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Court postpones contract approval
Morrow County Court last
W'cdnevlav postponed signing con
tracts between Drx Thiex.xen and
Koznek jnd Pioneer Memorial
Hospital
Negotiated between the hospital
board and the doctor«, the proposed
contracts guarantee the doctors net
salaries of $60.1*10 and $70,(XX) per
sear respectively over the nest two
sears Because the hospital receives
taxes les led by the County Court to
supplement its revenues, the Court
must approve the hospital budget in
eluding major expenditures
The court needs time to review the
contracts, have its attorney read
them, and would like to have the
hospital board explain the contracts
before approving them. Commix
sioner Jerry Peck said The Court
meets again today
The Court also heard an update of
the Courthouse renovation from Ar
chiles t Hob Smith Weatherstripping
has arrived, and installation of win
dows he expected installation to
begin July 14 and be completed in
approximately two weeks
Fugitive arrests have insreased.
but total arrests have decreased from
last sear. Sheriff Roy Dr ago told the
Court in his six month report The
Sheriff s Office handled 2ft* cases in
the first six months of 1986 com
pared with NON cases for the entire
year of 198V he said
The sheriffx office has begun
recording miscellaneous services
such as animal problems, occupant
checks, messages delivered, distir
hanccs. etc as well as assists to other
agencies, he said, which gives a
more complete account of how the
department uses of its time
last year the department drove an
average of 620 miles each day with
a 14 6 miles per gallon average fuel
consumption Based on the first 181
days this year, the department has
driven 650 miles per day with an
average IN 6 miles per gallon
Sheriff Drago also told the Court
that he had appeared at the Heppner
City Council and. at their request,
presented a tentative cost estimate.
$61.028 per year, to provide two
deputies and one vehicle to the city
for 24-hour protection from the
sheriffs department "W e're not
trying to undercut the Heppner
Police Dept ." he said The city is
looking for ways to cut costs, and
contracting service from the sheriffs
office is one possibility
The Court agreed to a request
from Charley Daly of the Morrow
County Fair Board for Road Dept
assistance on the bridge at the
fairgrounds
In additional business, the Court
• received a monthly report from
Morrow County Justice Court for
May 1986 The Court handled 471
cases, 83* at the Imgon Court and
17* at the Courthouse in Heppner
approved an additional $500 for
the Irrigon Rural Fire Dist 911
emergency equipment budget The
Court had already approved $2000.
the fire district expected to spend
$4,200 for beeper-type equipment
approved maternity leave for an
employee in the assessor's office
-considered and approved claims
Local 4-FTer returns from Canadian exchange
There's mil a lot of difference ex
cept the tanns arc little and there are
trees everywhere, is the way Shan
non Mclaiughlin described the
Nanaimo area of Vancouver Island
The 16 vear-old daughter of Boh
and Bette Mclaiughlin, Heppner. is
recently relumed from a 10-day 4 H
exchange to British Columbia.
Canada She and 4 H'erx from Con
don. Fossil, and Moro traveled with
Fossil extension Agent Ken Kill -
ingxworth and his wife and stayed
with 4 H families on Vancouver
Island
Mdaiughltn's host family were
Dennis and Janet l.imin and their
daughter Karen who is also 16 They
have a small farm of about 15 acres,
some hay. and 10 cows, said the
Heppner 4 H'cr Mr l.imin works
away from the farm, at a pulp mill
Mrs l.imin is an assistant leader for
a beef 4-H club
Most of the men. Mclaughlin
said, work away from home and do
the milking at 4 a m before going
to work and again in the evening
The wives do the majority of the
farm work, she said Farms average
15-20 cows
The l.imins were a good family to
visit, she said, they were interested
in the way we lived and the things
that are different here They were
surprised that ranches here are so
large
W'hile staying with the Limins.
