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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1987)
. _ r • « . * * • » . * ■ u-^ t " -» • " ■ • •. • « '«» . • • " •* » . • • *1 • * > • . * * • „* .. ~ ■ '* » * . . u • * Wednesday. ' ■ • • *• " •• • J ' fc - . » • * , , # ■ " ■ -¿»a---- ------ .M.fcii m „ / • -• • • •• . . ------«— >*- - Former Heppner photographer plans retirement When Louis Lyons. 70. Her- mision. retires at the end of this month he will take many memories of Heppner and of Hemuston v»nh him to his ness home in Hawaii The Hermiston C'hamher of Com merce is hosting a reception in home of Lyons' retirement at 5 p m September 10 at the Hentmton City Park Many of Lyons' memories are on film Most will recognize his work, hut even those who don't may recall his diminutive presence behind a bos camera at many major events in Morrow County's Home-Owned Newspaper the area He has resisted change to the '5 mm camera staunchly touting the superiority of the 3 s 3 bos typical of the equipment used by commercial and news photographers during the ld4(K The bos camera takes better pic tures. he said Because it uses big ger film, it makes better enlargements Many changes to the 35 mm camera have improved the quality of its pictures, he admits and confesses to buying one to take scents photo* when he and his wife were on vacation si* yean ago the camera was stolen during their vaca tH>n. but he has recently replaced it be* ause of its convenience for scenic shooting Lyons grew up in Portland and graduated from Benson Tech in September 2, 1987 Heppner 25« 8 Pages I*>37 He studied photography at the imes a zette VOL 105 NO. 35 '« • ? . , -V . . V < ^ > < p > n ,||O I F f SS I ’ a f î T î f t L U OF ORE K E i& lA i iR Lié E U 5 E N E CK & 7 4 ; 3 The Heppner ». ' T »,.-, « V ■«. ».V J • Willow Creek at Gale Street Bridge alter run off from Hinton Creek started coming in (l*Hd file photo by Louis Lyons). "When water began rushing down Chase St and overflowed the yard where his studio is located, louis Lyons seized his camera and dashed out to catch pictures He kept at it all afternoon and into the evening shadows.” (From the Gazette Times. Fehmary. I44d ) New York Institute of Photography and returned to Portland in I I He held photography jobs in Corvallis. Salem, and Vancouver, Wash., before moving to Heppner He owned and operated the Hepp ner Photo Studio from 1‘Ml-wi and moonlighted taking news photos for the Gazette limes, then owned by Otheo Crawford Wages and insurance key issues Still no contract between county and road employees The county and the road depart ment still are miles from agreeing what road department employees should be paid this year The employees' contract with the coun ty expired July I The county's last offer, for a three-year contract package, tailed for a 3 * raise (approximately 25‘ per hour) for the first year, their negotiator Don Scott and Assoc reported The road department employees arc asking for a 75‘ per hour raise with no cap on insurance coverage, the union negotiator Mike Persons said. The second year of the county's offer calls for a 3'A* increase in eluding insurance which means da« it insurant^ rilfi*« f rr tip:Employees will be able to choose less insurance coverage or lower wages. Scott said The third year, the county is offer ing a cost-of-living wage increase ' The way the union secs it.” Per sons said, "is that the county dead ed to change insurance companies at a savings to the county, which is good, but the savings should be for future raises The county decided to change insurance companies; they shiHild not ask the employ ees to take the risk if rates increase " "O ur feelings.” Scott said, "is that the union's demands outstretch what can be expected by reasonable criteria ” We have looked at the sur rounding counties and at others in Morrow County and arc confident lhai the .pay rales wp.*fe o/|cringlfce comparable Nothing tells us that the extra wage increase would be ap propriatc. he said The rest of the county employees received a 2 45* wage increase for this year Employees have never been ask cd to accept a cap on insurance coverage before. Persons said We have compared Morrow County Road Department wages with seven other counties and found that Gilliam County is the only one that pays lower wages than Morrow County The increase we re asking would not even put Morrow County at the top of the scale, but in the middle, and we don’t see that as unreasonable, he said W ages were compared w ith employees requt requested a "face to whole 75‘ per nour nour increase increase we we re re employees whole 5‘ per asking would only require 5'2.