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Finished Product
azette
VOL 105 NO 29
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Wednesday. July 22. 1987
Heppner 25*
8 Pages
Doug Dubuque of Kmzua Corp shows
members of the Heppner Chamber of Com
merce the finished product that comes out
of the company's new stud mill
The chamber toured both the new stud mill,
and the regular saw mill, at Kmzua s Hepp
ner plant
Dubuque says the new stud mill is
operating on the swing shift with about 40
new employees The mill will continue to
operate on swing to utilize equipment also us
ed in the mam mill during the day
The new mill will produce about 30 million
board feet of two-by-fours per year “This is
really a smooth operation,'* Dubuque said of
Ktnzua's latest addition
In recent years the company has installed
a chipping operation, new small log mill, and
a cogeneration plant that produces electrici
ty from wood waste
Testimony mostly favorable at landfill hearing
Testimony on construction of u
large landfill in Morrow Couniy.
was mostly favorable during a public
hearing last week in Heppner
Representatives from the Chamber
of Commerce. Port of Morrow. and
businesses in the county spoke in
favor of the 600-acre dump, saying
it would be an economic boon to the
county
Opponents on the other hand, said
the landfill wouldn't generate as
many jobs as claimed, and would
drive tourists away with a bad im
age of Morrow County.
The proposed dump is to be
located at Finley Buttes, about 16
miles south ot Hoardmanofl Bomb
mg Range Road
Tidewater Burge Lines, the largest
shipper on the Columbia and Snake
River System, is behind the project,
which could see up to 2,500 tons of
residential and commercial garbage
shipped into Morrow County every
day from communities along the
Columbia River Life of the dump
could be up to 25 years
The hearing in Heppner was just
one of four held by the county court
to gather public feeling on the
project.
Bob Miller ot Boardman said the
project was endorsed both by the
Boardman Chamber of Commerce
and the Pori ot Morrow "because ot
the jobs and economic development
it will bring to Morrow County
Miller is a member ot the chamber’s
economic development committee,
and also manager of the Port of
Morrow
Representatives of I idewaler say
the project will generate TO to 50
new jobs in Morrow County. m
eluding heavy equipment operators,
truck drivers and other landfill
operators, lor an annual payroll of
$600,000 to SI million Tidewater
says spinoff related |obs could total
35 to 65 and have a payroll ot
$450.000 to $750.000
Miller also pointed out that Hepp
tier's landfill is sc heduled to close in
several yearv. and with (he high cost
of locating a new landfill, the Finley
Buttes site offers a solution to the
problem Tidewater officials have
said that the dump would be
available tor use to people in Mor
row County
Other testimony in favor irtclud
ed letters from John Pragg. a Hoard
man real estate broker, who said that
Morrow County h a s established i
reputation tor dm ing business awav.
and that the landfill would be' g o o d
economically lor the county. and
would help solve Heppner v so lid
waste disposal problem
Larry Mills, manager of the Mor
row County Grain Growers in I ev
ington. said the landfill w as a "win.
win' project
Mills pointed out that having the
waste shipped to Morrow County in
sealed containers, would mean pjen
ty of empty containers would be
available lor shipux'n! ot agricultural
products back down the river I uck
of available containers in the past has
apparently hurt shipping oppor
(unities in Eastern Oregon
Mills also said that he has worked
with Tidewater Barge Lines in the
past and has found them "to be good
neighbors
Othexr speaking in favor of the
project were Cliff Green, president
of the Heppner I conomic Develop
ment Committee. Kent Goodyear of
Km/ua Corp (a Heppner wood pro
ducts company) Bill Doherty, u
local wheat farmer. Bill Cox. a local
Heppner citizen. Anne Murray of
Heppner Bill Kuhn of the Heppner
Chamber of Commerce and the Ci
ty of Heppner, and Ed Glenn, a
Boardman resident and member of
the Morrow County health care
board of directors
Glenn said he was probably closer
to the project than any other resident
ot the county, “ the lights of the
trucks will be shining right in my
bedroom window." he pointed out
Glenn said he favored the project,
but thsnight the county should decide
on how to spend the "franchise
tees" imposed by the county on
Tidewater.
i The county is currently
negotiating with I idewaler on a per
ton fee to be paid tor dumping in the
county )
I think we should dedicate the
money to help small manufacturing
companies locate in the county."
