V-
u
B F S S 1 E
O F 0 R F.
N E W
£ •J G
SPAPER
F N F
0 R
Elks Hoop winners announced
V { F. T Z F.
L l B
9 7 4 ' “'
The Heppner
Photo by Joyce Hughes
Winners of the local Elks Hoop Shoot contest held in Heppner and lone February 2 are (l-r): Jenny
Krein and Steve Allen 11-12 yr olds; Derek Gunderson and Annie Hisler 9-10 yr olds; Casey Ingrahm
and Jeremy Rietmann 8 yr olds.
Each year the Elks club sponsors a hoop shoot con
test locally. Each participant must shoot 25 freethrows.
The boy and girl in each age division making the most
shots receives a trophy sponsored by the Elks Club and
advances on to District in Hermiston on Feb. 16. From
district the winners go to state in Corvallis. Eighty-
nine boys and girls participated at the local contest held
in Heppner and lone. Jenny Krein made 13. Steve
Allen 21, Derek Gunderson 15, Annie Hisler 10, Casey
Ingrahm 5 and Jeremy Rietmann 18.
Nominations sought for 1991
conservation teacher award
VOL 109 NO. 7__________ Wednesday, February 13, 1991__________ Heppner
35 * __________8
P a g es
Ethanol seminar Feb. 25 in Boardman
The newest bumper sticker in
America pictures an Iraqi tank em
bossed with the universal red cir
cle/ slash symbol and the words “ No
Thanks Iraq. I use ethanol.”
A lot of America does use ethanol.
Last year’s production in the U.S.
was thought to he around 1.3 million
gallons from some 400 million
bushels of com. Production is
predicted to double by 1993. If the
projection holds true, it will replace
at least 41 million barrels of im
ported oil annually.
With this in mind, the Oregon
Wheat Growers League is planning
an Ethanol Production Seminar on
February 25, at the Dodge City Inn
in Boardman. It will begin at 9 a.m.
and conclude at 3:30 p.m. Lunch
will be provided through a grant
from the Morrow/Umatilla Counties
Development Fund using Regional
Strategy monies.
“ We are bringing in several very
good speakers,” said Paul Tews,
chairman of the Economics and
Finance Committee with the Wheat
League. “ Our keynote speaker is
Mr. Hadley Seeklander, a field
representative with the American
Coalition for Ethanol from Fargo,
North Dakota. He will talk about the
production aspects of ethanol and the
co-products created.”
Also on the agenda is Terry Ed-
valson. director of the Regional .Ser
vices Institute at Eastern Oregon
State College who will address the
economics of ethanol.
Bill Friend, director of Production
at the J.R. Simplot Company in
Boise, will discuss their ethanol
plants and how and why they are
successful.
The agenda also includes speakers
from the Port of Morrow, Regional
S trategies, and The O regon
Development Group.
“ The agenda is intended to be
open forum,” says Paul Tews. “ We
are hoping for a great deal o f au-
dience/speaker discussions. We feel
that most people who will attend will
have a lot of questions to ask, and
we want them to feel they can ask
them.”
W hile most o f the ethanol
manufactured in the U.S. today
Equipm ent m alfunction
caused power outage
An equipment malfunction caused
a power outage in the Heppner area
last Tuesday, Feb. 5 around 6:H)
p.m.
Columbia Basin Electric Manager
Fred Toombs said that a fuse holder
burned up under load and caused a
chain reaction, which blew more
fuses and necessitated shutting off
the system for repairs.
Toombs said the outage lasted
around 15 minutes.
MCGG holds appreciation day
comes from com, that is by no
means the only source. The Wheat
League sees off grade soft white
wheat as a possible ethanol source
as well. Cull potatoes may also be
used.
An ethanol plant may fit very neat
ly in the Port of Morrow, too, said
a spokesperson. With the construc
tion of a gas fired co-generation
plant, there will be excess steam for
use in the plant and there are feedlots
nearby to use the feed byproduct,
they said. And the ethanol can be
marketed in Washington or Idaho,
“ at least until Oregon gets a viable
tax policy on ethanol fuels,” said
Tews. Ethanol production plants
seem to be successful in states with
a tax system which supports ethanol
use.
Both irrigated and dryland
growers may be interested in this
seminar. For more information, or
to pre-register, call the OSU Exten
sion Service in Heppner at
676-9642. The seminar is limited to
100 persons, so interested persons
should call early.
By Anne Morter
lone service station owner, Dave
Barnett, was one of several concern
ed operators interviewed for an ar
ticle in the February 3 edition of The
Sunday Oregonian. The article dealt
with the difficulty rural service sta
tion operators are having in comply
ing with federal regulations concer
ning underground fuel storage and
the effects of those regulations.
In a nutshell, federal regulations
call for all service stations,
regardless of size or volume to carry
a $1,000,000 liability insurance
policy by October 26, 1991 and to
completely revamp their fuel storage
systems by 1998, according to the
Oregonian article. Implementation
of their plan will be difficult and ex
pensive, or impossible for small,
low-volume stations. Barnett and
other station operators are finding
that companies willing to insure
them are few and far between.
New this year for the St. Patrick’s
celebration will be the Wee Bit
O’lreland Craft Market, run by the
Heppner Soroptim ists. Only
homemade craft items will be sold.
To reserve a space contact Judie
Laughlin 676-9663. All craft items
will be located in the Soroptimist
market area between the Shoe Box
and the Post Office. The market will
be open both Saturday and Sunday.
Local groups with food conces
sions should contact businesses to
receive permission to set up on their
property. Out-of-town concessions
are required to pay $25 through the
City of Heppner and should go to the
City Hall to register.