(33) face” meeting with the county com missioncr* to try to settle the he said August 5 road department deadlock in contract negotiations Commissioners refused to meet with the employees at that lint«.* The time for face to face talks has pass ed. County Judge Louis Carlson said During the negotiation process we were meeting directly with the employees Now, professional negotiators are speaking for both sides The law calls for a pen»*) of negotiations. Scott said Then if an agreement cant be reached, a neutral mediator is assigned by the Oregon Employment Relations Board There is no cost to the court ty or the union When the county and (he road department and their representatives met with the mediator last month, they were unable to come to agreement Now each side will gel a chance to present its position at an informal hearing September '() At the hear ing. called fact finding. Roy Erickson of Salem, will decide what the problems arc and hear testimony from both sides I he county and the union share expenses for factfinding Erickson has '() days following the close of the hearing to issue recom zc fSf mendations for resolving their pro ■ --------- Photo by Joyc» Hugh«« blems Each side has five working days after the report is issued to ac These Heppner Elementary School pupils were reunited with their favorite playground ccpt or reject the recommendations activity when schools opened their doors for the year Tuesday. It both accept the recommendations, they have a contract If cither reacts the recommendations, they return to mediation and continue negotiations or the union can give 10 days notice Service land is closed to all archery It's been a fairly typical archery September I dove season opened and schedule a strike no sooner than hunting and Krein said (his year hunters will 30 days after the factfinder's report season so far. Bob Krcin. Heppner Archery season continues through Wildlife Biologist for the Depart find doves Cold weather usually is issued September 20 chases (hem off by the beginning of ment of Fish and Wildlife said The Grouse season is in full swing and the season, he said forest has been hot and dry. normal will continue until October 24 weather for this time of year Hunters are finding a lot ol Rough Central Market reports a more Grouse in canyons with rushing Last Wednesday much of the area than average 15 elk and six deer was without power for about three harvested by bow hunters stored in water. Krein said Blue Grouse have been taken on north slopes where it hours Neither of the two separate their locker* is cooler rather than where the outages was planned and neither had Three nice bulls (two five point anything to do with the newly con and one six point) were bagged near hunters usually find them Bag limit lor grouse is three strutted main power line from the Spray last weekend. Krein said Bonneville substation into Heppner. Bow hunters need to remember Rough and two blue grouse laical All four area markets Del s. Ccn license centers have a copy of the that all land North of the North ex tral, C ourt St . and Bristow s report Fred Toombs, manager of Colum tenor boundarv of the U S Forest season dates ami bag limils that they will remain open labor bia Basin electric Co-op said Die first outage occurred when a Day, September 7 crossarm broke on the transmission The Post office, the extension of line that feeds the Sand Hollow lice. Heppner City Hall, county of fixes, schools, and area banks will substation Crews were jblc to be closed Monday in observance of switch service and return power to all except Sand Hollow area the holiday customers in about an hour. Toombs said Those south of the Sand Coast to Coast ha* notified the Hollow substation were without O m n i limes ih.it (hev will siav power for about three hours open Monday Crews were still working to The following businesses have restore power to the Sand Hollow area when a bird flew into the notified the G T that they will close substation at Heppner creating an arc for 1-ahor Day Pettyjohn's Builders that could be heard all over town and Supply. Case Furniture. Country destroying vital switch gears Again Rose. Murray's, Peterson *. Ployhar crews restored service to all Insurance. Skaggs Shoe Box. customers exept those served by the Gardners downed substation, he said Crews Hood River. Sherman. Gilliam, Wasco. Umatilla, Union, and Wallowa counties because they have roughly the same weather and road conditions as Morrow County The county has the money. Per sons alleged This year's budget for salarv adjustment is 545 .