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Heppner Garden Club members put the finishing touches on one of the 11 tables they prepared Monday after
noon for Tuesday's state garden club meeting at St Patricks’ Catholic Parish Hall in Heppner
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VOL 105 NO 39
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Factfinder hears wage and insurance views
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Wednesday, September 30, 1987
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Both the county and road depart
mem employees have • chance to ex
plain their positions at an informal
hearing today at the county road
shop
General deer season opens Saturday
Road Department employee» have three year contract package, called
been working without a contract for a 3% raise (approximately 25<
since July I when last year’s contract per hour), for the first year, their
negotiator Don Scott and Assoc
expired
Factfinder Roy Erickson of Salem reported
will hear the county's and the road
department's offers for wages and
insurance
The road department employees
The Boeing Regulated Hunt Area,
are asking for a 75c per hour raise
with no cap on insurance coverage, located west of Boardman. will be
the union negotiator Mike Persons enlarged for the upcoming upland
game bird and waterfowl season.
said
Hu- county > hat otter, tor § Brad Bales of the Oregon Dept of
Fish and Wildlife has announced
Approximately 4.000 acres of Tag
gates' agricultural lands will be add
ed to the existing program to bring
the total area available lo the hunting
public to 11 .(XX) acres The re
mainder of Taggarcs Farms ansi Car
tv Reservoir will remain closed to all
public access as it has been in
previous years, he said
Other changes on the Boeing area
include additions of year-round
regulations on vehicle use on por
tions of Taggarcs Farms and areas
south of the farm and Cany Rcser
voir The public is welcome to hunt
in these areas during authorized
seasons (by permit only dunng pbea
sanl and waterfowl season) but the
majority of roads arc closed to vchi
clc traffic Another important change
this year is that public hunting of big
game animals is prohibited in the
hunting access portion of Taggarcs
Farms Irom (Xtobcr 3-25
Complete regulations for all the
regulated hunt areas in the Boardman
area can be found in the 1987 game
bird synopsis Questions may be ad
dressed to Brad Bales, 567 0489.
Hcrmiston
Boeing regulated
hunt expanded
year was only fair The cast half of ing and can provide some excellent
General deer season opens this for the first time
hunting opportunities Permission to
the
Mt Ennly Unit will be limited
Deer
numbers
in
the
Walla
Walla.
Saturday. Oct. 3. Heppner district
hunt and the spread of noxious weed
entry
only
for
buck
hunting
Deer
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Emily,
and
Uktah
units
are
up
wildlife biologist Glen Ward said a
populations on private lands in the should be considered when hunting
lot of yearling bucks are available for slightly from the past two years, he
on private lands
foothills of the county arc increas
harvest this season because fawn said Adult buck carryover from last
crop production and survival has
been high.
The bigger bucks are hidden in the
timbered areas at higher elevations,
he said Dry forests may make hun
ting conditions poor unless some rain
falls, he said
No open fires arc permitted in the
Heppner regulated hunt area, he
said
Hunters should stay on mam roads
to prevent the spread of noxious
weeds in grass and crop land, he
continued, "Remember to get per
mission from private landowners "
Heppner. Fossil and Columbia
Basin units should produce about the
same number of bucks as I‘bib Deer
are widely-scattered and in good
physical condition. Yearling bucks
will make up at least 85 percent of
the total buck harvest. A few older
bucks can be found at the higher
elevations and in thick-timbered
stands Most of the private land is
open by pc muss ion only and hunters
arc requested to travel on main roads
to prevent the spread of noxious
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weeds, Jim Gladson of the Oregon
Dept of Fish and Wildlife said
Nearly all of Union county is clos
ed to general hunting except the Sled
Springs Unit between the town of
Elgin and the Wallowa River The
Starkey Unit and the Catherine
Those who have moved, changed
Flyers brought their planes over a test area at the airport
Crcck/north Union County units
Crop dusters from around Washington and Oregon had a
their
name, or become 18 years old
should be excellent for those
to
release
liquid
and
have
the
spray
pattern
checked
by
com
chance to check out their spraying equipment Tuesday at the
since the last election need lo register
possessing limited entry buck per
puter
The
pilot
above
had
just
landed
his
crop
duster
Lexington airport.
with the County Clerk’s office
mils. Fairly good populations exist
before (Xtobcr 13 in order to vote
at lower elevations in agricultural
in the November election
lands, but deer are lightly scattered
The November election will be a
at all elevations Antler growth has
vote-by-mail,
the clerk has announc
been excellent
ed Those who arc uncertain about
Permit-entry hunting is in effect
their voter registration status should
for bucks in Keating. Pine Creek.
