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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 31, 1990
County speaks on Ballot Measure 5 38th Harvest
(Editor's note: the following
discussion concerning Ballot
Measure 5 was held in the office o f
the Morrow County Judge and sub
mitted to the Gazette-Times.)
Morrow County Judge Louis
Carlson: What is Measure 5?
Measure 5 simply puts a cap on the
tax rate in the amount of $10 for
cities, counties and other districts. It
also puts a $5 cap on school districts,
community colleges, and, if we were
in an educational service district, it
would also be included.
Judge-Q: If it places a cap on tax
rates in schools and other taxing
districts, won't it lower my tax bill?
Greg Sweek, county assessor-A:
Yes, in the cities and in the rural
areas as well. As an example, Hepp
ner's tax rate today is $31.95 per
$ l ,000 valuation. lone has a tax rate
of $24.95 per $1,000 valuation. In
Heppner's case, at the end of the first
year, the tax rate for schools and
non-schools would have to be reduc
ed to $25 per $1,000 valuation, plus
bonded indebtedness. lone’s tax rate
would not be affected in the first year
because it is below the $25 per
$1,000 valuation plus existing bond
indebtedness. But, in both cases, the
rate would be $15 per $1,000 valua
tion by the fifth year. (Rural taxes
may increase because land taxes will
be based upon full market value
rather than farm deferred value, but
may eventually be reduced by the
fifth year.)
Judge-Q: If my taxes are going to
be reduced by such a large amount,
will the state general fund pick up the
difference?
Sweek-A: In the case of the Mor
row County Schools, the answer is
“ maybe” , .one of the components of
Measure 5 says that the state will
pick up the difference on the school
portion, but reimbursements are bas
ed on a state wide loss rather than
on a local school district loss. In
other words, Morrow County
Schools could receive less funding
depending upon how the legislative
body determines the community’s
ability to fund schools properly. At
this point, it is purely speculative.
Judge-Q: You said that the state is
required to reimburse school district
funding but what about non-school
funding such as cities, counties, fire
districts, and park districts?
Sweek-A: No, the state is not go
ing to make up the difference in
those lost revenues.
Judge-Q: If the state does not
make up the difference doesn’t this
mean that there will be some loss of
services that we previously have had
in these areas?
Sweek-A: Probably...It is in
evitable that without funding from
other sources than taxes, there simp
ly will not be any way possible to
carry out those functions that coun
ties, cities, and other districts have
been providing.
Judge-Q: If Measure 5 passes does
it mean that the city police force will
be cut, and, if so, will the county
sheriff s department be able to pick
up that service?
Sweek-A: Most cities in Morrow
County have already indicated that
they will probably have to cut back
in expenditures in police protection.
Whether the sheriff will be able to
pick up the additional responsibility
is questionable because of the budget
reduction that the county will also be
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Shirley McNary, lone, was one of
the artists featured in the Annual
Regional Juried Art Show at
Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla.
The exhibit, co-sponsored by
Baker Boyer Bank, continues
through November 10. Regular
gallery hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, 11-4:30 p.m.
Lexington Baptist Church will
have a missionary potluck dinner on
Thursday November 8 at 6 p.m.
Dave Johnson, former high school
science teacher from Grass Valley
and his wife, Clarice, are now ap
pointees with the Conservative Bap
tist Foreign Mission Society to the
Cote d ’Ivoire, Africa. Dave will be
teaching science in a high school
there.
Dave and his family will be shar
ing their ministry at the Thursday
dinner. The public is invited to
attend.
Heppner High Dram a Club to
present one-act plays
Heppner High School Drama Club
will be presenting three one-act
plays in the cafetorium at 7:30 p. m.
November 17 and 18. The cast in
cludes Laurel Webber-Gray, Missy
Wallace, Jeanine Michael, Kathy
Anderson, Aleida Goodyear, and
Rachel Hoobing.
The first play to be presented is
‘The Princess Who Would Not
Marry’. Princess Chloe is now old
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Some of the people who are supporting
Barton Clark
Lou Crum
Marvin Padbarg
Monte Evans
Judy Laughlm
Don Bennett
Sarah Carlson
Dick Wilkinson
Larry Lindsay
Suzanne Jepsen
Jim Ward
Jean Turner
Pat Edmundson
Joe Kenny
Mark Rietmann
Joyce Ward
Albert Wright
Janell Bailey
McNary featured
artist at art show
enough to marry any prince brave
enough and lucky enough to slay the
dragon. At least that’s the tradition,
but Princess Chloe has ideas of her
own. She refuses to marry anyone
but her own choice, and at present,
she hasn’t any.
Next on the evening’s agenda is
‘Beyond the Door’, a play about a
murderer who, while fleeing from
the police, wanders into an old house
inhabited by two spinsters. They’ll
protect him if he will consent to
marry their younger sister, Lucy,
who is waiting for him just beyond
that locked door.
In the last play of the evening,
‘The Lady Lingers’, Granny Smith,,
who has fought a weak heart and
death for years using her strength
and love for others to keep her alive,
is visited again by death while her
daughter-in-law is having a baby.
