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VOL 105 NO 30
Hepprn er 25*
W ednesday. July 29. 1987
Landfill contract approved
Morrow County .»ml Tidewater
harge Lines hasc reached agreement
on a per ton fee the company will
pay it a large scale landfill is located
uuhe county Tidewater will pay 75
cents per ton per year tor the first
600.000 Ions trucked to the landfill,
to cover wear and tear on roads The
tee wiii increase to SI per ton lot
amounts ot I million tons and I 2
million tons, respectively.
Tidewater is proposing that a
600-acre landfill he built in Morrow
County that could handle up to 2.500
tons of waste per day collected from
communities along the Columbia
Kiser
The Morrow County Court last
week approved a condition use per
nut that would allow the landfill,
however. I idewater must still gain
approval for the project from the
Department of Environmental
Quality
Committee ponders architect
By Avon Melby
Choosing an architect for
remodeling Heppner Hotel into a
Senior Citizen housing center has
kept a committee busy this month
Eighteen applications for the posi
tion have been received, with six of
those interested coming to town to
look at the building
A committee of council members
and Senior Citizens, along with Trod
Toombs of Columbia Basin Electric
Co-op. are studying the resumes
Five of the finalists were chosen this
week, out of the IX applying A final
meeting Thursday will determine
which ones should come lor inter
views The interviews are planned
for next week, with the final choice
to be made then
The named architect will make
final plans for the remodeling and it
will probably be tour months before
bid for construction can be let. ac
cording to Bill Kuhn City Attorney.
Kuhn is spearheading the remodel
ing project for the City of Heppner
Construction is to be funded by a
stale grant of S5(M).(MM) and a loan
the city w ill take out at a local bank
Final cost is expected to be close to
SI million
Contracts with cities for waste
disposal have not been signed, but
Tidewater is presently talking with
Clar* County and the Metropolitan
Service District in Portland about
providing disposal service
Under the plan Tidewater would
barge the waste up river to the Ron
oi Morrow at Hoardman From there
the garbage would be (rucked to the
landfill site at Finley Buttes, approx
imately 16 ac res south of Boardman
off Bombing Range Road
Life of the landfill would be ap
proxirratcly 25 years and the dump
wouid not accept toxic waste.
Tidewater officials say
Sunday fire devours grassland
By Avon Melby
Heppner volunteer firemen were
called out to fight a fire on Rhea
Creek Sunday The fire consumed
several hundred acres of grassland
and a small amount of wheat land
Eire Chief Fornc Burkenbinc said
the blaze was reported at 3 40 p m
when Undcrshcriff Verlin Denton
spotted smoke from six miles away
and drove over to sec what was caus
ing it He called the fire department
in Heppner on his two-way radio
Three trucks were sent out
Burkenbinc said numerous ran
chers responded with spray con
tainers on pickup trucks Wind car
ried the blaze up steep canyons
where it was impossible to get at
Fire was difficult to control in the
rough terrain Wayne Seitz brought
his spray plane from Sand Hollow
and helped get it eventually under
control, about 6 p m
Burkenbinc said the fire probably
started in what was a bam Neither
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Robert Jones nor his son Michael
were home at the tunc ot the tire
Burkenbinc said Robert Jones owns
the land. Michael lives on it
The barn shed was burned up but
fire was kept from the house
Firefighters were called back to
the scene later Sunday for a-shor
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North Lexington Elevator
Wheat yields may be best ever
The county's harvest is well past
the halfway mark, and the Grain
Growers should have adequate
storage for the crop Manager I arrs
Mills said Monday
Some grain is already being stored
on the ground at North Lexington
and space may be a hit tighter than
we thought because per as re yicius
may he the highest they've ever
been, he said We're hearing some
fantastic yields up to 70 hu acre
wheat on dryland single summer
tallow though most is in the 50
hu acre ranee Bariev yields are
reported at 21 per acre or hettet
Duality is good Just 10 years ago,
the county average was 13 bushels
of wheat per acre
Recent fires and rain have caused
some delays, hut another two weeks
should about wind things up
Prices seem to be holding about
the same as last year, so even with
the ground hid into the Conservation
Reserve Program, the better crop
should help farmers and the rest of
the community , he said
Fish hatchery dedicated
By Joyce Hensley
It all began in IK80 when two col
lege students, Leslie and Bruce
Shafer, camped along the Columbia
River, about three miles west of Ir
ngon. testing the ground water
They found the water temperature
was perfect for a fish hatchery
From that beginning, the Irrigon
FiXh Hatchery started taking shape
The completed SX 5 million hat
chcry was dedicated Saturday, with
several visiting and local dignitaries
giving short speeches to a standing
room only crowd
Colonel James Roycc. Com
mandcr ol the Walla Walla District
of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Wally Steuke. Oregon Fish and
Wildlife Service. Portland, and 7 *
Rollic. Rousseau, assistant director of
the Oregon Fish and Wildlife.
