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The Heppner
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Pat Wright
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VOL 108 NO. 41_______Wednesday, October 10, 1990
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Heppner 35*
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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.
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inai she
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Pat says that
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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
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on Oct. 19.
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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
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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
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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.
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Mills,
Ron
Daniels,
Greg
Sweek
garbage problems and they want the
“ That’s why we started meeting
Weds.
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Morrow
County
citizens
who
are
county to become more involved in
Thurs.
last fall, we didn't want this to hap
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interested in this measure are invited
developing a transfer station and a
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pen,” she continued.
to attend, according to Judge Louis Fri.
solution to long term solid waste
Sat.
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The city also considered digging
Carlson.
disposal plan.
Sun.
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another trench at the city dump, but
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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
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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.
Curly, whose hair is still curiy, but
silver now, added. “ It's hard to
believe fifty years have gone by.”
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