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I I ; T»' ' . t . r , ». • H ealth N urse plans busy retirem ent ' The Heppner 35C Pat Wright a zette VOL 108 NO. 41_______Wednesday, October 10, 1990 imes Heppner 35* __6 Pages D ru g s, ca sh seized in B oard m an Armed with an irrepressible gusto for living, Pat Wright will soon open a new chapter in her life. And she can hardly wait to turn the page. Pat. who has been the Morrow County Public Health nurse for the past 16 years, will resign from that position Oct. 19. Her resignation was prompted by a back injury which she feels cannot heal properly with the demanding schedule and heavy lifting required of a public health nurse. “ I hurt my back in August and it’s slow to recover. I didn’t want to end up with a chronic back injury,” she said. But the injury is not keeping this gal down. She has plans—big plans- -the first of which is to launch a write-in campaign for Morrow County Commissioner in the Nov. 6 election. Pat also has her eye on a couple of jobs that already w, parttime p0i imiiv juuj uim she ju t has na.-> aucauy been offered and loves to travel, paint, knit, crochet and visit friends and relatives. Last year she drove across the U.S. by herself and spent part of her summer as a nurse at an exclusive summer camp. Camp G reystone in Tuxedo, North Carolina. Bom in Lexington to Freida and A.F. Majeske, Pat graduated from Lexington High School and receiv ed her nursing diploma from Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland in 1954. After receiving her diploma she worked at Good Samaritan in the emergency and operating rooms (her love is traumatic care nursing) for five or six years and at Gresham General Hospital in the coronary care unit for 12 years, both off and on while raising her family. She married her husband Harvey in 1956. He has since passed away. An avid traveler, Pat is planning her first trip after retirement to Fayetteville, North Carolina, to visit her daughter, Sandi Putman, who is a beautician there. Sandi’s husband is a serviceman who has been sta tioned in Saudi Arabia. Pat also has a son, Mark, who is an electrical engineer in Boise, Idaho. He and his wife Lisa have two children, Ashley, six, and Zachary, two months. Pat, who has traveled all over Canada, has also visited Alaska, Hawaii and the Bahamas and all but five states in the U.S. She would still very much like to see the New England states, along with Europe and Australia. Because prospective traveling companions are often limited by job, family, time and financial constraints, Pat has discovered the joys of traveling alone, “ Although I would prefer to travel with someone,” she adds. rai inai she sne will win miss the tne Pat says that . ^ / .1 ■» I • , * »' : ■ ’’ ¡'• - ’• -t.■ -ç many children she encounters as a public health nurse. “ I probably will miss the babies the most. I love see ing them grow. I do love them. I see them the first time around two months and the last time at five years, and a lot in between. One thing I will definitely not miss is the paperwork.” What has changed since she began her career in public health nursing? “ What has really changed is the large influx of Hispanic people from Mexico. We see diseases now that I haven’t seen in 20 years-diptheria, tuberculosis, whooping cough.” “ I find it amazing that they (Hispanics) trust me with their children,” added Pat. “ They come to me and I don't speak Spanish and they don’t speak English. And they trust me enough to let me give their babies immunizations.” Also changed are the c ir cumstances surrounding her home visits. Pat says that she and her co worker. Betty Marquardt, who ac companies her, have established a code for dealing with dangerous or difficult situations. On occasion Pat says that she has asked a sheriffs deputy to accompany her. Although Pat technically has weekends and holidays off, her job as a public health nurse sometimes stretched into a seven-day work week. “ I’m called on Saturdays and Sundays. I don’t think a weekend goes by that I don’t get two or three calls. One Thanksgiving there was a knock on the door. I had company. Someone wanted me to diagnose these little red bumps.” “ But I like people,” she conclud ed. And it’s obvious that she does. Pat will be honored by courthouse employees on Oct. 18 and by employees n at the • Pettyjohn Building m jjuiui uumiui( on Oct. 19. » . ' fl ' -,.1 I V ’ ■■ 'V .'v,w V -.;... ’ -, - • s- - • • • - V.