" I t’s not too soon to arrange for
your location with just six weeks un
til the St. Patrick's celebration,”
said St. Pat’s co-chair Claudia
Hughes
for young people, according to
Doherty. Any teacher in a public or
private school in the conservation
district who puts emphasis on natural
resource conservation as a regular
part of the instruction is eligible for
nomination.
Nominations must be submitted to
the local conservation district by
March 1, 1991. Interested teachers
can obtain additional information
and nomination forms from the Mor
row Soil and Water Conservation
District at 676-5452. The awards
program also honors conservation
districts which have effectively
stimulated or conducted conserva
tion education programs.
The awards program was initiated
in 1974 by the National Association
of Conservation Districts, a non
profit, nongovernmental organiza
tion representing nearly 3000 con
servation districts in the United
States and its territories. The pro
gram is co-sponsored by ICI
Americas Inc., Agricultural Pro
ducts Division.
St. Pat’s committee
lone man dies
to meet Feb. 20
A St. Patrick’s meeting for com
mittee heads will be held Wednes
day, February 20, at noon, at Kate’s
Pizza.
Distribution of brochures, finaliz
ing plans and the visitors from
Ireland will be topics of discussion.
Barnett featured in Oregonian
Craft Fair new to
St. Pat’s weekend
L-R: Kevin Bloodsworth, David Piper and Levi Geer enjoy a friendly
chat and what they would do if they had a riding lawn mower, at the
Morrow County Grain Growers appreciation breakfast Saturday, Feb.
9.
Nominations are being accepted
for the national conservation teacher
of the year awards program by the
Morrow Soil and Water Conserva
tion District, according to Cindi
Doherty, MSWCD inform a-
tion/education coordinator. The
competition is open to any full-time
teacher working at the kindergarten
through twelfth grade level who has
developed an outstanding conserva
tion education program.
The National C onservation
Teacher of the Year will receive
$1000 in cash and an expense paid
trip to Reno, Nevada, for the 1992
annual convention of the National
Association o f C onservation
Districts. The national second place
winner will receive a $500 cash
award and the first place regional
winner in each of seven areas will
receive $200. Awards are also
presented in each state and U.S.
territory.
The awards program encourages
development of creative learning ex
periences in natural resource issues
Operators who have found coverage
face a yearly premium of $ 15,000 or
more. Monitoring tanks for leaks
and eventually replacing them with
above ground models can easily
reach $25,000, with cost becoming
much higher if the tanks are leaking.
All this spells disaster for many
rural service stations, as well as to
the people that rely on them for fuel.
Barnett sees it as being much more
than just a gas station owner’s pro
blem. For one thing, the lower value
of gas station property will cost local
governments in rapidly shrinking tax
revenues but a more devastating ef
fect will be on the tourism industry,
an industry that many Eastern
Oregon counties were counting on to
replace their lost timber revenue.
Barnett figures that tourists will be
less than anxious to leave the
freeway if they don’t know where
their next fill-up is coming from.
The Environmental Protection
Agency has pulled back for the mo
ment. to study the effects of their
regulations after hearing a barrage
of strong complaints. According to
the Oregonian, the report on their
findings is due out in March But for
Barnett and many others like him.
they are playing a waiting game.
“ I’m waiting to see if I can comply
or if I just walk away,” he says. “ I
don't disagree with the precautions
but the law is so harsh, it destroys
the person it is designed to protect,”
of self inflicting
injury
An lone man, Lynn M. Murray,
died Friday, Feb. 8, at his home, of
an apparent self-inflicted injury, ac
cording to Morrow County District
Attorney Jeff Wallace.
Murray, 41, was the son of the
Sherman and Iona Murray.
St. Patrick’s Day will kick off ear
ly this year with a visit from 15
musicians, singers and dancers all
the way from County Cork, Ireland.
This will be their second visit to the
states and Heppner is fortunate to
have them Thursday, March 14, Fri
day, March 15 and for a short time
March 16 before they depart for
Portland.
The St. Patrick’s traditional group
is eager to visit and share their talent
and culture in this “ Irish” communi
ty. “ Heppner will be a real contrast
to Seattle and Portland, but we hope
they will take home the best
memories from here,” says Claudia
Hughes, St. Patrick’s celebration
co-chair.
A set and step dance workshop
will be given Thursday, March 14,
for dancers of all ages and levels at
the grade school multipurpose room.
Spectators are welcome, but
especially encouraged are groups
who love to dance, the dance teams
and "the little people” who can per
form for our future Wee Bit ‘O
Ireland celebrations.
Friday night following Mrs. ‘O
Leary’s stew feed, the Irish group
will perform a celli/concert at 7:15
p.m. There will be a fee of $4 for
adults and $2 for those 12 and under
to help defray expenses.
The St. Patrick’s Committee is
looking for families to host these
visitors while they are here and is
also glad to share them on Friday for
school visitations, etc, said Hughes.
C ontact the Cham ber office
676-5536.
School carnival well attended
by Joyce 1
Chris Dickenson (front) helps manage the Cork Gun booth at the
Carnival Saturday, Feb. 9 while Joe Bacon aims his gun to shoot.
The Heppner Elementary Parents
Club took in $1,400 at its carnival
Sat , Feb. 9.
Karla Waterland of the Parents
Club said that although receipts were
“ up a little bit from last year” ex-
penses were up too. The carnival
netted $725 after expenses.
Chair for the event, which
featured games and concessions was
Kay Proctor.
V IS A C A R D S
Bank of Eastern Oregon
★ Low Annual Fee
One More Reason to
have our card
B **$Zo&tem
O reqon
Arlington • H«ppn«r • Ion«
“
«/
Your Independent Heme Owned ta n k "