Culverts remain at Road Dept.
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Morrow County's Homo-Owned Newspaper
The Heppner
azette
Vol 104 No 31 Wednesday. July 30. 1986
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Heppner, Oregon 25*
8 Pages
Construction of a bndge across
Hinton Creek at the Morrow Coun
ty Fairgrounds will have to wail un
til after next month's Fair and
Rodeo, the Morrow County Coun
said last Wednesday
The Court had decided the
previous week, dunng County Judge
Don McElligott'c absence, to halt
work on a proposed bndge across
the creek, and. inMead to install two
six licit culvens in rite creek The
culverts. Commissioners Irv Rauch
and Jerry Peck said would save the
county more than $1000, and the
work would have been completed
before the fair
Judge McHliigi'ti pointed out that
the right year flood plain goes to rite
crossmembers of the Matheny
Boardman doctor’s contract extended
Morrow County Court last
Wednesday voted to retain Dr Steve
Zielinski under his old contract un
til a new contract be negotiated and
signed The new contract will be
retroactive to July 15 and run
through June 30. 1987
Dr Zielinski has been the staff
physician at the North Morrow
Medical Clinic in Boardman for (he
last year
The Medical Clinic Board Chair
man Boh Miller is on vacation this
week and not available for comment
Don Fppenhach, vice-chairman of
the clinic hoard said he really
couldn't say why a new cimtracl was
not ottered to Zielinski before the
Sidewalk Sale
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Colleen Springer (left) and Judy Barber found
bargains at Friday's Sidewalk Sale
old one expired
Contract negotiations go through
riie Morrow County Court, Eppen
bach said last year the medical
clinic hoard negotiated a contra» t
and then the c»iurt rewrote it "This
year we left it in the county’*
hands." he said "And they did not
have one prepared "
Mike Oths. County Counsel,
wrote the contract last year. Eppen
bach went onto explain Since he is
no longer with the county. the court
did not tell its new legal represen
lative to fuse a contract written for
Dr Zielinski
The County Court has not hired a
County Counsel to fill Oths position
The attorney’s duties are currently
filled on a per job contract basis by
Heppner attorney Val Doherty
Because his contract had expired
July 15 and because the clinic hoard
did not offer a new one following its
July 17 b»>ard meeting. Dr Zielin
ski did not see patients from July
18-23 He re'umed to work, he said.
Thursday morning after the Court
approved extending his contract
"That covers my liability to work
here," he said
"This will be my final year in
Boardman." Zielinski continued
"The main reason is an unresolved
conflict with a clinic board
member "
I was supposed to meet with the
hoard last Thursday and Friday to
begin working on a contract. Z.ielin
ski said "There was no meeting
Thursday and the Board Chairman
was unavailable Friday Monday he
did not return my messagev "
"According to my contract,"
Zirlinaki continued, "die lead per
son in negotiations is the chairman
of the clinic board The Kwrd was
responsible to offer me a contract
and I’m not getting crv<ugh cxv
operatton to even sit do* n and talk
It hav gotten bitter," be said
"If a physic tan it not getting
money and doesn't have the cultural
advantages of a large city, die very
least he should get is respect from
his patients and co-operation (torn
his board." Zielinski said "If the
chairman is out of town and I bypass
the board, it's bad form, but I have
only myself to blame if I don't have
a contract "
The clinic's gross income exceed
r»l $2' X).000 more than the budget
estimate. Fppenhach said Z.ielin
ski's patients seem satisfied with his
care and return "The board had
recommended him (his contract) for
* renewal." he concluded
Silver coins with the State „>f
Eastern Oregon seal are now
available locally The collectors
items contain one-ounce of silver,
are numbered, and encased in
plastic
Coins went on sale April I but
were not available until recently
Those who buy coins this year will
have the first option on die coin with
the same serial number to be minted
in nnd 1987
The Country Rose. Peterson's
Jewelers, Coast to Coast, and the
Heppner Bowl have the plastic-
coated one iHince silver coins for
sale The Slate of Eastern Oregon
will also have a booth at the Mor
row County Fair where the coins
1 ulv IS
<following a recess until Thurs
day) reviewed the proposed con
tracts between Drs Ko/nek and
Diu-svcn with the Jhoncer Mcnairial
Hospital Board to insure that all pai
ties agreed on the exact meanings ol
come of the contract's terms
w il be for sale
A package containing the
numbered coin, a permanent citizen
ship card, a $1 hill, a brochure
highlighting the mythical state's
eight counties, and a newsletter ex
plaining die state's tourism activities
costs $17 VS That represents a sav
ings of $7 from the purchase price
for the individual items. Don Cole,
senator for the" mythical state of
mind" reports
The State of Eastern (begun was
organized to promote tourism to the
eight counties weM of the Cascade
mountains The state has raised
funds to primvac tourism by the sale
of citizenship cards and "illegal
lender "
Judy Buschke. Executive Director
of the Morrow County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Ser
vice. said dial price support loans are
available on 198b wheat All wheat
producers participating in the IVKh
acreage reduction and land diversion
program arc eligible, she said
Morrow County’s 198b loan rate
is $2 5b per bushel The rate is has
ed on the national average loan on
wheat stored in an approved
warehouse, or on the farm
"By placing the grain under loan,
farmers increase their marketing op
tions and help strengthen crop
prices The loans give producers an
opportunity to plan their manage
ment strategy and sell when the price
is right." said Buschke IntereM rate
for loans made in July is 6 75%
Under (he price support loan pro
gram the Commodity Credit Cor
poratHin nurites loans to eligible pro
ducers. using (tie commodities as
collateral for the loan The program
does not guarantee participating
tarmers a profit, however, it does
guarantee a minimum price
The ASCS official said wheat
loans are available to farmers
through March 31. 1987 Loans
mature on demand hut no later than
rile last day of the ninth month
following rile month Itic loan is
disbursed
Two lone youths were taken to
Good Shepherd Community
Hospital in Hermiston following a
Friday evening accident
Paul Zinter was driving a 1984
Ford pickup easthound on Punkm
Center Road near Tenth St when a
westbound 197b Toyota driven by
Ethel Bauer of Umatilla pulled into
the oncoming lane to pass anoriier
vehicle Bauer was in a no pawing
zone according to the Oregon Slate
Police office in HermiMon which in
vevtigated She was killed in the
accident
Two lone youth injured in collision
/.inter received minor injuries.