* ” * . * , — •' , * • •*. , * * . ' . * . ♦ A ! +r •. a ,% * -■••’ ***,,* • 4 ‘r* ’] ’ ■ » -• . • -, * , * ». m. • . • 1 »•4 ‘ * » - M en in C ivilian C onservation cam p 50 years ago rekindle m em ories The 1930’s the Great Depression. Depression, to quote Charles Dickens, “ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Two men who lived through the depression at a labor camp in Hepp ner came back this week to revive the memories of those times good and bad-50 years later. Donald Heman and Olander “ Curly” Hass both turned 21 in Heppner’s Civilian Conservation Corps camp just 12 days apart in l WM< f _________________________________________________ May of 1938, far away from their Photo by Joyce Hughes homes and families. Undersheriff Verlin Denton displays a few of the items confiscated in the drug raid in Boardman. The two had voluntarily signed up for the program, Don through the Rocky Lee Rodgers, 27, of County Jail on two counts of posses $12,000 in cash. The arrest and Tualatin was arrested Oct. 8, by Red Cross, and Olander through sion of controlled substance and two seizure was the result of a joint in Welfare. CCC had been created by Morrow County Sheriffs deputies counts of delivery of a controlled vestigation by the Morrow County and Boardman Police officers President Franklin Delano Roosevelt substance. Bail was set at $60,000. Sheriff s department and Boardman following a search of a Boardman for young unemployed men, the ma Seized at the scene was approx Police department. The suspect was residence. Rodgers was arrested at imately one pound of suspected co a visitor in the area staying at the jority of whom were children of poor the scene and lodged at the Benton caine. Vi pound of marijuana and Boardman residence. families many of whom were on welfare. Two hundred young men lived at the camp in Heppner which was located at the east end of the Confused about Ballot Measure fairgrounds. Don worked in a rock #5? Worried about a 1 ‘A percent quarry up Willow Creek, loading limitation and the effects on school trucks. He raised the rock up from- funding? What will be the impact on the quarry with a hand winch. Cur farms and on city government? Will ly pried the rock out of the quarry the state pick up the balance and, if Garbage rates for the city of Hepp have said that they are in the process so, will it increase the income tax or with a crowbar. “ It was work," said ner will increase 70 percent October of deeding a piece of property bet will it mean a sales tax? Don. “ It’s hard to believe the kind 15. Rates for one can pickup will in ween Heppner and Lexington to of work we did. There was no These are questions that many crease from $6 to $10.25. Two can Finley Buttes for use as a transfer machinery for that then.” citizens of Morrow County are ask pickup will increase from $9 to station. But Finley Buttes has in ing themselves and others as the “ It was rough times,” said Cur $15.30. dicated that they will lease the sta debate on Measure #5 continues. To ly. ” It was the depths of the depres City officials say that the rate in tion to Guy Patterson, who, they say sion. But it was definitely a good job provide information on this subject, crease is necessitated by the impen will operate the station. But city of the Morrow County Schools and the and discipline.” ding closure of the city dump. The ficials said that they have no The CCC boys weren’t allowed to Morrow County Court are sponsor dump is scheduled to close Oct. 15 guarantee of reasonable fees or long have cars at the camp. But then, they ing two public meetings with because it is full. term solution if a private party couldn’t have afforded one anyway- knowledgeable speakers to make Because Finley Buttes Landfill, a operates the transfer station. A -on $30 a month. And $25 of that presentations and to answer ques new dumping site recently transfer station will be used as a solid money was sent home to their tions. The public hearings will be developed, is not expected to open waste disposal site for city and coun families. “ We couldn’t buy gas for held on October 22 at the Heppner before Nov. 1 at the earliest, the ty residents. The waste will then be it even if we had one” said Don. Elementary auditorium at 7 p.m. and Heppner City Council approved transported to Finley Buttes Landfill. The men worked five days a week again at Boardman on October 23, Monday night that Heppner Disposal City officials site a Morrow Coun and had Saturdays and Sundays off. at the Riverside auditorium. truck the garbage to the Hermiston ty Ordinance which they say directs But since they didn’t have cars, they The roster of speakers and panel Landfill “ indefinitely,” until a new the county to oversee all solid waste weren't able to leave town unless will be as follows: solution to Heppner’s garbage pro disposal in the county. But county they took the only transportation H eppner, O ctober blem can be achieved. officials say that the city is not