said < ilenn Small manul.nturing
will bring new money into lire coun
ty," he said
Four letters in sujifiorl of the land
till were a ls o read at the hearing
Sunridge Homes. John Gorham, and
the Nomad Restaurant, all ot Hoard
man. were in favor ot the project as
well a s Columbia Basin Electric of
Heppner. and B & C Repair of lone
B A C asked that it tie stipulated in
Tidewater’s contract that goods anil
services be purchased locally
Pendleton Grain Growers, the large
gram so op m Pendleton, also wrote
in lavor ot the project, saying that
it would cause more shipping con
tamers to be available in the area
Opposition to the landfill project,
voiced at the public hearing, came
mainly from two Hoardnun men
who have organized a petition drive
that will place a resolution on a
county wide ballot Nov 3 asking for
voter approval before any landfill
that accepts garbage from outside the
county be built here
IVan Mason and Jerry Simpson,
employees at the Portland General
Electric Coal plant in Boardman,
van! they feel a majority of the public
don't want the landfill and would
vote it down if given a chance
"I don't run in the same circles as
the Port ot Morrow and the
Chamber ot Commerce. Simpson
saul m resjv Mise t. the ondii semenfs
of the landfill from those groups
But he said he read about the land
till in the papers and felt there were
"a lot of questions asked, and no
answers given I had technical and
Ian I use questions that weren't
‘answered (by Tidewater and their
representatives)
Simpson said he was concerned
the landfill would turn out like a
feedM west of Boardman. which he
claims did not live up to promises
made before construction
On public sentiment about the pro
ject, Simpson said he collected 75
signatures in one evening around hiv
house in Boardman "I kept getting
invited into people's funises, and that
made me think there is more opposi
lion than has come out "
Among other things Tidewater’s
projsis.il to jety the county fifty cents
per Ion on garbage coming into the
county, was too low and would not
even jiay tor upkeep on the roads
"I see niy taxes going up to cover
it." he said
Simpson said the initiative petition
he and others circulated was an ef
fort to tell elected officials how they
feel about the project " l e t ’s get this
on the ballot and make your (county
First load
shipped from
stud mill
court) decision on this dump con
tingent on the vote," he said
“ We want to insure the public has
a right M voice their opinion through
Last week Km/ua Corp shipped
the pollv." said Mason, who also
the first carload of construction 2 x
helped with the petition
4s produced by its new stud mill
Mason said that economic data us
Kituua has hired about 20 people
ed by Tidewater to estimate spinoff for the stud mill itself and will re
lobs in the county was inaccurate, quire an additional 18 in the planer
and should not be taken seriously, i f
facility. Personnel Manager Doug
you are going to give away the farm,
Dubuque said Friday
you should at last do it for more."
The stud mill, in operation since
Mason said
July I allows us to use small
Mason said a similar landfill pro
logs and White Fir better and more
jxised for Gilliam County by another
economically
than before, he said
company , offered that county more
Company
owned
land and many of
money
Fat Wright, a Lexington resident the timber sales coming up have a lot
and Morrrow County Health Nurse, of White Fir, he continued, “ with
spoke out against the project, saying the stud mill, wc can process it more
on her travels around the county she economically than before "
So far the studs have been shipped
uses Bombing Range Road, which
to
the Chicago area. Marketing
the large container trucks would use
Manager
Kent Goodyear said,
hcav ily
because
most
of the available market
“ Wc need the jobs, but my main
is
in
the
north
eastern quarter of the
concern is for public salety," she
said W right saul s I k - objects to more U S He expects some later
traffic on Bombing Range, and iv shipments to the South Central and
Texas area Sales have been to
concerned about the Boardman In
distribution
yards, wholesalers,
terchangc. which the trucks would
chain yird and home centers, and
also use
Dr Steve /icluivki of Boardman some directly to retail chains, he
said
also testified against (he landfill, say
mg it would be bad for tourism, and
unattractive for the location of a
Super Collider to Eastern Oregon
Mary Michael. Boardman, was
Die Heppner jxiblic hearing on the
elected chairman at the Morrow
landfill was (he last of four held
County Medical Board meeting
thriHigh«mt the county, and the coun
Monday at the Irngon City Hall
ty court is expected to make a deci
Jackie Bergstrom, lone, was
sion on the project Wednesday. Ju
elected vice chairman and Don Ep-
ly 22
jH'iibaugh. Irngon. was elected
Even it the court approves the pro
secretary
ject. Tidewater will vtill have to go
through a permit application with the
I Vparimcnl of Environmental <>iali
ty. before the landfill could be built
The county has hired an indepen
dent attorney to help in contract
negotiations with Tidewater, and per