His passenger. Bryan Bavford. suf
fered a broken ankle and minor
scrapes
New program supports fair
The Morrow County Gram chase of Icrtili/cr, chemicals,
Growers in Lexington has started a petroleum products or sale items
For more information, contact die
program this year to help with pro
motion of the Morrow County Fair Morrow County Grain Growers in
and Rodeo, and save fairgoers Lexington
money.
Starting immediately anyone who
purchases $100 dollars worth of
Because a recent increase in postal
merchandise at the Grain Growers
will receive a coupon good for $5 off rates has nearly doubled riie cost of
riie price of fair buttons, family fun mailing papers to some areas, the
Gazette Times must raise subscrip
night or rodeo admission
tion prices
Subscribers living in Morrow.
The coupons are not redeemable
for cash and are nut given for pur Orant. Gilliam and Wheeler counties
First Signs
"Big Tom" Simonlon is in Heppner this week, one of the first signs
of the coming Fair anil Rodeo. August 14 17
Columbia Basin weatherizes 235 homes
Columbia Bavin Electric
The residential weatherization
Cooperative reached a milcvtone program pays up to 85 percent ot riie
recently hy wealheri/ing itv 235th cost of installing cost effective
home under the "Buy Back" convcr energy saving measures If you
vation program vponvored hy the would like information about the
Bonneville Power Adminivtrafion weatherization program please call
The Cooperative evtimatev that Jerry Hraly. b7b 914b. at C B F. C
more than 1.053.4H0 kilowatt hours
have been saved and more than
$435.000 hav been spent in the
Cooperative service area since the
•v C*y <rf
program began in October ot 1982
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a person trapped inside a vehicle A
male juvenile with minor injuries
1 ues.. July 29
was transported hy a pawing
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motorist from the scene to Pioneer July
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Barley
will continue to pay $12 pet ycai A July Sept
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subscription in all otlicr areas will Oct
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Hard Red Winter
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Publisher David Sykes
115% on PIK certificates
Weather Report
Heppner woman
dies in accident
Subscription rates increase
Allen Burkenbine weighs watermelon during last Fri-
dav's Sidwaik Sale.
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ter be handled on an individual
maintenance basis, he said
voted to extend for sis months a
letter of cresJit to First Interstate
Bank for work on the Cecil and
Huber bridges
heard that Ralph Bonham who
lives on property adjacent to a
county owned parcel wanted rise
Court's permission to continue inni
ming and culling down hazardous
trees on the parcel so risat he can
build a fence and raise calves
The land is outside the Boardman
city limits, but inside its urban
growth boundaries The county is
canng for the land until the city
needs it for use as a park. Commis
sioner Peck explained
The Court told Bonham it would
Us>k at the pmperty and make a deci
sion at the next Court session
held an executive session concer
Ping financial and personnel matters
requested that rise county auditors
ujxlate bookkeeping procedures at
the North Morrow Medual Clinic
held an executive session to
discuss employee contracts
-voted to retain Dr Steve Zielin
ski as an employee under the terms
of his expired contract with the coun
ty while the North Morrow Medical
Clinic Board negotiates a new con
tract with him When signed, the
new contract will be retroactive to
Collectors coins on sale
Wheat loans available
Molly Rhea (left) of Tri-County Home Health checks
Grace Buschke's blood pressure
brulgc buili b> the Male highway
department with 'O’ wj It clearance
tanher up Minton Creek rhe two
»U'(w< culverts only have « tu ^
ft cross section, the Judge vaid, “ I
don't think we dare go below the
Mate highway bridge because the
creek hav Hooded before "
fbe Court dec ided to cover the
four-foot temporary culvert whuh
wav placed in the creek prior to ihe
beginning of construction and make
further decisions on the bridge alter
the fair and rodeo
Forms for the bridge lootings are
already in place and will be covered
with fill dirt and uncovered again
before bridge construction resumes
No unncs/essarv culverts wenr pur
chased, the judge said The sis foot
culverts the commissioners had in
tended to use at Ihe fairgrounds are
owned by the county's road
department
In other business, the Court
heard that the Judge had presid
rd at lb iuvenile hearings this
month
approved payment of the $138
balance to Farl Ming for a curves
approved the ShcrdTv Assoc ta
tMin contract
approv ed paymcnl of claims and
tfie July 17 county payroll
instructed Bob Smith, county ar
chitevt, to put live old Venetian blinds
has k up to the windows at the Cour-
ihouse The Court had instructed
Smith to get hide for repairing Ihe
old blinds, and tor buy mg new ones
Smith reported several bids to the
Court and recommended that this
was probably not an item for him to
bid Repair of the blinds might bet
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