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The Heppner
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Letters to the Editor
Write in Pat Wright for commissioner
To the Editor;
As many of you now know, Pat
Wright has decided to be a write-in
candidate for County Commissioner.
I have known Pat since we both at
tended school together in Lexington,
and for the last 16 years, I have
worked side by side with her-first
at the hospital and then at the Health
Department where she was County
Heidth Nurse. During this time, she
has also served on many boards in
cluding: lone/Lexington School Ad
visory Board, Morrow County
School Board, Pioneer Memorial
Hospital Board, Dr. Search Com
mittee and the Lexington City
Council.
Because of all her experience, her
life-lcng residency in Morrow Coun
ty, her common sense, her compas
sion and her sense of fairness, she
would make an outstanding County
Commissioner.
I can tell you from years of ex
perience with her, that Pat is a lady
who gets things done.
Write in Pat Wright for County
Commissioner.
Sincerely,
(s) Betty Marquardt
Lexington
Thanks for Heppner hospitality
To the Editor:
I just wanted to take a minute and
thank all the people of Heppner for
the incredible hospitality they show
ed the Cycle Oregon III riders. Our
stay in your town was truly one of
the highlights of my week. I hope I'll
be able to visit you again real soon.
Thanks again.
Sincerely,
(s) Stephen G. Shaw
843 N Knott 301
Portland 97227
Disturbed by story
To the Editor:
RE: Transfer Staton
I was very disturbed by your Oct.
10th front page article. You have
rarely attended any council meetings
in the past year. How is it possible
to accurately edit news and see the
overall picture by depending on
quotes?
You have depicted a gloomy
negative situation of the numerous
proceedings that have taken place.
Try attending our meetings to watch
events as they unfold and develop.
Your perspective may become more
accurate and positive.
(s) Amie Hedman
Heppner City Council Member
Admires Frohnmayer
To the Editor:
I had the opportunity to work with
and admire the integrity of Dave
Frohnmayer while together we serv
ed in the Oregon Legislature.
In more recent years, while serv
ing on various boards and commis
sions I have sought his counsel and
have valued his support of decisions
that would prove best for Oregon
and best for the most of its citizens.
I urge you to join me with a vote
for Dave Frohnmayer. He will make
a truly fine Governor.
Sincerely
(s) Stafford Hansell
Boardman
Thanks to Heppner
To the Editor.
Residents of Heppner-
Thank you all for the warm
welcome, great food, fun entertain
ment and all around hospitality we
received during Cycle Oregon III.
Special thanks to Darcey, our
I t’s Garbage
Vote for A1 Mobley
The Official Newspaper of the
City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
shuttle driver who took us on tour
before a swim stop at the dam. Also
all the cooks and servers of the food.
Those cookies, wow.
You people are great. Thanks.
(s) Alix Olson
San Diego
To the Editor:
Should conservatives vote for
Dave Frohnmayer even though he
hesitates to identify with them?
When Vice-President Quayle
came to Portland recently,
Forhnmayer refused to be seen on
the podium with the vice-president.
There were no pictures taken by the
press of Quayle and Frohnmayer
together.
We were told they met privately
at the hotel, but he refused to be seen
publicly with known conservative
Vice-President Quayle. Why? He
doesn’t agree with the vice-
president's support of educational
choice.
Is Frohnmayer afraid of driving
away some of his liberal supporters?
Only he can answer that question.
But he is not serious about attracting
conservative voters.
He would not be seen with a con
servative he disagrees with, yet those
who have not abandoned the
Republican principles are supposed
to ignore his arrogance and elevate
him to governor? I don’t think so.
He shunned known conservative
Quayle and in January he co-hosted
a fund raiser that helped the liberal
opponent o f Republican Con
gressman Denny Smith.
If Frohnmayer weren’t running
for governor, would he vote for a
Republican or liberal Democrat? On
September 30th he announced he
would write in the name of liberal
democrat, Lynn Frohnmayer. Then
he added, “ She would make a great
governor.”
How do we know she’s a liberal
democrat? Mrs. Frohnmayer told an
Oregonian reporter, “ I’m a life
long, liberal democrat.” She re
m ains a registerd dem ocrat.
Therefore, she could not even vote
for her husband in his May primary
election. (N eil G oldschm idt's
parents respectfully changed their
registration to vote for their son in
his 1988 prim ary-not liberal Mrs.
Frohnmayer.)
Vote for the candidate who is not
ashamed to identify with moderates
and conservatives. Vote for A1
Mobley.
Sincerely,
(s) Bill Bennett
4512 Hayesville Dr. NE
Salem
Vote for Ray French
To the Editor:
On November 6 I ask you to con
sider for Ray French as our Morrow
County Commissioner. Ray is ac
tively campaigning for this position
and is most eager to serve you.
A vote for Ray French is a vote
for respected leadership.
