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Goldschmidt makes Heppner visit
Neil Goldschmidt came to Hepp
ner Monday afternoon as part of a
campaign swing through Eastern
Oregon He visited with mill
workers during a shift change at Krn-
rua, talked with people on the street
in downtown Heppner. visited with
residents at a local tavern, answered
questions for nearly an hour at the
Gazette-Times office, and closed the
day by speaking to nearly 50 voters
at the Heppner F.lks Club
He had begun his day in Milton
Freewater disking in fields belong
ing to his host. Bob Buchanan He
spent the remainder of the morning
flying over pan of the Umatilla Na
tional Forest looking for a family of
beaver and learning about waterways
with Dave Childs At main, he spoke
to the Pendleton Rotary Club
The candidate still had plenty of
energy and enthusiasm when he talk
cd to voters after dinner in Heppner
Words sometimes tumbled out over
the top of each other as he spoke
about campaign issues dunng the
afternoon and evening
The average Oregonian earns
$1200 per year less than the average
W ashingtonian, he said Attitude and
competition are the issues If we can
create jobs, the tax collected from
the increased income will raise the
tax base Half the school districts in
the state, including Morrow Coun
ty, do not have up-to-date tax bases
He said as governor, he'd sec if
there wasn't a way to convert pro
perty tax relief to small homestead
exemptions in districts which pass
ed an updated tax base Districts
which did not pass an updated tax
base would not get the homestead
exccmption This would both
stabilize the amount of money for
school districts and maimtain local
control.
He said he does not support the
Oregon Education Association sales
tax proposal
From January 1985 to January
1986. the state of Oregon created
23.000 new jobs, he said During
that same time period Washington
state created 60.000 new jobs.
Population-wise, there's no reason
for that, he blurted "We need to tell
businesses that we want them here
and we want to help them Now. in
stead of a partnership, we have an
adversarial relationship between the
state and new business There are
fewer food processing plants in the
Willamette valley now than there
were 10 years ago." he asserted If
we want food processing busineses
which hire people and pay property
tax. we have to provide incentives,
ask them what they need and how we
can help There’s nothing stopping
key businesses from closing their
tkxirx and relocating in Washington
High tech industry is a good hixist
to the economy, he said, but is not
the answer for Oregon Agriculture,
processing what we grow, and
timber have been and will continue
to be its saviors
Federal Agenda. Research, and
Marketing, comprise Goldschmidt's
farm plan All real policy is made by
the U S government and the state
has adopted the view of accepting the
act after it’s passed and reading it to
the farmers Die state can and needs
to play an advocacy role in farm
policy with the federal government
and we have no federal agenda The
governor has the ability to combine
with other governors and put
pressure on the federal government
If federal revenue sharing is withheld
from the Extension Service, that
would be a big bill for the state each
year, he said The extension service
at Oregon State University is the
main source of Research and
development of new strains of
wheat
Marketing what is produced
means getting out in other countries
and creating an international market
"The whole marketing strategy for
the state is a joke," he said Foreign
trade relations arc created by in
dustry. not government we can
negotiate with the Thai government
or the Japanese, but they don't real
ly w ant to buy The pros need to help
us " Industry went to Japan and
rigged up an oven on the back of a
truck, went out and created a pro
duct people could see They created
a market, he said
Why arc we fussing around
regulating timber on private lands,
he asked, when 80*4 of the state's
timber is on federal forest land'’
"It's time to get the economy
cracking," he said "If we don't
make the turn in 1986-87, we're not
going to make it "Oregon does not
have an economic plan, he said
There have been five directors of the
Dept, of Economic Development in
the last nine years As mayor of
Portland, he said, the first thing he
did was to hire a tough economist
Businesses which were closing their
doors stayed and became profitable
again
He pointed out that a businessman
in Pendleton had tried for a year to
open a health food delicatessen
There were no land-use issues to
overcome, just county and state
regulations
LCDC isn't as big an issue on the
other side of the mountains as it is
here, he said In some areas of the
stale it is actually working What we
nccxl to remember is that it is a docu
ment written to help us If it isn't
working, we can change it "If you
have a piece of land and you can't
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From left, Neil Goldschmidt, chats with William Baker, Lowell Jones and Mickey
Sharp during shift change at Kinzua
trow wheal on it, you can't raise cat
tle on it. and somebody wants to
build a house on it but can't do so
because of something a document
says in Salem, then the plan is not
working and we need to change it
As governor. Goldschmidt said he
would ask each of the 12 regions of
the state to select the one thing that
each needed his help with most Pie
rule of fairness would apply, each
region would get something before
one region got two things "And
together we'll get them done, one by
one
Rail branch lines arc in trouble all
over the U S . he said "It's a
chance to turn lemons into lemonade
if we think about it Rather than a
national railroad, operate a branch
Farl Bowden. Boeing, assured Judge Don McFlligott and port Manager
Bob Miller that Boeing intends to be a "gixxl neighbor” in Morrow Coun
ty Boardman realtor John Prag (right) was among guests at the meeting
County close to Boeing rezoning
The County Court indicated last
Wednesday that it is willing to re
zone to industrial 4,(XX) acres near
Boardman that is now farmland The
Court took no action following the
public hearing, however, saying it
had to follow time-consuming legal
procedures to insure the change or
dinance would not be challenged or
repealed
"W e hope to have a decision by
next Wednesday's County Court
meeting." Judge Don McFlligott
told Hoeing representatives follow
ing their legal representative Richard
Canadas‘s saying that Hoeing didn't
understand the county s reluctance to
adopt an ordinance
Boeing has requested the zone
change to build an antenna test range
on the site where it now has a con
ditional use permit and a temporary
antenna The antenna range. Cana
day slowed his speech and appeared
to chouse his words carefully, "is a
project conducted by Boeing
Aerospace for a government client "
The 4.(XX) acres will he surrounded
by a security fence and patrolled by
line so it works for you, or get
vomebixly to operate die branch line
If freight is pulled from the railroad
and put on highways, it's bound to
have an effect, cause damage If
we're going to put money in the
highway anyway to repair damage,
why not put it in the front end "
Prisons are the single most
dangerous problem in the state, next
to preventing the federal government
from creating a national nuclear
waste dump at Hanford, he said
"W e’re dumping dangerouv people
on the streets that corrections pro
pic say should not be there, but they
are " The state with bond exemp
lions, can borrow money to build a
prison cheaper than private enter
prise If criminal justice were work
ing the way it should, we would not
need so many police officers
"They're picking up the same peo
ple over and over again, because
there's not enough prison space."