Granny pleads to be left alone to en
joy her grandchild. When the baby,
Mary, is bom, it can hardly breathe.
Granny realizes death is really mean
ing to take the child. She must make
an agonizing decision between the
life she loves and the life of her
grandchild.
Just in time fo r Halloween ]
pictures.
K&K
217 N. Main
The 38th annual Harvest Festival
Dinner put on by the Heppner First
Christian Church members will be
held Sunday, November 4 with din
ner at 6 p.m. The menu will feature
turkey, dressing, roast beef, and
mashed potatoes and gravy with the
rest of the meal poduck furnished by
the church ladies. The speaker will
be Harry Om from Salem. The pur
pose of the harvest festival is to set
church goals for the coming year.
The public is invited to attend.
Missionary to speak at
Baptist Church in Lexington
FILM DEVELOPING
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Festival Nov. 4
facing.
Judge-Q: Greg, do you feel that
this measure is one that should be en
dorsed by the citizens of this state
and particularly the citizens of Mor
row County?
Sweek-A: No, first of all, the way
that the bill is structured, it takes
away the option that the taxpayers
have to fund projects that they are
willing to pay for. The citizens do
not have the ability to override the
cap. Secondly, as the state picks up
the majority of funding for the
schools, I can see that there will be
a loss of control as to how those
schools will operate. Thirdly, for the
local districts, and especially the
county, I see that we will have a
giant loss of state revenues, which
previously have funded such things
as mental health, juvenile services,
special transportation funds for our
seniors and grants that provide for
low income and disadvantaged peo
ple in Morrow County. In my opin
ion, it’s a bad measure and should
be defeated.
Kathy Clark
Bob Hawkins
Garnet Huddleston
Hank Krebs
Bob Mahoney
Avon Melby
Jim Phegley
Pat McClintock
Willard French
Don Evans
Virginia Peck
Claude Buschke
Dexter Miles
Lois Hunt
Bob Steagall
Barbara Ansotegui
Ralph Crum
Erin Lovett
Karen Temple
Don Greenup
Merlyn Robinson
Janet Greenup
Ramona Marshall
Dewey West
Dalarie Philippi
Mary Hansell
Ed Gonty
Lindsay Kincaid
Eddie Brosnan
Margaret Morgan
Jim Farley
Gary Gordanier
Gene Allen
John Prag
llene Laughlin
Vern Evans
Dorris Graves
Buzz Lynch
Gladys Hobbs
Rocky Proctor
Kenneth Smouse
Lynn Prag
Bruce Nicholes
Kay Proctor
Bob Rietmann
Kate Lynch
Ebb Hughes
Jean Bennett
Ed Dick
Ginger Wilkinson
Corrine Lindsay
Rod Murray
Susie Ward
Roland Bergstrom
Bill Kenny
Linda Kenny
Tami Rietmann
Paul Warren
Beverly Wright
Wayne Evans
Dorothy Hawkins
Merlin Hughes
Roy Lindstrom
Sherry Mahoney
Don Peterson
Karen Phegley
Gail McClintock
Keith Rea
Margaret Evans
Darrell Vinson
Rosemarie Buschke
Corrine Miles
Lee Padberg
Beverly Steagall
Merle Carlson
Theo Greenup
Kyle Robinson
Nancy Brownfield
Eldon Gilbert
Irma West
Jim West
Leroy Gardner
Eleanor Gonty
Jerry Dougherty
Lorraine Brosnan
Barry Munkers
Jack Jones
Mari Gordanier
Rod Collins
Nita Proctor
Frances Smouse
Gordon O'Brien
Francine Evans
Frank Anderson
Harry O'Donnell
Butch Laughlin
Pauline Hughes
Clint Carlson
Dorothy Krebs
Mr & Mrs Lucky Felt
Bob Jepsen
Meg Murray
Ken Turner
Rose Kegler
Marge Kenny
Bob Van Schoiack
Glen Ward
Claudine Warren
Dwight Bailey
Ned Clark
Sue Evans
Dick Graham
Claudia Hughes
Katherine Lindstrom
Arnold Melby
Martha Peterson
Doug Dubuque
Judy Rea
Lyle Peck
Sue Vinson
Jack Healy
Dean Hunt
Linda Padberg
Lee Ansotegui
Marylou Carlson
John Lovett
Dick Temple
Becky Evans
Don Robinson
Greg Greenup
Bud Marshall
Barbara Gilbert
Blair Philippi
Stafford Hansell
Marj Gardner
Irene Swanson
Pat Dougherty
Milton Morgan
Maryann Munkers
Edith Jones
Floyd Hobbs
Doris Collins
Bill Steagall
Carol Steagall
Warren McCoy
Karl Smith
Greg Close
Frances McCoy
Pattie Smith
Kate Close
Carleen West
P»W for by Ihr ( ommNtr* to ib r t Ray French Morro» County Commini Inner. Francine F rani. Chairman
St. Patrick’s
Committee
thinking green
Heppner’s St. Patrick’s committee
has started “ thinking green” months
in advance of the annual celebration
to make sure the annual ‘Wee Bit O’
Ireland in Oregon’ goes off without
a hitch. The committee met last
Wednesday to go over the agenda
and make plans for new and improv
ed events with more action taking
place on Sunday.