(310 and (be Sum m er's O ver__ Archery season underway Many local offices and business to close Labor Dav Back to School Morrow County Schools opened Tuesday Kids and teachers returned to their books a week earlier than the past few years when schools started up after Labor Day Teachers returned to work last week to prepare classrooms and bulletin hoards and get ready to greet students Teachers new to the district toured the counts on Wednesday All teachers returned to school Thurs day and together with other district employees attend ed a conflict management workshop on Friday Pictured below are teachers new to the district Back row left to right Winston Raw, Business Ed KHS, Kevin Fry Language Arts, RHS. Beth Treason * . •’ V... Photo Oy Jorc« Hugh«« Kindergarten. A C Houghton Rav Davis Art. A l Houghton and Sam Bo.irdtnan. John Adamson M usk , Columbia Jr High and A C Houghton; Steve Molthan Language Arts, RHS. Mark Dowdy language Arts. HHS, Dean Robinson sixth, seventh and Eight grade English, lone Front row left to right Terri Franks- Speech Language. A C Houghton. Carrna Banon Kindergarten. Sam Boardman. Cindy Sutherland third grade. Sam Boardman. Lisa Sharkey language Arts. RHS. John Colvett language Arts. Columbia Jr High; and Karen Smith Griffith Special Ed HHS and lone Louis Lyons After he moved his stud hi to Her miston. he continued sh«*oiittg new* photos, but for the Hemuston Herald When the Herald switched to offset printing, others begun lak mg photos lor the paper us well Lyons and In* wife I illi.in have 10 children. 16 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren Some of the family thought wc were trying to run away from them when we first told them we were moving to Hawaii, he said Now most of them like the idea and aie planning to come visit us Lyons has built a repualion for taking qualify photos whether in his studio or on location He likes shooting commercial pictures of buildings He did an eight-year series on the construction at the C ar ly Coal Plant at Bourdmun His tiles also include many annual md rodeo pictures For many years he was the only commercial photographer in the area He plans to turn some of hi* photos ol the Heppner area over to the museum here A charter member of the Profcs sional Photographers of Oregon, he was honored with a plaque at a re cent convention in Baker "Not that I know of yet.” was hi* cagey answer to the query, will anyone in the area be able to lake photos as good as yours alter you retire ’ He described the retirement he i* looking forward to as taking photo* for a studio in Hawaii only part time of course Two separate Wednesday outages left area powerless replaced the switches at the Hepp ner substation and returned power to customers in about three hours Neither outage occurred on the new facility. Ioombs emphasized One reason we were able to get (tower back on as rapidly as wc did is because we had the new system with its switching capabilities, he said (i-T office will close Labor Day The Gazette Times office will he closed for I abor Day. September 7. The office will open as usual Tues day morning I he deadline for sub mining news items and letters to the editor will be V a m Tuesday for next week only Classified and display ad deadlines will remain the same. I p m and 5 p m Tuesday respectively The newspaper will be printed and mailed on Wednesday as usual ‘Heppner Harvest Festival’ only an error in Oregon Tourism guide If .i stranger approaches you on the street this weekend asking for directions to Heppner's Harvest Festival, try not to think he's loo crazy A mistake in the printing of an Oregon tourism guide has apparent ly listed Heppner as having a big Harvest Festival this weekend. Sept * and 6 ' We don't have a Harvest Festival," said Chamber Manager Claudia Hughes who discovered (he error when people from outside the area began calling to inquire about the non existent event She said a phone number listed in the brochure, for information on the mythKal Harvest Festival, belongs to Fran Hale of Blake's Ranch, who knows nothing abtmt the event Hughes said the brochure was put out by die Stale of Oregon Fcononuc Development Tourism division " I don't know where they got the information," she said, pointing out - / that Heppner couldn't even have become mixed up with Boardman, because Boardm an's Harvest Festival was cancelled this year. Hughes says she received a letter from a man who wanted to come and set up a booth at the Festival, and also received a call from another man interested in coming " I ’m sen ding them some information on other things we have. We have a nice town, we just don't have that par ticular event," she said •» A j <* * - . r'-'l
