be "no car left," John
agreed
John also was impressed with the
beef tour, how somebody actuallv let
Lynch Terrace exchangees in front of Heppner Elementary School.
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