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B E S S I E W E T Z I L L U OF ORE NEi HSI 'Af ’ ER L I B E U G E NE OR 9 7 4 0 3 The Heppner Gazette-Times NM M o r r oiv C o u n ty 's H o m e - O w n e d W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r Wednesday, Mas 7, I »MW» in Heppner, ( )regon 25‘ Anderson given conservation award Although he claim» thjt he is not doing anything different than the rot of the farmers around, his attempt to develop a no till system using ex isting equipment rather than renting special no-till equipment may have been one of the reasons Charlie Anderson was selected Morrow County Conservation fanner of the Year “ It nukes dollars and sense,” Anderson says, "to conserve W ith more moisture and more soil, the immediate returns are there, and the long term returns are even better " Having earned a K k he lor of Science degree in Business Ad ministration with concentration in personnel. Anderson says, he came home and tanned, an occupation, he learned from his dad. Frank Andcr son. who also has held the honor of Conservation Farmer of the Year He earned the title in 1444 With three experts, his dad and older brothers Eric and Steve, helping, it makes the job a lot easier, he explains He farms four places, and uses mostly the more accepted terracing, and "tra sh y " summer fallow methods on the rented ground He has 1.450 acres in Fuller Canyon, however, which he purchased from Marcel Jones (another Conservation Farmer of the Year, for strip farm mg used on this same piece of ground) in 1477 He began chang ing to farm-over type terraces and has added to the project yearly He identifies the main erosuxi pro hlems in Fuller Canyon as the sud den. devastating storms and f1ix<d runoff at anytime of the year “ The ground has to he ready year around." he says Hopefully, he says, six inches ot wet dirt is sufficient to try a no till crop in the fall The risk ol spring seeding is the risk of not raising a good crop He uses a regular fer tilizer applicator with a reinforced shank rather than a summer fallow shank He then uses 10“ hoe drills to seed “ Eric Anderson certified seed" into residue from a 40 hu per acre or less crop The method is still experimental, and the method of fer tili/ing is "O K ." hut it seems there shsNild be a better way." he says The annual no-till, he says, requires extra fertilizer. K0 lbs nitrogen and 15 lbs sulfer compared with 50-60 lbs nitrogen on the better areas of the ground with summer tallow and 40 lbs nitrogen in shallower areas Annual no till yields are about 70 HO percent of summer tallow yields The decision to no till depends on the amount of moisture in the fall and the farm program This year, he has 450 acres of tall rxvtill barley and 210 of spring no till barley The reason for the barley, he says is that From left the Anderson. Marcia. Claire age 2 Charlie and Colin age 7, stand near a terrace on the Fuller Canyon place he couldn't seed more wheat and still qualify for the famt program Anderson farms four different places, but all are dryland wheat and barley The earliest farming is the 1.000 It elevation place in Blalock canvon 15 miles west of Arlington on the Sherman and Gilliam County lines Fuller canyon is ready next at 2.500 ft elevation, then the Ridge Place on the Gilliam county line located between Condon and Hepp ner at 2.800 ft elevation Snderson Camp at 3,000 ft elevation has many severe slopes, he say», and is fanned later Some of the Blalock. Fuller and Ridge places are larmed the same year The emphasis on conservation Claire and Colin help their dad inspect wheat for foot rot and cephalosporium leaf stripe s Twelve seems also to contribute to the quail ty ot hi» crop Anderson earned the I4H4 Oregon State Fair award for the best seed exhibit In addition to farming, he was the I4HI president ot the Morrow Coun ty Wheat league, has been on the Agricultural Stabilization and ('on scrvation Service committee, is a director for the Morrow County Grain Growers, and served two At Boardman years as vice chairman of the ( Hegon Wheat league Production and land Use Committee. Next year, he plans to hid 400 acres of Fuller Canyon and all of the Ridge place into the Conservation' Reserve Program He says he would like to start planting some of the grass as early as this fall on the shallowest and most easily erodihlc ground Tue» Wed Thur» Weather by the City of Heppner Fri Sal Sun Mon April 24 High 55 63 74 57 56 60 61 - M