FOUR - Heppncr Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 29, 1992
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Letters to the Editor
Port manager earns salary
To the Editor:
The article comparing the Port
of Morrow manager's salary with
the Port of Umatilla’s manager’s
salary is comparing apples with
oranges. M orrow C ounty’s
manager makes a straight salary;
the Umatilla's manager makes a
lesser salary plus commissions.
Considering the cost of facilities
going in now-a-days this could be
anything.
Hardly anyone in Morrow
County (or rural America for that
matter) makes a salary such as
this. Unfortunately they do
elsewhere, and I cannot recall
anyone opening up so many new
vistas for economic development
as has the current port manager.
We could pay some one else
maybe xh less and get zero results
for our tax money. Gary Neal
pays his way, or earns his keep,
however you wish to look at it.
Lastly, it would be unfortunate
if South Morrow residents con
sidered this expense merely a
North Morrow benefit. North and
South Morrow residents are
dependent on each other’s taxes
to stabilize both their differing
economies.
It is not us against them.
Sincerely,
(s) Meg Murray
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To the Editor:
The present forest disaster
should come as no surprise. Of
ficials and citizens genuinely con
cerned about the health of our
forest (Orville Cutsforth, Ed
Dick, Beryl Stillman, Glen Ward
on the south Umatilla) have warn
ed about the impending disaster
since the last 1960’s. With each
warning and plan to restore the
health of the forest ecosystem, the
timber industry and timber lob
by in the forest service suc
cessfully quenched the effort with
the threat of lost jobs and phony
reforestation figures. The result
has been a continual agenda of
overlogging, ill advised massive
clearcuts, extensive road
building, mismanagement and
degradation of streams, soils,
vegetation, aquifers, and
ecosystem viability.
Gov. Roberts documents "Past
f«.rest practices and six year of
drought” (E.O. Jan. 15, 92) as
the reason for requestion
emergency declaration. Rep. Bob
Smith heaps lavish praise upon
himself (E.O. Jan. 10, ‘92) for
funding he claims is to restore the
forest ecosystem. In truth Smith’s
forest agenda is more of the past
forest practices that caused the
disaster in the first place. The fact
is Smith’s agenda has never con
sidered forest health but rather
forest harvest, using salvage log
ging as a guise to strip and mine
To the Editor:
Teenagers often want to have
a party with friends after school
or during the holidays or on
weekends. The Heppner/Lex-
ington Oregon Together Group
suggests some tips for parents on
hosting a teen party.
* Set the ground rules with
your teen before the party. Let
your teen know what you expect.
Stress shared responsibility for
hosting the party.
* Be at home during the party.
Agree on an area of the home
where guests will be comfortable
and you
can
supervise
adequately.
* Provide snacks and non
alcoholic beverages.
* Avoid easy access to alcohol
or other drugs in your home.
* It is illegal to offer alcohol to
minors. You may be criminally
prosecuted if injury or damage to
property occurs because of
minors who become intoxicated
while in your home. Be alert to
Chamber Chatter
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what little is left. Smith contends
trees are the problem, “ diseased
and dead timber threatens to
overwhelm our entire forest
ecosystem east of the Cascades”
(E.O. Jan. 10, ‘92) and more
salvage logging, i.e. massive
clearcuts and overlogging, is the
solution.
Smith’s agenda of salvage log
ging and aerial spraying are not
methods to restore forest health
but rather methods to increase
timber harvest. Aerial spraying
kills and/or debilitates everything
in the forest ecosystem. A healthy
forest doesn't have insect infesta
tions. Try to find a bird in our
forests today, especially after
aerial spraying. It doesn’t take a
biologist to figure out birds love
insects. Remember how our GIs
were told agent orange wouldn’t
hurt them either.
We need a timber industry pru
dent spraying, and salvage logg
ing, if the politicians will allow
the forest service and the best log
gers in the winter to selectively
log and care for the ecosystem.
Smith’s forest stewardship would
be akin to letting the fox caretake
the chickens.
The drought is not going to end
until we stop abusing and mining
our greatest national treasure, our
forests.
(s) Stuart Dick
Hermiston, OR 97838
Tips on hosting teen parties
By Claudia Hughes, Chamber Manager
Stop in and w e’ll do a policy review.
Maybe we can improve your
coverage or save you some money.
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The Mind Is
Tricky
Stop abusing forests
The Official Newspaper of the
City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
The Chamber phone has been
jangling away with St. Patrick’s
celebration inquiries ranging
from mystery bus tours to conces
sions to leprechauns. Sunshine is
certainly the catalyst for en
thusiasm and energy. Soak up the
sun while it lasts for I hear re
quests are going "upstairs” for
snow and moisture; but be sure
to send up an order for more solar
rays for March 13, 14 and 15.
Next week is H eppner
Chamber’s monthly business
meeting, which includes open
forum when all entities present
are invited to share information
with the membership. This in
cludes the county, the city,
HEDC,
M orrow
County
Tourism Committee, Fairboard
and Rodeo committee, the Port of
M orrow, districts, schools,
chamber committees, merchants,
anyone who has ideas and ac
tivities to inform and involve our
entire community. Chamber also
encourages these groups to offer
programs throughout the year to
keep the chamber membership in
formed. It is our aim to create a
positive environment where peo
ple and businesses thrive.