ton fees and other details of the con
If they haven't already done so,
tract are being worked out at this neighbors of yours w ill be calling on
time
you to get your opinions and ideas
to improve transportation and
medical care in the county. These
volunteers will be spending the next
ahead ot it "When the tire turned week and a half meeting with as
and came toward us. we had to hop many people as possible
The information on transportation
on the truck and drive away av fast
as wc could,"Assistant Chief Rusty will provide the basis for a grant ap
Estes said "We lost radio contact plication the County is submitting to
with the other fire truck until we fund a transportation system The
questions on medical care address
were away from the fire "
t he lire finally burned out about concerns of everyone in the couniy
and it is hoped that citizens will take
7 p m Charred fields mark it's path
Both Burkenbinc and Childers said advantage of this forum to nuke sug
that as always farmers sending gevtions to improve service
equipment and individuals with Everyone is encouraged to take the
time to visit with the survey
burlap sa c k s and shovels helped
volunteers and join them in taking
Spray planes with tanks full of water this first step to enlarge and improve
and (irain Growers tanker trucks services in the County
heljx'd. too Crews from the Grain
(»rowers and Columbia Basin helped
the volunteers also
Raljvh Crum related that I uesday
afternoon one of the truck drivers of
his harvest crew forgot to close the
gate on a hopper bottom dump truck
W hen the combine man dumped his
load of grain into the truck, the
wheat ran out the bottom and held
the truck from moving Wednesday.
Crum continued, his crew took a
combine over and shoveled wheat
off the ground into the header to tree
the iriu k It must have been friction
on the belts from the weight of the
load that taused the spark, he sur
mised Water pressure fire ex
linguishers on both sides of the com
bine failed to put out the flames
With it) mph winds and knee high
stubble from a near fit) bu acre
crop, the fire look off about 2 30
p in and burned tor more than three
hours, leaving scorched fields and
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It destroyed one of Crum’s truiks,
an old barn used as a grainery temp
ty). 300 acres of Crum’s stubble.
200 ai res of standing wheat belong
mg to Wayne and Harold Rietmann.
and range land to total almost 1200
acres of devastation The fire burn
ed to w ithin l(K) yards of two homes
and completely circled a third, but
did no damage there Crum said tour
other ranchers contributed tractors
with discs in addition to his rig for
building fire lanes The wind was
blowing taster than the rigs could go.
though, he said The lire jumped the
first tire lane and a county road It
burned over a pickup destroying a
tire but tailing to ignite the fuel tanks
full of gasoline on the bac k of the
truck, he said
The fire west of Heppner started
about 3 |() p in near where Bart and
Assoc were working on the replace
ment main power line tor Columbia
Basin Electric Co op A short in the
wiring of the power transmission
lines which also caused a brief power
outage started the fire. Heppner
Chief hom e Burkenbinc said The
wind whipped fire burned 500acres
ot rangeland belonging to Keith
Lewis and about 35 acres of wheat
belonging to Tony Doherty
Firefighters from Hcppner'v rural
fire district were not able to make
much headway in stopping the fire
until John Boyer's planes began to
drop water, some tanners sent trac
tors with discs, and the county road
department sent a road grader out.
Burkcnbine said Flames from the
fire shot 15' in the air and the fire
was moving so fast wc couldn't stav
rr.
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Saturday's heavy rains washed
mud from the newly burned fields
down Rietmann grade undercutting
portions of the county road and on
to lone’s Main St Straw bales kept
water and mud out of the few
threatened homes and businesses
Cm crewman Jim Rudisill was out
cleaning up Sunday afternoon
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The (anker trucks from the (irain
Growers were a real help, especial
ly around the buildings. Harvey
Childers who has been trying to get
things rolling for a rural fire district
in the lone area saul The district wav
approved int he |950s. but a board
has never been appointed to propose
a lax base and get a measure on the
ballot W c need people to express in
terest in serving on the board and in
spending the necessary lime to train
and take care of equipment, he said,
before we can go any further with
the district
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Board elects chair
Wind-whipped blaze challenges volunteer firefighters
Two range fires halted harvest
operations in much of the county
Wednesday afternoon as crews left
the fields to help battle the wind
driven inferno
Sjvarks started the two fires almost
simultaneously , one |ust north of
lone in a stubble field belonging to
Ralph Crum, the other west of
Heppner on range land belonging to
Keith larwis
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