An organization is invited to run
the auction for 25% of the proceeds.
Pat Sweeney is retiring from auc
tion chairman after some very suc-
cussful auctions. Soroptimists are
currently holding an in club contest
to see which team can bring in the
most auction items. The committee
felt a group would reach a greater
number of people and could utilize
some of the proceeds. Groups in
terested should contact Claudia
Hughes, 676-9663 or Diana Ball
676-5306 before Nov. 14 if they are
interested. This is a great opportuni
ty for non-profit organizations to
earn money, have fun and contribute
to a successful St. P atrick’s
weekend. By the way, it’s not too
early for auction donations.
A craft fair is in the works, which
would be run similar to the annual
Christmas Artifactory. A search is
on for additional Celtic music and
the committee would welcome infor
mation on sources. There is talk of
getting more sheep involved in
creative ways...sheep style show,
sheep drive, sheep bingo. Also need
ed are more children’s activities.
New this year will be the Lamb
Cook-off.
Everyone is welcome to attend the
planning meetings and become in
volved in Heppner’s 1991 St.
Patrick's celebration. The next
meeting will be November 14 at 7
p.m. in the conference room at
Fabric’s Etc./Shoe Box. The more
leprechauns the merrier.
Boardman man arrested on
drug manufacturing charges
Because of two alert parole and
probation officers a Morrow Coun
ty man is in jail on drug manufac
turing charges. According to the
Sheriffs Department, the two of
ficers were visiting a client when
they noticed he was unusually ner
vous. They then observed what ap
peared to be some type of lab in the
back of the client’s shop. One of the
officers contacted the Morrow
County Sheriffs Office by radio and
requested immediate assistance. The
Sheriff s Office dispatched deputies.
The Boardman City Police and the
Oregon State Police to the residence.
Arrested at the scene was Michael
Robert Nelson, 32, of Rt 1 Box
49-B, Boardman. The Oregon State
Crime Lab from Pendleton was re-
Garden Club
reschedules
meeting date
quested to respond to take care of the
lab. That’s when it was discovered
that the lab was not a metham-
phetamine lab as suspected, but was
an ephedrine lab. This is the first
such lab in this area, according to the
crime lab personnel.
Several ounces of suspected crack
cocaine and chemicals were seized
at the residence. Nelson was lodged
in the Benton County, Washington,
jail on one count of possession of a
controlled substance, one count of
delivery of a controlled substance,
one count of manufacturing a con
trolled substance, one count of con
spiracy to manufacture a controlled
substance and parole violation. Bail
is $40,000 on the drug charges and
no bail on the parole violation
charge.
Nelson is on probation for drug
charges stemming from a search
warrant served on his residence Ju
ly 5, 1989. He pled guilty to the drug
charges and had received probation.
The investigation is continuing and
additional arrests are expected.
The regularly scheduled Garden
Club meeting has been changed to
November 12, 7:30 p.m. at the
Senior Center due to a conflict.
Fillies defeat Wasco;
advance to tournament
In Columbia Basin Conference
volleyball action Tuesday night, the
Heppner Fillies defeated Wasco
County, 15-11, 10-15, 15-6. As a
result, the Fillies ended in a three-
way tie for first place with Weston-
McEwen and Stanfield, all with 8-4
records. The loss dropped Wasco
County to fourth place with a 7-5
mark.
Thursday afternoon in either
Pendleton or Umatilla at 5 p.m. the
Fillies will meet Stanfield and
Weston-McEwen in a three-way
tournament to determine the first
place team in the CBC and the se
cond and third place seeds in the
District 7-2A tournament scheduled
for Umatilla on Saturday beginning
at 5 p.m.
In a new format this year, the first
place team out o f the CBC
automatically advances to the state
playoffs and will host the second
place team from the Wapiti League
Saturday, November 10.
The number-two team from
T h u rsd ay ’s p layoff will play
Wahtonka and number three will
face Wasco County. The winners of
those two games will play to deter
mine the number-two team from the
CBC. That school will travel to the
home site of the first place team from
the Wapiti League on November 10.
Winners of the first round playoff
will advance to the OSAA state
playoff at the University of Portland
in Portland, November 15-17.
INSULATE WATER METERS NOW
This year the water meters will be read during the
winter months, but the meters will need to be in
sulated. Please put the insulation material (foam
pellets, rags, newspaper, etc.) in a small plastic gar
bage bag that can be easily removed or pushed aside.
Be sure that the bag is securely tied or sealed.
If you have had frozen pipes in the past, it is advisable
to let a faucet run at a fast drip during extremely cold
weather. Any damages resulting from frozen water
meters that have NOT been insulated will be repaired
at the owner’s expense.
David Winters
City Foreman
City of Heppner
Phone 676-9618
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