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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
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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