Mclaiughlin said she often went to
the beach, visited a dairy farm, the
Parliament buildings in Victoria, and
the Hut,hart gardens She enjoyed
the huge sunken gardens with every
flower imaginable and fountains
Though everywhere was crowded,
shopping was interesting, she said
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Center honors volunteers
Center volunteers, from left Helen Dyer, Eleanor Gonty, Neola Mackey, Betty Tan
ner, and Camilla Samples
Volunteers were recognized at a
July 9 dinner for their serv ice to the
Heppner Neighborhood Center dur
ing the last year
Neola Mackey, Helen Dyer, Bel
ty Tanner, Eleanor Gonty, Camilla
Samples. Irene Swanson. Verna
Hrtnda. Alena Anderson, Maxine
Grey, Martha King, Adelle
1 .a Trace. Babe Harris, and Bob and
lairina Shuman were honored as the
14 volunteers who had donated the
greatest number of hours in server
to the Center during the past year
They were presented carnations and
cactus gardens by Center Coor-
dinator Put Scott and Blue Mountain
Economic Development Council
program coordinator Sharon
Carroll
In addition, the ten volunteers
with the greatest number of donated
hours received certificates
Receiving an extra gift for their
service were the six volunteers who
led the list Neola Mackey with
1,405 hours, Helen Dyer with
1.03636 hours. Theta Lowe with
I ,(X)2 hours, Hetty Tanner with 891
hours. Eleanor Gonty with 878
hours, and Camilla Samples with
747^6 hours
A special award was presented to
Bob and lairina Shuman for the
hours they have spent helping with
cheese distribution. Christmas
baskets, repairing toys, and collec
ting commodities donated by
businesses and merchants
Guests at the recognition dinner
were Sarah Powell and Hy Com
pton, BMEDC board members,
Marge Shade and Dorothy Irish.
Heppner
Advisory
Council
members, and Clara Courtney and
Murna Toll
Robin Mattison. Phil Fsherg and
John Ferrell with the Center's Youth
Training Program waited tables and
helped clean up after the dinner
New manager
207 pre-aps received
Shannon McLaughlin (left) with her host sister Karen
Limin.
Although she didn't buy much, she
admits to purchasing some candy
bars that we don't have here
Prices were mostly lower, she
said, except food is more expensive,
and l>evis are $40 a pair
She enjoyed her trip because it
was both a learning experience and
a vacation, but mostly, she said,
because it was a chance to visit
another country It was different to
see
many trees everywhere and
not be able to see for miles like you
can here, she said
The McLaughlins will host a
4 H er from Canada later in August,
she said Karen Lunin, her host
sister, will not be coming to the
United States because so many are
in compel it K in for the few chances
available
Those 4 H'ers who are in high
sc T kki I and think they might be in
tercstexl in going to Canada next year
should contact the Morrow County
Extension office
Two hundred seven pre-
applicationx have been received for
the proposed elderly housing project
at the Heppner Hotel
Heppner Mayor Cara Costa and
City Attorney Hill Kuhn and others
interested in the project took the pre
applications to a meeting with the
state housing division in Salem Tues
day The pre applications were
needed to show state housing of
ficialx that there is local interest in
the project
The city is now in the application
stage in attempting to gel a VO),(XX)
loan from the state housing division
to use in conjunction with a
$N00,(XX) federal block grant already
awarded the city for development of
a 28 unit elderly housing project at
the Heppner Hotel If the city does
not get the loan, it will lose the block
grant
In the application stage, the city
must show that rent income will
repay the loan and will cover costs
of maintenance, upkeep of the
building The city also expects to try
to verify that proposed construction
costs arc reasonable, said a
spokesperson
If the city advances through the
application stage and if money is
available, it will get (he loan, con
cluded the spokesperson
Accident
Victim dies
Tues.
Dennis Campbell died Tuesday.