(s) Bob & Suzanne Jepsen
Stop wasting; start recycling
To the Editor:
Now that our landfill is closing
and garbage rates have almost doubl
ed it is time to think about recycl
ing. This means more than just
cleaning tin cans and taking them to
a special dumpster, it also means
changing our shopping habits. Here
are some things you can do to cut
your garbage bill in half and save
space in the landfills:
1. Re-use grocery and other bags.
Take one with you to the store rather
than getting a new one.
2. Do not get plastic grocery bags
or shopping bags unless you plan to
re-use them before discarding.
3. Avoid plastic of all kinds. As
far as we know it lasts forever in a
landfill. There is no plastic recycl
ing center near here. Almost
everything that comes in plastic can
also be found in glass or paper. Ask
the stores to wrap your meat, fish,
etc., in paper rather than taking
home the foam and plastic. When
ordering “ take out” food ask the
restaurant to avoid putting it in foam
containers.
4. The issue of disposable diapers
is a matter of choice. Disposables
only make up 7 percent of all trash
in landfills. The “ biodegradable”
diapers have not proven to
breakdown any faster than the
regular ones. Cloth diapers use enor
mous amounts of water and electrici
ty not to mention the gas used by
diaper delivery services. Whatever
your choice, the damage done to the
environm ent is small and
certainly necessary.
5. We are fortunate to live in a
wide open area allowing us to in
cinerate our own paper trash. Be
sure to follow local guidelines for
doing this. The pollution produced
is small compared to the amount of
damage done if this paper is put in
a landfill.
6. Food or organic waste can be
used for compost in your garden. If
you’re not a gardener ask one if he
wants your waste.
7. Check with local authorities and
environmental groups to find out
what else you can do.
8. Purchase products made from
recycled materials.
9. The recycling centers in Her-
miston and Pendleton have clear in
structions on how to recycle: tin-
remove labels, wash out, cut off both
ends and place in the can, then flat
ten; aluminum-same as tin; glass-
remove labels, caps and corks, wash
out and sort according to color at the
recycle center; newspaper-stack and
tie with twine. Do not include col
ored ads or magazines; cardboard-
corrugated only and brown paper
grocery bags. Flatten boxes and
remove stickers, staples and tape.
10. Stop and think before you
throw anything away. Try to find
some other use for it or recycle it.
Remember if you throw it away it
will stay in a landfill somewhere for
a long, long time.
All of this will help us reduce our
garbage flow. Not to mention the
benefits to our environment. When
you start changing your trash habits
the stores and manufacturers will
change their habits too. We will all
win.
This sounds like a lot of work but
it really isn’t. We have been trying
it for a month now and it works. Our
own work around the house has ac
tually been reduced, less trips to the
trash can outside. Lets all stop
wasting and start recycling.
(s) Lori & Jay Straley
Heppner
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MEN’S
WEAR
To the Editor:
I am very interested in Ballot
Measure 4, which will close down
the Trojan power plant at Rainier.
With the increased use of power in
the Northwest, probable loss of Col
umbia River water because of low
rainfall and fish preservation policies
being considered, I believe we must
keep Trojan operating.
An Oregon Public Utility Com
mission staff report on the economic
impact of Measure 4 says in essence:
“ If voters approve Measure 4, BPA
would have to replace its 30 percent
share of Trojan. As a result, BPA’s
customers could face wholesale rates
that are 0.7 percent to 1.5 percent
higher throughout the next 21 years.
The rate impacts would probably be
higher than average in the near term.
In addition, PGE might be able to
pass some of its higher costs through
to BPA in the residential exchange.
If so. BPA’s rates could be another
0.6 percent to 1.3 percent higher
during the 21-year period.”
After reading this report, I have
deep concern about what this will do
to our Columbia Basin Co-op
customers as well as all the Rural
Electric customers in Oregon. It
shows that Bonneville could be forc
ed to raise their power rates to all of
us by as much as 1.3 percent to 2.8
percent at the distribution level This
raise will show up as higher power
rates for years to come. 1 hope voters
will consider what a yes vote will do
to all of us.
Until better options come along,
it seems to me that Trojan is needed
to keep reliable, reasonably priced
power for our state. I am hoping you
will consider these facts and vote no
on Meaure 4.
(s) Herb Wright, Vice President
Columbia Basin Rural Electric
Box 466
Fossil,
It’s just plain garbage.
There’s a bit of rhyme about a rose
is a rose, by any other name just as
sweet. Well, it’s that way with gar
bage. By any other name it smells just
as sour.
We try to spruce it up a little by call
ing it waste or fluff or landfill, but it’s
still garbage.
Now, I do have hopes that someday
we’ll be able to call a spade a spade
without some wild emotional hang up.
I recall a certain four letter word begin
ning with F that when I was a teenager,
I wouldn’t dare mention in mixed com
pany. Now days, teenagers, both male
and female alike, rattle off the F word
without a second thought.