at 4 lam Pres 28 0 36 0 44 04 45 04 36 0 40 0 36 47 New foot bridge plans completed By Avon Melby Arrangements are completed for a new loot bridge over Willow Creek between Court and Main streets. Heppner City Council was told Monday night Georgia Rathhun, councilwoman in charge of the committee, said lumber had been donated by Kinzua. fencing by Morrow Cininty Grain Grower», and Heppner Lions Club had agreed to do the work Dave Winter», city crew foreman, will oversee the project He told the council a new paved approach will replace the present wooden walk, with the city crew doing that work Ordinance No 460. requiring a license for peddlers, was adopted after making some changes Purpose of the licensing is to keep out peo ple who might be acting outside the law . txH to raise tixtney. members of the council said A fee to cover costs of a background check on all ap plicants was deemed necessary This was set at $10 for one day, $20 for a week's permit, and $100 for a year The yearly permits may he renewed by application to the awn cil without additional charge Requests for city water to serve a two-acre lot above the cemetery, next to Bobbie Angell property, was made by Ken Key He said he had been living on the property in u trailer for two months, had a permit from Department of Environmental Quality to put in a septic tank, and approval of Columbia Basin Electric Co-op for clccnc service tie was told the proper procedure was to ob tain a letter from the ciwnty plann ing director stating action taken by the county planners, before the city could review his plans He may pre sent it. with a drawing of his plans for building, to the city planners at their meeting next Monday the pm perty is located in the city's urban growth boundary, and approval of both county and city is necessary, he was told Personnel policies were worked over at a four and a half hour meeting last week by the awncil. hut came up for some review. mainly to change wording to he sure exact meanings were in the new 24 page manuscript Changes pertained to compensatory time, holidays, sick leave, and substituting “ full time" employee for "perm anent " employee in a large number ol places where the term appeared Contract for operation of the city landfill runs out six»n, city aftornev Hill Kuhn said He said a plan must he drawn up and presented DEQ to gain approval tor the city to continue operating the facility He said it wiwld probably be necessary lodig five trenches. 20 leet wide and 200 feet long This should he sufficient to cover the anxiunt of material the city would need lodisjxise ot tor the next five years, and a five year lease should be requested Several a>st estimates lor street repair were given by Winters, but he council said they wanted to hold a v«*te on a three year serial levy to fund a complete street re building and water line replacement Decision was made to hold thaf election August 13 or September 16 Specifications will be drawn up and exact costs obtained lor the work needed Approval of the city's application for a $600.000 loan from the Stale Housing Department has been held up. Kuhn reported He said he and Slate Rep Ray French, and Stale Sen Eugene Timms, had talked to people in Salem lust week and “ It l<x>ks like (he money may be available ” Timms is on the senate finance committee and was very in terested in the protect of reoxxleling Heppner Hotel for a retirement complex Mayor Cara Costa reud a letter from Pioneer Memorial Hospital stating that since the flixxl warning equipment lixated in the hospital was no longer needed due to con struction of the dam. the hospital would like to have it removed Police Chief Douglas Rathhun said monitors were in Shohc Canyon to warn of flood, and in Hinton Creek, and the warning equipment was very much needed City Administrator Marshall lutvgren was grunted permission to transfer funds within the general fund, from one area to another, to cover where more money hud been used than was budgeted in some funds Boeing plans $10 million test range R\ Avon MeÜv Plans for a $10 million test range development on county land rented by Boeing were revealed at the Mor row Cixinty Planning Commission meeting last week R<x:ing asked for a change from exclusive farm zone to commercial zone for 10.420 acres of its rented land, to develop the antenna test range project A permanent work force of 15 would he at the site There wixild he "transitory personnel" coming from other Hoeing