On top of that, he said, we're doing
nothing about drugs and alcohol, .
and we have to defeat the marijuana
initiative that would allow people to
raise their own for private
consumption
There are simple things we can do
to help the state, he said such as
keeping (rack of foreign students
who attend slate universities Most
return to positions in government in
their home country and could be
helpful to Oregon business people
trying to create foreign markets
People coming into the Portland
airport see displays from national
corporations, but sec nothing of
Oregon industry Oregon prixlucts
and tourist attractions need promi
nent advertising to interest people
new to the area A sign written in
Chinese with a telephone number a
non English speaking Chinese cixild
call to get information in his native
language would also be a bixist. and
it wouldn't be all that expensive A
way to move people anxind the state,
someone hooking a flight to Portland
from Atlanta. Georgia, should at the
same time, be able to make reserva
tions for a salmon fishing trip out of
Astoria
"If we want to change things, we
have to work at it Goldschmidt is
not going to be sent to Salem to fix
it We have to work together." he
said
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Kinzua accepts wage cut
Flipped on the corner
A crane belonging to Shockman
Bros construction of Hermision.
overturned at Cut.xiorth corners out
side of Lexington Tuesday after
noon, causing some damage to the
highway, and extensive damage to
the crane No one was injured in the
wreck
Apparently the crane took the cor
ner to fast and tipped over, gousint
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out several deep holes in the pave
ment Morrow County Sheriff
deputies were on the scene directing
traffic, and Sheriff Roy Drago said
highway crews had been called out
to fix die damage to the road
The accident, which occured
around 3 p m . caused fuel to spill
on the roadway, and before using
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two tractors from nearby Pal
Cutsforth farm to pull the wrecked
crane aside, blocked both lanes of
traffic
The tractors continued to pull on
the overturned crane, but pixir trac
tion and the excessive weight of the
machine prevented them from pull
ing the vehicle completely off the
highway
Kinzua employees voted to accept
a $1 75 per hour across the board
wage cut, said Flwayne Bergstrom,
business agent and financial
secretary for the Heppner union
members
Members voted to accept the two-
year contract by a narrow margin,
he said Eighty-five of the 99 lix.al
members cast ballots in last Friday’s
election
The two-year contract also does
away with all bonuses and with one-
week of active paid vacation, he
said Three holidays will no longer
be paid, but workers can still lake off
the day after Thanksgiving, the day
before Christmas and the day after
New Year's without pay. if they
choose
"W e probably had more argument
over the flexible work week than the
money issues." he said, because that
will allow the management to
renegotiate work schedules to omit
some overtime
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Dusk
Main Street
Kids chalk draw
ing contest on
Main Street
sidewalks,
Horseshoe tour
nament sign-up
Food booths
open, Flea
Market begins,
Dunk tank open,
Military Fly-by
sometime during
the day. Model T
and pony cart
rides through-out
the day
Horseshoe
Tourney begins,
Frog-jumping
contests (frogs
will be available)
Sack races,
Three-legged
races. Bean-bag
races, Straw-
money pile for
preschool only
lone Pool opens.
FREE swimming
until 5:00 p.m.,
Shoe kicking
contest
Cow-chip toss on
the football field.
Historical Tour of
lone
lone dance-team
exhibition, Fire
Department relay,
Entertainment
Watermelon
eating contest
Watermelon seed
spitting contest,
Historical Tour of
lone
Water balloon
toss
Fire Department
Tug-of-War
Bed race
Bar-B-Qued
Chicken Dinner
by Cardinal
Club at the high
school:
Adults-$500,
Ages 6 to
12-$2.50, 5 and
under-$1 00; hot
dogs available -
1/4 chicken, col
eslaw, French
bread, baked
beans and ice
cream bars
Entertainment
and softball
game at the
football field
(bring your mitt -
everyone
welcome to play)
BIG
FIREWORKS
at the football
field
10:00 Street Dance on
Main Street after
the Fireworks