The county planning commission land near Boardman which Boeing contact the Clerk’s office. 676 9061
Lookout Mountain, Catherine
heard comments but took no action leased for 99 years beginning in
The November 3 ballot will con
Creek. Sumpter and Starkey units
concerning a zone change request 1963
tain an initiative meusure which, it
In the Grant District mule deer
Monday night
approved, would require voter ap
numbers are about 30 percent below
Charles Gchley o f the Oregon
A second public hearing is
pros al of prospective landfill sites in
management objectives Buck ratals,
Dept, o f Veterans' Affairs presented
scheduled lo iK-gm at 7 30 p in Oc
Morrow County which receive gar
however, have increased siightiy
tober 19 at Boardman City Hall At a first-draft application to the bage originating outside the county
from last year in the Murderers
(hat hearing the planning commis commission
Creek Unit Hunters are reminded
Bob Miller, manager o f the Port
sion expects to hear comments from
that the Murderers Creek and Nor-
o
f
Morrow said that he was in favor
urn r '
Hoeing Corp. saying why they want
thside units are open only to those
o
f
changing
the land to a space age
14.080 acres near Boardman chang
that have drawn permits
industnal
zone.
ed from an exclusive farm use zone
Forest Supervisors for the
Mule deer populations continue to
Bill Doherty o f Lexington asked
to space age industrial zone. Coun
Umatilla.
Malheur and Wallowa
improve in the Wallowa District
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ty Planner Deane Scegcr said The that when Boeing made its final pro
Whitman National Forests have
Spring population estimates indicate
commission will also accept public posal they consider his three im ga
decided not to issue any open fire
the deer herd at 86 percent of the
tion ditches which border the pro
comments at that time
restrictions on the three forests for
management objectives Seventy-
Brent Lake, field representative posed space age industrial zone
the upcoming hunting season unless
two percent fawn survival was
The IXpt o f Veterans Affairs,
for the [.and Conservation and
weather
conditions
change
recorded over-winter, compared to
owns
most of the land bordering that
Heppner Emergency Medical Technicians will sell tickets for a drawing
Development board said Monday he
significantly. Bob Yoder of the
64 percent in 1986
proposed for a space age industrial
had been working with county plan
Forest Service said
TTie Hells Canyon Wilderness on the Barbie doll pictured above. Money from the ticket sale will be used
zone Portland General Electric Coal
toward
the
purchase
of
a
portable
defibrillator
for
the
ambulance
EMTs
ning
department
staff
and
the
The forests arc extremely dry
Area and Snake River corridor are
Department of Veterans’ Affairs on plant occupies some land south of the Hunters, woodcutters and other
closed to general season hunters and Carl Lauritsen and Penmc Miller show Klara Kin/cr (right) how small the
parcel and the Navy owns some land
the zone change application Depart
forest users arc asked to be careful
are open to limited entry permit hun portable unit is The unit was borrowed for the day.
to
the cast o f it
The
doll
will
be
on
display
at
Hcppncr
Bowl.
Scars.
Bristow
Market.
ment of Veterans' Affairs owns the
when smoking or using a camp fire
ting only. The Shamrock Road
Management Area in East Sled Bunch Grass Saloon, Del’s Market. Garners Men's Wear. Murrays Drug.
or warming fire fo ensure a safe and
Springs will be in effect this season Central Market, Court St Market, Green Feed Store, and Coast to Coast
pleasant trip
over the next several weeks
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Register to vote
before Oct. 13
Planning Commission to her more
comments on proposed zone change
Camp fires allowed
in federal forests
EMTs begin another fundraiser
Wildlife refuges
closed to hunting
Hospital administrator says
Board has not reached
agreement with doctors
I The Medical Board has submitted
a proposal to the doctors who have
asked for tune to consider the offer
According to Wick, a story in last
week's Gazette-Times incorrectly
stated that a contract with the doc
tors had been accepted by the
medical board
According to Hospital Ad
ministrator Ernest Wick, no agree
ment has yet been reached between
Drs Jean and Ed Beretta and the
Morrow County Medical Board The
husband and wife team who have
been practicing in North Carolina
are not coming to Heppner October
The Umatilla Cold Springs and
McKay Creek National Wildlife
Refuges in Oregon are closed to big
game hunting
According to Refuge Manager
Morris LeFever there is some con
fusion among hunters because the
Oregon 1987 State Hunting Synop
sis did not list these refuges as be
ing closed
The refuges are closed to all hun
ting until October 17 when the
w aterfowl season begins Possession
of-nfles and other firearms is pro
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Open fires prohibited on State controlled lands
Open fires arc prohibited on state
controlled forest lands except in
designated campgrounds areas, the
Fossil office of the State Forestry
iXpt said Tuesday The restriction
may be lifted by the weekend, so a
call to me rossit office may avoid
confusion.
At present cooking fires on ap^
proved stoves arc permitted, the
department said
Smoking is prohibited in timber
and grass areas, except in vehicles.
Weather Report
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Camp fire caution urged
Due to very dry conditions in the
forest .Jim Lawrence. Forest Super
visor for the Umatilla National
Forest, strongly suggests that
hunters vid other forest users be
aware of the fire danger and he ex
tremely cautious with warming fires
and camp fires Forest users should
be sure that any fire is dead out
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before leaving it.
Many fall mornings are quite cold,
but the woods arc still very dry If
warming fires are allowed where
you hunt, prepare your fire site by
scraping away litter, duff and other
burnable material within a ten foot
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Non idustrial use of chain saws also
in prohibited on state controlled
lands, and firefighting equipment -
shovel, ax. fire extinguisher is re
quired. the office reported
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