I am confident that someday we’ll be able to call those left over pork
chops, bread wrappers and yesterday’s newspapers that we all throw away
by it’s proper name, garbage.
And that is also what we should call the county’s plan to operate the
Lexington transfer station-garbage.
Every one of us generates a certain amount of the stuff and we should
pay for the disposal of it. And the full cost of disposal should be in the
bill. The county is already “ fat-cat” paying for roads, social services and
health care. Another job for the taxpayers is too much.
The rub seems to come from the idea that people can’t be expected to
travel very far to dump their garbage. That is an understandable idea when
you’ve only had to drive a mile or two in the past. But if you had had
to drive 25 miles for years, then the thought of driving 34 isn’t so bad.
So, to avoid the drive from Heppner to Finley Buttes, the transfer sta
tion idea was cooked up. A convenience to the folks who don’t want to
make the drive. But...
Apparently some folks don’t think that the people who are convenienc-
ed should pay the cost of operation of the station, rather it should be paid
for by the county. Now if that’s the idea. I’m sure I could cook up a whole
list of little conveniences that I’d like, but not enough to pay for them
Maybe the county will.
Operation of the transfer station should be turned over to the garbage
collector in Heppner. Minimum hours of operation should be specified
and it should be up to him to figure out how to pay for it. It could be paid
by a charge on every pickup load of garbage hauled in, a charge high
enough to pay the operator. (Folks know that won’t work, because the
charge would be so high that everyone would just drive on to Finley Buttes.)
Or the transfer station could be financed by an increase in the per can
rate for collection and a move to mandatory garbage service. (Folks know
that won’t work because the per can rate would be much higher than the
value of being able to go to the dump once in awhile.)
Altogether, if you consider putting the cost of the convenience of the
transfer station on the folks who use it, the whole idea of even having a
transfer station begins to look like what it really is-garbage. And if you
shift that cost to the county taxpayers its like wrapping it in pretty gift
paper-it looks pretty good but inside it’s still garbage.
And it doesn’t look any bettter because the county could use the landfill
impact money to spend on the transfer station. The county has failed to
devise any plan to use impact money for mitigating impact, but rather will
simply dump the money into the general fund. Therefore, it becomes tax
payer money and will impact taxes just the same as if were.
The county should keep it clean and stay out of the garbage business.
Frohnmayers record praised
To the Editor:
Dave Frohnmayer’s outstanding
record of law enforcement is not
doubted, it is praised by the people
of Wasco and Jefferson Counties. As
residents of these counties, we felt
the full brunt of the Rajneeshees
lawless attempted takeover of our
communities by deceitful intimida
tion, poisoning, wire tapping,
flagrant land use law violations and
other crimes, still being prosecuted.
Without Dave Frohnam yer’s
leadership as attorney general and
our p eo p le’s confidence that
ultimately he would enforce laws
protecting us from the Rajneesh
reign o f terror, we would not have
Oregon as vre know it today. No one
who remembers the ordeals Orego
nians endured can doubt Dave
Frohnmayer’s decisiveness and
courage in fighting for the legal
rights of all of us.
We should continue his firm and
steady leadership as our new
governor.
Sincerely,
(s) Laura and Ralph Bentley
The Dalles, Oregon
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RESOLUTION No. 100890
A RESOLUTION OPPOSING BALLOT MEASURE #S.
WHEREAS, Ballot Measure ft 5, a property tax limitation measure appearing on the November
1990 general election ballot, creates sweeping changes to the current property tax system in
the State of Oregon; and
WHEREAS,the property tax limitation measure contained in Ballot Measure #5 contains an
arbitrary formula for determining each local taxing unit’s share of the limited property tax dollars
and does not permit the citizens of this community to apportion their tax dollars on the basis
of their priorities; and
WHEREAS, Ballot Measure #5, if passsed, would require that cities, counties and school
districts compete directly for the available property tax dollars, rather than encouraging coopera
tion and development of viable priorities among them; and
WHEREAS, the complexity of the revisions sought to be imposed by Ballot Measure #5
will make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to predict the actual effect of the property
tax limitation on this city’s ability to provide essential services on a continuing basis and
(ALTERNATE 2): WHEREAS, this city will be forced by the property tax limitation to
eliminate or reduce services already provided in this community because of a decrease in available
funding; and
WHEREAS, the governing body of this municipality finds and determines that the interests
of the citizens of this community are not well served by the inability to make accurate financial
predictions, by the inability to allocate funding on the basis of their priorities, and by the in-
; creased competition among local taxing units expected to result from Ballot Measure #5
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY that this
! municipality actively opposes the property tax limitation measure contained in Ballot Measure #5
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Approved by unanimous vote of Heppner City Council.
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(s) Cara Costa, Mayor October 8, 1990
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