Thought for the week: “ When
you resent someone, they live
rent free in your head.”
Market Report
Como*m«r!ti of itw Morrow Count» Or»n G row n
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1992
Soft White
Jan.
‘4.60
Feb.
*4.62/*4.65
March
*4.67
April
*4.67/*4.63
New Crop
*4.15
Barley
Jan.
*106
Feb
*107
New Crop
*106
signs of intoxication and to guests
who may try to bring in alcohol
or drugs. Be willing to call police
or sheriff if unwanted guests
refuse to leave. Notify the parents
of anyone who arrives drunk to
ensure their safe transportation
home. Do not let anyone drive
while intoxicated.
* If you must be away, make
arrangements for quality adult
supervision. Teenagers frequent
ly host parties when parents are
gone. Seek help from relatives or
neighbors to protect yourself and
your teenagers.
* Notify your neighbors and
friends that there will be a party.
* Limit attendance and set time
limits for the party. Send invita
tions or distribute fliers with your
phone number for responses. Par
ty crashing should not be allow
ed. Open-hour drop-in parties are
hard to control. Stick to time
limits.
* Guests should not be allow
ed to come and go. This will
discourage guests from leaving
the party to drink or use drugs
elsewhere and then return.
* Encourage your teen to plan
games and activities. Drinking
and drug use are sometimes the
result of boredom. Have fun, safe
activities planned in advance.
The Oregon Together Group
hopes that parents and their
friends will take those suggestions
to heart for a safe and sane and
responsible party.
Sincerely,
(s) Rev. Stan Hoobing,
Convenor of Heppner/
Lexington Oregon Together
Group
It sure is funny to me how the human
mind can do some pretty tricky things.
Oh, I don't just mean those times when
a most familiar thing slips your mind.
“ Senator, I’d like you to meet my wife,
old what’s-her-name.”
I’m talking about the things that go
through your mind when you have time
to think.
Like yesterday, when I drove all the
way to Portland and back. All the way
down it was raining, as usual. And I
was thinking that they ought to use
some of that 2 + 2 + 2 gas tax increase
to fix up the freeway through the
Gorge. It’s got traffic groves so deep
that they’re like an anchor when full of water. In places there are patches
on top of patches and none where there ought to be. That old Gorge road
is more than 20 years old mostly and it's falling apart.
I was thinking that now that we’ve got the Banfield all fixed up for those
Portland commuters, we ought to spend a little fixing up the road we use.
Well, after only a half a day in the big city, my mind was of a different
mood on the way. I’m thinking now that we ought to spend every penny
of the road money on someplace down on the coast or in the Willamette
Valley itself. Just let old 1-84 go plumb square to heck. That way we’ll
have even more incentive not to go that way, the best thing that can hap
pen to us.
Besides, if the road gets really bad, maybe none of those folks will be
coming this way either.
I hear the governor is going to lay off 4,(XX) state workers. I sure hoe
they are all inspectors of one kind or another because she can also save
a lot of gas they’d otherwise bum up travelling to Eastern Oregon.
You see, that’s another trick our minds have been playing on us. We’ve
been trying for years to get Salem to pay attention to the needs of Eastern
Oregon and sure enough they send another DEQ inspector out to shut down
another fertilizer plant or something.
The trick, it seems, is that we’ve been lured into our own downfall.
There’s even an alliance organized to promote Eastern Oregon. Now, if
successful, it would seem that the effort would only bring more govern
ment down about our ears.
You should know that 1 went to college to learn how to think and I now
think our thinking has gone astray. What we should be doing is laying
low and making as few waves as we can. That, along with the deteriorating
roads and cuts in the army of inspectors, will make Eastern Oregon near
ly invisible to big government in Salem. Maybe we can get them to forget
us altogether and leave us along in the process.
And it’s pretty clear that the governor’s mind is playing tricks on her
too. I recall that Oregonians turned down a sales tax eight times in this
century but the governor figures that once we miss having those inspec
tors drop in every other day or so, we’ll change our minds. What’s likely
is that we won’t even notice and we’ll go for nine.
It’s like the tricks our mind plays on us about the environment. Somehow
we’ve forgotten to include human beings among the world’s plants and
animals. And we’ve subscribed intrinsic value to certain things, thinking
that intrinsic means infinite. We’ve also developed a selective collection
of facts.
Example: Wc must save the old growth forests in order to save the Spot
ted Owl. But we’ve omitted the fact that even Jack Thomas now admits.
Spotted Owls live in 40 year-old trees.
Example: We must shut down the dams, irrigation, navigation and fishing
to save the Red Fish Lake sockeye salmon. We omit the fact that four
years ago, when this year’s run of sockeye were little fry in Red Fish Lake,
the lake was poisoned to kill all the trash fish.
Example: We blame the pools behind the Columbia River Dams for the
decline in salmon runs. We omit the fact that salmon runs on coastal streams
without any dams are declining faster than Columbia River runs.
There’s another trick of the mind here too. My mind thinks that by writing
all this down so you can read it will really change anything. Now that’s
a real trick, isn’t it?
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