facilities nationwide at special phases of the program The total project t* classified, and the lix-alion was chosen because of its isolation. Boeing representatives told the planners There will be a security fence built all arixind the 10,420 acres, and it will he patrolled A 7,500 foot long, and 50 foot wide range with asphalt surface will be constructed A 1.500 f<x*t wide gravcled-surfacc ellipse shaped ad dition will he positioned on both sides at range center There will be three buildings An assembly and storage building of 100 by 150 feet will include an office, a paint htxifh. and two shops Each shop will house a two and a half ton bridge crane, and provide accom modation* for 12 people There will he a loading dock here An administration building, com posed of three 14 by 60 foot mixlules, with a space for 16 ad mimstrative and security people, and an engineering building, of the same size and construction, will provide provide space for 14 engineers Morrow County Planning Direc lor Deane Seegcr said the site is hounded onthe west hy Six Mile Ca nyon. and on the east hy the Bomb ing Range it runs from the Port of Morrow airport on the north to the Portland (ieneral Electric Coal plant on the south Tower road, the only access to the PGE plant, run» down the middle of the proposed enclosure How access wixild he pmv xied for that plant was not included in the presentation hy Boeing The work will he highly classified and "they do not want anyone around,” Seeger said Boeing of ficials told the county planners 51 other sites arixind the Northwest had been considered before the Board man site was chosen by reason of its isolation, and remoteness from heavy traffic, radio, and TV transmission The site would not affect construc tion of a proposed $6 billion parli clc accelerator and research center in Morrow and Umatilla counties Seegcr said There will be no pollution from the proposed use. "This particular operation is of the space-age technical type that doesn't have any polluting effect whatsoever." Seeger said He has not concluded his research on effects of the requested use, but added “ The economics of it sound giwxl Any increase in employment in the county is gixxl " State law allows the planning com mtssmn 45 days to review the pro posai and make a recommendation to the county court on action on the request Die court has an additional 10 days If everything goes on schedule. allowed. ' Hoe ‘,nJ proposal is allow ing 'he could be starting construction in 60 davs," Seeger said A public hearing hy the axirt. and action on the proposal, is scheduled for 10 a m at the Morrow County Courthouse June 11 Rail reps, to meet with local shippers May 12 Judge McElligott announced Fri day that Dave Astlc. the Assistant and Heppner branch lines were Public Utility Commissioner of under study Howells says that all Oregon and Claudia Howells, the the railroads are st xlv ing ways to in Manager of the Rail Abandonment creave efficiency and maximize pro Task Force will be in Heppner to fits This will probably meandispos of money losing branch lines meet with shippers on the evening of tion May 12 The meeting will he in the The purpose of this meeting will he Courtrixim of the Morrow County to discuss steps to assure that we re tain the Heppner Branch Courthouse at 7:30 p m The County Court urges all in Officials of the Union Pac ific met with shippers in Pendleton last terested citizens to attend the Mon August to anmxincc that the Condon day night meeting Morrow chapter honored for contributions to Red Cross The Morrow County Chapter of the American Red Cross was recent ly honored for their ixitsiarxling con trihutHins to the Columbia River Regional BlixxJ Services Over 2H percent of blixxi donors in Morrow County gave hlixxl for the first time in 1485 This was the highest percentage of firsttime donors in the entire 14 county Col umbia River Region The chapter was awarded a cer tificate of appreciation at the Colum bia River Regional Blixxi Services annual meeting in Yakima April 17 "We appreciate the support of <xir new donors." said Ray Mu heal. Boardman Blixxi Services Chair man " The participation ol first time donors is ahvilutely vital to the future of the Red Cross hlixxl pro gram '' The Columbia River Regional Blixxi Services provides hlixxl and hlixxl prixJucts to patients in 31 hospitals throughout Central W ashington and Northeastern Oregon Annual target collection goal is 27.S60 units ol whole hlixxl