do available-the train, which was too 22- Representative Mike Nelson. According to Heppner City At ing enough towards a solution to the Stafford Hansell. Bill Kuhn. Ron torney Bill Kuhn, the Department of problem. Daniels. Greg Sweek; by City of Hoppnor Environmental Quality has not cer In the meantime, the city has run B oardm an, O ctober tified the Finley Buttes Landfill out of time. “ It’s critical,” said 23- Representative Mike Nelson, Oct. 2 - 8, 1990 because they are trying to spur the Heppner Mayor Cara Costa. “ It’s High I/O» Prêt Stafford Hansell, Bill Kuhn, Larry county involvement in Heppner’s unfortunate that this is happening.” Tues. 39 62 .0 Mills, Ron Daniels, Greg Sweek garbage problems and they want the “ That’s why we started meeting Weds. 46 .0 73 Morrow County citizens who are county to become more involved in Thurs. last fall, we didn't want this to hap 82 47 Tr interested in this measure are invited developing a transfer station and a 60 36 .0 pen,” she continued. to attend, according to Judge Louis Fri. solution to long term solid waste Sat. 58 .0 28 The city also considered digging Carlson. disposal plan. Sun. 59 30 .0 another trench at the city dump, but 64 41 .• Mon. The City of Heppner and Morrow rejected that solution because of the County are in disagreement over the cost and because it would only delay county’s role in operation of a ’ the crisis for a short time. transfer station. County officials Copies of financial effects of ballot measures 3-11 are available at the Morrow County Courthouse. Clerk B arbara Bloodsw orth has announced. At one point, because of late fil ing o f the financial impact The Heppner Booster Club's an Blackjack. Craps. Roulette, 4,5,6 statements, the ballot measures were nual Reno Nite will be held this and Chuckaluck. ruled invalid However a ruling by Saturday night Oct. 13 at the Elks All proceeds will go to the Booster the Oregon Supreme Court said the Lodge. The fun starts at 7 p.m. with Club measures would be counted. City garbage rates to increase 70 percent Public meeting on Measure 5 Weather Report Copy of financial effects available Reno Nite this Saturday 5 % Olander “ Curly” Huss (I) and Donald Heman slow to allow them to go home on weekends. Don jokes that if the train stopped by a farm to pick up a dozen eggs, and the farmer had only 11 eggs to sell, the train would wait un til the farmer’s hen laid another one. At that time the train left Hepp ner at 9 p.m and came back in the morning. The CCC boys were sup posed to be back into twon at 8 a m for work, “ but the train was so slow sometimes it wouldn't get here until noon." But as long as they were on the train when it pulled back into town, they didn’t get into trouble. Every six months they were granted seven days leave and were then able to visit their folks—Don’s in Ranier, and Curly’s in Oregon City. On the weekends the men came in to Heppner. The “ hang-out" then was the old Elk Horn Restaurant. “ Elsie Cowins was a waitress then. “ She was a real friend to the CCC b oys,” said C urly. The pair remember that "the popular tune on the ‘Nickelodeon was the ’Beer Bar rel Polka.’” Reserve Army officers who managed the camp were Lieute nant Hanford and Lieutenant Finley. Dr. M cM urdo was the town physician. There was no mill in Heppner then and the hills were bare. The hospital had not yet been located on the hill. Don and Curly, didn’t see each other for nearly 50 years after they left the camp. Don in March of 1940 and Curly in April of that year. After leaving the camp Don went to work in the woods, spending 25 years as a timber faller. He then got a job in- the boiler room at the Champion In- temation Mill. He retired in 1982. Don has two sons and a daughter and five grandchildren He was newly married six years ago. He now lives in Mapleton. After CCC Curly also worked in the woods, cutting cedar poles and piling and logging. During World War II he worked in the fire department at the Portland Air Base, After that he worked in highway construction and in building con struction. In 1955 he went to work for the Oregon City School District as a custodian and bus driver. He retired in 1982. He recently lost his wife of 45 years of marriage. Curly has three children and one grand child. He now lives in Oregon City. About a year ago Don, who has a sister who lives in ZigZag, got to looking in the telephone directory. He knew Curly lived in Oregon and called him up. After that, he made a visit to Curly’s home. How do the two feel about their visit to Heppner and the memories that surround it? “ It’s been nice,” said Don. “ I had to come up and see the dam before it goes,” he joked. 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