July IN at St Marv 'x Medical Center
in Walla Walla He hud been in in
tensive lave there since a July N car
accidct)) near Ruggs
Arrangements are pending at
Sweeney Mortuary. Heppner
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Mike Procter
Mike Proctor. 31. from laiGrande
is the new manager at the Heppner
Les Schwab Tire Center He was
assistant manager of the lire center
in laGrande for 3'6 years and at
Hemuxton for four years before He
has been with l.ex Schwab for 7*6
years
He and his wife, Kay. have two
daughters
Proctor grew up in Irrigon He
replaces former Heppner manager
Dale Thompson
Conservation Program effects more than farmers
Putting out the flames
A pickup fire was out shortly after the Heppner Fire Dept arrived on
the scene Thursday evening. July 19 A pickup belonging to Frank Wilson
apparently caught tire while driving up Gilmore St said Assistant Fire Chief
Rusty Estes Cause of the fire is under investigation
The fire caused major damage to the motor and every thing under the hood
requiring that the pickup be towed away. Estes caul
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The federal conservation reserve ed a $50,(XX) payment limitation
program has the potential to For example, five partners in a ranch
drastically effect Morrow County
could each receive the maximum
The program ' 'takes farmland that payment, but a corporatKin could
probably should not be farmed receive only one maximum payment
anyway out of production for 10
During the first signup period,
years." says Judy Buschke of the Buschke said 8,083 acres were of
Morrow County Agricultural fered and 7,(XX) were accepted
Stabilization and Conservation Ser
29,619 acres were offered during the
vice Morrow County has approx
second signup period with 27,(XX)
imatcly 400,000 acres of crop land, accepted
one fourth of of that land may he bid
For an average Morrow County
into the CRP
farm of 700 acres. Buschke said, if
Bidding the land, docs not the entire anaiunt were acceptable in
guarantee that it will be accepted
the CRP, the farmer would receive
said Buschke The Soil Conservation a $35,OfX) payment each year
Service determines if the land is ac
although half of the land would nor
ceptahlc for the program by deter
mally be summer lallow It's almost
mining its soil loss Rainfall, slope as if he were to receive $100 per
length, tillage practices used, and crop year for the land, vhe said
other pertinent data are considered
The economic impact on die coun
in the formula to determine soil loss
ty may not be that great if only
land with high soil loss is ac 34.(XX) acres are in the program, hut
cepted in the program at a maximum if the maximum I ll).(KK) acres are
of $50 per acre It must then he seed
seexJed to grassland, all farm-related
ed to grass which may not he graz
businesses cannot help but feel the
ed for 10 years The government impact ' ' Farmers are hav mg a hard
will reimburse 50* of the cost for tim e." she said, "the program is
seeding grass
designed to help them, but it seems
The government also has impos when you help out one group, it
always has an effect on another ”
larry Mills, manager of Morrow
County Grain Growers said that
although it's a little early to
speculate, grain storage, fertilizer,
chemicals, machinery parts and ser
vice, equipment sales, luel, all
aspects of their business may be ef
fected proportlonallv to the acres in
die CRP
"The program is so attractive, it
will be difficult for farmers to pass
up because the payment is more than
he can net on most ground in the
county," Mills said "The business
community needs to he aware that
die CRP could have a detrimental ef
feet (on their businesses) because
with less land farmed, ranchers may
not need to hire as many people ’’
Judge attends meeting
Morrow County Judge Don
McEJIigoti left last Wednesday after
noon to attend a National Associa
t*°n of Counties Conference He will
returned to the county Tuesdav and
i* presiding at the County Court
meeting today
Some of those hired helpers may
leave the county which would effect
banks, insurance businesses, and all
other businesses where those people
now spend money
Skip Pettyjohn ol Pettyjohn Oil
Co also said that all businesses
which supply fuel or equipment to
fanners will be effected by the CRP.
depending on the amount of acres
which are eventually accepted for
grassland "Som e recreational
businesses may benefit," he said
Market Report
CompRmgnfi cH it« Mnrrow County Ok«*fs (V ovmp *
Tues., Juls 15
Soft White
IXeliveries this week
$2 81
Balance July
»2 77
Aug
•2 '4
Sept
»2 76 *2 78
Oct
»2 80 *2 82
Nov
*2 84-»2 86
Dec
$2 88 $2 90
Barley
July/Sept
»71
Oct
»72
Nov
»73