Portland, agreed on the success of
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the combined efforts of the Lower
Snake River Plan, the Oregon Fish
and W ildlife, budgeting and
maintenance, atjd the Corps of
Engineers, designing and overseeing
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construction, to compensate for fish
losses caused by four dams on the
lower Snake River
"The team effort is a success uk
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day." said Steuke He challenged
the agency's to continue working
together in these kind ot programs
Louis Carlson, Morrow C'ounty
Judge, congratulated the team on a
job well done, and urged for conn
nuing cooperation for growth in the
area
The Irrigon Hatchery is fourth in
pmductHin level in a group of 35 hat
cheries operated by the Department
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Of Fish and Wildlife
A group of guests look for sturgeon in the showing pond at
"Six years ago the fish runs were
hitting bottom, but the last two years the Irrigon Fish Hatchery dedication Saturday
there has been record steclhead run.
Dam. then harged or trucked down
The projected water needs for the
according to * Bonneville Power
the Columbia past the Bonneville hatchery was a 25.IMM) gallon a
Dam where they are then returned minute flow, but because of unex
Company, who have been keeping
to the river "
pected problems with sand, the two
records over the last fifty years,"
Spring and Fall Chinook Salmon wells arc down, at times. 7,tMM)
said Colonel Roycc
arc also being reared iri the Irrigon gallons a minute according to Mike
The hatchery rears 1.5 million
hatchery, through cooperation of the Gribble the assistant manager
smolt annually with a goal of 11 .(MX)
Confederated Tribes of the l 'matilla
Because of unacceptable bids this
of those returning as adult fish
Indian Reservation, to enhance the summer, the undertaking to find
"This year there were 4.(XX) return
salmon runs in the Umatilla River solutions to the well problems arc
cd to the Grande Rhonde and Imnaha
being postponed until next summer
system
River system." said Steuke
A major problem that has according to Jerry Bauer. Fish Pro
One reason for the increase in
developed is with the output of the pagation Chief for Oregon Depart
numbers of returning adult fish is the
large wells, according to Ray Hill. ment of Fish and Wildlife. Portland
help the smolt get in their journey
"There should be enough wale"
Superintendent of the Irrigon hat
past the turbines in dams, to the
chcry since IRH4 "The well's aren't for the basic program of steelhe ,d.
ocean Colonel Roycc explained.
producing as anticipated," he said but the extra load of spring arid fall
"Fifteen million smolt have been
Water was close to the critical stage chinratk may have to be discontinued
caught and tagged at the Lower
during the last hatching and rearing
Granite Dam on the Snake River, the
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Little Goose Dam. and at McNary
(¿rant would help
county buy bus
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Break In
A burglar broke the front window of Murray's Drug Store
sometime Sunday night. Drugs were the only items missing
from the store. Heppner Police said The Mam Street store was
last broken into in May; drugs were stolen at that time also
Heppner Police are continuing the investigation.
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By Avon Melby
Morrow County plans to apply tor
a grant tor purchase ol a new bus
tor use by Senior Citizens, the han
dk.ipivd. and others under the Rural
Transit Assistance program now be
mg lunded by the state
Judge Louis Carlson, along with
Marsha Swcck, coordinator for
Senior Citizens, are spearheading the
effort I he grant lor purchase ot the
buses is |(M) percent of the cost,
Carlson said Cigarette lax money
the county receives will provide 50
percent of the operation of the buses,
and another grant the county is ap
plying for will provide the remain
ing 50 percent " I he program will
not cost the county anything."
Carlson said
I wo buses have been in use in the
county tor Seniors lor several years
I he bus at Irrigon is quite new I he
one at Heppner is old and needs to
he replaced
Under the new program the buses
will become more of an all
community facility the program in
eludes the Dial a Bus program and
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